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thickly upon both sides .whil.

treaty stipulation would ever be made! to take its place. .... But there is another difficulty. Tho great interior region, bounded east by the Alleghenics, north by the British dominion, 'west by the Rock}* Mountains, and south by the line along which the culture of corn and coiton meets, and which includes part of Virginia, part of Tennessee, ali of Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin. Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa. Minnesota. and the Territories ot Dakota, Nebraska, and part of Colorado, already has above ten millions of people, and will have fifty mKl'.un.- within fifty years, if not prevented In any political folly or mistake. It contains more than one-third of the country owned by the United States—certainly more than one million of square miles. Onee half as populous as Massachusetts a! readv is, it would have more than twenty-five millions of peoplo. A glance at the map shows that, tcrritor

But Sl .arato our common country into two nations, as de^

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no nr war, at r.nv turn V.

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ficult to vas^,' by writing it down on very, but in such way, that lio slave inner or parchment, as a nat ional! shall bo twico accounted for.

ially speaking, it is the great body of ,, oncessions jfthe plan shall be adop the republic. Plio other parts ate bi:tj^.| assumed that emancipation marginal borders to it, the magnificent region sloping west from the "Rocky Mounta.ns to the Pacific, being the

deepest and also the richest, in developed resources. In the productions of provisions, grains, grasses, and all which, proceed from them, tins great interior region is naturally one most important in the world Ascei- advocates of perpetual sla-

gned

by the present

rebellion, ar.d every man of the great interior region is thereby cut off from someone or more of these outlets, not, '•••perhaps, by a physical barrier, but by embarrassing and onerous trade regulations.

And this is true, wherever a dividing or boundary line may be jdxed. Place it between the now free and slave countrv, or place it south of Kentucky, or north of Ohio, and still the truth remains, that none south of it can trade to any place a port north of it, and none north of it can trr, to any place or port south of it, cxcept upon terms dictated by a government foreign to them. These outlets, cast, west and south, are indispensable to toe well being of the people inhabiting, and to in habit, this vast interior regi on. Which of the throe may be the best, isnc proper question. Ail, are bettor than either and all, of right, belong to that people and to their successors forever, true to themselves, they will not ask where a line of separation shall" be. but will vow, rather, that there shall be no such line. Nor are the marginal regions less interested in these -communications to, 'Snd through them, to the great outside ""world.

toe, and each of "them,

must have access to this Egypt of the

west, without• paj

in-of any national boundary.

Our national strno spnngs not si on

our permanent part not from the land we inhabit-not from our national homestead. There is no possible severing of this, but would multiply, ar.d not mitigate evils-among us. In all its adaptations and aptitudes, it dem:n*'s union, and abhors separation. In fact it would, ere long, force re-union, how-1 ever much of blood and treasure separation might have cost.

State, wherein slavery now

exists, which shall abolisn the same therein at any time or times- Ou.:ore the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand and nine hundred, shall" receive compensation from the United States as follows, to wit: '•The President of the United States shall deliver to every such State, bonds of tho

United

States, bearing interest

at the ratio of per cent, per annum, to an a lounfc equal to the aggregate

for rach slave shown to

have been therein, by the eighth census of the United States, said bonds to bo delivered to such State by instalments, or in one.parcel,at.the completion ofthe abolishments accordingly as the same shall have been gradual or at one time, within such State and interest shall begin to run upon any such bond, only from the proper time of its delivery as aforesaid. Any Stato having received bonds as aforesaid and afterwards reintroducing or tolerating

elavery therein,

ixjt'oi'o. the oin.1 of the I rod and

itd rciiTiinip"' length, arc morelv rebellion, shull bo lorevc-r tree bat all square miles. bit rope luis three nul-,...~ ""t,-"

I beg indulgence to discuss those proposed articles at some length.— Without slavery the rebellion conld never have existed without slavery it could not continue.

Among tho friends of the "L'nion there is a great diversity of sentiment, and of policy, in regard to sla\ orj and tho African race among us Home would perpetuate slavery some would abolish it suddenh', and without compensation some would abolish it gradually, and with compensation so mo would remove tho freed people from us, and some would retain them with us and there areyet other minor diversities. Because of these diversities, we waste much strength in struggles among ourselves. By mutual concession we should harmonize, and act too'ether. This would be compromise

but it would be compromise among tho pcriods

friends, and not with the enemies tho Union. These articles are intenicd to embody a plan of such mutual

will follow, at least, in several of the States. As to the first article, the main points are: first, the emancipation secondly, the length of time for consumating it —thirty-seven years and thirdly, the

I compensation.

