Sim "' tt to'.. S. JIN IN s,j ` "One Cmitry,,One , Constitution, One ma y. " ,11 1 1e1SSWISIN) Ike WEDNIDLY, DIM, 23, 1863. FOR PJLEUDENT IF 1804, SEN. GEORGE B. McCLELLAN, {Subject to the Decision of the Democratic Na aimed Convention.] ••KhlEe the army is fighting. you as Cft- ARCMS see that the war Is prosecuted for the preservation of the Union and the Conitinutien. and of your nationality aid your rights as Citinenti." GEO. B. McCLELLAN. "The Constitution and the Tinton! place chest temetliec, If they stlMt, they swot gig#4 picther; If they OM, they *wit fell twetplor. ll -..Dartiel Webster. . Na Pero next Week. tottecmdinar with our custom, no paper will'he thsne, from this Wu* dur- . ing Holiday Week: - Printers, like oth er people, need a little recreation, and we are certain our readers are too clever and considerate to deny it to them. CONGRESS. Gen. Lamar has been appointed on two important Committees in the House, the one on Public Expenditures and the other on Expenditures on Publie Buildings. ?be tonsatiptien Law. Mr. Nilleen, Mass. l has introduced a bill in the Siiiii*sintiaing the Conscription Law. The principal features are that it en tirely abolhhes all the exeMptions for money, only allowing sabstitrderr, and that the dis tinction between dames la done away' with, and art malerpfirsolar from twenty to forty-five pre made subject to the-draft. Other causes of exemption are groat 4 reduced. The enly gen of a widow and the *direr fir miAtt!prless &thirst being , principally exempted, though the law is very strict in the matter of the support of these persons. Severe penalties are 4 proviiied• for all illegal evasions of the law. It ire evidently the deter nination to perfect and 'past this bill 'de a recess is Vence rroposltlens Tabled. Mr. fertile& Wood offered a resolution iu the UMW the other day, providing for the epptintment of Otnimiissioners to Rich- Wend, with a view of asranging for the torMiludion of the present bloody, destruc tive and inhuman war, and securing peace under the Constitution, on terms of justice sad equality. Mr. Washburn, of Illinois, moved to lay it on the table—carried, yeas 98, nays 59. abolition of Slavery. That Veripus.nnti-slavery fanatic, Owen I..ovejo,y,lrt 'lllinois, has offered a Bill in the .Hone to abolishslavery in all the States, • • loyal and ffnilOyal. The following is a full , text of the metal* and synopsis of its pro .. . . visions : • Whereas, The Declaration pfrOpPfq*PeC !balms that all men are created ))Y their greater with the ins/ able right to life; liberty y. *0 the fruits of an honest - Wheteas, The Goverilnient of the United' States was -instituted to -secure this right. And Whereas; The Constitution of the United States declares that no person shall be deprived of his liberty without dt,tc process of law; and also declares, article $. clause 2nd, as follows : This Constitution, and the laws of the United States made in pursuance tlwep!, 4411 he the supren4e law of the land, and gla .Judges pa every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the Con stitution and laves of any &ate to the con trary notwithstanding. ,And Whereas, It has been demanstated by the rebellion that slavery is absolutely in ^ompatibk with the union, peace and general Mile for which Congress are to provide; there"e be it enacted, &c., Sze.: Section one rel`:•Res all slav e s in all the States and Territories of the United States, and clothes them ith the immunities of free cit izens; section-ro makes their re-enslave ment a crime ne 'r-4>able by fine and impris casent. So we !pl. and MLA t im r ? - :to School Dis‘st , We see by the "School t h at i m , piediately after the annual app(, tment of teachers is each district, the Secrett., of the board for the district, is required to N ed a Written list of their names, and the sc,, ok to w hi c h - oey have been respectively Li _ pointed, to the proper ,couuty superintendent, with a notice of the•day upon which the en suing term of the school, in the district, will commence, and the termination thereof, as directed by the board. The Conscription Law. Late advicei from. Washingtoa City state :hat the probabilities decidedly are, that Oon gre;ss will repeal the $Ol2 clause of the en rollment act. 3VELL Bato.—The Boston ''Journal," EVAting of fecal papers, remarks : "Aitit one tenth part c: *local news which transpiras in any county ,tews finds its wayinto a city caPeov l o .4 4 l4 *all the latter ' to the 12 4 ezel or • AlSloilAr PPP( I 9 I .