THE PRESS, ropLISHID DAILY (SUNDAYS SICORFTSD,) ' 0Y JOIIN VII. FORNEY, et $O. 111 SOUTH . FOURTH STRUM i rog DAILY PRESS, 0.0 LOCO Pea Plunk, payable to the Carrier ti b ubscribere out of the City at Stows Doiitieas . tb:iory, roes DOLLARS FOR SIX MONTHS, Two Doi,. to e 'Tonga DiosTus—invarinbly in advance for the is oi °` % _.,.,'",.Adlstileetaonts Inserted at the astral rates. 61z cosstitate sottare. irojiyirßl-WEICIELY P 11.1089, pi to Ibtbseribere otit of the City at POUR DOL. rVOX In advance. •I:;4;i i mposi RETAIL DRY GM)DS. ' is gU do LANDEL.L, FOURTH ,AND • 'ARM - • Es:A 'L...,....„ RATS. IN STORE 1 - 'NB STO4*. OF 'GOODS FOR FAMI.,*.r..I.OO,STpM. WO BLACK 1000 PLAIN. GOOD BLACK CLOTHS. c oo PLAIN CLOTHS. fo01) BLANKETS. 001) M USLINS. • coop LINENS. ' GOOD FLANNELS. 001) BALMORALS. cOOD FINE SHAWLS. G oop TABLE LINENS. -' ROD TOWELINGS. GOOD NAPKINS, TICKS, dm., &o. If ur STAIRS DEPARTMENT. BOYS' CLOTHING AND; • LADIES' CLOAKS, READY MADE OR RADE TO,ODDER. , • • , COOPER & CONARD, S; S 00R. NINTH and IiAREET Eta. _. IMES R. CAMPBELL & CO., IMPORTERS AND CASH DEALERSaN DRY GOODS, AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, CHESTINTIT filTRITyr, gore juat resetfred..and are now °farina, magnificent MP!. SHAWLS, AND DRESS GOODS, 'ECiALLY ADAPTED TO THIS SEASON ()ICH AND RELIABLE FURS OF OUR OWN IMPORTATION AND MANUFACTURE. hoti t+ BAY SABLE, ROYAL BRUME, DARK SABLE MINK, REAL CHINCHILLA, DARK SIBERIAN SQUIRREL. IMF FASHIONABLE STYLE; FOR LADIES; MISSES, AND CHILDREN. FURS MADE TO ORDER. J. W. PRt>CTOR & 00., No. 920 011BNU'r STREET, PHILADELPHIA. EN'S AND BOYS' WEAR. Cassimeres for linal dem Suite. Citssimeres for Dress Snits. Cassimeros forßoys' wear. Cloths adapted to every use. Boys' Clothing, ready made. Men's and'Boys' Suits made to ordor. BL ANKETS. A tiptop lot at fn. Damaged Gray Blanketa at +2 5+ and +3.50. fkorse Blankets—Army Blankets. Domestic Goods at lowest prices. TABLE 'LIVENS. Fine Table Damasks and Cloths. .• The &mons power-loom Table Linens. Bargains In Napkins, Sce.,lo, ".„ PRESS, GOODS. . •yardenerveig styles Dolalnewat 85c. • ' l' ins Rena Bineßcam ;Blue Yaramattas. .Brown Reps Brown optins, Brown Cohnrge Balmorals 32:70, 33 1 +3.20 and +3.50. • 1100PkR &a CUr4ARD, S. E. cornerNINTH and MARKET Strsata. EIMIN HALL A - BRO., 26 South SECOND Street, Err , : minced tho prices of lacy Silks, Rich Printed. Dress Goods,.' (lake Shades of Kerb:toe% Beautiful Colors of Ittfps or poplins, Ali-Wool De Lames, k: kinds of dark dress goods reduced. Also, Fiue Long Broohe Shawls, ' fvnCentreliong Cashmere Shawls, Poeh new stylesdbf Blanket Shawls. 4.4 Lyons Silk velvets, pure Silk. de234f DRY GOODS FOR WINTER. P,ep, Poplins, Nadi Merinos, Colored 111<km:wilt/ea, Paull De Soles, Fan.lard Silks, Blanket Shawls, Balmoral Skirts,. Blank Silks, \ Fancy Silks, Black6Bombazines, . Worsted •Plaida, Cheap Delaines, French Chintzes, Shirting PlanneLs, liroohe Shawls, 'Fine Blankets Crib Blankets. SHARPLESS BROTHERS :on CHESTNUT and EIGHTH Streets MAP DRY GOODS, CARPETS, OIL 'f'I.OTHS, AND WINDOW SHADES.—V, E. ARCHAM. Northeast Corner ELEVENTH and MARKET !.r,,eo, will open THIS.MORNING, Prom Auction, In- Nis Carpets at 37, 95,60,62, 76, and 870. Entry and Stair r ttr,r„, , , , ;, wo;Rag, Hemp, and . Yarn Carpets, 20 to 45c. .J't till Cloths, 97 to 82c. Gilt Bordered Window , a.!e5,620 to *1.50. 'Buff and Green Window Holland. de Laines,l9 to 26c. 'Plaid Dress Goods, 25 to 450, ) 4i,imas Chintzesi4.6 to 200. Frosted Beaver Cloths, $3. Water-proof Cloakings, *1.2.5. Fancy Shirtind 'a to 620, CantonTlannels, 25 to 310. Shirting dell-thstu II STEEL <CL . SON RAVE A LARGE a9ortment of DRESS GOODS, suitable for lb). :NT PRESENTS. Eh Ile V Silks ; Plain Silks, choice colors. Liic and Plgurtidißlack Silks. Nil and Figured Rep Poplins. !' , .!alindFigtiredlteriuoes. alti Solferino Cashmeres, at 37.14 c, worth 62. WINTER SHAWLS, In great variety, ULU:YU SCAP.VS,-BROCHE BORDERS, I . I .OAKS—Of New and Fashionable Styles, made of liNek examinerosted Beaver. and Black Cloth. .41 and our stock, We guaranty to give Sae Vitrion, as we soli nothing but good articles, and at , w•-r prim than they can be bought elsewhere. Nos. 713 and 715 North TENTH street. PRIB AND CRADLE BLANKETS. Largo Crib Blankets, Flue Cradle Blankets. 2 1 EYRE & LANDELL, FOURTH and ARCH PAM, & LANDELL FOURTH AND hart a fine `stock of _ GOMM FOR :FAMILY CUSTOM. Good Lfirgcalaukets. Good Linen Sheeting& nuod Muslin by- the piece. Coed Unshrinking Flannels. Good. Vest Colored Prints. Good Table Linen and Towels. Good quality Black Silks. good Assortment Colored Silica. jal CLOTHES-WRINGER. 'IIE GREAT CLOTHES WRINGER. " PUTNAM ELF-43.D.TUSTING CLOTHES WRINGER" warranted to be superior to an other in use. VERY * FAMILY. SHOULD POSSESS A CLOTHES WRINGER. nucAuss, t. It Is a relief to the hardeityart of washing-dor. , enables the waehing to be done in one-third leas It ayes clothes from the Injury always given by 4. 1. It helps to wash the clothes as well as dry them. " 7 E: BELIEVE IT ADVISABLE TO PROCURE ONE •OF THIS KIND, DECIA.I7SZ, • ~.!litur. The lls being and will break nor Athol and coldwater, and will neither break nor tear g luttons. Oottn. The frame being of iron, thoroughly gal - all danger from rust is removed, and the Lia o to uhrink, swell, split, &c., so unavoidable in 10u unichink, in prevented. „peas. The spiral springs over the rolls render this ma '*tuultadjustints, so that small and large articles, as 41 1 . 2 . articles uneven in thickness, are certain to to . Alttforrn prewar% 4 1 . 6 ckTs. The patent fastening by which the machine l i ttelled to the tub, we believe to be superior in elm aad efficiency to any yet offered. Aa. It will fit any tub, round or square, from one. „., to one-and-a-quarter inohee in thickness, without *lac alteration, RETAIL:PRICE.: VO.l, moo No. 2, 85.00. irt• Agents' wanted in every county. 4 4 4 Reliable and energetic men will be liberally dealt r.,r Sale at the 'W OODENIVARE ESTABLISHMENT" A. H. FRANOISOUS, 40. 433 bIARKET St and No. 5 North FIFTH St., Wholesale agent for Pommy'you'll. (!AUTION. The well-earned reputation of FAIRBANKS' SCALES nced the ;makers of imperibct balances to offer . 14 . 2 14 , , 15 " FAIRBANKS' SCALES," and purchasers have. 1,. 44 1.111 many truitances, been subjected to fraud and .7 ' 41110 11. Fairbanks' Scales are manufactured only by :8414rlitinal inventors, E. di T. FAIRBANKS & CO., and l 'isoled to every branch. of the business, where a Net and durable Scales is desired, F AIRBANKS doEWING, •'• • General Agents, •!?Ykt meson°. NALL. vui omen? trr ST. ti 4 UCIFER" OIL - WORKS. . It, 100 bbls. " Ludifer "'Burning 011 on hand. 'Ass the 011 to be non-explosive, to burn B.U . liein the lamp with a 'ateady:biltillant dame; with u/sting the and but slowly. Barrel& lined h. Cass enamel. WRIGHT, &CUL& PRAREILLL. -I.tt Office, MIN KANTO . ..I' airs -0 4AMAICA PUNCHEONS Jot rocalred and for sale, in bond, bi Ma') CHARLES & 0 4 1 A/R B l.. 145 WALNUT Ilt. and $1 GITAGITZ at. . . .. .. . •........... ... ... .......... .....„ cvCrf If". • . • ~ t ‘\.\\ l l . 1 .1 ///"- 4c 1 k,,, ,s . ~ . .. . . (t , ••... ... IH' _ O , . • ;5: ;F:04..:e. , 2e-,.. 7 ! il -s. (;-* '' 'l, ............0' 11"' ''' .7 . , .' - , ;:- -_ ------P.---; ,,,,,,- . ~',. , fit' , .--,,.. ••,•;,,‘ \I 1 1 11, —07 . - - - - f Oat.. - ',..7r." - .1:.'1 4.4 AY . "'" , itrtt lii . ~.., , , .4- • ,‘. -..-=_- 1 1 11118...i ........... \1 , .* . ~..., - 1 ll .....''. '•,:- - • 4 .: • :r:A !:}_it : - 1.'...,:,.. 8 _ . 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The same goods are sold at other places from YOUR to $8 each CHOICE FOR ONE DOLLAR! Ladies' Sets, new and beautiful styles, Do. Pine '. Do. Ear Rings, - . • • -....Pp Sleeve Buttons. .• Do. s--6411rd Chain," — Do. Neck--er.,-----"*"-*--',.............,, ' Do. Gold Thimbles, Do. Finger Rings, Do. Pencils. ' Do. Pens w i th case, .' Do, Bracelets, Do. MedaWous, ' . Do. Charms. Do. Pearl Port Monnales. 'Do. Mrocco do. • . Do.• Wire ` • do. Do: Purees, Do. Card Cases, Infants' Armlets, . • Do. Neck Chains, • Gents' Vest Chains, different styles, •Do, Sleeve 'Buttons, do. do. Do, Studs, do. do. . • Do. Pin a do. do. • • • Do. • ficarl'Plus, do. do. Do. Scarf Rings. do. do. • • Do. Finger Rings. do, do Do. Pen and Case, • Do. Pencil revolving. . . • • Do. Tooth Pick, revolVing. - • • Do, Watch Keys, Do. Chain Hooks. ' .. . Po, Chain Charms, Do. Pocket Books, D0.,8i1l Books, Do, •Port Mom:tales &a. • . . . SILVER-PLAYED WARE. YOUR CHOICE FOR ONE DOLLAR I Sets of Table Spoons, Po. Dessert SPoons, Do. Tea . do. •• Do. Forks, Pair Butter Knives, . • Do. Napkin Rings. .. Knife and Fork, .. , • Goblets, • Cups, ' •••- • Sugar Bowls, :Cream Cups, • .. Syrup Cups, ' Butter Dishes, Castors with Bottles, • Salt Stands, &c. YOUR CHOICE OF Ala' OF THE ABOVE ARTICLES TOE ONE DOLLAR. NOTICE.—In order to meet the wants of our numeroni enelomers, we shall keep a stock of the finest Plated and All-Gold Jewelry, together with an assortment of heavy plated Silver Ware, and a variety of Photograph Al bums and Pancy Goods, which we will sell at prices which will defy competition. Ladies and Gentlemen are invited to call and examine our stock. Every attention paid to visitors whether they wish to purchase or not. Ramember CLARK'S ONE-DOLLAR STORE, 1011-2 M 602‘ CHESTNUT Street. MiEii3Ztig2giMMl JAMES B. EARLE & IMPORTERS AND MANUFACTURERS OP LOOKING GLASSES. DEALERS TN OIL PAINTINGS, ENGRAVINGS, PORTRAIT, MTGE); and PHOTOGRAPH PRAMES. PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS. EXTENSIVE ,LOOKING GLASS WAREROOMS AND GALLERY OF PAI-NTINGS, 441-tt RL6 CHESTNUT Street, Zhil4delphia. -••• -. GENTS' , FURNISHING . GOODS... AIWWW"WVVVVVVVVVVVV,AA","" .606. ARCH STREET. '606. i WOO 44 : I . tio Wahl iiMiWi MI 411 rill Dil:ii WI 0 iiii (4 WO IP Full Assortment of GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS, EN' GREAT 'VARIETY. SUPERIOR QUALITY, AND AT MODERATE PRICES Q. A. HOFFMANN, Successor to W. W. KNIGHT. ' IftS.stuthBm. . 606 .ARCH . STREE.T. 606. I.IOLID AY PRESENTS. Nos: 1 AND 3 NORTH SIXTH STREET. JOLIN C. ARRISON„ t . ) :v - (FORMERLY J. BURR mom ' ) ly•m - 5 Has now in store an elegant assortment of GENTLEMEN'S ' WRAPPERS, ALso. - NECK TIES, GLOVES, Etc., del3-tf In ;Great Variety._ HOLIDAY PRESEXTS.-OPENING a splendid assortment of IiENTLENENIS FURNISHING GOODS, suitable Presents for Gentlemen. NV: SCOTT, No. MA. CRESTNITP Street, dell-tf - Four doors belowlhe Continental. DRUGS AND .CHEMICALS. ROBERT SHOEMAKER & 00., Northeast Corner. Fourth and RACE Streets, - PHILADELPHIA, WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, IMPORTERS AND DEALERS FOREIGN•AND DOBIESTIO WINDOW AND PLATE GLASS, MANUFACTURERS OP WHITE LEAD AND ZINC PAINTS, PUTTY, &4:1 AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED. FRENCH ZINC PAINTS. Dealers and consumers supplied at VERY LOW PRICES FOR CASH. n027-.qin CARPETS AND OIL CLOTHS. FOURTH -STREET CARPET STORE, No. 41 SOU ill FOURTH STREET. J. T. DELACROIX Invites an examination of his stock of Cametings In which will be foluid 260 PIECES BRUSSELS CARPETING & ►t less than present cost of importation /deo, MO pieces extra Imperial, three-ply, froPeillne, medium, and low-grade Ingrain, Tenitian, Hall, and Stair Carpetinge at retail, very low for cash. nofidm SEWING MACHINES. WIIEELER & WILSON SEWING: MACHINES, 628 CHESTNUT STREET, de-25-8m THE WILCOX & GIBBS FAMILY have been gre UNRiIGI MACHINESin TInELY. roved, NOISEDESS, and with Self-adjusting Hemmers, are now readyfor tale by " FAIR 7WHEVA r ggteet. santi CABINET FURNITURE. (IA_BINET. FURNITURE AND BIL LIARD TABLES. MOORE & CAMPION, No. 201 Sortth SECOND Street, h connection with their extensive Cabinet Business. are LOW manufacturing a superior article of BILLIARD TABLES, And have now on band a full supply, finished with the MOORE & CAMPION'S IMPROVED CUSHIONS, which are pronounced by all who have used them to be supe rior to all others, For the quality and finish of these Tables the manu facturers refer to their numerous patrons throughout the Union, who are familiar with" the character of their work. auZldm EDUCATION. VILLAGE - : GBATIN• , SEMILIARY.