g Ceitgra4 13 . o_v P 4 A 'V tt Din 11NION—ITLE totecianTyrim—tael THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE. LAW_ THE' FEITED STATES LAWS BY AUTHORITY IR THY, PENNSYLVANIA DAILY TELDDRAPH. PENNSYLVANIA TELEGRAPH Poi Tat LEGISLATIVE, SESSION. 1111 The publisher' of the PorsayLvawrs Tram °R&M"' made. the ?nest ample and complete arrangements, by the engagement of an expe rienced corps of reportersi to give the ,public a complete synopsis of the . proceedings ,of - the Legislature, embraclng all,legislation• that will, be of a general character and such private busi_i news as may have an effect or influence on the public interest. Added to ,these reports, with the,reports of ,f,he Heads of Departments, the debates will also be published when they aro of i a character involving questions in which the people are interested. Theee features regularly and,carefully conducted, and supervised by ex perienced reporters, our reports of gip prrK;eed, Inas of,,Cougress .at the approaehin session , the current events in the progress of the war,. together ,withauch domestic. and.foreign, news as shaU daily occur and come within our reach, will make the PiNNBYLVAIUA. TRLIORAPH one of the most valuable and interesting newspapers in tint:country, 'Taw The 17.1*.u.v Will be published during the ses sion the Legislature for $l,OO per copy. Tsai6vßeimy will also be published at the low rate of $l,OO for the session. The WEEKLY is printed on a very large sheet at thii low rate of $l,OO per year. Address, • - GEORGE BERGNER, Rartisburg, Penn'a it ARR.' &B•ll.Rt= , PA. Tuesday ,Mornilig, *caliber 24, 1881. . . PEOPLES' STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE. A. - meeting of the members of the Peoples' State dental - Committee 'will be held at Colt erly's Hotel, Harrisburg, on WP)PiESDAY, JANUARY 22d, 1862, to detarmine,the tine and place for holding a State ConvOlon to'nominate State•candidates, and io transact such other business *as may be presented. A full attendance is reipeeted. 2. 14. K.. MCCLURE, CM inn.= • I. ' " 261; I Secretaries 4RXIN 311..g111W." Bribyff,Eas i NEN. Some of our cotemporaries become very elo quent on thtrenbject of advertising, when they desire to explain what many merchanti call htinktirics` It is a iact that adyertisinglirings *dinar, nnd it: is a fact, also, that while. the man who neglects •to advertise; is Constantly defi,iorhig tholuirdn'ess of the times, he . who; follows the practice of liberal and ilio4ous, ad vertising is a stranger .to what is called the stringency of business Or the hardness of the times. On this subject, an eastern comtempo rag maintains that it, is *dly worth while for men, bArebei-nindest they rany 'he; to hide whatever light they may have, under a bushel, fol.; ilia public does 'nit take much trouble in searching out such over modest merit. If you haven gensi thing, which will fill a public, want, let gie'pitbge'lcnOW it and you will not long .. languish for; want of appreciation. In other words, in these dull times, advertise the in ducenients you offer to those 'who have any any tabley tO'spend and if the:inducements are sufficient / you will insure patronage- You may haie.the.best boots, the best clothing, the best drygoods, the best beef, the best groceries, wines, or anything else, but if you keep the saitnt,lneki!d up in your own breast, you may keep.all your goeds upon your shelves er,in yOuldrawers.- The great secret of success in lreuthithi' is indictees advertising. 'There is , , nothing like keeping your name and business continually. before • the pepple, at this season, when everybody feels lib erally inclined, - and yet , distorted to in veretbet:inoney they mai have to spend to the beet possible. advantage. If you have 'holiday presents which you consid er better than those 'kept by any one else, and which you are willing to flail at fair pricee, walkup to,the TRAGRAiII office andtell the pub liga,•"tigibrigh our columns: We will spread the fact far and wide for you, give you the benefit of the large'circulation of our three editions, and thup;give you• more notoriety than you could get, if you were to go about for , years, button-holing every man, woman and child you , reet,aktd fording them to lisben to you. tvery dollar, judiciously invested in this way, 'is sure to bring back ten ; in fact, there is no investment 'which' pays so well as that spent on the 'adVertleing department of PoPnlar newspaper like the Th1441114,PH. The space you occupy in the paper is yours. In it you can say to your customers' and Mende just "what you please, offer any iroiricemants yorOlke, and thus have an immense Nivantage oyer,those people who have so little confidence in'titenmeelve that they have nothing to saY.