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We` entreat Congress•to trust the People in
providing for the vigorous prosecution — iif the
war. They desire most of all thirigs that
' the coming spring campaign_ shall 'be the
'closing scene in the bloody drama ; and'the
"representatives who demand that resistiess
power shall be displayed by the loyal ar-
L'mies at every point, will receive their most
cordial approval. The government is theirs ;
its Cause is their cause ; its success their
safety; its preservation their pride; itsearly
, and'vverwhelming triumph over treason
their hope of enduring peace and prosper
ity forlhemselves and - their children.
• • It is no time for hesitation ; for 'tempo
rising ; for cowardly_ devices to shield the
people from the cruel demands of war for
a. time, with protracted strife, wanton sacri
' flees, and increased burdens as the inevita
ble consequences. The People knew and
• appreciate that this wastiQ,, wicked conflict
• demands the whole energies and Powers of
the Nation to secure early - and substantial
success; and they will despise the law
' maker who withholds from our armies the
needed reinforcements.
_ If our armies are not made invincible by
the opening spring, it will bring with it the
most desperate and:deadly struggles of the
war. And if 89, upon Congress and the
Administiatian will rest the fearful respon
sibility. The remorseless, desolating ha
of treason has yielded more than halt'`
`territory to our victorious armies; has ex
hausted its resources and flung appaling
sorrow and bereavemept into every house
hold circle. The voice of mourning and
the 'Wail of despair come up from every
home. that . espoused the traitor's eau .
Their once fruitful fields . ,are withered wastes;
the slave confronts his lordly Master in the
conflict of arms—at last equ'als, for each can
die blit once ; terrible want has fastened
Upon the lanT fratricides. as with hooks
of triple steel ; credit has vanished never
more to return; and shattered and despair
ing hosts are waiting away even faster than
unwilling anithOpeless conscrips can fill their
places. - •
Mit one faint star of hope breaks through
the bewildering gloom that envelopes the
narrowed limits of treason. With trem
bling solicitude the arch -fiend of .this,crim
sated record, and every satelite that yields
obedience to him; turns to our Congress and_
waits with all the forebodings of remorse
and despair, for it to withhold its conceded
power—to spare for additional conflicts and,
fresh butcheries, the traitorous armies.
They _see treason but illy disguised - by cow
,ardice- in our National legislature, and their
last refuge is in its partial success in shap
ing a hesitating policy in filling' up the ranks
ot ohtbrave soldiers. Let Congress but"
hesitate—refuse. to trust the People with
theft own great cause, and there will be joy
in Richmond, and every soldier .00' crime
will be nerved to crowd new fields with iin
timay graves. ,
Extravagant bounties to voludteers—save
to veterans—have been most demoralizing
to the cause and injurious to the service.
It hoer appealed to every selfish attribute
of the People, and shut out the high and
holy duties devolving upon - exr.ery citizen.
Partial drafts have been' ineffectual, for
there were &w-wbo mould not escape, and
the few who did not, were reluctant soldiers :
Lir CONORYAS CALL OUT THE rim= AN
ttowesrr—d'emand just tribute from those.
who stay, and pay liberally to .those w
and:ithe great work will be practically
aceiauplished. Thousands will go because
Abe Aorexaoleat gastkifests its purpose to
.
give certain and `speedy success to our ar- r.
Mies. They'dan enter the ranks with their
lived ones protectelagainst want; and with
confidence that their ovenrlelinning num
bers will avert sanguinary battles. Such a
call would be imposing upon the people,
with exact justice, the burdens of the war,.
and they would respond to it with an en
thusiasm that would declare to traitors and
to the gOvernments of the world, that our
Nationality shall be prikrved.
Again we entreat Congress to TRUST THE
PEpPLE 1 Call. upon 'them to discharge
their whole , duty, and , it will be done. Call
f(* . enough and more than enough, and trea
son will reel back from the advance of in
vincible arniiea, -and a restored Union and
lasting Peace - will be the fruits of a single
campaigh. P ' atriot, and traitor alike wait
anxiously for our tardy Congress to act ;
and if they would not give fresh, hopes to
treason, and entail protracted war and fear
ful peril upon loyal men, let them' strike a
decisive blow. by employing the whole pow
er of the government, and. another autumn
will witness a 'rescued and disenthraled Re
public.
