RATES OF ADVERTISING.
Tour limn or WS sonstitnts half &KOare. Eight lines
or more than four, constitute a square.
day.
$
0 00
Ralf sq., one day ..— go 30 Ow+
one week .... 120 "Bq.,
o n ell week.... 200
41 one month.. 800 " one month.. 00
:ttlyeenzonthe 500 " three months 10 00
4 ' an plinths_ 800 " signiontu T , 10 00
oo a one year —2O 00
Kr Bnsineas notices inserted in the Loom. comets,
or before marriages and deaths, VII OUTS NEIL LINE for
nett Insertion. merchants and others advertising
1•1811 „year, is aftial ..rmellnu be offered.
ol 111110TELOINI must De designated ea
aCtircrtr..ewea L.
ir r- Marriages and beating inaerted at the same
rates as regular advertisements.
Wetness ectits,
ROBERT SNODGRASS,
ATTORNEY - A r LAW,
Office North Third street, third door above Mar
ket, Harrisburg, Pa.
N. B.—Pension, Bounty and Military claims of all
kinds prosecatt d and collected.
Raftir to Som. John C. InnYel, Mudd Mammal 11.1 3
and R. A. Larnberton_ niyll-d&vgan
WM. H. MILLER,
AND
R. E. FERGUSOk,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
OFFICE IN
SHOE-MAKER'S BUILDINGS
SECOND STREET,
RETWIKN WALNUT ati4 MARKET SQUARE,
ap-29w&d Nearly opposite the Buehler HOW.
T ilos. C. MeoDOWELL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MILITARY CLAM' AND PATRNT AGENT_
Office 172, the Exchange, Walnut st., (Lip Stairs.)
Having formed a connection with parties in Wabh
!Acton City, wno are reliable business men, any busi
ness eennectel4 with any of the Departments will meet
with immediate and careful atiention. sug-f
DR. C. WEICHEL,
SURGEON AND OCULIST,
RREHORNeR THIRD HILIR NORTH STRAIT.
He is now folly prepared to attend promptly to tht
duNes ef profession in all its branehea.
A LONG AND TRU' 817001111131PUL 11:11DIOAL ELPIRDOIOI
jusUdes him in promising full and ample satisfaction to
all who may favor him with a call, be the disease Ohronis
or an, other nature.
MILITARY CLAIMS AND PEN
-1140118.
The undersigned have entered into an association for
the collection of Military Claims and the securing of
Pensions for wounded and disabled soldiers.
Muster-in and Muster-oat Bolls, officers) Pay Dolls,
Ordnance and Clothing P 44112111. and all papers pertain.
ing to the military service will be made out properly
and expeditiously.
Orme in the Rxchange Buildings, Walnut between
Second and Third streets, near Omit's Hotel, Dra rris
burg, Pa_ PROS. 0 MACDOW /MT.,
itr2b•dtf 11147/IAB A, MAGlinitx.
SILAS WARD.
NO. 11, NORTH THIRD ST., HARRISBURG.
STEINWAY'S PIANOS,
MELODEONS, VIOLINS, tiMITABS,
Banjos, Flutes, Fifes, Drums, Accordant.,
wrancos, many AIM soon nom, &C.,
PHOTOGRAPH FRAMES, ALBUMS,
Large Pier and Mantle Mirrors, Square and Oral Promo
of every description made to order. Itegnilding done.
Agency for Howe's Sewing Machines.
10" Sheet Music sent by Mail. octl-]
JOHN W. GLOVER,
MERCHANT TAILOR!
Has just received from New York, an assort
ment of
SEASONABLE GOODS,
which he offers to his customers and the public at
MODERATE PRICES. dtf
T COOK, Merchant Tailor,
,j . 27 OILSRISITT ST, between Second and Front,
Has just returned from the city with an assortment of
CLOTHS, CASS.TATERES AND VESTINGS,
Which will be gold at moderate prices and made up to
order; and, also, 611 amtortment of READY MIA
Clothing and Gentlemen's Foznishinz Goods.
nov2l-Iyd
DENTISTRY.
B.M. own, D. D. L I
N 0 . 119 MARKET STREET,
EBY & NUM MI!. BUILDING, UP STAIRS.
janB4l"
R ELIGIOUS BOOK STORE,
TRACT AND SUNDAY SCHOOL DEPOSITORY,
E. B. GERMAN,
ST SOUTH SZOOND 811111 T, ADM OMISNOT,
KiIeIISEIMG, PA.
Depot for the sale of Stereosoopes,StereossopieVierwe,
'Undo and Musical Instruments. Also, subscriptions
taken for religions pulqiestiens. noao-dy
JOHN G. W. MARTIN,
FASHIONABLE
CARD WRITER,
Raitivs ROTEL, HARRISBURG, PA.
Imanner of VISITING, WEDDING AND BONI.
