reshilterian . `anner. PITTSBURGH, DECEMBER 6, 1862 The War. We have no important events to , detail, this week. The enemy is massing his forces en the South side of the Rappahan nock, and fortifying his position for miles both above and below Fredericksburg. Gen. Burnside ,also is busy in making preparations which look toward crossing 'the river. The censurers of Gen. M'Clel lan for his caution, who predicted that Gen. Burnside would be in Richmond in two weeks from the time he was given the command, are also buly—busy in hunting up excuses. The fourth week is passing, and nothing done. We are glad that these talkers and - writers have not opened upon the General the batteries of reproach. Do not ask him to perform impossibilities. Do not' impel him uselessly to sacrifice his army. fie is likely to do all that can be done. A per :severing attempt to force his way to Rich mond, by the route through Fredericks burg would, most probably, be a disastrous failure. And we think the Government begins to be convinced of this. it contin ues its General in command, though be makes no advance. And it is ,collecting troops on and near the Peninsula. We await the development. There is some activity, but no decisive movement yet, in the army of Gen. Rose •erans. Irmssmort is receiving great atten tion. The Wade areincreaaing theirterti &cations, and the Federal armies and fleets look wishfully thither. Gen. Grant has left Grand Junction, on his way toward Grenada. A division has left Memphis in the same direction. The attack on Vicks burg will be vigorous, by land and water. The rebels claim to have 300,000 armed men in the Mississippi Valley. This is a ::.boast, not supported by reality. , About 250 miles below Vicksburg is ;Port Hudson, which the rebels are fortify ' ing very strongly. 'this portion -of the river they hold, and it is of immense ad vantage to them ; enabling them to com municate with Arkansas, Texas, and West Louisiana, whence they obtain large sup plies of cattle. Gen. Butler administers affairs at New- Orleans, with his usual vigor. No import ant movements are noted, from the Gulf, Port Royal, or North Carolina . iJr:tutrai gctus. The National War manual; A Hand-Book of Useful Knowledge for the 'Amer ican Citizen-and Soldier. Compiled from Official .Sources.. Pp. 110, 12mo. Philadelphia: Duane Robson. Pittsburgh: W. Clark. We have received from J. W. Clark, general agent in Pittsburgh, a copy of this compend of aluable information pertaining to the war. It 111 be found not only interesting but highly ineful, both to the citizen and the soldier. I#l Among the contents we notice; The Soldier's Pension and Bounty Act; Instructions and Forms ".n. Obtaining Pensions, Bounty, Back Pay, ac.; liedule of the General Tax Bill; Confiscation Etnanoipationtßill; Record of Daily Events [he Rebellion; and Population of the linited 'es, Niel 3ute for the work are wanted at 66 Third t, Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Female College, :thaw, a great partiality to home, We loved' childhood and,youth, and we , love it still ; have taught our children to love it,. Chil wh o ean .have really good schools—Primary, Collegiate—to attend, while they pass evenings, Sabbaths, and holidays at the ly dwelling and under the parental -eye, are ly favored, And such advantages belong to ihildren of Pittsburgh. e are pleased here again to notice the Rue ful operations of the PITTSBURGH - FZMALE ..EOE. The attendance of pupils has been hundred and twenty-one. They are instructed seventeen teachers. The Principal, Rev. Dr. ibing, is indefatigable in hie efforts, and ly successful too, in having things just es should be. Education, however, cannot always be had, lining the young under the parental roof. ,y must go out for a large part,of it; some they must go to a great distance ; and in cases it is delightful to havtra'Seminary T every thing is conducted on Christian iples, whither to send our offspring. The Winter Term of the College will commence Tuesday Morning, December 9a. Arrange- Its are made for paying the beet attention to •ders. Normal Department will be opened the new c ipecial ofires. ➢IOTICE.—The present " Terms of Sale," the Presbyterian Board of Publication, will be diecontin- . the closest the year 1862. • ter J anuary let, 1863, no discount fro m th e Catalogue le will be allowed except to Bookeel lere, to whom the 11 le prepared to offer liberal Indnceniente; to Ministers! Wing their Families, and Theological Btsidenia, to whom cent. will be given on purchases for their own use further information please address W. SARGENT, Business Gorreepondent. ladelphia, Novensber, 1862. nov2l-.6t bOYER k BAKER'S SEWING MACHINEts 177 -- kod manufacturing purporee, are the beet in use. A. P. 011APONY, General Agent, 18 Mt Street, Pittsburgh, Pa. CHEWS HAIR DYE!-THE BEST IN .AM A. EATCHELCIR'S celebrated Hair Dye pro .:olor not to be distinguished from nature—warranted injure the Hair in the least; remedlee the 11l effects of ice, and invigorates the Hair for life. GREY, RED, or Y HAIR instantly hive' a splendid Black or Brown. • the Hair soft and beautiful. Sold by all Dingell.% Je Genuine ; ix signed WILLIAM A. BATCHELOR, ur sides of each box. \.CTORY, No..Bl,BAna4T STREET, NSW YORK. 33 Broadway and 113 Bond Street.) jun 7-17 TISTRY.--Dr. 0. `SILL, No, 246 Penn trends to all branolual of *a Thiat 4 0 PrOanslou. The President's Message. Pam-Citizens of the Senate and louse of Representatives : Since your last annual assembling, .an other year of health and bountiful harvests has passed, and while it has not pleased the Almighty to bless us with a return of peace, we can but press on, guided by the best light he gives us, trusting in his own good time and wise way, that all will be well. The correspondence touching foreign affairs, whioh has taken place during the past year, is herewith submitted in virtual compliance with a request to that effect, made by the House of Representatives, near the close of the last session of Con gress. If the condition of our relations with other nations is less gratifying than it has usually been at former periods, it is certainly more satisfactory than a nation eo unhappily distracted as we are, might reasonably have apprehended. In the month of June lastthere were some grounds 4o expect that the maritime powers, Which at the beginning of our domestic difficul ties, so unwisely and unnecessarily, as we think, recognized the insurgents as a bel ligerent, would soon recede from a posi tion, which has proved only less injurious to themselves than to our own country But the temporary reverses which after wards befell the National arms, and which were exaggerated by our disloyal citizens abroad, have hitherto delayed that act of eiwpte justice. The Civil War, which has so radically changed for a moment, the occupations and habits of , the American people, has neces sarily disturbed the social conditions and affected very deeply the nations with which we have carried on a commerce that had been steadily increasing throughout a period f half a century. It has, at the same time, excited political ambitions and apprehen sions, which have produced a profound