giail g ttitgap4 THE PEOPLE CHOICE FOR FRESID.E'NT, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, RRIS B-VR Monday Evening JititinalT-18, NOTION TO SONSC;aIBEAS IN bITN I have appidited sole agent for . the ".DAILY TELIGEtaa 7 in this city He.will•purphase. his.paperkst the offiCi hereafter, and serve them through an addition al force of carriers, in every part of the city. be obliged to , pay caw for all the papers received at the office, it will be neceisary for him to collect his money weekly,- Mr. Z . 1E also authorized = to collect moneys now due for the DAILY in this city, and our friends will oblige me by settling with him immediately. Election ofittute Treasurer. Owing to the disorganized state of Ogle in the Elamite, the Legislature •did not meet in Joint 'Convention to day for the election of State Treasurer. The time for fr,fllch the pre sent Treasurer is elected does notaxpire until the let of May, and the election will be hold before the present Legislature will adjourn. Senator Losvrre 'Expose of an kliffer to Compromise the Difficulty in:the State Senate. We print, to-day, the very able speech of Sen ator Ipwry, discusing the difficulty which re tards the organization of the Senate: Senator, Lowry introduces a letter which he received' from the U. S. Asaletant Attorney General, re viewing the question at issue in the fitelp.Sen ate,and establishing beyond all dont t or cavil the feasibility of the position that the Senate is a ' perPetual body in its organization, with a quorum always in existence, and hence that the debate on the question now retarding thel public business, is a mere pretext of the oppo nents of the organization to embarrass and bring reproach upon the government. In pre senting this letterto the Senate,Sfinator:Loivile took strong ground in favor of its position; but aside from the able manner in which the Erie Senator debatesthepointsinthe "deadlock," his speech is worthy of a careful perusal on ac count of the tender of compromise which it contains. Senator Lowry offers to divide the offices in the organization of the Senate, to give the hungry and clamorous office hunters who sustain the revolutionary, attitude of the _ minority, .the ' plunder which, they covet ) previded that the minority then display the honor of pairing off with:the ahsent Senator. Wilts, and thus permitthe undisturbed trans action of the public business. We want the people to mark this position, and offer of Sena for. Lowry, that they may. better be able to . appreciate the attitude of the minority. Sen ator Lowry makes a very plain and practical pro Position. He offers to give' the - officers to „ ority, if they consent to pair off with lip':. White. This is-fetused, AND THE REFUSAL t,,:. r' LIMB THE REVOLUTIONARY OBJECTS OF THE unroster 1 To a proposition to enable th'eMa 7 jority of the Senate to sustain the policy of the Governor, as recommended .itr: his message to ~ .,0 ~ pay the State intereet--e: policy which would save the State almost a million of dollars—As minorrit,y •refuse to . accede. ' Truly, these dema gogues are playing the dogs in the, manger i —While Senator Lowry, was guided by thh best of motives in offering thus to.comprom6 ... )...with the minority, we believe' that he went • 7 - niter; further'in - noncillatirt-tlie , revolutionists in the Senate, than the people will approve: The judgment of the masses is itgrdnst the notion of the minority in the. Senate. ConduCt such as these, men, are. guilty of, cannot, be compromised. it:is a' premeditated, designed - and desperate revolittion of all Tight, all order, and, all precedent Yet; we bespeak for Senator Lowry's speech a careful perused, as completely exposing Abe base designs of the minority in obstructing the organization of the Senate; A Grand Raildeation Meeting „ The recent movementin -the State Legisla ture—the action of the•variousUnion Leagues of the Commonwealth, and the expressions of individuals of prominence and infintince, all in dicate that the preference of * the public is strongly setting towards the re-election of Abraharti Lincoln - . It sottai Drily: the 'day of the ekction te-seifieihis fact! In the meantime, however, it is due to the importance of the ove ment that the people shorild•assernble in ',their afferent hicalities, and endorse, en mire; - the purpose of re-electing Abraham' Lincoln Presi dent of the United States. We suggeit; there fore, that a meeting of the people of Dauphin county, be, held hi title city, at a day in the pre sent Week' to 'be fixed -upon, for the purpose of endorsing the action of the Union Men in the.Legielatme, and - . .0f declaring their Unalter able desire for the re-election of Abraham Lin . —ln the absence of - the Chairman of the County Conimittee, we suggest that either cer tain of the members, thereof, or some of our prominent Union men, take measures to secure -*lb calling of tbl meeting„ We desire, that , the peoplesf Dauphin ,county should have ,a fair opportunity to place themselves 'right on . this question, because we believe that thelienti merit of the Union men of the coraty is mean ilitc6sty in favor of`tker re eleciion of Abraham THCROWING III R OLD " Snore- AT - Us.