Ike 41tatiettian, _Anil olla , ✓'a. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29,1862. 11., Messrs. MATHER & ABBOTT, No. 535 Broadway, New-Irork,.are duly authorized to act for us in soliciting adyertisments, &c., and receipt for the-same: Ilfir The President's Message will be telegraphed to the press on the day it is delivered, probably Monday next. No copies will be . sent out in advance, as the President wishes to avail himself of the latest official intelligence that may come to hand. The annual reports of the Departments are nearly all 'ready, ex cept that of the - Secretary of the Treas ury. lir It is believed that the Indiana Legislature, which meets in January, will elect Jesse D. Bright United States Senator for the short term, and Thos. A. Hendricks for the long term, begin ning 4th -March, 1863. It wilibe a cu rious spectacle to see . a Senator returned to a seat from which he was expellel for alleged acts of disloyalty to his go vernment, but there are some notable precedents in history, not the least is John Wilkes, who was repeatedly ex pelled by the British House of Com mons, and as often returned by his con stituents.• Gir It is announced that the distribu tion of the prize awarded to the com petitors of the International Exhibition in London, will be made by the Prince of Wales, in January, next. The cere mony will take place in the afternoon, the building being illuminated with gas; and it is expected that the arrangements will be of a most effective character. trir Dr. D. W. Voorhees, member of Congress from Indiana, had a, personal encounter last week in Indianapolis with a regular army officer. lie called the officers lazy hirelings. The officer said be was a liar, when Voorhees struck him. The officer then gave Voorhees such a flogging that he was compelled to take his bed. o• The President is busily engaged in the preparation of•his annual message. The document will present a clear and zoncise summary of the,events of the east year, and•view of the present condi. Con .of affairs ; and it is now well un .derstood that Mr. Lincoln will take ttiong grounds in favor of the emancipa tion scheme. Gr No bass than seventy-five applica tions for divorce are pendiog before the courts in Philadelphia, made by parties who wish to cut in twain "the silken tie which binds two (un)willing hearts."— What a volume of domestic history would these cases reveal, it' it could be written by the impartial pen of truth I Gir This winter Nice is to resort of a colony of princes; amongst others are mentioned the names of the kings of Wurtemburg, of Belgium, and of Bs - -varia, the prince and princess of Prussia, the duke and dutchesa of Brabant, &c. Cr The Canada papers are • making themselves unnecessarily disagreeable and Unhappy, because the United States proposes to pay its share for the mail service by the Canadian ocean steamers in United States notes. prier The second session of the Thirty seventh Congress begins at Washington on Monday, the first of December, and will close by constitutional limit, on the fourth of March. tar fon. A. J. Hamilton has been appointed Military Governor of Texas, with the rank of Brigadier General, and authority to raise two brigades of 10)11,1 Texans. gir Sheriff Thompson, the republican, has at length got possession of the Sher iff's office is Philadelphia. M Ew ing held on until the "last horn blew." lir The Court of Inquiry-on Gen. Mc- Dowell is now sitting in Washington bat can find no charges to act upon. No one appears to know anything. At the Mint, there are now coined daily about $2,500 of nickel cents, all of which are distributed as soon as made, bat still they are ecarce. ear The Queen of England has given her formal consent to the marriage of the • Prince of Wales and the Princess Alexandra. fir The Sultan otTurkey has'ordered 'air iron-eased screw steamship in Eng land, and is about; to order three more. sr Oak is being cut in large quanti ties on the mountains near Manchester, Vt., for the'California market. sr It is estimated that Maine has paid_ in bounties over $2,000,000, varying frcitn,s2.o to $3OO per man. '-The Court Martial on Gen. Fitz John Poiter in also in session now at Washington. THE hi 'swoon inIiAGRE4 :- - -The Min nesota Pioneer contains the:following particulars of the trials before - a com missioner of the "mulatto, mixed-bloods and Indians" engaged in the Sionx:(ln. dian) raids. Four hundred and ninety eight cases have been disposed of. At Camp Sibley a tent served as Court Room. As many as forty cases were tried in a day. The prisoners were brought in chained to ether by the feet in pairs, in some cases eight at a time, and the charges, which were preferred by General Sibley, read