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yoL. i. fi'HE CHRONICLE. H ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING BY <’“ WRIGGLESWOETH & CO. publishers and proprietors. BLOCK, DODOKVILLE, IOWA COUNTY, YY IS. TERMS: 1.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE, $125 IE PAID IN THREE “OSYUS, W $1,60 IE PAID AT TUB END 01 Till. YEAR. I Clubbing —A discount of ton per cent, will be al lowed where clubs of ten or twenty jre^>rmcd. RATES OE ADVERTISING. Twelve lines, compact matter, or its equivalent in space, make one square. I -s W C 5 i H B S B | s 2 ! I I I | | 5f |1 % f S' ; 1 square, 75 1,25 -i) *' - yog- tl 81 3 ' ‘ 1,50 2,50 -1 ® 8 ' 10; 18 K column 2.00 3.50 J 81| | 18 iA" .. 400 7,00 9 li HI 18 1 ;J ~ p.OO i:,.0 JO 10 n -jo sf2dtftyCt.Tr l tlo e nM r i)ne e '"ftKS'SSto* .a “e... inside, „ per cent, advance on usual rates. ft Cf Htbs. STRONG, . TTonNEY AT LAW, Notary Public, Land and AWS w jr iiJsrK SSTcJST AS. !■“' <"“■ I'p -.) n2B-yl r. p. wicoistos. SLYE & WIGGINTON. i\vYKIIS Dodgevillo, Wisconsin. Will practieo Li? aH the and Federal Courts. Oft.ce > Joiirdoo’s Block [Up Staijs.) - S- W REESE. 4 TTOUNKY AT law. Land and Collecting Agent. | A Kwlireville, l.wa County, "’is. 1 articular at- j j_ V ,KK, n l "i ’ .......neies, and payment ol i tention jnvon to coileeton, api m u t . taxes in lowa County. Ofttcc m the 1 ost Uftn • {| , IK. ! JLi~ | J. H CLARY. i 4 TTOUNKY AT LAW, Mineral I’oint. Wta Of- | tied in Thomas Slime Block. J R. ROBERTS. -vtOT \UY PUBLIC. Deeds, Mortgages, Ac. .drawn , N- •'•ft.wn Dodgeville, W is. j J R ARUNDELL. DEALER in stoves, Hardware, Tin. , (’J Sheet-Iron, and • 'opper wave, Ae.. Jowa Mreet, the old Post Oiliee, Po.lgev.He, \\ w. T BEECH. UIIVSiriAN AM* SURGEON Podgcville. Wis. J 1 ,v. .. ,h,. old Post om.-e. InCyll bukhall.m.d. FIYSP’IaN AM' SURGEON, DodgcvilK lowa County,' Wisconsin. l'' ! - ’■ WHITNEY SMITH. f p VNNF.It ANP CURRIER. Mineral Point, Wis. i la at h. rof all kinds, also Hair for i Sastermg. 1- nvi on hand, cheap for cash. Job W ork don” at sow notice and on moderate terms. SCHALL’S HOUSE. NO 07 A 209 Kan.b.lph Street, Chicago Illinois. This bouse is centrally located, in the business part of tbo city, near M.e Post Office, the Court lions' and all the principle Kail Road Pepots Ihe.iutm laudations are good, and cheaper than mostol the Hotels in this vicinity. > 1 .. MASONIC REGULAU MEETINGS of Podgeville Lodge No. 119 0 f \ y Si A. M, on tho lu*t Rial thin! In day evening of each month, at their Hall on lowa street. Transient brethren visiting Podgeville, are cordially invited to attend. Henry Don ft as, Secy. To widow’s tears to orphans’ cry. All wants onr ready hands supply, So far as power is given ; The naked clothe, the prisoner free,— Such are the deeds sweet masonry Revealed to us from heaven. I o OF G. T \MICITIA LOPGE, No. It’d, Independent Order of Good Templars, meets every Monday evening in B K Tlioinas' Hall, at 7’.. o’clock. Members of Him order visiting this Village are cordially invited to meet with ns. J T. PKVOIt, W. C. 1. J, J.OouNisn, M . S. RAIL WAY TIME TABLE. Mil* & Prairie du Chien R. Way* ON and after Sunday November If. 1802, until further notice, Trains will run as follows ; (;o i\ (J r. ast. pass arena: Mail and Express Trains, at ft-fto r. m. M ay Freight 4:15 PASS MAZO MAN IE J Mail and Express Trains, at 9;do a. m. Way Freight, 4:15 “ GOI X G XV rS T . pass arena: Mail and Express Trains, at 4:42 !*• M - Way Freight, 10:14 a, m. PASS MAZO MANIE Mail and Express Trains, at 4:42 r. M. Way Freight, 9;.'Jo a. m. RAIL ROAD TIME TABLE CHANGE OF TIME W To take effect Monday, May 12, 18(52. mineral point rail road. GOING SOUTH. Leave Mineral Point at 6:40 a. m. Leave Darlington at 7:40 “ Arrive at Warren at g : 4O . GOING NORTH, Leave Warren at 10:00 a. m Leave Darlington at 11.