tomtit% Z. W. JONES, Editors. JAB. S. JENNINGS, "One Country, One Constitution, One Destiny." Vlst =NODAL NOV. 30, 188 i, MONEY ! NOW ! 1 The tomtit-et penises of a newspaper • - . , *kin these war tines are enormous, etiliit elm only be met by prompt pay- Mints on the part of patrons. We are flying over THREE Tutus as much 141 Mas we did three years ago, and 'ng advances have been made ISe .., of other printing materials. to all this, the wages of labor than ever before since the itikiilan - _ kt ; of the, paper, while the litteenniinof life command equally ex * *rites. Under these cireum- we must insist on our subscri liirr'rme naberi ng us in a substantial VW. by Making prompt payments. 1H every patron who knows himself Wm in, arrears on our books immedi **ea and settle his account ! It WraneVe us from embarrassment and Op us some heart for our work, whici WIWI& pays but a trifle and nothing Noe as well as any other business pur Tirsweds, lose no time in SETTLING The Latest News. is now no doubt that Gen. Sher 's design is to push as far South as it **be prudent for him to go—or be may be Onto go. Millidgeville and Macon have illititlm been taken by him, and Savannah WitiMitned, and that his movements, thus Ski bon been but slightly interfered with 11 the teem. The opposition that the Georgia militia has thus been able to inter geanlivery slight. It would seem that the Willify forae of the enemy has been ma- Sitlistlitiod into positions that renders their illsttalkeence of very little account. Hood illadlhatmtgard would seem to be able to istoopcoe no serious obstacle to Sherman's pogrom It is very evident that consider ** panic 'prevails in rebeldom in come /moos of merman's operations. Some hopes appear to be excited among our people that mo vements are going on in Georgia. Alabama and North Carolina, , flonoble to the restoration of the Union. tear it will be found that this hope is Milinat foundation. Govs. Brown Stephens, awe, Foot and others are only hostile to .whait they regard as Davis' invasions of the skiligs of the people of the South, but we re gledalkent all as committed to the theory of Southern independence. • - Nemovements of importance have been mach by Grant. Sheridan has had a little brisete . in the Valley. Hood's threatened won of Tennessee will be likely to be *tithed by the unexpected movement of Stierium. Thomas will probably give him a the employment he can attend to. Foote is creating some stir in the rebel annerien. He is a restless, uneasy spirit. . **attempt to fire the city of New York, -'Ante. bold and reckless undertaking. It is liiiillatteristie of the Southern dare-devel - allanictm lor there is little doubt that the igosett was undertaken by Southern etnis mita Happily the project failed without fiFag mut& actual berth. Ifs are . rtpiend to see, that, at last, no - vitiations have resulted in the exchange of a ellaila modem of oar suffering prisoners in -460williatn hands. We think the country will Illidit the administration responsible for not -libeling this object sooner. There was = O B ~.... • , in the way of doing this, except the ..., , P theory.of Butler adapted to make m t iniiinA with the fanatics. ~ ~ . . . IllisiVasidiet Judgeship of this bis- triot. -Aro find the following in the Uniontown eif Liberty, of Thursday last, in :11111111111101#11 with the Judgeship of this Dia -14111114; :lligp an trinsi is at prawn; absent from beim, we have no information as to-the niliburat hie aeoeptahce oiths Judgehip." awls - "' L ihingbsn pipers, of the ISM di* Waite have no doubt of his acceptance. It 40141.61111* , turistidag to Sudan office of this e=foklaffirbeggrag for an occupant. INiae-is settled before.** lOW Ina entered upon the Autieo of the offiqii. East - 1 1 4 period for holding the 5 . ,P.4 4114 / a t 114.1 01 - ' ;best week is.the refular pee. ..1044.kipiefw meaty sad the seseewaii 'l4llllll4lrilitecatr. Abolition Villainy in Indiana. The moaistrons villainy of the Aboli tiosista in the State of India*, by means of which they have suoceeded in re-electing Gov. Morton, almost sur passes belief, and yet it is so transpa rent that no one can question the truth of the allegation. The Sunday's Pittsburgh .Repub/icas er contains the following statement of Mr. George Stumf, member of the 7th Pennsylvania Cavelry : PrITSBIIRGII, Oct: 14, 1864. George Stumf, member of the Bth Pennsylvania cavalry and attached to the music corps, do hereby certify, that al though formerly a resident of Pittsburgh, en ronte from Atlanta to Pittsburgh, was requested, together with about 2, 000 other soldiers, by the officers in Indianapolis, at which place we arrived at 4 o'clock on the morning of election day, to vote the Republican State ticket. A great part of the soldiers were . Ger mans. At the depot were carriages which took us to the polls, and many of the soldiers voted twice and three times. We handed our votes into a window, and nobody asked us whether we had a right to vote or whether we formerly resided in the State. Afterwards we were touted with ale and all other things 's.