granklin glooiterg. Wed Jimmy, 'November 1,156 . B The publication of theßeresrronY costs more thou &mai POW that it did beforethil ` war, and we are compelled to enforce prompt settlements. fills will be sent out to every delinquent, and we ask that those receiving them will not delay payment. The expenditures of a printing office are oil rash, and we could not if we would do an exten ded credit businesi with our patrons. Protracted credits are destructive ti any busi ness, but they are more fatul to publishers than any others, because of the small sinus in widely scattered accounts. • • The REPOSITORY spares no reasonable expense to meet all the wants of its patrons, and its Fa lishers, alike from principle and necessity, will -inrxorobly enforce prompt payment of all airounts. OUR NATIONAL PENANCES The recent public statement of Mr. Mc- Culloch, Secretary of the Treasury, that he would direct his energies to a steady con traction of the currency, has elicited much discussion from the press. Abstractly considered, the Principle is a good one that a volume of circulation approaching one thousand millions should be contract ed as speedily as possible to insure a healthy condition of the country. and Mr. M'Culloch see%s to act upon the assump tion that becalfse the rule runs thus, he can der no better than to follow it.. It is conceded, however, that there are excep tions to all rules, which rather prove the rule than antagonize it; mid we apprehend 'that the movement now being made by the Secretary of the Treasury to reduce our circulation will result in evil alike to the national credit and to the people. There are fixed rules which govern all 'heavy debtors inexorably, and the govern ment is not au exception. The individual who would meets non-interest bearing in debtedness by substituting interest-bear "lug bonds therefor, would be regarded as little lessthana simpleton. In vain would lie argue that he had too many notes out and that their, multiplicity impaired his credit. Sensible business creditors would accept the act as but postponing the evil day and swelling the carreet of destruc tion in the end. We cannot view in any other light the proposition of Mr. M'Cul loch to fund our legal tenders. Now they bear no interest—funded they will bear six per cent. in gold, and when say one hundred millions are thus disposed of, the government will have just that amount transferred from its non-interest'to its in terest debt. And what will be the com pensation ? Will it reduce the volume of currency if the people either do in fact need it or believe that they do I' If Mr. M'Culloch were to withdraw thrice that . amount of legal tenders he would not ar rest speculation, if the present business of the country is on a speculative basis. In _ every stringency of the money market the seven-thirties are thrown into circulation, and every time they are thus drawn out they suffer in value: In addition to this, there are over two hundred and twenty millions of compound interest notes and over thirty millions of five per cent. notes —most of which do not circulate in ordi . nary conditions of the market ; but which are called out to supply the demanilshen ever money becomes scarce. 1 3 ;rith more than a thousand millions 'Of government obligatkins which can be_substituted for currency at any time, it is folly for the government at this juncture to attempt • anything like a forcible 'Contraction of the volume of currency. It is folly because however mach it may be in the power of the Secretary of the Treasury to embar rass and .derange business operations for a time, it is not within his power to effect a substantial contraction of the currency. The impotency of the itivernment on this point arises from the fact that by rea son of its vast indebtedness it is not per fectly master of the financial situation. Being diependant rather than independent, it mustfgovern,its operations by the same common sense rules which govern all pru dent debtors. It must be able to pay be fore it can accomplish anything material in regulating the business 'operations of the country. • True it could ,do infinite harm by multiplying its currency indefi nitely; but it cannot, until its receipts ex ceed its expenditures, attempt contraction. While all will agree with the general rules hdd down by the Secretary, there are few who can leok our national finances square ly in the face and admit the wisdom of attempting contraction by funding legal tenders into interest-bearing bonds. Most men will agree that our presents interest is quite as heavy as we can conveniently provide for, and since no substantial good can be attained by the change-,-since it cannot restriht the circulating medium perceptibly, but maY enforce the substi tution of bonds as circulation to their dis credit, the country: will 'not accept the movement as one of advantage to either the finances or the people. - As an tulmonition•to business men, Mr. -McCulloch's speech is sensible and sound, but there its merit ends. If it were even possible fOr him to contract by funding the legal tenders, and thus hasten a specie standard of valueS, where Would be oiir resources fur meeting our increased inter est? Bear in mind that with a reduction of values to a specie standard, our inter nal revenue would. diminish - from one third to one-half, while our interest would main at the mile stubborn, amsalling anount. How then - Would MA. McCulloch maintain our credit By increased taxa tion? That would be impracticable, for the reason that it would peril the whole _fabric of our credit, and without it we would be unable to pay. • a • —There is one course of probable-safe ty, and even that has quite enough of • peril. The volume of currency cannot be reduced at this time, and the less it is at tempted' the less will our credit be im paired. Mr. M'Cullocifii dechuationspoint ing to contraction made gold higher - in stead of lower—a significant admonition 'that the speculator and not the govern ment is inaster of time financial movements. The wants of the people, whether super ficial or real, `seem to demand all the cur-. rency we have, and the government can only allow Imiginess to. regulate itself, ever looking earnestly and acting , sternly against increased expansion. In time, and we hope ,at.no distant.day, our penclitures will fall within the resources of the government, and then, and not till then. can currency be retired legitimately and with legitimate results.. Whenever the government can take in a dollar; that it need not pay out, the work of contrac