The TW atchman,
C. T. ALEXANDER,
JOE W. FUREY,
BELLEFONTE, FEB. 6th, 1862.
! Editors,
The Leech that Bled the Treasury.
Col. W. W. Brown, ‘that honest man
who never told a lie,” was once upon a time
elected by the Republican party, of which
he was the head, Treasurer of Centre coun-
ty. He went into office on the first Monday
of January, two years ago, with such 2
flourish of trumpets, as never Treasurer be-
fore assumed that responsible position. He
was loud in his boast that the office would
be so manrged while under his control, that
no person would loose a cent ; bat on the
contrary, that the tax payers would find W,
W. Brow~ what he always told them he
was—¢ an honest, upright man.” That a
great many people believed his boasting de
clarations, is evident from the number of
friends that were ready and anxious to go
bis security. No Treasurer was ever bless~
ed with such a host of friends, anxious to
center their names upon his bail bond.
Most wen have trouble enough to get two
sureties—the number required by law ; but
BrOWN casily, we are informed, got eleven
of the most wealthy men in the County, who,
of course, having the utmost confidence in
his integrity, beheved that he, like the king,
could do no wrong. Under these favorable
auspices, he went into office, and having a
true and trusty friend, well posted in the
minutia of the unseated land books, to keep
him straight, we did hope that he would
come out of office with quite a large balance
in his favor. The Auditors, however, tell a
different tale. These “nasty” fellows met
at the Treasurer's office on the first Monday
of January last, and after considerable trou-
ble, succceded in getting BROWN before
them, and after summing up his accounts as
shown by his books, have brought him out
a defsulter to the tunc of $3800. This was
certainly “‘bully’’ for BrowN—but 1t has
since been discovered that there has been
large amounts of money received from dif.
terent tax collectors, that have not been ac-
counted for, and which does not appear
charged to his account, and of which the
Auditors had no knowl dge, When these
amounts are ascertained, the amount of de-
falcation will be considerably augmented.
We would have noticed this detalcation
long ere tins, had not Mr. BrowN assured
us that there was a great mistake in auditing
and that he would be able ina few days to
make everything right. At his request, we
refrained from making this thing public,
which we conceive to be our duty, and have
waited confidently, expecting that he would,
for this once, be as good as his word, and
clean up the record. The Central Press,
too, after the Auditors had reported, assured
the public that BRowN would not bea de-~
faulter, and lauded him very highly, for the
very efficient manner in which he had dis
charged the duties of his office, The editor
of the Press knew, at the time, that what
he stated was not correct, and we have been
expecting him also to disabuse the mind of
the public by making a correct statement of
the facts. But he has not done it, nor does
he manifest any disposition to do so ; and,
therefore, having waited until the public are
becoming anxious to know the truth, we ac-
quaint them with the facts.
We dare say, that if this had been a Dem-
oc atic defalcation, the public would have
known it before the ink was dry on the Au~
ditors’ report. Not only this, but it would
have been denounced as a high handed
swindle, and the guilty party Cenominated a
traitor.
The New York Tyibune thinks that cer-
tain newspapers have been too severe upon
Russell, of the London Times, because his
prediction of the surrender of Mason and
Slidell would create a revolution in this
country has been falsified by the event.—
The Tribune regards political prophesying
as a very risky business ; and asa palliation
of Russell’s mistake shows how certain solid
and respectable merchants of New York
foretold before the clection that the success
of Mr. Lincoln would be followed by no dis
turbances, and that even the Tribnne con
tained some prophesying of that sort. If
our memory serves us it did. The staple of
its talk before the clection was that there
would not, and there could not be any dis~
turbances, and that Lincoln's election would
pour oil upon the troubled waters -all of
which was demonstrated to its own satisfac-
tion and that of thousands of its deluded
readers Fucthermore the Tribune shows
that Mr. Seward, in December, 1860, propt-
ested that the commotion would all be over
in sixty days ; and subsequently that in
ninety days the struggle would be finished.
The Tribune no doubt intended to do Mr.
Russell a service by showing how liable po
litical prophets are to miscalculate the fus
ture ; but that gentleman, with all his
faults, could not be more degraded than to
be ranked with the abolition prophets of
this country, who have been guilty of more
false, absurd and eriminal prophesies than
all the false prophets from Mohammed down
to John Smith.
