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"Viie printing-tresses BhaU -lie . free to- every
=it n ignrl-the d --le=are, e or:any •eb the.
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government end- eeer be made
to restrain the right thereof. The free i3OMMU
nication of thought and opinions is one' of the
Invaluable ri,ghth of men, and every citizen
may freely-speak, write and print on any sub
ject; being responsible for the abuse of that
liberty. --In 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 gWen evi
dence." —Omit-UW{on of Penneiivania. '
• THE REPTTBLICAtiS OF LAZWASTftiR.
knoWhoW fast their leaders are
`drifting 'towards social and political
.eiluality with the negro; we adYise them
-to readJoHN W. FoRNEY's letter to the
'''Press of Saturday last. We are unable
to make room for the entire letter,-but
the folloWing extracts from it fairly re
,.present its spirit:
WAsurxoroN, ov. 1861
We had a very remarkable Thantrviv
, itig here yesterchty. The soldiers in camp
and hospital were visited by the loyal peo
ple, prayed for, and feasted without end.—
Our churches were filled; our stores were
closed. It was a univarsal holiday. T went
to hear Mr, Frederick Douglass, the much
abused colored orator, at the Israel Bethel
Church, and I thought I had well celebrat
ed my Thanksgiving by the investment.—
Never having heard him before, it was
worth something to hear him now. His
audience was composed of persons of both,
indeed of several, colors. Now, I think it
would be difficult to - find anywhere a more
intelligent and appreciative assemblage of
people. The women were well dressed—
the men well behaved. Those of his rare
were evidently proud of Douglass,and they
had a good right teke so.
I can remember
,ell how common itwas
in the old times, when to be a Democrat
was to be opposed. to Abolitionism, that
denunciation and ridicule of Fred Douglass
was a potent and favorite pastime among
my former political associates. The mo
ment, latinevr, that slavery took up arms
against the ttovernment, the history of
Fred Douglass became intensely interest
ing, and he himself began to reap the har
vest of the seeds he had sown so industri
ously among so many perils.
He is, of course, intensely exercised on
the subject ofslavery ; but it was very sug
gestive to hear him address his own race,
to advise them to obey the laws, to fight for
their country, to avoid all public disturb
ances, to present a neat and clean appear
ance, and to remember and to guard against
the prejudices that existed against them.
But T have neither tines nor space to con
tinue a description of this Very interesting
evening, and only speak of it now to make
another chapter in the volume of these most
„exciting times.
Does it not sound like a studied in
sult to the people of Philadelphia to
write to them that " it would lie difficult
to find anywhere a more intelligent as
semblage of people" ;ban the negroes,
mulattoes and eel-back whites who
gathered together i n that African church
not to give thanks to (;oil, but to do
honor to FuEnEttICK DouG LASS and
ABRAHAM LiNcoLN ? liy what magic
power have the colored waiters, boot
blacks, coachmen, nurses and cooks of
the District of Columbia, most of whom
were slaves but a short time ago, been
transformed into ladies and gentlemen
as intelligent and as elegant in their
manners as the highly educated and re
fined white people of Philadelphia or
Lancaster? Why is such absurd lauda
tion as this bestowed 1111011 an assem
blage of " all colors'' which met to vio
late the purpose for which "Th ks
giviug Day" was appointed:' There
can be but one rational explanation of
it. It is the fixed purpose of the lie
publican leaders to put the negroes on
a perfect equality with the whites. The
masses_of the Republican party are not
yet prepared for this. By artful impo
sition, their sympathies have been
awakened in behalf of the negro, but
they have not yet come to regard hint
as - their equal. They have still to he
educated up to this point, and this work
has been set apart for such newspaper
pensioners on the bounty of the Ad
ministration as are mean enough to un
dertake it. These hired missionaries of
Abolitionism seem inclined to do their
work thoroughly. They attend negro
churches, and sit down on the same
benches with the sable sons and daugh
ters of Africa, and thus set an extunple
whielt they hope eventually to see fol
lowed by all except the stiff-necked and
rebellious " Copperheads," who obsti
nately adhere to their own color.
The rank and file of the Republican
party have only to keep on followinL ,
such leaders as STEN - rx , , Sum NER and
FORNEY about five years longer, if they
wish to see their children seated on the
same bench with little negroes at school,
their wives crowded out of their seats
at public assemblages by " intelligent
and appreciative" wenches, and them
selves set in ebony Ironies in the jury
box, while an African J udge dispenses
justice front the Bench ! It is to pre
pare the public mind for such a radical
social and political revolution that let
ters like this of OccasionaC.s are being
written to the leading Republican jour
nals of the country. If the Republican
party lives four years longer, the next
Presidential election will be fought on
the square issue of Negro Equality.
It nuts/ have been " very suggestive"
to hear Farm Dot. - GLAss "advise his
own rade to obey the laws and fight for
their country." The question must
have suggested itself to Mr. FonNEy's
acute mind, "how comes it, FRED, that '
you never gave this advice to your own
race till LiNcoLN kicked the Constitu
tion out from under his feet? Sine°
you have so much reverence for the
laws and are so much inclined to fight
for your ciountry, why did you conspire
with old ffonx linowx to put pikes in
the hands of your own race, which you
hoped they would use to overturn the
government of the country- you now
exhort your race to fight for?" oceas
ional knows as well as anybody, that
FRED DOUGLASS was one of the gam ,
of Abolitionists who conspired with
BROWN to upset the Constitutional
GovernMent of the United States five
years ago; and yet he does not hesitate
to praise this negro traitor, and to affirm
that "thanksgiving day" waswell spent
by those who went to hear him.
2 70 - To-day the ( lovernment of the United
States stand more stable during war than
any European Government during peace.
Mr. Lincoln's Adaimsiration ewe do ,Iny
thingit wishes—provided, of course, it wisbos
to do right.—Jadopeadeat.
Yes, Mr. Lincoln's Administration
could-send Massachusetts soldiers to
Indiana to vote ; it could send a Massa
chusetts General to New York city to
menace the freedom of the elective
franchise; but when a Massachusetts
Governor informed the Secretary of
War, in reply to a call for troops at a
critical period, that that State would
not perform her obligations to, the Union
:unless Lincoln would firstconsent to do
what he had said in his Inaugurad Ad
dress he had neither the right nor the
inclination to do, Mr. Lincoln's Ad
ministration did not dare to send troops
to Massachusetts to overawe the rebel
lious Abolitionists. " The Administra
tion can do anything it wishes, provided
it wishes to do right ;" and provided,
further, it allows Beecher and the Inde
pendent to decide what is right.
