NEWS FROM ALL NATIONS. —A private letter from New Orleans states that there are £'2.000,000 worth of cotton stored in the interior of Mississippi, within the Rebel lines, that has lieen bought up by operators inside of our lines, in some cases as low as two cents per pound. Transportation at the risk of the speculators. —The Internal Revenue receipts on Mon day were over $1,300,000. On Saturday last they touched the high figure of $1,500,000. —A conflagration at Andover, Afass., yes terday morning, totally destroyed the Phillips Ac ademy : loss about $26,000, mostly covered by in surance. —lt lias been decided in the War Depart ment that a veteran can enlist in Hancock's Corps as a substitute for an enrolledman liable to milita- ; rv duty, but cannot receive the special bounty pro vided for this Corps. —The Adjutant-General of Connecticut, now in town, says that that State is now over 4,000 ahead of the last call for troops, and that it is pro liable that no draft will be made. The Ailjoiiy Argus of Wednesday says: "The Hudson River is frozen over between Albany I and Rondout.but from that point to New York nav- j igation is unobstructed except by occasional fields ! of loose ice." —Richard (4. Cole, a prominent citizen and for thirty-two years Cashier of the Bank of Burlington, Vermont, died at his residence there on Sunday evening. —R. B. Reed, member-elect from Wash ington County to the Pennsylvania House of Rep resentatives, died a few days since. —W. AI. Kerr, President of the Harris burg (Pa.) Bank, died in that city on Sunday List. ! —Gen. Sherman's youngest child, about j six months old, died last week, at the residence of I Speaker Colfax, South Bend, Indiana, where Airs. ; Sherman is sojourning. —A new line of railroad is proposed to ' be constructed from Mt. Camiel, in Nortliuniber- ! laud county, to the month of Lizard Creek, in the i Lehigh Valley, to form a direct and independent ' outlet from the great middle coal fields to the liar- I bor of New York. —The recent cold "snap" was severe enough in the Northwest. At St. Paul the mercury . ranged from 26 below zero to 3 to 10 above for four ■ days ; and at Madison, Wisconsin, it reached "20 to | '24 deg. below, according to locality. —By the arrival at New Yoik, at 5 o'- 1 clock Monday morning, of the steamship Cuba, we ] have the sad news announced in Ln France of the '2d hist., of the death, from apoplexy, of the Hon. Win. L. Dayton, our able and efficient Minister to j France. This is a public loss and one that we can ill afford at the present time. —One hundred and nine wounded prison ers were received at the rebel camp in Elmira on Saturday last. They are from the hospitals at Washington. Nine of the men had suffered ampu tation. They were moved from the depot to the camp in an army wagon. AYliilo Garret Davis was running a muck on Monday at the Government, in behalf of some imprisoned Kentucky traitors, the conserva- , tism of Senatorial debate was shocked hy a woman shouting at him in the gallery. " Yon are a trai tor. Her husband pursuaded her into the hall, and begged her to be quiet. " I won't he quiet," she answered. "That Senatoi is a traitor ; and if you men had the souls of men. he and all other traitors would be tiling out of this Congress." That woman was respectfully listened to and not arrest ed. —From the report made at the anniver sary of the Protestant Episcopal Tract Society, in New York city, we learn the Society had circulated 2.0x7,210 tracts and pamphlets, at an expense of #2,331 71. Bishop Potter and Rev. Dr. MeA'ieke, took part in the exercises. The annual sermon was preached by Rev. Dr. Geer. —The wife of Judge Buckuer S. Morris was arrested at Chicago on Sunday, and taken to Camp Douglas. A number of packages, addressed to rebel prisoners at that camp, were found at her residence. —The Secretary of War has promulga ted an order directing every officer and soldier ca pable of doing duty to repair at once to their places in the field. He says : "Every effort innst be made to till up the ranks, strengthen our armies and aid the patriotic and gallant troops now smiting the reeling enemy with victorious blows." —The iron-clad gunboat Alaiiyuuk was successfully launched on Saturday afternoon from the ship-yard of Mason it Suowden, at South Pitts burgh. Pa. —The Rebel Gens. Marmuduke, Cabell and Gordon passed through Boston on Sunday to Fort Warren. —The evidence in the ease of the ship Great Western which was detained at Liverpool on account of alleged recruits for the United States army among its passengers, proved so weak that tin Government had to release it. The owners of the ship intend to claim damages fix tin the Govern ment. —Alaxiinilliaii boasts that the Mexican jicople are devoted to him and his Government. \et lie keeps a foreign legion, probably for the pur pose of preventing the Mexicans, in the exuber ance of their joy and satisfaction, from doing the Euijieror any injury. —An application has been made to the Governor of Maryland for the pardon of James Harris, colored, who was, some time ago, convict ed for assisting his children to escape from the bondage of slavery, and sentenced to six years and six months imprisonment. —A Yieksburg paper says ; The resi dence of Mrs. Lucy Davis, a sister-in-law of Jeff Davis, was most beautifully illuminated last even ing. in honor of the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of tie Cnited States. Both branches of Congress have pass ed the bill amendatory of the Internal Revenue Law imposing a duty of #2 per gallon on distilled spirits on and after the first of January next, and the bill only awaits the President's signature to be come a law. —Early Friday morning a party of guer rillas of White's command attempted crossing to tin Maryland shore on the ice,about Muddy Branch, on the Potomac. Tlicy were discovered by the pickets of the Frst New Hampshire Cavalry, and were driven back. One guerrilla was shot dead.