3 - 1"/ ffiaac. ORO. SAXDIIIII.IION, EDITOR.. A. SLED • OA. Associate. LANO - -TER, PA., MAY •, 1864 wB. N. Pgridigagia oo.VAtimalumula • MINOT, • Park Bev, Now York Oltir . , and 10 iltaimihr t, Balm B. N. Panama 4 CIA. are Alientil forTha Zaglaigier Atieftemer, and the Emit inftmatial did large/Camila. Nag N in the United States end the °madam— They am to *a up shoot lowed ,nider 44`. Na 381 , 11midwayAliom Yort, are authorised to mean adnatimmeitta for The mew, at oar lowest mdse. ifa. Amos Wroarra's Annum= Amcor is Located at N 0.50 North sth street, Philadelphia. He is authorised to realm advertisements and zubacriptions for The Lassauter B. B. N No. 1 Beollay's Building, Wirt Bt., Boston, la 00ranthorlaed Agent for -rseeivitig advertisements, Ao. OUR 'F' 1., .A. Ci- - Now our flag is flung to the wild winds free, Let it float o'er our father land, And the guard of its spotleas fame !shall be Columbia's chosen band. " CLING TO THE CONSTITUTION, AS THE SHIPWRECKED MARINER CLINGS ro THE LAST PLANK, WHEN NIGHT AND THE TEMPEST CLOSE AROUND HIM."—DonaL WEBSTER. Notice. THE LANCASTER INTELLIGENCER will pass into the bands of a new firm on the first day of July next. The new firm will be COOPER, SAN DERSON & CO. The paper after that time will be issued as the Daily and Weekly Intenigeneer. The different committees in the townships having the interests of the enterprise in charge are requested to make report as speedily as possible to H. B. SWARR, Esq•., so that the final ar rangements can be consummated. Air The above announcement will show the necessity of a prompt settlement of the outstanding debts for subscription, advertising and jobbing due the present ,firm—at least by the Ist of July Iklen the paper passes into other hands. We owe debts which must be paid, and to enable us to do so it is necessary that we should receive what is justly coming to us. Nor need delinquents wait to have their bills presented to them. This, in, many cases, would be inconvenient and expensive, and in others impracticable. Those who reside in the county ,can send by a neighbor or call in person at the office and settle up, and those resid ing out of the county or State can remit by mail at our risk. But we want to scare up our books at the earliest Practicable moment, and our friends should attend to the matter without delay. The War in Virginia No serious fighting has occurred for a few days past in Virginia. Sec retary Stanton telegraphs to General Dix, that on Friday night Lee changed his position, by falling back to the North Anna river. He says that the Union army now occupies Guin ney's Station, Milford, and south of the Mattapony in that line. Fighting was going on all day on Friday between Gen. Butler and Gen. Beauregard, but the result is not yet known. Is There No Hope ? The events transpiring in Virginia must convince the Northern people, if they failed to see it before, that the South is terribly in earnest, and that nothing short of actual exter mination will subdue them. Reck less of life, and fighting, as the Con- federates do, for what they conceive to be their personal rights, it is vain to suppose that.anything in the shape of war, short of utter annihilation of their fighting population, will bring back the Southern States to an ac knowledgment of their allegiance to the General Government. Peace and conciliation might restore the Union—war never. And the sooner the people of the Northern States can be convinced of this fact and act up to their convictions, the better it will be ; for a continuance in the present insane course of policy, on the part of our rulers, for a year or two logger, will assuredly end in the total destruction of the country. Let the people of the North ponder well on what they are doing. We verily believe that unless a change of rulers and of policy is made through the ballot-box at the ensuing Presiden tial election, the days of the Repub lic and the freedom of the people will be numbered, and the Goddess of Liberty will take her final farewell from our borders. Another Editor Arrested. COL SAIgUEL MEDARY, the veteran editor of the Columbus Ohio) Crisis, was arrested, on Friday last, on an indictment charging him with con spiracy to overthrow the Govern ment. NEW METHODIST BISHOPS.—Rev. Drs. DAVIS W. CLARY., EDWARD THOMPSON and CALVIN KINGSLEY have been eleoted additional Bishops of the M. E. Church of the United States, by the General Conference now in session at Philadelphia. They will be con secrated on Thursday next. GOOD FOR CALIFORNIA 1 HER DEMOCRACY FOR PEACE I-A GLEAM OF LIGHT FROM THE WEST I The Democratic State Convention of Cali fornia, in session at San Francisco on the 11th, passed resolutions declaring that the war is conducted for Abolition purposes and to rev olutionise the Government, and urging the National Democratic Convention to pledge the party to the restoration of ; peace upon just and honorable terms. An effort was made to commit the party in favor of a continuance of the war for any purpose, but failed. Ex•Glovernors Bigler, Downey and Weller have been elected dele gates to the Chicago Convention. This, in-the midst of the slaughter and car nage now prevailing in the East, is a glorious and cheering indication of the coming cam paign. The California Democracy have struck the keynote, which reverberates fromcbvery Demootstio heart in the land. „. - air Gold was 188 k on Saturday in Philadelphia. '‘Lientenant (loners' Whether succesaful or unsuccess ful in his attempt to capture Rich mond, General Ga.Awr occupies, at the present time, a large space in the Idlrbho,eytkand\uptin. ,the 'result of his' Vlitmut .carapingti? hal% per haps, the destiniet) of the Republic for all time to come. With an army;. under his control of- not less than three hundred thousand fight ing men, it is confidently expected that a failure to annihilate LEE'S army and capture the Confederate Capital is not within the range of probability. Certain it is that if General McCLELLAN, in his Penin sular Campaign, had been furnished by the Government with one-half the number of men given to GRANT, Richmond would have been our's nearly two years ago. But this did not suit the political purposes of the Administration, and therefore the failure of the campaign of 1862. General GRANT, on the contrary, has men and munitions of war and supplies in overwhelming abun dance; he is, beside, an officer of acknowledged courage and ability, and if he fails in accomplishing his purpose, it will be because success _ in such an enterprise is impossible, and the failure to get possession of the stronghold of the rebellion will justly lie at the feet of President LIN COLN who refused to send reinforce- 1 ments to McCLELLAN when he was already thundering at the gates of the Confederate Capital, and when it would have fallen beyond perad venture. That General GRANT will do all that it is possibl@ for human agency to e ff ect in the gigantic undertaking which has devolved upon him we firmly believe, but that he will cer tainly capture Richmond is not so clear to our mind. He may succeed, but the chances are about equal against him. If success crowns his efforts then his fellow-citizens, al ways intoxicated with military glory, will award him a high niche in the temple of fame ; if he fails, he will share the fate of the half dozen Commanders of the Army of the Potomac who have preceded him in these ill-fated expeditions. An im mense