geraid. CARLISLE, PA. Friday, January 8, 1864. S. N. PETTENOILI. &. CO., No. 37 Park Row, New York, and 6 State St. Boston, are our Agents for the HERALn In thoso cities, and are authorized to take Advertise ments and Subscriptions for us at our lowest rates. PASSPORTS REQUIRED.-All persons here after leaving New Tork by sea-going vessels are required to be provided with passports, which can be obtained without difficulty by any one whose loyalty can be vouched for. FORTUNATE MAN.—A coal operator in Carbon county, has sold his lease on some lands there, with the machinery thereon, for seven hundred thousand dollars. A few years ago the' same operator was bankrupt. lie is now almost a millionaire. vas STATE AND U. STATES INTEREST. —The Phil adelphia Dial says the Girard Bank, paid on the 21 inst, the semi-annual coupons of the State, due January 1, 1864, in gold, amount ing to some $20,000 of interest. The only interest paid.hy the Commonwealth, the let of January and July, is that of its coupon 6 per cents. The great bulk of the S(ate inter est is payable Ist February and August, also in gold, at the Farmers and Mechanics' Bank It is proper to state, however, that the gold fund from which the interest is paid is real ized ratable from all the city banks, as per arrangement with the State authorities a year ago. =II tte„, The United States is a great solar system and the Constitution is the sun around which that system revolves. Far down into the intricate depths that luminary flashes its light. It is surrounded by States which are worlds in themselves, hut. the light of whose glory is reflected from the contral sun, -upon whose existence theirs depends. The L'itited States feels confident that titre is nothing In the future or in the past to titaine ur to this may In her treatment of the nations of the - earth -- she is influenced by neither fear -nor favor, and she sanctions her Executive in every public act of his momentous life. The United States is a great machine ; a wonder• ful piece of ine.lattism. The work it turns out is bunion freedom. Some peopla s.ty that it is grown rusty, and needs oiling. The truth is that thereis a screw louse down South. But that Kill soon be put to rights, nud we shall go on smoother than ever. -- M - COLELLAN - STOCR - A 'A litsmi-NT.Last week a convention of self-appointed dele gates, and styling itself the "National Con servative Convention," met in the city of Philadelphia and nominated Gen. George B. McClellan for the Presidency of the Unittitl States. By way of a feeler for the public pulse, a serenade was got up on Thursday evening, in honor of Amos K n kill, the re presentative of the convention who was stay ing at the Continental lintel. This proved to'be one of the most amusing scenes wit nessed on Christmas Eve. • The Conservatives probably selected the evening before Christmas as the most favor able time for the farce to come off, thinking. doubtless, that from the immense crowd which would throng Chestnut street, a suffi cient number of friends and adinirers o "Little Mac" might be found to participate in the affair. About eleven o'clock the hand arrived at the hotel, and at the first note hundreds of promenaders rush° I to the Con tinental, where they listened with apparent pleasure to the sweet strains. The selection finished, a figure was seen to glide to the front of the balcony, Rnd it was announced that a speech was to he made. In a moment, cheers for President Lincoln rent the air' huzzas for Grant, Meade, and other gallant Generals were given with a will ; and hisses, with other manifestations of disgust fur the miserable coterie which had assumed the authority of nominating a candidate for the suffrages of the people of the whole country intermingling with the plaudits, made the scene one of the oddest and most ridiculous we have ever witnessed.—Phiia. Dispuich. A Year's Change in Sentiment. Much as the case of the Union has gained the past year on land and by sea and in for eign countries, it has gained even more in re novated public sentiment. The moral revo lution of the last few months will be the won der of future times as it is of the present A few months ago, it was somewhat fashion able-to visit with about an equal amount of imprecation the Abolitionist fighting to sus tain the Government and the traitor fighting to destroy it, and to talk with charming face tiousness about hanging them in pairs. A few months since, “the Union as it was," which meant simply slavery restored at what ever cost, to the throne of social despotism and political domination, was time popular rallying cry of a great Mind successful putty. A few months ago, ninny seemed to melsure a man's love of country by theuillignity of his hatred and the intensity of his contempt for a race already blighted and overwhelmed by injuries innumerable ; and a few mouths sinoe, a fearful amount of political power in even the loyal States stood arrayed in deter mined opposition to the Government. But the current of affairs has not loft us stranded upon the beech, uor idly whirling iu some slow eddy. Many have accepted the logic of events who have been proof against all other reasoning. Many are beginning to