— Mnj. Andrews, who commanded at the point, is in nightly expectation of raids, now the canal and river are frozen, and lias accordingly strengthened his picket line. —Rear-Admiral Porter, under date of the 15th inst.. informs the Navy Department of the blockade-runner Petrel, which was drawn ashore at New Inlet, Cape Fear River. She was thou tired upon mid sunk, and finally was totally destroyed by the north-east gales. She had on hoard a large cargo of IUTUS and munitions of war, all of which was lost. —Several days ago a portion of our cav alry scouted as far up us White Plains, on the Ma . uauas Gap Railroad, and coming up to a large par ty of guerrillas, a tight ensued. The latter were routed, with a loss of one major, one lieutenant, mortally wounded, and fifte. ~ prisoners, taken by our troops. —Admiral Porter reports that within the last 15 days the blockade fleet off Wilmington cap tured or destroyed $5,500,600 worth of the enemy's property in blockade-runners, about two-thirds of Yi hich covers captured property. Towanda, Thursday, December 29,1864 S&y*- In accordance with our usual cus tom, we shall not publish any paper next week. AYe extend the compliments of the season, to our many readers, and wish them prosperity and happiness during the coming year, with many joyous recurrences ol" this festive season. MR. WARD'S ADIJRESS. We owe our neighbor an apology tor not noticing sooner his Address t<> the Demo cratie Party; hut the pressure of engage-1 ments incident to our enlargement, must be ; our excuse for this—up to the present— I oversight. The first thought that came to us after reading this production, was that of regret j for its author, extreme regret for one we have known and respected for so many years ; and this because it must bring him I mortification, and be a positive disadvan- j tage. It is indeed surprising that a man j of so much political experience, so much I intelligence, so much personal pride, and respectability, should put his name to such j a document. Immediately after the election, but be fore all the returns were in, Air. WARD tele graphed to New York that this State had given a democratic majority of 20,000. Afterwards this turned out to be about 40,- 000 from the mark. Can it be possible that I Air. WAIU now charges fraud upon the Ke- i publicans in order to mitigate the effect of this blunder ? Or, is it done to cover up i frauds on the democratic side? The read-1 er will discover before we close this article, j that we strongly suspect the latter to be | the controlling motive, though the former may have had some influence in the same direction. One of the worst features of this address is, its false insinuations. It is ever considered unmanly, and uncandid to make charges against another by inueu does, and here we have an abundance of them. If Air. W. expects any political, or any personal advantage from this deviation from the path of tVrness, his many years of human experience have thus far profited him little. But we will refer more partic ularly to some of these tergiversations here after, and will now only ask the chairman of State Democratic committee why lie did not say out plainly, that negroes voted with the Republicans? This would have had the merit of being courageous,as it is, he has the credit of coining the falshuod, with out this redeeming quality. How strange political infatuation will ldind men to the truth, and right ! And how enraged an honorable minded man would be, could he, with disinterested, and unprejudiced vision, behold the grovelling attitude to which par tizan blindness leads. But enough of this. Now we assert positively that no negroes voted in the state, or in the army, and that no other illegal votes were cast, on the' R epublican side , and this we will proceed to demonstrate. In the first place, the Repub licans had no need of such aid to carry the election. It was manifest months before that Mr. Lincoln would be re-elected, and it was equally certain that this state would go for him. t'andid, intelligent democrats ad mitted this. .So what need of fictitious bal lots ? Air. Ward is as unfortunate in his selection of a location upon which to charge fraud, as he has been in his manner of mak ing these charges. Of all places, a dis creet democrat, would have avoided refer ring to Philadelphia, where the democratic party made itself notorious, in 1856, by the boldness, and extent of the frauds it per pertrated. It the democratic chairman has forgotten these, the country has not ; and to rake up to remembrance so disgraceful a passage in the history of that party, was not polite, especially so, that lie seems to have no evidence of false voting except the large vote cast in Philadelphia. For he asks, " who believes she ever had 1)9,80(1 votes?" Let us examine this. At the last census Philadelphia had a population of 5(55,329. Her present vote, therefore, is less than one to every fire inhabitants.— Alontgootery, an ad joining, and a democrat ic county, had at the last census, T0,500 in habitants. On this she now polls a vote of 14,815, making one vote to every four in habitants. From this it is plain that Phila delphia gave 41,582/ ess votes than Mont gomery, in proportion to her population.— Or, in another form, if Philadelphia had given as many votes in proportion to her population as Montgomery gave at the last election, she would have given 151,382, in stead of 99,809. If we go t< Bucks and Berks counties, two other democratic coun ties, this same disparity is found in favor of Philadelphia ; both casting a vote to every /our inhabitants. And with these facts staring him in the face, how can Air. Ward charge fratul upon Philadelphia ? But this is not all. In comparing the popula tion, and votes, of the counties of Chester and Montgomery, a new phase is given to this question. From this comparison fraud looks out very strong on lhe other side.