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We decline publishing the message of Our worthy President for the reason that it it too lengthy for our columns and is throughout an uninteresting account. In our outside is a review of it from the New York World which covers the whole ground. On the whole it is the poorest State paper ever issued by a chief rnngis Irate of this republic. Ile begins by saying that the blessings of health and an abundant harvest de mand our profound gratitude and then im mediately launches into foreign relations. He however thrown no new light on these subjects. He speaks of the raids from Can ada and the difficulty in Brazil, the former he thinks will be stopped, aud the latter adjusted before long. Ho goes in for encouraging imigration and says that is the source we must look to during the war for keeping up our wealth and population, and that there ought to be a law passed to prevent them from being imposed on when they land on our shores and not be forced into the army if it was not their free choice. The financial affairs of the country are in a flourishing condition, and quotes largely from the report of the Secretary of the Treasury. The public debt on the first of July last was one billion seven hundred and forty millions, six hundred and ninety thousand four hundred and eighty-nine dollars and forty-nine cents, aad will be increased five hundred millions at the end of the year. He advises Congress to pass an act exempting government securities in the bands of individuals, from taxation, ami prevent them from execution for the pay ment of debts. lie recommends that there should be no State banks of issue in the country, they should all be regulated by act of Coi:grc?9, He then branches out on the army and navy, he does not ay much about the array but he is par ticularly delighted with the navy. He hurries over the l'ostcfiice Depart ment, new States and territories, Indians, pensions, &c and finally lights on his favo rite theme the negro. He seems delighted with the success had in Maryland. He says she is se cured to liberty and union for the future. The genius of rebellion will no more claim Maryland. Like another foul pirit it has been driven out. It may seek to tear her but it will woo her no more." He wishes Congress to pass an act by a two-third vote, abolishing slavery in the United States. It passed the Senate last winter but was lost in the House for want of the requisite majority. They are nearly the sarao men there this winter that was there before, but he thinks the eooner they pass that the better. The new Congress will ur.qtipptionably pas it. He thinks this election ought to aatisfy very one that a vast majority of the peo ple arc for the abolition of slavery. He proves by the election returns that there arc more men in the country now than were before the war commenced. Tbaf th country i, inexhaustible in men jrnJ arir That this War n,H b carried on for ages. From theory we might readily conclude that the longer we fight tho richer we get, and the more men we get killed, the larger will be our popu lation. This can be easily proved at the vote given at the Presidential election. In sneakinz about peace he eays he does not think they would ac cept any terms short of separation, and he docs not think there is any use in talk ing about negotiations. He says the door is still open for them to get a pardon ex cept some specified classed of them, but the loor may be shortly fehut forever against them. They can have peace whenever they lay down their arms, and give up their negroes, for ho retrncts nothing he heretofore said about the negro. This is a synopsis of the message and is exactly what we expected it to be, and what the Democratic party taid would happen on the re-election of Mr. Lincoln. He wishes to raise a shoddy aristocracy by giving them an opportunity to get gov ernment stocks and keep them secure from paying debts or taxes. He proves conclusively from the number of votes polled, that notwithstanding some few of our men have been killed, the population is still greater than formerly. He docs not take into account, that many of Lis voters voted five or six times, and that all description of men in tho army and navy voted. If he were getting in his harvest, he would find whether the men were as plenty as they used to be. Were he to travel through the country, he would find that a great part of the agri cultural labor of the country