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TnURSDAY::::::::::::::DECEMBKR 15.
Tlic President's message.
Immediately on its promulgation, vhich
was after the regular edition of The Alia
ghaniart had been pressed off lat week, we
issued an "exira" countaining the Presi
dent's Message, which we distributed to a
majority of our readers. They were thus
favored with an opportunity of acquaint
ing themselves wiih the views and senti
ments contained ic that most important
public document considerably sooner than
they could otherwise have hoped for.
The, brevity of the Message will com
mend it to the general reader, while the
frank and unostentatious manner with
"which it discusses the various topics with
in the range of its notice cannot fail to
tender comprehensible to every one who
gives it his perusal. It abounds in wis
dom, sagacity, and statesmanship, and a
rpirit of thorough loyalty and patriotism
imbues its every utterance. Beyond per
adventure, with Abraham Lincoln as the
head of the Government, the prestige,
glory, credit, and prosperity of the He
public will never be suffered to lessen or
grow pale.
The Harrisburg Telegraph makes ref
trence to ths Message in terms so infinitely
more appropriate than we are capaole of,
that we herewith transfer its remarks to
our columns, accepting them as our own :
Iu the opening of his Message, the
President assures the country that our
foreign relations are reasonably satisfactory-
Every Government in the world, with
the least pretension to Republicanism, un
disguisedly sympathizes with the efforts of
the Federal authorities to crush the slave
holders' rebellion. There is something
significant as vrell as impressive in this
fact. Its significance is increased by
another fact, namely, that those of the
xnouarchiai governments of the world, the
authorities repicseuting a purely aristo
cratic or despotic form of government,
which do not directly afford aid and sym
pathy to the slaveholders in rebellion,
refuse to exercise a just neutrality by
seeking in every possible way to embar
rass the government of the United States.
From these facts it can bo inferred that
great skill and sagacity were rcquiied to
manage our diplomatic relations. The
Government, yielding uoae of its dignity
nor surrendering any of its rights, has
fuccessfully managed to counteract the
eecrct machinations as well as defeat tho
apea plots of our foreigu enemies to add
to our embarrassments i; the struggle
with a base and causeless insurrection.
And it is sanguinely anticipated that these
relations with cur true friends, the Re
publicans of the world, will be undisturb
ed; while as wc succeed iu vindicating
aud exhibiting our power as a nation,
foreigu governments heretofore and now
against us will change their attitudes, and
obey the necessities which control the
world by acquiescing in results they can
not change.
The financial affairs of the nation are
justly described as occupying a basis of
good security. The great fact that our
debt is an indebtedness which we owe our
selves will prevent it from ever becoming
a burden. In the language of the Presi
dent, ''Men readily perceive that they
cannot be much oppress-cd by a debt they
owe themselves' And this is the real
character of our indebtedness. The peo
ple owe it to the people. Instead of being
m drawback to the nation, it will become
hereafter its real bond of strength. We
earnestly commend this portiou of the
Message to. the careful consideration of
the people. Its suggestions in reference
to a uuiform currency its bolicitudc for
ihe prompt pay incur of pensions -its re
commendation ou the subject of exempt
in,; a certaiu amount of bond from taxa
tion and seizure from debt these are all
of the highest importance, and should, be
well pondered by every man in the coun
try. There can be no mistaking the
assurance that the resources of the country
aro of a character forever to prevent the
national debt froui becoming a burden to
labor.
Our military and uaval affairs are next
yrleffy adverted to, and. shewn to be 13 a
most cheeriDg condition. Every lino oc
cupied by our armies since the last annual
Message has been extended, the enemy
driven lrom his securest positions, and
important territory wrested from his grasp,
unti! he i now confined within limits
jajvhere his complete subjugation is reduced
to a mere matter of time. Already have
the results of the war exhibited the utter
folly of the struggle on the part of the
slave master. Old slave States are abol
ishing slavery new States are declaring
for freedom and a free sentiment is being
created where, four years ago, to speak of
liberty was to invite death. All this
prognosticates the final and complete
overthrow of slavery in all the States
where it is now legalized, .and the speedy
redemption of the Union from the barba
rous disgrace which now tarnishes its
escutcheon.