Attempt to Burn New York
We copy from the World of Saturday
a detailed account of the diabolical at
tempt riuulis on Friday night to set fire
to the City of New York.. Whether the
attempt was angle by a gang of thieves
jaw ) it on pi under, or by desperate rebels
seeking to tivetig,e execu
tum of G RANT ' fiorthms In relation to the
:valksy of Virginia, or by a new JOTIN
Bnowar gang of Abolitionists in revenge
for
. .,New York city's unwavering devo
tion to Democratic principles ! is a. rays
tery which Luny or tuoy not . be cleared
.up hereafter,
The Ditty of the reple to tho,frem The Good Time Coming. e
Througho'utite impoettei campaign e very"
The Republicans now have 'every , "
which huAos •, ; the m '0 Preas ,j ' . g-in their own hands, and Abraham= , :
A•
of the St a . - - wr - and .il' ! ' „et* IpanagOtee - war, as* dit*L
fearlessly, rel : upon
_e po ' of 4 he eetion, 4:tin - 1110 ow* wrayi! Wi.
truth, and be ing• tlintright .ust,„.: avbeen toll all along at 'ant time
hAM - • nd,,thWvq• , •o f. Ain* the POTOsixMontliS," that;:y Mr'.;: .
the DemOliht i, arty spied . - `rlei4t)t:i ' Lifitiln were re-elected-'"thet'il-iorld
to the reason and the good sense of the effect" of 'his endorsement by the
masses. They boldly exposed the cor- Northern people, world cause the rebels
ruption, the imbecility, and the fanati- to throw down their arms in despair,
cism of the men - now-in power: 'Thous- and make all haste to get back into the
andswere cooTincedlVid - refused to ac- Union. The election ofLineolu would
kno`Wledge -- it; 'and - 'infinitudes voted be better than half a'dozen or more good
- figiiiiiiirWlitittlibt%lettitol*i*htfrOm' 'sized'-victories in , the--field, better even
selfish motives alone. '.The'great,Dem- than the capture ofßichmond, and that
oeratic patttwas-defentedlita , eoinbi- it would end the War and restore the
nation of agendes - ,. many Of them of a Union in a single day. Well, Lincoln
questionable, and not a fesiof them of is re-elected, and now we are looking to
an unlawful, Oliaracter.2 We are con- see what the " erring sisters " will do.
fidentlOWeyer; that this.day it numbers We suppose our brave soldier boys will
in its rankS a majOrjty of the more all come marching home, about the
'honest and intelligent -men of the na- middle of next month and gladden thi
tion ; that both in ; Purity of political hearts of their friends. The provost
purposes and in. intelligence it tanks marshals will kick the draft machinery
above-the dominant party, and that to- " higher than a kite," the doors of the
day a majority of the More thoughtful military and political prisons will be
- and patriotic citizens of the loyal States thrown open, and the pale and emaci
are convinced that Mr. Lincoln's policy ated victims of past oppression will
is not the right one. grow strong and rosy with health under
The masses of the Democratic party the free air of heaven. Government
have had a thorough political education. contractors, having no further opportu-
The Democratic press has so fully can- nity of stealing, will mope for a time,
vassed the great principles upon which but will gradually settle' down into
our government is founded, and so freely honest citizens again, earning their
animadverted upon the unwise and inju- livelihood in an honest way. The
dicious policy of the party now in power, almost forgotten chink of gold and sil
that to-day the masses well understand ver coin will he heard again in our
the true position of the two parties. stores and in our streets, and every baby
Themany thousands whostand opposed will have a string of twenty dollar gold
to Mr. Lincoln and his administration, pieces to :ionise itself with. .We'll all
do so from honest convictions of reason. be happy and all he rich.
They know what they believe arc well These things wore, to follow the re
established in their political creed, and. election of Lincoln. Lincoln is re
and are abundantly able to given reason elected. Now bring on your good times.
for the faith that is in theM. -............
In accomplishing this great work of
educating the Democratic masses, the
Democratic press has done its work
wisely and done it well. But its labors
are not ended, and there can be no ces
sation to the noble toil in which it is
engaged. While the end of a most ex
cited contest will allow a latge space in
Democratic newspapers for news, busi
ness and literature, there will still be
abundant room and continuing necessity
for a proper discussion of every new
phase which may be presented by our
political aflitirs. There will still be the
same need of vigilance, of boldness,
and of freedom of expression. We have
no fear from what we know of the
Democratic editors of this State but
that they - will he found equal to any
occasion which the exigencies of the
times may present.
But they joust be liberally sustained
by the people. In many counties of
this Mate it will be a hard matter for
the proprietors of Democratic newspa
pers properly to sustain themselves in
the pressure that is now brought to bear
upon them. The vast expansion of our
paper currency and its great deprecia-
tion has sent up the price of every arti
cle in use by printers to most unheard
of prices. There is therefore great need
of lilrerality on the part of every Demo
crat in the state. There is no one art
cle of greater import anee„ or of more
prime necessity in 0 family in these
days than a well eondueted newspaper
No household should he without one
If there are children itt it it will be
worth more to each one of them than
half a year's sehooling. Tltey will read
it with an avidity with which they will
read nothing else. From it they will
gather a varied store of information not
to be got elsewhere. The first duty of
every Democrat in this State in this re-
spect is to 4111),cribe awl sustain hy
means in his power his own count.)
paper. If he can afford to take only
one newspaper, that should be the paper
published in his own county. Tt gives
him all the news, both general and
local, and is in all respects just what he
and his family need. Some sacrifices
should be made willingly by any fiunily
in order that they may have a good
newspaper in the house. It is a neces-
city in these days. The time when it
could he regarded as a luxury has gone
by. There is abundant means, and we
hope abundant liberality, in the Dein-
ocratie party of this State to make
every Democratic newspaper in it self
sustaining. To do this is the bounden
duty of those who desire to see the
eventual triumph of the great political
principles in, which they have been
taught to believe. They should be
made to recognize this duty clearly, and
we hope our eotemporaries in the rural
districts will speak plainly to their
people on this subject.
More Extermination
A violent little Abolition newspaper
in Philadelphia known as the Daily
New 6, re-echoes the speech of General
Butler in New York. All the curs take
up the howl of the leader of the pack.
The Xi ms says:
" If the Smith will not come back by the
end of the year, stop the payment of boun
ties, stop calling for levies of men, stay the
efforts of town committees and local au
thorities to till the armies, and call upon the
young urn of the North to end thr 1,1,-. Say
to them to gather from the East and the
West, and, marching Southward, extermi
nate the traitors from a land that hence
forth will be given to the sturdy, fearless
men who t , aupose the army of freedom.
Let the South know that they have but two
alternatives—submission or extermination;
and if they choose to be blotted out front
the face or the earth, their blood rests upon
their own hands.''
That's just the idea; "call out the
young men of the North," and let - it be
done by proclamation, speedily. Thous
ands of those who voted for Old Abe
and the war are itching for the chance.
Let the word go out ." to whom it may
concern " and the secret lodges of the
loyal leaguers will send out such a host
as will frighten even Beelzebub. Oree
ley's nine hundred thousand will never
be heard tell of again, if this is done.
And why not let the editor of the Sec's
be commander?
•• To Whom it May Concern."
From the New York Tribune, Nov. 10.1
Give us but the Union with miiversal free
dom, and we will do whatever we can to se-
Cure the tie liberal—nay, even generous
—terms to the insurgents on every other
point. _bid if the Detaheratie part!, of the
free States milt (to their utmost tv snare an
early pe ice ,o 1 them' tertn,c and we are sure
they may, if they will, not only make furthor
bloodshed 071 the part of the eonfederal es
madness, but convince thelll Oita it k
ire ate prepared to glen them a quit clitim Is
the posse., (0 a of the govern/neat for the 1 irea
hl
!/cites fullowitly the eloxe
Neeend term.
There nowyou "copperheads," "sym
apthizers," "secessionist," you who have
been threatened with execution at the
lamp-posts—Who have been preqrib
ed, insulted, vilified and abused by
"loyal leaguers," walk up and take
position in line. Don't hesitate when
you see the sinners penitent upon their
knees, begging you fur aid. Lincoln
says ) now, that you are not disloyal ;
Forney barks it too ; come, gentle
men, they have got the elephant,
and if you will only bolt him,
nigger and all, Greeley promises you, "a
quit claim to the possession of the gov
ernment for the twenty years following."
Only- think of the bounty. Don't you
see it Hurry up, before they wear big
holes in the knees of their Shoddies.
An Appropriate &Ift.
Judge Kelly, and other citizens of
Philadelphia, have presented a medal
to President Lincoln. The medallion
has the bust of Washington on one side,
and that of Lincoln on the other.
