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"CLING TO TILE CONSTITUTION, AS
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HIM."-DANIZL WCI3BTER.
Mr. Dawson's Speech.
We commence this week the pub
lication of the very able and eloquent
speech of the Hon. JOHN L. DAW
SON, of this State, delivered in Con
gress on the 24th of February, and
shall conclude it next week. We
invite for it a careful perusal, as it
covers the whole ground of the great
and absorbing issues now before the
American people. If the members
of the last and present Congress had
all been statesmen of the mental
calibre, sterling integrity and sound
patriotism of Mr. D. the country
would not now be in its present la
mentable condition.
" When Rogues Fall Out," &c.
We direct the attention of our
readers to an article in another col
umn, headed " LINCOLN'S HONESTY
AND CAPACITY." It is copied from
the New York New Nation, an out
and out Republican paper in the in
terest of FREMONT, and pitches into
Old Abe in gallant style.
The Story Contradicted.
Rev. Mr. Billings—so the Aboli
tion papers say—contradicts the
statement alleged to have been made
some time ago by the New Hamp
shire Patriot, and which we copied,
that some sixty-four of the Yankee
girls, who went down to Hilton
Head about two years ago to teach
the young darkies, had been com
pelled to open nurseries on their own
account. We are gratified at being
able to-contradict the story, although
the' miscegenation doctrine of the
Abolition party gave plausibility to
the statement. It is also proper to
say that the New Hampshire Patriot
disavows the paternity of the slander.
Modest—Very!
"OCCASIONAL," in yesterday's Phil
adelphia Press, has a highly compli
mentary notice of Gen. J. K. MOOR
HEAD'S speech in the U. S. House of
Representatives on Saturday week,
in reply to the great speech of Hon.
JOHN L. DAWSON. " OCCASIONAL,"
it is well understood, is no other
than Col. FORNEY himself, and it is
pretty well known that he wrote
Gen. MooRREAD's speech. Hence,
it is extremely modest in the Colonel
to praise his own production. Mod
esty, we believe, however, is one of
the cardinal virtues of " Loyalty."
THE SOLDIERS' FRIENDS
The Abolitionists are very fond of the sol
diers about election times, but not eqhally so
during the rest of the year. Every effort on
the part of the Democrats, in Congress and
out of it, to have the soldiers paid in gold or
its equivalent, is opposed by the Abolitionists.
Another example of their opposition to a
measure so manifestly just, was given in the
State Senate last Wednesday. Mr. Hopkins,
of Washington county, offered a resolution in
structingthe proper Committee to bring in a
bill instrinoting our Senators and Representa
tives in Congress "to vote fur a law requiring
the payment of non-commissioned officers and
privates in the service of the Government, in
coin or its equivalent." This resolution which
Was ably advocated by Senators Hopkins, Cly
mer, Wallace and Lamberton, was fiercely op
posed by the Abolition leaders—Johnson,
Lowry, Fleming, Champneys and others—and
defeated by a strict party vote—all the Demo.
orate voting for it, and all the Abolitionists
against it. In its place, they proposed a res
olution, merely instructing the proper Com
mittee "to inquire into the expediency of urg
ing Congress to vote an increase of pay to our
breve soldiers and sailors," which was finally
passed unanimously—that being all the Abo
lition majority would allow—with an amend
went added by Mr. Hopkins, (Democrat) that
the pay should not be less than $25 a month.
The mission of the " Republican " party is
now said to be accomplished, and a nice thing
it is! It has cost the country nearly a mil
lion of lives, destroyed its financial and com
mercial prosperity, severed the union of States
and broken their laws, turned vast and fertile
districts into deserts and battle fields—sub
verted the liberties of the people, and now its
" mission is accomplished !" No, not yet-
After such a reco.d the people will not allow
you to hide your crime under a name which
you profane, shirk the punishment that you
deserve, or meanly sneak from the arm of
their vengeance, to perpetrate new infamies,
and finish the destruction you have so near
accomplished. Your " mission " is not yet
" accomplished," nor will it be, till you have
met the doom of traitors and tyrants, and
rest securely buried beneath the execrations
and detestation of freemen.
Ur The Connecticut election
took place on yesterday. Of course
a " military necessity " required that
the Abolitionists should carry the
State, ; and, we have no doubt they
accomplished their purpose.
S Preeident Lincoln made a speech at
the opening of the PatentrOfiloe Fair, on the
night of Feb. 22, the moat striking feature of
which 44)iip.elfite3iient that "it is very dill.
cult twiny sensible thing."
MEMIES
Secretary Cruses gold bill bar become
law, and has already proven a failure for the
purpose intended. Gold still stands it 67 per
cent. premium, and.in spite of the power con-
Nirrecyrition the Secretary to enter market and
4lispoli of the little surplus the Administra
-tion may collect.
ThiChicago Tribune lays down in a late
issue its plan of financial ., operations as fol.
Ilows :
FIRST —Tax out of circulation the 400 mil
lions of unconstitutional bank issues, and
thereby reduce the enormous paper inflation
nearly one-half below its present dimensions.
This measure would accomplish immense
good to the whole country.
SZCOND —Offer to the public, immediately,
five hundred Millions more of Government
stook—the interest and principal payable in
coin. When the former loan was all taken
another of similar character ought to have
been immediately offered to the public. Unless
greenbacks can, at all times; be converted into
gold interest paying bonds, they will inevi
tably-depreciate. Everybody but the mem
bers of Congress know this to be a law of
finanee.
THIRD—The best remedy of all is increased
taxation. The present omit of the war is
three millions a day while the revenue de.
rived from taxes and tariff is barely half a
million a day. It shor Id not be less than a
million. There is nothing like taxation to
sustain the credit of the Nation and induce
capitalists to loan it their money at low rates
interest. of A people that will consent to
pay heavy taxes will never seriously think of '
repudiating their debts, and their credit will
always be good.
The boldness with which this Administra
tion organ utters its decrees, says the Burling
ton Argus, would call up a smile at any other
moment. It declares the Bank issues of the
several States, which have existed since our
Constitution wee adopted, as unconstitutional,
and favors the taxing of them out of exist
ence. Next a further issue of bonds, payable
interest and principal in gold for five hundred
millions of dollars, and finally, further taxa
tion of one hundred and fifty million per an
num as the best part of its scheme.
The Tribune states the present cost of the
war at three millions per day, or eleven hun
dred millions per annum.
This plan shows completely the reckless
ness to which the Administration is reduced.
The rights and property of citizens are to be
sacrificed by onerous taxation to give place
to an irredeemable government currency,
whether they wish it or not. More inflation
of the currency and more dependence upon
the favor of the Administration until the
party in power has complete control of the
destinies of its subjects. This once accom
plished, they may institute such form of gov
ernment as they may choose, and the people
will acquiesce from sheer inability to resist.
Any form of despotism will be held better
than anarchy and the choice that will be de
olared must be made between the two. With
our present national debt of three thousand
millions, the labor of the country must suffer
for centuries to come to meet the interest.
