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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23,1.864.
"The printing presses shall be free to every
..,persomwho, undertakes . to examine the pro
ceedings of the legislature, or any branch of
government; and no law shall ever be .made
- restrain the right thereof, The free commu
nication of thought and opinions is one of the
invaluable rights of men; and every citizen
may frealy'spealr., write and print on any sub
ject; being responsible for the abuse of that
Liberty. rn prosecutions for the publication of
papers investigating the official conduct of offi
cers, or men in public capacities, or where the
matter published is' proper for public informa
tion, the truth thereof may be given in evi
denc..3.77Cbiutitution of Pennagivania.
IT IS ANNOuNCED THAT COL. LA3ION,
Marshal-stf the District of Columbia, in
tends to resign because the perquisites
of, his office have been cut down to a low
figure. We do not hear that he intends
to • refund the thirty thousand dollars
intrusted to bhp for the formation of a
loyal Virginian regiment at an early
period of the war—a regiment that nev
er - was organized. LA3fON was a chum
of LINCOLN'S at Springfield, and was
brought by him to. Washington and af
forded facilities for lining his pockets
which few officials enjoyed previous to
the advent of the present honest and
polished chief magistrate of the United
States. He cut his official roast a little
too fat—so very fat, indeed, that his own
political friends in Congress took him
in hand and cut down his perquisites,
in spite of all that " honest old Abe "
could do to screen his rogueries. As his
" patriotism " no longer commands a
paying price, it seems he intends to re
tire to private life. Could not Mr. LIN
COLN give him thirty thousand dollars
more to raise anothr r regiment'. His
services as assistant smutty joker at the
White House ought to be remembered
and adequately rewarded.
Peace Rumors
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald, writing under date
of the 18th, says :
The proposed appointinigit of ciimmis
sinners to make ilearn propositions to the
rebels', grows in favor the more it is dis
cussed. Ifigh otlieialsl2ere in the eontidenee
of the President, unreservedly confirm the
views expressed in the Hera hi, and s a y
there is Ito iltw , tion that propositions, :dike
honorable to both parties will soon be made
by Mr. Lincoln—propositions whhth will
afford an opportunity, such as will-mot again
oven r to the rebels to lay down their ;trios
and resume their place in a strengthened
and more powerful than has ever
before existed.
If Mr. Ltsc•ot.s should submit "pro
positions alike honorable to both par
ties," he will astonish the American
people as well as several hundred Mil
lions of "the rest of mankind." We do
not believe he will do any such thing.
He lacks the loftiness of mind and the
generosity of heart for such a work.—
There is too much of the small lawyer
and too little of the great statesman in
him for that. If he is inor dreaming - of
peace propositions, it is not because he
desiresto bring about a peace that would
be " alike honorable to both parties."
If he is thinking of peace propositions
at all, he is trying to hatch out of his
small brain some smart Illinois Yankee
plan for " cornering" his political op
ponents. Ile is incapable of conceiving
anything more noble than sonic little
trick of party politics. It is folly to
expect him to recede from the position
taken in his letter addressed to Nobody
at Niagara Falls, and the blindest of his
Iytherents would hardly expect the
Southern people to accede to the terms
therein proposed. t
NEw Volt]: HERALD of Satur
day last states that the Hey. Dr, .Lute
L. ScifocK., pastor of Lutheran Church
in Fifteenth street, left his homein that
city, on the-29th ult., with the inteiu ion
of going to New Haven, since which
time nothing has been• heard of him.
The Herald says his absence has caused'
his friends to fear that some misfortune
has befallen him.
Mr-SenocK - had charge of a congrega
tion in Reading some years ago. He
moved thence to Chambersburg about
•the beginning of 1850, having received
a call from the Lutheran congregation
of which Rev. F. NV. Conrad is now pas
tor; and in the fall of 1552 he received
and accepted an invitation to remove to
New •York city, where lie has resided
ever since. His father died within the_
past year at Mechanicsburg, Cumber
land county, and he has near relatives
stili living there. Mr. Scllocx was
held in high esteem by those who knew
him intimately, and if the fears now en
tertained by his friends in New York
that some misfortune may have befallen
him should be realized, it will create
deep grief among his old friends in Read
ing and Chambersburg.
Closing Up the War
Our Republican friends have promis
ed to close up the war-by puttingan enil
to the rebellion in a very short time.
All the Democrats will rejoice at such
a result. The Administration has it all
its own way—all the men and money it
calls for—the same as in the past three
years. No Democrat obstructs or will
obstruct its course. We shall allbeglad
to have the war ended speedily, for its
expenses are enormous and its destruc
tion of life is great.
Let us even hold our belief in abey
ance, and await the good time of peace
and the Union with the prosperity and
glory of the past.
Out of Temper
If the Express deemed it Deeessar:\
for its good or its comfort that it should
. retire from the political arena, we really
think it would have shown good sense
in doing so in a better humor. The
manner of its retiring reminds us of
the forced retreat of a whipped cur into
a corner. It snaps viciously and snarls
savagely as it goes.
Uncandid to the very last, it reiterates
the assertion that in its infamous article,
entitled ".Give the Screws Another
Turn," it only demanded that abuse
of the liberty of the press should be re
i•Atrained. It did more. It called ou Lin
coln to deal with the Philadelphia _lfie
as Butler had done with Democratic
newspapers in his department, where
he suppressed every one of them, and
refused to allow them to be brought in
. ,ride of his lines. That article was an
:insult to every Democratic editor in the
;State; a direct and most malignant at
tack upcni their well defined constitu
tional rights; a bold and unblushing
avowal of the existence of the power
in the hands,of the President arbitrarily
to suppress any paper.which might hap
pen not to please him ; a wholesale as
await, upon the libear of the press, in
sustaining which the 4.7..rprc. , ;s is, or
ought to he, as much interested as any
newspaper in the land. If, for the first
time in mu intercourse with the Ex
press, we used harsh terms in replying
to
.such an articl€, we think we were
more than excusable., that we were right.
The private character of an, editor may
not be a proper subject for refeTence, but
- he cannot complain if he is heldstrictly
responsible for tempers and dispositions
,displayed in his public utterances..
The Florida to be Given up
AN'Thtle the gallant commander of the
.Waelni....set is being wined and dined by
,generous „Oniirers, Secretary Seward is
.said to be preparing to surrender the
' :Florida; to 'restore her to the port from
:whence she wts taken by her captors.
Being violently seized in a neutral port,
:Brazil has the right to made an uncon
ditianalidemand for her restoration. If
.she insists upon this, we have no choice
.bue.tbtrapt.it , , or to engage in ..n unjust
• .and, dishonorable war: The cry, a few
,days was, "We have the Florida, and
we will ?Iceep her." Now, that is ail
Tice eliange of tone is for the
: : .ccight. •It *a.S. o,ltr bOltyihg htus'ter, both
:,f"ud. this: ease tend Att that of mason and
Slidill, which vas w.r4x3"la the Ant
- instatv., • • •
The Talk Abbut Peace.
Strange to say, right on the heels of
Mr. Lincoln's re-electiotr, before the air
which was so vexed by the voice of Abo
lition orators, who baWled themselves
•
hoarse with the cry of "no compmise ,
with traitors," has become still, *clear.
repeated whisperings of peace. • These
utterances come, not frp,m Vallantlig
ham or Fernando Wood, not from the
New :York News or any other " Copper
head" sheet, but from Ben. Butler,
from the Tribune, the Press, and the
Chronicle. What does this mean? Are
these men and these newspapers honest?
Do they really desire peaie? Will they
agree that any offer shall be made which
there is the slightest probability of the
South accepting? Is there any possi
bility of a speedy peace?
