PRESIDENT'S BIEksAGE Fellow-ettizenS of the ,Settateciiiit Rouse of RepriSenfdlicas : S rtsse bli ng another year of . - health 'end bountiful harvests has passed: ? .. And while it has not pleased the, Alraigh4 to blebs us with•a return of peace, we can'but press on. guided by the best . light He gives Us, trusting that in His own .good time, and %Vise' way, all will yet'be well. The correspondence touching foreign af fairs which has taken place during he last year is herewith submitted, in virtual coup pliance with a request to that effect, made by the [Rinse of Representatives near the close of the last session of Congress. the condition of our relations with other nations is less gratifying than it has usually been at former periods, it is certainly more satisfactory than a nation so uoliappily d s tracted as we are, might reasonably have ap prebended. In the Month old tine last, there were some grounds to expect that the tears. time Powers which, at the beginning of our domestic difficulties, so unwisely and unnec essarily, as we think, recognized the insur gents as a belligerent, would soon recede from that position, which has proved only leas injurious to themselves than to our own country. But the temporary reverses ivlffeli afterwards befell the natioual arms,and which were exaggerated by our own disloyal citi zens abroad, have hitherto delayed that act of simple justice. The civil war which has so radically changed for the moment the occupations and habits of the American people, has necess rily disturbed the social condition, and af fected very deeply the prosperity of the nations with which we have carried on a commerce that has been steadily increasing throughout a period of half a century It has, at the saute time, excited political ain bitions and apprehensions which have pro duced a profound agitation in the civilized world. In this unusual agnation we have forborne from lulling part in any contiliversy between foreiAStates, and between parties or factions in such States. We have at tempted no propagandismovad acknowledged no revolution. But we have left to every nation the exclusive conduct and insinage• ment of its own affairs. Our struggle has been, of course, contemplated by tweign nations with reference less to its (.n6l merits, than to its,supposed, and often exaggerated, effects and consequences resulting to those nations themselves. Neverth-les - s, complaint on the part of this government, eVelt it it were just, would certainly be tiewise. The treaty with Great Britain fur the sup pression of the slave trade has been put into operation, with a good prospect of complete success. It is an occasion of special pleasure to acknowledge that the execution of it on the part of Her Majesty's Government has been marked with a Jealous respect fur the authority of the United States, and the rights of their loyal and moral citizens. The Convention with Hanover for the ab olition of the stride dues has leen carried into full effect under_ the act of Congress" for . „ that puri.r..se. A blockade of three thousand miles of sea coast could nut be established and vig orously enforced in a season of great coin inertial activity like the pre,erit without committing occasional mistakes and iiillfct• ing unintentional injuries upon foreign ua lions and their subjects. A civil war occurring in a country where foreigners reside and carry oti trade under treaty stipulations, is necessarily fearful of complaints of the violation of neutral rights. All such collisions teed to excite inisappre hensious, and possibly to produce inutteil reelamatiotis between nations which have a common interest in preserving peace and friendship. In clear cases of ;his kind, I have, so far as possible, heard and it:dressed ' complaints which have been presented by friendly powers There is still, however, a. large and augmenting number of &itwit' cases upon which the Govs.rionent is unable to agree with the govern tents w hitse protec tion is demanded by the claimants. There are moreover, many cases in which the •G. States, or their citizens, suffer wrongs from the naval or military authorities of foreign nationa,whicit the government of those Slates are not prepared to redress. I have proposed to some of the foreign states thus 'lntel ested, mutual conventions to examine and adjust such complaints. This peoposition has beim made especially to Great Blitaiii, to France, to Spain, and to Prussia. In each one it has been kindly received, but has nut yet been formally adopted. I deem it my duty to recommend an lip . propriatiou to the owners of the Norwegian bark Admiral P. Tordetiskiold, wliicli v essel was, in May, ISO, prevented by the cunt mender of the blockading foree off Charles ton from leaving that prat with a cargo, not withstanding a similar privilege had, shortly belore, been granted to an English vessel. I have dizected the Secretary of State to cause the papers in the case to be communi cated to the proper committee. Applications have been made to me by many fr e Americans of African descent to favor - their emigration, with a view to such ' colonization us was contemplated by,recent acts of Congress. Other parties, at home and abroad—some from interested motives, others upon patriotic considerations, and still others itiflueuced by philadithrume senti ments—have suggested similar measures while, on the other hand, several ut the Spanish American Republics have protested against the sending of such colonies to their respective territories Under these circum stances, Iha . declined to move any such colony to any State, without first obtaiuing ..,the conseut of its government, with an agree moent on its part to receive and protect such emigrants in all the rights of Recit:oi and I have, at the same time, offered to the sev eral States situated within the tropics, or having coloniet there, to negotiate with them, subject to the advice and consent of the Senate, to favor, he voluntary emigration of persons of that class to their respective ter. ritories, upon conditions that shall be equal, just and humane. Liberia and Hayti are, as yet, the only couutries to which colonies of African descent from here could go with certainty of being received and adopted as citizens ; and 1 regret to say such persons, contemplating colonization, do not seem SG willing to migrate to those countrea us to some others, nor so willing as I think their interest demands. I believe, however, opin ion among them, in this respect, is im proving, and ere long there will be an aug mented and considerable migration to both these countries from the United States. The new commercial treaty between the United States and the Sultan of Turkey has been carried into - execution. A commercial and consular treaty has been negotiated, subject to the Senate's coosent, with Liberia; and a similar negotiation is now pending with the Republic of llatyi. considerable improvement of the national commerce is expected' to result from these measures- Our relations with Great Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Russia, Prussia, Denmark, Sweden, Austria, the Netherlands, Italy, and Remo, and other European States, remain undiatarbed. Very fayoreble. relations also. continue to 69 tnatutaitted with Turkey, Mo• eoced, China arid Japan. During the:last . year