and House.
.
Editor.
P. GRAY MEEK, |
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Friday Morning, Jan. 16, 1862
fr 7 Hon. R, F, Biron will please accept
ovr hanks for valuable public documents.
RAI
Frir Frar—The * pubs” who were s?
¢ ufident tha: Simon's money would pro”
cure him a seat in the U. 5. Senate.
A nr
777 Gloowry —The weather, The rain,
which has been much needed, has veen de-
scending quite freely, and the sleighiag is
about ¢ played out.”
desta
777 We would call the attention of our
raders to the article on the outside of to-
day's paper. Tt is from the pen of Lindy
Spring, Son of the Rev. Gardiner Spring.—
Me assumes the right doctrine, and we
would advise all to read and stuay it.
77 Hadn't Abram better issve another
Proclamation? There are hundreds of
things he might fire a broadside at. For
instance, the army that is now occupying
Galveston, Texas, might be driven eut by
one of his “crushers.” Jeff rson Davis,
too, might be driven out of Richmond, by a
Proclamation. Try it, A-br-a-m, tryit.
—— >
77> James W. Wall has been elected Ul
S S nator from New Jersey. Bully” for
New Jersey. Wall, it will be remembered.
was among the first men of influence to
ise his voice in opposition to the arbitrary
arrests of this abolition administration, and
for s0 doing was incarcerated in Fort Lafay-
ctte. We wonder what old Abe and Simon
wiil think of this last move ? Justice will
yet trivmph.
—_——— Se
Harper's WeekLy.——This splendid weck-
ly paper comes to us regularly evsry Tues-
day, and is & most welcome visitant. [tg
pictorial illustrations are the best in the
land, and its descriptions of the evarious
great events now occurring in our country’s
history, are vivid and interesting Every
family in the country should have llarper’s
Weekly. Price, three dollars per annum in
advance,
re. 9 ® Be pe ee
77 Hon. C. R. Buckalew, of Columbia
county, has been elected to the United States
Seaate. He is a Democrat of the right stripe
and willdo honor to the p'ace which has
heen ton long disgraced by that infamous
abolitionist, Davy Wilmot. 'Ilirce cheers
‘for the Democratic members in the Senate
They have done their duty no-
bly. The money of Simon Cameron could
not purchase them, nor his promises seduce
them into a betrayal of their principles or
their party.
BASE kes
077 Messrs John H. Orvis, and Cyrus T.
Alexander, have formed a co-partnersiip in
the law business, and now hang out their
shingle for the publi: inspection, As for
Cyrus, everybody knows him—and as fur
Mr. Orvis, we have said before that he is
from Lock llaven, and 1s a yourg lawyer of
undoubted ability. The new firm have
their office in the room formerly occupied
by Mitchell & Alexander, next door to Rey-
nold’s Bank. Call and see them.
17> The Army of the Potomac, we he-
lieve. is preparing to go into winter quarters.
The fighting in that department, except
among contractors and army officers is about
over. Burnside 1s “ played out,” emphati-
cally ¢ played out,” and his victories at Ro-
anoke and Newbern are ** "owhere,” since
the wholesale massacre at Fredericksburg,
The capture of Vicksburg as reported last
week, is not correct. Gen. Sherman was
Anven back to his boats, and compelled to
‘ travel,” Thus the Mississippi is not open-
ed. We doubt very much whether the
** victory’’ at Murfreesboro was not a de-
feat. At least, from the reports of the los.
8 8, we take it as such. The most reliable
information gives the Federal killed at ten
thousand, while that of the Confederates ig
not known. Ouly three hundred of the An-
derson Tio0p were engaged, the majority re
fusing to go into the battle, The boys from
this county tuok part in the fight. None of
them were hurt.
Galveston, Texas, has been recapturediby
the Cor.federates, who took quite a number
of prisoners and a large quantity of provis-
ion and camp cquipage.
er ee
§"JuBILER YEAR. —The present year is to
be celebratea as a jubilee in the German Re.
formed =hurch of this country* it being the
three-hundreth anniversary of the formation
of the Heidle-berg Catechism. The com-
memoration is to comprehend two principal
features —one benevolent, and the other lit-
erary and theological. To carry out the
first, every man, woman and child in the
church is to make a free will offering, du-
ring the year, to some benevolent institu?
tion of the church. To curry out the sec-
ond object, & general convention of the pas.
tors and luy-delegates from every congre
gation is to be held in Philadelphia, begin-
ning January 17, 1863, and continue from
eight to ten days. In :hisassembly essays
memoirs, and other papers pertaining to
the origin, history, and fortune of the Heid-
leberg Catechism, which have been prepar-
ed by eminent theologians of Eutere and
this country, are to beread anc iw ude
digcugped(r ed v7 ore vrer ¥
Must They be Recognized ?