consider that no nation over did or over can pass through an experience so fearful as ours and come out unchanged, and that to clamor for "the Union as it was" is as idle as to call upon France to roomoss the bloody abyss that separates her present from her. past, and be • come what she was before the revolution, or to demand that Europe shall return to the statue of the times before the groat Napoleon. The name of Abolitionist, so long abhorred and loathed, is now proudly claimed by moo who three years ago would have shrunk from it us from tho touch of leprosy.. Strong in the might of a renovated punt; sentiment, the loyal States, free and slave, stand shoulder to shotilder in support•of the Olovernment an i its policy, and the proclamation of freedom is the rallying cry of all. And so, with profound gratitude and devout thanksgivings, let us leave the old year and with renewed strength and hearts of hope enter upon the new. CHANGES OP OPINION We have reliable information that thirty two men have enlisted from our Borough on the preSent requisition. This is encourag ing, and leads us to hope' that our entire quota will be filled without drafting. There is one thing connected with this enlistment which strikes us as being rather singular.— Fully three-fourths of these recruits are col ored men, veritable "niggers," and yet we don't hear a single complaint that our coun try is disgraced or our brave soldiers degra ded by allowing negroes to assist in saving our nation's life. We have always approved of the policy of employing all the means fairly within our reach to crush this rebellion. We believe that every man, no untter what his position or complexion may be, should be allowed, nay invited to join the armies of the Union and to assist in any and every on dertakiug for the overthroW of treason and the restoration of peace and order to our land. And having never been afflict, d with any special admiration for the chivalric sons of the south who have bean the willing dupes of treason, and the champions of oppression and alalery, we never felt that we were un der any obligations to exhaust our white population in order that their refined sensi bilities might receive Ile sir ()elf from being forced to encounter men of an inferior race. We thereto's° cordially approved of the de termination of the Government to employ negroes, and we have no fault to find that so many of thorn are now entering the s sr vice. But what have become of the objections of our Democratic friends to these dark col ored enlistments? What has wrough such a marvellous change in their opinions with regard to the constitutionality and expedi ency of employing 111;grfti3 lIS SfildkrB Less than six months ago every democratic politician we net denounced the measure in the most violent oiannir. It was degrading to our 00d 10 allowIlegr 0 r'S 11.4 . 1 it for us; it was an insult to our brace soldiers that a Ida. 12 man sho 11 I wear the sane , - uni Logo they di ; it wit, unconstitutional to ton! ley negroes to fight against men who had di s carded ourconstituflon and were fighting to destroy it; it, would have -a tendeney to exasperate the South and destroy the union sentiment there to which alone we could look for the overthrow of the rebellion ; ;tool final ly it was converting the -,var into a struggle fir the eleva.ion of the negro over the white man. Then again the whole s heme was absurd. Negroes never wouldliglo. They could not Lo induced t, eater the service, and if forced in, it )voul I require three white mien to keep earditneg,ro to his plarct - - fhey never could b,) drilled or disciphned. They Lad neither copacity, Courage nor endurance. They wh cultist dissension and discord through nit the entire: service, and their ell iSt 1 , 0 the very mends of ensur- I:iv the complete triumph Or OW Huth Now we ask again I)liat have become of thc , ii objections? ,ve not have a few of them now , just for variety? l i t can't he pos•ilde that ,s geittlemen whi) so elo-picotly last suinitolut against en rolle I with tie.groes,a-e now allowing negroes 0) enlist to prevent Ut it getting a chance or going into the service or paying their coin tatiall. We will 111)t ivrung them by r•u t rutin:mg the idea for a moment. We know that their urelotibted courage, their pure pa triotism, their disinterested sJlicittole con cerning the disgrace negro soldiers would bring upon the country precludes and' SUCh suspicion. Bat What muses this profouud silence am iig them now when the "di grace. fur' enlii!ment is in full progreHs ? If watts men were degraded hy hitting negroes en ruled on the same list with themselves, does it lessen the Alegrad ition to have these ne groes enlistel? flow will our n !hie wlote soldiers, (all democrats too, at that,) hear the disgrace forced upon them by being coin pelted to light for the same cause fur which negroes fight 7 And will no one interpose to prevent the consummatioe of this out rage ? Couldn't we have a Democratic meeting for the purpose of devising means to prey! it these enlistments, and cannot some of our eloquent Vends in that party favor us with a few denunciations of this "miserable abolition scheme 7" Will nut some high-minded patriot among them pro pose to repeal the law authorizing these en listtnents, and enact one forbidding the ac ceptance of any recruit whose complexion is not of a whiteness so unsullied as to be a fit eMblem of democratic purity ? Never has there been a more striking il lustration of the inconsistency of democra tic leaders, or their uttN• unscrupulous! ess ill appealing to any and every prejudice in order to obtain power, than is manifested by their course with regard to this measure.