Privations and want must take the place of
plenty and happiness, and every household
must groan under the burden heaped upon us
so carelessly by the imbecility that now rules
at Washington. What horrors of bankruptcy
and ruin would another four years of the
same fanaticism and folly entail upon the
American people. Heaven avert such a
dreadful calamity.
A very large portion of the Abolition party
who were once furious in demanding " un
questioning submission " to Mr. LINCOLN as
" the Government," and demanding every
one who refused to subscribe to the doctrine,
are now very restive under it themselves, and
object to it in terms as violent as were ever
used by Democrats. Greeley and Beecher,
Phillips and Pomeroy—indeed it is said half
the Abolition Senators and nearly as many of
the Representatives in Congress—are now
among the men who don't like the doctrine,
because the doctrine don't suit their present
purposes. It shows how blind or unprinci
pled they have heretofore been, and it should
show to the unprejudiced and reflecting Abo
litionists that there is no dependence to be
placed in either the opinions or actions of
their great leaders. Fanatics are never to be
trusted, but always to be opposed as danger
ous. Many people knew this long ago, and a
great many are only now learning it. The
Albany Argus , quotes the following paragraph
from the SEaterman, an Abolition sheet of the
darkest dye, to show how " curses come home
to roost ;"
" Through the machinery of Conventiobs
composed in large proportion of office holders,
of State Legislatures in which the imbibers
of or seekers after Federal pap specially pre
dominate, of newspapers controlled by those
who are governed by the love of patrmage—
a concerted and noisy attempt has been made
to hurrah up the President for re-nomination,
and hurrah down everybody who has been
mentioned as his possible competitor. A new
and most preposterous theory is likewise
sought to be established—that fidelity to the
Government involves as its necessary corollary
fidelity to Mr. Lincoln, and that whoever is not
ready to become a zealous devotee of that gen
tleman, must be tacitly opposed to a triumph
of the Republic over armed treason, through a
cordial union of all its supporters. An inevi
table effect of this course of conduct is to in
duce warfare of ideas. There are necessarily
some who do not favor a second term for the
Chief Magistrate, who have become hie ene
mies from various causes while evidently up
holding the cause of the country—and such
as these will not fail to find in the determina
tion to force him in advance upon a Conven
tion called merely for the purpose of register
ing his nomination, abundant reason why
they should make their enmity effective." •
We cannot, as the Argus does, express sym
pathy with these people who are now suffer
ing from their own doctrines. It serves them
right that the poisoned chalice has been placed
to their own lips, and may be the means of
making them better and wiser men.
The State Superintendent of Common
Schools has issued a circular to School Direc
tors of this State, containing the following
questions respecting the education of indigent
children made orphans by the war, in accord
ance with the recommendation of the Gover
nor, in his last annual message. We print
the questions for the information of those
School Directors who may not have received
a copy of the Circular. The questions are
to be answered and forwarded to the School
Department, at Harrisburg, on or before the
15th of April :
let. What is the number of indigent chil
dren in your school district, whose fathers
have been killed, or have died in the military
or naval servies of the United States?
2d. Are theta auy institutions of learning
in your c minty, that will and rtake to provide
for the maintenance and education of a num
ber of said orphans, if security be given that
all reasonable expenses shall be paid by the
State ?
3d. If there are any such eohoole, how
manrohildren will each take?
HOLDERS OF 11. S. SECURITfES AS-
Commissioner Lewis has decided that hold
ers of United States securities will be assessed
for an income tax of 1 per centum upon in
oome derived from them. Where interest
upon such securities is paid in gold, only the
amount actually received is to be treated as
derived from them. If the gold is subse
quently sold at a premium, the amount of
profit must be returned as income from busi
ness.
mar It is said to be a fundamental prinoi
ple of the Loyal Leviers never to go within
a league of the enemy.
NATIONAL VIINANONS.
THE POISONED CHALICE
NOTICE TO SCHOOL DIRECTORS
SESSED.
IFINAIIICIAL , CU kiLLAVAI/11111111.
Mr. &miffs, the radical leader of the
House. said the other day; "We do not
know when this war will close. Ido not want
to discourage anybo4y ; but I do not think it
is going to end in—l will not say how long a
time Certaknly not in ninety days ; perhaps
.
not in many years."
Again he said: "When oar debts shall
amount to two or three thousand million, re
9uiring $200,000.000 of gold to pay the
interest, 'how high, will gold go then ? If,
when we have to pay but $40,000,000 a year
in gold, gold goes up to seventy, bow high
will it go when we have to pay $200,D00,000?"
Sravzss :was opposed to paying • interest in
gold, or to collecting the revenue from imports
in gold. He wanted all paper.
STiViNS sees the breakers on one side, bat
not on the other. The difficulty is, no one
sees the end of the debt. It is piling up. It
is now nearly one fourth of the value of all
the goods, ohattles and land owned in the
United States, including the property of the
seceded States. At the end of this year it
will not ba much less than that when it is all
ascertained. And, unfortunately, we don't
know, as &Ours says, when this war will
end. We do not know when the enormous
burden of debt will cease growing, whilst a
million of men are consuming and destroying.
But what will STROME; do about it ? Pay
out no gold and receiva none. It is the prom
ise to pay interest in gold that insures the sale
of bonds for the greenbacks; but for that
promise the sales would not be made. Bonds
purchased with legal tenders, and interest
paid in gold, gives about nine per oent. per
annum. That is a temptation to invest.
Then the Government gets the legal tenders
to the amounts of the bonds, to pay out
again. In this way the Treasury is supplied
without increasing the circulation. If this
expedient were adopted, more legal tenders
would be issued, and then the price of these
promises to pay would fall in a corresponding
degree. This would be the inevitable result.
Then the prices of all commodities would
rise, and the war expenses would rise in pro
portion, and the debt would increase perhaps
double as fast. The Secretary judged that he
could not increase the currency. High prices
of all commodities showed that a limit had
been reached, and that he could not go beyond
it. The gold had to appear somewhere to get
means from the capital of the country. How
else could he get it ? This plan begins to pile
up an annual debt of interest, to be paid in
real values—gold and silver—and which may
reach in a year more than $200,000 000 per
annum. Is there any way to avoid the dif
ficulty ? Unfortunately, the Government
must make some shift to 'get it. Living on
paper alone has been tried, and has always
failed, and must fail.
The Secretary has made another shift. He
has invented a scheme to get a ourrenoy that
is sustained by private credit in these nation
al banks. England has that means to fall
back on. She substitutes for a currency, not
her promises to pay, but the promises of the
Bank of England, whilst the Bank takes the
credit of the Government for its promisee to
pay. France fell back on that expedient
when her promises to pay ran out of credit.
So Mr. Cease is trying to sell his bonds on
these banks for cash to live on. The banks
get interest on their bonds, and circulate their
own promises to pay, and pay no interest
on their promises.
All these are expedients to enlist as much
private capital to contribute to support the
Government ; paying dear enough for it. The
Government is like an individual that needs
loans to save himself, and invents all sorts of
expenditures to use his credit, and pays
usury to get it.
Assuming that the war must go on, that we
must have the last dollar and the last man,
how else can the last dollar be had, except by
tempting it out of private capitalists, by a
hope of large profits, which Uncle Sam must
pay in gold ? Greenbacks will not do. The
capitalist does not know what they will be
worth ; but the gold is real property, about
the permanent value of which there can be no
mistake.
