Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, October 24, 1861, Image 1
~» ae Sm &OL. 6. BELLEFONTE, THURSDAY MORNING, OCT. 24, 1861. Tr ——— ee ——— NO. 41. Select Ponty, hese sweet delicious Autumn days, “When all the days are filled with calm, 4nd all day lgng a purple haze Hangs o'er the meadow and the farm. These quiet, dreamy afternoons } (Tagte quist dr Fick with eritason glow, These soft refulgent harvest moons Fill me with thoughts of long age. In happy reverie my thought Goes back to those dear times again, And stenes and faces ne'er forgot Come thronging to my musing brain. However glad the present is However swift the moments go—e X cherish still these memories, Remembrances of long ago: ~ Miscellaneous. 18 YOU HAVE OPPORTUNITY. Mr. Frasier sat reading in his counting- room. Ife was in the midst of & piece of interesting news, when a lad came to the door and said,—“Do you want a boy, sir?” Without lifting his eyes from the paper, Mr. Frazier answered “No,” to the appli- cant, and in a rather rough way. Before the lad reached the street, conscience had vompelled the merchant to listen to a rebuk- tng sentence. “You might have spoken kindly to the poor boy, at least,” said conscience ; this is {8 an opportunity.” : Mr. Frazier let the paper fall from be- fore his eyes, and turned to look at the lad. He was smali—not twelve years old, to ap- poarance—poorly clad but clean. The mer- chant tapped against one of the windows in the counting-room, and the boy glanced back over his shoulder. A sign from the merchant caused him to return, “Do you want a boy, sir?” The lad re- peated the words he had spoken a few mo- menty before. . Mr. Frazier looked at him with a sudden- iy-awaked interest. He had a fair, girlish face, and though slender and dolicate in appearance, stood erect, and with a manli- ness of aspect that showed him to be al ready conscious of duty in the world. But there did not seem to be much of that stuff in bim which is needed for the battle of life. “Take a chair,” said Mr. Frazier, invol- untary respect for the lad getting posses- sion of bia mind. The boy sat down, with his large clear eyes fixed on tbe merchant’s face. “How old you? I was twelve, sir, last month,” replied the boy. “What splendid eyes!” said the mer- chant to himself. “And I have seen them before. Soft, dark, and lustrous as a wo- man’s.” Away back in the past went the thoughts of Mr. Frazier, borne on the light of those beautiful eyes ; and for some moments he forgot the present in the past. But when he came back into the present .again, he bad a softened heart towards the strange lad. “You should go to school a year or two longer,” he said. : : “I must help my mother,” replied the boy. “Is your mother very poor?” “Yes, sir; and she is sick.” The lad’s voice shook a little, and his soft, womanly eyes grew brighter in the tears that filled them. Mr. Frasier had already forgotten the point of interest in he news after which his mind was search- ing, when the boy interrupted him. “I don’t want a lad myself,” said Mr. Frasier, “but it may be that I could speak a good word for you, you know. I think you would make an honest useful lad. But you are not strong.” *Oh, yes, sir, 1 am strong!” replied the boy, as he stood up in a brave and mauly spirit. The merchant looked at him with a stead- ily increasing interest. “What is your name ” he asked.” “*Charles Leonard. sir.” 4 There was an 1nstant change in the mer shant’s mannes, and he turned his face so far away that the boy's eyes could not see the expression. For a long time he sat still and silent—so long that the boy won- dered, : “Is your father living?” Mr. Frazier id not look at the hoy, but still kept his e away. His voice was low and not very even. “No, sir; he died four years ago,” the lad replied. if “Where ?” the voice was quicker and firmer. “In London, sir.’ “How long is if since you came to Amer- “al? i “Two years,” “And have you been in this city ever since ¥ No, sir; we came here with my uncle a year ago; but he died in n month after- wards.” “What was your uncle’s name” “Mr. Hoyle, sir.” - Then came another long silence, in which the lad was not able to see the merchant's countenance. But when he did look at him again, there was such a new and kind ex- pression to the eyes which seemed almost to devour his face, that he felt an assurance in his heart that Mr. Frazier was a good man, and would be a friend to his*mother. “Sit there for a little while,” said Mr. Frazier, and turning to his desk he wrote a note, in which, without permitting the