to them through the interpreter, Antoine Frenier, and thei after being exhorted to tell the truth, and not equivocate, each was asked as to the exteUt of his participa tion in the outrages, and if necessary witnesses were called against him. It was proved on one old cut nosed Indian that on the occasion, he had shot a white man, and butchered, with his knife, eleven women and four children, and another, that he had killed nineteen. Many of those engaged in the Patville murder have been tried. ° Patville start ed from Joe Reynold's place, just above Red Wood, for New Ulm, on the morn ing of the outbreak, with three young la dies and two other men, and on the way were attacked by the Indians. Patville was killed near the wagon, and the other men at the edge of the woods while trying to escape. One of the girls was wounded, and the three were taken prisoners and brought to Red Wood. Here the three were all abused that night by the Indians ; one, a girl of fourteen, by seventeen of the wretch es, and wounded the young lady to such an extent that she died that night. The two other young ladies were reclaimed at Camp Release, apd sent sto their friends, after suffering indignities worse than death, and at which humanity shudders and sickens. They attacked one party, and killed all the men, and then one of them caught hold of a young girl, to take her - an his property, when the mother resisted, and endeavored to pull her away. The In dians then shot the mother dead, and wounded the girl, who fell upon the ground apparently lifeless. One In dian thought she was dead, and told her first captor to rise her clothes, which he attempted to do. Modesty, strong in death, revived and the girl attempted to prevent it but as she did so, the other Indian raised his tomahawk and dashed out her brains. An old man, shrivelled to a mum. my, one of the criers on the Indian camp, was also tried, and two little boys testified against him. The old wretch was made to stand up, looking cold and impassable, and as stolid as a stone, the boys likewise standing, placed opposite, pzing at each other fora moment, when one of the boys said : "I saw that man shoot a man while he was pn his knees at prayer," and the other boy said : "I saw him shoot my mother." OFFICERS CASH/RED :—We are glad to notice that the authorities at Washing ton are begining to punish those officers who have left their commands without leave. On Tuesday one hundred officers were stricken from the rolls, and their names are shortly to be published.— This is said to be the first installnient of the thousand now absent, skulking.— The secret provost marshals ofPhiladel phia have Out on to the War Depart ment the names of over four hundred commissioned officers who are loafing about the hotels and boarding houses in that city. A. large number of names have also been sent on from New York and Boston. The Government is deter mined to break up this wholesale de reliction of daty. GREAT ADVANCE IN COAL Om.. Three months ago 'coal oil was selling in New York for 32 cents per gallon ; it is now selling at one dollar and ten cents per gallon by the cargo.. Benzine, which was a - drug in the market at 84 cents per gallon about the time when coal oil was selling at 32 cents is now selling as coal oil. Any person who will invent a coal oil lamp Which will give a greater light with lees consumption of material than the kind now in use will be sure to realize a fortune from his invention, if it is brought out immediately. Who will be the lucky 'man ? • A MODEST LAWYER. -M r Edwin James, the great English lawyer, now located in N. Y., has sent to the New York authorities a bill for $lOOO for professional services in acting as coun sel for. Mary Real, recently convicted of murdering her husband, and sentenced to the State prison. The claim' of Mr. James occasions no little astonishment, inasmuch as he professed to defend the woman from merely disinterested mo tives. It is probable that not more than one third the claim will be al lowed. COMMITTED S O. C. Randall, of Greene township, Erie county, aged about sixty years, committed suicide in his barn on Saturday lait, by opening the jugular vein with his penknife.— Domestic difficulty is assigned as the cause for the rash act. or Isaac N. Morris has been pro posed for the United States Senator, to occupy the seat now filled by Mr. Browritng. Mr. Morris was a Douglass Democrat, 'and is Still a loyal man. -TIE MARIETTIAN.--n PEN, PASTE AND SCISSORS, The National Bank Note Company is now daily $lOO,OOO worth of postage currency. Surgeon George Burr, 13: S. 'Volun teers, has, by order of the President, been dismissed from the serviee, for drunkenness. The news received from Stonetrall J',„,ksott shows that! he had rented house in Winchester for his family.