We fear not. We believe the people
of the North foolishly threw away the
only chance for a speedy and honorable
peace when they suffered Mr. Lincoln
to be re-elected. We have no doubt the
South would have listened to proper
terms of adjustment if proposed by the
Democratic party. The defeat of Lin
coln would have shown that fanaticism
in the North was on the decline;, that
wiser councils prevailed; that the masses
here were ready to lay aside party pas
sionsaiel sectional prejudices ; that they
still had manhood enough left to assert
their own rights under the Constitution
and the laws of the land.
t would be difficult to induce the
people of the revolted States to listen to
terms from Mr. Lincoln or his minister,
Ben. Butler. They have strong antipa
thies against these men, and we know
that even reason itself is often over
come by such things. But we do not
imagine that Mr. Lincoln will make
such an otter of peace as the South con
accept. We do not believe he intends
to do anythi yg of the sort. There may
be a show of it. Some .cunning sham
may be devised, expressly arranged in
such shape, or presented in such a man
ner, as to render its rejection, not only
morally but absolutely certain. That,
in all probability, will he done. We
shall have nuu•h tall: about it. The
plan Will be lan-tided before the people
as a niost admriahle one ; the magna
nimity of the Administration will be
extolled to the skies ; its generosity will
be magnified out of all proportions, and
such an outcry will he made over the
altitir as was never heard before. If it
fails, as fail it inevitably will, because
designed and arranged to be nothing
but a failure, we shall have such
a hue and cry raised over the matter as
will stun the ears of the nation. How
much intensified will the utterances of
hate against the South then become.
We shall have a more savage war cry
Guth any which has yet gone forth.
The refusal of the South to accept offers
of peace, made in such a shape as to
render all hope of their acceptance ab
surd, will be paraded as an excuse for
giving the war a more horrid aspect
than it has yet assumed.
Uf course it will be claimed, that all
opposition to the war policy of the ad
ministration ought to cease after the
occurrence el such an event. -Demo
crats will he expected to howl war
louder, if possible, than anybody else,
and " Copperheads" looked to to fill up
the ranks by voluntary enlistment. A
tremendous eflbrt will be made to get
up another intense war fever. But it will
fail. The people cannot be gulled by
any such transparent trickery. If peace
propositions are made by the adminis
tration, they must be honestly and
fairly made, made in such shape as will
Wit preclude all hope of their being ac
cepted. Nothing else will do. The ad
ministration has two roads before it. It
can continue the war on the present
policy, without any offer of terms of
peace, or any cessation of hostilities—
that is one road. It can honestly offer
fair and honorable terms of adjustment
—that is the other road. One or the
other of these irinust take. We do not
believe it has the wisdom and the
magnanimity to adopt the latter, even
while seeing the insurmountable ob
stacles in the former. Therefore, we
feel sure that all the loose talk about
peace, now going the rounds of Aboli
tion circles, will amount to just nothing.
It will amount to nothing because it is
not intended by its devisers to be any
thing else but a mere sham, a trick, a
trap to catch gaping gulls. He who
expects a speedy and honorable peace
front any of these modes will be sadly
disappointed. We hope we may be
wrong, we hope events may prove that
we do the administration injustice in
this matter, we ardently hope an honest
effort for an honorable peace may be
made, that it may come, and come
speedily. In such an event we will not
fail to give due praise, and all possible
credit, to those who bring it about. But
the people must not he befouled and
cheated. That game won't work. Any
such transparent trickery shall be ex
posed.
The Trials in Columbia County
It is known to our readers that, for
some time past, the trial of a number of
parties, arrested under a charge of re
sisting and obstructing thet operation of
the draft in Columbia county, has been
going on for the alleged offence before a
military commission. Three of them,
John Hand, Samuel Kline, and Wil
liam Appleman, have been convicted of
a conspiracy to resist the draft in Colum
bia county, in this State, and sentenced
as follows : Rantz, the ringleader, io im
prisonment in Fort Mifflin for two years,
and a tine of one thousand dollars;
Kline to two years' imprisonment, and
Appleman to a fine of five hundred dol
lars and one year's imprisonment. Gen.
Couch has confirmed the decision of the
military court.
The counsel for the prisoners entered
their protest at an early stage of the
proceedings against the attempt to try
these men by military commission, de
manding- as a matter of law and of right
that the matter he referred to the civil
authorities. Their protest being un
heeded, they withdrew from the defence,
and the result of the trial is as above
stated. The cons'eription law provides
that all such eases shall be referred to
the civil tribunals for trial.
or LAW I 31" THE ADMIN-
IsTßATloN. — Although an express pro
vision of the Conscription law makes it
incumbent upon the military authori
ties to refer all cases of violation of that
act to the civil courts for trial, this pro-
Vision was ignored in the recent casts
of this character in Columbia county,
Pa. The counsel for the prisoners en
tered their protest at an early stage of
the proceedings against the attempt to
try these men•by military commission,
demanding as a matter of law and of
right that the matter be referred to the
authorities. Their protest being
unheeded, they withdrew from the de
fence, and the result of the,trial was as
we have stated, a heavy flue and im
prisonment in each of the eases. It ap
pears that the Administration does not
even observe the laws of its own mak
ing, saying nothing of constitutional
laws.
• -
THE SECON D Cam..—The Abolitionists of
Middletown had a grand pow-wow on Mon
day night, to celebrate
" Do year oh jubilo."
Among the celebrators was theßex. Sohn
Pegg, Jr., formerly pastor of the Asylum
street Methodist Church in this city, who,
say the Republican papers, " had his house
lighted up, and over the door
. a large trans
evielnecLigew'tohf
I h e e g e l d ns tm en tr i rbr : a - :
Abra
ham out of Heaven a second time.' Gen. , '
22: 15."
It is to be hope 4 that Abraham will pay
more heedlO the etteetiel ea,1,1 than he did to
the fir:lL—Hartford ,
THE FALSEHOODS AND FRAUDS by dered our speakers; t4iey have even
which the Iliad; ReptibliCan party has dragged upright and pure judges from
,•,
lived and thrived are not only ulthout.l the Witch, all besmeared with their oWit
number,, but they will forever remain' , blood, because they charged juries ins
'. l o l t4ttt aily sufficient.. stamp cif - their . !aceordanee with: thelaW,t and the latii
:infaiiik. a :They : fouttott this net When: only. Not content with tiffs, Lawcol;N -
they began their malignant and lanati- has gladly lent them the powers and
cal ',party existence, free, united and I terrors of the Federal GoVernment,
prosperous. They 'divided it with the wreak all, manner of personal and pat
devilish skill of a 'master ' splitter," titian vengeance. To do this lie has not
and from the nittnis,of the late election liesitated to (livoreethe;Government
it appears that their horrid work is to from the charter by which'it exists, and
continue four years longer. So much i having torn the Constitution to shreds,
more Of shame, so much more of debt, leave it a despotism nnilisauised and
so much more of death, we may eon- unlimited. Re has crdwded his dun
sider assured. - Whether at the expira- geons with inoffensive Democrats; he
tion of his next term Aft nAt lANI LI N- has loaded his ships with ekiles; he has
cous - will re-elect himself by the same robbed, murdered and iiitimidated, in
fraudulentandtyranai,•nteaushywhich a way which gzive intense satisfaction
lie has done it this time, will be deter- to the beastliest fanatics in the land.
mined simplg by the extent of hispower. Who will doubt that the destruction of
If he can he witt, their neighbors, who happened to be of
If all this had been done by frith/ a different party, was the sole object of
honest fanatics, we might have looked all those false and malignant charges,
upon the results with less indignation, I which have made the ignorant and the
and have felt sonic compassion for the credulous of the Black Republican fol
besotted instruments, as' well as the 10 xers to gloat over the anticipated
miserable victims, of destruction. But delights of the throat-euttings and hang
the men whirl have wrought these dread- lugs to come.
