TIDE pzuE!ises, rIYBLIIIIIED WILT (obeire Exon-raD) BY JOHN W. FORNEY. 011102, No. 111 SOUTH FOURTH STREET. THE Diumy paNss, eriZZESE VENTS PER WityK, payable to the carriers Mae& to liabseribere (Mt of the ally at Smut D01.14.es ran Apvint; 'DEB DOLLAREI AND FIFTY CENTS ape SEG 8RONT115: .011 E -DOLLAR AND SzoANTY- FWD CREW WOE in advance for the qme om, QENTLEMEN'S WRAPPERS, SCARFS, TZ IDS, leiUFF][.ERt3. c~LOVF~9, EDIBROIDERELI SIISPKNDERA O . OIEIN C. AILRIBON'S, . ari d 3 NORTH SIXTHOTRENT. dels-t[ KOLIDAY PRESENTS. A JACOB BARLEY, fEneeersor to Stauffer & Harley.) No. -822 MARKET STREET, Hu now on hvd sp r oanti 3 ll Stol ir of -• SILVER ANTritLATRD WARR. NOTABLE TOR lOLIDAY PRESENTS. tam= ATENT SKATING CHAIRS CARVED MUD PLATY& ritaNTALGic EUUE FLUTING IKONS. - PATENT STEAT. sKATEs. a n•w article. PAPIER MACRE CRBEIS -TABLES AND TEA POTS, WILLIAM YARNALL'S noras-ruinsmito mu. No. 10%0 CHIP3TNTIT Week dellif (Oomosite the Academv of Pine ATM). SXATEt . 3--FOR ILADIES, GENTS; AND BOYS. The beet Assortment in the cur LT BURNHAM'S DEPOT OF TH3 lINIVILESAL WRINGER. E 7 South SIXTH Street. Termed/ at TA CHESTNUT Street. Manor& Ran delo-Ime AY PRESENTS FOB MEN N%—.lt muntieent assortment of the rarest Waif PIES. SCARF-RINGS. MUFFLERS. THERREULAS, Opethg It ;ERT SHOEMAKER & CO., ortheast Corner of FOURTH and RACE Streets, sin yr as .) tLellel (=Jo Pizig IMPORTERS ADD DEALERS IN FOREIGN AND DOXESTIO WINDOW AND PLATE GLASS. IiANTJFACTUBBES Or LIAD AND ZINC PAINTS. PUTTY. Ste AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED FRENCH ZINC PAINTS. and consumers ,lied -' NET OASH DRUG HOUSE. WRIGHT & SIDDATAI4 No. 118 =BRET STREET, Between PRO= and SECOND Streets. DRUGGISTS, PHYSICIANS, .AND GE NERAL STOREEREF'ERS Can find at our establishment a fan assortment of Imported and Domestic Drugs_, Popular Pa s tent Medicines, Paints, Coal 011, Window Olass, Prescription• Vials. etc.. at as low prices as genu ine, first- els= goods can be sold. FINE ESSENTIAL OILS Sox Confectioner& In fall variety, and of the beet quality. Cochineal, Bengal Indigo, Madder, Pot Ash , Cuabear. Soda Ash, off m, Oil of Vitriol. Ama to. ,Coppetas, Extract Logwood, Vit riol , FOR DYERS , USE, always on head at lowest net cash prices. SULPHITE OP LIME, cooing eider sweet: a Perfectly harmless pre. 'ion. put 12P. with fall directions for use. he les containing sufficient for one barrel. aen by mail or city post will meet with A apt attentio re q u e sted rocial a.uotations will be 'Plated wits," . WRIGHT St. SIDDLLL, WHOLESALE DRUG WAREHOUSE. .OVAL.—JOHN C. BAKER, gesale Druggist. has removed to 713 MARKET Particular attention is asked to JOllll C. B A. O. 'S COD-LWEB OIL. Having increased faci this new establishment for manufacturing and .ag. and the avails of fifteen years' experience in usiness. this brand of Oil has advantages over all s, and recommenC a itself. Constant surplies are id from the fisheries, fresh, pure, and sweet, and the moat careful personal attention of she origi roprietor. The increasing demand and wide-spread t for it make its figures low, and afford great ad c for those buying in large quantities. a DISOOVISKT 1 111111111 AND TAIIVABLI DISCOVISIN ! HILTON'S INSOLITI3LE OEXIINT Is of more general practical Walt, than any invention stow bettor* the Yablla Ithaebeen tliorosiblY tut. ed dining the last two years by pnwithed mezi, ll anto d be prononneed bg a apio to ho otoi•Ana Adhody. preparation knowN. HILTON% INSOLTIBLE ORM? Is t new thing, and the remit 01 sass of cOmbinalion LI oR ► NM Thing 5, IB]tTITIO YEINCEPLAL Ana under no oirontwstansto Or sham or tomporstore. will it bo soms 'envoi or emit wry offanalvo ComblastloL BOOT AND SHOE Soot and Shoo Sitslifastoreso. Nernifeeturers. wing Meshinor. willind It the best article know* for uementlng the Channels as It works without delay. not afresh( by atm ebatute of temperature. dat►ala:a JEWELERS Will lind It enfilcientlindhesivo for their rule, as has been wooed. jrit "JS ItliPP.OraLT ADAPTED . TO LBATEI.B.. ItsatUtst. Ana we slabs as an escoeialsnete, that it sticks Ps.tehes sad Llnitkio to Itoots and Shoes sniSsiently strong without stitching. tra Moat -LIQUID 0 EMENT adapt, that is anding sure thing for me PirE c Ull it a y. TOM Bolt& WORM And aztielee of Heatehold WPM 13,EMEMBER, Milton's Ltsolable &men' te in a liquid form. and so sully applied as pasha HILTON'S INSOLUBLIWTI la Insoluble In water or 011. HILTON% rarsorarna Adheres oily snisstanom thorkid. in Family or Namfasts pueuiges from 2 mums to 100 ILTLTON BROS. a Co., mete Philladelph&L - LAIN& & ROME VARIETY OF ABOVE ,supertor quaitty. and at moderate prices. -• on band. FARE & BROTHER. Importers. OHIU3THUT Street. below Fourth. aLE—A VALUABLE is acres, on the Bethlehem turnpike, . I s* county, Pennsylvania 18 mSess from the , from the Station on the North Pennsylvavda mown as the " Wager Farm" TheimProve• large and commodious. consisting of a stone tenant-house stone barn, stabling for forty of cattle, carriage house, wagon , house, gra. Uni B9 . 4 kv- A good apple orchard, peach er a variety of alt kinds of paw trees and other 'ism is =der a good fence. divided into em end well watered by three streams. The • to the mansion is ornamented with rows The mansion is surrounded with shade twentY acres are in valuable timber. and iteen acres first-rate meadow. The ferns tared by sparing. wells, and gutining streams. km isdesirable: very healtEy , convenient to gehOO/st lee. The neighborhood is good, and , nts 'sociable. It is well worthy the attention to desire to buy,as it is a eltenn and nod farm. homestead. and is sold by order of __Ralterroni: xs .IWII7IIZE-k__ =NUE MEAT' 'J AM lIILAII.BELWAIIttnum. W HA ARPFERS. NDKERCHIEF& GLOVES SIISPFADERB CARRIAGE ktrGs, &c., J. W. 814 CHKSTP""'" below the. •- 'C'BB FOR CkBH. H. SIEDDALL. Street. above FRONT. lOPIRIOR TO ANT IT MTH% ONLT Proprieton. PROVIDESIML 1. 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Mazarine Bine Cloths. coma early, ee our present purchase now ta& la CIVIL LIST. Black Clothe. Black Doeskins. Black Cassimerea. Elegant , Coatings. Billiard Cloths. Bagatelle Cloths. Trimmings. Beaverteemi. Cords and Velveteens. We advise our friends to stock is cheaper than we c BLANKETS. From a 3 to BD- and every intermediate price. Is 9, $lO, $l2, and $lll Blankets are very desirable. PdIDILINS., By the yard or piece, of all the well-known makes. Bay them now for comin_e wants, and save dollars. FLANNELS. Whites, from 45c: to Bic Beds, from 46 to 75 eta Grays, from 60 to 76 ots. ; Blues, from 00 to 70 ate. Fancy 6.4 Bhirtings; Pasqua Flannels, &a. DAMASKS. Damask Tails Cloths. Napkins. and Towels. Toweling& Nursery Diapers. Tickinge. PI NTS. American. Merrimack, &c, figures and stripes. Neat shirting prints: Real Manchester gingham, 60s. BALKORALS. Mildewed Balmoral& St 60; Farhat Balmoral!. Mr. Fine Balmoral!. ItatO and s4.silk Misses' Balmoral& GOPBR. & Goa Ann. S. B. corner NINTH and MARKS?, VERY SUPERIOR QUALITY WHITE CORDED SILK Plain White. Blue, and Pink Paull de Soiem. Very heavy quality Black Corded Silks. • Plain Black Yoult de Soles Browne, Bluer, Purples. Wines and Green Silks. Superior quality Plain Black MAL Black figured Silks. grown. Blue. and Mode Fisured Silks. - Black Armures, &c. EDWIN HALL & CO. ja7-ti SC South SICOND.Strek STEEL Sr SON WOULD OALL • attend= to their Stock of FLU DRESS GOOD all bought at very low prices. earlyin the season. and at the recent Auction Sales: Trench Kerinom 75e to Si 51 Trench Poplins and were, 81%e to In S. Drees Goods of every variety. 20s to SI 3,000 Bards two Bard setae iferinom. IL 91 Blanket Shawls. a zreat variety of etyles to SS.26 to PA Broche Shawls. great bargains. Sam tol4. Circulars and Samuels, of all hinds of 0 ths. at lo* Fancy Silks. $1 to 36. rial.n Poll de Soles. $L 26 to S 2 50. Moire Antiques and (lorded 131110,1 60 to _o6_,_ 7108. 113 and ni orth TLET3 Sk. 1 Lot All-wool Shaker Flannels. Fl s. worth Me moll SPECIALLY INTERESTING I EIGHT/I AND SPRING GARDEN. USEPIIL PRESENTS I Superb Long BroehS Shawls. Beautiful Long Blanket Shawls. Excellent Long Black Thibet Shawls. Gehtlemen's heavy. warm Shawls. Nines' gay, pretty Shaw/r. Children's School Shawls. die., in great variety and very rheasl_,___ .At ITIORNLEY & CHISWB, Corner of EIGHTH and SPRING GARDE,. WARM GOODS FOR WINTER. LARGE. SOFT, WOOL BLANKBTd. Good Flannels, Shaker, Welsh, Ballardvele. Quilts. Crib Blankets, and Cradle Blankets. Heavy Velvet, Beaver Cloths. Black Beavers. &c A. splendid stock of Caselmeres, &c.. At THORNLEY CHISM'S. DRESS GOODS AND SILKS. Beautiful French Poplins. silk and wool. BeanWp Poplins, all wool. Bean ore in French MerinoBl3. Bastall ile-rdaid all-wool Cashmeres. Beautiful figured all-wool Delatries. Beautifulquality' in plain Delainee. . Excellent Black Silks. Plain Silks. Flawed Silks. Fancy Silks, &o, With a great variety of general Dress Goods , At THORNLEY & CHISM'S, Corner of EIGHTH and SPRING GARDEN STAPLE GOODS. A fine stock of Chintzes and Calicoes, Cheap Delaines and Gingham. Bleached and Unbleached Muslin& Table Linens. Towels, Crashes, Diapers. a.. Striped andplaid Shirting Flannels. Bed, gray, blue, heavy ShlrtingFlannels. At THORNLEY CHISAVS. BALMORAL SKIRTS, &c. A large stock of Balmoral!. Linen Mids.. Ladles' and Gentlemen's. -Gents' Silk Rafe., great variety. &c. AT THE OLD-EITTABLISHED DRY-00 ' Ds STORE OF THORNLF-Y & CHISM, aoll-Ito N. E. Vora :METE and SPRING GAB.DZA. c - i[firt , i;io.lll44o:44.yi E. M. NEEDLES. 1024 CHESTNUT STREET. Invites' attentionto his extensive assortment of goods suitable for =WM AND ACCETTABLI HOLIDAY PRESENTS, IN LAO) MIMI. HANDKERCHIEFS. EMBROIDERIES, VEIIB. AND WHIT) dOODS. ll*. t0d:C4:1.4. i'44,441:4A,04 JOHN H. STOKES, 702 ABOH .g" maw. would call the attention of the ladle/ to his humane") stock of DRUM GOODS. most of which has been reduced for HOLIDAY PRESENTS, consisting of French Merinoes. Figured Gantlet Cloths, Wool and Tian Cotton Detainee. Firarail and Striped Mohatri. ft. Oak Merinos& Wool Pibids. Plaid HMS Goods, 00. atm dee-1X COMMISSION MOIISMS. NOTICE TO GRAIN DPI A T.WRR AND BBIPPIXS. 10,000 UNION A, easzLEss BAGS, LIAIDA. welight 20 onnisk The Nest sad Chosped Bat Ix the zasstd. ALSO. BURLAP BAGS, at :usu.