— His troops are in front of the city, with a regiment of cavalry at Martinsburg. The young Mortara, who, at one time, made-such a noise in the world, is, ac cording to accounts from Rome, quite Christianized. He has had conferred upon him the minor ecclesiastical or ders. A rebel paper published in Louisiana is printed on the inside of ordinary wall paper. The Houston Telegraph and ,the dalvesten News have come down to small brown paper such as . grocers The Amherst Cabinet says the vener ble Dr. Mathias Spaulding, of Amherst, now 94; is still able to oversee his farm, and as an officer of the Congregation al Church, officiates at every communion season. His wife is sharing his ripe old age at 84. The citizens of Cedar Falls, lowa, have sent an agent to Cairo for the pur pose of procuring a lot of "contrabands" for that town and neighborhood. A large number have been spoken for, and they will be brought free of expense to the persons taking them. A Russian journal publishes a de - dree of the emperor of China, which it had copied from a Chinese print. It ex presses the sorrow of the Son of Heaven at the news of the death of Admiral Pro tat, and oidered Ziberline skins and four pieces of Thilbet velvet be sent as present to the family of that brave offi cer. At Davenport, the other day, a rat, which was being chased by several per sons, ran up a man's leg inside his trow sers. It laid hold of the man's leg with its teeth, and held its grip with such tenacity that the man's trowsers bad to be cut, and the rat was intimately taken off with a JAece of flesh between its teeth. At Szegeuto, in Hungary, a brigand who had committed twelve acts of rob bery and murder within a fortnight, has just been summarily tried and executed on the same'day. One of his accompli ces condemned to perpetual imprison ment, only in consequence of his youth; another was shot while trying to escape. It is said that G. R. Hoffman, of Ef fingham county, Illinois, raised, last year, two bushels of coffee. The seed Was sent him from Australia. The first year the plants were unproductive ; the second year they bore a little, and pro duced a fall crop the third year. He Woks thirty bushels can be grown per acre. The Camden an Amboy Railroad Company are constructing a double track between Bordentown. and Cam den. The Bordentown . Register says that the work has been commenced at both ends, and a _considerable distance has already been graded, and from Cam den the new track has been laid for some distance. It is expected thatthe work will be rapidly pushed to completion. On their voyage from Swinemunde to St. Petersburg, tilt; Japanese ambassa dors were very unwell. TiL6 first embas. seder, particular, was exceedirikly ill, notwithstanding the strange remedy he employed which consisted of soup made of horse-radish and rice, seasoned with red herrings and sardines cut into small pieces. When eating thit singular compound he took a little champagne after every spoonful. A very remarkable and fatal accident has happened to a child in Huddersfield. The child, ahoy about two years of age, was taken by a maid-servant into a pho tographer's shop, and whilst the girl was sittting for her portriat, the child got hold of an uncorked bottle containing cyanide of potassium, and drank a con siderable qua tity of dangerous solution. He died two hours after. The ladies of Newark are preparing a Thanksgiving dinner for the sick and wounded soldiers in the military hospi tal in that city, numbering more than fifteen hundred. The dinner will be given on Friday, the 28th instant, as the ladies and others who are to assist in the distribution and in some interest ing ceremonies that will take place, de sire to be 3 at home on Thursday, the day appointed by the Governor for Thanks giving. The Times states that there is only , the very slightest foundation for the re port of Miss Nightingale's restoration to health. "She is able to move from one place of, residence to another—a very few miles—once a year, but she is scarcely able to leave her bed in the in terval, and quite unable to struggle with the flood of correspondence and applicab tions of all kinds which the _ report of her partial recovery , has, brought upon her." Frank Blair'® inajoity for Congress ie only 13. .1 • MAsasio Busavotssicit.