Kerala. :1 t CARLISLE, PA. FRIDAY, JNNUARY 12. 1866. S. M. PETPENGIL.I. & CO., • V0. , 437 Park Row, New York,'and LI State St. Boston, aro our Agents for the like St. n those °Noe, and aro authorized to take Advertise ants and Subscriptions for float our lowest rates. The Southern People Against Seees sion Result of the election lately held i, `:`North Carolina seems to us much more valu ittitti than it has been gene - rally thought. This election was upon the two question submitted by the reconstruction Stale Con vention, whether the ordinance of secessio should be declared null and void, to whicl the people have responded aye 5 .19,770, nor 1,840; and whether the ordinance foreve prohibiting slavery in the State should scant as the law, to which they have responder ayes 18,527, noes 3,696. Neither of thes, great declarations can now be repealed b any not of Legislature hereafter without d rectly disregarding theae popular ex re, sions, which the legislature of North Caro lina are not very likely to do, and they pos seas a force and vitality of their own, derive , from this endorsement, which• relieves thee of the character of a mere concession Executive demands after a long and terribl war We are disposed to think that it have been better had all the southern recon struct on conventions, in the same manner submitted their action to a popular vote.— At present it is undeniable that touch of tit. respect the world have felt for that actint has been lost through their being mere ap parent concessions to inevitable necessit' and imperative Executive demands. It ha• been sufOlosed that although the•co❑ventions have made these unavoidable concession, they did not fairly represent the souther, people, and that thelatter would not ender... their action were the matter ❑ gnostic). submitted to a popular tote. To these slit-- pit:ions the result of the North Carolin, election affords a perfect reply. The con vention in North C•trolina seemtd to act re luctantly ; but the people at the polls tiro, acted nlm.•st unanimon.ly. The publi. voting has been far better than the vothq in convention. It may be asked, if these people are so nearly unanimous, and so sincere in thed voting against secession and slave - y, wli the State ever seceded on account of slaver] But here is one of the outrages of the rebel lion These people never did vote forseces sion. No opportunity of voting at all 0. the subject was ever afforded them, becans. it WAS well known from the begining tha they were for clinging to the Union Tb case was the same iu Virginia, and th browbeating process had to be resorted t by the emissaries of the secret rebel of dei of Knights of ihe Golden Circle to ocean e and force secession upon the two States. We entertain no sort of doubt that the voting in North Carolina reflects truly th, sentiment of the southern States general) and it w ,old lie decidedly preferable to b , able at the close of the war to put upon record these popular testimonials that th Col to and freedom are still strong in th pubic Leart, and that secession was not . movement of the people but of a conspirac , of designing political knaves throughout th tbiuth. Whether it he done or not, we shut continue to think inure of this North Caro ling election and its results than of any thing yet done at the South. SECRETARY MCCULLOCH has transmitted to Mrs. LINCOLN a draft for $ . 23.000, th balance of the first years' salary of our Int , lamented Chief Magistrate, which was voted her just before Congress adjourned at th , holidays. We see some few journals in Ho, country are so exceedingly hard up for mas tonal out of which to manufacture prejudi , e that they denounce this mere act of justice to Mr. LINCOLN'S family. There are al way men in the community who are small enough for anything. Mr. LINCOLN'S term of ser vice was attended with more labor, care and responsibi[ity than those of any four of hi predecessors combined, while the actual sal ary paid him was, on account of our depri ciated currency, certainly not more that, two-thirds that which they received. His devotion to his country, and the might . % work of deliveran:.e he accomplished for her. made him hated of traitors beyond any other man living, and his position as Chief M. gi,- trate made him the victim of their last mur derous attempt to destroy the Government. Ho fell in the service of his country, and be cause ho was in its service, just . cer tainly as did any of the heroes who fell upon that battle fields of the Union. Is it not just that his family, who have been deprived of their great head by the foes of his country be cared for by that country? The fanhily of President HAttalsort Was thus treated, and yet who will seriously pretend that they had a tithe of the claim upon the country that the widow and orphans of our murdered Presi dent had ? We commend the action of Con gress in this case, and feel sure it will be en dorsed by the ' , people who hold sacred the memory of ABRAHAM LINCOLN. DEATH OF HON. HENRY WINTER DAVIS.- The public was surpris d and pained to hear of the death dfllenry Winter Davis, on Sat urday afternoon last. He died of a sudden attack of Pneumott'ia, having been confined to his room but a f'w days. He was about 48 years onige. He served sighs. years in Congress as a Representative from Balt, city. His decided ability as an orator and a keen, vigorous thinker, together a ith k ,his well known independence and fearlessness of expression. made him a leading man in every position which ho assumed. He was the earnest advocate of emancipation, and perhaps no man did more to prepare the public mind of this state'for its adoption.