ebe taucaoter linttUigenter 01606 SANDERSON, ZDITOR. skarmaasoN. eissostats• LANCASTER, PA., FEBRUARY 16, 1864 41,6tr1 1 d7isam Park Bow, New York 010,, snd 10 Usti sizezA Boston. B. K. Preinicurs .1k Qa. are Aglaia be The Leacarier rishefiVenzar, and the matt influential and basest ghoul*. Ung NezziM In the Vaned Btates and the Omastisa.— They are i rat erbesd taemstmetibr neat car bind rates a/r. hferns*Anzat , No. 826 - Nfeedr o l, - New Yo i% authorized to metre adrertissawnts for The rawer, at our lowest rates. ,r Jonas Winans's ADVILII6I3O AMOY is bested at N 0.60 North 6th street, Philadelphia. He Is Inthodzed to we've advertisements and ambecriptions far The Lancaster h tIM . No.l BMW's Building, oourt, Bt., Boston, is our authoAled Agent M receiving edeertisements, tn. OURA- - Now on flag la flung to the wild winds fret Let It float o'er our father land, And the guard of Its spotless fame shall be Colombia's shown band. - - "CLING TO THE CONSTITUTION, AS THE SHIPWRECKED MARINER CLINGS ro THE LAST PLANK, WHEN NIGHT AND THE TEMPEST CLOSE AROUND HIM ; "-DANIEL WEBSTER. COUNTY COMMITTEE MEETING. The Democratic County Committee will meet at Shober'e Hotel, in the City of Lancaster, on WHDNEBDAY, FEB RUARY 24th, at 11. o'clock, A. M. A full attendance of the members is desired. B. B. TSHUDY, Chairman. Lirfes.wrza. February 9, 1864. p - w m We are indebted to the courtesy of Hon. JOHN L. DAWSON for a copy of General McClellan's Report of the Peninsular campaign. We are also indebted to Hon. MYERS STROUSE and Hon. S. E. ANCONA, of COngress, and Mr. BIL LINGSFELT7 of the State Le g islature, for, public documents. Also to Governor SEYMOUR, of New York, for a copy of his Annual Message. To Our Clerical Friends We have received a number of Marriage notices within the past few days from different clergymen, but without the requisite 25 cent note for each notice. These notices can not be inserted in the paper first publishing them without the pay, according to the new schedule of advertising rates, adopted by all the Publishers in this city. Our clerical friends will please make a note of this and govern themselves acccord- The Soldiers' Fair. The fair for the benefit of the Soldiers will take place at Fulton Hall next week, commencing on Monday the 22d inst. It promises to be a splendid and attractive ex hibition. and we doubt not will be largely attended from all parts of the county. It is a cause in which every person is deeply interested, and therefore is deserving of general encouragement. gay.- The " Daily Inquirer, - of this city, has ceased to exist, the last number appearing on Saturday eve ning. The reason assigned by the Publisher is the enormous price of paper, type, labor, and everything else connected with the publication of a daily paper (and weekly one too) in these glorious Lincoln times. In other words, the publication of the Inquirer, as a daily sheet, has been a losing business from the first—a fact patent to everybody who has any knowledge at all of the printing business. But the Editor of the defunct paper has no right to com plain. He is an extremely "loyal - individual, and exerted all his in fluence to bring about the present unfortunate state of affairs ,)f course, the demise of the daily will not affect his patriotism—not it hit of it, and he promises fin• the future to discourse loyalty "to his readers through the columns of the Weekly Inquirer. Pecuniarily, we wish Mr. WYLIE more success with his weekly than he bad with his daily : but, judging from our own expe?ience, he will find that to be an uphill business too at the present time. A Despotism Foreshadowed Mr. GREELF.Y, who is more than any other man, perhaps, the mouth piece of the Administration, after advocating usurpations of power and violations of the Constitution, now comes forward and makes the an nouncement that it is not at all cer tain the people arc to have the priv ilege of electing any more Presi dents! What, then, follows despotism and nothing else. What a consummation of Chicago plat forms and Abolition proclamations —of war, contemplating subjuga tion—and a policy that acknowledges no Constitution, but assumes that there is a "war power " distinct from the•written bond of Union. The people will remember how the Democratic warnings of the danger of dissolution were laughed to scorn, for years prior to the last; Presidential election ; how their later warnings that war ahme would end the Union forever, have been derided; and how their expressed fears that a broken and di.srega.rded Constitution, in a time o f war , would -open the way to a galling despotism, have been denounced as the words of "traitors " or " seces sion sympathizers." Now, do these people regard HORACE GREELEY'S words of any account, and the adumbrations of the Tribune as indicating a military usurpation or despotism ? If they do, it is full time to bestir themselves, and be prepared to assert their freedom and maintain their rights through the agency of the, ballot-box. If that Oodliven right is denied them, then woe betide those who have thus,trampled under foot the sacred guarantees of the Constitution, Mir The President's stable, located between the Treasury Department and the Executive ,Kartsion, -was destroyed by fire on the night of 49..):0th. The carriages were saved, but siat.bOtiaii4;riithed in the flames. wit When this war was first waged. says the Johnstown Democrat, we predicted that the 1 result would be direct taxation. This idea was scouted by oar would-be-intelligent citi zens. The fact is now becoming verified.— We do not now reiterate this prediction through any factious opposition to the Ad ministration, but only to prove that we were correct in the premises. We now assert that one-tenth of the taxation has not yet been de veloped. That there must be a tax on real estate ie as clear as day ; and that this tax will amount to at least fifty cents per acre, every year, for every acre that a farmer owns, is no less apparent. In the entire United States there are one hundred and thirty mil lions of acres of improved lands. Nearly one• half of this lies in the seceded States, leaving only sixty-five millions in the Northern States —or say for instance, eighty millions. Fifty cents an acre on eighty millions of acres, will only amount to forty millions of dollars, which is only the one fifth of the interest on the war debt. Where the other four , fifths will come from is more than we can figure out. The longer the NM lasts, the more it will cost, and the longer the colored race is made the object of the war, the longer it will last. So that we may look out for tax—tax on all we eat;,. wear, buy or sell—tax on our lands and occu pations—tax to raise troops—tax to keep them —and tax to pay them. It is too late to cry out now. This tax must be paid. When the Peace Convention met at Washington city, in 1861, this tax might have been averted.