* might eat or drink. 1 am convinced that every soldier of the 2,000 voted once, and many two or three times, although we belonged to Penn sylvania. Ohio, Michigan, Maryland and other States. Beside us in Indian apolis also voted about 2,000 invalids, belonging to other States. At 8:30 p. in, started the soldiers of the Pennsyl vania regiments to Crestline, and the soldiers of other States to other places. GEORGE STUMPF. Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry. All doubt as to the accuracy of Mr. Stumpfs statement, if any exist, is re moved by the fact that the city of In dianapolis in 1860 contained a popula tion of 18,612, and is reported to have given a majority of 6,257. while Pitts burgh, which kad a population in 1860 of 49,220 gives a total vole of only 7, 043. [We copy the above article, no. as any thing either new or uncommon in the late elections ; but to show that as a solemn and deliberate expression of the opinions of the people. these elections in many of the States, were the merest of farces. Bat we have another purpose in view and that is to copy an extract from a letter now before us, the writer et which is well known to us, to be a Republican of the rankest kind. but of that reckless and dare-devil character of which this war has produced so many deplorable instances. We have not the slightest doubt of the truth of the statement. The writer says : "I wonder at the people of your section voting for that imbecile McClellan. For my part, I Doted for Lincoln, three times on the day of election in Illinois, and would hare been glad to hare voted for him as many times more, if I could hare done so!" Alas ! how have we degenerated since the days of our fathers !—Mseasaim.] We hope our Democratic friends ...,hrorighout the country will keep in kindly remembrance the professed Ministers of the Gospel, who, during the late campaign, left their pulpits and went preaching for Lincoln and Abolitionism. The time is coming when these hypocritical pretenders, will want pay. Let those whom they have denounced refuse to give them a cent. Democrats remember them. [We copy the above from the Bellefonte Democratic Watchman as exhibiting the appreciation of Democrats in reference to political preaching and preachers. We do not insist upon preachers having no politics, but we do insist upon them keeping them out of the pulpit, or else being informed to lot* for their pay only from those who prefer politics on Sunday, as well as the other six days of the week.—hiPseenjer.] ei-The Fayette County Democracy, at the late election, give a majority of 992 for McClellan ; an increase of more than 200 over the majority at the October election. . The Republican majority in Washington county was reduced nearly a hundred at the Presidential election—the majority being re duced from 180 to 107. The majority in Greene was increased nearly 100 at the latter election over the former. These results show that the confidence of the people in the time-honored and conser vative principles of the Democratic party, finds no abatement among the sterling Dem ocrats of South Western Pennsylvania. "Preaching on Politics." Rev. Mr. Carroll, of a Presbyterian church in New Haven, has recently delivered a ser mon, in which he speaks emphatically against "preaching politica." He says : I adjure all isms and ignore all political themes in the house of God, on the day of Got, either preached or prayed—(and they can be quite as easily prayed as preached,) and are, when the minister in leading the devotions of an entire people intones the shibboleth of a party; when he fails to rep resent the desires and wants common to all spiritual, land becomes a High Priest before the throne representing what is partial and political, generally dictating to the Allwise and Most High God the tune and way in which things shall be done, and if not so done, implying a repudiation of Divine au thority and the - inatighration of rebellion against him. In all places and at all times I have op posed to the full extent of my ability, the introduction of civil, secular and political questions into the hands of God, and I do not mean neoeasarily party politics, or those that*, directly into party Luau, b u t also