Proclamation Regarding Deserters by
the President of the United States.
ON, March 10.
Whereas, the twcnty•first section of
the act of Congress approved on the 3rd
inst., entitled "An teL to amend the
several acts heretofore passed to pro
vide for the enrolling and calling out of
the national firers, and tier other po•-
poses," requires that, in addition to the
'Other lawful penalties of the crime of
desertion from the 'Mina' v or naval
service, all persons who have deserted
the military or naval service of the Uni
ted States who shall not return to the
said service or report themselves to a
provbst marshal within sixty days after
the proclamation hereinafter mentioned,
shall be deemed and taken to have vol
untarily relinquished and forfeited their
rights to become citizens, and such de
serters shall be forever incapable of
holding any office of trust or profit tin
der the United States, or of exercising
any rights of citizens thereof, and all
persons who shall hereafter desert the
military or naval service, and all per
sons who, being duly enrolled, shall de
part the jurisdiction of the district in
which he is enrolled, or go beyond the
limits . of the United states with the In
tent to avoid any draft into the military
or naval service duly ordered, shall be
liable to the penalty of this section.—
And the President is hereby authorized
and required forthwith, on the passage
of this a; to issue his proclamation,
setting forth the provisions of this sec
tion, in which proclamation the Presi
dent is requested to notify all deserters
returning within sixty days, as aforesaid,
that they shall he pardoned, -On condi
tion of returning to their rtiennents or
companies, or to such other organiza
tions as they may be assigned to, unless
they Sfhall have served 101 a period of
time equal to their original term of
enlistment.
Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln,
President of the United States, do issue
this my proclamation as required by said
act, ordering and requiring all deserters
to return to their proper posts, and I
do hereby notify them that all deserters
who shall within sixty days from the
date of this proclamation, viz , on or be
fore the 10th day of May, 1865, return
to service, or report themselves to a pro
vost marshal, shall be pardoned on con
dition that they return to their regi
nients and companies, or to such other
*organizations as they may be assigned
to, and serve the remainder of their orig
inal term of enlistment, and in addition
Ihereto'n period equal to the time lost
by desertion.
"'ln testimony whereof' have hereun
to set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this
.10th day of March, in the year of our
Lord. one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-five,
and of the independence of
the United States, the eighty-ninth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Iljy the President, .
"1471:iipt li. SEwArn, Sec'y of State
— Oar Rivers on the Rampage.
qmrOn Friday morning at an early hour
the Mononghela and Allegheny rivers
commenced rising very rapidly, and it
was soon apparent that we were to be
visited by a most destructive freshet.
On the Allegheny river• front of the
city prudent folks commenced moving
theiijioatable material, and merchandize
from the reach of danger: Dray men
and laborers were in demand and re
&lived-- panic prices for their labor.—
The vast:quantity of oil and also of
empty barrels made it no light task to
remove them on short notice, while the
miserable condition of the wharf caus
ed much suflerin& among the horses and
was the cause of a like amount of blaF
pheming with the drivers. There was
considerable objection made to the de
positing of oil in front of property
where it had been hauled to, and one
party secured the services of a police
officer to prevent it. In the lower part
of Allegheny the exodus of furniture
from the lower to the upper stories of
the dwellings commenced at an early
hour and was continued through the
day and evening.'
'The parties having control of the two
monitors lying below St. Clair street
bridge, probably remembering the trip
of the Manaynnk, had all sorts of pre
venter lines oat, and the two vessels
entirely secure up to a late hour last
evening.
At dusk there was twenty-seven feet
in the Allegheny, and rising from six.
to eight feet per horn• The sight upon
the river was truly lamentable, but at
the same time a fearfully grand one.
:We never remember a freshet where so
much valuable property came down the
river, the most of it being lost to the
owners. Oil in barrels by the hun
dreds, oil in boats, log rafts, barges,
board rafts, coal fiats, and in short every
description of river property, came tear
ing down the mad stream. We will
not attempt to estimate the loss, which
will be very heavy, and the inconveni
ence to the inhabitants of the submerg
ed -districts very great. This article
was written at an early hour on Friday
evening and will probably receive some
Additions
We learn that the aqueduct at Free
poncami the bridge at Kittanning have
teen carried away.
There were reports current of loss of
life in Allegheny in removing furniture
from tenses in
. the flooded district, but
no - reliable informatiOn could be obtain
ed ni) to a late hour. —Fitaurgli Post.
One Hundred and Fifteen Millions
of 7-30'..
