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Let it frost O'er our father land,
And the guard of its Bpotleas fame aball be
Colnmbia'a chosen band.
"'CLING TO THE CONSTITUTION, AS
THE SHIPWRECKED MARINER CLINGS
TO THE LAST PLANK, WHEN NIGHT
AND, THE TEMPEST CLOSE AROUND
HIM."-DANIEL WEBSTER.
Money Wanted.
This is a very general want among
the people, except those who are
fortunate enough to be connected
with-the present State and National
Administrations. It is particularly
wanted at this office, at the present
time, as we have debts for paper,
&c., which must be paid. We have
freely 'given of our time and means
in the campaign which has just
closed with such unsatisfactory re
sults; and we now ask our delinquent
subscribers and patrons• for the
amount honestly due us, so that'the
machine may run i imoothly 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 o them in advance for their
subscriptions—and we feel thankful
to them for it, but there are very
many others in arrears for advertis
ing and job work, and for several
years subscription, and to them we
appeal. We need the money now,
and we do not ask it as a favor, but as
a right. Come, gentlemen, pay the
Printer, and pay him without further
delay.
Military Matters
The news from the seat of war is
far fi!Onrbeing encouraging to those
whO4ia . d hoped for a speedy termin
ation Of the rebellion. General
MEADE, after having crossed the
Rapidan with his entire army, was
suddenly brought to a halt by the
knowledge that the enemy were
strongly posted in his front, and that
it would be impossible to fight LEE'S
army with any reasonable hope of
success. He has accordingly retired
from the front, and is now at his old
base of operations on the Rappahan
nock, and we presume the Army of
the Potomac will at once go into
winter quarters. Thus has the
eighth attempted advance upon Rich
mond ended in disaster and discour
agement, and all because the Admin
istration refused to send the neces
sary reinforcements to General Mc-
CLELLAN in the Peninsular campaign.
Had it done so, Richmond would
have been in our possession more
than a year ago.
From the south-West there is also
very little to encourage us. The
victory achieved by General GRANT
near Chattanooga seems to have been
barren of results. The Confederate
General BRAGG fell back with the
main body of his army to Dalton,
and has there been joined, it is said, by
the corps of Gen. JOE JOHNSON. This
combined force of the enemy is
threatening, the outposts of General
GRANT, and the presumption is that
the latter may have to fall back to
Chattanooga and go into winter quar
ters.
Our fleet is still hammering away
at Fort Sumter, but the probability
of the capture of Charleston seems to
be as remote as ever.
There is nothing very recent from
either Louisiana or Texas, and there
fore we are at a loss to know what
our armies are doing in those
States.
That our military operations are
mismanaged to some extent cannot
be doubted ; but where the blame
should rest we are not prepared to
say. We hope that Congress will
institute a thorough investigation,
and place the responsibility of our
failures where it properly belongs—
no matter whose character suffers by
the sifting process.
On to Richmond."
What has become of the " On to
Richmond " cry of the Abolitionists.
It has not been used since AIcCtEL
LAN was removed. He was " too
slow ;'' what rapid progress has been
made since his removal!
XtEr The Secretary of War has
decided that the volunteers who
served for nine months are not
entitled to the bounty of twenty-five
dollars, which they supposed they
were entitled to under the act of
Congress of July 17, 1862.
The Verdict of History.
By Parton's Life of General But
ler, just published, it appears that
Gen. MCCLELLAN is entitled to all the
credit for laying down the plan of
operations in the South-west. The
military genius and foresight of this
able but greatly wronged officer, are
admirably and undeniably exhibited
in the orders under which Gen. But
ler went to New Orleans.
Illness of the President.
President LINCOLN has been sick
for the last two weeks with the small
pox. He is now, however, convales
cent.
, iThe total debt of Philadelphia is now
about twenty-five millions of dollars I
Congress.
Congress met on yesterday, and
we presume the President's Message
will be sent in to-day. The assem
bling of this body has been looked
to with a great deal of interest, but
not much hope. Various estimates
have been made in regard to the
relative strength oftheparties in the
House ; but the Administration has
managed to secure the attendance of
so many bogus members from Vir-
Einia, Louisiana, North Carolina and
Tennessee; -r , ezeT4nting —the chap
lains, quartermasters, paymasters,
sutlers and shoddy contractors of the
Federal army, and Yankee specu
lators and plunderers, that it will
doubtless control not only the or
ganization but the future action of
that branch of Congress.
Still, it is barely possible that the
House may not come quite up to the
Administration standard of reck
lessness and barbarism. We do not
believe that a body of men can be
chosen from the people by fair or
foul means who will sanction any
thing worse than we have already
had from the National legislature,
and, perhaps, the hope may be in
dulged that the stronger infusion of
conservative men in that body, as
compared with the last Congress,
may be able to moderate the excesses
of the Jacobins. At least we hope
so, and shall await their action with
trembling and anxiety.
We shall publish the President's
Message in our next issue.
New York Election.
The municipal election took place
in the City of New York on Tues
day last, and resulted in the triumph
of the Democratic party by a large
majority. The vote for Mayor was
as follows :
C. GODFREY GUNTHER (Dem.) 28,988
F. A. BoOLE (Dem.) 22,549
ORISON BLUNT (Ab.) 19,492
Adding the votes of Messrs. GUN
THER and. BOOLE together, it foots up
a sum total for the Democratic party
of 51,537—showing a majority of
32,045.
Mr. GUNTHER, the successful can
didate, represents the peace section
of the party in that city, and was
supported by the Day Book, the Ex
press, the Freeman's Journal, and the
Journal of Commerce. Mr. BOOLE was
the candidate of the war section of
the Democracy, and was supported
by the World, and the Atlas. The
latter was placed in nomination by
the Tammany and Mozart mana
gers, but it did not avail him.
The Democrats also swept the
board pretty clean for Councils, Al
dermen, Civil and Police Justices,
kc. The Abolitionists were totally
used up, and there is scarcely a grease
spot left of the adherents of the
National Administration in the Em
pire City. The great reaction in
public sentiment has commenced at
the right time and in the right place.
They Won't Enlist
Thus far, says the Allentown
Democrat, we have not heard of a
single Union Leaguer who has en
listed since the President's last call
for men—and we might say, or before
the call was made. Why is this?—
Patriotic, intensely loyal, unsurpass
edlv and unconditionally Union,
superbly virtuous—and still won't
enlist? In favor of a vigorous
prosecution of the war, and the com
plete and total annihilation and de
struction of slavery and slaveholders
—and don't "rally !" What does it
mean ? Anxious to support the
Administration in all its measures,
whether good or bad, and refuse to
respond to so reasonable a request
as the President has recently made!
