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BELLEFONTE, JAN. 16th, 1862.
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RESIGNATION OF GeN. CaMeroN.—Gen.
Simon Cameron, Secretary of War, has re-
signed, and is succeeded by Hon. Edwin M.
Stanton, late Attorney General in the Cab-
inet of Mr. Buchanan. We are not aware
of the reascns for this sudden resignation of
the Secretary, but we have half a notion
that the radical opinions held by him on the
slavery question, have been productive of a
row in the Cabinet, which has culminated
a polite invitation for him to leave. We
understand that the now ex Secretary has
been appointed Minister to Russia, in place
of Cassius M. Clay, who is coming home—
probably as some sort of a balm to his
wounded feelings.
Negroes in Canada.
The following is a Canadia. war adver.
tisement :
Y AR! WAR!! WAR!!!-TO THE COL-
ORED POPULATION. -- All the Col-
ored Male Inhabitants of Duunville and the sur-
rounding country desirous of joining Her Majesty's
Loy al Volunteer Milita can do so by ealling at my
office, where the service roll is now lying for
signatures. When completed the company will
be officered. S. AMSDEN.
Capt, Com’g Vol. R. C.
Dunville, Dec, 28. 1861.
We are glad to see that the colored people
are moving, and its likely that in a few days
they wil complete a strong military organiza
tion. The colored company at Halifax is
very cflicient, and one of the best there,—
Montreal Gazette.
Su it would seem that the colored popula~
tion of Canada are to become, practically, the
allies of Jeft. Davis and their masters, against
their benevolent friends on this side, who run
then to Canada upon the Underground Rail -
road.
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eee ly A A pe.
177 Forney in alluding to the action of
the Administration in delivering up Mason
and Slidell to the British Government,
says :
«But the more we see of English senti-
ment, as manifested in their newspapers
and by their public men, the more rejoiced
we are at the position the Administ.ation
has assumed.”
This backdown looks very much like a
little “scare.”
It is not less than three weeks, that this
same Forney was to fight England and
France together, and take Canada from the
former and annex it to the dic: United
States.
“You are the horse of whom the proverk goes,
Whose valor plucks dead lions by the nose.”
tt se
17 A lazy fellow, lying down on the
grass, said, “On how I do wish that this
was calied work, and well paid for]”’
Farmers High School.
What an idea? (says some old fogy)
who ought to have lived and died one hun-
dred years ago, to suppose that sending a
boy to college will ever make a farmer of
him. No sir, it can’t be did, it will only
wake my boys lazy, impudent and worth-
less to send them to school and I will keep
them at home on the farm where they can
earn me something and I can teach them
how to farm as my father did me. So you
can old Mr. Fogy. teach them all that you
ever knew, which evidently will be very lit-
tle. Yes, you can teach them to plough,
and to sow, and to reap just as people did
one hundred years ago; and to go through
their daily labors just like a machine made
to doa certain work ; but, just like that
senseless machine, they will never know the
why and the wherefore of anything they do,
and after you have gone, they, just like you,
will continue to carry out your old fogy no-
tions. They will plough, and they will sow,
and then trust in Providence to make the
grain grow. This idea of trusting in Proy-
idence to make the grain grow is, as it should
be, about played out— faith without work
never accompiishes anything, and therefore
it is necessary that in order to to be able to
reap’cf your labors a luxuriant harvest,
that you should plough and sow understand
ingly. Why is it, old fogy, that you can
not raise as many bushels of wheat or corn
to the acre as your fathers did 40. 50, or 100
years ago 2 You say you farm just as they
did ; well, it is granted, and hercin lays
your error. When your fathers farmed, the
soil was rich, just fresh from the hands of
the Creator. They and you have been rob-
bing it for years upon years, in your haste
after the almighty dollar, of its richness, un-
ti! nature, in yielding to you both comfort
and avarice, has become nearly exhausted,
and gives you now but a sparing crop.