= Civil war has affected St. Louis like
a stroke of palsy. More than 60.000 in
habitants have left that city within a year ;
an immense number of houses and stores are
vacant, and all business, except government
contracts, is ata dead stand.
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Mux —"The Pubs on the papart of the Van
Ye yei commitee
Mora Frauds upon the Goveroment.
The New York correspondent of the Phila.
delphia Ledger tells the following story :
+: The private relations, (not for the public
eye, as yet) which accompany the newspa-
per correspondence from the Burnside ex-
pedition, I regret to say, are of a character
to make the public stare, and in some re
spects to throw the disgraceful develop-
ments of the Van Wyck Committee quite
into the shade. They who have listened to
those revelations, and been made acquainted
with the wo. thless character of some of the
vessels palmed off on the Government. only
wonder that the winds and the waves spared
so many of them. There must have been
crooked dealing too. in regard to the Com-
missiarat, as well as to the vessels. In
some vessels when medicines were wanted
they could nowhere be found. and mn others
the provisions are said to have been wholly
unfit for consumption —though large sup
plies of the former had been contracted for.
to be puton board, while the quality of the
latter was stipulated to be A, No. 1. Gen.
Burnside himself is said to have expressed
himself in the strongest terms of indignation
upon being informed of these impositions. —
He also expressed some satisfaction that the
bills of certain contractors were still unpaid,
as in that case the remedy was easy. Uther
allegations of a like character are made, but
as I have said, are not in a shape as yet, to
be published, Congress however, may as
well set about putting another investigating
committee in commission.”
There is no form of treason against the
Government more richly deserving of the
severest punishment than that which furn
ishes insecure vessels for the transportation
of our troops and unhealthy food for their
consumption. Contractors engaged in this
business together with their aiders and
abettors, richly deserve hanging. They
are guilty of as great a crime as the man
who sets fire to the house in which persons
are sleeping for the purpose of obtaining the
insurance money. The open and avowed
traitor is not nearly so great a criminal as
the dishunest contractor, who from the most
sordid motives foists upon the Government
rotten hulks of vessels that are liable to go
to pieces in the first storm with their freight
of precious lives. The avowed traitor is at
least manly in his hostility ; he meets us
boldly in the face of day ; but the work of
the sneaking wretch who knowingly furn-
ishes unsafe vessels or provisions, that he
may pocket a few more dollars of Govern
ment money, is performed as secretly as
the work of poison lurking in a cup of cold
water.
Who was engaged m palming off these
worthless vessels on the Government ? Are
they any part of the purchases made by Mr.
Geo. D. Morgan, of New York, for which he
received the munificent compensation of
$75.000? Or did our gorged plunderer give
place to a host ten tines more rapacious ?
Tt is certainly the duty of Congress tO
discover the perpetrators of these frauds,
and prevent their repetition in the future.
So:mue sinall excuse may have existed for
frauds and irregularities six months ago
when every department of the Government
was in comparative confusion, but it is time
these things were done away with forever.
eaves
The leaks in the Treasury can only be
stopped by bringing the war to an end. The
war can only be brought to an end by the
people furnishing the Government with all
the men, means and moral support required
for that object. Congress. as the represen
tative of the people, are expected to devote
thems: Ives to great purpose with the sincle
aim of preserving the Constitution from the
attacks of its enemies. Congress has no
power to alter the Constitution, and will be
held to a strict accountability if they fac-
tiously attempt to evade or override its writ-
ten provisions. Any attempt to make this
war a war of emancipation is contrary to
the provisions of the Constitution, and is
treason. Every day spent by Congress in
treasonable and factious debate, and thus
impeding the President and Commander-in-
Chief in prosecuting tne war, costs the
country between two or more millions of
dollars The people demand of Congress
immediate, prompt. united and decisive ac-
tion in supporting the Government in crush
ing out rebellion and treason, whether South
or North. The President and the army are
ready : let Congress do its part, and the
war will speedily be brought to a glorious
termination. So may it be.