What can such persons be made of?
Clamoring for the blood of rebels—
crying war to the hilt—and not ac
cept Uncle Samuel's generous invi
tation to fight for the Union or the
negro, just as you please!
Gentlemen of the Union Loyal
Leagues, who are going to fight, if
yon don't ? Do you want copper
heads to enlist—those wily serpents
who are daily poisoning the foun
tains of pure and unadulterated
unionism ? It can't be possible ?
Then hesitate no longer, but march
up to the Provost Marshal's office and
leave your name. Do this before
you forget it.
THE PRESIDENT'S "GREATEST
131MTIZEI
In a recent speech in New Haven, Wendell
Phillips stated that President Lincoln said to
him last January :
" The greatest folly of my life was the
issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation."
If Mr. Lincoln had also said it was the
greatest crime of his life, he would but have
added force and truth to his confession.—
Before issuing it he had expressed the opinion
that it would be as ineffectual to the abolition
of slavery as " the Pope's bull against the
comet." The result has corroborated that
opinion ; not a slave has been set free by it ;
all who have been made free, would have been
freed just the same if it had never been issued.
The only effect of it has been to unite the
Southern people, to "crush out" nearly or quite
all the Union sentiment that existed in the
rebel States, and to enable the rebel leaders to
bring to their support the united energies of an
exasperated people—to put the most powerful
of arguments into the mouths of the rebel
leaders to convince the people there that their
only hope of preserving anything of their
ri g ht s and property is in a successful prosecu
tion of the war against the Union. It has thus
caused the sacrifice of thousands of Northern
lives, the misery and ruin., of thousands of
Northern people, and the destruction of the
Union. What greater crime could man com
mit ?
giyr• As the cold blasts of winter strike us,
let us remember that they strike the contra—
bands as the chills of death, by reason of their
having come from a warmer climate, and the
scantiness of their covering. Supplies are
needed now as winter is setting in.—Cleve—
land Leader.
Yes, and " the•cold blasts of winter strike
hundreds and thousands of poor white people,
as the chills of death." In the garrets and
damp cellars of our large cities are huddled
together thousands of shivering, half-famished
men, women and children, some of them wives
and children of men who have sacrificed their
lives in this " cruel war," but the Leader has
no words of sympathy or appeal in their
behalf. They are, unfortunately, white. The
contrabands engage the entire attention of
these Abolition negro worshippers. They urge
on the conflict of brother against brother, and
shout hosannas as rank after rank of brave men
are swept away in the tide of battle, and all
for the negro. "06, Liberty, what crimes are
committed in thy name I" •
NEGRO EQUALITY.
The Dayton Empire remarks, tbo.-. when
our firefathers said " all men are created
equal," they meant that all white men
were, created with equal political rights.—
Any other interpretation of this declaration
would make them either knaves or fools, for
when they signed the document they were
nearly all slaveholders, and by ordinances-of
the Constitution and statute laws they after
wards fixed the status of the negro as cue of
servitude and obedience. Those are equal
whom God has created equal, and no blinder
piece of folly could well be perpetrated than
an attempt to legislate the negro into the po
sition of equality with the white man. Such
an attempt is an insult to the laws a nature
and the intelligence of mankind. But the
men who now hold power believe, or profess
to believe in negro equality, and they are
using all the powers of the Government in
order to bring it about. Even the preserva
tion of the Government itself is subordinate
to this purpose. The four million negroes,
naturally indolent and incapable of support
ing themselves in a civilized way, are, we are
told, to be free, and to be endowed with equal
rights with white men. Abolitionism now,
not only demands negro equality at the North,
but is determined to force on the people of
the South the same policy. At the South we
behold a carnival of blood and horrors; in
the North a free people striving to preserve
their liberties and the dignity of their race
through the ballot box. Let the people of the
North sternly demand of the Administration
that the war shall not be waged for the pur
pose of establishing negro equality in the
South, or effecting the same purpose at the
North, and we may have peace and a restored
Union, for the only interest the Abolitionists
have in the war is money and the success of
their leveling policy. Let an injunction be
placed on this propelling wheel and the ma
chine that is tearing asunder the country
must stop.
ARMING THE LEAGUES
An interesting exposure has recently been
made in Connecticut. It appears that the
Governor has been distributing the arms of
the State armory to the Loyal Leagues, and
when palled to account by the Legislature he .
excused himself by the plea that there was no
law against it, and that there were indications
that there would be resistance to the draft;
to which it is replied that the only mob ever
known in the State was one which destroyed
a Democratic newspaper. We have heard it
rumored that in our own State, says the Phil
adelphia Age, similar preparations have been
made, and it is certainly in the nature of the
Abolitionists to organize in this way in secret
to commit violence and outrage. Their un
derground railway system was much of this
order, as is openly avowed in the recently
published lectures of Theodore Parker, and
as wan shown in a multitude of instances.—
The Know-Nothing party was another illus
tration of this same tendency, and the Leagues
are nothing but another form of the " dark
lantern " business. Should the suspicions of
the community be verified in reference to them
- although there would be nothing illegal in
their arming themselves, if they do so at their
own expense—the natural consequence will be
that Democrats will be driven to perfect their
own organizations and to arm themselves in
self-defence.
THE RESTORATION OF THE SOUTH-
The New York Herald remarks that there
is going to be a great deal of trouble about
the restoration of the Southern States to the
Union after the fighting is over. We hear
that President Lincoln is preparing a plan in
regard to this matter, and we hope it may be
a gond one. , We are reliably informed that
an elocrion . Was regularly held in Louisiana On
the first Monday in November, as the State
lets direct, and that Mr. J. L. Riddell, of
New Orleans, was elected Governor of the
State, and Messrs. A. P. Field, of Now
Orleans, Joshua Raker, of St. Mary's parish,
and Thomas Cottman, of Ascension, were
elected Representatives to Congress. The
Chase and Stanton faction in New Orleans
tried to prevent this election, in order to
keep Louisiana out of the Union until
slavery be abolished ; and we understand
that Stanton used the military to in terf , re
with the electors, but unsuccessfully. These
facts raise new issues, and the President must
be ready to meet them according to the Con•
stitution.