The Government might have gone on issu
ing legal tenders. There are say $500,000,000
now ; issue $5OO 000,000 mole, and prices will
rise in proportion, and the expenses of the
Government would be just that much greater.
The Government would have only what was
equivalent to $250,000,000. The currency in
the hands of individuals would be reduced in
value to $250,000,000. The Government
would promise to pay $500,000,000 for $250,-
000,000. Next year she would have to double
her debt for half the means again, and rob
all the holders of the promises to the same
extent.
So France lived on aesignats, pouring them
out until they were worth not one-hundreth
of their face. And at last the Government
shuffled out of the whole by redeeming them
at their market value, which was almost noth•
Mg. Congress has begun the process by
proposing to sell the gold in th treasury for
legal tenders, so that the Government will get
back some of its promises to pay for about
two thirds of what the Government promised
to pay.
Our Government might, indeed, live on
such issues of paper for a year or two until
they fell to about one-hundreth of their value,
and then redeem at the market price, and then
get out of the debt by paying a small fraotion
of it. The expedient is a pretty good general
plan of taxation. Every man loses a part of
what he receives, and the debt is gone
This scheme of putting the debt in banks
places it in few hands ; and puts the debt in
such a shape that it can only be paid or repu
diated. The difficulty is, the people must
not foresee the end of such an issue of paper
currency as we have described, or they will
not take it. The delusion mbst be kept up
that they are getting real dollars, in order that
the paper may have any credit.
Jordan is a hard road to travel. The wise
acress at Washington see it somewhat.
STEVENS suggests repudiation with horror ;
but it is ominous that the thought occurred to
him. That prospective $200,000,000 per an—
num. It is not comfort to contemplate such
a pile, and to reflect that generations to come
are to pay it.
In tee meantime if there is any way to get
capital without paying for it or pouring out
promises to pay and ending in a loss of the
whole debt by the holders of the paper, let
Mr. STEVENS or any body tell how. We have
I no douht CHASE would be glad to see the
I plan. —Louisville Democrat.
TEIE DEMOCRACY AND THE SOL
Cl=
Every Democratic editor in the land feels
the force and truth of the following, froth the
Harrisburg Union:
The Abolition faction, with a cunning and
hatred beyond all precedent, are busily at
work inflaming the minds of the soldiers with
the idea that their Democratic fellow citizens
at home are their natural enemies. That dis
order and bloodshed should result from
snob teachings, is an inevitable consequence.
The trouble is that these calamities fall chiefly
upon the heads of the misguided and deceived
soldiers, or upon the Democratic citizens. The
bad men who cause this ill feeling between
the army and civilians, take very good care
to keep themselves scrupulously out of harm's
way. They rejoice in stirring up bloody
feuds, but they have an undue share of that
self-saving discretion, which is said to be "the
better part of valor."
If Democratic journals were allowed ample
and free circulation in the army, the
judged prejudices which are excited by Abo
lition maleiolence would be destroyed. As it
is. the soldiers are getting daily a better in
sight into the fiendish character of the fa
natics who are striving to provoke them
towards their brothers and fathers and friends
at home. In time they will turn their just
wrath upon the men who have deceived them,
and the story of Acuson will receive a fresh
illustration.
WHAT SHALL WE KAT 1
This will be a question for public considera •
tion if prices continue ac their present rates.
How are people to live ? The common n ces
saries of life of all kinds will soon be luxuries
beyond the reach of persons of limited means.
While government officials, horse and mule
contractors, and " loyal" thieves generally,
can affird to live luxuriously and " fare
sumptuously every day," the poorer classes
must suffer and starve. Speculators are mak.
ing money off the necessities of their fellow
men, when they have no justifiable excuse
for doing so.
PUBLIC SPEAKERS AND SINGERS will fled
" Brown's Bronchial Trochee" beneficial in
clearing the voice before speaking or singing,
and relieving the throat after any unusual
exertion of the vocal organs, having a peculiar
adaption to affection which disturb the organs
of spot&
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
Tin CITY BOUNTY.—In reference to the
pigment of the city-bounty to the melons obtained for
the city's quota a good deal or misunderstanding existed,
and the Mayor requested the opinion of the C i t ydelloltor,
and also that of Hon. Luso 11..usisma.',The lopinion is
Oren In extenso belo m o neyese gelatin:um:it besesii,
bold that the bounty must be pad proportionably
to the three wards, (the N. le W. not being included,
hating amaled Itself of the privileges of the 10th section
of the Ordinance,) and of course the Mayor in laming his
warrants for the payment of thefts:unities will be goeerted
bf this opinion. The City Bounty fluid Committee 'hare
also acquiesced in the opinion
ON.as the law of the case
OPINI
It being dated that all therecruits thus far obtained
on the faith of an Ordinance, passed the 28th day of
March, 1884, W lding for the payment of bounties to
volunteers credited to the quota of the City of Lancaster,
on the mils of the President of the United States," have
been assigned to a single ward In the city, whereby its
quota has been filled, and no credits have been given to
the other wards; and that one or more members of Out
Committee on Bounty Fend" intend to draw their cer
tificates provided for by the 4th Section of the said Ordi
nance, for the payment of thus recruits—
Our opinion has beau asked, whether the Mayor under
such circumstances should issue his warrant according to
the provider's of the sth Section of the Ordinance above
referred tor
The first difficulty in determining thin question which
presents itself is, the fact that the sat Section of add Or
dinance reads as follows: "That for the purpose-of uaying
bountlea LO volunteers In the United State. army who may
be credited to the guota of the City of Lancaster, on the calls
of the President for troops," as
Now the Government of the U. States does not recognize
the Crror or Lucerne as a district for the purpose of the
draft, and no quota his been assigned to IL Quotes are I
assigned to the wards. We must therefore inquire what
Councils meant by the eipreesion, "the quota of the City
of Lancaster." They certainly meant the quota of the
several wards taken collectively. All the wards then have
an equal interest in the recruits paid by the city funds,
and they should be distributed among the-wards pro rata
according to their respective quotas.
Any other construct on would be subversive of the
spirit of the Ordinance, which was intended for the benefit
of the whole city. The burden of taxation is cast upon
the three ward., (the N.E. W. having availed Itself of the
provisions of the 10th Section; ) certainly Justice requires
that each ward should participate proportionably In its
fruits--otherwise all the recruits procured might be Cred
ited to a single ward, and the others be lazed for men and
money which do them no ferules.
The quota of the city, as above indicated, should be as
certained by the "Committee on Bounty Fund" provided
for In the 4th Section, who should see that the recruits
paid for by the city are properly credited to the several
wards In due proportion, and in that proposition
only should the certificate for the payment of
bounties be issued. To accomplish this, the Com
mittee should act as an organized body and have its
certificate. properly attested. The issuing of certificates
by individual members of the Committee might defeat the
system of distribution contemplated by the Ordinance,
and necessary to do Justice to theenrolled citizens and
tax payers of the several wards. Indeed, a single member
of the Committee might appropriate the whole number of
reernite authorised by the Ordinance to his own Ward,
thereby not only securing It from the impending draft,
but all future drafts, while the other two wards concerned
would be compelled to purchase that exemption without
any benefit to themselves.
