The Tatchman,
Regeneration, of Democracy.
The Tory press of Frgland, Blackwood
éspecially, 1s quite confident that our trou.
P. GRAY MEEK, }
EC ——— tee
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Saturday Morning, Oct. 18, 1862.
enn
.VALEDICTORY.
With this issue of the Watchman, it be-
comes necessary for us to close our connce~
tion with 1t as one of its editors. Our read"
ers for this course, being of a private na”
ture, we do not choose to state them to the
public, and will only add that they are suffi
cien’, in our esti : ation, to justifv us in cur
withdrawal from the paper. In dong this,
however it may be proper to remark that
we are influenced by no political prejudices
nor personal feeling, and that the paper still
has our best wishes for its unbounded suc-
Ccu88.
Before retiring, however, we cannot for
bear to congratulate the Der ocracy upon the
great victory which they have just achieved
in this County and District. Abolitionism
han been stricken down in the full pride of
its power, and now liesin the dust, humbled
and submissive, at thc very feet of that
great party against which 1t raised its
hanghty head in derision, and which it strove
in vain to overthrow. Thank God! the
Democratic banner once more floats tri
umhan'ly all over the broad domain of Cen
tre county, while the insolent myrmdons
of Abolitioniam are compelled to fold up
their unholy flag of treason, which, hke a
++ flaunting lie,” has proclaimed a ** higher
law’’ than the Constitution and a better
Union than that for which our fathers bled
soe four score years ago. They have hid
den it away in some lone corner, dark and
dreary, where, God grant it may remain
buricd in oblivion forevermore,
* Unwept, unhonored and unsung.”
But while we have great reason to rejoice
at our fuccesa thus far, there yet romams a
great work for the Democracy to do. The
indications are that the Republicans have
carried the Stare, If this be so, then we
muse go to work again and wholly redeem
next Fall, what we have only in part re-
deemed this Fall. - We have nadea glor.ous
beginning —let but the end fultill the brighg
prcumse of its coming, and we may yet re-
joice over a restored Union and a happy
country. :
We leave the Watchman in the hands of
Mr. Merk, trusting that it may prosper
abundantly ; and ask for it an earnest and
hearty support at the hands of the. Democ-
raey. Its editor, though quite a young
man, is possessed of considerable tnlent and
great energy ; and although, by sume, con
sidered too radical in his opinions and too
indiscreet in hiy expression of them, yet we
have not a doubt that he means well and
“will do all in his power for the success of
the paper and the party, o
Thankful for the Kindness and patronage
which have been bestowed upon us during
our eleven months carcer as editor of the
Watchman, we retire from the editorial
tripod, glad to be once more relieved from
the responsibilities and cares which are al-
ways incident to that position. During our
connection with this paper. we have endeav-
ored to do our duty; whether or not we
have succceded, is & question we leave to
the judgmert of the public. At all events,
our conscience acquiis us of any intentional
crrors.
With a prayer for the restoration of the
Union and the future peace and prosperity
of our once happy land, we make our bow
aud retire.
JOE W. FUREY.
ra AB ee
The Election is past—the battle is fought,
and thank God, the victory is won. Infidel
Abolitionism is *‘blotted out” in ‘Old Cen
tre,” and once more her hills and valleys
are echoing with the joyous sounds of tri-
umphart Democracy. The people have
awakened to a sense of their duty, and spo~
ken in tones that will nake the dictator
tremble on his fancied Throne. Old Abe
will read in the proceedings of last Tuesday
the unflinching spirit and determined will
of the worthy sons of fathers who fell on the
bloody fields of the Revolution, to wrench
from his grasp the power usurped which was
trampling upon their rights and abridging
their hiberty. He will learn a lesson that a
million of bayonets would scarcely have
taught,
Cheering news comes up to us fiom all
parts of the State. The chances are ten to
one that our State ticket is elected by a
large majority.
Old Berks hag wheeled into line, and giv
en a Democratic majority ot over 4,000.
In Lycoming, the whole Dewocra tie tick.
et 15 elected, the lowest majority exceeding
£00.
Clinton has come up to the work, and
given from four to six hundred Democratic
majority.
Clearfield is all right. Wallace, Demo.
cratic candidate for State Senate, has ro-
ceived over 1.100 majority.
Cambria har done nooly, electing the
whole Democratic County ticket, and giving
Slenker and Barr over 1,100 majority.
