bt Lancaster intelligencer GEO. SANDERSON, EDITOR. L. SANDERSON, Assoctato. :LANCASTER, PA., APRIL 12, 1864 Sir B. N. PNITSWIttt t Co.'s Avngrimila Armor, Pt Park Bow, New York City, and 10 State strsel, Boston. B. X Panama A 00., Ara Arnim for The Zained* , ttaipaor, and the roost indium= and lamed drowle. Bkrawinthe United States and the Clanadaw rbay ara - orkred to contract lbr us at our Towed roles Air latersza 1 A. 13021, No. 335 Broadway, New York, ere authorised to receive advertisements for The Pnierit. rawer, et our lowest rates. ar.TONIE ADVICITIJOING Aesser to located at N 0.60 North 6th street, Philadelphia. Us is authorized to remise advertisements and subectiptkais for The Lancaster f i lt e rs^ No.l Scollefs Oonrt Bt., Bostotly V our anthoflzed Agent Ow receiving advertlitanents, do, OTj "EL X' la A. GI- Now our flag is flung to the wild winds free, Let it float o'er our father land, And the guard of its spotless fame shall be Columbia's chosen band. "CLING TO THE CONSTITUTION, AS THE SHIPWRECKED MARINER CLINGS TO THE LAST PLANK, WHEN NIGHT AND THE TEMPEST CLOSE AROUND HIM."-DANIEL WEBSTER. se— The conclusion of Mr. DAW soN's great speech will be found on our first page. We again advise all our readers to give the whole speech a careful perusal, as it will well re pay them for the labor. Three Years of War This day three years ago the bloody drama of civil strife was inaugurated by the bombardment of Fort Sum ter. During these terrible years of war and devastation, what myriads of homesteads have been made deso late, and what bitter anguish has lacerated the hearts of fond wives and mothers and sisters at home.— And still the end is not yet, there is no silver lining visible in the dark cloud, and to all human appearances the sanguinary struggle is to be con tinued for years to come. Rivers of blood will continue to flow, and de struction and desolation follow in the train. The public appetite is not yet glutted, and the cry is still for human gore. It would seem as if Heaven had a controversy with this Nation, and that a loose rein has been given to all the baser pas sions of the human heart. This cruel and sanguinary war is unparal leled in the history of the world— certainly there has been nothing to equal it in magnitude and atrocity since the introduction of Christianity into the world. But we forbear any further remarks. The subject is too gloomy and repulsive to contem plate. 0, .when shall peace again smile upon a restored Union and a happy people—when shall our "swords be turned into plough shares and our spears into pruning hooks ?" What have we Gained ? What has the Nation gained by placing the friends of Abolition in power ? A divided Union ;_ a debt that weighs us down ; the destruc tion of a million of men ; calls for more every three mouths of the year ; a policy that keeps every city, borough and township at work in the most earnest way, to find its "last man" and its "last dollar," and the towns are fast approaching that point. What have we gained? Mourning all over the land ; a ca lamity such as the world has never witnessed. What shall we gain by keeping these men in power ? Ut ter, irretrievable ruin. Freemen ! For yourselves and your children are you called upon to act. We are indebted to Hon. ANSON HERRICK, M. C., for a copy of his bold and eloquent speech on " The Disunion Policy of the Ad ministration," delivered in the House of Representatives, on the 26th of March. The City of New York is honored in having him as one of her representatives. Important Victories! Mr. LINCOLN gained three more important victories during the last week. His friends,.• the Abolition ists, assisted by the Army of the Po tomac, carried the elections in Con necticut, Rhode Island and Mary land, and for these " glorious tri umphs " the Miscegenation press everywhere are in ecstacies. Any one who anticipated a different re sult certainly cannot be " loyal." The Monroe Doctrine Re-affirm ed in Congress. The House of Representatives at Washington, on Monday week, re affirmed the Monroe doctrine, by unanimously passing resolutions em bodying that principle reported from the Committee , on Foreign Affairs. The essence of the Monroe doctrine is an expression of opinion that this Government could not view any in terference of European Powers with the Governments of this Hemisphere, for the purpose of oppressing them, or " controlling in any other man ner their destiny," in any other light than as a Manifestation of an un friendly disposition towards the United States. sir- At the election in Maryland, on Wednesday, the Emancipation ists had everything their own way. In many of the counties little or no opposition was made. This was also the case in Baltimore city, which gave 9125 for the Convention and 76 against. The Convention will be composed of 96 members. The President has issued another proclamation explanatory of his amnesty proolamition of the Bth of December. It states that those who are in confinement, or ontof primin on bonds or parole, are now en titled to the olemenoy offered in the procla- mation. It further defines the officers who , Are, entitled to administer the oath of alle gimes, viz : Any commissioned officer, civil, military or naval, in the service of the United States, or, any civil or military officer of a State, or Territory not •14". insurrection, who b th . s laws thereof ', m at be qualified for oaths. NOT SCILDILICRI Z 151017011. Senator WthsoF, Chairman of the Military Committee, reoently declared that " the coon. ' try is going to ruin for the want of soldiers." At the same time we are told that our armies number 700,000—one correspondent says 1,20:1,000 ; while it is generally declared that the Confederate armies number but 300,000. This is a most humiliating admission of the imbecility, mismanagement and wickedness of our rulers. Having by their own admis sion, more than double the soldiers that the enemy can muster, they declare that " the country is going to ruin for the want of sol diers I" This can be true only upon the ground of utter incompetency to properly employ our men, or their employment for other purposes than those for which they should be used. Both of these hypotheses are true. The shameful defeats and discom fitures which have recently befallen our arms attest the troth of the former; and the shame ful and fruitless " raids," the political Florida expedition, the bringing of tens of thousands of soldiers from the field to control eleotions, and the keeping of other tens of thousands scattered all over the Northern States in idle ness, all attest the truth of the latter. With more than twice the force of-the enemy, we are everywhere outnumbered in the field and everywhbre defeated. And under the present imbecile, corrupt and wicked management of affairs, there is no reason to expect any differ ent result with any addition to our present forces. INCOME TAX. The collection of the national income tax naturally enough embarassee our people, as they have the whole routine of the business yet to learn. Complicated as it may seem at first sight, however, it ie simple enough when once understood. By the law every man is required to make a true return to the assessor of his income.