-00 “ Arrive at Mineral Point at 12:00 m Ci. IV . Cobb, Receiver. Strayed. FROM the residence of the sub- frj -j tcriber in the Village of Dodgeville on or about the Ist of Nov. A. ■ * 1862, a dark red Heifer, with white star in the face, white belly, and white left flank, three year* old next spring. Any one giving infor mation of tfao whereabouts of said Heifer, will be awarded nlO-4w WTI.LUM MICH ELL. DODGEVILLE, WISCONSIN, .THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 18132, C rOnly 1 25 a year in Clubs if Four, ARTHUR’S For Vols. XXI and XXII Edited by T. S. ARTHUR and VIRGINIA F. TOW Ns END, CION TA INI NG Novelets, Stories, Poetry ) Fashions, Nter I and Wood Engravings, Needlework Patterns in great variety, u Mothers Department, Children’s Department Housekeepers’and Health Departments, with literary reviews, and all the accessories of a first class Magazine The Lady’s Book hears this flattering tes timony to the character of aRIHUu’S no vie magazine.— “As we have often before said, it is, with out controversy, the heel $2 Magazine pub lished in the country ; and this is he strongly outspoken testimony everywhere given by the, press. We know of no periodical that so wet!' desjives the praise b.slowed. The ed tors nevei lire in their eftor s to give, each in ruth a rich and varied literary repast to their readers. Their work is kept fu ly up to the standard of their promise, never dud, yet alway s full of instruction. e have often said, and repeat it again, that it should make a part of the reading of very household. We know of no belter educator of the people, young end old Uf the editors we need not speak ; their names are household words all over the country. In their hands no periodical can fail to reach the highest point tf excel lency.” Anew serial, by T- N ARTHUR, will be commenced in the January number entitled ‘•Out in the M’orld.’ ’ RARE AND ELEGANT VREMWMS Are sent to all who make up clubs:—l. A large photograph copy of that sp endnl engrav ing, “Hiakcspe.are and Ins I oteinporaries.’' 2. A large Photograph copy, fn in an engrav ing of Huntington’s eelebra td picture, “ Per cy’s Dream'” >'L A similar copy of Herring’s “Glimpse of an English H. ineslead.” Tkiihs : —s2 a year in advance, and one {ireminm plate Two C >pies, §3. 1 hr**c for x 4 Four lor £ 5 I'light and one to getter up of ciuh, sma lar large. I Itree red stamps must he sent to pay the postage on each oieinium. Address T. S. ARTHUR. 323 Walnut Street hi udrlphia. Administrators Sale. I.\ S*KOIS ATIv— IOW A CO COUK7’ In t'n“ matter it’ (lie estate of Andrew H.,1 sior, defeated. X [otiee i hereby given that hy v rittc audio J_\ jilu.-u nice of an order of lieeii'? mane in sni.l im.tter ■ n the timh day of November A. 1) ISlj’J.hy the County Court of said County he undo Tig tied administrator of the es'ate of sod and ceased will on ilie ‘2lth dry of Janu mV A. I). iMjt, at the Hunt door of the •• u iscoiiFon Mouse.’ - (which said house issit n a ted on the pu'iinses) otl’r for Fife at IV.b tic vendue, she following c!o.-Ci ileti lands to iv i I ; hot no five ["], lot no. sixty-nine [6O) and Cos s■os s ,\iV'Fevc ■ [C>7] and rixty-eigh. [lit-] siliialed in the village ot llighlttnd [iminerl) franklin] in the County of iowa and State of Wisconsin. The terms of sale w II he made known at the lime and place of Bile. Muted December the IMb A. D. nlf.wd JOHN ROISTER Admiiiislrator &c. Thirty Years Experience! Ilavebeen clifigontl> rmploted m perfecting Christadoro’s Excelsior Hair Dye Ji in no wonder, then, .hat af.t*r Careful Analysis by Or. Chilton, IP WA 4 * PIImXOUNCEI) And is now inking the p act of all other Dyes ‘I hose who have been disappoint, and wi.h mis erable imitations, are always pleased with the genuine Any rluide of hl.o k orhrown, to sun all complexions, produced in ten minutes. Manufactured by J GIIRI'*I AIXHvC . fi Astor House, New York. Sold everywheiw, and applied hv all Hair Dressers. Price, §l. §1,50, and §3 per box ; ccord ing to size. n 15* 4 w PERSONS OF FULL HABITS Who are subject to Costive..ess, Headache. Giddiness, Drowsiness, and s'nging in the ears, a. ising from too great a flow of b>o<d to ihe l ead, shond never be without BRAN RE I H’> 1*11,1,8, aid mi iv highly