tpoiterg.
MelakaWay, March 8, 1863.
Limn- GEN. Gas= telegmphaSecretari
Stanton en - the sth that it deserters from
every part of the enemy's line - confirm the
report of the capture of Charlottsville,Va.,
by Gen. Sheridan," and he adds that they
report the captor° of Gen. Early and nearly
all of his command, consisting oflBoo men.
The capture of Early may profe unfound
ed, but there can be no doubt that Phil
Shedd= is on the war path in earnest
again, and has penetrated within fifty miles
of Lynchburg without attmcting the atten
tion of the foe. Charlotterille is east of
the Blue Ridge, whence he moved from
Staunton doubtless, and is on the direct
route to Lynchburg, which is certainlyhis
objective point. If he is moving upon that
place with the .7iew of ' capturing it. then
he must Confidently expect to be joined
there by forces either from Thomas or
Sherman. His own force we apprehend is
inadequate to the speedy reduction of so
strong a position, and- he could not main
tain aprotracted siege for want of supplies
A few days will develop° the grand com
bined movement upon , Richmond, and
when it comes to light we feel assured that
it, will add greatly to the prevailing con
fidence of the loyal people in the early and
decisive success of their cause,
_AB . LUJAN Luccomi was again inaugur
ated President of the United States on
Saturdaylast, with the most imposing cer
emonies, and has entered upon a Presiden
tial term that must be fraught with the
mightiest consequences to our institutions - .
Unlike his first inauguration, he was this
time free from personal perils, and the bat
teries which glistened on capital hill on
Saturday last were those to proclaim the
victory of the Nation over its deadly foes,
and not to protect the officers of the gov
ernment in the discharge of their solemn
duties. Four years ago, he was surround
ed by &liking assassins, and a population
that heartily sympathized with those who
sought revolution—now he is inaugurated
in a National Capital made free by his own
administration, and he can point to the
eventful history of his reign and rejoice
with the faithful people of the country that
the end of disorder seems so nigh at hand.
Four years ago he had to accept the ter
rible.alternative of war—now he has to
grapple with the question of peace, and
until he shall have finished this work well,
whether he Shall be honored or contemned
by the people who have so generously sus
tainedhim,musthe undetermined. Great,
ail has been his responsibilities hitherto,
they must stillibe greater hereafter. Ce
mented as the people have been by the
common danger, they will, as peril fades
away,*sabject this administration to the
sahie ,independent criticism and dispas
sionate approval or condemnation with
which they have vindicated or censured
other administrations in times of safety;
and in the adjustment of the issues which
must necessarily arise as thelegacy of civil
war, the profoundest skill and unfaltering
fidelity and heroism will be essential to
success. The peril to our institutions from
war is past; but the perils of peace are just
about to dawn upon us. The govern
ment cannot survive either a dishonorable
peace or the refusal of peace on fanatical
abstrukions ; and•with these delicate and
momentous issues the new administration
must deal. We have abiding faith that
Abraham Lincoln will henceforth, as
hitherto, keep hisheart steadily fixed upon
the safety of the Nation, regardless of the
passions which may play around him, and
that before his second term shall be closed,
he will preside over a restored and honored
Union.
TB MILITARY SITYATION.,
The movements of both armies are ,
shrouded in mystery. Just where Sher
man hasilirected his steps from Columbia,
we are not advised; and the rebels seem
to be quite as ignorant of
. his purposes as
we are. They recently announced that
their papers would give no information to
the public of Sherman's movements until
he should bo met and defeated ; but they
will likely reconsider that determination
when his plans are developed and his guns
thunder at Raleigh, or Lynchburg. or be
fore Richmond. Of Sherman's ability to
maintainhimself wherever he has marched,
we do not doubt. We know that he start
ed northward fully appreciating that he
might have to accept battle from the main
army of Lee united with that of Beaure
gard, and he is prepared for such a con
tingency. 'His array is as large as any
force that can be brought against him; it
is composed wholly Of veterans who are
,strangers to defeat, and we regard its dis
comfiture as not within the range of pee-
sibility. We doubt; not that a portion or
Lee's'force has been sent to aid in arrest- -
iiig Sherman ; but Grantinei been demon
strating heavily against Lea's extreme
right, his most vital point. for more than a
week past,. and Lee's army cannot maw be
reduced for - any purpose, without opening
the door to Grant. It is not improbable
that Lee must accept battle from Grant
within a very few days to
,defend the
Sehth-eide road—the leas of which would
be fatal to Lee, and render it next Ulm
posaible to holdßichmond for twenty da.Yb.
Lee is therefore confronted with double
danger. If he weakens his ranks to arrest
Sherman, Grant will sweep around hie
right wing and compass his lines in his
fatal grasp ; and if he concentrates his
forces to -defend against Grant, Sherman
will'soori thunder in his rear' and compel
the evacuation of Richmond without a
general engagements In the mean time
Sheridan *moving, butwhere or in what
force, we are not prepared to say. It is
evident, however, that the various armies
which encircle Richmond—Sheridan's on
the North-west; Sherman's on the South ;
Schofield'e on the South-east, and Grant's
' on the East—are moving on in concert to
effect the capture of Richmond, and unless
all signs prove 'deceptive, the rebel capital
uinst bo abandoned before thirty days, and
probably without a sanguinary battle:
, uow amp inevitable. Lee must
Asmion gialmand this spring we do not
thitik it probable that be will riab a gen-
eralengagemetit before :I;lilirg 80. If he
must retreat; he Avilkilo with hid army
as strong as Tesiallde; a iiiksai most
'favorable opportunity occurs he Will not
deliver - battle. He. cannot do'- so when
and where he may : prefer. If he fights
at all. it must be in. an open field in de
fence of his lines, and he must be'tlie at
tacking party. and he will not thus give
battle to superior numbers, when even
should he gain a temporary success, he
must still abandon his capital. Wejudge
therefore that he will wait and watch for
opportunitieato attack in detail, and when
he is compelled to accept decisive en
gagement or retire, he will retreat and
leave Richmond and Virginia to the con
queror. Where he will go, in that event,
has already been discussed in the Rich
mond papers. Some have predicted that
he will move North and make a desperate
effort to transfer the war -to our own soil ;
others that he will move South-west to
Knoxville and. Nashville and open com
munication with the Trans-Mississippi
rebel army, and still others predict that be
will establish himself in the Cotton States
and attempt to prolongthe war indefinite
ly by avoiding decisiVe battles. We feel
well assured that Lee will sever cross the
Potomac when he is retreating from supe
rior numbers in Virginia. He is too great
for so hopeless an enterprise. Of all
things we should . prefer' - that Lee nuty
cross the Potomac with- his entire army.