ful things were hypocrites, murderers, Now that the election is over, the
thieves, rioters, house-hreakers, kidnap- shoddyites securely enjoying the spoils,
pers, ballot-box-stutlbrs, coarse and bru- and the people quietly toiling to pay
tal conspirators against the peace and their enormous taxes, and to set their
liberty of the country. It is true that houses in order for the next draft, we
they assumed t Ile air of philanthropists, believe a period has arrived when the
counterfeited an exclusive righteous- public would derive some benefit from
ness of la-art, and pretended to a most the reproduction of a f t ily scraps of his
extraordinary and hurni it Ii ac f o r th e tory relating to the closing nionths of
oppressed Atrie:w. Rut alt this was Mr. BUCIFANAN'S AdlllilliStratiOn. So
only a cloak to shield their motives much have the events of that unhappy
from scrutiny. How could the people time been distorted and belied, that we
doubt such admirable :Ind perfect Peck- feel constrained to offer the actual truth
sniffs? in vindication of the last official acts of
that-great historic party. If nothing
prevents, we shall thcreforeotrer ashort
chaplet or two ill some future numbers
of the Ldfilificno,i.
'rhe Chii•furit Convention that nom
inated Luscui.N declared in fawn' of
" retrenchment " in national expendi
tures—LlNl.ohx makes debt at the rate
of a thousand millions a year. DAwr.s
says this aihni nist rat ion ha, I nOrt'
in one
,nr(O• than sufficed for the support
of the whale blovernment during Mr.
BUCHANAN'S entire term, and HALF:
pronounced the iiivernment in more
danger from thieves than Crum rebels.
Th a t veutiiin re-iilved that the
Federal tovernment had no right to
interfere with slav,ery in States where
it existed. Mr. EiNcohN drives the
States out of the l'ition on the question
of slavery, and then timers them (0,411 . 1/
otit /MN/ the!! h , n•r etbonsh,il 1 0 4
rrstillc (If it. '/'hat I'mivention made a
loud cry about " freedom." They have
given the potty negro •' freedom " to
starve and die beyond the reach of his
master, but what has heroine of the
dear-bought liberties of :Northern white
men'.' We have (Dell robbed, in mass
and in detail, of fault and every one,
down even to that last and most previous
right--the Halo of it free eleetion.
The abolitionists denounced the
whole Democratic party, from coast to
coast, as most toad-spotted villains,"
because a ix was st tithed in
Kansas: vet hi xi:, i.fy has not hesitated
to carry I 'iminumwealth after
wealth, time and turain. hy the nakedest
fraud and violence. Maryland, Mis
souri, Indiana! Such gigantic 111111
atrocious fraud , upon the right of suf
frage—such bold nu ickeries
—tllo world (lever saw 1.0f(o1V.
In short, from hVg . intling to cm! this
Black; - Reim - line:in party hits been false
tongued, blomly ;Ind teacherous,—
" Their throat ,Ten sepulchre;
with their tongovs have they deceived;
the poison a under their lips.—
Their mouth full. II cursing anil bit
terness; their feet are 'Witt to shod
blood. Destru,tion ;Ind unhappint,:s is
in their ways, and the way of pen,.
haVe tlicV not knot
\Vo cannot stop to give and adequate
list or the ommit less impostures hy which
they have ,n,•eeeded, [tine to tittle,
in maintaining themselves against the
sense and honesty the people. It
would be useless to recount the shame
less and disgusting lies with which the
Boston Lib , relfiw and the New Viirk
Teibioo fed the hates of the original
malignants Who Int•t iu annual enliven
thin at Boston, and tieing as yet unable
to assail the I lovernmentforcildy, con
tented themselves with depouneing the
Constitution as eiivenant with hell,"
and apostrophizing the llag if the Cniiin
as a "flaunting It,. TIIiOIP-
FtIN'S disunion speeches, and Sl':\ N
" harharislll , :a ShiVery," With all their
. infamous falsehoods and ;to - age appeals
f o r division t ool bloodshed, may he stir
fered.to pass Without lurther notice into
that same universal contempt With
which all truthful tool decent people
regard the I 800 N. not
wish to revive the memory of those in
credibly false :mil scandalous represen-
tattoos of the hatabhips and cruelties of
slavery, by which they succeeded in
communieating to a multitude of honest
Northern hearts the murderous hatred
of everything . Southern which festered
in their own. It i, enough flu• us to
know that they dually attained to
power by dishonest . appeals to the
deadlier passions and ignorant credu
lity of the people, and hp t use of
pledges and itrollliSe, Illey have
already trebly broken and dislnmortal
with the most impudent contempt tin•
all political morality or decency.
But they signalized their accession to
the government,and every hour of their
existence _since, by such slanders of
their political opponents as were never
heard outside the Jacobin Clubs, when
falsehood, blasphemy and murder kept
undisputed riot in the streets of Paris.
We venture nobhing in asserting that
if all the Black Ilepublican journals in
th e country h a d been bought and paid
for. b• the Ilichommi Cabinet, they
could not I g o r horn better einpl,yell
than they h ave been in th e se rvi ce 4 ,1'
the rebel cause. They have not hesi
tated to assure the Southern leaders
thaethe great Democratic party, num
bering nearly half the voters of the en
tire North, were their warm "friends,"
, t " sympathizers," "abettors,"
" fellow traitors'' and active " eonspira
tors." Only the other day Mr. Hour
published an elaborate report revealing
certain fearful plots discovered by his
daring spies of the key-hole. What
this man says is of importance only be
cause it comes from the President's
purchased servant--from his hired as
sassin of character—from an infamous
deserter whose treachery has been re
warded with place, who slanders by
direct order of the President and is paid
by the job. He tells us of a treasonable
association in the middle Ind western
States, armed and oath-bound, secret
but vast, which numbers its members
by the hundred thousand, whose sole
object is to cut up the Union into frag
ments. Of course no reasoning creature
believes a word of this,—certainly not
Mr. Hoitr or the negrii strumpet from
whom he got his informotion. If it
tocrc true, the United States Govern
ment could not.live ten minutes, except
by sufferance of its enemies.
Why have the Abolitionists persisted
in this monstrous species of slander?
Simply and only to blacken the names
of Democratic citizens—to incite riot,
bloodshed and arson, so that all who
presume to reject the lawless and des
potic measures of the President, may he
made to pay for their heroic honesty a
pemilty of life and property. These
devilish zealots
,denounce us as "trai
tors " with fiendish gfee, and then make
their own naked lip a pr4.4.t . forour
persecution. They hove hour44eil #lO
brutal mob .on our track ; they have da
stroyed ,our newspapers ; , they have
burned our dwellings; they have mur•
Shelling of Charleston
" Charleston Under Shells" is the
topie of a corresponilen.t of the South
Carolina Advocate. He writes:
These messengers of death have been
passing thick and fast among thein hab
itants of the city, tearing up the streets,
cutting gas pipes and plunging us into
darkness ; thundering against churches
and dwellings, and creating generally a
great tumult; but how few of the citizens
have been harmed ill their persons!
Yet what hairbreadth escapes have
been made !