— When Joists BROWN made hie raid this tax might have been obviated. But now the honor of the country demands it and it must be paid. And this is not a temporary taxa tion, but one that will reach ne long years after the war is over. Bonds will be issued by the Government and by different corpora tions for ten, twenty, thirty, and even fifty years, all bearing interest at as high a rate as six per cent. When peace is once restored— and we pray that this may be soon—taxation will only begin ; and who can say aught against it? The rebellion that was provoked must be put down, cost what it will. The mistake was at the beginning of the war—not now. 'Cliepeople would not then heed the I warning voice. All they can do now, is to close the war as soon as possible, and pay the taxes. Rich and poor, property-holder and non-property-holder are equally protected and must suffer alike. AVOIDING THE DRAFT. How times and things change. Two years and a half ago the object of life seemed to be to get into the military service ; now the ways and means of keeping ont of it are almost as eagerly sought. Then committees from every county, and sometimes many from the same county, were beseeching the author itiee to have their respective regiments or companies accepted. Now committees from every township, horn' and district, are either diligently searching the rolls to prove that they have already furnished their quotas, or raising money to purchase r :cruits or pay their commutation. And the most fervent and effective appeal that can be made to a man's heart or pocket, is to "avoid the draft." I The outcry of "copperhead" cannot be made " Avoid the draft " is rung in your ears at against General SCOTT, nor will the Boston every corner, and reiterated in every social Journal, the leading Republican organ in New knot ; it is placarded in bar rooms and saloons, I England, be accused of "treason" inpublishing and posted on the bulletin boards. It affords such correspondence. General SCOTT cannot topics for newspaper writers and themes for see one bright spot in our national horizon ; all fervent, patriotic orators. To " avoid the I and yet if a Democrat says he has no hope of draft " seems uow to he the very sine qua non Peace and Union if the war is carried on as Republicanism has carried it cn, and will carry it on so long as •it has the power, he is a " copperhead." Gen. SCOTT considers the President's proclamation as impracticable, and if carried into effect leading to results at which humanity and civilization would re volt ; and yet if a Democrat does not assent to it and support it, he is a " traitor !" The sentiments expressed by Gen. SCOTT deserve serious consideration. If the Repub lican policy which has prevailed, has served only to involve the country in deeper and deeper gloom, until now not a single bright spot remains, there can be no hope of return ing light as long as the same policy is con tinued. And if the President's proclamation is impracticable, years and years of bloody warfare are still to come, if Republicanism is continued in power, because it has declared the 101 l observanoe and fulfilment of that pro elamation to he its indispensable condition of of existence. Fathers and sons, and old bachelors too, Are sweating their brains to know what to do ; But 'mid hope, fear, and a good deal of craft, They all seem bent on avoiding the draft. And why ? What has wrought this mar velous change? If it was patriotic to volun teer in 1861, is it not so now ? And if not so now, why is it? Is there not a moral in this universal desire and effort to avoid the draft ? Equality of Whites and Blacks. SUMNER'S resolution directing the Committee on the District of Colum bia to consider the expediency of reporting a bill granting equal privileges to white and colored citi zens, was adopted by a vote of 30 to 10. During the discussion Senator HExnaicxs, of Indiana, expressed his belief that social as well as polit ical equality with the blacks was to be forced upon the whites by the party in power. , Senator WILSON wished every man o take the station God meant him to attain. How did the male cobler ascertain that God meant the negro to attain equality wit the whites ? We should like to know whence the New England infidels derive author ity to speak for God and fulminate the decrees of Heaven?' It is sheer blasphemy. Gen. McClellan's Report. The very small edition of Gen. McCLELLAN's Report which Congress has permitted to be printed, will not entitle the members to more than fifty copies each, to distribute among their constituents. This is hardly one-tenth the number they would need, to supply all the applications that have been made to them for the Report. To meet the 'large demand for this highly important Document, the publisher of the Constitutional Union, at Washington, has deten: mined to print an edition, by sub scription, which shall he, in all respects, equal in type, paper and binding, to the Congressional edition; at the following rates—sent by mail, to any address, free of postage : Single Copies, 50 cents Ten Copies, in one package, $4 50 Fifty Copies, in one package, 20 00 One Hundred Copies in one package, 35 00 It will thus be seen how persons in tow ns,vi Rages and country districts can, by clubbing together, supply themselves with the Report at a very cheap rate. All orders, with the money accompanying them, will be promptly filled, by addressing Hon. Thomas B. Florence, 330 E street, Washington, D. C. The Democratic Committee of Chester county will meet at Hum p hrey's Hotel, in Parksburg, on Thursday next, the 18th inst., .at 14 o'clock. The members of the Democratic Committee of Lancaster county are invited to be present. ONLY 84,000,000,000 : Mr. Tuna Low WEED, in a letter to Senator Morgan of New York, estimates that the war will have cost, at its termination, at least FOUR THOUSAND MILLIONS OF DOL— LARS, and that three-fourths of this amount will remain as a national debt. He urges the repeal of the Homestead law by Congress, in order to make the public lands a source of national revenue. y®• MICHAEL DAN klearuaa, Esq., a gen. tleman who was formerly well known in political circles at Harrisburg, died suddenly at Johnstown, Cambria county, a few days ago. saw PIALDIGN 14. 71 . About ten years ago the people of Massa ; , chusetts and of the country were horrified at reviving tidings of one of the most diabolkcal, murders ever recorded upon the pages of the criminal calendar. The murderer and the• victim were both men of high standing -in . Boston, and money the motive which prompted the deed. Within a few days another tragedy has appalled the same Commonwealth—a tragedy which assimilates not a little to the" Webster and Parkman murder. The perpe trator and the slaughtered victim were both well-known citizens, occupying positions of i trust, and respected in the communities in which they resided, and money, the love of which is said to be the root of all evil, was the object to be gained by the crime. EDWARD W. GRZRN, the Postmaster of Malden, a thriving town within a few miles of Boston, made desperate by debts which bad accumulated, it is said, by his own reck lessness, devised a plan by which he could secure an amount sufficient to cancel his ob ligations. Purchasing a pistol, he proceeded to the Malden Bank, and seeing that no one was there bat a young man named Converse, the clerk, he drew his weapon, and placing the muzzle within a foot of the head of his victim and friend, fired, the