PITTSBURGH
THURSDAY, JANUARY 2], 1864
Teothe Allegheny County Demo.
erotic Committee of Correspon
dence, will meet at the ST. CHARLES
HOTEL, In Pittsburg, on SATUR
DAT A the 23d Last., at 10 o'clock a. In.
Business of Importance will be submit
ted to the Committee, and therefore
a full attendance of the Committee
will be expected.
CHARLES SHALER, Chr'm.
D. H. HAZER, See's'.
THE TWO EXTREMES.
The proceedings of the rebel Congress,
like that of our own, do not indicate a
speedy peace; thiißtformer is under the
control of the extrenie Southern element,
who manifests a determination to sacrifice
' the last dollar and the last man" ere
they submit to the authority of the Gov
ernment. These extreme Southern men
will keep their hold upon power, so long
as the Radicals are predominant in the
North. The extreme measures of the
last Congress, together with President
LINCOLN'S proclamations, did more to
unite the South, than all the legislation
which the rebels could have enacted in a
life -time. All the predictions of Diets
and other rebel leaders as to the intention
of our Administration, were more than
verified by its enactments. Not content
with uniting the Southern people in re
lellion—save in St ates and districts over
run by our victorious legions—the party
in power , seems determined to let the
world see, that no re-union with the
South is poisible, save upon the terms of
universal emancipation. To bring this
darling object about the Radicals have
protracted thewar; all their proclamations
and extreme legislation, were intended
to unite the Southern people, so that a
long war might eventually result in the
destruction of Southern institutions. The
integrity of the Union with them wee
nothing; they never cared for it, nor do
they now. Upon this point we have a
scrap of testimony, which, while it Lays no
more than we, previously knew, is atilt
interesting, because of its coming from
ono of undoubted respectability. The
Rev. Dr. Massie the "British Emancipa
tion" agent, reoently returned to Eng
land, after a tour through this country,
made a report of his mission to that
society, which has labored from its first
organization for a dissolution of the
American Union. In one of his discour
ses Dr. Matiatz referred to an interview
he had with Mr. LINCOLN and Mr. Srst
sax, in the following remarkable lan
guage. The Dr. disoovered the great
change that had passed in public opinion
as to slavery, referring, practically toSthe
city of Washington, where, after an ad
dress, the Minister of the church said:
"Had you delivered that address a year
ago, you and all the meeting would have
beern-ecro-14....1,--a...1i1 u , oh n an thkri
rr
He believed that every disaster had been
to .the advantage of the anti slavery rause.
Mr. CHARLES SUMNER. had said to him,
that he feared more their successes than
their defeats. Their successes were likely
tomake the people ready to say, 'let us
patch it up now.' Their defeats were a
prolongation of the war, and gave the
people reason to put the question to
themselves, 'Why is God fighting against
us? why is he delaying the day of peace?
It is because of slavery! Therefore let us
abolish slavery."
This recitation of the saying of Mr.
Bom - kort will account for all the extreme
measures to which we have alluded. Had
the Administration pursued a conciliatory
policy towards the masses in the South,
And fostered the preponderating Haim:
feeling exhibited there before the rebel-
Tirag o bzokertint, there w onld have been no
war. Bat that was not the purpose of the
leading Abolitionists; they determined
upon war, and then the prolongation of
I oitilities until their ends were accom.
plished. ,In the hands of such fanatics,
who invite defeat to our arms, is the fate
of the.couutry now placed.
The Hartford Times, to which we are
indebted for the above extract says:
Mr. SUNSET'S avowal, above related
was made to Dr. M.M3IIE long after Mr.
LINCOLN'S abortive Abolition proclama
tion was issued. It shows where the
"friends of freedom" (freedom to De
gross, slavery to the whites) really are--
that they mean to keep up this awful war,
even when they themselves are convinces
they cannot end it slime ssfully, because
it has not adoomplished the object they
have all along had at heart—the forcible
abolition of negro slavery. That accom
plished, they are quite willing to "let the
South - go."
If any further evidence were wanting
to prove the determination of the party
in power to prolong the war, until their
purposes of negro emancipation and
Southern subjugation are accomplished,
we have it in the action of the House of
Representatives, on Monday last, in
voting down the following presented by
Hon. JOHN L. DAWSON,
WHEREAS, This House, on the 22d day of
July, 1861, speaking in the name of the
American people, and in the Lace of the
world, solemnly and truly declared that
it was waged for no purpose of conquest
or oppression, bat solely to restore the
Union, with all the rights of the people
and States unimpaired, and
WHEREAS, In every war, especially in
: z, war of invasion, and most particularly
it it he a civil war between portions of
h e same country, the object of it ought
to be clearly defined and the terms dis
tinctly stated upon which hostilities will
cease, and the advancing armies of the
Government should carry the constitu•
tion in one hand, while they hold the
sword in the other, so that the invaded
party may have its choice between the
two, therefore
Resolved, That the President be re
quested to make known by public procla
mation or otherwise to all the country
that.whenoxer *any State, now in insurrec
tion, dial submit itself to the authority
of the Rederal Government, as defined in
the' Constitution, all hostilities against
her shall cease, and such State shall be
Protected from, an external interference
with her local laws and institutions, and
tier people shall be guaranteed in the fall
''lilyment of all those rights which the
Federal Constitution gave them.
