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OUR PLATFORM
THE UNION-THE CONSTiTuTiON-AND
THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW.
THE. UNITED STATES LAWS
ARE PUBLISHED BY AETHORITY IN
THE PENNSYLVANIA. DAILY TELEGRAPH.
HARRISBURG, PA
Monday Afternoon, January 21,1862,
A VOLUNTARY VINDICATION.
We publish the following card, voluntarily
tendered, as an act of simple justice due to our
reputation and position in this community,
and is the only notice we can take in our col
umns of the unprovoked assault of the Pa
triot and Union of Saturday last. The card
fully and clearly exposes the circumstances
of that attack, and we therefore submit it to
the public without any further comment:
A CARD
HARRISBURG, Jan. 27,1862
GEORGE BERGNER, Esq., Sir :—.My attention
having been directed to an article in the Pa
triot and Union of Saturday last, reflecting
severely and unjustly on you; as being con
cerned with the prosecution in the case of the
Com. vs. Loeb and Hirsh,l deem it only just
to declare before the public, that you were in
no manner connected with that prosecution.
The arrest was made on information derived
from others, and the prosecution commenced
before I said a word to you on the subject.
MOSES FLECK, Constable.
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THE PRIVILEGES OF THE WRIT 01
HABEAS CORPUS.
When the rebels were secretly engaged in
concocting their plan for the subversion of the
government, one of the reasons on which they
relied for the escape of their satalites, was the
privilege of the writ of Habeas Carpus. They
intended to use this sacred feature in the ma
chinery of a free government, as a pretext with
which to shield their guilty partners in crime,
and when they were met by the Constitutional
authorities with a Constitutional suspension of
the writ of _Habeas Corpus, the chagrin and dis
appointment only equalled the rage and de
spair with which that suspension was greeted
in rebeldom. Nor wasit only among the rebels
Oat the act- of the President, in thus suspending
this privilege, was thus bittdrly denounced, It
disappoinied the 'sympathizers with, treason in
the loyal stater,, by whom the writ was contem
plated as a facility-for escape when guilt was
about to be fixed in their cases and the just pun
ishment of an outraged law visited on their
persons. President Lincoln was denounced by
men who sought this pretext with avidity, and
for a time the caution as well as discrimina
tion of the authorities was almost questioned in
thus suspending the writ o: Habeas Corpus.—
Judge Taney regarded it as a violation of the
Constitution of so lienions a character as to be
sufficient grounds for the impeachment of the
President, and in many other instances, men
of high legal ability believed that the act of
suspension was an assumption of power at once
dangerous, tyrannical and oppressive.
Notwithstandingall these objections, the good
sense of the people sustained the President, and
as calmer counsels prevailed, men of ,ability and
legal erudition began to discover not only the
justice of the suspension, but its absolute ne
cessity for defence and preservation. Among
those the most eminent who sustained the Pre
sident in this bold movement to thwarPtreason,
was the Hon. Horace Blaney of- - Pennsylvania,
a man without a superior as a patriot ore rival
as a lawyer. Mi. Binney wrote and printed an
able paper on the subject, but its circulation
was . restricted only to the profession of the law,
among which class it was designed to have an
influence for good in moulding and directing
the sentiments of the people with whom the
legal profession are daily brought in contact.
Since then this paper has been published in a
neat pamphlet form, appropriate , for general
circulation. In this form it is within the reach
of the people, by all of whom it should be care
fully perused as the most lucid and important
exposition of the Consiitution on the.. subject
that has ever been made for the benefit of the
American people.
The pamphlet is for sale at Bergner's book
store.
THE • LEGISLATURE OF SOUTH CAROLINA has
passed_ an act authorizing the Governor to effect
a loan of one million of dollars to rebuild that
portion of Charleston laid in ruins by the late
fire, the money so borrowed to be lent to such
applicants as desire to rebuild, who are re-.
strained from erecting other than fire-proof
buildings: ' •
Tim PosmiesTsit GRIMM, suggests that post
age be collected for telegraphic diepatches sent
over the wires, at the rate of five cents a dis
patch. He calculates that by this means a
large revenue will accrue to the government,
and his suggestion deserves the consideration
of Congress.
-
THE Nasavuur. Union says that proceedings
under the confiscation act have been taken
against the property of Judge Catron, worth
about senty-five thousand dollars, and against
Andy Jblinsun for about thirty thousand dol
lars.
TREASURY NOTES FOR STAMPS•—A notice has
has been issued by the P4 , ettnaster General that
treasury notes will not be received in payment
for stamps unless they are purchased in sums
amounting to two dollars , and fifty cents.,
SANGUINARY AND HORRIBLE VIOLA
TION OF THE CONSTITUTION.