responsibility, therefore, rests upon the Lieutenant General, and it should be the duty of all to aid him in his perilous undertaking. He is a good and brave officer, and de serves the sympathies and prayers of every lover of his country and of the perpetuity of the Republic. Restored to Liberty. The New York World and Journal, of Commerce, having been suspended by the Government for publishing a bogus proclamation of the President, resumed operations on Saturday—it being ascertained that the proclama tion was an Abolition forgery per petrated by one of the former " loy al " employees of the Times, and at present local editor of a paper in Brooklyn, (and withal one of the pillars of the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher's Church,) for the purpose of influencing gold and stock opera tions in which he has, as a good loyal" citizen, been largely en gaged. What will the Express of this city and other Abolition news papers, which charged the forgery upon " Copperheads," say to the startling revelation made in the fol lowing brief article which we copy from the New York World : The alleged cause of this military usurpa tion and outrage was the publication, on Wednesday morning, in the daily issue of The World, of a Proclamation, purporting to be by the President of the United States, calling for four hundred thousand more men, but which proved to be a bold and audacious forgery perpetrated by a 'Republican loyal leaguer, an old city editor of the Tribune and Times, a member of HENRY WARD BEECHER'S church, an intimate of President LINCOLN'S, a guest at the White House, namely,. JOSEPH HOWARD, Jr.—widely known as " HOWARD of the Times"—and skilfully palmed upon the newspaper press. He has confessed his crime, avows that he had no complicity with no newspaper employee. This document was re calved at The World office at a late hour on Wednesday morning, just as the paper was going to press, written on manifold tissue paper, with every appearance of coming through the ordinary channel of telegraphic news. It was immediately put in typo by all the papers, and The World and Journal of Commerce issued their editions in part before the forgery was discovered. The other papers made the discovery just in time to suppress their issues—some of them being already printed—but the publication in two Demo cratic papers furnished the pretext which the administration had long been seeking to wr ak their partisan malice upon their most persistent opponents, and secure, if so they might, the silence of a free press, and thus prevent the daily and weekly exposure of their own crimes against liberty and law. We make these charges boldly ; and, among many other ieasons, fur this reason: that President LINCOLN, Secretary STANTON, and Secretary SEWARD, before the order for the suppression of The World was Bent, knew all the facts in the case, except the name of the guilty party ; knew from General Dix himself the blamelessness of The World and its em ployees. Yet the order was sent, and, in spite of protests from government officials, from the whole press of the city, and from an indig pant public, was kept in force two and a half days. It was not until Saturday that we were again put in possession of our office and enabled to proceed with the printing of our large edition of the Weekly World, three days behind its regular day of publication. CAREFUL OF THE NEGRO In the great "Battle of the Wilderness" on Friday, the 6th inst., the New York Tribune's account says : " The negro troops of General Burnside, commanded by Gen. Ferrero, had been placed at the disposal of Gen. Sedgwick, with the request that, unless absolutely necessary, they should not be put into the fight. The negroes remained within a mile and a half of the front daring the entire day until dark and were not, brought into action." This was the mast fierce and desperate of the conflicts of the campaign and was in fact a drawn battle. rf we had had a number of reliable troops equal to the number of ne groes thus kept idle, it might have been made a decisive victory. Also in " Carleton's" account of the battle of the 10th, near Spottsylvania, describing Bnrnside's operations at an important crisis of the fight, he says " the colored troops were not in the charge." So in Gen. Banks' disastrous battle on Red River, we are told that the negro troops were not used. Why was this? Are these blacks reliable ? And if so, why were they not made to do their part in the bloody .work ? These facts are significant. They show either that the officers in command have no confidence in the negro troops, or that they are very care ful of placing them in a position to be " hurt', SINGULAR.—The President's proclamation is addressed to "The Friends of Union and Liberty." , Whoare they? Abolitionists and Subjagationists ? , IIA:1111DIAST itATIELM - 01, THK WAR. :11.DIIIIVIIITMRIBID OPINION. The Battle of the Po, fought near Spottsyl- , An intelligent foreign officer who witnessed vania Court Heise, on Tuesday, the 10th fault, i the battle of the Wilderness' throughout, and was,probably the most severe and hard-faughtriVillowed attentively all our movements with . contest 'of the war. • The loss of life was fear. out participating in.tbe fight, inffirme_a scar- ful.- The, speoial.correspondent of. the New b respondent of the N. Y. World that while* York Werra gives the following account of the thinks the position ut•oti; theywnole hopeful tremendous struggle; ' for the Union arms, he elates that the pub- In the afternoon of Monday. General Han. %liehed accounts have so far been highly cook crossed to the Creek branch of the . Po, colored beyond the truth as to the success of turned Longstreet's tank, pushedhim toward • oral GRANT in thelinceession of battles the town, and seised the ground which he hail~ fought with Las. saws up the result as occupied. The Fifth • and Sixth corps were moved up so as to form the centre, and the i lbws: • Ninth formed the left. The lines were simi- Preservation of the battle field by the lar to those at Gettysburg, in the form of a I Union forces; failure of the rebels in driving horse-shoe, with the convex toward the rebels. them -out-of it ; repulse Of field was a series of ridges, mostly coy- the Union -forces The whenever they attempted to attack any of the erod with wood and underbrush, in which the rebel intrenchments ; superiority of the rebel rebels had masked their batteries. The thick- tactics on the battle field; voluntary with eta were not quite so - dense as at the Wilder- • dratval of the rebels. All these elements nese, but most of the ~ground was covered by taken into consideration, he Arrives at the forest. - conclusion that the rebels have not been corn- General Grant, early on Tuesday, proceeded Lpelled to , fait back by rearm of the fighting; to survey the line of battle, frequently advan- but, judgingfrom the action in - a military cing as fer'as- the pickets - . He Wined . orders , point Of view, the battle of the Wilderness for a general attaok at five o'clock, but the may be called a drawn battle. He says also rebels took the initiative, and about noon that the manner in which both parties were moved out against Hancock's left - and War- located inclines him to think that our loss ren's right. Barlow's division, Which held mist be far greater than that of the rebels. the extreme left, was forced bale and almost He does not indulge in the common belief surrounded, and the enemy attempted to cross, that the retreat of Lee has been brought the creek, but were repulsed. Then the mass • about by a failure, but by causes disconnect of artillery opened—nearly four hundred grins ad with the actual conflict, such as General belching forth their death-dealing missiles.