% for Corn, Oats, Bone-dust. Ootes, 11.. are Illataufastared and for We, for net each. br CEIABLEB U. 43111.0121, AVMs No. 137 XABEIT Street (Sesoad Mery). eel Late of ;18 Cilkureb. Ram HIPLET, HAZARD, & MITOHIN. *- 1 sox, So. LIS critsgrivr mow. COMMISSION MERCHANTS% 701 TSB SAL) 07 PHILADELPHIA MADE GOODS. es2o-8s BAGS I BASSI BAGS I NEW AND IMO OPTD ELAND, BURLAP. AND QOM BAGS. Oonibular on band. SOHN T. BAILEY & ne. us ROOTH MONT ifflUEn. OW. WOOL 1110131 PDX HAM anW4in GRIMM IPURNISHING GOODS, GEORGE CißAN'ri No. 010 ONISNINT lINZNITI ■M sow road, A LANGE AND CONPLNIN STOCK 07 GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS, Of kis Von imnortation and mannikatuss. His selebratsd PRIZE MEDAL BRUITS," ismituitared ender the sererinteadehee of JOHN P. TAGGIET. Ifflormerly of Mantle= & Twat/ mod perforteltting Bblrte of the sm. NW Orden promptly *Undo! to. 1713-thatilmi' R E 0V A lAINFOXIS) I.IITRZEMTS HAD REMOVED. No: 81 BOTrili n akrit STREET, N. W. COME BMW AND CRIATNNI wagi yhpi p ho s tuwa T ersit Tosur BEETS' FURNISHING -EKK)Da I liabradar all the wort Emilie& • PRICER MODERATE. =The. Attention of She Mille L rOMPlDeffall w- BRIM KARL TO eel-!n auIDIEW PUKS. LADIES' NANCY FURS. JOIN NIALICECIIZZA., I. ins MOH nun. snow worm DaMtn' and ,1111anufacturar LADIES' FANCY FURS. 11,satortaeat of PALMY TM for UAW am al‘ll - U aow eoraelete, aad earbradaz ovary mists' that sal bo fsaldrokatle Aartos the mood sealant All soli ft ea inanufastarars' nisei, for sash. Latta, Awe Ave se a aatl. es74sa F URS! FURS! 111101t4illt Fe WOBIRAIR, WOO. MA Milt 4117 AEON Eintirr. zu WOW Or= A FULL ASSORTMENT LADIES' N'171118• whisk the atteathet of the Mille fr itlrit.i. adtr-!s - MOTMILE. JONES HOUSE, HARRISBURG, OHAS. fL MANN, ddS-bn PROPRIETOR. Eortur KARIM Street awl KAMM Sawa LATOUR OIL.--500 - • RMEOCIfiTSHjak- T01:18 OLWIOIL. INN for Nab br. O HS &La id 4931.4 Z 11011 oal %et South FRO= gust. Good Time Now to Buy * Winter, Clothing. Good Time Now to Buy Winter Clothing. ' Good Tiros Now to Buy Winter Clothing. Good Time Now to Buy Winter Clothing. Good Time Now to Buy Winter Clothing. Good Time Now to Buy Winter Clothing. Good Time Now to Buy Winter Clothing. Good Time Now to Buy Winter Clothing. Overcoats $lO and upwards. Overcoats 810 and upwards. Overcoats 810 and upwards. Overcoats 810 and upwards. Overcoatslo and upwards. Overcoats 19 and upwards. i Overcoats 10 and-upward& • Overooats tO and upwards. Overcoats 830 and downwards.' Overcoats 3 and downwards. ' Overcoatsand downwards. Overcoats $8 0 0 and downwards. Overcoats 830 and downwards. Overcoatsr o and downwards. Overcoats - and downwards. Overcoats Overcoats 30 and downwards. ' Suite 4114 and upward& Suits 8 4 and upwards. Suitsl4 and upwards. Suits $ l4 and upwards. Suits 14 and upwards. ' Saltsll4 and upwards. gaits 14 and nawsrd& Snits 14 and upwards. Soldiers - Bay at Reduced Prices at Oak Hall. Soldiers Bny at Reduced Prices at Oak Hall. Soldiers Buy at Reduced Prices at Oak Ball. Soldiers Buy at Reduced Prim at Oak Hall. Solders Buy, at Reduced Prices at Oak Hall. Soldiers Bay at Reduced Prices at Oak Hall. Soriters Buy at Reduced Prices at-Oak 11411. ldiers Buy at Radioed Prices at Oak ball. WANAMAKER & BROW N'S. "Oak Hall,' Popular Clothing Holum, it Corner SIXTH amid MARKET Streets. COMMERVEArr-VOLLEOE. A FORTUNE IN AN EDUCATION. Important to Parents and Guardians. A HINT TO ASPIRING YOUNG MEN. BRYANT. STRATTON, Cc CO.'S NATIONAL COMMEROM COLIARGE, S. B. comma OF SET:ENTH AND CHESTNUT Sts MN IMPORTANT LINE IN THE INTERNATIONAL MIN OF COMMERCIAL COMMONS.. ESTABLISHED IN THE FOLLOWING CITIES: NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA. BROOKLYN, NEW ARK. PROVIDENCE, PORTLAND. HARTFORD. ALBANY. TROY, ROCHEbTER ‘ BUFFALO. BUR LINGTON, TORONTO. CLEVELAND. DETROIT. CHICAGO. MILWAUKEE, AND BT. LOUIE. SCHOLARSHIPS Issued at one point good for an unlimited pfriod in the Eighteen Colleges comprising the " Chain:l The point aimed at in this institution is to place com mercial education where it belongs in thefront rank of useful instruction. To this end a most thorough course of business training is adopted, and carefully enforced, under the personal supervision of competent Professors in the various departments. The most perfect system of practical training ever devised has been pat in opera. Hon, and is successfully carried out, affording to stn dents advantages such as have hitherto been considered Possible only in connection with the counting-house. TESTIMONIAL. PHILADELPHIA, December 21.1863. We. the undersigned, citizens of Philadelphia, appre ciating the inestimable benefits to be secured to young men from thorough instruction in branches which spe cially pet tau to the Counting room, and which may be said to constitute a business man's education, take plea sure in commending to the favorable consideration of the public Messrs. STRATTON & CO. 'S COMMERCIAL COLLEGE, Southeast corner of SEVENTH and CHEST NDT Streets. 'Under its present management, this In stitution has exhibited an eincieney_ in commercial in struction which we believe fully prepare OM graduates _ -se meet successfully both,-Mte t duties Oriae vuunuwa-ruvia, ass We have no hesitation in saying that , any young man who desiresto qualify himself for ti successful business career. would find the instruction' of this Institution a good stepping-stone to success, and of great benefit through life. HON. ALEXANDER HENRY. HON. JOHN H. CAMPBELL. ALEXANDER G. CATTELL. EDWIN N. LIMN. J. W. TORREY, JAY COORS & CO.. DR.ExEL & CO.. El moHICHLEL. WILLIAM W. HARDING. • GLOSSBRENNER & WELSH. JOHN B. MYERS, •GBORGE W. CHILDS. JOSEPH R. BOLTON, • MORRIS L. HALLOWELL. - SAMUEL BOLTON & CO.. CHARLES VEZIN. B. H. STEWART. WEST & PORES. BROOKS. BROTHER & CO.. NICHOLAS H. MASHIES, Principal Central High School. P. A. CBEGAB, Principal Girls' High and Nor mal School. GILBERT COMBS. Principal Spring Garden Insti tute for Young Ladies, AMOS B. ERTEL General Agent Equitable Life Assurance Society. B Y. SHAW. Head Book-keeper for J. B. LIP PINCOTT & CO. WILLIAM L CORER, Head Book-keeper for MOR RIS, TASKER, & CO,. BARCLAY R. LEEDS, Head Book-keeper for • POWERS de WEIGHTSLAN. Schuylkill Falls TEXT BOORS The text books on BOOEREEPIRG. COMMERICAL Anirg =TlC and COMMERCIAL LAW—prepared expressly for the International Chain—need in this institution, are pro -3:101111024 bY competent critics to be the most thorough and reliable work on these subjects ever published. SPENOERIAN PENMANSHIP. The SPENCERIATI SYSTEM OF PRACTICAL PENMANSHIP is taught in this College by a gentleman trained by the author. Mr. P. B. Spencer. The value of a good hand- Writ's gin a business point of view can hardly be es timated. With proper training it is easy to be acquired. special attention is given not only to this. brit to all branches pertaining to a finished business edneation. NAMES SOLICITED To any friend of commercial education who will send ne iftYnames of such persons as may possibly awaits, Com mercial College. and will -distribute fifty of our College papers to the parties whose names are thus sent, we will remit. free of 'charge, " BRYANT -Mc STRATTON'S YEAR BOOK OF NATIONS"—a valuable statistical Work, prepared with great care by MEW BORRITT. and affording a fund [of important Information on COM mercial,Financial, Agricultural, Religions. Edueational, and l'hilanthroalc snidest's- COMMERCIAL COLLEGE MONTHLY The CoZtege ldfonthiy, containing full information to to the College and letters of commendation from leading men in different parts of the country; will be sent free to all who desire; the College Catalogue, Poster, and tinietmens of Business Writing, on receipt of three letter statue. - For - further informattork plows qU at Collage Rooms, or address BRYANT, STRATTON, &" TO HOUSEKEEPERS ' AND PER -A- was COMAIMOINO HOUSEKESPING. - A COMPLETE STOOL OF HOUSEKEEPING ARTICLES CAN BE OBTAINED AT 922 CHESTNUT STREET, 11 DOORS WENT OF THE CONTINENTAL HOTEL. JOHN RIETJELPHIECIr. del6-1m H. P. & C. R. TAYLOR, IMPORTERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF Tam SOAPS AND PERFUMERY, No. 61-1 North NINTH Strut piPOBTERP OF WINED AID LIQUOES LiAUMAN, SALLADE, & 00., 10. I*s SOUTH !gum STRUT, Between ehostaut and Walatit, Philadelphia. G. M. LAUMAN A- IL RAADU. 10104* .7. D. G. TOOL CHESTS. SMALL. MEDIUM, AND tARGE SIZE. ContiWag GOOD TOO Ll 3; For sale by IrESLEY & dells m*` 607 MAREST. 11.A.DIES , GENTLEMEN'S, AND CHILDICINiSSATES. Ia great variety. for Sale by talißY & CO., deli ha. 00 7 MARKET Street. STEEL SKATES.- A new and splendid article for sale by ESLEY at CO.. deliPlan* - 607 L KAMM Street. • PARLOR SKATES— For sale by 607 LES KA LEY RI St a M' CO.. reet. Al e 0 Piss Pea sad Pookst Knives, Table Ostlers. ago. dels- . Im* NEW DRIED APPLES.-100 new .Dirted APPles. sae bY MIIOMBS Si WILLIAMS, ' deffP , UM Wm% WATS% 1tr391,. PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1864. C4t ;lotus. SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1864 The vacancies in the government of the Catholic Church created bythe death of Archbishop Kenrick,. Of Baltimore, and Archbishop Hughes, of New York, bring to mind several distinguished names in teresting in this . connection. The high religious character and pitriotlsm of such eceledastice as Bishop Wood, of this city, Bishops Timon, of BuF, fah); Spaulding , of Kentucky, _Fitzpatrick, of Bos s ton, Bayley, of Newark, have favored their names in the public estimation without regard to creed.. We may add to these names that of Bishop Bose, crane, of Ohio, a brother of the distinguished gene ral, and, with Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati,' among the most earnest, thoughtful, and able men of the Catholic Church. Bishop whose patriotism at the very outset of the war, signalized his character as a leader and pastor, is heartily commended by the general press for one of the vacant sees. Bishop Wood, like Bishop Rose _crane, is an American and a convert to the Roman belief. These distinguished men would fill the two vacancies with great satisfaction to their Church. and to the consideration of those whose good feel- , lugs extend beyond • sect. While these views probably; have no_effecten the - appointment of the Sovereign Porififf, they are important as indica tions of a friendly interest which has supervened , the projhdice and exclusivenesii of past years, 'While we mark this with pleasure, we are disap pasted to read that the Catholic Herald vehemently urget the Catholics of this city to entirely abandon the publiosohoohi. The editor asks: "What.is to be done I Mow long will this shame and scandal be anffeied to continue? Will it go on unchecked in the future, as it has gone on in the: past? Irish Catholics, ye in the main—for in the: main ye compose - the Church—are at fault? What: has come over le? Where is the resplendent Catho lie spirit that distinguished ye in Ireland? In that country ye would have suffered ten thousand mar tyl done, rather than collude with the enemies of the faith. But in America that loftiness of heart ; expires, and your own sons and daughters degene-' rate from bt. Patrick and St. Bridget. Have ye for gotten that the most glorious ornament in the crown of old Ireland I. its supernatural firmness to the faith, in spite of the dreadful sanguinary despotism of England for three hundred years? Are the Protestant schools there frequented by Catholic children I Go into St. John's Church; who occupy its pews? Not the descendants of the Irish people. who built it. The same thing is true of St. Mary's, of St. Augustine's, of every old Catholic church in the city—nay, of every old Catholic church in the land. In the great main, it is new emigrants that keep up the Church in