we know already desire peace and re union and the number of such may increase.— They can ct any moment have peace sim ply by laying down their arms and sub mitting to the national authrrity under the Constitution. After so much, the (TOY eminent could not. if it would, main tain war against them, Ihe loyal people would not sustain or allow it. 11 ques tions should remain, we would adjust them by the peaceful means of leg; ' iLion, conference, couits, and votes, operating only in constitutional and lawful channels. t say, that the war wil. cease on the ['art ol theGovcrnment when ever it shall have ceased on the part of those who began it. AHIIAIIAM LINCOLN*. Another \OH £Jolges 43, the caulker 01, the sailmaker 52, Ihe stevedore oil, tho fcrryhian (15, and the pilot fj 1. A d,.pen-,ti; ■!! (, J\ net that " Maine Law" men may c. each ; and eggs were only §7 per dozen. A detective in New York, rendered partially insane by the dif ficulty of taacing the hotel incendia ries, is said to have exclaimed: "Thoso black bags and bottles pro duce a great deal of-fuss-forHis. BQT Timothy Doody was killed on the track of the Central Uailroad in Buffalo, ou Saturday morning. His body was lit erally cut in two, the wheels of the cars i having passed over his stomach. Seldom h. < tbere been as much feeling and interest manifested in tho termination of a difficulty as has been in this. Col. Lowry has 112 r quite a number of years past, (with the exception ef a short pe riod when hew out of business) kept a hotel in our borough. His house was formerly the acknowledged headquarters of the Republican party, and himself an avowed Republican. In the summer of 1861. ho accepted a position on the "Unicn" ticket, as it was called, which was made on tho 4th of July of ihat year, and alter the regular Republican ticket bad been put in nomination. We recollect very well remonstrating with the Colonel in reference to the propriety of his acceptance of the position—assur ing him that it would certainly change the character of his house politically— that he would be defeated iiT the canvass, aud that it would in all probability result in driving him into the Democratic party. His reply was that he had given a friend of bis (whom he named) a pledge that he would not withdraw—that he Ourtjon could not, but at the same time assure*! us that it could never unsettle his, then, political opinions and sympathies. We were then among the Colonel's warmest friends, although utterly opposed to his political position. No one Can doubt, however, that the Colonel had a perfect right to do what he did politically, and we were not much surprised to find, that through the course of time, hcbeeanic an ardent Democrat, supporting Woodward in 1803 for Governor in preference to '•the soldier's friend" Governor Curtin. aud Gm. McCfellan last fall against Lin coln. It was not strange that, as the Colonel changed his polities, the political complex ion of his patrons changed—as his po sition became known. Democrats gathered j around him—his house was soon recog nized as the headquarters of tho opposi tion—not only Democrats, but inveterate Copperheads were found in abundance in the bar, in the office, and occupying the benches in front of the houwi during last fall to the annoyance of Republicans who called on business or otherwise. Besides being a Hotel, the "Lowry House" is both a stage, and a Telegraph office. The business community thought they had a right to free " ingress afd egress" in the premises, without reference to whether they were patrons of the house or not. It is perhaps proper to remark that as Democrats concentrated their patronage on the house. Republicans gradually with drew ; this seemed to offend the Colonel very much—lie should have reflected that "it is a poor rule that don,t work both ways," but he did not. Those who, hav ing dec lined patronizing his house, when they called on business connected with the .Stage or Telegraph office, often be | lieved themselves treated with undue cold ? ness. In addition to this, we believe it ! is generally admitted that the Colonel ' was frequently, to speak moderately, con- I sider.il.lv excited. I'nder these circum ! stances it is not strange that some incon l venience was felt by many Republicans. ; fjoine,feeling more aggrieved than others. 