ECM i'-`itlyellkwafterintelligettrer OHO. BANDELBSOWEDITOR. A. lIAADBM,SON. Associate. LANCASTER,, PA., NOVEMBER 17, 1863 L *1t6L 112111 0 1 6 A alit Arnim=dr AG111074 .37 Perk Bow,riewlitilkaty,iiiid lO Htab eked, Boetcm. - B. M. Psi { B Co., are for The Lancarter Adeftwes . er, and the -Brost Infte mid least tirade. ling N Wee United Bate" and the Clanndea.— rbge e+a eisedto contract for' as at au lowa tales Alepidesse t Auger, No. 886 Ittroadwity, New fork, are sulitiothirtp:readve adeerthe, tante ibr The Atha mow, at bar lowest ram. Air Mr. Wastrel Asuman Amos is located at 10.60 Math 6th street, Philadelphia. He is authorised to B. sader i eeeire adverUseniente and subscriptions for The Lancaster encer. B. Nun, No.l Sooner. Building, Court Bt., Boston, L our authoed Agent for re Agent dc. of 7 R. 7 1 I, .A. let It goat o'er our 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."--DANnu, WEBSTER. Money Wanted. This is a very general want among the people, except those who are fortunate enough to be connected with the present State and National Administrations. It is particularly wanted at this office, at the present time, as we have debts for paper, &c., which must be paid. We have freely given- of our time and means in the campaign which has just closed with such unsatisfactory re sults, and we now ask our delinquent subscribers and patrons for the amount honestly due us, so that the machine may run smoothly in the future. A Democratic press cannot live in this county unless every one indebted promptly pays up. Hun dreds of our friends have done so— many of them in advance for their subscriptions—and we feel thankful to them for it, but there are very many others in arrears for advertis ing and job work, and for several years subscription, and to them we appeal. We need the money now, and we do not ask it as a favor, but as a right. Come, gentlemen, pay the Printer, and pay him without further delay. No Volunteering Why are there so few volunteers offering under the recent call of the President ? The bounty offered is a liberal one,.much more so than on any former occasion. The reason we think is, the indisposition on the part of our citizens to go into the old regiments. If the call could be so modified as to authorize the for mation of new companies and regi ments, we believe the quota for this county would soon be made up by volunteers. Without some such in ducement to aspirants for promotion, who would be prompted to make personal efforts, we incline to the opinion that the call for volunteers will be in vain, and the only resource of the Government will he a forced conscription. This course, odious as it is, will have to be resorted to, unless something is speedily done to encourage voluntary enlistments. A Gloomy Prospect With coal at $8 or $8,50 per ton, flour $7,50 per barrel, coffee, sugar, butter and every thing else in pro portion, including clothing, what is to become of the poor ring the winter which is just at our doors ? There will be an unprecedented amount of starvation and suffering in all the large cities and towns of our own highly favored State, unless the wealthy step forward and with liberal hand minister to the necessi ties of their indigent neighbors.— Nor is there any prospect of a re duction in the prices of the neces saries of life so long as the terrible war in which we are engaged is prosecuted, or at least so long as the Government continues to inundate the country with an irredeemable paper currency. On the contrary, there is every probability that these prices will become more and yet more inflated during the winter months, especially as soulless and heartless speculators have now al most complete control of the mar kets, and are rapidly accumulating fortunes at the expense of the masses. God help the Poor, say we ; for many of them will suffer for want of the necessaries of life, unless some thing is done by those who have the means to afford them relief. The 79th Regiment. This gallant Regiment has been in active service for over two years, and has done as much hard march ing and fighting as any other Regi ment in the Army. It left this city nearly one thousand strong, and is now reduced, we learn, to less than two hundred effective men. Its gallant commander, Col. Hem- BRIGHT, has been at home for several weeks for the purpose of recruiting his health, which had become very much shattered, but is: about leaving again on his return to Tennessee. He is making an effort to have the Regiment sent home for the purpose of recruiting. We trust he may be successful in the accom plishment of this object, as we have no doubt a few weeks at home would be sufficient to fill the ranks of the Seventy-Ninth and restore it to the Army with a full complement of men. "The people of Lancaster county all take a pride in this Regi ment. They would rejoice to see it raised to the maximum standard, and will cheerfully lend any aid in their power to accomplish it. Nor Feu Wuoxa.—A New Jersey paper classifies the candidates in that State, as Dem ocrats and Disunion Abolitionists. The Abo litionists are indeed the Disunionists and Rirsrolutionista of the North. Cluse's-Financial.Policy. Mr. CELLSE, in conducting the af fairs of the Treasury Department, seems to be governed by but one principle of Finance. His great aim appears to be to borrow all he can on the credit of the Government without regard to time of payment or terms of interest. He first issues four hundred mil lions of Greenbacks, and when these have circulated so extensively that the country is flooded with them, he offers in exchange twenty years bonds bearing six per cent. interest, payable in Gold. Between the issue of Greenbacks 'and the purchasing of these bonds, a very pretty traffic is kept up by the brokers of Wall street, and Mr. CHASE has been in clover. According to the estimate of Republican members of Congress, he has been enabled to carry on his department at a daily expenditure of three millions of dollars, and still has plenty of Greenbacks and bonds to meet all demands. The question of how long will he be thus able to furnish the Administration with all the representatives of money it may require, is simply one of confidence in its stability. Onr,government bonds at six per centanterest in gold, or nine per cenilin paper, are, if they will ever be rlaid, the best investment for the people's money. If the war should end the first of January next, U. S. bonds would advance to twenty per cent. premium, but every day after that that it continues will weaken the credit of the govern ment and its ability to meet its in debtedness. Our revenue from cus toms, which are payable in gold, has, during this year, enabled us to meet all the payments of interest, but