— Chester with a population of 74,578, gave, at the last election, 14,433 votes, while Montgomery, with a population of 70,500, 3,933 less than Chester, cast 14,815 votes, 372 more than Chester. The latter should have 786 more than the former, showing a fraud of 1,158 votes in Montgomery coun ty. Lancaster with a population of 116,- 5514, gave 22,926 votes, and Berks, with a population of 93,818, gives 19,976 votes. The former should have 4,499 more votes than the latter, and has only 2,950 more, showing a disparity in favor of democratic Berks of 1,549 votes. Bradford, our own county, where Mr. Ward resides, and where lie well knows, no frauds are committed on the republican side, at any election, gives 44 more votes than democratic Dehigh, and she should give 996 more. But more yet. The population of the 33 counties of the state giving republican majorities is 1,819,- 936, and on this a vote of 296,389 was cast, less than one to every six inhabitants. The 33 democratic counties gave 276,308 votes, on a population of 1,082,279, more than one vote to every four inhabitants ! Had the republican counties voted as did the dem ocratic, the republican vot 1 would have been 453,634, instead of 296,339. So the democrat* have a dear yain <>f 157,245 votes j over the republicans, and will the chairman of the Democratic State Committee tell us how they procured this immense extra vote, j if it was not through fraud? Why should j their counties poll more than one vote to j every four inhabitants, and our counties j less than one to every sir inhabitants ? Does this look like fraud at the election, pose in our next to examine fur ther this address of Air. Ward. THE PURITANS. The copperhead press is constantly teem- < ing with abuse of the Puritans, and their descendants. No epithets seem to be too vile, no baseness too low lor this purpose ; | and whilst, as a rule, there is not a word of truth in these charges, it is ungenerous ! in the extreme. The people who have made the rude, rocky, barren hills of New England " blossom like tiie rose," and whose ; industry, perseverance, skill, genius, has done more than that of any other section, to bring prosperity and glory to this nation, deserve better ; but, "the better the man, the better the abuse," holds good in this as in other cases. We have been led to notice these sland ers of a noble people, because it is charged, " that in their opposition to Shivery they arc not so much actuated by sympathy for Four Millions of Slaves, as by a jealous hatred of Three Hundred and Forty-Seven Thousand Slave-IFolders." The idea that any sensible man envies the situation of the Slave-Holder, is rather preposterous : but let that pass. The Puritans, and their descendants, dislike the unjust privileges which the Three Hundred and Forty-Seven Thousand Slave-Holders possess, over the same number of any other class of citizens of the United States. As white freemen they would be entitled to three Congress men, but they sent twenty in additii n, and had the same number of Presidential Elec tors. Tlus power makes Slave-Holders arrogant, and the patronage which it yields has made dough-faced democracy just what it is, a party sympathizing with rebellion. These sycophants to the slavcoeraey, can see no injustice in giving' to Three Hun dred and Forty-Seven Thousand Slave- Holders, as much power as Two Alillioiis of Northern Freemen possess. Again. It is often asked " when did the Puritanical Abolitionists commiserate wretchedness, except by long faces, hypo critical cant, and pharisaical prayers ? When did the poor go from their doors with their wants relieved ? No, no, their sync pathies only go tip for the Slaves, and that costs them nothing." These interrogato ries, witii their hase insinuations, can well be answered by asking when did the no ble-hearted sons and daughters of New England refuse literal aid to the needy or destitute, at home or abroad? When a .Southern City was burnt, what plaee sent the sufferers the most money? The answer is, Boston ! When the A ellow Fever raged in the cities of the South, what place gave the most liberally to relieve the sufferings of the distressed ? The answer is again, Boston ! A few years ago, Norfolk, in A'ir ginia, was scour ed with Yellow Fever. A Howard Committee was appointed by the citizens, to receive and use all gifts sent for the relief of the sufferers. That Uonnnittee reported that Boston, glorious Old Boston, had sent them Nineteen Thou sand hollars. A larger stun than had been received from all the eities South of the I'o- tomue. So that one .single city in New England, the descendants of the niggardly Puritans, gave more to relieve the suffer ings of a distressed Southern Pity, than all the cities in thirteen Southern States com bined, where, according to the Copperhead press, all the liberality and greatness of the land reside Surely this one historical fact places the enlightened, liberal sons and daughters of New England, above the reach of the vile slanders of a base parti/an press. A JEW STYLE OF RETHKAT. Ceneral Sherman's inarch through Geor gia; during all the time it was in progress, puzzled the rebels to tell its line of opera tions, partly because Sherman h-ft a blank in his rear, but chiefly on account of his covering a belt of country some sixty miles wide, by an army marching in parallel col-; umns over some four different routes. The whole of this belt was covered completely by his operations, either in the marching of his troops, or by foraging parties, and as the result Sherman has arrived at the sea board with one hundred thousand head of cattle, ten thousand horses and mules, ten thousand negroes, thirty pieces of artillery and four thousand prisoners, all captured from the enemy, besides subsisting his army a whole month without expense to the gov ernment. lie has burned or bonded over thirty millions of dollars worth of cotton, and destroyed all the bridges, railroads, cotton gins and buildings that could benefit tic n bcls. He captured and occupied over two hundred towns and villages, passed through forty-two of the finest grain and cotton counties in Georgia, captured several ' millions of dollars worth of rebel currency, some gold, and a fine supply of ammunition. 