What you want now is, to supply your
wasted and almost barren land, with those
rich and productive qualities of which you,
by long usage, have robbed it. and it will
once more yield you crops as of old. But,
by what system of working, or what ma-
puring application can you use to effect this
wonderful and desirable change ¢ Why,
you old blockhead, il you can’t go yourself,
send your son to the Farmer's High School,
that he may learn. Itis now nearly com-
pleted, (thanked be our friend H. N. McAl
lister) and is just the place where all the old
notions of farming that have been transmit-
ted to him as a legacy will be upset, and he
come forth with new and better ideas which,
when practically applied upon your farms,
will wake them bloom and blossom as the
rose.
The course of study in this valuable In-
stitution, combines with the theoretical, the
practical, which gives the student the double
advantage of testing all his theories by actu-
al experiment, and, while he educates the
mind in the'great truths of nature. he also
trains and developes the physical man,
which, in its turn, adds power aud volume
to the mind. The course of study comprises
all the branches of common and seientific
education, and when completed, the student
will come forth not only a practical scientific
farmer, but a classical scholar, (and we
hope a gentleman) fit for any avocation in
life.
The Farmer's High School is, in truth,
the greatest Institution in America, and its
originators deserve the thauksof all men
who feel an interest in the promotion of Agz-
ricultural industry. We shall give it a
more extended potice hereafter, and point
out in detail a portion of its many advanta~
ges.
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Public Enemies.
Fanatical as the emancipationists are we do
not belive that they are so utterly stupid as
to credit their own assertions that an attempt
on the part of the Genreal Government to lib-
erate the slaves would promote the restoration
of the Union. They cannot help seeing that
the Government would be advertising its own
impotence by declaring the freedom of the
slaves, so long as the rebel army remains un-
beaten; and that there are insurmountable
obstacles to using the negroes as allies of the
Union army, constitutional and practial.—
Who are the men now laboring to commit the
Government to the abolition of slavery? Not
the true and tried friends of the Union .who
in times past were ready to make any sac-
rifice for its perpetuity; but the Garrisons,
the Greelys, the Beechers, the Cheevers, the
Byrants. the Lovejoys and their associates;
old enemues of the Union and the Constitution
some of them bold disunionists; others the
declared foes of constitutional principles; all
leaders in the ¢rusade against slavery and
the constitutional rights of the States.
That these men want the Union restore d
“with the institution: and righ s of the seve
“ral States unimpaired, no one familiar with |
their anteceden's can venture to assert. But!
they wan: slavery destroyed—and if that
cannot be accomplished they want disunion.
They prefer the latter alternative to the re--
toration of the Union with slavery. Ilence
Southern institutions, and not Southern re.
bellion, ure the chief objects of their attacks.
Let the Government and the people avoic
their pernicious councils, for they are pub
lic enemies.
Tne Hon. Mr. ELy, M. C. from Yew York,
who was taken prisoner at Bull Run, and
has been exchanged for Mr. Faulkner, ar-
rived in New York on Thursday evening.
It may safely be predicted that Mr. Ely
will not venture out again to witness the
sport of a battle—his curiosity in that par.
ticular having been amply gratified,
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- —- | ny
Tue good deeds that most sons prefer that [77> Young men who would prosper in
their fathers should leave behind them, are
real estate deeds.
The Governor's Message.
In these stirring times official documents
posess an interest never before attached to
them. The plain business character of the
Governor’s Message will secure it a careful
and general perusal, it being little more
than a historical narration of the operations
of the State since the adjournment of the
special session of the legislature.
The total debt of the State at the close of
the last fiscal year, exclusive of military
loans amounted to $37,868.516. As the
General Government has already reimbursed
part of the money raised by special loans
for military expenses, and is bound to pay
back the whole amount, this cannot be re.
garded as an addition to the permanent debt
of the State, unless the Legislature should
determine to make it such by offsetting the
unpaid balance against the direct taxes to
be levied upon the State.
The Governor notices the fact that at the
expiration of the term of the three-months
men in July last, some eight or ten thousand
discha:ged Pennsylvania volunteers were
thrown into Harrisburg without notice, and
detained here waiting upon the pay-master,
for an average time of some ten days; and
after stating the measures taken to provide
for their subsistence, he refers in just and
complimentary terms to the ¢ liberal and
patriotic efforts ot the citizens, and especial-
ly the ladies of Harrisburg ” in providing
for the wants of our wearied and hungry
soldiers.
