tut 4erald. CARLISLE, PA. Friday, January 27, 1866. O. M. PEITTENGOAL dr, CO., , o-ZIO. 37 Park Row, Now York, and 6 State St.Doston, are our Agents for the HERALD Igo eities, and aro outhoriso4 to take Advertise • uts ad 9unsoriptfcrns for us at our low eat rates. neirTho louse of Representatives on Monday so amended the tariff laws as to ad mit paper used for printing books and news papers, on paying three instead of twenty per cent duty. The paper manufacturers tried hard to defeat the bill, but it passed the Rouse by a vote of 97 yeas to 40 nays. It has yet to pass the Senate, which we hope it will without delay. • Wo see it stated in a Western paper that the manufacturers have bought up the New York papers to oppose the repeal of the duty, by giving them their paper at 20 cents a pound, while country papers have to pay 23 cents. COPPERIIEAD DOCTORS DISAOREEINCI.- Sunset Cox, of Ohio, made a speech in the House of Representatives on the Constitu tional amendment. Ho would not vote for the amendment, but contended that Con gress had a right to do what the resolution proposed. Pendleton, the defeated copper head candidate for the Vice Presidency, on the other hand, contended that Congress had /so such power. Dee- The fall of gold has put long faces on the gold speculators. Those of them who have for months been investing, and gener ally at high figures, are mostly of that wise class, who expect to see the day when a 'dint full" of greenbacks can be got fur a gold .dollar. They pass in the Community for ''copperheads," and have for four years prayed if they tor pray any, that the rebels would succeed in establishing the Southern Confedetliey. That. being the liopa of their hearts, they came to believing it would be so, and bought gold, to hold as an invest ment. But when gold went down and greenbacks up, they were in core tribulation. Losing both their money and their reputa tion as sharp financiers and prophets. The love of gain, the ambition and hope of mak ing money, induced many persons to specu late in gold—that is buying, and selling eta higher price and pocketing the difference. But your copperhead, bought to have it, when a gold dollar would command a "hat full" of Greenbacks. Some of them are just beginning to think, that perhaps the rebel lion will be put down after all, and they are quietly selling gold at a lose, and this has helped to bring down the price of the arti cle. TERMS CASH I We clip thp, following sensible and sea sonable article from the Typographic Adver tiser, published by L. Johnson & Co. Phil adelphia. AY I that is the word for these times. Cred it is nowhere, comparatively. It is well for all that it is so. Cash forms a splendid basis for business. Witness these particulars:- 1. It is safe.—Whet is made is surely made, and the Profit and Loss account may almost be banished from the Ledger. At the end of a Year you can tell whether you have really tpede anything. You have tangible evidence of the fact in your bank balance, or in goods ana.proilerty. Your earnings are not in the pockets of other men for six months or a year. The bird is in your hand. 2. It is pleasant..--Pleasant to the buyer as well as the seller. The cash-buyer comes up to you with a frank and open face. Ho feels independent of you. He has no favors to ask, for he intends to pay on the spot for all he buys. Ho chats with you without re straint on equal terms. He has your confi dence, and you treat. him with cordial re spect. Both are happy. His business con cluded, the hand-shaking is mutually pleas ant and satisfactory. a It is healthy.—The business breast is not perturbed nor anxious in regard to the char acter and standing of a new customer. You do not look at him askance, nor dues agita ting suspicion prevent your friendly compli ments. When you sell a bill of goods, it is not at the expense of a fit of dyspepsia.— Your mind is placid, for you know the trans action is safe. Good digestion is a prerequi site of health; and, with a placid mind to boot, the seller for cash ought to gain in sub stance. Doubtless. 4. It is benevolent.—On the cash plan, the purchaser takes only as much as he can pay for; and he consequently has no worriment by day nor tossings at night in devising ways to meet engagements for goods inconsider ately purchased. He looks before he leaps ; and so he comes down softly. The sheriff never peeps x in at his door ; and ho gets a good cktarp or among his neighbors, and some rich man probably makes him his ex ecutor. The way is open to him for places of trust and honor; and who can say that he may not become an alderman, or a sena tor? The same health-considerations that happily benefit the seller equally bless the the cash buyer. Yes, surely the cash system is sister to the gentle quality of mercy, "that blesses him that gives and him that takes." The inference that:wo draw from the above points is, that the cash plan is a good plan all around; and, winding up emphatically with Latin, we exclaim, Esto perpetua I IT Is W4:IIIDEICED.—We frequently hear it wondered if the Old Public Functionary, who resides not very from the city of Lan castor, and who for four years resided in a place at Washington, called the " White House," now occupied by'‘one Abraham Lincoln, who has been requested to contin ue therein for four years longer. We fre quently, we say, hear , it wondered, if the Aforesaid functionary is still of the opinion that he " was the last President of a United Republic." It looks to us as though Grant, Sherman, Thomas, Farragut, Porter and our brave army and navy wore fast sending our old deftinct public functionary down in history as an imbecille old man, responsible for every , dollar of dobt and every life lost in the War. on both sides. We hear soldiers wonder if he can realize that • his weakness . and Complicity with traitors has caused all She woe the country has suffered. Ile Would have left the Union. slide; and the North to day, would have been condemmed and des . pieed all over the world. The South with Jeff. Davis at tho head would have been the only nation on this continent deserving of consideration. Wo would beim gone Into hhitory %as a weak and , Cowardly pecide• , • - But the American pepple said Noi • Abra hftni has led' thank tifrough the tar riblo ordeal which* .James 'Buchanan could , haye_with 'ono Jacksonion stroke of his pen' averted. And. Jaines Buchanan has iidon tilloWed to live and see hitaself clisgraccd and &spilled by ail mankind 7 -erpn- by the. rebels.—Lan.! Examiner. THE FENIAN BROTHERHOOD. This vastly extended secret organiza tion, says the Pittsburg Post, is causing no little trouble and alarm among our neighbors of Canada. Its prime object is thought to be the dissolution of the union between Great Britain and Ire land. Its membership is composed main ly of Catholic Irishmen, and embraces probably millions in Ireland, Canada and the United States. A convention of the order is now in session in Cincinnati, or was a few days ago; but what they have been dieing has nut transpired. Its object is political, not religious.— We believe that some of the priests of the Catholic church favor it, while we know that others oppose and denounce it. A tremendous excitement was occa sioned at Skibbereen, in Ireland, recent ly by the burning in effigy of the parish priest of that Catholic community, be cause he had denounced the order from the pulpit. The clergyman who was the object of this outrage was the Rev. D. Cotr.rNs, parish priest of Rath. 