In conclusion, Mr. Lincoln reiterates
the resolution wlmh distinguished the
policy of his administration, during the
past four years in reference to rebellion.
The slave-holderV rebellion is to be put
down, regardless of the cost or the hazards
involved in the effort. The authority of
the land must and shall be vindicated. To
compromise with treason would be to ?ap
the foundations of our national existence.
To yield a single demand to insurgents
with arms in their hands, would be to ad
mit the validity of their claims, as well as
acknowledge the weakness of tho Govern
ment, Relying on the support of the
people, aud believing in their valor, the
President 13 determined to prosecute the
war until he wrenches obedience from
traitors, and establishes the complete
peace of the country.
Tlie Vole for I'resicleut -Pennsylvania.
Official.
The following is the official vote cast
for Presidential Electors by the several
counties of this Commonwealth, on the
8th November, the figures given constitu
ting the vote received by the leading
Elector on each ticket :
Counties. Union.
Adams 2,612
Allegheny 21,519
Armstrong 3,526
Beaver 3,237
Bedford 2,336
Berks 6,710
Blair 3.'92
Bradford :.. 6,865
Bucks 6j,426
Butler 3,475
Cambria 2,24i
Cameron 335
Carbon 1,721
Centre 2,8 1 7
Chester ,445
Clarion 1,780
Clearfield 1,506
Dem.
3,016
12,414
3,241
2,304
2,752
13,206
2,686
3,007
7,335
232
2,251
3,393
6,987
2,833
2,b0l
2,135
3,367
4,526
4,356
4,220
2,141
835
3,722
4,126
3,821
900
62
3,070
2,477
2.179
1,868
1,7-33
8,451
1.389
2,779
5,920
10,043
4,207
C52
3 y 'O tjO
1.716
2,693
7,94:i
1,436
6,944
3,608
2,446
44,032
1,180
680
& 9.540
1,719
1,363
670
2,959
1,684
1,352
3,341
2,505
4,579
2,989
5,977
1,402
8,500
276,308
Cliuton I,0J6
Columbia.
1,914
Crawford
Cumberland....
Dauphin
Delaware
Elk
Erie
6,441
3,601
5,544
3,664
343
6,y 1 1
3,321
694
85
Fayette ...
Franklin..
Fulton.....
Forest
Greone....
1,533
Huntingdon 3,321
Indiana 4,320
Jctl'ersou 1,823
Juniata 1,437
Lancaster...
14,469
Lawrence
Labanou -
Lehigh
Luzeruu
Lycoming .
M'Ke.m
Mercer
MiQIin
Monroe -
Montgomery
Montour
Northampton
Northumberland
Terry
Philadelphia
Pike ,
Potter
Schuylkill
Somerset
Snyder -
Sullivan
Susquehanna -
Tioga
Union
Venango .................
Warren
Washi ngton......... ..........
W ay a e ...............
Westmoreiaud .................
Wy o n i u g. ...........
Y or k ."
3,403
3.780
3J08
7,6 i5
3,401
767
4,220
1,643
685
G.872
1,130
3,726
2,915
2,406
55,7'Jl
260
1,590
7,851
2,788
1,679
303
4,203
4,673
1,945
3,849
2,541
4,951
L',274
4,650
. 1,337
. 5,568
.296,389
76,308
Totals.
Union majority 20,081
An order has been issued from the War
Department authorizing the organization
of a new 1st Army Corps, to be composed
of ofiTcers and men who have been in the
military service not less than two years,
giving to each man a government bounty
of $300, tnd allowing him the privilege
of crediting himself to any sub-district in
the district where he may be domiciled,
and to serve one year. The privilege is
also accorded each enlisted man of retain
ing his gun as his own at the end of his
term of service. This new Corps will be
commanded by Maj.-Gen. Hancock, one
of the bravest and most efficient officer?
with the Army of the Potomac. It is
already petdily filling up.
Tbe Campaign.
From the New York Tribune of Monday.
Perhaps no week Biuce the war began
has witnessed a greater degree of activity
than the one just passed ; yet we are with
out intelligence of its actual results.