I saw, but a few days since, the inte
rior Of a poentleman's.residence which a
shell had entered, cutting the tester and
passing through the pavilion of his bed,
penetrating the opposite wall, and lodg
ing in the adjoining room. Both him
self and las wife were in the house at
die time, and he remains there still. In
:mother instance a similar missile en
tered a chamber, and passing loetween
1110 bedclothes and the slabs of a crib ill
which an infant was hying, left the lit
tle creature unhurt, but lost in the eon
volutions of its bedding'
SORIA , IllontllS ago, while our intrepid
firemen were making every exertion to
subdue the fast spreading Haines in one
of the lower wards, the Yankees opet
as usual, upon the loCality ; a shell in
its parabalic descent entered an engine
which a number of firemen were work
ing, and which was surrounded Icy a
large concourse of others. The 'mite
friend of our homes was blown to atoms,
the men were dashed to the ground, and
with the exception of a negro who hail
just taken the place of a white loan,
and who lust an arm, resulting after
wards iu his death, and a very slight
wound inflicted on one or two others,
none were injured. Meeting; our worthy
I Mayor some tine subsequently, and in
conversation \vitt' him sill reference to
this circumstance and flIt• gChet'al
dc
liverauee of our citizens from ghastly
wounds and horrid deaths, lie threw up
his hands aunt exelaimed, " it is the
work of 0(.1. The history of Charles
ton for months post hats most wonder
fully illustrated Divine Providence.
There never was anything - like it." .And
this, at that time, was a very general
sentiment. It is hoped that it may yet
be, said to he the case.
Passing - through the lower wards of
the city you would be partieulaly struck
with two things ; first, the sad desola
tion. The elegant mansions
thoroughfares once rejoicing in wealth
and retimoment and the theatre of lousy
lo—the well-known and fondly (otter
ished churches--some of them ancient
landmarks—where large assem hies were
wont to bow tit holy altars, :pfd spacious
halls that once blazed with light and
rung with festal songs, are all deserted,
sombre and cheerless; and this is en-
I by the forbidding aspect oe that
vast district of the city which was laid
in ashes three years ago, and which re
mains in unmolested ruins as the mon
ument of Charleston's long and dreary
pause in the grand match of improve
ment. Here you perceive her humilia
tion. html move on, and from her lonely
wharves and olive locau tiful White Point
Dardens you will see her head lifted in
proud defiance, as she every (1113 - (ial
lenges her vaunting foes to attempt the
desecration of her sacred soil with their
polluted tread. 'lids is her glory.
The War.
There is but little military int elligem4.
to-day. No new inforinat ion has lmon sent
us of General Sherman's movement. Thene
is a report, not well authenticated however,
that on Saturday lasi nine hundred con
federate prisoners arrived:lt Nashville, Who
Were eaptilred at Atlanta a few days be
fore, haring, as the derqoateli states, rushed
in to pillage, as they thought the town
evacuated. I M November lath the burning
of the town or Rome, (4, , orgin, was began
orders from Sherman. 'Phis was a Fede
ral post on the Coosa River, ab o ut twenty
miles west of the line of the Chattanooga
and Atlanta Railroad. thane Was evilenniell
:drollt the I''t h, and the Federal troops. that
had been there now loon part of the
,s,lutan which is marching from Atlanta
directly east to Augusta. Nothing authen
tie has 1.411 heard &MlL(corral
army. •
General Curtis, who emninanded the
Federal troops in Missouri that Mllowed
Price's retreat into Arkansas, has made a
report. 'ortis states that he captured one
piece of artillery and Price's ,ulll
ri ago.' •
In East Tennessee, (lon. , illem has
re
treated all the tray to Knoxville. All the
country east of that place has been given up
to the l'onfederatos.
At Petersburg everything reported quiet.
A heavy rain storm interferes with military
movements.
The report of canhy's death is contradict
ed by an arrival from New Orleans.
Ileneral Sherman has 154.11 heard frOIII.
On Monday the (.011111111'Whioll was to g;( to
Milledgeville and thence to Augusta, was
seventy miles soulheaid of Atlanta, rapidly
marching forward and meeting sea rcely
any opposition. The column which was
numbing east to Augusta from Atlanta was
about thirty miles on its road. It likewise
NV:IS almost unopposed. Nothing has yet
been of I too. I . Atlanta is evacuatt d ;
there is now no Federal post south of Re
saca, and we will hear nothing more of
Sherman excepting through Southern ehan
nets. There has been no fighting of any
importance.
There has been a contest between the op
posing armies in East Tennessee. Recently
Breekinridge and Vaughn, ernummuling
the Confederates, made a rapid ret rod front
Bull's Gap tow;trdstiontbwestern
Ii 11. Oillem, with the Federal army, lid
lowed. Suddenly the Confederates turned
on ;Melo. !Wonted bin', told forced him to
retreat to Bull's I;litt, Then making an at
tack they captured the post, and
withdrew toward•Rnoxville. The losses in
killed and wounded are not reported. The
Confederates ea ptured lour hundred Federal
prisoners, six eannon and fifty wagons.
After this contest the Federal troops retreat
ed rapidly towards Knoxville, and on -Fri
day the Confederates came up with them at
Strawberry Plains, east of Knoxville. A
battle was fought, but the result is not yet
announced.
Ater the capture of Plymouth, North
Carolina, the Confederates retreated to a
town near by, called Washington. On No
vember 10th they evacuated Washington,
and occupied a position on the Roanoke
river, just above Plymouth. The Federal
troops at once occupied Washington.
We have a report that a Federal expedi
tion was sent out on the west side of the
Mississllmi, below Natchez. on November
2d, to capture a herd of cattle, which was to
be crossed over and sent to ifood'snrmy.
After a severe battle. about one-third of the
cattle Were captured. The Confederates were
prevented from crossing any over the Mis
sissippi.
On Monday last the Tallahassee safely
ran the blockade into:Wilmington Harbor.
She is now there. .:
General Canby has died at New Orleans.
The Opinione of Ttrin, of November 3rd,
denounces the existeve in several towns in
the centre of the country and onthe coast
o gffiegs for enlisting volunteers for the
United States of America. The recruiting
agenta ere enicl to p•ye caned desertions in
the Italian amity,
Catholic Cathedrals in America.
~" The-progress of Catholicism is invariably
ommected with the erection-of edifices, suf
ficiently durable to outlive a few centuries.
In every clime where ;success crowns the
labor of the missionary,'churches; approx
imating in some degree to the'grand old
temples on the European continent, are
built on sites which are, or promise to be,
the center of a vast populace. The tempor
ary structure, with its-improvised altar, is
soon succeeded by one otsolid granite, and,
when the domain of the church extends suf
ficiently to demand the creation of a new
bishop and an additional diocese, a mithe
drat is erected, where the prelate is special
ly ampointedto officiate. The temple where
a bishop performs the sacred duties of his
office is necessarily independent- of-all oth
ers. In it the holy oils are consecrated;
which are distributed once, a year to the
tributary churches, and it becomes, by vir
tue of its character, the ecclesiastical centre
or a diocese.
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It will be thus seen that any church
where a prelate permanently officiates is
entitled to be called a cathedrial ; but when
ever a bishop finds it pecuniarily practica
ble, he adds to the dignity of hia diocese, by
having an edifice erected which bears some
similarity to the great temples which have
long been the admiration of the world.
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This is one of the oldest in this country.
It ranks as the St. Peter's of America, and
is justly renowned for its architectural
beauty and internal magnificence. All the
resource: of early science and art were
piously expended in its erection. The pre
cious metals were profusely manufactured
into ecclesiastical articles to adorn its sanc
tuary. Like the Vatican church, the rails
around the high altar are of solid silver,
tilegreed. The lamp opposite the sacred
host is of the same material; it is so large
that three men are required to clean or
renovate it on special occasions. The
statues, in baBso relicro, of the blessed
Virgin and the leading Apostles, are of sil
ver, and the ornaments are of pure gold.
( in the statuettes art jewels in great variety,
and numerous devices give the history of
the saints nuts represented.