for the interest on the increase of debt of the next and succeeding years, gold must be either bought or bor rowed. The moment the govern ment enters the market as a bor rower, or purchaser of gold, it will advance and Greenbacks be at a dis count. But as long as bankers and speculators believe that the country can stand its indebtedness, and pay interest upon it, Secretary CHASE will find no difficulty in disposincr b of bonds and running his machine, but the moment confidence fails, his de partment will be awfully bankrupt. It becomes him, therefore, to be as circumspect as possible in his man agement of affairs, and if he can check the rascality and corruption so prevalent in every department, let him do so. It may enable him to run the Treasury Department suc cessfully to the end of Mr. LINCOLN'S term, and then retire, and leave his successor to fight the difficulties in which the office will without doubt be enveloped. Where are the " Loyal" Men ? The Patriot and Union says :—" The Governor has issued his proclama tion for the State's quota of volun teer recruits to fill the requisition of the President—the middle of No vember has been reached—but a month and a half more between us and a fresh conscription, and yet we have heard, up to this moment, of no movement by the 'loyal' party to encourage enlistments—of not a single case of volunteering but one, which was recently recorded by a Lancaster paper. How is this ? What are the 269,000 ' loyal' men who voted for CURTIN, and to sus tain all the measures of the Presi dent, about ? Do they not see that the life of the nation ' is in danger ? Are they not aware that when the President appealed to them and to their Governor for more good and loyal men,' by voluntary enlistment, he was in earnest ? Or, is it possi ble that all their professions of pa triotism, all their fierce cries for ' war to the knife, and the knife to the hilt,' all their protestations of fidelity and unquestioning: obedi ence to the President's behests, were false? We shall be forced to believe so, unless some movement of the Executive, or the Leaguers, to raise the quota of the State shall soon be made apparent. How disgraceful it is that these blatant brawlers for war, coercion, subjugation, confisca tion and extermination—these in tensely 'loyal ' men—should now hold back at this crisis, and refuse to respond to the urgent call of Messrs. LINCOLN and CURTIN for volunteers. The PreSident wants none but loyal ' men in the army.— Of course, the 254,000 copperheads' who voted for Judge WOODWARD (all of whom were pronounced traitors by the Abolition press in the interest of our worthy Governor) are not considered loyal and therefore the appeal, we presume, is not made to them. It is made solely and exclu sively to the loyal' men who voted for ANDREW G. CURTIN." But, whether or no, these latter gentle men ought to set an example of pa triotism to their " copperhead " neighbors. An Important Decision. In the case of the application of Kneeder, Smith and Nichols, soldiers conscripted in Philadelphia, for in junctions to restrain the officers of the Government from sending them into the military service, the Su preme Court delivered an opinion at Pittsburg, on Monday week, pro nouncing the law to be unconstitu tional, and crranted an injunction in each case for the protection of the plaintiff, on his giving bond, with surety to be approved by the Pro thonotary, in the sum of $500. Chief Justice LOWRIE and Justices WOODWARD and THODLPSON each de livered an opinion, • pronouncing the law unconstitutional. Justices STRONG and READ shad dissenting opinions. We shall publish ab stracts from some of these opinions hereafter. MILITARY DESPOTISM. Gen. So:lmes, in his last official military act in Maryland, ordered the Provost Mar shals in the State to take part in superin tending the election on Wednesday week.— Gov. BRADFORD, whose loyalty we presume no man questions, protested against the outrage and issued a proclamation declaring that the unrestricted liberty of the citizens' right to vote shall prevail, even if the power of the State be called on. Gen. Sonoma ordered the Baltimore papers not to publish it, and the proclamation had to be issued in pamphlet form. DRVNKENNEBS IN DILMO2IIIII..Ia CAMP AND COURT. - The war has worked monstrous demoralize tion. The Washington correspondent of the New York Independent, writing under the date of Oct. 24, 1863, says: " There was a sight to be seen in broad daylight a few days ago, in front of the Pre sidential mansion, which gave those who witnessed it a shocking idea of the onward strides which the vice of intemperance has made in "good society" during the last few years. A woman clad in the richest and most fashionable garments, with the diamonds flashing from her slender fingers in the slant Western sunshine, eat upon the stone balus trade, unable to proceed on her homeward walk without betraying herself. At last she rose and started on, swaying to and fro, and yet soon rested again, utterly unable to pro ceed. The carriage of a foreign minister passed by—the poor woman was noticed— and it turned, stopped, took in the lady, and carried her to her luxurious home. For the lady is wealthy and occupies a high social position, bat she was drunk in the streets Of. Washington. Drunkenness prevails almost everywhere, in camp and court. It is a vice above all others, that cripples the army. The poor soldier drinks, gets drunk, and is disgracefully punished for it. The officer does the same thing, and is not even reprimanded. It would astound .some of the sober, devout people of the free States, to learn how many young men, officers in the army, have already been ruined by strong drink. The War De partment is making every effort to prevent intoxicating liquors from the common soldiers, but why does it not prohibit drinking among officers ? One half the brigade generals now on pay, know far better how to swallow prodi• gious quantities of whiskey, than to manage a brigade of troops upon the field of battle. It is time that good men everywhere spoke out upon the subject." What a picture, this! Drunkenness in Diamonds ; in Camp and Court ! Now that we have a Court and Court Circle, it would be interesting to the people upon whose free and easy generosity the moral and political leprosy has grown, to learn how many of " the Court " get drunk ; and, as the Indepen dent pretends to deal in " plain truths" to the very faces of " its friends," it should state the names of the drunkards in "the Court," so that the temperate part of the government may not suffer from unjust suspicion. We do not presume to say that it would work any reform ; for bayonets will keep the drunkards in power, especially as " one half of the Brigadier Generals now on pay," as the Independent informs us, " drink and get drunk." The people cannot readily reach the evil through the ballot box, whilst the ballot box is pinned by half a million of glistening bayonets to the shoulder straps of officers, who know better how to drink " prodigious" quantities of whiskey, than to manage a bri gade on the field of battle, (we could hardly believe it, did not the Independent declare it), and these officers controlled and directed by destructive Abolitionists. We have faint hopes of a reform in the drunkenness which the Abolition presses portray, as existing "in the Court" at Washington ; among the weal thy diamond bedazzled females in high life in that city ; in the army ; " ruining" the young men of the army ; besotting one half of the Brigadier Generale ;—no hope of a reform in Washington among the army of prostitutes there, some of whom appear, as asserted by Republican newspapers of that city, in view of dress parades, in splendid carriages, hug ging and kissing the commissioned officers— patriots, who are not fighting, but rioting under: the noses of " the Court," some of whom are drunk 1 We do not look for reform. Corruption, licentiousness, intemperance, rob bery, fraud—all have their iron fingers upon the government. They will not loosen their grasp. But, let the independent, whose cor respondent presents to us this abhorrent picture, give the names, otherwise the inno cent, if there be any, will suffer too. Now that you have commenced, Mr. Independent, let ui know the worst. THE FRAUDS PROVED That the State of Pennsylvania was car ried by fraud at the recent election, no one can doubt who candidly examines the returns, and compares them with the vote given at previous elections. The figures to prove it are thus clearly summed up by a correspon dent of The Age: The number of votes cast in the fall of 1860, for Governor, were, 492, 606 Add to this number ten per cent. for natural increase, 5;c., 49,260 Total, 541,665 Pennsylvania has sent to the field about 232,000 volunteers, dc.; of this number, we suppose, at least one-half have been killed, wounded in hospitals, and in the army, ctc., which is deducted from the vote, 116,000 The vote of 1863 should not exceed, 425,866 Of this number the Democratic party polled for Judge Woodward, 254,171 Leaving the actual Abolition vote of 1863, 171,695 Instead of which they pretend to have polled 269,496 Excess of fraudulent votes, 67,801 If these figures are correct, they show that, had a fair vote been given, the State of Penn sylvania would have been carried by the Democrats by a majority exceeding 82,000. President LuccoLN has just issued a call for 300,000 volunteers to put down the rebellion against the Union, the Constitution and the laws. FORNEY'S Press is doing its utmost to impede enlistments. It declares that "we want no soldiers under our banner whose sentiments are " such as those uttered by Gen. MCCLELLAN, who is "in favor of the prosecution of the war with all the means at the command of the loyal States until the military power of the rebellion is destroyed." Who says that "while the war is waged with all possible decision and energy, the policy directing it should be in consonance with the principles of humanity and civilization, working no injury to private rights and prop erty not demanded by military ne cessity, and recognized by military law among civilized nations ;" and that "the sole great objects of the war are the restoration of the union of the nation, the preservation of the Constitution, and the supremacy of the laws of the country." "Eat, Drink, and be Merry." The great ball and supper to the Russian naval officers came off at New York, on the evening of the 9th inst. The Herald makes the following estimate of the cost of this ovation: Dresses, laces, &0., bought for the occasion, at a moderate average $ 250,000 Masculine purchases, at same 50,000 Jewelry 1,000,000 Bouquets 3,000 Coiffures, friseurs, &c. 2,000 Supper for two thousand, with wine 20,000 Expenses of Academy, decorations, &o. 10,000 Carriages 5,000 It is recorded of the Emperor Nero, that while the City of Rome was in flames he amused himself by fiddling. The Shoddyites of the present day are imitating the exam ple of that arch tyrant, and are equally jubilant over the ruin of their country. war Gen. Buarrem has been superseded in command of the army in East Tennessee by 0813. FOSTER: -.TF1E.5111114 IN PELlCiiihr The effects cf the greenback legal tenders upon prices are now beginning to force them selves upon the people. This currency has not yet been in circulation two years, but it has created a complete revolution in the prices of nearly all articles of domestic con sumption. Every necessary of life-has within that period almost doubled,- and in ''some in- • stances has trebled in pr;ce, and upon those who are dependent upon fixed wages for a livelihood the increased prices have fallen quite heavily. There is no possibility, so far, as human foresight can go, of there being any change for the better. So long as the Govern ment keep their printing presses printing greenbacks representing almost fabulous amounts, just so long will there be a strong upward tendency of every thing that can be bought and sold. A greenback representing one dollar is now not worth much more than half that amount, and, however much it may be claimed by some that the country is financially in a prosperous condition, any one who thinks for a moment cannot fail to see the fallacy of euch an assertion, With nearly a million of men drawn away from their accus tomed habits of creating capital, we have that number engaged in destroying it. This fact alone, without taking into consideration the withdrawal of all coin representing, an amount of labor actually expended upon it in mining, coining, &c., would account for a heavy increase in value of every article which these men could be employed in manufacturing. The greenbacks are being issued to inflate the cost of living, increase taxes, keep the poor man in perpetual want and insure his children a pauper's inheritance. Truly our condition is blessed. The heartless leaders at Washington should be made to realize the struggles of the men of limited incomes ; the once contented laboring man, who, though poor, could purchase with the rewards of his toil all the comforts of life for pis family. But what a picture of wretchedness does he present to day, endeavoring to clothe, feed and educate his little ones, with his Saturday night's pay in greenbacks, at 66 cents on the dollar. To be sure, work is plenty, he is ever busy, he hopes he is soon to be able to get out of hie present financial perplexities ; to be sure, he is earning more than he ever did before, but somehow he is getting deeper and deeper into debt. He hardly understands it. Work is plenty, wages is good, but shoes are very dear, clothing never so high, flour, potatoes, meat, coal, terribly up. There is no little store laid up now as there once was when wages were low. He can't exactly see it, but he is very hard up all the time, with money plenty and pay good. Ah !my poor laboring brother, we are grossly, wilfully, wickedly deceived by the miserable, lying journals.