J NUTS Paitg Eciegrao,. I=l Wotever float that standard sheet I Where breathes the foe hat falls before nal With Freedom's soil besieolli our feet, nod Freedoms banner streaming o'er nal 0 R P AT ola MI ERE UNION-THE CONSLITUTION-Ale THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW. TEE :UNITED 'STATES LAWS Ala! pususairo By AUTHORITY IN THE PENNSYLVANIA. DAILY TELEGRAPH. THE PENNSYLVANIA TELEGRAPH 1 1 011 TRII LEGISLATIVE SESSION. The publisher of the PENNSYLVANIA Tau earam has made the most ample and complete arrangements; by the engagement of an expe dent efl corpti of reporters, to give the public a complete synopsis of the proceedings of the Legislature, embracing all legislation that will be of a general character and such private busi ness as may have an effect or influence on the public interest. Added to these reports, with the reports of the Heide of Departments, the debates will also be published when they are of a character involving questions in whidh the people are interested. These features regularly and carefully conducted and supervised by ex perienced reporters, our reports of the proceed ings, of Congress at the approaching session, the current events in the progress of the war, together with such domestic and foreign news as shall daily occur and come within our reach, will matte the PasktsrLvarne Tato:learn one of the most valuable and interesting newspapers in the country. Mt! The Dairy will be published during the ses sion of the Legislature for 51,00 per copy. Tax Seui-Warrtv will also be published at the low rate of 51,00 for the session. The Wswv is printed on a very large sheet at the low rate of 51,00 per year. Address, GEORGE BERGNER, Harrisburg, Penn'a FiARRI6BURG, PA Tburoday Morning, December 26.1561, PEOPLES' STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE. A meeting of the members of the Peoples' State Central Committee will be held at Car etly's Hotel, Harrisburg, on WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 22d, 1862, to determine the time and place for holding a Stater Convention to nominate State candidates, and to transact such other business as may be presented. A full attendance is requested. ALEX K. !dcOLURE, Mamas. Gist Hatiagasty, Secretaries. Jowl d. Sumatran, LIBERIA The rebellion in which the south is engaged for slavery, if not actually developing some of the most singular facts and circumstances con nected with that institution, is occurring at a time when tile attention of the world is at tracted in the direction of a practical effort for a recognition and elevation of the African race. A few years since slaves were the only commo dity shipped from western Africa, and the coast along that • • 'portion of the territory of thit country, was lined with cruisers all intent only in securing cargoes of human flesh, to be dispesed'of in the slave markets of the worldihat offered the highest prices for such commodities. Since then a change has taken place. A change most beneficial for the perse cuted race inhabiting that coast and still more profitable while less barbarous and uncertain for the Merchants who trade in that direction. This trade is commanding the competition of the world. It is of a character which promises to increase with years, so that the nations and go- Torments now securing commercial advantages with Liberia by recognizing her independence, will hereafter be able to retain and enlarge such advantages in this vastlmd inexhaustable trade which will be openedlirthat country, while the governments refusing or neglecting to tender such * recognition will, be entirely cut a from each trading facilities. Liberia is now an independent sovereign power, with capacity and stability sufficient to receive the recognition of most of the govern ments of Nurope. Notwithstanding thin recog nition, and the failure of our own government to extend the sane - courtesy to the same nation, the shipping of btu. merchants is received on the same terms with that of other countries, because the people of Liberia feel kindly for the people of America. An acknowledgment of the inde pendence of Liberia, by the government of the United !Egg* would only be the admission of a fect which lea already been establiiihed to the satisfactige cif the world. Liberia is free and Is dependelk, I ts 4 she redo is recognition, and in return fOithis, she offers the facilities to a trade of the richest ed. ,most varied character. Let Congress therefore promptly recognize