4Shrt herald.
CARLISLE, PA.
-I 'Friday, December 12, 1862.
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List of Prices
'the unexampled advance in the price of
everything used in the publishing business,
rendered it absolutely necessary that some
active measures should be taken by the news
paper publishers here, to meet the crisis. A
meeting was held in Carlisle, on Saturday
last, and after a free discussion, the list of
prices for advertising and job•work, which
is appended below, was adopted This tariff
of rates will be strictly adhered to, and we
would call the attention of our patrons to it
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done at without certain ruin to the printer.
The question of subscription was held
over until the first of January, in the hope
that the price of printing paper would be AO
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glad if those of our subscribers who can do
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as to which of the two alternatives they
would prefer.
While on this subject we would again re
mind'sOme of our patrons that they are in
arrears for subscription, advertising and job.
bing. We have borne long and quietly this
culpable remissness, and have now reached
a point beyond which we will not and can
not forbear. A very large majority of our
subscribers pay us promptly; in justice to
these, as well as to meet pressing wants of
our own, we must insist upon payment of al
claims dud us before the expiration of the
present year. After that time we must
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J. B. BRATTON, Volunteer,
A• K. RIIEEM, Herald,
E. CORN MAN, Democrat,
G. ZINN, ihneriran,
D. J. CARMAN Y, Valley Journal
FOUNRY'S Paces.—This first class daily
onme to us one day last week in an entire
new dress, Which much improves its up
pearanco, although in that and all other re
spects it always compared favorably with any
other paper in the Unicd States. In our
opinion The Presz is one of the best conducted
papers in the country, and although its ,ir
oulntion is exceeded by few, it deserves a still
more extended patronage. IYe heartily wish
It success.
THE Pont.,c DEBT.—The Secretary of the
Treasury, hi Lis report to Congress, estimates
the public debt on the Ist of July, 1863, at
$1.122,297,403,24, and on the supposition
that the war may last until the Ist of July,
1864, at $1,744,685,586.80. The amount
yet to be provided for - by Congress, for the
fiscal years; 1863 and•] 864, beyond resources
available adder existing laws, he states at
$899,300,701 22.
tar Chicago, so long the greatest grain
market in the world, is now also the greatest
pork centre. Last ',year 511,119 hogs were
were cut up in this city-31,118 more than
in Cincinnati, which has the name of being
the great Porkopclis of the world. The
capacity for slaughtering and packing hogs
has been vastly„in€reased for the coming
winter, mad it is estimated that from 700,000
to 1,000,000 hogs will be disposed of here
during the packing season that has just
opened.
Tus FILENCII IN MEXICO. —The New York
Tribune says; “Private advices from Mexico
state that the French army cannot leave its
present position for the want, of transportation,
and that orders have been sent here for the
purchase In the United States of 1,000 mules,
.with the requisite harness, nod 5000 wagons.
Tho army will not, therefore, move until those
purchases are made and the mules and the
wagons reach the army."
:63- The Richmond Dispatch estimates Con.
federate losses in ten months of the present
year at. 76,000 men, who have
,either perished
or been disabled. It further says "if the
whole truth were known' they would reach
100,000 by the end of the year, for the deaths
from disease In the hospitals, in camp, and at
home, generally exceed those in battle. For
every year the war continues we must expect
our casualties to - be quite as heavy as they
beve boon the present."
THE PHILADELPHIA PAPERS,-The Press in
creases-its price to three cents, from yeater•
day, while the Inquirer is reduced in size ono
half, at the old rate of two cents, which is in
reality more of an increase in price Than, that
of the. Press.• The Ledger is shortly to be
changed to a two cent sheet. The. Sunday
Dispatch gives notice that on and after Sun
gay:last, its price will be four instead of two
cents, while the Evening Journal was , re•
duped in size some.time since.—The Bul
Jelin, News and North American have as yet
made no change In price or dimensions,
NEWSPAPERS IN TRH FAMILY. —A child
.beginning' to.. read becomes delighted with
_nearspapers,-beoause -he , reads—of---nam es -and
thingawhioh are very familiar, and will make
progress accordingly. A newspaper in; the
family-one year is worth half a year's school,
log to the' children, and every father must
consider thakaubstantial informatiorf is con
Vented with thisro.dvanoercient.
„Xle)...Latit .week an .order was issued 'by;
Rebel fie'n. Lee ,that •such soldiers as were.
without Shoes should make reoccusius froth•
the rawhides, otherwise ie.. do duty bare-
footed. - *
Anot4er ImpoAtant Decision.
Judge PaAnson, of Harrisburg, has.made
another important decision,in a suit growing
out. of issues relating to the draft.- The prin
ciple- levered in this case turns on. It neglect
of duty on the part Of the person . claiming ex
emption. It appears that the drafted party
did not avail himself of Hie opportunity to
claim exemption when the commissioner of
his district heard such claims, and even after
he had been regularly drafted, ho suffered
himself to be mustered into service, and was
in camp one month before Ito moved in WS
present appeal, or rather before his father,
who Claims the control of this minor, entered
a proceeding for the exemption of his son.—
Judge PEARSON makes these neglects tanta
mount to a voluntary submission to the draft.
Ile holds that he cannot hoar an appeal
from the proceedings of the drafting commie
stoner, these proceedings having been regu
larly had in conformity with the law. The
laws of the United States fix the age pre
scribed for military duty between eighteen
and forty ; five,' while the law of Pennsylva
nia places it between twenty-one and forty
five years. Had the relator in this case
claimed exemption from the commissioner
making the rolls for the draft, he might have
been exempted—but when these rolls were
once in the possession of the United States
officers, end the draft made, the law fixing
military service bet wee the age of eighteen
and forty-five was in force and binding on the
individual thus claimed fur service, ansl hence
tile relator in this case was remanded to ser
vice in his company.
