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LANCAgIat, O.,,NAVEMBER 24, 1863:
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- -YOUNG TO THE CONSTITUTION, AS
THE SHIPWRECKED MARINER CLINGS
TO THE LAST PLANK, WHEN NIGHT
AND THE TEMPEST CLOSE AROUND
HIM."-DANIEL WEBSTER.
A PROCLAMATION
Thursday next, the 28th inst., having been set apart by
the President of the United States, as a day of Thanks
giving and Prayer to Almighty God for the blessings
vouchsafed to us : I do therefore request the citizens of
Lancaster to observe the day in with the
recommendation of the Chief Magistrate of the Nation,
and to abstain, as far as possible; from all worldly or secu
lar employment. GEO. SANDERSON, Mayor.
Mesoa's OFFICI, Lancaster, Nov. 24, 1863.
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 he 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
subScriptionsand 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 subs,cription, 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.
The Opinion
On . our first page will be found an
abstract of the opinions delivered in
the Supreme Court, by Judges Low-
RIE and WOODWARD. On the uncon
stitutionality of the Conscription
law. Judge THOMPSON also deliv
ered a written opinion on the same
side, but we have no room for it.—
Judge STRONG ( delivered a written
opinion on the other side of the
question, which was concurred in
by Judge READ. The opinion of the
majority of the Court, however, is
the law of the State, until reversed
by the same tribunal or by the Su
preme. Court of the United States.
Delaware Election.
The Abolition candidate, Mr.
SMITHERS, was elected to Congress,
on Thursday last, without opposition
—the Democratic candidate, lion.
CHARLES BRowN, having been with
drawn from the canvass by his
friends. This course was deemed
advisable by the Democrats, in con
sequence of the avowed intention of
Gen. SCHENCK, who commands that
military district, to prevent a free
expression of opinion through the
ballot-box, by means of an armed
force stationed at the different polls.
Less than one-half the. entire vote of
the State was polled. So we go in
the rapid, downward strides of a mil
itary despotism. But the end is not
yet:
Supplies for the Prisoners
The feeling created by the reported
refusal of the Confederate authori
ties to receive and distribute the
food sent to Federal prisoners in
Richmond, turns out to be another
waste of indignation. The supplies
have reached that city, and Gen.
Neal Dow writes that the food to the
amount of 40,000 rations has been
distributed among the prisoners.—
The clothing had been previously
distributed, and the delay in receiv
ing and distributing the food was
(Awing to our authorities endeavoring
to Send it to Richmond in charge of
a Federal officer—a proceeding
which the Confederates would not
allow. The difficulty was arranged
satisfactorily by the officer turning
it over to the charge of the Confed
erate officers at City Point, who im
mediately furnished it to our half
famished soldiers.
diNOT FOR WANT OF MEANS."
The Toronto (Canada) Globe, which has
supported the cause of the anion against
rebellion ever since the war commenced, in an
`article on the President's last call for 300,000
more, sap :
"It is not for want of means that the
administration of Mr. Lincoln will break
down."
. No, certainly not. He has had all the
- means he has called for—fabulous sums of
money and men almost innumerable—means
enough, under wise direction, to have con
quered half the world, but which under his
management has utterly failed to crush armed
'rebellion. It is not for want of means that
'4dministratien will fail; but for want of
'ability -and honesty. A more incompetent
and dishonest set of rulers no country has
—. ,
ever been burdened with ; and it is because
Ihpyllcick both sense and honesty that they
wilh go down, and•be followed in their fall
by the outspoken - name of the present genet..
ation, antiAlie'AielediStionspf the yet unborn
4 4iinerations which are to follow.
WRY VIM WAR MUST 00 ON
The New York News, in its issue of the
4th inst., says that many honest citizens.ex
press their Wonder, and others their disgust.
that.in the third.year of the war the federal
armies, after a series of victories, should re
main inactive, and, as it were, stricken by
some paralyzing influence.. The bulk of the
people do not yet realize the fact, that the
Administration are playing a political, not a
military game. It is no part of the design
of those in authority that hostilities should
cease until the central power shall he con
firmed, and the principles of States' rights
expungedff.mi . ouiNational greed. The pro
ject of consolidation depends for its success
upon the control of an immense military force.
It can only be consummated by familiarizing
the people with the exercise of arbitrary
power, and such power demands the support
of bayonets, without which it would be unable
to Cope with the instincts of liberty that yet
cling to the masses. The vast command of
monetary resources is also essential to the
development of the scheme of centralization ;
and while the war furnishes a pretext for the
unlimited manufacture and disbursement of
paper money, which answers all the purposes
of corruption and fealty purchase, so potent
an engine of despotism will not be relin
quished. It is therefore absurd to expect
any energetic military efforts on the part of
the Administration. They will only do what
is necessary to save the federal armies from
annihilation. Should a victory occur which
promises decisive consequences, it will be fol
lowed by a period of negligence and apathy,
for it is intended that the war shall languish
until the political ascendancy of the now
dominant party of the- North shall be con
firmed.
The contest between the zeal, activity
and energy of the Administration in con
ducting their political campaigns and the in
-difference, lethargy and . mismanagement
which they have exhibited in their direction
of military affairs, is apparent and significant.
On the one hand, neglect and failure ; on the
other fraud, force, patronage, the resources of
an exchequer inexhaustible in paper, and
success. Ohio, in itself, demonstrates their
determined purpose to defraud the people of
their voices, and to achieve political supre.
macy by violence, treachery, or whatever
means power can command and dishonesty
descend to. The Democracy of that State
polled a vote numerically stronger than any
that had previously carried an election in
that quarter. But it availed not against an
influence that could buy the illegal suffrages
of the citizens of adjoining States, and en
force those of the army. In one county, the
returns exhibited the curious result of a num
ber of votes exceeding the male population of
that county. Such consummate skill, if ap
plied to the military question, would insure
for the Administration a warlike reputation
equal to any intention, except that of the
subjugation of a race of American freemen.
But military success would interrupt the pro
gress of the political enterprise, and the war
is permitted to alternate between indecisive
victory and indecisive defeat, as the hideous
instrument of the scheme of consolidation.
That scheme is not the only one whose ad
vancement depends upon the protraction of
hostilities. The Abolition idol is conspicuous
among the infernal deities that preside in the
temple of fanaticism. Should the Confeder
ate States return, at this crisis, to the Union,
the people of the North would Concede to
them their peculiar institution. The people
of the North must therefore be educated to
the emancipation doctrine. Civil strife is the
only school in which that pernicious faith can
be inculcated to advantage. The free will of
the North must first be canquered, the peo
ple must be made subservient to the rule of
a powerful faction, the masses must he de
moralized and awed by absolutism, and thus
prepared to accept, upon compulsion, a theory
that their untrammeled volition would repu
diate. Thus the war is made to do service in
the Abolition cause. The border States, ut
tering under duress their feeble acquiescence,
will he constrained to bend the knee before a
shrine which they abhor. Maryland, with
her chained heart swelling for free utterance,
is already pointed at by the Administration
organs as an example of the triumph of the
Abolition sentiment: yet Maryland, while
the bayonet and the bastile ordain silence or
unwilling homage, loathes, in her secret soul,
the very name of Abolitionism.