— Bear in mind that it is the duty of the people to call with the assessor and make their re turn ; and it moat be done on or before the Ist of May. Persons neglecting to do so will be called upon by the assessor,and 50 per cent. added to the tax. A penalty of $5OO is im posed for, a false or fraudulent return. By applying to the assessor he will furnish persons with blank papers, by which any one can readily make out his return without diffi- The income tax applies to those only whose net yearly income exceeds $6OO. In ascertaining the income the gross re. ceipts are taken, and the gross expenditures, In the expenditures which are to be deducted are embraced the entire cost in carrying on business, including rent, clerk hire, insur. anoe, freight, fuel, &c. ; the rent of the pro perty occupied as a residence, and all other taxes assessed and paid for the year 1862; amount actually paid for repairs ; interest on bonds or stock on which three per cent. has already been deducted, &c. Farmers will deduct their hired labor, with the cost of sub sisting the same; the necessary repairs on the farm, and the insurance and the interest on incumbrances on the farm. After deducting all these expenses fr , na the gross revenues a tax of three per cent. is imposed upon the excess over $6OO of each man's income. Persons whose net income does not exceed that sum pay no tax, unless they have silver ware or carriages, upon which a specific tax is imposed. I=M= It is reported that some deficiency in the general appropriations was discovered early in January. The Heads of Departments and Bureaus concocted a bill for $4,180,531 to ' meet this deficiency. In the House it was increased to $7,469,109.65. These figures seem pretty large, but in the Senate were in creased to the enormous sum of $107,000,- 000 ! The appropriations for year amounted to $585,479,511, and with this addition will make, for the fiscal year, ending first July next, the incredible sum of $991,903,229 ! And this, too, but a part of the expenses of a single year. In the war of 1812, while fighting the most powerful government of Europe—it is said the cost of the army was, in 1813, $19,662,013 ; in 1814, $20,350,306 ; in 1815, $14,794,294 22; altogether $55,807,- 113.22, for a three years war. Now there seems to be in the single item of deficiency, in a single year, about twice the sum which was the cost of the entire army for the three years "of the war of 1812. What Next ? The State Senate has passed a joint resolution, by a vote of 19 to 10, for the removal of the seat of Government to Philadelphia, that City having offered to contribute one million of dollars for the erection of suitable buildings for the accommo dation of the Legislature and Execu tive. The following is the vote on the passage of the resolution : YEAS—Messrs. Beardelee, Clmer, Connell, Donovan, Dunlap, Glatz, Graham, Limber ton, Latta, McCandless, Nichols, Reilly, Ridgway, Stark, Stein, Turrell, Wilson, Worthington and Penney, Speaker-19 . NAYS Messrs. Bucher, Fleming, Hoge, Householder, Johnson, Lowry, MeSherry, Montgomery, Smith and St. Clair-10. The Patriot a' Union, after giving the vote, says : " The removal of the seat of government, to any place at this time, and to Philadelphia at any time, would be a gross wrong. for which those who are instrumental in effect— ing it would and should be ever held account able by the people. We know not what species of madness has seized the Legisla ture, but certain it is, if they pass the reso— lution for removal, they will be held to be lu natics, or worse, by all sane people." =l= How is the war progressing? This is the question that interests every body. The North American, an intensely loyal sheet, that a few days ago indicated a disposition to em brace miscegenation publishes the following, which we presume, coming from a loyal source, to be correct. it is made up to Sept. 1, 1863, and includes the battle of Chicka mauga : CONYZDZHATis Killed. Wounded. Prisoners. Total 1.256 3,955 2,772 7,987 14,556 47,204 15,878 77,646 .12.321 48,100 71,311 131,832 Total 23,1,7 89,459 89,886 217,465 Confederates died of disease and sickness from com mencement of war to present time 130,000. Killed. Wounded. Prisoners. Total. 4,724 9,791 9,144 23,709 .20,879 68 973 46,584 186,386 .15,363 53,981 33,281 .102,625 Total 1J,966 132,745 89,009 202,700 Ferientls men of disease and sickness daring sane time, 290,000 Federal !OFSIIS in betties, by sickness, kc Federals' total less in three years Criafederate las,e4 le battle. As . by sickoeu, kc Confederate total loss In 1.11.. years 347,465-317,465 Excess of Federal loss THE NEGRO MASSACRE The late massacre of negro soldiers near Vicksburg is now said not to have been a rebel outrage, but quite otherwise. The 'le groom went to a hotel where there were only white women and children with their ser-, vants, committed the grossest possible out rages on the women and then burnt the house. An Indiana regiment heard of the affair and attacked and killed the negroes. No 'rebels were conocrned in the shodking affair. Ad miral Porter said in a late report: "The negro troops near Vicksburg have been com mitting many outrages." . TUE "OLDHAM VOTE The Harrisburg correspondent of the Sun day Mercury in alluding to the bill, `which lately passed the Senate, providing for the manner in which the soldiers are to vote and hold elections while in actual service, says: " The bill providing for the manner in which the soldiers are to vote and hold eleo tions while in actual military service, passed the Senate yesterday. The Demoarat4 en deivored to engraft some safeguards upon it to preserve the purity of the ballot box, but the Abolitionists voted them down. For instance, the Democrats wanted an amend ment so that Democrats could not be put upon detached duty to prevent their voting. They also wanted any officer punished who used coercion or threats to induce a soldier to vote any particular ticket. They wanted a section to punish frauds, corruption or perjury committed in such election to be on the re turn of such men as were found guilty ; but all of these propositions were rejected by the Abolitionists, by which they acknowledge that they have left the door open to fraud. The election in the army, where there are no resolute Democrats to stand up for their rights, will be a farce. The intention is to poll just as large a vote in the army as the Abolitionists may want, regardless of its legality, and to carry the border States by stationing armed men at the ballot boxes to prevent Democrats from voting. This is evident, and the sooner the Democrats prepare to encounter snob a struggle the better it will be for them. I have already heard it inti mated by a prominent Republican, that the " Copperheads " in the army, whether volun teers or drafted men, would not be permitted to vote. To deprive them of the elective franchise would be to reduce them to a vas salage mere abject than that of the Russian serfs in the darkest days of the empire. They will stop at nothing to perpetuate power, and, if they can do so with safety to them selves, it is not at all improbable that the freedom of the elective franchise in the North ern and Western States will be interfered with. The only thing that will prevent them from resorting to such an extremity will be a fear of inaugurating a revolution in which themselves might be the principal sufferers. LET US PAUSE AND REFLECT The New York Journal of Commerce, in the course of some reflections upon Governor Seymour's able message, remarks: " We are unquestionably approaching the crisis of our national history. From the Presidential election, which is to occur this fall, we shall, if conservatives succeed, begin to restore the glory and the peace of the American Union ; while, if radical measures continue to remain in power, our downward course will be rapid to anarchy and ruin.