dangerous symtoins will be removed by their imm diate use. 7’hc Hon. J. Hunt of M ostcheH* r Cos N.Y. seventy-five years of age, has used Brandeth s Pills for twenty-five years as his sole medicine. When he fee is Inmsef indisposed, be it from C ,ld, Rheumatism Asthma. Headache, Bilious A flections. Costiveness, or irritation of the Kid neys or bladder he does nothing but take a few and. sesof Brandrelh’s Pills* 11 i s usual method is to take six pills, and reduce the dose each night, on* pill. In every attack of sickness for twenty-five years, this simple method has never failed to restore him to health ; and few men are to hi* found so active and beany she May i6th. ‘Bh S ;‘'; i h > P \ GRIFFITHS and Dr. W B. Blfidls OP, lowa Street D, dgeville Uis . and by all respectable dealers in medicines. nls-lw Save Your Silks, Ribbor s, &c. &c 11 EG EM AN &G< Gt ’NG EN T U A 71' \ > DENZIN E, removes Paint, Grease '|> 'if. &c„ instantly, and clean Glov. s, Silks, Ribbons. &c . qua/ to new, without injury to the mo-H delis caie color or fabric. Only 25 tents per Battle. Sold In all Druggists. II KG EM AN AGO., C heimsrs & Druggists, Haw York- n>s - 3tn Chapped Hands, Face, Lips, Sunburn, &c. certain and immediate cuhf* hkgeMan & CO’S camphor ice WITH GLYCERSINE.if used according u> the directions, will keep the hands s ft in .he coldest weather. Price 25 ds. Sodbyl>rug> gi ., s . n!5-3m Chemists & lirugg'strs, N. \. Ayer’s Ague Cure. Fragments of the Whig Policy- Still Alive. By carefully reading the President’s late message it will be seen that there are em bers of tiie old Whig policy still in existence and that Abraham Lincoln cherishes the idea, that by some process or other, Con gress will bo induced to get into being some legislation to make the old policy come into actual life. A national bank, —yes a nation al bank, sir, that is the idea. The prohibit ing tariff went into being in thelast session, that two is one of the old favorites and the people of the West are enjoying its sweets —perhaps bitters. For the last forty years the eastern manufacturers —the nebobs ot cotton and wool have pleaded for this, — whined for this, —growled for this, —thun- dered and almost lightened for this, and 10, it ha come, —come to the very withering ot our shirt tail, and at its present process ol climbing, the tail itself will have vanished. It use to be that a fanner could get for a few bushels of corn, a decent piece of hickory to wrap him in, but now the produce of an acre will hardly suffice to procure a a flimsy cotton wrapper of the poorest text ure ; so that between the nabobs of cotton reheldom and the nabobs of cotton manu fucturingdom, what must we do for covering 9 G!i!—the Rebellion yes, my good sir, the Rcbelli >n ; the rebellion has not done it all, the prohibition has done some. If it were not for this outrageous tariff, —if we bad even a decent tariff, cotton and other goods would be at least twenty-five per cent lower, perhaps fifty ; and fanners produce equally as high as it is at present, especially grain produce. And now for the National Banking law. There was a National banking law once, and President Jackson came pretty near loosing his,when be sternly put bis veto upon it. It would however be well for us to have a surer currency than has been floating i among us for for the last ten years for the 1 stuff has been the meanest of the mean and frightful have been the impositions practiced through. On the industry of the nat’.on and thf gamblers in exchange have made it a grand game generally to their own advan tage and then the stump-tail: ah, what a tail ! I The “green backs" are a trifle better, bow much we shall see ; at present they do pass minus discount and that is something. Vi ill they hold good ? we hope so. Let the government, however, have con trol at its will in assuming the currency of the country and then look out for party dominion, insolence, rampant. If a jug of whiskey can control, —does control and manage the jugglery of elections, How much more will not a