—The 00103143 of Massachusetts regiment which re cently encountered the, rebels in, the Shenan deah valley, were much surprised at the-pecu liar noise made by the enemy's cannon. 'Upon inudigation, it was apc0411,4 that he rebels notlired.eitlier shot or, shelf, but had-used pieces -of railroad ifon;and — old -horse lIRNRY WARD Bausiza has been presented by his congregation with the sum of $5,000, in to his present salary of $7,500. OA VIZ ORGANIZATION OF . THE SENATE Delivered on Friday, Jan. 15, 1864. GEORGE BERGI3.E'R REMARKS 01 TB 11.. d -n. M. Lowry, A motion to proceed to another ballot for Speaker- beinvbefore the Senate, Mr. Lowry asked for the reading of the following letter, viz Was town, January 11, 1864. DUP. Bra:—You have done me the. honorto request my opinion on two questions, which arc now engaging much attention in.renneylvania, viz: 1. Is the Senate of Pennsylvania a continuous and permanent trolly under the Constitution of the State?, ;^ , 2. For obit time sre . the Speaker and other officerii of, that.boily. entitled to hold their re spective-DEW:es Y • - : I do not know that my opinion on these question's has more value than that of any other lawyer who has examined them, and I am sure that there are in the State many gentleinen whose, learning and ability, will entitle their Opinions thereon to far greater weight of an thority than mine-can claim. Yet, my conch siOns,on these pOinta; adopted when a meMber of the Senate ,and fortified by.recent are so satisfactory to toy own mind that I -vein tare to state them, in iasponse to your request, with strong confidence hrtheir correotness. As to the fist question there can be but little doubt. By the Constitution (Article 1, Section b) Senators are required to bp chosen for three years, the seats of one-third of them being cated and re-filled every year, (Article 1, Sec tion 9.) A majority of Senators constitutes -a quorum to do business, (Article 1, Section 12.) In these respects' the Senate of Pennsylvania resembles theßenate of the United States be ing framed after that pattern, and differing front it only in this, that 'United Stites Sena tors hold their Beate for six, instead of three years, and one-third of them vacate their teats every two years, instead of river)! year. A , leomparison of the ltdiguage of the Con stitution of the United States, and of the Constitution of Pennsylvania of 1790, will show how closely the framers of ,the latterfollowed those of the former in - the construction of ant legislative system and es - , pcicially of its Senatorial branch. They :wisely regarded the system thou recently , devised for national government as one 'which,. in so far as different cirenmstances allowed, furnished > a: model for imitation la - the organizitlon of Gm' frardowtirk of State :Government. Of bourse there were fundamental differenims in the ro spOstive theories and principles of National and State Governments which widely &lain guith'eil one, from • the other : But wherayerthe model watepbrderiate for the piarposo, it,..was closelffiglowed. And one of the most striking examples of •thie imitation is furnished in th reserablandebetvreen the Senate 'of the: United States arki. the Senate. of 'Perinsylvania; in the MAIM Of perpetuating 'their existence ,by the. periodical supply df new Imbibers. ;No man. can read the provisions , ,of both Constitntione without being convinced tlutt.tin - this respect, and in the resultii which how, from that fact, they aro predaelY alike. The - theory "of :both la the same, and the law applicable to orbs is necessarily slaw unto the Other. Now it is well - settled - that the Senate.of the linitcd'States, though it 'constitutes a branch of each succeeding Congress, and its sessions, tie 'held periodically andcorreepond with those of the House of Representativespie a continuous and permanent body, organized whenthe.Con,ol,- tution went intii'operation in - 1789, and VIP% has`continued its - organization ever since. • At the commencement =of each session, two:thiuls of tfie Senatefi more. than a quorum, are', in office ready to.proceod...tiofiusineas," (Cushieg's Law, Leg: Assemb., 104 ) The theory - of per- Manent Senatorial existence - and organizstion was well stated in the United States ,Senate in 1841, by a Satan:ix...whims authority those who now maintain the contrary- in PernasylNranta: will hardly question - =I, mean Mr. Buchanan: He then said: "There could 'be no new Senate. This 'was the Veryrsame body constitutionallY, and impoint of law, which has assembled on the first •day- of its meeting