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CARLISLE, PA.
Friday, March 18, 1864.
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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-