— Butler's demonstration against Richmond ; The cannonading was terrific, but amidst it the fear of being out in his rear from his ba all, the rebels again attempted to pierce Gen- els of supply ; the necessity of restoring his eral Hancock's and General• Warren's lines, communications with North Carolina, Inn bat were again rolled back. At half-past In his estimation, no other reasons but the three, the attempt was again renewed with pressing,necessity of protecting his rear can similar result, but not until after the most be assigned for the retreat of the rebels. ' desperate fighting. At this moment General Hancock precipitated Barlow's division, which had been pressed back in the early part of the engagement, upon Heath's division of Long street's corps with terrific effect, cutting it al most to pieces. Then was the moment for an advance all along the lines, but it was delay ed, until too late to be availing to the Second corps, and the division returned to its lines. The rebels made no further attempt upon General Hancock's corps, but they had gained a temporary advantage by their attack upon Barlow's division. General Wright with the Sixth corps, then prepared to make a grand charge. Upton's brigade led it, and advanced rapidly upon the. enemy's rifle-pits and capturing nearly twelve hundred of the rebels in their onward pro gress and drove the cannoneers from their guns, bringing back three of them. This closed the battle for the day, for it was now far beyond sunset, and a continuation of the engagement would have been impraotioable. It may be surmised that Lee, at Spottsyl bania, found himself out off from communica tion with Richmond. He had probably learn ed that the capital was menaced by the troops under Generals Smith and Gilmore. and that Beauregard was powerless to reinforce him. He knew that he could no longer depend upon Riohmond far a base of supplies for his army, and, indeed, is understood to seize their sup plies from the enemy. He probably hoped by taking a stand at Spottsylvania, to contest Gen. Grant's advance at the point farthest from the latter's base of supplies, and, by fu rious attacks, to weaken him, so that a delay in his advance would be compulsory. He, in that case, probably contemplated sending one or two of his corps to fall upon and defeat Butler before General . Meade could recover from the shock of defeat. But he signally failed in all this, and although he inflicted se vere loss upon our army, the close of the en gagement left General Meade in a position from which he could not be driven. General Rice was wounded in the thigh early in the engagement and died after his leg had been amputated. General Stevenson is also reported killed.— He commanded a brigade in Burnside's corps. Our losses were very heavy. General Gibbons' division has lost altogether over a thousand men. General Robinson's division, after losing both its general officers and about two thous and five hundred men, had no general to com mand it, and it has been broken •up and distributed among other divisions of the Fifth corps. The Ninth New York State militia fought glorious and suffered probably more than any other regiment in the field. After the action four officers and fifteen men was all that was left of it, except a few on detached duty. Lieut. Luper, of the Ninetieth Pennsylva nia, had his head blown off by a piece of shell. The rebels are in very strong positions, behind earthworks, abatis and woods, and in many places it is almost impossible to penetrate to them. At one o'clock on Tuesday a fire raged between the two armies, at;a point in the line, and a large number of wounded of both parties were lying on the spot. Our men, in attempting to get their com rades off the field, were fired on by the rebel skirmishers and driven off, and the poor suf. ferers had to be left to perish in the flames. LOSS OF GENERAL OFFICERS Senator Wilson furnishes the following care• fully prepared list of Union General officers, who have died since the commencement of the war. It will be observed that 36 have been killed in battle, and 15 died of diseases contracted in the service. MAIM. bleu. Berry, killed. Gen. Jameson, died MASSACHUSETTS. Gen. Whipple, killed. Gen. Strong, killed. Gen. Steveneon, killed. Gen. Lender, died from wounds and exhaustion Gen. Plummer, died. EHODB ISLABD Gen. Rodman, killed Gen. Lyon, killed. Gen. Mansfield, killed Gen. Sedgwiok, killed. Gen. Totten, died. NEW JERSEY. Gen. Taylor, killed. Gen. Kearney, killed Gen. Bayard, killed. NEW TORE. Gen. Mitchell, died. Gen. Sumner, died. Gen. Weed, killed. Gen. Blanker, died. Gen. Corcoran, died. Gen. Chapin, killed. Gen. Zook, killed. Gen. Kirby, killed. Gen. Wadsworth, killed Gen. Rice, killed. pazinsYLTAins. Gen. Smith, died. Gen. Reno, killed. Gen. Reynolds, killed THE WAR IN EUROPE Fighting in Schleswig appears to be at an end, and unless—which is thus far improba ble—France, England, or Russia should, by their support, enable Denmark to renew it, there is no prospeot of further warlike opera tions. The Danes have learned' at Dappel that their fortifications cannot resist the Prus sian artillery, and they have therefore conclu ded to abandon, on the main land, any fur. ther opposition, and evacuate the only fortress which remained to them, that of Frederica, in Jutland. A correspondent of the London Times writes from the island of Alsen, that this island, which the Prussians find it now easy to occupy, under the protection of their batteries at Duppel, would also be abandoned forthwith. Then all Schleswig, with the ex option of a few insignificant islands, and the whole of Jutland, are in the bands of the Allies, and the Danes confined to the posses. sion of the islands belonging to Denmark proper. The only kind of war that may still con tinue for some time is the naval war. Hith erto Denmark has had it on sea nearly all her own way, but now Austria has sent a power ful naval force to the Baltic ; and the Aus trian vessels, when joined by the Prussians, will commence aggressive operations against the Danish navy and the Danish islands. In the meanwhile, it seems certain that England and France will make the utmost ef forts during the first sessions of the confer• once to obtain from the two belligerent parties 1 the conclusion of an armistice ; and as Aus tria and Prussia now have nearly all the ter- j ritory they want, they will hardly object to an armistioe on- the basis of each belligerent I retaining provisionally the territory he was holding at the time of the conclusion of the I armistice. Sensible and well-timed are .the following remarks from the New York Journal of Com merce. When the ship is tossed by the storm, officers, crew and.passengers should be steady: PATIZNCL—There was never more need of patience than now. The American people are passing through a fearful trial, a trial of suffering and llood. It is by no means easy to wait, doing meanwhile the calm routine duty of citizen life. Yet that duty is all im portant, and has its place in the grand sum of patriotic duty just now. The struggle that is before us is a terrible one. We do wrong to yield to the assurances of enthusi