—A T SELECT BOARDING SCHOOL, NEAR MEDIA, PA. Thorough course in Mathematics, Classics, English studies, &c. Military Tactics taught. Classes in Book-keeping, Sur veying, and Civil Engineering. Pupils taken of all ages, and are received at anyti me. Boarding per week, 26 . Tuition per quarter, .00. For catalogues or information address Rev. J. HERVEY BARTON, A. M., Village Glees. Pa. . oclo-tf • WILLIAM * YARNALL • . DEALER IN HODSZTDBNIS,HIIiG GOODS, No. 1020 PHESTNITT STREET, Agent for the gale of HALEY, MORSE, & BOYDEN'S PATENT SELF-ADJUSTING CLOTHES7WRINGER, Believed to be tbeIest.CLOTHES-WRIZIOER in use. R will wring the largest Bed Qnilt or smallest Hand kerchief drier than can possibly be done by hand, in very much leis time. - N. B.—A liberal discount will be made to dealers. no33m ROW - EN dc CO., LITHOGRAPHERS A- 0 AND PRINT COLORISTS, Southwest corner of CHESTNUT and ELEVENTH Streets, are prepared to ex ecute any description of Portrait, Landscape, Natural History, Architectural, Autograph, Map, or other Litho graphy, in the most superior manner, and the moat rea sonable terms. Photographs, Portraits, Natural History, and Medical Plates, Maps, and any other description of Plates, colored in the best style, and warranted to give satisfaction. Particular attention‘to Coloring Photographs. ocaikif COTTON SAIL DUCK. AND, CANVAS, of all numbers and braid!). • Raven's Duck - Awning Twills; of all descriptiona for Tenth, Awnings, Trunk, and Wagon Covers. Also, Paper Manufacturers' Drier Felts, from Ito feet wide. Tarpaulin, Bolting Sail Twine &c. JOAN W. EVRRMAN & CO.. va4-tt 101 JONEB' Alley. Vrtss. Several times, during the last six monthS, we have mentioned, in our news.of • litera ture, that the Amorican Adnaanac, which died in 1861, would be replaced by• a new A.nnuaire, entitled " The National Almt nac," to be, issued, at the beginning. of 1808, by George W. Childs, 628 Chestnut _street, t o "antsin a vaitAntigpfJnfopation re specting this country and the rest of` he world, and to be continued yearly. As a general rule, we do* .not notice proof-sheets, but the work' in . question so National that, having seen most .of it "in proof," as it is called, we can describe it. It opens, of course, with a • Calendar,' . Astronomical tables, and a record of astro nomical progress in 1802. Then come original articles on Meteorology, the . United States Coast Survey, Smithsonian Instita- tion, Insanity and Insane Institutions, popu- . lation of the United States illustrated by a new process, iron-clad vessels, and projec tiles,- &c. Under the head " Government , of the United States,-!' bi) given an account of its organization, a list of its leading officers, a full .account of all its Departments, statistics 'connected with every branch of the State, War, Navy, In-' terior, Post Office, Judiciary, and Congres-- Sional Departments ; the debt and financial' condition of the county, as also statistics of its commerce, navigation, agriculture, manu factures, education, and religion. pull de-, tails as • to' the naval, military, and marine forces, including a list of ships,. event& of the war, table of_battlas, and comparison of cost of war with those of England and , France during the Napoleonic strife, and 'with our' own condition in the war of 1812; will also be given. The articles taxed under the United States tax law will be placed in alphabetical order, and so will the new tariff. History and statistics of the Mint; ab stract of the public laws passed in .the .last three sessions of Congress ; suits of the census of 1860; diplomatic and consular 'relations with the world; lists of postmasters and. tax assessors'and collectors; statistics of education, of railroads, and ca nals, of each State,in &fail, of church mat ters, of foreign Governments, &c:, will be fully rendered. Lastly, there will be an obituary, in alphabetical order, and Dr. Al libone, the historian of 'British and Ameri can literature, will give a list of all the works, with their titles, sizes; and price, published in the United States during the past year. The 'details come down, froth authority, to last December.- The above will give a general idea of the complete and comprehensive manner in Which " The National Almanac" will be produced. There has been nothing at all, like it in any country, and the price is, put so low that every'house maybe enriched with a copy. The type is all new, and it is ex pected to be issued without a solitary error of the press. Of course, such tt work, as this has involved the outlay of many thousand dollars, but the publisher, we predict, will find himself amply repaid by a very -exten sive sale, and the establishment of a valuable work of permanent interest, of which`a new volume will appear every„year. M. Augustan "Cochin, ex-marre and • nrunicipal councillor _ol4.aria, is now chief editor of Le Correa- Paris journal which is the 'organ_ of the party represented by Count de Mantalent bert, Monseigneur &Orleans, and Prince de Bro glie, in opposition to Louis Veuillot and =the Na-`. poleonic party—that is, he is` a thorough legitimist In 1848, when he was only 25 years old, his writings on the Pestalozzian system of education obtained: him honorable :mention from the:Paris Academy -of - Sciences. In 1882, a=work by him, entitled "LIAbo.. lition de Pesclavage" (Abolition of Slavery), was_ honored with the first prize from the Institute of France. This work is in two parts: 1. The Results= of Emancipation. 2. The Results of Slavery. A translation of the first volume, by Mary L. Booth (who so ably rendered Count de Gasparin"s works on America into our language), has been published by Walker, Wise, & Co., of Boston. If successful, the second volume, chiefly devoted to the United =States, and slavery therein, will soon follow. M. Cochin, albeit somewhat of a crodrinaire, builds his premises upon facts, like Mr. Gladstone, 'instead of Upon fanciful theories, as. M. Guizot does. Every where he gives exact data, drawn from authentic and unquestioned records.. He takes ,the fact that England has emancipated- 800,000 slaves, France 250,000, Denmark and Sweden 27,000, and laments that, upon such Christian territory as the United States; Braz t il, and the Spanish and Dutch colonies, *without speaking of the - heathen world, there re main nearly seven million baptised slaves. He traces the history of ETancipation, and Shows what have been its results everywhere; not the ruin of theeolonies, as was predicted, but their advance ment ; not the cessation of labor, the return of the blacks, through idleness, to barbarism, and conse quent pillage and murder, but their moral, religious, and social elevation as a race. Three-fourths of the volume are devoted, as might be expected, to tracing the history, working, and results of French Emanci pation. The remainder is occupied with Emancipa tion in the colonies of England, Denmark, Sweden, and Holland. In each ease the .result has been the same. As a work of singular accuracy and interest, we recommend M. Cochin's, "Results of Emend pation " -to the public at this moment, when the new year was Made memorable by the President's memorable proclamation. It - is a storehouse of facts, as well as of arguments. Hellas, her Monuments and- Scenery," by. Th omas Chase, M. A., exquisitely, printed at the Uni versity Press, Cambridge, and printed by Sever & Wands, (whose new edition of De Tocqueville is among the handsomest of modern books,) is a well-timed, but very small volum.e. Mr. Chase evidently is a scholar; and visited Greece from a desire to see a land haunted by so many, classical associations ; left Naples for Athens in May, 1853, and in the haven of the Peirmus found the Ameri can war-frigate Cumberland, with which are now connected recollections at once mournful and proud, which song . has hallowed and Patriotism will cherish. He grew familiar with Athens, of the paste. and of the present. He visited Argolis, the site of Argos, the Treasury of Athens, and the Tombs.of Agamemnon and Themistocles; he' made a pil grimage to Parnassus, and to Delphi, sacred.to poe try and prophecy; thence to Leuctra, the acropolis" of CEnoe, Eleusis, and the ruins of the temple of Demeter; he went to Marathon and to 4Egina and Pentelicus, and he shows Athens as few tourists have shown it before. h'inally,he_describos-thn-- alooorvrire - as -ffinetts — a - E.C2lyeeme in 1862, the die - closure closure to view of the Dionysiae Theatre being one of the greatest archmological events of modern times. The book, small as it is, is filled with the results of scholarly observation, and is made com plete by a good index. The remarks on the politi cal condition and wants of Greece are very, interest- PHILADELPHIA ing at this crisis in her modern history.—Received from J. B. Lippincott & Co. . is Poems," by 'Richard Coe, published in a small 16mo volume, by Smith, English: ft Co., contain. numerous effusions, chiefly lyrical, many of which have already been printed in newspapers. The "Bible Pictures" here are somewhat feeble, but Mr. C'oe is more successful 4n hls " Voices from Home." The series comprisingMy Father, My Mo- thel. My Wife, Our Little Boy, and Our Little Girl, are earnest and musically expressive. The Angel of our Home, full of domestic feeling and Christian re- Hance, is also worth especial commendation. " Ly . ries of Love" and "Songs for the Times," are scarce- ly above the merit or the sing-song rhymes usually known as album-verses. Among the Miccella- • neous ,, poemswe find Mr. Coe's best efforts. The following, which is true and terse,would be complete if the authibr had introduced a line referring to the mature manhood between youth and the old age : LIFE. An infant on its mother's breast— A bouncing boy at play— . A youth by maiden fair caressed— An old man, silver gray— Is all of life we know : A joy—a fear— A smile—a tear— And all is o'er below The lyric, entitled "The Old Farm Gate," and commencing "I love it! I love it! and oft paw/ it by," will too much remind the reader of Eliza Cook% " Old Arm Chair," in the same metre, and kith nearly a similar commencement. We notice; to iOn-, demn it, Mr. Coe , B practice of substituting ".ciavioril 9 which is not an English word, for " Saviour,O. which is. The Rev. Dr. Nehemiah Adams, of Boston, emi nent as a writer and preacher, has made a valuable little volume in a very easy manner. It Is called " Broadcast," and is published by Ticknor & Fields. Dr. A. "has been in the habit of putting down, in the briefest form, such of his own reflections as might serve him for hints in preaching. Having answered this purpose, the thought occurred to hint of making selections froM them, and turning themn. into a book. This is, in fact, 'a volume of religieUlt laconies, made very accessible by a good index. Mrs. J. b. 