Cut geralit CARLISLE, PA. Friday, March 18, 1864. S• M. PETTENGILL & CO., NO. 37 Park Row, New York, and 6 State St. Boston, are our Agents for; the HERALD n those °Rios, and aro authorized to take Advortiso meats and Subscriptions Tor us at our lowest rates. The People's Choice for President, ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Borough and Township Elections Friday next, is the day appointed by law for holding the Borough and Township elec tions. xAs these elections have more im portance than our friends generally place upon them, having a direct influence in shaping events for the general or fall elec tions, it is the duty of the friends of the union to combine their efforts to defeat the Sham Democracy. We hope our Country friends have taken the proper steps to meet the enemy—prominent amongst which are a good ticket, a thorough organization, and a fall poll on the day of election. We take pleasure in submitting the fol lowing ticket to the loyal Freemen of Car. lisle. It is one of the best tickets formed in our t .,Borough for many years. The candi dates are all gentlemen of undoubted 'ca pacity, integrity and efficiency, whose elec tion will be an honor to our ancient Bor ough. Let there be a long pull, a strong pull and a pull altogether, and victory will perch on our standard. BOROUGH TICKET. Chief Burgess—Joseph H. Blair. Assistant Burgess—James B. Dixon. Assessor—Robert Black. Assistant Assessors—Charles Fleager, Samuel Ensminger. Auditor—Robert Cameron. WARD TICKETS. - • • - EAsT•WAau, • , Town eoun'ei/.—Henry Myers, Peter Spahr, Franklin Gardner, John llyer• Judge—Samuel C lluyett. Inspector—John Hutton. Justice of the HacL—Stephen Keepers. Tax Collector—Joshua Fagan. Constable—Stephen Pendergrass. School Director—John Irvine WEST WARD. Town Council—George L. Murray, Thomas Paxton, Alexander Cathcart, Samuel W. Haverstick, John D. Gorges. .rticijeja m es Inspector—Thos. B. Thompson... . Tax Collector—William H. Harm Constable—Sarn ti le Sipe School Director—C. P. Humrich Kt®,,, The Whiskey Bill, HA it his at length pasaedjioth Houses of Congress, places a tna of sixty cents on all spirits to he 'aquatic Wad until the first of July, and for the •tuno thereafter, future legtsktios must provide A tax of forty cents on foreign lomors is. however, added ; but there is no , tz of the stock on hand 01 (I,.mr , lie C , lO .es tier' Giesler Count:, has fill e d I D , of 1200 and upwards, her Conituissi_iners hav ing voted a bounty of $350 per mac. The quota of ilioutgomery is 1191. The Commis eioners of that county pay $l.OO in cash and $275 in county bowls per man. The full number is not yet made up. Dels.ware mum ty„ .. whioh pays $8&0 bounty, still lauhe a few hundred men. Bucks county has voted a bounty of 400. Some of the delegates to the County Convention were instructed to vote $l5OO to each volunteer. THE HEALTH OF QUEEN would really seem that Queen Victoria is not to escape the hereditary defect of her "ancient and noble family." A rumor now prevails at Washington, that she is about to abdicate the throne in consequence of mental infirmi ty, while the advices by the city of New York add confirmation to reports which have hitherto been current, that the Queen is mentally incapacitated from any longer bolding the position of sovereign. She has not been able to sit at Council without be traying her mental infirmity ; ai.tcl the recent action of members of the Cabinet, particu lary that of Lord Palmerston, has give the English public an intimation that a change in the monarchy may speedily be anticipat ed. The course of the Prince of Wales lately has indicated a preparation to assume the reins of power. It is undoubtedly the fact that, should he do so, an entirely new fbr eign policy would be inaugurated upon the Danish question immediately, and afterward upon American affairs, to our advantage.— He will reign under the title of King Ed ward the Seventh. A Wolfs' THAT DESILLINEB Has anybody heard of one's tongue being seriously interfered with by a healed gun -shot wound in the- , wrist Y Major General Schenck complains of precisely that anomaly. Nobody will have forgotten that the General was very severely wounded by a Minis ball, .crushing in among the joints and tendons of the right wrist and hermi t at the second battle of Bull Run. For a long time the surgeons threatened amputation as the only security against mortification and death ; but the 'General finally won the day against both the mars:Land the surgeons, and dame out with Wholaland, but a stiffened wrist. Selma' writes almost as well as over, with the wounded hand, but complains of a novel embarrassment when ho goes to speak Ex tempore speech making, it seems, is with .come-so-:intimately Amocialect-with- gestioulay tion, that to check the ono is to embarrass the other. The General says that when, on returning to Congress, and resuming the old business of speeoh-malting, ho attempted to make a gesture, and found the stiffened limb interfered, the unexpeoteid . cheek constantly reacted on the sentence, and broke it down ; and 14e complains that-even ,yet ho finds it difficult to get on in talking .without the aid of his right wrist. AN 011710= iu TIIE ARMY VAITNESS : "AL inspeoblon I noticed .that a, large proportion of the•men's knapsacks contained a bipt. of Troches, being generally used by thorn for colde, eto." • "Brown's. Bronchial :Tiachea." thould be iu every solder's knapsack or• pock.