• Of? not 41 0 gOIiASASFO. AO *lam is not we yr, to fill a town of kir* oar- Fade." ifir The following ,beautaul, but mattruflit stanzas,' ate from "the' pen of 'a gifted lady of Ibis place who has recetn ly *fired 11 Oral berivement ha the death at a tict of great interest, amia bility aftd ISOIIIIO3. One by one her farad ewes have been 'etrickn down, one her hearthstone is almost desolate; and Tam, " the only comforter and healer where the heart bath bled," has scarcely cicatrized one wound till , he has inflicted another. Is it any wonder such an one should sorrow, or long to lay down this "veil of sadness" and need we proffer her our poor sympathy, or seek to console her with the cold and idle phrases that too often fall on the bereaved and afflicted spirit'? FUR TITX MISARNGSZ, IN MEMORIAM. J. U, B. B. Gone, from the waves at Time, that ono and beat ; Gone, from the Wfuter's cold, said Banner's heat; Gone, from each Inviag friend, each annex foe, G one , f rom the hopes that wish as we go Gone, to the Silent Land's yet hidden shore, Gone, from the hearts that wail thee—ever- more. Gone, in thy boyish beauty while 'twee bright, Gone, like a flashing meteor of the night ; Gone, with thy merry laugh, thy sweet reply, Gone, with the light still lingering in thine eye; Gone, with our wealth of Love, how large the store Gone, from the hearts that wail thee—ever more. Yet Ile who loved us, shared our common fate, The same pale Angel ope'd for thee the gate; The earthly Temple's veil was rent far thee, The glory of the "Holies" thou most see ; Thy winged spirit freed from earth doth soar, While yearning hearts must wail thee—ever more. And we, who hero remain, yet bear the load, Foot-sore and faint, we tread the weary road; And oh! (perverse of souls !) we mourn that thou Art not, as wont, to share our hardens now ; Still do we grieve, the' all thy griefs are o'er, Our yearning hearts must wail thee—ever more. E. 11. B. WAYN4B9IM4 The President's Message. That portion of the late message of the President concerning reconstruction has been received with little favor by the Democrat ic and Conservative press of the country.— ThP Trenton Trite Atnerican says of the President's "plan" that it is "too preposter ws t'or4e4n w]}4 appears PP the face of it. The trod object of this whole scheme, in our judgment, is to influence the neat Presiden tial election, by creating a bogus reprosmt• tgtign in the Southern States, and thus sub: vert the entire framework of the Govern ment. One tenth of the number of persons equal to the popular vote of the year 1860 in the States in rebellion may easily be crea ted at the several small points in possession of the United States forces to carry out the President's plan, .by casting the vote which the irtate would be entitled t,g in the elec toral college, thereby, to that extent, neu traii7ing the votes of the loyal States ; It is a plan not to reconstruct the Union, lint to perpetuate the power of the Abolition party ; It must be met, and can only be connterget, ed by the combined efforts of all the conserv ative element„ in the Northern States." Speaking of' the Proclamation with which the President closes his message, the Provi dence (Rhode Island) Post says Why the President saw fit to append this Proclamation to his annual message, or to make any reference to it therein, is more than we can understand. He has taken the work completely out of the ham's of Congress, and might just as well have defended his conduct in a letter to Mr. Greeley as in an important State paper. He assumes all the pow ers or the awtocrat of Russia, and does not even hint to Congress that a resolu tion oy thanks for his services would be ac ceptable. ' The "war power" is his pow er, and this is Ms method of exercising it. The I,: ew 11:.}ve.n k;:qen.,) par t y liegi3ter says of it : Tbis Proclamation consists of 34 of fer of pardon and amnesty to the insuF rectionisti, excepting certain specified eittii and nfilitary leaders, v;ith a restora tion of all the rights of property except ill slaves, and except where'the "rights of third parties have intervened," - upon condition that they take an oaili to sup port, not only the Constitution and the Union, but all acts of Congress and proclamations of the President on the subject of slavery, not repealed or nega tived by the Supreme Court. In other words, they are to swear to uphold the President in doing what the best jurists and the President himself; have repeat edly said he had no right to do. Coupled with this offer of amnesty, Mr. Lincoln puts forth a plan for the re construction of the Union by the re-or ganization of the State Governments by those who take the prescribed oath, henever they number one tenth of %ix respective States. These State govviments are to be set upon the f° ll ncetion of the Constitution and the laws al `he States as they existed before the rebelL, n . The military power of thegovern:l...n:o,- is pledged to maintain the State govNinents so organized..