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Let it float o'er our father land,
And the guard of Its avotleas fame shall be
Columbia's chosen band.
" CLING TO THE CONSTITUTION, AS
THE SHIPWRECKED MARINER CLINGS
PO THE LAST PLANK, WHEN NIGHT
AND THE TEMPEST CLOSE AROUND
HIM."-DANIEL WEBSTER.
COUNTY COMMITTEE MEETING
The Democratic County Committee will meet at Shober's
lintel, in the City of Lancaster, on WEDNESDAY, FEB
RUARY 24th, at 11 o'clock, A. M. A full attendance of
the members is desired. R. It. TSITUDY, Chairman.
LABCIABITH. February 9, 1884.
Peace Propositions.
We direct the attention of our
readers to the speeches of Messrs.
WooD, of New York, and Cox, of
Ohio, delivered a few days ago in
Congress, in reference to the peace
propositions recently introduced into
the Confederate Congress at Rich
mond. The speeches will lie found
on our first page.
Join the 79th
The Seventy-Ninth Pennsylvania
Regiment will be home in a few
days on furlough, for the purpose of
recruiting its thinned ranks. It is
composed of soldiers who by their
gallant and noble bearing on many
a hard fought battle-field, their
thorough discipline, and their intel
ligence and respectability, have
justly earned a position honorably
conspicuous iu the Army of the
Cumberland. Those who now join
this regiment, become at once
brothers in arms of these veterans,
and participants to some extent in
the renown achieved by their patri
otic comrades.
We therefore earnestly recom
mend to every man in Lancaster
county, who desires to enter into
the military service of the country,
to join the Seventy-Ninth. The re
giment is commanded by our noble
and patriotic townsman, Col. HENRY
A. HAMBRIGIIT, one o the bravest
of the brave, and among the most
accomplished of all the officers in
the Army. He knows how to sym
pathise with his men, and also how
to take care of them in camp and on
the march.
The Seventy-Ninth is Lancaster
County's own regiment, and every
citizen of the county is justly proud
of it. It contains our sons, brothers
and neighbors. Its course is
watched with intense solicitude, and
when the war is ended, and our
friends and relatives return crowned
with the laurels of victory, they will
be welcomed by warm hearts and
with open hands. We earnestly
advise our young men to join this
Regiment. With friendly feelings
for other organizations, we do not
hesitate to say that Col. lIAMBRIGUT
is entitled to the preference, and
that Lancasterians should decline
enlisting in any other Regiment
until his is full to the maximum
standard.
An Appalling Fact.
General MEADE, in a speech made
week before last at Philadelphia,
stated as a statistical fact that, since
March, 1861, when the Army of the
Potomac left its lines in front of
Washington, not less than one hun
dred thousand men have been killed
and wounded!
If we add to this the knowledge
that the loss in the Southern army
in Virginia, is probably equal to our
own, we shall have the appalling
fact of a loss in Virginia alone (to
say nothing of the losses elsewhere)
of two hundred thousand men iu less
than three years of this cruel and
sanguinary war, by death and wounds
alone on the battle-field, to say
nothing of the tens of thousands
who have lost their lives from disease
contracted in the service.
And yet, in view of all this, there
are hundreds and thousands of our
fellow-citizens who look with com
posure upon this awful carnage and
destruction of human life, and who
still "cry havoc and let slip the dogs
of war." Oh ! that peace and broth
erly love might once more visit our
bleeding and distracted country.
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
The seventeenth annual report of the Di
rectors of this Company show the following
aggregates of receipts and expenditure for
the year 1863, to wit :
Receipts from all sources,
Expenditures,
Leaving Net Earnings 5,111,412.74
QUARTERDIASTERS , STORES
The Senate was somewhat surpised on
Friday week to have laid before it a letter from
the War Department asking for an appropria
tion of fifty millions of dollars to cover ex
penditures for quartermasters' and hospitals
stores, pay of new troops, ~to. This makes
nearly one hundred millions of dollars de ,
fieiency.
The following are among the amendments
made by the Senate : For deficiency in arms
and ordnance, $7,700,000 ; for the manufac
ture of arms at the national armory, $700,000 ;
sick soldiers in private hospitals, $7,000
subsistence of soldiers, $5,824,000 ; quarter
master's supplies, $18,500,000 ; barracks and
quarters;s3,soo,ooo ; transportation, $30,000,.
000 ; incidentals, Quartermaster's Depart
ment, $2,00.0,000 ; clothing, camp and gar
rison-equipage, $7,000,000. Other items are
embraiStidi making an aggregate of $BO,OOO,
000 as a deficiency.
George Thompson.
This notorious English Abolition.
ist, who for thirty long years has
been laboring to destroy the Ameri
can Union, is again in this country
—having been sent for by some of
the " loyal " friends of the Adminis
tration. He commenced his de
structive work in Boston, on the
evening of 'the 10th inst., having
been introduced to the meeting by
the " loyal " Collector of the Port,
Mr. GOODRICH.
THOMPSON began his disunion har
angue by thanking God that he had
lived to see the fruits of his labors
[the bloody triumph of Abolition
ism] in the noble position that
America had taken, and hoped in a
few days to have the opportunity to
speak more fully on the state of feel
ing in England in relation to our
great struggle. In conclusion, he
alluded to GEORGE WASHINGTON as
the founder of American Inde
pendence, and Abraham Lincoln . as
the founder of American Liberty !!
What an idea—contrasting Abra
ham Lincoln, the weakest and least
dignified of all our American Presi
dents, with the immortal Father of
his Country ! And this infamous
sentiment, we are told, was received
with nine rousing cheers by the
"loyal" assemblage, niggers and all,
then and there present.
Such is Abolitionism ! It would
degrade the unsullied character of
the great and good WASHINGTON, so
as to elevate and idolize the most
contemptible of all his successors in
the Presidential chair. Verily,
" whom the gods will to destroy
they first make mad," and this
aphorism bids fair to be verified in
the history of the American people.
Alas ! ..far our poor, suffering and
degraded country. Would that
another WASHINGTON was vouch-
sated to us by an overruling Provi
dence, to put a stop to this carnival
of blood, and restore to us again the
Union and the Constitution of our
)atriot fathers.
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Certain military movements recently have
been explained. Gen. BUTLER planned an
attack upon Richmond ; and the powers at
Washington, knowing it must fail, readily
approved of it and co-operated :with him.—
Therefore recalling a large portion of the
troops at Newbern, North Carolina, and
abandoning the siege of Charleston, the at
tention of the enemy was sought to be
distracted by an advance of a portion of
MEADE'S army across the Rapidan, and a
movement towards Suffolk on th e e south, while
BUTLER ' S forces should advance rapidly up the
Peninsula and capture Richmond by surprise.
