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BELLEFONTE, THURSDAY, OCT. 24.
« Hore shall the press the prople’s rights main-
tain,
'nawed b vty or unbribed by gain;
brat ed to or to liberty and law,
Neo Ar sways us and no fear shall awe.”
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DEMOORACY—"*A sentrment not to be appaled,
eorupted or compromised. It knows no baseness;
st cowers to no danger ; itioppresses no. weak-
-pess. Destructive only of despotism, tt is the
sole conservator of liberty, labor-and prosperty
It is the sentiment of Freedom, of equal rights,
of equal obligations—the law of nature perva-
ding the law of the land.” y
. C. T- ALEXANDER, Editor and Publisher.
Col. Brown and his Doctrines,
* BROWN'S PLATFORM.
Bill Brown—not the Brown of Harper's
Ferry notoriety —but the one who was so
very willing last winter to *‘spill the last
drop of blood” coercing the South into meas-
ures, has become deeply humiliated —mortie
fied beyond expression— that the Republican
party has been stricken down in the midst
of its glory. We feel to sympathize with
this unfortunate and deluded. fanatic, who
has become so much blinded by his preju-
dices, that he has endeavored to rally the
people around the only platform of princi.
ples that has ever been consistent with him-
self—the platform of lies and decepiion.
HIS SECTIONALISM.
When we alluded to the Abolition and
Republican parties as being identical, we
did not suppose that we should have wound:
ed the feelings of Col. WiLLiam WALLACE
BrowN. We had no anticipation of touch-
ing his finer sensibilities. But it seems that
we undesignedly tread upon his toes, and he
haloed ouch! We should have spared his
feelings, and not reminded him that the
Democratic party had marched on to a glo:
rious victory over the dismembered frag.
ments of the Chicago Platform—the efforts
of Col. BrowN and the Republican party to
the contrary notwithstanding. !
WHO ARE THE REVILERS OF THR CONSTITU-
TION ?
It was very cruel in us to tell the people
that the sectionalism of this very man—W.
W. BrowN--had brought upon the country
a most deplorable state of things. We have
touched the most sensitive cord of his phys=
ical element. ta publich mbo thy sovIETS ot
the Constitution had been. In reminding
him that he is one of those men who has
been co-operating with a party that could
boast of only sixteen stars upon its banner,
we haye gone beyond his powers of endur-
ance. Consequently, his artillery of the
Centre Democrat has been brought to bear
against us.
HE DENIES HIS ABOLITIONISM.
His tongue, bis pen, and the press, have
all been let loose in vituperation, and worse
than even Judas, for less money than tie
thirty pieces of silver he betrays *‘mself.—
He denies that he is an Abolitionist, or that
the Abolition and Republican parties are
identical. But we shall refer to the record
as we proceed to an’ investigation of the
subject.
BIS ABOLITIONISM PROVED.
Hundreds of our fellow citizens remember
the speech of Col, W. W. BrowN in the
Court House. This speech was made 1-st
winter, of his own free will and accord.” He
then endeavored to set himself up as the
great leader of Republi can principles in this
County ; but H. N. MCALLISTER, and oth.
ers took some very decided exceptions. He
declared, with much vehemence, that he had
been taught Republicanism in the school of
* Josmua R. Giopings, and was proud that
he could boast of his principles. He honor
ed and revered the venerableold patriarch,
‘and he would invoke “God to biess his old
gray hairs!’ His was no ordinary attach
ment to the principle of the man who en-
couraged old Joha Brown ia his murderous
descent upen the people of Harper’s Ferry,
when all was peace and quietness in that
"vicinity. Col. WiLriam WaLLAcE Brown
was bold in his declarations that he would
_coerce the south —that he would make an
easy job of the conquest—that he would do
- it before breakfast.
WHO 1S JOSHUA R. GIDDINGS ?
Now, who is this venerable old saint, in
the estimation of Col. W. W. Brown, but
“the very man who has grown old in sinning
against the Constitution and the Union !—
He has taught treason, and co-operated with
the man, who published years ago, that the
Copstitution was *‘an agreewent with Hell,
“and a covenant with the Devil I’ He glow
mes in. the doetrine of the irrepressible con-
flict—of the platform that must give us an
anti-slavery @onstitution—an anti-slavery
Bible—and an anti-slavery God ! Now,
‘then, who will gainsay, that Col. W. W.