Besides, the Administration, unless they
confirm their absolutism, must yield their
sceptre with the dawn of Peace, and the
party that support them must inevitably pass
into political obscurity. When the war
ceases, Black Republicanism must perish, and
then will come retribution and the hour of
settlement with a betrayed country and an
insulted people. War is the only political
capital of the men in power and their ad
herents. They will not exorcise the fiend
that serves them. They will not disenchant
the land from the fearful spell that guards
their throne. It will be " war to the bitter
end," for the end will leave them naked in
their infamy before the tribunal of the people.
Therefore it is, while the Republic bleeds and
groans, these usurpers nurse the elements of
strife and pursue the policy that renders
conciliation almost an impossibility. There
fore it i's, that the Administration wage war
for the sake of war, which is their vitality
and strength.
The Blessings of Abolitionism.
The beauties and blessings of
Abolitionism are thus summed up
by the Indiana Democrat:
A dissevered Union—a bloody
civil war—ruined homes—desolated
States—widowed women—orphaned
children—ruined commerce—thous
ands of millions of money expend
ed—precious lives sacrificed by the
thousand—general demoralization—
and a once peaceful and happy land
distracted by scenes of violence, con
fusion and bloodshed ! These are
some of the fruits of political Abo
litionism. Nor are these all the
baneful effects of this hated mon
ster. Churches dissevered—friend
shipsbroken up—families forever
separated—the cause of Christianity
and civilization retarded—the rights
of the citizen trampled upon—civil
liberty, threatened—and a flood of
wickedness let loose upon the coun
try that is fast making our once
proud America a by-word and a re
proach to the world. These are
some of the blessings of Abolition
rule ; not to speak of tax-gatherers,
assessors, conscription agents, in
formers, spies, Military prisoners,
mobs and mob law, and a wholesale
disregard of human life, private
property and the inestimable rights
of the citizen.
The above is no fancy picture; on
the contrary, it is stern reality and the
half has not been told. Is it not
:time, fellow-citizens, that we had a
change of rulers?
Jam' Seventy of the Mauch Chunk rioters
have been arrested, among thorn the murderer
of Mr. Smith. The 10th New Jersy volun
teers are doing good service in the district.
TIIE POIVPQ3E AvoWßv
We have long believed, says the Concord
(N. H ) Patriot, that the Republican, leaders
had resolved tlo hold possession of the Govern.
ment in spite of the people, and by military
force if- necessary ; that they would neither
permit a free election for the Presidency in
1864, nor submit to the verdict of the ballot
box, if it was against them. In other words,
we have become convinced that they have
deliberately resolved, to perpetuate their rule,
whatever may be the means to bo used to that
end, or the consequences to follow from their
use. This purpose has now been publicly
avowed by the Secretary of Slate, William H.
Seward. Ile has publicly declared that if the
opponents of Mr. Lincoln " should succeed in
electing a President in 1864 against the
majority who - elected Abraham Lincoln in
1860," that majority will not acquiesce" with
out bloodshed!" Here are his exact words,
in a speech at Auburn, N. Y., the day before
the late election in New York :
" What if, through battle and Einffrage, the
President who was elected in 1860 should, by
his opponents, be kept out of the Presidency
of the United States until another election ?
What if they should then succeed in electing
a President in 1864 against the majority who
elected Abraham Lincoln in 1860 ? Can that
majority be expected to acquiesce, without
voting and without bloodshed, in the election
of Jefferson Davis, or John C. Breckinridge, or
Horatio Seymour? Certainly not; and then
you have perpetual civil war, which is noth
ing else than perpetual anarchy "
If this language has any meaning, it means
just what we said—that the Republican party
and the Administration now in power will not
yield up the Government upon the verdict of
the people, in obedience to the Constitution ;
that they will not acquiesce, " without blood
shed," in the election of a President by their
political opponents. This atrocious purpose,
thus deliberately avowed by the head of the
cabinet, would have been laughed at by all
intelligent men, three years ago. For then
no such man would have regarded its accom
plishment as within the bounds of possibility,'
and the man or party avowing it, would have
been set down as absolutely lunatic. But not
so now. The whole course of the Adminis
tration has tended to familiarize the public
mind with acts of usurpation and utter disre
gard of private rights, the laws, and the Con
stitution. By degrees the majority of the
people seem to have been educated up to the
acquiesence in, and even justification and ap
proval of, measures and policy having a direct
tendency to subvert the Constitution. And
having reached that point, it is not to be ex
pected that they will be greatly surprised at
this open avowal of a purpose to set aside the
constitutional verdict of the people, by force
of arms, and to hold the Government by the
same power in spite of the people. And
therefore we do not expect to see a Republi
can paper denounce this treasonable and
atrocious avowal, nor hear a Republican orator
say a word in disapproval of the infamous
purpose so unblushingly avowed. It matters
not that it is treason of the blackest dye. It
matters not that it is the identical course of
the Secessionists. It is sufficient for the Re
publican politicians that it is a plan to keep
their party in power. That is the alpha and
omega with them. The Country, the Consti
tution, personal rights, the blessings of liberty
to posterity—all are as nothing compared to
the personal advantages of the possession of
power, the control of the wealth and resources
of the country, and the present advantage to
be secured therefrom. Whether this object is
to be attained in the manner proposed, re
mains to be seen. If it is attempted, Mr
Seward's prediction of " perpetual civil war,
which is nothing else than perpetual anarchy,"
will surely be realized.
TAE DEMOCRACY
Amid the clamor for the annihilation of
party organizations, says the Easton Argus—
the misrepresentation of its views and aims,
and the desertion from its ranks of the mis
guided and mercenary, the Democratic Party
stands firm. Against all the disheartening
influences of an unequal contest—against
the venal tide which immense patronage and
a flagrant abuse of power had set against it
—against the millions of money that con
tractors and their friends were able to use—
the Democracy has taken a stand for its prin
ciples and candidates that must command the
admiration of its bitterest foes. The grand
old party is not to be broken, either in spirit
or strength, by a temporary defeat. It may
be defeated again and again ; its ranks may
be thinned of its time-serving, spoils seeking
and shaky-kneed followers ; hut "it still
lives. - New recruits will take the places of
cowardly deserters ; and refreshed and re
organized, the party will be yet stronger for
the next conflict. Throughout its long and
useful career, it has ever been the foe of op
pression and tyranny, the friend of constitu
tional rights, the protector of the government,
and the defender of its flag. " The Union,
the Constitution and popular rights," has been
the motto inscribed upon its banner as it hae
successfully planted the Stars and Stripes on
the border of the Gulf of Mexico, and the
shores of the Pacific. The records of its acts
form the brightest pages in American history
and no amount of misrepresentation—no
senseless persecutions of its followers and
supporters—can swerve it from the proud
position it has ever maintained. Let the
waves of mad fanaticism roll on ! Let the
rule of Abolitionism blast the fairest flowers
of the Republic! And when the tempest
tossed and dismantled old Ship of State is
about to go down, a cry will rise above the
wailings of despairing imbeciles, for succor.—
Then will the strong arms and brave hearts
of the Democracy be welcomed to the com
mand.
THE TEXAS EXPEDITION
By an arrival at New York from New Or.
leans on the ith inst., we have, through the
Herald correspondence, important informa
tion from the Texas expedition under Gen.
