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CARLISLE, PA.
Friday, February 5, 18611.
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Yenta and Subscriptions for us at our lowest rates.
Mir Tan SUPREME COIIIIT bf this State has
reversed its decision on the constitutionality
of ttio Conscription Act, made when Lowrie,
Woodward and Thompson were the majority
on be Bench, and now affirms its constitu
tionality. This decision is owing to .the dis•
placement of Lowrie by Judge Agnew by the
people at the last election. The Court now
stands politically, two Republicans, one Dem
ocrat, and two Copperheads. The great
stioklerit.for, the constitutionality of every
thing calculated to save the country will be
thrown somewhat aback by this decision.
LINCOLN AND JOHNSON —The Union League
of Nashville has adopted a resolutiOn recom•
!pending for the next Presidency and Vice
Presidency Abraham Lincoln and Andrew
Johnson, "as statesmen possessing pre-emi•
nent qualifications—names synonymous with
hope and confidence to our afflicted country,
carrying with them assurances of returning
peace and prosperity on a permanent basis,
thereby laying the foundations of the Repub
lic deep and strong. This is a good ticket,
and one that would be almost certain to carry
every loyal State.
JAMEB B. CLAY, of Kentucky, (a son
of Henry Clay) ex Minister to Portugal and
ex•member of Congress from the Ashland die •
triot, died in Montreal, Canada West, last
Tuesday night, aged 47 years. His sympa•
thies were with the rebellion, and on the fail
ure of the attempt to take Kentucky out of
the Union, he fled into exile.
Toy POST OFFICE SELF SUSTAINING —.Mr.
Kasion, in the House on Wednesday, staled
that the Post Office Department is now, for
the first time in fifteen years, self•sustaining.
Tax TRIBUNE ALMANAC —This invaluable
work, to the politician, or, ''any ocher man,"
has reached our sanctum. It is, as usual,
replete with important information to every
body. We do not see bow any one interested
In the politics of the country can do without
it. Price 15 mints. Address the Tribune of
fice New York.
NMI MONTI& MEN TO nit DRATTED. —The
U. 8. Senate has so amended the Enrollment
Act, tbat none but snob as are in the service,
or have been in the service for two years, and
have been honorably discharged, are exempt
ed from the operations of the draft. This
throws all those who served in the nine
months' regiments, into the classes liable to
draft. They still have one advantage over
other men, and but one, that is they • get a
bounty of $402 if they enlist, while others
get only $302. No doubt many of them will
"go in." Those who were drafted and served
in 1862 will also be liable to draft.
TEts DOTY ON PAPER.—We see by the
Congressional proceedings that a resolution
hap been introduced in the House of Repre
sentatives, instructing the Committee on
Ways and Means to report on the expediency
of repealing the present high ad valGrem duty
on printing paper. The duty of twenty per
Cant., imposed by the act of March 3rd,1863,
is needles.ly oppressive. It has simply
forced all foreign competition in the paper
trade out of the Market, and permitted the
domestic manufacturers to raise their rates
more than a hundred per cent. It is this
which raises the price of newspapers, books
and bills; and while of course the paper
manufacturers are interested in keeping the
duty on paper as high as possible, all
other classes of the people nre interested in
having the tax repealed, The printing in
terest is taxed heavily enough, without having
this heavy duty on paper added to its bur
dens. The newspapers men are willing to
bear their share of the burden, but they are
not willing to bear more than their share-
We hope, now that a move has been made
in the right direction, the newspapers over
the whole country will raise such a cry as
will break up the powerful lobby interest of
the manufacturers, and give the printer and
the reader something like justice. Strike
off this duty, and common white paper will
fall from the present rates of from eighteen
to twenty cents a pound, to something like
its reasonable value—eight to twelve cents
a pound.
GOVERNOR BRAMLETTE Of Kentucky, a tol
erable good Union man, except when slavery
is in the case, has forbid the recruiting of
negro soldiers in that State. He makes a
very lame excuse that the recruiting is car
ried on by agents who employ the negroes
as substitutes, which he calls "trafficking in
human flesh." Gov. Bramlette is foolish e
nough to think that he can oppose, with his
puny hand, the progress of a great revolu
tion. He might study with advantage the
poetry of the humorous "Private Miles
O'Reilly" of the 47th N. York Regt. who
says:
"The men who object to Bambo
ilhonA take ble place and fight ;
And He bet tiler to hare a naygur's hue
Than a liver that's wake an' white;
Though tiaxnbo's black as the ace of spades,
Ms Angers a trigger can pull.
And Me eye runs sthraight on the barrel sight,
Prom under Its thatch of wool I
8o hear me all, boys, darling.,
Don't think I'm,.tippin' you chaff,
*he right to be kilt I'll divide wid him,
And gkre lasi - the largest half I"
Pntorrtntm.—The St. Louis Daily Union
whiob was started a year or mo ago as the or
gan of . Gen; Frank Blair, has run up its en
sign for the neat Presidency, and it reads':—
;'For prevideni in 1884, Abraham Lincoln."