Brown gloried too in all these treasonable
sentiments, when he proclaimed that he had
learned Republicanism in the school of
Josaua R. GIDDINGS, although he may at
the present time, deny that he is an Aboli~
tionist in order'to screen-himself and skulk
awiy fromthe responsibility.
¥ We would ask our readers, in view of
What has already been said, who are the
teachers of treason ? Are they not the very
men who denounced the warnings of honest
Democrats as lies and deception. and that
they shou'd not be heeded as they were of
no importance “to the people? Did these
men not endeavor to convince the masses
that no danger was to be apprehended ?—
Has not danger come ? Is not civil war
upon us ? Who, then, we repeat, counseled
the people against listing to the warnings
of the Democrats ? Joshua R. Giddings did
it—Ansom Burlingame did it—Ghernt Smith
did it— Benjamin F. Wade did it—William
Wallace Brown did it—and every other Ab~
olitionist and Republican did it. These men
could see the country in NO danger when
party principles were at stake. This has
long been known to our readers, Common
observation has made 1t apparent and the
honest voters of Centre county were well
aware of it. The overwhelming: defeat of
the Republican party, and the consequent
humiliation of Col. W. W. BRowN, have all
taken place in consequence of this knowl-
edge. We rejoice, then, because the senti-
ment of the people has branded the mark; of
Cain upon the foreheads of every one of them
and would publish this Democratic victory
on every house top, and emblazon it in. the
mudst of the very stars that shine upon every
tlag that floats, as the emblem of our nation-
ality in defence of the Union !
WHERE BROWN WAS NOT TO RE FOUND.
But this is not the time to dwell at length
upon primary causes. The honest masses
have br ught about this retribution and will
yet bring about a still more glorious con-
summation. The war being upon us, must
be decided favorable for the government, no
matter what may have been the cause of its
origin. We believe it to be the duty of men
of all parties to preserve our boasted liber-
ties. The love of patriotism should fire ev-
éry breast. While this has been generally
the case—while Centre county has so nobly
responded to the call of the country, we
have looked in vain to see that very illustri~
ous Col. W. W. Brown amongst its noble
defenders.
HE DIDN'T *‘SPILL THAT BLOOD.’
This self styled patriot and orator, who
put forth so much of his energies in favor
of a war—who opposed every feature of a
compromise—who felt so wonderfully patri-
otic in his buncomb speeches, is sti// at
home, loud 2s ever in his derunciations of
the Democratic party, and unwilling to risk
the possibility of spilling even the “first
drop” of his patriotic blood. Oh, base and
cringing coward! Why shoulds’t theu per-
wit that sacred word Lisurty, to escape thy
unhallowed lips! To call thee a lover of this
Union would be to profane the very name of
Liberty ! Thou hast proven tayselfa cow-
ardly hypocrite, and it 1! becumies thee to
talk either of Grana Jury presentments, or
the treason of others ! [It would be well for
thee to hide thy unblushing face in the deep-
est humiliation. Go, then, thou political
demagogue, wherever the streets of sable
solitud e may entice thee ! even though it
may be under the protecting shadows of the
locust on the hill side, or wherever else it
may, Gather laurels where the owls and
the bats do not revel, where the poultry Ziv.
eth not, and the ¢‘whangdoodle mourneth fo.
ber first born !”’
WHY DEMOCRATS SHOULD ‘‘CROW.”’
The Democrats have good reason for re-
Jjoicing over the result of this election, be-
cause the triumph has been accomplished
without any special effort. Not a Demo-
cratic speech was made during the cam-
paige, while Col. W. W. Brown and others
did their best efforts. The DemocraTIC
WarcaMAN was indicted by a Republican
Grand Jury, nearly one kalf of whom did
not endorse the presentment, and all this to
prejudice the minds of the people for politi.
cal purposes. But they have had their re-
ward, notwithstanding that the community
may have been startled with the noise and
bluster of the Centre Democrat on the sub
Jject of that Grand Jury presentment. Pan.
demonium could scarcely have produced a
more intolerable set of malignant devils,
than was placed upon our track to hunt us
| down, and we do not wonder that such min-
ions, after having been failed, should feel
humiliated and disgraced.