Sherman has approached, and probably
has reached, the goal of his magnificent
march across the Keystone State of the
Confederacy. Thomas, besieged in Nash
ville, has every day been gathering
strength for the conflict, wfiich is not
merely to raise that siege, but to strike a
decisive blow against the invader of Ten
nessee. A part of the Army of the
Potomac, under Gen. Warren, has been in
motion, and presumably has fought a
battle. There are other movements in the
neighborhood of Richmond, of which we
shall know more anon.
The special dispatch which wo print
this morning seems to indicate clearly the
hitherto uncertain direction and purpose
of Gen. Warren's movement. That offi
cer, with Griffin's and Crawford's divisions
of the 5th Army Corps, Mott'a division of
the 2d Corps, aud with Gregg's cavalry
altogether a very formidable force broke
camp on Wednesday morning, and march
ing by two roads on either side of, and
parallel to, the Weldon Railroad, reached
Stony Creek on Thursday. That stream
is twenty miles south of Petersburg, and
tbe station near the bridge which former
ly spanned it is the point whence started
the branch road from the Weldon to the
Southside Railroad. The recent cavalry
expedition uder Gregg proved that that
branch was sVll incomplete at its South
eastern extremity. Gregg, having ascer
tained that fact, returned, and Warren
being in possession of the results of
Gregg's reconuoissanee, shaped his cam
paign accordingly. He struck so boldly
South, that it was at fiist conjectured in
the army he meant togo to North Caroli
na. Crossing the Northern branch of tho
Nottoway by pontoons on Thursday, he
pulled up his bridge after him, and since
the time when he thus broke off 'commu
nication with the main army under Grant,
no positive information about his move
ments has been received.
Rut on Thursday night a reconnoissance
was sent out apparently as much to get
news from Warren as for any other pur
pose.. It was ascertained then from
stragglers that Warren was off in search
of a fight. It was further discovered that
the Rebel lines in his direction were
surprisingly weak, and the reconnoissance
was pushed with vigor toward the road
which War.rec probably took. But his
march had been so rapid that already he
was to the North and West of the creek, k
ou Friday morning heavy firing was heard
in the direction of Diuwiddie Court House,
which stands on the Petersburg and
lioynton plank road, midway between
Stouy Creek station aud the Southside
Railroad. Thither had marched Hill's
Corps to intercept Warren, and at that
poiut it seems prettv certain a battle of
greater or less magnitude was fought on
Friday morning last, Dec. 9. Of its result
there ia no news whatever. Rut the mere
fact that there was a battle shows that
Warren was marching for the Southside
Railroad,, having made a wide and rapid
deour for that purpose. The central and
itterior position of Lee enabled him to
march a corps somewhat at random to a
point from which he might strike in almost
any direction which Warren could be sup
posed to take.
From Gen. Sherman there is no other
intelligence than such as can be gathered
frcm the account brought by a transport
from Charleston. When that steamer
left, on the 7th, heavy firing was heard
in the direction of Savannah, or on the
Charleston and Savannah Railroad. Rut
that may have been either Sherman or
Foster, who is placed pretty solidly on
that line. Rebel papers seem now .o
think the forces of those two leaders intend
to concentrate on the Charleston Railroad
but positive news will come so soon ihat
it is useless to speculate. We may expect
a steamer at Fortress Monroe at any mo
ment. '
Tlic Xcw Chief Justice.
Fivo years ago, says the New York
Tribune, had any one suggested Salmon
P. Chase as the pi'obablc successor of
Roger R. Taney, in the most responsible
and eminent position of Chief Justice of
tho Upited States, he would have been
regarded as in need of a straight jacket.
The chasm that separated the late from
the pTesent incumbent of that station is
wider than that spanned by the twenty
years' sleep of Rip Van Winkle, to which
ho lay down a loyal subject of King
George, and awoko a fellow-citizen of
President Washington. The death cf
Judge Taney during the night following
the popular vote whereby Maryland was
made a Free State marked the close of an
era; the accession of Judge Chase marks
the commencement of another. The
passing away of the one, the opening of
the other, occur in the midst ot a gigantic
civil convulsion which has piled the earth
with its slain, and filled the sky with the
smoke of its conflagrations; but we need
I not doubt that the angry clouds of battle
and havoc will soon be illumined by the
bow of conciliation and peace.