It has become popular almost among a cer
tain class of men in the loyal states constantly
to prate of the Constitution, and continually
to remind those in arms to defend it from the
assaults of rebels, of the necessity of care, least
the act to punish treason does not result to
some extent in a violation of the Constitution.
In this particular some of our cotemporaries
are bringing serious charges against those in
command of the army, and among these the
New York Peening Post bi hags a grave charge
against Generals Thomas and Schoepff, or, if
they acted under the orders of General Buell,
then against the commander of the Kentucky
division. Were they aware, while making
breaches in the walls of Zollicoffer's encamp
ment, of the extent to which they were making
breaches in the Constitution of the United
States? Did they know that every Mink ball
they caused to be fired made a rent in the
organic law as well as in the forehead or breast
of a rebel? Could they have been conscious
that the splendid bayonet charges of the Ninth
Ohio and of the East Tennesseeane were so
many charges against the very ramparts of our
rights, the guarantees of the national charter?
Yet such was the case, and we mean to convict
those epauletted gentlemen of their crime, so
clearly that not even a child can doubt it.
Article fifth of the amendments of the con
stitution—those amendments added after the
instrument was framed, as a more perfect pro
tection and guaranty of individual rights—de
clares expressly that "no person shall be de
prived of life, liberty or property without due
process of law"; but in the recent proceedings
of General Thomas and Schoepff hundreds of
persons were deprived of all by the most wan
ton and unmitigated acts of violence. We are
told that they deliberately shot down at least
two hundred of their " fellow-citizens;" that
they maimed and mutilated nearly as many
more, that their reckless followers seized and
imprisoned as felons hundred of others, and
that they converted to their own use the pro
perty of others to the amount of eighty wagon
loads, together with a thousand mules and
horses, and an unlimited quantity of military
equipments.
No one will pretend that these flagrant in
juries were inflicted by a due "process of law."
The process of the law implies an indictment,
a count, a trial, a judgment rendered and an
execution issued. But Generals Thomas and
Schoepff proceeded only with cannon balls,
sabres.and bayonets. They presented no
,in
dictment, they consulted no court, they em
pannelled no jury, and neither , lawyer, nor
judge, bad a word to say, unless, like the gal
lant Colonels Cook and Fry, who are also law
yers, they spoke through the mouths of their
revolvers. Wa'3 anything ever heard of more
irregular in a constitutional and legal sense?
Not a letter of the constitution was regarded,
not an iota cf the law observed. Those mur
dering and rapacious military men went to
work as if there had been no constitution and
no law in existence. All their studies of
Blackstone and Chitty and Kent had done
them no good, and we venture to .say. that if
Garret Davis, or any other stickler for forms
,had remonstrated with them, they would have
had the audacity to snap their fingers in his
face. The men of the epaulette even might
have proceeded to other extremities with the
mea of the robe. .
If it be said that the citizens who were so
.shamefully butchered and pillaged at Somerset
were rebels in arms against the government,
and so out of the pale of the law, we reply
that the constitution provides for such cases.
It presumes throughout the well-known maxim
of the law that every person shall be supposed
to be innocent until he has been proved guilty ;
while it expressly enacts, first, that "no per
son shall be.convicted of treason except on the
testimony of two witnesses to the saws overt
act ;" and second, that "no person shall be
held to answer for a capital or otherwise infa
mous crime unless on a presentment or indict
ment by a grand jury," &c. Now, we do not
learn that in the cases of the poor fellows so
summarily condemned and executed it Somer-'
set, a single one of these wise safeguards was
heeded. Not a particle of legal proof was of
fered as to the guilt of the persona killed and
robbed ; not a single witness testified to the
overt „act of treason ; therefore, we infer that
it was decidedly unconstitutio 'ial to kill those
poor rebels at Somerset; it was' highly impro
per to take their mules and their horses ; it
was an outrage to deprive them of their stores,
and a barefaced atrocity to run away with their
wagons and their barges. Generals Thomas
and Schoepff ought to be arrested for their
high-banded doing, and as for Colonel M'Cook,
who drove a body of his friends with fixed
bayonets right upon the cannon of our fellow
citizens, in order to take what did not belong
to them, and as for. Colimel Fry, who coolly
put a bullet in the heart of Zollicoffer, we do
not know what puniehment they deserve. In
short, there. does not appear to have been a
man upon the ground who properly appreciated
his constitutional duties, or cared a whit for
the sacred rights of person and property.
