midis tpoollovt.
Wednesday, December 2S, 7364.
BP Any of our patrons having copies of the
first an d second am b er s of THE OLD FLAG will confer
a great favo r upon the publishers by sending them to this
once. They are wanted to complete our files; All oar
copies on hand of those numbers, were burned by the
rebels.
nIMTI
The readers of this journal will com
mend the action of the President in call
ing , for i looo,ooo' additional troops. We
have on several occasions clearly demon
stratfd the necessity for such a call as the
only, collie certain to economize blood
and treasure, and give us early and en
during. Peace. Traitors will quibble at
the cat—will attempt to make men their
owii and their country's foes because the
wanton war of treason is about to impose
new exactions; but the masses of the peo
ple of all parties will heartily rejoice that
the call has been made, and give their best
energies to make the response of the Na
tion worthy of their sacred cause. .
But one army of crime remains unbroken
—that of Gen. Lee, and it is being daily
enclosed by the terrible folds of the Union
armies now victorious . at every point.
Hood not merely defeated—he is routed
with the loss of fully one-fourth his men,
nearly all his artillery, and other material
of war. He is therefore no longer a power
in the present combinations in course of,
execution to bring treason to its final
straggle. Sherman , has appeared before
Savmuuth, leaving marched through the
very heart of the South, taking its most
poPulous districts in his route, and he was
comparatively =opposed. Had the rebels
not been utterly exhatusted in their,*li
tary power, they would have interrupted
him and made manifest their strength
when such an - opportunity offered. His
triumphant sweep throigh the very vitals
of treason shoWs that the rebellion is-but
a shell—when broken in its exterior lines,
it has no resisting power behind them.
But, Lee still, remains stubbornly and most
skillfully defending the rebel capital. His
army is sadly depleted and dispirited, but
it still one of might and capable of fear
ful resistance. - Bat it cannot withiatand
the combined armies which must soon close
in around it. It may tot be defeated in
its strong defences ; but its lines will be
"severed, and Richmond and Virginia must
fall before many months unless all human
calculations prove deceptive. Sherman
will take Savannah, and then his restless
energies will doubtless point to Richmond.
Thomas has done ' his work well.; Ten
nessee and Kentucky are safe, an he, too,
will operate directly or indirectly to aid
in the great twork of recovering Virginia
to the Union. For this grand movement
' we have ample numbers ; but new troops
are wanted to garrison the points_now -held
so that the trained veterans cal be thrown
to the'front in the last desperate struggle,
for Civil Liberty on the Continent. Sher
- man wantafresh troops to hold Savannah,
Beaufort and other points now in our pos
sessiOnrmid Thomas wants new men to
hold Nashville, Chattanooga and Knox
ville, so that these two triumphant armies
- earrbe free to move with invincible, crush,'
ing i power upon the army of Lee. For
this reason the call for new troops is wise.
and although it is more than probable that
but few if any of them will ever witness
a general engagement, still.they will play
most important part in the last bloody
act of the great drama of crime.
—The people will do their duty cheer
- fully, nobly, in this matter. Will the go
vernment do the same I If it does not, it
will be without excuse. It may have been
prudent to defer to malignant copperheads
3 heretofore rather than disturb the peace
in certain localities; but it would be sheer
cowardice on the part, of the authorities
now to allow any section to fail in the full
and faithful execution of the law. When
men are drafted, let them understand that
they shall serve; that they shall not desert
with impunity or remain ati home while
their neighbors are drawn to fill their pia
-. "s. Let every district understand that
the country has resolved to preserve its
own life, and that every citizen shall dis
charge his whole duty in the sacred work.
Let citiesknow.that the farce of fictitious
credits is ended, and that deference to
rowdies, cut-throats and rioters belongs
to the past, and we shall have a prompt
filling up of our ranks; justice wili . be
done alike to faithful and faithles:4laud.
300,000 men will reach the army
—We entreat the government to aban
don its vicious, denioralizing system of Al
- lowing men to be sold like sheep in the
shambles as heretofore. hints exhausted
the people of Pennsylvania fully - sixty
millions during the last two years. and
without material benefit to soldiers or
thekfamilies.; and it has given birth to
swarms of bounty-brokers and bounty
jumpers who have swindled the govern
ment out of 'tens of thousands of
We beg the authorities to understand that
'wealth should not afford immunity from
the demands of this war, and, let every
district be required to furnish its quota
from its own men.- This will be-- just to
all—it will break up the whole tribe of
vampyres who have fattened on the gov
ernment and soldiers, and will give an
honest return of men from every district.
•This done, the citizens of each district can
• make provision for the families of tlalir
' own soldiers, without overwhelming them
• selves with debt, and all will go well with
' the country and its heroic people.
THE ABANDONMENT OF SLAV-COI
The leading conspirators of the South
are abOut convinced that they have made
war to preserve the dominion of Slavery
only to reap its total annihilation. Nor
are. they of tliik hind who have eyes hut
Ree not, such as*e have in our midst in
the Noith. Scein`g-that slavery is but a
!nighty suicide, they accept the truth and
stand aside - to allow the irresistible march
of Progreso" Pim; them by. Several of
the rebel Governors have openly advised
the ftleeing of their Slaves with the hope
of inducing them to accept military ser
vice in behalf of Davishe tottering fortunes of
treason. Jeff. i gravely discusses it
iratis late message, and the rebel congress
is as much distracted by this ever disturb
ing question as our congress was in days
of Southern ation in oar National
legislature. 4ven. Gen. tee, the careful,
prudent,• brave soldier; upon whom the
last shadow of the fading confederacy de
pends, now asks, in despair, that the ex
periment of freeing and arming the slaves
be made.
Thus have the leaders of crime deter
mined to abandon Slatery, the author of
this wicked, desolating war, and shall the
North still cling to the dead body after it
has drenched our fair lankin blood and
is now in the last violent throes of death?
Union men will not do so ; but *Fang De
mocrats will, although the shrelider lead
ers are_about to follow the rebel leaders
and' surrender Slavery' to its inevitable
fate. The New York World, confessedly
the ablest Democratic organ in the coun
try, thus exhorts its party to appreciate
the duties of the present and not stand
blindly in the why of enlightened progress.
It tags:
" One reason why the thoughts of a party should .
be turned into this channel-is that it involves
questions which cannot grow obsolete With the
lapse of time, while some of the issues in the late
election may. Before another Presidential Elec
tion the Abolition question, for example, will pro
bably be in such a state that past ideas will not ap
ply.— As the problem advances toward its prede
termined solution, we shall see public opinion
more - and more disposed to acquiesee,in the mani
fest tendency of events. Before the dxpiration of
its new lease of power the Republican party will
have secured a constitutional amendment for the
entire extirpation of Slavery in the United States.
