Rates of Advertising. Advertisements will be charged $1 per squared of lines, one or three insertions, and 26 cents for Very aabsequentihierfldnV AdveKjaements, t> f-1 qj s tl In Id lioes considered ns a square. The subjoined rates „ill be charged for Quarterly, Half-Yearly andl early advertisements; .3 MONTHS 6 MONTHS. 12mONJBB iSquare, S4.«S - $5,75- ‘ v t?,6o 0 Jo 6,00 8,25 Jt'.OO J do. 8.75 10,75 U,,SO r Column 10,00 12,00 T~l£i7s 1 Jo 18,75 26,00 til.oO j do ...,30,00 42,00 jOVJfIO, | vlrertisemenU not having tie numberof Tiser tioo? desired marked upon them, will be pnb Ished oD til ordered oat and charged accordingly. Posters, Handbills, ‘Bill-Heads, Lotter-Head j, and all kinds of Jobbing done in country establish!«nts, oiecnted neatly and promptly. Justices’,Cons? Iblo’e ,nd other BLANKS, constantly op hand. TO the FARMERS of DELMAE & CkIbLES TON.—I am now selling my stock of Dry. floods, Groceries, etc., at reduced prices. Call Boon, u this sale is to close out the stock-, C. L. TV-ILCOX. Welishoro, Mar. 22, 1865-3 A 1 AH BUSHELS op seed POTATOES FOR J. O'J SALE—comprising the following varieties: Chili, Davis Seedlings, and Peach Blow. -Price $1 per bushel. ELIAS TIPPLE. ' Eapt Charleston, March 22,1865-lm. Jji ARM FOR SALE • - Situated in East Charleston near the'Middllbury line, belonging toll Mrs. Julia Mhrphy, confl-lhing thirty (30) acres. For further particulars,,ac immediate payment, and those haying cairns to present them properly authenticated forjsetflement to B. B. CAMPBELL, Adaii. Nelson, Mch. 22, 1865-61* SELLING- OFF AT COST—Naet .& Aueibaoh (one door below Hardens’) will sell tfaeir ;: *' * . Mans’ and Boys’ Clothing, Gentlemen’s Furnishing Goods, , t ’ Ladles’ Cloaks,- ■ < Hats and Caps, «’ ’ ! ■ Balmoral Skirts, ' ' Brocfae Shawls, Ac., Ac, j . At COST PRICES, on account, of reducing their Fall and Winter Goods. * * NAST A AUERBACH, ■f v . of Blossbnrg, Pa., and Syracuse, N. Wellsboro, Mar. 22, 1865-tf. U. S. T-80 Loan. By authority of the Secretary of the Treainterest notes, with interest to date of subscription. Orders sent by mail will be promptly billed. f - This Bank receives the accounts of Banks and Bankers on favorable terms; also of individuals keep lnS New York accounts. *• , J- T. HILL, Cashier. J. U. ORVIS, President. Mar 8-3 ms . : ’, CHURCH MUSIC.—AII persons that play the Mo lodean or Cabinet Organ should be able play b'hurch Music, by a No-w-Meth.od-nf Teaching Chords Base. I guarantee the fibholar to be &ble to read and play at eight Ordinary-.Cbiirchf .Mu scat the end of twenty-fonr or thirty lessons, provi ded the person is familiar with the'letter* on the btaff and Key Board. My scholars have the privilege of Practicing Chorus, Singing with a , fine v Society one evening each week. Instruments of all kinds for sale and to rent'. Feb. 22, 1865-1 ra. J. C, IVUIXE. OLD EYES MADE NEW —A pfcmpWot (Erect ing how to speedily restore sight rlrd give op fPeetacles, without aid of. doctor or titodtjioe. ' Sent ■>? tnail, free, on receipt pf 10 cents. Address E. B. FOOTE, Mi D-V **"• 8, ’65-6m. 11S0 Broadway, Whf Tark. THE to tfjr 35jrtr«0Con of Uljc a«a of if anO tlje of iicform. VO^-Xlri THE AGITATOR. M. H. COBB, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR WELLSBORdUGB, PENN’A. WEDNESDAY, : S •. r -/MilfE. 22, 1865. THE BBC&dilf&G d^*rfe:E?BaT». The semi-rabci-prets and pcople are now reaping the first fruits of a bad record. Judg ing from thfeir action And’utterances re gard the past with bitterness, the present with di.sgust, and the future with apprehension.— Their utterances betray a peevishness which always attends convalescence, their actions the ncrvoiisness which' gdfefi’eeds excess/ 8 We have somewhere noticed the remark that; the many successes which have attended our; arms have'sapped-the fdun'daf ions.-. of semi-; rebel as well as rebel happiness. It is possi-j ble. Such are ’the 1 “ surface indications.”—l The semi-rebel press japd leaders prophesied nothing but disaster during forty months of! warj And 'Befc jt|p fbi} pftph - ets none are so jealous of reputation as they.: Men do not like io be' proved false seers.—; They are incredulous of any happening to impeach their foresight.’ They proceed from; incredulity, to . intolerance of erentq, to a fret-; ful, peorish reception of facts and opinions, i The trouble witli these map lies in- their su perficial attachment, to measures policy and their absorption'into* a morbid lore of party organization, and party glory.\ They are, in the main, men of small ambition!, sel fish,pretentious,’ and ! ’rain.’ They hive been, from earliest recollection, superfluous pins sticking upon the glazed sleeve of party, know ing nothing 6( the ' world saveAas it came' third, or fourth banded. Four years of public I roil ble have brought them' info real life. They find themsplyes confronted with a great emergency and do not know how to act. Haring 'been towed 'at 'the' heels of a powerful party organization all their lives, they cannot ‘-paddle their own canoe,” an^ so rerolvalin Sha'eddies and^kfeirfe-fn it state - * of helplessness. , , , We seldom look over th 6 columns'of a semi-rebel sheet, or listen to ase ini-rebcl speech that we are not forcibly reminded of a common scold. ‘ What - is-known as “the opposition,” is degenerating into a mob of masculine viragoes whose tongues and pens shed nothing but vituperation. Rightly view ed this is a harmless pastime, though not very- 4 dignified' - dr ' instructive. ’ Avid fliough we love to see the world in good,humor, we would not see it restored to that beatific con ditidfag?thjp qla£b fh'n; t ejfi jwrajjfdafej t| Of the Union arms. That would do it, there is reason to believe, These men were very far from realizing what they undertook when they ' avowed their sympathy; .with the rebels in arms.—r They undertook to debauch the masses of the American people as they had themselves been debauched by the slave lords, ,So,. little were they were acquainted with the Ameri can people that they conceived them to be as hardened in, sequndrelism as themselves. It was a mortifying mistake, awoke too late t»: «orreot. They did "not read his tory, else they would have learned that it* requires centuries of false teaching 1 to' sink the masses of a party so low as the deroar gogues who control it for their base uses to a certain limit, K.onfofi.Coifeulß.ißtid Roman Senators were rife for dissolution and subju gation long years before the Roman empirj was, overthrown by barbarjans- ' jßutthe peo ple stood between Rome and her; great hu miliation. And;JTbat was true ll of Romej has been, and will ever be, true of every ,o|bor f patiom;> ’Prad£ bffpatjij utility ekrh* dies in'the l/osods’of demagogues'. s ln tfiOhearts of the people -it perishes only< after long and bitter straggles. If the republic stands it will be through fhb triumph of vie toe. It will not any great and dazzling stroke of statesmanship. When the smoke bf ! seen that measures and policies were but secondary, and subordinate, 7 to fbat-undying zeal which, has... sent millions to the field tp fight for the right. i I The actors in these stirring times will go before coming generations upon their record. Every man will lieHn the bed bh has made fur himself. Nothing will be forgotten, no base act forgiven. Men will find themselves con stituted jueges of their iknacliolls. TheJ will pass sentence upon themselves. Therje will be no sh offlrng them,' for every man will* find bis reqprd open to thy inspection of a crit ical public. The tones' of 'the Revolution SoK triHsitSH with these sembtebels . when, the, factitious excite ment of the times shall have subsided. i Th||perturb|dioß|jf betokens the beginning end. ilumap endurance hdsiilei limits. A The rebels have, made a desperate fight for the establishment of a privileged failetj. It can . hardly bo. prceumgtufjua,4o ; pay ppy , that success, with, them, ia .out-of.tbequeaL tion. , . „, flv < ~ v/ , Ttflfca wi}l be in fair condition in a dayortwo, .voa ? 1 1 WHILE-IHEiJE SHAMj.BE A WRONG UN RIGHTED, AJJD ( UNTIL ‘-MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN” SHALL CEASE, AGITATION MUST CONTINUE, ■ WELLSROPO, TIOGA 1 COUNTY, PA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH m, 1865. i - * * 7 V,, , .MiITATOIt. S'Jiji'i it -.:TI The people of this region have enjoyed the luxury of isolation (ofnearly a week, at pres ent jraails, .jip 00 “tfartpf conrse wo have no lack of rumors, both of war and pence. Persons just—from Williamsport re port tjrata despatch was received there Thurs day evening, (16th) from. Washington, tp the effect that the “ Confederacy” bad surrender ed 'tfncoh9itihnalfy, ; ahd ‘Sent; -thretf' commis sioners to accept theterips. of peace offered by Mr. Lincoln. How much of this is true we But tne news of thl Susquellan nah is more reliable., iWithout .question: the destruction is.unprecedented. The .water was four feet deep in the streets of Williamsport, and all the acihgg’the -rives!, at. 4b4t point above,io- Lodk«Haven, are swept away. ; Tt is said,. tjiat bridge between' William^bffrmwHßrrisfiti^mTglleV^lf this; be true, therecan he no. r railroading on that; line for a month. - ' m i j The-Jioga,rqa(j is muehinjut^dsome; of every within forty; miles. Corning (■ has. received. another in-; stnlmeptof.destruction, many of the dwellings! having been toppled down or carried bodily* away. Travelers who left Welleboro foir the; ■West last Wednesday,, got no further than! Corning. , No trains are running on the Erie roads or its branches. , , ! The -loss of life-, on- the Susquehanna must' have been, very groat. Dwellings are reported to have been carried off from Lock Haven.