The unanimity and heartiness wherewith
Gov. Chase's appointment has been wel
comed, argue a general appreciation of the
changed attitude of our country far more
general than had been previously realized.
The clamor and clash of parties in our late
Presidential contest have given place to a
general conviction that Impartial Liberty
is henceforth to be the fundamental law of
the Republic; hence the instinctive per
ception that Gov. Chase U the very man
for Chief Justice. For more than twenty
years he has not only believed but also
proclaimed that Liberty, in our Union is
the general and permanent rule, Slavery
the local and transitory exception. He so
held when to affirm a vital faith in the
Rights of Man as Man was to bid adieu to
all hope of political power or honors: he
has continued so to hold until, through
the madness of the Slaveholding interest,
it has become possible to love and uphold
Impartial Freedom without thereby incur
ring ostracism or proscription. His present
position adds another to the visible, tangi
ble encouragements to faith in tbe Right,
and in the present palpable activity of
Divine Justice in the affairs of mankind.
The position of Chief Justice has been
filled, sinco it was created by the Federal
Constitution, by four persons, namely, 1.
John Jay, of New York ; 2. Oliver Ells
worth, of Connecticut; 3. John Marshall,
of Virginia; 4. Roger B. Taney, of Mary
land. Messrs. Jay and Ellsworth wero
respectively nominated by Washington ;
and each resigned after serving for a few
years only; Judge Marshall waj nominated
by John Adams just before his retirement
from the Presidency; and Judge Taney
by Gen. Jackson in the latter half of his
second term. Marshall took the office in
his maturer prime, and held it over thirty
four years, dying in it at the ripe age of
80 ; Tauey accepted it when nearly 60, yet
held it almost .thirty years, dying Chief
Justice at the ripe age of 87. As Ells
worth lived to be 72, and Jay to be 93,
the office may bo deemed favorable to
longevity, aud wo may reverently hope
that its new incumbent has many years of
vigor and usefulness before him.
m m m
When Snail tbe War Cease?
And What ot Slaver jt
The President has spoken in the most
unequivocal manner as to the time when
the Government of the United States will
cease hostilities, namely : "Whenever war
shall have ceased on the part oPthose who
begun it." That i3 to say, there would
have been no war there was no disposi
tion to continue a war against the Southern
people, on the pait of the General Govern
ment, but for the need of maintaining its
authority and fulfilling the duty imposed
upon it through the President, by the
.Constitution that "he shall take care that
the laws be faithfully executed." Apart
from this, wo do not believe that there
existed any person or persons of whatever
moral or political faith, in the North who
desired to make war upon the South for
any cauce, cr even to pass the bounds
appointed by Christian and civilized usage
in agitation against any institution which
existed in the South, including Slavery.
There was not an Abolitionist in the land
who would have been willing to incur a
war such as has taken place, for the pur
pose of securing the abolition of Slavery.
There was no threat of that kind pending.
Hence there was no excuse on that basis
for Jclf." Davis leading the Southern States
into rebellion, and none for their following
him. The rebels made war, not against
certain Northern States, not against Abo
litionists, not against the Rebublican
party, but against the "Government, and
whatever may have been their purpose in
making war against us, wc have simply to
do with the fact that to carry it out they
violated the laws, set the authority of the
Government at defiance and took forcible
possession of the common property ot the
United States, the custody of which was
vested in the Government. And this is
the issue all the issue between the
Government and the rebels to-day. The
rebels having made the institution of
Slavery a weapou of warfare against the
Government, an element entirely foreign
in its relation to the Government, over
which the Executive could exercise no
jurisdiction, unless used us an arm with
which to smite his authority; because an
effort was made to render that arm weak
or inoperative against our army, does not
make the issue, on our part at least, one
against Slavery. If the rebels will cease
to fight, the war must cease, for our people
are anxious for peace, and would not fight
if they did not have an enemy in the field
to fight with. When they lay down their
arms they will find Slavery as it was before
tho war, excepting, of course, the change
which it has undergone by their using it
as a weapon of warfare. They cannot
expect to find it intact any more than they
can expect to find their first army still in
the field in their bran new gray uniforms.