thatmingliag of public and political affairs into the Waist:onion of the pulpit, which brings up and dimension in thiesecred . place and thus, those topics of peculiar interest, whit* occupy the *dads of Worldly men dar ing the week. I &lonia sack s tow"•-(1) bustle I Topa inill—acul &gnaw thy eargi *Arm; inweirnOitio imPuilanthdr upon tha.m ; and hath comedian itlitts the world of recon c-diatioe—eowlfien we are embassadors for Christ,Vid though God did beseech 3loit by as; we KO you in Christ's stead be ye re condite(' to God. For he bath made him to be sin fie. as ; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." (2.) If lawlnl it is unnecessary. Surely this topic is prominent enough. Further ventilation, and here, is needless. Already it absorbs the mass of men six days out of seven ; already, by invading the sanctuaries of our land, has it eaten out the very heart of spirituality, so that the revival of God's work in such Zions is an anomaly—already does it threaten to usurp a permanently par ameut place in the house of God, and the hearts of his worshipers, demanding even now conformity 0 its political creed, as es sential to Christian fellowship. (3.) It is expedient. Christians are driv- en away from their spiritual homes in bitter disappointment, while even the worldling departs in disgust from the house of God, doubting the reality and value of religion, judging it thus because of this miserable conterfeit caricature. (4) My ordination vows forbid it. , What says the Constitution of my church, which every Presbyterian minister in his ordination vows declares "he sincerely receives and adopts as containing the system of doctrines taught in Holy Scriptures ?" "Synods or councils are to handle or conclude nothing but what is ecclesiastical ; and are not to intermeddle with civil affairs which concern the commonwealth." Can this be a reason why ordination by the Presbyterian Church is here repudiated and pronounced invalid? and was literal fulfilment of this by me re garded equivalent to a forfeiture of my cre dentials as an ordained minister of Jesus ? (6.) It degrades and divides the Church of God. It is the prolific cause of eclesiastical schism. It dishonors the church of God by linking her with the state as partner, and debases her by making her at length her tool and servabt, when her deplorable deg redation is complete. Polluted by the hand of secular power, her fair robes rent and soiled—her hands chained to Oaalsars chariot wheels—behold the Church of God, the once fair bride of Christ Copperheads and Adders. The Lincoln abolition party and the Loyal Leaguers delight in giving the name of "Cop perhead" to all who differ from them, to all who do not bow down before their shrine of Lincoln and the negro•—to all who are op posed to tyranny and who are lovers of the Constitution and the Union ; in fine to all who are truly for liberty.—(Hencelt•e term from the head of liberty on the old copper cent ) Now what has this self called loyal and patriotic party done for our country ? —Let us see. Ist. It has been the adder of imaginary clauses to the Constitution. 2d. It has been the adder of imaginary State of Western Virginia to the Union. 3d. It has been the adder of $4,000,000,- 000 to our national debt. 4th. It has been the ad , ler of hundreds of thousand of slaughtered soldiers to our bills of mortality. sth. It has been the adder of a countless host of shoddy contractors to the govern mental patronage. 6th. It is constantly the adder of insult to injury to all pure citizens who dare prefer "Union as it was" to "Disunion and aboli tionism." Are not they, the Lincolinites, "Adders" of the most venomous type ? "Adder. A kind Serpent full of poison. It is said to stop its ears, the one on the earth, the other with its tail, to avoid hearing."—Butter worths Concordance. And truly the Lincoln Adder dislikes to hear the truth. The K(hireage and the Alabama. The Full report of Captaili Winslow dis closes the fact that his original intention was to run down the Alabama and fight her at close gutters, but, Semmes kept out of the way. The following quotation shows how the cowardly pirate was compelled to fight: "He had now arrived within nine hundred yards of her, and I was apprehensive that another broadside, aearly raking as it was, would prove disastrous. Accordingly I or dered the Kearsage sheered and opened on the Alabama. "The positions of the vessels was now broadside to broadside, but it was soon ap parent that Capt. Semmese did not seek close action. I became then fearful, lest, af ter some fighting, that he would again make for the shore. To defeat this I determined