- - The riveitis'safdUote full of wrecked buildings, furuitorej-logs .and lumber... Jt.i9.not' possible, now to compute the damage to Pennsylvania.' in dollars. It must® reach many millions. .' iJiivi'.Mibium, \iitiiiiiiv Good Hews from (be Front, Rear, and Flank. We learn from reliable authority that a telegram .was received at Tioga-Tuesday evening, to the effect that Sherman has taken .Raleigh*tjbat Sheridan had seized Lynchburg, thus severing Lee’s remaining communications. The dispatch! farther states that Grant’s army was moving, and that a hattlo was iq 1 Tt^;^aaiag,Of t Colombia. The destruction of Columbia was a proper punishment for the treachery of its citizens, ilr.d in ordering. it fieri. Sherman ihas shown that he knows how to deal with the people of that State.. SpjlpngfaMJiay behave themselves weil and submit quietly, he is prepared to treat them kindly and provide for, their,,,protection, but the moment they show their treAoberpns proclivities in action, he is equally prapared for wiping them out And leaving their cities a heap of ruins. They have their choice submiss ion and protection, resistance and destruction ; and having.made their choice, it is presumable/ they prefer" destruction to -protection. If so; they have enjoyed their preference, in this in stance, to the full. A stern, adberepepp to,this policy, on the part ot General Sherrnanj will- soon leach thq people of the South that the time for military trifling has passed away, and that they have got to deal with, men who arp in -.enrspst and mean what the-i- say. They must be and wilj be conquered if every town in the South his to be laid in asbesi :. - After a city has surrendered, it is the grossest treachery to fire upon the troops to whom it baa been surrendered, and there yvasno punishment adequate to such a crime but that which Sber-* man inflicted uponfiolumbia. ■ The men of South Carolina, in the olden time, we^e,con ragpgqs .en ough to meettbeir enemies face"foiad'e’afllffight'it : oitt ; buf’tfieir mdiern decendants, when.an enemy enters their State whose courage they have reviled and whose to; fight tpey have:mocked.at.ttto o out of mind, fly like bares’before the men they have scoffediat and never make a stand until the friendly protection of a wait enables them to play the assassin. 'The torcli was the only weal pon to fight such cowards with, and if its hot -breath EaB>sofct / ched them,'they may blame themselves provoked so just a retri bution, hutficannoi, withileoenby, blame the brave man who was thus compelled to smoke them out,of their T bOlesr,- If there is’any fight in their dastard bodies, why do they not meet Shermanill the field?- —Pittsburg Gazelle.,-. . Distribution op 'Wealth. —The last report of the Auditor'General* of Pennsylvania con tains a table exhibiting the real and personal estate !of?oaeh:connty,i taxable for State /purpo ses, also the number of-taxables in each.; The amount of remand pergonal property when di vided among the taxables, gives the following amouqtsjor qaoh in the which are' sufficient for Comparison ; In Biibks, $l3OO for each taxable ; Chester, $1400; Delaware, $1660 ; Berks, 1 $ll6O ;! Dauphin, $1000; Lan caster, $ll6O ; Montgomery, $llBO - T Schuyl kill, u s37|); ; -Gqeen, ssoj) A Allegheny, t $7.40 1 : Ebjladciphiaj SlSOi -.lt wUI-be;Been,.lhut ; in tbe rural districts, wealth divides abouliathoosarid dollars per taxables, while in the great cities of' Pittsburg, and among the mi ning population of Schuylkill, it dwindles down from tcven hundred forty to one hundred and fifty dollars. The above also shows that thejmi£j tb ? • bj t ter,c?ndition of society; that is, there is a greater amount ,uf wealth, according to population,,or,else 1 tpucji of .thl.'.perspnpl property of the qifyes capes taxation. During tbo draft in Philadelpba last week R. Clajtqrn, ,qf the German JDamQctat.sW.ill iam T.‘ McKean, editor of the' Ledger)'‘D. B WUJiamson, editqr.of .the Inquirer, and F. li. Fa'atnewlon. of the Bulletin, were' all 'drawn 1 out of the trh'eeU-.'