The Government of the United States was
forced, in its own defense, to shoot down
rebel soldiers, to destroy rebel works, to
burn bridges, tear up railroads, free slaves,
and many other things which it dare not
do in the exercise of its functions as a civil
authority.
The President can no more rc-enslave a
person made free by his Emancipation
War Proclamation, than he can raise to
life again the thousands of men who have
perished in battle. When the subject of
Slavery comes to be considered by the
people, its life or its death will be decided
upon in a Constitutional manner. In the
meantime it is tbe bounden duty of the
President of the United States, and he
accepts it, to carry on the war until the
rebels lay down their arms, but not a
moment longer. However, whether in
peace or war, the indication is thai, before
many months shall have passed, the Con
stitution will be so amended as to set at
rest forever the Slavery question, so far as
this nation is concerned. The Constitution
as it is, and he who executes the laws
under it, have determined the limit of the
present war to be, the instant the assailant
retires. At thai moment the civil order
of things will be resumed.
The Electoral College
The Electoral College of this State met
in the Senate Chamber, at Harrisburg, on
Wednesday, 7th inst. The Hon. Morion
M'Michael was called upon to preside, and
made a short address relating to the cir
cumstances under which they, the electors,
were assembled. He concluded as follows :
"At this very hour, gentlemen, in all
the parts of this immense republic, except
in those which are excluded by the folly
and wickeduess of their own inhabitants
at this very hour, by the shores of the
far-off Pacific ; on the Western slopes of
the Rocky Mountains, beside the waters
of the magnificent Mississippi, and the
O '
scarcely less magnificent Missouri; along
the margins of our illimitable lakes; in the
very heart of our boundless prairies, and
the clearings of our late unbroken forests,
and near the sounding Atlantic where its
never-ceasing surges sweep from Chesa
peake to Passamaquoddy at this very
hour are assembled, as we are here assem
bled, representatives of the men whose
enterprise and energy and diligence have
built up and developed this superb empire
with its cities rivaling in numbers and in
wealth, and all the appliances of art and
luxury, the mostfamous capitals of Europe,
its mountains teeming with all the precious
metals and all useful mineral, and its
valleys swelling with varied and exhaust
less richness assembled to register the
irreversible decree of this stupendous
constituency. And, gentlemen, as, not
without effort, we grasp the conception of
this huge nation, stretching from sea to
sea, spreading over an entire continent,
engaged in manifold industries and pur
suits and employments, and reflect that
the decree which we and those whe have
been similarly delegated as soon to regis
ter, has not alone saved its life, but in
savins; it has also saved to the oppressed
of all lands the opportunity of sharing in
tbe liberties we enjoy; to the poor of all
lands tho opportunity of sharing ia the
bountiful domain we possess; to the aspi
ring of all lands the opportunity of sharing
in the glories we shall acquire; when we
reflect on all these things, have we not
cause to be proud and thankful that to us
has been allowed the privilege of iecording
our names among the names of those
chosen to give form and shape to the
noblest purposes that ever inspired the
breasts, and the grandest utterances that
ever broke froin the lips of this or any
people."
Geo. W. Hamcrsly, Esq., was elected
Clerk of the college.
John A. Smull and W. W. Hays, Esqrs.,
were elected Assistant Secretaries.
On motion, Wm. J. Stees was oppointed
Messenger, Jacob Styers, Doorkeeper and
W. Hooper Messeuger.
The Rev. John Walker Jackson opened
the meeting with prayer.
A committee, consisting of three, was
appointed to wait upon the Governor and
inform him that the Electoral College was
in session and ready to receive his com
munication. After a ehort interval the Secretary of
the Commonwealth was introduced, and
presented a message of the Governor, de
claring the gentlemen, whose names have
already been before the people, duly elect
ed olectors.