The f iditor's reasons for this choice are: that
be approval; the pant and present policy of
She Administration—subjugation, emancipa
tion, Confiscation, restoration and all. But
be , espeCially stipports Abraham Lincoln he
'd/me of "his ardent personal patriotism," his
uuniveraally, adtoitted integrity," his "once
miming patience and , courage," hin
.4ga use of the tremendous peirers entrusted
to his luinds, and the plain, unpretending ten
' dor "hid* he has mainteitted*nidst a/1 the
fasoinitiOns of that power." •
TRUTHS• BROUGHT HOME TO
, THE REBELS.
Among other• significant admissions in
Mem minger's report on the rebel finances,
he acknowledges that when the war began
the confederates bad no expectation of its
long continuance or enlarged proportions.
Doubtless they bad not, Wicked and reck
less as they were, they never would have
risked the losses, privations and perils of the
deadly and devastating strife, had their pre
vision enabled them to contemplate cense•
quences. These slaveholders were general
ly an indolent and self-indulgent race of
'men, averse to labor and exertion, and rely
ing chiefly on their bondman ter the means
of subsistence—a humiliating position to any
mind not sadly perverted by the ethics of
slaveocracy, but one to which they had
thoroughly accustomed themselves. The
more opulent lived luxuriously, and varied
the monotony of plantation life by occa
sional visits to our northern States, as well
as to Europe. Others, with narrower in
comes, frequented southern towns and water
ing places for a measure of variety or a
musement. The mass of poor whites who
composed that lower stratum of southern
society, so nearly approaching to slavery
itself, were likewise, for the most part, in•
disposed to active exertion, for labor was a
badge of degradation among all classes of a
community so viciously constituted. Even
these poor people were not without a hope
that if only the slave trade were reopened
they might also become man-owners, and
live altogether without work.
From John C. Calhoun downwards to the
most ignorant and stupid of this inferior
population—through all that dependent
chain of windy declaimers, political sophists,
shallow free-traders, and dexterous politi
cians, scarcely an individual seemed fully to
comprehend the character and power of
these northern States. Benighted and per
verted within their' narrow circle, they com
prehended neither the beauty nor the strength
of freedom. They prated about it, indeed ;
but it had only one meaning in their vocab
ularlyliberty signified the right to tyran
nize over others. Therefore was it they
looked with mingled dread and detestation
on that political equality inculcated and
practised here; therefore did they seek at
least separation, with certain hopes of influ
ence and control in the hereafter, which
would subordinate the north to A outhern
domination.
But had the leaders apprehended war as a
consequence of their attempt, cnd rnore es
pecially such a war as this has proved, who
can hesitate to agree with Mr. Mem minger's
implication that no such traitorous work
would have been essayed 1 Much as they
underrated northern prowess, they yet could
not but see a certain danger. But when
they took the fatal step, their pride was en
listed, and for very shame's sake there could
be no retrogression from their perilous posi
tion. On they had to go, through misery
and blood, desolation, bankruptcy and hu
miliation. Human pride and arrogance
have seldom had a-lower fall than that which
marks their present woful plight. Miracu
lous events alone can lift them up to stand
erect and strong before the great republic
which they seek to destroy.
The rebel Secretary makes yet another
concession, when he touches upon cotton,
and in a melancholy strain discourses in the
past tense of its importance to the world..
The conspirators, with such a lever, confl•
dently hoped to control all Europa and force
a recognition. Even beyond that point did
their expectations go, and they looked with
confidence to a forcible intervention of the
foreign Powers most needing a supply of
cotton. Here, too, were the traitors die
comfitted. They were forced to do their own
fighting, and encounter the resolute soldiers
of these northern States, who could not
afford to let their country perish, nor to ex
pose it to the innumerable dangers atten
dant on disruption. Thus was the great
battle joined. Thus have the forces of
slavery and freedom come into fatal conflict.
The outside world stands aloof, and leaves
the slaveholder to do battle as best he may.
Haters of freedom are numerous enough in
the old world as here. But in both hemis
pheres there are mighty influences at work,
continually checking the progress of despo
tism and aspiring to political redemption.
The masses are alive to their rights and in
terests ; and whilst battling for these at
home, they still look wistfully to that western
constellation which invites them under its
glorious light to a land of liberty. Their
rulers dare not attempt the extinguishment
of this hope, lest disastrous convulsions may
ensue at home.
Cotton is important, but not indispensa
ble. The very men of Lancashire who are
most affected by scant supplies of the sta
ple—the operatives whose daily dread is
thereon dependent—protest against the aid
demanded by our rebels, and suffer in pa
tience because of the great principle in
volved in our contest. Herein may we see
the power and vitality of a sacred and an
ennobling cause. The brute courage of the
rebi is may excite a certain degree of admi
ration, even as the deeds of pirates or rob
bers have often done. But only in minds of
the baser sort can such emotions blind the
moral perceptions so as to aid the criminal
in any important degree. Well did tho
Richmond journal, a few days ago, utter the
doleful exclamation : " The world is against
ps." Not ir.deed, the whole world—not aris
tocrats, who hate freedom, nor their social
antipodes who inhabit the Five Points, New
York - and the Fourth ward in Philadel
phia—not the mercenary ship builders,
like Laird, nor greedy blockade-runners,
who risk insolvency for the chance of inor
dinate gain. These, and many others, whose
envy or malignity makes them the natural.
foes of all that is virtuous or commendable,
are ateadfaat abettors of the Southern rebell
ion. But as the admirers of bold murder;
•ers andadriot burglars, though many, are
yet bni_ a contemptible minority in every
civilized community, so are the befrienders
of this causeless rebellio4 when compared
with the great aggregate of human-kind.