+The Star of the West,” (old Westmore-
land) still shines out brightly. It has rolled
up an overwhelming majority for the Demo.
cratic State and County ticket.
Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Allegbany and
Lancaster have gone strongly Abolition, not
enough however to overbalance the Demo-
cratic majorities throughout the country.
re ly RAPA en
{Z= We have kept our paper back until
to-day, in order to give the official returns
bles are the natural and inevitable result of
Democratic institutions, and pretends to be-
lieve that, discouraged at their attempts at
seif government, the great, proud and intelli-
gent American people will be glad to seek
shelter under the old, rotten and worn out
contrivances of Europe. They say, ** see
what the rule of the people. or of the mob,
(as they call it) has brought you—civil
war, the most extended and terrible ever
known in human annals, and destruction of
life and property more awful than even that
of the ‘Reign of Terror’ in France, and be-
yond all these horrors, a national debt in a
single year that outstrips any of the old
monarchies for centuries.”
These facts, these terrible realities, are
even go, but they have abont as much 10 do
with Democracy as the Crystal Palace or
Prince Albert's death. Indeed, we nay say
that the absence of ‘mob rule’ or of popular
control, hos rendered these awful things
possible, for two thirds of the popular vote
was cast against Mr. Lincoln, and if the
people instead of States. elected Presidents,
the *‘anti elavery” party could never have
gotten into power, and the country could
not have been plunged into this mad delusion
about negroes. A majority of the Sta:es
elected Mr: Lincoln, and a minority of the
States, disfranchised and threatened with
social ruin, seceded —withdrew from the
Federation, but did not attempt to set up
any new eysicm or principle of government ;
indeed, 1t is notorious, and known to the
whole world, that the seceders are now con-
tending, over all and beyond all, for the
principles of the Died Scott decision and the
perpetuity of a government for white men,
that iz, for the government of 1788. All
our calamities are the direct and positive re~
sult of the ‘-anti slavery” delusion, and that
delusion was gotten up by the enemies of
Democracy in Europe for the special pur
pose it is now working out, the destruction
ofthe Union, and, if possible, the overthrow
of Democratic institutions. For his they
have labored half a century, and expended
almost countless treasures, and lied enough
to sink & whole world into the deepest depths
of perdition. If the white men of the New
World could be so debauched as to affiliate
with negroes, Indians, &c., then, of course,
there would be no danger to the oppressors
of the Old World, for a Democracy thus
emasculated would be powerless, as we now
witness in Mexico and Central America, &c.
The attempt, however, of their dupes and
tools to complete their programme, and by
impartial freedom” with negroes, revolu-
tionize, demoralize and destroy our Demo-
cratic system, must fail, of course, for it is
warring with the eternal order of God Him-
self, as well as with union, liberty and De
mocracy. The negro will remain where
God and nature placed him, in subordina -
tion and under the protection of the white
man,
Millions of lives as well as treasure may
be sacrificed in this hideous and impious
warfare on the decrees of the Eternal, but
+slavery’’ will remain immovable and evers
lasting—tho relations of the races eternal
and unchangeable. And when the great,
blind, patriotic and deceived multitude com-
prehend the ‘anti slavery” delusion, the
wrong, and crime, and impiety of the ‘friends
of frecdom,’ then will begin a reaction the
most s upendous and terrible the world ever
saw, a reaction that will restore and regen~
crate Democracy and Democratic institu
tions, and that, sweeping on 1ts mighty mis-
sion, will visit upon the Oud Word the
wrongs of the New, and trample under foot
the rotten and worn out contrivances of mon
narchy, and enthrone Democracy throughout
Christendom.
The Congressional Election.
There is not a doubt but that James T.
Hale, the independent Republican candidate
for Congress, in his district, is elected by
a majority of from four to six hundred.—
This resulted entirely from the vote cast for
him by the Demacratic party. In looking
over the returns from this and other coun=
ties com prising the district, the fact stands
plain upon the record that very few republi-
can votes were cast for him, which leaves
the result a fair test of the rvlative strength
of the two parties. It must now be plain t0
many as it was to us before the election,
that had we not been cheated out of a regu_
lar nominee ly des‘gning politicians, we
would have had a glorious triumph of prin-
ciple, as surely as has been shown a major-
ity of Democratic votes. Asit is, it cannot
be claimed as a Democratic victory ; we
have simply shown that we have the numerica)
strength to beat the Abolitionists oy defeat.
iug their nominee, while to them, although
their nominee is defeated, it is a ‘riumph of
their principles !