bag ot gteen backs doit,. Tell us ye who are initiated ! But some express the hope that this gov ernment banking affair would tend to give us a more; stay able government, something that every bobtail of a mullification, —seces- sion, and what not, cannot run into a pantie flustration, and really if any bank machin erv or any other machinery could do that for us, it would "be a mercy. What is to Become of It ? It is being muttered in the papers that the ! irrepressible conflict , man is among the crowd of dastards who have figured and fumbled in the management of this war so as to be ; a chief cause of much of the failures that; have proved so disastrous to the cause of ; of the Union. It is muttered that he has! done this designedly and that to his crafty | policy and duplicity some of the most un-1 fortunate calamities have transpired. It is j muttered that he has inveigled the presi dent in his snares, so that “honest old Abe” | is himself hoodwinked and sees only through the wool. If these moottings are true —if facts go to substantiate them, then no man since the days of Nero, has deserved the gibbet or the guiilotinc more than the “irresistible con llict” man. Milwaukee & Prairie du Chien Eleva tor. —This building on the opposite bank of the river is now completed, except the ex terior wall of brick. It is the largest and most complete elevator west of Lake Michi gan, and attests alike the enterprise of the R. 15, Cos. and the immense business of the upper Mississippi that is tributary to this road. The building is 55 by 185 feet, resting on a wall of solid masonry five feet thich, is 80 feet high above losv water mark, and has a capacity of 200,000 bushels. It is built in the most perfect and substantia’ manner, furnished with the best and most approved machinery for elevating, and eight of Fair banks’ 125 bushel Hopper Scales, which for style and finish excel anything we havi before seen. In this the Company have shown their usual discretion and judgement, by securing to shippers the certainty that they will get correct weight— ra very im portant consideration with those who hav. produce to sell, or to send to market. —Me O ’•fvw Time* Employment. The Undersigned has, for several years past, been engaged in a business, which has yielded him at the rate of tlr.ee thousand dollars per annum, and is now willing to teach it to others. The business is ot a highly useful and general character, adapted both to cities and villages, and one that any person of ordinary capacity, young or old, male or female, can acquire with a few hours’ practice, and by which they can secure a very handsome income. Several young la dies who have received instructions from me, both in New York State and Pennsyl vania, are earning upwards of sls per week by it, and there is no resson why any one else cannot do the same. Invalids, even, can do well by it, as it is no peddling affair but a business that is perfectly respectable. Gentlemen and ladies of leasure who would like to learn the business for their own amusement or pleasure, will find the prac tice of it a pleasant pastime, and one that they will take great interest in. Onrece ipt of sl, I will send printed instruction by which any person can readily acquire the art, and these instructions will also contain every particular relative to the carrying it on so that it will he highly profitable. The purchaser of the “printed instructions” will also be authorized to teach it to others; and I have sometimes received as high as S2OO, for teaching it personally to a single indi vidual. 