If the South should, meanwhile, gain its indepen-.
deuce, Slavery can no longer be a question of
Federal politics; but if we disarm Southern re
sistance, the anti-Slavery amendment will have
been put in force and have done its work before
the Democratic party can be in power. irhy
should the party bind itself to a dead corpse
" Unlestrthe Democratic party is blind enough
to run the hazard of disintegration, it must dis
tinguish between questions virtually settled and
questions that still remain open. It must so fhr
keep pace with events as to accept their logic.
Public opinion has no efficiency without political
combination; but for masses large enough totem
a majority to act in concert, thought must be left
free on all questions save those_ which rank - as
living vital issues. The number who opposes the
, Abolition of Slavery (now a minority) is not likely
to grow larger, but to grow less, with the progress
of time. Every Democrat can, of course. hold
whatever opinion be chooses on that subject.
Such opinions are no longer of the slightest politi
cal consequence. Individual Democrats will think
what they please ; but the subject must be dis
missed from the range of topics on which the. party
is expected to have distinctive views. There is
no conceivable position on the Slavery question
on which the Democratic party can plant itself and
beeeine a majority. Its antecedents and associa
tions, as well as its respect for the Constitution as
it stands, forbid it to become an Abolition party ;
the progress of events and the tendency of public
opinion, as well as the Constitution in the form
into which it is certain to be amended, forbid it to
commit itself to the fortune of a moribund institu
tion."
Commenting on the foregoing extract
from the World, the Tribliqe pertinently
sass:
" Whatever may be said of the morality or chi
avlry of the above extract, iti,sagacity is undeni
able. Slavery is in the article °Heath ;it would
be rather a good joke if the rebels should get rid
of it before we do ; but they are very likely to do
it. And, once fairly coffined, it will have a smaller
and dryer-eyed following of 'mourners than any
illustnous criminal who has preceded it on the
way to the house appointed for all the living'
Thousands shallowly presume that the South is a
unit in fanatical devotion to its giiint curse ; when,
to say nothing of theiregroes, there never was a:-
time when a very large proportion of the Southern
whites, including their wisest and best, did not
feel and know that Slavery was , their bane and
curse. But the ,laveholders held the reins of
power; they could and did smother expression but
not thought so the car of Juggernaut rolled on,
user pro4trate,erushed, inwardly shuddering while'
,volubly adoring multitudes. Slavery once admit
ted to be dead. the secrets of that giant prison
house will be revealed, and thou Sands will learn
that those IN hoin they have regarded as idolators
cf the Southern Moloeh, were at heart its deadly
foes all along.
"No sane person ever can have believed Sla
very in accord with the Golden Rule, but millions
have fancied it personally advantageous. dine
derived a pecuniary profit from their relation to
.it; ()then deemed it the ladder whereOn they
climbed to social eminence. It was on this ground
that the Southern women became more fanatical
, in their dovetail; to it than their husbands and
brothers; women being, as a class, more aristo
cratic—that is, placing a higher value on social
distinetion—than men. It is quite probable that
the since' est and most persistent contemners of
Emancipation will be found among the white half
sisters of those whom it makes free. But. Sla
very once dead. the great hulk of our native-born
doughfaces will protest that they never believed
'in nor favored it—that they only stood up for the
Union and the Constitution. AO, so that we
have Freedom, Union and' Peace, we shall not be
inclined to controNert their assertions on a point
hich will have 'become wholly immaterial."
prisoners reeeived,from Elorenca
and Columbia are in as bait a condition as those
friOn Ander-ouville, Millen and the Libby. They
were guarded at Columbia, in the prison pen, by
a line of sentries and a pack hf bloodhounds.—
Lieut. G. F. Turbayne, 66th New, York, was
shot dead by a seatinal within the line preilcribed
as the dead line," and Lieutenant Young, of
the 4th Pennsylvania: cavalry, was shot dead
while sitting at the camp fire. Thcprisouers
were totally shelterless, their only protection
being.thc pine rrces v, hick 'surroundeirthe prison.
Not an onnee of neat was issued from Septem
ber 27th up to the time '(Decembei• 9th,) when
the pri-oneis lett camp. The usual-daily ,allow
;lnce of ran locs consisted of one pint of ungifted
cornmeal, one halt pint of sorghum molmises, one
truth oes pint of rice. one fourth of a tablespoon
ful ot'sult, :old rometiines about onoe fifth of a pint
of shorts, or of bad dour.
WE are ind,:hted to Hon. (4. W. Seofiold fOr a
eupr of th,• law of the !wit Congr,..4.
iVE :are indr•btrd to Hon. C. R Bitekak•x for
entj
Tut Befltor.l Patriot Mon been uniti 7 ii with the
Inquirer. move.
HoN.JANN W. FORNEY has our Run: for
doconnouto:
WASHINGTON
The POI4IIIIIIIC Blockaded with lee—Arrl•
val of Union Primonerse—Aceldent in
the Government Printing 4ißlce—Con.
gress Agionrned over the Ifo!Mast—
Resolution Requiring Chilterns of -Me
Dbstriet of Columbia to Take the Oath.
C. r..•: ~,,lei. of the FranklittliAlusitory ,
rIV/0,11LN131 - ON Cll Y, Dee. Z.S, 1)=1--A1
• t ' ur ,qd weather still continues aid increases
' , everity each day. The, Nikolaus, between
here sad Alexandria, is so full of ice that nas iga
thus hit , . been suspended. The, steamer Daniel
Webster frosts City Point, with snails and pas,en
gers, stuck fast in the ice opposite Gieshoru Point
yesterday, and was still ice• bound this tbrenoon
with the snails and passengers aboard. Tugs arc
at work to relieve her. A transport with 900
soldiers is also fast, and as the men are without
N umgiegt shelter, great suffering prevails.
There has arrived nt Annapolis from the rebel
prisons at Andersrville, Florence, Charleston,
and Savannah, 10,032 enlisted men, and 211 offl-;
cars. This is the number declared by rebel stir
genus as unfit for duty for sixty da}s. Twenty
per cent. of the officers and men will never be fit: .
for duty in the field again, and over five hundred:
have already died in our own hands. Thp coml,
missionera of exchange have collected .evfilence
shdwing the most cruel and inhuman treatment
to our brave men, surpassing tujOing of thprlind
that any civilized nationhaseier perpetrated since
th e wor ld began, and it is the result of a pre
Orirrimklin 'Rep ast:it% ttiambersbuq,
meditated determination of Jeff Davis to destroy
as nutty of our prisoners as possible;
Yesterday morning a steam pipe on the third i
story of the government printing office bunted,'
with a load noise. A large number of girls are
employed in that story, folding documents, &c.,
who, hearing the noise and seeing the steam, sup
posed the boilers in the press-room had bursted.
