IjeUnctuder InteUtgenta OEO. SANDERSON, EDITOR. A. SANDERSON, Amsoeiste. LANCASTER, PA., MARCH 15, 1864 air B. W. Plum= t oo.'s AIRINEISING Aeon, 87 Park Bow, New York Oity, and 10 State stand, Boston. B. U. Pomo= k Co., are Agents for The Losscader hiaposser, and the most inikential and largest circula ting Noripsitt_the United Rates and the Osnadas,-- 11hazraze tabled to =tract for us at our hived rata Hams k Anon, No. 886 Broadway, New York, are authorised to receive advertiaements for The Intent- MOW, at oar lowest rates. Sir JOICIS Win's ADVIIMUTIM AHEM is located at N 0.60 North 6th street, Philadelphia. He is authorized to rece ei ive advertheinentB wad sulactiptbms for The Lancaster S. wer. B. Nam, No. 1 Boollay's Building, Court BL, Boston, is oar authorized Agent for receiving advertisements, an. 0 T-T a F I_, -A_ Now oar flag Is flung to the wild winds free, Let it float o'er oar father land, And the guard of Its spotless fame shall be Columbia's chosen band. "CLING TO THE CONSTITUTION, AS THE SHIPWRECKED MARINER CLINGS 10 THE LAST PLANK, WHEN NIGHT AND THE TEMPEST CLOSE AROUND HIM."-DANIEL WEBSTER. The Gallant 79th. Col. HAMBRIGHT'S Regiment is ex pected to reach here this afternoon or to-morrow. A glorious reception awaits them. For arrangements see local column. A Great Speech We have received a copy of the very able speech of the Hon. JOHN L. DAWSON, delivered in Congress on the 24th ult. It is a masterly production, and thoroughly exposes the folly and persistent wickedness of the Abolitionists. We wish we had room to lay it before our readers in full, but its great length renders that impossible. 4r, The Senate Organized The State Senate was organized in a Constitutional manner on Wed nesday last, thanks to the firmness of the Democratic members who have manfully stood up for their rights for two long and weary months. On that day Mr. PENNEY, who had usurped the position from the commencement of the session, feeling, doubtless, that it was full time to pay some regard to the re quirements of the Constitution, re sigßed the post and was immediate ly re-elected to the Speakership by a ,vote of 17 to 16. He was then sworn in by Senator CLYMER, his competitor, and now the business of legislation will go on in the regular way. This act of Speaker PENNEY is a tacit acknowledgment of his own usurpation, and a proud and trium phant vindication of the course of the sixteen Democratic Senators, who, in an address, published in an other column, clearly and conchal sively show to the world that their course was right and that the con duct of the Abolitionists was wrong all through this protracted contro versy. Colonel Dablgren Colonel DAHLGREN, who was killed in Kilpatrick's raid on Richmond, came into notice in 1862 as an aid to General Fremont, and was by him assigned to the staff of General Ru fus Saxton. Under General Fre mont, Captain DAHLGREN participa ted in the campaign near Cross Keys, Virginia, June Bth, 1862. When General Fremont was relieved, DAHLGREN was attached to General Sigel's staff, and participated in the campaign of the army of Virginia. November 9th, 1862, he made a suc cessful dash into the city of Freder icksburg, at the head of a small force, and succeeded in taking dur ing this raid a larger number of military prisoners, than those which composed his command. During the Pennsylvania campaign of June and July, 1863, Captain DAHLGREN behaved with distinguished gallan try, and was severely wounded dur ing an engagement near Hagerstown, finally having his leg amputated be low the knee. He was then promo ted to the rank of Colonel of Vol unteers. New Hampshire Election The election in New Hampshire on Tuesday last resulted, as we an ticipated, in the triumph of the Abo litionists. The majority will proba bly reach 5,000. The Democrats of the Granite State made a noble fight, but shoddy and colonization overpowered them. We expect a similar result in Connecticut in April. sir The Whisky Bill, as it has at length passed both Houses of Congress, places a tax of sixty cents on all spirits to he manufactured un til the first of July, and for the time thereafter, future legislation must provide. A tax of forty cents on foreign liquors is, however, added ; but there is no tax of the stock on hand of domestic liquors. THE WAR. The Confederates have driven the negro garrison out of Suffolk, Vir ginia. On Wednesday last they attacked Suffolk and the negro troops becoming panic-stricken, abandoned the place and retreated eight miles. One hundred of the negroes were captured; the killed and wounded are not reported. Reinforcements hurried forward by General BUTLER, stopped the retreat, and the Federal lines are now about eight miles from the town. sir Lieutenant General GRANT was on a brief visit to Washington last Week, but has again returned to the South West. OCR. RELATIONS -WITH FRANCE. I The statement published in the London ! Post, in regard to the confidential negotiations ; for the recognition of the Southern Confeder soy, which were to have been entered upon I by the French and English Governments, is much stronger than it was originally reported to be by telegraph. The Post does, indeed, decline to vouch for the authenticity of the I report ; but adds, at the same time, that the information was derived from reliable sources; have received confirmation from influential quarters in London, and had been current in that city for several days. The Washington , correspondent of the New York World also states, "on what is deemed to be the best au I thority," that our relations with France are, at this time, in a very critical condition, and that those who tloped that foreign interven tion would not take place are more likely, than ever before, to be disappointed. The New York correspondent of the Phila. delphia Inquirer states that a bearer of. dis patches from Mr. Dayton, our Minister to France, arrived in the steamer City of New York, and immediately started for Washing ton. The name of this messenger does not appear in the published list of passengers. He is said to have been quite communica tive, the substance of which is that the Emperor had intimated to Mr. Dayton, quite recently, that, after waiting long and patient ly, he could see no satisfactory evidence of the ability of the Federal Government to put down the rebellion and restore the Union that the interests of France continued to suf fer severely from the blockade, and the conse quent suspension of commercial intercourse with the South; that French forbearance in that particular had been met only by hostile criticism of the Emperor's Mexican policy, by the Northern journals ; that the notes which the Minister of Foreign Affairs bad recently received through the American Minister, in relation to the Confederate steamers Florida and Georgia, were discourteous and dictatorial in their tone ; and, finally, that it was due to the cause of humanity that something should be done by some power like France, not un friendly to either belligerent, with a view of terminating a civil war which had raged so long, without definitive results. RICH AND RACY The quarrel among the Abolitionists at Washington gr .we wider and deeper. Gen. Frank Blair's hold speech in Congress on Saturday week, produced an excitement among the original Disunioniets, Simon pure " Sectional faction, only equaled by the alarm they had themselves just previously produced among the Lincoln faction by the Pomeroy-Chase manifesto. The Tribune pub lishes, in the form of a real or pretended telegram from Washington, some bitter com ments on the speech, and smartly slapping Lincoln over Blair's shoulders. The writer prefaces his slap at Lincoln by first eulogizing Mr. Deming, of Connecticut, for his speech endorsing the Presidential reconstruction scheme—a doctrine by the way, which Mr. Deming earnestly condemned, and said he