ball taking effect I back of his ear. He instantly discharged a second barrel, the shot from which took effect in the temple. The deed having been con ! summated, Green seized the bills in the drawer, amounting to about five thousand ! dollars, and returned to his office. For nearly two months no suspicion attached to the perpetrator of the deed, until at length the sleepless vigilance of experienced detec tives was rewarded by the discovery that Green was the murderer. His reserve while others were excited, his disinclination to speak of the tragedy, and the fact that be had, in order to hide delinquencies in his accounts with the Government, attempted, a few weeks previous, to burn the Post Office, induced suspicion, which was confirmed by his own confession after arrest. Few more deliberate murders have been ; perpetrated in this country ; but the early discovery of the author in the person of a respectable member of society, is convincing evidence 'that the man who thus outrages the laws of God, be he rich or poor, must, sooner or later, meet with that retributive justice which is the fate of all criminals. GEN. SCOTT ON THE WAR. The New York correspondent of the Boston Journal, in a recent letter referring to General SCOTT, says: " I had an interview with him, a short time since, of about an hour's duration. He did not regard the future prospects as very bright. Indeed, he said he did not see one bright spot in our national horizon. * * He consi dered the President's Amnesty Proclamation as impracticable, in consequence of the large number of persons exempted from hope of pardon. These would be made desperate and fight to the last. If the large number ex— empted from pardon were in the hands of the President to-day, and under lock and key, so that he could, if he would, march them out to death, he could not execute that large num ber. Humanity and civilization would revolt at it." THE REBELLION NOT DEAD We warned the country not long since, says the New York World, to put no faith in the statement of the Administration press that the rebellion was exhausted as a military power. We predicted that, notwithstanding the manifest despondency and discontent of the Southern people, the commencement of the spring campaign would find the rebel armies as large and as fo:midable as ever they were. The last two weeks have shown that we were not mistaken. The rebel troops have been swarming all around the borders of the restricted area of the Confederacy. They are on the aggressive in every quarter, save the Southwest. We hear of them in Western, Central and Eastern Tennessee, in Western and Northern Virginia, on the Peninsula, capturing outposts in North Carolina, and even besieging Newbern ; while there is no falling off in the supply of rebel troops under Beauregard. No doubt many of these raids have been made in sheer desperation, and all of them have been inspired to obtain needed supplies ; but they give the lie to the stories which have been so rife of the demoralisation of the rebel armies. The country has been deceived so often that it is quite time all such stories were dieoredited WORDS OF CORER With the whole power of the Administra tion arrayed against us, with the money in the treasury made to flow like water, the Democratic party will have a gigantic task in the next Presidential election. And yet, if we do not carry that election, we will almost deserve to fail, for never has there been an Administration so corrupt as the present one, or the corruptions and imbecility of which could be so easily exposed. The above is from the Chicago Times, and we copy it to adopt it. Success is within the grasp of the Democratic party. If they do not obtain it, it will be their own fault. A clear, distinct enunciation of the Constitu tional principles of their party, and a courage that will not shrink from their maintenance before the people, through the press, and at the ballot box, will assure us a glorious vic tory in November. Courage, friends. The reign of bloodshed, of corruption, of despot ism is drawing to a close. NIGHT SOIL. " Science, after long experience and most careful tests, finds that the most fertilizing and effective of manures is that of man. " The Chinese knew it for ages past. No Chinese peasant, Eokeberg tells us, ever goes to the city without carrying back, at the two ends of his bamboo, two buckets of night soil. Thanks to human fertilization, the earth in China is still as young ae in the days of Abra ham. Chinese wheat yields a hundred and twenty fold. There is no guano comparable in fertility. To employ the city to enrich the plain is true economy. If our gold ison the other hand our filth is gold " Victor Hugo. The Lodi Manufacturing Company for tho past twenty-four years have been manufac turing an article which they call Poudrette, from the night soil of the city of New. York, of all of which they have the exclusive =MI Bee their advertimunt in another Mann. g g 17 . 104)( ;Y CS LANOAI, 4t the city election in Lancaster, on Tues day last, Mayor Sanderson was re elected by *majority of one hundred and twenty•seven, being an increase of seventy-eight since last October. This is the first gap of ,1864 in the Keystone State. The people .should . be heartily tired of Abolition rule; both State and National, and we believe that they are beginning to see the true way of escape from national ruin, bankruptcy end desolation,. in the success of the Democratic party.'Mayor Sanderson is a firm, consistent Democrat, being editor of the Lancaster Intelligeneer, one of the most able and faithful organs of the party in the State, and a most worthy citizen. We rejoice with our Democratic friends of Lancaster, in this triumph over Abolitionism in the guise of Unionism; and also in the personal triumph of Mayor San derson over his political enemies, who have slandered and persecuted him with almost fiendish malignity. Let us hope that this important success is but the beginning of the end.—York Gazette. THE FIRST Guff FOB 1864—DEMOCRACY Tat lIMPHANT IN LANCASTER CITY.—Hon. George Sanderson was re-elected Mayor of the City of Lancaster, on Tuesday last, by a majority of 127, being a Democratic gain of 78 since the October eleotion. The Abolitionists and " Loyal Leaguers " made the moat desperate efforts to defeat him, and again attempted to delude the people with the stale cries of " Copperhead " and " traitor," but all in vain. The home of Thad. Stevens repudiates his doctrine.—Easton Sentinel. FIRST GUN FOR 1864 I —DMIOORATIC VICTORY IN LANCASTER I—The election for Mayor in the City of Lancaster, on Tuesday last, re— sulted in the triumph of the Democracy.— Hon. George Sanderson, the fearless and in— dependent editor of " The Intelligencer, " the Democratic organ of Lancaster county, was elected Mayor by a majority of 127. a gain of 78 over the October election.—Gtttysburg Compiler. THE FIRST (Jun.—At the recent municipal election in the City of Lancaster, Hon. Geo. Sanderson was re-elected Mayor, by an in creased majority over the vote in October last in that city. This is the first Demooratio Gun of the campaign, and may be taken as an indication of what is to follow, in October and November, in Peonsylvania.