'The Cork Exam Inc). states that " during the famine, he assisted to rescue hundreds from starvation. In the streets of Cork he beg:-ed from door to door fur the per ishing people of Skibbereen; in the lobby of the House of Commons ho implored money on their behalf; in the cabinets of Minister:; of State lie supplicated for assistance in impassioned accents; in the boardroom, in the press, he fought the battlefer these poor creatu-res, who were then helpless -as children." It is but, a few weeks since a priest in Jersey City was assaulted in the streets for a similar cause. We may infer from these and other similar occurrences, that a new power is rising in the bosom of the Catholic church which the church can not control—a power rife with the spirit of mischief, but which has in it, so fir as we can discover, no element, of good. To effect their object—the dismember ment of Ireland—they 'are laboring to embroil Great Britain and the United States in war by every means in their power. Their organs in this country profess loyalty to the Union; but in Ca nada they and the rebels are nut nifeAy working in concert to breed trouble be tween the two governments. This thing is something akin to what is called Red Republicanism on the continent of Eu rope—a spirit of discontent- and violence, arising front a feeling that something is wrong, but a profound ignorance of what that something is. The Celtic Irish, fiir example, are sure that their condition is not what it ought to be, and they attri bute all the evils, real and imaginary, under which they are suffering to the union of their country with England; hence they are restless and discontent ed, and every now and then they are making efforts to throw off the yoke.— All their past eiThrt.s to effect that object, however, have been miserable abortions, and only reS*Ulted in intensifying the evil they sought to remove. The Protestant portion of the people of Ireland are quite as loyal to the gov ernment of Great Britain as are those of Engl,and itself; and, so far as personal freedom and political privileges - go, are just as well off and as well contented.— It is only among the Celtic portion of that people that this spirit of discontent is found. Indeed there is a strong simila rity between the hostile spirit which pre vailed among our slaveholding population prior to this rebellion towards our own government, and the bitter hostility which has ever filled the mass of the Celtic mind of Ireland towards the British go vernment. In the latter case it has its origin partly in race and partly in dis similarity of religious creed; and although this Fenian organization is not religious in itself, it is, so far as we can perceive, confined almost exclusively to Catholics, as Red Republicanism on the continent is found only in Catholic countries. It is simply a disturbing element out of which agitation, and possibly war, may spring, but which has in it nothing that promises to promote either the freedom or happiness of the race. It may bring Ireland into trouble; but we think there is too much good sense in the American people to suffer themselves to be drawn into a quarrel by such an organization as this. Many thousands of these Fe nians have, during the past two years, solemnly sworn allegiance to the Queen of Great Britain before our Boards of Enrollment, in order to avoid bearing their part in our great national struggle, !Ltd no men 'have done that thing more eagerly and impudently than these Irish Celts. Now, if they fancy a quarrel with the royal lady under whose skirts they are not ashamed to crawl, when the country which, for years, has given them shelter, protection and employment, needs their services, let them fight it out themselves; but let us not suffer ourselves tohbe drawn into it. Some Celtic Irish men have fought bravely for the country of their adoption; but the number of these bears no proportion to those who -invoked the protection of the British Queen against the call of the President of the United States. To no people on the earth, therefore, do we owe less, as a nation, than to the Celtic Irish BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES are wide ly known - ds an - established remedy for Coughs, Colds, Biionehita, Hoarseness, and other troubles of: the Throat and Lungs. Their good reputation and extensive use have brought out imitations, and similar pre parations represented to be the same, which are generally injurious. OBTAIN only "Brown's Bronchial Troches." , ~, The London spestafor said, a aripntkago: "There it not n thmeral now alive in Eu rope who, if Sli'ernianch4cceeds, will' not re cognize the addition'of ono morn man to OM short list of.iirst-chwa leaders of armies:" Physician bai•;diseoiTred Abut this night-mare in nine cases' out, of ton is pro duced by owing a bill for n• nosyspaper,. that tile , beSt pare is to pfts,.l4P-„:: THE SECRETARY, OF WAR [Prom the St. Louie Democrat.] Secretary Stanton must experience very comfortable sensations, in view of the results of general military operations. At all events, the country is in excellent humor over the course things are taking, and.grows daily .stronger in its confidence of a successful ter mination of the war. The results 'of the . movements of Sherman and Thomas have been brilliant, while those operations which have not realized all that was expected of them, including the Wilmington affair, can not, in a single instance, be entered in the chapter of serious disasters. The public is inclined, in its proneness to hero-worship, to give all the credit for successful achieve ments to the Generals immediately in com mand, while in cases of failure it it equally inclined to throw the blame on those having the general charge of , military affairs. This is manifestly unjust. While Sherman and Thomas, and Sheridan and Grant, should all have a full measure of praise, no small por tion of the results, which have thrown such brilliancy over their names can be traced back to the officer in the war office at 'Wash ington. If any ono doubts this fact, he has but to refer to the clamor which has, on ono or two occasions, been raised against Mr. Stanton, when our military affairs seemed to be going badly. There was n time when it was popu lar with certain journals and people to talk about the removal of Secretary Stanton, but that time is past. It seems now to be accept ed by universal consent, that no ono is going to interfere with his position, unless he sees fit to relinquish it himself. In all the lists we hay s e seen written up for the Cabinet un der the incoming term, their is no clurnge Imposed for the War Department. The fact, is, that everybody now concedes that Mr. Stanton is master of the situation, and eve rybody is led to believe, in view of his past record, that ho will remain master of the 51111M:ion. It is fair to infer that Mr. Stanton is as little governed by selfish considerations as any man in the public service, from the ostentatious and uncompromising mannerin which he has discharged the duties of his office; but when he contemplates the wag nifteent out-come of his long and ardurous and often extremely embarrassing labors, he cannot hut experience an uncommon degree of gratification. His olicy stands vindica ted by the verdict of results, after being sub jected to the moat thorough trial to which the plans of men can be exposed. There can be no question that history will attribute a large share of the credit for the success in this great struggle, to the manage ment of the war office under his supervision. However the people may have at times de sponded, it is evident that he never lost heart. He worked on with equal persistency and equal faith, whether the Bourse of events was marked with intelligence of victory or de feat. The quiet fidelity with which his offi cial ditties have been prosecuted, would al most indicate the consciousness of a mission, drawing its inspiration from an assurance which the present