All the Electors except John Wister
having answered to their names, the Col
lege went into an election to supply the
vacancy, and the Hon. John P. Clark, of
Perry county, was chosen to supply the
same.
The College then proceeded to vote by
ballot, for President aud Vice President
of the United States, Abraham Lincoln
and Andrew Johnson receiving respect
ively, 2G votes.
John A. Ueistand, Esq., was appointed
as bearer of one of the packages of votes
and certificate.", directed to the President
of the United States Senate.
Elias W. Hale, Esq., was appointed the
bearer of packages directed to John Cad-
walader, Judge of the District Court of
the United States, in the Eastern District
of Pennsylvania.
Charles II. Shriner, Esq., was appointed
to deliver the certificates directed to the
President of the Senate of the United
States, Washington, D. C, to the Post
master of the seat of Government of this
State.
A unanimous vote of thanks was ten
dered to the presiding officer of the college,
to which he responded in a few well timed
parting remarks. A unanimous vote of
thanks was also tendered to the Secretaries
of the college.
On motion of Mr. Patton, it wa? unani
mously lesolved that the pay received by
the Electors and Messengers to Washing
ton, Philadelphia and Harrisburg, be
appropriated to the Sanitary Commission.
After signing the necessary certificates,
the College adjourned sine die.
r Hon. James Speed, a leading law
yer and earnest emancipationist of Ken
tucky, has been assigned to President
Lincoln's Cabinet as Attorney General, in
stead of Hon. Edward Bates, resigned.
S. Government pays $75 apiece for
artificial limbs furnished to maimed sol
diers. ISF" Eighteen clergymen wero elected
to the Legislature at tho late election in
Vermont.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
Letters of Administration an tbe estate
ot Evan D. Davis, late of Cambria township.
Cambria county, dee'd., baring bee'n granted
the subscriber by the Register of said county,
all persona indebted to Eaid estate are reques
ted to make immediate payment, and those
having claims against tbe same will present
them, properly authenticated, far settlement.
RACHEL DAVIS, Administratrix-
PROVOST MARSHAL'S OFFICE
17th District, Pa.,
Jlollidaytburg, Dec. 3, t8&4.
In order to secure the assistance and co
operfltion of the people in the endeavor t
keep tbe enrollment list continually correct
the Enrolling Board has beea directed to bar
copies of said list kept open to the examin.
Hon of tbe public at all proper times
shall give public notice that iiny person m
appear before the Board and have any ninl
stricken off the list, if be can show to h
satisfaction or the BoarJ, that the'ptrsn
named is not properly enrolled, oa accouls
1. Alienage ;
2. Non-resitlence;
3. Over age ;
4. Permanent physical disability, 0f sneh
degree as to render the person cot a DroB
subject for enrollment under tha hi - f
Regulations ; na
5. Having served in the military or ttT1i
service two years during the present war and
been honorably discharged. '
Especially civil officers, clergymen, and
prominent citizens are inviied to appear ata'l
times before the Board to point out errors in
the lists, and to give such information in their
possession as m.iy aid ia the correction and
revision thereof.
They should understand that it is plainly
for the interest of each sub-district to Lav
stricken from the lists all names improperly
enrolled, because an excess of names increases
the quota called for from each sub-district-and
that it 13 equally for the interest of each
person enrolled ia a given sub-district t
place upon the lists rU persons in the sub
district liable to do military duty, because th
greater the number to be drawn from, the lesj
the chance that any particular individual will
be drawn. It is the personal interest of every
enrolled man that the quota iu which he is
concerned shall not be made too lar?e and
tbat his own chances for draft shall "not L
unjustly increased ; both these objects will b
attained if all parties will aid in striking out
tbe wrong names and putting in the right
ones. Especially is this the interest of these
drafted men who by putting in substitute!
themselves liable to draft, have secured ex
emption which by the terms of the law holds
go id only until the present enrollment is
exhausted in their sub-districts. Men who
are over 45 years of age, and in consequence
excused by law from the performance of duty
in the field, owe it to tbe cause and th
country to take a zealous and active part ia
the correction of the enrollment lists, a mili
tary service of the first importance. The law
requires that the quotas shall be assigned ia
proportion to the enrollment, and the fairne6i
and justice of this mode of determining th
amount of military service due from each taj
every section of the country cannot be doubt
ed if the enrollment is made as nearly perfect
as it is practicable to make it. Tbe amoust
of service due to the nation from every towa
or county, s thus laid plainly and fairly ba
fore the citizens, and it is expected teat a
higher motive than n selfish interest will
prompt all to do their share in perfecting tha
enrollment, and securing just and efficient
execution of the laws for raising troops,
wherever i becomes necessary to apply tham.