- Mr. Lincoln adopvi the extreme radical theory that he Stat.: aovernments were dissolved by the insuii l etion, and that the Executiv , has the fq.ht to set up new ones upon such teons tit he deems proper. /le sui — ggede to those who may engage in the °mania** of redShategoverignento,ihseehekeembs, audaries, ved. t 1 ace sowt@ apt .fgx to his mind that there, wotthl be / any impediment in the way of a con trary cotui.c, and it is fair to prpsume . - that if it , had been thoutglat_Morerlosible fair change the *pi, -belmfto-8;&1. of the States, in elder tin early out this INftn, he would not have hesitated to *commend it. Mr. Lincoln's plan for the reconstruc tion of dm Union, which has been brought mat With NO 'Witt& sag, resolves itself into - this : 'That the people of the South may re-organize their State gov ernments and resume their places in the Union, provided they will consent to the abolition of slavery. At the same time he declares that he shall, under all circumstances, maintain , hiS Abolition Proclamation, and the people of the South are given to understand that if they do not accept the condition pre scribed-the war will be proiecuted until the last African is free. There is little doubt that within six or eight months, State goternments will be set up, on Mr. Lincoln's plan, in all the Southern States. Through this machination, Mr. Lincoln will strive . to "make his election sure." We hope the people of the South will accept this oar, fend thus put an end to this bloody strife. With their representatives again in Congress it will not take long to wipe out the revolutionary measures of the Abolitionists, and place the Union again on the basis of the Constitution.— By this means, too, they can help the conservative Union men of the North recover power in the Government, and bury radicalism where there will be no resurrection. Unless they do take ad- , vantage of this offer of the President, ungracious and unpalatable as it is, they will, we fear, enable the Radicals to ob. tab another lease of power, and bind the chains of despotism upon North and South so firmly that nothing short of a revolution will suffice to regain consti tutional liberty." The Boston Courier says of the President's plan of reconstruction : "The President's mode, and the Proclamation of (so called) Amnesty, in conformity with it, is a block to pacifica tion, instead of an aid to it ; and so long as it is persisted in dooms the nation to indefinitely continued war. The '' ( - rage is thus squarely thrown down ; and the people of the country are to take it solemnly to heart whether they will de vote their country to unparalleled ruin, or by taking affairs into their own hands, in the legitimate way, will insti tute a different policy, by which alone there would be some reason fur hope that the follies and madness of the past might be in time partially repaired." The "Friends of the Soldiers" Show ing their Hands Proposition to Increase their Pay Voted Bolen by the Abo tionists The Washington city correspondent of the Harrisburg "Patriot and Union," in a letter bearing date December 14th, thus writes concerning the recent attempt of the REAL friends of our brave lads in the army to crease their pay.;— Mr. Denison, (Deta,) at PerM., otThr ed a resolution to-day directing the Committee on 3filitary Affairs to hring in a bill to increase the pay of all the private soidiers in - the service of the United States to thirty dollars a month, one-half thereof to be paid to the fami lies of much as have families, Although this worth/ be but simple justice to our soldiers, and is no more than is paid to a common laboring hand at home, yet you will be surprised to learn that the Republicans opposed it in a seilid body ; notwithstanding their boasted professions of friendship for the soldiers during the election campaign last fall. As the form in which the res olution was offered Mr. Denison would compel the committee to bring in a bill, in accordance with its directions, Mr. Washlrorne, (Rep.,) of 111., in order to enable the committee, which is compo sed of a majority of Republicans, to dodge the responsibility of opposing the interests of the soldiers, very cunningly, as he thought, tri@cl. to get Mr. Denison to change the phraseology of the resolu tion so as to have the committee merely inquire into the expedfmny of increasing the soldier's pay, &C.: but Mr. Denison, although a new member, saw his object, and retnsed to aceept the modification so insidiously suggested, which caused g great fluttering among the Republi etnis. They saw that if the resolution was allowed to pass in that form it would amount to a peremptory order to the committee to bring in a bill allowing