should oppose, shOrtly before leaving Hart ford for Washington : " He was followed," (says the Tribune) "by Frank Blair, in a harangue that has left the most painful impression of any partizan speech deliverod upon the floor of the House for years. He denounced the Missouri radi cals, attacked Winter Davis and his Mary land policy, assailed and condemed the lowa Republicans for urging Gen. Schofield's re moval, attacked Speaker Colfax for stowing him away on unimportant committees, al though he has a place upon the military and private land claims, and crowned the hostile muck he ran through the crowd of tried and trusted Republicans by a denunciation of Secretary Chase as corrupt in office, a charge which he had the audacity to say he held him self responsible for as a soldier, a gentleman, and a representative. The most iemarkable thing in the speech and that which lett be hind it a painful impression; was the assump tion throughout the whole of it that the Speaker was the President's champion, and that be epok in his interest." WHERE. THE BLAME BELONGS The following order places beyond dispute the question as to the authority which under took the Florida expedition. It also exhibits very clearly the objects proposed by its authors, and how little they were connected with any military operations having for their end the destruction of the armed military power of the Confederates : HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, HILTON HEAD, S. 0., Jan. 31. In accordance with the provisions of the Presidential Proclamation of pardon and am nesty, given at Washington on the Bth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thous and eight hundred and sixty-three, and in pursuance of instructions received from the President of the United States, Major John Hay, Assistant Adjutant General, will pro ceed to Fernandina, Florida, and other con venient points in that State, for the purpose of extending to the citizens of the State of Florida an opportunity to avail themselves of the benefit of that proclamation, by offering for their signature the oath of allegiance therein prescribed. and by issuing to all those subscribing to said oath certificates entitling them to the benefits of the proclamation. Fugitive citizens of the State of Florida with in the limits of this department will have an opportunity to subscribe to the same oath and secure certificates in the office of the post commander at Hilton Head, South Carolina. By command of .N.laj. Gem Qt. A. GILMORE, E. W. SMITH, Asst. Adj't Gem =El= The Concord (N. II.) Patriot, in comment ing upon the result of the election in that State, says : " Never in the world's history was there such an amount of open, palpable, shameless fraud, corruption and knavery employed to carry a popular election. Hundreds, nay thousands of poor or mercenary voters were openly bribed, or otherwise induced by cor— rupt appliances, to vote the Republican ticket. Hundreds of Democrats were denied the right of suffrage by Republican officials ; and hun dreds were allowed to vote that ticket, by those officials, who had no legal right to vote. In addition to this, some 4000 soldiers were brought home to vote, most of them " picked men," or solemnly pledged to vote for Gill more, while those who would not thus pledge themselves were kept in the field ; and hun— dreds of other employees of the Government were all sent here t vote—all at the public expense. These with the numerous false pre tences and deceptive devices always resorted to by the Republican leaders to delude and defraud honest people, were the all-sufficient causes of the result we record." •Wr . The correspondent, of the New York Express, writing from New Orleans under date of February 27th, reports that the Con federates have again occupied the Teche country in force. They had made a most determined and successful advance on Ber wick's Bay, and had taken possession of the town of Franklin, from which the Federal troops were withdrawn for the purpose of concentrating them at Brashear City. The Federal force that was stationed at Matagorda Bay had been recalled to New Orleans, leav ing a body of negro troops, with a few com panies of whites, to garrison Fort Esperanna. NRE JERRIE OF' THE PRESS The New York Times is sublimely indig nant that there are restrictions on the freedom of the press in France, and discharges a flood of eloquence on the French, inveighing against their submissive temper, which calmly yields to an oppression, which, it says, can be shaken off only by revolution. But before the Tomes pushes its zeal of propagandism into the dominions of the French Emperor, we would suggest that true wisdom dictates, it should exert its missionary strength at home, in proselyting our rulers and their abettors. 'UNITED STATES INTEREST Five hundred millions of dollars of United States 5-20 bonds were taken at a time when it required $l5O in currency to purchase $lOO in money or gold So that the government realized three hundred and thirty-three and a third millions of dollars of money for its five hundred millions of bonds, and as it pays interest on one-third more money than it has received, the holders of the bonds get 9 per cent. in currency ; but as gold is now selling they get about 10 per cent. The law author izing This loan requires the interest to be paid in gold as long as Congress pleases to have it paid in that article, and no longer. • Is oar-country rich enough to pay such a rate of interest on an immense debt? Wealth produces an income. A tax on incomes tells us how great the wealth of a nation is . . The • income tax of Great Britain, being the same per centage as ours, netted over $5O 000.000 last year. Ours about sll,ooo,ooo —showing that the wealth of Great Britain is about five times as great as ours, and her ability to carry along a vast debt is proportionately great.— England's debt is about four thousand mil lions of dollars. On this she pays an average interest of 3 per cent. Our debt, if brought all together this day, could not be less than three thousand millions. England's capacity to pay being five times greater than ours, we should multiply this by 5 in order to make the comparison between the debt burden of the two nations. This gives us, compared with England, fifteen thousand millions of dollars. Then call the average of our debt 6 per cent., though we are actually paying over nine for a part of it, and we must double the sum of our debt in order to get at the annual burden, as compared with that of England—and this gives us thirty thousand millions of dollars. That is, our present debt, when we estimate our ability to pay and the rate of interest we are paying, would be equal to a debt of thirty thousand millions in England, with their rate of interest and ability to pay it. England has her hands full to manage a debt of four thousand millions of dollars, and still it appears that she could manage a debt of thirty thousand millions of dollars, with her resources and 3 per cent. interest, as easily as the United States can manage three thous and millions with our resources and 6 per cent. interest. "Comparisons are odious," but we get most of our knowledge by com parisons, and we should not shrink from making them when necessary to obtain an in sight into the true state of a case.—Hartford Times. How ENGLAND MAKES WAR—TEN THOUS AND PERSONS " ACCIDENTALLY " BURNED ALIVE IN JAPAN.