tion mak begin ou a safe basis, and may continue surely and so gradually as not to produce revulsion ; but until that period arrives, violent efforts to contract, and especially any measure looking to the in crease of our interest bearing debt, must prove alike injurious to the business in terests of the country and to the credit of the-government. PRESIDENT Jotrisos and Major George~L. Stearns (of 7.!ltissachosetts) 'recently had a private interview on the subject of reconstruction, and by permission of the former, the substance of the re marks are published. The President re-enuncia ted his doctrine that, notwithstanding the so-call ,ed secession of certain States, they were never out of the Union:but that by their rebellious course they had forfeited their civil government, to re construct the machinery of which as soon as prac ticable he considers • the chief duty of the time. He did not expect to forever deprive of their for mer civil rights even a majority of those who were excluded in the Amnesty Proclamation; but he intended that they should sue for pardon, and thus realize the enormity of their (Tithe. He is in fa vor of allowing those negroes who hate served in the army, those who can read and write and those who are possessed of-certain other qualifications, to vote. but does not think it is politic or'that he has the right to force these conditions on the white people of the south, though he believes that they will ere long concede this privilege to the freed -11/Vll, The President also favors basing represen tation in Congress on the number of qualified s tors instead of on popubition, as at present. • A REGISTER of all volunteer officers who have served in the army since the rebellion commenced has been prepared at the War Department, and is being printed at the—Go' vermeil t printing of fice. It will be similar to the regular army reg ister, and will contain the name, rank, birth-place, time of entry into the service, and date of dis charge: information itliich vi ill be of great im portance to every officer, as a matter of reference, and valuable as a historical document. It is understmid that the Military Committees of the Senate aild House, will urge, as soon as Congress meets, the pa b.ic,tiiin of a register containing the name, rank, company, and regiment of every pri vate soldier and non-commissioned officer, who has served in the Union army-since the rebellion, with other information, showing the service each' one performed. In anticipation of such a call iug made by Congress, the War Department has commenced the preparation of this register, which will be a work of immense labor and voluminous 11E82 By a late arrival from England weJearn that great excitement has been aroused by 'the publi cation, in the London official Gazette, of the cor respondence-between Mr. Adams, the American Minister, and Earl Russell, relative to ontfclainis upon the British Government for damages occa sioned by - the depredations of the rebel cruiser Alabama. Mr. Adams, in positive terms demands reparation for these damages ; v. hile Earl Russell, in equally decided terms, disavows all liability on the part of the Government of Great Britain. The correspondence is sharp and rather defiant in tone, on both side, The Luudwe Tim es . h orgi , that the suggestion of a commission of inquiry which Earl Russell - throws out, may be accepted; the ministerial Post 'is silent on the subject, and the London :Veirs and Star hardly disguise their fear of u hostile rupture. Aurnr.ct, to the silent umazenient with Which the Democratic organs receive Mr. Johnson's speech to the negro soldiers, the Ercning • Post says ; " ft" is knov‘n thafrisiNty-eight pounder, or other heavy cannon, fired over the waters of a shallow bay, N% ill kill, by its concussion, the lob sters and other hard-shell fish. They , faNnto con vulsions, and pb . rish in great numbers. The'Pre, ident's thoientid pounder, on Tuesday, seems to hate similarlY affected'the people who call them sell es Deniocrat, They are struck with univer sal lock-jaw. They ure amazed—' dumb-found ed,' to uses vulgar phrase. They make altogeth er a very ludicrous and pitiable spectacle." HIM EDWARD M'PHEID3O`.S. Clerk of the C. S, Home of Representatives, - has informed his friends that he will not place upon the official list of members any person claiming to be elected from a state that has been in rebellion against the -government. To do differently would, be to decide, himself, one of the most important'questions be fore Congress; for to let in eighty Southern mem bers at the outset to vote upon their own recog nition, would end the controversy in their favor at once. THE German Reformed Synod, at its lake ses sion at Lewisburg, passed a resolution with only one dissenting voice, returning, thanks fur the re• moval of the "occasion of alienation" in this Their meaning would have been plainer, but perhaps not stronger, had they said " the abolition of slavery." WASHINGTON Condition of Werze—Oectipants ofihe Old Capitot Prlson—Sale of Mrs Blond - Fs Furniture—The Veteran Reserve Corps Important Order—Gen. Grant Purehn• NOM d Residence—liminess Dull. Correspondence of the Franklin Repository. - LII.I WASHING EON CITY, October 29. tea l. The reports circulated and printed in varioy newspapers •that Werze has been found guilty, and a day fixed for his execution," is premature. Th•• finding of the commissain has - not yet been made piddle, though the papers are before the President for his approval, or disapproval.— Werze talks frequently as to theiprobable finding, and expects to be hung. • He says, "I don't care von d--, but if they hangs me the should also hang Jeff. Davis. Winder and those from %%limn I got with orders." When lie converses on this subject lie shows considerable nervousness. He spends much time in reading German wi.rki of fiction, and has but little thought about his spir itual welfare, Rev. F. X. Boyle of St. Peters church ,(Catholic.) visited him about a week ago abd met with rather a cool reception to come from one standing in all probability on the very edge of eternity. There are but twenty prisoners now hi the Old Capitol. The most prominent are Werze, Dun can, foimerly Commissary at Andersonville, Cap tajn Winder, also of Andersonville, Gen. Briscoe, Fuller, of frauds in withal votes, Phelan, for liirgery in National Banks. The balance are cit izens engaged inhorse stealing. The contents of the house occupied by Mrs. Surratt at the time of her arrest were sold at auction on last Friday. A very large crowd of