the soldiers the full thirty dollars, which they feared would so deplete the Treas ury that there might not be enough of greenbacks left for their shoddy friends, gun contractors, &c. Hence they were driven to the necessity of showing their hands by moving an amendment to the resolntiOp, so as to make it merely an enquiry into the expediency of giving the increased pay to the soldiers, and on the vote beiog 'taken, the Democrats voted directly in favor of compelling the com mittee' to give it, and the Republicans voted against it. The Republicans hav ing the majority, ethe amendment was carried, and thus we find the poor sol diers have been deserted by their hypo-! critical Republican friends in the hour ofl their greatest•need. • ' • Mr. Washburne, (Rep.,) who was so eager to defeat this resolution, afterwardi offered a resolution to give to a batch of Abolition committee clerks, who have little or nothing to do but to direct Ab-.- olition speeches, $4 a day, while they had just a few moments before refused , one dollar a day, or $3O a month to. our gallant soldiers, who s_re . liable to all the privations, hardships ano 'writs of the 'camp and the battle field. ,everal of the Abolitionists offere.o., resolutions to repeal the fugitive slave law and to put the negro on an equality with the wh:te man—most of them in direct violation of the Constitution which they had sworn to support only al week befor. The proceedings er this day has made a very lalseek record for the Black Re-1 publieaes. oirA rinaryipietomptnitea saytt to t e NT*** ,!t°lll#' t he 11 0 Will MO* o n e thWiliat sibdr 641 - wilt Act tlioilimale ' The New Chaplain 9f ; Congress. The newly elected Chaplain Of the House of Representatives is a nff. )Ir. Charming. The Republicans generally *anted to re-elect Mr. Stockton, whose politics suited, but not his religion. Both Mr. Channin,g's politics and his religion (Unitarian) suited the New England portion of the House, and he was put through by the New England influence. A funny anecdote was traveling. the rounds as having iwurred on the Republican side, thus Westetdßepo-But this Mr. Channingk— Who is he? What is he? They say he is not sound on the Gospel, does no t believe i n Christ's Divinity, &e. Eastern Rep.—No matter. Ile's sound on the negro. The appeal was irresistible. Kr. Charming was eketed by Republicans after Republicans changing their votes—such as hesitated on his theology being oyerwhehningly convinced by the superior reason of his fidelity to the negro. The "Patriot& Union" correspomkint says, under date al the 14th, "The new Chaplain, (431131 ming) this mewing, in his opening prayer, applied the epithet trrttaP to the slaveholders. His prayer contained more pol itics.than piety." The Presbyterinn Banner is not pleased at the election of Rev. Dr. Charming because he is a Unitarian, and consequently, in the opinion of the Banner is not a Christian and cannot "take the members to the throne of grace," If all accounts of the corruption which exists among the scions of the nation at Washington be true, says the Pittsburgh Post, neither Dr. Channing nor any other man, can lead many of them to the "throne of grace." They are incorrigible sinners, if one half said of them be true. Political Toleration. The N'ew York Times, an Abolition paper, which up until a few days ago, was savage and insolent in its denunciation of Democrats as traitors, now thinks as follows. We coin mend its change of mind, and trust the Abolition papers and politicians generally will emulate the example of the Times "The truth is that there is too little tolerance among some classes of Union men of the honest convictions of those who differ from them; the word 'copper head' and the imputation of disloyalty are bandied quite too freely. It is a way some people have of showing their spite toward the.men who don't exactly agree with them upon some of the questions touching slavery, or upon some of the features of President Lin coln's policy. It is a, bad spirit, and it should be discountenanced by every man who has heart or mind enough to understand that the essential distinction between loyalty and disloyalty relates to sides, and not to differeneer in position on any one side. True Union men arc obliged to agree only in one thing—the support of the war for the preservation of the Union. But, until the constitu tion of the human mind is changed, it will be impossible for all true Union men to agree in respect to the precise mode in which that war shall be con ducted. Men, however devoted to a common cause, always differ about methods and details ; and they have a right so to differ,_ so long as they will keVp Gle4ir of factious conduct. Fair discussion is always not only