-;.>r ,U v.-m-; r .l MußumU- 1 K-t afe Interesting’ Questions and Answers rela- tivc to the 7-30 Loan. Mr. Jay Cooke, of Philadelphia, wbo for so long a tithe had the management of the popn lat SOO million 5.20 Loan, has jost. been ap pointedby Secret apt Fessenden, the Gene baj, Aoekt to dispose of the only popular Loan now offered for sale by the Government, viz.: the “ SEVEN-THIRTY.” -In entering upon his dnties he desires, to an swer plainly the large number of questions’ daily and hourly propounded to him, so that his fellowrcountrymen may all understand what this “ Sevep-Thirty Loan” , is—what are its peculiar merits^—how they can subscribe for or obtain the, notes, &o. . -IstQueetion. iWhy, iijthis Loan cnUed the .“Sevan-Thirty” Loan i? Answer. It bears Interest, in currency, at the rate of Seven Dollars and thirty cents, each year, on every hundred dollars ; making the interest as follows f> One cent per day on each $5O note, Two cents “■ • ,“. 100 “ . Ten “ “ “ ’ 500 “ Twenty “ ■ “ 1,000 “ One dollar “ “ 5,000 “ 2nd Question:’ Whbh-and how can they be obtained ? Answer. They are : for sale at par, and accrnqd .interest, by all Sub-Treasuries, Na tional and other Banks, and' all Bankers and Brokers. 1 3d Question. When is the interest payable and how .can-it be collected ? Answer. The Coupons 'or Interest Tickets are due 15th of February and 15th of Au gust in teach year, and Scats be .cut- -off from the note, and will be cashed by any Sub- Treasurer, U. S. Depository, National .or oth er Bank or Banker." ■ . 4 th - Question. When must the Govern ment pay off these 7-30 s? - Answer.’ ! -They afpTlne ini two" years and a half.from.’ the, 15th o£-February, .1865 ; viz.: on, ih^'lsth of, August, 1867. 3th (9ues 6 th Question. How much do you consider this-privilege of'conversion, into s~2oLoan to be worth ? • Answer . s'.2os'bearing Gold Interest from Ist of November, are to-day worth 9 per cent, premium. If they are worth no more at the end of the +tro- years and a half, when you have .it light to them, than, they now are, this premium tidied to the interest yon receive, will give you at least 10 per cent, per annum for your money—but thS opinion la that .they will be worth more than 9 per cent.'at that time. 'Tlh Question. What other advantages is there in. investing in the 7.30 Loan ? ■ Ansvfer. . It cannot be taxed by States, Coun ties, or Cities, and this adds from one to three per cent, per annum to the net income' of the holder, acceding to the rate of taxation in va rious localities. All bonds and stocks, except those of the United States, and all mortgages, &c., are taxed, not only by the Government, but by States, Counties and Cities. 8 1h Question. How does the Government raise the money to pay the interest, and is it safe and sure ? . Answer. The Government collect,' by taxes, internal revenue, and duties on imports, fully three hundred millions each year. This is nearly three times as much as is needed to pay ; the -interest' on all .the debt, and as soon as the war is ended, the amount not needed to pay the interest will be dsed in paying off the debt. Our Government has twice paid off all its debt,' and can easily do so again. The in terest is sure to be paid promptly, and the debt itself is The very safest investment in the world. It is | as safe as a mortgage on a good farm, and has a better interest. It is, in fact, a .First Mortgage on all lands, and incomes, ail railroad and canal bonds, and bank or other stocks, mortgages, &c. Nothing can bo safer, for we are all bound for it, and ail that we have is firmly held for the payment of principal and interest. How foolish those people are, who keep their gold and greenbacks idle and locked up, or purchase mortgages or, railroad-stocks and bonds, which pay only 5 or six per, cent interest, when these Seven-Thirties pay (counting the premium on Five Twenties), even ten per cent., and are so much safer and surer. . { 9lh Question. How many Seven-Thirties' are there, and how much remains unsold ? - Answer: There are only about three hun dred and,-.twenty-five millions authorized—by law, and only abuut one hundred and ninety millions remain unsold. 10$ Question. How long will it take yon to sell the balance ? 1 ■ • Answer. ■ There are about 800 National Banks all engaged in selling them; also a large number of the old banks, at least three thou sand private bankers and brokers, and spe cial agents will be engaged in all parts of the .country in disposing of them to the people. 