'Frentinit's "Story of the' Guard ::$' Chionicle. of the' War," published by Ticknor Si. Fields, l be'aiitifuily got up, With Riverside print ing on the finest paper—as a lady's book should be. It is a record of the achievements of the Fremont Body-Ci-uard, commanded by Major Znonyi—chiefty, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1868 The National Almanac. w ew pan "cations. ' : I -1 • 91 JANUARY 8 , 1863 • fl indeed, of the bold and successful attack which 150 of them, headed by him, • made on 2,000 rebels at Springfield, Missouri. This Guard was a cavalry. corps, consisting of a class of volunteers of superior statue and education. When General Fremont was relieved from his command, in November, 1861, the Guard was mustered out of service. The volume of the book is chiefly made by letters from General Fremont, Major Zagonyi, and two or three others, to the author. The best part of the book is the fifth chapter, in which the author describes, in a simple and touching manner, her reception in a country village in Missouri, in 1853, by a German 'family located there. Of the new translation, by Charles T. Brooks, of Jean Paul's celebrated romance, called "Titan," published by Ticknor ft Fields, we have already given a favorable opinion. We now add, what we previously omitted, that the translation is so good hat it might rather be called a transfusion from the t»- an into the English language. The brief ex planaorrulerWen Gel kro , • date the autheOs' by . Mr. Brooke, help to eluci- Mtreand meaning. ". Memoirs of Mrs. .Toant774-5tu8e...,,, thune' ;1„4. ition to, " by her son, thelate Rev. Dr. Bethunecira vinikbfe --- 4 d our religious biography. The memoir is the duotion of a gifted and extiellent divine—a heart-tri bute to the memory and the worth of ,one who,. as 'Wife,. Mother, and friend,ever ahoned,heraelt atruly Christian woman:. Suc h biograPhies, carefully writ ten,iVithotit cant or exaggeration, tend to do good to the living, While they are memorials of the dead. Half of the volume is occupied with - extracts from the private papers, journals, &0., of Mrs. Bethune; from 1824, when she was made a widow, down •to 'lBl7. ' She died in 1860 , aged ninety; and deserves to be remembered, especially, as the•mother of Sunday Schools in the United States. , Mrs. Richards, sister of Alice B. Haven, (formerly . Mrs Joseph C. Neal,) has written several, agreeable' AO instructive works of fiction. A new book by her, entitled "Springs Of Action," has been Published' by Harper ic Brothers. It Consists of eighteen: essays, 'Or pt./silica and sensible teachings upon various . subjects, illustrated by memoirs, anecdotes and illtudrations of personal ebaracter,—the aim, - ali through,'.being ‘ to. eleyate and reach the female mind. 'Ethical, without being - diffuse or dictatorial, this little book is probably destined to do good service among the multitude of youthhil female readens whose minds are.now.being formed, and may by this be properly directed. • Benry.Th'omas Buckle, author of "A History of. Civilization inTisgilind," wrote little except that work—a literary torso, as it standsa great frag- Ment. His contributions to - fugitive literature Were a few essays in Fraser's Magazine, of which the most important was a long review of "On Li betty, "and a Lecture before the Royal Institution on "The Influence of Women on • the ' f, .Progress o Knowledge." A reprint of these prefaced by a. biographical sketch of Mr. Buckle, has been issued: by Messrs. Appleton, New York. It is a slight but sp. parently honest sketch, though not very. eulogistic.) A: photographic portrait of Mr. Buckle—showing' him a middle-aged man with bluff English look, full face, high forehead, and double chin—illustrates this volume, which is curious to a certain extent. - A poem, . 4 Salome, the Daughter of Herodias, , ! published by G. P. Putnam, is an attempt to drama.' tize the fate of John the Baptist. Herodias speaki eloquently, at times; Sextus, a loVer, sings . .very sweetly; the Baptist is religioua and 'resigned; Salome is truthful and tender'; but the 'poem is f, failure. There is something boldly impudent is bringing in the Saviour. as one of the drzotatti persona. . THE ANDERSON TROOP. Insubordination Among the Men—A Large Napnber Stack their Arms and Refuse to affirch—Complaints of the Treatment, Re. ceived—Dissatisfaetion with Officers. We publish this morning two communications, received fro members of the Anderson TrdoiOn the late unfortunate occurrence connected with•the organization. It will be seen that the. eorfespOn. dents take different views of the affair, one justify ing the conduct of the troop, whilethe other as em phatically denounces IN .oAltir NEAR NA9IIVILLIC, December 27, 1262. • To the Editor of 774 e Press Sin : The feaders - of the advertising cojumnsi of The Press will doubtless recollect an advertieement, , which appeared last - August-and September, among the ', l :inilitary..notices,” signed by one Captain Weir: J.A.'iihner.-by which advertisement he . 44ropOsed"to• raise a battalion of. four hundred men, to act as an • escort or body guard to Major fieneral Buell . , who, at that time; was commanding the Department of of - the Ohio: When Captain Palmer and the ether recruiting officers were interrogated as to the Willy of the advertisement, they unhesitatingly • answered that Captain .Palmer had theeuthority of General Buell, sanctioned by the War Departmeel - ;,_ to raise a battaliOn of rxic.nfor.tihn.lidtnc*Vdel in the advertifiement, , ancr.tharthe inencould - rely: on their statement.es .being- correct. TheyApvent so far, even, as to require letters of recommendation, from those wishing to join the Anderson Cavalry as an earnest of good -moral character and general .intelligence and respectability p es none, unless Ivan recommended, would be received, as the wished • young men of this character only.. Now, it is - a well-known fact that, under,, these promises, the first battalion of the Ariderson`Cavalry was specially recruited. Then came the..iiimouncement, in the form of an order frord Captain - Taliher, read to us at Camp Alabama, Carlisle; tear fie haii - received • authority from the War Department to increase the command to two battalions; biltiotivithstandlng this increase of numbers, we were still to be used as at first specified. If we were astonished. at this . announcement, imagine what our feelings were • when we were coolly informed that he (Captain Palmer) had been clothed with further authori- ' ty to increase hie command to a regiment of three battalions. Still were we assured, by re peated, orders; read to quiet our fears,lhat we were positively to be attached to the headquarters of the major general .commanding the Department of 'the - Ohio, to net as an escorLand for 'special -service as air independent regiment. No*, as we were raised • expreeslyfor a body guard forillkjor General Buell, when that general was relieved from his command we should, according to the terms of our enlistment, have been immediately honorably discharged from the service of the United ,States. But when this subject was broached at Camp Alabama, Carlisle, Pa., an order was read declaring that, notwithstand ing the removal of Major General Buell, we should • still act in the capacity of a body guard, and be attached to the headquarters of Major General ROse mans, as an escort, and for special service as an inde pendent regiment. Under these special promises, made to us, as we . supposed, in good faith, we wore induced to leave. Carlisle for 'Louisyille ;.although we had but seventeen regimental and line officers commissioned, including two surgeons and a-quar termaster.. However, we were told that the mem bers of the old 'troop were at Louisville awaiting our arrival, in order to take the places assigned them as commissioned officers of our regiment. On arriving at Louisville, we expected, of • course, that , according to promises previously made,: we should' be officered as required by the army regulations be fore going into active service. After waiting in vain four weeks for our officers to make their ap- pearance, an order was received ordering the regi n ment to march to Nashville and join Rosecrans!. forces. But as the promises mhde to nit at Car. lisle—that -we were to be officered "on - .arriving at Louisville—had not yet been fulfilled, objections to marching further until 'properly :officered were, very generally acquiesced in. And when the officers were informed of the nature of the.ohjections, .they Offiesitatingly declared that, so soon aa - we .arrived; at Nashville, our officers would be furnished us;: and further, that our fears of being brigaded " were' entirely. goundleas ; that we would' undoubtedly. =4 as an escort to Gen. Rosecrane, and dospecial : serw, vice as an independent regiment ; mid - furtheiJl •Wel were not so used .they would stand by us. _'Under] these seemingly fair promises the regiment ad 'in- 1 duced to leave for Nashville, fully'expecting, -on ar-1 riving there, that the of cur officers would I be redeemed. We arrived at Nashville on the eve ning of December 24, and were ordered to -.report to-' Gen. Stanly, chief of cavalry of this department. i The next day, instead of receiving mord officers, thoael . l acting as commissioned-officers in our regiment, and belonging to the old Anderson Troop, were ordered to report immediately to their old comPany, leaving . 1 some companies without even an acting commis-I sioned officer, while others have but one commis sinned officer, and not any company having more: than two commissioned officers. The various com panies composing the regiment held ineetingsend appointed a committee to act for the regiment, and, if possible, ascertain what disposition was to be made of the regiment, and why the acting commis sioned officers had been ordered away, and theeom miasioned officers were not fortheonung. • Our officers, when interrogated, stated that a list o those recommended for commissions had been fur nished to Governor Curtin,' and that we `` were not i yet bi-igadod, and .that ithersupposed we shad(' act in the capacity originally intended.' -The committee then informed the officers thatinease ordera to move were received, they were - instructed *by the cora - ponies to say, that the men would stack their arms in their company streets, and let them remain there until , they were assured beyond cavil or doubt that they were to act.as =independent regiment, for the.pur pose originally specified, and until they:were fully ' officered by able and competent men." s Thus affairs stood on receiving ordereto march,, onthe morning of December 26th, as a part of . Gen.' , Stanley's command. But the determinatren- iibtAo` move until the above-named conditions..werecpm plied with, having. been, agreed- to previous to re-, eeiving marching orders, fire hundred . and ..thirty-five men, oull of seven kundred and f ifty, stacked their arms in the streets, refusing to move, preferring to remain and - demand from ,General Rotiecrens a court of inquiry, in order that the grievances. of which the regiment complains might be investigated. As the promises made to us from time to time have never been fulfilled; we deemed' it unwise to go further on the mere verbal promises' of those whom we have but too much reason to distrust, * The officers, on being interrogated, re_plieilithitt the recommendations for commissions ltherbeen sent to Governor Curtin, and-that as soon as the com missions were- issued the Troop would-he fully of-. ficered, and assigned to its long-promised duty as . body guard to the commanding general; The coin . mittee, thereupon, . replied that they had • been in