11 this campaign Georgia has had a taste of that devastation which her statesmen deliberately calculated on confining to the ; border States when they precipitated the j war of 1861. It is apparent to the com monest observation that the army and the general capable of such a campaign as this has been since the opening of last spring, can accomplish the conquest and subjuga- j tion of all Georgia. It is obvious that if this march was a retreat, as some rebel pa-1 pers have asserted, it was the most aston ishing retreat on record. A fitting conclusion of this grand " re - ' treat " of SHERMAN'S is the capitulation of Savannah, which took place on the 21st.— The rebel general, HARDEE, conscious of his inability to holt! the place,escaped with the greater part of his force, probably, in ac cordance with rebel tactics, to " draw Sher man on.'' It is supposed that be lias gone to Wilmington. SPEAKER OF THE SENATE. The Legislature of this State convenes on Monday, Jan. 2. We are gratified to learn that the Speakership of the Senate seems almost unanimously to be conceded to the Senator from this district, llon.W . J. TI RRKU., who has by bis ability, consistency and urbajiity, gained a most enviable posi tion with his fellow senators. Mr. T. has been one of the most reliable friends of the Union in the Senate, and the District may well be proud of the compliment paid in his selection as the presiding officer of the Sen ate. A terrible railroad accident occur red on the (Land Trunk Railway near De troit a few days ago by the collision of two trains. The stoves were upset, the ears took fire and were consumed. Many lost their lives, and scarcely one escaped without in jury. Among those who were thus fortu nate was Miss AI.ICE JONES, daughter of KICHMOXU JONES, of Elmira. tejr A laudable enterprise has just been undertaken by the Christian Commission and is being practically can - ed out, viz: to provide libraries for our soldiers in field. In order to secure 30,000 volumes of good choice books, every friend at home is asked to purchase and send one or more to the Christian Commission as a New-Year's gift to the soldiers. They will be assorted and forward to the proper quarters under the care of the agents of the Commission. FROM MEXICO —The latest news from Mex ico contains a rumor of the defeat of the Imperialists before Chillafa. Juarez was be sieged, but Alvarez bad gone to bis relief. It was expected that the French would soon evacuate Acapulco, and there was great excitement in that town. LATEST WAR NEWS. CAPTURE OF SAVANNAH—HARDEE'S ARMY MAKE THEIR ESCAPE. WAR DEPARTMENT, I WASHINGTON, Dec. 25. LHFH —S p. IN. \ To MajM'fn. IH.r, Nen- YorT : A dispatch has been received this evening by the Pres ident from (Jen. Sherman. It is dated at Savannah on Thursday, the 22d inst., and announces bis occupation of the City of Savannah, and the capture of 130 guns, plenty of ammunition, and about 2:">,000 hales of cotton. No other particulars are given. An official dispatch from (fen. Foster to (fen. tfrant, dated on the 22d inst., at 7 p in., states that the City of Savannah was occupied by (fen. Sherman on the morning of the 21st, and that on the preceding af ternoon and night, Hardee escaped with the main body of his infantry and light artillery, blowing up the iron-clads ami t'lie Navy Yard. lie enumerates as captured sooprisoners. 150 guns, 13 locomotives in good order, 190 ears, a large lot of ammunition and materials of war, three steamers and 33,- 000 bales of cotton. No mention is made of the present position of Hardee's force, which bail been estimated at about 15,000. The dispatches of (lon. Sherman and (fen. Foster are as follows. "SAVANNAH, Ga., Thursday, Dec. 2*2, 1804. "//is- I'rtsiilfitt LINCOLN : "1 beg to present you as a Christinas gift the City of Savannah with one hun dred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about 25,000 bales of cotton. " W. T. SHERMAN, Maj-tlcn." "STEAMER GOLDEN GATE. I SAVANNAH KIVEIJ. Dec. 22 -7 J>. M. \ "To Lit'uf.-Ocii. (/rant and Maj.-(U a. J!. IF. HaUvck: 1 have the honor to report that I have just returned from (Jen. Sher man's headquarters in Savannah. " I send Maj. Gray, of my staff, as bear er of dispatches from Gen. Sherman to yon, and also a message to the Presi dent. "The City of Savannah was occupied on the morning of the 21st. (fen. Ilanlee, anticipating, the contemplated assault, es caped, with the main body of bis infantry and light artillery, on the morning of the 20th, by crossing the river t<> Union Cause way, opposite the city. The Rebel iron clads were blown up, and the Navy-Yard was burned. All the rest of the city is intact, and contains twenty thousand citi zens, quiet and well-disposed. "The captures include eight hundred prisoners, one hundred and fifty guns, thir teen locomotives, in good order, one hun dred and ninety cars, a large supply of am munition and materials of war, three steam ers, and thirty-three thousand bales of cot ton safely stored in warehouses. " All these valuable fruits of an almost bloodless victory, have been, like Atlanta, fairly won. " I opened communication with the city with my s.earners to-day, taking up what torpedoes we could see, and passing safely over others. Arrangements are made to clear the channel of all obstructions. Yours, Ac., J. (!. FOSTER, Mj. (Jen." The Richmond papers of yesterday state that on the 23d, twenty-six vessels of the Wilmington expedition had reappeared. The dispatch >f (Jen. Bragg as published in the Richmond papers is as follows : "WILMINGTON, Dec. 29. "Twenty-six vessels of the Federal fleet reappeared this morning. There lias been no change since last dispatch." This is the latest intelligence received from that expedition. ENWARN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. HOOD'S FLIGHT—EIGHTEEN GEN ERAL OFFICERS AND SEVENTEEN THOUSAND MEN DISABLED—FIFTY ONE CANNON CAPTURED—COM PLETE ROUTE OF THE REBEL ARMY. FRANKLIN, Tenn., Dec. 22. The rebel retreat from Franklin to Duck River beggars all description. Hood told bis corps commanders to get oil" the best way they could with their commands.