— From the very first it encountered their fiercest opposition. Their denunciations of the men who proposed it exhausted even their immense list of disgusting epithets.— But now that the country needs men, find there is a chancy that they may be called into the service, their objections to negro soldiers have disappeared and they rejoice over every announcement that one has en listed. But this inconsistency, shameless as it is,. is only characteristic of the n. Their shrieking about violations of the constitu tion, BUSpaasion of the writ of Habeas Cor pus, suppression of. fr. o speech, and the un constitutionality of the Conscription, is as caueelsss and groun rest as their opposition to negro soldiers. llow long will a commu nity he credulous enough to listen to the pratings of these soulless deinegOgues 7 New Youtc. ( - lawn) c D.—The livening Post remarks that never, probably, in the history of New York have there been so many 'peo ple in the city as there are at present: It is well known that besides an unusual influx of northern and western strangers, a vast number of southern refugees are in town a waiting the conclusion of the war. Alto gether it is estimated—though it is impossi ble to say how correctly—that they are at least one hundred thousand strangers tem porarily residing in town. Not only is it next to impossible, to find a house to hire, but it is'eyen veryolifficult to secure orlivary sleeping apartments. All hotel and board ing-housOkeepers have raised, their prices, and yet are daily obliged turn away appli cant:64er board and lodging.' . The fsTational Banks--Their Advan- tages The subject of National Banks is to us, just now, the most interesting feature of Secretary Chase's financial policy. When the idea of such associations was first sug gested it was opposed by many very able and very worthy men, who thought they saw in it a determined attack upon existing in stitutions. In his speech in New York, we find even the present manager of the sys tem, the efficient Comptroller of the Currency —Judge McCulloch, confessing that "he was opposed to the National Currency Act be//ire 178 jol.s . Belye. " But, he says, "after the bill had become a law lie examined it with care," and instead of finding a `• dread destroyer," found it to be a necessity for the times—a thing demanded by the rEOPLE.— " The people had demanded of Govern ment," he says, " protection against the im positions to which they had been subjected by the uncertain value of local bank notes; and the National Currency Act was passed to satisfy their demand i to furnish a circu lation which should not only he secured be yond a reasonable doubt, but which should be of nearly uniform value from the Atlan tic to the Pacific; which should know no State lives and b." the means of binding the people, to he G.overnment by the strong and enduring ties nil pecuniary interest." Such a renu't is most. &sir:tilde, and if it be achieved it will prove that even seer " is without its compensations." We confi dently believe in the possibility of such a result ; further, from the indications of the present Comptroller's thorough fitness for the post, apparent throughout his report— now before us—we believe that under hi. management of the National Baal system such a result tril/ he attained. In this report Mr. VcCu'loch very sensibly argues that a Nation's currency must snit itself to its COW- The cintinterce is national, there f c.orteuct. tiatiial, and the tiatittual currency will he t; at the nail )11 of rilirelr II roltr, , A,•ats the unity. 11,1 , 1urs tti the Nation al Itittd: MINE he eo o mitoi.s. "can never lose by any 1111S r11,111ilg)111011( tbe MfAirs of partictibt_r, Link. If the hanks fail, and the bonds of the goy, roment !Ire in the market, the flatus of the National Banks must still In' redeemed in full at the treasury of the Limited States." More is good authority for the value of the notes. Willi notes sq Nearly- apprnachiy gold in rain;, wnd doubt not that the Fir?“.. Nationtd Bank of Carlisle will 110 properly appreciated by this tonulunity. We learn that - k• - is - rn`l rereive from — Govern- m e nt o f the very first issue. A few days thew will end our truubles from a mixed and changing currency. Counterfeit deteeturs and 'shavers, then u(licti. Rebel Refusal to Exehango Pris- MESE if a single drop Iva' veawing of any ingro licnt In to the brim the cop of abomina tho slave 11.)ngering barbariom ‘,r 11l }mond long ngo for it v,l.lrico, nt h r!10 11:i -I lilt has d now, iF out' t. 1.112•7, cll7 r ly r.