the in dependence, o f Liberia. Itr is due to the civili sation and religion of the world, that such an rot should at once be passed, and it is due also to ourselves, that we are not ,behind other gov ernments in deeds which go to develop the usefulness of trade by encouraging the industry and enterprise of our own people. Gum. W. T. Saaaltsx —A corrtepondent s the st.itement copied from a Cincinnati paper, concerning the insanity of Gen. W. T. Sherman aM idds "The dlen,eral' is now in Lancaster, Ohio, with his family and friends, seeking a brief respite from tbstarduous duties that have been imposed upon him, His mental powers are still as vig. worm and energetic as ever. Physically he is somewhat prostrated. It is his intention to re turn soon to Missouri (if he' has not already done saYtti Wile for his konntry's right again. Justice to GenAsal-Sherman and his friendS de mands tha tl44ii. 4f O A4L I as to his bandy be made." =l3 KENTOVEY. There is a small clique in Kentucky who are I doing all that men can do, to aid rebellion by presuming to dictate to the national admin istration before they are able to defend their own state, their own fire side, or their own honor from the treason which they know to ex ist and the traitors whom they have suffered to escape. Kentucky, with all her ancient re known and admitted strength of valor and prowess, has done less to stay the course of re bellion on her own soil, than any other state cursed with its influence. She has nursed the prince of traitors, Breckinridge— she first set up the plea of neutrality in this fight—and now her prominent citizens are coquetting with the rebel government, and yet Kentucky sets herself up iitia dictator to the national govera meat, as annmpire in afight inwh;eh her young men are against the law and authority of the land, and at a time, too, when her territory and, her honor must be guarded by the people of the -north, by the men of loyal old Pennsylvania. It would be far better, then, for such states as Kentucky Ito contribute some aid in ;quelling this rebellion, before they attempt to question the policy of striking the evil where the danger exists—while the idea of any set of men stand ing up for one instititntion, and that, slavery, while the other great institutions of libery, a free press and the franchise are in danger, shows how little regard they have for our national existence, when their dardng prospect of enslav ing all who labor is at stake. - This disposition of Kentucy to embarrass and thwart the efforts of the administration to crush not only rebellion but to exterminate the cause, is nothing more or less than treason in disguise. Many good men will refuse to admit this fact now, but its existence is nevertheless as palpa ble as are rebellion and treason in South Caro line,. We can expect to recruit just such an army as is now in the field every ten years, if the war is ended without curtailing the fran chises of slavery. We will never have peace as long as the property, slave, is represented in the halls of legislation; and it is for the perpetuation of slavery and the continuance of its represen tation, that the pseudo loyalists of Kentucky now battle. They feel that out of the Union and in the confederacy of rebels, they could not wield the most insignificant power, simply because the breeding pens of Kentucky would be passed by for a supply of slaves in the Afri can slave trade. They know, too, that in the American Union, without a slavery representa tion, Kentucky would be of little importance. Hence the solicitude of the loyal men of Ken tucky for slavery. They must have their right to breed and sell and enslave the black man guaranteed in an institution of slavery, before they will consent to raise an arm in defence of the institutions of civil and religious liberty, as they are guaranteed in the American Union. And what is most singular in all these positions is the fact that loyal men, now fighting gallantly for the Union, are asked to recognize something superior and exalted in this poaition of Ken tucky, and to make her vascilating-.masses the object of their adoration, even whi l ielthey are secretly plotting mischief against the govern ment, or extending their sympathy in every .hape, to traitors. Let us be warned in time: If Kentucky esteems slavery as of more impor tance than the Union, lot her at once espouse the cause of rebellion. She could not do lest, for the Union than she is doing now by such an act, nor