A stampede for the stairs took place, some faint
ing and others tumbling - pell-null over them and
down a flight of stairs to the next story, where
the men are at work. who seeing such a confused
mass of hoops and crinoline descending fromabove,
came to the conclusion that Gabriel had bloWn
his trumpet, and made a break for the windows
or the next story below. Some went to praying
and others to embracing, preparatory to a long
farewell for " tother world." Out of the hun
dreds that reached The outside of the building,
there were some severely injured in the tumble
doWn stairs. Ou the pavement, which was co.
vered with ice, a no less ludicrous scene followed,
of heels' up and heads' down, and a regular mix
up, in which some of the girls lost their under
skirts and others their what-is-it, which article,
when picked up by the gentlemen, was disowned
by the fair ones. - The whole thing was a scare,
.which might have resulted in hiss of life.
As Congress adjountedyestereay for two weeks,
there has been a regular stampede of everybody
who can get away--leaving us with a fair pros
pect of dull times during the holidays. As many
of the • representatives left on Wednesday, the
House was yesterday without a quorum, and no
business was none. Very little was done during
theweek and but few speeches made. Senator
Far Well, of Maine, delivered a capital off-hand
speech on the shipping interests as affected by the
war. Senator Farwell is one of a family of
twenty-six children, by two mothers, fourteen of
whom are boys, and none of them weigh less than
two hundred pounds, nor are below six feet in
height. His father is ninety-four years old.
Senator Harlan introduced a resolution which
was passed, requiring all persons resident of this
district to take the oath of allegiance, and prohib
iting any one from doing business who does not
do it. This judicious order, as might be suspected
by any one cognizant of the rebelliouFstate of so
ciety now and heretofore existing in this District,
makes the rampant rebels squirm like eels in hot
grease. Some of the women—spitefidlittle vix
ens—turn up their noses and publicly declare they
'would sooner swallow a dose of salts than take,
what they call, the ,hateful oath of allegiance
The Georgetown women are more enraged about
this order than those of Washington. In Wash
ington a'majority of the old residents are secesh,
but in Georgetown nearly all are.
The secesh element of the city is considerable
chop-fallen, since the news from Sherman and
Thomas is of such a nature as to leave but little
hope of the. rebels being able to hold out more
than a fer, months more.
HARRISBURG
The 'New Legislature—New Senators—Old
Senators in the House—Death of Dr.
Reed—Hon. A. G. Olmstead—The Koontz
and Coffroth Case. •
Coireriponelertee of the Frankliu 'Repository
HARRISBURG, Dec. 46, 18G
The new legislature will meet here on Tuesday
of next week, and by the last of the present week
the capitol will be crowded with members and
the usual assortment of hungry expectauts for the
subordinate places in' the two Houses. There
will be no serious contest on the question-of or
ganizatiOn in either branch. Senator Turrell will
be re-elected Speaker in the Senate, and Hon. A.
G. Olmstead. of Potter, will be chosen to fill the
Hancock chair in the House. It is perhaps not
generally known that the chair used by the Spea
ker of the House is the same one in which John:
Hancock sat as presiding officer of the t'ontinon
tal Congress, when the Declaration of Indepen
dence' was signed—but so it is. They must have
made good chairs in those days, for it is still the
best chair in the House.
The new legislature will be one of rather more
than average ability. The new Senators bring
(piite a good share of talent into that body. Of
these Clymer. of Berke, enters his fifth Session,
and is now confessedly the leadeir of his party.
On the other side is Hall, of Blair, wain served
three years before, and was Speaker in lE6'2;
B r igham, of Allegheny, who has served a number
of years in the House, and Haines, of Perry, who
vas in the House in l 8 3-6; all men of ability
and legislative experienet. But three of the re
tiiiug Senators have been re-elected—Clymer, of
Berke, Donovan. of the city, and Lowry, of Erie;
and Royer, of Montgomery ; James, of Bucks ;
Shall, of Lehigh; Randall, of Schuylkill, and Walls,
of Union, have never served in eithhr branch.
About forty of the members of the last House
are re-elected, and Messrs. McClure, of Franklin;
Donnelly of Philadelphia, and Hoffer of Lebanon,
were members some ears ago. Three ex-Senators
also appear-in the House--Mesers. McClure
Of Franklin; Guernsey, of Tioga, and Ilaslett, of
Butler. Dr. R. R. Rea, of Washington, one of
the leading merabers of the last House, and re
elected last fall, died last week of mall-pox. He
was formerly a member of Cougrese;and was as
widely respected as he was known.
Hon. A. G. Olmstead, of Potter, !he next speak
er of the HOuse, is one of the ablest men in either
branch. He is serving the third sear. He is a
large, stoutly built loan. over six feet high, with,
fine head, heavy black whiskers and moustache,
and finely effieled face. He is not a frequent
speaker, but is one of the few who generally has
a respectful bearing when he has any thing; to say.
He will make a very-acceptable and impartial
'presiding officer. Mr. Brown, of Warreffi was
speken of for the speakershipiiorne tune ago; but
he will not as things look now be seriously press
ed. There will be very few changes Wally, in the .
subordinate places in either branch. ,
You have doubtless Seen Mr. Meredith's opinion
in the Koontz and ebtfroth care, by which both
are exeluded from the proclamation. This will
not in any way effect the prompt admission of
Gem. Koontz into Congress. Indeed, the only
-Mem\ returnee he will suffer by it, is the depri
s:ation of tht4ranking privilege from thelth of
March next until dongre,s• meets. Itt every
other respect he is the Congressman of the dis
(Doi. HORACE.
SI:iOMARY OF WAR NEWS
- Threes are oil on another raid in
the Shenandoah vanity. The Richmond papera
ht the 11.441 Fay that the cavalry hal,;. arriNf-d at
Court-house, anti are moving on Cor
41onaville.
-4 ;wit. Thnman in said to he at Cohuuhia,
and the latent dinpatehes from there re-efftrul thLit
Hood cannot mold extermination. His army is
broken down. despondent and defeated, and de
nertions occur
—The Senate Military Committee reported ad
vereely onthe - Houge bill digmiesing Unemployed
General's, on the ground that the Sedretary of
War has sufficient authority already to clear the
wheneer theie is cause for eo doing
Porter Butler expedition, according to
Richmond papers of Saturday, appeared oft Wil
inington, N. C., on Friday: The information bi
-from an official dispatch from Gener \ al Bragg.
