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T.MIZE PRIEIBI3,
YUDLIBEED DAILY (01INDA'YEI EXCIIIPTEDI
BY JOHN W. FORNEY
orTIOB. Ro. in sours FOURTH STREET.
ern= DALLY PRESS,
iIITAIN CENTS PBB WISE. peyehje to the 4111111 fir
Wed to Subscribers out of the city at Bevite DOI. ABB
lit AW2111111: Tess DOLLARS AItD FIFTY °RIFFS ene Sim
Om Dor • ^ FFIVD GENTS 'FOE
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;=CkM.k`E`l4.F.lttEi, (3-140NrMS.
EMBROIDERED SUSPENDERS.
..dor'JOHN U. ARRISON'EI,
TH SIXTH STREET
IlelNTlitE & BROTHER'S,
ENT - S' 'FURNISHING HOUSE,
No. 10N6 CHISTINIT BTBEET
, . Finis and Rings, I Wrappers.
Neck lee and Cravats, Glovea,
Meier% Einerenders,
Handlcarcblefs. . Umbrellas. ise.
FINEST SELECTION OF SILK 1313AUF3
IN THE CITY.
i
HOLIDAY PRESENTS
CASSIDY & Mb,
No. 1% SOUTH SECOND STREET.
d invite attention to their stork of
ADD SILVER WATCHES.
DIAMOND AND GOLD JEWELRY,
SILVER AND SILVER PLATED WARE.
for Holiday and Brldal Presents, all °MIA&
Id at reasonable prices. deg-bn
:EB,. GENTS, AND BOYS.
The-best Assortment in the City.
T BURNHAM'S DEPOT
07 THE UNIVERSAL WRINGER.
27 South SIXTH Street.
early at 78 CHESTNUT Street. Masonie
PRESENTS FOB MEN
• magnificent assortment of the rarest
WRA PPERS.
HANDKERCHIEn.
GLOVV,_
lIIISPELNDRHS
CARRIAGES BUGS.
&a. Ike &c. .
.7. W. SCOTT'S,
grEt3 . l7l:ll' Stre4
.11nntitionisi."
EL]
- 413 LERELtAB.
.ES' FANCY FURS-
JOHN; TrA_IZICTELA.
I, a w' :U
Importer an& Manufacturer
VIES" FANOY FURS_
of FANCY Win for Ladles sad Cidl.
=plate. sad embrasinstrrerf variety that
.onsble during the Present swum. All sold
ALllllll4llren' prise,. for UAL Luna. please
oer4se
ZORGE F. WOIIIIIITH,
s'oa. 415 AND 417 Amen MUM.
its NOW ons
A FULL ASSORTMENT
ADIOS' FURS,
`us WWl** of the onblis Is Invited. so274ss
D ENGRAVINGS.
EGANT MIRRORS,
• LABOR ASSORTMENT
NEW ENGRAVINGS,
I'DfIC OIL PiIIi"IDIGS,
JUST BEOBIVTD.
LE'S GALLERIES
816 CIIMEMINZT STRAIT.
Y 111" WIIRWMTRE.
FURNITURE AND BIL.
az&
OOHS & CAMPION,
No. Mel BOWE SECORD STEW&
fasts extenaivo Cabinet busbies', are
t a superior article of
:ARD TABLES'
a fell u mM tn lnlehedlth the
0118m01111.
• all who have wise theta to be
of thus Tables, the man
ten:T....patio= thronclioll
NOTICIBIB.
HOUSE,
• HARRISBURG,
OHAS. H. MANN,
PROPRIEBTOB,
YAMS? Street and MARKET Square.
FIESTS.
MALL. REIGI7M,_AND LARGE SIZE.
Containing G OOD TOOLS
„LEARY a 43_,0.
4 601111ARtracr.
601 ESLEY & CO_
MARKET Street.
Pan and rocket Knives. Table Cutlery, o,
WILLLUI H. BOURN,
sad Light Carriage nuilders
Mai sad lOU CHISTNUT smuT.
VOL. 7-NO. 136.
COFFIN & ALTEMITS,
No. 220 CHESTNUT STREET,
Meats for the folio:NW/ 000119
.TABS 6 SAIVDERS
BLEACUE
LONSDALE.
ROPE.
BLACRWPONE.
A.lllll3AD__
ORMBERLARD.
PLYMOUTH.
tie ETON,
GREENE MFG. CO.
FoItBSPDALE.
J. & W. SLATER,
SOCIAL.
DYEKVILLE.
RED BANK.
JAMES? OWN.
CENTRED ALE.
CENTRY.
THAMES RIVER.
BROWN
ASHLAND.
OREENBANX.
ETHAN ALLI&N.
PHENIX A. A..
CORSET JEANS.
GLASGOW. FISHBRVILLB, MANCHESTER—CoIored
and Bleached.
SILESIAS.
LONDON. SOOIAL, LONSDALB. dia.. ato
PAPER AMBRIOS.
LONSDALE and WARREN MPG. CO'S.
WOOLENS.
GLIENHABI CO'S CLOTHS—Blacks and Fancy
Mixtures. Water Proofs. Sultanas. &c
HINSDALE CO'S BLACK CLOTHS
CASSIMSEES AND DOESKINS.
Gaysville. Perry's. Sexton's River.
SATIN.ETTS—Bass River. Crvital Swings. 00a.
verseville. Orcnttyille.,Bridgewater. Uxbridge, Cha
pin's, Campbell's, Lathrop's, Goodrich. dm . do.
JEANS—Robert Rodman's Gold Nadal, and others.
LINSEYS—Large and Small Plaids.
C OFFIN Bc iTEMITS,
V •
No. 220 CHESTNUT STREET,
Offer by the package the following description of Qoode
ARMY ELITE CLOTH' AND KERS - SYS, AND
GRATILARNELS.
PRINTED AND FANCY SATINETTS,
HEAVY TWEEDS AND COTTONADES.
NEGRO KERSEYS : PLAIN AND TWILLED.
PRINTED CLOAKINGS AND SLEEVS LININGS.
DGMET AND FANCY SHIRTING FLANNELS_
BLUE DRILLS. DENIMS. NANKEENS.
CORSET JEANS AND CAMBRICS, OF VARIOUS
MAKES.
LAWNS—DUI NELL'S AND OTHERS.
BLEACHED GOODS OF STANDARD MAKES, IN
VARIOUS WIDTHS.
BROWN SHEETINGS AND SHIRTING& IN GREAT
VARIETY. &c.. Itc. julwfm-tlB
THE ATTENTION OF
THE TRADE '
1=1:1
SAXONY WOOLEN CO. all-wool Plain Flannels.
TWILLED FLANNELS,
Various makes in Gray, Scarlet, and Dark Bine.
PRINTED SHIRTING FLANNELS.
PLAIN OPERA FLANNELS.
"PREMIERE QUALITY" Square and Long Shawls.
WASHINGTON MILLS Long Shawls.
BLACK COTTON WARP CLOTHS,
15. 16. 17. 18, 19. 20, M. 22 oz.
FANCY CASSIMERES AND SATINETTS.
BALMORAL MLR] S. all Grades.
BED BLANKETS. 10.4. 114,124. 13.4.
COTTON GOODS. DRNIMs. TICKS, STRIPES. SHIRT
DIGS, Re., from various Mills.
DE COVESEY, HAMILTON, & EVANS,
33 LETITIA Street. and
38.6-tefrm2m -32 South FEONT Street
NOTICE TO GRAIN Dl:kr:raw AND
BMPPIRS.
50,000 UNION A, SEAMLESS BAGS,
Ut Liam weight 20 mimes.
The Bed agdOham.t Bag to the market.
Am*.
BURLAP BAGS,
Of all Bliss, for Corn, Oats. Bone-dart. Caw, Sm. are
asnufeetured and for sale, for net cash. by
CHARLES H. GRIGG, Adanit
No. 137 WAIXIT Meet (Second StOM.
wawa Late of 939 Murat slim
PUREII
p RIPLEY, HAZARD, & HUTOBIN.
k a SOX.
No. 11,‘ ORISTNOT STREW.
COMMISSION MERCHANTS I
101 THS SALE 01
FriIIitiDSLPWAS.—MADE GOODS.
w9/5 -an
BAGS I BAGS I 4A11131
NEW AND SECOND HAND,
•=• , •T- SUBLAT, AND WIWI
BAGB.
cwitanta7 on loud.
JOHN T. BAILEY di 004,
--So. 115 POSTS MONT STRUT.
/Sr WOOL SACKS FOE SALL WNW
GENT'S FURNISHING GOODS.
REMOVAL.
MaINFCOI=I.7ZO 1..17.7EC.1E1N8
HAS REMOVED
MOM
40. 81 SOUTH METH STREET,
TO
I. W. CORNER SIMI min camentry
LAWS, Alan ite ow nr ITTOOS
GENTS' TURNI P SHENd GOODS,
ambrosias all Os latest novelties- •
PRICES MODERATE.
I
ilted
AO- The attention of the palls is raspottfolly so.
SHIRTS MADE TO ORDER,
FIRST PREMIUM SHIRT AND
WRA.i'FFER MANUFACTORY.
ESTABLISHED 1840.
•
O. A. HOFFMANN,
606 AROR STREET,
Would invite the attention of the Public to his large
and complete stock of
GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING GOODS,
Among which will be found the largest stook of
GENTLEMEN'S WRAPPERS
-4- IN THE CITY.
PL,Ugia Cbitillion given to the manufacture of
EINE SHIRTS AND WRAPPERS TO ORDER.
lien , varlets of Underclothing, Hosiers, Gloves,
rim &am. Nufgere. deg-mtnfam
ABOVE
erste pleat.
Importers.
low Fourth.
W 0 0 L.
On hand, and oonsignmenta daily arriving. of
TUB AND FLUME,
Common to Poll Blood, choice and 'lsm
WOOLEN YARNS,
ti to 50 cuts, fine. on hand. and new =oldies eornini
AND
COTTON YARNS,
Nos. 6 to 30s. a Ant-elan tnakoo.
