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Transient advertisements will be inserted at the rite of SI.OO per square of ten lines for three inser tions, or less, but for every subsequent insertion, 25cents per square will be charged in addition.— Table and figure work double price. Auditor's ootices ten lines and under, SI.OO ; upwards of ten lines and under fifteen $1.50. Liberal reductions made to persons advertising by the year. SELECT POETRY. GAY AND HAPPY I'm the one that's gay aud happy, Whereso'er I chance to be, Aud I'll best to please you, If you will but iist to me. CHORUS —So let the wild word wag at it will, I'll be gay and h ppy still, Gay and happy, giv and happy, I'll be gay and happy still. 1 envy neither great or wealthy, Poverty I ne'er despise, Let me be contented, healthy, And tne boon I'll dearly prize. CHORUS— SO let the wild world wag, &c. The rich have cares we little know of, All that glitters is not gold, Merit's seldom made a show of, And tiue worth is rarely told. C'HOAUS—So let the wild world wag, fkc. ♦ If the President should sit beside nr.e, I'd sing my song with usu.<! glee, F'oo's might laugb, and knaves deride nie, Still Vd gay and happy be. Caoaua—So iet the v,lu nm, S care for all, yet care for no one, Those that do well need not fear, 1 like mankind and the world to dwell on, What else makes this life so dear. Caoßus—So let the wild world wag &e. -T*- - ' From the Harrisburg Patriot fk Union. THE WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS. It frequently happens in the history of na tions that an obscure individual becomes the representative of a great principle. The late of the person may excite little or no sympathy, but the principle upon which his case turns rrav be of vast and enduring importance. Such a case is that ot Merry man, detained at Fori MtHenry by Gen. Cadwallader. Whether he is guilty of the crime imputed to him we know nut. He may be a criminal of the deepest dyej and he may be entirely innocent of the (reason charged upon him. This is not the que>ti,n involved in the refusal of Gen. Gadwallader to jior .-naer the prisoner to *.ne custody of the civ il authorities by obey ing the writ of habeas cor pus issued by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the' United States. The simple question presented by this refusal to the safeguard of lib erty, is this— Has the President ot the United States the right at any time to suspend the writ of habeas corpus. The Constitution of the United States says : "The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended unless when in cases of rebel lion or invasion the public safety may require it." Who is to decide when the public safety requires a suspension of the privilege of this writ ' All authorities (Concur in the opinion that none other than the Legislative power can do so. Judge Story in his commentary on this clause of the Constitution, says : "It would seem, as the power is granted to Congress to suspend the writ of habeas corpus in case of re bellion or invasion, that the right to judge whether the exigency ha? arisen must exclu sively belong to that body." So Chief Justice Marshall, in a case of (rea son reported in 4-th Cranch, page 100, says : if at any time the public cafety should require the suspension ol the power vested by this act |the power to grant writs of habeas corpus) in the Courts of the Unitrd States, it is for the Le gislature to say so. That question depends on political connderations on which the Legisla ture is to decide. Until the Legislative will be expressed, this Court can only see its duty, and must obey the laws." The same general principle is asserted in Blackslone's Commentaries, with reference to the law in England, from which we derive the writ ol habeas corpus. He uses the following emphatic lauguage in treating of'.Re suspension ol this right in seasons of public danger; "But the happiness of our own (Jfbstitution is that it cot lelt to the Executive power to deter mine when the danger of the State is so great as to render this measure expedient; for it is the Parliament only, or Legislative power, fhat whenever it sees proper can authorize the Crown, by suspending the habeas corpus act for a short and limited lime, to imprison suspected persons without giving aDy reason for so do iog. These authorities are sufficient to establish beyond all doubt that the Executive bas HO power to suspend the writ of hoheas corpus, without the authority of Congress. The issuing of the writ in the case of Mer rvcnan has subjected Judge