LOYAL INDIANS IN THE SERVICE.—There are
three Indian regiments in the service of the
government in the west. , The newspapers
usually speak of them as ' , lndianians," not
Indians. They fight well, but when a retreat
is ordered they fall into confusion, and are
unreliable. In the late unsuccessful, expedi
tion into the Cherokee country the two regi
ments of whites were the first to retreat, and
the Indian regiments followed, bringing off
with them some 2000 or 3000 refugees, old
men, women and children, who had compro
mised themselves by rallying under the Union
standard. There are now fully ten thousand
Indian refugees in Kansas who are supported
by the government, The Commissioner of
Indian Affairs is satisfied that the majority of
the Indians in the Cherokee country are loyal,
and he proposes to organize yet other Indian
regiment from the tribes of the Central Super
intendency, who, in conjunction with white
regiments, :ddl reconquer and reoccupy the
Cherokee country. In the battles the Indians
take scalps. The Osages, to the number of
three hundred, are mounted on ponies, and
make good scouts. The President has turned
over to Mr. Holt the task of examining the
testimony concerning the offending Sioux,
with a view of determining who are the
most guilty parties. Some of those who are
most clamorous for bloody execution may
have an opportunity of designating who shall
be the,victims.
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Ork,Some of our loco-foco neighbors are
very much troubled about n negro outrages."
—They were never troubled about rebel out
rages—the manufacture of the skulls of Union
soldiers into drinking cups, and their bones in
to vatious trinkets and ornaments, never dis
turfed hm. —not in the least!—But let a
negro dO something out of the way, and these
miscreants begin to howl, "we arc beginning
to reap the,fruits of abolitionism near home—
nuich nearer than iv agreeable!"
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The week after the New York Election when
that city in which is concentrated more vil
lainy than is to be found elsewhere in the
continent, gave upwards of 31,000 loco foco
majority, scroll murders were committed !
Truly, we are beginning to reap the (rake of
faro forawn very near home—much nearer
(has i. igreettl,le!
'Fur. flr.ao or Till: MONITOR AFLOAT AOkIN.
—The New York 11 - 0,-/d states that Commnu
der %VG' den, whose service on the Monitor
have been so highly appreciated by his coun
try, will sail Iron' that city next week iu a
better ship than even the Merrimac's antag
onist Ills eyes are well enough for duty,
and his spirits excellent. By the laws of rank
alone he is a commander, no special promotion
have been conferred on him. Ills new craft,
the Ericsson battery Montauk, now at the
Delitmeter Iron Works, is nearly finished,
and will be ready to fight in a few days. Her
new guns and turrent apparatus is receiving
the final touches, the officers appointed by
the Navy Depart meat have nearly all reported
to Admiral Paulding, and the guns are already
on board. She is even more carefully com
pleted than the Passaic.
A Rebel newspaper in Georgia, in mourn
ing over Bragg'e failure in Kentucky, says
that had the Rebel General done his duty,
Louisville would have been ours, Cincin
nati would have furnished us supplies, while
Columbus, Ohio, might have been our head
quarters. Then would all the Vallandighams
of Ohio and the Brights of Indiana have rallied
to the issuing of Gen. Bragg's noted procla
motion ; then would many thousandl friends
in Indiana, Ohio, and• lillinois have joined
the Southern army ; then, too, could Gen.
Bragg, having cut off the Western from the
Eastern States have whispered terms of peace
into the North-Western ear ; and then might
we have reasonably hoped for peace." This is
a precious confession, but, doubtless in the
main true as to the traitors mentioned,
FULL OBEISANCE -Our readers will ro•
member the order of Beauregard to his vas.
sals to style Union men Abolitionists. It is
generally obeyed by his Northern serfs. The
secession sympathizing papers, almost inva
ribly, use the term Abolitionist when speak
ing of Union men. So do tools (or To9ls)
of the 1000-foco party, , generally.
After all, nobody need be offended at this.
WASHINGTON, JEFFERSON and FRANKLIN were
Abolitionists—the first a practical one, and the
latter was the President of the first Abolition
Society ever formed in Pennsylvania. Jeff.
Davis, Toombs, Beauregard, and the traitors
north and south, are anti. abolitionists. The
people can decide whom they ought to follow.
Beauregard ought to gratefully acknowledge
the
.promptness with which 'lds friends in the
north have responded to his command. But
will he do it? When has a )3 Inveholder over
acknowledged, indebtedness for favors. re
ceived 7—That would be derogatOry to the
peculiar institution '.'
hlß._.SitwAa2_Np.T_A /TlO us.r.--Secretary-
Seward, in ,reply to a note from lion. T. T.
Davis, inquiring whether he would permit his
name to be presented to the Legislature of his
State as a candidate for the United States
Senate, declares it_ to bo his fixed purpose,
wlien relieved from hiapresent post, to retire',
and remain during his life a - private and loyal
citizen. "So settled is this purpose," says he,
"that I should not relinquish . it, even though
pl sees ware offered•to roe not grudgingly or
upon compromise, but voluntarily and by so
clatnation."
A " Whipping House."
A correspondent of the Missouri Deinocrat,
writing:from Helena, Arkansas, under date
of Sept. 9, describes; as follows, one of the
beauties of "peculiar institution • .
" Perhaps , your readers are not aware that
whipping negroes is a regular business'in
sbme parts of the South ; but such is un
doubtedly the case. Improved machinery
has been invented and put into 'operation,
and whipping is done by wholesale.
" An institution of this kind hclocated at
Mayena, 25 miles from this place, on the St.
Francis road. The ' whipping house,' as it
is called, is about six feet in diameter and
ten feet high. A shaft runs from bottom to
top ; on theupper end is a small cogwheel
running horizontally, into which a large
wheel works. The propelling power is a
robust negro. Att./Lobed to the shat are
leather thongs or straps about two inches
wide. bashes are inserted in these, and
when the shaft is in motibn they reach the
neck. Near by is the office and stripping.
house. Here the victims are divested of
their clothing, and five or six are pinged in
the torturing room, the door being fastened,
the negro on hold of the crank ; the pro
prietor, with watch in hand, orders the ma•
chine to be put in motion.