Banks. The expedition commenced landing
on the Island of Brazos de Santiago, Texas,
about nine miles from the mouth of the Rio
Grande, on Sunday, the Ist inst. Other
rooms have been landed at the mouth of the
Rio Grande. During the voyage from New
Orleans, the transport steamer Union was
lost in a storm, and two schooners were sunk,
without loss of life, and in landing the troops,
seven soldiers and two sailors were drowned,
by the capsizing of boats. Brazos Island is
a sandy desert, barren and inhospitable, and
entirely without inhabitants. On the after
noon of the 4th inst., it was reported that the
Confederate Government buildings at Fort
Brown were destroyed the previous day by
the:garrison, and that on the 3d inst., a squad
of sixty Confederate cavalry dashed into
Brownsville and commenced setting fire to
the buildings, with a view of destroying the
town. The property holders and Union men
resisted them, when the Secessionists joined
the cavalry, and a bloody street fight took
place, which lasted all the afternoon, the
buildings burning in every direction
around them, and at the last accounts the
fight was going on.
The Fifteenth Maine at once received orders
to march without delay, and by daylight on
the sth that regiment, with others in support..
ing distance, was to be in Brownsville.
Two Confederate deserters were picked up
by the fleet on a small boat on the Texas
coast. They reported that revolvers and pow
der in large quantities were manufactured at
New Brownsville, and that the former sold at
two hundred dollars each, rebel money.
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°pa PAPER MOSEY--.BREAKERS
EIIZEI
JAMES GALLATIN, one of the principal fi
nanciers of b e iew York, and the son of one of
the most eminent of American Secretaries of
the Treasury,' made a speech in New York on ,
the 6th, before the Clearing, Rouse Associa
tion, in which ho warned merchants and
others against the vertex of financial ruin and
bankruptcy into which the Nation is drifting..
The following, is an extract from his remarks :
"The Secretary's plans are defended on the
"ground that they have saved to the country
the interest on his issues of paper money, but
the increased prices of supplies are enhancing
the value of j the war and increasing our
national debt 'to a much greater extent than
the saving of this interest; and as the pro
posed further issues by the new banks can
only aggregate the evil without saving to the
Government the interest on the proposed in
creases of circulation, it becomes the duty of
bankers as well as the people to look earnestly
as patriots at the consequences of this new
description of paper money. Does the country
need it? Will it save the Government from
increased expenditure ? Will it save interest
to the Government? Will it bring us nearer
to a specie standard?
_ All these (inactions, in my humble judg
ment, demand serious investigation. If they
are to be answered in the negative, what then
is the possible use of this new currency ?
Centralization of monetary power at Wash
ington is one. Is that desirable ? Is it
judicious to place the whole volume of security
for the entire 'paper money of the country in
the hands of One man at Washington ? Ima
ges of grandeur and power may be floating
in this onel man's imagination—" those
meteor lights, Which are exhaled in the stormy
atmosphere of a revolution to allure the am
bitious and dazzle the weak."
Among all the deplorable consequences of
increasing the price of commodities by this
proposed increase of paper money through
the new banks, none is so injurious to our
national wealth as the transfer of our public
debt into the: hands of foreign capitalists at
the most extraordinary low prices. Persons
not conversant with financial affairs are
shamefully deceived end misled on this ques
tion. Because the stocks of the United States
are quoted at or above par, no matter what
may be the prices of gold or other commodi
ties, they consider our financial policy to bo
founded upon the wise teachings of experience.
Now, for example, let us take a case, sim
ilar to those which happen every day in the
street and in the New York Stock Board.—
We will suppose gold to be at fifty per eent.
premium, as it has been more than once this
year, and a capitalist residing in London or
Paris wishes to buy one thousand dollars,
worth of our Government stock—say " five
twenties." This stock is at oar in our paper
money, one hundred dollars in " greenbacks"
being worth 'one hundred dollars in " five
twenties."
The capitalist has sent one thousand dol
lars in gold (or bills of exchange payable in
gold from London or from Paris, and this
sells in New York for about fifteen hundred
dollars in greenbacks, there being a slight
charge for expenses, so that every thousand
dollars sent from other countries, when gold is
about fifty premium in New York, buys about
fifteen hundred dollars of our government
stock, bearing six per cent, interest in gold ;
and in reality' Mr. Chase gets less (in real
value) than one thousand dollars for his fifteen
hundred of stock; because his issues of paper
money have increased the prices of everything
so much that the fifteen hundred dollars he
would have received in paper, in the example
just refered to, would buy far less in com
modities than the thousand dollars under a
specie currency. He pays interest on fifteen
hundred dollars annually in gold, being
ninety dollars a year, although ho has re
ceived in real value only one thousand dollars.
In this way every foreign capitalist, when
gold is at fifty, premium, gets our Government
securities at about sixty six cents on the dol
lar, so that his capital yields him mare than
nine per cent interest, while our poor people,
as well as all persons having fixed incomes,
are made to pay fifty per cent more for the
necessaries of life and our own capitalists are
compelled to pay fifty per cent, more than
foreigners for our national securities. To im
poverish a nation, and discourage the labor
and savings of its people, no system is so
effectual as this of paper money; and it is this
system, so ruinous to the nation and the peo
ple, which we are requested to render active
and efficient by admitting its engines into the
Clearing house, that they may destroy the
specie paying system upon which our New
York city banks are founded and establish
upon its ruins that of the notorious John Law,
which has exploded in every country which
has tried it, leaving, a succession of awful
warnings and admonitions which are to be
read in almost every chapter of the history, of
nations, during the last and present centuries.
THE NATIONAL FINANCES
The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun learns, from official quarters,
that the means of the Secretary of the Treas
ury on the first of January to defray current
expenses will be about $400,000,000, and
that his department is now issuing Govern
ment. paper at the rate of $4,000,000 daily.—
The former sum does not include legal tender
notes, which the Secretary has tho right to
issue to a large amount. The latter sum is
not the average actual expenditure daily, but
what is issued just now. The average actual
expenditure is estimated at $2,250,000 daily,
and it is considered that the estimates for the
budget for the next fiscal year will be at about
that rate, or rising $800,000,000. As the
aggregate annual appropriations are, in fact,
first or last, the real expenditures, we may set
down the cost of carrying on the Government
up to June 30th, 1864, at $2,250,000,000,
which is the aggregate in round numbers
of the budgets for the last three sessions of
Congress.
Should thei war be continued until the
spring of 1865', the above amount will be in
creased by the aggregate of the budget of the
coming session, which will nut probably ex
ceed that of last year, because material of war
has heretofore been created at vast expendi
tures, -while for the future appropriations are
only to be made for increase and for keeping
motion the existing machinery. If, then,
the war continuos through the next year, the
aggregate expenditure of the Government
will be $3,000,000,000 on the 30th of June,
1865. It is estimated at the Treasury that
for the coming fiscal year there will be an
increase of $125,0000,000 from internal taxes,
and $100,000,000 from revenues on foreign
imports. It will require all of the former
sum, if not more, to pay the interest on the
public debt at the end of the next fiscal
year.