-England was much shocked at the beginning of the rebellion with our mode of making war, particularly in closing the harbor of Charleston. An English jour nal, the London Daily News, has a letter from its correspondent in Japan, which shows how England makes war : "In August last, in Japan, not a building with 2,000 beings in it, but a whole city of 170,000 souls was suddenly burned to ashes in a few hours—a city of paper and bamboo, covering many square miles, filled with its women and children, the sick and the infirm, the blind, the halt and the maimed. It burned like straw on many sides at once, reddening the ocean for leagues with its flames. It was fired without warning by bombshells, and red hot shot rained incessantly during two days in its midst. In that vast conflagration it is morally certain that not 2,000 only, but at least five times, perhaps ten or twenty times 2,000 helpless creatures must have perished. No brilliant pen has painted for us the hide ous incidents of their last agonies and the horrors of an infernal fire, before which that of Chili burns but pale and feebly. That death was dealt out to those innocent beings in Japan by English sailors—purposely, un sparingly and boastfully—not in war, not in necessity, not in self-preservation, but in order to strike terror into a harmless people whom we are bent upon forcing into trade." From the Pittsburg Post EXPENSES OF THE WAR AND WANTS OF THE GOVERNMENT It is now well ascertained that the expenses of the war and the wants of the Government will require, in addition to means from other sources, that the internal taxes shall yield fully $200,000,000 for the next fiscal year. There is no dodging this . necessity. The above precious information comes through the leading organ of the Abolition party in this section, the Pittsburgh Gazette. Two hundred millions must be raised by in ternal taxes alone, in addition to means from other sources. The share for Pennsylvania of the internal revenue will be over thirty three millions of which Allegheny county must pay over two millions annually. What our State, county and city taxes will be for the next fiscal year, we will not enlarge upon for fear we may be considered hostile to the Govern ment. We leave the figures for the Gazette. THE HEALTH OF HA/IGEN VIC It would really seem that Queen Victoria is not to escape the hereditary defect of her " ancient and noble family." A rumor now prevails at Washington, that she is about to abdicate the throne in consequence of mental infirmity, while the advices by the city of New York add confirmation to reports which have hitherto been current, that the Queen is men tally incapacitated from any longer holding the position of sovereign. She has not been able to sit at Council without betraying her mental infirmity ; and the recent action of members of the Cabinet, particularly that of Lord Palmerston, has given the English pub lic an intimation that a change in the mon archy may speedily be anticipated. The course of the Prince of Wales lately has indicated a preparation to assume the reins of power. It is undoubtedly the fact that, should he do so, an entirely new foreign policy would be inaugurated upon the Danish question immediately, and afterward upon American affairs, to our advantage. He will reign under the title of King Edward the Seventh. A PROPHECY In the course of his recent speech against the policy of the Administration, Mr. EDEN, of Illinois, made a political prophecy which is worth reproducing, and it is this: " Should this Administration be continued in power for another term, the war will go on until the financial schemes of Secretary Chase shall crumble into ruin, when it will of necessity cease, leaving in its desolating course a divided country and a ruined people. On the other hand, should the Democracy succeed in the next Presidential election, the Union will be restored under the Constitu— tion in less than six months after its acces sion to power, as I believe without the neces sity of shedding a single drop of blood." ABOLITION OUTRAGES Hardly a day passes that wo do not hear of fresh outrages committed by Abolitionists upon the persons or property of Democrats.— This is particularly the case in Ohio. The Columbus Statesman, of the Bth, says : " A gentleman just from Darke county in— forms us that the establishment of the Green ville Democrat was entirely, destroyed by an Abolition mob, on Saturttly night, with the knowledge and connivance of the leaders of that party in that section of the State. The law office of Hon. William Allen, ex-member of Congress, and the office of Dr. John E. Matchett, another prominent Democrat, were badly injured by the mob. The Democrats have notified the Abolition leaders of Darke county that they will be required to bring the perpetrators of this outrage to condign punishment, or they will have to submit to retaliation ; and they are only given till next Friday [the llthl to do the work." Recently the Youngstown (Ohio) Sentinel was mobbed by the Leaguers. The Demo crats, justly indignant, held a meeting and " Resolved, That as Democrats we are ut terly opposed to the mob spirit overruling all law and order—but as freemen we will not submit to such outrages upon our rights and liberties, and, unless redress for the present and security for the future be given, we, will be compelled to resort to the best means to seourii self-rireservation - and enforce our pro- LOCAL DEPARTMENT. RETURN OF THE 70th. The following despatch was received by the Mayor on Faturday cvenlug: lamsocous, March 12, 1864. To Hoe Go , . Seenzasoe Eleventy.Nlnth leave hare this P M , at 6 o'clock; lay One day at Pittsburg. Arrive Wednesday morning or noon. H. A HAMBRIGHT, Col 79th Pa. Vole. The Committee of Arrangements of 'the City Coen have appointed the following committee of ladies anigen- Haman to assist at the relishes to be given the 19th: Mrs. Ord. Hambrlght, Mrs. Jacob Becher, Mrs. Col Dutchmen, Mn. Henry W. Hager, Mil. Col. Franklin. Mrs Oa Miles, Mrs. Gen. Shaeffer, Mrs MeJ Mrs. Col. Dickey, Mrs Lieut Betsou, Mrs. Geo Sanderson. Mrs. John Conner, Mrs R. Hubley, Mrs. Jamb Camber, Mrs Win. P. Brioton, Mrs. Samuel Weleheus, Mr-. Thom. Baumgardner, Sirs O. R. Froilsy. Mrs 11. B. Swerr, lire Daniel Aliirk, Mrs. H. E. Leman, Mrs John A. lerbso. Mrs R. S. Rohrer, Mrs. P. Fitspetrick, • , Mrs. Laura L. Miller, Mrs. J. F Kan's Mrs 0 J Phelps, Mrs. Rudolph Shank, Mrs. N. Lightner, Mrs C. Widmyer. Mrs. It C. Darlington, Sirs. Charles M [towel), Mrs. L Moldy, Mrs. Rol art A. Evans, Mrs. J B. Livingston, Mrs William Mathiot, Mrs. Gee. M. Steinman, . Mrs. John H Reigart, Mrs. Charles V. angler, Mrs W. W. Brown, Mrs George K. Read, Mrs. S. H R.,yoolds, , Mrs. Henry Schaum, Mrs M Wenger. Mrs Stuart A. Wylie, Mrs George I, Boyle, Mrs. Gerhart Metzger, Mrs B F Cos, Mrs. Andrew ?Ilene', Mrs Elias Barr, Mrs. Jacob Gruel, Mrs John M Rutledge, Mrs. John Reese, . Mrs Henry Blickenderfer, Mrs. Andrew McGinnis, Mrs Henry Franke, Mrs. A. Lechler, Mrs Jamb N Miller, Mrs. I. E. Mester, Mrs Henry E Slaymaker, Mn. James Quinn, Mrs Adam Trout, Mrs. John Kuhns, Manor et, Mrs John A Sheeff, Mrs. Henry Wilhelm, Mrs Jacob Stauffer, Mrs. C. R. Coleman, Mrs James P Dyeert, Mrs. Fred. Miller, Fine st, Mrs Martin Shreiner, Mrs. D. W. Patterson, Mrs Jacob Shiesler, Mrs. Peter Miller, Mrs Emanuel Kirk, Mrs. Margaret Getz, Mrs A W Bolenlus, Mrs. Mary Sheaf, Mrs E 6 erfoot. Mrs. Thomas J. Wentz, Mrs George F. Rote, Mrs. William Carpenter, [Mrs H M Creager, Mrs. D. G. Eshleman, Miss Mary Sanderson, Miss Harriet Lane, Miss Kate Mathlot, Miss Harriet Buchanan, Miss Mary Carpenter, Miss Ada Metzger, !Vise Joesphine Myer, Mire Annie Slaymaker., Miss 8 Wien!, Miss Mary Steinman, Miss Laura Lefever, Miss Emma Shenk, Miss Kate Fahnestock, Miss-Lizzie Deaner, Miss Eliza Smith, Miss Mary Saner, Miss Lizzie McG rann, Miss Margie Mower, Miss Mule Dunn, Miss Lizzie Rangier, Miss Annie Dunn, Miss M Witlinger, Miss A McOonomy, Miss Mary Yeisley, Miss Bettie Shober, Miss Kee Miller, W King, Miss Blanche Nevin, Miss Massie Burrowes, !des Kittle Reigart, Miss Annie Shober, Miss Mary Carpenter, Or. et, Miss Jane Wright, Miss Kate Zimmerman, Mice Eliza ilubley. Mr Lewis Haldy, IDr D McCormick, Mr John Reese, Mr Henry Schauer, Mr Henry Baumgardner, Dr John Levergood, Mr John D Sines, Mr Emanuel