°l the T| emancipation will be unsatisfac-

P1'°"

tain from the statistics the small pr portion of tho region which has. as yet l!y mitigate their dissatisfaction. Leon brought into cultivation, and also ^he time spares both races ,a the the large and rapidly increasing am of its products, and wo shall be overwhelmed with the magnitude of the prospect presented As yet this region has no sea-coast, touch.es no ocean anywhere. As part ot one nation, its people now find, and may forever find their way to Europe by 2s ew \oric, to '•"South America and Africa by Nc.iv Orleans, and to Asia by San Francisco.—

very but the length of time should

evils of sudden derangement—iu fact from the necessity of any derangement —while tho most of thoso whose habitual course of ''nought will be disturbed by the measure will have passed away before its consummation.— They will never see it. Another class wilfhail tho prospect of emancipation, but 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 them from the vagrant destitution which must largely attend immediate emancipation in localities where their numbers are very great and it gives tho inspiring assuianee that their posterity sluili be

free forever. The plan leaves to each

State, choosing to act under it, to abol-

ish slavery now or at the end of the century, or at the intermediate time. or by degrees, extending over the whole or any part, ofthe period, and it obliges no two States to proceed alike. It also provides for compensation, and generally, the mode of making it. This, it would seem, must further mitigate the dissatisfaction of those who favor perpetual sla-eiy. and especially of those who are to receive the compensation. Doubtless some of those who are to pay aiid not receive, will object. Yet the measure is both just and economical. In a certain sense, the liberation of .slaves is the destruction of property— property acquired by descent, or by purchase, the same as any other pioperiy.

It is no' less truo for having been often said, that tho peoplo of the'South are more responsible for the orient)', in-

.. how unhesitatingly we all use cotton

gnfraP an

the

Our strife pertains to ourselves—to the passing generations of men and it can, without convulsion, be hushed i'orever with the passing ct one generation.

In this view recommend the adoption of the following resolution arid articles amendatoiw to the Cnnstitution of the United States: .'vcsolvcd by the Senate and House of liepresentat'ivesof theUnitcd States of America in Congress assembled, twothirds of both Housesconcurrmg, That the following articles be proposed to the legislatures (or conventions,) of the several States as amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all or any of which articles when ratified by three-fourths of the said legislatures (or conventions.) or to be valid as part or parts of the said Constitution, viz: ''ARTICLE —. "Every

ng and ci(

tirm-('iV lines, over which people may owners of such, who shall not have, lions and eight hundred thousand,! wulk back and forth without any eon- been disloyal, shall be compensated for with a population 'averaging seventy- the customary amount of

Rp'iouonoss of their presence. No part.1 them, at the same rates as is provided three and one-third persons to the still have to be performed, the fieed of X" line can bo made any more dif-'i for States adopting abolishment of sla-

boundsrv The fact of senaration. if \imor surface, by mountains, rivers, lakes, I leaving an increased part to whito la comes give, up, on the part of tlJ deserts, or other causes? Is it inferior borers, bringing their labor into great-

trocluctionafof this property, than are Interest, each man of us would owe the North and when it is remembered Jess upon that debt now, than each upon it then and this be-

If so, the measure would save money, and, in that view, would be a prudent and economical measure. Certainly it is not. so easy to pay something as it "is to pay nothing but it is easier to pay a largo sum, than it is to pay a larger one. And it is easier to pay any sum when we are able, than it is to pa}r it before we arc able The war requires large sums, and requires'them at once. The aggregate sum necessary for compensated emancipation, of course, would be large.

But it would require no ready cash: nor tho bonds.-even, any faster than the emancipation progresses. This might not, and probably would not. close before the end of the thirty-seven 3'ears. At that time we shail probably have a hundred millions of people to share the burded, instead of thirtyone million, as now, And not only so, but the increase of our population may be expected to continue for along time after that period, as rapidly as before because our territory will not have become full. I do not state this inconsiderately. At the same ratio of increase which we have maintained, on an average, from our first national census, in 1790, until thai/ of 1800, we should, in 1000, have a population of 103 208,415. And why'ina}

mun

hi them, it may not be quite safe

the South hats beorr more re-

sponsible than the North, for it

And if with less money, or money more easily paid, we can preserve the

benefits of the Union by this means, than we can by the war alone, is it not also economical to do it? Lotus consider it then. Let us ascertain the sum we have expended in. tho war since compensated emancipation was proposed last March, and consider whether, if that measure had been promptly accepted, by even some of the slave States, the same sum would not have done more to close the war, than has been otherwise done.