was perform ed by women and loys. He says the country is inexhaustible in material, he will live likely to find out his mistake. No couutry on the face of the ! globe could very long survive the extrava gant expenditures of such a war as we have. Every night the sun sets we are two millions more in debt. Nor is there the slightest gleam of hoje left for the next four years. Continual war, enor mous taxation, a draft that will sweep away all the able bodied men of the coun try if not into the army, away to some j other country where they will have a ! better govern men t. He talks about keep- nig up the population by imigration, no, that imigration can't be depended on much longer. Hereafter there will be moreieople leaving the United States than come into it. At what time does Mr. Lincoln think this war will end. He says when they lay down their arms r.nd give up. We think that wont be for a few years yet. lie talks also of soon shutting the door against them and not even giving them that chance long. He may shut the door and bolt it they will never knock at it under his plan. The At.mt vote ok this Coi-ntt. It is proper to date, that the army vote at Hancock Station, Virginia, and which amounted to twenty-one votes for Lincoln, was twice counted by the Return Judges. There were two returns sent from that Station, only one of which should have been counted. There was but one return from the same place sent to Ilarrisburg. The correct majority therefore for McCIel Ian in this county was nine hundred and thirteen, and not eight hundred and ninety-two as officially announced. A Calamitous Fikk We regret to learn that on last Friday night, the dwell ing house of Mrs. Charlotte Yager, in Chest Township was entirely destroyed by fire. A by only three years old was consumed in the flames. The rest of the family, consisting of four persons, had barely time to make their escape in their night clothes, and without their shoes. Our informant states that about four hun dred bushels of grain were consumed ; indeed nothing was saved. The fire is supposed to have originated from a de tective stove pipe. TIie Freest Count rj on Earth." On Monday last, five conscripts from Carroll township, were brought to this piacc through "military necessity." A very worthy citizen of that Township, Mr. Henry Hopple, charged with some ofFence against this free and en lightened republic, was aleo in durance vile, un der a Equadron of mounted infantry, commanded by Provost Marshall Jim Burke, nnd his man Friday, Enos C. Mc Mnllon. Strohccier was not alang. Ve are compelled to leave for Pittsburgh to day (Tuesday) to purchase paper for our press, but will enter into the merits of hwjlank movement in our next issue. CJ Snow I i . T. . deprti often Inch,. Thanksgiving Discourse. A Sermon Delivered en Thanksgiving Day, November 24th 1S64, by Jcrn Salem Mellon. CO RRESPONDENCE. Rev. J. S. Maws: Dear Sir: Havin" had the tileamirv if liMnmr vour - - . . . . . j discourse on the 24th instant, and believe- irg that the cause of "Shoddy" and Abolitionism wiu be promoted by its pub lication, respectfully request a copy for publication. Very Respectfully, Richard Johannes, E. Saw Mills, E. Bobbs, D. II. Bobbs, D. J. Johannes, Thos. Alloyed, Geo. McKeadi, John P. Master, John Dills. Samuel Davey, E. Hugus, Georgia Rodger, Daniel Ob Evens. Gentlemen : Your note has been re ceived : and I herewith transmit a conv cf my speech. If you think the cause of our very common sort ot Uhristiauity would be promoted by publishing it, it is at your service. Yours, J. S. Meuos. To Geo. McReadi, John P. Matter, J. Dills, and others too tedious to uitn- tion. 3fy Dear Brethren: I dispense with the usual formality of a text, f r the Bible furnishes no political texts ; consequently, I should not be able to stick to it if I did. God made the world in the space of six days likewise Massachusetts. lie also made man m his own inianc also I Ion ness Toal Dabe, (surnamed Lincoln.) with a siilit variation. T "- a . righting has been ordered by Heaven from the creation of the world down to the present day. Nay. before thu crea- i tion nihil Jit, and the people have been lighting for nothing ever since. God buckled on his sword," and in person commanded the Israelites. How woudcrlul our history I A nation under a hundred jeai s of age. born in one day ! Our God delivered us from the hierarchy of the Church of England, and I in company with the Goddess of