would the loyal men of the free states be compelled to do more than they are now doing in periling their lives to defend the ter ritory of Kentucky from the ravages of rebel. lion. Some of the over sensitive men in Kentucky as well as in all the border states, who profess a love for the Union bat make that love sub servient to the will'imd perpetuity of - slavery, have forgotten that among all the statesmen of the south, when he lived, Henry Clay esteemed the Union and the authority of the national gov ernment, as above all other powers, either those of states or that ofany number of states violently seceeding from this Union and rebellionslyassum ing to themselves the right of a distinct and different form of government than that which is prescribed by our Federal Constitution. On this subject, the great Clay once spoke as, fol lows, and we now commend his language to the over sensitive and professed loyalists of Kentucky, as well as to those in the free states who are constantly clamoring against all pre, sent or Alttare possible interference with alvery to crush rebellion, and who still claim that the states have certain powers which are not de tived from the national government, and which the national government cannot infringe whi t e attempting to maintain its own existence against thtiebellion of such states "If any one State, or any one portion of the people of anr&ate choose to place themselves in array against the Government—ram for as certaining whether we ,have a Government or not; practicable, efficient, capable of maintaining its authority, and upholding the powers and inter ests which belong to a government. Nor, sir, am Ito be alarmed or dissuaded from any such course by intimations of the spilling of blooci. If blood is to be spilt, by whose fault is' a to be spst9 Upon•the supposition i I maintain , it will be the fault cf those who chase to raise the ;tan dard of disunion, and endeavor to prostrate the Government. And, sir, when that is done, so long as it pleases God to give me a voice to ex press my sentiments, er an arm, weak and en feebled as it may be by age, that voice and that arm will be on the side of my country, for the sup port of the general authority, and for the main tainance of the powers of the Union." HENRY WARD BIOCCUIra has assumed the entire control of The Independent, the other editors and proprietors, Messrs. Bacon, Thompson and Storrs, having withdrawn from the establish ment. The Independent has always been a fear less defender of the right and a faithful advo cate of the truth. It will decrease in none of these essential qualities of an acceptable journal under the control of Henry Ward Beecher. APPODMERNT OP %TUDOR OP THE Sun COURT. —The Chicago Journal states upon what it considers godd authority that President Lincoln has detrmined to appoint Hon. O. H. 'Browning now U. S. Senator from Illinois, to the Nation al Supreme Court, in place of Judge McLean, deceased. Canoe m husats.--The Chicago Num has " information from an tuiquestioned source, that five thousand' acres in Xlpickis_ will be planted with cotton the coming season." pmnopluania Mailp (telegraph, (thursoat Wectinber 26_1861. BY TELEGIIII. FROM FORTRESS MONROE. NEW 4 F.B OM THE SOUTH MIN PitisSB The Union Forces in Kentucky Moving Southward. A Deoisive Battle Expected at Bowl ing Green, Ky. Seven Ships of the Stone Fleet Sunk in Charleston Harbor• -*- MARYLAND AND THE SOUTHERN GON TEDERACY. • UNION PRISONERS SENT SOUTHWARD, The Battle at Drainesville Acknowledged by the Rebels a Great Disaster. Incendiary Attempt to Burn a Rail road Bridge in Georgia. The Charleston Insurance Companies Gone Into Liquidation; The Richmond Money Market. SILVER SELLING AT TWENTY-FIVE CENTS PREMIX AND GOLD AT THIRTY FIVE CENTS. -*- RUMORED SKIRMISH NEAR FORTRESS MUNRO.E. FORTIIIB9 litonkos, Dec. 24. The steamer transport Ericsson sailed for New York early this morning. A flag of truce sent out yesterday afternoon did not, return till evening on account or high wind. Thirty-two passengers were brought down, most of them hulks and children. They go to dab imore to-night. We take the following hews from yesterday's papers: . .A despatch, dated Nashville 22d, announces that nine thousand federals have crossed Green river and are marching to Hopkinsville. The coutederute force there is thirty-five hundred, under Gen. Clark of Mississippi, but reinforce ments are on their way from Clarksville. Passengers from Bowling Green say that sev