America." There are certain cordial feelings which should exist between neighborhoods and sects superior to mere feelings of church pride, and we regret to re- Milk this OM of exclusiveness, Which is only withdrawing the Church into itself without benefit ing the world or its own. The Church alone is not rich enough to educate the children of the many thousands who have suffered for the want of that education, which the exclusiveness of rival sects, as well as other causes, denied them in Ireland. All • Churches should stand the common test of the com mon school, otherwise thousands may be abandoned to ignorance. Ignorance will not benefit religion, and the cause of the Church can be fought and won better in the school system than out of it. In the Cornleill Magazine the English poet laureate is induced to give a number of " Attempts at Classic Metres in quantity." This unimpeachable poet ap pears, for the first time, out of his individuality as a fine creative poet, to make scholastic translations and scientific experiments of verse. It is also no. table, so exclusively has the world's Tennyson's dwelt in his poetry, that the dozen lines of introduc tion to his Iliad translation are almost all that we know of his prose. Even Tennyson's melodic and imaginative genius cannot make the old Greek melt sure welcome to English ears. But in his fine trans lation of a passage from the Iliad, he clearly shows the impeder strength and beauty of English blank verse. These lame hexameters the strongowlnra music of Homer No—but a meet burlesque barbarous experiment. When was a harsher sound ever heard, ye muses, in England When did a frog coarser croak upon our Helicon'? Hexameters, no worse than daring Germany gave us, Barbarous experiment, barbarous. hexameters ! • MILTON. ALCAICS. 0 mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies, 0 tailed toeing of Time or Eternity, Goftifted organ-voice or England, Nikon, a name to resound for ages; Whose Titan angels, Gabriel, Abdiel, Stared from Jehovah's gorgeous armories, lesuk•domed empyrean De rather all thatibOWerilbTalnent he brooks of Eden mazilr murmuring, And bloom profuse and - cedar arches • Charm, are wanderer out in ocean, Where some refulgent sunset of India Streams o'er a rich ambrosial ocean isle, And, crimson -hued, the stately palmwoods Whisper in odorous heights of even. ReNDEOASVLLABIOS. • 0 you chorus of indolent reviewers, - Irresponsible, indolent reviewers, Look, I come to the test, a tiny poem AU composed in a metre of Ostulius, All in quantity, careful of my motion, Like the skater on ice that hardly heart; him, Lest I fall unawares before the people, Waking laughter in indolent reviewers. Should I flounder awhile without a tumble Thro , this metrification of Oatullus, They should speak to me not without a welcome, All that chorus of indolent reviewers. Hard, hard, hard is it, only not to tumble, So fantastical is the dainty metre. Wherefore slight me not wholly nor believe me Too presumptuous, indolent reviewers. 0 blatant Magazines, regard me rather— Since I blush to belaud myself a moment— As some exquisite rose, a piece of inmost Horticultural art, or half coquette-like Maiden, not to be greeted unbenlgnly. • Some, and among these one at least of our best and greatest, have endeavored to give us the Iliad in English hexameters, and by what appears to me their failure, haVe gone far to prove the impossi bility of the task. I have long held by our blank verse in this matter, and now, after having s_poken so disrepectfully here of these hexameters, I ven ture, or rather feel bound, to subjoin a specimen,_ however brief, and with whatever demerits, of a blank-verse translation : He ceased, and sea-like roar'd the Trojan host, And loosed their sweating horse, from the yoke, And each beside his chariot bound his own ; And oxen from theitity and goodly sheep In haste they drove, and money-hearted* wine And bread from out the houses brought and hesp'd Their firewood, and the winds from off the plain RolPd the rich vapor far into the heaven. And these all night sat on the bridge of war Triumphant ; many a fire before them blazed : As when in heaven the stars about the moon Look beautiful, When all the winds are laid, And every height comes out, and jutting peak And valley, and the immeasurable heavens Break open to their highest, and - all the stars Shine, and the hind rejoices in his heart ; So many a fire between the ships and stream . Of Xanthus blazed before the towers of Troy, A thousand on the plain; and close by each Sat fifty in the blaze of burning fire ; And champing golden grain their horses stood, t Hard by the chariots, waiting for the dawn. Illiad 8, 542461. • Or, "wine sweet to the mind," but I use thie epithet Wanly as a synonym of "sweet." t Or, if something like the spondiac close of the line ba required. "And waited—by their chariots—the fair dawn." Or, more literally. "And. champing;the while barley and spelt. their steeds Bk.:id by the cars, waiting the throned morn." New York as Seen by . .British Eyes. The New York correspondent of the London Times writes S two.column letter, descriptive of that city in its present phase, He says " Such I. outward New York—a city to the great ness and prosperity of the inhabitants of which Pro. videneehas set no limits. Perpetuate, if you will, the work of the present Southern secession ; set up the Westin open rebellion against the East; split up the Union into new States and nations; out up the Stara and Stripes into as many shreds and patches as now make up the map of Europe; reduce the lm= portents of New York to that of mere capital of the Empire State which bears ith names constitute it into a owls kind of Hanseatic city, and yon will always have here the centre of North American movement and life. its port and its river, the gap between the Allegheny and the White a n d Green Mountains, willailway• give New Yo rkthe mastery over the trade of the Western WorliV Already the old shipping importance of Salem, Portland, and Bos ton itself, and the banking preeminence of Philadel phia, are rapidly absorbed by their Manhattan rival, for unto everyone that hath shall be given,' and whatever may be the career of New Orleans on the Gulf of Mexico, or San Francisco on the Pacific, New York will share w ith none of her sister cities the sovereignty of the Atlantic, But to the usual unchecked, headlong progress—to the insolent good fortune of this mushroon city, the great civil war has now come to give a fresh momentous impulse. "The calamities which are desolating the South and crippling the West have thrown many a wind. fall into the lap of this great Eastern emporium, whose shouts of joy have echoed back the groans of New Orleans and the cries of' digress of St. Louis. The whole of America is Rocking to New York. I have heard of European travelers in whose opi nion New York is a representative city—the pattern and summary of all Americanism. The city, how ever, is in bad odor with the natives themselves, even with the dwellers therein, who look upon it as the sink of alien misery and corruption—the asylum of the lawless Irish and Godless Germans, of all the worst set of adventures from the Old World. Few of the New Yorkers profess to be at home in New York. They are people who have come to make their fortune or, having made it, only tarry till they 'realize.' It is a floating, flitting population, with no roots to the soil, and but few of the mutual ties which bind man to man. The city is but a shop and a thoroughfare, a place to make money and spend it in, but not one in which to enjoy one's leisure, or to close one's happy old age, or to rear one's Chil dren." PRILLDELPHIA. PnsintxTs.mroN OF A SWORD TO GEN. Have.— A. number of the friends of Brigadier General Alex. ander Hays, of Pennsylvania, commanding the 8d division of the 2d army corps, took a recent occasion of expressinetheir appreciation of his bravery an d skill by presenting him with a magnificent sword, manuiacturedto order by George W. Shnons Fs Bro., of Philadelphia. We have raerely Seen a more ex quisitely be a utiful weapon. The hilt is of solid silver, being cast in the form of two Zouave sob diem, with muskets at a 'shoulder arms. This is surmounted by an American eagle, in solid gold, the guard of the hilt behig also of gold. Thesaabbard is of gold, and is beautifully embossed with wreaths and meets, and terminating in the ,broad blunt end that we see in the Roman sword.. On this scabbard is the following inscription: Presented to Gene ral Alexander Hays, by the citizens .of Pittsburg t 1863." Below Ls the following record expressive or his Military history & " Mexico, 1818-47, Yorktown, Williamsburg Fair ' Oaks. The Orchard, Nelson's Perm; Malvern Hill, Brhitoe, Groveton, Getty& burg, Auburn, Bristoe, Locust Grove: , The belt is of Russian leather, embroidered with solid gold, with representations of the eagle. the stars, and the flag. There are also gold button., hooks, and snaps to match. The bawl uniting the belt to the body is Of carer, surrounded with wreaths." , The corres render ce accompanying this sword is signed by Gni. zees G 1 the city of Pittsburg, representing men of "all•periirs. They are • the townsmen and friends of the General, and honor him -for his virtues and his vitoc.—Weeleington 17hfordr19, Jar., 4, Sectarian platters. Tennyson's " Classic Metres:, HOMER. MEXAMETNES AND PENTAMETERS. THE WAR IN VISQINIL Another Order from General Butler—Plain Talk to Norfolk Secession Jena The gas company of Norfolk having sealed up their works, and refused for six or eight months) past to light the city, General Butler ordered the establishment to be seized. Thereupon the directors came out under the " constitutional rights dodge," arguing that the military authorities had no right to seize the work" under the OonaLitution. General Butler's letter contains the „argument or the dl• rectors and General Butler's tamer : " HEADQUARTERS EIGIETRESTEI ABBY COEN:, 41 " . " DEschT Or VIROINIA AND NOBTEF CAROLINA, "FORTRESS MONROE, Va., Dec. 29, 1863. "GENERAL : I have received your COME:Unlink. tion-of the 24th of December, to A. T. 91. Cooke, Esq,, chairman of the stockholders' meeting of the Norfolk Gsa Company, covering the letter of Mr.- Cooke-to 3 ourself, relating to the taking of the' Norfolk Gas Works by the military authorities of the United States, and beg that you will forward him this communication in reply. "Mr. 