admissible, but proAtable," NMQQI 4 IItiQ Caucus-•A War Platform Chosen, A special telegraphic dispatch to the New York Herald, of the 18th inst, states that the Democratic members of Congress held a caucus that evening at the capitol, which was very fully attended, The future policy of the party was discussed and a general unanimity expressed iu laver of voting all the men and means required for the vigor ous prosecution of the ware A committee was appointed to prepare a future time and place for holding the National Democratic Convention for the nomination of candi dates, to be supported for at the Presidential election. The caucus then adjourned to meet next Monday. A number of border State men, wholhave not generally acted with the Democrats this session, were present and took part in the proceedings. is intended to place the party fairly and squarely upon a war plat form no it is understood that those Demo crats, who have thus far acted upon the peace platform, will give in their adhesion to the war policy. Prolonging the War, The Albany Argus truly says that thape is no other explanation of the peculiar tactics of the Administration, its removal of Gener als and its wasteful management of our ar mies, than delibprate design to protract the war, and prevent the possibility of peace un til after the re-election of Lincoln. President Lincoln is avowedly the candi date of the Radicals, and was recently pre sented as such by 'Wendell Phillips. He de pends for re-election upon the votes of the Army, and of the spurious Electoral Colleges in the seceded States. Peace, even through victory, and the return of the South to its allegiance, would thwart all such calcula tions. Hence the policy of protracting the tra,r. The Pseudo Union Party The Administration party, in the late elan-, tions, took ground in favor of prosecuting the war vigorously tor what they call an ihmooble and enduring peace.' But facts have slipwn - the course of the Administration, thus far, shows—that peace without subjugsion— Im4ce without the abolition of al4irtar3'— peace with} at the conversion of the States into territories-- peak. .vithout confiscation of all the property of till the peut". -4 th e Benth—pesee without a total destruction of tLe Union as it was, and the Constitution as it is, is not the kind of pens which phe Abo lition party wants or is fighting fur. sp-MAD6uglat, the 7ridelir pf Senator ifYouggis eiireaent in !OW" en, tir d «.* B9 i I!..P tai 7 Rbate t: 41 , 1 1-we r L:( , P.t. irony Deparat t 7ell-7evii„Aaw I ITEMS, POLITICAL AND OTHER WISE. Karma VP ins FA.0074 , -The rebel Om- Fess assembled at Richmond on the 7th.— Among the members are delegates from Mis souri, Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas, the first two of which have never been any- thing else than loyal States, and the last two are not likely ever again to be disloyal. There is one advantage these delegates pos sess. They are not in danger of being call ed seriously to account for any of their pub lic acts, and fear of their constituency will not compromise their independence as legis lators. SERMON FROM TIM DEAD.—In the CONlC tery just consecrated at Gettysburg, will be interred near two thousand men. Six. hun dred of these came from New York. The Rock Island Argus remarks : "These are the bodies of the soldiers fur nished by Gov. Seymour to drive Leo's armf out of Pennsylvania, and they number one half more than Pennsylvania, the State inva ded, and one-third of all the killed from sev enteen States! If the dead cannot speak, their number rebukes, with terrible empha sis, the Abolition Leaguers abuse of Gover nor Seymour and the noble State• of whtch he is Governor.' sfirSenater Wade said, in a late epee& at Marietta, Ohio : "Before I would have accepted the Crit tenden resolutions, I would have seen him in the lowest hell." Yes, you old demagogue and traitor, you and your party have preferred to see our country go there, along with the resolutions. And, scoundrels and sinners, you are going there, yourselves, about as fast as old Satan can drive you on. se-A good joke was perpetrated by a rebel prisoner captured at Chickamauga. The rebel was Woking at one of our guns, and remarked that ho "didn't think that the Yanks would ttse them big guns much long er," "Why, not ?" inquired the Ads.