NESS CARDS executed in the moat artistic styles and
most reasonable terms. decl4-dtf
UNION HOTEL,
Ridge MCIIIIB, corner of Broad street,
HARRISBURG, PA.
The undersigned informs the public that he has re
cently renovated and refitted his well-known a Union
MAW' on Ridge avenue, near the Round House, and is
prepared to accommodate ottlsons, straugersand.trave/
era in the best style, at moderate rates.
His table will be supplied with the best the muskets
afford, and at his bar will be found superior brands of
liquors and matt beverages. The very best accommo
dations for railroaders employed at the shops In this
viensitir_ felt dtfl HENRY BOBTOEN,
FRANKLIN HOUSE,
BALTIMORI, MD.
'Phis pleasant and commodious Hotel has been tho
roughly re-fitted and re-furnished. It is pleasantly
situated on North-West "truer of Howard and Franklin
streets, a few doors west of the Northern Central Rail
way Depot. I►ery attention paid to the comfort of his
garnets. G. LAISANRING, Proprietor,
istg-tr (Late of Salina Grove. Pa-)
THEO. F. SCHEFFER,
BOOK, CARD AND JOB PRINTER
NO. 18 Yds.:Rim fiTEENT, HABJL/131117/IG.
in- Particular attsntiaa paid to panting, ruling and
bindin g of Railmad Blanks, Manifests, insurance Poli
cies, C ecks, Bill Heads &c.
Visiting and Business Cards printed at very
low prices and in the beet style. jandl
TAILORING..
far ..IEI 4=o .e 916 mr. 121' ar T.
The subscriber Is ready at 140. 94, 1 441113.F.T WE.,
four doors below Fourth street, to make
MEN'S AND BOY'S CLOTHING
In any desired style, and with skill and promptness.
Pomona wishing matting done can have it done at the
shortest notice. opTi-d
CHARLES F. VOLLMER,
UPHOLSTERER,
Chestnut street, four doors above Second,
(OPPOSITZ WASHINGiON $OBl HMSO
Is prepared to furnish to order, in the very best style of
workmanship, Spring and Hair Mattresses, Window Our
tabu!, Lougee, and all other articles of IllinttOlC in Ids
line; on short notice and moderate terms. Having ex
perience in the business, he feels warranted in salting a
share of public patronage, confident of him ability to give
satisfaction. janll-dtf
IR - KY—LIGHT GALLERY.—The rooms
OD the corner of Market square and Market street,
apposite the Jones House, occupied as a Gallery for
Daguerreotype, Photograph and Ambrotype purposes,
are FOR RENT from the 9th of September next.
Apply t o JOHN WltgTrl_
3348-dlaw3w
WEBSTER'S ARMY AND NAVY
POCKET DICTIONARY.
Ault received and for sale at
scrmalllMl DOOREITORM.
VEW ORLEANS SUGAR I—Fan IN
raz MAUS! !For sale by
17/2 WM. DOC% Jl.l & 00.
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46- A* At
DR. SWEET'S
INFALLIBLE LINIMENT
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GREAT EXTERNAL REMEDY,
POR RHEUMATISM, GOUT, NEURALGIA,
LUMBAGO, STIPP NECK AND JOINTS,
SPRAINS, BRUISES, CUTS it WOUNDS,
PILES, HEADACHE, and ALL RHEU
MATIC and NERVOUS DISORDERS.
For all of which it Id a speedy and certain remedy,
and never fails. This Liniment is prepared from the
recipe of Dr. Stephen Sweet, of Connecticut, the fa
mous bone setter, and has been used in his practice for
more than twenty years with the most astonishing sac-
Oeel.
AS AN ALLEVIATOR OR PAIN, it is unrivaled
by say preparation before the public, of which the most
skeptical may be convinced by a single trial:
Tide Liniment will cure rapidly and radically, KHZI7-
NATIO DISORDERS of every kind, and in thousands
of cases where it has been need it has never been known
to fail.
NOR NEURALGIA, it will affad immediate relief
in every cane, however distressing.
It will relieve the worst cases of HEADACHE in
three minutes and is warranted to do it.
TOOTHACHE also will it cure instantly.
FOR NERVOUS DEBILITY AND GENERAL
LASSITUDE, arising from imprudence or excess, this
Liniment is a most happy and unfailing remedy. !kit
ing directly upon the nervous tissues, it strengthens and
revivifies the system, and restores it to elasticity and
vigor.
FOR PILES.—As an external remedy, we claim that
it is the best known, and we challenge the world to pro
duce an equal. Every victim of this distressing com
plaint should give it a trial, for it will not fail to afford
immediate relief, and in a majority of cases will effect
a radical cure.
QUINSY and SORE THROAT are sometimes ex
tremely malignant and dangerous, but a timely applica
tion of this Liniment will never fail to cure.
. . . .....
SPRAINS are sometimes very °baud., end enlarge
ment of the joints is liable to occur if neglected. The
wont ease may be conquered by this Liniment in two or
three days.