'Cooke claims for the Gaslight Company that they possess very valuable Works, for which they now claim large compensation from the Go-' vernment ; that the majority of the stockholders have duly conformed to tho requirements of Gene. rat Order No. 49, and that the company were about putting the works in order when they were taken by the Government for military purposes, in violation of the constitutional rights of the stockholders. "It w W be observed, first, that until within a few days the majority of the stockholders have saucier ledged and are known as having_been in rebellion against the Government of the United-States, and as having endeavored -to overthrow that Constitu tion about which now they so glibly talk, and have only just now taken the - oath of 'allegiance to that Government which they have Sought to destroy, in cionforinity ! to the reettUrementscif a military order. - Anil even now, under these peculiar oireumstauces, with-the oath fresh in their 'months—in a communi." cation from the stockholders to the agents of the Government, with their claims of newtledged rights frequently repeated, the word loyalty or allegiance to the Government never finds place. They say that they have conformed to the requirements of General • Order No. 49.. That order requires of them nothing, and more than one of them have said, as I am in formed and believe, that they took the oath to lave their property,-and that they claim—not that they are loyal—but that they have taken out a protection.' 4, Such men, loyal with lip service only, so far as I em concerned, have few consttluttonal rights which I feel much inclined to respect. When they become loyal in heart as on lip, and speak of taking the oath of allegiance to their country, not as a requirement, but as a'duty, it lull be time enough to discuss their constitutional rights. If their property is as valuable as they claim it, why have the company left it go to ruin for many months, without any attempt on their part to put the gas_ works in operation and light the city? Did their rebellious proclivities overcome even their love of gain, so that they were willing to sacrifice their property rather thanto aid the Government of the United States by lighting , it, in protecting their city from the robber, the burglar, and the incendiary? 14 it not true that they have refused the military au. thornier of- the United States, more than once, to light the city, and. continued In that refusal until after they were informed that the works were to be seized upon for that purpose, and the Government had incurred' expenses in that behalf? • I should be quite inclined, as an act or justice, to promise them in the future a monthly average rent equal to what they have received for the past nine months, as a compensation from the Government for the use of their works. Their chairman talks of the economical management of the company as com pared with the prospective management of the Go. vernment, and lie certainly ought to be quite initia lled if he is assured from the Government the same rent which he had received under his own manage ment. Exactly what will be done is this the works will be put in repair, more economically by twenty per cent, than the estimate which was made for the company for the repair of the works. They will be carried on efficiently and economically, so that the city of Norfolk will be fully lighted, and its peace and quiet in the darkness of the night be assured, until it le made certain that, in case of an attack upon the city of Norto/14 the rebel proclivities of the owners. will not leave the city in darkness, as a means of impairing the defence made by the United States forces, and when the owners have by their • works, and not by their lips, convinced the military authorities that they can rely upon their loyalty for aid in' repelling an invasion of the rebels, and a keeping up of the works to aid us in that behalf ,• then and not until then, will the works be returned to den custody. In the meantime, accurate ac counts will be kept of the receipts and expenditures, and the excess of profits, which no doubt will be considerable, wiltbe paid to thoie who ate loyal in the sense of the word as understood by loyal men. • "You are at liberty, General, if you please, to cause this communication to be published for the in formation of other citizens, if any in Norfolk, who , stand in like case., "I have the honor to be, very respeetfullsr,_yours, "B. F. BUTLER " Major General taommancling. "To Brig. Gen. .T.Lints -Emma% commanding at Norfolk." Sufferings of the People of Bast Ten- nessee. An Appeal to the North—Address of Colonel N: H. Taylor to the Legislature at Harris. burg. In connection with the appeal made in behalf of East Tennessee by Governor Curtin, in his message, the address of Col. Taylor, late a member of Con ;tress from that section, and now in this city, de. , serves the attention of the patriotic. Col. Taylor - • and pays: " I do not come to the West and Norm u a beggar, though if necessary to accomplish the object I have at heart, I would crawl on my knees and beg, but to lay facts before a patriotic and mag nanimmis people." To the history of East Tennes- see he eloquently refers : Her people are the decendants of the pioneer heroes of North Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Jereey, and, like their illustri ous ancestors, they never have learned" how to be false to the Constitution and the Union. The forest fathers of East Tennessee, in the great war for inde pendence, left their homes to the defence of their wives and daughters against the Indian foe, while then fought under Shelby and Campbell at ICtag's Mountain for our infant nationality. In the war of 1812-15 they met the foe at Talladega, Emuckfau, and the Horse Shoe, and triumphed, under Jackson, at New Orleans. - When nullification threatened, in 1812-3, to cut the Gordian knot of the Union with the sword, and the hero of, the Hermitage invoked 'the Eternal' to witness that 'the Federal Union must be preserved,' a united amen swelled in the hearts, and broke from the lips of her people as the voice of one man, and they were ready to maintain the Government with their lives." 4J%1.;:# I:f ~+i.YU:Jy:~f:{i:(eS;~U:i.l:~l:~:~~i:►:~i 1~5ifi4:1~! 7r:~A Colonel Taylor was not remote from the scenes he eloquently describes, and his - picture fled the reign of terror and famine at the time of the rebel conscription, has unusual value : • g+ Regiments, companies, and squads of infantry and cavalry were now distributed over tip country, to hunt down and capture or shoot eon. scripts. The arms and ammunition of the people had been demanded and seized. Prominent citi nent citizens were threatened, and in many instan ces, arrested at their homes in the night season, upon frivolous charges and without charges, hur ried off withotit notice or preparation, tried, if tried at all, by a deputy provost marshal or a military commission, ez parte. and borne away to the loath. qome military prisons of TuscalOosa, Madison or Macon, Saulsbury or Richmond, to languish, for months or years, in disgusting filth and loathsome vermin, in many instances to pine away and die by disease or despair. • "Parties charged with burning railroad bridge/ were summarily tried by drum-head courts-martial, condemned, and hung ; others, caught running front the conscript guards, shot in their tracks, while their less fortunate comrades, who were hunted down like wolves, and captur ed, were tied in couples to long ropes and driven like cattle, before the hoofs of cavalry, many times over frozen roads and icy creeks and rivers, often barefooted and bleeding, to be con fined in conscript camps of instruction, or tried as deserters, and hung or locked up in rebel dungeons. Thus affairs moved on, and terror shook her black banner over all our land ; and to make the reign of terror still more terrible, a legion of tawny Indians, descendants of the savages who, in other days, were wont to tomahawk and- scalp the early settlers of Wataugp, Nola (Mucky, and Holston, were led into our mountains and valleys, and put upon the track of the remaining young men. But to their honor be it ever remembered, that these half-civilized, poor Cherokees proved lees savagelhan their pale-faced companions in arms: , • E:o~vs:►.~,yya:ao;r $-r_t.+.;-~ : Rs:iu . ~r.a.ia~anzra : a:;:oy~:~ From Colonel Taylor's description of Burnside's campaign we make this extract: From before Zollikoffer, ten miles above Carter Station, Burnside fell back towards Knoxville, the Confederates cautiously following. From ButiPe Gap he turned upon them, and drove them again across , the Watauga, and beyond the Virginia - Ims. Again the Union forces retired, and again the rebels advanced, each army supplying itself from the coun try around. Surging forward -and hack, these two armies four times advanced and retrograded, widen ing at each movement the desolation that marked their traok. What the rebels spared, the Federals took, and what the Federal. left was appropriated by the rebels ; and robbers, who found rallying points and secure hiding places in the - mountains that skirt the valleys, came in for their share of the substance of this plundered people, and completed their ruin. Thus our cribs and smokehouses, our barns and dwellings have been emptied and pillaged. Our women and children have been divested - of their wearing apparel, and even the webs of domestic cloth in their looms, destined for winter clothing, have been out out and carried away. Our tanneries have fared so better, aid the limited amount of leather, Which might have shod a portion of our women and Old men, has been mina and they are left barefooted to struggle through the Winter." THE DREGS OP AFFLICTION "Believe me, East Tennessee has drank its full cup of suffering, and nothing seems left her but to drain its very dregs. She has saeritioed everything but loyalty and life; she has endured everything but dishonor and death, and now destitution and famine, followed herd by despair and death, are already trembling on the threshold of her sad homes; already antering their doors, to complete the sacrifice and consummate the suffering. "But, through all her trials she haskemained faithful; perauasiona , threat., insult', arrests, lin prisonmenta, wounds, stripes, privations, punieh • went., chain. and confiscations, gibbets, and military murders, the club of arms and the 'terribleness of armies with banners, , and all the combined and con centrated horrors of internecine war marshaled on her battle-torn bOsoni, and hurling ruin and morrow into all her homes, have never corrupted her loyalty, nor driven her a line from her devotion to the Go vernment of our fathers. Unprotected she was by the Government she loved,.interior and isolated, disarmed before she could organize she was seized and pinioned by a power that overrode sinew, and trampled constitutional liberty under its feet. Choked down under a reign of terror black as the night of the Robesperrian dynasty, her proud neck ha. felt the heel of a despotiam more heartless and crushing thin the power of an autocracy. Her loyal people r beeause they could not do otherwise, have submitted, for more than two dreadful years, to a bondage their inmost hearts abhorred—a bond age that fettered the soul, and sealed the lips, and all bat closed the door of hope. We breathed but to live, and lived to pray 'Oh, Lord, how long r " A GLOOMY VIEW ON TUB BNB= SITUATION.