Col. Scott to countermand her departure; but't did not reach its destination until af ter she had gone fo sea. Tlio reason for this Countermand shall be stited in the lan guage ofSecretarj Holt, to be found in a let teh addressed by him to Mr. Thompson, the 1 ate Secretary of the Interior, on the sih March) 1861, and published in the National Intelligencer. Mr. Holt says : "The countermand spoken of (bv Mr. Thompson) was not more cordially sanction ed by the President than it was by Gen, Seott and my Self ; not because of any dissent from the order on the part ot the President, but because of a letter received that day from Major Anderson, stating, in effect, that he re garded himself secure in his position ; and yet more from intelligence which late on Satur day evening (sth January 1861) reached the Department, that a heavy battery had been erected among the hills, at the entrance to Charleston harbor, which would probably destroy any unarmed vessel (and such was the star of the West) which might attempt to make its way to Fort Sumpter. This im portant information satisfied the Govern ment that there was no present necessity for •ending reinforcements, and that when sent they should go, not in a vessel of commerce but of war. Hence the countermand was dispatched-by telegraph to New York; but the vessel had -sailed a short time before it reached the officer (Colonel Scott) to whom it was addressed." A statement of these facts, established by dates, proves conclusively that ttie President was not only wiliiug but anxious in die brief est period to reinforce Fort Sumpter. On the 4th of January, the day before the departure of the Star of the West from New York' as Gen. Scott in his statements admits, succor was sent to Fort Taylor, Key West, and to FoJt Jefferson, Toriutas Islands, which reached these p>ints in time for their security. He nevertheless speculates on *,|, e cousequences which might have f0110w,,.,] |, a ,j the reinforcements not reached th>_, r destina tion in due time, and expr<; jSO3 t | lt . - jX rra r dinary opinion thaf ? with the possesion of these forts, '• ' t ne rebels might have purchased au ear'.y recognition." I shall next advert to the statement that the expedition under Captain Ward, " of tince or four small steamers belonging to the Coast Survey, was kspt back by something like a truce or armistice, [made here.] embrace Charleston and Pensacofa harbors, agreed up on between the late President and certain principal seceders of Suu'h Carolina, Florida, Louisiana &c. And this truce lasted to the end of the administration.*' Tilings alto gether distinct in their nature are often so blended In this statement thai it is difficult to separate them. Such is eminently the ca-e in connecting the facts relative, to Charleston with Pensacofa. Having already treated of the c large of having kept kack reinforcements fr in P ns cola, I shall now say something of the cli ng. - of having also kevt them back Imm Cnarie ton. Neither a truce, nor qoa-s truce, nm any thing like it. was ever concluded betnve. the President and any human au iuuity con cerning Charleston. On the contrary, tin South Carolina Commissi .tiers, tirst and all the time, were informed that the President could never surrender Fort Sumpter, n .r it whenever it was i.e lieved to be in danger, vm, f It was then, with some astonishment, that I learned from the statement of the General that ho had, 011 the 12ih March, 1861. a.lvi ed that Major Anderson should he iu-truct.' to evacuate the fort as soon a* -no ■ •.i. tri"> portation could be procured to earr, him self and his command to New York. A unit tary necessity for a capitulation may have existed in case there should he an attack up on the fort, or a demand fur its surrender; but surely none such cot,ld have existed fui its voluntary surrender and abandonment. Probably that to which the General means to refer was not the quasi' but the actual truce of arms concluded at Chirleston on the 11th January, 1861 between Governor Pick ens and Major Anderson, without the knowl edge of the Presidedt. It was mi toe 9th 01. January that the Star of the West, under'he American flag, was fired upon in the l.arbo. ot Chaaleston by order of Govenor Dickons. Immediately alter this outrage Maj .r Ander son sent a fiag to the Governor staling ti at he presumed the act had been unauthorized, and for that reason lie had not . v . ncl fir. from Fort Sumpter on the adjacent batteruc- ; but demanding its disavowal, ami ifui- w t\ not Bent ir? a reasonable time, tie w ml I r 11 1 •ider it war, and fire on any v that ui tempted te leave the harbor. Two da\s alter this occurrence, on the 1111. January, Gover nor Pickens had the audacity to demand of Major Anderson the surrender l the ?rt. In his answer of the same date the Major ma le the following proportion : " Shonl l \ ()( ir jr.