Kirk, Mr Andrew Meizell, Mr Charles M Howell, Mr George K Reed, ,Mr John A Sheer, Mr Henry Barnett, Mr Henry E Slaymaker, Mr Henry E Leman, Col 0 J Dickey, Mr William A Morton, Mr T Stevens, Jr, Mr Joseph Barnett, Mr John A Shober, Mr John A Shultz. Mr David Bair, .Jr, Mr Samuel It Reynolds, Mr William Carpenter, Gen George Si Steinman, Mr John Metzger, Mr William Miller, N Queen, Mr Watson H Miller, Mr Patrick McEvoy, Mr John T MacGonigle, Mr Luther Richards, Mr floury W Hager, Mr B J McGrann, Mr Af J Weaver. Mr Abraham Hirsh, Hr Daniel Altick, Mr D O Eshleman, Mr John A Erben, Mr H B Swarr, Mr Michael Zshm, Mr W W Brown, Mr George A King, The wives, mothers or sisters of the returning soldiers of the regiment, whose names do not appear in the above list, are respectfully invited to unite with the committee, as it was impossible for the undersigned committee to know them all. The Committe have selected Col. Ririe H. DUCCOLiIa as Chief Marshal, and he has selected the following Assistant Marshals and Aide: Assistant Marshals—Col. Emlen Franklin, Capt. George Musser. Aide—B. J. AlcOrann, Col. 0. J. Dickey, Win. Miller, Col. D. W. Patterson, George H. Brown, Samuel H. Rey nolds, Mitchell J. Weaver, Albert E. Carpenter, Capt. Benjamin F. Baer,James MecOonigle. ORDER OF PROCEESSION. Chief Marshal and Aide. Band. Mayor, City Councils and other City Officials. Committee of Reception. Sick and Wounded Soldiers in Carriages. 79th Regiment, Col. Hembright. 77th Regiment, with all other Soldiers and Discharged Volunteers in the City. Clergy. Judges of the Court and Members of the Bar. City School Board. Faculty and Students of Franklin dc Marshall College. City Fire Department. The various Lodges and Beneficial Societies of the City and County. Citizens on foot, horseback and in carriages. The various Lodges, Societies and Companies intending to participate will please report to the Chief Marshal. on Wednesday morning, at 10 o'clock, at the Mayor's Office. ROUTE OF PROCESSION. The procession will be formed on the Harrisburg Turn pike, the right resting on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and will mareh over the following route: Along the pike to James street, along James to North Queen, down North Queen to Centre Square, up East King to Middle, down Middle to South Queen, up South Queen to Centre Square, down West King to Prince, up Prince to Orange, out Orange to Charlotte, up Charlotte to West King, down West King to Fulton Hall, where the procession will be dismissed, and the returning soldiers entertained. Upon the departure of the troops from Harrisburg the belle of the city will be rung for 15 minutes, and again upon their arrival here, and will continue ringing until the procession is dismissed. HENRY CARPENTER, GODFRIED ZAHM, ANTHONY E. ROBERTS, ENPI, RHOBER, A. W. RUSSET,, J. H. RCTLb,'DOE, Committee of Arrangements THE DEMOCRATIC C,UNTY CON VENTION. The Democratic County Convention moot: at Fulton Hall, tomorrow (Wednesday) at 11 o'clock, A. M. The fnEowing are the delegates. ae far as heard from: City— N. W. Ward—Emanuel Shober, Dr. Samuel Welchem, William McComeey, Thomas Coleman, Charles G. Deal. City—N. E. Ward—John Rose, Jacob Stormfelts, Alfred ,derson, Daniel Okeson, Samuel H. Reynolds. City—S. W. Ward—Dr. Henry Carpenter, Abram Shank, mes Peoples. Henry &haulm, Charles F. Rangier. City—S. E. Ward--J. H. Hegner, Jr., William A. Mor— ton, Abraham Hirsh, Samuel Shroad, John T. MaeGonlgle. Columbia—N. Ward--Joseph M. Watts, H. M. North, Goo. Young, Jr., Crl. Daniel Herr, J. K. ,Eberlein. Donegal West—lsaalt Winters, Christian Kautz, Andrew Walters. Elizabethtown—EL Y. Shultz, John W. Shearer, George W. Boyer, John S. Ebersole, John Sb.ffer, Sr. Earl—Peter Rana, Uriah Baines, Capt. lease HMI, Abraham G. Smoker, Samuel B. Steffy. FUNERAL Of COL. STAMBAUGH.—The funeral of COL 5TM413&13011, whose decease. is noticed under the obituary brad, took place on Sunday afternoon, at 3 o'clock, from his late residence, hisown loved " Annadale," and was attended by an immense concourse of our citizens in carriages and on foot. The funeral cervices were con ducted by Rev. Mr. W.EIMKIND, of St. John's Lutheran Church. The funeral proceeded to the Lancaster Ceme tery. where the remains were interred. Col. STAMBAUGH had been a prominent actor in the poll. ties of this State for over forty years. In early life he was a Printer. having learned the trade in the office of WILLIAM DicEsoN, the first editor and proprietor of this paper. He was, we think, the first editor In Pennsylvania to bring Gee. Jackson's name forward for the Presidency. He had occupied many responsible position•. The last public position he held was that of Surveyor General in Utah, from which be returned a little over a year ago. He had strong, robust constitution, and had been sick but a short time, but the atom monster, Death, came at last, and he has been gathered to his fathers. "After life's fitful fever he sleeps well." MR. FLINT'S LECTURE.—Do not forget the lecture of HENRY M. FLINT, Esq. , at Fulton Ran, touor. row evening. We have every reason to think that It Is well worth hearing. AN ABOLITION JUBILBE.—The Dis Union Leaguers of this city had a grand jubilee on Saturday night over, what is raid to be, the success of their corrupt crow in New Hampshire. The Jubilee consisted In a num ber of the modern loyal (1) airs being played by the Band, a bon fire kindled in front of the League Herm, and the word " Victory " blazing forth In a gas jet. We don't be lieve, although there aro some persons wicked enough to say so, that the defeat of the Federal troops in Florida, and the sacrifice of 1800 lives to give three bogus electoral votes to Old Abe. was the principal cause for the glorifica tion. What horrid people some of them Copperheads are, because no other persona would say such a thing. NoT HARD TO CRACK.—We learn incident ally that the Rev. Dr. HODGSON, formerly the esteemed Pastor of the Duke Street M. E. Church in this city, but now in charge of the Fifth Street DI. E. Church, Philadel. phia, attended a social gathering of some of the members of his congregation a few evenirgs ago, when the follow• ing joke was perpetrated upon him: During the course of the evening, the conversation having somewhat flagged, it was proposed that the Dr. should 'crack a joke" Suit ing the action to the word, a out (or what appeared to be one) was handed to him, and when he cracked it, lo and behold I the kernel consisted of two $lOO bank bills which he quietly lodged in his pocket. It is needless to add that the Dr. enjoyed the joke very much, and we doubt not would be willing to crack similar nuts as often as they are presented to him. This incident gots to show t h e fast bold Dr. H has on the affections of his people, and no by his superior talents and correct Christian deportment, is more entitled to their confidence. INCIDENTS OF TILE PATENT OFFICE FAIR.— One evening this week Mrs. J. Franklin Reigart, of Lan caster, Pennsylvania: in company with her husband, vis ited the National Sanitary Fair, now being held at the United States Patent Office, and whilst present purchased chances in tide drawings, and was awarded two of the finest prizes In the gift of the management One was the wonderfully beautiful set of silver, the,' other a magnifi cent China dinner sot of over ono hundred pieces. Cer. talaly fortune could not have showered her favors en any one more deserving of her smiles than Mrs. Reigart. She is an earl:Lest, leading member of the association of ',Pa triot Daughters of Pennsylvania," devoted to - the cause for which the sons of that State are so nobly striving,-and none surely has done more during the past two years than Mrs. It, in ministering to tho sick and wounded patriots of Lancaster Washington Chronicle. COMMITTED SUICIDE.