structed by the several companies of the Troop to' say that if this matter was not settled, beyond cavil or doubt immediately, they would, upon receiving orders to march, stack their arms, and -refuse to go forward. Thus matters stood when we were osdered to go forward with General Stanley, on December the 26th. Then live hundred of the Troop stacked their arms and refused to march, preferring to remain and - await any investigation which General. Rosecrans may choose to make. These are the facts of-the . case hastily thrown together, and we ask that they may be'impartially judged by the public. I remain, yours truly, . M. C. P. To the Editor of The Press: ' Irninxy, Decerniaer 26 1862 Sia: Arrevent of some importance:has happeneik which I know it will be of interest for our friends at home to know. A great battle is to be fought to- • day or to-morrow, and our regiment was ordered to leave camp at daylight. I feel sorry: to say that a large number of the troops stacked their arms in front of their tenth, and refused- to move asserting, as an excuse, that they had been swindled; were not a "body-guard;' had not the right kind of officers, nor enough of them. What do ,you think of such procedure I call it cowardice and insurrection. A consultation between some - of our officers and Gen. Rosecrans was the result; and. a few minutes ago the following order was received : "That the regiment must move—that, the proceed ing above mentioned was "insubordination—that the officers at present acting over us were acting by his authority, - and that a . battery of artillery would be ordered out to .compel obedience to his orders"--Lwith this addition to the order--:" That he,-thought the Anderson Cavalry was composed of • intelligent Union soldiers;' who understood their duty and intended to perform it." Almost the en tire command are now -getting ready to march. Reserve your judgment for awhile until you hear from us again. I am in hopes that all things will ome out right. lam yowls, truly, F. A. O. GIST., CURT NNIIAL MESSAGE. - -3,tead 3a21. 2:•,11363. To the Senate andZoute of Rope trumwealth of Pemursivania : GENTLEMEI4 : Notwithstanding ‘l t ii" l',• C°27l. public calamity which has weighed he ',•-• •of wountry during the past : year, it has pleas Providence not only to enable the people t he sylvania to peiform in full all their duties tikl common Government, but to give to this Comoro' wealth domestio peace, plenty, and prosperity. The balance in Treasury Nov. 30, 1861, wag Receipts dU) jug . fiscal 'year end ing Nov. SO, 1861, were as fol lows: Ordinary sources $4,047,822 39 Six per cent: loan, act May 'l5, IEOI 397,850 00 From vsuions banks as an equi valent for coin for the rsayment of interest oh public debt • • 1.40;763 30 Refunded oath, military 22,566 42 United btatos Government 601,740 62' 5,211,747 63 . Total into ?Treasury for fiscal year ending Nov. 30,1E61 And the payments 'have been as follows: . . • For ordinary purposes , " $3,063,110 06 Paid . , oil Butte interest as an equivalent for c0in....... ....... 146,631 22 03,Iilltary exPonses, Act April 12, 104 .:,.,,,;,; - ' • ' 762 ..) 1 7,ll ,rWatnrinf. - Act. May 15, • Milli ary expo:NW-MA. 4 p m 460,6m1 6s .- 1861 - t'' 16, . Military expenses, Act ill itr‘; ' ' 1,217 26 • • 1861 , •41,._ Military expenses, Act April 16, 20 607 04 ' 1662 - - 14 ... , Military Pensions, Act Nay 13, ".^, •••^ll l . Al - 41ili • . C‘nimiSsioners of Sinkilig Fund.. 427,1381 ~ 1 .1 • .._• 'Domestic Creditors -•- . , yr; 32 'intztp.or.... Temporary-. Loan redeemed 100,000.00 ~ .. '"It•I United State Government Direct . ..,.. _ , Tax ' " - ' . ' - • - 360 ,000 08':4480,509 25 _. . traiiria balance . ' in Treasury • Nov. 30,1862' ' ' $2,172,814 10 of which amount one hundred • aril ninety-five thousand Ave . . hundred and seventy-six dollars and: twenty-seven cents is "the balance of unexpended. military .. , : loan, as follows: `•• ' . Balance of said fund• Nov. 30.1881 ' a"4't,5f.7 41 Receipts under Act Mayls, 1813 L. .1:3;840 00 • - . . .. .. . . 7713,357 41. Paid:military.for expenses •as = • •" . "" • ' " ' 'above 482,781'14 • • . Paid for tedemption',9l tempor,e• . .• • • , ty . loan - ' • . • • - 100,000 03 . 582,781 14 • *193,576 27 Receipts from ordinary sources: • ,•For year ending Nov. 30. 1862 81.047,82.1 39 'For year ending li s oy. 30, 1861 ' " 3,017,615 57 • Exces.s of receipts for Ise . Payments for ordinary purposes, excepting interest: I - • • For year endingliov. 30, 1861 $1,118,661 93 " •• " " " 1862 1,n.r3,345 77 Decrease.of expenditures 0f1F62 ' ' t. 96,371 16 From the tables exhibited it will appear that the receipts from ordinary sources of revenue for the ..year-1862 are.hrexcess of the receipts of the year 1861 one million thirty thousand one hundred. and '`seventy-six dollars and eighty-two cents, [the excess of interest paid in 1862 over that in 1861 being $144,- :05.37;1' and that the ordinary expenditures for 1862 w6reainet3i-five thousand three hundred and seven teen dollars. and sixteen cents less than the year - •• The healthy eondition of the revenues, and the ex eeisi of the receipts over the expenditures secured by.the rigideconomY which'has been practiced, (es .pecirdly considering the necessary increase of taxa tion by the National Government,) seem to invite the attention of the Legislature to a revision of the 'revenue lima, with a view to lightening the burdens of the people. In this cozmeetion it is proper to hi ; vite your attention to the justice and expediency of restricting the rate of total taxatiot4 now, in some parts of. the State, oppressive. - 'Aituntrit of public debt of Penn . silvanin, as it stood on die lst day of Depember, 1561 840,580,666 08 Additionalamonnereceivedittlbe State Treasury during the fiscal year ending Nov. W, 1882., on - ' 'Military Loan authorized per act of Miry 15,1861' WM CO • $40,068,51.6 OS . 'Deduct amount redeemed at the .? State Treasury daring the fiscal . year ending 1\ ov. 30,1862, viz : .6 per cent. Statestocks $Oll,BOO te .4,q per cent. Statestocks' 50 000 00 4 per cent. State stocks 100,000 00 interest certificates . 17 27 .Belief notes ' • 1,411 00 Domestic creditors' certificates... 64 52 _ Military Loan, .per act of April 12, .1661, redeemed • 100,000 00 $.520,302 26 . , • Public debt Dec. 1, 1862. • • ...... *40,448,211 82 . .Towards.the extinguishment of the public debt, the Sinking. Fund holds securities amounting to ten mtllions seven hundred anct elghtpona thousand dollars, as follows:. ' • Bonds of Sni,boiy and Briec.Rallitiad aai " • • *3.500(xx) Bo P nds of h_ of Railroad CoilphaT 7,000, , 000 Bonds of Wyoming Canal Company.' • .. 281,000 Should there be no extraordinary demand on the Treasury, there can be appropriated from the large balance now on hand, and the increasing revenues, at least a million - and a half of dollars during the coming year 'towards the payment of the public debt. • , The operations.of the sinking fund during the last year. hava_b_egn;-aa-ahow.n bv_nny pmetamation of the Bth o&Septmber Amount.df debt.. of Commonwealth reilncea7.. it. 9,801 67 Asfollows;viz - • State Loans Interest certificates ' Domestib Creditors' certificates Relief notes cancelled 11 will be observed that the fiscal year ends on the 30th of NovembeE, and the Sinking-fund year on the first Monday of September. This is the reason for the apparent deficiency in the amount of debt paid ..tiErStatea in the Treasurer's Report, and by the Com missioners of the Sinking Fund: ...Under the act. of -11th-of April, 1862, I appointed 'William McClelland, R. B.'ltlcCombs, and M. Rus sell Thayer, Esqs., as, revenue commissioners, who shave printed a report, and will'no doubt. submit the reault of their lajors to the Legislature, to which I invite attention. • I refer,to the reports of the State Treasurer and Auditor General for, the details of the financial af fairs). of the;Commonwealth. The reports of the Surveyor General, Superintendent of Common Schools, and State Librarian, will exhibit the state of departments under their care. • In accordance with the act of 10th February, 1862, the .quota of ,this State of the direct tax of the Uni . ted States, amounting to one million nine hun dred and forty-six thousand seven hundred and nine teen dollars and thirty-three cents, was, on the 14th June, 186% paid to the United States, partly by a relinquishment of a portion of the sums claimed by this State from the Government and pertly in cash, after deducting the fifteen per cent. allowed by the `act of Congreas:for prompt payment. Pennsylvania thus paid her quota of direct tax before any other State. There is still due to the State, principally for advances since made for transportation and equipments of volunteers, about three hundred thou sand dollars. • On the 20th February last, I issued my warrant authorizing the State' Treasurer to deliver to the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad Company one thou-. sand of the bonds deposited with the State, in con formity with the act of May 7, 1861. On the 20th of November I issued a similar warrant. Both war rants were granted otter receiving reports from John A. Wright, Esq., the commissioner appointed for thepurpose that the proceeds of , the bonds previously .issued had been appropriated in ac cordance with the provisions of 'the law. The company has now received three of ' the five mil lions of bonds deposited in the State Treasury. With the proceeds of the borids issued, fifty two miles of road have been - completed, making, with what had formerly been finished, a total of one hundred and ninety-nine miles, leaving ,eighty-nine miles unfinished, of which nearly all is graded and ready-for the iron. The bonds still in the Treasury will yield an amount ample, to complete the road, and thus open this important route of trade- and commerce. The development of the vast mineral and tither resources of our northwestern counties by this means, will undoubtedly in a few years render valua ble the securities of the Sunbury and Erie Rail road Company, now forming part of the Sinking Fund of the Commonwealth. The interest on the State debt was paid in August last, in specie or its equivalent, in conformity with the existing law, at the cost of one hundred and forty-six thousand six hundred • and thirty-one dol lars and twenty-two cents ($146,631.22, ), for the dif ference between specie and paper currency, of which the banks, under the provisions of the act of itith 1862, have already refunded to the State one hundred and forty thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars and thirty cents: ' This burden on the banks has become heavier than in my judgment ought to be borne by any speciatinterest. • Unless the Legislature should otherwise provide, it will be the duty of the State . Treasuer to pay in like manner the interest which will fall due here after. We should all be careful nbt to violate the faith or impair the credit of the Commonwealth. The serious and early consideration of the Legisla ture is invited to the whole subject. In my- opinion there-are already more incorporated banks in the Commonwealth than are at present re , gulled rorthe - public -covvronioraeo,-~, a recommend that no more shall be mcorporated. • On the 7th of July last, a call was made by the President for three. hundred thousand. volunteers. This State had already supplied nearly one hundred and ten thousand men, yet her . people promptly be- Stirred themselves to respond to this new require ment. Although it was believed that no bounties would be necessary