His Excellency Gov. A. G; Curtin has
our thanks for several valuable pubile doinv
meats.. • •
Face the Facts 1
That Slavery is on its very last lege in
bleartann, we presume no one will deny.—
The slaveholders give it up, finding the at
tempt to retain and profit by their chattels
under existing circumstances a losing busi
nese. Slavery in. Maryland has long enough
been exhausting her 1011, retarding her prog
ress, diminishing her population ; but all
this availed nothing. But at length it has be
come a burden to the elaveholders, and they
will make short work with it. It can hardly
outlast the current year.
When it dies, Slavery in Delaware will.be a
tree without roots. It must speedily vanish
or he summarily oast out.
West Virginia has substantially freed her
self from the scourge. She had but a few
thousands of slaves in 1860; she has practic
ally none now. This good riddance she owes
to the rebellion and the civil war.
The loyal portions of Old Virginia are prac
tically ',loveless. The President exempted
most of them from the purview of his Procla
mation of Freedom; but the • God of Justice
has issued one which covers a far larger area,
and deals with it most efficiently. The loyal
Legislature of old Virginia has milled a Con
vention to sweep Slavery from the State.—
This is the work of her loyal people; the
Government takes no part in it. There is no
doubt that the Convention soon to assemble
will finish up the work.
Votes to be Remembered.
In the United States Senate on Monday,
the Enrollment bill, as amended, was passed
finally by a vote of 30 yens to 10 nays, to
Yeas —M essr s. Anthony, Clark, Collamer,
Conness, Cowan, Davis, Dixon, Doolittle,
Fessenden, Foot, Foster, Hale, Harding,
Harlan, Harris, Howard, Johnson, Lane,
(Kansas) Morgan, Merrill, Nesmith, Pome-,
roy, Ramsey, Sprague, Sumner, Ten Eyek.
Van Winkle, Wade, Willey and Wilson—M.
Nays—Messrs. Buckalew, of Pa., Carlisle,
Grimes, Hendricks, Howe, Lane, (Ind.) Pow
ell, Saulsbury, Wilkinson and Wright-10.
Simon Pure Copperheads
On the same day, in the U. S. House of
Representatives, Mr. Smith, (Un. of Ey.)
offered the following :
Whereas, A most desperate, wicked and
bloody Rebellion exists in this, the jurisdic
tion of the United .States, and the sal, ty and
security of personal and national liberty,
depend upon its absolute and utter extinc
tion, therefore.
Resolved, That it is the political, civil,
moral, and sacred duty of the people to meet
it, tight it, and torever, destroy it, thereby
establishing perfect and unalienable liberty.
- —The resolution was pas..ed by- a-vote of
yeas 112,. nays 16. The names of the six
teen Simon Pure Copperheads, who voted
against the above preamble and resolution,
are as follows :
Nays—Messrs. James C. Allen, Ancona,
of Berks, Dennison, of Pa., Harris. (.Id )
Long Marcy, M'Dewell, Miller, (Pa.) Mor
rison, O'neill, (Ohio) Pendleton, Robinson,
Stiles, of Pa., Voorhees, Chilton A. White
and Fernando Wood.
—Messrs. Randall and Strouse, (Cop.) of
Pa., voted yea, as did also l3aily, of Pa.,
War Democrat. Messrs. Phil. Johnson,
Coffroth, M . A.llister, Dawson, and Lazear—
(all Penna. Copperhead members, except
!'Allister) did not vote,
While on this subject, we may add that
the Pennsylvania delegation in Congress,
judged by their votes for Speaker, and upon
the most important war of peva measures
or consideration, may
that have come up
be classified-as folio
UNION AND ADM
NISTRATION MEN
Dist
Mr. Broomall, 7th
" Ride, 18th
" Kel 4th
" Moorhead, 22d
Mr. O'Neill,
" Scofield,
" Stevens,
" Thayer,
" Tracy, 13th
" Williams, 23d
" L. Myers, 3d
" A. Myers. 20th
WAR DEMOCRATS
15thl Mr. M'Allister, 17
Mr. Bailey,
PURE COPPERHEADS.
Mr. Ancona, Bth Mt. Lazear, 24th.
" Coffroth, 16th " Miller, 14th.
" Dawson, 21st " Randall, Ist.
" Dennison, 12th " Stiles, 6th.
" Johnson, 11th " Strouse, 10th.
On practical questions 'connected with the
prosecution of the war, there is therefore a
clear majority of four in the Pennsylvania
delegation. Several of the Democrats who
adhere to the cause of Fernando Wood rep
reset.t constituencies which have given large
Union majorities since they were elected.—
The uniformly disloyal course of Ancona,
Stiles, Strouse and Johnson, at the present
juncture, ought to ensure for them the re
proof of the present and the acorn of future
generations.