Mr, Hale, notwithstanding he was elected
by Democratic votes, is still an opponent of
the good old doctrires of the men who pla.
ced him where he is, and we can sec but
little comfort to be derived by the Democra-
cy from his election. He mav, as is alleg-
ed by many, become tired of Abolitisnism |
and secing its ruinous effect upon our coun-
try repented of his many political sins, with
the determination of carrying out to sume
extent democratic principles.
We hope it may be so, but that matter is
yet to be tes'ed —if he does. we shall give
him full credit whenever deservihg of it.—
B ut until he makes some public record of
his change of heart politically, and shows by
his aqtions a desire to atone for past errors,
we cannot rejoice in his election as we could
have done had he been a Democrat in prin-
ciple. We shall wait until he proves him
self to be what Le is claimed by his friends
—a Democrat—-before we throw up ou
hat.
The conterees who defeated a democratic
nowination, should be smothered in eternal
oblivion, for cheating us out of such a glo-
rious victory, when it was just within our
grasp. Let the Democrats remember them,
and not forget the few, the precious few,
TRUE ones, who labored to give them a cane
of the County. . ! didate to vote for.
—— a a a —
The Union AsIt Was, Or the Unign as
It Is to Be. {
The proclamation of Mr. Lincoln, thrusts
aside the mask that has so long concealed
the real issue of this great conflict, and now
the way is clear to all men, and the path
straight —to the restoration of the ‘¢ Union
a8 it was’ or to the creation of a new Una
ion—to aretarn to.the ‘Union’ of Washing.
ton and Buchanan, or the building up of a
‘Union’ on the model of Greeley and Lin-
coln ; in short, a Union with the white cit
izenship of the South or a Union with their
negroes. One or the other of these results
mnst happen, of course, for nothing else is
possible, and the sooner all men see this
and aczept this tremendous truth, the bet
ter for all classes and all sections of our
people. It cannot be compromised, or cov-
ered up, or disguised any longer. We must
go back at once to the principles and usa,
ges of the old Union, or we must adopt Mr.
Greeley's idea of impartial freedom,’” and
form a pew ‘Union’ with four millions of
negroes, the only Unionists left in the South
as declared by the anti slavery leaders..
A party is organized in the North on the
sole principle of hostility to the social order
of the South. 1t holds that the four million
of slaves are natutally entitled to the same
rights as their masters and it combines a
majority of the States together, gets posses-
ion of the government, and seeks to use
that as an Instrument to accomplish its av-
owed mission— ‘impartial freedom” for ne-~
groes, Indians mongrels &c., everywhere
within these S ates. This is the end sought
for, while the means so much objected to by
hypocrites and fools, is of little cr no mo-
ment— indeed were we a citizen of Virginia
instead of New York, we should vastly pre
fer the John Browr role to the Edward Ev~
erett or George Bancroft warfare on the Dred
Scott decision. This anti-social or anti sla-
very party never could have obtained a pop-
ular majority but with a bare majority of
the States, and States alone electing the
President, it gets possession of the govern.
ment, though really supported by less than
a third of the American people. The dis.
franchized States, 'hreatened with social ru-
in fell back on State sovereignty to save
themselves from the mad delusion of the
North, or, 83 is more probable, severs;
States seceded and left the Union, hopir;
thereby to best dictate a final settlement of
all scctional troubles, and in 1864 return to
the grand American Federation which their
fathers had created, and of which the Jeft-
ersons and Jacksons of the South had always
been the principal champions.
But the mad zealots of the North were
not then disposed to let slip this opportuni»
ty to revolutionize our system, and accom~
plish their mission of impartial frecdow.- -
They forced Mr. Lincoln to call out seventy
five thousand troops to coerce the seceeding
States, and this of course, forced Virginia
North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas,
to make common cause with their Southern
Confederacy, and as this demanded more
force to complete the object of coercion,
Congress assembled, and voted half a mill
ion, and set in operation a steam factory to
fabricate means to pay them. Erom that
hour, to the proclamation of freedom or, at
all events, to tho passge of the confiscation
and emancipation bills, there never has been
a moment which he has not had power tores-
tore the Union in a week, if that had been
his wish. lle had only to do what Virginia,
North Carolina, Tennessee, &c., asked him
to do before one drop of fratricidical blood
had been spilled. He had only to disavow
his anti social and free negro creed, and
pledge himself to stand by the deci-ions of
the Supreme Court, and administer the gov_
ernment on the principles of of every admin.
istration from Washington to Buchanan, to
restore peace, union fraternity, prosperity
to this great country. This truth should
sink deep into the mind of every honest ma,
and indeed should be shouted into the ears
of the millions with the voice of an arch an.
gel. Mr. Lincoln could restore the Union
any day he pleased by abandoning the free
negro creed, and pledging himself to admin-
ister the government just as every one of
his predecessors, from Washington to Buy
chanan, had administered it.