THE FREEDMEN OF THE SOUTH
The fearful condition of those victims of
Abolition madness, the poor " freedmen " of
the South, appeals to the heart of every per
son of human sympathies. We quote the ap
posite remarks of the N. Y. World upon the
subject, and urge its important suggestions
upon our readers' consideration. After quot
ing the descriptions of the Rev. Mr. Fiske,
General Grant's Superintendant of Con
trabands, our New York contemporary
says :
Swarming thus in their worse than sav
age misery among the camps of the soldiery,
their presence moves all that is ribald and
brutal in those camps to hatred and contempt,
to outrage and abuse. Had these people
asked us for the bread of freedom it were still
insufferably base in us to have given them
these stones in response. Bot it was we who
offered, net WV who asked, this bread at our
hands. * *
The master may have chastised his slave
with whips, but we have made him free, only
to chastise him with scorpions. The master
gave him life, at least, and raiment. food
and drink, and a roof to cover him, and the
comfortable presence of his fellows. We give
him slow starvation, rags, and the firma
meg for his shelter. We take him from
his wife and children to fight our battles
in the field, surrendering them to insult,
privation, and death by famine and disease.
The men who have brought this huge
wretchedness upon a helpless race, now throw
the burden on the people, whose national
name it threatens for ages to disgrace. We
cannot, and we must not, reject it. By every
consideration of honor and humanity, as
Christian men, we mist lift it, grievous
though it be. This is the immediate work
and duty of the hour. To the future we may
well remit the chastisement, sure and terri
ble, which awaits the hypocrites and the mad
men who have loaded upon us, and upon our
children, so cruel a weight of national shame
and of individual misery."
PROLONGING THE WAR
The Albany Argus truly says that there is
no other explanation of the peculiar tactics
of the Administration, its removal of Gen
erale, and its wasteful management of our
armies, than a deliberate design to protract
the war, and prevent the possibility of peace
until after the re-election of Lincoln. •
President Lincoln is avowedly the candi
date of the Radicals, and was recently : pre
sented as such by Wendell Phillips. He de
pends for re-election upon the votes of the
Army, and of the spurious Electoral Colleges
in the seceded States. Peace, even through
victory, and the return of the South to its
allegiance, would thwart all such calculations.
Hence the policy of protracting the War.
Ujyr• Senator WADE said, in a late speech
at Marietta, Ohio :
" Before I would have accepted the Critten
den resolutions, 1 would have seen them in
the lowest hell."
Yee, you old demagogue and traitor, you
and your party have preferred to see our
country go there, along with the resolutions.
And, scoundrels and sinners, you are going
there, yourselves, about as fast ae old Satan
can drive you on.
ABOLITION PREACHING---ITS ULTI.
NATE RESULT.
The ultimate result cf Aboliticin pulpit
preaching will be rank infidelity, running
into a fanaticism as wild as that which char
accerized the God defying population of Paris,
when the huge city poured its multitudinous
swarms, to witness the crowning and worship
of a common prostitute as the Goddess of
Reason.
•. The wild Jacobins of the French metropo
lis had reached that pitch of madness by going
through precisely the same preliminary pro
cesses the false priests of the God of the Bible
are now leading their flocks.
Who will condemn us for calling these re
pudiators of the Gospel, these ire-crueifiers
of Christ. false prophets ? -
Clothed in black garments and white neck
cloths, they cross the. aisles and ascend . the
pulpits dedicated to the worship of the true
God, and after reading from the sacred vol
ume, pervert its meaning, and, opening their
mouths, send from stentorian lungs the breath
of hell. You hear no more from these false
priests the language of Christ—they pour out
no longer the " living waters " that flow only
from the throne of the Most High—but in
stead, their sermons are a continuous roar of
artillery, rattle of musketry and crash of steel,
so that the church seems a battle-field ; and
instead of the soft, soothing words of Christ,
giving hope, and comfort, and life, the ear is
pained with the shrieks of the wounded, and
appalled by the groans of the dying, and the
moans of the widows and orphans. Under
the preaching of these apostates from the
faith, one feels as though he stood sole deep
in human gore, for which they make God re
sponsible, and praise and glorify Him for the
blood which their own evil passions and coun
sel have mused to be shed. It is no longer
the God and Christ of the Sacred Volume
they worship. They have deserted them as
Solomon did, and sought after idols. They
have gone far back into the ages of the past
and chosen for their idol the most execrable
deity of the Pagans. It is Moloch, " horrid
God, besmeared with blood of human sacrifice
and parents' tears," to whom they now bow.
What wonder that the Church is divided
and the flock scattered, when the false shep
herds have exchanged the crook for the knife,
and instead of protecting, destroy those who
were committed to their charge? They are
no longer true pastors and preachers, trying
to save souls by instilling righteous precepts
and desires—but human tigers, howling for
blood—"wolves in sheep's clothing," "roaring
lions, seeking whom they may devour." In
the language of Christ, they are—like the
Pharisees of old, who professed Godliness, but
had none—a " generation of vipers," "whited
eepulchres," fair enough to look upon, but
within the rottenness and odor of death.
The result of this devilish play of the Abo
lition pulpit will be seen and felt, after '• this
cruel war is over," in the looseness of morals
and the spread of infidelity throughout the
whole land ; for although, during the present
period of excitement—when the boom of can
non and the rattle of small arms, the command
to advance, the shock of battle, the cry of vie,
tory, or the horrors of retreat, are telegraphed
over the wires every day—men may listen to,
and even applaud the wild blasphemy which
now forms the eloquence of pulpit oratory ;
yet, after a while, when reason resumes her
throne, when calmness succeeds passion, and
the former'days and doctrines are thought of,
men will either renounce religion entirely as a
farce more fit to be enacted in a theatre than
a church, or they will dethrone the false par
sons and the false gods, and return again to
the God of their fathers—the God of Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob—and to His Christ, the true
Messiah, whose doctrine was not a doctrine
of blood, but of love, " peace and good will
unto men."
Some will take the one eourse and some
the other ; but by far the greater number,
disgusted with the attributes of the Aboli
tion God, will renounce all religion and
become infidels and atheists.—Patriot &
Union.
THE SEWING GIRLS
The Boston Herald, in an article upon the
poor sewing girls' strikes in the large cities ,
says:
" The ;prices paid for sewing are too con
temptibly small to mention. Where are the
shoddy contractors? Where are the loud
mouthed philanthropists and spouters about
human freedom? Where are the anti-slavery
agitators and Abolition ministers who roll up
their eyes in holy horror about slavery, when
the worst kind of slavery exists in our very
midst? Do our Christian ministers preach
long and flatulent discourses about the sad
condition or the thousands of fens ties who
labor twelve or fourteen hours a day for $1 50
or $2 per week ? How are they to pay for
their board, and bow are they to be clothed
upon such a miserable stipend, we inquire?