In 1789. It 7 had existed without any intermission from that day until the - present moment, and would.continue , to exist as long as the- Government should en-, dure. qt. was emphatically a permanent body: Its rules-mere pernianent and.were not adopted Rom Congress to :Obngrees-, like those uf - Oa House" of Representatives. For- manr.years after the commencement of the Government, its Secretary' was a !permanent officer, though our rules now require that he should be elected at stated intervals. The Senate always had a President, and there:werealways two-thirds of its actual members- in existence, and generally a much greater number. * * It never tiles, and it was the sheet anchor of the Constitution on account of its permanency." ((Jong,. Globe, Vol. 9, page 240.) These words apply in all their -force to the Senate of Pennsylvania.:-All the fasts, and prineiples from whiblilhe permanent, continu: qua existence of the United States . Senate results distinguish the State, Senate, and of °bursa the same conclusion follows therefrom. I think this too obvious need farther t ration. It is true the preaiding officer of the United Stato Senate is the Vice President elected for a term by electors, and the presiding officer of the Stekte Senate is one of its members elected by the boily, Bat a presiding officer is not neces sary to the continuous existence of a body made so by the law—indeed Is not necessary to "its existence at all. Tho one exists without a Tice President; the other without &Speaker. Therefore, the method of providing a presiding officer cannot affect the question of permanentJ existence. So that the differende of the' two constitutions in this respect, affords no ground to question the accuracy of the conclusion that the two bodies are alike in the quality of con tinuous existence. 2. Being then permanent and continuous, I assert that the Senate; of Pennsylvania; ;like. the Senate of, the United-States, is alway 4 ganized—that is : First,• its members, or a quo- 1 rum of them, are always qualified to perform their Senatorial duties ; and 'second, it always has its lawful officers duly appointed to per form their appropriate duties, from speaker and clerk down to the subordinate officera, with some unimportant exceptions. • There is no law, that I know of, limiting the time during which the Speaker and other officers shall hold their respective places, unless the prc' vise to the 19th section of the int of 7th May, 1865, (Bright; Dlg. 11510 be;fmnetruedto limit the time of. certain subordinate officers. t...Jt re sults; then; from the law of its permanent and Continuous existence, 'that these -_offidere, with the-exception stated, hold their places, during the plessure.of the Senate, and until, .by the action of: the Senate, they are.diaplaced. The fact of adjournmentat the __end•of the does not elisplace them,- tor :no.law so declares, and, Since the teliate,.-after - .adjournment, still continues to exist, the:lawfully elected officers continue to Exist with it,. This result followed, se,stated lay Mr. Buchanan in the case of the SecretarY of the Senate. And Cushing states*, (Leg. Am., 104,) that by the factOf the-perma nent existence of the rfnited'States Senate, the Secretary`and other:Meet% of that body re main in office until - their successors are chosen. MI adds, ?'There is" no' necessity,- therefore, at theCommniaceinent. -- hr.,e&Ch „ Congress, for an organisation of the SCfrati - iff the 'United States, in the ordinary sense of that terim" Of course the preposttion stated is subject to the limitations that the Speaker cf the Senate, being a member of the body, even without a resolution or the election of another Speaker, displacing him, would itecesiatily vacate his office at the expiration of his. Senatorial term, or perhaps upon acceding to 'the Executive Chair under the Conitution; thrice the Speaker must be a Senator.' But' wje these limitations I affirm that he andihe ether leading officers of the Senate of Pennsylvania hold theli pleas until displaced by some affirmative action of the Senate, which may, as I have indicated, be by. law or rule limiting their term, or resolution declaring their places vacant, or by paawlbig to elect their successors, which is the - pithent method - of limitingtheir terms. - So far as the Speaker is:concerned this view is strongly confirmed by the Constitutional pro -elevates him -to the Executive Chair should it become. .vacant by the Gov ernor's death, resignation 'or' removal from office, (Art. 2, sec. 14.) This provision necessa rily contemplates not-only thekthe Senate) is Ormanont and continuous, but that tho chair of its presidingx.fficer is always filled. For the contingency that there maybe no Speaker of the Senate to take the Executive chair, when it becomes vacant by death, resignation, or• -re; moval, is not provided for. .Tide oeihndon is