It was a nice scheme, but lacked two impor
tant elements to success—total apathy
on the part of the enemy, and vigor,
energy, and military ability on the
part of the assailants, both of which were
wanting. The movement towards Suffolk re
sulted disastrously, nearly 200 men being
killed or captured, and a gunboat destroyed.
The withdrawal of the troops from •Newbern
induced the enemy to attack that place, and
the result was the loss of about 400 of our
men killed and captured, with a gunboat des
troyed, and two cannon, 300 muskets, cloth-
ing, wagons, stores, negroes, horses and mules
taken. The advance of most of 111EADE's
army across the Rapidan was resisted by the
enemy and resulted in a loss of some 200,
besides the wear and tear of long marches,
severe fighting, &e.
While this was g ing on, BUTLER'S forces,
cavalry and infantry, black and white, were
marching rapidly up the Peninsula, expecting
to make a rush into Richmond and liberate
the Union prisoners there and escape before
the enemy should recover from their panic.—
They reached the Chickahominy, ton miles
from Richmond, where they found the enemy
" up and dressed, ready for company," and,
without firing a gun, our gallant commander
" turned tail," as Old Abe would say, and
returned, on the double quick, towards York
town !
Thus ended the last " on to Richmond"
movement ! We shall be told from Washing
ton that all these operations wore successful
and the objects of the movements were entirely
accomplished. This may be true, since the
object was not success against the enemy.
That, BUTLER would not he permitted to
achieve; and the Washington authorities well
knew he would fail. Their object in allow
ing him to go ahead was to have him fail, as
they regard him as a dangerous rival to old
Abe. Such seem to be the motives which
control military operations in this war.
PROTRACTING THE WAR
At least 100,000 soldiers have been lying
idle nbout the country during the past year.
If they had all been sent to the field, the
results of the last year's fighting might have
been very different. And why were they
not? The answer is plain; the Administra
ti.m does not want the war closed. The N. Y.
Herald, referring to the Washington Chroni
cle's publication of the reported plan for the
next campaign, says this plan " is thrown out
as one of the first attempts to pave the way
for the adoption of the remarkable line of
policy by which the Administration intends
to prevent any conclusion of the war until
after the Presidential election. The sum of it
all is that there are to be no more great
operations just now—no immense advances on
the outer circle of the rebellion, and even no
serious attempt on Richmond ; but the whole
season is to be whiled away in small affairs
with cavalry all over the country, raids, re
connoissances, &c. In pursuance of this,
policy the Administration arranged it so that
LONCIBTELEET should not be crushed in East
Tennessee when he might have been, and in
pursuance of the same policy we just now
have had an advance of two or three brigades
across the Chiokahominy, in BUTLER'S depart
ment, and another across the Rapidan from
the Army of the Potomac. So we are to go
on until the next election shall throw the
whole power of the government and all the
interests of the country into the hands of
the financiers, unless the people are wise
enough to have their own way in the next
election."
$11,891,412.95
6,780,000.21
By an arrival at San Francisco, we have
Japan dates to the 7th ult. The Tycoon's
palace at Yeddo was burned on Christmas.—
The next day the custom house was closed,
the officials declaring themselves so much
grieved at the Tycoon's misfortunes they were
wholly unable to transact business. It is re.
ported that the fire originated in a gunpowder
plot to blow up the palace for the purpose of
killing the Tycoon. Yeddo was again ravaged
by fire on New Year's day. Eleven large
streets in the wealthy business quarter, besides
numerous adjoining back streets and alleys,
were destroyed. It is estimated that five
hundred houses of the better class were burned.
News has reached Kanagawa that, on the 31st
of October, nearly all fladodadi was burned
by incendiary fires.
FROG JAPAN
GEN. BIeCLELLAN , S REPORT UPON
THE ORGANIZATION OF THE ARMY
OP THE POTOMAC AND ITS CAM
PAIGNS IN VIRGINIA. AND MARY
LAND.
Tnis report was transmitted to the War De
partmeot in November. 1862 We find it on
our table February, 1864! Fill up that long
interval with Wilkes' calumnies, Congressional
calumnies, all aided and abetted by the Wash
ington:cabaL whilst the evidence of their falsity
was in the files of the War Department, and if
you do not feel an honest glow of indignation,
I very much fear my good fellow that you are
not many removes from a knave, or to say the
least, have about as much blood in you as a
turnip. We hardly know now which of that
pretty trio, Lincoln, Stanton, or Halleck, we
feel the profoundest contempt for, after read
ing this exposure of their guilt. It is true
there is another set of conspirators. Wilson,
Wade, & Co., who are responsible for much
of the wrong inflicted upon the nation, but
their crime is moderate compared with the
offence of those men who, being in power,
trifle with the interests of the country to gra
tify personal ambition and hatred.
As we shall have occasion frequently to
refer to this report of Genet al McClellan, it is
our purpose now to direct public attention
merely to a few facts connected with the
Peninsula battles, and the Maryland cam
paign. And we desire that it shall ever be
borne in mind that from May, 1862, down to
the memorable letter written from Savage's
Station, (in which Gen. McClellan charged
the Washington cabal with sacrificing the
Potomac Army,) Gen. McClellan urged. ex
postulated, and fairly entreated the cushioned
officials at Washington to send his army rein.
fwcenzents ! There was his telegram dated
near Williamsburg, May 10th, and at Cumber
land, May 14th. In answer to this telegram
Stanton replied that Lincoln was afraid to
uncover the Capital and would retain M'Dowell
with 40,000 men to defend it.
The result of this decision was disastrous.
It rendered it impossible fur Gen. McClellan
to use the James river as a line of operations,
caused great losses and delays in bridging
the Chickahominy, and left his army divided
by that stream instead of being massed. Gen.
McClellan's letters, dated May 21. and 28,
were answered insultingly. On June 24th,
he again appealed to the Secretary of We r for
reinforcements; June sth ditto. On June
14th he begged Stanton not to interfere
with his control of the army. On June
20th ho again besought Lincoln to extend
him the proper aid in men. On June 25th,
he wrote :
" I regret my great inferiority in numbers,
hut feel that I am in no way responsible for
it, as I have not failed to represent repeatedly
the necessity of reinforcements—that this
was the decisive point, and that all the available
means of the government should be concentrated
here."
