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WEDNESDAY, F:EDRUARYI, 18E35
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person who undertakes to 'examine .the pro
ceedings of the legislature, or-any branch of
government; and no law shall ever be made
to restrain the right thereof. The free commu
nication of thought aud opinions is one of the
Invaluable rights - of men vand every citizen
may freely speak, write and print on any sub
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,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
dence."—Cbartitraion of Pennsylvania.
The City Election.
The coming city election is of no little
importance. - We cannot .afford to lose
votes either by petty dissensions among
ourselves or by a lack of activity and
energy among the Democratic masses.
It is the duty of every man who is at-*
tached to the great principles of the
DemoCratic party to go to work vigor
ously, to secure the triumphant success
of the excellent ticket which has been
put in nomination. Our opponents are
resorting to every conceivable device to
defeat us.. We have the power to baffle
them in every effort they may make. It
only requires that every Democrat
should do his whole duty. Let each
ward be thoroughly organ ized,and every
Democratic voter brought out, and we
have nothing to fear. If this is done,
as it should be, at once and effedtually,
we can carry every ward in the city
with ease. But the work must be begun
at once. Let there not be a day's delay
- in the matter.
The Negro Will Not Rise
If the war in which we are engaged
has prrbven any one thing, itds that the
negro is unfitted to rise above a condi
tion of dependence upon and servitude
to the white race. The abstract idea of
universal human freedom is a theme
capable of infinite dilation, and well
adapted to energetic declamation. It is
easy to paint real wrongs until they are
not recognizable in their expanded pro
portions, and when the reality fails
there is still left the boundless field of
unrestrained imagination. By dint of
constant effort the Abolition leaders
seem to have succeeded in convincing
themselves that the negro is " a man
and a brother," and, as such, fully en
titled to - be endowed with all the rights
and privileges of citizenship in the
' freest and best Government on the
earth." He must ride in the street cars,
must be admitted to visit our delectable
President on terms of perfect equality
with "all the world and the rest of
mankind," and have all the privileges
to which any other man is entitled.
These are glorious days for Sarni)°, theo
retically considered.
But practically how has he been bene
fitted ? Will some of his boasted ft lends
inform us? In what single respect has
his condition been bettered? Can any
one point it out to us?
It was thought lie would rise withohe
occasion; if not to better his condition,
at least to cut the throat of his master,
to ravish white ladies, and to murder
innocent children. But in truth the
negro slaves of the South by their do
cility and their want of ferocity
have put to shame those who
would willingly have become their
instructors in bloody and brutal
deeds. They have remained on the
plantations where they were reared,
quietly laboring, until enticed away by
,the presence of our troops', whom they
followed in a condition of absolute de
pendence. What have they done to
shoNi that they are fit for freedom ? It
is true, many of them 'have been put
Into the army as substitutes for coward
ly Yankee Abolitionists, but the experi
mem, of making soldiers of them has
not, as yet, been such as to greatly en
courage those enthusiasts who regard
the uegro as "the coming man." Th,
truth is the utopian dreams of the half
crazed philosophers who now rule us are
destined never to be realized. They
may foist some of their pretended re
forms upon American society; may do
away with all laws which distinguish
against the negro; may allow him to
ride in street cars alongside the whites,
to sit in the same pew in church, to eat at
the same hotel table, to vote at the same
polls, but they can never make hint
anything else than what God has creat
ed him and his kind to be, a race vastly
inferior to that to which we,belong.—
They will be in the future, as they have
been in all the past, satisfied with a po
sition of dependence and servitude. This
relationship can never he changed while
they continue to exist among us as a
distinct race. It matters not whether
they be culled slaves or freemen, so long
as theirsocial status remains It uchanged.
Why, then, should a mere abstrac
tion be allowed to stand in the way of a
settlementof our difficulties? How long
are the veins of the white race to remain
open in order that crack-brained politi
cal philosophers may strive for the ac
complishment of impossible schemes?
The interests of the white race demand
that this war should be speedily closed
by an honorable peace. Even the in
terests of the negro race demand an im-
Mediate adjustment of our difficulties.
It would not be difficult to show that
the blacks have suffered more since this
war began than they did in all the long
yearsuf their past servitude. Why then
should the horrid strife in which we are
engaged continue? 1 - low long will the
people allow a lot of blood-thirsty fanat
ics to &wind them to the earth? It is
high tiwe there was an end of it. The
substantial interests of both races alike
demand a speedy peace.
Delay in Paying Our Soldiers
There is much' complaint, and that
with abundant reason', in regard to the
fact that many of the men now in the
field haVe not been paid for a long time
past. ln many of our country ex
changes we notice accounts of the suf
fering condition of the families of sol
diers, who, not having been paid for
months, are unable to furnish the loved
ones at home such aid as their inade
quate pay is sufficient to enable them to
supply. It is a shame that private
soldiers are compelled to wait for
months for the paltry pay which they re
ceive. This, together with other causes,
has about finished up volunteering.—
Hereafter our armies can only be re
cruited by the harshest and most rigid
system of conscription ; and those wile
will be compel jed to leave their families
behind them, when dragged off by the
provost guard, must bid good-bye to
wife and little ones, sure that they will
be left to suffer in their absence for the
commonest necessaries of life. Such is
one of the blessings of the second term
of Lincoln's rule.
Negroes in the Railroad Cars
Yesterday the farce of allowing pas
sengers to vote upon admitting the ne
groeA to ride in them was commenced
j n Philadelphia. The whole thing was
a miserable burlesque on elections. Of
(te>ll.re:til ,, :re was no restraint. Every
b'cly, men, women and children voted.
to last night the voting is said to
ith<l t twenty to one against
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' For weeks past the people of this war
weary land have been listening with
anxious Jhearts,and attentive ears to the
rumors of peace which have filled the
air. Patrioticen, men, who see in a further
continuance:of the strife but a greater
accumulation--of national evils, have
been earnestly praying for peace.
Women ; whose sons; hitsbands and
lovers are exposing their lives on the
battle-field, have turned white and
eager faces heavenward by day and by
night, asking God to overrule the mad
passions of men and to send us peace.
Thousands of children, many of them
pining in want, all of them needing the
support and guidance of paternal hands,
have caught up the word and merrily
prattled of peace. Soldiers in the field,
strong nerved men, who have endured
the shock of battle and braved all its
dangers unmoved, have been melted
with the thought of home and all its
endearhig pleasures, as from day to day
they have read of movements that gave
some hope of a speedy peace. The earn
est desire of millions for peace, led mul
titudes to believe that' it was near at
hand. Unsubstantial as Was the basis
on which this hope rested, it was fos
tered and cherished, until very many
came to think the war was in reality
about over.
The news of the entire failure of Mr.
Blair's mission, while it is nothing more
than we expected and predicted, will
bring tears to many an eye and the sick
ness of despondency to many an anxious
heart. *From the first spread of these ru
mors of peace, we had no faith in them.
