Zile 4itatietti4n. •104 4 ~/ i taicietta, ✓.a, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1862. 11.1 Messrs. MATITER & ABBOTT, No. 335 Broadway, New-York, are duly authorized to act for us in soliciting advertisments, &c., and receipt for the same. ti' There are now fifty-one iron-clad war vessels in the service of the United States and in the processor construction. Twenty-one of these are of light draught and in the Western waters. The Dun derberg is over 5000 tons capacity, four are over 3000 tons, and thirteen are over 1000 tons. Ten carry over ten grins in their armament, while others like the Monitor, which carry only two guns, are mounted with pieces of extraordina ry calibre. This is but the begining of what we propose to do, and we are jus tified in announcing the purpose of. the Government to be the establishment of the largest navy ,upon the sea. We have now, as a beginning, nearly two hundred gnus clothed and in iron armor. Neither England nor France can say as much. At length Gen. Burnside, being all ready, essayed on Thursday of last week, directly in front of the city of Fredericksburg, and in the very teeth of the rebel army, to cross the Rappahan nock—and he succeeded. Our troops showed the most determined bravery— and perhaps no other troops in the world would have succeeded under the same circumstances. Considering the magnitude of the movement, the loss on our side was inconsiderable. The cross ing of our army was finally made upon five pontoon bridges—three directly in front of the city, and two, three miles below. lEr Immense supplies are being made from day to.day for the supply of the army with the munitions of war. The Ordance Department have contracts for the year 1863 for 750,000 small arms.— Eight hundred muskets are turned out daily at the Springfield Arsenal, and the Government claims that these are the best muskets in the world. The amount of saltpetre now on hand and controlled by. the Government is 600,000 pounds, or just twice as much as when the war began. sr The Tribune, Herald, and Even ing Post of New • York, have increased the price of their newspapers to three cents per eupy. The paper on which the Tribune is printed, a year ago cost eight cents per, pound, now it costs twenty cents with a prospect of a still further rise in price. All the daily and many of the weekly papers will be com pelled to advance their subscription price, or go to wall. 47 General Etaßeck was lately guilty of giving expression to the following bon mot : Col Wyman, the comtnandent at Rolla, on being ordered by General Curtiss to join him with his regiment, telegraphed to St. Louis for instructions as to what he should do with his post, as there was no one to relieve him of his command. In • reply to his message, Geo. rralleck sent him the following. "Stick the post in the ground, and go on." A soldier in the rebel army wri ting about the food, says : "We get a subsistance for soup called preserved vegetables. It looks a good deal like a big plug of tobacco in shape and solidity composed in part of pota toes, onions, beans, garlic, parsley, par snips, carrots, &. I alknowledge eating two large tin plates full and I can now speak the German language with-fluency. fir Nearly, all the bpsiness part of Fredericksburg—directly on the river— was fired and burnt by our shells. Tay the last census the town had a popula tion of 5,622. It contained 6 churches, 2 orphan asylums, 2 seminaries, 3 news paper offices, and 2 banks. It is located on. the Rappahannock, at the head of tide-water, and is bisty-five miles by railroad north of Richmond. ar The troops having all left Camps Simmons and M'Clellan, Harrisburg, both were abandoned on Friday last and 'the commandants relieved. There are no State camps now in existence.— Camp Curtain will be kept up by the United States military authorities as a geueral rendezvous for recruits and cap tured deserters, 411lir The court martial in the case of Major McKinstry, sitting at St. Louis,_ declined, on the . 9th inst., to summon Gen. McClellan as a witness for the ac cused. Major McKinstry then asked leave to file certain inteirogaiories to Gon. - McClellan and ex-Secrotary Cam ellia.. Pending the decision of this application' the court adjourned. car James Gorden Bennett goes out of the Herald• on the first of January next, and is.eucceeded by his son, who takes the whole business. The son is flames Gorden Bennett, Jr. SUOCRING Ccims.