Tie Nexr LeeisuATore.—The Lower
House will, in all probability, be Democrat.
ic. We have gained in almost every district
where there was a ghost ofa chance. The
returns, however, come in slowly, and are so |
complicated that it is difficult at times to
place the districts correctly. We never
knew a return week when it was so hard to
obtain satisfactory news. This is owing, no |
doubt in a manner, to the fact of their being |
no State ticket in the field. The figures we!
are well satisfied, insure a plurality for the
Democracy on the popular vote, and a lar.
ger number of members than any one party |
if-not a majority. Thus has passed away |
the strength and power of the Republicans; |
in one short year after 1ts inauguration into |
power have the State dynasty. In the |
House, the leading off will be followed by |
ultra radical Republicans, war men, Union |
men, no-party men, and Abolitionists. Out |
of this variety of creeds, we trust the inter |
of Pennsylvania will receive some consider- |
ation. Heaven save our State from such a
session as that of 1861.
Ir is said it Louisville, Ky., that3Col. J. |
B. Harney, a strong Union man, will be
The following article taken from the Pitts-
burg Post, a newspaper whose sincere ate
tachment to Mr. Douglas: was never ques:
tioned, draws a true picture and contains a
severe rebuke of a set of “‘scurvy politicians™
in this State who have been endeavoring to
sell the ‘Douglas Democrats” to the Re-
publican party. Fortunately the game of
this mercenary faction is about ¢ played
out” —they are known and recognized as the
hired stool pigeons of the Republican lead"
ers, and have no longer the power to distract
and divide the Democratic party by hypo-
critical pretences of affection for the princi-
ples for which Mr. Douglas contended. The
Post says :
« Qur readers need not be alarmed at the
above caption ; we do not contemplate the
infliction of a political discussion, but only
to make a few observations, suggested by
the recent course of a set of ‘‘scarvy politi
cians” in Pennsylvania.
We presume that no name in our political
history has been used to mask more political
depravity than that.of Stephen A. Douglas.
Having been strong in the affections of the
masses of his party, he left behind him a
reputation dear to them all, but one which a
few damaged demagogues have been en-
deavoring to appropriate to their own uses.
These are the highwaymen—the Robert Mc
Caire of the Democracy of our State. Tet.
tered fellows who, having squandered all the
political capital they ever had, now endeavor
to keep themselves before the people by ex-
trayagant and dishonest expressions of sym-
pathy for the teac hing of Douglas. Senator
Douglas well knew this seedy set of camp
followers ; they are always loudest iu their
praises and meanest in their fawning, but
uire watching nevertheless.
his small but dangerous set of deceitful
Democrats are scattered through several
counties of our State, their headquarters,
however, being in Philadelphia. There they
meet and brood over the loss of their voca-
tions. and plot treason to the principles they
profess to support. Any man nominated on
the Democratic ticket, who is not of their
kidney, they cannot vote for him because he
was not sound on the Douglas question ;—
and, in order to prove how sound they are
themselves they go and almost invariably
vote the Republican ticket. Now, we have
no right to object this small class of trim
mers for voting for whom they please ; in
fact we do not object, our only point being
confined exclusively to their making use of
the name and fame of a great departed Dem-
ocrat, to give plausibility to their own de-
ception.
0 one had a more ardent admiration for
Senator Douglas than myself. Ours was no
feigned exhibition of friendship, because we
gave evidence of its genuineness before he
became the idol of his party. Still we have
no desire to keep open his tomb and exhibit
his scars ; we cannot imagine what good it
would accomplish ; even sincere sorrow will
not revive the dead, and if we must weep let
us not do all our mourning in the streets.—
We cannot perceive the propriety nor the
decency of a few bankrupt politicians, who
were never much thought of. especially by
the Illinois Senator, now weeping o'er his
antimely end, unless such crocodile sympa-
thy be intended to benefit those who were
his bitterest foes.
ater BEE HEY or he slosps well
Treason has done his worst.”
He died, leaving a great name and reputa-
tion to his countrymen, and the only possible
blemish which can attach to either is the
possibility of the American people believing
him, while living, the intimate of those in
Pennsylvania who now use his name and
fame to further their despicable ends. :
As for Breckinridge, he had better be with
the dead ‘‘than on the tortures of the mind
to live in restless ecstacy.”’ His isa lamenta-
ble fate, Born and reared of an old and dis-
tinguished Kentucky family, celebrated for
their patriotism, chivalry and learning, we
behold him in a few short weeks transferred
from the lofty arena of the U. S. Senate to
the haunt of a refugee. seeking his way to
the rebel lines. He, like many others we
might mention, is, we apprehend, a victim
of circumstances. He had no disunion pro-
clivities until after becoming the standard
bearer of a faction ; the fatal step was taken
and he is lost.