I ,Ve knew that Mr. Blair was not the
man to go to Richmond, and we had no
reason to believe that he was commis
sioned to make any offer which the
South could accept without complete
sel f-a base ment. To expect uncondition
al submission from a people fully as
proud and sensitive as we dare be, was
au extreme of foolish credulity, only
possible to purblind fanatics. They
never can, they never will submitto any
such degrading - conditions. Brave men
have always been ready to die rather
than to suffer dishonor. The same spirit
must always actuate and control a brave
people.
The armies of the South have met
with serious reverses lately, but we have
looked in vain to see any exhibition of
a disposition to yield a cause for which
they have struggled with such desperate
and unyielding, valor. To all intents
and purposes the people of the revolted
States are as yet a unit. Fighting on
their own soil, as they do, animated by a
hatred the most intense and lasting, as
they are, there is no hope of their speedy
submission. They know that it is only
a question of endurance. They must
suffer much, but they are fully convinc
ed that if they can but rise superior to
the dread which the anticipation
of such suffering begets, that they
must in the end find themselves mas
ters of the situation, and able, if not to
secure independence, to dictate terms of
peacahle reunion. A continuance of
the fearful struggle must involve im
mense sacrifices of life and property on
their part, but we believe they are fully
prepared to make them.
It is true they have had bickerings
and dissensions lately ; but these have
sprung from a dissatisfaction with the
management of affairs among them
selves, not from the exhibition among
them of any disposition to accept such
terms of peace as Mr. Lincoln is ready
to offer. They have made important
changes. direction of their Con
gress, and with the full consent and ap
probation of Jefferson Davis, Robert E.
Lee has been made Commander-in-Chief
of the armies ei-1 the Confederacy, and
invested with Plenary powers. The
armies are to be filled up and re
organized ; 1111(1 a large force of negroes
will he attached to them in such capacity
as they shall and be found fitted for. By
the time the spring campaign opens
they will have made a desperate effort
to - put themselves in complete readiness
to meet our forces.
The war is inn yet over. All hope of
a speedy peace is dissipated. The
fanatics in power still persist in continu
ing the struggle for the benefit of the
negro. They Will not offer, and would
not accept peace on the basis of a re
stored Union, unless it came in such
shape as should secure them a continu
ance in power. This point they hope to
reach by prolonging the bloody strug
gle which has already proved so costly.
In the meantime there is an end to
volunteering in the North. The 'pa
triotic men, who voted for Lincoln and
more war, are not disposed to shoulder
their muskets and fight for their
opinions. The draft fixed for the 15th
of next month is sure to take place. It
will be as inexorable as it is inevitable.
There is no filling up of quotas, but an
anxious dread of the impending evil.
With the vanishment of all hopes of
a speedy peace is mingled a well-found
ed horror of theaccumulating evils of a
protracted war. Well may the heart of
the nation be sad, and the minds of the
people filled with anxious forebodings
9 Dead• Lock in Finances
The House of Representatives insist
upon having put into the General Ap
propriation Bill, a small item of some
40,00 U as extra pay to the employees of
that body. The Senate have refused to
concur. The House thereupon refused
to pass the bill until this was restored.
The eonequenee is a dead-lock in finan
cial ailltirs. The correspondent of the
New York llcraid, writing from Wash
ington, says:
There are now something over two
hundred millions of pressing demands
against the ( lovernment, including the
pay due the army, freight bills of rail
way companies, and debts due contrac
tors, which there are no present means
of paying. Certificates of indebtedness
being fundable in gold interest bearing
bonds, the Department will issue no
more of them without a reasonable pros
pect of realizing the gold to meet the
interest. Neither can the issues under
the late loan bill be devoted to this pur
pose until after the passage of the De
ficiency bill, now playing at shuttle
cock between the two Houses of Con
gress on account of the clause providing
extra compensation to House employees
of the last session. This embarrassing
state of affairs has brought many Hoy
eminent creditors here, who are beg
ging the members of the House to re
cede and permit the bill to pass."
Consolation for Democrats
Wendell Phillips is reported to have
" It is an unfailing rule of national
life that the party that carried you
th rough a war always vacates office when
it is ended, and the other party comes
in. In 1868 the Democracy is to preside
at the White House."
This, from so prominent an Abolition
ist and shrewd a politician as he is, should
be taken as warning by the now dom
inant party, and their acts and policy
should he shaped in accordance there
with. Of the many false and crude things
said by Phillips the above is not among
them. In this utterance he but quotes
history. He willget no thanks from the
leaders of his party, and yet he deserves
their most sincere regards for pointing
out to them the inevitable course of
events. If they are wise they will profit
by acting In the belief that a briefperiod
will break their rule, and that their
places at the helm of government are to
be assumed by new men of a new party.
It Is said that lowa is not only out of
the draft, but has an excess of about
RAM men to apply on future calls, If this
be so, Idwa is a good State to live in.
The people of Ohio, Indiana, Pennsyl
vania, New York and New Jersey, will
please take notice.
e
Forney's Press devotes column after
column to urging upon the pack` of
Abolitionists, now assembled in the
State Capitol at Harrisburg, the passage
of alaw tusking it a penal offence to
exclude any negro from the privilege of
riding hrthe street cars along with the
*bites ; and denounces any such com
promise as that of setting apart cars for,
their separate use. But, while doing
this, it also chimes in with the advance
men of the party with which it is allied,
and urges that the negro be endowed
with all the rights of citizenship. In
favor of the latter proposal it has not
yet spoken out quite so boldly as some
other organs of the administration, but
it is advancing, and will in due time be
fully up to the extremest demands of
the tines:
One by one the leaders of theparty now
in power are beginning to recognize the
ugly truth that stares theni in the face.
They know that to set the negroes free
without removing all restrictions which
have heretofore been placed upon them,
will be to make their condition worse
instead of better. They know well too,
that their lease of power must be very
short, unless they can devise some plan
by which to enable them to prevent the
future success of the Democratic party.
The only feasible plad for doing this
which suggests itself to their minds, is
to confer upon the negro the right of
voting. In and out of Congress this
project is now being agitated. One by
one the orators and the newspapers of
the Republican party are committing
themselves boldly and unreservedly to
this project. We call the especial at
tention of all our readers to the follow
ing leading editorial from the ,S'hippens
burg New,; a comparatively moderate
Republican newspaper, which earnest
ly supported Abraham Lincoln in the
last campaign. By the extract which
we give any thinking Republican ean,if
he will, take soundings for himself, and
tell how far he is prepared to drift with
the party to which he belongs. It is
high time fir ill men who are not pre
pared to endorse the doctrine of negro
equality to its fullest extent to turn
short round. How many Republicans
of this city and county are ready to
adopt the following as part of their po
litical creed at the present time. If
any there he who iibieat to it, let them
atonce abandon all connection with that
political organization which is fast be
ing committe 1 thereto.
Sago the ,Shipprii ibis j tuffs
'rho "lleconst ruetion " Bill now be
fore t 3e I ioust , of Representativebrings
up for discussion, and, we trust, for set
tlement, the most important question
involved in the ret urn of the .seceded
State to the Union, namely: whether
the rights of citizenship, including, that
of suffrage, shall be limited to the whit,'
male inhabitants of the States, or ex
tended to all, black as well as white.