most significant. Itja, 'not possible' that the `framers of the Comititntion of 1790, and of 1838, would both.have overlooked this grave hiat4in the ExedutiVe macbinesy of the gov ernment they were parfecting, and one, too, so pregnant with danger to the State in times of political exeltedient, if "they bad ever dreamed that the Senate could cease to exist, or its Chair be vacant for one day: - Even the' Constittition of the 'United States; which, as we have Been, was ever present to their:view provided' for the double contingency of - the death, &o, of the President and Vice President, by conferring on Congress . the power to, declare who should fill the Executive chair, But in our Constitution _this was not deemed necessary, simply because its - theory ii that the Semite always exists, and its Chair Is always filled. And out of abundant caution, to prevent a vacancy in fact by the l accession of the Speaker to the Executive R in g o, lit has specifically provided:for the choice of a (Speaker pro tempore, When:that event shall oc-' oar. (Art. 1, sec. li.) . - I The events now occurring in our. State -.Son ate strikingly illustrate the necessity of main taining,the Constitutional theory of a perma nent and! obntinziong :Senate with its chair always filled. The Senate has failed for more than a week, and may fail for weeks to come, (if the seat of the absent Senator be not sooner filled) to elect a new Speaker., Suppose it be true, as I am told some assert, that Mr. PBNNET ceased to be Speaker. when -the swollen began, and that the chair is now- vacant.' Suppose further that our estimable 'Governor should die pending this struggle. Who then shall fill the Executive chair? If it be answered that the Senate would than elect a Speaker, I respond that; citncoling•that _the Speaker elected after the Governor's death might take the Executive chair - withent cfneation, still the magnitude of ;the 'prig 3 would- tend to prevent.~n election far more than the patronage of the Senate which seems now to be a prize _tempting enough to the minority to induce so-long a,delay, in- get ling at the business of: the'sealon. Here then. would bea vacancy in the• office of Governor, 'which could be prolonged at the pleasure of sixteen Senators until the rebels at Richmond, commiserating- our -unhappy condition, would openthe,-,Prison doors &the absent eenator,lo:-' jar Within deference , l'do not believe that thelumtioi, Wilsons, MeNeenti, Addisorui and Gallating of 1790, or the Sergeants, Mere ditto', Porters, Chambers and Agnews of 1888, did their work so loosely and carelesidy as to expose our State Cloierlatnent to such a peril as this. And yet, if t'tid trtelleit Mr. Psalm is not now the lawful Speaker of .the Senate by • rtue of his election at,he olose,of theaession td. - 1808, and obtioes defect exists 44 our. State tlonlititutiorn- ~ • _ , • It has long been tife , *cuatom of the State Senate to elect a SPeekerat tho-..blose_of each sermon; and to supply his-place -by electing .a neigeone at thelreginning of the next- session; and soi&keepltherohair constantly.filled. Bat uOinetir requires the election of a new Speaker stAheibeginning of the session, and, even_ if the diatom have the force of law still the Senator who has hold the Office during. the ye cation, and'who, as such, -cells the Senate to order-when the new 86881011 begine, ticontinues. to 'hold it until: the. new , Speaker Is elected. True, It has lieen'austomarrfor the Speaker to retire from the chair when the choice of his suet:reser was being made, but that is from motives of delicacy, since hi be quitially the person voted for by his own party at that else,'. tion. He no inure vacates-his office when he so loaves the chair than he does at the close of the session. whh ii'lesbintion of thanks to. ' himself being offered, he calls another Senator to the chair toltnt the resolution to the Senate. I have always thought it would be better for the retiring Speaker to call a Senator to the chair, when the choice of, his successor ; is being made, than `to allow' the clerk to act - in his stead, but the existing custom proves nothing I against the views here expressed. He remains the Speaker until his soceiresor is chosen end inducted into,offiee. And• so,tke cha i r the Siniateis always' filled 'ty a Speaker 'clothed with the anthoritY of the office and ready teas same the Executive fbnctions when the emer gency occurs, • kir which the Constitution pro: vices. • , Another proof, that the chair, does net become vacant at the beginning of the oeyr session, is • found in -the fact that when. the Governor, on extraordinary occasions, convenes the General Assembly, under thik, authority of Article 2, t3ection 12, the Senate, when the extraordinary session begins, does not choose a Speaker, but the Speakerchosen at the end Of the last see- Bien ,presidert, and all the Jading