But as great and good men, about whose
patriotism and virtue there is no question,
have paid the debt of nature and eur coun-
try and institutions survived theirdall, let
us not despair of the republic because of the
recent calamities we have mentioned, Jack
son and Clay, the champions and idols of
rival parties, are gone; Webster, and
Wright, and Benton have also departed ;—
still we have survived the shock. Let us.
therefore, hope and pray that the present
age n.ay furnish patriots fit for the crisis of
our times, and that they may be able speed-
ily to reunite our country, ‘one and indi-
visible, now and forever.” The crisis de-
mands the union of us all for the sake of the
Union, and no Democrat should array him-
self under any banner save that which is
pledged to t he reunion of our confederacy. —
Let us not be betrayed by cunning and
crafty politicians into the path of Southern
disunion, or what is still as bad, leading to
the same fatal end, Northern Abolition~
ism. L's
rE on
TroSE persons who affect to think that if
the Democrats have a majority in the next
House of Representatives measures will be
adapted to embarrass the Government in the
prosecution of the war, are the self-deceived
dupes of their own falsehoods. Itis often
charitably said of individuals given to ro.
mancing, that may have repeated a lie so
often as to believe it to be true, Some of
those who are now shaking their wise
heads and wondering whether thet ** Breck-
inridge Democrats’ will attempt to throw
obstacles in the way of the Government, are
probably in the same melancholy state ef
mind. But they have no right to indulge
their proclivities for distorting the truth to
such a degree as to furnish encouragement
to the rebels by expressing doubts, real or
affected, about the loyalty of the majerity
of the people of this State.
———— Ae ee.
Tre Governor of Arkansas is in great
trouble. The continual absence of a large
number of State officials’ with the Confeder-
ate army—members of the Legislature,
Sherifts, Judges, &c.—renders it almost ime
chosen to, the seat of John C. Breckinridge, possible, he says that the machinery of the
in the United States Senate, and that John J. 3 State Government can be kept in motion and
Crittendsnwill succeed. Laz arus W. Powell | the laws: executed.
- With that class of ideaologists who de-
clare that “ property is robbery,” and seek
to upturn. the very foundations of society in
order to put their notions to the test of ex-
perience, we have no sympathy. But while
we say this, we would not, like many others
rush to the opposite extreme, and dismiss all
the wants and ills our fellow men are bur-
dened with, as inseparable with the vale of
tears. . We have no faithin the philanthropy
which teaches that one third of mankind are
booted and spurred to ride two-thirds. On
the contrary, there can be no doubt that had
we reached a true social development, or
something approximating to it, there would
be very little want, crime or vice. We do
not expect to see mankind entirely perfect,
but it is reasonable to supppose that the
Creator intended His creatures to have suffi-
cient food and clothing to keep them from
starving or freezing, and thus obviate the
necessity of a resort to crime in order to
preserve an existence. The touching story
of a poor girl in London who rashly endeav-
ored to end her life from sheer impossibility
of getting an honest living, is a case in point.
Such unseen cases of poverty as this in,
stance brings to light, are by no means rare.
We have them in our own city. While our
almshouses overflow with inmates, there are
hundreds and thousands of cases which nev-
er reach the light of day, where modest pov-
erty in starvation, rags and nakedness, drags
out a weary existence. The dull round of
those who have even scanty employment; is
but a repetition of hard work and poor live
ing. Itis the minimum of pay for the max.
imum of labor. The old story over again.
Now, the careless and thoughtless, who
are well to do, may toss their head; and say
that all this is inevitable—that a man has
no business to be poor, &c., but the stubborn
fact comes back to us, thousands of our
own kith and kin are poor, and wore than
that, their poverty is a source of wealth to
their rich neighbors. Their labor, the only
thing they have to sel, is purchased at the
lowest figure which will keep soul and body
together. In large cities and towns, this is
too apparent for even the most casual obser.
ver not to see. Often, it must be allowed,
this decree of low prices is as inexorable on
the employer as upon the employee. Nev-
ertheless, the fact exists—that poverty and
wealth—Iluxuriance and starvation go hand
in hand. Where the greatest poverty exists
—the most heart-rending and soul-crushing
degradation, there will be invariably found
the most profuse and overburdened wealth.
