the tanctuder inteUignuct OZIO. lANDURSOIgi Enrr° // ' A. lIIANDEIRSON, dissoelAtie. LANCASTER, PA., FEBRUARY 2, 1864 N.Parzweraz 4 We AM.1 1 131133 1 0 Lamm gft 11441trow,Nrw York CHtr, and 10 Inds street, Boatcm. L IL Passiads ad Agouti eta The zawador and th e mod Inlitwoutdat and lamed drools to the Vatted States ad the Oidadtd-- law an and to =taut tor ma at oar boat rata 12a!« t ham Na 886 Broadway, an New zit wathodsed to datedre adrathentanti tbr The grelerr,si on lowed roam ATM= Wassua's Anvirruatra Amor to located at N 0.60 North 6th otratt, Philadelphia He to authorized to mold strorthatontto and sataertpticms for The Lanearer k ri.t e rigsk fico. 1 &oafs Budding, Court St., Bostcm, Is our Agent for readying advertisements, to. 0 'TYR , FLAG_ Now our flag Is flung to the wild winds free, Let It float o'er onrfather land, And the guard of Its spotless fame shall be Co'ambles chosen band. Election, Tuesday, February 2d, 1864. DEMOCRATIC CITY TICKET. NORTH WEST WARD Mayor. George Sanderson. High Constable Samuel Huber. Select Council. William Diller. Common Council. Emanuel Shober, George Yeisley, Frederick Pyle, John A. Scheurenbrand, William Morton. Alderman. H. R. Fahnestock. City Constable. Jacob Gundaker. Assessor. William B. Strine. Assistant Assessors Mahlon Mercer. Henry Sehner. Judge. John A. Shober. Inspector. George H. Albright NORTH EAST WARD Mayor. George Sanderson. High Constable Samuel Huber. Select Council Michael Malone. Common Council A. Z. Ringwalt, John Best, Philip Ginder, Edwin M. Schaeffer Alderman. James C. Carpentei City Constable. Hugh Dougherty. Assessor. I. F. Abele. Assistant Assessors William Lowry, Dennis Marion. Judge John Rose. Inspector. Jacob R. Everts SOUTH WEST WARD Mayor. Geofge Sanderson. High Constable. Samuel Huber. Select Council. John Deaner. Common Council. Philip Fitzpatrick, John M. Rutledge. Anthony Iske. City Constable. Christian Frailey. Assessor. William Boas, Sr. Assistant Assessors George W. Metzger, Henry Wilhelm. Judge. Michael Withers. Inspector. John Witlinger, Jr. SOUTH EAST WARD Mayor. George Sanderson. High Constable. Samuel Huber. Select Council. John Deaner. Common Council. John T. MacGonigle, Samuel Patterson, H. K. Killian. Alderman. Washington Clark. City Constable. : - :Albert A. Messenkop Assessor. James Wilhelm. Assistant Assessors John Hensler, Jacob Foose. Judge. William P. Brooks. Inspector. J. H. Hegener, Jr. The Democratic Ticket. The above ticket is complete, and has been printed accordingly. We hope all our Democratic and conser vative friends throughout the city will attend the polls to-day, and give a solid vote for the ticket, without scratching a single name upon it. Let every man feel the responsibility resting upon him, and let not a vote be lost from negligence, or from any belief that it is safe without his aid. Every vote counts, and one vote may decide the contest in some of the wards. Remember, that the polls open at 8 o'clock this morning and close at 7in the evening. Vote early, and then see that your conservative neighbors deposite their votes too. A Slight Mistake. The Express, in its anxiety to make a little political capital for its waning party, published the follow ing editorial article in its issue of Friday evening last: That Little f‘ Balmier 19, At the last meeting of the Councils the Street Committee asked an appropriation of over $3,000 " to pay the balance of expenses " on "jobs" done by them during the year. A nice little " balance " to be sure, when we recollect that an appropriation made for pav ing two squares in South Duke street was never used for that purpose! We believe it is no exaggeration to say that the misman agement of the city finances the last year is without a parallel in the history of Lancaster, which is by no means noted for a wise and economical administration of its affairs. It is for the tax-payers to say, on Tuesday next, whether they are to be yearly asked for money, by the thousand dollars, " to pay balances of expenses " by a reckless Council and Street Committee ? It may surprise our readers to learn how grossly and recklessly the Epi ess man misrepresents and falsifies the record, when we tell them that so far from the Street Commit, to e asking at the last meeting of Councils, an appropriation of " over $3OOO to pay the balance of ex penses," &c., the sum asked for and granted was only three hundred and eighty-nine dollars and seventy-five cents ! ($389.75,) and they will also be sur prised to learn that the Republican candidate for Select Council in the North East Ward, Mr. LECHLER, is the most active member of the Street Committee, and had more to do with the " mismanagement " of the city finances during the, last year than any other member of the Street Committee or of Councils ! If, then, we had "a reckless COuncil and Street Committee," let the principal portion of the blame rest, where it properly belongs, on ANTHONY LECH LER who superintended the whole work, and who should have placed his veto upon the extravagance com plained of (if any such there was,) instead of urging it on from day to day. A Defective Memory The Express has the effrontery to say "that the mismanagement of the city finances the last year is without a parallel in the history of Lancas ter." Will the editor point out where the mismanagement was ? 'Tis true the Street Committee, on account of the great advance in the price of labor and material, and the immense amount of rock blasting which they unexpectedly encoun tered in the Duke and Vine Street Sewer, exceeded their estimates made at the beginning of the year, and required new appropriations to complete the improvements ; but that the city finances have been mismanaged " in any other way, is a wilful and deliberate falsehood. Nor is it true, as the Express alleges, that Mayor SANDERSON drew war rants illegally upon the Treasury. ' In every instance where appropria tions were exhausted, he peremp torily refused drawing any more un til Councils made a new appropria tion ; for the truth of which decla ration he refers his accusers to the excellent Chairman of the Finance Committee and to the City Treasurer. Again, the accuser of the City authorities alleges that the " credit of the city has been seriously en dangered." So far from this being true, it is a fact that the credit of the city was never better than it is at' the present moment. The opera tions of the Sinking Fund enabled the Mayor to reduce the permanent debt of the Corporation over $3OOO during the present