Tartey to the moil violent attacks from a certain portion of the newspaper press. He did nothing more than his plain duty He had no right to refuse the habeas corpus. Had he done so, he would have given just cause for impeachment. It is a violent and unjustifiable inference to sup pise that he would have released the prisoner had Gen. Cadvvallader surrendered him in obe diance to the writ. The fate of Merry man would have depended entirely upon the evidence against hiin. If that is positive and conclusive as ia alleged, then the prisoner Would have been committed to prison to await a trial for treason in the civil courts. Hut if Ihe evidence turned out to be insufficient to es tablished a prima Jacie case, then he would be entitled to a discharge, and his detention by military authority is rank usurpation. The first step toward the establishment of a military despotism cannot be guarded against with too much jealousy. We should dread the beginning of usurpation. The infraction of the law in small paiticuUrs may be speed ily followed by grosser and more alarming violations of established rights.—]f a citizen of .Maryland may be seized and imprisoned in vi olation of the law when that State is not in rebellion against the Government, w- know not how soon citizens of Pennsyivania may be served in the same way and the infamous pro ceeding of Star Chamber Councils repeated in this land of law and liberty. None "of those who den nee Judge Taney and commend ihe refusal ;i U-n. Cadwallader to obey the writ, have ventured to indicate how Merry man is to be tried for treason, with out he is surrendered to the civil authorities. Admitting the rignt of the military to arrest persons detected in, or suspected of treason, from what source is the power deprived to try parties accused ol this crime ? Clearly a court martial can only try persons subject to military government ; and every civilian charged with treason musf necessarily be tried by the civil tribunals. * We trus4 that the President will yet see the propriety of directing the surrender ol Merry man to the civil authorities. It is of much more importance to vindicate a great principle than even to punish a single traitor. If the idea that the military is superior the civil power m the loyal States is allowed to take root the time may not be far distant when some favorite but ambitious chieftain may, with an army of a hundred thousand men devoted to his fortune?, the game principle to the THE ARMY f RAIDS. The Philadelphia papers of Friday give th* proceedings of the meeting held in that city on the previous day in regard to these infamous frauds : Joshua Husband, Esq., gave an account of a visit which he made to the camp at Perrysville. He saw there twenty sacks of pilot bread, ap parently as old as if it had been made intbe year one hundied; barrels of pork all fat and all putrid. John Haviland, the Inspector, told the speaker that he gave part of it away to prevent it from engendering disease. One of the vol unteers told Mr. Husband that after the first three days after his arrival at Peirysville, he had nothing save what he got from a black wo man. Tlie speaker also referred to the condi tion of Col. Sagle's Regiment while at Broad and Pine streets, when some ol the meat was taken away to make compost of. Arms con demned by the Inspector were declared good enough for three months men. The speaker was severe upon Governor Curt in, of whom he had once been a frier.d, for which he asked tod to forgive him. (App'auae.) Marshal Spiogeil, Esq , submitted ihe follow ing resolutions : Resolved, That a committee of thirteen be appointed to collect, digest and arrange all in formation in relation to the disbursement of $500,000 voted for*military purposes, and so much ol the $3 000,000 loan as has been ex pended, to be presented to the meeting to be held hereafter, and that the said conrmittee be directed to inquire of (be Colonel of each Penn sylvania regiment now in the field, or which may hereafter be placed in the field, as to clo thing, equipments, and commissariat of each respective regiment, and report the same. Resolved, That the said committee be direc ted to address the President of the United StaUs and the Secretary of War, r. questing the inter position of their power and authority, so far as practicable, to protect the volunteers who are, or may be, mustered into service, trom theev.ls from which so many who have been mustei\d in have groaned under without complaint. Resolved, That the said Committee report on defensive arguments or tacts