— Hie radical views and his bold assertion of them' made him many bitter enemies, But bisfidelity.to priaciple•no one could nes- a. •n s now t let ho is laid to rest, there can be'but - ''reine:verdict in reference to aim —A grelit And talented man has fallen, and the cause eit:‘:bunr progress has lost one of its 'most'ehie c ampions. • Taz Sent tor . IPLowuns.--Poetry - has given the title to the living breath of fro ,grant Idossoms, and this floral soul-this •% - quintesseence of olfactory l9xuriesxists, Inits full °perfection, in Phalon's " Night `BleOmiflg,Cereus." Sold everywhere. ,Cocreepcndent of.thc Harrisburg • ,- ;• - j1 7 #c4fraph,.recommenda the nomination' by v ?'4P'fP °6 i! au Railyl° Maj . Gen. John W. kkw , iy, setneir candidate tor_ r?xtGovernor pyoiioOlidictieeltli. •-- , • . _ The below appended article is from the Leeds Mercury, the leading country paper in England. The views contained . in it on' the important questions between this country and England are ,characterized by u'senti m.nt sc generous and niagnanirnons . that wo ipy the article entire. It is refreshing to ‘!otiee the way an intelligent and past Er. 4lishman puts our American Copperhead to shame by his enlightened and liberal expo sition of the law and comity which should govern great nations. THE PRE. SIDENT'S MESSAGE® AND AMERICAN CLAIMS. We ate aitaid when the history of the American war comes to be impartially writ ten that the Americans will be found to have excelled this country quite as much in the Statemanlike moderation of their tone with re. .peel hAhreigh in the clearness of ~weir preceptions with respect to dom st c Joneerhs. During .the contest they were •tten taunted with the blindness of passion .nd prejudice, and journals which betrayed it every line the most ludicrous ignorance .f American affairs and the grossest peril anshi p in all references to thine, yet com decently assured their readers that they. being et a distance and able to look upon natters with impartial eyes, could form at much clearer judgmetit of the proouble is au tutus those wee were deceived by their .open and fears, their wishes and interests, e nettled proximity to the scene of strife. 'itch language as tins, in which the Amer-- sans were taunted with t eir fay and blind lees, continued to the very edge of the cum. 'kite destruction of the Southern cause by . ne evacuation of Richmond and the surt‘en ter of LEE, when suddenly all the prop beta • ;rugs which had been so laboriously u Ad blow themselves into the dim e nsions of prophetic oxen, burst with an igninnonems dhapse, and three-quarters of the newspe- J ura, and the larger part of the classes which ire nee ustomed to call themselves "educated std intelligent," looked supremely silly. dm if the British public—we mean the tip ier and midd.e clauses—were for the most d art humiliatingly wrung Aheir judgement, 0 . the cause , , the nature, the progress, and .he re-tilt, of this great strife, they were even ore fit idly wrong in the conception of their own duties es neutrals. Future historians .t this country will record with shanie.,thid chile the British Government endeavored to ire Serve on the while a strict neutrality, the .iritish Parliament over and over again sig Med by cheers and vociterations Its appro val of acts or piracy which brought disgrace m our nation atria' our age, and that Ma. ',may for an act of lawless selfishness which, sit for the moderation of the American Government, might ha e in \ (dyed our court • try in war, was made the hero of a large, perhaps a preponderating, portion of the Liriti-ti Legislature. If we compare with these (I isgracetul scenes in our Parliamentary ostory the wildest, language which has been ed by-American orators in out of Congress crib reference to this country, we shall find lilt there is little to boast of either in the a perior wisdom which we are apt to dab, , ,r even in the sup nor refinement on which se plume ourselves. But if we turn from the conduct of the 11‘e British bublic are retire tented by the tippet and noddle classes, to he conduct tit' the Governments, we are draid that the contra , d will again appear n t very decidedly in our own favour. We are not going again to refer to the coliduct n. 'I • authorities in the [natter of the Alabiuna. slight slip was made, wnolly unintention al, and followed by consequences wholly un ..a•seen. housands of such slips qre made nvithout being attended with any serious eon equenees at all, and it would be absurd to I(.1d our Government morally responsible or the msfortune which ensued. Ti,,, sup dying of the belligerents with arms, with nips, with other newts of carryher, on the .oniest, was in no respect an act or the eon h „ry, still less of the. Government. The mid de and upper classes no doubt contained housands tit unscrupulous men, whose sole thjection to wrong is the punishment which nay 'allow it, and these applauded the fitting nt of pr,vnteers in British ports With the same stupid levity with Much they have -since lippiatided the butcheries in Jamaica, and w.,uld applaud anything ,else against which the just and philanthropic feeling of - tic age sat itself ill uppostLiuu. , But, could the opinion of the British people have been it ken by vote, they can be no question that selfish blindnesS of those who, for gain, sere willing to barter the honour and peace d . their country„, would have been charm:- erised in tennis of becoming to th , • Government wore with which alone the United,States can deal in this motel, .ts aux.,...) II) pri,VVIIL Catlaea of coin - ,daint is abundantly proved by its conduct with respect to Many