THE MARYLAND ELECTION
The Tribune publishes the result of the
Maryland election, but does not dare to com
pare the vote this year with former ones, es
it usually does when it publishes election re
turns. We will supply the deficiency. In
1860 the total vote of the State was 92,402, of
which Lincoln received 2,294 ; Douglas 5,966,
the balance about equally divided between
Bell and BreCkinridge. This year the total
vote of th • State is only 52,171, IA decrease of
forty thousand on the vote of 1860, Golds
borough, the Abolition candidate, receiving
36,140, and Maffit, Conservative, 16,031.
As a sample of " the great change in public
sentiment in Maryland," of which the Tribune
never tires of talking, we present the following
sample :
President 1860
Liner,ln 11411.
• 1,083 12 004
Dreck'r. Donal'
Baltimr.re City ,
14 me, 1,503
Ti tti137,146
Comptroller MI.
Baltimore City 1
Goldeborough. Mafrit,
Total 0,942 368
' 11.310
•
Now, it is a well-known fact that Baltimore
city has a much larger population now than
she had in 1860. It is such facts as these that
the Tribune systematically conceals from its
readers, and induces the poor, deluded people
who read it to actually believe that a real
change of sentiment on the " slavery " ques
lion has occurred in the Border 'States. A
more wicked deception was never practiced
upon the publie.—Neto York Dag Book.
BIG CROP.—Mr. JAMB JOHN, of the
General Green hotel, three miles from West
Chester raised': three thousand bushels of
potatoes the past season of which he hal bold
all but seven hundred bushels. - The next
season he intends to plant 30 acres. ,;
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
COURT PROCEEDINGS
The November Term u 1 the Court of Quar
ter Sessionawee held last week—Judges Long and llriuton
on the bench. The Court opened on Monday morning at
10 o'clock, when the listof grand Jurors were milled. and
Col. A. S. Green, of Columbia, appointed Foreman. Judge .
long then charged the Jnriws, defining their dubs•, and
calling their attention to the art of Assembly ielitire fo
the circulation of notes of other States of a lees clarion:tine
'Goa than fire dollars- The balance of the roorninz era
rim we, occupied with the hear jog of Constablee return,
Below_ will, ba.found . a condensed acconnt'nf the week's
proceedings:.
Mr. Wright. of Safe Harbor, was divorced front his wife,
anti proclamation made thereof.
John Doereb, for a threatened 'wenn on Its, arina Rort,
was hold to ball in the sum cf $lOO
D. R Patterson plead guilty to an aseault nod La•tery,
and vas Il=ed $1 and the costs.
Peter Wirth, fur threatening violence ei_oritirt the person
Of Frederick Yeager, was hound over to the sum of $lOO
to keep the peace.
Michael itharr wan indicted for an assault and battery on
Catharine Wright. Verdict not guilty, and coats divided
between defendant and prrsecutor.
- • A good-looking youee girl. named Levine Weidler. re
siding in East Ccicalico t3wnship. chanted Harrison Miller
with being the father of her child. The.jury, bower,.
- thought . differently, and brought' in a verdict of not
guilty, each party to pay half the costs
A young female "American of African descent," named
Rebecca Harrts, plead guilty to stealing a quantity of
calico, and was vent to the County Prison for 3 months.
Frederick Shultz was charged with threatening his
wife. The parties do not live together. • Bound over to
keep the peace for. six months.
Christian Sbauh was charged by Christian B. Rohrer
with threatening to stab him. Defendant discharged on
payment of roots.
John Holden was charred by Rebecca 'Kissinger with
befog . the father or ber child. The jury thought co too,
and rendered a verdict of guilty. Not being willing to
comply with the usual sentence, the defendant was com
mitted to prison.
James F Barnes was charged with the larceny of three
overcoats from Sprecher's Hotel. in this city. The jury
returned a verdict of not guilty on the ground of insanity,
and he was ordered to to sent to the County Prison until
he became of sound mind He was afterwards delivered
over to an officer from Harrisburg, to answer a similar
charge in the Dauphin Connty.Court ; but on the way to
the depot he gave the officer the slip, and has not since
bean heard of. Pretty sharp for an insaneness.
Sarah Keller said that Peter H. Shaeffer was the father
of her little child, for being which the usual sentence was
imposed upon Peter.
Thomas C. Porter plead guilty to an mason and battery
on J. K. Mester, and was fined $5 and the costs.
Henry Muse!man plead guilty to tour indictments of
larceny, and wan sentenced on each indictment to two
months' Imprisonment.
John Michße!, of Warwick township. indicted for assault
and battery on Ephraim Bender. Verdict guilty. Sen•
tented, to pay a fine of $1 and the costs.
Martin Gross was Indicted fir aseault and battery on
a boy named Jacob Sbeaffer Verdict guilty. Sentenced
to pay a line of $1 and the costs.
A motion was made at this stage of the proceeding...
(Wednesday morning) under plea of abatement, to quash
the indictment found against )Meer, Peareol .4 Geist, of
the Express, for libel, on complaint of Mr. Cyrus Cramer,
Keeper of the Lancaster County Prison, the defendants
alleging, through their counsel, Messrs. Fordney, Kline
and Dickey. that John J. Good, one of the members of the
Grand Jury by whom the indictment was found, was, for
certain reasons which would be shown, disqualified from
serving on the finding of that bill. Messrs Livingston
and Diester, on the part of the Commonwealth, objected,
and after some cross firing between the counsel the Court
decided that the plea must be supported by affidavit, and
it was withdrawn for the time to be so amended.
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Shortly afterwards the plea Won again submitted to the
Court, the allegation being verified by affidavit
Mr. fileater.objeeted that proof most be given that the
defendants were not advised of the objections now raised
prior to the finding of the bill.
. .
Fordoey replied that they were ready to meet thou
on any.oblection the prosecution advanced .
The Court, however, decided that they would suspend
hearing the argument until the ease was regularly reached
In the order of bnalness
Mr. Hood presented the petition of 116 of the legal voters
of Clay township supported by affldsvit asking . that the
place-of , holding the election be changed from the present
location to that of Philow's—a more central point. The
Court directed that proper notice, by publication In one
German and one English newspaper, and by 25 posters,
be made, that an election for the purpose of selecting a
new place for the holding of general, special and township
elections, will be held, as suggestA, on the 31st of Derem.
bar,
Samuel Christy, said to reside in Northumberland co
was charged by Mary 111.31. of Columbia, with assault and
battery with intent to commit a reps. Verdict guilty,
with a recommendation to mercy. Sentenced to three
years' and three months' imprisonment in the Eastern
Per,itentiary.
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James aud William Lrthgow were indicted for the lar
ceny of two ten-dollar 'greenbacks" from the store of
John D. Horror, in Salisbury township, on the 19'h of
September last. The Jury returned a verdict of guilty so
to James, and acquitted William. The latter was dim
charged, and the former sentenced to fifteen months'
im
priennment.
Catharine Way, another female "American of African
descent" was indicted for an assault and battery on
Elizabeth Baylor, of 'Mount Joy. Verdict not guilty, and
.baeh party so nay half the costs.
Frederick Gahn plead guilty to three indictments
charging him with A° larceny of two horses, a saddle and
bridle. Sentenced for stealing the saddle and bridle to
one year's Imprisonment in the Eastern Penitentiary, and
for the larceny of each of the horses to an imprisonment
of two and a half years in the gime place.