But this was the very thing that he was
pledged to his party not to do—the Union of
Washington, of Jeflerson aud Jackson was
not the Union these people wanted, for in
that Union they never could hold power and
therefore they meant to build up a new Un-
ion— a Union on the model of Greeley and
Garrison, a Union with negroes instead of a
Union with their masters. The proclama
tion of Mr. Lincoln now remaves all doubt,
and he commits himself to a position that
renders salvation for him forever impossible
1f he defeats the armies of the South, and
places the eight millions of that scction en-
tirely at his mercy, then the four millions of
negroes will become American freeman and
become duly amalgamated in our political
system, and Greeley and Sumner and Loves
joy will be the rulers and statesman of the
new dispensation, orof that union with ne-
groes instead of their masters, which these
infatuated people have so long desired. But
these madmen have undertaken a terrible
work, the conquest of the land of Washing-
tou and Jackson, by the besotted abelition-
ists of New England. The eigh: millions of
the South are certainly unsurpassed by any
similar number of people in Christendom,
and as they would rather be annihilated ut-
terly from the face of the earth than exist
in juxtaposition with four millions of free
negroes we may form a reasonable estimate
of the probabilities of that new Unioa now
dreamed of by the Sumners and Greeleys.—
Meanwhile let all true and earnest Demo-
crats rally about the old standard of ¢ the
Constitution as it is, and the Union as it
was,’ when the deluded and dangerous
party now in office came into power.
ben this is restored, and it is settled for
all coming time that this shall remain a gov-
ernment of white men, in which negroes,
Indians, mongrels &o.. have no portion or
status. or connection whatever as laid down
by the Supreme Court, then there will be
no try. ile with secessionists at the South,
for then sll Americans will be umted by
the same ideas and the same interests that
bound them into into one people in 1778 a
which until the awful abolition coercion
overshadowed the land, which to
themsuch boundless prosperity. —Caucdsson.
Bellefonte,
Benner,
Boggs,
Burnsides,
Loren :
erguson,
Harris,
Huston,
Liberty,
Milesburg boro,
Miles,
Marion,
Half Moon,
Patton,
Penn,
Slenker’s maj,
SLENKER.
109
2687
831
Barn.
Bellefonte, 109
Benner, 122
Boggs, 94
Burnsides, 3r
Curtis, 37
Ferguson, 185
Hurris, 149
Huston, 20
Liberty, + 35
Milesburg loro, 38
Miles, 202
Marion, 7%
aif Moon, 35
' Patton, 38
Penn, 225
Potter, 20s
(Gregg,
Hor 60
Snowshoe, 39
Spring, 110
Taylor, 23
Walker, 126
Worth, 42
Union, 40
lioward, 81
Haines, 195
Unionville boro, 20
¢ 2682
Bart's maj, 823
Congress.
CmiLps. Harz.
Bellefonte, 9 143
Benner, 30 129
Boggs. 118
Burnsides, 33
Curtin, 40
Ferguson, 85 153
Harris, 1 234
Huston, 41
Liberty, 1 42
Milesburg boro, 45
Miles, 205
Marion, 84
Half Moon, 14 26
Patton, 30 20
Penn, 3 222
Potter, 7 315
Gregg, 104 i63
Rush, 70
Snow Shoe, 5 40
Spring, 4 115
Taylor, 22
Walker, 126
Worth, 7 37
Union, 50
Howard, 79
Haines, 203
Unionville boro. 27
300 2782
Hale’s maj, 1290
Barron. Harris.
