THE PRESS. PUBLISHED DAILY, (SUNDAYS EXCEPTED,) BY JOHN W. FORNEY. OFFICE NO_ all 011FAIIINUIP STRE'E'T_ "1 THE DAILY PRESS, TWELVE CENTS PER WEEK, payable to the Carrier. Mated t 9 011RIKTIROIR OUt Of the GUT RS Sib POLL &RR PER ANNUM, TOUR DOLLARS FOR EIGHT MONTHS, THREE DOLLARS FOR SIX MONTHS—invariably in advance for the time ordered. tut Vitl-WEEKLItEs.-4, Mailed to Subscribers out of the City at THREE Doc- CARS PER ANNUM, in advance. DRY-GOODS JOBBERS. 1861. F rt 0 E FALL 0 S D -v; s_ RIEGEL, BAIRD, & CO., IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS DRY GOODS. Q`:t~7t Sr7;[i} r~ ~i: i~M ~ ~ 1;~ ~i , 1;~ ~ t ~~Y Mf i:fl R.~:l;i h Y:l 1.~ Prompt-paying merchants are respectfully 44Yited to @Soluble our largo and carefully-go looted stock of desirable goods, which will be qsold at prices to suit the times. ea2.B-2m 1861. TO CASH BUYERS. 1861. H. C. LAITG-HLIN & Co.. No. 803 MARKET STREET, Are rmeirms daily, frem the PHILADBLPHUL and MEW YORK AUCTIONS, a general assortment of salmon AV Vist, imoatt for tIASEL GASH HITTERS are especially invited to call and ex amine our Stock. sefr-tf MILITARY GOODS. ANDREWS' ORIGINAL CAMP, OR "TRAVELLING - BED TRUNK. For sale by (Patent applied for) W. A. ANDREWS, No. 512 CHESTNUT Street t016.2m ARMY SUPPLIES. 60,000 pairs ARMY DRAWERS. 20,000 GRAY FLANNEL SHIRTS. 10,000 RED do. SHIRTS. 000 dozen FINS TRAVELLING SHIRTS. For sale by BENNETT, RUCH, & CO., Nonnfootnrere of Army Goods, nol3-2m 215 and 217 CHURCH Alley, Phila A RMY CONTRACTORS• AND SIITLER4 SUPPLIED WITH BRUSHES at the lowest rates. Always on hand, a large stock of CAVALRY BRUSHES, Government standard; WAGON BRUSHES, Government standard; And every Description of Bnishes required for the Army. KEMBLE & VAN HORN, ocl6-3m 321 MARKET Street, Philadelphia. ARMY WOOLLENS. WELLING, COFFIN, & Co., 116 CHESTNUT STUMM Are prepared to daffier on contract 8-4 and 6-4 Dark and Sky Blue CLOTI4S AND WERSEYS. 648-3 m paiGo BLUE KERSEYS. INDIGO BLUE CLOTHS, Ltd every variety eigoade adapted to Military Clothing. for sale at the lowed pricey /MOMENTS Et/DUPED AT SHORT ROT/011. BENJ. L. BERRY, CLOTH Izouaz. so SOUTH SECOND STREET. ocs• If ARMY FLANNELS_ WELLLNG-; COFFIN, & CO., 116 ODESTNITT DTBNET, Ara prepared to mese oontracts, for Immediate delivery; at WRITE DOMET FLANNELS, AND ALL WOOL INDIGO BLUE FLANNELS, of Government standard. oct-tf LOOKING GLASSES. TMMENBE REDUCTION LOOKING GLASSES, OIL PAINTINGS, ENGRAVINGS, VIOTIIBN AND PHOTOGRAPH FBAILEB. JAMES S. EARLE & SON, 816 CHESTNUT STREET, ArLDOUZIPI) idea reduction of 25 foordeaf. In the Meal of all Shepnanufactured Stock of Looking °lames i also, In Zlngrayinge, Picture and Photograph Frames, 011 Paint. The largest and most elegant assortment in the ,pantry. A rare opportunity is aow offered to make purl Oblwee In Una line For Garay at remarkably Low Pricer WILE'S GALLERIES, 816 CHESTS - 17T Street HARDWARE. HARDWARE. MOOSE, nExszzy, & CO. nave now on hand, and are ennatantly ressiving, largo assortment of HARDWARE, CUTLERY, GUNS, ac., to which they invite the attention of purchasers for cash or short credit. No. 427 MARKET Street, and ocB-2m No. 416 COMMERCE Street, Philada. GROCERIES. TO FAMILIES RESIDING IN THIII BITISAL DIISTBIOTES We ere prepared, se heretofore, to MVP Wane, Pi War Country Residences with every deecription of FINE GROCERIES, TEAS, &a., ex. ALBERT C. ROBERTS, CONNER ELEVENTH AND VINE MEET& Ta7lB MACKEREL / HERRING SHAD, 2 001,MON, 00.-0.000 bbli Hew Hos. I, Z, and MEISEL, large, medium, and small, in assorted sokages of choice, late-caught, fat fish. -6,ooebbls. New Halifax, Eastport, and Labrador HiW IDE% of choice quehties. 0,000 boxes extra new scaled Herrings. ,000 beau antra new No. 1 Herrings. 000 boxes large Iltagbiline Herrings. 960 bbls. Mackinac White Fish. SO bbla. new Economy 'Mess Shad. bbla. new Halifax Salmon. 1,000 quintals Grand Bank Codfish. toe bonen Herkimer Count, Chew. In store sad landing, for sale by MURPHY & HOSES, nog No. 148 NORTH WHARVES. 1;1 I% 11 - 01-Ziallo (I)*1 PRACTICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY.—The Laboratory of the subscribers U open daily, from 9 A. M. to 8 P. M., for Analyses of Ores, Gnaws, Waters, &c. Alm, for the Instruction of IP:dente in Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology. Opinions given in Chemical Questions. Special Instruction in MEDICAL CHEMISTRY. JAMES C. BOOTH, THOS. H. GARRETT, JNO. J. REESE, M. D., onl.3ka No. 30 CHANT Street, Tenth, below Market. JOHN WELSH, Practical SLATE Tr" ROOFER, THIRD Street and GERMANTOWN Mead, is prepared to put on any amount of ROOFING, on the moat MODERATE TERMS. Will guaranty to make every Building perfectly Water-tight. BT Orders promptly attended to. my 7-17 a EVANS & WATSON'S SALM:LANDES SATZ& STORE, 16 SOUTH FOURTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA, A INV variety of 7/1/1-PBOOF BAYEEI *Away* kw hood. VitDOW SHADES.—The subseri o keep constantly on hand, And put up in the very beet manner, both in town and country, Plain (washed) Painted, Gilt Harder, and Fancy Shmles, of every description. They oleo furnish Shades colored to order, adapting them to the color of the front, or to the prevailing color In the room and supply Shades in quantities, and at re duced prices, for Churches, Hospital,, and il ihos public buildings. SHEPPARD, VAN HARLINGEN, 8: ARRISON, Importers and Dealers in Curtains, Curtain Materials, rte., 1008 CHESTNUT Street. n027-tf Tl l OB9 ERRAP O YS T ERS OTHWED. AND FRIED, AND CHICKEN SALAD.—lnvi lotion Cards and other notices will be distributed in all parts of the city, with punctuality. The undersigned is at all times prepared to present, for She inspection of Lathes and Gentlemen a list of the !hinds neeemary for a large or &deli entertiinment, na the case may be, thereby avoiding all unnecessary profusion and waste; and flatters himself, that by hie long exile gienee in business, he will be able at all times to givesOa heretofore, entire salhifaetion to all who favor him with 'heir patronage. HENRY JONES, Caterer, o cl- Nol 250 South TWELTTN Street, above SPRUCE. tint eIOTTON SAIL DUCK and CAN via TAB, of all numbers and bomb. ' Ames Duck Awning delcuiptknus, for plata, Assulup, Trunks, and Wagon OOTIML Also, Paper Manufacturers' Drier Felts, from Ito S Poet anosillair, Belting, Bau Twin% &e. JOHN W. 11•91111 MAN & 00., Ism4-tf 11111 30150113 CARD PRINTING, BEST AND Oheapeet in the City, at RINGWALT & BROWN 8. fint% WIND 13t root. ace) VOL. 5.-NO. 104. FROTHINGHAM & WELLS, a 1861. 34 00IITH 1930/iT AZID 30 liETITIA OTREETI BROWN AND BLEACHED SHEETLNGS, DRILLS, JEANS, SILECL&S, FROM THE MASSACHUSETTS, GREAT FAILS LACONIA, LYMAN, EVERETT, DWIGHT, LOWELL, CABOT, IPSWICIII HAXPDEN, SHAWLS, BEAVER CLOTHS, TRICOTS, CASSIMERES, FLANNELS, TWEEDS, BLANKETS, AND ARMY GOODS, FROM THE WASHINGTON (LAIR BAT BTLTB,) AND OTHER MILLS. ocl-3m SHIPLEY, HAZARD, & HUTCHINSON, No. 112 CHESTNUT STREET, COMMISSION M ROHANTS 701 TEI BALI OP PHILADELPHIA-MADE GOODS.. ee2B•6m CITY BONNET STORE. SEASONABLE GOODS AT SEASONABLE PRICES. SMALL PROFITS AND QUICK SALES. LAW P9PPefill Children's Turban% Caps, &c., the beet and most fashionable, and at the low est prices. Bonnets made over, or bleached, and re trimmed; Millinery Goods in quantities to nit. BRA irEIL FELT and PLUSH Cads ter Children. LINCOLN, WOOD, Sr NICHOLS, ocl6-ff NO. 725 CHESTNUT STREET. KENNEDY'S FRENCH FLOWERS, FEATHERS, AND GENERAL MILLINERY GOODS. Ho, 729 CHESTNUT STREET, BELOW EIGHTH 0c.5.3m FURS! GEORGE F. WOMRATII, NOB. 41$ AND 41Y ADM STREET, HAS NOW OPEN A FULL ASSORTMENT OF LADIES' FURS. To which the attention of the Public ie invited. no22tjal LADIES' CHOICE FURS, WARRANTED WELL SEASONED AND RELIABLE, AT VERY REASONABLE PRICES, AT Tin PART CLOAK AND FUR EMPORIUM, 708 CHESTNUT STREET. J. W. PROCTOR & Co. nol4-1m DRUGS AND CHRMICALS. ROBERT SHOEMAKER & CO.. Northeast Corner FOURTH and RACE Streets, PHILADELPHIA, WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, 11q9RTERS AND DEALERS FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC WINDOW AND PLATE GLASS. MANUFACTURERS or WHITE LEAD AND ZINC PAINTS, PUTTY, &a AgENTa POE THE CELEBRATED . FRENCH ZINC PAINTS. Dealers and consumers supplied at . VERY LOW PRICES FOR CASH. octl-.3m jusT RECEIVED, per gg Annie Kim ball," from Liverpool, Mender, Weaver, Kan der's preparations : .25 The Egtrut Aeoniti, in 1 lb pun. 25 The extract Ilyoscryami, in I Thiess. 80 The Extract Belladonna, in 1 lb jars. 100 The Extract Taraxaci, in 1 lb jars. 50 lbs Via Rai Coichici, in 1 ib bottles. 100 Es 01. Succini Beet., in llb bottles. 500 The Calomel, In i lb bort* 900 Toe FS Nydrarg., in 111 i jars. WETHERILL it BROTHER, WO 47 and 49 North SECOND Street. fIABINET FURNITURE AND BIIr ira LIAM/ TABLES. MOORE & CAMPION, No. ?al South SECOND Street, in &lineation with their extensive Cabinet Business are now manufacturing a superior article of lIMLIARD TABLES, And have now on band a full supply, anliked with the MOORE A CAMPION'S IMPROVED CUSHIONS, which are pronounced, by all who have used them, to be aporlor to all others. ror the quehty and thaish of these 'rabies the mann batmen refer to their numerous patrons throughout the Union,"rho are familiar with the diameter of their work. an2im FRESH MINCED MEAT. The subscriber begs leave to inform the public that be is again prepared to offer bis justly celebrated NE PLUS ULTRA MINCED MEAT, In les.ke ae email .tuentitles. Orders through De spatch Post will be punctually attended to. JOSHUA WRIGHT, SPRING GARDEN and FRANKLIN Streets, nol3-2m Philadelphia. COAL OIL! COAL OIL! GEORGE W. WdOTT.EN, NORTH AMERICAN OIL COMPANY. MANUFACTURERS OF OPAL OIL, AND RE FINERS OF COAL AND CARBON OILS. WM. F. JOHNSTON, President, GEO. OGDEN, Secretary. Mee, Agent Ter IMEREI, JUDRON, & BEERS, Palen! Glass Cones for Lamps, and wholesale dealer in pith ridge's Patent Oval (fire proof) and Ems!era Flint-Glass Chimneys, Lamps, &e. Burners to burn Coal Oil with out chimneys. Cosh buyers or prompt rayon ill% rotrattfully invited to examine our stock. no2l-1m PORTLAND KEROSENE 0 I L. we •re now nrepared to windy thlo STANDARD ILLUMINATING OIL AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. Z. LOCKE & GO., SOLE AGENT., 1010 MARKET STREET, oet•mn Pniladolobler C OAL -OIL LAMP WITHOUT A CHIMNEY. TBITTINIP PATENT COAL-OIL LAMP Nuns all guile of coal oil without the use of a chimney. Burners and Lama, wholesale and retail, by E. IL WEEKS, General Agent, 18 North SECOND Street. BEST QUALITY ROOFING- SLATE always on bind and ter sate M Union Wharf, MEI BELCH Street, Kensington. T. THOMAS, art-/s W WAIN= Sredorlikddaltha ‘,l I tr*,l ss_ - • etz f ' , g /7* 1.