To limit the rights of citizenship to
the white race, is to deny and reject
those great principles of justice and
equality, of the rights of man as man,
and of the brotherhood of men,—which
lie at the foundation of our political in
stitutions, :11111 the assertion of which is
the chief glory, as their maintenance
will be the chief strength, of our demo
cratic republic. And this course would
be, moreover, as eontrary to policy as to
prmiciple, to expediency as to right.
The black race at the South is that
part of the population upon whose
loyalty to the Union dependence can be
placed. They are the counterpoise to
their disloyal masters. They require
the right of suffrage, not only for their
own defence against the evil-disposed
and tyrannical white ruling class, but
also for the defence of the interests of
the Union against the selfish designs of
a disappointed, malignant, am4despotie
order. 'Without the right to Inte, the
black man is only all enianeipatiql slave;
with it, he is a freemen.
That there mitt hi lie risk of temporary
troubles were all the black male inhabi
tants of the Southern i - 7;tates admitted at
once to the polls, we do not question.
But this risk is easily to be avoided. Let
the proviso be established with which
Massachusetts has guarded the right of
suffrage, namely : that no one shall be
allowed to vote unless he can read and
write. The object of such a provision is
plain, and its peculiar adaption to the
case in point. It is a rough means fur
making sure that a man has secured at
least the elements of that education by
which he may befitted to exercise intel
ligently the right of suffrage, before he is
permitted to enjoy that right. Noargu-'
mentofunfairness, inequality, or injus
tice can be raised against it. It is but
the sequel and seal of the system of in-
struction whielt the state establishes
and maintains for the education of its
inembel - s and for its own safety. Pi., o
provision whieh ppl le, (quail!/ to I lir
`MEAN '11," HITE," THE IRISH
BOti-'IROTT ER, aia/ cinnncipotrtt
1117/;•,,. It 111:11,11,, invidious distille
ti(lll on the chance tot' birth, fin--
tune, or other externid circumstance,
it treats all alike, giving all an equal
chance, an , '! ",erry man to be
equal with e to rut" ill the trttr
spirit of a 1 . 11.110 1C d 1,, , T(1C.1/.
Let all loyal men who would see jus
tice secured and peaN.4.stablished, unite
in urging upon Congress the equal
claims of the black as well of the white
inhabitants of the South to the full
rights of citizenship.
Is it any wonder the people of the
430tith resolutely refuse to submit Is a
party which boldly announces such
doctrines as these as an essential part
of its future policy? When will a brave
and generous people become so abjectly
servile as to submit to such degruda
tion I Is it lint high time for the people
of the North to say to fanaticism such
as this,."thus far shalt thou go hut no
farther?''
A Rebel Spy on Trial
Some days ago a rebel officer named
S. B. Davis, rains \V. Cummings, a
lieutenant in the rebel service, was re
cognized by soldiers on board a railroad
train in Ohio, a, the former keeper of
the rebel prison pen at. A ndersonville.
He was arrested on charge of being a
sw, and is nA.w ipcf.,r e a court-martial
in Cincinnati. Thursday he made a
speech to the court, concluding as fol
lows:
" Gentlemen, I do not ask pity. My
heart fears nothing on this earth. I am
no coward. I, like the rest of you, have
faced bullets before to-day. some of
you have marks of them ; I can show
them, too. I ask not for pity ; I ask but
for justice. If, in justice, you or any
other court on God's globe can make me
out a spy, hang nie. (tentlemen, I am
not afraid to die. Young as I am,
scarcely verged into manhood, I would
like to live. But, gentlemen, I am no
coward, and I deem a man who would
stand here before his tel before
soldiers who have faced the foe, who
have felt bullets, and ask pity, does not
deserve the name of man. Had I
thought that you could have re ' arded
me as a spy, nothing could have forced
me out of Richmond. As to gathering
information, I have no way to show that
I have not done it. I know I have only
done my duty. I have done it as best
I could. God knows what I intended,
and He knows that I do not deserve
death. But if I die Igo without pity,
but as a soldier should die. I fear not
death, and I can go to the judgment bar
of God now, to-morrow, whenever it
may please the Chief Magistrate of this
country to say go."
Shameful
While New York and New England
are largely helping to maintain expen
sive military missionary establishments
in South Carolina and other Southern
States, there are facts existing right in
New York more deserving of attention
thap the negros on Tybee Island. The
Superintendent of Sanitary Inspectio4
in his annual report to City Inspector
Boole, states, "that in a certain part of
Cherry street, Fourth Ward, there are
two tenement houses, measuring each
18 feet in -width, 180 feet is depth, five
stories high, and that these toget her
contain 145 families, composed of 440
adults and 460 children, making a total
of 900 persons.'
TleEruOlty-or-Abol tionlsm.-
Were the fanaticism of the radical
Abolitionists not completely blind and
unthinking, the events occurring arounti
them every day would be sufficient to
induce them to pause in their career of
madness and folly. They have precipi
tated the most appaling and wide-spread
misery upon the white race of this
country, without, in any way, bene
fitting the negro. By breaking up the
social relations which existed between
the two races in the South, they have
failed to effect any good. The follow
ing appeal to the charity of the people
of the North in behalf of the many ne
groes, who followed Sherman's army in
its march through Georgia, will show
to wllat a miserable condition these poor
creatures have been suddenly reduced
by those who profess to be their friends.
With theSe facts before him, it cannot
take any man of ordinary judgment
long to determine-how little the negro
is benefitted by being torn from his
home on the plantations of the South,
to become a pensioner on the Govern
ment, or a wretched dependant upon
the precarious and uncertain charity of a
people already sadly oppressed with pe
cuniary burthens. v The appeal, which
follows, is published in the Washington
National Intelligenecr. Whileitexhibits
a sad picture of destitution, and strong
ly appeals to the charitable, it furnishes
an unanswerable argument against the
policy of the Abolitionistt :
APPEAL FOR THE BLACKS LIBERATED
BY SHERMAN'S ARMY IN GEORGIA
Good men and women of the North:
We earnestly appeal to you in behalf of
the thousands of suffering negroes which
Gen. Sherman has just liberated by his
triumphant march through Georgia.—
Wherever he has borne our flag they
have hastened to follow it, with ample
faith in the truth of the Government
and the charity of the nation. They
have arrived on the coast after long
marches and severe privations, weary,
famished, sick, and almost naked.
" Seven hundred of these wretched
people arrived at Beaufort, Christmas
night, in a state' of misery which would
have moved the advance of a host no less
destitute. Thestores of the Government
already overtaxed to supply a large army
are not available to relieve their wants,
and unless the charity of the North
conies speedily to the rescue, they must
die by hundreds from exposure a d
disease.
" So extreme and entire is the poverty
of these people, that nothing which
you can afford to give will come amiss.
Clothing is their most pressing need,
especially for wonten and children, who
cannot wear the cast-off garments of
soldiers. Shoes and stockings, suspend
ers, hats, awl underclothes of all kinds,
are hardly less necessary in this climate
than in the North. Ute'nsils, medicine,
money—anything you have to spare
will find its use among this wretched
people.