GENT! E ll' ,
, N ,„: I herewith return to the
House Of Represeutaticat;, in which it origi
nated, Bill No. 181, entitled "An act rela
tive to the Fifth Judicial District of Fenn- '
srlvania," with my objection to the same.
It is with much regret that I feel compel!.
Ir. **. r . ,ledby my oath of Office to withhold my dig- 1
1041054iimonds, a negro soldier front.' aturefrom this bill, on account of its being
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in violation of the Constitution. I
Menorwahels'eity, Penna.. who was in :
c> - I have, on this nestion re nested the f
the late aldrrtneh, near Gallatin, Tenn., i opinion of the Attorney g General, aCo
came "home last week on a furlough,. 1 which I transmit with this message and i
as o
whiOttlie obtained after this fashion: TO part ofit, and I entirely agree in the conclu- i
see Our Colonel NA Boys strike tot 131°I), at which 'he has arrived. On all sub- '
your country, and your hoties'..'Well, eta , and especially °n "'ll' ma L te ' t 8° -vitally 1
country, but die chile
Important jil
rtant as dick")- / conceive it to
some struck for der
be nommen , to abstain trom any action that I
straek ktitozizi; DA s r a ' t . ; -
~ p pal o "m a tter, to, limy claall,;kith the true meaning and spirit
you Reel"_
,-,: tl. c 0 pv:::.,.4 . , , - - ,••• --- • •ntv be the
millions of the popular
7-30iomm has been disposed of np to
&heyday night last, and not more than
50 minims of this particular loan yet
remain.
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"One Country, One Constitution, One
Destiny."
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22,1855.
Messenger OMoe for Sale
The subscription list, good will and
printing materials of the Messenger are
offered for sale, possession to be given
on the Ist of April. The list is one of
the best in the State for prompt pay,
and the :fob and Advertising patronage
is large and remunerative. The Coun
ty was organized in 1793 and is one of
the most reliable Democratic counties in
the State, having nem. given a majority
to the opposition.
There is no better position in the
State for a Democratic paper.
Address soot, concerning terms,
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Our Terms.
Heretofore we have been exceeding
ly accommodating to our subscribers
in accepting the advance terms in pay
ment of subscriptions to the Messenyci
after the expiration of the year. Owing
to the high prices of living and the in
creased cost of labor and materials, we
will be compelled, in the future, to ex
act our terms strictly ift all eases. Here
after then our terms will be strictly ad
hered to; which are two dollars in ad
vance or two dollars and MI/ cents, if not
paid in advance. Our subscribers, there
fore, will see the necessity of prompt
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dingly.
The Judicial Question—Gov. Curtin's
Veto.
Below we publish the veto message of
Gov. CraTIN, of the bill recently passed the
Legislature, annexing the county of Wash
ington to the Judicial district of Allegheny.
In other woras says the Patriot (C. Union,
an attempt to legislate a county out of
Democratic district into one of Abolition
rule. This was, in effect, also denying the
people of Washington county the Constitu
tional right of snfferage in reference to their
Judiciary, until the next election ofJadges
—a term of some seven years.
Nor is this all: Showing how far party
madness hill carry some men, there is actu
ally a provision in the bill referred to, au
thorizing Judge Sterritt, of Allegheny, to
deputize any one of fire other ,Indar.l to go
over to the county of Washington to hold
the several cowts for that county! Men
might thus come to be tried for capital of
fences in the Oyer and Terminer Courts, by
Judges of the Dist"ict court of Allegheny,
whose jurisdiction and powers at home were
restricted to purely civil cases!
We sincerely thank Governor Curtin for
having turned aside one of the boldest and
most reckless efforts rye have ever known in
our State to place the Judiciary under the
feet of party malignity and personal preju
dice. The independence of this right arm of
our republican institutions has been already
well nigh destroyed; and this is indeed a
welcome and timely exhibition of that an
cient respect which form so beautiful and
prominent a feature in the systems of the
most enlightened governments of the earth.
We give in this paper the brief and perti
nent message of the Governor, together with
the opinion of Attorney General Meredith,
with whom he fully concurs. We bespeak
for the Attorney General's paper, also, a
careful perusal. It is marked, as his opinion
•generally has been by high legal acumen,
and clear logical reasoning. •
We hear of threats that the bill thus de
feated shall yet be carried over the heads of
the Governor and the Attorney General. We
cannot believe that there are enough so rec
less as thus to hazard the rights and inter
ests of the unoffending people of Washington
county. The action of all their Courts—the
rights of suitors—nay the majesty and power
of law in its highest features—might thus he
rendered uncertain, unsettled and powerless
in one of the oldest and most prosperous
and peacable counties of the'Commonwealth:
EXECUTIVE CITAMKER,
11.otaiskurtG, March 10, 1865.)