The roost Important trial of the week was the murder
case at Marietta. fall account of which is given in another
column.
FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE.—The
'exhibition of the first division of the Senior Ch.!, r f this
Institution came off on Tuesday morning at the College
building,, and compare] very favorably with similar
crones in by gone years. Orations were delivered by
Messrs. APPLE. BRUNNER, CESSNA, LvtNs , GErIIART and
HAAS, and wore wall received by Om audience prri,nt—
the selection f the .tml..jects indicating good taste, and
worthy of the applatnietwhich they elicited.
11 CL4U BRUBAKER REOYe on ins. ~hje st of , I),1o1Btloo
Ills subject was gond, his manner et. toot, and Ida delivery
excellent, but unfortunately all werc marred by his un
called for and I.II,IgenthARRI,IV eflusiol3 Northern "dough
faces" and 'traitors." while do citing open the changes
which have been and are tabled place in this veer great
country. Wu ire sorry that A olitioniem line nd
stray exponent in KarOlin and Mtlehall College. We
would mildly atlviee City tlwt , he bent ..nsiiiation' lie
could make %mild he to go into army and light out
his Impracticable theciies Lip I,lr4,lisrf, Is romllloll,
real patriotism aim, par. wee , : lege and breve so
hearts at
not often combined, and wo're tho -chieldv"
wait ta di. neer e01t.1 ,, , , e , k,!,' • the
its hand will Fe stretched forth to sive the convoy.
IL U Br e.NNIM'S acd - ject, - noses the Lawgiver," was
very happy in its conception, and Rol think evinced de
cidedly the most thought and study in its composition.—
Mr Ito style was easy, earne , t, graceful and of CUM,. af
fective. Ills tribute to the Jewish Conmltution and to
M 0905 as a Lawgiver was a fine effort, and his remarks
about the similarity of the Jewish to one own Constitution
afforded a powerful antidote to what his predecessor had
amid.
i 'Flabeas Corpus," by JONATHAN CESONS. war wall deliv
ered, and offered a fair scope for a display of legal knowl
edge and Jefferson and Jackson patriotism, which was
amply improved by Mr. C., NllOl.O arguments on that great
right of Christianized humanity were abla. and proved the
sound judgment of the speaker
"Howard, the Philanthropist," n-so the 60j4rt, of im
passioned praisa from Mr. L. K. Finns, and was delivered
with all the Miens ,- aarcestoi.ss which such a sulL .,- t
should produ-e.
..F.ipicurtts." by W. A. llaks, abounded in sarcasm sod
wit and was highly amusing.
••Ilegh Miller," by Mr. A P and "F.cience and {['sr."
by Mr. GIE/14,21., wet, new , . hue ptoit•ctions, and the
next graduating class promises to be one, et the best which
has gone from this College for Coma time.
• FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT.—The Phila
delphia Bulletin of Tnesda3 - evening last notices the d, ath
of John McMichael, of Lancaster. aged 32 rears, a member
of the 34th New Jersey Regiment. while passing from one
.car to another in West Philadelphia, on Monday afternoon,
He fell between tho bumpers And was crushed in such a
manner that he died in three hours ufter.being admittrd
into the Pennsylvania Hospital. The deceased leaves a
wife and two children.
LADIES' FAIR.—The ladies of S. John's
Free Episcopal Church, Spring Garden, intend holding a
Fair for the tonefit of sale Church, at Fulton Hall, roan
mooring on Thursday evening next. at fl o'clock, and end
ing on Saturday evening. We trust ths Fair may be lih.
orally patronized, as this Church has done a great deal
good in a section of the city which heforo woo entirely
destitute of any such means of worshipping God.
THURSDAY NEXT, being Thanksgiving Day,
all the stores and business places of this city will he
and religious services 13,1,1 In most of the rhurrbee
--Divine sorvice will be held in the First Reformed
Church, Orange street, next Thursday morning. at 11:1!„,
o'clock. The occasion will be improved with a discourse
by the Pastor of the Church. Special interest will be given
to the devotional services, by several National Hymns, and
other appropriate music. A collection will also be taken
for the relief of our soldiers in the Richmond prisons.
—Rev. Mr. CARRON," will preach a Thanksgiving sermon
in the first M. E. Church, Duke street, on Thursday morn.
log next.
—Appropristo le , rvires will be held in the Ist Prerbyte•
Han ;Church. Orange street. In the marnin?. Sermon br
the PakAnt, fey. WALTER PoweLl..
BANK DIRECTORS ELECTED.— 00 yesterday
week the following gentlemen were elected Directors by
the following Banking Inatitutionn of this city:
Fafnir:as' BANE OF LANCASTER —Christopher linger, Geo.
Calder, Philip Bonen:ion, Thomen E. Franklin_ A darn ti
Witmer, George M. Kline, Solomon.Diller,DoLiel
John Beek, Charles A. Ileinitnb, Lewis Rainer, John P.oh
ror, Reuben A. Baer.
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LANCAsTLA COUNTS 61NI: —.John Landis, Dr. Isaac
Weidh r. EtaannAl Swope. Benjamin Rohrer, Jacob K,uff
man. (Tanner,) enri.tlau B. Herr, AIWA Bowman. 13 , nji
min B. Harr, John Elostetor, Ja,oh Bachman, Abraham
Bnekwnitor, Adam Lefever. 13eujimlu L. Lardl<
INLAND INAURANCE AND DEPOFIT COMPANY.—Dr. 11, E
Mohlet.berg. S. W. P. Boyd, David flartman. John W,
Jarl,on„lohn 0. Iliestand. Reynold.. William
B ' , ord.?. Samuel Nl.sloy, 3 .D. Cam,-”, W. M. Wiley,
W. P. Brinlon, W. R. Wilson, John Eshleman.
APPOINTE2I L M. HOBBS,
of Ibis city, has been appointed Chaplain to a reg . ,' repi•
ment, and is directed to report for duty near Charleeten,
South Carolina.
LITERARY.—Godey's Lady'a Book, for De
camber, in before us, and to say that it is fully equal to
any of the preceding numbers is not sufficient. It exceeds
them ell in beautiful and appropriate llluerrarions, and lu
entertaining and instructive rending matter it cannot be
excelled. We think the Colored Fashion Plato io one of
the finest engravings we have ever seen, and cannot fail
to please the lady friends cf the periodical. The Daily
Governess," and the Christmln Picture are et beautiful
5p 4 ,111:16139 d the apt—to nice the cle;iims I r V. 1 411 1 ,1
drenaen, Tl,i4 Lumber raucludes tt, tl7th volume,
and with the January I.le will complex CP H. new volume.
Now, then, would I t 3 ao eppropriate time to subscribe, .n
ante commence sorb the new volume of the Larlv'a Donk.
Address Louts A. hiodey, Philadelphia, and for terms ore
advertisement in another solemn.
PrrEBEON't3 MAGAZINE —Than most ex^ellent record of
literature.art and lash on, for December. ham been received
a'nd read with pleasure. It still maintain , its high repth
tatio - i, and no family ought to he without it. 2.esidoa rho
reading matter and fashion plates, It contains about a
dozen steel and wood engravings, and the whole number
of articles amounts to no less than thirty-eight. Publi,hed
by Charles J. Peterson, 306 Chestnut street, Philadelphia,
whose prospectus for 1864, to which we refer our readers,
will be found in our advertising columns.