•perl the dent le 1,4 the rebel een P.; irators relative to the ex,•li!tige of pri,otterg It is im1:121, —a:J.l 113 it entirely aceordo with the long-since published threats and thoorivs of these brigands, wo see no reason to discredit the statement,—that after ex changing r,OO rebel pri,wneri. sent up to City Point by Gen. lit rbmtt, fur 500 union prk. '• the rebel government refules any fortitor npleco all goe , tions are !!iven Hp, upon our Government Iris Urea ,:.)111(.11 ling, and their lows in regard to the olii..era an i soldiers in negro regiments are reco,_!ni7e.l." It is further billed—' that they reuse to receive the flog of truce from General lit rbmt, or to negotiate with hint on the sub . p.el, of exchougo, beoaut+e of JEFF ptoc!attiotion outlawing BUT• I.Elt last year." ME Very properly d ics the telegraphic corree p.m lent go un to remark the inconsistency that renders this attempt to take such a final position on the question, ludicrous and futile, beyond all possibility of description in bur guago, and equally beyond all parallel in hu mla experience—except we resort to the records which curious psychologists have somas Imes male of the phenomena of insani y. And, alter all, what more natural explana ti in of the conduct of these rebel brigands cut be offered than just this—namely, that their hatred, which has now grown so as to include not only thirse old objects of their ma "the Yankees,',.' but all maultind, at one fell swoop,—their desperation as they look around at the shivered pile of their once high built schemes of successful revolt and personal aggrandisement,—their bitterness, or agony, or whatever we may call the unut• terable feeling of disappointed ambition,— have at length actually driven them to mad ness. So mute it be. Some of the Reasons in Favor of letting the Free States roes :tit their quotas in the Rebel States. We have at home ono half the tocent oull who con well be spored without derunge client in any of the branches of industry.— These consist of returned volunteers, and young men who want to go, but who are hold ing back for higher bounties, or fdr' the draft Lo come on, raising the price of substitutes. Nothing will start this large class so quickly as seeing that we have another resource,— another racket to draw front. When they see the streams moving from other sources, they will come in a'l the faster. The experi enee of all who have reoluited men will con firm this view. • Od'ours of experience consider the masses of tho whites in the rebel Stales, when mixed up with Northern troops, practically safe enough soldiers for us, so that if wo should draw some privates from the ranks of the en emy, there would be no danger from them With good food and clothing, and regular pay, they would not want to got back. It is oven thought that our high bounty of $725 would dep'ete the rebel armyl The strong est argument for It is that it gives the loyal and rersecuted East Teunesseeans, North Carolinians and Texans a chance to 'cocain) from the despotic rule of the slave aristocra• oy, and to enlist under their own colors. As to the blacks, the great objection will he that the large Northern bounties will give the nogro too muoh money for his own good. This may be met, however, by limiting the bounties. In addition to the above mentioned reasons no one can now fail to see the immense ad vantage aeoruing to the North from recruit ing the whites and blacks of the South,—thus not only securing them on our side, but also taking Ghent away from the armies which they are etipportin g . And oven allowing the black not to be as good a soldier as' the white, in securing him we intltot a severe blow on the labor syi,teru of the South, and in time, when our high brunties become known, we may hope speedily to end the Rebellion by merely abstracting from its foundation, Slavery. President Lincoln's Proclamation in the Rebel Congress. In the proceedings of the Rebel Congross, publish( d in the Richmond Enquirer, of Do comber 113, we find that President Lincoln's amnesty proclamation was under considera tion in that delectable body of traitors. Their wrath waxed exceedingly hot at the docu ment, and they could only bud vent for their indignation in the un st vituperative epithets. Mr Foote presented the following preamble and resolutions: WnEREAs, a copy of the truly characteris tic proclamation of amnesty, recently issued by the imbecile and unprincipled usurper who now sits enthroned upon the ruins of consti tutional liberty iu Washington city, has been received and read by the members of this House ; now, in token of what is solemnly believed to be the altnoqt undivided sena. went of the people of the Confederate States lie Thai there has never been a day or an hour when the people of the Coo federate States were more inflexibly resolved than they ore at the present time, never to ro:inquish the struggle of arms in which they are cog:iced, until that liberty and indepen den 'e for which they have., been so earnestly comending'shall have been at lit achieved, mod mud nice and stendf , ist, beyond even the prJ:iahility of a luturo ikngor ; nn I 111,1 t in spite of the tevervce which hove htely hp billet. our trillion iii several quarter., and cold ant ?olti-di indifference Om , far, for clic nio,-1 port, evinced in the noti ,n of foreirn powers, the eleven million:A of enliglitetied freemen IJOW I,ti heroin:oly for nil that can nnilie existence ile,irsn!i•, arc iullc pruTared, alike in !Till; tub resnw cca , to rt,t nnter tl Inge's f.tr :tre•ittr titan which tolnre hritvely met. :Ind to !