— "Because," said he, "the Confederacy is get ting so narrow that you'll fire clear over it and hit men on the other side." DEATH OF AN EDFIIIIC—Joba K. Calhoun, editor of the Armstoong Democrat, died on Saturday; December sth, at his residence in Kittanning, of typhoid fever. Mr. Calhoun was born in Wayne tp., Armstrong county, in 1825, and was admitted to the bar at an early age. Ho served two years in the Leg islature as a representative of Armstrong Co. ZThe Richmond journals give up the expectation of the resumption of the ex change of prisoners. One of them says that Gen. Hitchcock's instructions are to demand the- exchange of negroes just as white.men„ which, "of course, was rejected. Thus ends for the present, if not forever, all hope of an exchange." sarThe New York Herald has just made a most important discovery. According to that paper it costs just double the amount to shoe a negro regiment that it does to perform the same operation for a white one —cause, the difference in the size of the feet. THE REBEL CONGREBS.--From private ad vices received in Washington, it is under stood that the present meeting of the rebel Congress, will be a very abort one, and that the conservative members from North Car olina, will warmly urge upon the Southern people the policy of an immediate recon struction. RUIN AT EVERY Hosp.—The rebel papers do not know on which official to vend their spleen--Bragg, who they say has ruined their armies ; Memminger, who has ruined their finances ; or Jeff. Davis, who has re tained both in their high positions. THE Daorr.--In the Secretaiy's report fifty thousand men and ten millions of dol jars had been derived from the draft. Such were the estimates when that portion of the report was made up, some ten days before. Since then, however, the full returns to date show the figures to be 60,000 troops and twelve millions of dollars, The Army c the Pacenac has finally gone into winter quarteri, od under a gene ral order, furloughs will from this time forth be granted to officers and men wb,o by their good conduct have deserved them, e-The Northampton County Defaccrat happily says : "If Mr. Lincoln is the Government, ha must be a very poor man by this time ; for no poor wayfarer in the deepest, darkest wil derness of the world was ever robbed as the Government has been for the past three years." Stanton recommends that negro sol diers be paid as much wages as whites, be cause they perform the same service. Is this bltended to "elevate the standard" and hasten enlistments ? Likely. Zlt is no joke that President Lincoln is a candidate for another term of four years in the White Hquse.--[N. Y. Herald. It certainly would be no joky if he should be re-elected. A J Shriven.. Apollas Shriven. Benj. Temple.... John Roberts Edward Cox Harvey Sanders. Simon Murdock. Mai. Lot Lantz .... Maj. A. A. Stout.. E L Dukate Amos Day Alex Pettitt .. Morris Rose A Sutton J R Donley .. ' J H Smith.... Wa B 4. pipes Barnet Neal Miss A W Hendershot, 13 J Ross James Eisinmingpr Olitts pradley A T Shiirer W H Ridgway James Wallace John Kent Chas. Coss Jos Burdin I Rezin Virgin George Thomas iMorford Throckmorton The frauds in the Quartermaster's De- g l i i ch em °/a l L tn iven g °°d partment at Alexandria will foot up millions 0 S Phillips of dollars. They have been going on under R B Grim the noso of the Government for 7 mouths. John B Gordon Win Crummine oft-An exchange asks whether we are John MBr df •cl a oi , ... in the ninth or nineteenth century? We Abner Hatfield wen '—`" nineteenth, but this administra- James Seaton tion is fast kn r ocliu b __-._„a into the ninth. W m Gordon '' •• sir Major Buirnigton, of the 2d Mu 2 .4 5—. • Joir , § Allums ... ... regiment, who was wounded and taken pnso. ten nn -1 ‘ "ner at the siege of Knoxville, fell into the fred J ..gvan7 AA hands Weis Own brother, who is an officer John y oung lb Al* etrattsiiiite racks. . if ' pin fejtae — 41 11Ings f„. z .c.,- . • ..-.. &''''''-' 4 ' .. ' j ust 1 IflattijahithasClutter 4 gir A Conrederstoolt-livir , 1 six and a quarter cents. John Moore isrLincylu's message says "So far as test ed it is difficult to say that they [Negroes] are not as good soldiers as any.' That's cheering to white men : (?) or4lon. W. K. S3bastian, of 4rkattsagi, it is said, is on his way to Washington, to take his seat iu the Senate, in which he . ht4a got two years to serve. a - The Tribune asks: "Can no amount of adversity and peril chasten us into sobriety and common sense?" Manifestly not.