officers .of the last session contirine ; toperfOrm thelr lune tkies,-,, 1l the mere ha, `that ,a new session had begun, vacated, the 'Ohair - and the other offices, it would ba ,as ,opezative at .an extra as ii k t regular geestoP.. There is no force then inlhat fact whieb deprives the Senate of its officers. Nor eloes,theject that eleven new . Senators enter the body it the beginning' ofeach regu lar session affect the-right of the inennibent of ficers. Vtintotitholtt 0114 would be to concede that the Sable diffnot exist` as a qualified body evithoofithem.s.Tifigintroduettiokett,hirtnew ele ment into Hie * body is a good reason for order ing and - holding an election for new drums, but it trim:kerb:on for vacating the offices be fore ouch election is held. If it were so it would also prove thatthe Senate when it first ineatsigasi umorganised as the House of Rep. zerantatives when the• Secretary -of the com monwealth first , delivers, in .the hall of the House; the returns of- election ,ot,ita. members. • Ina iiittetsentte•.eteetion of. the act of 7th May; 1865, by strong implication, requires the higher officers of both houseikto return at the opening of any session, and- thus recognizes them as holding their offices. I am, therefore, of opinion that the Senate not only a perm 'merit and continuous body,but that the Speaker. and all its other officers, with the:exoeptiOns.Mentioned, lawfully continue to hold - theirprank until they shall be removed by.law• or `resolution of the Senate, or gutter veiled by the choice of other persons to fill their places. • • This conclusion might. he-fortified by other illustrations. But my letter has swelled to a length nothitended, arid-I.will close with the expression of .the. hope that, in complying with your request to furnishyoitoay view! on the pointitenggested, :not he suspected of an unwarranted obtrusion of Ahem on gentlemen 'so ompatenhlo dash With.: - ..theie questions as the members of •_the StatekSenate, 'Your obedientbenreat, UQI' flay Hen. M. B. leeway, State Senate. Mr. LOWEY., I think that the document just read maycarryconviction to the mind of every member of this Senate that we are an organized body. If we are not organized, then, sir, in my opinion any member of the co-ordinate branch or any person whatever has as good a right to come in here and address you as i have. But it cannot be that the Re Rta of Pennsylva nia is a mere mob. The Attorney General of the.Coanonwealth has recognized our organi ration,exl have we not been most frilly recog nized/by. -every Department of the State Gov eragrent, not even_ excepting the co-ordinate branch? 'Yet here we are sitting, day after day, without the power to recognize ourselves. I contend, sir, that the question of organiza tion is not, as said by the- Senator from Berko, one merely of a few offices. Mr. CLYMER. I dislike to iatertupt the Senator but I protest against his repeated mis representations of my language and motives. My statement was that the possession of those offices was but the symbol of the right for which we were contending. The offices them selves, so fig all concerns their mere - value, are of no consequence. Mr. LOWNY. What then ddes the Senator :contend for ? If he cares nothing for the of fices, why does he preventus from proceeding to business in the ordinary way ? But there is a point beyond that. If are concede , their re quest in this particular, we would still be pre vented from obtaining the necessary legisla tion. Now, ask the Senator from Berke or any Senator on the other side if in case we re linquish our right to these cffi.Nars he wilt rise in his place and promise not to delay legisla tion any longer. Solar pe concern myself, I assure the Senator from l3erks that if he will pair Off with lIARIT Wasra I will vote'for him for Speaker ` ; and 'I think that in the event of his election the Heavenly Father would pre serve the life of the man who now occupies the gubernatorial chair. But look at the scene whichis presented here to-day. Upon which side of the chamber is to rest the burden of responsibility ? I deny that we, 011 this side of the chamber, are justly chargeable - for the pretreat state of affairs ; we can take no other position than that which we have taken. Let the gentlemen say, "Wit) us the Senator from- Berke for Speaker, and allow us to fill the offices of the Senate with the candidates of our own selection, and we will reciprocate your generoeity by voting with you on important questions of State policy"— let them say that;sand the machinery of legis lation will again work harmoniously, and the business of.the people be attended to. But that re not their intention. They inttkd to perpetrate a great and indescribable wrong upon the people of Pennsylvania. They are endeavoring to establish the per nicious doctrine that the Constitution of Pennsylvania has. the leprosy in its