BRUISES, CUTS, WOUNDS, SORES, ULCERS,
BURNS and SCALDS, yield readily to the wonderful
bulging properties of DE. SWEET'S INFALLIBLE
LINIMENT when used accordion to direotions. Aloe,
CHILBLAINS, FROSTED FEET, and nvsEcr
BITES and STINGS.
l 5C% D ,4'/ : (ii .{ci i1:%.'1 t~
should have this remedy at hand, for its timely use at
the first appearance of Lameness will effectually pre
vent those formidable diseases to which ail horses are
liable and whiCh render eo many otherwise valuable
horses nearly worthless.
Over four hundred voluntary testimonials to the won
derful curative properties of this Liniment have been
received within the last two years, and many of them
from persona in the highest ranks of life;
CAUTION. • /
To avoid imposition observe the Signature and Like
ness of Dr. Stephen 'Sweet on every label, and also
Stephen Sweet's Infallible Liniment " blown in the
glass of each bottle, without which none are genuine.
RICHARDSON & CO.,
`Sole Proprietors, Norwich, Ct.
For sale by all dealers. aplleow-dikw
Elvting.
T F. WATSON,
MASTIC WORKER
PRACTICAL CEMENTER,
Is prepared to Cement the exterior of Buildings with
he New York Improved
Water-Proof Mastic Cement.
This Material is different from all other Cements.
It forms a solid, durable adhesiveness to any surface,
imperishable by the action of water or frost. Every
good building should be coaled with this Cement; it is
a perfect preserver to the walls, and makes a beautiful,
fine finish, equal to Eastern brown sandstone, or any
color desired.
Among others for whom I have applied the Mastic
Cement, I refer to the following gentlemen :
J. Bissell, residence, Penn street, Pittsburg, finished
five years.
T. H. Shoenberger, residence, Lawrenceville, finished
five years.
James M'Oandlass, residence, Allegheny Oity,finished
five years.
Calvin Adams, residence, Third et-eet, finished four
yams.
A. Hoeveler, residence, Lawrenceville, finished four
years.
J. D. M'Oord, Penn street, finished four years.
Hon. Thomas Irwin, Diamond street, finished four
years.
St Charles Hotel and Girard Rouse, finished five
years.
Kittanning Court House and Bank, for Barr . Moser,
Architects, Pittsburg, finished five years.
Orders received at the office of ii M'Eldbwney, Paint
Shop, 20 Seventh street, or please address
T, P, WATlf4if,
mayll3—tf P 0. Box 1316. Pittsburg, pa.
rADIES ! YOU KNOW WERE YOU
.4
can get tine Note Paper, Envelopes, Visiting and
Wedding Garde At 130113FFHWO BOOKSTORE.
RPERIOR STOCK OF LIQUORS..-
WM. DOCK, Ja., & CO., are now able .to over to
their customers and the public at large, a stock of the
purest liquors ever imported into this market, eompri
mug in part the fallowing varieties t
WHISKx—IRISH, SCOTCH,OLD BOURBON.
WINE—PORT, SHERRY, OLD MADEIRA.
OTARD, DIIPEY & CO. PALE BRANDY.
JAMICA SPIRITS.
PRIME NEW ENGLAND RUM.
DRAKE'S PLANTATION BITTERS.
These liquors can all be warranted; and in addition to
these, Dock & Co. have on hand a large variety of
Wines, Whisky and Brandy, to which they invite the
particular attention of the public.
NOTICE!
THE DRAFT IN THE 15TH AND ADJOIN
ING DISTRICTS.
NATIONAL SUBSTITUTE AGENCY.
A. K. SWIBARx , & CO., having opened an (Ace in
Carliele,at the Government Assessor's office,in Rheem
Ball, are now prepared to furnish substitutes at fair
prices.
Substitutes supplied from this office will be We bed.
fed Allem, not subject to draft. All drafted Persons
served by us are guarantied a release from the draft.
Apply at once, in
Person or by letter, at the "Na.
tippet Substitute Ageney,” Et i enne* Hall, Carlisle.
References.—J. M. Weamey, Joseph Ritner, jr., J.
Rheem.. A: K. awnumß , C.
August 4-dtf •
WAR 1 WAR I --BR ADY, . No. 62
Market street, below Tbi hoe received &large
assortment of Sweeps,. assails d Dime, which he
will sell very low. ' safio dtt
t'aCELSIOR I 1 1:- - -SUGAR CURED
Hem !-A Delicious Ham, cured expressly for
family use. They are superior to any sow in the mar.
het. PuT 24 / Wit. DOGS, Ja., & CO.
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HARRISBURG. PA:, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1563.
T H E
Weekly "Patriot & Union,"
THE CHEAPEST PAPER PUBLISHED IN
PENNSYLVANIA ,
AND
THE ONLY DEMOCRATIC PAPER PUBLIEHED AT
TIM, BEAT / OP GOVERNMENT!