— The Richmond Examiner treatise an exceedingly lugubrious editorial, front whidh the following is extracted To-day climes the gloomiest year of our struggle. No sanguine hope of intervention buoys up the spirits of the Confederate public as at the end of 1861. No brilliant victory like that of Fredericks. burg encourages us to look forward to a speedy all. successful termination of the war as in the last weeks of 1862; Meade has been foiled, and Long street has had, a partial success in Tennessee; but Meade's advance was hardly meant in earnest, and Bean Station Is a poor set off to the loss of the gat. lant men who fell in the murderous assault on * * * Any meahanioatoocupatloll it more profitable than the most intellectual profession. The most accomplished scholar in the Confederacy Would be glad to barter his services for food and raiment, and, in the complete upturning of our social relations, the only happy people are those who have black hearts or black skies." Present Condition *of the Rebel Statese . , The Conscription — Elenteueithaff of Cavalry —The Spy Systera—Wh e Condition of the Slaves—Signs of I .usealbordlisedlon The Habeas Corpus—A Secret Loallk - PoPuhlx Desire of Peace—What 12 Expected otthe Copperheads' Aid from Enurepe. COorreepondence of The Press. CHATTANOOGA, Deo. 28, 186 e. The follOwlng items of information I have re. calved from the rebel States, end think you will Hid them oul Interesting, end come lor them im portent The conscription and impreiement'measurer are very unpopular with the people. The conscription officers are still-active. No foreigner to now exempt —not even three who are not natiralized, nor those who have heretofore furnished aubstitutes for the army. Senator Senamea, of Louisiana, at the coming meeting of Congress, would introduce a bill to abolish all exemptions and sutetikites, and forcing every mail into service, and 'only exempting by detail those ieho are not able to •bbbar arms, ati the military authorities might decide, For the want othonke and forage; several con• panties of cavalry. Were dismounted and placed in the infantry service: The practice of this it was thought would continue. They still continue to keep up a spy system in • each regiment, to ferret out disloyal soleiers and those inclined to desertion. I have heard of a number of instances where the sol dier was forbidden to Vrite to his wife, nor allowed to receive h letter from his home, for fear he may be induced to desert, on hearing of the sufferings of his family. The soldier also 001 . 11011tIOWth Of neglect and hard treatment at the hoi 4/ften When sick, and asking for medicine, they are told to go to the woods and dig such and such roots. Suffering is very great generally, principally for the want of food and'olothing. Board is now worth from $l2 to $l6 per diem. Bacon is worth $3 per pound; sugar Over pound pinolassei, $l4 to $l6 per gallon; flour, $B5 to $95 per barrel ; salt, $1.25 to 81.50 per pound, and everything in proportion. I mention these facts so as to give an idea of their present resource., and of the conditiori of the country. Brew:l4lot, are frequent throughout the South—mostly women, soldiers' wives, and murders and garoting are of fre. quent occurrence, in consequence of the great suffer lug of the moldier, the poorer classes, and the /16- gross. The latter (the slaves) suffer much for thewarit of food and clothing, and they now show a decided show of insubordination, asst in many districts they have turned to committing depredationi. In North Carolina the spirit in favor of the Union is said to be much on the increase (as it also appear ed so to me when I passed through the State). The mobbing of the Raleigh Standard by Banning's bri gade, while on their way to Bragg's army, is said to have done the Union cause some good in the State. On the Ist of September an Alabama regiment, at Mobile, pillaged the market, and, after resisting the provost guard of that place, which is composed of boys of from 13 to 11 years of age, and who sought to arrest them, they deserted enfitatse. At Selma a Mr. Evans, a respectable merchant of that place, who had refused to receive Confederate money, was arrested by the military authorities of the place. For this offence he was bound in chains, end sent to Fort Morgan, near Mobile. Re sought the service of Mr. Smith, a lawyer, also of Selma, Who, for attempting to take a writ of habeas corpus in favor of Evian, was also arrested, chained, and taro cannon balls placed to his feet, which he was made to drag, and thus also sent to Fort Morgan. Confederate scrip is much depredated, and the army generally is in favor of its repudiation. Gold, when it can be had, is...worth from 14 to 16 for one. I have been witness to transactions of 18 and 20 for one. Brokers buy gold, but most of them will not sell it. The rebel (Government has again endeavored se-. (wetly to effect a specie loan from the banks at the South, proposing them to redeem their (the banks) old issue in Confederate money; but this proposition was not favorably received. At the treasury depart ment, atßichroond, the present issue of Confederate notes amounted to about eightpflve millions of dol lars per month, and is to be increased. Few persons think that this scrip will be redeemed. The amount of cotton held by the rebel Government is about one million bales. It was feared by many that the dis missal iby ‘Davis of the British consuls would be detrimental to their cause. There is a general desire for peace, and, were it left to the will of the people, it become. more and more evident that the war would soon end. But they have no hope that hos =ties will cease until the coming Presidential elec tion at the North, when, hoping' that the anti- Republican. party will elect a Peace candidate, and, according to pledge, said to have been made to the rebel Government; they (the anti-Republicans of the North) would inaugurate a policy tending to the acknowledgment of the independence of the Confede rate States. Vallandigham is said to have pledged himself and Teems to be {heir gresiaa'holie,l7 - nron . r 3 iterp — rif: cipsl reasons why the. rebel leaders persist in their present course—efforts, au, do they say, the benefit to be derived from its moral effect, would tend to obtain succor from France, agreeably to a Franco- Mexican agreement, made to this effect, and un un. derstauding with Napoleon and Maximillian to be permitted to raise, by an enlistment, one hundred thousand men in Mexico, for the army of the Con federate States. This measure to take effect when Maximillian shall once be‘seated upon the throne of Mexico. That slavery might not be in the way of recogni tion, and to obviate England's possible objection' tereto, a policy favorable to the abolition of slavery would be adopted. Bence it is surmised by many that they will seek to kohl out and prolong the war as long as possible. One of France's objects in this . ould be to obtain exclusive commercial advantages. Other rumors are to the effect that if hostilities clin be prolonged, with comparative or varying success, the Southern States would be placed under a monarchical French .protectorate cajointly with Mexico. Of mere recognition by Europe the people have but little or no belief in now, nor do they think it would be fruitful of any material advantage.. They now believe that if recognition Winn, it Will come with military aid. In the prolongation of hostill. ties they hope alio to demoralize the people of , the North, and diegust them with the war. NEWS FROM . THE CAPITAL. REBEL PRISONERS CONCENTRATING UNDER CIEN. BUTLER'S CARE.--The removal of all the rebel prieo nets confined at various points throughout the loyal States to within the limits of Gen. Butler's depart ment is to commence immediately. The rebel °M ears at Johnson's Island will probably be removed to Fort Delaware. - MATTERS IN EAST TENNESSEE.—Advicat from Chattanooga to the close of the year represent mat ters in that vicinity as exceedingly quiet, and not likely to be disturbed, Unless the rebels take the initiating, which is exceedingly improbable. Long street's attitude in East Tennessee is represented as stubborn arid ugly, though he is not making any offensive demonstrations at present. He is said to have secured a large amount of supplies in that country, which our forces had calculated upon. The railroads. from Huntsville, Alabama, to Memphis and to Nashville, are being put in order for the put• pose of procuring mipplies. NATIONAL ACADEMY OF Senixoss.—The Na tional Academy of Sciences, which has been sitting with closed dews, considering the adoption of a constitution, opened their doors to the public. The question of foreign members was under disbussion. The names of Prof.'Farraday and Sir William Ham ilton were proposed, and the debate as to who should be first chosen was very earnest, eliciting eloquent tributes to the genius and abilities of ' both these gentlemen. On Friday Secretary Seward gave a reception to the members of the Academy. Presi. dent Lincoln has also extended to them a reception. THE (MODIFICATION OF UNITED STATES STA.- TUTES.—Tdr. Sumner's bill provides for the appoint ment by the President of three persons learned in the law, as oommisidoners to bring together all sta tutes,snd parts of statutes, which, from Similarity of subject, ought to be brought together, omitting redundant or obselete enactments, and making such Alteration Ai May be necessary . to reconcile the con tradictions, supply .the ondsaiims, and amend the imperfections ofthir xittiginabtext ; to arrange the same under suitable eubdivbdons, with heiad-notes, eide•notes, and references to the original,and to de: ()Jolene of and State courts ; alito provide an index. The whole to be printed, and referred to Congress to be re-enacted, and the whole work closed without unnecessary delay.- The otimmie ()loners are to receive $3,000 per year for two years, and expenses for clerical and other services, not ex ceeding $2,000 in the whole. It is generally ugarded as a quite useless expenditure. THE INDIAN - OUTRAGE RELIEF OmmissioN.— The Commission appointed for the relief of the suf ferers by the Indian hostilities is Ininnesota, con sisting of Colonel Aldrich and Mews. White and Chase, were in session at St, Peter's, Minnesota, for about five months, working twelve to sixteen hours per day. Twenty-nine hundred and forty claims were presented and examined. A large number were also presented but could not be examined, as the law fi xed the time for the expiration of their duties at December The above number of claims amounted to $2,468,000. The Commission awarded $1,370,468. Nearly 11,000 witnesses were examined, and their testiinony reduced 'to writing, covering about 16,000 sheets of legal cap paper. The testimony shows that Over 800 men, women, and children were brutally butchered by the Indians. Thousands who had pur• chased homesteads of the United States, and paid for them, were driven away; and are now fugitives, it being unsafe to return to the frontier. It is esti mated that $6,000.000 will not reimburse the people for the darnage inflicted by the Indians on the fron tier of Minnesota. Government holds about $3,000_,- 000 annuities forfeited by the rebellious Sioux. It is proposed to use this sum in payment of the above claims, and a bill app ropriating $1,100,000 is being prepared to meet the balance due on the amount awarded by the Oommission.