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The TWatchman,
Cx ALE SEE, | Editors,
E W. FURE
BELLEFONTE, April 10th, 1862.
Ameeting of the Pemocratic Standing
Committee of Centre county will be held
the Court House, in Bellefonte, on Tuesday
evening, of the April Court, to select Dele
gates to attend the State Convention, at
Harrisburg. on the 4th day of July next.
S. T. SHUGERT,
Chairman.
COMMITTRE :
S. T Shugert, Bellefonte. Henry Noll,
Spring. Alex. Sample, Eerguson. John
Poorman, Boggs. Joseph Roller, Benner.
Joseph McCloskey, Curtin. R. M. Foster,
Miles. D. 0. Cower, Haines, Dr. J. M.
Bush, Patton. John Divens, Walker. Jared
B. Fisher, Gregg. Geo. L. Peters, Union.—-
W. W. White, Harris. John Garbrich,
Marion. John Copenhaven, Taylor. Eb-
enczcr Records. Huston, Daniel Fleisher,
Potter. Jacob Pottsgrove, Halfmoon I.
Buffington, Milesburg. John Smith, Penn.
Vm. Holt, Snowshoe. C. Munson Rush.—
John M. Holt, Burnside. S. B. Leathers,
Toward.
« Save Me from My Friends.”
We have no doubt that Captain W. W.
Brown can say, in all the sincerity of his
heart, “save me from my friends!” We
little expected, six mouths ago, when we
were assailed by the Centre Democrat, and
accused of being traitors and sympathizers
with rebellion, and our incarceration in a
sea-bound prison advocated, that so soon our
principal accuser would find himself the in-
mate of an inland prison, charged with a
flagrant violation of the laws of this land.
Although bis efforls were unceasing to ar-
raign us before the tribunal of public opin
ion for a heinous offence, and our ultimate
incarceration in Fort Warren or Lafayette.
we do now, when adversity has overtaken
him, and retributive justice is fast pursuing
him to the wall, find, stowed away in our
hearts, a volume of sympathy for this delu~
ded follower of an Abolition God. While
we do not pretend to prejudge his case, we
do sincerely hope that when his alleged des
faleation comes to be tested before the prop-
er tribunal, that the Captain may be able to
make a clear case and a clean record, and
come out of prison with his reputation for
honesty untarnished. -
We have reason to believe that the Capt-
ain has been imposed upon by his friends,
and money borrowed from him, for political
purposes, that has never been returned, and
which, in part, makes up the amount of his
defaleation. If such be the case, how infa
mous now for his party friends, after he has
done their work, (and done it well), to turn
their backs upon him and become his accu-
sers because, in the discharge of his ap-
pointed duty, he has had occasion to use a
little of the people’s money. Why, he 1s
not more than half paid yet for his services
to the Republican and Abolition parties,
and it is ungrateful in them now, after his
work is done, to desert him in his hour of
need. According to present accounts, the
amount of the defalcation 1s too large for his
bail to lose 1t all, and his other numerous
party friends should willingly lend a hand
to raise the amount and relieve him from his
extremity. While we are no apologist for
the immorality of the offence, yet we do
think that his party friends should do this
to show their appreciation of his services.
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Mob Law.
Last week we published an acount
of the mobbing of Wendell Phillips, the
infamous abolition disunionist, at Cin-
cinnati, and this week we give another
account of the mobbing of the Rev. Samuel
Aaron, another abolition cur, at Burlington,
New Jersey. Now, while we honestly be-
lieve that these conspirators against the
peace of the country have only got what
they most richly deserve, yet we feel bound
to say that we totally disapprove of all such
moboeratic demonstrations. As long as
this is a {rec country, every man has a right
to express his opinions, ond any attempt to
interfere with this right, is in violation of
the very spirit of our institutions.