These were, upon motion of Mr. THAD •
owes STEVENS, laid upon the fable by a
vote of 79 to 4. This refusal to adopt
°fir. Dewsow's propoeiti o ne will but add
additional desperation to the rebel cause,
which was, doubtless, STrrims' intention
moving to have them tabled.
THE PITTSBURGH POST: THURBI)4I MORNIAGI JANUARY 21, 1864.1:
1 Mr. Linooln as a Pr sidential Can.
According to present appearances Mr.
Lincoln is more likely than any other
man to be the condidate of the black Re
publicans. He will be a bitter pill for
Chase and Greeley to swallow, and he
must not count with too much confidence
on the recent demonstrations of various
State Legislatures in his favor, inspired,
as is generally understood, by Messrs.
Seward & Co. His chances are not any
better now than Mr. Seward's apparently
were when Greeley unhorsed him at Chi•
cago in 1360, an achievement' over which
the Tribune chuckled a day or two since,
in saying what an excellent place it had
found Chicaga to be for holding a national
convention. The editor of the Tribune
would kill off Mr. Lincoln with as little
compunction as he did Mr. Seward. Bat
just now he does not see his way clear,
and so advises a late day for the Republi
can convention. Mr. Chase, the only
available conditate against Mr. Lincoln,
is very awkwardly for his pretensions,
under a cloud by reason of the damning
disclosures of corruption in the depart.
meta under his charge, and time is wanted
to enable him to make a great flourish of
reformatory vigor. But while the impres
sion of all this enormous custom house
and blockade running rascality is still
fresh in the public mind the active emis
saries of Mr. Seward are taken advantage
of it to get the party committed in ad
vance, as far as possible, to Mr. Lincoln.
We shall see, within the next few weeks,
an over-done exhibition of sham virtue by
the head of the Treasury Department, and
a continuance of the carefully got up and
equally sham expressions of confidence in
Mr. Lincoln. Democrats do not care the
toss of a copper about the final result of
this squabble, and can accordingly pass
upon its merits with the coldness of dis.
interested observers.
The Republican nomination will have
to be weighed with reference to these
live distinct classes of voters:
1. The soldiers of the army.
2. The personal adherents of Genera
Fremont
2. The renegade Democrat's.
4. The radical abolitionists.
5. The (so called) conservative Re
publicans
A 8 a candidate for the army vote bin•
coin would be stronger than Chase. Al
most any favorite general would take the
wind out of the sails of either; but, as
between these two civilians, Lincoln
would have a great advantage by his pow
er over the officers. It would ill suit
with the officers who want promotion to
disoblige the actual President, and the
officers have natnarlly considerable in
fluence with their men. Chase, on the
other hand, has too habitually compelled
the soldiers to wait for their pay, and
thus made them the victims of sharks and
extortioners, for them to feel very kindly
who could get money by the easy process
of printing it. He is aware of his un
popularity in the army, and is making a
bungling attempt to remove it. Last
week be got one of his friends in Con
gress to write him a letter, asking whether
the joint resolutions for paying bounties
would be "dangerous" or "inexpedient,"
by reason of the condition of the treasury.
This gave him an opportunity to reply, in
a letter intended to go into the news
papers, in which he insists with'great
emphasis that the eol diers' pay ought
to be prompt, and the supplies sure, and
studiously conveys the smpression that it
depends on Congress, and not on himself,
whether they should be so.
To the devoted personal adherents of
General Fremont. Mr. Lincoln is the
most desirable candidate for the regular
nomination. If Chase gets the nomina
tion they, as radicals, will feel bound to
support him, Bat they know that a large
section of the radicals hate and despise
Lincoln. and if he is nominated they mean
to put Fremont into the field as an inde
pendent candidate. They regard Lia
coln's Emancipation proclamation as a
shabby infringiment of the rights of the
original patentee, and if anybody gets any
advantage from it they are determined it j
shall not be Lincoln. By reason of their
hatred to him they will make no serious
resistance to his nomination.
The renegade Democrats of the Butler
and Dickinson stamp will count for little
either way. They are mercenaries in the
Republican camp; and from violent pro.
slavery men, having become equally vio•
lent abolitionists, they will be restrained
by no shame of inconsistency from follow•
ing where their interest may seem to lead.
The majority of the radicals depreciate
a split in the party, and will work like
beavers for the nomination of Chase by
the regular convention in such a way that
the Seward Republicans will be bound to
support him. If they do not succeed they
will be in a temper of Eland which will
encourage Fremont's friends to raise the
standard of revolt. The Seward & Co.
Republicans, having made so much head
way, will not now back out, and whether
Mr. Lincoln is nominated or not, he will
make a great and formidable show in the
convention. His danger, se things now
stand, is not that he will tail of the nom•
ination, but that Fremont will defeat his
election by drawing off the radicals. We
shall not be surprised, thetetore, if the
crafty politicians in the Lincoln interest
proffer an alliance with the friends o
Fremont. World.
Burning of the Church at Ban
tiago
The afflictions that have visited our peo
ple, severe as they have been, have not
rendered the popular heart indifferent to
the great calamities of communities in
other climes. A thrill of horror, hallowed
by compassion, quickened every pulse on
yesterday, when the fearful tidings reach.
ed this city of the horrible event that, on
the eighth of December, converted Santis.
go of Chili at once into a city of laments•
tions and a charnel house of smoldering
human bones. Far off fromthe scene ofag.
ony, and with an interval of many days
between the occurrence and our sympathy,
a universal shudderwent through the corn. -
tunnity at the mental contemplation of
what transpired in that doomed city..