we not

continue that ratio far beyond that period? Our abundant room—our broad national homestead—is our ample resource. Were our territory as limi-

to the ted as are the British Isle.,

United States the bonds so received,or tainly our population. COIM. tho value thereof, and ail interest paid thereon. "ARTICLE "All slaves who shall have enjoyed! tivc born away.

panel as stated. Instead of receiving tho foreign born, as now, we should be compelled to send part of the na-

But silch isnot our

edi three and one-third persons to the stilt nave to DO periormeu, UIU ireuu la- isquare mile. Why may not our coun- poople would surely not do moro than ve trv, at some time, average as many their old proportion of it, an-. .very

past and the present will be, if ever, depends much on whether we maintain the Union. Several of our States are already above the average of Europe—seventy-three and a third to'the square mile. Massachusetts has 157 Rhode Island, 183

Jersey, each, 80. Also two other great States, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, are nor. far below tho former having 63 and the latter 59. The States already above the. European average, except Now York, have increased in as rapid a ratio, since passing that point, as over before while no one of them is equal to some other parts of our country, in natural capacity for sustaining a dense population.

Taking the nation in tho aggregate, and we "find its population and ratio of increase, for the several deconnial

to bo as

This shows an average decennial increase of 31.00 per cent, in population through tho seventy years from our first, to our last census yet taken. It is seen that the ratio of increase, at no one of these several periods, is either two per cent, below, or two per cent, above the average thus showing how inflexible, and, consequently, how reliable, the law of increase in our case is. Assuming that it will continue, gives the following results: 1870 42,323.3-11 1880 5l),9U7,21G 1S90.. 76.077,872 1900 103,208,415 1910 188,9.18,526 1920 180,98-1,335 1930 251,6.80,914

Is"it less fertile Has '"it more waste probably, for a time, would do less,

follows:

1790 3,029,857 1800 5,305,937 35.02 percent, ratio of increase. 1810 f,239,311 30.45 1320 0,038,131 33.13 1830 12.MO,020 33.49 1810 17,009,453 32.07 1S50 23,191,870 35.87 18(50 3! ,443,790 35.58

These figures show that our country

may be as populous as Europe now is at some point hi,-, vecn 1020 and 1930

seventy-three and a third persons to tho square mile, being a capacity to contain 217.18G.000.

And we will reach this, too, if we

.j. our se

lves relinquish the chance,

p0]jy

anc ev

owed upon

tdmrc the profits of cause our increase of men, through

con

tinuance. If, then, for a common object, this property is to bo sacrificed, is it not just that it be done at a common charge?

disunion, or

Tho proposed emancipation would shorten the war. perpetuate peace, insure this increase of population, and proportionately the .-wealth of the country. With these, we should pay all the emancipation would co^t. together with our other debt, easier Than we should par our other debt, without it. If V»J had allowed our old national debt to run at six per cent, per annum, simple interest, from the end of our revolutionary struggle until to-day, without paying anything on either principal or

by long and exhausting war springing called contrabands, nor to thoso made from the on!}* element of national dis cord among us. While it cannot be foreseen exactly how much one huge example of secession breeding lesser ones indefinitely, would retard population,- civilization, and prosperity, no one can doubt that tho extent of it would be very great and injurious.

tlif* whole period, hue boon ^router tiian six per cent. has run faster than the interest on the debt. Thus, time alone, relieves a debtor nation, so long as its population increases faster than unpaid enterest accumulates on its debt.

This fact would be no excuse for delaying payment, of what is justly due but it shows the great importance of lime in this connexion—the great advantage of a policy by which wo shall not have to pay until wo number a hundred millions, what by a different policy wo would have to pay now, when we number but thirty-one millions. In a word, it show that a dollar will be much harder to pay for the war than will be a dollar for emancipation on tho proposed plan. And then the latter will cost no blood, no precious life. It will be a saving to both.