- et to be used upon the first appearautte.of a ,00ld , or cough. Mistaken Leniency. The president has, we learn given an unconditional pardon to Isaac Fishel, the deserter and spy who was to have been shot to-day at the Carlisle Barracks. It was in disputably shown on Fishel's trial that he was a deserter from the United States service; Subsequently he was in active cooperation with part of Lee's invading army giving i tbem rill possible comfort and assistance. It would have been impossible- for Fitz Hugh Leo and his murderous crew to have reached Carlisle in advance of Ewell's imperative order to join him at Gettysburg immediately, had it not been for Fishel's piloting. Thus it is that through his direct instrumentality we were visited with the horrors of that terrible night, and the numerous deaths of our citizens easily traceable to the exposure and excitement consequent thereto. Under these circumstances is it too much to say that an unconditional pardon is mis taken leniency ? The puseillanimous plea of insanity, will not satisfiy the outraged feelings of those of our citizens, who through the fiendish brutality of Fitz Lee, and this same Isaac Fishel were robbed of those near and dear to them; to say nothing of those nearly ruined in purse thereby. On the count martial it was shown that for more than a month after the offence was commit ted, Fishel, oppressed with the heavy weight of conscious guilt upon his soul, was lurk ing through the mountains in York county, armed to the teeth, prepared to resist with his worthless life any attempt to .capture him ; and that finally be was captured, only through the strategy of the detective, who representing himself as a straggling rebel soldier, endeavoring to join his command, gained his confidence, and succeeded in sur prising him while off his guard. Does this comport with the averment that the prisoner was tint responsible for his actions, because of insanity ? We believe that the Washing ton authorities have been imposed upon by an orgottizttioa of traitors whose headquar ters are in Yorkeounty, and whose guilty con sciences made them tremble for their own 'safety in the event ofthe — sentence - of -the court in Fishel's case being carried out.— We are led to this belief from the-state cent of Fishel himself, that if he was not rescued he would make some disclosures which would implicate men as his accomplices who were nut su-,peeled. Declaring that he was a member of the Knights of the Golden Circle, he gave much valuable information as to the objects, se cret workings and membership of that tr..a- Boilable organization, averring that through and by its bait - fence lie was : inei . .ed - slid sustained in the work he had accomplished. These are the reasons why--much as we de- Fiore the necessity—we insist that this man had furf,ited his life as a just penalty for the devilish le has committed. His plihishment wondl have exerted a salutory intlutwee upon the maily Ara,itors of his ilk ith which this section of our State is curird ; while we much fear that his release will in effect encourage The Legiskition that is Nee,ded t TLe gre.: 'yaws of the (love-timent to dity ere s,dld , r, al,ti tn, - .nr.y. With hosts of 'he former ttlet air aill:.1111 , 111,,C of the Enter there ought nut, with proper management, to be any difficulty itt subduing the Rebellion by next August or Eeptember. .Cougress having recently offered largo bounties to vulantcers and perfected the enrollment law—both of which measures have combined to stimulate volunteering in every part of the country, the first want may be regarded as in the way of being fully met. The work of supplying the "sinews of war" remains to be done. In the last annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury says the Pittsburg Gazette, it was stated as the opinion of that eminent of Ccial that it is inexpedient to increase the amount of United States notes, and, as Con gress has manifested no intention to issue any more legal tenders, it is to be presumed that the number now in circulation will not Ma increased. Upon the receipts from customs and internal revenue and from loans the Gov ernment must therefore rely for the means to carry on the war. The oustoms receipts can not be expected to be materially increased. They only amount to about $70,000,000 du ring the past fiscal year —not more than a tithe of the expenditures during the same le tiod. The receipts from the internal revenue were not so large, being uuly $37,000,000. They will be increased three fold during the present year, but that will probably be the extent under the present law. Loans remain, and, the five-twenties being exhausted, we hoar from Washington that a new loan of $200,000,000 has been authorized. This, it is stated, will'be readily taken, the interest, live per cent. per annum, being payable in gold, and the principal being payable in not less than ten years nor more titan for'ty years, at the pleasure of the Government.— This loan will give present relief to the Treas ury, while it will not, like a further isAo of greenbacks, add to the volume of the curren ci.--The principal is also to be paid in-gold. But the Government cannot issue bonds ad libitum. There is a limit beyond which it can not go. To issue another lot of greenbacks the Secretary has already decided to be inox• pedient The receipts from*oustocas are lim ited to one-tenth of the expenditures of the Government, as we have stated. The inter. nal revenue yields an insigniftasnt sum in proportion to what it might be made to yield. Why not revise Ahocrevouue' law•? Why not double the taxes on every article of luxury— yea, quadruple them.? Why not tax many articles of every day consumption that are not now taxed at, all? Why not tax income ten per'cont - instead:of - three - p or - cent - two trovory dollar• above one thousand per annum 1 With few exceptions, men.every where aro making money, and aro able to pay heavy taxes for the support of the Government. Omitting those who have always been opposed to the war, we believe there is a willingness every. where to pay higher taxes than are now lev. led. No patriot, unless he be a very poor man, will object to sustaining the Govern ment with his substance while thousands of bravo fellows are perilliug their lives and spilling their. blood in the same glorious osllBo. That' our Government must yet adopt the taxation polioy as a means of maintaining its financial. , oredit 