The thresight of the founders of this
cathedral, in selecting such a remote site for
it, isestabLighed by the 11.'14 Of a century. It
is the centre of the Catholicity of hale this
continent; and its distance from the strong
hold of cromwellian rule is a security
against the cupidity of the Puritan, whose
intolerance might lead him to rob or con
fiscate the gold mid the, jewels thus conse
crated to c toil. The edifice has withstood
. the storms of a century, and it still remains
' the great attraction of Mexico, and One
which alt in I the traveler thousands of
miles to behold its beauty.
This cathedral Nan instance of the power
of zeal, and the munificence of the poor.
Its erection was owing to a remarkable
fact. When the silver mines in the vicinity
were. just, discovered, a la . rge number of
adven . turers were ant rained, and after patient
labor they found their labors profitable.—
Each soon became the possessor of a small
fortune; and, as they were nearly all
Catholics, they resolved to dedicate a por,
tion of their means to the Almighty. A
priest \had followed them to the mines,
whose ministrations resulted in the pre
servation of admirable order among them,
and thus saved them front the many perils
which would otherwise be inseparable from
a comnamity of silver-seekers. They sub
scribed liberally toward the erection of a
cathedral—one million of dollars being
raised for that purpose—and the splendid
( , ditice to which we allude was the result of
Hien . offering. It contains some splendid
and costly paintings of-the Madonna, the
apostles, the stations of the cross, mid the
holy finally, With Various ornaments on
the altar in solid gold and silver. Among
he' congregation iin organization of miners
still intend the services.
Tim CATHEDRAL or NEW YORK.
St. l'atrick•s Cathedral, in New York,
will, when completed, eclipse ;ill others On
this continent ill size, if not in architectural
beauty. It was eounnenced by the late
.Archbishop Hughes, under whose auspices
the foundation stone eras laid on Sunday,
the rah of August, Is5S, before one of the
largest assemblages that has ever been at
tracted to a public event. The number pre
sent has been estimated at sixty thousand,
and the occasion was marked by an eloquent
address from the late Archbishop Hughes,
who spoke on the progress or Catholicity.
This cathedral, which is located on the
corner of Fifth al - cline and Fifty-ninth
street, will have an area of forty-six thous
and live hundred feet. The length is to be
three hundred and thirty feet from buttress
to buttress, and three hundred and one feet
inside the walls. The breadth is to lie one
hundred and twenty-one feet, and its great
est width at the transept one hundred
and forty-tbur. Thu height inside,
from the floor to the crown of the
arched ceiling, will be one hun
dred and ten feet, while the ceiling of each
of the side aisles will lie fifty-four feet from
the church floor. The door of the cathedral
will afford room for more than f o urteen
thousand persons, t welve thousand of whoin
can gather in the main body, all of whom
call see the high altar, and assist at the cele
bration of the mass. Three great portals
will form the entrances in front, atter the
style of the French cathedral ; the central
etitrau,• to he fifty feet high, decorated with
foliated capitals, beautiful columns, and
mouldings. The edifice will lie built of
white marble upon a granite base, having
two splendid towers, in one of which is to
be placed the chimes, and in the other the
grist bell. The following tigufes will give
a faint idea of how this cathedral will com
pare in size with the other great ecticsiast
cal edeticiis of the world.
Cathedra of Milan
Cathedra of Seville, in Spain
catlletiril of Florenee.....
Catliedra Itheinis
Cathedra iq" Notre Dann ,
Catlitidra of York 'Minster__ ......
St. Patrick's Cathedral, New Yuri,
Ctitheilral at Salishury
I Cathedral of Pisa
Cathedral of Strastairi ,
in the occasion of the laying of the corner
stone Archbishop Hughes delivered a brief
lint eloquent sermon from the following
verses :
I - O,N, I lir I,nrrl 1,0111 the house, I hey
I,lbor in aria Merl I,IIIIrI ii.
nil rx., tlrr Lord keep the city, he Ira teheth
in 1,1 . 11 1/,', herpeth cxxvi., vs. 1,v2.
It is understood from it reliable source
that Archbishop McCloskey will continue
the erection of this edifice, which has been
SIIS11011(11,1 clueing the War.
THE CATIIEDRAL OE NEW ‘,I2I,EANN
Is one of the old vestiges of Spanish rule in
Louisiana. Its erection Wass OWing to the
zeal of a munber of priests, and contribu
tions toward the object were reeVived from
every part of the country. l l has been re
cently altered, but the improvements are
said to mar its old beauty and destroy the
tine effect of its primitive architecture.—
Erected at first in the Gothic style, the in
novations are not in character with that
order, and hence the disparity between
them. .The interior is capacious and hand
some ; the altar ornaments are eustly and
magnificent, and the sanctuary is very
spacious.
Was commenced by Archbishop Caroll,who,
like the Ii under of the Catholic Cathedral of
New York, did not live to behold its final
imnpletion. The late ..Velibishop Kendrick
then carried on the work, and it was finish
ed. The body of the temple is very large,
and the sanctuary is capable of iiceommo
dating a great number of clergymen. The
altar is a model of ecclesiastical beauty
and the ‘ithole interior would remind a vis
itor of a cathedral on the continent of Eu
rope. Id this church the ecclesiastical coun
cils of the failed States are held, and the
prig ate, who is the head of the church iu
this portion or the country, officiates here
on ordinary and special
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ill other churches.-
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This is a very beautiful Gothic edifice,
which was built by the disting,nished Irish
arehiteet, Mr. Keeley. It is :justly prized
for its immense size and internal magnifi
cence. All the windows are of handsome
stained glass, :nal on some of them
are reprosentati.ms of the Apostles and the
hissed Virgin. Through the indefatigable
exertions of Bishop Tinon, who traveled
through Europe and America to obtain the
necessary funds to erect the edifice, new
mod costly additions have been made• to it.
Tit E v.:TM:I)IIAL OF ALBAN Y.
The principal building xvhieh meets the
eye of the visitor on approaching the State
capitol is the lofty spire of this great edifice,
in which Bishop McCloskey so long offici
ated, :01d under whose zealous auspices it
was erected. ft is remarkable not only for
its spacious character, but for its beautiful
marble altars, which were imported from
Through the liberality of xrealthy Cath
olics in Boston, song• of the clergy there
have secured a large plot of ground in
Washington street, on which a large (lithe
dral is to he erected.
'The subscriptions for the Rhode Island
General Hospital, to be located at Provi
denve, have reached the Sun' of i 510,5,000.
A restaurant has been opened in London
forfat people, where nothing will be served
up but viands which cheek obesity.
It is fitated that nearly a quarter of a mil
lion copies of two sermons by Spnrgeon,
the famous English preacher, have been
sold.
A chime of bells is about to be raised in
the Episcopal Cathedral at Toronto, at a
cost of $15,000.
Mr. Edwin Forrest; the celebrated tra
gedian, commenced an engagement at the
Academy of Music in Philadelphia yester
day,
Dr. Noeltel, a German physician of Har
risburg, a few days ago removed a tape
worm sixty feet iu length from a lady who
livesin Duncannon, Pa.
In London, England, recently, it was de
cided in court that a marriage of a woman
with a deceased husband's half-brother was
not legal. •
Consicrition of the Great Cathedral in
• Philadelphia—Full Report of the
Ceremonies—The Most Imposing Re
ligio
America ns Display Ever Witnessed In
• .
(Specially reported for the Intelligencer..l •
• Sunday marked an epoch in the Catho
lic Church in Anterica. Never before, since
this nation had a beginning, was there an
occurrence in the histo7 of any religious
dent/initiation of so much import in every
sense'*of the word as was the consecration
of the magnificent cathedral of St. Peter
and' St. Paul in Philadelphia. Eighteen
years have elapsed since, in sublime faith
us regards the future, the first stone of this
beautiful structure was laid. It is modeled
after the Church of St. Carlo Borromeo, in
Rome, one of the most elegant and tasteful
structures in that renowned city. It stands,
finished to-day,' without a peer among the
ecclesiastical structures of the United States.