As to the second article, I think that it would be impracticable to return to bondago that class of persons thorcin contemplated. Somo of them, doubtless, in tho property sence, belong to loyal owners and hence, provision is made in this article for compensating such. -t -j

The third article relates to the future of the freed people. It does not oblige, but merely authorizes, Congress to aid in colonizing such as may consent. This ought not to be regarded as objectionable, on the one hand, or on the other, in so much as it comes to nothing, unless by the mutual consent ofthe people to be deported, and tho American voters, through their representatives in Congress. cannot make it better known than it already is, that 1 strongly favor colonization. And yet I wish to say there is an objection urged against free colored persons remaining in the country, which is largely imaginary, if not sometimes malicious.

It is insisted that their presence would injure and displace white labor and white laborers. If there ever could bo a proper time for mere catch arguments, that time surely is not now.— In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity. Is it tr.ua, then, that colored people can displace any more white labor, by being free, than by l*emaining slaves If they stay in their old places, they jostle no white laborers if they leave their old places, they leave'them open to white laborers

sixtv-throe thousand deportation, would probably enhanco history. -We of this Congress snu tins the wages of white labor, and, ve administration, will be remembei.ee. in

6ooncotic-at OS: Now York and New the demand for. and wages of, white lowed, tho worM will forever applaud, », .1 _i

free by the act of Congress abo.lishin slavey here. The plan consisting of these articles is recommended, not but that a restoration of tho national authorit}- would bo accepted without its adoption.

Nor wiiL the war, nor proceedings under the proclamation of September 22, 1802. bo stayed because of tho recommendation of this plan. 1 ts timely I 1 tion, 1 doubt not, wouid bring reif ion, and thereby stay both

And notwihstanding this recommendation thatCongre by law for compensating any which may adopt emancipation, this plan shall have been acted is hereby earnestly renewed. would bo only an advance part plan, and the same arguments apply to both. •'•-'Thisplan is recommended as ameans. not in exclusion of, but in addition to, all others for restoring and preserving, the national authority throughout the Union. The subject is presented ^exclusively in its economical aspect. Topi an would, 1 am confident,securepe .'J:• moro speedily, and maintain it, more permanently* than can be done by force alone while all it would costconsider-

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hundred thousand, Uurely, would not reduce them, Thus spite oi ourselves.^ JNo peisonai Bigni

lab

labor But it is dreaded that the freed peoplo will swarm forth and cover the whole land. Are they not already in the land? Will liberation make them any more numerous? Equally distributed among the whites of the whole country' .and there would be bat one colored to seven whites. There are many communities now, having more than one free colored person, to seven whites: and this, without any apparent consciousness of evil from it. The

they will have neither io

tlee from. Their old masters will gi^'e them wages at least until new laborers can be procured and the freed men in turn, will gladly give their labor for tho wages, till new homes can bo fo.nul and

in anv event, cannot the north dccide

itself, whether to receive them?

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oaH

wnnM Rnrft,v noftdn mnri) 1han

er demand, and, consequently, enhancing tho wages of it. With deportation, even to a limited

extent, enhanced wages to white labor bility^In giving freedom to the slave, is mathematically certain. Labor is like any other commodity in the market—increase the demand for it and you increase the price of it. .Reduce the supply ofblack labor, by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much, you increase

mwl fin/l mn«t.

for them, in congenial climes, and forced to abandon them under a murwilii peoplo of their own blood dcrous tire. The 18th iowa also took race. [the samo battery i:r:d fought most des

Again as practice proves more than

theory, in any ..

sav about 1925—our territory, at Liny interruption of colored poojile t:\ckcd the enemy in the rear. Th„

orth-ward, because of the abolishment I

noi of What I have said of the proportion of free colored persons to the whites, in tho District, is from the census of 1860, having no reference to persons

slavery in this District last spring?

»v le State before upon,

S ii of t'ne

ing amounts, and manner of payment,

and times of payment, would be easier

paid than will be the additional cost of war, if we rely solely upon force. It. is much—very much—that it would cost no blood at all.

Tho plan is proposed as pormanent constitutional law. It cannot become such without the concurrence of, first, two-thirds of Congress, and, afterwards, three-fourths of the States. The requisite three-fourths of the States will necessarily include seven of the States. Their concurrence, if obtained, will give assurance of their severally adopting emancipation, at no very distant day, upon the new constitutional terms. This assurance would^ end the struggle now, and save tho Lnion forever.

I do not forget the gravity which should characterize a paper addressed to tho Congress of the nation, by the Chief Magistrate of the nation. Nor do I forgot that some of you are my seniors nor that many ot you have more experience than I in tho conduct of lib lie affairs. Yet I trust that in view of the great x'esponsibility resting upon me, you will perceive no want of respect to yourselves, in any undine earnestness I may seem to display.