On the 28th of June, at Savage's Station,
the pent up mortification, sorrow and chagrin
of this noble officer and patriot burst forth
in full volume upon Stanton and his superi—
ors. Flesh and blood could stand no more,
and, in view of wagon loads of dead and
wounded men, Gen. McClellan hurled upon
the guilty heads of the Washington cabal
a censure that will never be forgotten as
long as this war is mentioned in human
annals.
From this time there are just two signifi
cant features in the Report. One covers the
futile labors of McClellan to prevent the
abandonment of the Peninsula ; the other his
efforts to avert the policy which resulted in
the defeat of Pope, and his subseque.it glori
ous campaign to retrieve the consequences of
that defeat and shield the capital from the
advancing rebel legions. It is heart-sicken
ing to read the correspondence from July,
1862, on to the Ist of September, '62. Hal
leek seemed to gloat in the opportunity of
thwarting every plan submitted by Gen.
McClellan, and lost no opportunity of wound
lug him by the most insolent taunts. There
came a time, though, when the finger of
Ilalleck trembled too much to shape taunts,
and the Head of the nation had no leisure for
tap-room jokes. Then 11. W Halleck, Esq.,
(author of a book, and formerly commander
at the Planter' House, St. Louis,) wrote
August 3d, 1862, at 10.7 p. m.
"I beq tf you to assist me in. this crisis with
your ability and experience. lam entirely
tired out !"
Ah ha! the day of gibes and jeers was over
for a time. Lee's legions, flushed with tri
umph, were pouring on, with glittering bay
onets and rumble of cannon, toward the cush
ioned seats at Washington. These were the
days when A. Lincoln, Esq., could write, Sep•
tember 15th : " God bless you and all with
you !" etc., eta.
Alas ! why talk of South Mountain and
Antietam—why talk of the wretched ingrati
tude of the men who owed their very lives to
the skill and genius which gave us Antietam
and South Mountain. Shortly after these
signal achievements came the wolves in full
chorus, and then began the full tide of false
hood and detraction. Malice fattened on its
prey, and the merriment from the cushioned
seats waxed jocund, the rebel hosts were on
the other side of the Potomac and Belisarius
was without a command.
Citizens of tho United States, how long will
ye tolerate these things ?—Plain Dealer. •
THE WAR DEBT OF NEW YORK
Some idea of the cost of the war to States,
counties and towns may he formed from the
statement which appears in the New York
Express of Friday week. The Legislatures of
the State of New York in three years have
appropiated the sum of $13.562,000—the
boards of supervisors, (county officers) $14,-
363,000—common councils, $6,710,000, be
sides town and individual subscriptions. The
Express says : "We can foot up over Fifty
two millions three hundred and eighty-six thou•
sand dollars of war debt for the Empire
State alone." How long, says the Bridgeport
(Ct.) Farmer, can we continue to expend mil
lions upon millions without approaching that
financial crisis awaiting the country in the
future. But still this war for miscegenation
drags its slow length along—the Admiuistra
tiou, trifling alike with the lives and money of
the people, while the day of peace seems far
ther off than in the first summer of the war.
What blind infatuation or criminal timidity
keeps the people silent? What are they
waiting and hoping for ? The time for action,
for an assertion of their inherent sovereignty
and power is now. Your Abolition rulers
intend this war to be an interminable one;
are busied with nothing but the next Presi
dency, and who shall be the candidate, and
will accomplish nothing against the South,
the coming summer, if they can but perpet
uate their power. PEACE is the one desirable
thing for the country—with peace restored to
us Abolitionism is forever overthrown ; with a
continuance of this war we shall lose wealth,
property, and our few remaining civil and
political rights."
MORE DEFALCATION-MORE ROB
The New Orleans correspondent of the St.
Louis Republican, in a letter dated January
28th, says :
" I hear rumors of a case of Swartwouting
on a large scale in the city, but cannot get at
the particulars.
" It is stated that on the night of the 20th,
a burglar entered the office of Major Lawrence,
Paymaster United States Army, by a back
window, and succeeded in opening his safe by
means of false keys, and extracting some
$30,000 in greenbacks, making his escape by
the window through which he entered, and
locking the safe behind him. The loss, it is
further stated, was not discovered until a late
hour yesterday morning. No clue to the
burglar has as yet been obtained."
The fact that the " case of Swartwouting "
is " on a large scale " is no reason why there
shot- ld be any reluctance to publish " the par
ticulars." Out with them I We have become
accustomed to such things daring the past two
or three years, and think we can stand a few
millions more.
In regard to the robbery of the Paymaster
of $30,000, how strange it is that the money
was stolen and gone seven days before it was
missed I Just think of it.
gdr. Merchants and others are invited to
read the Card of Howell & Bourke, Manufac
turer's of Wall Papers, Window Curtain
Papers, &c.,;&0.,-4th., & Market Sts., Phila
delphia, in this fame. This iaa reliable Iltur,
and worthy of publio patronage.
COX OS PREACHERS.
In the louse of Representatives,
SA H UM. S. Cox, of Ohio, in discussing
the proposition to amend the enrollment
bill by exempting ministers of the gospel,
said :
" I am opposed to exempting ministers of
the gospel from their share of the duty of put.
ting down this rebellion. It is a general be
lief among a large part of the people of this
country, both North and South, thatthe most
pestiferous class of human beings—those who
have fomented secession at the South and dis
union at the North—have been the clergy
men. And they are still fomenting hate. ill
will, and unkindness among the people. And
now, gentlemen come here and say that their
profession forbids them to engage in the shed
ding of blood, and that therefore they should
be exempt from military service. Sir, I
cannot recognize that as any argument for
such exemption. lam opposed to this class
legislation. I cannot recognize any differ
ence between ministers of the gospel and men
belonging to any other profession. After all
it is nothing but a business, and in the
matter of allegiance every man, whatever
may be his business, owes his allegiance to
his country.
"My colleague [Mr. Spentratiol thinks I am
mistaken when I say that rebellion has been
fomented by ministers of the gospel, South
and North. My colleague said in his speech
the other day that he had shaken hands
with rebels on Johnson's island, and that he
would rather shake hands with such rebels
than with some men on this side of the
House.
"You were at home shaking hands with
rebels. I was not here when you made that
reference or I could have given you something
more than mere words about loyalty and
patriotism. I would have proved you to be a
seditious man.