Last Spring and Samer this mob spirit
ran so high amongst the Republican party,
that it was actually dangerous for Demo-
crats, and especially for Democratic edi-
tors, to avow their principles. Indeed quite
a number of Democratic newspaper offices
were demolished during the prevalence of
this infernal rowdyism, and their editors
abused shamefully, or sent off, through the
misrepresentations of onr chiwalrous oppo:
nents, to spend a lonely imprisonment with
in tke gloomy walls of some dismal prison.
We, at that time, condemned this lawless
feeling, and now, although the tables are
"turning, and our Republican friends see
some of their idols getting into trouble,
we still condemn it, and denounce all such
proceedings, as disgraceful and uncalled for,
The better way to treat such men as Phil-
lips and Aaron. is not to go to hear them
lecture, and inthis way, there will be less
danger of their infamous doctrines being
circulated. Keep away from such men.—
Frown them down. Let them sce that the
people love the Constitution more than ab
olition, and be assured that they and their
principles will soon sink beneath the weight
of public contempt.
aterm
n7=1¢ is singular how rapidly some young
gentlemen from the country lose their color
when visiting large cities. They go there
vary green, and invariable come away done
very |roen.
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enough ; we now intend to see what can be
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system, and for our part we iutend to stop
it. lt is high time printers were beginning
to have seme common sense, and we
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Another Popular Revulsion.
Tt 18 easy to discern the beginning of re
newed opposition to the introduction of ne-
gro labor at the North, in competition with
that of white men. The antipathy to the
black race, aiways irreconcilable, is more
clearly manifest in prospect of fresh acces<
sions from the Southern States. We may
expect to hear of anti-negro associations,
and of the exclusion of free blacks from dif-
ferent States, until this unfortunate class is
driven to foreign shores for a refuge. Col
onization is the inevitable accompaniment of
emancipation. While all kinds of business
is suppressed. pending the war, there is sure
to be a plethora of labor in the North ; and
when the army is released from military
pursuits, this evil will be still more aggravat
ed. The negro will find no” place here, ex:
cept in the most menial pursuits. The prej-
udice already existing against cclor is an ef.
fectual bar to the ambition of almost every
man of African descent ; but if in the course
of time, this feeling should gain strength,
the condition of free blacks in the Northern
States is hkely to be more pitiable than
ever before. To carry out with success any
general scheme of emancipation, the country
may as well conclude to spend untold mil-
lions in remunerating Southern owners, (un-
less the Constitution is first torn to pieces)
and additional millions for the purpose of
colonizing in some distant land where white
men can trouble no more, and the negro can
be at rest.—Journal of Commerce.
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A New Convert to the Union Cause.
Like an oasis in the desert to the weary
traveler, is the occasional sign of repentance
and reformation on the part of the Republi-
can press to the Union cause. The Buffalo
Commercial Advertiser, hitherto, a most
rampant and moboeratic Republican print.
and one of the most influential and widely
circulated papers in Western New York, has
finally waked up to a realizing sense of the
evil of fanaticism, North and South. and
talks out boldly and strongly for conserva-
tism ag evinced in the following extract from
a leading article. Tt contains a great “deal
of sound common sense within a small com.
pass, and is well worthy the attention of
all:
“ Northern Fanatics can now see that all
our woe has proceeded from their foolishness.
Had it not been for their agitation. and the
spirit of resistance which it engendered, the
present Border slave States would now have
been free, and rebellion would never have
dared to show its head. By conceding
State Rights to the South, and declining to
meddle with its purely domestic institutions
the North withdraws every plausible pretext
for Southern complaint, and, at the same
time, will ultimately accomplish all that its
most blatant philanthropists could desire. —
Slavery cannot thrive without opposition.
Its doom is written upon the barriers which
God has placed aboutit. When it shall
have grown beyond the requirements of
Southern sloth, it will become a burthen. —
It will then begin to grow upon the vitals of
Southern life, and it will be cast off as a
means of self-preservation.”
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7 None but a physician knows how
much a reliable alterative is needed by the
people. On all sides of us, inall communi
ties everywhere there are multitudes that
suffer from complaint that nothing but an
alterative cures. Hence a great many of
them have been made and put abroad with
the assurance of being effectual. But they
fail to accomplish the cures they promise
because they have not the intrinsic virtues
they elaim. ‘In this state of the case, Dr.