liberty, placed us under the loicerarchy of New England. Finally, our country was set- I tied, including Boston. Afterwards. "heavy duties, pressing taxation, disre garded petitions ;" nearly as bad as at present, made wise men mad." But the eop!e took no part in the matter. However a Union meeting was held: Rocky Mountain, Esq was called to the chair; Mrs. Sippi, (though very much down in the mouth,) " made, the motion, the Alleghaniaii' " seconded it; and it was passed by acclamation, that " all men are created equal," or, in other words, one man created just as much as ' any other man." God moved the hearts of the people to Strike! for tl.iir alters and fires, St:ikte! f -r the grot-n graves of their aires, God ai d Li Let i y You will observe I have misquoted the poet; but as I frequently mutilate the Scriptures, 1 don't see why llalleck should claim any immunity " The fathers of this Republic institu ted the best government the world ever saw." "Our Constitution is the embodi ment of the wisdom of all past apes, and reflects the lustre of them ail. Since the days of the Jewish law-giver unto the present, every thing jrreat in government or wise in legislation lias been subservient to its formation, and it is wise enough, ami good enough, and great enough to govern the world." But recollect mil give you a better one before I am done ! " It was Gd who guided our Pilgrim Fathers across the stormy deep, 'and planted their feet securely on Plymouth rock." True, the first settlement"' of this country was in Virginia, and Pennsylva- ma was semen oy the peaceful Quakers, and not by witch and papist burning Yan- Kces; yci as we are under a lankee dis pensation, " to them Iw all th. umi f " Our President btyins to omi his na to ilk: i.ici mai ne is a child, (a very homely baby at that,) of destiny." Of course he has been going it b!ind heretofore. " We assemble to-day, in response to " a double barreled call of our rail-split-tinj President and a shoddy Governor! " What a spectacle;" or rather as there are two of them, " w,at a pair of spec tacles!" A nation which has for some time been " on its last legs," is now " on its knees returning thanks!" And in " returning thanks' wc can thank G-d we are not as the publicans, who are given to Democracy and "dram-di ink ing. " Altho' we are m the midst of tlie most gigantic nnd bloody war that ever shook the earth yet our hearts bound with " God has lie s fed us icith enerrni and en- ..t7,.-. uur manufacturers, commerce and agriculture have flourished, " t!iouh it must lie admitted our manufacturers are confined to instruments of death, our commerce is in shoddy, and our agricul ture mainly carried on by nejrroes in the Stmt h and women in the North. "Our inventive genius and mechanical skill vie with tho proudest discoveries of ancient or modern times." We can kill ten men now as easily as one could have been slaughtered a few years since. He thank God for the freedom of tJte Pulpit r It is true Bishop Elder was prohibited from exercising his duties as a Catholic Bishop, because he refused to pray for Lincoln. It is truft, Episcopa . n Wt vro vm beyor-j mr line for 1 refusing to cive Lincoln responses in Church ; it is true the voice of the pure and eloquent M'Michael is silent in the Presbyterian Church ; but he is a Demo crat! Notwithstanding all this, we have . - freedom of tln nnlnit " and all that the clergy have to do is to preach Abraham i-mioiu, ana him re-elected, and they are perfectly safe ! 1 es I " we thank God for the freedom of the pulpit!" Wc thank Him that we are free to make the pulpit the vehicle of political speeches. We thank Him that instead of being narrowed down to the doctrines of the Prince of Peace, we can now preach murder and bloodshed : That instead of thanks for his continued mer cies to us we have the " freedom of the pulpit" to thank him for election returns, and the success of shoddy. Oh ! how grateful to the ear of Deity; how befit ting the attributes of the Great Jehovah ! when his messengers to a dying world de vote His IIou.su and His pulpit, to return ing thanks for political victories : to in forming Omniscience of the last news from the Hustings! ".'e 'UIjk OotI for the freedom of the pulpit. Time was when we were required to attribute equal power and glory to His Divine Son! But we have freedom now to deny the Sonship of the Saviour of mankind : Ami a " Loyal Congress have elected for their Chaplain, Dr. Channing, a