—We under stand that the Masonic Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia have tinder consideration a plan for the relief of their sick and wounded brethren in the army, and who are now or may be here after in camp or hospital within that District or vicinity. The design is to enable every lodge in the United states, and every opulent brother so disposed to contribute to this fund, with a dis tinct understanding that the contribu tions will be faithfully and promptly ap plied to all who come within scope of the intended charity. For this purpose the Gririd Lodge held a and on Wednesday evening last, and after de liberation adjourned to meet again on Wednesday evening nest. A FEARFUL ACCIDENT—On Friday, near Whitehall, ten miles from Phila. delphia, on the Pennsylvania Railroad a. man named John Williamson was driv ing a horse . and market wagon. The point was where the Lancaster pike is crossed by .the railroad. The engine struck the horse, scattering the animal in four pound chunks all over the road. The wagon was severed into fragments. Mr. Williamson was killed. The casu alty was entirely the result of careless ness on the part of the deceased. He was deaf, and neglected the usual pre. caution of crossing the track. He was a^market gardener, living at Whitehall. lir Lieut. L. Wise, a nephew of ex- Governor Wise, of Virginia, was arrest ed by Col. Shanks, in his camp, near Calhoun, Ky., some days since. Re had come into camp under the pretext of wishing to sell his horse. Letters from rebels conolusively .proving him a spy were fowl on his person. . While in prison at Owensboro', Col. Shanks, by keeping an eye upon him, succeeded in securing a letter in cypher, written to him by Governor Wise, and address— ed to the care of Sell?" Lee, Wheeling. He was sent to Louisville in irons, and will be treated as a spy, HOW STABLE AREMONARCHIES ?-The kingdom of Greece is the fifth monarchy which has disappeared during the last few years. King Otho represents the tenth sovereign family sent into exile following the Wass, of Sweeden, the Bourbons of Spain, those of Naples and Parma, the house of Este of. Modena, that of Don Pedro in Portugal, the Bour bona of France, the d'Orleans and the Grand Ducal family of Tuscany. These ten families reckon more than ninety members, without including the- hus bands and wives belonging to other sovereign houses. Cr A correspondent with the army near Corinth writes : "There are more white slaves in the South than is gener ally supposed. There are two slave boys in our regiment as white as I am— not a kink in their hair. Their mother is here also : she is almost white. The master is the father• to one of the boys, the master's son father to the other, and yet this mother and her sons were to be sold South when they made their escape to our army. They lived near Rienzi. How any reasonable man could uphold such a system is beyond my comprehen sion. 4. Er Richmond is the best flour market in the South. Her mills are as famous as, those of Rochester, N. Y., and yet, a week or two ago, flour was selling in Richmond at 827 a barrel ; white wheat at $4 a bushel ; red at $3 95 ; unbolted corn•meal at $2 a bushel, and bran at GO cents. With such prices ruling in the best market of the Confederates, and that, immediately after harvest, the ilrospect for the winter and spring months is not the most cneerful they could contemplate. Or We have yet to see the statement in a single Demnpratic journal that Gen. Cass has written a letter to the Presi. dent, conveying his fullest approval of the removal of Gen. McClellan. Yet such is the fact. The veteran western statesman expresses himself as cordially satisfied with th )1 removal, because the interests of the Union, the-government and freedom demanded the change, .111ir It is suggested.by an officerof the army that - if the money which , is appro priated for the purchase of fancy swords, sashes and belts •for favorite officers in the army and navy, was, used to. procure cork legs and arms for disabled soldiers and seamen, greater good and more glo ry would be, done by and gained for the donors. We think so too. ear At Ouzauke, Wis., the rioters who attempted to resist the draft, and destroyed several private residences, have been arrested, marched to the camp of the Twenty-seventh Regiment at Mil waukee, and, under the law of the State entered for _regular military service dur ing the war: Attempts are being made already to counterfeit the new postage currency. A proof sheet was picked up in New York on Monday, which is very well executed and calculated to , dsceive. is fortunate, that the discovery is made in good season. eir The daughter of William Nelson o Peterboro', Canada, a young lady 21 nue old, has lately died of the _hydra., ,phobia, caused bythe bite, of a cat. AN INTERVIEW WITH GENERAL BRAGG'S WIFE,—The Weitzel expedition from New orleans to Thibodeaux came upon the plantation of General Bragg. An interview with Mrs. Bragg is thus de scribed In the vicinity of Thibodeaux is situ ated the plantation of Major General Bragg. It, of course, attracted the at tention of our soldiers, and his negroes seemed to have a very intelligent idea of the relation their master stood to the national troops. As our soldiers ad. vanced, Lieutenant Colonel Warner, of the lath Connecticut, received word from Mrs. Bragg that she would like to have a guard to protect her property. This request was promptly complied with, and when Colonel Warner came up, two of his regiment were pacing qui etly before the door of the mansion.