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
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VOL. 7-NO. 137.
RETAIL DRY GOODS.
crvm AND MILITARY OLOTH
HOUSE
WILLIE!" T. SNODGRISS6
lio. 34- SOUTH SECOND. and SE STRAWBERRY
st ree t s . is hannytn a ate that he has laid in an extensive
stock-5r UNOws COODS. such as
emir AND wayr.
Blue Clothe,
Sky-blue Clotbs,
Sky-blue Doeskins,
Dark Blue Doeskins.
Dark Blue Beavers,
Dark Blue Pilots,
3-4 and 64 Blue Plume%
Scarlet Cloths.
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
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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