Is it doubted, then, that the plan propose, if adopted, would shorten the war, and thus lessen its expenditure ct money and blood? 1s it doubted chat it would restore the national authority and national prosperity, and perpetuate both indefinitely? Is it doubted that we here—Congress.and Executive —can secure its adoption? Will not the good poople respond to a united and earnest appeal from us? Can we, can they, by any other -means so certainly, or so speedily, assure these vital objects

Logically, there is neither more nor tion. oven vyithout Fel 1 ow-ciIizons? wo cnnnot

We can succeed only by

concert. It is not "can any of us imagine better?" but "can we all do better?" Object whatsoever is possible, still the question recurs "can wo do better?" Tho dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so wo must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. escapo

iMVt rwr4ni)'i.l Ri*rni

ficance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial thro which wo pass, will light us-down, in honor or dishonor, to tho latest generation. We we are for the Union. Tho world not forget that we say this. Wo know iiow to save the Union. Tho world knows we do know how to save it. We—even wo here— hold tho power, and bear the reaponsi-

we assure freedom to the free-—honor-able alike in what we give, and what wo preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. Other "means may succeed this, could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just—a way "which, if fol-

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District of Columbia, and the States of f0m* divisions, under Generals ParMaryland and Delaware, are all in this condition. The District has more than one free colored to six whites: and yet, in its frequent petitions to Congress, I believe it has never presented the presence of free colored persons as one, of its grievances. But why shoulu emancipation south send the freed people north? Peoplo of any color, seldom run, unless there be something to run from. Heretofore colored people, to some extent, havo fled north from bondage and now, perhaps from both bondage and destitution. But if gradual emancipation and deportation beadoptc

hi089.

and God must v'j. ever bless. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. ,, December 1, 1862.

KaUlc in Arkansas.

FIELD OF BATTLE,

near T'ayettoville, Ark., Dec. 8. -,Gen. Iferron's forces, en route to reinforce Gen. Blunt, met the enemy yesterday, on the Crawford prairie, ten miles south of Fayetteville, Ark., and won a decisive victor}' over them.

The enemy 24,000 strong, divided in-

sons,

Marmaduko,

Frost and Rains,

Gen. llerron's force consisted of the 44th and 37th Illinois, the 18th and 20th Iowa, 26th Indiana and 20th Wisconsin, a battalion or two of cavalry— in all, from 6,500 to 7,000 men. lie had 25 pieces of artillery. Tho battle lasted from 10 A. M. till dark, and was desperately fought throughout. Our artillery diov? Athe enemy from their strong positions and kept their overwhelming numbers at bay.

The 20th Wisconsin captured a rebel

battery of four heavy guns, but were

This proposition can bo trusted on pyj-ately, but we: also obliged to yield the mutual interests involved. And,^ Almost every regiment distinguish- l.'Xhe Louisville Journal has heard from

ed itc-eif. About 4 o'clock Gen. from Cane Hill, with ab

case, has there been a.ncl a strong forco of artillery, and atnf nonnh L...1 I »I.„'

reljc

ma(

I a

TLr IWIP Thn

jo desperate efforts to cap-

but

terriblo slaughter. We had the whole fiaid at dark, and before 9 o'clock that night the entire rebel force was in lull retreat over Boston Mountain.

Our loss in killed and wounded was six hundred, that of the rebels fifteen hundred, by their own admission.— There are se^ral of the enemy field officers kill ell'* among them is Colonel Stirn, Commanding Brigade, formerly Brig.-Gen. Missouri State Guard. Only a few prisoners taken. We captured four caissons filled w:' ammunition. Lieut.-Col. McFarlan, of the 18th Iowa, is the onlv field officer killed on our

Tii Pork Trade.

ProuiA, 6.—The Transcript

says. No Chan co in prices of pork. Receipts liberal. Nine ear loads arrived yesterday'on the noon train, besides a drove ot three hundred from Stai county, and the arrivals havo been larjje to-day. Good hogs averaging 300 lbs. wouid bring from 83 00 to £3 10 gross weight. Dressed hogs $3 25 to S3 75, dividing on 200 lbs. net weight.

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 7.—Tho Democrat says: T-IOGS.—We hav- 'iio report to make for tho past week. We endeavored yesterday to obtain returns, but failed,

pae era 0

toref cn0U

RECEIPTS.