1 declared that they would not go near a house where they felt apprehensive that their presence might be the mentis of ex- I citing the Colonel and possibly result in personal difficulty. We have beard some lof our be. t c itizens say tlfat they would never cross his door—that they would , never even patronize the stage as a means ' of travel while it stopped at his house,- simply because it was unpleasant to come in contact with him. While boarding at Mr. Jack's and Mr. Magee'a respectively, we have heard travelers complain that they were treated coldly by the Col. when they called on. him to pay their fair, pre liminary to taking passage in the stage. We have heard those Landlords too, | both complain of their guests being thu* 1 treated by the Col. We have good reason to believe these complain;.* were well grounded. This '• being the stats of the case, as was to be expected, the coldness thus exhibited giadually incrca.cd. The canvass for President opened warmly and for the first time in the Colonel's lii'e, wo believe, he I became a parti;: n. On several occasions I ho became excited, and on such occasions j he would never i'ail to express his anatli • emies on Abolitionists, generally using uaiues —and on ome occasions, making beligerent demonstration.''. The McClel j lan chivalry rallied around him, until be- I fore the close cf the campaign his loud ! hnzzah—lik« the voiceof Roderick's horn, j would peoplo the town wiih a warlike | elan. This was the state of the case, when on election day he posted himself I in front of the election window, as his | own friends said, for the purpose of stir -1 ring up a row. All efforts at that time i ''ailed however, and lie retired, doubtless, | tho impression that he could not ;e: .a pinrrel out of any body. In a for mer art.de we noted the proceedings of j that night, an also, a summary of the in ! cidents of the next day, including the oeh hraled raid on the Magee house. Our readers will recollect that our neighbor of | the IL mid and we ctiffered as to wheth j er a poker had been used upon the Colo nel by Mr. Magee—wo called on that pa per to take back its false charge, but we were oiily answered by hard names'. For ! the purpose, therefore, of setting this ! matter at rest: wo determined to give our : readers the testimony in tho case, should ] it ever be tried ; but by its settlement, ! wo have been deprived of this means of j vindicating our statement of the affair. In this respect however, we are neith [ or surprised nor disappointed. We scaree i iy ever saw such a continuous effort made by the friends of any man, as was made 1 by the Colonel's friends to keep this diffi culty out of court; it was not to be ex -I'ei'te i that they would not succeed. The Colonel too, for once, overcome his natu rally haughty air. and began to make con i'e-sl us and applogies; extending his hand to gctitleiiion, with whom, up till now, he would ri"t have deigned to speak—ac companying it too with ample apologies— how could they refuse its acceptance'?— Indeed, we intimated to Mr. Magcc, our self, that it seemed to require more cold independence than any man ought to have, to with -rand such advances. The mat ter was therefore, finally settled. The follow ing is a copy of the paper filed with , the Clerk of the Quarter Sessions, con taining the terms of settlement, and sign ed by the parties. From it our readers can judge whether we were in error in our statement of the affair: Commonwealth vs Alex. Lowry—As sault aud Battery. Commonwealth vs Alex. Lowry—Suie ly of the I'caee. j Commonwealth vs J. C. Sharp, et. al. —Surety of the Peace. The parties *in the above cases have 1 agreed upon terms; gf settlement, as fol -1 lows: •• That the said Alex. Lowry is to and 60 years of age, " lobbing alike the cradle and the grave." On the other hand, there has swept from the mountains of Now England, the hills and valleys of the Middle States, aud the plains of tbc North and West, an avalanch of citizen soldiers, who know no such word as fail, to fill iip the decim inated ranks of our veteran armies in the field. The beacon light of foreign inter vention, which bound up .n tho distance with such flattering pnuiiise of aid to treason, has sunk from their vision with out bringing to these base traitors, the realization of that hope which so loti" sustained them. Added to this, the tri umphs which must certainly await the National cause in the re-election of Presi dent and it cannot bo in all hu man calculation iiiat the rebels will ever seriously attempt another four years war. I think it is morally certain that the re election of Mr. Lincoln will sound the death-knell of Rebellion. Evidently from their own journals, tho only hope they had, was in a change of the Administra tion, which would re-organize their bogus concern. In short, Ido not believe ti e justice and goodness of God will ever permit a Rebellion, whose corner stone is Slavery, arid whose highest ambition is despotism, to culminate in a success that would again rivit the manacles of hope less Slavery on millions of our fellow men. The Idea is too monstrous to be entertain- j Ed for a single moment. 