Do not the great wrongs practiced upon them
in this particular cry aloud to Heaven for
vengeance ? Will not the so-called respectable
women, who live in luxury and ease, do
something to aid the unfortunate of their
o wn sex ? Will they not step forward and
lend their influence to alleviate the sufferings
of their unfortunate sisters?
"D, they imagine that going to church,
arrayed in purple and fine linen, and attend
ing a few meetings during the week,
'yclept sewing circles, where scandal is
the presiding genius, will carry them to
Heaven? If they do they will come far
short. When they stand before a just God,
will not the question be put to them : Have
you fed the hungry and clothed the nuked ?
Have you done anything to relieve the dis
tress of your poor sisters, or have you been
proud, arrogant and selfish ?
" The misfortune is that these poor sewing
girls must be n , groes to get the sympathy of
the Abolition agitators."
TALI. VOTING
A correspondent of the Harrisburg Patriot
presents the following comparison of the vote
of York county, a Democratic county, with
that of Venango, an Abolition county, by way
of showing how Curtin's majority of 15,000
was obtained. It proves a glaring case of
fraud, or else a miraculous condition of health,
&c., in the people of Venango
"In 1862 it (Venango) polled 4,497 votes
giving Cochran 70 majority. The number of
taxables returned before this vote was 6,275.
In 1863 this county polled 6,274 votes, giving
Curtin a majority of 314. M'Clure's estimate
sent to the New York Tribune asked for 300 !
• `York, a Democratic county. polls 13,581
votes out of a tax list of 18,776, leaving for
widows, orphans, non-residents, sick, &c.,
who could not vote, 5,195 persons.
" Venango, an Abolition county. polls 6,-
274 votes out of a tax list of 6,275, leaving
for widows, orphans, non-residents, sick, &c.,
who could not vote, 1 person ! A county con
taining 25,189 souls ' does not often present so
clean a bill of health as this."
—Or, the writer might have added, so big
a vote !
re' The Ohio State Journal in referring to
the escape of MORGAN and six of his Captains,
says it is, in some points of view, " the most
humiliating circumstance that has ever occur
red in the State of Ohio." Matters and things
connected with their escape look very much
as if some of the " loyal " men having charge
of the Penitentiary had something to do with
it. The public are anxious to know how
much gold they received for their conniving.
For a wonder, the " poor washerwoman" is
not, as yet, charged with any connection with
the affair.
RADICALS BEATEN IN MISSOURI
The action of the Senate of Missouri shows
that the proposition of the Radicals to hold
an election for a new Constitutional Conven
tion is defeated, so far as the present Legis
lature is concerned. A motion last weeks to
suspend the rules for the second reading of
the bill that had been presented in the Senate
not only did not receive the requisite two_ ,
thirds vote, but failedto get a majority.
ler The coal fields of the United States
aggregate more than 200,000 square miles, or
an area ten times as large as that of Great
Britain, France, Spain and Belgium united.
They are included in four immense beds,
The Allegheny coal field covers large areas of
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky,
Tennessee and Alabama, and is estimated at
60,000 square miles. Another occupies the
greater portion of Illinois and Indiana ; the
third covers most of Missouri, and the fourth
the greater part of Michigan.
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
Tas.TEAcemas' INsrirtrrs.—The Teachers'
Institute of Leoceeter County helcLita annual session at
Fulton Hall, in this city, last week—commencing on
Monday morning, and ending on Saturday morning.—
There were three seasloos a day, and they were largely
attended by the Teachers from the city and county and
cur own citizens. Addresses were delivered during the
weak by CIIMILS.9 R. Cosusw, Reg, State Superintendent
of Cmtrion Schools, Prof. Wrtas, of Maine, Hon. A. L.
1111114 Rev. Dr. CIXIMART, of this city, and others.
PERSONAL.—We have neglected to notice
the appointment of Mr. Asnazw - N. Taosms, late of the
Church Advocate, to a clerkship in the Poet Office of this
city, in the room of Capt. 8. W. Bowe, resigned, who bas
been appointed one of the Deputy Sheriffs. Andy is a very
clever young fellow, and, we doubt not, will make a mu,
teous and efficient clerk.
THE NEW SEWER. in Duke street is about
completed, and fe one-of the finest improvements made in
this city for years. The crossing, at Duke and East King
streets are of the very best and most substantial character.
The work has been done under the snperintendence of
Hr. Hussy Emery. Street Commiesloner, aided by the
Street Committee, and reflects great credit upon these
officials.
A Bra Tniaa.—A prominent Coal mer
bant of ibis city, who owns atract of coal land in the
Shamokin Talley, lately sold off a portion of the same for
$275.000. He bought it a few years ago for $25,000. We
congratulate our friend on his good luck, and oar only
wish is that he may have more of the same kind of "big
licks." Who wouldn't be a Coal merchant?
EDITORIAL VISITOR.—We had the pleasure
on Tuesday last of a visit from Mr. Joust Montan, Junior
Publisher of that sterling Democratic sheet, the Dubuque
(Iowa) Herald. Mr. 11. is a nephew of the gallant and
unflinching MAtintiv, former editor of the Herald, who
was incarcerated for some time le the Old Capitol Prison
at Washington. for the free expression of his opinions. It
le a pleasure to record that Mr. M. was lately elected
Sheriff of Pobuque county, the meet lucrative position in
the State of lowa. Mr. nonuser is a young gentleman of
ability and very, ,plensant manners, and we were truly
glad to take him by the hand.
Tar, CITY COUNCILS met etatedly in their
Chambers, City Hall, on Tuesday evening last. The busi
ness which claimed their attention was altogether of a
financial character. A report from the Street Committee
was read asking for an appropriation of fourteen hundred
and flee dollars, which w. granted. A petition was read
from the Superintendent of Water Works and the Commis
sioner of Streets, asking for an increase of salary, which
was favorably acted upon. The salaries of these officers
was increased fifty dollars per annum each. The salary
of the Superintendent of Water Works has heretofore bean
$4OO, and is now $450; that of the Street Commissioner
S3QO, and now $350. A petition from the City Watchmen
asking for an increase of salary from one dollar to one dol
lar and twenty-flve cents per night, which was granted.—
A communication was received from the Mayor, asking
for en appropriation of six hundred and fifty dollars to
the contingent fend. The appropriation was made accord
ingly. The monthly report of the City Treasurer was read,
when Councils adjourned.
