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BELLEFONTE. THURSDAY, AUG, 15,
* Here shall the press the people's rights maun-
tain,
Unawed by party or unbribed by gain ;
Pledged but to truth to liberty and law,
No favor sways us and no fear shall awe.”
¢. T. ALEXANDER,
P. G. MEEK,
} Editors and Publishers.
Delegate Elections.
The same good old Democratic party of
the past, which has always been in fayor of
sustaining the Union and Constitution of
our fathers ‘and the enforcement of the laws.
Those who advocate and maintain the rights
of the people of all sections of the Union
under our present Constitution ; those who
sre anxious to perpetuate this, the best
(Government in the world. and hand it down
to their children, and their children’s child-
ren untarnished, to the end of time ; those
who oppose fanaticism in the North and se
cession in the South, as the great evils of the
times in which our lot is cast, and the pow-
erful engines which are fast destroying our
cherished government ; those who advocate
the Democratic and conservative doctrines
of the great founders of our government
first promulgated by the illustrious Wasn-
INGTON, perpetuated and handed down to us
by JerrersoN and Jackson ; those who
desire that PEACE, HAPPINESS, PROSPERITY,
and Untox should take the place of civil
war, discord, disunion, and the humiliating
spectacle of a down trodden and TAX RIDDEN
people, will meet on Saturday, the 24th day
of August, in their respective Townships
and Boroughs, at the usual places of hold-
ing elections, and choose by ballot, the
namber of delegates to which they are enti
tled, whose duty it shall be to meet in Coun-
ty Convention at the Arbitration Room, in
the Borough of Bellefonte, on Tuesday Eve-
ning, the 27th 1pst., (Court week) at 7
o’clock, P. M., to nominate candidates to be
voted for at the general election.
By Order Stand. Com,
Men of the North, Pause and | Reflect.
. War is disunion. War is final, eternal s epara-
tion.—StepEENX A. DovgLas.
Fearful, indeed, are the times upon which
we havo fallen. The prosperity we have
enjoyed, the glory the nation has achicved,
the peace, the security, the happiness and
honor which has hitherto been bestowed
upon us is gone, gone, and we fear, forever.
Civil war is now raging within our borders,
and, although the beginning is scarcely yet
here, the frightful effects are felt by all.—
Scarcely four months have passed, since it
first reared its head upon our native soil.
yet in that short time, the beautifol form of
our Government has been blasted—the pow-
erful arm of our public strength has, been
smitten with imbecility—the glory of our
name has parted, and, asa nation, we are
disgraced in the sight of the civilized world.
Not only as a body of people composing a
Republic, has this war told fearfully upon
us, but personaily. privately. The counting
rooms of our merchants—the deserted work
shops of our wanuiacturers—the death like
stillness that reigns immolested about our
furnaces—the silent hammer in our once
busy forges— the desolate firesides of oar
own friends—and the empty pews in our
churches, speak louder than words of what
is now going on. Were the men who brought
upon us this war the ones that would suffer
by it, then could we look upon it different-
ly. But while the honest laborer, whose
every thought was fer our common country,
is bearing the fatigues and dangers of the
battle field, safe in their council chambers, or
far away from the scenes of strife, in their
desecrated churches, or sitting in their sanc-
tums, manufacturing falsehoods to fill the
columns of their prostituted presses, are the
demagogues and fduatics, whose wicked and
unprineipled lust of plunder, influence and
power, has let loose upon a peaceful land,
the horrors and iniquities of fratricidal vrar.
In their places of safety they sit and rejoice
over the ruin they have accomplished, and
chuckle at the prospects of filling their pock-
“ets at the expense of toiling millions. Their
feelings of humanity have become so seared
with the greed of gain, that they hear not
the wailing voice of widows and orphans—
they see not the mangled forms of thousands
of their own brothers upon the battle field.
But, heedless of the prayers of the people—
disregarding the teachings of christianity—
they hurry on the work of destruction !—
No! Suffering and death—want and misery
—may teke the place of happiness and
peace, prosperity and plenty, but these un-
feeling rulers care not. Speak of a restora-
tion of the Union by cancession and compro-
mise, and they cry, “traitor.” Ask them
for peace, and they say you are a ¢‘fool.’'—
Regardless of the future, they seem de-
termined to destroy forever our Constitution
and our Union. Surely there can be no one
so ridiculously insane, as to think that a
Government pinned together with bavonets
and cemented with blood, will be a type of
that bequeathed us by our forefathers.