The peculiar felicity of this, design is
apparent to the Most obtuse. Washing
ton was .a patriot and a hero, and Lin
coln is unquestionably the reverse. n
seettia-stnnewhatsuperfluous; hnwever,
to strike a medal to perpetuate the
knowledge of•a fact so indisputable.
4 Picture of Results, Accomplished by
A. Lincoln.
The Radicals who rule are merciless
in their demands for victims. The possr
man's home is no longer the castle
which his fathers labored to make it.
It is the stall in the droveyard of con
seription, where he awaits the knife of
the military butcher. Ilia limbs are not
his own. His life is a plaything for the
powers that heat Washington. 11 is sweat
is taxed so grievously to fatten official
plunderers and their pets, that it will
hardlyget bread for his children, and
his assessment for the emancipation of
the negro must Ise paid in his heart's
blood. Two millions if men, whom it
is small praise to Say that (Sod made
equal to Abraham Lincoln, with as
much right :is he or any of his kind, to
the enjoyment of life, of home, of
liberty, Of sweet domestic ties, and the
just rewards of honest labor, have
already been sacrificed to the prosecu-
tion of his sche nes of abolition. Alulti
tudes, who four years ago were breath
ing the vigorous breath of youth, as
hopeful as we, and with as good a right
to hope for useful lives and long ones,
are now lucre heaps of dead men's
bones, bleaching all over the plains of
the South, or scantily hid with a cover-
ing of tranipled and bloody earth. The
skill, the capital, and the industry of
the nation have been diverted from the
fields of peaceful toil, and useful enter-
prise, to the invention and manufacture
of the tools with whii•li men kill each
other—the forging of bayonets, the
moulding . of goes, the stuffing of shells
with new and infernal compounds, and
like contrivances to facilitate the handi
work of death. Labor-savingmachinery
is devised hy which une man Can do the
work of ten, in tilling graves. And
still the war goes on, the blood flows,
the People an , hegs4ared, the currency
)vaxes hourly more ragged, the orphan
asylums fill up, and wings are built for
the little unfortunates, who multiply
faster than men can lay bricks, the
capital of the country is absorbed by a
new-made aristocracy or shoddy—ne
groes, kidnapped from the South, crowd
out of employment the white laborers
who are not slaughtered to emancipate
those they have left behind—and the
restoration of the ("Mon, promised as
the reward for all these woes and calami
ties, is farther off than it was when
Abraham - Lincoln took his seat.
Returning Prisoners.
Just now the newspapers are full of
details of the wretehed condition of our
prisoners, who are being brought home
from the horrible confinement in which
many of them have suffered unlicard of
miseries in the wretched placesofimpris
onment allotted to them in the South ;
and some Abolition journals are at
length urging that they shall all lie
brought by exchanging, an equal
number of those we hold. This ought
to have been done long ago. 'Nothing
has stood in the way of its accomplish
ment, except the fact that a quarrel
was got up about the military status of
our negro soldiery'. The South was will
ing and ready to exchange white man
for ivhite loan. The horrors now being
revealed will, we hope, compel the Ad
ministration to do tardy justice to the
brave men who have endured such woes.
We are confident that the people will
loudly demand that I his shall be done.
Justice and littinal lily :dike forbid that
there should he any longer delay in the
matter. Let the question as to the rights
of negro soldiers remain in abeyance,
until our much-suljering white soldiers
are rescued from the certain and hor
rible death which must await them if
they are left to languish away the weary
mouths of this winter in the loathsome
places where they are now confined.
The (Hikers of the Florida to be Given
The removal of the officers of the
Florida frofil the Old Capitol prison,
and their hying returned on board of
the Wachusset, is regarded as a sure
indication that they are to be given up.
This settles the question of international
law, which arose on the premises, in
favor of Brazil, and ends peaceably a
matter which might otherwise have re
sulted in serious international compli
cations. After the loud noise made over
the capture of the vessel, it must be a
humiliating position for the authorities
at Washington to be placed in ; but
since the Mason and Slidell affair, and
the seating of Max i 01 illian on the throne
of Mexico, we can scarcely imagine that
they can be very sensitive on points of
national pride. We have got used to
humiliating ourselves heibre foreign
nations, and eating very humble pie
since under the present wretched Ad
ministration.
.Tbieckat the White Rouse.
The Washington ,S'tctr states that it is
the pratice of people who visit the
White House, to steal and carry off
whatever they can lay their hands on.
They have so mutilated the window
curtains and brocade of the furniture by
cutting pieces out as to have ruined
them. They have also carried off the
brackets and tassels from the curtains.
There never was such a state of things
under Democratic rule. From the cor
ruptions of the Administration what
more can we expect?
A few months ago another de
posit of mineral wealth was brought
to light in Nevada, which has proved
of incalculable value to the silver mines.
This was an immense basin of salt, five
miles square, near the sink of the Car
son River. This basin, says a gentle
man who writes from Virginia City,
Appears once to have been the bottom
oUa lake, and the salt is found good
even on the surface. A covering of
about three inches is loose and indif
ferent, but beneath "this, for a depth of
fourteen feet, pure rock salt is found as
Clear as ice and us white "as the riven
snow."
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Oneof the i 1 more iiiithattresidtin .iris : *4,4es given in some other counties_
colitis aboutte degpatcheenuniSs - ionersi ! official, but unaccompanied by the tull
hither to offer us pardon-and Peace, OU `figures—the remainder from reports by
contOtion,that, without delay Welnak:e lett er and telegraph to the' Patriot and
our' humble submission; sherries his . uri - io : 1i , ..• .
great toe. The New York Tribune, how
ever, exclaimed against the idea that
rebels are to be conffliated with any
such condescension ; Mr. Lincoln will
never stoop so low, and if lie did, the
only effect would be to souse the spirits
and inflame the pride of the rebels by
the extraordinary honor. We thi4k that
the Tribune is probably correct as the
matter-of-fact' when it says Mr. Lincoln
will send no commissioners here. The
report to the 4sontrary, rests, it is said,
on the authority of the National Intel
ligenecr, but we should hardly expect of
the peculiar people wherude at Washing
ton such respect and courtesy to our states
and citizens as would be involved in ad
dressingour constitutedauthorities. "To
whom it may concern" is the politest
speech that Mr. Lineal' yet knows. He
has not yet learned to speak so that we
can hear him, but that Mr. Lincoln
proposes to address us in some sort be
fore long. To speak at us if not to us is
extremely probable. Those who are
more likely to know his purposes than
the National Intellif,Aneer, tell us that
his forthcoming message is to be the
medium of communication. The Tel
bunesays that the overtures will lie made
through that channel or otherwise as
circumstances shall suggest. By other
wise is probably meant a proclamation
of some sort. The object of the propos
ed exhibition of royal clemency, is sim
ply diplomatic. Such being its charac
ter, Seward will give it shape. It will
be a compound of savage coaxings, and
savage threats. Coaxiugs, such li.s an
angry person made through policy, but
without being able to conceal the pas
sion that trembles in his speech, and
which impatiently waits for indulgence
till the victim shall be ensnared.