He might do incalculable damage to cer
tain sections of Maryland and Pereasylva
nia--smight even penetrate to the Susque
hanna and reduce our State Capital to
ashes; bat it would be his last cam
paign—it
world be the end of this wicked
rebellion, and we'should willingly accept
the consequences for the g reat end to be
attained, But Lee wilLriot thug close the
war. He has never assumed the offensive
excepting when our army was defeated
and greatly weakened by' the expiration
of enlistments; and he will not now at
tempt it when he is' weaker than' ever be
fore, and the Union armies stronger.--
That he will attempt a bold movement
when he abandons Virginia. we do net
doubt, and we shall not be surprised any
day to hear that he is marching for Ten
nessee, where he could by celerity of move
ment, and the concentration of his entire
forces, open his communications with
Texas and Arkansas, and compel a bloody
and protracted straggle to dislodge him.
True,.such a movement would isolate him
from all resources from which - ,to replen
ish his ranks. It would - resolve the war
to the mere endurance, of the army he
'could retreat from Virginia with, as it
would be the end of rebel government and
!conscription, and when that army should
lbe broken by battle. the war must end,
!but it seems to be the most feasible of all
'plans suggested as likely to - be accepted
iby General Lee, and we think its adoption
'more than. probable.
—Gri forces now greatly out-number
Lee in- Virginia—certainly not less than
three to one, and the draft is sending
thousands of fresh soldiers to the army
every day. If the government shall push .
the draft with the same obstinate energy
it is displaying here, there must be one
hundred thousand added to our ranks
within twenty days, and if so. there can
be no more bloody battles , in this war.
i Overwhelming numbers will . economize
blood and treasure, and before autumn
'our troops will, we, trust, be-returned to
their homes with the most beneficent gov
ernment of the world secured to them
selav and posterity for all time. Heaven
speed the happy day !
COPPROTH EXPLAINS
Gen. Coftivtli has Lui elaborate
letter to Mr. Weyaud, of Somerset, in de=
fence of his vote in favor of the amend
ment to the constitution abolishing, Sla
very, and in vindication Of his consistency
as a Democrat ; but he seems to have failed
to satisfy Mr. Weyand "or any other man"
on that side of the House. From this ex
traordinary epistle we learn that Gen.
Coffroth knew in advance that when he
cast that vote, his " political enemies, in
order to exasperate Democrats, world be
fulsome in their praise," and he adds"l
feared more the praise of my political foes
than I did the criticism of my friends."
'As to the criticism of his friends we can
not pretend to speak advisedly ; but we
are not perspicacious enough to see where
the " fulsome " adulation of his enemies
coineS in. He will bear us witne l ss that we
have not been malicious enough to speak -
well of him in terms of unusual extnivii
gance, and we are not aware that any of
the Union journals of the district have
been so ungenerous as to damii him. with
violent 'approbation; while, it must be
confessed that the criticism of the Demo
cracylas been rather more candid than
complimentary. We assure Gen. Coffroth
also, by way of "indemnity for the past
andlecurity for-the future," that we shall
be most careful hereafter not to shock his
sensibilities with rude commendations rel
ative to his Congressional career. To the
best of our knowledge he has cast but one
vote on the side of patriotism during two
sessions. and that he has been persistently
trying to explain into suspicion or positive
disrepute ever since. Rest easy, General
—you shall not fall by the " fulsome "
praise of your foes !
But Gen. Coffroth goeS into the future.
When no one was accusing, - hAn in any
public manner of a disreputable compact
, with certain -Republicans to secure a seat
in the next Congress, in the face of his
defeat by the people, he rushes to his own
vindication and insists that if any per son
should happen to think he was so influ
-1 enced in his vote, they must be at once
undeceived. He gives the world to know
that he don't affiliate with RepubliCans.
or Abolitionists as he calls them. He did
not mean to give vitality to the Republi
cans by his vote, but he launched it forth
upon them armed with death and wide.
spread destruction. He says—"l' assure
the Abolitionists -that are now praising
me. I did not vote for the amendment on
account of any love I had for-their 'party
or their principles, but it was to stab them!"
Thus while Coffroth has been censored
by `thoughtless triends for supporting a
favorite dogma of the Republicans, he was
in fact playing the part of political at3s4s.
*it !laid meant ily_one grand siteep of po
litical stra — te . gy tOokill.amtentembihe op
position to the Demociaiy. far from
being in apostate to Dencty, he would
Prove himselfthe Brutus ofßepublicanism,
and go down in histiiry as the hero WliP
bought gifts to weave in chaplets for the
dead. When the impartial limner comes
to paint the startling events of the last
Congress and' the death of the Republican
organization, the central figure of that
panorama must be the Brutus of the 16th
district. with the dying party uttering its.
last sad words—Et fate Coffroth!
Two reasons are giVen in detail by Gen.
Coffroth for the vote in question. He vo
ted fiir the amendment 'to destroy the Re
publiCan party by destroying slavery, and
again he tells his Constittients that be vo
ted for it to run a corner on the President
because the States would inevitably , de
feat its adoption ! Profoundly !