J. C. Ayer & Co., of Lowell, have supplied
us with a compound Extract of Sarsaparilla
which does prove to be the long desired
remedy. Its peculiar difference from other
kindred preparations in market is that it
cures the disease for which it is recommen=
ded while they do not. We are assured of
this fact by more than one of our intelligent
Physicians in this neighborhood and have
the further evidence of our own experience
of its truth, — [Tennessee Farmer, Nashville,
Tenn
The Rebel Line of Defence.
| So far as the Western campaign is concern
ed, there is no doubt that the place where
the rebels are to m.ke their final stand has
been reached. The naticnal forces have
reached the interior line of defence, upon
which rests all the hopes of the rebellion
west of the Alleghenies. The rebels have
placed themselves upon a line where the
great Memphis and Charleston railroad furs
nishes them with ready communication be-
tween their posts, and facilitates the con-
centration of troops at any threatened point.
Resting upon Memphis, Corinth, Florence,
and Chattanooga, with their best generals
hard at work, they are preparing for a des~
perate resistance, in a position of undoubted
strength. Whatever power they can gum
mon te their aid we may expect to meet
now, since the loss of their present Jine |
leaves them with no place of retreat or ve-
newed defence, and destroys their last hope
in the Mississippi valley. Let the heroes of
Donelson repeat the deeds done there, and
the Northwest will see 1ts great avenue to!
the galf onee more open.
The Boston Advertiser remarks, it is a
matter of some interest to see that in this
state of things, there are three events that
may force the rebels to abandon so much of |
their scheme as includes the valley of the
Mississippi. A defeat of that portion of
their army near Corinth. would probably
lead to the evacuation of Memphis and all
paints a hove that place ; the reduction of
Island No. 10—which, however, does not
seem to be pressed —would probably lead to
the same result ; while the success of the
attack upon New Orleans, now supposed to
be in progress, would probably place a Fed-
eral flotilla below Memphis at a very early
moment. And the operations seem to be so
combined that while either event will pro-
duce the grand result, the failure of neither
will alone prevent it.
We observe a good many suggestions
thrown out, that in this state of the case the
rebels may transfer to their Southern line a
part of their Virginia forces and thus over-
whelm the columns of Halleck—content to
purchase success at one point by the risk
of exposure at another. It is not easy to
recognize the probability of this, however,
Virgt iia is not a State to be abandoned so
easily. Apart from the fact that it contains
the rebel capital and ghat great storehouse
of stolen property, Norfolk, the politi-al
consequence of the State is such that it
must be one of the last to be dropped. In
abandoning Tennessee, it was possible to
make a virtue of necessity : the State was a
late comer, and not a very willing one. But
Virginia, the mother of States and the nurse
of treason, the leader of the contederacy and
the most distinguished of its members —such
a State is not abandoned while hope lives. —
Some provision has been made. however,
even for the possibility of troops being with
drawn from Virginia. Had not Gen. Burn-
side been delayed for nearly three weeiss by
the elements and his difficulties at Hatteras,
he would probably already have cut off one
great line by which this transfer could be
effected ; while at the same time intima-
tions reach us from time to time of the pro-
gress of our forces towards the eastern Ten-
nessee lines.
That as this final position of defence ,is
approached, however, there shonld be some
apprehension is natural. Lt is impossible at
the moment of any docisive struggle not to
feel some anxiety for the resalt. And in
the present case it is probable that the forces |
on each side will not be so unequal as to|
prevent much from being left to depend ap-
on ganeraiship, and much upon the constan-
cy and courage of the troops. But what
have our troaps to meet that they have not
met already —what quality is to be called for
that they have not already ®exhibited, and
what resource of strategy that has not al-
ready been found at our command 2 We
may safely leave the result in the hands of
such men as achieved the victory of Donel-
son, and such skill as that which months
ago traced upon the map with sure prophecy
the series of successes which has crowned
our arms in the West thas far.—Patriot &
Union. y
——— DOG
Speech of Mr. Yancey at New Orleans.