— The black-hearted preachers and °ramie also tell us that we are prospering during this horrid war. They are holding a hellish car nival all over the North. Riot and revelry, robbery and murder, every crime which the lust of man can conceive, is being enacted by the prosperin ,, portion of the people. As bloody war made what they call this prosper ity, the cry is "keep up this bloody war, for ' peace ' is adversity." Neither have we seen the worst. Prices must continue to advance in the ratio of the expansion of the currency and the depopula tion of the country by war. If this Abolition Administration is suffered to go on in its ex travagant, destructive career, the North must in time reach the condition of the people of the South in respect to prices and currency. And we shall feel it still more grievously than they, as we are vastly more dependent on commercial, manufaCturing and mechanical business, which is affected to a greater extent than agriculture by a financial crisis. All fixed incomes, investments, salaries, &c., will feel the pressure, and this, with increased taxation and heavy tariffs, will impose almost crushing weight upon the people.— In the South the war is the principal business of all classes, and our Administration seems determined to crush everything else and force all our great industrial interests to succumb to the war policy. What can the people do to change this current of affairs? Not much, perhaps, at present ; but the time will soon arrive when their voice may be potent and influential in favor of a different policy. There is nothing to hope for the Union, for the great pecuniary and :social interests of the country, or for liberty, in the war policy. The longer the war is continued the more deplorable must be the state of affairs. Our greatest military sue case cannot restore the blessings of a fraternal I Union, and can only, at the best, enforce an armed despotism over the South, destroy their great industrial system. and pauperise millions of Litchi] laborer , : The question of Govern ment, which we have been told this war is to settle forever, will still remain open ,for the decision of future generations, and our chil dren will gain only the legacy of a huge national debt as the result of our internecine contest.—Newark Journal. WASHINGTON GOSSIP A Washington correspondent of the Now York Herald, in his despatch of Tuesday, says, on the evening of the 31st ult., Francis P. Blair, Sr., called at the White House, having been summoned thither by a prest,ing invita tion from the President, with whom he had a free and lively, interchange of opinions. Mr. Blair told the Chief Magistrate that he would inevitably be ruined if he did not at once emancipate himself from the pernicious in fluences that Chase was exercising over him. He advised him to reconstruct his Cabinet, and to get rid of Halleck, whom he denounced as the unscrupulous cause of all the reverses that have befallen our armies. The President listened to all Mr. Blair had to say with respectful attention, and acknowledged that he had long desired to pursue the course of action recommended, especially with regard to Stanton ; but that he was afraid of the hur. ricane which would follow such an explosion. At this juncture Mr. Chase came in, and evinced much irritation of feeling on finding the President hobnobbing with his implacable enemy. At first the conversation took a general turn ; but the Presidential joker soon found an opportunity of applying a match to the mental torpedoes before him. The conse quence was that those who had business with the Secretary of the Treasury on the following day left him with the impression that his stomach was considerably out of order, or that he had passed a very feverish night. ON A BRIDAL " TOWER." The City report er in the Philadelphia Age of yesterday thus touches off the arrival of ex-Governor SPRAGUE and his " dear Cathar- ine" in that city : lIY3IENEAL.—Mies Catharine Chase, eldest daugnter of Salmon P. Chase, and her hus band, William Sprague, of Rhode Island, arrived here from Washington on Saturday afternoon and stopped at the Continental.— They wished to avoid publicity as much as possible, and accordingly took the " bridal apartments" last occupied by A. Lincoln.— They were accompanied by two captains and a major, who are supposed by fund friends at home to be fighting the rebels down in Vir ginia ; several young misses of the Chase and Sprague families, anxious for rich husbands, and a half dozen married ladies whom rumor says ought to be at home minding their children. Wishing to avoid publicity they came in a special car, and intend to go away to-day in 'another " special." Reporters of the press are not allowed to see the party, the free list being entirely suspended, but all no tices of them, especially laudatory ones, will he thankfully received by the bride's father. Both husband and wife being modest, unas suming people, the public are earnestly re quested not to pass any comments upon them. Viiir We direct the attention of capitalists to the Farm advertised by R. Robinson & Co., in another column. It is represented as a first class property, eligibly located about 28 miles west of Harrisburg, near the Pennsyl vania Railroad Depot, and will be sOld on easy terms to suit purchasers. $1,340,000 NATIONAL CEMETERY AT GETTYSIIIIRG.—The grounds of the National Cemetery at Gettys burg, will be consecrated with appropriate solemnities, on Thursday next, the 19th imit. Hon. EDWARD EVERETT has accepted an invi tation to deliver the address for the occasion. It is expected that the President of the United States, the . Governor of Pennsylvania, and other distinguished public functionaries, will be present. LOCAL DEPLETEENT. THE LANCASTER LOCOMOTIVE Wololl9.—The Lancaster Locomotive Works have been leased by Messrs. JAWS NO/1/1121 and lbsorneas of Philadelphia, and workmen are now bnetly employed flttingAhem up. They expect to have them in operation in a few days, and from the energy displayed by the lessees we have no doubt the enterprise will- prove a decided enema. The. Mears: NOZHIS have established a world wide reputation as locomotive builders, and. we learn that they have already - -orders ,from this country and Russia which will take them over a year to fill with all the force they can employ - The starting of these Works will be a great matter for Lancaster, and we are glad they have fallen into !inch copable hands. THE CONTINENTAL OLD FOLICS.