Since both propositions cannot be accept
ed, will the General oblige us with a brie!
letter of not over several columns telling
us just what he did mean when hoTeast
the vote for the amendment I Had: he
men silent; his vote would _have needed
no explanation. It would have stood for
ever as a record of which himself aid his
children could have been proud; but since
he has given half a score of reasons for it
at different times, no two of which-har
monize with each other, and all of which
confront the vote itself, we beg the Gen
eral to give us one sensible explanation
of his explanations. and then—stop !_
THE bill authorizing the collection by
taxatian of the additional $2OO of bounty
paid to volunteers la.st year in this count?,
had passed both branches and is now a
law. It provides that the additional sum
shall be collected in accoreatale with the
provisions of the general law authorizing
The collection and payment of $3OO. The
special law passed in the Reuse by Mr. Mc-
Clure, authorizing Guilford and Green to
pay $3OO to drafted meu or their families
at such times as the School Directors may
deem proper, _has not yet passed, the Sen
ate. .It has been delayed because of the
probability of the passage of a general
law to the same effect. If the general
law does not pass, the special law will be
passed, and so amended as to embrace all
the districts of this county. Surely no
man can be so indifferent to the interests
of his fellows as 'to deny to drafted men,
or their faMilies, the sum of $3OO.
THERE was but a single 'change made
in the cabinet of President Lincoln as con
structed for his new administration, and
that was necessitated by Secretary Fessen
den's election to the Semite. Hon. Hugh
M'Culloch, of Indiana. succeeds Mr..Fes
sonden to the portfolio of the Treasury,
and his appointuipit seems to inspire un
bounded confidence that the finances of
the government Hill be most wisely and
frugally managed under his direction.
The cabinet now stands as follows :
Secretary of State—Wen: 11. Seward, N. York.
Secretary of the Treasury—Hugh M'Culloeh, Ind.
Secretary of Wor-1. M. Stanton, Washington.
Secretary of the Navy—Gideon Welles, Conn.
Secretary of the Interior—John P. Usher, Ind. .
Poet Marter Genend—Wm : Dennison, Ohio.
===iliEMMl
THE draft has been made for a number
of the districts of this county, and those
who have been conscripted are now re
porting. ,It has fallen Nc ith peculiar harsh
ness upon our people, and it bras been the
more keenly felt because of the wide
spend conviction that our quotas are
:unwarrantably large. Considering WIC
sacrifice this county has made—the less
of Property by military occupation, and
the fearful draw now-pad r e upon the clas
ses whic:h can be least ipared, the prompt
ness of our citizens in their responses to
the call of the government displays the
highest measure of patriotic devotion to
the Republic.
THE Union men of Franklin county
,should not fail to be fully prepared for the
Spring Elections to be held on Friday the
17th inst. Often the supineness of our
friends has given the Deinocrats easy vic-
Aories in our strong-holds and the effect of
it has been felt by theircontrol of the
Election boards at the fall election. Let.
UniOn men be ready, for exert struggle
with the foe, and secure their just supre
macy wherever it can be honorably achiev
ed.-
•
Mason I)onGE. Asst. :4 t, vest Marshal
of this State, was relieved last week, and
Gen. Hiuks, a wounded soldier, appointed
in his stead. We think that Maj. Dodge
might be safely trusted at the front at
this stage of the war, and trust that he
will be afforded an opportunity to win a
soldiers' honors there since he has failed
to 'Win then in the peaceful channels of
military life.
R%;; give in to-day's paper the second in
augural address of President Lincoln. It
is remarkable alike for its simplicity and
brevity, and will - commend its author to
every devoted friend of the government
for the plain, frank and earnest tone of
patriotism that pervades it.
Goy. °mum, we learn, has beeu pre
vented from going to Savanuakand Char
leston by the pressure of public business.
BOTH branches of the legislature have
agreed to adjourn on tht24th hist.
A. H. C6FPROTII, Esq., Member of Congress,
from this district, has written a long and able let
tor in deleuce of his recent vote in favor of abol
ishing slavery_ by a Constitutional amendment.
He concludes his letter with the, following para
graph, viz:
"The only denunciation I received bus been
through the press, and all started ut Harrisburg.
It' I had handed over the black mail, I presume
would not have been abused from that source."
Will the Compitir and other Copperhead pa
pars in the district be good enough to explain.
WE ore indebted to Capt. J. K. Gilmore, of this
pace, for a copy of the Charlekon Courierof the
!loth ult. It is a little four•Colutan halfsbeet,
printed on coarse, dingy paper, and seems to be
neutral in polities; religion and on the war. Its
tone has been immensely subdued by the advent
of " Old Tecumseh Sherman," as his soldiers call
bin.
WE are indebted to hiessm.Olmstead and Brovai
of the legislature fpr public documents.
AruinittiA_ titgatitoto 4 410114etabuts, Pa.
ARLINGTON ?LAC.
r i g=rtalA t te lltatta nees ta " it°l44t E.
it
..latalutes for the Capture of ataziestoss
'...-soldierie (*meter: The Bulldito to
Sad Groundo—The itetrlbutioui , ' -
Editorial Corror.poodores of the B7rsnklia fleno,Kocy.
Ain,L - vmve. PiAce, Va., Er'braocy 24.184
Arlington Place—the Mane. of Robert E. Lee!
What a flood of memories-crowd upon the visitor
-to this beautiful spot ! Alai ! -how pride-and am
bition have chevered and eititusoned their handi
work in these venerable halls.' Here it winild
seem that, there Wag every incentive to fidelity, to
'honor, to peace. The Old Mansion was sanctified
to its occupants by the beneficence of Washington.
Here his adopted child, George Washington Parke
Cnstis, made his home nearly three-quarters of a
century ago. ' The same deep ; blue Potomac
flowed serenely by its portals, and the same na
tive forest surrounded it_thut now breaks the
storm as it slugs Its plaintive dirges in the deserted
halls of Arlington- Place. Hitt as_Wirstand amidst
the colossal Greeist; ' , Mars which grace the im
mense portico, the sullen booming of artillery
:breaks the puinfal silence that reigns here. The
signal gun had scarcely ceased to reverberate
along the bluffs or the Potomae. until itseeMed es
if Heaven itself had respelled with its
. fi e r e ,,,,t,
thunders. The very earth trembled, and the webs
which bud gathered on the corners and flitches of
Arlington waived responsive to the deafening roar
of a thousand guns, us they shook the ancient,
mansion to its very foundation. Hard by on every
side; further gill on right and left, and rear, tlw
hoarse answer came, and front the opposite shore
rose the flitting stnoke that told how loyal hearts
were there to deleede common capital and re-'
joice over the triumphs of a common country. .