\ oelloncy deem fir, previous to ales n-i to arm-, to refer this matter to Washington it w.m .l afford me the sincerest pleasure to I. pnte ~?ie of my officers to accompany au\ u.e>-png, 1 you may deem proper to be the bearer oi yout demand." 1 Ins prop .-ition wi-pr. mp - ly accepted by the Governor, and n pur-n --ance thereof, he sent on his pu- , Hon. J vy Hayne the Attorney General of Smith Caroli na, to Washington, whilst M .jo- Anderson de puted Lieutenant Hall of the United S'ates Army, to accompany him. The.-cgentlemen arrived together in Washington on the evening of the 18th January, when the President ob tained the firsr knowledge ul tin trail-action. But it will be rec fleeted that 11 . time inter vened between the' r#ur:> of ih- $ ar of the West to New York and the arrival - f th. messenger bearing a copy of the true, at Washington within which i would have been possible to fond reinforcements to Fcrt Sump- , ter. Both events occurred about the same time. Thus a truce or suspension of arms, was concluded between the parties, to continue until the question of the surrender of the fort should be decided by the President.— Until this decision Major Anderson had plac ed it out of his own power to ask for rein forcements, and equally out of the power of the Government to send them without a vio latii nof public fault. This was what wri- ters on public law denominate " a partial truce under which hostilities are suspended only in certain places, as between a town and an army beseiging it." It is possible that the President, under the lawa of war, might have annulled this truce upon due notice to the opposite party ; but neither Gen. Scott nor any other person ever suggested such an expedient. 'litis wculd have been to cast a reflection on Major Anderson, who, beyond question, acted Irotn the highest and purest motives. Did Gen. Scott ever propose to vi late this truce during its existence ? If he did lam not now, nor never was, aware of the fact. Indeed I think he would have been one of the ia-t men in the world to propose .-uch a measure. Col. Hayne did not deliver the letter which be bore from Gov. Pickens, demanding th surrender of the lort, to the President until the 31st of January. The documents con tabling the reasons for this worrying delay were communicated to Congress in u special message of the Bth of February, to which I refer the reader. On the sth of February the Secretary of War, under the instructs, n <>l the President, gave a peremptory rc .] uga i to this demand in an able and comprehensive letter, reViewmg t e wh; le subject, explain ing and justifying ~ l)n ,] ue t, 0 f t j )c . p (Vs j. dent. throughoOf i ts concluding sentence is both el.,q,v C nt and emphatic: I', ( says Mr. Ilolt ) with all the multi plied proofs that exists of the Presidents anxi ety for | eace, and of the earnestness with which he has pursued it, the authorities of that State shall assault, Fort Sumpter and imperil the I'Ves of the handful cf brave and '°3 a ' "'en shut up within its walls, and thus plunge our country into the honors of civil war, then upon them and those they represent must rest the responsibility." The truce was then ended, and General Scott is incorrect in sta ing that it lasted to the end of that administration. All expedition was quietly fitted out at New York, under the supervision of Gen. 8c >tt to be ready for any contingency. He arranged its details, and regarded the rein foicements thus provided for as sufficient, llns was ready to sail lor Fort Sumpter on live hours notice. It is ot this expedition that General Scott thus speaks: '•At tha time, when this ( the truce) had passed away, Sect claries ll.dt and Toticey, Lapt. Ward, of the navy, and myself, with the knowledge of Ihe President, settled upon i;.e employment, under the Captain, of three 1 lour Steatite S bel-.tigin . to the C.