Hout Questions.—The Boston Herald is
after the shoddy patriots, who line their own
pockets very deeply while they vaunt their
own ** patriotism.” urge the abolitionizing
of the war, form secret + leagues’ and spy
systems—and prate of their sorrows for the
poor slave. [tsays:—We do not wish to
be considered inquisitive, ! ut then we would
ask how much a certain Abolition firm in
this city expects to make on furnishing draw-
ers for the soldiers, when they pay 6 cents
per pair for making them? If a woman
works smart she can make two pair per day
which gives her the enormous income of
twelve cents. Oh. the poor down trodden
black man! Where is Phillips —where is
Wilson—where is Sumner, and where oh,
where is Andrew ? Something must be done
for the slave, or the people will think we
have lost our sympathy fo them. Never
mind about leaving the poor white man and
white woman of the North to starve. Can't
make any political capital out of them —they
are of no account. Twelve cents per day !—
big thing.
07 A New England Abolitionist says
that it has been found that the negroes can
be better trusted than white men, not to be-
tray secrets, We suppose this is upon the
principle that they always keep dark.
ee AAA AP Pee
Pavr, Moreny’ the chess player, is on the
eve of joining the staff of Gen. Joe Johnson
of therebel army. He was at the latest date
in Richmond practising law
Every Man to His Business
There is at least one maxim that we fain
would ithpress deeply on everybody at this
particular time.
Let military men attend to military busi-
ness and let civilians attend to their own.—
The neglect of this maxi cost us Ball Run
and the neglect of this maxim hereafter may
cost us infinitely more. It must not be neg
lected hercatter. An indignant public opin*
ion should rigorously compel the obser vance
of ithe maxim. The clamor now rising from
civilians of a certain discription for the in-
stant advance of our armies is nothing short
of :riminal impertinence. Let it cease.—
At all events let not our Generals take the
smallest heed of it. They should know the
country trusts implicitly in their discretion
as well as in their valor. We hope and be-
lieve they will allow” the military cries of
the populace, if the populace shall still raise
military cries, to pass by as the idle wind
What the country wants above all other
things is the speedy re-establishment of the
Government, not advances, battles, or even
victories, except as these may contribute to
the great end of this war. The want of the
populace is different. Che populace wants
movement, vicissitude, fighting, and in gen-
eral the thrilling incident of active warfare.
the struggle, Now. if we have put an army
of half a millien and upwards, into the field
not to preserve the nation buat simply to
amuse, the populace, the cries ©* On to Rich
mond!” Onto Nashville!” ON-—n» nat
ter where!” may be all very well. If not
this loud clamor 1s, what we have called it,
criminal impertinence, and should be ndig-
nantly frowned upon by public opinion, as
we are sure it will be spurned by our Gene-
rals in command. It unquestionably de-
serves to be spurned by them. Human na-
ture in the course of the war has exhibited
itself in some very weak and disgusting as-
pects as well as in many noble and captiva-
ung ones, and this clamor is certainly not
amongst the latter. Lowsville Jour.
‘Wendell Philips on the Administration.
that Phalanx of agitators to whose persist~
ent mischief making much of our present
national difficulties is attributable, has re-
cently enlightened a Boston audience with
another exposition of his pecaliar views cn
the conduct of the war in general and on its
sonductors in particular.
[ear what he is allowed to say of the
tru'y conservative President Lincoln :
«If we had a President who could open
his eyes and see something besides Kens
tucky. and if the Cabinet couid see anything
but political preferment, the country wonld
have some reason for hope; but as things
were going, their memories would sink to
the infamy which perpetuates the names of
Aaron Burr and Benedict Arnold.”
Mr. Wendell Phitips, we believe is still at
liberty. We will ever advocate liberty o
speech, but it ouzht to go all around. This
Northern disunionist praises the Southern
leaders with as much vigor as he abuses the
Administration. He says :
+ The South deserved to succeed. She
has exhibited better statesmanship and
more capacity for the contest. She had
created finances ont of nothing. She had
subsidized every Press and Court in Europe,
The South had subsidized the London Times
the same way she got 'exas. She had hke
a skillful pilot weathered every storm.”