Matters have come to a sad pass indeed, when
our southern brethren are treated in this ruth
less way ; but they are not altogether hopeless .;
for if these brethren will only take the trouble'
to color their faces slightly with burnt cork, or
with a little gingerbread, the fashionable tint
at Richmond, their rights will be promptly re
spected. The constitution 'will then be admit
ted in all the force that it has in a time of
peace in regard to them ; instead of being shot
down they will be returned to their comforta
ble homes ; and their property, which is of the
privileged constitutional shade, will be protect
ed as sacredly as any of the sacred animals of
Egyptian superstition. . .
Swim B. Cutur, of the Medina Tribune, one
of the ablest of the Republican organs in the
Empire State, visited our sanctum this morn
ing, en route for home, from a tour along the
Potomac, where he had been on an errand of
business among the soldiers. Mr. Clark was
formerly a resident of this city, and still retains
among our people many warm and faithful
friends. His character and deportment will
w i l l Wends: wbereyer he becomes known. .
peAnopluania Elictitv het graph .ftlonban 'Afternoon, 3anuctry 27, 1862
Some of our western cotemperaries relate
stories as to rumors being current at Springfield
and St. Louis, to the effect that propositions of
peace have been offered by the traitor, Davis, to
the National Administration. These proposi
tions are pregnant with a great deal that is to
add to the glory of rebellion by making it a
success in the recognition of the world, and
much more to the credit of the leading traitors,
by affording them the means of escape from that
just punishment which they have earned in a
cause alike revolting to humanity and liberty.
But the principal feature of the proposition
for peace is the tender which is made to the
British government, that slavery should -be
abolished in twenty-one years, provided Great
Britain recognizes the Confederacy. The propo
sition thus to abolish slavery is not very ex
plicit, and it therefore becomes a question un
til explained, whether by this twenty•one years is
implied a purpose totally to extinguish the
institution in that period of time, or make it
the standard of an apprenticeship which every
African born In slavery shall serve to gratify
the chivalric endowed masters of the south.
It must mean something of this order, or if it
implies the total abolition of the last relic of
barbarism, our southern rebel cousins will run
the risk of loosing the alliance of their northern
Democratic brethren, because on the principle
that slavery is christian; politically just and
economically moral, has the alliance of the
Breckinridge Democracy of the north been
steadfast to the traitors of the south.
We submit the propositions as we find them
in the Chicago Tribune. Oar readers will observe
that they are plain and explicit, as have been
all the demands and propositions both before
and since the rebellion of the slave driven , :
1. Recognition of the Southern Confederacy.
2. Absolute free trade between Northern and
Southern Confederacies.
3. Abrogation of the Fugitive Slave Law.
4. Introduction of Coolie labor to Southern States,
it is also as positively asserted that the fol
lowing proportion is to be added to the above,
as a bait to England.
5. ABOLITION OP BLATEBY IN TWENTY-ON% !ROM
There is an air of authenticity connected with
these propositions, which give them a great
importance at the present time. It will re
quire only a short period to discover the effect
of such a movement, both on the federal gov
ernment and the rebellion.
Report of the Ladies' Sick and Wounded Sol
diers' Aid Association of Millersburg, Pennsyl
vania, showing the amount collected by each
soliciting committee, and from whom; together
with a statement of the disposition made of
said collections, &c., viz:
Misses Mary M. Wingard and Catharine Eta
weiler, committee, collected as follows;
Mr. Isaac Miller, $1; G. M. Brubaker, $2
and seven licioks ; A. E. Mark, 25; F. P.
Bower, 25; Simon Wert, 25; S. Euerly, two
pair slippers ; Mrs. S. Eberly, 26 ; Mary Seal,
25 ; Mrs. Jos. Cramer, 25 ; D. Cramer, 06 ;
Nancy Fox, 02; Mrs. H. Billman, 25; Mrs. Geo.
Yeager, 25 ; A Friend, 25 ; J. D. gtzweiler,
26 ; Mary M. Rathoon, 25 ; Mrs. G. M. Bru
baker, two towels, two crocks quince butter ;
Miss Martha Sides, one quilt, two towels, one
crock jelly and one book. Total, $6 07.
Mrs. J. B. Miller, committee, collected as
follows ; J. B. Miller, $1 ; S. Garman, 26;
Wm. Clark, Esq., $5; Mrs. S. Rebel, 50; Miss
Anna M. Miller and H. Miller, each one book ;
Self, two towels. Total, $6 76.
Miss Addie Baggier collected as follows: Mrs.
G. Etzwiler, 26 ; Mrs. G. Zitch, 60 ; J. Riney,
50; J. Bressler, 10 ; .H. G. Clawser, 26 ; Mrs.
G. N. Pike, 10 ; Mrs. C. Fox, 14 ; s. D. F.
Hoffman, one sheet ; D. Leffler, 25. Total,
$ 2 09.