seldom affords. Certain it is that no man in the war has done more efficient work, or more of it, than Mr. Stan ton, with less appitient regard to Popular ef fect. lie furnishes a rentarkable instance of a man working hi 'ltself i nto popularity, with out seeming to have a care for it. The just conclusion undoubtedly is that he has been more than ordinarily governed by a higher motive. The entire freedom of Mr. Stanton's offi cial career from any taint, or nny appearance of the arts of the demagogue, is doubtless owing to the fact that he is NO politician. To this circumstance can we attribute the re markable phenomenon in American politics, that ho should hold a place in the Cabinets of two consecutive Presidents, of different politics, and so radically at variance in their policies as Buchanan and Lincoln. This could never have happened with a decided partisan. The circumstance is, however, only the more creditable to Mr. Stanton as a moan turd patriot. The Duty on Paper A dispatch from Washington , ays : A large delegation of paper manufactur ers were before the Ways and 3leans Com mittee to-day, for the purpose of urging upon them not to repeal the duty on paper. They laid before the committee facts and statistics showing that it would be very in jurious to their interests to repeal said tax. Of course, it would be very injurious to the monopoly interest to repeal the duty on paper ; and of course it is the duty of Con gress to protect the interests of this monop oly, at whatever cost to the people. The interests of the country at large, in having cheap newspapers, are not once to be thought of in connection with the interests of the ra pacious paper-makers. The New York papers have been induced to withdraw their petition for the repeal of the duty. The manufacturers contracted to supply them with paper at 20 cents a pound, while charging all others 20 and 27, imagin ing if they could thus get the metropolitan press out of the way, the au peal of all the other newspapers in the country would be unheeded. The arrangement, however, is only another argument in favor of repeal.— The price at which paper is now furnished to the New York press is aVout the price at which foreign paper can be imported free of duty, and if the man ufacturers.elps, , afford to supply New York at that-rate', utiB with out loss to themselves, they can' supply tl ti whole country at the seine late, and the pa per duty is not q therefore needed for their _ protection.' AratcA.—Over WM' hundred alid Ilfty churches have been built on the Western coast of Africa. Nearly two hundred schools are in operation; twenty thousand children have been instructed in English; twenty thousand baptised persons aro members of dithrent bodies of Christians; twenty-five di alects have been reduced to writing. Between sixty and seventy settlements have been form ed—the centres of Christianity, civilization, agriculture, and commerce. Lawful Com merce has increased from $lOO,OOO annually to between fifican and twenty millions of dol lars ; and yet, though so much has been done, it is very little in comparison with what yet remains to be done' n the "Dark Continent." These sixty or seventy Christian settlements are but as many beacon-lights on the coast, while the vast interior is still shrouded in midnight darkness.—Episcopal Recorder. GETTING MARRIED IN HASTE TO REPENT AT LEISURE.-Up the organization -of the 141st Pennsylvania, a resident of 'Hawley en listed in CompanyG, Captain .litumford, and went with the company to Virginia. -At the battle of Chancellorsville he was reported kill ed end a comrade sent, as he supposed, a pocket book and a lock of his hair to the soldier's wife. On such evidence she regarded him as dead, and some two months ago married again. Among the'prisoriers who were re cently released front Georgia prisons was the supposed dead husband.' • Upon hie arrival at - Annapolis he immediately obtained a fur; lough and started, to see his . faniilp.. Our readers can .imagine, hie ,surprise at finding his wifetmarried and hers at"behold ing,,as she supposed, •her'dead , husbanst—' This - war causes • many curious scenes to ,be enacted.—Honestia/e Republican. ' • LADrEs',Funs,: - --Purchasera may rely on getting the best furs;at Charlea Cakfordok Sons, Continental .qm The l eper Question Again The New York Post continues, with the utmost ability and good sense, to discuss the duties on paper, and show the evil resulting therefrom. In Wednesday's issue it remarks: "In keeping up the present duty on print ing paper, the Government virtually address es the paper-maker in this manner:— ,, 'Dear sir, we present you with the gift of twenty per cent. on the value of all the paper you make. It comes in part from the renders of newspapers, in part from the parents of chil dren attending the public schools, in part from poor scholars, in part from the Govern ment itself, which puts it into the tax bills and collects it from the people. Receive this tribute from a generous country, which cheer fully imposes upon itself these great sacrifi ces on your account. Put it quietly in your pocket, and do not trouble yourself to make your paper any better or cheaper, unless you take a particular fancy to do so. If any per , son should be so unreasonable as to grumble, Mr.'Henry Corey will assure him that itc is all right." Nevertheless, we suspect that if the duty be left hs it now stands, there are a good many persons in the community who will think that they have quite enough on their hands if they carry the Government through this war, and answer the calls of the almost innumerable charities which the war' makes necessary, without being obliged in addition to build up the fortunes of the paper makers. It would not be unlike them if. Ahoy should be a little troublesome in appealing to Congress to spare them this terrden while the war lasts, and until the national debt is paid. "But," asks the champion of the prohibitory duty riff pa per, alarmed 'not the chance of printing paper being admitted from abroad, '‘ can any man, proprietor of a newspaper, doubt that the 'great capitals' of Europe will at once be sot to work to crush out American competition for the sale of this great commodity, an abundant and cheap supply of which is now more important than it has been at any pe riod of our history ?" We do not merely doubt that any such re sult will follow, but we are as confalentdts we can be of any future event that it will not follow. There are not paper mills enough ip all Europe to defy and , overcome Ameri can competition in the paper market of our country. Six or seven years since we man ufactured nearly as much paper in America AS was made in Client Britain and Franca put together. In Humans' Cyclopedia of Commerce, the amount wade in this country in 18.58 was estimated at 270,0(10,0UB pounds, and that of Great Britain and France com bined at only 291,200,000 pounds, giving but a - Moderato excess over our own proddet of paper. Probably we now make_morc_paper in the United States than in both those coun tries. The paper-makers of Great Britain and France will not ruin themselves by seek- ing to ruin their own class in America. They will not, they cannot divert into a new chan nel the immense capital required .sueeessful ly to rival, in our own market, n set of cap italists as powerful as themselves, and draw from other industrial occupations, in which they are now profitably occupied, the thous ands of workmen necessary to supply four or live hundred million pounds of paper an nually to the consumers in the United :States. It is the extreme of folly to apprehend Any such consequence; it would be the height of frenzy on the part of the European paper makers to make the