—ln Philadelphia, on Tuesday, a midwife named Madame Rossner, was arrested for causing abor tion. On the examination, there were present five different females, all of whom had been patients, and all had been robbed of the responsibilities of maternity. Nothing that was ever told of the notorious Madame Restell, or any of the sisterhood of child murderers, equals in atrocity the allegations con cerning this woman. Even the detect ives, who, by hardened experience, be come indifferent to such crime, admit that the business of this woman was ex tensive beyond all their previous expe rience. The hearing occupied two hours. The details were utterly unfft for publication. The hearing ended in the commitment of the woman without bail, and all the women who testified were obliged to give security for their fofthcomiug when the case was brought to court. The detectives actually ,dis interred the bodies of children freshly buried in the woman's yard. Max KILLED. --On Tuesday of last week, a colored man named John Wil liams, who bad been working in Altoona, got upon a westward bound frieght train, with the intention of riding to Pittsburg, and being intoxicated, he was unable to keep hie position on the bombers, and fell from them to the track, in the vicinity of Kittaning- Point, and was horribly mangled, several cars passing over him, He was taken back to Altoona, and interred the next day, lie was a young man, about twenty-two years of age, and his home was at Har ria6urg. FROZEN TO DEATH.-0 . 0 Sunday morn ing n week, the body of a man named Jeremiah Nieman, a resident of Potts town, Montgomery county, was found in one of the back streets of that bo rough, entirely dead and frozen stiff.— The deceased had been gunning the day before, and returning after nightfall, bad probably fallen by the roadside before he reached his home, and unable to rise, perished in the cold of the bitterly in clement night. Efe was an excellent mechanic, and leaves a wife and family. A DrETERENce.—The annual pay of au English soldier averages $lOO, and that of the French $5O. A - French colonel (full pay) has $1,500, and an English $6,000. In France a vice-admiral has $B,OOO, in England $12,000. The French rear-admiral receives $6,000. Few of our army and naval officers man age to Hie as cheaply as the French naval lieutenant, who has to find his own uniform and food out of 120 francs a month, or less than $3OO a year. WHAT IT EixaNs.-T-People have some times wondered why Democratic jour nals placed a rooster at the head of their pages as an emblem of victory, but rer an Brawnlow fully explains the matter as follows: "As the crowing of the cock followed the betrayal of Christ by Peter, so again the cock crows after the Democrats have attempted to betray the government and place it in the power of its enemies," COUNTERFEIT - POSTAGE OUR REN OF We are informed that connterfet fifty cents postage notes are in circulation. The front side is not a good imitation of the genuine, and on the reverse the figures "50" are upside down. The "50" in the corner of the front side have been stamped on separately, and the green ink used strikes through to the back and shows on white paper. CURE FOR DIPTIIERIA..--A number of cases of diptheria having lately occurred in this town and vicinity, parents should be prepared with proper remedies for its cure. It is said that Sve cents worth of and ore of iron, and a little turpen tine, will in almost every case stop the disease if used in time. Swab the throat with the tincture, and rub the turpen tine on the outside, frequently. A HINT TO OYSTER,EATERS..---W ben too many oysters have been incautiously eaten, and are felt lying cold and heavy in the e'tomnch, we hive an infallible remedy in hot milk, of which half a pint may be drank, and It will quickly dis solve the oysters into a bland, cream jelly.—Excharrge. tar The newspapers in the West of Ireland are agitating, the question of flax culture in that quarter as a means of improving the country and turning the soil to more advantage than at pre sent. Ifir The reported wounding of Gener al Meagher is a mistake. His horse fell upon him, bat he was only alighly injured, and is still in command of what remains of his brigade. ,gir Governor Edward Stanley has is sued his proclamation for an election for a Representative to Congress from North Carolina. The election will be held on the first of January, 1863. gir The Robinson arms manufactory, at Richmond, is at work night and day —carting cannon, manufacturing Sharp's rifles and other arms, large and small, for the Confederate Government. Cr The President has decided to hang thirty of the three hundred Indians con victed recently in . Minnesota for taking part in the masattere - ,of-the white people ,of that State, c-s, LI 4. PEN. PASTE AND SCISSORS. It is intimated that the bill for the admission of the state of West Virginia into the Union, will not be immediately acted upon by the