" Around whirls the shaft at the rate of
200 revolutions per minute, with straps and
lashes extended, bruising and lacerating the
poor victim with thousands of blows extend
ing from bend to feet. Fifteen minutes is
considered by the proprietor—Hampton
Jones—to be st. reasonable time to grind a
batch of human flesh ; and then it is so very
cheap, costing but a dollar per head. I do .
think it very nearly equals hell itself. Noth
ing for human torture could be more tern
ble. A thousand scorpions slinging their
flesh could not inflict mare punishment. At
the time, the poor, bleeding, quivering vie
tims are brought out inure d 'al than alive.
The plantations for miles send their grist s to
this mill to be ground, and the proprietor
had been doing a thriving business until the
Into troops came, and consequently Oth
ello's occupation was ruined.-
IMPORTANT TO DESERTERS FROM THE DRAFT
The following order from the Adjutant Gen
eral of the United States, is of the highest Mi.
portance, alike to those who are attempting
by fraud and desertion to escape the draft,
and those who may become liable to another
ordeal of that system to make up deficiencies
growing out of such desertion. It becomes
a matter of general duty and importance,
then, that all good citizens should interest
themselves in securing the return of all de
serters, and that the drafted men should know
that the service of nine months which they
owe to the government, will be sternly exacted
to date, not from the hour of the draft, but
from the moment they report for duty
HARRISBURG, PA., Dec. oth, 1862.
The undersigned deems i 6 necessary to
communicate the following for the .informa
lion of all concerned:
Drafted militia who disregard their obliga
tions to their country nod keep out of the way
and avoid delivery to the several camps of in
structnin, cannot divest themselves of their
liability to faithfully perform nine months of
military service; and that service can only
continence front the date of their delivery to
military authorities. Die citizens yet sub
ject to draft, are deeply interested iu seeing
that the recusants are promptly sent in, tor
as the general government has required of the
State a certain number of men, some of Miele
citizens may be subsequently cleaned in place
of such recusants.
Drafted militia who have deserted, will he
pursued and when apprehended, will he re
quired to make good the time lost by their
unauthorized absence, and also he subject to
such puni,lnnent as may be determined by n
General Court. Martial, under the articlea of
war. L. THOMAS,
THE PRICE OF FLOUR FOR TWENTY YEARS.
Good Flour way s 0 Philadelphia Exchange, is
selling at 1;7,75 per barrel, being higher than
at any rime since 1833, The rates for the
last twenty years, in November of each year,
have been as follows :
Years. Rees Years.
18.42 $4 52 1853
1843 4.31 1854
1844 4.30 1833
1815 5.91 1856
1846 4.10 1 1857
1847 631 1858
18-18 525 1859
1849 5.013 1860
1830 485 1861
1851 3.91 1862
1852 • 4 90
WINE FROM SORGIII , M.-WiEC of a good color
and taste, something in flavor like Sherry,
but in body and richness like old Madeira,
made from the sorghum, was exhibited at the
State fair in Indiana,by Mr. Myers, of Spring
field, Ohio. It can be made and sold for five
cents a gallon. The sorghum stalks are used
for sugar or molasses, as fully as possible,
and the wine is then made from the refuse,
the crushed and juiceless splinters. It is
made only of that cane which has yielded, all
the sugar it contains. The quantity obtained,
Mr. Myers states, is about one barrel of wine
for every ten of molasses, using only the re
fuse after the molasses is made: This is the
cheapest wine made, and will add to the value
of the sorghum, every part, of which appears
to be useful. The refuse, after making wine,
can be turned into paper pulp for printing
purposes.
us,. The Superior Court of New York has
decided that when a husband notifies,a trades
man that he will not be responiible for his
wife's purchases, tim onus of proving that
the goods afterwards sold to her, were noces
wiry and suitable to her condition in life, rests
upon the tradesman.
rein An intelligent " trapper" from
,one
of the western counties of Minnesota stales
that a " secret society" has been organized,
having its ramifications all through the western
half of the State; whose WhToWeil objects are
to hang or shoot every Indian suspected of
having any hand in the recent murders.
garPRODVOTIONS Or INDIANA.—Tobacco is
fast becoming ono of the staple products of,
Indiana. The counties of Warwick, Spencer
and Dubois hard each sold $200,000 avorth of
tobacco this year, or $OOO,OOO for the; three
counties. Largo .amountli have•beenl.pyodu
cod and sold in other counties.
"The Providence Journal ; a paper published
in the city whore Gen. Burnside resided when
the War broke out, and whence ho marched
at the head of rho first. Rhode Island regiment,
remarks : If any of the Democrats complain
of the removal of Democratic McClellan,
.they...will.pleatte_hear_in_minT. that. ; Burnside
,was a Democrat when the war began, and
that he was one ori he most intimate personal
'friends of his predecessor."
that, may be true, bilt is ho in' the ring"
with the Seymours, Woods, Broolsseti, end
Other traitors, and MIS ha the, confidence of
the Now York Herald and Expresc, .Boston
Pont• and Courier and other ebects of that
ilk? Theta is the rub I
A liAnem IN PANT/I.—MO now Turkish Am
bassader 'at, Paris brings -seven wiyos with
him. The French 'have christened them Moe ,
dames Monday,' Tuesday, eto.---.11 wife for
each day,
A'Ve aciona Item from ngiand ut
It it.viero not that perhaps one man in a
hundred of 'the people of England may doubt
•the correctness of,the 'London Herald's state
meat, that a "-recent steamer from Liver
pool d'ook out twenty-four French guillotines
consigned to a contitiential agent of President.
