tillx Vaunter InteUtgenta oso. sinnwasoir, EDITOR. A. RANDIABSOii. Associate. IffAUOA443AVJMIO* OO3 AAV ARtO B. N. Mumma Co.'s Arrnsiseive Alan, 37 Park Dew, Nor York Olty, and 30 State lirliet s Barton. B. Y. Pirosieuz Co., are /Loofa: The Zewoarter Cr ow, aid toe swat tortuentlal and larva elzonler Untied Pato smiths Osziadas..— Styrare now ea to ffi " acatemio. tPP Pr as Broadway, at oar knelt ran Kassa N New zit ....thodim to metre adrerthenswots for The WASP, at owe lowed rites. Joni Witimes AMIEWIIIIIN AG'S= Is located at N 0.50 North sth street, Philadelphia. He is atithodsed to geodes adoeribarwmta and subscriptions tor The Zeisccuter Magassoon S. 8..=.1 Beellay s e Building, Court St., Boston, Ss car a Agent Srr receiving advertisements, am OTT 11, P 1.4 .A. G - Now oar flag la flung to the wild winds free. Let It float der our father land, And the guard of Its spotless fame shall be Colombia's chosen bend. " CLING TO THE CONSTITUTION, AS THE SHIPWRECKED MARINER CLINGS TO THE LAST PLANK, WHEN NIGHT AND THE TEMPEST CLOSE AROUND HIM."-DANIEL WEBEITZR. SCALE OF ADVERTISING RATES At a meeting of the Publishers of the Oity of Lancaster, held on Friday, December 18th, 1863, the following scale of !advertising rates was adopted, to take effect from and after January lit, 1864: - ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT. inmates LDYNITOLIMINTe by the year, or fractions of a year, in Weekly papers, to be charged at the rate of $12.00 per square of tar lines. 10 per cent. Increase on the yearly rate for fractions of a year. NUL Reran, PratioNAL PROPZISTY and GiNZHAL A.DVIRTIIr MO to be charged at the rate of Seven cents per line for the first insertion, and .Flurr cents per line for every subsequent insertion. PATNA.' SIEDIOINKS, BMUS, AND ALL OTLIINS ADVENTISZ =NTS, by the column, half, third, or quarter column, to be charged as follows: One column, yearly, $lOO.OO Ono-half column, yearly, 60.00 One third column, yearly, 40.00 One quarter column, yearly, 30.00 Boo:suss CARDS, yearly, not exceeding ten linen, $10.00. Business Cards, 5 lines or less, $5.00. Lsosx NOTIONS to be charged as follows Executors' Notices Administrators' Notices, Assignees' Notices, Auditors' Notices, All Notices not exceeding ten lines, or less, for three Insertions, 1.50 LOCAL NOTIONS to be paid for at the rate of ten cents per line for the first insertion, and,fine cents per line for every subsequent insertion. Blanes, OR BMUS Norices.—All advertisements preced ing the Marriages or Markets to be charged the same rates as Local Notices. Bisniuson to be charged 25 cents each in the paper first publishing the same. This item to take effect on the first day of February next. Osmium Narrow to be charged at advertising rates. Tamuvas or Rssrscr, lissourriors, !Itc., to be charged 10 cents per line. Owaartriesnows setting forth the claims of individuals for office, As., to be charged 10 cents per line. ANNOVNOZNiNTS of names of candidates for office, Ac., to be charged as follows: For Senator, $5 .00 For Assembly 3. W For Sheriff, 5.00 For Prothonotary, 5.00 For Register, 5.00 For Recorder, 5 00 For Treasurer, 5.00 For Clerk Quarter Sessions, 5.00 For Clerk Orphans' Court, 5.00 For Commissioner, 3.00 For Directors of the Poor 2.50 For Priem! Inspectors, 250 This fee to be paid In advance, and If elected double rates to be charged. December 18th, 1883, the above Schedule of Prices was unanimously adopted by the undersigned, Publishers In the City of Lancaster, Pa. JNO. A. lIIESTAND & CO., Examiner c 0 Herald PEARSOL A GEIST, Daily if Weekly Express JOHN BAER'S SONS, Volksfreund. GEO. SANDERSON A SON. Intelligencer. 8. A. WYLIE, Daily & Weekly Inquirer . WM. B. WILEY, Job Printer. E. H. THOMAS, Church Advocate. Pay Up ! Pay Up ! The price of white paper is now double what it was a twelve-month ago, the cost of all the materials used in a printing office have in creased from twenty-five to fifty per cent. in the same time, and now, to cap the climax, the Jour printers in this city have struck for higher wages, and compel us to pay them an increase of wages to the amount of about thirty-three per cent. Such is the condition of the pub lishers of newspapers at the present time in this city, and, in order to keep our heads above water, it is absolutely necessary that the amount due on our books should be collect ed as speedily as possible. We are therefore engaged in making out our accounts till the Ist of January, 1864, and shall expect a proper re sponse on the part of our patrons.— City subscribers will be waited on by a Collector in the course of a few days, and throughout the county as fast as we can get them ready. In the mean time, we should be grati fied if as many as possible would call at the office and pay up, or re mit by mail or otherwise the amount of their indebtedness. From and after the Ist of January the terms of subscription will be rigidly adhered to, viz: $2 in ad vance or within six months ; after which $2.50 will be charged in every case. And from and after the 15th of February we shall strike from the list every subscriber two years and upwards in arrears, and place the accounts of delinquents in the hands of a Magistrate for collection. We shall pursue this course reluctantly, but necessity compels us, and, having this timely notice, no one will have any reason to complain. The Publishers in this city have also deemed it absolutely necessary, in view of the large increase in la bor, materials and paper, to adopt a new schedule of prices for adver tising, which will be found above. These prices will be strictly adhered to, in all cases. A "Loyal" Senator. JOHN P. HALE, the Abolition mountebank of the Senate, recently made a reply to Senator DAVIS, of Kentucky, in which he said that if his party_ friends iu Congress were as Mr. D. represented them, they were not fit to be taken by the hand by pickpockets and thieves. This was all very well so far as it went; but only two days thereafter he, him self, was obliged to confess in open Senate that he took a bribe of $3,000 to procure the release of a political prisoner, thus proving that he, at least, was as mean and rascally as Mr. D. said the Abolitionists were. It is well that HALE is "loyal and patriotic" and loves the nigger, or _he would soon find himself expelled from the Senate. Death of Gen. Corcoran. General MICHAEL CORCORAN, of the Army of the Potomac, was thrOwn from his horse on Tuesday last, and died the same evening from the effects of the fall. He was a brave and popular officer, and his untimely death will prove a great lo&ua to the country. He Was about 36 years of age. BURNSIDE'S BI I BINDICIIS. The report of general JIALLECK shows that Bu RIDE has been guilty of operations, which, had they been performed by any other than an ardent Abolitionist, would have resulted in his court martial and ever lasting disgrace. From the very moment that be succeeded illcOr.max up to the hour he was enveloped by Lowasrintrr, at Knox ville, his course, as shown by the General-in- Chief, has been one continued series of blun ders, ignorance and disobedience. Last years in direct opposition to orders from General Efauctox, he gave up the