President, The rebel Governor Vance, of North Carolina, has sent in his message to' the Legislature of that State. It is printed in the Newbern papers of Bth, and ad mits much suffering among the people and soldiers. A bill has been prepared, and will shortly be introduced into the House providing for the emancipation of slaves in Missouri, and the owners to be com pensated in United States bonds having thirty years to run. Gen. Burnside's Army is, being rein• forced to extent of the power of the Gov ernment. Indeed every energy is being stretched to opposite so gigantic a force, to the enemy as shall overwhelm him. There must-. be no doubt of the success of the advance movements this time. Richmond must fall and the whole army be overthrown, or driven back to their caverns in the cotton States. Gen. Dix has issued a proclamation for an election for a representative for Congress from the second district of eastern Virginia, to take place on the 22d instant. All who are entitled to vote and decline to do so', will be con sidered as enemies of the gOvernment and treated accordingly. A classification of the members re turned to the next Missouri Legislature shows fifty-nine emancip4i6nisti and thirty-eight conservatives. This secures to the State the election of two Eman cipation United States Senators, and the adoption of measures which,mnat 're lieve the State of the burden of slavery. A memorial, signed by a large number of Congressmen, will be presented to the President in a few days praying for the appointment of Eli Thud as Military Governor of Florida. The colored people of Boston are ma king great preparations for the celebra tion of the Ist of January, 1863, as a day of jubilee. One or two meetings bays been held, and committees .appointed to perfect arrangements for the celebra tion. •Frederick. Douglass is to deliver the oration. ' . Gen. Spinner, 'United States Treas urer, has heard nothing of the stolen certificates, but states that it is his opin ion that the parties purloining them burnt the evidence of their crime. Such is also the opinion of the police. Jo no case, however, can they be used. A large deputation of clergymen of the Reformed Presbyterian Chinch have visited the President 'recently.-- The were introduced by Hon. Mc. Bing ham, of Ohio, and urged the President to uphold his emancipation proclama tion. Mr. Lincoln receivedthem kind ly, and intimidated that no restraCtion would be made by, him unless it became evidently necessary for the good of the country. Seventeen •snits have been commenc ed at Norfolk against the Wise family, consisting of henry A., John J. H. Geo. D., and 0. Jennings, for- the recovery of debts varying in amounts from two' hundred and fifty to one thousand dol lars. Among the contributors to the Union loving Poor of England, we see the name of Gerrit Smith, $lOOO ; Tharlow Weed, $lOOO, and so on—all "Black Re publicans," it seems. Sixteen. German editors of Bait Penn sylvania, have resolved to raise the price of their newspapers, from $1 to VIA a year in advance. William M. Breslin, Editor of the Lebanon Advertiser, is a candidate For the Democratic nomination of clerk of the Bowe of Representatives. There will be thirteen editors in the next Legislature of Wise - eosin. Better be engaged in • making laws than print ing newspapers on trust, with paper at twenty-five cents per pound. A child of shun° or' poverty was left at a door step in -Towanda, and when found an arm of the poor thing was frozen 1 The bill to admit Western Virginia as a Free State, passed the House 96 to 55. The Raliegh papers ,express them selves as sick of the war. Robert G. Harper, .the accomplished ,and veteran editor of the Adams Senti nel, has been editor and publisher of that •paper since Nov. 1816—a. period of forty-six years. Previous to that time, it was issued by his father, from its commencement, in November, 1800, at Gettysburg, Adams county„Pa. Gen. Robert Patterson superintended the burial of his son, Gen. Frank E. Pat. terson, in Philadelphia. The American flag was not displayed on the coffiu.