Charleston has fallen ! The home of treason—
where it was nursed in its ',waddling eloths anal
nourished by perfidy and treason nu tfi it became
mighty, had but a few days before ) ielded to the
triumphant tread et Sherman, and its Sumter
ugaiu flaunted the old flag that traitors had hi it
stricken doWn in the toad triumph of v.-time over
peace and goyim:meet ; ..nu the various b t atteries
andlorts of thellefences of Washington mimed
the victor at twelve o'clock to-day. I u ould
that Gen. Lee could hare stood with me here
in front of hit idolized home, nod ;ward the loyal
artillery play,theirT wild melody" iii honor o f th e
restoration of Charleston to the Ilnimi. It was
in Charleston that the first overt - act of r o h e m o ,,
Was cOruniitted. Judge 3PGrath, the Presiding,
Judge of the Ullited States court inn Charleston,
adlOurned the (mart sine die the day after the
election of President Lincoln, and '4 igpincNi the
National flag from the builtAng to fling the Pal-
weft° banner to the breeze. Four years later
he is chose,' Governonof South Carolina; and be
fore he held his office one nunith, Sherman' made
him a fugitive, and hoisted the stars and stripes
over his capital. It was there, too, that the first
appeal Wan made to the terrible arbitrament of
the sword, sad It was made mosesauselesslY., In
the face of the proftr of the loyal commander to
evaeuate Sumter. in three days, because of his ex,.
busted provisions, the merciless spirit of treason
flung grim visaged -war upon a people whose
whole thoughts. hopeti and efforts were for peace.
Wh...n the. thunders of Forts Moultrie, Pinckney,
and Sullivan's Island. 'proclaimed fraternal war,
Gen. Lee was here in u home consecrated to
Union by the name. the fame and the hallowed
patriotism of Washington, He had been the child
of favor. Al.florotlE. nation had educated and
honored lint: an accomplished wife had brought
him fortune ; from his own green lawn the Na
tional Ca star, founded by Washington to be for
all time the fOuntain of political power of a united
people, horned up in view, and the many menu.:
meats of National greatness with which it has been
wthrtted, must have struggled with the mad pride
and ambition that made Robert E. Lee a fugitive
from his home, a stranger to, his noblest inheri
t... amt a 100 to liberty mid free goverMaJno.
Long did. he hesitate. and earnestly did hie faith
ful wife- 7 -true to her patriotfc ancestry-:-plead for
fidelity to the hest of civil govenimenta. But
Virginia faltered and was swept into the vortex
of treason, and wftl. it was swept Gen. Lee.
I would, that lw were heri,'s-sky to take a re
trospect of his murderous, desidatinz work, amidst
the dealeuiug thunders coining up from his own
once blomnim: fields, to tell a ‘thithlitl people that
anotldn•link is broken iu the chain that Would have
li been woven in the chaplets of the relentless des-,
- pot upon thirty millions of freeman, but for the
' nnexanipled heroism of the sons of the North.--- :
Smirk indeed ' would these salutes fall upon the
heart of the once happy master of Arlington
I r Place. They would come as the terrible prods
-1 oration of vindicated justice— ,
But, although far off at the head of his shat
tered and despairing army of crime, he is there
greeted with the same salutes coming from the
abetted guns of Grant. Nor there alone, for from
the green Savannah of the South to the farthest
gun on the Nurth-East coast ; from the Atlantic
shore to the sunset side of the Father of Waters; ,
from the Northern Lakes to the very heart of the
.laud once enveloped in the deadly grasp of trea
son, there are salutes this hour proclaiming that
the day of Our National Deliverence is' nigh at
hand. Fitly, indeed, might he look out from his
deserted home to the thousand graves whicki are
hard by his old-time walks, each of which is an
eternal monument to his perfidy. 'Shedd he
the beautiful grounds of Arlington now, he
Must pass beneath a graceful arch, on which is
woven in evergreen—" HERE SLEEP itUR PA-
IitfOTIC DEAD," and turn whence he might, the
mournful track of war would' confront him.- 7 -
Thousands of the brave defenders of the Repub
lic rest in the very shades of Arlingtoh, and now
the warblinga of
_heaven's meet 'choristers who
people this lovely.ibrest iu spring time. must be
alone-for the heroic' dead, or the sad visitor who
Sere fear lis country's woes. -'"
. ,
When he rued at once open his home and his
country, treason held supreme sway • in all the
Southern and Bord,w States; and the 'cowardly
treachery that was smouldering in the North, prO
raised an easy victory to those who Would have
dismembered the Republic. Since_ then four years
of 4arible, exhausting, devastating and bloody
war have been crowded into history, and the fair
land of the South is one vast cemetery ; mourning
and vvantshadorr every house-hold; despair reigns
in the councils of crime, and soon I pray and trust
an all-wise and ever just God- will erovvii the
Right with decisive victory. Around me on every
side may now be heard the voices of the oppress
ed who have been freed in the throes of civil war,
and those who confessed the lord of Arlin*n as
miter. niw ri•turn thanks to Him who accepts
alike the.praise of the honored and the lowly, as
the guneof Fort Whipple shock the neglected
halls.where they lived in servitude.
— . int a truce to painful memories. George
Washington Parke Cnstis was a grandson of Mrs.
Martha Washington. She was the - widow of Mr.