'is rendered manifest by a glance at the course ,pureued by ether - gov eTluments when similarly burdened with debt contracted during along war. T,,ke England, for instance, in the last year of tior war . ith the first Napoleon. The figures stood thus: Expendituresss6o,ooo,ooo Revenue from loans 100,000,000 Revenue from taxes 800,000,000 More than &le-fifths of the whole amount of the expenditures of that year ware met by taxation, and history does n 4 tell us that the English people murmured greatly when the tax gatherer visited their doors. It was thus that England maintained her credit—..not by borrowing, but'' by taxing. Ilad she re• lied upon loans mainly, as We have done hitherto, her financial credit would most cer tainly have collapsed. Let our legislators take warning in time. We must soon cease to borrow. Tho Govern• merit must have money. Taxes will bring money into the Treasury, A thorough revis ion of the revenue law, which will make that law something more than a nominal burden upon the people, will bring the taxes. We hope Congress will have the wisdom to make the revision. It is the legislation that is need ed. Our Administratignand Courts in England. A compliment of no equivocal character comes Ito us by Lhe last tluropeau steamer, from the highest, authority in England. It is a deserved testimonial to the spirit and con. duct of the Administration which any noun try might-be pleased to receive, and it pays a ootnpliatent ,th the legal profession of the Union which its members might have watited long to hear under other oircumstances. Ott the 12111 instant the Eunse of Commons debated the subject of American captures at sea : a subject which is not devoid of diffi culties under any circumstanoes, and which has been ma.erially aggravated by Brit ish conduct since the rebellion brulte oht Du ring the debate Lord Palmerston took occa sion to say ; -I hope, after the discussion which has taken place, the honorable member will not press for the papers which relate to questions still pending or under discussion between the two governments ; and, as wes staled by the Attorney General, injury to parties concerned will arise front .the premature production of the papers moved tpr. IVe have heard this evening the cuckoo cry frequently urged in this House by those who, likmgortorml asser tions better than particular proof, that the government are in the habit of bullying the weak and truckling to:the strong. I entirely deny it. The government are anxious on all occasions to assort the rights and vintkicate the honor of the country, whatever be the method we adopt to accomplish these ohject-e. I think it right, however, to state with regard to th , government of the United States—whet has indeed been already stated by the Attor• ney General—that we hove no reason to mis• trust the equity and indeperidenee of the tri bunals of the United States which have to try tidiest fon"; itticlras those fro w 'under tlizzusAion; and it is but due to the governpieut of the United Buttes to say that ,they have invariably received our representations in a spirit of equity and justice. And iri proof of 'this, to show that when we had a strong case of re monstrance justice has been done to us by the United States, I need only refer to the ease of the Trent in which the government of the United States very handsomely and properly did justice to the demands we made and the rights they did not deny. Therefore I think it is prejudicial to the good under standing between the.two governments, which are on good terms, that vie should here ac cuse a foreign government of what it is not guilty, and eress mistrust of its equity and f.tit•tmss wit .. . nothing has °cents! e.I i., justify ue• in n,ltin those ilepottatlons Meer I I thief: it only ight. in, regard to the gat ern iia ruent and trilui,tuale of the United States, to doctors that ,uell ,Lecusatious uko, nut just, and that nothing has occurred to w.irrant, them." ((,heers.) This is a very broad and comprehensive statement to I-retched from the lips or the .T.n glish Premier; front an ulcer who, justly or unjustly, has always been charged and credi ted with a very violent anti American phobia It distinctly declares, before Parliament, that "nothing has occurred to justify us in mai:- lug imputations against the equity and fair nessof the American government or the Ameri can, tribunals." Such statements are rare from any British source. They quietly, but distinctly, contra dict Mr:Speno and his baud of southern laborers; they give the lie with au irrefu tadlo emphasis to Mr. Delane and the London Times; they endorse Messrs. Bright and Cob don to a great extent ; they pay a higher com pliment to the legal profession and the judi ciary of this country than they have before received from English sources, and they show that the course pursued by the Administra tion in doubtful matters hat produced a Is iud ly feeling, or at the lea,.t disarmed active hos tility, where we most need friendship, for the present. This is to have accomplished very much We need not nurture our pride by any u.-necessary reference to American valor.— Lord Palmerston has sufficiently accounted for his compliment by alluding to the equity and justice of the Administration and Judie iary. These are higher and nobler attributes than even those of courage and boldness, and form a more reliable us well as enduring basis for friendly relations. \Vill those who have been inolined to censure the government be cause it did not make n etIBUS telli of every disputed point, acknowledge now that their views were neither so far-sighted, so compre hensive nor Bo..just as those which have, in doubtful affairs and amid the great conflicts of law and expediency, regulated otir diplo macy in such a mariner as to secure oompli ments from. the British Premier? 'A. Straw from Richmond. The Richcnoud Excuniner, . of .Fel). 