To the Senate and Ifouee of il,Tre.ientatires
1 of the , Commonwealth, of Pennlylrania:
result, I feel bound by every obligation that Vice President Johnson.
c:ln bind a magistrate, personally and otii- hay , bithero, tct wined tcotti
to do what I conceive to lie my duty
itt this reg.trd A. G. CURTIN . tnentiiig upon the fact that the Vice Presi—
' dent tli,:graced himself and the nation by ap
penring in a state jut in toxioation at the time
t hi induction into oflice and inflicting
!Ton his hearers a maudlin, drunken ilieech,
liccause t , ) hide. the
opini,u is reTiesteli by the G;lVeri-lr , r
on ihe (p l e..,tioll whether any of the pro.,i
si,nt- onn:tinA in Ilfe 1 ) .01 , entitled "-\" art
t ,t k ti e t. the Judicial District of
l'criti.-.‘1%:“1i./" are wiew,iitraii,nal.
gilds hill proposes to annex Wasidnitton
comity to the Firth Jodicl;l f)istricl,
composed of Ailegheny county alone,) pro
vided a majority of the qualified voters of
W a idliogton county shall vote in Thvor of
such annexation. There is no conovetion
between the counties composing- a Judicial
District except that they have the same
President Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas
lEEE
ME
The second section of this bill provides f hat
the .Judges of the District Court. of A Ileglic
my county, and the Assistant La•w Judges (it
said county may hold the several Courts of
Washington county as they may severally
be assigned to that duty from time to time
with their consent, by the President Judge
of the Fitt!' Judicial District. and shall have
th e same powers and jurisdiction which are
no•,v or may hereafter be conferred upon him.
The annexatittn Of Washington county to
the Fifth Judicial District would nut make
the Judges of the District Court or the As
sistant. Law Judges ot Allegheny county
Judges ot the Court of Common Pleas ot
Washington county. This section therefore
authorizes the President Judge ut the Dis
trict, at his pleasure, to substitute fur• hi m _
sclh in Courts of the District, a Judge of one
IA the Courts in another county of the Dis
trict. There are acts providing fur the hold
ing of special Courts by the President d o d ge ,
of another District, where the President
Judire of the proper District is optiitied to
sit. And such acts me supported from tie
necessity of the case, to prevent a total fail
ure of justice. Butt to allow a President
Judge, merely at his own pleasure, to ap
point it Deputy to perform his Judicial film!
Lions is this bill proposes) would, in my
opinion, be a breach of the fundamental
principles of the Constitution, which pro
vides for the Judicial power, and for the ap
pointment or QlL . CtiOll of Judges to exercise
it.
E
I am aware that a particular clause In the
Constitution which provides expressly t hat
the President Judi H of the ennion Fleas
shall be one of the Judges to hold a Court of
O[cr and Termmer, lots been modttied by
decisions which allow a Law Jtidge of the
same Court to take his place, or allow the
Judges of a Court. created by the Lt.gisht
tare to hold an Oyer and Terminer indepen
dently of the Judges ur of Coln
mon Pleas.
Bui I am not `Mare of any decision which
would allow the President Judge of a district
at his Option to appoint from time to time
as his Deputy, or 10,:ata. s, a Judge of a
Court of one county to hold either the civil
or criminal Comrts of another county.
I am therefore of opinion that the second
section of the bill in question, would, if en
acted, be 0 violation of the Constitntion.
WILLIAM M. MIMEDITII;
Atttorney General.
ATTI4 , 'EY GENERAL'S OPEICR,
11,11:RISBURG, March 10, '63. r •
As the enrollment law now exists, only
persons not liable to draft can become sub
stitutes for enrolled men before the draft.-
01 course fm such we mast look to the list
of exempts—persons under twenty and over
forty-five, aliens, and such as have served
two years in the present war.
It 5110111(1 not be forgotten the regulations
require that a man who otters himself as a
substitute for an enrolled man, niust prove
his non-liability to draft in the same way
that he would be required to do if he were
drafted and claimed exemption for the same
reason. 'wall cases of furnishing substi
tutes in lieu of draft, the princinal is exempt
only so long as the substitute is not liable,
not exceeding the time tor which the substi
tute shall have been accepted. If the sub
stitute enlists at nineteen sears and five
months of age, the principle is exempt fur
seven months. If the substitnte he over
forty-five years of age at enlistment, the
principal is exempt for the term of enlist
ment of the substitute. In the case of an
alien substitute the principal is exempt for
his term of enlistment, although the alien
himself may determine his principal's liabili
ty by fil.ng a declaration of intention to be
come a citizen, voting at an election, or hold
pig an office, civil or military.