SENATORIAL 'EIiIIIIRLE.RIGGERSj
The State Capital has been famous in
story and in song for its varied amusements.
Ordinary inland cities may have their cir
cuses, their wandering minstrels, their De- ,
Mocratic orations, and other means of war- -
ring with dull care; but Harrisburg Makes
all pale' before its shifting i seenes of faki
nation. In variety.it defies the hues of the
camelion—in quantity it would make the
horn of plenty blush. From the thrilling
polemics of the Senate, to the dulcet strains
of .the sable Sanford, and the syren sun
shine and shadows which flit in and about the
Capitol, there is a richness of variation pe
- collar only to capitoliauerryment., . •
But new occasions to new duties, vid
'the very fulness of legislative enjoyment,
has so sated its devotees that new clowns
and jesters—new novelties of the most orig
inal
-brand, have to be invented. All Other
sources failing, sixteen grave and reverend
Senators have undertaken the task. The
classical Lamberton ; the impassioned Cly
mer; the thrilling Hopkins, lead off in the
fantastic effort, and the rest of the troupe
qo in,.as scene-shifters, semi-supes and an
improvised committee on applause. The
' original cli ms of the entertainment con
sist of the most eipert•political thimble
rigging—starting a 'Senate in chaos, and
keeping it there by an endless , and bewil
dering variety of such subtle tricks as might
make the original. "little joker" abandon
the profession in despair. It partakes some
thing of Hamlet with Hamlet omitted, or
the " now you-see it and now you don't 'see
it " with the "now you see it" left out;
and the famous " What is it''' ' is .a familiar
child of history compared with this striking
•
ovelty:
\ select and deioted circle_ of gentle
men who are' the constant auditors of this
festive performance, are just equttl in num
ber to the stock company of dip:obi-rig
gers that furnishes the amusemtnt gratis,
There are occasional side shows—such as
the epistolary bombardment-at long range
of Speaker Penre. by'Senator Clymer as
she landed . :1- H herleb,
to ask, and as he wanted none to buy, he had
no price to offer. Thus closed the prelim
inary diplomacy, and thenceforth the boards
of the Senate became the tribunes whence
in turn thundered thimble-rigging sPeeChes;
thimble-rigging offers to huckster off clerks
and Wood-carriers; and thimble-rigging sci-.
eine generally.
A bill is read 'in place—Clymer objects;
there must be• leave and leave won't be
given. It is Unconstitutional. Stein rises
to El point of order. The Senate not being
in order, nothing- is in order but organiza
tion, and organization shall not be had. A
resolution of thanks to Gen. Grant for his
heroism is offered by the Union men—
Wallace and Donovan call the yeas and nays,
and it is thimble-rigged out. Clymer wrig
gles ; be speaks ; he thinks / Grant a very
' proper fellow, and will thank hini at the
proper time ; but just now he stands in the
way of the Performance, and as thimble
-rigging and voting thanks to brave Generals
are in irreconcilable conflict, the lesser issue
must yield, and• Grant Mast go under. He
perspires, and threatens the Senate with
dog days; sets' his thimbles and invites
Penny, to say just where the little joker is;
will play give and take for the sake of being
constitutional, and opens -at short range to
ra ke 4own 'half the offices. As Clymer hacl
,nothinglo give and
.Penny could take no
more Ahan e ke had .already, he let the little
lokerverform its 'orations without a stake ;
and. Lice ,tlie itaa ost dm shooting-match,
Clymer saved himself ut lost his turkeys.
He insisted it wasn't his faaat that he was
- oi'Stankfini Ittpiss
. . . .
delaying orgaiaization. , e minority svgs
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occasioned, not by the. ca , ture of Nit'or
White, but by the failure to deliver his s
ignation, and he would insist upon his n"-
stitutional rights until he knew exactly who
was who and what was what in filling he
offices. He knew that Major White lad
resigned—he bad seen it in the RepubliCan,
papers—in one edited . by " Col. M'Clutre,
formerly a distinguished member' of +is
Senate ;" and although be never believed
any thing he saw in such papers, still Mai.