27, says Yesterday. E. badly written notice was posted upcin the street, corner of Main and Twelfth streets, which read to this effect : " if the wants of the poor are not supplied by the first of March they will be supplied at the paint of the bayonet." The notice was torn down and sent to the Mayor. The Richmond Examiner adds the fol lowing savage comment : Now we will wager that the poster of the above notice-is-not-one-ef-the-elass-of-suf feting citizens for whom -- he — pratends - to speak, hut either a thief, paroled Yankee, native mischief-maker, or an enemy to soci etv of some kind. A. few days before, the same paper had an article proving that the high ,prices in the towns are "artificial," for in many parts of the Confederacy abundance of supplies ex ist, and, "the difficulty is only in the distri bution." Here in the closing paragraph, which is worth quoting in full: " There are sections of the Confederacy, .Southwestern Georgia, for instance, whore 'fiorn and bacon:aro abundant. We notice., too, that in some of the districts .of South Carolina ,torn is selling at a dollar and a half to. two dollars per bushel. Yet in Charletiton corn is worth twenty dollars a bushel. The prices in the cities are artifi cial ; and foolish people,, among- the roft 71- kces, are very ranch in error in taking them. as the indications of a general scarcity, and distress in.the .Confederacy." PENDING BATTLES. Just nAr - lifa critical moment with our ar mies. The national forces are moving for ward in various quarters. They have thrown down the gauntlet, and the rebels will be obliged to take it up. For the moment, says the North American, "we are in ignorance concerning several military movements of great importance. The general facts aro within our reach as to some of them, but of others we diily know that advances have been made which may at any moment lead to hos Unties. It is known that Gen. Meade has taken the field, and is threatening Lee in such manner that the latter, instead of sending roinforo 2- moots to Longstreet or Johnston, is likely to require aid fer them: There was skirmish ing on Sunday between the forces with the expectation of severe work on the next day. But Lee ie not desirous of joining in battle. He wishes the protection of earthworks and fortifications - 1 of - ambuscades, and all those accessories which strengthen inferior numeri cal forces and make equality supreme. Ile will not, if he can avoid it. fight except upon chosen and prepared ground, and with the probabilities largely in his favor. To what extent Gen. Meade may he able to divorce him froin these adjuncts ; how soon, or when ho may compel him to make a stand, and with what comparative advantages the two armies may meet, are things reserved for the future. While we atnt affected by these expectations and uncertainties with regard to the Army of the Potocutio, we know that Longstreut is pushing eastward from lt:moxville ; but the statements arc conflicting as to his destina tion. some authorities are positive that he is intending to join •Lee, and thus give him greater strength against Mende; others are equally confidant that his march to eastern Terinessee is preliminary to a detour through North Carolina for the assistance of Johnston at Chattanooga, with eventful advance to Mo bile. It is oniji known that lie his reached the Holston river at Rogersville, in the GU tern part of Tennessee. Johnston is said to remain permanently at Dalton, awaiting attack. Gen. Thomas, by the latest advices, had left Tunnel hill, and progressed against Johnston, reinforced by large additions to his command from veteran troops out of Ohio and other quarters. If ,this be a correct statement, it cannot be long before we shall hear of battles there. Mean time Sherman is meeting with no successful opposition, though both Merg in and Forest are seeking some advant ige by which they may be enabled to injure him. Oen. Grant appears to belnaintaining atentativepolicy which will enable him to advance upoti JUlin • tlio moment when — Om littler is tin weakened in aid of Mobile, by the expected departure of Longstrcet thither, as to render it impossible for him to make a successful re sistance. Therefore, here is another point at which battle may be given on any tnorneut.— .LfJohnston and Locigstreet unite at, lltlion, the battle may be there. Thus there Are several positions where the opposing fora. { ls nee so situatal that ititpor tent conflicts, v be reasonably expected to occur before k g .. oit glance does not in elude the ini 2 1 movements which, though important .lit weakening the {rebel strength and lessenit. ' their courage, do not approach to first tattier ,ce. These battles which the pending stra4gy in various fields anticipate must be of a aontrolliug character, and im mediately alratt the continuance or conclusion ofthe war. The spring campailuds opened, and it is auspiciously opened. Our armies are upon the advance—the rebels retreat. The exteri or lines have proved too long fur their forces It remains now to be seen how they will sup port their interior ground, divested of many facilities, compressed by a growing stricture. divided by such enterprises as have nut been undertaken before in the whole history of the war. It cannot be otherwise than that from one or &nether of these theatres we shall shortly lies of battle, and, as the potent:. now are, of victory. A War Democrat in Earnes t Mr. Corolla O'Brien Bryant, ono of the leaders of the New York Tammany Dennai• raoy, and a member of the Legislature of that State, offered the following resolutions for the adoption of amt. body. Their tone at: 1 aui Inns exhibit the true standard of Democratic loyalty. 