Threats such as flow with ready
eloquence from a malignant and hate
possessed soul. Pol i (.y.—n ot good-w ill or
even compassion—is at:the bottom of the
whole move. The Tpiinta, explains it
thus : " We believe, therefore, that the
time has come for detaching southern
masses froni the fortunes of rebellion,
and that overtures looking to that end
will soon be made by the president
either through his forthcoming message
orotherwiseas circumstances shall seem
to render it expediant.' The delusion
that the separate attitude assumed by the
confederate states is not an act of the
people or sustained by them, seems in
deed inveterate. This fancy has been
at once the snare and support of our ene
mies. Never before did any community
give such evidences of union and
resolution as ours. The action of
the government has been through
agencies chosen by the people, and
has been sustained by them with
an extraordinary unanimity. Our enc
odes still flatter their hopes and cheer
their despondency, with the absurd as
sumption that everything done lase has
been done against the will of the mass
of the people. The time has now come,
says the ?rib ow, fur detaching this re
luctant, coerced , mass from the few who
lead them. For this end Mr. Lincoln
is to put in his coming message some
words of diplomacy which are expected
to make fools of us ; or, if more expedi
ent, he will address us a proclamation
brimful of love, terror, and cunning,
which must, without fail, bring us re
joicing, and trembling at his feet. As
the Tribune proceeds on this silly as
sumption it is superfluous to say that
Lincoln will not get derision for his re
ward. Those leaders of ours who so dis
turb his sleep are but our servants, and
do our commands. Valuable as tiny
are to us, and formidable as they are to
the enemy, our work is independent of
them. If they fall or fail we will Lind
others. Mr. Lincoln is about to try
to separate the mass of the people, not
from their leaders, but from themselves.
This is too stupid an undertaking
for a creditable, much less a successful
diplomatic trick. His proclamations he
has tried before ; they did notyield him
enough to pay for printing. If the Con
federates were far duller than they are,
Mr. Lincoln would himself supply suf
ficient warnings against his wiles. Kil
patrick and Dahlgren came with great
packages of the " amnesty proclama
tion," as it is called, which they scatter
ed like leaves in autumn. But they
came also with orders in their pockets
for sacking, burning, destroying Rich
mond ; for killing the President and his
cabinet; for turning loose ten thousand
men, without officers, to do their twill
upon doomed people of all ages and both
sexes. A lover that shows the teeth and
claws of a lion cannot expect to be very
successful in his wooing, and how is Mr.
Lincoln now preparing us for the recep
tion of a forthcoming, epistle that is to
detach us from our government! 1-I cis
soon to spread out his Affectionate arms
and we are expected to hurry io, fur—
" the time has come." How is lie woo
ing us ? Read the boasting record which
we publish to-day from his officers in
the valley. Hear them tell how many
mills they have destroyed; how many
barns; how many cornfields • how ninny
bushels of wheat and pounds of meat !
All this under orders of Sheridan, who
with indecent haste has been since pro
moted to McClellan's honor—Sheridan
himself, acting under orders of Lieut.
Oen. ( I.•ant. Read the summit, too, attic
burning of Rome. I fear the boast that
Sherman is marking his path an utter
desolation. After this preparation, af
ter these polite courtesies, these win
ning attentions, these seductive favors,
Mr. Abraham Lincoln is to invite us to
his arms. We think Mr. Lincoln:S . ,
message, or proclamation, will find us fi l m
poor humor to appreciate his afteetion
ate sentiments toward us. We fear he
has made too free an exhibition of his
inner• parlor and of the winding stair
which leads to it for us to play the part
of the tly in the fable. We shall, of
course, be very much obliged to him for
any kind worth he may-speak to us, mid
we are waiting to hear theni. But as we
do not ask pardon when we have com
mitted no ofliaise, and are scarcely dis
posed to accept forgiveness from him for
enormous wrongs he ,lias done us, we
shall probably disappoint hint in the
returns we may make for his extraordi
nary grace and goodness. We shall
doubtless be unreasonable enough to
consider him as having 'fon - intitted new
impertinence, and as having added new
insult to the long catalogue of intolerable
injuries. But still let Abraham speak
Greeley says this is " the time."
Hard Times Ahead
The latest official reports of the Agri
cultural Bureau in the Department of
the Interior, at Washington, show an
alarming decrease in the supply of staple
articles of food throughout the country.
During the last two years the wheat
crop has fallen off about one-eighth,
corn and hay one-tenth, barley one
seventh, beef more than one-fifth, and
pork more than one-fourth. The present
high prices of food are not clue solely to
the depreciation of the currency, but
also to the growing scarcity of the com
modities themselves. The material re
sources of the country are now, in fact,
undergoing a rapid process of exhaus
tion, whose future progress will be mea
sured by the steady enhancement of the
prices of all the necessaries of life. The
pressure of the war has hardly been felt
in the North until within the last year;
henectOrth we are to feel it groptli
everyday j.:l6Ser tuuT heavier.
•
Tlie
ffoiffederate-ArtllitelL,
The BaltimoreCofreApoluital*i
N. Y. World, who claim's telisemk"
curate knowledge of affairs iittrife, Chi
federacy, says the armies of the Sontir
now in the field are composed of the
following bodies of troops : Longstreet's
corps, A. P. Hill's, corps, and the troops
recently under Beauregard,diolding the
lines defending Richmond and Peters
burg, 45,000 infantry, 10,000 cavalry, and
300 guns, in all 61,000 troops ; Early's
corps in the valley, 15,000 men ; total of
Lee's army proper, 76,000 men. Breck
inridge's force in Southwestern Virginia
10,000 men ; militia at Lynchburg, 8000
men; at Wilmington and Weldon, 8000
men ; total under Gen. Lee's immediate
orders, 102,000 men. Troops under
Beauregard and Hood, in the West, 50,-
000; in Arkansas and Missouri, under
Sterling Price, 20,000 men ; at Charles.;
tonandSavannah, 15,000 men ; in Texas
and Louisiana, 15,000 men ; at Mobile,
12,000 men ; total, 112,000 men.• Grand
total of troops of the Confederacy in the
field, 214,00 Q troops.
COUNTIES OFFICIAL
McClellan. Lincoln.
886 1..W2
11885 19427
.. 3039 3165
9. -685 " 1954
.....12931 6197
.::_ 2496 2827
7235 6197
3064
2894 1859
.... 2180 1610
.... 3256 2410
.... -5828 8076
2013 1459
4334 .5783
4013 3243
276- , 1351
2705 1655
3185 1739
3899 4932
3840 2848
3.562 1 3516
869 1105
2963 14:11
2257 2.865
1957 37144
1756 1414
1664 1276
7987 13466
132-1 :1131
2689 3.587
3780 3681
9541. (31443
4(412 3056
1517 1430
2(3(5 581
7774 6506
1458 998
6812 3498
3888 2689
2148 2918
42047 5133.5
1151 237
11245 7166
147 330
2595 3546
1911 4116
3240 3573
144 s 23(01
4419 4526
287' 1 2003
5653 4054
1:122 1179
7282 -9137
Adams
Allegheny
Armstrong
Bedford
'Berks .
Blair -
Backs
Butler • •
Cambria
Carbon -
Centre
Chester
Clinton.
Crawford
Cumberland
Clearfield
Clarion
Columbia
Dauphin
Fayette
Franklin
Fulton
Greene
Huntingdon
Indiana
Jefferson
Juniata.
Lancaster
Lawrence
Lebanon
Lehigh .
Luzerne
Lycoming
Mifflin
Monroe
Afontgomery.......
Montour
Northampton
Northumberland
Perry
Philadelphia
Pike
Schuylkill
Sullivan
Susquehanna
Tioga
Venango
Warren
\1 :asliiigtrm
Waync •
Wcstnaircland....
Wyoming ......
-York
COI' E , 4.11 , 1(1 \l, UNI)VFICIA
PORTED.
3PC/PUrf it.
Beaver
- 11radfor,1
Cameron
Delaware
Elk -1211
Erie
Forest
Mercer...
M'Kean
Potter
'ant filer
somersel
RECA PITULATION.
Hlicial fllll vote , 42,9,54
( I flieial and reported ma
jorities 420
243,404
Lincoln ahead so far
•theial. 5,22;1
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Will You Walk into My Parlor ?"
