@he Tdatchman,
Friday Morning July, 25, 1862.
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.
FOR AUDITOR GENERAT,
ISAAC SLENKER,
OF UNION COUNTY.
FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL
JAMES P. BARE,
OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY.
HON. THOMAS A. SCOTT.
This gentleman, long known as tte accom -
plished Vice Prés'dent of the Pennsylvania
Central Riilroad Company, and more lat.
torly as the:zble assistant Secretary of War
from which post he has but recently retive 1 |
is, probably, one of ths greatest anl most
suceessful railroad men of this. or any age,
Connected with the celebrated J. Tdgnr
Thompson in the management of that mag.
nifizent thoroughfare, the Pennsylvan in
Central Railroad, his eminent abl ty and
the unfailing harmony of his movem nts
in the transportation of troops and supplies
for the Government al a time when all was
in disorder, attracted to him the attention
of the President, wh Lad looked in vain for
some master mind to bring order out of (ho
chaos of confusion which cverywhera pre.
vailed. Seeing and appregiating the tran
seendant ability with which Mr. Scott dis. | that he doc
charged the onerous duties of Lis high po.
sition, and the regularity and system whick,
«ander his management, charaaierized
! Central Road, Mr. Lincoln at once appointed
him’ General Director of all the railcads for
Negro Insuirections.
There was ng more general « belief which
bad been inculeated in the Northern mind,
previous tv the breaking out of the present
war, than that, should tlie Southern people
dare to fight; they would be overwhelmed
was held up as an clement of weakness, as
“the skeleton in the house,” which would
assuredly become endowed with life and
blood if the Southern people ventured to aps
peal to the sword. From the stand point
which these men occupied, this idea of what
the negroes would do was very natural. —
They reasoned that he was aman like white
men and would therefore act as white men
would, under similar circumstances. But
how terribly have events disappointed all
ther calculations! The entire Abolition
press, one year and a half ago, said that
“the rebellion of their masters would be the
slaves’ opportunity,” and a fire :n the rear
would soon disband all the armies which the
South could raise. But how are the facts to
dey * Why, with an army much larger
than ours, areording to the population, not a
single difficulty with the negroes has occur.
red! This, it would seem, ought io open
the eyes of even the most deluded Aboli
tionist to the falsity of his theory. Some
of them, like Thurlow We ;
their mistake in this respect, and nearly all
now adopt the theory that ““lavery as an
clanent of shength and not of weakness)!
These arc changds in public opi
are somewhat rex 1
noted,
», acknowledge
n° which
ve tobe
ble
How easily people might arrive at
the Truth, 1f they only would! If the four
millions of negroes in the South were men
like curselves, except in. color, does any one
suppose they would not have taken adyan-
tage of the opportunity to escape fron bond-
age which this w Can we
imagine any four m :
* has afforded ?
5 of white so deg
chances to s What folly,
the | to his master as ever,
then, to indu that the ne-
| gro has the fi ous or nature of
the white n ¢ had, he would act
like a w th 3 but this war bas
IV
He shows no I
“freed i lition
inves same attachment
and has not made an
4 cept where he
from
off,
has, in a’ few in
t to gain his li
away
the transportation of troops and supplies, | work,
in the Union, and the result proved that the |
choice was one cminentiy fit to be made, —
‘ibe change was at ofice apparent. System
took the place of disorder and thereafter the | only there.
is incapable of insurrection.
great military thorough. fares of the Union
were 50 conducted that the Government had
mot the least diffizulty in the attain-
soent of its objects. Afterwards when the
pressure upen the War Department became
so great that the Sceretary was not zble to
attend to all its multifarious dutics and an
. assistant was indispemsable, Mr. Scott was
offered and accepted the position, which he
dilled with great ability and with the same
success which has charactirized all of his
efforts of a public nature,
Upon the recent éepariure of Mr. Thomp-
son, the President of the Central Road, for
Europe, Mr. Scott resigned his position as
Assistant Secretaay of War, in order that
he might devote bis whole attention to the
wants of thet great highway of travel which
was thus left entirdly under his coritrol, And
the immense business of the road and its
«constantly increasing greatness are but the
evidences «of his untiriyg energy
and sleepless vigilance. Mr. Scott
was but a poor boy once, but hasrais.
-ed himself by his own talents and extraors
«inary industry, froma common rail-road
«employee to the proud position of Vice Pres
dent of the greatest line of raii road in the
United States, and le will hereafter be
ranked amongst the most cminent of the
great railroad minds of our country,
We allude to the brilliant career of Mr.
Scott, now, only to show what energy and
industry, if rightly dirccted, will’ do for a
man ; and we hope that «ll of our friends
who read this article, will resolve to pattern
after his example.