We have heretofore alinuded to Mr. Yan-
cey’s speech, wade in New Orleans, on the
evening of the 13th ult. There is a great
deal of curiosity expressed amongst all class:
es to know more about it. We, therefore
give the following synopsis, which we find
in the Huntsville (Ala.) Advocate, of the
19th ult :
Mr. Yancey is decidedly of the opinion
that the Soath has no friends in Europe, and
that the North is in a similar condition. He
says there is a very stronz prejndice in all
of Burope against the South in consequence
of the erroneous impression which prevails
in reference to the institution of slavery. —
There are many persons in E rope who con
sider the Southern people semi-civilized,-and
believe that negroes are raised upon the plan
that stock is. There is no disposition to in-
terfere in American affairs.
The blockade enables the British holders
of the great staple (colon) to realize an im. |
mense advance upon its cost In consequence |
of the scarcity of the article, These holders |
are the wealthy few who have the ear of the
Government, Another reason for not inter-
fering with the blockade was the belief that
the scarcity of the article and the remote
prospect of obtaining a supply from this
country would create such a demand for
East India cotton as to increase its culture to
a very considerab e extent. J
Another reason in Mr. Yancey’s opinion,
why European Powers will not interfere in
PEN, PASTE AND SCISSORS.
J The more a bad wan sleeps, the bet
ter; his sleep is the next best thing to death-
J7In the heart of every wan eminently
great, the lion and the Janb dwell togeth-
er.
(Patience 1s a virtue. When your
wife wants a new shawl suffir her to wait
for it. :
07 Virtue forgives injury, even as the
sandal tree perfumes the hatchet that félls
it.
[I> Permits or passes arc no longer need-
ed to cross the Potomac ¢t Washington,
after having been in force nearly a year.
17 The scarcity of galt at the South is
terrible. The children are actually forced to
cry with fresan water tears.
I= Tenacity of purpose 1s the indespen-
sable condition of success in whatever you
undertake. You must learn to hold on.
177A married monster said that he lately
dreamed that he had an angel by his side,
and upon waking up found 3t was nobody but
his wife.
1"Col. Jonah Sandford, of tife New York
Ninety-second regiment, is more than seven-
ty years old.
[Senator Sumner is still at his favor
ite hobby, trying to ride the negro. He has
introduced into the Senate a bill to make the
negroes mail carriers.
J7 The cattle disease is prevailing fo an
alarming extent in Burlington Co, N. J. A
couple ‘of farmers have already lost 26 cows
by the disease.
177A flax manufactory is to be erected at
Chicago. Quite as good flax can be raised
in [llinos and most of the western States as
in Ireland.
{7Capt, Ericsson has made a model for a
sea going Monitor, 340 feet 1n length, which
seems to meet with favor among the naval
men.
17 The official list of the loss of the Uni.
ted States troops at the battle of Pea Ridge,
is 212 killed, 926 wounded, and 174 are mis-
sing, .
I Several of the colored men, who some
time since left Lewistown for Hayti, have
returned with discouraging accounts of the
land of promise.
17 Previous to the Rebellion there were
27 daily newspapers published mn Virgina ;
there 18 now said to be but 7, and most of
them very much cartailed in size.
77 Thé N. O, Delta says that Tennessee
can never pocket the insults of the Federal
Government Prentice thinks she might.
She had nothing to pocket for a good
while.
1-7 General Bushrod Johnson, who was
captured at Fort Donelson, and who after
wards made his escape, is treated with
contempt in the South. and refused a com
mand, because he broke his parole of hon-
or.
0Z= Pilleww damns Buckner, and Buckner
damns Pillow, and the only thing in which
they agree is in damning Floyd, while Floyd
in his turn damns both, and the world 1 its
tarn damans all three.— Louisville Journ
al.