-a-t Sltr \e., bu. t.e was kept back by the truce." A strange inconsistency. The truce had ex pi-, .i wit . Mr. II ,lt' s letter to C-.1. Hayne on toe 51 h of February, and Gen. Scott in his s atctiieiit says " it would have been easy to reinforce ibis f .11 st fortunate that they did 11.1 proceed ; because the three or four small -tea.i.ers which were to bear then, would iiev.T li.iw reached the lort, and in the at . inpi niu-l have been captured or destroyed. The vast inadequacy of the force provided to accomplish me object deinoti-*ra'ed by in formation received fr. in Major Anderson at M.e War Department on the fast day ot the administration. • I purposely f. bear at present to say more on this subject, least I might, however unin tentionally, do inju-tice to one or more of the parlies concerned, in Consequence of the brev -1 \ lequited by the nature of this communi cation. The facts relating to it, with the ap propriate accompaniments, have been fnlly presented in a historical review, prepared a \ear ago, which wdl ere long be published, i iiis review contains a sketch of the four last months of my administration. It is impar tial ; at least such is my honest conviction I hat it has not yet been published has anfietf s ..eh ln.m an appreiien-ion. no longer enter tained, that something therein might be un justly p. rvcrted into an interference with the G vernment in a vigorous prosecution of the war for the maintenance oftlie Constitution 1 d the rest iration of the Union, whicti was I .r, vary far, froth my intention. Alter a careful retrospect, I can Solemnly dec.are before God ami My country that I cannot reproach myself with any act of com ■uisioner or otunussion since the txistin" j troubles commenced. I have never doubted j that my countrj'nien wou'd \et do me justice. ! In my special message of the Bih of January 1861 , presented a full and fair exposition o f the alarm'ng condition f the countrv, and urged C mgre-3 either 'o a I ipt measures of eomi.r mii-r, or, filling in this, to prepare for the !a*t alternative. In both aspects my re commendation was disregarded. T shalll el ae this document with a quotation of the ! la-t sentences of that mes-age, as follows : "In conclusion if may be permitted me lo remark 'hat T have often warned my country men of the danger which tuAv surround us. Th:® may be the 'rst time T shall refer to the subject ; fficially. T feel that tny du'y has been faithfully, t'"nzh it may be imperfectly p< rfr.rmed : and whatovr the result may he I sbfdl carry to my crave the consefowsnee that I at least mean' well for mv county." Your o! e ' if> t servnn', JAMKS BUCHANAN. WHEATLAND, veer lancaeter Oct 29 1892 \ (Lin Itmotuit. O -— y HARVEY SIC'kbGR, Editor. TUN KHAN NOCK, PA. — Wednesday, Nov. 2G, 1 802 ! ————a—3—i-jmuua McCleltau. The long and abusive article on Gen. Mo- I Clellan in the la3t weeks Republican , needs ,| no refutation at our hand. His services to p-1 the country during the Mexican war, have , already become a part of its history. Wiiat j he has done during the past eighteen months, j every child who reads may know The slan | ders of these vile ab.-Vuhm traitors cannot j change the trutus history. The gallant | arm y which he had so long led, will do jus j tice to their f'.tend and companion in arms. Ihe demonstrations of regard and affection | with which he is everywhere met, shows that 'ills course has been as satisfactory to ; t'.ie j eople at home, as it has been to their ( | sons and brothers in the army. The article I referred to needs only to he read, to be con demned as false and slanderous bv every lion est man. His traduccrs, like the viper in _ J the fable, are " knawing a file." Buchatinau's Letter. Our young friends and all others who look fot the usual ■' story' on our first page will no doubt, be agreeably disappointed in find ing truth, instead of fiction on that page this ! j week. The able letter of ex President Bu- I channan in reply to the censure of Gen. . Scott, we have given a placj at the re I quest of numerous subscribers, to the ex clusion ohour usual variety. It is a state ment of events founded upon the truths of history which have lonir been withheld from ; the people who have the light, and should ' : know the truth concerning the matter. 