apprehension a reality. Peace and :Freedom There is no blessing which the People so much Covet, just. 110 W, sayt- the A Ther it)/ Rern ieg Aurual ,as a righteous PEACE. Thy are weary of War--very weary. Every hearth-stone in the land has been wade des olate by it, and thotHands of Michaels are '• weeping fur their children, bccall , c they are not." - - • And yet. those who have suffered m 0 4 .4 are w illing to suffer more rather than that &mice should come without Ju sr CE, and rather than that the Sword should be shorshed before that has perished for whose perpetu ity the Sword was drown. We do not know upon what those Who (officially or otherwise) are attempting to initiate negotiations for Peace expect to base sueli negotiations. But This that nothing less than immediate or li-res pective Fr edom fur every human being within the broad area of the Union will either satisfy the People, meet the demands of inexorable Justice, or constitute a fitting compensation for all that the War has cost in blood and treasure. There have been periods in the progress of the war when less than this would have satisfied the mass of the people. The gage of !male was accepted simply to compel obe dience to the lawful authority of the gov ernment. Nothing more was demanded : and an early nequiesence in the demand would have brought Peace with Si , very. But Providence had a higher and a grand er mission for those who went out to battle than the mere achievement of a hollow truce With Slavery. The end would 11SVC consti tuted no sufficient return for the great sacri fices which it would have cost ; and the per sistent madness of the Southern leaders, com bined with the two often developed imbecil ity of those entrusted with the direction of our own armies, have united to protract the contest, until now there is scarcely a dissent ing voice to the demand that that which caused the war shall dice through its agency. Any proposition for Peace, or any scheme looking to the cessation of hostilities, which contemplates less than this, will, therefore, full short of popular expectation, and fail to enlist the sympathy of the popular heart.— For public opinion has becoine more exacting with every drop of Northern blood shed in theattempt to put do vat nholy rebellion. Those whose tears ke i .ist the graves and the memories of those who have fallen, will seek in vain fur any consolatory coMpensa tion if some great end is nut achieved by their sacritice c —if LIBERTY is riot vitalized and streng,thbned and expanded by their blood 'Il • e , ' 7.4_ a7i - B 't 0- , ,t_ • -' 144 1 ililtn T ;oZO LI GY.:N o z ir . GONE.—One 407 W I LeI; inap':iigeut purchased Cron' an old lady, named s Stifger, residing intliis place, the flag which float4.4aver the residence of the Bri tish copimaAdant of Fort Bedford, before 1,110 , 1 :• itiOnary war, for the trifling sum 'of =i+7 'he tingle a line specimen of silk m) , . ' cture in the days of the Georges. The history of the flag, as near as we can learn, runs thus: When the Revolution broke out, a small garrison• was stationed here; the sol diers became patriots, and the officers beat a busty exit. The 'flag of the commandantfell into the hands of a Mr. Naugle, then a citi zen of Bedford, the father of Frederick Nau gle, Sr. After his death and the death of his wife, it became the property of his sister-in law, who was married to a gentleman named• Stiffier, the father of Anthony Stiffler, Into of this place, by whom it --was inherited, and upon his death, ti year or two n o, it became the sole property of his wife, who sold it, as above stated, for fifty dollars; hardly its orig inal cost. For many years after the Revo lution the Old citizens were wont to meet on the anniversary of its capture, and drink flowing bowls and indulge in patriotic toasts over the happy event which transferred the British authority to that of the Continental Congress. It has been displayed on a num ber of important occasions, ,and was always admired for its beauty and richness. It is undoubtedly over ono hundred years_old.— Bectford Inquirer. Ipsr net rebel Gen Lua has been made, by the'fiat of the rebel Congress, Command er-in-Chief of all the rebel forces; in other words, Military Dictator—and is thus placed beyond the power or control of the rebel President _himself.-- HOOD has been,remeved and,Jogwarort reinstated. There is a serious Misunderstanding among the rebel portending •therdownfall which is approsch ingt The Charleston Mercury is very bitter against DAVIS, and declares everything is "going to the Plogs," in consequence of hip obstinacy - , and 'incompetency. It, says the rebel army in South Ctirolina`and Georgia is utterly demoralized-, being made up of thieyeit and ,cut-throats: Things are coming to a pretty palti among 'them. DEPRESSION AT THE SOUTH. We present below a few extracts from Rebel papers. They do not betray a lively 131132 [From the Richmond Dispatch of the 17th The disasters which we have suffered of late are slot only not irreparable, but they are not so great as others wo have suffered on other occasions. But the people have be come more depressed by their than they over were before, because they had been flattered by hopes of peace by persons who well knew there could be no, peace short of submission and enslavement. This fit of depression has been longer and more violent than formerly, because' they see Congress, to Which they naturally turn for encouragement, trifling on the very edge of the abyss, with a reck less disregard of their situation which prompt the rulers, when theship is about too down, to brealc opsethe spirit room, and, drown their fears In - liquor. They see little hope in that quarter. Congress is, in fact, assisting the enemy by encouraging a disposition to croak, which seems to have besot the whole country. TIM DIAL Or WRATH. [From tho Richmond Whig of January 17.] The vial of wrath seems not to have been completely exhausted with the fall of Sa vannah. Fort Fisher has also fallen. The Confederacy can survive the loss of Fort Fisher, and. of Mobile, and of every other seaport in its possession, but it cannot sur vive the decay of spirit and the kiss of deter mination on trip part of its people. That is a thing which it has . more'cause to fear than all other things put together. [C,ornispondonce of tho Ch;Heston Morcury.J Our hopes of seeing Gen. Lee made Com mander in Chief are, from alt accoun s, in danger of being frustrated. Indeed, it is now said that Me Executive never contemplated anything of the kind. The story that Lee, Davis and Johnston met some days ago, and that there was a reconciliation between the latter two, is pronounced unfounded. How it conic into existence is A mystery. A signillennt article appears in this morn ing's ,S'entinet. The authorities are admen islrbd not to lot us fall into 010 hands of a Yankee master ; any other master were bet ter—the'inferenee being that we are in dan ger of being forced to accept a master of sonic sort. In times of disaster, a certain clan always talhi or handing over the Confederacy as en appendage of the crown of France or Eng land. What if they refuse . 1 A people will ing to glee themseires away to anybody are not worth haring, especially when the price of the gilt is sure to be a wacw . iiit a pqwer which is now more formidable than France, and nearly as formidable as England on the sea. Sherman has con' meneed moving. If yesterday's snow did not arrest him, we hope men will do what snow cannot. Some nien you have already; you will have others soon, for the sufficient reason that you must bare Them, sr we muse girt up Richmond. SllOllllllll activity will be responded to by neliae measures in Congress. The negeors will utmost certainly be called out, since the Administration and many Generals are in favor of it. But 1 hear of one (tem - nal, who says if General Lee could travel the country 125 touch as he has done, he wntuld find plen ty of whitu num, and no need for w!gr4)o , . 