-tl' Cron! rr -scrifices w hint! they hate here tofore Po click tinny ienc. , nter, .3, in prefer • qms: iu 14. ally_ r i iA„.42viiii ul. celat4, !ion with ii.governinent and poophe who have tint u t iniiNly proven thein-elves ennteinptantzq ly regsrWeew of all the right a Mill which ht , :o;:g to II state of civil fr e edom. ns well as of alt the nom! %,cere,l usages of mil ize.l war. 11ile , s regret!, ,1 HIM the getlilornatt front Tenneesue had int] oduced such a l'PbU -11111011. Tlit• true and u;d; trhttlient which that an I t 41 t.!1 , 1 ( Liu Cl. 1 1 .1! :o I 1110 111111.1-1 of Ihi= tea. -ilea! an.l iintititig.ctk i I ),,tortipt '1 his t t•=o!iition wL.u , 1 a ppo.ir to &gaily a pl.- per, catanatilig_fr,',:a w rat alu.:d And det.es , not folly only r , ceivo the ridtcule the civilized v.uti t. Ito inu%o.l to lay the in the tahle Foot,; w.,a wi;!:,,,Lr that thy prvatat A le and resolution ilt• tin dor , atiding that i; woi.ll I (...:,',1111.; of t ht. If it k f ., r A r h1(:1 I, 1 ftt.d his 11:1 sai 1 tl, re \cot!!! 1,2 110 IniFun derstan ah ut that unaniinotpily minptr 1. S:12.11 I. J 1 of M 11110 W ly. Sp 11,1'11, 'l 7 . I its venmu •tlino , a , A , 1!•: ' cop' I to woe from L.. to tae of n vonelave of t.: , p rheads. Ilat ii Innll r-- ,1111 4 111, t:10 .or I no` 1 , 1 - 10 i 'I 11] , li4ll : " I t• nil , l Xl.ll'l , tr, :toy i , ia . ii•ncr.t r ; I.u; wt•l e :,-; In al Lily c. i• ot. 11:11‘10!by their ni 'rho iiit3 I„.ni the field ‘v,. h ~,, uoi i•pt sweaty live on ti.•: I ut I.rulr, iwenly one WC; tiny gl‘lll,r, Ur tIl'H division undiir tiny \N i twit nll thy circa: nstauces of the 011.,u aro known, it will be acknowledge I by all coinpeteni judgee thlt the movement just coot; loud by our army lo war. Under the ot eitctioniitlnce4 vio have pre tiervol lir (I'.llllS, our guns, our tuateri.ll, eutl above all our honor." I )1 the 7111 1(.10,9'1).1w:1; 4' It n t, aly I tdrlll 11 , Them. Fl t, ulli er l;ubbiburolig,b ii conli,lerkt Ito cat: b,ei, on n my co:n.ll , 2:HcatiJoi by the Jamrti " Early in the army wis ordered to A •iplia. The ,ondtihin of ail 11rs at Wash ington doting the c tuiplign of Pope is graph ically St•pt 2, the l'resident di reefed Gen. McClellan to Like command of lie own and Gen. Pope's armies and fin I the enediy. On the 18th of September Antietam was fought, South i\lountain and Cr:1.1111001 s Liap having been already won by us. N a single gun ur color was lost by us in these battles, and our total 10,,0 iu 11112.11 at Autiettin is stated by Gen. NleClellan at 12,41 d) The advance into Virginia aftor. Antietam is related, with an account of the onuses by which that advance was delayed. Oa the night of Nov. 7, l; MXIOIIIIII was relieved and the command transferred to Uenertil Burnside." McClellan thus describes his own re port : "This report is in fact the history of the Arany of the Potomac. During the period oc. cupied in organization of that army, it served as a bearer against the advance of a I tidy victorious enemy, while the fortifications of thu capital was in progress, and under the tti4eipttue which it then received, it acquired oduetiti , m, and some of that experi once which is lieee,iry to success in active opera ions, and which stab ed it afterward to sustain itself under circumstances trying to the 'nest heroic mon. Frequent skirmishes occurred along the lines, conducted with great gallantry, which inured troops to the realities of war. The,army grew into shape but slowly, and the delays which mien led oil the obtaining of arms, continued late Into the winter or 1861 —2, were no less trying to the snl.hers than 10 the peo;rlo of ch. , country. Even at the time Of the r cgaMirition of tire trim-subt eamnaign, seine of the finest regiiirmus were without rifle'', nor were Ore minuet exert:o na OIL the military ;vim' itics uthalurite to overcome the or.st.reler' 'rr murvc r-cir,ree When at ~aide the arm, was inn condition to take the Held, the peninsula eanipaign w.rs planned rind entered upon with enthurrilm by officers and men. llad this campaign been followed up as it was de,ig11 , 2.1, 1 cannot doubt it would have resulted in a glut ions triumph to our arms turd the permanent restoration of the power of the Government. in Virginia and North Carolina. if not throughout the revol ted States. It was, however, otherwise or dered, and the army of the Potomac was re• called front within sight of Richmond, and incorporated with the army of Virginia.