—These in-' imitable vocalists will give three of their entertaining concerts, at Fulton Hall, in this city, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings of the present week. We advise everybody to go and hear them, as they always give the fullest eatisfaction to their ardiencea. They are accom panied on their fitment tour by Miss Emma J. Nichols, a charming songetrees, well tnown to oar Lancaster read. ear. Lots of fun and fine mimic may be expected. A GREAT IMPROVEMENT.—The Vine and Dukcalltreet Sewer is rapidly approaching completion, and, when finished, will be one of the best and most useful improvements made in the city for ;several years. The cost will overrun the estimate considerably, owing to the great amount of rock encountered in the excavation, es pecially in Duke street where nothing of the kind was anticipated by any body; but still It is money well es, pended, and the property holders along the tine of the Sewer and in East Ring street will be benefited to three times the coat of the improvement. CHANGE IN RAILROAD TIME.—A ntw sche dule went into operation on the Pennsylvania Railroad yesterday. The different Passenger Trains now leave this city an follows: lASTRADD WLSTWARD. Titre' Express, 4.10 a. in. Phila. Express, 141 a.. m. Mt. Joy Ac. err , 900 a. m. Mail Train, 11.28 a. m. Lauer Accom , 9.00 a. m. Mt. Joy Ae, 11.38 a. m. Fast Line, 7.40 a. m. Fast Line, 248 p. m. Hanisburg Ac , 730 p. m. Harrisburg Ac., 618 p. m. Fast Mall, 2.27 p. m. Lancaster Train, 7.44 p. m. It will be seen that the filount Joy Accommodation Train No. 2, both east acd west, is dispensed with under this schedule. ROBBERY AT A lIOTELSOIIIO tittle during Thursday night the room of Mr. Joseph Gochenaur, at Kreider's Hotel, North Queen street, was entered, and a gold watch, a pocket .book, and about four dollars in change was stolen. Mr. Gochenaur had a pocket book containing about four hundred dollars under his pillow, which was not disturbed. The watch wee valued at ninety dollars. No clue to the thief Ina been obtained. Probably an experienced hotel thief is making "the rounds," and landlords should be on their guard. BARN BURNT.-011 Friday, a little after polio, the barn belonging to Mr. James Evans, on the Conestoga, a short distance above Great's Landing, was destroyed by fire, with all its contents, except the live stock, which was got out. We have not learned how the fire originated. Although so near the city, no alarm was raised, and the fact was not generally known. POST OFFICES DISCONTINUED.—The Poet Offices at Nine Points and Swarea Mill, in this county, have been discontinued by order of the P. M. General. HEARTLESSNESS.—A poor cripple-. called Major Monroe, who had been badly wounded at the battle of Ball's Bluff and taken prisoner by the Confederates, and who has ever since been compelled to go on crutches, was In this city a week ago with an exhibition of the Great Rebellion, endeavoring to make a few dollars In an honest way. After paying all expenses, except a printer's bill of $5, he had but V) left, which be offered to the printer; hot this did not satisfy the latter, who determined to have the whole amount of his bill, or imprison the man for fraud. lie wan arrested at the Railroad Depot on Tuesday morning on a warrant in the hands of a Constable, when a friend stepped forward and paid the bllance—thus en abling the poor crippled soldier to take the cars which were about starting What makes the matter look still worse, Is the fact that en ungenerous and uncalled icr criticism on the exhibition appeared in the columns of the paper published by the same printer the evening be fore, which was well calculated, and doubtless so intended, to injure the poor fellow and bring his exhibition into dis repute. Such heartlessness, however, was entirely unex pected, coming as it did from so "loyal" a source, and where they are daily preaching up their love for the eel. dierl and denouncing everybody else who will not swear In the words of their 7/wit - four masters, Abraham Lin coln and Thaddeus Stevens. A Looxin ON. BANK. 'DIVIDENDS.—The Several Banking Institutions of the State have declared their semi.annual dividends. We quote some of the most prominent in this vicinity. The dividends are clear of State and National taxes: Partners' Bank of Lancaster Lancaster County Bank Columbia Bank oust Joy Bank 14ners' Bank of Mount Joy ctoraro Bank Bank of Chester Valley. Blink of Chester County... Farmers' Bank of Reading. Union Bank of Reading • Reading Savings' Bank 3 " The Philadelphia Banks have declared dividends as fol. lows: Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank Kensington Bank 1 Southwark Bank Tradesmen'sßa . . Manufacturers' and Mechanics Bank Philadelphia Bank - - - - • • • ...- Corn Bacbattge Bank Bank of Commerce.... Commercial Bank Girard 8ank........ Union Bank Consolidation Bank Mechanics' Bank Western Bank. ....... City Bank Corumnnwealth Bank. Penn Township Bank Bank of Gormunto-a11: QUARTER SESSIONS' COURT.—The November Term of the Court of Quart, rlmuueneed yester day—Judge Lotio presldlng. THE NEW CALL TOR TROOPS.—It being the opinion of many of our citizens that the quota of volnn• tams for Lancaster county, under the last call of the President, could be raked it DOW orgsulzations were per mitted, the following pelitton bus been numerously signed by leading citizens and forwarded to the Governor: "Tr Ili FTeel cnry. Governor ,mirror G. Curtin: The petltion , f the 0 ,deraig oad , citizens of the city end count• of Lancaster, respectfully represents: That in their opinion volunteering under the recent call of the President would be greatly promoted if recruiting were permitted for new organizations, company organizations more especially. Your petitioners therefore pray that your Excellency's influence with the President may be exerted to procure a modification in this particular of the late Prockamation so as to permit the raising of new or ganizations. The quota of Lancaster county could be very readily raised, if new organizations were allowed.