The cause is obvious. When one man is
robbed of his earnings, some one must get
them, and the greater the extent of this
robbery, why, of course, the greater the
gain to the party who secures it.
Among all the evils of modern society,
there is none, perhaps, so injurious to the
progicas of wauklud and the best interests
of humanity, as the accumulation and con-
centration of cdpital. The social organism
which assists and accelerates this is, and
must be reckoned the most dangerous enemy
of the people. ‘The interests of society are
to be promoted by the diffusion of wealth.
'I'hey are directly injured by i‘s concentra-
tion, Money is power, and it purchases
men and means for the accomplishment of
almost any object it may desire. Itseeks to
preserve its own existence, and grows
stronger and stronger generally as it strug-
gles, while the poor grow weaker and weaker
and more incapable of resisting.
Fortunately, in our own hitherto happy
country, we have known but little of the
power of the Money King. He tried to get
his hand at the throats of the people in An-
drew Jackson’s time, but was foiled. He
has, however, had too much power, and is
getting more and more constantly. The
present affords a grand field for his opera-
tions. The poor man will work for a song
and he is forced to, The small .tradesmen
finds it difficult to meet his notes, and the
Money King closes in upon him aud sells
him out, sacrificing everything. Interests
are unpaid. Money King forecloses, and
away goes everything at a whiff, and a fam.
ily is turned off into the world poor as beg-
gars. Thus tha ranks of the poor increase,
the number of the weil to do lessened, and
thus capital accumulates.
Unless life is a cheat and man made for a
series of illusions, in which poverty and
starvation are the only realities, there must
be a problem beneath our social surface that
will yet be explained. Somewhere there
wust be a sccret spring, which will take
from capital its power—which will make
every man fulfill the Heaven decreed ordi.
nance, and by ‘“thesweat of the brow earn
his living.” Take away from the yellow
coin the power of life and death, emancipate
labor from capital, and the greatest battle is
fought and won. The interests of the labor.
ing and producing classes of this country
were never in such imminent danger as now
and if the high tariff, paper money doctrines
of the Massachusets school are to come in
vogue as the settled policy of our govern-
ment, no one can tell how soon we may be-
come what Jefferson so forcibly described
Europe to be, a nation of wolves and sheep
—where one portion of society lives by
preying upon the other portion.--New York
Caucasian.
————li A meen.
We learn that many of the farmers in the
western part of Chester county have raised
parcels of the Chinese Sugar Cane, the pres
ent season. The crop has yelded very well.
Mr. James Cloud, near Cochranville, is man-
ufacturing the molasses by steam, and his
will is running night and day. As sugars
have raised in price the crop will be profita-
ble.
—— EE E17 SER TYR oy Sa } 2 = o . _— ta
_ Tik TEACHARS OF TREASON. Douglas and Breckinridge. _ The Social Problem. A Learned Fool...
Learning is a great advantage to some
people, utterly useless to others, and posi-
tively injurious to many, When learning is
given to an individual of naturally strong
intelectual and moral powers, it is used to
the advantage of society, and the person
becomes a benefit to his fellow men. When
it falls to the lot of a man with great inte-
lectual but deficient moral powers, he be-
comes & curse to society and an injury to
mankind. When it is bestowed upon or
crammed into, a skull where there are little
or no brains of any kind, it becomes usecles
lamber and the individual may be called a
learned foel,” for he does not know how to
make proper use of that which he has ac-
quired. Prof. Morse is a good specimen of
the first class, Aaron Burr was a forcible
example of the second, and Charles Sumner
is a brilliant instance of the third. This re-
nowned classical ignoramous has just been
delivering a speech in which he argues that
the white supremacy over the negro should
be at once abollished in order to end the
war, and recites two instances in ancient
history, one from Greek and the other from
Roman, in which this was eminently suc-
cesslul. A writer in the Boston Courier
disposes of Sumner’s literary pretensions by
showing that he entirely misrepresentet
the historical events to which he referred.—
But suppose he had not. What have white
men to do with negroes? To make Sum-
ners parallels correct, we must suppose the
four millions of negroes in the South to be
white men ! There is not a particle of sense
in his whole speech, when this fact is men-
tioned. If four m llions of white men, who
had been captured as prisoners of war and
were now in the sonthern States reduced to
slavery, and we were marching our armies
down there, then there would be some cause
in tomparing Fretont’s course to that of
Phillip of Macedon, when he made war on
Athens. Mr, Sumner thinks that the Crea-
tor made a mistake or an accident in crea
ting the nigger black, and that heis in re-
ality a white man under the disguise of a
black skin! Who knows, then, but the
Creator may have also made a mistake in
creating Sumner, and.that after all the clas-
sical Senator from Massachusetts is only a
negro in the disguise of a white man! The
one is just as probable ad the other. and we
submit the latter supposition, considering
Sumner’s constant devotion to the negro, is
not the most likely to be correct.