—Yorris town Register. LANCASTER CITY ELECTION.—Hon. George Sanderson, Democrat, was re-elected Mayor of Lancaster city, on Tuesday last, by 127 majority, being a gain of seventy-eight since last October. The canvass was warmly con ducted on both sides, and resulted gloriously for the Democracy.—Hollidaysburg Standard. ELECTION IN LANCASTER.-OUT old friend, Capt. George Sanderson, was on Tuesday of last week re-elected Mayor of the City of Lancaster by an increased majority over the Democratic vote of last fall. We congratu late him on his success.—Carlisle Democrat. THE FIRST Gor.r roe 1864.—H0n. George Sanderson, Democrat, and editor of the " In telligencer," was re-elected Mayor of Lan— caster city, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday last, by a hundred and twenty-seven msjority, being a gain of seventy eight since last Ooto ber.— Wilmington Gazelle. DEMOCRAT IC VICTORY.—The flun. George Sandereon, Democrat, was re-elected Mayor of Lancaster, Pa., on Tuesday, by a hundred and twenty-seven majority, a gain of seventy eight. Mr. Sanderson is the talented editor of the Lancaster Intelligencer, a sterling Democratic newspaper.--Newark (N. J.) Journal. DEMOCRATIC VICTORY IN LANCASTER.—The election for Mayor in the city of Lancaster, on Tuesday of last week, resulted in the triumph of the Democracy. Hon. GEO. SAN DERSON, the fearless and independent editor of " The Intelligencer," the democratic organ of Lancaster county, was re-elected Mayor by a majority of 127, a gain of 78 since the Octo ber election.—Perry Democrat. g Hon. George Sanderson, editor of that sound Democratic paper, the Lancaster (Pa.) Intolligencer, has been reelected Mayor of that city by an increased majority from last year.—Belfast (Maine) Journal. 13=1 In a recent speech in the Senate, the subject of navy frauds, we believe, being under con. eideration, Mr. HALE said : " I was opposed to stealing from the trea— sury when it was done by the Democrats. I am not in favor of having it done by anybody. I do not eay that it is done, but I say there are things that ought to be investigated. Sir, the Good Book tells us that Judas Iscariot was a thief, and carried the hag that held the con— tributions which belonged to the twelve disciples in common ; and I suppose that if anybody questioned his integrity Judas de— nounced him at once a foe of Christ and Christianity. Not so, air : if there be dishonest practices, if there be defects in the law, if there be anything wrong. all on earth that I aek is that there may he an honest inquiry into it " Here the fact is exposed by a leading Aboli tion Senator that the state of affairs in the departments at Washington require investig tion, and it is broadly hinted that the influeliee. of the Administration is against investigation. Senator HALE has been charging the depart . ants with a loose way of doing business for some time, and after all his efforts he finds himself unable to get " an honest inquiry into it." Every wh.ire that the Republicans hold control, the rule is reckless expenditure, gen eral corruption and studied concealment from the people. What is to be the end THE ARMY APPROPRIATION BILL The bill rep( rted to the House, on Thurs day last, by Mr. Stevens, from the Committee of Ways and Means, for the support of the army for the year ending with June, 1865, appropriates $529,500,000. Of this amount $5,000,000 are for advance bounties to volun tears ; $5 000,000 for raising and organizing volunteers; $2,000,000 for the pay of the army ; $177,500,000 for the pay of volunteers $1,500,000 for the subsistence of volunteers ; $60,000,000 for quartermasters' supplies, $13,000,000 for incidentals ; $21,800,000 for the navy and artillery forces ; $40,000 for transportation ; $5,000,000 for commissary quarters for officer ; $58,000,000 for clothing, equipage, 0a ; $9,000,000 for the medical and hospital departments ; $2,000,000 for the armament of fortifications ; $20,000,000 for ordnance stores ; $2,500,000 for the manufac; ture of arms, and for the purchase of gun powder and lead ; $2,000,000 for repairs to arsenals. The new call for troops ill necessitate the appropriation of two hundred millions more of money. It is a fact that the only Northern man, since the war began, known to have given valuable information to the Confederates, is Mr. Har vey, a Republican, and now Lincoln's minister to Portugal. It is also a fact that the only persons in the North known to have furnished materials of war to the Confederates, are Republicans—as Palmer, Collector Barney's Clerk, and Chairman of the New York Re publican Central Committee. Lincoln prompt ly put him under Federal protection, to. shield him from prosecution for his crimes. THE PRESIDENT'S BODY GUARD The Baltimore Transcript says " A company of Ohio cavalry, commanded by Capt. Bennett, of Scott's 900, has been ap pointed a body guard to the President. They are quartered on the grounds south uf the President's house." The country will be glad to learn that our royal master is taking proper precautions against any contemplated outrage upon his sacred person. Long live Abraham Lincoln—long live MadaMe, her oval highness—long live Prince Bob—and may their shadows and the shadow of their body guard uarer grow lua, INAUGURATION OF THE MAYOR, AND ELECTION or err/ Orricags —Maycr SAmmason was re-inengorated Mayor of this city for the sixth - time on Tuesday bust, at 2 o'clock, - P, M. The io►ogaralioo ceremonies took place in the. Common Council Chamber, City 11.11, In the Pres ence of the Count:Rem:BA a large number of citizens. The oath• of once sue administered by WELLUX o,llleStua, Req., City Recorder, after which the Mayor delivered the adkoring . . iNAUGIIBA L ADDRESS. • Mx. Pitlansurr AND Patton, CIWELLI3: -Having taken the tidal ceth, prescribed by the Charter, I enter upon the =dhle duties of the Office to whichMee again been id by the here and =bought eliffragee of the people, with . an honest determination to discharge them with fidelity and to the best of my ability. For the continued Confidence of my fellow•citlzects, ea expressed through the ballot box, I feel profoundly grateful, and It is my pur pow, under the guidance and direction of an overruling 'Providence, to enter upon another year of ofecial life with the fixed determination to merit their approval by bring. lug no reproach upon them or myself. tivertxxes OF TEM Cotatenai The interests of the =- layers are more immediately and directly entrusted to your hands. Exercising the function of legislators for the City, untrammeled and unopposed, it is your peculiar province to see that the resource's of the Treasury are care fully husbanded and guarded, and that the expenditures shall be made with the closest scrutiny and circumspec tion.' Perhaps a suggestion or two on this point may not be considered out of place at the commencement of your official duties I have long been convinced that . the true policy of Councils would be to limit the expenditures of each year to its receipts, and that to be obliged to andel. pate the revenues of a succeeding year for the purpose of defraying any large portion of the expense. of its prede cessor is neither true