.White must have resigned or they wouldn't
have said so. Thus logically and withex
quisite expertness thimble-riged - the Seia
tor from Berks ; but his little jokers Were
still innocent of game.
itopkins, the veteran of the troupe,
lowed. He had forgotten that=
—"honesty once pawn'd is ne'er redeeml
—and he - tried to falsify history by a/
i
dating the memory of his 'auditors.
protested against the "-farce;" prob bly
preferred tragedy such as
. 1838 produ ed,
when like Macawber, he waited and tuned
up. He denied that the - thimble-rigging
performance was at all original—solemnly
averred that it was based upon fundamen
tal'i principles adopted seventy years aco-7 ,
or if not seventy, certainly forty. Hej ad
initted that there was some diversity of
I d
opinion about ,political thimble-rigg ng ;
that it made " apparently a bad reco ," but nevertheless having espoused it he
would stand to it though the whole oral
law should fall. He voted against rea
Jackson's Proclamation,..and Farewell
dr s • against thanks to Meade for hil
"C defeat of Lee at Gettysburg; ag
increasing the pay of our brave soli
and with him steadily voted the othe
een thimble•riggers of-the Democratic
f
suasion. He also voted against prays in
the Senate, doubtless on the principle that
thimble rigging and prayers together, as a
waste of material on one side or other. But
he was still not content. He declare his
purpose to vote against the instituti n of
marriage. In this he probably meat to
make the legislature consistent—to give the'
sanction and ceremony of law to its practi,
cal operations; or if may be that he bolds
an expression of faith in matrimony asl dead
without works. Having tilted the little jo
ker against maiiiage, he• next threatened
to deny the divine authority of the Bible,
unless he could endorse it in a perfectly
constitutional manne : r.: He closed with his
little joker still guiltles.s of winni4s. 1
The classical Lamberton also threw him
self into the breach. He had listened
and--
"What great ones do, the less will prattle of
--so when the Governer's message wits re
ceived Lamberton objected; LambertOn ap
pealed ; Lamberton protested, and Lamber
ton sat down s •He- represents the smallest
district in the State numerically, and the
people -reciprocate the generosity .Of the
State by sending a very small Senator.—
Therefore he is' not to blame: If lie is a
fool it isnot his fault, since hedid not Task
ien himself; and to complain of it 'would
be unfilial to his parents and blasphemous
to his Creator. He is not alone, bOwever,
for of such the poet has in pity written— ,
•
That which I am; I am: I did no seek
Fur life, nor did I make myself."
But thimble rig he must, for so did 'all the
great ones do ; and' he forthwith thimble
rigs an appeal from' the decision of die Clair
on the ground that, tkere is no chair tO make
a decision. The little joker was well nigh
lost in this violent stretch of logic ; but the
Speaker saved the performer and hiS jokers
by deciding thatif there was no Speaker to
appeal from no appeal could beenteitaitted.
Lamberton seemed,to think that fotipeople
Who liked such decisions, they were just the
decisions such people liked, but las the
" now you see it" was rather - out lof the
play, he confessed to a painful dOgre e of
obscured perspicacity. In this confused
darkness, 'Larnberton -sat down gameless,
and a week's performance of ponder thim
ble rigging closed.
—lt was expected to open on illonday
fight again with a grand change of pro
me, new scenery, new thimbles and
jokers, and improved in all particUlars ex
cepting patriotism and sense.
GO*. CIIRTI'N'S MESSAGE.
We give in to-day's paper the third an ,
nual message of Gov. Curtin. It is a brief;
terse, business like doeumint, and bonspic
uous for its practical suggtistions ratter than
for rhetorical embellishment. The feature
that will attract most attention; is his rec
ommendation that the interest on our pub-
lie debt be paid in currency instead
But for the express provision of
authorizing the debt, requiring the
of the ipterest coin, there con]
division of tentiroent as' to the
change; Wit ,the established tutu
older governments when driven to
suspension by exhausting war, and
now patent to every candid obserN
the State cannot hope, to confirm(
Coin during the protracted susper
have just entered upon, fully wari
the ExecutiVe recommenxiation for'
don of currency payments at once. If Eng
land could be justified in a suspension of a
quarter of a century because of /4r coati
dental war--a suspension that applied to
her trarn securities as, well as to.all private
transactions,--surely the States tuUst stand
acquitted before the nations of the world,
in yielding 'to a suspension now, 4hen the
resources of the country are so severely. tax
ed to maintain our National existence.