pursuit of LEE, on the line ordered, which resulted, finally, in the butchery at Fredericksburg, where again he disobeyed orders, and, instead of crossing the Rappahannock at the fords, and occupy ing the heights in advance, he waited till the enemy had been leoated there a month, and then attacked him directly in front. His next effort was the suppression of sev eral newspapers, in which his management met with about as flattering a result (to him) as did hie attack upon Fredericksburg. Last September he reached Knoxville, and on the 3d, 14th, and on several other occa sions, was positively ordered by Ilium: to affect a junction with Rosicaass. He paid no attention whatever to these orders, and the result was the battle of Chickamauga, which cost us 20,000 men, 46 guns, and some 10,- 000 small arms. Directly, BURNSIDE was responsible for the butchery of Fredericks burg, and indirectly, for the defeat at Chicka mauga. To compensate for this criminal disobedi ence of orders, and the frightful losses which have thereby accrued to the Federal armies, we have the simple fact that BURNSIDE is sound on the nigger question, and a firm be liever in and supporter of the Administra- THEN AND NOW At the beginning of the war, Secretary &wean, in a letter to our Ministers in Europe, said : " There is not even a pretext for the com— plaint that the disaffected Stales are to be conquered by the United States, if the revolu tion fail ; for the rights of the States, and the condition of every human being in them, will remain subject exacdy to the same laws and forms of administration, whether the revolu— tion shall succeed or whether it shall fail. In the one ease, the States would be Federally connected with the • new Confederacy ; the other, they would, as now, be members of the United States ; but their constitutions, and laws, habits, and institutions, in either case, will remain the same." President LINCOLN is as directly responsible for the above declaration as if it had been written by himself, for Mr. SEWARD has stated that the letter was read to the Presi dent before its transmission. Can there be imagined a more direct contradiction than that between the statements in this extract and the last proclamation of the Presi dent? Ser The Administration at Washington and Congress, oftoThnore to free the negroes than to restore tie Union. All their actions prove this. Congress at first proposed and the Administration approved of it, that " the war ought not to be waged for any purpose of conquest or subjugation : our purpose not be ing to overthrow or interfere with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution, and to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality and rights of the several States unimpaired and as soon as those objects are accomplished the war ought to cease." Every resolution of that character that is now introduced is voted down by them. This shows that they would rather free sthe negroes at the expense of the Union, than restore the Union and leave the negroes where and as they are. White men's interests, in their estimation, are of less value than' the black man's. )'ROM The steamer Jura, at Portland, brings Liverpool advice@ to the 10th inst. The great " international fight " between Heenan and King took place at Tunbridge on the morning of the 10th, and King was declared the victor on the thirty-fifth round, the fight lasting thirty one minutes. The London Times has a leading editorial on the fight, in which it says that Heenan gave in from sheer exhaustion, whilst other accounts state that he had his shoulder broken. The Times' ar ticle concludes by the very sensible remark "prize fighting is more revolting than bull fighting, and ought to be discouraged."— Many on this side of the Atlantic would go further, and say that the shameful practice should be prohibited by the enactment of a special law on the subject. The steamer Asia, at Halifax, brings Liver pool dates to the 11th instant. The death of Lord Elgin is fully confirmed. A serious re volt has broken out among the hill tribes of India, and a sanguinary engagement had been fought. The steamer Pampero, sup posed to belong to the Confederates, has been seized by the British Government. There is no political news of importance. The Con federate steamers Florida and Georgia were both being rapidly fitted out at - Brest and Cherbourg ; the first named, it was expected, would go to sea in a few days. The Rappa hannock was being rapidly completed at Calais. National Conservative Conven tion. The National Conservative Union Committee met, according to ad journment from Cincinnati, at Phil adelphia, on Thursday last—Hon. Amos KENDALL presiding. The course of the Administration was denounced, and resolutions were adopted approving the nominations of General GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN for the Presidency, and ex-Governor WILLIAM B. CAMPBELL, of Tennes see, for the Vice residency.— Speeches were made by Messrs. STEVENS, of New York, NORTON, of Texas, and others. joir The Dayton (Ohio) Empire, one of the spiciest of our exchanges, has passed into the hands of the Messrs. HUBBARD, late of the Logan County Gazette, two of the raciest and most spirited writers in the Buckeye State. We wish them every sort of prosperity. A Bridge Destroyed. The West End Bridge at Gray's Ferry, over the Schuylkill, on the Philadelphia and Baltimore railroad, was destroyed by fire on Wednesday afternoon last. THANKS—TO Hon. S. E. ANCONA and Hon. MYER STROUSE, of COll - for public documents. jar HENRY L. ACKER, late postmaster at Pottsville, and now a resident of Plymouth township, Montgomery county, has just been east in a suit in the Circuit Court of the United States, at Philadelphia, for a balance of $970 due the Government for stamps, which Acker alleged to have been burned in a fire in the Pottsville office, but which the Government proved to have been hy pothecated as security for loans. The ver dict and costs will probably amount to $2,000. THE crimmitt c oistrar muk Richmond is safe for another Seventeen months ago disarray of the Poto mac, 90,000 [Aron, 41 , within twenty miles of the rebel pitaael, while 150,000 men— nearly the whole strength of the Confederacy —were gathered in front to resist its advance. The Peninsula was abandoned, and with it the opportunity of the army for usefulness and success. Its career since then has been a long struggle with a great mistake. It has marched, countermarched, advanced, re treated, fought, dug, labored, endured and bled, simply to demonstrate that the mind which directed its movements was possessed by a huge blunder. Ten times over that demoostration has been made, but the blunder has been still persisted in. Spite has added stubbornness to stupidity, and the army of the Potomac has paid the heavy penalty. In July, 1862, McCLELLAN on the James river gave occupation to almost the entire force of the rebellion. Since that time, with the army moved to the front of Washington, a third of the rebel force has sufficed to keep it at bay, and twice has been strong enough to drive it north of the Potomac. This result was clearly foreseen by the best military