there has--not-only beeri no change with. our previous relations -with' the independent States of our continent, but more friendly sentiments thin have here-- tofore existed are, believed to be entertained by these neighbors, whose safety and pro gress are so ittkin itely_vonnected with ours._ Thie - stafeinent especially applies to alcsciea Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras, Peru 'and < The oommisaion under the convention with the, Republic of New Grenada closed its sea sion.ivithout Laving audited and passed upon all the claimawhielt'ivere submitted to it. A pioponitilotiAti — Pending to revive the (=van itidn, that it maybe able to do more complete ittatitea...Thedoint convention - between the Mai- Ited,Btates and the Republic of Costa-Rica line toomgeited- its labars and submitted its report,._ I have favored Etna project for connecting ,the UnttedAtates with Europe by an Atlantic ,teicgraph,,antifi elmilar project to attend the telegraph'from 43att Franoisco;,to connect by a Pacific) telegraph 'path the. line Which itt o n ly t A Wended- ttereAtO the .Russian empire. The Territories of the United StCtes, with an important exception, Jiaveetattiitotinnilis, turbed by 'the civil warrantictheyare - 4hibic=" log such evidence of,Hosperity.asjestiftes fin expectetioalhat'so - uie of them" will soon be in a condition' t o be 'organised es t3tates and ho constitutionally' admitted iuto, the Federal Union. . , The immense resources 'of. some' of those Territories ought to.be developed as possible. lilveryc step -in that , direction, would have "a tendency to irupriie'lliti reve nues of the Government and diminish the burdens of (ha people. IL La worthy of your serious consideration whether some extra- ordinary measures to promote that end cannot be adopted. The ineans which suggest itself as most effective. is a scientific exploration of the mineral regions of those Territories, "with a view to the publication of its results at home anti in foreign countries—results which cannot fail to be tiuqicinus. The oondit ion of the finances Will Maim your most diligent consideration. Thu vast expen• ditures incident to the military and naval eperntions required for the suppression of the rebellion, have hitherto been met with a promptitude and certainty unusual in similar circumstances; end the public credit has been fully maintained. Tao qoutinuance of the war, however. and the increased disburs ements metre necessary by the augmented forces now in the field, demand your best re flections as to the best modes of providing the necessary revenue, without injury to bu siness, and with the least possible burdens upon labor. The suspension of specie payment by the banks, soon after the commencement of your last session, made large issues of tinned States notes unavoidable. lu no miler way could the payment of the troops. and the satisbic- I lion of Other just demands, he so economically, or so well proVided for. The judicious legi=l•i thin of Congress, securing 1110 reoeivability of these riot es for loans and internal duties and making them a legal tender fur other debts, has made them an universal currency ; and has satisfied, partially, at least, and for the time, the long felt want of 101 uniform oercu• lacing medium, saving thereby to the people, immense sums in discount and exchange. A return to specie payments, however, at the earliest period compatible with due regard to all interests concerned, should ever be kept in view. Fluctuations in the value of cur- renoy are always injurious, and to reduce titese fluctuations to ;he lowest possible putnt. will always be a leading purpose in wise leg- ' istation. Couvertibiloy, prompt and certain convertibility into man, is generally ackuow ledged to be the beet and surest staleg,nard against them: but it is extremely doubtful whether a circulation ut United States notes, payable iu coin, and tofliuieutly 13rge fur the wants of the people, can be permanently, usefully nn I safely maintained. Is there, then, tiny other mode in which the necessary provisions for the public wants tan be tulitle, and the great lidruniage of a Sitf.e and uniform currency secured 1 know of none which promises so cortaia res,ilts, and i., at the same time, su UtiubjeC tionablti, as Ile organipition of banking asso ciations, under general act or Cuogrets, well guarded is its p.m: dons Tu such nesoma „Lions the government nright furnish circulat iftg Limes, out the security urithe linitel States bonds deposited in the treasury. These notes, prepared untivr the stipervi,tou of the prover 0114:era, being uniform in appearance and se curity, tied convertible always into coin, would at once protect labor against. the evils of a vicious currency, and facilitate commeree by cheap and safe exchanges. A moderate reservation from the interest on the bond would compensate the United States for the pieperation and distribution of the nutes,•and a general supervisiotrof the sys tem, and would lighten the ',aline credit, tom cover, would be greatly improved, and the negotiation of the new ii an greatly facilitated by the steady market demanded tor govern• meta bonds wnich the adoption of the prop posed system would create. It is :0 1 litional recommendation of the measure, •4 con.iderable, wei;111, in lay judg merit, that it would reconcile, as far as possi ble. all existing interests, by the opportunity °tiered to existing institutions to rcorgarime under the net, bubstirtuing only the secured uniform national circulation for ilia local and various circulation, scouted and unzecured, new issued by them. The receipts into the treaqury front all sources, including loans, and balance Irmo the preceding year, fur the fiscal year ending on the 30th tit Jun.., 1862 ; were *573,835,247 00, of which sum $19,(156,397 01 were deri tied from customs; $1,793,331 73 from the direct ; Irmo public lands $132.203 7f ; from miscellaneous Sources, s93l,ibi 61; from loans in all farms, $329,092.461) Tile ernaintler, $2,237,061 bU, Was the hal.,nce front last year The disbursements during the sarne period were for congressional, elect/Ilse anti jildiCl•li trilfrpOSeg, qt, VS . ; Tor raiatign course, $l, 3:,1'.i,710 35; for itliscell , ukt, , u , ex pense-, including the mints, luaus, post ud,ce deficiencies, col.eetion of revenue end Other like charges, $14.129,771 30; or expenses under the Interior Department, $3 102.985 32; under the Star Depar:ment, $391,308,307 86; fur interest on public debt, $1.1,111t,1i24 4a, and fur payment un public debt, including to imbursementB of temporary loan rind redemp tions, $96 0 96.6 2 2 09; making an aggregate of $370.841,700 2.1, and leaving a. balance In the treasury no the first day of July, Ibo 2, of $13,0-13,316 81. It should be observed that the sum of $96,- 096,922 09, expended fur reimbursements and redemption of public debt, being included also in the leans wudu, may be properly deducted, both from receipts and expenditures. making the actual lecopts tar the year $187,7ti;,321 97: and the expenditures $404.744,778 16. Other informatillll cu the but.'ject of the fillalleCts will be found in the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, to whose state• meets and views I invite your must candid and considerate attention. The reports of the Secretary of War, arid of the Navy, are herewith transmitted. These reports, though lengthy, are scarcely more thou brief abstracts of the very tunnel 0119 arid extensive transactions and operations con ducted through those departments. Nor could I give it summary of them here, upon any principle.? which would admit of its lc:ing touch shorter Ilion the reports themselves. 