"Mg colleague has been himself engaged,
along with ministers of the gospel in his own
district, singing anthems and glorifying old
John Brown's sedition. [Laughter.) More
than that, sir, my colleague was engaged
again and again in Ohio in trying to break
down the laws of the United States, and I can
prove him from papers in my desk to be a
seditionist and revolutionist. He is a con
spirator against the Federal Government.
" I can prove, by papers in my hand, if I
had time to do it, that the gentleman, along
with these ministers who would now be ex
empted, have for years persistently rebelled
against the Federal Government, have striven
to stir up hate and revolution between the
States, to embroil them in conflict, and by
violence to overturn laws which had been de
cided to be valid by the Supreme Court of the
United States. You presided over a conven
tion called for that purpose, and you are not
the man, sir, to impugn my loyalty ! I stood
here fighting against secession and revolution,
while you, in Ohio, during all that time, were
alienating the sections and producing civil
war by your insurrectionary and rebellious
conduct."
It is said that Mr. SPAULDING, cowered and
squirmed under the lash of his colleague like
a whipped spaniel.
A VOICE FROM VIRGINIA
• Pending the consideration in the Senate of
the Bill to Promote Enlistments, Mr. CARLISLE,
of Va., said :
" In these unhappy times, when good men
are rendered odious and bad men popular,
when great men are made little and little men
great, he who would serve his country best
must be above personal considerations.
did not believe there would be an early cessa
tion of hostilities, nor did he believe that the
starvation on which the Rebels had been kept
alive for three years was likely to result in an
early death. (Laughter.)
The Union oould never be restored by • the
mere exercise of coercive power by the Federal
Government. We had just as much, and no
more right, under the Constitution, to say to
the States that Slavery should not be tolerated
within its borders, as we had to say that the
Catholic Religion should not be. He would
go as far as the members from loyal States,
whose soil had never been made the scene of
war, in exerting every power possible to put
down the rebellion ; but he could not consent
to the exercise of powers clearly not within
the scope of Congress and the Federal Govern.
ment under the Constitution.
We should use force against force, and not
repel the love of the honest citizens of the
South, who had never gone willingly into the
Rebellion ; we should never perpetrate acts
like that recently perpetrated by that bad
man Butler on the James R!ver, where ho
sent transports, took the grain and pork of a
widow, and then announced the enterprise as
a great Union victory. We would be obliged
to conquer our own prejudices before we could
conquer the South. A war of conquest was
always interminable, and the position of the
seceded States renders the Union as desirable
to them as to us."
LINCOLN FOR A SECOND TERM
Wilkes' New York Spirit of the Times is a
sporting paper with an immense weekly cir
culation. It is understood to be in the inter
est of Mr. CHASE for the next Presidency.
Like the New York Ledger, it comes out in
remonstrance against the succession of Mr.
LINCOLN, advocates the one-term principle as
the only way in which the nation can be saved
from despotism, and shows a definite and de
cided breaking away from Mr. SEWARD'S the-'
ory, that ABRAE(AII LINCOLN must be President
until the rebellion ceases. The Spirit of the.
limes reviews the manner in which Lincoln
has been manipulated by SEWARD and TERM
LOW WEED ; and how, with the succession as
a bait, they have urged him forward,- , step by
step, from conservatism into jacobinism, until
he is almost ready to proclaim himself a des
pot and change the Republic into an Empire.
It says :
" All this has been brought about in the
conscience of a naturally well intentioned man,
by the corrupting temptation of a double
term ; and we may, judge somewhat further of
the dreadful vigar of that demoralizing influ
ence by the fact, that the patronage of the
Government is not only being squandered at
this moment to debauch the legislatures into
an illict nomination of Mr. Lincoln, but he
has actually been engaged, of late, in granting
pardons to military rebels, who are above the
high-water mark of the amnesty proclamation,
in order that they may come within our lines
and electioneer to carry out his personal pur•
poses.
THE LEGITIMATE RESULT
The Administration, in its humane efforts
to elevate the character of the Africans and
equalize them with the white people, two
years ago benevolently sent from Massachu
setts to Port Royal, South Carolina, at the
expense of the whole people of the United
States, a few hundred spinsters to educate,
civilize and refine all the contrabands at that
place. The New Hampshire Patriot, of the
4th of October, gives the result of this very
benevolent experiment of Mr. Lincoln in the
following paragraph :
" Private advices from Port Royal say that
many of the female Abolitionists who went to
Port Royal to teach the little niggers how to
read and pray, have been obliged within a few
months to abandon their black charges and
open nurseries on their own private account.
An officer informed us recently that no less
than sixty-four white spinsters had contri
buted to the population in and about
Port Royal harbor. The climate seems to
favor population even mire than the pro—
duction of Sea Island cotton by paid inegro
labor.
" The information furnished us by the officer
concerning the sixty-four little - mulattoes, has
been cmfirmed by the testimony of Rev.
Liberty Billings, Lieutenant Colonel of the
let South Carolina regiment, who is here in
consequence of ill health. He said it is sad
truth."
viir It is now stated that the report that
Gen. Sammeti had occupied Jackson is un
true. The city, which is the capital of Mis
sissippi, is reported to be fortified with cotton
bales. It is situated forty miles east of Vicks
burg, and was last summer occupied by Gen.
Grant's troops for about twenty-four hours.
On the departure of his forces the beautiful
State House, (which cost $600,000,) the Gov
ernor's house, penitentiary, banks, and other
buildings, were burned. The city is built on
a level plain, extending over a surface of half
a mile square, and before the war was one of
the prettiest of the Southern cities. -
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LANCASTER'S QUOTA IN THE IMPENDING
SCHIPTION.—The following la the quota to be furnie
Lancaster county under the impending Conarriptio
DLSTHICTS.
Adamstown_
Bart.
Brecknock
CEeruarvon
Clay
Coca!leo East.
Cocalico West ........ .......
Columbia Duper
Columbia Lower
0 leraln
Conroy
Couestog ....... ....... .....
Donegal Nast
Donegal Went •
Drumore
Karl
Earl East
Kart West ........... .........
Eden......... ................
Elizabeth township
Elizabethtown borough
Ephrata
Fulton
Llemptleld East
Hempfleld Went
Lancaster township
Lancaster, N. E. W
Lancaster, N. W. W
Lancaster, S. E. W
Lancaster, 8. W. W
Lampeter East.
Lampeter West
Leacosk
Leacock Uppar...
Little Britain
Manor ......
Marietta
Manneim borough--
Manheim township...
Mantic
id,cint Joy borough..