It is, in is exterior, pronounced to be de
cidedly more beautiful than the structure
from which the MO - del was taken, apd it is
larger. The interior, as at present present
ed to the eye, only gives promise of what it
will be when centuries have enriched it
with all the treasures of art, and the em
bellishments of years of diligent accumula
tion. While it is the largest ecclesiastical
structure in the United States, it is not by
any means the largest in the world. The
same church which has built this magnifi
cent structure from the slow tu;cumulatiou
of small contributions has reared the most
magnificent architectural piles which adorn
the Old World. The grand cathedral of the
world, St. Peter's, in Rome, would allow
the vast structure of which we write, and
justly the pride of this. t SI`VOIId
city of the United States, to be placed in
one corner, under, its grand architecture,
almost without the space which it would
occupy being missed. Vast as it looks, vast
as it really is, it is only one-tifteenth as large
as St. Peter's in Rome, the great cathedral of
the ( ltristian world. This st rueture was lu
pin be Arch Bishop Kenriek, an I risinani ;
it waseontinued and superintended tbr years
by Bishop Newman, a Bohemian ;it has
lief`lll4/111111eted Mittel' the Bish
op, WOOll, tilt Anieriean born. - It coat ono
half a million or dollars. was
ompawrat,,i with all the grand and impos-.
ing ceremonies of the Gatholic el,nrch. A
vast body of I•eeleshist les, numbering 1)1111-
(Im - Is, was present. Thert were three Arch
Bishops and twelve Bishops in the proces
sion. Three of these diguilaries were from
Canada, 111111 twelve frelll the United States.
At an early hour in the day the Transept
of the vast building was crowded by such
as had taken precaution to provide them
selves with tickets for the Oee:lStell. The
arrangements were of the inost complete
and satisfactory character. All who had
procured tickets were sure of such ac,mn
modations as were provided.
At about hair-past 10 A. ).1., the concourse
of clergy, leaving the chapel cat Summer
street, entered Logan Siuare, at the corner
nI Eight, , , , nth 'mil Vine, and proceeding
half-way down tlw square, turned eastward
an,l advanced to the gate opposite the door
of the Cathedral, thence they passed round
the Cathedral, sprinkling the outside walls
with holy water, thus dedicating, it to the
service of Almighty ( toil. After making
the circuit of the church or the exterior,they
entered the building at some fi , w minutes
before I lAI.. and moving up the middle
aisle, made a l'irVoit. ut OW interim of the
building, , tons..crating it by the sprinkling .
of holy water on the walls, and by reciting
psalms :111,1 chaunting the litany. At the
cdnclusion of I his, th,. Pontifi c al Mass was
celebrated, with 1 fishop Wood :is celebrant,
assisted by I he Very lbw. Dr. t r 1 1 arra, Vicar
General. Assistant Priest; James
D'lteiler and .John Elcock, Deacons of
honor; Very lbw. .1 antes irt'onner, Dea
con of the ; Itcy. 1. F. Shannaluin,
Sub-Deacon, Hey.
Master of Ceremonies.
During the celebration of lass the vast
edifice was crowded, the pews in the tran
sept having been all occupied from an early
hour in the morning, and the large space
on either side being filled by a multitude
who occupied every show of standing room
in the immense structure. Thousands out
side were unable to obtain tohnittance, and
the concourse of people was literally . im
mense.
TLc sermon on the occasion was preach
ed by the Most Reverend Arch Bishop
Spaulding, of Balti more. Ills text was
taken from the sth chapter of the Epistle of
St. Paul to the Ephesians, from the '2:2d to
the 2ith verses, inclusive. The analogy was
dwelt upon in a most masterly and eloquent
manner. Ile is one of the most impreslive
and pleasing speakers in the country. To
appearance In is oim of the 'oust elegant
and venerable men we have ill
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the pulpit.
At the conclusion of the sermon, Pontifi
cal Iligh Mass was celebrated he Bishop
AVood, of Philadelphia.
The procession utthe eN•,- . .,; . • Lhrut t o, the
building attracted every eye, and we have
never seen, in the sane number of wen, so
many faces which indicate high intellectual
development, and marked intellectual char
acteristics. Many were ath i nt iced in years.
Among others wit, not iced partictilarl3 - the
venerable form or our esteemed friend,
Father Keenan, of our city. Ile is said to
be the oldest elergyntan of the Diocese, but
is still active, and we hope he uuty have
many years of useful life still lengthened
nut to hint.
A prominent feature inside ,•1,111,11
was the asseuabinee ~r
embracing the representative. of twelve
religious orders in the Diocese, including
Nuns of the Sacred Licari, Sisters of Merc)-,
and Sisters of I V.
The villa- tool orchestra was one of the
finest'. we over heard. The instrumental
music was superior, there being, among
other things, a temporary organ fitted up
for the Omisioll. I I ayden's \lass Was
given with every possible effect.
Owing to the admirable system adopted,
there was not the slightest confusion in any
part of the proceedings. The crowd was
ac6ommOdated Without difficulty. 'Through
out the vast assemblage, from the beginning
of the ceremonies to the end, an air of re
verence and deep solemnity pervaded., which
was most impressive. As we looked around
and saw the thousands there assembled en
gaged in reverential worship, we could not
help but feel the impressiveness of this
really grand occasion. So ended one of the
most marked Sabbaths Pttiladelphin has
o.\-N. seen.
A Harrowing Sight
Last evening, just before dark, one of
the most pitiful scenes ever presented
to our notice passed up the Avenue. It
was a procession of some twenty of the
most fearful looking men we ever saw,
guarded by a number of cavalrymen,
armed with carbines .and revolvers.—
These men were chained to each other
by the ankles,
in threes . and fours.—
They were all dressed,. in a measure,
like the pocpiest of Confeaerate prisoners
brought- here. Some of them were hat
less and coatless, and all them filthy in
the extreme. As they passed up the
Avenue, at a slow gait, their chains
clanked on the pavement, giving us an
idea of the chain-gang in France going
to the galleys, in the days of Vidocq.
These men were sent here from Ken
tucky, under a guard of thirty-five
Kentucky mounted infantry. They
made several ineffectual eflbrts to es
cape during the passage. - When near
New Creek, six of the worst of them
sprang frdm the ears, and one is known
to have been killed. Pursuit was made
for the other five.
Many of our citizens mistake these
men for Confederote prisoners, as they
were mostly dressed in grey. They are
Federal deserters and bounty jumpers,
who deserted to the Confederates in
Western Virginia and Eastern Ken
kentuey, and again deserted froM the
Confederates, and banded themselves to
gether for plunder and murder. They
were exposed by six' escaped Federals,
when near Lexington, Ky. We never
saw such a graceless looking set of
scamps in our life. They really did not
look human. The way of the trans
gressor is hard, and some of these men
will find this so before many moons.—
Washington Uniwi, Nor. 17th.
llEr The Democracy of Wisconsin
have made a gain of 14,000 votes over
last year. The majority for Lincoln on
the home vote is small. Michigan and
Wisconsin have done better than any
other Western States.
An order has recently been iSsued from
the headquarters of the 'Army of the Poto
mac prohibiting entirely all communication
with the efiemy, either by words or tdgns.
Items of News.
Lord Lyons, the British Minister at
Washington, is now said to be not danger
ously ill. His disease is neuralgia of the
head. .
The California steamer Golden Rule ar
rived at New York on Sunday with $ 32 , 000
in treasure, and 800 passengers.