————— BO ee
The KEuntingden Globe.
£¢And he has gone,
The pany puke whose prineiples were purchased
For a shilling.’
‘Bill Lewis the cditor of the ITuntinzdon
~G1dic, has gorit over to the Abdlitionists,
» body, breaches and boots. If they have
+ given over five shillings, or prowiged him an
« office Higher than that of sircet scavenger,
: they have paid dearly fur’ their “whistle,”
and done more than was necessary to gocure
« his services. For the past two years the
"Globe has beer a mere “milk *nd water?
concern—a perfect noncn:ty in an influential
way.
Cringing to abolitionism like a cowardly
cur to his master, it bas naturally become
the tool of horse jockeys, ‘‘shoddy” patri
cots, and treasury plunderers—a position
which the principles of poor Bill eminently
Ait him for, and which, we feel onfident, he:
vil: with a becoming grace and sowe
ability.
Whether the Democracy of Huntingden
county ever joocked upon him as their reps
resentative we know not, but we do know,
that they have long since withdrawn their
patronage and refused 5 support him.
[Z™ Peterson’s Magazine for August has
been laid on our table, * rich, rare and ra-
cy,” it will well repay a perusal. Terms:
$2,00 for single subseribers. Clubs at low-
er rates. Address Chas. J, Petarson 200
Chesnut St. Philadelphia.
I= A Maine editor thus distinguishes be-
tween diflerent sorts of patriots : ¢ Some
esteem it sweet and decorous to die for one’s
country ; others regard it sweeter to live
for one’s country ; and yet others hold it
to be sweeter still to live on one’s country.’
————e LT Pere
{7 A correspondent asks if the Iunting-
don Globe is a Democratic paper, There is
just about as much democracy in the Globe,
as thera is Christianity in hell, or fiuth mn
the Harrisburg Telegraph.
is, therefore, a
It comes fiom
the fertile brain of Abolitionists, and exists
The negro, by his very nature,
If badly treat-
ed he might revolt at cruelty, as cven ani.
mals will, but as for any systemized revolts
the negro is utterly incapable of it. In cv-
ery instance where =o called negro insusreo-
tions have occurred, they have either been
stimulated by white men, cr been the result
of the mulatto or mixed blood. People,
therefore, who talk of “negro insurrections”
talls nonsense. Tt is not, however, impo.
Ble that the negro way be used by white
miscreants to commit great atroeities..-
With white men to stimulate his passion for
Llood, end develop the vaturally savage ns
stincts of his nature, he may be made a
monster of cruelty. It is only, however,
when his usually tractable and obedient na-
ture is thus perverted that he becomes dan*
gerous.
It is then a blind instinzt of race which
impels him to kill the white infant at the
mother's breast, as remors essly as he
would the grown man. Ttis into this kind
of being that the abolitionists are how ene
deavoring to turn him by jpiacing arms in
his hands. Foiled in their hopes and pray-
ers for “negro insurrection,” they now fall
back upon arming them and turning them
loose as the infuria‘ed and savage encmie®
of society. This antagonism of race, once
exeited, will deluge our country with more
blood than it has yet seen, and turn back
the hands on the dia! of civilization for a
centary. From such a calamity; whatever
clse may occur, may the Almighty shield
our desolated country.
A “negro insurrection
fizment of the imagina
arene ae ;
Our Candidate for Auditor General.
We transfer to our columns, froin the
Lewisburg 4rzus, published in Union coun.
ty, the following, showing the estimation in
which Mr. Sienker, the Démocratic candidate
for Auditor General, is held at home :
+ It is needless for us to speak of the un.
stained character of Mr. Slenker, the nomi.
nee for Auditor * General. The citizens of
Union and neighboring counties are well ac.
quainted. with his h'gh standing as a man of
talent and integrity. and ag an accomplished
lawyer. The large vote polled in his favor
during the recent Judicial contest in this
district, is a convincing exponent of the
great estimation in which he is held by the
citizens of this portion of the Sate, and wil]
serve as a powerful recommendation for him
to other districts. We feel confident * that
every honest, Union loving man who is acs
quainted with his superior merits will give
him his vigorous and earnest support, and
to those who do not have the honor of a per-
sonal acquaintance we would say, be assur.
ardent friends have represented him to be ;
sustain him, help us to place him in the posi-
tion for which the Democracy and conserva -
and we pledge you our honor that you will
find him a man capable for the responsibility
and trustworthy of the distinction, and an
officer of whom all will approve. We are
sorry to sce that he has already been so
bascly, so insuferably slandered and vilified
by men who claim to be free of political
prejudices, national in their sentiments, and
devoted to the Union cause. The citizens
cipled minds.
tees
the place to get good fee Cream. If you
don’t believe. it just go and see.
a
TrEASON—T0 be a Democrat,
by negro insurrections, So called “slavery”
Ea
Union Savers and Peace- Makers.
