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a rt vr rr üiSFSfSBSS: VUIiLliliEU EVEKY THUKSsDAY MOCXIXC BY KICHAKB CORBALEY. if pii l ia advance, S10'50 At tiie etil of six months. 200 It delayed until the end of the year, 2 -0 IJ-Tiic above terms will be strictly adhere. to. (jj-Xo paper will be discontinued until all nrre mesare paid, unless at the optior. ol the Publisher, sr ADVERTISING. Advertisement will be conspicuously inserJ, at the folL prices viz. For 1 squar.; lines) 3 insertionsSl 00 Kiicli adtlitiona; isertioa, , . "c n"Anyt hing lös than a square, willLecon sidered a square. irrAdvertiMjrs mut be particular to mativ tl,pnumi,erol inserti jns on the f ace of the adver'isements or t!v:y v. republished until tisements, or t!v:y tiII e published until ered out, and c.'i.ired accordingly. j-A liberal discount w.ll be made where ertimi MS done by the ywr. ;-U Communications lro.n z. uiianct ordered out, and c.'i.ired accordingly. O advert is r A 1 shoull be adilrej.se I I'os r-P.iu to the Alitor.! 7"?" Will ITS EVILS KOILDV. Tha uulo'd evils of war are very s:rikingly set fjrth in the following extract, which we rupv Irom a liport on Stip til teil Arbitration' on difiu'utlirs between uitious, ,mle to the Sfiiatc of the U. S , Fb. 23. 1353, by lion. J. It. U.i lerwnol.'' That war iiri-ruitud ; in is an evil of stupendous its elects upon the physicut nelfaie of in iukia l, no one can deny whi) regti ls and reasons upo:i incoutrovertible facts. The busiu s of war is to force an I secure submission on the part of the enemy, by indicting a destruction of lifo and property. The purpose of a campiign is to conquer to sublu lliii enemy. The means to accomplish it are found in the sacrifice of life in bloody b t til s, in the sacking cf cit-i-s. in the devastation of countries, in

tt.e sinking of ships, in the seizure and j lions, and their public debts. Exempt ciuliscation of cargoes, and iu forcing ; as are the people of the United States contributions from those who are over- from oppressive tax tion to meet the inrun. Tiki; immediate object of war is to i terest of lh?ir public debt, and small as

create human miserv to such a degree. that those w!u su Ter will thereby be iullii'iiied to yield to the demands, whether right or wrong, of those who indict the injury, rather than prolong their suffcruiis bv a continuance of the war. Under such a system, fathers, husbands. .....-. . lr, if litre nr. rniisitit.'.1.. Ill tiie viior uf manhood, to sudden death, and their-bodies often abandoned without burial, leaviug mothers, wives, daughters, and sisters to lament with excrutiating au-'uisra the loss of that society hitla omsiiiuted their chief earthly happiness. IJjt, eeu if they survive the battle, it may be at tha expense of an eye, an arm, or a leg; and, when they retire from the army, il their be lies are not maimed and mutilated, their physical constitutions are often broken down, and they fall early victims to disease contracted iu the service. It is needless to comment upon thr distress and wretchedness which families experience when deprived of those uliu supplied the wants of women and children with food and raiment. Every person can tall to mind so ne known and ftmili ir instance of a family whose comfurl and U'ippiiiess have been destroyed by the consequenres of war. Individual and family piilieriiigs are the confluent particles which form the great streams of national calamity; and the committee, without dwelling upon them, will proceed to present some general considerations and facts, wnich they trust will exhibit the evils of war in a light so striking as to induce very patiiot and philanthropist to labor for its extermination. "Armies, to render efficient service, laust be composed of intelligent; ablebodied men such as are capable in civil eruploym'juts. tuiucrsasa greatly the products uf agriculture, mechanism and commerce, upon which the physical comforta of ever people essentially depend. Abstract the labor of 100,000 men from the tillage of the earth, from the mechanic and the manufacturing arts, and from the business of commeice convert them into suldiers, and what consequences na turally follow this procecdure? The first is, that they become consu7icrs instead of producers maintained, not by their own but by the labor of others However actively and industriously they miy be engaged to meet and overcome the enemy, all their labors for such purposes, instead cf adding to, only consume and waste the food and raiment and implements furnished by the labor of others. The consequence is, that the laboring producers must work harder to keep up their own customary supplies, and to support, iu addition, the army of consumers and non producers, whose business it is to live on the labor of their friends, and to destroy thelievsand property of their enemies. "The second consequence is, tbat the 100,000 men taken from the industrial pursuits which create the means of comfortable living, and placed in an army to lead the life of soldiers, must be furnished with the implements and munitions which belong to their ney trade of de-