Bellefonte, 103 126
Benner, 123 81
Boggs. 95 155
Burasides, 31 29
Curtin, 37 19
Ferguson, 201 91
Harris, 148 182
Huston, 20 43
Liberty, 35 17
Milesburg boro, 39 48
Miles, 203 27
Marion. 75 - 36
Half Moon, 36 80
Patton, 39 45
Penn, 227 24
Potter, 311 75
Gregg, 246 45
Rush, 61 58
Suow Shoe, 36 38
Spring, 110 135
Taylor, 23 36
Walker, 126 112
Worth, 42 34
Union, 40 57
Howard, 79 81
Haines, 195 a8
Unionville boro, 20 26
2100 1848
Barron's maj, 852
ceiy
Commissioner,
Foray.
Bellefonte, 118
Benuer, 123
s, “94
Burnside, - 31
Curtin, . 37
Fuarguson, 185.
Harris, 146
Huston, 20
Liber y, 39
Milesburg Boro’ 39
Miles, 203
Marion, 25
Halfwoon, 25
Patton, s
Penn, 4
-
Gregg, 246
™: 59
Snowshoe, 39
Tayl Se a
or,
Walker, 128
GLORIOUS VICTORY !
Old Centre Still True !
OFFICIAL RETURNS!
Below will be found the full returns of
the election of last Tuesday. The Democ-
racy of Old Centre have gained another glo
rious victory, which will long be remem-
bered. Read, Democrats, and be rejoiced
at the glad tidings ;
Auditor General.
COCHRAN.
123
82
156
19
Surveyor General.
ARMSTRONG.
Assembly and District Attorney.
BLAIR.
200
203
248
60
55
292
328
62
112
84
230
108
“oT
Mr. Blair, (Dis At.) having no opponent,
(being nominated by both Conventions) re~
the whole vote of the County.
Hass.
Worth, 42
Union, 40 57
Howard, 85 75
Haines, 195 68
Unionville Boro’, 20 26
Total, 2688 - 1854
Furey's msj., 834
Auditor.
KeaLss. GLENN.
Bellefonte, 106 124
Benner, 12 1
8,
BRE: se. 32 28
Cartin, 37 19
Furguson, 181 110
Harris, 146 184
Huston, 20 42
Liberty, 35 7
Mileshurg Boro’, 37 50
Miles, 203 25
Marion, 75 36
Halfmoon, 35 80
Patton, 37 48
Penn, 226 26
Potter, 301 99
Gregg, 243 45
Rush, 66 51
Snowshoe, 39 34
Spring, An 133
Taylor, co xr on 35
Walker, 126 110
Worth, 4 34
Union, © 40 57
Howard, 81 79
flrines, 196 66
Uuionville Boie',: 20 26
Total 2676 1860
Kealsh's maj., 816
Connty Surveyor.
Kerr. TRCZIYULNY.
Bellefonte, 111 118
Benner, 123 81
Boggs, 94 154
Burnside, 32 28
Ourtin, 39 19
Furguson, 185 109
Harris, 147 180
Huston, 20 40
Liberty, 38 72
Milesburg Boro’, 36 49
Miles, 202 27
Marion, 75 36
Halfmoon, 35 80
Patton, 31 - 47
Penn, 228 24
Potter, 301 93
Gregg, 246 45
Rush, 59 58
Snowshoe, 39 34
Spring, 111 131
Taylor, 23 36
Walker, 126 112
Worth, 42 33
Union, 40 47
Howard, 81 79
Ilaines, 196 65
Unionville Boro,” 20 26
Total 2684 1821
Kerr's maj., 863
Terrible Conflagration On 0il Creek.
The followina letter from the senior Edi-
tor of the Pittsburg Dispatch, dated Oil
Creek, Wednesday evening , Oct, 8. gives
a bricf aocountof a most terrible - conflagra~
tion on Oil Creek : :
1 have just witnessed one-of those awful
conflagrations which I have pictured in im«
agination would take place some day on
Oil Creek. 1 came to the Tarr farm a’ noon
to day — visitited three or four refineries on
the east side of the creek and about 3o0’clock
crossed to the west side where are located
as many more. [had been there but a few
miuvutes when casting my eyes down the
creek: I saw flames bursting from the oil
wells on the upper end of the blogd farm,
where there are four flowing wells withing
few hundred feet of each other. The flames
spread rapidly, a brisk Lreeze springing up
and bearing up the creck, all along which,
wells and, barrels, full and empty, were
placed. For a timeit appeared that the
whole flat, including all the wells on the
Blood and Tarr farms, would fall a prey to
the devouring clement, so furiously did it
rage and so combustible was the nature of
the materials. The wind shifted soon 0
the east, then to the west, whirling the vast
columns of flame and smoke in every dirce~
tion ; then to the north again, and once
more threatening the whole flat ;but a lull
followed and the progress of the fire north
wara was arrested at the Dinsmore well. —
lt tollowed a large basin of water covered
with oil southward destroying everything in
ts course, including tee refinery of Kelly &
Co.. until it stopped at the point where the
hill comes blufl' down to the creek. From
that point it made a clean sweep keeping
he base of the hill on one side and ihe
creek on the other—on which floating oil
was burning many feet from the bank.