—Tribune. EX.BIIFTS 711024 THE NEW DRAFT—IMPORTANT ORDSR FROM THIC WAR DEPARTM.IiNT.—The fol lowing important information relative to the die eases wbieh will exempt persons from the new draft is given. The order will soon be promulgated by the War Department, and is in course of printing. The following diseases and infirmities are those which die qualify for military service, and for which only drafted men are to te ‘ 0 rejected as physically or mentally unfit for the service: o Manifest mental imbecility; insanity, including periodical aberration, attested by an affidavit of a physician who has attended hint Within MIX Mental preceding examination ; paralysis or (MOMS or ganic diseases of internal organs ; developed tuber culosis ; cancer ; aneurism of the large arteries; in veterate disease of the skin ; permanent physical disability ; scrofula, or secondary syphilis ; chronic rheumatism does not exempt unless manifested by a change of physical structure; low of eyesight or cataract ; disease of the ale ; greatly impaired vision; loss of now; decide deafness, proved by evidence • chronic otorrhma ; incurable disease or deformity of either jaw, impeding mastication or speech ; anabylosis of the lower jaw ; caries of the bones of the face ; loss of substance of cheek ; dumb ness proved by satisfactory evidence ; loss, total or piatila, of tongunt confirmed stammering; loss of front teeth, air Well as Molars ; tumors, or wounds Of the neck; expositive deformity of the chest; caries or the spine, ribs, or sternum, attended with ulcer& tion ; hernia ; proleipaus anistrieture Of the rectum; fistula in ano, if extensive ; old end ulcerated inter nal (not external) hemorrhoids ; confirmed vane. real disease ; total or partial loss of generative or. girt ; it(nte the 1 li4fleT ; conftme. or Maligned% THREE CEIT~S• eamocele abendant diseases; loss of teenier foot; Wounds =Using kimonos ; lose of right thumb ; lose of two fingers, or power in them, of the seine hand; also, first and second phalanges of the fingers of the same hand ; low. of is great toe, Sub feet, and de formity of the feet ; varicose veins on inferior ex kreellities, and ohmic ulcers. ' , EXPOSIT .OP .T H E OOMMIEIBIONIta Or AREICIIIIO T VRE. —DS this document the Contenhesioner advo , mitesthe uneasily of hereafter establishing a bureau of ;statistics as a part of the Agricultural Depart. men% for the reason that, having a regular monthly correspondence in every county of- the Union, it cam comniand the services of persons well trained to collecting statistics, and who appreciate theft. ott Judi feat hen= neither the delay, nor errors, nor expense will be attendant on a census taken by the department which have characterized the decade census; end that air this department alone has special cognizance of the indartrial puttied*. all matters, such as the 1 7 which almost exclu sively b i elon g to these te, should come under the jurisdiction of the rtmere Of. Agriculture: The tables of this report refer more to sustaining the soil by the use of proper manures and deep plowing than to the condition of the crops. But in this connection it is stated that the amount of clover seed crop for 18* la nine of the principal clover teed-producing States (the omitted States raising but little) was 806,448 bushels; in met, 1 oatjeo bushels, end in 18 19; deleitni• bushels, showin g a de crease in the .lust. year's sop of twenty-eight per cent. Thin decreath was caused by drought, the icarcity•of fodder and hay, and the severity of the fall frost. . . - The report shows the great utility of plaster as a manure Down on clover hi Sun°, and - th e entire growth turned under for wheat in the folk' The no. comity of establishing nuumfasteries of bone, char. coal at slaughter honseit for refining sorghum, mo-, lasses, and Using it afterwards-as manure, *shown. The reliabißty of the information - obtained by the Department through the correspondents is referred to in the present condition of the . pork trade, and predicted by the Department.. Tile OEPOTts Of broad% @duffle and provisions are given, with .their Pried , is New York on the let inst.; also, the general imports and exports; the proper mode of stating these by taking from the amount of exports of produce the difference between gold and currency etheperplexity arising from a want of a uniform system of weights and measures in England; and the necessity of Oen grouts's' action on the subject in the United States. RAVAGES OF THE COLD. Frost bitten and Frozen to Death—Freezing of the Fish in a Lake. (From the Chicago Times of Monday. i FROZEN TO DEATH.—A man, named Peter Jones, employed by the Ohjeago and oaten* Railroad Com pany in their car wake, was found yesterday morn ing on the 'ice in the rear of Munn tk, Stt' ware house. Re was discovered about B o'clo oo ck s in the •morning, and it was at first supposed that he was frozen to death, but, upon taking him into the ware. house, it was found that he was still alive. He was very badly frozen, both legs and both arms being as bard as rocks. The men who found him called Dr. Warnzer, and set about trying to save the unfortu nate. After an hour and a half spent in rubbing the frost was entirely taken out of his limbs, but he was too nearly dead when found. His jaws being set, he could take no stimulus, and he died shortly before 12 o'clock. His body was taken to the West-side police station, where an inquest was held upon it by noting Coroner Summerfleid, when the jury returned a ver dict that the deceased came to his death from ex posure and cold, on the night of January 1, 1864. Mr. Jones left a wife and four children, living at Thornton station, on the Illinois Central Railroad. FROkT Brrritn.—ln the North Division an elder ly man, known as the "Old Ink Peddler ," was en. joying himself in a manner that made him oblivious to external cold, having an abundance of liquid fire inside. Re was taken by the police into the station house, when it was discovered that one of his hands was dreadfully frozen, so that large blisters stood out upon it like bladders. Efforts were made to re duce the swelling, but it is hardly expected that his hand will be saved. A private named J. Downey, belonging to Compa ny D, Cavalry, was taken into the central sta tion with both of his feet so badly frozen, that his boots had to be cutoff in order to remove them. He had every attention paid bim, but his injuries are of so severe a nature that it is feared he will lose both of his feet. He was taken on Saturday to the Ma rine hospital, where he will receive medical treat ment, and efforts be made to save hisfeet if possible. On Friday a young man named Amminet, son of a member Of, the Second•precinct police, started from Harlem, eight miles from Chicago, to drive a cow and young calf to the city. He got along very well until within a mile of the city on West Lake street, when the cow and calf got frozen in a snow•drift. Young Amreinst labored for some time to extricate them. but failed. He went to the Second precint policeetation for help, and when he reached there his hands and feet were frozen. . . . . A Mrs. Green, living upon North Clark street, had occasion.to go out on New Year's day, and took her little child along with her. She had not proceeded far when she discovered that the child was fast freez ing. She went into a drug store, where proper reme diem were administered, which caved the life of the little one. - . . - It was reported that an omnibus driver coming into the city from the Michigan Southern crossing, with a load of passengers from the belated trains there, wan found to be frozen dead on his box. His body, it was said, was frozen stiff, the lines were re. tained in his hand., and he still kept his seat, but life had departed I A horrible sight—Death driving an omnibus filled with passengers ! The rumor, of course, was false. A young lad employed in the post office as errand boy' etarted from his home on the North division, at a very early hour on New Year's , morning, to go to the office. He became very cold on the way, and wanted to stop at some place to get warm ' • but see fe...zeifortordb-rteritJace...lll.o/40 1 .r.,e :" 01;1,-Uniax. -Iffw, and would inevitably eve perished had not two soldiers coming along rousedhimup, and taking him into a house near by applied remedies which took the frost out of his body. The poor fellow was nearly frozen stiff, and but for the timely. appear ance of the two soldiers .his life would ! rive been sacrificed. • • Another man, name unknown, had both of his hands very severely frozen, but thinking they were only a little cold he put them into warm water, when they almost immediately turned black, and despite all endeavors mortification set in so that on Satur day both of them had to be amputated at the wrist. The sight was most painful—a hale, hearty man, so lately perfect in his physique, now with two bleed ing stumps, maimed for life. p%,Mr=."WW:'MIi7I3nTM7.T=!=TM [Correspondence Buffalo Daily Courier. Fitaimitx, Erie county, Pa., Jan. 2.