7 When you see a man on a moonlight
night trying to convince his shadow that it
is improper to follow a gentleman, you may
be sure that it is high time for him to joina
Temperance society.
77 Whau is the difference between an ac-
cepted and a rejected lover 2 The one kis-
ses his Missus, and the other misses his
kisses.
T7>Carrying politeness to excess is said
to be raising your hat to a young lady in
the street, and allowing a couple of dirty
collars and a pair of socks to fall out upon
the sidewalk.
77"The Confeds laughed at us a good
deal last summer, and called us a pack of
Bull Runners. Since their late evacua~
tion in Virginia. we don’t see why they
haven't shown themselves to be perfect Men-
asses.
From WESTERN VIRGINIA.- - Wheeling,
April 3, ~The vote in this city to day gives
646 majority for the new Constitation, and
a majority of 558 in favor of gradual eman-
ecipation.
f7Milwaukie, Apri! 3.—The municipal
election held in this city, resulted in the
suceess of the Democratic candidate, Horace
Chase for mayor and nearly the entire Dem-
ocratic ticket.
N7For over thirty years the Democratic
party has been in existence without a change
of name, ohject, or character. During the
same time the Oppositionhave arrayed un-
der as many titles as there were years, and
their platforms have been as various as the
hues of the forest.
~The Charleston Courier says that the
planters in Mississippi are piling up their
cotton ready for the fagot the moment the
enemy advances. They are also sending
their servants up the river to work on the
fortifications, and they say they are ready
to make any sacrifice the Government may
require.
17~The editor of the Syracuse (N.Y)
Journal says he saw a specimen of ripe
strawberries last Friday from the green
house of Hamilton White. Esq of that city.
The berry was ripe and fragrant, and Mr.
White will have, in a week, an abundance
for the supply of his table.
17700 monday at Newtown, N. Y,, a
kerosene oil factory exploded, setting fire to
the building and burning two men in a
American affairs is the hope and belief that |
a permanent dissolution of the United States |
will weaken a nation of whose prosperity |
and greatness they had become jealous.-—!
They hope to see the war protracted until
both divisions are involved in ruinous debt, |
to hang over them like an incubus for years
to come. |
He inclines to the opinions that England!
and France would sooner interfere to prevent |
a reconstruction of the Union than for any
other purpose. And he believes that, unless
their starving operatives, engaged in the!
marufacture of cotton fabrics, compel them
to interfere, they will stand aloof until they ,
see the South is about to conquer its inde.
pendence, or fallin the attempt. He has!
no hope of recognition of the Confederate
States by either of these Powers until the
occurrence of one of these events.
of these facts, Mr. Yancey is of opinion that
we might as well recall our Commissioners
from Earope and await the action of foreign
Powers— wait until they propose negotiation
and recognition.
ea ii——
(177 Avarice is the mother of crimes: it
is by a thirst for woney that men are entiged
and misled.
In view |
shocking manner. They survived their
injuries but a few hours. The names of the
deceased were John Quigley and Andrew
Corcoran.
7" The amount of bulk meat confiscated
and seized by the Government on the Cum.
berland river, mostly at Nashville. Tenn
was very large, amounting to 3 000 000
unds, bat a large portion of it is said to
have soured.
T7At a Sunday Schoo! meeting in Ohio.
the subject of the slim attendance of pupils
at the school being under consideration, a
promising young lawyer offered the follow-
ing resolution.
Resolved, That a committee of young la-
dies and gentlemen be appointed to raise
children for the Sabbath School.
»
177A writer in the Faston Sentinel re:
commends Hon. Heister Clymer, now State
Senator from Berks county, as a suitable
candidate for Governor. Mr Clymer is one of
the ablest Senators that now hold a seat in
that body, and would make a capital Gov:
ernor, His election would produce great
consternation among the ** shoddy patriots”
and government plunderers.—Clearfield Re-
publican. -, -
Phillips Friends.