lad or three bank bills. “Take this to your mother,” he said, handing the note to the lad. “You'll try and get me a place, sir, won't you?” The lad lifted fp him an appealing look. “Oh, yes; you shall bave a good place. But stay ; you have not tcld me where you live,” “At No. Melon street.” “Very well.” Mr. Frazier noted down the street and number. “And now take that note to your mother.” The merchant did not resume his news- paper after the lad departed. He had lost all interest in‘its contents. For a long time he sat with his hand shading his face, #0 that no one saw its expression. If spo- ken to on any matter, he answered briefly, and witb.none of his usual interest in busi- ness. The change in him was so marked that one of his partners asked him if he was not well. “I feel a little dull,” was his evasive re- ply. Before his usual time Mr. Frazier left the store and went home. As he opened the door of his dwelling, the distressed cries and sobbings of a child came with an un- pleasant shock upon his ears. He went up stairs with two or three long strides, and entered the nursery, whence the cries came. : “What's the matter darling?” he said as he caught the weeper in his arms, “what ails my little Maggie?” “Oh! papa, papa!” sobbed the child, clinging to his neck, and laying her wot cheek clase to his. “Jane” said Mr. Frazier, lor’sing at the nurse, and speaking with some sternness of manner, “why is Maggie crying 30?” The girl looked excited and mila. been naughty,” was her ar “No, papa, I haven't iien naughty,” said the child indignantly. “I didn’t want to stay here all alone, and then she pinched and slapped meso hard! Oh! papa!” and the child’s wail rung out again as she clung to his neck sobbing. “Has she ever pinched and slapped you before?” asked the father. “She has, almost every day,” answered the little girl. “Why haven’t you told me of this be- fore ?”’ “She said she’d throw me out of the win- dow if Itold! Oh, dear! don’t let her do it, papal” “It’s a lie,” exclaimed the nurse, pas- sionately. “Just look at my poor leg, papa.” The child said this in a choking, suppressed whisper, with her lips close to her father’s ear. Mr. Frazier sat down, and baring the child’s hip, saw that it was covered with blue and greenish spots, all above the knee ; there were not less than a dozen of these disfiguring marks. He examined the other leg, and found it in the same condition. Mr. Frazier loved that child with deep ten- derness. She was his all to love. Her mother, between whom and himself there never had been any sympathy, died about two years before; and since that time his precious darling-—the apple of his eye— bad been left to the tender mercies of hired nurses, over whose conduct it was impossi- ble for him to have any right observation. He had often feared that Maggie was neg- lested—often troubled himself oa her ac- count—but a suspicion of cruelty like this had never entered his imagination as possi- ble. Mr. Frazier was profoundly disturbed, bateven in his passion he was very calm. “Jane,” said he, sternly, “I wish you to leave the house immediately,” “Mr, Frazier—” “Silence!” Hs showed himself go stern and angry, even in his suppressed utterance of the word, that Jane started, and left the room immediately. Mr. Frazier rung the bell, and to the waiter who answered it he said—‘‘See that Jane leaves the house, at once. 1 have discharged her. Here is the money due to her. I must not sco her again.” As the waiter left the room Mr. Frazier hugged the child to his heart again, and kissed her with an eagerness of manner that was unusual with him. He was fond but quiet in his caresses. Now the sleeping im- pulses of a strong heart were all awake and active, “She's to see what he was doing, he enclosed two- Ina small back chamber sat a pale, sweet-faced, patient-looking woman, reading a letter which had just been left by the post- man. 7 “Thank God !”” said she, as she finished reading it, and her soft brown eyes were lifted upward. “It looked very dark,” she murmured, “but the morning has broken again.” At length a quick step was neard on the stairs, and the door was hastily pushed open. “Charles, dear!” . The boy entered with an excited coun- tenance. “I'm going to have a place mother,” he cried to her, the moment his feet were inside the door. The pale woman smiled and held out her hand to her boy. He came quickly to her side. “There is no necessity fcr your getting 8 place now, Charles. We shall go back to England,” ! aglow with sunbeams. “Here's a letter from a gentleman in New York, who says he is directed to pay our passage to England, if we return.