Now that the election of Lincoln is
secure, his supporters are again en
deavoring to tickle the fancies of Demo
crats with the idea of another era of
era of good feeling like that which ex
isted in Pint, when,. under pledge of
preserving the Union and maintaining
the Constitution, Mr. Lincoln had the
active support of a large part of the
Democratic party. How shamelessly
to himself and insultingly to the con
servatives that pledge was broken we
all know but too well. It proved but a
scheme cunningly devised to, harness
Democrats to the Presidential car, and
commit them to the war for A hol ti on
which soon followed.
We are just now witnessing a renewal
of the plan. After having exhausted
the vocabulary of insulting terms to
heap upon Democrats individually and
as a party, accusing them of the most
degrading motives and criminal inten
tions, and after endeavoring to blacken
the fair fame of the high-minded and
honorable soldier who was their presi
dential candidate—they suddenly dis
cover that Democrats are 'not ingrain
wretchesafter all, and that McClellan is
not a traitor and a coward! They roar
as gently as sucking doves, that the
patriots of bothprolies should unite in
support of the policy of the constitution
ally elected President i—and this union
to be upon the basis that the institution
of slavery is dead and that the Consti
tution should be tunended as to forever
prohibit it. This is the sugar-coated
way of stating the proposition that a
constitution should be formed with pro
visions utterly repugnant to the ideas
and destructive of the interests of
twelve or fifteen States, and then forced
upon them at the point of the bayonet.
Democrats will recall a somewhat
different mode of procedure in 1787,
when a revision of the fundamental
law was found needful, and look
ing to their time-honored guides and
exemplars, will refuse to believe that
the stability of the Union or the hap
piness of the people cant he secured by
such means.
This sudden out-gush of affection for
"malignant copperheads," this readi
ness to fall on the necks of "traitors
at home," is doubtless a pleasant de
-1
vice on the part of the administration
leaders to strengthen themselves with
Democratic support for some doubt
'f'ul future policy. There is some
new scheme, repugnant to patriot
-1 ism and abhorrent to humanity, which
is about to be put in operation, and
the responsibility of which they would
be glad to shift upon the Demo
cracy, if they can get the slightest
excuse to do so. I f I ktarocrats act wisely,
they will commit themselves to none of
the schemes of the Administration
party. The true course, in our view,
is to say to the Abolitionists that they
have undisputed control of the country
and its resources, and that if they see
fit to pursue a suicidal course against
the protest of the conservative por
tion of the people, , they must
alone be accountable for results. The
burden of taxation and conscription, so
long as they are unavoidable and fall
equally, the Democracy will bear with
as much fortitude as 41,1,e' A bol itionists,
but the responsibility of this war they
will in no wise consent to assume,
charm the Abolitionists never so wise
ly. If the administration can preserve
the I."nion and the t 'oust itution by the
present measures, it is welcome to all
the glory—the Democracy want none of '
it. If the sun of our liberties goes down
in blood, the Democracy will have none
of the responsibility. —Bclfast fib", 0
JOnino/.
The Coining Draft
Governor Seymour of New York has
had a correspondence with the authori
ties in - Washington in regard to the next
draft, and steps are now being taken to
correct the enrolment lists, and to ascer
tain the exact number of men furnished
by the State and by each district therein.
This shows most conclusively that an
other draft will take place very speedily.
We have heard of no such arrangements
in this State, because here matters are
permitted to be entirely under the con
trol of the authorities at Washin: ton
. o •it -113 ettir§i' cif' Pe
t.:1 4 .V"
; • ": I '' -V" crigaiontir
.
u. 6DeArra Whoitergiti,
Filftt4; l igdekqtatticaqvere
Ocl'S igliqo APctlit! was
ahOui over, :fad t
elected the rebels wCo - uldiry downThei
arms and submit. If the money to hire
substitutes should not be forthcoming,
the requisite number of names will be
drawn from the wheel of fate, and many
a poor man will be torn from his family
and forced into the army. There will
be no available means of escape for many.
Some will flee "unto the mountains of
Hepsidam" or Canada, but very many
will be compelled to march to the sound
of the drum which will beat their fu
neral dirge.
It seems to be understood in Bal
timore, that Ex-Postmaster General
Montgomery Blair will be elected U. S.
Senator in place of Governor Hicks,
who into be made Postmaster at Balti
more. The Blahs are not all dead yet,
their radical enemies W the contrary
notwithstanding,
ORGINIZED CONSPIRACY TO
NEW YORK CITY.
The Sl.Aleholas, St"linutes, Wet ropolitaa,
Itelmont,Tanuaistity; LoveJo3•, Bran,
doeth. and Lafarge Hotels, and
IlarllllllleS Museum Set on Fire
—Woe the Incendiaries Did
Their Work.
Thenews embraced in the subjoined re
ports is the most startling that we have, per
haps, ever been called upon to record. It
will be seen that a regularly organized at
tempt to fire the city was last night made,
and only by the exercise of the greatest
energy was rendered wholly abortive. No
less than ten or a dozen of the leading hotels
and other large buildings were fired be
tween the hours of 9 and 12 o'clock, and by
these acts an immense amount of life and
property was put in jeopardy. Fortunately
the fires were not simultaneous, and after
the discovery of three or four attempts had
been made to carry the fearful Not into ex
ecution, the detective police obtained suffi
cient knowledge of the affair to lead to the
conclusion that a wholestile conflagration
was imminent, and accordingly extra vigi
lance was exerted by the police and fire de
partment, and the late fires were extin
guished almost immediately upon their
breaking out. The story of the atrocious
conspiracy soon spread about the city, and
the greatest alarm was felt. among the
people.
lied the conspiracy, or whatever we may
call it, succeeded to the extent evidently in
tended, half the city at least might have
been in ruins this morning,
Never in the history of ate country was
there so alarming an affair developed in
any community, anti our citizens cannot
congratulate themselves too much on their
providential escape from a scene of horrors
actually sickening to imagine.
The Hotels Fired
TIT E ST. .1 AM Es.
The first fire was discovered at eight o'-
clock and forty-three minutes, at the St.
James Rotel, corner of Broadway and
Twenty-sixth street, hut resulted in but
slight damage. It originated in one of the
bey-rooms, ;nal the strong smell of phos
phorous that pervaded the apartment, and
the proximity of matches lo the bed-clothes,
discloses the fart that the tire was the work
of an incendiary.
It is stated by the proprietors that a man,
registering his name as John School, :Md.,
took a room at this house about 5, 1 : o'clock,
and that the smoke Willi discovered issuing
from his room by the occupant next door.
l'pon the dour being broken open, the room
was found empty, the occupant having
gone, leaving, a black satchel with a Imttle
of phosphorous behind.
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At tire minutes of nine the St. Nicholas
llotel was discovered on fire in roans 13S,
1:19, and 140, situated in the middle building
of the three on the upper floor. About the
same time fire broke out in bedroom 174 in
the front building of the hotel. In both
places the strong smell of phosphorous and
an abut pant matches in the bed-clothes,
signified the tire to have been the work of
an incendiary. The rooms were burned
completely out, but the fire department of
the hotel, under superintendence of the pro
prietor, Mr. I hiwks, succeeded in confining
the lire to those apartments. Had it not
been for 11w admirable arrangonientS for
Liking care of tires at this house, it would
have been entirely burned down.
A well-known citizen, who boards at the
St. Nicholas Hotel, was passing through the
main hall last evening, on his way to his
room, just before the tire was discovered,
when his attention attracted by the
very suspicio niiivements of two men who
were votive!, gin the hall. Approaching
them, he hew one say, " It's all right,"
when both st, led flur the door, and imme
diately left the hotel. Within:, rew seconds
afterward the alarm was given.