economy nor is it sound polies, all such departures from this plain and practical proposition are fir more honored in the breach than I the observance' I am led to these remarks, trots the fact that a contrary practice has prevailed to some extent for the last two years. and from the additional fact that the sums expended over and above 'the appropriations of last year must be drawn from the receipts' of the present. Thee will, of course, materially reduce the appropriations, for street purposes, for 1864, but' the policy is absolutely necessary to bring back the finances to their proper and legitimate condition and maintain unimpaired the credit of the Cor poration. Nor is It necessary to lemma the City tax in order to accomplish this. The name rate of taxation which' has been aseensed for several years will be amply sufficient to meet temporary loans falling due within the next few months—to pay the interest of the funded debt and of the Sinking Fond. and to make all ordinary repairs and im provements of streets, lanes and alleys which may be se ' cesaary for the comfort and convenience of oar citizens.— But to accomplish all this and leave the Treasury with a sufficiently large surplus at the end of the present fiscal year, it will be absolutely necessary for Councils to exer cise the most rigid economy in their expenditures', and to ' undertake no unnecessary or expensive improvement.. It is always bad housekeeping when the expenditures of a year exceed its income, and if persisted In for any great length of time will inevitably terminate in bankruptcy and ruin. What is true of individuals, is also true of Na tions, States and Municipalities. The effect will follow the cause, just as certain as that day succeeds night in the physical world. I am happy to inform you that the credit of the City never was better than it is at the present time, and it should be oar duty, as agents of the people, entrusted with the puree-strings of the Treasury, to exercise all necessary caution and prudence so as to preserve it Intact and inviolate. Lancaster presents a marked contrast in this respect to many of our ester Cities of this and other States, and It should be our pride and boast to be able to keep its credit up to this high standard. The Nation has been engaged for the last three years in a gigantic strug g'.e for Its own existence, and the energy and resources of the people have been taxed to their utmost capacity to carry It on, and they will have to continue to bear the burthens as the war progresses It is, therefore, the more important and necessary that a rigid economy should be practised by municipal corporations, as well as by indi viduals, and that not a dollar more should be expended than the wants of the public require. You will excuse me, I trust, gentlemen, for this seeming °the' , usnees in reference to the finances. We are all equally interested in the welfare and prosperity of the City, and I feel that it is my duty to do all that I can to promote its best and truest Interests. This Is my only apology. That you feel the same way I have not a doubt, and it will afford me great pleasure to co-operate with you In all legitimate measures for the public good. To preserve the peace and good order or the City shall be my constant aim, and In this determination I confi dently anticipate the co-operation of all our fellow citizens. As a general thing, during my connection with the Muni cipal government, the City has been comparatively free from violence and disorder, and this Is, in a great measure owing to the vigilance and efficiency of the excellent corps of day and night police. I trust that this desirable state of things may c rutinne, and to that end nothing shall be left undone on my part. My position on National affairs remains unchanged, and I refer you to my remarks in this place one year ago. From the commencement of this terrible and sanguinary war, I bare never for one moment faltered in my devo tion to the old Union of our fathers, and have adhered with unflinching fidelity to the Constitution as the pal ladium of our liberties. I have never admitted the right r of a State to secede at pleasure, and I look upon the doc• trine of secessiou, whether originating at Hartford or Charleston, at Richmond or Washington, as a dangerous heresy which all good citizens should frown upon and en deavor to suppress. Whether a prolongation of hostilities Is the only possible way to restore the Union and bring about peace and prosperity to the country, is a debateable question, and men may honestly differ without miestioning either their patriotism or fidelity to the Union, and no free lAmerican citizen will ever consent to have the right of public discussion taken from him. One thing Is certain that the Idea of a permanent disruption of the Confeder acy cannot be entertained for a moment by any real lover I of his country and its time-honored institutions. It is a glorious legacy transmitted to us from our patriot fore fathers, and all shruld labor, with heart and soul, to bring about an early peace and a permanent restoration of the Union, so that the blessings of a free and united country may be transmitted to the generations who are to succeed us on the theatre of life. With these few observations, Gentlemen, I rh iJose my remarks by hoping that harmony end food feeling may prevail in all your deliberation 3, and that your con ' neat. n with the City government may redound to your I own credit and to the general benefit of our common con stitneney. The Councils then proceeded to the election of tb- earl ' OUS City oflitere, nub Li the following result: City Treasurer—William Diller. City Solicitor—Samuel H Reynolds City Assessor—James 11. Barnes Superintendent of City Water Works—Col. John lie Duchman. Street Commlrsioner—Uoury Schomn ' City Regulator—James C Carpen ter As. , istant 14101:atm el—Geolge Alto iglu, Jacob Foose Messenger—Jolla Dora art . After the adjournment of the C.•uncllB to their reel., Chamber., the following business was transacted: In Select C eincil the following resolution was read: MEM - Etsolntd, That the City tax for the year 1864 on real Pr: petty be assessed at the rate or 9,1 cents per one hun dred dollars ♦nlnation, es follows: 60 cents of the rate for the payment of Interest on city loans, and 30 cents for other purposes On motion, the resolution was adapted, in which action Common Council concurred. A petition was presented from the City Constables, ask. dug that their salaries for the ensuing year he continued as at present. In Select Council the prayer of the petition. ers was granted, In which Common Council concurred. The Standing Committees of Councils were then an tionncedsby the Presidents as follows SELECT COUNCIL. Finance—Messrs. Zehm and Rengier. Water—Messrs. Long, Carpenter and Zahn] Street—Messrs Lechler and Deaner. Markel-1l est rs. Robert, and Trout Fire Engines and Hose—Mesons. Roberts, Trout and Lechler Buchanan Rellef—Me.re. Zahn. and Recegier Polite—Mesas. Carpenter, Lechler and Roberta Lamps—Moser.. Deaner and Roberts City Property—Messrs. Long and Reugier. COMMON COUNCIL. Finance—Mesers &ober and Rutledge. Water—Messrs. Ringwalt, amber and Russel Street—Meagre. Fitzpatrick and Yeieioy. Mark et—Masers. Dike and Steigerwalt. Fire Engines and hose—Messre. Beet, Killian end Let, niter. Buchanan Relief—Messre Robley and Ye!.ley. Police—Messrs. Ackerman, lake and Best. Lamps—Messrs. Ringwalt and Killian. • City Property—Messrs. Getz and Fitzpatrick. THE CITY GOVERNMENT FOR 1864.