• • r • _ ,),\ ‘ • je o " • ixats!t:z . l - .• .4 1 1: " I • :':A - plos • ,•_ ' •• • - " " ~••' -•- . • - • --,- 1 • COMMISSION ROUSES. OFFER FOR MALI SHIRTINGS, CANTON FLANNELS, =corn, end BABTLET KILLS LIKEWISE, A FULL ASSORTMENT OF MILLINERY GOODS. FURS I CABINET FIIRNITIIRE. 3S SOUTH SECOND STREET, AGENT FOR THE ett ,irtss. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1861. THE REBELLION. IMPORTANT SOUTHERN NEWS. The Reported Removal of the ' Rebel Capital Incorrect. THE FIGHT AT PENSACOLA NOT RECEIVED. FORT MaRAD IN DAD CONDITION PLANTERS DESTROYING THEIR COTTON Union Conspiracy at Now Orleans. GREAT EXCITEMENT-MANY ARRESTS. The Rebels Alarmed about the Threat ened Attack on Columbus. THE WAR IN MISSOURI. Rebel Official Account of the Campaign. MISCELLANEOUS WAR NEWS. INTERESTING SOUTHERN NEWS. BALTIMORE, Dec. 3.—The Old Point boat has ar rived, bringing Southern papers, from which the folleiving items are gleaned The reported removal of the rebel capital from Richmond is denied, The Southern papers are advocating the abolish ing of the elective franchise. The latest advices from Pensacola represent that the fight had not been renewed. The accounts say that had the fire from Fort Pickens been con tinued Fort Mcßae would have been destroyed. No particulars of the affair aro given. The planters throughout the Southern seaboard are represented to be destroying their crops, lest they should fall into the hands of the Yankees. A conspiracy of Union men in New Orleans has been discovered, causing great excitement in the city. Many suspected persons had been arrested. A tun who 001110 by it gag of truce to 41(1 Point reports having read in a recent Southern paper that plenty of Yankees were running around out side of Fort Pulaski. The Threatened Attack on Columbus, The Norfolk Day Book, of November 30, has the following in its telegraphic columns : 111Emmus, November 29, 18G1. General Pillow has information from a reliable source that the enemy will attack Columbus in twenty days with a force of 75,000 to 100,000 men. A large amount of ammunition and cannon, from St. Louis, has been sent to Cairo. The enemy has thirty-eight mortar boats and eight gunboats. The enemy's plan is to surround Columbus, ata SW*6 theminto submission. General Pillow says we should make every effort to meet the enemy with a strong force right away. There is no time to be lost. The Rebels Alarmed. A despatch from Memphis, to the Nashville Pa triot, represents that place as in great excitement, relative to an expected invasion of Federal troops by land and water, and says : "During the next few days a great battle will befought at Columbus, and, if we are Overpowered, Memphis irrivet to the South., mama Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana help." the same despondency is felt in Arkansas. The Little Reck Dmuorratof the Dickman': The exciting news received trom the Northwest, yester day, had a profound effect upon many members of the Legislature, whose homes lay in that direction. Many of them talked of a precipitate retreat from town, and we should not be surprised if, by to night—unless better news is heard—bath houses are left without a quorum." State of Affairs in the South. The Louisville Journal of &Our&ly says : We conversed yesterday . with a gentleman who has travelled pretty extensively recently in the far South. We have known him personally for years, and have full confidence in his statements. He re presents that the people of the South are greatly alarmed, and that they entertain the very worst fears as to the result of the war. The blow which has been struck by the Federal fleet in South Ca rolina has contributed to heighten their fears, and many communities are bordering on despair. In some sections a strong Union sentiment exists, but the expression of that sentiment is suppressed by the rebellious rabble. Our informant travelled from New Orleans to Memphis, and thence to Bowling Green by way of Nashville. Ho saw no troops between New Orleans and Memphis, and presumes that the enlistment of soldiers has ceased, the resources of the South having been pretty well exhausted. The prices of the necessaries of life at the South, he says, are very high, which is owing to some extent to the scarcity of par funds. Gold and Kentucky money commands a premium of fifteen to twenty per cent., and can be obtained only with great difficulty at those rates. He had but little opportunity to obtain intelli gence in reference to the rebel force in the Vici nity of Bowling Green, but he does not think it so great as has been represented. There are no bat teries at Nashville, the authorities not having deemed that point in the least danger from Federal invasion. The South Carolina Planters Burning their Cotton and Rice. The Norfolk Day Book of the 30th ult., has the folloithlg : CHARLESTON, Nov. 29,1861 The patriotic planters on the seaboard are hourly applying torches to their crops of cotton and rice. Some of them have authorized the authorities to de stroy their crops to prevent the ravages of the enemy. Many of the plantations on North Edisto and the neighborhoixl elsewhere on the coast of South Carolina are one sheet of flames and smoke. The Fight at Pensacola. The Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser gives a list of the killed and wounded in the Pensacola fight, in Col. Villipigue's Georgian and Mississippi Regi ment. The colonel himself was wounded, also a lieutenant and two privates. Seven were killed, all in or near Fort Mcßae, Conscription at the South. The Richmond Examiner of Nova 29 contains an elaborate leading article, evidently paving the way for a general conscription. It begins by say ing ! " The campaign of 1861 may be considered as ever. In a fortnight the enemy can do nothing more. The early danger of the South, that it would be overwhelmed, before it could organize and prepare for defence, by superior numbers and transportation, is at an end. We have an much advantage. But in the struggle an unexpected feature has developed itself in the temper of the United States. Before the war began all sane men believed they would compromise the political quarrel with the South, and had the North offered the South the poorest terms, so corrupt was public sentiment in Virginia, at least, that those terms would have been accepted. When the war began but a few thought it would last six months. The six months have gone. The United States have en• dured defeat after defeat, made sacrifice after sacrifice, and have closed an unsuccessful campaign without the slightest signs of an approach to reason. The Peace party of the North, like the Union party of the South, has entirely disap peared. The whole people are completely under the hand of the Government, and all together, people and Government, are bent on the prosecu tion of this war, even if the consequences be a colli sion with England and national bankruptcy. Under this impulse they have steadily increased, and are still increasing, their vast regular forte. Not less than 500,000 men are enlisted for an indefinite period, and equivalent in all its parts to a regular army." After enlarging upon the faults of all militia and `•cluAtccr gygton, to which alone the South has hitherto resorted, TM Examiner says that a the only way to meet the North with any prospect of sumett, is to raise a regular army, by some means resembling the conseriptiomfof all other nations in the world except England and America," claiming that by this means «500,000 men could be put into the field." THE WAR IN MISSOURI. The Enemy's Whereabouts. The St. Louis Republican, of Saturday, says As we supposed, it turns out that all the " ad vancing" from Springfield by General Price, since Union army, eeeeuetioa of the Southwest by the army, has been confined to a few squads and de tachments sent out"on foraging and scouting ex peditions. There has been nothing having the ap pearance of a march upon our lines with the view of giving battle, and all frenzied reports about peril at Sedalia, - Rolla, or Jefferson City have boon without' any adequate' foundation. The enemy bas not made his appearance in force at any point above Springfield, and the statement about a large body of Price's men having crossed the Osage at Osceola, last week, seems to have been premature. Rebel Official Report of the Campaign in Missouri The Richmond Dispateh of November 29 hes the fallawitig To Col. J. R. Punvls, Assistant Adjutant General Missouri State Guard : - . COLONEL: My absence from Missourion business connected with our State interest prevented my re solving until to-day your report of the 28th ult. During my super intendence, under Governor Jackson's authority, of the affairs of our suffering State in its southern quarter, nothing has occurred to give rue such satisfaetion as the perusal of your account of General Thompsonis short but brilliant campaign in the Ozark Mountains. To have ya wed to advance more Men one hundred miles PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1861. from the main body of our forces, pass between the strongly garrisoned fortresses of the enemy at Iron ton and Cape Girardeau, distant only a few hours' travel—the former by railroad and the latter by the Mississippi river—from St. Louis, and burn an important