Lincoln in Now York," we should not think it
necessary Is confirm its accuracy. Hilt we
have been assured by Mr Arrowsinith that it
is literally true He farther states that the
twenty gullotines mentioned are only he first
installment or twenty thousand whidf Mr.
Lincoln has ordered,; and, moreover, that all
of these gullotines are of the kind which Mr
Geo. Sanders once desired to see in operation
—" guillotines worked by steam! ' Mr. Ar
rowsmith further confidentially states that it
is Mr. Lincoln's purpose to have all these in
struments erected and in full blast by the first
of nest year; and that then he will spare
neither man, woman, nor child, white, black,
or speckled, until like the Hibernian Napo
leen, " grand, gloomy and peculiar, he sits
alone, a sceptered hermit, wrapt in the soli
tude of his own individuality."
We do mt suppose that the email propor
tion of the English population which may he
sceptical concerning the London Herald's
story, can rem ain any longer doubtful when
they learn the shove facts. But if any of the
snobs and flunkies who take the London Her
ald still remain in doubt, we can only urge
theta to come over here and see for themselves
first, of course, for safety sake, furnishing"
themselves, if nature has nut already fur
niched them, with wooden heads
CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME
We notice of late, that our contemporaries
in the larger cities, are indulging in \ strong
appeals for the suffering and starving opera
tives of Lancashire, England. This is ell
very well as a display—but it should be first
carefully ascertained whether we have those
at home who need and demand our assistance,
before we go abroad, to contribute a share of
our abundance to revive the starving.mobs or
Greatflritain, and send sweet morsels to tickle
throats which will thrill with cheers for the
first “seees. l ion" agent who may appeal to
them for applause for the Davis Confederacy.
We have had enough of feeding starving Brit
ishers We have beheld their neutrality and
high regard for the progress of civilization,
and it 19 about time that thu strug,,iling peo
ple of this oountry leak the Britishers to
starve or to help themqelves as best they 0:111.
If the money which has been used in tilting
out rebel piratical steamers,. by the Christian
people and capitalists of Eng:aml, had been
devoted to the poor of that country, gaunt
famine would not now stalk through the
streets of Lancashire, If the we .11li which
has been lost in running the blockade, or sac
rificed to southern credit, had been disposlA_
of in lair and legitimate trade„ wank_woull
now pinch the stomach of starving John Bull
These are rough truths, and it is time that
the English people learn the lesson which
they inculcate.
If the people of New York or Philadelphia,
have such abundance and to spare, that their
eharities'can ho extended across the ocean,
they should he anxious first to eontiileo, •av
ishly to the sittr,riu„! poor at IMine.
remember in this Male, that we nay, Inns
dreds and thousands who need our e tro nod
charities. But lately one of the moss tt 'or
ishing inland borough , . of theC.imm ni we ilth
was visited by it ilevavtatim; an I most ea
larnitrAlS lire. Lock Haven. once so prosper
0114 luad beautiful, as it lay in peace on the
banks of the Sit•quelianna, is now almost a
heap of ashes. Its homes have been made
desolate--its hearths, were the 4low of hos
pitality burned in welcome for ,nil, are now
covered with blackened 01111 , M3—'while dis
tress and dismay have tilled the beanie of ito
Adjutalit Ge.leral
people with sore anguish. Let us think of
and aid the suffering of the people of Look
Ilaven 2 -let us think of and supp!y the wants
of our i wn poor and then if toe hafie to spare,
it will he time enough to freight ships with
contributions for distant clinruies. Let man
Ity 110100 liohia Paper.
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Another Letter from Lieutenant-
General Scott.
To the Editors of the ..Vdri,,hal Int ellilencer
An official report of :nine made to Presi•
dent Linc,ln, March 110. 1801, on our south
ern forts, Was put lisped on the 2lst of Octo
ber last. To this ex President. Buchanan re
plied at great length in the same month A
short rejoinder• from me followed early in No.
vember, and here is another paper from Mr.
Buchanan dated the 17th of the same month,
and on the same subject A brief notice of
this paper shall terminate my part in this
controversy.
MIA
;Sir. Buchanan has intimated that I have
been actuated try a feeling ,rf ill will towards
him. This is unjust. I had no private re
sentment to gratify. On the contrary, I
have well remembered the 111/1113 . official ()our •
tesies received from as him well as from Mr
Floyd both as Governor of Virginia and Secre
tary of War ; but to vindicate justice and the
truth of history is a paramoun't obligation.
1 had said that, with a view to the medita
led rebellion, Secretary Floyd had ordered
115,000 extra* stands of muskets and rifles
from northern depositories to southern arse
nals. To this Mr. ll now replies in sub
stance: 1. That the transfers were made un
der an order dated nearly a year before Mr
Lincoln's election to the Prdgillancy. True ;
but if Mr. 13. has persuaded himself that the
revolt had not long 'before been planned, (de
pendent on the election of aug northern man,)
it is not likely that he will ever make a see•
and convert to that opinion. 2. Ile only
gives 105,000 as the number of arms trans
terred, omitting the 10,000 rifles. 3 lie says
that, the muskets (105,000) wore condemned,
and that purchasers could nut he found for
many of them at ii 3,50 each.
Now, here is an official statement, made to
me eighteen months ago, (just received from
my papers at Washington,) showing that 05.-
00,0 of those arms were " percussion nuts•
kels," probably entirely new, and 40,000 oth
ers, termed " muskets altered„ to percus
sion," with 10,000 " percussion rifles''—not
one of the 115,000 was-ever " condemned,"
but all precisely like most of the small arms
issued to our troops (regular and volunteer)
in 1801. 4. Air. Buchanan further intimates
that those arms were transferred to equalize,
in-sotne degree, the deposits among the (lir.
ferent States, as if these had any State pride
in allowing swage to the property of the Uni,
ted States within their partieularAmits.—lf
so, why not establish storage pieces in the
great Stoles of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois,
within which the, United States has had no do
posit of arms and no arsenal ?. I. Mr. B.