—The usher. log In of the year 18e4 Ands me winter bound in this out•of-the•way place, where King Jack Prost reigns without a rival, both on land and In water. There is a small lake near Edinboro, a few miles from here, covering about two hundred acres, which froze over so suddenly that the fishes had not time to dive be. low, but were hozen in the ice, and the good people of the borough are feasting on fresh fish, bushels of them having been cut from the ice to-day. This story may sound a littlefishy, but nevertheless it is literally true. S. B. GAIL. A WESTERN TRAIN BLOCKED BY SNOW--SUFBEE. ING OP THE PASSENGERS On Thursday afternoon the train on the Michigan Central, for Chicago, became blocked by the snow near the point where the Michigan Southern and Michigan Central cross, about thirteen miles from Chicago, and found it impossible to proceed: The can, on that road are provided with patent staves, which will burn only when the cars are in motion, and consequently when the cars stopped the fires went out. The weather was intengely cold, the thermometer being thirty-two degrees below zero, and the sufferings of the passengers became intense, particularly those of forate women and children. No fire could be st art ed sufficient length of time to do any good. The top of the pipe would become red hot and set lire to the top of the oar several time., which was_only put out by cutting away the wood work. There were five passenger cars in the train, well filled—about one hundred and fifty in all, a large number of whom were women and children. What added to the dreariness of the scene, Al the night wore on, was that the light', as well as the fire gave out ; the cold increased to intensity, and the snow became four or five feet in depth in huge drifts. RV this time all the passengers became completely chilled through. The women and children were ele vated on the top of the seats, where the air was warmer, and everything done for their comfort that could be ; but without fire, lights, or food, out on a bleak prairie, their suffering was terrible. They lay there from Thursday afternoon till Friday morning, when a train on the Michigan Southern road ar rived, which oleo became blockaded and could pro ceed no further. Preparations were immediately made to remove the passengers to the Michigan Southern can, where warmth could be procured. A perfect stampede occurred, passengers fearing they would be left. Many of the women and children were unable to help themselves, and had to be car ried from one canto the other. They remained on the Michigan Southern cars till Saturday night, sufferingfrom the cold and the want of food. They were finally taken off by sleighs, and carried to Chicago. There were none frozen to death, but large numbers were badly frost bitten, some so severely that they will lose their hands or feet. The officers of both trains did everything that could possibly be done, under the circumstances, for the comfort of the passengers, and the two condo°• tors are thought to be so badly frozen that.they will never get over it. It was impossible to do anything to relieve the trains from the blockade, and no human being could stand the severity of the extreme cold for more than a minute or two without be. coming entirely benumbed. Reconstruction of Tennessee. The editor of the Memphis Bulletin makes the following announcement of the intentions of Gbv. Johnson regarding reconstruction In Tennessee: "We have reason to believe Governor Andrew Johnson will make known, at an early day, in an of manner, not only the views - and wishes of the Government with regard to reconstruction in Tennessee, but also a plan, easy and simple, by which all persons who desire to participate in the glorious work of re•erecting the temple of civil and religious freedom, in the restoration of Temnessee 10 the Union, can do so with the full assurance that their labors will be successful. Circumstances have heretofore not been very favorable to such a consummation ; but now our vietorions armies have driven the enemy beyond the limits of the State,- and President Lincoln has made such generous overtures to our misguided people that the long. wished opportunity seems to have arrived, and we may soon--expect to hear front Governor Andrew Johnson favorably and authoritatively in regard to the matter. We feel certain that no avoidable delay will be allowed, and that active measures in the right direotioa will be soon announced." THE Freeman's Journal, of New York, has revived a number of Bishop England's letters to gain more such "divine sanction" as that of Bishop Hopkins for the perpetuation of slavery. It is suggested that the same paper should publish Bishop England's last letter On slavery. It is addressed to the editor of the Charleston Miscellany, and is dated February 25, 1841 : "My more pressing duties will not permit me, for some weeks, to continue the letters on the compati bility of domestic slavery with practical religion. I have been asked by many a question which I may as well answer at once, viz : Whether lam friendly to the existence or continuation of alavery? lAm mo T but I also see the impossibility of now abolishing it here. When it can and ought to be abolished, is a question for the Legislature, and not for me. " t JOHN, Bishop of Charleston." THE WESTERN SANITARY FAIR.—The following letter, inolosing a gold dollar, explains itself: "Traitor, 0., Sam 4, 1864. ' , John D. Caldwell, Esq.. Sec'y a. W. Fair " Having kept this gold dollar eight years as a Precious gift, I will now only part with it in the noble cause of aiding our heroic soldiers. "Please accept it, not for Its value alone, but for the happiness it affords me in sending it on its holy mission of love to our country's brave heroes. ItesPeetfully, ELL A. Reg BSON, Daughter of 49th O. V. I." A MumnricErrr . Providence Joursal of January 4th mentions the munificent gift of Mr. Edward Ring, of Newport, Rhode .Lsland, of hit collection of statuary to the " Redwood Library," of that town his native place. This collection con sists of full sized triple ,p by the late Paul Akers, in Carrara marble' olf "The Dying Gladiator," from the capitol in tome' busts of Lomosthensa, the young Augusts:it, and Cicero. cabbed busts of Ariadne, and of the 'Venus de Milo of the Louvre, and an original piece by Mosiers ant i tled the "Ame ries'', Schoolboy." The value of t est marbles U 8 cetimated at ng% lett then Sep Pioniffiad AMP, sr waste per, (PUBLISEIED VINSELT., till *Pius Tsars will be seat so eaberelhere e. lalailAPar ULM= to ativezwei ••••• • Three wee& • 0000000 a o. 4..4., • •••••• • ••••• ••••••.• Fire eovia_o 8 Ten copies. • •••:15 Laraer clubs than Tan will be chariot at tlu awn rate. *Lao Dar 007).7. _Ma raefaaf/ attalat atleff4lB weeemPoW the arairyPildi ifs 110 6111tAnea can thew tersinite doefafed from. MAW 'arord vent Nair inoinincra the cog of mum . 84- rodpisketwa oto manta to lot or Aserialar ,Tito Woo Paw. ; Alor To,the setter-tur of the °bib of ten or Wotan /a , extra, (*p of Paper will be One. IMPORT OF THE STATE . TIMBIIIIFIL .211 Me Senate and Howe of Revreeentative• V Ms ammonwealth V Ponnovhania : ciairrimailer: In compliance with the provisions of eha iet z Lath of/Larch. Mi. I have the honor in enamit tess AA 'Arias report , of Ole Department for the Meet we* GM.. november 30, 1009: Con Out 80th Elovember. if e 2, the available bylaws tamer Tremery we. _VARIAN is Receipts into the Treeenry dm6U . the .wm year NI folows: OrdinarVorenoral receipts... 18,000.4 li. Wyoming'Wyoming'v it 111189 Canal Com paq" s boadp redeemed....... 201.00 e. 00' V,VIZI bazika r torr payment of ja.,. 4Nreet,..on the pnbito debt. ea ~q n lvaihtir for obin... ..... 8.000 1 - 1! (A meal -% military Unit States Government . • Payments durinwthe fiscal. 7021 t 0114111111 No MS 114 vember 92, lea. as follows: Ordinary expenses- 2 2 3. 1 20..121 OR' Military expenses C/74 44 olg Commissioners of Blinking Fund 928.4 , 2 Revenae °commissioners 9,846'42' Available balance In the Tree.. • entry November 20.100.2....... 2,141.231 28 4 3,492.2e15.Wi By a comparison of the ordinanr receipts tqc tie test Year with those or the png year, It WM. be olt• served there i t s a falling offof eiglary-eight ehoussna three hundred and eighty-three °ellen and seventy Weld (lento-01W SA bht the receipts are tamer , fa exceee of those of 18881. The principal deficiency is fa the item o: retailers' licenses, though the receipts from this source last year were thousnally large. owing to the ' fact that the - payments of magas" cnty treosttrers el 18131 and of previous years, Enda ill 1f6 2, were or coutee credited to that fiscal year, and I have no doubt frogs the 55 me cause the receipts far the.present year will be . lure sly increased over those of the peat year. The transfer, by the act of April Bch,- 1889, of the milt tary tax to the relief hinds of the several eountlea. for the benefit of the families of - volunteers, has lessened the receipts nearly fifteen thousamldollars • Tae ftem of mu on loans is allay-elx thousand dollars leaseitamn the previous year, •Tbie 15 owlet' mainly tip , thr. , jfeeontinnance by the Pennsylvania Railroad Coma pany,of theoollection of the htato tax from t heir bead holden. These deficiencies have been. to some extent, made tle iii th e ins/eased receipts, from tax on bank divideeee, ofthoseepe for the peat 'year are of the preceding-year some filty.sln th o usand dollars, csased mainly by the increased amonnt.imid tor the support of common schools. It will be seen that among tbia-expenditures of ttus• last year. the abatement of State tau amounts to the . large sum of soma 41. an The necessity which induced the paimage of the law al• lowing en abatement of five per cent, fist the preMiii Mr. I went of State taxes. I think, no longer exists, and mkt. amount nal:tally can be saved to the Stale by its rental. A prempt compliance with the law requiring treasnreme to make quarterly payments will furnish the treasury et , all times sufficient means to meet its ordinary raga manta. The reportrof the Corandeetemere - of the Stoking vast will sham a vent prosperoue condition of their affairs. Pb. Commisrionere, at their meeting on the 20 th.A.prif. 1863, retolyed to redeem co the let July. 1983, the prince. pa , of the loan issued under the act of March 28th, /til4 which was reimbursable on or after March 28th, iseL amonntir g to 1117 8801st And the principal of the following loans on the let August. /Mt Loan per act Dec. 79th, 1828. reimbursable Jan. Ist. 1854. fvr 832.14 11 Loan per act March 30th. 1831, reimbursable July lat. 18C6,10r ....... Amounting in all to MI lig and notice was given that interest thereon should cease from and after the days of redemption thus fixed. Great complaint was made by holders of o w n and especially by the representatives of foreign er& as being compelled to receive PM =en t of their overdue. Jenne in a depreciated currency. Apeman were mode kir think to the Coroni.sionere to change Me notion. and so into tile market and purchase the loans of the Comelol - as Arad bren their custom. Ent there bei large surplus in the fund which could not be invested ng at or lees than par, and as it was thought to be their ditty to use this surplus in the ex‘inguiehment of the Pubis* debt, and, having no authority to buy specie. tkeir action was unchanged and the loans paid for in legal tender" notes. By madeot of the Commissioners Monda y Stehle, Fund to the Governor on the first of lien tember lest, it will be seen that of these loans there were rt deemed np to that time the sum of VW. Old VI And from that period to the close of the • fiscal year, Nov. 30, 1863 103,9541 NI Other loans redeeemed during the fiscal year. 96,1f6 --- Showing a decrease of the public debt du- , ring the year of • 9616 W et Tee debt of the State. therefore. now deadens followek Total amount of debt Nov. 30, 1862 213 Of Redeemed during the year 951.41$ Total amount of public debt Nov. 30.1863 a 39.416.50611, This large reduction of the State debt ought to, be a spruce of gratification to the people of the Cominen wealth. It shows that but for the extraordinary etc- Peaces imposed on the State by the existing rebeilllos., we might, out of our ordinary revenues. and within. a reasonable , period, be enabled to free our Conentest wealth-entirely of debt. The balance in the Sinking Fund of the $3,01X1.- . 000 loan creaiel by act of May /sth. 1881, ' was, at the close of the present fiscal year " (Nov. 30th, MM.' .1'• ••• •• • •.