Persons themselves liable to draft may en
list as substitutes fur drafted men, but in
such case the name of the principal shall
again be placed on the roil and be liable to
draft on future calls, but not until the present
enrollment shall be exhausted. If a drafted
man furnishes a substitute not liable to draft
be is exempt for the length of time the sub
stitute is not liable. A drafted man furnish-
ing a substitute can, under no circumstance,
be exempt for a longer period than the time
for which he was drafted. Nether substi
tutes for drafted, or enrolled men, nor draf
ted men themselves. are allowed any choice
of regiments, but must go wherever they
are assigned.—Pleila.
Flood on the Susquehanna.
The recent flood in the Susquehanna River
not only greatly delayed travel, but did im
mense dunag,e otherwise. The water was
six feet higher than at the great- flood of
1846. In the Susquehanna Valley the cur
rent swept over the fields, carrying in its
course trees, fences, out houses, canal
bridges, tobacco sheds, hogs, poultry, and
almost everything movable. The washing
away of soil and fences, and the cutting of
gulches into the river, will cause serious
damage to the farms along the line of the
flood.
There is a bill before Congress pro
viding, for the appointment o'f commis
sioners to travel over the despotic coun
tries of Europe, and inquire into their
systems of taxation, and to report the
details. The ingenuity of the entire
Abolition party has been put to the test
in contriving the best means to press
the greatest amount of money out of the
peopl2. The Internal Revenue bill
screwed over two millions of dollars
out of the First Congressional district
of Connecticut last year. And now our
Republican friends propose to send a
roving commission 'through Europe to
learn some additional kink in the scheme
of screwing taw, out of the people.—
The Democrats ; oat of power, are look.
ing on. —lljetyi Tin"
m
trisiisaity - is the element in modern
eivirtzatioik that seenres it against the vicis
siVides of ancient civilization. •
01'I {ION
A Chapter on Substitutes
Taxation—Grinding
hit onr fq•
, arum ondemning the grelious fault com
mitted, but because we hoped that a little
d o h,' us some mitigation of the
re po r t, and condor the transaction less dis
grarelut than tvzls ft' first statel. We have
hov , ,(ver, in Vain ; and now that Ow
facts ale beyond dispute, we join with the
Republican press of the cnubtry in tilling
the Vice President, that having utterly dis
graced himself, subjected his party to the
et e , t mortification, and made his country
I,legliing stock in tile eve, of the w(,'ll,
talc least reparation he eau make is to resign,
' After this cNllltlttiuu ot hims, lf, he cannot
occupy that lilace any longer frith honor or
credit. IP, p o ut wine i !4):" OM! !le e 31 1..
114 /t it by laddita4 on to a place he has;
di- i ,tritoed. It Inn attempts to hol l on to it
lie viii tberaby I,IIOW to
shame, nil therefore all t i de more unfitted
fur tlitit
But wb,it if he iTuI!,Z, 1:14. ? Then
h , t be Hl,-fil in i,,oine
other wae he the action nt the S.
/'itlY7' i":! (Et', (/e_~.)
[Non iL liarlford Courant ;Rep.; March S
The Smate.chamber of the - United States
was never beforg disgrarcJ so foully as 1). -
Vice President Johnson, on Sitnrday
Ills speech was au ineohcrent, maudlin jum
ble, insulting to the di:znitaries present, awl
deeply dishonoring to the wi ti". The ex
planation of l\fr. Johnson's strann-c languag,o
and extraordinary balavior does not miti
gate the bitterness of the disgrace. IL: , was
drunk. The nem electe l by the poolde of
the United States to fill of
their gilt—to p:esile ever the most august
aml ho Iv entered up
on its dnties in a state of intoxication! We
wish his words could he blotto:I out and be
forgotten mrever. Bit such happy ohlivit•n
the too faithful work ot the reporters has
prevented. They will pass into history, a
foul blot upon the records of March 4, 1835,
a day otherwise glorious and auspicious fur
the nation. It it cart be done, we hope
measures will be taken to imp- - :aelt Vice
President Johnson, and to remove him from
the high place which ho has Iloilo the ut
most in the power oil man to disgrace.
Correspondence G3twaen Gen. Sher
man and Wade Hampton.
The Richmond Empire/ gives the fol
lowing correspontlenee between Gen.