Secretary Stanton telegraphs that the govertmient
hag received no other intelligence,
—Porter'sireat armada arrived at Beaufort, N.
ou the morning of the 15th inst. During the
passage from Hampton Roads a 'severe gale was
experienced, and in it the monitor Mahopae sprang
a leak, and was with difficulty kept .. afloat. , The
iron.elads were coaling it last aeeonnts. and It
soon as the weather moderated the expedition
would proceed to its4estinatton.
•
- —A special dispatch dated near Columbia, Dec.
23, announces a victory .oyer General Hood by
Hatch's division, capturing 15 guns, 42 wagons,
10 ambulances, prisoners and 3 division 'ht.
tle flags. His , loss in the fight was 400. Hood's
pontoon equippage was captuaed. His cavalry
luive abandoned most of their wagon trains.
-
4- , ZA.n.ilfinoisisoldier, who escaped from Millen,
Ga., on tie 15th of November, afterward visiting
Savannah, and finally reaching the Union fleet
betwien that_ city and Charleston, has arriied
home, and says that their are loyal men in Savan
nah. He found there a Union League in' actual
operation, and received aiStallee from its mem
lx,rs, without which he would not have been. able
to effect his escape.
—The officiab reports of the Commissioners.,
who hhve been conducting the recent exchanges
off Charleston rind Savannah will AIM that not
twenty per eenti of the otffeers and men will ever
be fit for duty 'hi the field again, and that five
hundred have diftdsince they have been turned
over-to us. Evidence of the mostincoritroverti
blekind shows ,that this treatment is the result
of a premeditated determination ;on the part of
Jeff Davis to destroy our prisonerk.
• —The Governor General of Canada has had
several of the rebel, raiders re-arrested, and they
are now undergoing examination prior to extradi
tion. A special messengei from Secretary 5.:1%-
ard had arrivedlat Quebec. A good ,understand
big has been reached by our government with
that of Canada. The Canadian Adininistratii.n"
is discharging its obligations to us. There is a
strong detective force along the border. and the
remaining rebels are expected to be taken soon.
- 1 1 t is understood • that the last steamer from
New York, Saturday hest, took out to Minister,
Adams a very emphatic protest agaimitthe'sAion
of The Canadian Judges, from the State Depart
ment at Washington, and couched in such terms
as must compel Her Majesty's Ministers
assume the responsibility or disavow it in toto.
The news of our recent military , successes, H is
believed, will have a wonderful ihfluenee - in
incli
ning them to the latter, -
—Gen. Thomas' headquarters were at Spring
Hill, on the Tennessee and Alabama Railrohd,,in
ManiT, county, sixty miles south of Nashs ille, ou
the 19th. Hood was crossing Duck river, a tri
butary of the Tennessee, whOse affluents inclose
Spring Hill. Our wounded at Franklin have been
re-captured, with some of the rebel wounded.
We have captured sixty-one guns *dm Hood and
more are constantly arriving. Forrest lost 1300
killed and wounded in his attack on Murfreesboro.
The rebels are wholly demoralized and have
hardly any artillery left.
—Nashville dispatches report the iebel in full
retreat./ Franklin is said to be lull of rebel 0110-
ded, over 3000, having been left there. Thoina ,
is pursuing the enemy to - Duck river. Near'y all
of Hood's- artillery has been captured: also 91551
prisoners, including four major general,. For
rest was repulsed at Murfreesboro,' on the 13th.
Breckiuridge has been rotted in East Tennessee .
by Stoneman, and most of his artillery and a large
number of men were, captured. Gen. Ed. Me-
Cook is after Lyon in Kentucky.. I . ltrfreeshore,'.
Bridgeport, Stevenson', Chattanoil and Knox
ville are all safe.
DE
PERiSONAI..
—W. M. Kerr, President'of the IfarriNburg
Bank; died in that city ou Sunday week.
—John M. Wood, formerly a member of leon
green from Maine, died at the Revere'liouse;Bos.!
ton, on Saturday; of lung fever.
—The President has signed the bill creating the
grade of Vice Admiral, in the navy, ranking with
Lieutenant General in the army. Rear Admiral
Fartagut was nominated to the new grade, - and
approved without reference to a committee.
—Samuel J. Rea,-an old Harrisburg corres
pondent for the city press, and - clerk of the House
in 1859, died last week at the residencit of his
brother in Beaver county. He leaves , a;'Vvidow,
who is an authoresdof some note and a contribu
tor to various publications.
—Cot. Dick White, of the 55th Regt. P. V., is
at home, in Indiana county. The 'Register says
that his trial by court martial resulted in, his hon
orable acquittal. He was charged with having
defrauded 'soldiers., Of their bounty money. He
will join his regiment in a few weeks.
-:-The_Hon. James Speed, of Ky.. recently ap
pointed Attorney General of the• United States,
is not only a lawyer. of eufinence; but has Tong
been distinguished among the eminent men of his
own State. As early 'as 1849 he was a leader of
the small party which endeavored to make ICen
tacky a free State. Once then he has been de
voted to the practice Of his profession. Tlie;sin
cerity of his anti-slavery opinions is shown by his
voluntary emancipation of his own slaves about
three years ago. Long before the war began he
understood the plot of the' Secessionifts, and de
voted his influence to its exposure and defeat. In
1861, Judge Speed was influential in defeating
the neutrality policy the Secessionists of the State
endeaviired to establish, and one oCcasion display
ed great courage in attending a 'fleeting of dis
loyal KentuCkians, unfurling with his ,own hand
the flag of the Union, and arousing the enthusiasm
of the people. To him, and men of his like spirit,
Kentucky owes her escape from the conspiracy
to drag her into open rebellion; His appointment
is an assnrance that the duties of this important
office sv ill be ably and faithfully performed. Judge
Speed is about fifty years of age:,
—We regret to learn, by the steamer Cuba,
that the Hon. Wm. Lewis Da} ton, U. S. Minis
ter to France, died at Paris, on the id instant,
(If apoplexy. Mr. Dayton was a native,of New
`Jersey. He• was the son of a fanner, and nut
born at Biskingrage. He graduated at Prince
ton College, and soon, after he an the study of
law. In 1837 lie was elected a Member ol the
Senate of New Jersey and was appointed chair
man of Committee. In 18,tn. lie
was chosen as an Assiatiate Justice of the Su
preme Court of the State, which Ace he held
until 1841. On the decease of Hon. S. L. South
ard, U. S. Senator• from New Jersey he was ap
, pointed by the governor to fill his unexpired term.
Subsequently he was elected for a bill term, and
served until 1851. In 1856 he was nominated
for Vice President, by tile National Republican
Convention; gen. John C. Ft : outwit having i)(4.1.1
nominated fin. President. On the accession of
the present Federal Administration, Mr. Dartoit
was appointed iNlini•ter t r o France, which office
he filled ably, wisely and d•ith great dignity tip to
the time of his death.
rouTicAL INTELLH:ENCE
—The Nevada State ailverunwnt \vas halugu
rated tin the sth.