— We doubt whether free institutions can pos sibly survive four years more of trial such as they have endured under radical manage ment. The great truth brought out by Gov ernor Seymour, that there is a bottom to the national purse and a limit to the national credit, is of profound import. Shall th- plan of war and conquest, at the expense of other thousands of millions, continue till we reach that limit? till we pass it? Will prudence, caution, reason, never resume sway at Wash ington ? No one can doubt that this nation is able to bear as great a debt as any other nation in the world ; but that does not imply that we can bear-any amount of debt, to the extent of unlimited thousalds of millions.— Let us not blind our eyes and close our ears to the deceitful promises that the war is al most over. It stretches away before us into years of darkness, fearful years to a free country. The expenses of treasure and of blood are yet to be enormous. We can carry our present debt without doubt. How much more can we carry ? This is the question for cibly presented in the present aspect of our national affairs. It does not present itself, as radical men pretend, as a question of abandoning a war for the Union. It is a question, of abandoning a war for conquest and abolition, and resuming a war for the Union. Shall we go back to original princi ples, or shall we plunge into chaos 2" NON-PARTIZAN OPINION We ask the attention of our readers to the following summary of MoCLELLAN's merits, from the Washington National Intelligencer : "First in the order of time among the dis. tinguished names which have been corn mended to the popular consideration in con. nection with the next presidency is that of Gen. McClellan. The great abilities which he is held by his admirers to have displayed in organizing and combining our military forces for the gigantic war in which the country was suddenly plunged ; the early add clear perception he had of the magnitude of the task imposed on the government by the insurrection ; the skill he displayed in con ducting the army of the Potomac alike in its advance and in its retreat, when the latter I necessity was imposed on it by adverse fortune ; -the devotion he has been able to inspire among his comrades in arms the patience with which he has borne the disfavor of his military superiors, dooming him to in activity; the sympathy created by .the unjust assaults and aspersions of which he has been made the mark by prejudiced political objects for which the war should be conducted—all these have conspired to give him a strong hold upon the public mind without distinction of party and have made him a special favor ite among those who assimilate with him in his views of public policy." A SHOCKING OUTRAGE The Chambereburg Repository of Wednes day has the following: " One evening last week two poor women came from a distance to town, to see their sons, belonging to the 20th and 21st regi ments of cavalry, who were sick. They were unable to get a conveyance to camp (four miles) under six dollars, and nut being able to afford the expense, concluded. though weak and weary, to walk out. On their way they were met by four soldiers, who stopped one of them, beat her, choked her and robbed her of her all. We forbear to comment." And why forbear to comment? If the brutal act had been committed by persons not sol diers, would comment have been forborne? and are the perpetrators any the less villains, or the deed less barbarous or censurable because they were soldiers? Such forbear ance is sheer cowardice. ler FRED DOUGLASS, the colored Abolition ist, says the American Eagle laid pro-slavery eggs, twenty years ago. In his late lecture at Hartford he said: " The Democratic party was not dead. Far from it. It had the elements of great power. But there was not so much danger from it as from the Republican party. The Democracy boldly and truthfully announced the true issue of the war. It was a negro war. It was an Abolition war. The Demo. crate were right on the head, and hit the nail every time. But he did not respect their motives. They would continue the Con— stitution as it is. They would perpetuate slavery, in order to bring all together as for merly. He denounced this as rascally. The Republicans, fearing that Abolition was not popular, denied that the war was in reality and in fact for Abolition. The timid, coward. ly men among them were shrinking from the true issue, in seeking for popularity. Here was the danger. The war is for Abolition, and its object must be announced, and carried on accordingly." FROM Ir.usorE The Hecht and City of London have arrived at N. Y., and the HiberOia at Portland. Ad. vices include the 25th. Four new steel-clad blockade runners were about ready to leave Liverpool. The Earl of Aberdeen, former prime minister of England, is dead. The Danish question presents no new features. Maximilian will set out for Mexico on the 14th instant, and will observe strict neutrality be twe m the United States and the Confederates. The rebel cruiser Florida sailed from Santa Cruz, Teneriffe, on the 54h of March ; the St. Louis arriving in pursuit of her one day after. The Pope's health is said to have improved. Garibaldi has left Caprera for EnglanCifind 19 to be handsomely ?waived. Couans JBaoricarris.—The entire freedom from all deleterious ingredients render " Brown's Bronchial Trochee." or Cough and Voice Lozenges, a safe remedy for the most delicate female,, or youngest child, and has caused them,to be held in the higheit esteem by Clergymen,' Bingeri and Patio Speakers THE GEHMA.N PRESS WEST The Neue Zeit defends itself against the charge that the Fremont party is merely raising a personal issue between Fremont and Linooln, and remarks : • " Fremont is to us nothing , but the repre sentative and embodiment of a principle, an idea, a platform, and Lincoln does not stand on the same platform! '" In regard to the Monroe doctrine, finally, we are surely decidedly enough opposed to the Lincoln party, who have repudiated it-- And, as for Constitutional Rights, Free Speech, a' ree Press, tto., we uphold in them a principle, thou gh it be a Democratic princi ple. And here in our opponents are willing enough to recognize a difference." The Weetliche Post says that a division ex ists in the Republican party, which it is use less to deny ; and that the division or anni hilation of that party, which has so shame fully prostituted itself to the dictates of one man, is a far less evil than the continuance of the present administration system. The Mem phis Neue Zeit has also hoisted Gen. Fremonee name, while the Kansas Zeitung says that all the Germane of the West cry for Fremont, and that he is daily gaining strength amongst both Americans and Germans in Kansas, while Lincoln is constantly losing ground. The lowa Sicenis Zeitung, a Fremont paper, published in Dubuque, lowa, has a curious article, in which it says : In case Lincoln should be nominated—so it has been agreed by Chase, Butler, and Fremont—General Fremont is to run as' an independent candidate, he being least shackled and the worst treated man of all. Hence he will be the People's candidate. Perhaps all War Democrats will support him, if Matt. Carpenter, of Milwaukee, is nominated for Vice President. Carpenter passes as the chief leader of the War Democrats. Wendell Phillips once spoke of Chase as President, Butler as Secretary of War, and Fremont as Commander in-Chief. Fremont, whose plan to arm 200,000 negroes and match them into the heart of the rebellion was stolen at Wash ington, as was also his idea to organize a war fleet on the Mississippi, is held in grateful remembrance by the army ; he has also Mis souri and some other States in his favor ; and the whole radical party supports him. A number of the undivided Democrats, and all the "outs," who outnumber Lincoln's officials twenty-four to one, will likewise be on his side. All this, together with the influence of Butler and Chase, will make him strong enough to risk a campaign as an independent " People's candidate." In Washington Lincoln has few friends.