Sh and wade ll:aini)ton. Such
inbuilt:in waif:ire is to be deplored by
everybody; but "such is war:—
lIJiADQI - AQTEats MILITARY DIV[SItIN or
THE MIsSISSIITI, IN Tut.: rit:r.o, February
24, 1865.—Lieut. Gen. Wale Hampton
commanding cavalry forces, Confeder
ate States of America—General: It is
ofticially reported to me that our forag
ing parties are murdered after• capture
and labelled "death to all foragers."—
One instance of a Lieutenant and seven
men near Chesterville, and another of
twenty near a ravine, eighty rods from
the main road, about three miles from
Featerville. I have ordered a similar
number of prisoners in our hands to be
disposed of in like manner. I hold
about one thousand prisoners captured
in various ways, and can stand it as long
as you. But I hardly think these mur
ders are committed with your knowl
edge, and would suggest that you give
notice to the people at large, that every
life taken by them simply results in the
death of one of your confil, _n es . Of
course you cannot question my right to
forage on the country. It is a war
right as old as history. The manner of
exercising it varies with circumstances,
and if the civil authorities will supply
requisitions I will forbid all foraging,
lint I find no civil authorities who can
respond to calls for fiirage qr provisions,
and therefore, mnt collect directly of
the people. I have no 4oubt this is the
occasion Of much misbehavior on the
part of our men, but I cannot permit an
enemy to judge or punish with whole
sale murder Personally, I reset the
bitter feelings engendered by this war,
lint they were to he expected, and I
simply allege that those who struck the
first blow ought not in fairnessto object to
the natural consequences. I merely as
sert our war right to forage and my re
•
solve to protect tbragers to the extent
of life for li4‘.
I am, with respect, your ob't sere f,
"W. T SHERMAN,
Major General U. S. A.
Official—j. W. GR.kr, A A G., U. S. A
NETRI:,4 Iv 'nu: FIELD , )
Fvbrnary 18!33.
Jittlor (P.r. t . r. S. A.
GEN3:I: Your commanit"ition of
February 24th reached me to-day In
it on state that it has been officially
reported that your ibragers were mur
dered after capture, and you go on to
say that you had ordtred a similar num
ber of pi, ners in your hands to be
disposed of in like manner. That is to
say, 3'oll hive ordered a number of con
federate soldiers to be murdered. You
characterize your order in propel terms
14 the public voice even in your own
country, where it seldom dares to ex
press itself in vindication of truth, honor
. justice, will agree with you in pro
nouncing yon guilty of murder if your
order is carried out. Beton discussing
this portion of your letter, I beg to as
sure you that for every soldier of mine
murdered by you I shall execute at once
tico Or yours, !firing in all eases pref
erence to all-olieers who may be in my
hands. In reference - to the statement
you make regarding the death of your
foragers, I have only to say that I know
nothing of it, that no orders given by
me authorize the killing of persons after -
ISitSuxe, and that I do not believe that
my men kilted any of yours except un
der circumstances in which it was per
fectly legitimate and proper they should
kill them. It is part the systeal of
the thieves whom you designate as your ;
foragers to fire the dwellings of those
citizens whom they have robbed. T,,
check this inhuman system, which is
justly execrated by every civilized na
tion, I have directed my men to shoot
down all ot your men who are caught
burning houses. This order shall re
main in truce as long as von disgrace
the profession 01 arms by allowing your
men to destroy private dwellings.
You say that I cannot olcourse, ques
tion your right to forage on the country.
It is a right as old as history. Ido not
sir, question this right, but there is a
right older eve n than this, and one more
inaleniable, the right that every man
has to defend his home and protect
those who arc dependent upon lin), and
from my heart I wish tlui% every old
man and boy in my country who can
fire a gun would shodt down, as lie
would a wild beast, the men who • are
desolating, their laud, burning their
houses, and insulting their women--
You are particular - in defining and
claiming war rights. nty I ask you
enumerate among them the right to fire
upon a defenseless city without notice,
to burn that city to the ground after it
had been surrendered by the authorities
who claimed, rho,gL in vain that pr.)-
tection which is always accorded in civ
ilized warfare to non-combatants: to tire
the dwelling houses of citizens after rob
in!, them, and to perpetrate even dark
er than these—crimes too black to be
mentioned—you have permitted, if you
have not ordered the commission of these
offenses against humanity and the rules
of war. Ywl fired into the city of Co
lumbia without a word of warning, after
its surrender by the may or, who de
manded protection to private property.
You laid the whole city in ruins, leav
ing
among its ruins thousands of old
11W11 allll helpless women and chib - ,ren,
who are likely to perish of starvation
and expe,sure. Your line ot march can
be traced by the lurid ii‘.4l,t of burning
houses, and in more than one house
hold is an agony a far more hilt( r griev
ance than death can inflict. The Indi
an scalped his victims, regardless of sex
or age, but with all his barbarity, 1;e
always respected the person of his fe
male captives. Your soldiers, more
savage than the Indian, insults those
whose natural protectors are absent.