to induce the men of Pennsyl vania to enter the service of their country on such an occasion; yet, as some of the neighboring States offered large bounties, it was thought not right • to expose our citizens to the temptation thus afforded to, them to enlist in regiments of other States. There being no appropriation for. the payment of bountiei, of course, could not direct them to be paid out or the treasury, and it was evident that to call the Legislature ,:together- and wait for the negotiation of, any loan which might be au thorized for the purpose would be attended by inju-. rious delay. Under these circumstances I confident ly appealed by proclamation to a people who have i never faltered n he performance of any duty of pa triotism, callinz en 'them to raise, in their several counties, the slim' necessary-to insure their propor tion of the quota • of7the. State. • This appeal was effectually answered: Ptiblid meetings were held, and liberal amounts 'atibscribed. by individuals. In the city of Philadelphia,- besides a very large fund thus raised, the municipal authisritiee contributed heavily from their common treasury, and in several counties the county commissioners, generally under the guarantee of a few of their eminent citizens, de _ voted county funds to the same. purpose. I recom mend that these proceedings be legalized, and sub mit to the wisdom of the Lspdature• the question of what legislationwouldbe just and proper on the whole subject, that theburden of thiapatriotie effort may fall equally on - nil duke of peoplethroughout the State. • The result this'-manifestation of public'snirlt was.that thirty-eight new regiments and three unat tached companies of infantry were salsed..Four other regiments, which, previbus to this ball; had been authorized by the War. Department to be raised are still in' progress of organization. On special requisitioris :from . the War Depart- rent there have been raised, and are now in service, five additional regiments, and three companies of eaValry, 'two batteries of heavy. artillery, and one battery 'of light, artillery. A battalion of heavy ar-• 'Wary -is • being raised: by Major Joseph Roberts,. V. S.. -.A., with.. my assent; also under special mitho ritY of the War Department. • Early in September last the rebel artily crossed the Potomac into Maryland; with' the design of invad ing this State. On the 4th of that - month I called upon' the people by preclamation to orgrinize into companies and hold thernselves-in readineseto be ordered into actual seqice for the defence of the State. And on the "11th of that month, under autho rity of the President, .T. issued orders for fifty thou: sand volunteer militia, to rendezvous at Harrisburg, for the defence of the State. This call was promptly, responded to, and a large force was sent forward to the - Cumberland Valley and - its • vicinity. The first part of this force, consisting of one re gimentrand eight companies of infantry, moved from Harrisburg on the night of the 12th of. September, and were followed by other regiments adrapidly as they could be organized and transports-" tion provided.' The command •of the whole force Was taken by Brigadier. General John F.tßeyriolds, who left his corps in the Army of the Potomac at my urgent request, and hurried to the defence of his native State, for which he is entitled to the thanks of the Commonwealth. Fifteen thousand of the volunteer mint% were pushed forward to Hagen- - I have uniforml y , town and Boonaboro', in the State of Marylandbten: • • thousand were, posted in the vicinity of Green.; ex p ense of transportation of one person to the field when applied to, allowed the castle and Chambersburg, and about twenty-8 : re to bring homethe.body of his friend or relation, and thousand were at Harrisburg, ,on their way to Her. : this e xpense o o f his return with the body. The cost of the risburg, or in readiness and waiting for transports- . sora ha or s iess ot th ex a c o eed ss ed ,ooo ficoo, r w e h s l i c s h ted is . included in the ~ e ra tion to proceed thither. One regimen t, at th quest of General Halleck, was sent to protect Du- In thisti post's powder mills, in the State of Delaware .: On . theactive connee on I must speak with applause of the 24th of September the Volunteer Militia were without compensation, devoted their ti me discharged by Inc from .serviceh vi and care , a .ha vi ng by their to their suffering fellow4iti spirited demonstration greati) , aided ,in preventi fellow - citi zens, disabled by the cas he intended invasion of this State by the rebels, field to • ng • es of war. Not only ' have many gone to the " . .kip compelling their sudden evacuation of the part administer their kind ,offices, but in every la of Maryland which they had polluted. For their pa of the Commonwealth' thousands have applied means and exertions to the same end ;,cad es seee;nances, the thanks of the Governor of Marys me. IT egommander of the Army of the Poto- r c ii hilly . have the women of Pennsylvania, obey ment in f ered to our patriotic troops through are hm'. true womanly instinets, shown that they tending thei ye been taken to procure the pay- - theb .worthy to be the mothers, wives, and sisters ,of rave men whom they have stimulated to the ir cordance with 'troops, and of the expenses at- 'duty, and soothed A large portion 0 stroy s the United states, in Re- ' have ensued in the aful f nureed in the 'sufferings that Having accompani (the call by the President. The city of phii jTr ormance of it. enabled to speak of th than already been paid. ed to the United a e phirthaving patriotically offer fulness with which the m •'to Hagerstown, lam ti States League Island, as a done on fora navy yard, Congress directed a commis privations, and bore the fire ' I I " "ie ity and cheer formingsvith alacrity all the - ' 1,14,141, sion to report upon the availability of that site, and commission have reported in favor . timaccustomed also of New London To th quired of them. • ' egeneralastonishment, I force, per- a majority of the • • On the 4th of August last, a dra ''' - at.; Was re- 'of N London New but the tired thousand M il itia, to serve for .E.. 1.,,a , minority has presented a - 4... report , which ' oftl is fortified by the. approval of the Se was ordered by the President, under the hurt- creta • grant of 17th July, 1862, and regulations 14. a d up e iii3o'rit Wavy, showing so ' conclusively the by his authority ,- in pursuance of that act, , e _ a. y of League Island that it is scarcely pos which regulations the enrolment and draft were co Bibl et h at Congress should hesitate to select that lona-. :ducted in this State, our militia laws being found to - 1:12. „ 3 eata , b . lish a navy yard for the construction ate defective. Several counties and districts having .., ' - ° 'at a point remote from all ne •llready-supplied by volunteers their proportion of triszeupplies7 eituatee on salt water, and access!- ;the quota of this State, were 'exempted from the g r esbrelhim on e. route to:piny enemy, who may draft, and time was given to : enable others to iron, ccre,—,t sea,. would appear wir3, superiorit ':raise the required number. of men by voluntary fresh watt. ';nsistent id -.9.41 wisdom of Con . enlistments. The draft was generally pro- .of. large yeas.% s ite withthe- is offs 9, situated on ' 16th [day 'of October last; and • the , drafted • :•Calit: Henry ti . e.s . ..srpary- suppli he draught ......-men were directed to A be-. placed . in. the several phia. at my request;feet depth for ck by its • " I . l 4.l . ..: 7 l.nestaf.rendezvotie established under 'the regula- made a report to me illelnhoatile at i ' camps • 1 / 4 7174 - ssritry„twlietr Inresinized and elected. • their ware, which I herewith Yos„ • 'ids tions, where they were begs rd to the army in In July last I received at>sPitY of Phi,. 0 officers, and have since gone ron7l-..'11- ; successful, and An offer from the PennsylvaniMpeheation, .1•:: . ~ the field. The draft was eininentlf .;...isrendezvous,_ of a donation of fifty thousand alit the Der; when the men had been marched to the i'd3 :.VV•nority paying bounties to volunteers. I detonation.' my agency in the matter ceased, and all autiiil• because Thad no authority to accept it'egraph; and control over the men devolved on the Unite; .._,_ the public ~and was unwilling to •undertalCnany . States officers. I cannot but commend the people o -- `ll:rszsement of the fund in my private caPt3ll Pennsylvania for their cheerful obedience to the -re- 'bit- ri .sin ee received a letter on the subject f ro, i quirements of the Government on this occasion.. havest-1 4- , N - 01 - 's ib ', sof disposin g 0 I, All the expenses of the draft- are, of course, to be company suggestles other m s-tr), essag paid by the United 'States, and I learn that officers - money, a copy of which ieannexed pins . ' L. are now in the State charged. With the' settlements. If the . Legislature should accept the done ion, - 1 and payments. • •.- :. . • ' recommend that it be' applied towards the erection Including the threemonths - volunteers, Pennsyls 'of an asylum for our disabled soldiers, and that the vania has furnished to the General Government: trustees appointed to superintend the erection and more than two hundred thousand men since the. ' management of the asylum be authorized to accept breaking . out of the rebellion, besides some fifty: such further contributions as our citizens may offer. thousand who were in service, or actually ready for in a well-managed establishment of that kind it is it, as volunteer militia under the call of the 11th of - .ptobable that the pone to be allowed by the Go - September last, making, in the whole, more than' yersment to the ill enable them to support m ll s two hundred and fifty thousand men. . . themselves with corni t. In October last a body of rebel cavalry, with a • : By an act of Congress, passed on the second- day battery.of artillery, suddenly crossed the. Potomac, of July, 1862, lands were 'granted to-the several and made their way as far as Ohambersburg; plun- .Stateslor the endowrnent, support, and maintenance, . during whattbey found of Supplies useful to them, by each' State, of at least one college for teaching and committing other depredations. They went out such branches of learning as are related to agricul-• of the State by . crossing the South .Mountain, , ture and the mechanic arts, Without excluding other and thus reachmg the Potomac below Harper's scientific and classical studies, and including military Ferry. The troops in _the field were not pre- tactics. I recommend that proper provision be made pared at the moment to punish this attempt by the Legislature for having the lands thus granted on her ' soil, and it is to be much regretted to this State selected, and the title made to the State, that efficient measures could not have been taken and that Congress be requested to allow the lands • by . the army to capture the rebels on their return to and their proceeds to be used by the State in the con-. . the Potomac. Immediately after I received notice atruction and support of such an asylum as I have that this force had crossed the line of the State, I above suggested. called into service. the Anderson Cavalry, then en- . . The details .of the operations of the. common camped at Carlisle, and two companies of regulars ' school system. during the school year that termi at the barracks at that place. These troops were nated on the-first Monday in June,lB62, manifest pushed iforward in the direction of Chambersburg ' scarcely . any evil effects from the roubled state of and South Mountain. The cavalry at Camp Curtin, the country, Absence of the usual degree of pro consisting of one full and two imperfect. regiments, • gress in the various department/ is the only result mere .armed as infantry, and, together with two observable. To have held its own, however, during 'companies of infantry and a battery of volunteer the severe ordeal to which, in common with all our light artillery of Harrisburg, were in readiness ' great social interests and enterprises, it has been to go forward, when Major General Wool arrived subjected, is the strongest proof of its inherent and'esiumed the command of all the forces. Ile vigor, arid of the hold it possesses upon the affec had ; previously ordered part of his command from tions as well as the judgment of the people of the Baltimore, and marched the troops , to Gettysburg. State. .: The rebels marched with so much celerity that. It has come to my knowledge that in some parts : ' .they did not encounter any of the forces of. General of the State a system exists of paying the wages of , . Wool, and escaped from the State. I recommend workmen and laborers not in money, but in orders :that application be made to Congress for an appro- on storekeepers for merchandise and other articles. 