railroad bridge within fifty miles of that city, swarming with Lincoln troops, would have been rashness in a leader less sagaeio-s and vigi lant than General Thompson, or with soldiers less hardy and daring than the "Swamp Fox Brigade" of Southwest Missouri. The fight at Fredericktown justifies the high reputation of that gallant officer and his command. While deploring the less of the brave officers and men who fell in that campaign, I console myself with the reflection that es lora as Missourians can be found who, half clad and poorly armed, successfully encounter, as at Frederick town, an army which even the accounts of the enemy admit to have been four times at larg eas ours engaged in that battle, the em.pulsien of the foe from our entire State is merely a question of time; and of our means to fully arm and equip our loyal citizens. I remain, colonel, very respectfully, Thomas REYNOLDS, Lieutenant Governor of Missouri, MISCELLANEOUS WAR NEWS. Important Order Respecting Enlistments. A most important order will soon be issued from headquarters, informing the Governors of the se veral free States that no more regiments, batteries, or independent companies must be raised or re ceived by them, except upon the requisition of the War Department. The regiments, etc., now form ing, will be completed, unless it shall be deemed more advantageous to the service to assign the men already raised to incomplete organisations actually in the field General superintendents of the volunteer recruiting service will be appoint ed fog all the States, and recruiting in each will be directed upon the system pursued in the regular army These superintendents will be officers of the regular army, retired officers if possible, or officers of artillery not serving in the field. Depots for the collection and instruction of re cruits, under command of the superintendents, will be established at the following places. and such others as shall be considered advantageous, in each of the States: Minnesota, Fort Snelling; lowa, Davenport ; Wisconsin, Madison ; Missouri, Jeffer son, or Benton Barracks; Michigan,Detroit; Illi nois, Springfield Indiana, Indianapolis; Ohio, Columbus; Kentucky, Louisville; Pennsylvania, Harrisburg; New Jersey, Trenton; New York, probably Elmira and Albany; Vermont, Montpelier; New Hampshire, Concord ; Maine, Augusta ; Massa chusetts, Cambridge ; Rhode Island, Providence ; Connecticut, New Haven; Delaware, Wilmington; Maryland, -. The enlistment papers of the volunteers will be the same as for regulars. Clothing will be issued to them at the State depots. com manders of regiments in the field s wanting troops, will make requisitions directly on the superintend ents for their respective States. The minor details of the order, which is lengthy, we omit. (For The Press.) A correspondent in The Press of to-day, taking the trouble of showing that the President's name " haa always been illustrious and historic," adds : "The Duke of New Castle's family name is Lin coln." It is a pity that people write about what they do not know. The Duke of Newcastle (not New Castle) is also Earl of Lincoln, taking that title, conferred in 1572, from the cathedral city of that name, in England. His family name is Clin ton—derived, it is said, from the lordship of Olin toh, iienr Woodstoek, Oxfordshire, held by tor who was Chamberlain. in Normandy, to William the Conqueror, in the eleventh century. Mr. Lincoln, I feel, does not need any factitious idontifieation with any duet!' house—he holds his patent of nobility direct from the Almighty, who has given him the stalwart frame, the clear intellect, the firm will, and the honest purpose. With Lo renzo, in Croly's comedy of "Pride shall Have a Fall,'• which evidently suggested " The Lady of Lyons," Mr. Lincoln may proudly say : • I have no ancient birth,—no heraldry ; No motley coat is daubed upon my shield; I cheat no rabble, like your Charlatans, By flinging dead men's duet in idiot's eyes; I work no miracles with buried bones; I belt no broken and distempered shape With shriven' parchments plucked from mouldy shelves; Yet, if I stooped to talk of ancestry, I had an ancestor, as old and noble As all their quarteringe reckon—mine was Adam. The man who gave me being, though—no Lord, Was Nature's nobleman,—au honest man It itt.D.4---Massiarr AP *Pirko, conflectionmith artY — WigliSEribblenien is s ahoir the reipectabfilty the name of Lincoln. As your correvondent,ee. minds us,- General Lincoln, of hlnaaachnsetts, who enjoyed the regard of Washington, distinguished himself in the War of Independence. There have been two lawyers named Levi Lincoln, with a third named Enoch—one of whom was in Jeffer son's Cabinet, as Attorney General; the second (his son) was Governor of Massachusetts; and the third, of the same family, was thrice Governor of Maine. Even now, Professor Lincoln, of Brown University, is eminent as one of the best Latin scholars of the day. December 2, 1861. To THE EDITOR OF THE PRESS : In a Sunday pa per of December Ist, I find, in the theatrical ;teleran, the following paragraph "We notice that in the play of Hamlet,' Mr. Mark Smith is cast for tie part of Polontus. Does Mr. Smith seriously intend to try an experiment upon the patience and the . patriotism of the citizens of Philadelphia? Did he not, after the American flag was insulted at Fort Sumpter, and while the whole nation was stirred to its depths by that out rage, deliberately join with others in raising a Se cession Volunteer Company in New Orleans? The Varieties' Volunteers,' of which John E. Owens was captain, and Mark Smith, A. H. Davenport, George Jordan, W. H. Leighton, with others, were Washers, was no myth." From such charges of disloyalty as the above, I have had occasion to vindicate myself since my re turn from New Orleans last May, and my senti ments on the subject are well known in New York and Boston. Asa distinct answer to the questions in the above article, I have to say that I never did anything of the kind. The organization (such as it was) referred to, was formed and forgotten more than three months be fore a blow was struck against the flag of the Union. On the breaking out of this deplorable war, I, with other members of the company, as soon as our en gagements permitted, left the city. I have, since that time, lived at my home 4i New York, until my engagement to play with Mr. Forrest com menced in Boston. In that city I played eight weeks, and was there received and treated with the greatest kindness. On my arrival here, I was greeted with the above cheerful paragraph. But I beg to solemnly assure its author that he is totally mistaken, not only in his opinion of the value of my military skill and influence, but in the use to which they have been applied. My pro fession is that of a dramatic artist. It is completely separated from military or political matters, and in that sense I have ever considered it. Bat if it will allay any patriotic uneasiness in the loyal minds of the editors of the paper referred to, I will asse verate that; never meditated taking arms against my country, of which, I trust, there is not a more ardent lover than your and the public's obedient servant, Meow SMITH. CDOSSWICKS LADIES' AID ASSOCIATION.—The village of Crosswicks, in Burlington county, New Jersey, numbering about five hundred inhabitants, who, with the families in the immediate vicinity, have contributed liberally to the sick and wounded soldiers, not only with money, but by giving bed ding, clothing, and hospital stores. This Ladies' Association began its labors on the 24th of Octobor. The treasurer has now a balance of $123.30 in her bands. The whole amount contributed almost averages fifty , cents for each man, woman, and child, The following articles have already been purchased by its members 84 pairs knitted woollen soaks, 15 woollen shirts, 19 pairs canton flannel drawers, 18 canton flannel undershirts, 31 pairs moccasins, 14 pairs mittens, 19 bed quilts, 7 double wrappers, 12 bedtioks, 10 pillowtioks, 7 small cushions, 75 linen towels, 14 muslin towels, 18 crash linen towels, 8 handkerchiefs, 7 blankets. Nearly all the above articles have been sent to the sanitary committee. The association has now almost enough articles to fill a large box, such as blankets, - quilts, &a., and are making arrangements to purchase ma terial for 1,000 pairs of mittens. If every village, town, and city throughout the North would contri bute as liberally in proportion to their population, our poor soldiers would be fully supplied with every comfort. SAILING OP TIIE NORTE STAIt--EXAMISA.TION or PASSI.ORTS.—The Fall-river Dock, this (Wednes day) morning, was crowded withi)asseng.ers bound for California, in the steamer North Star. The new system of examining passports was rigidly adhered to, by Sergeant G6VM, Who Was sup ported by a large body of pollee under com mand of Inspector Carpenter. The process created necessarily great delay, and an hour before the steamer sailed, about six hundred of the passengers wore wAting excitedly outettle the main gate) many making frantic efforts to get beyond each other. Judging from the statement of some of the passen- gers, the notaries who supplied their papers must have realized a large sum, as from three to six dot lam each were paid for thorn. A few passengers, who were not provided with the necessary &eon ments, were, of course, refused admittance, and will have to remain till the departure of the next steamer.—Express. Ten Win PARRlnt.—The B4siia of Und4iiirtiteri were -in session again to-day, and made some alte rations in the war risks. They will insure vessels leaving port at the present time at the rate of tWo per cent., but all vessels due in the British channel, on or about the 20th ult i will be charged five per cent. MARINE' DISASTERS FOR NOVEMBER.