11 . negroes arc used, they should be used as slaves, or else we abandon the principle of the struggle. (Vrom the Richmond Examiner, Jan. 17. J The loss of our best port by the fall of Fort Fisher will be no evil in the end, if it serves to spur the country on to deebdve action. 'Nothing. can be 1110 re inglori o us and deplor able than to sit still, barinoniotedy re-igned and hopeful. while I,llr resource.; and arinie6 are gamided away in full view by a weak , but presumptuous official. Nothing 0101 , ' absurd than to make believe "good cheer' , and buncombe " confidence" in the face of ; manifest and fatal Illi,munitgrinent. All the I eloquence and all the blather in the world will not alter the facts or prevent people from thinking on them. Are the people I this country lighting fur the glory of Mr. Davis from Misskiippi, or defending their liberty, lives, and property'' If they are do ing the last named business, they' cannot jus tify themselves to their own conscience or to posterity, in abandoning their affairs any longer to the unlimited, uncontrolled and -lineon tested discretion-of-per,ons -who—daily i . .ankh new proofs of umd:illfulness and bad judgment and defective eharacter. n the next few week , Ittrairn 1111.1,t he do finitely arranged. If the sprin g campaign tinds Johnson at the head of what Hood left in place of that magnificent army of 6-i,OOO men turned over to hint six months since; if Lee is tint chief conimanderof the whole inil itary power of the Confederacy, independent by legislative enactment of till control and re-trietion and havrr,v,i,4 , —with authority to assign general, and other officerigpto com mand, tran•fer armies, and to give unity of plan tied !dill to the whole operation, of the war—the full force of the people will re -tip pen F. there shall he no real change of men, but only a idiom alteration, only n repetition of the old dmilieity, by wlrch the power lin , remained in Um some puny hands, while tho responsibility of nil the misfortune they have worked has been qltifteil over to Bellllrol4ard, to Jiolinson, and lately to Gen. I.Cls; the struggle mmt still - e mtinue—for neither comtiremise by the North, nor , o l an i„..io n by tim South is possible, and in one tray or in another the war must he waged ; but it is certain that, under these latti•r conditions, we will enter on the coming compaig,n with faded hope, diminished energy, and ci fore boding of at continuation to that series of dis asters which has been uninterrupted since the removal of the only general who has commanded with profit the army of the Cen tral South. [From the Richmond Enquirer. Jan. 171 Fort Fisher has fallen, arid the port of - Wilmington will be closed. Blockade stock is at a discount, and no more cottons goes out of the Confederacy. On the other hand, we have net. our last port by which we received supplies from abroad. Another disaster is added to our long list of defeats, and croak ing has received another impulse. B t not withstanding all this, the end is not yet by a great dent. Now, for the first, we are thrown really on our own resources, and compelled to turn our attention to Manufacturing what we need and to bringing down the shame less extravagance that has disgraced our people. Now “the comforts and happiness of civilized life" will be ,denied the people, as they have been the army, and avarice no longer blight our hopes with its corrupting influence. At last our liberties will receive the undivided labors of our whole people. A Speech by Vice President John son Vice President-elect Johnson, in the Ten nessee Convention made an eloquent speech, which concluded as follows : "If our Gov ernment passes through this ordeal, it will survive the third and last trial through which every great and enduring nation must soon er or later pass—birth, foreign attack and domestic insurrection. We have breasted every storm hitherto—we shall not go down in this. In our free domestic institutions..is our strength—in them we shall live, and by them we shall conquer. The haughtiest monarchies of the old world bear witness to the truth of this assertion. Alexander on his throne had converted twenty millions of serfs into free men, that he might add their mighty strength to his own, and be able to prevail upon the turbulent and rebellious nobles of his empire. The unerring instinct of power told him that so far as ho admitted these masses to hold a part and lot in the government of the land, to that degree did ho attach them to it, and insure its preser vation against allassailants. Let us not fail to leara_the lesson afforded by his example. The unchangeable fiat of the Almighty has gone forth that the African slave of this country should return no more to his bond age and his chains. If Abraham Lincoln, and Jefferson' Davis, should meet in nn un holy alliance, and put forth their ',Combined strength, they could not again.hind his limbs about with the shackles. The Maker of the universe has given fortluhin decrees, and let us not bo found fighting against it, .but let us acquiesce in, and further • it Recording to - our ability: - - Let us, like the crafty autocrat, hesitqte not to summon, to our aid against 'the troubles of our 'petted the assistance which Aliest; humble children of toil will gladly bring us; if only we will permit them. Let us, at All'ebsts and'at any sacrifice, get quiet and stability for our' country, Let us estab lish order and law ,throughout our border Si. .so that every man may -sit under his '6Wni vino and fig trop, -with none to molest. Ten nessee is a great State- r a :noble State, it* is only the slip of per :N ople that, have brought us distraction. We shall receive God's bless ing, if only we hang some rebels. The lead ers only, he meant o mpt the rank and file— Ahoy should be pardoned and forgiven. Treason must be made odious ; traitors must be punished and impoverished ; and that impoverishment should be conducted in such a way that'it should contribute to restore to the thousands of suffering poor the little substance they have lost by the devastations and burnings of this war. WAR NEWS SUMMARY The capture of Fort Fisher, North Caro lina, by the Union forces has been officially announced by both the War and Navy De partments. An Assault by the land forces aided by a battalion of marines and sailors was commenced on Sunday afternoon the 15th inst., at 3 o'clock, and by eleven o'clock, that night the Union army has obtained full possession of Fort Fisher, and according to the latest official accounts captured seventy two guns Auld 2,500 prisoners, including General Whiting and Col. Lamb; the com mandant of the fort, both wounded. Many of the guns are injured. The fighting is rep resented to have been of the most desperate character, and it was foot by foot that the, works weru carried by the Union infantry. No estimate of the Union casualties is given, but the loss is said to be severe. General Curtis and Colonels Pennepacker and Bell, the commanders of the three leading bri gades in the attack were wounded. 'Lieu tenants S. W. Preston and Porter of the United States Navy were killed. Tho assault on the enemy's works on Sun day afternoon was preceded by a heavy bom bardment from the fleet for three hours.— From seven o'clock on Friday morning un til after dark Fort Fisher was constantly bombarded by Admiral Porter's fleet.