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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 theni 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
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A Great Victory.
From the intelligence published
in another column it will be perceived
that General GRANT has achieved a
glorious triumph over the rebel forces
near Chattanooga, having beaten
BaAnn in several engagements and
driven him from his strong positions
with heavy loss in men and muni
tions of war. It is to be hoped that
this decisive victory of one of our
least bepraised but most successful
Generals, will be followed up by
other triumphs of our arms, and that
the time is not distant when the stars
and stripes will again float in triumph
over every State in the Union, and
when peace and unity will once more
bless the land.
The news from the Arniy of the
Potomac is that General MEADE has
crossed the Rapidan, and a battle is
daily expected.
The Delaware Election
The whole vote polled at the
recent Congressional election in the
State of Delaware was S,oo7—of
which SMITHERS (Ab.) received 7,999,
and BROWN (Dem.) 8 votes ! At the
general election in 1862, the whole
vote of the State was 15,980. The
result of the election of 1863 shows
a falling off in the aggregate vote of
7,973. With the exception of the
eight votes polled for Mr. BROWN the
Democrats did not vote at all, and
it is alleged that many persons voted
for the Abolition candidate who
were not even citizens of the State.
The election all through (under the
military order of Gen. Schenck) was
the merest farce.
An Imperial Manifesto
The speech of the French Em
peror to his Legislative Assembly is
published. It is like most of the
productions of the Emperor, suscep
tible of being construed both ways.
There are symptoms of a disposi
tion to deprecate the severe criticism
which has met many of his acts.—
He disposes of the Mexican question
by arguing that it is necessary to the
welfare of French commerce, that
France should have, some influence
in America. His allusions to this
country are rather curt. The chief
point of interest in his address re
fers to Poland. He says something
must be done to relieve Europe of
the danger of a general war in con
sequence of the disregard of the
treaties of 1815, which he says have
ceased to exist. The force of cir
cumstances has upset them, all the
parties have violated them, and Rus
sia is now trampling them under
foot at Warsaw. He proposes a
Congress of European powers to
settle matters. Whether such a
Congress will work to the benefit of
Polish independence, is doubtful ;
but it certainly cannot fail to relieve
that gallant nation from an oppres
sion which has outraged humanity
for fifty years.
From all the indications of the
times it seems that the present com
plications in Europe must eventuate
in a war more or less general. How
ever much we may regret that ca
lamity for the sake of humanity, it
cannot be denied that such a result
would greatly relieve us in America,
and remove all apprehensions of
European interference in our do
mestic struggle.
Escape of Gen. Morgan.
The noted Confederate General,
John 8.. Morgan, and six of his of
ficers,:escaped from the Ohio Peni
tentiary, at Columbus, on Friday
night. A reward of $l,OOO is of
fered for the arrest of Morgan.
ger Congress meets on next Mon-
DRAFT REGULATIONS
It will be seen by the following important
circular, that the War Department has at
last hit upon a plan for securing a perfect en
rollment of all.the able-bodied men liable to
the draft. The names of those already en
foiled are to be printed in alphabetical order,
and the lists are to be left in places where
they can be inspected by the public, and cor
rected. It will, of course, be the interest of
every one already enrolled to add to the list
all who are legally liable. This airing of the
lists will purge them of all the bogus and non
liable names. All who are not liable on ac
count of disability, alienage, or non residence,
are to report to the board previous to the 20th
of December. Under this arrangement
the next draft will, in all probability, bring
either the men or the money. In view of the
certainty of the operation of the next draft it
will be well to hurry on the volunteering, so
as to escape its burdens:
WAR DEPARTMENT,
PROVOST MARSHAL'S OFFICE.
Washington, Nov. 17, 1863.
CIRCULAR No. 101.—As complaints have
been made that errors have occurred in the
enrollment of the national forces by the
omission of persons whose names should have
been enrolled, and by the addition of names
of persons who, by reason of alienage, and
for other cauees, ought not to have been en
rolled, and as it is desirable that the depart
ment should have sue& information as may
be necessary in order to do full justice to all
parties, it is hereby ordered.
1. The Board of Enrollment of each dis
trict shall have printed lists of the names and
residences of all persons enrolled in each sub
district prepared and exposed to public view,
in at least five places in each sub-district,
and in as many more as the Board may deem
necessary. Names will be placed upon these
lists in alphabetical order
2. Public notice will be given by adver
tisement upon the list of names and in the
newspapers, that any person enrolled may
appear before the Board and claim to have
his name stricken off the list, if he can show,
to the satisfaction of the Board that he is not,
and will not be at the time fixed for the next
draft, liable to military duty on account of—
first, alienage ; second, non-residence ; third,
unsuitableness of age ; fourth, manifest per
manent physical disability.
3. Persons who may be cognizant of any
other persons liable to military duty, whose
names do not appear on the enrollment list,
are requested to notify the Board of Enroll
ment, who shall thereupon direct the enroll
ing officers of the sub-district in which the
parties reside, to ascertain the facts and en
roll the persons so reported if they are found
to be subject to enrollment. These may
avail themselves of the privilege of appear
ing, as specified in paragraph one (1,) as if
they had been originally enrolled.
4 Boards of Enrollment will use all dili
gence in collecting the necessary information
and making the requisite notes to perfect the
enrollment list.
5. Beards of Enrollment will hear cases as
provided in paragraph 1, until the 20th of
December, 1863, after which no oases will to
heard. As soon as possible thereafter a re—
port of proposed corrections will be made out
according to the printed instructions, and
transmitted to the Provost Marshal General.
The names and residence of those proposed
to be stricken off or added will be written
upon sheets of consolidated enrollment lists
[forms 37 and 38,] and transmitted to the
Provost Marshal General for the purpose of
correcting the lists on file.
JAMES B. FRY,
Provost Marshal General.
ANOT FIER VICTIM
Gen. Fitz John Porter was sacrificed solely
for his friendship for Gen. McClellan ; nu in
telligent man doubts this. Dr. McClellan of
Piiii,idelphia, a brother of the General, was
next removed for the same reastin. And
recently another gallant officer, Mej. G. 0.
Haller, of the 7th U. S. Infantry, has been
added to the list of victims. He served in all
the chief battles in the Mexican war with
marked bravery and was highly complimented
by his superior officers. He fought bravely in
Florida and in the Indian wars on the Pacific,
and went through all the battles of the Pen
insula and the Pennsylvania campaign, serv
ing u po n Gen. McCtellan's staff Rot rooently,
says a Wa:111::gtou lett( r :
While in the faithful prosecution of his duty
—unwarned, in regular correspondence with
the War Department, without a knowledge of
accusers, if he bad any, without a summons to
trial—he was notified that he had been dis—
missed from the army.