—God is good, my son. Let us be thankful.” Charles now drew from his pocket the note which Mr. Frazier had given him, and handed it to his mother. “What is this ?”” she asked. “The gentleman who promised to get me a place told me to give it to you,” he re- plied. The woman broke the seal. There were three bank-bills, of ten dollars each ‘en- closed, and this brief sentence written on the sheet of paper: “God sent your son to a true friend. Let him come again, to-mor- row.” “Who gave you this?” she asked, her face becoming flushed with sudden excite- ment. “A gentleman. But I don’t know who he was. I went into a great many stores to ask if they didn’t want a boy, and at Isst I came to the cne where the gentleman was wo sent you this letter. He spoke roughly at first; and then called me back and asked me who I was, and about my mother. I told him your name, and how father died, and that you were sick. Then he sat a good while, and said nothing ; and then wrote the note, and told me he would get me a place. He was a kind-looking man, if he did speak roughly at first. “Did you see what name was upon the sign 2” “I never thought to look,” replied the boy. “I was so glad when IT came away. But Lam very sure I can go straight to the place.” “I will write the gentleman a note, thank- ing him for his kindness, and you must take it him in the morning.—Ifow light it makes my heart feel to know that we are going back to England! God is good to us, my son, and we must be obedient and thank- ful, Just a little before the evening twilight fell, word came up to the woman that a gentleman had called and wished to see her. - “Go and see who it is Charles,” said she to her son. 4 “Oh mother | It’s the gentleman who sent you the note,” exclaimed he, in alow tone coming back quietly; and he wants you. Can he come up?” There was a hasty glance of the woman’s eyes around the room to see if everything was in good order, then a few changes in attire. “Ask him to come up, my son,” she said, and Charles went down stairs again. A man’s firm tread approached the door. It was opened, and the boy’s mother and the boy’s new-found friend looked into each other’s faces. “Oh, Edward!” fell from her lips in a quick, surprised voice; and she started from her chair and stood strongly agitated before him. Headvanced, hot speaking un- til he had taken her band. “Florence! I never thought to see you thus.” He said it in kind, calm, evenly modulated voice ; but ber ears were finely enough chorded to perceive the deed emo- tion that lay beneath. He said it looking down into the dark soft brown eyes. “But I think there is a Providence in our meet- ing,” he added, solemnly. : They sat down and talked long together ; they talked of the times gone by, and of the causes that had separated them, while their hearts beat only for each other—of the weary years that had passed for both them since then—of the actual present of their lives. “I have a motherless child,” he said at last, “a tender littte thing that I loye, and to-day I find her body purple with bruises from the hands of a crael scrvant! Flor- ence, will you be a mother to that child ? You have a noble boy that is fatherless; let me be to him as a farther! Oh, Flor- ence, there has been a great void in our lives. A dark and impassible river has flowed between us for years. But we stand at last together ; and if the old lovefills your heart as it does mine, there are golden days for us in the future.” “Oh mother!” The boy’s face was all Aud go it proved. The lady and her son did not go back to England, but passed to the merchant's stately residence—she be- coming mistress, and he finding a home and a truer father than the one he had in former years called by that name. GENERAL M'CLELLAN'S ARMY. Letters from officers of the army to their friends give a better side view of affairs on the Potomac than cat be obtained from any other source. The country has no correct notion of the vastness of the great Union army, that stretches out on both sides of the Potomac, or of the extensiveness and completeness of its appointments. At the battle of Bull Run, the artillery was con- fined to something like a half-dozen ligt batteries. Now there are more than one hundred, besides the guns in the fortifica- tions ; so that in ease the rebels advance it must be in the face of from fifteen hundred $0 two thousand cannon, many of them the best the world has yet seep. An officer writes that there are nine batteries in the single division to