When the Demqeratic party, years ago,
seeing the portentos- ¢londs, which have
sinde burst fo thunders of civil war, hanging
over our heads, and warned the people of
Pennsylvania and the entire North against
the dangers threatened by the Republican
party to ihe integrity of the Union, we were
derisively “ealled ¢ Union-savers.” While
the Republican tied in their processions
and hung from their houses in 1856, banners
and flags with but sixteen stars upon the
blue square, and Democrats admonished the
masses of the people that such conduct - was
treasomable, we were replied to eontemptu-
ously as ‘Union savers” When the Re
publicans were defiantly saying, ¢let the
South go, we can do without them,” and
the Democrats told the people that peaceable
separation was impossible —that a’ dissolu-
Lion of the Federal Union could only be ac-
complished through seas of blood and over
the dead bodies of thousands of ofir: fellow
citizens. we were denounced as ¢ Union-
savers.” When they disrezarded, sneered
at and openly condemned the decisions of
the Supreme Court of the United States, and
the Democracy warned them that their con
duct was a direct blow at one of the consti-
tuent deg r government and
calculated on ate a free and hap
were constantly
$ and * Union
riments of ou
ly to pre
ople into anarchy
reproached. as
Yas . |
political, hiercsies and |
natural and |
mtlics of be.
re noble race—now
! in their
arms
tween men of the
hea the country on which Providence he
bestowed innumerable bl g3 is involved |
ever known—-
and
or wounded by scores up.
in the most terrible civil w
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now, when our f S, Sons brothers |
age —now, whon
ouse in the whole land is a
report from the various
ts desire to |
fone of
ed that he is all, even more than his most |
tive men of the State have nominated him,
of the district arc acquainted with the disres
_putable schemes of these characters, and will
disregard the vile inventions of their unprin-
17 At Fox's, under Garman’s lotel g
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nearly every heart by |
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e—if the, Democratic party |
dreams of any possibility of end
ir ; |
k fresing the |
tauuiin
I we ever
al rights anywhere: we |
the reply, ¢ Ah! you are |
uakers, are yon? We
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the peace |
> in the appellation |
; that we rejoi
ca c mission of the Gos-
pel of Christ is ene of peace—every instinet
of refined humanity eries peace--and the |
8, when they behold the
now devastating this fair land,
0. maker. 1
of p
(
ed war |
unite their
aim throughout the infinity |
+ ¢ Glory to God in the highest, on
1, men.!!
» we are willing fo be called peace- |
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earth peace and good wi 1 towar
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makers, and we are willing to make peace |
whenever 1t can be done honorably and with-
lower than the SUifT |
> pride and fanaticism of |
the northern abolitionists and wicked south- |
sionists are already humbling and |
degrading us:
Union savers! and peace-makers ! names
given to the Democratic party by its politi
cal opponents in derision, will soon. become
names of pride and honor —if they are not
so already —proud appellations for any party
in any country to bear! May their spirit
and meaning sink deep into the hearts of
men, and soon, very soon, yield to our tora,
wounded, bleeding and distracted nation the
golden fruits of peace, happiness and unity.
-=Lauzern Union.
——— Tee
Leiter From Hon. ¥. W. Hughes.
cut humiliating ou
necked and perv
ern sec
tts
The 2 ing letter from lon. BF. W.
Hughes, President of the Democratic. Con-
vention and Chairman of the State Central
Committee, is a complete answer to the false
representations originating in the columns
of the Telegraph : :
To Messsrs, O ‘Barrett & Co., Editors of
the Patriot and Union, Harvishurg :—Gun~
TLEMBN :—I extract the following from your
weekly issue of this inst :
“ DriveN 70 rae Warr. —The abolition
ists are eatainly driven to the wall for ar-
gument against the Democratic Convention.
Lhe Telegraph says the Chairman, I. W,
Itughes, has a brother in the secession arty
and the Pr 8 a nephew. When such
eminent falsifiers disagree, itis a difficult
matter to decide, but assuming that ‘one or
the other is correct, it does not follow that
Mr. Hughes is his brother's or his nephew's |
keeper.” 5 Lilt
Although I do “not suppose that these
“eminent falsifiers” will care to know the
truth, and although all of us too well know
one of the worst features of this, like that of
other civil wars, is to rupture family tios,
yet for the sake of truth, I furmsh you’ the
following statements, viz: J have no bro-
ther in the secession army and never had.—
While for one hundred and fifty years past
my ancestors were, Pennsylvanians ( and
among them one who commanded a troop of |
horse in the Revolutionary war, and was |
wounded in battle, from the effect of which |
he never recovered) yet I had, av
breale of this rebellion, brothers in the rebel
States. One of them was accused of trea.