agi tation throughout the civilized world. in , ,this unusual agitation, we have forborne to take part in any controversy, between foreign States, and between parties or fac tions in such States. We have attempted so propagandism and acknowledged no fey elution. But we have left to every nation the exclusive conduct and management of its own affairs. Our struggle has been, of course, contemplated by foreign nations with reference less to its own merits than to its supposed and often exaggerated ef fects, and the consequenoes resulting to those nations themselves. Nevertheless, complaint on the part, of this government, even if it were just, would certainly tur un wise. A blockade"of 3,000 miles of sea coast could not be established and vigorously enforced in a season of great commercial activity like the present without com mitting occasional mistakes and inflicting unintentional injuries upon . Foreign na tions and their subjects. A civil war occurring in a country where foreign ers reside and carry on trade under treaty stipulations, is necessarily fruitful of com plaints of the violation of neutral rights; all such collisions tend to excite misappre hensions, and possibly to produce mutual reclamation between nations which have a common interest in preserving peace and friendship. In clear cases of these kinds, I have, so far as possible, heard and re dressed complaints which have been pre sented by friendly powers. There is; how ever, a large and augmenting number of doubtful cases upon'which the Government is unable to agree with the governments whose protection is demanded by the claim ants. There are, moreover, many cases in which the United States or their citizens suffer wrongs from the naval or military authorities of Foreign nations, which the governments of these States are not at once prepared to redress. I have proposed to some of the Foreign States thus interested, mutual eonventions to examine and adjust such complaints. This proposition has been made especially to Great Britian, to France, to Spain, and to Prussia. In each ease it has been kindly, received, but has not yet been formally adopted. deem it my duty to recommend an appro priation in behalf of the owners of the Norwegian bark Admiral P. Tordens Riv la, which vessel was, in May, 1861, pre vented by the commander of the, blockad ing force, off Charleston, from leaving that port with her cargo, notwithstanding a similar privilege had shortly before been granted to an English vessel. I have di rected the. Secretary of State to cause the papers in the case to be communicated to .the proper committee. COLONIZATION. Applications have been made to me by many free Americans of African des cent, to favor , heir emigration with a view to such colonization as was con templated in recent acts of Congress. Other parties at home and abroad, some from interested motives, others upon patri otic considerations, and still others .influ enced by philanthropic sentiments, have suggested similar measures; while on the other hand several of the Spanish Ameri can Republics have protested against the sending of such colonies to their respective territories. Under these circumstances, I have de clined to move any such colony to any State without first obtaining the consent of its government, with an agreement on its part to receive and to protect . ouch emi grants in all their rights of-freernen, and I have at the same time offered to the sever al States situated in the tropics, or having colonies there to negotiate with them, sub ject to the advice and consent of the Sen ate, to favor the voluntary emigration of persons of that class to their respective ter ritories upon conditions which shall be equal, just and humane - . Liberia and Hayti are, as yet, the only countries . to which colonists of African descent from here could go with cart inty of being received and adopted as citizens, and"l regret to say that such persons contemplating coloniza tion, do not seem so willing to emigrate to those countries, as to some others; nor wil ling as, I think, their interest demands. I believe, however, the opinion among them in this respect, is improving, and that ern long, there will be an augmented and con siderable emigration to both those coin tries -- frem the United States. The treaty with Great Britain for the suppression of the African slave trade, has been put into operation with a good pros pect of complete success. It is an occasion of special plesaure . to acknowledge that the execution af it on the part of Her Majes ty's Government, has been marked'with a jealous respect for the authority of the United States, and the •rights of their moral and legal citizens. The Convention with Hanover for the abolition of the Stadt dues has been car ried•into full•effect under the Act of Con gress for that purpose. The new commercial treaty between the Gaited States and the Sultan of Turkey has been carried into execution. A com mercial and Consular treaty has been ne gotiated, subject to the Senate's consent, with Liberia, and a similar negotiation is now pending with the Republic of Hayti. A considerable' improvement of the nation al commerce is expected to result from these measures. Our relations with Great. Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Russia, "Prussia, Denmark, Sweden and Austria, The Ned:mime:is, Italy, Rome and the oth er. European States, remain undisturbed. Very favorable relations also continue to .be maintained with Turkey,',Morocco, China and Japan. During the last year there has not only been no change of our previous rela tions. with l the independent States of our own continent, but more friendly sentiments than have heretofore existed are believed to be entertained by these neighbors, whose safely and progress are so intimately connected with our own. This statement especially applies to Mex ico, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, liondurasßeru and 'Chili. The commission, under the Convention with the Republics of New eirehada, closed its session without having audited and .passed upon all the ,olaims whickwere subhiitied to it.. A proposition is pending to levfite the Cloniention, iliat It`may be *Mite do more ootnplete justice. FOREIGN RELLTIONS 'TREATIES MEXICO MW CENTRAL AMERICA. PRESBYTERIAN BANNER.--SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1862. The commission between the United States and the Republic of Costa Rica has com pleted its labors, and submitted its report, TELEGRAPHIC CONNEXIONS I have favored the project for connecting the United States with Europe, by an At lantic telegraph, and a similar project to •ztend the telegraph from San Francisco to connect by a Pacific telegraph with the wire which is being extended across the Russian Empire. TUE TERRITORIES The territories of the United States, with unimportant exceptions, have remained undtatured by the civil war and they are exhibiting such evidence of prosperity as juetifiew an expectation that some of them will soon be in a condition to be organized as States, and be constitutionally admitted into the Federal Union. The immense ma teriel resources of those territories ought to be developed as speedily as possible. Every step in that direction would have a tendency to improve the revenues of the government and• diminish the burdens of the people. It is worthy of your serious consideration whether some extraordinary measures to promote the end cannot be adopted. The means which suggeete itself as most likely to be effective, is a scientific exploration of the mineral regions in the territories; with a view to the publication of its results at home and in foreign coun tries, results which cannot fail to be suspi cions. THE - FINANCES. The condition of the finances will claim your most diligent consideration. The vast expenditures incident to the mill; tary and naval opirations required for the suppression. of the rebellion have hitherto been met with a promptitude' and certainty unusual in similar circumstances, and • the public credit - has been fully maintained. The continuance of the war, however; and the inareased disbursements made necessary by the augmented forces now.'in the field, demand your best reflections as to the best mode of providing the necessary revenue• without in jury to business, and with the least possible burdens upon labor. TELE OURILENI.IY. The suspension of Bpoolo payments by the banks, soon after the comusenoement of your . last session, made large issues of United. States notes unavoidable. In no other way could the payments the troops and the sat isfaction of other justdemands be so aeon- omically or so well provided for. The judi ()ions legislation of Congress, securing the re. s' oeivability of these notes or loans and in ternal duties, and making them . &legal ten. der for other debts, has made them is universal' currency, and has satisfied, partially at least; and for the time, the long felt want of a form °insulating medium, saving thereby to ' the people immense; sums in discounts and exchanges. A return to specie -payments, .however, at -- the earliest period compatible with dile regard to all interests, should ever be kept in view. Fluctuntions In the valtie 'Of currency are always injurious, and to reduce these fluctua tions' to the lowest possible point will always be a leading purpose in wise legislation. Convertibility, prompt and certain conver tibility lido coin, is generally acknowledged to be the best add *urea iuSilmgainst them ; and it, is. extremely doubtful whethera,sir- ciliation of United States- notes` payable lII ' coin and sufficiently large for the wants of the people can be permanently, usefully and safe ly maintained. Is there, then, any other mode in Which the' necessary provision for the pub lie wants can be made, and the- great advan tages of a We and uniform currency eeonred? I know of none which proinises so'certain re. sults, and at the same time so unobjectiona ti - ble, as the organization of banking -weenie tions under a general act of Uengress, w.ll guarded in its , provisions. ' To such associa tions the government might furnish circula ting notes on the security of United States bonds deposited in the Treasury. These notes, prepared under the supervision' of proper offi cers, being uniform in appearance and securi ty, and convertible always into coin, would at once protect labor against- the evils of a vi cious currency, and lacilitste commerce by eheap and safe exchanges. A moderate reservation from the interest on the bends would oompeneate- the United States fur the preparation and distribution of the notes, and a general supervision of the system, and would lighten the burden of that part of the ptibllo debtemployed as securities. Tali public credit, moreover, would be greatly improved, and the negotiation of new loans greatly fa.ilitated by -the steady market de mand for Government bonds which the adop don' of the proposed system would create,—lt is an additi Anal recommendation of the meas ure, of considerable weight in my judgment, that it would reconcile, as far WI possible all existing interests, b y the eppurtnuity o ffered .to existing institutions, to reorghnise under the . net,.substituting only the secured uniform national circulation for the West and various oircuirtion, secured and unsecured, now is sue./ by them- RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS The receipts into , the Tresiiiir,s from. all sources, including loans and, balance from the preceding year, .for the fiscal year ending on the 30th of June 1862, were $583,885,247 06, of which sum 49 056.397 62 ,were derived from customs; $1,795,331.73 f om the diquittax. From public lands, $152,- 203 77 ; from miscellaneous, sources, ;$931,- 787:04;' from loins in. all forinti $529;092;- 460 50. The remainder, $2,257,065 80, was the balance from last year. - The disbursements during . tbe same period were: For Ijongtessional, Executive and Ju dicial purposes ' $5 939 009 29 ; for foreign in tercourse, Si 339,710 35; for miscellaneous expenses, including the mints, loans, post office deficiencies, collection of revenue, end other like charges, $i4,129 771 50; for ex penses under the Interior Department $3, - -. 102,985 52; under the War Department $394,- 308,4117 36; under the Navy Departmint, $42,674 569 69; for intermit dii the public debt, $13,190,324 45, and for, the payment of the public debt, including reimburrement of tem porary loan and redemptions, $96 096 922 69; making an aggregate of $570,841,700 25, and leaving a Intones in the Treasury on the ISt day of July, 1862, of $13,043,546 81 It should be obsereed' that the sum $96,096',‘ 922 09, expended for reimbursements and re demption of the public debt, being included also in the loans made, may be properly de ducted both from the receipts and expendi tures, leaving the actual receipts for the year 5487.788 324 - 97, and the expenditures $474,- 744,788 16 Other information on the subject of the finances will be found in the report of • the Secretary of the Trenaury, to whose state ment and views, I invite your most candid and considerate attention. : • • SEDRETARIEB OF NAVY AND WAN. The reports of the Secretarial) of the Navy 'and War are herewith transmitted. These reports, though lengthy, are bertainly noth ing more than brief abstracts of the very nu-, morons and extensive transactions apd ope rationsconduated through these Ditpartments. Nor could I give a summary, of them here upon any principle which would admit of its beingittinch- shorter than Ow -report! them- selves:' '-Ihkerefore Content lniself 'with lay= ing the reports before you, and, asking your attention to them ' • • • • Tosevoniqz. It'givos me, pleasure to report a decided im provement, in,the financial cOndition of the Post,Difice Department as compared with sev eral precedieg years The receipts for the fiscal year 1861, amounted to W 349,2 9 .1 40, which embraced the revenue from all the States of the Union for three-quarters of that year. Notwithstanding the cessation of re venue f-om the so called Seceded States dur ing the last fiscal year, the increase of the correrpoodence of the loyal States hat been.. &efficient to produce 'a revenue 'tiering the same year of $8,299,820 90, being only $50,- 000 less than was derived from all the. States of 'the Union daring the previous year. The expenditures show tiil, more -favorable re .suit; The amount exPended-in'lBsl was $13,- . 