;supposes.orte to brand the transferred arms
with the epithet "stolen." In my rejoinder
to him I nowhere use that term, because I
knew the transaction, though very quietly
&Eluded, was. officially recorded, and the
kftlight paid for by the United States, whose
9,property the arms continued to be ,iu their
new depositories, '•
Mr. Buchanan mixes uprr;-perliaps I ought
-rather-to-any -.seems to - cottfountlqiiite - rt
elass.of arms with die foregoing„.viz: the
quotas of arms distributed among the several
States under the' annual appropriations tow!
aids arming the whole body - or the; tralitia of
ihe , Union. • Thus ho' says: "The'' Soul:helm
States feceived in. , 1860 less instead of more
than the quotas, of arms to, which they were
entitled by low,!' 'This is west stooge, con,
rusted with Informittiongiven to the last. year,
and a telegram just received from Washington
and a ; high officer—not or 'the Ordinance Bu:
reaur,in these words and figures _
°Rhode Island, Delaware and Texas, li 4 ad
not (Wawa at the cud of eighteen sixty (1860)
their annual quotas of arms for that year,.and
Last.
Gen. Blunt had sustained his position at
Cane Hill till Saturday night, when the enemy
25.000 strong under Gen. Hindman, attempt ed
a flank movement on his left to prevent the ar
rival of Hen. Ilerron's forces, which had been
approaching for four days by forced marches.
(In Sunday, at about 10 o'clock, A M., the
enemy attacked Gen Herron near Fayetteville.
who by gallant and desperate fighting held him
in cheek for three hours, until Gen. B wit's
Division came up and attacked him in the
rear.
The fight continued desperate until dark.
Our troops bivouacked on the battle field
while the enemy retreated across the Boston
Mountain.
The loss on both siss is heavy, but much
the greatest. on the side of the enemy, our ar
tillery creating terrible blaughter in their
greaser numbers.
The enemy had great advantage in the po
sition.
Among the enemy's 'killed, were Col Stein,
formerly Brigadier General of the Jlissouri
State Guards.
Both Generals Blunt and Herron deserve
special commendation for gallantry in the
battle of Fayetteville, Arkansas.
[Signed] S. R. CURTIS,
Maj. Gets Commanding.
General banks Nominated for tho
next Presidency.
The transport steamers Mississippi nod
Merriman, arrived at this port to day from
Newborn,- N. C.
MOREIIEir CITY, N. C., Dec. 3d.
At Beaufort, N yesterday, Gen. Ranks
was nominated fort he next P.esideney by the
Eastern North Carolina Free Labor Asnocia•
tion. Ratification theefings will be held by
the local associations at different pulp 03.
The organizations are composed of the na
tive North Carolina troops. Rmolutions were
passed, btrquously insisting. 6ti a vigorous
prompt
,enforeement. of the confiscation and
emancipation actiilfCongress.
New add during the last year the reene of
military operations has comprised.Ten-De,
'patttnents. The Armies operating conshi.
Lute, according to received official returns, a
force of . 736 000, officers and privates, fully
armed and equipped. Since the date.of the
returns this torso has,incroaseikto 800,000
men. Qmtas filled' Up, and the force will
reach 1,000,000 ince, and the estimates for
next year are hasedoti i that number.
The Middle Department, earn prising. Pen
sylvania, Maryland, NeW Jersey,:-Delaware
and the Department,of Virginia, have heMi
the scene of important military operations,
detailed reports of Which. have never yet
been tirade comlnanding'generals. Re
ports of 'Gnus. McMillan and Halleck sub
Massaehuselt s, Tennessee and Kentucky only;
in part; Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia,
Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and
Kansas were, by order of the Secretory of
War, supplied with their quotas for eighteen
sixty one (1861) in advance, and' Pennsylva
nia and Maryland in part."
This advance of arms to eight Southern
States is a sufficient commentary by itself on
the transfer, about the same time, of the 115.-
000 muskets and titles.
In respect to the heavy cannon ordered
from Pittsburg to the Gulf of Mexico, Mr.
Buchanan has shown me shut I was in error
in saying that their shipment. was counter
manded in March instead of January, 1861.
This was the only immaterial part of my
statement; for I Was correct in the declara
ti ills that, I gave information to Mr Secretary
Holt that the shipment had commenced. and
that he ordered the guns to be relanded, and
stopped the robbery.
WINFIELD SCOTT
New York, Dec. 2, 1802.
*Over and abive the previous and usual
deposits in the Soutoern'arsenals.
Army of the Potomac
II EADqUARTERS, Dee. 9, 18G2.
The weather is milder, and the snow has
melted cons der •bly•
An tinker who came through from Alex
andria by lard, with a strong escort, was
told at I)timphries that sixteen sutler -4, with
their wau-ous, were captured by White's re
bel cavalry last week, and the owners were
made to drive their own teams to some rebel
station in the interior. White was repro
:tented its having a large regiment of cavalry.
A special _court martial met to day to try
11 1 Irvine on the charge of being a spy,
he having been captured within our lines
The accused was a private in the 9th Vir
ginia Cavalry, and was -captured near his
lather's house, in the vicinity of Ilartwood
Court llotts-.t.
The following general order has just been
EMI
"No person will l allowed to cross the
lines in the direr , i the enemy withouLa
pass from these headquarters.
" 13y order of 6ell. Ittirnside
Off=olM=EM
ARMY OF Tlll% FRONTIER
BATTLE AT FAYETTEVILLE, ARK
Gen. Frank 'Herron Defeats Gen
Hindman's Army.
Dervire Federal I",el ,rl/ 11 0, 11 I.eJ., GOO
. feel"( ',ors Caplure Qj a A'ci'd Bat
eery.