astic men that we are just at the end. There is not enough reason to believe that we are P o near the end. It is a great mistake to teach that patriotism requires men to receive and believe all the good news, and reject and dis believe all the bad news: The constant at .d repeated error of this war has been in encour aging the people to believe in the weakness of the enemy, and the ease with which he was to be disposed of. The radical papers have been very fend of stigmatizing bad , news as copperhead news, and thus conveying the jai. pression that to doubt our complete success at any and all times indicates the political char , acter of the doubter. It ought not to be ne cessary to show the wrong of this, and the vest injury it has done to the cause. It is in finitely better to fear bad results and hear good news, than to expect good results and hear bad news. We should always be taught o guard against the worst contingency is safer to hesitate before receiving as true either very good or bad news. During the past two weeks they have been_ wisest and the moot true• patriots, who have waited in profound anxiety, neither unduly depressed or elated, weighing carefully the intelligence as it came, and sifting the small amount of truth out of the large amount of words and falsehoods which have come to us. The New York Herald, of Saturday week, pertinently oaks, what has become of the San itary Commission? What are they doing in these battles for the wounded soldiers ? Where is the million of dollars raised at the late Sanitary Fair in this city, which our citizens supposed was to be used to relieve the suffer• ings of our gallant soldiers? What has be come of the four hundred thouiand dollars raised at the Brooklyn Fair? - Where aro the hundreds of thousands raised in Albany, Rochester, Buffalo, Cincinnati and other im• portant points? We hear of private funds being raised, physicians and supplies sent on to 'relieve the suffering soldiers on the field of battle, but very little, if anything, from the Sanitary Commission. This is the time fur them to' apply the funds placed at their dis posal.; The emergency which the people looked for when they poured out this large fund is now at hand. The wounded now number tens of thousands, and are constantly -increasing under the active operations of our armies, and the gallant work being done by General Grant. Let the'Sanitary Commission come to the rescue and perform the work of charity needed in this crisis. We hesitate very seriously about laying be fore our readers such a piece of frightful blas phemy as the following, quoted from the Tri bune's report of a spiritistic meeting in New York. Yet it is necessary, and we hope sal utary, to inform the well disposed portion of the community of the lengths to whioh fanat icism is disposed to go : " Mr. Clark presented a resolution of thanks to the press and reporters, especially the lat ter, who showed in the variety of their re ports their own mediumistic powers and their sensitiveness to outside influences. Whatever might be said about non-resistance and rally ing round the cross, we must realise the stern fact that Christ or no Christ we were now at war ; we were not peace men but war men. We made war now and forever against every thing that was against life, liberty, and. the pursuit of happiness. If' Jesus Christ did not know in this struggle whether he was on the side of Jeff. Davis or Abraham Lincoln, he would spit upon him as the Jews did." Still this bold defiance of Heaven itself, if not found to be on our aide, exhibiting the precise spirit of the infernal oonolave describ ed by Milton, though more atrocious in lan guage than that too often used by Abolition. ists, and even those of them professing to be religious, is the same in sentiment. They must have " an anti-slavery Bible and an an ti-slavery God," or they will have none. Some of them, finding no countenance to their head strong delusions in the Scriptures, reject them flatly, in the venomous spirit of this Mr. Clark; but what shall we say of multitudes, both clergymen and churches, who will wil fully shut their eyes to the plain tenor of the Scriptures, and rush headlong on their fanat ical course, just as if the Bible, which on every page rebukes them, was with them all the time 7 —Boston Courier. Gen. Kelm, died. Gen. Patterson, killed by the accidental discharge of his pistol. Gen. Bohlen, killed. Gen. Jackson, killed. Gen. Welsh, died. Gen. Vincent, killed. Gen. Hays, killed. MARYLAND. Gen. Cooper, died vinerkiL. Gen. Terrell, killed OHIO. Gen. Sill, killed. Gen. Lytle, killed. Gen. McCook, killed Gen. Haekelman, killed MICHIGAN. Gen. Rieherdson, killed IGen. WlMime, killed. ILLINOIS. Gen, Wallace, killed, Gen; Farnsworth, killed Gen. Kirk, killed. FIZZITTJOKY. 'Gen. Nelson, killed by Gen. Davie. Gen. Jaokaon ' killed. Gen. Buford, died. MISSISSIPPI. Gen. Benders, killed. WAUMEWTON TBIIRITORT Gen. Stevens, killed. SENSIBLE. REMARKS. PERTINENT QUESTIONS BLASPHEMOUS FANATICISM GICNERA.L M•OLELLAN IN 1862. On the 9th of May, 1862, the House of Representatives at Washington, composed of a large majority of radicals, on hearing of the .battle of Williarusburg, passed the following resolutions unanimously : Resolved, That it is with feelings of devout gratitude to Almighty God that the House of Representatives from time to time hear of the triumphs of the Union army in the great struggle for the supremacy of the Constitu— tion and the integrity of the Union. Resolved, That we receive with profound satisfaction intelligence of the recent victories achieved by the armies of the Potomac, asso ciated from their localities with those of the Revolution, and that the sincere thanks of this House are hereby tendered to Major Gen eral George B. McClellan for the display of those high military qualities which secure important results with but little sacrifice of human life. Do the knaves and fools—the latter being the dupes of the former—who now delight in slandering Gen. McClellan for partizan pur poses, ever think that they are eating their own words? HAVOC AMONG THE GENERALS In the recent terrible conflicts in Virginia. an unusual nirmber of officers have been killed, wounded and. captured—especially Generals. Among the killed are Maj. Gen. Sedgwick, Brig. Gene. Wadsworth, Hays, Stevenson, Robinson and Rice. Among the wounded are Gene. Getty, Baxter, Morrie, Bartlett, Webb, Gregg, and others ; and Gene. Seymour, Shaler, Talbot. Crawford and Neil were:taken prisoners. Gen. Sedgwiok was one of the best officers in the service, arid some of the others were of like character. ill Wit - i - ilg 4 '..1 4.'til 4 :i.'i 4,11-4 " How A FREE PEOPLE LOSE THEIR LUlSE ams."—Upon this migimetive theme Gamma Nomura., Etg„„pf Philaielphie, will lectumbetc/rs the young Men's -Democratic Association of Mit city, - at Fulton Hall, on Thumday eroding next. The subject is one which gimes • —•• to the intellect endemism:Hy of the distingulated „ Oraio St evader as a Wryer, and id eonsidered" one et the . iffellipolitteal speakers In-the Stet& We hope to me a erewdatt analoretsketets =Ma on. These lectures have a decided feature to e pdttleal history of our city, and it is pleasing to see t t interest taken to them by the Democracy.