— Frank Cheatham told his aunt, Miss Page, that Hood was ordered to Nashville against bis own wishes, but he blames Hood for not attacking Schofield at Spring Hill. Hood ordered Bate to attack at Spring Hill, and lie didn't do it. The rebel army is now beyond Columbia. During the rebel tarry in front of Nashville they captured but two locomotives and ten I cars. The railroad is but littled impaired, and trains are running up to Spring liill ; but two small bridges destroyed. Trains were run to Mmtreesboro' on Sunday. Telegraphic communication is all right with all points, but two small trestles are destroyed on the Johusonville road. Jobn sonville itself was not destroyed. The rebel loss during the campaign was 17,000 men, fifty one cannon captured and eighteen general officers. The killed at Franklin numbered 1,400, wounded 5,800, and 1,000 piisoners were taken. Thekilled and wounded in the battles before Nashville and retreat to Columbia : 3,000 killed and wounded, and 8,000 prisoners. The federal loss in the battle at Franklin was 2,000, be fore Nashville not 4,000. The total federal loss will not reach 7,000, with two generals ; slightly wounded. Hood lias a pontoon above the shoals on j the Tenuesee river, where our gunners can't \ reach him. llood marched on Franklin with forty j thousand men, including cavalry, and six- ; tv-ilve pieces of artillery, lie lost just half i his general officers, and counting in deser- • ters who are coining in, and stragglers who j are being captured, he will lose nearly half, his men. The rout is complete, although lie is not quite annihilated. B. C. TRUMAN. NEWS FROM RICHMOND. BALTIMORE, Dec. 25. LSFIL. The Associated Press letter from Fortress Monroe, dated 5 p. in., on the 24th inst., says : " The mail steamer Thomas Collyer has just arrived. " A telegraph operator, named Baker, be longing to one of the chief offices in Rich mond, escaped the night before last, and having succeeded in eluding the vigilance of the Rebel pickets,made his way success fully into our lines yesterday afternoon. "He was subjected to a severe examina tion by Gen. Grant, and stated that intelli gence of the fall of Savannah and the cap ture of the entire forces, 13,000 in number, commanded by (Jen. Hardee, had reached Richmond a few hours before he made his escape. "There was a report prevailing at the same time that Fort Fisher, commanding the entrance to Wilmington, had also fal len through a combined attack by General Butler's and Admiral Porter's forces, but tiiis could not be traced to any trustworthy source. "The spirits of the citizens of Richmond lie describes as in a very much depressed state, and it was with difficulty that the authorities could exercise any influence whatever over the press and citizens, such were the public manifestations of contempt tor the action of the Rebel Government. " (Jen. Griffin is a passenger in the Thom as Collyer,and places the utmost confidence in the siatement of this operator, and is of the opinion that the report of the capture of Fort Fisher is true, the extensive prepa ration made by (ten. Butler on the sailing of the expedition warranting this early surrender." SHERMAN'S K Xl' HI) ITK ) N L ETT KIJ FROM AN OFFICER. The Washington ('hronir/e says: "We are permitted by a friend in Congress to copy the following letter, received by him from an officer now with our army at Sa vannah. Tin- date is not so late by two or three days as intelligence from that quarter which we have already been able to give to our readers. But we concur with the gen tleman to whom this letter is addr ssed. in thinking it peculiarly valuable and inter esting. from the clear and intelligent inside view which it furnishes of the use of its worthless currency to the Confederacy, its resources lbr feeding its armies, but, at the same time, its destitution of men. "Two remarks only we make further. The writer of the letter alludes to the throe military dependences of the rebels : their army in Virginia,- their army in Tennessee, and the force under Kirby Smith. But, even when he was writing, General Thomas had gloriously and effectually taken away one of those props of treason. Then, again, in the face of this proof, we hear of the abundance of provisions which our army found in its march through Georgia, and the means of the rebel authorities for procuring it. How much deepened in horror and atrocity is the crurl and fiendish starvation of our brave soldiers, prisoners in their hands. •• ARMY <>K THE TENNESSEE, I NEAR SAVANNAH, Dec., 15. JSC,4, I "My dear friend : The first stage of our campaign is over. We have successfully marched through the heart of the enemy's country, meeting with little or no opposi tion, finding few if any men, and living on one of the richest sections of our land: and now we lie in lines of investment around the principal city of the great cotton state —(Jeorgia. Our success so far has been all that General Sherman could have antici pated. We have destroyed their great line of communication