—The City Government is constituted as follows for the year 1864 : Mayor—George Sanderson. , Mayor's Clerk—Charles R. Franey., • City Recorder—William Carpenter. Aldermen—Charles R Frailey, John H. Druckeumiller, William B. Wiley, Gerardo. Clarkson, John C. Van Camp, Jacob Foltz. John M. Amweg, Walter G. Eva•.e. Select Council—President—Robert A. Evans. Members —Dr. Henry Carpenter, John Deaner, Anthony Lechler, Robert 11. Long. Charles F. Rengler, A. E Roberts, Adam Trout, Godfried Zahn, Clerk—James C. Carpenter. Mee. senger—John Dorwart . Common Council—President—John T. Martionigle.— Members—George Ackerman, John Beet, Philip Fitzpat rick, Jacob G. Getz, John W. Robley, Anthony lake, H K. Killian. Philip Leh.' ter, A. Z Ringwalt, A W. Russel, John M. Rutledge, Emanuel Bhober, M. F. Steigerwalt, George Teleley. Clerk—Alexander Patton. Messenger— John Dorwart. High Constable—Samuel Huber. City Constables—Jacob Gundaber, Philip S. Baker, Christian Franey, Albert A. Meeeetekop. City Treasurer—William Diller. City Solicitor—Samuel H. Reynold., City Assessor—James H. Barnes. Superintendent of City Water Worke—Col. John H. Buckman Engineer at City Water Works—Lewis Knight. Street Commiesioner—Henry Schaum. City Regulator—James C. Carpenter Assistant Regulators—Gcsorge Albright, Jacob Foote. Market Master—John Kuhn.. Keeper of Station House and Janitor Mayor's Office— John Henry. Night Police—John Carroll, George Frandsen., John Hensler, Daniel Kautz. Leonard Kissinger, George Kolb, George Pont., Martin Rudy, Peter Ruth, Samuel Shroad, Hiram Snyder, William Wilson. CITY MEETING IN RELATION TO THE DRAFT. pursuance of a call leaned by the Mayor r f the city, ' a large meeting assembled in the Court Hours, on Thurs day evening, 11th inst., for the purpose of adopting meas ures to fill the quota of the city and avoid the draft. Col. W. S. Amweg, nominated Hon. Geo. Sanderson for . President, which was unanimously agreed to. On motion, Wet. B. Wiley and A. G. Killian were ap. pointed Secretaries. Several resolutions were offered, and after some discus. slon were withdrawn, and the following, on motion of Gen. M. Kline, Esq , was unanimously, adopted: Resolved, That a Committee of twelve be appointed to wait apou the County Commissioners and request them to make an appropriation sufficient to relieve the county of Lancaster from the draft; or, falling to meet with a favorable response from that body, then to wait upon the City Councils and ask them to make en appropriation inefficient to till the C•ty's quota by volunteers. On motion, the President was requested to appoint the Committee and announce it through the newspapers. The chair bee appointer] the following Committee: N. W. Ward—Christian Zoeller, Peter McConomy, Geo. Brubaker. N. E. Ward—Geo. M. Kline. Jacob Zscher. Jay Cadavell. W. Waid—Dr. John r,tcCalla. GA D. W. Patterson, 1 Wm. P. Brinton. Sr E. Ward—Capt. H. E. Slaymaker, Christian Widruyer, ! Col. W. S. Amweg. SHOCKING MURDER IN COLIIHRia.—The peaceful borough of Columbia was the scene of a horrible murder on Thursday night. The victim was a young man 21 years of age, roe of Mr. Isaac Hogendobler. During the evening young Hogendobler attended a dance et the tavern of Lawrence Smith, near the Rolling Mill. While there be became engaged In a quarrel with another man, named Smith, concerning a girl. This was quieted, however, and the stranger and girl left the dance together between 10 and 11 o'clock. Boon after their departure Hogendobler followed them, and just as he had overtaken them the stranger turned and discharged a pistol at him, the bail entering hie abdomen. Hogendobler fell, exclaiming I am shot." Ile was soon after conveyed to his home by persons who were attracted to the spot by the discharge of the pistol. He lingered until five o'clock next morning, when be died. The murderer made his escape and at the present writing had eluded arrest. THE WATER COMHITTEE.—The new Water Committee of the City Om:moils organised on Thursday evening last, and to elected H R. FAH3zsracs., Clerk, and LIMO KEINE?, Engineer at the City Water Works. The Mayor, by virtue of his office, is Chairman ex-officio of the Committee. ENTERED THE SERVICE AGLIN.—BEND. H. OMB, the good•looklog aunpicy "locale" of the /wpm; has entered the service again, as 24 Lieutenant of Capt. Vonderimith's company of Cavalry from this city. Ben 19 a real good fellow, and, from his experience In the nixiee before, will doubtless make an efficient and capable officer. We shall be sorry to lose him from the profession, the main weapon of which is said to b 3 "mightier than the word° Hares to you, Ben. T a t NEW CITY TanAgyans.,--The bond of the new City Tromarer i _Wwws Miss, DR, issa ap• pond by Councils on hinny *maw lust, aM bp will Hsupon Mc discbams of his duties on' the Mb Hs has appointed OEM= IL Timis, Jig, Deputy. • Recruiting hair been going on briakly, in this ORY, for the lest few mite, andfatill continues. Ife believe if the draft were postponed a week or two looker, the whole (motet of the county would be made up by wobinteent. What the County Omandialonera will do in the matter of the application of the Conmatime appointed by the Town Medic& Us ant yet been determined upon The Board have the mottoer under advisement, and duct to a day s or two. OOpleB.NAliiNT PLANTATIONS The able New Orleans correspondent of, the World gives a long and very interes ao count of the experience of the Government in operating the abandoned plantations in that neighborhood. With the single exception of the tine estate of Judge Rost, not one of them has begun to pay its expenses, though the operators had land, machinery and all the help they wanted free, or nearly so. The ex ception was more successful only from the' fact that the same hands, the same overseers were kept upon the place, and the same system of labor was pursued. The other negroes are subjected to the most brutal treatment. True, an order was issued that they should not be /logged t yet the mili tary superintendents were accustomed to gag and buck them frequently, as they do unruly soldiers, a punishment of which they express the utmost horror. The following statistics of the sanitary results of Abolition discipline are really startling I do not know that the leased plantations have been subjected to any express examina tion,, to ascertain how they have been con ducted, especially with reference to the health ' and well-being of the negroes ; but such an examination was made of a portion of those worked as government plantations, and the report showed a moat terrible m,rtality, equal to that of those awful middle passages of the slave ships, from our infant recollection of whose rehearsal we recoil with so much hor ror. Some of these have been made known be fore—not here, indeed, but northward. On the Old Hickory plantation were placed, in June 3,'-four