What will the abolitionists in car Penan-
sylvania Legislature who granted the dis
unionist Phillips the use of the Hall, say to
his being mobbed. If a tithe of what has
been recently uttered by this itinerant mis-
chief maker had boen spoken by any cham-
pion of treason on the opposite side, the
whole tribe who follow, applaud and idolize
Philips would clamor for the immediate 1n-
carceration ef his adversary in Fort Warren
or Fort Lafayette. Yet we see a party ma-
jority in the Senate of our loyal and conser-
vative Commonwealth patronizing this
preacher of discora and disunion. ‘What ’s
the probable character of his proposed specch
in the Senate; it is very well the public
should know, and we design to devote some
space to their enlightenment. 4
We have seen no full report of the recent
harangue of Phillips in Phila. but the 7'rib-
une of March 18th furnishes a six column
report of the speech he made in Washington-
on the previous Friday, and from this we
extract sufficient to show the people of this
latitude what character of man and what
quality of sentiment their Senators have ta-
ken under their encouragement, patronage
and protection. What follows is quoted
from Phillips :
« Now, 1 love the Constitution, though
my friend (Dr. Pierpont) who sits beside me
has heard me curse il a hundred times, and
1 shall again if it does not mean justice. I
have labored nineteen yearsto take nineteen
States out of this Union, and if 1 have spent
any nineteen years to the satisfaction of my
Puritan conscience, it was those mineleen
years.”
four, ‘iaryland 1s a free State, Delaware and
half Virginia, would to God that building
(the Capitol), with this city of Washington
had been shelled to ashes last July.”
Speaking of the origin of the rebellion,
Phillips declares that ‘it was no body's
fault,” but that ¢ it is the inevitable results
of the seeds our fathers planted seventy
years ago ;”’ and in another place, but on
this same subject, in his flippant and impi~
ous style of remark concerning the Deity
and the venerated founders of the Republic,
he says of the latter that they *‘ dare uot
trust God.”
Referring to William Lloyd Garrison, the
inveterate disunionist— who kept standing,
time out of mind, at the head of his paper,
the infamous sentiment that the venerable
men who framed the Constitution had made,
wigh hell ’—this protege of the Senators of
Pennsylvania characterized him as “a man
who had done more in the providence of God
to shape the fate of this generation than any
other one,” and that he* (Phillips), was
‘proud to sit at his (Garrison’s) (eet.”’
While Pmilips was staying at Washington
a correspondent of Beccher’s paper the Inde-
pendent, writing from the Capitol, says :
+ Last Friday afternoon Wendell Phillips
walked into the Senate Chamber upon the
arm of Mr. Sumner. The Senate was in
session, and hy the rules Mr. Phillips was
excluded, but the doors opened politely to
receive him, as they occasionally do to let
mn distinguished men. No sooner in, thin
half the Senate rushed to greet him. Mr,
Phillips was no longer the despised ~bolt
tionist, the crazy disunionist, the * nigger
stealer,” but the distinguished anti slavery
orator from Massachuseus, Senators vied
with each other to do hun honor; even
Cabinet members, during his stay here, have
bestowed the most courteous attentions up-
on him, and no fashionabie concert, opera,
reading or theatrical performance ever set
Washington upon its feet like the simple
announcement of his lectures. He had for
audience on Friday night the elite of the
capital, in intellect and position.
It is a burning shame to the country that
the American Scuate should be thus dis
graced, :
a Ll evel
Passage oF THE EMANCIPATION RESOLU-
TioN. —'he Senate of the United States has
passed the resolution proposed by the Pres
ident, and previously adopted by the House,
to extend National aid to such slave States
a8 shall see fit to adopt the policy of gradual
emancipation. The vote stood—yeas 32,
nays 10, ‘I'hree Senators representing slave
States voted in the affirmative, namely, Mr.
Davis, of Kentucky. Mr. Willey, of Virginia,
and Mr. Henderson, of Missouri.
1t now remains for the border slave States
to say whether they will adopt this proposi-
tion, [It is not surprising that three of their
Senators should have voted for its passage,
because in every aspect it is to their advan-
tage. [It 1ecognizes—
Flrst. The absolute control which each
State posscsses over its domestic concerns
and institutions.