Two thousand *omen beings, zenith
women and children, crowded within the
walls of a church, and perishing by the ,
most terrible, the most agonizing of the_ '.
didate
Mr. Chase Supplying the Rebels.
If the western Republican press is to be
believed Mr. Chase's treasury agents are
quite as active in supplying the rebels with
what they need on the Mississippi as are
his customhouse officers on the Atlantic
coast. The Cowin nati Gazette proves con•
elusively that the whole system of trade
permits on the river is nothing less than
an organized swindle upon honest com
merce, and that no one gains by it but the
personal friends of Mr. Chase's political
friends, who hold the offices. The Gazette
publishes a long letter from an agent of the
Sanitary Commission, who writes of what
he actually saw in a trip up and down the
Mississippi. We quote an extract:
The custom is, as I have been credibly
informed, for men of capital and profess.
ed loyalty, or I might say undoubted loy•
alty, to procure permits to trade. These
persons send agents of undoubted loyalty,
and then again sub agents, more unscru
pulous, who are loyal only to their in
terests. These men are paid ten dollars
per bale on all the cotton they can pur—
chase at fifteen cents per pound. They
proceed to different points along the
river, and establish direct connection with
guerrilla chiefs and bands, who, for El 7.
consideration, will afford protection to
the cotton which they purchase. Supplies
are furnished, many articles contraband
of war are smuggled ?h, and the enemy in
this way are directly furnished with what
they most stand in need ot. These spec
ulators. if loyal at home, mast need as
sume the garb of traitors and rebels when
they go beyond our lines, and to show
their sympathy, communicate all the in
formation they are in possession of, and
abuse and curse the Yankees to the per
fect satisfaction of their new friends,
The Gazette adds editorially:
havlte ennease from ail the luforruatioo WC ,
, Ili tit inger, eeeeere,.
cotton speculators are called, eater into
arrangements With agents of the Govern
ment to divide the prueeede of their 01 , P -
rations. Furnished with permits, they
pass through the hues, and arrange with
the guerrillas, paving the latter so much
a bale or pound 1,,r all the cotton obtain
ed, and smuggling goods through for
their use besides. Thus the monstrous
spectacle is presented of Government
officials being 111 partnership with combi
nations of speculators, which keep the
guerrillas on the Miesieeippi alive, and
make it their interest to keep together.
These outlaws and murderers, who are
plundering the people, firing on unarmed
steamers and destroying the property of
the Government, obtain their principal
means of support from men who receive
permits to trade from, and are under con
tracts' to divide the profits of the business
with officers of the Government. This is
the most monstrous aspect of the case
that has yet been presented, and, but for
the convincing charecter of the informa
tion before us, we should be slow to believe
that any loyal man, especially a sworn
officer of the Government, could be guilty
of aiding bands of outlaws who are mur—i
dering our soldiers, destroying our boats
and robbing p rivate citizens
NAPOLE ON AS A PEACE MAKER
The Paris Press on his late reply io
the Planate.
From toe Paris Coostitntionel, Dec. 24,
* * * Thegenerous proposal made
to Europe by the Emperor, in order to
put an eud, by pacific means, to hostilities
between nations and to dissentious be
tween governments, is a Utopian scheme
of the day before, which, according to
the — Tarignage of the Emperor, became a
realitLthe day after. The Senate, with
unanimity, has shown that France had
arplauded that idea, and has joined with
pleasure in that applause. "Let us unite
our efforts for that end," said the Em
peror to the Senate. That appeal will
be heard, and the perseverance of Napo
leon in his policy of civilization and
peace will assure to him the friendship of
gOVernments, the gratitude of nations and
the admiration of the future.
From the Paris Patric, Deo. 24.
* * * But will this language, which
acquires more force by being uttered by
Napoleon 111., be understood by the soy
ereigns as it has been by the nations ?
The doubts which we entertain on that
subject are well known, as are also our
fears of seeing the governments still for a
long time retrench themselves behind the
absolutist polky which, reestablished in
1816, was enabled to recover lost ground
under favor of the monarchical weaknesses
of the France of 1816 and 1830. But,
like the Emperor, we say that those
obstacles are to be overcome, and that
this incredulity is to he confounded ; and
if Europe must be again exposed to fresh
convulsions, the principle which Imperial
France now proclaims will not the less
predominate in these new struggles. Its
reign will come around one day, because a
part of the designs of Providence must
be that the reign of justice and liberty
for nations should be universally pro.
claimed.
From the Palls Debals, Dec. 24.
* It may be seen that the Em
peror was seriously moved at some of the
speeches which have been delivered, as he
congratulates himself on the fact that the
most opposite remarks have definitely be
eome confounded in the unanimity of the
vote on the address. The word Congress
is not to be found in the Emperor's reply.
It Is replaced by the less narrowly limited
term of European arbitration. The Em
peror has expressed the hope that that
system will be always in a position to solve
in a pacific manner the questions which
seem to be the most violently agitated.