100
520
191
!N 111
4
At twenty minutes past U o'clock the La
Farge I louse was discovered to bean tire in
one of the bed-rooms on the upper floor, tine
bed being, as in the other places, saturated
with phosphorus, and matches lying about
in all directions. The damage was slight,
but, naturally enough, the guests were
thrown into a panic, believing that the
whole structure would be tired. The flames
were smut extinguished, the damage
amounting, to about three hundred dollars.
The room in which the tire was discovered
was taken by a Mr. .l. It. Richardson, of
'analen, New Jersey, who was out of the
room at the time or the lire.
El=
At at out 10 o'clock a tire was discovered
in a front room in the upper floor of the
Metropolitan lintel, but it was speedily ex
tinguished by the servants of the house.
An alarm was given, but before the firemen
arrived at the hotel the danger had been
passed. The damage here is estimated at
one thousand live hundred dollars. One
room only was injured. In this room were
tbund an empty bottle, which had contain
ed phosphorus, a pair of heavy boots, and a
valise. In the valise were found a pair of
pan tab /1)115 and a pair of prunella gaiters.
The tire here was discovered in a bed
room en the third floor, which had been en
gaged by a man registering himself as
" Lieutenant Lewis, Tr. S. A." Smoke
being seen to issue from this room, :r strong
odor of phosphorus being at the same time
perceptible, the (1, )or was illlmedhitely burst
open, and in a very few seconds the flames
were completely extinguished. The bed in
this room had the appearance of having
been occupied. The man "Lewis" has not
been seen since the discovery of the tire. At
this place six bottles of phosphorus were
found in a carpet. bag.
MB=
Almost siinultaneonsly with thediscovery
of the tire at the Belmont Hotel. the heti
and bedding, with furniture, of a room on
the third floor, front, were found to be in
flames. During the afternoon a man, who
registeted himself as "C. E. Morse, of Ro
chester,- :arrived •tt the lintel, and engaged
the room in which the lire was
Ile was not seen during the evening, and
has not been seen suite the .I•tirrence of
the tire. The damage is not very great, and
was confined to the furniture and bedding
of the room.
MIE=
'rm.° :Otempts were Wade to Intro this
hotel. The first occurred a little before MI.
o'clock, at which time a tire was discovered
in a bedrooM on the fourth boor of the
northeast wing of the hotel. The bedclothes
and mattress were piled in the centre of the
floor, and Were enveloped in thlllteS \VIIOII
th1111(1., 'Phis tire was extinguished without
damage to other portions of the building.
'rhe second attempt was made at about 12
o'clock, and the alarm was given Shlllll
- with (hilt .'it ' he tires at tile Bel
mont lintel and at Tammany. This time
the incendiary had pertained his work in
the southeast wing of the building, on the
fourth floor. Attention was excited by a
smell of stroke, and a search developed the
tact that in the roont referred to a carpet
bag had been placed inside the I)ed, within
which carpet-bag was a bottle (if phosphorus.
I fere, also, the tire was extinguished with
out greater loss than that of the Inrniture
and bedding of the room.
lIATINVM . S M EU M
. .
Last night, about nine o'clock, some per
son or persons unknown proceeded to the
fifth floor of the Museum, in the rear of the
gallery of the lecture room, and threw down
upOn the floor, near a staircase, a bottle of
phosphorous, which ignited and set fire to
the wooden-work in the neighborhood. The
cry of fire was almost immediately raised,
and an intense excitement was at once
created throughout the building. In the
lecture-room, particularly, the feeling
amounted to panic. A large number of the
audience rose to their feet in great alarm,
and rushed to the various places of exit in
wild confusion. Many terror-stricken per
sons slid down the iron pillars supporting
the galleries, to the parquette, adding, of
course, by their frenzied pertbrmances,
greatly to the excitement of the scene. For-
Innately, the fire was almost hnntediately
extinguished by the officers of the building,
no serious damage having been done ; and
I,y the display of necessary coolness on the
part of several actors and gentlemen con
nected with the Museum, and by a few self
possessed persons in the audience, the panic
was suppressed. So far as we (!all
learn, nn one was seriously injured in the
rush.
The bottle which had contained the phos
phorus—and which is like those employed
by the incendiaries elswhere—was recover
ed, unbroken, mid _is in the hands of the
tire-marshal.
EXCITEM:ENT IN THE CITY.
Ikßino:oZ64llolloSpifltiWM-illltt
A ' k•-•'92ll3Eitily., - 11 that a
bee'
.@zeiterruifOr
',ft'AlledukiarrgrAdi4a,rlo4. partivlarly.4m,
the neighborhood of the 'hotels, w 'oh 114 :
been the objects of the inc diary'. dial/A-41
caTrvoM - Theyterttest indignation was fix-.
• ItitieaTet4at thttrerpetrators of tho fearful act,
if one of them had fallen intotAke. haiug
of the excited crowd his life would riot have
been worth a minute's purchase. Of course
the wildest stories were afloat, and naturally
enough the majority of those living in the
hotels felt decidedly nervous, not knowing
whether they were to be allowed to shun ber
in peace or not.
A RALTDIORE WOMAN UNDER ARREST
- •
A woman of remarkably genteel address,
but whose name has not yet transpired,was
arrested about nine o'clock last evening by
chief John Young and detective McDougal
of the Metropolitan detective force, on sus
picion of havino• ' some connection with the
incendiaries. It appears that she took
rooms at the St. Nicholas Hotel early in the
afternoon, and that in the evening just be
fore the tire occurred she went out. She
had not been gone fifteen minutes when the
fire broke out. From the St. Nicholas hotel
she went to the La Fargo house and stayed
a short time, leaVing there only a few 'no
'flouts, prior to fire being disoovered there.
She then wentto the Metropolitan hotel and
engaged rooms, fire occurring there very
soon afterwards. - From the circumstances,
the police thought propel:10 detain the wo
man until she could give Nome satisfactory
account of herself. All that could be learn.
ed about her by our reporter last evening
was, that she had eome from Baltimore to
this city recently, and had been very active
during her stay . here, butshe would not dis
elckqe the na':ure of her business.
OTHER SUSPECTED PARTIES.
In the arrest of the woman above referred
to, the detectives stumbled upon some things
pointing strongly to other parties, and they
were at once looked after. It was rumored
at 1 o'clock this morning, that some arrests
had been made, but the circumstances of
the affair could not be learned. It was at
once apparent to the police that no one
or two parties could have so successfully
tired so Tiumy buildings at once,. and that
whoever the woman was Whom they had
under arrest, she must have accomplices,
who could not be far off.
The Manner ofFi , etting the Fires
The uniformity that characterized this
bold attempt at wholesale incendiarism
showed that the plan must have been organ
ized long beforehand, and every step pre
meditated before being entered upon. The
mode of operating seemed to be precisely
the same in every hotel fired. The beds
were saturated with phosporous throughout,
so also were the valises, trunks, old boots,
and clothes of almost every description. In
addition to this matches were found among
the bed clothes, laid between the sheets and
coverlids, and, in some instances, thrust into
the center of the ticks.- The fires were then
set and the rooms closed and locked, as if
the occupant had vacated the premises. It
s supposed by this that the rooms were
taken by parties who were determined to
fire the buildings, and took this as the
quickest way of doing it.
The War
We are able to trace Sherman's progress
down to last Wednesday. Both of his ex
peditious have been checked. Slocum's
expedition, which moved south from Atlan
ta, was,
twenty on November 19th, miles
' north of Macon. Inn. statement of Satur
day was correct. The Confederates sue
ceeded in placing-a strong force in Slocum's
front at that point, and he was checked.
Down to Tuesday last he had 11114,10 110
farther progress toward Macon, and was
believed to have turned to the eastward.