-- There was no hypocrasy, at any rate, in the man who lost us the Bull Run first fight. J, Wesley Greene, who told that wonderful tale of negotiations through him between President Lincoln and Jeff, Davis, in the Chicago Times, has been arrested in that city on cliargis of obtaining goods by' false proteuces. gar A distinguished character has withdrawn from public life. Mr. Tom Sayers, the hero of Farnborough heath, whose bout with Heenan resulted in a drawn game, announces his intention "never again to fight, or second any man who may fight." Reposing upon his laurels, Mr. Torn Sayers relinquishes the further pursuit of fame, subsides into the quiet but respectable vocation of keeper of a tavern, and declares himself forever out of the "ring." Battered in many hard contests, damaged as to nose and eyes in the noble art of self-defence which is the Briton's pride and boast, and considerably disfigured in general personal appearance in consequence of his devotion to his peculiar pastime, be no longer threatens the "champion of America," and there is no reason to ap prehend the recurrence of an "interna tional fight" with all its disgusting but popular adjuncts. ,Thomes Wendell, Esq., died at Farmington, Me., November 18th, in the 93d year of hie age. Mr, W. was born at Marblehead, July 13, 1770. Soon after, however, his father removed to Salem. In I'7Bo, during the war of the American Revolution, he shipped as a cabin-boy on board the ship Puns a privateer, commanded by Capt. John Cairnes, and owned by Hon. Richard Derby, a wealthy merchant of Salem, which vessel took many prizes. His father died in 1777, in a British prison ship. In 1789 he removed to Maine, and has been a resident of Farmington for - 76 years. He was, says the Farmington paper from which we condense the ac count, undoubtedly the last of-that pa triotic band who constituted 'the officers and_ crew on the ship Ports, as a,priva teer, who - with stout arms and valliant hearts, contributed so large a share in achieving our independence. gr Private Lunt deserted from our forces at Fernandina, Florida, in April last. He was returned to our lines by the rebels, and, having been tried by a court-martiO, was found guilty and sen tenced to death. The sentence was ap proved by the President, and carried• into effect at Raton IJoad, south Caro• Tina, on : the Ist inst. The prisoner pro tested his innocence, and met his death with a strong composure. He •Warned his companions against bad company, to which he attributed his sad end. The wretched man fell pierced by eleven• balls, causing instant death. I An, amendment the Internal Revenue Law has-just passed the House and, will of course, pass the IT. S. Sen ate, which will be quite a relief to hotel keepers. It is as follows : "Hotels, inns, or taver_ns, and eating houses, having taken out license provi ded therefor, shall not be required to pay any other license for the sale of any articles furnished by hotels, inns, or ta verns, and eating houses, and not pro hibited by the laws of any State or Ter ritory where.the same may be located, pr in violation. thereof. JohnCarbaugh, Esq., of Frank lin. , township, Adams comity, was frozen to death on'Satniday night a week in a field near his residence. He was in Gettysburg to see his son off in the cars in the afternoon; who was a drafted sol dier. He went in a buggy with a friend to Hilltown and thence started across the fields to his residence, and from the inclemency . of the night perished. He was not found until . SundaY evening. Ca- Many men have releived them selves of dyspepsia by not drinking any thing, not even water,•' during their meals. No animtl,- except -man, ever drinks in connection with its food. Men ought not to, Try this, dyspectics; and you will not wash down mechanically that which ought to be masticated and ensalivated before it is swollowed. KW Gen. McClellan has thrown him. self completely to the enmies of the Ad. ministration. . He is now at Washington in attendance is a witness on the. Mc- Dowell Court Martial, and is dined and winectand made a lion of by each ,eemi traitors:as Vallandigham, Cox igc Co. it is reliably assorted that a very large proportion of tilt> substitutes who have been - hired to take the place of drafted man, in Milirankee, have deser ted from Camp Washburn°, and have thns far'succeeded in making their es caPe: : It seems to be settled that Caleb B. Smith will shortly resign hie position as Secretary of the Interior, to accept the vacant District Judgeship in Indiana. The" change will occur probably on the Ist of January. W At a recent term of the Supreme Judicial Caen, held at Concord, a man named Davis belonging in Manchester, was divorced from. his wife This was the third similar affliction he had to un dergo. OW In the second half of the fifteenth century, Russia was but 18,000 square miles in extent. Now it covers 392,000 square miles. In 1772 the population of the empire was 14,000,000; now it is 65,000,000. "Chopping trees," to deliver to• the families of soldiers in the field a sup.