Janualy 1-8, 1865. grAnklin - . i ,!.gito,Opxg. LOCAL ITEMS. Goforip*rrm OUR Frames.—The past week has been moat forlorn, the Weather humble; the reaction from the Holidays intolerable, and the taking of stocks and collecting of bills abominable. - Every one is busy but not' making money, and consequently in a bad humor. It is hard to get a civil answer, and the only comfort one has is to make himself, in retaliation, as disagreeable as he possibly can. In the last particular I have sac ' eetided admirably, and should' letters patent ever be issued to any one, your humble servant should receive his pipers and a public dinner. Just ina aging, the kind of witliting , we must have here; first anew, then 'sleet, after that' ice, then rain, da cape . —mnd, artificial lakes, small streams, and occasional ditches; alMost enough to stop au army. Money could be made by an enterprising Yankee, if fie woulitbuy up some.old army pontoons and introduce them here. It is trying to one's tem per tti start out in the morning with his clothes nicely brushed, 'and while standing at a curb, waiting fora chance to cross,' to have a stage ' whirl by throwing up about a quart of liquid mud over hat, face, vest, coat, pants and boots. Nei ther does it add to the sufferers amiability to have the driver in the distance call back, "take care, sir;" and if you are-so unlucky as to fall, no and pities you hi the least. The stage drivers and car conductors - remind me of. McCaualand's men. I would not wonder if some of them are deserters from his army. The other night a conductor of lend me some tobacco. I looked at him in as tomshment, and said enquiringly, "Is it possible that you area conductir• and yet a gentlemin 7" He looked at me with a coraico-puzzled expres sion, saying—"l've just commenced." "Heaven "help-you then," I returned, "you will soon be as bad as the rest." I took his pante and number, and bade him good-bye with a melancholy heart, for I knew he was on the down hill road. An omnibus driver, list week, tried to make me pay my fare Wee, and had it not been for two ladies (elderly) in the stage I would have had my head punchett.my eyes bunged, and my liver torn out and eaten raw, for all this was threatened viva roes. The nap from Savannah of the merchants there sending on money= to 'pay their old de,bta, did expressing ti desire to open new accounts, has Imade quite an excitement in Gotham. Friend Jeff, had better have a horse ready saddled and bridle;,l Yesterday noon I went to my accus tomed dining place, where some 'two hund'red congregate at the same moment, and seeing a • lfitely lOoking black boy, about twelve years old, crying, I asked the proptietor of the home what was the matter with him. He answered that the boy viras a freed alai - e from Beaufort, that he had been sent to - him, and that he intended to send him out on a farm. I walked up to the poor little fello • w, for, like me, he was away from hone; and watched the big tears roll down his sooty face. An involuntary tear Welled up from my heart and fell upon my hand. To my surprise my tear and his looked alike. I left him richer by,five bright, new pennies, and felt myself worth in fee simple, more by five dollars.. Ah, the utter, hopeless loneliness of a poor negro child, on his first arri val in the mazes of New York ! ' I must tell you of a New York trick played on • poor Chambensburg mart who writes for the Rime,o.sirroaY He, had a first-rate Fairchild's gold, sn, but on picking it up one day to write, be foe4d that it was not good. Thinking that some 4feet-snider the warranted ailed it, he took - pod-haste to Mr. F.,. who examined the pen. "Come. come, Mr. -," says Mr. F., " none of your tricks on old hands." "Sir!" exclaimed the complainant with genuine surprise on his honest face. " Why, don't you know," says Mr. F., " that•rhis ain't our make t"—and sure vaggsk . eonpLanterpriaing, /Vow yorker had ez thisigedpens en oar friena's desk. Oh! but this is a wicked world! Wouldn't you like to see that fellow penned up for life It is mean to steal, but to steal a man's capital is too bad. There is an abundance of floating ice on our rivers, and it is almost terrific to feel the progress of a ferry boat through the ice-fields. The huge paddle wheels crunch their irretable way along,.like some of the agree we on..elieved in. Occasion- ally a traveler not aceustened- to the sound will take a seat resting against thefieres in which the wheels revolve, and when the" boat starts and the ice begins to crash *Rhin some two inches . of his back, he gives a jump that would make his fortune on the stage. For the past few days I have made it my special amusement to watch for the jump; and when the jumper happens to be a nervous old lady, then r feel re-paid for my watching. I have had another trip over the Camden and Amboy Railroad, and am 'thankful to report my precious self safe. It is true the door of• my car wouldin dint 'when . open, and when open had to be closed by the combined