The official exhibition of the fact that
Pennsylvania has contributed over onc hun-
dred thousand men to maintain the Consti-
tution and preserve the Union, is one of the
most gratifying features of the Message.—
This proportion is larger than that of any
other State in the Union, excepting prob.bly
the State of Illinois, and much larger than
that of the State of New York, which with a
population exceeding that of Pennsylvania by
one million has furnished few if any more
men to the army.
The Governor states that assurances have
been received from the Treasury Department
of the General Government, that the exam-
na tion of the military accounts of the State
will be completed without delay, so that the
State may receive a credit for the balance
due, wn time to apply the same towards her
quota of the direct tax. The completion of
this arrangement is assumed and a saving of
fifteen per cent. promised, together with ex-
emption from increased taxation during the
present year. We do not question the wis-
dom of the State’s assuming the payment of
the direct tax, but we cannot see the pro.
pricty of increasing the permanent debt of
the State by the amount of that tax for the
present year, in order to put off the necessi-
ty of raising the sum required by increased
taxation. If the principle of borrowing the
money to pay the States quota of Federal
taxes is right in the present, it will be right
for the futu e; and we may go on borrowing
money instead of procuring it by taxation,
until the credit of the State becomes ex.
hausted, and our debt is more than doubled.
Better meet the question at once and boidly
and pay as we go. This, however, is a
subject for the Legislature to consider and
determine. — Patriot and Union.
Emancipation —Confiscation.
Every test vote in Congress indicates that
the Abolitionists, who started out with high
hopes of driving the Administration into the
adoption of their radical measures, are los
ing power and influence. Indeed the more
their favorite projects of universal emancipa.
tion and confiscation are discussed the more
palpable their folly and impracticability be-
come. Itinust be apparent to every reflect-
ing man not hopelessly besotted by anti~
slavery passion, that this rebellion must be
put down by white freemen, or not at all —
The negrges can render us no substantial
assistance, for the simple reason that we
must first whip the rebel armies to place
arms in the hands of slaves—and after the
rebel armies are conquered the supposed ne-
cessity for arming the blacks ceases to ex-
ist. The emancipationists won’t see this
fact which, is apparent to rational men, but
seem to labor under the strange halucina-
tion, that a proclamation of emancipation
would in some mysterious way be followed
by a general uprising of the negroes. We
believe that the South understands its slaves
much better than the Abolitionists do, and
that while they have a half a million of
white men under arms a proclamation of
universal emancipation would excite much
more ridicule than apprehension. Thus far
we have no evidence that the slaves are not
devotedly attached to the fortunes of their
masters. Of the 32,000 blacks in the Beau-
fort District, not more than one thousand
have shown any disposition to put themselves
under the protection of our army, and they
are for the most part old and decrepid men
who could not make their escape with the
mass of the white and black population.
The other scheme of universal confiscation
is about as impracticable as emancipation.
We had better direct our energies to getting
posession of the property of rebels before
of it. We should think a penniless man who
passed all his time in making arrangements
for the disposal of a large fortune, not very
likely to attain the object of his ambition.
| Sensible men make their money first and
| spend it afterwards. So a sensible Govern
| ment will devote all its energies to crushing
| rebellion against its authority, and leave all
| questions as to the disposition of the persons
| and property of rebels to the future, when
1 s decrees can be enforced.
metre lle
love should woo gently. It is not fashion
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making arrangements how we shall dispose |
| politicians who forced the Governmeut into
| the Bull Run fight, are impatient for another
i Fe
STATE LEGISLATURE.
The Legislatare of this State coivened at
Harrisburg on Tuesday. L. W. Ilall, Abo-
litionist, was chosen Speaker of the Senate,
by a vote of 21, over E. 1). Crawford, Demo-
crat, who received 9 votes; and the House
organized by electing John Rowe, the can-
didate of the mongrels. over Wm. Hopkins, |
the Democratic nominee —tle former receiv |
ing 53, and the latter 45 votes. The mon- |
grels, miscalled “Union” men, after caucus-
ing ard nominating Rowe, proposed to the
Democrats that if they would vote for Rowe |
for Speaker. the committees should be or
ganized on a Democratic basis, and the Dem-
ocrats should have the Clerk, Assistant
Clerk, and some other of the offices, and the
Renegades and Abolitionists would take the
balance. The Democrats, with great unan-
imity and propriety, rejected the proposi
tion, and consequently Mr. Rowe became
Speaker, as the candidate, and by the votes,
of the enemies of the Democ atic party. He
conseated to be elected by the Abolitionists
of Franklin county, in opposition to the reg"
ular Democratic nominee ; and we presume
we do him no injustice when we sct him
down as going the way of other renegades,
who, having got all they could from the
Democratic organization, descrt and betray
1it by way of recommending themselves to
the favor of its opponents.