son to the Southern Confederacy, and upon
proof of Lis open and avowed Union senti-
ments, was sentenced to be hung by a vigi-
lance committee in Georgia, which sat in
judgment upon him. From them and the
prepared halter he made a most narrow es-
cape mto North Carolina. Here a socond
committee pursued him, because of declara-
tior:s made by him there, and from them,
through the aid of personal friends, he man-
aged to make his second cseape, and hurried
back; by the way of Louisville, to this (his
native) State. As regards my nephews, I
cannot certainly say whether I have or have
nob a nephew in the secession army at this
time; but it may gratify these “eminent fal-
sifiers™ to know that at one time I had two
nephews in the secession army ; but let me
add; '[ had also at thgsame time two neph-
ews 1 the Federal army.
You rightly judge [ am not a “keeper” of
my brothers or nephews, nor do I claim any
personal merit for the fact that I have two
brothers-in<law in the Federal army, or seek
lo east any reflection upon President Lincoln
by reason of the. fact, us is said, that he has
two brothers~iu~iawin the secession army.
the out-
Yours, I. WW. HUGHES.
i ment of the
| be seme Li
| Gen. Burasic
i Porwsviroe, July 17,1861
Sr
Army Correspondence.
CAMP NEAR HARRISON'S Laxping, Va.,
~July 12th; 1862. :
rw 5 i weap £
Mess, tors :—Delieying that your
readers wouldbe interested in news from
this place, I ayail myself of a brief respite
to pive a few of the most important items
incident to the Army of the Potomac, and,
especially. that portion of it which is from
Pennsylvania. = The site of the present en-
campment is a gentle inundation of hill and
dale, interspersed wrth patches of dense
woodland, forming a most suitable place for
the purpose. As your readers are doubtless
aware it is the grand rallying point of Gen.
McClellan's Army — being the first permas
nent stand made in the retreat from befora
Richmond,
The troops present a better appesrance
than might be expected after the harrassing
retreat, pressed as they were, by. a vastly
Superior force of the enemy.
Adiong the great number present, Penn-
sylvanid, as might be expected, is ‘well reps
resented —better perhaps, than any other
State. Yesterday I was to visit the 25th
and 40th, in cach of which is a company
from OX Centre. I found most of the boys
ina flovnshing condition, looking hale and
hearty and apparently contested with their
situation,
w the day that would witness the
termination of this struggle and their return
to the hallowed scenes of (heir youth.
true to the promptings of patriotism, they
frecly for the inestimable pleasure and
the time when the Union will
y oviginal grandeur, and
at the firesides of the
While Old Centre has
reason to exult over the valor of her son
she will likewise have cause
pea
American pe
nut 5 who have left their bones to bleach
en ids oft Virginia. Though indeath
far from } and fricnds, yet
The memory of
enshrined in the
It will doubtless
12 various Divisions
wiil bie su
forward movement, It is
now at Fortress Monroe, is
to co operate with tlie army of the Potomac
{in th: next advance on Richmond. If this |
‘be the case, and the reinforcements called
| for by the President be forthcoming in due
season, the reduction of Richmond my be
considered as morally certain,
The opinion is firmly cstablished among
the troops, that had Gen. MoClellan been
permitted Lo adopt his own course of pro-«
t and stripes would now he
floating over the **devoted city”? Hence
the change which has lately taken place in
the Uabinet is hailed with pleasure by ofli-
cors and privates. May their hopes: be
speedily verified. Yours, &e.,
“UNION.”
re, thes
wu
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Ture Curnexov. —The prenfiom on gold
and silver 18 advancing iu the civics, and on
Saturday financial aflairs almost amounted
to a panic in New York and Philadelphia,
Few people know the cause of this sud-
den rise in the price of speete, and it way be
as well to inform our readers that itis the
result of speculation—the pretext, being an
export demand. The holders of American
{ securities in Europe are running their stocks
into the market, and realizing for them in
g1d and silver. Of course they chnnot
drain the country of coin by doing so, but!
they cohance the price of it, and specula”
tion which knows no limit until it runs it~
sclf into the ground takes advantage of it.
The high price paid for coin is a sore trial
to mercenary men, and yet most of them,
hoard their money when it becomes scarce.
We heard it alleged in Philadelphia on
Siturday that oftizers of conntry banks had
brought gold and silver to the city and sold
it. If this is so every bank engaged in this
nefarious business should forfeit its charter.