—Line°la'm majority in the State o . l.)lNeouri
will.reach turty thouhandi
—The L•'ltictoral College Loilisiima met On
the 7th iuet.,•and cast the ote of the State
Lincoln and Johnson.
—Cen. Gilman Marston and, EdWard H.
line the 'NMI' nominees for CoMzress in two
of the CongrMisional gtriets of NPR llanMshire.
—Gen. ,Ttinws W. Nye lias been elected-one:of
the United States Senators front the new State
of Nevada. Mr. William M. Stewart is his Sen
atorial colleague. Mr.. NIL! t as appointed. by
President Lincoln Governor of the Territory of
Nevada, and held that position until the inaugu
ration of the State Government
THEE KOONTZ AIM COFFROTH CASE,
Eon: Wm. M. Meredith, Attorney General of
the State, has filed the following opinion with the
Governor in the matter of, the contest- between
Gens. Kraintz - and Coffroth to be proclaimed le,
gally returned as elected to Congress from'thl
district. It will be seen that Mr. Meredith de
cides, both returns to le tandly defeetiveMr.
Willadiu,.although legally'eleeted on the first day
of the meeting of the retort' j'ad'e. having twit
discharged hy the subsequent election of Mr. La- ,
her and t - 10 delivery of 'the return( of Franklin
comity to him. This teat eklaidb candidates with
out a.legal return, lint the Attorney General in no
settee pretends to debtrulimj the merits of the con
test—the Executive being' precluded, oaf( purely
ministerial officer, from going behind the record
in tint matter. = The result will be the admission
of Gen. KooutzL in Congress—he having a clear
majority of the whole vote east, and we hazard
little in saying that he will net er be 'disturbed by
a contest.
Mr. Mereditll*F opinion is north} of himself and
his great reputation, and will be accepted by both
parties as a 'true iuterpretation of the law. The
fact that be has in two instances decided against
proclaiming candidates as elected far tvhdin he ;
Would,doubtless have Noted had he resided in
et
'titer' of their districts, is the best evidence tifitae
is incapable of partizau bias in the diseharge iii
Ids official duties, gad his ;lucid definition of the
powers of return judges shows how shameless
and fraudulent were the actions of the Democratic
judges of this Congressional a"ad Judicial districts.
The followieg is Mr. Meredith's opinion:
Two papers, purporting to he returns of the re
cent election in the Eith Congressional District,-
have been seat tai the Sieretary' Of the Common
'wealth. The Dieriet is composed of the, rive
counties of Adams ! Franklin, Fulton, Bedford
and Somerset. One of these papers is signed by -
Mut persons; viz: Meakrs. Mann, of Bedford
eunty : Laker, of Franklin: Winter, of Fulton,
and lliehl, of Adams,
styling themselves a major
' ity the return judges elected by the several
!wards of the Ire judges of the above named
eeunties ; and t paper goes on to state that they
examined and Emulated-the votes cast for Congress
iu the district, and that Messrs. CofTroth cad
Koontz bad each a specified number of votes in
the respective counties or Adams, Bedford, Frank
lin, and Fulton, and that Mr: CoffrOth, having a
majority of the votes cast as counted before
the board, is declared duly and legally elected.—
It is further stated in the papr! that Somerset
waviet represented by a jud g e. ur otherwise, in
the board, and that notice of th time and place
of meeting was giVen to the return -judge elected
from Somerset, ho was iu the borough of Chum
bersburg (where the meeting was held) on the
day of meeting.
The other paper is signed by five persons-, vit.: -
Messrs. Will of Somerset county; Cart, of
Adams; Wilhelm, of Franklin : Wader, of Ful
ton. and Peck, of Bedford, styling themsehes as
iMing appointed return judges of the election held
Is The several counties composing the 16th Coll
;2ll,lsioll4.lDiAtriet, viz: Adams, Bedford, Frank
hn. Felton and Somerset. The paper noes on to
state that having carefully examinkal the returns
' the said several districts, and added together
the Notes therein contained, according ttelaw,
fee certify that Messrs. Koontz and Coffroth
laid each a specified number of , voles in the res
pective counties of Adams, Bedford, Franklin,
,Fultou and Somerset, and declare that
"Mr.
IKoonth, hkving received the greatest number of
'legal votes, is duly elected. Both' the bodies
elaiming to he district returnjudges met on the
day mid at the placed fixed by law.
The respictive candidates having requested a
hearing, were heard by themselves and counsel,
and evidence was received on the question, Who
were the return judges of the district t This ev
idenceleft no material question 'of fact iu doubt,'
antithe result may 'be briefly stated thus: Mr ;
Willi,was the regularly selected district,rethru
judge'for Somerset, and Mr. Winter for Fulton.
All the signers, of the .respective papers were
among the county return judges of their respec
tive counties. „Messrs. Diehl, of Attains, anti
Mann, of Bedford, were \ selected as district re
turn judges, by the majority of tiM return judges
of 'their respective _counties, after the minority
had withdrawn in consequence of diE , 3ll64ltetiell
With the proeditr i gs of the majority Messrs.
Cart, of Adams, and Peck, of Bedford, were se
• leafed as district return judges, by the minority
of the return judges of their respective counties,
after the withdrawal abate stated. Mr. Wil
helm, of Franklin, vas selected as district return
judge by the return judges of that county, at their
first meeting, and of course before the soldiers'
rvotehad been counted. Mr. Laker. of ,the same
county, was selected by the return judges of the
comity, at their last meeting. and after the sol
diers' vote had been counted. At that meeting,
upon the suggestion of one of the clerks, Mr. Wil
helm; who was president of the board, stated
that he had been informed that the selection ola
district return judge, before all the votes,had
• been counted, was illegal:- upon which ti motion
way made and .' rriedte proceed to a selection.
- The vote, ken and Mr. Laker had a ma
jerity, anti t e returns were accordingly, placed
in his charge. Mr. Wilhelm was nominated, but
had nota majority"" He never resigned the ap
pointment which had already been made, but, no
doubt. under the impression that such appoint
ment was illegal—he put the " question on pro
ceeding to a new selection, announced the'result,
and as president signed a certificate, under seal,'
cifMr. Laker's seleeitou as district return judge.
,On, this state of facts the Governor has reques
ted Lily opinion on the question, Which of the two
candidates ought to be proclaimed by him as hay
fug been returned as elected?
a recent opinion I have stated my reasons,
which need not be here recapitulated, fur arriving ;
at the eonelusion that the Governor has no right ;
to go behind the returns for the purpose of en- ,
nuking into their correctness—that his funetiens,
in regard to them are strictly ministerial.