men in the country, and we ask attention now to the impressive words in which Gen. McCLEL LAN implored HALLEcir to rescind his fatal order, withdrawing the army from the James. The following is MoCLELLAN's letter : BERKLEY, Va., Aug. 4-12 M. Maj. Gen. Halleck, Commander in Chief: Your telegram of last evening is received. I must confess that it has caused me the greatest pain I ever experienced, for I am convinced that the order to withdraw this army to .Aquia Creek will prove disastrous in the extreme to our cause. I fear it will be a fatal blow. Several days are necessary to complete the preparations for so important a movement as this, and while they are in progress, I beg that careful consideration may be given to my statement. This army is now in excellent discipline and condition. We hold a debouche on both banks of the James River, so that we are free to act in any direction, and, with the assistance of the gunboats, I eonsider our com munication as secure. We are twenty five miles from Richmond, and are not likely to meet the enemy in force sufficient to fight a battle until we have reached fifteen to eighteen miles, which brings us practically within ten miles of Richmond. Our largest line of land transportation would be from this point twenty-five miles, but with the aid of the gunboats we can supply the army by water, during its advance, certainly to within twelve miles of Richmond. At Aquia Creek we would be seventy five miles from Richmond, with land transportation all the way. From here to Fortress Monroe is a march of seventy miles, far I regard it as impracticable to withdraw this army and its material, except by land. The result of the movement would thus be to march 145 miles to reach a point now only 25 miles distant, and to deprive ourselves entirely of the pow erful aid of the gunboats and water transpor tation. Add to the certain demoralization of this army, which would ensue, the terribly depressing effect upon the people of the North, and the strong probability that it would in fluence foreign powers to recognize our adver saries ; and these appear to me sufficient rea sons to make it my imperative duty to urge, in the strongest terms afforded by our lan guage, that this order be rescinded, and that so far from recalling this army, it may be promptly reinforced, to enable it to resume the offensive. It may be said that there are no reinforce mente available. 1 point to General Burn side's forces, to those of Gen. Pope, not neces easy to maintain a strict defense in front of Washington and Harper's Ferry ; to those portions of the Army of the West not required for a strict defense there. Here. directly in front of this army, is the heart of the Rebellion. It is here that all our resources should be col lected to strike the blow which will determine the late of the nation. All points of secondary importance elsewhere should be abandoned, and every available man brought here, and the military strength of the Rebellion is crushed. It matters not what partial reverses we may meet with elsewhere ; here is the true defense of H'ashington ; it is here on the banks of the James River that the fate of the Union .should be decided. Clear in my conviction of right, strong in the consciousness that I have ever been, and still am actuated solely by love of my country, knowing that no ambitious or selfish motives have influenced me from the oommencement of this war, I do now, what 1 never did in my life before, I entreat that this order may lie rescinded. If my counsel does not prevail, I will with a sad heart obey your order to the utmost of my power, devoting to the move ment, one of the utmost delicacy and difficulty, whatever skill I may possess, and may God grant that I am mistaken in my forebodings. I shall at least have the internal satisfaction that I have written and spoken frankly, and' have sought to do the best in my power to arrest disaster from my country. GEO. B. McCLELLAN, Major General. PAC TS TO BE REMEMBERED 1. Before the Fall elections of 1862, gold had advanced to $1.72. The result of the elections of that Fall was favorable to the Democracy, and immediately gold commenced to go down, and had got down to $126 before the Fall elections of 1863. The result of the Fall elections of 1863 was adverse to the Democracy, and gold immediately began to move up, and is now $1.52. As goes up the Democracy, so goes up the country. As goes down the Democracy, so goes down the country 2. The Democracy had ruled the country for 60 years—from a small people to a great nation—and though civil war was only threatened, especially so in 1812, 1820, 1831, and 1850, yet by conciliatory fraternal con duct, the harmony of the nation was main tained. The Abolitionists have been in pow er not quite three years, and behold the result. If Gen. Scott and Mr. Douglas are to be believed, this war would have been averted, but for the wickedness of the Abolitionists. Gen. Scott in his letter to Secretary Seward, said he pledged hie life that if the Crittenden proposition should be adopted, it would save the peace of the country forever ; and Mr. Douglas, in the presence of both the Northern and Southern Senators, declared the South was willing to accept the compromise propo sition, and would accept it, if the North would. Senator Chandler, the Abolition leader of Michigan, wrote a letter declaring the Union was not worth preserving without blood-let— ting, and Senator Grimes, of lowa, declared the people of lowa, who were for the compro mise, were too excited to be trusted. But neither Chandler, nor Grimes, nor Lovejgy, nor Sumner, nor Phillips, have enlisted. Nor will they enlist while there is any plunder in the Treasury to rob.— Weekly Banner, Port Madison, lowa. ANOTHER BOLD ACT OP PIRACY Another American vessel, the James L. Garety, which left Matamoras on November 16th, was taken possession of by Rebel pirates, after the fashion of the Chesapeake affair. Six persons took passage on the vessel, as passen gers, and when one day out, suddenly attacked them with revolvers, overpowered and con fined them for eight days, and then sent them to sea in an open boat. After being two days and nights at sea, they landed at Sisal, and thence obtained passage to Havana. The Captain says there are four other parties waiting Opportunities like this. GOVRR.NOR CURTIN'S HEALTH.-A dispatch from Harrisburg states that Governor Curtin left there on Wednesday for New York city , to be absent during the week. While the state of his health is not dangerous, his friends and family deem it absolutely necessary that he should make this visit for medical aid. NEW COUNTERFEIT NOTE.