000,759.11.F0r the last .-year the amount has been reduced-to $11,125:864 18, showing a decrease of about $2481,000 in tbe • expen ditures as compared witlithepreeeding year, and about 3,750.000;es compared with the fiscal year, 1861. The deficiency in the Depart ment for the previous year was 4,661 966 98. For the last fiscal year , it was reduced to $2,11,2,814-57;These • favorable ranks are in part owing to the cessation of nail ser vice in the insurrectionary States, and in part to a careful review of the expenditures in that department, in the interest, of *con omy. The efficiency of the postal service, it is believed, has also been much improved. The P atmaster General has also opened °or reapondence through the Departteent of Stare with Foreign Governments, , propesing a Con vention of postal representatives', for the pur pose of simplifying the rates.ot foreign post age, and to expedite the -foreign- mails. rhis proposition, eqnally. Important to our adopted citizens and to the commerobil interests of this country, has been fivoraing entertained and agreed to by all the Goirernments from whom replies have been received I ask the attention of Congress to the 'suggestions of the Postmaster General, in his report respect ing the further legislation required, in his opinion, for the benefit of the postal service. DEPARTMENT OR RITE INTERIOR. The Seoretary of the interior teports as fol lows in regard to , the przbiliPlasas t The pub., US *Ade lute pealed to t. souroe of revenue. From the Ist of July, 1861, to the 30th of September, 1962, the entire cash receipts from the sale of lands were $137,476 26, a sum much less than the expense of our land system during the same period. The Homestead Law, which will take effect on the Ist of Jan nary next, offers such inducements to settlers that sales for cash cannot be expected to an extent sufficient to meet the expenses of the General Land Office, and the cost of surveying and bringing the land lobo market. The dis crepancy between the sum here stated as aris ing from the sales of the public lands, and the MUM derived from the same source as reporteo from the Treasury Department, arises, as I understand, from the fact that the periods of time, though apparently, were not really co incident at the beginning points. The Treas— ury report includes a considerable sum now, which had previously been reported from the• Interior, sufficiently large to greatly to over reach the sum derived from the three months now reported upon by the Icterior, and not. by the Treasury. THE INDIAN TRIZES The Indian tribes upon our frontiers have, during the past year, manifested a spirit of insubordination, and at . several points have engaged in open hostilities against the white settlements in their vicinity. The tribes oc cupying the Indian country south of Kansas,. renounced their allegiance to the United. States, and entered into treaties with the in surgents. Those who .remained loyal to the United States were driven from the country. The Chief of the Cherokees has visited this. city, for the purpose of restoring the former relations of the tribe with the United States. Re alleges that they were constrained by su perior force to enter into treaties with the in surgents, and that the United States negleisted to furnish the protection, which their treaty etirilations reviired. In the month of August last, the Sioux Indians, in Minnesota attacked the settlements in, their vicinity, with extreme, ferocity, killing indiscriminate ly, men, women and children. This attack was wholly unexpected, and, therefore, no means of defence had been provided It is es timated that not less than 800 persons were killed by the Indians, and a !erg* amount of -property. was destroyed. Row this otithreak was induced is not definitely known, and sus picions, which may be unjust, may nut be stated. Intormation was received by the In dian Bureau,: from different sources ' about the time hostilities were commence d, that a simultaneous attack wal to, be made upon the white settlements by ail the tribes between the Mississippi river' and the Rocky Mountains. The State of Minnesota has suffered. great injury from : this Indian war. A"large portion of her territory has keen depopulated and a severe loss has been sustained by the destruction of property. The people: of that State manifest much. anxiety for the' removal of the tribes belond the lim its of the'State, at a guarantee against future hostilities - .. The Commissioner of Indian Af fairs will furnish full details. I submit for y our' especial consideratioa Whether our In dian system should not be' remodeled. Many Wise and good men have beextiMpressed with the belief that this can be profitably done. RAILROAD AND CANALS I submit a statement of the'prbeeedings of the Commissioners which shows the progress that has been made in the enterprise of eon itructing the Pacific railroad and spggests the earliest completion of the road. I also ask the favorable action of Congrelfs upon theprojeots new pending before them for en larging the capacities of the great canals , in New York and Illinois, as being of vital arid rapidly increasing important,e to the whole nation, and , especially to the vast interior re gion, hereinafter to be noticed at some greater length. I propose having prepared and laid before you at an early day , some interesting and valuable statistical information upon this subject. The military and commercial im portance olenlarging the Illinois and Miehi gan Canal and improving the Illinois River, is presented in the report of Cot. Webster to the. Secretary of War, and now transmitted to Congress. I respentfully ask attention to it. AGLIOULTUttE. To carry out the provisions of, the act of Congrees of the 16th of May last, I have caused the Department of Agrietilture of the United States to be organised. The COM mbssioner informs me.that within the period of a few months the Departmea; has estab lished:an extensive'eyetem of correspondence and exchanges, both at • home- and abroad, which promise to e ff ect bjghly beneficial re , colic in the development of a correct linowl , edge of recant improvements is agriculture, in the introduction of new products, and in the collection of.the agriculturat atatiotice of the, different Scares; ateo that it will soon be preparedto dietribute largely seeds, cereals, plants and cuttings, and has already pub-' fished and liberally diffused much valuable fneorinctien, in anticipation of a' more • Mahe rate report, which will in due time be lam ishedjembracing some valuable tests in chem ical science, new in progress in the labora tory. The creation of this. Department was for the more 'immediate benefit `of , a largo class of our' most valuable citizens and "'- trust that thkliberal basis upon which it has been organized will pot only meet your ap probation, bit that it will realise at'no dis teat day,4ll the fondest anticipations of its most sae gn ine,friends, and ,becoute the fruit- fat soaroo'of advantage to all our people. _ BRANC,IPATION. . On OeT9renty-snaund dtiy of September last, prociaination was issued by the Executive, copy of. , whicit is herewith submitted'. 