THE FIVE Tweivry LoAs.—The Govern
ment Agent for the sale of the Five Hun
dred Millions of the 5.20 U. S. 4 per cent.
loans on Thursday, concluded that une
qualled task. They are all sold. Some
nine months ago the Government placed the
negotiation of this five hundred million loan
into the hands of Jay Cooke, of Philadel
phia, as the sole agent for its sale, and by
attention, and personal efforts, which ha - ve
commanded the commendation of all par
ties, he succeeded, through the employment
of agents, in introducing it into almost eve
ry hamlet in the loyal States, and of so pop
ularizing it, as to give it favor over almost
every other security, thus effecting a rapidi
ty of sale as surprising to the Government
as to the most astute of financiers. Faith
in the financial credit of the nation was
much, but we doubt if there is an instance
on record where a government loan of such
magnitude has been disposed of among
,the
people at a time when the Government of
that people was engaged is - the suppression
of a rebellion, the most gigaiitic the world
has ever seen.
~The weather orthe past week has
been more of the June than January stripe;
warm and sunshiny days, with the clearest
and moat beautiful moonlight nights as af
terpieces. Overcoats have been at a dis
count, Furs gave place to the light and
graceful Ntibia ; and some of the go-ahead
ones have been Seriously tempted to prepare
their garden beds for the early. Onion crop:
But don't be rash; friends. Alilithigh all
looks bright and fair now, Winter's reign is
net complete,.andsere the ides of March we
will, in all probability, have enough bad
.weather, chilling blasts and biting frosts to
more thaulnake good the hundred days of.
grey bearded Viritter. ' • • ...
TWO SHIPS IN' A STORM;
From an able written article in a late New
York Independegi, we clip the following
We lately.ease it meditative look at. Edwin
White's picture of the Signing of the Compact
in the Cabin of Hie Mayflower—a beautiful
and reverent work of art, wherein, as the
central figure, stands Elder Brewster,. his
right , arm uplifted, invoking the blessing of
heaven, and near him Capt. Miles Standish,
bowing'his head and leaning upon his sword,
Gov. Carver, thoughtful and resolute, William
Bradford looking toward Brewster with pious
face, and Rose Standish and the other immor
tal women of the company—all disposed in a
picturesque group, somewhat like every Yan
kee's imagination has often painted them
without brush or canvass. .Before they lan
ded,' says the inscription, "the manner in
which their government "should be oonstitu•
ted was considered, and "as some were ob
served not well affected "toward unity and
concord, they formed "themselves into a
body politic by a solemn "voluntary compact."
These men were statesmen ! How well they
reasoned upon human nature! How wisely
they obese the time of forming and singeing
their compact—not leaving it till too late !
How happ`iiy those great men laid the basis
of their government while it was possible to
act id unity ; for if the signing of the compact
had been unwisely postponed till after land.
ing (just as rift some mon are proposing to
deter another settlement till after petoe) h
might never have been settled at all.
In 1863, as in 1820, the Ship of State is in
rough water, with man.; signs of disaffection
on board, amt though the haven of peace
seems not far off; is it not well, before the
storm is ended—is it not best, without run
ning the risk of accident or failure by and by
to settle now for ever the great pulley of the
future? "Before they landed," says the
record—that is, while yet they were blown.of
the wind and tossed of the wave—our Pilgrim
Fathers set the great example which we uuw,
amid a greater storm, are to follow to safety
and peace. It is in vain to say that the great
questions now at issue can be better settled
in future and caliper times. Their best set
tlement is now. They cannot he put off till
to-morrow. In times of public peril. men's
minds are always more in unison than in
times of public peace. A nation is usually
more united in sentiment at the beginning of
a war than at the end of it. The great body
of the loyal American people lure now solemn
ly set upon one great purpose, and therefore
now is the time to execute that purpose, leav
ing nothing to the risk of future disaffection
or declension of zeal.
gler It is reported that General Halleck
has expressed his belief tliat the last grand
and desperate effort of the Rebels will be
made in the Spring, to transfer the fi_rloing
to Northern Soil- It - is expected that a
grand rush in the Crusade style, will be
made for the North, to get food, as they can
not subsist their armies on their own suit.—
That is exactly where the shoe pinches
them ; if they conscript all their men and
boys into the artily, and withdraw their slaves
into the Cotton States,' They must soon be
reduced to the starving point. The Rebel
papers at Richmond and other places, see
the gaunt form of famine now before them,
and they are `?- ; .tcoming terribly exercised
thereat.
gier Vallandigham has changed his key,
and his friends have set up a plaintive wail
in his behalf. Only a few months ago he
was-sure to be elected Governor of Ohio, so
they said, and 200,000 men were to go to
Canada, and bring Val. back in triumph.—
Alas, how changed. The hero's board bills
have been running on and t •e army has not
come. or at least only in dingy squads of
twos arid threes, to lunch and take whisky at
Val's. expense. Behold him now, an ahjeet
supliant at the feet of the President, pray
ing to be pardoned and re-admitted to the
country, where once returned, he prop,tses,
doubtless, to realize a pretty cumin by exhib
iting his sores. The case of Val, will re
ceive grave consideration at \Vashington.—
It is encouraging to find that it does hurt to
be banished. Val, rather enjoyed it at first.