1 he writer has been the recipient of abuse I and deformation without stint, but never he . fie stooped to notice these slanders, because ; the}' had 110 responsible author. A late let ter of Gen. Scoti*>, the purport of which . | will appear by reading the reply—justified 1 our venerable Ex-President in expo ;i>"- the 1 fallacy of ail these newspaper charges with : which the abolition picas has been teeming 1 , for the past few months. As will he seen, it .I is not a tue e statement of facts, but the 1 proofs are disclosed. It is a document wor 1 th} of it- distinguished author, and should . be carefully read by every man in the land. A Noble Sentiment, Gen McGleii.m in closing a few remarks at a public demonstration in Trenton a few ev . enings since, made u-e of the following word-: , j " I bare but one word more, my f/iends. to say ; it is to advise you. while your sol diers are fighting in the field, to see that the war is prosecuted for its piopcr objects the preservation of the Union awl the. Cm stilution and the. maintenance your na tionality and your rights as citizens." Such a sentiment i* worthy of the man who has done more than any soldier in the Union army, towards .-usiaiuing the Federal cause in the pending struggle with " traitors in arms." It will live in history among the • ml offerings of Washington, Jefferson, Jack son. Clay and Webster. They may place ob j structions on every hand, hoping thereby to ; curb the operations of such a thought; yet. it will pen .itrate the walls of man's device and hold council with the friends of civil and j religious liberty, clinging with a stronger j bold wheie the chains of tyrants bind then victims. This thought, always entertained 1 by the great Democratic party as the prelim -1 inary ground work of *ur institutions, is deal er to-day than ever before, and will live and thrive as long as Democratic institutions ex ert an influence. The late commander of the Army of the Put -mac *- ill lose none of his greatne3's by the recent change, already is he urged for the highest officii in the gift \of a free people, who recognize worth with- I out possessing those feelings of jealously | that so often strike at the heart of the pur-' est and ablest sta'csmen.— EX. j THE CONSERVATIVE PVRAMID The Con servatives have been at work lately building a pyramid. There are some tall bricks in it a- will be seen by the f dlowingc specimens : 01110. INDIANA. ILLINOIS. NE W YOR K. D E L A W A II JB. NEW JERSEY. PENNSYL V A N R A. srsr John Adams' administration distin guished itself by an "alien and sedittion law" but it never went the lengths we have wit nessed recently, in crushes out the liberties of a loyal people. TAX ON ATTORNEYS—Judge Paige, of th Supreme Court of New York decided a fow days since that the clause in the national Tax Law requiring attorneys to take on * li cense. applies only to those who practice in tbe United States Courts. 1 John Mitchell is, or*is abnnt to be in tha military serviee of tbe South, H w Mrs ce it would be if he and Maagher ahtnld cross Corruption in tlic New York Custom House, i A gigantic scheme of corruption on the j part of govorninent officials, has just been j discovered 111 the New York Custom [louse, and this time the poor importer , who usually bears all the sins ranged under the head of Custom House delinquencies, escapes without blemish. It appears that certain Custom House brokers have been in the habit of re ceiving the regular invoice with the proper sum of money f>r duties from the imborteis. and tiien bv the connivance of certain clerks and other officers, putting an entirely qiffer ent invoice through all the stages of entry and paying a differaut amount into the Treas ury, dividing the plunder betweenthe< flieials and their own pockets. The Commercial ve ports the ascertained deficiency at $125,000 to $25().000 ; but this is mere conjecture. We learn that nearly 1000 genuine invoices were found suppressed in on* broker's office. There is probably no truth ; n the report that Collector Barney is to be removed, lie and Mr. Chase are said io be warmly attached friends, and it is not likely that the Secreta ry of the Treasury will aliow his friend to sulfur. This is a fair specimen of Abolition mauagern nt of the Government. Millions of dollars stolen from the Custom Houses yet no body punished. In the meantime tlie soldiers have not been paid for six months. llall'-ck and Burnsidc. The latest item of Washington news is the following, which we clip from the New York World. At this time it is quite interesting, I while Fremont is held in reserve at the Cap ital, to be disposed