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structiou. Swords, pistols, rifles, muskets, bayonets, cannon, powder, balls, and bombshells must be fabricatt.il and supplied. In addition, there must be the means of transportation by land ami water. leasts of burden and wagons of all sorts, and without number, must be provided. Water craft of all kinds and dimensions, froni the common ferry-boat to ihe magnificent three-decked man-of-war ship, must ba constructed or purchased. Who: a suitable armament is obtained, and military and naval operations begins, every movement is attended with deterioation and waste of material, nuking a perpetual renewal absolutely necessary. The forage hordes, mules and oxen, and the destruction and loss of an imals and carriages attached to armies. ' consliU,le r,0 inconsiderable item to b e.)t u p y t!,tf labor of the country which . ' ' furnishes the supplies. i "The third consequence is, that if the 1 He third consequence is, mat it me laboring classes, upon w hom the binden fj,3 uf slIl,porlin ,j,e no pr04lUciR ar- . f . j enl uJ ,f provi.iiuj ' i o the muni lions of war to render the army j ; efficient, cannot do it for want of mean?, 'and the government under which they j live cannot therefore venture to increase j the taxes, the people and th ir govern ment are driven by the urgency of circumstances to anticipate their revenues by borrowing money. Hence the creation of u ttional dobts. and with them a new set of nou producers w!ic lira sutnpt- ( uously upon the interest of their money. i ju l by dealing in slocks. Thus the living generation are often required to toil anil labor to discharge the principal and ; interest of national debts created in former a;c. Besides the current and ne cessary annual expenditures of government, th 'V are called on to pay the debts of centuries, and taxation becomes an intolerable burden. "That these are the natural cons?quences of war, no one can doubt who is ut J all acquainted with the history of uai that debt is compared with the debts of other nations wliosr. resources arc uot equal to ours, yet it is well known tbat nearly the whole of our debt, exceeding on tiie 1st of January last, 8o5, 000, 000. has been the result of war. . . It may be safely affirmed that the total public dr.bl of the iStnU's ,f I-'.. as nut iess than eight thousand millions of dollars in 1S10. The Annual interest on this enormous amount of debt, supposing il to average only four pi:r cent per annum is equal to three hundred and twenty millions of dollars each year. In other words, each man. woman and child, if the interest were raised by a capitation1 tax, wou'd have to contribute &l,2ü per annum, in addition to the sums necessary to meet the annual expenditures of government for other purposes, estimating the countries which owe the debts to contain a population of 248,000,000. Turkey in Europe, has been omitted in these calculations, because the. commit tee had no data before them upon which that country coutd be included. "If we consider, by way of contrast, the more beneficial uses to which wartaxes ami war-debts might be applied, could wars be avoided, we shall see more clearly the immense losses and deprivations which mankind have sustained in consequence of devoting their energies and resources to the purpose of war. Thus the interest on the Europeon debt would pay an annual salary of 8100 to eight hundred thousand teachers of children. These teachers, allowing thirty children to each, could instruct twenty-four millions of children, of suitable ages, the usaal branches of a common education as reading, writing, arithmetic, geography and grammar. Thus the debts of the States of Europe, created by wars, would, as an education fund, teach every child of suitable age within their territories those rudiments of learning which open the door to the highest attainments in science. What blessings would this confer upon the children of the lower classes of Paris and of London; aud not only these, but upon the children of all the poor, whose circumstances prohibit the expenditure of money, even if they had it,- in educating their children. "The interest for one year on European war-debts would construct eight thousand miles of railroad, and provide depots, locomotives, cars, and everything needful for the transportation of freight and travelers, at a co?t per mile not exceeding 8 10,000. Thus a railroad might be constructed from Paris to Canton, in China, fur less than a year's interest on the war-debts of Europe. The interest payable annually upon war-debts, is but a small portion of the annual burden imposed upon the people for war purposes. The expense of keeping and sustaining large standing armies ami navies is tenfold greater than paving the interest on national debts. And, although the uatious of Europe hava been at peace for many years, from recent information it appears that there has been no diminution of their military estab-