" The several Freedmen's Aid Socie
ties at the North are proper and suf
ficient channels for your beneficence.
For the sake of suffering humanity we
pray you let them he quickly and
abundantly filled."
" BEAt'Hobr, S. C'., Jan. 7, hsti.i."
Contributions in clothing or money,
in response to this appeal, sent to W.
E. Whiting, rooms of AnWrican Mis
sionary Association, 61 John street, New
York, will lie forwarded front that city
without expense.
The End Not let
ust now there are very many credu
lous people who are rt;sting quietly in
the belief that the war is about over.
We do not like to disturb such in their
pleasant fancies, and would gladly let
them dream on. Their condition is an
enviable one. Day by day, as regularly
as the mail arrives, they. read their ac
customed newspaper, which soothes
their spirits into the softest repose.
They believe what they see in print.
Why should they not do so? Is not the
sheet they peruse tonal, and, therefore,
truthful? Do not all newspapers of
that :,111111p agree in asserting that, now
at least, for the hundreth time, "the
backbone of the rebellion is broken. -
Ilas not Sherman captured Savannah •,
Is not Fort Fisher ours ? llow should
it be possible for the rebels to continue
the struggle?
We have no doubt there are very
many foolish people who expect be
tween this and spring to see the whole
Southern Confederacy on its knees be
fore Mr. Lincoln, begging for peace.
We very much fear they will be sadly
disappointed. \Ve see no hope, no near
prospect of any such Occurrence. We
do believe that under the control of
wise men a speedy and honorable peace
might be ohtaitied ; but we have no as
surance that the present Administration
are any Wiser to-day than they have
shown themselves to be in the past.
They have heretofore refused to make
any right use of our victories, and have
failed utterly to rear) any advantages
from them.
No man who reads the rebel news
papers, or listens to the utterances of
their public asseYnlili;?s can believe for a
moment that the Southern people have
the &tightest idea of submitting uncon
ditionally. Never was the spirit of bitter
and defiant hatered more plainly exhib
ited than at the present moment. They
neither talk nor think of submission.
It is true there is a feeling of despond
ency expressed, but it is all expended
in complaints of mismanagement on
the part of their rulers. They blame
Davis, and denounce Idm in no very
measured terms, but the tone of such
men and newspapers as do this is, if
possible, more hostile than that of any
others in the Confederacy.
Changesare being effected in the rebel
Cabinet. Mr. Seddon has resigned the
position of Secretary of War. tither
changes will follow. General Lee will
be entrusted with the supreme Comm nut
of the Southern armies, or will, at least,
occupy sushi a position as that now held
by (;rant. The spring campaign will
open vigorously on our part, and we
shall meet with stuliboni resistance.
The war is not nearly ended. The draft
must go on, and it will be more relent
less and sweeping than any which has
preceded it. The coming Fitli of Feb
ruary- will rudely awake many a credu
lous believer in the prophecies of Abo
lition newspapers from pleasant dreams
that the rebellion is crushed and the
war over. The end is not vet.
The Quota of Pennsylvania.
The entire quota of the state is, under
the recent call for 300,000 men, 49,563,
sub-divided thus among the several dis
tricts :
First Congressional District, 1,936
Second, 2,50 ; Third, 2,912 ; Fourth,
; Fifth, I,s43—Philadelphia and
Bucks.
Sixth, 1786—Montgomery and Lehigh.
Seventh, I,l2l—Chesterand Delaware.
Eighth, I,s6o—Berks.
Ninth, 2,sB4—Lancaster.
Tenth, 1,527-Schuylkill and Lebanon.
Eleventh, 2„sl3—Northampton, Car
bon, Monroe, Pike and Wayne.
Twelfth, I,49s—Luzerne and Susque
hanna.
Thirteenth, 2,3ol—Bradford, Wyom
ing, Sullivan, Columbia and Montour.
Fourteenth, 3,435---Bauphin North
umberland, nion, Snyderand
U Juniata.
Fifteenth, I, 9 2o—Cumberland, York,
and Perry.
Sixteenth, 2,4o3—Adams, Franklin,
Fulton, Bedford and Somerset.
Seventeenth, I,oo4—Cambria, Blair,
Huntingdon, and Mifflin.
Eighteenth, 2,lB7—Centre, Clinton,
Lycoming, Tioga and Potter.
Nineteenth, 2,
Jefferson.
Twentieth,
Mc-
Kean, Clearfield, Elk and
Twentieth ' I,sl2—Crawford, Venango
Mercer and Clarion.
.
Twenty-first, I,s47—lndiana, West
moreland, and Fayette.
Twenty-second, ...,572—Pittsburg.
Twenty-third, I ,77o—Allegheny in
part_, Butler, and Armstrong.
Twenty-fourth, I,64l—Lawrence,
Beaver, Washington, and Greene.
The quota pf Philadelphia, including
the outside portion of the Fifth district
(lucks county,) is nearly cate-fpurthpf
the whole-11,486.
The brave old sea-dog, Vice Admiral
Porter, has laid his heavy paw on Gen.
Butler, and nothing remains of the hero
of Big Bethel and the Haynau of New
Orleans, save the fame as a brazen
browed pettifogger with which he left
Lowell, and the fortune which he re
turns thither.
_ _
But hold ! This is not - all. Let us be
just. There remains also, and clings
about him, the detestatiOn of the civiliz
ed world beyond the water, the hatred
and scorn of all his countrymen and
countrywomen who love whatsoever
things are pure and of good report. And
last of all, there lingers about him the
odor of the praise of Thaddeus Stevens
—Thaddeus the gentle, the clean of
tonge, the chaste.
Butler -is thus with one coup wiped
out as cleverly as the admiral's tarswab
off a dirty deck, and almost as completely
as he would have been in a few days
more by the adoration of the Tribune
and the praises of the Post. The fact is,
Gen. Grant did not leave much to be
said when he told Butler,that in thefirst
place he had no - business to go to Fort
Fisher, and in the next place, that he
had no business to come away ; but the
admiral seems disposed to show that
wholesale lying about what occurred
while he was where he had no business
to be, and wherehe could not leave with
out disgrace, was not: the way to take
Fort Fisher, nor to cover his shame from
the eyes of the American people.
He says General Weitzel was selected,
and General Butler's name was never
connected with the expedition, except
to fit it out. When the expedition did
prepare to start, it was going to the at
tack on the supposition that the powder
vessel, originally prepared by General
Butler, would blow the fort down, and
the troops would have nothing to do but
walk in. He soon saw Butler depended
entirely on this powder boat, and that
there would be no assault from the be
ginning. It is not true, as Butler says,
that he gave the navy thirty-six hours
start. The transports started before the
navy disappeared. It was Butler's duty
to have rendezvoused at Beaufort and
waited until the monitors and powder
boat, on which so much depended, were
ready. The movements of the light
transports should have been subordinate
to large and slow moving frigates .and
iron -clads; and he should have been
where he could have arranged with me,
says Porter, all the details of the attack ;
but no, he kept out of my way, and, I
think, studiously.