Let the people stop—let them pause and
REFLEC? ! The present involves the fu~
ture, and we should not rush wadly, blindly
on to utter destruction. “WAR 1S DISUNION.
WAR 1S FINAL, ETERNAL SEPARATION "—for
every blow that is struck but adds new fuel
to the blaze of bitter hatred. Stop, then,
we entreat of you, and think. The happi-
ness of future generations depend upon your
course, and agsure as: there is a God in
Heaven, a continuance of this war will de-
stroy forever the Union of these States.
Tell us not that there is now no power to
stop it! 'Tis raLse. Tell uss not that in
the butchery of the people by millions, we
shall be working upon the foundations of
our fathers! Tis parse! Tis a libel on
their teachings—on their memories—and
the foot of him that utters it poilutes the
ground in which slumbers their ashes !
Does the Constitution and laws demand
the slaughter or conquest of millions of the
people 2 No! Let the people say No, in
tones that will fall as the trump of God up-~
on the ears of the servants.
Does christianity call the people to this
work of blood ? No! .'Tis not the com-
mand of God! Tis not the teachings of
Christ ! Tis the doctrine of Devils ! Let
the people thrust it from them as they would
fiends that issue from the bottomless pit !—
Let them flee from it as they woud from
the flames that issue from the mouth of hell !
Let the people, on their knees in repentance
before God, seck for the safe path over this
sea of fire that their servants (the rulers)
have spread for them.
eve i
Serious Thoughts Since the Bull Run
Battle.
No one who mingles with the people, can
have failed to observe the serious and tho’t~
ful tone of the public mind since the unfor -
tunate battle before Manassas. It amounts
to saddess and really casts a gloom over the
country, Menno longer speak lightly of
the present war, or of the manner of con-
ducting it, or of the time or conditions of its
termination. In fact, they speak much less
freely upon the subject than before the late
disaster—they are evidently busy with their
thoughts, but they seem reserved and cau-
tious in giving them expression—as though
they were yet unformed in the process of
incubation, and hesitatingly and diffidently
entertained.
This is obviously the present condition of
the public mind. It is engaged in reflecting
most seriously upon the condition of the
country—not so much in reviewing contro-
verted questions of the past as in contem-
plating the future-—what Mr, Weed calls
the dismal and doubtful future.” The ex-
pression ecmployed by this sagacious man
has great significance, and is truthfully de-
scriptive of the state of mind of most think:
ing men, in respect to what is before and
beyoud us. They wonder—they commune
with themselves—they ask themselves ques-
tions which they dare not ask each other,
or utter even in a whisper. Could we read
and report their thoughts, we should have
something such a record as this : “What
is to become of the country ? Where is all
this wo end ? Have we not been mistaken
in our estimate of this whale subject ? Have
we appreciated it in its whole length and
breadth, and in all its far reoching conse-
quences ? What is to be the course of this
war ¢ Have we not under estimated the
strength of the South—ecpecially its capaci-
ty for a strictly defensive warfare ¢ Can
we conquer it 2 Can we crush out this re~
bellion—especialiy as promptly as we had
expected it? Is not the war likely to lin-
ger, perhaps for years 2 If we beat the
Southern States in battle and scatter their
armies, so that they can no long er meet us
in force in the field, will that end the war or
restore them to loyalty, or to their allegiance
as citizens or as States of the Union ¢ Will
it not be necessary to garrison the whole
South, and for this purpose, will not an im-
mense army on our part continue to be re.
quired ? May not the expense of the war
be more crushing and longer continued than
we have supposed 2 How are we to raise
money ¢ Can we continue to do it by bor-
rowing, or will not onerous, direct taxes
become nceessary 2 Will our people for a
long time submit to these burdens, and can
wa pont them to compensating benefits—
can we assure them of glorious and benfi-
cent results of eer, which will reward
all the trials which it mvolves 2 Wlatis
to be the result of the war? Will it tri.