If the word Congress has not this time fal
let from the Emperor's lips, it is still an.
der the pen of the Minister of Foreign
Affairs. Its sense has, however, changed
a little during the last two months, or
.ratber the political idea which it expresses
has been reduce less vast prOportions
under the predominating influence of 1
events. In reading My Dronyn de Lhnys,
dispatch of December 8 the fact will be
come evident that if the French Govern.
meat ja far fr3m having abandoned its idea
of assembling a restricted Congrise, that
body, if it should meet, will merit the
agencies of death ! Two thousand human
beings, struggling with the energy of ter..
ror, or prostrate with despair, shrieking
in the extremity of fear and torture, call
ing in vain for the help no human hand
could give; a wilderneke of arms out
stretched an .1 wildly tossing; the mother
and her babe, the matron and all her
precious household, the aged, the infant,
the maiden in the beauty of her coming
womanhood, all crushed and trampled,
while the flames came hissing tram above,
and curling from the draped walls, and
rolling in red volumes beneath a pall of
suffocating smoke, lapping the life-blood
from those terror stricken hearts and
forming one hideous funeral pyre of
twenty human hecatombs I What a night
was that for Santiago of Chili, when those
that lived wailed for their lost ones, who
lay within the blackened walls, one un
distinguishable mass of crisped flesh and
charred bones, where the fondest father
could not trace the lineaments of his child,
nor the husband know the form of his
wife! Let us look to it that, with that
solemn warning, no negligence of ours, no
lack of legislation, no avoidance of re
sponsibility shall ever permit us to record
in the burning of a church, or school, or
theater, or other public edifice, a scene
like that.—News.
name of a restricted Congre km from
the absence of England thanm the Pre
viously circumscribed numbiSeesti°lls
which it will have to diacue Europe
no longer asked to make a f eral exami•
nation of conscience; she Peered too
much terrified at the idea inch a task.
She is simply asked if therre not some
pressing cares from whicee must at—
tempt to liberate herself aeon as passi
ble. The Powers will r assemble to
raise questions in commobut to come
to an understanding uponme of those
which have already beeput forward,
after having removed, bee assembling,
the points upon which tepassionate dis.
pates would have to be fed. "So that,"
remarks M• Drouyu de Lye, "the Con•
grass may have a greettehance of arri•
ving at a practical regal In any case,
it will certainly not be much exposed
to lose itself in the vageess of danger.
one generalities.
From the Paris Prem. Ded.
* * * The Emptr's reply will
find the same echo Europe as his
speech from the throt It nobly and
sovereignly takes up tt word "Utopian
schemes." by which v ignorance, folly
and incredulity of altimee have never
missed an opportnnif of attempting to
brand with reprobaticall the great con..
captions, the vast nortakings, the im•
portant discoveries,id the grand ideas
which have illustred past a g es and
marked the progravof the human race.
Without the ideal, at ennobling of the
realm - -without the eel, that inexhaust•
ible spring of all e kinds of progress
arising one from t! other, what would
have been and vat would be man?
What would be suety? Sire, you are
right in calling, va all your wishes, for
the moment vele the great questions
which divide govements and populations
may be pacifical3 solved by European
arbitration.
Sire, you are (lathe right way; persist
in it, and the ar•blown obstacles will
burst of themseke and railing incredulity
will be scoffed ts Sire if there be only
three or only twiiovereigns who on your
appeal should igen to Paris, recieve
them, bring Um together, deliberate,
that is to say, ec, and the word which
you shall have own, being fertilized by
the puplicity ofttl countries,;will germin
ate and fractifyri the minds of all popn
lations. Sire, ten eral Bonaparte would
not have beenthe Emperor Nrroleon,
he would not hve beaten all the enimies
of France, ant gained the innumerable
victories whicliave rendered him immor
tal, if he had nt left the beaten path and
put traditions a the rout—if he had not
made war as is predecessors had done,
and as it wastaught in treaties. He was
not vanquishe by all the coalesced FOV
ereigne until fter be had taught them the
art of conquemg, such as he had conceiv
ed it, and as he had renewed it. Sire,
your uncle, to Emperor Napoleon 1, as
his victories ,hest, was right in not lot
locting the twat routine of war you also,
are right in tot following that of peace.
In the new red on which you have reso•
lately enterer the same success awaits you,
you do ❑otallow doubt to arise—dobut,
which acts ut the mind as pyralysis does
in the body.
-.a...-
From the tilairoa , Junrnal.
A SCOTCH VIEW OF OUR SITUATIO
The American Civil War
American people and the Ameri
can Government, taking them at their own
eetimate as the i;iacst and cleverest peo
ple, and the Leet and in beneficent
Ciovernment under theerta;n:y
high qualitded in th's civil w.- n
terrible thing 61,.: Ils
less than 5
Vrijred tho u I
husba,-, ~ . 'hers of parents,
wives, and et,.. ir.a, -6 , 1 living. But when
to this oppre , e—s iL)fight is added .the
cost in money spent, in property destroy
ed, and in wealth that might have been
produced but has not, the infatuation be
comes monstrous, and the prospect of the
future more gloomy than the experience
lof the present. Those who have died on
the battle-field or in the hospital have
been taken from the evil to come. They
had their time of sore anguith and it
is now over. But those who sent
them into battle while they them
selves sat at home at ease, nursing their
barbarous rage, and warming themselves
in a fool's paradise of "greenback" pros
perity, mast now prepare to pass through
the furnace, and to endure the slow
agonies of national discredit and social
dissolution compared to which the sharp
execution of the deadly rifle is compara
tively a merciful dispensation. The state
of the finances North and South begins to
rise into towering prominence through the
smoke of the battlefields. We think we
can understand from the Message of Mr.