-- disappointments of the campaign had not dampened their ardor or diminished their pa triotism. They fought well, faithfully, gal lently under Gum Pope: yet were compelled to fall back oh Washington defeated and al most demeralizpd. The enemy, no longer oc• copied in guarding his own capital, poured his troops northward, entered Maryland, threatened Pennsylvania and even Washing. ton itself. Elated by his recent victories, and assured that our troops were disorganized and die piritod, he was confident that the seat of war• was now permanently transferred to the loyal States, and that his own exhausted soil was to be relieved from the burden of•supporting two.hostilo armies. But he did not under stand the spirit which asimated the soldiers of the Union. I' shall net, nor can ',Jiving forgot that when I was ordered to,,the corn•, mand of the troops for the defence of the onp ital, the, soldiers, with whom I had shared 0 much of the anxiety, and pain'und suffering of the war, had not. lost their eon fideno lame as their commander. They sprang to my call with all their ancient vigor, diseiplitA and courage. I led them into Maryland. Fif teen days after they had fallen back defeated before Witshington, they had vanquished the enemy on the rugged flights of South Moun tain, pursued them to the hard fought field of Antietam, and drove him, broken and disap pointed, across the Potomac, into Virginia The army had need of rest after the terri blo experience of battles and marches, with scarcely an interval of repose, which they had through from the time of leaving the Perlin sofa, and return to Washington, the defeat in Virginia, the victory at South Mountain, and again at Antietam. It was not surprising that they were in a large degree destitute of the absolute necessaries' to effective duty.-- Shoes were worn out and blankets lost ; cloth. ing was in rags ; iu short the army was unfit for active service, and an interval for reel and equipment was necessary When the slowly forwarded supplies came to us I led the army across the river, renova ted, refreshed, in good order and discipline, and followed the retreating foe to a position where I was confident of decisive victory ; when in the midst of the movement, while my advanced guard was actually in contact with the enemy, I was removed from the command lefttead of reporting a victorious cam paign, it has been my duty to relate the he roism of a reduced army, sent upon an expe dition into an enemy's country, there to aban don one and originate another and new plan of campaign, which might and would have been successful if supported with apprecht Lion of its necessities, bat which failed be cause of the repeated failure of promised sup port at the most critical, and, it prdved, the most fatal moments. Its illustration must be left for the pen of th'e historian in times of calm reflection, when the nation shall he look ing hack to the fats. from the midst of perce ful days. For me now it is sufficient to say that my comrades were victors in every field save one, and there the endurance of a single corps accomplished the object of its fighting, and by securing to the army its transit to the James their, left to the enemy a ruinous and barren victory. Gen. Meade's Account of his last Campaign Hs' ti, IL 13 111, of 1) ver, S. 11., recently Nilite.l the Army f tied 1 . Jt01113.2, 1111 , 1 C +llotl Upon (feat. le lie I),slce.l the general to explain I.'n! 1.14 t campaign , ant the general was I,lrni en , nigh to ) sO, 00 follows : " I went over the river to fight, and if my orders It i I ke:•t: obey..l 1 :MI ////111/ lent that 's my :night 1,21.11 /11.tiellte/1 My 17) Iv is to cross at I; F mil, take the t C.,urt IHa and push on rap -../.l,Let.,l4tYltl-1,1 soict-illrlloe4 'tit/DR/11M; / hint in F.,1T0 311 I .lestr if that portion of los army bef.)re he could concentrate the of it to oppu-e toe. lion one of my cot corn:min lore I.ule I I'le. Ile sy.t.s cum. manded to march at ti o'clock in the morning, hitt dol not move trot.! H o'clock ; lie was di rected, if Lee sent farces to oppose him, to attack at once: di I send Ewell down to ()range I' otrt 11.:uh , ..• road, just 119 I eXI/1/Cll./1, but my general stood and looked:at him all :lay, and .Inl not fight So we lost twenty fmir hours, and that gave Lee notice and time to c :net:rotate his army, awl take so strong a pol...trryn that it - rmilri -norhc - carried• - wit ham great los , rind t tok of 10-ing our army. Suell a light would have dam gr././.1 119, and eneour a,ted the rebel-, and I:rultuged the war, and I 1 41100 the order to retreat. 'The corps coat under referred to mat (leneral French, who ‘l . q/1 probably too drunk to know or do his ----- CONFUSION IN NAMES people are puLLled by Lear in..; or i.c.1,1:r.g tl.at ).1r Smith, Mr. Brown, or Nle J has sAb..l or dune , omething in Con hin!l 1:r c Sul I but. belteve said Smith, Brown er Jones w mild do, lie fails to cone s;.l, r that there may be lucre than one Smith, that men of Like name are not neeesearily of like politico , For the benefit of a large elaes, we volunteer the information that: There are thiee Brcums in the present Con gress—lS. Grate of Missouri, in the Senate, or Virginia and j amies 8. of Wn.ccusiti, in the House. Only the la tis a Ccpperlie•sl. 01 there are two 7,a:lp - trial' of :11iehigan, in the Senate ; Lucius II of old iii the house, beside John W. in tier, ul stir city Lucius II , by the w.tj Ims u.l yet been a lolittml, but, we pre. some, will be. oit Cli tim tier is a bad egg, politica ly ; while the one that hails from Michig.in is as good as can be 01 Ct.irAs, this Congress rejoices in the pos ces-ion of three—Daniel of New Hampshire, in the Senate ; Ambros . W. and Freeman, both of this S ate, in the House. All three are 80t111 I. GI the wile spread family of Davis, Garret (lSo,der State) represents Kentucky in the Setrite, whsle Henry ‘Vtitter of Mirylaud-aud Thomas T. of our State are iu the Iluuse. If you hear of anything said by a Davis that a loyal man stunt d not say, you will attlibuto it, of couise, to Garret. Of DLetni.v, llle3 (Senate) hail from Con nection!, ivhi:e S,uhsu F r..presents Western Rhode 1.