- • • 'EXCHANGED —ln a note received. from oar esteemed friend Lt. Col Pima, on Friday last, he states that he had just received an order informing him of hie eY.4eange and to report without delay to his Regiment We are glad to learn that the Colonel's health has been folly restored. His Regiment, the 77th, is no we believe, In the vicinity of Chattanooga, Tennessee. RELIGIOUS=-A NSW FEATIIIIII.—A new re ligious feature, or rather what is mid to be an old one revived, in the history of the Union Bethel of this city was observed In that church, corner of Orange and Prince streets, in the early part of last week. The following ac count of the same is given in the Church Advocate of this city: Lasosaratt Gossocatiox.--Hell, the Pentecost Meeting came and went, and proved more successful then even its ardent projectors and warmest friends anticipated. Not withstanding the weather was unpropitious on account of continued showers of rain for several days previous, as well as on Saturday and Sunday, yet many of the cat called came at this oppoiuted ' time. The meeting com menced Saturday evening the 14th; a tolerable congrega tion met in the Bethel. and a very appropriate sermon was delivered,. followed by effective addresses by Elders A. X. Shoemaker and B. P. This first service gave evidence of the divine favor upon the project, and the meeting closed not only leaving deep Impressions, but exciting bright anticipation for the coming pentecostal Sabbath. The Sabbath morning came, and though dark, porten tous clouds lowered around, a large congregation aseem bled, who were addressed by Eiders Owens, followed by B. H. Thomas, on the operations and influences of the Holy Spirit. In the afternoon the Sabbath School was assembled and entertained with appropriate addressee by Bro. A. Shot; of Philadelphia, and Eld. D. A. L. Leverty r ct Mar risbarg, on the close of which a general experience meet ing was held. In • the evening the congregation was en tertained by a sermon from Bro. Laverty, and ai address from Bro, P. Shoemaker. ' • • • . • . ..... . On Monday morning a meeting of a general character, in which a number of speeches were made on the subjects of encouraging young men to enter upon the work of the ministry, and what is the most effectual method of pro moting the cause of religion in the various fields of our operations The afternoon Was spent in visiting and social intercourse. In the evening another general experience •meeting was held. Upon the whole, this, by many if not all who were present, waa,considered one of the best meet ings held by the brethren of the Church for years. Breth ren from various churches and neighborhoods were in attendance. Thus was inaugurated what we have no doubt will be• come a permanent institution is the Church cilf God, a Church anniversary, or an annual pentecoetal festival, in which, like the ancient people of God, the t•ibes will come together to mingle their voices together in offering prayer, praises and thanksgiving to the Most High. AN OLD FOLKS' CONCERT.—An amateur as-, iodation, consisting of some thirty ladies and gentlemen of thin city, assisted by Keffer's Orchestra, gave an Old Folks' Concert, at Patton Hall, on Thursday evening last, for the benefit of the Children's Home in this city. The different parte were said to be admirably taken and ren dered, and there was an immense and interacted audience In attendance. COL. HAMBRIGHT'S WOUND.—Lient. JOHN Hoes, of this city, on Thursday received a letter from Col HAMBRIGHT, dated Nashville Hospital, near Tunnel Hill, Georgia, May 11th, from which we are permitted to make the following extract "I was struck in the side by a piece of a shell on Mon day afternoon, soon after advancing on the enemy. My Injuries are slight, and I have reason to be thankful for 'the escape from instant death. The force of the piece must have been broken by the limbs of the trees and bushes, as the gnu was quite close to where I was struck. My side le bruised rousiderably, and oae rib broken, but this will soon mend, and I expect to be with the regiment in a few days. This happened at the same place we parted with the retie about two months since, and where my friend Milholotay was killed, Buzzard's Roost. I will wtite to you again In a few days, when I expect tb be able to give you all the particulars of the regiment." Mrs. HAILBBIGHT, the Colonel's wife, received a letter at the same time and of the same import. lieut. Ruts also received a letter from Jon:v Hausa, of Co., 11, which stater; that the wounded are being removed to Nashville, Tenney. Bee, and that it is supposed all the wounded will receive furloughs. Mr. Mesa is nightly wounded, and a number of others lu the 79th. FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT.—A Bad rail road accident happened at I.,Ocust Orove, near Bainbridge, on Thursday last, by which Edmund Hawthorne, of thin place, lost his life. It was caused by the breaking of a wheel under oue of Kauffman A Shaeffer's - cars, of which he was in charge. Seeing the accident he jumped off, when the care struck him and run over both legs, crush lug them no badly that amputation was deemed necessary, and he died under the operation. He was an exemplary, steady man, and leaves a wife and five children to mourn his loss.—Columbia Spy. • A SOLDIER KILLED.—On Tueoday morning, May 17th, the body of Frank Augustus Greenawalt, a member oleo. 0, 9th Reg. Pa. Cavalry, home on furlough, was found in a dying condition at the railroad station at this place. It , ppeare that the deceased had been to Lan caster on Monday, and on returning home, the train not stopping, he Jumped off, struck his head against some ob ject, fracturing the back part of his head, and throwing him under the train, which in passing over his left foot mutilated it lo a;borribli, manner. Deputy Coroner Brd mer held an inquest, which rendered a verdict in staid ance with the above facts. The deceased was about 24 years of ace, and a roan of good habits, and was much vsleshied by his companions- In.arms. He leaves a wile end one child to mdorn Lis untimely end. On Wednesday, the 18th, his romaine were interred with military honors in the Bethel burial ground. A Itr concourse of people attended the funeral. Appro priate addresses were delivered on the occasion by Revs. Owens of Mount Joy, Wm. !.shale of Elizabethtown. and H. it. Thomas of Lancaster.—Mmbethlroon Trumpet. THE LADY'S FRIEND for Jane °MIS With a floe steel engraving of "The Young Brood." This Is fol. lowed by a handsome colored Fashion Plate, double the size of those Initially givon by twodollar magazines. The come a number of well ezeouted wood engravings sf the fashions, needle-work, Ac , such as ladies alone know how to monody value. A numb, ot engravings Illustrating "Archery for Ladles" . is 311 Interesting feature of thin number. Among the literary Artielee we ante the “Marriege Of COCIVOI1101.0," "The Heiress of Nettlethorpe" (ill uetrated), - - "Mabol's Miesion." 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A Lieutenant in the Confederate service, of the name of De Rochelle, was in the act of being united in marriage to a Miss Pickens, the daughter of a former Governor of South Carolina, of that name, when a bomb shell from the Federal batteries fell upon the building where the parties and their friends were assembled, and bursting in their midst, nine persons were wounded. Among them was the bride, who was injured fatally. Recovering her consci ousness, after being a while stunned, the marriage ceremony proceeded, and Miss Pickens breathed her last at the moment of uttering a faint response to the demand that she accepted her betrothed as her husband. In one hour after, the bridal chamber was the chamber of death. Both parents of the dead girl were present. ter WHAT IT MEANS.