He has inquired for his accusers, begged to
see the accusation, sought explanations, of
fered to disprove any slanders, explain any
doubts, to prove his devotion ; but not even
a letter is answered. His is the highest of all
crimes against the administration—he is a
Dean mat, the friend of Gen. George C.
McClellan, of the Constitution as it is and the
Union as it was."
A QUERY TO BE ANSWERED
It is well known, says a cmatemporary that
a very small portion of the Army of the Po
tna° subscribed sonic $12,000 recently, as a
testimonial to General MCCLELLAN. The
movement met with the favor of Generals
Meade, Sykes, Sedgwick and some of the
bravest men of the army, but was stopped
outright by a peremptory order from the
Secretary of War, because umnilitary, against
regulations, &c. We now see that General
Thomas and other brave men are receiving
high testimonials of respect from their fellow
soldiers. Is this, too, against general orders
and unmilitary ? We are always glad to see
honors bestowed where they are due, but the
query comes back, why did the Secretary of
War reject the harvest of honors prepared by
brave men for their old commander? Is the
Secretary of War still fearful that the stone
which the builders rejected will become the
head of the corner?
The Albany Argus gives tho official vote at
the late election in New York, on Secretary
of State, footing up as follows :
St. John, (Dem.) 284,937
Depew, (Abo.) 314,442
Total vote,
Abolition majority, 29,505
The total vote of the State is less than
last year, 3,107
The Democratic loss since last year is, 21,712
Abolition gain, 18,5,15
Thus, adds the Argus, it appears there are
in this State 284,937 freemen, organized to•
gethor in the Democratic party, prepared to
sustain the Union as it was and the Constitu
tion as it is—men knowing their rights and
prepared to maintain them. Is the Demo
cratic party dead ?
lIMPORTANT TO FAMILIES OF UNION
PRISONERS
The War Department at Witshington has
decided to pay to the wives or. families of
officers and soldiers who are now prisoners of
war, the amount that may be due them on the
pay-rolls of their several divisions. This too
long delayed act of justice will be gladly re
ceived by many a dependent wife and helpless
family who have been suffering for months
for want of the means of subsistence which a
husband's or father's pay should have affor
ded them. It will not only relieve their
own wants, but enable them to send assis
tance to the loved ones who are now pining
in the enemy's prisons, at the point of starva
tion.
ELECTION IN HARTFORD.
The Democracy of Hartford were gloriously
triumphant in their election for town officers
on Monday a week. The vote for Democracy,
white supremacy, and the glorious old Union
of our fathers, was 2,068; for Abolition, ne
gro equality and universal amalgamation,
1,749 ; majority for righteousness, 319. This
is only 39 less majority, and at a town eleo
tion at that, than was given for that model
Democrat, Thomas H. Seymour, last spring.
Connecticut keeps her eye on the polar star
of safety.
THE 'OBJECT' OF Tuk, WA
Two remarkable speeches were made last
week, each containing the same sentiments.
but coming from the two extremes of . the
social, if not the intellectual scale. The one
was by the Rev. Dr. Barnes Sears, President
of Brown University, on the occasion of the
departure of a negro regiment from Rhode
Island, the other by Frederick Douglass, the
negro, on " The Mission of the War," at
Rochester, in its largest hall, filled by an audi
ence whose applause was echoed the day after
by the Republican press.
President Sears asserted that this war is
now a war for the abolition of slavery. That
we may do him no possible injustice we quote
his language in fall on this point from the
Providence Journal:
The race in whose hands the national government
now is cannot longer maintain its freedom without
procuring that of the colored lace ; and you cannot
obtain freedom for your people without helping us
maintain ours.
* * * *
The great contest in which we are all engaged is,
whether a Annum being is, as 4u-h, to be free.
This is now the practical issue. The whole civil
ized world is watching the progress of the conflict
and looking for the probable result with an interest
more universal and more intense than was ever felt
In such a case before. The well-being and progress
of mankind are, in an important respect, committed
to our keeping. Others can only be interested spec
tators. Our action alone will, for ages at least, de
cide the grand question of human liberty. Let us
meet the crisis. Let us work together on this battle
ground of freedom till the victory is achieved and
our liberty—the liberty of us all—is established.
Deferring comment, we simply desire to
place thie utterance by an accompliiihed
scholar and able man, who is thought to fill
not unworthily the chair once occupied by a
Messer and a Wayland, alongside the ruder
phrasing, but identical thought of the negro
Fred. Douglass. Mr. Douglass has been an
abolitionist always, of course; and Me speech,
in such juxtaposition, will serve to show just
to what point he and his co-laborers—Phillips,
Greeley, and Garrison—have led the Repub
lican masses, to what degree they have suc
ceeded in abolitionizing their beet and ablest
men, and what dogmas and principles pro
pounded by these colored and white abolition
ists yet remain to be accepted, indorsed, and
enunciated by their disciples, among whom
even the President of one of our first universi
ties has not disdained to be reckoned.
The Rochester Democrat reports Mr. Doug
lass in the following language. We quote do
tached sentences, but in no respect represent
the speaker otherwise than as he would him
self wish to be represented. The reader will
discover that Mr. Douglass recognizes the pro
gress of his white disciples and encourages
them in their search for light and wisdom by
" such words as these : " I am here to say,
" ' Go on. brethren, you'll come out right after
awhile.'" And in the same breath he com
mends the President not only for his political
principles, but also for his superfine breeding.
Mr. Douglass said:
The continuation of the war and its increasing
hardships were requisite to the purgation of the
political sentiment of the people. lie alluded to
the insane ravings of the opposition press in relation
to the character of the war; avernizg that it had
been changed from a war /or the Union to an
abolition war, and he deprecated the position of the
Republican presses of the country in disclaiming
that purpose, when the sooner it was admitted to
be an abolition wit., the earlier zt would be closed
and the Union restored.
The speaker ridiculed the idea that we should
ever have "the Union as it was," a thing as im
practicable as it was undesirable. The North had
no business fighting for the old Union, after having
outgrown the revolting ideas instilled by the firmer
misalliance. The war which began for the Union
had become a war for God and liberty, and the con
science of Europe could not fight against it.
A few months ago the idea of arming the black
man was received with horror, the emancipation
policy was termed fanatical—now the people were
In favor of both. He was there to say, "Go on,
brethren, you'll come out right after a while."—
(Applause )
Mr. Douglass facetiously referred to a personal
interview with Mr. Lincoln, who, ho said, received
him as one gentleman. should receive another.—
(Laughter and applause.) And he impressed him
as a patriotof the noblest type—to be known through
all time as Abraham the Honest. If the country is
saved, as he believed it would be under Mr. Lin
coln's administration, you may write his name
anywhere beside George Washington, without do
ing Washington any damage.