— Juking from the holes in Fort Fisher, it, is stated the navy lire on the work mica have been terrific. A reconnoissance was made on Saturday by Gen. Terry's troops before it was decided to risk an assault on Fort Fisher on the following day. Salutes have been tired by the Army . of the Petomac and in Washington in honor of the victory. An recount of the fall of Fort Fisher con tained in the Riehmo:id Whig of Tuesday morning last, has been transmitted to the War I. epartment. It says the news had no casioned in the community at Richmond a sensation of profound regret, as the fort was the main defense of the entrance to the Wil mington harbor, and in future the arrival and departure of blockade runners will be prevented. (4,n. Bragg reports to the rebel Secretary of War that Fort Fisher was fu riously bombarded all day Sunday by the fleet; at four o;elack in the afternoon was attacked by the Unien infantry, and at ten o'clock - P. M. was captured, with most of its garrison. The Secretary of War last night had received nothing later from Gen. Terry, commanding the expedition. The Richmond Whig also says that Mr. 11. S. Foote has been set at liberty, the rebel House of Representatives having declared that under all the circumstances of the ease it was expedient that the military authorities should discharge him from enstedy. Gen. Bn.ekinridge, it- is said, has been made the rebel Secretary of War. according to the reports of de 9erters, was at Bristol on the 4th inst., with 70.1 n e and Breckinridge, with tits com mand, is reported to have gone to the Valley of Virginia. Throughout East 'Tennessee quiet b, represented to prevail. 1\:1,1611g-ton paper of _Monday last, states that parties from Sharp.shurg and Ha ger,town, :Sut - land, say that sense uneasi ness exists in IrVestern -Nlaryland owing; to rep , rte.l IlloVolllollts el rebel troops in the valley, and the appearance of rebel scouts al o ng th e . river, some of whom, it is said, have crossed the riser, and are scouting in Pennsylvania. li.E•rt.nN 01' Me. Mints FROM Itt lIMON D. 1)“ is Reportrd 11 lig P. I'. Ifhiir , Sr., returned from Itielintond on Tuesday, reaching ‘Vashing_ ten in the afternoon in the , teanier 1). n.— 'l "Star" gives the folloss ing Recount of his reception: On the Don eonting into I.btek, C•.nirnalt der Carr went on board and escorted 2.1 r. Blair to a private earriag,e. Nothing wit", known on board of the Don as to the result of his but it was iiiiiu.rveit by soma that Mr. 8., on the pas . sagt , ii \vas ih a rcniarkiil,ly rood humor, hi(h fart Will no louht bu v.:11,1:1- (.I'l.d bt "onu• signifying that hi:: tnet With I>on, it «ill bt• repastubered, b•it th e ytir(.l a M. yek lltSaturday, and it (vas then siti,l that she left here under orcier,, and it is probable that Mr. Blair \vent dawn tin her. At any rate the I)on was at A il:en's I.andintr, on the James.river, 1,11 Monday last. and ri , ntairied until Stittinlay last. In 1' , 01111 , ,q14 , 11 it';l11 (hi, 110,1 important subket , till Il llunin l'rma the Ith•h m ,, n d Saturday the highe.t inte rest. The IZichnlonil Examiner of Saturday state, that Jlr. Blair, on hi, arrival, ;in 11,:itoei,d to Jill'. DaNii that Ii had no cre dentials Ii in ('resident 1.i1e . 0111, but 11 . 0l11(1 he glad to meet him as nn old friend; that I)avia grant e d an inter.% iew to Nil-. It air, and th a t :11r. 11., told I)aVk lie could have I eel, on the bnsis of gradual emancipation. Mr. Davis said he was willing to receive three commissioners to trust on peace, or to send three to Mr. Lincoln, provided he could have. any guarantee that they would be r,:ceired. The Richmond Dispatch of Saturday week annoumms that after an interview between Jell. I)avi, and Blair, the former placed a lett. r in the hand, of tile latter, offering to send to Washington or receive in Rich mond, commissioners to make an mineable settlement or our present difficulties. Admiral Porter's official report of the capture of Fort Fisher, N. (2., has been for warded to the Navy Department. It gives details of the op. rations on Sunday up to 10 o'clock at night, wh e n the occupation of the fort by l'nblh troop, Wile signalled, and the lire of the fleet ceased. Later than that no oflieiul account, have been received. Fort Fisher, at the time of the assault, was gar risoned by 80,) tnen, and in the upper forts there were 503 oleo. Besides these, a relief of about 1,500 had been brought down the river on Sunday morning. The struggle on Sunday is represented to have been a terrific one, not surpassed, Ad miral Porter says, by any of the events of the war. Fourteen hundred marines and sailors were pent from the Union fleet to participate in the assault. They attacked the fort at a different point from the infan try forces, and met with the most vigorous resistance, being mistaken by, thecnelny fur the main body of Gen. Terry:s army, and were repulsed, with a loss of 200 in killed and wounded, including a number of offi cers. Tho wounded wero to have been sent North on Moliday In addition to Admiral Porter's report the Baltimore papers of Thursday morning last publish further details of the assault, ob tained from unofficial sources, together with an account of events that transpired early Monday morning. The magazine at Fort Fisher is reported to have exploded, occa sioned by-tho citiolessness-ofsome-of-thesol diers. By the explosion it is stated two hundred were killed and quite a number wounded. A number of the Union gun boats were sou up the Cape Fear river on Monday morning, driving before them the rebel steamers Chicamauga and Tallahassee,- which are said to have taken part in the con test on Sunday. A dispatch from the Army of the Potom ac mentions 0, report, brought in by desert ers that the Danville - Railroad, over which Gen. Leo's army receives its main supplies from Richmond, has been extensively dam aged by the recent rains, to repair which would require some time and a large force. For the want of sufficient provisions for the soldiers, it was thought some important changes would transpire in a few days. Advices from the Army of the Potomac up to Tuesday evening report no firing had occurred on any part of the line of the Union army for several days, and that the enemy appeared to be busy moving from place to place, ,as if preparing (Cr a change of some kind. Intelligence was brought to FOrtresis Mon roe on Thursday last r iby the arrival of, a steamer,' to the effect that Fort Caswell and -other minor works defending the entrance; M Cape Fear ,river had been blown up by the enemy soon after the: surrender of Fort Figher. The Bundler vessels of "Admiral . Porter's fleet wereengaged in searching for torpodos in the CapaYear river, preparatory 'to an advance on Wileiington, Admiral Porter,ln" .diapetch M. the, Navy Depart ment, dated:en- Monday,-states. that the en :enty shad destroyed the ,works on , ,t3Mith's Is- RMEMMI . . land, and that if they did not destroy Fart Caswell an attack on it would soon be made. Wilmington is announced to be hermetically sealed against blockade-runners. The Ad miral reports that seventy-five guns were captured at Fort Fisher, many of them heavy ones; and that the . naval casualities in killed and wounded amount to about three han dred. By the explosion on Monday morn ing it is estimated that one hundred men be longing to the fleet were killed and woun ded. An arrival at New York yesterday from Port Royal on the 17th inst., reports that on the day she sailed the monitor Patapsco, which was doing picket duty off Charleston, was destroyed by a rebel torpedo. Forty or fifty of the crew, it was thought, were lost. Tho enemy's fortifications at Pocotall igo Bridge contained, when captured by the 17th Corps, twelve guns, which had been spiked. The Union loss is said to have 6bon forty in killed and wounded. NEW YORK, January 20th.