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lishments. Tiie following extract, taken from a recent publication in London, and which refers to parliamenarv papers and tiie budgets for the years 1835 and 1Sj2, in support of the truth of the statements, exhibits the condition of things on this point in regard to the United Kingdom of Great Britain mid Ireland. The publication states: "While its (Uuited Kingdom) national debt has not been materially diminshed, its war establishment has been fearfully increased. In the space of seventeen years namely, from 1S35 to 1852 its armed men have multiplied from 145. SIC in the one period, to -572,-131 in the other, being on addition, in those comparatively few years, of no less than 120,035 men in arms." The publication proceeds to stale, that an additional force of SO, 000 men had re - cently been provided for "in the form of a militia, at a cost of 360.000 ($1, - 750,000) to the country; ami more recently still, they (the ministry) have demituled and obtained, for an increased navy, another sum of G0O,00O, ($3,000.000.) making together nearly one j million sterling taken from the income ! of the empire in 1S52, in addition to the large annual expenditure for similar purnoses." The. same publication states.

that in 1S35 the whole cost of the army, tee these estimates are fully sustained by J under the peaceful reigll of Christ, the armvy and ordnance of Great Britain was the data they hae examined. The j dent prayer of every cbild of God, is,

JCll,C57,lS7 sterling, (85S. 237,435,) in' 1852. the charge for the same department (including the Calfre war, fcc.) has! risen to the startling bum of JC 1 G, 500,000, 8S2.500.000. being an increase of no less than 84.842,513 sterling; and this does uot include ihe G00,000 recently added to the navy." We shall conclude these extracts by giving the commentary of the writer on the preceding facts, lie says: "The injury which this immease drain ou our national resources must inflict upon commerce, is incalculable. Take Manchester and Sal ford as an instance; their united population of about 400,000 inhabitants, according to the existing average of taxation, pay annmlly, for past, present and future wars, no less than the astonishing sum of JCS75.000, (84.375,000. or 810 per head!) and at this rate such a population, duriu" the

last thirty years of peace, will have lost; gle year's interest at six per cent, on the from their United resources, for war pur-! amount of our national debt, it ii U tiltposes alone, the almost overwhelming i amount expended for military and naval sum of not less than twenty five millions j purposes during the last fiscal year, sterling! What the inhabitants of these I would pay a salary exceeding 82U0 to two great boroughs could have accom-j one hundred school teachers in every ptu! with thi vsist nüiouiu, dents ail ' congressional district in the LT. States.

description; but it is undeniable that solid improvements, and on a scale of the most commanding magnitude, in all the social, sanitary and intellectual departments of activity, might have been carried out to their full completion by those rasources which, through a system of war like extravagance, are now forever lost. The inhabitants of the United Kingdom at large will have contributed to this extravagant outlay, during the thirty years of peace, the perfectly bewildering amount of more than one thousand txco hundred and fifty millions! (8G.250, 000,000.) Nor does the agricultural market suffer less, in proportion, than the manufacturing, of which the following statement is a convincing and melancholy proof.Its 600,000 laborers, who, with their families, amount to nearly two millions and a halt of the entire population; will not receive as .wages, for their whole year's toil, more than fifteen millions sterling. (875,000,000;) while, for armed men alone, thj country will pay, as stated above, upwards of sixteen millions, 8S0.0Ü0.0Ü0, for the same space of time. Thus the tillers of the soil, whose hard and honest labor provides the substance of our daily bread, will receive for that labor millions less than men in arms, who of necessity, must be mere idlers in the State, except when engaged iu the work of mutual destruction." 'It might seem useless further to pursue these investigations in reference to the States of Europe. Cut it is deemed proper to make a brief reference to the state of things now, or very recently, existing in France, taken from a translation of an article published in the Siccle. From this it appears that in France and Algeria there are kept up 102 regiments of infantry, ten battalions of foot chasseurs, three regiments of zouaves, three battalions of African light infantry, aud nineteen companies of discipline. These corps contain 2G1.0U5 officers, non-com-missioned officers, and soldiers, at an expense of pay aud living alone of 78, 000,000 franks," equal to 014,280,000.. The article proceeds to say; -'Our fifty-eight regiments of cavalry, two squadrons of guides, and four companies of the body called Cavaliers de licmonte, contain Gl, 187 men and 44,707 horses at an expense of 57,000.000 francs, equil to 810,830.000. The artillery which is divided into fourteen regiments, a regiment of pontoneers, four squadrons of park artillery, and thirteen companies of workmenconsists of 32,000 mn and 74S horses, and the wagon-train of 5,000 men and 4,425 horses. The gendarmerie and veterans form a chapter of the budget quite apart." "The number of the gendarmerie and veterans is not stated, nor the annual