It is the duty of the people to stand by the Presi
dent. No action of the government is effective un
less the people sustain it. However slow he may
be, he is a full length beyond the people. The mo
ment the people demand that this shall be a wide
spread, overwhelming war for the abolition of
slavery, that moment it will become each.
The rebellion has broken down every institution
of the South, and the question what shall be its fu
ture institutions is now open for discussion. Air.
Douglass differed with Gerrit Smith, that the sup
pression of the rebellion was the only thing to be
demanded. First, we must whip the rebels; the
Copperheads were not of mush account; whip or
exterminate the rebels. Second, abolish, slavery.—
Third, the initiation of the negro into the body
politrc—male them not only citizens of the South,
but voters.
The abolitionists are the cause of the war, say the
Democratic party, and they are logical; if we were
logical, we should say slavery is the cause of the
war, and must perish. The true mission of the war
was to put the enemy of the nation's peace out of
existence.
When the rebellion is put down the government
will need friends at the South. The way to have
them was to free the slave, and give him the ballot.
Then he would protect himself and the government
as well. It would be a shame to give the negro
freedom and not the ability to protect it.
If the negro knew right from wrong, know enough
to fght, he knew enough to vote; if he knew as
much when sober as an Irishman does when drunk,
he knows enough to vole. Give the black man a
' country, and the country will find in him an invin
cible defender against any foe, domestic or foreign.
j This at least is outspoken. The (rankness
of ti.is negro, who openly avers that " the
" war ha.c been changed from a war for the
Union to an abolition war," and the
straightforwardness of Dr. Sears, who says
" the practical issue of our great contest is
whether a human being, as such, is to be
" free," will make it harder for more artful
politicians, like the Tribune, Times and Post,
to deny what their party has done and is
striving to do. Advocating abolition, applaud
ing abolition, praising nothing but what frees
negroes in the progress of the war, those
journals still affect a sentiment which they do
not feel, and protest that their party has not
perverted the war for the Union into an abo
lition war. The Union which they have spent
their lives in deriding and belittling seems
now to them a name to conjure by, and they
still reiterate the sham and the deceit which
Fred. Douglass is too manly and Dr. Sears too
honest to tolerate for an instant.
Republicans can perceive what their nest
step is in the abolition programme. Mr.
Douglass names it "the initiation of the
" live negro into the body politic—make them
" not only citizens of the South, but voters—
" free the slave and give him the ballot."—
Well, the logic is good, from abolition premises.
President Sears says " the race in whose hands
the national government now is cannot longer
maintain its freedom without procuring that of
the colored race," and (unless he means to
draw an ethnological distinction between Mr.
Lincoln's administration and Democrats,) if
twenty millions of white folks cannot maintain
their freedom without negro help, then the
negroes who do help had better be freed
and given the ballot. That's fair. But it
had better then be taken away from the white
man.
Good heavens ! what insufferable insults are
these which are heaped upon the American
people, the American army, the American
cause ! A thousand thousands of brave men
have enlisted to fight for the Union, the Con—
stitution, and the Laws. Listen !it is not for
the Union that you must fight, but for the
abolition of negro slavery. Congress has de
clared the sole objects of the war in a memor
able resolution. Listen ! says Mr. Douglass
and all the abolitionized Republican party—
listen Americans ! those records of your sacred
and lawful purpose were idle words ! The
object of the war is to free the negro and
" Insert the live negro into the body politic."
For the Union, 0 citizens, you were ready to
send almost a generation to the field of death.
but for the negro it is worth while to spend
more money than the cash value of the whole
slave population of the South, and to slaughter,
of your sons, man for man, one adult white
for every adult black. And the result, 0
Americans, is " a battle for God and Liberty,"
and an entrance upon " the true mission of the
war."
The issues of the future are rapidly crystal
rising. This will be the main one : " Shall the
war be continued as a war for freeing negroes
or as a war for the restoration of the Union ?"
Honest Republicans declare already for an
abolition war. Every Democrat and the whole
army will declare for a war for the Union.
N. Y. World.
CIVIL WAR AVERTED
The Albany Evening Journal, an Abolition
paper, says " the danger of civil war in the
North is averted in the late elections." The
meaning of which is, we suppose, that had the
Democrats succeeded by the ballot, the Admin
istration and its minions would have made
the attempt to put them down by the bayonet,
thereby inaugurating civil war, rather than to
yield up the political power which they pos
sess. We ask Democrats and all moderate
men to reflect upon this.
Taz - NEW
A Washington correspondent of a New
York paper writes as follows of .Mr. CHAFE'S
•
new abortion in the shape of shinplasters :
I have had the opportunity to feast my
eyes upon Mr, Salmon P. Chase's last achieve
ment, the new fractional - currency ; and of
all the monstrous abortions which financial
quackery ever foisted upon a poor, victimized
-people, this is the sublimity. We have been
sbinplastered, more or less, for the past fifty
years ; but this " government trial" at the
business caps the climax. How the poor,
deluded people are abused! Sinbad the
Sailor, upon whose shoulders the. old man of
the mountain fastened himself, and clung day
and night, giving him no rest, but goading
him up and down that horrible island, led a
butterfly life compared to the existence we
are preparing for. The load of debt and
taxes this shinplastering business is to place
upon our shodlders, is fearful to contemplate.
I took one of these fifty cent, red-backed,
gilt lettered, black-faced, golden-centered pic
tures in my hand and gazed at the results of
600 000 in machinery—power•presses,
artis
tic labs, hydraulics, steam engines, etc.,—
exclaiming mentally, is this all we have for
such an outlay? Six hundred thousand dol
lars must be sweat out of the toiling people
who live under this American-Russian Ad
ministration, to pay for this fancy "Sallie
Lunn " tobaabo label ; this Irish linen fac
tory stamp ; this " Plantation Bitters" trade
mark ; this " Real Farina , Cologne " bottle
ornament ; this " warranted-not-to cut-in-the
eye " needle box picture. Blurry, and con
fused in its delineations, crowded with every
conceivable fancy which a vulgar taste could
concoct, it is a cross between the embellish
ments of a.Dutch mantel shelf and the mag
nificent conceptions of the old masters on
the walls of an Irish barber shop. You can
take the " plaeter," and by working at one of
the corners hdlf a minute, you will separate
it; then taking hold of each part, the entire
thing can be split in two as perfectly as you
can split birch bark. See the result. There
are two halves of a " genuine "—heaven save
the mark I—government issue. Will you
please to tell the people, Mr. Chase—the peo
ple who are to pay the exorbitant price of
this piece of financial tom-foolery—what is
to protect them against the frauds of the
counterfeiters whom your blunders have in
vited to their work ? I can take any one of
your new fifty cent " Plantation Bitters"
labels, and split it in two in one minute, and
I then hold two genuine halves of your fifty
cent currency I A minimum amount of talent
will get up a plate to match back and front,
and the rogue then puts forth the fraud.—
But it is said the stuff is not to be issued by
the Government, as the miserable style of it
has condemned it in the eyes of the people.—
If such is the case. we may be saved from the
counterfeit ; would that we could have been
spared the infliction of the $600,000 cost of
the experiment. The Secretary of the Treas
ury will, without doubt, make another effort
in the shinplaster line, but he will be quite
likely to fail in getting up a piece of work of
artistic merit ; he has not the brain-material
about him, anti it would have been far better
to have gone to the old bank note companies
of the city, and paid them a liberal pride for
a good job.