HEAVY DAY'S WORK —Flighty five trains
passed over the Reading Railroad, and its
Lebanon Valley branch, on Saturday a week,
to wit : 6 Passenger and 11 Freight trains, on
the latter ; 6 Passenger and 11 Freight and
51 coal trains, on the former. Number of
loaded coal cars, 2,846 ; number of do. empty
2,584 ; making a total of 3,329 coal cars over
the •road in one day. This may be called a
big day's work.
ger The Philadelphia and Erie Railroad
was opened to - mporinm, Cameron County,
on the 19th inst. Eikhty-five miles more of
the road are under way, which will carry the
road from Sunbury to St. Mary's, leaving only
a gap of twenty three miles
. unfinished be.
tween Philadelphia . and Erie. ' •
THE MARIETTA. MURDER. CASE.
The case of James MoCtilly, known also as James
Foxey, alias Foxey Miller, indicted for the murder
of CharleS T. Brady, at Marietta, on the 24th day
of May, 1863, was taken up on Thursday morning.
The accused was arraigned in the usual form, and
plead nut guilty.
The Court acquainted the accused with his privi
leges in 'regard to his-right of challenge, and the
empanneling of the jury was proceeded with. After
sixteen peremptory challenges by the accused, and
ten for cause, by the Commonwealth, the. panel of
jurors was exhausted and a special venirii!_was issued
Or twenty - additional Jurors, who were taken by
tally float the body of the court. Ten jurors having
been selected from the Original panel, the remaining
two were obtained from the first three called in the
special venire. The following gentlemen were em
paneled on the jury :
Daniel Briker, William Clark, Lewis Diller, John
S. Horner, Christian Hoover, Israel H. Johns, Henry
L. Landis, Abraham Minuich, Jr., George Twining,
Samuel Wicks, Esq., Andrew Armstrong, Samuel
W. Scott.
The jury being sworn the case proceeded.
The accused is a small man with red hair and in
telligent countenance, with nothing of the brutal in
his appearance. He has no little finger on his left
hand, the third finger being split or doubled down
to the first joint.
From the testimony adduced up to the time of the
adjournment of themorning session, it would appear
that the murdered man was last seen On Saturday
night the 23d of May, after be had taken supper at
the house of his sister, where he boarded, and ac
quainted her thathe was going to a party and should
be gone for three or four days. Upon the return of
the party, with whom he said he was going, and the
deceased not making his appearance, his sister be
came alarmed, and on Tuesday morning the 26th,
caused his premises, a beer saloon on the river bank,
to be broken open, when deceased was discovered
lying on the flour partially behind the counter, dead
and weltering in his blood. Death was caused by
two wounds, one upon the side and the other upon
the back part of the head. Although known at
moat times to have money in his possession, none,
with the exception of two three cent pieces, was
found upon the body. On the floor was a foot print
of what appeared to be a gum shoe.on the right foot
which bad stepped into the blood. To test this fact,
G. W. Mehaffy, Esq , obtained a gnat shoe of simi
lar dimensions having steeped it in muddy water of
the consistence of blood, obtained a similar impres
sion to the one spoken of. Two glasses were found
upon the counter, one a small bar glass and the
other a lager beer glass; in the first was found a
small portion of bitters, such as the deceased usual
ly drank, but the beer glass was empty. A hatchet
was found on the premises, which belonged to de
ceased, and was such an instrument as the blows_
might have been inflicted with, but it did not have
the appearance of having been used for the purpose.
From the testimony, it was further adduced that
the bottle containing the bitters was placed upon a
shelf at the rear of and lower down than the bar,
which was about 18 or 20 inches wide. From the
position of the wounds it was believed by witness
that the back of deceased must have been turned to
the murderer when the first blow was struck; and
and that he must have partially turned before re
ceiving the second blow. When the deceased's body
was discovered, he had on only one boot and no stock
ings, and was in the habit of taking off his boot to
relieve the pain caused by a bunion.
When the deceased's sister west with Mr. Moore
and Mr. Burkhart to his saloon, they found a key in
the door, but could not say that it was the one be
longing there. The door could not be fastened with
a dead latch, which on the present Occasion was
sprung and the hasp down, preventing the door from
being opened from the outside, only by force.
The District Attorney in his opinion, detailed
many other circumstances which he intended to
prove connecting the accused with the perpetuation
of the murder.
THURSDAY AFTERNOON : COWL re-assembled at
half-past two o'clock.
The testimony of the case was resumed, from
which it appeared that an instrument, known as a
cold hammer chisel was found ; it was steel, and
from the observation of the witness (Mr. Keneagy)
was oxidized in spots apparently from blood; there
was also blood upon the handle , Brady was known
to have generally from $3O to $4O; Mr. Keneagy had
loaned deceased $75 in the awing, and by success in
trade he was enabled to pay the amount back and
deposit $B5 in Mr. Keneagy's hands ; he was known
to have money on the morning prior to his sup
posed murder ; blood was discovered on a skiff a
short distance above town ; blood was also discovered
on the shelving, counter, and on a lager beer cask.
It was also testified that the accused was seen at
the Upper Station at Marietta, suortly before the
murder, kicking a drunken German with his right
foot, on which he wore a gum ;shoe. OD Saturday,
before spoken of, he was seen at deceased's a little
after noon, dressed as previously described, and a
gum shoe on the right foot ; later in the afternoon
he was seen to go into the river shore house. On
Thursday previous to the murder, the accused went
to the tavern house of Mrs. Houseal, at Maytown,
and from'that time until Saturday morning, back
ward and forward, when he was ordered off; he
asked and obtained a small bottle of gin. On Sun
day morning after the night of the murder, he was
again found sitting on the settee, in front of Mrs.
liouseal's, between six and seven o'clock, as soon us
the house was opened he weut into the back yard ;
his coat sleeve appeared torn and that or his shirt
sleeve bloody ; he washed his hands and shirt sleeve
and wiped them on the house cloth, hanging near
by ; he was very careful in cleansing his hands.
On Sunday, or more probably the Monday after the
night of the murder, he was next seen at Bainbridge,
when he told the Superintendent of that section of
the railroad he had come in a boat. Ho asked for a
man named George Ashton, whom he said owed him
40 dollars ; this Mr. Ashton now denied. The next
place that the prosecution traced the accused to was
North Lebanon, whore he got shaved and had his
hair cut, leaving an imperial on his chin, which he
got colored. Here he first stated, that he was a sol
dier and had come from Harrisburg; he still wore
the same clothing and gum shoe ; afterward he told
the barber that he had come from Alexandria, and
subsequently said ha had lastly come from Lancaster
and Marietta. Here he assisted a man to load some
wood into a wagon, and getting confidential, told
this man that he had gotinto - a row with a man at
Marietta and had laid him low ; that he had to take
a hatchet to him; at this time he had on a light
coat, which he said cost him $9. Most of the parties
to whom he addressed himself were acquainted with
him. The last place he went to in Lebanon, was to
Mr. Hubbard's, where he had been previously
known, and stated that he had just come from war;
here he got a shirt washed, which was very dirty, he
loft very suddenly leaving some of his other clothing
and the shirt behind him. .