The bill of last session Kovi • s' for the
ositii: e 'l itiniiiiriAk :1864.
payment of the interest in coin by depleting
the vaults of the Banks. Is wasin no
,res
pect creditable to the State to abstract; by
an arbitrary law, the specie from the, Banks
at two per cent. interest, to keep up a sem
blance of solvency before the world, and it
will not be attempted again. _ The law in
question took one-fifth the coin of the Bank
of Chambersburg to pay the 'interest for
t B
one year, and g thi auks of the State were
generally deple ed in About the same pro-_
portion. It would require but simple rules
of arithmetic to ascertain how long our State
could pay specie by such a process. The
Banks cannot meet the wants of the State,
and nothing' remains' lint to resort to cur
rency, or to pay $1,500,000 interest in Feb
ruary, and a like or greater sum in August,
instead of $1;000,000. The cost of, coin,
in Addition to The interest, would' not be
less than one million a year for many years
to come, for the present suspension- cannot
be recovered from, in our judgment, for ten
years, if even so soon as that. We are
glad, therefore, that Gov. Curtin Advisesa
resort to currency. 4 before the State is ex,
haunted. By, this means we can resume
much earlier than if we allowed our coin to
be abstracted in a fruitless effort to keep up
specie payments. We might do so for a
year or, 'two, but suspension is inevitable,
and when certain it Cannot be accepted too
soon.
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Another important recommendation of
the Governor relates4o the obvious necess
ity of making ainpleprOvision for the faim
ilies of soldie . rs who have fallen in this war.
Every dictate of humanity and justice sat
tions such a suggestion, and the legislature
will be faithless to the high character of our
State Wit does not make liberal enactments
on_the snbject. He also refers. to the ne.
cessity of increasing our revenue.; to the
National Cemetery; to the propriety of
aiding the starving loyal men of East-Tenn
essee ; to the rebel invasion. arid to the
proinpt response of Pennsylvania, to every
call for troops. He states, from, official
data, that , 277,409 men - have been in the
service at different times from this State
since the war commenced, and he justly
pointstwith pride to the record of our people
in maintaining the life of the Republic.
In conclusion Gov. Curtin reiterates his.
often - explessed determination to give all
the moral and official power of his position
to aid the Government in suppressing the
rebellion. He justly declares that "we are
fighting the great Battle of God—of Truth,
of Right, and Liberty," and that "the
Almighty has -no attribute that'; can favor
our savage and - degenerate enemies." Al
together the message is one of the -most
creditable of 'our State papers, and it will
be widely accepted as faithful in all things
to our great State and to the Government.'
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The Pennsylvania Legislature met on
Tuesday of last week. In the HOuselloa.
Henry C. Johnson, of Crawford, was cho
sen Speaker by-The Union men, over Hon.
Cyrus lA. Pershing, of Cambria ; A. W.
Benedict, of Huntingdon, was chosen Clerk;
James C. Brown, of Mercer, Assistant ;
Messrs. Caleb B. Walker, J. B.
,Niles, A.
D. Harlan and Henry Butterfield - were elect
ed TransCribing Clerks, and James Subers,
of Philadelphia, Sergeant-at-Arms. Mr.
Johnson is "a lawyer of fair standing in
Western Pennsylvania, and is now serving
his second session in the legislature. He
is a gentleman of high character for integ
rity, and possesses eminent fitness
,fer the
duties of the chair. He will preside-over
the House with becoming dignity and \ strict
impartiality, and cannot fail to give an ele
vated tone to the b6dy in all its proceedings.