:Cnstis whet she' monied to Gen. Washington,
and G. W. Parke Castle was the son of her only
son by her first husband. He was adopted,. by'
Gen. Washington and raised and educated by the
Hero-Statesman of the RevOltion. He became ,
proprietor of' Arlington Place, whether by pur
chase or by' devise from Washington, I am not
informed, - and lived here until he had more than
attained the age allotted to mortals. He had but
One child, who married Robert E. Lie, and thus
Captain Lee (as he was then) became the posses.
sur of the finest estate on the Potomac, eakalso
of a large estate known as the White House on
the James River—a place that has figured largely
in military operations on• the i'eninsula. lam
not familiar with the history of this estate, but
' And make the key-note of the eaddeat•dirge
That fancy ever played to nalanchaly.''
the , old mansion looks- ash ; had-Attired the
storms Of-a -ctintii4 - '-4.lirettiWisediOnliive j
teen in' ear4ny ii:and . - .1,4 II: "ThiCit 'lnititY
'
of vendable Inge is damped - upati 'everOature
Ofi.thelduselitud, gioaids: ThWcidostad pillars
,on the large liorticii are nearly Six feet in diante,7_,
I ter: the spider has woven his silken net kale
crevices andfon the high cornices apparently un
disturbed byl the 'tidy servant for a decade, and
-the bat may have reposed -here as generations ;
have departed without resistance to his daily re
pose. The tan columns support a plain reioteov
ering the portico, and rude but elaborate carving
finishes both the external and internal ranges Of
this, massive structure. The house is entered by
n wide hall: on the walls of which are a series of
i very old paintings, mostly representing revolu
tionary. battles. They are but indiffereutly exe
cuted, displaying very Moderate artistic skill, and
the frames areienvy, stained pine, and have been
I innocent of varnish tier a quarter of a century.
1 The doors inside - of the halt, and.the angles to-'
.
wail the stairway, are graced with huge deer
! antlers, probably trophies of scone gay sporting
days in the 'early hil:dory of Arlington Vince. Over'
, the windows, and irregularly in various places hi
r the hall, are indentations in' tile pinstnriog, on
which the art of frs;•;coeing seems to have been ire
vented. Here a pack of hounds are iu full chase
en a ban-, and a troop of deer, and various other
chronicles of sporting life,' are daubed in the ru
t dest style. In the large rooms are but few evi
-1 deuces remaining of the 'once liberally furnished
1 home of Gen. Lee. The paintings are still on the
walls, and a few 'sofas and chairs, all the worse
of use and age. are here; but nearly everything
that could be carried off has gone its a memento
or the rebel General-in-chief. This curiosity seems
to be irrepressible with the American , people.
An intelligent contraband, formerly one of Lee's
pieve., informed um .that' when Lee left be toe&
only the furniture" that bclouced to Geri. Wash
ireztos, and "My Lady Lee's"' silver ware. A
portion .4 ti4e in ruiture end articles lie left behind
are me?: in the Patera Office, but vandalism has'
ICiltile Litliell to make vacate planes in Arlington.
Hard by the rnauAieu are the negro houses;and
a little'to the rear is the stable—all hearing the
same evidences of effort at display iu JirciAtieture.
The negro houses have frescoed pictures ore* the
nindows--one of which represents an eagle with
a serpent'iu its= clans, and tile stable bun' the
massive pillars of the muusion in miniatare, and
all bear the 'same marks of age and ravages of
time. It would seem its if no repairs had 'over
been made.
~
The large. estate of seine bundler's of acres
seems to have been dei•oted wholly to plea Sure.
"Master Lee," said .me of his old slaves, "didn't
raise nothing here, and he kept only sixty slaves
on this place. He mists.' all he used at de White
House—dere lie kept over three Intudred slaves."
This was the whole story in afew words.
Arlirg
totl Place was peopled with consumers—with
Fixity menials to minister to the wants of hnlf
score of whit4s, and indolence bus lett its tracks
in wide-spread :decay.. Now, however, a village
of freedmen are quartered on the place. Much
oC the native forest has-been-felled to clear the
sweep for the guns of the forts, and the lone worn
tint and neglected fields are now made to bloom
apd give.golden fruits by the labor of the saute
slaves who basteried, its decay. A portion of the
Mate, encircling the mansion on the left and in
the rear, is devoted to a soldiers' cemetery, and
there are thousands of graves in regular rows to
tell the sad story of this wicked rebellion.
Terribleithleed has been the retribuhon that
has fullowed.the efforts to establish Slaery by an
appeal to war. Lee yielded to the triad current
of perfidy that swept the Soitth in 1861, and drew
his sword against the most beneficent government
of the earth to make human bondage eternal.—
Since then four long years of bloody, appaling
war have crimsoned our history. At times the
rldr or victory' On. seemed .la-swell tr.isVara.tho
deadly ties of the Republic, aril again Abu trem
bled in the bulave as if ready to sweep resistlessly
upon either side of the unnatural conflict;- but at
last, after years of agonizing doubt, of feud@ sae
tifiee, of sublimed heroism alike. in behalf of right
- and wrong, the fulness of His time seems to be
reached and the life of the government to be fully
assured. The slaves who Atom
_exhausted the
:fields of Arlington as menials, now make them
.rich With the fruits of industry inspired ;by free
dom' ; and their once proud muster is driven to
the sorest, eitremity to defend the capital of trea
son, and appeals in rain to those who plunged
hint into war, to emancipate theirslaves and send
theta to his side to save the remnant of his }Mat- .
tered army. Truly—
"The mills of the Godi grind elowly,
But they grind exceeding tine l"
—But enough of Arlingtoa r and I must hasten
from this grand theatre of retribution and death
to deal with the future and the living. A. K. nt.
1 HARRISBURG
Adjoiirnment to Attend the Inauguration
.Coral Bounty Bilhs—The Claim Bill
Reported—Payment e gat iv e d—T b
Appropriation C u rtl
moval of Major Dodge-Pennsylvania
and the .Cabinet.
•
Corrospoetienoe of the Franklin Reperitery.
• HumsßuEd, Marehl, 1.266.3.
The legislature adjourned on Wednesday even
ing last until Monday next, la enable the mem
bers to attend the inauguration of President. Li
ncoln. Notwithstanding the known fact that there
will be few Changes in the aPpointmen6 in the
gift of the national administration, i there are in
numerable axes to grind at Washington, and the
members of the legislature take their hand at this
interesting operation. I presume that two-thirds
1 - .. f the Union members of both branches will be
idWashingtOn today.
The bill authorizing' the collection by taxation
of the $2OO, paid as bounty to recruits last year
in 'excess of law, in Franklin county, has passed
both branches, and is a law. It provides for the
collection of the additiotud
,sum accordance
with the provisions 'the general - bounty law en
der which the $3OO is authorized.