— Most of the people laugh at him there. Only at a distance, where he is not known, is he popular. Fremont is so much the more popu lar in Washington, and wherever Lincoln is known. Hence, if Fremont has sufficient courage, he will call a People's Convention together, which the War Democrats can also attend, and will measure his strength against Lincoln. Chase would then remain Secretary of the Treasury, or be made Secretary of State. OEORGE THOMPSON, THE ENGLISH LECTURER ON ABOLITION. RECOM MENDS AN INSURRECTION OF THE N EGROES. • The following is an extract from the speech of Hon. Sher rard Clemens, of Virginia, in the , House of Representatives of the United States, January 22, 1861—the House having under consideration the Report of the Select Com mittee of Thirty-Three : Mr. Speaker, there is a chapter in the - past which our retiring confederates may do well to remember. In 1834, an English Aboli tionist, by the name of George Thompson, was sent from Exeter Hall, in England, to en lighten the dead conscience of the American people. About that period, John A. Murrill, of Madison county, Tennessee, had, by means of a secret band, bound with signs and oaths, arranged for a general uprising of negroes on the 25th of December, 1835. Among other papers found, was the following epistle of love from the English emissary, dated March 18, 1834. It was addressed to Murrill : " Dear Sir : Your favor of the 4th hue come to hand, and its contents have been carefully observed. I think you can count upon the, aid you demand with tolerable certainty by the time you name. I approve of your ar• rangements, and can perceive abundant justi fication of your views. Could the blacks effect a general concert of action, and let loose the arm of destruction upon their masters, and their property, so that the judgment of God might be visibly seen and felt, it would reach the flinty heart. We must reach the tyrant in another way. We can prepare the feelings of most of the Northern and Eastern people by lecturing. The dissolution of the Union is the object to be kept steadily in view. War will result, and sacking and pillage and in surrection will follow. Their cities, with all the merchandise, may be destroyed, their banks plundered of specie, their paper dis credited, so that thousands of Eastern capi talists would suffer great loss, and would henceforth consider a slave country an unsafe place to make investments. This state of affairs would naturally diminish the value of slave property, while the whole country would : be thus in a state of anarchy and poverty.— Their banking institutions and, credit sunk into disrepute, it would be an easy matter to effect the total abolition of slavery. Desperate diseases require desperate remedies."— Ohio 1 And this is the same George ,Thomp son who lectured in the Hall of the House of Representatives, at Washington, last week before the President and his Cabinet and all the Abolition members of Congress ! Com. ment is unnecessary. INROADS UPON LEASED PLANTA- A correspondent of the St. Louis Democrat, writing from Natchez, Miss , March 20, says : "In Concordia and Tenses parishes, in Louisiana, the Rebels have recently caused much trouble. Nearly all the Government plantations in that locality have received visits from marauding parties to such an extent that labor upon them has been almost entirely suspended. The first attempt to break up the scheme for the production ,of cotton was made more than a month ago by the forces under General Polignac. At that time they. came up nearly to the bank of the river, and within full view of Natchez. Every planta tion that they visited was stripped of mules and horses, necessary for carrying on work. Since that time the same depredations have been carried on by small bands of the enemy detached for the especial purpose. Several lessees have been captured, but in no ease have they been taken to any distance. • " They have been robbed of all valuables, and in some instances stripped of coats, hats and boots. In one case a lessee was robbed of everything except his drawers and shirt, and left to make his way to town, twenty miles distant, on foot. The Rebels say they have received positive orders to break up all the plantations where there is any attempt at the production of cotton. They will allow corn in small quantities to be produced, but will allow no extensive cultivation. "In the vicinity of Waterproof several plantations that were in full operatiiln were made the especial targets fur vengeance.— That section was visited almost daily for two weeks, and each time there was found some thing worthy of being stolen. Every mule and horse that could be found was driven off to the Ouachita district for the benefit of the Confederacy. All goods that had been pur chased for issuing to the negroes were carried off, and in many cases the negroes were robbed of what bad been sold to them. The Rebels expressed a lively desire to capture the horses, but they were successful in only a few instances." HIGH PRICE OF BUTTER What is true of butter, is also true of many other articles of domestic produce. There seems to be with many a disposition to make every article of food and apparel just as cost ly as possible. Combinationt, whether of small traders, to keep up the necessaries of life, or of large ones to produce the same effect, or of labor against capital, or capital against labor, or Federal against State money, will ere long break by their own weight. We are moving on to the general , crash, and nothing contributes more to it than these combinations.: " Stand from under " will ere long be the my of those who think they are now beetvoteoted. ' LOCAL DEPARTMENT. LICTURE POSTPOTIZD.—The lecture of Hon. -Jaias 13aooss, which was to have been delivered before the Young Men's Democratic, Association of this city, on yhayeday evening next, has been postponed, on account of important business which detains Va.. B. In New York. The lecture will be delivered in a week or two, and doe notice of the time end subject will be given. PERSONAL.