N. I.—All numbers and descriptions procured at one,.
ALEX. WHILLDIN do SONS,
1863.
noll-mwitt
ROBERT SHOEMAKER & CO.,
LE ars
Northeast Corner of FOURTH. and RACE Streets,
PHILADELPHIA,
from the
=sylvan%
"%improve
t of a stone
i for coyly
hone% gra
d, peach or
iel!' and other
4ded into esti
treame. The
ed with rows
a with shade
timber. and
The farm
big streams.
ievenient to
is good. and
the attention
good farm
of
".)ICLITOB9L
VI7IIOI.:ESAMM DRUGGISTS •
IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
WINDOW IND PLATE GUM.
MAIMFACITCSEBB OP
WHITE MUD AND ZINC PAINTS. PUTTY, &e
FRENCH ZINC PAINTS.
Dealers "a- consumers cu PRICES . koa, CASH.
RBMOIT A. L JOHN 0. BASER,
Wholesale Drag has has removed to UN JOHN
Is asked to JOHN
l I MIVVIOD-LIWN OIL. Naming increased
is this new establishment for nwarifsetoriwi
lad sad the of Mesa ears' sawdust*
la Wes
andes this brand of Oil has ad vnatages
On o ers. recommends itself. Oonstaat
are obtained from the Snarls/. fresh. rim and
rad_ fesebre the most *arena perso anes o
minim Proprietor. The lawerwin d em and and
spread market for it wake Its Awes low, and
ges savaitszes for those basins is large qua
snB-dU
!Kw'
(JLED AND FANCY JOB PRINTING,
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COMMISSION HOI6SES-
PRINTS.
` I GREENE MFG. 00
COTTONS.
WARREN.
KIDD EATON,
PECHNIX A.
MIN. RN.
ZOTTAVE.
OOHANNET.
IDENTICAL,
OTroWA.
RENT NIVEL
WHEATON,
PALMER
PALHER RIVER.
BELLOWS FALLS.
WOOD RIVER.
TOLLAND.
MANCHESTER, &c.. Bso
COTTONS.
FARIWERVEXTIM
FARMS°,
MECHANICS' and
FARMERS'. &0..
IN GREAT VARIETY
OUR STOCK OF
YARNS.
In Wasp. Bundle, and 0011.
on orders
18 North /so= Street
Philadelphia.
DRUGS.
AGENTS DOR TES CELEBRATED
RETAIL DRY COODS.
EYRE, & LANDEL.L.
CA.RD-1.864.
STAPLE HOUSEKEEPING GOODS
FAMILY CUSTOM.
10 4 PEPPERELL SHEETINGS.
6-4 AND 6 4 PILLOW CASINGS.
4.4 BEST SHIRTING MUSLIN'S.
LARGEST PREMIUM BLANKETS.
CLOTH EMBROIDERED COVERS.
DAMASK CLOTHS AND NAPKINS.
RED BORDERED LARGE TOWELS.
UNSHIONKING- WHITE FLANNELS.
PREMIUM BED TIC KINGS.
RIOHARDSON'S SHEETING LINENS.
GOOD BLACK SILKS.
GOOD PLAIN SILKS.
HILGER'S BLACK CLOTHS.
GOOD OASSIMERES.
FINE MERIWOES.
SHROUDING CASHMERES.
BLACK BOMBAZINES.
TOUVIN'S KID GLOVES.
MIMIC .Br,
FOURTH AND AROH-STREETS.
jai mwf-ti
CIVIL AND MILITARY CLOTH
WILLIM T. SNOIMILISS6
Irct. 114- SOI7TIT SECOND. and S 3 BTRALWBERRY
Streets. is happy to s ate that he has laid in an extensive
stook of GROWS GOODS. such as:
awn LIST.
Black Cloths.
Black_Doeskins,
Black Cassimeres.
Blogant Coatings.
BiWard...Cloths,
Bagatelle Cloths.
Trimmings.
Beaverteens.
Cords and Velveteens,
We advise our friends .to
stock is cheaper than we c:
JOSEPH AND WILLIAM E. WOOD,
IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN
CLOTHS, CASSIMEBES, ViSTINGS.
ial•wfmtlB
TAILORS' TRIMMINGS,
WHOLESALE ♦ND RETAIL.
NO. 8 NORTH SECOND WRIST.
dee4m PHILADELPHIA.
OWEN EVANS & CO., SUCCESSOR
to J. R. CASELBERRY. No. 40 North EIGHTH
Street, have now on hard an immense stock. which
must he sold in cc: sequence of T. R. CASSELSERBY
having got e Ant of the bussinese.
THE PLAC 8 TO !JET BARGAINS!
Ms STOOK MUST BE REDUCED!-
. .
Our stock of Dress Goode we have reduced to meet the
wants of the public
GOOD GOODS.AT LOW MOBS!
Selling off l lot Scotch Plaid Mohair. Ma., cost Miit.
Selling off 1 lot Monica Plains. silk and wool filling. 28
eta , cost 40 ms.
Se ling off 1 kit Brocade Mohairs. 3736. east SO eta.
Popli.. Mortices. Valencias, Detainee at reduced
rates. They must Ise mid. •
FANCY SILKS! EL &CIFC SILK!
Palling off Fancy and Plain Silks at rare bargains.
Selling off Black Silk. low grades, best oil boiled.
/selling off Extra Black silk at $3. cost to import 23.7 d.
BALMOBALI. BALMOR ALS.
. . . .
Selling off The beat Balmoral for $2 to be found in this
town. Extra size for
Selling off Extra fine Balmorale $3.25, worth It.
Better Baimorale are to be had here Just as ceap.
FLANNELS. FLANNELS.
. .
Selling off Extra fine Flannel, Red Edge , that good kind.
for 50 cents.
Selling off Bailardvale Plannel. 69 cents. worth 66
Shaker Flannel that pleases Ladies, for 87% cents,
LADIES'
CLOTHS, MEN'S AND BOYS' cessIMERES.
Selling off Ladies' Cloaking Cloths at Bargains! I
Selling off Black Cloths at prices to suit every one.
Our Men and Boys' Wear rust be sold off.
LADIES' SCARFS. LADIES' SCARFS. •
Selling off Searle; Cashmere Scarfs, 6236 cents.
Selling off All onr lino Scarfs, from 15c. un to $3. 60.
CORSET& O.4ISETs.
- - .
Selling Of Chapman's Celebrated Patent Corsets,
- That fit so easy.
Selling off Mechanical corsets, warranted all whale
' •
bone.
- - .
New style Chintzes, 18X, ,worth 22 cts. , warranted mad
der colors; wash without fadin g.
IIIIISLINSI MUSLIM; t
Selling off Our stock of Nrislins, bought at the low cash
price be , ore the rise; Williamsville and all other
leading . makes.
Selling off Sampler Idem Muslin. 33 cents.
Selling off Fine Unbleached Muslin. for 20 cents; a rare
bargain.
Selling off All kind. of Muslin jest por. cheap. Look at
them, and save some money in pnfrbasinit cheap
ff.I3IIISI9KIIIIERRY I
Olean Mammoth Dry.Goode Honse,
No. 45 North EIGHTH Street.
P. S. —Hoop Shirtiasellin■ off at those low prices. They
most be atoned out.
ja7-2t CASEIBLERRRY.
B LANKETS.
From $3 to sl9—and every intermediate price.
s3.'slo, 1102. and $l6 Blankets ar e very desirable.
MOMANS.
By the yard or piece, of all the well-known makes.
Buy them now for COMII I:NELS. wants, and save dollars.
FLAN
Whites, from Me. to VI Beds, from 45 to 76 eta.
Grays, from 60 to 75 cis. • Blues. from &Ito 70 Mg.
Fancy 64 Martino; 'MoqueDA MASKS. Flannels, &c.
Dames& Table Cloths, Napkins, and Towel,.
Towelling, Nursery Diapers. Ticking,.
PRINTS.
American. Merrimack. &c.. in figures and stripes.
Neat shirting prints; Beal Manchester ginghams, 60e.
BALMOBALS.
Mildewed Balmorale, $2 50; Perfect Balmoralg. $3.
Fine Balmorals, $3.60 and $4.60; Misses' Balmoral..
COOPER & COB AND.
deli S. B. corner NINTH and MARKS?.
VERY SUPERIOR QUALITY WHITE
CORDED SILL
Plain White, Blue, and Pink Paull de Soles.
Very heavy quality Black Corded Silks.
Plain BD , ck ?onit de Soles.
Browns, Blues. Purples. Wines and Green Silks.
Superior quality Plain Black bilks.
Black Figured Silks.
grown. Blue. and Mode Floured Silks.
Black Armures, &c. EDWIN HALL & CO.,
ja7.tr Ile South SECOND Street.
HSTEEL & SON WOULD CALL
• attention to Moir Stook Of min DEEM GOODS,
all boniht at very low Prices, early In the season, and at
the recent Auction Sales:
Trench Kerinoes. 760 to St ISO.
. . .
Trench Poplins and Bete. 27346 to $1.7/.
Dress Goods of even/ variety. 2C41 to $
1,000 yard, two-yard wide .If.srfaose, 21.
Blanlcet Shawls. a great variety of styles $3.21 to $ll.
Droehe Shawls, great bargains. 11.10 to !J.:l
- and Ssequea. of all kinds of 0 dm at 101 l
WOW.
Taney Silks.into 11.
Plain Poll de Soles. IL 25 to 52 50.
Noire Antiques and Corded Silks. $2.10 tO $l.
Nos. 713 and 715 North TIMM. EA.
1 Lot All-wool Shaker Flannels. 6534 e. worth Stle. no2l
SPECIALLY INTERESTING I
EIGHTH AND SPRING GARDEN. •
USEFUL PRESENTS!
Superb Long Brooke Shawls.
Beautiful Long Blanket Shawls.
Excellent Long Black Thlbet - Shwle.
Gehtlemen'a heavy, warm SkaWla
Klesea' gay pretty Shawls.