to keep full speed on, and with a port helm to run under the stern of the Alabama and rake, if he did not prevent it by sheering and keeping his broadside to us. He adopt ed this made as a preventative, and, as a consequence, the Alabama was forced, with It fall head of steam, into a circular track during the engagement. "The effect of his mano3uver was such that, at the last' of the action, when the Ala bama would have made Off, she was near five miles from the shore ; and had the ac tion continued from the firsiin parallel lines, with her head in shore, the line of jorisdic tioniwould no doubt have been reached. , lirErighom Young lately shut up a Mor mon sides:who was just from England, en gaged in pitching into the Government. Brigham is 1°34 lie loves Vidon, mewl hkee a fitakiedil of tin,* cud relies up on his oonstitotion to !sari him through. orA cod tasolain• hes beesiaveste4 that, omit dm. Wang debts, and des the week ef Wet l y mew likes mot 'VOA is POMO". Every hour that peace is postotA On the basis of the Constitution oa4 the thieht t& . nation is being imievefieli4 War, as *fie conducted under Aboliticin anspices, mnat if continned fonr years longer, cause the ruin of the whole conntry. Mr. Lincoln and his generals are waging the war in such a way as to hurt the north quite as much as the South. The recent vandalism of Sheridan, in laying waste the Shenandoah Valley, not even-sparing barns and mills, is unprecedented in modern wartare for blind atrocity. The folly of such destruction is only surpassed by its barbarity. Bat .<Abra ham Lincoln supporters are too stu pid to see that every house, barn, bridge, car, town and city that we burn, in the prosecution of this war, makes the nation so much the poorer, while we are taxed to pay the expense incurred by destroying our own property. If we were fighting a foreign en emy, the result would be far different, be eduse then what would weaken then, would strengthen us. The Tatk About Peace. Strange to say, right on the heels of Mr. Lincoln's re-election, before the air which was so vexed by the voice of Abo lition orators, who bawled themselves hoarse with the cry of "no compromise with traitors," has become still, we hear repeated whisperings of peace. These utterances come, not from Vallandig ham or Fernando Wood, not from the New York News or.any other "Copper head" sheet, but from Ben. Butler, from the Tribune, the Press, and the Chronicle. What does this mean! Are these men and thes s enewspapiars honest! Do they really desire peace! Will they agree that any offer shall be•made which there is the slightest probability of the South accepting.? Is there any possi bility of a speedy peace? We fear not. We believe the people of the North foolishly threw away the only chance for a speedy and honorable peace when they suffered Mr. Lincoln to be re-elected. We have no doupt the South would have liStened to proper terms of adjustment if proposed by the Democratic party. The defeat of Lin coln would have shown that fanaticism in the North was on the decline ; that wiser councils prevailed; that the masses here were ready, to lay aside party pas sions and sectioriid prejudices, that they still bad manhood ei►ough left to assert their own rights under the Constitution and the laws of the land. New York and Philadelphia. The vote in the two largest cities in America stands as follows : New York. Phila. McClellan 73,329 41,485 Lincoln 30,443 50,335 36,887 The New. York that gave more than thirty.six thousand for McCLELLAN. is the first city in America, in population, wealth, intelligence, commerce, litera ture, art and science. Had there been more polling places, or another day for voting, she would have given th 3 Hero of Antietam ten thousand more of a majority. 'fflto. Extensive Forgeries. The All2ged Authors Arrested— Banks in New Work, Boston, Philadelphia and Washington Victimized The detective police of the city have just succeeded in ferreting out the au thors of one of the most extensive series or forgeries ever perpetrated in this country. They were taken yesterday before Judge Dowling, at the Tombs Police Court, and one of them turning state evidence, disclosed an organization plan of forgery, which showed that some of the banks of this city and in various parts of the State, as well as in the cities of Boston, Philadelphia, Bal timore and Washington, had been heavy sufferers. Some six weeks since Superintendent Kennedy was notified of the existence of extensive forgeries that had been committed on certain banks, some of them to the amount of twenty five thousand ~dollars, and detailed de tectives Eustact, Farely and Tieman to work up the case. The operations of these were so successful that the follow ing named parties were suspected of be ing concerned in the business: W. Pat terson, M. O'Brien.lra Garvadier, alias Garvadie, George P. couglilin, Hugh McNellis, John St. Clair and Spencer Pettus. The first four were promptly arrested, but theremainder are at large. The complaint upon which they were brought before Judge Dowling is one involving the stung of a check for $25,127 50 in the. name of Richard D. Lathrop, a well . known merchant of New York. It is supposed that nume rous other complaints will be made be fore the present case is disposed of.