-13OTORty eight vessels are reported as lost or damaged by tire, shipirreek. or other marine disasters using the month of November, and the estimated loss is over *1,200,000. Lincoln THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. First Annual Mesiage of ABRAHAM LIN COLN, President of the United States. Read in Congress Tuesday, Dee, ad, 1661. Fellow-citizens of the Senate and house of Re- pwsenta tires it; thy mi dst of unpreotaluatud political troubles, we have cause of great gratitude to God for unu sual good health and most abundant harvests. You will not be serprised to learn, that in the peculiar exigencies of the tunes, cur intercourse with foreign nations has been attended with pro found solicitude, chiefly turning upon our own domestic affairs. A disloyal portion of the American people have, during the whole year, been engaged in an attempt to divide and destroy the Union. A nation which endures factious domestic divi sion is exposed to disrespect abroad, and ono party, if not both, is sure, sooner or later, to invoke foreign intervention. Nations thus tempted to interfere are not always able to mist the counsels of eeeni jag expediency and ungenerous ambition, althougbt measures adopted under such influences seldom fail to be unfortunate and injurious to those adopting them. The disloyal citizens of the United States who have offered the ruinef our country in return for the aid and comfort which they have invoked abroad, have received less patronage and encou ragement than they probably expected. If it were just to suppose, as the insurgents have seemed to assume, that foreign nations, in this case, discard ing all mare, Sadie, and treaty ahligetioen, would act solely and selfishly for the most speedy restora tion of commerce, including especially the acquisi tion of cotton, these nations appear as yet not to have seen their way to their object more directly or clearly through the destruction than through the preservation of the Union. If we could dare to be lieve that foreign nations are actuated by no higher principle than this, I am quite sure a sound argu ment could be made to sinew them that they can reaeh their aim more readllY and easily by aiding to crush this rebellion than by giving encourage ment to it. The principal lever relied on by the insurgents for exciting foreign nations to hostility against us, as already intimated, is the embarrass ment of commerce. These bathing, however, not improbably saw from the first that it was the Union which made as well our foreign as our domestic commerce. They can scarcely - lave failed to per ceive that .ttio effort for disunion produces the (m -inting difficulty, and that one ding nation promises more durable peace, and a more extensive and va luable commerce, than can the same nation broken into hostile fragments. It is not my purpose to re view our discussions with foreign States„ because whatever might be their wishes or dienositions, the integrity of our country, and the stability of our Government, mainly depend not upon them, but on the loyalty, virtue, patriotism, and intelligence of the American people. The correspondence itself, with the usual reser vations, is herewith submitted. I venture to hope it will appear that we have practised prudence and liberality towards foreign Powers, avoiding causes of irritation, and with firmness maintainingour own rights and honor. Since, however, it is apparent that here, as in every other State, foreign dangers necessarily attend domestic difficulties, I recom mend that adequate and ample measures be adopted for maintaining the public defences on every side. While under this general recommendation, provi sion for defending our sea-coast line occurs to the mind. I also, in the same connection, ask the at tention of Congress to our groat lakes and rivers. It is believed that some fortifications end depots of Arms and munitions, with harbor and navigation improvements, all at well-selected points upon these, would be of great importance to the na tional defence and preservation. I ask attention to the views of the Secretary of War, expressed in his report upon the same general euhjeci. I deem it of importance that the loyal. regions of East Tennessee and Western North Caro lina should be connected with Kentucky, and other faithful parts of the Union, by railroad. I, there fore, recommend, as a military measure, that Con gress provide for the construotion of such road as speedily as possible. Kentucky, no doubt, will co-operate, and, through her Legislature, make the most judicious selection of a line. The northern terminus must connect with some existing railroad, and whether the route shall be frees Lesingten er liieholasville to the Cumberland Gap, or from Le banon to the Tennessee line, in the direction of .Knoxville, or on some still different line, can readi ly be determined. Kentucky and the General Go vernment co operating, the work can be completed in a very short time, and, when done, it will be not only of vast present usefulness. but also a valua ble permanent, improvement, with its cost, in all the future. Some treaties, designed chiefly for the interests of commerce, and having no grave political im portance, have• been negotiated, awl will be flub mi4tree. the Senate far that , consideration. rki , have failed to induce serve •of the, coma *adopt a iliblribleimaioration 4 . Of "the rigor of a Marian; g war, we hairateanived.-.: all obs.tructions from the way of thilhuruane reform, except such as are merely of temporary god aell - occurrence. I invite your attention to the correspondence be tween her Britannia Majo"J'o 3 'n•"-`— , -"`"i"u to this tiovernment, and the Secretary of State, re lative to the detention of the British chip Pesl ,-th. /ire, in in June last, by the United States steamer Massa. &wets, for a suppOsed breach of the blockade. As this detention was occasioned by an obvious mis apprehension of the facts, and as justice requires that we should iommit no belligerent act not found ed in strict right as Penctioned by pOlic HM I /le o:Immo:id that an appropriation be made to satisfy the reasonable demand of the owners of the vessel for her detention. I repeat the recommendation of my predecessor in big annual message to Congress in December lest, in regard to the disposition of the surplus which will probably remain after satisfying the claims of American citizens against China, pursuant to the awards of the commissioners under the act of the 3d of March, 1859. If, however, it should not be deemed advisable to carry that recommendation into afoot, i would suggovt that authority be given investing the principal over the proceeds of the sur plus referred to in good securities, with a view to the satisfaction of such other just claims of our citi zens against China as are not unlikely to arise here grog in the pairse of our extensive trade with that empire. By the set of the sth of August last Congress authorized the President to instruct the commanders of suitable vessels to defend themselves against and to capture pirates. This authority has been exer cised in a single instance only : POr the more effec tive protection of our extensive and valuable com merce in the Eastern seas, especially, it seems to me that it would also be advisable to authorize the commanders of sailing vessels to recapture any prises which pirates may make of United States vessels and their cargoes, and the consular courts now established by law in Eastern countries to ad judicate the oases, in the event that this should not be objected to by the local authorities. If any good reason exists why we should perse vere longer in withholding our recognition of the independence and sovereignty of Hayti and Libe ria, I am unable to discern it. Unwilling, however, to inaugurate a novel policy in regard to them without the appro bation of Congress, I submit for their eonaideration the exp!diency . of an appropriation for mainta ning a charge d'affaires near each of those new States. It does not admit of a doubt that important com mercial advantages might be secured by favorable treaties with them. . . The operations of the Treasury during the period whieh has elapsed since your adjournment have been conducted with signal success. The patriotism of the people has placed at the disposal of the Go verment the large means demanded by the public exigencies. Iduch of the national loan has been taken by citizens of the industrial classes, whose confidence in their country's faith and zeal for their country's deliverance from present peril, have in duced them to contribute to the support of the Go- Ten/merit the whole of their limited acquisitions. This fact imposes peculiar obligations upon ua to use economy in disbursements and energy in action. The revenue from all sources, !minding loans, for the financial year ending on the 30th of June, 1861, was $66,835,900.27, and the expenditures for the same period, including payments on mount of the public debt, were $84,578,831.47, leaving a ba lance in the Treasury, on the Ist of July, of $2,257,- 065.80. For the first quarter of the financial year, ending on the 30th of September, 1861, the receipts frem all sources, including the balance of the Ist of July, were $102,532,909.27, an *the expenses $98,239,733.09, leaving a balance, on the let of Oc tobert 1861, of $4,292,776.18. Estimates for the remaining three quarters of the year, and for the financial year of 1863, together with his of ways and means for meeting the demands contemplated by them, will be submitted to Congress by the Secretary of the Treasury. It is gratifying to know that the expenditures made necessary by the rebellion aro not beyond the resources of the loyal people, and to believe that the same patriotism whieh has thus far sustained the Government, will continue to sustain it till peace and union shall again bless the land. I respectfully refer to the report of the Secretary of War for information respecting the numerical strength of the army, and for recommendations, having in view an increase of Its einoionoy and the well-being of the various branches of the