curious people, among them 17earding-house'keep ers and relic hunters, were h attendance. They were all disappointed, as the stock was principal. ly old chairs, bedsteads, carpets, oil cloth, &c., of a very dilapidated quality. A glass case of wax flowers brought nineteen dollars—the bid ding for it being quite spirited among the curious. The order now in press at the War Depart:- merit relation to the muster out of the Veteran Reserve Corps, and which was caused -so much specnlatio I 011 the part of interested parties. is -41,1 g flanktin ittpasitutp, t4ambecsburg, pa. now understood to simply direct commanding of ficers to prepare separate , rolls of those men who &die to be,disehuged the service, and of taste who wish to retained. This is for the purpose of mustering out those men who wish to be, reducing the number of officers and consoli dating the corps, which Congress will be asked to make a permanent organization, into which men who liave been wounded and desire to re enter the service, but who cannot enlist in the regular army, according to the i'egulatione on ac eeurft of existing disabilities , will be admitted. Gov. Pierpont, of Va., is still getting deeper into the mire. He came out in a card it few days since, denying the use of disloyal words in concersati‘n with Comptroller Clark of the Treasury Department—branding the statement as grossly false and stating that• Mfr. Clarke knew them to be false when he caused them to be pub lished. To this Mr. Clarke responds in a card, stating that he had nothing to do with the publi cation of the conversation whatever, and is igno raiituf the source from whence the newspapers fir. 4 obtained the information ; but that Governor Pierpont did make use of the disloyal sentiments imputed to him—and in much more objectiona ble and offensive language than the printed ver sion of the affair (see my letter of last week) and that he.did order the Governor out of the roan. This statement of Mr. Clark is sworn to by Charles D. Smith, who was present and heard the whole affair. What response Gov. Pierpont will, or can make to this remains to be seen. We think the sooner Virginia can be relieved of his rule the better. If the signature of a Geyer.: nor is sufficient to procure a pardon for almost any one of the citizens of the state over which he presides—we do not now wonder at so many of the diabolical rebels of such states as Virginia receiving pardon from President Johnson. If Gm - . Pierpont has made use of the language— which Mr. Clark proves he did, we. think the Governor is a meaner rebel than agy the Presi dent has yet pardoned, and is &Willy not a fit subject for Executive clemency/ The Quartermaster General has issued instruc tions to officers on duty in - the various military departments to elm all animals belonging to the United States i possession of persons who have nu legal right to %hem. The number of animals thus held throughout the country is very large. General Grant has•purchased, for $30,000, the dwelling of the late Stephen A. Douglas, which constituted one-half of the bullding known as ouglas Hospital. It is a magnificent and will be at once fitted up for the family resi dence of Gen.-C,rant, in Washington. Business in Washington'''is Mer= chants are not making their rent. All through the war three large theatres and several small ones have scarcely been adequate to supply the wants of the people. They were crowded night ly, summer and winter. One is now sufficient as a first class theatre. The old Washington thea tre opened with a first class company, some four creeks ago, and has had to shut up shop, after great expense to the managers in refitting, &c. Washington has gone back to the days of old. No lifno enterprise. HARRISBURG Political Character of the Next Legisla ture—Number °COM Meinbersaeturned —The Organisation—Clerkships under Gen. Hartranft and Col. Ca nip bell— Pennsyhnnia Finances. Correspondence of the Franklin Repository. No. N_NN V.) Octc ,er ISO. • The next legitlature will stand as follows; as suming that Mr. Duncan Will come ith the /al ma facie riglirtg'a seat in the Senate from - your district: Union. Dem. 3lzij'y . •20 13 . 116 34 3'2 Senate House Total When the legislature meets, the Union majori ty will be one less in the House, in consequence of the death of Mr. Day Wood, one of the meth bers elect front Lancaster, as the Speaker's writ for a new election capita be issued until after the organization of the `ouse. Of the eleven new Senators elected, seven have been members 0f41(7 - Senate before. , Messrs. Ridgeway. Comiell,-Graham ma:Wallace are re elected to succeed themselves, nuit Messrs. 'White, Landon and Glatz have served - heretofore, but were not members of the last Senate. Landon has been out three years; White'tan years, and Glatz one yeat Messrs. Shoemaker, Cowles; Duncan and BrUlivn, thenther new Senators, Nave never served in either branch of the legislature, and I believe never filled any political position be fore. In the House there will be fifty-six mem bers who served in the fast legislature, and three who served in previous sessions of that body but not in the last. (Jul. Davis of tffe 10th district, of Philadelphia; formerly represented Venango," and Dr. Early,of Elk and Stehman of Lancaster have each served before. The re-election of so many members to the House is altogether Ulllt,„ al, and each party contributes about an equal proportion of re-elections as compared with their relative strength. • In the Senate Clymer and Wallace will lead the Democratic side as hereto fore, while Landon and, White will be added to the alreadyltrong parliamentary leaders on the Union side. The Democrats of the House will miss Purdy and : Sharpe—the first a superior tac tician and the hist its ablest advocate, and there, are none to take their places. Mr. Pershing will be left almost alone as the leader on that aide.— On the Union side Kelly and Waddell will be the ablest of the old meznbrrs, but there is much - good material among the new members: Mann, of Pot ter, will take the place of Olmstead, and though scarcely less able, will figure less as a leader.