which'he belongs. They are all in the hands of the regulars, to whom the business is not new. I presume that it is no secret now, that the recent withdrawal ' of our companies of regulars from Fortress Monroe was to create as ma- ny new batteries, which now occupy an ad- vanced position, The country will be astonished at’ the success with which the numbers of Gen. McClellan’s ‘army has been kept secret ; how it has been augmented, and how, to-day, it is'one of the largest armies that has been brought together in modern times. Proba- bly history does not furnish an instance of so large an army being collected in so short a time. : It is a significant fact that they who can speak most understandingly, and without restraint, in their private letters to brother officers, express the greatest confidence in the preparation of Gen. McClellan to re- ceive the rebels, should they advance, and of complete success whenever he chooses to advance on them. There has been no mo- ment during the last two weeks that he has not desired them to attack him. During that time his army has grown nearly onc- fifth, and is increasing in numbers, disoip- line, courage and confidence every day, and henes, to-day, he is Yeady for anything. CHEERING NEWS FROM KENTUCKY. JOHN J. CRITTENDEN AND DANIET BRECK Ry THE UNION The news from Kentucky 1s cheering. — The glorious old patriot, John J. Crittenden, in spite of his advauced age, is the first pri vate in the Frankfott Howe Guard, and has declared his intention to go into camp and remain there until every rebel is driven from the soil of Kentucky. . Judge Daniel Breck, of Richmon, Ky., although over seventy years of age, has en listed as a private in the ranks of one of the regiments being raised there for the defence of the Union. Judge Breck was formerly a member of Congress from Kentucky, and has filled the highest judicial office in the State. Our forces are constantly increasing, and the rebels becoming discouraged. Many of the rebel Buckner's men were without arms and shoes, and only a few are uniformed. The enlisting for the United States service is progressing rapidly, and Kentuckians are coming up to the work manfully. Judge Williams is rapidly filling up a reg- iment in the First District—formerly a hot bed of secessionism. An engagement has taken place between a detachment of Home Guards, from Hills. borough, about fifty in number, under Lieut. Ssdler and Sergeant Dndley, and 300 rebels, under Captain Nicholas, in which the latter were completely routed, with a loss of eleven killed, twenty-nine wounded and twenty two prisoners. The Home Guard captured one hundred and twenty-seven Enfield rifles, a large num- ber of sabres, howe kmves and cavalry ac- coutriments. Our loss was three killed and two wounded. Louisvire, Oct. 14.—The iron bridge over Green river, at Maunfordsville, on the Louisville and .\ashville railroad, was blown up by the Rebels yesterday morning, No Southern news or papers at hand. A detachment of Captain Noleman’s Cav- airy, twenty five in number, bad a skirmish with the Rebel Cavalry, one hundred strong, at Beckwith Farm, Missouri. The Rebels were repulsed with one killed and five wounded. The Captain of the Rebels was killed. A detachment of the Twenty ninth Iili- nois Regiment seized a large quantity of cornand a number of horses, mules and cattle, and took two prisoners on Thomp son’s fargy, yesterday. Cairo, Oct. 10.—The pickets, six in num- ber, of the 4th Cavalry Regiment, stationed four or five miles from Paducah, were at- tacked by a large body of rebels this morn- ing. Two of them were mortally wounded, and two taken prisoners, with all their horses and equippage. The enemy had divided their force, and in the excitement fired on each other and then fled, éach party taking the other for our cav- alry. A deserter from the rebel camp at Colum- bus, Kentucky, who arrived here to day, reports that their forces at that point num- ber 30,000. ee GQ pre e AMONG the camps immediately on the line of the Potomac there is much complaint of fever and ague, typhoid and intermittent foyer. They mostly yiold to medical treat- ment. ' THE SLANDERERS REBUKED. The next best thing after au honorable victory that any party can desire as the re. sult of an election, is an honorable defeat. — The Republican party have suffered a sib- stantial defeat at the late electicn, but with what honor they have come out of the con. test, let the facts’ determine. There was scarcely a county inthe State where the Democratic candidates were not charged with secession and ' traitorous sympathies, and the people implored not to elect men whose elevation to office would indicate a spirit of opposition to the Federal Govern- ment in the measures which it had adopted to suppress the Southern rebellion. The Democratic organization was called the “Breckinridge party.” Democratic leaders were said to be engaged ina deep plot to undermine the authority of the Government: The Republican party leaders made the issue of loyalty and disloyalty,confident that Dem ocratic candidates would be crushed, and the last vestige of the Democratic organization efiectually wiped out. They have fallen into the pit dug for their enemies. The means used to defeat the Democratic party have recoiled with fearful effect upon the Repub lican leadcrs, and they must now either re- tract their slanders and admit that the Dem- ocrats elected to the Legislature are not Se- cessionists and traitors, or contend for the palpable absurdity that Pennsylvania has declared for the Southern confederacy. Conspicuous among the politicians tho endeavoree to defeat the Democratic party using the two-edged secession sword, was John W. Forney, editor of the Philadelphia Press, formorly a, Democrat, but of late years in the pay of the Republicans. With the proverbial zeal of a renegade, this noto- rious political trader labored in the columns of his paper to defeat every candidate of the Democratic party, and on the Saturday pre- ceding the clection, addressed a meeting at Frankford. in which he used the following language : “No man can read, with any care, the proce=dings of the peculiar Democratic Cone ventions throughout this State, and else where, without perceiving that their design is not merely to divide the people, but to prepare for the creation of such an organiza. tion as shall embaraass the Government and assist the common enemy. The Republican or People’s party has a ‘right to claim sin- cerity for the Union and for the Government, because it is equally their duty and their interest to DE tor tha Administrations “TL are, for the time being. me Administration party, and, therefore, when a Republican is’ elected to office you can trust him, because he must do right. So, too, in reference to those who have performed the splendid act of courage in presenting the Union ticket which you are called upon to vote on Tues- day next. These men, without money or organization, selected a capital ticket, and nominated to the Republican or People’s party the thost of the ticket which is now called the People’s or the Republican ticks et. No man could have read the proceedings of the Democratic Conventions throughout the State, without forming a conclusion di: rectly the opposite of this— that the Demos cratic party was determined to uphold the Government, and not to assist the common enemy. But a purpose was to be subsurved by this ralse accusation, and that purpose was, to elect the Republican candidates who could be trusted, and defeat the Democrats who could not be trusted, because, forsooth, they did not belong to the Administratioj party. . But hear him again : «I have, with some care, since my return from Washington, within the last three weeks, looked over the exchanges that come to my newspaper office, and I assure my Democratic friends that the plot is a deep laid plot —that these men hope, by various sinister and ingenious efforts, to create such a disvision among the people of the free States as will demoralize the army, so as to recognize the organized treason on the other side of Mason and Dixon's line. There is not one them that is not actively or secretly at work. Take the county in which ex Senator Bigler lives. The organization of the Democratic party there is almsst openly engaged in this infamous business. Take the county of Berks, where Mr. Buchanan's party continucd to grow strong until it was smitten down in the defeat of his favorite candidate—taie the county of Northa:pton: indeed. wherever the leaders of this organi. gation are to be found, there you will find that they go as far as they can safely go to assist the common enemy.’ Now let the reader imagine the effect of words such as those upon a Southern rebel when he learns that the counties of Berks, Clearfield and Northampton have given sweeping Democratic majorities. He would conclude that if Forney ‘was to be credited. the loyal counties have pronounced against the war, and ia favor of Southern izdepend- ence, and derive great encouragement there- from—when in fact there are not more 'oyal countiesin . the State. Thus are our own citizens slandered, and the enemy furnished aid and comfort at a time when there is the greatest necessity for peesenting an unbrok- en front against rebellion—and all to gratify the malignant spite of a base renegade. We might quote other passages of a simi- lar character from this notable speech,’ but enough has been given to indicate its general terror, and to add to the already unsavory reputation of its notorious author. It is men like him, who by laboring to create di- vision among the Northern people, have done more to injure the Government, than all the sesret traitors in the Commonwealth. ELECTION NEWS: COLUMBIA COUNTY. Associate Judges: McReynolds, Dem: 278% Baldy, Dem. 262 Doty, Union 169. Willits, Union; 179 Assembly. Levi L. Tate, Dem: £2659 George S. Tatton, Dem. 2580 Emanae; Lagarus, Union, 1858 Joseph T. Jenoings, Union; 1843 SULLIVAN COUNTY. Assembly. Levi L. Tate, Dem: Ma George S. Tutton, Demi. 646 Emanue] Lagarus, Utiion; $08 Joseph T. Jennings, Uniohi; 308 Associate Judges. James Degan; Demi. \ 840 Richard Bedford; Dem, S 471 William A. Mason, Rep. 412 William Colley, Rep. Coa MONTOUR COUNTY. [ President Judges. J. W. Maynard, Union, 708 | Alexander Jordan, Dem. 1316 Associate Judges. D. N. Knownover, Union, 809 Philip F. Maus, Union, 858 Joseph Dean, Sr., Dam. 1167 Robert Moore, Dem. 1300 Assembly. Levi L. Tate, Den, 1174 George S. Tutton, Dem, ° 1187 Emanuel Lazarus, Union, 018 Joseph T. Jennings, Union, 904 Columbia, Sullivan, Montour and Wyom~ ing make a Representative District, electing two members to the House, We have no of- ficial returns from Wyoming, but it is repor- ted to have given the Democratic ticket abott 300 majority, so that Levi L. Tate and Geo. 8. Tatton, Democrats, are elected to the As~ sembly from that District, ; DAUPHIN COUNTY. President Judge. Jobn Pearson, Union, (No opptsition.) Associate Judges. T, Allen Hamilton, Dem. 26090 Samuel Landis, Dem. 3056 Isaac Mumma, Rep. 2967 Moses B. Young Rep. 8038 Rudolph F. Kelker, U. ross on. Assembly. Lewis Heck, Dem. 2981 David C. Keller, Dem: 2543 Thomas G. Fox, Rep. 3588 James Freeland, Rep. 8098 Jobn A. Fisher, U. FR Henry Weist, U. W.. LEBANON COUNTY. President Judge. UHL J Dossson 1. (Na onnasition. } 4ssembly. Jacob H. Bickler, Rep. 1591 Isaac Hoffer, Dem., Rep. and 0. 2299 In Lebanon there waa a singular union of Republicans and Democrats agdinst the straight Republicans. The Union ticket was elected. LYCOMING COUNTY. In Lycoming county there were two Uuion ticket, in favor of sinking party until the war is over, compossed of Douglas Dem~ ociaté and Republicans. The following ie the official vote :— President Judge. John W. Maynard, Union, 2734 Alexander Jordan, Dem. 2830 Associate Judges, H. B. Packer, Union and Dems. 5178 Bruner, Dem. a2 Ferguson, Union, 2013 Senator, Henry Johnson, Union, 9941 Wm. H. Blair, Dem. S861 Assembly. Wm. II, Armstrong, Unjon 2720 James Chatham, Union, 2806 John 8. Smith, Dem. 2783 Pbaon Jarrett, Dem, 2588 Treasurer. : W. S. Bennett, Udion, 2604 Ben: Strawbridge, Dem: 2006 Commissioner: Beeber, Union, | 2700 Taylor, Dem. 2759 - BUCKS COUNTY. Wm. Kinsey, the Democratic candidate for State Nenator, is elected by a majority of 328. Jas B. Boiloau and L. B. Laber, Dem- ocratic candidates for Assembly, are elected by about 300 majority. Judge Chapman, the candidate of the same party, is elected in the judicial district composed of Bucks’ and Montgomery, by a majority of about twenty. seven hundred. WESTMORELAND COUNTY. ‘I'he Democratio ticket has gained largely in this county over last year. The county ticket of that party is elected, aud the ma- jority for the members of Assembly is probs ably about a thousand. Armstrong, which forms a parr of the Legislative District, gave John Covode, last year, a majority of 546.— Unless it does better for the Republican can« dates for the Legislature, Messrs. James A. MceCallock, ‘Richard Graham and Samuel Wakefield; the Democratic candidates, are elected. ADAMS COUNTY. Meyers, Democratic candidate for the Legs islature, is reported elected by a mall mae jority ; also Zeigler, Damoorat, as Associate Judges. no CUMBERLAND COUNTY. This county is reported to have given from 150 to 200 for the Democratic ticket; = Perry is a part of the Legislative District, and we have no returns from that county, YORK COUNTY. The majority in this county is reported ab from 1500 to 1800 for the Democratic candiv dates. : BEDFORD COUNTY, Thers is a reported Demoeratie Majority in Bedford of from 109 ro 275. Yr —— yA EE —— ticketa—a straight Democratic ticket and a