BATTLE FIELD NEAR FAYETTEVILLE,
NtEANSAS, 1/et• 8, DO;2,
Goner:Ll forci.s, oil route to rein
fro General Blunt. iiint Ilse enemy yes( end q y
ten mile, south of Fay -
ei woo :1 deritit•kl victi,ry
The rebels were 21.000, in four olivi , ions
tin ler l'orsonq, )I.trnoolnke, Fro,t. and 1:
:111 , 1 /11l 1111 , 111' 11111dIllarl, VIIII/1:lciog the
llower of the rebel arm V.
The M.i , ,sissipPi army was well supplied
with 18 pieees ot artillery.
The enemy tlanktol lien. Blunt's-1)0411cm at
(lane Hill, and made IL Gen.
Herron to prevent him from uniting with Gen.
tiro. Herron ' s forges Consisted of the Stlth
and Illinois, 19Ih 'mil 20th lowa, 2lith
Indiana, 20111 Wisettntdll. and a battalion or
two of cavalry, in all :1110ILL 11,51 1 0 men, an dl
21 Hirers of artillery.
' the bottle raged from 10 A, M until dark,
mot was desperately lought (Mr artiltery
o the rehels Ir v in tw , i strong 110`,1111/11S,
pt their over w outoi.et, nt bay.
The 201 h Wiseon.du captured IL Irllo *at
Hry of tour heavy lI.LIIIq, hilt were forced to
almudon them under it murderous tire. The
lowa also took the Same battery, on I
f ogld most desperately, hut weroalso tildiged
to )1C d
Niumst every regiment distinguished them
selvrs..
At, t 4 .'eloelc (lonerat Blunt arrived from
earl(' Ilill rvilh 5,()00 4111'11 and n rong teree
of artillery, and attacked the rebels ie the
The rehel4 made desiu - rate effort 4 to elp
litre liii hatteri, , ,lllll were reptllqed with ter
rihle slfifighter. Ile hell the whole field of
dirk, an d 1.0,we 4 .1 ”'CIOCk the entire tehel
rOl . OO was in ffill'rotrintr r,c•er• - 13ng!on
hl iim
tnin.
our loot i 9 GOO Iti fuol sv,urblvd. Tlo
is shout 1,500 by awn admiB
Several otlireri were
inong their. Col Strin. ci.rortiandintr.
.11.11 t o rinellr hriwidier it. the
Site (luny.] Only a low pri,oner, were 111.
kt.it IV Carl 11 rt.,l four
nrni'notiition Li. to. C.J. :11el'a.11..n, of 'lie
19.1. lower, win, the only field (dn.:yr on our stile
Ist ( Mi , souri, was taken
pri,oner.
[s ncoND
GEN. BLUNT ATTACKS THE
ENEMY IN THE REAR.
Full Part iculars of the VIcloC)
WAIIINGTON, Nov. 10 —The following ofli
dal hni , wen receive , ' at hea , l.inariers :
ST. LOUIS. Dre 9, 11 .4 62 —Mai Gen. Ila Heck
General-in Chief:
Nly forces ot the army of ihr Prontior nailed
near Payottville in the inidst of a hard taught
bat
FROM NORTH CAROLINA
NEW YORK, Dec. 8
Report. of the Secretary of War
-Mitted-.- Communications, according US Sett-.
ate's resolution, between Department and
commanders, will be submitted when re
quired.
If expectations formed of the army's
achievements have not been fully realized,
they are yet productive of good results.—
York town,ff illiamsburg. Fair Oaks, Gaines'
Mill, Malvern Hill, Cross Keys, Cedar Moun
tain, Chantilly, &c., are cited. in reports
submitted. The invading army has been
driven back from - Mai %land and the borders
of Pennsylvania b.yond the Rappahannock;
Norfolk c ,ptnr d by Maj. Gen. Wool; Maj.
Gen. Dix in force at Fortress Monroe is
harrassiiT the It •bels ; and Maryland is
Great advances made since war began,
not withstandinir disasters. Rebels once
hold the :%lississippi front Cairo to New Or
leans. Only Charleston and Mobile remain
to them on the seaboard. New Orleans and
Memphis wrested from them. Their posses
siUll of Vicksburg obstructs the Mississippi
but is of to commercial use to them. Their
strongholds. on the Tennessee and Cumber
land rivers are captured. General Andrew
Johnson, Military Governor of Tennessee,
holds Nashville. Rebels driven from Ken
tucky, West Tennessee, Missouri, part of
Arkansas, fleein ' , before C.:raut. in :Mississip
pi-, and all their hopes of Maryland cut. off.
In commercial, political, and strategical
points of view inure succe•=s has attended the
Union cause than was ever witnessed upon
so large a theatre, in the saute brief period,
against so formidable an enemy.
'Ulm Union forces are how in the field,
under able commanders, stronger than ever,
resolute and e iger to be led against the ene
my, and to crush the rebellion by a vigorous
winter campaign. The armi.s of the Pot()
note and of the WeTit stand ready to vie with
each other in gaickest and heaviest blows
against the enemy. Tang,lit by experience,
the rain of inaction and hazard of delay, a
spirit of earliest activity scents to pervade
the forces of the United States beyond what
has hitherto been exhibited.
For enlistments, , recruiting, drilling, and
subsistence of volantecrs, regulars, and mili
tia, $20,692,122,99 have been paid.