—The United States transport Fulton, from Port Royal on the 17th, and Fortress Munroe 10th, has ar rived. The monitor Patapsco, was destroy ed off Charleston at 2A. At., on the 17th, while doing picket duty, by a rebel torpedo. Forty or fifty of her crew went down with her. Their name were not ascertained up to the sailing of the Fulton On the night of .the 14th, the 17th Corps, commanded 11 General Hatch, advanced on I'ocotaligo Bridge, on the Charleston and Savannah Railroad, and captured it, togeth er with the fortifications there, containing twelve guns, losing in the action only 40 men killed and wounded. The guns were spiked and the enemy evacuated the place during the night and fell back to Ashepo river, towards Charleston. It was thought the enemy "would make a stand nt that point. Commodore Porter, in his detailed repot of the attack on Fort Fisher, gives the total number of naval officers killed and woun ded and missing, including the exp.osion of the magazine, at 30. He states that the Rebels have blown up Fort Caswell and the steamers Tallahasse and Chickamauga, and we will be in Wil mington before long. FORT MONROE: - Jan. 20.—The frigates Minnesota, Wabash, Colorado and the great er portion of the heavy draught vessels of war,eorn prising Admiral Porter's fleet, re cently operating against Fort Fisher, N. C., have returned from there and are now rut chored in Hampton Roads. The steamer Den. Lyons, Capt. - Ward commander, arrived here this afternoon, with 5110 of the 10th North Candi nit regi ment captured at Fort Fisher. be taken to Fort Delaware. On the evening of the 18th inst., Col. Ab bott, commanding a brigade of troops, start ed out from Fort Fisher on the way to -Wil mington. A general forward movement of our troops against the town was daily antic ipated. Our gunboats are actively engaged in re. connoitering along the banks of tine Cape Fear River, and in searching for torpedoes and in removing tine obstructions which af forded a serious obstacle to the navigation of these winters. C VITEN: OF FIN" E„.I3LOCKADE RUNNERS. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 22.—The United States steamer Massachusetts, from the South Atlantic blockading squadron, left Charles ton liar on the evening of the 'eighteenth, and ear Wilmington on the nineteenth. All of Porter's fleet are in Cape Fear riv er. On Wednesday night five blockade run ners ran into Cape Fear river and were ta ken by the fleet—Hamra not ascertained. The Massachusetts brings 201) invalids and discharged soldiers. The Explosion at Fort Fisher Mr. Blair's Visit to Richmond—Senator Foote Ref uses to be released —Pirate Semmes in I?iehmoncl—Colunel Grierson's Raul through Mississippi. N ENT YORK, Jan. 23.—The 7'ribitne's Fort Fisher correspondent says : The explosion of the ni:o4azino w:o; caused by the carelessness of our men, who wore, indiscreet enough to go in %mit lighted segars, and lit candles while inside. They were cautioned, but paid no heed. The total loses (luring the light will not exceed four hundred, and I hose by the explosion about one hundred ; more Must be added for the navy. Colonel Alden, of the 1 h New Yorlc, was mortally wound ed by the i,plosion oI the magazine, rnd has since died. NEN'. Yoms. Jan. 28.—The J/rrafa's Washington siweial has varimi- tuin.,Nout cerning Mr. Blair's visit to Richmond. 'One is, that Blair brought autograph letter. from Davi-, to Lincoln, saying he was ready to treat for peace, and that a communication from Lincoln has been taken back to Rich nomd, expressing a willingness to send or re.wi% I' commissioner , . .lain' well inn,n, washin, ; tmi look for important results from Blair's second N i,it to the rebel capital. A , igniticant article appear, in the Rich mond Examine/ of last Thur.day, which says: After every manly effort the rebel, may fail, and policy and intereq would in- Cline the rebels to submit. to the United States rather than to England, Prance or Maximillian. In joining their military forces they could then ~ w eep this continent, and the: hide their shame, while America will become the colossal power of the world. On the other hand some Richmond editors, in view of the fact that they have lost all of the seaports of any consequence. make great efforts to prove those disasters a bles , ing.— They say the war is thew sole business, that the ,•onseription must be vigorously enforced, and that every one, who can lutist light. ;rho Richtitund Whig sap that the Legroes i the prim: of life will make better soldiers the white men over fifty. Gen. Joe Johnson, in his late speech at Columbia, South Carolina, says he is out of the service and regrets that he could not serve with the rebel soldiers. Senator foot© refuses to he released, and insists upon's trial to shoe• the CIU/S0 of his arrest. Capt. Semmes has reached Richmond The herald's NeW Orleans despatch gives the particulars of Grierson's Into great raid in Mississippi. They confirm previous re po, is of his great success. They marched 400 miles, lost less than 100 men, captured 600 prisoners and-brought in 1,000 contra bands and 1,000 horses besides destroying 100 miles of railroad. - Preparations Making for Evacua- ting RichMond Shenandoah Rebel Purees Suffering.—Resig nation of Brig. Gen. Powell. New Yonx; Jan. 22.—The Herald's cor respondence says An intelligentgentleman of Madison county, who recently visited Richmond, states that he conversed with government officers, who told him the hold ing of Richmond for any considerable time wss despaired of by Davis and Leo n.: The public archives not necessary for immediate use are being sent into the interior. Num bers of fan ilies have removed to North Car olitia and - Georgia. On hints from officials, the city is said to be in process of mining, and Davis declares that Richmond shall not fall in our hands except in a heap of ruins. News from up the Shenandoah Valley re ports great suffering. The rebeLforcos aro still near New Market and Stanton. Tho good conduct of the citizens in Sa vannah, after coming under the old flag again, has had its effect upon the inhabitants of Winchester and elsewhere. People who had before been warm supporters of the re bellion have shown a great change. Preparations have ocen made to make Harper's Ferry - a great military . depot. `ln .consequence of family affliction, Brig. Gen. Wm. H. Powell tendered his resigna tion some time since:' A protest against its acceptance was sent to Washington, 'but the necessity was so groat that the War Depart ment has accepted it. GRANT ON SHERMAN. - The following letter from Gen. Grant was read at a Sherman Testimonial mooting at Columbus (Ohio) last week: 11DQRS ARMY OF ThE bity. Va., Dee. 22, 1864 Jf - -E, H. 111J1V1;16.,"D: TA.Lmat.A.DaE,. deux. T. BRASEE.—Dear Sire: I have juit .this• .moment received your printed letter in re lation to 'ye& proposed . movenients in ac knoWledgement of ono ,of i Ohio's greatest wrOtLi only yesiorday to my father, who resides:in-Covington,' lity.,,on the same subject, and. asked him to inaugurate - a sub-. scription to Present Mrs. Sherman with a fuliaislica house in the City of Chiclitnati .• Gen. Sherman is eminently entitled to thii mark of consideration, and I directed my father to head the subscription with $6OO for me, and half that amount froth Gen. Ingalls, Chief Quarter - master of this army, who is e qually alive with myself to the eminent set vices of'Gen. Sherman. Whatever direction this enterprise in fa vor of Gen. Sherman may take, you may set me down for thel'ount named. I can not say a word too highly in praise of Gen. Sherman's services from the beginning of the Rebellion to the present day, and wilt therefore, abstain from flattery of him. Suf fice it to say, the world's history gives no , record of his superiors, and but few equals. I am truly. glad for the movement you have set on foot, and of the opportunity of adding my mite in testimonial of so great and good a man. Yours truly. U, S. GniNr, Lieut.