— A lengthy examination of the witnesses was made yesterday, and the case was adjourned until to-day, the prisoners being remanded to the Tombs in the meantime. The detectives obtained some of the antecedents of the parties, which will be found of interest. They state that Patterson, who is a man of about forty years of age, is a native of Philadel phia, and that -he has been known for twenty-five years past as a forger of tho most dangerous description, being a bold and skillful operator, a most excellent imitative penman; and slag) business man. - He -has served several terms in. the Pennsylvania and New York State prisons, and is 'now under indictment in this city for forging the name of Simon Draper, Present Collector of the Port, to a check for $l,OOO. For this he was arraigned. yesterday in the Court of General Sasaionn, and pleaded not guilty. O'Brien has been known ta the police for some year, pot as a suspioiousAnkr. actor operathag about hotels and banks. He is ale . apoious individual, quiet and reserve in mamma, but has often been otneind by thepoiiisk • Ito is brother mliaboss Shepard, die most sumessibi ad skilful female sounsedeiPir tint Err optiated in this country, and who bac serrild two term* in the State pris ' itliVadier • bus been prtisiowly cr. jested in Washington, bin no me into Edda t tigainstkim. Conkliii was formerly a eerk in a large find in this city. This gave him a knowledge of the banking business and brought him kite noted with pro minent business men, and it Was foi this purpose that he was admitted to the circle of the forgers. Spencer Pettus has been knowd to the police for years past as a pickpocket, hotel thief, and bank-robber. He was arrested, tried and convicted, and serv- 1 ed a term in England, for picking pock ets at the Crystal Palace, in Loudon. McNellis and Le Clair cave been known as forgers for some time past. The evidence accumulating against the suspected parties shows that a most extensive series of forgeries has been committed in Albany, Troy, Scranton, Washington, Philadelphia, Jersey City, Newark, Baltimore and other cities. In addition to the forged check for $25,000 as above stated; one has been discovered for $3,140 on the Mechanics' Bauk of tliis city, the check being sign ed by L. N. McCready & Co., and dat ed December 23, 1863. A second forg ed check on the same bank for $14,000, dated September 16, 1863, and signed William M. Weeks, is in the hands of the detectives. A third forged check en the same bank for $9,000, signed E. B. Ludlow, dated July 20, 1863, was deposited in the Sixth National Bank in this city, and drawn against by the forgers. Another check on the Merchants' Bank for the sum of $20,365,42 dated June 4, 1864, and signed J. S. Gilbert, was made by the forgers, and deposited in the Ninth National Bank in this city, and drawn against. Another forgery was perpetrated on the Pacific Bank to the amount of $3,000, the name of C. Grinnell lt Co., being signed to the check. These checks all appeared to be duly stamped and certified to, and had every appearance of genuineness. It is sup posed the , aggregate amounts of monies thus obtained will not fall short of from $250,000 to ,$300,000. George F. Conkling turned State evidence. Rebel Incendiarism in New York. NEW YORK, Nov. 27.—1 t is ascertained that most of the persons engaged in the at tempt to burn the city came from Canada, most of them from Toronto and vicinity. Most of the conspirators were officers in the rebel army, and had served as guerrillas in Kentucky and Missouri- The movements of the incendiaries were arranged very uniformly. At each of the ho tels they appeared in the character of travel ers, desiring rooms for a few days. They carried small leather valises, entered ficti tious names on the hotel books, and carried their own baggage to their rooms. 