Dec. 1st....

.....41 cars... 2,4C0 head.

2d.... .....70 ... 4,200 3d..... 59 ... 3,540 4 th... 5 2,700

5iil...

THE JOURNAL

THURSDAY, DEC.

all

under General Ilindman, embraced the flower of tho trans-Mississippi army, well supported by v. park of 18 pieces of artillery. The enemy flanked Gen. B1 unt's position at Cane Hill and made a sudden attack on Herron to prevent his uniting with Blunt.

f,ouisville, IV. A. & Chicago St. R. Time Table.

Under the new regulation, which took effeet December 30lh, 1801, trains will arrive and leave Crav, fordsvillo as follows: fiOISG SOUTH. Lcrtvr—

Mail & Express, at... 9'--t-i A. Freight, at 10:17 GOING NORTH. Leave—

Mail it Express, at 7:1$ P- M. Freight, at

We notice that the proprietors of the Lafayetto Journal and Courier havo given publicity to a card "To tho Public," this week, stating that they have resolved on an advance in their prices of subscription of daily and weekly issue—commencing with Monday next, viz: Daily, 15 eonts per week weekly. §1 50 per annum.

Gen. Low. Wallaeo, (the dis

patcher from Washington of Tuesday say.) is, or will be, ordered to the army of tho Potomac.,

U^The Lexington (Ky.) Observer says that there is a wide-spread if not universal conviction among the slaves of that region that the}' arc to be free on the approaching first of January.—

Lexington gentlemen, facts strongly

•nt arrived i.'OO men corroborating this statement.

j£gr Gen. Manson we learn is orderHe

Pnn

ea Lo lc 0I 10 en

were repulsed with will take his depaiiturc^yye ^uppooc

immediately.

THE CORITT OF INQUIRY ON BUKLI/S CASE.—The Cincinnati Gazette of Saturday says: ''This court has concluded its labors in this city for the present, and the members of the commission left on the mailboat at noon, j'esterday for Louisville. They will convenc there and remain in session two or three days, When they will adjourn to Xashville.

•J

side. Maj. Hubbard of tho 1 f-.t Mis-1 ncs^cs examined here were Col. Lytle, souri cavalry, taken prisoner.

...

5th... 97.,... 5,820

312 18,720

Tho shipments by tho Cleveland & Toledo E. E. for the same time were:

Dec. 1st....

...102 ears... 0,120 head

2d....

... 38 .... 2,280

t'ji ... 44 .... 2,640 'Ah...

... 58 .... 3,480

... 39 .... 2,340

281 13,550-

The shipments have been less than the receipts owing to the Government requiring the use of a large number of the stock cars on the C. & T. Boad for transporting cavalry Liorsep. Jjast night there wcro at the yards of this road on tho east sido of the river, 300 cars of hogs —18,000 head— awaiting shipment Eastward. This is rather discouraging to drovers, but it is nothing compared to tho blockade a.t Cleveland, Dunkirk and Buffalo, as we learn from those fully informed on the subject. It is estimated that at the three points named, including those at this city there are at least 100,000 live hogs intended for the Eastern markets.

They will then return to this city to com'.ude their labors. The only wit-

.Major Burke and 31aj. Boyingion.— The prineible object in going to Nash-| ville is to obtain the testimony of Gen. Alexander McD. MeCook, Gen. .Rousseau and other officers of Gen. Bosecrans' army, who cannot be spared

from

their commands to como to ilv.e city."

Contraband Trade.

The Louisville Journal states that in pursuance of orders from Gen. I\osecrans, to secure the shipment of army supplies, and to prevent contraband

Li-ado,

city not taking in

gh in the'matter to furnish

information, unless we would run around to the porkhouses, for which we have neither time nor inclination.

TOLEDO, O., December G.—The Blade savs: The number of live hogs received and shipped this fall is unprecedentedIv large, and wcro it not for the statements^ in the papers, that packers in the West were actively engaged in slaughtering, wo should almost be led to conclude that a combination had boen formed having for its object the overrunning ofthe Eastern States with Swine. We havo collected a lew fig-1 ures showing tho receipts and shipments during the first five days of the present month, tho movement for several weeks past having been nearly or quite as largo as that of the present week:

General Boyle has ordered that the shipments of the Adams Express Company be restricted to two cars, and that no goods be shipped without permits from the Collector of Customs at this port, with certified invoices and the oath prescribed by the Treasury Department. Goods shipped from points east of this will be stopped here until tho law is complied with."