Cldldron's pflhool Shawls. &a in great varlets,
and mg aheal2,_
At TuORITLEY & CH11331 7 8,
Corner of EIGHTH and SPRING GARDEN.
WARM GOODS. FOR WINTER.
LARGE, SOFT, WOOL BLANKETS.
Good Flannels. Shaker, Welsh, Ballardvale,
Quilts, Crib Blankets, and Cradle Blankets.
Heavy Velvet. Beaver Cloths. Black Beavers, 3a
-• splendid stockQf Citealmeres. &c..
' At TEORIMEY & CHISM'S.
nsEss GOODS AND SILKS.
Beautiful French Periling. silk and geol.
Beautiful Rep Poplins, all wool .
Beautiful colons in Frenchliderinoes.
Beautiful little-plaid all-wool Cashmeres.
Beautiful figured all-wool Delaines.
Beautiful quality in plain Delaines.
Excellent Black Silks. •
Plain Silks. Figured Silks. Fancy Silks. he.
With a great variety otgoneral Cress Goode,
. At THOTIM 4 BY & 0H15.M._,13 •
Corner of EIGHTH and SPRING . GARDEN
•
STAPLE GOODS.
ha A fine stock of Chintzes and ClElicoes. .•
Cheap Delathes and Glngharae.,•-•
Bleached and Unbleached iffuelbier: . . ;b
Table Linens. Towels, Crashes, Diapers, kg.
Striped and plaid Shirting Flannels.
Red. MY. blue. heart ShirtinalLannele. Ace,
AL THORNiaraY & Off.IBM'B.
BALMORAL SKIRTS, &c.
A larva stock of Balmoralo.
Linen Hdkis., Ladies' and Gentlemen's.
Gents' Silk Hdkfs.. in eat varletp,&c,
AT THE OLD-ESTABLISHED DRY-GOODS sTariz OF
THORNLEY & CHISM,
aon-2m N. B. Cor. EIGHTH and SPRING GARDEN.
1041 CHKSTAIIT STRUT.
E. M. NEEDLESS
1021 OELBSTAUT STREET
Invites attention to his extensive assortment
of 'roods suitable for
USEFUL AND LOCEPTABLB
HOLIDAY PRESINTS.
IN LAOS GOODS.
HANDNERoHIEFS. EMBROIDERIES.
VEILS. AND WRITS GOODS
tißllo:# ,4 :442,U1111,11 :4 3:4
JOHN H. • STOKES, 702 ARCH ,
STREET, would call the attention of the ladies to
his immense stock of DRESS GOODS. most of which
hits been reduced for HOLIDAY BREsiorrs, consistinE
of French Merinoes, Figured Caudet Cloths, Wool And
part Cotton DeWoes, Figured and Strived Mohair%
English M ealDoel. Wool Plaids. Plaid Dress Goode. Call
saes. ka
TO HOUSEKEERERS AND PER
BOPS COMHBNOING HOUSEKEEPING.
A COMPLETE STOCK OF
110USEIKwY,PING ARTICLES
922 CHESTNUT STREET,
Lt DOORS WEST OT THE CONTINEETAL twin
JOHN A. DIXTUP'EIL
del/5-lin
H . P. & C. R. TAYLOR,
IMPORTERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF
TOILET SOAPS AND PER 'MIMICRY,
18,1-11 a No. 6ltl. North Nr.NTEL Strett
-- FOR
H - 0 U S
ARKY AND NAVY.
Blue Clothe,
Sky-blue Clothe,
Sky-blue Doeskius v
Dark Blue Doeskide.
Dark Blue Beavers.
Dark Blue Pilots_,
Scarlet ad
Cloths, 6
Bue Flannele.
,
Mazartrut Blue Cloths.
come early, as our present
purcuase now. ]a6-I.w.
CHINTZES! CHINTZES!
PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1864.
E4t itss.
FRIDAY, JANUARY B,' 1864
New Publications.
The Saturday Review declares that the new Christ.
ma. story . , ( 4 . Mrs; Lirriper and her Lodgers," re-
published by the Harper.,) is largely written by
Dickens himself, and particularly points out, as.
certainly his, the opening portion, in which the
landlady is herself introduced. We learn, from
another source, that the writers who also assisted
in that Christmas story are Kra. Gaskell, Mrs.
Ameha Edwards, (author of two or three novels not
yet known here,) and Charles Collins, who Is
Dickens' son-in-law and Wilkie Collins' brother.
There has been some activity here, of late, in the
publication of works of fiction. Foremost; we
would name the original works of this class.
"Round the Block," with no author's name on
the title• page, is published by Messrs. Appleton,
and is simply put forth as " an American novel."
It certainly is all that. It is a story of New York
life and New York society, and is very original.
There is nothing hacknied„ yet there is mush
that is familiar and true, in the charaoters, nor
is any adventure outside of the line of pro.
bability. "Round the Block' , shows men and
women as they live and breathe, and the author
never forgets his legitimate purpose to run
into the preaching line; he does - not believe
that the novelist ought to -sermonize. Neither has
he a single pet ism. He has written what really de
serves to be esteemed as one of the most thoroughly
American novels yet published. It is enriched, too,
with numerous engravings.
Twes novels lately published by Mr. Carleton,
merit mention here, though we have previously
noticed both. In " Was he Successful," Mr. R. H.
Kimball, traces the history of a hypocritical schemer,
who serves Pdaminon while pretending to serve God,
and arrives at great wealth, without obtaining hap
piness or preserving self-respect. As he Sowed, he
reaped. The tale, however ably told, is painful—it
lowers our estimate of buniaq nature. Very dif
ferent is "Peculiar," by Epes Sargent, the promi
nent idea of which is gigantic. The scene chiefly
lies in New York and in New Orleans, and the
author seems equally familiar with both places.
He aims at showing the horrors and evils of Slavecy,
which at this time of day, very few will be so hardy
as to deny. He has worked up his plot dramatically,
but the finale is not exactly as good as the previous
narrative lead the reader to expect.
Arr. Henry Morford's second war.novel, entitled
"Days of Shoddy," shows us a writer who, with
the ambition of , sing historian as Well as novelist,
does injustice to his powers in the latter capacity.
More than one-half of the volume is occupied with a
Minute detail of the career of Ellewerthli Fire
Zouavea, from the formation of the corps in New
York to its fiery encounter with rebellion at "the
battle of Bull Run. All this Is well told, With many
and severe hits at "shoddy" contractors, but as it is
apropos only of the history of a solitary Zouave,
who figures in the novel almost vicariously, (his
being the person chiefly involved,) it appears
dragged in, without sufficient cause. This was the
fault of " Shoulder• Straps," by the same author, in
which some sixty consecutive pages were devoted
to an account of a battle on the Peninsula and spe
cial glorification of McClellan. We say that Mr.
Pdorford has done himself great injustice by thus
clogging his story with,long narratives of what . does
not concern it. Were "The Days of Shoddy" re
lieved from this surplusage, so as to give us the
story only, it would be seen how considerable Ids
talent as a novelist is, when he allows it fair play.
His novels are published by T. E. Peterson & Bros.
There is improvement, more or leer perceptible, in
each successive tale by Mrs: J. Sadlier. "The Her
mit of the Rock : a tale of Cashel," just publiehed
by Messrs. Seidner, New York, is the beat work she
has yet written. In some of her previous Irish tales
she has gone deeper into historical and antiquarian
research, but in none has she more truly hit off Irish
society, high and low. She is the last of the Irish
novelistseemd was "to the manor born." The inci
dents here exhibit the Irish character very forcibly,
and there is a sufficient: - degree of mystery to keep
the mind Interested to the cleee. We may add that
the novelist gives glimpses of Daniel O'Connell and
Walter Scott, the terrible tragedy of the Mara fa
mily is also introduced, and Kate Coitelloe, through
Whose evidence the murderers were brought to jus
tice, figures in the tale. There is another murder,
part of the plot proper, and, of course, somewhat of
"the course of true love." Altogether, this is a su
perior Irish novel, Mrs. Sadller has a slip of the
pen (p. 381), where she mentions the Barons of Ken
mare as having the privilege of remaining covered
in the presence of royalty—the Barons of Kinsale,
who hold the_ earliest. Irish r.ecrorro.emlov-tbak--rrt—
Vllege. We should have stated that this volume is
one of Sadlier's Parlor and Cottage Library.
An English novel, entitled "Held in Bondage ; or,
Granville de Vigne," published anonymously in
London; has been brought out here, in two volumes,
by J. B. Lippincott & Co. The motto, " A young
1
man married is a young man marred," from Sheke
peare, indicates the motif of this story, in which are
related-two marriages, respectively contracted early
in life, with disastrous results, by Granville' de
Vigne and Colonel Sabretache., The anonymous
author it evidently familiar With What is called
"good society" in England, and probably held (or
holds) a commission in some crack regiment. None
1 but a military man could have written so familiarly
of "the service." This novel has several serious
faults, and some good points. It is far too long;
that is, it is elaborately spun out, and might adverb.
tageously have been cut down to a single volume.
The language is too much tesselated ; in other words,
it is a polyglot compound, in which numerous
languages, dead and living, are laid under contribu
tion ; whereaß, gentlemen and ladies by whom the
English language is used, do not press French,
Italian, and Latin phrases into it, seemingly only
to show their own knowledge. Lastly, there is
too much wearisome detail about the war in the
Crimea: The hero, it is true, serves in that
war, but this does not warrant the author's
becoming its historian. This is the very error
of judgment which is each a drawback on - Dlr.
Morford's "Shoulder-Straps," and " Days of
Shoddy," already noticed. On the other hand, a
great merit in "Held in Bondage," is the way in
Which each character is drawn. Every one standS
out clearly--some being more sharply defined than
others, as should be. Alms and Violet are delicate:
ly drawn, with natural differences!, and the truth
• WI h which the exulting hatred of Lucy Davis is
contrasted with, the worldly scheming of the old
Irish dowager Peeress, shows a master's skill. It
is singular enough that, in this novel, the female
characters are much more natural than the male.