—A number of OW military friends have for the time being finsaken the field of Man, and entered the bowers of Capidi They were able to face death in all its farms on the battle field with unflinching courage, bat when the arch little mad hurled his snows at their hearts they inerantly asked for quarter I Lieut. Col. Paris, of the 77th P. V., was united In the holy bonds Of wedlock to Miss Avail 0. Puma. on Thursday morn ing last, in St. John's Lutheran Church, West Orange street; and Lieut. Lewis Zunis., Quartermaster of the 79th P. V.. Quartermaster of the 79th P. V., to Mies RoatvA H. Earamosxs, on Tuesday last. We congratulate friends parrs and Exam on the excellent choice they have made, and wish them and their fair brides a pleasant Journey over lire's rugged Pathway. Cassuse LILLY, Esq., an old and esteemed citlien of Marietta. died very suddenly in that borough on yesterday week. His decease was unexpected, as the day previous he had been In the enjoyment of his usual health• ROBINS Caraxstar, Req., formerly of this city, is now the senior partner of the Banking House of Clarkson • Co., 80. 121 South 31 street, Philadelphia. Mr. 0. has a Mar cragh knowledge of the banking business, and le an exceed ingly pleasant gentleman to have dealings with. Capt. MoUiB D. Wicxxssatat. of Übe 79th P. V. and formerly Principal of the Model School connected with the State Normal School at Millersville, has been appointed an Assistant Quartermaster of Volunteers, with the rank of Captain. Master Joins LICHTT, of this city, son of Mr. Henry Lirhty, deceased, passed the examination authorised by Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, and has been recommended by the Committee for appointment as Cadet in the Naval Academy of the United Stater!. Col. Jesse RcnenoLD, the well-known Hotel proprietor of Myerstown, Lebanon county, has removed to Belubolds villa, this county, on the line of the Reading and Columbia Railroad, where he intends to take charge of the Tavern, Ticket Office and Warehouse at that Station. DISTRESSING ACCIDENT•—On Thursday af ternoon last, a little child about four years of age, son of Mr. Jscou MILZT. residldg in West James street, met with a sad and fatal accident. The child was playing in the yard where its parents were engaged, and unobserved by them got into the street and went to the bridge crawling the railroad It appears there Is quite a large opening In the Bide railing of this bridge, and the child leaning out through this opening lost its balance and was precipitated to the track, some twenty feet below, Inflicting such seri ous injuries as to muse its death in a few hours after the occurrence. As the bridge where this accident happened is in a populous part of the city, the proper persons should see to it at once and have it put in such a condition as will render It perfectly SOCIIre. MCOLCLLA y N'S REPORT.—We are indebted 'to Wasxnatvvira, .44 North Queen street, (who has the book for sale,) for a copy of the Report of General George B. Mc- Clellan. It ham been carefully corrected and rpvised. and should be la the hands of everybody. Publiehed by Thou. B. Florence, at 330 P. street, Washington, D.C. Price 50 rents. BOUNTY brow:Assn.—The City Councils, at a special meeting ou Saturday evening last, palmed a sup. plement to the Ordinance on the Bounty Fund, Increasing the bounty to POO. The Ordinance will be found in tc day'H Intelligencer. A HANDSOME TESTIMONIAL.—Mr. J. B. KE vmext, of this city, hoe received a beautiful and euggeetive little souvenir from Company B, first Pennsylvania Re serves. It to In the form of a linger ring, of Gras Penile, highly polished, and inlaid with Gold devices, each one representing the badges of the respective corps in the Army of the Potomac, in the following order: Ist Corps, circle; ?d, clover loaf; Id, diamond; I. lb, Maltese crow:; iith, common crow; 11th, crescent; 12th, star; Signal corps, the square. The workmanship of this ring, done by by Mr. Jamie Corro; a member of the company, would do honor to the most accompl abed jeweller, and it is alto gether a gift to be highly prized by the worthy recipient. The ring was accompanied with the following letter, which fully explains itself: CAMP FIRST REGIMENT INFANTRY, P. B. V. C., Bristoe Station, Va., April 1, 1864. SIR. Jona B. KETINBISI—Dcar On behalf of the mem- • • - • - - _ hers of Company B, First Regiment Pennsylvania Reserve Vol Corps, we ask your acceptance of the accompanying ring. It was made by James Coffey, a member of the Company. Von will find All the Corps badges of the old Army of the Potomac upon it. They represent associations of three eventful years of tatigue, danger and batting, There may be tardiness in awarding the mead of prefab, due, but the fields of Mechanicsville, Gaines Hill, Charles City Cross Roods, Malvern Hill, Ball Run, South Moun tain, Antietam. Fredericksburg, the three days of thole., d and 3d of July, 1863, at Gettysburg, and of Mine Run, have no stain of dishonor for any of the banners or badges there borne, and the wounded were scarred, and the dead fell In no unholy contest. The insignia upon the ring, made by one who has nobly done his duty in these e .• gagements, and presented by a company which claims but to have done its duty to them all, therefore, have no un hallowed association., and when you look upon them you can proudly think of a Reynolds, a Kearney, Reno, Mans field, Jackson, and our own brave comrades, McCracken. Bear, Bubb, Cox., Forney. Feller, Zellers, Sanders, Luta and Rutter, among the fallen; a Meade, Sedgwick, Han cock, Burnside, Hooker. Warren, Sykes and others of the living. and know that from the least to the greatest, all have done their duty to their country, and deserve the gratitude of every good loyal citizen, patriot and Christian. The gift is a small one, but as it represents a great whole, perhaps to remain unappreciated, so it is but a slight (ITl deuce of the esteem in which you are held by us, which we may never be able to evince fully. For your uniform kindness and unwearied efforts to add to our comfort during the three eventful years of the old organization of the Army of the Potomac, in the history of Company -B." First Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves, let Brhade, 3d Division. sth Army Corps, your name all be arc .ciated as the first cheerful ray of the eon, of Sr a settaon of gloom and Storm, always more lasting In impression than tile gloom dispelled. That we may so.n eon you personally, with triumph and pea, inscribed upon our banner, and that our friendship may continue unbroken, a. we expect our no suffering country to become happy and glorious, we remain In buds cemented by kind actions on your part, your friends, U. M. B &UM AN, E. 0. METZGER. W. D. STAUFF ER, Committee for Company. AN $BO,OOO SPECULATION The Brooklyn (N. Y.) Eagle, says " A Boston paper states that a minister of this city has realized eighty thousand dollars by speculating in stooks through a friend of his, one of the leading brokers in Wall street. It is proper for us to say that we have infor— mation before us which warrants us in saying that the person referred to speculated' in a purely pious way. His custom, we are told, was to leave a certain portion of his funds on a desk to which the broker had access. The latter took the money, the clergyman affect ing to be entirely innocent of what he was going to do with it. When the br)ker thought fit to ' realize' he left the proceeds on the desk referred to, the clergyman affecting to kn .w nothing of the proceeding, but quietly and privately pocketing the funds, interdicting conversation on the subject. After a time the broker grew tired of ' whipping the devil around the stump' in this fashion, and told the parson that if the subject was distasteful to him, he had better abandon Wall street al