service entrusted to his care. It is gratifying to know that the patriotism of the people has proved equal to the occasion, and that the number of troops ten dered greatly exceeds the force which Congress authorized me to call into the field. I refer with pleasure to those portions of his re port which make allusion to the creditable degree of discipline already attained by our troops, and to the !maenad sanitary condition of the entire army. The recommendation of the Secretary for an or ganization of the militia upon a uniform basis, is a subject of vital importance to the future safety of the country, and is commended to the serious aliens tion of Congress. The large addition to the regular army, in con nection with the defection that has so considerably diminished the number of its officers, gives peCuliar importance to his recommendation for increasing the corps of cadets to the greatest capacity of the Military Academy. By mere omission, I presume, Congress has failed to provide chaplains for hospitals occupied by vo lunteers. The subject was , brought to my notice, and I wan hiked to draw up the form of a letter, one copy , of which, properly addressed, has been delivered to each of the persons, and at the dates respectively named and stated in a schedule, eon. taining also the form of the letter, marked A, and herewith trrannitted, These gentlemen, I understand, entered upon the duties designated at the times respectively stated in the schedule, and have labored faithfully there ever since. I therefore recommend that they be com pensated at the same rate as chaplains in the army, further eugges - H. ling that gisiketia prevision he made for chaplains to serve at hospitals as well as with regi ments. The report of the Secretary of the Navy presents in detail the operations of that branch of the service; the activity and energy which have characterised its administration, and the results of the measures to increase its efficiency and power. Such have been the additions by construction and purchase, that it may almost be said a navy has been created and brought into service since our dif ficulties commenced. Besides blockading our er.• tenaive coast, squadrons larger than ever before as - ambled wager PE Ps biro been put Watt and performed deeds which have Increased our naval renown. I would invite special attention to the recommendation of the Secretary for a more perfect organization of the navy by introducing additional grades is the Service. The present organization is defective and unsatisfactory, and the suggestions Submitted by the department will, it is believed, if adopted, obviate the difficulties alluded to, pro mote harmony. and increase the efficiency of the There are three vacancies on the bench of the Supreme Court, two by the decease of Justices Daniel and McLean and one by the resignation of Justice Campbell. I have so far forborne making nominations to fill theme vacancies, far rattabha which I will now state. Two of the out-going judges re sided within the States now overrun by revolt, so that if their successors were appointed in the seine localities they could not now serve upon their cir cuit, and litany of the most competent men there probably would not take the personal hazard of ac cepting to serve even here upon the Supreme Bench. I have been unwilling to throw all the appointments klerthward, thus disabling myself from doing justice to the sOlith, on the return of peace; although, I may remark, that to transfer to the North one which has heretofore boon in the South, would not, with reference to territory and population, be unjust, wring the long and brilliant judicial career of Judge McLean, his circuit grew into an empire al together too large for any one judge to give the courts therein more than a nominal attendance, rising in population from 1,470,018 in 1830, to 6,151,905 in 1860. Besides this, the country generally has outgrown our present judicial system. If uniformity was at all intended, the sys tem requires that all the States shall be accommo dated with Circuit Courts attended by Supremo Judges, while, Ls feet, Wiscons6, Minnesota, lowa, Kansas, Florida, Texas, California, and Oregon have never bad any such courts. Nor can this well be remedied without a cheep of the system, because the adding of judges to the Supreme Court enough for the eateramedatlen of all parts or the country with Circuit Courts would create a court altogether too numerous for a judicial body of any sort. And the evil, if it be one, will increase as new States come into the Union. Circuit Courts are useful or they see set flieful. If useful, no State should be denied them. If not useful, no State should have them. Let them be provided for all or abolished to all. Three modifications occur to me, either of which, I think, would be an improvement upon our preaCnt, system. Let the Supreme Court be of con venient number in every event. Then first, let the whole country be divided into circuits of conveni ent size, the Supreme Judges to serve in a number of them corresponding to their own number, and in dependent Circuit Judges he pesi.irldesl for all the rest. Or, secondly, let the Supreme Judges be re lf eyed from circuit duties and Circuit Judges pro vided for all the circuits. Or, thirdly, dispense with the Circuit Courts altogether, leaving the ju dicial functions wholly to the District Court and an independent Supreme Bench. I respectfully recommend to the consideration of Congress the present condition or the statute laws, with the hope that Congress will be able to find an easy remedy for many of the ieconveni enees and evils which constantly embarrass those engaged in the practical administration of them. Since the organization of the Government, Con gress has enacted some five thousand acts and joint resolutions. which fill more than tax thousand closely printed pages, and are scattered through many volumes. Many of these acts have been drawn in haste, and without sufficient caution, so that their provisions are often obscure in them selves, or is conflict with each ether ; es, at least, so doubtful as to render it very difficult for even the best informed person to ascertain pieeisely what the statute law really is. It seems to me very im portant that the statute laws should be made as plain and intelligible as possible, and be reduced to as small a compass as may consist with the fullness and precision of the will of the Le gislature and the perspicuity of its language. This, well done, would, I think, greatly facili tate the labors of those whose duty it is to assist in the administration of the laws, and would 'be lasting . benefit to the people, by placing before them, in a more accessible and intelligible form, the laws which so deeply concern their interests anti their duties. lam informed, by some whose opiniobe I tests - eat, that all the ACM of Odfigteaa now in force, and of a permanent and general nature, might be revised and rewritten, so as to be em braced in one volume. or at most in two volumes of ordinary and commercial Ova , ; and I respectfully recommend to Congress to consider an the subject, and, if my suggestion be approved, to devise such plan as to their wisdom anal ...am most proper for the attainment of the end proposed. Ono of the unavoidable consequences of the present insurrec tion is the entire suppression in many places of all .the ordinary means of administering civil justice by the officers in the form of existing law. This is the case, in whole or in part, in all the in surgent States; and as our armies advance upon and take possession of parts of those States the practical evil becomes more apparent. There are n„_ 1 ? courts Lmr officers_ to whom the citizens 9f other Kate& may appty.. for the enforcement of their lawful claims against citizens - of the insurgent States; and there is a vast amount of debt eon atitating such claims ; some have, estimated it as higE - ifetfteeteseeos-deseesktislargei.part-fram_ insurgents in open rebellion, to loyal citizens, who are even now making great sacrifices in the discharge of their P atriotic duty to support the Go ..inment. Under these circumstances J. have Deem urgently solicited to establish, by military power, courts to administer summary justice in such cases. I have thus far declined to do it—not because I had any doubt that the end proposed, the collection of the debts, was just and right in itself, but because I have been unwilling to go beyond the pressure of necessity in the unusual exercise of power. But the powers of Congress, I suppose, are equal to the anomalous occasion, and therefore I refer the whole matter to Congress, with the hope that a plan may be devised for the administration of justice in all such parts of the insurgent States and Territories as may be under the control of this Government, whether by a Voluntary return to allegiance and order, or by the power of our arms. This, however, is not to be a permanent institution, but a temporary substitute, and to cease as soon as the ordinary courts can be re-established in peace. It is important that some more convenient means should be nro- Tided, if pessible, for the adjustment of claims against the Government, especially in view of their increased number by reason of the war. It is as much the duty of Government to render prompt justice against itself in favor of citi- zens as it is to administer the same between private The investigation and adjudication of claims in their nature belong to the judicial department. Besides, it is apparent that the attention or Congress will be more than usually engaged for some time to come with great national questions. It was in tended by the organization of the Court of Claims mainly to remove this branch of business from the balls of Congress ; but while the court has proved to be an effective and valuable means of investiga tion, it in a great degree fails to effect the object of its creation for want of the power to make