9,150 The botels;ofar discovered on fire were the Astor, Belmont, Howard, Lovejoys, Tammany, Metropolitan, St. Nicholas, Fifth Avenue, United States, New England, Laf arge and St. James. The original plan was sti multaneously to fire the hotels at the lower and upper parts of the city, and while the fire department and police had their attention attracted to these portions of the city, to fire the hotels and other public buildings in the more cen, tral points. The next step would have been to fire the shipping, beginning with the bay barges, along side of the ships and steamers. During this time three of the gang were to attempt the destruction of the iron dads, now in the harbor. They had provided themselves with nu merous appliances, among which was a large quantity of gt eek fire, and as nearly as pos sible these steps were to be taken together, or so close upon each other as to render de tection by the police almost impossible. The failures, in nearly all cases, is attri buted to the incendiaries neglecting to open the windows. In every hotel the windows and transoms were tightly closed, thus giv icg no air to the dames. Detectives say the whole force, detailed for the work, had not arrived. The time was fixed for the 4th of December, but fears of discovery and frustration led to a prema ture attempt. J. Mitchell Challenges Foote. WASHINGTON, Nov., 26.—Richmond papers of the 20th, are filled with the proceedings of the trail of Henry E. Foote, and his colleague, in which the latter had severely assaulted Foote in his own house, injurin g him severely. John Mitchell, the Irish exile, had challenged Foote to fight a duel. Swan declined when challenged, and was insulted by Foote, whom he threatened. All parties were put under bonds to keep the peace and fight no duel. The Richmond Sentinel, of Thursday, has an articie favoring the arming of slaves. The New York Commercial, referring to the late order of Provost Marshal General Fry, says: That there will be another draft before New Year, as has been often asserted, is not at pro bable; in fact it has been authoritatively denied by Government officials that any further draft is in contemplation by the War Department at present; but the results of the winter campaign, which promises to be an active one, may make another draft if necessary in the spring, and it is therefore the duty of the Gov ernment to perfect the enrolment, so that the drawing can be, made with the least possible delay. This can only be done iu large cities by co-operation on the part of the people. Grant's intended Movement. Private intelligence represents that all is in readiness with General Grant's for ces, for an active forward movement, in connection with General Sherman's op erations. The opinion was gaining ground that Sherman's destination was a point nearer to Grant than Savannah. Loss Of The Ship Minnehaha. Sits FRANCISCO, Nov. 21.—The ship Minnehaha, Mattapan and Arno were lost in a gale of Howland and Roker's Island, October 6th. The ship White Swallow, also missing, is thought to be lost. Gen. Canby Renew. CAIRO, Nov. 2tl.—New Orleans pa pers of the 15th; says that. Gen. Canby is recovering. The asowninompent of hisda4, sit _44siglithe4_ frees here / on the autheaiy of Ark °Abe eteener Stieltiey, prime 0 be Moe. DSO Clip 41.4.4emp1et e d Inneteriti Of tleikiteliel Press en "%swiss Adathststratlee, Nzw • Tonic, Nay. 24.—1 t was eta.- rently reported at. Fortress Monroe, Monday morning, that General Butler had blown an end out of his canal, and had let water in. An officer who left our lines in front of Petersburg at daylight, Monday. morning, reported at that time there were no signs of the evacuatioa of Petersburg. The rebel works were well manned and the pickets on both sides keep up the usual firing. The Richmond Enquirer says : "No Government is so despotic as that of the popular leaders, when they are relieved from all control on the part of the other powers of the State. 'We are experi encing it now, but we are not yet fully awake to the extent to 'which we have abandoned popular government, for we' have not entrusted supreme and unlimit ed pewer to a dictator, but have almost drifted into it, as nations ever do who are left to great leaders at a trying period of their life. We have seen war : the national debt; the power of resistance ; the readiness to sufibr, and the sacrifices to our sacred cause. We have seen them all grow from insignificant be ginnings to gigantic proportions. In the same manner we have, with intelligence and confidence unparallelled in the an nals of mankind, stripped ourselves as people of one right after another, until the power proved almost without reserve from many to one, from the people to ruler The Raleigh Confederacy supports the use of negroes in the rebel army, and says, "this is no new