• • . . ........ Man? All Received from that date to Dec. Slat 1.116 40 Amount in the 'fund Jan. let. 1864 234.343 CO The balance in the general Sinking Fund on tbeaOth November. 1863. was . 617,04 OE Received from that date to Dee. 31at 349,713 71 --- 967.328 63 3(.075 OS Paid Interest on coupons Jan. 15t;1861.... 610 853 63 • Under the act of April 3d. 1883, the Wyoming Valley Canal Compel', paid hundred treas eighty-one 30th AprG last, the sum of two and thousand dollars (5281,000), with interest, in liquidation of the bonds for that amount held by the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund. Subsequently a decree was made by the Supreme Court of the State, at the instance rf the. At torney General, requiring them also to pay into the treasury the sum of eight thoneand four hundred and thirty dollars (18, 410) for the two hundred and eighty one coupons which. by the first section of this act. had been. released to the company. This amount was ac cordingly paid into the treasury on the 4th t f June, 1863. In obedience to the requirements of the latqaapia at b.151g 1 "atoehoestera l- staramntiftisitliticompletlon of a railroad from Sunbury to Erie." I have delivered, on the warrant of the Governor, dated December 21 1883. to that company one million of the bonds, as epeolflea in said act. The sub ject of the payment of the interest on the Dah lia debt of the State is one which, from its importance. ongbt to receive your early and earnest attention: For the last two years. and including the amount due on the Ist Inst.. the interest has been paid in specie or its . equivalent, through means tarnished by thetbali„ as, of the Commonwealth In 1882 , under the eel or Apri l 11th of that year, they were required. to pay into the treasury their rateable proportion of much premium for gold. or its equivalent, as had been actually paid by the State. During the last year. under the provisions of the act of January 30th, tam they were required to exchange with the Commonwealth a sufficient amount of coin for currency to pay the interest on the State debt ; and the State Treasurer arm authorized to issue to them specie certificates of exchange. not transferable, pledging the faith of the State to return said coin an d re-exchange for notes current at that time. on or before the first Monday of March.l6B4. said certificates to bear IL, terest at the rate dela par cent. per antince. Under the provisions of this act, the Commonwealth has exchanged with the banks currency for coin. amounting to one million nine hundred and sixty-eight thousand nine bund red and four dollars and ninety -Eleven cents. ($1,965.504 97.) the interest on 'which, due the tanks on the Ist of Match, INC will amount to forty one thousand and forty dollars and finnan cants ($41,010 15. ) To return this amount in coin at the pre• ant. market rate for gold (161 N) will cost the State $1.015,966.06. which, with the interest thereon, $11,040 amounts to the sum of $1,05,026 21. This the Commonwealth has pledged her faith to pay on the Ist of March next. If it be determined to keep faith with the holders of the Nate, by paying the interest on the public debt in spade or its eqnivalent, and the banks were freed from similar call., I do not doubt, from the disposition they have manifested to aid in maintaining the credit of the Com monwealth, that they will be willing to relieve her from the repayment of their eoiu for the next year, if prompt steps be taken to provide the means for their re imbursement at an early period. Bet to continue longer this system of compelling the banks alone to furnish coin for the interest of the public debt, is, I think, asking more than they can bear. and more twin they can be ex pected to de Holding this opinion. and informs to ob tain for your honorable bodies all thetion I could get on the subject, Iliad month addressed a circu lar to the banks of the Commonwealth. Inquiring whether, under the terms of the existing acts, they could be relied on to furnish specie or its equivalent, for the payment of the interest of tee next year. Some of the banks that have replied deem it unjust to their stcckholders longer to continue this system of exchanging coin for currency, and therefore decline to do so. Others are Willing to continue the system if con curred in by all the bard.. and required by the State: but all agree as lo The ImpOlicy and Injustice of singling out a particular interest in the State to bear all the -bur den of doing that which equally interest the whole People. They cliam that as they furnish an annual re venue to the treasury of over three hundred thousand dollars, and are now being brought into competition with another system of banking:exempt from a large share of Ike taxation imposed upon them, it ought to be the disposition of the btate rather to relieve, than impose ad ditional burdens upon them. Ii is evident. therefore, from all the information that can he) ad. that the state must look elsewhere tor the means of maintaining her credit. and is it not the duty of her.people. in view of her heretofore well-settled policy, to make some sacrifices in order to accom plish it? This subject was very ably argued by my predecessor in his report to the Legislature last winter, and fully concur ring in hie views, I take the liberty of quoting two or three of the very .pertinent questions therein put. He saps: The question generally asked in discussing this sub ject is, can the State afford to pay this large difference between currency and specie in the payment of her inte rest ? Ought not the question rather to be, ran she af ford not to do it ? Will not the credit of the State suffer materially if she refuses to do it? Is her credit of no value to her and her citizens? Is the State so strolls and. powerful, so above anyliability of future want that she can exercise her rower irrespective of any effect her ac tion may have upon her credit ?" The State, by the act of June 12th. 1840. appropriated a. sufficient sum to reimburse her loanholdere for the diffe rence in value between specie and the currency in which they had been previously paid, and then solemnly de mares. that hereafter the interest fallite due on Penn sylvania stooge shall always be paid in specie or its " Ts is is tbelsw to day, and for its observance.. and the maintenance of the present good name of the Common wealth, no effort or sacrifice ought to be spared The General Government pays the interest on its debt in specie. Massachusetts continues to pay epecie. anti New York partially.so, though the system she has adoPt ed of discriminating in favor of her foreign creditors I think unjust. Some of the States that pay in currency contracted their debts sinew the suspenaion of specie payments. and. therefore, borrowed currency ; but Pennsylvania bor rowed money from her creditors, and she out to pay them in money. Let us therefore. so act now, that in the future it may be the boast of our honored old Commonwealth that. amid all the trials of this eventful period of the nation's history. she faithfully performed her whole duty. and came out of the ordeal with unsullied-honor. - In another portion •of this report -the discontinuance by the Pennsylvania Railroad. Company of the col lection of the State tax. from. the bondholders. is referred to. This is the only company in the State that ever performed that duty, and as I amenable to tied any Jaw imposing it IISP2I MOM, I presume. of course. It flits done voluntarily. . It is a fad well known , that a very large portion or the personal property in the state escapes taxation alto gether, either through the. neglect of assessors qr the failure of the owners to report to them. And it Is; there- fore, surprising that tbeeasY and effective mode of seem ing the large revenue due the Commonwealth for taxes on the bonds of corporations, by requiring the corpora- Sloes to collect the tax and return it to the Treasury. has not before this been provided for b, law. I beg leave. therefore, respectfully to urge the Passage of an act authorizing and directing railroad corpora tions and other corporations, at the Hine of paying the interest on their boucle, to deduct from. he amount dme the holders thereof the tax due the Commonwealth, in the same manner that treasurer') of: municipal corporations are by the act of April 29th. 1844, now-required. yearo. By the report of the Auditor General last the funded debt of the railroad companies alone is stated at seventy-seven millions of dollars. a ye -1 large propor tion Of Which, even exclusivq- of the amount held by non-residents. escapee taxation. - "It most ba evident. therefore, that the enactment of such a law as I have alluded to will produce a very , largely-increased revenue. The act of April 16th, 1881, and the supplement thereto of April 22.1. 1883, for the par and expenses of Pennsylvania volunteers, provided that these claims should be paid out of the " war loan of 53.000. 000 authorized by the act of 15th May, nal, and if that were insufficient. then outer any other money in the treasure not otherwise appropriated. The " war loan " is now exhausted, and :mag i ; claims it le enppoeed will amount to nearly Sr rd wTh ine will be eeen that they cannot be paid oufof t tie s 7 receipts of the Treasury in any reasona ble_ (owe en it is remembered that all the income of t h e State pt the tax of 23' mills on real and Parlieael...P.a_nerr. appropriated to the Sinking Fund. andrt'ummiesion ere of the Sinking Fund are authorise rangier ,rom dB e li te t i to yo r y t t h lie sute ( the general hind an amount rest. slid redeem a. portion of the no Pa 0 e txt debt annuallY , It will be apparent that some other mean will have to be provided for. the payment of thews claims.• There has been for years an litiaTailable balance in the Treasury of forty. one theullind and thirty-two dol lars ($41,0E2) of worthless hindlaWhick, be the act of the Legislature of April 194 M, 1853. the Commissioners of the Sanitize' Fund were authorized to dispose of, sad pleas the proceeds. if say. to tbe credit of the Sinking Fand. pregame the fear that, if sold, they might find their way into circulation and thus entail loss on the public. prevented the CoMMissieners from disposing of them ins authorized. During the invasion of the State last snmmer. Whew the books and _rapers of the various de - mrtments were re mqved from the capital, these funds bed also to be re moved at considerable feet and inconvenience. As they are entirely worthless, I would therefore reerectreffly recommend that authority be given for their destruct. , tton. armored are tables glying in detail the operations of , i , this department. for th e last Steal year. Waller . w ith es t imates of the receipts and eXpendlturatfor the proems year ; all of which are rearatafrilly submitted WM. V. MOOR aTI2, ;Wan 7th, 7.994. - dtete Treasurer. ME=:;M=il
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