It is therefore our opinion that the Mayor of the city
should sea that the distribution has bean properly made,
as above indicated, before he issues his warrant, and re
gard on certificates which do not bear the official impresa
of the Committee.
The queetion with regard to marking upon the fa, of
he bonds Lobe leaned the fact that the North Saar Ward
is not liable far taxation for the payment of said bonds,
(or the reason that said ward has taken independent as
tion—we answer as follows:
The Act of Assembly teased entitled "An Act relating
to the payment of bounties to volunteers," authorizes sep
arate ward action in obtaining recruits and paying boon.
ties—and the ordinance of this city, based upon said act,
also recognizes the right. The 10th section of said Ordi
nance provides: "That in case any Ward in the City shall
provide means and men, Sc ," the same shall be exempt
from all taxation authorized by said Ordloance—therefore
by law and ordinance, the persons and property of the
residents of the North East Ward are exempt from taxa.
Mu or any liability whatever for the bonds to be issued
by the City. This fart should appear on the face of the
bonds In order that the bond bolder may have notice of
the extent of his security, and that there may be no (ono-
dation for a claim against said Ward for want of notice 6
the face of the bligation.
The recital of the exemption can do no harm, while it
suppression might deceive one party and endanger anothe
ISAAC Id WESTER,
SAM'L H. REYNOLDS.
March 31st, 1864.
LECTBRE BY HON. JAMBS BROOKS. —Hon
JAMES BHOOES, one of the members of the present Congres
from the City of New York, will deliver the second lecture
of the course before the Young Men's Democratic Assoc(
ation of this city. Mr. B. is also the able and accomplished
editor-in-chief of the New York .Frpress, and has a high
reputation as a writer and speaker. By. his sterling hon.
esty and watchful care of the interests of the people, he
has earned the name of the "watch dog of the Treasury."
The lecture will be delivered at Fulton Hall on Thursday
evening, the 14th inst. The subject will be announced on
the posters and In the advertisement in a few days. Of
course the Hall will be crowded.
PERSONAL.—LietIf. COl. FREDERICK S. PT
yea, of the 77th P. V., who wee captured by the Confeder
ates at the battle of Chickamauga, and ever since confined
In Libby Prison, arrived in this city on Tuesday morning
last. We were agreeably surprised to see him looking so
well, after the severe spell of sickness through which he
passed 'during the early partof the winter. Right down
glad were we also to take our old and esteemed friend by
the hand, and find him the Beale companionable fellow as
of yore. Madame Rumor bee it (end we believe the old
dame la right for the nonce) that the Colonel is to become
a happy Benedict, being about to lead to the marriage
altar one of Lancaster's fair and estimable daughters.—
Such being the case, we tender In advance oar hearty
congratulations to the Colonel, and wish him a long,
pleasant and prosperous voyage over the matrimonial sea.
Capt THOMAS B. Hamm, formerly in command of Co.
B, let Pennsylvania Reserves died of consumption on yes
terday afternoon week, at the Swan Hotel in this city.—
Capt. B. organized his company In this city daring the
spring of 1861, and led it through the different campaigns
of the Army of the Potomac to the Peninsula, where he
was taken sick with the typhoid (ever, and eventually
forced to relinquish his command Ile never recovered
fully from that attack and fell into consumption, which
terminated fatally. Hie remains were followed to their
last resting place on Thursday by a detachment of the
79th, under command of Adjutant 11 /die, the Masonic
fraternity, and a large number of acquaintances.
We have had a number of calls lately from our genial,
typographical friend, Private HENRY IV
GEISER, one of the re enliated-veterana of the 79th P. V.
There are few men better known to the Printers of the
State than HARRY Durex, who is recognized as a tlrstolaam
compositor in ever• respect. We have whiled away several
hours with our old friend in recalling reminiscences of
" , days tang mkt)," and it would have done one good to see
and hear `•Pap" laugh over them. Honor ought to be a
Captain, and were merit appreciated and encouraged as it
should be be would be wearing "shoulder straps," instead
of some others we wot of. We hope he may get safely
through all the dangere yet in store for him, and return
home to enjoy the balance of his life in peace and quiet
ness When at last hls form Is locked in the embrace of
death, may his spirit find n resting place where all good
Printers go after they have "ehuffled off this mortal coll."
Rev. F. W. CONRAD preached his farewell discourse in
Trinity Lutheran Church, Duke street, on Sunday evening
last. He is about assuming charge of a Lutheran Church
t Chamber-burg, in this State .
Lieut. A. K. DUNICEL of the 114th P. V., who has to:
fora long time a prisoner in Libby Prison, arrived in this
city last week, and is In good health and spirits.
JAMES L. ItErsouns, Esq., of this city, was, on Tuesday
last, confirmed by the State denote as Quartermaster Gen
eral of the State
J. B. TonuoT, Esq , a merchant of Litiz, of over thirty.
five years standing, has retired from business. During
Mr. T's h•ng mercantile career ne has earned for himself
a wide end well deserved reputation.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF LANCASTER.—The
first National Bank of Lancaster I.! organized and ready.
to commence bocineso as soon as the circulating notes are
forwarded from Washington, where they are being printed
by the Treasury Department. John Gyger, Bear, has been
elected President, Messrs. Thomas Scott Wood,. John
Moore, A. Herr Smith, Abraham 8. Bard. D. G Swartz,
Peter 8. Belot, Henry Baumgardner and Michel H Moore,
Directors; Horace Rathvon, Cashier, and Jo.eph Clarkson,
Teller. The new bank will occupy the building used as
the banking house of Gyger A; Co The paid up capital is
$140,000 with the privilege of Increasing it to $300,000.
LAMPLIGHTERS. —The Mayor has made the
following appointments for lamplighters 8. E. Ward—
Jacob Hergenroth, Wm. McLaughlin; S. W. Ward—Benja
min Myers, henry Wilhelm; N. E. Ward—John Clare,
Geo. Gundaker, Geo. Lentz; N. W. Ward—H. Shufebot•
torn, John Pox, James Rogers.
A SAD ACCIDENT.-0n Wednesday evening
a sad accident occurred on the Pennsylvania Railroad a
short distance east of the depot, by which a young man
named Phaon Korn, a student of Franklin and Marshall
College, was crippled for life He was walking on the rail
road carrying an umbrella and engaged in reading. The
Fart Line east was advancing on the same track the young
man was walking on and when the whistle was sounded
he stepped on to the other track not noticing the Lancas.
ter and Columbia train which was coming west, and which
struck and knocked him down, crushing his right leg
badly After lying for a short time unable to move he
was discovered by the Engineer of the train and Mr. George
L Boyle, Despatcher, and taken to the depot. Dr. J. L.
Atlee, Sr ., was called in and found it necessary to ampu
tate the leg below the knee, which operation was sue
cassfuly performed and the unfortunate young man is now
doing well.
CLAY TOWNSHIP FULL.—We have been re
quested to state that Clay township has filled her quota
under all the calls of the President.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.—The following
Justices of the Peace were elected at the recent township
electioos :
Brenta' ock—H. B Becker.