—People who read the war news must be struck with the expres sions used by writers in giving accounts of conflicts. This or the other battery is spoken ' of as having done " splendid service 1" Think of the splendor of ripping and tearing to pieces thousands of human beings, and then you have an idea of " splendid service I" Cheering mks means that th 5 enemy has been badly defeated, leaving the field covered with horibly multilated remains of men and horses—men dying of thirst caused by wounds and others crawling away minus a leg or an arm I This is cheering news. Then we have " brilliant affairs," in which the slaughter is not quite so terrible, but still it takes many victims to make up the " brilliance" out of it. And so on through the entire war vocabulary. l Near Springfield, Illinois, last week, a soldier drove up to the residence of a promi nent clergyman, seized :a little child of the minister aged ten years, and carried her off I into the woods, where he perpetrated upon her person an infernal outrage. The child is represented as having been very delicate, and was, it is feared, fatally injured. The ruffian gave his name as John M. Phillips, and said he belonged to the sixteenth Illinois infantry. He was arrested, aid while undergoing an ex- THE SPIRIT OF SPECIILATION• 4 . amination at the magistrate's office, the father The New York Express says that the spirit'' of the child sprang upon him and struck him of speculation in stocks, gold, Sre., in New on the forehead with a brick, inflicting a York, has become so prevalent, that all alas- ' severe, but not fatal wound. The bleeding I wretch was then taken to jail. At night a sea, conditions, and even sexes, are engaged large crowd of people gathered shoat the door in the excitement. The great South Sea hub• iof the jail, and forced an entrance •, bat the ble of the last century has at last found its Prisoner had been removed by the sheriff. equal in Wall street. The speculative feel- The next day the man's examination was con ptiunuuredvivattimtheunurruttahlorltussei p b u u t t a l) ü br e o u th d er tu of t t it h e e ing stops not here—the most essential com modities of life have proved a tempting bait proceedings by shooting the soldier, inflicting for those infatuated anglers, and they buy a fatal wound. up the whole stock in market of tea, coffees, molasses and other imported articles, and are WHAT Doss IT Maas P—The New ,Era the Washington FIKMONT organ,says • " W have even found prowling over the country, buy- ' su ffi cient authority for ayig th . at an t an ing up, monshs in advance, whole dairies of, nouncement will soon be made of such means butter, cheese, &c., at exorbitant rates. The l of concentrating the Union vote upon a can— entire community seems to be under the con- ' didate for the Presidency, and under auspices so sure to command public confidence, that all trol of combinations, and we are told by these fears of drifting into the certain defeat which mercenary cormorants, that we "can either , awaits the attempt to perpetuate the present pay the demands, or go without." weak and unsuccessful Administration may _......____—..--....._...---. be dismissed." DYING —DYlNG.—Senator Doolittle said in ' This, coming from a Republican organ, is Congress the other day : " Slavery, Mr. somewhat astonishing. If a Demooratio sheet President, is dying, dying, all around us." need such language it would be called disloyal, To this the Dayton (0.) Empire says : . and its author probably consigned to some " Yes : And Constitutional liberty is dying ; Government bastile. ... morality, public and private, is dying ; all &MINKS °MM.—The following o ffi cers that we have prized of peace, of social order, , of neighborly kindness, of friendly intercourse have been appointed for three years in society, is dying. And ( dying, too, by James Ross Snowden, Prothonotary of the hundreds of thousands, are the brothers, Supreme Court for the Eastern District. fathers, sone of the most frenzied, deluded and 'Benjamin F. Wright, Building Inspector. miserable people. Why did not Mr. Doolittle Thomam J. Keenan, Prothonotary of the tell it all, while he was about it?" i Supreme Court, Western District. -t~va"ui:"~r :: A terrible murder wee committed at Car rolton, Cattaraugue county N.• Y., a week ago on Friday last, the.particulars of which are given itirthe Olean Advertiser of Thursday, as follows: - • W _.-"OrrThiarsday night the murilererkifeery : 'Beinnman, as he statirtatineelM a Coroner's jury, told hip wifeditEintended to kill her and a boy about four years old, and himself. She.. remonstrated with him, as he states, telling him it would not be right, and that he had better lay down and sleep and he would feel better. He went to bed and arose about 5 o'clock in the morning. Soon after, his wife being asleep, he seized his ax and literally chopped her head to pieces ! He struck her two blows with the blade of the ax, and one with the head, either of which would have proved fatal. Her head was nearly severed from her body , with one blow of the ax, and the chin and breast were cat by another blow. The blow from the head of the ax was given in the temple, crushing the skull. The demon then attacked his Bleeping boy, in the some bed, and in the same cruel manner pat him to death. At least two blows were given the little fellow, either of which would have killed him. One of the wounds on the boy was upon the neck, sever ing the blood vessels—the other was upon the left shoulder—both blows with the blade of the ax! The family living in the other part of the house, hearing the struggle, gave the alarm, and soon Dr. James Nichols, Ford Fanning Joseph Robinson, John Hull, and Levi Winslow were upon the spot. The door being fastened, Dr. Nichols spoke to Bonney man two or three times, without receiving an answer. Finally he opened the door and came out, and those who had gathered went in. " Here's scene which beggars description presented itself. The bedroom where the victims lay was a little dark, attd a light was procured. Both wife and child were dead and weltering in their gore—the Oodles yet warm. No pen can describe the bloody scene. The imagination may do its best, it cannot picture this frightful murder. We shall not attempt it. Bonneyman has been low spirited, and for a day or two previous to to the murder complained . of a pain in his head. He had been in the army, having been drafted last fill. He was discharged some two months since for disability. It is said he was confined in the lunatic asylum at Alex andria, Va., for a time before his discharge, and was, as rumor has it, in chains, but since his arrival home had appeared rational. He imagined his wife and child would become beggars. He had bad a good deal of had for. tune latterly, and could not he encouraged. and desired to die and have his wife and child die, that they might all be buried together. He did attempt to kill himself after the mur der of his wife and child. He out himself with the blade of the axe seven times about the head, and once in the body, but none of the wounds are dangerous. He is represented as being a very industrious man, of good habits, and very fond of his wife and child. He says he bad ne ill-feeling toward his vic tims, but desired