between Virginia and the southwestrn states ; have shut up in Sa vannah some fifteen or twenty thousand men ; and can afford to wait patiently until hunger does its work on them, eating our selves hard tack and such delicacies as our friends at the North may choose to send us, as we have established a base of supplies in Ossabaw Sound, ready to receive just ! such favors. "This march demonstrates clearly to my mind that the strength of the Confederacy is narrowed down to their armies operating in Virginia, in Tennessee, and the force un der Kirby Smith in the trans-Mississippi de ' partment. The rebels have exhausted their resources so far as men are concerned; and that is as far as they have exhausted them. They have plenty of provisions of every kind. They had good lines of communica tion. And they experience, so far as 1 could see, but little inconvenience from the depreciation <>f their currency ; for, as it is not a medium of exchange between the Confederate States and the rest of the world, it matters but little to the fanners of Georgia whether they buy a pound of flour for ten cents old currency, or ten dol lars of the new, either amount representing lin such standard article the same value. 1 don't mean to say that these same farmers would be willing to receive the depreciated trash, if they had an open market, and made their purchases on a basis of gold and silver. But when everything is reck oned on the basis of Confederate money, that money answers the purpose as well as anything else as a medium of exchange, j The Confederate authorities have therefore little trouble to supply their armies with : everything that the country produces, as ; the people take their money with apparent j cheerfulness in exchange for their produce. I But men they cannot get. To defend Sa j vannali they have drawn most heavily from the garrisons of Charleston, Wilmington, i Augusta, and almost every other point ac : cessible ; and by shutting this force up in I Savannah until they are starved into a sur render, we are crippling the rebels as much as if we had withdrawn just so many men i from their effective fighting force. When Savannah falls—as fall I feel it must—we ! have an excellent base, and can move to Augista, one hundred and twenty-seven miles into the interior, supplying our army I by the Savannah river, which is navigable jto that point. Then, with Augusta as a i secondary base, where will not Sherman go? "Yon may think I am counting my chick mis before they arc hatched. Hut Sherman, I know, feels confident that lie can and will tike Savannah : and he is by far too rest less a man to remain quiet in one place very long. "There is this difference between the rebel armies and our own: their men are in for the war or until they are killed, and ours are in for but a short term of enlist ment. And we have now, my dear sir, in this very army, a good many who, their time having expired, wish to be mustered out. If \e are to continue the war I think we must have more m< n. If our armies were reinforced largely the next summer campaign would be the last of the war. it you wait until next summer before rein forcing them, then 1 see no reason why it should not last two more years as well as one. I have not read the President's mes sage, but 1 sincerely trust we shall see in it a determination to order another draft, and for a reasonable term, so that we shall i have soldiers, and not recruits merely, in our army. "The spirit of the troops is good, ami lias been tested since we have been before .Sa vannah. Fort McAllister, commanding the approach to the Ogechce river, kept the fleet beyond our reach, and it was necessary to capture the fort so as to open our com munication with the navy, lhe fort was to be taken by assault. A division from this army was assigned to that duty; and nobly was it done, for they assaulted the work in a uiost gallant manner, and planted our flags in triumph upon the parapet. It was the grandest sight I have ever witnessed worth a campaign like the past to be pres ent at. LEXINGTON, Ky., Dec. 20- 2 p. in. An officer who arrived from Cumberland reports having heard of a spirited engage ment between the Fnionforces, under (ions. Burbridge and Stoneman, and the Rebel commanders of the Confederate; Department of south-western Virginia. The light is reported to have taken place near the lines of the Virginia and Tennes see Railroad, and either at or in the neigh borhood of Saltville. The incoming reports contain nothing looking toward a reverse : but, on the contrary, are very encouraging, and lead us to think that if the reported en gagement was of any moment, it was cer tainly a valuable success to our side. Burbridge's movement is creating very considerable stir among tire Rebels where he is operating ; at least so say citizens and prisoners No doubt there is good cause for this. At or near Wythovillc the rebels are known to have a pontoon train, and are al so known to have large quantities of sup plies at Dudlid, Salem and very many of the various stations on the line of the rail road. The Rebels are making as strong ef fort as tliev can to check Burbridge, by con centrating their scattered forces toward his front, flank and rear, but they have not got troops enough at their command, from all that we ean learn, to drive liirn off or thwart his plans. Rolling Fork, near New-Haven, on the Lebanon branch road, was burned on Fri day night, by a gang of guerrillas, under Billy Mugruder. Railroad communication between Louisville and Lebanon for the present, owing to this piece of vandalism, is destroyed. The guerrilla raid into Milton, Ky., is re duced to the following proportions : Fifteen of -Jesse's men, all well armed.and mounted rode into Milton, fired on the Dumont and went on board, searched the ferry-b' -at Un ion, and shortly afterward moved oil to