Conestoga—Jacob Febl.
Conoy—Jacob T. Bare.
Elizabeth Cop.—Franklin E Bentz..
Elizabethtown—flannel Eby.
Eden—Robertymans.
East Lampeter—John Rohrer. •
Leactock—William Kennedy.
Little Britain—Joseph 0. Jamison.
Lancaster twp.—Harris Boardman.
Mt. Joy twp.—Daniel E. Gingrich.
Marietta—C. C P. Grosh
Providence—John Strohm.
Pequea—Andrew Mehaffey.
'Upper Lsacock—William Weidman.
West Hemp&ld—John M. Greider.
West Lampeter—Alpheus Carpenter.
West Donegal—Jos. B Breneman.
Strasburg top —J. Witmer Fritz.
We have been requested to state that all persons elected
as Justices of the Peace, must notify the Prothonotary of
the county within thirty days after their election of their
intention to lift their commissions, otherwise their elec
tion is void. Attention to this matter now will save an
noyance and trouble hereafter.
FIRE —A very destructive fire broke out
about 2 o'clock on Thursday morning in a stable belong
ing to Mrs. Harkins' hotel, near the upper railroad station.
and before it could be arrested, the 'table. hotel, mo t of
the furniture and provisions and a small home adjoining
the hotel were burned to the ground. The late hour at
which the fire was discovered prevented much amistance,
and by the time the citizens had gathered, thedestruction
was almost complete.. Varicose suppositions as to its origin
are in circulation, but nothing definite has been lacer
taboed. It is certainly a very severe loss to an estimable
widow lady.—.lllarinfian
LITERARY.—Godey's Lady's Book for April
is emphatically a Spring number, abounding in the beau
tiful and excellent. No magazine in the country has ever
gone on increasing in public favor equal to Godey. It em.
braces fashion plates, highly ornamented engravings on
various subjects, and the choicest literature from the beat
talent in the country. Besides, it has a bead. Godey hai
applied himself insidiously to its publication for the third
of a century ; and with such vast experience, a nice dis
crimination in everything pertaining to the interests of
the fairer portion criation, and an industry withal un
limited, he is, perhaps the only man in the country just
fitted for the task.
Ton Lent's FEILND 70n APEIL.—The April number of this
new two !oiler magazine opens with a charming steel en
graving called " Harry and his Dog". This is followed by
a beautiful Double Fashion Plate, also engraved cn steel
in the best style. Then we have two companion engrav-
Ingo which will touch the hearts of all mothers; called
"The Wanderer" and " The Restored " The music of this
number is the popular song ti Ednor Roadter, I loved
• that Dear Old Flag the Best,' and is of itself worth the
price of the number.
Published by Deacon A Peterson, No. 319 Walnut St.,
Philadelphia. $2.00 a year.
air OMAN LOVICJOY, a member of Congress
from Illinois. died at Brooklyn, N. Y., on the
25th alt. He !as a violent. and original
Abolitioget. •
TUE =COMM MAX.
• The North American begins an artiele—a
leader, too—on " Internal Revenue," with
the remark that " much disappointment has
been expressed at the failure of the Internal
R.evenue system to yield such a sum in the
first year of its administration, as was
tended when it was framed and as the public
generally expected." It then proceeds to state
what exactly this failure is, and, as we bare
said, the revelation is very startling. The
Internal Revenue is derived •from twelve
sources, which are enumerated, and which, in
the aggregate, yield, not one hundred millions
as was promised, but forty millions—about
twenty days' current expenditure, or about
one third of the interest on the public. debt.
This would, in the event of a foreign war or
commercial non-intercourse, as the law now
stands, be the whole of the public income. If
this be appalling, what will be thought if we
refer to some of the details of this hopeless
sort of finance? There is, as every one here
about to his sorrow knows, a tax of three per
cent. on all incomes, and such is the alleged
prosperity of the North, that incomes now are
very large. We have beard of one mercantile
income of a fancy goods dealer in New York
of $250,000, and of a Philadelphia tea house
of $50,000. It seems—so says the North
American—that the whole income tax of the
loyal United States, amounts to but $450,000
- -one•fifth of a day's expenditure—a little
more than one day's interest on the public
debt I But this is not all. The whole of this
income tax is paid by nine States, or indeed.
excluding Kentucky and Missouri, which are
too much distracted to be very productive, by
seven States on an average of $65,000 each.
Nine States do not pay one cent. They are,
and we italicise the Abolitinnized States, New
? flampshire, Rhode Ldand,'New Jersey, Dela
ware, Afichigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kan
sas and California. Three States, Vermont,
Connecticut and lowa, pay fifty dollars each,
and Maryland and Illinois two hundred dol
lars each. In other words, fourteen Northern
States pay an income tax of exactly forty
dollars each Well may the reader be
startled by this, which, as we have said, we
copy literally from an Administration news
paper. Assuming the figures to be correct,
one may well ask how is it possible, on any
theory of honesty, that such a State as Rhode
Island—at this moment represented in the
Senate by a millionaire, whose presents to his
bride were recently beyond all price—how
comes it that Rhode Island does not pay one
farthing on account of the income tax ? And
New Hampshire, with its factories, and New
Jersey, with its railroad capitalists, and Cali
fornia, with its gold, and Illinois, with its
great city of lakes and its gigantic rental—ip
there no tax and no income from any of these?
Not one dollar," says the North American,
and we fear our ootemporary is well posted in
the statistics, of this dreary system of fruitless
finance. The remedy for all this says the
North American, is whisky. Malt liquors,
(and we presume champaign wines) are to be
spared. But whiskey can make up the deficit.
Whiskey now pays but four millions ! " The
very great facilities," says the North Anteri—
an, " existing in the West for making cheap
liquors insure the permanence of this source
of revenue." Now we have no objection to
all this, but what is the whisky producing
West likely to say ? Will the growers of
cheap liquor in the West agree to pay their
share of this new forty millions, and be con—
tent that temperate Rhode Island and Gov.
Sprague shall pay nothing ? These are prac—
tical questions not easy to answer.
The truth is—and there is no use in dis—
guising it—that the Income tax is, and is
likely to be, shamefully evaded. In our midst
we can, without difficulty, put our finger on
the men—reeking in wealth and luxury—who
figure " loyally" on the ostentations lists of
contributors to bounty funds and fairs, and
yet who conceal and disparage their incomes,
and cheat the Government of its dues. We
thank the North American for this candid
statement of the truth. It is a dismal revela—
tion for those who own Five•twenties, or
Seven•thirties.—P hila. Age.
THE VALLANDIDHAH FUND
The Cincinnati correspondent of the Chicago
nines gives some particulars respecting the
fund raised by the friends of Mr. Vallandig
ham in Ohio, as follows :
"The friends of Mr. Vallandigham should
be more solicitous to. raise a handsome fund
for his benefit, when by persecution unparal
leled. he has been driven from his country,
and deprived of the profession•from which he
has made his livelihood, while his life-long
honored integrity has prevented him from ac
cumulating any considerable means for his
support. It may not be generally known,
but it is nevertheless true, that Mr. Valland
igham, although he had the opportunity, in
the course of his political life, to have amass
ed a large fortune, if be had as liberal a
conscience as most of our politicians, was in
poor pecuniary circumstances at the time of
his arrest, and this despite the fact that he
was noted for his frugality and economy.