other vessels which s , reor were thought to be, fitting out for a nit la r purpose. Morally, therviore. we are oersuaded that nothing can be laid to our •liiirge as n nation, however much any be fibd against the conduct of certain indi vidu ds. But the fact that we are morally guilt cst does not prove that we have done all .lint the Americans are entitled to expect. iVe may hare done our best, and yet from lefefit in Our laws, or trout detect in our un lerstanding of international obligations, we nay have cal'en into error. This is what he Americans allege. Ek.u. RUSSELL an .wers, with_more temper than good sense, (hat he will not have our h ono' r put in ques tion, and that we are the best judges Lit the interpretation of our own laws. I'REsIOEXT JotiN,3oN replies With perfect telnper and with excellent sense. that he does not dispute our honour, and that the question between fis is not one of our own laws at all, but one if' international law, which can only be set .led by impartial arbitration. The superior lignily of t his answer hardly requires corn intent. Its superior sense will, we think, be pretty nearly as obvious. As, to the first ooint, thousands of questions of right must arise in which no person's honor is con cerned, and in which personsof equal honour may maintain directly opposite views. For parson, therefore, to cry out when his views at right are questioned that his honour is as -ailed, and that he will not be insulted, is both undigni tied and ridiculous. This is the attitude in which Emus RussELL's reply has out us as to the first part of the controversy. His other proposition, that the duties of neu trality are to be measured, nut according to any fixed principles of international comity, hut according to the fluctuating standard of municipial law, is, if possible, still more mon •trous. According to this, if the nation had bad no Foreign Enlistment Act at all, ves •els might have been openly fitted out in our ports to sweep the seas in the Confederate ,erviCe, and ypt the United' States Govern ment. would :have had no right to complain.' Either there must be a standard independent of the municipal law, or Lbis municipal law must entirely replete the duties of neutral ity. 11 the mumeipial law entirely regulates the duties of neutru ity, then it may be per ieutiy right fur one nation to fit out vessels to prey upon commeice, and perfectly wrung for another a proposition which, we sup pose, refutes itself by its own absurdity. If, .however, munieipial law does not entirely regulate the duties of neutraiity, there must be an independent standard, and EARL RUS SELL is manifestly wrong in treating the matter solely as a question of municimal law. In good sense, therefore, and clear argument, no less than in good temper and manly dig nity, PERStpuNT JOnNuoN'a tone rises to an measurable height over the captious and Illogical answer of, our own Government. But if our Government has put itself at a great disadvantage as compared with that of America in the matters of dignity and logical consistency, it has put itself at an immense, disadvantage with the whole world in rela tion to its own interests. W e doubt whether history furnishes any record of conduct more suicidal than thTa of which our Government has been guilty.--Of--all countries in the world there is none so absolutely dependent on its mercantile. marine as Great Britain. America has internitl resources by which, if shut off from the rest of the .world, could feed, clothe, and amply provide for all the wants of its people. France, Austria, Rus sia, Prussia, could derivenbundant supplies by land can:l%l4off all their ships wore swept, oil the seas. • But let a few dozen swift - sail- ` 'ing vessels scour the ocean, burning and . capturing our merchantmen,.and who ,can calculate the amount of misery and • want' that would ensue, the ruin that would over take d ir. mercantile houses, the paralysis which would fall on our manufacturing op brations,',the sudden'rise in .value of all the necessaries of life, and the I', mine and-des pair which Would spread itself through—the. working-classes 't Of all nations on the earth, then, we.have . the greatest interest in Ii R ing these depretiatiens and in establishing the principle that vessels built on order for belligerents at neutral ports, and fitted out at sea, shall both be regardedas privatcertS in .the first instance, and shall retain this `oharacter'throughout their whole career,o ; so, that all, ports Shall beeloSetiagairist ,tbem, and.their peStilptit career,shall sP i 1:y be checked. Instead at this we •havefre qtiently harbored the Alabama genuine -War vessel,„and although nobody , ohargesn§ fhith, we have flown into a passion; stood on our dignity, and returned a surly refusal when asked to submit to arbitration whether our conduct in this particular came within the just limits of neutrality. We have thus furnished a weapon by which all nations, oven nations without a single port or a single ship, can wage piratical war upon our enormous commerce, while we have no means of retaliation or defence. Such is ,the dangerous position in which this affair-now stands. We have contrived with admirable sagacity to establish a rule which. while it may possibly work injuri ously to others, must work fatally to our selves—a rifle Which will always tend to drag us into war, and when it has got us into war will work our certain ruin. So much f the wisdom of our governing classes I But we trust it is not yet too Late to do somethin4 for our deliverance trom this foolish and suicidal position. America has declared that not go to war, and so has removed