ol any person that may be submitted to them. These resolutions were adopted, the mover of them accepting a suggestion to make the num ber of the committee tweDty-five, one fiom each ward. Mr. Sprogell saiJ, in support of his resolu tions, that he believ. d that this was the first time in the history of Pennsylvania that a G v --ernor of the State has been charged with such frauds a? Gov. Curt in Has been. It he is inno cent, it is but right that he should have an op portunity of exculpating himself. SEWARD'S PROPHECIES. Mr. Seward has been exceedingly unfortunate as a prophet. He pro phesied in December that there would be no war; and that the while secession movement would come to an end in a given number of days. Subsequently, he prophesied again to the same effect, and actually shortened the time. At a still later day, he yet again assured a bu siness man who consulted him, that there would be no interruption of. the public peace ; ami counselled him to make tlte large purchases he contemplated, on th faith of his prophetic as surances!— Rochester Daily Union. BEDFORD, PA, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 21,1861. AN IMPORTANT QUESTION."" Hie Aational Intelligencer , probably one of Hie ablest and most influential journals in Uie United Slates, and which baa thus far given strong and efficient support to the war measures of President Lincoln, uses the follow* ing language touching the invasion of Virginia: —" We cannot nee any policp which looks to a restoration of the Union by such measures." The Intelligencer regards the question of in vasion as tn- thing, and that of defence as an en'irely different matter. Wtun our brave volunteers unfurled the standard of the Union, and enrolled tin IT *- |\-s on the side of the Governo eht, th.-v 01 ■ ?■ obedience to the Prejdeni's call, and in - . to the dictates of patriotism, for Hi < defending the ca: t'al agio*! a ill hended aitack. Hot, u th- „ j - t( tn, lf , authority now is to ute' an a^'girj.jovp vvar, or a war of subjitgation, we, to>, witti the Intelli gencer are a: a lo*s to know how that can effect "a restoration of the Union." If our G vern ment should find it necessary to eat* r, with its mmy, any ol the seceded States in otder to re take Forts and other prop-;tj -fiat rightfully bo long to us, and which ha • iieen stolen away, I fen it would be both necessary and warranta ble, and the people of the North, with a large body of Union men in the South, would sustain such a measure ;_but let theie be no acts or movements of aggression—nothing beyond that which is imperatively necessary to secuie con stitutional rights Then according to this view out forces may go into Virginia, b-canse Vir ginia has trenched upon the rights ol the nation —we may justly and lawfully retake what the secessionists of that Slate have unjustly and un lawfully taken: yet, we inut guard well against the extreme which lies beyond. In aii civilized wars, both parties have their rights ; and each parly is bound to respect those ol the other, as well as to secure its own. V\ e are not now engaged in a war with a foreign foe, but with our owu countrymen theiefoie, we cannot be fighting for conquest This is essentially and strictly a contest, as we understand it, lor the su/tremncy of constitution al law —nothing le?, nothing more. It is no war of revenue, tor that spirit animates devils alone. It is not a war of fanaticism, lor that would imply that we were fools and knaves of the John Btown stamp. It is not a war to overrun and subjugate the South and hold the seceded States as conquered provinces, for those States must necessarily be invested with sove rejgnty t) q ialify them as members of the A ihe official declarations ot Dotn rresiaetu Lun con and Secretary Seward to sustain us. Hence the only object, end and purpose of this dark, ominous and most lamentable conflict can be to get just what belongs to us. In other words, to repeat and embrace all we have said in a tin gle expression, we mav adopt the language of Gen. Jackson employed in referring to our tiil ficulty with France about the spoliation ques tion, when h" emphatically declared,— " We will demand nothing that is not clearly fight, and submit to nothing that is wrong." Let the administration act upon this doctrine, and all the people will exclaim amen. But, let it on the other hand violate duty, by usurping power, and the mighty and i-resistable force of a united popular sentiment, going up from all parties in protest* of virtuous indignation, wrll speedily Irustrate the mad and