of as ciictimstances 111 y dictate. We do not vouch for it- truth, but it sounds very believable, if we may bu allow to coin a word fur the occasiun. The item reads thus : "It is stated, on good authority, that the main object of Gen. Ilalleck's visit to the Army of the Potuiac, last week, was to im press upon Gen. Burnside the necessity for an immediate advance. Indeed, he told the gen | eral implicitly that he mu jt move at once for political as well as form litary reasons. The new commander of the Army of the Potomac instantly replied in substance that so long as its movemenst were under his control they would be governed by military necessities exclusively; that if they were to be controlled by political necessities, he must a-k thai Some other general be appointed in his place under whom he would nio-t cheerfully serve. Gen. Bnrnside added that he was much sur prised ai the transfer W the command of the Army of the Potuiac from Gen |McCTellan to himself as the gene al public appeared to be, and as lor.g as he 1 named it he wished to have the sole direction of its movements.', . -*••> Tbe Sp akersliip. "The Hon. George I). Jackson, of Sullivan, and John C. Ellis, of Montour counties, ar<- our standard bearers. Of Mr. Jackson it is scarcely nessary that we should say one word The people of this district have every confi dence in hiin. He has already represented them faithfully and ably for two years in the Legislature, and they will return him tbi fall with an increased majority. By his gen tlen-.au!} depoftmert he won the esteem of his fellow-members, and became cue of the most influential and popular members of the House of Representatives. In cae of his election, and the election of a majority of Democratic a embers, of which there is no doubt, we suggt -t that he be made Speaker of that body."— Berwick Gazette , Sept. 11. "We may give th<4 Gazette credit for the first suggest lon of the nam ■ of Geo. D. Jack son for Speaker of the Ilouse of Represnta tives, and also to cordially approve of that suggestion. Mr. Jaokson's experience o! two years in the Legislature, his familiarity with the 1 tiles, his quick apprehension and promptness of decision, eminently qualify for that position. It seems now quite certain ihatatmjori ty 111 the Legislatuae is Deraocatic, and Mr. Jackson's course his ever been such as to command the respect and commendation of the party. Let us hear from the other parts of the District and the Stat 3 011 the sub ject—Sullivan Deni. We cordially endorse the above, and although ivo have several friends in the House, whose success in every possible way would give us inucu pleasure, yet our view ol the matter, even before seeing the above of knowing that Mr. Jackson was a canu? date, was toat lie was the man for the place and we think that 11 ba.ter selection could be made, an I we hope no other will bu made. —Montrose J)em. io all ol winch we most heartily say Amen ! Let George be the next speaker, lie is just the man for the place and the times. Keep the ball rolling. ft~t£" It- is a remarkable historical fact, that tue Fugitive Slave Law of 1703—the first one ever enacted—was penned at the instance ot President Washington, who, in a message to congress, staled that the sugges tion wa-founded on a comphiint from the Govenurof Pennsylvania, that a slave hau escaped Iroin that State into Virginia. and also r!:at it was necessary to have an act of Congress to give effect to that clause of the Constitution which promised such protection. It passed the House without debate, with only seven votes against it—two of whom were from slave States 1 SAVE PUGS. PAPER SCRAPS, Ere People should save their r ag s, scraps of paper, etc. as they are of great value now, and can be sold to advantage If persons throughout tbe country were careful in tbis respect, the price of printing paper would in a measure be kep down. Boys c.m make their holiday money by attention to this matter—Old account books, by taking off the Covers, envelope® & 0 . can bo sold. This is an important matter. A man can go along without advartisiun and so can a wagon without greasing, but a goes hard. HOW MARTfAL LAW WORKS. The Case of Mrs. llrinsruadc. We exclude other matter for the purpose of laying before the public another case of beast ly and infamous outrage committed by one of President Lincoln's minions under the mar tial law proclamation. The case of Mrs. Brinsrnade, as related by tha New York World, and fully sustained by official author ity, will arrest the attention and excite the indignation of the whole American people, not only against the brute, Kennedy, but against an administration that resorts to such means and employs such agents to vio late ju.