>. ply• of•wood-for the winter, are all the .rage in. lowa. sir Gen. McNiel, whom Jefferson Da vis has threatened, by public proclama tion to bang. if caught by any of rebel troops, has arrived at St. Louis. He learns that General Curtis has received information that the demand for his sur render has arrived inside the Union lines, and he is awaiting its receipts be fore communicating any answer. It is understood the matter will be referred to General Halleck. The Confederate authorities have no claim on the United States for the acts of General McNiel, and if they had, the fact that the men whom he caused to be shot had all vio lated their paroles sufficient justification for the deed. Gen. McNiel is about to write an open letter to the President, showing the efficacy of his severe policy, as demonstrated by actual results. His his course has been endorsed by hosts of the best Union men in North Missou ri, and the Democratic tory press will do well to spare their censure until they know what they are about. Gar The Lindell Hotel, St. Louis is finished, and is the largest in the world. It is equivalent to eight stories high ; contains five hundred and fifteen rooms, twenty-one parlors, twenty-seven acres of plastering, seven acres of flooring, thirty-two miles of bell-wire, nine and a half miles of baseboard, twelve miles of gas, steam, and water pipe, one and one eight miles or one thousand nine hun dred and ten windows, and fourteen thousand feet of painted imitation of cornice. The quantity of bricks used in the building is eight million. 'ln the basement there is a railroad running the entire length, for the transportation of heavy articles, and above are two steam elevators for lifting fuel and baggage from the ground to the floors above. ear Gen. Webb, our minister to Bra zil, has been exerting himself to effect a treaty by which all free negroes of our country shall be translated to the region of the Amazon, at the expense of the United States, and there endowed with land, gratuitously, by Brazil, and at the termination of a term of years become citizens of Brazil, with all the rights privileges of the free negro population of the empire, all of whom, by the consti tution, are the recognized equals of the white man, and equally eligible with him to the highest•offices of the empire, and where already, the social distinc tions between the white and black races, which once existed there, have been nearly eradicated. gpr Arrangements will soon be made for the exchange of common postage stamps, which have been used as cur rency, and are no longer fit for their proper use. It is said that half a mil lion of the new postage currency will be required. It will probably be nec essary for holders here and elsewhere to send them to New York for redemption done up in packages according to the denomination, marking the amount on the outside, with the name and address of the owner. The work will commence as soon as the requisite amount of new 'currency can be prepared. LIBERAL OFFER.—The publishers of the Sunday School Times are prepared to-furnish specimens copies of their pa. per, with very liberal inducements to Superintendents, Teachers, and others, who will aid them in extending its cir culation during the coming year. This opportunity should not pass unimproved. Now is the time to act. Address J. 0 Garrigues & -Co., 148 S. 4th Street, Philadelphia, Penna. ow The Sunday School Teachers Mini. ature Diary and Alamanac for 1863, this convenient and' beautiful little Annual is sent FREE to any Superintendent or Teacher in the United States, on receipt of a stamp to prepay the postage. It is something new, useful and attractive; and no teacher should be without it. Send for a copy to J. C. Garrigues & Co., 148 S. 4th Street Philadelphia, Penna. eir Capt. Watermen who has retura ed from the wreck of thesteamer Golden Gate reports the Mexicans residing in the neighborhood had saved $152,000 in treasure. Other treasure boxes were doubtless buried in the sand below the low water mark, and may be found by chance, rather than an intelligent search. The employees of the wrecking company are continuing at work with their diving apparatus.. ar Robert Dale Owen, the ablest Democrat in the West, has written a letter strongly advocating the abolition of slavery. He considers the destruc tion of slavery essential to peace and to a permanent restoration of the. Union. The fact is, the ablest Democrats of the North are fast becoming Abolitionists. ar The frauds recently discovered in the New York Custom House, were committed by clerks appointed years ago under a Democratic Administration, and kept in place through the mistaken generosity of Republicans towards poli tical opponents. l Diarrhea & Dysentery will deci mate the Volunteers far more than the bullets of the enemy, therefore let every man see to it that he carries with him a fully supply of Holloway's Pills. Their use. in India and the Crimea saved thous ands of British Soldies. Only 25 eta. per Box. ' 213 lir Gen. Grant has issued an order respecting Kentucky, saying that as the State has fulfilled the requirements of the Constitution of the United States, and laws of Congress, by choosing loyal men to fill all the State offices and execute the laws, military authority is prohibited from any interference, and not to be used, except to suppress riots and mobs in resistance to the laws.