-land. Both good. Uf Hole 4, John I'. of New Hampshire is in the Senate, .Inures T. of Pennsylvania in tits House ; Both Union. The name ut Ifirris is unu•ually well rep. re,enied in this Congress —lra representing our State in the Senate, while Benj twin U of I.avylan I and (.diaries M. of Illinois have seats in the )louse. If you hear that, "Mr. !fot•els" has said anything loyal and patriotic, you may safely credit it to Ira. Of Ruhr' UldB, A. V. from lowa, John H. from Connecticut, are both in the House, to gether with Calvin T. !hatpind of our Stale If Rebellon or Slavery derives any aid or comfort from anything IL Hubbard or Hulbuid says or does, be sure it is sunlit one not iu Cu❑ gross Of .I).axmis, there are lieverily of Mary land in the Senate, Thilip of Pennaylvanta and 11Olimut of Oitio in the Howe. lUverdy was elected Ha a Umuniat, but w•e don't brag on any at them. (1! K,1',.05. there aro two—Francis W. of and (),•Ity.,do of ottr Sla.;c—bulb in the II ,11:40, and both as g')w.: Unionisls as they I:tahe I,:ty whet' there are two—Henry of In J...l:tes 11. of liansis--ho:h to the Ben u:c urn both Union. Of JIM/yrs, but true appear—Samuel E. (Un• ion) of our State; William 11. (Coppery) float Pennsylvania. Of Morriqs, Lot M. is a Senator front llaino Justin .1. a It•Treschtative front Vcrinout— both sternly Union. The name of Morris belongs to Iwo mem hers— (Union) of our State; James it. (Coppery) trout Ohio. Etch is in the Homo So Myers is the common appellation of Amos and Lemarl of that ilk—both front Penn sylvania, and both Union Of O'Neills, Charles (Union) from Penn• sylvania: John (Copper) from Ohio : both are iu the Mousse. Of Pomcrop, Samuel C. represents Klinsas in the Senate.; Theodore M. is. (TOM our St4to —hoth thoroughly Union. There are two Randolls in the House— Samuel J. of Philadelphia and William IL of Kentockyl:- Of these, the latter is Union, bdt. of the Border-State pattern ; the other is of the Copperhead persuasion. Curious as it may seem, they usually vote just alike. The Smith family were scandalously over looked in electing to this Congress.' , ' But one of them—Green Clay of Kentucky—was chosen. Mr. Smithcrs of Delaware just es, coped being a Smith. Both are Unionists. • Of Steels,- there are John B. front this State and William O: of New Jersey—Copper fast ened, Va)l, and both in the House. Tim house of Rollins has two .R.eprosenta tives--41dwartd.U. of New-Hainpshiroja true Unionist,) and James S. of Missouri, who . ought. to be.ithe some, but isn't. lid some -how stoipls aloof from parties, but hie heart 11CCMFI to Icing for lho tlosh•pots of the compro mising era. Of Washburnes, Illinois S ends Elihu 8., and Massachusetts Williatu 8.--both strongly U.ltioll . Of Irbiles, Chilton A. and Joseph W. (both Domocrate) complete the catalogue. Of Wilsons, Henry of Maesachusette is in the Senate, James F. of lowa in the House— both largely Union. Finally, we have two lroods—Fernando and Ben. both of New York city. tho yolitics of one of these nro better than those of the other, we should like to know which is the good one, or how nny one can be worse than either of them.—N. I: Tribune. WAR NEWS. 7:l3rigadier General Gerrard has relieved Generul Stoneman front the command of the , Cavalry Bureau. Full particulars of the recent engagement of the gunboat Marblehead with a rebel bat tery in Stone creek have heeu received. The Marblehead was struck twenty times, and is very badly injured. She had three men killed and four wounded. A dispatch from Leavenworth, Kansas, states that on the 18th of December the rebel Quaturell, with a thousand men was attacked by aix hundred Union soldiers in the Chero kee country, and was completely routed, leav ing fifty de.d and wounded on the field. Gen. Reseerans' otlictal report of the battle of Chickamauga has just been published in Cincinnatt. As a portion of it intimates that the bit le teas lust through the actions of Gen. T. L, Wood, that olligor publishes a re ply, is scotch ho shows that ho simply obeyed positive orders given him duritij, the engage ment. The Army of the l'Jtotriic is enjoying its New Year s fetivities in peace and in mud., Heavy rains were tailing for several days, seeing; out thu old year in the 8:11110 delight- Xi/Cell:need here. ()lifers are hastening home in large numbers on fur lough to revlsit their families at this soasort oi to Lintel' The etthstinents in the veteran regi.u....u's continue to proceed vigorously. b oce.aile runners at Wilmington haver not been so successtut Lit I-tte The Navy Do parintunt recetvel utli tnl totormatiou from, 11erutwIu to the mucct, that 1110 titeaaier Co quette rut urn,2l there in the 13..1, having. been among the b:ocka ling tree , . elf Witting ton, but ciul l lIJZ gel to lee ~ t..trricr Rut ger, winch lett on the l i It wait a full cargo, ulna returav I , not hivin g hoea able W matte her way thiough the Ilia. The fates nowt from Western Vir,;inia la d itch ;Mt G !net htd re ceived inform:Limn (rein Liethral Sailivau that General I:1y, with lime thouJ.tuil rebels is bet weiiti- General lto oer al a 11.13 seven hundred rebel troops and Genet id Inthuden hlteeu hundred. tuen. Great is exist among the Doser ers lecture that If the l're,ddent's pruclaimition could he distrib utc.i ircMy among the rel el troops thousand would at once cuter our ices. They say the prue ama'ion IS kept trim the 1110 n, although the h:ll..