1 would state further that $2,50 or $3 will buy every thing that is necessary to commence the business with, and the articles can he got almost anywhere, in city or country, or, if preferred, I can furnish them. Address, ALVORI) T. PARSONS, No. 50 Liberty St., New York. MARRIED. In the Village of Poclgeville on the ISth Inst., at the resilience of Jus ph George esq., by the Kev. Janus Lawson. Mr. James George to Miss Ann George, both of Dodgeville. From ttu! Democratic T.oador. i The Working of Paper Money, j The rates of foreign exchange are j about forty per cent, higher than they | were this time a year ago. This is cquiv-1 alent to an extra duty of forty per cent, on al! our importations, and is a draw back or discount of forty per cent, on all our exports of produce and manu factured articles. The New York World , in an article on Ibis subject, says that the imports for the current year are estimated at $240,000,000, and the exports of pro duce at $200,000,000. The present high rates of exchange, therefore, form a tax of $90,000 per annum, and, assuming twenty per cent, for profit on the same, gives a total of $115,000, which the American consumer pays annually for enhanced rates of exchange compared with last year, when our currency was at a specie standard. If this tax of $115,000,000 per annum were received by the Federal Treasury, then there I would be some satisfaction in it, but this vast sum benefits no interest except that of foreigners. The discount or drawback of forty per cent, on our ex ports, arising from the same evil work ing of the high rates of exchange, amounts to'ahout $80,000,000 per annum. That I is to say, the foreign buyer receives the ; flour at about $3,35 per barrel, which | tiic citizen of New York is compelled to 1 bnv at $7. The British manufacturer receives the American cotton at about thirty-six cents per pound, which the American manufacturer is compelled to : buy at sixty cents. And the same advan tage over Americans of forty per cent. ! discount on all American wool and other products is enjoyed by foreign buyers and consumers in Europe. This paper money system of the Sec retary of the Treasury is thus working for the exclusive benefit and profit of British and other foreign manufacturers. It will enable them to undersoil in this | market our own domestic manufacturers of cotton and woolen goods. Domestic manufacturers cannot compote with for eigners on these unequal terms of buy ing the raw material here. This state ot affairs is grave and menacing to Amer ican interests. It threatens to swamp our own manufacturers unless there is an immediate return to a specie standard for prices. It is evident that our commerce can not long sustain its profitable working under the present paper money system. A change is imperatively demanded to save our domestic manufacturers from ruinous competition with those of Europe. The annual diversion of $115,000,000 for the exchange tax on imports, and $80,000,000 for the drawback on exports, making a total of $195,000,000 in cash capital taken from the channels of act ive trade, is an evil of magnitude suffi cient to embarrass our whole financial system. These evils are the natural re sults of using legal tender notes to the extent of $130,000,000 instead of the same amount of certificates of indebted ness and treasury 3,65 notes for $lO and How the bridge was Laid Before Fredericksburg. The following from the Times' corres pondent, gives an account of the laying of the pontoons over which our troops passed into Fredericksburg on the 11th: During the thick of the bombardment a fresh attempt had been made to com plete the bridge. It failed, and evident ly nothing could be done till a party could be thrown over to clean out the rebels and cover the bridge head. For tiiis mission Gen. Burnside called for volunteers, and Hoi. Hall, of Fort Sum ter fame, immediately responded that he had a brigade that would do the business. Accordingly the Seventh Michigan and Nineteenth Massachusetts, two small regiments, numbering in all about four hundred men, were selected for that purpose. The plan was that they should take (he pontoon boats of the first bridge, of which there were ten lying on the bank of the river, waiting to be added to the half finished bridge, cross over in them, and landing, drive out the rebels. Nothing could be more admirable or more gallant than the execution of this daring feat. Bushing down the steep banks of the river, the party found tem porary shelter behind the