Since the passage of the bill in the House by
Mr. M'Clure authorizing the School Directors of
Green and Guilforil townships to pay .1300 bounty
to drafted mee, west of the townships of Franklin
county have petitioned for the same law. The
bill has not yet passed the Senate, as a general
law much of the sallle character has paAed that
body; and it will doubtless' be passed finally.
If it does not pass, the spell law for Franklin
county will pass next week. Considering the pe
culiar hardship of the present draft and the scar
city of substitutes in the agricultural distriebi, it
is but fair that a reasonable bounty should be paid
to conscripts. By the provisions of Mr. M'Clure's
bill the bounty to draftedmen is to be disbursed.
14 the School Boards to the draft6d man,fiimself,
or to his family, as they may deem just. '
The bill providing fur the ndjudication of claims
for militiFy damages in the border counti,es, has
been reported to•the House by the-committee on
elahns, with a proviso that the Stale shall not as
sume the pay medt of any pelt of said claims
-The bill was held in committee until last week,
notwithstanding the earnest efforts of both the
Freekliu members to have it reported;' and it fin-'
ally came with a provisti appendedl by the com
mittee that precludes payment. The bill will be
considered at an early day, and the binder Mem
bers will make a test struggle on striking out the
proviso. If the House refuses to strike it out.,
then ie all hope of appropriation dissipated.
The appropriation bill was taken up on ed-k
nesday afteinoon and passed through m a single
session, while an unimportant local bill often
times elicits more extended esaminatiort. It is
unexampled itt z the history of legislation that the.
general appropriation bill, involving millions,
IMO
should be disposedd — of tetbd-. svilio. of
the iegisla*,,iti st:-*,-.:** •Oliii:llo6rSilt
section, lairwitotriiski,4, ilarlPfter that walitnride
safe, it would *au that 4 i - Tottewline r :iiinl4.
that all the i*eitOtOittiaeglis.., , ,ititito the
increase of the pay, Of the ii . Mnberi frs*l $7OO to
$lOOO, which was carried . by a bare majority. ' It,
will probably be stricken out in the Senate:
Ca r linGorl:r is about to 'gir to; and
... ,_.
.Savannah ta,visit.the.r.etmaybrania-soldierse . mai
_, I
be will be absent about Mu days,
~ He is unceas
ing in his care fig &brave snus'ef Pennsticanin
are a they aro fr be found, and they kit ,
honor and lore him ' ' '-",' -• ' 1 - 1" i;
•I •
Mai. Dodge has removed, and will grobti
bly be transferred 4 , Name snore northern cliMate
.where soldiers wi I stand in..ezing better than
they do iu this S e. Although a regular. army
officer, it has never been thought beat to send him
,to the front. His sticeessor is Gen. E. W.Hiuks,
who has seen itenve service and bears honorable
wounds. -
It is understood that Pennsylvania will not be
represental in the new cabinet of President Lin
coln. A t'eeble effort was made some weeks ago
to put Gen. Cameron inf t i the Treasury Depart
ment, but it had a short life; and a more eartiest
effort was made for Forney but it will not suc
ceed. Pennsylvania is fearfully dwarfed at Wash
ington, and ever will be wail her best men are
sustained with more unanimity than hai been
manifested heretofore. , Hou.tcvL
NEGROES AS SOLDIERS.
When the proposition- was thst made byqhe
North to arm the negroes and use them as part of
the military force to suppress the rebellion, it .:et-as
stoutly resisted by a large eines in ourown midst,
and condemned as savagery by the foe. So strong
was the feeling against the measure, that the go
vernmeut bad to employ them under various pre
texts, and get them into the military service by:
indirect means. Time, reflection and experience,
howeveridually dissipated' the- prejudices in
the North,.and row no party could sustain itself
on the proposition to withdraw thy accrues from
the loyal ranks.
At lust the rebels themstdres have opened timir
eyes on this question, and now they are demand
ing that their own alacei shall be put into their
shattered army to strengthen it. Darin is in th
vor of it; Lee strongly urges it, and the rebel
press is nearly unanimously demanding it. 'yra
recent speed delivered In Richmond. Secretary
Benjamin declined that ,ideas the slaves were
employed Richmond must be abandoned ; and the
Biehniond,Enquirer, of the 23d ult., charges (that
the Gulf States have deserted the Border States
by defeating the bill to arm the tflaveA in the
Senate.
The folhesing is the article from the Enqnirer:
" Virs;inia did not commence this war, nor -did -
Tennessee, Missouri or Kentucky. Its magni
tude and losses were perceived by those on whom
the brunt of battle would fag'. The Stutt*fur.
ther South, protected by those on the border ree
idled advice, rejected concert, and, with fancied se
curity, cut the fastenings which bound us togeth
er, and east Virginia and her children,-on the
'exposed western frontier, adrift amid terrific and
increasing . war. In vain did these States' foretell
the future, and protest against the ungenerous
rashness of' those who expected by the misfor
tunes of others to escape the calamities of civil
strife. 'We told them that the storm would in:
dulge its fury ou our soil. We pictured to them
a' devastated country, pillaged _fields, burning
towns; insurgent slaves and - a hired soldiery in e ,
flamed to crime by the " smooth-skin women ou
the ottoman and the silver plate on the board."
Neither did these just appeals, nor the terrible
fate which was increasing and advancing check the
selfish impetuosity of those who.riskedlittle Of dis
aster to be endured by others. We were told we
must follow Our own people, or be against them.