Minim is thus relieved front immediate
danger. Kilpatrick's cavalry ex
pedition, which, at last accounts, had
reached Wallace, a small town just north of
the Macon and Milledgeville Railroad,
made no attempt to march on Macon. It
turned toward Milledgeville; captured the
city, aunt burned some of the public build
ings. Both Slocum and Kilpatrick seem to
have abandoned the idea of capturing
Macon, and are believed to be moving east
ward towards Augusta or Savannah.
cell Howard's expedition which Sherman
directs in person, has started from A Ilanta
to Augusta, though when is not accurately
known. This cot moved eastward to
Crawfordsville, at town on the Atlanta and
Augusta Railroad, sevent . ). miles front Au
gusta. item the Confitderatc cavalry were
first found. AI ak ing but slight opposition,
they retreated before Howard's advancing
troops until Berzelia, a town twenty-one
miles from Augusta was reachN I. Here the
Confederates were reinforced, and made a
successful stand. There are reports that
_Howard's advance was repulsed with loss.
Such was the condition of affairs betbre
Augusta on Wednesday last. The
military situation on that clay was this :
Slocum was twenty miles north of Macon,
with a Conti.derate force in Iris front strong
enough to check hint. Kilpatrick was at
Milledgeville, twenty-five MHOS east of Slo
coin and thirty miles northeast of Macon.
I loward was at Berzelia,sixty miles north
east of Kilpatrick, and eighty-five miles
northeast of Slocum. A form was in trout
of Howard which was apparently strong
enough to check hint.
tlen. Forrest, with the body of Confeder
art e troops which has for some tune been
near Huntsville, Alabama, has suddenly
made a movement. He has marched north
ward towards Columbia, a town thirty-live
miles south of Nashville. Fearing that
Forrest would get in his rear, Thomas, who
had advanced into . \ Minutia, began a retro
grade movenrent, He Abandoned Hunts
ville and DN.:our, and retreated into Ten
nessee. I lothen withdrew through Pulaski
abandoning it, and retreated to Columbia.
Ile is sows between Columbia and Nash
ville. The Confederates are just south of
I 'olumbia. Forrest eontinands. A NtriMst
is imminent.
There seems to be very little doubt that
General Early, having left a force at Stras
burg, has sent the greater part of his army
to Richmond. Sheridan is still at Win
chester. The supply railroad he is building
is 110le in running order to the Opequan,
live miles cast of Winchester. This road
will bring supplies front Harper's Ferry,
and the dangers of the :Martinsburg route
will be al - bided.
There is a report from Washington that
Commander Collins has been ordered to
take the Confederate steamer Florida, with
heroin...l.s alai crew, back to Bahia, Brazil.
The Confederatesteamer Chicantauga has
been seen on the Atlantic, about half way
between IVilmington and the Bermudas.
She leas cruising for American vessels.
General Burbridge, with the Federal
troops in Kentucky, has reached Cumber
land Gap. This reinforcement saves it from
capture by Breckinridge.
Everything is quiet at Petersburg. Picket
firing alone occurs.
It is at length settled that General Banks
returns to New In-leans.
Major General John Pope is to IlaVc an
active command.
We have no news of Gen. Sherman s pro
gress, either through Northern or Southern
channels, later than that printed yesterday
1110111ing. There now seem to be great
doubts of the reported capture of Milledge
ville though it has been evacuated by the
Confederates. The detailed accounts of
Howard's progress towards Augusta, show
that he was checked before lie was within
forty miles of the town. Atlanta has been
entered by a detachment of Southern troops.
It was entirely abandoned by the Federal
army. and two-thirds had horn tainted.
Gen. Thomas, in Tennessee, has retreatNl
to Franklin • ten miles south of Nashville.
The I 'onll4lerates tbllow him closely. They
have cut the et mini unieation 14.1W...1.'11Nash
ville and Chattanooga, and exeopting the
few mfrrisoned posts near Chattan.toga, now
hold all the country south of Nashville.
From East Tennessee. detailed Southern
aecounts of the late 1110VellIellIS have herein
received, but they give no new - information.
I 41.11V1111 lir illelll, with the remnant of the
Federal army, is at Knoxville, recruiting
his command. A force of Confederates is
at Strawberry Plains, sixteen miles east of
Knoxville, watching Gillen. There will
not be any movements in that quarter Mr
some time. Breekinridge, with the main
Confederate army, when last heard front,
was just south of I 'um berland Gaup. I ten.
Iburbridge, with the Federal troops from
Kentucky, had reached Cumberland Gap,
and it Iv. to strongly garrisoned to be at
tacked 40,,,
wkinridge, with any prospect
of stve.. .
FediTO] rw • onnoisstin,•,+s which 11:1X0
been sent south from Winchester, hi the
Shenandoah Valley, havo Ihund Early's
outpost, at Strasburg, nua•h stronger than
was supposed. No attempt will be made
to attack it. Sheritlan's army is still around
Winchester. Moseby has just attacked
tutot her party of Federal cavalry at Cable
town, north of Winchester. Mosehy lost
one man killed and Live wounded. Twenty
of the Federal cavalrymen escaped ; thirty
were killed and wounded, and thirty-one
captured.
It is reported through Southern channels
that numerous Federal vessels have been
Seen on the (t Borgia coast, below the Savan
nah ltivc•r. They are thought to he a fleet
sent to aid Sherman.
A Charleston newspaper states that but
week a two hundred pounder Parrott gun
burst in flattery Wagner. This battery is
the one whieh continually shells Charles
ton.
The Florida has been run in to at Fortress
Monroe by a Federal transport. The Flori
da was sunk. No particulars of the affair
are reported.
The Confederates are said to be preparing
for an attack on Newborn. The Federal
gourrison of the town is ton four thousand
111p11.
Gen. Ilaneoi•k and Pope are in 'Washing
ton. lianeoek is Nailing home On leave of
ahsenee.
John Mitchel and Ex-Governor Footr in
lu Richmond, on the '2341 inst., John
Mitchel, the Irish refugee, and ex-t ;or
ernor Foote, of Mississippi, were ar
raigned before the Mayor to answer a
charge of preparing to engage in a duel.
Judge Slval was_alsp called up to an
s w cfr' e SJI g c lYt I's challenge
370 174 te. eYeral i+itnesses were call
edryom N;1017e •testimony it appeared
Unit' the dififettltY was caused by a
4rWle, severely reflecting
;Ilion Foote, calling him a re
constructionist," and recommend
ing his expulsion from the rebel Con
gress. This article was published in
the Richmond Examiner of Novem
ber 21. Mr. Pollard, of the Examiner,
testifies that he called upon Governor
Foote and introduced Judge Swan. Tile
Governor refused to recognize that indi
vidual, saying he was no gentleman,
whereupon Swan assaulted him with
an umbrella. Foote then drew a
revolver, but the parties were
separated by the interposition of
those present. A challenge was af
terward sent by Foote, but he, together
with Swan and Mitchel, were brought
before the Mayor, and gave security to
keep the peace for twelvemonths in the
Commonwealth of Virginia. It was not
proved that Mitchel wrote the article,
but he and Foote tried to light it otit till
the Mayor interfered.
; • s • -Item s of •News.' - =• .-
New Orleans papers - of the 15th says that
General Canby is recovering.
The Vanderbilt is cruising off shore in the
track of blockade-runners.
•
Captain Wm. A. Walker has been order
ed to report to Admiral F. H. Gregory. for
duty at New York.
Lieutenant Cominander J. H. Russell is
ordered to command the sloop of war Cyan°
of the Pacific squadron.
The Yantic, which is eruising hi the
neighborhood of Nantucket shodls, put into
Holmes I tole on 'Monday last.
tf.