1 there fore content toyaelf with laying the reports before you and a-king your at tent ion to them. It gives me pleasure to report it decided improvement in the tinincial condition of the Post Office Department, as compared with several preeeeding years. The receipts for the fiscal your 1801 amounted to $8,51 9 , 256 - 40, which embraced the revenue from all the States of the Union for three quarters of that year. Notwithstanding the cessation of rev enue front the so called seceded States during the Inst fiscal year, the increase of the corres pondence of the loyal States has been Filth diem, to produce it revenue during the same year of $8,200.220 70, being only $50,000 leas than was derived from all the States of the Union during the previous year. Thu ex penditures show in still more favorable result. The amount expended in 1861 was $13,606,- 759 11. For the last year the amount has been reduced to 12.125,364 13, showing a de crease of about $2,481,000 in the expendi tures as compared with the preceding year, and about $3,750,000 as (tempered with the fiscal year 1860. The deficiency in the de partment for the previous year was $4,81,006 08. For the lost fiscal your it was reduced to $2,112,814 87. These favorable results are io part. owing to, the oessatlen of Jnitil seryioe in the insur rectionary States, and in part to a careful review of all expenditeres in that dupartthent In the interest of economy. Theefticieney ' the'ptistal service, it is believed, hits also been much improved.. The Postmaster General has also opened -a correspondence; I.lfrotigh the Department of State, with foreign govern Monte, proposing a convention of postai. rop• resonatives fur the purpose of simPlifying the' -rates of foreign postage, and to expedite the foreign mails. This proposition, equally im portant to our adopted citizens, and to the commercial interests of this country, has been favorably entertained, and agreed to, by all the governments from whom replies have been received. I ask the attention of COngress to tbo sug gestiOns of the; Postmaster General in his -ro t port respecting the further legislation required in his opinion for the benefit of the postal service. The Secretary of the Interior reports as follows in regard to the public lands: The public lands have ceased. to bo a source of revenue: From tire Ist of July, -1861, to the'3ol.ll of Septeinber, '1862, the 'entire cash receipts from the sale of lands were $130,476 26;-- - a sum muo i\less than tho expenacttot our laud system durcOg the seine_ period.: ' , pip homestead law, which will Take: •effeat - ciiitfielst of January nest, oilers such' inducements to settlers, that sales for ()ash cannot be expected to an extent outheient to meet the expenses of the General Land Mee, and dlie,cost, of surveying and banging .the land into market." . The;discrepancy butweon tho sum hero etated'ae arOlog from the sales or il3O public . . lands, and -'the sum derived front the saine source, Ile reported front the Treneury De partment, arises, as 1 understand, from the tact that the periods of time; though appa rol!LlY, were not really, coincident at the• beginning point—the Treasury'reportiaelU ding a Considerable sum now which had previously been reported from the Interior— sufficiently large to greatly overreach the sum derived front the three months now reported upon by the Interior and not by the Treasury,. The Indian tribes upon our •frontiers have, during the past, year,. manifested a spirit of, insuboldination, and, at several points, have engaged in open hostilities aghast the white settlements in their vicinity. The tribes no copying the Indian country south of Kansas, renounced their allegiance to the United States and entered into treaties with the,insurgentn. Those who remained loyal to the United States were driven from the Country. The chief of the Cherokees has'visited this city fur the purpo-e of restoring the former relations of the tribe with the United States. He alleges that they wore constrained by superior force, to enter into treaties with the insurgents, anti that the United States neglected to furnish the protection which their treaty stipulations required. In the month of August last, the Sioux Indians, in Mill nesota, attacked the settle ments in their vicinity with extreme ferocity, killing, indiscriminately, men, women find children. This attack was wholly nues,pect fuel, therefore, no means of defence had been I provided. It is estimated that not Irss than eight hundred pereous were killed by the I n a ions, and it large amount of property was ; destroyed. How this Ott' break was induced is not definitely known, sad suspicion:4, which may be unjust, noel not be stated. lofortna non was received by the Whin bureau. from different sources, about the time hostilities were eommenced, that a simultaneous attack. was to be Malin upon the white settlements by all the tribes between the Mississippi river and the Rocky mountains. The State of Minnesota lots suffered great injury from this Indian war A large portion of tier territory has been depopulated, and a severe loss has been sustained by the destruction of prop• arty. The people of that State otaifest 11111011 anxiety for the removal of the tribes beyond the limits of the Suite as a guarantee against futon) hostilities. Tee Couten-litioner of In dimi affairs will furnish full details: - I sub mit r your espeoial oonsitleratton .whether. out' to d inn .yet em soon not be remodelled.— Many wise an•d good men hole impressed me with the belief that this can be profitably done. 1 submit a statement of the prociedin,7,4 of 1 culln/lie.iuners. which shows the progress ha:o heel, Towle 111 the enterprise of constructing thffl,Pileititi.nlilrl):lll---ATlrt thiq Siii,!ffjWillC earlie.4l C411111,10i011 of tile rood, and ahm the favorable action 01 Congress upon the projects now ; ending before them of enlarging the ea pacities of the great canals in New Vo,k and Illinois, as bring of Villl.l and rapidly Increas ing imp ;tifIIICC to the whole nation, and es pecially to the vast interior region hereinafter to be notieed at greater length. I 'purpm-e t, )/ In ving prepared and laid before you at an e rly d ty 1-.otnt. interesting and valuable 81,1-i i shoat information upon this subieet. The nilliht.ry and commercial importagee of en hirging the 7 Illinois and Michigan canal, and improving the Illinois river, 1;1 presented in the report 01 Cul Webster to the Secretary ut War. and new transmitted to Congress. 