the matter beyond the region of threats; she has declared that she does not impeach our honor, and has therefore removed it out of the sphere of personal dignity. She has thus left us the door open to adopt a plan which will settle the past and the future in a man • ner satisfactory to both nations and to the whole civiliz d world. The main point is to settle the future, but we can hardly ex ect the Americans to agree to settle the law in our favor for the future unless we agree to pay reasonable compensation if we have inadvertently violated international obliga tines in the past. We should, therefore, still propose to refer' the past ma tern to an impartial tribunal. If it decided t ha t we ought to have seized the A abaina when ii entered nog ports, or in any other manner decided against us, we could easily settle the damages, and the point, of law would be de termined for the future.' If it decided in our favor with respect to the past, the Americans would not insist, on damages, and, finding that we had not voluntarily or wantonly in jured- them. would probably consent to such a modifieation of the law as should prevent the repetition of sim depredations to those 01 the Alabama in future wars. This course is still open to our Government. It could nut be ascribed to fear, it would not stierillee a particle of national dignity, and it would ! extricate us from a position of great ein bar rassment and considerable danger, The good temper and wisdom .if the American PRES IDENT hits given us a chance we hardly de served, and we trust our Government will not be foolish enough. to throw it away. THERE are rumors from Washing-ton of contemplated changes in the Cabinet, start ed by Mr. Seward's visit to Cuba. It is not at all probable that Mr. Seward will with draw. Neither thus country or President Johnson could well spare him at this impor tant era in our foreign affairs. Seentary mvootiou r. 6, 6 . ...dr.l;tt.cl t-7 bo the right man in the right place. Gov. Dennison is making an excellent Post Mas ter General. Mr. Stanton, whom the Rebels fear, and copperheads hate most cordially, and who dosen•t care a fig for either, but dares his uluty without fear or favor or affec tion, is urderstood to be anxious to resign. It is said his wish will be granted, and that he will be tendered the mission to Englund. Mr. Wells wits never popular, and has been made much game of, and yet he has raised the Navy to a higher standaid than any of his predecessors.. He, it is said, will be of fered the Mission to Spain. Mr. Harlan, Secretary of the Interior, is to be chosen U. S. Senator from his. State, which he pre fers to his present pcsition. Ex-Gov. Ran dall, of Wisconsin, Present First Assistant Post Master General, aspires to Mr. H's. prose t position, and so, it is said, does our own Senator Cowan.- the latter were not so often found talking, and acting and vot ing with the clpperheads we should like him better, but for all that, if President John son takes ground against the ‘...ltittlicals,' as they are called,—that is the out-and-oi t Re publicans.—Cowan would be just the man to suit him. It may be, after all, th,e rumors amount to ni,thing, but we incline Lu the opinion that they are not without at least partial foundation. From the report of the Superintendent of Common Schools for 1865, we lotrn that the whole number of schools in the State 01 Pennsylvania is 12,617. Whole number of pupils who have attended the public schools during the year, 629.587. Average attend ance per month, 397,001. Per centuni of attendance upon the whole number, 628. Average length of school term 15 months and 14 days. Average cost per month, in cluding all expenses, 68 cents. Whole num ber of teachers 14,2:36. Average salaries of node teachers per month, $3l 72; o' female, $24,21. Total cost of tuition, $,l 990,777,- 83. Total Expenditures of the sysicin for tuition, houses and fuel, $2,773.484 06, which is an increase front 1804 of $381,584 00. This is exclusive of the city and county of Philadelphia. Including . Philadelphia the total cost of the system for the school year eliding on the first Monday of June, 1865, was $3,614,338 55, and $3,395,882 76 more than it was in 1864. MR. KEMBLE, the State Treasurer of Pennsylvania, in this report just submitted to the Legislature„presents a most favOra ble exhibit, and shows that the resources of the State grow so r pidly in, excess of the expenses, that the State debt may be reduced very considerably, without taxing real es tate. Mr. Kemble • is undoubtedly right• There are State interests, stich as Railroads, Banks, and Corporations, of all sorts estab lished by legislative enactment, that make enough profit on the privileges accorded to them by the Legislature, to pay all the ex penses of the State Government. UNKIND,—Gen. Sherman recently made a speech to a State Convention in Arkansas, replete with good sense and sound advice, but containing softie very unpalatable truths. As for instanc. : • You think you have not all the rights yOu are entitled to, yet you now have more rights and privileges under exist ing circumstances than you would have in any civilized country except Annerica. Had you done as you did in this land, under the bloody flag of Groat Britain or the tri-color of France, many of you would not be hero and you would not have been permitted to assemble as you are now assembled and talk over political questio-s and rights." It was unkind in the General to remind these men that they deserved the halter and would soon - hare - got it, under any other government.