Pork. Operations.

Pork packing at this place, wo understand, is still going on briskly, at both houses. Weather fine, and hogs hourly coming in. Prices are about the same as quoted in our last—ranging from $3 25 to S4 00 nett. There will be at least 20,000 head slaughtered "at this point this season, should the weather continue favorable.

Second Stock. "...

'""Mr. W. Allen, of tho firm of Allen Brothers, is now in tho East for the purpose of purchasing a second stock of starle and fancy goods for the winter trade. A portion, oi the new stock is looked for the last of this, or urst ol the coming week.

Change of Headquarters. Our old friend John E. .Robinson wo notice, is now holding forth at the drygoods house of E. J. Binford—tho old Binford Corner. John will doubtless be highly pleased to have frequent calls from his old friends and customers and particularly, when in want of anything in his line of trade.

Fresli Ai-rivals.

The dry-goodsestablishmcntsof McClure & Fry, and James Graham, we notice, are again being replenished with new, beautiful and seasonable articles.

CINCINNATI, December 8.^—Tho Gazette says: Ilogs were firm to-day, but not active, The whole range was $4 25@4 .60. The receiptts since Saturday were 10,000 head, making 50,000 since last|

Tuesday and 280,000 for the season.

From

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The President's Message.

Believing it to be tho wish of a ma- j.j

Advance ia Newspapers,

SlairJisirte's

Army.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY of the Potomac, Dec. 9.

Tho weather is mild and the snow has melted considerably. An officer vrhe came through from Alexandria with a strong escort, was told at Dumfries, that sixteen sutlers villi their wagons wcro captured by White's cavalry last week.

Conis'Rdicted. /-Louisville, Nov. 0.

Three thousand rebel cavalry, siip-

°d to be under Forrest, intending to make a raid into Kentucky or a dash on Fort Donelson, were at Clarksville to-day. .... ..

Passengers from ("Jullatin? Tehh., contradict the story of an engagomont there between Fry and the rebels.— They say no reccnt fight has occurred there.

JJ.r. Seward not a Candidate for

Semaior,

The following note from Mr. Seward has been published: WASHINGTON, NOV. 20, 1862.

Mv Dear Sir: I thank you for your I could not well assume

nc no

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jority of our patrons, we give publicity that the legislature of New York would this week to the President's Message' in full. Its great length excludes nearly all else in the shape of reading matter.

entertain any pretensions on my part to a seat in the Senate of tho United 3ta*es. It would nevertheless bo very unpleasant for me to leave any doubt about my own determination in regard to public life. It is my fixed purpose,

when

Dr. C.

Thos. S.

relieved from my pres

ent post, to be, and remain, so long as I shall live, a private, but at the same time, a loyal citizen. So settled is that purpose, that I should not relcnquish it, even though .places were open to me, not grudgingly or upon compromise. but voluntarily and by acclamati Faithfully your friend, '•WILLIAM II. SEWARD.

To the Hon. Thomas T. Davis.M

HEAD-QUARTERS COMPANY B. [I. G. (i.] Sixth Regiment O. V. Camp at Beverly,, y.a.

July,27,

W. Rdback,

1661.

Cincinnati, Ohio: D'r. Sir:

We received your long wished for and wxlcorao rt midies a few"(Liys ago, and haston to return you a unsiniinous -vpression in regard to our high opinion of the same.

We have used them -with great bcneSt in our company, and heartily attest to the publis opinion of their great benefits. our cases, especially., where there have been co many great changes as from the civilian in daiiy routine hi business at home to the c-ipofcd habits of activc- soldiers in a? strange and unnatural country, do we most appreciate the merit of such heaven-sent values a3 yours. To ali those incur position do we most t-inphr l^ly recoomeml your mnidics, being assured. frcra expsrituce, that '.hey -svili Ls a very welcome companion.

JOSEPH A. ANDREWS, Cnpt. Co. B., 6th Reg. 0. V.

[Signed,] James Y. Scmple, 1st Sergeant, Co, E. dins. H. Fost :-, 2d Ohas, B, Rusjci, 1st Lieut. Co. E. 6th R. 0.

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E. B. Wtrren, 3d Sergt, Stephen A. Thayer, 3d Sergt. Samuel IJ. Schooley, Commissary. Charles W. Foley, Corporal. John W, Taylor. Edward Bah man, Carlton C. Cable, Together with 59 privatcs-ns unanimous expression being given.