Butler states that Admiral Porter was
quite sanguine he had silenced the.
guns of Fort Fisher, and that he was
urged, if that were so, to run by the
batteries intp Cape Fear river, and then
troops could land and hold the beach
without difficulty or without liability
of being shelled by the enemy's gunboat
Tallahassee, seen on the liver. Porter
says this is a deliberate mistatement,
adding : General Butler does not say
who urged me ; hut I never saw him or
his statrafter the landing ou the beach,
nor did I have any conversation with
hint or see him except on the deck of
his vessel, as I passed by in the flagship,
from the time I left Fortress Monroe
until he left here after his failure.
Admiral Porter further says, in denial
of l'Aitler'sstatewents, that he never had
the slightest intention of passing the
batteries until the fort was taken. The
department saw his plan, and the utter
impossibility of doing so. He would
certainly not have been influenced by
( len. R i s opinions in nautical matters,
or risked his vessels to amuse him.
Admiral Porter says;—" All the next
paragraph in General Butler's report,
in relation to what the Admiral said,
and what the Admiral declined to do, is
false from beginning to end. I never
had any conversation of the kind with
any one. Indeed, the whole report is a
tissue of misrepresentations, including
the part that says, 'the instructions he
received did not contemplate a siege,'
when lie knbws he never received
any instructions, and joined the expe
dition without orders."
I n reply to what General Butler says
about the weather assuming - a threaten
ing aspect, and the surf rolling in on the
beach and the landing becoming diffi
cult, Admiral Porter says : I assert the
landing on that day was smoother than
when General Terry landed there.—
There was no necessity for General
Butler re-embarking his men on 102-
,MM of the weather. General Grant
never contemplated the withdrawal of
the troops. He sent them there to stay,
and, having once effected a landing, he
knew that the most difficult part was
one.
After a further review Achniral Porter
says, in conclusion :—Permit the to say
that I do notsee what it matters whether
lleneral Butler's troops lande I one day
or another. He . decided the fort could
not be taken when he did land. lie
could not expect the rebels to leave a
work like that with less than five hun
dred men in it, and he certainly could
have tried to assault that number. Uen.
Terry had twenty-three hundred to con
tend against, and he carried the works
without a very serious loss, considering
the importance of the position, to the
country.
Greeley on Shernian's Order.
The New York Tribune condemns
eneral Sherman's order in regard to
the negroes of Georgia. :fin}• one, not
afflicted with " nigger on the brain,"
would, on reading the order, which we
I elsewhere, suppose Sherman
has given Unfree a very fair start in the
world. But the Tribune is not satisfied.
It does not consider it sufficient that the
escaped negroes should be given in fee
simple, as a goodly heritage, a broad
expanse of the best cotton lands of the
South. (;-reeley is a pnilosopher, while
Sherman is a mere soldier. Greeley
has studied for years theproblem of the
existence of the negro on this conti
nent ; and he is fully aware that one of
two things must inevitably happen.
Either all the boasted good of emanci
pation must be proved to be the verriest
lying cheat the world ever saw, or the
negro must be made the equal of the
white man. Left to himself, and com
pelled to compete with the stronger race
in the hard struggle for existence, he
roust always remain in a condition of
dependence and subordination,-no bet
ter in reality than slavery, so long as
the prejudice of color and cast exists.
All this is plain to the philosopher of
the Tpibunt. It is not strange, then,
that, with his humanitarian ideas, he.
should object toSherman's plan of deal
ing with the negro. Heal' kiln! lie
says:
"General Sherman assumes that the
negro is a race apart and different from
the white, and, if intrusted with free
dom, must be isolated and left entirely
to itself. The vicious principle of pre
judice against color lies at the bottom."
And again :
" IVe Bholl not begin to solve the prob
li in cif i'manolpotion till aim at mak
ing thr Sonthcrn blacks American ,iti
zoo;, with rill the rights, and
nlightenintnt that a Republican Goy
crii men( can bestow, and abandon the
notion that he is only a black man who
has ceased to be a slave, and hereafter
must have only such material fruits as
he can gather from his untrammeled
labor. To give them land is just and
wise.; they are entitled to that start in
life from a parental government. But
it is not just or wise to set them apart as
a race having nothing in common with
their white fellow-citizens, with the
same rights and the same responsibili
ties. To colonize the blacks abroad is
pretty generally acknowledged as an
absurdity ; to attempt to segregate four
millions of them at the South in colo
nies by themselves is a still greater one.
They must, like their fellows at the
North, take their chance as a part of
the whole people, free from the wrongs
and the disabilities of slavery, and aid
ed by contact with white civilization,
to become good citizens and enlighten
ed men."
Such is the erede of the chief thinker
of the Republican party; and to this
position all who conclude to hold fast to
that political organization must come at
last.
MASON & H.kIILIN'S CABINET OR
.
OANS.—Having taken some pains to
satisfy ourselves respecting the merits
of these new instruments, we are able
to speak very confidently in regard to
them, and to recommend them heartily
to our readers. We have not found any
difference in the opinions entertained
of them by musicians;•all value ,them
highly, and all agree that their superi
ority to all other instruments of the
class, American pr foreign, is indisputa 7
l'erk Examiner.
= = ~D iiii~ = lu = Sonora: ~-~'
The startling and seemingly improba
ble rumor of the cession of Sonora, Sin
aloa and other States of Northern Mex
ico to the Emperor Louis Napoleon by
Maximillian has been confirmed; . as
also the fact that Ex-Senator Gain has
been created a Duke, made Governor
General and. Vice Secretary or Viceroy
of the Emperor of the French. He is
invested with plenary powers in his
new office, and will be supported, if
need be, by French bayonets.
The silver mines of Sonora ate pro
verbially rich, but heretofore the Apache
Indians-have prevented them from be
ing worked. The lands are fertile, and
the climate one of the most 4.ealthful
and delightful in the world. The ter
ritory which has been thus ceded to
France, until such time as the debt
o\ing to. France by Mexico shall be
paid, embraces some two hundred and
fifty thousand square miles of the rich
est mineral and agricultural portion of
this continent.
Beyond a doubt Dr. Gwin has been
chosen as th instrument of Louis Na
poleon in this new scheme, because of
his ability to draw_ to this new
territory a large and increasing num
ber of resolute followers. A bold ad
denturer himself, he is known to be
hostile to the United States and strong
ly in sympathy with the rebellion,—
The following sketch of him, which
we take from the N. Y. Herald will be
read with interest:
William MacKendry Gwin was born
October 9, NV), in Sumner county, State
of Tennessee. He was the son of Rev.
James Gwin, a Methodist Episcopal
preacher of considerable celebrity in the
South. Upon attaining a sufficient age
and advancement of his studies, young
Gwin was admitted to Transylvania
University, Lexington, My., where he
completed his education and studied
medicine. He spent a short time in
Nashville, Tenn., and thence removed
to and settled in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
He never commenced the practice of
medicine, but turned his attention to
law and politics. }ie was admitted to
the bar, but never practised. In 15"23
he received anti accepted from General
Jackson the appointment of United
States Marshal for the State of Mississip
pi. In this position he was retained
through the administration of Mr. Van
Buren until the inauguration of General
Harrison to the Presidency in 1841. In
the same year he was elected to Con
gress. At the expiration of his term in
1845, he declined a re-election, which
was strongly pressed upon him by his
political friends. In 1857 he was ap
pointed by l'resident l'olk to superin
tend. the erection of the custom house at
New Orleans. In lie resigned this
position and removed to California,
then receiving the influx of a large emi
gration. In California he took a promi
nent part in the regulation of aintirs.
