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LANCASTER,, PA., NOVEMBER 17, 1863
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10.60 Math 6th street, Philadelphia. He is authorised to
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encer.
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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."
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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.
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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.