— A man named An drew Hart, from Lancaster, was found dead in bie bed at the house of Mrs. Jordan, In North street, yesterday morn lug. He had been in the army and was crippled to some extent. Although addicted to drink, we learn that he retired at ten o'clock the night previous perfectly sober, and in his weal health. Upon di.covering his condition about nine o'clock, yesterday morning, the family imme diately summoned Dr. Robert Seiler, who t romptly re sponded to the call. The Doctor informed us that the man had evidently been dead at least three hours. There were no marks of violence upon bin person, but In one of hls pockets was fiend a three ounce vial containing a few drops of laudanum. This circumstance, in connection with a letter found in his room, rusmistakahly indicated that the unfortunate man bed cornmitttd suicide The letter was addressed to a young woman in North street, spoke of the writer's troubles and habits of intoxication, 113114 A reference to his manner of '•ohuffling off this mortal coil," and expressed a desire to be remembered A few papers and thirty dollars in money were found in his pockets.— Wednesday's Harrithury Patriot. • SUDDEN DEATH —Mr. Then. J . . Burnett, proprietor of a hat store in Market street, died very end• denly last evening. We are informed that the deceased was seen on the street sometime during the day, appar ently in his usual health. Flow true it is that "in the midst of life we are in death." Mr. Burnett was an active business man, an upright and worthy citizen, and highly esteemed by a large circle of acquaintances. His remains will be taken to Li'lz. Lancaster county, for interment, to-morrow morning.—Widue.rday's Harrisburg Patriot. AGRICULTURAL PAYEne.—We are indebted to J M. Weethaeffer, Agent for their sale, for copies of "The Gardener's Monthly," published at Philadelphia and edited c y Thomas Meehan—prlee v. 50 per annum—and "The PMansy/txmia iihrrser and Gardener," publlshed by Young k Co, Philadelphia, at $1 per annum. , Thane ars both excellent publications, and should be l berallypatronised by Yuman, Gardeners and Horti ;'_ ; • . For The Intelligeneer IS LIBERTY DE A D I This is a pregnant question for the American peo ple. We have a Constitution and laws in Pennsyl vania, but they are almost daily trampled under foot - by the hitelingsof the Administration, or those who assume to be acting in the employ of the Gov eminent. No man's life is safe if he presumes to cross the path of these scoundrels. The latest ease in point occurred in thiteity, on Wednesday evening last, when a poor, Inoffensive man named Henry Pinata).* was deliberately shot in the face by a drunken fellow named Andrew 8. Ingraham, who hallsfrom Washington city, and calls bel.f a Gov ernment .Detective ! gortunately the hall did not enter a vital part, and the wounded man is in a fair way to recover. Bat the murderous Intent is none the less evident, and that it did not terminate fatal ly is, perhaps, owing to a want of steadiness in the aim. Again I ask is liberty dead? Is there no law to protect our citizens from these murderous scound rels—or, if there is, why is it not enforced with the greatest rigor. FIAT JUSTITIA. ["The man Ftssruocs, alluded to above, is since dead, and the offender, Isciasasm, is in Prison awaiting his trial for murder. FINEPROCIE died on Saturday morning. A post mortem examination has since been held, and the ball was found in the back part of the head—having entered through the nose —thus causing his death.—Eds . Intel. El= Under the teachings of the N. Y. Tribune, the colored people are beginning to " put on airs." In the Anglo-African of last week we find a sharp attack upon ELIZUR WRIGHT, R Boston Abolitionist, because he presumes to say that the negro has not as much virility as the whites. The editor goes on to show that the colored race in this country doubles every twenty-two years, while it takes thirty years for the whites, even with the aid of emigration, to double their numbers. But hear how this darky editor talks: ' No, friend Wright, you need not disturb yourself about the black man in these United States ; he has a good standing color, and an abundance of endurance; just brush some of those knotty cobwebs from your brain and look at him : tall, brawny, well-limbed, sound brained as God made him a man and a brother. You sharp-nosed, hatchet faced, lank-haired people, aided by science and the " hub," have vainly tried to crush the manhood out of him, and failed ; do give up ; you cannot lie him out of his manhood. He is a better man and a better citizen than you or your race " ever dare be," under any circumstances, in all cli mates;'if not, why do you cut down his equal chances? Why shut your eyes to facts? Bluff Ben Butler, the other day started on a forced march of some two or three days. He had two white and two black regiments of infantry. It was a climate, moreover, " favor able to the whites." How was it when they ' arrived there I' One half the white soldiers had straggled, exhausted, on the road—every black soldier answered to his name at roll— call. Pshaw Dont " fool " any longer. If you want this rebellion wiped out take three hundred thousand of our blacks : give we Ben Butler or let us go alone, and in sixty days the South shall be wiped out. This is decidedly rich. These darkies now claim, it seems, to be of a healthier, sounder, brighter race than their New England ad— mirers. These last are pronounced " sharp nosed, hatchet-faced, and lank.haired," while the negro is " tall, brawny, well-limbed and sound brained." Negro equality is no longer the doctrine ; it is now negro superiority. What next, we wonder ? ES=I The New York Tribune, September 22d, 1855, held the following opinion of free blacks : " Five-tenths of the free blacks have no idea of setting themselves to work except as the hirelings or servitors of white men; no idea of building a church or °thar serious en terprises, except through beggary of the whites. As a class, the blacks are indolent, improvident, servile and licentious. and Grr— ritt Smith in a letter to Governor [loot, com plained that 'the most of them preferred to rot both physically and morally in cities, rather than become farmers or mechanics in the country. " Every word of which is as true to-day as it .was in 1855, but the present policy of Mr. GREELEY being to convert four millions of slaves into this worthless class of free negnes, it don't suit him to say so. The Harrisburg correspondent of the Pitts burg Commercial says : The latest on dit in the loyal circles is that George W. Woodward, who sold his pew and left the church of the Rev. Brooks (an elo— quent Episcopal clergyman, of Philadelphia,) has taken a pew and become quite a devoted follower of Dr. Plummer, late of Allegheny city. SW It is a part of the religion of the true Christian not to interfere with the religion of others, but the pious horse, hay and ration contractors and government plunderers, who form the great bulk of the loyal circles have adopted a new code of, ethics. In these days of purity and acute vigilance men must be careful how they change their places of wor ship. If a man will not listen to the ravings of an Abolition preacher, of course it is prima facia evidence of treason. MILE'S $3,000 CLIENT The trial of Hunt, Hale's $3,000 client, was recently closed at Norfolk, Va. It occu pied thirty-one days. The record shows that he was found guilty cf fraudulent and dis honest conduct and practices, to the prejudice of good order and military discipline, and was sentenced to pay a fine of $2,000, and be imprisoned at hard labor until it was paid.