There is said to be quite a scarcity of coal
in Pittsburg, in consequence of a strike of
the miners.
Three hundred millions of dollars have
been paid to soldiers for bounties, so far,
during the war 7
Manager Jarrett's combination company
are giving entertainments at Portland, Me.,
this week.
The vote, of St. Louis at the recent elec
tion stood—McClellan 6,5,82, Lincoln 8,864,
being a majority for Lincoln of 2,082.
John Leech, tho well-known artist and
illustrator of the London Punch, is dead.
Dr. Samuel Houston, one of the oldest
physicians of Washington city, ditd last
week.
The real and personal taxable property
in San Francisco amounts to abciut eighty
two luilliun. , on which the tax is $3 9S per
$lOO.
Lieutenant Commander Bunco, of the
I qctator, has been detached from that ves
sel and ordered to take charge of the pieket
boat fleet.
Commodore Joseph 11 - all, was assigned
comnhonl of the Philadelphia navy-yard on
the loth instant.
Hobert Furies, chief engineer of the Phil
adelphia and Erie railroad. died on Satur
da y.
I.ast politicalconundrum: How did Gen.
7ArcCiellan receive the lIVIVS of his defeat?
With resignation.
The corner-stone of the new Deaf and
Dumb Asylum in Columbus, t thin, waylaid
on the Mst ult.
The citizens of Lowell, Mass., Ic pur
clutsed a sword for (ten. Butler, at n eo , t of
SOV1•11 111111(111,1 ,1,1111 u..
The handsiitne ,11111 i 4. 1 .2,000 has lieen
raised for the NVidOW and orphan] children
of the lnior itineral
The Paella or E g ypt has about two hint
drrc•d stallions and 1)1.0.0 mitre , : in Lim st
hle.
The hittlget .1' tile city Nlosisiw for the
yeau•, estimated at 2270,42.9 rubles,
presentl4 a deficit of 33-4,5-13 rubles, which is
to be supplied frian a reserved fund.
l'he number 01 hounty-Baited Canadians
in the federal .eerciee is estimated at 311,000.
Pnisio lent Lincoln is lir:yxu•ing
nu•ss:~gi
The telegraph cable is forming in Eng
land at the rate of eighty miles a week.
The Freshman class of Darmouth College
numbers but twenty-nine students.
The liersarge is on exhibition at Boston.
Twenty-live cents a hold; proceeds go to
" Poor Jack...
If there were no women in the worldmen
couldn't inanage to make a shift, and there
would he no use for one if it were made.
"They have had a little yellow fever in
NOW ( hivaits, - says one exchange. "Sena
Boiler there, - says another. Why'?
An Englishwoman's piiiispect for getting
a husband is :It its highest point when she
reaeltes her twentieth year.
the savior of the Red river
il(q, is to he presonto , l with a spendid sword
by Admiral Porter and his subordinate of-
The Louisiana "State convention used
of liquors and segar, In the value of 89,241.
'three Cc~
or snow on the middle range
of the While
The new opera house at I 'hieago is to seat
two thousand live hundred people.
Immaterial bonnets are thestyle in Paris.
I lair is to he worn high in front.
Ill•W Oil exeitennent has broken nut in
Veining, roun d , Pennsylvania.
While it is true that Andrew Johnson an
nounces himself as Moses, it is not true
that he is about to go into the "old do"
business. Ile gave up all things connected
with tailoring when he became a " distin
guished " citizen.
"Lour John 'Wentworth, - us he is popu
larly styled in Chicago, has been returned
to Congress, on the Republican ticket, by a
majority of twenty-tive hundred over Mc-
Cormick, the reaping machine man.
Jahn A. Nicholson, Democrat, is elected
to Congress front Delaware, over Mr. Smith
era, Union, and the present member, by a
majority of
Tiw Le g islature of Vermont has passed
a law against vagrants, under whii•h sus
picious persons, who are prowling around
with :in evil intent, may be arrested.
The wife of the laureate Tennyson Ims
produced a song ealled Alma River,” the
words and mushe being both of her own
,701111,1) , ing
one estate in the southwest of England,
of forty thousand :tents, contains iron stone
enough. if mnverted into iron and sold at
the present prices, to more than pay oil the
British national debt.
Scientific oxplorations in Southern Ohio
indicate that the yogi oil region extends
through that State into Southern Indiana,
forming a district of whichttinciniutti is the
geological .1i( re.
There are now three female A rnyriean
.sculptors, iO-Wit : Miss I fusilier, Miss
:-:lephens, and a Mrs. Freeman (now in It
aly,' just becoming known to fame.
On the night before the election the office
of the Palmyra (Ill.).Speetator, a Democratic
paper, teas molded by militia and drunken
loyal leagnrers from the neighboring town
of Hannibal, who threw all the type and
presses into the street. and smashed things
generally.
An engineer officer says that Sheridan's
command lies captured in the valley one
mile coil thirty-two yards of artillery—
averaging about two pieces a day since the
canipaign commeneed—about as fast as the
enemy can make them.
On last Saturday three rebel spies or em
missaries, were captured on a train on the
Cum herlan,l Valley Railroad, between
Oakville, and Carlisle. They got on thetrain
at Oakville, and were promptly arrested by
an officer, on suspicion. After proceeding
SOllll. iliaanee , 1111 e of the number junyx•d
from the cars. when tinder lull speed, but
was re-captu cal and with his Comrades was
lodgted in prison. c tne of the men confessed
they were spies.
The Loildon ,s'at urday Review says that
Prince Napoleon is actively employed in
superintending, the labors of a staff of edi
tors engaged opal a complete collection of
the letters and despatches of the first Em
peror. Agents are said to have been sent
to England, Italy, Germany, Spain, Russia,
and even to America, for the purpose of
collecting those writings which have passed
into the cabinets of authograph collectors.
NIORPTIV, says the New York Afer-
Cllly. is now in New Orleans, lie having
ret 'mall to his home to savi his property.
Ile was obliged to take the oath of allegiance
to do it—a rather hard pill to swallow.. lie
is an aristocrat of the first water, and, like
all such, fully sympathizers with the rebels .
lie does not play now except in private.
In Paris he was several times defeated by
players whom he can give odds to when in
practice.
The Portland A rgu.r:notes it as surprising:
" I low quietly and quickly all the Rebel
raiders on Northern cities have disappeared
since election. Even ate Canadian propel
ler (4eorgian, which was going to pounce
on Buthtlo and other lake cities, turns out
to be only a harmless propeller. general
llooker has boarded her and found nothing
to excite the slightest suspicion. All the
alarms just before election, have thus ended
in smoke."'
The Manchester Guardian says:--"A
few weeks ago we noticed the departure
from Liverpool of a steamer ealled the
Laurel, with about one hundred men on
board, many of whom had served with
Captain Semmes. It was also hinted that
Captain Semmes was himself on board.
This news is confirmed by a despatch re
ceived in Liverpool from Maderia to the
effect that the Laurel had been lying in
Fumtal Bay previous to the 17th, and early
On the morning of that day she steamed out
to sea and met a large crew steamer (under
stood to be the new Alabama), on board of
Which were transferred the crew of the
Laurel and cargo, consisting of mina, am
munition, 4tc. The screw steamer then made
for the direction of Bermuda,"
Item of News./
• .
The Daily . Terre Haute Democrat, an Ad
ministration paper, has been discontinued
for want of patronage.
The Swedish journals are all clamoring
for the abolition of capital punishment in
that country. It grew out of a recent exe
cution at Stockholm.
A Boaton firm has just put into operation
at FisheA - ille, New Hampshire, a factory
which transforms poplar wood into "ex
celsior " for filling mattrasses at the rate of
two tons per day.