--: Yiltr`dinnot catch fish without bait, neither can you do business without advertising. Those wholrncrii lliebenefits of the system should tails si6mitage of it now ; those who do not, should try it just on :Do not be modest; come right Out and to your story, the public wltl besitiet9:be interested in It, if itis, a good the hlday luxuries are purehorixi, all the presents made, but strike beldtribra'cliatted:tOoll'yoUr share of , thenr. Our itidi.;i) 4iini'Seein' What; kit it ie . round neverthelese. Yellow it once, at any rate. ERIE AS A NAVAL DEPOT. Whether England concludes to take part in this' rebellion or resolves to " wait a little longer" for a more propitious hour to gratify the long cherished hopes of her aristocracy, of destroying the great Republic of the West, the necessity of protecting our entire range of northern border along liritiskterritory, is now and ever will be, one of vast importance. There can hereafter be no social reciprocity or commer• cial understanding between Great Britain and this government, simply because the English ar istocracy who govern, have evinced a hatred . for the free masses of this-land, such as we did not anticipate fiom the ,pionears of Constitutional liberty Andlniletiehfthhee facts, the necessity of erecting: naval 400 a Upon the 'lake shores and militarY fortifications along the north-east and western Clanadian - bolusiary, is daily becom ing a work of imperative and instant importance. We have no 40, hereafter, to , trust either the Carnelian rebels or the English aristocracy. TIM &rarer, when they 46ml:tad their sickly rosolirtien a few' years since;' were too willing to seek refuge. under our gOvannrient until they ccitdd obtain pardon from their own, :when they returned to Canada and became the 'bitterest revilers of he Yankee—while the English arts= 'tocracy have ever been 'the secret, foes of that system which in this government eh:yeti:a' every Vat to the position-of a sovereign. 'ln view of these facts, hi : Al : they are historical, the necessity: of proketitig our bonier. along English territory is` - very , important. One of the most important features of this protection' will consist of fleets to be maintained on the lakes, sitchas will be able : to oope with. the English w a r craft which - we must sooner or later expect to encounter in thoSe waters. And when this neer — Natty, Is admitted, a, still greater neces sity arises of at once establishing a naval depot on the lakes; in such a's:antral Position as will be a . protectinn both against the rough weather in that region, andafford, facilities of early oom.- ruunication with the greatmanufactnring marts and market:o'd Supply along the Atlantic sea board. Such a locality. is presented by Erie. Ii every respect, the city and harbor of. Erie, is the meet' dettrable, as affording a bay both deep and spacious, for a Beet to ride at anchor ; with, brinke 100 feet high, on which batteries; rauld be erected to prevent the entrance of a iwstile fleet; 'the supply of ship timber in that region, and 'along the lines of railroad leading to that, point is inexhapstible ; with 'every facility for obtaining coal and iron for manufacturing phrposes, combine to render the harbor of Erie the most desirable for a - naval - depot'of all the other harbors on our lakes: We give this subject our most earnest recom, mendation, and trust that no time will. be -lost on the part of the Navy Department in at once selecting this poiiit for the purpose named.— Stich tt selection is demanded both by economy and the highest considefations of national de fence arid prettervationr. RESIGNATION AND APPOINTMEN TS Gen; Williara EU: Kelm, for two years • the Surveyor General of the State, has been appoint • ed. 'by the 'Presiding of the United States, a Brigadier-General in the may, • -Gen. Heim, during his connection with the Surveyor Gen end's Department of•the State, won for himself many persemd friends, by his naforrn courtesy and diligence i and elicited the commendation of the pdople at the •initiation of our national embarrassments, by, promptly volunteering his services in defence of the, nee:Ma honor, law and authority. His appointment, to. the corn 'mend of a brigade was therefore well merited , and we have no doubt that the responsibility thus imposed will be faikhfidly . discharge& . In view of this appointment of. Gen. , Keim, his resignation as Surveyor General becomes 're pent:die. and therefore Gov Curtin has atone selected a successor in„Ae Land pepartinent, in the person of Hon. Henry Souther, late State. Senator, of Elk .county . Hr. :Souther is - well known, as an able and most reliable gentleman, by whom the duties .of Surveyor General pill be faithfully discharged. CA.PTI VAlt SWORTOW. I The services of this gentleman, in a military Sense, have been important and manifold during his entire connection. with Camp' Curtin, and we therefore cannot rdfrinn from acknowledg ingthe, general.. obligation: under • which the Commonwealth of .Peruutylvania rests for these Services, at a tinii*hen Capt. Tan Swortow re tires from all connection with the camps in this region. No man labored more_zealously to en sure and promote a military discipline, and to no man's energy is more credit due for the Ommendalion which the vselunteers from the Keystone state. have received, than to - Captain Van SWartow. demoves Well at the hands of the state and' the nation; pd we trust that the latter will not be long in w4vithring in hini a soldier worthy ,•of • both full confi dence and honorable position. An appoint- ' went 'to a'corkunand in the army wonidte hail ed by the volunteers from this state almost as an omen of victory. THE OILDINANCOO of accession was pained on the 20th day of December, 1800, and less than . a year has , seen the, footsteps of the invader on the Boil of South Carolina—the commerce of her porta destroyed—her trope given to the flames— her slaves escaping -her, material` wealth re duced to almost nothing—beggary and near starvation taekbig her people—and finally her chief city laid in ashes without even the 'hand of the "northern enemy" being laid upon her. Verily, the nest in which was hatched the viper of secession, has fared and all who• may be hereafter disposed,to adopt-the policy of "rule or ruin" may -take warning.