--[Boston Courier. ,s 'R. L. Armstrong, for harboring a de serter (his own son,) has been fined $lOO at Cincinnati, and imprisoned six months. Gen. Hanook's Report. This document is of too great length for °Minnlr 10/0 * publication in our columns. It gives an in- - - - --= teresting history of the movements and at- i TOR THE MESSENGER. tiORB of our armies during the past year, ver- Yet Anolker Pktgro Proclamation ! ifies the report of a sharp correspondence by Whateveidifference of - opinion there may telegraph between Gen. Rosecrans and the be as to the statesmanship of President Lin- War Department, eulogizes Generals Meade coin, there can be none as to his shrewdness and Grant, and expresses a hope rather than belief that the war will soon be brought toe as a political manager, and the persevering close. tenacity with which he engineers his pet 4* • e. • - hobbies. a- The Bedford Gazette is very proper• ly disposed to hold the rulipg dynasty re sponsible for the conduct of affairs. It says : •`Thc Abolitionsts seem to have a working majority in the Lower House, as well as in the Senate. This has been accomplished by military interference in the elections held in Maryland, Missouri, Kentucky and Dele ware, and by having Congressmen elected in West Virginia, Eist Virginia and other dis tricts that have no legal or constitutional ex istence. Well they have the power now in both branches of Congress; they have the President, the Governor and Legislature of Pennsylvania, and of all the Northern States except two, If they don't put an end to the war by the next Presidential election, the people ought to know who to blame." giitrioseph Johnson, a Connecticut soldier, was recently sent to prison for sixty days at New Orleans for volunteering an answer to a conundrum at a theatrical exhibition.— The conundrum was—" Why is the President of the United States like an owl in the day time r the true answer is,. "Because he's al ways A Blinken ;" but the soldier's answer, which led to his arrest, was—" Because he's a d—d fool." INTENULY LOYAL-Our advice to our read ers is, to keep your eyes on the intensely loyal man. If he visits your house, count your spowo as soon as he is gone. If your horse is stolen, put the officer on the track of the "intensely loyal" neighbor. And it you desire to find a traitor at heart, and a man who would sell his birthright for a mess of pottage, or his country for thirty pieces of silver, make the acquaintance of ono who is everywhere boasting that be is "intensely royal. '—{Lopn Courier. Tau END.—Skmatar Hale has introduced "a bill to suppress the rebellion." It is odd that no one ever thought of doing this before, and it is possible that the delay way have been to give Mr. Lincoln a chance to do it by proclamation ; but it is gratifying to know that, at length, we are to soppress the re bellion—and to do it in a very easy way— by act of Congress. How much better this than fighting, and all that sort of thing : [Age. AFFLIC,TING.-Mr. Samuel J. Kaust, residing near Mechanicsburg, Cumber land county, lost all his his children— four in number—by diptheria, last week. They all died within forty-four hours.— Thus, at one fell swoop, has this terrible disease robbed a household of all its pets and desolated the chambers of the par ental heart. Sarin Washington on Saturday af ternoon, a small boy as knocked down on the ave'ue and run over by Mrs. Lincoln s carriage, breaking his leg, and otherwise injuring him. Mrs. Lincoln took the lad into her carriage, and car ried him to his home, where everything in her power was done to alleviate his suffering. Judge Advocate Holt has decided that Lincoln's late proclamation, suspending the habeas corpus, undoubtedly includes the cases of minors enlisted without their par ent's consent. Boys may be enlisted, and the further redress by law is taken away from them. No habeas corpus can help them. sirA cotemporary of ours, noticing the marriage of a dent and dumb couple, as NI itti ly as gallantry wishes them unspeakable bliss. "kirGen Anderson, of Fort Sumter fame, it said to bu much grieved at his summary retirement by the Administration. NEgin pm Receipts on Subsoription since De- cember Isk. 2 00 .. . 200 3 00 50 2 Or 2 60 Ss 00 50 3 33 ilia Message jest seat to Congress, con tains three prominent objects Connected with the nest Presidential programme. 1. The re-election of Abraham Lincoln. 2. The abolition of slavery ; and 3. The restoration of the Union. This woula seem to be the order of the importance• of these objects in the Presiden tial mind. Test oaths and military supervision appear to be the sovereign panaceas for regulating the ballot box. These have been found ef fectual in Delaware and Marylane, and evet} in the case of Kentucky. Although they pro duced little of practical importance in for warding Radical views, they yet demonstrate that they could be resorted to, without pro ducing revolution among the people. If the next Presidential election is to bar , under military control, iu the Southern States, then there is no question but that they can be made to result in favor of Mr. Lincoln. This is as apparent to the looker on, as it was to the Presidential vision, and since there is good reason in favor of that course. Ba if the people should be of opinion that the restoration of the Union is a job big enough for them during the next year, why