ambitious schemes ot faithless public servants, causing their knees to smite together in guilty fear as did those of him who last sat upon the throne of Babylon. —C'ravford Democrat. [From the Journal of Commerce.] A WAR IN THE RFFOBUCAN RANKS. —There appears to be some j-a lousy among the Repub lican papers in th- city respecting the rumored appointment of the publisher of the World news paper, to an important milttary position. It has for some days been reported, and is now pos itively asserted, that Alexander Cummings, of the World is to be ap.pointed Brigadier Gener al, and that he will be placed at the Inadof the Quaiter Master's Department. The .tfic is one of great responsibility, and the i t ment needs close watching to drt a . "Army-worm" by which i i> hare no knowledge d M Cuir.ov.. cations for the pusiti' , it able to judge wlvie r- r >n. ■ * •(<• the announcement causes in to*- It publican press, is due to th- unfitness of the selection, or to jealous}' on account > t the choice ct the vet erans who have |or.gd>ne duty a' this point. Mr Cummings is said to be a confidential friend ol the Secretary of War, who it is charg ed, has already entrusted im with imp >r'ant Government duties. We see nothing wrong in this, and tl they arc proper!) di-charged, il would afford a reason for continued confidence. There has been much mismanagement iu the War Department, and we fear alt the evils are not yet corrected.- We trust that Secretary Qamrion will endeavor to do his duty, but it must be confessed that public expectation does not appear to be wry strong on this subject. The Sun apppars to have a special antipathy to the selection of Mr. Cummmgs, and judg ing from iti tone, we should say that w hat we have characterized as a war in the Republi can ranks," can hardly be designated a civil war. The following aipeared at the head ot the Sun's editoral columns on Tuesday mor ing : ••THE QUARTERMASTER GFNERAL.— Our special Washington correspondent asserts that SctPlary Cameron has determined to appoint his pers-nal partizan and favorite,Oumm'ngs— civilian of no experience or character suitable for the post—to this high military office. "We are not yet able to believe in the au dacity, even if the corruption be credib'e, that could venture upon such an appointment. If made, it will be a h-avtet blow to the Q ,vern m-i't man ail the tiai'ois South ot tb Potom ac ar- likeiv io strike this year." Freedom of Thought and Opinion. MILITARY SIGNALS Major Myer, of the army, some months since, anrtuai.'Ci u site di.-covt-ry by hint s-If of a new svstesn of military signals, which would, in a gteat measure, revolutionize the management of modern forces The signals are made by means of a flag attached to a pole, from twelve to sixteen feet long. The difforent movements which the flag is made to go through represent letters of the alphabet. The letters, of course, are combined into words ttiat lead out the mes sage. By the intervention of Ibe numbers, nom but tfve plficer who directs the flagman, and those,have been previously informed >f if at#angemnt of the system, can under : 'be lang -ige of ihe flag, which flag is 1 m three directions, to right, left, and i ■ ■ rhi< •s done bv soldiers who ars espec ially < ! uji. d for the purpose, and who, in the trite, manage the burning with astonishing ac curacy. f T night purposes, torches arc substituted for flags : otherwise, the signals are similar to those made in Ihe day time. All the imple ments necessary for the service can be embrac ed in a .small prcket, can transported from pom to pjint by a single man, and be put in readiness for use in fifteen minutes.—The ex periments were made in the neighborhood of Sant J fe, in die fatter part of Apr/I, and were succ i-du! in every instance, altfio, uneven ground was selected. The first signal* were exch nged sixteen miles without difficulty; and on tl e third day, by the aid of a small repeat ing station, an intelligible military conversa tion was rapidly carried on between Old Fort Many and Galveston, which are twentv-five miles apart. In a few Hays the War Deparf rnent of the T. nited States will received an offi cers '..1 the different regiments now at the seat of wr will, doubtless, be initiated into the mysteries of the business. New York Times. MORE DISGRACE. It seems not enough that the great State of Pennsylvania should be forever disgraced by Ihe wretched condition in winch her soldiers were sent into the field, but *hc must be still lutfher vvroi gf-d by the appointment of persons whofly incompetent to command her troops.