1 r,,peetlit'ly 1001: 0(10110u co it. T,, eit ry out Hilt provinion of the act of c o neress u t the 15;11 of May last, 1 hoe;' closed the Dopartment of Agri,:tilittic of the Coiled Stales to he orLtalliied: The Commissioner informs tneJliat within t h e 1 ,,, hu l of ~ f e w 1 ,, ,1,111., (him ,iep.ef ment establish,d au extei,ivi system of rorred roodea.ne and exchanges, both at )IUIIIO 11101 whack promises to effect highly ben eficiall(e-alts in LOC development of a correct knowledge of recent improvements ill agrical Lure, in ilie iniroduction of new priitillvlS, and in the collection of the agricultural eta liStiCa of the ditlerent States. Also, that it will soon he prepared to 'ills tribute largely 'Seeds, cereal., pl s r n itito and cut thud has already published, and liberally rtitlii.ed, much valuable information in antic itodion of o more 81abOrlt113 i'epcot, which will itt•due • time. lro furnished, -etirbratring- some valuable te-ds iu c6eiuienl ocierice ifoNv iu progre.. in the laboratory, The creation of this department was for the were immediate benefit of .a.large class of our. most valuable cititeno, owl I trust that the liberal bast.. upon which it It to been organ 1,.••,1 will not only meet your approbation, but that it will realize at uo diet tut day all the fondest anticipations of its most ttriguine trieuds, and become the fruitful 81/11ree of 201i/11111 dpi 10 tall our people. On the 22,1 of Sept etriber last, n pruelaum• t i er , wt issued by the Evecutive, a copy of which 18 het e with submitted. In accordance with the purpose expressed in the second paragraph of (101 l paper, 1 now respectfully call your attention to what !nay be called compensated tottioncipat ion " A nntiuu may be said to consist of its to ritory,. its people, and its laws. The I erritory ie the only I art which is certain of durability. "Out. generation passelh away, and another coitteth but the earth ikbidetli forever." It is of the first importance to duly consider and estimate this ever•eriduring port. That per 11.11 of the earth's surface which is owned and inhabited by the people of the United States, is well adapted to be the home of one national family, and it id not well adapted Mr two, or mare. his eta.t extent, arch its variety of cli 111418 arid productions, are of advantage, in this age, for one people, whatever they may have been in twiner ages. Stearn, telegraphs and intelltg,emte. have brought these to he an I advantageous combination fur Ode united pee pie. In the inaugural address I briefly pointed out the total inadequacy of disunion as a rem edy for floe ditlerences between the people of the two sections. I did r.o in language which etunot improve, and which, therefore, lbeg to repeat.: 't flue section of our country believes sla very iA tight, ond ought to be extended while the oilier believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute, '4 , Tlie fugitive slave clause of the Constitution, and the law for the suppree Mon tat the foreign slave trade, are each as well enforced, perhaps, as any law can ever be in a cdmmunity where the moral sense of the people iniperfecily support the law itself The great body of the people abide by the dry legal oldigatitia in both cases and a few break beer in each. This, I Ihink, Cllll[lol lie perteetlt cured ; rand it would be worse in both cases after the separation of the sections, than before. The foreign slave trade, now imperfect:y suppressed, would be ultimately revived wit bent restriction in one section; while fug itive slaves, now only partially star rendered, would not be surrendered at all by the other.. l'hysieally speaking, we cannot seperate We cannot reMove our respective sections from each other, nor build an 'impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence, and ..bey.ond the_reach of each but the dif formic parts of our. an:tutu cannot do this They cannot but remain face to lace; and inietspiurse, 'either amicable or hostile, must contintni between them - IS it possible thou, to make that intercourse 11110111- advantageous or wore satisfactory utter ,separation titan before? Cut aliens make treaties easier than friends clan make laws? Can treaties be moro faithfully enforced between aliens than laws (tan among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot tight al trays ; and when after much loss on both sides, and uo gain on either, you cease Aghting, the identical old questions 118 to terms of intercourse arc again even you. There is no line, straight or crooked, suitri:‘ ble fora national beundary, upon which to di vide. Trace through, from cast to west; upon the - lino 7betwoenT theirce - and - staVeiromirry; and tve.shall find a little more than one-third of its length are rivers, easy to pp crossed, and populated, or soon' to be populated, thickly upon both sides; while nearly all -its reniainhag length:are merely surveyors' lines, over'which people may walk buck and forth atiroonsiounness of their presence. No par' - of linb owl tie Made more diLlieult to pass, by writing it down on paper or parelt.- natianel limit:Wary. Thu fact of sep ara!ion,. if It. comes,-, : gives up,- on-tire . part of the. succeeding section, the fugitive slave obtuse, along with rill other constitutional obligations uport the section seceded from, while r should eittect no treaty stipulation would ever be made to take its`placte. • But thOre is another Milieu ty. The great interior region, bounded east by the Alleghe nies, north by . the Blaisllllollllllloll 3 , wear I+y the Rooky 51ountains, and south by the aloh - g which the culture of coin and uotrun meets, and which includes par, of VII ginia, pin . of Tennessee, all of Kentucky, (thin, la diana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, lowa. Minnesota, and the Territories of Dakota, Nebraska, and part of Colorado, already has above ten millions of people, and will have fifty millions within filly years, if not prevented by any political folly or mis take. It con t a ins m ore than tale thir , i of the conOtry - owtted by the United States —cm (airily mare than one million of square tulles. Once half t„ts,populetts us Atts6l/CiIIISCIAS already is, it would brie more than seventy live millions of people. A glance at, the map shows that, territorially speaking, it, is the great. body of the liepuhlie. The other parts are but. mar gloat borders to it, the magnificent region Sloping west from lire lloeky Mountains to the I'acitic being the deepest and also the richest in undeveloped resources. lu the production of provisions, grates, gra.s, , es nod all which Proceed from them, this iLreat intertor region is naturally talc of the mural impurt,tm iu the world. Ascertain !rots the el at ist ics Lire 010011 proportion of the region which tins, its yet, been brougot into cultivation, and al,t , the large and rapidly inereastsig amount of i's product's, 11,11 , 1 we shall be overwhelmed with the magnitude of the prospect presented. As yet thou region has Ott Oen coast, touch es no ocean anywhere. A part of our u,liou ,its people now find, and may for,ver find their way to Europe by Now York. to South A.lllll vita and Aft ieit by New 111,1. 11.1 Asia by San FrAllel,oo. lint separate our C./1111111111 country into two nal lullS. by the present rebellion, and every tri.,11 , ,r groat interior region is thereby cut oft front 801110 one or more of these millets, pot," perhaps, by physio,o sorrier, but by 0111)11,1 . 116meg and onerous regulations Aria this is true, wherever a dividing, or boundary line may Ire xe , l. Pince it belWeeil the now free and slave c,untry. or Place it south of lientueky, or north of 011ie, and still the truth rem tins, that none smith or it. can trade to any port or place bortli of it, and none north of it e:111 I rant, to any 1,11 or place south or it, except 011 terms (homed by a go vernment foreign 10 I hem, These es , t, west, aril nmuth, sre Indl , pett , sidc t o the well being of the people iuhuouwg, and t o inhabit, this vast interior region. 