He owned no property except his house and
a lot in Dayton, which were mortgaged for
nearly as large a sum as they were worth, and,
when arrested by Burnside, and brought to
Cincinnati, he was entirely destitute of any
pecuniary means of defence. As an illustra
tion, however, of the character of the man, I
would state the ftici l that hie mother, at New
Lisb3n, Columbiana county, resides in a house
and lot purchased for her by him, when his
own, in Dayton, was nearly all mortgaged.
Mr. Vallandigham's integrity, like Cmsar's
wife, is above suspicion ; for not the vilest of
his abolition assailants ever charged him with
corruption or venality in Congress His vote
was always recorded against every scheme of
private interest that was pressed by a corrupt
lobby. When the war broke out, had he sup
ported it, Republicans were anxious and de
-
sinus of making him Governor or United
_States Senator ; but he preferred honesty, pov
erty and principle to ill-gotten wealth and
power by its sacrifice. The receipts by the
Central Committee of the Vallandigham Fund
from Dem ioratio ladies for the week ending
March 7, were $909,29. It is now definitely
known by the committee that the fund will
considerably exceed $50,000. The movement
is so distasteful to Republicans that they have
actually introduced a resolution in the Ohio
House of Representatives making it penal to
! subscribe to any fund for the benefit a
person in exile by order of the President.
Should the bill be passed the money will be
; sent to Mrs. Vallandigham, and, if she is in
,:43l,ude'd, to his venerable mother."
Mr. BROOKS, of New York, in his recent
speech in Congress, presented in an apt and
striking contrast the enormity of our expendi
tures, and suggested, by the presentation, the
wretched mismanagement which has caused
them. Ho compared our present expenditures
to those of Great Britain from 1810 to 1816,
the years in which her struggle with Napoleon
was must : aotive and determined, and when
she" was compelled to subsidize other nations,
besides maintaining her own armies The
aggregate expenditures for the seven ytrars
from 1810 to 1816, inclusive, was $906,730,-
000. Said Mr. %moire :
" But, sir, for the single fiscal year of
1863-64 we,who are coping with no Napoleon,
with no combination of powers to overthrow,
us—but when a few rebellions States, started
without resources and full of the elements of
weakness, are lightly operated upon—we have
appropriatell more money in a single year, to
subdue this rebellion, than was appropriated
fol. the whole British empire in the six years
from 1810 to 1816, to subdue the august Na-
poleon, at one time combining all the conti•
nental nations of Europe for British over
throw."
The rebelliVis now one of huge magnitude,
but when it began it was literally one of a
few rebellious States, " started without re
sources, and full of the elements of weakness."
The policies of the administration have given
it strength and resources, and its imbecility
has wasted our own.
New YORK SPECULATORS.-A letter from
New York states that a speculative movement
is on foot in that market to buy all the old
teas there, and that already $2,000,000 worth
has been " gobbled" np. The writer adds.:
" A similar combination has been effected to
buy up all the coffee, and that, too, will prob
ably be successful. The speculators will thus
have it in their power to impose such prices
as they choose upon the consumers of these
necessaries."
gyp' Attention is direoted-to the advertise
ment of his. IdeAutra in to-day's Intalligenoer.
The Fern offered for sale is one of the &neat,
in the Stati of -Idariland:
THE TEETH TOLD.
LINCOLN'S ZOIVESTY AND CAPACITY
A Terrible PhiUlple Against Lincoln by
at Fremont organ.
Irma the Nevi York New Nation.]
We all recollect that worthy citizen of ,Athens
who banishectArletidee solely because it annoyed
to hear the epithes . the Just," constantly
coupled with hie name._We have all been struck
by Chia strange spechnet of political liberty, and by
the lank of Judgment in the appileation. /t was
not because this undue notoriety given to the name
of a citizen of the republic might, after a time,
prove dangerous, nor because the epithet of "jut "
was questionable, that the worthy citizen of Greece
banished Aristides. lie would not even Cooties the
matter, the epithet annoyed him, and that was
enough to ostracize its unfortunate bearer. In this
we Bee an excess of liberty and a lack of political
education.
Now, we are annoyed and irritated at hearing
the words Abraham Lincoln and honesty always
coupled together; but being mere generoue than the
excellent Athenian citizen aforesaid, we propose,
before ostracizing honest Abe from the White Howse,
to consider his right to the =name of " Honest"—
To call one man honest out of a population of thirty
millions, is not so much of a compliment to him as
a sarcasm upon all the rest. Let us look into his
honeaty and eapability. After three years of patient
silence we have a right, and it is moreover our duty,
Mr. Lincoln, to examine your acts and show them
to the nation. Yon commenced by oonfiding the
fate of our cause, the honor of our arms,' and the
lives of our eons to men having no higher claim to
each trust than a host of voters at their command,
whose support you coveted—in order to advance the
welfare of the nation.
We have allowed you to further your political
and personal inteisats, and-to transform into heroes
men whose inefficiency has swallowed up thousands
of lives and millions of treasure, so that you might
be able to dazzle the eyes of the people with vie
tories far more than real. We have permitted you
to sacrifice tried patriots, whose popularity alarmed
you and whose energy disappointed your calcula
tions.
We have allowed yon to decisive the people; we
have let you transform disgraceful defeats into vic
tories ; and even we made no outcry when you were
reduced to beg exoneration for acts wide! have eter
nally disgraced the honor of our arms. You have
been unable either to forsee or forestall anything.—
What has become of the nation's enthusiasm?—
What have yon done with the immense resources,
unprecedented in history, that the nation has lav
ishly given you?
You are now appealing to conscription, and we
will not enter into a discussion of the.prinoiele
itself, but we will tell you that you should have
foreseen that the day must oome when you would
need these men, and that you were to blame in act
calling for them when the people's enthusiasm-Was
first aroused, when they certainly would not have
been refused you. You are to blame, inaomuoh
as through your incapacity and personal schemes,
the necessity for snob an appeal has become a ques
tion of public safety. You are to blame for depriv
ing us of the services of men whose popularity stim
ulated that enthusiasm.
You have told the country that both the rebellion
and slavery were dead ; you have told the people
that the forces of the rebels were reduced by deser
tions, and that they could not be reunited, fed, nor
clothed ; and yet you are forced to act upon the de
fensive, being threatened at all points.
Whenever you have directed the action of our
troops they have been uniformly unsuccessful; you
have perpetually offered us the wretebed spec
tacle of splendid resources and excellent ',llamas of
success sacrificed to incapacity. The only success
which you came near attaining, but the credit of
which we intend to take from you,
is due to the in
credible imaginativeness that you hove displayed in
describing facts. Changes of base, masterly retreats,
and reconnoissances have succeeded each other with
a rapidity worthy of the greatest showman of
modern times. The immense variety of circum
stances is only equaled by the identity of the re
sults. We have:
Sherman's reconnoissance.