— We Could ask the attention of our readers lor ha icle in another column, headed '• Ap pointments Not Fit to be made," and which we cy-py from a Republican journal. We are r'ad v see that this second attempt to plunge rur into disgrace is denounced by the lion- JJ. | .• (u *" ' •••*■• *■ - - of the entire country. The Demo •ratic party ha* too large a portion of ilsstrength n the rank and fil- of the aimy not to demand >f us, and every other D-nmcrauc paper to con li-mn th-se outrages. We notice a nong oui Washington news a call lor a public meeting jf Pennsylvanians in that city, "to take somt iCtion towards preventing, il possible, the ap pointment of B. Rush Petriken,G. Rush Smith and John P. Sanderson to military position: which they are totally incapable of holding From lack of military knowledge." We trust the Secretary of War has yet enough State pride left in fiim to revoke at once these appointments and apologize to the country foi having ever made them. Valley Spirit. SOMETHING WRONG. On Tuesday morning a number of compa nies from "Cairp Chambers," near this place, broke the Guards and rushed to town to procure something to eat. These men appear perfectly reckless and desperate and must become utterly demoralized unless their wrongs are speedily righted. They complain bitterly of ihe scarcity ot provision--Hie uiertt, they ray, is frequently putrid and the bread never in sufficient quantity and oftentimes none a' all, which, they state was the case all day Monday and Tu.fday morning. The hungry men would stand it nc longer and marie a rush to town for something to eat. We do not know wh< ther it is " red tape," or too much Whiskey, that occasion! this shameful neglect o( the men, but from whatever cause it proceeds, we hope to see it remedied speedily and * llvctually. We intend to stand up lor the rights of our volunteers and .). .tfi--rr condition is improved, and their ne - \ wjnt supplied, we will be compelled an expire that may occasion some flut -j ' ong the " Brass button*."— Valley Spa it, IGNORING PARTY PRESIDENT LINCOLN, Secretary Seward, Postmaster-Getieral Blatr,and othe: of the Ad ministration, talk about ignoring party in the present crisis of the country. What they mean is best gathered from their acts, of which the following announcement is but another illustration : Appointments of Postmastart. — W ASHINO TON, .Vlav 2.—The President to-day appoin ted the following Postmasters : John S. Allen, Williamsburg, X. Y. Rich aid H. Winter, Whitehall, N. Y.: William H. Voeburg, West Trov, N. Y.; William Knox, Waterloo, N. Y.; Edward H. Shelley, Rome, N. Y.; Daniel S. Parker, Kenkskee, 111 ;A. F. Russell, Danvill-, Pa.; W.lliam Lindsay, Woonsocket Falls, R I.: Charles E. Chinkring, Pawiucket, R. I.; Charles L. Pai ker, Aslona, Oregon ; Curtis M. Pvle, Ureka, Cal.; C. O. Burton, St.'ck'on, California. Ail the above appointees are Rlack Republi cans, to make room lor whom Demecrats have been fumed oul of office. EXTRACT TROM A DEBATE IN THE SENATE LAST WINTER. —Mr. Seward—'The day of compromise is past" Mr. Toombs—"J am glad of it." Mr. Seward—"And so am J." Mr. Crittenden—" I would compromise to the iast moment of time, provided we could preserve the original principles oi which the govern ment is erected." The ''glad of it" and the "so am I" have got their machinery pretty well at work, and *\ e snp|n--e the managers are glad yet.—Columbia, Ohio, Criais. $I) T SCLJOOL MASTER 3BRO AB. I SCHOOL ETHICS FOR THE PARENT AND CHILD. No. 1. Knowing, as we do, that much may be ac complished in the educational fivld through th. influence of the parent, and that a much bettei discipline may be established in our schools, it the pupil act well his part, we have been indu ced to write a few articles under the above ti tle ; hoping, at the same time, that they mav be of some benefit to the educational interests of our county, and to the educational world in general. As a general thing the common school sys tem adopted by our Commonwealth, seems to work well. There have been instances, how ever, where some part ol the machinery ap pears to have been defective. It is not the aim nor the desire in the present article to exculpate the teacher from ail blame, nor to exempt him from all responsibility. We are very sorry, in deed, that auty constrains us to make the ac knowledgement, that the teacher too often is the cause alone oi the failure. Occasionally one who looks more to dollars and cents, togeth er with the small reputation his shallow brain may through intrigue