1 cannot give anything hke a description
of the terrific granduer of the &:ne pre.
sented, — the rolling and surging of the
flames, fed by thousands of barrels of oil —
crude and refined —and some ten flowing
wells adding fucl of gas snd oil—and al
quantity of tanks barrels, and frame tenes
ments thickly huddled together. Then the
rolling volume of smoke suefi as I never
witnessed from any o her fire —at times lu-
rid with mingled flame, and again ascending
1s black as tophet, until the whole heavens
were darkened. Itis now eight o'clock,
and although the oil above ground and the
vessels containing it are nearly burned up,
the flowing wells are supplying a continu
ous stream of liquid fire, of gas and oil, pre-
senting a magnificient scene. But I must
close, briefly summing up that some fifteen
acres of the best oil region on the creck has
been burned over —oomprising some fifteen
wells, ten of them ‘flowing ones— 30,000
barrels of oil burned, a large number of
empty barrels, some 23 engines ‘destroyed.
and a number of the dwelling of opertors.—
One hundred thousand dollars it is estima
ted, would not cover the ac ual loss, to say
nothing of the injury sustained to the wells,
and the loss accruing. The fire originated
at the filkin well, aud, 1t is supposed, was
caused by a leak in the pipe that fed the
engine with crude oil, the fuel now used gen-
erally on the creek. -
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. 07 Read Onvis's speech on the out-side
{ of today’s paper, it will well repay a_care-
1 ful perusal,
What the British Press Says of Us.
STATE OF AFFAIRS IN AMERICA.
[From the London Times. ]
If the people of America would only sit
down and calmly consider the causes which
have raised them during the last half cen
tury, from 3.000,000 to 30,000,000, and
made their country, unlike so many other
lands favored with the most lavish gifts of
nature, proverbial for 1ts prosperity and
progress, they might derive from the reflec-
tion conclusions which would lead them ir-
resistibly to a policy of peace and mutual
conciliation. America owes much, un-
doubtedly, to the wisdom®of those great and
enlightened men, the fathers and founders
of their Republic. “hey devised a scheme
*| of temperate liberty, checked and controlled
by every contrivance which might prevent
its tendency to degenerate into licentious-
ness. To the worn out victims of arbitrary
power they offered equal laws, equal rights,
u light taxation, a freedom from the necessi-
ty of foreign war. No wonder that the
world stood amazed at the spectacle of so
much virtue and so much happiness, and
gladly turned aside from the vicious circle
of war and tyranny, in which alone the pol~
it cs of Europe appeared capable of revolving
.| to a nation blessed alike by the wisdom of
“|'man and the beneficence of nature, apd ca-
pable of realising, as far as is possible on
earth, the wildest dreaws of the poet and
the noblest aspirations of the philosopher.—
Not to any peculiar fertility in the race
which originally inhabited her, but to the
attraction she presented to emigrants; does
America owe the position which she held
but a year and a half ago.
Dees it never occur to her that the pros-
perity which has been gained by these .and
similar causes is liable to be forfeited by re-
versing them ? Lec those who have troken
asunder every tie which bound them to their
native land and crossed a stormy ocean to
bask in the sunshine of American institu-
tions, to enjoy the fruit of their own labor
in unquestioned peace and unbroken securi-
ty, say which of all the hopes they enter.
tained the events of the present melancholly
year have not utterly deceived and falsified.