Die.
2d
19th
9th
sth
How PRICES ARE RAISED —Congress pro
poses a duty on cotton of 2 cents a pound,
whereupon nil the small dealers in spool oot
ton propme to advance the price one cent
upon each spool. Now as a pound of raw
ootton will Make tater one hundred spools of
sewing cotton, it is not easy to appreciate the
justice of this largo advance in the price of a
very necessary and important article in daily
use. But, while it is not easy to appreciate
this foot, it is but. characteristic of the ad .
Vane° in prices upon two thirds of the arti
cles in daily use. Just hint at a tax of any
kind, and forthwith the price is put up 10,2 d
80,60 and 100 per cent. The rule is to put up
the price once when the tax is propose I, and
once more when it is pissed. And it the duty
fails the price is kept up.— World.
RUINED DY GOOD FORTUNE.—FeIix. Gill,
of Philadelphia, lately had a legacy of $30,-
000 left him, on which an advanced pay
ment of $3OOO was inade.him. Overcome
by his good fortune, ho foresook wife and
business for whiskey and debauchery, and
wound up his cease of wickedness, on
Wednesday week last, by murdering his wife
with a poker, and e:committing the most re
volting indignities upon her lifelesS body.—
Since his arrest, be has refused all nourish:
went, and is said to be now lying in prison
at the point of de%th.
SecsosroN SsoEnixa.—The tooth-and nail
conscription act down South is raising a "re
hellion" in North Carolina. The papers will
not hear of it, neitherArill_the people._ Some
journals say, indeed, that the South must lay
down their arms unless the measures are a•
greed to. But these journals are borne down
by the assertions eta press which is becom
ing the almost unanimous voice of the people.
NorthUarolina Bees through those last strug
gles of the rebel Congress. She is assuring
herself in asserting the cause of the Union.—
She understands the meaning of the wail
which has gone forth from the whole South,
and is anxious to return to the Union she
once rejected. Nor will North Carolina be
alone. The seeessfon from Socessia which
has been begun within her borders will spread
through all the disaffected States, mull reunite
them to us once agaln.—The Press.
Is.. Nommen' , over the country pre
dict. the tinily dentine of: the It ebellion,
Ron. Wm. C. Rheom,
.The following account of a Union Meet•
ing, held in Virginia city, the capital of the
new Territory of Idaho, gives a flattering
notice of our former townsman, Wm. C.
REIEEM, ESq. Mr. R. was the candidate
of the unconditional union men of the West
Bannack district, for member of council
(corresponding with our State Senate) and
was elected by an overwhelming majority.
It is gratifying to see with what unanimity
even our remotest Territories are wheeling
in to the Union phalanx.
The appended article is from the Virginia
City (Idaho) Golden Age:
Pursuant to a' call made no the Ist
instant the citizens of this city met at
the Legistative Hall on Wednesday even
ing last. 11. D. Sanborn, Esq., called the
moetingt to order, when E. F. Gray, Esq.,
was elected Chairman and B. Needham, Esq.,
Secretary.' After which the Chair, in a few
neat and appropriate remarks, stated the
object of the meeting to be simply congratu
latory upon the great Union victory achiev
ed in Idaho in the late canvass, and that
Gov. Wallace, Delegate elect to Congress,
and other speakers, would address the meet
ing
Gov. Wallace heir called for, mounted
the stand and a Idred e the ?need lig, at some
length in an Cloquent eulogMin to the people
of the Territory for their patriotism and
zeal in the late canvass, in voting down. Cop
perheadidm and quasi-traitors. thereby prov
ing to the loyal men of the Atlantic States
that Idaho, to ), is Union to the core. After
reviewing his course as Chief Angistrate of
this rwritory, not a single act of which he
wished to recall, the Governor retired from
the stand. During his happy effort he was
frequently applauded, an 1 we noticed a few
Copperheads who winced undei : his scathing
retimrks when alluding to that traitorous or-
galliEtllloll
Hon. \V. C. Rheem, member of Council
from East Bannack, was next called to the
stand, and made a telling and pertinent
speech. It had the patriotic ring, demon
strating, unmistakably that the speaker has
a heart beating with hope for the safety of
the nation.
lion. Judge Parks being called for, reluc
tantly came forward, as he was suffering froni
indisposition, and made an excellent speech,
full of sound, practical common-sense truths,
and was repeatedly cheered. Upon his re
tiring, the audience felt convinced that, when
necessary, the Judge could electrify a multi
tulle and carry_ limn with his ample and.
convincing logic.
Hun. W. li, K:eithly, 11,3presentative from
Boise county, who was next loudly called
for, came forward and in a happy strain en
tertained the au hence, for the space of half
an hour. Upon his retiring from the stand,
the meeting adjourned with three cheers for
the Union victory in Idaho.
'HIGHLY IMPORTINT
Draft Ordered by the President
500,000 Men called For to Serve For three
Fears
By the President:
EXECUTIVE MANsios, Feb. Ist, 1864
ORDERED—That a draft for Five hundred
7houxand Men, to serve for three years or
daring the war, he !wide on the tenth day of
March next, for the military service of the
United States, cr, diting and deducting there
from so IT any as may have been enlisted or
drafted into the service prior to the Ist day
of March, and not hereto ore credited.