Second. That the Federal Government
has no power to interfere with slavery in any
State without the consent of such State;
and”
Third. That in case any State wishes to
dispose of its negroes, the Government will
purchase them.
We do not affirm that it would be just to
the non-slaveholding States to compel them
to pay for a parcel of (to them) worthless
negroes ; nor do we anticipate that theywill
ever be called upon to do so, In this par-
ticular the resolution will probably remain
a dead letter —at least so long as the Border
States remain of their present mind ; but in
compelling the extremists in Congress to
subscribe to principles they have been at-
tempting to overthrow, the President has
constrained them to make a record which
must estop them in the fature, from pushing
their unconstitutional projects for uncondi-
tional emancipation. So far no harm is
done. —Patriot & Union.
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AN ApoLrTioNist MosB&D.— BURLINGTON,
N. J., March 28. ~The Rev. Samuel Aaron,
a Baptist preacher of Mount Holly, N. J.,
attempted to deliver an abolition lecture at
the city hall last evening. He commenced
by denvuncing the Administration and
avowing himself opposed to the manner in
which the war was conducted, whereupon
the crowd commenced hissing and storming
him with eggs. 'L'his produced much ex-
citement, especially among the ladies in the
audience. Several of them jumped out of
the windows. In the meanwhile the crowd
was crying, “Kill him, tar and feather him.”
The Mayor of the city was present, and ea-
deavored to stop the confusion, but did not
succeed. Finally Mr, Aaron withdrew, and
was taken away by his friends. No one
is hurt so far as is known.
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Re ELrcren. —Governor Sprague has been
re-elected Governor of Rhode Island, without
opposition, All the present incumbents of
the State offices were also reelected. In
the General Assembly, the Democrats and
Constitutional Union men have a majority
{of 36.
¢ Unless within twelve months or twenty |.
«an agreement with death and a covenant |
5 F*No clo OF (
counter movements of the armies of the
two belligerents for the past few weeks oan
doubt hat » battle 1s’ soon to be fought,
which, in magnitude and destruction of life,
has as yet no parallel in the whole course of
this sanguinary strife. The Confederates
are marshalling their hosts from the Poto-~
mac to the Indian Territory, and from Is-
land No. 10 to the Southern Gulf. . Braxton
Bragg comes from his I esome “prison at
Pensacola and Mobile Bay, bringing bis
well-drilled if not well disciplined of
artillerists to the pumber of thirty thous-
and. Evans, the Georgian, comes from Mas
nagses with the flower of that army, who
fought us last July, in pumbers about forty
Shonguads a
ohnston, the renowned Albert Sydne
of Mormon aud Bowling he oe,
with his army, which a short time since fled
in such a panic through this quiet city, has
restored order to his command and now
comes to wipe out the dishonor of that fight
with about 20,000 n.en. Then comes the
Rev. Gen. Polk, marshalling his hell hounds
from Columbus and the river batteries, in
all about 30,000. Then they have numer-
ous other Generals with numerous other
hosts from the various States of the South.
west, till thé rebels have concentrated a
force, whose right wing rests at Decatur,
Ala., and left at Island No. 10, in the Mis-
sissippi River, the whole forming a semicir-
cle of about 200,000 men, under. the best
Rebel General, Pierre Toutan Beauregard.
Their foroes are well arranged to take ad-
vantage of a victory which. they e will
surely crown their endeavors; and deed
they have an army more formidable in all
respects than any we have yet encountered.
Beauregard, since he came West, has been
very laboriously and ‘successfully engaged
in bringing order out of disorder and cours
age out ot dismay, and generally reorgan-
izing the whole army by displacing the old
and cowardly and those who had been tried
and found wanting. Pillow and Floyd are
entirely without commands, and Breckin-
ridge, the child of flattery, has only a small
brigade. Gen. Polk, too, has been almost
stripped of his command, and many others
of the like stamp I might mention.