On Wednesday, the Governor sent in his
message, which will be found in our paper of
to-doy. Itisof moderate length, and devot-
ed, principally, to his military doings. Its
exhihit of the State finances 1s not very en
couraging, as it shows that the revenue from
ordinary sources, during the financial year,
falls short of the crdinary expenses more
than $126,000. While his excellency was
speaking of the sale of the State canals, he
might as well have told the people what had
become of the purchase money, $3.500,000.
And why not say a word about the tonnage
tax ? Governor Pollock, in one of his mes«
sages, when Curtin was his Secretary, dem-
onstrated that with those canals, the tonnag
tax, and other means, the State debt would
be paid off in less than 23 years. Perhaps
it would have been unpleasant to Governor
Curtin to state, in his message, that the
Commonwealta had, with his approval, been
robbed of the purchase money promised to
be paid for the canals, and also of the ton
nage tax—equivalent, together, to full ten
millions of dollars—a robbery which has al-
ready caused increased taxation upon the
people.
What the Governer means when he re-
commends that the State assume the pay-
ment of the direct tax called for by the Gen-
eral Government, we do nol exactly under-
stand. If he means that the State pay that
tax with borrowed money, (and there is none
other now in the Treasury) we think sound
and honest financiers will not concur with
him. The farmer who borrows money and
increases his debt, to pay the interest on the
mortgage covering his farm, is on the down
hill road to bankruptcy ; and so of a State
which borrows money to meet any annual
demand against it or its citizens. Besides,
Pennsylvania’s share of the direct tax called
for by the United States, for 1862, will be
due from, and should be paid by, our tax
payers of 1862. Gov. Curtin’s plan, if we
do not misapprehend him, is, to pay that tax
with borrowed money, thus fastening the tax
of 1862 as a debt on those who come after
ug, and requiring them to pay our taxes and
their own too! This may be smart, but 1t
1s certainly neither honest nor just.
The Clerks and other officers of both
Houses, were carried by the Abolitionists,
by about the same vote as elected the Speak-
ers. :
In the Senate— Chief Clerk, George W.
Hammersly ; Assistant Clerk, G. S. Berry;
Sergeant at- Arms, Harmen Yerkes ; Assist-
ant Sergeants-at-Arms, Joseph L. Moore,
Thomas Dickons; Doorkeeper, John G.
Martin ; Assistant Doorkeepers, Benjamin
Hunnseeker, J B. Hinds. Joseph M. More-
head, Jos. Roblet, George Bubb, D. F. John-
son.
In the House—Chief Clerk. L. R. Rauch;
Sergeant-at-Arms, E. D. Pickett ; Door-
keeper, Casper Lang ; Postmaster, H. A.
Woodhouse.
The seats of Househclder, of Bedford, and
Bugby, of Adams, are contested by Cessna
and Myers.— West Chester Jeffersonian.
Management of the War.
We learn from Washington that the joint
committee of Congress appointed to inquire
into the management of the war meets with
little or no success in its investigations. The
Commander in Chief of the army declines to
give the committee an audience at present to
discuss the Ball’s Bluff disaster. Not hav-
ing the resolution under which this commit.
tee was appointed before us, we are unable
to say whether it contemplated only an in-
vestigation into the causes of the disasters
to our arms, or whether the Committee is
designed to act as a supervisory junta to
control the future operations of the Com-
mander ‘n Chief. 1f the latter power is
granted or assumed, it is evident that this
Committee may become, in the hands of
politicians, an instrument of much mischief
and ‘disaster. The same uneasy class of
| advance, andi permitted to have their own
way would precipitate the army in another
defeat before the close of another week.