Mr. Benedict has been Clerk before—in
1855 we believe, and' was member gne year
ago ;- and Mr. Brown was member during
the last two' "sessions. Both are therefore
experienced Men and will make acceptable
officers.
. —ln the Senate a dead-lock clogs all bu
siness. he Union men nominated Speak
er Penny, of Allegheny, for re-election, and
Geo. W. Hamersly, Esq., of Philadelphia,
for Clerk, with most if not_all the old subor
dinate officers of last - session. The Demo-
-crate nominated Senator Clymer, of Berks,
for Speaker, and Mr. :Hutchison for Clerk.
The Senate being always an organized body,
Speaker Penny, very properly tooktheAiair
at the opening, and has held it ever shit& ;
but he, with his friends, voted steadily to
go into an election for a new Speaker, as
has been the custom of that body. A dozen
or so ballots have been had, which uniformly
resultedin 16 for Penny and 16 for Clymer
,--each of the candidates'always voting-for,
his Competitor. All business; is suspended,
however, by the Democrats Persistently re
fusing to proceed to the consideration of
any legislation until a new Speaker is chosen,
and as they can giye a tie Tote on every
proposition to legislate, of course they de
feat all progress. The absent:e of the Union
Senator from Indiana, Major White, now
a prisoner in Richmond, giVes the Demo.;
oasts this temporary power;; and they seem
determined to wield it to the , utmost for
evil. The Union men have proposed to
consider almost everjthing that is demand
ed by the peopla; liut the sixteen Demo
crats openly declay4 that there , shall be no
business done until new officers are elected
pr, inother_words, there shall be no leg
islation until they get a .few clerks, lusters
and'folders to dissipate their Constitutional
objections to the present organization.
of coin.
the law
payment
Id be no
roposed
dents of
general
the fact,
•er, that
• to pay
sion we
'rant the
te adop-
—The position assumed by the Demoera•
ti4,Senators is as novel as, it is flagrant.'
Strange to say, too, it is persisted in by
X,EGIALATIVE.
such experienced legislators as' Hopkins, of
Washingtotr, Clymer, - ofperks, andalso by
Wallace, a comparatively new Senator, but
an able lawyer and high-toned legislator.
It is sad,. indebd, to see inch men subordi
nated' to the tnadness of party prejudices,
or the petty demands of small-fry aspirants
for petty places in the Senate. Against
them are arrayed reason, law and precedent,.
and the record they afe now making will
stand as a hideous monument of attempted
revolution and usurpation on the part of a.
legislative minority. They are in the mi
nority in point of fact, and also by the rules
which provide for the perpetual organize=
tion of the Senate.' A majority - of the reg
ularly, chosen and undisputed, Senators is
against them, and they are also subordina
ted by the existence of officers in every po
sition, who hold until their successors are
chosen. Thus equitably and legally in-
borclinated, they would but recognize the
ordinary proprieties which usually obtain
among Senators, by conceding the election
of Speaker_ Penny, without attempting to
dieter about who shall light their gas, make
their fires, or copy their,' laws. But they
declare the Senate in a state of revolution,
and, while attemptingito usurp and revolu
tionize themselves, they vainly endeavor to
screen their folly from their constituents by
charging revolution upon the Union' men.
Senator Hopkins declared in the Senate,
'with all the solemnity of a scienced.trickster,
that the Union men were usurping the
powers:of the Chair, and violating' the nni
form custom of that body for seventy years.
In this Mr. Hopkins either deliberately, or
ignorantly falsifies the precedents of the
Senate. If he will turn to the Senate of
1849, he will find the position of Speaker
Penny and his supporters accepted by all
parties without
- so much as a question being
raisetlas to its legality or propriety. Gov:
Johnston was chosen Speaker at the close
of the session of 'lB4B. Gov. Shunk resign
ed in the following July, and Johnston be
came Governor, by virtue of his position as
Speaker of -the Senate. When the session
of 1849 opened; Gov. Johnston continued
as, Speaker uf the Senate, and Governor by
virtue, of that office, without a re election,
or without entering the Senate at all, and
no one gainsayed his right or duty so to act.