There are other reasons whicH strengthen
this theory. An ‘educated’ negro would
be very much such an individual as Sumner
is. That is, he would have a large amount
of book learning, &c,, which he would not
have sufficient brains to know how to use.—
He might be able to repeat classical quota-
tions and refer to historical events, but he
would be forever getting them wrong end
foremost, just as the writer in the Boston
Courier convicts Surner of doing. Among
ignorant people he might be taken for a
prodigy of learning, but he would; in reality
know no more than ¢ the learned pig?” to
Barnum’s *“ What is it?’ When Sumner
compares the noble Caucasian Spartacus or
Louisana thick-lipped nigger, or Esop toa
kinky headed Georgia field hand, he show
his ignoranee of the past as wellas the pres.
ent Until he knows enough to distinguis
between the degraded white slavery of an-
tiquity and the natural subordination of ne-
groes to white men, his speeches have no
more application to our puitics than they
have to solving the riddle of perpetual mo-
tion or the problem of the quadrature of the
circle.
eee ll A
Frou tue Upper POt0MAC. —A gentleman
from Berlin says intelligence has reached the
Point of Rocks to the effect that the enemy’s
forces, which retreated back to the foot of
the mountains and the Shenandoah valley,
on the approach of the sickly season along
the river line, have left their retreats and are
now pushing for the river it large numbers.
It is stated that they had reached Charles-
town, and would make their appearance at
every ford on the Upper Potomac. Should
this intelligence be confirmed, it is not une
likely we may have some serious encounters
before next week. Col. Webster of the
Massachusetts Twelfth, has returned to his
reguuent in improved health.
— A eee
We have the official accounts made up in
September, of the nnmber of troops which
four of the Southern States had in the field
in that month, which we give below, com-
pared with the statements of the forces
which an equal number of Northern States
have despatcked to the seat of war:
New York, . . .84 398 | Georgia, . . . 19.100
Hlinois, . . . . » 45.000 | N. Carolina, 20.570
Indiana, - : . . - 30.000 | Louisiana, . 14.000
Connecticut, . . . 4,284 | Texas, . . . . 20,000
Total, . . . . 168,682 Total, . . 78,730
te rt rire
Me. Evy, of Rochester, N. Y., who isa
prisoner in the hands of the rebles at Rich-
mond, has sent intelligence of the death, at
that place, of Mr. Calvin Huson, who was
tak:n prisoner the day after the battle of
Bull Run. Mr. Huson had been ailing for
some time. He waa a student of law in the
office of Hon. Wm. H. Seward, whose niece
he subsequently married ; had graduated at
Geneva College, N. Y., and was engaged in
the practice of the law for the last fourteen
years.
easel i lft
A dispatch from Quincy, Illinois, states
that an accident occured at Platte river, on
the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad, last
Friday, by the upsetting of boats used to
ferry passengers across the stream by which
six soldiers, of Col: Cooke’s U. S. Dragoons
were drowned.— St* Louis Evening News.
The perrepial cotton tree of Western South
America has been transplanted to Maryland,
and has flourished in a most remarkable
manner. The experiment; was made by Mr.