— Men in every Instance prefer It, and are willing to respond to the call nobly. There is patriotism enough here to raise several regiments of the very best men, if the proper steps ore taken. We bare experienced officers and men at borne who have served their time in the held, who would at once rush to,prnis and raise the quota if allowed an op p , rtunity to do en. Your petitioners will therefore ever pray, Sm." The ilovernnierat prefers puttlrg the now levies Into old regiments, because being under old and experleneed officers and among veteran soldiers, they become efficient soldiers much sootier and at much less expense than when to now organizations. There is no doubt, however, that the requieite number of men could be raised much sooner by new organizations, but if that plan be adopted, some stringent regulations should be adopted to officer the new regiments with none but tried and capable officers.--Es press. TROUBLE IN CARBON COUNTS/ The Philadelphia papers have had exagger ated accounts of disturbances in the coal regions of Carbon County. It seems that many of the miners have made threats against any man who undertook to serve the draft notices through that district, but several hundred military were called to the assistance of the military officers and the notices were served without causing any disturbance. A very bitter feeling has arisen between the miners and some of the citizens who gave information to the draft officers, and several persons have been killed. Mr. George K. Smith, of the firm of Hull, Corties & Co., coal operators of Philadelphia, was shot in his own door Thursday night week, by a man in soldier's apparel. After be had been killed a whole gang of men entered his house, but re tired, on seeing that he was dead. Mr. Ulriok, the Storekeeper, was also injured and a Welshman was killed at the same place on the next night. The whole gang escaped, not an arrest being made, nor is it at all probable that the guilty will ever be identified. It is eaid that a perfect reign of terror exists throughout the Coal region above Mauch Chunk, and that the civil officers are unable to make any arrests. twit-. The poorer classes of women in Eng land, as late as the beginning ot the present century, were employed in many towns in carrying bricks and mortar on their heads to the masons at work, on even the highest build ings. Women stripped from shoulder to loins may even now be seen picking up lumps of coal from the Tyne mud, when the water is low, much to tho offence of strangers, if not the people of Newcastle.—New Fork Evening Post. Yet these wretched women are nominally free. Such poverty and want were never heard of among the Southern slaves, as they are called, and yet our country must be drenched in blood to change their situation and throw them upon their own resources.— England has spent money enough for the past fifty years in abolition projects to have rendered all her starving citizens comfortable, and our Abolitionists have wasted treasure enough in this war to have given comfortable homes to all of our poor white people, 'North and South. Instead of this, they are turning both white and black out of doors and impov erishing the land. se- There are many men who want the Union as it was and the Constitution as it is. Well, they can't have it.—Tice President The Vice President speaks with great con fidence, and with an assurance that be knows precisely what he is talkin, about. He is inside of the ring. The people should be grateful to him for telling them plainly what they cannot have ; and we presume they would be obliged if he would condescend to tell them what they may have. There is some differ ence between an absolute despotism and ti monarchy. POLITICAL' muriuniao:• They have one preacher in Boston, says the Valley Spirit, who is a great curiosity in his way. The antiquated old chap positively refuses to preach on politics, for the reason, as he alleges, that he is engaged in the more important business of saving souls. Why, he must_ltave been reading that obsolete woik, written for other times, the New Tes tament,. and found out; somehow, that his commission was to " go into all the world and preach the Gospel (not politics) to every creature?! He - deservt3e immortal fame for rescuing this precept of the Divine Teacher from the oblivion into which it had sunk—on oblivion so complete that even those whose duty it is to' expound the Scriptures had completely lost sight of it. He must have read there also of a very respectable body of men, who lived-a little over eighteen hundred years ago, who went about doing good ; who never bothered themselves about polities or civil institutions ; who never insistedlhat the master must give up his slaves or be damned eternally ; who, instead of inciting the slaves to rise and murder their masters, said " ser vants be obedient to your masters ;" and who devoted themselves, with singleness of heart, to the great work their _Master had assigned them. Surely the ancient Boston preacher must be thinking of these people, with their old fogy ideas, and trying to imitate them.— But he should be careful not to carry the im itation too far. We are not very certain that a body of men, believing and acting as this honorable and despised sect did, would fare much better in this nineteenth century of ours, than their forerunners did in their day. If he lives. too closely in accordance with the models they gave us, or abides too strictly by the precepts they laid down, he may expect to hear the cry of "crucify him " raised by the soribes and pharisees, who "devour widows' houses and for a pretence make long prayers." Should he live pure and blameless, according to the sacred doctrines of Christi anity, as he understands them, his life would be a standing reproach to the modern article, dispensed in so many sanctuaries; and their devotees would be sorely tempted to follow the example of wicked old Jerusalem, which "killed the prophets and stoned them." How strangely in contrast with the conduct of the Boston- preacher is the course of those religious bodies which have resolved them selves into brawling political conventions, and assumed to sit in judgment upon the po litical opinions of their fellow men ! 