'lllation to compensate our citizens for the damages This system, by preventing all competition, leaver) • which r they suffered.by the raid. the men to the uncontrolled discretion of the store- On the two emergencies to which I have referred, keepers. It is a system most unwise and unjust, I acknowledge valuable counsel and assistance from and it affects classes of useful citizens ) who, as they . ;Brigadier' General Andrew . Porter, of the iJnited live by the proceeds' of their daily labor, have not States army, who thus testified his affection for his adequate means to resist it. I have no doubt that native State, and zeal in her service when threat- most of the difficultiei which occasionally occur be ened. And on the same, and other occasions, lam tween employers and their workmen are due to the indebted to Colonel Thomas A. Scott, Colonel John prevalence of this system. That every man, for . a A. Wright, and Colonel J. B. Parker, members of fair day's labor, should receive a fair day's wages, br iny staff, who came promptly on my summons, and but the dictate of common honesty;.and while' it served with their accustomed zeal and fidelity, with- would be most unwise for the State to interfere at out pecuniary compensation.. .all with the rate of wages, it is, in my judgment,tn- The militia law of this State is greatly defective, cumbent on her to, protect her • laboring popula tion and I earnestly . recommend the appointment of a by requiring that, whatever may be the wages stipu commission to prepare and submit an efficient Byte rated, they shall be so paid that the recipient may tem, to be reported before the adjournment of the . purchase necessaries for himself and his family Legislature, so that action may be had on the sub- where they can be had beat and cheapest. Ido most jest at the present session. In the hurry of ordinary earnestly recommend this subject to-the Legislature business the Legislature might not be able to give for prompt and effectual action. • the necessary attention to the preparation of a pro- I believe that the 'several charitable institutions . per measure, and events which have already occurred to which the:_Legislature has been accustomed to prove the necessity of some effectual legislation on grant aid have been well managed , during the past .the subject, so that, our people may be adequately year. ' ' protected. • -.-. The Wyoming canal is still in , the hands of there, The State is in possession of the • following ord- ceiver. Certain creditors of the company having in nance, arms, and ammunition : stitutedproceedings in the Supreme Court for Bening 63 pieces of artillery, of which 22 need repairs. thecanal under the mortgage, the Attorney . General 2 batteries of new cannon, consisting of 12 bas intervened in the suit to oppose the making of a • ' Gri ffi n rifle& cannon, - 6-pounders, 2 cats-" decree of sale. No decree has been-made, and the sons, and 2 battery wagons, presented to proceedings are yet pending. Meanwhile, it being • - . the State by the Committee of. Safety of alleged that the subscribers and stockholders have - ' Philadelphia', in September last. ' • paid up but a small' part of the nominal capital of 26,492 muskets and rifles, of which .11,614 are the company, an information has been filed in the ready for isstie; 4,460 in the hands of me- Supreme Court by the Attorney General.to compel . • chanics for repairs, and the balance, hay- them to pay up the capital, or such charges and as ' .. - ing-boon used _by tho.militla calledouein '. ' • !elements as- May be necessary to extinguish the - September last„ require cleaning debt due - to the Commonwealth. - This-prodeeding 12,427 sets infantry accoutrements complete,' is also still pending. It is understood-that the gross 1,298 swords and sabres.• . - .., ~ , • . receipts of the canal during the last season have 684 pistols. '• - •'• - • . •... --' " been about one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, - 1,938 rounds artillery ammunition. s. , • - , , , and the annual interest on the mortgage bonds of 1,522,000 rounds ammunition for small firms. the company a little over fifty-one thousand dollars.. • The following arms accoutrements, and ammuni=. . In pursuance of the joint resolution passed 11th' tion have beenlurnished. according to law, e to , the April, 1862, the Attorney General has instituted. border counties, •nti to volunteer orga nizations . Preeeedings on the proper cashier's bonds, to recover' formed under the militia wit of 1858: ' • - the money. due to the Commonwealth by the Bank, 5;840 muskets and rifles with accoutremente . .of Commerce, at Erie, and . I have employed John 1 complete, were issued to, and are now in -H. Walker, Esq., as special counselforthe Common- • possession of border counties. • .. ' wealth, in the prosecution of the officers of the bank ' 4,055 muskets and rifles, and 2,041 sets of ac- in the Court of Quarter Sessions of Erie county. ' coutrements issuedlo;and now in pos- In accordance with the provisions of the act of session of organized companies. Also 6th May, 1862, an information in equity was filed-by: " 80,000 rounds of ammunition issued t o the Attorney General- against the Delaware and' border counties and organized corn. Hudson Canal Company and the Pennsylvania Coal panieri. Company. The case was argued before the Supreme' 1,755 muskets, and 895 sets of accoutrements, Court at Sunbury, in October last. were issued to Colonels Brown and By an act passed on the 16th day of May, 1861, a. ' Glantz's regiments on going into the company was incorporated by the name of the Navy service. . - Yard, Broad-street, and. Fairmount Railway Com-. - n pieces of artillery, issued to Ist Pennsyl- Pally. It being alleged that the company, instead of vania - Artillery, Colonel Charles T. making a:railway on the route and in the' manner' . . Campbell, commanding, on going into prescribed by its charter, is constructing a railroad the service. . . of a different character,by a route extending from 628 sabres, 1,056 pistols; and 628 seta of accou- the. Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baitiniore Rail tremenp, issued to organized cavalry road depot to the Philadelphia and Trenton depot, companies. both within the city of Philadelphia, the Attorney Showing an aggregate of General has proceedetisgainst the company by quo 107 pieces of artillery, wars ant° for the violation of its charter, and has also 39,045 muskets and rifles, filed an information for the purpose of restraining 1,740 pistols, the company from proceeding in the construction of - 1,826 sabres, ,their road. Both these proceedings are now pending. 22,203 sets infantry accoutrements, . • By the act of 29th March, ISI6, it was provided 628 sets cavalry accoutrements, • that citizens absent from home in actual military 1,603,938 rounds of ammunition. .. service might exercise their right of suffrage as if - in.. addition to the above the following military they were present at the i nitial plhcea of election. property of the city of Philadelphia is reported, by This act was substantially re-enacted in the general the "Borne Guard of the city of Philadelphia,” to election law passed on the 2d of July, 1839. The Su be In its possession-viz : - preme Court has recently decided that, by reason of a . 6 20-pounder Parrot rifled guns. - phrase in the constitutional amendments of 1838,the 2 10-pounder Prussian rifled guns. 'provision has become unconstitutional. Penneyl -1 10-pounder English rifted gun. vania has sent to the service about two hundred 12 caissons for 20-pounder Parrot rifled guns. thousand citizens, who, by this decision, are disfran. ' 2 caissons for 10-pounder Prussian rifled guns, 'chised. This seems to be a hard measure-that men • with tools and stores. who testify their devotion to the country by going to '. 1 12-pounder rifled howitzer, Dahlgren. the field should thereby lose the most inestimable 1- 12-pounder rifled howitzer, 750 pounds Dahl- right of a citizen. I recommend that the necessary . • - gren. steps be forthwith commenced to amend the Con -2 field carriages for do. • stitution, •so as to give the right of suffrage to the . . 2 small howitzer guns, 12-pounders, with ear- citizens who are thus excluded. • . . riages, tools, and stores. ' I 'cannot close this message without speaking of 1 12-pounder rifled howitzer, Dahlgren. • the unbroken loyalty and spirit of the freemen of . 1 12-pounder smooth bore, .750 pounds Dahl- Pennsylvania. .They 'feel that on the preservation &Ten- • - of the Union and the suppression of the most cause -2 fi eld carriages for do. less and.wicked rebellion which history records, de -2 small 12-pounder howitzers, with carriages,. pend the honor, the interests, and the whole future tools, and stores. welfare of • the Commonwealth. They will never ' 195 saddles. tolerate schemes for destroying the Government of 127 saddles, with traces, breast straps, &c. .. the United States, or for forming, separate Confede -68 saddles, incomplete. racial, or any otherschemes for creating general con ' 2,296 muskets and lilies. - fusion and ruin, and aiding and comforting the trai -2.oo.pistols and 111 holsters. • tom who are in arms against their country. 