Mount Joy township
Penn
Pequaa
Providence
Jtapho ...........
Sadsbury
Salisbury .
Strasburg borough...
Strasburg township..
Warwick
Washington .......
YOUNG MEN'S DEMOCRATIC ASST
Below will be found the officers of the "
Democratic Association of the City of Lane:
year 1564:
President—Col. Edward McGovern.
Fire Presidents—Dr. Samuel Weichens, Thomas J
Went., Alexander Patton, William A. Morton
Principal Secretary—A. E. Carpenter.
Assistant Secretaries—George W. Handl.]
Bauman.
Corresponding Secretary—Abram Shank.
Financial Secretary—C. R Coleman
Treasurer—A. Z. Ringwalt.
Executive Committee—Alfred Sanderson, A. J. Stein
man. H. R. Fahnestock, Dr. Samuel Weichens, E. Samara
Metzger, C. R. Coleman,Abram Shank, Ed, McGovern.
FILMIC° Committee- -Charles Nauman, Wm. H. Shober
George W. Kendrick.
Janitor—John Henry.
The Association is in a flourishing condition, and num
bens among its members some of the most active and in
..fineutini young Democrats in the city.
The Association has had for some time a coarse of les
tures in iqew, but, from circumstances over which it has
no control, has been prevented from commencing the
course as early as was Intended. The first lecture is ex
pected to be delivered by Hon. &mom. 8. Cox, the gallant
and fearless representative In Congress from the Columbus
district of Ohio. The time end place will be announced
in a few days .
A full attendance of the members of the Association is
requested at the next meeting, as business of great Im
portance is to be transacted.
VETERANS RETURNED.—What is left of CO.
11.,.77th Regiment, P. V., some twenty men, returned to
this city on Friday morning last, they having re-enlisted
and been granted a furlough for thirty days. This com
pany was raised and commanded, until his promotion, by
Lieut. Col. PYFER, now a prisoner at Richmond, and after
wards by Capt Snitoao, who is likewise a prisoner at the
same place. The company originally numbered one hun
dred men. It le now commanded by Llent. RAM, who
has risen to his present position from the ranks. The men
were gladly welcomed home by their relatives and friends.
JUSTICE TO COL. HAMBRIGHT.—Why cannot
the Abolition organs of this city, and their army corres
pondents, do Justice to this gallant, distinguished and ac•
complished officer? What motive have they in saying
that it was such a Captain who induced the 79th to re-en
list ? They know, as well as we and every other person in.
this city who hat the means of knowing, that the reason
for the Regiment re-enlisting is due altogether to CoL
Hamnamsz. She fact Is, the great majority of the men
would not re-enlist at all, unless the Colonel consented to
stay with them. He is almost idolized by his men, and
the attempt of some "loyal" people to transfer the soldiers'
affections to some petty officer is supremely ridiculous.—
"Let justice be done though the heavens fall."
WASHINGTON'S BIRTH-DAY.The 132 d an
niversary of. the birth of the immortal Wasiiixorort was
ushered in yesterday by a merry ringing of the Washing
ton Engine bell and the firing of a salute. A general dis
play ol flags was observable throughout the city.
THE SOLDIERS' FAIR.—Tho Fair at Fulton
Hall, for the benefit of the sick and wounded soldiers,
commenced yesterday under favorable auspices. The ex
hibition of fancy and other articles is very fine, and the
crowds in attendance give evidence of the deep intermit
felt In ils success by all classes of our citizens. It Is un
questionably, Is all Ito arrangements, the greatest exhi
bition ever witnessed in this city.
FINE SALOONS.—The finest saloons along
the line of the Pennsylvania Railroad are those of Mr.
Owov LIOPPLi. in the Railroad Depot building of this city.
The saloons, three in number, the main, ladles' and gen
tlemen's, are fitted up with much taste and an eye speci
ally to the comfort of visitors. They are under the charge
of Mr. WILLIAM Kautz, an experienced restaurateur, woo
is assisted by the beet of cooks. Hr. HOPPLE has been
particularly fortunate In the selection of his assistants,
who are polite, attentive and indefatigable in catering to
the wants of those who favor the saloons with a visit.—
The liquids and viands kept constantly on hand are suf
ficient to tempt the moat fastidious epicure.
GRAND JURORS to Serve in the Court
Quarter Sessions,commencing Monday, April 18th :
Henry M. Mrsser ' farmer, Earl.
Jacob Becher, gentlemen, Leacock.
David E. Rohrer. farmer, West Hempfleld.
John Hippy, cooper,Columbia.
John Cooper, mercant, Columbia.
Clement (3 Boyd, farmer, Penn.
Benjamin Baddorf, farmer, Penn.
Samuel Pry, miller, Warwick.
Ernst Weidlleh, smith, Martic.
J. B. MUEISBIZMIII, merchant, Brecknock.
Jacob Rhoads, gentleman, City.
John Shoenberger, cabinet maker, Colombia.
Edward D. White, merchant, Csarnarvon.
Robert Wade, gentleman, Leacock.
John C. Frantz, shoemaker, West Coca llco.
Christian Brown, farmer, West Cocalico.
Thomas R. Neal, farmer, Drumore.
Wlllbm 8. Long. farmer, Drumore.
J. B Swartsweider, carpenter, City.
George 8. Becker, farmer, Mount Joy.
John Evans, carpenter, City.
William Kunkle, farmer, Ephrata.
William Steamy, farmer, Strasburg Bor.
Nicholas Danner, shoemaker, Salisbury.
Pam Joanna to serve In the same Court
Henry C. Leman, gentleman, East Hempfleld.
Vincent King, farmer, Colerain .
John R. Zecher, coach maker, City.
Christian B. Shaman, farmer, Manor.
Michael Groff, Innkeeper, Straaburg.
Daniel Brown, gentleman, West Earl.
Simon S. Nagle, butcher, Marietta.
John H. Pearsol, printer, City.
A. L. Henderson gentleman, Salisbury.
N. F Shaeffer, clerk, Upper Leacock.
John Leibley, butcher, City.
hn C. Martin, esquire, Earl.
Jacob S. Miller, innkeeper, Columbia.
Abraham S. Metiger, miller, Conestoga.
John Kauffman, carpenter, Penn.
William Wright, slater, City.
John M. Weller, shoemaker, West Hempfleld.
James Boyd, laborer, Penn.
Christian Brfmmer, farmer, Earl.
C. J Hiestand, miller, Mount Joy.
Harding J. Gilbert, farmer, Eden.
Abraham Eby, farmer, Upper Learock.