wmphantly re-establish the authority of the
Government, as we have been expecting—
or. dragging its siow length along for years,
with varying shades of success, will its ca
lamities and burdens at length lead to a
truce and then to compromise ¢ What will
be the character of that compromise ? Will
1t restore the Union, or reconstruct it ; and
if the latter,.on what basis—or will it recog~
nize and make perpetual the division which
in fact exists ; rend our flagin twain and
accept the destiny of two Confederacies ?—
What are we fighting for, and is the war
likely to accomplish the objects for which
we are waging it—or to work out precisely
an opposite destiny ? Who can tell, and
where, except from the All-Wise, are we to
get wisdom to guide us out of these trou=
bles
Such are the thoughts of multitudes of
men at the present time—not expressed,
half fledged, timidly indulged, but yet pierc.
ing the heart with sadness and leading our
whole people to reflection.
eae
Since the affair at Bull Run, the Aboli-
tionists are making desperate efforts to have
« the war ascribed to the right cause—the
abolition of slavery,” and some of them are
much incensed at the President for not pro-
claiming fréedom to the slaves at once and
and inciting insurections among them. There
must be an overwhelming love for the Union
and the Comstitution in the hearts of these
men! The country is not going to destiuc-
fast enough for them. But when our nation
is completely destroyed—when the citizens
become demoralized, and the people ground
into the earth by taxes and debts that they
will not be able to pay, then, these men will
be very innocent and will wonder who
brought about such a state of affairs! Dem.
ocrats want PEACE ! They never wanted
blood, they are sick of what they have had
already.
The New Tax Bill.
Congress has at last agreed upon and pass-
ed a new tax and tariff bill, for the purpose
of raising a fund to pay the interest on the
public debt, to be contracted to defray the
expenses of the war, or, as it is headed,
“ A Bull to provide Increased Revenue from
Imports, to pay the Interest on the Public
Debts and for other purposes.” * The tariff
portion of the Bill places an increased duty
on coffee of four cents per pound; on raw
sugar 2 cents per pound ; on refined sugar,
whether lump or crushed, 4 cents per pound.
On sugar candy, 6 cents per pound; on
molassas, 5 cents per gallon; on all teas,
15 cents per pound ; cinnamon, 20 cents per
pound ; nutmegs, 25 cents per pound ; salt,
18 cents per 100 pounds. These are a few
of the articles upon which the tariff is in
creased, and which are consumed, alike, by
the rich and the poor. We mention these
articles because they are in general use, and
by long usage, have gained sucli a hold npon
the appetites of the people that they must
to a considerable extent continue to be used
by all who are able to pay the increased
duty. Under the operation of this new tar-
iff bill, coffee will go up from 18 cents to
23 or 25 cents per pound, mn a very short
time, because the wholesale merchant who
buys from the importer pays 4 ceats addi-
tional which he is sare not to loose but will
add that to the price Le sells at to the retail
merchant, with, of course, something addi-
tional for the interest or profit on his in~
creased investment. The retail merchant
must also have a profit on the 4 or 5 cents
per pound which he pays additional to the
wholesale merchart, which, when added to
the original cost, will raise the price to not
less than 25 cents per pound for coffee.
Sugar and molasses, and all the other articles
upon which the duty 1s laid, must go up in
price, of course, proportionately. This part
of the law goes into effect immedately and,
of course coffee and tea drinkers must either
limit the number of cups they daily imbibe
or else soon feel the draw of the additional
per centum upon their pockets.
Sec. 8 of the Tax Bill--Provides for rais-
ing of twenty millions of dollars annually
additional to the amount expected to be
raised from the increased duty on the arti-
cles above enumerated, and apportions to
Pennsylvania, as her share of that amount,
the sum of one million nine hundred and
forty-six thousand, seven hundred and nine-
teen dollars.
Sec. 9—For the purpose of levying and
collecting this tax, empowers the Secretary
of the Treasury of the United States to di-
vide the State into convenient collection
districts, and to appoint assessors aud col-
lectors for the several districts.
Sec. 10—Provides that the several collec-
tors shall give security for the faithful per-
formance of their duties.
Sec. 11—Empowers the assessor to sub
divide his district, if too large, into the proper
number of smaller districts and appoint
assistant assessors,
Sec 13— Provides thé mode of assessment
and specifies the objects of assessment and
taxation by all lands and lots of ground
with theirimprovements and dwelling houses
which shall be enumerated and valued at
what each of them is worth in money on the
1st of April; 1862.
Sec. 14— Provides that the owners of
property taxable under this act shall, when
required by the assessors, make out written
list of all the property owned by them, and
deliver the same to the asssessor.