not they address themselves heartily to that object alone, and let Mr Lincoln and hii pets "slide'• for the time being ? The Utica Herald publishes the fol lowing letter from Spencer Kellogg Brown, who was executed as a spy by the rebels,: the last he ever wrote, ad dressed to his parents in that city : CASTLE THUNDER, Va., Sept. 23, 1863. "Dear Father :—.By permission and through the courtesy of Captain Alex ander, I am enabled to write you a few lines. You who before this have heard. from me in regard to my situation here, can, I trust, bear it when I tell you that my days on earth are soon ended. Last Saturday I was court-martialed, and this evening, a short time since, I received a notice of my sentence, by Captain Al exander, who has since shown me every kindness consistent with his duty. "Writing to my dear parents, I. feel there can be no more comfort after such tidings than to tell you that I trust, by the mercy of our heavenly Father, to die the death of a claristian. For more than a year, since the commencement of my confinement, I have been trying to serve him, in my poor feeble way, and I do not fear to go to him. I would have loved to see you all again ; God saw best not—why should we mourn ? Comfort your hearts, dear parents, by thoughts of God's mercy unto your son, and bow with reverence beneath the hand of him who 'doeth all things well I have but little business to dispose oi. Yourself or Uncle Cozzens, at St. Louis, will please draw my pay from the Gov ernment and invest it in the United States bonds at present, the interest of which will be paid semi-annually to my wife. * * * * I sent a ring to my wife by a clergyman, Monday last I also sent a telegram to yourself, which will arrive toe late, as the time of my execution is set for day after to-morrow —Friday, Sept, 25. I will try to send a short letter to my wife accompanying this. "Captain Alexander, commandent of the prison, deserves your respect and grateful remembrance for his kindness to your son in his last hours. "Dear Parents ;—There are but a few more moments left me. I will try to think of you. God bless and comfort you. Remember me kindly -and re speetfully to all my dear friends and relatives. Tell Kitty I hope to meet her again. Take care of Freddy for me ; put him often in remembrance ofme. "Dear mother, good bye. God eon). fort you my mother, and bless you with the love of happy children. Farewell, my father ; we meet again by God's mercy. "SpENcEa KELLOGG. AMT. VOL, TO. 00 6 25 4 00 6 25 .... 1 50 5 50 • 200 6 26 .... 100 6 $ 1 00 5 38 .... 2 00 5 26 • 200 in tull • 150 6 8 ... 2 10 in tut' .... 2 75 4 31 .... 1 00 5 26 .:.. 1 00 5 40 ... 1 00 5 13 ... 2 00 5 50 .... 2 00 6 09" .... 2 00 4 50 ..., 2 00 in full ..., 1 00 5 44 2 00 5 41 2 00 6 14 ... 50 in full .. 1 00 6 05 1 00 3 25 ... 500 3 25 ...10 00 5 50 ~. 2 00 4 50 ... 1 50 5 31 • 1 00 3 12 ... 2 00 6 26 ... 2 00 5 25 ... 2 00 6 15 ..„ 50 in full 500 4 29 2 00 5 25 ... 225 5 6 .. 2 65 5 25 ... 81 6 20 ~. 5 00 6 25 .... 2 00 5 33 .... 4 06 6 87 1 00 5 42 Writing to Members of Congress. As Congress is now in session it will be well to remind the public of an im portant change in the franking privilege. Heretofore, as it will be remembered, all let tors to and from members of Congress, passed through the mails free of postage. Now however, it must be borne in mind that only the letters . frees a member of Congress can pass . free of postage. All correspondence with an N. C. must be paid, as arc all the letters to a private individual. This is an important fact, the remembrance of which will save much delay in the transaction of busi- ness, both of a pub and private char acter. The provisMs of the law `m u this pre-payment of the letters to Congress, will also. have the effect of relieving the members of that body from much annoyance and useless labor, as it will exempt them from the duty of at tending to a vast correspondenc, 'which in nine cases out of ten owed its propor tions to the fact that "a letter to a mem ber went free." it will also addlargely to the postal revenue, a fact of,which that Department will not complain. Colossal Fortune.—The Marquis of Westminster's income is $5,000 a day, and that of the four leading Rothchild.% $l,OOO an hour. Precious teUrs, those. terThe Prince of Wales' estate has yield ad $8,500,000 ; his landed property gives an income of $125.000; . ratilariVnt eta{ phim F es o,ooo a year while his. mhther twee, be , ' $9OO for Mrs. Wales to The aloha:mad Whig 'sayktitat o , -pox. Isla typhoid— fever rreedit nget the prisoners at Danville 'Vii L ,ia. 5 9 6 29 5 88 a .26 ~~,' 5 21 6 8 /*Brave Man's Last Words. LETTER FROM SPENCER KELLOGG BEOMIG ANON
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