— The judgment of the Court adds: The commission is thus lenient in considers. tion of the imprisonment and the pecuniary losses already suffered by the said Hun& by reason of his arrest on the foregoing charges. The commission further respectfully states its convictions, based on the testimony on this record, that the mode sometimes pursuei by subordinate officers, of charting vessels by the intervention of " middle men," and adven turers of real or supposed influence, is ruin ous to the interests of die government, and disastrous to the morals of the country. wy- The pecuniary losses of Hunt were the payment of $3,000 to Senator Hale; and this and the additional payment of $2,000 fine, buys him off from an accusation involv ing the loss of hundreds of thousands to the Government. seir On the 23d ult., the workingmen of the city of New York met to the number of several thousand, and after a speech from the President of the meeting, a series of resolu tiols were passed denouncing the war as prosecuted in the interest of negro emancipa tion, as being unrighteous and unholy 'in its purposes, and as tending solely to enrich the idle few at the expense of the toiling and pro ducing millions. A committee was appoint ed to prepare an address to the workingmen of the United States, and steps were taken to call a National Convention of all the trades, in order to take practical measures to inter pose the influence of the laboring classes everywhere against the further prosecution of the war, and to seek relief from the burthons which it inevitably imposes in the shape of high taxes and the increasing rates of all ar ticles of consumption. A SINGULAR FACT.—Take a single wafer, put it upon your tongue, allow it to melt gradually away, and your sore throat, hoarse• neap, cough, and cold will disappear. Be careful that the wafer used be Bryan's Pul— motile Wafer-25 cents a box. Sold by Kaufman & Co., No 1, East Orange Street, Lancaster. They are really a great medicine. DEMOCRATIC VICTORY IN ILLINOIS The municipal election in Ruck Island was held on Tuesday last, and resulted in the choice of the Democratic ticket by 177 ma jority, being a Democratic gain of 150. The - City Council stands seven Democrats and one Abolitionist. The Mayor elect is Bailey Davenport. The contest was fought :en national political issues, and the Democrats t riumph is complete. • ADDRESS OF THE DEMOCRATIC SENATORS. To the Democrats of Petemsylvania : • FELLOW CIT/Z111413 At this juncture in the pro ceedings of the Senate of Pennsylvania, the under signed deem it their right and duty to address you. For more than two months we have unitedly and determinedly withstood an effort on the part of the Republican members of that body to subvert the organic, law, to ignore the precedents of seventy !years of our history, and to trample under foot the rights of their equals and peers. In so doing we have been actuated by the high resolve, that by no act of the representatives of the only law-abiding political organisation in this Commonwealth should the rights and constitutional privileges of the people be subverted. We have relied with unshaken faith upon that people for our support and vindication, and to the end that their verdict may be rendered with a full knowledge of the facts, we beg leave to present a brief history of our position during the protracted and exciting contest which has just closed. The members of the Senate assembled in the Sen ate Chamber at Harrisburg on Tuesday, January sth, A. D. 1864, at 3 P. M. Of the 22 Senators hold ing over, all were present save Major White, who was a prisoner in the hands of the rebels; of those present, twelve were Democrats, and nine Republi cans. The Senate was called to order by the Hon: J. P. Penney, the Speaker elected al,the close of the session of 1863. The Secretary df the Common wealth was then introduced and presented the re turns from the distriota which had elected Senators in October 1863. The returns wereopened and read, by which it appeared that four Democrats and seven Republicans had been elected all of whom were present, thereby causing a tie in the vote between the two great political Organisations of the country as represented on that floor. Upon the reading of the certificates of election, it would have been the duty of the Senator elected Speaker at the close of the session of 1863 to have vacated the chair, had he been governed in his ac tion by the express terms of the Constitution, which, by Section K, Article 1, prescribes that the General Assembly shall meet on the let Tuesday of January in every year, and by Section XI of the same Arti ale, that " each House" e., when they meet on that day) " shall elect its Speaker and other officers." It appears to the undersigned that the words "each Howse shall elect its Speaker " are sufficiently cer tain to determine the question that no one elected Speaker by the Senate of 1863 could exercise the duties of that office over the Senate of 1864—the latter being a new and distinct body, made up of other members who had never participated in an election for Speaker, and as by the express terms of the Constitution, " each House shall (when_ they meet on the first Tuesday in January) elect its Speaker and other officers, o' it is manifest and clear that the Senator from Allegheny had no shadow of right to exercise the duties of Speaker over this new Senate which had never elected him its Speaker, and we have never recognised him as inch. But admitting, for the sake of argument, that the words of the Constitution are ambiguous and uncertain, then precedent and usage, if they exist, must deter mine their meaning, and by this test the under aigued desire that their position may be tried. During a period of seventy years, from 1794 until this day, there is but one other instance where a Speaker elected by a former Senate attempted to exercise the duties of his office over a succeeding and new Senate, and that was daring the " Boca Snot Watt," when the late Charles B. Penrose, the Speaker holding over, entertained two motions rela tive to contested Beats; but, when these were deter mined, oven he vacated the chair, and did not date to resume it, until, by the vote of the new Senate, he was elected Speaker. If the Republican members of the Senate of 1864 can gather comfort from this one solitary exception in the unbroken line of pre cedents, they are welcome to it. The boldness and magnitude of their act of usurpation has destroyed its significance as a deed of revolution. The Senator from Allegheny, notwithstanding the express words of the Constitution, with their mean ing illustrated by the action of all former Speakers, save one, for a period of seventy years, after_ the reading of the certificates of. election which created the new Senate, failed to vacate the chair, which he occupied by courtesy and for the sake of conveni ence. He requested the new Senators to come for ward to be sworn. This the Republican Senators did, and also the Democratic Senators; the latter, however, under a protest, in which, in brief and emphatic terms, they denied his right to administer the oath of office to them, they having been elected members of a body of which he had never been elected Speaker. it is here to be observed that this course was necessary on their part, for the season that it was the evidetit intention of the Republicans, should the Democrats refuse to take the oath, to leave their names off the roll, whereby our opponents would have secured a clear majority of those voting. After this act of usurpation the new Senate, bra unanimous vote,adopted a resolution to proceed to an election for Speaker. Hit is not true that the office was vacant, (as the undersigned contend,) why the necessity to elect a Speaker? But under this reso lution several ballots were had on that, the first day of our meeting, resulting in a tie between the, Re publican candidate, Mr. Penney, and the Democrat ic candidate, Mr. Clymer. The Senate adjourned until the next day, when, after several ineffectual ballots, the. Senator from Barks, Mr. Clymer, on be half of the undersigned, made the following propo