Sec. 15—Provides that, in case of refusal
by any person owaing or having the care
and management of any real estate to make
such list that the assessor, after viewing the
property, shall do so himself.
See. 16—Provides that any person attempt-
ing to evade the provisions of this law, by
making out a fraudulent list, shall be fined
in a sum not excecding five hundred dol-
lars and pay the costs of prosecution, in
which case the assessor is empowered fo
enter into and upon the premises to make
the valuation, and from which assessment
there shall be no appeal.
Sec. 24—Provides that after the assess:
ments shall be made as aforesaid it shall be
the duty of the assessors in the State to
convene in general meeting at a place
directed by the Secretary of the Treasury,
to make rules and regulations to carry this
law into effect.
Sec. 25—Provides that the assessors, thus
convened, shall have the power to appoint
as many clerks as there may be collection
districts in the State, who are to hold their
offices at the pleasure of the said board of
4SSeSSors.
Sec. 26—Provides. amongst ‘other things,
that every assessor neglecting to attend the
meeting of the board shall, for every day
he is absent pay a fine of ten dollars.
* Sec, 29—Provides that the assessors con-
vened as aforesaid shall apportion the {axes
to the respective counties, and shall deliver
to each assessor a certificate of the appor-
tionment, and the said assessors shall there
respectively make out a list of the sums
payable by each person hable to the said
tax and shall deliver the duplicate or list,
thus made, to the collectors.
Sec. 30—Provides that each assessor shall
receive two dollars a day for every day em-
ployed in giving instructions to the assistant
assessor, and three dollars a day for every
day employed in hearing appeals revising
valuations, making lists, &c., and one dollar
for every one hundred taxable inhabitants
contained in the tax list. The assistantas-
sessors are to receive two dollars a day for
every day employed in collecting lists and
making valuations, and one dollar for every
one hundred taxable inhabitants contained
in his list, The salary oi the principals not
to exceed $2 580, and the assistants $1,200
per annum. The clerks ewployed by the
assessors are to receive two dollars per
day.
Sec. 33—Provides that the taxes thus
assessed, shall be a lien upon the land.
Sec. 34 - Allows the collectors to appoint
deputies if he sees proper.
Sec. 35—Provides that each of the said
collectors shall, within ten days after re.
ceiving collection list, give notice through
newspapers and by posters, that the tax is
due and payable, and state the times and
places at which he will attend, to receive the
same which shall be in twenty days after
the notice. Persons not attending and pay-
ing shall be visited immediately by the col-
lectors, who shall demand payment, and
upon refusal or failure to pay in twenty days
thereafter, it shall be the duty of the col-
lector to collect by distraint and sale of the
goods and chattles of the delinquent.
Sec. 56--Provides that in case there can
not be found sufficient personal property to
pay the tax, the collector shall, after giving
notice for thirty days, sell so much of the
real estate as shall be necessary to pay the
tax with ten per cent additional.
Sec. 49— Provides for the appointment by
the President of an officer, to be called the
Commissioner of Taxes, whose salary shall
be $3,000, and he shall be allowed clerks
whose aggregate salary shall not exceed
$6,000, who shall superintend the collection
of taxes. .
Sec. 52—Provides that after the Ist of
January next, there shall be collected and
paid upon the annual income of every person
residing in the United States, whether such
income is derived from any kind of property
or from any profession, trade, or employ-
ment, or from any source whatever if such
annual income exceeds eight hundred dol-
lars, a tax of three per cent.
Sec. 53—Provides that the Secretary of
Treasury shall pay the several collectors
such sum as to him shall seem just and
proper, not however, to exceed in any
case, the sum of $2,500 for principle collec-
tors, and $1,200 for assistant collectors.
These are the principle provisions of the
bill that operate upon the people of this
community. Its provisions do not display
the far reaching and far seeing wisdom of
the Statesman. While we do not intend to
find fautt with the main object of the bill,
viz : To raise revenue to help defray the
enormous expenses of the general Govern-
ment,” yet we must be allowad to look into
its provisions with that scrutiny which has
always heretofore been permitted to Ameri-
can citizens, who enjoy the benefits and suf-
fer the evils of the legislation of their repre-
sentatives. It is, we believe, the first time
in the history of this nation, that the gener-
al Government has found it necessary fo
resort to the system of direct taxation as a
means of raising revenue to defray its ex-
penses. The people of this generation at
least have never been required to pay a Uni-
ted States tax, and therefore they must be
allowed to look into its merits, and dements,
and indge for themselves of its necessity.—
[f the present waris to be carried on until
the rebellious States are subdued. thers can
be no doubt as to the necessity of a resort
to some extraordinary means of raising the
funds wherewith to prosecute it, for we be-
lieve now, as we have ever believed, that it
will be no ¢‘morning’s job,’ but will take
years to gain such a victory over them as
shall prostrate their energies and disable
them from carrying on a defensive warfare.