The Commander in Chief is naturally jealous
of such interference with his plans, and it is
not surprising that he has interposed ob-
stacles to an investigation that can accom-
Letter from Parson Brownlow.
The Nashville Patriot gives the following char-
a oteristic letter from Parson Brownlow :
K¥oxvILLE JAIL. Dec. 20, 1861: —In your issue
of the 17th inst., you say :—“ We learn that W.
G. Brow nlow, imprisoned at Knoxville, refuses to
eat an ything, desiring to starve himself to death.’
I have no doubt, Mr. Editor, that you have
learned such a thing, but it is wond erful intelli-
gence. And but for the fact that I do not wish
to be understood as trying to commit suicide, I
would not care to correct the erroneous state-
ment. The truth in my case is that I have now
| been in jail two weeks, and I have eaten too
much every day, my family, with the permission
of Brigadier-General Carroll, furnishing me with
three meals each day. But for taking cold, and
suffering from a sore throat, I could boast of usu-
alhealth. Asit is, I claim to be the most cheer-
ful of more than one hundred prisoners I found
here on my arrival
But, sir, I will now give you an additional item
or so, which many of your readers will peruse
with interest, if you are allowed to publish thera.
I left home about the 5th of November, with a
view to collect such claims due my office for ad-
vertising, and to relieve the fears ¢f my family,
who were daily annoyed with the calls of drunk-
en soldiers, bawling before my house, and flour-
ishing their side-knives and pistols, and maki ng
threats of violence On the 5th of December, I
received a brief letter from Major-General Crit-
tenden, inviting me to head-quarters in Knoxville
and promising me passports into Kentucky, and a
military escort to eonduct me safe. At the same
time I was furnished with the copy of a letter to
the Major General from J. P. Benjamin, Secre-
tary of War, advising him to give me passports
and a safe conduct beyond the Confederate lines.
Supposing the head of the War Department
and the Major-General commanding here to be
acting in good faith, I reported myself in person
and accepted the offer of passports. I agreed to
start on Saturday, and the General designated
Captain Gillespie's company of cavalry for an
escort.
But on Friday evening, just before sundown,
I was arrested for treason, founded en certain ed-
itorials in the Knoxville Whig, since June last,
th warrant being signed by Commissioner Rey-
nolds and Attorney Ramsey. Iam, therefore, in
jail—in elose confinement—perfectly contented
and making no complaints against any one. I am
waiting patiently to see which is the highest pow-
er—the War Department at Richmond, ascocia-
ted with the Major-General incommand here, or
the Commissioners’ Court for Knoxville. Nay, I
am anxious to know whether the high authorities
invitng me here were acting in good faith, or
were only playing off a trick to have me incar-
cerated. I am not willing to believe that the rep-
resentatives of a great Government, struggling
for its independence, and having in charge the in-
terests of twelve millions of people, intend to act
in bad faith to me. The chivalrous people of the
South and all the journalg have denounced the
high-hand ed measures of the United States Gov-
ernment in suspending the habeas corpus act, sup-
pressing public journals and incarcerating citi
zens upon lettres cachet. and I will not allow my-
self to believe that the Confederate Government
will resort to similar tricks. I am, sir, very re-
spectfully, &e., W.G. BROWNLOW,
———e ee
Taking care of Pennsylvania and her In-
terests.
Simon Cameron is distinguished for his
regard for Pennsylvania and her interests.