'lnstead of "rendering unto Cmsar the things that are Ctesar's, and unto God the things that are God's," Cwsar seems to monopolize all their time and labors. We do not remember to have reed that Peter and Paul and James and John ever engaged in the very reputable business of slandering their neighbors—of calling them "copperheads," or "sympa thizers," or " rebels." When in the syna gogue they preached of a coming eternity, and left the trifling vanities of time in the hands of the politicians. These political declarations of clerical bodies are even at the best incompatible with the cause they repre sent ; and when they are shorn of all dignity, candor and Christian charity, they seem almost to profane the high calling of the church When the church condescends to soil her garments in the dirt and filth of the political arena, she weakens her influence and power. Above all should she discard bitter ness and reviling, passion and hatred. She should ever remember the injunction of Saint Paul: " Though I speak with the tongue of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cym bal." 6 per rent 5 A SHAMEFUL CONFESSION Last Wednesday week, Mr. Covode, of Pennsylvania, introducing one of the success ful candidates at the recent election in Penn sylvania, to Secretary Stanton, in the War Office, made some congratulatory remarks on the success of the Republicans in that State. " I elected Gov. Curtin," Mr. Stanton replied, " fur I sent him, 15,000 more votes than he had majority." This was said vauntingly, aloud, in the presence of a crowd, one of whom re peated it to the Albany Argus. The shameless boast involves. an admission that the Democrats of Pennsylvania carried that State by about 15,000 majority. We have no doubt of it. 5 per cent In 6 5 1A 6 i 4( 5 ‘‘ 5 ill 5 , PETERSON'S MAGAZINE We are in receipt of this popular Lady's Magazine, for December. It is a splendid number. " Peters " he greatly im proved in 1864. It will contain nearly 1000 pages of double column reading matter; 14 steel plates ; 12 colored steel fashion plates ; 12 colored patterns in Berlin work, embroidery or crochet, and 900 wood engravings—propor tionately more than any other periodical gives. Its stories and novelete are by the best writers. In 1864, Four Original Copyright Novelete will be given. Its Fashions are always the Latest and Prettiest. Every neighborhood ought to make up a club. Its price is but Two Dollars a year, or a dollar less than Magazines of its class. It is the Magazine for the Times! To clubs, it is oheaper viz :—three copies (or $5, five for $7,50, or eight for $lO. To every person getting up a club, (at these rates,) the publisher will send an extra copy gratis. Specimens sent (if written for) to those wishing to get up clubs. See prospectus in another column. Address, post paid, Charles J. Peterson, 306 Chestnut street, Philadelphia. THE NEW YORK DAY-BOOK The editor of the New Hampshire States and Union, speaking of the above paper, says:— " It is sound to the core, and is almost the only paper in the country that deals rightly and Democratically with the negro question. If the Democratic party, twenty years ago, had taken the ground occupied by this paper on the negro and ilbolition questions, and stuck to it, like true men, we never should have had this war, and the country to-day would have been prosperous and happy. The quicker they ac cept this position, and act earnestly upon it, the quicker we shall have peace and a restored Union. and we may add, we never shall have these desirable results on any other ground." siar See prospectus in another column. dam . A committee of the Vermont Legisla ture, to which was referred a bill giving the soldiers the privilege of voting while absent from the State, bee reported that such an aot would be in violation of the State constitution. —Exchange. Abolitionism is so largely in the ascendant in that benighted region that the soldiers' votes are not needed. Hence it is not " con stitutional " to give them " the privilege of voting while absent from the State." In Pennsylvania, our Abolitionists say it is not right to deprive them of this " privilege." " Strange, what a difference there should be, 'Twist tweedle•dum and tweedle•dee." FALL OF A RAILROAD BRIDGE.—An accident of a very serious nature occurred on the Con nelleville Railroad on Saturday. It appears that while a freight train was crossing the bridge over Turtle Creek, between Port Perry and Brinton's station, on the Central road, the structure gave way, and the locomotive and fifteen cars were precipitated into the creek below. The engineer, conductor, and fireman went down with the train, and con sidering the character of the accident, their escape from instant death seems marvelous. Mr. Arthars, the conductor, was pretty badly bruised, but the others escaped with trifling injury. The cars were all more or lees dam aged and the locomotive wrecked. The bridge gave way just as the locomotive reached the centre of the structure, and the whole affair dropped into the stream. Several of the cars were laden with coal, all of which will be re covered.—Pittsburg Chronicle. WORTH $300,000, An exchange paper says : " Governor Curtin went into the office of Governor in straitened circumstances. He has now $300,000 to his credit in bank. He is still for a vigorous prosecution of the war." If this had been said of Col. McClure we should ask no questions, having great faith in the ability of that gentleman to accomplish wonders. But if it be true that Gov. Curtin has accumulated $300,000 in three years, we promise him a gold headed cane if he will tell us how it was done.—Patriot & Union. BEARS.—David Brown, Jacob Confer, and other Nimrode, living at Canoe Creek, Blair county, killed, four bears on Thursday last. The beara tame down from the mountain, probably in search of food, and crossed the turnpike, a few rode from Mr. Brown's.house, where they were perceived, and the doge start ed- after them. They were soon treed, one after another, and , shot. ':"*" The following extract from the pen of Edmund Burke, might be given as a lesson to men who pretend tobe ministers of the Gospel; but who, instead of preaching Christ, and "Him crucified," turn their pulpits into political rostrums, to dabble in the pool of partisan strife : " Politica and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Chris tian charity. The cause of civil liberty and civil government gains as little as that of religion by this confusion of duties, Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them, are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and the character they assume.— Wholly unacquainted with the world in which they are so fond of meddling, and inexperi enced in all its affairs, on which they pro nounce with so much oonfidence, they Live nothing of politics but the passions they ex cite." THE MISSOURI ELECTION The Missouri radicals and " red legs" have been beaten—horse, foot, and dragoons —in the recent election in that state. The Schofield -Gamble conservative faction have prevailed by about 13,000 majority, which further returns will probably increase. We do not claim this as a Democratic victory, for that it is not. Only administration men have voted, or were allowed to vote, in that stat ,; but the conservative wing of the gov erning party have got the'best of the jacobin wing, and for that we are duly thankful, The Missouri type of radicalism was the most dangerous developed by this unhappy civil and military struggle, and all good aitisens will rejoice that it has been put under foot. A similar triumph in Kansas, which is not impossible, will drive LANs, Jszerusorr, and their adherents into private life forever. World. THE PENNSYLVANIA. TOBACCO CROP.