In the present instance it happens (it is be-4
lieved for the first time) that two different bodies'
of men, each claiming to be the board of district
return judges, present papers which they style
returns of the election. The Governor is of
course compelled "to endeavor to ascertain, by
evidence as can- be had, which of these pa
pen is ssgnedby thd law ful distriet return judges,
,just as eery ministerial officer is bounty to satisfy
himself of the authenticity or -- an official paper,
on whteh he is requited to act. •
It is well established that (utiles§ otherwise
; expressly provided) an authority of a public mt..'
ture, conferred oe three or more persons jointly.
maybe executedly a majority of a meeting law
fully held. and of which all have had legal no
tice, and that the meeting and proceedings off
such a body tie presumed to be regular; in the
aleence of•proef to the contrary. But a minor
ity of such a Iledy cannot, by withdrawing (for•
whatever reason) from the majority and proceed
ing to act intlepeudently, vest in themselves the
• autherity \shit-hi the law has conferred on the
Whole, mei permits to be exereised by a majority
a- above stated.
:rho vloctimi law be 1‘ 4 3:1 provides that
I\ faun twii or 'woe eigudies shall compose a MS
triet for the elimee of a member of Congress; rho
judges of the election in each cennly, hawing met,
ti o. clerk , sisdl make 001 a fair stemma of till
the Votes which shall have been giving at such
election, which shall he signed by said judges and
attested by the clerks, and that (pm of the said
judge; shall take , eharge of such eertiticate, sad
shall produts , the stun. , at a inis‘ting of one judge
from each count). •
Keeping iu view- the principles" above stated,
' which. are of umtersal acceptation. the minorities
of the Judi.. Adams and haul
nw authority to' appoint elerks ~r ea - me'votes;to
be added . rip. or ,c'an'e' to lie nimbi out ,ocin
fine to 15 15 to any° , Elio funetiols of the, b o dy o f
count judges of the election. Tee (mambo:ion is
inexitahle that Mes-r;. Call, of Athens and
Peek,' oh Befitted. he claimed to act as ji'ages
from these miunta-i'ai the meeting of tom Otte
iron, each' county: and ' , regent returns made teal
aignigt minorities %sere not entitled 1.0 10
net, nor could the referus which they presented
he legallj received.
The law. as has been semi, require- that the
certitivate having beers' made out by the eler:ls,
l all be .signed by the - county judges of the (gee
ing'. It of course, in the possession and under
the contend of the body wf Suds judges when .ns
,entbled areordeig to law. Of etiarse that lkuly.
must Peet it to played in the charm( of -- Ib e
m e mber e limn a inejol it ) nay de-ignate, to:at
tend the meeting ot.one judge from each county,
and pi esent if to that meeting, and auusist in Mak
ing 'llo' the returns uuf didriet. f eau seri no
grimed for the assumption that a judge cannot be
designated Mr thr,e puipi,,e,, just as lawfillty
before
.the certnieute has, been made out and
signed as afterwards: and therefore I conceive
that the selection of Mr. Wilhelm was entirely' -
legttl.
Bettina selection dlid not constitute him
tho holder of an officer. Ile was ratter a com
mittee of one, to perform certain ; duties, But,
whether lie be styled an officer or n committee,
1 .- in my opinion the subsequent seleetton of 'Mr.
Laker, and the actual placing of the certificate in
his charge, completely discharged -Mr. Wilhelm
and overrodeliia appointment.
The result is that of the five persona who have
signed the papers stating Mr. Koontz to be elec
ted, three had no legal authority to actin the ca
pacity which they assumed, and lam therefore
of. opinion that the Governor ought not to base
his proclamation on that paper as a return.
In regard to the other paper, it is signed by four
persona' who appear to have been legally,desagnu
red by the judges ' election in their respective
counties. The jud e from Somerset, though] he
et ,
had notice. neglect 1 or refused to attend the
meeting. or at any rate failed to attend -it. The
duty of the four judges who did attend is clearly
pointed out by lan. It was to "cast up the seve
ral county returns and make duplicate returoS ot
all the
_' Votes given,' for the office in the district,
"aml,of the name of the person elected." Instead
of doing this, they omitted to count the vote of
ScenerSet, apparently by reason of the non-attend
ance ot the gdge from that county. 'lt has been
suggested that as they had not those returns they
could not count them, which is very true. But
duplicate originals were accessible iu the office ot
the i'rothonotary of Somerset county, and it was
their duty, if necessary, to refer to them. They
could nut, of course, have obtained them on the'
same day, but though the law fixes the day of
their pieetiug, it was perfectly logal for them to
adjourn it' the -business could not be completed in
one day, and I think it NVIIS, undoubtedly their du
ty to do so. 'That the non-attendance of a judge
should tie held to infer the disfrauchisementof the
county from which he comes, when duplicate
originals of the returns which he failed to produce
were easily attainable by a short delay, would be
intolerable. -
The act of 1839 provides that the judges shall
make returns of "all the given for such of
fice in said district, and of the name of the person
'or persons elected," and further provides - that it
shalt be the duty of the Governor, on the receipt
of the returns of the election as afdresaid, "to de
clar6 by proclamation the names of the persona so
returned as elected in the respective district :" that
is to say, returned as elected in a return which
also purport, to return all the votes given for of
fice in the di.striet.-
The paper in question does not purport to re
turn all the votes given for the office in the district.
It shows on its face that the vote of one county
in the district was not counted, and therefore that
the kid geshad hot before them the means of know
ing was elected—and indeed the return 80)-
st:int - hal); is, that Mr. Coffroth bad a majority "of
all the dt os cast as counted before the board,"
(that is to say, of the votes iu four out of five
countleS which composed the district,) and there
fore is duly elected. This return is so essentially
detective that I conceive it to be no return at all,
and am of opinion Mak the Governor ought not to
INVOc his proclamation on it as a return.
I regretted to observe on the argument ;that it
%lap: stated by the counsel of Mr. Koontz, that all,
the illegality. irregularity and confusion !which;
hai - e :mended the returns from this district, arose
mitre the action of a majority of the judges ofelec
lion in Adams, Bedford, and perhaps ,one other?
eouuty, in illegally' throwing out parts of what are!
called the soldiers' vat's. Their-duty is clearly
defined by law to be to cause the clerks to wake'
out a fair statement of all the votes which shall;
have been given at the election. To usurp the'
potter of throwing,out, at their discretion any
votes so given, is to commit a wilful and grievous'
offence, 141' which, if found guilty by a jury, they,
can be adequately punished. Inconvenience from:,
their illegal course can also be avoided, as t 46.