— This is the era of go : 0 feelings/ It is polit ically fashionable now to say " let bygones be bygones," and Sherman Will'find himself set down as a fanatic and radical if he per sists' in these .unpleasant reminders to our Southern brethren,. =Hon; Morton M'Michaekvaa inaugurated Mayor of Plladelphia, arid Hon. John T. Holfraan,•'Mtiyor of New York, on New' Year's day. . • • • —An intelligent traveller at the south say's : Take a list of. names 'of :every soldier of the late confederate army, and in the whole lot-you could, not_gel , n g , lard that will ever enlist again azeinst th.,4 flag of the United States." - , .. • THE WORK BEFORE U 8 ItiiteOrnrribn to remark that thuiqpublic bas"VtirYtritich to do, though futi persons iii see.really . to estimatti'Properly thA,qlnagni t tUdeof , what is to be'xiOnd,.ilind those care 7: iestlinlkers who rarely descend iletail4 content thomselvct 'syiths believing: that thecountry is equitl*. ; ;anything';'whilti: in point of fact the problencs presented tc us fur solution are of stiipendous proportions, and well calciilated to confound any states man a4ustomed to deal with theste-rivettli ties of public `_ - ]`,et group !toigethaf:, briefly these things, that . our retulers may understand accurately the difficulties with which the Administrition and Congress will have to content. • '- 1. The reconstruction' of the rebel Sates, involving—first the destruction of the blank cods of the south ; second, securing of civil rights to the negroes; third, purgation of .he Southern State constitutions and laws of the pernicious influences of legalizes caste; fourth, obtaining for the poor people of the south ar voice of influence in their own government; fifth, establishment of a free school system at the south, for the edu cation of all. -2. Reorganization of our national finan ces upon a sure, solid and permanent system ; involving—first, a•elorm of the revenue sys terns, so as to make protection real instead of apparent; second, reduction of the inter est oia the national debt; third, retrench. ment in all public expenditures; fourth, gradual extinguishment of the public debt; fifth, return of the currency to a legitimate 6' tit II da I'd . 3. Settlement of the national domain, in volving; first, the', building of four grant railroads through to the Pnettie ocean, each two thousand miles Tong; svcond, organiza tion of two new territories, at present, with out. law or government ot any kind; third, the abolition Of bhe Mormon nuisance in Utah ; fourth, the Americanization of New Mexico; fifth, development of the reghMs j sixth, removal Or domestiention of the Indians. 4. Restoration of our national prestige abroad, involving ; first, securing Um pay ment of indemnities by "England lor her depredations upon our• «munerce during the civil war; second, the r eestablish went of the Nlexican authority in. the place of the empire created to injure ; third, relief of Chili, Peru and Dominica front the terrorism of Spain : fourth, re-establish went of Ameri can influence in the Hawaiian islakds. rt. Itehuilditig of our commercial supre limey, involving; first, repudiation of all sale h shortsighted arrangements as the Cana dian reciprocity treaty ; second, a sound and permanent protective policy which will pre vent foreign factions from controlling the shipping intereSts, and give the control to our own industry. 'those are the matters which demand the attention of Congress and the Adminitsra- Oen. Cain they be done at a dash ? Some persons seem to think they can be; but none who think so can have examined theground at all. We have so much to do, that we cannot afford to waste time in idle wrangl mg. Yet, Leese tasks tare or Lliuh n sagnitudo as to require exceeding care in their perfor mance. We •ire glad to see that Congress is not disposed to lose time in dealing with the subject, and hope that, when they reas semble, the members will feel as determincd upon work as they were before the adjourn• mcnt. NEWS ITEMS —ln Baltimore, during the past year, 710 permits fur new buildings were issued. —ln 1865 there were 682 murders com mitted in the United States, and only 98 executoins. —The Bret shadV the season on the Sa vanniiii river were taken on the 29th ult —The Harpers are impirting paper from Belgium for their weekly. - The double-turreted monitor Tonawan da will ht;reafter be attached to the Nava Academy. —German emigrants are arriving in strong force in Louisiana and Miss ssippi. —Sixty-two homicides uenuired in New Y. rk during 1865. —The price' of cotton is declining in ul the greet. cotton warts of the south. —The German Insurance Company of Louisvi Ile bus declared a divided of forty per cent., free of government tax, upon Its capital stock. —The order mustering out unemployed generals will be promulgated about Jan uary 15th. —lllinois, since 1860, has increased her pepul.