theory" the be stowal of freedom for meritorious ser vice. Acts of emancipation were based on this very consideration, and it never occurred to the many legislators that they were committing any such incon sistency as is now suggested. It is what:the negro considers a boon, a bene fit and reward that we propose to give him, and it is proposed to give him what in his own consideration will be a stimu • ions to faithful service. The introduc tion of 40,000 negroes will be of incal culable benefit. It will add to our fight ing strength an inured and veteran three and it will do much to satisfy soldiers if they see the Government re-enforcing their numbers." Macon Probably in Our Poseession. —Consternation in Richmond NEW YORK, Nov. 22.—The Alex andria (Vu.) journal says the iron-Oads, previously stationed atyrotress Monroe, moved up the James on Friday to Dutch Gap, indicating an important movement. The Commerciars Washityrton special says there Nr a great consternation in Richmond, on Saturday, on account of Sherman's movements. It is believed he is sweeping onwards in spite of all opposition. It is possible that Macon has already fallen, and that may be one of the consternations in Richmond. Gov. Morton, of Indiana, arrived in Washington to-day, and had an inter view with the President. H. H. Thompson, late Health Office, died suddenly at his residence, in Brook lyn, a day or two since. It appears the disaster to Brasher's independent scouts near Winchester, a few days since, happened thus : Brasher had sixty-two men and carrying two of Mosbey's men, he was informed that there was a small party just ahead.— Brasher, with one of his men, recon noitered and met a small force returning to his main body. He charged upon the guerrillas, driving them, and after passsing a cross road, Mosbey at the. head of about 200 pounced upon the scouts, hewing them in, when twenty two were killed and the remainder captured, ESCAPE FROM ANDERSONVILLE. Collision on the Camden And Amboy Railroad. NEW YORK, Nov. 23—Thomas Cheshire, an escaped prisoner from An dersonville, Ga., arrived here yesterday. He was a Union scout, from East Tenn essee, captured in Septercbcr, 1863, and since that time has been a prisoner at the South. He lately made his escape from Andersonville with four others, and travelling by night, and hiding by day, through the swamps of Georgia, he managed to reach the blockading squad son, and has come on from Key West. Four thousand two hundred and fifty recruits have been received on board the receiving ship Vermont, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard since the 16th of August- These men have received in Govern ment bounty and advance pay over 170 000. The daily average number of men now recieved on board the Vermont is thirty. The protective was a claim association intending to establish au offs de in this city, for the purpose of furnishing em ployment to all disabled and discharged soldiers who desire it. A collision took place on the Camden and Amboy Branch Railroad, on Mon day morning, between a gravel train and a wood train, by which two per sons were seriously, injured. Both en gines were smashed, and considerable other damage was done. The gunboat Nepture sailed from Philadelphia on Sunday on special ser vice connected with the conveying of the California mail steamers. A new plan of conveying has been adopted, which for prudential reasons cannot be published, Powder Mill Blown Up. NEWBURGH, N. Y., Nov. 22. At sev en o'clock this morning, the packing house, connected with Smith & Roads' Powder Mills, three and a half miles west of Newbergh, - was blown up. A Mr. Smith, one of the workmen, who had entered the building three or five minutes before the explosion was the only perm] killed. The building con tained about. three tons of powder. Nothing is insetva as to the wise o the explognon." FROM THEAOUTHWEST:\ CAM, Norember dates to the 17th say that r placed Beauregard with a considers e rebel force, at Corinth, and that Forrest Wonld join him there. The rebel Captain ThompoiOn was conscripting every man he conld find in the neighborhood of Germantown.' There were about four thousand reb els at Mount Pleasant, Miss., twelve miles from Collierville. Thia is the only large body near Memphis, bat there are several small forced not far away. Chalmers and Longstreet are reported at Holly Springs. Ninety six paroled federal 'MUM Arrived at Memphis on the 15th, tinder est; , rt of a rebel commissioner of ex- ch a ogee. The cr ew of the steamer Cheeseman, captured on the Tennessee river by For rest, have been paroled, and have also arrived at Meanphis.. New Orleans papers of the 17th xon-;' firm the statement concerning the' at- . tempt of the commander of the gunboat Rattler to surrender his vessel to dia l rebels. He was to receive one him. dred bales of cotton, two hundrej thousand dollars iu greenbacks, an& pass through the trans Mississippi de partment to Mexico. Gen. Grant in New York—Gen. Soott's Opinion of Him—What he Thinks of the Confedera4. NEW Yona - ,November 22.