A HANDSOME TESTIMONIAL.—We had the
pleasure, this morning, of inspecting a handsome silver
tea set. Intended for presentation to Mr. Charles M. How
ell, of this city, District Deputy Grand Master, by the Ma
eons of Columbia, as a testimonial for his many services
rendered the order in that place. The committee charged
wilt getting up the testimonial placed the matter In the
herds of Mr. Harry Z. Rhoads, jeweller, Went King street,
and he has carried out their instructions, we are pleased
to learn. In a highly satisfactory manner. He had the
pet made to order in one of the extensive mance
fmtories in Philadelphia, and the taste displayed reflects
much credit upon all parties. The sot consists of six
pieces, viz: a coffee urn, tea and water pots, sugar bowl
and cream jog, and waste bowl. The coffee urn and tea
pots are heavily plated, while the other articles are of solid
silver. There is comparatively little ornamentation on
any of the pieces, but all are brilliantly burnished and cf
fine model. As the poet says, "Beauty, when unsd - rued
is adorned the most," and the sentiment holds good in
many respects in regard to inanimate as well as animate
things, se in this Instance. Each piece has a neatly en
graved inscription upon it, as follows: “From Columbia
Lodge, No 586, A. Y. M., to Chas. M. Howell, Die. Dept.
Greed Master. A. L 5863" The sat will remain on ex•
hilitiondn Mr. Rhoads' window, Weal King et., where all
can see it who may call.— Wednesday's Express.
—We cordially concur with the Express in its notice of
this to,tiroonial. The Masons of Columbia exhibited their
good reuse sod Carte in placing the matter In the hands
of so good a fellow as Harter RHOADS
HE COUNTY OFFICE.—Tho new County
officers, with the exception of the Treasurer and Commis-
Avner, were sworn into office on Tuesday last. They are
as follows:
Sheriff—Frederick Smith. Deputies—Samuel W. Rowe,
Fleury K. Snyder.
Register—Ool. Emlen Franklin. Deputies—John Johns
Luther Richards.
Prothonotary—John Seldomridge. Deputies—Gerardus
Clarkson, William M. Slaymaker, John B. Good.
Recorder—Samuel L. Leaman. Deputy—M. D. Hess.
Cher' Orphans' Court—John C. Baldwin. Deputy—C.
L. Stoner.
Clerk Quarter Sessions—John 11. Zeller. Deputy—Theo
dore IV. Herr
The Treasurer, Commissioner, Directors of the Poor,
Prison Inspectors and Auditor will be sworn Into office on
the first of January.
Moore. BoyD, HAWTHORN, MARTIN, WHITOON, MYER° and
MussEa have retired from their respective offices with the
good will and kind wishes of all. They made efficient and
courteous officers.
COLUMBIA BANK.—At the annual election
for Directors of the Colombia Bank, held on the 11th Olt.,
the following gentlemen were chosen for the ensuing year
Barton Evans, Samuel Mussolman, John W. Clark. Geo.
W. Mahaffey, Jacob Huber, Henry Coppenbeffer, John A.-
Hook, James Myers, George C. Francisco?, William Mc.
Conkey, Cornelius Tyson, Rudolph Williams, J. S. Mann.
A LOCAL COSMOPOLITE.—A short time ago a
man died near Frederickahure, Lebanon county, who had
been born in Lancaster county, resided a number of years
In Dauphin county, died in Lebanon County, and had
always lived in the Fame bones Ths house is still stand
ing and is covered with eon of the old laSiliOriPti roofs
The explanation of tide is, that w hen he was born Lebanon
was a part of Lanes toe conuty : Dauphin, including Leb
anon, was subsequently cut MY of Lancaster, and subso
queht to that Lebanon was rondo a separate county.
FRANKLIN AND ArAIt , II.ILL COLLEGE.—OD
Tuesday mornis g Ines tho n I Divi don of the Senior
Class or Franklin and Marshall Cidiege delivered Orations
In the Chapel of that 1 . .0 These Orations com
pared very favorably wish those of the First Division of
tte Use , ; our c 111a113.3 tWO WeTki
ego. Th.. efl ,. "
tla t,
ws:
G. A. Leinbach, - M-xieo." u C 3leGrughlie , "Queen
Elizabeth." J. J. PRP.Repaek.r, .11.1 a Volunteer." E. G.
Schwartz, '.The Missiadppi." IL C. Thatcher, "Shakes.
pea." L. Wanner, "The Dreads of America." F. C Wolf
"Italy."
'nu speeches of Messrs. MCLAUGHLIN, SCHANTZ and
THATCHER. were the bust of the morning —being ably writ
ten and delivered in a clear sad forcible manner. The
two latter, especially, were perfectly composed and at ease
upon the stage, which adds much to a speaker's success;
while Mr. McLauorugg excelled to the force of his compw
onion and lb the gracefulness of his gestures. The speeches
of all the other members of this DiVl4l,llwero good, above
the. average r,f form e r Senior Orations, giving evidence
that this College strives hard to rend forth its young neon
into the world accomplished rcholsrs and orators.
INSURANCE ELECTION.—At the annual elec
tion for Directors of the Home Mutual Fire Insurance
Company, held at the Company's office, No. 55 East King
street, the fo'lowing gentlemen were chosen :
John Sheaffor, Christian Gast, Rev. Wm. T. Gerhard, D
G. Swsrlz, J. B. Swarts.welder, It 11. Martin, Henry G.
Herr, J. R. Srn.ltz. C. IL. Lefavre. The new Board of Ap
praisers consists of John D. Sklles, R. M. Morrow, Isaac
Diller, S. S. Spencer and Jacob 11. Rhoads.
TURNPIKE ELECTIONS.—The followtag Offi
cers of the corporations respectively named hap recently
been elected:
Cotrvoro AND WAHHINOTON TURNPIKE COMPOY.—Presl
den—S4run.l Shnch. Managers—Abraham Miner, J. B.
Shuman, Jacob Seitz, William Lowrey, George Bogle.—
Treamirer—Joseph F. Cottrell.
CnI.UMMA AND MARIETTA TURNPIKE COMPANY—president
—Samuel Shech. Directors—James Myers, John M. Clark,
John Cooper, Henry Hinkle, Henry Masao!man. Treasu
rer—Joseph F. C
COLUMBIA AND CHESTNUT HILL TURNPIKE COMPANT.—Free.
Blent--Bleorge Bogle. Dsrectorn—Samuel Shoe,h John 11.
Smith, H. Or.ppenhetrer. Michael Musser, J. IL Hershey,—
Treasurer—Joseph F. Cottrell.