'ln ac cordance with the purpose expressed in the second paragraph of that papar,,l now res.- pectfally recall your attention to what may be called "Compensated Emancipation." A. nation may be said to consist ot its territory, its people and its. laws. The territory is the Duly pert - which is of certain . durability. One - generation Pesieth amiy, and another generstiononneth, but the earth abideth for ever is.of, the first importance to duly coneider' - and estimate" this ever:ends' part. That p'lrtion of the earth ' s surface which is owned and inhabited by the peopla 01 the ,United StataA, is well atiaptett to los the hotite of one national family, is not, wilt adapted for two or more. Its =vast ea ten MIA its variety. of climate and pnuditetions are of advantage in this age to 4 . 14 ,enti :peo ple, whatever they might have beam in former ages. Steam, the tetegrapkrand intelligence, have bronght. these- to bean,,nsesotageous combination for one uniteit people. In my Inaug'ural Adiress I briefly pointed out :the total ins4equitiy, f. disunion as a, remedy, for the differences between the people, of the two - section..'d'.;d so in language which 1 - cannotAutprove, and whioh, there.' fore, .beg to , repeat:- 'One section' of, sour, country believes sleet:my is right, and ought to'be extended, while the.'other believes it is: wrong and ought not extended. Tbie . is the only cubstautial dispute. The fugitive slaye clause,of the Constitution, and 'the law ' for iiii-supPreisiia. of the African slave trade, are int& as *en. enforeed; ptrhaps, as any +law can ever laci. in a community whore the moral sense of the people imporfeetly . sitp pcirt's the 'law itself. The great body of the . peeplislabide by the dry.legat :bbligation in both eases, add a, ,few break over iireivsh.-- , Thin I -think seanuot, le perfectly cured, and it would woke in both oases after: the sap widen Of• the aerations than beiore. The for eign 'hive trade, now imperfectly suppressed, would he natio:lately revived without restric tion itt one Sleet:iron ,whileiugitive.slives now only partiailyfierrendered would not be sur tendered at All by the other. Physically soaking., wis clarinet separate; 'we cannot re move our resitentive sections from each other, tiorluitif an inipaaseirle Wall- between them. . •A (nbind and wife maybe divorced, and go . ,our tit the prespnce and ; beyond the reach of -each °Vier, but the different pare of oar colic -try ownnot do this. They cannot but remain Moats, hum', and intereouree 'either iandoalle orticistileldnst ,continue between them= Is 10 , 4 t 0 1 7 idotbriltaergtihiaeutier, ortti w ino 's!: a t a h i s is t fa i c ia t t: r 7n a u fie rse r aseparation thin beforel '-01111 make' tree t tisitteasier„ then friends' can make laws? 4than treaties be more faithfully enforced be aliens than 'laws_ can among friends? ithOhnse pit go to wiri'yott . cannot fight 'al ways, and when, after,much loos on both aides, !endue gain on either, you cease fighting, the the idintioid old questions as to terms of in tercourse are again upon'you " • iffYLINE BY' WITIOft TO There is no line,litraight or oriitiked; suits, ble fora national bou ndary upon:which to .di; vide Trace through from east to west upiiis between= the'free acid alaVe °wintry, and we shall Mid a,little woe than one-third of ititlength are five'ra easy to be creased, and populated," anon to be populated, thickly upon. tioth'Sideci;while nearly all its reel:min ing lengtli. , are merely surveyors' linos, over which 'people may walk back and forth, with out any consciousness of their presence. No parttif thilline can be made any more diet cult.to pass by writingir. dnwn on paper or. parohment, as a national boriodary. The feet.: of separation, if it ricitnes,4tves up on the part of ' the serieding inotion the fugitive' slave, • clause, along with all other con stitutional obligations, upon the ,section seceded from, while I should expeot no, treaty stipulation' would ever be made 'to take its pace.. ' But there is panther , difficulty, The great triterior region bounded east by the Alleghenies, north by the British dornin lobs, west by the Rooky Mountains, south --by, tbe line along . whichtthe culture oraoti; too said corn meets, 'and---Whicili included, p r s ,of. Virginity paript' , Tenp!olsecj.alli Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wis consin, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, lowa, Minnesota, and the territories of Dakotah, Nebraska, and part of Colorado, has above ten millions of people, and will have fifty millions within fifty years, if not prevent ed by any political folly or mistake. It contains more than one-third of the coun try owned by the United States , certainly more than one million of square miles. One half as populous as Massachusetts already is, it would have more than seventy-five millions of people. A glance at, the map shows that, territorially speaking, it is the great body of the Republic. The other parts are but marginal borders to it. The magnificent region sloping west from the Rooky Mountains to the Pacific being the deepest and also the richest in undevelop ed resources. In the production of provisions, grains, ' grasses, and all which proceed from them, this great interior region is naturally one of the moat important in the world. Ascertain from the statistics the small pro portion of the region which has as yet been' brought into cultivation, and the large and rapidly increasing amount of its produets, and we shall heoyerwhelmed with the magni tude of the prospect presented; and yet this region has 'no sea Coast, touches no ocean anywhere. As part of one nation, its people now find, and may forever find, their way to Europe by New York; to Small Amerioa and Afrioa, by New Orleans, and to Asia by Eau Trauctsoo. But separate: our common coun try into two nations as:designed by the pres ent rebellion, and every man of , this great it trogion is'thereby cut off from some one or more of those outlets,, not perhaps by n physiOal barrier, but 'by ,embarrassing and onerous trade regulations,' and this is true wherever a dividing or boundary line may be fixed. Place it between the now free and slave country, or plane it south of Kentucky, or north of the Ohio, and still the truth remains, that none slouch of it can trade to any port or place north of it, and , none ,north of it can trade, to any port or place south of it, except "upon terms dictated by a government foreign 'to them. • These outlets east, west,and smith arein dispensable to the well-being , of the people inhabiting and to inhabit tilde vast interior region. Whioh.olthe alive may be'the beet, is no proper qUestion. ;,All:are better- than either, and all of right belong to that people and to their successors forever. True to them selves they will not ask where a line of sepa rntiou Atoll be,- but will .vo w rather that there shall be 118 such line. Nor are the marginal regions lees interested in these eommunica ileas to and through thane to the great out side world. They too and. each of them must have amen