(Signed,) ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
THE NEW DRAFT ORDER.
It will be recollected that in October last
a call for three hundred thousand men was
made. This number has been about half
filled by volunteering and re-enlistments.
The call now made for five hundred thou
sand men is interpreted by gentlemen ac
quainted with military affairs to include the
ahove three hundred thousand, being in
effect an additional call for two hundred
thousand. The volunteering is supposed to
be at present nn average of two thousand
men per day. The order of the President
makes a credit or deduction of so many as
may have been enlisted or drafted prior to
the Ist of March, at which time the four
hundred dollar premium expires. These ar
raqcements completed, the number of men
in the army will be about half a million.
VERY IMPORTANT FROM
lIABRISBUItq
The Resignation of Senator White
His Letter from the Libby Prison
ORGANIZATION OF THE SENATE CER
TAIN.
[Special Correepoulleneo of The Press.]
14Anexsuuno; Feb, 1, 18134
I enclose a copy of letters from Senator
ihrry White, delivered this day, by Judge
White, his lather. to Senator Turrell, depicted
by Speaker P nney to act for hint in his ab
sence. This letter has never been in the
hands of Governor Curtin, .Judgo White, in
fatherly zeal for the release of the gallant
Major, having retained the letter, as autho
rized by his son, until his own views of duty
to the writer and the country compelled. him
to hand the letter over.
Speaker Penney has been informed by tele
graph, and the writ for a new eleotion is
doubtless ere this in the hands of the respeo
live sheriffs of Indiana and Armstrong coun
ties.
LIDDY Pnisom,ltroamoNo, Va., Nov., 1863.
114 i T. P. 'Penny, Speaker of the State of
Penne:, lvania
DEAR Sin : Considerations I shall briefly
state make it prudent and proper for me to
tender my resignation as a member of the
State of Pennsylvania. After the adjourn
ment of the Legislature last spring. I rejoined
my regiment. end resumed my military duties
in the hold. Upon the advance of Gen. Lee's
army, in Julie last, into "the Shenandoah
Volley, on his- Penrisylvania_campaign, -the
forces with Which 1 was connected were or
dered to Wirioh i ester, and in the battle at that
place I fell into the hands of the enemy as a
prisoner of war. With other Federal officers
I was immediately sent to Richmond, and
Sinoe the 22.1 or June have remained as a pris
oner in the .Libby." No general exchange
of officers has taken place in the meantime,
nor does-any appear to me in early prospect.
Shut oft for long months from friends nhd the
ewer world, I have not yet been entirely ig
norant of passing events. The recent election
in our State has, I learn, altered somewhat
from the last session the political complexion
of our Senate. Illy absence, It seems, gives
to each political party represented their equal
numerical strength. This will; in all proba•
bility, emparra:.s organization and delay ne
cessary legislation I regret this situation,
and am unwilling my present personal misfor•
tune should in any way affect publio interests,
or interrupt for a moment that cordial oo•pe
rtition between our State and National Gov
ernments 80 itedesteary in this
. crisis. It is
true, some time radii yet elapse before my
presence in Harrisbded hi dottially required,
yet as I see no hope of releade tip gederal et ;
change, as the Richmond anthoritled will. I
am convinced, retain me as long as possible,
because I am a Senator, and my vote impor
tant.
Under the eiroumstaneee, it behooves melt)
do what I can to relieve the difficulty likely
to result from my continued Imprisonment.—
I am sure you will not doubt me when I con
fess it would be much more acceptable to my
takes and feelings to spend the months of the
earning winter in active legislation in our
Senate chamber, than to languish within the
gloomy . ' walls of a Southern prison.
My present situation places the less agreea
ble alternative in prospeot, and I see but one
solution to the difficulty ; other and greater in
tercets are involved In this matter than my
personal comfort and private inclinations.
My health, my life, are nothing to the Bootless
of those great principles I was elected to rep
resent,
The good people of my,district are chiefly
interested in this matter, and my duty to them
in the premises has given me many an hour
of anxious solicitude in this weary prison life
I oannot now in any way consult With them ;
they should not, however, at this time, go un
represented Their generous confidence was
out recently given rne, and they will, I trust,
give the approval of their voice to the step I
now take, and select as my successor one who
will be as faithful to their interests and the
great cause of our country as I, at least de.
sired to be. Bo pleased, therefore, to accept
my resignation as a Senator from the Twenty
first Senatorial district. Bo kind enough to
convey to my brother Senators assurances of
res; ect and esteem Tell them. "though cast
down I am riot dismayed," though in bonds,
lam full of hope. Tell they my prayer and
trust is no word of deed may go cut of the
counsels of your Senate to weaken the arm
or make faint the heart,' of those brave sol
diers of the Uni.m who arc bearing in the
field to a sure and triumphant success the
great struggle of history.
Accept. my dear sir, my kiddest wishes for
your good health. and future pro.periry.