De Vigne and Sabretache are very ordinary men—
graced with accomplishments, but the veriest slaves
of impulse and passion. Two of the Incidents are
strikingly dramatic—though improbable. One, where
N a man marries an old flame, whom he had slighted
some years before, and did not recognize, until she
disclosed herself niter the bridal; and the other,
Where, after long years, circumstances are evolved
which break the bond. The tale has excited atten
tion in England, where, it seems, the originals of
the leading characters are known, or guessed at.
Charles Reade, a well•known English novelist and
I dramatist, has just concluded a serial tale of con
siderable length, entitled " Very Hardtash," which
has simultaneously'appeared, in Lcindon and New
York, in All the Year Bound and Harper's Weekly. It
has just been produced, in a handsome octavo edit
-1 tion, with original illustration., by Harper &. Bro
-1 there and is likely to have a great run. The object
iof this novel Is to show with what facility, under
, the English law and with all its boast of "the Libor-.
I ty of the 'subject," a sane man can be imprisoned in
t a lunatic asylum, there to be goaded, as cruelty or
fraud may suggest, into the madness which did not
originally exist. " Very Hard Cash" deals with
more incidente than this. It has its own full share
of love and hate, of adventure by ask and land, of
honorable conduct an varied villalnye,in a word,
it shows actual life in the middle Engllsh•etation,
founot a single peer, nor even baronet, figures among
its characters. The first of these is Alfred Hardie,
whose father is main villain of the tale, and Mr.
Heade has depicted his mind and his action with
wonderful skill and power. It would be easy, did
space permit, to point out how ably Mr. Reade
has worked up his incidents and developed his
characters. To a certain extent, the' details in the
madhouses are painful, but it is not disputed that
they are true, and the exposure shows this writer of
fiction, as other exposures showed Dickens, as a
great mound reformer. There is one character here,
an eccentric physician called Sampson, who has
been considered overdrawn. All we know, is that it
is believed that the original is Dr. Samuel Dickson,
of London, author of "Fallacies'of the Faculty,"
and other scathing books, and that the likeness is
laughingly admitted by himself. Messrs. Harper
have lately published many popular novels—
Aurora Floyd. Eleanor's Victory, and John March
mont's Legacy, by Miss Braddon ; Live it 'Down,
by J. 0. Jeatfreson ; Mary Lindsey, by Lady Pon.
sonby ; Sylvia's Lovers, by Mrs. Gaskell. ; Rachel
Ray, by Anthony Trollope ;—but none of them are
eupirior, and we doubt if one be equal, to Charles
Readeli Very Hard Cash. .
" Lyrics of Loyalty" is the name of a neat pocket
volume, in "red, white, and blue" binding, published
by George P. Putnam, New York, and arranged and
editedby Frank Moore, who is known everywhere
as editor of "The Rebellion Record," andother popu
lar and patriotic Works. The design here is to col
lect and preserve someof the best lyrics which the
Rebellion has called forth. A second and' third
Gerbig, now in the press, will make the collection
very complete, and will respectively comprise Songs
of the Soldiers, and Personal and Political Ballad%
of the War. In the volume before in, of 336 page.,
there are one hundred and fifty-eight lyrics by
eighty. seven writers, the best of Whom are George
H. Boker, Park Benjamin, John Neal, W. O. Bry
ant, 0. W. Holmes, Charles G. Leland, John W.
Foriae.y, T. Buchanan Read, H. W. Longfellow, J.
R. Lowell, George P. Morris, John Pierpont, M. A.
Dt niaon, Bayard Taylor, H. T. Tuckerman, R. W.
Emerson, George Vandenhof, John G. Whittier,
sod R. H. Newell. Several of the best poems here
are anonymous. The collection, generally speak
ing, is a good one, which deserves to become polite
la: —though Mr. Moore has included some "tritons
of the minnows,' , being very small verse-makers.
He has not given a single poem by John Savage,
though "The Muster," and "The Starry Flag," by
bite, are grand and simple earnest lyric.. We
rot.or. too, that "Private Miles O'Reilly (a
7.17. d. 7.1 ,- ne). is indexed on the best of authors—
n .the his "song of the Soldiers" was written,
e t enerr. of Mr. Halpia
"Sto , Recla ok Note in• Rhyme aid East Ten•
retsee 8 Putol bjr art ENO: 'Vezeva,keetig," , is tit 4
awkward and unpunetuated title of a small volume,
"printed for the author," in Philadelphia, which
has just appeared. "Secession," in onto-syllabic
verse, IA More patriotic than poetical, but the verse
is equal, at least, to the average which the war has
produced, and the peroration, if we may so call it, is
not only earnest, but tuneful, "East Tennessee"
II in the same metre, but of a far higher order. The
opening is particularly good, showing great skill in
effective description. The poem contrasts East
'rennet/eel as it was before and after the blight of
Rebellion, and renders due justice to its heroes and
martyrs. Both poems are largely annotated, where
by a great deal of local and personal information is
supplied. The al thor is a thoroughly loyal man, to
whom the success of this little venture is a matter
of no small importEnce, we believe. The volume can
be pirchazed at any of the bookstores:
The Household edition of the Works of Charles
Lichens, illustrated by John Gilbert and F. 0. 0.
Dailey, and published by Sheldon & Co., New York,
approaching completion. A few more volumes,
and the whole of Dickens' will be before the public
in this uniform and handsome edition. The most
resent issue consists of "Little Dorritt," in four
volumes. The illustrations, from Dariey's draw
ing, are Rigaud and John Baptist in the prison at
Marseille! ; the Father of the Matchable& learning
that he has come into a Fortune; Mr. F.'s Aunt
attaokhnig Clennam, and Biandois' interview with
Clennamis Mother. These are all engraved on steel,
in the line manner, and are very characteristic.
We have just received the January number of
Thr t gardener's Monthly, edited by Thomas Meekham,
,andimblished - by W. G. P. Brinklos, 23 north Sixth
street, which, we notice, had a beautiful colored
lithograph of anew grape, with its December num.
ber, as a froritisplece to the full volume. This serial
is nintrin the sixth year of its existence, and has so
well met the wants of all interested in horticulture,
that - neither war excitement nor hard times have
had any influence against its success.
If one's gardening went no further than even the
management of a single grape-vine in the yard, or a
tern case in the parlor window, we should judge the
Gardener's Monthly as essential aft the pruning knife
or watering-pot. The sixth volume commenced
with the present year, and we should consider this •
se the moat appropriate time to subscribe for this
excellent magazine.
Posthumous Poetry.
"American literature has attained, at a single
bound, a style as graceful and polished as that of
Addison." - Thus says,the London Spectator in a re.
view of Mr. Longfellow's new poems. It is a fact
that many of our most popular authors are singularly
felicitous in style, and singularly barren of thought.
This is due chiefly to culture of mediocrity. In all
such oases the felicity of style is an imitation ; Miss
Braddon, for instance, sometimes exactly reproduc
ing the manner of Dickens, with scarcely an atom of
his humor. Original beauty of fOrin, it Only PI/Sin)
' with original power of thought. These facts have
something, not much, to do with a book we have
lately bad the misfortune to read.
Miss Lizzie Doten, a spiritual medium, has pub.
Birthed a volume of poems, which are. in her opinion,
the inspirations of poets in the other world ; Ein our
opinion superficial imitations of styles. It is called
"Poems from the Inner Life," and may be seen at
the circulating library of spiritual and miscellaneous
books, which Mrs. O. W. Hale, and Samuel H. Paint
have eifiablished at 931 Rsee street. Miss Doten
repudiates the authorship of most of these poems.
She claims, in her preface, that she "has been
acted upon decidedly and directly by disembodied
intelligences," adding, "under such influences I
have not necessarily lost my individuality, or be
come wholly unconscious. I was, for the time being,
like a harp in the hands of superior powerr, and
just in prOportion as my entire nature was attuned
to thrill responsive to their touch, did I give voice
and expression to their unwritten music." - We are
elsewhere informed that all deficiencies in thg
poems are not due to the disembodied intelligences
but the limitations of the harp. It is interesting to
know that when Miss Doten had been ebtranced
" a physical change took place, affecting both my
breathing) and circulation, and my clairvoyant
powers were so strengthened that I could dimly
perceive external objects from the frontal portion
of my brain, even with my eyes closed and ban
daged." Of many of the poems she has not been
able . % obtain the authorship, but two of them are
asserted to be by Miss A.W.Sprague, two by Robert
Burn-10,in by Poe, and two by Shakspeare. Of
course in harshly criticising these latter produc
tions Miss Doten could not be criticised. Burns,
and Poe, and Shakspeare are responsible for the
quality of the manna they are kind enough to drop.
And if we complain that they do not write as well
in heaven as they did on earth, Miss Doten is not
to be blamed, excepting so far as she cannot express
whet *ay tried to commluricate.
Seotchmen will be elad!to know, still
Writes in the Scotch dialect. "For a' that," is the
title of a poem, which thus begins :
'*ls there a luckless wight on earth
Oppressed wi' care and a' that.
Who holds his life as little worth,
' His home kis Heaven for a' that—
For a' that, and a' that.
There's mneklejoy for a' that;
He's seen the warst o' hell below.
Hie - home Is Heaven that. "
It is equally gratifying to find Shakspeare using
blank verse, and insisting on quoting his own plays.
He begins a poem entitled "Life," by exclaiming :
" 'To be or not to be,' is not the question?'
There is no choice of life. Ay! mark it well!
For death is but another name for change.'
After death,entinues Shakspeare, man awakes
amid eternal verdure
Fairer than 'dreams of a Midsummer's Night;'
* • Nollfacbeth there,
Mad with ambition, plotted' damning deeds; •
No Handet, haunted by his father'slghost,
Stalks Wildly forth intent on vengeance dire.