The alternative presented an abhorrence to com
mon enemies, or an abandonment of common
blood. The choice was at 'once made, snider a
solemn compact, to stand faithfully together until
complete victory blessed or 'a single fate pealed '
the at - magic. Amid all the ceremonies of galen
a! tart-tette states-sestet sponsors to the cause,
and Sy sacred oath pledged all the lives, all the in
terests, all the property, in mutual eupport and
for general relief. From the nature and motives
of the war, and by the bond which united those,
who were - struggling to save all that is prized
among men, there was nothing too sacred -to ap
propriate or abandon, except the blighted faith
to be true to each other. These oaths Virginia
and her frontier children have not yet broken.—
The lives of their people are now-in the trenches,
with a daily sacrifice equal to the necessities of
defence. Nearly all their property has I been
yielded to the enemy, in obedience to the request
of strategy. The slaves have been appropriated
and losses suffered according to the demands of
the advancing enemy. This appropriation of ter
ritory and slaves by these States was so much a
voluntary contribution by there to the wants of
the war as if bills of grunt and emancipation had
been passed by their separate sovereign conven
tions. They were a part of the price contempla
ted at the time the struggle commenced, to be
paid for blessings to be common to all pit the
tide is now rolling toward those States whomade
the light, who affirmed success or universal de
struction, and who swore the oath., Thia oath
has been leokin, and therby whom the first blow
was stricken are the first to desert those whose
breasts hare, solar; received the fury- of the storm
'raised by others. After the Border States, have,.
offered lends - and slaves, as necessary sacrifices tel .-
success, they still declare that wife, child, bride,'
a free tongue and an unchained neck are things
to be fought for. They say to the States of the
Gulf,' now make the same contributions of; lands
and slaves that you forced us to make, and senti
ments, relations and people will be secured.'
"Monday the compact of mutual support was
broken. The bill to appropriate the slaves, s 0 as
to secure honorable existence, was defeated in the
Senate chiefly by the , votes of the Gißf States.
The Border States • had previously contributed
their share to the &mime defence. It makes no
difference whether threw shareil were lost to their
owners by the strategy of war or by the, action of
Congress. They were equally sacrifices of prop
erty to the national defence, sacrifices foretold by
some, and, which all swore to share idle. The
vote'by which that bill was lost must be recon
sidered. The slave must be given or we may per
ish. They who watch the destinies of the State
declare its wants and demand the relief. lie for
whom the love of the people is only exceeded - by
his own pure affection for his country, the hero of
twenty victories and the conqueror of every igno
ble aspiration, implores the recreant Stateatiot to
abandon the lory won for them at Chancellors--
vile, and not to refuse the liberty he secures by
his lines around the still unconquered capital of
Virenia. The army demands that its dePleted
ranks shall be strengthened by more men off what
ever color, and it is sometimes impolitic to 'refuse
the demands of an army lac that which Lei coin.
nutnds. The Border States i4gat that such laws
as are necessary - to save the State shall be passed,
even though those laws affect the slaves in the
..South as the war has affected them on the fron
tier. That vote must be reconsidered. Perish
property and all the luXuries of profit, bat we will
protect our social existence and oar pride as free
men. We prefer to do this by manly battle ; but
if they who demand to share our success, now
refuse the means to win that success, they can so
act, but Our wives and our honor must still be
aura. - The difficulty in obtaining a peace has been
slavery. 'The appropriation by the Border States
of their slaves to the public use has removed that
difficulty-in negotiations by them with the enemy.
There is not a slave in Kentucky, Missouri and
Tennessie. Slavery has disappeared in one-half
of Virginia, and practically exists no where in her
limits. Let such appropriation - of interest be at
once made as will save to each State the rights of
all unconquered people. If this be refused, and
the sacrifices of -war are so imposed on some as
to imperil relatiena, without which life is intoler
able, then" let provisions of safety be immediately
made b'y those who value family honer and indi
vidual pride alsove sordid property ; and let those
who are willing to have masters above, that they
live upon the hope of having slaves beneath thorn,
seal their fate with the enemy now thundering at
their gates. Perhaps it would be zeal for the Gulf
States to reconsider their xote. Virginia Tennes
see,Misseuri and Kentucky will yet see that their
people be not slaves in order that the incimbenien
ces of war may not be felt on the Congaree and I
Tombigbee."
The following ie Gen. Lee's letter on the eubjeeb
" HELQUARTELY C. S. Amass, Feb. 19, 1E45.
"Hon. .03arkedole, Haute of Riff tsenktivos, Riclunond.
" SIR : I have the honor to acknowledge the re
ceipt of your letter of the I2th inst., with refer
ence to the employment of negroea ae Soldiers. I
this& the meaeurg fug only expedient, but flee scary.
March 8 3 iB6i
- The enemy Will mist* use_theni avast us if
he can gerpoisit#ouref them , Sind its his present
numerical supe.rtority illl enable hini to penetrate
_many, parts ofthe country. I canuot•itee_the wis
dom of ,the Wiley of holding, them to _await his
arrival, when we may, by timely action and judi
cious management, use them to arrest his progress.
I do hot think that our white_poPulationean sup
ply the - necessities of a long war without - over
taxing its- capacity and imposing great suffering
upon our people ;and I believe we should-provide
resources for a protracted struggle; not merely
for a battle or a campaign.,
.-
" In answer to ,your second question, I can only
say that hi thy opmion, the negroes, ander proper
circumstances, will make efficient soldiers. /dunk
we could nt least do as well with them as the en
emy, and he attaches great importance to their
assistance. Under good qfficersand good instruc
tion, I do not see why they slsoulifnot become' sol
-diers. _ The) possess all the physical qualifications,
- and their habits of obedience constitute a good
foundation for discipline. They ftwniell' a' more
promising material than many mules of- which
we read m history, which owed their efficiency to
I discipline alone. I th ink that those who, are evi
-1 PlOyed should be freed. It would be neither just nor ,
wise, in my opinion, to require them to-serve as -
slants. The best course to pursue, it seems tome,
would-be to call for such ns are willing to come
1 with the consent of their owners. Animpreas
:tient or draft would-not be likely to bring out, the
best class, Mid the use of coercion would make
the measure disfirsfefitl to them and -- to - their
owners. .
1.. " I have no doubt that if Congress would au
" thiliiie their fe - Cepthitantti - serSice"; alitT eirquiwer
the President to call upon individttals or States
for such na they are willing to' contribute, With
the condition of emancipation to all enrolled, a
sufficient number would be forthcoming to enable -
us to try the experiment. If it prove successful;
most of the objection to the measure would dis
appear, and if individuals still remained unwilling
to send their ne groes to the army, the - f0rce...44
i
public opinion n the States would soon bring -
about such legislation. ai would remove all ob
jection. 1 thilik the matter should be left as few
psible to the pe - ople and the States, which alone
can legislate as the necessities of this particular
nu-vice may require. As to the mode of organ-
I izing them, it should he left as free from constraint
- 1114 - pwaible. Experience will suggest the, best
course, and it would be inexpedient - tol trammel
1 the subject with provisions that might, in the end, '
,peevent tile itiloptiou of reforms suggested by se
! fluid trial. - -
IVith ;:rvar reypeet, your obedient servant.