FORTY-FOUR COLUMNS OF READING MAT
TER EACH WEEK!
AT THE LOW PRICE OF ONE DOLLAR
AND FIFTY CENTS!
WHIN
SUBSCRIBED FOR IN CLUBS OF.NOT LESS
THAN TEN COPIES TO ONE ADDRESS!
We have been compelled to raise the club subscription
price to one dollar end fifty cents in order to save our
selves from actual loss. Paper has risen, including
taxes, about twenty-five per cent., and is still rising;
and when we tell our Democratic friends, candidly, that
We can no longer afford to sell the Weekly PATRIOT AND
UNION at one dollar a year. and must add fifty coatis or
stop the publication, we trust they will appreciate our
position, and, instead of withdrawing their subscrip
tions, go to work with a will to increase our list in every
county in the State. We have endeavored, and shall
continue OW resets, to stake the paper useful as a party
organ, and welcome as a news messenger to every fam
ily. We flatter ourselves that it has not been without
some influence in producing the glorious revolution in
the politics of the State achieved at the late election;
and if fearlessness in the dieoharge•of duty, fidelity to
the principles of the party, and an anxious desire to pro
mote its interests, with some experience and a moderate
degree of ability, can be made serviceable hereafter, the
Weekly PATRIOT AND UNION win not be less useful to
the party or Nee welcome to the &Wily circle in the fu
ture than it has been in the past. We confidently look
for increased encouragement in this great enterprise,
and appeal to every influential Democrat in the State to
lend us his aid in limning our . sapscription "list up to
twenty or thirty thonsand. The expense to each indi
vidual Is trifling, the benefit to the party may be great.
Believing that the Democracy of the State feel the ne
cessity of sustaining a fearless. central organ, we make
this opptll,l to them for assistance with the fullest confi
dence of success.
The same reasons which induce us to raise the price
of the Weekly, operate in regard to the Dailypaper, the
price of which is also increased. The additional cost to
each subscriber will be but trifling; and, while we can
not persuade oarselvea that the Change neeessarilymade
will result in any diminution of our daily circulation,
yet, were we certain that such would be the conse
quence, we should still be compelled to make it, or suf
fer a ruinous ibis: 'Under these circumstances we must
throw ourselves upon the generosity, Or, rather; the
justice of the public, and abide their verdict, whatever
it may be.
The period for which many of our subscribers have
paid for their paper being on the eve of expiring, iTe
take the liberty of issuing this notice, reminding them
of the same, in order that they may
RENEW THEIR CLUBS.
We ehall,alee take it as an especial favor if our present
subscribers will urge upon their neighbors the fact that
the PATRIOT AND UNION ie the only Democratic paper
printed in Harrisburg, and considering the large amount
of reading matter, embracing all the current news of
the day, and
TEI DISPATCHES
From everywhere up to the moment the paper goes to
press, political, miscellaneous, general and local news
market reports, is decidedly the .
CHEAPEST NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN
THE STATE!
There is scarcely a village or town in the State in
which a club cannot be raised if the proper exertion be
made, end surely there are few places in which one or
more energetic men cannot befonnd who ars in favor of
the dissemination of sound Democratic doctrines, who
would be willing to make the effort to raise a club.
DEMOCRATS OF THE INTERIOR !
Let us hear from you. The existing war, and the ap
preaching sessions of Congress and the state Legisla•
ture, , 'are invested with unusual interest, and every man
should have the news.
TERMS.
DAILY PATRIOT AND 'UNION.
Single eopy for one year, in advance 00
Single copy during the session of the Legislature., 2 00
City enbseribers ten cents per week.
Copies supplied to agents at the rate of $l5O per hun
dred.
WXEKLY PATRIOT AND 'UNION,
Published every Thursday.
Single copy one year, in advance $2 00
Ten copies to one address 15 00
ilabsetlptione ms.p commence at any time. PAY AL
WAYS IN ADVANCE_ We are obliged to make this
imperative. In every instance cash must accompany
subscription. Any person sending as a club of twenty
subscribers to the Weekly will be entitled to a copy for
his services. The price, even at the advanced rate is
so lew that we cannot offer greater indOCements than
this. ' Additions may be made at any time to a club of
subscribers by remitting one dollar and fifty cents
for each additional name. It is not necessary to mend
us the names of those constituting a Club, as we cannot
undertake to address each paper to club enbscribere
separately. Specimen copies of the Weeklywill be sent
to all who desire it.
0. BARRETT & 00., Harrisburg, Ps
N. B.—The following law, paused by Congress 1n MO,
defines the duty of Postinastord in relation to the de.
livery of newspapers to club subeeriberS:
(See Little, Brow* ¢ Co.'s edition of the Laws of 1880,
page 38, chapter 131, section 1.)