The Legislature has dealt leniently with
the banks of the State, and under ‘the sigs
nificant title of «an act to provide for the
resumption of specie payments,” they have
for two yeaus legalized a suspension. Due
ring {hat time the banks have heen enabled
to pursue their usual business without hav-
ing occasion to usc spesie, and if they now
sell what they Have, they ‘do it with the
fuli assurance that the next Legislature will
grant them: another year's grace, belore
which time the panic will be over, and’ the
gold and silver they now sell at enormous
premium, they ean get back by paying a
small profit, Any bank which now solls
its con runs a risk, however which may
swamp it.
The act of Congress legalizing ‘postag,
Stamps as a eurrency, is probably the best
that could be done to relicys the pressing
wants of change. As & wmisappreliension
appears’ to exist, it will be'uvaferstood that
these stampsiare (o Hd redeemed at any post
office where they vin be bought, in Treas<
ury notes; when presented in sums of five
dollars, and upwards.— Petrior'§ Union,
treat gsi dt
Guxnran MeCIELLAN AND ts TROOPS, ~~
Al officer of the Potomac uses: the follow.
ing laconic sentence in a letter. to his broth-
er in this city ;
“1 built a bridge according to my own
ideas, across the Chickahominy. General
McClellan said that it. would not stand and
it didn’t.”
A returned so'dier said, Monday, that du-
ting the late battles he had seen mortally.
wounded soldiers exert their last | efforts in
lifo in’ cheering (lencral McClellan ‘as hie
harried past on the battle field,
Aletter from the army dated the 26th,
says :—General McOleHun knew of the move.
ments on the part of the enemy two days
ago, and was prepared to: receive it: Ile
had small earth worles thrown up, and the
troops in position. He is everywhere, Ifa
skirmish takes place he is on” the spot at
once, and no matter how badly wo are being
beaten, things take a favorable turmiit once.
This was exemplified at Fair Oaks and
Williatnsbuy 3
» of them doubtless would hail with |
Yet |
to mourn over |
rganized to ensure a
rumored that |
The Thing is Working. .
The Dayton Empire alluding to the rapid
wercaseof negroes in that part of Ohio,
gives us theffollowing : : oo
¢ In one shop in this city, there are four
negro Backsmutls. In a certain glue facto
ry all the hands are negroes. Ee.
“ A white man making one dollar a day,
running a stationary engine in a certain car-
penter’s shop, had to leave to make room
ior a contraband at eighty cents per day.”
Our Ohio cotemporary dwells upon these
facts with spirit and indignation, but before
six mants roll around it will become used to
them 3 and, af we are not egregiously mista-
ken, “cighty cents’? per day will be quite
acceptable to any mechanic whose labor is
reduced to competition with that of a ran
away or conlyaband negroes. In the South-
ern counties of Pennsylvania, bordering on
Maryland, there are hundreds of these con
trabands now engaged in harvesting, but
there are none receiving the. sur of “eighty
cents a day for their services. Up as far
as Dauphin county, wherein is located the
-Capital of our States this runaway labor has
crowded out free white and free negro labor
too. In and around Harrisburg, there are
several hundred contrabands, some of ‘whom
arc laboring in the field for twenty-five
cents per day. We Lave heard of one phijan
thropic Aholitionist, living a short distance
rom Harrisburg, who had a number of
I beral sum of ten
ard) per day, and
o longer, and fear-
c a buriben to
i at the |
ents (the Buchanan
| after Le could u:
that they
Lie, cpe
to them that their masters w
and in that t
aunounced
vfter them,
morning
{our Abolition pecksniil, . after
| poor wretches of their labor got
| them forever.
Here we have practical ijlustiation of the
ss and the workings of Abolivionism.
a simple compound of treachery, hy-
meanness and treason. Wherever
werous, lean and
, turning up his
us eyes, lamenting the condition of the
sare that he will, for
not'only oppress the negro but the
> man ; and if he has money to loan,
rou find a enifili
— Cm
| slave, you may be
Vor
f Eoin
|
1
in proportion to
The
he will raise the pere
| the borrower's nec
scoundrels are alws 3
sors 5 and the meanest creatures we have
| ever seen are professed philanthropists. —
{ T'he hardest masters, the cruclest landlords:
and the meanest men on this side of perdi-
| tion are your canting philanthropists. They
| are loud in the ad cacy of every Utopian
scheme of charity which ¢ nothing, but
the cries of widows and orphans in their
own hearing, receives no response from their
stony and bloodless hearts. Their cold,
glassy eyes are full of speculation, but no
| pity ; and, when beggary and poverty sue
to them fer alms, they invariably refer them
[ to the overseers of the poor.