--In consequence of the early frost in Kentucky and Tennessee, and the supposed injury to the tobacco crop, the price has risen in Louis ville three and four dollars per hundred weight. This will, so far, be very good news to a number of farmers of Pennsylvania who have planted larger quantities of this article the present season than ever before. In many sections of the State, so great has been the demand for lumber, to form tobacco sheds, and for men to construct them, that the sup ply has fallen quite short, and every conceiv able expedient has had to be adopted.— Whether for better or for worse, there is no question as to the fact that Pennsylvania is about to become a rival to Virginia in the cultivation of Tobacco, and the chief wonder seems to be why it has been neglected so long. MORE POWER WANTED. Most people have supposed that the Wash ington administraticn possesses sufficient power to satisfy ordinary ambition, but ao• cording to the Chicago :.Tribune more power is demanded. In enumerating the duties of Congress the Tribune names the following as of the first importance : To put into the hands of the executive and his subordinates of the cabinet and the army, all the power necessary to make the policy that may he adopted vigorous and earnest; all the troops that' are needed to give weight and efficiency to our plans upon the rebel fte ; and all the guaranties of credit that may be asked to secure our finances from the catas trophe that enemies abroad and enemies at home are predicting, will unquestionably be both the duty and the pleasure of the loyal majority in the Senate and House, upon whom the President must depend. There is little danger of going too far. The Tribune further declares that the country has pronounced in favor of confisca— tion, emancipation, negro troops, taxation and the draft, and it calls upon Congress to give vitality to all these measures by the most liberal provisions which can be made for carry• ing these "moral ideas" into effect. The people will not quarrel with the domi. nant party on these questions. The power itud the re&ponsibility is in their hands, and they must wield the one and exercise the other as seemoth unto them good. There is a day of reckoning coming, when these unwise rulers will be overwhelmed with confusion and dismay. At present they must continuo to revel in the intoxication which so much power has produced, and, like the man whose appetite is excited with strong drink, they will continue to call for more.—N. Y. World. ,- 'LEAVY Rt,FIRERY ON BOARD A STEAMBOAT.- C. A. Brum, a lumber dealer of Madison, N. J., came up the river on Monday night of last week, from New York, on the Hendrick Hud son. He took a state room and then went out on deck, and remained there all the fore part of the evening. While he remained there he got in conversation with some strangers, who asked him to go down into the barber ship, where it was warm. He remained there some time, and listened to a party who were singing comic songs. There was con siderable drinking there, and ho was asked to drink, and drank some Bourbon twice, but not enough to affect him in the least. About eleven o'clock be started for his state room, and while passing through the narrow passage, towards the office, he was struck with a slung shot, or something of that kind, and knocked down, he remained insensible he does not know how long. His face was badly bruised. When he came to his senses, he found that $5OO had been taken from one of his pockets, his ticket, and the key of his room. He bad also $l,OOO in a pocket in his underclothing, and about $BOO in his pocket book, which was not taken. The conduct of the officers of the boat is severely censured.—Troy Daily Press. SOCIAL EXTRAVAGANCE. The approaching winter will be the gayest season Washington ever saw. The prepara tions that are being made for every descrip tion of dissipation are on the most stupendous scale. The population of the Capital will be far greater than during any preceding win ter. The capacity of the hotels and boarding houses for accommodating the people who will be here was exhausted long ago. There is not a vacant house in the city or in George town. Hundreds of people have engaged houses in Baltimore, and will ride to this city from that one every morning. The hotels and boarding houses here will charge the most fabulous prices. Balls, route and parties will be the order of the day. Money wil flow like water. Extravagance in dress, in equipage, and in sumptuous living, will mark the daily life of the degenerate successors of Washington, of Jackson, of. Harrison, of Polk. In all these fashionable follies the President's household, we are gravely in formed, will take the lead. Already Jenkine has given a gushing description of the new and elegant outfit of " the Presiden's lady," and has dilated upon the gorgeous balls and banquets that are to be given at the White House. God help the poor this winter, whose husbands and fathers have been forced off to the wars, while they are starving at home, with coal at eleven dollars a ton, sugar eigh teen cents a pound, coffee forty cents a pound, tea one dollar and fifty cents a pound, muslin thirty-one cents a yard, and flannel too dear to be bought. Balls and banquets at the White House; blood and balls of another kind on the battle-field ; and starvation and anguish in the dwellings of the poor. So we go.— Washington correspondence Chicago Times. U. S. REVENUE TAN.—Farmers who butcher their own stock—that is the stock they have raised or fattened on their farms—and in that way sell it, must make a return under oath to the Assistant Assessor of all stock thus slaughtered and sold. They do not need a license unless they sell $l,OOO worth ; but they are bound to pay 20 cents per head for all cat tle over 18 months old, 5 cents for all under 18 months, 6 cents for each hog and 3 cents for each sheep. ROBBED.-A young man named Joseph Wood, hailing from Reading, was arrested in Philadelphia last week, charged of the larceny of $79 from Herman Fetter, Esq., the Sheriff of Lehigh county. Mr. Fetter was stopping at the Bald Eagle Hotel, in Second street, and the money was taken from his room some time during the night. The accused had a hearing before Alderman Kennedy, and was committed in default of $l,OOO bail to answer at Court. ar The Philadelphia & Erie Railroad is now in use for passenger and freight business from Harrisburg to Emporium on the Eastern Division, and from Sheffield to Erie on the Western Division. Care run through without change between Philadelphia and Look Haven and between Baltimore and Look Haven.