to thia Egypt of the West, with out lisping toll at the crossing of any nation al bonndarv . . Our national strife sprang not from our permanent past, not from the land we inhabit, not from our national homestead. There is no poseible severing of this, but Would muitiplyinnd not mitigate, evils among us. , In ail its adaptations and aptitudes it demands union and abhors separation. In feet it would - ere Wog form, reunion however much of bloOd and treasure the eiparation might have cost. Our strife pertains to our selves, to . the paeging generation of men, aid it cannot, by ti % convulaiop,,be hushed forever with the passidg of one generation. AMENOMENTS TO TEE CONSTITUTION PRO. PO SD. In, this view I recommend the adoption of the following resolution and articles amenda tory to the Constitutien of the - United States: Be'solved, By the Senate and ibase of Re- presentatives,of the United States of America ie Congress assembled, two-thirds of both }louses concurring, that the, following Arti cles be - proposed to the Legislatures or Con ventions, of .the several States, as Amend ments to the:Constitution of the United States, all or any of which Articles, when ratified by three-fourtherif the said Legisla tures or Conventions, to be valid, as part. or parts of the said Constitution, viz : Article—Every State, wherein Slavery now exists, whioh shall abolish the same at any time or times before the first day of January in - the Year of our 'Lord, one thou sand nine hundred, shall receive compen sation from the United States, as follows, to wit: The President of the United States, shall deliver to every such" State, bonds of the' U. S. bearing interest; at the . rate of for each slave shown to have been therein by the eightli'census,of the United States; said bonds to be delivered to such State by installments, or in.one parcel at the completion of the abolishdnent, accord ing as the same shall have been gradual or at one time within snob State; and in terest shall begin -tot xun upon any such bond only from, the proper time of its de livery as aforesaid. Any , State hav ing- received` bonds as aforesaid, and aftervrards introducing or tolerating slavery.th rein; shall-refund to the United :States all the bonds so received; or the value thereof, and all interest , paid thereon.. Artiole—All slaves who shall have enjoyed actual freedom, by the chances of war at tiny time, before the end of the 'rebellion, shal be forever free, but all Owners- 'of suoh who shall not have been disloyal, shall be compen sated for them at the same,ratfis as is provided for States adopting abolishment of Slavery ; but is such a way'that no'elave shall be twioe accounted for. Article—Oongress may amorsiste money and otherwise provide for colonizing free col ored persons, pith tit* own consent, at any place or places without the. United States. • I beg indulgence to discuss, these proposed artioloa at some length. Without slavery, the rebellionyettld never have eititited, with- Out slavery it oonld not continue: 'Among the friends of the Union there is great diver sity of sentiment and of policy, in regard, to slavery and the African race amongst 'in. Some would abolishit suddenly ; and without eempensation ;- , some•would abolish it:gradn. svly t and with ootopentinl.ion ; tome would , re move the' freed people 'from us r ; some would, :retain them with' as'; and there are yet ,other minor diversities. Because of these di versities we waste much strength in struggles . among ourselves. By mutual 000cessio , . we should harmonise , and act' together- This would be compromise, bat among the friends and not with the enemies of the. Union. These articres are" inteoded" to 'embody a plea of eubh mutual coneessions:: If the plan shall be adopted, it is assumed that emancipation ,will toile*, at least in several of the States. , 'As to the first article, the main }clots . are: First, the emancipation; secondly, the Aength of time for consummating, ,(thirty years;) and thirdly, the compensation. 'The emanoipation will be unaatisfactory to the advocates of 'perpetual slavery, bat the length of time shoald greatly mitigate their dissatisfaotion. The time spares both races from the evils of sudden derangement, in tact from the necessity of any derangement, while most of those whose habitual course of 'thoughtwill bit disturbed by the measure, will have passed away before ite consomme. tiion. They will never see it. Another class will hail the prospect of _emancipation, bat will deprecate the length of time. They will feel that it gives too little to the now living slaves. But it really gives them much. It saves thentfrowthe vagrant destitutien,which must largely iittetid immediate emancipation, in looalitles where• their numbers are very great, and it gives the inspiring assurance that'their pestelity shalt be free forever.' The plan leaveslo each State choosing to act under it to. abolish slavery now, or at the, end of the century, or at any intermediate time, or by degre.l3 eitendini over the whole or any part of „the period, and: it - obliges no two States to proceed elite. It-alio provides for compensation, and generally the mode of making it. This it would seem, must fur ther aiitigate•thedissatisfaction of those who ,favor perpetual slavery, and especially of 'those who are 'to receive compensation. Doubtless some of 'those who are io pay and %lot to receive, wilt object, yet that the mese ' ore is both just and economical is certain. In a certain sense the liberation .of the Slaves ie-the destruction of property—proper ty acquired, by .descent or by purchase, the same as any other property. It is no less true for having been so often said, that the 'People of the South are no, more respoueible for the original introduc thin of this property than are the people of the North; and when it is remembered how unhesitatingly, we use—all. of us use— cotton and sugar, and share the profits of dealiug in their', it may not be quitti safe to say that the South has been more re sponsible than the, North for its continu ance. It then for .11 common objeot,this property is to be sacrificed, is it not • just. that it be done eta common charge?' And if with lees money, or money more"easily paid, we can preserve the benefits of the Union .by this means. better than we can by the war alone, is it not also economical to do it? EMANCIPATION' MORE 'ECONOMICAL THAN WAR. Lot us °onside!' it thou. Lot ne ascertain the,entn we hay! expended in, the war shoot compensated ettianniPation woe proposed last March, and consider — Whether; it that cocoas are had been promptly_aeoepted by even Boma of the Slave lEltatos, the same atm would not have done more id tho,"ienr then hie . bred otherwise . 