—General Grant left the city yesterday afternoon for the front. By his request his pres ence here was kept as quiet. as possible, and though he was at the serenade of the Governor elect on Saturday, no mention was made of the fact in the ac counts of that affair. Before leaving, the General called on Gen. Scott, and had an interesting con ference. Gen. Scott presented him with a copy of his autobiography, written on the fly-leaf, "From the oldest to the ablest General in the world." To a gentleman in this city General Grant said, on &today : "The Confede racy is a mere shell. I know it. Ism sure of it. It is a hollow shell, mid Sherman will prove it to you." The calm and modest consciouSneSS of power with which this was said, =Ms than the words themselves cony eyed to his visitor an unqualified conviction of -the truth of the General's yernarlAs In answer to a question whet]) er,. in his opinion, ninety days would hneg the end, he said, with a grim 51 pile "I am not a prophet, but we shall Kla what shall be done in six months.'''', GENERAL SHERMAN. His Rapid and Successful March, &C. WAsinNoTox, Nov. 23.—Richm. ma papers of Monday and Tuesday ca anoor into our lines of the Potomac Army halt night. Those of yesterday's date c oa. tarn little or no news from Sherma Ink movements. but the Associated Pr& lattz dispatch in Monday's papers has high, ', important intelligence from Augusta o the rapid and successful advance of Sherman into the very heart of Georgia. It is believed that Tuesday's papers would contain still more important in t elligence, if permitted to print it. The dispatch does not state that Macon was captured, but admits that Thomas was but eighteen miles from it on Saturday last, and then advancing directly on that place. It was garrisoned only by Georgia militia and not very strongly fortified, and the belief is expressed here, in military quarters, that it has fallen ere this. The flanks of the army were stretched over many miles of the country by the cavalry, who were ob taining fbrage and supplies, and occu pying towns and villages. Miledgeville, the capitol of Georgia, was captured by cavalry. The legisla ture was in session and some of its mem bers who did not get out in time were taken prisoners, with citizens who re mained. - • Great excitement prevailed at Aiwa ta, as it was taken for granted that Sherman was marching direct on that city. The Georgia and Alabama militia, under the command of Howell Cobb and Gen. Gustavus Smith, offered little or no resistance to Sherman's onward movement. Threatened Raid on New York. NEW YORK, Nov. 23.—The 2rOuns has a letter from Brasher Falls, New York, dated 20th, reporting a furore and excitement along the line of the Northern Railroad, in consequence of a rumor that a large body of raiders had collected in Canada, and armed them selves for the purpose of making an as sault upon this section of the State. It was their intention to tear up the track, destroy the locomotives, set fire to the - depots and commerce the task of house breaking and highway robbery. A force of men sufficient to repel the would be robbers has been armed and • stationed along the line of the road, and every train is prepared to respond to the assault. LATER.—The Vice Consul at Mon treal has sent word that the robbers in tend to make an attack on Malone, New York,.to rob the stores and burn-the village. Several persons were arrested and their baggage examibed, but the authorities tailed to find positive proof of intentions to join in the contemplated assaults. The above is partially confirmed by the dispatch of last bight announcing a slight attack ou Rouse's Point A. letter from there says : A eammieft, tion received last waek from an person, addressed to a gentle man at Champlain, purporting,o come from Montreal, stated that a plot was on foot V) burn Upper and Lower Champlain, N. Y., and the smile would : be destroyed within nine days. Ti would appear from what happene4 Rouse's Point that the citizens. .ainng. the entire frontier would do welt 6).b1) on their guard. Naw YORK ELEAMON.- 'Ark World of Saturday makes the' on ist majority on Governoriallawr fork 2,843. This is dose WO* WA* .of 750,000. Mil
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