For sale at So. li. East Fourth street, and by Druggists everywhere.

oi' six A EC ES PTS.

The following persons irave paid the sum's op-

pophc their names'on subscript^ to the JouruaL.

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.•Honor to whom honor is due Win. T. Harris Jos. Spohr .Ins. Keisev

W. P. Avcifloit.... Ezekicl Elliot..

7 50 3 5t 50 03 3 10

1'iesion JlcCormiek John ShankHn Eenj. F. Tap ir (Liberty).... G. W. S til veil (Indianapolis)... ...1 00

SIitriif'S Sale,

'virtue of an execution, to mc dirce'ed from tl Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of .J.jntgoniory county, I will expose at»Public Sale, to the highest bidder, on

Saturday tie hd day of January, 1 bG3. Between ti hours of ten o'clock a. m. and fouir o'clock p. m. ot said day, at the door ot the Court House of Cra-wfordsville, .Montgomery unty, tho| rents and profits for a term not exceeding sevenj vca«, the following described lieal Kstate, to-wit:. ihe west half of tho north-east quarter of section, thirtv-cne, (St), towns!.Ip nineteen, (19), rangofivc-. to), containing Eighty (80) acres more or less,, lyhi^iird being in the county of Mont oin:ry and State of Indiana, and on failure to realize the full amount of judgment, interest and costs, I will ac the same time and place, expose at I ublic „ale tha fee-simple of said Real Estate.

Token as the property of Gilbert B. Rider at the suit of Jonas S. Miller, et. al. Said sale will be made without anye.ief whatever from valuation or appraisement aws.

GEO. W. IIALL, Shriff M. C.

Dec. 11,1862,—(prs fee $4 03.)

*gdministr&tor's Notice.

NOTICEbeenhereby

is given that th undersigned has appointed Administitor o' the estate of William llenry, Sen., late nion township, Montgomery county, Indian, deceased.— Said estate is solvent. Persons lowing themselves indebted to said estate are heiby notified to call and settle. Persons having /aims against said estate will present them dulinuthentieated for settlement. ABIJAII F.HENRY,

Dec. 11, 1802. Aninistrator.

To William J. Ennlntrot, Executor or (lac esiaie ol" Divitl Ermintront, deceased.

wrOU are hereby notified thai. Asa loots has in the office of the Clerk of tl Court of Common Pleas of .Montgomery county, .3 application. asking to be released from furtheJiability as one'of your sureties upon the bond g,-Cn by you as Executor of tho estate of David irmintrout, deceased, which application will fenearii and determined at the February Term, s*:(1 court. WM. C. VA&CJ -ierk,

Tnl

lavs

By J. Lee, Ienry..

Pee. 11, 1662.—[prs fee S2,10.]

Sheriff's Sale,

virtue of a certifies order and d-rec of sale, to mo directed by the Clerk of Montgomery County Court of Common

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therein arses Graham and Natha aro Plaintiffs and Frederick Crov ^fendan^ requiring me to make the suni re and seven dollars and nmety-eigTittnts,

«in interest and costs: aWbyv.r»uc«f an exc-ution me directed from ot tno Montiomc Court of Common Pleas an

I ifn Tohn Campbell, et al., arc Plaintiffs,

Sfd F,.a.ri=k make the ®um of ono hundred and 31.. -j

and ninety-three cents, (132 W interest and costs, I will oxpose to sale to th.bi0ne-

biddCrS°ATURDAY,

JANUARY 3d, 1S61,

between tho hours of 10o'clock A. M. ar.dclock of sai4 dav, at the Court House door tho town of Crawfords villc, Montgomery county, tad the rents and profits for the term of seven y^, of tho following rest estate, in said county Montgomery, to wit:

Part of the south-east quarter of in to in 1 9 (4.) west it being sixty (60)

acref

north end of said south-east qaarfe^f said tion six said township and 5

of sale and cxscution, interest and cosU.^-il^t

tho samo time and place, a^ ofa^mav simple of said

Malestate,or

bo sufficient to discharge

.°, ,^fe^r(ie?tf

3a,

f^ V*

t„ 8!vid

sale and execution, with sale will be made without aDyrel^f Cdoia^raation

appw-isemerttiaw^. shw'.ff. M.r

1 Decomber 4, .1852.—ryr.,fee