Must the Southern Confederacy be recog-
nized * This is the question more than any
other that is now agitating the minds of the
people of the north. *‘Sober second thought”
is taking the place of national delirium, and
those who were carried away by excitement
are now being brought back by reality, and
in opening their eyes to the true condition of
affairs, it is not much wonder that they ex-
claim in surprise, where arc we ? Not much
wonder when they see the desolation their
own madness has accomplished, that they
turn in disgust from those who have led
them estray. and denounce openly the cause
they followed for the past twenty months.
All hope of restoring the Union by foree, no
doubt, departed from the minds of the mass-
es long since, but we are now just beginning
to realize it in the expressions in favor of a
cornpromise, Many who once considered it
“treason’’ to speak of compromising with
«rebels in arms,” now talk about adjusting
matters in another way than with balls and
bayonets, and wish that the “war was over”
—others are wondering whether the Union
can be restored by any means now er not. —
Had this question been seriously considered
twenty months ago, it might have been an-
swered in a way that would have given joy
to many aone that sleeps his last, long
sleep on a Southern battle field, and in a
way that wonld have conferred more honor
on the people of the States claiming to live
1 the old Union and under the 61d Constitu-
tion. than if answered to-day honestly and
fairly.
The prople of the Southern States, at the
time of their several acts of secession, be-
lieved as firmly that they were right in do-
ing so, as did those cf the Northern
States that they were justifiable in attempt-
ing to coerce them. Whether they had
suflicient cause at that time for resorting to
a right that does belong to the subjects of
all governinents the right of revolution, (for
secession and revolution are one and the
same thing) or whether the people of the
North had the Constitutional ..ght to send
an mimed foree into an independent State
unrequested by the Legislature of that State,
we leave for a future article. At present we
wish to look only at the prospects looming up
in the future.
No one will dare deny the fact, that the
Southern people #t the commencement of
hostilities, would have accepted the Critten-
den Compromise as a basis for the adjust-
ment of diffienlties then existing, and re-
mained in the Union had they had any as-
surance that their rights would be observed
and their prope.ty protected. Neither is
there any that can deny that peace could
have been secured and the old Union restor-
ed many days after the fall of Fort Sunter,
matter in any way oron any other condi-
tions than actual submisslon to their dicta-
tion. Nothing but conquest would io
them. Blindea by false theories, and delu-
ded by wrong ideas of patriotism, the people
cried, on on, and those who held the reins
of government went on, on, until no one can
tell exactly where we stand to-day.
The war has been in progress now fo al-
most two years. The whole power of the
North has been given to the administration
to carry it through, and what has been
done ? The Federal armies stand to-day
where they stood at the beginning—their
ranks are decimated and their confidence
gone —t heir hopes of restoring the Union has
fled and they see nothing but death or dis-
grace in the advance. To say that they
will fight to give freedem to “he negro which
15 the only object this war is continued for.
is to belie their names and disgrace them.
selves. No, they would rather suffer ten
thousand defeats than win in such an inglo-
rious caus2. The efforts of the people of the
Swvuth to settle the difficulties by peaceful
measures, spummed as they were by the ad-
minmistration—the destruction of their homes
and the cold forms of their kindred murder-
ed on their own doorsteps, and by their own
hearths'ones—has driven them to a point of
determmatiow, that mo army can crush out—
no pewer subdue—no concession soften. —
They have but learned their strength, and
are intent on exercising it. Look at what
has been accomplished in two years, and
then tell us if it would not be better by far
to recognize them, and have peace, than
continue the war with no hopes of subjuga-
ting them ?
There is no one foolish enough to think
that the present army can subdue them and
every one will admit that another one cannot
be raised. The question, then, is only as
to the time that they shall be recognized. —
Shail it be now, or after a few hundred
thousand more men are murdered, and con-
tractors have filched millions of dollars more
from the pockets of the people? For, dis-
guise it as we may, this wil! be the end.—
The right of seoession, or, in other words,
of revolution, must be admitted by the North,
before this horrible butchery . will cease.--
Peaceful remedies that wonld once have sav-
ed the Union, would be of no avail now.—
Subjugation has been tried and has failed,
and although no one deprecates a dissola-
tion of the Union more than we do, yet we
feel that it must be done in erder to save
the remnant of our torn and bleeding coun-
try.
If we separate now, both sections will
have a few men and a little property left;
if we continue on at the present rate, mn a
short time there will be nothing but ash
heaps and bones. The North will not have
enough men to attend her wounded or
enough of money to purchase plasters to
cover their sores. The South will be but
little better. The ruin of both will be fear-
fully complete.