-Gen. General News And Other Items. Cavalry Fight Ncar Columba:, Kentucky CINCINNATI, Jan. 23.—The Commercial's Cairo dispatch says that Lieut. Nesley, in command of a company of Tennessee Caval ry, left Columbus, Ky., on the 18th, and when ten miles out encountered two hundred rebels. A fierce, fight ensued, lasting half an hour. The rebels had two killed, one wound ed, tind five taken prisoners. No casualty on our side. It ie reported that from five to ten of For rest's command come and take the oath dai- Assault on Judge Kelley NEW YORK, Jan. 23.—1 t appears by a. Washington special that Mr. Field, one of the Lonisina delegation seeking admission as Congressman, last Friday night assaulted Judge Kelley, of Pennsylvania, with a knife, for remarks made in the 11 use. The Judge was only slightly cut in the hand. Field was held to bail. A Canard TonosTo„Tan. 23.—The Globc to-day has a special from Quebec, saying the report that the English Governiuent were about,to send a fleet of gunboats to Lake Erie, is a canard. From the West It is stated that the lenders of the rebel army in Arkanstl, design to abandon that State entirely. They are said to be concen trating their troops at Camden for the pur pose movin g southward into Louisiana and Tex - as..• Even the rebel citizens in Ar kansa¬ in the army, have been ordered by:\ingrudor to remove to the south side of Red river. Guerrilla gangs, however, still infest the mullion, section of the State. Two detachments of national troops recently went from Rolla and Pilot Knob, Missouri, into. the north and northeastern parts of Arkan sas, for the purpose of hunting up these marauders. They came upon and broke up several gangs, and killed and Captured a num ber of their members. The statement is re iterated that President Line“ln will revoke the torders of Generals Canby and Reynolds for the evacuation of Fort Smith by the na tional garrison. A Little Mixed The celebrated speech of Sir Boyle Roche: Mr. Speaker, I sun a rat; I see him float ing in the air; but murk me, I shall yet. nip him in the bud — was evidently the model upon which a writer in Kansas framed, the other day, some remarks upon the recent election. The Lea yen worth (.1,1 serve lice says that, by the result of the election, "the fall of corruption has been dispelled, and the wheels of the State government will no long er be traintnelled by sharks that have beset the public prosperity like locusts." MASSACHUSETTS The pro-slavery and half (or wholly) dis loyal fanatics who hate Massachusetts, and: who have found their fit mouth-piece in tho late Governor of New York, have done their worst during the last year to disseminate prejudices against the chief New England State. Gov. Andrew's Address to the Leg islature opportunely and authoritatively dis po-cs of the two most generally circulated falsehoods : first, that the State has not tilled her titu tas ; second, that she tilled them with imported. mid worthless recruits. 1. Th, GOVcrlitle nt, of the United Staters has called upon Nlassachusetts to furnish during the reliellein 117,t i 1.l men. Mass achusetts has furnished, uri to Dec. 22. 1864, and by the War I fepartment is credited with 125,4:37 men ; u surplus over all calls of 7,- 813. But this is far from representing the number of emu whom the State has actually furnished. To arrive at the official credit, the Men who volunteered for three mouths or for one hundred days are win Ily omitted, while the service of the nine mouths and of the one and two year men is reduced to fi three y,:tr, , tandard: Chat the above num ber 125,437 represents in fact the number of three ycaN volunteers. The whole number actually sent into the field by Massachusetts in respen , e to calls for 117,024 is 153,480 men. It appears further, by comparing this 11111111wr of enrolled militia in the State S r lbO4, that more moil have been sent into the errs lee than are now le be found in the State between eighteen and forty-five ; and 20,000 merit than are now liable terdo military duty. Anil, filially, under the last call of Dee. 19, 1801, for 300,0:10 men, the number to be fur nished by Massachusetts is but 835 men ; and even the se are duo not from the State nt large, but from two Congressional districts. Were the State counted as a unit, instead of each district, Massachusetts could not be call ed on for a single man under this last re quisition ; for, as a State, shelnts a surplus of thousands. So much on that point. 11. It is charged that Massachusetts hits tilled her quotas by imported recruits. Gov. Andrew sacs: "It is true that I have deem ed it important to the public welfare that the employment of persons capable of increasing the masculine industrial and military strength of the Conunor wealth should be favored. To that end, whenever opportuni ty utleied to obtain good recruits for the army from auloeg persons desiring to come hither to rod the defence and to enjoy the blessings of a tree Government, I have al ways accepted them." And what proportion of recruits belong to the "imported" class During the year, Massachusetts contributed altogether to the United States armies 45,- 446 recruits, of whom 1307 were "imported ;" and these, says Gov. Andrew, were divided among four regiments, and include some of their best soldiers ! Still further, counting also all the colored recruits, there were, not merely during last year, but all told, 4,731 credited to the State. And it' to these finally be added the enlist ments in the Veteran Reserve Corps—of course themselves veterans and most valua ble soldiers—and in the Regular army, the total foots up 10,672 soldiers, in four years, of foreign birth credited to Massachusetts, out of 125,437 in all 1 Wo wait to see what disingenuous slanderer shall hereafter ignore or falsify this statement for the sake of a fling at Massachusetts. As to colored troops, Gov. Andrew says with justice: "If we have accepted colored volunteers— who have come to Massachusetts for the pur pose of becoming soldiers—and turned thorn over as soldiers to the United States, it is be cause when we began to accept them, ,and until we had raised the equivalent of two• regiments, no other opportunity for them existed in the country. We .believed in colored men—others did not. We obtained permission to try them. We assumed the , hazards of the enterprise, but the country reaps the reward of its brilliant and assured success." The subject is not exhausted ; but we will' keep the rest of the filets till somebody 'ham disposed of those already stated.. Till they are disposed of— till the records are proved false—till the War Department and Goy. Andrew are found to ho in collusion till, in a word, some other .basis for late slanders than narrow and unpatriotic hate of a noble and most generously 'loyal State has been found, lot the above stand as a final answer in, behalf of Massachusetts. N. Y. TAbuyo. P.ETROLEtt . NI is now found in the Canadas, Ohio;Pennsylvania, Western Virginia, In dianar California, Kentucky, Illinois, Alia souri, Michigan, Kansas and Colorado. Dr. Williams, Professor at Meadville', locates 4114 true geographical centre of the oil territory' at Cincinnati, the Kentucky and Western Virginia developments being of a more prolix... ising character than any'heretofore discov ered. article is to bo found in greiitor or less qUantity throughout the whole •vas% area of tlie.coal basin, of,NorthArdetketi
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