The latest instance of it we find in the Chi-
cago Tribune, the leading Republican paper
of Hlinois, in its issue of the 28th inst. It
says :
“Pennsylvania may be truly said to have
contracted. What will be thought of trans
porting at Government expense rough pine
scantling from Pittsburg to Fort Leaven-
worth, and yet such a shipment did actually
pass through this city with such destination
a few days since, The pieces were 4x4,
about cight feet long. and rough as when
it came from the saw mill. Think of car-
rying commo « pine lumber across four States
to the west bank of the Missouri, that some
Pennsylvania contractor might prefit a lib-
eral margin of profits, and that, too, with
plenty of lumber yards, full ot stock, slow
of sale, on the Missouri river. This almost
passes belief, but is an actual fact. The
enormities under the name of carrying on
this war would ruin financially any naticn
upon earth, even if Midas himself were its
king. Wko will stay these teeming evils,
or is the nation 1eally given up to be spoiled
at home and flonted abroad ¢? Are the pe»
ple to 1 ok in vain to Congress to attack the
great army of fraudulent peculators, and
cleanse these aimy Augean stables ? Has
the Government the desire to avert the
blows that should fall, though nepotism and
corrupt favoritism shriek aloud to spare and
save those who richly merit the. cord and
sword of the Provost Marshal 2”
rr ee
REMARKABLE ACCIDENT. —A Man Swal-
lows his Set of Teeth in his Sleep.— On Fri-
day night last, Mr. Madgean, residing in
Euclid Ohio, awoke with a sense of suffoca-
tion, and discovered that during his sleep he
had swallowed a partial set of ieeth, with
the gold plate to which they were attached.
The plate is crescent shaped, hooked at
each end, and having three teeth. set at irs
regular intervals on it. How it could have
passed into his throat is difficult to account
for. As soon ashe discovered the extent of
the accident, Mr. Madgean'’s first idea was
to send at once for Dr. Strong but afterwards
thought the object might pass through him
without difficulty. Eventually, it got into
his stomach, and caused such excruciating
pain that he same into the city on Saturday
morning and put himself under Dr. Strong’s
care. I'he case is one of great difficulty, and
in its present stage but little can be done
other than to await the operation of nature,
assisted by medicine.
No surgical operation can, of course, be
performed at present, and from he peculiar
formation of the object it is not easy to pass
through the stomach and intestines without
inflicting serious injury.
The Colored People Arming.
We are glad to see that the colored peo-
ple are moving, and it is likely that in a few
days they will complete a strong military
organization. The colored company in Hal-
ifax is very efficient, and one of tke best
there. — Montreal Gazette.
The colored people of Canada, tor the
most part, are fugitives from the slave
Sta tes—sent thither by the Northern Aboli-
tionists, over theU. G. R. R. It says as
[ litule for the negroes’ ingratitude as for his
| appreciation of the blessings of ** freedom,” |
| that be should thus be showing an inclinas
| Jeff. Davis figat Lis benefactor.
Trig MAN THAT D1oN’r TAKE THE PAPER. —
Here is one equally funny, got off by a
Western editor :
The man that didn’t take his coun y pa-
per was in town yesterday. He brought his
whole family in a two horse wagon. He
still believed that Gen. Taylor was Presi-
dent, and wanted to know if the ‘ Kankat-
kins'’ had taken Cuba, and where they had
taken it. He had so'd his corn for thirty
cents, the price being fifty five ; and, on go.
ing to deposit the money, they told him that
it was mostly counterfeit. The only hard
money he had was some three cent pieces,
which a ‘‘sharper” had given him for half
dimes. One of the boys went to the black-
smiths to get measured for a pair of shoes,
and another mistook the market house for a
church. After hanging his hat ona meat
hook, he piously took a seat on the butch-
er’s stall, and listened to an auctioneer,
whom he took to be the preacher. He left
before ‘meetin’ was out,” and had no great
opinion of the ‘‘sarmint.”
One of the girls took a lot of seed onions
to the post office to trade for a letter. The
oldest boy had sold two ‘coon skins’’ and
wason a ‘*bust.” When last seen he had
called for a glass of ‘soda and water,” and
stood soaking gingerbread init, and making
wry faces. The shopkeeper mistaking his
meaning, had given him a mixture of sal soda
and water, and it tasted strongly of soap.—
But “‘he’d hearn tell of soda and water, and
he was bound to give it a trial, puke or no
puke.”” Some ‘‘town feller” camein and
called for a lemonade, with a “fly in it,”
when our soaped friend quietly turned his
back and quietly wiped several flies into his
drink.
We approached the old gentleman, and
tried to get him to ‘subscribe,’ but he
wouldn't listen to it. He was oppesed to
“internal improvements,” and he thought
“larnin was a wicked inwention and & wexa-
tion.” None of his family ever learned to.
read but one boy, and he ¢‘teached school
awhile and then went to studyin’ diwinity
A Treasonable Affair.