very bones; that it has the consumption in its frame, that the seeds of death are in its marrow, and that If not wound up every year like a clock it must of necessity cease to exist. I hold, sir, that it was the liter and sincere belleinof the great men •Who formed the Constitution that the State &nate would always be an organized body. .But it is contended here•that by reason of the merest circumstance, by the capture of a mom- Ater of the denote who was standing between ,tile enemy and our own firesides, /Senators are 'justified in attempting to break down the Cort i stitution and to say that it is a mere ricketty Inachineirinfficient for the purposed for which it *as intended by the fathers of the Govern meat. Mr. Speaker, the Senatorson the south em side of this hens° are legally and - morally wrong ; they have taken upon their shoulders the groat' responsibility orpreventing legisla tion. I ask the Senator from Barks if he will holp us to save over a million of dollars to the Commonwealth if we accept hid proposition for a divisien of the offices of this Benito. I ask Idea and lie &Mapes to consider whether the fact of the imprisonment of a loyal man in Libby Prison shall defeat wholesome, honest and just ' J 39 Tereorapq. NEWS FROM rnE . SOUTH. • NTINffiES BOIEBBIMENT'OR CHIRLESTON REINFOECEILIEHT OF . THE FLEET Demonlizapon of Society in ,liitilmiOndk Effeota of the President's &nudity Proclamation. T PRItiONERSIN RICHMOND' The Rebel Plan and prength in the Bothwest. THE REBEL CAVALRY IS MISSISSIPPI FORMES MONROZ, Jan. 16. • The fiag.of-truce steamer. New York arrived from City Point this afternoon. Present indi cations admit of no doubt-that, if the exchange business remains In the hands of General But• ler, a satisfactory exchange will 'shortly be affected::: $3P0117511 DIFILAT 01,MOEILBY °Loos 0.11 , Jan. 14-4haseby, is still bar.: Taming the enemy's rear, but , is reported to have been badly whipped near 'torpor's Ferry. There was ice in Richmond three inches in thickness. iIATTELS eT CILUILISTON Caam.seroN, Jan,. 14,—The enemy has kept up a lively eh_elling all day., Since Tuesday'at 9 o'clock, four hundred and seventy-one &elle have been;thrown , into the city, causing some damage,; but no aumaltiss are reported. The enemy;have unmasked two or three More Par. rotts on Fort . Gregg. The shelling is still heavy this morning, but thereis no rnovoment of the. fleet. Wriarasros, Jan. 13.—The boinbardment . of We city .bas been continuous since t the last re port. A large amber nf trant!poils filled with Sloops have been observed going South. An increased fleet is repcirted it Hilton Head. PIRGIVIA. LID TEENER® OiLition.Votritz ROW', Jan. 18.—The enemy is traneferring one corps fionvour front to the Virginia Valley. Ausseuvrtza, Jan.l2.—The bridge over the . Holstein river is completed, and the one over the Watauga will-be finished next week. :LAT= kILOM OIMILINTOX QH.AILLISTON, Jan. 11.—Three shells were thrown Mto>the city Ibis morning and six this afternoon. On the 1014 instant eighteen eheite wore thiovm into the city, and the enemy opened two ploTeeMbraanres, one bearing ou the city and one on Ames rapt omao Cate°, Jan.l2.—The steamer Forsyth, from Memphis on theldth, strived at this port to, day, with, one hundred bales of cotton. The steamer Lady Franklin ah;o arrived, with 780 bales forSlineinnatt A refugee from Richmond, who travelled via the Wilmington, Mobile and Ohio Railroad to °helots, furnishes the Memphis Bulletin with a lifigt.account of the oonditirm of affairs In the ' Confederacy.. . He describes society in Biehmond.esic3l4.l.erribly demoralised in all daunt!. An -erstratainary alargepcmber of deers were there. • - There is said to be large numbers of Union men in that city. The same demoralization existed in Mobile. A proposition has been made in the rebel Congress to conscript negroes for soldiers, but it was vigorously opposed by the nuaudares from Virginia, Georgia and South GaroßMX.' President Lincoln's Amnon Proclamation has caused much excitement among the people and soldiers, and it was feared that rimy would accept it, and abandon the rebel caves. lt was believed that a large majority of the troops, if left to themselves, would lay down their arms, and accept the terms proposed. I Lee's army and Longstreet's troops are esti mated to be six thousand strong. Bishop Popo commands the Department of he Idiesissippi, in place of Gen. Johnston. His tessumption of the command of the army was very imposing, while the donnuditliono of Bragg wore bitter. Bragg's army Is completely de moralized and scattered throughout the coun try, and his men are deserting in large num bers. It is the intention of the rebel Government to concentrate 'eD the forces poesible at that point, and check the advance of - Grant, and drive him back, if possible. The number of rebel troops west of the• Mk iissippi is estimated at 30,000. General S. D. Lee =mends the cavalry and has a force of 17 000 men, 5,000 of whom were under Ferguson at Okolona, 5,500 at Oxford. Two regiments of the prisoners captured by the 'United States army at Port Hudson, had been declared exchanged, and supplied with arm P. &General Lee's headquarters were at Brandon, Miss. • Immense quantifies of corn were lying along the railroads on the Alabama line: Sixty-two rebel soldiers were sent from Mem phis on the 18th, to be exchanged for eome of our men taken by Forrest. • General Sherman has gone to Richmond. FROM FORTRESS M sox AN ESCAPE FROM LIBB I=l the President's Proclamation and the Rebel Officials. 