•ation 530,0 P. The result was aseel tained by a State census ju t taken. —Deaths in Boston the past week num bered 87—males 36, females 31—of why, 23 were children under live years of age. —The last order of the War Department; mustering out volunteer troops, relieves Virginia of all white volunteer troops and officers —The Janesville (Ohio) Gazette says •' A t the Guru' Exchange, in this city, corn is used as fuels it being deemed much cheap er than coal at the present prices." The rebels of Crittend. n, Hopkins and others counties of southern Kentucky have deter Mined to :esist the application of the constitutional amendment. They declare that it has not been adopted, and is illegal and uneonstitutienal. —Thirteen dead bodies were taken from the surf at Nantucket, lust week, ten of . which were thought to have belonged to the . ship Newton, wrecked there. —The Ohio Legislature adopted a resolu tion requesting the members of Congress from that State to vote for negro suffrage in the District of Columbia. —The Light-house Board is engaged in re estaolishing light-houses on the-- southern enlist destroyed during the rebellion. Dur ing the last six months some twenty have • been put in operation. —The records of the Treasury Depart mentsli7m that during the last two years the government has realized from the sales of confiscated and abandoned cotton, sugar, &c., in the State of Mississippi, over $0,C000,0../. —The Sum of $4200 has lie(M ordered stopped against. the pay of the 4th laichigan infantry, at San Antonto, Texas, by Maj. Gen. D. S. Stanley, commanding, for dama ges dmie wantonly to the Episcopal Church, the money when collected to be paid over to tho trustees of the church. —ln the Fenian Q. egress, on Friday, the principal feature of 'the proceedings was, a speech by Gen. Sweeney, who said that ho would indorse anything calculated to re's'tore .harmony to the ranks of the Brotherhood. —lt is proposed to'apply . to poi -gross' for a charter to organize un association under the name of National Laboratory.. and -Mining Assoriatibn,' for the purpose. of as=f slating materially, and without ert to the government, the speedy devuloi wont of the agilailtural, and induatrial re sources of 'the country. '.• ' . • •• ' —The Directors of the Reading Gas Corn pally; at their Meeting last week . , declared a dividen of 5 p r cent. for the last, sixmonihs. During , the"paM, year a -reduOtioa of, cents on' the one thousand, feet had, been . made. —The 47th regiment Penneylvnnin.. unteme, Colonel-J. de bin enni= mending; left Churle.itcdp''S."for •New ,York on the B r d inst. ,;;, • . • . PERSONAL. —The rebel Gen. Longstreet has beconie a corhmission meithant iji New Orleups. " : 5 -4 4::_the'" - kehel den: Wkfl:',,A , Traplefi'dled len`Chailesten, Ar'recer4...l3.o 'was a graduate of:West Pella. ;,c,f • • ‘, NV 1 • • fl ,- .54 JA%pq.unday,..alki fkx-mpAipprOf 4.1 M. 'ST e w York Low' s I turb fins be 6.141 e. to the penitentiary for four months for " out ri ging decency." - ,L-Eit-Generari Mirintiduka, - Preston and Waft : 6F of Titias LuniTOn as is also Mr. Judah P. Benjamin. —Major Thomas W. Sweeny, 16th United States infantry, has heron dismissed the ser- Vice" for 'ilibSenki - withOut — leavo. -- lfajor SWeehy, who is also a Major General or Vol unteers; is Secreture of ;War of tho'renian organization: • . ..„ —John ttoridloy was cseetitea MAW rence, Kansas, on the 29th ult., for the'rOur der of'Jobil Sutton, in Jane last, in Fran - lin county. Numerous as Ifiive been the hangings in Lawrence, the Journal says this was the first by legal pec , cesi.. ,"., L'Oen. SWayue, CommisSioney of Freed men for Abibama, writes that heaucceeds in 1 miting the issue of subsistence to 'destitute persons of all clas'Ses in his district to 'about 15,0 0 rations per day. The State Cotninis sioner, appointed by the Legislature for that purpod - , reported, destitute the number of 18,1,0J0 wbito persons,alone. —Judge Thomas B. Monroe, a prominent lawyer, legishitorand politician of Kentucky, died on the 28d ult., at Pass Christian, Miss., at the age of 74 years. Hs was a great stu dent, an accomplished writer and speaker, and an influential member of the Democratic party. —A. 0. P. Nicholson; former Senator in Congress from Tennessee, having made ap plication for his compensation between the time he left the Senate in 1861, to the period of his expulsion, is petition has been refneed by the Secretary of the Senate -In November last John Rose, a lad of nine years, belonging in Brooklyn, N. Y., who had been in Connecticut for the pur pose of being brought und. r gond discipline, s(t fire to the chool building,, and it was en tirely destroyed, causing a loss to Mr. Whit ney of $12,000. Rose admitted that he set the fire but owing to his youth was not pros ecuted for n, son. As the boy had about $50,000 in his own right, and Whitney was a poor man, the latter brought e suit in Brooklyn to recover money to establish him self in b..sinesi again. The jury gave a ver dict in favor of the plaintiff, giving bin . ) $ll,OOO. —Admiral Davis. Superintendent of the No.-n 1 Observatory, reports thus : I have the honor to report the discovery of a cornet last evening, (January 6.) at this observatory, by H P. Tuttle, Assistant Paymaster, U. S. Navy. From observations with the equatorial, the following, place was obtained by Mr. James Ferguson. Assistant Astronomer : M. T. W. R. A. Dec. .inn S,IRITh Rh 1 nrn 9 RR. '3h 33m 29 AN. d 9.2 m. fi'ol The comet is round. of about two minutes Om.) of arc in diameter, with a slight con demotion at the centre. • OUR BOOK TABLE GoDET's LADY'S BOOK..—UDgReStiORRILIy one of the very first authorities on that, to the ladies, all-important mutter—t o fash ions. The principal engraving for this month is a steel plate, entitled " The Farewell &r -ump," and another on steel of six beautiful medallions, entitled "A String of Pearls.' The Fashion Plates are inimitable, and the literary and other matter excellent. L. A. GODEY, Philadelphia, Publisher.— Term, $3 per annum. The HERALD and G,Aky, .$l3 50 per annum. DEMOREST'S MONTHLY _MAGAZINE, AND MfRILUR OF FASmoN.—This new and popu lar publication opens the Jun Miry nun) her with an elaborate cut of the "Grand Indian M rub," from Meyerbeer's last opera of I" Af ricaine. A piano arrangement of the march by Konrad Trouer. A beuutifulsteel engraving. The Elopement," and a color ed fashion plate lonuw. A spiriti a wood picture of the "Old and New Year," wh eh has considerable merit. Much attention is paid to the literary character of the work, and it is really an excelbint publication. W. Jennings Demurest, .Publisher, 473 .yrk.itidwity, N. Y. Terms, $3. Tut: "ECLECTIC MAGAZINE."