— The Union mepbere have more than the usual number of members above the average of legis lative ability. • • -- The Speakership of the Senate will go to Mr. Fleming of this place without a:contest, and Mr. Hamersly will continue as ciJrk by consent. In the House there will probably be an animated contest for the Speaker's chair. Kelly, 'Kegley, and Glass have been mimed in the west, and Da vis and Rudd: n unan of Philadelphia are also spo ken of ; but as Kemble will be re-elected Treas urer, the city will nut seriously claim both. Col. Quay of Beaver would be a strong candidate if he could be persuaded to accept, but he is the friend of Kelly, and will not allow his name to be used while there is lfhpe for his frientla„nd col league. Benedict will be Clerk of the House without a contest. There will be various snug clerkships to fill in the Auditor General's and Surveyor General's of fices next May; but I feel safe in saying that none but meritorious soldiers need apply. I take it lbr gmnted_that two bravo soldiers like General llartranft and CoL Campbell will not leave their wounded behind then when they have me oppor tunity to take cure of them. I look for the Audi torPenerafs office to be filled wrth the heroes of Fort Steadman. Civilians would save paper, time,trouble and money by, not pressing themselves for clerkships. The financial condition of Pennsylvania as it will be presented in the official reports at the close of the current fiscal year, will be better than ever'before. The debt was redwied sonic $;300,_ 000 during the last year, and- a large sum is still available and applicable to its liquidation. Thad dition to this, the State has paid some $800,000• of military claims, $200,000 for traniportution; $1,800,000 of direct tax, and $750,000 for mili tia called out under an order of the President, for which the general government is bound by every consideration of justice and gond faith.. It Ia a most remarkable record that Nimaylvania, with all her generosity and immense expenditures to sustain the government - and defend herself, has less debt to-day than before the war. Hai cred it never was better. PHILADE,LPIII4 Frauds in the Soldier Vote—The Elettion of Given to be Contested—Death of J. Barclay Harding—The Great Fair—The Tunisian Embassy—Hon. W. IL Seward —Rase Ball Match. Cof4OsPoOdenee of the Frani:to Reptoitcu r y. Nen - PLIILADELPIIIA, October 30, 1t63 Our city is in considerable excitement over the election returns purporting to come from the Philadelphia troops encamped in the field. and elect John Given as City Commissioner. Mi. Given was the Republican candidate for the posi tion at the late election, but fell some ten thousand votes behind his ticket, and on the home vote was defeated by a considerable majority. On Friday last, however, at an adjourned meeting of the Board of Return Judges held for the purpose of counting the soldiers' vote, a remarkable series of documents were presented, which - elected Given by stone three hundred majority... These alleged returns hear upon their fitce such eviden _ces of fraud that the Sunday D,ispatch, Evening Bulletin, Press, and other Republican journals have boldly spoken up in denunciation of them and of the unscrupulous attempt of Given to re tain his office. Given is one of the most pliant tools of Simon Cameron, and has energetically endeavored to injure Judge Kelley in the 24th Ward, in which both the gentlemen reside, but with what success may be judged from the fact that Given fell some seven hundred votes behind his ticket in that ward. Major Weaver, who is fairly elected, to the City Commissionership, will at once contest.-Given's certificate of election, -which is based on the returns of `which we havb spoken, and which, though purporting to come from diametrically opposite portionsof the eoun try, are in envelopes directed in the same hand writing, and post marked either in New YOrk or Washington. The whole matter will be thorough ly sifted,'and I shall keep you fully posted on its progress. Barclay Harding, publisher of the Evening. Td egrapht and Collector of Internal Revenue tar the first district of Pennsylvania, died last evening at his residence in this city. Mr. Harding Was a highly respected citizen and a genial gentleman. A meeting of the editorial profession a ill be held to-morrow afternoon„at the rooms of ,the Press Club, to - take action on the 'natter. The gnat-fair for the benefit of the Soldier's and Home is still progressing at the. Acad emy of .Stusie.. : The airplay is one of the must brilliant Wer known in our city. The attendance is large and the receipts bid fair to add weightily to the Treasury of the Home. The Tunisian embassy Spent Tuesdaiand Wed nesday hest in our city, and were entertained by some of our most prominent citizens. The dele gation embraced the following persons: General Otinan Bushell, Special Ambassador from his Highness the Bey of Tunis, Colonel Ramiro Gui ta, Aid-de-camp to General Hasher, and Chei a- Her Antoine Conti, Secretary and Interpreter. They are accompanied by Amos Perry, Esq., of Rhode Island, United States Consul to Tunis, who came with the legation at the particular re; quest of his Highness the Bey : The distinguished party were en route for Washington. where they will be formally presen t.il to President Johnson and discharge - the main object of their mission to the Uhited States.— This duty consists in extending, on behalf of the Bey, congratulations to our Government on to overthrow of the Rebellion and the re-estabish• ment of yeace on the basis of a preservation of the Union. j Gen. Beaten will also present to President JOhnson a full sized portrairof the . Bey of Tunis,and is th4l hearer of alettei final the Tunisian Minister of State to Secretary Sew ard, and of two autograph letters from the Bey to Presidazit Johnson and Mrs. Lincoln. The Embassy while in Philadelphia paid a visit EN2 to the ghat Fair for the beae'fit of tke Soldiere and Sallore Houle, ut the Academy of Music. They were conducted through the different apart ments by a committee of gentlemen, and while inspecting the Arms and Trophies Department, Gen. Hashen made a few remarkeappropnittc to the scene and the occasion. He ale made some liberal donations to the Yair, and expressed his entire sympatkr with its objects. , The Embassy have been, in this. countrv:abou three Ns eeks, most of which time has been spent in New York. A visit has been paid to Niagara Falls and a few other points. The personnel of tine members of the Embassy is striking and picturesque, 'General Hasher is a tall, finely formed man; of apparently fifty years of age. Hsa complaint' is light brown, black ex pressive eyes, thick, curly hair, of a dark and -wooly appearance, and a short black beard and mustache. He' resses in a full suit of black broad cloth, the African fez cap, red in color, wish large blue tassel thrown to the rear, and he wears a curiously wrought blue-black cloak. ' - The other members of the