•
No two-faced Falstaff proffers double suit:
No Desdemona mourns lago's art;
And every Romeo finds his Juliet." '
These allusions to his own plays, we must say,
are in very bad taste, and in worse taste are his Jibe.
ral quotations from his own works. "Thus igna.
ranee makes cowards of us all," - he interpolates;
speaks of God, whose "mercy seasons justice," and
writes a brief parody on Mark Antony'. address
over the dead body of Caesar. Again, in a poem on
love, he exclaims
" Love.
When meted in proportion to man's needs.
• Meaeure for measure.' it doth purify,
Exalt, and make him equal with the gods."
Hazlitt very severely blames IVEre. Siddoni for re•
appearing on the stage after she had long retired,
and age and inactivity had dirainished her power.
What would that unrelenting critic have Said of
Shakspeare, had he lived to read these supernatural
postscripts to his plays' Perhaps Alias Dotem, while
she is about it, may receive a criticism from Hazlitt,
or get Griswold to correct his biography of Poe.
Sbakspeare's influence," says Difths Doten,
"seemed to overwhelm and crush me. I Was afraid,
and shrunk from it. Only those two poems were
given, and then the attempt was not repeated. Ido
not think that the poems in themselves: come lip to
'the productions of his master mind. They are only
intimations of what might have been, if he had had
a stronger and more effectual instrument upon
which to pour his inspiratione" We do not need
one come from the grave to tell us that the poems
are not up to the lowest level of Shakspeare's worst
passages. Butif they are but intituations of what
might have been, we are fortunate MlShakspeaie
has not found a stronger instrument, for certainly
they intimate an almost absolute destitution of
ideality. A more effectual medium might have
given us a whole tragedy of verses such as these :
"Then. sweet humanity. thou favored child.
Of God, look up! An everlasting chain
Doth_bind thee to the might, heart of all.
Love's labor never can be lost. He who
Created shall through Love, perfect and save ;
• nd that which hath such poor experience here.
shall And fruition in a brighter sphere."
In the poet's corner of a country paper these verses
could be endured, but we really cannot thank Shalt
spears for entering the lists in rivalry of Tupper's
Proverbial Philosophy.
Poe, it appears, has been perforated morally and in.
jure& _intellectually by his celestial experiences.
Contrast the following. picture of the poet with
those drawn by Mrs. Osgood and N. P. Willis : "As
he told appeared to me." says Miss Doten, "he was
full of majesty and strength, self-poised and calm,
and it would seem by the expression of his counte
nance, radiant with victory, that the reward
promised to him that overcometh had been made
his sure posseesion. Around his brow, as a spiritual
emblem, was an olive wreath, whose leaves glowed
like fire. Lie stood upon the side of a mountain,
which was white and glittering like crystal, and the
full tide of inspiration to which he gave utterance
could not be comprehended inhuman speech." Poor Poe,
as his poorer friends used to condescendingly call him,
how little did he think he would fall so low by rising
so high ! "The Streets of Baltimore" was given by
him to Mils Doten nearly one year ago, and we re
member with what diegust we read criticisms which
considered it better than the coarsest imitation of
his rhythm. It is the merest jingle—absolutely un
like the verse of Poe, wanting its structure, its
music, and its novelty. All the other poems at
tributed to Poe have the same radical opposition to
his style of veraification. The great absurdity is,
however, not Miss Doten's, but belongs to those
literary periodicals which were stupid enough to
find in her verses any real resemblance to Poe's.
We distrust the sincerity of those gentlemen and
lidles who pilmfess to be inspired by dead poet., and
who publish in spiritual papers miserable doggerel
which they say Poe wrote on a white mountain, but
which might have been written by Jack Ehutsby on
a white jackass. Yet, we are disposed Jo believe
that Mies Doten may be in earnest, and we want to
believe so. Otherwise, we could not excuse her for
what would be unparalleled impertinence. Ireland's
Shaksperean forgeries displayed some talent;
Ohatterton, "the marvellous boy who perished
in his pride," had genius to palliate hie false
hood. But the enormous absurdities which Miss Do
ten has given us Gan only be excused by her since
city. Ability of a limited degree she possessei ; a
sweet feeling, a pretty verse here and there relieve
the monotony of her book, and she writes just as
well as twenty thousand other ladies. But there 15
nothing remarkable in her imitations. We can pro
duce twenty young men at a day's notice who can
write imitations of Burns, Poe, Shakspeare, far
better than those we have been reading, Nay, some
of them are in the habit of doing so, but are yet a
little aehamed of their want of originality. Yet
they have not had' the supernatural advantages of
Miss Doten, for she might very properly prefix to
her volume a quotation from Digger:J. the character
which Mr. Clarke Plays so well in the "Spectre
Bridegroom," and might print in big bleak letters on
her title-page the astounding words:
"I KNOWRD A GHOST!"
THE National Union League has 1w existence
at out 4 500 council's of that order in the loyal States;
Nerith a Membership of over 760 000 In number. Who .-
CODIOIO has over flee councils, ;Wad 20 00 members;
Viral itltiletSl^.o,oCo members,
ANNUAL NIESIAGE QF THE
GOVERNOR.
Our Financial Condition and Pros-
peots.
CURRENCY PAYMENT OF INTERNET
RECOMMENDED.
REFORM OF THE REVENUE AND
MILITIA LAWS.
Taxation of Railroad Monopolies and Pay.
went for Unpatented Lands.
THE HONOR AND COMFORT OF OUR
SOLDIERS
LEGIILLTIVE CARELEDSNESS REPROVED.
%The Devoted Patriotiant of Pennsylvania,
EXHIBIT OF THE TREA.SURY.
The past year has afforded tm new name of thank
fulness to the Almighty for the moral and material
blessings whir& Helss i _,.=rl upon us.
The balance in the Tr* mher O.
/M. was $Z175,84410
Itecetote'doring the decal year ending lie
vember 30, 1863. .1,266,461 06
Total tn. 'AVcry for &Cal year ending No
vember 30, 1866 0,402,295 76
The payments for the . same period have
been 4, 814,064 06
Balance in Treasury. November SO. 1883.... 2.147.351 70
The operations of the sinking fund during the last
year hue been shown by my Proclamation of the
Bth day of September last, as follows :
Amount of debt Commonwealth reduced... $954,729 40
As follows. viz :
Coupon Loan Act. May 4.7862 .. • .100. COO 00
Five per cent 790.716 60
Four and one-half per cent 63,000 00
Relief notes cancelled 963 00
Domestic creditors' certificates.... 13'00
Interest certificates paid 27 90
15954, 710 40
Amount of public debt of Pennsylvania as it
stood on the let day of December. 3262... • • 840.448.21.4 82
Deduct amount redeemed at the State Trea
sury during the fiscal year. ending No
vember 30. 1863, viz.:
Five per cent, stocks ... . .. 499 78
Four and a half per cent. stooks.. 63,000 00
Relief notes 109 09
Domestic creditors' certificates • 8 26
---- 3961617 04
PnVic debt December let, 1863 339,493.996 78
Funded debt. viz.: 6 per cent.
loans 1400.630 00
Funded debt, viz.: 6 per cent
loans. 35.709.936 49
Funded debt. viz. :.4, 4 4 . per cent -
loans 268.200 00
Unfunded debt, viz.:
----339,378.816 45
Relief notes in circulation...... 397.261. 00
Interest certificates outstanding 15.356 63
Intbre, t certif c sees unclaimed 4,448 38
Domestic creditors' certificate,- 733 32
3117.783 33
Military Loan per Act of May 16:h, 1861..
Total indebtedness • $39. 4819.596 78
THE MILITARY REDEMPTION PIINDIJOIN PAYMENT
OP STATE INTEREST.
By the act of the 16th of May, 1861, authorizingg .
the military loan of $3,000,000, a tax of one-half
mill was laid on real and personal property, to fur
nish a fund for redeeming the same. I recommend
that the commissioners of the sinking fund be di
rected to invest the proceed. of the tax in State
loan, so that it may be drawing interest, to be in
tike manner invested, or that they should apply
such proceeds directly to the purchase of certificates
of the military loan, and cancel such certificates as
shall be purchased.
Although our finances are still in a healthy con
dition, it a. necessary to invite the serious attention
of the Legislature to the consideration of the means
of maintaining them unimpaired in future.
By, the act of 12th June, 1840, it was provided that
. the interest on the State loans should always be paid
in specie, or its equivalent, and that whenever the
tunas in the treasury should be of leas value than
specie, the difference in value shold be ascertained
and certified to the Governor, who should thereupon
issue his warrant to the agents or banks authorized
to pay such interest on behalf of the Cloinmonwealth,
to allow such difference to parties receiving the in
terest, or, at the option of the parties, to pay the
same in specie.
By the act of 11th April, 1862, it was provided that
for the purpotm of paying in specie, or its equiva
lent, all interest that should thereafter be due Dy the
Commonwealth, as required by the act of 12th June,
1640, the several banks who should avail themselves
of the provisiors of that act (of 11th April,. 1862), and
who should refuse to redeem their notes in specie,
on demand, at any time within ten days upon or
after the time when such interest should become
due, should thereafter, when required by the State
Treasurer, by notice in writing, pay into the State
treasury, in laroportion to the capital stock paid in
of each bank, their ratable proportion of such pre.
mium for gold, or its equivalent, as should havebeen
actually paid by the State.
Ely the not of the with Sanuary, 11Nts, it-wow pro—
vided that the State Treasurer shbufd exchange with
the bank. an amount of ourrenoy,sufficient to pay
the interest on the State debt falling due on the first
days of February and August, 1663, for the same
amount of coin, and should give to the banks specie 1
certificates of exchange, not transferable, pledging
the faith of the State to return said coin in exchange
for notes current at the time, on or before the first
Monday of March, 1864, such certificates to bear
interest at the rate of 23. per cent. per annum.
Under the provisions of the act of 1862, certain
banks paid into the State Treamury $140,768 30 as
an equivalent for coin for the payment of interest on
the public debt.
Under the act 011863, specie certificates have been
given to the banks, amounting in the whole to $1-
968,504.97; which, ir
sith the accruing interest, will fa ll
due on the first Monday of March next.