If it were possible to ascertain the facts,
it would be found that those who are loudest
{ in their wailings over slavery and in‘favor of
its emancipation, are such monsters as we
{ have described. Free the slaves and they
| will find in this class their greatest tyrants,
| They will not go to war, nor will they con-
tribute to assist others to go; the widows
and orphans of dead patriots they: shun as
if they were lepers, and their only aim in
advocating the war, even with words, 18, net
to restore their country, but to set free four
millions of poor wretches, who, after being
free, would find in these heartless fanatics
their meanest ard most merciless oppres
sors.— Putts. Post.
ues.
eg
: = HY wel
Communications From the State Luna-
tic Hospitals.
To avoid trouble and difliculty, which
may arise from ignorance or misapprehen..
Sion relative to the admission of patients
into the Pennsylvania State Lunatic Hospi-
tal, at Harrisburg, it hag been deemed ad-
visable to give the greatest publicity to the
following extracts from the bylaws of the
hospital, tn oid ®
These provisions will be strictly enforced
“and it 1s hoped that all who may have oc-
casion to bring patients. to the hospital
will be prepared to comply fully with® the
spirit and letter of the regulations :
¢ Preparatory. to the admission of a pa~
tient (unless when committedeby ardor of a
court) the Superintedent shall be. furnished
with the certificate of a physician {hat he
saw and examined the individual, and how
iieves him or her to be insang, avith a pe,
quest from a near relative or friend. that the
patient may be ived into the Hospital
‘and abond with 'y securify for
the payment of board and’ other expenses
while in the institution. All private pa-
tients thus ree shill make a payment
of thirteen weeks board in. advance, when
brough* to the } ital, and if taken away
uncured, ‘and agginsthe advice and consent
of the Superintendent, within that period.
uo part of said paymentsshall Ye refunded.
Whenever a patient is sent to the Hospi~
tal by the order of any court, Justice, judge
directors of the poor éf the county, or the
overseers of the poor of a county) or poor
dis the order or warrant ora copy of
thereof, by which such person is sent shall
be lodged with the ‘Supeintendent. Those
who ayitiring a patient with any such or
der or warrant will be required to pay at
the time of the admission of the patient six.
ty five dollars.
A written history of the ease ‘should he
sent with the patient, and if possible some
one acquainted with the individual should
accompany him to the hospital, from whom
minute but often cssential particulars may
be learned. .
Cases of recent occurence will be pos
ceived atany time on compliance with the
regulations
Editors throughout the State will please
copy,
“A Yankenr TRICK. —A farmer in Glouces
ter, Mass. having exhausted all other means
‘of capturing or driving away erows from his
field, soaked a quantity of corn in rum, and
laid it about the place with a liberal hand
‘The next day he captured thirteen birds,
who were to drunk te got away.
GZ To a friend who had married a lady
who was on the point of taking the veil,
Jerrold said — Ah! she evidonily “thought
you betler than aun P' *
RT
ray
Extract from the Statement of Henry
W. Wilson, i
A Noriliern Man wio recently Escaped f om
: South Carolina. wo
By the stringent operation of the conserip-
tion law, 1t is estimated that 250,000 addi
{tonal troops can be raised for the Corfeder-
ate service, which, with 450,000 said now
to be in the field, will give the detual
strength of the Confuderate army at 700,000
wen. Those who are recruited are sent to
camps of instruction until the 18th of Octo
ber, when they will be ready to take the
field.
Immense supplies of arms and ammuni-
tion are received from vessels which run the
blockade, which now, however, is 80 much
more cilective, according to rebel admis.
sions, that they calculate upon: receiving
very little more in that way. But with
what they have, and what they are mann.
facturing, it is supposed that they will be
enabled to arm and sustain even this large
force of 700,000. The guerilla system of
warfare is very popular large numb rs of the
male portion resorting to it to avoid con-
scription. :
There is one thing that should be borne
m mind. The abolition course of policy
which has been carried on by Congress docs
more to embitter the feelings of the South-
crner towards the North, than ali the mili -
tary exy ons which could be carried out.
The Emancipation Bill in the. District of Co-
lumbia, and the proclamations of Hunter,
Phelps, and Fremont, as well as the articles
of the Tribune and other abolition papers,
are made use of by the leaders in the South
and the Southern press to inflame the fecl-
ing of hostility towards the Union, and to
strepethen the determination to establish a
separate Confederacy,
Tt is my opinion that the Confiscation act
will give additional force to the great milita~
ry movement which is now going on in the
South. Tt is the general feeling that if they
are to loose their property, in any event. 1t
18 better for them to loose is fighting in its
defence. This, as I have said, is the gener-
al feeling 1it is my belief that they wil
fizht to the last against what they consider,
and what they are taught by their leaders,
abolitition war. - I have had
ces that there is a Union feeling at
the South : but, under the present circum.
stances, it dare net show. itself, tor it would
be accused of sympathy with the abolit on
government at Washington,” as it is called.