We must therefore, if this be the policy,
expect taxation of some kind, and every
year the more heavy, until compromise with
her healing wings again gas the ascenden-
cy in the minds of the people. and restores
us once more to peace and prosperity. Even
then we may expect for many years to smart
under the burden of a large national debt,
which sometime must be paid and that by
taxation. This is a foregone conclusion,
ard it is useless to attempt to disguise the
fact. But that this taxation should fall in-
directly upon the laboring classes of the
people. is a wrong which should not be per-
petrated upon them. The extre duty upon
those necessaries of life, which enter to
the daily consumption of the laboring class.
eg, might and ought to have been avoided.
The tax upon real estate will also, to a great
extent, fall upon thg poor tenants upon
whom the shrewd landlord will shove the
tax. But the worst feature in the bill is
that which authorizes the appointment of a
horde of assessors and collectors, who will
follow a man even when he goes to church.
We see these officers now often enough in
all conscience, but the day is coming when
this new .biil goes into effect, that every
third man we meet will have a duplicate in
his pocket. Why could not this tax (if laid
it must be) have been estimated from the
last triennial assessment, and the tax thus
laid be collected through the ordinary chan-
nels 2 The expense of levying and collect-
ing the tax according to the provisions of
this bill will almost equal the tax itself, and
therefore instead of Pennsylvania having
only two millions to pay, the will have near-
ly four millions. Two millions of which
will be appropriated to the payment of a
horde of hungry Republican office seekers
under the latter clause of the heading of the
bill, “and other purposes’? We suppuse
this to be what * and other purposes
means as the bill itself sets forth no other
object for which provision 1s fo be made—
but so we jog along, and there is ro use in
grumbling. Hungry office seekers must be
fed, and the laboring classes. must feed
them. If these things continue, the labor-
ing classes will soon haveto travel in squads
for the purpose of self protection; to keep
the officers of the Government from tearing
them to pieces.
——————— eee.
Hon. C. L. Valandingham.
A base attempt has been made. by the
Republicad press, to degrade this able and
chivalric Democratic member of Congress,
asserting that his aged and helpless mother
had become a charge on the members of the
Presbyterian Church, in Dayton, O., and he
would not give a farthing to help support
her. The falsehood set afloat by these un-
scrupnlous partisans is nailed to the counter
by the following letter from a brother of the
honorable gentleman :
NEwARk, Del., July 24, 1861.
To the Editor of the Cecil Whig :
Sir.—My attention has been called to an
article in your paper of last Saturday, which
demands some notice from me. I mean the
article in reference to my brother, the Hon.
C. L. Vallandingham, member af Cengress
from the 3d district of Ohio. The articlein
question purports to be an extract from a
letter from a gentleman of the Dayton Dis-
trict, and contains a most atrocious calumny
on my brother, as well as allusions to my
aged and venerable mother of a highly offen
sive character. Who the author 1s I do not
know, but I assert that the charge he brings
is without the slightest foundation in truth,
is indeed, precisely the reverse of what is
true. Even the immaterial allegations are
false, evincing total ignorance jn reference
to the matter of which he ny, or utter
recklessness. He speaks of my mother as
a member of the Presbyterian church, at
Dayton ; whereas she was never within a
hundred iuiles of Dayton in her life, My
father, Rev. Clement Vallandingham, was,
for thirty-two years, pastor of the Presbyte-
rian church of New Lisbon, Ohio
It is true his widow lives, and "has lived
for more than fifty years, and I assert what
I know to be the fact, that she is now, and
has been for years, maintained by this same
son whom your correspondent so basely
defames. And afkinder and more affection-
ate son can nowhere be found. supports
her most cheerfully—it affords hia pleasure
to minister to her wants and make her com-
fortable. She occupies as good a house, I
have no doubt, as your correspondent, and
is, in a'l respects, in as comfortable circum-
stances, and in as little danger or fear of
want in the future as he. All this is pro-
wided by this same son. who has a family of
his own to support beside, and whose means
are comparatively limited, who earns his dai-
ly bread -by his daily labor. Whatever may
be said of my brother’s course, (and in this
I know he is as honest and csnscientious as
any man in the country,) all who are ac-
quainted with him can testify to the purity
and integrity of his private character :