Concerning the prospects of the
disturber of the public peace says:
war, this
«t Gen. McClellan proposes to restore the
Union by going to Richu.ond, Charleston and
New Orleans. Lethim doit I don’t be-
lieve in defeating this rebellion in ninety
day’s, and if we do not we are nationally and
politically dead. If our arms are not vic
torious by April 1st, the Southern Conféder
acy will be achieved, unless, indeed the
slaves shall rise.” :
We make these quotations, not that we
are surprised at them, considering the source
whence they emanate, but to show our read:
ers that the Abolitionists are as bitier ene-
mies of the United Sta es Government, as
the Sccessionists.
BARNUM IN PURSUIT OF THE SMALLEST MAN
ix THE WORLD. -Ud nsiderable interest has
of late been excited, by the accounts of
Commodore Nutt, of Manchester, N.
who is undvubtediy the smallest dwarf in
the world, and the showmen have been at
tempting to rival each other in the way of
big offers and every kind of inducement to
obtain the privilege of showing this remark
able Little man to the public. Mr. Barnum
nas lately gone to Manchester, and with his
usual success. will p obably take the tiny
Commodore by storm. and come back in
triumph with the dwarf under his arm. —
Commodore Nutt was born in April 2. 1844,
and hence 18 eighteen years of age.
christian name is George Washington,
is not only a grod English scholar. but is
tolerahly proficient 1 the French language.
He 1s a bright and graceful specimen of mi.
pute humanity. being symmetrically formed,
and a most polite and reformed gentleman.
In stature he 1s inconceivab y small. Gen.
Tom Thumb. with whom Mr. Barnum cre
ated such a furore in Europe some years
ago, stands thirteen inches higher than Com-
modore Nutt, “boots and all.”” Commodore
Nutt has always objected strenuousiy to an
exhibition of himself, tut will be a remarka-
bly stubborn man it he resists Mr. Baruun’s
convincing arguments.
ZowLricorrer.—Felix K. Zollicoffer, re-
ported among the slain at Somerset, was
horn in Mowry county, Teanessee, May 19,
1812. and received an academical education.
In 1829, after a short service in a printing
office, he undertook tho management of a
newspaper in Paris, Tenn.
the Columbia Observer.
held the office of State Printer. Comptroller,
and State Senator. In 1851-2 he again as
Congress of 1860.
eri!
regardless of their bearing on the object of
Mr. Wendell Philips, the geeat Ajax of
His |
He |
He next edited |
From this journal | tion.
he took charge of the Nashville Banner. He sion in conversation with a lady, noted and
sumed the charge of the Nashville Baaner, | have no doubt you would find yourself very
and in 1852 he became a representative in| much at home in Greece ! Slidell withdrew
Congress which position he held till the | precipitately from the encounter.
Nothing further ig | roung man,” said his persecutor,
heard of him till he turns up as a rebel gen. | treated, * needs to be dipped over again,
{he has not b ell molded.”
Ireland Aroused.
1¢ is stated by a deserter from a Confeder-
ate vessel, who has arrived in this country | ;
from Bermuda, where he made his escape, | A most interesting case occupied thest-
that when the news of Colonel Corcoran’s | tention of the Court in Lycoming courty,
¢ f close fi t host | last week ; one in which several parties of
Sentence 0 eiges (gon iferheh aga aosiage Muncy, were indicted at last Court for a
for the privateer Captain, condemned at New rjy1ous assault and battery upon a Mr. Hill
York, had reached Charleston, the effect of | of Moreland while on a visit at the former
the news upon the irish popula ion was ter place on $e 39:4) Sap ier task: oe jar.
; o it. | ty injured was about leaving town to retu
rible. The Irish generally became s0 excit | fonts when's company of mew and boys
ed that two regiments, exclusively Irish, | gy rrounded his conveyance summarily de-
had to be removed to Sullivan’s Island for manding him to take a flag and hurrah for
the purpose of preventing an outbreak. -- | the Union. This arrogant and insolent de-
While this feeling prevails among the sons mand was peremptoiily refused, whereupon
Lian D> these warm patriotic men and boys, whese
of Treland in this country, the voice from j,v. for the Union knew no bounds. searing
Ireland itself. in reference to a war between beyond all law or legal restraints, commenced
England and America, is full of warning.— | in the Joe of Union ans Laan, 2 shoe
i ; . the subject of their malice, by pulling his
The Datin Baier ways 3 hair slapping him in the face, and riding him
War! That war! What doesit mean— ! on a rail, besides numerous other indigni-
what does it mean for Ireland 2 The Irish | ties, unti! he finally complied with their de-
nation, too, has its instiners, and these have | mands,
told it something that fires the eye and slirs| The evidence upon the part of the Com-
the blood of youth and sire all over the land. | monwealth was clear showing a series of
Never, since the shout of American Inde- | outrages ill-becoming the character of men
Mob Law Repudiated in Lycoming Co.