E=l
We all called the times hard in 1857. They
wele hard for robbers and charlatans, but for
the real toiling and industrious interests of
the nation, they were good—because the cur
rency was gold and all manner of goods were
cheap. Malc.antents clamored for revolution,
—and therefdre complained of the times.
now, however ..we hare hard times—the hard
eet ever knosinii'since the revolution. How is
the poor and honest man to live ? The con
tractor and robber of course gets rich off the
sufferings of others. The poor man how
ever pays 40 cents for one pound of coffee
—the same money would have bought him
four pounds in 1857. He pays 41 cents for
muslin. He could have bought four times
the quantity for the same money in 1857.
Does ne get four times the wages now? If he
does not, he Must suffer in proportion as he
receives less.
Thesa are truly terrible times—and they are
getting worse every day. how can the labor
er pay his rent and keep his family from
starvation at present prices ?—Allentown
Democrat.
RADICAL ISIII
Reference has frequently been made in our
columns to the letter written by Senator
CHANDLER LgairlBt the compromise measure,
when it was pending. A contemporary re—
produce, the letter, an , l sNo c.,pv the
sentences as illustrating tho spirit of rad—
icalism:
" Some folks profess to feel a perfect hor
ror over blood,hed. Without a little blood
letting this Uni_•n will not, in my opinion, be
worth a rush."
Nearly three years have passed away since
the bloodshe - tbiUlluded t) with ruch disgusting
levity commenced. Since then torrents. of
blood have flowed, but the author of the
above infamous sentiment yet retain!) hie
cualibmed seat in the Senate, taking care that
none of his bl4ad shall be shed the war he
so flippantly invoked, and which his associ
ates helped to precipitate in the same infernal
spirit.
HEAR WHAT ANDREW JOHNSON
' SAYS.
Andrew Johnson, the military Governor
appointed by President Lin Cola for Tennessee,
bears witness is to the policy of the Adminis
tration party do follows :
" There are two parties in existence who
want dissolution. Slavery and a Southern
Confederacy is the hobby. Sumner wants to
break up the government, and so do the Abo
litionists generplly. They hold that if slavery
survives, the Union cannot endure. Seces—
sionit-ts argue Ithat if the Union continues,
slavery is lost. Abolitionists want no com—
promise ; but they regard peaceable secession
as a humbug: The two occupy the some
ground. Why ? Abolition is dissolution,
dissolution is secession ; one is the other.—
Both aro striving to accomplish the same
object. One thinks it will destroy, the other
save, slavery.
FORGF:RY.--The Bethlehem correspondent
of the Allentovin Friedensbole tells the follow-
A stranger recently came to the Farmers'
and Mechanics' Bank at Easton and deposited
a check for $5OOO marked " good " by the
Cashier of a new York Bank. Two days
afterwards and before the hank officers had
received intelligence from New York in regard
to the check, he called again and presented
his own check for $2500, which was paid. The
nest day information was received from New
York that the check for $5OOO was a forgery
and that the Cashier of the New York Bank
had never endorsed it as " good." Of course
the gentleman had left with his $2500 for
other parts.
DIRECT ROUTE
The, new double track line between New
York and Washington, which has been in
course of construction for the past eighteen
months, is at length completed. and trains
commenced running through on Monday last.
The companies, in order to finish the under
taking, have been at a very large ex.pense,
something like two millions of dollars. There
is now a continuous line of communication
between New York and the seat of Govern
ment, the two cities being nut - more than ten
hours apart.
SIM )N CAMERON'S ATTACLIMENT CASES SET
TLED.—In the United States Circuit Court, in
Baltimore, on Monday last, the ouses of
Charles Coward, Was. II Gatchell and John
W. Davis, late. Police Commissioners of Balti
more, against the Es-Secretary of War, Simon
Cameron, to recover, severally, $20,000 dam
ages for the arrest and imprisonment of the
plaintiffs in July, 1861, were finally disposed
of. The suits were taken from the docket by
consent of the plaintiff's counsel, on the state
ment in open Court by the counsel for defen
dant, that he was authorized by his client to
say that the latter (General Cameron) had no
part in the arrest and imprisonment of the
plaintiffs or either of them.
ACTORS, LAWYERS AND SINGERS.—You who
depend so much upon the melody at,d music
of your voices, try Bryan's Pulmonic Wafers
—only 25 cents a box. Good for coughs,
hoarsepess, _Sold by Kauffman do Co.,
No. 1, East Orange Street.
LOCAL DEPARTMENT. .
axsecuLous ESCAPS.—About half
past 11 o'clock, yesterday morning, the fire bells rung out
the alarm of fire. The firemen with their apparatuses
were promptly on the ground. The fire proceeded from
the row of small frame buildings on Chesnut street, tame•
date!y adjoining the Coalmen.. House. Every effort was
made to save the buildings, which was partlal'y aucceesful.
The attention of the firemen wee also directors to the sav
ing of the surrounding buildings, in which they were
happily successful' The buildings were owned by Jay
Cadweil, Rau , and Hon. Isaac E. Mester, and we believe
were riot Insured. They were occupied by Mr.Jamee Thack.
are, as a Bookstore; Mr. Intuits Reese, Restaurant; Mrs.
Mains, Confectionery; Mr. Joseph, Brintuall, Restaurant: -
They were also occupied as residences by all the parties
named except Mr. Thackara. A great ruction of the fur.
utters was saved. It was the most diustroua fire which
has occurred in this city for several years, and of Course
the leas falls heavily upon the occupants of the buildings.
Whilst the fire was at its height, Mr. FRANK HECKLE;
of the Examiner, ascended one of the ladders with an axe
to cut away a portion of the ro-f over Thetekara's Book
stews. tHe had jut got to the top, and stepped on the edge,
when the roof fell through, carrying him along with it.—
lie fell through the burning flames to the first tbor, and
was immediately resorted trout his perilous position and
carried into the Cadweli House. Although receiving some
injuries, we
are glid to ewe they are comparatively slight.