financial year, and will ensure a further reduction during the ensuing year of not less than $4,000. Call you this endan gering the credit of the City Tut it is useless to pursue the subject further at this time. When the Express talks about mismanage ment and extravagance, it forgets the Know-Nothing administration of 1855, which, in one short year of its misrule, added about $40,000 to the permanent debt of the City, and which required four or five subse quent years of Democratic rule to straighten up. The Express has a very treacherous memory on this subject ; but the tax-payers have not forgotten it, and will hardly be will ing to entrust the same party, under a new disguise, with power again to pursue a similar course of extrava gance and plunder. r AlEron your Guard! We are credibly informed that the Republicans are colonizing voters from the country districts, in order, it possible, to carry the election to-day. Be on the alert, Democrats, and see to it that no votes are taken in either of the wards but from citizens who are legally entitled to cast them. Beware of Spurious Tickets. See to it, Democrats, that you are not `,,deceived with spurious tickets. Be sure that all the names of our candidates are upon them, and that they are correctly spelled. The Op position will resort to anything to carry their point, and you should be prepared to foil them. Get Every Vote Out! Every Democratic voter in the City should be brought out to-day. Let not one be left at home. Aldermanic A change has been made for Alderman in the North East Ward —JAMES C. CARPENTER being sub stituted for Charles M. Howell who declined the. nomination. In the North West Ward, H. R. FAHNESTOCK has been placed upon the Democratic ticket for Alderman, in consequence of the Republicans having nominated a candidate for that office. Both the above are truly excellent selections. sar The type founders have issued a circular to all printers that they have raised the price of printing material 25 per cent. Paper-makers have raised the price of paper one hundred per cent. The reader will see that publishers of newspapers are not likely to become millionaires in a hurry under this state of affairs. The only way to get along at all is to insist upon prompt settlement of accounts. Persons indebted will please take the hint. THE CONgICILIPTICIAI ACT. Chief Justice Woonwean, of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, in giving his opinion in regard to the reversal by a majority of the Court of its decision last November that the Conscription law is unconstitutional, held that the decree of November is a just decision of the Court, to be respected by all citizens, in cluding the judges of this Court. Upon this principle he maintained that a dissenting judge could not upon the same state of record and of facts on which the majority have granted an injunction, dissolve that injunction, nor set the majority to reviewing their decis ion. He did not deny that a judge at Nisi Prins might dissolve a special injunction upon putting in answer to plaintiff's bill, provided it be a direct and full denial of the equity alleged or upon an affidavit disproving the plaintiff's equities, but when the record re mains precisely es the Court in bane left it, he held that a single judge at Nisi Prins has no right or power to question the decree. A motion to dissolve is not a matter of course. The general rule is that a motion to dissolve will only be entertained after an answer or plea, or upon affidavits impeaching the. equity of the bill. Why should a court having any pretensions to stability be expected to render a different judgment on precisely the same state of record and of facts in January from that which they rendered in November previously ? It cannot be said that any great public in terest demands the entertainment of this motion, for the defendants have not been re etrained from executing the Conscript Law against the three plaintiffs even, much less against any other citizens. What the public interest demands is a decision of the constitu tional question in the Supreme Court of the United States—a decision which the President publicly declared he would facilitate—and which our ruling afforded the defendants an opportunity to obtain. .But instead of shaping the case for the Court, they have taken the very course to keep it out of that Court, and the country is tortured with doubt and fears about drafts, which a decision of the consti tutional question by the ultimate tribunal would relieve. Why should not such a de cision be facilitated ? Is the result feared ? Suppose our judgment should be affirmed and this Conscript law, so uncongenial to the spirit of our institutions, should be set aside, who does not see that civil liberty wculd gain a new guarantee, whilst the Government, re mitted to the true constitutional mode of rais ing armies by voluntary enlistments, would strengthen itielf in the affections of the people, by exercising the war power in a manner more agreeable to them ? The Chief Justice discussed the other two questions in the case, and in so doing he reit eratee the views expressed in his opinion when the case was before the Court in November last. He remarked that the opinion of the majority, when the case was before the Court in November, is much strengthened and con firmed by the last argument, and were shaken by nothing that was advanced against them. It seems evident that the Administration fears a decision of the important legal ques tion in the Supreme Court of the United States, and has therefore availed itself of , a partisan majority on the Supreme bench of Pennsylvania to keep the question out of the highest judicial tribunal, until the political complexion of the United States Supreme Court has been so changed as to render it certain that the President can control a ma jority of the Judges in favor of his revolu tionary policy. The independence of the Ju diciary is one of the most important features of our constitutional form of government, but in the hands of the present rulers, our courts of justice are becoming the• creatures of the Executive rather than the authoritative expo nents of constitutional law. THE DUTY ON PAPER We see by the Congressional Globe that Hon. WILLIAM H. MILLER, of the Dauphin district, has introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives, instructing the Committee on Ways and Means to report on the expediency of repealing the present high ad valorem duty on printing paper. The duty of twenty per