Trusting that you will insert this in your
paper, and thus in a measure counteract the
injury done by the article referred to,
1 am yours, &e.,
J. L. VALLANDINGHAM.
Fregpoy oF THE Pruss.—On Thursday
last, the office of the Democratic Standard,
a Democratic anti-war journal, published in
Concord, N. H., was mobbed and its con
tents carried into the street and burnt, only
another act in the great drama of political
persecution. W. Loyd Garrison in the ad-
jeining State of Massachusetts sends forth
to the world his abolition sheet, which has
for its motto *¢ The Constitution of the Uni-
ted States is an agreement with death and a
covenant with hell,”’ yet the Democrats of
New Hampshire are not allowed to publish
a paper that has at his mast head the Stars
and Stripes, with the motto, « The Union,
if must be preserved.” Surely the + reign
of terror”? has been inaugurated on our own
soil. God help the person that falls a vietim
to the drunken mobs of abolitionism.
We learn that the Secessiomsts have sup-
pressed Brownloe’s Knovville Whig, a Un-~
ion paper, published in East Tennessee.—
The office of the Bangor (Me.) Democrat,
another anti-war Democratic paper. was
entirely demolished and the material of the
office burnt. on Monday last. Still the work
goes on—despotism north and south—the
freedom of the press, with the rights of
American citizens trampled unde: foot, and
none dare raise their voice to arrest the pro-
gress of this hellish work. Itbrings the
blush of shame to the cheek of every honest
American to hear of the damnable outrages
perpetrated hy the hired tools of mobocrats
upon the rights and liberties of American
citizens. Wo unto the leaders, when the
people awaken to a sense of their danger.—
Hell will be too cool, and the devil too kind
a companion for these miserable minions of
despotism, who are engaged in suppressing
the freedom of speech and of the press--
north and south.
Important Act of Congress.
AN ACT to define and pun ish certain con
spiracies.
Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States or
America in Congress assembled, Thot if
two or more persons within any State of
Territory of the United States shall conspire
together to overthrow, or put down, or to
destroy. by force, the Government of the
United States, or to levy war against the
United States. or to oppose by force the
authority of the Government of the United
States ; or by force to prevent, hinder, or
delay the execution of the law of the United
States ; or by force to seize, take, or pos-
sess any property of the Umted States
against the will or contrary to the authority
of the United States ; or by force, or in-
timidation, or threat to prevent any person
from accepting or holding any office, or
trust, or place of confidence, under the Uni-
ted States, each and every person So offend-
ing shall be guilty of a high crime, and up-
on conviction thereof in any district or cir-
cuit court of the United States having juris-
diction thereof, or district or supreme court
of any Territory of the Umted States having
jurisdiction thereof, shall be punished by a
”’ | fine not less than five hundred dollars, and
ore than five thousand dollars ; or by
ema with or without hard labor,
as the court shall determine, for a period
not less than six months nor more than
six years, or by both such fine and im-
risonment.
y Approved, July 31, 1861.
The Connecticut Blue Laws.
We give below a portion of the ‘famous
blue laws’ of Convecticttt, just as they were
endorsed by the long faced, Puritanic Yan-
kees of earlicr days. It may not be amiss
to remind our readers that the Black Repub-
lican party of this day, is but the offspring
of the ‘blue law” party, with the ‘blue
light’ men of 1812, and the ‘‘alien and se-
dition” principle of Adam’s time, engraft-
ed:
No Quaker or dissenter from the estab-
lished worship of the dominion shall be ale
lowed to give & vote for the election of mag-
1strates, or any officer.
No food or lodging shall be afforded toa
Quaker, Adamite or Heretic.
If any person turns Quaker, he shall be
banished, and not suffered to return upen
the pain of death.
No priest shall abide in the dominion ; he
shal! be banished, and suffer death on his
return. Priests may be seized by any one
without a warrant. :
No man to cross the river but with an
authorized ferryman.
No man shall run on the Sabbath day, or
walk in his garden or elsewhere, except
reverently to and from meeting. ! .