enteen• thousand federate crossed Green River un Friday. it is supposed that Bowling Green will be advanced upon irom three sides simul taneously with a ore of sixty thousand, and that a decisive battle will be fought there. A dispatch from Savannah says that seven old whalers of tae Stomataleet were sunk in Charleston channel on Friday. The Tennessee legislature adjourned on the 21st to the 2uth of January. I:k:solutions in reo - to the accession of Maryland to the Con federacy have been modified by Congress in se on et session so as to declare that no peace ought to be conclude l with the United States which does not secure to Maryland an opportunity of mining a pat of the Confederacy. iA private d vetch received at Richmond on Sunday says that the steamer Gordon has run the blockade into one of the Southern ports with a cargo reported to consist of c..ffee, sal, and West India trait. One hundred and seventy-five federal prison ers wero expected to leave Richmond on Mon day for Saliobury, N. C., and another party during the week. The Richmond ..Examiner admits that the bat tle of Drains villa was no inconsiderable disaster. The Virginia Legislature has adjourned till the tith of January. The Rome (Ga.) Southerner says an attempt was made on the 6th inst. to burn the State railroad bridge over Pettis creek. rue incendiary was sentenced to be hung. Alt the Charleston Insurance Companies, ex cept Elmore, have gone into liquidation. in Richmond exchange on New Yolk is at 6 asi nominal. Silver is selling at 26 cents, end gold at 35 cents. Sales of Confederate bonds, fifteen million issue, are quoted at 99 The enemy crossed New Market bridge, this morning and burnt a house. A despatch was received at headquarters this afternnuon, announcing that a skirmish was going on, but it was subsequently contradicted. Eke 20th regiment was sent out, and firing has been heard here, but it is thought no Sighting has taken place. Anniversary of the New England The New England Society held their annual thstival at the Astor House New York, on Mon day evening, and the occasion was rendered highly entertaining by the presence of a large number of distinguished individuals. Hon. Wm. M. Everts presided, and Rev. Dr. Adams, Hon. Robert-J. Walker, Rev. Dr. Storrs, Gov. I Curtin of Pennsylvania, John G. Saxe, Judge Daley, Hon H. J. Raymond, Mr. Cbas.Ander son and a large number of others responded to the various toasts. The festivities were pro tracted to a late hour, the last toast being "Woman the staff and the beautiful rod that evnfirmej. the feeble footsteps of our fathers in ery period of the pilgrim's progress." Gov. Curtin of Pennsylvania spoke in re spofise to the toast to "The Union. His re macks as we find them in the World, are as Gov. Curtin of Penruiryllamia, rose to respond and was received with three cheers. After a ,hort exordium, he said the war is not fora restoration of Government, for we have a Gov ermitent, but for the suppression of rebellion. We have unsheathed the sword, and let it and the halter perfonn their work. [Cheers.] The Southerners are rebels, and unless they yield to the Constitution and legitimate authorities they shall be put to death. LApplause ] As a Pennsylvanian, he might be pardoned if he al luded to the fact that the sentiment of political and religious liberty brought by puritan New England, was carried by a representative of the sentiment from New England to Philadel phia, and in Pennsylvania it was promulgated to the world in the Declaration of independence. You sometimes say, said he, that Pennsylvania is a blind giant. Go feel the pulse of the giant now. Every pulsation is one of fidelity to the republic. The scale has fallen from at least one of the giant's eyes, and if you want to know the result, go count her hundred thousand men in arms. [Applause.] They are now an excitable people. They looked a long time at the South barrier separating the East from the West ; but Pennsylvania joined New England when those Southern rebels seized upon our forts,. pilfered the mints, became pi rates on the high seas, tore down the flag of our country, the symbol of national liberty and power, from every custom house in the south, beleaguered a fort and starved out seventy. two: of -their own countrymen. Then the etheireal spark fell, kinong the people of Peim sylvanta, and she fined with New England,and the ilirne aseended to heaven, and for"all future generations.the flame will illuminate the world. (Applause)