acquire for him, happens to find his way into our ranks to disgrace our profession, and having more audacity than brains, he generally, though not always, meets with failure. But independent of this, failures sometimes occur, which cannot be attributed to the teacher but to some other cause. Were the teacher an infallible being, it might be that we could dispense wholly with the in fluence and co-operation of the parent, but such not being the case, a full and hearty co-opera tion of teacher, parent, and child, must exist, that we may arrive more directly and more ea sily at the designed end of education. Did pa rents interest themselves to the extent they should in school affairs, our schools would stand upon a much firmer basis, and more mnht with i nere is a uay appi ... wmvu mnn mon schools shall occupy a much higher posi tion. The time is not very far distant when not only the common branches of our langurge shall be taught in our public schools, but many of the sciences, and the classics. Such is even now the case in those communities which have enjoyed the benefits of the Union syst* m for any length of time. Let ns have a full co-operation of all interested in our schools and that time will sooner com?. KAPPA. BORROWED IDEAS. Gntn grow the rushes, O !— Burnt. Judging from the cognomen that floats so vauntingly at the head of the "Educational'' column of the "Inquirer " we had congratula ted ourselves with the idea that the disquisitions served up by the ''Editor" would be fresh and green, especially at t nis season, when all na ture is ror d in verdant loveliness ; wh-*n man shouid be imbued with new ideas, and inspired with lofty thoughts and imaginations :—but, alas ! how diappointed we were, when, last week, instead ol having our anticipations giat ifi*d, we were treated to some dry selections from a Yankee Journal. Now, that's unendu rable. After we had been presented with new dogmas in the philosophy of the English lan guage, and after out curiosity had been raised to the ' boiling point," and we were in feverish suspense waiting for the "next," we little ex pected to be thus cruelly and suddenly "let down." This was presuming too much on our good nature. Repeated doses of this kiud, might prove too much for our nervous system. Bui this can be avoided, if the Editor will only "stick to the text." There is no necessity of going to a distance for ideas. New England has a different system of education from ours, and no doubt good enough in its place , but the Keystone State has brains, too, and gigantic biains at that. She is expanding herself ; in fact, she is now con-idered old enough to take care of herself, and she'll do it, too. Success to her 1 SIMON SYNTAX. "CALLED FOIL" Since our contemporaiy of the Inquirer seems to be run out of original matter, could he not tavor us with a dissertation on punctuation, or is this the printer's business only I A settled point—"discretion u the better part of valor." S. S. ESSENCE or BlßCH.—There are compltmts that sometimes break out in Schools, which are incurable by any other remedy than the essence of birch. The ffiagnosisof these diseases, how ever, should be very certain and particular, be fore the application of that Allopathic specific. Sometimes the nervous constitution of the sufler er will not bear it. Be careful how you admin ister it.— Ferule. f WHOLE IYUHBER, £955. from the Washington Notional Republican IHEPR BABLE STRENGTH OF THE RKBSI.FR | CES—FIFTY THOUSAND SOLDIERS IN VIRGINIA. | —lt is unquestionably true that the rebellion lorces in Virginia are*jjpuch more numerout than they have been hitherto accounted in qoar 'TS North. 7 wenty days sinre tn--re w-re legg nan thirty thousand reoel troops in Virginia. The men now in arms in that S'ate, it reliance •an he placvd in the moat credible accounts, nore than double that number. With their head quarters at Richmond they have an ad vanced camp, strongly fortified, at Maoasset Junction, twenty-seven miles from Washington, while their extreme right rests upon Norfolk, the seaward approach to which substantially impregnable. Between these point 9 they hava we judge, not less than forty thousand troops, threatening Washington. All the bodies of troops on this line are in connection with each other bv railway. Besides these, they have the forces at burg, 'Jo miles from Manassas Junction, and the considerable force at Harper's Ferry, which oppose our communication With the Northwest. I lie two points last referred to are not in con nection by railway with the main body of their forces, and