•er, !Live received it despntclius Irmo Chattanoo ga o', IVudnusday that a rebel force, under Ciineral Wheeler, dia I captured on; of our tiains 011 the 26th (huitud iur I(nuxvillel at Cfnirluston, o', Me .vouch Leah the Ilia - W 11.3512 but Colunel Lung pursued the enemy and (I,ll•Ate,l hi n t, capturing one . huudired. twenty prisJhers. REBEL OPE.t.k IN TIIE SLIEN- VA1.1.1 , ,1 The rulnors of the enmity's designs and operatirms bt the Shenaindialt 1 . 11.11cy are FiLdiugh Lec's cavalry, of perhaps 1000 nittm, supported by - Early's three invagre brigades ell . toot, wdh Imboderd told other local leaders with small detach • meats, numberim, all told, t 100..) or 7000' men, a I.: n , •ar Woodst , ,:k awl M O Ol l l jack :3oo wig it tut occasional dash as lar itortllast, Winchester. The latest indications point to the Moore head valley, if not west of the mountains, as their scene of operations. Certainly they have not appeared as yet in sight of the Baltimore and Ohio Itailroal, the trains of which are all running regularly and success fully, with large quantities of freight and many passengers. GE N. GRAN L; coNoRA.TUL&TORY olt DER To HIS ARMY. IlcAnQuiarniti Mimithity Invisiox of TUE Misstsstret tS Tut: Fixt,o, CnATTAxoutis, Tenn., Dec. 10, '63. The General commanding talc s this op portunity of returning his sincere thanks and congratulations to the brave armies of the Cumberland, the Ohio, the Tennessee, and their comrades from the Potomac, for the recent splendid and decisive successes a chieved over the enemy. In a short time you have recovered from him the control of the 'felines:lee river from Bridgeport to Knox ville. You dish lged him tro n his great stri tighohl upon ,Lookout Mountein, drove him from Chattanooga Valley, wrested from his determined grasp the possession of Mis sicnary Ridge, repelled with heavy loss to him his repeated assaults upon Knoxville, forcing him to maise the seige there, driving him at all points, utterly routed and discom fitted beviind the limias of the State. By your noble heriosin and determined courage, you have most effectually defeated the plans of the enemy for regaining posses ion of the States of Kentucky and Tennessee.—You have secured positionsTrom which no rebel lious power can drive or dislodge you. For all this the General commanding thanks you eolleetiiely and individually. The loyal peo ple of the United States thank and bless you. Their hopes and prayers for your success against this unholy rebellion are with you daily. Their faith in you will not be in vain. Their hopes will not be blasted. Their players to Almighty God will be answered. You will yet go to other fields or strife ; and with the invincible bravery and unflinching loyalty to justice and right - whicir have ehar neterized you in the past, you will prove that no enemy tan withstand you, and that no do tent es, however formidable, can check your onwAr I zuareb. Maj. Gt n. U. S. GRANT. Sour TEA FUR SECE,IILte.—A loyal I,,tyl‘n.icc, IV;18 louking with gratification at the review of n regiment of colored troops, when n Socesh c tight or, Lunch excited, broke in I.IIPOII his p ensqru with, There, now, Can' you eland can you stoad seeing those nwers trainc Ito go duwn South to tourdor• our ehito brethroo ?" Well, I confess the fellows look as if (boy could fly/it—they make n pretty show—much handsomer than when you and I used 10 see then] going South, handcuffed togetber, with a long chain to lteep them in line.' liut think of the object! Those follows aro trained to cut white men's throats, and imurder white women and children. Can you standthai:? .",Look hero, now ; since you want an an-' ewer, you shall have it. When you and I were boys, and ate all kinds of green trash until wo got the collo, our mother would dose us whit root tea. It was black and awful bitter, and tut ugly dose ; but it.oured yes, it cured us pretty effectually. Now our Southern brethren'—our white brethren down' &nit 10—have been feeding ou trash, and have been terribly windy for many years, and have an awful colic, and if soot tea will cure them, I say, for one, give it to them strong as you can make it, and black as you can getlit 1" --Secesh went into his house. A. D. G. NEVI COUNTERFEIT NoTo.—A 'counterfoit twenty dollar note, on the Pottstown Bank, of Pottstown, Pa., was circulated in Phila delphia on Saturday. The vignette is the representation 'of a rolling-mill. On tha right',. end is an engraved head of Daniel Webster, and on gio left a picture of a man drinking, with 'a woman and child near bim.