9 • ~ ~ • y^ TEM UNITED STAUB ?IMPULSE THOMAS SWAN ABHORS. FORTIIIBB Mosiaoa r Jan. 17. The propeller Thomas Swann, from New York to Fortress Monroe and Washington,with a valuable cargo of Government stores, ran ashore at two -o'clock on Saturday morning List, when twenty• five miles south of Cape floury. Captain Ainsworth has gono to her assistance with throe steamers. He sent back to-day for barges to light the propeller. With very fa vorable woathor the may be got off. Captain P. W. Soott, of tho 86th Illinois regiment, captured near Ohickamarops, on 'the 14th of November teats hue just arrived at Fortress Monroe, on tho Yorktown mail boat, having made his escape from the Libby Prison on the 7th inst., and reached Gloucester Point last evening, traveling by night and lying con coaled during:the daytime, and having been four days without food of any kind. The Cap tain reports that • Dr. Lane, of Georgia, now engaged among the - prisoners at lUchmonii, told him that President Lincoln's amnesty pro clamation had caused great:exciteinent among the confookirstollovernmant of:Tic:tali, and that he-(the lioetor)hed no doubts that one-half of their men would be foolish enough to avail themselves of ths advantages held out in that proclamation, by taking the oath of allegiance to the tufted States government. eapjain Scott , recently heard theguard atthe Libby Prison say that Jar Davit! and General Lee had made a secretproposition to the' rebel, Congress to bring the war to a close. This, however, he regarded as merely scamp rumor. There are strong indications that the rebels have but a very small force in or 'about Bich= mond at the present time. The Captain leaves here thisevening, for Washington, en mute for Weniustese, to rejoin his regiment. - We learn from' Captain Bolbrook, that M Fiddly' O. l3lsmt, , an interestintryoung lady, living on Roanoke Blend, was bend murdered on the 2d inst. She was returning home from a neighbor's house when overtaken, bar peram 'darted, and then was brutally mur dered bra blow upon the bead.- _ The proved marshal offered 4260 reward for the apprehension of the murderer. Anegrp has been arrested under strangsly susptdous aireumstanses. IMPORTANT FROM RANIMMICL Thieatened Rebel Attsok on Job*, . son's Island. Force or Two ?howland Gathered at - Point Pelee. SAZDVEXT Jan. 17. One of W. S. Pmusores scouts has jest returned from a thorough reconnoissance toward Point Pelee, Canada. He reports two or three thousand rebels at Point Pelee, preparatory to a dash upon Johnson's Island. Gen. H. D. Terry has everything in readiness to receive his expected 'visitors properly should they venture to -moss the ice. Our veterans are anxious to indulge in the novelty of a sklr wish muthe ice. The strictest vigilance is maintained on.the island, and several batteris are in ` position. Point Pelee is thirty miles from Johnson's Island. The scout wholdngsthie informatien le raid to be a . most reliable man, he having sailed on Lake Erie for twenty years. John Brown, a soh of the old hero, who re. sidee On Pnt•in-lay Island, has gonnto Uolamc bus to induce the acrverament to furnish how itzers and shall arms for the protection of inhabitants. The long roll has been souoded quite often recently. Colonel Bassett, of the Eighty-second Penn sylvania regiment, will relieve the - preatint hicompetent commander at Johnson Wand to morrow. Passage of the Enrollment Bill. Vasruirmon t Jan. 18-2 r. 14. The Senate has passed the enrollment bill without any important amendment, by a veto of 30 yam to 10 nays. Nno Xnurtirtutents PUBLIC SALL ILL be dold•on the premises on Saturday, VW the 13th defy of February, 1864, a cer tain two story Frame 14111138 and part - of 'a lotof ground situate in the city ofilariisbure, be. tweien State and North street, being in front on Second street 27 feet trinekes,Atnd back 94 feet, more or less, late theyof Anne Catharine Crm'kle, deed. om thence at 2 o'clock, P. lc, when •terms will be made known by - WM. 11. KNE'NER, — *cantor of Amore. Outride, deed. jault; dlw AMBROTYPISTB AND PH(00:: rEAKitaurpm., Th Q Ainbrojkli . 