-A counterfeit twenty dollar note, on the Pottstown Bank, of Pottstown, Pa., was circulated in Philadelphia on Saturday. The vignette is the represent& tion of a rolling-mill. On the right end is an engraved head of Daniel Webster, and on the left a picture of a man drinking, with, a woman and child near him. PFMFB BY youa PAPERS. Wg appropriate for the benefit of our Mailers the following very sensible remarks from the Des Moines Statesman, and commend them to the careful perusal of every intelli gent Democrat : "A solemn duty, but one imperfectly dis— charged, devolves on Democrats, to stand by their papers. In the general wreck of per— sonal and:political rights, about all the liberty that the citizen retains is the privilege of read ing Democratic papers and paying abolition taxes. How long he will enjoy the first is uncertain. His lease of the last will never be disturbed. But while he retains the privilege of reading the paper of hie choice, he owes it to himself, to the editor, his party, and his country, to give such a paper a living support. " Without Government or State, and, in many Instances, County patronage, proscribed by an intolerant party, confronted by a secret organization, whose only purpose is to pull down the Democratic party, and hunted by the paid minions of power, Democratic publishers have nothing to rely upon but their own energy and the fidelity and liberality of their political friends. " Without newspapers, the Democracy would be without an organization and at the mercy of their enemies. With newspapers they can preserve their organization, and regain both their political ascendancy and their liberties. "It is a fact which cannot ho successfully controverted, that Republicans give a more zealous support to their party organs, than do Democrats. Just so long as this state of things continues, the ballot box will be pow— erless for our relief. The press is a potent engine for shaping the opinions - of a people and controlling the destinies of a country ; and it would be well if the democracy learns this fact in time to save their party and the government. No fact is clearer to the mind of an attentive observer, than that we lost the State by extraordinary zeal displayed in giv— ing circulation to Republican papers, and the prevailing apathy of . Democrats in sustaining and enlarging the circulation Cl Democratic papers and documents. It is this zeal on the one hand and apathy on the other, that has continued radicalism in power. It will con— tinue in power until Democrats learn to feel and take an interest in the circulation of the Democratic papers. * * * k * " A new year is about to dawn upon us and. it is good time to renew your Democratic faith and labor for the great cause. Send for the palter, if you are nut already receiving it, and pee that your neighbor does likewise. A little exertion on the part of our friends will he of incalculable service to us, and render it a permanent institution. The more subscri— bers we have the better it pays, the more time we can devote to its editorial management, and the greater interest will he given to its columns. "Send in your names and show by your acts that you still feel an interest in the works of your fathers, the promotion of Democratic principles and measures, and the perpetuation of your liberties." Sound doctrine, in the foregoing ; and to all Democrats whose names are not already on our list, we say, put it in practice at once, and forward your names and money to 'lnc IN TELLIGENCER, Lancaster, Pa. DARING TUE NEGRO A CITIZEN AND El M Me! We shall have the negro epidemic in all its dimensions in the present Congress, especially after LINCOLN'S message : "NEW YORK, Dec. H. The Times special says Lovejoy's hill for the punishment of slaveholders, of which he gave notice on the first day of the session, provides that all slaves freed by the Emanci pation Proclamation of January Ist, or by Act of Congress, shall be deolared to be citi— zens, and competent witnesses in all United States Courts. Any one attempting to reduce any one so freed again to slavery shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and punished with a fine of not less than $2,000 nor more than $lO,OOO, and be imprisoned not less than one or more than ten years." This will send thousands of white men to the government bastiles, while the negro will be left at liberty to swear, to vote, and of course, to hold office ; for a voter is to office as a matter of course, What the people generally will think of all these negro movements must he let: to time to:develop. That a war of races will be pre— cipitated on the country before Io,nIIIIPII see the end of their fully n d..:n•t doulir : It is the intention of these negro falnoiee to put the negro in the advance, and to this end all legislation will lie directed. Thousands of white men who. lent their aid to elect these men will in the end turn to be their most bit• ter and maligtiant enemies:, or we are mistaken in our estimation of the future.— The Crisis. Ten millions of the people's money paid. away, and no receipt taken for it In the debates of Congress on the 21st inst., a re markable fact was elicited, by Mr. Bitomts, of New York. The money which has been w reeeived for the three hundred dollars corn- Mutation, amounts to the sum of $10,000,000. I In an application for an appropriation of $20,000,000 premiums for volunteering. it was discovered that the $1.0,000.000 already re— ceived was not to b' included in that amount, but that that sum had already been received by the Secretary of War, and paid away with out any appropriation having been made by Congress fur that purpose. " Mr. Cos, of Ohio, inquired whether the teu millions received as commutation were in cluded in the twenty now required. Mr. Stevens replied that his understanding was that the ten millions were included. Mr. Brooks offered an amendment to the bill, to the effect that the twenty millions named therein shall include all commutation money hitherto and hereafter to be paid into the Treasury. Mr. Garfield, (abo.) of Ohio, said the commutation money had already been paid out, whether properly or legally he would not undertake to decide." Here, then, is the commutation of 33,333 American citizens mueh of it unwillingly wrung from those illy able to spare it,—the laid up precaution against adversity or old age, or the intended tribute of affection, the hard scrapings together of weary years of toil,— gone into Mr. STANTON'S hand, and spent,— how ? Under any order from the representa tives of those people whose money he is spend ing ? By virtue of any act of legislation directing its appropriation ? No. The Sec rotary does not even condescend to explain to Congress how he has disbursed this money. And, if it has been paid away honestly, to insure which there is no method of precaution, we do not know but that it has gone for the payment of something directly contravening the will of the people. What right has Mr. STANTON to spend 510,000.000. or ten cents. of the people's money ? What security against peculation, what certainty that proper application will be made of theso funds, have the people, if such want of system is tolerated? Such proceedings are too dangerous to be per mitted to remain without the strongest animad version. They form a precedent so mortal to our liberties that nothing should prevent such action as will effectually hinder their recur rence.—Age. "The authorities of a number of towns in Massachusetts propose to fill their quotas of volunteers by recruiting contrabands from Virginia and other Border States, and arrange ments to this end have, in several cases, nearly reached completion." 