Davis and Mr. Memminger's report how
the account stands with the Confederates.
The statesmen of the South do possess
the faculty of setting their affairs plain
ly and intelligently before the world.
The funded debt of the South (exclusive
of the foreign loan) is 292,916,620 dollars.
Its unfunded debt, that is Treasury notes
circulating as currency, 701,447,610 dol
lars. This latter sum is believed to be
600,000,000 in exeess of what is fully ade
quate to the circulation of the country,
and this excess of inconvertible paper
n otes, of course, has led to an enormous
depredation of the totes, or in other
words an enormous rise of the prices of
commodities. As the Government must
purchase its supplies at these inflated
prices its expenditure is greatly increased,
and its issue of Treasury notes much
larger than would otherwise be necessary,
so that the cause and the evil are repro
dacing each other in quite disastrous pro
gression. The expenditure of the Con
federate Government, under this system,
from the let of January to the SOth Sep•
Umber of the present year was 519,868,•
669 dollars, or at the rate of about 700,•
000,000 dollars per annum. Mr. Mem•
minger proposes to raise a loan of a
thousand millions in six per cent. bonds,
one-half of which he will apply to the
withdrawal of the redundant issue of
Treasury notes, and the other half he
will use in defraying the expenses of the
Government as occasion requires. As he
has already got the half of tide loan from
the public who hold his Treasury notes,
we have little doubt that he will get the
whole of it, and that the redundancy
of the currency will be corrected at
a cost of 8 0,000,000 dollars of actual tax
ation, while a sum of 600,000,000 dollars
will be provided for future expenses of
the war at a cost of 80,000,000 more.
Mr. Memminger is of opinion that, with
the currency reduced to 200,000,0(i0, the
simnel expenditure of the G overnment
will not exceed 400,000,000 dollars ; so
that if the South can raise 60,000,000 in
taxes, it will be able to correct the evils
cf its currency, and defray the expenses
of the war for another year. The Con
federates are thus so far enlightened as
to see that the war cannot be supported
without taxation, while the Federals, with
their open ports and access to foreign
markets, are still able to nurse the de
lusion that all can be done by loans, notes,
certificates of indebtedness, and other
disastrotis aggravations of present debt
and future ruin. To sum up the case of
the South, however, we have, first, a pres•
ant funded debt of 292 millions ; add to
which 700 millions of unfunded debt, throw
in 200 millions more for expenses sincethel
80th of September, and add 500 millions
of the new loan to provide for another
year of war expenditure, and we thus
find that at the end of next year the debt
of the South including notes in currency,
will be 1 ,692,000,000 dollars I The
amount of the Federal debt on the othi r'
hand, is not so easily discoveredi Blot
only is it difficult to understand Mr.
Chase's reports, but it is impossible to
find in the New York papers any one ver
Bien of them that agrees with another.
The official estimate, however, places the
Federal debt at the end of, the next finan
cial year somewhere betwixt two and three
thousand millions of dollars, and we do
not far err considering poeponed pay
ments, ships of war on the stocks, and
bounties that must be paid to three or four
hundred thousand soldiers, in taking the
Federal debt at double the Confede
rate debt, or in other words 3,384,000,000
dollaral The National Deb: of this Conn•
try is but a trifle to this, for while the prin
cipal is about equal in amount to cure, it
is double in its rate of interest, and con.
seqamatly doubly more burdensome than
the Debt of this country. Yet this has all
been done in the brief term of a single
PRESIDENT, whose memory has surely little
chance of being forgotten by the American
taxpayer. But the war, it is said, is for the
abolition of slavery. The Federal debt
would have purchased the emancipation of
every slave in America two or three times
over! In this fact let ns admire the en.
perlative wisdom of these new-world Re.
publicans. Mr. Beecher, who is certainly
no financier, thinks that when the crisis
comes, it will be one of those commercial
storms which pass over the United States
every ten years, and leave every-body light
er of heart than when it came. It will
be a atorm, indeed, but with a difference.
There have been commercial and finan
cial storms in America, when theeople
there could not pay their debts to foreign
countries, and got rid of the inctembrance
by passing into bankruptcy. In the pen
ding storm the indebtedness that must
crush and grind them into beggary will be
all among themselves. Even "repudia
tion" will be helpless to save them And
well do these frivolous multitudes of New
York know it. Their present dance of
pleasure is the dance of despair. •`Let
us eat, drink, and be merry, for to.mor
row we die."
WE agree with the Times that Mr. Lin
coln is the proper candidate for the presi—
dency on the part of the Republicans. He
is entitled to it for many reasons.
1. Be proclaimed, as a necessity of party
action an "irrepressible conflict" between
the interests of one Section and the fanati•
ciain of the others.
2. He has announced that there is no
law in the United States but the will of
a majority.
3. He writes worse English than any
President we have ever had.
4. He is as great a strategist as he is a
statesman, and has distinguished himself
equally in war and in jurisprudence.
6. Since Archy, the king's jester, no
man has used such an abundance of eta•
ries from the broad smutty to the diluted
Joe Miller.
'Shall purrs 83 various aim at nothing new?
'Bell shine el3ker and a ruler too.'
6, He is used to all the violations of
the Constitution that are possible to any
President, and by a frequent practice does
easily that which may come awkwardly to
any other man.
7. There never has been an official so
true to hie party, and it will be proof of
the ingratitude of shoddy and abolition
i.tri If they do not renominate him.