44 ;would rave nioneyi ojod4iithot be prudent and econmnioal. Certainly, it is net so easy to pay something, as it is to 'lay nothing. But it is easier to pay a large sum than it is to pay a larger one, and it is easier to pay Any stun, when we are able, than it is to pay it before we are able, The war re quires large sums, and it requires them at one.. The aggregate sum necessary for com pensated emancipation of course would be large, but it would require no ready cash, nor the bonds even, any faster than the emancipa tion progresses. INCREASE OF POPULATION AND ABILITY This might not, and probably would not,olose before the end of the thirty-seven years. At that time we shall probably have 100,000,000 of poooie to share the burden, instead of 31,- 000,000 as now; and not only so, but the in crease of our population may be expeeted to continue for a long time after that period as rapidly as before, because our Territories will not have become full. Ido not state this in considerately. At the same ratio of increase which we have maintained on an average from our first National Census in 1790 until that of 1880, we should in 1900 have a population of 103,208,415, and why may we not eontinue that ratio far beyond that period ? Our abundant room, our broad national home stead, is an ample resource., Were our terri tory as limited as are the ritish Isles, very certainly our population Gould not expand as stated ; and instead of receiving the foreign born as now, we should be compelled to send part of the native born away. But such is not our eostdition. We have two millions nine hundred and sizty-three thousand square miles. Europe has three millions and eight hundred thous and,, with a population averaging , seventy three and one-third perions to the square mile. Why may not our country at scum time averages many? Is it less fertile t Has it, more waste 'lndere by mountains, rivers, 'lakes; deserts, or other causes ? To it inferior to Europe in any natural advantage ? If then Wit are 11480020 time to be as populous as Europe, how soon? As to when this may be, we tan judge by the past and the present. As to when it if ever, depends much on whether we maintain the Union. . Several of our States are above the average Beropean pdpulation of seventy-three and a third to the square mite. Massachusetts has 157, Rhode Island 133, New York and New Jersey each 80; also the two other great S hates, Pennsylvania and Ohio, are not far below,the 'former having 63 and the latter 59:. The States alreadyabove the European average, &leapt New York, have increased in as rapid ratio since passing that point is ever before, while no`one of them fi•equal to some other parts of our country in natural capacity for sustaining a dense population. Taking the nation in the aggregate, we find iti pOpulation and ratioof inoretise for the several decennial pert ode t be as follows: 1790- - 3,939,827. 1800.= 5,303,937. 35.02 per cent.:ratio of inertme. 1810-X7,239,814. 31.45 percent: ratio of increase, 1820— 9,628,131. 33.13 per cent. ratio of increase. 1830-12,866;020. 33.49 per 'mit. ratio of iricreasa. 1840-17,069,453. 7 32.67 pet tent, ratio ofincrease. 1859-23191,876. 35.87 pet 1801. rrtio of increase. 1860-34443,790.. 35.59 pet rent ratio OVidorease. This shows an average decennial increase of 31.60 per cent, in population through the seventy years from our fires to our Mist consussaken. It is seen. that the ratio of increase at no one of these seven periods is; either 2 Per cent. below or 2 pn• cent. above the av erage ; thus showing how inflexible and consequent. lY how let able the law of increase, in our case is. Assuming -chat it will continue st gives the follow ing result. :-1870, 42,823,372; 480, 06,966,216;.18')0. 76,677.872; 1900, 103,208,415; 1910, 138,918,526; 1020, 18024,22 1920, 25! 1380,914. These figures show that our country may be as. populous as:Europe now is; at some point between 1920 soul 1930 say about 1925, our territory, at 73 1-3 persons to the square mile, being of the capacity to contain 217,186 000. And we will reach this too, if we' - do not ourselves relinquish the chances by the folly. and evils of illet:Mon; or by long and exhausting war springing from the only great element of national , discord among us. While it cannot be foreseen ex actly how much one huge example of secession breed ing lesser ones indefinitely, would retara popula tion, civilization..and prosperitY, no one can doubt that the extent of it would be very great and injuri ous. The prOposed emancipation vs-ould snorters this war, perpetuate peace, insure this increase of 'popula tion, and proportionately the - Wealth of the country. With this we, should , pay all that emancipation would cost, together with our other debts,- eamer than we should pay our other debts without it. If we had allowed our of national debt to run at six per cent. per annum, simple interest, from the end of our revointionaf y struggle till to-day, without paying anything . on either priucepal or imams, each o man erns would wnies4 upon that debt n w Wail each man owed upon it then, and .this is because our increase of tueit through' the- whole period has bcen greater than six per cent., and has grswn faster thin the interest upon the debt. Thus time alone relieves a debtor nation, so longest its populatiod increases faster than unpaid,interest accumulates upon its debt. This fact w uld be no 'excuse for delaying the payment of whit is jlistly due ; but it shows the great importance of time,., in this - connectien—the , ad vantage:of apolicY by which we si.alt not have to pay until we number-an hundred millions, what by '-a different policy, we would have to pay now, when the number is oul Gild; =one millions. In a word, it shows that a della • will be much harder to pay foe the war than will a dollar for emancipation on the pro posed plan.' ' And then the latterwid cost; no blood, no precious lifei it will be .a aiming of both. . , NO RETURN TO BONDAGE. Ae to the *ruled exttale thinx it would be im practicable to return to tendage the clams of persons therein isonteuiplatrd Some 4t them don btlese in the property &SOW belong to loyal owners and hence prOVinloll is made in Abu; article br compuu.atieg such. COLONIZATION The bird article relates to the future of the 'freed Fayle. it dare not oblige but merely author ises Cool(' ess to aid in colonising such as may t con sent. This ought not to be re, aided as objection able on the ode band or ou the other, in so much ai It comes to nothing mama it, mut al consent of the people to be deported and the American voters, through their representatives in Congress. 