'Mulch rut thin three may he the be-d, iut no pi oper goes hon. All are better than either: and all, ~f right. belong to the people, and to their site cessors forever 'Trite to them , el yes, Ihcy will nut mlt where 11 line or Se1,11',1.11.:1 ~.11,11 WV will vele, rather, 111.1 L there shall be no such line. Nor are the [mit gin regions les , inter, , ected in the,' cr o oniiiiticilion , to, awl through theitt to the great ontsvle worlri They too, and each of 1111.111, watt {rnvrttcecss to tlif - .4 - Egypt of 111.,\V,:+1, atgout par mg toll at the cros-ing of any Li:1110,d 1,01,,,t1,,ry, (,bur national :Ai ife spifigs not from our permanent p•trts: not trout the I.trid eve inha bit; not from our n a tional hoine. , tead. There it no possible severing of 'his loft would mul tiply, and not mitigate, evils among u , . in all it., ad.iptations and aptitude., it demands tiol , ill /111.) 0111., ,c0:11,,Iie11.• In tact, it would, ere long, fore,' r,'-ration. lnliVeVer much Of 1.00 0 1 and Irell7l.lre the i-eparattou might are .cost. Our striie peoitlnsde eurselvesr -- - 0 the -Pas. , sing, generation , 01 men ; iiiid tt can, wi:hout con vul.,ien, be hushed forever with the pass leg of one g•'ueraiiou In this view, I recommend the adoption of the I'olluw ittg resolution find aiticles a mendatory to the Constitution ulthe States •, Resolved by the S. nate and House of Itepres , mtatives of the 'United States of A.- merica in Cougrt•ss (two-ttiii<lit 01 both houses euncuriiiig.) that the tolluw ing ailintuit he proposed to the Legislatures (or conventions) Stairs as 3- 11V:1141110MS to 'Cl,tiittli , m, (,l the Uni ted States, all or arty of which articles when ratified by three-Fourths of the said Lcgisla turns (or c o tiventions)4o be valid as part or pat Ls Of the rul<l C..:ll,ciltltiCou, viz: Every State, whet cif] . slavery now ex ists, which shall abolish the same therein iit any time or times before the first day of January, se' he yea); of our Lo tit uuu thou sand and elm.; hundred, shall receive cow -1 pensation from the United States as fel . "The l'resident or the United Sinter skull deli i•r to weir such State, bonds of the United St.itvs, hearing inlet rut ;it the -raw amount equal to the aggregito stun of— fer cacti slave shows to have heen therein, by the eighth eruvn., of the United States, said bonds to be deli% ered to such State by instalments, or in 1,111! pael2l, at the cuuilcic tloU of the abolishment, according as the same shall have been gradual, or at one time, within such State; and 'titbit est shall begin to run upon any such bond, only from the proper time of its delivery as aforesaid. Any State having received bonds as ftfore said, and finery, ards reintroducing or till •erating slavery therein, shall refund to the United States the bonds so received, or the value thel eel', and all interest paid thereon. ICI I I. I. V.-- tt All slaves who shall havo enjoyed ac tual freedom by the chances of the war, at any time heleru the end of the rebellion. shall he forever free ; but all ()WIWI'S of Sfiell 1010 stall 0 , . 1 have buon disloyal, shall he cOmpensated ler them, at the baton rate as o f for States adopting abolish ment olslavety, but in such way that nu slave shall be twice accounted tor. IMIEMI "Congress may appropriate money, and otherwise p'rovide, tor colonizing free col ored persons, with their own consent, at any place or places nithout the United States." I beg indulgence to discimq the , e pro posed articles at some length. Without slavery the rebellion could never have ex isted; without slavery it could nut coutim 1.10. Among the friends of the Union there is a great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard 'to slavery and the Atriean race, amongst us. Some wouldlierpetuate slave ry ; some would abolish it suddenly, and without emepuesat lee ; some Weald remove the freed people froM among ea, and some would min them with us; mid these aro Pet other minor diversities. Because of these diversities, we waste much strength in struggles among ourselves. By mutual eoneessieu wo should harmonize and act together. Tlde would be compromise; but it would he compromise among the !Heeds, and not with the enemies 01 the tfoion.— These articles are intended to embody a plan of ench mutual concessions. If the plan shall b e adopted, it is assumed that emancipatioh will tallow—at least, in sev eral of the Ssates. As to the that article, the main points aro; first, the emancipation; secondly, the length of time for consummating it—thirty seven years; and thirdly, the componsa,- lion. The emancipation will ho unsatisfactory 'to the advocates of perpetual slavery, but, rho length of titne should groatly mitigate their dissatisfaction. The time spares both races from lieu evils of sudden derangetneat , -‘4O fact, from' the necessity of any , de rangement.-- whlle most of those whose habitual course of thought Will he disturb ed by tho MOiIStIVC will have passed away before its consont Mallon. They will never We it. Another class will hail the pros pect of emancipation, but will deprecate the length, of time. Thog_Avill—Mel - ttraCit givel — tOo little to the now living' slaves,— But it really gives them much.. It saves them from the vagrant destitution which must largely attend immediate emancipa tion in the4ocalities whore their niimbere are very great; and it gives the inspiring „assurance that their posterity shall be free ':foreVer.__The _plan _leaves toLoach State chootiing, to 'net under it. to abolish slavery owso,r_attha end_of thexenturg,-oriat any intermediate time, or by degrees, :extend ing over DM whele or any part of the peri od, and It Obliges no two States to proceed .alike., It also provides for compensation, and generally time Meth) of making This, it iyould seetn, must farther mitigate i=the dissatisfaction of those who favor per &mil slavery, and especially of those who are to receive the compeusation. Doubt less, some of those who are to pay, and not to rocelvo, will object. --Yet the measure is both jog and uebnomical. In a certain sudsy, the libertitiou of slaves is .the• de , strum ion of property_. property acquired by descent, or by purchase, the same as other property: . • . ~ It la no less true for liaiing been often said, that the people of the South are not 111010 responsible /'or the original introduc tion of the property than are the North; and when it is remembered how unhesita tingly we all use cotton' and sugar, and share the profits irk dealing them, it may not be Unite sate to say-that the South bile been more responsible than the North for its continuance. IF, then, for a common Object, this property 13 to bo sacrificed, is it not just that it be done at a common charge And if', with loss money, or Money inure easily paid, we can preserve the benefit of the Uniell by this means, than we can by the war alone is it not also, economical to do it I Let us consider it then. Let us ascertain the snot we have expended in the war Billet, Compensated emancipation was proposed last March, and consider whether it' that measure had been prompt I)' accepted by oven some of the slave States, the SOIOO SOW would not have done more to close the war than luta been otherwise done. It so, the measure would save money, and, in that view, would lie ix prudent and economical measure. Certainly it is not so easy to pay something, as it is to pay notbibg ; lint it is easier 11l pay a large sum :than it is to pay a larger one. And it is *easier to pity any sum when we are able, than it is to pay it before we are ahle.