Embassy differ:in no material respect in appearance from the general, with the exception of Chevalier Conti, the Secre tary, who is-quiteu young man, of very prepos sessing appearance and engaging manners. The Ambassador, General Hashen, is connected with one 9f the oldest and most respectable families of Tunis, and has been despatched by his GOVPlti meat on diplomatic missions, to Constantinople, Paris and Madrid, but this is his first trip across the Atlantic. Col. paita, was brought up in the service of the Bey and Chevallier Conti, has been connected with the Tunisian Government since his boyhood. The city of Tunis comprises about 150,000 in habitants, and the population of Algiers, of which Tunis is the capital, isiabout 2,000,000. The kingdom is nominally under Turkiiih , rule, but it is now, and fish been for the last century and a half, actually independent: arranging all its foreign and demestic affairs without auy refer ence to Ate Ottoman Government. A large amount of direct trade Witlrthe United States was. formerly carried on, but of late years its commerce has been carried on through the niediUm of Italy, France and England, through whose ports large quantities of Tunisian pnidue ' thins, principally wool and olive oil, have been sent to tnis country. Hon. Wm. H. Seward - wag also entertained lot Wednesday last in our city at jhe residence of Benj. H. Brewster,---tisq., with whom he spent the day. To-day the great National Base Ball match be- tween the Athletic club of this city and the At !antic of New Yak for the championship o America comes off in thin city and will'be atten ded by a large crowd. - •t. A CORRESPONDENT writing from Mobile, (Al. abama), says of the track of Wilson's raid: Tak ing the wagon road from Montgomery to Selma. I followed the thick of Wilson's raid fifty miles, and a man, though a fool, could not - have ' erred therein. A tropical tornado never lett more dis tinct traces of its course through the jungle than this same raid bus through the heart of Alabama. Not a field is in cultivation, not a house bas been rebuilt, and not even the grass grown over the camping grounds of the cavalry. Here and there the ruins of a once stately mansion rise up drea rily beforeihe traveler and give dignity to the picture of desolation. The royal magnolias still stand in the yards, bnt the only sign of life and 'happiness among them is the music of -the mock ing birk There is only one respectable house left along this road. Why it Was spared the own er did not know. ACCORDING to an official return in Tennessee there are eightp.three thousand adults in that State who can neither read nor write, and three hundred thousand children for whose education there are no adequate facilities. The present white population of Tennessee is about 530,000; that one person in ten is absolutely illiterate. Such facts as these explain some. of the political events of the last four years. PEJIISONA.L. --General Grant has purchased a residence in Washington for $30,000.' —On Saturday Governor Curtin hid an inter view with the President. , H. H. Stuart says the teat oath will ei .cludelim from. Congress. —Caleb Cushing sailed today for Europe on a mission for the, government. —Hon. Edward M'Pherion has gone to New Jersey to stump for the Union ticket. —Goy. Morton, of Indiana, is seriously ill with rheumatism, and is threatened with paralysis. Hollins has been appointed Commis sioner of Internal Revenue, vice Wm. Orton, re signed. —Efforts are being made by parties in 'Wash ington to bring Colonel Moseby to trial before a military court. —Joseph E. Worcester, compiler of the dic tionary which bears hi, name, died at Cambridge, Mass., last week. —Judge Stump, formerly of Baltimore, died suddenly at the residence of his brother, in Cecil county, on Sunday afternkum. —Enoch W. C. Greene, editor of the Philadel phia Sunday Transcript, has been appOinted pen sion ;went in that city, vice,ldr. Poulson. —Bamiim has purchased seven hits of ground in Union Square, New York, and will commence the erection ofhiq new Museum next May. —Adjutant General Thomas intends to ask to be placed on the retired list, and to make his fu ture home on a cotton plantation in Louisiana. —Major General Franklin will resign_his com mission in the serrice, .to take the management of the Colt's Fire-arms Manufacturing Company. —Arteinue Ward, according to the New York Evening:Post, has just been left forty thousand pounds by an uncle 'lO has recently died in, London. [—Hon. William Harris, Senator from the Cen tre county district in 1864, and the oldest native inhabitant of Bellefonte, died in that place on Wednesday last. —Major General A. D. M'Cook tendered his resignation tithe Secretary of War, in order to identify himself with the Butterfield Overland Express Company. —Emerson- A Etheridge has been acquitted of the charges pViferred against him before the Mil itary Commission at Columbus, Ky and is-now at his• home in Dresden, Tennessee. • ' —Samuel Hepburn Pollock, son of Ea-Gover nor Polka, and Chief Clerk of the Directors of the Stint, died in Philadelphia on Wednesday, from disease contracted in the army. —General Abner Doubleday, of Fort Sumter, has been breveted brigadier general in the regular army for gallant and meritorious conduct during * War, to date from March 13th, 1865. —Gov. Curtin visited the Soldier's and Sailor's Fair, at the Academy of Slime, Philadelphia, on Wednesday evening last, a l nd delivered a stirring address. Hiareceptioii was very enthusiastic. —l-Last Friday being tile 25th anniNersory of the,wedding of Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, his friends in Natick presented him with $5,000 worth of silver plate and other articles, and a 'purse of $l,OOO. —Ex-President Frank Fierce has purchased a Snug little place of forty acres, called the Brown Farm, in North Hampton, New Hampshire, north -side of Little Bore's Head, and about a mile south of Atlantic House, at Rye. is stated that arrangements have been made for the trial of Jefferson Davis for treason before the U.S. Supreme Court, at - Washington or Richmond, at an early, day. Counsel have been selected both by the government and the defense. =IL S. Foote, late of the rebel government, appeared before the U. S. Court in New. York to be admitted to the bar. He took the oath to sup ; pa the Constitution of the United States and 'that of New York, but refused the oath of allegi ance, and left, unsworn. —The Rev. Dr. Nathan B—Crocker, sincelB4B the oldest presbyter of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States, and