By order of Maj. R. I. Dodge, A. A. P. U.U
ALEX. M. LLOYD,
Capt. Pro. Marital.
II. S. UAKR,
Commissioner.
A. I10TI1UOCK,
Surgeon of Boari.
December 15, 1564-3t.
HE PITTSBURG COMMERCIAL,
rCULISHED DAILY BT
THE PITTSBURG NEWSPAPER PRIST.
ING COMPANY.
tfsST One of the largest and most widely
circulated Papers in the State. Gives it
earliest and fullest intelligence.
PROSPECTUS FOR THE NEW YEAR.
On assuming control of Tub Commkeciu.
at the commencement of the year, the prci
ent conductors announced their Uctermina:ioa
to infuse a new life and vigor into its col
umns which should render tv.e paper nnr
than ever acceptable to the reader. The rapid
increase in circulation, nattering notices of
our cotemporaries, and congratulatory letter
from every quarter, at-sur us that our cflortl
have not been unsuccessful.
The Commercial has grown daily in pub
lic favor until it cow ranks among the lead
ing journals in the country.
In urder to keep pace wih the demandi cf
the reading public, and at the same time ciett
the increasing pressure on -our advtrtisitj
columns, we some months since increased th
dimensions of the paper to the extent of facf
columns.
Among the leading features are lull i
reliable TELEGRAPHIC RETORTS from all
the leading points cf interest. It devote
special attention to MARKET REPORTS, in
cluding tbe Iron, Oil, Cattle, Lumber, Tob.ic
co. and the Pittsburg General Markets. Our
RIVER NEWS receives particular attention,
and in this department The Commercial has
no rival. The FINANCIAL AND STUCK
REPORTS are prepared with care, and will
be found to be unusuallv full and reliable.
Also, tbe REPORTS OF THE LEADEW
MARKETS OF THE COUNTRY, embracing
reports of the Dry Goods and Wholesale Jac
kets, and special reports of Oil, Stock, Finaac
and Trade, from day to day.
THE PULPIT forms a peculiar feature of
The Commercial. By giving every Saturday
an Original Sermon, prepared expressly pj
less than twenty 'or thirty different Ministers,
p-iv
without regard .o dec.onunati.onai uis--
This Department of The Commercial hj
attracted much attention ; and arrangciaw
are being made to increase its recogc
importance and value. As a ftature 3'
novel and instuctive, it const:' utes n0t
least of the many claims of The Comsskecu
to patronage.
In politics The Commercial will be fta
deviating supporter of the Union, an a
nestly loyal to tbe Government, aad RS
consistent with this aim, free ficm 1
E Tuk Commercial is a large folio sncet, a
is published in two editions every mom .
Sunday excepted. -nn:
Teems of Daily: by mail, S10 T "A0"'
City subscribers, served by earners,
annum, in advance, or, '25 cents pr '
payable to the carrier. Single copies J t
A discount made to agents. . eft
Thk Saturday Commercial A ;f.r,jgDf.
containing all the Current news, j
ous, Literary
and Scientific Intelligence. -
iding for the Family, u pub ' ,
Valuable Readi
at $1.50, (52 issues.) per year.
Twenty, $1. . watit
-The money for Yekly and Daily
alwajs accompany the order, and in
stance can these terms be deviated trow- Q
Office, 76 Fifth street, opposite- we
c. d. BRiGiiAM ;::y:SAfis:
Minister of the Gospel, iu 1'ittsourg or -ity,
(which, also, goes into the weekly,) Cstjj
two discourses are riven in the year, by no.