1,997 rounds of shot and shell. ' This . State has furnished more men. for the de -672,8111 rounds musket and rifled cartridges. fence of. our - institutions, and has lost more by the The foregoing does not include the arms and casualties of war, than any other State. She has equipments that have been issued to the several gi v enfreely, her, blood and treasure and is ready regiments of -the Home Guard, and which are in to give as much more of both as may be needfu l. . their possession.by' Her people intend that, the blessing of God, this For the details of military operations and of static- rebellion shall be suppressed, and will not be turned tics I refer you to the reports of the Adjutant Gene- from their settled purpose by the wiles of masked enemies or the 'vacillations of feeble friends. On ral, Quartermaster General, Commissary General, Surgeon General, and the Chief of Transportation, - - istheir the e they ' ( right) insi that contrary ey . will asinsi st which accompany this message. . competent integrity, earnestness, Intellect and In regard to the election of officers in the reserve vigor Shall be employed in the public service to corps, and the recruitment of the regiments of that preserve the Government and to maintain the unity corps, and of our other gallant regiments of voltm- of the country. A. G. CURTIN. teers, I propose to send a special message in a few, EXECUTIVE DEPAn.ruENT, Harrisburg, Jan. '7, days, as I desire to treat the,se subjects somewhat at 1863, large, and to submit to the, Legialatrue some docu ments relating to them. • By the thirteenth , section of the actof May 16th, 1861, I was authorized to draw my warrants on the treasury for a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars for compensation to suchpersons as might be -esinikireCtO serve the country in a militar-s , capacity. At the rare - erstsrs - sm.t-3_.....sesine.4 l l } N , awn from the treasury eight thousand rive knt lars, and had paid out up to the Ist of December, 1361, six thousand niur-hundred dollars, when my . account was settled. .Since that time I have drawn two thousand dollars front the treasury, part of which, with the balance in• my hands, has been expended in the payment of Members of my personal staff the ser vice when I required assistance, and in procuring in formation, and to persons employed when the State was threa tenedi with 'invasion in September, 1862, and during the raid in October last... .. An account of these expenditures will befound on Me in the'office of the Auditor General. $1,G51,6a3 72 K 763,353 35 $1,030;178 82 $10,781,000 $M1.178 74..• 37U :-370 41 64 52 ' 1189 $262,801 67 Under the act of 10th April, 1888, it is my inten tion to take early measures for the sale of , the pow der magazine in the city of Philadelphia. The pow der magazine at Harrisburg is not judiciously loca ted. A State powder magazine ought, in my judg men t to be erected on a suitable site in the - vicinity of this place, and I recommend the attentlon of the Legislature to the subject. In September last two batteriesof rifled cannon were presented to the Commonwealth by a com mittee of citizens of Philadelphia, through S. V.. Merrick, Esq., which are now in the arsenal in that city. ..I recommend, that provision be made for pro curing carriages, caissons, and other equipments for them. The liberal donors are entitled to the thanks Of the Commonwealth for their patriotic gift. Under the joint resolutions of 28th of February, 1862, measures were promptly taken for the relief of our sick and wounded men in the field. The wounded at :Winchester, Strasburg, Front Royal, 'Williamsburg' and Fair Oaks, and those in the corps of 'Major General Banks' were duly .at tended, ou . the field or in the vicinity, by Surgeon General Smith. and a corps of , surgeons under his direction, and were brought into this State. The same system. would have been continued, but, in June. last, I received a letter from the Surgeon General of the •United - .States, - representing• that it was found Inconvenient , to the service, and . must create 'difficulties. in . , the regular identification of the soldiers for pay-and pensions. • - • In compliance with-his views; I was reluctantly obliged to discontinue the: system • but I haVe 'not ceased to urge on the War Department the propriety of sending our sick and.wounded men into the State, where they can 'be nursed` and cared for by their ' friends, and have to.say thatat length , such au :ar rangement- was -made with, the , authorities at - Washington, which it was•hoped would be effectiVe, but there has been such tardiness in putting it into practical operation - that I recommend the Legisla ture toinvite the attention of the War Department 'to the subject. Our suffering men have a right to the sympathy and aid of their State to 'be so Iren dered as not to injure the service. f the bringing' them home to be attended could produce even incon • ventence to that I would not urge'it. • Rut it is cruel - to leave them to the care.and (I regret to say it) fre quently to the neglect., or worse, of strange officials, at points in the immediate vicinity of all the' abun dant comforts which the solicitude of their families and friends would rejoice to provide for, them. In addition to the expenses of attending and bring ing home our sick and wounded, as above stated, I have expended leis than-$4,000 in the transportation of friends- of siek, killed or 'Wounded volunteers, and other persons sent by me for their care to the several battle-fields and hospitals, and in bringing . home for interment the bodies of those slain. The whole expense incurred under the joint resolution was 0,119.83, the details of which will be found in the report of the Surgeon General and orthe chief of transportation. THREE CENTS. NEW YORK. Abstract of Governor Seilnourls Message'. .a.rassis - v, Jan. 7.—Governor Seymour sent ,In. his. Tn."A"-i. - ". - L..risiLature to-day. On the subject of national affairs he ' "Not only is the national&eat stake, but every personal,s every family every sacred interest . it* volved. The truths of our financial and Military. situation must not be kept back. There must be no. 'attempt to put down the free expression of public.. opinion. "Affrighted at the ruin tkey.have wrought, the. authors of our calamities at the North and South insist that this war has been caused by the unavoid able contest-about slavery. This has been the sub ject, and not the cause of the controversy. 'Vre•are to look for the causes, of the war, in the pervading disregard of the obligationeof the • laws and Consti tutions, disrespect for 'the constituted authorities, and, above all, in the local prejudieee which have grown up in two parties of the Atlantic States—the two extremes of our country. • • "There is no honest statement of our difficulties, wliieli'does - not" teach that our people must reform themselves as well 'as the conduct of the Govern ment arid the policy of our rulers. It is not toolate to save our country, if we will enterupon the sacred duty, in the right way. Where it is the right of our Government to decide upon measures and policy, it is our duty to obey and give's ready support.to their decisions : This is the vital maxim of liberty.: ' This war should have been averted, butits flood ' gates were opened. . The Administration could not grasp its dimensions, nor control its sweep. The Government was borne along with the _current, and , struggled, as best it could, with the resistless tide. Few seemed ableto comprehend itsmilitaryorfinaa. cialproblems. • Hence, we are not to sit in harsh judgment upon errors in conduCt or polity.: "But while we concede all these excuses for mis takes, weitre not to sidoPt errors nor sanction viola • tions of principle. The same causes which extenuate ' their faults in judgment mdst make us more vigilant to guard against.their influences." ' . The Governor urges that economy and integrity in the adminietration of affairs are vital in periods of war. He says meddling • and intrigues' have thwarted and paralyzed the valor of our soldiers and skill of our generals, within the influence of the capital while our armies have gained victories in fields remote therefrom. 'STATE RIGHTS The: GOvernor says: The National Constitution must-be held inviolate; and` he contends. that the rights of the States must be respected as not less sacred.; There. are dilibrencesof opinion as to the dividing, line between State and National jurisdic tien,! but there cane be none as to-the existence of such separate jurisdiction, each covering subjects of, legislafion and jurisprudence essential to the public security and welfare.; (A consolidated 'Government in this vast country would destroy . the essential home • rights and liberties of the people.) • The so vereignties of .the States, except as they-are limited by the Constitution, can never.be given up. With. out • them our Government cannot stand. It was made and it can be.changed byState agency. This is shoWn p f y the following provisions of the instru ment " The ratification of the conventionsof nine States shall be sufficient to the establishment. of this Con-. - etitutlon bettieen.tlieStatrAno`ratifying'the sarne. ,, Again, three•fourthp ; ot : the , States !can add to,or take aWarfroie the powers of the Gemeral GOVern ment, by demanding a Convention in whioh amend, ments can be proposed, which, if ratified by three fourths of the States, become parts of the Constitu tion, Ingle they OK thus take away or at% to it; power, THE WAR PXMSR. (PUBLISHED MMT.) Tint WAR Passe will be 'coat to enheoribara by roan (per annum in advance} at 82.00 Five " " SG 9 Ten " . 6 1 7.00 .00 Twenty Copies" 3.00 Larger Clubs 'than 'Twenty Will be charged the lame rate. 81.60 per copy, rhe.m64,4 2 , must always accompany, the order. avxf in no inatance can these term" be deutatedfroot; ab tJ afford icier:, little more than the coat of the paper. 4111- Postmasters are requested to act se Agate for Tam Wan Paso. s agje. To tho.getter.up of a Club of ten or twenty, an ..eattra copy of the Paper will be given. the General Government can in no way touch one right of the States or invade their jurisdiction. The obligations which reit upon-the • States to respect the Constitution, laws, and authorities of the General Government also demand that the General Government shall show equal respect for the rights and constituted authorities of States. ' To State legislation and authorities we look for the: good order of society, the security of life and property, the protection of our homes and ail that is nearest and dearest to us in the relations, duties, and actions of life. It is dangerous and demorali zing to show contempt for State authorities and laws. It undermines alike the foundations of State arid National Government, by breaking up the so- • cial syStem. If horde laws are not respected, the more general authority will not be'regarded. ARTISTIC/OSY ARRESTS; On the subject of arbitrary arrests, he says • ' "Cur people?have, therefore, viewed with alarm • practices and pretensions, on the part of officials!, \ which violate every principle of good order, of civil liberty, and of. constitutional law. It is claimed • 7.• that, in time of war, the President has powers, as ".. (3`• ommander-in-chief of our armies, which authorize N. fm la, to declare martial. law, not: only within the • nhere of hostile movements, whereother law cannot • • . • enforced, butalso over our whole land. That, at is pleasure, he can disregerd not only the statutes .1 Congress, but the decisions of the national : 'udiciary ; that, in loyal States - , the least intelli _ent class of officials may be clothed with of only to act as spies - and informers h••"'''''' elm without due process of law., to se .; „ nd i .ur citizens, and carry theta.. ,yrond The imprison - of the State, to hold them prisons without a hearing or a knowledge le offencea- with which they are barged. only the paseions 'and prejudices of hese i : nor agents lead them to acts of tyranny, • .ut eir interests are advanced and their positions ecured by promoting discontent and discord. Even to ask the aid of counsel hiti been held aeon offence. It has-been :well said that "to be arrested for one knows not what; to be . confined, no . one entitled to ask' where; to be, tried, no • one can say when, by a law nowhere knoivn or established; -or to.linger out life in a cell without trial, presents a body of tyranny which cannot be enlarged. . • "The suppression of journals and imprisonment of persons has been glaringly partisan. Conscious .f these gross abuses,'arkattempt has• been made to 'geld the violators of latv and suppress inquiry into S - ir motives and conduct: This attempt will fail. - - .stitutional acts cannot.be shielded 'by do .al laws. Such attempts will not save the . • • e they will brink a just condemnation action &try to pervert the powers of legisla vernment. • of oppression. To justify such tive power . - tt s drawn from the practice of GO which reitrain.. no restraint upon legisia citizens by writtese o k av "I shall net inq ail under our system, trWerinnent and protects the hellion have forfeited ;'cations." can suspend a single right rights the States in re. States.. I denouft&th., lent - that this rebellion in the South takesliw.....