ward Bedford. Adam Johnson, who gives his rank as Brigadier-General of the provisional army of the Confederate States, and who was wounded and captured in Southern Ken tucky some months ago, will be forwarded to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, to-day. Ever since his capture he has been on pa role by order of Gen. Burbridge The Rebel Gen. 1.3*011. who threatened t do so much mischief, lias been met and driven back, and is now retreating out of danger rapidly. Several trains loaded with prisoners, pail of the fruits of Gen. Thomas' late victor}', arrived to-day at Louisville. The prisoners will be sent on immediate]}*. Front all 1 can learn we have now actually in our pus session eight thousand Rebels, taken on and after the action of the 15th inst. The engagement that took place at Mm* freesboro is represented as quite a blood*? contest. The attack was made hy ('!o burne's old division, thought to be undei the command of Gen. \V. Bates. The as sault is said to have been desperate, and the defense to have been made with equal determination. There is nothing unfavorable to report. Even the guerrillas are failing. In regard to Gen. Lyon and his conscrip ting operations, we hear some doleful tales of how lie brutally treated old men and mere bo}*s marching barefooted, after his own enlisted men had taken their shoe? away ; and in one or two instances having deliberately shot bis victims for mere ex ample's sake because they could not marc!: along to suit his haste. HON* WILLIAM L. DAYTON*. —The death o: the Hon. William Lewis Dayton, 1. S Minister to France, is announced by tin last arrivals as having taken place it I'aris, Dec. 1, b}* a sudden attack of appo plexy. Mr. Dayton was born at Baskin gripge, N. J., Feb. 1", ISO", and had con sequently almost completed bis fifty-cightl year at the time of his death, lie was graduated at Princeton College in 18*25 i and after passing through the usual course of legal stud}', was admitted to the bar ii 1830 In 1837, lie was elected a membei of the New-Jersev Senate : in 1838 he wai appointed an associate judge of the Su preme Court, which ofiice lie resigned ii I*4l ; and in 1842, succeeded Mr. Southan as I . S. Senator, serving in that capacity until March, 1851. Upon retiring fron ■ Congress he resumed the practice of hit profession in Trenton ; in 185(5 was nomi nated by the Republican National Conven tion as the candidate for Vice President, Mr. Fremont being the candidate for Prcsi dent ; and upon the accession (if Mr. Lin coin in 18(51, received the appointment o: !'. S. Minister to France, which office he retained till the time of his decease. Mr Dayton was a prominent Free-Soil Whig during his Congressional career, was ai intimate adviser of President Taylor, am an ardent supporter of the policy of hit administration. He defended the admission of California into the Union as a Free State : voted against the Fugitive Slave Bill am was in favor of the abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia. Mr. Day i ton was a man of high personal integrity modest and conciliatory in his deportment ! of polished and winning* manners, clear ant | accurate in his perceptions, and eloquen in debate. He had gained great favo among the American residents at Paris L; his firm maintenance of the rights of hi* country, and his zeal for her cause in tin j hour of her trial. j THE subscription to the Ten-Fort; | Loan for the week ending with Saturda; ! amounted to $29,658,550' and to the Seven 1 Thirty Loan, $5,334,000. The President's Call for 300,000 Men, WASHINGTON*, !><-. 2d. IN ~ Hy the president the I nited St'it's : A I-BfK LAMATTOK. Whereas, By the act approved July i 1864, entitled "An act further to j and provide for the enrolling and calling.,m the national forces, and for other purposes" j it is provided that the President of t1,,. United States may, at his discretion, at ;„ 1V i time hereafter, call for any number of rum, as volunteers for the respective terras f ,| of one, two or three years for military s,. r . vice, and that in case the quota, or anvj, ~. thereof, or any town, township, ward .j city, precinct or election district, or , < county not so subdivided, shall not he fin,., within tin space of fifty days after call, then the President shall immedian order a draft for one year to fill sufhqnnhi or any part thereof which may he unfiiU.] ■ And whereas, By the credits allowed, accordance with the act of Gongre- I the call for five hundred thousand n,<- ; made July 18, 1864, the number of rri'-u be obtained under that call was redm.-w] two hundred and eighty thousand ; And whereas. The operations of tlieei... my in certain states have rendered it i . practicable to procure from them their fn quotas of troops under the said call. And whereas, from the forgoing cruises but two bundled and fifty thousand inn, have Deen put into the army, nary a d marine corps under the said call of July fx. 1554. leaving a deficiency of that call of two hundred and sixty thousand : Now, therefore, 1, Abraham Lii.c-h, President of the United States , f Am. ; in order i i supply the aforesaid detici. , and to provide fur casualties in the mi!:; . and naval service of the United States. ' issue this my call for three hundred t and volunteers, to serve f>r one, two or three years. 