I)u Chaffin writes: frotn Africa that he
has shipped a batch of gorillas to the Brit
ish Mn scum, among them a hive one.
A runner named Prows recently ran
twenty miles in two hours and four minutes.
That may be called dying it up Brown.
Mr. Ten Broeck, the American horse
jockey of England is about to retire from
the turf. His horses are advertised for _•ale
in one lot.
It cost .I , ,toioutt to telegraph the Constitution
of NeV2lda to Washington. It occupied
twenty-four hours in transmission.
•
It is said illst upwards of nine hundred
women ;we going cult to India to be employ
ed on various telegraphic lines of mmiliuni
cation.
Wilichltio is the Christian (or unchristian)
name of a young lady recently married in
San Francisco.
A story recently appeared in the Liverpool
Post concerning a man natned Magffilin,
who Was arrested Ihr an attempt to c(amnit
suicide after having mulled a prostitute.
The criminal claimed to he a brat her of ex.-
(loverte Mag,offin, of Kentucky,' We arc
infbrmed that the claim is false, t ;overnor
Magollin never having, had a brother of the
name given, nor one who is a captain in the
Confederate service.
Government pays tS7S apiece for artificial
legs furnished to maimed
ireneral Slipritian was horn in Boston
and useil to lie a newslioy uu , `Cali, strei.t
I , xeelleilt tie' those hard times is thite flan),
1)1 a St L❑atis ;Him
There are people in Groat Britain who
have:ntinooni. YearlY It ,ver::'tnnrt"r"l
a million of t 1 Ilur.,
Tia• nthe•r day a negro arri,ied
white man, in ICe•ntuekv, ehei , rini2: for
ion. McClellan.
The csilored laborers, in untidier 12:,a; at
:\falthys oyster Inu•l:tug house, in 11:th i
more, have struck laitiausti the 1,, iss opened
another auto o her e h e 0 1111 I loyl , tl n hire
W 0111,41.
Gen. I:urlc,
we belie has In.en cmt:ider
ed a hard ilrinl:er, but a 1. , /11.'.‘,7,,•,., / un
recent occasion pr,,vell hi',
A son or lienemi ~,,
tile pirate Florida at the tiroe she , t.np
tureAl. Ile NVIIN i111111 , 141i41
Jry Jell: I )avis' wit..
A (•oal ini a e L oon inv. , t 114,1
that 111 leS 1111' AVOrk
1:111 j ainr , all S: r: kl'.
. 11 oulgonierylztit. will run 11 , 1 atur
-
in Crovernorl~laro,llu• 1:11. taking
the 1,0,1 It', all a sting
little arrangement.
In England, in tla. ( )t•tolier,
thirty--Uom• firms suspended, with
to the extent of sixteen minim! d,,llars.
Indianapolis appr . :ll'S to ht. 0 1 , 1 . 1111
thieves 1111(/ 1 11111 - dert'S ' , 1 . :11'114y :I 111! , 111
paSSOS lan SOnle Onf• iS dOWIt and
A ittod Or
vum Wil" died a row days agoat Watorlairy
Conn. rovvaled the rata that la had but tatt
kidne-, a ftiot ttaparallolial on rooord.
Mrs. Stephtio Berry and licr child, or
Machias, Nrcri• atiachicil hy rats dur
ing the night when 1114 'Y We re a`le e ii,
nights ago, and Ihr Ibrnu r hit ion siiviiroly
about the Ehroal.
It is alleged that tot tureut of :Sultan f
Turkey has been arrested at Paris fa. On
deaV°ring to peso Y ° Ung w , men there
for the sultan's harem.
The issues Of all
Mail y pap e r s
together amount to 2-18,010 slieees (laily: of
all the weeklies togetli,r.
issm‘s of dle niontlilivs are <till lrger.
A though the Devil is said to he the nh,i
powerful and formidable of created
iL is safer to litrht him u t :Loy other living
thing.
SODIP Of our soldiers recently lisvovere,
on Laurel Pork, in pshur County, Ca., a
natural laidgo spanning Frein•li Creek. It
measures on the tipper side tifty-nne feet
in length antl twenty-six feet in breadth.
beautifully angled with solid stoe.
Ace frolll Berlll'Rill, via falifax
state that the pirate Chiekainauga had ettni
pleted her repairs and sailed en the Isth
inst. on a cruise. The value 1,1
was 5,1 at half a mill inn.
Late '.'ess t ftleany, Pupil - , that t; ii.
Canby was sufficiently reciivereil to result,
charge of the business of hi, tnilitary
Ctiptaitl !tell, the alleged Lake Erie 1,1,1
pirate. had zi preliminary examination ill
Toronto, I 'amela. aml Was
coin
-I.r trial. ‘\ hiell trill lie proeee,Hl
with 11'51
g ,, V , 111111,111. at Ilchot•
fOrbiticling t
fnnu Canada. either by land ur Nviiter,
:Wins or iiiiinninition, ill copse hence of in
formation having been reeeiveil that. South
ern rebel, and their en inierator, in that
enlony are inanilfactilring 1
aVaillible points .shot, shell, i . :11111"11
other 1111111itiOlIS IF the arniiis
Davis.
The New \ rk Ntiws, in its notice i,t hi•
death of toV..Nledary, is mistaken when it
stares that he was a native of Niaryland. Ile
borll in Fel /Wiry, 1 , 111, in M4,1,1!-!,111,,Y
county, l'a.
The iioyernment contractors who furnish
the army coats are now being hauled over
the coals for chousing the poor scamst resses
in the price of making up 010 gal-went,.
Sarah dune Smith, of Washington county,
Arkansas, has been senteie to Le hung.
on the 2-ith of the present month, by a mili
tary commission at St. Loutis . fitr eittine.4
Government telegraph wires.
Two hundred Irisinnen, l'ition soldiers,
who were prisoners in the South, and have
been in I'l4lol ells11)(1V0Vel'Il year, he.anning
weary ot• their confinement, are said to have
joined the rebel arnn•, and been sent out to
Hood.
Seeretnr-v Welles is the first in the field
with his report, which is non• in the hands
of the printer.
Secretary Seward's diplomatic correspon
d nee for the present year is being printed
preparatory to Le presented to Congress.
It will make two large volumes.
Secretary Fessenden, in reply to numer
ous applications. has reiterated his fixed
determinatiOn not to receive the old sev.en
thirty notes for customs.
President Lincoln was On Saturday pre
sented by a ( 'all Ilunia 11111. V With a chair
Made of elk horns, four large tuitlers form
ing the back it hch are set on the feet of the
animal. A munber Mlatlies and gent leintot
were present.
The national and local authorities in
IVashington, warned by the recent extensive
incendiary attempts of rebels in Neu York,
have taken extra precautions for the se
curity of all the government buildings, the
hotels and other important structures in
that city.
Attorney-General Rates will vacate his
position in the cabinet in the course of three
weeks. The I(nisness of the office will he
conducted by Assistant Attorney -General
Coffee until Judge Bates's successor is
appointed. His contemplated retirement
does not come within the doubtful rumors
so prevalent of late of cabinet changes.
The British war corvette Scout has been
selected by the Admiralty to have her mid
ship Sides protected by means of chain
cable on a plain similar to that adopted by
the Unqed States steamer Kearsage, when
in action with the Alabama.
Twelve hundred and forty-six more of
our paroled Union soldiers, released from
captivity in Georgia, arrived at Annapolis,
Md., yesterday from Savannah, on board
the steamships Weybosset and Herman )
Livingston. The Richmond Dispatch of
last Friday . says that 'arrangements have
been made for the exchange of a number of
prisoners at Mobile, and, that it is probable
'the exchange on James river will §oon be
resumed.' • ' ' • '
ZEMMIE