House, of Representatives has .full jurisdiction
over the election and returns, and may apply 'a
summary remedy if the alleged state of facts,
should be properly substantiated. But as, the
Governor cannot; if satisfied that the offence Mal
been' committed, th rust the offenders into the Peru
itenthiry, and thus, us* the power-of the judl 7
clef tribunals—so neither can he constitute hinr
self a juilge of the election, and,thus usurp the
tiosser of the House of Representatives, which is
the proper tribunal to adjudjcate on it! He has
no more right to put,votes into the county returnis
than the county - judges of election had to put them
out. or to treat as valid the acts of a seceding mi
nority of the - county judges of election, than he
Would have to treat as the not of the House a bill
emanating from a similar see&ling minority of that
body. His duty is'not to thud himself to revolu
tionary action of any kind.' He is-to preserve or
der, not
_to abet contusion. He is to obey the set
o f ARsetnbly. and as no returns have beep presen
ted such ns that act authorizes him to base his
proclamation upon, I am of opinion that he has
no legal course but to state that fact as his season
fur nonleclaring the name of any person to
returnetipl- elected in the 16th Congril
haunt discs- et,
' Surronn ed by the contagious unrest of angry
'and excite passions, and often forced, amid such
surroundings, to act promptly on questions of the
most difficult and delicate character, it may ap
pear to require some moral firmness in the Exe
cutive 'Magistrate to avoid being swept-beyond
the limits of his appropriate sphere. • ,
But it is to be recollected that we have a pop
ular,goverament, and in such time as these, pub
lic confidence, important to evsry government, is
essential to ours.
It appears to me that he mpet be the boldest of
• men, who, being at the head of the Government
' of any one of our States at this crisis, should have
the courage to be feeble and vacillating, regard
less of law, partial in his judgments, usurping in
his practice, and guided by merely personol feel
ings or Irrsonal influence, thus loosening the-strue
tifre of our political fabric, and exposing its very
tbitudations to delapidation.
Klin the other hand, I should esteem him to be
fortunate, will), in such a position, rising to the
level of the occasion, should leave below him all
the turns of ordinary politics, should preserve hie
own calmness during the storms that are raging,
not as lacking emotion, but as feeling' that upon
his calmness may depend the public safety ; who
should combine a thoroughly active, energetic and
loyal administration of affairS, with open fairness
and equity to all, obey himself the law in which
he enforces the,obedience of others, compel the
trust of the honest and truth loving masses of 3.11
parties in his vigor, justice and integrity, and thus,
commanding the public confidence, cause to strike
daily deeper and deeper the roots of authority,
and make threatened. confusion ,and anarchy im
possible by rendering irresistible the just poWer
of government.
1 should esteem him to be fortunate, because--
though his task would not be• easy—when he
should have fulfilled it he would have connected
for all time, his own honor with the history of the
salvation of the Republic.
W. Id. hIEREDrrn, Attorney GeM
' ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE.
Ilarrisburge Dec. 16th, 1869. •
A CALL FOR 300,000 MEN.
WASIILNOTON. Dec. 8.0, 1864.
BY TIIETRESIDEn OF TILE U.yITEU STATES.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, By the act approved July 4th, 1863,
entitled, "An act further to regulate and provide
for the enrolling and calling out of the National
forces, and fin. other finrixotses," it is provided
that the Priisident of the United States may; at
his discretion, at any time hereafter, call for any
number td men as volunteers for the respective
terms of one, two, and three years, for military
service, and that in case the quota; or any part
thereof, - of any town, township, ward of a city,
precinct or election district, or of a county not so
sub-divided, shall not be filled within the space of
fitty days after such call, then the President shall
immediately order a draft for ono year, to fill such
quota or any pact thereof which may be unfilled:
and whereas, by the credits allowed in accordance
with the act of Congress oh the call forfive hun
dred thousand men, madekauly 18th 1864, 'the
number of men to he obtained under that call Was
reduced two hundred and eighty thousand; and
whereas, the operations -of the enemy in certain
States - have rendeted it impracticable to procure
from them their full quotas of troops under Said
call : ant? whereas, from the foregoing causes 'but
two hundred and fifty thousand men have been
put into the army, navy and marine corps under
the said call tit July 16,1864, leaving a deficiency
ofthat call of two hundred and fitly thousand ;
mini therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of
the United Stales of Am - erica, in order to supply
the athresaid deficiency and to provide for castml
ties in the military and naval service of the'Uni
ted States. do issue thi , un call, for three hundred
thousand volunteers to ser e for one, two, or three
years._ '
The quotas of the States, Districts, and Sub
districts under this call. will be assigned by the
War Department through the bureau of the Pro
vost Marshal-General of the United States, and
in ease the quota or any part thereof of any town,
ton teddp, owd. or a city precinct or electioddis
triet. or of a county not so subdivided, shall not
be tilled befdre the 15th day of February, 1865,
then a draft shell be made to fill such quotas or
any part - thereof, under this call, which may be
unfilled on the fifteenth day of February,
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set! my
hand and eaused the seal of the United State's to
he affixed,
s.] Done at the city of Washington, this
19th day of December, in the year of our Lord
one thoterand eight hundred and sixty-jour, and of
the independence of the United Slates of America
the eighty-ninth. . ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President,
Wm. H. SEWARD..BI3CLOtaTy of State.
December 28, 1864
GEN. MERVIN AGAIN TRIUMPHANT;
SAVANNAH IN HIS POSSESSION !
150 HEAVY RUNS TAKEN!
Capture of 33,000 Bales of Cotton!.
ESCAPE OF HARDEE'S MAIN ARMY!
REBEL IRONMLADS BLOWN UP!
13 LOCVMOTIVES HO 190 CARS CAPTURED I
WASRINGTON, Dec. 25-4 i, M.—Major Gen
eral Dix. New• York—A despatch has been reem
ved this evening, by the President, from General
Sherman. It is dated at Savannah on Thursday,
2•? d instant, and announces his ocupation of the
city of Savanhah,. and the capture of one hundred
and tifty iniavy glinf, plenty of ammunition, and
about •45,000 balCq of cotton. No other particu
lars are given.
An official despatch from General Foster to
General Grant, dated on the 22d instant, at 7 P.
Al., states that the City of Savannah was occu
pied by General Sherman - on the Morning of the
21st instant, and that on the preceding afternoon
and night Hardee escaped with the,Litaill body of
his infantry and light artillery, blowing up the
iron clads and the Navy Yard. -.He enumerates
us captured eight hundred prisoners, one hundred
and fifty guns, thirteen locomotives in good order,
one hundred and ninety cars, a large supply of
ammunition and materials of war, three steamers,
and thirty-three thousand hales of cotton.
