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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,
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EPORT
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