Should separation take place now, we
have no idea that it would be final. After a
little while the people would begin to reflec-
—both sections would repent, and the end
of it all would be a new Union on the old
continue on in the slaughter of our friends
and the wasting of our strength in vain at-
tempts to accomplish that which no one can
hope for at this time? The old Union 18
GONE, GONE, and no power on earth is able
to resurrect It. Ouronly hope is in a re-
comaiiw.tion.
had those in power been willing to settle the |
basis,
Would it not be be better thus than to’
so Poe TR
The Admission of “ West” Virginia.
Among the many instances in which the
present Administration have committed gla.
ring acts of usurpation of the rights of the
people not delegated to the General Govern.
ment and set at nanght the plain provisions
of the Constitution, none i= more flagrant
or pernicious in its tendencies than the late
act of Congress purporting to admit a parto
the State of Virginia into the Union as a
State. A brief reference to the past history
of the American people, from the time that.
each State now compo8ing the Federal Un.
ion were separate and independent colonies
up to the time of the secession of a number
of those States, will make this plain.
Previous lo the Revolutionary war, the
British possessions in America were organ
ized under separate and distinct forms of
government and denominated the Colonies
of Great Britain. Each of these colonies
comprising & well-defined portion of the ter-
ritorial domain, had its Government, its Ju_
diciary, its Legislative Assembly and alj
the requisite machinery to insure the good
and perfect government of all citizens with-
in its territorial limits. Whale, it is true
they were dependent to a certain extent,
upon the gracious sovereignty of the King
of Great Biitain, the separate colonies were,
nevertheless, entirely independent of each
other. Afterward, when this dependency
upon the crown became oppressive; when
the gracious sovereignty of the King was
turned into a means of extensive and des
potic dominion, the people of the colonies,
who had tasted of the sweets of liberty and
therefore did not relish the bitter fruits of a
despotic sovereignty, cut loose the ties that
bound them to the mother country. This
was accomplished, it is true, by a united
action on the part of all the oppressed col-
onies ; ye*, nevertheless, when their inde-
pendence was established, it was not only
fixed as to all, but as to each. Each con-
tinued to maintain its separate and indepen-
dent orgamzation. Fach claimed and main-
tained the right of self-government, and,
independently of the others, exercised an
exclusive control over all ils people and ter.
ritory. Afterward, when “to form a more
perfect union’ they adopted the federal con-
stitution, this same independence was still
adhered to, they only granting to the gener-
al Government certain powers which they
took the pains to explieitly set forth in the
constitution which they established for their
government ; and then, in order to prevent
any encroachment on the partof the Feder-
al Government upon the independence they
had gained, as separate and distinct sover-
eign'ies, they inserted a clause in the Con.
stitution, previous to its adoption, reserving
to themsclves all the rights not ex;ressly
delegated te the (teneral Government: ‘They
furtherttiore, iit order to preveni a division
ot their territory and a rupture of their
State Governments, expressly provided :
¢ That new States may be admitted by
Congress into the Union, but no new State
shall be formed or erected within the juris.
diction of any other State , nor any State
be formed by the junction of two or more
States or arts of States, without the con-
sent of the Legislatures of the States con-
cerned, as well as of Congress.” — ARTICLE
4 h, Section 3rd.
Yet, notwithstanding this plain provision,
the present Congress—the members of
which are sworn to support the Constitu ion
—hus passed and the President signed, a
bill dividing the great State of Virginia in
twain and admitting a part of it to the
Union as a State, under the name of West
Virginia. They have done just what the
Constitution says !they shall not do, and
what they themselves took a most solemn
oath that they would not do, The perjury
rests upon their own souls, but with the
strange medley of contradictions which this
act portrays and its «ffects upon ug as citi
zens of this gieat country, we have to do.
In the first place they have admitted by
this act that Virgima has really seceded
from the Union ; for if she has not seceded,
(and Republicans have protested that a State
has no power to do this) how could a por-
tion of a State that was never out of the
Union be re-admitted into #2? If her act of
secession, as many contend, has really not
placed her outside of the Unrom, then a por-
tion of the State cannot be admitted as a
State without the consent of the Legislature
of that State. This has not been obtained,
as the Legislature of the State of Virginia
sits at Richmond, and we have not, of late,
been transacting with them business of this
kind; and again, if thiz ® rebellion” be
crushed out 8s the administration constantly
assures us it will be, (and which we as con-
stantly doubt) how can the Union be restor-
ed as it was with the great State of Virginia
broken in twain ? If this Congress has the
power to admit Western Virginia, the people
thus admitted acquire rights in this govern-
ment which cannot be taken from them and
therefore this acs cannot be repealed or the
dismembered State re-cemented. The glo-
rious old State of Virginia cannot then be
restored to the Union as she was.
One other view of this matter, and we &ec
that Thad, Stevens attempts to justify it on
the ground that Virginia has really seceded
—that she is really out of the Union—that
sheis an alien enemy, and that, as such, we
have a right as fast as we conquer her ter-
ritory, to admit it 1t into the Union, This
is the doctrine of conquest, and the only one
upon. which Republican members of Con.
gress can clear their consciences of the
crime of perjury.