1 Yes, Massachusetts, and the Yankee States generally, will get out of the draft some way by Yankee tricks. The next thing we will hear will be that their quotas are full, all the Diggers in the south being credited to them by the Yankee " government" at Wash ington. But Pennsyvania, and other honest States will have to go on drafting every sixty days.—Lebanon Advertiser. jam` SAMUEL YOUNG, a letter-carrier, of Philadelphia, who pleaded guilty some days ago on three bills of indictment, charging him with stealing letters, was sentenced on Satur day, by .Judge Cadwalader, to an imprison ment of ten years kind three months in the Eastern Penitentiary. PRAYER AND PEPPER.—Quite an excitement was occasioned in the Park street Methodist Church at Cincinnati on Sunday week, by a female named Jacobs cowhiding Mac R. Barintz, a well known Abolitionist, while the congregation was at prayer. After cowhiding him she threw cayenne pepper in his face. Scandal is alleged as the cause. LOCAL DEPARTMENT. A REAL MERRY OFlRl.Tll,ls.—Friday last, Christmas, passed off very pleasantly In this city.— On Christmas eve the streets were literally jammed with people, more so than we ever saw them before on such an occasion. Christmas day itself was re markably pleasant, and everybody, poor and rieh, old and young, seemed to enjoy themselves. The Streets were thronged until a late hoar with pedes trians of both sexes. In several of the Churohes there was Divine service during the day. The Cath olic, Ist German Reformed, Episcopal and Moravian were beautifully festooned and decorated, and the services were more than usually solemn and inter esting in these places of worship. AN ANSWER TO THAT " IMPORTANT AN- Notrscrasst !"—Such was tur exclamation on Thursday evening. Would you believe it? The answer was found in the receipt of a Christmas tur key, weighing some fifteen pounds, which graced the senior's dinner table on Friday, the gift of our most excellent young friend, Mr. JOHN A. &LOSER, of this city, Superintendent of Shober's Eden Paper Mill. John had neither the fear of Old Abe's Pro clamations, Stanton's Manifestos nor Provost Mar shal's Orders before his' eyes, and hence determined to do, and did, the fair thing in a fowl way. Well, John is a prince of clever fellows, and will prosper and have a good conscience through life, and the reason is easily accounted for—he remembers the Printer! We heartily thank him for his kind re membrance, and hope he may live to enjoy the return of many merry Christmases and happy New Years. So mote it be. A DISAGREEAIILE SUNDAY.—Sunday last was ono of the most disagreeable of days. It rained and sleeted the night previous, and in the morning the nide. walks were a perfect sheet of ice. Pedestri ans were few in number, and, in their peregrina tions, wont back to the good old primitive times and took the streets, for fear of becoming too affectionate with the pavements. None but Christians ventured out to church. We wore there. Yesterday woe just as disagreeable as Sunday. 'lnc "SONG Ok"reE SIIIRT " AGAIN.—The Express, of Wednesday evening last, commenting upon our comments ou the publication of Thomas Hood's "Song of the Shirt," propounds the follow ing inquiries: Will the Intelligeneer be eo kind as to inform the public who the reverend gentleman is who made this remarkable statement? Is the editor of the Intelligencer or any one else aware of a woman in thix city who makei shirts for six and a quarter cents each? If he is the fact should be made known, and the intensely loyal ' will see to it. The Intel ligencer knows,. or at least ought to know, that there is less suffering and poverty in this city the present season. than there has been for years, and the same is true all over this once happy country.' Try some other dodge. The nigger,' suppressed freedom of speech ' and bard times' is effectually played out. These ghosts have lost their potency and nobody scares at them." The Express is informed that the reverend gen tleman who made " this remarkable statement " is no myth, but a well-known and highly-esteemed clergyman. We do not know any woman in this city who makes shirts for six and a quarter cents neither did we say that we did; but from the tone of the Express' article, in the endeavor to shield its friend, the intensely " loyal " contractor, we are now confirmed in our belief of what the cler gyman said, that there are men in this city who compel women to labor for such a miserable pittance. The Expreis saying that " there is less suffering and poverty in this city the present season than there has been for years, and the same is true all over this ' once-happy country,'" is, to call it by no harsher name, a very long stretch of the imagi nation. It is about on a par with a remark in a clerical production, which recently appeared in its columns, ,to the effect that this war will prove a -great blessing in every way to the country. The .Express' sneer about trying some other dodge is characteristic. Like its Satanic-Abolition masters, it gloata•over the misfortunes of its fellow-country men, and wishes to perpetuate a " Shoddy " aris tocracy with all its attendant evils. We are well aware that " these ghosts have lost their potency and ,nobody [Abolitionists, of course] scares at them." The country is being whirled by the miserable dem .agogues in authority as fast as possible to destruc -tion, and their dupes and adherents are holding high carnival over it. "Nero fiddled while Rome was burning," and the Abolitionists are making themselves merry and drunken over the downfall of this once happy country. SERIOUS ACCIDENT. —A young boy, named SHUCK, an employee in the Picker Room of No. 1 Cotton Factory, had his arm so badly crushed in the machinery, on Thursday last, that it had to by am putated. The operation was performed by the Drs. Atlee. The boy resides with his parents on the Old Factory, Road. They are said to be very poor, to be dependent on their son's labor for 'support, and the case therefore appeals strongly to the benevolent. ADMITTED TO PRACTICE.— On Thursday morning last, on motion of A. HERR SMITH, EN., Mr. T. M. COULSON was admitted to practice law in the several Courts of this county. Mr. C. read law with Mr. SMITH, and, we believe, passed a very creditable examination. ' PILE " rnilno. " —QUlte :In inferPN!inz cx tC - ination was had a few days ago before Alderman WILEY, in reference to the objections tiled against one of the Grand Jurors who found a true bill against Messrs. Pearsol Geist for publishing a libel on Mr. Kremer, Keeper of the County Prison. The objection urged against the Juror was that he belonged to the society of "Thugs," of which Mr. K. is a member, and George Brubaker, Esq., his brother-in-law, the Chief. This society is said to be a sworn secret association, whose object is to par cel out the different offices in the county, and to stand by each other right or wrong. The hearing was not concluded and - will be resumed at a subse quent day. Some rich developments are expected, but as it is a feud among the "loyal" men of the county exclusively, it is a matter of no consequence to wo outside barbarians which side comes off con queror. We can only hope that "honest Old Abe" will not have to issue a Proclamation to quell the disturbance which has broken out among his liege subjects in Lancaster county. THE CARRIERS' ADDRES:+.