1 tlirmk God i am a soldier in so glorious a cause. BRADF.N PORTER. J|ka>'" Below we give a letter from an old and much esteemed friend, who, some twelve or more years ago, bade adieu to old liutler. for a prospective home in the far west—the best wishes of his many friends went with him, and we are pleas ed to say that their most sanguine hopes have been realized in his subsequent his tory. The fact that he has informed us that it was not for publication, we think does not preclude us from publishing it, as we know it will bi\ gratifying to his old friends to thus hear from him— the news which it brings from the truly loyal state of lowa too, will be welcome to our readers, he will therefore, v.e trint. excuse us for producing it. The follow ing is the letter: MARION, NOV. 23, 1 S(>4. DKAK TOM : —I see in your issue of the 23d iust., you put lowa down at 20,000 for Lincoln. Now,you will pardon the "Ilawkeyes" for guarding reports in election matters, as she claims to be the banner State of the Union, both in the field and at the polls, . and she votes as she fights—fur the I'uion j and against traitors, whether North or | South, her majority fir the Union is j about 40,000. Could we have had n tew j more Maboncy's and Jones', we would have east au almost unanimous vote for i Lincoln. Hut wo have done our duty, and cannot bo put off with no 2;"i,000. 1 am glad to say that 1 receive the " CITIZKN" regularly, and only regret, that you could not s »d a larger majority from the old " Keystone." Still you liavo no cause to be discouraged—keep up the i light—day is dawning, and all will be | right. As one of the Electors at large j for this State, I was through the prinei i pal parts of il, "stumping," and never ! before, has public opinion been so com | pletely set in opposing a traitors peace, as iat present; 1n fact the unprecedented ! Union majorities : how this beyond a per adventure. The (.'op's have failed in ev ery thing. Our Congressional I'elegatitm. six in number, i.; all light by heavy ma jorities. The North-H est. although curs ed with a few assassins, is true to the Union, and till take care of all Edlibus tors. This, you understand, is not for jrnh/i --cii/ton, but for your own perusal. I wouf l be glad to hear from you at any time. As ever, your Friend, WM. G. THOMPSON. HEAOQUARTF.ISU 102b PA. V. V., Nov. 12th, 1804. Mr. WIMJAM STOOPS: —You may think 1 have forgotten to write yon, but no; 1 hope you will pardon my negli gence when you fully understand my cir cumstances; will you not? You have heard of our activity in the Valley, since September l!)th, and knowing you under stand a soldier's duties, I feel confident you will not think 1110 negligent in not answering your last letter. We are at present between Winchester and Middle town, near Newtown. Came here day be fore yesterday, T think for the purpose of drawing Marly down the Valley after us. I lis cavalry has reached our picket l : ,no. What his intentions arc, and whether he will attack us again, is not for me to say. I suppose he has got another requisition of Artillery from Richmond. \ Well, to-day as I was writing, we re ceived orders to pack up immediately. Packed up, but- remained iu camp, and put up tents again. Saturday evening, all quiet, cold and windy. Early is mov ing as though he was gying to attack us soon. Hope he may allow us a quiet Sabbath to-morrow. We hope to get a mail to-niorrow when the train comes from Martiusburg, and L want to have this letter to send out iu the mail. I suppose you will have received the returns of our late election ero this reaches you. lly it you can seethe sentiments of Co. "ll,"and had it not been for recent battles, many more of our lirar. < would doubtless have giv.cn their voices lor Lih< rty and I 'nion ; but we trust they are content in their cir cumstances, notwithstanding many of them are suffering excruciating pain from wounds received iu battle. EI.I CONN. Elcrlornl College. The Electoral College of this State \ mot in the Senate Chamber, at Horris- I burg, on Wednesday, the 7th inst. The j i lion. Morton Mc.Michacl was called up | onto preside, and made a short address ; relating to the circumstances under which | they, the electors, were assembled, lie I concluded as follows: At this very hour, gentlemen, in ail the j ' parts oi this immense republic, except in < those which are excluded by the tolly and | wickedness of their own inhabitants—at i this very hour, by the shores of the far | off Pacific ; on the western slopes of the : Itoeky Mountains, beside the waters of tlio magnificant Mississippi, and the scarcely less