As the provisions of this act were of a temporary
character, the only acts now in force on the subject are
those of 1840 and 1862, above mentioned, under which
it will be the duty of title State authorities to pay the
interest on the first Febtuary, 1864, and thereafter
in coin or its equivalent, and look to the banks that
may be liable under the set of 1862 for reimburse
ment of the premium paid by the Commonwealth.
THE HIITY OF STATE FINANCE TO UNITED STATES
CURRENCY—CI7RBENCY PAYMENT NECES BY.
In the face of all difficulties, this Commoealth,
actuated by a sentiment which does its people honor,
has hitherto paid its interest in coin, or its equiva
lent.
Existing circumstances make it necessary to con
sider now the fair extent of her just obligations.
The exigencies of the times have compelled the
Government of the United States to issue large
amount. of treasury notes for circulation, which
are not redeemable in coin, and whichform the great
mass of out circulating medium.
It is our duty an a loyal State—it is our interest
as a State whose welfare, and even safety, depend
emphatically upon the maintenance of the credit
and the success of the military operations of the
General Government—to do nothing to Impair its
credit or embarrass its measure.. On the contrary,
we owe it to ourselves and to our posterity to give
an active support to its efforts to ,quell the mon
strous rebellion which Is still raging, and thus re
store peace to our districted country.
It is our own Government, and we could not, With
out gross indecency, attempt to refuse its currency
in payment of taxes and other debts due to the Com
monwealth.
In 1840 the cue was very different. The difficul-
ties then arose from the suspension of specie pay.
runts by our State banks, mere local. and private
corporations, and the state veryroperly, by the
act of that year, intended to provid e, against ices to
its creditor's by reason of such shispeneion. An
exigency like the present could not then have been
foreseen by the Legialature, and it is to be inferred,
therefore, that they could not have intended to pro
vide for it.
*We derive our system of public loans from Eu
rope, and the true extent of our obligation is to be
ascertained by referring to the known established
practice of European Governments prior to the
dates when our loans were effected. I mean, of
course, such of those Governments as were held to
have maintained their national credit.
It is believed to have been the uniform practice
of such governments to pay their interest in paper
currency, however depreciated, during a legalized
Suspension of specie payments. An observable
instance of this is afforded by the course of the
British Government, which, during twenty-five
years, from 1791 to 1822, during which the bank was
prohibited by law from paying out coin for any pur
pose, paid the interest on its public debts in bank
notes, which during a great part of that time, were
at a heavy discount, sometimes amounting to 30 per
cent. or thereabout. Their necessith s then were
not greater than ours are now. -
Among ourselves '
at the present time, Massachu
setts (whose debt is believed td be very small), pays
the interest in coin. Ohio and Indiana pay in cur
reiicy. In New York it IN not known what will be
done. Her Legislature,
tl l o t concurrent roojution,
ordered the Interact to " paha in cola to foreign
stockholders in April/ANL
LOANS AND . TAXATION TO EN AVOIDED—THE BANN*
At the preselLrate of premium on gold, the sum
necessary to pan an amount sufficient to discharge
the annual interest on the State debt would be more
than $1,000,000, and to meet this, additional taxa
tion to that extent would be unavoidable. The de
mortis on the treasury for other ;necessary purposes
Must probably be such as to render it imprudent to
-throw any part of this expenditure on the existing
eurpine. To • borrow money from year to year to
pay the interest on past loans would, of. course, be
wholly inadmissible. To leave the set of 1862 in
force, and attempt to throw the payment of this
large premium annually on the banks, would be not
only flagrantly unjust, but quite impracticable. r
recommend the whole subject to the careful and im
mediate consideration of the Legislature. Some
legislation ought to be had on it before the close of
the present month. In my opinion the Common
wealth will have fulfilled her obligations by provi
ding for the payment of her interest in the currency
of the Government. If the Legislature should see
St to continue to pay it in coin, it will be their duty
to levy forthwith the heavy taxes necessary for that
purpose. I must,lin 'palming, observe that the plan
adopted by one of the States of paying coin to
foreign, aid currency to domestic loan holders, ap
pears to me to be Wholly unwise and founded on no
legitimate principle.
At the close of the last session, nineteen bills re
newing the charters of certain banks for another
period of five year. were presented to me. of these
I have (for reasons which will be hereafter commu
nicated,) withheld my signature from one and ap
proved the remainder. I have been led to sign them
by the considerations that the banks of the Com
monwealth pay a large revenue, (nearly $400,6000
which the State can ill afford to lose, and that in
the present condition of the countryAt would be •
impolitic to drive so much capital out of active use
or force it into new employments.
If the national banking system afford sufficient
inducements, capital will voluntarily take that di
rection. It is proper to observe that the charters of
most of the banks in question expire at an early pe•
ricd, while in consequence of the invasion of the
State, during the last summer, they could not have
been reasonably expected to give the necessary no.
tics of renewed applications for reoharter. • i
I recommend an extension of the time during
which the banks are now relieved from penalties
for not pacing their obligations in coin.
EECOMMENDED INCREASE OF OFFICIAL SALARIES—
WAIL DAMAGES, 1ff.21311181L8, ETO
The increased expenses of living invite attention
to the salaries of our public officers. Thole of the
Secretary of thelCommonwealth, Auditor General,
! and State Treasurer, and of the clerks in their ear
-1 ployment, are, in my opinion, too low, especially as
the exigencies of the times have greatly enhanced
the labors and responsibilities of all, and in the case
, of the beads of thou departments, enforce a eon
; Want attendance at Harrisburg, which was not for-
merly required.
Under the act of 16th April, 1862, and Its supple.
ment passed 22d April, 1863, the Adjutant General,
Quartermaster General, and Commissary General,
have been acting as the Board of Military Claims.
They have, up to this time, approved claims to the
amount of $166,415 81, and others have been already
preeented to the further amount of $832,120.29, which
nave not yet been acted On.
'Under the sot of 22d April, 1 893 (1". 029,) the
(letzt Vesnukra Pleas app9inteAwee appratsete
so o u a t s h c e e r r n ta bor der
dym thmioniei ai n
called
c se r viceoiutn
the
September, 1662, by the Anderson cavalry, in the
came mouth, ono by the rest ale in their raid on the
10th and 11th Oetobee. 1882.
The appraisers have not yet' completed the per
formance of their' duties. When their report shall
hove beep made to the Oourt of Common Pleas, and
affirmed. in whole or in part, by tbdt court, it will
be the duty of tbe Governor to claim the payment of
the amounts fr om the General Government, and on
failure to secure the same, then to report to the next
Legislature, recommending such action se he may
deem just and proper.
The -expenses of the Transportation and Tele.
graph Department during the past year have been
as follows:
Paid (nut of appropriation made by mill.
tory Loan Act, of 1861) $13,668 Ell
Unpaid (the appropriation being exhaust
-7
Ou ed) tstanding Liabilities, estimated at. 15
6, , 64
000 0700
$34 423 66
These expenses have been mainly incurred in keep
tag de partment s the necaary corresponeenoe of the
taty and in the transportation .of sick
and wounded, and the dead bodies of our volunteers,
GE will be seen by the report of tie Chief-of Trans
portation, herewith communicated. I recommend
air appropriation to meet the deficiency, and also to
carry on the service of this department hereafter
By the thirteenth section of the act of the 15ib.
illay, 1861, the sum of $20,000 was appropriated to
be expended by the Governor for the compensa
tion of such persons as he- might require to serve
the Commonwealth in the military organization of
the State or the General Government, and for the
expenses incident to the business in which they
might be employed.
rhave, according to law, settled annual amounts
of the expenditure of this fund in the Auditor Gene
ral's office, to which .the Legislature is referred,
The unexpended balance is now $54,521.96. A. fur
ther sum should be appropriated in like manner.
Out of this fund I have paid the persons whom I
found it necessary to employ in the military depart
m. nt, and the expense, of the agency which I was
compelled to establish at Washington to attend to
the interests and welfare of our volunteers. The
continuance of this agency, and the establishment of
a similar one in the West, are of vital importance to
them. I recommend the passage of an net &nth°•
rizing the appointment of agents at Washington and
Nashville, and defining their duties, which should
include the collection of all bounties, back pay, pen
sions' &c. , due to Pennsylvania.
On this subject I refer the Legislature to the re
port of Col.
11,
Biddle Roberts, late agent of the
State at Washington, herewith communicated, and
commend it to your careful examination.
P Or TSB MILITIA.
On the invasion of the State during the last rum
mer, the President made a call for militia, and, with
his assent, I subsequently made a call for volunteer
militia for the defence of the State. Under these
calls men were assembled and organized with
promptness after the reality of the emergency came
to be understood by our people. The General Go
vernment clothed and subsisted this force, and
agreed to pay it, but as no appropriation for that
purpose had been made by Congress, the Preaident
and Secretary of War promised, if the money should
be advanced from other quarters, to recommend its
immediate repayment on the meeting of Congren.
It is understood that steps have been already taken
to fulfil this pledge. Several of the banks cheerfully
sod readily advanced the necessary funds to the
amount of $671,176.43, onlmy promise to recommend
to the Legislature an appropriation to repay them
1n case Congress should fail to make one. I accord
ingly make that recommendation moat emphatical
ly. Should it be necessary, I will hereafter, in a
opeciel message, give the details and correspondence
relating to this subject.
New York and New Jersey, under the President's
call, sent regiments to assist in our defence, for
Which our thanks are due to those States, our good
neighbors.
*86.496,592 78
1.3 000 000 00
THE GETTYSBURG CEMETERY.