At this stage of the proceedings the Common
wealth proposed an adjournment, when J. W.
Killinger, Lsq., was introduced, that his testimony
might be taken on the part of the defence, as he
had a child at home sick.
The burden of Mr. &Miner's testimony went to
prove the application of the accused to him for
charity, and that he gave him the light coat refer
red to, and which was produced in court, as well as
a pair of pants,
now worn by him. In speaking ta
Mr. Killinger of his destitution, he said that he had
been in the United States service on the coast of
Carolina.
The Commonwealth resumed their testimony,
showing that whilst the aroused was in Lebanon he
stated that he was a wounded soldier, belonging to
the Ist California regiment, and was at the Ball's
Bluff fight : also, that afterward, when arrested at
Reading, he said he did not care whether they hung
him or not. Court adjourned.
FRIDAY MORNING: Court opent4at 9 o'clock.
The testimony as to the appearance of the body of
the murdered man when discovered, and as to the
foot-mark in blood and other circumstances, was
corroborated; it was further shown that the wound
on the side of the scull was one that had apparently
been made by the poll of a hatchet or hammer,
breaking in the scull to the extent of about an inch
and a half, from which the brain was oozing out,
and that the one on the back of the head was made
by a sharp instrumen4 ; o2f not more than two inches
wide; the cold chisel or swedging tool found in the
edge of the river, of about an inch and a half in
width, was produced and declared to be such an in
strument as would have inflicted the blows. It was
also testified that several of the persons composing
the proposed fishing party had called at deceased's
saloon between 12 and 1 o'clock to get him to go
along, but found the place closed and received no
answer to their summons. One of these witnesses,
after he had left a few paces, thought he heard a
noise in the saloon, and returned and looked through
the key-hole, but found everything quiet; shortly
after he met a person whom he took to- be a youth
of about his own height (the stature of the prisotter)7
who spoke to him, asking the direction to Bain
bridge' which be desired to reach before morning ;
from his voice this witness concluded the person was
a youth, but having heard the accused speak,
shortly after he was in jail, he thought his
voice resembled that og the person he met
on the night in question.crThe witness who found
the swedging tool, produced, stated that be found it
about seventy yards from Brady's, a short distance
in the river ; he did not notice any particular marks
upon it at the time, other than that it was rusted.
The testimony of one of the Coroner's jurors and
Dr. Boston was given, to prove that the nature of
the wounds received' by Brady were sufficient to
produce death, and what the result of the Coroner's
inquest was. - The clothing which was left at Leba
non and afterwards obtained by the prosecution,
was produced in Court and identified.
This was all•the testimony produced by the Com
monwealth in chief.
The defence then opened and stated that they
would endeavor to show that the aacnsed was at
Maytown on the evening previous to and all the
next day after the murder was committed, and also
disprove many of the statements made by the wit
nesses for the Commonwealth, so as to show that they
were mistaken. Moreover they weald account for
many of the circumstances, produced against the
accused, as arising from other causes than those
alleged.
The first portion of the testimony, for the purpose
of 'supporting the alibi, failed to prove more than
what had already been given by the Commonwealth,
as to the presence of the accused at Maytown on
Saturday evening, and again on Sunday morning,
except that two of the witnesses saw a man lying on
the bench in front of Roma's, between the hours
of nine and eleven o'clock on the Saturday night of
the murder, but did not recognize who that man
was. It was further endeavored to be shown by
these witnesses that the accused did not wear a
gum shoe, but the parties had no recollection of this
tact. It was elicited, however, that on the Thurs
day on which he first made his appearance in May
town, he noted as if either crazy or drunk, as stated
by Mrs. Honseal.
By the testimony now produced it was endeavored
to be shown that the accused was seen, by parties
who previously knew him, on the Sunday after the
murder, first at Elizabethtown, and rode eight miles
with one of the wltnesses ; he was, on the same day,
at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, seen at Union Deposit,
Dauphin county, where, having represented himself
as being very poor, he received some assistance,
with which he obtained a " check;' the witness de
clared positively that he had no gam shoe on at that
time, but got his shoe mended at the latter named
place on Monday. The shoes worn by him when
seen by these parties were Government shoes. All
the witnesses agreed that the accused wore a light
coat, blue government pante and white slouched hat.
From most of the parties he called on he asked for
clothes, and offered and sold recipes for making
vinegar. The last seen of him at Dauphin was on
Tuesday, the 26th of May. It was then shown that
he was at Myeratown, Lebanon county, on the road
to Reading, but the witness could not state the time.
One witness called to prors,the,t;the moused was at.
..blaytown on the week previous to theranrder, gay
hie opinion that be wore a gum - lie. at tltii
. Much of the testimony-given for the defence wail
little more than corroborative of the foots pat forth
by the commonwealth as to the whereabouts of the
accused, at about the time and after the murder, and
his conduct on those occasions, endeavoring to infer
that he was not then of sound mind; bat the crow
examination elicited the fact that he appeared to
have the mania paw.. The remainder of the testi
mony, intended to prove alibi and insanity, up to
the adjournment of the Court did not add any new
leature to the ease for the defence.
. . .
FR/DAY EVENING: Court again met ail o'clock.
2etar Et. Kreider, hotel keeper in North Queen
street, wap called to prove that BleOully was in Lan
caster on the 15th of May, and remained at Ida house
for six or eight days; he could not, however, be
certain that the time stated was correct, it might
have been of the 10th or . the 20th of the month he
came there ; he did not recollect that he was there
at the time of the return of the 122hd Regiment to
this city.
Testimony was also called to prove that both be.
fore and at the time he same into the jail he was
diseased in such a way as to premise that the blood
stains mentioned may have been. caused therefrom.
- At this stage of the proceedings, the counsel for
the defence asked a continuance of the case until
morning, upon the ground of newly discovered testis
mony, wniati the accused, under oath, declared to
be material. The counsel stated that a sabpcona had
been sent to Marietta for the witnesses. Just as the
Court was about toaccede to the application the con
stable and one of the witnesses came into Court.
The witness was examined, but, with the exception
of stating that he had given the accused a pair of
shoes in the spring similar to those he now wears,
his testimony was not material. Court adjourned.
SATURDAY MOBIZINd Court opened at 9 o'clock.
The only important evidence given was that of
John Rudy, who previously testified for the common
wealth, and was now recalled for the defence.. fie
now stated that, since he had seen the prisoner walk
around in the court room he was more convinced
than ever that he is the man that he met at about
nine o'clock in Marietta on the night of the murder.
lie knew him by his gait.
.A letter was pat in evidence by the Common
wealth, which had been sent from the accused, since
he was in prison, to Mr. George Ashton, asking him
if he could not recollect having seen him in the fits,
in the spring of the year, at Marietta; if so, he
would be obliged by his writing and letting him
know. Mr. Ashton was called and denied ever hav
ing seen him so affected.
concluded the testimony on both sides.
The case was ably conducted on the part of the
Commonwealth by District Attorney Livingston and
Col. 0. J. Dickey, and for the defense by Jesse Landis,
Esq., and Col. Samuel H. Price. After speeches
from the counsel and a charge from the Court, it was
given to the Jury at 4 o'clock, P. AL, on Saturday.,
At 7 o'clock they came into Court for some instrus
lions as to the different degrees of murder, and a
little after S brought in a verdict of guilty of mur
der in the second degree.