sition of compromise, via: That the Republicans should select, the Speaker of the Senate, the Demo crats the Clerk, and so alternately until all were filled. This basis of settlement the undersigned considered to be just. it was made, not for the pur pose of securing place or position .but to vindicate a principle. It was precisely the basis of compromise adopted in 1855, when the Democrats having at. ac tual majority (although not present) were given the Speaker, the Know-Nothings of that day (at present Republicans) the Clerk, and so alternately to the end of the list. But this proposition the Republican Senators of 1864 refused to accept. They had enter ed upon usurpation, and they determined to adhere to it with all its consequences. During the protracted struggle which followed, this offer of compromise was renewed from time to time; it was always rejected, and, and not one pro position tending to a solution of the difficulty ever came from the Republican side, save the absurd suggestion of the Senator from Erie, Mr. Lowry, that he would vote for the Democratic candidate for Speaker, provsded either he or some one of the un dersigned would agree never to vote on. any party or test question. it is thus a matter of history that the Republican Senators refused a fair and just proposition which, had it been accepted, would have organized the Senate on the second day'of its meeting. They at tempt to justify their conduct on two grounds.— First, that the Senate is ever organised, the Speak er of a former Senate being the Speaker of the sub sequent one; and, Second, that Major White, if present, would have given them a majority. We have heretofore exposed the fallacy of the first position by reference to the words of the Constitu tion, and to the unbroken precedents of seventy years. In addition, we will present a test which will so clearly expose the unwarrantable and un constitutional nature of their claim, that no one, however prejudiced, may mistake or misunderstand it. By the XXILI section, Article Ist, of the Consti tution of this State, it is provided that all bills passed by the Legislature and presented to the Gov ernor for his signature, within ten days of the final adjournment, shall become laws without his signa ture, unless sent back (with his objections) within three days after their next meeting. In 1855 the Legislature met on the second day of January?' The contest for Speaker was prolonged until the fifth, when the Hon. Wm. M. Bloater, of Barks county, was elected. Upon the sixth, the Governor of the Commonwealth returned, with his objections several of the most important bills passed by the Legislature of 1854. if the position of the Republican Senators of 1864 is correct, viz : that the Senate is always organized, and that the Speak er of the former Senate is the Speaker of the new Senate, then those bills of 18.54, vetoed by Governor Bigler on the fourth day of the session of 1855, are laws notwithstanding his vetoes. That this not so, or at least that none of the eminent lawyers and statesmen who composed that Senate (among whom were Price, Buokalew, Blaster and Darsie) so thought, is evinced by the fact that they all voted upon these vetoes as required by the Constitution, which they surely would not have done had they . been of opinion they had been sent in too late. The' Senators of 1855 did not even claim to have' met until they had cleated a Speaker, much less that they were organised. Our view of this question is further strengthened by the act of 1804, which ob viously contemplates the election of a Speaker of each Rouse at the beginning of each session, and re quires him first to be sworn before he can iminia ter the oaths to the newly elected members. It has been left for the Republican Senators of 1884 to ig nore the Constitution, to defy precedent, and to at tempt to destroy the very foundations of law and order. This disposes of their first ground of defence. We will now probe the second reason assigned for their revolutionary conduct. Who is accountable - for the absence of Major White, or rather, who is to blame that his seat was not filled on the first day we met? It is alleged that Major White resigned his seat in the Senate, that resignation having been received by his father,Judge White, about the middle of No vember, 186. It is to be assumed (the undersigned reserving their individual opinions thereon) that the resignation was genuine, since in furtherance and in support of the usurpation inaugurated in January, an election was ordered thereon by the Speaker de fasts of the Senate, and a new member elected and sworn. Assuming it to be genuine, whose fault is it that an election was not ordered immediately on its reception, which would have given ample time to have put his successor in his place on the first Tuesday of January ? Surely neither that of the undersigned, nor of any Demo crat in the State ; the blame must rest where it rightfully belongs, upon the Republicans of the Senate and upon their abettors. The excuse offered is that the resignation was not filed, in order that efforts might be made (the incen tive being the necessity of Major White's presence to Republican asoendaney in this State) for his ex change. Without stopping to inquire whether this ascendancy is likely to be benehcial to the people of Pennsylvania, we will merely remark that if the fate of Major White bad been different or more de plorable than that of thousands of other brave and gallant men who are enduring the untold horrors of captivity in order that the negro may be raised to the level of the white man, then, indeed, might some each excuse be tolerated. But Major White's condition, much as we - deplore it, is no worse than that of those who are a. garnered harvest of brave men rotting in prison, victims to the malignant her esies of these who advocate the social, political and military equality of the black and white races. That Major White became a prisoner is his mis fortune; that he is not released is the intentional and designed fault of his political friends. In either view, he and they are alone responsible for the dell look " caused by his absence. After the Republicans had monied a clear major ity, they still persisted in their course of usurpation. In the earlier days of the session, by a unanimous vote, and by participating in twelve ballots, they admitted that it was their sworn duty to proceed to the election of a Speaker. When they had secured the power to do so, then, in violation of the Consti tution, of precedent of law, and of their own admis sions, they for ten days persisted in their revolution ary conduct.. But from the 29th of February, the day when Dr. St. Clair was sworn as Senator from the Twenty-first District, until this 9th day of March, the undersigned have resisted as before, by all means in their power, every attempt on the part of the Republicans to legislate. Baffled and de feated, they have on ,this day yielded the whole question in issue. Paz Einissan ow 1864 mte =mar lin ITS BPEAXER I !! Thus, fallow-citissus, haws the Oonstituticm, pre- cadent and law been sustained, and the 00M3N1 of the undersigned vindicated. We have thus narrated the facts of this ease, and have endeavored, and we trust suocessfully, to ax pose the fallacy of the ostensible reasons assigned by the Republican Senators in support of their con duct. We say ostensible, for we do not hesitate to declare that the entire proceeding is but a part and paroel of a programme which proposes to break down and destroy every barrier standing between them and their lust for power and plate. to the put, we have presented a determined and unbroken front. We have done so during the trying times of the present, and, sustained by your confi dence and support, we will continue to do so in the time to come. We have prompted you the record—by It we are willing