together. Verily, the Kingdom of Christ is not of this world." Who can this minister be? There is one by the name of BUCHER, in Brooklyn, who dabbles in almost everything, especially in politics and $lOO lyceum lectures. When the war began, there was a regiment partially raised at Brooklyn, and called after his name ; but as he never took command, all the ap- I pearances were that it was started for a specu t lation, like the Church of the Pilgrims and New York Independent. COUNTERFEIT OREENEACKS The money writer of the Ledger says : The multiplication of counterfeit issues of t the greenback currency is likely soon to be. come a great annoyance and loss. The last noticed are those of the $lOO. The following is given as the means of the detection : "On the right end of the bank of the bill the " 100" in the circles are inverted thus; "001." In the genuine the " 100 " in the circles on the left end reads thus : " 001;" in the counter— feit they are thus : " 100." The outside circle of the 100 in the lower left corner of the genuine touches the lower border ; in the counterfeit it does not come within one sixteenth of an inch." The inducement to counterfeit the national currency is very great. State bank issues rarely amounted to more than' two hundred thousand dollars, and the forger was lucky if he could get rid of more than two thousand dollars worth of the bogus notes. But every denomination of the greenback currency circulates to the amount of tens of millions, and the forged notes, if well executed, can float in this vast ocean of paper without being noticed. VW' A correspondent of the New York Herald declares the present high prices of every article of consumption as food are the palpable results of speculation and jobbing, and that sour, which is selling here at $8 to $lO only brings $5 to $6 in Liverpool, after paying cost of freight.— Statesman. The reason is obvious. A gold dollar is worth $1,68 in• paper here, while in Liverpool a paper dollar is as good as a gold dollar. A superfluity of greenbacks here, with many consumers and few producers, makes the difference and causes speculation in every— thing. Do you see the point? If not, please read the following : " When Gold is 172, what is a Paper Dol. lar worth " ? This question is often asked— less often rightly answered. If gold were quoted at 200, the paper dollar would bo worth 50 cents. At 172 fur gold, the value of the paper would be 58 and 24400 cents. That was the highest quotation of gold, or rather the greatest point of depreciation that paper money has yet reached. Rule—d•vide 10,000 cents, (the equivalent of $100,) by tie quoted price (what ever it may be) of gold, and the product will give the market value of the paper " dollar." —New Haven Register. A PATRIOTIC GRAND JIIRY.—ID the Grand Jury Rooms at Lewisburg, after the labors of the Jurymen bad closed, a motion was made that that body indorse the Adminis• tration of Abraham Lincoln. The ayes were required and every one patriotically respond ed " aye." The above, if it shows anything, shows bow knit* are made rip , in that section of country, TEM RIOT IN ILLINOIS: The Chicago row furnishes a detailed statement of the origin of the riot at Charles- ton, 'IL It appears that for some time past there bad been affrays at Charleston and in different parts of Coles county between citizens and the soldiers, to which liquor contributed quite as much, if not more, than politics. Some citizens from O'Hair's settlement had been quite roughly handled by the soldi-ra, several of whom, it is reported, on one or two , occasions assisted each other in beating citizens. Last Monday was the commence ment of the spring term of court in Coles county, a day in which many citizens were accustomed to visit the county seat. Hon. John A. Eden, the Democratic member of Con gress from this district, was also advertised to address his constituents. The two events would necessarily bring a crowd. The peo ple of O'Hair's settlement conceived that some interference would be made with Mr. Eden when he attempted to speak, and ac oordingly about thirty of them prepared themselves for the defensive or offensive, as oireumstances should require. Some of them had pistols, and others had guns concealed in their wagons under the straw. Mr. Eden ar• 'rived „about 2 o'clock. He quickly saw that soldiers and citizens had been drinking quite freely, (as they were using intemperate lan guage and laboring under quite-a degree of excitement) and that a speech would neces sarily result:in a disturbance. He accordingly revoked his appointment. The excitement was not to be allayed, and the leading Democrats of the county indueed many of the people to return to their homes, and over two-thirds of those who came out to hear Mr. Eden left town before three o'clock, however hopes were entertained of preventing any disturbance. Aboat four o'clock, however, a soldier, named Oliver Salee, in passing a citizen named Arison Wells, ran against him, asked if there were any copperheads in the county, said he could whip any copperhead in the county, Ito., &a., and finally asked Wells if he was a copperhead? Wells replied in the affimative. Salee put his:hand on Well's shoulder, who ' stepped back and said, "If you lay your hands on me I will shoot you I " Salee said he would " shoot book." A mioute after, it is said, Wells fired his pistol, whether at Sales or not, is not known. Revolvers were drawn at once and used with terrible effect, as were drawn also the shot guns with which the people from O'Hair'a neighborhood were provided. Some of the soldiers were armed with revolvers, and some had their muskets where they soon got hold of them. In two or three minutes Major York, Surgeon of the 54th Illinois, and Alfred Swain, James G ,od. rich, and Wm. G. Hart of the same regiment. and Nelson Wells, were mortally wounded and have since died. Colonel Mitchell, Oliver Salee, John Neer, Wrn. Decker, George Roes I. J. Brooks, soldiers, were wounded, as were also William Gilman, John Trimble. and Sanford Noyes, Republicans, and George J. Collins, John W. Herndon, Democrats. The men from O'Hair'e settlement then left town. About half an hour afterwards a pris oner named John Cooper attempted to escapeby running into the store of John Jenkins. a very estimable citizen and a Republican. A volley was fired, which killed both Cooper and Jenkins, making the total number of killed seven, and of wounded eleven. Colonel Mitchell telegraphed to Mattoon, and 250 of hie regiment came up to Charles- ton, and squads were sent out, and many persons arrested. John R. Eden left town as the affray commenced, which, with other Democrats, he had been endeavoring to pre. vent. Rumors were prevalent that some 300 men w +re congregated at Goliday Mille. seven miles from Charleston. Colonel Mitchell visited that place, where, he was informed, the camp was located. at Nonnikeu Point, some twelve miles further, and which he deemed so mythical he did not visit. Rumors fixed another camp near Windsor, seven or eight miles west of this plane, but the 47th Indiana and 41st Illinois visited the place before daylight this morning and failed to discover traces of there having been a camp is that vicinity. Rumors of Democrats marching on Mattoon and Charleston origin• ated either in the fears of some people or circulated by others for effect No danger is apprehended, and the 47th Indiana has al ' ready left, as