"Provided, however, that where packages or new pa
pars or periodicals are received at any post office directed
to one address, and the, names of the dub subacribers to
which they belong, with the postage for a quarter in ad
vance, shall be handed to the postmaster, he shall do
liver the same to their respective owners."
To enable the Postmaster to comply with this regula
tion, it will be necessary that he be furnished with the
list of names composing the club, and paid a quarter's
(or year's) postage in advance. The uniform courtesy
of Postmasters, affords the assurance that they will
oheerfnliyaecammosat o dub enbieribers, and the latter
should take care that the postage, which is but a trifle
each case, be paid in advance. Bend on the clubs.
INDEPENDENCE ISLAND. ,
Messrs. BICKER & F ALB, Proprietors, announce to
the citizens of Harrisburg that this cool and delightful
Bummer retreat is now open for visitors. Accommoda
tions will be furnished to parties and pic-nics at reason
able terms, a dancing platform having been erected fir
their special use, behliOn tickets for families, god for
one year, $l.OO
No improper characters admitted, and no intoxicated
person will be permitted to visit the Island.
A Ferry Boat plies constantly between the Island and
the foot of Broad street, West Harrisburg. je/3-3m
BASKETS!
LAMES TRAVELING,
MARKET,
SIGIOOL,
PAPER.
KNIFE.
cLoTnza,
ROUND,
CHILDREN'S,
CAKE,
For sale low, by
jen WM. DOCK, Jr., & Co.
MACKEREL!
MACKEREL, Nos. 1, 2 and 8, in all sized packager--
new, and sack package warranted. Just received, and
for isle low by WM. DOCK Jr., & 00.
ULAOKING I 1--31.6.50 N's "CHALLINOI
BLAcLUrO."-100 Goons. no nine , just rt.
calved and for side, wholualts and retail.
fled • WM. DOCK, Js., & 00.
P
HOTOGRAPH ALBIIMS:—A large
and beautiful assortment of Photograph Albums
just received 11111 i for sale cheap, at KNOOIIIIII,
j/ft 93 Market street.
Eke /tint tt anion.
THURSDAY MORNING, SEPT. 10, 1863.
THE UNION
"These States are glorious in their individuality,
but their collective glories are in the Union. By
all means, at all hazards, are they to be main•
tained in their integrity and the full measure of
their constitutional rights—for only so is the Union
to be preserved—only so is it worth preserving.
It is the perfection of the prismatic colors, which
blended, produce the ray of light. •It is the com
pleteness of these assembled sovereignties, lacking
nothing which they have not lent for a great pur
pose, that makes the Union precious. This word
Union is a word of gracious omen. It implies
confidence and affection—mutual support and pro
tection against external dangers. It is the chosen
expression of the strongest passion of young hearts.
It is the charmed' circle within which the family
dwells. It is man. helping his fellow-nzan in this
rugged world. It is States, perfect in themselves,
Confedeeated for mutual advantage_ It is the peo
ple of States, separated by lines, and interests, and
institutions, and usages, and laws, all fanning one
glorious nation—all moving onward to the same
sublime destiny, and all instinct with a common
life. .Our fathers pledged their lives, their for
tunes, and their sacred honors, to form this Union
—let ours be pledged to maintain it."—OEo. W.
WOODWARD I July 4, 1851.
CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN PRESI
DENT LINCOLN . AND FERNANDO
WOOD.
MD. WOOD TO PRNSIDENT LINCOLN.
Nxw . YORIC, December 8.
Hon. Abraham Lincoln, President of the United
States !
DEAR Sin :—On the 25th of November last I
was advised by an authority, Which I deemed
likely to be well informed as well as reliable
and truthful, that the Southern States would
Bind representatives to the next Congress, pro
vided that a full and general amnesty should
permit them to do 80. No guarantees or terms
were asked for other than the amnesty referred
to. Deeming this information df great value
if well founded, I communicated it in substance
to the Hon. George Opdyke, the Mayor of this
city, whom I knew to hold confidential rela
tions to members of your administration, and
proposing through him that if the government
would permit the correspondence, under its
own inspection, I would undertake to. procure
something definite and positive from persons
connected with the so-called Confederate au
thorities. Mr. Opdyke stated, in reply, that
several Senators from New England States
were then in this city on their way to Wash
ington., to whom he would at once communi
cate the proposition, and advise me of the
answer. Knowing that these gentlemen were
your friends, and supposing that they would
immediately confer with you on their arrival
at the Capital, and supposing that I should be
speedily informed of the result, I have delayed
until now making a communication direct to
you.
I now learn, however, .from Mr. Opdyke,
this day, that he failed to see these Sena
tors when in New York, and that he had not
made the proposition, and that therefore you
are not in possession of it as coming from
myself.
As an humble but loyal citizen, deeply im
pressed with the great necessity of restoring
the Union of these States, I ask your imme
diate attention to this subject. Tne magni
tude of the interests at stake warrant some
executive action predicated upon this informa
tion, if it be only to ascertain if it be grounded
upon even probable fOundation. If it shall
prove groundless, no harm shall have been
done, provided the inquiry be made, as it oan
be, without compromising the government, or
ioj cry to the cause in which it is now engaged.