Peter Sides, shoemaker, Coney.
Hiram Beatty, laborer, East Donegal.
Benjamin Bauman, clerk, City.
Absalom Bigler, esquire, East Earl.
Abraham L. Shank, farmer, Manor.
Abraham Miller, farmer, Pequea.
Peter Bard, farmer, Ephrata.
John B. Kennedy, farmer ' Colored's.
Jacob Picked, shoemaker, Manor.
Samuel Leman, farmer, Salisbury.
John Allen, farmer, Sadsbury.
Elias Kurtz, farmer, Salisbury.
Edward H. Bryan, farmer, Canny.
Mifflin Elliott, farmer, Providence.
J. Humphreyville, plasterer, City.
Alexander Scott, farmer, Little Britain.
William N. Amer, dentist, City.
Joseph C. Stubbs, firmer, Fulton.
David Landis, miller, West Lampeter.
Gilpin Stubbs, farmer, Fulton.
George Bogle, merchant, Columbia.
Adam Lefever, farmer,Conestoga.
James Shrsoder , shoemaker, Columbia.
~ a cob Frantz, farmer, Conestoga.
Amos Bushong, miller, Eut Lampeter.
Samuel Patterson ' tobcconist, City.
Joreoes to serve in the Court of Common Pleas, com
mencing Monday, April Roth:
Joseph M. Watts, gentleman, Columbia.
John L. Gish, farmer, West Donegal.
Adam Rutter, Innkeeper, Bart.
Elijah Keen, gentleman, Eden.
John W. Mobley, grocer, Oity.
Amos Fasnarcht, farmer, Ephrata.
George Knox. shoemaker,Bert.
Jacob Sides, Jr., farmer, anor.
Samuel Mellinger, farmer, West Cocalico.
Andrew McGinnis, smith, City.
8. W. P. Boyd, farmer, Fulton.
Jacob H. Strickler, laborer, Rapho.
David Baker, farmer, East Hempfleld.
Benjamin Harr, farmer, East Donegal.
J. M. Kreider, shoemaker, West Hempfleld.
Henry Suydam, grocer, Columbia.
John R. Davis, merchant, East Hempfleld.
Christian H. Charles, farmer ' Manor.
Daniel Rife, gentleman, Marl.
Henry K. Dentlinger, gentleman, Leacock.
Adam H. Lefever, farmer, Weet Lampeter.
Jacob Eby, farmer, Paradise.
John R. Royer, miller, Ephrata.
Samuel Elaer, farmer, Clay.
Henry Carter, farmer, Fulton.
Peter Brubaker, farmer, East Earl.
Christian E. Miller, farmer, Conestoga.
James Simpson, farmer, Illtrtic.
Thomas McNeal, farmer, Salisbury.
Henry Fans, wheelwright, Coney.
John Strohm, Jr., miller, Providence.
Daniel W. Witmer, drover, West Hempfleld.
Jacob Grief, gentleman, City.
Henry Barton, farmer, Upper Leacock.
David !Myer, farmer,C m ruarvon.
Jacob Musaelman, frmer, Earl.
A NEW Boos.—We have received from T.
B. Peterson k Brothers, No. 306 Chestnut street, Philadel.
phis, a new novel, just issued by that enterprising firm,
entitled " William Altair; or, Running Away to Sea," by
Mns Henry Wood.
We have not had time to read the book, but, Judging
from the ability displayed by the Authoress in other works
of fiction, we Dave no doubt this last production Ls well
worthy of her fame. For sale at WesthiLeffer's, No. 44
North Queen street. Price 25 cents.
—The Pennsylvania School Journal, for February, le on
our table, and is more than usually well tilled with inter
esting and Destructive educational matter. Thomas 11.
Barrowee, Editor.
—"The Outcast Daughter" la the title of a neat little
volume, Just issued from the press of A. M. Rambo, 0:1-
tumble, PAL The author is Finley Johnson.
The tale is well written, handsomely printed, and will
be sent by mall, postage paid, on receipt of 10 cents, the
prim permunbez.
Tin Oman Palm! AaAnst.—lt appears
there Is to be no end of the troubles at the Prison. Several
Prisoners have escaped recently, tinder peculiar circum
stances; and, to cap the climax, compliant was made
before Alderman Winer, on Tuesday last, against:lDi. Wm
,.,.,. COMPS" the attending Physician, of hating at
tempted to aid a notorious convict, named 000 D, to make
his escape. The complaint was nude by Mr. GROYF, one
of the Prison Inspectors, and a warrant was issued against
the Dr., who Immediately gave bail for a hearing, and
de led In Into the allegation made against him: As the
ease Will have to undergo a legal examination we Rehear
any comment until the evidence is elicited. • The offence
charged is a very grave one, and we sincerely hope the
Dr may be able to establish hie Innocence. The hearing
before the Aldermen will take place today.
A NEW RAILROAD.—We see that Mr. 81L-
L0G71.1.2, of this county, bas introduced a bill In the
Legislature to incorporate the Lancaster and Ephrata
Railroad Company. Let the company be incorporated and
the toad built.
:—By the way, what has become of the Lancaster and
Pine Grove Railroad 1 A charter was granted some years
ago hr the building of this road, but we have heard
nothing of it for a long while. Our man of capital should
by all mean. have this road built, because it would be
great advantage to this city. The coal and Iron ore which
would be transported over the road would pay Its expenses
and leave a handsome profit besides. We shall probably
refer to this anbject again, in the hope of stirring up our
capltaliale to their own and our city'. interests.
THE, WALE IN THE DUCHIES.
On the 2d of February, the first conflict be
tween the Prussians and the Danes took place.
The town of Missunde, on the Schlei, was at
tacked vigorously, and after a six hours' con
flict, the Prussians were repulsed. Several
minor engagements are reported as having oc
ourrect-on the 3d, 4th and sth of February.
The latest intelligence is that the Danes have
evacuated the town of Schleswig, and aban•
doned the important defensive line of the
Dannerwerke, intending to make a stand at
Flendeburg. Thus we have the beginning of
a war which may become of great magnitude
and very important in its results, in Europe.
The leading German powers are involved in
it, and it is a question whether England ,
France, Russia and Sweden will keep out of
it. If the Danes are unsustained by the
Powers that made the treaty of 1851, of course
they will be defeated and will lose the Duch
ies. The royal speech on the opening of the
British Parliament is vtry positive in the
declaration that the Duchies, under the treaty,
are part of the inheritance of King Christian ;
but whether the words will be sustained by
deeds is a question undecided. But the be
ginning of a war in Europe, however it may
terminate, is a matter of importance also in
this country. There is less danger than ever,
of interference with us, now that a war in
Eur pe ha; begun.