cent., imposed by the act of March 3rd, 1863, is needlessly oppressive. It has simply forced all foreign competition in the paper trade out of the market, and per mitted the domestic manufacturers to raise their rates more than a hundred per cent. It is this which raises the price of newspapers, books and bills ; and while of course the paper tilanufactur TS are interested in keeping the duty on paper as high as possible, every other class of the people is interested in having the tax repealed. The printing interest is taxed heavily enough, without having this heavy duty on paper added to its burdens. The newspaper men are willing to hear their share of the burden, but they are not willing to bear more than their share. We hope, now that a move has been made in the right direc tion, the newspapers over the whole country will raise such a cry as will break up the I powerful lobby interest of the manufacturers, and give the printer and the reader *some thing like justice. Strike off this duty, and common white paper will fall from the present rates of from eighteen to twenty cents a pound, to something like its reasonable value—eight to twelve cents a pound. Another Abolition Outrage The Northumberland County Demo crat office was destroyed by an Abo lition mob on the night of the 18th ult. The presses were torn down and broken, imposing stones upset, tables, cases and stands tumbled around the room, the types scattered and mixed together, and a general destruction of everything connected with the establishment. And all this at the dead hour of midnight, when only cowards, thieves and as sassins commit their depredations on the persons and property of their neighbors. National Finances Some of the New York banks have given notice that they will not receive at their counters the new issues of the National Banks just starting into life. They have no doubt been strengthened in their ob jections to the currency by the recent circular from the office of the Comptroller at Washington, to the new paper machines starting all over the country. Air Senator BAYARD, of Dela ware, has resigned his seat in the Senate of the United States, in con sequence of being compelled to take the new oath of loyalty required in that body, which he deemed uncon stitutional. He has represented his State in that branch of the National Congress for the last thirteen years. Hon. JAMES B. CLAY, a son of the late Henry Clay, of Kentucky, died at Montreal in Canada, on the 27th ult. Many of our readers will recollect him as the same gentleman who made a speech at the great Buchanan Mass Convention, in this city, in the campaign of 1856. CLOTHING CAN BE SENT BY MAIL.—The fol lowing is a copy of the law, recently adopted, which authorizes clothing to be sent to sol diers, through the mails : Articles of clothing, being manufactured of wool, cotton or linen, and comprised in a package not exceeding two pounds in weight, addressed to any noncommissioned officer or private serving in the armies of the United States, may be transmitted in the mails of the United States at the rate of eight cents, to be in all oases prepaid, for every four ounces or any fruition thereof subject to such regulations as the Postmaster General may prescribe. THE RUIN EiLFOREG US. At !set we uute that there is a difference of opinion among the Abolition doctors concern ing the financial condition of the country.— Mr. SEWARD declared, not long since, that the country was never so prosperous, and that every man in the North was richer than when the war began. It will be seen, by the follow log extract of a letter from Mr. MeCum: en, the Comptroller of the Treasury, that that in dividual is net a disciple of Mr. SEWARD financial matters. In a. cantiinary letter written to the officers of the new National Banks, he says : Bear constantly in mind. although the loyal States appear superficially to be in a prosper ous condition, that such is not the fact. That while the Government is engaged in the sup pression of a rebellion of unexampled fierceness and magnitude, and is constantly draining the country of its laboring and producing popula tion, and diverting its mechanical industry from works of permanent value to the con struction of implements of warfare : while cities are crowded, and the country is to the same extent depleted, and waste and extrava gance prevail as they never before prevailed in the United States, the nation, whatever may be the external indications, is nut pros pering. The war in which we are involved is a stern necessity, and must be prosecuted for the pres ervation of the Government, no matter what may be its cost; but the country will unques tionably be the poorer every day it is continued. The seeming prosperity of the !oval States is owing mainly to- the large expenditures of the Government and the redundant currence which these expenditures seem to render neces. sary. . . Keep these facts constantly in mind, and manage the affairs of your respective banks with a perfect consciousness that the apparent prosperity of the country will be proved to be unreal when the war is closed, if not before ; and be prepared, by, careful management of the trust committed to viiu, to help to save the nation from a financial collapse, instead of lending your influence to make it wore certain and more severe. The above is a mild expression ~ f the real truth. With the return of peace, (if not before.') the disbandment of the army, the stoppage of war manufacturer, and the re sumption of specie payments, there must come a financial crash, such as the country has never experienced The money spent in war is wested, thrown away ; it is just so much abstracied froui the substantial wealth ot the country After the war ends, the deli must be paid in specie, although it is contracted in an inflated paper currency. Labor will be plenty and cheap, taxation heavy and oppres sive. Debtors will he crushed, and ruin every where. Every houS that the war is continued will add to the severity of the crisis before us, but the great mass see it not. " Experi— ence," however, as Dr. Franklin said, " keeps a dear school. but fools will learn in no other." WOULD IT NOT El IA: WELL FOR US TO PAUSE AND REFLECT The New York .Tournal of Commerce, in the course of some reflections upon Governor Seymour's message, remarks : We are unquestionably approaching the crisis of our national history. Prom the Presidential election, which is to Occur this fall, we shell, if conservative wen succeed. begin to restore the glory and the peace of the American Union ; while, if radical measures continue to remain in power, our downward course will be rapid to anarchy and ruin. We doubt whether free institutions can possibly survive four years more of trial such as they have endured under radical management. The great truth brought out by Governor Sey mour, that there is a bottom to the national purse and a limit to the national credit, is of profound import. Shall the plan of war and conquest, at the expense of other thou Sands of millions, continue till we reach that limit?