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sum required for their support. Neither is the annual cost of the. artillery, enci neers and wagon-train given. But. supposinjr that it is equal, in proportion to

that of the cavalry, it is not less than ! tion shall not lift up a sword against na33, GS3. 000 franks, or 80,399,770. Thus j tion, neither shall they learn war any the army of France, exclusive of the gen- j more." Micah iv. 3. Here is the predaru.erie and veterans, composed of 3G3,-j dieted and only remedy for the terrible 572 men and 61, 01S horses, costs annu- j evil of war. The Lord, the King of ally, to pay nd support them, more than j kings, trust come, set up his kingdom

330.000.000 in peace. This estimate does not include the navy of France. "According to the foregoing data, the slandinsr armies of Great Britain and France exceed 640,000 men. Including the armifb of ail other European States, the number cannot fall short of 2,000,000 men, without taking any account of the naval armaments ami number of marines, 1 sailors and officers. In 1850, Baron Von Reden, a very able statistician in ! Germany, stated that there were at that time full four millions actually under arms in Europe. En. Your commit tee have seen a publication in which it is estimated, that the annual charge upon fhe people of Europe to maintain their j military establishment, is not less than S50O,O'J0,000, and to pay the interest on j their national debts not less than 8300, ! 000.000. In the opinion of the commit thought is appalling, that the laboring and productive classess of Europe should be annually taxed to the extent of SS00,000,000 to pay interest on war debts. and to support millions of men, with drawn from the arts of ageiculture, commerce, and mechanism, iu idleness during peace, and to prepare them to destroy each othor in times of war! "Wc will close these investigations by remarking, that our own public deb, nearly all of which is the consequence of war, and the expenses of our army and navy a single year the army having cost SS,G89,530, aud the navy, including dry docks and ocean steam mail contracts, 87,150,300. during the fiscal year ending in June 1S53. according to official reports would build a railroad, at 835,000 per mile, from the Mississippi river to San Francisro, iu California. A sinWc shall only allude to the system of pensions, and the burdens entailed on nations to support pensioners. For the next fiscal vear, to meet these claims,! more than 82,000,000, according to the Secretary's report, will be wanting. All this is the consequence of war. "The facts and considerations already presented are enough to show what mankind have lost by applying their labor and money in scourging nations with the calamities uf war. Had the labor and money, thus thrown away in making nations miserable, been applied in constructing roads and canals and telegraphs, in supplying towns and cities with pure water and other improvements, in building churches and sehoolhouses, in procuring books and other apparatus, and in paying teachers to instruct children, instead of paying soldiers to butcher their fellow-men in cold blood without knowing whom they are killing; if this wasted labor and money had been used with a view to the physical, intellectual and moral advancement of mankind, the imagination cannot grasp the incalculable blessings which would have been the result. "We shall not dwell upon the deleterious effects of war upon the moral and intellectual progress of mankind. To trace its consequences, and to show that no people can advance, when maddened and harrassed by the intense excitements and engagements which occupy them in a state of war, as they could in peace, would be to waste time in proving a selfevident position." "What is thercmedy?" "Arbitration," is the answer given in the lleport, and readily endorsed by the peace men of the day. But their remedy will not remove the evil; for nations that will make preparations for war on a mammoth scale, as they do in these last days, have too much of the disposition to fight in them to be restrained from it, by the most wise arbitrators. And besides, God has decreed that they shall light, or tke the cup of war and drink it to the very dregs. Instead of beating their instruments of war in to implements of husbandry, they are callid upon to do the reverse, to wake up their mighty men, &c, to come down to the valley of slaughter, to receive their fearful doom. Joel lii. 9-1G. "What is the rcmcdyV The conversion of the world from th principles of tear to the principles of -peace, respond the pulpit and the press of the Protestant world; but their precepts 'and examples do not agree, for while they proclaim against war, they are in "practice its supporters; hence, their prolessions are hypocritical and their hopes vaiu. "What is thcrcmedyT' Let the unerring word of the Lord answer. And he