OCIATION.—
' Young Men's
sztar," for the
ck, Joseph II
The Hon. F. A. Alborger, late Mayor of
Buffalo, being in Washington, was requested
to ascertain precisely the meaning and effect
of the President's late call for soldiers. His
response is as follows:
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 1864.
C. E. Yourvo, Supervisor, Buffalo.
DEAR Sitt ; Agreeably to your request, I
called upon the Provost Marshal General for
information respecting the President's last call
for men. Colonel Fry very promptly gave it
as the understanding that the last call was
simply the balance required to make up the
call of 500,000 which yet remained from the
draft of July, 1863, the volunteers received
between July and October 17, and from the
call of October 17, to February 1.
To make the statement perfectly plain, we
will suppose the quota of our county under a
call of 500,000 to be 3,000, supposing that
1,000 were raised by substitutes, drafted men,
and commutations paid under the draft of
July, 500 raised by volunteers between July
and October 17, and 1,000 under the call of
October 17 to date ; in all, 2,soo—leaving but
500 to be raised under the last call. If you
have raised your full number for a quota of
500,000 from July last to the present time, you
will not be required to raise any under the
last call.
I am, very truly, your obedient servant,
The Albany Statesman, a Republican paper,
has become so disgusted with the corruption
and dishonesty of administration officials and
partizans, that it speaks out in the following
energetic terms :
A pack of sharks, hungry, villainous and
incorrigible, have fastened upon the public
Treasury and depleted it at the rate of mil—
lions monthly ; that the patronage of the
Federal Government has been bestowed upon
those with whom the electors, if allowed an
exercise of choice, would have absolutely
refused all dealings, until high placegof trust
are held by known and convicted cormorants,
and men drive fast horses and live in free—
stone houses purchased with United States
greenbacks, who ought to be pegging shoes in
State Prisons.
This is the way in which "Honest Old ABE"
" has restored the Government to the purity
" of the fathers."
WHO ARE EXEMPT
The Conscription bill, which has just become
a law, contains, we believe, the following pro-
When a substitute shall be drafted, the
person originally drafted must serve himself
or furnish another substitute. The payment
of $3OO commutation only exempts a man
until the names then in the wheel shall
become exhausted. All sects or persons who
have religious scruples against and whose
oreed prevents them from fighting, and who
can prove that their lives have been consistent
with this idea, are to be allowed when drafted
to go into the hospitals or to assist in taking
care of the freedmen. If the first draft does
not give the number required, the draft is to
be repeated.
ter A war so fierce in its character broke
out among the members of a certain Lutheran
Church in Baltimore, lately, that Marshal
Vannostrand was called on to have a force
ready at the edifice. Serious fears were at
one time entertained that a personal conflict
would take place between the members of the
congregation, and the aid of the police was
accordingly invoked and order preserved. We
are not the least astonished at this outbreak
among the parishoners of these congregations.
They hear naught but war and strife from the
pulpit from Sabbath to Sabbath, and of course,
feel a little inclined to carry out the doctrine
practically.
A BIG SNOW STOILDI
The Ospkosh (Wis.,) Courier of Jan. 30th,
says :—" We are hying the biggest kind of a
snow storm. It has snowed, up to this time,
(nine o'clock A. M. Saturday) for twenty
eight hours continually, interspersed occasion
ally with fine hail, and is now snowing big
guns. We saw snow drifts this morning from
fifteen to forty feet high. Some may •think
this a pretty big story, but it is true neverthe
less. The boys just down from the pinery,
report any amount of snow in the woods, and
hands busy as bees getting in loge. The prices
of logs will be pretty steep next spring owing
to the high price that has to be paid for labor
and all kinds of supplies needed in the woods."
EXEMPTION OF CLERGYMEN FROM THE CON—
ScRIPTION.—In the House there was a sharp
contest upon the exemption of clergymen frpm
the conscription. The furious, fiery politics
of a great number of clergymen, so-called,
their fighting character, &c., tempt members
to throw the whole body into the ranks.
There is a broad spread impression, that but
for the so-called clergy, who have broken the
commands and examples of the Saviour of the
world, there would have been no civil war, at
least in this part of the world. The clergy
exemption, therefore, had but very little sup
port in the House.—Cor. N. Y. Express,
CHICAGO AS A LUMBSIt MARK T.—The total
receipts of lumber by lake at Chicago during
the year 1863 were 393,074,882 feet. These
are largely in excess of the receipts of the
year before, and do not include the receipts
by 'railroad, which were considerable. The
Journal says the past has been the most
prosperous lumber season ever known in the
West, and the prices have been higher than
ever before.
Stew , Pox.—This fearful disease, almost
inseparable from a state of war and the gath
ering of large armies, is fearfully prevalent in
Nashville and Knoxville. In the former place
there•are three thousand four hundred oases!
and the disease was spreading at the rate of
fifty new oases a day. In Knoxville, the die.
ease prevails to an alarming extent.
F. A. ALBERGER
GrEEIZI=
FROM THE SOUTH.
Naw Yopa, Reb.ls
A special to the Herald, dated Headquarters
Army of the Potomac, February 14, says : u There
is nothing special to report from this department.
have received Richmond dates to the 10th inst
The following is Jeff. Davis' proclamation to the
label armies
"Solders of the Army of As Conficisrats
States.—ln the long and bloody war in which your
country is en gaged you have achieved many noble
triumphs. You have won glorious victories over a
vastly more numerous host. You have cheerfully
borne privations and tolls to which you were anused.
Yon have readily submitted to restraints upon your
individual will, that the althea might better par
form his duty to the State as a soldier. To all these
you have lately added another triumph—the noblest
of human conquests—a victory over yourselves. As
the time drew near when you who first entered the
service might well have been expected to claim re
lief from year ardent labors and restoration to the
endearments of home, you have heeded only the
„call of your Buffering country. Again yon come to
tender your service for the public defence—a free
offering, which only such patriotism as yours could
make—a triumph worthy of the cause to which ym
are devoted. I would in vain attempt adequately
to express the emotion with which I have received
the testimonials of confidence and regard with which
you have recently addressed me. To some of those
first received separate acknowledgments were re
turned, but it is now apparent that a like generous
enthusiasm pervades the army, and the only excep
tion to snob magnanimous tender will be of those
who, having originally entered for the war, cannot
display anew their seal in the public service. It is,
therefore, deemed appropriate, and, it is hoped, will
be equally acceptable to make a general acknowl
edgment, instead of successive special'responses.