-tice anl trample upon liberty and hu manity. FROM THE N. Y. WORI.D. Whoever has a sister, a wife, or a daugh 'sr, and aesircs to know what pangs may conit to him through those tender ties—who ever would learn (beyond what Naples and the Inquisition can teach) to what outrage ous lengths the unbridled, unpunished exer cise (d unlawful and despot'c power will run may learn frun the correspondence in the case of Mrs. Brinstu ide, which* we publish this morning, Mrs. Brinsmade, a young and beautiful woman, hardly out of her teens, possessing tiiere.< re neither tlie self-restraint which Comes with year- nor the cautious reticence of the other sex, two months a.'o came North under a pass from Gefi. Butler, in the New Orleans steamer, in order to spend the win ter with her relatives in Washington and ! roy. Arrived in the former city she is ar rested without warrant, imprisoned without trial, denied communication with her friends, kept closely guarded, at length brought on to this city and thrown into prison in the Forty-seventh street station-house. Through a haccxtnan employed by the officer in charge of her, her friends in this city learn of the outrage; they apply civilly to the infamous Kennedy, who made the arrest, to know its cause. I hey are assailed with imprecations and threats that they too shall be 10/.ked up if the inquiry is repeated. A wired by a deputy 'hat the prisoner is to be sent to her father in New Or leans by the next steamer, her friends content themselves with the hope that, although every form of iaw, every guar antee of civil and personal liberty has been violated by one of their appointed custodi ans, the sufferer had at least escaped with out loss of life or of that which is dearer. Blither wrongs were not yet ended i hey di l not know the Kenne ly. Perhaps they had never hear !of Cell \ 4. Thinv five days afterwards a lo.tcr was received b, one of her friends, from which it wa-> learned tout she was still a close prisoner in the F"r . ty seventh street station-house, waited upon ! only by male attendants, fed with prisoner's late, a part ..f the time prostrated by il'neSs as well as griet, every instinct" of decency ihtis violated as well as every form of law. Two ladies then apply to the Kenne ly f.r permission to see their friend. It is denied. ! Ihey ask what are the charges and who the accusers. ugli all his lineage and in !l his posterity. Mrs Briiidmadeks friends applied to Provost Mar shal General Draper. Mr. Draper promptly addressed himself to the Judge Advocate General, who said he knew n .tiling of the case; to Mr. Kennedy, who replied that she was held by order of Col. Baker, provost marshal ol Washington; to Col. Baker and the Assistant Secretary of War, who replied (proving that the Kenedy of course had iie

her friends. 1 It is but justice to say that the War De partment is no further respmsible for tiiis particular outrage than as responsibility is implied in its having been gdiltyof similar ones, in its living committed despotic and illegal pow r into the bands of a petty Cali gula, an lin its having hitherto c nnived at every license to which the itchings of a pal try polico despot and the instincts of a brute had goaded him on. Of Mr. Draper it only needs to be said, to those who do not know him, that his hu inanity and his sense of justice needed no second or long appeal, an I that the functions of an offiie which never ought to have been created are redeemed from utter detestation in the character of a gentleman by whom it never ought to have been assumed. I What the "Old Fogies Thought of It. On the 23d of March 17U0, an expression was rpread on record as to the powers of the Federal G ivernment on thu subject of Eman cipation, many of those who had assisted in forming the Oonsttution being then present, and aiding m this expression, as follows: ' lhat Congress have no authority to in terfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them, in any one 'of the States; it remaining with the several States ' alone to provide any regulations therein which humanity and true policy may dictate."