has also a detachment of the 6th Missouri, commanded by Lieut. Galva The I.llst Illinois will probably leave in the morn ing, and, with the withdrawal of troops, the I excitement will subside, fears will gradually die out, and the usual quiet be restored. SW WITH two Senators and three Repre sentatives in Congress, Vermont is required,. under the last call ter 200,000 troops, to furnish 2,300 men, while Cook county, Illi nois, having but one Representative in Congress and only a fractional interest in one Senator, is required to funish 2,135 men. New Hampshire, too, has two Senators and three Representatives in Congress, and is required to furnish only 2,588 men. With ten Representatives in Congress, Massachu setts is required to furnish, under the same call, only 10,739 men, while Illinois, with fourteen Representatives, is required to furnish 18,524 men. Comparisons between all the New England States and the states of the West disclose like inequalities. With the difference which we have stated between Massachusetts and Illinois, the former is many thousands behind on previous calls, and the latter many thousands ahead. And Massachusetts was clamorous for the war at the beginning, and Illinois deprecated war and sought for a peaoeful solution of the national difficulties. Such facts carry their own comment.—Chi , cage Times. The remarks of our ootemporary apply with equal force to Pennsylvania,, which is the " pack-horse " for this glorious Administra tion, which is a greater plague to the country than were the locusts of Egypt. ger There is a very bitter quarrel now raging among the friends of the parties as to whether, Gilmore or Dahlgren is responsible for the failure to capture Charleston. We do not imagine that the responsibility for the failure to take that city rests so much with either as it does with Beauregard. It is he. and not the commanders of the Federal land and naval forces, who is to blame for the re sult which has attended operations in the vicinity of Charleston. Upon him should rest the obloquy arising from the fact that Charleston ie not to day undergoing a course of purification at the hands of Butler.—Chi cago Stir The Liberator, Garrison's paper, urges the renomination of Mr. Lincoln with great earnestness. This arises from the fact, we suppose, that Mr. Lincoln recognizes Garri son's life-long idea that " the constitution' of the United States is a league with hell and a covenant with death," and that he is, in his administration, the apostle of that idea. Lincoln the apostle and candidate of Garri son I His administration applauded by the author of the annunciation that " the consti tution is a league with hell and a covenant with death " I THE BATTLE OF GETTT BURG The Washington correspondent of the Boston Ad am-slier says : "Gen. Meade has submitted to the Committee on the Conduct of the War a written statement in regard to the conduct of the battle of Gettysburg. In this statement he denies emphati cally and explicitly that he contemplated or issued at any time during the action an order to retreat to Taneytown or to any other point. After his arrival at Gettysburg he asked several corps commanders to act as his temporary citief-orstaff. All preferring to remain in command of their corps, he • addressed a similar request to General Butterfield, who con sented. lie directed him immediately to collect all possible information relative to the roads leading to the rear. Ile atrial that in giving this instruction to Gen. Butterfield he had no thought of a retreat, but merely aimed at obtaining information which any prudent General would consider necessary for s n intelligent understanding of the field of action. Gen. Butterfield on the morning of the second day drew up an order directing all trains and baggage to be sent to the rear. This order gave the occasion for the assertion of various officers that an order to retreat had been given. Gen. Meade says that Gen. Butterfield showed him the order, that he told him it would not murals, and that if it was issued it was without his authority. This statement of General Meade is corroborated by Gen. Gibbons and other general Wilson and members of his staff." j The Boston Post says " hundreds of families in Boston are either dispensing with butter entirely, or using it in the smallest possible quantities, on account of its extrava. gent price." Hundreds of families everywhere else will be compelled to do the same thing before they_ are many months older. So ran& for Abolition Orem the Beaten ctotuier PAOTS FOIL THE PEOPLE. 614.10 TED HP OPE OP MP PLOPLE " This Union is a lie The Amerioan Union is an impostme. lam for its overthrow ! Up with the Flag of Disunion."— Win. Lloyd Gem - isms. The Constitution of our fathers was • mistake. Year it in pieces and make a better. Don't say the machine is oat of order—it is in order—it does what its framers intended." " Our claim is disunion, breaking up of the States ! i have shown you that our work cannot be done under our institutions (laws). The Republican party is the first sectional party ever organised in this country. It does not know its own face, and calls itself national, but it is sectional. It is a party of the North, pledged against the South !" Wendell Phillips. At an anti-slavery meeting in May, 1844, at New York— Resolved, , "That secession from the United States Government is the duty of every Abolitionist." Resolved, "That the only exodus of the slave to freedom, unless it be one of blood, must be over the remains of the present American Church, and the grave of the present Union." Resolved, "That the Abolitionists of this country should make it one of the primary objects of this agitation to dissolve the American Union." In 1850, Senator dale presented two petitions— "praying that some plan be devised for the dissolu tion of the American Union." " This petition re ceived three votes—J. P. Male, W. H. Seward, S. P, Chase." Rev. R. W. Beecher in 1856 says "the people will decide which is the better way to rise in arms and throw off a Government worse than that of Old King George, or wait another four years and vote again. The Constitution is the foundation and father of all our troubles." The only hope of the slave is over the ruins of the Government and of the American Church." " The dissolution of the Union is not primarily e question of conscience but of policy. We made the Union and we have a right to unmake it if we choote."—S. W. Bellows, 1856. : I hope it will come (the issue), and if it comes to blood, let it come, it cannot oome too soon —and when the war has been proclaimed, with the knife, and the knife to the hilt:"—J. P. Sale, 1856. " You call this revolution—it is—we must, we will have it—let it come."—C. Solturs,lBBo. "The portents whioh darken our land foreshadow a strife, whioh, unless averted by the triumph of freedom, will become war—fratricidal, parricidal war—with an accumulated wickedness, beyond the wickedness of any war in human annals."—G. Surriner ' 1856. In 1850, W. 8.. Seward tells the South, "If they will not emancipate their slaves, they shall have disunion, civil war and etnaneipation—then the slaveholders will perish in the struggle." In 1856 he again speaks of civil war as the result of the agitation, and says : " Then the free States and States of the Atlantic, divided and warring with each other, would disgust the free States of the 'Pacific, and they would have abundant cause and justification for withdrawing from a Union, produc tive no longer of peace, safety and liberty to them selves." " I have no doubt the free and slave States ought to separate. The Union is not worth supporting in connection with the South."