No one shall travel, cook victuals, make
beds, sweep houses, cut hair or shave oi the
Sabbath day. a
. No women shall kiss het thild on the Sab-
bath or feasting day. : :
To pick an ear of corn in a neighbor's
garden shall be deemed theft.
Men-stealers shall suffer death.
Whoever wears clothes trimmed with
gold, or bone lace above two. shillings by
the yard, shall be presented by the grand
jurors, and the selectmen shall tax the of-
fenders at £300 estate, .
A debtor in prison, sweating he has no
estate, shall be let out and sold te make sat-
isfaction. :
Whoever sets a fire in the woods and
burns a house, shall suffer desth ; and pers
sons suspected of this crimé shall be im-
prisoned without benefit of bail.
Whoever brings cards or dice into this do-
minion shall pay a fine of £5.
No one shall read Common Prayer, keep
Christmas, or saint days, make pies, play
cards, or play on any instrument of music;
except the drum, trumpet and jewsharp.
No gospel minister shall join peop
marriage ; the magistrates only shall join
in marriage, as they only may do it with
much less scandal to Christ’s church.
When parents refuse their children conve:
nient marriages, the magistrates shall de-
termine the point.
The selectmen, on finding children ignor-
ant, may take them away from their pas
rents, and put them in better hands, at the
expense of their parents.
No one shall buy or sell lands without the
permission of the selectmen.
A drunkard shall have a master ap] ointed
by the selectmen who are to debar him the
liberty of buying or selling. ,
Whosoever publishes a lie to the preju-
dice of his neighbor, shall sit in the stocks
and be whipped fifteen stripes.
No minister shall keep 2 school.
ished as the court directs.
A wife shall be deemed good evidence
against her husband. Ci
Married persons must live together, or bé
imprisoned. i; :
No man shall court a maid 1n person, or
by letter, without first obtaining the consent
of her parents ; £5 penalty for the first of<
fence--£10 for the second—and the third,
imprisonment during the pleasure of the
court.
_ Every male shall have his hair cut acerrd-
ing to cap.
(For the WAzcEMAR.}
“ Observer” Again.
Messrs. EpiTors :—In your issue of the
2d inst., you took occasion to notice the
low, scurrulous article of Observer, of the
Press, and from his last *‘Websterian arti-
cle, find that the poor fellow is groaning unv
der the lash so justly applied. His article,
like that «Websterian head,” bears a palpas
blo falsehood upon its face. We know
something about him. He is the samé indi-
vidual that goes around Town and holds
communications with Abolitionists, and
tries to excite mob law, by saying that
some Democrats should be hung, because
they express opinions favorable to the ad-
jnstment of our national difficulties —be-
cause they would dare hold out the olive
branch of peace. We would advise Observ-
er to direct his falents in a sphere where
they can be appreciated, namely : to the’
gathering of a few wore butterflies. That's
the way to employ your talents, “Old Mo-
lar’ Tn the respect we entertain for yon,
we forbear mentioning your name. Under
your assumed non de plume, your articles
might be read—under your real name, they
would fail to receive any notice from an in-
telligent reader. Wade in Old Molar.
JUNIUS.
As ““Junius’’ seems to be better acquaint
ed with “Observer,” of the Press, than we
care to be, we have handed him over to his
kind consideration, hoping that ho will duly
appreciate the mighty eloquence (!) and
weighty logic (?) thatis to be found in the
«Web sterian" articles of ‘‘Observer.”
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DisGRACEFUL PROCEEDINGS.—On Thurs
day evening last, Hon. John O. Brecken-
ridge, stopping over night in Baltimore, the
for a speech. In response to the call be at~
tempted to make a few remarks, but was
repeatedly interrupted by a gang of the new
Abolition police and Know Nothing
bullies, headed by the notorious abolition
rowdy, Gregory Barrett, who applied to him
the meanest and most offensive epithets.—
Such is the boasted ** freedom of speech
in the monumental city. Such is the liberty
granted to American citizens by tnese de
generate days.
hit Seema
Waar Are we Fionmine For 2 The N.
Y. Timoe says, in answer to this question =
«Most people have found'out what we are
fighting for—those who have not may settle
down in to the belief that it ts to enable
lawyer's clerks to draw the pay of Colonels
and Brigazier Generals."
le in .
A man that strikes his wife shall be pun-
guest of Hon. Henry May, was called upon’