If ? however, it shall prove well founded, there
is no estimate too high to place upon its na
tional value.
Now, therefore, Mr. President, I suggest
that gentlemen whose former political and
social relations with the leaders of the South
ern revolt may be allowed to hold unofficial
correspondence with them on this subject—the
correspondence to be submitted to you. It may
be thus ascertained:What, if any, credence may
be given to these statements, and also whether
a peaceful solution of the present struggle may
not be attainable. lam mire nothing that I
can say can add to your own well known desire
to produce this result. Your exalted position,
the embarrassments and responsibilities which
surround you upon all sides, the bleeding con
dition of the country, becoming exhausted not
only in the impoverishment of its best life
blood of industrial production, but in the dete
rioration and consequent destruction of our
political institutions—all call upon you, as our
chief ruler, to take one step upon the road of
peaceful effort, by which to,aecertain whether
the time has not arrived when other methods
than.crute fighting may not accomplish what
military force has failed to do. In the origin
of this struggle, you foresaw that such a time
would come. Your inaugural address, deliv
ered near two years ago, pointed out with pro
phetic vision the certain results of the impen
ding conflict of arms. Your language then was,
" Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight
always, and when, after much lose on both
sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting,
the identical questions as to terms of inter
course are again upon you." You saw that
after a bloody and terrible struggle "the still
small voice of reason" would intervene and
settle the controversy. You know that since
the establishment of Christian civilization ne
gotiation and compromise have, sooner or later,
determined every military contest. It cannot
be otherwise here. Has not the time arrived
when, to quote your own language, we should
"cease fighting," at least long enough to ascer
tain whether "the . identical questions" about
which we began the fight may not be amicably
and honorably adjusted, and the "terms of
intercourse" be once more peaceably estab
lished ? It is to this end that I now address
you—with confidence in your patriotism,and
with no desire to interfere with your egiti
mate constitutional preportives. I am, with
high respect, yours very truly,
FERNANDO WOOD.
PRESIDENT LINCOLN TO MR. WOOD.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON,
Dec• 12, 1862.
Hon. FERNANDO WOOD—Ny Dear Sir : Your
letter of the Bth, with the accompanying note
of same date, wad received yesterday.
The moat imp(r , tant paragraph in the letter,
as I consider, is au these words : "On the 25th
November last I was advised by an authority
which I deemed likely to be well informed as
well as reliable and truthful, that the Southern
States would eend representatives to tlie next
Congress, provided that a full and general am
nesty should permit them to do so. No guar-
PRICE TWO CENTS.
antee or terms were asked for other than the
amnesty referred to."
I strongly suspect your information will
prove to be groundless ; nevertheless, I thank
you for communicating it to me. Understand
ing the phrase in the paragraph above quoted
—•" the Southern States would send represent
atives to the neat Congress"—to be substanti
ally the same as that the people of the South
ern States would cease resistance, and would
reinaugurate, submit to and maintain the na
tional authority within the limits of such States,
under the Constitution of the United States,"
I say that in such case the war would cease on
the part of the United States ; and that if within
a reasonable time 4, a full and general amnesty"
were necessary to such end, it would not be
withheld.
I do not think it would be proper now to com
municate this, formally or informally, to the
people of the Southern States. My belief is
that they 411'0 4 4 know it ; and when they
choose, if ever, they can communicate with me
unequivocally. Nor do I think it proper now
to suspend military operations to try any ex
periment of negotiation.
I should nevertheless receive, with great
pleasure, the exact information you now have,
and also such other as you may in any way ob
tain. Such information might be more valu
able before the let of January than afterward.
While there is nothing iu this letter which I
shall dread to see in history, it is, perhaps, bit
ter for the present that its existence should not
become public. therefore have to request
that you will regard it as confidential.
Your obedient servant,
A. LINCOLN.
MR. WOOD TO PRESIDENT LINCOLN.
NEW Youx, Dec. 17, 1862.
His Excellency Abraham Lincoln :
MY DEAR SIR! Your letter of the 12th inst.
was handed to me on tli„,e afternoon of the 15th
inst., by Mr. Wakeman, the Postmaster of this
city.
Pardon me, Mr. President, when I say that
your reply has filled me with profound regret:
It declines what I had conceived to be an inno
cent effort to ascertain the foundation for in
formation in my possession of a desire in the
South to return to the Union. It thus appears
to be an indication on your part to continuo a
policy which, in my judgment, is not only un
wise, but, in the opinion of many, is in con
flict with the constitutional authority l vested in
the Federal Government.