—The Carriers rf Ton INTELLIGENCER, in accordance with a time-hon ored custom, will wait on our City subscribers, on Friday morning, with their New Year's Address. We beapeak for them a cordial reception, as they will not object to having their hands greased with some of Uncle Sam's shinplasters. HEVIVED.—The Lancaster and Harrisburg I)entokrat has been revived. Mr. KUHN, the editor, has removed the printing and publication office to this city, and can be found at No. 90 North Queen street. We wish him that success which his merits deserve, and trust that all our German Democratic friends will patronize the Demokrat. "THE LAWYER ' S SECRET." by MiQs M. E. Braddon, Author of "Aurora Floyd," "Lady And ley's Secret," etc. T. B. Peterson A Brothers, No. 306 Chesnut st , Philadelphia, have just issued this new novel, com plete in ono large volume, price 25 cents The Author's name and fame us a writer are sufficient endorsement for this last production of her gifted mind and pen, and will ensure it an extensive cir culation. For sale at Westhaeffer's. WE DIRECT THE ATTENTION of our readers to the advertisement of Mr. JAMES A. NORRIS, in another column. Mr. N. has leased the Lancaster Locomotive Works for a term of years, and is pre pared to manufacture Locomotives, Boilers, Steam Engines, de., de., in the best style of workmanship. From his long experience in the business, the pub• lie Gan rest satisfied that whatever Mr. N. under takes to accomplish will be done to the entire satis- faction of his patrons. GRAND JURORS to serve in the Court of Quarter Sessions, commencing Monday, Jan. 15th : Levi Brubaker, Warwick. • John D. Boring, City. Martin Brison, Ephrata. David Bricker, Warwick. John Coldren, Breoknock. Charles Carpenter, East Cooalico. William Dungan, Eden. John A. Erben, City. John Fordney, City. Joseph Goss, West Donegal. Samuel C. Hiestand, Marietia. John Hostetter, Manheim twp. John P. Hibshman, West Cooalico . Samuel Hate, City. John Kuhns, City. Daniel Misttler, East Cooalico. Henry Miller, Adamstown bor. Hon. A. E. Roberts, City. Patrick Reynolds, Strasburg. James Risk, Eden. Joseph C. Taylor, Little Britain, Jacob Wissler, Columbia. John Zellers, Upper Leaoock. Michael Zercher, Pequea. PETIT JURORS to serve in the Same Court Martin Albright, Ephrata. Cromwell Blackburn, Colerain. Samuel Bitter, Leaoook. Philip Bauman, Lancaster twp. Jeremiah Bauman, City. William Diller, City. James Drennan, Fulton. John Erhart, Jr., Rapho. Jacob Eshleman, Paradise. William A. Grubb, Fulton. Alexander Galt, East Earl. John M. Hiest,and, East Donegal. Abraham Hess, Conestoga. Peter Hershey, Penn. Christian Hoover, Earl. Henry H. Hegener, City. Frederick Comity, City. John Koehler, Penn. Jacob King, City. William Kirkpatrick, City. David Kurtz, (A's son,) Salisbury. Levi G. Kemper, Upper Leacock. Henry Layman, Jr., East Lampeter. Christian K. Landis, Upper Leacock. Christian C. Lapp, East Lampeter. Samuel L. Lehman, Manheim twp. Levi Miller, Ephrata. Frederick Myers, Providence. -. John Monteith, Martin. Wyatt Miller, Conestoga. Daniel McKillips, Leacock. Michael Minnich, West Hempfield Jacob Miller, Strasburg twp. Samuel Nissley, Clay. Leonard Pickel, Manor. Horace Rathvon, City. William P. Robinson, Strasburg twp. John Heist, Penn. William Stahl, Strasburg bor. Jacob C. Stoner, Manor. John P. Stohman, West Hempfield. Amos B. Shuman, Manor. M. W. Smith, Conoy. 'John Thomas, City. Jacob Thomas, Conestoga. Samuel Truscott, Columbia. William Von Nelda, Brecknotok. Samuel R. 'Look, Rapho. liabr A motion to exempt Clergymen from Selma. CONVENTION.—The State Superin the operations of the draft, made in the U. S. tendent of Common Schools has issued a call Senate on Tuesday last, was defeated by a for a convention of County Superintendents, vote of yeas 9, noes 33, or more than three to to meet in Harrisburg on the 12th day of one against the proposed measure. , January next. For The Intelligeneer TUE BOUNTY MEETING, AND THE EXAMINER & HERALD. The most complete farce that has been played off since the building of Babel was the meeting, proper ly called the " Bounty Convention," held at Lan caster, at the call of the Commissioners, on Satur day, the 19th inst. The Commissioners affected to have some anxiety to avoid the disgrace of a draft in the county by calling a Convention of the citi zens for the purpose of discovering the sentiment of the people. Accordingly the ; Convention met, and as to numbers and respectability far exceeded the expectations of those who were honestly in favor of avoiding the draft, in spite of the statement of the Examiner " that the meeting was not as largely at tended as they had expected." The Exammer, forsooth, was opposed- to the meeting from the begin ning ; for whoever chooses to refer to the issue of that week wilt find that they expressed their disap probation in-aidvanee in strong terms. It is but natural that they should denounce the number and respectability of the meeting, as it was large, far beyond what they thought it should be after having declaimed against it, and as respectable as any meeting ever held in the Court House. And as to " heavy tax-payers," the Examiner asserts they were not there. Now as for that, there were single individuals there who can buy out all the abolition Editors in Lancaster city, and keep them any length of time. The proportion of wealthy men in that meeting was unusually large, although Hiestand and company would throw out the hint that it was a mere irresponsible crowd of beggars. But then there is another obstacle in the way, in the opinion of the Editors. They say there is no law to authorize the Commissioners to pay a dollar. By what law did they pay last year? They paid bounties then, and among the first things the Legis lature did upon meeting, was to legalize the act. Is there any reason to suppose that the Legislature would not do the same thing again ? I suppose the Editors heard Jesse LANDIS, Esq., declare, in his peculiarly fascinating way, "that the Commissioners had no right to pay a single dollar." Did they not subsequently hear A. H. HOOD, Esq., (who is a mush superior lawyer to Mr. L.) declare, in a forcible and eloquent manner, "that the Commissioners had a right to use money for such a purpose, and that none but a fippennybit pettifogger would say anything to the contrary." The paramount fault of the meeting, in the funny brain of the 8=4114714,, is the fact that the motion was made and carried through by a Democrat. Citizens of Lancaster county ! do you in this hour of peril still stand by and support such infatuated leaders Are you again for the hundreth time to be blinded by the month loyalty of newspaper editors who flourish upon the ruin of their country. A. Democrat, indeed, thank God ! a Democrat did make and carry the motion to pay bounty and avoid the draft. Bat, hundreds voted for the motion who are not politically Democrats. No, it was voted with a vehemence unknown before, by Democrats and Abo litionists. The loud ayes, and the