for more than sixty years rector of St. IJohn's Church in Provi dence, Rhode Island, died in that city on Thurs. day evening, aged 8.4 years. —The war Department has decided; with the approval of Gen. Grant, not to restore the prop. erty of ex-Gov. Henry A. Arise, of Virginia. Gen. Terry's action in refusing to give'up the ea tre is sustained. Wise's house is still used as a school for the' children of freed negroes, and old John BrOwn's daughters are the teachers. B. Ketchum was arraigned in the Court of General Sessions before Recorder Hoffman. He withdrevi his plea of not guilty on the gold check indictment for forgery in the third degree, and put in a plea of guilty. It was, agreed his sentence should be suspended till be can be ex amined in the civil cases before the courts. —The contest in the Sixth Congressional Dis trict of Massachusetts, between General Banks and his uncle, the Rev. Mr. Greenwood:the op posing candidate, had its parallel some years since, when Rev. Dr. Breekinridge was a politi cal rivarof his nephew, the traitor rebel general. In that case the nephew was successful, as the nephew will be now. In both cases the uncle is a clergyman and the nephew a lawyer. - -The Cincinnati Gazette says the reports tele graphed to eastern papers to the effect that Goy. Morton has been stricken down with paralysis, are untrue. His Excellency has been severely affliCted for a week past with neuralgia in the chest, aid lip was at one tkne threatened with paralysis. That danger, however, is.happily . ,Past, and he is now rapidly recovering. .He was able fo he at the Executive Department during a por tion of Wednesday. —Maior General George 11. Thomas is congrat ulating himself em his successful strategy in esea-• ping the lion-hunters. He has travelled from Nashville to New York, and through the principal cities on the Atlantic coast, without suffering a single public reception__ For the first time since the outbreak of the wnr General Thomas new al lows himself the pleasure of a reunion with his family. In four years he saw his wife but once. •lie is new in Washington.. -,Sainuel Hepburn, Esq., for many years a lawyer of distinction reAding in Milton, Northum , berland county., and for some years past a citizen of Lock Haven, died in that place, on Monday morning, at the residence of his son-in-law Dr. H. A. Lichtenthaler, at the advanced age of eighty-four years. Mr. Hepburn was the father in-law of Ex-Go . Vernor Pollock, Director of the Philadelphia Mint, and also of E. A. Mackey, Esq., President of the Lock Haven Bank, and was wide ly connected with the best families of the State, —Col. James L. Orr has been chosen Gover nor of South Carolina—the first ever elected by a popular vote. _ Col. Orr, like provisional Gov. Per ry, hails from The upland portion of the State, and did good service against secession in 1860-1. Ho was a moderate in 1860, but finally yielded to the current. Borne ni 1822, he was first chosen to the State Legislature iu 1844. to Congress in 1848, and in 1857 was elected Speaker—the lad ever elevated to that post by the Wetheeratie vote. Col. Orr is an able, fair-Minded man, and, we trust, Will honestly labor to restore peace and pros ptrity of our whole country. —Gov. Sharkey, the Senator elect for the •hor term from Mississippi, is well known tbrougbou the sonar) , ; hut his colleague, J. L. Alcorn. elec , . ted forthe,long term, hasinot been made so prom inent by I eiieritii; Iliad is hot promiaently known outside of his own-State:. He has' really never held any important offices in either State or Fed eral Government, but has served 'several sessions in the Legislature. When the war began ho tens known as a strong Unionist. So positive was he in his vieyon this a bject that when he finally suceumb-*I to'the au ority of the rebellion he did oot attaid any "mpor nt position, being retarded -by th ter w lab he made as a Unionist When, however, the work of reconstruction be grin, he 'was rcalled r m his - retirement and elec ted to the first Legislature of the reconstructed State Government. On the 20th inst. he was cho sen over Judge Jacob S. Yerger, the rebel Gener al S. H. Gholson and others, for Senator in the United States Congress. —We regret to chronicle the sudden death, on Sunday evening last, at his residence in Phila delphia, of Mr. J. Barclay Harding, editor and publisher of the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph; aged thirty-five years, of congestion of the brain. Mr. Harding was a native of that city, twin broth er of William W. Harding, publisher of the In quirer, both being sons of the late Jesper Hard ing. He was a graduate of the Central High School, learned the printing business as a compos itor in his father's offiee,'subsequently served a number of years as a clerk in the Post-office, and then became the publisher of the Philadelphia Daily Times, au enterprising and interesting Re publican morning paper, during the Fremont campaign. When the People's party attained power in Philadelphia he was chosen Assistant Clerk of Common Council, and the following year was elected Chief Clerk to the Select Council. He has since established the Telegraph, and upon the death of his father succeeded him as Collector of Internal Revenue for the First Congr4asional district. He was a genial man, of popular man ners, and possessing much public MILITARY INTELLIGENCE —Gen. Grant, together with otht'T leading offi cers, favors an increase of the regular army to 75,000 men. —Judge Holt has made his award of rewards for the capture of Booth, and it is now in the. President's hands for approval. - -During the year ending June:3o, 1865, the Pension Office, admitted 15,328 soldiers to pen sion. and 24.716 widows and orphans. The an nual payment to these pensioners will amount to $3,796,457. • -Minister Adams and Earl Russell have had a coirespondence in relation to the responsibility of England for the ravages committed by rebel pirates fitted out in England. Russell repudiates all lia bility and refuses all arbitration. —The remains of the Union suldien3 whowere buried south of the Potomac in le6l are being exhumed and reinterred in the national cemetery at Arlington, under the direction of Colonel Lud dington, chief quartermaster of the Department of Washington. Sixty-four have thus been trans ferred. —General Grant, after a consultation with the President and Secretary of War, has decided to recommend the mustering out of the Veteran Re serve Corp , and an order to that effect will beis