RELIGIOUS.—Rev. J. 1 - BIIDOR NiomBERT, Rec
tor of St. James' Fpiscopal Church, this city, has resigned
the rectorship, to take effect at .Easter. The resignation
has teen accepted.
FREE BRIDGE.—We see it stated that the
subject of a free bridge over the Pusquehanna, at Colum
bia, Is Laing agitated there. As the Scutgoehanna divides
Lancaster and York counties, this is a most Important
matter for the consideration of the people of that neigh
borhood. as great advantages would result from the com
pletion of such a measure, and most especially to the citi
zens of Columbia and Wrightsville, who occupy the east
and west sides of the river.
THE DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE OF CORRES
PONDENCE 01" CHESTER COETTY will hold a meeting at Mar`th
beck's Hotel, Oxford, on Thursday, the 17th of December,
Inst. , at 11 o'clock, A. M.
Members of the Lancaster County Committee, who can
make it convenient to attend, are cordially invited to be
present. NIMROD STRICKLAND,
Chairmen of Chester County Committee.
WEsT CHESTER, Dec. 4th, 18E3.
TRIBUTE OF RESPECT.—At a meeting of In
dependent Battery I, Penn's Artillery, Capt. Robert J.
Nevin, held In camp on Maryland Heights, Nov. 26,
committee consisting of Borst. John Weltmore, Corp- E.
H. Thomas and Corp. W. C. Honig having been appointed.
the following preamble and resolutions, expressing the
sentiments of the company concerning the death of their
late fellow member, Bugler William H. PEIIISOL, were read
and unanimously adopted
WHEREAS, It has pleased RD Allwlse Providence to re
move from our midst, by the hand of death, our late com
rade Wm 11. Pearsol, and though Ave meekly bow to the
dispensations of that kind Providence which "doeth all
things well;" yet bo it
Resolved, That in his death tho company has lost one of
la most dutiful and efficient members, tits family an affec
ionate son and brother, and society a bright ornament,
..ho, by his integrity, temperance, truthfulness and purl.
y, won the esteem of all who knew him.
. . .
Resolved, That though Bugler Pearsol fell not in the
beat of battle, we have the consolation of knowing that he
went for the defence of his country daring one of the dark
est periods of her existence since the breaking out of this
unholy rebellion.
Resolved, That while we tender to his afflicted family
our sincere and heartfelt condolence and sympathy, ming
ling our tears with theirs, we at the same time present to
them our congratulations upon their relation to such a
eon and brother, one who so freely offered himself for hie
country's good.
Refaced, That those reeolutions be published In the
Lancaster city papers, and a copy be furnished the family
of the deceased
To PIITSICIANS.—For sale, the good will,
fixtures and medicines of a Physician doing a large paying
business. For particulars call on or address Dr. Wiimam
COMPTON, No. 64 North Doke street, Lancaster city. 4tn
THE CRY OF COAL.—The high price of coal
causes many a sigh among those who have not the means
to pro . vide supplies of this indispensable article of fuel. It
is terrible to contemplate the suffering that scores of pov
erty-stricken families in our midst will endure the present
winter, unless something be done for their relief. One of
our contemporaries, amidst the cry for "copy," and with a
sorry look at his empty coal bin, thus ventilates his feel.
Ingo:
Coal! Coal 1.
To keep together body soul.
The people are crying aloud for coal,
And they cannot pay what the cormorants ask,
And there is no sunshine in which to bask.
Coal! Coall
Ye prodigals who fa carriages roll,
Think of the poor ones suffering for coal,
And spare a dollar or two for those
Who have shoeless feet and threadbare clothes
Coal I Coal I
Ye politicians who'd reach your goal.
Think of the voters who have no coal ;
Think of the poor men in their homes of woes;
Think of the rude winter's winds and snows.
Coal! Coal I
Ye learned Divines who'd save the son],
There are bodies to warm, and where's the coal t
Relieve the poor in their greet distress.
And labors of love a Heaven will bless!
Coal Coal I
Do something soon or the bell will toll
For those who have died for the want of coal—
Not so—no bell—but a single breath—
With a coroner's jury—" Frozen to death!"
11BAVY ROBBERY. --On the night of the 29th
nit the store of McConkey k Tiro, at Peach Bottom, York
county, Wi9 robbed rf ;51600. The woreroom was first
broken open with-a crowbar, whence the robbers entered
the store, drilled the lock off the iron safe, and appropria
ted the money there, about 8900 of It being specie. No
clue has been obtained to the identity of the robbers.
THE -LADY'S FRIEND for January is before
at, rich In Its literary contents and in its embellishments
The Xriend Is' truly a Magazine of Literature and Feeble°,
is edited by Slra Henry Peterson, and published by Des.
& Peterson, No. 319 Walnut eireet. Philadelphia, at
$ 2 per annum, payable In advance. For prospectus lee
our tulvertislng columns.
SOUND SENTIMENTS
"There is a healthy tone in the subjoined
article from the Louisville (Ky.) Journal:
" It is a consoling and even cheering reflec
tion that the radicals of the country would
not so grortly calumniate the 'conservatives
but for dread of conservatism. Between
radicalism and conservatism on the naked
issue of their respective claims, radicalism
would stand no earthly chance before the
people. This the radicals well know. Hence
they deem it - necessary to obscure the issue,
which they endeavor to accomplish through
immeasurable calumny. Hypocrisy,' says
Rocheloucauld, is a sort of homage that vice
pays to virtue.' We may fitly adapt this say
ing to the subject in band. Calumny is a
sort of homage that radicalism pays to con—
servatism.
"It is indeed hard to conceive bow any
rational and patriotic man can give his voice
and influence to swell the deadly power of
radicalism. Can any snob man doubt that
the only salvation of our country is by the
union of the American people around the con
servative standard? It is universally conce
ded, as a contemporary says, that union at
the North is necessary to success. What is
success? We answer: Peace and the resto'red
power of the Constitution and Union. This is
complete success. Why is there a division
at the North Because the radical party
boldly proclaim their intention to oppose
the restoration of peace under the old UnVln,
or any union with slaveholdiog States. They
assert that there can be no peace with
slavery.