In conclusion, I have only to request
that whenever yen have any of my men
disposed of or murdered, for the terms
appear to be synonomous with you,
von will let me hear of it, in order that
I may know what action to take in the
matter. In the meAntinic, I shall hold
fifty-six of your men as hosta,o - es for
those whom you have ordered to be ex
coined.
I am roar,.
\V ‘DE llAmrroN, Lieut. - Gen
JOIIN M. OmEN - , A. A. (.1'
Arming the Staves
The bill which has passed the Confed
erate Congress, arming the slaves, con
tains the following provisions:
A bill to increase the military forces
of the Confederate States. The Con
gress of the Confederate States of Amer
ica do enact that in order to provide ad
diticn tl forces to the rebel invasion,
maintain the rightful possigsion of the
Confederate States, secure their inde
pendence and preserve their institu
tions, the President be and is hereby
authorized to ask for and accept from
the owners of slaves the services of such
number of able-bodied negro men as he
may deem expedient for and during the
war, to perflirm military service in what
ever capacity he may direct.
Ste. 2. That the general-in-chief be
authorized to organize the said slaves
into companies, battalions, ieeitne,nts,
and brigades, under such rules and reg
ulations as the secretary of war may
prescribe, and, to he commanded by
such officers as the President may ap
point.
SEc. 3. That while employed in the
service the said troops shall receive the
same rations, clothing, and con - Tens:l:-
tion as are allowed to other troops in
the same branch of the service.
SEC. 4. That if under the previous
section of this act, tip President shall
not be able to raise a sufficient number
of troops to prosecute the war success
hilly and maintain the sovereignty of
the States and the independence of the
Confederate States, then ite is hereby
authorized to call on each State, when
ever he thinks it expedient, fur her quo
ta of three hundred thousand troops in
addition to those subject. to military ser
vice under existing laws. or so many
thereof as the President may deem ne
cessary to be raised from such classes of
the population, irrespective of color, in
each State, as the proper authorities
thereof may determine. Provided, that
not more than twenty-five per cent. of
the male slaves between the aes of
eighteen and forty live in any state shall
be called for under the provisions of
this act.
Sr.c. 5. That nothing in this act shall
be Gonstrued to authorize a chan , fe iii
the relation .of said slaves.
Boring for Antimony.
The in oda for delving in the bowels
of the earth which now prevails, has re
sulted in Cie production of vast wealth,
and has been of uncalculable benefit to
mankind. That vast stores of wealth
are yet undiscovered, all will concede.
The search ot one thing lets often led
to the discovery of another more valua
ble. Those who have bored for salt
have struck petroleum, and visa versa.
Gold seekers have flmnd silver; and
those looking for iron have found silver
and gold. Among the latest mid most
unexpected discovery is a mine of anti
mony in Wirt county, Wrest Virginia,
A company boring for oil struck a rich
vein ot this rare metal, worth probably
four hundred dollars per ton in a etude
state. There are no doubt rich veins
of alithnony as well as large deposits of
the best kinds of petroleum in \Vest
Virginia and Eastern Kentucky. Tho
latter State is now attracting much at
tentiou.—Pdis. Gazette.
Se - Jerome Clark,. alias Sue Monday,
was hanged at Louisville, on the 15th
inst., in pursuence of the sentence of the
General, he protesting that at the time
of his capture, and since the commence
ment of the war he has, been a Confed
erate soldier.
1 The Vice-President to be Removed. ( From Franklin, Pa.
The N. Y. .Thbeine, having tried in t
l The Flooa—All the Bridges Swept
vain to bide the disgraceful scene at Away—lmmense Destruction of PH
the inauguration olAndy Johnson, by vete Property.
preserving entire silence in re!eird to
the matter for FuvxKt.lic, Pa. March 17. almost a week. came out i
The river has risen since last night ,
I with the followinL , scathite- ,
I timrteen feet. Most of the bridges have
article. day., the virtnell'lY indignant; been swept away. There is no corn-
Greeley : munieation with any place he rail. The
"Mr. Andrew Jelinson, our new Vice I whole of the lower part of Oil Citylas
President, is sail to have been dement- been swept away, and houses. with in
ed by li q uor when sworn into office, and i ' mates, are floating on the river. .It is
to have made a senseless and discredit- impossible to estimate the loss and dis
able harane . ne in consequence. And it tress. The river is filled with every
i thing pertaining to the oil trade. The
is reported lie has tidlen into habits which
disqualify him r e r th e high position to railroad to Meadville cannot be repaired
which he has been chosen. f o r several days. The Oil city railroad
We - fervently hope that at least the ; under water, and the damage great.—
latter and worse half of this scandal The oldest inhabitant says the river is
will 'wove untrue ; tin', it it should not, . higher than ever known before.