That Virginia is out of the Union, we take
for granted, after the experience of the last
two years. And that this is now a war not
for the restoration of the Union as it was,
but a war for conquest, is clearly shown by
the arguments used in justification of the
admission of Western Virginia, Upon no
other grouud can it be justified. -
Notice 10 TEACHER®. — After conferring
with the editor of this paper, I ascertain
that we can not get a column to be edited
by the teachers unless, paidi for, But they
will publish educational communications if
well written. W. S. MoFeATeRs.
a WE
Prepared expressly for the Watcaman. |
0 Man, Who Art Thou?
REFLECTIONS ON PEACE AND WAR.
BY JUSTICE.
(Continued from last Number.)
Thou, 0 Man, »ho art fashioned after thy
Creator, what now think ye of the present condi:
tion of man? We who aro or ought to be ration-
1 beings, lending dur sid and support to the aw-
ful practice of war ; causing our beloved land to
bedelr,_ed in blood, brother slaying brother.—
nd reflect—tnke thovght from
whence this has come. Muoh haa already been |
suid a8 to whence this has emanated. No one
has offered to deny the cause. Then why repeat |
it? But the cause shall be proclaimed openly
again and again, without fear or favor from any.
Humanity demand it, religion demands it, the
tears of the widow demand it, the cries of thous-
ends and tens of thousands of orphans demand
it, the law of reason demands it, the precepts
and example of the Prince of Peace demand it.
* Politieal Corruption,’ clothed in the garb of
Righteousness, has brought this upon us. We
know it—we dare not deny it. Simply the acts
and transgressions of men in high placea—wolves
in sheep’s clothirg. They, the rulers of the na-
tion, demanding human gacrifices to car.y out
mad and delusive schemes! Is it not so? Yea,
verily, it is so.
Go visit the city of Washington, and what
moets your eye? Ah, it is a fearful place—cor-
ruption, heaps upor heaps. The population double
what it was beforesthis hellish war was proclaim-
ed. What eofter application does it merit ? Spec-
ulators and swindlers have become as numerous
as crows and buzzards over stinking carcasses ;
every variety of evil has been concocted ; hun-
dreds of houses of doubtful character, with an
ever endless host of liquor-shops and gambling
holes, in full operation at the expense »f the Gov-
ernment. Yes, reader. the substance of the far-
mer, the mechanic and the peaceful citizen, is
fil ched from their families to support this foul
nest of INIQUITY. This is plain talk of the:
morals of the Capital of the nation, but it is sos
and the halt has not been told But again, I
have said that men filling high places, have bro’t
these things upon us. Verlly, are they the sedu-
cers of PeAcr, who opposed the measures of
COMPROMISE, (by which t ese things could
have been evaded, and our coun'ry to-day been
enjoying peace and happiness) but men filling
high places, I have not time nor space to name
them out one by one. I fear not to do fo, how-
ever, though you may threaten me with DUN-
GEONS and BASTILES: What I have said, I
have said—what I have written and said is before
the world. My witness is the standard of eternal
Truth, and I am ready to meet you face to face.
Yes, you in high p'aces are the guilty ones, tho’
you may endeavor to cover your acts under the
garb of legal power. ¢ Military Necessity!” —
From whence came this necessity, but from Po-
litical Corruption ? You have overthrown every
act of justice, reason and humanity, in order to
have a plea to carry out your accursed work of
destruction, ard under the gatb of military ne-
cessity you claim your acts to be legal. Ah, if
the works of Satrn are logal, so are yours, and
under this mad delusion thousands upon thous
ands of human sacrifices have been made. And
with the hosts of professed ministers of the Gos-
pel trumpeting Political Corruption from the Pul«
pit, ie it any wonder that we are n' w mingled in
a deadly strife ? No! what more could he ex-
pected ? Can bitter water and sweet flaw from
the same fountain? Nay, verily not. Washing-
ton city, the Capital of our nation, where our
Chief R nlers are placed, has become the fountain
head of corruption, and no good can be expected
from there. Tho morality of the place has al |
ready been given, and there is the fountain-head |
of these men filling high places, whose poisoned |
arrows of destruction have been sent broadcast
over this once peacctul and happy country.
“Wo unto thee. Cherazin! Wo unto thee, !