vociferous ap plause which shook the vqry foundations of the massive Court House and enveloped the great hall with dust, told too plainly that the Convention felt deeply interested in the business on its hands, and that it wished to perform it well and unequivocally. If the Editors of the Examiner had been in the Convention, and said openly what they dared to write in the closet, they would have been carried upon the street on a rail by their own black friends. They don't seem to know that their own party, although shouting for the war, are unwilling to fight. The predicament in which the Examiner is placed is palpable. .1 suppose there is not one man in the office liable to draft, on account of mental and physi cal deformity—so it is easy for them to blow. If there ever was an instance in whioh Editors perti naciously refused to publish the sentiment of their own party this is one, and if their readers will sub mit in this instance they can hereafter say and print what they please. The people of Lancaster county, the rich tax payers, the plain farmers are in favor of paying any bounty that will be required to raise our quota. ..The sentiment of the meeting was for offering a suffitt bounty. There were^ a few op posed to it, of •" 'om and to whom I shall now speak and invite special attention to my statement, as it touches a matter full of interest to every man not only in the county but in the whole nation. In that Convention were a few men, whose nostrils stunk of oppression and tyranny, and who, doubtless, are the mediums through which others speak and breathe into our county their desolating principles and purposes. Immediately upon the reassembling of the meeting in the afternoon one of those modern loyalists got up and said substantially that he wanted to take the sense of the meeting at once. To further his purpose he moved that the Commissioners be instructed not to pay a dollar for bounties to avoid the draft ; but, on the contrary, he desired the meeting to say that it was honorable to be drafted and to enter the service as a drafted man; and that if they would attempt to pay any he would,oppose it through the Courts. This gentleman was seated with the Commissioners. (Whether as junior counsel we know not.) Did he speak for the Commissioners? The whole farce as it was performed would so indi cate. What is the meaning of all this? What do these men mean? Citizens of Lancaster county be ware, it is the voice of a syren, you have been killed and wounded and taxed and outraged by the acts and insinuations of her song once and again. The strength and sweetness of her music increase as she counts her victims. What does it mean? The truth is, that the time has come, in the opinion of these moo, when we should no longer think of any thing, or do any thing but what a designing Administra tion orders and commands. When we are drafted it is not for us to offer money or a substitute, but siwply get a new suit from our gentlemanly Provost Marshal, and go in front of the battle followed by the shrieks of a broken-hearted wife and the cries of despairing children. That is the whole story plainly told. These men follow in the slimy trail of the chief Executive who found so much encouragement in the result of the last fall's elections that he con sidered it safe to go a step further, to draw the chains of despotism a little tighter. These toad eaters and sycophants at Lancaster took up the note, and are trying to sound it through this great and conserva tive county. Are the people ready to abandon house and home and all that is dear, and personallyzo and light for the principle or dogma that a nigger is as good as a white man? If so, then take up the chord and sound it in chorus through the county. If not, then turn away from such men and measures as you would from a charnel house at the dead hour of night. They are plants upon the verge of a crater; if you go where they stand you will be pre cipitated into a lake of unquenchable fire. Were we not told before the election last fall that no more men were wanted, only elect Curtin and all is over and right. Curtin was elected somehow, and on the fourth day after the election a call or draft was ordered 'for 300,000 men. How was that call respected? although the Presi dent gave time till the fifth of January, 1864, to fill the call by volunteering. How many responded to the call? In the city offiancaster, where all these most loyal Editors resideNiie solitary volunteer was obtained, and he a nigger who chose rather to board with Uncle Sans than with Mr. Kremer at the Prison. The new policy heralded by the speaker in the Convention is, seeing that men will not volun teer, to force them to go. The charge used to be made against Democrats "that they prevent volun teering." If that has any thing to do with the present failure to volunteer, .1 shoild like some one to show it up. The fact is, the citizens of Lancaster county, now at home, do not want to go to war ; and there is no use in discriminating between parties, the feeling is universal among all. A large portion of them are non-resistants. The Conscription act, ignoring the liberty of conscience, so carefully guarded by the Constitution of Pennsylvania, places this class in a narrow strait—if it is to be so amended or construed as to compel the drafted man to go.— When the Examiner speaks about tax-payers being opposed to the bounty movement, it does not speak by the card at all, but at random—verdantly.— Among the many non-resistants in the county, the very men who own half the county, I do not believe there are one dozen men in good church standing who would say a word against $6OO bounty. Mr. SHAFFNER and those unmannerly fellows (as the • Examiner intimates) who moved and carried the bounty motion represented the tax-payers, while Hopkins, Hiestand Co. represented Africa. But, if a nigger is better than a white exempt, and as good as an able-bodied white man, Hopkins A Co. are right—if otherwise, they are wrong. =When that great day of sorrow and tribulation comes, when a draft is made and the drafted man must go in spite of conscience, in spite of the weep ing and desolation of his family, then reflect that a Democrat moved to save you all this misery, and, for doing so, was reviled and abused by your loyal Republican printers and others, who now persist ently say you must go and fight—and fight for what? For your country? No, but for the nigger. Put the blame then where it belongs—to the ring managers of negrophobia at Lancaster. The many, the monied men, were ready to - pay—but the powers that be want not your money, but your life. Our country once great—oh ! how fallen. LANCASTER, Deo. 24, 1863. H. ler Secretary Seward, in hie speech at Auburn, made the express avowal that those who elected Lincoln " will not acquiesce in the election of another in 1864 without blood shed." How is this better than Jeff. Davis. Davis dissented from Lincoln's election be— cause he knew that the Abolitionists antici— pated the destruction of Southern interests, and Seward dissents from the defeat of Lincoln because he knows that it anticipates the de— struction oflAbolitionism. WASTE IN THE ASHY.