—f. S. Pike. " I can conceive of a time when this Constitution shall not be in existence, when we shall have an absolute, military, dictatorial government, trans mitted from age to age, with mon at its head who are made rulers by military commission, or who claim an hereditary right to govern those over whom they are placed."—N. P. Banks, 1856. "If Buchanan is elected, I. don't believe the Union holds out three years. I shall go for dissolu tion."—Theodore Parker. "1 do not believe that any permanent Union 13 possible between the North and the South."—The Same, 1858. On the evening of election day, after hearing of Fremont's defeat, he wrote— "Of course we shall fight. 1 have expected civil war for months." A few days later— " There are two Constitutions for Americans, one writ on parchment and laid up at Washington, the other also on parchment, but on the head of a drum. It is to this we must appeal and before long." Not long after the defeat of Fremont, a meeting of traitors was called at Worcester and held there. This was the language of the call : " We, the undersigned, citizens of Worcester, be lieving the result of the recent Presidential election to involve four years more of pro-slavery govern ment, and a rapid increase in the hostility between the two sections of the Union; "Believing this hostility to be the offspring not of party excitement, but of a fundamental difference in education, habits, and laws; "Believing the existing Union to be a failure, as being a hopeless attempt to unite under one govern• ment two antagonistic systems of society, which diverge more widely every year; "And believing it to be the duty of intelligent and conscientious men to meet these fasts with wis dom and firmness; " Respectfully invite our fellow-citizens of Massa chusetts to meet in Conve6tion at Worcester, on Thursday, January 15, to consider the practicability, probability and expediency of a separation between the free and slave States, and to take such other measures as the condition of the times may require." "I conceive, therefore, the true object of this war is to revolutionize the National Government."—N. F. Conway, of Kansas, 1862. "If these fanatics and Abolitionists ever get power into their hands, they will override the Con stitution, set the Supeme Court at defiance, change and make laws to suit themselves, and finally, they will bankrupt the country and deluge it with blood.' —Daniel Webster. "Rere lies a people who lost their own liberties, in trying to give freedom to the African race."— Elwood Fisher. DEFEAT OF THE CURRENCY BILL WASHINGTON, April 6 The total defeat of the National Bank or Currency bill by so large a vote as two-thirds astonished both ir;ends and foes, especially as so much time has been consumed in efforts to perfect it. All the amendments made in Committee of the Whole on the stand of the Union, about sixty in number, were concurred in by the House. The Committee of Ways and Means were willing to adopt all except two, and hence Representative Stevens offered a substitute differing only from the amended bill in the following particulars, namely: restoring the uniform 7 per cent. interest and leaving it under National and not State legislation, and omitting the section which left the capital stock of the institutions to be taxed the same as the property of individuals for State and municipal purposes. The House emphatically non-concurred in the substitute. This was the turning point in the controversy —the test that determined whether the bill' , contains the clauses obnoxious to the promin• ent friends of the measure should pass the House, so it was laid upon the table on the motion of Representative Stevens, some of his own political friends voting with those of the opposite side who were from the beginning opposed to this measure of finance. MRS. LINCOLN'S SISTER We must in justice apologize to the Tribune for refusing our credence to its story that Mrs. J. Todd White, a sister of Mrs. Lincoln, who lately went South by way of Fortress Monroe, abused her pass and carried contraband goods in several large trunks, so giving aid and comfort to the enemy. The facts are ae the Tribune stated them— are even worse ; and in apologizing to that journal for an incredulity which its habitual mendacity regarding political opponents has created and fostered in our minds, we have no other alternative than to restate the facts precisely as they are, painful as it is to any loyal American to join that fanatical journal in any course, or to indorse its impeachment of the chief magistrate of the United States for assisting openly in giving direct aid and comfort to the armed enemies of the Union. The facts, then, are these, and we make no comment upon them ; for if they do not, in themselves, make the heart of every patriotic Northern man and woman shudder within them, then the fanaticism of the time has drugged the North into an insensibility which nothing can arouse. Mrs. J. Todd White, a sister of Mrs. Presi dent Linooln,was a rebel spy and sympathizer. When she passed into the Confederacy a few days ago, by way of Fortress Monroe, she carried with her in her trunks all kinds of contraband goods, together with medicines, papers, letters, etc., which will be doubtless of the greatest assistance to those with whom she consorts. When General Butler wished to open her trunks, as the regulations of transit there prescribe, this woman showed him an auto graph pass or order from President Lincoln enjoining rpon the Federal officers not to open any of her trunks, and not to subject the bearer of the pass, her packages, parcels, or trunks, to any inspection or annoyance.— Mrs. White bald to General Butler, or the officers in charge there, in substance, as fol " My trunks are filled with contraband, but I defy you to touch them. Here," (push ing it under their noses,) " here is the posi tive order of your master l" Mrs. White was thus allowed to pass with• out the inspection and annoyance so peremp torily forbidden by President Lincoln in an order written and signed by his own hand.-- And to-day the contents of his wife's sister's trunks are giving aid and comfort to the one my.—N. Y. World ARKANSAS. ST. Lours, April 7. A special despatch to the Democrat from Fort Smith, Arkansas, says that Steele's army has driven the rebels from Arkadelphia, and is now advancing on Price in the direction of Camden and Weaha. Several hundred rebels under Cabell and other com manders have come in behind our forces on raiding expeditions. Clarksville, sixty-five miles above hare, was attacked day before yesterday. The enemy were repulsed with a loss of three killed, ten prison ers, twenty horses, and all their comp equipage. Yesterday 440 Texans, under Gen. Gans, attacked Itoasville, forty-five miles south of here, and brirned three hundred bales of Government cotton. Our troops afterwards drove the rebels from' the town, killing and capturing several of them.. The Makin der of cotton at that place is being brought here, whish will relieve the. 'cavalry hecetofare it, and enable them to drive dwguarillasi ;.the maw. . =IEEE
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