If Hopkins be truthful or his memory faith
fnl, Gov. Johnston ehould have returned to
the Senate, resigned \ his office and been re
elected before he douldreturn to theExecu
• tive chair ; but on the contrary he contin
ned4 by universal consent, as the legal Speak
er of the Senate, and as such discharged
the 'functions of Governor until within one
day .of his inauguration. If that
.precedent
wainniversally sustained as lawful and prop
er, wherein does Senator Penny's position
• offend against the laws? If Gov. Johnston
could continue as Speaker -to discharge the
more responsible duties of, Governor, with
out a re-election, why cannot Senator Penny
discharge the less sacred duties of presiding
officer ? Will Hopkins explain whether he
blundered or falsified in his speech as to - the
pecedents of the Senate ? •
The presetit position of the Democratic
Senators is an after thought, dictated solely
by-political policy anicreated for the occr.-
sion. Perhaps as a political policy, it is
le—perhaps otherwise; but of that they
be their own judges. One thing, how
r, they cannot escape—they have wa
ev
dy, lawlessly arrested legislation, and upon
them must rest the responsibility. qf they
are prepared for it—have counted the cost,
we bid 'them be merry while they can in
thus insolently defying the verdict othe
people. •
Oua obstreperous Democratic "friends "
of the Senate seem to have run mad. Lam
berton probably hadn't very far-to run; but
Clymer, Hopkins and Wallace lave made
his follies respectable by sinning against
light and reason.. If we belonged to *the
Democratic party we should proceed in the
Datiphin County Court fora Committee to'
take care of the - Democratic Senatorial
leaders, and no impartial Judge would re
fuse the petition. They allege that the
Senate is not organized, but recognize it
as an organized body every day they meet.
'They vote against re - solutions of 'thanks to
Grant ; to Meade ; against increasing pay of
soldiers; against reading Jackson's Address
and Proclamation on the Bth of January ;
against prayers ; against bins ; for and
against adjournments, and threaten to vote
down the institution of marriage, and the
bible, and yet they say they are wanting in
Organization and that nothing but the ques
tion, of. organilation is in order. If tbey
had refused to vote on any, proposition but.
such as. related to organization, they would
have been consistent in -their folly, and
displayed method in their madness;.but
they declare the Senate not organized in
their ripeeches - when they want to huckster
in a few offices, and then confront their own
position aid admit the organization by
voting against everything fro ' the bible
down.. 'We affectionately advise er to
insert a brief advertisement in the REPOSI
TORY running about thas--' Wanted—a
leader for sixteen bewildered Senators. Ap
ply immediately, to Clymer, Hopkins, Lam
berton 4 Co." Advertising terms cash !
ON Monday next the legislature will elect
s State Treasurer. The revolutionary De
mocratic Senators will probably pro -
otherwise seek to embarrass th • election ;
but it will come off a... • . o law whether
agreeable to them or not. -
We have-heretofore spoken of, the eini
neat fitness of re electing Hon. HUEY D.
MOO/M. lie has already been State Tree
surer two years, and ptiiVed a most faithful,
competent and acceptable officer._ His high
character as a gentleican 'of moral and vr :
"ideal 'mirth especially cOmmends him for
the management of the finances, and the'
State will, best serve its owngreat interests
by his election. We de not doubt his suc
cess.
THE Union &asters and Assemblymen
at Harrisburg have signed a paper cordially
approving of . Piiistdent Lincoln's war poi-
icy, and recommending him for reelection
to the Presidency. In this they but re - - -
- fleeted the sentiments of the Union party .
of Pennsylvania.
WE are indebted to Messrs. MeSherry,
Sharpe and Graber; of the legislature - for
valuable documents.
WE are indebted to Hon. A. H. Coffroth;
M. C„ for a copy of _the Agricultural Re
port for 1862.