11$ Question. How long would it take to /sell the whole ? ' . Answer. In less than three months they will be all sold, and will no doubt then sell at a premium, as -was the case with-tbo old Seven-Thirties, the first ; Twenty-Year Loan, and the Five-Twenties. ' The .above-questions and answers, it is be; Ueved, will-give full information to all. If not, the General Subscription Agent, or any of the Banka or Bankers, employed to. sell the Loan, will be glad to answer all questions, and to furnish the Seven-Thirties in small or large sums (as the notes ore issued in denominations 0f.550, $lOO, 500, $l,OOO and $5,000), and to render it easy for all to subscribe thus fulfill ing the instructions of Mr. Fessenden, who earnestly desires that the people of the whole land, (as well as the capitalists), shall have every opportunity afforded them of obtaining a portion of this most desirable investment.- 4. Let NONE DELAY, BUT SUBSCRIBE .AT ONCE, THROUGH THE NEAREST RESPONSIBLE BaNK OR Bankers.. .. GENERAL. .NEWS ITEMS. —Gov. Blaisdbi, of Nevada, is said to have attained the respectable height of six feet and four inches. A vigilance committee has been formed in the oil-region of Pennsylvania, because of the in creasing-number of murders and robberies. The Government realizes about $79,000 per month front the hides, hoofs, Ac., of the cattle slaughtered for the Army of the Potomac. Some scamp recently entered a liquor store in Tfiwanda, in, the night, turned the spigots and “wasted the spirits on the floor.” The Springfield Republican welcomes the draft as it will give the provost marshal’s guard in that city some other occupation besides get ting drunk. A boy employed in one of jibe mills at Patter son, N. J., in tearing to pieces an old skirt, found twenty-two .dollars and a half in gold sewed,up in its folds. A gentleman in Connecticut who got drunk last week, had the misfortune to freeze to death. He has not been dunk since. Theodore Darker once propbecied that we would have war in the United States in 1865, and that by 1875 there wonld not be a slave on earth. ' Horse flesh soap, horse flesh hash, horse flesh truffled, and horse liver, were on the bill of fare at the recent horse flesh banquet in Paris. —The Erie Dispatch tells of a lot of sheep being bitten by a dog in that vicinity, recently, all of which subsequently became rabid and bad to be shot. Twenty-two were thus des troyed. . The door-keeper to the -President’s house— one O’Leary—has been dismissed from his plac'6 for" taking, bribes for admission to an interview with the President. —The clothes of a man' who died of small pox in'Providence the other day, were buried to prevent infection, A negro dug them np and took them to an. auction room, where they were sold. By handling the goods the auctioneer took the disease, and has since died. The ne gro was arrested and fined $3 and costs. A young lady of Newark, Ohio, named Mag gie Elliott, recently died under the following circumstances: She left her father’s house in company with her young associates, for an evening visit at the residence of a neighbor, and while among themselves in “ hunting the thim ble,” Maggie became possessor pf it and placing it in her month to hide it from the others, acci dently swallowed it. Every effort for her recov ery proved unavailing, and a tie Breathed her last in. fifteen minutes after the occurrence. -The young companions who tookjier from her home joyous and happy', in a few. honss afterwards her back a corpse. The oil wells in Burma, it is estimated, have been yielding their present supply of eight hun dred thousand barrels per annum at least a hundred years, amounting, during that period, to these, if arranged as previously stated, would form' a continuous line of oil Darrels twenty seven thousand three hundred miles long. Oil wells also exist in Porsis, and it is said have dately been discovered near the Sea of Azof, while on the Island of Samos they existed five hundred years before the Christian era. —Extorting Praise from .Enemies. —We may weil open our eyes with wonder when we see such a journal os the Londor Illustrated News —always heretofore unfriendly to our cause and very sarcastic and abusive of our pnblic men—saying of President Lincoln that The ludicrous falseness of the popular esti mate of this remarkable man mast by this time have become apparent to all capable of reflec tion. No man could have spoken more firmly, and at the same time wisely and moderately, on the question of- emancipation; more tersely