force sof at least two passengers, and once shut with difficulty, would occasionally _burst open of itself, at one time requiring somebody!s umbrella to keep 4,,,cinsed, and again breaking out as it were in a new and..nnexpected place; but bless you, that Was nothing, it rather amused us, and-' then the .label over-head, " C. & A. 8.. R;C0..," was the subject of many a good joke) Aa nate, one of the seats was broken down, but it answered very well for smile light baggage. I bought a ten cent sandwich, consistingof two wafer-like pieces of bread, between which wag placed a piecti of hog's shoulder so thin as to be transparent, all neatly enveloped in a. piece of whitey-brown paper. Couldn't get a drink of water ? ,and wan obliged , to buy an orange, which proved. , to_ be #oz,en. `,O ! Jersey, Jersey ! By the bye, I ;tried to say soine- thing fumy at my Yankee Presbyterian boarding house a day pr two ago at the tea-table, and 10, the result. The conversation tamed ou the prolific subject of bad boys, and one of the gen tlemen remarked that the worst boys lie ever saw were at Marblehead, where the fathers were en gaged in whaling. I with great modesty suggest. ed that in our part of the country we generally thought whaling good for boys. They all looked at your poor gossip in astonishment, one lady cornmiseratiugly saying—" Mr. didn't say that the boys went 'whaling, but the fathers." Since then ',have preservedvisallen but, dignified silence. NEW Yong. January 14, 1865. LtEtrr. 8. J. DIEK.—We noticed in'onr last issue the death of Lieut. san N erJ. Dick, former ly of litercersburg, in this county. He was cruelly murdered in Nashville by some person unkncwn, evidently for the purpose of robbing him, as a valuable ring and his pocket-book were both gone when he was found: At the time of his death be was Commissary of Musters on Gen. M'Cook's staff, and bad previously served on the stairs of several other Generals. He was a Lieutenant in the reiplar army—in the 18th Infantry; and was urampassed as a bureau officer as well as most gallant in the field. Tho following letter from a brother officer was addressed to his sister in Co lumbus, giving all the particulars known of his death: DEAR Miss DICK t—rou have ere now received (by telegraph) tidings of your brother's death. I need not say to vat bow very, very truly I sympathise with you lit this terrible affliction—those who have suffered can always feel the most Yom brother was always n favorite of mine, end do. &gem stayin Nashville, where we have been detained far the lastlour weeks, I have seen much of him. 'nen we left Columbus, he was on a visit home, bat as boon as he reached Nashville he came to see ; he eat with ris nearly two chatting about everything. I never OM him in better spirits. rHe showed me a ver y & trin e ring, and gave me its history, - Which I suppose you know. -The ntizt_day he called again and told me he was or *red to Lonleville to do some mustering. I think It was 'm next day he started for Lonliwille. Ile called on his svarbsthe depot ; this was the last time I saw him. Ile then had the ring on his finger, and was ID nu* excel • :14mt spirits. On last Wednesday he got back from Louis- Title. The can gotin at 't o'cloc.kin the evening, when he went to the Bewitnee House and took a room. At 9 o'clock be visited Gen. Wilson's Cavalry Headquarters and had a long talk with the blustering officer. Left there in about/tad all hour. : He passeda sentry a few ninnies after, and said to him, "A...c01d night, sentry." A few mo. Meta at*, the gliard heard a pistol . shot and almost im mediately a man ran swiftly past. But a pistol shot is so common en occurrence he thought nothing of it. This was at /0 o'clock. At 11, some gentlemen, fn fag tip to bed, saw some one sitting propped up on the lower step, and upon euardnatien found it was an officer, and dead— shot through the heart. "I was shocked to see in a Louisville paper that it was supposed he had shot himself. Such a thing is absurd, as the pistol was found lying at least half a square from the spot where he was found. I went yesterday to see the 'Mee, and amore lonely spot could not well be found. The step Ito was lying against was a long wooden Hight, and ran up between the brick houses like the stair-case where Collier's wig establishment is in Columbus. "Some one had evidently' - waylaid brut fur robbery, as that ring and his pocketbook were both gone. lam wil ting in the Chattanooga depot, where lam waiting for the cam ; but I knew how anxious you would be to bear all. - 'Truly your friend, CAPT. J.I3tES P. Binh, _ 18th U. S. Infantry.'' DERECTORS ELECTED.