to be judged. HARRISBURG, March 9, 1854. HLESTER CLYMER, WM. A. WALLACE, JNO. LATTA, GEO. W. STEM, GEO. H. BUCHER, C. M. DONOVAN, A. HIESTAND GLATZ, J. B. STARK, WM. HOPKINS. B. BULLY, D. B. MONTGOMERY, J. 0. SMITH, H. B. SEARDSLEE, CRAB. L. LAMBERTON, WM. M'SHERRY, WM. KINSEY. A SAD PICTURE The following picture of the demoralisation existing in Harrisburg is drawn by the leg islative correspondent of the Hollidaysburg Standard. It is graphic, and only too true to jest about : Recruits, volunteers, bounties, ,raft, quota, &0.. are the words most in use on our streets now. The city is filled with men from abroad. loaded to guards with money to pay local bounties, and the sharks who deplete the volunteers out of a part of their money are multiplying rather than decreasing. I saw an intensely loyal gentleman from Cambria county put in a few this morning, making some four hundred dollars by the operation. Is it not a rascally piece of business that these poor fellows should thus fall into the hands of sharks, who would, if they could, rob them of every dollar they are compelled to earn by hardship and privation, and at the risk of their lives? " The &pluralization consequent upon the sudden acumulation of money, is terrible to contemplate. Dirty little prostitutes who used to divide their time in the look up and miserable hovels in the outskirts of the city, now parade the streets in silks, and satins, feathers, gold watches and diamonds. Want has driven some of the absent soldiers' wives into the street, and cupidity has given to the pave women who have heretofore endeavored to:maintain a name like Cmsar's wife—'above suspicion.' I venture to say that there are no 1 •se than five hundred prostitutes in this city now, and this force is daily receiving ac cessions from the neighboring towns. A New York woman who has been here four weeks, b ialled on a public thoroughfare last evening that she hal sent home a draft fir $2 200—, and all of it bounty money at that." Add to this the fact that lager beer shops and whiskey mills are opening daily in every street, lane and alley, and you can draw a faint picture in your mind's eye of the state of affairs ea• isting at the State Capital. THE FIRST FAILURE Some of the Administration papers are ap prehensive that the spring campaign has not been wisely planned. Speaking of the Flori da disaster, the Philadelphia Bulletin says : The first failure in our spring campaign leads us to fear that it may all be badly plan ned. In North Carolina, where our forces are scattered. some of them holding useless posi tions, and others engaged in making raids which only irritate non combatants, and de stroying private property, the enemy has col lected a large force nartly composed of veter ans of the Army of Virginia. We are again threatened with disasters there ; for General Butler has not troops enough in his depart ment to meet the enemy in the field, and there are several of our garrisoned poets exposed to seigs or assault by the greatly superior forces of the rebels Again let us ask, who is an swerable for the state of affairs in North Car olina? Viewing the circumstances in the elstern states of the South, ono cannot help f •sling uneasiness concerning our movements in Georgia and Alabama. Sherman has made splendid, and thus far, successful advance. Thomas too, has begun ta movement from Chattanooga. But who knows whether Har dee, who just defeated Seymour, may not be able to make a rapid junction by railroad with Johnston and defeat Grant, or with Polk in Alabama and defeat Sherman? We have all confidence in our commanders in the field and in their troops. But we confess to misgivings as to the general plan, and to great fears lest our divided forces may be de, fasted in detail, the enemy'= short lines of communication and railroad facilities giving him advantages better than those we may possess in numbers. Will the Bulletin recall any campaign plan ned by the present Washington managers which it can call wise? BOMBARDMENT OF FORT/ POWELL, BELOW MOBILE NEW YORK, March 11 New Orleans advices of the let, received by stamer Western Metropolis, state that the bombardment of Fort Powell, below Mobile, continued to be prosecuted vigorously. The rebel batteries replied, but none of our ves— sels were seriously hurt. A letter from the fleet says that Admiral Farragut intends to silence Fort Powell, so as to Bend his woequito fleet into Mobile Bay.— By so doing he will cut off Forts Morgan and Gaines. The bay is said to be obstructed for two miles below Mobile in such a manner that vessels are compelled to pass under the guns of two iron clads and a battery. Mobile is strongly defended at every point. The city is almost entirely free of soldiers, 30,000 having gone to meet Sherman. A letter from Key West gives us a rumor that one of Admiral Farragut's steamers had passed Fort Morgan under a terrible fire, and another rumor was that he had captured the works. A SEVERE SENTENCE. WASHINGTON, March 2. The Norfolk papers contain an official order of Major General Butler consigning Geo. M. Bane and W, H. W. Hodges, of Portsmouth, Virginia, to hard labor at Hatteras, North Carolina, for alleged fraudulent disposal of the funds of the Portsmouth Savings Bank and the Mechanics' Savings Bank, of that city. Bane was cashier of the first-named institution, and Hodges cashier of the latter. All the funds of the two banks. it seems, were sent to Richmond, and the two officers refused to divulge to the bank investigation committee by whose authority the transfers were made —thus showing contempt of the authority of the United States. Hence the sentence. In addition to confinement at hard labor, Hodges, is to be be fed on bread and water, with a 24 pound ball attached to his leg by a chain not more than six feet long. Bane was formerly a clergyman, and on account of his advanced age, is only to be punished by imprisonmen at hard labor. Both will be confined untit they answer the questions put to them. GEN. SHERMAN'S RAID CINCINNATI, March 9 Gen. Sherman has destroyed forage and provisions enough to subsist the rebel army from three to six months. In one place he destroyed over $2,000,000 of property, and in another place immense stores (thousands of bushels) of wheat were destroyed. He brought in large droves of cattle, several thousand head of mules, 8,000 negroes and over 4,000 prisoners, with trifling loss of men and material on our side. In addition to this he destroyed every important railroad line. Gen. Sherman has relieved Gen. M'Pherson's corps from guard duty along the Mississippi, and restored him to active service. TRIG NEGROES IN OARS The United States Senate—supposed to be the highest and most dignified body in the country—last week passed a resolution to compel the Street Railroad companies of Washington City to allow negroes to ride in their care. This is eminently proper in that locality. As niggers rule the roost at Wash— ington it is no more than fair that they should ride in the cars. We hope the Railroad com panies will procure special cars for Sambo, elegantly fitted up with silk velvet cushioned seats and we have no doubt all sensible white people will permit the niggers and their aboli tion friends to enjoy the luxury all to them— selves.—Easton Argus. • LOYAL ALL OVER. Secretary Seward, writing to a mass meeting of the 11. S. Christian Commission at Philadelphia, speaks of " the loyal States, the loyal Governors, the loyal Courts, the loyal Ministers, the loyal Consuls, the loyal Doctors, the loyal Teachers, the loyal Clergy and the loyal Press, as maintaining the Union." We shall by and by hear of loyal chimney sweepers, loyal boot-cleaners, loyal rag-ped— lers, loyal soft soap dealers, loyal Lager, loyal pigs and loyal toads.' Of loyal Thieves - we have a plenty and to spare.
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