sued. his is in accordance with General Grant's idea of reduction of the army' to h minimum standard. • —Lieut. Gen. Grant's official-report for the years 1864 and 1865, covering the active and stir ring operations in the campaign which ended with the complete suppression of the rebellion, has been completed, and will soon be sent to the War Department ; but not expected to be' given to the public till after the meeting of Congress. Though in its statements it is said to be necessa rily of considerable length. —Lieutenant Colonel A. C. Hamlin, U. S. ar my who has made several inspections of the An dersonville prison, has made a very long and in teresting report on the prison, and states that the lives lost at that one spot, by starvation and cru elty, outnumbered the killed and wounded in the British army in all of the great battles of the pe ninsular war and at the battle of New Orleans. The report could not be received in evidence at the Werze trial, on account of its being closed when the Colonel reached Washington. It is ho ped, however, the,report will be published. • - --The official announcement of the War De pariment that persons who have been liable to the draft during the war, amlhave left the country rather than serve in the ranks of the national al , my, may retail without any fear that the pains and penalties if desertion - will be' imposed, will undoubtedly result in an immense immigration from Canada and Europe. Thousands of young men who could not afford or were not inclined to pay the money demanded for substitutes, betook themselves to the other hemisphere or sneaked off to Canada. They will now return in force, se cured against all liability to answer the charge of desertion. POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE. —The average Republican majority in the election in . Nebraska territory is about 600. ' —Wade Hampton is probably elected Gover nor of South Carolina by a large majority, • —Gov. Perry, W. W. Boyce and John Camp bell are the prominent candidates for United States Senators from South Carolina. —The returns of the soldiers, together with a correction of a mistake in the 7th Ward, elects Mr, John Given, Union, City Commissioner of Philadelphia by 322 majority. --:Gen.Clarence A. Seward has declined, on account of his profesponal engagements, the nom= 'nation for the once of Judge of the Supreme Court of New York;lendered him by the Union PartY -Returns from the local elections;in about one-third of the State show that Indiacm gives a Union majority of 1,280 this year, against a De moeratic majority of 5,782 last year, or a Union gain of 7,062. , _ —At the Cumberland County, N. J., Democrat ic Convention, Landis township was unrepresent ed, it is said, in consequence of there not being members enough of that party to form a delega tion. The township is Union to a man. • - —Mr.Barbour, who has just been elected to Congress in Virginia, is announced to take the stump for the Union cause and candidates in New Jersey. This looks morn like old times and' true than anything since Lee's surrender. —The Republicans of Colorado have nomina ted Gen. William Gilpin for Governor and G. M. Chilcot for Territorial Representative in Con gress., Resolutions were adopted denouncing the charges against Col; Chivington's command, as based on misconception and misrepresentation. • —Monroe county must be a den of Copper heads. The following are a few samples of the way her people voted ut the late election : Cool bough township, 59 for Davis, 6 for Hartranft; Eldred township, 137 for Davie, none for Hart ranft ; Middle Smithfield township, 213 for Davie, 10 for Hartranft. —The Legislature of Ohio stands as follows: f the 37 members of the Senate, 25 are Union, and of the 105 members of the Houee,,6B are Union, and the election of at least two more by the soldiers' vote is confidently expected, making 70 Union members in the louse, and giving the Union party two-thirds in each branch, and a majority on joint ballot of 48. 2 —We have the testimony of a distinguished Wirth Carolinian—Han Kenneth Raynor—that November 1, 1865. 4' the South 'is' indebted to Zeturiciatie party for its present destitute, and humiliated condition. He distinctly declares that the Southern people were seduced from their allegiance to the Gov ernment bi the wiles of that corrupt political - bi - : or ganization, ation, and he enumerates the prominent measures by which the rebellion was fashioned and set in motion. NATIONAL TELANIFINGIVING DAY President Johnson has loaned the following proolamatipn, appointing Thtuaday, December as a day of National Thanksgiving : ➢T TOE- FILSSIDENT OF ME UNITED STATES, A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God during the year which is now coming to an end, to re• lieve our beloved country from the fearful scourge of civil war, and to permit us to secure the bless ings of peace, unity, and harmony, with a great enlargement of ciCil liberty ;_and Whereas; Our Heavenly Father has also during the year graciously averted from us the calamities of foreign war, pestilence and famine, while our granaries ate full of the fruits of an abundant sea son ; and Whereas, "Righteousness exalteth a nation, while sin is a reproach to any people ;" Now, therefore, be it known... Plat I, ANDREW JorissoN., President of the United States, do here by recommend to the people thereof, that they do set apart and observe thefirat Thursday abeam ber next as a day of National Thanksgiving to the Creator of the Univerie am these deliverances and blessings. And I do further recommend that on that occa sion the whole people make confession of our na tional sins against His infinite goodness, and with .one heart and one mind implore the - Divine guid ance in the ways of national virtue and holiness. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the Unified States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this 28th day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and of the independ ence of the United States the nineteenth. _ ANDREW JontiSON. By•the President Wm. H. SEWMW, Secretary of State. A SIOUSE STORY.