"On the other hand, the Conservative party
believe that a simple, steadfast adherence to
the Constitution will give us peace, and, what
we want, the Union. On which platform is
it easier to unite ? On which is success more
likely to be achieved ? The radical platform
requires us to abandon the Constitution,
abandon the principles of concession and corn
promise, on which our very government rests.
and go into a crusade for the establishment of
a new Union, a new government, an unknown
structure existing only in the dreams of en—
thusiasts, to he founded on the ruins, of the
best and noblest structure which was ever
erected by human hands. The other plat
form, the conservative idea, proposes to save
the- old structure in all its glory, marred some
what by this terrible experience through which
it will have passed, but substantially the same
Union of which Washington and his compan
ions were, he founders. On this platform every
patriotic American can stand, ought to stand,
must stand, if we would win that success for
which we strive
" The wild folly which for more than a year
was permitted to cry ' treason, treason,' at
every voice raised for the Constitution, has
been hushed. The accusation of disloyalty
hurled at the men who stood firm for the old
Union has recoiled on those who were insidi
ously plotting to destroy it. The eyes of the
whole country are now fixed on conservative
men for help, advice, guidance. All confi
dence in radical men and radical measures is
gone. They are known to be utter failures.
They have sacrificed too much of blood and
treasure. The people are becoming of one
mind. What an intense relief would the
whole country feel to day if it were known
that some trusty conservative was to be Presi
dent of the United States by constitutional
succession to morrow ! Acting under the ad
vice of such men, the people will preserve the
present administration in power, patiently
hearing with its infirmities, protesting firmly
against its errors, and in the right time will
restore the Constitution to conservative pro
tection. Then will begin again the story of
American greatness."
DEATH OF ➢IRS. EX-PRESIDENT
PIERCE.
" BOSTON, December 2.
" Mrs. Jane N. Pierce, wife des President
Pierce, died this morning at Andover, Mass.
She has been in feeble health for several
years."
" How much of bereavement is implied in
this brief announcement they only can know
who enjoyed the pleasure of a personal
I acquaintance with Mrs. Pierce, an t knew
;how close and strong were the ties of mutual
affection which in this case bound the hus
band and wife in the bonds of an imperishable
love. She was a gentle and loving soul, a
woman of rare social virtues, greatly beloved
by an extensive circle of cherished friends,
and held by them in a most affectionate re
gard. She had been a fragile and delicate
person—little else, indeed, than a valetudina
rian ever since the death of her little son, by
a railroad accident, eleven years ago. From
the effects of that bereavement she never re
covered ; it transformed, to her, the glittering,
display, and honor and power connected with
the elevation of her honored husband to what
was then the most august office in the world,
into the most hollow and empty of fleeting
mockeries. All that assiduous care, prompted
by anxious affection, could do to restore her
shattered health, was done by General Pierce;
but even a residence in the lovely May climate
of Madeira, among the vine clad steeps of
that most beautiful of the islands of the sum
mer sea, failed to restore the bloom and en
joyment of life to her whoseheart was already
in that Better Land where her lost treasure
was, and whither she herself has now gone to
meet again her darling boy. The sympathies
of thousands of friends will go out to the be
reaved husband, who, in this hour of affliction,
is made to realize the hollowness of all worldly
honors, in the crushing experience of a loss
like that he is now called upon to suffer.—
Hartford Times.
LATE EUROPEAN NEWS
New Yoax, Dec. 4.
The steamship Seotia, from Liverpool Nov.
21st, arrived here this morning. A summary
of her news has been telegraphed from Cape
Race.
The London Spectator of the latest date
contains a report that Earl Russell, the
British Minister of Foreign Affairs, leaves the
Cabinet, to be succeeded by the Earl of Cla
rendon.
Consols after official hours on the 21st, 91i
a 91k.
The Glasgow Herald reports that the naval
authorities in the Clyde are instructed to de
tain the war vessels suspected to be building
for the Confederates.
It is denied that Russia has replied that she
would join the Congress, bat not until after
the pacification of Poland.
A thousand troops sailed from Cherbourg,
on the 23d, for Mexico.
The London Times details vigorous warlike
preparations making by Russia. The Chan
nels of Cronstadt are being blockaded and
intercepted by infernal machines. A sub—
marine vessel of colossal proportions is build
ing; also extensive earthworks, and there are
enormous exertions in the manufacture of
guns, armor plates, &o. A two years' supply
of coal is provided for the fleet.
One hundred and sixty thousand men are
said to occupy the country from the Crimea to
Gallicia, under General Luders.
A RICH INCIDENT
In the vicinity of Bethlehem there resides
a rich Farmer named Mr. D., who is a rank
Abolitionist. His wife, however, is a sound
Democrat—and the two have often had
I political arguments, in which the husband
contended for the elevation of the black man
I in social and political life. Recently Mr. D.
went into a piece of timber to chop wood, and
during his absence a wagon load of travelling
negroes came to the house and asked for
something to 'eat. Mrs. D. told them to walk
in and she would get them dinner. She put
them in the parlor and in a very short time
had several fine chickens killed and roasting in
the stove. About this time she saw her hus
band approaching the house, and meeting him
in the yard she told him that some of his best
friends bad come down to pay him a visit and
he should hurry up stairs and change his
clothing. He did as directed and soon came
down stairs dressed in his best Sunday suit.
His astonishment may be imagined when his
wife opened the parlor door and ushered him
into the presence of eight or ten filthy darkies.
By this time dinner was ready and the descen
dants of Ham did not wait to be invited a
second time to set down and help themselves.
The uld man said the joke was too good to get
mad but he felt sorry to lose the chickens,
which he had promised to deliver to one of
the Hotel keepers at Bethlehem at 60 cents a
pair.—Easton Argus.
THE WORK STILL GOING ON.
The business of arbitrary arrests is still
progressing in the lower end of our county.
We noticed a week or tvto ago the arrest and
imprisonment of Mr. Conrad Horn, of Hazle
ton, by the military. On Friday night of
week before lest, another outrage or series of
,outrages was perpetrated upon a number of
the citizens of Black Creek, whose houses
were entered in the night by some soldiers and
the men arrested and taken to Hazleton and
from there to Beaver Meadows. They were
taken before the Deputy Marshal at the latter
place, and that officer finding nothing against
them, discharged them and left them to return
home on foot through the rain. The viotims
of this last outrage were Amos Rittenhouse
and two of hie sons, Philip Wclf, David Han
singer, Christian Beninger, Adam Croll and
Michael Smith. The arresting party also
went to the house of George Clinger, who
keeps a hotel in The neighborhood, destroyed
his liquors and other articles, and warned hie
family to leave the house.
Anil these deeds are perpetrated upon
American citizens, who are guilty of no crime
save. that they refuse to fall down and wor
ship the Abolition God at the behest of the
men in power! In other words, they are
Democrats and believe that our old-fashioned
constitutional government, such as our fathers
made for us through seas of blood, is better
than a despotism founded upon pretended
" military necessity." How long the liberties
of the oitizen are thus to be crushed we do
not know. But we yet hope that the people
will awake from the.infatuation which seems
to render them careless of the future, Careless
of the existence of our free institutions—and
when once aroused, that they will yet hurl
by their votes a party from power that thus
perverts the purposes of good government to
party spleen. A few months more of submis•
sion, and the rights of the people will not be
worth the paper upon which we write this
paragraph. —Luzerne Union.