—At an election of the National Bank of Chamberaburg, on the 10th inst., the following named gentlemen were elected Di rectors of that iustifution: Win. McLellan, Sam uel M. Linn, Edmund Culbertson, James C. Eye ter, George W. Immel, Wm. L. Chambers and Barnard Wolf. At a meeting of the Board on the 14th, Win. M'Lellan; Esq., was unanimously re-elected President: PERSONAL—Major Frank Hess, 3d. Penn's- Cavalry, , well known to many-of our citizens, passed - through town last week on his way to the front, having been on a short visit to hie home in Fulton county. Major H. entered the service at the outbreak of the rebellion and has been on active duty over since. He was looking remark ably well, considering the many hardships he bas endured. RELIEF OF OUR Crrmua.—Hon. A. H. COI: roth offered a resolution in the House of Repre sentatives on the 11th inst., which was passed, requesting the Committee of Ways and Means to inquire into the expediency of reporting a bill for the relief of the people of Chambershurg: SAWNEE, the little musieta contraband who perambulated our streets for several months after Banks' retreat, and was- taken to New York by Robert Criswell, Esq., is now in the possession of Barnum. PRODUCING OIL COMPArr.—The boob for subscription to the capitol Mock of• this company are still open. It le one of the but, ckeapesrand most anal* pit Stocks now in the market. • The Producing Wells of the Company are sufficient to insure monthly dividend; from the date of the charter, and the prospects for largely increased proiaa are very promising. Subscriptions received by A. IL M'Curzolt, Agent, Cumberland Valley Railroad Office, Chambersbtug, Pa. A SUPERIOR RENtertY.—We can conscien tiotufly recommend to those suffering from a distreasing cough, Dr. Strickland's Mellifluous Cough Balsam. It gives relief, almost instantaneous, and is withal not disa greeable to the taste. There is no doubt but the Mellitiu ous-tougb Balsam is one cf the best preparations in use, and is all that its proprietor claims for it. We have tried it during the past week, and found relief froni a most dis tressing cough. It is prepared by Dr. StricklamPs, No. 6, Ea% Fourth street, _Cincinnati, 0., and for sale by drug t& BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES. From the Medical Direcum of the General Hospital, Benton Bar racks, near St. Louis, March 8,18 V... Messrs. John L Brown & Son, Boston. Mass. "Use of, your fur Ruried and mast servicable ' Prockes' is being made in the hospital of which I have charge,- and with very beneficial and decided results in allaying bronchial irritation and morbid sensitiveness of =mous membrane° of glottis and parts adjacent" ANODYNE CORD/AL, the Mother's Friend and Child's Relief—This valuable medicine is again for sale at MILLER'S NEW DREG STORE, next door west of Brown's Hotel. It is far traperior to all Soothing Syrups, or any other preparation fez children in Teething, Cholic, Diarrhea, or inward pains. GEvivictis & BURKHART have much the birg est and most sallied stock of Store Goods in town. It is impossible in their advertisement to give elist of goods or the prices, but it is their determination to keep np the largest and beg assortment of goods, and to make this the most. desirable place for Family's to deal at in the town. HAM uprooted from low foreheads and all pard of the body by the use Of"EPEIAWS DEPILATORY POWDER." htalled.to and address for $125 by S. C. VP- Rem, 25 South Eighth street, Philadelphia, Pa. (cef-arn BEST early sariettee of fresh Garden Seeds to to be had at eressler's Drug Store. Small Onions will be taken in trade, or bought far oash.,loo Bushels being was ted immediately. RemtntßEß Geiwicks & Burkhart sell none bat the best and purest Spices, and Bating Articles All Spices put up by themselves and ground on theirown milL FOR prime Kerosene Oil, Lamps, Globes, Wicks and Shades, go to Gelwicks & Burkhart, if you want them cheap and good. WE. call i the _attelion df business. men to the 'valuable lot df ground e the Diamond, offered for sale by A.. 7. Miller. GEN: BITTLER'S FAREWELL ADDREBS. The followingis General Butler's farewell ad dress to the army of the James: HEAVES DEPART. OF 'AROMA LEO N. CARAHLtiA, Army of the James, Jen. 8, 1865. 'Soldiers of the Army of the James—Your Com mander,, relieved by the order of the Pretident, takes leave of you. Your conduct in the field has extorted praises from the unwilling. You have endured the privations of the camp and the march without a murmur: You have never failed in attack when ordered. You have stormed and carried works deemed impregnable by the ene my. You- have shown the positions to be so by holding them against his fiercest assaults in the attempt to retake them. Those skilled in war have 'marvelled atthe obstacles overcome by your valor. Your line of works has excited the won der of officers of other nations, who have come taa learn defensive warfare from the monuments of your skilled labor. Your deeds have rendered your names illustribus. In after times your Gen eral's proudest memory will be to say with you, I, too, was of the army of the James." To share inch companionship is pleasure, to partici: pate in,such acts is honor; to have commanded suchlin army is glory. No one could yield with &it regret. Knowing your willing obedience to orders, witnessing your ready devotion of your blood in your country's cause, I have been chary of the precious charge confided tome. I have refusedto order the useless sacrifices of the lives of such 'soldiers, and I am relieved of my com mand. 