— till we pass it? Will prudence, caution, reason, never resume sway at Washington I No one can doubt that this nation is able to I bear as great a debt as any other nation in • the world ; but that does not imply that we can bear any amount of debt, to the extent of unlimited thousands of millions. Let us not blind our eyes and close our Cars t.; the de ceitful promises that the War ie aluio-t. over. It stretches away before us into }ears of dark ness, fearful years to a free con b;ry. The ex penses of treasure and of blood are yet to be enormous. We can carry our present debt without doubt. how much more can we car ry ? This is the question forcibly presented in the present aspect of our national affairs. It does not present itself, as radical men will pretend, ;is :1 question of abandoning the war fur the Union. It is a question of abandoning a war for conquest and abolition, and resuming n war for the Union. Shall we go hack to ori g inal principles, or shall we plunge into chaos ? " This country Will have ne true dignity," said FRED. DoucLAss, in a recent speech to the Abolitionists, "till the negro is entitled to vote and hold office.- The negroes, says WEN DELL PH I LIA PS, are our " nobility," and we must divide the lands of the South among them, as William the Conqueror partitioned England among the Norman Lords. All that is very tine—" dignity and nobili ty "—but .•jambo wants s. , mothing practical, and the Administration proposes to give it to him. We quote an illustrative incident: The colored people of Philadelphia are before the War Department I it contracts for Quartermaster's supplies. David Browser and Jacob C. White had an interview with Secretary Stanton on Friday, and offered to engage to deliver in thirty, sixty and ninety days, shirts, drawers, haversacks and blouses, to the extent of 300,000 of either. They' re ceived assurances that the colored people should be placed hereafter upon the same . footing with whites, in the matter of contracts. " Contracts," that is the word in which lies the real patent of nobility—there is "true dig nity !" When 'Me Hay tian monarchy was formed, the black chiefs took the titles of Duke , of Lemonade, Count Marmalade and the Mar quis of Molasses ! We see looming in the distance our new nobility --Sir Sambo Shoddy, Count Cuffee Codfish, and the Marquis of ! Mulemeat. The advantage of a negro nobility is that it is distinguishable through all generations. The old aristocracy of Europe is corrupted by misalliances, and it is impossible to distin— guish by mere looks the heir of a peer from the progeny of a peasact. With our African nobility the pure bleed will always show itself, and the slightest admixture of the inferior white race will be manifest in the lineaments and complexion. And why should not General Gorilla, when peace comes, replace the Stars on his shoulder with the insignia of nobility ? The Republic is proved a farce—the white race a failure.— Let them give way to the Black Nobility of the future.—Albany Argus. HEAVY ROBBERY AT THE PHILADELPHIA CUSTOM HOUSE.—TWO bags containing to— gether six thousand seven hundred dollars in gold, disappeared rather singularly, at the Custom house, Philadelphia, a few days ag, , . The Cashier, Mr. Allen, had made up a deposit of twenty-one thousand dollars, which was placed in five bags, and left inside his enclosed office, while he went in search of the messenger, to take it to the Treasurer's office, at the mint. The Assistant Cashier was in the counting room at the time, but being en— gaged at his duties, his back was towards the money. When the messenger arrived he found but three bags, which he took to the mint, where a count was made, and the de— ficiency discovered. Two of the bags had disappeared while the cashier was in search of the messenger. How IT IS THOUGHT THE P(,LITICAL OAT MAY ONE DAY JUMP.—Hon, John McKeon, in the course of a speech recently delivered in New York, made the following remarks : " Mr. Sumner, standing in the Senate of the United States, made a speech, in which he said that the twin relics of barbarism were not slavery and polygamy, but Catholicity and slavery. (It is denied that Mr. Sumner ever said so, but it is published in the Con gressional Globe and re-printed in the Herald of this City.) Born and educated a Catholic, I confess a poor one, I see the coming storm, and I believe sincerely to-day that when the knife is taken from the throats of the South— ern people it will be turned to the throat of every Catholic in the North." 119111:1ft 0 ;7:1; I At;_ill OUTPOURING Or THE 'DEMOCRACY -0 BEAT ENTRUSLASE - THE WATCH FIRES 13Z-KINDLED.- The Democracy of the city had a great and glorious meeting at Fit, ton flail, on Saturday evening last, to rainy and endorse the Democratic municipal tickets. At 7 . i o'clock the Bull was filled in every part, and Dr. MiItIIBL, WELCHERS, Chairman Dem ocratic City Executive Committee, called the meet ing to order and proposed lien. GEORGE M. STEM sus as President, which pr position was unanimously agreed to amid mooch applause. At this point Kil lian's Drum Corps entered the Bail playing a lively air, and accompanied by a large delegation of the stuidy, Democracy. The following were the officers of the meeting : President—lien. lizonaz M. SrkixmAN. Vice Presidents—Dr. Samuel Welchans, IL K. Killian, Thomas Bailey, Henry E. Leman, James McCafferty, William MoComsey, floury Wilhelm, Charles li. Beale, JVHII Clare, James Peoples, Jacob F. Kautz, Andrew White, Samuel Morrison, Mich ael Malone, Lieut. John Bees, Samuel Patterson, lies. Waltz, William Myers. Secretaries—Patrick Donnelly, Esq . ., Alfred San derson. STS.LNALLN, on taking the chair, made a few able and pertinent remarks. lie spoke of the ex cellent condition of the finances and credit of the city, and if we would maintain it, we must keep the present Administration in power. His remarks were warmly applauded and cheered. Mayor S.LNDERSON was then called fur, and on coming forward was greeted with erithusiastio ap plause. lie commenced his remarks by saying that if any citizens were present to ask any question in reference to the financial condition or credit of the city he was prepared to cheerfully answer. He spoke of the sweeping charges made against himself and the present City Coupons, and especially the Street Committee, and proved that they had no foun dations in loot. lie showed that $3,000 of the per manent debt of the city had been paid off during the past year, and if the same excellent system was continued $4,000 would be paid off the next year.