hundred and thirteen negroes, with but two days' provisions, and on the 11th of September two hundred and fourteen of these had died. On White Castle were placed three hundred, and on the 16th of September but forty-two were found living. On the Andier's place, out of four hundred but one hundred and seventy-eight were left ; and the like proportionate mortality was found on the Vintress, Griot, Magnolia, Rich land and Miles Taylor plantations. At this time the :mall-pox is prevailing at the Honoree plantations. The overseer has died of it, and at last accounts there was neither physician nor other white person on the place. No wonder that General Banks has determined that on the Ist of February all abandoned plantations shall be leased out. The difficulty was,. that the managers of these:plantations had no interest in the negro which would lead them to preserve his life. On the leased plantations there was such an interest ; but as it would expire with the crop or the sale of the place under confiscation, or could be terminated in other ways, it , was not I of so lasting a character tt.s to insure good treatment. Our Eastern horse-dealers are most general ly noted as being " sharp on a trade," but the sharpest trick that has been played by the 'Abolition horse-contractors was recently near Washington City. They " done " the Govern ment nicely, and this is the way they per— formed the feat, as related by a Washington correspondent : THE INGENUITY OF REPUBLICAN SHARPERS. -It will be remembered that some weeks agu a great stampede of horses took place from the Government enclosure a few miles below this city on the Potomac. It was reported that a fall thousand of them had run into the river and been drowned. It is leaking out that the whole thing was one of the many contrivances gotten up about here to rob the Treasury. It would seem that some two thousand of these horses bad not been brand— ed, and the stampede was a gotten up affair to set those unbranded horses loose. to also was the report that a thousand of them were drowned, a made-up story without a particle of truth in it. These unbranded horses were afterwards caught, and a number of them, equal to that reported drowned, were re-sold to the Gove , ment at one hundred and forty five dollars per head. That is pretty sharp practice, even in the horse line, where such wonderful tricks of trade are reported as oc— cur ring. The affair will, lam told, undergo an investigation some time between this and the close of the war. Rte" This is only one of the thousand tricks played on the Government by its political friends ! Verily, the Government is being re stored to its ancient purity by " holiest CO Old Abe ! " and his office holders and contrac tors ! MEN ENLISTED INTO THE REOCILAR ARMY.- The Secretary of War has informed the Gov— ernors of the loyal States that all men enlisted into the regular army since Septem. ber 3, 1862, will be credited upon the quota of the State in which they were enlisted. The superintendents of regimental recruiting service have been directed to forward to the different State capitals, as soon as possible, a list of all men enlisted into the regular army by recruiting officers under their commands from September 3, 1862, to January 1, 1864, giving the names of the men, and whenever they can do so, the districts in which they were enlisted. Hereafter, also, trimonthly reports of men thus enlisted will be forwarded to the several Governors, giving the names of the men, State, district of enrollment, town and county in which they were enlisted, such reports to commence from January 1, 1864. COMPETITION FOR NEGRO SOL- DIE RS There is a great strife between the towns in Connecticut to procure volunteers for their quotas, and often one town bids above another to procure men held by brokers who sell them• selves. A neighboring town has been very active, and sent agents abroad to purchase negroes. A few days ago they made returns, and had three more negro volunteers than the town wanted, and one of the agents put them up at auction, several towns bidding, but Vernon bidding the highest, took them.— Republican paper. Who ever supposed that here in the North where slavery is not tolerated, free negroes would be " put up at amnion," and knocked down to the highest bidder? What is this but trafficking in huinan flesh, about which our pious Abolitionists have been shedding so many crocodile tears ? Really, this Abolition party is consistent in nothing but its incon. sistency. EXCITEMENT IN KANSAS At a meeting of the Union League last night resolutions were adopted denouncing the elec tion of United States Senator by the present Legislature, as an infamous fraud u_pon the people and a,disgrace to the State of Kansas, and expelling all members of the Legislature belonging to the League who voted fo'r the joint resolution to go into an election. A meeting of citizens is called for tonight, to take action in this matter, and similar meetings will be held throughout the State. No candidate was voted for against Mr. Carney. Thirty-one votes were oast, but all Were blank of against the fraud. The minor ity and a portion of the State officers have issued a protest against the election. ter An Emancipation Convention is to be held in Louisville, Kentucky, on the 22d of February. What is remarkable about the affair, is, that it is the work, almost wholly, of persons out of the State. It seams to have been called at the instigation of B. GRATA BROWN, of Missouri, and that new-found and suspicious celebrity, General GANTT, of Ar— kansas. Thus made up—packed with Aboli tionists from abroad—its resolves. will very probably meet the approbation - of Houma Getter ET and Talmo= TwroN ; and we shall prad in loyal prints, that Kentucky bas pra 400pe4 in farm 14 .free negroism and. amal gamation. ABOLITION ROAD TO ELLAVIIN, In the U. S. Senate, recently, Senator Corr- Nzss, an Abolition Senator from California, poncluded a speech in these words., We quote from the Congressional Globe, the official Congressional paper : " I believe, as I live and exist, that the shortest and truest way to Heaven, is to strike a rebel wherever you can reach him 1" " Loud applause in the galleries," we are told in the report, followedthe delivery of this moat infamous and moat wicked senti— ment. The " galleries 1" And who are the men who at prevent compose the "galleries f" Three-fourths of that orowd, a letter-writer tells us, is made up of government contractors, favored officers, stipendiaries, liok-epittles, clerks in the Departments, young " govern— ment" Lib:noun, and debauched, bloated and swaggering government thieves. These are the men who occupy the galleries, now that we have a carnival on the dead corpse of our country ; and these are the men who applaud the Infidel Covisss, when he utters his wicked and God-abhorred sentiment. According to the teaching of Corrassa, and the rabble in the Senate galleries, all forms of religion are unnecessary ; all preceptt, as taught by the Saviour of men, are struck down at one blow, and no difference how great a sinner a man may be, let him but " strike a rebel" and he secures the "shortest and truest way to Heaven I" We venture