Had General McClellan been successtul
before Richmond, and abslition legislation
in Congress ceased, T have no. doubt that ‘a
beneficial change would take place in South-
ern fecling, and that they would be more
inclined to friendly feelings on the question
of a restoration of the Uuion. Let it be
| understood, however, that as. long as legis-
lation is carried on in the interest of. aboli~
tionism, so long will the South combat it
with arms, and seek, in a separation, a re.
lease from what they consider under these
circumstances, a *‘hateful bond.”’— New
York Herald.
a es
Cur Public Debt,
The amount of our National Debt having
been a matter of dispute, we give the core
rect figures below :
Total evidence of public
debt outstanding,
Additions to the above
arc authorized as fol.
lows : :
Contractors’ certificates
— certificates of in
debtedn
U. S. authorized stocks,
registered and coupon
~—loan of 1362, |
$491,446,185 11
53,000,000 00
497,000,000 00
Total, $1,051,446,185 11
It is believed that the $53,000,000 of cer.
ificates of indebtedness and the $497,000,-
000 of authorizeed stocks have heen absorb-
ed by the floating : debt and Congressional
appropriations. The fact that the Secretary
of the Treasury has asked permission of
Congress to $150,000,000 of demand notes,
would seem to prove this. Should Congress
grant this request, the Federal liabilities
will be increased to one thousand one hin
dred and ninety one millions, four hundred
and forty siz thousand, one hundred and
evghty four dollars and eleven cents.
This amount does not include the indebt-
edness of the respective State Governments
which amount to many millions,
How far this great sum has been increased
by the dishonest system of contracts, pur~
sued in the earlier stagés of the war, by the
peculations of men in high places, and‘ by
the purchase of slaves and “the feeding of
conirabands, who will leave the reader to
determine from what has been officially dis-
closed. i
———eoe
STARVATION A Myra --Tt is folly to talk
any longer about starving out the rebels.—
What is wanted is men, plenty of them, and
white men too. Letters lately written from
the Southwest show that with occasional
exceptions, the large tracts of land lately
devoted to cotton, are now covered with a
luxuriant growth of corn. A letter from the
Mississippi flotilla, dated the 1st inst.
says’
“Tt is a puzzle what the Southerners will
do next fall with corn. The banks of the
Mississippi are waving fields of it trom Mem
phis to Vicksburg.”
This don't look like starvation, notwith-
standing a partial failure of the wheat
crop. ;
—— Pees.
177 ¢ The man who prates about and
quotes the Constitution in this great crisis is
a traitor.” Wade, of the United States Sen-
ate. y
The above is an extract from a speech de-
livered in the Senate by one of its recognized
leaders, and shows fo what lengths the par-
ty now controlling that body would carry
their assaults upon the rights of the people,
if they dare to ga farther than they have al<
ready gone in thrusting loyal men into bas-
tiles.~-The time is fast coming when the
people will got. their huge paws upon
these fattened, and, pompous higher law
vaunters, and then look, ab for a full settle.
ment of old acconts , |
[From the Presbyterian. |
Parson Brownlow
The name of Parson Brownlow,’ has
been a familiar one for many years through,
out our land. The editor of ‘such a spicy
sheet as the Knoreille Wii could hardly
have escaped notoriety anywhere, and least
of all'ina country where the “Fourth -
tate wields so much power ag it doe! in
this. To some doubtless the epith et of
‘Parson’ has seemed a mere pleasantry ;
but wore discermmz minds might have dig.
covered from his editorials what is an Lun.
questionable fact, as in his recent public
addresses he has widely proclaimed that he
15 indeed by ordination at leasi, a minister
of the gospel. Tt might have been conelu-
ded that a theological Laining, only to be
abused, had made him specially familiar
with the sacred words] which so lightly
and profancly he was forever. ‘ba ying in
his newspaper. ‘We sincerely regret that,
by aggravatetl profanity, first in hig news.
paper; and since in his speeches at the
North, he should have detracted from the
meed of praise which (he country would
have awarded him.
But Mr. Brownlow if we mistake not, is
doing much worse for his fair fame than he
cou'tl do by mere profanity of expression at
which worldy men smile ~ somewhat mali-
ciously to be sare because it comes from a
clergyman, without however admitting 1t to
be a very serious charge agamst a public
fa. orite. His popular speeches have devel-
oped a recklessnes of assertion, and a thirst
for revenge upon his persecutors, at variance
with every principle of the gospel of Christ,
and wholly revolting to the common mind
of the North.’ Here and there we meet
with an apology for this bitterness of feeling
—always in rome such | anguage as we are
sorry to sce last week in a rehgious paper—
¢ It is casy to account for it, when we take
into consideration all that he has suffered.”