Mrs: G. W. Gladden, collected as follows
J. Miliken, 50 ; G. W. Gladden, $1 • C. Hoff
man, 25 ; H. Britner, 50 ; A. Brunel, 25 ; C.
X. Bell, 25; J. Porter, 25 ; A. Updegrave,
26; "Spirit of '76," 25 ; J. Girl, 25; A. Deck
ard, 25 ; G. W. Huff, 50 ; D. J. Ludwig, 25 ;
F, R. Smith, 25 ; W. Roloff, 25 ; Cash, 76 ;
Self, two towels, one glass jelly, one linen to
ble cloth. Total, $600..
Mrs. H. L. Gilbert and Mrs. B. G. Steever
collected as follows:
Geo Bowman, $1; Mrs. W. McKissick, 50;
M. Bitting, 25; Mrs. A. Shiva, 26; Issac
Bowman, 25; Jacob Landis, 50; Joseph
Keefer, sr. 50; G. Smeltzer, 25; B. Whit
mer, 25; Miss C. Forney, 50; Mrs. S. Miller,
1 quilt ; A. J. Haverstick, 25; Mrs. Ward,
25; Mrs. L. E. Bowman, 25; S. Kitzmiller,
26; Mary Brubaker, 25; Mrs. H. L. Gilbert,
$1; Mrs. B. G. Steever, $1; Misses Belle Frank,
Aims Stiles, Sallie Sweigard, Rebecca Jury, Do
ra Wenrick, each 26; Miss A. Decbant, 50;
S. Jury, 26; Mrs. M. Holtzman, 1 cut yarn;
Mrs. S. Gilbert, 6 cuts yarn; Mrs. A. Rudy, 6
cuts yarn; Mrs. J. Keefer, 2 cuts yarn; Mrs.
Jonas Jury-, one cut yarn; Mre. F. Wenrich, 1
chalk' bed; Catharine Hineka, 50; Mrs. J. Bord
ner,'2s; Mrs. W. Lehman, 12; Mrs. W.
Steer, 25; Mary Harman, 10; Mrs. G. W.
Bower, 20; 3. S. Musser, $1; J. H. Kahler,
25; J. F. Bowman, 25; Gilbert & Bros., $1;
Mrs. Ann E. Bower ' 25, 1 sheet, one crock,
and plum butter; Mrs. J. C. Stewart, 50. To
tal cash, $l4 43.
Mrs. Dr. Weiser and Mrs. L. W. Link eel
lected as follows:
Mrs. George Noll, 36; J. B. Lebo, 25; Reis.
Mrs. Keefer, 1 blanket, 2 jars berries, and 1
glass jelley; Mrs. Isaac Wert. 36; Buck & Le
bo, $2; Mrs. .1. Geo. Wert, 1 pair stockings;
Mrs. Trieblebies, 25; A. S. Mattis, 25; Mr.
Geo. Bomberger, 26; Miss Hannah Kiefer, 1
pair socks; Miss Lydia Kiefer, 3 pillows. To
tal, $3 71.
Whole amount collected by sub
scription $ 39 05
scription
Collection in M. E. church on
Thanksgiving day and eve'g.. 100
--$4O 05
Which amount was disbursed as follows :
Bought of Bowman Sr. Bro., 36.
yards canton flannel 6 00
Bought of Buck & Lebo, cotton
laps • . 360
Bought of G. M. Brubaker,
• laundries 16 43
Bought of Gilbert &Bros,sundries 960
Boxes and expresses 2 00
Toweling, muslin, cotton and in
cidental expen5e5... . .........8,42
The above articles were all manufactured into
hospital clothing, and duly forwarded to the
branch office of the United States Sanitary
Commission at Philadelphia, a statement of
which will be published hereafter. The obliga
tions of the sssociation are due to the contribu
tors, as well as to the patriotic ladles who could
not pay, but who labored so faithfully in making
up the goods. All 'of which 'is respectfully
submitted. KATE E. STEVIE; Sec'ry.
THE AGRICULTURAL BUREAU of the Patent Of
fice is in the continual receipt of applications
from the western states for cotton seed. The
experiment of Cultivating cotton at the west is
evidently to be undertaken in earnest.
REBEL PEACE PROPOSITIONS.
Ladies' Aid Association.
By
From Washington.
ARRIVAL OF A. REBEL DESERTER.
—.—
His Statement of Affairs in the Rebel
Army.
THE REBELS STILL AT MA-
REPORTED DEATH OF GEN. iII'CLELLAN
AMONG THE REBELS.
The Rebels Bmieet a Sanguinary Battle
at Centreville.
TER NATIONAL FOUNDRY COM-
-
Its Immediate Establishment Deei-
NO BITE DESIGNATED
The oath of office was to-day administered by
the Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United
States to Associate Justice Swayne, who took
his seat.