— They had, however, arrived too late to save the property entire. The negroes had taken the advantage of the opportu nity to break open the closets, invade the bureaus, rip open the feather and moss beds, in search of treasure, and otherwise destroy valuables in the dif ferent rooms. Upon Col. Warner's appearance, Mrs. Bragg, with some excitement, com menced expressing "her mind." I knew this lady many years ago, long be fore she was married, and few women were handsomer, or more eloquent with the tongue. I can therefore readily imagine that Colonel Warner got the worst of it, so far as words were con cerned ; at any rate, I venture to remark that she had the "last say." Col. War ner suggested that it was a sad time.— The lady said, "No one asked the na tional troops to-come in this vicinity, and why were they there V' "Because," said the colonel, "our duty, and my , da ty, which I -learned from your once hon ored husband, taught me to follow my flag, and defend every portion of my country." Mrs. Bragg insisted that "the Yankees were intruders and inva ders of the Sonth." The Colonel replied in courteous lan guage, that he could not understand his position in that light, and incidentally remarked that, as an old friend of Gen. Bragg's, he would have been pleased to see him. At this allusion the lady's dark and sparkling eyes flashed, and she said, "If you would see General Bragg, you should meet him in the West and not here on his plantation." The Colo nel, with a little malice, replied that "our Western troops had been trying to meet General Bragg, but that their ef forts had not been altogether success ful." Hereupon the lady demanded pro tection, and getting in a carriage, rode beyond the immediate lines of our troops —sad, no doubt, to feel that her hus band. and the trusted friend of General Taylor, and the hero of one of the best fought battles on our continent, was now fleeing out of Kentucky a defeated rebel. 11Lir G. B. Stebbins writes the Libera tor that Millard Fillmore. and his com pany of Continentals (home-guard) re cently escorted a regiment of volunteers to the Buffalo depot, the soldiers loudly singing the John Brown hymn . ! "And in solemn silence Fillmore heard them I Ve'ily the divine laws are immortal aid conquer at last." er The day dreams of certain of the Democracy consist of vissions of the defeat of Burnside. if they can manage to have Burnside and his entire army cut to pieces, it would be such a glori ous vindication of Little Mac, and so telling against the Administration.— Such the hopes and-the ends of modern Democracy. fur An unhooked-for supply of cotton has suggested itself to the spinners at Rouen, in promoting a general bittue among the owners of mattresses and bedding stuffed with that article, in al- Most every household. Immense stores of the, welcome material have come to the market from those hidden resources. prir A. washing-machine contest lately took place at Oakland, Cal., between the machines Economy and Excelsior. - Economy, worked by one man, washed forty-four yards of shirting and wrung it out in five minutes. Excelsior, worked by two .men washed forty-four yards and wrung them out in eight minutes. Gen. , ,Mitchell has left six. child ren, three sons and three' daughters whose mother died something over a year ago. His youngest son is now at West Point, and the other two were with him as members of his staff. 'Er Nine thousand Italian, priests have just presented a petition to the Pope, in which they entreat of him, in the name of religion, to abandon the temporal power. ilia' A firm in Philadelphia are ma king 60,000 waterproof blankets in the form of Spanish cloaks, for the Pennsyl vania troops: War Miss Burdett Coutts has given 1.C1,100 to, the Cotton Districts' Relief Fund in. England. • The Postmaster General has giv enorders for the redemption of postage stamps which have been used -as curren cy. - lir All the 'cotton and tobacco in Ittelimotid has been destroyed for fear of the :Union army, THE BOUNTY SWINDLER 9 :-.42 large number of soldiers during the past sum mer, have deserted their regiments in the field, and returned home either on forged passes or for alleged disability. After a brief sojourn many of