After the battle of Gettysburg, in which loyal vo
lunteers from eighteen States, including Pennsylva
nia, were engaged, it appeared to me proper that all
those States should unite in establishing a cemetery
on the spot, in which their soldiers, who had fallen
in that conflict, should be honorably interred. I
accordingly appointed David Wills, .Esq , of Get.
tyaburg, my agent, and through him a site was
purchased at a cost of $2,475 87, and the convey
ances made to the Commonwealth. On communi•
eating with the authorities of the other State.,
they all readily agreed to become parties to the
arrangement, and on the 19th day of November
lafl, the cemetery was dedicated with appropri
ate ceremonies, in the presence of the Presi
dent of the United States, the Governors of the
States concerned, and other high officers, State
and National. On the 19th day of December, on the
invitation of Mr. Wills, commissioners, represent-
ing the States interested in the cemetery, met in
Harrisburg and agreed upon a plan for its improve
ment and care in the future, and the apportionment
of the sum of money required, to the several States,
which is herewith communicated. The expenses at
tending the establishment of this cemetery, includ
ing the cost of the site and of removing the bodies of
the slain, have thus far• amounted to $5,209 aS, and
an appropriation will be required to pay these ex
penes, and toffieet our portion of those attending
its future maintenance. It will appear by the pro
ceedings of the commissioners that their due propor- -
tions of the expenses already incurred are to be re
funded by the States on whose account they were
made. It is just to say that, Mr. Wills has dis
charged his delicate and important duties with fideli
ty and to my entire satisfaction.
THE P.AMILIES AND ORPHANS OP SOLDIERS.
The act for the relief of families of volunteers in
service may require some revision. It is alleged
that in some parte of the State the county authori
ties are backward in executing the law. If this be
so, the members from the different counties will be
.ects Are of-thalast, and will be most 4 reakdy to make
such further enactments at may be proper.
. I commend to the prompt attention of the Legis
lature the subject of the relief of poor orphans of
our soldiers who have given or shall give, their
lives to the country during this crisis. In my opts
ion, their maintenance and education should be pro
vided for by the State. Palling other natural friends
of ability to provide for them, they should be honor
ably received and fostered as children of the Com
monwealth. The $60,000 heretofore given by the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, referred to in my
last annual message, Is still unappropriated, and I
recommend that this sum, with such other means as
the Legislature may think tit, be applied to this end,
in such manner as may be thought most expedient
and effective. In anticipation of the adoption of a
more perfect system, I recommend that provision be
made for securing the admission of such children
into existing educational establishments, to be there
clothed, nurtured, and instructed at the public ex
pense. I make this recommendation earnestly, feel
ing assured that in doing so, I represent the wishes
of the patriotic, the benevolent, and the good of the
State.
APPEAL FOR THE SURPEALNO PnOpLu op caLoT
I invite the attention of the Legislature to the
condition of the loyal people of East Tennessee,
which is represented to be most deplorable, and ap
peals with irresistible force alike to your sympathies
and your sense of justice. Their whole country has
been laid waste by the contending armies of the Go
vernment and the rebels. Four times have large
armies passed over that district, destroying or oar.
tying off all that had been gathered for the approach
ing winter, and now the women and children are left
in a state of destitution.
The representations made by sundry gentlemen
of the highest respectability, from that State,
are of the most heart-rending character. Starva
tion, actual and present, now exists. Can we, in the
midst of affluent abundance, for-a moment hone%
as to what our action shall. be towards the people
whose only crime hatbeen their loyalty and dem
tion to the Government ? Even if a portion of our
charity should reach the nerving families of those
in sympathy with the rebellion, better it should
than that these devoted, self-sacrificing people who
have so unhesitatingly adhered to the Government
be left to suffer. Whenever pestilence and famine
distressed the people of any portion of our country,
we have always been foremost in relieving them,
and the people of Pennsylvania have extended their
Open-handed benevolence and broad charity to the
starving people of foreign countries. *hall it be
said that the appeals of thew people for bread fall
upon the heart of Pennsylvania in vain, and that
we, who have so recently—g.iven thanks for our
abundance, have no relief for in their extremi
ties t I commend the subject through you to the
people of the State, as worthy the immediate atten
tion and active exertions of the charitable and the
liberal.
RECOMMENDED REVISION OP REVENUE LAWS—TAX.
ATION OT RAILROAD mogoror,res, ETC.
I should be glad if the LegiaNture would make a
general revision of our revenue laws with a view
I
to their increased productiveness. t ought to be
I , observed that, for a period of more than twenty
years, no material change has been made in the re
venue laws of this Commonwealth. During that
time some interests have grown into new import•
ance, and !should be made to bear their just proper
tion of the public expense., since all taxation should,
as far as possible, press equably upon the property
and emplosments of our people.
Failing such revision, I recommend to the conside
ration of the Legislature the following suggestions
connected with the subject:
1. There are several companies in the State which,
in addition to large mining privileges, have the
control of the routes of transportation, by which
alone the products of the mines of individuals in
their respective districts can reach a market. These
companies thus enjoy substantial monopolies, by
means of which they not only receive the fair profits
of their own property, but are enabled to make ad
ditional heavy gains at the expense of individual..
In my opinion such privileges ought never to have
been granted, but as they exist, it appears to be just
that the class of companies which enjoy them should
pay therefor anadditionitl specific tax.
2. Very large sums are due to the Commonwealth
for unpatented lands. Forbearance, clemency, and
liberality have been in vain tried in the numerous
attempts to procure the payment of at least a part
of this debt, from the larger portion of those who
are indebted on that account. The continuance of
this state of affairs is unjust to the Commonwealth
and to the vast majority of her people who have
honestly paid for their lands. It has become un
endurable. I recommend that the Legielature pro
vide that the Burveyor-General shall — file of record
in the office of the Court of Common Pleas of cash
county, a description of the lands subject to the lien
of the Commonwealth for :purchase money, and a
statement of the amount dr principal and interest
now due to the Commonwealth, together with the
patent fees on each tract, and ten per cent.
on the amount so due for the labor and
coat of making and filing such statement,
and the aggregate amount thus stated, for each
tract, shall be held to be the amount now due
thereon to the. Commonwealth, which shall bear
interest at the rate of twelve per cent. per annum,
till paid, and shall continue to be the first lien on
the land till paid, and shall not be divested by any
judicial or other sale whatever. I also recommend
the adoption of a suggestion contained in the Sur
veyor General's report,that a specific tax be laid on
all unpatented lands.
3. By existing laws, municipal corporations are
to deduct and pay into the treasury the tax on all
loans contracted by them. It is believed that a
large addition would' accrue to the revenue by the
extension of this provision to all counties and to
all corporations, private or public.
I recommend that it be so extended.
4. A tax on the gross receipts of all railroad and
canal companies would, it is believed, be produc
tive and not oppressive.
Upon satisfactory reports, acoording to late, made
by Colonel John A. Wright, I have drawn my war.
rants for the delivery to the Philadelphia and Erie
Railroad Company or another million of the bonds
deposited in the State treasury. Four millions of
said bonds have therefore been now delivered. There
can be no reasonable doubt of the early completion
of the work, and. when completed, it is confidently
expected that the bonds held by the State, secured
on the road for $ 3 , 500 , 00 0, Will become good interest.
paying sectilitieS.
i refer to the Auditor General's and State Tree
aurer's reports for the Walla of our financial affairs.
and the reports of the Surveyor General, Militant
General, Quartermaster General, Surgeon General.
Agent at Washington, Chief of Transportation and
Telegraph Department, and Superintendent of Com
mon Schools, in regard to their several departments.
THU INVASION OF THE STATE—A 1110NII313OPT TO
/a May last it was believed from information re.
ceived that General Lee intended to invade this
State. Communications on the subject were imme.
dietely sent to Washington, urging thatpreparatione
for effective defence Should not . be delayed. lice
Cordingly the War Department erected two new mill.
tary departments, The Pepartment S t ate
- Monongahela, inel that portion of the
lying west of the :noun to be commanded by
MQor, General Brooks and .the Department of the
Susquehanna, comp:being, the remainder of the
State. and to be commanded by Major Genera
430110 h.
Early in .Tune, Meier General Vouch Mini at
ISM/IVAIN MN ROMAN agalliansl of tiffi acid*
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went, Which be has since exercised with the sealer,
Ides promptness, energy, and discretion which were
tooeepected From his known oharaeter.
e rebehr having actually entered the State Mr
some force, and the approach of their whole array
being imminent, the President made a requhlttost
Ns militia from ibis' and some of the neighbor/or
S ales. and several regiments from New York aria
NOW •it [ 'IMP were promptly sent, and our own noun
her militia began to assemble ;
ra t e d OM embarrass,-
merits Issisin i t. the President assetd to a call kora
Paecubve o the State which Was aoaordingly made
Unde r t hese calla 5 ,16e:0f the men of Pennsylvania
were assembled in the department of Gen. Brooker,
and 31,422 in that of Gen. Couch. To give the de.
tails, or even a summary of the operation. whir*
ensued, would be impracticable within the Matte Of
this metsage. It is unnecessary to do So, as
have recommended the adoption of measereeTor pea
serving the history of our several regiment/ and
other organizations, and in that history the mute
to which I have referred will be recorded et is du%
however, to the men who came forwerd, that
should say now that they made long and leberieest
marches In parts of this! and . other States which had
been plundered by the rebels, suffered great pave.
tiens, and were frequently in conflict with the
enemy ; and on all occasions acted in obedience to
military discipline and orders, and with courage and
endurance.
Some of the militia called in 1862, and in tee,
were killed, and others disabled. In all these asses,
where there are no laws for the relief of these men
or their families, I recommend the enactment of a
law for that purpose. •
The campaign on our soli was closed by the vie.
tory of Gettysburg, gained by the veteran Army of
the Potomac, under the command of Major General
Meade, the officers and men of which displayed 01i
their accustomed valor and endurance in the confliall.
and in the forced and rapid marchers Which Imam&
ate* preceded it.
-Under Ririe* Providence, to them end. ee the me.
litary 'otitis end unsurpassed energy of Gen. Meade,
and the promptness and self. sacrificing gallantry elf
Gen, Reynolds, .we are indebted for maces* On that
bloody, field.