— He thought it rather inconsistent for a party which had entailed a debt of '440,000 upon the city in one year, and liquidated none of its indebtedness, (he had reference to the Know-Nothing Administration of 1.855,) to make charges against a Democratic Administration of mismanagement. He then briefly referred to the aspect of the present City Eleotion in a National sense. He was not aware that it had such a National importance, until it was brought to his notice by one of the opposition papers of the city. But in reference to this, if his retirement would bring about a peace and the Union of our fathers, he was willing to resign the next day. The Mayor was attentively listened to, and at times was warmly applauded. On concluding, three cheers were given him. Se.uukr. H. ItkvHOLDS, Esq. the young " War Horse," was next introduced, and spoke briefly. He made one of those eloquent, cutting, sarcastic and telling speeches for which he has achieved a fine reputation. He paid his respects in an especial manner to the Union League, and showed up their wicked designs in their true colors. He did not quite agree with the Mayor that this election had no National importance. He considered it of great importance as the first gun in the campaign of 1884, which he hoped would be continued until we elected a Democratic President in November. In reference to the charge of the Democracy not being "loyal" —a word which he neither liked nor recognized—he was thrillingly eloquent and sarcastic. He conclud ed his speech amid great applause. RUDOLPH KUHN, Esq., the able and talented edi tor of Der Lancaster Dentokrat, was the last speaker. He addressed the audience in German in a few eloquent and humorous remarks. From the manner in which our German friends received Mr. K.'s remarks, we judge he told some pointed truths in a very plain manner. He is a great favorite with the German Democracy. His remarks were warmly applauded. At the conclusion of Mr. Kuu - s's speech, the meeting adjourned. MuRE BuUNTIEB.—The Borough Council of the Borough of Mount Joy has passed an ordinance appropriating the sum of $l5OO for a bounty . fund. The citizens have increased this by subscription, so that Mount Joy is now giving a bounty of $2OO to each person that enlists and is credited to that Borough. PETERSON'S MAGAZINE.—We have' received the February number of this excellent Ladies' journal, and find it to be fully equal in every respect to its predecessors. Its contents are a very fine steel engraving entitled " Baby's Turn," a colored steel Fashion Plate, the usual variety of patterns for ladies and children's dresses, embroidery, and a large amount of choice reading matter, inclutling a seasonab e article on planting bulbs for early spricg flowering, and three pages of household receipts. Terms, $2 per annum, in advance. A SPLENDID ENGRAVING.—We have received from the Agent a copy of Eastlake's Great Painting of "CHRIST BLESSING LITTLE CHILDREN," en graved on steel by Sartain. " This picture," says a contempoi ary, " is a most delightful conception and elegantly executed. The exquisite grouping of the twenty-two figures, with the varied expressions of their faces, the freshness and confiding innocence of childhood, the serene dignity and loving look of the Saviour, the anxious yet happy expressions of the mothers, together with the contending emotions of the disciples, are all brought out with a vividness and distinctness which make the engraving life-like and real. The popular heart will welcome the pic ture for its religious teachings, for the benignity of its great central figure, for its fair women, reverent and grateful and beaming with maternal tenderness, and for its varied impersonations of childhood, ever winning and beautiful, and appealing on this oc casion to the holiest emotions of the heart." Not only for its artistic beauties, but equally for the I moral suggestions, such a productiod is to be greatly prized, and we can think of nothing more appropri ate to be kept in the view of a Christian household than such a scone as is here presented. 1 The picture is sold only to subscribers. The Agent is now in this city taking subscriptions. All who desire to adorn their homes with a beautiful and 1 appropriate engraving on an interesting scriptural I subject, should by all means secure a copy of this work. Price $2.51.1. MECtIANICO' LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.--TtIC following gentlemen have been elected officers of this Association for the ensuing year President—P. G. Eberman. Vice President—Charles Gillespie. Treasurer—Christian Gast. Secretary—George Wiant. Library Committee—S. S. Hathvon, C. H. Cole man, J. Marshbank, Joseph Preston, Geo. Wiant. Committee on Property—William Diller, D. A Altick, J. Marshbank, C. R. Coleman, A. N. Bran amen. POOR AND HOUSE , )F EM.I'LnYMENT.—TiIe Directors of the Poor met on the 25th ult., for the purpose of organizing and electing officers for the ensuing year. Messrs. John W. Clark and John K. Reed, the lately-elected Directors, were present, qualified, and took their seats. The Board then proceeded to an election of officers for the Poor House and Hospital with the following result : Steward of Poor House—Samuel Spiehlman. Clerk and Superintendent of Hospital—Jacob 0 Steinheiser. Solicitor—R. W. Shenk Physloians—Drs. John L. Atlee, Jr., A. M. Mil ler, (East Lampeter,) John Levergood, J. Aug Ehler. Treasurer—Amos S. Henderson A RitIMAH.KABLE, SPEECH Mr. THADDEUS STEVENS, the Administration leader on the floor of the House, has been matting a speech—we may say even a remark able speech. Mr. STEVENS long since ridi culed the idea of restoring the government of Washington, and declared that he did not wish to see it re-established. But he goes even one step further now, and recognizes the Southern Confederacy ! Seeing the impossi bility of defending the Confiscation Act under the Constitution, he declares that " it is a pro ceeding under the laws of war over which the Constitution has no control whatever." " The Rebels," he said, "had risen to a separate gov ernment. Which ever nation conquered, had a right to treat the ether as a conquered province Here, then, is a distinct abandon ment on the part of the Administration leader in the House, not only of any pretence of re- • storing the Union, but even of the funda mental doctrines of a Republican government. " Conquered provinces"were, indeed, known under the imperial Cmsars, and are still com mon in absolute governments. Poland is a conquered province of Russia. Hungary , submits to the yoke of Austria, because her life blood was trodden out of her by the allies of despotism ; but it has remained for "the party of freedom " to introduce the Muscovite doctrine here. The men who have boasted so loudly of devotion to free institutions—who have proclaimed the Declaration of Indepen dence as the shibboleth of their party creed, now shamelessly trample it under their feet, and openly boast of reducing a portion of this country to the condition of " conquered 1 provinces.—.N. Y. Day Book. 13MIMELZ152M1 Abraham Lincoln has informed the Arkan sas delegation that " one-tenth of the people of that State can at any time., call a State Convention, nominate State officers, and put the machinery of a State government in motion." lie told them that he had author ized this t) he done in Louisiana, and that the people or one-tenth of them in Arkansas, could do the same thing. This is governing majorities with a high hand. But where did Mr. Lincoln get the power for authorizing one-tenth of the people of a State to govern nine-tenths of them ? From the Arsenals? Is this man the servant or master of the people ? He has sworn to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. But the doctrine that one-tenth may govern nine-tenths, pretty effectually " squelches " that instrument, which has been regarded as of great value and authority by all the former Presidents. WAR ON THE BANKS .The Collector of Internal Revenue has issued an order that the notes or oheoks of State banks shall not be received for national taxe4. No paper but that of the National banks is to be taken. aramam Tam supwAms J. B. Lamm, of the 115th 0. V., in a letter to the Cincinnati Enquirer, gives the following item, about the disposal made of Sanitary Stores. He ease : The privates of the army, especially the sick and wounded among them, have undoubtedly many friends at home deeply interested in their welfare, anxious at all tines to alleviate their sufferings. For this purpose, with this benev. olent object in view, our lady friends all through the North, East and West, aided by worthy gentlemen, have established "Soldiers' aid Societies," Sanitary Commissions," &c. In connection with these they have worked faithfully, contributed largely toward furnishing luxuries and dainties that none but ladies know how to furnish for suffering humanity ; yes, for their fathers and brothers, sons and husbands. These angels of mercy have a thousand times been perplexed to , learn what become of those whole soul charities. The main object of this letter is to throw a few rays of light on this subject. Permit me, then, to inform you ladies, that the nice savory fruits, rich golden'hued butter and cheese, together with all, or nearly all other dainties, sent to the army for your rela tives and friends, in far off rebellious States, pass into the bands of what is called the " Commissary Department," connected with the hospitals, and are controlled by the Surgeons, Stewards. ward-masters. clerks, housekeepers arid their friends, shoulder-strap friends, &c., &c. The subscriber has been in those institutions and " knows whereof he speaks." I have seen the sick, time and again, sit down and partake of poor, black coffee, cold meat and bread, when the " Commissary Department," was overflowing with the finest butter. cheese, fruits, &c., &c. At the same time the tables of the commish, and their retinue of pets, (shoulder-strap friends) sat at tables loaded with the best about their institutions. And I have known the clerks around their institutions to sell to the sick and wounded, to whom they were sent as free gifts, butter and cheese at thirty cents per pound, and cans of fruit and other luxuries and delicacies, at similar T ates. In one or two instances 1 have purchased, at the above rates myself, and could produce a host of worthy privates wh., could bear teotimony relative to the extent of the swindle in such ISN'T %HIS TREASON On the 25th ult the foll wing proceedings were had in the U. S. Senate : Mr. HALE called up the resolution directing inquiry into the present condi; ion of the navy, the efficiency of the engines lately constructed, and now being constructed tho navy, the mode of procuring supplies, arid the conduct of the Department generally. Mr. HALE urged th - necessity of those in— quiries, and stated that it would be seen by the estimates of the Secretary of the Navy that $142 000,000 were asked 4, the present year for that Department. He had looked into the naval expenditures of all the nations of the civilized world, and found that, except ing Italy and Denmark they amounted in the aggregate to about $139;000,000. So we are called on to spend, in one Teas, more than the combined world, excepting the two Powers named. The gigantic struggle of the Grimean war lasted three years and five months, and the total exvenditue of England was $262,000, 000, and of France sB7,ooo,ooo—making a total of $350,000,000, or, less than one hun— dred millions per annum. Thus we are this year called on to expend forty millions more than was expended for naval purposes by those two great Powers during the whola Russian war. He said that, judging from manifestations the other day, when this sulject was up, he thought the Senate was averse to the these sort of inquiries, especially by the Naval Commit tee, but nothing would afford him more satis faction than for it to go to some other, or a special committee. He thought attention should be given ti this thing rather than the t,thtwg riving which the Assistant Sec retaty is getting up in the harbor iif New York, as seen in the papers. These investigit tines must nut be considered as evidence of opposition to the Administration. Ho was opposed to stealing from the Treasury under the Democrats, and he was equally opposed to any one else doing it. Judas Iscariot carried the bag which contained the contributions of the Twelve Disciples. and if any one had doubted his honesty he might in the same manner have declared they were not true fol— lowers of Christ. The resolution, amended a, as to authorize a special committee to make the inquiries pro posed, as suggested by Mr. Grimes, was then adopted. The committee are Messrs. Hale, Grimes and Buckalew. THE, NEW NATIONAL BANKS The notes of the new banks are to be paid t by the Government and their creditors, and employees must take them. What shall they do with them ? If the banks refuse to take them sell them to the brokers. But you say " the banks dare not refuse to take them." So say we, but that, like Beecher, on the origin of ovil, only shoves the difficulty back a step, doing nothing toward removing it.