He has arranged all ms numerous éavalry
so that he avails himself of their ‘utmost
capacities, where generally they were so
worse than useless. Some of them, as Mor-
gan (of whom I can find adventures enough
to write a full letter) and Forrest, keep con-
stantly harassing our pickets and getting
in our rear and acting as spies, and such
guerrilla style ag'that, while the main force
he has near Fort Pillow, drilling continually
that-may be expert in following up our re-
treating forces, and he confidentiy thinks
to use them in that manner. Then he has
a large fleet which has recently been bro’t
up from New Orleans, with which he hopes
to overcome Commodore Foote Such is the
i of our foes. Truly a formidable
ost.”
"egro Legislation at Harrisburg.
The irrepressible negro has ‘‘turned ap’
in & new character at Harrisburg. Two
bills were introduced into the House to pre.
vent colored persons from entering the State
under penalty of imprisonment, These
bills have been supported by numbers of let-
ters from wechanics and workingmen of eva
ery grade in Philadelphia, who appear to
have taken alarm at the reaent influx of ne-
groes. :
Mr. Lichtenwallner introduced the fol.
lowing : 3
An act to protect the white laborers of
this State from the encroachment of negroes
coming from other States. .
Whereas, The present unhappy civil war
wiil in all Diobaplicy compel & large num
ber of negroes and mulattoes from the
Southern States to flee into the Northern
States to their friends for protection, to. the
great injury of the white citizens, particu-.
larly the laboring classes ; therefore
Be it enacted, &c., That from and after
the passage of this act, it shall not be law-
ful for any negro or mulatto of either sex to
come into this State, either for the purpose
of making it his or her temporary or perma-
nent home, or for any purpose whatever,
unless he or they have previously been a
resident of this State, which fact” must be
proven by at least three white citizens of
the township, borough or ward in which he
or she claims to have been a resident, to the
satisfaction of a magistrate of such town~
ship, borough or ward. A ar
the Sheriff of any county in this State, every
constable and police officer of any township,
city or borough, to arrest all such
or mulattoes coming into this State -
non-residents, and convey them to the near
est magistrate or judge, who shall give them
a fair and impartial heariog ; and if it shal}
appear upon such examination
they are non residents of this State,
direct the constable in attendance to return
such negro or negroes to the State from
whence they last hailed or claimed a |
of residence—the expense of such arrest,
hearifig and return to be paid by the State,
Section 3. If any steamboat captain, rait-
road conductor. bi any other person ghall
entice or persuade any negro or mulatto to
come into this State, or ar them Baa
lation of this act, or shall conceal or attemp!
to conceal such negros or mulattoes, he or
they so offending shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor, and upon conviction of such
offence before any Court of this Common-
wealth, having competent jurisdictien, shall
be fined in a sum not less than fifty nor
any future offence his fine shall be doubled,
and in addition undergo an imprisonment of
not less than six months nor more than
twelve months, at the discretion of the
Court ; one fourth of the fine to be ‘to,
the person making the arrest i the
to be paid to the State, © y
GETTING Lapsercons focling! of uheagi-~
ness seems to pervade the black Republican
papers in New York in view of the late Dem=
cratic victories in that State. The Palmyra
Courier, (Republican) in contemplating £
defeat of its party at home, makes the {oliows
ing confession : : fe
¢¢ Disguise the fact as we may, itis’ be.
coming clear to every unprejudiced eye,
that the Democratic party is rapidly gaining
the vantage ground in this town. Te 8’ true
but in all candor we urge that broader and
wisercounsels must prevail, or the Republi
can party, not only in this town, but all oger
! the district, will have to stand aside for the
| slow but surely increasing tread of our op
ponents. ‘This 1s a sad and humiliating con«
i fession, but itis nevertheless true."
Section 2. It is hereby made the duty of
oi
judge or magistrate hoaring the case shall
more than $500 ; and for the second and for °
the large Irish vote helps to swell their ranks
®
vy
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