Kevereitd Yankee, who denies that Christ is God who rcnndi:ites tl.p -it., tu rnout of Jesus Christ and denounces the doctrine of the Adorable Trinity as " be hind the aire " and a heresy, and super stition! What amazing libertv! Oh! how lost the christian is in the contempla- tion ot it. the chosen vessel to repre sent the naion and the people at the throne of Grace, a disbeliever ia the atonement of Jesus Cl.rirt ! I have told you that " our Constitu tion was the embodiment of the wisdom of all past ages." Still its framers made, blunders, and we their wiser and more patriotic decendants should correct them. Washington was a slaveholder, and Jef ferson a Democrat and what could we exjK-ct ? Now, inasmuch as our Constitution tolerates slavery I go in for having a now Constitution, and a new Government! SI avery should never have been in our Constitution, and wc must wipe, it out. Our people have spoken ; and all the "champions of freedom" abroad are with us. And while Bishop Pure-ell and Garabaldi, Rosecrantz and Kossuth, Orestes A. lSrownson and Mazzini, Bar nnm and Victor Hugo, George Francis Train and John Bright, Frederick Doug lass and Anna S. Dickinson are all S"iiiul on the ffoosr, let us in view of fra tornizing with our colored brethren, sing in conclusion that " gay and feg tive ' song of Gere al Morris : A Union of hikes and a Union of lauds, A Union which no o-ver can i-cver. A Uuii.n of hearts ami a Union of hands, Tl.e African Union forever P' With the doxology : John B.owu's soul is marching on, c. Cor:;r Wj.es. There has beendurin this court a pretty good attendance, and from that fact we presume that a great many suits were deposed of, but whether every one has been suited or not we can not say, hut, if there are any persons in town wliu are not exactly suited let them go to E. J. Mills & Co.'s cheap cash store and try on one of their surfs, imd they will be sure to be suited in quality and in price. They have a large stock of clothing, as well as all kinds of dry gmuls. People in need of goods should give them a call, before purchasing elsewhere. CJ" We call tha special attention of those who are competent to superintend the running of Blandys circular saw mill, to the advertisement of James Stewart of I-mcaster, which will be found in another column. Mittox vs. Pouk Physicians recom mend mutton as the most wholesome meatthe easisst digested, and the best suited to invalids, while pork, as every body knows, is the most unwholesome meat extern In England mutton is a fa vorite dish, anJ we anr)r,.ieil,i is to u,;. rather than to roast beef, that the Eng lishman owes hi robllsf t1P:lllh sul(i roev complexion. Our ,,.!., too m.,ol, prk and too littlo A.,.1 v.t a contemporary well remarks, "mutton ?er),'(,uwd lound for pound at less than half the price of pork, vidds more nourishment when " i i sheep dm-s not exhaust a farm to the ex tent feed.ng hogs does. Sheep can k kept during the winter i ..- ...-.,:.. mangle wurtzel. or sngnr beets, while hogs ..... .... ,wiout, hi joayt pome cm." ve would hke to R. :,. .i .... r. accounts of bi" iwc i r . i r'ts and more fat sheep. The soldiers of n ,- ormv n order to supply themselves with water, have dug wells from twenty to thirty feet -P- .c numoer or well., about Peters burg is said to be aUcast five hundred. The navy department has received the treasure box taken from the Florida, upon her arrival io ,wc, thousand doUnr in goM. The War. The damage which has been done to the Dutch Gap Canal, by the conlin ued shelling of the Confederate batteries on the south side of the James, has at length compelled a Federal movement. On Wednesday last a brigade of negro troops was sent up the James a short dis tance above the canal, and embarked on pontoons. They crossed over and march ed down the southern bank until a point opposite the canal was reached. The Confederate sharpshooters were driven off and the negroes began entrenching. Du ring the night a rifle pit was dug, and on Thursday morning the position was secure. Very few men were killed or wounded on either side. As the Confederate force was successful in stopping labor on the canal, by breaking the drudging machines, it is now to be seen whether Grant will re place tho machines and renew the labor free from molestation. The Confederate iron clad moved down the James on Thursday and came within range of Dutch Gap. Up to Saturday, however, no hostilities had occurred, and the Con federates