—To learn how im mense is the army of the United States, it is necessary to examine the rolls at the Pavnias ter's office. A correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, indignant at the discoveries there made, says : One thing ought not on any pretext to be neglected. A peremptory stop should be put to the further saddling of the country with a plethora of officers. We have un the rolls, say an army of 700,000 men, of whom perhaps half a million are in some sort or other in the field. We are paying officers for not a man less than fourteen hundred thousand. A colonel is popularly supposed to command a thousand men. Our colonels will hardly average 500. The same may be said of all subordinate officers. As for superior ones, who needs to be told of the hosts of briga diers and major generals without work, stand ing in the way of the promotion of hotter men ? .6e — A noted New York gambler has cleared at hie branch establishment, at Wash ington, since July, 1861, nearly half a million of dollars. MF l M:nrj ' n ' nM JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH, 6 13 20 27 APRIL, . . . . At GUST, SEPIENIBER OCTOBER, NOV EMBER DEOENIBER, lf:Nlti it AL lIPCJLELLAIIPS WASIIINGTON General M'Clellan's report was transmitted to the House to-day. It consists of `seven hundred and sixty-five foolscap pages and is divided into four parts. He concludes as follows : I shall not, nor can 1 while living. forget that when I was ordered to the command of the troops for the defence of the Capital, the soldiers, with whom I had suffered so much anxiety and pain and suffering of the war, had not lost their confidence in me as their commandlr. They sprang to my call with All their ancient vigor, discipline cud courage. ied them into Maryland fifteen days after they nad fallen back--defeated before Washington. They vanquished the enemy on the rugged heights of South Mountain, pursued him to the hard fought field of Antietam, and drove him, broken and dispirited, down the Potomac into Virginia. The army had need of rest after the terrible experience of battles and marches, with scarcely an interval of repose, which they bad gone through from the time of their leaving for the Peninsula to the return to Washington, the defeat in Virginia, the victory at South Mountain and again at An- Lietam. It was not surprising that they were, in a large degree, destitute of the absolute necessaries to effective duty. Their shoes were worn out, their blankets lost and clothing in rage. In short, the men wore unfit for active service, and,an interval for rept and equipment was necessary. When the slowly forwarded supplies came to us I led the army across the river, renovated, refreshed and in good order and discipline, and followed the retreating foe to a position where I was confi dent of decisive victory, when, in the midst of the movement, while my advance guard was actually in contact with the enemy I was removed from the command. I am devoutly grateful to God that my last cam paign with this brave army was crowned with a victory which saved a great nation from the greatest peril it had ever undergone. I have not accomplished my purpose if by this report the Army of the Potomac is not placed on the roll of the historical armies of the world. Its deeds ennoble the belief to which it belongs. Always ready for battle, always firm, steadfast and trustworthy, I never called on it in vain, nor will the nation ever have cause to attribute its want of success ander myself, or under other commanders, to any failure of patriotism or bravory in that noble body of American soldiers, No man can justly charge upon any portion of that army, from the commanding general to the private, any lack of devotion to the service of the United States government and to the cause of the Constitution and the Union. They have proved their fealty in much sorrow, suffering and danger, and through the very shadow of death. Their comrades, dead on the fields where we fought, have scarcely more claim to the honor of a nation's reverenee than the survivors to the justice of a nation's grati tude. The report covers the period from the 26th of July, 1861, to November 7th, 1862. VILLAINOUS CONDUCT.-The wife of an officer in the army, living in Williamson county, Illinois, recently received from her husband a package containing seven hundred dollars, a portion of which belonged to the families of soldiers living in that vicinity. A few days after the reception of the monerdere came a sick soldier to the house of the officer's wife and asked permisson to remain over night. The woman refused, but the:soldier insisting, she finally conscnted. During the night the family was aroused by the violent knocking of parties outside, who demanded the door to be opened, and if not opened they would break it down ; that the officer's wife had a lot of money and they were bound to have it. The woman was terrified, and, giving the money to the soldier inside, secreted herself and her children, when the soldier eiclaimed, in a voice loud enough to be heard by the villains outside, " I am unarmed, but if I had a pistol I would fix. the villains." The door was then bursted .open, and ten men, disguised as negroes, entered the house. Five shots were instantly fired at them, killing three of the party and wounding another ; the remainder fled. The blacking having been washed from the faces of the dead, they were discovered to be the woman's nearest neighbors—one of them her brother-in-law.— Cincinnati En quirer. THE. PAYMENT OF BOUNTIES WASHINGTOD, Dec. 24 The Adjutant General's office has telegraph ed to all army commanders, that a law has been passed, to the effect that no bounties, excepting such as are nnw provided by law, shall be paid to any persons enlisted after the sth of January next. The only bounty pro vided by law is the one hundred dollars authorized by section sth of the act of July, 1861. The commanding officers are accord ingly requested to secure all enlistments of veteran volunteers possible before the sth of January, and to give immediate publicity to the circular. THE SEASON AND ITS CHANGES.—WiIIIeT still lingers in the lap of spring, and the cold east wind is almost always with us. Yesterday we had rain and a cold east wind ; to-day we have the same, probably ; and to-morrow a fine sunshiny day. _These great changes make sad havoc with the health of our citizens, particularly those having weak lungs. For all diseases of this kind, use Bryan's Pnlmoio Wafers. 25 cts. a box at Kaufman & Co., No. 1, East Orange Street, Lancaster, Pa. tidy- Last'year 1,000,000 hogs were slaugh tered and packed in Chicago, worth $10,000,- 000. The number for the present year will reach the value 0f.520,000,000. ter For COUGHS, COLDS, and THROAT DIS ORDERS, use "B7ololeB Bronchial Trachea," having proved their efficacy by a test of many years. 'rhe Troohes are highly recommended and prescribed by Physicians and . Surgeons the Army, 2 9 1 16 ,23 3 10 17 24 4 1 11 18 25 3 10 17 124 13 20 5, 12 19 26 6 13 20 27 12 19 26 5 12 19 26 1 6 13 20 27 5 12 19 3 10 17 24 6 13 20 27 5 12 119 26 6 13 20 o 7 EPORT DKc. 23.
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