A r ;ha deserter who came into our lines last
evening, contradicts the report that the rebels
have fallen back from Manassas. He says
about ten regiments have gone south, but the
main body of the rebel army has not changed
its position. They have nearly abandoned the
idea that Gan. McClellan intends to attack
then this winter. The rebel line of defence
extends upwards of sixty miles. They expect
the most sanguinary battle to take place at
Centerville, for they have that place for miles
around almost impregnably fortified.
He qtys it was reported for several days that
McClellan was dead, and there was great re
joicing, for the rebel generals have a perfect
dread of meeting him in battle.
The House Committee, who have the subject
of a national foundry before them, have agreed
to report in favor of the immediate establish
ment of one. They do not, however, designate
any particular location, leaving it for Congress
to decide that question. There were upwards
of a dozen sites recommended to the commit
tee, but they failed to agree upon any,
NEWS FROM THE SOUTH
FROM REBEL SOURCES.
The Richmond Despatch on the Recent
Union Victory in Kentucky,
It is Considered more Decisive than Stated
;Through Union Sources.
MORE SPOKE VESSELS SUNK IN OIIAR
LESION HARBOR.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 27.—The Richmond Dispatch,
of Friday, shows that the rebels are much per
plexed at their defeat in Kentucky.
The Dispatch says, "We regret to say that
the report of a Federal victory in Kentucky,
conveyed to us on Wednesday night from
Northern sources, is more than confirmed by the
intellig ilce received here at the War Depart
ment. It appears our defeat was more decisive
than northern accounts had led us to believe."
The editor further says, " this disaster ha east
ern Kentucky, and the apprehension it has
excited for the safety of our connection with
the south-west through Virginia and Tennessee
by the East Tennessee and Virginia railroad, and
the possible interruption of our intercourse
with south Virginia by the Wilmington and
Weldon railroad by the Burnside Expedition,
directs attention to the vital importance of
completing our connection between Richmond
by the Danville and North Carolina railroad.
AROMA, Jao. 23. A private letter received
from Charleston this morning, says five stone
vessels was sunk in the channel yesterday.
The Savannah Republican of this morning
says, that the statement that federal vessels
had gone up Broad river is incorrect.
The Despatch contains a telegram from Nor
folk, saying that the Baltimore South., received
there, contains a statement that a report had
reached Baltimore of the loss of five of Burn
side's fleet in Pamlico sound, and that a large
steamer, probably the Louisiana, had been
burnt, Sm. Thus it would seem that this re
port had no other foundation than this secesh
sneet—Baltimore South.
FROM -MISSOURI.
The Whereabouts of General Rains.
Union Citizens Citizens Forced to Work in the
The Rebel Force in Northern
PRICES ARMY AT SPRINGFIELD
A prominent citizen of south west Missouri
has just arrived from Mount Vernon, Lawrence
county. He says Gen. Rains with about four
hundred staid all night at Mount Vernon on
Tuesday night, the 14th inst., on his way
to Granby, where his soldiers said they
were going to wirk in the lead mines.--
Threats were made to arrest all men who had
been connected with the home guard compan•
ies and put them at work in the mines. In
consequence of this a large number of Union
citizens were leaving the country.
On the same night that Rains staid at Mt.
Vernon, report said that 170 or 200 rebels were
encamped on the head of Spring river en route
for Caseyvidle.
In regard to the number of troops in north
ern Arkansas, he says, that he has it from good
authority, that there are only about five hun
dred or six hundred at Cross Hollows and Cave
Hill, Benton county, but a body of from three
to five thousand were at Lillsworth Bend,
about fifty miles below Van Bergen, on the
Arkansas.
$4O 05
Several secessionists told Hall, that Price's
forces at Springfield did not , exceed ten thou
sand. This gentlemen saw the scouts of the
federal forces fifty-four miles beyond Lebanon,
and other troops at different points this side.
SAILING OF THE STEAMER EUROPA.
HALIFAX, Jan. 2'T
The steamer Europa sailed for Beaton at five
o'clock last evening. The steamer City of Nor.
folk sailed on Saturday evening for New
York.
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NASSAS.
MITTEE
ded Upon.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 27
Lead Mines.
Arkansas.
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ROLLA, Mo., Jan. 26
FROM BOSTON
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FIRE IN THE QUINCY MARKET
TOTAL LOSS 50,000 DOLLARS
A fire occurred in the Quincy market this
morning, originating in the story over the
stalls. Nearly all the occupants lost by dam
age from the fire and water. A few of the oc
cupants were well insured. Messrs. Nourse,
Mason & Co., manufacturers of agricultural im
plements, occupying a part of the story of the
stalls, loose $20,000: The entire building is
owned by the city, and was much damaged.