made no attempt to drive the ne grot.8 away. The various reports of a general advance of Grant's southern wing toward Stony Creek Station, on the Wel don Haiiroad, which have been prevalent for some days are at length confirmed by definite intelligence. Warren's Corps, one division of Humphreys', and Gregg s cavalry began a southern march on Wednesday last. They marched down the Jerusalem road, and :ros:ed the Not taway River on a pontoon bri !ge. They are now ut from communication with Grant's army, and have not been heard from for some days. This advance is di rectly south. It object cannot yet be as certained. We have some intelligence from the Shenandoah Valley. General Sheridan will attempt no movement south from Winchester this season. Ha is now at Winchester in his old camp. He has about fifteen thousand men. Three of his brigades were sent last week to reinforce Grant. The Confederates squill of W inchester made no demonstrations. They have recently removed the rails from the railroad between Manassas and Gor donsville, in Northern Virginia, and car ried them to Richmond. At NathviUe the condition of aiT.urs is the same as usual. Hood is still labor ing on his earthworks. It ia reported that reinforcements a:e being sent to Tho mas. The detachment of Federal .1. t .1 , T 1 . uoop mai neui j onnsom me, hut were forced to evacuate it and retreat into Ken tucky, were terribly harrascd in th ir march. Thirteen are reported killed ;,nl wounlr l an 1 sixteen captured. The latest report of the losses at the recent battle of Franklin made the Fed eral loss nearly twu:ty-two hundred. There is nothing new from Sherman's army. It id almost certain that he it-ma.rci.iii- on Savannah, and that Foster's advance up Broad Kier to Grahamsville, which is very near the Savannah River, was iateri h-d to make a junction with Sherman. Sherman has not been heard fiom since he moved fiom Millcn. Fos ter is s'.il! near Grahamsville, protected by his gun .toais. ileavv cannonaduvj was iiil-iu ai. mm accounis iiiiin nuton Head, and the Confederates were thought to have attacked Foster, and attempted to drive him oil'. No result is known, how ever. Iisl wt-tk several merchants of Provi dence, Rhode Island, were arrested by officers of General Dix, on ti e charge of being engaged in blockade rnnr.i:. They were sent to New York. Their couming rooms and papers were seized and held bv United States officers. It is repotted that General Rosecrans is to leae Si. Louis, and have an active command. The rcjK.rt that Semmes' new ship, the Shenandoah, was wrecked is a canard. Afje. Implosion of the M earner .Maria. St. Ix.iis, Dec. 11. The steamer Maiia, from St. I.uis for Cairo, exploded at Carondelet, six miles below St. Iuis, early this morning. The pilots, clerks and other employees of the boat say that she was lying without steam in the boilers when the explosion took place on the lar board side-, the explosion goin upward, and making a hole in the boiler deck, through which several persons fell. They say the explosion may have been caused by a box ot amumtion in the hold. Mheie were SO soldiers of the 3d and 4th Iowa and 10th Wisconsin cavalry, with 187 horses and mules on board! 'I he soldiers positively say that the ex plosion was caused by the insufficiency of water in the liler which burst. The boat was cast loose, grounded on the bar, and was entirely consumed by fire All the horses and mules were lost. It is re ported that 25 men weie killed, 30 wounded and 12 missing. The soldiers lost everything The boat was entirely new and valued at $10,000. REBEL BATTERY ON TENNESSEE RIVER. Caii:o, Dec. 7. A despatch from Paducah states that a rqiort hud reached there that the rebels had planted a bat tery at the HariK-th Shoals, lcniicesee river. A gunboat has been sent to that locality, and transports are not lerniitted to proceed above Smithland. The steamer Bdle, of Memphis, brings thirty Me .fool tun for Cfo, Tbaddeai Stevens tfevr Project. The New York Evening Post is inform, ed that Mr. Stevens, "the great states man of Pennsylvania," having lost it. gold bin, is about to introduce another for the regulation of th temperature of this planet by means of the thermometer The leading features of the new act ari these : Resolved, fust. That all the thernior:je. ters hereafter to be made be of uiiif length and bicadth. Resolved, second, That the dtgrees cn all thermometers be of equs.1 mtma! whether the expansible l:quid