He was elected a delegate to the con
vention which formed a State Constitu
tion in Is4u, and with John C. Fremont
was elected United States Senator from
the new State. In January 1857 he was
re-elected for the term ending _Marc,,
1591.
Upon the expiration of his term of
office, ex-S (tutor Gwin returned to
California::: : was the true friend of the
enemies 01 he government in that
State. Meal. AdleMrs. (1 win continued
her residence in Washington, and lived
in the most sumptuous and defiant
manner. Her hoLISU was the meeting
place of such notorious spies as Mrs.
Greenough, Mrs. Phillips and others.
At the depot in Washington a trunk,
addressed to Mrs. (twin, was examined
and found to contain a large number of
gentlemen's shirts, some or them sewed
together. Upon separating them
it was discovered they concealed a map
of all the l'ffrtifications on the Virginia
side of the Potomac river. About the
same time Dr. G will's sun, a cadet at
West Point, resigned, and went to Mont
gomery, Alabama, to seek fin appoint
ment in the rebel army.
In November, 1,561, while on his re
turn to the States, Dr. Gwin was placed
under arrest by General Sumner, who
was a passenger on the same steamer.
The General had with him live hun
dred United States soldiers, and was
fully able to en force the act. The arrest
took place two days front the port of
Panama, and the charge against Dr.
Gwin was treasonable language. Im
mediately after the notification of the
fact of the Doctor's arrest, Mr. Brent, one
of the party, sought his stateroom on
the vessel, and was seen to throw
through the porthole into the sea a
number of papers and documents, maps,
(Sic. General Sumner now seized the
trunks of the party and placed seals
upon them. Mr. Brent and Calhoun
Benham, ex-United States District
Attorney for California, were also put
under arrest.
It was discovered that Dr. 0 win and
party had purchased tickets to Panama,
thence designing to embark at Aspin
wall for Havana, and thence to Europe,
it was supposed as agents of the rebel
government. On November hi the party
arrived in New York city, and Dr. 0 win
and his colleagues were committed to
Fort Lafayette. On December 2 the
United States Marshal received instruc
tions to release Hon. Wm. Mack. bi win,
Calhoun Benham and J. L. Brent,
Esqrs., upon their parole to report them
seves to the state Departmeht at Wash
ington for explanation, and to remain
thereafter on parole, subject to the direc
tion of the Secretary of Sta te. Dr. win
was subsequently released from his pa
role and left for Europe. Ile spent most
of his time in l'aris, and was on terms
of intimacy with Louis Napoleon. Of
Dr. Uwin's actions during the interval
up to the present little-is known. He
was a great speculator, and always had
the fortune to meet with extraordinary
success, in the accom push in en t of which
he consulted ends, not means. He is a
man fully six feet in height, good form,
with a full and not displeasing face.
What Mr. Blair Proposed to the ('onfede
rate Authorities, and the Reply lie Re
•
ceived.
[From the Richmond Sentinel, January :24.
•
Mr. Blair left Richmond yesterday
morning upon the steamer Allison with
Commissioner Ould for the truce boat
at Boni ware's landing. It is understood
that Mr. Blair's mission to Richmond
was emphatically one of peace. After
laying before our authorities, informally
of course, the wishes of the Federal gov
ernment, the interpretation'of which is
peace on a subjugation basis, and find
ing that these modest desires were not
likely to be complied with, he came
down pointedly to a proposition of re
union upon any terms, and desired to
know upon what terms the South would
agree to return to the sheltering aegis of
the old flag. He suggested the Union
as it was, the nigger as he is, and the
South as it used to be. He suggested
also that the North would foot the bill
and taxes for all the negroes stolen
and property destroyed by the ar
mies and emissaries of Federal usurpa
tion. Of course he made all these
suggestions on his own responsibility;
but whether deemed authoritative or
not, he received not the slightest en
couragement to hope for reunion, and
was made to understand that the South
was lighting for independence, and in
dependence only. He then inquired
whether, if the independence of the
South was recognized by the federal
government, the South would make
common cause with the North and drive
the French from Mexico. The response
understood to have been given to this
diplomatic feeler was : "Make the pro
position formally and officially and you
will get a reply." fhis is the s übstance
of Mr. Blair's political conversation
with persons in and out of authority
while in Richmond, so far as we have
been able to learn. There may be some
thing yet sub roses, but we doubt it,
though, probably, there may have been
some allusions to driving the English
out of Canada, in connection with the
last proposition.
A Terrible Scene
A gentleman who has returned from
the battle-field of December Pith, near
Na.shville, whither he went in quest of
the body of a slain brother, describes to
the Chicago Post the scene as one of un
mitigated loathing and horror. The
rebel Bead still lie upon the field un
buried, and in all the ghastliness of
death as it fell upon them in the shock
and carnage of battle. In some places
where charges were made and repulsed,
the poor wretches lie in heaps, oneupon
the other, as they had fallen in the agony
of death. The excuse given for not
burying them, was that the living were
too busy in chasing the men under Hood
to stop to care for the dead.
— The Senth
Proposed Invasion of the North by Ne
groes—The Richmond Cabinet—Speen
lotion as to the New Members to be
Appointed—New Command_ for Etreck
.. ittritige--Early Superseded in Com
mand by. Gordon, &c.
[From the Richmond Examiner, January 24.]
It is reported that Gen. Breckinridge
has been assigned to the command of
the Trans-Mississippi Department.
Yankee Prisoners to be Sent North.
[From the Richmond Dispatch, Jan. 24.]
One thousand Yankee prisoners, con
fined in Libby prison, will be sent North
in the flag-of-truce boat to-morrow
morning. The number of prisoners
now on hand in this city is upwards
of three thousand, including about sixty
officers.
The Cabinet Changes. •
(From the Richmond Dispatch, Jan. 21.]
As no appointment of a Secretary of
War has yet been made, the office can
not be said to be yet vacant, as Mr.
Seddon's resignation has not been ac
cepted. Among the gentlemen, named
to succeed Mr. Seddon, is Governor
Leteher, of Virginia. It was reported
yesterday that the Hon. J. P. Benjamin,
Secretary of State, has sent in his resig
nation. We think this is true, though
we have no positive information on the
subject.
Candidates for the War Secretaryship.
[From the Richmond Whig, Jan. 21.;
The vacant Secretaryship of \Var is
a very vexatious question to the public,
and the problem as to who"shall till it
will hardly be made known until Mr.
Davis sends his nomination to the
Senate. On the street, yesterday, Gen.
Breckinridge, Who is in the city, ex-
Governor Letcher, Gen. Howell Cobb,
Gen. G. \V. Smith, and others, were
prominently spoken of in connection
with the position.