The total loss is $50,000.
FROM FORTRESS MONROE.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 27.
The Old Point boat has arrived. She. left
evening, but brings no news of moment.
The U. S. brig Perry, which has run the
blockade of the Potomac from Alexandria, ar
rived at Old Point last night.
XXXVII.th Congress—First Session.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Mr. WATTS, delegate from New Mexico, in
troduced a bill in aid of the construction of a
military road west of the Missouri river, by
way of Forts Leavenworth and Riley, to Denver
city. Referred to the select committee on the
Pacific Railroad.
Mr. COLFAX, (Ind.,) introduced a bill to ren
der more uniform the postage on printed mat
ter. Referred to the Post office committee.
Mr. COLFAX said in explanation, that instead
of the three hundred rates now existing on
printed matter, the bill he had presented pro
vided for three, viz :—on newspapers, less than
two ounces in weight, and on which postage is
now chargable by law, 5 cents per quarter for
weeklies, when carried less than 4000 miles,
and 10 cents for semi-weeklies, &c., ac
cording to the number of issues per week,
on magazines and periodicals 3 per once
on books and other mailable matter sent
through the mails, one cent per ounce; over
two thousand miles, double postage to be
charged. He said this would simplify the
rates, so that every post-master and subscriber
could understand them clearly, which they
could not do now, and would supersede the
rates of aier,63c. per quarter, which no one
could pay exactly in any federal coin.
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 27.
The foreign news has flattened the market
for Breadstuffs ; there is very little doing ;
sales 1,500 bbls. at $5 25 for superfine, $5 624
for north west extra, and $5 75®6 00 for ex
tra family ; receipts moderate ; small sales of
Rye Flour at $3 75, and Corn Meal at $3 00 ;
there is a steady demand for Wheat, and 6,00
bushels good red sold at $1 34 ; white ranges
from $1 40@1 50. Rye is selling at 72@73c.
Corn is dull and lower ; sales of new yellow at
57c. Oats are steady at 87ic. Clover Seed
is selling freely at $4 62k, and Flax Seed at
$2 10. Provisions are quiet ; sales Mess Pork
at $l2 00@12 50. Dressed Hogs are selling
freely at 4c. 100 tcs. Lard sold at Sic., and
200 bbls. poor at 74c. Coffee is held with in
creased firmness. Sugar and Molasses are very
quiet. Whisky firmer ; 300 bbls. Ohio sold at
25 cents.
Flour dull—sales of 6,500 bbls. - at a decline
of 5e.; state $5 50®$5 55; Ohio $5 95(436 00;
Southern unchanged. Wheat dull and nomi
nally unchanged. Corn has a declining ten
dency—mixed 64®65c. Pork firm—sales of
1,200 bbls. Lard steady at 71g8te. Whisky
dull-24c. is offered while 24,1 c. is asked. Re
ceipts of flour 12,335 bbls.; wheat 1,385 bush.;
corn 518 bush.
New York Money Market.
NEW Yoax, Jan. 27
Exchange is nominal; money is quoted at 5
p. c. on call. Gold is lower, selling at 2,1@,
3p. c. Stocks are better, Chicago and Rock
Island, 55 ; Cumberland Coal; 64; Illinois
Central R. R , 62; Michie,an Southern, 41 ;
New York Central, 83i ; Mill. and Miss., 38.1;
Missouti 6's, 42:1 ; Michigan 6's, 80; Illinois
coupon bonds of 1862, 80 ; Federal coupons 6's
oftlBBl, 90 ; registered, 881.
The Port Royal Cotton.
THE WORK OF GAM - BRING-THE CONTRABANDS
The c‘:mpai atively moderate amount of con
fiscated South Carolina cotton arriving at New
York is really no indication of the extent of
the work of picking, or of the quantity yet to
be gathered. It is true that much of the
cotton which was grown very near the large
rivers an , l water-courses in the vicinity of Port
Royal, and not burned by the rebels, has been
brought forward ; but a very small proportion
of the whole amount on the islands has yet
been brought to Hilton Head for shipment to
this port
The work of gathering goes steadily on ;
large quantities have been collected on the in
land plantations, and ginning is carried on to
a considerable extent.: The number of contra
bands engaged in the work is increasing, and
the chief difficulty at present is a want of
tran , portation facilities.
When the federal forces landed at Hilton
Head all the horses, oxen, carts and conveyan
ces of all kinds were taken possession of and
applied to the uses of the Quartermaster's de
partment. As our troops penetrated to the ad
jacent islands and took possession of the main
land, the same process was continued, and
these means of transportation have been re
tained for the uses of the army.