— The banks take the new currency, but what are they to do with it ? If they paid it out again indiscriminately, the people will begin to sift it, and after awhile these institutions will find themselves holders of a largeum of notes distant from any point of redemption, and unavailable for the legal discharge of their obligations. No ! the banks cannot pay them altogether. If they take them at par the people will pour them in on deposit, and in payment, until the banks will be choked with them. What outlet havo they? Sell them to the brokers? They will come back at once. Here then the redemption process begins. The banks m st send them home for conversion into legal tenders. This will be the greatest financial job ever undertaken in any country. When it is remembered that the banks are located at different points from Maine to Kansas, some idea of this task may .be conceived ; but no one who has not tested it in practice can fully realize its magnitude. But why not compel these banks to redeem in New York. Yes, indeed, why not? This is the proposition now before the proper com mittee of the House of Representatives. But it is not all plain sailing, even here. If the issues ate allowed to redeem here at a discount, and the Government may legally pay them out at par, there will be some confusion, and a possibility of dissatisfaction on the part of the public. If they are compelled to redeem at par, they will find the task one of great difficulty, and in case of expansion, will all be broken in the first pressure. We throw out these hints as topics for thought and discuss— ion. They are practical, and the questions cannot be evaded.—New York Journal of Commerce. How TO THAW Faozzx Ftesa.=The N. Y. Post says frozen flesh should never be rubbed. The juices of the fleshy tissues, when frozen in their minute sacs or cells, at once become in each of these enclosures, crystals, having a large number of angles and sharp points ; and hence rubbing the flesh causes them to cutsor tear their way through the tissues, so that when it is thawed the structure of the muscle is more or less destroyed. The proper mode of treatment is this : When any part of the body is frozen, should bekept perfectly quiet until it is thawed out, which should be done as promptly as pos. sible. As freezing takes place from the surface inwardly, so thawing should be in the inverse order, from the inside outwardly. The thaw ing out of a portion of the flesh, without at the same time putting the blood from the heart into circulation through it, produces mortifica tion ; but by keeping the more external parts still congealed till the internal heat and the external blood gradually soften the more inte rior parts, and produce circulation of the blood as fast as thawing takes place, most of these dangers are obviated. if the snow which is applied be colder than the frozen flesh, it will still further abstract the heat and freeze it worse than before. But .if snow is of the same temperature, it will keep the flesh from thawing till the heat from the rest of the body shall have effected it, thus preventing gangrene. Water in whis h snow or ice has been placed, so as to keep its temperature at ; 32 deg. Fahrenheit, is probably better than snow. How is Taut ?—The Southern soldiers and Secessionists say they will never come baok into the Union, and Stevens and the Abolition Republicans swear they won't have the Union as it was. How is it possible, then, that the one class can be any better Union men than the other ? LET PARMALIIIS READ Tins. The high price of farming productions is a kind of ignis fatuus which lures the farmer to support the war policy of the Administration, while the soil under his feet is sliding imper ceptibly away, and carrying him to irretrieva ble ruin. It may startle a farmer to tell him that half of his farm now belongs to the Gov— ernment, but it is nevertheless true. Even admitting that the Southern States will be compelled :to return to their allegiance, still the half of every farm in the Uhion, at the cash value. according to the census of 1860, if sold, and the money paid over, would not pay the present National debt. The cash value of all the farms in the United States, is sixty hundred millions of dollars. Thirty goes into sixty twioe. If every farm in the thirty-four States, was sold and the money received, it would take one half of it to pay the National debt. But suppose the war goes on a year or two more, then it will take the full price of every farm to pay the debt—that is, the country put up at auction would pay the debt, provided the land brought its cash value. Suppose, again, that the war will immedi— ately close with the recognition of the Southern Confederacy, then the North would have to pay the debt, and it would take every farm at cash value to pay the debt incurred during the last three years. But it is argued that the immense resources of the North are amply sufficient for the debt. Well, where are the resources? All toe money arising from duties, income tax, and the sale of lands, will not pay half of the interest on this debt and defray the civil expenses of the General Government, while the other 'part of the interest will annually go to increase the debt. How then will it be paid ? Why, the Abolitionists, " let posterity pay the debt." But posterity cannot do it, as the resources of the entini Government are inade quate to pay half the interest. Besides, poe teritv may have wars and expenses of its own, so that if left entirely unencumbered, it would require all the economy possible to keep out of debt. Three years ago we were out of debt ; now we owe thirty hundred millions, besides un liquidated damages for losses of steamboats, railroads, bridges, chips, gods and chattels ; and three