General Early Superseded by General
Gordon.
yriau the Richmond Dispatch, Jan
A letter from Gen. Leers army an
nounces that Major General Gordon has
been placed in command of the Second
Corps, lately commanded by Lieutenant
General Early.
(itiry's Brigade in Line of Battle.
L From tiny Richmond Examiniir, Jan. 21.]
For sonic hours yesterday morniniz,
in consequence or some movement of
the enemy on our-extreme left, General
Gary's cavalry brigade was held in line
of battle, but the enemy made no at
tack.
Gold Falllng,—Conlederate Money and
Fortunes Together.
From the Ilichmontl Examiner, Jan.
The price of gold is falling, and this
time it is no fluctuation or delusion.—
Those who have thrown away their con
federate money tOl'hold a little gold, and
those who have speculated on the dis
asters of their country are about to re
ceive a terrific lesson. The government
has no great amount of notes in circula
tion, and the assets of the Confederacy
will redeem every cent of its obligations.
Confederate money and the fortunes of
the Confederacy will soon rise together.
The downward tendency of gold is en
couraging. Private sales were made on
yesterday at thirty-eight for one, a fall
of more than one , hundred per cent. in
less than a weed.
Proposed Negro lova. of the North.
From the Hietlllloll.l DiSparell,
•,
Our ( leston letter says: Now let
us say to the North that we are on the
defensive—that they can stop this war
immediately by Withdrawing their
troops. If they refuse, let Congress
put three hundred thousand slaves in
the army, and put deeds of emancipation
in' their pockets, march one hundred
thousand to Pennsylvania, one hundred
thousand to Ohio, and one hundred
thousand to Indiana. Tell them to spare
nothing - but old men, women and
children, to live on the country, lay
waste as they march, to rob banks,
to take every kind of property
they want, to have it as their own, to
load every wagon, horse, mule, and
with the spoils, and bring it back to
their old homes, and enjoy it and
freedom for life. How long would
(tram stay at City Point ? I have heard.
officers ()thigh rank say they would
cheerfully volunteer to command the
negro troops. Under the late law to
consolidate comnanies, etc., hundreds
of officers will he without commands,
who would willingly command these
troops. Let Congress do this, and, in
the language of this intelligent Viegin
ian, before next Fourth of July the war
would end, and our indepqndence would
he acknowledged. Keep the men over
forty-live at home, and put the negroes
in the army.
The Radicals Opposed to Peace
'Elie slight appearance of a hope that
peace may come, through the negotia
tions which are now being so much
talked of, has alarmed the radical lead
ers of the Abolition party in Congress.
On Monday,
Mr. Clark, of N. H., offered the fol
lowing, whieh wits ordered to be print
ed and laid upon the table for the pre
sen t :
mid Hulls( of
Repit.BenfitlireB itl (b/1/11"( 58 (18800 ble7d,
That no negotiation, terms of settle
ment, or concussion, or compromise, be
entered into, proposed, yielded or made
with the rebels, directly or indirectly,
until they have manifested their implicit
and unconditional submission to the
authorities of the Government; and,
further, that, however nitwit peace may
be desired, the present war must be
waged with all the resources and energy
of the Government, until said submis
sion shall 612 secured, and the supremacy
of the Constitution and the laws estab
lished over the entire territory of the
United states as heretofore claimed.
The title of the above is " A resolution
declaring- the sense of Congress upon
the subject of negotiation."
No one who understands the temper
and designs of these desperate men, can
doubt for a mmneut that any attempt
to bring about a speedy and honorable
peace will meet with their persistent
and united opposition. Peace on the
basis of a restored Union is the very
thing they have mcist,yeason to dread.
They could, in such an event, only es
cape the righteous vengeance of an out
' raged people by ignominiously creep
ing into obscure retirement. They are
to day, as they have been in the past,
the bane and curse of the country ; the
villainous authors of all the woes that
have come upon us. If they find in
Mr. Lincoln the slightest disposition to
yield any one of their fanatical designs,
for tile sake of staying bloodshed and
resioi ug the Mon, they will bring
such a pressure to bear upon him as he
never encountered before; and there is
but very little reason to hope that he
will have manhood enough to resist it.
These fanatical and bloodthirsty wretch
es are the power behind the throne
at Washington. They will have to be
silenced in sonic way before rumors of
peace can amount to anything. It would
matter but little how this was done, so
it were but done effectually.
Annual Statement of the Coffee Trade of
=CMIIM
The New York Shipping List of the
18th inst. contains the annual state
ment of the Coffee trade of the United
States, by which it is shown that the
total receipts in the United States for
the year ending December 31, 1864, were
1,06-5,889 pkgs, weighing 145,304,10.57
against receipts in 1863 of 508,275 pkgs,
weighing 75,269,417 lbs, and the total
consumption in 186-1 was 109,086,703 lbs,
against a consumption in 1863 of 79,719,-
6411b5, being an increase of 29,307,062
lbs; or 36 84-100 cent. The stock of
Rio at the ports, as made up by Messrs.
Wm. Scott & Sons, is 43,994 bags, viz. :
5,800 in Baltimore, 1,000 in Philadelphia,
and 37,194 in New York.
Skating in Paris
The Paris correspondent of the New
York Times says the skating costumes
this winter are very brilliant, in
that city "on ice." 'Young America,
as usual, carries off the palm. He adds:
On the Imperial skating pond, that is
to say, the pond on which the Imperial
family and their friends skate, and to
which are invited the best skaters from
the other ponds, Miss P. Low, of mas
sachusetts, has been the lioness, and
Mr. Marshall, bank note engraver, from
New York, the lion. Miss Lowe cuts
her name with facility on the ice, which
is a great feat for a lady - in this country ;
and while she and Mr. Marshall perform
their wonders, the imperial party form
a circle and look on in admiration. Mr.
CiimMaC, ' Mr. Ross, Mrs. Ryer and
many rther AmCrican gentlemen and
ladies have "gone up head" forsuperior
Skating; and been admitted into thp
ranki of the select on the reserved le,lo.
ftemi of lfewe.
Me.4tsrs. itichardzion , and . Brown, the
escaped journalists, appeared before the
Committee on the Conduct of the War,
and testified to the cruel treatment of
our prisoners by the rebels. On Novem
ber 25th, many of the prisoners had
been without foodibr forty-eight hours.
They mention deliberate cases of kill
ingand wounding' During twomonths,
from the 18th of October to the 18th of
December, the deaths were 20 per cent.
of the whole number. When they left
at the latter date they were dying at an
average rate of 13 per centum a month.
In consequence of the numerous ac
cidents which have recently occurred
in the Bergen tunnel, through which at
least and hundred heavily laden trains
of the New York and Erie and Morris
and Essex railroads pass daily, the
Judge of the Hudson County - Court, of
New Jersey, at the openi4of the Jan
uary term, called the particular atten
tion of the Grand Jury to the nuttier,
and those gentlemen have rendered a
rep, rt highly censuring the Erie Coln
pan . and presenting the tunnel as a
publit. nuisance.