A gentleman who attended the recent lec~
ture of Wendell Philips in New York city,
informs the Argus, of an incident which
aptly illustrates the character of the audi-
ence, aud shows it to have been fully in hare
mony with that of the speaker. His orav
tion was a complete farrago of treason, one-
fifth of which, if uttered by a Democrat,
would have consigned the individual in-
stantly to Fort Lafayctte or Warren. The
incident alluded to is not reported in the
daily papers. At the close of a treasonable
passage, where Philips avowed that he was
for the Union now only because he noped
the Constitution would be overridden, a per-
son in the hall called ont, “Three cheers for
Abe Lincoln and the Constitution!” The
response was an instant shout of *¢ Hustle
him out!” and he was hustled out, ignomin
iously.
Gen. Fremont was present, and whenever
his name was uttered by the speaker, this:
gang of treason mengers and despisers of
the Constitution vociferously applauded,
while Gen. McClellan's name was passed
over in utter silence. Fremont alone
of all the Generals of the army, was judged
to have shown sufficient contempt for Con.
stitutional restraints, and enough of the
dictator, to suit this revolutionary conclave,
which reminds one of the clubs in which
Robespierre used to rant, and the sans cu-
lottes of Paris to applaud.—Patriot and
Union.
per, in alluding to Bishop Hughes's absence:
abroad, says:
It has been supposed by the people of the
South that Archbishop Hughes, of New
York, had been sent to Europe for the pur-
pose of advancing the interests of the Lin~
coln government, by using his influence to
counteract the representations of the com-
missioners sent from the South. But the
Staunton Speciator expresses its gratifica~
tion at lexrning, from a satisfactory source,
that his mission is for a contrary purpose.—
From a priest of the church of which Arch-
bishop Hughes 1s the head in this country,
and who lives beyond the limits of the
Southern Confederacy, the Speetator learns
that the Archbishop has been deputed by a
council of the “Fathers” of his Church to
use his influence to secure the intercession
of foreign powers in behalf of peace and a
recognition of the independence of the South-
ern Confederacy.
New MobE oF ENLISTMENT. —A General
Order relating to enlistments has been issued
from Washington. It puts an end, except
in special cases, to the raising of new Regix
ments or Companies, and takes the business
of recruiting entirely out of the hands of the
State authorities to place it under the charge
of officers of the regular army detailed for
that purpose, as far as possible assimilating
recruiting for the volunteer forces to thar for
the regular army. Regiments or companies
now forming in the various States will be
completed under the directions of the Gov~
ernors thereof, unless it be deemed more ad~-
vantageous to the service to assign the men
already raised to Regiments, batteries, or
independent companies now in the field, in
order to fill ap their organizations to the
maximum standard prescribed by law.
The order goes into effect from the Ist of
January. Major N. C. McRae, U. 8. A,, is
appointed a General Superintendent for
Ohio, and the General depot for the collec~
tion and instruction of recruits will be at
Camp Chase, Columbus.
A pn,
07 It is now rumored that because
John Bull has compelled the Administra-
tion to surrender the rebel ministers to the
British authority ; that Mr. Seward will
compel Capt. Wilkes to surrender his com-
plimentary letter received (rom the Secretary
of the Navy for the capture of the Secesh
gentlemen, and that he will also be request.
ed to discharge his big dinner he ate in Bos-
ton on his arrival there, if he has not dispos-
ed of it already. The s atesmanship, and
diplomacy, of the present Administration is
oly magnificent, and almost incomprehen-
sible. .
Ea
{7 It used to be the hoast of the Amer-
ican citizen that we eould “lick the world
in arms’’ against us. This highfelutin has
been ‘knocked in the head’’ by Mr. Se
ward in delivering up the rebel Ministers
to John Bull,” in doing so he admits that
we cannot even lick England.
Mr. Seward has indeed aimed a death
blow at our Peacock pride, if not at our
plish no good, and may work incalculable | tion to take up arms, as it were, (0 help national honor. Brave Statesman !—Clears
, able for young ladies to take ardent spirits. | mischief. — Patriot & Union.
\ field Republican.
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