Smith's reconnoissance.
Thomas' reconnoissance.
Kilpatrick's reconnoissance.
Custer's reconnoissance.
Seymour's reconnoissance.
Gilmore's Charleston reconnoissance.
The result is everywhere the same, ridioalous and
disastrous. The sole concession we can make to
your honesty is, that you have improved upon the
change of base in 1882; you destroy fewer soldiers
and barn lass of the nation's property.
Row is it, that after three years of incomparable
victories, according tolialleck's facetious expressi 3[l,
"unprecedented in the military history of nations,"
you are still pondering how to preserve the national
Capital and your bases of operation?
Is it a reward for such success, for the achieve
ment of such results, that
- you now ask the nation
to pass a vote of oontidenee and re-elect you for an
other, and perhaps another, term?
In your inaugural address you gave a very strik
ing illustration of your peculiar nonesty by pledg
ing yourself, in accordance with the well•known
principles of the party which had elected you, not
to serve another term ; you said this in a manner
which none of your supporters then understood ;
but your words were evidently designed to bear a
double meaning, so that, if you suould find the
sweets of office more enticing than you possibly an
ticipated, you might change your purpose without
seeming to violate your promise. Candid people
will see in this a good deal more evidence of cunning
than of honesty.
The whole truth is this : you are leading the na
tion quietly to its destruction by deceiving the peo
ple.an to the dangers which threaten it. in the first
part of the campaign of 1862 you gained, advantages
which you. were unable to utilize or even retain in
1863.
You sacrificed the entire West for the capture of
Vicksburg, and then you proclaim to ths four winds
that the Mississippi is free, while not a single steam
boat can navigate it without being attacked or per
haps burned, add - without every passenger having
the fear of death or captivity before his eyes.
To serve the ands of your cause, you have made a
hero out of a man upon whom you have lavished
everything, w)fo had every obstacle removed from
his path, and who was promptly furnished with re
inforoementa and supplies, while ltoeeorans could
get none.; and who has scarcely been able to hold,
with the immense resources at his command, the
ground which his predecessor gained in spite of you
by his own talents.
You have offered us the distressing spectacle of
the sacrifice of merit to caprice and personal politi
cal interests, and this in a republic, in the name
and under the plea of popular sovereignty.
And to cap the climax, you are obliged to hear
definitions like this: An unconditional loyal man
is one who, although not satisfied with the measures
taken by the government, approves them all and
gives them his constant support.
It seems almost incredible. Are we in Constanti
nople, in St. Petersburg, in Rome, or in Paris ? Ara
we the descendants of those proud Saxons who re
fused to succumb to any yoke, or the illegitimate
offspring of cardinals 'asking to seoare fortune and
greatness by a perpetual worship ? Are we really
the descendants of twee disciples of Luther and Cal
vin, who, rather than subject their reason to an au
thority which they despised, preferred to, expatriate
themselves_ to those shores, where, through the
agency of iberty, they founded our national great
ness which you are now striving to drown in a sea
of cowardice and adulation, corruption and incom
petency? Were our ancestors to visit the earth,
they would certainly be surprised to see that, eighty
years after the revolution which gave life and lib
erty to the nation, the Linooln party could find no
other definition of loyalty then a blind submission
to the decrees of the government.
But we have exercised this blind and mute sub
mission during three years; during three years we
have kept silent—and what was more generous than
silence?
Some true radical patriots said not long since,
"We have lost confidence in Fremont. What hal
he done or said for a year past ?"
What could he do? what could he say 7 lie has
done for you what Bator and Sigel have done;
what we have all done; he has been charitable
enough to keep silence, and that is more than he
should have done. In the face of so much incapa
bility and corruption, patriotism alone has kept as
silent. Each time that a fresh defeat or fresh con
cession to foreign powers brought an indignant ex
clamation to our lips, we restrained Its utterance.—
And yet have much grief, and love, and admiration
accompanied each hetaeomb of thesis unknown
heroes, martyrtto their country, who have fallen,
through the incompetency and the cold and insati
able ambition of the men whose mission it was to
lead our eons to victory, but who being blinded by
political considerations for their personal advance
ment, led them only to a profitless death.
And you have not displayed more talent or energy
abroad. Napoleon has trampled upon the rights of
a friendly republic ; he has insolently notified us of
a blockade of the Mexican coast, and thrown the
Memos doctrine in our form.
We ask, teen, who is master now in America, he
who lays down the law, '
or he who submits to the
same? Is It Napoleon the 1.11, or the successor of
Washington ?
Gal alone, by bestowing upon the oonntry inex
haustible natural wealth, and that ardent patriot
ism which makes every soldier a hero, has saved the
country from the ruin into which your selfishness
would plunge it. This lathe seoret of the difference
between your currency and that of the South.
We have been imposed upon long enough. The
ruin which you have been unable to accomplish in
four years, would certainly be fully consummated
' were you to remain in power four years longer.—
' Your Military Governors and their Provost Marshals.
override the laws, and the echo of the armed heel
rings forth as clearly now in America as in France
or Austria. Yon have encroached upon our liberty
without securing victory, and we must have both.
You have dishonored us abroad by shameless mis
representations as to our true condition. Places that
we occupied in 1862 an now again in the hands of
.the rebels, and Ged knows whether your prepare
tons for the approaching campaign are adequate.
Corruption has entered into every department of
your administration, rendering it a very Aegean
stable, which needs a Hercules as your successor.—
It is time for the light to shine forth and for the
truth to fully appear, so that all sincere patriots,
all men who look for nothing further than the ad
vancement of theiroonntry and of liberty, may rally
in one compact body around the great principle of
liberalism, and form a liberal party worthy of the
name. Such a man can only save the country.
Away with all the imposters who lave invaded
the temple 'of liberty, and turned it into a vote
market. Let there be an end of this ridiculous farce
of unconditional loyalty, which is only fit to secure
the votes of those fools;- who, instead of delving to
the root of the matter, blindly believe all the inter
ested falsehoods published by journals that are paid
to applaud and submit, whether right or wrong.
Mr. Lincoln's honesty is of strange description.—
It consists in nearly ruining the country and in dis
regarding its interests in order to make sure of
power for four years longer. To our eyes, the man
who has deprived his country of the services of some
of, its best citizens, who has been unable to make
any better use of the incredible resources confided
to him, and who, after agitating so menu public
without Calving one of them, d
his own utter incepacity, is, of au the. ettun=the
United States, the lust honest and flue moot dim
ut 1140/A if Pudding Idnoo, were
.the honest
man that his paid' oritiuli repre l* sent him to bo,how
'dallawtolill would-ids milled= prove to the liber-
time of the people, under existiag drennestanese,
surrounded as he is, with the Winery inflames
that he ha at his back! Let us remember the
teachings of history, and the bestenees of Aligned or
real imbeeility, all of whittle have resulted in des.
potism. Sixtus V, the half stupid monk in his call,
and Napoleon 111, the sottish debauete, belong to.
the earn* school . The men who have had to endnre
them, elected them as unimportant individuals,
whose election would give time for reflection and
consideration • it will soon be sixteen year that
Brame has reheated and pondered over har lost ilir•
arty. rearing the unknown and shrinking from the
rAttiara, incidental to change,' thy have had
at and ruin, which are leading them inev
itably to the most terrible of all the revolutions that
history has hitherto recorded.