Bu: nine oul of ten of Mr. Browniow’s hear-
ers utterly condemn his spirit. It is go
at even bis public claim to have been
citaister of the. gospél for! mere than
thirty years, can scarcely agyravate his off~
ence,
In his recent speech at the Cooper Insti.
tute, in New York city, he is reported to
have said “Methodist preachers at the
South are entitled to more considera tion
than any others, for there is more unanimity
among them. They are nearly all, without
exception rascals” ® x ¥ xR x ow
Fountain E. Fitch. an old [presiding elder
of the: Conferences, is a chaplain of a Nash-
ville regiment, and he makes it a practice to
get drunk, carrying a bottle with him, he
inks to excess and swears profanely but
preaches every Suuday faithfully to the
soldiers, ‘and in his discourses tells them,
lly that the cause in which they are
engaged —and he only eave him as a speci
men of all denominations’ *' * * * =
—is $0 good and so holy a cinse that if they
dic for it they will be aved ini eaven * even
without grace.”
Previously in New Jersey, Mr. Brownlow
said in substance, <I thank God there isa
devil. Every Union man in Tennessee has
a devil in him as big as a bat. I thank God
forit. And when the Federal army advan-
ces, we will go with them, and shoot our
persecators ike dog.” Again speaking of
one Leadbeater, a persccutor of several of
them, he expressed the hope that this man
would be tvken and Lung upon “the same
limb from which he had suspended two of
his victims : that Mrs Try, the widow of ane
of the latter, would be permitted to fasten
the rope round his neck. and Mr. Brownlow
the other end to the limb, These latter res
marks are 1epeated from recollection.
The charses ‘which he makes agains t:
ministry of the South, although “doubtless
be might point out individual instances ex.
cmplying them no sound understanding
can entertain in their sweeping generaity. —
Such spatements must greatly. diminish
public confidence in Mr. Brownlow’s testi-
mony. And who can believe that he fairly
represents the spirit of Southern Union men.
If they are indeed, as blood thirsty as he
declares, then we can only say, that the
dark picture which he has drawn of secess-
ion ciuclty finds its no less sad counterpart
th the ardent longing of Unionist “revenge.
Mr. Brownlow may rest assured that the
spirit which he exhibits, although it may be
faintly applauded in a promiscuous assem-
bly by wicked and unthinking men, will
meet no echo from the intelligent, much less
from the Christian public at the North. —
If his forthcoming book embodies such sen-
timents, certainly the seal of general repro-
bation will be thas far set pon if,"
TTT Te ere
Gen. Cameron's Presentation to the Em-
peror of Russia,
From private letters recoived in this city’
direct rom St. Petersburg, we learn that
Gen. Cameron, Minister to Russia, had ar-
rived safely at the capital of the nation
where his legation 1s established, and that
he also had his first interview with the empe
ror Alexander. According to the rigid et-
iquette of the Russian court, it is not csual
for the Emperor to grant an“ interview until
the lapse of some time after the arrival ofa
minister. bat in this case, an audience was
almost immediately granted and the recep.
tion made the more cordial by. the earnest
solicitudd with which the Emperor enquire:
concerning the condition of the American
people, their resources, numerical wer,
intelligence, wealth and progress, uring
this interview the Russian Monarch evinced
his know'edge of our system of government
and his admiration for ‘the success we had
made in the development of the vast extent
of territory now within the jurisdiction of
the Federal authority, That authority in
the opinion. of the Emperor, should be
maintained at all hazards. IM. the great
Republic of the west ‘was broken down, and
ceased to wield an influence, the course of
empire and of civilization would be changed,
and a continent destined by God for the
happy Lowes of millions of free, intelligent
people, would be given to inf delity and
barbarism, ruin and desolation, ts .
After such expressions to the Ameriaan
minister, there can be no mistaking the cogs
dial feeling and hearty sympathy of the Bm.
peror of Rassia, nor can there be apy miss
apprension concerning the deep interest
he manifests in the success-and esting of
the United States, This feeling Was’ recip
rocated by Gen, Cameron, who had the most
flattering assurances to offer that the inters
est of the American people was no less sine
cere in their solicitude for the success and
progress of the colossal empire of the Nortir.,
Representing such widely different systems
aad governed by authority so distinct Js
d
broad, there is still no reason why
and the United States should not be uni
in true and stern alliance, and wield an ir-
resistibie influence on the destinies of the
world. .
We are gratified to add, that the same
correspondence which conveys*the intelli-
gence of the interview of Gen. Cameron with
the Emperor so cheering in all respects, also’
brings us the most pleasing assurances of
the health of all attached to the Je ation, —
Tho health particularly of Gen. meron
himself, and that of his family, was never
better. — Hurrisiurg Telegraph. «diet
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