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Friday Morning, March 6, 1863.
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The © War for the Union.”
We-do not know, nor can we imagine,
why itis that some of our exchanges claim-
ing to be Democratic, are still clamoring for
a prolongation of this wicked cr.sade—ask-
ing that Gen. McClellan may be reinstated,
and the war carried on for its + original pur-
pose” —¢ the restoration of the Union and
the enforcement of the laws,’” gs they say.
Whether they are really ignorant of the
principles upon which our Union was based,
or are willully blind as to the results of the
war, we will not pretend to say--one or the
other must be the cause of their strange
doctrine, The Abolitionists were slways
iu faver of destroying the Union founded
wpon eur Constitution, and of building in
its stead a strong centralized government.
lence their consistency in supporting a war
iu which they see the advancement of their
ong cherished designs.
The Democrats supported the Union form-
ed by the mutual concessions of the thir-
teen original States, for-the general welfare
of aLi—founded ia the AFFECTIONS of the
people, and in the ‘fraternal attachment”
which the citizens of the seve.al States owe
to each ether.
How those who have heretofore upheld
the doctrine of State Sovereignty, ana la-
bored for the preservation of the Union
which existed only by means of the powers
delegated to it, can sapport a war that must
fix forever the determination of the people
of the Suuthiern States to RESUME these DEL-
w@ATED powers, we do not krow. They cer-
tainly do not pretend that the *¢ affictions”
aud “ fraternal regards” of the people of
the South, wi-bout which a Union with them
would te a mockery and a curse, can be
won with fire and sword, murder and ra-
piug, blood and desolation. They will not
dare to say that the States comprising the
late Union were uaited on principles of un-
{Limited submission to the general Govern-
ment nor that each had not the right to
JUDGE POR trseLy as well of infractions as of
the mods aud measure of redress,
They do not, we hope, deny the people
the right of revolution, nor rob the States of
the power to judge for themsclves as to the
wode and measure of redressing their griev-
ances. If so, what isthe difference between
their doctrine and that of the abolitionist?
If, not, tow can tkey endorse a war that
plainly and palpably violates the great prin-
ciples of Democracy. These are questions
of momentous iemaportance not only to the
Democratic party, but to the masses who
would have equal and exact justice meted
out to all men.
So far as carrying ou the war to * restore
the Union” is concerned, we look upon it as
an absurdity which no sexsisLE man can,
fur a moment, endorse. There is wore con-
sisteuey in giving it a hearty and cordial
sunpurt as it is waged now to rob the peo-
p'e of the South of their just rights, than
there was at the beginning when claimed to
be a ‘* war for the Union.” And as for hay-
ing thes wan or that, Gen. McClellan or
Gen. Fremout, at the head of the army
while the crusade goes ou, we can see, no
difference; tho principle, the design, are
alike, and the result will be the same.
The D.mocratic party stands upon Prix-
ciple, uot policy, and those who would be
its advoca es should remember this.
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877 To cap the climax of its infamous
actd, the present Congress passed the Bill
suspending the Writ of falcas Corpus until
the end of the * Rebellion’, and to indem-
unify the President and all others who have
‘been concerned in the arbitrary arrests that
have disgraced our nation.
It will not be loig now, we sup;ose,
uutil‘the + 01d Keystone’ as well rs all the
other States North, will swarm with spies
and informers, bautlings of infamy and
hangers on to the * tail of tyranny.” whose
duty it will be to report the sayings and do-
ings of honest men, to the Dictator at Wash-
ington. What effect this attempt to legal
ize acbitrary arrests will produce, Gd lone
knows: If we, as Americans, are to become
serfs—if our Liberties are to be taken away
from us at tis ned of the old imbecile at
Washinglon—if we are uo longer to enjoy
freedom of speech or of the press, and our
Courts of Justice are to be closed upaa us,
theo, say we, let them enslave our cold
Corpse. and rob us of our liberties by rob-
bing usgof life. We have rights which a
despotic Congress may attempt to legisiate
away, but which we shell defend in spite of
their threats; and privileges which the
blood of Patriots purchastd, and which
nothing but a stranger ara or a deadlier ri-
fle than ours can take from ue. We beg
and beseech of vou, Freemen of Centre
County, not to be cowed iute silence by ex-
pectations of P.ovost Marshals, Stand up
for your rights, if it must be, with arms in
your hands. Speak your minds, though it
be through powder and ball. Nothing but
determination, fixed and unwavering, will
save ug from everlasting disgrace and slav-
ery. :
[£7 We rather imagine that the Gov-
ernment” will have a *“ high old time,” en-
forcing the Conscript act. Poor men will
mot relish beariug the toils sad hardships of
sno lif, while the rich are perzsisted ‘te
excu ice or three hundged
ull rebel.
Daly Well
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Negro Soldiers.