The cotton now coming from Port Royal is
carried on the shoulders of the negroes to the
banks of the streams navigable for steamers of
heavy draught, and it is noteworthy that, al
though the bulk of the cotton is inland, or on
the banks of shallow streams, the only vessel
of any considerable size employed in the trans
portation service is the Mayflower, an old ferry
boat drawing nearly ten feet of water.
Under these circumstances the business of
taking the cotton from the plantation is ex
ceedingly slow and difficult, if not in many
cases impossible of accomplishment, except
when it is carried for miles by the negroes—a
work for which the comparatively small force
of the contrabands is entirely inadequate. Be
sides, the Mayflower cannot approach very
near the banks of the rivers, and the cotton in
such cases is necessarily got on board by the
use of small boats, which is a tedious opera
tion.
What is required for this work, more than
anything else, is a number of flat-bottomed
boats, drawing eighteen inches or two feet of
water, and to b 6 loaded from carts or wagons
adapted to the conveyance of large loads.
It is understood that the contrabands at
Port Royal are in need of medical care, and
that measures to supply this want are now in
progress in this city.
LEUTRE'S GREAT Prcruas, on one of the great
panels fronting the ball leading to the north
ern gallery of the House of Representatives, is
gradually progressing. The idea, "The West
ward Progress of American Civilization," is be
ing wrought out with startling and sublime ef
fect. As yet he has only outlined the design,
but enough has been produced to authorize the
conviction that Mr. Leutze may rest his fame
as one of the masters of his great art on this
single creation of his pencil and his brain.
Friday evening, Jan. 2 Ith, after a lingering illness,
Gowan Enwm eon of A. H. ana C L. Baum, in the ith
year of his age.
Oa the 26th inst., Hettua Mug, dau2bler of anusi.
0. and Ettz► WI /STUNG, aged 1 year and 2 weeks .
[The funeral will take pia ‘e to morrow, (Tuesday) af.
ternoon at 2 o'clock. The relatives and friends of the
family are invited to attend without further notice, from
the residence of the family in North street, in the rear of
BOSTON, Jan. 27
the reservoir.)
On the 27 inst, Aciftw Watts, intent son of ANN and
Dr. A. W. Motto Las.
[The funeral will take place from the residence or Mr.
Jona BOWMAN, Sr., near the White Hall, Cumberland
county, to-morrow (Tawdry) afternoon at 4 o'clock.]
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?au) 2tbnertigtments.
WANTED.
ARESTAURANT COOK. Apply at the
European Hotel, Barn !Ours oily, Pa.
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FAIR.
TREGRAND MASTER'S Council, No.
7, of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellovrc , pur
pose holding a FAIR, In th e Masonic Hall. in Tanner's
Alley, to commence this (Monday evening.) ant to con.
Moue during the present week. The patronage of the
public generally is solicited.
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SOKIEFFELIN - BROTHERS dc CO.,
WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS.
AND DEALERS in Fancy Goods, Per
fnmery, &o. Also agents for the sale of Refined
Petroleum. Illuminating 6il, superior to any coal oil ;
furnished in sue quantities at the lowest market rates.
170 and 172 William ',Street,
NEW YORK.
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CURE OF SUFFERING AND DIS SASE
i TROUGH WAKING Clairvoyant per
il cepti nof the causes or disorders,
DR. ADDISON,
the celebrated Medical Examiner ban arrived at M4rria
burg and taken
Room No. 45 at the Jones' House,
where he will remain a short time for medical examine
lion of persons afflicted with any form of disease or suf
fering. The remarkable correctness of the kitcwiedge
he acquires of e ion person's case wiliont asking any
questions whatever, is fully shown to each one he ex
amines, by his accounts t Weir feelings a d sensation
arising Item the disorders he finds existing in the eys•
tem, the blood or any organ affected. In consequence
of this, his cures in Philadelphia and Boston and other
places where he has practiced to any extent, have hews
numerous and remarkable for many of the meet extreme
cases have been brought to his care, and hi+ success in
prompt relief and speedy restoration of his patient in
health and comfort, has corresponded with hi, great
skill in mastering and showing the nature of complaints,
Dr. Addison's Examinations and Consultations
are made wi.hout cha , ge, so that a visit is him does not
cost atilthing ; and to many it may be the means of a
cur , almost beyond valuation. Where medical treat
meet is desired, charges will be made moderate and to
suit the times. jan26.-Iw,
JUST ARRIVED.
SWEET ORANGES and Confectionary,
Unions, Apple?, Dried Fruits, Dandelion Co ff ee,
Prunes, Figs, Dates and Cranbery, Nuts of all Wilda, .te
&0., at JOHN war?,
jy24-2t* Corner Third and Waiuut St.