the country will be sulject to the pain ' L VII:1:•—The river ceased rising at 8
m d scandal and Mr. Johnson to the 0 . 16ek.
mortification inseparable from his expul
sion from office If be has become a
drunkard, and does not proMptly and
thoroughly reform, he certainly cannot
remain Vice-President of the United
States ; and, if he lies any earnest and
intimate friend, he will be so assured
forthwith. The people may pity as
well as mourn las hill : bat they cannot
abide a drunkard in his present high
position.,,
The Way Thirty-five Millions go—
Light Wanted, but not Shed.
The 1)1lowing is one of the scenes in
the
1'1., - . ) E n the, f:ot , :ricA;ional (;;,).)
mr. Stevens—l setvl to the, clerics
, r'esk a letter tr,wl the Secretary or War,
Wlticli I ad: to ;lave real;
WARM:PART:WENT,
Asi IrN( ;T. )x rv, Feb. .21, 18'35
Sin :—The paymaster General recom
mends a additional appropriation of
:_fn,ooo,ooi) for the pay of the army to
the end of the present fiscal
y ear.
This, appropriiitiim dho require for
the pnyment of trolps and I.)Junties iii
-
consequence of the augmentation of the
forces.
I respectray a , k that the appropria
tion be made Tour oiwilient servant,
E. M. STANTON.
Mi. Brooks—l would ask the chair
men of the Committee of - Ways and
Means (Mr. Stevens) if the numbers of
the army are really augmented.
Mr. ;tevens-1. must say to the gen
tleman from New York (Mr. Brooks)
that I do not know how to find out tha't
fact. I have not been able to ascertain
one way or the other. They are pre
sumed to he. If all that had been call
ed for, and all that have been enlisted,
can be fbund, then the numbers have
been augmented. They have made the
calculation, supposing that to be the filet
Whether it is actually so or not remains
yet to he seen.
M r . Brooks—l want to get that fitct
out more explicitly- before I vote for
this increase. I would ask it any gen
tleman of the Committee on Military
Affairs can inform the I louse whether
the numbers of the Arniv are really aug
mented. This additional aipropriation
of $36,000,000 for additional pay is an
enormous appropriation.
NU. Stevens—Tlier,3 has been a new
call fui three hundred thousand mon.
M. tlarfichl—We increased the pay
of soldiers last winter, and that would
make a very considerable iucrea,se in the
appropriation, even it the numbers were
nut increased.
Mr. Brooks—That was included in
the estimates brought in at an early stage
of the session, both in deficiency and the
regular appropriation bill. I.loWeVer,
(10 not know that we can ,get any more
light upon the subject, and perhaps' the
less 11;2;ht - the better. Let it go.
Mr. Stevens—Volt have all the light
I have.
Gross Inequality of Taxation
We are rapidly, says an exchange,
tending to a monied aristocracy. Even
in England, where the noinlitt , and
other men of wealth control legi;lation,
the holders of securities of the Govern
ment have to beau• their just proportions
of the taxes. But by the legislation of
Congress, our wealthy men and 6ur
banks and other monied corporations,
who invest their capital or moneys in
United States Stocks, payable in gold,
giving them an income equal to from
twelve to fifteen 'per cent. premium, are
exempt from all local taxation up on such
investments.
Our thriners, mechanics. and other
industrial classes, thereibre, have to '
sustain nearly the whole burthen of
State, county, town, city and village 1
taxation, including highway taxes, and
taxes for the suppon of our common
schools. And the United States Gov
ernment, by ordering drafts from the
citizens, to increase the army, instead
of offering such bounties as will insure
volunteers, compels the States, counties
and other localities to offer such boun
ties awl to provide fur their payment by
local taxation. The result of this is to
throw nearly the whole expense of re
cruiting for the army, as well as the ex
pense of the State, county and other lo
calities upon the industrial classes, fur
the special benefit of the monied aristoc •
racy who have invested their property in
United States stocks, payable in gold.