and unanswerably than in rebutting the charges of illegal arrests. The same sprit pervades all these utterances—that of a magistrate severely conscious of his reponsibilities, disinterested, energetic, circumspect." . —Mr Ezra Cornel, a citizen of Ithaca, New York, some years since commenced, at his own expense, the enterprise of establishing a pub lic library for the benefit of that city. .He in tended to give $50,000-for the purpose, bat as be put up the building himself he has spent $lOO,OOO at it, and has thus erected a splen did edifice, containing a library, reading-room, lectnreroom, farmers’ club rooms, etc. He has now offered to the State Government a donation of half a million of dollars to endow a universi ty at Ithaca, on condition that the State flm ernment shall give to the institution the land fund granted by the act of Congress for the en downment of agricultural colleges.' —lnteresting to Sorghum Growers.—A Connecticut farmer’made an" interesting expe riment in growing the corn last season. He plantednine rows withrTbo hills font feet apart, and the hills two feet asunder in the row thus giving a less number of hills by the latter than the former planting ; and yet he got fifteen gallons from the former and forty gallons from the latter; and in addition be raised a row of potatoes between the rows of the latter I The sorghum needs light, and hence the great gain in the wide rows. —Prospective Trouble in Utah. —The Col orado News states that, recently, Gen. Conner established a provost guard in Salt. Lake City for the purpose of preventing disorder. Brig ham Young demanded that they .should be re moved, and made preparations to attack them ; and was only deterrerd from doing so by Gen. Conner’s turning- hie guns on Brigham’s harem and throwing shells over the city to the country 1 beyond, and telling him if he wanted the pro vost guard removed he must remove them. .The guard remained,bat the discontent remains * also, and the News thinks it probable it will break out in acts of violence that will bring the Federal authorities into conflict with those of the semi-ecclesiastical Government of the Territory—a collision that will inevitably Uad 'to a condition of actual war. Gen. Conner apprehends this, and ie. making preparations accordingly. The Tioga County Agitator: (BY M. H. COBB. jJ-tPublished ever; Wednesday morning and matladta Buboribersat ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS per year, always IN ADVANCE. ' The paper is sent postage free to county subscribers, though they may receive their mail at post-offloea lo cated in counties immediately adjoining, for.oonven nienca. Tub Agitatoo. is the Official paper of Titga Co,, and circulates in every neighborhood therein. Sub scriptions being on the advance-pay system, it circu lates among a class most to the interest of advertisers to reach. Terms to advertisers as liberal as those of foredby any paper of equal circulation in Northern Pennsylvania. A cross on tho margin of a paper, denotes that the subscription is about to expire. jZa?“ Papers will bo stopped when the subscription time expires, unless the agent orders their oontinu. ance. NO. 30. Report of -tho Secretary of War. The annual report of the Secretary of 'War was laid before Congress before it adjourned. Mr. Stanton says it was delayed in order to give General Grant an opportunity to furnish a summary of his military operations; but the summary has not been received, as the activ ity of the campaign in progress demands bis unceasing attention. The Secretary says the military events of the past year have been of ficially published as they occurred, and are as fully known in every branch of the govern ment as throughout the civilized world. They constitute a series of successful marches, sieg es and battles, attesting the endurance and courage-of the soldiers of tbs United States, and the gallantry and military skill of their commanders. “ Tha report of Provost Marshal General Fry says, in reference to the re-enlistment of veterans, that daring the Autumn of 1863, more than one hundred and thirty-si* thou sand soldiers, who would otherwise liave been lost to the service, were preserved and recruit ed ; and experienced officers were retained [in command. JThis force has performed an es sential part in the great campaign of 1864, and its importance to the country cannot be over estimated. The result of recruitment in the rebel States is reported as unfavorable.