—The first number of this admirable re,:ertory of the Periodical Literature of Great Britain and other parts of Europe, for 1866, has come to hand, embellished with a very any o egraV ing of "Slitikspettre.at Stratford-on , Avon," reading Hamlet to his family. The leading article is from the London Quarterly Re view, on the 60.1 th Anniversary of the birth of Dante, and is followed by choice selection of other articles—including one copied from . the French of the Revue Chretienne, on a new novelist who has lately made a stir in Paris —both of a substantial and lighter quality, which make up a varie y to please all tastes. The ECLECTIC is published by W. A. Rtn 'WELL, No. 5 Beckman street, New York, at $6 per annum. THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, for J'anuary 1866, has also arrived, and is an excellent number. • In it is commenced a series of ex tracts from the Diary kept by Nathaniel Hawthorne. in his life-time, which punnot fail to be pleasant and interesting. Charles Reade's new novel, Gilbert Gaunt, or 'Jea lousy,- is continued. So is - Ik. Mithrel's'Dr. Johns. Mrs. Stowe continues her admire .b,e series, the "Chimney Corner." Besides these, are other admirable articles , fi om dis tinbuishod writers in prose and poetry. The ,Atlantic Muni%lj is published by Messrs. Tichmir Sr, Fields, Roston, at Our' Young Folks, by'tho or both to one addreSsfot.ss •' • Orn'Yournl Fotlrs.—Thib favorite publi- : maim' for the juveniles commences' the now year with an engraving finely done tin steel, representing ,Mrs.:Harriet,Beectior St we at limns, writing for ,this z euttgazine ono of iltose articles, no doubt,. wltich have contributed so largely to its attractiv'eness: : She con tributes to this number, along with MrS: Maria Child, M Whittioi 'jean 'lnielow, liuil Hamilton, Rose Terry, and other fa; vorite writes. Houtc_—Tha_bost_jvordAve can , say of this Magazine is. Opt.it . enpi.inues to finprove, Us the January riuniherlh! . .iB6l3 is plum evidence. .We .cannot, indeed, say veryceintnendtitAFy nag in it, but ite Tahiti,cont. , 9 . p veiry. attractive in th - 0;'.4 ........ are' ''." •. . • . • .•- 4, HAiiiiEjeia numbe'r of !la per husit' its !Mist teuture a profusely illustriited article on the _British: Route , for ii-:Tecitleltailroad. '-The wood: .this:Jkl.ngnziptiarO; ; ways nditairahly, cione..-I.'ye,reuclipg.rnutter of this number is very diversitleci t - l and' full of those _qualities which , have secured...l'er %,ll.AliPnitll4 feat , paralleled oir`oulutiim. •• , We have the January numberof this well- A9f4i and deserVedly piipull& work on (Air teibielo.ohaii so many prominent wor,'SY-. featur e es,!,4o,:,t, t he space uantiliy,alluttek tell boultice A ikinsutileie4'te,give pr;.,:pe'rkit tentiOn2.lbli:W'yarious merits:'? i 'lt cOnilii`Os literary excellence j *ith ailed .Fit9hioris departme*: • :', l ,Fhe piinoip,tl pkiturekthis month is an exquisitely'colOred and tinted plate, called the "First Baby." The Fashion Plato is the largest pit...fished by anysiiriilur work: Frank Leslie, Publisher, 637 Pearl street, New York. Terms, $3, 50 per annum. TRIBUNE ALMANAC.—The 1860 number of this inestimable obblication has been re eeivtYd." ` lt is of a current record of important, events“oceurring, during the past year. A vartety 4 : inyaluable, statistics und ,a complete ey.bihiyof the officialsof the Gov ernment and the sole. ui §tates. It will give additional interest to knoW that it is cum 'piled- by our' fernier:fent/Iv-citizen and late Priofessor in Diekitis'on Clollege, ALEXANDER J: SCDEM., Esq. -Published by the 'Tribune Assoeuttidn,•lNlew York, and fur sale at nil the book stores at 2U cents. From Washington • Washington, Jan'Y 8, 1866. mar Herald:'- It as beyond -the reach of the oldest citi*erf to meal such weedier as is now pievailing in this latitude.' During the week we have been treated ti.l all the va rieties that the New Year was capable of inaugurating to sat the tastes of those here congregated. It begun with a snow storm, but just enough of the fleecy material fell to inflame the imaginations ut those whose ex pectations were high for sleigh-rides. The warm rays of friendly "Old Sol" on the following day, at once dispelled any such preposterous idua ; for soon the snow so pure, melted imperceptibly and we realized to the fullest extent the oft told tale of " Washing ton mud." But now the coldest weather known here for years is in vogue, and en tails a corresponding amount of suffering upon those unprosided with the necessary comforts and imbiliments wherewith to ward off its ehillt . ng influence. It is piercing cold, which tact is attested by the mercury below zero, the hurried gate of pedestrians, muffied up so closely as to render it impossible to i see their faces, and he ice bound river. Bo reas is Certainly holding, high ea lurid, and as a consequence skating is the amusement of the day. We cannot yet boast of a park, so the river and canal are crowded by the votaries old and young, of bath sexes—to this healthful and fascinating enjoyment. Skating by ladies must have been recently introduced, as a general inaptitude for the art is observable, and the result always as series of unexeeptionab e tumbles. Congress having had its plum pudding is girding up its loins for renewed labors, must or all of the members have returned, and to day there will be a quorum in both houses. Notes having been composed