'he wasted blood of my men does not stain myl garments. For my action lam respon sible to God and my country .. To the Colored Troops of the Array of the James :—ln this army yeti have not been - treated as laborers, but as soldiers. You have shown yourselves worthy of the uniform you wear. The best officers of the Union seek to command you. Your bravery has won the admiration even of those ivbo would be your masters. Your patri otism, fidelity and courage have illustrated the best qualities of manhood. With the bayonet you have unlocked the iron-barred gates of prejudice, opening new fields of freedom, liberty and equali ty ot right to yourselves and your race forever. Comrades of the Army of the James, I bid you farewell—farewell. BENJ. F. BUTLER, Major General. As rifitting addition to the fearful horrors of starvation inflicted upon our prisoners by the Re bel Government, we have now one of their grim jokes. It seems that some of the poor sufferers. worn to Skeletons and suffering ftom the natural weakness of mind which follows such torment, have andertaken to swear allegiance to the rebel Government, in the hopes of getting food enough to sustain life. With a grin of joy that might add ugliness to the face of Satan, the Southeran press brand these poor fellows ha "galvanized Yankeee Any one who has read of the early - experiments • in galvanism, where brute animals at first, and afterward the human dead body, were made by the effect of electricity to perform most startling; and ghastly muscular gyrations, will concede the fitness of the Rebel epithet. Living corpses, brought to the verge of the graVe by a system of deliberate starvation, are mercilessly snatched from the rest for Which they are praying, to form regiments like those which the dead drummer ar rayed for the inspection of the ghost of Napoleon, only to be called, in the heartless sneer of Jeff Davis, "galvanized Yankees.'!-*N. Y. Tribune. Joits A. GILISF,R, formerely a member of the Federal CongreSs from North Carolina, and now a member of the rebel Congress from the same State, pmblishekin the Richmond Whig, Jan. 4, a letter on the "Position and duties of Virginia iu the existing state of political matters. He favors State action and_ interposition in bringing about peace, and argues that Virginia is at liberty to take such action without consultation with the rest ofthe confederacy. He declares against the emancipation, of, slaves in the army, and says "Confederate - ernanci tiou is worse than Federal or coerced.emancip_.r.n." t ti tIMA BY MAGNETIC TELEGLAPH, EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE FRANKLIN REPOSITORY. By the Western Union Telegraph Line-01110i at the Railroad Depot. ' FORT FISHER FALLEN ! ,500 PRISONERS TAKEN! 72 GUNS CAPTURED! General and 1 Colonel Prisoners ! UNION'" LOSS SEVERE WAMEINGTOS, Jan.l7-10:40 P. M. • Major Gen' Dix, Neu: York:—The following official dispatches have just been at this Department : HrarquAirrEas U. S. Fouts, On Federal Poi* N. C., January 15, via Fortress Monroe, Janua7. Brig. Gen. J. A. Rawlins:—Gener al have the honor to report that Fort Risher was carried by assault this afternoon and evening by General Ame's Diviaint, and the Second Brigade of the First Division; of the 29th Army Corps, aided by a battalion of marines and seamen from the navy. The assault was preceded by a heavy bombard ment from the Federal fleet, and was made at 3:30 P. at., when the first brigade, Gen. Curtis, of Ame's division, effected a lodgment upon the parapet, but full possession of the work was not obtamed until 10 P. M. The behavidrof -both of ficers and men was most admirable. All the works south of FortFishtr are now oc cupied:by our troops. We have not less than 1200 prisoners, including Gen. Whitney and CoL Lamb, the commandant of the post: I regret to say that our loss is severe,. especially in officers. I am not yet able to form any estimate of the number of casualties. ALFRED H. TERRY, Brevet Maj. Gen. Command'g the expedition. Rom Flamm, &111. 1 6 -2 A. Hon. C. A. Dana, Asst. Saty. of iFar.—After a citieful'reconnidsance 'on the 14th, it'was deed , ded to risk an assault on Fort Fisher. Raines di vision, with Col. - Abbott's brigade were to hold .our line already strung across the Peninsula and facing Wilmington. against Hoke, -while Ame's Division should assault on the West end of the land front; and-400 marines and 1600 Sailors on the East end. After three hours of a heavy navy fire the assault was trade at 3 A. M. on the 15th. Gen. Curtis' Brigade, led, and as soon as it gut on the west end of the land front, was followed by Pennypaoker's and later by Bell's. Aller'tles -perste fighting, gaining foot by foot, and severe lass, at five - P. M. we had possession of about half the land front. Abbott's brigade was then taken from our line facing Wilmington and int into Fort Fisher, and on pushing it forward at 10 P. M. it took the rest of -the work with little resistance, the garrison falling back to the ex treme point of the Peninsula, where they were followed and captured. Among others, Gen. Whitney and Col. Lamb, both wounded. I think we have captured 1,000 prisoners. I hope our own, loss, may not exceed 500, but it is impossi ble to judge initheinight. Amongthe wounded are the Commanders of the leading brigades, Gen. Curtis being wounded not`severely, but Colonels rennypacker and Ball dangeromay. 