Iron yours, truly, HARRY WHITE.
toturt an 4 Caunty ,01,atters.
could call the attention of capita
lists arid business men to the advertizement
of M. C. Eberly who is offering some of the
most valuable property is the county at
public sale. ,
CHURCH' DEDICATION.—The New
Methodist Church recently finished at West
Fairview, Cumb., Co., will be dedicated to the
service of God, on Sunday, Feb. 28th, 18G-1
The services will be conducted by Bishop
JANRS, assisted by Dr. MOMURRAY, P. E. of
the district. The public are cordially invited
to be present.
"LADIES' MITE SOCIETY."—The La
dies' MiterSociety—begs - lonvo to ncknowledge
the receipt of the liberal and timely donation
of ten lbs. of Stocking Yarn from Mr. J. S.
MON RON,. of Dickinson Township.
It is deemed proper to state, also, for the
information of the public, that the donations
recently made to the " Soldiers' Aid Society,"
of Carlisle, have be.m rejected.
ELLEN E. IRVINE. Treas'r
CURE FOR NIANIRM..-1. °ROOO
oil rosemary, 1 ounce oil cloves, 1 ounce oil
origanurn, 1 ounce spirits turpentine, 1 ounce
tincture moult:irides, 1 ounce alcohol. Mix
in a light gin.- s stopper bottle, and shake up
when used. Heat a saucer on embers, and
pour a little in the saucer, and rub it on the
part affected, with thq. hand, previously
warmed by the fire, so as to encourage absorp
tion. Also said to be very good for sick head
coke.
p'~ The following is a List of the
Officers - erected or Gbod Will House company,
for the ensuing year :
President—e. Ilumerielt.
Vice President—Geo. Weise.
Secretary—J. U. Wunderlich.
Treasurer—J. NI. Ogilby.
Ist Director, S. W Early, 2nd C. Kuhn,
3rd C. 11. Foulk, 4th G. Mel!, sth 11. Linne
kuhl.
Trustees—C. P. Humerich, G. Weise, R
Allison, A. K. Shearer, Jno. 0. Halbert.
Chief Engineer—Geo Foot.
Ase't. " J. Underwood.
GEN. lIA NCOCK I N CARLISLE.—On
Monday evening last, in response to an invi
tation from our excellent friend, Jreo B. PAR
Kett, Esq , we bed the pleasure of spending
several hours in company with Maj Gen. W.
S. HANCOCK. A number of our citizens were
present, and the time was spent most pleas
antly and profitably, listening to the OeneraEo
lucid account of the great battle of Gettys
burg, in which he played so prominent a part.
In the early part of the ev, ning the Garri
son band appeared and played several beauti
ful airs. In response to calls from the crowd
collected in the street, the General made his
appearance, and thanked the audience in a
few appropriate remarks for the courtesy they
had shown him. •
On Tuesday be returned to Harrisburg,
where he is actively engaged in refilling the
thinned ranks of his (the 2nd) army corps.
We know of no division in the army which
offers equal inducements to the young men of
Pennsylvania. The corps will be filled to
the maximum number of fifty thousand men,
and will then be assigned to special duty un
der the lead of this skillful and competent
leader.
TIIE BENEFIT OF ADVERTISING.—The
great modern method of bringing one's trade,
porfession or business before the pubic, is by
advertising. By this means almost anything
can be sold, and often a fortune made by the
sale. Look at the men who have, in a few
brief years, accumulated large fortunes, and
you will generally find that they were those
who always advertised most liberally. Look
at the busineSi men who are now driving
the most thriving trades, and you will find
their names in the advertising columns of
the newspapers. Stephen Girard attributed
-his great-success in .business almost-entirely
to advertising. It is true this powerful en
gine is used by quacks and charlatans, but
it is iiii - letiii - poiVerful in the hands of the
honest trader. If trash, or vrorse than trash
can be sold through this means, to a much
greater extent may useful articles. The
usefulness of advertising must be apparent
to all at first glande.. He who wants to buy
land, will-look - into the papers to see who
has land to sell. He who wants any goods
or groceries will look into the papers to see
Who is the most enterprising trader, for
there he-knows he can always find the hest
bargains. He who wants to rent 4 hells°
will look to see who has a house to let,—
And so it rune 'through every branch of bu
siness. The newspaper is the great medium
of community betweea the 'seller 4n4 the
buyer.
The Ladies Seminary, Carlisle.
The first session of The Carlisle Select
Female Seminary recently opened in this
phice by Rev. E. 11. NEVIN, was closed last
week on Friday, with an examination of its
pupils in the presence of a select company
consisting Of their parents, guardians and
personal friends. Neither the true objects
of such an examination, nor the room in
which it was necessarily held, would permit
the invitation of a larger assembly, or the
pleasure enjoyed by those present would
have been shared by many others. Not
withstanding the absence of a number of the
pupils, which was accounted for, an agreett:
ble surprise must have been felt at finding
so many collected by the diligence andreptt
tation of the principal during this first see•
sion. If some disadvantages must have
been experienced in the commencement of
such an institution, they have been quite
compensated by the ardent zeal with which
its exercises have been pervaded. The'
usual arts by which such examinations are'
frequently made to corceal the defectsof the'
ordinary course of instruction, were not dis-•
coverable on this occasion ; but all present
must have been satisfied that the school- ap
peared in its true character. As far as was
consistent with the limited time; the exami
nation was thorough and correspondent with
its true objects. We were particularly in
terested in the grammatical analyses of sen
tences, in the spelling and writing of phra
ses on the black-board, in the application of
natural philosophy to common things, and
in the recitation' of Geometrical Theorems
and Algebraic formulae. The mutual
friendship and lively soeial intercourse which
seemed to prevail among the pupils and be
tween them and their teachers, must have
struck the attention of an observer, and it
is well known that a prominent object of thee
instructors has been the moral and religious.
culture of those entrusted to their care.