World.
"Ir the sense of smelling more pleas
ing than the sense of tasting?" was the
question up before a western debating so
ciety in a barroom, Uncle Joe was the
last to speak upon the negative, and all
were anxious.to hear him deliver himself.
W.h;king up to the barkeeper, he called
a hot whisky punch, and drank it off
u-ent:,Trointew thnilatwegnctoieuni
Ispotant, and thundered out- "Now,
r.rnell it, you varmint." Lis needless to
add that Uncle Joe "brought down the
house," and also the decision for the neg
ative.
°me four or five
!low citizena, the
FOSTER—In New York City. c ages, 13th of
January, 133.1.1 n the MU:treat of his STEPHEN
C. Forrke. ynur c sr eon cf SVitlian B. boater,
er, te or t-ittdirurgh.
Ilia funeral will take plaoe from Trinity
Church. 6th street, on Thursday afternoon, Jan
21o', et 2 rcceod to the Allegheny
Cemetery.
The auth,t: of Folks at Home" retinas is
death to his naive city, aed his grave will be be
iide his father and mother.
{L . TIIE BEST
No. fl White Carbon Oil,
le still retailing at
60 CENTS PER GALLON
AT JOS. FLED/NCI'S DRUG STORE
Corner of the Diamond? and Market street.
Also, may be obtained a large and superior as
:mem t of L quors tor medicinal puedgcees. con.
slating of the finest OLD BRA DlDLitti, ilmearior
article of HOLLAND GEN, PORT and Clit RRY
WINE of the nneet descriptions. Tanga wring
use for these articles will consult their own inter
est by examining my rock before purohating
elsewhere. Pt task and Scats Ash that cannot be
excelled in quadty, always on hand. Patent
Medicines and all the new Perlumeries and Hair
Preparations of the day always on hand. Also,
Dr. tdurdoch's Barn Ointment, a moat excellent
article for burns of Frosted Limbs.
for any - thing in the Drag lice, remember the
place,
JOS. F LEMING'S DREG STORE,
Corner of the Diamond and Market street.
sanl4-mstit
WA FACT.
Is it a Dye.
In the year 1145 Mr. Mathews first prepared
the VENETIAN HAIR DYE ; mince that time
it hoe been used by thousands, and in no instanoe
has it failed to give entire satisfaction.
The VENETIAN DYE is the cheeped in the
bottle
prioo is ordi Fifti °cuts, and each
bottle contains double the quantity of
those 11 , ually sold for $1 dye in .
The VENETIAN DIE is warranted not to in
jure th VENETIANIp in the slightest degree.
The DYE works with raPidits
and certainty the hair requiring no preparation
whatever.
The VENETIAN DYE produces any shade
that may be desired—one that will not fade. crock
or wash out—one that is as permanent as tee hair
itself. For sale by all druggists. Price 50 cents.
A. I. MAI'IiEWE,
Ganeral Agent, 12 Gold st N, Y.
ALS.), manufacturer of MATRIWB' A/11.1/CA BATS
GLOSS, the best hair dressing IS ase. Price 25
stance.
Janle-lyd
1t2 .T0 coltisumpTivEs.-Tas
Rev. E. A. Wilson's Remedy
FOR
Consumption, Asthma, BronehitiS,
Coughs, Colds, and all Throat
and Lung Affections,
Together with a pamphlet giving the preieriP
tion and a short history of his case, can be ob
tained of
JOISEPII. .IPJLEMINSas
Cor. of Market et., and the D,amond, Pittsburgh
ian7-2md
I. 31. CORI:WE'LL
[1: - & CORN WELL at KERR.
CARRIAGE MANUFACTURERS ,
SILVER & BRASS PLATERS,
And manufacturers of
Saddlery dr Carriage Hardware,
No. 7 Et. Clair street, and Duquesne Wa7.
(near the Bridge.)
mho PITTBRUBMI.
Ka D ENTISTRY.—'TEETH Ea
traoterad
tus without pain by the use of Dr
appa
J. F. HOFFMAN.
DENTIST.
All work warranted.
184 Sualthll4l4 Street,
PITTSBURGH
FLOURING MILL FOREIALE.
The subscriber offers for ea/a the AL
IReIIYaIY CITY MILLS. !dented in theirottrthi
Ward, Allegheny City. This well known MI/ma
been rebuilt lately, and contains font run of;
French Barra with all the latest improved' m-i
(Miners for mannfsmaring the best brande
ot
Flour. Enjoys a good local es well se forei'
or
sutoto. This is a-rare ot anise for bosine ts men gn .
and invite ary whl wish to engage In a profitabe
business to tail at the Mill. where terms will be
made known.
oad-landkw J. VOBE/TLI.
New Advertisements.
R. F. BARRY,
(Late Cashier of the Merchants' Bank.)
Commission Merchant,
No. 11 SOUTH MAIN ST.,
ST. LOUIS. MO.
IiaIIARTICIILAR : ATTENTION PAID
filling orders for the purchase of
Cotton, Hemp. Tobacco, Flour, Pork,
Bacon, Lard, *e..
Ilarana Leo—Banks. Bankers, and Merchants of
St. Lords generally; John D. Ecallr, ce/L. Cash
ier. Pittsbursh.
Orders and consignmentsrespectfully solieited,
and prompt returns made. I an2l-1m
MERCANTILE LIBRARY ABORCIA
TION LROTITAES.