Kendall, of that State, who saw the tree in
Perc and Chilli, in 1856, during a mission
in which he was sent by our Government to
collect seeds and plants, and to assistin gh
king observations of transit routes across
the Continent. He found the tree growing
wild, and equally as well in the cold high
lands and mountain regions, a¢ ju the sultry
low lands. This suggested the idea that it
might be adapted to the Northern portion of
the United States, and he accordingly pro-
cured Seeds #nd plants, and brought them
to this country. From these he raised &
number of trees on his own farm, with great
success and ease, 4nd he #vers that they
withstood, without injury, the severest win-
ter of our latitude. He says that the tree
will thrive and produce abtidantly whers
ever corn will mature. In its native condi-
tion and in the higher southern latitudes, its
average size and altitude is said to equal
the medium peach of North America, and
the trce most nearly resembles the white’
mulberry. The leaves are abundant, the
the flowers profuse, the balls, at maturity,
are twice the size of those bornby the her.
baceous plant, while the fibre was found to’
be finer and the length of staple, increased
as the tree approached the cooler regions.—
It. may be propagated from seed, but more’
readily froth cuttings simply thrust into the
ground, and may be planted outas anapple;
peach or pear orchard, ina field cropped
with any of the cereals, until having reach.
ed its full growth, the tree should be allow.
ed to occupy the land exclusively. It bears .
cutting, also, as kindly as any known tree,
and in field culture may be kept so pruned
that its produce shall be within reach of the
hand. The Crop in South America has
1eached two thousand pounds to the acre,
whereas the annual cotton plant of the
Southern States yields but five hundred
pounds to the same area. Peru already ex-
ports of this cotton about six thousand bales
of one hundred and fifty pounds to the bale
and we are told that the staple of the Perus
vian free cotton, even when produced with-
out care or culture, as it usually is in South
America, 18 superrior to the best Upland
staple of the cotton States of the South. In
proof or this fact, it is said that the cotton
grown in the valley of the Chira sold in the
port of Paita at sixteen dollars per hundred
potnds. Mr. Kendall is to lecture at the
Cooper institute, New York on the perennial
cotton tree of South America; and he propo-
ses to show that it may be naturalized in all
our Northern States: If his views are well
founded; then better cotton than than that
of the Southern or Gulf States may be pro
duced, by free labor; North of Mason and
Dixon’s line; and more abundantly and econ.
omically than that from below the said line.
In such event, Europe may yet derive its
chief supply of cotton from the States of this
Union. :
Guat WesTeRN CONFEDERACY. —The Ohi.
cago Tribune, the leading Republican paper
of the northwest, is opposed to any western:
troops being sent to the relief of Washing"
ton. Itsays: :
If all New England, the great States of
New York and Pennsylvania, the smaller
State of New Jersey, little Delaware, and
Michigan, which ought never to have been
called upon for that purpose, cannot defend
the National Capital, the sooner weof the
West know of he fact, and SET UP. FOR
OURSELVES, the better for all concerned.”
Tt advocating secession is treason, and the’
person advocating it ought to “be hung,'s
piece of twisted hemp could be used to a
good advantage in Chicago, in the elevation
and suspension of a Republican Secession
Editor. Hn
ere eee th
THE cotton planters refuse to obey the be.
tests of their mastets in the matter of keep-
ing their cotton at Home. The Memnhis:
Appeal of the 28th ult., says about 100 bales
per day are coming in. One hundred and
sixty three bales came in one day. - Hope
is entertained that it can be smuggled past:
the blockade. The editor is indignant that
the planters do not hold back their cotton, -
instead of thus affording a tempting;prize to"
the enemy. ) chs 00d
Tae withdrawal of the enemy from his-
advanced position in front of the Union lines
is fully confirmed by Professor La Mountain, -
who made a baloon agsension on Friday,
from a point about six miles west of Alex-
andria. The wind carried him five: miles”
over the enemy’s camps, around Fairfax
Station, when, rising nto another current,
he took a circuit to Fairfax Court House.
and thence back to our own lines.
Ly ar wr
THe vessels which were blockading New
Orleans on the 4th inst., according to our
latest reliable advices, were the sloop-of war”
Vincennes, twenty guns ; the sloop-of-war
Preble, sixteeni guns; the steamer Water
Witch, three guns ; the steam sloop of-war
Richmond, fotirten guns; a schoonor and »*
pilot boat, with probably ome gun each—
making a total of seven vessels, carrying in
all fifty-five guns. i
ee lA A Aen.
Tie Ohio Infantry regiments have been so’
increased as to make the total number au®
thorized eighty six, of which forty-two are’
now in the service. This, with six cavalry”
companies and, five batteries of actilery,
makes a respectable army for the Buckeye '
State.
£3
Trg New Orleans Banks are now carrying ’
a load of a million and a half of dollars &'
the Treasury notes of the bogus Confed !
which pees at the same rate of discount ‘as :
Pet eraburg, Va., twenty-five cent shinplas.
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