1 . - ivan: l -111e one'bfliktahr"titatitil liddjuis been doing a good busiest& For further in formation apply to H. IL GBOTE. janlB Oirlitilo i Pa, Mitt . tkr at the reeidence ef , her uncle 111 Qum • county, from °Ossetian of the WO, ethic fevrhoune illness, Nam A., only daughter of A.:T. and the late S. I. Jones, In the third year of her age. Funeral on Tuesday at 2 o'clock. r. m., from the residence of her father on Front street. The relatives and friends are requested to at tend without further notice. On the_lsth Eau LANfIUiSCI, eldest daughter of Charles and Mary Bird, in the /7t6 year of her age. Her friends are respectfully Invited to attend the funeral, horn ?lather's residence on Fmnt street, at 8 o'clock this afternoon. Weep on, but weep-not very long ; 'gm. spirit flew on high, Oh, wiry far on high . With wings of light it fled any Beyond the g lobe of day, Beyond the ewy ray— Away, away, it flashed along, To mingle with the blessed throng, To catch the eereph-notes of song Which God alone can give. Oh ! weep not now, the crown of gold Blumes that brow of angel mould ; 06, weep not now ! her starry lyre Warbles celestial hymns of fire. She has bum to bee. D, Its 21rotrthrtnituts. FIFTEEN MEN WANTED IROrtIien are F wanted for inamstem tc ashington. Wages 1180 per month for driving 4 horses ; $B5 for driving 6 mulct. Apply at the City Hotel near the Pennsylvania Biased Depot. DAVID CASE, Assistant Wagon Master. Wears:Eß . Dammam, Wagon Muter janlB d2to OST--Qn Saturday, January 16th, a Pocket Albnin•and=a package contakdng some lete tem and two army discharges. The finder will be liberally rewarded by leaving them at janlB d2to THIS OFFICE. 1300. B] WARD. THE store of the subscriber was burglarious -IL ly entered on the night of the 16th inst., (Saturday,) the safe blown, open and robbed of Government and State bank notes, personal checks and other papers. All parties are heretly notified to refuse all obligations and papaw having my signature, until further developments are made, as I am at present unable to ascertain the full extent of my loss. The above reward will be paid upon the con viction of the thief or thieves. GEO. G. KUNKEL. Elmuusnuao, Jan. 113th,1864-alw9 FOR SALE. A GOOD FBAMB STABLII, bolds two 111 HOLM, with room for bay, are. a inquire of (iiil6 Iwo] CHARLES TIMM, Wit of Bt. LEOTIJBE ON TEMPERANOL BY J• 'Q• DETWILER, EEC OT lOWA, COURT 110118lir, ' On MONDAY EVENING, 413th but. Ad mittance free. 2.ta LOTS FOR SALE. ANUMBER of Lola have been laid out or. the /Mlltown Boa, about one 111110 east , 4the city of_,Hreiatturg, which are being sold at low priceis. • To penguin desiring to secure a home for thebaselves, and to be relieved front the present exorbitant rents, this a rare op crittzi and numberTaw remain on T of lots have already plan of said lots can be seen at the Sheriff's of os is,Harrisbmg, where desiring to purchase are requested to calf sad seethesame J.IIIIIIiLL. Harrisburg, Jan. 15, 1864. jml6 grand Miry and Citizens' areas Bali To be given OIL ThiIirGITRILTIOW Monday evening, Jaii. 18th, hi Bittat 's Hall = .40()11 MANAGERS. • Wx Itricurtir, W. D. Moms, . Cades , • F. Nt'llsrmouts. MABTER OF 01121113101.1=3. J. Bpßimilascs. VALUABLE NEW SASH FACTORY, PIANING LED SLITTING ]ELT., AT PUBLIC SALE, ON SATURDAY, FEBRYART lith, 1664 eubeotiber win eon for lid th e ye i . ble new SASH FAOIORY, G sod ' MILL S on the Oamberiand Valley roirmo; lEmbemicsburs, Pa. The Pro comprises a -image Two story Frame with a convenient TWO STORY WABII3/0011 near, with Melds attached, for storinghusber and a Lot of Ground, 160 feet square, very ad- Wantagennaly located. : The Fantasy is fitted npwith.R. large stock of the best Machinery, whicl is driven by an EN GINE OF AMPLE POWER. The establishment has excellentpatronago and for any one desiring to on this busd nese, no better opening can be .Sale toquinnence at ONNOCLOIX, en add day, *mat tennis wilL be made known by Beildtect] JOHN SADLER. HEW BAKERY. Broad Ikea, Miss - lomd, aid ?Kra Rams , Bum. , IF UNDERBIONKD ima opened a new Y, is the SEMh wink wheat he b p to lowly . BREAD OD CANES at a tameable tat& He will warrank sitlea c tior. to all who will give him a WI.- He -10411 Bali wa dread at the rate of FA% 081378--Pliiiietl4ll), and fan walett gmwmiteed; in dtf JOHN AIDOEN. ALMANAOIII AL/lAN:4OS 11 101 i% LANCABEE, R , 4ft,Ma ss , . Just received and for intletat - scalarYßE'S BOOKSTORE, • I ' VI it: SCHOOL BLAB of fitironga s i ges , -waxed Excellent series- al Spellers and Reader& pnblished_by HaroV 41$ Brahma, together with cdrothee:Odhael Woke' and Writing linteriala are offered, wholesale and retail, at dec7 - EXELEEMVB.2O(IIO3TOBE. / rtiORIPONCTAMDAPENs. A Nsamatiot of. l l o 6pn'a:CrAptralled Goli , msyslbr, sob at :rdeth All pens waininted foe one yew, B on y , 0 wax -- • Teacher of the Plio, maim la YWka r"4lremoneble 16 Thiel street, 'Awes. 1$ avol Ohesinut skeet& Ana 8m lan6tjlSt ,
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