— The war requires large sums, and requires them at once. 'l'lln aggregate ante neces sary for compensated emancipation, of course. would he large. lint it would require no ready cash; nor the bonds even, any faster than the email ciliation progresses. This might not, tinil probably would not, close betide the end of the thirty-seven years. At that time we shall plobahly hate a buttfruit ntillions of people to share tire burden, instead of thir ty-one millions, as n ow. And nut only so, hilt tilt' leeletltie of our population may he expected to continue for a long time after that period, :is rapidly as (Adore; bccattA'e ottr territory will not have become full. 1 do nut state this inconsiderately.: At the same ratio of increase , which we have main tained, on an average, from our first nation al consul, in 17911, 11111i1 that of 1860, we should, in 1900, have a population of 103,- 21;8.4 15. And why may we not continuo that ratio far beyon,t4 that period. thir a bundant room—our - broad national home stettil--is our ample r e sioirce. Were our territory as limited as the British Isles. Very certainly our population could nut ( Xpilll,l as stated. instead of re.ceiving the V4l.•ign born, as now, WO S110111(1 Ile contpcllcd to 50,111 part 01 the IlatiVe born away. nut such is not our condition. We have two 111011011 S 111110 hundred 1111,1 sixty-throe thousand square miles. Europe has three millions and eight hundred thensand, with population averaging seventy-three to the square.mile. by may not our country at some time, average as litany 7 Is it less fertile alas it n i ore waste by mountains, rivers, hikes. deserts it other cauis'st is It inferior to Entope ill any . 11111111',41 advantage 7 \ Thu plan is proposed. as per marmot con stitutional law. It cannot beconzo such without the concurrence of, first, two-thirds of Congress, and. afterwards, three-fioirths of the States. The requisite three-lout the of the States itecce,atily, include sev en o f th e s l, t Ve 51,11(.5. Their 001112111 relic,', if obtained. will give 11:45111allelt Of their severally adopting emancipation at 110 Very ltltitallt upon - the- new constitutional I This assurance would 01111 the strug ' gle new, and save the Union forever. I do not forgot the gravity which should characterize a paper addressed to Jfie Con gress of the nation, by the Chief ll:wish:de of the natiem. Nor du I forget that some it ,d you are Illy seniors; nor that more of ) uu have node experience than 1, tit the etlll - et I.llttlie .1(1.1iI . S. Yet I Irast 111 it ill view of the welt iestommibility resting itti on we , you wilt perceive no want t.l respect to fout.ulers. ill any undue calm:stilt:Ns 1 may seem lir &splay. Is it &Wilted, then, list the plan I pro ' peso. it atleptell. W(1111(1 shorten the war, and thus lessen its expenditures of money and of blood f is it doubted HIM it Woliki restore the uutiuual authority and nafional prosperity 1 IS it 41011btell that we bete— Congress and Executive—can secure its a- I dilutor) f Will not the good people res pond to a united and earnest appeal Iron' us 7 Can we, can they, by 1111)' other means, So certainly, or so :issure these vital objects/ 11'11 Call beet:lAA- ably by elttleell. It is net, can any of its imagine better 1" but, o can We all 110 better /" j 7 he dogmas id the quiet past are inade quate to the stot rny_ esetd, ....The.uccasiou is pired 'high with Wilk:tiny, atiN we must liSe 111111 the occasion, AS our case iS new. SO We most think 11110 W and act anew. 11 . e must disenthrull ourselves, and thou we shall save our country. If, then, we Ille, it some time, to be as populous as Europe, limy 51,0111 As to when this may he we can judge-by the past and the present; as to when it will be, or ever, depends tench on whether we 1111011- Will the Union. Several of our States are already above the average. of Europe—sev enty-Olive and a third to the squire mile. 'Massachusetts has 157 ; Rhode bland, 133; Owitteettclit, 99; New York and New der -51.2, e ach 811. Also twO other peat. Slates, Pennsylvania and /1110, are„not lay below, the tinnier having 63 and the latter 59. The ,)lutes already above the European av erage, except New loik, have increased ill as rapid a ratio since passing that point as ever before; while 110 0110 Of them is tt 1111a1,10 some other parts of our countyy in natural capacity lot sustaining a dense pop ulation. Taking the nation in the aggregate and We tied its 1101/1.111111011 and latio 01 increase for the several decent:jai periods to be as follows : 1790 2,929,827 181)0 5,305,937 35.02 per ct. ratio of inc 1810 7,239.814 36.45 1820 9.638,131 33.15 It 1830 12,866,020 83.40 1840 17,069,453 32.(17 1850 23,191,867 35.87 1860 • 31,443,790 35.58 This shows au average decennial increase of 34.60 per cent. ill popolation through the s'itVelltr years from our first to our 1118 t et-Ti mis yet taken. It is seen that the ratio of increase, mil 110 0110 Of these fieVl.lll periods is either 2 per cent. below or 2 per cent. above the average, thus showing how In flexible, and, consequently, how reliable the law of increase in our case is. Assn ruing that it will continue, gives the follow- , nig results : 1870 42,323 . ,341 1880 56,1167,216 1890 16,677,812 1900 108,208,415 1910 138,918,526 1920 186,984,385 1930 231.680,914 These figures show that our country may be as populous as Eutope now is, ;it some point between 1920 and 1930—say about 1923--our let ritory, at seventy-three and a third persons to the square mile, being a capacity to contain 317,168,000. And we will reach this, too, if we do not °first:l) ( o2s relinquish the chance, by the 1141- ly afteevils o 1 disunion, or by long and ex-- hausting wire springing from the ottly great element ,o,t'..dational discord among us, ; --- While it caunot be tereaetm exactly how much ono Jorge example of secession, breec ing lesser ones indefinitely', would retard population, civilization and prosperity, no 01111 01111 doubt that the extent of it would be very groat and lojurieuS. T.lto proposed emancipation would short en till! _War, _perpvtuate — pence, insert.: this increase f' population, and proportionally the wek9ol-the country. With these, we Itheuld pay all the emancipation would cost, together with our -other debt; easier than wo should pity our other debt without it. 11 we had allowed our old 'national debt to run at six per cunt. per 1111111101, Silllplo.in turest, trent tile end of our revolutionary -struggle - until - to=day,viilunit thing on either principle or interest,,oach - mem would owe, L less upon that debt now, than each luau owed upon, it then; and this because our increase 'of men, through the wholeituried, tuts been greater titan pet' cent., and has run faster titan the inter est upon the debt. Thus„tituo 'Moho re lieves a