11 , 1 r. Bryant, is only giving express icn to the views of all men earnestly in.fafor of liberty and union when ho denohnces slave• ry as the cause and sustenance Or the present rebqjliou Read his notions on this question, Democrats of 'Cumberland county, and see how they tally with yours; reflect alio, as to the possibility of your side being the wrung one. here are the resolutions: Wherrai, In the present crisis of the c nu try a speedy and successful conclusion of the War should he the chief and conitrolling pur pose of the Government, and that suuh termi nation of the struggle now progressing against au atrocious I,4ehelltou can best be achieved by a final and eonstitut iour.l abrogation of its radical cause, the system of African Slavery; and lirboiyas,Svery is practically annihilated by the Vllar,.r.ad that its prohibition in all the States upon a basis authorizing Congress to prott at the rights of loyal owners of slaves, would provide'the most practical form of eon. ciliation with;which we_could follow up the march of our ilictorious arms ; and Wheracs, etch final and oonstitufienal ab• rogation .of Slavery would clear the path of our manifest destiny, in the acquisition and development of necessary territory and its industrial organization ,as new, or as regen erated States, and also•-restore us to • the,po sition of a united people, where we can do. olare and enter%) the integrity and the exclu sive preregati - t,e'of democratic institutions on the Amoricanlontinent, as against any invad ing or usnrping• foreign power ; therefore .Resolverl,. (if4lie.Sonate armour.) In pursu ance of those _veasons ,our Senators in Con -gross bwiastricted -- and:our - c -- Itoproseutatives reqtrested - to -- proparrand - submit for adopt ion by the Legislalures of the Boy isr al States such just and proper amendment to the Constitu tion of the United States as shall forever pro hibit and terminate the system of African Slavery in tholUnited States. Keep it' Before the People Keep it .bqfpre the .People-- 7 Tliat Peery Clay once offered a' bill in the Kentucky legislature, to " emancipnto the slaves gra dually," and that he afterwards said, in a speoch,in Congress, " I will never vote to extend Slavery by the General Government, into territory !tow free—no, never, mover." Keep it before the People—That Pryor, one of the Southern traitors in Congress tel egraphed to Richmond, from•the Peace Con gress, "we cap get the Crittenden Compro• mise, but we - don't intend-to' accept it, or any other Comproinise,•as. we have resolved ant Jeep it before the People—That Douglas overheard Mason say in the Senate, to an other Senator: "No matter what Compro mise the North offers, the South will find a way to detest it," and for this Douglas ex posed the traitor on the floor of the Senate. Keep it before the People—That Northern Copperheads, after firing upon Fort Sumter, sent a deputation to Jeff Davis, to know if some compromise could not stop the war, and that the repudiating thief said in reply, "if you will give me a piece of blank paper, and let me write on it what I please, I would not come back again into the Union I" Keep it before the People—That Wise wrote to all ihe Southern Governors, pro posing, in the event of Fremont's election, to head an army, march upon Washington, take the National Capital and prevent the inauguration of Fremont Keep it before the People—That the South ern Disunionisto have intended to overthrow the Government for the last thirty years, be cause they have been sick and tired of a Re publican form of Government. Keep it before the People—That the South led the way in a call for negroes to tight, and his proper for the Federal Govern ment to fight them with negroes, wild-cats, tigers, rattlesnakes, wolves, panthers, and even t:m Devil himself, if his Satanic Maj esty were not known to be on the side of the Rebellion l—Brezenfow's Whiga,nd Rebel Ventilator. Gen. McClellan's Excuse The New York Times, in a review of Gen. McClellan's report, thus disposes of hie ex• planation of hie inactivity during the Fall and Winter of IH6I-2. The General's ex planation is thus recorded on page 35 of his Report : " The records of the War Department show my anxiety and efforts to assume ac tive offensive operations in the Fall and early Winter. It is only just to say, how ever, that unprecedented condition of the toads and Viryinta soil would have delayed an advance till February, had the discipline, organization and equip , ' cut of the army, been as complete at the close of the Fall as was necessary, and as 1 desired and labored ayainst creel/ impefliment to make them.”— The first element enumerated is the roads and the weather, the condition of which Gen. McClellan tells us were " unprecedented." If there Le any inference to he drawn from this expression and its context, it is that they were " unprecedentedly" bad, for this reason is given 11/ excuse for not moving.— Now, it is true that the condition of roads of Virginia during the Fall and Winter of P-161-2 was " en precedentd," but unprcce denily f lood ; and this, happily, is not a nuttier in regard to which we are left to the unsure testimony of trimuory : we have ,con temporary evidence w , ltieh estabbeThe- the fact by an accumulation perfectly irrefraga blo. Franklin, testifying under oath to this specific ! molt, 1111 1111 1 211111 of Decem ber, IS SAN'S : he roads are ioniarka lily good —perimps nut ("tux in tat. lay years Dare the r evis at Christmas (pea in as yowl con,lilFun how peciull al dry...weal/ter, the conds_are very good." So Gem Fitz, Julio Portcy, in reply to a query as to the condition of the roads, says : " As tar as I know. they are in excellent condition, excellent travelling con dition." In like manner testified a score of officers : we need not cite their evidence, but will limit ourselves M the testimony of a rebel witness. Pollard, in his First Year of the J{ar, says " A long, lingering Indian Summer, with roads more hard, and Skies more beautiful than Virginia had seen for many a year, invited the enemy to advance. lie steadily refused the invitation to a gen al action. The advance of our lines was tol erated to Munson's hill, within a few miles or Alex:odria, and opportunities were sought m vain by the