and interenan ges of opinion with wed informed constitu ents, it is thought the antagonistic element to the reconstruction policy of the President will in a measure, undergo an abatement, and efferts to att. in a reconstructed Union, based upon the soul.d principles of untrain fueled liberty and justice, work together mor'e harmoniously. The question of negro suffrage in the Dis trict of Colutnbia may be looked upon as virtually settled. There is a stern and steady mov(!invnt to 5152(11°C to the race a portion at least, of the rights universally conceded in the Republic, arid thoSe averse to the project will Undoubtedly be made to realize - before the close of the session, that here it is indeed a verity. That you may form an idea of the magnitude of this element I may state that in the census now being taken, of the colored residents of the city, under the die tien of the Freedmen's Bureau, upwards of 15,000 of a population are already reported. E. HARRISBURG The Legislature, and the Protracted Absence til . the Governor—ls an Adjournment over necessarys The new Committees i f the Senate and llouse—(good Appointments— A Fishy Coare-tion—A Skati:ly Carnival —A Rather Cool Operation. Specird Curr , spondenNt of Ow article Iir:HALO HA RRISBURG, .January 10, 1866 In eny last letter, I informed you that the Governor would doubtless return home by next' Wednesday, fir the day folh , win...-;in deed, his most intimate friends werelcon dent that he would not protract his absence longer. . But Mr. SLIFER, the Secretary oi the Commonweal h, received a letter f ono Gov. Crams several days ago, dated the 28th of DeceinLer, 1865, at,Matanzas, Cuba, in which he announced that he had deter mined to protract his stay in Cuba to the latter part of February. This was indeed Important news. Everything had been ar ranged on the supposition that the Executive would be present by the middle of January, and this announcement came entirely unex pected. It seems that the Governor had previously written several letters announe ing the same int, ration, but they were unfor tunately delayed. His physician, Who ac companied him, has strongly recommended this course, and-does not think that it would yet be safe for the Governor, in his severe Illness, to return from a warm climate to these, intheneereite 1101111,. Where the ther mometer is ranging from three to nine de grees below zero. Although still in a critical state, the Governor is happily fist recover ing his impaired health. The rest of the party, among whom is Mrs. Guam; aim Surgeon General Putwes, are quite well, and etqoy the visit as well us circumstances WRY allow. In view of this announcement, the ques tion arises if it would not, be well for the Legislature to take a recess of severed weeks until the Governor's arrival ! .I.t must be borne in mind that all bills passed finally through both Houses., if not signed or vetoed by the Governor within ten days alter their transmission to the Executive Chamber, be ;come laws, just as it' they had received the Governor's signature. There are many inn portant subjects fur legislation this winter— such as a revision of the revenue laws, alter ations in' the Common School I.lw, a general railroad law, eke.—Which might be acted un rather early in the - session. The query then suggests itself—ls it fair that the Legislature should presume to take final action on these projects and make them laws-through the ac 'cide-ntal 'absence of the Executive and mere ly in-default of his signature? On the other 'hand, suppose the Senate and House of Rep resentatives should agree, by joint:resolution, to take no final action upon any bill—but allow their reference to committees and their .considerat'on in due order down to second reading—until the Executive-Chair shall be again r occupied, when the bills in the proper shape fOr final passage. If such an understanding were established, legislation would not be retardek.and :no harm could possibly result. Speaker Ft.taittsto has exercised great wis dull) iri is is selectieir6f nfOrnb'or's of the Stiind trig ' Committees 'of the Snide; 'which were announced to-day. That grim ,and staunch old patriot,, from, the storm-lashed and ice tenind coast of Lake Erie, ivho IntS held the position of Chairman,of the Corn niitthe on •FederalAtelatiOns,fon,two win ,ers, has been re-appointed to that position . ; No better,se;- lection could have been .made. The re-ap pointmeneofSenator Lewin' indicates a firm Kelley; on :the .payt id; th e Speaker-who .repre bents the sentimet4,a Ole §uriat° , 4 l nationa l ?uttitivs.--:1-can-as;4tiro you.-that-no=m ills-and-- .'water resolutions 0' reconstruction can pos. sibly run the gauntlet of, that committee; with Lown7t at the holm and Judge ()moat , - N.gICS of oldLitnihtstbr,Und Senators - HILL, of little mountainous' Blair; and , ! ot;, red-htit,A,llegheny,•to , m an, the rigging. CLlnega, who you know,is on the Democra tic slate for Governor nest fall,' , Und who is . !hylitv theJahlest Copperhead 'in the Senate, isioth this - Committee to represent his fallen cornputriotsi; - ! • •,,!; ~;. Sentitor,tosops-7-gend,-solY..aecomitio dliting'-"..itirrY"--L,is Chairman Of the ()dm nitthe tin Railroads, which'' boa' not 'beim changed ; all the Senators who - were on"the Committee lust your either , holdlover. or. have 'been re-elected. " Geti'L Wityku is made Chairman of the Committee-oil -141.11 i.; :thrrAttairs, u position b tts.suroly suroly justly earned- by his- - ,gallantporivices ; in ;the ( tietd and his ,Inng,suttbring.in.l.2l+4..p.risini pens. • Ilis'tippointment:to'this Chairman ship, Just on resuming his eeat Obnitte;