TAR AND FEATHER DESPOTISM SETTLED.
pendence woke an echo in the Church of
Dungannon, has news «0 momentous startled
Ireland. No prophets voice is needed to
foretell what all foresee. Yes, it may be
thet God has healed our long sufi ring. and
heard our fervent prayers. [Ft may be that
whose professions of superior allegiance was
made a pretext to treat a fellow citizen in
this manner. We hope the results of this
trial will prove a lesson to Republican prints
that have endeavored to prejudice the public
mind in favor of the defendents in this case.
at last the day is dawning ‘our cl A verdict of guilty was rendered by the
eyes iy ho 0 us eon Bont twelve men who were sworn to decide the
land ai merica !—betwee England and cause in hand according te the testimony,
millions of our nearest and dearest kindred and the penalty of the law was executed. —
—nz. own very flesh and blood ! Thereare | A strong political interest was brought to
100.000 armed and disciplined Irish soldiers | bear in favor of the defendents, prior to the
iu America —they are the banished Celts | hour of trial, Oftentimes the law in its ful-
hom the Times p aga oned vee git gong l Sindy 18 retarded, its : Spuimants ah
a vengeance ’ ‘on the slopes o ; S
St. ti on did ‘the Trish a of King sl - I
Louis leap more wildly with excitement than pense, if needs be, of individuals who risk
would the vengeful Celts across the Western | her leniency upon a plea of the political
ocean, on the news that England drew the necessity.”
sword agamst America. In that hour the| If the actions of these men had been prov
bitterest memories of a lifetime—memories | nounced patriotic aad worthy of wmitation—
the most terrible that ever exiles bore— | as some professed Union men anxiously de~
would find vent in the'cry for vengeance on | sired—a precedent would have been estab-
their heartless exterminator—-the extermi | lished in Lycoming fraught with uncalcala
ar a i over their CL | ble mischief. The law must be vindicated,
aughed at their sorrows. and mocked at | or our statues might better be buried from
their distress. Yes. it England has cause to | sight. Mob law is the Court to which the
start in high excitement at the news we rebels and * higher law 7’ advocates appeal ;
hi 287 oeiand ae cause Sl id the resort of true patriots or law-abi
eeper. 1e crash of arms in America bro’t | ding citizens.
her freedom once before. She needs but the! The idea that’at times we can ignore all
same firmness, unanimity, and patriotism law —an idea that gained notoriety through
now to grasp it once more. | the published declarations of Daniel S. Dick-
ee linson and others, from whom we might have
The War in Maxico expected better things, whosa former stand
5 2 bit ing and extensive politicai influence had
; The ene b ns Sasha Amis ) T- great weight —is an idea filled with the most
t New York on the rom MeX160 | pernicious res That 5
2 = 10th ult. Communication with the | J a) ia parsind
interior had oo entirely oF hy he Wal jsted by the united co operation of the peo-
operations. regiment o Spanish troops »/e in their willingness (0 ENFORCE THE
started on the 4th. on the Medlin road, for | LAWS. should in the hour of trial advocate
SATS Bit were iva he Aner the policy to jae people to forget their al-
( “FY y 3 3 por pn -
Dn says that Vera Urua is sar- | i ae I
Jpaadd by the Megiang on the Jlng, 3d | ne investigation. A doctrine that we can
almost besieced. o vegetables or fuel] soar above all law, 1m any emergency is one
could reach the city, wd pd of go sufficient in itself as to destroy the stiong-
rime necessity were sadly needed Many | est government that ever existed.— Wil.
of the Spanish troops were sick, and many i St Democrat,
desertions had taken place. There were |
great fears of an attack hy the Mexicans on
Vera Cruz. Three thousand men were to
make a sortie, ‘0 ende vor to-clear the envi- |
rous of the city, so that the market may be
supplied with fresh provisions. Several] .