The contrabands have proved a successful
experiment. Work admirably in Louisiana,
etc., at Fur' Rival cultivating thousands of
acres of sea is'llnds of ; in the ope
rations of the army on James River and th e
Potomac, as laborers, teamsters hustlers, in
landing and shipping ,tores, they have been
of great set vice, and she demand - Mr their
labor has oxf,ed d the slit ply.
lteport ul .letii.g Paymaster Genera.l st tes
that 11,iriti , 11,41 yea', curling ;Soth ul .Ifine,
51 was paid, to regular
to op:; $9l, I 1 iLi; 111 t.l to vulunreecs ; and
ti3's,. - 07,519 07 auirr, 30th June, 1562.
ports slat, s that nearly all rtfiments were
pod to tiOt!l .111 m., :111 , 1 timtly to the 30th
of Augti , t—tha: boil, delay had been ocea.-
Nioned I,v want ol bunts, but it is Lehi:yeti
Ilmt all will so.m
Surgeon le:lei:11's report .afTords in forma
lion on this "point E•peuditures,
(ietieral Hospitals, 111 1' wents,
\Vliole number under medical treat
tuefit not short Of 50,000. No epidtmues of
Neverity• I )i,ca-es kept d twit ; scur y pre
vented ; few ‘ictinis to yellow fever. Bureau
reluires enlargement. Surgical department
ai led by hum:un• men. Horrors of battle
thus assuaged, assm.:iations and me
its bodies, and clergymen praised for
their services.
'rho. Secretary t ; duty required by aet of
Con. , ress hereby fulfilled. No such !nighty
e ever massed before under one banner.
The employment hit free should be—to
smite tr.ivre u'. .every had—a.tack their
armies and strongholds, toccupy tht‘ir, fort s ,
rite the great West of their obstructions,
11:1.11S0 not until they aresulaluvd. Above
all, it is our duty to ,lisdain no .legitimate
aid which way save the lives of our gallant
soldiers, diminish their labors, inovule for
their wants, and Lessen the burdens of our
Seerptary very strongly and earnestly
nnnoninends the' Ilse of e.ontrabandi as lalw
rer.s and eeoin , inists, in every possible lbrm—
agricultural, industrial, and military. Sup
p:ies treatial in reference
I, lilt' of adjuvant contralmiiil la
lair. The tvi titory once rt-CONI-red,
ItrAr 11111rIt,11 I ircri will lIC tir iucalculahle
S.•l/11-1' h) us is ret,litllll7, it. They raise the
Southern ,taple4. .'glllllteil for lalair the Sian h. Protect the la
and vey will not
the Ileb 1, nit!: iuj I i s. Tim greater pia•
lion of the v ‘,llich raises :Dell ',land
Colton is Ilion in our !Ms, 551011 Till' lib.
are there. 14;zauizii !hell). The colored
rikin 11111 10:lye hi, 1111111 • if ;inflected
Ills bi iog IL Cl/111111•1itoz - for Northern labor is
The rebellion will die when tie power of
th e s;ave ...tiers over labor is stricken down.
de.position t , ward servile insurrection
shown. Strong lovalty to Federal Govern
meat exhibited. Ify occupying' all their forts
on the Mississippi and the sea coast, a roar
ket will be opened lot the industry of our
people to supply the wants of the army and
of a loyal population in ext•hange for the
valuable products of their labor. 'Thousands
of loyal men ready to proceed to Texas and
Florida and' settle. So tau• from being in
vincilde, no enemy so vulnerable as the
Southern States, tF the means at hand are
employed against them. If the South sill
rebel, and refuse the offers held out for con•
ciliation, the flo‘erliment is still equal, to
the work of suppression, and "a restoratimi
of those peaceful relations which were de
signed to be established forever en this con
tinent lag the Union of the States."
Eotuit anb etnint,
.Ix-We are authorised to state that A.
L. Sponsler, Esq., is now prepared to furnish
all kinds of leere nue Slumps, required under
the late act of Congress.
pr .- -Itorrr. J. BELL desires us to state
that he has deposited Five Hundred Dollars
at the ( .. umberland Valley Ilauk, 111 be kept
there for the redemption of the small notes he
he has issued.
Fon RENT --Any person wishing to
rent a first class, new, Seven Octave Rose
wood Piano, will please apply iininediatel y
to Prof. John K. Stayinan, at No 28 \Vest
College, or at Miss h;goll£'s• 3t
Ct - 'CFIAS. 0011,11 Y has just received
an immense stock of the latest and best
styles and quality of Minter Goods. In his
establishment can be found everything that
is necessary to constitute a first class Dry
Goods Store. Call and satisfy yourselves.
AMBROTYPE AND PROTOGRAPII GAL
LERY.-Mr. J. C. Lusnta has established
himself in the above business, in the build
ing known as " Zug's corner," on Main et.,
near the Market Mouse. He is prepared at
sill times to executeybotographs, Ambro
types, &c., in the higheit style of the art,—
Potter's Albums always on band.
ADDRESS ON ODD FELLOWSIIIP.—A
public address on Odd Fellowship will be
delitiered in thOdd Fellow's Hall, in Trout's
BuildinG t Carlisle, otquesday Evenininext,
at 7 o'clock, by Run's E. SIIAPLV, Esq.—
The members of tbe Mei. will appear. in
Regalia. The public is invited to attend.
FIRE.—The harp attached to the resi
dence of Dr G.. 11 SHEAR= inpillsburg, was
burned to the-ground on tho morning of the
Stith alt., Byihe prompt exertion of the cit
izens all the MIDI° but ono "werovsaved4 A
large quantity of hay and corn burnt. It is
supposed it was the work. of an incendiary.—
..
Thu insurance will cover the greater Tart of
_ .
the loss.
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.—Last. week an
accident occurred in the neighborhood
,r)f
,Shippensburg, which caused the instant
death of Mrs. Severs, whose ni3ck was bro
lcOn, and the- probable mortal Woutniing of
her husband. We have been unable to as
certain any further particulars than that Mr.
and Mrs Severs were riding home in a wa
gon from Shippensburg,.) where they had
bought, a stove. The horse ran away—up
setting the wagon, and producing the mourn
ful events mentioned above.