Detlsaida! for if the mighty works had been
done in Tyre and Sidon whish have been done in
you, (hey had a great while ago repented, sitting
in sackloth and ashes. But it shall bo more tol-
erable for Tyre and Sidon at the Judgment than
for you "—31. Luge, 10-1214. From this foul
hole of INIQUITY has come forth the demand
for human sacrifices. Thousands and tens of
thousands hsve already been given, and upon
what altar has this been done, and to whom have
they been given? The blood of thousands cries
from the euvrth : That great Harlot and seducor of
man, Political Corruption. Yes, to this great De,
mon has this been done. Drother caused to butch-
er brother, through the acts of wicked men filling
high places. Now, what differcnee in the sight of
the Gol of Love, can there be between the butch-
ery of human life now and in the dark ages? All
the difference there ean be is simply this—that
the condemnation in this enlightened day wiil be
a thousand fold greater than it was then. But
dare we offer this as an example of the blood-
stained aets ot those who profess to be gentlemen
and christians ? But the day is coming when these
men (unless they seek the mediatlon of Him who
died upon the Cress) will travel up and down in
the earth seeking rest, and find none.
“ And the Lord said unter Cain, where is Abel,
thy brorher ? ‘
+ And he said, I krow not; am I my brother's
keeper ?
¢ And He said, what hast thou done? the voice
of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the
ground. And now art thou cursed from the earth
which hath opened her mouth to receive thy
brother’s blood from thy hand. —Gex. 4th-9-10-11.
Ah, what is your condition to day? Stop now,
and reflect. The blood of thousands and tens of
thousands crying from the earth against you.—
Ah, seek not the mark of Cain lest the vengeance
of man may come upon you. But vengeance be
longs to me, saith the Lord. Before you proceed
any further in this awful destruction of blood, of
brother against brother, study the conse quences
of the first murder on earth, you have the history
before you, I need not here recite it, ah, gentle-
men, you may look upon the articles that I have
written with scorn, and you may look upon me
with contempt. ( I mean you who are filling high
places on earth.) I fear younot. I am well aware
that I have committed many wrongs, but which of
you will go with me to the foot of the Cross, ang
there seek of Him who is able to cleanse us from
the contanijnating power of the world? Let us go
now. To-morrow may be forever too late. Yes,
let us begin now, before any more blood gushes
out before the hellish weapons of the “hydra.
headed monster, WAR.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Stop
PiokwickiaN.—Inthe address of Hon.
Wm. D. Lewis, of this city, to General But-
ler on the oc:asion of his reception at the
Continental Hotel, the other evening, we
find the following sentence. We defy Dick-
ens to beat it ;
“Let us suffice, gentlemn, that to him, in
my judgement, in & higher degree than to
any other individual, ‘the loyal States of
this Union are indepted for the eminent ser-
vices Ae, has performed,”
rr rel APA ee
_ me Washington Star says that the Stuart
in his litest raid in Washington, intercepted
seveal Goverament messages at the tele
graph office at Burk’s Station, and also sent
various despatches to the Government on his
own account. To General Meigs he tele-
graphed, “In future you will please furnish
better mules. Those you have furnisten re-
cently are very inferior.” Stuart signed his
lt
Governor Curtin's Message.
We present below a full and fair abstract
of the second annual message of the Gorer-
nor of this State. As usual, it opens with
an exhibit of the State finances, and on
this point the Governor says : —
The balance in the Treasury No-
vember 30th, 1861, was :
Receipts during the fiscal year en-
ding November 30th, 1861, were
as follows :
Ordinary resources, y 5 $4, 047, 822, 39
8 percent loan act May 15. 1801, 337, 850, 00
From various banks as an equiv-
alent for coin for the payment
of interest on public debt,
Refunded cash military,
United States Government, .
$1, 551. 605, 72
140, 788, 30
29, 566, 42
805, 740, 52
Total in Tay for fisenl year
ending November 36th 1861, $6, 763, 453, 35
And the payments have been se i
follows :
For ordinary pur-
poses,
Paid on State in-
terest as aon
equivalent for
$3, 883, 110, 03
coin, . 146, 631, 22
Military expenses
Act April 12th,
861, “ll 7,82
Military expenses,
Act May 15th,
1861, ? : 460, 548 63
Military expenses,
Act May 16, 1861, 1,217 26
Military expenses,
dot April 16th,
2, . , 20, 607 04
Militar; Pensions,
Act May 15, 1861, 400 54
Commissioners Sink-
ing Fund, °° ,
Domestic Creditors,
Temporary Loan
redeemed,
United States Gov-
ernment Direct
Tax, . .
427, 881 51
105 32
100, 000
250, 000 00 4,590,509 25
Leaving balance in
Treasury. N. v.
30,1862,
Of which amount
one hundred and
ninety five thou-
sand five hun-
dred and seven-
ty-six dollars and
twenty seven
cents is the bal-
ance of unexpen-
ded military loan
as folloas :
Balance «f eaid
fund, November
30th, 1861, .
Reeipts under Act
of May 10, 1862,
$2,172,844 10
$396.607 41
387,810 00
778,347 41
Paid for military ex-
penses as above,
Paid for redemption
of temporary loan,
482,781 14;
100, 000 00
582.781 14
$195,576 26
Receipts from ordi-
nary resources,
Yor the year ending
Nov. 30, 1862, 4,047,622,50
186
1, 3,017 645.58
Excess of receipts for
«1862, 1,020,176 81
Payment for ordinary
purposes, excopt
ing interest :
Yor year ending Nov.