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shall judge among many people, and rebüke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: na ; end stretch out Ins scepter ot rigluecusness over the world, before wars will cease. And not then, even, until he shall "rebuke strong nations," and de- ' stroy thb present despotic and anti-chris tian powers of earth "Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. "Be wise now therefore, 0 ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. "Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. "Kiss the Son, lest be be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him. Ts. ii. 0-12. In view of the terrible evils of war, as set forth in this Report, and of the inconceivable. biessins that will be realized "Thy kingdom come. Advent Harbinger. SINGULAR PHENOMENON. A severe snow storm, accompanied by lightning, occurred in a part of Maine on the. 13th ultimo. A correspondent of the Gardiner (Me.) Fountain, writing from Bass Harbor, Mt. Deseret, describes the storm, as it appeared there, as awful and sublime. A thunder cloud passed over the place, which, for terrific appearance, exceeded anything ever witnessed there. The correspondent adds: The lightning was of a purple color, and sometimes appeared like balls of fire, coming in through windows and doors, and down the chimneys, while the houses trembled and shook to their very foundations. Mrs. E. Holden was near a window, winding up a clock; a ball of fire came in through the window, and struck her hand, which benumbed her hand and arm. She thsMi, with all in the house, retreated into the entry. Another flash succeeded, and in the room from which they had retired, resrnibling a volume of fire, whirling round und producing a crackling noise. A similar appearance of fire was seen, and crackling noises were heard in a large number of the houses. Some who heard the noise, say that it sounded like breaking glass. Captain Maurice Rich had his light extinguished, and his wife was injured. He got his wife on to a bed and found a match; at that instant another flash came and ignited the match, and threw him several feet backwards. John L. Martin received ao severe a shock that he could not speak for a long time. A great many persons were slightly injured. Some were struck in the feet, some in the. eye; while others were elec trized, some powerfully and some slightly. But what was very singular, not a person was killed or seriolsly injured, or a building damaged, but a cluster of trees, within a few rods of two dwelling houses was not thus fortunate. The electric fluid came down among them taking them out by the roots, with stones and earth, and throwing all in every direction. Some were left hanging by their roots from the tops of the adjacent standing trees, roots up, tops down. The lightning, after entering the earth to the depth of several feet, and for a space some eight or ten feet in diameter, divided into four different directions. One course which it took led through the open laud, making a chasm to the depth of several feet, and continued its march unobstructed by the solid frozen ground, or any other substance, to the distance of three hundred and seventy feet; lifting, overturning, and throwing out junks of frozen earth, some of which were ten or eleven feet long by four feet wide, and hurling at a distance rocks, stones, and roots. The power here displayed was truly awful, and had it fallen on a building, it would have thrown it, with its inmates, into ten thousand fragments. I understand that in Sonthwest Harbor and Northeast Harbor (in this island) several vessels had their mast rent in pieces; one had some plank torn from her, and one man was knocked down, but not killed. HoitiunLE MunuEB. We learn from the Southern (Ky.) Argus .hat a short time since one George Morrow, residing iu Hickman Co.. while under the influence of liquor, ordered his son Harry, a youth near 17 years of age, to leave his house; and, the son not going out immediately, he seized his gun, pushed his son out of the door, and immediately fired at him, the whole content? entering his forehead, taking off the entire part and scattering his brains in a most distressing manner. The father was arrested and committed to jail to await his trial. He is represented as an habitual drunkard.