THE Government at Washington-will not "
permit Gyn. Butler to be outlawed byludah _
-P. Benjamin. / The . exchange of - prisoners,
committed solely to him, will be continued
in his hands. Secretary Stanton determined
,on Monday to enlarge his powers and confirm
his agency, by putting all the rebel prisoner*
in the United States un:ler his care. There
will be thirty thousand of them at Point -
Lookout within three weeks. - The policy is
re.rhttely decided on of insisting that the ex-*
chrnges shall take Osten 'through•Gen. But
ler, and that none shall take place except
through him. Jeff. Davis was in favor_ of
recognizing him, as Commissioner Ould had
already done., Benjamin, who wrote the
!t .
proclamation 'outlawing, Butler, effected .
majority. vote in the Cabinet against dealing
with him, on the ground that he was An out
law: President _Lincoln's last proclamation
'outlawed the whole Richmond, Government,
and=-through this, equalay in disability, there
is no doubt that the exchanges will again be
re-egablished.
The fact.that all the rebel prisoners, about
38,000 in number,- are to be transmitted to.
his Department,-is true, and retaliatory mesa
ures,.to a proper And legitimate extent, hayo
been determined supon. There 'is also ern
briced in Gen. Butler's scheme a Moviiin the
game which the r4be little think Of,= and
which cannot fail to brilg thorn to terms. He
has prepared a counter move to every'poesi
ble contingency, and w ther they refuse to
hold communication! wi h him op not, 41res
result will be the sani./ , Q
, .
TFIE Pottsville , Miner's Journiel entered its
fortieth ;year 'on th'e lit inst., dressed_ in
beautifid- new type and gii , ing every eviderax,
of abundant prosperity. It , ha.s been-pub
lished for thirty-five years by our friend
Barnum, and Is one of the ablest Unicin
Journals in the Staie. It has become stand
ard authority on everything pertaining to the
great mining interests of Pennsylvania. _
50 Horticitlist for Januar J , las a con
tinuation of its , able articles on grat i pe Culture.
with several illustrati*ms ; several plates Of
Cottage Architecture; an interesting article
on Plant Houses, with plans, and vaTious
pars especially interesting 0 the horticul - ,
turist. Price $2., Mead it . Woodward, Nec4:
York.
OUR old frienk and s,choolqnatc of early
days, Capt. Wm. Linn, has beeeme a
knight of the quill, and now fills the editorial
chair of the Newville Valley Star: Het is an
enterprising gentleman. a fine writer, and
will make the Star sprightly and :readable-
Success to him. -
THE Scalpel for January. slashiA away at,
the , follies of medicine and domestic life with
its usual pungency. It aims to popularise
the laws-of Health and has done much good
in that way. Price $1; E. H. Dixon, lL D..
, -
'gm York.
THE Philadelphia 4yews appears with the
New Year, in a new dress. The News is the
only outspoken Union penny paper published
in Phil adelphia, and is prospering we are glad
to observe. .
ms's are quite willing that the Reading
Journal should teach its readers, - by articles
from ,the REPOsITORT, how to construct lee-,
houses, &c.; but itshould not refuse the - usual
credit. •
Cot. You*/ has retired from they Erii4
Dispatch, and is sueeeeded by B. F. H. Lynn 1
Esq., ,who maintains thtold vigor and fresh t •
ness of the Dispatch in eVeellent
FINANCIAL.
A National Bank of Fi, o Million Dollars
has just been started in New,.York city..
• The gitizens_of York, Pa.,,have subscribed
$200,060 to the capital stock of a national
bank in that borough. The stockholders ,
number thirty-two. •
THE Richmond Examiner of December
16th appears to be coming to e true sense of
the condition of the Confederacy. "We are
fast drifting into self-contsmpt," it - says: •
"The adjective 'cone rate,' as Applied to
the various make-shi rendered necessary
by the war, is quite e reverse of oomph
mentary. Confede to coffee is roasted rye.
Confederate pape s only tit for . wrapping
parcels. .Conf erste swords aro as harmless
as if -they w made of lead. Confederate
notes a rented as if they were no more
ylifile le than candle-lighters." -
Messrs. Anderson Sr. Smith, members of
Congress from Kentucky, have made speech
es beforeJhe Union League of Washington,
favoring. the emancipation of the slaves in
Kentucky, and in every other southern lame.
Hon. Lemuel J. Bowden, U. S. !Senator
from Virginia, died at Waiiiiiigton, on Bat
t urday.Aveek, of small-poz.