pontoon boats lying scattered on the bank, and behind the piles of planking destined for the covering of the bridges, behind rock, &e. In this situation they acted some fifteen minutes as sharpshooters, they and the rebels observing each other. In the meantime now and vigorous artillery firing was commenced on our part, and just as soon as this was fully developed, the 7th Michigan rose from their crouch ing places, rushed fur the pontoon boats, and rapidly filled them with twenty-five or thirty each. The first boat pushes off. Now, it ever, is the rebels’ opportunity. Crack ! Crack ! Crack ! from fifty lurking places go rebel rifles at the gallant fellows, who, stooping low in the boat, seek to avoid the lire. The murderous work was well done. Lustily, however, pull the oars men, and presently, having passed the middle of the stream, the boat and its gallant freight come under cover of the opposite bluffs. Another and another boat follows. Now is their opportunity. Nothing could be more amusing, in its way, than the result. Instantly they saw anew (urn of affairs. The rebels popup by the hundred, like so many rats, from every cellar, rifle pit and stone wall, and scamper off up the streets of the town. With incredible rapidity the Michigan and Massaehusett boys sweep up the hill, making a rush for the lurking places occudiod by the rebels, and gain ing them, each man capturing his two or three prisoners, the pontoqp boats, on their return trip, take over more than a hundred of these fellows. You can imagine with what interest the crossing of the first boat-load of our men was watched by the numerous spec tators on the shore, and with what en thusiastic shouts their landing on the opposite shore was witnessed. It was an authentic piece of human heroism, which moves men as nothing else can. The problem was solved. This dash oi | bravery had done what scores of battcr | ics and tons of metal had failed to aecom ; plish. The party once across, and the rebels i cleaned out, it took the engineers but a I brief period to complete the bridge. They laid hold with a will, plunging waist-deep into the water, and working as men work who are under inspiration. In less than half an hour the bridge was ! completed, and the head of the column of the right grand division, consisting ot i Gen. Howard’s command, was moving i upon it over the Rappahannock. A I feeble attempt from the rebel batteries was made to shell the troops in crossing, but it failed completely. At. arming PitospECT in Eng t, and. —Nearly a million of men, women and children in Lancashire district alone, are solely subsist ing on the poor rates and on inadequate and intermittent chanty. The allowance to each of these poor people is from twenty-two to thirty-six cents per. week, which is to pro vide food, clothing, fire and lodging. Low malignant typhus fever has already made its appearance in some districts. The Copition of Lasting Peace.— The New York Evening Post publihes an elab orate letter from Robert Dale Owen to Sec retary Chase in favor of the President’s pro- 1 clanution. He closes by declaring: “The price of enduring peace is General Emanci pation.” I ~ | What a French Critic says of Patti. —Hector Berlioz, in the Revue Mu*icale, advises those who wish to see ; “gentleness united witn naivete , Hebe in in person, the goddess of youth who has quitted the gods to visit us,” to go the Italian opera where Patty sings. Berlioz is usually a severe critic,but seems to be i quite fascinated by the little New York girl. --r : A secret solemn, This is what fill* the column New lurk, Dec. 20.—The details of the victory at Kigston, N. C„ show that the march was a continual series of fight ing, in which all distinguished them selves. Several bayonet charges took place. The rebels are reported to hare 15,000 men, and their loss in killed and wounded heavy. 