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A CraZJT IriSODCr A MrOHS LamC. j About three, weeks ago. a convict in the penitentiary, named Skeggs, sent from Evansville, we blieve, gave indi cations of having lost his mind. He would mope about the cell house, aud when ordered to go to work, he would give a vacant Stare, and pretend not to understand what was said to him. Ilia uncle visited him a few days since, and the Governor being in Jelfersonville at the time, requested his pardon, as he said he. thought a visit to his home might restore him. The Govrnor. however, de clined but said he would, on his return from Iowa, have him taken to the asylum, and if he did not give indications of improvement in two weeks, he would then pardon him. On Monday last, some of the officers of the prison believing that Sktgj's craziness was all sham tied him up and told him he would either have to go to work or take a hundred lashes. Eighteen lashes were administered, when the convict cried out that he was willing to go to work. He was then taken down aud has been sane ever since. He was sentenced for fifteen j'ears, and said he had been put up to the trick by some of his fellow prisoners. Ncio Albany Ledger. An old lady who once lived in the contryhad a habit of always saying, when any misfortune occurred, "I know'd it." Her husband one day came in, appearing to be in trouble, and said, "The boys forgot the iron wedge in the field, and it is melted with the sun." "1 know'd it," said the old woman. A modest young lady on being asked by a gentleman why she had a covering over her "dressing bureau.' replied: don't want to see its drawers." Pkesidextial Election RETunxs.-The Washington Union furnishes a total of the returns of the last Presidential election, which foots up as follows; For Pierce, 1,5S5,515' Scott, 1.3S3.573 Hale, 157,29ft Total vole, 3,11:0,414 These figures do not embrace the full vote of the country. The actual returns show the following result: For Pierce, dem. 1 ,607,723 Scott, whig, 1,3SG,J31 Webster, Union whig. 7,430 Hale, free soil abolition, 155,940 Goodcll, abolition, b 72 Troup, Stale rights, 2,300 Eroome, native, 2,475 Total vote, 3,1G2,S00 The vote polled in November last, although not full in several Stales, was the largest ever thrown. It exhibits an increase of 290.S04 over that of the previous Presidential election, ISIS, Del. Free Press, (O0n the 31st ult.,Mr. John Helper, residing near Monroe, Wisconsin, while plowing in his field, seeing a heavy cloud rising which indicated a shower, unhitched his team, and in company with his son, each of whom had a span of horses, set out for Ins house. They had not proceeded far when a tremendous explosion fell upon them, killing the father instantly, and both spans of horses, together with a loose one which was following the others. The son was stunned by the shock, and lay senseless some time, but is now nearly recovered. The most singular circumstance in this causality is lhat the horse upon which the son was riding was killed, while the boy, though a higher object, survived the terrible thunderbolt. Lost. A small lady's watch with a white face, also two ivory young ladies work boxes. A mahogany gentleman's dressing case, and a small pony, belonging to a young lady with a silver mane and tail. IIobcible. A horrible scene was presented at the Tombs. New York, on Monday morning. One of the keepers of the prison having, aboHt six o'clock opened a cell in which were incarcerated five men for being intoxicated on Sunday, he . found three of them dead aud a fourth writhing iu fits. He promptly gave the alarm, and a physician was sent for. who examiued the men and pronounced them, dead. The fourth man was very weak and not expected to live. Impoutant to Tostmasters. The Savannah Courier, cf the lDth says: "X case was tried during the recent session of the United States court iu this city, which ought to be generally understood both by the people and the officials who have the charge of the various post offices throughout the country. The postmaster at Sylvania, in Scriven county, was arraigned and fined fifty dollars for delaying a letter iu his office. The law makes it the imperative duty of every postmaster to forward all mail matter deposited one half hour before the departure or the mail, unless a longer time should be granted by the Postmaster General, on account of the busines in his office. '