11.0 fro.* was a formidable one, and the parapet in places 15 to 20 feet high, but the men went at it nobly as under a severe musketry fire. The marines and sailors went up gallantry, but the musketry fire from the east end of the land front was so se vere that they did not succeed in entering the works. . . • The navy fire on the work, judging from the holes, must have been terrific. Many of the guns were injured. How many there were on the faint I cannot say, perhaps 30 or 40. C. B. COMSTOCK, Lieut. Col. A. D. C., and Chief iigineer. Another dispatch estimates the number of pris oners captured at 2500, and the number of guns at 72. Gen. Grant telegraphs in honor of this great triumph achieved by the united valor of the army and navy, he has ordered a salute of 100 guns to be fixed by each of the armies operating against Richmond. C. A. DANA, Ass't Sec'y of War. BTANT FROM GEORGIA. The steamship Arago, from Port Royal, arrived at New York on Friday, bringing Savannah dates to the Bth. The utmost quiet and good order prevailed in the city. An extra of the Republi can, of the 7th, gives the following important newie "We write amid the greatest exultation. The following highly important information just receiv from a gentleman direct from Thomasville, six days since. He reports that in the following,. counties elections have been held since the cap ture of Savannah, and in Thomas, Brooks, Ber rien, Lowndes, Clinch, Mdntgommery, Appling and Tatnall counties, the people had openly de clared in favor of a return to the ark of safety— the Union. Overwhelming majorities were given for the restoration of the United States Govern ment, and the people were arming to defend them selves from the'Seceseionint, , who were denounc ing the Unionist and threatening their lives. A bitter conflict was imminent at the time our infor mant left, and the most intense excitement pre vailed. "Governor Brown was at Thomasville, and it is reported that he is at the bottom of the under taking, favoring the movement. The action of the Governor has produced the greatest agitation among the loyalist and dieunionists, encouraging the former and embittering the traitors, who swear eternal vengeance. " Governor Brown has disbanded the Georgia militia, and the troops have returned to their homes, many of them uniting in the work of re demption. In Liberty and Mclntosh counties the American flag was to be unfurlied from the Court Houses at - Hinesville, county seat of Liber ty county, and at Darien, county seat of Mcln tosh county. " The cars are running on the Gulf Railread from Thomasville to the Altamaha river, and one of the conductors who managed to escape, reaching this city yesterday morning, reports that all along the line of the road the people are ripe for revolution. Union flags hive been displayed from several 11 - moves and thelives of their occu pants threatened by the secessionists. " There is no telling where' this internecine strife will end,:but of the complete overthrow of the chagrinne4 enemy there can be no doubt.— Let our loyal lips lisp words of sincere gratitude to the Author of these glorious rays of permanent victory, which have burst upon our national hori zon, proclaiming the wisdom of God, and the dawn of an honorable peace, founded upon liber ty, justice, wisdom and moderation." GLOOMY —The Richmond Examintr of a re- cent date makes the'following sombre reflections upon the rebel situation. If there is a scintilla tion of comfort or consolation to be derived from it, we hope it may do those whom it may concern good; but we don't see it: "There is such a thing as heart-break for na tions, as for individuals. There are such things as hopelessness and despair, lethargy and apathy. A conviction that all that it will do must opine to naught, all sierifices it can make, be rendered vain, by an irredeemable cause—a conviction resting on rational ground,s, both of reflection and experiment, will produce this state of feeling in any nation, however heroic and however °heti ) - OUR •PRISONERS.—It has been represented that nothing has been done by our Government to carry out the arrangements for taking care of prisoners, agreed upon by Generals Grant and Lee. We now obseiVe, by Richmond papers of the 6th, that 2,500 - blankets have been•sent to our men in that city; the Brat instalment having reach: ed thew won alter Christmas. oll)e irattklin '"