Confederates, in heavy skirm ishing to . i•llgil•re the lines of the two armies." The nation huts lung felt the stinging : i ns- Lice of this reproach i and will not Mid much consolation in the false pretences under which Gen. McClellan takes refuge. We confess our utter inability to account for ths complete discrepancy of Lis statement with the facts of the case, Wu shall find h,is other arguments for delay drawn from the strength and discipline of our aripy and the s'rctigth of the enemy equally baseless. Gen Grant's Battles The Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati (7,tiotte:i.cotl says that the follow ing names of the battles in which General Grant has ben engaged ir. his liredinie, are erwraved on the sword recently presented to L ull 1 : y 1):c ritriens ul Joe Davies county, llliu is : l'alo Alto—Nlay F., 14 to. Reseca de la Palma —May 9,1841 i. :‘ltinterev--September, 19, 29. 21, IS t 6. `'era Crl/ /, Singe, March 7 to 27, 18117. Cerro Gortlo--.llril IS, 1817. Su:: Antonio—August 29, 18,17. Clierulaiseo—.l.egost 29. 1847. Molmo del It Sepivin her 8, 1817. Cliapultepee--September 18, 1847. Gama :$ll Go:tem—September 14, 1817. Gdy of sln.xico—Septent.lier 14, 1.847. lielimait—Yovember 7, 1861. Fort Ilebry—Utibruary 6, 1822. Fort 13, 11, 13, 16, 1862 Sbiloh---Alsril 2 and 7, 1862. Corinth seign—April 22 to May 30,1862 luka—Septembor 19, 1862. Ilittehie—October 5, 1862. 'Fallabatellie —December 1, 1863. hurt Gibson—May 1, 1863. Raymond—May 12, 1863. .Jackson—May 14, 1863. Clatifipion dill—May 16, 1863. Black River Bridge, May 17, 1863. Vicksburg—July 4, 1863. Chattatiooga—Nov. 2.1, 21, 2:), 26, 1863. Iu all twenty-seven battluu. "0 I.D BecK."—About the meatiest man in the United States, and meanest thought of, is undoubtedly James Buchanan, of Wheat land, who betrayed the high trust reposed in him while President. The Lancaster Ex aminer relates the following mean incident in relation to this Copperhead Chief A. bIEAN Au•r.—NVo understand that when the committee appointed by the citizens of Lancaster township to collect funds for a local bounty, waited upon ex President Buchanan, they were ,received very coolly and cavalierly. ;The 'old public functionary' when asked to subscribe, said he did not . think it right to raise volunteers in that way; thatit was the duty of. midi.); young man to serve his country, and ho.should volunteer his services ; that whet, ho was a young man he - did so and marched to Baltimore, but that he -would-hold-the matter under advisement, and the committee could call again. The committee (his own immediate neighbors) left with extreme disgust at this unpatriotic and miserly dodge of the old traitor. After ward, when they were told by an ignorant worshipper of Buchanan that if they would call he would subscribe, the offer was in dignantly rejected. Poorer but better men than the old dotard of Wheatland had,raised the amount necessary, and his money, drawn from the treasury of a government he had done his best to destroy, was considerately and righteously refased." - Apropos of 'Old .the New York Evening Post states that, ith as "been shown a bundle of thirty eight five dollar notes on the Pottstown, Montgomery county, Pa. bank, which have James Buchansu's portrait engrhved upon one corner, and it, thirty of the notes•the word 'traitor,' is written across 313ttehananls forehead; in others the letter . 11" is branded ; on one the following words appear : •Give him his deserts'; on another is written, i.-Ye ould divil,' and still another bears this inscription : 'False to his country and his God, but true to the'Democratic par ty.' Some ingenious individuals, at a loss to express their contempt in words, resort to symbols; one has drawn a copm rhead snake, wriggling in the mouth of Buchanan, another decorates the'head with a cap and bells, and the third encloses the neck within a noose which is attached to a gibbet." —So much for Buchanan—in all coming time be will be regarded as the Benedict Arnold of Presidents. Compensation for Doing Right. The Baltimore Ameriacan opposes the de mands of the slaveholders of Maryland who ask payment for their slaves that may be em ancipated, on the ground that they have en• joyod already, for a number of. years privi• leges which existed in violation of right, and that they ought to be satisfied with their gains in the past, without pleading for dam ages. It likens their case, aptly, to that of the proprietors of gambling houses, which were once authorized, but afterwards sup pressed, by law in Franco It would be mon strous to say that the keepers of these gamb• iing belle could justly have claimed eompen• Elation for their "losses" from the honest la boring people of France, So of the slave holders• says the American; if the French government had suppressed private gambling houses only to secure a monopoly of similar dens carried on by the nation, then the pri vete owners might have had a case, but not otherwise. "We do not propose to take private proper ty for public use. We simply propose to dis continue those laws, enacted for the benefit of elaveholders, whereby we secured to /hem the power of the State to :sustain a system of oppression, Because they chose to take :ad vantage of such laws it does not follow that' he innocent portion of the community; which did not choose to invent in slaves, sho Id be compelled to pay 00 dearly for the privilege of making free itisittutiolls. Slavery is a political instution, the creation or the law, and subject at any time to be re pealed ant of existence. The Constitution de scribes it not as properly, but as a 'relation' dues not constitute a - property ; it is simply a right to dispose of the labor of the slave, coupled with the duty of caring for him. It is iu fact a contract resulting from the terms of the law. The law ceases to recognize that form of the contract for labor, and both slave and master find it nece-sary to resort to the ordinary , method. The 