yi ars miget encumbered us. Then posterity aounot yav it. Well, how will it he paid ? Another plan is to repudiate ; bull repu diation is bankruptcy. Su take it as you will the inevitable " negro" has upset the titles of all our lands and involved us all in eternal bankruptcy and disgrace. Here are the statistics: Number of acres in the 34 States, 407,000,000 Cash value of the land, $8,600,000,000 Present National debt, 3,3000,000,000 Interest on the National debt, 198,000,000 A , se,,ment ”f interest per capita—six dollars per head for man, woman and child, black and white, every year. If put on land it is a fraction of fifty cents per acre, there being two hundred millions of interest and four hundred millions Gf acres. Now, as our Government has never done more than barely sustain itself in the most prosperous periods, it is fair to argue that it always take its ordinary revenues to pay its ordinary expenses. If this position be cor rect, the Nation must resort to taxation to pay the interest on a debt it oan never pay, and with the other enormous rates of tax, the burden becomes too great to bear. —Allentown Democrat. The Administration polity enunciated in the last Presidential message, which looks to the establishment of ii..gus governments in the Southern States, through which the Adminis tration hopes to control the Northern States, and thus perpetuate its power, is being at tempted in Louisiana. A correspondent of the Chicago Times writes : " The game has already begun in Louisi ana. Already a c.mvention (!) has been held there, corn po,ed, , f eitizens of Louisiana, hut otailitinn advootuters flout the North, runaway slaves, free negroes, and white men who, by the laws of that State, are debarred from the elective franchise. There might have been a few legal , oters in the convention, but the above constituted by far the largest num ber of persons present. These facts I have from a gentleman, a sincere Union man, a man of large property, who has been for the last twenty-five years a citizen of that State.— These negroes and Northern adventurers are engaged in a plot to revolutionize the State of Louisiana, and bring that State under the terms of the President's Proclamation.--- Negroes voted in that convention the same as white men. The legal vote.of Louisiana is about' 50,500. According to Mr. Lincoln's Proclamation, it ,lily requires 5,050 votes to overturn the whole social and political organ ization of the State, to abolish the old State constitution, and to place these negroes and Northern adventurers at the head of affairs in Louisiana. These 5,050 votes can easily be obtained. First, 2,000 soldiers will be marched up to the polls and made to vote: then 2,500 negroes will be brought up, and their votes taken ; lastly, the adventurers from the North will vote ; and lo I the work is done, and Lousiana will be a free State in the Union, by the President's Proclamation. What the 50,000 real voters in the State will say to all this is a matter of not the slightest conse quence. And when all the old State govern ments are swept away in the South, how long will it be that we are permitted to retain our State governments at the North?— It is time that the eyes of the people were opened." From the Indiana Democrat THE DEAD-LOCK IN THE SENATE. Mr. EDITOR : : In looking over the Abolition papers I notice several articles reflecting upon the conduct of those 16 honest Democrats in the State Senate, who dare raise their voices and cast their votes against a set of Aboli tionists who have no regard for the Constitu tion, the people, nor the customs of the Senate. These Abolition writers refer to the action of the Senate of 1855, and to the very patriotic and liberal course of George Darsie, of Alle gheny county. Now, let us have the facts in this case, and we invite contradiction. At the close of the Session of 1854, according to the Constitution, and the customs of the Senate from its organization, Hon. B. 1). HAMLIN was elected by the Democrats, to hold over until its next meeting. At the meeting of the Senate in 1855, that body stood, 17 Democrats, 14 Know-Nothings and 2 Whigs, (Messrs. Darsie and Price.) Mr. Buckalew detained by sickness. The ballot ing commenced on Tuesday and was continued till Friday, when Mr. Darsie proposed to the Democrats that if they would drop Mr. Hamlin and take Mr. Hiester, of Berke, that he and Mr. Price would vote with them, and give one•half of the officers to each party. This proposition was accepted and carried out. Mr. Darsie had been the Whig candidate for Canal Commissioner in the fall of 1854 and was defeated by the Know-Nothings because be was born in a foreign land. Now what was the course pursued by B. D. Hammx,the Democratic candidate for speaker, during the excitement ? Did he place him self in the Speaker's chair end say this is my right, lam the Speaker ? Or did the party to which he belonged claim any such right? - Not at all. The Clerk acted as Speaker until one was elected and took his seat. How very different is the course taken now by the Abo. litionists. It seems that such shameful con duct and assumptions of power were reserved for the present day, and were never thoifght of before. How gratifying to every Democrat in the State to know that we have 16 noble Democrats, who can neither be bought nor scared, even by such vile creatures as the Senator from Erie, who:: never had any character fo.• either honesty or common decency. BLAIRSVILLE. siiir The Springfield (Mass.) Republican, an a dministration newspaper, says: " Neither the administration nor its party can stand under the load of this rank corrup tion. There is no need of it. It is not their load, unless they make it so. If no honest and thorough effort is made to ferret out, expose, and punish the thieves, then the ad— ministration will be justly held:responsible for their crimes." They have already made it so. They have made it so by fraudulent traffic in contracts, and protection of subordinate whose plunder ing bas been proved. " The administration and its party can stand " because " of this rank corruption." It is the means whereby they live. It is the agency with which they propose to perpetuate their lives. Cocoas Awn Coins.—Those who are suffer ing from Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness Sore Throat, dm., should try "Brown's Bronchial Trochee," a. simple remedy which has relieved thousands, and which is in almost ever.T, ease effectual.
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