It was one of the most miraculous escapes from death we
ever witnessed.
THANKSGIVING DAY.—Thanksgiving Day
was very generally observed In this city—all places of
Lusinees being closed and the churches madly open for
worship. Appropriate surmons in most of them (but very
inappropriate in at least one or two) were delivered by the
pastors. The day was beautiful, and the streets were
filled with promenaders.
—Whilst on this subject We were in Philadelphia on
Thanksgiving Day, and fear very much fir the loyalty of
the “City of Brotherly Love," '•Bhoddy" aristocrat+ and
"Greenback" patriots. In the morning not more than
one in twenty of the places of business were closed, and
the workmen on the streets were ae busily engaged as if
there were no such person as "King Abraham," and no
kundays devoted to liis piaise I Even glorious" FnaltEr
did not pay any attention to the edict of his imperial
mister, but hie compositors were kept at work, and the
Press appeared as usual on Friday. What In the world
are we coming to ?
TRACT ANNIYAILSARY.—The 14th annual
anniversary of the Ladies' City Tract Society took place,
on Sunday evening net, In St John's Luthern Church,
West Orange street. A large congregation was In attend-
MICA. The preliminary exercises were conducted by Rey.
Messrs. CON.D, SHIDDON of Rahway, N.. 1, and POWELL ;
the Annual Report (a very interesting document) was
read by Rev. Mr. WEDEKIND; and addresses were delivered
by Rev. Dieser.. CAaaow, FEMME& and Sseramtert. A hand
some collection was taken up In aid of the Society.
THE PRINTERS' BALL.—Absence from the
city prevented our attendance at the First Annual Ball of
the Printers of Lancaster, given at Fulton Hall on the eve
of Thanksgiving. The young gentlemen, however, who
represented The Intelligencer on the occasion are extras&
gout in their praise of everything connected therewith—
the ladles, music, dancing and supper. We take their
word for it, for we know them to be Judges of taste and
discrimination. The ball wound up about 4 o'clock, A. M.,
tho band discoursing "Home, Sweet Home," and all par
ties wended their way homeward delighted with the fen.
tivities of [bp night and the manner in which they passed
off. Long life to the Printers of Lancaster
CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARIES. —The Sun and
Friendship Engine Companies intend commemorating in
a abort time In an appropriate manner the hundredth an
niversary of their existence—the former by a ball and
supper, and the latter by a supper.
MERCANTILE APPRAISER.—The CO. COCO—
ruissioners, on yesterday week, elected Mr. James Paul,
of Strasburg Borough, Mercantile Appraiser for the ensu
ing year.
lIAS TAKEN THE VEIL.—At the Convent of
the Visitation, In Frederick, Md., on the 13th ult., among
others, Mies Louba Dougherty, of this city, received the
habit and veil, with the name of Sister Mary Kulalia.
THE POST OFFICE at Landisville, in this
county, has been re-established, and Mr. John 13. Kern
appoloted Postmaster.
ELECTION OF TREASURER.—JOHN W. JACK
SON, Eeq., has been elected Treasurer of the Inland Inane
once and Deposit Company, In place of R. F. Rauch, Esq.,
resigned. The selection of Mr. J. Is an excellent one, as
he Is a thraugh business man, active. intelligent and
courteous, and will therefore make an efficient office,
PHYSICIANS.—Par tale, the good will,
Matures and medicines of a Physician doing a large paying
business. For particulars call ou or address Dr. WILLIAM
COMPTCN, No CA North Duke street, Lancaster city. 4t'
OCTOItaRO BANK.—The fullowing gentle ,
men were elected Directors of this Bank on the 16th lost
Samuel Dickey, John H. Kelton, Amos F. Eves, Daniel
Stubbs, 'Thomas Wood, D W. Hutchison. Newton J,
Nichols, Howard L. Hoopes, of Chester county; Roger H.
Kirk, Joseph C. Taylor, Alexander Turner, P. W. House
keeper, of Lancaster county.
TRIBUTE OF RESPECT.—At:a meeting of-the
minters f Lancaster, held on Saturday evening. 21st
ult., J. F. Downey in the chair,) a motion, wan made for
the appointment of a committee of five to daft resolutions
expre els . ° of their feelings on the ccasion of the death
of Wm. 11. Parse - , which was anuomaced by the chair.
The committee reported the following:
Wasares, By the decease I f our late fellow-printer,
We,. 11. Pearsm, we hay. lost a good and rakish,' mem
ber of our profersion, and one who promised to he a val
uable member of society ; therefore
Resolved, That we deem v sympathixe with the bereaved
family and frieads of the deceased In their affliction.
...mierti, Tint we, the priulas of Lancaster, feel the
IPes of cur late friend Sc one who would 00011 have Leen a
worthy 1110 1 / I blr of oar tret , ruity.
Resolved, root these roe dutiona be published In all the
city papas, an. a copy forwarded to the family of the de
parted.
J. D.:Prorr.
J. E. F. 1,1
W. IL METZGER,
INANE. ILINTJN,
HooN , ; NE E.
The advertir.ement. of Joy COCIKE & Co,
Banker., in Philadelphia and Gove-nment Agents for leans,
will be found in an-eller ro alga. The Philadelphia North
111CriCall gives soli. eYettliejt x sloe to th , ss who wish to
Invest money. It : o.beech trinnoV has boon tempo
rarity scarce, capitol r ria,on. abundant, and the recant
tumble in the st I.a, brought capitalist. to a
realizing sense of the unreiiable character of loony of the
securities dealt in. It ie greatly to the credit of the ti..s
ernment that it a irst.•. '.t ~11 to- ,---entities daily dealt in
on the market, have invintnined their integrity of price
bettor than elmovt anytding elso. Ito Fiviii-Twenty • car
r add -• d wldch is prniptly paid
in gold, has hero sub-cet bad to, all through tho pressure
In the u, my market. at an arum,., of more than two
mliliona per day. And what in not the least gratifying
fart in counec,inn with the dolly large subscriptions to
We popular loan. scarcely any of It is returned to the
market 1 . ,- sale. It is taken fur investment, and ie held
with nufalto.ing coati's: rein its reliability. And why
should it not he? It Is seen that the Government now,
aft, two pearls of the most gigantic war that the world
has ever known, experiences no difficulty in commanding
tne necessary mean, to prosecute it, or in paying regular
ly tl.e inter,' in geld as it falls doe. If this can be done
while the war is being waged, who can anticipate any diffi
culty in readily aocompiishing it wham the war shall be
bndedt What better investment then, fur capital, than
tOo •• Five Twenty " Government loan? But if apy doubt,
1:1 him refer to the stati.oi, a Ptrit,,,hed 1 y limn rep sus
tables of the venous nations of the world. Tho facts which
they present will pro, the uncut aatitefactory mode of die
palling t r numbs, lens gloomy at prehension., which aro
being continually conju ed op by thc.e Who are divno.d
to exvggenate the extent of the calamity ...stoned by cur
rebeili.m. A dot ones to the state of most of tho prosper
one nations of the old world ale trip ailspi oven rich a Toil
don, anal shown that the highest conditions of national
Advancement have not been materially effected by the ex
tended wars in which those nations have been lmtnenter:s
ally engaged, and that a heavy national italebtedness had
not proved an unmitigated evil."