THE FEELING IN THE SOUTH.
The New York World's Chattanooga out
respondent says:
We met to•day a gentleman from Cleveland
who left Atlanta a short time since. He has
lived for some time past in Celina! Georgia,
and is well posted regarding the condition and
feelings of the people of that section.
He says that after Bragg's defeat at Mission
Ridge the people were very despondent of the
ultimate success of the rebellion. Many be
gan to murmur, and confidence was only re
stored by the news of our disaster in Florida,
and the late unsuccessful attempt on Dalton
by way of Tunnel Hill. He thinks our Gen
, orals will be surprised at the number and
strength of the armies of the Rebels will have
in the field for the ensuing campaign. They
have almost every able-bodied man in the
army, or in some position to contribute to its
support directly or indirectly. They expre-s
the determination to make their hardest fight
this summer and boast that it shall be decisive.
Oar informant says the people of the South,
where he had been, were never more bitter and
that all are becoming imbued with a feeling
of desperation nearly allied to ineardly. Such
feelings he states are fostered and encouraged
by their politicians and leaders, who constant—
lylappeal to the pasei ins of their followers.
The women also seem to vie with the other sex
and even to surpass them in their rabid seces—
sionism. They express themselves willing to
make any sacrifice in order to establish their
Government, and be forever alienated from
the hated Yankees. This sentiment, which
all have known to exist, lo daily growing in
intensity, and we of the North must acknow—
ledge the fact and prepare th meet its conse—
, quenoes.
THE RIOT IN ILLINOIS.
SPRINGFIELD, M., Maroh 29
The difficulty in Coles county is the topic
of oonversation here to day. It is impossible
to arrive at the facts from what we hvae
heard, although severe] telegrams have been
received by the military authorities here It
is:stated that John R. Eden, member of Con—
gress from that district, made a speech in
Charleston yesterday. He was replied to by
Dr. York, Surgeon of the 54th Regiment, and
a violent Abolitionist. A row was gotten up
and Dr York was shot and killed. By order
of Col. Mitchell, of the 54th, Mr. Eden was
arrested and confined under guard in the
Court house. The 54th Regiment, most of
whom were at Mattoon, was sent for during
the row. It is said that six Republicans and
two Democrats were killed and twenty
wounded on both sides, among whom was
Col. Mitchell. It is also stated that a row
occurred at Ramsey, on the Central Railroad,
and the military were sent for, but nothing
occurred.
The Latest-The Riot at an End.
MATTOON, 111., March 31
Everything seems to have resumed its
usual quiet, and the rioters are believed to
have dispersed The 47th Indiana regiment
has left. and the 41st Illinois V dunteer regi
ment will remain until the return of Colonel
Oakes from Chariest n.
tor Mr. LINCOLN, On his way t.) Washing
ton, in February, 1861, made a epeeoh at
Cleveland, in which he said :
" Why all this excitement? Why all these
complaints? As I said before, this crisis is
all artificial. It has no foundation in fact.—
It was not argued up, as the saying is, and
cannot, therefore, be argued down. Let it
alone, and it will go down of itself."
This was the doctrine of Mr. Vallandighatn.
He said let the South alone, and the rebellion
would fall to pieces of itself. He did not,
however, consider the excitement as artificial
nor did he believe that it bad not been " ar-
pied up " Mr. Lincoln helped to " argue it
up " when he deliberately affirmed that the
Union could •lot exist half slave and half free.
Mr. Seward helped to " argue it up " when
he taught that as citizens we were amenable
to a " higher law " than the Constitution,
and that between the two there was "an irre
pressible conflict."
FORGERIEB.-A few days ago a check on the
Lebanon Bank for $120,00, purporting to be
drawn by Mr. Jacob Riedel, of this Borough,
was presented to McCulloch's banking house
at Harrisburg, for payment. Mr. M. received
the check for collection and forwarded it to the
Lebanon Bank, where it was at once pronoun
ced spurious. A few days after, a cheek of
the same character for fifty-four dollars was
presented at a Reading bank and was cashed.
On Friday last, a similar check for eighty
five dollars was presented to a Lancaster
bank, the officers of which had been put on
their guard. The person presenting it was
detained until inquiry could be made, when
he was put in the hands of a police officer
and conducted to prison. The person so
arrested proves to be John S. Grumbine, a
resident at present of this Borough ; and who
has for some years past been engaged in
teaching school in different parts of this
county. lie is yet a young man.— Lebanon
Courier.
ANOTHER STARTLING REPORT
A " reliable " gentleman, who saw the man
that told it to him, has given to the Washing
ton correspondent of the . St. Louis Union the
following trustworthy anecdote about General
McClellan. It has not yet appeared in the
N. Y. Tribune, but will, in due course—the
large number of stories of the same kind
which that honest paper has on hand having
unavoidably prevented its publication :
" It has been ascertained here that General
McClellan, after he was supeiseded by
General Burnside, went down to Richmond
in a balloon and had a long interview with
Jeff Davis ; that the result of this interview
was-that McClellan, in disguise as the rebel
commander, fought and repulsed Burnside at
Fredericksburg and Hooker at Chancellors
ville. Horace Greeley's partiality for McClel—
lan has induced him to be silent till now."
TUB WAR IR irmenue
A letter from the Army of the Potomac
says that the rebels for the past two days
have been busily engaged in digging rifle pits
along the south side of the Rapidan, in the
vicinity of Raccoon Ford.
It is also reported by deserters that they
are tearing up the railroad between Fred—
ericksburg and Hanover Junction.
;Six deserters came in yesterday, bringing
their wives and twelve children. They trav
elled by way of Madison Court House, where
their families had been living encountering
great hardships on the route.
Seventy-two prisoners, sentenced by court
martial to labor on the public works, for ,
to varying from one to ten years, were
sent to Alexandria yesterday, on the way to
the fields of their future labors.
AWFUL CATASTROME.—The English jour
nals relate one of the most awful catastrophes
of modern time. A few miles above Sheffield,
a small river, a branch of the Don, had been
dammed like the Croton, to form a reservoir
for the supply of the town. , The lake, formed
by what was proved an insufficient embank
ment, was nearly a hundred acres in extent,
and at midnight on the 13th the whole body
of water swept down the valley, carrying
away &met. of dwellings and drowning some
three hundred persons, who were asleep in
their beds. The destruction of property all
the way to Doncaster is roughly estimated at
half a million pounds sterling.
WHAT NEXT
" Union Leagues," composed of negroes ,
are being organised in Philadelphia. Petitions'
to the Legislature of this State are immediate
ly to be got up "asking that body to take
such action, previous to adjournment, as will
give the colored people of Pennsylvania the
right to vote, and all the privileges of ethi;i •
citizens." The infatuation of the Abolitioniste .
on the nigger queethm-vlll be noted a g es in
•
to come ae qua of the evideaoee,of insanity
-
a large portion Of the *pie of the present
WASHINGTON, April 1