1 lie quotas of the states, district- and sub districts under this call will be re signed by the War Department, tin. m the Bureau of the J'ruvnst-Mar&hal-G. era! of the United States : and in eas- * quota, or any part thereof, of any i v township, ward of a city, precinct ..i <• • tion district or of a county not so sub ! • led, shall not be tilled before the 15th of February, 18(55. then a draft shall made to lib such quota, or any part then under this call, which may be unfii! said lot!: day of Febuary, 18(55. In testimony whereof i have hereun*- my band, and caused ibo seal of the I States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington. * 19th day ol December, in the year Lord one thousand eight hundred and - four, and of the independence of the IN, States of America the eighty ninth. By tin President: ABRAHAM LINT (H. N. j WM. H. SEWARD, Secretary of State. iHtscrl! nitrous. QYSTERS! WHOLESALE A* RETAIL j BY THE HUNDRED OR KEbi, A T I. A U H H I. 1 .V ' x S A L 0 O X Towanda. Nov. 30, lsG4. rPHE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE T<>\\ JL AXI'A BRIDLE COMPANY are hereby i.otiii tli;it there will be a meeting ■! the office ot the Comp -. in Towaoda, OB WEDNESDAY, the 4'.H day of J AM l'Y. between the hour.- of 2 and 4, M.. fe-.i ' election of a President, six Managers and a Tre-asut- Dor. 1. X. X. BEITS, Jr.. S< I> RIDGE LETTING.—SeaIed Proj lJ trill be received it the bonse ol Robert Kn li'tiington Township, upon THURSDAY, JAX 13, l-tio. at 2 o'clock p in., for the building >1 pleting of an Arched Biid;:e acrr>- Brown's Cr-- that place. Plan and S| f.-iticati " a may he seen Commissioner'.-, Uiii.-e and at -aid Kn., j.'- :j - :i. previous to letting the same. •J. U AMI-BE;. . w. R. noli-;;;. J. BEAU! si.: j Commissioner's Office, Bee. 26, '64. C m - V'Cnei: TO CGLLEt TOR-—N i-r hereby given to all Collectors of 1864, tnd vimis v.-.is, win. ale ia arrears upon tbeil Dupl either st.ni- County or M iitia ; ~x. that unie-i • is paid in f-.t! before the 2m hof January next. - * positively be brought for the collection of the ' due. .1. CAMPBELL, \V. B. no OK. 1 .1. BEARDSLEE, Conimi-si..ner's Office, Dee. 27, 1-04. I m':- \ HAPPY NEW" YEAR TO ALL-I -zJL The -ii 1 .-. ; i'ui-r would re.-] .. tfi.l'y an: party-oing public, that he will give- a Ntvc Y- -j Party at bis noose in Milan, Bradford county, l*a.. on I MONDAY, the 2d day of JANUARY, 1864, wla II where he will be g!a pay her contracting after this date. ' | OLIVER A. HUDSON' Sbesliequin, Dec. 3, 1864. piJOPOSAI.S will be received at tli X tic-e of U. I). Montanve, tor furnishing the B< • . of Towauda 2U.1100 teet ot 14 inch oak plank, not t >-i reed 6 inches in width. Also 4 000 fe t Oak Scan;'-. 3 inches square. To be delivered by the Ist day of .\p. . next. Towauda, "/Jec. 21. 1864 ME N wA N T ED! BY TIIE FALL ("REEK COAL & IROX CO. j To Chop. Clear Land, and Make Shingles, or ; Clc | I.and by the acre. Apply to tVM. M . MALLOKY, at the Ward Hons-. Dec. 8.1864. GEO.C FARRAR, Preside-.: FIKST NATIONAL BASK Towanda, Dec. 6.1- 4 The Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the l',r. for the election of nine (:) Directors to serve tlu r iug year, will he held at the Banking Office on t; c day of January next, between the hours ot Ito - X. X. BETTS JR. C.ish". : rhr Draft. OFFICK PEOVO.ST MAUSHAL, lath Pi-. TROY, Pa. Dec. 5.1864. In order to secure the assistance and o>-.p. rati- ' I the pebple in the endeavor to keep the Enroiian: i 1 i continually coirect. the Enroliiug Board ban ..e: | rected to have copies of said lists kept open to t! -ex .. , ination of the public at all times, if he can show, t , satisfaction of the Board, that the person gained s. .property enrolled, on account of i Ist. Alienage. 2d. Xon Resident. 3d. Over Age. ' 4th. Permanent physical disability,ot/snch ade : , - to render the person iiot a proper subject for c-nr a uudei the law and regulations. 1 sth. Having served in the Military or Naval A 1 two years during the present war. and been lion n 1 . | discharge !. Especially civil officers , clergymen, and all prom.v- fl i citizens are invited to appear at all times before the i" ' I i to point out errors, and to give such information in t- 1 i possession as may aid in the correction and if- - 1 tliereof. They should understand that it is plainly for tie': I i terest of each sub district to have stricken from the * I ail names improperly enrolled because an excess of n : I increase the quota ealled for from such sub-district-: a . that it is equally for the interest ot each person eurd 1 in a given sub-district to place upon tin- li-'s all perso j ' in the sub-district liatile to do military duty, liecausc til - greater the number to lie drawn tn-m, the less the chau 5 that any particular individual will be drawn. It is t I personal interest of every enrolled man, that the q j m which he is coneemc-d shall not be made too lar: i , and that his own c hances for draft shall nut be inj i 1 increased ; both these objects wili be attained it ,ib J 1 j ties will aid in striking out the wrong names and ; ; isg in tne right ones. Especially is this the int - 1 i Uioae drafted men who i>y putting in nbstitutest selves liable to draft have secured exemption, w! itic- term- of the law Hold good only until the pre • :jl rollmeut is exhausted in their sub districts. Men who are over 43 years of age and iu coi-.-t excused by law trom the performance of duty J field, owe it to the cause and the c uutry I t.i. ous and active part iu the correction ol theei. - lists, a military service ot the first importnoce f '-'J , ; requires that the quota -hall be assigned in prop | | the enrollment, and tlie iairness and justice <: : -- 1 ot determining the amount ot military servi > d : 1 each and every section cannot be doubted it t( •£& [• meut i- made as nearly perfect as it is piaciu ■ : make it. Tlie amount of service clue to the naf; : ' evi ry town or county, is thus laid fairly and ) ' S fore the citizens, and" is expected that a iiigh.f " j , thou a selfish interest will prompt all to do their perfecting the enrollment, and securing a . * ! cient exetution of the laws tor raising tr cp-. va it becomes necessary to apply them By ordn' ' 9 Maj. RIUH ARD .1- IXIDuE ' : A. A. Pro. Mar. lien i'J WILLIAM SHKKF'.r.!- J Capt- & A. A- u 1 T CIIARI.IS M. MANVILI.K, 1 Capt. & Pro. Mar. 13th Dis. I'a.