'relation' ceases to exist ; .but no properly is thereby destroyed. The admission of the right to compensation in such cases would eterna ly clog the wheels of human progress. No reformation of some ty could take place without the permission of the beneficiaries of the obnoxious system in tended to be removed." What the American thus asserts of slavery in Maryland is true of the institution in all parts tif the Union, It existed only by vir• toe ot :special laws, which protected a very small portion of the people-in the exercise of an oppre•sivc privilege. The exercise of this privilege is found to be injurious to the gen eral-w._lfaru, fataLl 4,0-publie,arileuridiaanorali, ty, and iu imieal to the Union on which rest law u.n.l order, and the future liberty and weilare of this continent. Slavery is proved, after many years' trail, to boa pestiferous breeder oh violence, immorality, unlawful am. biliuu and treason. Therefore, the American people, made wise by sullering, take away front this mischievous privilege the protect ioua had from the laws—and at, once it falls to the ground. .Unless he has the whole power of the state at his htick, n elaveholder is helpless do catch his runaway slave; for not only has he no recognized nigh to kidnap, but all humadie and Chrisban persona are ready to stand between him and the man who watts to be ifree. It would be abjured to say that u commit. jnity Cr a nation has not a right to protcot it self against an evil which attack its life ; but it would be foolish to leave ths.t protection or guard imperfect. if Slavery is hurtful to the Colon, and to the prosperity and advance meat of the states, then ,it is our duty, as a nation, to adopt every measure, without delay, to banish'the system forever from our realm. We have freed the levee under the war-pow er ; the states, as they return to their alle giance, prepare to adopt anti-slavery constitu• nuns . and the nation should crown the work by enacting that, under the Constitution, which,ie the supreme law of the land, no hu man being shall ever be held as a slave in this country. Thus we can clinch the nail ; and if the loyal men of the slave states aro to be believed, Ireedom and loyalty are not safe in the Bouth till the nation has formally' and forever banished slavery.—N. 4ve. .Past. HIGHLY IMPORTANT INoyLIEIt DRAFF ORDERED 200,000 MEN CALLED FOR. Volunteers Receive.' up to April 15th Government Bounties Continued WAsnlNG•rus, March 15. GENERAL ORDER NO. 1111). The lellowing special order has just Leon issued liy the President: UsrrEn &ra•rls Exi,;(uTivE MANSION, WASIONGTON, March 1864. • Crades to supply the force requited to be drafted for the navy, and to provide an ade quate reserve force, all contingencies in ad dition to the five hundred thousand men called for on Februnry Ist, 1861, the call is hereby made and a draft ordered for 200,0d0 men for the military service of the army, ,mtvy and marine corps of the United States. The proportional quotas for the ditletent wards, towns, townships, precincts, election district.; and counties will he made known through the Provost Marshal General's Bu reau, and account will be taken of the credits and deficiencies on former quotas. The 13111 day of April, 1861, isdesignated as the.time up to which the numbers required in each ward of a city, town, &c., may be raised. Voluntary enlistments and drafts will be made in each ward of a city, town, ect,, which shall not have tilled the quota assign ed to.it within the time designated for the number required to fill said quota. The draft will be commenced its sogn after the 15th of April as practicable., The Gov ernment bounties, us now paid, will be con tinued until A pril 15, 1861, at which time the additional boenties.cease. On and alter that date one hundred dollars bounty only will be paid as provided by. the act approved July 4,1861. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. [Officio!) 111. P. TOWNSEND, A. A. G. Reorganization of our Army Com- nn ands The following important order has been 1V,A11.-DBPARTHIENT, ADJ'T. GIEN'9.-01TIOE, WAHIIINGTo; March 12, 1811. GENERAL Onontts No. 98.—The Presi dont of the United States orders as follows first: Major-Gen. Halleck is, at his own request, relieved from duty as General-in. Chief of the army, and Lieut.-Gen. U. S. Grant is assigned to the command of the armies of the. United States. The head quarters of the army will he in Washington, and. also with Lieut. Gen. Grant in the field. Second : Major-Gen. lialleck is assigned to duty in Washington as Chief of Staff of the Army under the direction of the Secre tary of War and the Lieut. General Com manding. His orders will be obeyed and respected accordingly. . ThiA: Major-Gen. W. T. Sherman is assigned to command of the Military di vision of the Mississippi, composed of the Department of the'Ohio, the Cumberland, the Tennessee, and the Arkansas, Fourfk: Major-Gen. 1. B. McPlierscin is assigned the command of the Department and Army of the Tennessee. Fifth : In relieving Major : Gen. Lialleck from duty as General in-Chief the President desires to express his approbation and thanks for the zealous manner in which the arduous and responsible duties of that po sition have been perfortned. By order of Secretary of War, E. D. TOWNSEND, Asst. AdYteGen, THE WAR AT THE GULF FARRAGUrS ATTACK ON MOBILE. Expected Surrender of Fort Powell. 13Locruumm FLEET, OPP MOBILE, Feb. 25, 1881.—The ttortar boats are still bombard, ing Fort Powell, assisted by the gunboats Calhoun, Jackson, Sebago, and Octorara.