CHILD BURNED TO DEATH.-OD Wed
nesday last, noar Mt. Holly Springs, a little
girl, daughter of David Nagle, suffered a
horrible death by burning. The mother had
gone from home in the morning, and had
left the child alone in the house. Returning
in about an hour and a half, she found her
little daughter quite dead, bur, ed to a crisp.
The supposition is that she was putting wood
upon the fire tvlien her clothes caught from
the flames.
GEN. CiluricurrA, —This old soldier'
so well known by most of our citizens, died
in Washington oir Sunday last, at the ad
vanced ag„, of eighty years. Gen. Churchill
entered the army, from Vermont, in 1812.
He was appointed Inspector General, with
the rank of Colonel, in 1841. He was bre
vetted a Brigadier General, in 1848, for gal
lantry at Buena Vista, where his individual
heroism did very much to turn the scale in
that at first very doubtful contest. He waa
placed on the retired list Sept. 25th, 18G1.
Gen. Churchill was a brave and merito—
rious officer, and a true hearted gentleman.
At the, breaking out of this rebellion, he,
feeling that although disabled by age and
hard service, might yet be of some serer
vice to his couary, tendered his services t'e
Gen. Si Ott, to serve in any capacity he might
be useful. But his days of active usefulness.
were numbered, and the overtaxed energies
rehised longer to do the bidding of his once
iron will ; and the Gen. accepting the inev—
itable decree of old age, returned to Carlisle•
to pass the remainder of his allotted sphere.
it; a retirement, clouded only by the sad
thought that the free government, for the
perpetuation of whictrthe had clbvotedn long_
hie, was being assailed by the Goths andi
Vandals of an accursed Slaveocracy.
This dot, rminntion to remain in Carlisle
was undoubtedly (row rated by' the demise of
the aged partner of his joys and' sorrows.—
Mrs Churchill died here in the early part of
last summer. Shortly after this occurrence
the U neral removed to Washington, where
he resided at the time of his death. Peace.
to his illustrious ashes.
On Thui4a;3r last, we were called upon
by E. Ci EG 12.11, general travelling Agent-of
the American Life Insurance and Trust
Curnpany. He requested us to accompany
him to the residence of MrS Jor• Sr,.,EE
whose husband as our readers remember,
was killed in the battle of South Mountain.
Mr. OA coca's business wit h. Mrs. STEEL was
to pay her One Thousand Dollars, the
amount of the policy of insurance which Mr.
STEEL had secured before joining, the army.
It cost Mr. STEEL less than Seventy-Five
Dollars, to poovide.' his family with tl is
-
handsome sum in case of his death. Mr.
Gicurir will remain in Carlisle• for a few
days, and any person desiring information
upon the important subject of life insur
ance, will secure his personal attention, by,
leaving address at the Cormati !louse.
TOO FAST.—Our tnwn 'clock—which
regubit es and governs all the lesser clocks
and watches of the vicinity—is, and has been
mote than twenty minutes faster than it
should he The at,ort,ing train front Harris
burg, which is due here at 9'2..7, by the rail
road time—which is ten minutes fester than.
the sun—arrives about fifteen minutes before
ten, by the court house time. This discrep
ancy is a fruitful source of annoyance to our•
citizens—especially, the ea,rly rising, arch
~f aveling portions of them. Let it be cor
rected. ~ •
A NEW WAY TO KEEP APPLES.L—Mr.
M. R. TIIOSIPSON, of Mifflin county, Pa., in a
letter to the American Agriculturalist, do
scribes his method. of keeping choice winter
apples over winter and until apples come
again. The method "is so simple, and the
process so easy, that we hope many of our
readers will be induced to make a trial of it
at least. Mr. THOMPSON: packs his apples in
barrels or large boxes, surrounding each ap
ple with common (.10, ground gypsum (plaster
of Paris.) This is readily done thus :—Put
I into the bottom of the bttrrel or box an inch
of the plaster, and then a layer of apples,
keeping them front contact with each, other,
and an inch front the sides all around. Sift
in inure plaster to fill up the space and cover
the whole nearly an inch. Therc A add another
layer of apples and more plaster, and so on
to the top. The plaster employed is. we sup.
pose, the common ground plaster for fertili
zing—not the calcined used for making °lists,
models, &e., The former is cheap in most
parts of the country, costing from three to
ten dollars a ton, according to the locality,
distance from the quarries or seaboard. Of
course the plaster is just as good for applica
tion to the field after being used during the
winter for packing apples', The plan ie
Worthy of a trial at least, for it would appear
reasonable that fruibthus surrounded with a
compact mass of dry powder, should keep.
almost as dry as if hermetically sealed. Mr.
T. says he keeps pound pippins thus packed.
in good order until the following Juno. We
jodgo from a remark in his letter that ho does
not store thorn in a cellar, but in any cool
room of the dwelling house or out house.
USEFULNESS OF RAGS —Owing to the
great advance in the price of paper, and in
order, to reduce the figures as much as possi
ble, there should be some arrangement made
by which all the rags from private ' , families
and public establishments could be collected
together. Rags enter into the manufacture
of all kinds of writing, book, and newspa
per, and no substance has yot been discov
ered that can well take their place. Print
ing paper has risen 120 per cent, within the
the last'three mouth l 3,,while the tax on paper,
iuk, adve'rtisoments, and everything else con
nected with the business, still further aggra
vate the difficulty. The rise in paper , is mere
over, still going on,-and it- is duo-to-the-lack
of cotton, it is not easy to say whore it will
stop, 'under Aluiso cirettrustanties. Publishers
arc discussing the 'Miley of raising 2the pr ice
of their'papers, or raising their charges for
advertising', or both, in order to meet
thisiu
orensed ',cost of production. This', may be
measurably remedied' by ieeping down the
cosi of the'raw material for ,paper,
.by pre
venting the exhaustion of the eupply ,or rugs.
The cotton waste,,from which, heretofore, the
manufacturer - etitsioed a large t.ddition to