} 1861, 1,118.662.93
862, 1,023,345,77
Decrease in expendi-
tures of 1862, 95,317,16
From the tables exhibited it will appear
that the receipts from ordinary sources, of
revenue for the year 1862 are in excess of
the receipts for the yenr 1861, one mi'lion,
thirty thousand, one hundred aud seventy-
six dollars and cighty-two cents, (the ex-
cess of interest paid interest pad in 1862
uver that in 1¥61 being $144 095 37 :) and
that the ordinary «xpenditures for 1862
were ninety-five thousand three hundred and
seventeen dollars and sixteen cents less
than the year previons.
The he.ulthy eondiri)a of the revenues
and the excess of the receipts over the ex-
penditares secured by the rigid economy
which has been practiced (especially con-
sidering the necessary increase of taxation
by the National Government,) seem to in-
vite the attention of the Legis'ature to a re-
vision of the revenue laws, with a view to
hightening the burdens of the people. ln
this conre:tion it is proper to invite your
attention to the justice and expediency of
restricting the rate of local taxation, now,
in some parts of the State oppressive.
Amount of publi¢ debt
of Pennsylvania, ad
it stood on the 1st of
December, 1861,
Additional amoeunt re-
ceived at the State
Treasury during the
$10,589,066,08
fiscal yoar ending
Nov. 30, 1862, on
military loan, au-
thorized per act of
May 15,1861, 337.850,00
40,908,516,08
Deduct amonnt re-
deemed at the State
Treasury during the
fiscal year, ending
Nov. 30, 1862, viz:
3 per cent. State
stocks, 168,809,419
4% per cent. State
stocks, 50,000,00
4 per cent. State
stocks, 100,000,00
Interest certificates, 17.25
Relief notes, 1,411,00
Donsestte creditors’
certificates, 64,82
Military loan, per act
of April 12, 1861, re- Si
deemed, ¥09'050,00
520,302,26
Public debt Decem-
ber 1, 1852, 40,448.213.82
Towards the excinguishment of the pub-
lic debt, the Sinking Fund holds securities
amounting to ten millions seven hundred
and eighty-one thousand dollars, as fsllows :
Bonds of Sunbury &
Erie Rail Road
Company,
Bonds of the Penn-
sylvania Railroad
Company,
Bonds of Wyoming
Canal Company,
3,500,000
7,000.000
281,000
10,781,000
Should there be no extraordinary demand
on the Treasury, there can be appropriated
from the large balance now on hand and tke
increasing revenues, at least a million and a
half of dollars during the coming year tow-
ards the payment of the public debt.
‘The operations of the Sinking Fund du-
ring the last year have been, as shown by
my Proclamation of the Sth of September
last, as follows :
Amount of debt of
Commonwea 1 t h
reduced,
As follows, viz :
Siate loans,
252,801.67
261,178,74
Interest eertificates, 370,41
Domestic creditors’
certificates, 74,52
Relief notes cancel-"
led, 11,88
202,801,67
It will be observed that the fiscal year
ends the thirtieth of November and the Sink-
ing Fund year on the first Monday of Sep-
tember. This is the reason for the appar-
ows. name. ta his despatch.
out deficiency in the amount of debt paid-
4 ress for their payment.
as stated in the Treasurer's Report and
by the Commissioners of the Sinking
Fund.
In the miscellancous matters we note the
following subjects treated in the message,
One hundred and ninety-nina miles of the,
Philadelphia and Erie Railroad are finished
leaving to be completed eighty-nine miles,
of which nearly all 1s graded and ready for
the 1ron. The Governor thinks there are
more incorporated banksin the State than
public convenience requires. He is of the
opinion, however, that the existing provis-
jons of law for paying the interest on the
State dept in specie equivalent falls to hea-
vily on the Banks, and invites the Legislature
to their relief,
The moneys appropriated by the munici-
pal authorities of Philadelphia and the Com.
missioners of some of the counties, as boun-
ty to encourage enlistments, the Governor
suggests should receive some legislative at-
tention with a view to equalizing an expense
which operated eaqually to the advantages
of the whole State.
Prior to the call of the President for troops
in July last, Pennsylvania had furrished the
armies of the nation with a hundred and
ten thousand men. Since that requisition
she has sent forward forty-three additional
regiments, two companies of cavalry and
three batteries of artillery, That is ail over
and above the number furnished by the
draft, which the Governor says was entirely
snccessful. His siatement of the aggregate
number of troops furnished by he State is
t¥o hundred thousand.