debtor nation, so long as its Popu lation him:eases lastey than - untpaid Intutost itecumulates.on its debt : . ' And, notwithstanding this. plan, boYee ommundation that Congress provide by law for componsating'any State which may a dopt emancipation, ,helere this plan - shall have both' acted.upon, is hereby earnestly renewed. Such:would be only an advance part or tpo platil and the same arguments apply to both. This plan is recommended as a means, not iu oxeluai Oil, ot, but in : addition to y al ,ethers for restoring and preserving then . - Clonal authority thryughout tho The subjeet is presented exclusively in its economical aspect. This plan witted, I am confident, secure peace more speedily, and maintain it more permanently, than can be done by force alone; while all it would cost considering amounts, and man ner otpayment, and times ofpAyteent, would be easier paid thou will be the additional cost of the war, if we rely solely on force. It is much—very much—that it would cost no blood ut all. This fact would be no excllse for delaying payment td What is justly due; but it shows the great importance of time iu this connex.- ion—the great advantage of a policy by which wo shall have to pay now, when we nniiiner hilt thirty one millions. lo a word, it shows that a dollar will be much harder to pay for the way than will be a dollar for emancipation on the proposed plan. Arid then the latter will cost no blood, no pre cious lite. It will be a NIIVIng to both. As to the second article, I think it would he impracticable to return to bondage the class of persons therein contemplated.-- Some to thew, doubtless, in the property :wise, belong to loyal owners; and hence, provision is wade iu this article for compeu. sating such. The third article relates to the future of the heed people. It does not oblige, but merely authorizes, Congress to out in colo nizing such as may Consent. This ought not to he regarded as ot,jectionable, on the one hand, Jr on the other, in so much as it comes to nothing, unless by the mutual con sent of the people to be deported, and the American voters, through their representa tives in Congress. I cannot make it better known that; it al ready is, that I strongly favor colonization. And yet I wish to say there Is all objection urged against tree colored persons remain ing iu the country*, which is largely iwagl tnlry, if not sometimes malicious. It is insisted that their presence mould injure and displace white labor and white laborers. If there ever could he a proper time for more catch arguments, that time surely is not now. In times like the preS wit, men should utter nothing for- which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity. Is it true, then, that colored people can displace any more white labor, by tieing tree, than by remain fug sl tees I If they stay in their places, they jostle no white laborers; II they leave th-tr old places, they leave them open to white laborers. Logically, there is neither more nor less of it. Emancipation, even without deportation, would probably en hance the wages of white labor, and, very surely, would not . Vellonti Chum. 'Thus, the customary amount, of labor would still Inure td be porformed, .the freed fietipft‘3 would surely not do more than their pro portion of it, sitti very' itrat.otiy, for a time; would ilii loss, leaving an increased part to elute laborers, bring their labor into grant er ili-mand, arid, consequently, enhancing the wages of it. With deportation. even to a IhMteil ex tent, enhanced wogea to Whitt. , labor is mathematically certain. Labor is like any WIWI' commodity in the market—increase the demand Mr it and you IlielQasu the price of it. Reduce the supply of black labyr,_ by coloniz.inri the black laborer out of the coun try, awl by precisely sg_ . tnucii,you.increaso the deinund tor, and the wages of, white la bor. But it is dreaded that the freed people will swarm forth ,a n d cover Chu whole land? Are thew not sire oly in the land 7 liberation Make them any more numerous 1 E q ually distributed. among the whites of the whole country, awl there wuold be luit O ne COIL/ 01 hi whites. Could the One, )ri soy way, greatly disturb the seven 1— Thery :tre many communities new, having inero than one tree colored person to seven whites; and this, n ithent any apparent con sciousness of e‘il limn it. The District (rl' Colimiltia, and the Slates of Maryland ;toil Delcware, ate all in this condition. The District has niere than one free colored to six %%Idles; and yet in its frequent petitious to Gong' ess,l believe it bus !lover present ed the preNeliet: 01 tree colored persons as Ono or it, gi ievaricus. But why should oicipation south send the freed people riokh / People, er any cutler, seldom ton, unn , i there be something to run from.— Iterctelnie colored people, to 801110 extent, =I perhaps fro DI both boinhige and destitution. 13nt II gradual emancipation and depoitation be adopted. they will have neither to lieu loon. 'lsbell - 0111 itia3ders will give thCILI least until new I.thoreis can be procured; and the freed men, in turn, will gladly give their labor for thu wages, till new homes can be lound for thew, in con genial climes, and with people of thei:.own blood and nice. can bu trusted on the mutual inteiests involved. And, in airy e vent, cannot trio mirth iteeido fur itself, V.huther thew I Again, Bs iffaetiCo prceen wore than the ory, in any ease, has there been any irrup tion of colored people northward, because of tile aholislanent of slavery this District last spring ? What 1 have said of the proportion of free rob,. ed persons to the whites, in the Dis trict, i. iron] the censos (.1'1866, having no reference to persons called contrabands, nor to those made free by the act of Con gress, aboki„shing slavery here. Tiro plot consisting or these articles is recommended, not but that a restoration of the national authority would be accepted without its adoption. Nor will the war, nor proceedings under the prochunation of September 22, 1862, be stayed because of the recommendation of this plan. Its - timely adoption, 1 doubt not would bring restoration, and therohy stay both. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administra tion, will be remembered in spite of our selves. No personal significance, can spare one or another. Tro fiery trial through which we pass, will light its down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world knows we knew how to save it. Wo—even we here—bold the power and bear tho re sponsibility. lu giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free—hon orable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or Meanly lose the last best home on earth. Other means succeed; this could not tail. The way is plain, poacetul, generous, just.--- 1 way, which, it followed, the world will for ever applaud, and God most forever bless. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. DECEMBER 1.113 a. 1111 MI Iu 4.),` - tratd. CARLISLE, PA. Friday, December 5, 1862. .12.1 4 .1 1 some rebel sympathizer will send us the vote of some regiment, somewhere, giving what he calls a democratic majority., we shall cheerfully.publish it. Of course, it is' understood that the 'regiment is in the Union service. In the Rebel racks-they are all "democrats." " NEW CounTannin . , —Rhode Island Union Bank, Newport, IL L ..on upper. left, Vulcan seated, with sledge, anvil. , locomotive in distance; TEN on lower lett ; lower right, man with sheaf of grain, .iand sickle, 10 above largo Xin centre of note. Imitation. 