THE HABEAS CORPUS
T. Babington Macaulay, the great English
historian, in speaking of King James the See
and, whom the English people expelled from
the throne in 1688, says:
" One of his objects was to obtain a repeal
of the habeas corpus act which he hated, as it
is natural a tyrant should hate the MOST
STRINGENT CURB THAT EVER LEG IS
LATION IMPOSED UPON TYRANNY.
The feeling remained deeply fixed in his mind
to the last, and appears in his instructions
which he drew up, *ten in exile, for the
guidance of his son. But the habeas corpus
act, though passed during the ascendency of
the Whigs was not moredear to the Whigs than
to the Tories. It is, indeed, not wonderful
that this great law should be highly prized
by all Englishmen, without distinction of
party : for it is a law which, not by circui
tous, but by direct operations, adds to the
security and happiness of every inhabitant of
the recant."
We don't think he hated the act more than
our President and Cabinet do at the present
time.
LINCOLTI ON RECONSTRUCTION.—Under date
of November 18, the Washington special of
the Cincinnati Gazette says :
"The President has recently remarked
that, on the question of State reconstruction,
be should take radical ground. He says that,
in Missouri, those for whom he did every
thing went against him, while th.ise whose
requests he had denied supported him."
The "radical ground" which, it is said,
Mr. Lincoln will take is that no seceded
State shall be recognized as a State in the
Union as it existed before secession—in other
words, that the rebel or seceded States are
all dead as political organizations or commu—
nities.
A MIXED CURRENCY.—The editor of a co
temporary, in his dr,:tress and anguish, puts
forth the following appeal, which is the most
desperate attempt to " inflate the currency "
that we have yet seen :
WANTED—Hoop poles, shoe pegs, old boots,
cat fish, sauer kraut, corn husks, saw dust,
porcupine quills, buckwheat cakes, knife
blades, marbles, watch keys, matches, Lire
crackers, pea nuts, snapping turtles, old
scraps, pig ears, tooth picks, cigar stumps,
walnuts, old gum shots, mowing scythes,
wagon wheels, drums, fifes, jewsharps, old
shoe strings, horse shoes, bees in the hive, old
pocket hocks, (full of money,) postage stamps,
bapk checks, shin plasters, good bank bills,
and all others at this office in payment of
conscription, etc., at the highest market
value.
PICKPOCKETS.-At the recent dedication of
the National Cemetry at Gettysburg, a great
number of persons had their pockets picked.
Forty empty pocket books were found the
next day, at Hanover .Junction.
stir The fuel question has been solved in
Minnesota by the discovery of immense beds
of peat near St. Paul. It is said to burn as
Well in a grate as coal, and min, be furnished
for from two to three dollars a cord.
aoo,ooo MORE.
The following, from a Democratic exchange
we adopt and and commend to the attention
of the able-bodied 'Wide -Awakes in this lo
cality :
The election is over, and the President, to
verify the assertions of Abolition politicians,
that the war was about closed, and that all
that was necessary to finish the work was to
elect Curtin and no more drafts would be ne
cessary, has issued hie proclamation, dated
just four days after the election, for only 300,-
000 more men in addition to those already call
ed under:former drafts; which, if not raised by
voluntary enlistments before the sth of Jana
ary next, will be drafted. It is confidently .
expected that all those who voted for " Curtin
and a. vigorous prosecution of the war," will
not hang back, but at once come forward and
volunteer to make up Pennsylvania's quota,
which is nearly 40,000 under this call. For
ward march, gentlemen ! No skulking, sneak
ing, or hanging back. The President has
performed his part of the contract by putting
the draft off till after the election, and even
depleted the armies by Bending voters home
to elect Curtin, and now he looks to you to
perform .your part.
In calling upon " the good and loyal people
to lend their cheerful, willing ikd effective
aid to the measures and means adtpted, with
a view to reinforce our victorious armies now
in the field," he addresses himself especially
to you, who have all along claimed, and do
now claim to be the only good and loyal "
people in the country. Ile calls upon you and
expects your " willing, cheerful and effective
aid." What aid can you render so effective
as to join the ranks of the army ? If you do
not any longer wish to be considered the most
arrant hypocrites in the country, you will now
volunteer. You have confined yourselves to
lip and mouth service long enough. Staying
at home in comfort, calling your neighbors,
than whom you are no better, " butternuts,"
" copperheads " and " traitors," though you
do it " cheerfully and willingly," is not ren
dering very " effective aid" to crush out the
rebellion. And you Republican and Aboli
tion fathers and mothers, who consider your
selves and families too good to associate with
" butternuts," copperheads" and " traitors,"
at home, will certainly not be willing that
your sons shall be subjected to their company
and influence in the army! Trot out your
healthy boys, then, and fill up the quota by
volunteering, or stop your infernal slanders
and denunciation of the fathers of those who
have volunteered as "disloyal" and "traitors."
Ildr The Richmond Enquirer of the 11th
inst. contains the following items :
" Since the bombardment of Sumter com—
menced (on the 17th of August) up to Thurs
day last, 15,583 shots had been fired at it, of
which, 12,302 struck. Of the garrison,
twenty seven have been killed and sixty-nine
wounded. The flag during the same time has
been cut down thirty four times. The average
weight of shot being 200 pounds, the weight
of iron thrown was 3,116,000 pounds, or
115,439 pounds to each man killed, 30,370
pounds of iron to each casuality. If the
charges of powder averaged fifteen pounds, we
have 233,745 pounds of powder used, or 8,057
pounds of powder to each man killed, and
2,434 pounds of powder to each casuality.
Sumter in ruins, laughs at her enemy, who
still fears to pass her battered walls. Charles.
ton will have a valuable iron mine in the ruins
of Sumter, and even now, when iron is scarce
and sells high, industry, at very little risk,
might make a fortune."