New Yorkers are much pleased with an
actress just arrived there from London.
She made her debut at Mr. Wood's•theatre,
dressed as a man, disclosing limbs of such
marvellous symmetry that her success was
inunediate. In the character she smokisi
and swore to perfection.
In crossing a pond in Yarmouth for the
extension of the Cape Cod railroad, a dis
couraging depth of mud is found, estimated
at thirty-five feet, which rises to the surface
under the pressure of the gravel carted in,
and which heroines a rich fertilizer.
The . itermannlL - Alatl, a radical
German paper, in speaking of the rebel
raid in that state, says: "Hebei officers,
whilst in our city of Hermann, advised our
citizens to vote tier Lincoln. They said
• Linvoth is the right man,' and vhot.rvd for
both I.involn and Jett
La Digland the Bible is now supplied for
twelve rents, the New 'restatillent for four
vents, and the gospel for two eents earn,
'rho- ,hip Itoean Pear . l, Roston , front
New York for Lisbon, arrived at 'rarrazona
on Oviober 27th. 11,r pilot toH•hored List,
but hot she could eel
inside 1110 mole a furious laic llllllO 611,
which drovo the ship ashore and slit
11. It , tlll wreck. All hands wore saved.
Pitlllllll, \Nil,. 1111 S. 1.4 , 11 11' fert
years a .Itudlze of the Vitited States District
('curt for the District er ilade
I,la nil, \V : L .,
found dead in hod on
last Thursday morn
ing. Ih. \I'll,: 011 the lualetloll Alollthly, hull
ill a very feeble cuudit iOll. Ih• era. ci..2111
FIESEME
A lirt• at l'awlitt•kol tool: ',lave tat the
17th, tle.troyittg the l'ongregational I Aland)
and ollaq. properly. The loss anatantell
.s.4n,nan. Tile 11111111 i and itS I Irp:1111 i I -
S11r0(1 to 111,111111/lint SIS,IIOII.
titivernor Stiyinour hasappointed the 24th
dny N"vet t kbor its a day of thanksgiving.
Nicolay, th 4, l'resident's private Sec
retary, is lying quite ill at th,
in St. !Antis
The recent order requiring the enrolment
or all the able-laillied persons in New
Orlealis between the ages or eighteen and
'irty-rive is having the benetii•ial etliiet or
driving out n class of idlers that have
thronged this city sine its oeenpution by
the United States troops.
'rho sloop-of-war \Vamp:immix, which has
been in process of construction for a year
past at tho Brooklyn yanl, will be
about the 1, - ith of next itionth.
I iora4, Ileffrk.n, late I)(puty irfillli 0.111-
11111.11d,r .)I tho Mu. I
(liseluu-p•ti from arrpst.
A friend gives us the information that
(.'en. I.ew Wallace arrested a druggist. in
Baltimore, the other day, for advertising, a
certain kind of • quack medicine \Odell he
recommended as being, "good Ilir the ( 'oa
st/tutu/ie..'
The lionlauc doctors tleekb,l that a wo
man of that place - diet from the effects of
the perfume of a basket of quinces
hall been placed in her led-room while she
slept. This was a novel ease of ilitiney.
Green, the Malden murderer, , ays he in
tended to do nothing but frighten the elorl:
when he sent of bullet Ilse ugh his head. Ile
was merely playing the three .ds" Nilliitg le
Murder."
'f'he emigrants lailMsl at NO \N Y 1,14: from
Europe, la,t,week numbered :10e7, makin e ;
171,163 slime the Ist of.lanoary. 'Phu num
ber to the ',III), ' Of as
140,70111.
'Phe conviction of Fanzller. has given
rise to a great amount of post fm•to argu
ment, which was likely to involve so intich
of mystery that the London jou nulls e x press
almost zt Wish for the spee,ly exci•ul ion or
the criminal.
Forty rebel prisoners escaped from I 'anip
Morton, near Indianapolis, by scaling the
fence, on Monday last. Ten others, who
succeeded in getting out the ,qielosure, Were
re-arrested before they got fa n •.
Smith asked Jones what the very high
price of meat wits owing to. " A consider
:ll,lo part is owing to in}' buther," said
Joucs; " for it is two inontlis sine, I litivo
1).1 . (1
I\liss Mary I.ee, an A merle:in lady, has
boon Inn rrivil hi Paris too Prince or:Sallies
wig-Holstein, out able diplomatist, and tie
oomplisheil gentleman.
Three Russians officers have lately been
degraded fer having engaged in a duel, and
one of thew, who gave the provocation, has
been deprived of his title of
Ono of Ihe city fathers of Pittsburg-,
WIN robbed i(45,001) in New York, on
Wechisnlay night, while int'onipany with
a couple of a tbandonvd wretchel. The
guilty party an , under arrest.
wife in Minnesota eitiNted with her
husband in Idol, fought with hint eighteen
battles, was wanuided thri c e, and Itas now
left the service, :is her husband hits been
The Wainpanoag is a sister ship of 0),-
M:dm, recently launched by Mr. t;eorge
titeertt, and is built with a view to great
speed. Her length on deck is thriio hun
dred and twenty-five feet over all. ilex
engines are to be of the most powerful
character, and he• constructor, Mr. Delano,
expects her ttiattain a speed of sixteen
miles an hour. She will carry eight guns
of long range mid heavy calibre,' and will
doubtless prove, a most formidable and
efficient cruiser.
A counterfeit fifty dollar Treasury Note
was offered at a store in Philadelphia on
Friday, and the Mall offering it was arrest
ed and locked up for a further hearing. 'Fla
note is a good imitation of the genuine hill
though of rather lighter color.
11(r. Wm. Stockholm, of Franklin town
ship, Susquehanna county, Luis this fall kill
ed a hog, two years old last May,t he dressed
weight Of which was sla pounds. BilldWitt
tt - Allen, of Montrose, purchased the porker
at I cents a pound—or i. 575
A.Clerleal Blasphemer
Rev. Mr. Towne, of .Milwaukie, in a
sermon preached just before the election
uttered the following blasphemous lan
guage:
"The election of Tuesday involves
issues which an angel Height tremble to
think of. The interests suspended upon
the stake move ra rtli, and Hdl, and
Heaven. The armies of the Union, and
her navies, are waiting to hear from it.
The dark marshaled hosts of treason are
waiting to hear from it. The friends
and the foes of Liberty on the other side
of the Atlantic, and in every part of the
civilized globe, are waiting to hear from
it. God, on his eternal throne, is wait
ing to hear from it, that He may .o
whether as a nation we will forsake flee
sin and keep Him, or keep flee sin and
be forsaken of Him."
"God, on His eternal throne': waiting
to hear whether. Abraham Lincoln had
re-elected himself! whether, in fact,
fraud, violence, corruption, tyranny and
bayonets had triumphed over a free peo
ple ! The Bridgeport Standard truly
says that Towne could have gone but
one step further in his blasphemous
picture, and imagined the pearly gates
of Heaven swinging open to the shout
and cry of sonic , ragged newsboy of an
" Extra Tribune," while the angels
searched their pockets for postal curren
cy to purchase the glad tidings of Father
Abraham's success !
The Portland Argus remarks :
"As the clergy are said to be repre
sented in these holy conclaves, (the loyal
leagues,) we hope it will not be intrud
ing 'to suggest that they congratulate
themselves in view of the rapid strides
which the gospel is making in the army.
The wonderful aggressions that have
lately been made.upon the ranks of in
fidelity, the warm devotion and religous
zeal now manifested in the churches,
the beautiful state of harmony • and
brotherhood existing in our parishes,
and especially the remarkable successes
oftheprinciples and spirits of the Prince
of Peace.' " • • '