No mention is made of the present — position of
Hardee' force which had beeuestimated at about
fifteen thousand.
The despatches of General Sherman and Gen
exaLFoster are as follows:
SAVANNAH, Ga., Dec. 22, 1844.--To his Excel
lency President Lincoln :—I beg to present as a
Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with ono
hundred and fifty heavy gnus, and plenty bf am
munition, and also about twenty-five - thousand
bales of cotton4'
(Signed.) ' W. T. Sherman, Major-Gen:
STEAMER "Ci01:10EN GATE," SAVANNAH Env-
ER, Dec. '22, 7P. M.=-To Lieutenant-Genera U.
B.;Grartand muye . :6'eneral H. W. Halleck
Mtve theholior to report that I have just -relmni
ed from General Sherman's Head-quarters in Si
i,aiitth. I send Major-General Gray, of my staff
as bearer of despatches from General Sheinum to
you, and also a message to the President. The
city of Savannah was occupied on the morning of
the 21st. General Hardee, anticipating the eon ,
templated assault, escaped with the main body of
his infantry and light artillery, on the afternoon
and night on the 2Orh, by crossing the river to the
Union causeway, opposite the city.
The Rebel iron-clads were blown up, and the-
Navy Yard burned. All the rest of the-city isin
tact, and contains twenty thousand citizens, who
are quiet and well disposed.
The captures inclUde eight hundred prisoners,
one hundred and fifty guns, thirteen locomotives
in good order, one hundred and ninety ears, a
large supply of ammunition and materials of war,
three steamers, and thirty-three thousand bales of
cift(on, safely stored in warehouses. Ali these
valuable fruits of an almost bloodless victory have
bee '‘ like Atlanta, fairly won. I opened commu
ni .n with the city With my steamers to-day,
eking up what torpedoes we could see, and pass-
Me safely over others, Arrangement's are being
made to clear the channel of all ffbstructions.
•
Yours, &c., T. G. - FosTEFL, Mujor-Geo
LATEST FROM PORTER'S FLEET.
The Richmond pipers of yesterday state thiit
do the 24d instant, twenty-six vessels of the Wil
min!&nexpeditioll had reappeared. The, des
patch—O./General Bragg, as published in the Rich
mond papers, is as follows :
"WitlVttNGToN, N. C., Dec. 23.—Twenty-six
vessele of the Federal Beet reappeared this mom: -
ing. There hac• been on change since my last
despatch." •
This is the latest intelligence received from that
expedition. Eowni M. STANTON,
. .
SLAVES FOR TILE REBEL ARMY.
The Richmond Enquirer of Friday December
15th, in a semi-official editoiial in favor of arming
the slaves, Contains the faring:
"When we supplicate European nations for
help, we must be prepared for to receive it on
their conditions, which will be the abolition of
slavery. If we are prepared to abolish slavery,
it will not be necessary to go to European nations
for protection ; the:y will not only give us recogni
tion with such intervention as will secure nation
ality and liberty."
It goes on to state that Gen. It. E. Leee has
written a letter to W. Porcher -Miles of South
Carolina, Chairman of the House Committee on
Military Affairs, hi favor of arming negroes It
argues that when "Sherman, gets to the coast, he
watarry there only long enough to red and re
cruit his men, and then take shipping for City
Point, to act in the spring as a movable column
upon our lines of communication, and this neces
sitates a like column on our part." -
Continuing in an attempt to show that their
present army is unable to stem the torrent, it
says:
"Shall we prolong the war for the sake of our
negroes? Shall_we sacrifice our children to pre
serve our slaves ! Shall we exhaust our country,
destroy our noble defenders and endanger every
institution ratheri, than test an t experiment that
may give us the means of recruiting our army, or
assuming the offensive, and of conquering a spee
dy peace? Neither rhetoric nor argument nor
authority can determine whether the negroes wilt
make for us faithful soldiers. The experiment
must test and decide this question. Gen. Lee asks
that thii-experiment be made. For us this is
eufficiedt. Never' will we put our prejudices
against his deliberate judgment and advice. ' He
is a trash man thatidoes. Ho is not a wise man
that imposes responsibilities and yet withholds
means for their acecimplishment." -
The Enquirer concludes the subject as follows
"But we bate, detest and despise the enemy far
more.than we love and admire slavepr.. If our
liberties cannot be gained but by the sacrifice of
slavery, we are prepared to make that sacrifice
and to urge tha sacrifice upon our countrymen.
We would not return into the Union if every slave
could be returned. to his master, and if every guar
antee that human ingenuity could devise, were se
cured for the protection of the 'institution.' We
Prefer hberty with free society to re"-union upon
the securest basiii of slavery., Such we believe
to be the sentiment of the people ,Of Virginia; but
we know that great moral doubts beset this ques
tion of arming the negroes, and yet the, experi
ment ought to be' tested, and the fact ascertained.
hether the negroes will make soldiers." ' ,
PEN BSI I. V .tN IA P EMI!, L. — TlrePennaylnitia
Imperial Oil clerk ft now the only certain dividend paring
Oil stock that can be hail at the originalauhscription price,
and it can ho had only for a bow days. Its resources for
monthly diN olends are unequalled by any other Compen,y
now ill the market at cos price, and persons desiring such
investments ehould subscribe promptly. ' , lice $ per -
share. Sulnawiptionii - will be received by 3Telure it
Stoner, 31'I.ellan S...Kimmell, Geo. R. Idessenski - ith.J.
Sharps, Geo. W. Brewer, D. 0. Gehr, John Stewart, T.
Jeff. Sill, Wm. S. Everett and Wm. G. Reed.
See advertisement.
THE Gettysburg Sentinel of last week saps
" We refer uur readers to the advertisemsnt of the Penn
sylvania Imperial Oil .Company. This company was or
ganized in Philadelphia a few days ago, and it Is it . the
hands of some of our most prominent and energetic. citizens.
It will bo observed that the swpital of this company is 81,
000.000, with a reserved capitol of 8210,000, with which to
°panne in the interest of the stockholders. We_belleye
there con be no mistake; in investing in the stock of this
comPar.T... Fee advertisement in to-day's paper.
, •-•
ASTICIf.I. Cim i guaranteed in
minutes, and 'a permanent mere effected by the use of "Cr
HAM'S AstlimA CL itf.." Cases of from ten to twists years'
standing yielkat Gore to its influence. Price eft Sent
pi - KA-paid loan; address, by S. C. UPHAM, "..t' South Eighth
Street, l'hiladeirld.l, PG Circulars sent free. ioct:6-Ztm
THE Perry Freeman nays of the Pennsylvania
Imperial Oil Company :—" We think nes Companyis a
genuine one. We are Eatitied there Is nothing bogus about
the matter."
Secretary of War