Spanish sentinels had been shot. interesting bit of news about Queen Victoria
An ig Si he Ruppia Sar | and the i to Jord yous, 27 38 an~
arrived at Vera Cruz with guns, swer to which so much is now depending, —
pounds of powder and other war munitions | You may rely on st as coming from a very
for the Mexican Republic. She was seized | authemic source. It is in substance this :
by the Spaniards as was also a small lot of The original dispatch, concocted hot and
arms abord the briz Puebla. Niue other | strong, as befitted the excited state of the
vessels of the same desciption were expected | British Cabinet as well as the British peo-
soon to arrive, and they will also be confis- | ple on reccipt 0: the Trent affair, was hand-
cated. ed in to the Queen for approval. Victoria is
The English, French. and Spanish flags | queen of a great nation, jealous of its honor
wave ove- the Castle : the Fiench and Eng- | aud rights ; but Victoria is also a Chritian
lish flcets having arrived Most of the! woman and a mother. She recalled to mind
French troops had disembarked Consider | that America and England were united by
able discontent existed among the French | many intimate ties. Ra e, language, reli-
yee
The Paris correspondent of the New York
Post, writing from that city, under date of
Jan. 3d, says ;
1 heard yesterday a very important and
and English at the want of courtesy exhib |
ited by the advance of the allied « xpedition,
in not having hoisted the three flags at first.
Gen. Prim was also at Vera Cruz.
Great activity prevailed among the troops
at Havana, and rumor says they will be sent |
to Vera Cruz. Several cases of insubordina~
tion has occurred among them and three
non commissioned officers were killed by
them. The murderers were publicly garrot-
ed. At Havana sugars were dall ‘and de- |
clining. and the stock in store amounted to
25.000 boxes. There was a moderate aes
mand for molasses,
7 A great effort is being made to expel
Jesse D. Bright. of Indiana from the United
States Senate because he furnished a cers
tain Mr Lincoln with a letter of introduc
tion to Jeft. Davis some time before the at
tack on Fort Sumter, This, and a letter
written by Mr. Bright since the commence-
ment of the war in which he spoke with de-
served severity of the Aholitionists, consti-
tutes the sum and substance of the evidenco
upon which he is arrayed for treason. Now
if the Senate is going to go back to the com
mencement of the war to hunt up traitors.
it will have a good time of it. Mr. Harvey
who now represents the United States at
Lisbon, and who was confirmed by the Sen-
ate, was engaged in a correspondence with
Judge Magrath of Charleston up to the very
moment of the attack on Sumter ; and his
last letter undertook to inform ‘iagrath
what the objects of the expedition dispatch
«d by the Government to Charleston were.
and to induce the South Carolina authorities |
to consent (0 the provisioning of the Fort. — |
The President in his message of the 4th of |
July last says that information was given to |
the Go. einor of South Carolina of the inten
tion to provision Sumter. and if he would |
refrain from attacking the Fort no attempt
would be made to reinforce, the garrison. — |
So 1t seems that other men Berites Mr. Bright
were engaged in hol!dinz communizations
|
commencement of the war. |
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Too Muce For Super —A New York,
paper, overhauling the antecedents? of the:
traitor Shdell, furnishes the following:
He was the son of a taliow chandler, a
parentage of whieh he had the weakness to
be ashamed, and winch was a source then
"and guide.
with leading menof the South before the | gen, respectable waite man ?
in Washington society will, wa suppose
gion, literature, commerce, such were the
considerations which rendered a war with
Amcrica a sort of eivil war in her eyes. —
Then she remembered how the Prince of
Wales had been received among us, and that
thought alone made the idea of war revolting
to her mind. When she ran her eye over
the draft of the instroctions to Lord Lyons,
she exclaimed, “But this war! war
against our flssh and biood— war against
those who have so lately given their hospi
tality to my boy. Ts must not be !”—
Prince Albert was then naturally consilted.