magnificant Missouri; along! the margins of our illimitable lakes; in tlio very heart of our boundless prarics, i and tho clearings of our late unbroken forests, and near the sounding Atlantic ! wlioro its never-ceasing surges sweep from Chesapeako to Passuuiuquoddy—at j this very hour are assembled, as we are hero assembled, representatives of the men whose enterprise, and energy and dil- j gence, have built up and developed this ! superb empire, with its cities rivalling iu numbers and wealth ami ail the applian- ; ces of art and luxury the most famous cap- : | italiste oi Europe ; its mountains teeming I with all the precious metals and all use ful- minerals; its valleys swelling with varied and exhanstless richness —assem- bled to register the irreversible decree of this stupendous constituency. And, gen tlemen, as, not without effort, we grasp the conceptii n of this huge uation, stretching from sea to sea,spreading over an entire continent, engaged in manifold industries and pursuits n|*il employments, and rcHcct that the decree which we, and those who have been similarly dele gated as soon to register, hits not alone saved its lite, but iu saving it has saved also to the oppressed of all lands tho op portunity of sharing in the liberties we' enjoy; to the poor of all lands the oppor tunity of sharing in the bountiful domain we jx's -cs; to the aspiring of all land* the opportunity of sharing in the glories we shall acquire; wlieu we reflect on all these things, have we not cause to be proud and thankful that to us has been allowed the privilege of recording our names among the names of those chosen to give form and shape to the nobbst pur p. Os that ever inspired the breasts and the grandest utterance that ever broke from the lips of this or any people. Geo. W. llainniersly, Esq., was elected Clerk of the college. John A. Smullaud W. W. llays,Esqrs. r were elected Assistant Secretaries. On motion, Wm. J. Stees was appoint ed '1 c -enger, Jacob Styers Doorkeeper,, and W. Hooper, Messteuger. '.i lie 10-v. John Walker Jackson open ed the met ting with prayer. A committee, coii-i inig of three was, appoint ■ 1 ' i waii upon the Governor uud infirm him that the Electoral College ia in session ready to receive his coiuuiuni-- catiou. Af i r a short 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 tho people, duly elec ted electors. 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,ol* Perry county, was chosen to supply the same. The College then proceeded to vote by ballot. lor President and Vice President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson receiving) respee j tively, 2ti votes. J' lin A. Ilic tand, Esq., was appoint ed as be.n'cr of one of the packages of votes and certificate .directed to the I'reS ] ident of the United States Senate. Elias W. Hale, Esq., was appointed' the bearer of packages directed to John Cadw.duder. Judge of the District Court of the United States, of tho Eastern Dis | triet of Pennsylvania. Charles 11. Shriuer, Esq., was appoint i ed to deliver the certificates directed to , lho President ol the Senate of the Uni -1 led States, Wa-hin .tion City, l>. ('., to tho Postmaster of the seat of Government of j this State. i A unanimous vote of thanks was ten tiered to the presiding officer of the col -1 lege, to which he responded in a few well ■ timed parting remarks. A unanimous vote «112 thank - wa-als < tendered to the ! Secretaries of the college. On motion of Mr. Patton, it was unani mously ri solved that the pay received by tho .Elector.- and Messengers to Washing ! ton. Philadelphia and 11 arrisburg, be ap propriated to the Sanitary Commission. After signing the necessary certificates the College adjourned sine from Sherman indi cate that an abundance of provisions has ' «irand on the route. The rebels re port an immense destruction of stock grain. o.c. How utterly inexcusable, then ii- tie barbarity which condemned our prist'iieis at Ander- mville ami elsewhere to slow starvation, and how inhuman the. declaration of the Savannah Republican, ••that it was their own (the Federal) Gov ernment that put it out of our power to take better care ot them, ami continued the cruelty of keeping them hero after we had given full notice of their suffer ing condition." As prisoners, they were entitled to humane treatment—to a suffi ciency, at least, of food and clothing. et the want of tliem is charged upon the Federal Government, though it was in the power of the Confederate authori ties to furnish both. jfcO" Four hundred paroled prisoners arrived in Philadelphia, on Monday. Tho terms of enlistment of many had expir ed, but they pretty generally expressed \ determination to re-enlist.