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%