The prisoner who had all the while been seated in
the prisoner's box apparently an unconcerned ob
server, was called up for sentence, and came forth
with a quick step and independent air. Hewes asked
if he hod anything to say why sentence should not
be passed upon him ? He then made a statement,
in which he endeavored to contradict the evidence
of the Commonwealth, and made the remark that
one or two of the witnesses had sworn falsely against
him on account of malice. He concluded by saying
that " before god and man he was innosent.
Judge Long, before passing sentence, made some
very eloquent and appropriate remarks to the
prisoner. The sentence of the Court was .that the
prisoner pay a fine of $1 and the costs of prosecu
tion, and moreover undergo an imprisonment at
hard labor and solitary confinement of 10 years and
4 months in the Eastern Penitentiary.
DEDICATION DV TOE NATIONAL .
CEMETE.EY, AT Ok.ITTY6BIJKG.
UNTTYBI3I7RG, Nov. 10.
The ceremonies attending the dedication of the
National Cemetery commenced this morning by a
grand military and civic display, under the com
mand of Maj. (Jen. Couch.
The line of parade was taken up at tan o'clock.
and proceeded through the principal streets toithe
Cemetery, where the military formed in line and
saluted the President of the United States.
At a quarter past eleven o'clook the head of the
procession arrived at the main stand. The Presi
dent and members of the Cabinet, together with the
chief military and civic delegations, took their
positions on the stand, the President being seated
between Messrs. Seward and Everett, after a
reception marked with respect and perfect silence,
due to the solemnity of the occasion, every man
among the immense gathering uncovering upon his
appearance. •
The military then formed in line extending
around, the urea between the stand and the mili
tary being occupied by civilians, comprising about
15,000 people, and including men, women and
children. The attendance of ladies was quite
large.
The military escort comprised one squadron of
cavalry, two batteries of artillery, and a regi
ment of infantry, being the regular funeral
escort of honor paid to the highest officer in the ser
vice.
After the performance of the funeral mll itary dirge
by liirgfeld'e band, an eloquent prayer was offered
by the Rev. Mr. Stockton.
Mr. Everett then commenced the delivery of his
oration, which was listened to with marked attention
throughout. The vast assemblage, gathered within
a circle of great extent around the stand, were so
quiet and attentive that ,every word uttered by the
orator of the day must have been heard by them all.
Numerous flags and banners, suitably draped, were
exhibited on the stand and among the audience.—
The entire scene was one of a grandmr due to the
importance of the occasion.
Among the distinguished persons on the, platform
were the following: Governor Bradford, of Mary
land; Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania; Governor
Morton, of Indiana ;
Governor Seymour, of New
York ; Governor Parker, of New Jersey ; Governor
Tod, of Ohio ; ex-Governor Dennison, of Ohio; John
Brough, Governor elect of Ohio; Major Generate
Schenck, Stahl, Doubleday and Couoh ; Brigadier
General Gibbon, and Provost -Marshal General
Fry.
The President then delivered the following dedi
catory speech:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought
forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived
in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all
men are created equal. [Applause,] Now we are
engaged In a great civil war, testing whether that
nation, or any nation so conceived or so dedicated,
can long endure. We are met on a general battle
field of that war ; we are met to dedicate a portion
of it as the final resting place of those whohere gave
their lives that that nation might live. It is alto
gether fitting and proper that we should do this, but
in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we eannotcon
secrete, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave
men, living and dead, who struggled here, have
consecrated It far above our poor power to add or to
detract. [Applause.] The world will little note,
nor long remember, what we say here, but it Gan
never forget what they did here. [Applause] It is
for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the
unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly
carried on. [Applause.l It is rather for ns here to
be dedicated to the great task remaining before us,
that from these honored dead we take increased de
votion to that cause for which they here gave the
last full measure of devotion. That we here highly
resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.
[Applause. That the nation shall, under God, have
a new birth of freedom, and that the Government of
the people, by the people, and for the people, shall
not perish from the earth. [Long applause. Three
cheers given for the President or the United States
and Governors of the States J
After the delivering of this address, the dirge and
benediction closed the exercises, and the immense
assembly separated about two o'clock.
From the New York Herald, November 12
THE PRICE OF COAL.
Speculators in all commodities are the bane of life
in cities. Producers are all at a distance ; hundreds
of thousands of consumers are huddled in one mass ;
and, as the great majority of these latter purchase
only from day to day, their necessities, when they
arise, are imperative. Agents to go between the
consumer and the distant producer are inevitably
necessary, and they just as inevitably, abuse their
positions. They make haste to get rich. It is a'very
ancient item of knowledge, that he who maketh haste
to be rich will not be just, and the anoient observa
tion is sustained in their case. Not only are they
not just, hots at times they forget all reason, and, by
mutual combination, carry prices to an outrageous
height, regardless of the misery they cause, or of
what May ensue when popular rage breaks loose; for
it is sufficiently well known that terrible riots have
arisen from these causes, here and elsewhere.
Just now the trouble is with coal. Nominally,
the price of coal in New York city should range, for
the different seasons, from four to SIX dollars per ton.
It has nearly doubled the highest of these figures;
and as coal is not-scarce, and as the miners are not
overpaid, it is evident that this increase in price is
not a natural one. On the contrary, it is the mere
result of' 'a combination on the part of certain capi
talists to increase their wealth at the public cost.
Some days ago a gentleman of this city, not dis
posed to pay for coal' the price charged by dealers
here, wrote to certain persona in.one of the Penn
sylvania coal districts to negotiate for the purchase
of coal at the mines. He received in answer this
letter :
" WILICESBARBE. Oct. 21, 1863.
" Dzsa Liza : Your favor of the 20th inst. we have
received. We cannot make arrangements to send
you the coal you refer to, because the transportation
companies have a complete monopoly of the differ
ent lines to your city. These men will not allow us
to ship coal over their roads at fair prices, and con
sequently we are forced to sell them the coal at their
own figures. We are now selling the best prepared
coal, sash as you would want for family use,
at from
$2 50 to $2.62* per gross ton, delivered in the cars
or boats. An effort will be made in the coming
winter to regulate rates of freight, which may help
the coal operatives a little."
Here is a flood of light on the cause of the great
increase in the price of coal. An article worth two
dollars and fifty cents in Wilkesbarre, Pe., is held
at eleven dollars in New York city, simply as the
result of a corrupt combination between those who
carry it from one place to the other. The companies
alluded to in the letter are apparently the Lsokawana
and Bloomsburg, the Delaware, Laokawana and
Western, and the New Jersey Central railroads.
RIOTERS PUNISHED.—In the Lehigh County
Court last week, ten loyal Black Republicans
were convicted of riot for assaulting and
abusing a young Democrat some time last
Spring, at Hagenbuch's Hotel in Allentown
Four of the ringleaders were sentenced to pay
a fine of $lOO and the costs and the other six
t o pay each $5O and the costs, which averaged
$33 to each man. In default of payment,
seven of them went to jail. We hope they
enjoy it.
Another case of assault arid battery was
tried, where four " loyal" abolitionists attack
ed one Democrat and best him. They were
convicted and rewarded for their bravery by
rtying $2O fine and costs.