A number of other matters are noticed in
the message which we must dispose of brief-
ly. Acknowledgement are mode to the mil-
tia who responded with such patriotic prom-
ptitnde during the threatened invasion of the
State by Lee's army. There were fifty
thousand of these, and measures are in prog-
Credit 1s given to
the Anderson Cavalry, and to Generals Rey-
nolds and Andrew Porter, fur their servises
on this occasion. The militia law needs re-
construction. Capt. wrigley of this city has
made a report upon the defences of the Del-
aware. The Pennsylvaniy R. R.’s contri-
bution of flfty thousand dollars to the Boun-
ty Fund was declined ty the Governor for
want of authority to accept. He suggests
that it should be devot.d to the erection
of an asylum for our disabled soldiers.
The Broad Street Railway Company has
been proceeded against by quo warranto, and
information has been filed by the Attorny-
General to restrain that enterprising corpora-
tion® A suggestion is made to amend the
Constitution so as to enable the volunteers
to vote in camp.
The Governor also invites the attention of
the Legislature to an Act of Congress do-
nating lands to such States as may pro-
vide colleges for the benefit of Agricul-
ture and Mechines. We trust the mem-
bers of the Legislature will throughly
examine the Act before they aceept the dona »
ted lands.
———— OB ma
Ought We to Respect Lincoln?
The Armstrong Democrat assumes the pa-
ternal responsibility of lecturing the Demo-
cratic press for wha it imagines to be an
intemperate abuse of the President. by the
latter. The Democrat, adopting a stiff,
phrase of stilted morality, that would be
qnite to» inflexible of the National Intel-
ligencer lays it down that unmurmuring
submissionto all the acts and behes:§ of the
regnanAbolition powers, is the solemn and
bounden duty of Democrats in genaral.
and Democratic editors in particular:
We beg leave to enter a word of dissent |
from such yirws. The Armstrong Demo- |
crat in our opinion, gives not only mistaken
but undemocratic and insulting advice.—A
man lacking talent and, worst of all, lack-
ing the mora! force that renders even vul- |
gar ignorance a safer depository of power |
than imbecility, however well meaning—a
man who is imbued with the dominant fan-
aticism of the day—a man who is more |
than particeps cruminis, and yet hardly |
more than a blind tool, in the disruption of |
the fundamental laws and constitution, and |
the moral, social and commercial ties that |
bound this nation together in one communi- !
ty—such a man, hy the accident of mere
availability, is elevated by a sectional fac-
tion to the Chicf-magistracy of the Union !
This man, ignorant, imbecile and fanatical,
as we have said. pursues consistenly, whet! -
er driven or leading a course of flagrant
outrages upon the rights of the government |
and the individual. He has alieady gone |
so far fo this course, that is a question
with dp Afnerican citizen, whether he en-
Joys thé same measure of liberty and happi-
ness that belouxs t& the almost enviable
subject of the Emperor of Austria ; whilst
as for our Government, the once powerful
honored, happy Union, it has been abused
dishonored and gdespoilt until it is now
scarcely more than' our own pity and the
world’s contempt.
And ought we to respect and love such a |
man ? Must we obsequiou-ly bow to, and |
respectfully acknowledge all the repeated |
infractions against the essential rights of
our individual and Governmental cxistance ? |
Yes, say the minions of the usurping pow-
er, yon must ; and the Armstrong Demo-
crat (save the name) repeats the insulting |
command! But we can not resp ect him ; |
and we cannot sultify ourselves or play the
despicable hypocrit, by pretending a respect |
for an offical who degrades his office and us-
es his power to purposes worse than those |
of the mere tyrant. ‘A corrupt ruler is
bat a reigning sin ; and a sin 1m office is not |
entitled to respect.” —Mr. Lincoln dead, |
his memory will go dvwn the pages of his- |
tory s ained with the infamy that bel ngs,
Zustly, to an enemy of the American Union. !
And Lincoln living—lising in the broad |
blaze of the wreck which his own imbecili-
ty and fanaticism have killed—claims no
more respect at our hands. and shall receive |
no more, than his own bad actions warrant,
Whenever it becnmes a virtue in a man to
awn like a spaniel upon the foot that kicks
him, or to give reverance to the outlaw
that knocks him down for his ruffian pleas-
ure then it will be holy duty to pay respec-
to Abraham Lincoln and his Abolition par-
ticipants of power.
Generar Borner. —1f half that is said
and believed of the conduct of General But- |
ler in New Orlears be true he is a candi-
date for infamy. For months past the coun-
glaring frauds and corruptions under his ad-
ministration of afiairs, It is impossible to!
doubt the overwhelming mass of evidence |
furnished. What have been the immediate re
lations of Butler to these frauds it is impos-
sible to aflirm, and an investigation, already |
try has been filled with rumors of the most George Mu ser,
commenced by Genera! Banks. shall disclose
the truth- But we all know the fact in r
gard to his general administration of affiairs
and no man in his senses can doubt that he
has done more to destroy Union sentiment
in New Orleans than could have been ac-
complishec by the most devoted allies of the
Confederates themselves, We learn that
the first actof General Banks has been to
place a sudden stop on the course of the
Butler practice, even to the extent of sei-
zing on s2me bank accounts standing in the
names of certain distinguished officials
while he has also grasped with a firm hand
the evidence laying in various private
hands which may lead to a great disclosure.