THE TRUE DOCTRINE
The Chicago Times, which Gen. BURNSIDE
suspended for " eopperheadism," or disloyalty,
or something else, continues to be regarded as
one of the leading organs of the Democracy
in the Northwest. In a number of this paper
just at hand we find the following answers to
inquiries as to what the Democrats would do
if they controlled the administration of the
government
" We are sometimes asked what would be
the positive policy of the Democratic party if
restored to power. Their negative policies—
oppasition to the abolitionism, imbecility and
corruption of the administration—are suf•
ciently clear, but there are some who profess
ignorance of what the Democracy themselves
propose to do.
First, they would restore the supremacy of
our violated Constitution and laws, and with
it entire and absolute freedom of speech, of
the presq, and of ballot, and the sacred privil
ege of the habeas corpus.
They would free the loyal S.atei3 of the pres
eues of military encampments and of all offi
cers and soldiers physically able to take the
field, thus reinforcing our armies at least one
third.
They would abolish the system of arbitrary
arrests for opinion's sake ; they would abolish
Provost Marshals and the entire system of
military government in the loyal States.
They would offer the rebels fair and honora
ble terms of peace, provided they will ground
the weapons of their rebellion and come back
to the Union ; offering them the Constitu'ion
of the United States in the one hand, and a
' vigormi prospelitinn of the war' wish the
other. The wars of 1812 and 1846 sufficienCy
exemplify what Democrats mean by a 'vigor
ous prosecution of the war.' They do net
fight with proclamations."
SCENE IN TAE NATIONAL CAPITAL
The WaShington correspondent of the New
York Journal of Commerce writes to that
paper as follows :
"The present war is waged for freedom, as
the radical papers and orators of the day are
always telling us. 1 would not doubt any
thing they say for the world, but a sight
that I witnessed yesterday from the City
Hall had a tendency to shake my confidence
in the aforesaid proposition.
I saw a company of black soldiers strutting
about the sidewalk, smoking, looking impu
dent, swearing about the "copperheads." and
talking lovingly about ". -. tanton," while on
the other side of the street a dozen white
conscripts, with gyves upon their wrists were
being marched to the tented field under a
strong guard of glistening bayonets.
Now if the people of this country, the solid
yeomanry everywhere, enjoy this kind of
spectacle, no reasonable spectator should
have the audacity to utject; But to my mind
it ;8 not funny. What one of the white war
riors remarked, in passing, I will not repeat,
because it was both wicked and disloyal."
Eldr A rebel is one who revolts against the
bonstitution and laws of his country. The
man who says the Union as it was shall not
be restored if he can prevent it, and the Con
stitution as it is shall not be preserved, and
the laws as they stand shall not be enforced,
is a rebel and a traitor. We care not whether
his name be Howell Cobb or Charles Sumner,
Jeff. Davis or Thad. Stevens, whether he lives
in Washington or in Richmond.
DEATH OF A MEMBER ELECT OF THE LEUZE
LATURE. —We regret very much to learn that
PETER IVALSEf, Esq , a member elect to our
State Legislature, met with an accident at
Ithiea, New York, on Monday evening of last
week, which caused his death in a few hours.
lle had gone to 'thief' on business, and on
stepping off the cars he slipped and fell, strik
ing, his head upon the iron rail with such force
as to break his skull. His decea.e causes a
vacancy which will have to be filled by a
special electi.in ---Easton Sentinel.
IMMENSE APPLE CROP.—The Rochester
Democrat publishes statistics of the apple crop
of Monroe county, New York, this year,
showing that 135,000 bai-rels were shipped
from Rochester, and 66,500 barrels from
Charlotte. Of the amount shipped from Ro
ehester, about 22,000 barrels passed through
the canal warehouse of Fish, Ellison & Co.
The tables' figures swell the grand total to
nearly 400,000 barrels shipped from Monroe
county this season.
9th' That notoriously pious sheet, the N.
Y. Independent, compared President Lincoln
to a cur with a collar. Speaking .f him it
says : "Does he not wear Kentucky like a
collar to this day ? A dog with a collar fights
slow I" This respectful language is from the
pen of Rev. Mr. Tilton, editor, who was
drafted, but who, thougn able bodied, con
cluded not to fight at all.
CORN.—Mr. Edward Aslabride, of East
Goshen' Chester county, last week measured
the products of one acre of his corn field.—
There *ere seventy fhur Fhocke—six shocks
husked nineteen bushels and a half—and the
acre produced one hundred bushels and
something upward. There are six acres in
the field, and the average will not be much
under one hundred bushel".
'
The Easton Argtta is responsible for the
following story, illustrative of the effect in the
rise of prices, which we smbider worth pub—
lishing. An old Dutchman who keeps a
country store in his neighborhood, had ten
pieces of calico on his shelves when the
prices began to advance. He sold out at the
old rates, and, said he, " when I went to de
city to buy more, de money, dat Lgot fot my
ten pieces of calico, bought only eight. I took
my eight pieces home and marked a high
profit on 'em and sold dem fast enough, and
whet} dey was all gone I took my money and
went to de city and, by thunder, it bought
only six pieces. Well, tinks I, dis is making
money backwards like de devil. But I took
my six pieces of new calico home and put an
awful big profit on dem, and now tinks I I
must make money like smoke. Bnt when 1
got dem six pieces s)ld, 1 took de money I got
for 'em to de city again and thought I would
get about twelve pieces, but de calicos had
;pee up again and, dander and blitzen, f got
only four pieces. Well I took dem home, put
on a much bigger profit as 1 did before and
thought now by pinks I makes a heap of
money. But when I got dem all sold and
went after more, de calicoes had gone up again,
and I hope I may never die if I got more as
two pieoes for my money So here I was. I
had ten pieces of calico wino I etharted off to
sell 'em, and h re I am now mit only two
pieces and no money. Why, I would haf been
much better off if I had shut up de store, keep
my calicoes and not sold dem at all." And
so he would. But he discovered the myster—
ies of doing business in these Lincoln times
too late.
TRAGEDY IN ILLINOIS--ONE OF THE
13MIZIMED
There was a fatal and melancholy tragedy
in Mt. Carmel, Wabash county, Ills., on the
3d ulr., resulting in the death of two promi•
nent citizens of that place, at the hands of
F. M. Stanton, Assistant Provost Marshal of
that county. The Olney Herald says that Z.
Newkirk of that county, was on the street,
in an altervaion of words with some one, when
one F. M. Stanton, who is assistant provost
marshal for that county, came up and remark.
ed, "arrest him !" [meaning Newkirk.] G. W.
Besore, a lawyer of that place, standing a
short distance off, remarked to Stanton, "what
authority have you for arresting him ?"