Though the Prince held no political position,
the British press 1s unanimous in admitting
that he was the Queen’s best friend, adviser,
The result was that the Prince
made such modifications in the language and
tone of the dispatch, that from a peremptory
and warlike document, it was transformed
into a calm and courteous message. So
that, perhaps, we owe it to Prince Albert
that our country is saved fiom a disastrous
war with England. For I hear of no one in
the Cabimet of Great Britain but Lord Pal-
merston, ‘whose voice is still for war.”’—
This was the last act of the lamented Prin-
ce’s hfe, and assuredly in the whole course
of his life he never did a more 1mmensoly
important service to his country and te the
world.”’
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Necro EqQuaLmty AT WASHINGTON. —A
weekly paper of this city, stated a short time
since, that negroes were admitted to seats in
the gallery of both houses of Congress, on
equality with wuite persons, and those
who onject to it are told by the doorkeeper
that «this winter itis allowed by the Gov-
ernment.” We have notseen this statement
contradicted. and hence suppose it is true.
Indeed, we do not see why it should not be
trae, for it i8 only logically carrying out
+¢ Republican’ doctrine. If all men, whether
white or black are equals by nature, what
objection can a Republican make to associ:
ating with a decent, respectable black man
on the same terms that he does with a de
We do not
see, upon these principles, why blacks
| should not be invited tothe Presidential re-
ceptions and to all the privileges granted to
white citizens. When the ambassadors
from Liberia and Hayti arrive, K
© |
ugurated. But why should our own {
fully ina v I
negroes be excluded until that time? We
How the Quakers are Supporting the
Government.
While many scons of this respectable
Christian body of anti-war citizens have eith-
er doffed or modified their principle in this
particular since the outbreak of the present
war—so that there is scarcely & regiment in
the army that does not contain more or less
men of Friendly parentage—the Society, as
a whole, stiil mantain their peculiar views
of Christian loyalty. In a recent address to
their brethern’in Maryland the following lan-
guage is contained : ;
+ In the present condition of civil society,
government is indispensable for the security
of life, and the preservation of property ; and
therefore, all who enjoy the benefits of gov-
ernmeat should contribute to defray the ex«
penses of its administration conducted in
such a way as those selected for that respon-
sible duty shall think it rightand proper to
administer it. If everyone were to contri-
bute to the expense of those acts only which
he approves. the government could not be
maintained, and anarchy and confusion with
all their hurtful consequences, must necess-
arily ensue. There would be a great diffi-
culty, too, if not an impossibility, in cons
sistently making the refase], inasmuch as
duties on many articles in use are laid for
precisely the same object, The true position
of Friends in the civil community is, to be
quiet, peaceable citizens, under whatever
government is established over them, cheer.
fully obeying all laws with which they can
comply; and as they are found to do this.
greater respect will be paid to their scruples
for non-compliance with those laws which
they cannot obey, and against which the
grounds of their testimony can be made
more obviously manifest.”
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Tre FOREIGN APPOINTMENTS OF TES Ap-
MINISTRATION. — This Administration has not
been fortunate in its appointments of foreign
Minis ers, with the exception of Mr. Day-
ton, Minister to France, and Mr. Adams,
Minister to England. Mr. llarvey had hard-
lv left the country as Minister to Portugal,
before he was charged by his own party
friends with being a traitor to his country,
by corresponding with a leading Secessionist
in South Carolina about the timc. of the at.
tack upon Sumter—an offence for which
Sumner & Co. are trying to expel Jesee D.
Bright fiom the Senate. Ansom Burlin-
game (the anti slavery Bible man) was re-
fused recognition at the Austrian Capital,
and had to be transferred to.China. Can
Shu z finds Spain so wncomfortable that he
is about to return home in order to take
command in the army. Mr. Corwin desires
to be recalled from Mexico about this time,
when his old Mexican friends are preparing
to welcome the Spanish invaders with
“bloody hands to hospitable graves.” Cas.
sing M. Clay had little more than got com=
fortably warm at St. Petersburg, before he
made up his mind not to stay out of the fight
any longer. Ilecomes home to accept an
appointment in the azmy, and Simon Came
eron succeeds hime as Minister to Russia. A
singular want of adaptation to their posi-
tions seems to have characterized many of
the foreign Ministers appointed by the Ad~
ministration.