1. INUDOI make it knowu b lter than it already is, thati strongly favor colonisation; and yet wish ta say there is au objection urged against the colored persons remaining hi the country wuich is large ly truagieary, it not eumetiwea WitIiCIOUA. It Is IU- • elßtsd that deportation should mobably enhance the wages ut white labor, and very surely would not re duce thrm. Thus the citetomarr amount of labor would have to he performed. The freed people wand surely not co more than' their old proportion .of it, and very probably for a Alma would 410 lens, leaving an increased par: to white laborers, bring ( log their labor Into greater uemand, and consequent ly enhancing the wager of it. • With deport ILLIOU even to a limited extent, enhanc ing wages to White lab r Is mathematically certain. Labor is like .any other mrnwodity in the market— increase the demand fur it, and you inures's° the price of it. Reduce ths supply t i black '•ubor by coloniz ing the black laborers out of he couutry,at dby pre cisely so .0 h )on • increase the demand fur, mid wages of, white labor. NEEDLESS ;APPREHENSION : Is' it "tru rh-e. that c,lo•ed p.ople can displace any more bite labor it being Ire teen reins niug slaves? If they,stay in their o d places they jostle oo while letio er, if they Leave o e places they leave bem open to -bite laborers Lo.ically, , there it neither m.,ro tor bus of it, ltmaucl potion,. even, without thdr . resence, could injure' auddis place ours labor aud.wbite te‘corere. • II litre ever cowl t be s Pro er Mine • fur mete arguments, that torte cure y le 11 ' In timed • dee toe piesent, w'u thoold•utter n thing for which tiny , %Gold opt wit tine.lP - b recp•moio •• thruu<a Limb a , d,elert ity. But it is declared that the treed pnople wllGarysrm forth and cover the whole land, i.e they Huai al-, ready in the, land ?' W • liberal ion male 'heti iMy more numerous? Equally distributed imengOthe whites of the whole country, and there would be but one.ookwed to eevcn whites: thaorie id'_ any way grea•ly disturb the seven. • , • . -, Tomei are lamey c_inmunities now havioe more • than onefiete 'cob red newt' to seven bites and • this without auy epparent conociousneei of evil from it •The Diaz. ict cd.utabie end the S arse of Del'! aware and Maryland are all in thi..cond,tiort The District has more um • o. a Ira o torid to me *witi yet in Ito frequent petitions to •COligrestO, I 'brliaVe is pis. never preoeuteti toe pr sec at [roe coloredLprr cone as one of us arie• ace a. But wn ohuttld'eman; cipeti As South send the ir.ed p opin Morro ? Pea: , pie Of any cam seldom ran, unit, there be tome. thing to ran from. ki , retofore, colored people, to some extent, have fle t North. fr,m bondage, and now, perhaps, from both banda.e and oeetltu.ton ; but, if gradual enanotpation and der ortittion• lie adopted, they will have umthsr to &strum. Thetr old rollete7ll win give them ...ere, at Visit until new laborers can be, procated, and itubfreed men in turn will gladly give their lebor',ur the wave till cow homed can be found tor t em iu cougetial and with people.of their own Wed and This propusiti n can le .rusted ov toe mutual internale ievol%ed ; and in • any event; oAIIUOt the Nortir des de for loielf whether io receive th.m 7 .Agato; es practio. proves more than theory in any case, hey there been ~Ise irruption of colored WOO. Iliertbissid because of the abolishment of sl•ve.y lu the Die nut let spring What 1 - nave said of the proportion 01 aloe oolor , d noes P.. the ••• bites to the Doort. i is !TOW the 'reuaaa of osno, having no relerenses to persons , called contrabands, nor to those made free by Inn act of Coogreas sibolishms slavery. hire. CONCLUDING REMARKS. The pion . ens et u. of them, aril les is rec ottimenoed, not but that a aestoration a f the national au.porlicy would tee accepted witboat its alma:ion. Nur will the war, nor proceedings under the pronto niatiou zild. 186', be slaved become, of the reemetneed tiou et tits plan It; timely edop tion, I'donbi not wou'd bring reetwation, and thereby stay iota And notwithstaad nag this p an,. the tee= endetion abet Cougress provide law: .fOr einupsneattog any Suits which' may adopt email.. eip:atl tt before this "dap shalt have been acted upon}-. fa hereby e1m...L1, reuew.d• Such Would only be an advance par I tneplan; *.d the same argil-' meets apply to both, . Tuts plate 14 re °lnwood ed to to e sus, not in exou.ion of. hot addfltOilat 10 all' othere,for catering and prey- ming the nati,nal au. thuritYA hr ' , ugh t tee U•Lion. • The bubjamt is p *elated excinsivel, in i ec nuculcal aspect • The plan would. lam count'. ,se use peens:amen e opted , • ilq C a can be doue • y force alone, while it w. acid cost leer, auntie«, leg -.mounts and manner of pay. moot and times of p me .t, an a the atuonote a ould be easier raid thalt`firill be the addittoOm ooh of the Far, if .e rely e•de.y eves •ur•Ae. tt.ts •t lib It! —Wert likely- the' at would row no blued at all The plan Is proposed ai permanent minvtitutional law. It cannot become such .witboat-the concur rence et; first, two-thirdi of A.kingreas, aa,d 'afterwards three-fourths. of the Staten: The requisite three iour.be of_ the States wall uoceissarily include seven of the Slave States. Their concurrence, if obtained, will give assurance of their severally adopting eman cipation at no distant day, upon the new constitu tional terms. This imenrauce would end the straggle now and save the Quiet) Preveir. . . - . Ido not forget the gravity which eh ull ,charsa• what prpee eddirteeett t the Congress of the waken. by the Üblef liagistret• of, the natkPo. . Nor do I fore . . get thet some of you are iiiyiseueere; nor UAL =Say ' of you,have more experience them 1 , 44,414 . e10adyre., of piihlie aNir.; ypt rtro4 that ot, ike govt._ , !Oslo went of reip,ot. to ,)uuot.lves eeo' I' atiy mow to' - y• .• re it doubted, then, that the plan I propose, if adopted, would shorten the war and thus lessen its expenditure of money end of blood? is it doubted that it would restore the National Authority and National Prosperity, and perpetuate both indefi nitely I. it doubted that we here. Congress and Zan/titles, oso secure Its adoption? Will not the good people respond to a united and earnest appeal from Us? MI we, can they, by any other means, so certainly or so speedily secure these vital objects? We can snoosed only by 'concert. It is not "can any of us imagine better," but "can we all do better." Object whatso ever is possible, still the question recurs, "can we do better?" The dogmas of the quiet past are inade quate to the stormy present. The occasion is plied high with difficulty, and we must rise wlai the occa sion. As our case is new, so we most think anew and act anew. We must disenthral ourselves, and then we shall save our oeuntry. . Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. Nu personal significance or insigniacanoe can spare one or another of na. The fiery trial through which we peat, will light' us down to honor or dishonor, to the West genera lion. We say "We are for the Union." The world will . not forget that we say this. We know how to save MA Union. The world knows we know how to' save it We—even we here—hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the eisve we aware freedom to the tree, honorable alike in what we give end what we preserve. We ehall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last bast hope of earth. Other means may roomed. This can not fail. . . . Th e way ie plain, peaceful, minerone. Ju which, It followed, the world will forever app WW, and God must forever bless. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. WainrixaToN, Dec. 1. /862. The President Visits Gen. Burnside. WAsamorigur, November 27.—The President, yesterday, went by special steamboat coniey ance to Acquia Creek, where he was met by Gen. Burnside. He returned this morning by the same means. W h MALL PDX. HAS ALREADY SAO. P'• • RIFIBED some of our beet and bravest trttops.: 'Sol diers, listen to the voice of reason, supply yourselves .with ROLLOWAY',B PILLS AND OINTMENT. 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