—An English loutmal has the f - ollowing story, of which the reader may be lieve iv much as he pleases: - . A gentleman in Scotland has trained a couple of mice and invented machinery for enabling them to spin yarn. The work is done on the treadmill principle. It is so constructed that the common house mouse is enabled to make atonement to so ciety for past offences, by twisting and reeling from one hundred - to one hundred-and twenty threads per day. To complete this the littlepe destrian has to run ten and a half miles. This journey it performs every day with ease. An or dinary mouse weighs only half an ounce. A half penny's worth of oatmeal, at one shilling and threepence the peck, serves one of these tread. Mill culprits for the long 'peliod of five weeks. In that tom it makes one hundred and ten threads per day, being an‘verage of three thousand eight hundred and fifty threads of fifty five inches, which is nearly nine lengths of the reel. A penny is paid to women for every cut in the ordinary way. At this rate a mouse earns niuepence every five Weeks, which is one farthing per day, or seven shillings and sixpence per annum. Take sixpence off for board and one shilling for machi nery, there will (vise six shillings clear profit from every mouse yearly. • The mouse employer is going to make application for the lease of an old empty house, the dimensions of which 'are one 'hundred feet by fifty feet and fifty feet in height, which, at a moderate calculation, will hold ten thousand mouse mills, sufficient room being left for keepers and some hundreds of spec tators. Allowing £2OO for rent and taskmas ters, £lO,OOO to erect machinery, and £5OO for the interest, there will be left a balance of £2,- 300 per annum. AFFAIRS Eti KENTLICKY.—The following ex tract from a private letter of General Brisbin, commanding the Ist Division of Kentucky, to a gentleman of Cincinnati, not only explains the condition of things in that State, but predicts start- r ling things for the future: "ilcow that martial law has been labrogated, many seem determined to perseerite the'poor ne groes and return them to slavery under the State laws. Others are intent on ruining Union men by dragging them before disloyal courts. I think I understand the President's policy toward this and other rebel States. He desires to trust the people, believing that four years of +,viplence and war have brought every -man to enininctly desiie peace and quiet. He wishes to afford a misgui ded people a fair...opportunity to undo by their own action, as far as possible, the mischief which they have done. That the people of some of the Southern Stateswill' deceive Mr. Johnson, and by their reprobacy and blindness of heart frus trate his good intentions, I verily believe, and that Kentucky will be the most stiffnecked of all I also believe ; but - when these people shall have neglected the offer of mercy now held out to tbeirv, as they will when they shall have spurned and tcampled upon the clemency of the government, as they will; then, I belivve, the great and mag nanimous heart of Mr. Johnson, now generous and tender, will grown hard toward the South ern people, and then he will do as he has prom ised, pi.nish treason as a crime, and all the world will say amen." THE Ekts—The remains of the unknown wo man and her two.daufhters, who were killed in "the late terrible accident on the Pennsylvania railroad, have at last been identified, and inter red in Woodland Cemetery, . at Lancaster. Charles Scott, (a brother-m,law of the nntbrtu nate woman,) of Coshocton, Ohio, vhtited Lancas ter, and had no difficulty in recognitng the bod les of the unfortunate persons as being Mn. team and her daughters The , &p . n.s's was the foL lowing account of the manner in which a clue was obtained of the friends of the deceased: "It seems that the deceasedwere passengers by the Allentown route, and got on-this train at Harrisburg. by mistake, their baggage going over the other route. Upon examining this uncle:lined baggage, photographs were found in the -trunk, taken by a photographerat Coshocton, Ohio. Mr. Franciscus at once sent Mr. Ross to that place, who traced out the relatives through ihformation given by the photographer. The sister of-Mrs. Bean showed Mr. Ross a photograph, which he at once recognized as the likeness of the woman Who had been ,killed on the train. Mr. Sentt, her brother-in-law, came in from the \Vestal% Mr. Rem reaching here last night, and this horning - identified the -- bodies: This - -ends the last sad chapter iu the record of this mournful ensulty - .TM - - - - DISCOVERY OP' A NEW, COPPER ORE ~—h. short time since several gentlemen intereffted in the mineral resources of-the South Monntrdn, dis covered inTavetown district some eXtrafiadialOT specimens of copper ores. Upon a thorough ex amination of them by a celebrated chemist-the)" were found to be a rich black sulphuratof cap per or copper glance. As this ore is - usually found in strong and profitable veins, we have' lit tle doubt, from the extensive range over which it is found, that it will add materially to that-min eral region. In addition to the beds and veins of metallic copper, red oxide, blue and green car bonates, and silicate of copper which have at tracted so much attention recently, we have now in addition this valuable ore. We regret we have not been furnished with a complete analysis of MS recent discovery; a further and detailed de cription we hope to present to our readout in a few days. - - We congratulate the people_ of Washington county upon their evidences of wealth and pros perity now becoming known, and hope in a few years the development of her ores, which now present such flattering and encouraging prospects, will place her amongst the first mineral, as she now stands one of the first agricultural, counties east of the - Alleghenim — Hagent(nrn Mail. THE POST OFFICE bEPART';IENT.—We 41113 informed that on the summing up of the Post Of fice Department for the fiscal year ending' June 30 ; 1865, the excess of receipts over expendi tures is found to be More than $850,000. This is the first time in the history of that department that so favorable a financial exhibit has been made, and though a portion of this retrenchment is due to the increased number of letters written and sent to and from the armies in the field, a considerable share of the credit is due -to the economical and business like manner inwhichthe affairs of the Post Office Department have lately been conducted, and to the efficiency- of the offi cers who have been engaged in the-mail service. There is good reason to believe that after civil government is fully established in the' Southern States, and that country is occupied by enterpri sing men from the North, the mail servieeof the whole country will be made self-sustaining. Un der the system inaugurated by the present Post master General such a result is almost certain.— It'askington Chronicle. -
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