- Ik 'rititenn'of.the loyal benefit of one principle civil pat ; civil war crime to abduct a citizenilifithis allort.h..the my duty by the Constitution to s a high are enforced. I shall investigate - every lation of our statutes, and see that the olfele.,_ brought to justice. Sheriff's and District Altr7f are admonished that it is their duty to take u.. that no persons within their respective counties arc. imprisoned nor carried by - force beyond their limits without due process of legal authority." "The removal to England of persons charged with offence, away from their friends, their witnesses,- and means of defence, was one of the acts of tyrann3r for which we asserted our independence. The ab duction of citizens from this State for offences charged to have been done here. and carrying them • many hundreds of miles to distant prisons in other 'States or Territories, is- an• outrage of the same character upon every principle of right and justice. The General Government has ample powers to es tablish courts, to appoint officers to arrest, and com missioners to hear complaints, and to imprison upon reasonable grounds of suspicion. It has a judicial system in full and undisturbed operation. Its own cotirts, held at convenient points in this and other loyal States, are, open for the- hearing of all com plaints. If its laws are not for the punish ment of offences, it is due to the neglect of those in power. • "Government is not strengthened by the exercise of doubtful powers, but by a wise and energetic ex ertion of those which are incontestible. The former course never fails to produce discord, suspicion, and distrust, while the latter inspires respect and conti deuce. • "This loyal State, whose laws, whose courts; and whose officers have thus been treated with marked and public contempt,. and whose -.social order and sacred rights:have been violated, was- at,' that very time sending forth great armies .to protect the Na tional capital; and to save the National officials from flight or capture. It- was While .the arms of New York thus sheltered them against rebellion, that, without consultation with its chief magistrate, a subordinate department at Washington insalted our people and invaded our 'rights: Against these wrongs and outrages the people of the State of New York, atits late election, solemnly protested. " The submission ofour people to these abuses, for a time only, was mistaken at home and abroad for 'an indifference to their liberties. But it - was only in a spirit of respect for onr.inslitutionm.that they ivaited until they could express their will in the manner pointed out by our laws. At the late eleo tion they vindicated at once their regard.dor law and their love of liberty. Amidst all the confusion of civil war, they calmly sat in judgment upon the Administration, voting against its candidates. Nor was thin the only strikinyroof of respect for the ri , Constitution. The mino.of nearly equal num bers, yielded to this deci sion without resistance, although the canvass was animated by strong parti san excitements. This calm assertion of rights, and this. honorable submission to the verdict of the - ballot-box, vindicated at once the character of our people and- the stability of our institutions. Had the Secessionists of the South thus yielded to con stitutional decisions, they would have saved -them selves and our country from the horrors of this war, and they would have found the same remedy for every wrong and danger." "MARTIAL LAW. "The claim of power under martial law is not only destructive of. the right of States, but it overthrown • the legislative and judicial departments of the Gene— ral Government. It asserts for the President more power as the head of the army, than as a repro- - eentative ruler of the people. This claim has brought discredit upon us in the eyes of the world. • It. hat strengthened the hopes of rebellion. It has weakened the confidence of loyal Statee. It tends to destroy the value of our •Government in the . minds of our people. It leads to discord and discon tent at the North, while it has united and invigo sled the South. 1," If there is- a•necesssty which justifies that policy, t us openly and honestly say there is a necessity which justifies a revolution. But this pretension is - not put forth as a necessity which overleaps for time all restraints, and which is justified by a great exigency; it is a theory which exalts the military power of the President above his civil and tonsil- - tutional rights. It asserts that he may, in his dis— cretion, declare war, and then extinguish the State and. National Constitutions by drawing. the pall of martial law over our vast country. * * * "There is little to fear in periods of peace and prosperity. If we are not protected when there are popular excitements and convulsions, our Government is a failure. If Presidential proclama tions are aboVe the decisions of the courts and the restraints of the Constitution, then that Constitu tion is a mockery: If it has not the authority to keep the Executive within its restraints then it cannot retain States within the Union. Tlrose.who - hold that there is no sanctity in the Constitution, must equally hold that there is no guilt in there-- bellion. "We cannot be silent and allow these practices to become precedents. They are as much in violation of our Constitution as the rebellion itself, and more dangerous to our liberties. They hold out to . the Executive every temptation of ambition to make and prolong' war.' They - offer despotic power as a. price for preventing peace. They are inducements • to each .administration to' produce discord and in-. cite armed resistance to law, by declaring that the condition of war removes all constitutional I re- • strainte. They call about the national capital hordes of unprinpled men, who find in • the wreck of their. country the opportunity to' gratify avarice or ambi tion, or personal or political resentments. This theory. makes the passion and ambition of an admi nistration antagonistic' to the interest and happi ness of the people. It makes the restoration of peace the abdication of more than regal authority in the hands of those to whom.is confided the govern ment of our country.) , The Governor declares that the President , s-Eman-..- cipatioa proclamation is impolitic, unjust, and uncon stitutional,. calculated to create many barriers to the restoration of the Union; and to be misconstrued by the world as an abandonment of the hope • of.re storing it—a result to which New York is unaltera bly opposed, and which will be eft'ectively resisted. The Union, he says, will be restored by the Central and Western States, both free and slave, who are • exempt from the violent passions .which control .at the extremes. • "Those of the central slave States, which rejected the ordinance of secession, which sought to • remain . in the Union, and which were driven off. by a con temptuous, uncompromising policy, must be brought back. The restoration of the whole Union s will be only the work of time, with such an exertion of power as can be put forth without needlessly sacri ficing the life and treasure of the North in &bloody and calamitous contest. We must not wear.out the lives of our soldiers, nor txhaust the earnings of labor by war for uncertain ends or carry out vague theories of extermination—means not only. destruc tive of lives and property in the South, but also a waste of the blood and treasure of the North. — The exertion of the armed power must be aceom our 'Union 4111 - 111t - fellailifill olio •to restore sections." The Governor concluder. : "At this moment the fortunes of our country are influenced by the results of battles. Our army irethe field must be supported. All constitutional demands of our General Government must be promptly re sponded to. Under no circumstances.. can .a division of the Union be conceded. We will, put forth every exertion of power. 'We will use every policy of con , ciliation. We will hold out every. Inducement to ' the people of the South to return to their allegiance, coneastent with honor. 'We will guaranty them every right, every consideration demanded by the • Constitution, and by that fraternal. regard which must prevail in a common country. But we can never voluntarily consent to the breaking up of the Union of these States or the destruction:of the Con stitution." THEIR PATRIOTISM Ar.f.PICEOTATED.—ThO fame of the Philadelphia Refradimen,t Saloons ex tends to all parts of the free. States; The Boston. Transcript thus speaks Of theni.,': iu . connection with a reference to the 60th ItlssaachuSettaßegiment : Massachusetts owes a debt of gratitude to the citizens of. Philadelphia for the kindness which they have shown her soldiers while remaining in that city. Six companies of the 'soth Regiment, tiow there, were furnished with a genuine New England dinner on New. Year's day, by the Union Volunteer Refreshment Committee. The above association has issued a card arranged expressly for the such. which containsall the places of. interest in Philadelphia,, and their location ; it also contains the names of the ' field and line- °freers of the regiment. Upon the card is•the .following inscription : ' "The 50th Reg. Mass. Volunteers. 'Welcome to the city cif Brother : iy Love—The Union' Volunteer Refreshment Com mittee wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. "An effort IS being made to have the re giment detsiiled for, provost-guard duty in that city, city, which speaks well for the. discipline and good behavior of our Kasiachusetts boys. THE • AGItICULTVEAL SOCIETY.— ester d ay, Morning the Philadelphia SooletY for Promoting Agriculture held a stated monthly meeting. Among the donations to the society was a sample of rhubarb wine sent by J. IV: Williams, of Montgomery county. The wine is manufactured in the folloviing manner: Gather • the • plant when fit for the table ;. cut in small slices ; to four or five gallons of .rhubarb add ' five or'three quarts of water; then steam or boil for fifteen minutes; then strain through a sieve or oul lender ; place the juice or extract one side in a cool - place for twenty-four hours ; then pour off without s • disturbing the sediment at the bottom; then add three pounds of sugar to the gallon ; place the whole in a cask for fermentation, at, least five days, with the bung uncovered; then place the bung on , loose until such time as the wine ceases to-ferment-Mine 'made in this way, in one year, will prove to be a good wine, pleasant to•the taste. The report of the treasurer for 1862 was read. The receipts were $600.92, and the expenditures ss4s, leaving a balance of $26.92. The election of officers for 1563 requited 14 ti:le choice of the old ()Ricers,
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