I think, however, that my proposition is in
keeping with your own expressed conditions
upen which the war shall cease. You say that
" when the people of the eouthern States would
cease resistance and would reinaugurete, sub
mit to and mnintain the • national authority
within the limits of such States, under the
Constitution of the United States, that in such
case, the war would cease on the part of the
United States."
Admitting this position as correct, you will
see that as a condition precedent to such sub
mission the opportunity to do so must be af
forded. It cannot be expected that the South
ern people will cease resistance, so long as we
proclaim our intention to destroy their local
institutions, their property and theitlives, and
accompany the declaration with corresponding
executive, social and political ac
tion. They cannot cease resistance and rein
augurate, submit to and maintain the Federal
authority, if we will not let them alone long
enough to do so. If they really desire acqui
escence, and are willing to send delegates to
the next Congress, as I am advised, how can
they do so without the opportunity, and with
out some intimations or guarantees as to the
reception of their representatives.at Washing
ton ? The act of sending representative to
Congress is within itself a full compliance with
your own conditions. If thus represented by
their own selected agents, chosen under the
forms and in pursuance of their own local State
laws governing such elections, they will com
pose an integral portion of the government,
and thus give the assurance of an "acquiescence
and submission" of the very highest and most
satisfactory character.
My respectful suggestion was that you should ,
put it in their power to take this course. It
would require a simple proclamation of general
amnesty, to be qualified, if you please, by such,
conditions as to render it void incase of non
compliance within a limited period. You have
established a precedent to this mode of speak
ing to those people. Your emancipation pro
clamation told of punishment. Let another
be issued, speaking the language of mercy and
breathing the spirit of conciliation.
The painful events which have occurred
since my communication of the Sth inst. but
embolden me to renew its suggestions. I hope
you will new no longer refuse ", to suspend
military operations to try an experiment of
negotiation." I feel that military operations
so bloody and exhausting as ours must sooner
or later be suspended. The day of suspension
must come. The only question is, whether it
shall be before the whole American people,
North and South, shall be involved in general
ruin, or whether it shall be whilst there is re
maining sufficient of the recuperative element
of life by which to restore our once happy,
prosperous and peaceful American Union.
In compliance with your request that your
letter shall not for the present become public,
I shall withhold its publication at this time.
With high regard, yours, &c.
FERNANDO WOOD.
WRO WILL VOTE FOR GEORGE W.
WOOD WARD?
The Bucks county Intelligences having asked
the question, " Who will vote for George W.
Woodward ?" the Doylestown Democrat, (owned
by Colonel Davis, who has shown his patriot•
ism and valor upon many hard fought fields
since the war began,) thus answers the ques
tion
1. Every soldier who was provided by An
drew G. Curtin with shoddy uniform—with
worthless shoes, and with defective blankets,
in order that'the friends of that distinguished
patriot could make large contract profits on
which the Governor would receive his commis
sion.
2. Every soldier who was seduced into the
service of the United States for six months,
upon the pledge, solemnly given by Andrew
G. Curtin, that the man so volunteering should
be exempt from the draft. A pledge which
was violated almost as soon as it was made.
8. Every member of the gallant Pennsylva
nia Reserves, who, after performing prodigies
of viler, were retained in the Federal service
without being allowed to come home and re
cruit, while New England regiments were fur
loughed; because Governor Curtin had not
manliness enough to demand th* we ll- earne d
reward of their faithful services.
4. Every mechanic who is compelled to take
orders upon his employer's store, instead , of
receiving cash for his services, will vote against
the man who vetoed the bill to remedy this
evil, which wrongs the laborer of his hire.
5. Every farmer in the Cumberland Valley,
who was robbed by the rebels, because 'Gov.
Curtin had not the manliness and the ability to
, do his sworn duty by the Commonwealth of
which he was the Executive Chief.
6. Every tax payer who fully understands.
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the great robbery perpetrated by the bill re
pealing the tonnage tax, which Gov. Curtin
signed after he was pledged to veto it.
7. Every man who believes that a Stata is
an independent sovereignty within-its consti
tutional sphere, and who is unwilling that
State independence should be • sacrificed to
gratify a Federal deipOtieni.
8. Every honest man who knows all the cor
ruptions practised by Curtin and his friends,
which were so gross and monstrous that his
Attorney General, Purviann. wag. NMI! t,o re
sign his office—desiring to remain, an honest
man.
9 Every naturalized citizen of Pennsylvula
who recollects that Andrew G. Curtin was the
High Priest of Know-Notbingism in /$O4-5 1
when he was Secretary of State to Gov. Pol
lock.
10. Every, man who has had a son, brother
or friend drafted, or who was drafted himself
in October last—when Governor Curtin per
mitted Pennsylvania to be compelled to W
alsh by draft a surplus over her quota—when
other States, which had not furnished their
full number, were exempted from conscrip
tion.
11. Every man who believes in personal lib
erty, free speech and a free press—that great
triad of rights which Governor Curtin has suf
fered the general government to trample under
foot in Pennsylvania, in defiance of the CollBii
stitution of the Commonwealth of the United
States.