ANOTHER INFAMOUS OUTRAG
The Sussex (N. J.) Herald publishes the
following account of the kidnapping of the
son of a citizen of Hamburg, in that county,
on Satur;lay week:
In the forenoon of the day mentioned, in
the midst of the rain -storm, two men, stran
gers in the neighborhood, with a pair of
horses and wagon, drove up to the place of
Stacy L. Stull, Esq.. Without ceremony they
proceeded to the grist mill near by and deman
ded to see Mr. Joseph E Stoll, who was tend
ing the mill. Having presented himself, he
was informed that they were authorized to
arrest deserters, and that he must go with
them. They refused to give their names, or
to show or offer to show any authority. They
said they were from Jersey City, and had
authority from headquarters. Staoy L. Stoll,
hie father, who has long been confined to his
bed with sickness, could not see them,
but his mother, au infirm woman, and
her younger eon, a lad about thirteen
years of age, came down to the mill,
when these catchpoles proposed to oompromiee,
and for $4OO offered to let Joseph go, and to
guarantee him that he should not again be
molested. Joseph, thinking that their object
was to extort money, stepped out of sight,
somewhere about the mill. This put these
villains into a great fury ; they then threat
ened Mrs. Stoll, that unless she paid them the
amount they exacted, they would arrest her
for entertaining a deserter—and exhibiting
their iron shackles, seizing hold of her—when
the little boy, seeing the abuse of hie mother,
came to her rescue, to get her frOm their
grasp ; whereupon thee demon employees
let her go, and seized the lad—a very small
boy of his age—and valiantly and bravely
fastened upon his wrists a pair of iron
shackles, which extended his arms about one
and a half feet apart; they then dragged hint
along past his father's house, and placed him
in their wagon, and drove off hastily in the
midst of a violent rain, the lad having noth
ing to protect him from the cold storm but
the in door clothes he ohanoed to have on.—
They said they would take him to headquar
ters. fits poor invalid father, unable to pro•
tect him, and hie helpless and agitated
mother an - d sisters, who witnessed the scone,
could only look on with horror and distraction
as the affrighted and screaming lad was carried
away.
The mother f illowed as far as Warwick,New
York State, when she found the men, but no
trace of her boy ; nor would they condescend
to inform her where he was, until near night,
when they told her that she probably would
find the boy at home. It seems that after pro
ceeding about six miles with him, they 1113-
loosed his shackles, and put him out of the
wagon, to return home as best he might in the
drenching rain.
IMMENSE BEEF CATTLE
Mr. Alex. Koser, of this place, has now in
his possession three fat cattle, which are
without question the largest and finest speci
mens of the bovine genus ever brought to this
market. Two of these cattle are of the pure
Durham strain, and the third is a Durham
crossed with native stook. They were raised
and fed by Mr. Thomas Hughes, of Boone
ouunty, Ky., and were purchased from him,
on account of Mr. Koser. by Mr. William
Metzger, of this city, while on a recent trip
through "Old Kentuck." It would be dif
ficult to:describe these monsters by sections or
by detail. We walked around the biggest
one, which weighs nearly 3fooo pounds, and
looked him pretty squarely in the countenance,
but confess that the subject is too large for us
to handle. We can only say, in general
terms, that it is a " big thing" in the beef
line. It would be a glorious arrangement to
have the job of eating through him within a
given term of years.
Mr. K. is now feeding these cattle at Metz
ger's stable, on Vine street, where they may
be seen by lovers of the curious and lovers of
" beef as is beef." He offers $lOO to any
butcher who can produce the same number of
beeves equal to these. He intends to trot
them out to the shambles on the occasion of
the inauguration of Governor Curtain, when
the Governor and the public generally will
have a chance for a " taste of the critters."
We have lively anticipations of rolling the
littlest of them like a sweet morsel under our
own tongue.—Harrisburg Patriot.
/Or In a letter which Senator DOUGLAS
wrote to S. S. Hayes, Esq., dated Washington,
October 29th, 1860, he says :
" Many of the Republican leaders desire a
dissolution of the Union, and urge war as a
means of accomplishing disunion."
And in another letter of the same date,
addressed to Hon. John Taylor, he says:
" We are now drifting rapidly into civil
war, which must end in disunion. This can
only be prevented by amendments to the Con
stitution, which will take the slavery question
out of Congress, and put an end to the strife.
Whether this can be done DEPENDS UPON
THE REPUBLICANS. Many of their lead
ers DESIRE DISSOLUTION ON PARTY
GROUNDS, AND HERE IS THE DIFFI
CULTY. God grant us a safe deliverance is
my prayer."
Dar The following remarks, whioh we clip
from the Cbambereburg Repository, touch
upon a point of interest to the fraternity of
printers. A reform is sadly needed in that
direction :
" It has been the custom of all associations
and individuals to impose upon country
editors the publication of resolutions, obituary
notices, advertisements of benevolent enter
prises, and various other articles of limited
or individual interest, without charge. We
have done quite our share of that sort of work.
If associations consider it due to deceased
members to pass resolutions testifying to their
virtues and condoling with their relatives,
they must henceforth consider it due to
publishers to pay for them ; and if literary,
school, and other associations cannot exist
without gratuitous printing, they must be too
slightly prized to promise substantial benefit
to their members. Until we find teachers
who teach gratis ; butchers who furnish
steaks and roasts without charge ; lawyers
who counsel without fees ; farmers who donate
their wood and produce, &0., we must decline
being in the list of printers who print without
compensation."
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
Among the other items of news in the Southern
press is a statement that the City Connell of Rich
mond have appropriated $60,000 for the purchase of
a family residenee for Gen. Lee, whose whole estate
with all the relics and memorials of his ancestors
have been sacrificed by him for having embraced
the rebel cause. Also that Mrs. Todd, the mother
of Mrs. Lincoln, has arrived at Richmond on a flag
of truce. It is stated by the Richmond papers, that
she goes South , to visit her daughter, Mrs. Helm,
widow of Surgeon General Helm, who fell at CMcka
mange. Mrs.: Todd is about to take up, her red
denee in the Sonth, all her daughters being there,
except the wife of Lincoln, who ie in Washington,
and hire. Kellogg, who le at present in Paris: .