its judg ments final. Fully aware of the delioacy, not to say the danger of the subject, I commend. to your careful consideration whether this power of making judgments final may not properly be given to the court, reserving the right of appeal on question of law to the Supreme Court, with such • other provi sions as experience may have shown tete necessary. I ask attention to the report of the -Postmaster General, the following being a summary state ment of the condition of the Department ! The revenue from all sources during , the fiscal year ending June 30, 1861, including the annual per manent appropriation of $700,000 for the • trans portation of free mail matter, was $9,049,296.40, being almost two per cent, less than the revenue for 1860. The expenditures were thirteen millions six hundred and= thousand seven hundred and fifty-nine dollars and eleven cents, showing a de crease of snore than eight per cent. as compared with those of the previous year ? and leaving an ex cess of expenditures over the revenue for the last fiscal year of $4,557,462.79. The gross revenue for the year ending June 30, 1863, is estimated at an increase of four per cent. on that of 1861, making $8,683,000, to which should be added the earnings of the Department in carrying free matter ? viz : $700,000, making $0,283,000. The total expenditures for 1863 are estimated at $12,528,000, leaving an estimated deficiency . of $3,- 145,000 to be supplied ;from the treasury, in addi tion to the permanent appropriation. The present insurrection shows, I think, that the extension of this Diatriet across the Potomac river at the time of establishing the capital here, was eminently wise, and consequently that the relin quishment of that portion of - it which lies within the State of Virginia was unwise and dangerous. I submit for your consideration the expedienoy of regaining that part of the District, and the re storation of the original boundaries thereof, through negotiation with the State of Virginia. The report of the Secretary of the Interior,with the noeonipanying documents, exhibits the condition of the several branches of the public business pertain ing to that Department. The depressing influences of the insurrection have been especially felt in the operations of the Patent and General Land Offices. The cash receipts from the sales of public lands during the past year have exceeded the expenses of our land system only about $200,000. The sales have been entirely suspended in the Southern States, while the interruptions to the business of the country, and the diversion of large numbers of men to militaryservice, have obstructed settlements hi the heW States mid Territories of the Northwest. The receipts of the patent office have declined in nine months about 8100,000, rendering a large re duction of the force employed necessary, to make it self-sustaining. The demands upon the peneion Age will be largely increased by the insurrection. Numerous applications for pensions, based upon the casualties of the existing war, have already been made. There is reason to believe that many who ere now upon the pension rolls, and in receipt of the bounty of the Government, are in the ranks of the insurgent army, or giving them aid and com fort. The Secretary of the Interior has directed a sae. pension of the payment the of pensions of such per, sons, upon proof of their disloyalty. I recommend thut Congress authorize that officer to cause the names of such persons to be stricken from the pension rolls. The relations of the Government with the Indian tribal }dare been greatly disturbed by the 111§111168- lion, especially in the Southern superintendency and in that of New Mexico. The Indian country south of Kansas is in the possession of insurgents from Texas and Arkansas. The pent* 9f the !hilted States Government, ap pointed since the 4th of March, for this superintend ency, have been unable to reach their posts, while the most of those who were in office before that time have espoused the insurrectionary cause, and assume to exercise the powers of ?goats by virtue of commission from the insurrectionists. It has been stated in the public press that a portion of these Indiani have been organized as a military force, and are attached to the army of the Insurgents. Although the Government has no official informa tion upon this subject, letters have been written to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs by several prominent Chiefs, giving assurances of their loyalty to the United States, and expressing a wish for the presence of Federal troops to protect them. It is believed that upon the repossession of the smutty by the Federal forces the Indians will readily cease all hostile demonstrations, and resume their former relations to the Government. Agriculture,. confessedly the largest intere9t..of the nation, has not a Department, nor a bureau, a clerkship only assigned to -it in the Government. WWII it ill fertitneto that this groat Wood is TWO CENTS. dependent in its nature as- to• not have demanviled and extorted more from the Government, I raspoa fully ask Congress to consider whether something more cannot be gwen voluntarily with general ad. I vantage. Annual reports, exhibiting the - condition of our agriculture, commerce, and manufactures, would present a fund of information of great practical value to the country. While r make no suggestion as to detail., .1 sentare the .pieltia.f.hist au cultural and statistical bureau might . profitably be organized. The execution of the laws for the suppression of the African slave trade has been confided to the Department of the Interior. It is a subject of gratulation that the efforts which have been made for the suppression of this inhuman traffic have been recently attended with unusual success. Five vessels being fitted out for the slave trade here been seized and condemned. Two mates of yes. sels engaged in the trade, and one person engaged in equipping a slaver, have been convicted and subjected to the penalty of fine and imprisonment, and ono captain, taken with a cargo of Afileans on. board his vessel, has been convicted of the highest grade of offence under our laws—the punishment of which is death. The Territories of Colorado Dakotab, and' Ne vada, created by the last Colorado, have been organized, and civil administration has been inau gurated therein, under auspices especially gratify ing, when it is considered that the leaven of treason was found existing in some of these new countries when the Federal &core arrived there. The abundant natural resources of these Territories, with the security and protection afforded by an •or ganized government, will, doubtless, invite to them a large immigration, when peace shall restore the business of the coun try to its accustomed channels. I .übratt the resolutions of the Legislature of rade, which evidence the patriotic spirit of the people of the Territory. So far, the authority of the United States has been upheld in all the Territories , . as it is hoped it will be =r, the future . I commend their interests and defence to the enlightened and generous care of Congress. . . I recommend to the favorable consideration of Congress the interests of the District of Columbia. The inairi-ection has been the Willie much end fering and sacrifice to its inhabitants, and, as they have no Representative in Congress, that they should not overlook their just claims upon the Goverment. At your late session a joint resolution was adopted authorizing the President to take measures for faci litating a proper representation of the industrial interests of the United States at the exhibition of the industry of all nations, to be holden at London ih the year 18112. I regret to say I have been unable to give per sonal attention to this subject—a subject at once as interesting in itself, and so extensively and inti mately connected with the material prosperity of the world. Through the Secretaries of State and of the Interior a plan or system has been devised and partly matured, which will be laid before you. Under and by virtue of the act of Congress en titled en act to confiscate property used for insur rectionary purposes, approved August 6, 1861, the legal claims of certain persons to the Ideor and ser viee of certain other persons have become forfeit ed, and numbers of the latter thus liberated are already dependent on the United States and must be provided for in some way. Besides this, it is not impossible that some of the States will Pass similar enactments for their own benefit respective ly. and by operation of whioh persons of the same den will he thrown upon them for disposal. In such ease I recommend that Congress provide for accepting such persons from such States according to some mode of valuation in lieu, pro Canto of direct taxes, or upon some other plan to bo agreed upon with ouch States re spectively, that such persons, on such ac ceptances by the General Government, be at once deemed free, and that, in any event, steps be taken for colonizing both classes (or the one first men tioned, if the other shall not be brought into exist ence), at some place or places in a ciiniate congenial to them - . It might be well to consider too, whether the free colored people already in the United States could not, so far as individuals may desire, be, in cluded in such colonization. To earl, out the plan of 6614416,4661 i stay lavolao the acquiring of territory, and, also, the appropri ation of money beyond that to be expended in the territorial acquisition. Having practised the ac quisition of territory for nearly sixty years, the question of the constitutional pewee to de se is no longer an open ono with us. The power was quos. tioned at first by Mr. Jefferson, who, however, in the purchase of, Louisiana, yielded his scruples on the plea of great expediency. If it be said that the only legitimate object of acquiring territory is to furnish homes for white men, this measure