— lhldrttk's History of the U. S. vol. 1, 2d Se ries- L 'tteries are now licensed in Kentucky. A percentage of the profits is to be used to buy a State Library. -I.ere are thirty tn msand biinrl persons in Great Britain. A movement is on foot to givt them permana ntamplcymtct. .. Coming to the p ,| l)( The Telegraph thinks they II elections because they player] t j W i rying to carry water on both slim,;,;l boldly avowing themselves Av I they undoubtedly are. *' Hi | t , b fore the world boldly as R-p, o 1 is, anli slavery men ," and supp, rt( . J i hut s '-anti-slavery policy," (1 ,. >■ thinks they "would have infinitely .1 , better."' We thought they stuck nigger pretty well—but that Wa> H . ; opinion, in wliiclfthe Telegraphy .fl , Ito concur. -Well, we hope there I | ing on their part, hereafter r.o ■ j fact that they are Abolition,,., ■ ' i learned by experience that hoii^l ; best policy," we hope to see them ■ I ly ng and hypocrisy in the future, a-fl der their true colors—a b'aek ' I white nigger rampant, standing \ v I on the Constitution and one on H , tearing the Stars and Stripes t. j liia hands, exclaiming •• Tear I ing lie." If they succeed under they w ill understand what the vict -B and know what use to make of it H ( fore they have always cheated with lying professions, an I hence t I ' ( has always been broken to piece; .1 they attempted to carry ou the ;> I I aimed at, but never had the honest 1 age to proclaim.— Patriot an I i'i tl j The I ate Elections and the Pn II , 1 The States in which elections f,B | ly taken place would, had there U, I . I dent to choose, have elected a 'I ; I The vote would have been * Dem. J | New York, 33 , I Pennsylvania, 2<> j Ohio; ill Indmiu. 13 Illinois, 10 j Connecticut, (j | New Jersey, 7 i Ib. la ware,. .. .. . ... . . .... ; Maine, ! M issachusetts, i V et'lllollt, -• Rhode Mind, lowa, Michigan,. . .., Ore. on, California, New Hampshire, Kansas, Minnesota, Tiius, without the border State-. SB have ha 1 a Democratic uuj nay of fl * lectoral votes. Every one of the-. I died and twenty electoral v-ii-fl Lincoln received in 18G0. A vt: v ;fl oiuhon of sentiment in two years, j I Ttie Doings ot the Arnr j General Burusi fo has ch uigo I '.'l ot his operations fniu the line t I and.Aiexanpria Railroad, to Fredncvfl tfie Rappahannock river. Bv t!i.- fl base, he- will receive the supplies fl my, from Washington, bv watt" fl Aequia Creek, and thence by r.i !r I t nice of fiitee.i miles, to Frednckfl Hie change will greatly facihaw t I portation of supplies for the anmfl greater security f>r their delivery■ they were ser.t over a long line of .fl feebly guarded by troops, but wiie' I ricksburg will prove a safer base f r B opei ai ions than the James or York ~fl a disputed point among military n.f B The distance from Fredricksburj fl mond ifi sixty miles. It was atFfl burg that McDowell had his head fl during MeClellan's campaign on tbefl la, and although MeClellan piuheiifl uinn of ins army to Hannover G I with the view of <.ff"ecl nig ajunctinfl army of McDowell, that officer f r-l explained reason, refused to abvtrfl and MeClellan was compelled to fa!. fl the Cluckahotnouy. u It is said that Burnside is in afl the rebel army on his inarch to Ffl and that lie will probably reach I Junction before the rebels will be • I ft r any serious re-istance to nun at t I Tlie movement of General Bunwide 'I die necessity of t iking G irdensv. fl has been strongly fortified by the re fl these reports should prove true J battle of which we have heard s> rfl be fought near Richmond. Thai "fl tiie rebellion we do not believe, but fl feat of the rebels and the capture fl mond, greatly weaken and depress fl Inline and abma ', no one can doubt. I Elections Yet to be Heidi fl "The States which have vet te Gfl Represeniatives to the next C'ttgrfl the dates at which they usually i- fl elections, are a* follows : New Hampshire, on the 21 T;ffl March, 1863. Rlmdo Island, Ist Wednesday :: B 1363. Connecticut. Ist Monday in Aprth Jj Maryland, Ist Wednesday in $ ; '|J 1863. Kentucky, Ist Monday in Angst. 1-fl i California, Ist Thursday in Sffl | 1863. irginia. 4 h Thursday in May. North Carolina, (time not vet 't*'Gfl lennessee, (time not yet sped fied ) fl JC3T" It will do to be a man an'"G ;! fl not a dreamer am->ng shadows. If the rebels get h angry • eat mutton of their tvater-rtnia- J3£T What it the aost Tk? ects-sft,