TO GRAIN CONTRACTORS.
THE BALTIMORE BAG FACTORY
No. 77 South Street, Baltimore, Md.
IS PREPARED to furnish Government
Contractors and others with Linen or Cotton Bap o;
all saes, promptly tor cash at low prices. Oats and
Own Contractors will and it to their advantage to give to o
a call. JOHN O. GetAFFUN.
Baltimore, Sae. 17th. ISO, iy24.2md*
New Tone, Dec. 27
rha Passenger Trains of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company will depart rrom and arrive at Harrisburg and
Philadelphia as follows :
THROUGH EXPRE.z3 TRAIN Mat , •a Harrisburg daily
at 3.20 a. m , and arrives at West Phlladalphia at 7.40
a. m.
FAST LINE leaves Harrisburg daily, (except Sunday.)
at 1.00 p. m., and arrives at We. Philadelphia at 6.10
p. m.
MAILTRAIN leaves Harrisburg daily (except Sunday)
at 5.56 p. m, and arrives at West Philadelphia at 11.00
P. M.
AWOSOIODATION TRAIN, via Mount Joy, leaves
Harrisburg at 7.81 a. m., and arrives at West rails
delphia at 12.35 p. m.
HARRISBURG ACOORMODATION TRAIN, via Cohn*.
tots, leaves Harrisburg at 2.00 p. m.. and arrives at Wait
Philadelphia al 7.20 p. m.
THROUGH EXPRF.Be TRAIN leaves Philadelphia at
10.30 p. m. , Harrisburg at 3.05 a. m., Altoona 8.40, a.
m., and arrives at Pittsburg at 145 p. m.
MAIL TRAIN leaves Philadelphia at 8.90 a. m. , and ar
rives at Harrisburg at 1.03 p. in.; leaves H trrisburg at 8.00
a. In., Altoona, 3,30 p. m. , and arrives at Pittsburg at
9.30 p. M.
FAST LINE leaves naiadsirdala at 11.21 a. in., Harris
burg 4.05 p. m., Altoona at 9.10 p, m., and arriving at
Pittsburg 111.40 a. na
HARRISBURG ACOONSIODATION TRAIN leaven Phil -
delplant at 2.30 p. m., and auburn at Harrisburg at 8.00
To. m.
MOUNT JO? ACCOMMODATION via Mount Joy leaves
Lancaster at 11 . .83 a. m., arrives at Harrisburg at 1.30
P. In-
The NEWS EXPRaii3 and PASSRNGRR TRAIN will leave
West Philadelphia at 4.00 a. m.; LaneaMer 7.07 a. m.
mount Joy at 7.43 a. m., Middletowl at 8.25 a. in., and
arrive at Harrisburg at 8.55 a. m., connecting with Mall
Train west, from Harrisburg, at 9.u0 a. m.
PUBLIC SALE.
I N pursuance of an Order of the Orphans'
C o urt ofDauphin county, will be exposed to sale, on
~ ATURDAY rms Ma DAY or FEBRUARY, 1862. at the
Court House in the city of Harrisburg at one o'clock P. id.,
the following Real Estate, viz :
A earialn hiessuage and tract ol about fifteen acres of
land situate in Susquehanna township, Dauphin county,
adjoining lands of John Pypher, Peter Fox and °then.—
There is iv out thirteen acres cloired and in fence and
under a good state of cultivation, the remainder is Wool
land well coverer with limber; on said land there is
erected a One and a hall story Log House, a Sable with
a threshing floor, anti also paving a Young Orchard with
choice fruit end a good spring near the house.
Late the estate of John Bower, deed.
Attendance will be given and conditions of sale made
known by GEORGE W. SEAL,
Administrator of said deceased.
Jens RINGLAITD, Clerk, O. C.
jan2l-doawts*
ANTHOLESALE and RETAIL DEALER
in Confectionary, Foreign and Domestic Fruit.—
Pigs, Dates, Prunes, Rei3inS and Nuts of all kinds.—
Fresh and Sal Wish, Soap, Candles, Vinegar, Spices, To
baSCO, Sews and Country Produce in general, at the
corner of Third and Walnut streets.
oceg&dbm
FORRENT.—A large house with seven
rooms in, Third near Market street, has been oc
cupied as a dwelling and milliner 'tore for a number of
years. Also a two story name house a' the c.,rcee of
Third ani Chestnut streets. JACOB BEM BL.
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BOOKS FOR CRILDRRIC
ITF you want to get suitable BOOBS for your
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ON AND LITRE
MONDAY JANUARY 27th, 1862
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Harrisburg, January 24, 1862 —iltf
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