- Some- way the destruction reaches them, 'and how it reaches them is a matter of but little cotaidquence. , OUR Hsfrosar, Ikieroa's Surgeon General of the army asks an appropriation for the ttext.fiscal year of $8,500,000, biddes tho pay of the surgeons, for the medical and IW-* tat, depaitments. His catireatta arer founded upon the basis of $7 per man for an aggregate of 500,000 men. BesideSibis, 'the Paymaster General asks for.s7B,oooi, An the Moikent of 600 fem;de mimes— .4:dotto these , items the;pay of 600inngeons, and4onohave the doctor's bill of the Federal army, which will considerably emceed $4,000,000 a year! penttopirania Math! telegraph,-enailigt; 6 /11,ortivq , glerember 24 1861 The low by this great fire is estimated at $7,- 000,000. The following are the only extracts from Charleston papers, which have reached us since the fire: The Courier says the most gratifying incident of the fire was the zealmanifested by the slaves in their efforts `asfiremen and laborers.* The entire population, male and female, worked most earnestly. Subscriptions for the poor suf ferersl;Y the terrible Conflagration has been opened at the Bank of Charleston, and $2;000 had been subscribed. The Mercury of Friday says : Yesterday was a gloomy day for Charleston. Business was usivereally suspended, arid' with one. itnpulse our community united in giving sympathy and aid to the victims of the great public calamity. The Charier says the fearful conflagration that hes just,paard over our city , will cause the 12th of December, 1861, hereafter to be remem bered as cine'ef thoek deck - and trying periods which for the moment seem to paralyze all the long eherished hopes - arid, bright - anticipations of the:futtge, been visited.byroite those iriyisttiridus "VutpAilna tions . 'Ptchicienbe which we cannot attempt to Halve. Our city has received a terrific blow which will lake the work of years to , ritoili.. !Let uktieritiohrealies then for another start-, thankful we an still left wish the same both Spirit and strong arms, to 'make a new and perhatis more, substantial prosperity foi our beloitied•hUy.' ,epre GAP Gang 44n5. 7 -Some two weeks ago, a black'fellow was arrested near vine, Chester .county, on, a ch of 'ideajpg some grain from Andrew Sfewath's Since his confinement there, he gave such infor mation. implicates several ethers in the same transaction, among whom were. lies Levison, a :tan fellow,. and Wm. Sear; of the , . *`Gap Gang" noteriety., On searching the honse Of :Levison,llthty bushels of wheat and eight bushels of clover seed were secreted in the cel lar, but Levlson was nowhere to be found. On Saturday last ho,wasbeaol of in l'hiladelphia, and Hr. Steward, accompanied by another gen tleman, left Penningtonville in search of him. After some difficulty, they found that he , had hired. ht. services to a soldier Com1) 1 4 1 7 which was_ encamped near the city. , By aid ofan officer lie was arrested and lodged in prison; where he remained. a day, and on Holiday, was, breoght to the, ;West Chester' jell. 'He had bearing before Maguire . Whi t ehead, where he talked about. the robbery,, in aVerxunceneerneti manner, as though he thought it; was a - mere 'matter of business. Bear hasdeft; the neighbor hood but a strict watch is.belug kept for him. `Since the pardon for his last offence Which took place abont a year ago, he has been pretending to be very good, attending church Very regular ly; and some time ago seemed anxious to ,become a Member. It was, bewever, thought advisable to put him on, probation. • A Naw Esciorous =DKNOKINAZON.--The first service of. the "Conference of the Independent Methodist Churches in the United. States" was held in the St. John's Methodist Church in this city on Wednesday and Thursday- list. About twenty delegates, lay and clerical, were in at tendance, representing Independent Methodist Churches in difterent-parts of ' the country. Rev. M. Staple, of Brooklyn was chosen President ; Rev. H. Mattison, of. New York Secretary, and. James M. Coburn, of New York Treasurer. Two young men were ordained to the ministry, and atrangements were made for starting a'periodi , cal to be called the Methodist , lidependerg, to be edited by Professor Mattison. The pectdiarities of this sect arethatwhile they adhere to Metho dist doctrine and modeof worship, they have. rio ”Piishops" , or "Presiding Elders ;" the churches are independent of the Conference; own their church property, choose their own pastors and retain them. asiong - as they, please; and- the Conference, composed of ministers and la leis- gates, has no legislative, executive or 'alai authority over the local chmehesteyon that of mere.advice and recommendation, The Articles of Faith of the Methodist Episcopal' Church Were adopted by the Conference, and' recom mended to the local chnrchas as a doctrinal platform, and a carefully prepared plan of union or constitution Wasack!.pted and subscribed by. all., the delegates present.—Now- York /Awning Most of Sawrday. " TVs Naw'Pairsca UttitFORMSCA torresrilmd ent of one of our coteniparies, writing from Washington, thus alludes to the new' ZotiaVe uniforms, recently:furnished Col McLane's and Col. Black's regiments 'my way home firm MeCall's to Col. Black's regiment, on' Mi ner's Hill, I found the road lined with Erie' boys, coming out to show their new uniforms, leotight from France--the'real Zotiave dress.— It is blue. The :breeches ate about' three