500 were taken prison ers. Col. Gray of the 6th N. Y. was killed. Our total loss will not exceed 150. The principal fight was a few miles fiom Kingston, where tho rebels were intrenched ; but after three hours’ fight ing they retreated towards Kingston endeavoring to destroy a bridge leading to that place. The oth New Jearsey charged over it and saved it. Our di vision rapidly crossed when the rebels" retreated one rebel brigade towards Goldsboro and the other towards Weldon —our shells helping them along. (.apt. \V ells and JLt. Perkins, of the 10th Conn., wore killed. Their regi ment fought till out of ammunition, and then went in with bayonets. The 23d .Mass., Major Chamberlin, commanding, captured seventy officers and men, in cluding a Lieut. Col. of the 23d South Carolina Kegimcnt. The march was taken up on the 16th for Goldsboro. A dispatch to the New York Times says that by advices from York town dated the 16th, wo learn that Gen. Nag lee's staff have just returned from a roc onnoisancc of Gloucester county. IJe took out 400 infantry 100 cavalry and brought all back. Among tho prisoners is one John Sewell, captain ol anew guerilla party ju>t organizing in Gloucester county, We brought all of his horses, cattle and sheep. Our captures of animals will loot up nearly one thousand. A num ber ol prisoners were also taken but re leased on parole. St. Louis, Dec. 19.—Gen. Curtis has received a dispatch from Gen. Herron statCing that Hindman crossed the Ar kansas river with his infantry. Marma uukc is on the INortji side with bis cav alry. Hindman’s non are dailyjoining Herron. 51 any ol them arc Missourians who express the greatest disgust at the rebel Campaign, and think a further pros-? edition ol the war hopeless. Curtis yesterday relieved a communi cation liana (he rebel Gen. Holmes, for warded by order of Jeff. Davis, inquir ing into laets relative to tho shooting often Confederate citizens by order of McNeil. Kudosed in the communica tion is a printed slip from the Grenada Appeal , credited to the Palmyra, N. Y Courier. Holmes and tho rebel govern ment desire to know if this account is substantially correct. Curtis’ reply wilt probably be published. It is looked for with much interest. Washington, Dec. 19.—The Star of to-day says that Secretary Seward ha,s resigned. The Louisiana Election op Fed eral Conuessmen.— The election in New Orleans for two members of Con gress to represent the districts embrac ing that city, took place on the 3d inst. There were plenty of candidates in the field. The names of the successful ones were Mr. Benjamin F. Flanders, chosen for the first, and Mr. M. Hahn for the Second District. They are both strong, unconditional Unionists. The Delta says that Mr. Flanders is a native of New Ha mpshirc, but has resided in New Orleans for thirty years. He was among the first to welcome Gen. Butler upon his arrival in May last, and is for the Union at any cost. His chief op ponent was Mr. Bouligny, the staunch 1 Unionist from the same district in the last Congress, who received, however, only 13U votes, against 2,184 for Mr. Flanders. The other successful candi date, Mr. Hahn, is r. lawyer by proles- i sion, of German descent, who has lived, in New Orleans since boyhood, and was a stout Uuionist through the darkest hours of secession madness. His chief, opponent (though not the one who got the most votes) was the old antediluvian, Jacob Barker, who made very great ef forts to secure an election, but was wo , fully beaten. WIIERETIIESSI ALLCHANGE HAS GONE I —The Canadian journals complain of ■ “plethora ofsilver.” The Toronto Lcadem says; “for small change American silycl has, to a certain extent, displaced ban ■ bills,' 1 while “the quantity of it in circi ■ lation is sufficiently great to create son I inconvenience.” ■ English Benevoi ence. SydmM Smith defined English benevolence to B “a strong impulse on the part of A, wh*fl he sees B in distress, to compel 0/■ help him.” A writer in the ProvidcnH Journal remarks that this is just wIW the cotton Igrds gf Lancashire are n. B doing. They give little or nothijlßj eomraratively, to their starving woiHj men, but make frantic appeals for h.B to London and everywhere else but® home. im| NO. 15.