offsets that object, for the emigration of colored men leaves additional room for white men remaining or coming here. Mr. Jefferson, however, placed the import- j ance of Focuring Louisiana more on political and commercial grounds, than on providing room for p opul Li QM On this whole proposition, including the appro priation ol.coney with the acquisition of terri tory, does not the expediency amount to absolute necessity, that, without which, the Government itself, cannot be perpetuated if the war continues ? In annEdderinn tboea ha adopted for sup. pressing the insurrection, have been anxious sad onrofui Mitt nnnflict for this nUrnoo shall not degenerate into a violent aria rembrainess revolutionary struggle. I have, therefore, in every case, thought it proper to keep the integrity of the Union prominent as the primary object of the con. test on our part, leaving all questions which are not of vital military importance to the more de liberate action of the Legislature. • In the exercise of my best discretion, I have ma ttered to the blockade of the ports held by the in surgents, instead of putting in force, by proclama tion, the law of Congress, enacted at the late ses sion, for closing those ports. So, also, obeying the dictates of prudence, as well as the obligations of law, instead of transcending, I have adhered to the act of Congress, to confiscate property used for in surrectionary purposes. If a new law upon the same subject shall be proposed, its propriety will be duly considered. The Union must be preserved, and hence all in dispensable means must be employed. We should not he in haste to determine that radical and ex treme measures, which may reach the loyal as well as the disloyal, are indispensable. The inaugural address, at the beginning of the Administration, and the message to Congress, at the late special session, were both mainly devoted to the domestic controversy out of which the insur rection and consequent war have sprung. Nothing more occurs to add or subtract, to or from the prin ciples or general purposes stated and expressed in that document. The last ray of hope for preserving the Union peaceably expired at the assault upon Fort Sumpter, and a general review of what has occurred since may not be unprofitable. What was painfully uncertain then is much bet ter defined and more distinct now, and the progress of events is plainly in the right direction, The insurgenhi confidently claimed a strong support from north of Mason and Dixon's line, and the friends of the Union were not free from apprehension on that point. This, however, was soon settled definitely, and on the right side. South of the line, noble little Delaware led off right from the first. Mary land was made to seem against the Union. Oar soldiers were assaulted, bridges were burned, and railroads torn up within her limits, and we were many days at one time without the ability to bring a single regiment over her soil to the capital. Now her bridges and railroads are repaired and open to the Government. She already . gives seven regi ments to the cause of the Union, and none to the enemy, and her_ people, at a regular election, have. sustained the' On by a larger majority, and a larger aggregate Tote than they ever before gave to any candidate, on any question. Kentucky, too, for some time in doubt, is now decidedly, sad I, think unchangeably, ranged on the side of the Union. Missouri is comparatively quiet ? and I believe Cannot again be overrun by the tnaurree , denies. These three States of Maryland, Kentucky,. and Missouri, neither of which would promise a single soldier at first, have now an aggregate of not less limn forty thousand in the field liar the Union,. while of their citizens certainly not more than a third of that number, and they of doubtful where- . abouts and doubtful existence, are in arms against it. After a somewhat bloody struggle of months, winter closes on the Union people of Western Vir ginia, leaving them masters of their own country. An innirgont f9rue 9f good fifteen hundred, for months dominating the narrow peninsular region of the counties of Accomac and 'Northampton, and known as the Eastern shore of Virginia, together. with some contiguous puts of Maryland, have laid down their arms, and the people there have re newed their allegiance to and accepted the protec tion of the old flag. This leaves no armed mime- rectionists north of the Potomac or east of the Chesapeake. Also, we have obtained a footing at each of the isolated points on the Southern coast of _Hatteras, Port Royal, Tybee Island, near Savannah, and Ship Island, and we likewise have some general accounts of popular movements in behalf of the. Union in North Carolina and Tennessee. These things demonstrate that the cause of the Union is advancing steadily Southward. Since your last adjournment, Lieutenant General . Scott has retired from the head of the army. During his long life the nation has not been unmindful of his merit ; yet, on calling to mind how faithfully, ably, and brilliantly he has served the country from a time far back in our history, when few of the now living had been born, and thence forward continually, I cannot but think we, are still his debtors. I submit, therefore, for your considers , tion, what further mark of recognition is due to bhp and to ogrselvCs as a grateful people. With the retirement of General Scott came the Executive duty of appointing in his stead a General in-Chief of the army. It is a fortunate circum stance that neither in council or country was there,. BO far as I know, guy di frerenoc of opinion as to. the proper person to be selected. The retiring chief repeatedly expressed his judgment in favor of General McClellan for the position, and in this the. nation seemed to give a unanimous concurrence. The designation of Central NoPillnn is, therefore, in a considerable degree, the selection of the coon try as well as of the Executive, and hence there is better reason to hope that there will be given him. the confidence and cordial support, thus, by fair implication, promised, and without which he can not, with so full effieieney, serve the country. It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true, if taken to. moan no more than that our army is better directed by a single mind, though infer ior than by two su-. perier ones at variance and cross purposes with each ether. And the same is true in all 3.0112 t operations wherein those engaged can have none but a common, end in view, and can differ only as to the choice of means. In a storm at sea no one on board can wish the ship to sink, and yet not mares/neatly all go down tortber, tem-Milo tee rawly wilt arca ad no single mind can be allowed to control. • -It continues to develop that the insurrection is largely, if not exclusively, a wax upon the first principles of popular government—the rights of the people. Conclusive evidence of this is found in the most grave and maturely considered public docu ments, as well as in the general tone of the insur gents. In those door ments we found the abridge. merit of the existing right of suffrage, and the de nial to the people V . all right to participate in the seleotion of public officers, except the legislative, boldly advocated, with labored arguments, to prove that large control of the people in government is the source of , all political evil. Monarchy itself is sometimail hinted at ale possible refuge from t! 1 power of the people. ohy.proNoat paitioal 0411 id Seeceeli lob THE WAR PRESS. Tug WAR PRESS will be sent to subscribers by mail (per annum in advance) at $2.00 Three CUrliell " “ 5.00 8.00 12.00 rITO " " Ten 41 64 Larger Clubs will be charged at the arr. no rate, thus 20 Gaga§ will tbkreSt i 66 coplee will coot $44 i watt 100 copies 8120. For a Club of Twenty-one or over, we will send •n MOTO VO' t 9 ttl9 getter.llD of the Club. 07 - Postmasters are rooneeted to act as Agents fee TER Wan PREBS. fed were I to omit raising a warning voice against Ibis approaeb of returning despotism. It is not needed nor fitting here, that a general argument should be made in favor of popular 1 11 4. tutlone. But there is ono point, with its connate , thine, not so hackneyed as moat others, to which I ask a briefettention :' it is the effort to place capital on-an equal footing with:, if not above, labor, in the steeeture of tee (government. It is assumed that avail:Aloe only le•cenaccilun with capital,— that nobody labors unless somebody else, owning capital; somehow ; by the UST of it f isducee him to labor. This assumed, itisrnext eonaidered whether it is best that capitahhal/ hire laborers, ape teed lip , to work by their ewer consent, or buy them, and drive them to it, without their consent. • Having pet:needed so far, it is naturally concluded that all laborers are.either - hiristl laborers or what we call slaves; -and further, it is assumed that, whoever is once u hired luborer is fixed in that eon. dition for life. Now, there is ho such relation be tween capital and labor. as - &seemed,- nor is there any such thing as a freeman- being fixed for life in the condition of a hired lebeete. Roils these assumptions are false, and all inferences -from them , are groundless. Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only•the• fruit' of labor; and could never • have existed •If • labor had. not first existed, Labor is the superior of capitate and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of , protec tion as any other rights. Noe is it denied that there is, and probably always will be, a relation between labor and eapitaleprodneing.: mil. teal benefits. The error is in assuming- that, the whole labor of the community exists within , that relation.. A few men own capital; and ' that few avoid labor themselves, and with their capital hire or buy another few to labor for them. • A large ma jority belong to neither class, neitlier work- for others nor have others working for them. In most. of the Southern States a majority of the whole people of all colors are neither slaves •nor mesterei while in the Northern a large majority are neither hirers nor hired. Men with their familiar, wives,. sons, and daughters, work for themselves on- their farms, in their houses , and in their shops; taking the whole product to themselves, and asking-no favors of capital on the one hand, nor of hired...la-- borers or slaves on the other. it is not• forgotten. that a considerable number -of persons mingle their own labor with their capital—that is, they labor with their own hands, and also buy or hire others , to labor for them ; but this is only et mixed an& not a distinct class. No etrinciple stated is disturbed by the existence of this mixed class. Again, as has already been said, there is- not'or necessity. any.suoh thing as the free hired laborer being fixed to that condition for' life. Many inde eeliderit iiien , 01,1,4 where in -those- Stated, a few years back in their lives, were hired laborers. The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy toots or land for himself, then labors on his own ac must nether , while. and at length hieeS rieethee new beginner to heiphim. This is the just - and gene roue and prosperous system which opens the war to all, gives hope to all, and consequently energy and progress and improvement of condition to all. Na • teen living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty ; none less inclined to take or touch aught which they have not honestly earned. Let them beware of surrendering a politi cal power which they already possess, and which, if surrendered, will surely he used te close the! door of advancement ag ainst such as they, and to fix new disabilities and burdens upon them till all of liberty shall be lost. From the first taking of our national census to Ike last is SefentY years, and WO find our popu lation at the end of the period eight times as great as it was at the beginning. The increase- of those other things -which men deem desirable has been greater. We thus have at one view what the popular principle applied to government through the machinery of the States and the Union has pro duced in a given time, and also what, if firmly maintained, it promises for the Allure. There are already among us those who, if the Union be pre served, will live to see it contain two hundred and fay millions. The struggle of to-day is not ai together for to-day, it is for a vast future also. With a reliance on President's all the more firm and earnest, let us proceed in the great task which events have devolved upon us. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Theme:ems, Decembere3, 1861. 0).33:1L.1A.T.1;pc:1 One of the most interesting documents submitted to Congress at the present session is the report of Hon. J. M. Edmunds, Cominissioner of the Land Office. It is a very voluminous document, and con tains a vast amount of information relative to the, public lands of our country. Among other things, Mr. Edmunds speaks of the aggregate of surveyed lands, offered and nnoffered on the 30th of Septem ber, 1861; cash sales of bounty lands, swamps, and railroads; surreys in new Territories of Dakota, Colorado, Nevada, California, Oregon, Washing ton, New Mexico, Utah, Kansas, Nebraska, Minne sota, Missouri, Illinois, Louisiana, and Florida ; of foreign titles to these lands; of pre-emptions, and rules governing the pre-emption claims of those who hare been in the service of the United Statee or who are now engaged in the war tor the vnitin . -`-^ W v claims, under our various arsliourtittv g 1 &f ral bounty land claims, under the laws of 1860-st-58 ; of swamp grants; of railroad ap provals; of the mineral interests of the United States and the public domain ; and of the boundary lines now in litigation between many of the Wester. States and Territories. In furnishing the country with the of his department, Mr. Edmunds gives us a vast amount of useful and necessary information. We leant that since Juno 30, 1860, there have been surveyed 9,892,125 acres of laud, to which may be added the number of acres which have been surveyed prior to that date, and which remain still offered for pre emption, making an aggregate of 55,555,595 sores. These lands are liable to proclamation, and subject to pre-emption. If .we add to this the iiniiihee or surveyed lands heretofore, liable to private sale and pre-emption, we find it leaves in the possession of the United States, on the 30th of September, 1581, a grand total of 134,218,330 eases surveyed, unsold, offered, and. unoffered. Mr. Edmunds says,. in speaking of the bounty land system, that the operations of the land system, and the disposal of the public lands hare been checked and suppressed by. the political differences of the country, growing eutof. the hostile attitude. assumed towards the United States by the authori ties controlling the States in revolt against the Fe deral dovennuent, and he adds the gratifying fact, thatnotwithstandingtheseeauses, and the necessary withdrawal for militaryservice of .a large number of our citizens from agricultural employment, the general disturbance, of trade, and the exciting causes iffecting the social system, the energy of our people and the strength of.our institutions ma nifest themselves:in the fact, that, unaided by pub lic sales, fresh lands, actual settlements have in creased hi such an extent. that, be estimates that during the past year forty .thousand new eighty acre farms. have been added .to the wealth of.the Republic,. The details of, the..surveyii in the different Terri tories of the West are elaborated by Mr. Edmunds, but they are hardly of special, interest to the coun try.. They exhibit, however, a degree of energy in consolidating, improving, arranging, and ren dering useful , uninhabited , , these vast, and almost unknown regions, which reflect, the greatest credit upon the people and the authorities. Mr. Edmunds suggests that the publio surveys in Utah be discont tinned, until a policy may be devised by Congress which will induce others than.Murmons to emigrate to that Territory_ The influence of the Mormon. church is paramonnt.in Utah, It is virtually an isolated. Territory of. the. Union, and it is thought advisable not to continue unnecessary and annum neralive labor. The surveying service continues in Minnesota, Illinois, lowa and Kansas, but has been interrupted. in Missouri , lediana,,,and .Florida, by the politieal dietuebaneee in those States, Florida, archives of the surveyors of Louisiana end Florida having been surrendered to the Confederate autho rities. Mr. Edmunds,. in his report, submits re duced. estimates. for, the, surveying department, in consequence of the drain upon the treasury for warpurposes, and diminished receipts for the sale of lands and the cessation of emigration to these wide fields of publiq domain. Ile thinks, in the pre sent condition of, public affairs, it would be preju dicial to great public or private interests to enlarge the surveying appropriations ; and he very pro perly thinks that sound policy recommends that all surveys shall advance according to the require ments of actual settlements. The pre-emption principle, accord ingto the Com missioner, which was recognized in the early legis lation of our country, hac.riltonod into a permanent system. In the expansion of the system, how ever, and in its application to unsurveyed lands in new States and Territories,..some irregularities have arisen demanding legislative intervention. In this connection he alludes to a new point of interest at the present. time.. Uis attention has been drawn to the condition of persons claim ing pre•emptions,. and wishing. to. enlist in the service of. the limpublic, who are desirous, of aseettainin4 whether such pre-emptions will be protected during. the absence of the claimauLs. Having no doubt, of, the justice of the principle which will protect the interests of claimants, under such circumstances, it has received the sanction of the Commissioner, with this cipalification : that the pre-emptor is an actual. resident upon and milli• vator of the trash claimed, has filed his de claratory statement,.and has fully observed the re auiremeats of the pre-emption law, up to the pa ned of his enlistment. In that case, he holds the. time of actual military service will not be Be eon• eidered as to result imfiarfeiture of his lands—pro vided that notice of his entrance into the army, and. his discharge from service is promptly filed with. the register and receiver, and that such stops are taken as will shew a bona fide intention to return.. to the tract, by Wiring his family ofi the lead, where he has one, and where no family, duyt the premises shall be placed in proper chugs- for the pre-emptor, so that residence and cultivaoon shall be continued when the military service is at an end. During the year ending September 30,1801, in, virtue of the scrip laws of 1852, scrip has been is sued as bounty-land warrants, for 80,628 acres, making, with the quantity heretoforis issued, a total! um of 9;8,654 acres. Before a t p Land gommbs , ., stoners, claims are 'now pending, equal to 353,35*, acres. In the Virginia district there are 100,0011 acres liable to computation into scrip. The rebel-. lion of Virginia will not pitejudice the clainv.of loyal citizens, lawfully entitad to scrip in satWati-. doll of their warrehte. aggregate bpuntpland liabilities already ratiflod by the United, States, from the commencement of operations, to tlis 30th December,:lBBl, are sa follows : For revolutionary serviees,.ln tracts said scrip, 8,200,6 acres for service in 1812, 4;860 } L20; . can - adieu indinitettrih 71,750. There is now actually located, under Max, scan bounty-WA set of 1114 T, and the other acts of 1850, 1852,1855, 51,130,870 acres, making a total of 64,208,458 acres. Nutria the fiscal year ending June 30, tau, (Continued on Fourth .Pace.)
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