— All civil authority, where it can be ex ecuted at military posts, will be premit ted. eir The Burlington (Vt) Times is in formed that there are aggregatled at Rouse's Point about 14,000 muskets, 250 sword; 500 large revolvers, 5 000- 000 caps, and eleven tons of powder, which were shipped from New-York, and undoubtedly intended for the rebels to be obtained by way of their friends, the British. The lot is valued at $2BO - The New-York sympathisers stop at nothing in assisting the rebels to de stroy the country. ea - The rebels, before evacuating Fredericksburg, threw a large quantity of tobacco into the Rappahannock, which, when our boys crossed over, they eagerly plunged into the river to recov er. As their supply of "the weed" bad been exhausted for a long time, the boys were delighted with their hard earned prize. tar The terrible malady of diptheria seems to be again making its appear ance all over the country. A number of deaths have already occurred from it in various portions of Chester county.— 'ln East Nantmeal township one of the public schools has closed, the pupils nearly all having diptheria. Gir An old man, Pearson by name, was atrociously murdered in Griggsville, Illinois., last week, by three boys. The murderers have been arrested, and their confessions implicate the murdered man a wife and daughter, and wife's brother, as the instigators of the deed. W Gen. Bayard, who was killed at the battle of Fredericksburg, was to have been married on the 18th instant to a daughter of Colonel Bowman, of West roiut,and niece of the late Bishop Bowman. • Gir The battle of Saturday near Fred ericksburg is said to have raged for a long while in the immediate vicinity of the tomb of the mother of Washington, which is situated in the outskirts of the city. Three regiments lolemth i k,rafted men at Philadelphia have already left for the seat of war, leaving about two thousand men in camp there now. tgr,Douveld,NlcKtt,y, the noted ship builder, arrived home from Europe iu the Arabia. The Government has se cured his services. sEir Several dranken or crazy persons were frozen during the late cold spell, and some have expired. 0 I E U. On Thursday morning last, at the residence of her father, Mr. Samuel S. Grosh, in the village of Maytown, Mrs. MARY, wife of Jacob S. Reath, of the same village, but now in the 45th Regimept, Pennsylvania Voluu teem, in the 29th-year-of her'age. 13plaivQeliiqg Niigfeh I NOW IS THE TIME TO PREPARE FOR THE Cold_ .Sea.sc)3a._ SPANGLER & PATTERSON- Wa E ort h m a e ve nt l o a f te , :j o r o e l ce en i s ve a d nd a a l l ho o r t r ei gh as- SEASONABLE GOODS, Embracing the best 'styles of *. ' Coating Cloths, CassimeTes Sf Vestings, Youth's Ca.ssirneres IN NEW AND EXCELLENT DESIGNS, Superior Fancy and other Dress Silks; every shade of French Merino; plain and wool DeLaines in colors; beautiful designs of Mixed De Laines, Coburgs, Aipaccas and Lavellas ; Cloak and Sack Cloths-; Rich and Grave Colored Balmoral Skirts, Latest Improved Spring Skirts; Fine, Medium and Common Shawls, Nubia Scarfs, Son tags and. Hoods ; Gauntletts, Gloves, and Hosiery; Muslims, Counter panes and Tickinga; Checks, Flannels and Linens. Floor amd Table Oil Cloths, Ingrain, Venetian and Rag Carpet, Wall Pa per, Linen, Cotton, and Woolen Carpet chain. CRODEERT IN DESIRABLE BETTS. New Mackerel in small and ),(01AMIR large packages. All of which we are now selling at prices below the present City rates. SPANGLER PATTERSON. Marietta, November 8, 1862. WINES . & LIQUORS. 11. D. BENJAMIN, DEAR IN WINES Sc LIQUORS, Picot Building, Marietta, Pa. SEGS leave to inform the public that ho will continue the WINE & LIQUOR busi ness, in all its branches. He will constantly keep on hand all kinds of Brandies, TVines, Gins, Irish and Scotch Whiskey, Cordials, Bitter; 6-c., BENJAMIN'S Justly Celebrated Rose Whisky, ALWAYS ON HAND. A very [inferior OLD RYE WHISKEY uat received, which is warranted pure. rfr All H. D. B. now asks of the punt; is a careful examination of his stock and pri ces, which will, he is confident, result in Ho tel keepers and others finding it to their ad vantage to make their purchases from A FINE HOLLIDAY GIFT. One of these beautiful PhotoggrapPh• .Albuma, for Car,l He Visitta, at ,DELLINGEIV.Y.