We are proud to claim Generals Meade and Rey.
nolds as sons of our own Pennsylvania. The first
lives to enjoy the most precious of all rewards, the
grateful apps eoietion of his countrymen. The latter
fell in the very front of the battle, and we can only
pay homage to his memory. Whatever honors haver
been at any time devised to commemorate the vim
toes of a patriot—of a true, fearless, loyal - anise*
and soloier—he has abundantly deserved. His sue,
viving companions-hear= claim the right of theme
selves erecting a monument to him on the field oaf
which he fell, and it would not be well to interfere
with their pious intention, But I hope that the
Legislature will place upon the records of the State
some appropriate testimony of the public gratitude
to hint and his surviving commander.
MILITIA LAWB—REGIMENTA.L HISTORY.
I renew, most earnestly, the recommendathel
made in my last annual message, of a revision of the
militia laws. They are at present shamefully debts.
tive. Indeed, if by a militia law is meant a law ice
tended to provide for so enrollingand organizing the
military force of the State that it may bel put int*
service when required, we may be said to have ne
militia law. In each of the last two years i have
been obliged to call out the militia, but in fret those
who obeyed the call were volunteers. and, with some
exceptions, were wholly unorganized, so that, alm
moat in the face of the enemy, time had to be eon.
stoned in distributing the men into companies and
regiments, in electing officers, and in other prepare,
floes for effective organization,
In the report of the Adjutant. General will be
found a list of the Pennsylvania regiments and a ,
statement showing the several armies and depart
ments in which they are now serving. In this con.
motion, I suggest the propriety of legislative au
thority being given for toe preparation of a history
of each of our regiments and other organization's,
to be preserved among our archive'. The necessary
documents are now accessible, and as they may in
time be lost or destroyed, the making of such a re
cord as I propose should not be deferred. It is due
alike to the living and the dead that this subject
should be promptly acted on.
SOLDIERS' RIGHT TO VOTE CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENT.
I recommend that the proposed amendments to
the Constitution, giileg to, citizens in the public
service out of the state, the right to vote, be passed
promptly and submitted to a vote of the people at
as early P. day as possible, so that suck citizens may
exercise their right of suffrege at all future elections.
This would be only doing Justice to the brave wee
who are periling their lives in our defence.
VOLUNTEER ENLISTMENTS.
It is highly important that we should replenish
the ranks of our regiments in the field and Supply
the places of those volunteers whose terms will Nom
expire and who may decline further service.. I am.
happy to say that a large proportion of our regi
ments are reenlieting. Mints are making by my
self and by the people in various portions of the
State to procure a sufficient number of volunteers,
and with a promise of success, provided a reasonable
time be allowed for the purpose. Meanwhile per
sons professing to be offieers and agents from some
other State. are most improperly endeavoring to ea
duce our citizens into their service by extravagant
bounties and premixes.
The 12th section of the act of 15th May , 1861, pro.
titbits any volunteers from leaving the State with
out the authority of the Governor, and I now re
commend the passage of a law imposing penalties
by fine and imprisonment on all individuals Who
shall endeavor to procure or aid and assist in procu
ring any person in this State to enlist in the volun
teer service of any other State. Many of our coun
ties and townships have filled their quotas at a large
expenseeand in others they are in course of doing
the same by offers of liberal bounties and provisions
for the families of volunteers, and it is not right
that these patriotic efforts should be embarrassed by
interference from beyond our borders, especially as
we cannot, in these circumstances, offer bounties' by
the MOUT, WIVaIOtIVVIII3 tolustide of compelling sae
counties and townships, which have already con•
tributed largely in that way, to twist in paying, by
taxation, for the deficiency of others.
HUDDLING BILLS THROUGH THE LEGISLATURE.
I feel it to be my duty to call your attention to the
pernicious practice' leaving many bills to be
hurried through at th close of the session.- During
the last ten days of the last session, 390 bills were
presented foamy signature, many of them of the
most important character. The whole number of
bill presented to me during the session was 715.
In consequence of this habit, not only are bills
passed without an opportunity to either House for
a proper consideration of their provisions, but the
'Executive is compelled either to sign them with
out examination, or to hold them over perhaps
to the public inconvenience. It may often happen
that a bill not approved by reason of a single
obnoxious clause, might, if there were time, be re
passed, omitting the objectionable provision. In
connection with the subject of legislation, I must
refer to another mischief. General laws have been
passed to give relief in certain cases which formerly
required a special act In each case. As, for instanc e .
the sale of lands by executors, administrator!, and
trustees, the adoption of children, the creation of
mining and manufacturing corporations, and so
forth. These laws were passed to insure such an
examination in each case as would enable justice to
be done to the parties and to the public, and also to
save the time and expense consumed in private leglio.
lation. They have hitherto effected neither purpose,
but Ido seriously urge on the Legislature the con
sideration that whoever applies for a special act un
der such circumstances must either fear the result
of an impartial inquiry, or (if the application be for
a charter) must desire the omission or insertion of
some provision contrary to what the Legislature
has determined, after mature consideration, to be
just and legitimate.
THE DEVOTION OP PENNSYLVANIA.
- It would be unjust to omit referring again to the
loyal spirit of our people, which has been evinced
in every mode since this war commenced. Not only
have they sent 277,409 men for the general and ape.
-dal service of the Government, and supported with
cheerfulness the burdens of taxation, but our storm
houses and depots have literally overflowed with
comforts and necessaries, spontaneously contributed
by them, under the active care of thousands of our
women (faithful unto death), for the sink and wound
ed prisoners, as well as for our armies in the field.
Their patriotic benevolence seems to be inexhausti
ble. To every new call, the responsebeeomes more
and more liberal. When intelligence was received
of the barbarian starvation of our prisoners in
Richmond, the garners of the whole State were in-.
stantly thrown open, and before any similar move
went had been made elsewhere, I was already em
ployed on behalf of our people in efforts to secure
the admission through the rebel lines of the abun
dant supplies provided for the relief of our suffering
brethren; Those of our citizens who have fallen
into the habit of - disparaging our great Common
wealth, and the unsurpassed efforts of her people,
should blush when they look on this picture.
OUR CAUSE.
That this unnatural rebellion may be speedily
and effectually crushed, we lie—all—under the obli
gation of the one paramount duty—that of vigorously
supporting our Government in its measures to that
end. To the full extent of my official and individual
ability it shall be so supported, and I rely heartily on
your MeeperatiOn. I am ready for all proper measures
to strengthen its arms; to encourage its upholders; to
stimulate by public liberality, to themselves and
their families, the men who give to it their rogional
service—in every mode to invigorate its arnica" We
are fighting the great battle of GO, of truth, of
right, of liberty. The Almighty has no attribute
that can favor our savage and dege nerate enemies.
No people can submit to territoria ldismemberment
without becoming contemptible in its own eyes
and in those of the world. But it is not only against
territorial dismembermee t that we are struggling,but
against the destruction of the very ground-work of
our whole political system. rho ultimate question
truly at issue is the possibility of the permanent
existence of a powerful Republic. That is the quo
tion to be now solved, and, by the blessing of God,
we mean that it shall not be our fault if it be not
solved favorably.
We have, during the past year, made mighty
strides toward such a solution, and to all human
appearance, we approach its dompletion But
whatever reverses may happen—whatever blood
and treasure may still be required—whatever salmi
flees may be necessary—there will remain the inex
orable determination of our people to fight out this
thing to the end—to preserve and perpetuate this
Union. They have sworn that not one star shall be
reft from the constellation, nor its clustered bright
ness be dimmed by treason and savagery, and they
will keep their oath. A G. taiRrEN.
TILE SUFFERINGS 1N EAST TENNESSEE.—
The following correspondence will explain itself.
Colonel Taylor is now among us
PHILADICLPHIA, January 7,1864.
To the Citizens of Philadelphia :
Having served in the Thirty , fourth Congress wilts
Colonel N. a. Taylor, or East Tennessee, now on
visit to the North to obtain relief for the suffering
people of East Tennessee, and believing him to be a
man of integrity and character, I commend him to
your kind consideration, and hope he may be suc
cessful in his mission.
With respect,
CALCUTTA IN DANGBIL—An English paper mays:
it is possible, even probable, that before the new
year begins, the telegram may announce that Cal
cutta, the single trading port of Bengal having di
rect communication with the sea, is fuel:mailable to
any ship over six hundred tone, that hp, to any ship .
not greatly below the average of those employed in
the trade." • The river Hooghly, which connecta Cal
cutta with the sea, bring, down with it, at the min
ion of the floods, an enormous volume of sand,
which forms bars, obstructing navigation. Several
channels at the mouth of the river have already
been rendered impassable by these bars, and now the
only remaining channel is rapidly filling up.
nix negro mutiny at Fort Jackson, N. 0., it now
appears occurred in consequence of Lieutenant
Coloneetienedict in a flt of passion, beating, With a
teamster's whip, ten negroes , who gave a fain re.
port that they had been permitted by the officer of
the guarl to wander from the 'lmp. The drum
major took up the quarrel soon MO, and towards
evening the camp became a smile of wild confusion.
A nnmer of theta were fired at the officers' quar
ters, and the camp remained all 'tight In the hands
of the mutineers. Tile next day moral power pre.
veiled over brute force, the ti etai returned to their
were arrested. Several of
duty and the ringleaders
the rioters have been sentenced to be executed, and
Colonel Benedict is being tried for his conduct by
the same court martial that condemned the 'legroom.
TEE value 'Areal and personal iproperty in Cali
fornia, amardhito the message of Goyemor Low ,
amounts to $ll 000,000. The rate of to ion 92
cents on OM. he expenditures for the tlsoal year
were $2,087,288 29, in which amount are included
1i9004 0 00 previously aeerued t and $247,446.41 pahl
the united. States, GO the Sfate's quota of direst tat
levied) by Congress.. The reoelpts into the State
treaanyy during the MlMSperiod were liteete9feg6.
On the Ist DeOeMber, 1069, the total debt Was illar
609,665.07, wine N alecluenao or 571P 1 141109 4U11.04
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SORIT ROBBINS