They came seeking for peace. and they are
involved in a war which, for the enormous
{ scale on which it is carried on, the frightiul
loss of life which it bas occasioned, and the
bitter exasperation which it has called forth,
may challenge comparison with the most
disastrous conflic's that have decimated and
degraded mankind. The Thirty Years' war
reduced Germany to a desert, and cost,
Schiller tells us, the lives of 200 000 warri-
ors, but the American struggle has realized
m a single year the desolation wrought by
the Austrian, the Bavarian, the Swede, the
Dane. and the Frenchman, and happy would
America be could she but estimate her loss
for one year at the amount of the butcheries
of Tilly and Wallenstein. Nor is this a
momentary outburst of fury, A meeting to
which significance and importance were
given by the presence of the President of the
United States resolved on the 6th of this
very month of August, in the capital of
what vsed to be the United S:ates, that,
rather than witness an overthrow of the Un-
ion, they would prosecute the present war
until their towns ‘and cities should be deso-
lated, and they and all that are dear to
them, should have perished . with their pos-
sessions. This is the spiri of the North.—
Mark the opinion of the same meeting with
regard to the spirit of the South! We are
convinced they say, that the leaders of the
rebellion will never return to their allegi-
ance, and therefore they should be regarded
and treated as irreciaimable traitors The
practice of Napoleon is revived. War is
henceforth to mantain war, and the beauti-
ful province cf Virginia is given up to indiss
crimmaté plunder. This must, of course,
lead to reprisa's, and robbery and murder,
are evidently let loose to revel through the
land. Peace hax fled, and every day that
the war continues, instead of bringing it
nearer to a conclusion, seems to render eve
ery chance of accomodation mere and more
impossible. America will not be sought
henceforth by emigrants in search of peace.
Personal liberty, the right to express one’s
own stutiments and (0 regulate one's own
actions, was another of the blessings that
men wearied of the arbitrary Governments
and artificial societies of Europe sought on
the sacred soil of America, - They sought,
but they have not found it. The firs: effect
of the war long before any one cotld have
torescen the magnitude of its scale or the
bitterness of its animosity, was to sweep
away that one institution oo which personal
Jiberty depends. Before any serious effort
was made to humble its enemy, the Govern-~’
ment of the United States filled its prisons
with disconten ted citizens.. The firs: thing
the American Revolution erected was the
first thing that the French Revolution des-
troyed—a Bastile. The civil courts in vain
interfered. Their jurisdiction was trampled
mn the dust by military violence,
Aud now, as if there was not enough al-
ready to remind us of the Old World, the
conscription, which English readers ‘know
only by the experience of foreign countries,
is put in full force. America trusts no
longer the voluntary energies of her citizens,
a nd impresses them for a service which mon-
ey to any amount to which 11 may be offered
cannot bribe them to undertake. Not only
freedom from imprisonment, but ¢‘the right
of every man to seek his own happiness in
the way he thinks best,” so confidently sta-
ted in the Declaration of Independence, is
thus destroyed by a single word of a single
man, who assumes to himself. the tremen-
dous power of dragging from the orlinary
pursuits of life 600,000 of his fellow citizens
that they may pass through the fire to the
Moloch of civil strife. No Oriental despot
ever ventured on so tremendous a stroke of
power, and no people of European origin,
except the democracy of America, ever stb-
| mitted tot, Turn from the question of
personalliberty to the hope o f physical wel
being. Ina fortnight from this timo will
commence throughout the United States the
collection ol taxes more ruinous in their na-
ture and incidence, and more vexatious and
mgquisitorial in the method of their callec-
tion, than ever modern times have seen. —
As if this were rot euough, all the trangac~
tions of life are embarrassed, the relations
between debtor and creditor disarranged,
and the intercourse with foreign countries
rendered almost impossible by a system of
inconvertible paper 1ssued in defiance of all
principle and experience, and submitted to
with the most perfect apathy and indiffer~
ence.
These measures have produced their le.
gitimate effect. Already people are flying
from the land which was once the desired of
all nations. The conscription has restored
to England and other European countrieg
many subjects who little thought to have
ever nceded to plead any other nationality
than that of their adoped country. Canada,
which has been for so many years passed
by with contempt by the millions which
flocked to the more popular institutions of
the Umted States, has suddenly become a
land of refuge, and a thousand are re-
emigrating to escape that very governmen
which a few months ago they were pre
pared to extol as the wisest and best upon
earth. But the war pursues its course, and
the people bear with tameness absolutely
incredible the destruc'ion, one by one, of
all the hopes and all the illusions which
bad led them to the. other side of the
Atlantic. There is, no doubt, something
sublime in the spectacle of a nation so
fervently wedded to one idea that everything
else this world can give seems trivial and
insignificant io comparison. Instances have
not been rare of communities that have per-
ished almost lo a man for the purpose of
perserving liberty ; but liberty is among the
very Orst things which America has seen
fit to sacrifice. To the Union—that is, to
the resolution embracing a whole contineat
under a single Government— America is sac-
rificiog its present happiness and its future
hopes. Rather than be a State of moderate
dimensions, the North will proceed to any
degree of selfimmolation that may be requir-
ed. It would be a noble sight were the end
worthy of the means. As it 13, we stand
aghast at this wanton act of destruction, and
and at the intensity of that national vanity
which can thus sacrifice to some vague
imagination territorial greatness not only
all that makes a nation great, but all that
makes it happy or respected.