The contractors, those special fiworites
of the United States government, who
have made millions by speculations up
on the misfortunes of their country, and
have invested their enormous profits in
United States stocks, are also exempted
from. all local taxation. No one should
hereafter be elected to Congress, or to
the State Legislature, who will not
pledge himself to oppose and prevent
such unequal taxation, whenever he has
an opportunity to do so. And mem
bers of Congress, who have already
been elected, should be instructed by
their constituents, and Eenators should
be instructed by the State Legislatures,
to repeal all laws which have a tendency
to exempt the property of the men of
wealth from local taxation, so as to re
lieve the industrial classes and the citi
zens of small means from the enormous
'eight of local taxation which! is now
so unjustly thrown upon them.
The Flood at Franklin, Pa
The Bridges at Oil City and Frank
lin Swept Away—The Loss Esti
mated by the Millions,
FIL\ , Mara] 17.
We are having the greatest flood
ever known in this region. The bridge
at Oil City, and the French creek bridge
at Franklin, were. swept away. Miles
of railroad track are gone, and the tele
graph lines on Oil creek are washed
away. Houses, tanks, barrels, full and
empty cover the river. The loss is es
timated by the millions. The river is
Mill rising. The water in this vicinity
thri.c feet higher than ever known
before.
Is Andy Johnson Vice President.
In connection with the recent beastly
exhibitiou of Andrew Johnson in the
United States Senate, the Manchester
N. IL Umou welt say,::
In this connection, it may be proper
to say that Johnson has now no color
of right to the position he occupies, for
Congress refused to recognize the State
of Tennessee as being in the >✓uion.—
That State voted fbr President and Vice
President, to be sure, but the electoral
vote was thrown out, and the State left
in the sonic category as South Carolina.
If it is in the Linton, its votes should.
have been received; if out, Johnson has
no right to the position he holds.
t.:-Z- - ;.t - Accordin,g to the Chicago Pod,
the new republican Governor of Illinois
kicks against the draft. It says Adjutant
General Haynie has gone to Washing
ton to see about the quota of Illinois,
and to convey to Old Abe Governor
Oglesby's pious declaration that he'll be
d---(1 if Illinois furnishes a d—d man
more than she has a right to."
Frog ran - ,cnt; Ro ---Co,. Glass reports
tl at the Committee on Bounty to Vol
unteers have agreed to strike o'ut $5OO
and in. ert $4OO. On this the House
debated, on the ground that the Com
mittee had no right to amend where
there had been no differnee of opinion
when both blanches passed the same. On
agreeing to the report, yeas -13, nays 40:-
Agreed to.
Death of Wm. B. Smith
Wm. B. Smith ; the local editor of the.
Wheeling intciligrncer, died on the 15th
inst., of typhoid fever, in the 27th year
of his age. Ile was much admired by
a large circle of friends, and his suddon
demise has cast a gloom over the entire.
community .
woman's grief is oten very short.
If she loses her husband, she pines only for
!MEM
l elrel •
Information from Rebel• Sources
Battle Reported near Kingston, N. Q.
D SPATCHES FiioM GEN, LEE TO THE
REBEL WAR SEC'Y.
EARLY ATTAUK ON MOBILE EX
PECTED.
WAsniNoToN, March 12.—The Rich
mond Dl:lyttch of Friday, contains the
following dispatch trom Gen. Lee,
giving the particulars of a battle near
Kingston, N. C., between Bragg and
the Union forces which moved: from
Newburn to meet Sherman, in, the di
rection of Goldsboro :
HEAIm-ARTERs, &c.,
March 9, 1885.
Jo Col J. C. Breeixori;lge, Sec. of war
Gen. Bragg reports that he attacked
the enemy yesterday, four miles in front
of Kingston, and drove him from his
position. He disputed the ground ob..
stinately, and took up a new line three
miles from his first one. We captured
three pieces of artillery, and 1,500
prisoners. . The number of enemy kill,
ed and wounded, who were lett on the,
field, is large. Ours is comparatively.
small. The troops behaved most hand-.
somely, and Major General Bill ands
Hoke exhibitedtheir usual zeal and en
ergy,
Kingston, near which the fight °cr.
curred is situated on the direct route,
from Goldsboro to Newborn; is about
twenty miles east of Goldsboro, and,
tbout, thirty miles from Newburn. It
is supposed that this force of the enemy
was advancing from gewburn against
Goldsboro for the purpose of cutting
the railroad at that point. It is not.
likely after this i epulse that the enemy
will attempt to advance, and it is likely
that we shall next hear of them falling
back on Newburn, or changing their
course to some other point of the com
pass.
This movement of the enemy was
evidently designed to be co-operative
with Sherman, and in this light and in
this junction it may be of great value tq
us in embarrassing the movements ot.
Sherman.
4
[Signed]
It. E. LEE