Private property has becn restored from
the grasp of hungry and unszrupulous men,
working on the Butler programme, and
New Orleans feels the redeeming power of
the generals presence, and takes 8 sudden
long breath of relief from oppression, wrong
robbery and cruelty. We hope hereafter
for better news from the Crescent City. —
Journal of Commerce.
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No Arbitary Arrests in 1812
In the war of 1812 with Great Brittin,
says the Newark Journal. “wo were engag-
ed with a powerful foe, our superior in
wealth and population —a foe who had Gom-
mand of the ocean. We are now engaged
in a civil war with an enemy occupying an-
other portion of the same country, without
a navy, and without means at all compara-
ble to our own. During the progress of the
war of 1812, the Administration was greatly
embarressed in its flnances, and it had to
meet disatiection and opposi ion in a {avyge,
wealthy, and populous portion of the Un-
jon. Had the National Government then
attempted the policy of arbitary arrests on
mere suspision because we were opposed
to the war, a revolt and a secession from
the Uoion would have taken plece in New
England. Tho fathers of thoso Eastern
Abolitionists who now attempt to justify
the violations of personal liberty by. whole
sale orders for indiscriminate arrests by pro-
vost marshals scattered through the commu.
nity, would have risen ir rebellion against
the Government, and declared ther eternal
seperation from the Union rather than
submission to such high-handed tyranny
and oppression.
ANNUAL STATEMENT.
Office of the «Farmers Mutual Fire Insur-
ance Company of Centre county. located
South of Nittany Mountain, Centre Hall,
| Jan. 12th, 1863.
In compliance with the provisions of their
charter, the Directors present the [oilowing
statement of the transactions of the Compa-
ny for the past year.
Assetts— Bills receivable, be-
ing Premium Notes due and
payable by members for In-
surance made the past yeer,
Of which amount 3 per cent.
has been asses.ed and call-
ed in for the current expens-
ses of the company.
3 16,065,18
508.05
Leaving due on Premium
Notes taken the past year.
To this add the amount of re-
ceipts into the Treasury
16,456.23
from agents the pas ye ar, 332,11
Amount outstanding and due
from agents, 404.77
Also amount in Treasury
at last se'tlement, 381,31
Also interest on loans to dif-
ferent persons, 24,49
Making the total available as-
setts and receipts of the
company the past ycar
amount to, 17,683 88
Expenses during the past
year—compensation to Di-
rectors, 87 02
Salary of Secretary, 7500
s+ Treasurer, 20,00
Bills for printing the past
year, 56,00
Incidental expenses— postage
stationary, &c., 8 83
Office rent, 10,00
Losses during the past year—
amount paid Jacob Condo
for insurance on wash house
destroyed by fire, 133,33
Also brick house of John Sel-
zer, and barn of William
Thompson—not settled.
391,08
| Total assetts and funds of the
company the past year. 17.267,80
| To which add funds reported
heretofore for the years
1858, 1859, 1860, & 1861, 62,591,71
Making the total available as-
setts and receipts of the
company since its organi-
zation amounting this day
to 79,859,561
Debts and liabilities, not any.
Rwsks and insurances made
the past year,
Same heretofore reported and
taken for the years 1858,
59, 60, aud 61,
210,277,290
823,828.61
1034,105,90
4 966,33
Making a grand total of fisks
and insurdnédy,
Number of Poli¢ies issued and
in full force this day, 777.
The Losurahces the past year are classi-
fied as tollows, to wit:
Deduct polizies cancelled by
consent of parties,
1029,139,57
Fergusch Township, 1560.00
Harris e 27 {136,66
Potter .“ 22,825.98
Gregg od 30,480,00
Penn se 36.898.64
Haines ot 54,078 OU
Miles + £6;320,00
To which add additional insur-
ance this year, 29,309,58
GEO. BUCHANAN, Pres't,
Attest Joux SuaNnNoN, Sec.
At an election held the same day, the foi”
lowing named members were duly elected
Directors, to serve the ensuing year :
George Buchanan, Amos Alexander,
Jacob G. Moyer, D. 0. Bowers,
Thomas Wolf, George Shaffer,
William Durst, Peter I offer,
J. W. Campbell,
Joshua Potter, David Ross,
Whereu on the Board organized, and ag’
pointed the following officers.
President—George Buchanan.
Vice President—Joshua Potter.
Treasurer —H. Witmer.
Secretary — John Shefimon!
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