— The fire front the fort is evidently failing, to judge from the spirited Manner in which it first replied to the fleet on the opening of tho bombardment, on Tuesday last. We aro looking for the surrender of the, fort at every moment, as it cannot hold out Yong against — the vigorous fire di - reeled tipoii, IL Shells from the gunboat s and bombs from, the mortars can be distinctly seen striking and bursting in and over the fort- By glancing at the map it will he seen that the Admiral probably intends silencing the guns of Fort Powell, which commands Grant's Pass, for the purpose of sending his rziosquit to fleet through the pass jilt° the harbor of Mobile. By doing so he will cut elf Forte Gaines and Morgan. When Fort Powell surrenders Admiral Fdr ragut will have thirty miles to proceed before lie can arrive at Mobile, nine of which aro through a narrow channel, with its banks fortified the is hole distance. Obs ruct ions are phced catirely across the channel three miles from the city, in such , a way that ves• sels are compelled to pass under the guns of two iron-clad forts and a battery from the shore. Oil the west sole of Mobile n line of .e.n , trenchments passes completely around the city, inane of which are torts and powerful batteries. Indeed, :\lobile is delebdeil very sirdngly at every point. Piles are driven in the channel, and a vessel laden with stone is ready to be stink at any moment to make the obstructions confplute. A letter from Eey, %Vest gives a rumor that ono of Admiral Farragut's steamers ha 4 passed Fort Morgan under a terrible fire, antl another rumor wits that he had captured the works. A REBEL. CIRCULAR IN NEW ORLEANS Pending the late election the following pue rile affair, from the rebel Governor of Imuiei arm, Won circulated : EXECUTIVE OFFICE, lIREVEPOUT, La. Jan 30. To the Citizens of Nett , Orleans : 1 greet you as the Governor of Louisiana. Your trials and your troubles are well known, and your patriotic con luct fully appreciated by the Executive of your State. Do not be despondent. Do not despair ; but rather let the tires of patriotism burn brightly at every hreside, fur in a tiny short months you rhall be free. You have,been despoiled, and rob bed, and basely Every indignity ti.at a. brutal. uunducipicd. ;and vindictive_ foe could invent has been heaped upon you ; Bear your persecution. as did your fathers before you, and nerve your hearts for tho coming hour. Our people are flocking to tho army in every direction, nod when the spring campaign opens half a million of gallant Con federate soldiers will strike fur liberty and independence. Citizens or New Orleans, be true to yourselves, and your titate will be true to you; spurn all propositions fob. com promises of any kind ; spit upon the insult ing proposal for a bastard State Government; keep your own counsels, do your duty, and bid your time ; you shall be free, the hated tyrants who lord it over you now., who daily insult you without, remorse and rob you with. out, shame, these accursed villains, this crew of thieves and murderers, will yet receive their reward. Ladies of New Orleans, God Almighty bless you and sustain you in all your trials! When the epring time comes gentle ladies," you will see the gray coats" again, end then you shall welcome back to New Orleans the sons and daughters of Lou isiana. You are the treasure of the earth.— Oh ! be not weary in well doing; cheer up the desponding ; be kind to our prisoners who are languishing in the wretched cells of the enemy. You will receive the undying grail. dude of your country, nod in heaven above will be crowned among the an,;els of the liv :ng God. HENRY W. ALLEN, Govet nor State of Louisiana FROM PATTERSON, N. J pe.zitamti. for Locomotives by the Gov 1=32:31 PATTERSON, N. J., March, 15. The press announces that Col. M'Callum yesterday informed the locomotive builders of this place, that unless they would proceed at once to furnish the Government with two hundred locomotives, he should have to seine their shops and run them upon the iovernment's account. The locomotive builders hake promised to comply with the demand and in ten of the factories the opera tors. who hay • been on a strike, will resume work to inorrow. bunaiurial Classification The Wei4liugten earrespen , loni of the Cip o!nuaii thus eLosiaes the United Sate :J. C: 1 / 1 0 e after three month,' daily att.:1111110CC iu the Senatorial jury box, (better known as the re porter's gallery.) I hive brought in the fol lowing vor,lict. I don't know how tar the general public will agree with time, but those who disagree are privileged to appeal to a higher court. The beet lawyer—Mr. CoHamer, of Ver mont. The te,t, scholar—Mr. Summer, of Massa ellosetts The best general lobetor and practical leg islator—Mr. Fessenden, of Maine. The " keenest" debater—Mr. Trutalitll, of Illim is. The MOM, plea ant NpeAker to listen to—Mr. Doolittle, of Wisconsin. The beet financier—Mr. Sherinau, of Ohio. The richest, man—Mr. Sprague, of Rhode Island. A very sensible old ri.an—Mr. Wade, of Ohio. The greatest bore that ever lived—Mr. Da vis, of Kentucky. The Knight of the Sorrowful Nigger—Mr, Lane, of Kansas. The most violent Copperhead —Mr. Powell. of ISentuoky. • The most. eloquent Copperhond—Mr Car• lisle, of Virginia. The most, bibulous Juan in Congress, Mr. Richardson, of Illinois. The best looking man, when sober—Mr: Saulebury, of Delaware. . _ The man who :has the least to say—Mr. Hendrioks, of -Indiana. The man who made a facie pa. 9 imissuing a "strictly private oiretilar, which soon became public property— Mr. Pomeroy, of Kansas. The man who comes the nearest to being nobody—Mr. Riddle, of Delaware. A GaCAT HISTORICAL WORM. DY HORACE HREELET. — HESETS. 0. D. Case & Co., of Hartford, Connecticut, hale sent us some advance sheets of a work, now going through their press, which will be awaited with groat anxiety by the admirers of the wonderful a bility of the author. - eutitlod "The American Conflict: a History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America,. 1860—'64; its Causes, It:cider:ls and Results, t • intended to exhibit especiallf its Moral and Political Phases, with the Drift and Pro gress of American Opinion respecting Human Slavery .from Q77•G to 1864. By —Horace Greeley." The specimen Sheets be-
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