— The arrest of'deserters and. stragglers is con tinued with vigor, and 39,393 were arrested between October 1, 1863, and October 1,1864. The total number received from the establish ment of the bureau to October 1.1864, is 60,- 760. The Veteran Reserve Corps, on Octo ber 1,1864, consisted of 764 officers and 28,- 738 men; The report of the Secretary gives a summary of reports of heads of several bu reaus connected with the War Department, and concludes by saying the general exchange of prisoners effected under the instructions, of the department, is in course of execution, and it is hoped that ail of our prisoners who are in the hands of the rebels, will soon be re turned.” The rebels are now quarrelling about who begun the rebellion. Bfat a little while since and they were all proud of it; -now they be gin to grow ashamed of it, and to toss the re sponsibility from one to the other. The Rich mond Enquirer of the 23d nit., says: “ Virginia. did not commence this war, nor did Tennessee, Missouri or Kentucky. Its magnitude and fosses were perceived by those on whom the brunt of battle would fall. The States farther south, protected by those on the border, repelled advice, rejected concert, with fancied security, cut the fastenings which bound ns together, and cast Virginia and her children on the exposed western frontier adrift amid terrific and increasing war. In vain did these States foretell the future and protest against the ungenerous rashness of those who expected by the misfortune of others;, to escape tfie calamatiea of civil strife. We pictured to them a devastated country, pillage ed fields, burning towns, insurgent slaves, and a hired soldiery inflamed to crime by the “ smooth skin woman on the ottoman and the [silver plate on the board.” Neither did these just appeals, nor the terrific fate which was increasing and advancing, check the selfish im petuosity of those who risked-little of disaster to be endured by others. We were told we must follow our own people or be against them. - Upon this the Washington- Chronicle re marks : i | We were aware that the cotton States were the first to move in the matter of secession but we had supposed that the Enquirer regarded that fact with tha jealousy of a Virginian who had in vain urged his native State to take the initiative. “ The leadership in the rebellion was for merly the glory of South Carolina, and the envy of Virginia, but in the “ sere and yellow leaf” of the Confederacy, the glory is tamed into shame, and the language of praise is merged into reproach. Nothing but conscious failure conld have produced this remarkable change in the estimate which is placed upon the act of secessaion.” | The Cutting- off of] Foreign Supplies. How great a disaster was the fall of Fort Fisher to the enemy, is seen in the following communication to the Richmond Examiner, of tbs 24th ; “Wo do not want more men. This state ment may seem strange, but it is, nevertheless true. We do not want more men] because we cannot feed and clothe them. lam aware of the fact, it is within my personal, knowledge, that an officer, authorized to recruit a brigade from material not subject to conscription, though volunteers have been pressed on him, has found himself unable to accept them from his inability to obtain the necessary clothing. — For the correctness of this statement, its liter al correctness,! am prepared to exhibit evidenoe and you are authorized to furnish my name as autnority to any one who may seem inclined to doubt its accuracy. What folly, then, to talk of adding more men to our army, and es pecially of introducing into it a very donbtful element, the negro soldier, when we cannot, for want of supplies, avail ourselves of recruits, now anxious to be enlisted. I might also urge the deficiency of Commissary supplies, the inadequacy of the present daily rations to sat isfy the lounger of men now in the sifmy, as an argument against enrolling mere men ; but I think it sufficient to show that we are enable to accept, at this time, a fine body of volun teers from our inability to clothe them, to make the folly of extending the conscription by bringing in producers and slaves perfectly apparent. Fort Delawabb. —There are now at Fort Delaware eight thousand rebel prisoners, in cluding two thousand officers. All of them ate in good health and receiving kind treat ment. ■ Abont one hundred took the oath of allegiance on Saturday and came to this city. The balance of the prisoners are to be sent South for exchange, a steamer having arrived at the fort forthe purpdee of transporting them to their deetination.—PAiJodefpftia Ltdgtr. Who Began it.