Se ES
Ax Irrepressisue Rerorter.—The fol-
lowing incident illustrates the desperate de~
termination of reporters to obtain full par-
ttculars of every important event : Colonel
Baker’s funeral ceremonies took place at Mr.
Webb's. The friends, the honorables, and
military filled the house, and reporters were
shut out. Now came the tug of war. One
reporters efforts alone I will give as a sam-
ple, selecting the victor in the case. Hay-
ing failed in all other efforts to get in, he
brassed it up to General McClellan and ask-
ed a pass. This was ridiculous of course,
as it was neither General McClellan's house
or funeral, and the reporter was snubbed,—
Off he goes to General Marcy, chief of Gen,
M=Clellan’s staf, and was as cavalierly
treated as he deserved. Round the house
he goes, and, finding the omi present contra-
band, gives him a dollar to shoot him down
the scuttle hole, when round through, lad-
der and loby he creeps to, the side of the
parson. But he dare not use his pencil, lest
it bring on a gentle leading out by the ear.
Down he sits with oneseye half closed in full
funeral flow, and the other on the parson’s
manuscript. The address over, down knelt
the venerable Sunderland to close with pray-
er, down knelt reporter, meek and mousing.
and when all hearts were melting, and al}
eyes were closed save reporter's one, he
stole the manuscript and “slid cannie out.”
Long the weary parson looked for his truant
address, but when the morning dawned, he
was enabled to read it entire in the papers.
try ever engaged, was the Mexican war,
during the administration of President Polk.
Secretary of State, and the late Governor
Marcy, Secretary of War. The most extens
terance of a large army in a distant country,
and millions of money passed through the
hands of the government officers. But we
do not remember that any one of them was
ever charged with peculation and dishonesty.
Certain it 1s that not a whisper was ever
heard affecting the integrity of Mr. Marcy,
and he retired from office enjoving the re-
spect of the whole country. e Democrat-
ic administration of President Polk, in that
campaign, set an example which might have
been profitably followed by those holding
high places under Mr. Lincoln. It certainly
is not necessary to the successful prosecu-
tion of a war that all concerned in conduct-
ing it shall turn highway robbers.— Euston
Argus.
E(GRTCHILDREN AT A Birra. —On the 2d
of August, Mrs. Timothy Bradlee, of Trum-
bul county, Ohio, gave birth to eight chil
dren —three boys and tive giris. Tuey are
all living, and are healthy, but quite small.
Mr. B’s family is increasing fast. He was
married six years ago to Eunice Mowery,
who weighed 273 pounds on the day of her
warriage. She has given birth to two pairs
of twins, and now eight more, making twelve
children in six years. Itseems strange, but
this feature |
have q ite as respectable negroes among us
as can be found mn Liberia or Hayti, and as’
they are admitted to the Houses of Congress |
upon a social equality with the white peo-
ple, we can see no objection to giving them |
and probably is now, of continual mortifica-
[ti related of him that on one occa.
dreaded for her wit, he expressed a desire
for foreign travel. “Ah !" said the lady, I
sion. Perhaps. however, ‘* the lady of the
« That | White House’ stands in the way of this Ab-
as he re- olition programme, and who knows but this
for | By account for the savage assaults upon |
en well i her hy the New England fanatics ?
lity, to have been up to January 1st,
nevertheless is true, Mrs. B. was a twin of
three, her mother and father both being
twins and her grandmother the mother of five
pairs of twins, Mrs. B. has named her boys
after noted and distinguished men ; one after
J R. Gidding. who has given her a splendid
gold medal ; one after the Rev. Hon. Elijah
Chaplain, who gave her a deed of fifty acres
of lund ; and the other after James Johnson,
who gave her a cow:— Letter in N. ¥. Tri~
the same privileges at the Presidential mau | dune.
17 Our losses so far are s2id on author-
11.00
killed ; 22 000 died of disease; 17,000
wounded, aud 6,000 prisoners. :
sive mean: had to be provided for the main«
er eee A Ap
A Contrast. —Decidedly the most bril-
liant military campaign in which our coun~
Ex-Presilent Buchanan was. at that time, ;