The prosperity which has thus far attend
ed this institution, most be a matter of.
great satisfaction to all who have felt the,
want of something-of. the kind„-,-Condoetect
as it is on principles which, violate no rea
sonable preferences of any religious Protes
tent denomination, and yet aiming to im
press ripen all gilder its ihfluencs, the strong
est moral and religious convictions, it ap
peals for its support to a large circle of fam
ilies, who have hitherto been obliged to send
their daughters to a distance, and to less
advantageous location. It is gratifying to
find that the number of its pupils - has Bo
much increased, that a' llifger building - for
its accommodation has become necessary•
and that one has been obtained in a loca
tion more dentral to the general circle of its
patrons. An ample member of instructors
of the bust reputation, have been associated
with the principal, and it is said that the
new term commencing on the First of Feb
ruary, opens with more than forty pupils, a
large 'portion of whom are boarders in the
tamily of the Principal himself,
C. P. W. 7
ita"' WHEELER & WILSON'S FIIOIIEBT
PREMIUM SEWING MACRINES are the best, the
simplest, and the cheapest. Nearly one
hundred and filly thousand of these wonder
lul and perfect Sewing Machines have been
sold. Five thousand are in use in Philadel
phia. Call and examine, whether you wish
to purchase or not.
Don't he deceived.
.There is :bat one per
fect Sewing Machine, and that is the Whee
ler & Wilson.
We have seen a list of Over Fifty Fami
lies in Carlisle, who nre now using these in
comparable machines. This fact alone,
should forever settle all dispute as to the vast
superiority of the Wheeler & Wilson over
all its competitors. JNO. CAMPBELL., at the
Railroad Office, is the Carlisle Agent.
Proceedings of Court Martial.
We have received from Adjutant General
Schultze, copies of general orders Noa. 3 anti
4, of this departmeht, which we herewith ap.
pond.
GENERAL ORDERS, 1
No. 3.
HEAD QUARTER.q,
DEPT DP MN SUSQUEDANNA.
Chanabereburg, Pa. Jan. 13, 1864
1. ; '13. .fore a General Court Martial, of which
Brig. Gen. 0. 8. Fmtny, I.J 8 Vole . is Pres.
ident, convened at Chamtersburg. Pa., pur
suant to PAR. I. Special Order, No. 138,
Head Quarters, Department of the Susque
hanna. of November 10th, 1863, wee ar
raigned and tried—
Private Isaac Fts,iel, Co. 'l66th Regiment
Penna. Militia, (fare oe the United States Ser
vice.) on the following charges and specifica
tions.
Comae let —Desertion.
B,oecifiration lat.—That the said Isaac Piths?
being a drafted ma from York C.unty,
der the draft of 1862, did report at York, Pa.
and was assigned to and mustered in the
16611 i Regiment of Penna. Militia, and that
the said Isaac Fahel, did without leave of his
Commanding Officer, leave the said Regiment
and did not return to the same. That the
said Regiment has since been mustered out oe
service, and that the said Isaac Fachei, has
since been arrested.
Specification 2nd —Tfi r at the said Isaac Fish.
el. Private at Co. 166th Regiment, Penns.
Militia, drafted and mustered into the service
of the United States, did desert the said Reg
iment, and service of the United States, and
did evade and resist attempts made to arrest
him, by lawful authority.
All this at York, Penna.. on or about Ms
30th day of December. A. D. 1862.
CHARGE 2nd.—Giving intelligence to the
enemy.
Specification. —That the said Isaac Fahst,
Co. 161! tit Regiment, Penna., Militia, did
give intelligence to the enemy by showitta
them the roads, and giving information as, to,
the places of residences of Citizens, to wit
Rebel soldiers in tams against the authority,
of the Government-of the liittited (Mates, a9d t
did say that he was ' g oin g along vtithattAeb,
0 1 5 ,_and_wits, going ta ftght for theou_and_tbat„
the said Isaac Filhel, did go with them; this.
said Rebels, When they marched from York
County up in the direotion of and to Carlisle,
Cumberland County, Penna.
All Ibis in the Counties of 'ork and Cum.
berland on or about AG 2nd day Of July,
1863.
To which Charges and Spoolf!cations the
aeoused pleaded as follows:
To the let apooifteation of lit Charge, Not
Guilty.
To the god Gpeoifiaation c f Ist Charge, Net,
Guilty.
To the let Charge, Not Guilty.
TO' the let Specification of 2ud Charge, ript, j
Guilty. •
To the 2nd Charge, Not Guilty.
The Court, after mature deliberation op 04,
evidence adduced, finds, the acensell 54 OA,
lows :
Of the ht Specification •of • let
Guilty.
Of the . 2nd Speoifioatiou of Apt %pup,
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