Would that it were possible to render my thanks to
you in person, and in the name of our common
country, as well as in my own, while pressing the
hand of each war-worn veteran, to recognise his
title to our love, gratitude and admiration.
"Soldiers, by your will (for you and the people
are but one) I have been placed in a position which
debars me from sharing your dangers, your suffer
ings, and your privations in the field. With pride
and affection my heart has accompanied you in
every march. With solicitude it has sought to
minister to your every want. With exultation it
has marked year every heroic achievement; yet
never, in the toilsome march, nor in the desperate
assault, have you rendered a service so decisive In
results as in the last display of the highest qualities
of devotion and self-sacrifice which can adorn the
character of the warrior patriot. Already the pulse
of the whole people beats in unison with yours.
Already they compare your spontaneous and unani
mous offer of your lives for the defence of your
country with the halting and reluctant mercenaries
who are purchased by the enemy at the price of
higher bounties than have hitherto been known in
war. Animated by this contrast they exhibit a
cheerful confidence and a more resolute bearing.
Even the murmurs of the weak and timid, who
shrink fromthe trials which make stronger and firmer
your noble nature, are shamed into silence by the
spectacle which they present. Your battle-cry will
ring loud and clear, through the land of the enemy
as well as our own; will silence the vainglorious
boasting of their corrupt partisans and their pen
sioned press, and will do justice to the calumny by
which they seek to persuade a deluded people that
you are willing to purchase dishonorable safety by
degrading submission."
The victories of Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro,
Chickahiminy, Manassas, Fredericksburg and Chan
cellorville are referred to, and the downfall of the
Union armies is confidently predicted.
TIIE DESTRUCTION OF NEWSPAPERS BY MOBS.
—ln reference to the recent destruction of a
newspaper in Ohio, by a mob, the Columbus
Crisis says:
We are satisfied that there has not been
a mob of this sort, anywhere, which has not
been planned and instigated by the leading
and wealthy Republicans and Loyal League
officials. This should never be overlooked,
ani the names of these guilty instigators of
mobs should be carefully preserved, so that
there need be no mistakes made. It is a
matter of remark that nearly every one of
these leading Abolitionists are men ~f wealth
and promjnence who encourage these mods.
Thev are the oligarchy of our State, and
the North, They are the natural enemies of
liberty, constitutional government and the
white laboring man. They care nothing more
about the negro than simply as a means to
accomplish their ends in destroying the poor
white man and getting , vid of his influence in
elections, and to prevent hie influence in
framing the policy of our Government in the
protection of the white man's rights as a free
citizen. These things should not be forgotten
or mistaken."
tee The Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Times speaks of the recent appro-__
priation of $600,000 to place obstructions in
the Potomac river, as timely, in reference to
future attempts on Washington. He says:
I seriously believe that such an attack will
be made. Indeed the evidence before me will
not permit me to think otherwise. Of all the
delusions with which the people have been
humbugged for three years past, the most
cruel is that which has recently emanated from
persons in high position here, to the effect that
the rebellion is now on its last legs, and that
its military power is broken. I will venture
to say now that the events of next March,
April and May will be as startling as a clap
of thunder, and will convince the world that
the rebellion is now relatively as strong as
ever, and that its armies are more effective now
than ever before.
THE WAY IT WORKS
The West Chester Jeffersonian states that a
well-to-do man residing in the neighborhood
of the Steamboat station, on the Pennsylvania
railroad, in Eait Whiteland township, enlisted
in the 97th regiment P. V., (Col. Guss) at
the beginning of the v ar, and left hie wife
and children in comfortable circumstances, at
the same time sending money home to them,
at different periods. The wife, it appears,
saved up and deposited in one of the banks
her husband's earnings, to tha amount of some
two or three hundred dollars. Everything
seemed to be going on smoothly, until about
a fortnight ago, when the soldier's wife
eloped with a negro, leaving her little
children with her father, who resides near
by. Before leaving however on their bridal
tour, they both visited West Chester, where
the wife drew all her husband's savings to
make a start in the world with her sable
paramour.
CRSATINO IN VOLVNTEERS.-A letter from
New York gives the following information
The court martial now in session here, for
the trial of persons accused of improper en
listing, is developing some rare specimens of
sharp pratice. Seventy-five men in one batch
will have to be discharged, owing to physical
disability. Among these are one idiot, two
blind men, one subject to fits, two or three
unable to waddle from obesity, five habitual
drunkards, and thirty-eight who are under or
over age. A large number have already
been,dischargecl, all of whom received three
hundr , d dollars from the county, which for
the most part, went to the " brokers." Some
of the Surgeons are also in the ring, who
" pass " anybody, and receive their fees for so
doing. The whole system is proving to be
rotten to the core and a standing reproach to
the city.
j "After a calm, impartial and patient
consideration of the subject, I am convinced
that by the proper employment of our re•
sources, it is entirely possible to bring this
war to asucceesful military issue, and that
such results should be accompanied and fol—
lowed by conciliatory measures and that, by
pursuing the political course I have always
advised, it is possible to brbig about a perma
nent restoration of the Union—re union by
which the rights of both sections shall be pre
served, and by which both parties shall
preserve their self respect while they respect
each other."—McClellan's Report.
For such honorable and manly sentiments,
remarks an exchange, the ablest general who
has led our armies to victory, receives the
abuse and vilification of the par excellence
Unionists and " friends of christianity." The
Butlers are their worthy models. " A reunion
by which the rights of both sections shall be
preserved," is despicable in the sight of these
" christian philanthropists," only because it
would be the death-knell of their corrupt and
unholy ambition for self aggrandizement.
If this nation is ever to be united and pros•
perous, (and we pray God it may be,) it can
only be by a union in which " both parties
shall preserve their self respect, while they
respect each other."—Providence (R. I.) Post.
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Coughs, Irritation of the Throat oaused, by
Cold, or Unusn'artxertion of the vocal orglns,
in speaking in public, or singing, they produce
the most beneficial results.
BEWARE OE' THAT DANGER I—Most all of our
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laws of life ; a cold becomes a sore throat,
hoarseness, difficulty of breathing, cough, Bw. Now a single 25 cent-box of Bryan's Pulmonio
Wafers will prevent all these serious conse—
quences. Sold by Kaufman lc Co., East
Orange Street.