their death for their own good. He made a full acknowledgment of the horrid deed to Dr. Nichols, and also before the Coroner's jury, and avowed that he wanted to die, and meant to kill himself as soon as he had made way with his wife and child. He had purchased a small piece of land of Dr. Nichols, made some improvements, and had kept his payments up. The murder • ed victims were brought to Allegany and buried lait Sunday. The murdered woman was a daughter of Mr. Brant, of Allegany. Bonneyman has been committed to jail to await the aotion of the grand jury." THE, TESTIIIIONY OF REPUBLICANS The Boston Post thus clearly epitomizes the testimony of leading Republican authorities, showing corruption and weakness on the part of the Administration : Mr. Phillips says only five United States Senators are in favor of Mr. Lincoln's re-election, and among those are not Messrs. Sumner and Wilson. Mr. Blair. on the fl .or of Congress, accuses the :secretary of the Treasury of gross misdeeds —says the department is rotten with cor ruption, and that this is so palpable the friends of Mr. Chase dare not call for investi gation Gen. Fremont declares that he has been badly used by the Administration, and pouts. The Gratz Brown radicals smite the President as Samson did the Philistines, hip and thigh, and often with the same weapon. Gen. Banks is derided by the Republicans in Massachusetts 1 Senator Hale said in his seat he thought the liberties of the country were raore'in danger from the profligacy that was practiced upon the treasury than they were from the rebels in the field. The Springfield Republican, asks : "Is lying a vice inherent in republican institutions, or merely incident al to Mr. Lincoln's administration ?" Thad deus Stevens says, if the government go on expending money at the present rate, the people will be involved in one general bank ruptcy and ruin. Thurlow Weed writes to the Albany Evening Journal: " Until the administration thoroughly sifts and probes the iniquities of the New York custom house, the treasure and blood shall continue to flow, by Millions and in rivers, while its own officials are playing into the hands of the enemy." Sensator Pomeroy says that should Mr. Lin coln be re-elected the affairs of the country will go from bad to worse in his hands, and the war will languish until our public debt will overwhelm us. Mr. Boutwell de nounced the President's plan of reconstruc tion, Winter Davis charges the President with acting without law, and Miss Dickenson boxes the ears of Mr. Seward to the evident delight of a Republican multitude who bang upon her words as the bee upon the flower. The persons here named are all Republicabs, if not " all honorable men." A SPICY SPEECH. We make the following extract from a late speech of Lieut. Colonel Jecons, the pres ent Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky, at Les-- 1 ington. He said " Mr. Lincoln has changed his ground, and has taken the position that he will abolish sla very. He has crushed the laws of his country, been false to the Constitution, and cast aside the s,lemn oath of office he had given to the people. Instead of issuing a proclamation in accordance with, and to enforce the laws of his country, he has issued a pronunciamento. He did it not as President of the United States, , but as the head of the Executive Department. That pronunoiamento was a startling usurpation of power. Such a usur pation cost Charles the First hiE head. So this usurpation may yet cost Abraham Lin coln his neck. [Cheers.] Col. Jecoas is the brother-in-law of Colonel FEEMONT, and the son-in•law of the late COI. THLAIAS H. BENTON. ONDAY, MAY 16 The Conf..::; ales in front- of General Grant have tak • . ow lined defense' just south of the Po, sinijlwerity miles from the North Anna. On Friday • . was no lighting. General Butler has advanced to Fort Darling and begun a siege, and General Sher idan has joined him. The battle of Spottaylvania which was fought on Thursday is now fully explained. The Coaled erste eastern flank rested on Spotteylvania; the west ern Sank on the Po, which at that point runs a short distance south, tfterwards curving around in the rear of the town: Hantside was on the Federal flank; Wright west of Burnside, and Warren west of Wright. General Hancock, who hid been in re serve, marched forward just before daylight, between Burnside and Wright, and surprised the enemy's • eastern flank. In the Confederate works a little creek ran between this eastern flank and the rest of their position, making a low , gap. Hancook sur prised the C onfederate troops who held - n sort of mound in front of this creek, and it proved an easy capture. Thirty cannon were taken, with between three and four thousand prisoners. This opened Thursday's battle. Hancock suoceedettin securing eighteen of the cannon and sanding them to the rear. Before he could secure the others, however, the enemy made a strenuous attack to regain their lost ground. The cannon lay in the low gap where tholisreelc ran; on ground alternately in -possession of the two armies. To assist Hancock, General Burnside, on the extreme left, was Sent into action, and Warren, on the right, opened a heavy cannon ade. Burnable was repulsed with heavy losses, and does not appear to have gained any ground, or been engaged after ten or eleven o'oloek. Wright was then sent to Hanoook's assistance, and the contest raged around the twelve cannon. • The Confederates however succeeded in recapturing all of them: In front of Warren on the western Hank, an artillery duel was kept up for some time when Warren or dered a charge. His corps advanced, and for a mo ment, captured the enemy's works, bat the Confed erates receiving reinforcements, Warren was ulti mately outflanked and compelled to move his line eastward until ha was close to the position vacated by Wright and Hancock on their advance. When the sun set the Federal line was not more than two miles long, a considerable contraction being caused on the west, by the attack on Warren- At nine o'clock the contest closed, Hancock holding posses sion of the mound he had taken, but the Confeder ates still retaining the remainder of their works. About midnight the, Confederates began a cannon ade upon Hanoook's troops which was replied to.— The picket lines were strengthened and an attack feared. At three o'clock, however, the oannonade ceased. The number of guns captured and retained by Hancock was eighteen, all of them bearing the marks of the United States. General Sheridan's cavalry raid began on last Monday. He passed to the east of the Confederate position at Spottsylvania, and then Keith to the North Anna river. At Beaver Dam, ten miles west of Hanover Junction, he out the Virginia Central Railroad, destroying a large quantity of provisions and several trains of oars ; besides releasing three hundred and seventy-eight Federal prisoners. He crossed the railroad and went to the South Anna ; then turning east he went to Hanover Junction, again cutting the railroad and destroying provisions. He then marched South towards Riocimoad, having several contests with the enemy. He crossed to the south side of the Chiekahominy, found the Confed erate works surrounding Richmond very strong, penetrated to within six miles of the town, and then re-crossed the Chickahominy to Mechanietville.