Thy machine shop of the Mahoning-
Divi,ion of the Atlantic and Great
We-t _rti Railroad, at Youngstown,
was destroyed by fire on the
hoorting of the 2,5 th. The property de
stroy,d is valued at fifty thousand dol
lars.
Steithern theatricals seem to lie thriv
ing. The,Selma theatre was reopened
on i.• 2d. Miss Virginia Kenthle, of the
Mae,' theatre, is in trouble, the editor
of Cte Confederacy having intimated
that idte was not ti chaste as ice. Miss
Elle Ili.tir Aren is manageress of the
MoMi, theatre. Miss Eloise Bridges
has just closed an engagement at the
Wilmington theatre. Porter anti Terry
did t saute thing the other day !tear
by \\ riming - ton.
The A meriean Railroad Journal shows
the leilgth and cost of every railroad in
the united States. The total miles in
loyal States it:3,431,062, completed:2,:t:l7,-
2.1:1; cost of road and equipment,S2,ot - to,-
'Fatal miles in rebel States
1,49•2,70'2, completed Miti,94u; cost of
road and equipment_S:237,o,ls,ss7.
Admiral Porter reports the capture,
on die night of the _4th, of the hli e
steamer Blenheim, from
Nassau, with a valuable cargo.
The Richmond Ex(tmia,r says that
all tb blockade-runners in Cape Fear
river eseaped to sea before the frill of
Fort Fisher.
The may, of Boolievilk, AL., mi.
McDcarmon, committed a murder in
that town on Friday, and fled for part.'
unknown. No particulars are given,
hut the Police are on the lookout Gn•
him.
The t•ebels hold a fraction more than
, 43,01 in Federal prisoners, :11111 (Ili' Fed
era's hold over 75,0n0 rebels, all11111U:
whom at•e twenty-one Major:mil
Generals.
A Charleston dispatch of the 1:Ith
inst., says the Union pickets extend a
short distance east of Pocobil kir°, on the
Charleston and Savannah Railroad, and
that the road has been partially destro\ -
ed, the piers burned and the iron taken
away.
A Union gunboat lately madca reeon
noissance up the Red River as far asthe
mouth of Bliwk and dispersed a
Rebel catop, the only force of the enenry
discovered.
The Cleveland iron rolling, mills, lo
cated at Newburg, Ohio, won. partially
destroyed by lire; on the inst., in
volving a loss of forty thousand dollars,
on which thereore insuranees for thirty
thousand dollars.
A number of incendiary li res among
barns and unocdttpichl buildings have
occurred lately - at Batavia, N. Y. Last
Tuesday night an old brewery, used
for the storage of barley and other
grain, was set at fire and destroyed.--
'Phelossesareestimated at twenty thous
and dollars.
Over one hundred and forte men,
nearly all soldiers, were killed by the
boiler explosion on board the steamboat
Eclipse, in the Tennessee river, near
Johnsonville, on last Thursday.
The one and two dollar notes to he is
sued by the Treasury Department to the
national banks will soon he delivered by
the Treasury.
Hon. It. S. Smith, Treasurer of the
State of New Jersey, was taken with
paralysis, on Sunday morning last, and
died on yestoiday. Ile had held his
of
fice for 15 years.
Yesterday afternoon Andrew J. Bur
roughs, a clerk in the office of the Comp
troller of the Currency, Washingnin,
was shot by a young woman named
Mary Harris, from Chicago. She ap
proached him in the Treasury building,
and diseharged a pistol, inflicting an
immediately mortal wound. She sub
sequently told conflicting stories as to
the reasons for the commission of the
deed.
The Secreffiry of War yesterday sent
to the Senate a list of the General offi
cers in the service of the United States
on the lirst of January, It com
prises eo major generals, and :21;5 briga
dier generals making a total of :3:a. Of
this timelier '24:3 are in command, .20e of
whom are brigadiers. Eight majorgen
erals and 12 brigadier generals are
awaiting orders, and one major genend
and 14 brigadier geueralsare off duty on
account of woffiels and sickness. These
are Generals Sickles, Ricketts, Asboth,
Bartow, R. O. Tyler,eliernmelpfennig,
Paul, Gresham, Underwood, Conner,
Mclntosh, Bradley, Long, Fagan, and
Stannard.
-tannard, now brigadier, (iene•akk
tys and liuffe are prisont-tr or war
Two medical students got into a quar
rel about negroes riding in the ears To,
the Continental Hotel, Philadelphia,
yesterday, when one deliberately lired
pistol at the other, but without efrect.
A fire in Richmond, Indiana, yeHteN
day morning, destroyed prola Vahled
at two hundred thousand dollars.
On last Thursday night, while a train
on the Ohio and Mississippißailroad was
approaching Cincinnati, and within
two miles of that city, one of the cars,
filled with.passengers, became detached,
and rolled down an embankment
twenty-five feet high. A number of
the occupants were injured, but non
fatally, and they were all gathered up
and placed in the other cars, and the
train arrived at its destination only
thirty minutes behind time.
A Word on Peace
There are men who talk as if war
were a normal condition, and who start
at the suggestion of peace as if sonic
wrong were done the nation. But all
v..ars must have an end, even ho-e. cal -
rh•d on, as so felt ever have been,
the highest good of the people, though
all may not be attained which the vic
torious party, at the outset, promised
itself: Ordinarily it is a struggle of en
durance. It is a question of pluck and
resources, and resources, as in all human
affairs, are the groundwork of courage.
Which can hold out the longest ? Which
con hold out no longer? There conics
always a tinie when the last is a vital
question, and when it conies peace is
inevitable. We may or we may not
have reached that poidt, but the signs
are, at least,_ significant, and wise men
will ive them due consideration.
In' the natural course of things peace
is imminent. It may be the immmi
nence of weeks or of months; certainly
it cannot be delayed beyond the dura
tion of one more campaign.
Mr. first visit to Richmond
was neither fruitless nor useless, or it
would not have been repeated. Without
pretending to know anything of its de
tails, we, in common with evrybody
else, arrive at this conclusion. Not less
significant is the gradual but steady de
cline in the price of gold.
It has been going down for weeks,
with certain fluctuations attributable
merely to speculation. Gold gamblers
and brokers are not the arbiters of our
destiny. They cannot make peace, but
they are careful observers of the signs
that herald it. Those who command the
market are advised, not 'only of all
that is going on at Washington, but
their lines of communication extend to
Davis' cabinet and Lee's headquarters.
Money is a great power, and commands
the secrets of State. is Lee thinking of
the evacuation of Richmond? Does
Davis look with approbation upon the
movements of the party against him ?
Does he dread some sudden movement
of the Union party in any particular
State ? The gold gamblers know. Their
friends at Richmond advise them of
coming events, and gold touches 200—
falls below it.
We are not more sanguine than our
neighbors, nor are we mote hopeful of
or anxious for peace; neither do we pre
tend to more wisdom. But we hail the'
flash of those bright streaks of the com
ing day, and do not choose to shut dur
eyes to them because others, with closed
e n. ye io ll u ds n , e keep out the light.--Nsw . York