Stanton drew a revolver and shot Besore, the
ball taking effect in the abdomen. Besore
was not armed, hence could not defend
himself. Newkirk then drew his revolver
and shot Stanton, the ball taking effect in
his leg Stanton then shot Newkirk, hitting
him somewhere in the b )dy. Newkirk shot
a second and third time at Stanton, one ball
taking effect in his arm and the other grazing
the top 'of his bead. Besore and Newkirk
have since died of their wounds. Stanton
will probably recover. Besore was a promis•
ing young lawyer—had been filling the duties
of prosecuting attorney f)r that district by
appointment of Col. Thomas Casey, of the 10th
Illinois, prosecutor dejure. Mr. Besore wee a
prominent lawyer of Mount Carroll and a
former resident of Springfield.
HORRIBLE ACCIDENT-EXPLOSION OF A
SHELL —A fatal accident occurred at Get
tysburg, on Friday week, which should prove
a warning against the handling of dangerous
missiles. A gentleman named Williams, of
Philadelphia, attempted to remove the con
tents from a bomb shell, when it exploded,
blowing off both his hands, and shattering
one arm to the shoulder. A portion of the
shell also struck a boy who was standing near,
killing him almost instantly. Physicians
amputated the shattered arm of Williams, but
he died directly afterwards from the effects
thereof. Williams had gone to Gettysburg to
take home the body of his son, who had been
killed in the battle at that place. Through
curiosity be also lost his life, and his remains
accompanied those of the son to their late
home.
There are many men who want the Unicn
as it woo, and the Constitution as it is.—
Well, they can't have —l7re President Mul
lin.
Yet the whole Republican party declare
their devotion to the Union and the Constitu
tion, and assert that the war is prosecuted
for their restoration and preservation. They
call themselves the " Union party." What
Union and what Constitution are they for ?
What kind of a Union and Constitution are
they tichting fur, and what will Vice Presi
dent Hamlin permit the I.e iple to have in
place of the Union a. , it was and the Consti-
utiou tis it i-?
~ 111 URDER WILL OUT."
E. C. Morris, a wealthy citizen of Madison,
has been arrested, charged with murdering a man
nearly nine years ago. The arrest was made on the
affidavit of E. C. Clark. The Illinois State Register
gives the following particulars of the ease:
In 1855, Clark and Morris were out hunting to
gether, and Clark's testimony is that they came
across a man in the woods, and that Morris drew up
his gun and shot him. The two together then buried
the murdered victim and took a solemn oath never
to reveal the secret. The oath has been kept for
nearly nine years. But " murder will out." Clark's
conscience continued to cry out against him and dis
turb him with visions of ghosts by night, and com
punctions of dread and horror by day. He could
stand it no longer, and hence the oath-bound secret,
so long looked up in his troubled breast, was pub
lished to the world.
Morris, now the murder has been exposed, accuses
Clark of having committed the foul deed, but admits
that he helped to bury the viotim, and that they had
sworn together never to reveal the secret. It is said
that Morrie and Clark recently quarreled about some
business matters, and that Clark made the expose
on this account.
After the preliminary examination before the jus
tice of the peace, Clark and Morris both pointed out
the place where they had buried the murdered man.
His bones were found and exhumed. The name of
the unfortunate victim has not yet been learned.
We have also heard that the murdered man was a.
kind of railroad contractor, and that he had in his
possession at the time of his death some $7,000, which
was divided between the two, but as to its correct
ness we cannot say.
MAKING FOlti UHES OFF THE WAR
The Washington correspondent ~f the New York
Express says quite a number of citizens of Wash
ington Save wade handsome fortunes since the
breaking out of the war. G. C. McGuire & Co., the
auctioneers, have cleared $360,000 by a contract for
matrasses and iron bedsteads. Savage & Co., hard
ware dealers, at least $150,000. Sibley & Guy,
stove dealers, as much more. C. L. Woodward, in
the same business, $lOO,OOO. John 31. Evans & Co.,
hardware, $200,000. J. & E. Owen, merchant
tailors, $75,000. Mr. Lutz, saddler,s6o,ooo: Mr.
.Raplee, blacksmith, $lOO,OOO, for hoeing Govern
ment horses. A poor wheelwright, for putting to
gether wheelbarrows, bought at the North, $30,000.
They were transported hither in pieces to save
freight. Hudson, Taylor & Philips, and Solomon,
stationers, $50,000 a piece. The landlords of the
three principal hotele have oleared from $30,000 to
$lOO,OOO a year since December, 1861.
THE POTATO BUSINESS OP hisma.—Near half a
million of dollars will probably come into Maine for
her surplus potato crop of this season, besides what
indirectly comes from animals fed in part from the
same crop. At all the shipping ports there is now
great activity in the trade. At no one of them will
so large a portion of the crop be shipped as from
Bangor—the aggregate from all will be very large.
As the business has thus far progressed, there will be
(this fall and next spring) nearly or quite $200,000
worth sent from here to Western and Southern mar
kets. The ruling price has been 55 to 60 oents—now
50 to 55. In the spring it will be much higher.
The sales now amount to from 5000 to 10,000 or 12,000
bushels per day. These figures show the great and
growing importance of this crop to our State, and
should encourage farmers to plant still more largely.
—Bangor Ifrhag.
HAS CLEARED JUST Two MILLION DOLLARS.-
Last week we went into a store in Pittsburg to make
a small purchase. The proprietor was just going
out, and remarked to as that he would like to show
us some nice goods, but he was invited to see a
friend's daughter married. After he went out, the
gentle Man waiting on us said, " Mr.— is gone
to see Miss B— married; her father has cleared
just $2,000,000 within the last two years!" "How ?"
we inquired. "By Government contracts," he
replied.
This is very fine. Two millions clear in two short
years ! The marriage of a daughter and a golden
wedding at the close ! If this was the only view of
the subject it would be magnificent. But those two
short years have desolated many, many happy
homes, made many sorrowing widows, and bereaved
many innocent little babes of a kind father and pro
tector. And at the end, instead of a golden wed
ding and orange blossoms, a funeral procession and
oypresa leaves symbolize the inward sorrow of the
heart. The picture has two sides. Mr. 8.----
" has cleared $2,000,000 !" and wishes the war to go
on ; a poor widow has lost her husband, and is thrown
upon the charity of the world. The first looks to
Mr. Lincoln for fortune ; the last to God for bread !
—Kittaning Mentor.
THE COAL TRADE.—in 00EBNI101300 of the enor
mous prices of coal, the dealers in that article are
crowding enormous quantities into market. Im
mense trains are constantly coming down from
Mauch Chunk. On a single day last week, twelve
hundred ear loads passed over the Lehigh Valley
road, containing thirtrone hundred tone ! This is
the heaviest business ever done on this road in a
single day. All coal operators will make large
fortunes this season.—Altentown Democrat.
ler A. R. Van Cleaf, formerly editor of
the "Citizen," Lebanon, Ohio, has taken
charge of the Circleville "Democrat."