— Here he had another severe contest, and marched down the Chlekshominy to Bottom's bridge, crossed over, and passing below Riehmond, he reached the James river just below Malvern Hill, effecting a junction with General Butler. Sheridan's force contained nearly all the cavalry of Grant's army. There is very little definite intelligence from Gun. Butler. In his own despatch he says he has laid siege to the land side of Drury's Bluff on which Fort Darling is situated. He is thus about ton miles from Richmond. His cavalry are reported to have destroyed a bridge on the Riehmond and Dan ville Railroad, over the head waters of the Appo mattox, and twenty-five miles west south-west of Richmond. CIItBDAY, biAy 17 General Lee, it appears has not yet even retreated , across the Po. He still holds the north bank. The village of Spottsylvania is on neutral ground, pos— sessed by neither army. There has been no severe„ fighting sines, Thursday. Gen. Grant seems to have - - , no desire to attack the enemy's position. He tele graphs to Secretary Stanton that, owing to the heaviness of the roads, active operations will for the present be suspended. On Thursday night when Gen. Lee retreated, ho merely swung his eastern flank back to the Po, so as to present a northeastern front to Grant. Ha did no., as we supposed yesterday, abandon the ground north of the Po. His eastern flank now rests on that streamy south of Spottsylvania, and his line' runs northwest, so that his western flank also rests on its banks, west of Spottsylvania. Grant made no attack upon Lee either on Friday or Saturday, the terrible condition of the roads preventing it.— General Lee's pickets are in Spottsylvania, and hold the country for about a half mile north of it.— Gen. Grant's line has advanced about half a mile, and his headquarters are now a mile and a half'' north of the town. Spottylvania thus lies in neutral ground still to be fought for, and beyond the, oapturos of prisoners and guns. Thursday's battlei was as ineffectual as that of Tuesday. The Federal supplies are carried by wagon from Belle Plain, on the Potomac, below Washington, across the Rappahannock fords to the army. The Fredericksburg railroad has not yet been rebuilt. A detailed statement of losses in the various corps of Grant's army, as reported by the Herald, foots up thirty-five thousand. Our latest intelligence from the army of the Poto mac is to eight o'clock yesterday morning. Nothing had occurred up to that time and the armies held their former positions, Lee presenting a firm front and holding his ground north of the Po. The Con federates, it is reported, have received large rein forcements. The mud about the Federal army is very deep. The New York Evening Post has a telegram from Washington giving it as the opinion there, that the capture of Richmond would require a campaign of six weeks. From all appearances the two armies will remain on the Po for some time to come. WEDNESDAY, May 18 There has been no change at Spottsylvania, and there is very little prospeot of an early contest in that quarter. Gen. Lee is entrenching on the north bank of the Po, and Gen. Grant does not seem to design an early attack. Since Thuniday there have been no hostilities. The Confederates have gradually adjusted their lines, moving up their wings and encroaching upon the Federal camp, tintil now they occupy very nearly the same position as before Hancock's success. Their works are covered with woods, so that the movements of the men are concealed. Gen. Lee has Sent a telegram to Richmond, dated on Wednesday last, in which he states that his losses in the previous conflicts had been very small. On Monday the oth of May he captured a cannon from Grant's western flank. From all that we can learn the Confederates do not seem to be materially injured: They no doubt are fatigued, but the two or three days rest has re fruited them, and large reinforcements have made up for their losses. Their fatigue and losses are no worse than those of Grant's army, and they are still a formidable obstacle in his path to Richmond. It is very hard to say what Butler is doing. No definite intelligenee has been received from him., though it is reported that he has laid siege to Fort Darling. Beauregard by forced marches has reached Petersburg. Large numbers of Confederate troops have lately passed north over the North Carolina railroads. General Johnston has retreated from Rearm to wards Atlanta. General Sherman is following his rear and has captured eight guns andtne thousand prisoners. Fears are entertained for the safety of Colonel Crooke, who was sent out on a raiding expedition towards Lynchburg, some two weeks ago, by Gen. Sigel. A Richmond paper notices the capture of eight hundred and fifty Federal troops in that quar ter, and this may be Crook's command. Dispatches from Gen. Sigel received this evening report that on Sunday he fought the forces of Bohol, and lmboden, under Breckinridge, at Newmarket'; that the enemy's forces were superior in number and that he gradually withdrew from the battle field and recrossed the Shenandoah, having lost five pieces of artillery, about six hundred killed and wounded, and fifty prisoners, but bringing all hie train and all the wounded that could be transported from the battle-field. He states that in consequence of the long line and the trains that had to be guarded, be could not bring more than six regiments into the fight, besides the artillery and cavalry, and that the enemy had about 7,000 infantry beside other arms, that his retrograde movement to Strausbnrg was effected in perfect order, without any lose of material or men. He gives no list of °manias, but Lieutenant- Colonel Lincoln of the Thirty-fourth Massachusetts, is reported wounded and captured. ABOLITION BIORALIT Y The Springfield (Mass.) Republican gives a description of the corruption now prevalent at Washington. Its language is vehement, but graphic, and will bear to be repeated. It is as follows : It is a sad, a shocking picture of life in Washington, which our correspondents are giving us. A bureau of the treasury depart ment made a house of seduction and prostitu tion. The necessities of poor and pretty women made the means of their debauchery by high government officials. Members of Congress putting their mistresses into clerk "ships in the departments. An honorable Senator knocked down in , the street by a woman whom he had outraged. Whisky drinking ad libitum. The Government cheat ed in contracts and openly robbed by its employees. Writes our most careful corres pondent—longl.a resident of the capital— " Washington was never quite so villainously corrupt as at the present time. In the palmy ' days of southern rule, of slavery, there was not half the corruption there is now." We do not doubt this is strictly true ; and we re peat, it is a sad, shocking picture. Foos Pitssoris DsoWNED.—A few days ago James Brass,_ Reuben Wykoff, Robert Derr, Daniel Hafer, John Hafer, and two boys, eons of John Hafer, all citizens of Lewis towoehip, Northumberland county, were riding in a two horse wagon along the towing path above Mundy dam, when the bolt which fastened the tongue to the axle of the wagon, broke, causing the wagon to run over the bank and into the river, where Daniel Hafer, Reuben Wykoff, and the two sons of John Hafer were drowned. By this sad incident Mr. John Hafer lost two children, a brother, and a brother in-law. The bodies - hive MA yet been found, and a reward is offered for their recovery.
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