to say that this Senator Ootrwsss, is an arrant coward, and, in the presence of a live rebel, would shake like a reed in the wind, and take to his heels the first favorable opportunity. He would not, even to secure the " shortest and truest way to Heaven " " strike a rebel " if he could. He is one of the " loyal" talkers, but like many other Abolition traitors and Intl dels, he makes himself scarce when " tebels are about." . . When we take into consideration that these atrocious words were uttered in the United States Senate, and that in the House of Rep resentatives the Son of God has been repudi ated and denied, in the election of an Infidel as Chaplain of that body; when we remember, too, that a majority of LINCOLN'S Foreign Ministers are the men who scoffed at the Sacred Writings, and declared, on the floor of the House of Representatives, that they must have "an antislavery Gud and an anti-slavery Bible, or none :" when we see corruption and fraud, licentiousness and unrestrained villainy in all departments of our Government, is it to be wondered at that we are so wonderfully scourged as a people, and that the wretched men who are at the head of affairs in our once proud nation have been stricken with blind— ness, and deprived of even common sense, if indeed they ever had any ? It was the saying of a great and good divine, that " no people or nation can prosper and mock God," and most people will coincide with this opinion.—Amer- Iran Volunteer. Why do not the peace-on-any-terms men of the North, indicate to the Government upon what terms they would be willing to see the present difficulties between the government and the rebels adjusted ?—Rochester Demo crat. This ignorance is all assumed to gull the simple. There is no booby connected with the Press so simple as not to know on what terms the Peace men propose to settle the present difficulties,—at least none who have paid due attention to the proceedings in Congress. The resolution of Mr. Dawson requesting the Pre— sident to issue a proclamation that the South ern people and States should he received into the Union without any other condition than that of maintaining, and upholding the Coned tutiop, and should he guaranteed all their rights within that Union. expresses those terms in full. Fur this, fifty six Democrats voted while seventy nine Aholition-Republi— cans voted against it. The dishonesty and hypocrisy of calling upon any " Peace on any-terms " men to " indicate to the Government on what terms they are willing to see the present difficulties between the government and the rebels adjusted," is too transparent to require remark. The very request fur an indication of such terms proves the disbelief (.f the jesuitical writer in any men who really pro— pose peace "on any terms." Such men of course, if any there were, could indicate no terms. All this talk about Peace on any terms, is a mere trick to prejudice the more LEAVENWORTH, Feb. 10 THE WAY OF PEACE patriotic of their readers against any Peace or Peace men whatsoever, except those peculiar Peace patriots whose love of Peace leads them only to the pw he of War. The Peace men ask only that alike the North and South pledge themselves to abide by the Constitution, according to the principles and practices in accordance with which it has been adminis— tered for seventy years by all our Courts, our Congresses and Presidents. And this " the progressive"administration reface.—Syracuse Courier. EUROPEAN OPINION A London correspondent of the New York Times, writing on the 23d tilt., says : The rise in gold is awkward for those who have money to receive, but no one, even i❑ England, is now fool enough to expect finan cial difficulties, North or South, to end the war. There is, however, something we do expect, and which I may as well warn those concerned to be prepared for. No town on the frontier or seaboard will be safe which is not well defended. The Southerners, from motives of policy, have up to this time re frained from retaliation. They have no lon ger this motive. So many of their own towns have been destroyed, and such efforts made to burn Charleston, that they will consider themselves justified in the eyes of the world, in carrying out the lex talionis. Morgan, Moseby, and adozen otherimoss-troopers and guerillas on land, and fleet steamers at sea, will do what they can to plunder and destroy. It must be expected, and guarded against as far as may be. It is to . be wished that the war might be fought out on civilized principles, as it might be if such were the desire at Washington ; but if there is " Greek fire for the masses " of the South, it must be expected that some kind of fire will be returned to the masses of the North, who may be within reach of Southern vengeance. War is a game that two can play at, and it is not always as one-sided as parti— sans wish it to be. I see and hear, that the destructiveness of the war during the present year will exceed all that has gone before it. RATS AT THE WHITE HOUSE The Committee on Public Buildings reports, that : ' The basement of the White House is left untenanted, except by Rats, AND THEY HAVE UNDISPUTED POSSESSION." tor Their possession, it is believed, is not in the basement alone, but in other stories. " The Rats " abound now, in every department of the Government, despite all the Terriers or Rat•oatohers in Congress, or out of it. BOOTS FOR COLORED " BODGERS."—A re quisition was made a few days since on the Government for boots for the colored regiment in camp at Quincy, 111. The sizes were so enormous that they could not be procured at Chicago, and the agent had to telegraph to Washington to know what was to be done. He was ordered to have the regimental feet measured and send the result to Washington, so that the boots could be constructed there. The siAee range from tens to twenties. This regiment will be apt to " trample on the rights of the South." A FOREIGN VIEW The London Examiner, a paper which has taken the side of the North in this war, all the way through, thus speaks of the fearful encroachments of the -Federal Government upon the liberties of the people : Let us not be told they will resume their guarantees when the occasion has passed away. As well might it be said that a woman would resume her chastity after a surrender. A nation which has consented to live without its liberties has prepared itself too well for the loss of them. It has foregone the habit of virtue. "A SLIGHT COLD," Cocoas.—Few are aware of the importance of checking a Cough or " slight cold " in its first stage ; that which, in the beginning, would yield to ii, mild remedy, if neglected, soon attacks the lungs. " Brown's Bronchial troches" give sure and almost immediate relief. Military OffiCIATS and Soldiers should have them, as they can be carried in the pocket, and taken as occasion requires. Taa FLowaas or Coae.—Cuba produoes, in a wild state, a thousand odorous and rare flowers, delightful to the senses, but Bryan's Pulmonio Wafers impart to your voice, lunge, and throat, a sweetness and perfection that the dowers of Cuba cannot surpass. Sold by Kaufman 4 0 9.9 East 94 9,1 4 8 etreA 211°41124
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