12. Every man who believes that this gov
ernment is a government of white men, and is
opposed to negro mercenaries—to negro Suf
frage, and negro equality—the great mid and
aim of Gov. Curtin and the Abolitionists.
13. Every man who believes in the Union as
our fathers framed it, under the Constitution
as they ordained it; and who looks to this war
as a means of preserving the latter and resto
ring the former, and not as the great machine
by which States shall be turned into provinces
and neeroes into equals.
14. Every man who is in favor of peace,
based upon a restoration of the Union as it
was, with equal rights in all the States. and
the inherent rights of free men preserved and
perpetuated.
These classes will give George W. Wood
wobd at least thirty thousand majority in
October next. '
SOUTHERN POLITICS, ETC.
[From the Journal of Commerce.]
It has been a part of the radical policy, de.
signing disunion, to talk constantly of the South
as a 'unit in rebellion, and to endeavor to
spread in the North a general, belief that the
whole South is united in enmity to the whole
North. The object of this policy is to widen
the breach between North and South, and pre
vent, as far as possible, the return of Southern
States to be voting members of the Union. This
policy also controls radical men in their views
of the war. They would have the President do
all that is possible to drive the people of the
South into bitter, determined resistance, while
they oppose every suggestion of the adoption
of such measures as might create a division in
the Southern people, and raise to life and
strength a Union party in the rebel districts.
When the several acts of secession were
adopted, there was not only a strong Union
party, opposed to secession, in nearly or quite
all the seceding States, bu t ! there is reason to
believe that the Union majority against seces
sion was large in the entire South, and was'
considerable in every State except South Caro
lina. The failure to pursue a policy which
would have kept the anti-secession men with
us, given us the aid' of Southern Union men,
divided Southern counsels, and weakened the
rebellion by making thousands its enemies and
our allies who are now our- enemies and its
allies, was the grand error of Mr. Lincoln's ad
ministration. A wiser man would have wash.:
ened the rebellion. so that long before this it
would have been a total failure, without one
tenth of the expense in treasure and blood
which we have wasted under the radical policy.
But the mistake has been made and the ex
pense incurred. It remains to resoue the na
tion. still. It is not worth our while to give up
in despair at any. time, certainly not when-the
prospect is so nearly before us of changing
the policy of the war by changing the admin
istration in the regular way. The visible end
of the war is not near. The present notion
that we have arrived at the last battle, or very
nearly the last, is not founded on correct ob
servation. The military power of the rebel
lion has been weakened, but it is sufficiently
strong to enable the leaders, so long as they
control affairs, to conduct a defensive, and at
times perhaps, as occasion may serve, an of
fensive war, and this ability seems to postpone
the end until after the close of the present ad- 7
ministration.
There is a method in which peace might be
obtained at an earlier day, and that peace with
honor to the country and victory to the flag.
There was some hope that, Mr. Lincoln might
be induced to adopt this method ; but his letter
to the politicians of hie party, laying down a
platform for them, indicates that he is not the
man for the times, and that he• will not adopt
the course which Would save the people from
further sacrifices.
We have abundant evidence of the existence
in the South, even to-day. of a strong party .
Who are desirous to see• from , the government
at Washington some promise of assistance and
support, in case they will declare for the Union.
A copy of the Mobile Register before us con
tains more proof of this than could be hoped
for in such a paper.. We find an editorial re
fusing to publish a communication from a man
who defends the "reconstruotionists," and it is
plain that the editor knows that body or party
to have strength and influence. It seems, tee,
that a meeting was reported as held at Colum
bus, Miss., "advocating a reconstruction of the
old Union—in other words, a submission or
peace meeting," and James Whitfield, of that
place, finds it necessary to write'aletter deny
ing that he presided at or has any knowledge
of the meeting. We find abundant evidence
of the existence of an ()attest and active affec
tion for the Union in all parts of the rebel dis
tricts, and it is reasonable to suppose, it would
be folly toliOubt• that this sentiment could be
strengthened a thousand fold by the proper
course at Washington.
Is there any hope to the country from the
present aspect of the policy of the administra
tion ? Can a southern Union man be expeoted
to risk property and life in declaring for a gov
ernmet which fails to extend its arm of strength
to his aid, and which thunders a proclamation
of confiscation and ruin at him while he stands
environed by the enemies of the Union ? Let
any sensible man place himself in the position
of a Union man now in the Southern Confed
eracy, and ask what indnoenient exists to de
clare for the Union against the, Confederacy.
lie has already been impoverished as far as war
can do it, and he is invited to come into a
Union which will emancipate his slaves, con
fiscate his lands, and turn him adrift on the
world.
What an opening is the present for wisdom!
what an hour for a great man to save this af
flicted country Nevertheless, we counsel
hope. The salvation of this people is to be
worked out by themselves. The edraieletration
at Washington is incompetent to the work. The