these have entered the new regiments for the pur pose of obtaining the large bounties of. fered by States and counties. These men we learn ate to be severely dealt with. Another class who have received bounties and then deserted also, will be punished to the extent of the law. It is said On high authority, that tics Presi dent, on being recently shown" by the Secretary of War and General•in-Chief the immense list of deserters and roll! calls of absentees, sternly pledged him self hereafter to-pursue the most rigorous policy with these offenders, and that the execution, dismissals, ball-and-chain la bor for the whole term of their enlist ment,and other of the severest penalties ; he is resolved to deprive the rebels of the great advantage they have heretofore enjoyed over us in the means necessary to preserve discipline, and prevent the crimes of straggling, absenteeism and desertions. In view of these facts, the hope is expressed that the public will constitute itself a great moral police, to expose and shame back to duty all offi cers and men who cannot prove incon testibly that they have the authority required by army orders and regulations for their absence from their commands. air The Pennsylvania drafted men have been ordered tette field. Adju tant General Thomas sap. "The Draft ed Militia of the State of Pennsylvania are hereby ordered to proceed to Wash ington, D. C. As soon as the regiments receive their arms they will be put in route by the several local commanders without further orders. All drafted men who have not yet reported at camp of ren dezvous will immediatly do so. The com mencement of their nine months' service will commence from the date of their re turn for,iinty. Drafted men and their sub stitutes who have left the camps of ren dezvous, without authority,are deserters. If apprehended, they. will be required to make good the time lost by deser tion, and be subject to trial by court-mar tial." gir The charges against Gan. Fits John. Porter, appear to be of so serious a nature, that be has employed eminent counsel to defend him—among the rest the Hon. Reverdy Johnson. The trial, which should hare commenced last week, was delayed by the non-arrival of General - Pope, late commander.in-chief of the army of the Potomac, the court having been ordered on charges made by him. One of these charges is, that the late battle of Gainesville, before Washington, was lost through his neg ligence, inefficiency or indifference. lige The President's message is near, ly finished. Mr. Lincoln, it is said, will argue his emancipation policy at length in it, not only in regard to the military proclamation of Emancipation in the disloyal States, but in relation to his gradual emancipation Roney in the bor der slave States. It is believed that Congress will proceed to business at • once on Monday next, and the message sent in by one o'clock on that day. If so, we may expect it in the afternoon papers of Philadelphia the same day. or The publishers of newspapers in Philadelphia have beld a meeting for the purpose of taking into - conaideratioe the matter of advancing the rates of adver tising and subscription. The great ad vance in the cost of producing a paper has induced this meeting. No plan has yet been decided upon, but it is probable that the penny papers will be advanced to two cents, or ten cents a week, and the two penny papers to three cents. ' Ca. Maggie Bradford, of Alton, 111.,. followed her lover, George Percival, to the war. Percival got the officers to exclude her from the lines, and the dis heartened woman took arsenic in the presence of the whole regiment, from the effects of which she died in a short time, though.every possible effort was made to save her life. eir Governor Curtin has issued a proc- lamation offering.a reward of $5OO for the arrest of a deserter from the 128th regiment maned Henry Rowland, who• shot and killed his lieutenant, Josiah. Baughman, in Bedford county, on the 11th inst., while in the act of arresting him and returning him to his regiment. igar President Lincoln, although spe cially exempted by law from having his salary taxed under the revenue act, has ordered the same deduction to be made as if a tax were imposed. By this vol untary act the President pays a tax of $1,220 per year out. of his salary. or Soldiers' Special Notice.—Doyonr duty to yourselves, protect your health, tis,e Holloway's Pills & Ointment. For Wounds,. Sores, Bowel Complaints and Fevers, they are a perfect safegard.-- Full directions how to use them with every hog. Only 25 newts. 210 IF-8 D. ©n• Thursday morning last, at the residence of hei son-in-law, Mr. Alexander Lyndsay, Mas. REBECCA, COCRRAN, of this borough, aged 77 years and *so days.