" R. E. LEE, General."
Innugn ration of President Lincoln !
IMMENSE PROC.VIEISIOX!
The Oath Administered to the Presi
dent and Vice Presidenti
Inaugural Address of President Lincoln Ileirep4ll
UNBOUNDED ENTHUSIASM OF THE PEOPLE!
THE INAUGURAL ADDRES4 I
WASITINGTONi March 4,
The procoision reached the capitol at about a
quarter to 12 o'clock, escorting the - Preaideiat
elect. •
• At a subsequent period the President and Vice
President, together with the Justices of the-Su
preme Court, members and ex-members Of Con
gress, foreign ministers and other persons of dis
tinction, assembled in the Senate Clamber. There
the Vice President elect took the oatli of office,
preceeding it by an address..
Chief Justice Chase'admiuistered thelaih of
office on the Eastern portico. wheetbe President
delivered hie Inaugural Address. There was a
very large attendance, and the scene was ene of
Mach interest The weather cleared:off bright
and beautiful. .
'As the President and others reachiAthe plat
form the band played 'Hail to the Chief,' and sa
lutes were fired. The Presidedt was cheered by
the immense throng, composed of civilians and
military, and after the delivery of his address was
again and again cheered and saluted by cannon
and music.
DIAVGDRAL ADDRESS. -
WASEIN6'i . I:IN, Match 4.
FELLOW COUNTRYMEN :—At this second ap
pearing to take the oath.of the Presidential office
therein loss occasion for an extended - sdit•eiiiit' -- than
there was at the first. This a statement tkmie
what in detail of a course to be pursttedieetubd
fitting and . proper; now, at the expiritiorrof four
years, during which public declarations baveboen
constantly called forth on every point-am t. phase
of the great contest which still absorbs the atten
tion and engrosses the energies of 'the nation, lit
tle that is new could be presented. • • -
The progress of our arms, upon which all else
chiefly depends, is as well known to the publicus
myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory
and encouraging to all. With high hope for the
future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
On the occasion corresponding to this four
years ago; all thoughts were anxiously directed
to an impending -evil war. All dreaded it—all
sought to avoid it. While the Inaugural. Address
was being delivered from this place, devoted al
together to saving the Union without war; insur
gent agents were in the city seeking - to destroy it;
and others without were seeking to dissolve the
Union and divide the effects by negotiation.
Both parties deprecated war, but one of them
would make war rather than let the nation sur
vive. and the other would accept war rather than
let it perish ; and the war came. -
One•eight of the whole population were colored
slaves,
not distributed generally over the Union,
but localized in the southern part of it. These
slaves constituted a peculiar and: powerful•inter
est. . All knew that this interest was somehow
the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate
and extent this interest was the object for which
the insurgents would rend the Union, even by
war, while the Government claimed no right to
do more than to restrict the territorial . wiarge
merit of it. - - _
Neither party expected for the war the magni
tude or duration which: it has already attained.
Neither anticipated that the cense of the conflict
alight cease with or even before the conflict it.-
self should-cease:
Each looked for an easier triumph, and a re
sult less fundamental and astounding. Both read
the lame bible and pray to the - same God, And
each invokes his aid against the other.
It may seem strange that any men should dare
to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their_
bread from the sweat of other men's Laces. out's
let us judge so that we be not judged. The-pray
ers of both could not be answered; that of neither_ -
bas been answered fully.
The Almighty has his own purpose's.
" Woe unto the world because of offences ; for
it must needs he that offences come; but Woe - 0
that man by whom the pffenegmotneth."-• I -
If we shall suppose that American slavery is
one of those offences which, in the providenpe of
God, must needs come, but which, having con
tinued through His appointed time, He now wills
to remove, and that he gives to both North and
South this terrible war 1/e the woe due to those
by whom the offence came, shall we discern thine
in any departure from those divine ittrltites
which the believer§ in a- living God ascriberto
him I
Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray that
this mighty scourge of w* may speedily pace
away ; yet if God wills that it continue until all
the wealth piled up by the headmen in two hun
dred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be
sunk, and until the lash shall be paid by another
drawn with the sword, as was said three gams
and years ago, so still it must be said: "The
judgments of the Lord are righteous altogether."
With malice toward none, with charity- for tiil,
with firmness in the right, as God gives us to bee
the right, let us strive on to finish the, work we
are engaged in—to bind up the nation's wounds
—to care for him who shall have borne the bat
tle, and for his widow and his orphans--td do all
which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting
peace among ourselves and with all nations.
EYE AND EAR.—Pfvf. J. hum, M D.,03.
culla sad Atuist, formerly of Leyden. Holland. to lroa
ted permanently at No. 411. Pres &red, PAilagV
where persona afflicted with disease of the Exam, .
will be scientifically treated and cored if curable:
Airrimmat. Eum inserted' without 'palm No
charges made for Examination.
N. .—The medical fiteulty la farited, as be zeta
ensti in his mode of treatment. -
_-•
DisPEPeu.—What every body nye rmiat
true. We have heard Dr. Strieklarel's Tonto When ciao
frequently by then wholuive been benefited by It, theist
last we are compelled to maim it knows to the public:Dud
we really believe it effects a cure Inevery ease: beretbre,
Vie say to those who are autferhwr with Dispepds or Ner
vOus-DebtlityAo arthelr Druggestatedges boetta-of•
Dr. Strickland% Tonic. A-- • • : • ;
WSKUIa!
kers or III lifaultaolas t Oar Goad= carropo•••- . ...
them to grow an the itmootbast -too oo o" ". to Li w
bald heads . to fax _weeks. ' --
sikryhm, &web, aOsdod, ottloOolPO of C gt i 'RA'
iraana CO.; Ekr i allk ,
ablady • -