Ihe enemy there potted lack the material for rapid transportation. But they may nevertheless, after breaking up the Baitf (Tore and Ohio and the Loudon and Hampshire roads, join the main body of the enemy turther S>uth, or, moving independently in this direc tion, enable tfiem to t/uow perhaps 50.000 troops upon our lines around Washington. A long day s march, J5 miles, brings the L<*esburg troops upon the line of the Manasjes Gap Rail way ; while, taking tail Irom Harper's Ferry to Winchester, the troops at the Ferry may, by a march ol IS miles, j<>in the same road at Straa burg, its terminus. The distance by rail to to Junction would be, tor the the former troop#, 35 miles ; for the latter, twice that distance. This is no body of men to despiat*. All of them ait- brave ; some have had discipline io camp. Their arms are in the main good, defec tive in some instances, but all in brave men'# hands. With this body of men lying in front of us vve may believe fbat we have stern work lo do. In the enemy's camp, the word on.ev ;rv soldier's lips is 'Washington ! Forward to Washington !" The forward march in this di rection will be somewhat troublesome. We lave encamped on both sides of the Potomac, aear forty thousand men, the finest body of men . hat have ever yet stood to arms in this coon-** sus'ain their hag, and fb iiiirCTl Ur* crrao body of every traitor in arms. DIRECT TAXATION. —Now that the revenue from customs will be a mere bagatelle in com parison with the enormous expenditure occa sioned by the war, the Evening Post (Republi can) advises a resort to direct taxation. It says: The suppression of the revolt headed by the principal politicians of the Southern State#, is certain to prove an expensive task. An army ol three hundred thousand men n the field, and a navy competent to the blockade o( the south em ports, cannot be supported on the ordinary revenues of the country. We shall come out of that war, whatever be its conclusion, with an increased public debt; but we cannot, with out the entire rxtinction of our pecuniary cred it, attempt to throw th- whole burden of wag ing it upoo Interne yeais. We must draw largely upon our present resources; the necessities of the day must be met by the sacrifices of the day, instead of being improvidently left to the mor row ; and so far as we are able, we must pay as we go. To do this will tax to the utmost the wisdom of the present Congress, and we hope it will prove itself a wiser body than the one which preceded it. Large appropriations mu9t be made, and these it wit! be easy to pass, but the difficulty will be to find the money. It is near ly-certain that no tariff of duti-s will furnish a"l that is wanted. We shall be obliged unless the war comes to a sudden conclusion, to resort as wc did in our second war with Great Britain to direct taxation. A sensible pamphlet, by .Mr. James Gallatin of this ci'y, advises the im position of a direct tax as soon as Congress meet# with a provision for collecting it through the agents ol the states—a suggestion which we shall be glad to see adopted. Pretty Seutimeal and Partirau Practice The Republican speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives, said : I speak the voice of the people ol Connecti cut—which, swelling up like a great wave ha* washed out party lines and {'arty associations! •••••• Perish !in the transcen dant importance of these issues, the little mis erabie schemes of party policy and party pre ferment. Silenced be the uoisy wrangle ut de bate over local pi ejects, special interest# and personal advancements. Let us here and now, st the threshold of the session, plant a flag of Iruce on the ridge of the battlefield of debate, and resolve to know no party but our country, till our country is saved." After which the House filled every office in its gilt with Republicans Comment is unneces sary. WORTH OF —A prominent Phil adelphia gentleman, writing to a friend in Bos ton, irfeis to the talk made by Sumner and jther Abolitionists, that the real object of the war is to Iree the slaves, and says : •<We are all here, in action, it not in reflec non, out and out Union men, ready to go where the war leads us ; but we are not blood thirsty or brutal, and I have great fear that some Abolition . excesses may yet create a re vulsion. It this war is to put down rebellion, Pennsylvania is all light, but if it is to free nig gers and help them to become cut-throata and incendiaries, the sooner we know it the better. VOL. 4. NO. 45.
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