John B. Gough.,
The' Eminent Orator, wilt deliver two 'leer
tures, sixth and seventh of the course under the
auspices of the Mercantile Library AEsuestion,
On Saturday and Monday Evenings,
THE 23D AND 26vit INST.
First Subj ect—PECHLIAR PEOPLE.
Seoond Snitieet—ELOQURNOE and ORATOR&
414 - Tickets 26 cents. No reserved seats.
Lecture will commence precisely at 8 o'clock. Tickets for sale at Schwartz's an d Kelly's Drug
Stores, and at Cochrane's Book Store. Allegheny;
and at the Music, Book and Drug tores, Pitts
burgh, and at the Library Rooms,
W. H. Knoosm GIORGI: W. WRITMAX,
SAMUEL A. LONG, Taos. BAWRWRI.J.,
WILLIAM W. WARD, HENRY ATWOOD,
jan2l•td Lecture vottunittoe.
Ci ON C ENT HALL.
GI AMM PROMENDB COMORE,' AND BALL,
For the benefit of.the
Pittsburgh Subsistence Committee,
Under the auspices and direction of the YOUNG
MEN'S TEtiPcICHO SE b 0 n
WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEB. 3d.
The following gentlemen have kindly lent the
use of tneir names as Honorary Members
Judge W. M'Candless,l B. C. Sawyer,
Judge J. B. Sterrett, J. Heron Footer.
Andrew Usimagie, Chas. W. Batchelor ,
John D. James P. Barr,
John H. Hampton, I William Phillips.
Thos. B. Hamilton, J. W. Barker,
Daniel O'Nehl. I it. A. Cameron.
The Society will spare no pains or expo
make this TBE BALL 039 lIE SEA6O intro-ducing for the first time in Pittsburgh the pope_
lay Eastern Prelude or Promsis-e, a feature at
once new and novel, fashionable and pleasant.
The Committee none to sell 3,000 tickets, and for
this reason have placed them at the low price of
$1 each knowing that hundreds will buy them at
mat price even though they have no intention
of being present, i n order to interest all in the
noble undertaking the Committee will grant
to any person selling ten tickets, or more, a free
admittance, and a Floor Manager's Badge.
bearing an inserts:ion of the number of Gotten
sold by the wearer thereof.
No MO will be admitted unless accompanied
by a gentleman of known respectability or pre
senting at the d or an invitation card.
ickets and Livit.tion cards for Ladies at C.
C. Meilor's Mu,ic store, 81 Wood street; and the
rincipal business houses in both cities. -
Promenade at 8 o alMk. Dancing to com
mence at 10 o'clock. Jan2l-td
SELLING AT COST—
MMUS do HACHE'S,
COR. FIFTH & MARKET BPS
Jard. 9
I 55 Fifth Street,
MEN'S BOOTS,
55 Fifth Street,
BOYS' BOOTS,
55 Fifth Street,
Ladles' Balmoral Bo(its,
55 Fifth Street,
Misses' Balmoral Boots,
'55 Fifth Street,
Children's ehoes,
M' CLELLAND'S AUCTION
WE HAVE JUST REUEIV
other lot of splendid
PI ANOS'.
From the celebrated manufactories of Wm. B.
Bradbury, New York. and Sohomacker A Co..
Phitadelphi. Bear what the eminent Pianist,
Go: Whelk says of the Bradbury Piano :
GOT rscnALK
TO WM. B. BRADBURY.
"I have examined with groat oars Mr. WW. B.
Bradbun'a NSW SOALE PIANO FORTES, and
it is me opinion that they are VERY 817PABIOR
instruments,
have modally remarked their thorough
workmanship, and the power, Mit/, richness.
and equality of their tone. I recommend thew
fore. these instruments to the public in genetai,,
and doubt not of their success."
L. TTHALK.
New York, Jab 12,18113. M GO SC
MEIMIBM; tienonsciung A to..
Have numerous letttersof recommendations from'
ed amateune—the President of the,
Unit States. Oovoraors of Stases, eta.. who
have purchased their P saes. Their hastruments
received n. a Gold Medal at the Crystal Pa ace Fair,
Londo
Our prices are lower than any other mannher.
tory for the same style a d octave Pianos. All
are requested to call and examine for themselves.
We are lust in receipt of a fi ne assortment of
PIANO STOOLS of the latest and beet styles.
Masi° Books. Sheet Music and Musical Goods
generally always on hand at the lowest Eastern
cash prices. WAMBLINK h BARB,
No. 2 Bt. ebb street
ianL3 Near Suspension Bridge.
ITSlit
Tavern-Keeper ' s
Meeting,
wars TAVERH•IUMPEES OF PITTS.
burgh. Alfishes* , and neteiborhood are to 7
vited to attend a meeting. o 2
THUBSDAV ETENINO NEXT,
AT VA O'CLOCK. at HAUT WARD'S. comes.
of flarspik sad Grant streets, for the Purpose of
aesegotirtognob btottnets at way be brought be,
fore timed' anl9-Std
Bain •
C I glitz'iltaknia-eturers,i,
Anfirskolesaledesters in
TOBACCO, SNUFF and CIGARS,
108 'WOOD STREET
A Wye stook of PIPER always on hand.
isal3-1
. r
SHAWLS,
SHAWLS,
SHAWLS,
SHAWLS,
SHAWLS,
SHAWI 9
SHAWIA,
SHAWLS,
Slid w Lb,
SHAWLS,
SHAWLS,
SHAWLS,
SHAWLS,
SHAWLS,
SHAWLS,
J.W.Barker&CoOs.
lIN'PAR.ALLELBD BARGAINS
DIVIDEND NOT/CE.