County Papers.
The La Crosse Democrat puts forth the
following home truths on the subject vt the
country press. They are worthy the con~
sideration of all who feel interested in the
prosperity of the community in which they
live :
We have before us a copy of the Taylor's
Falls Reporter, published in St. Croix Val-
ley in this State, but from its advertisin® el
umns are unable to gather the least idea of
the size of the rlace or amount of business
done there. We find in ita notice of one
dry good store, a lime kiln, watchmaker,
cabinet shop. tin shop, milliner store and
one or two lawyers cards. From the home
patronage of the paper, we should say Tay
lor’s Falls contained about a hundred in-
habitants. People have a mistaken idea of
local newspapers, When the basiness mea
of a place realize as they should that the lo-
cal paper benefits a place according to its” °
cirenlation out of it, they will hive learned
a valuable lesson. The village paper should
be the mirror of the place, should mive those
abroad an idea of what is done and why is
doing it wn the town where published IF»
paper could rhow a bundred rn of firs
engaged in business, people won'd a: once
say that village was a prosperois cre. [If
on the-contrary it be compelied to fil un,
with love stories in large typ. or wit,
prospectuses of the New York pars, il:
reader, at a distance. naturally inks the
town a sort of dead hole wh rin abide
seedy gamblers and played out 2:1} esate
speculators. If business men in a village
would take of each issue of their wedkly pa
per, a dozen copies and send them to their
friends in the east, the investment would
pay if the paper had a live business look to
it.” If uot, the better for all concerned. —
We love to sce a paper filled with live ad-
vertisements and iozal news. There are a
few such papers in Wisconsin, and no mats
ter how wuch we may differ with them in
politics, the items of local intelligence are
always eagerly sought for.
The village paper is a weekly messenger,
going forth into the world. proclaiming to
thousands never seen or thought of by the
editor, the resources and busiress of the
place where published, as well as the ener-
zy of its inhabitants. Patronage extended
to local papers is never thrown away. If
the paper is a Live one, read: rs at a distance
see it in the reflection of the place, and in
time the distant vill ize becomes familiar
through the local press and at last, dred of
this locality in the f:r oft east, the reader
starts for a new home among those he knows
by reputation. 3 :
A neat looking paper, well fillew with
home advertisements and local items, indi-
cates a live town and thrifty people, as cer *
tainly as clean dishes, clean house and
clean faced children indicate the neat wife
and mother ; .or as children with shirttails
flying. littlejclothes half fastened, dirty fa-
ces and unkept hair, and greasy knives,
forks and plates, and room filled with dirt,
is evidence of the slattern. Business men
owe it to the place, if not to themselves, to
patronize ihe local paper. Let the edilor
know that his labors are appreciated, and
he will labor hard to retain that good opin-
ion, to the benefit of all concerned,
= —eses a
97 Out of respect to the memory of Mr.
Bond Valentine, the Photograph and Am-
brotype car of Mr. Taylor, located just op-
posite his residence, has been closed since
Wednesday. Mr. Taylor requests us to say
that he will not reopen until the first of next
week, as he wishes to get some repairing
done to his car,
nl pA Ap rrr
07” War news is scarce this week—noths
ing of importance from the army, the Con
federates had possession of Chambersburg
and Mercersburg Pa., for a short time last
week, they took away with them a good ¢
of horses, clothes, cash and provisions whic
they captured in the raid.
eee
same
0 We had the pleasure of shaking hands
with Captain John Boal, of Boalsburg, on
Thursday last. The Capt. is slowly «ecov:
ering from his long and severe illueas, and
anticipa‘es being able to join his regiment
before mary days.
7 The Central Press has had its wings
clipped, and now makes its appearance a8 8
six column sheet. No wonder, for the par-
‘ty it represents in this County has been so
completely whittled down that it makes no
appearance at all.