be oil mer cury, spirits, or dher. Resolved, third, That all persona in public office and all housekeepers, are or dered to regulate their stoves and furnacrt according t) the indications of one of official thermometers, and that uuy rsoa allowing a heat of more than sixtj-fivu degrees shall be deemed guilty tt mis. demeanor. Resolved, fourth, That the clerk of t!,j weather be instructed to dispense v.hhtha difference of climate and of season, until the temperature of the globe has Uen abis to adapt itself to the notions of the Cuu mittee of Ways and Means. Mr. Stevens (says the Post), in iiit,- during his new bill, will make a speed showing how it is in analogy with the conduct of some of the most illustrious statesmen of all ages. There was tLu ancient Greek sag.-, who wanted to JHnk up the river to get at the moon ; there was that noble Chinese chief, who !xt his gong during the eclipses, to L.ep the dragon from swallowing the sun ; tl.ere was Philip the Handsome of France, who used to raise money for his plea turn by mixing copjer with his gold, declari: .g the pieces of undituini.-hed value ; th re were the Puritans, of England, who in creased the virtues of women b- shorten ing their top knots; there was the gixvt Mrs. Partington, who kept oil an ii ni,.iv tion bv swabbing it with her broom; ther-j were French kings who used to pr ser!: how much each of their subjects shui;'d eat and drink ; in short there are any number of diftinguished precedent for both the logic and the practice of tlj great statesman of Pei nylvania. Mr. Stevens, the R.'pul'ica:i Fremirr of the House, enema jost now to receive deeper wounds from his friends t'.aa lis enemies and yet wo predict he will U placed again at the head of a commitiev, which is to originate, study, confide", and report all the tax and money lil'.i brought before Conrres. Phi'a Agt WHAT IS EXPECTED OF GEOR GIA. 'I he Richmond 17iyuirtr of December G'h says, we expect great things of tl.s noble peop!, of Georgia. They have it i:i their power to make their State, biihcr to unharmed and unhurt by our ivl.-m'j enemy, a truly bloody ground tor L:i forces. If they but meet Sherman an i his troops, cut oil' as they are from sup port and succor, with a worthy iiml a li quate spirit of resistance, they can vu.'m their name famous in hi.-tory, mi J aci.i ". more for the independence" of the S u.h than all the victories of our Sou:li-.-:a armies done heretofore. lx.t them re memlKT the fate of Napoleon after t'-s battle of Lcipsie, when he tried to o r duct an army thrice as kire as Shi-rma!:'i through Germany back to the Rhine. A reat Genera!, of inexhaustible gen!--', he was still at the head of nearly .:;.! 7 thousand hardened veterans with th :.' own fair France beckoning tluui heme. The authorities of Georgia have aetol well in ordering a tree en ma.f. All citizens ought not only to bo authorized to take up arms, but required to do so; to sound the alarm as so n as they !;a" of ilw. enemy's approach, to asst lb, ti) scour the woods, break down the bridg intercept the reads, and fsdl on the flank and rear of the enemy. We trust in the justice of the Almighty, and cnceurageJ by the teachings cf history, we tViI cer tain that the day will come, ia His own time, when our enemy also will be com pelled to drain the bitter cup he now hiM to our lips, and to pay the fearful but un failing penalty for his atrocious criim, and his disregard of human and diviisJ laws. - LATEST FROM CHAR LESTON'. Baltimore, Dec. 10. The followir: special has been recti ved at th AuuvieJ Otfice: Annapolis, 10 P.M.: Tla steamer Victor has just ' arrived fr" Charleston, where all of Colonel M:ilf.n'.i fleet is now lying. Tin? exchange of priso ners Ining changed from Savannah to Charleston, Generals Sherman and Fust having in:erruptt d the exchange at t! former city. When the Victor sailed oa Wednesday, she heard heavy tiring in tl direction of Savai:nah, Leinr eiiheran at tack on that city or on the railroad be tween Charleston and Savannah, all aree that Savannah must fall. A FIGHT WITH .THE INDIANS I COLORADO. Dknvkic City, C. T., Dec. 8 . P-f patchesof tie 1st and 31 cavalrv, uvi command of Colonel Chivenpton, bad fipht with the Indians rear Fort L)vn' and killed between 400 ami 500 oftl.,"1 and captured 500 ponies nnd mules. Tba Chiefs Blackkettle, White Buffalo rJ Little Bob were killed. Our lo 9 killed pod &8 vrouod4.
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