6:N811.9 111,:m5,"4--Massnehuseas.las—L7roo9- more females, than • males, while Orilifornia h a s 67,000 more males than females , and Illinois,,. 02,000 more. males than females. One person in 1,335'0f our population is insane, one in 2 4 470 idiotio,-• Ohio .is the .-grated wool-growing. slaw, Now ,YorlL'azaj Pennsylvania noxl, Michigan ranks. foui•ih. New Jersey raises more potatoes: than spy lother slate by two to one. The President's 'Message. We give up alarge' portiorfef our paper this week to this very important document. Never in ,the history of Our couctry has the annual message of its Chief Magistrate been looked for with such feverish 'anxiety; and never, perhaps } has an 'expectant •people been more heartily gratified to find That, in the dire extremity of the nation it chief magisttate is equal to every emergency. A well defined policy as to the conduct of ihe war on the broad basis of universal and tub trammeled freedom had been, euumeiated,. and the hearts of the people are gladdened' to perceive that there is to be no departure front that policy. This, then, is the grand,. perva , in,, idea of the message, and as sugb. we hail it as the harbinger of a peace that will prove an immunity from any future re bellion of caste or class. The message con tains other and important iniormation and suggestions for the action of Congress, and-. is altogether a great state paper, and of, course, will be read by everybody. OtteytNo Oamms.—Deneral Beanregard' recently issued orders, that thereafter, in, speaking of Union officers, and the Union army, Elm term "abolitionist" should be ap plied. W notice that Beanregard's North. ern serfs promptly respond, tkt the order,— Traitor papers class the Union men elected] to Congress as " abolitionists," and traitor sympathizers make it a point when speaking of 'Union men—no matter whether those Union men are Lincoln men, Bell men, Douglas men, or even Breckenridge men— to stigmatize them as Abolitionists, FPurrtt•tt SLAVES —lt appears that out of, the 8,9.19,557 slaves tit the Southern States, 803 niwlti their escape from their masters in 1860, being about 1 in every 5,000, or at the rate of one tiltieth of one per cent.; a great cause fur The overthrow of the government! kti,;:y.The bay Creams of curtain of the de. Inneracy consist of visions of the defeat of Burnside. If they can manage to have Gen.. Burnside and his entire army cut to pieces,. it w,end lie stub a glorious vindication of little gam and sir telling against the ! Such are the hopes and the ends of umilmm rlimmi•ravv, Eutuii anD (;_r,aurtl3lafar . ilt3'"Tlie Hotel property, known as GLASS'S Hotel, is again put up far sale by Shei dliprEr 14:71 - By reference to our advertising it wilt be seen that Mmiisrs S.iWi Zit t hitt.d.xit, have just opened a large ai.i-ort men t of Winter ()cods, which they offer to the public at prices to suit the times. All those in want of Gioo•Is are invited to examine their stock. Orff° During this week and part of lart, the folio wieg, surlier citizens, have been bur led, Cap( Tune. Dwv.,t, and LEo FAmma, who were killed ht the battles of South Noun (tin and Antietam. ROD ERT 11. SPOTTSWOOD, who died at a U. S. Hospital, at Washington. A ',oilier who died at the 13 trraekS: was also interred on Wednesday last. These 'bravo. s ddiers all died in:the earneM,service of their country; and whether they met their doom. ill nrnre (lel(' service, ur succumbed to a in ire in 41(11,(us foe in the hospital, their mein, ories will be alike hallowed and revered. Mace et decorum ex( pro ?atria inori." ,Last week (deer MARTIN arrestedl Mrs. liArtilAna iliiwAms, on a charge of Bell ing liquor without a license, telling lager &c., on Sunday, and for keeping' a bawdy. houtie. She RBB released on giving security in the' sum of for appearance in Court. Friois.--,On Saturday night, la•t, about 12 o'clock, officer Nlairms arrested WAL JOHNSTON and lIENHY MICHAEL, while engaged iu tearing down ROUT 11cemurszwes. fence, killing chickens &c., They were com mitted by Jueti9e DEIICTE, to answer the, charge of malicious mischief. The slime officer also arrested A, BLACILIaII his wife MELINDA 13cAcK, charged with steal ing mason's tools, clothing from ISAAC WINGAILD These two darkies hare been in the Quarter Sessions several times, charged with this same offence. They will now, most, likely have an opportunity of enjoying connubial fe licity in the reuiteutiary fur a 'short period. ARREST OE A TRAITOR, DESERTER A•ND !louse THIEF. —OU Monday last, a man calling hinnfelf Levi EMANUEL STESENBOX, w 5a arrested in the neighborhood of Shippensburg, I y a member of a Pennsylvania Cavalry Re giment, as a deserter from Capt. Zinn's com pany of the 130th P. V. On. arriving at Shippeunburg be was recognized at the man who had stolen a-horse and buggy from Mr. Milton, some time last August Ile was. brought to Carlisle and committed by 'Squire Simi:stain. The following facts were adduced: on the preliminary examination : Stevenson enlisted, last summer, in Capt. Zinn's com p illy of nine months men. received his bounty of $5O, from the Commissioners. lle then went to Mr. Hilton's livery stable, and hired a horse and buggy for three days, paying $a in advance therefor. On the fourth day Ste ',tumor' not returning, inquiry was inStUnted` ad to his whereabouts, ttnil it wits ascertained. that ho had hired another horse and buggy at Shippensburg, and ran away with both it anti Hilton's. Pursuit was commenced and both. horses and buggies were found at Waynesboro'', a small town in Franklin county, whore the thief had sold them, and immediately decam ped. A reward was offered for his approhem , sion, and ho was arrested in Maryland and platted in jail at Frederick." Some time after this the raid of the rebels under Jackson and. LiC was accomplished, and during their occu pancy of Frederick they offered to release all prisoners in the jail who would join their army. Stevenson accepted their proposition, andiu a few .minutes was a full tiedgettrobel, ready 'to assist in the "liberation" of "My Maryland." After remaining a short he again deserted, ( justice compels es to nay that he didn't take his bounty With him this time)' andhis next appetvaicce its in the neighf borhood of Shipponsburg, where, as above stated, Ito was arrested, and is - now way to receive his richly merited punishment: =I FRANK LESLIE Foil. DEOEAIEB.77 - 3 1 -0 last number for 4862, of this eleVer magas , zinc is before us, and is more than ever ac. ceptable. Leslie rays. particular attention' to the character and - style of the:ergraNings --he - -preserris:-tif-the7publi-c-.--Tlierailr-14-e -lities,,specitnens,Of the art we haytt se v en in anypictorial any pictorial -or magazine. 'The reading matter, also, is prepared and selected with very good how The Gazette of Fashion, which is appended to this work, is, always darichod with fashion plates- of,the lateat, style's, and 'is alcno well worth Ow-price of whole work. AddreSs Frank Leslie, 19 City flail Square, N. I%
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