01 0 71C1 PITTIIIMIGH AND BOITON Mem Co.,
Pittsburgh. Janumylfloi.lB64. ,
TVD/IBETOBN O r TUB PATIN
URGH and BOSTON MiNtErs 'cOM
PANY of PITTSBURGH. have declared a divi
dend of EIGHT DOLLARS Per share it Don the
Capital, ea the same may staid on_y. the
25th fun.
igth bat., payable OD and after MONDA Y the
ianl6 9td THOIS. M HONE.
Treasurer.
Fume STORE FOR SALE.
A 7 naighboling City, a A
Well located and doing a good
to Um
object of the owner in sid4i t to Up% bin en
tire -attention to another maw Darden
lace ironiro of B 011—
janimm rimer Wood and ElSOOliattfr
GBrr BILEGBAUIS
Baa l Shoes and Gums ( '
p io uivcddiso4v - AINN7 tmwoodiab a '
lite nik iND'lt
__________l34boondtorftona ftiretreet.
EEL
adtLOEE-1100 REES. EXTRA PAIIILILT
FLOUR -fat for We 14
P a wetty
001:11.11
Wesv Advertisements.
El 0R
WE EKS
We shell offer greater indeeemente
THAN IiCIiTICIL
In all kinds of superior
BOOTS& SHOES,
EVERY PAIR WARRANTED,
•
And repaired free. Remember
FTIrTH RITECIDET,
The celebrated
Concert Hall Shoe Store.
art - Making room for spring Goodr and now
Is
the time for great hemline. /
Jan/9
CLOSING OUT SALE FOR JAFTII
ART. 1864—Black, Plain andßigtired Silks;
Fancy Mb, Cashmeres. Mons delaines ; French
Merinos, Porlins, French Chintzes, Brilliants,
together with a full stock of MOURNING
GOODS, consisting of Silk Wrap Caahmeres.Wool
Cashmeres, English and French Bombazines,
Barathea Turin Cloth, 5-8 and 5-4 Mousseline
Florentine. Manama and Canton Cloth._ HOS
IERY. among which are Ladies' Woo:en and
White Cotton; Ladles' Unbleached Cotton;
Misses' White Cotton Hose; Misses' Unbleached
Cotton and Merida Hose. Also, a varied collar
Lion of Hoop and Balmoral Skirts, Corsets, and
Plain and Striped Goode for Skirting. GEN
TLEMEN'd GOODS — Oloths, Cashmeres, Vest
Riga; Kid Gloves; Silk and Lisle Gloves: Cotton,
Silk, Merino ane Wool Underwear; Silk, Cotton.
Merino and Woo' Socks; Bilk Ties, Scarfs; Black
Silk Cravats; Hemmed, Corded, and Printed
Border Cambria Hancikuchiefs, Silk Handker •
clash. CURTAlNS — Nottingham Lace Curtains
Applique Lace Curtains; Tambourd Lace Cur
tains; 'Vestibule Lace. BOYS' WEAR--Plain
and Fancy Cassimaram Plain and Fancy Bad.
netts; Tweeds; Mellen. Also, a large stock of
EMBROIDERIES—Swiss and Cambric Collars;
Swiss and Cambria Bette Swiss and Cambria
'turnings; bwiss and Cambric Plounainm Swiss
and Cambria Bands; Linen Collars and Sets;
Lawns and Cambria Handkerchiefs; Valenolen
nes. Collars and Sots; &ell* Callan and Sahli .
Point Gauze Collars and Sets; Lufante.enibrol•
dared Cape and Waists; Infants' Embroidered
Muslin Dresses; DOMESTIC and HOUSE
KEEPING GOODS, comprising Line= and Cot
ton Sheetinsa, Linen and Cotton 131drtings, Pil
low Linen. Pillow Muslin, Dimity Quilts, Mar
teWes Quilts, Turkish Quilts, Table Linens, Ta
ble Napkins, To welings, ( Ruck and Diaper.
Blankets, French Tiring and Chilliest. Table and
Ta.. 1.4.40. Roth Rlsullukta-
TT RITE, ORR &
No. 25 Fifth Street.
NTS/3, GOODS.-
HOODS IN VARIETY OF Si YLES,
N lIBIAS, BONTAGS,
LADIES' WOOL GAITERS,
LADIES' WOOL ISCAR,FB,
CHILDREN'S WOOL MUFFS.
Comforts, nice warm Gloves,
Merino and all Wool Stockings,
Extra Heavy Socks,
Undershirts and Drawers.
Handsome Traveling Shirts,
000 lbs
BLUE GREY KNITTING YARN,
Together with as extensive easortmant of
Notions and Trimmings,
AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
Merchants and all others who buy to Eell again
are invited to give us a call, as we offer superior
inducements to the tradi.
BIACRUM & GLYDE,
;78 /MARKET !STREET,
J Between fourth and the Diamond.
anl3
43 4,
FIRST GRAND
SEMI-ANNUAL SALE
DRY GOODS,
59 Market Street.
WILL BE OFF-BRED.
1 8 et 414 .
i azil2-yo
11, II 451- STORE,