As was predicted by all sane men, the
organization of negroes into companies and
regimerts to be placed side hy side with ou®
white soldiers, is demoralizing our whole ar~
my. Even in the Scutaern Department,
eommanded by the notorious abolitionist
Maj. Gen, David Hunter officers of all gradeg
up to Brigadier Generals have mutinied in
consequence of the attempt of Lincoln and
Huauoter to Cegrade them to the level of the
negro Mutinies and insubordination in any
army are to be deplored, for no one can for-
tell the consequences ; but when they are
the natural and legitimate effects of a policy
adopted by the government in opposition to
the warnings and protests of every statesman
in the land, who pointed out these results as
certain to follow the adoption of such a pol-
icy. the responsibility belongs to the ad-
ministration alone, and those directing its
policy should be made to bear all tke pen-
alties. If negro regiments and brigades are
put into the aimy of the Potomac, we would
not be suprised to sce those same soldiers
who fought so desperctely at Malvern IIill,
Williamsburg, Westpoint, Fair-oaks, Me-
chanicsville,GainesMi 1s, Malvern Hill, South
Mountain and Antietam, throw down their
arms and refuse to fight atall, or turn
their cannons and bayonets az2inst the
wies of the Union who are now holding sway
in Washington. If any one doubts the run
ous policy of Lincoln and his pet Congress,
let them contrast the situation of sffurs in
the summer of 1861, with the present con-
dition of things. Then the whole male pop-
ulation of the North were emulous to be ac-
cepted into the public service, and the rush
was 80 great as to fairly overwhelm the
government with troops. The question
then was uot, how to raise armies, but what
companies and regiments to receive out of
the thousands offered. Now there is not even
a corporal guard volunteering any where;
conscription has to be resorted to, to re-
cruit the army and force used to keep those
already 1 the service from deserting and re-
volting. Lincoln and his advisers are respon
sible for this change in the sen.imen's of the
people and of the army.
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Hon, Johu J. Crittenden.
No one, not even the most fanatical aboli-
tionist, dare question the patriotism of John
J. Crittenden. Having been an intimate
and confidential friend of Uenry Clay, and
always a consistent though moderate oppo-
nent of the democratic party upon all finan-
cial and other kindred questions, and being
a man too old to be influenced by any mo-
tives of personal ambition, he occupies a
position which ought.to give his opinions
great weight in the councils of the nation
during the administration of the present
dominant party. Yet we find his opinions
and counsels treated with marked contempt,
and he left in the minority upon all the
prominent measures proposed and adopted
by the abolitionists who have been and are
still using every effort to ruin this coun
try aud permanently destroy our once splen-
did system of government. The position of
Crittenden in opposition to the Confiscation
Bill and other radical weasures of the ad-
ministration, ought to make all conserva.
tive and moderate Republicans (if there are
any such ) pause and consider well the
gulf into which their leaders are hurrying
us all, before they take the final plunge, we
fear however, that should one even rise from
the dead and wara them of the consequences
of their present course, 1t would be too late
to arrest their fatal career,
Sree tl) BGPP
We understand that quite a number of
Abolitionists and “War democrats,” with
which this place is disgraced, made consid-
erable fuss over an artcle in last weeks
Watchman in regard to the ‘Conscription
Act.” Now we have never attempted to
publish a paper that would please them or
express their views and we pray to God that
wo never may. We said last week what we
meant, and meant precisely what we said.
We have opposed this war from the begin-
ning, and we shall oppose il to the end, be-
lieving it to UNCONSTITUTIONAL,. UN-
HOLY and UNJUST, waged for the benefit
of Abolitionism- -a gigantic John Brown
raid carried on in the name of ‘Government,’
and if the cowardly cut throats about here
do not like our course the less
of it. 1 they think b
molishment ’ ani ¢
en us inte a support of tne v
find they are “barking up the wrong tree?
So just remember this ¢Porkey,” you, that,
was ready to lead a mob of Abolitiousts and
Niggers against this office, that we fear you
rot, but shall hold you ‘in rewmembrauce,
even unto the time that thou shalt ask dem-
‘ocrats to support thee again for District
Attorney.
——— pes
What a pice sease of honor, and fine mor-
al feelings, must a gentleman have, who has
a standing oath registered to support the
constitution of the United States and the
constitution of Pennsylvania, who will coolly
propose to lead a mob of his political oppo-
nents to sack a printing office belonging to
the party, which he claims to be a member
of, tn order to frighten the proprietors and
purchase their shares in the office for a song.
Shame on the lubLer. No wonder the ceun-
try goes to ruin when such cattle hotd them-
selves up as leaders for the people.
We were to.d that 230 Ibs of pork, cluim-
mg to be a Democraiic lawyer of this
town offered last week in the pres-
ence of a ¢rowd of abdlitionists, to be one
of a mob who would sack this office, because
the Watchman has for the last two years
been advocating democratic principles which
he had not brains to understand, nor moral
courage to maintain. ‘Should all of the pro-
posed mob be like him, we would like to
have a few days notice of théir coming, in
order to make a contract for delivering a
few tons of sausage. .
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77” The papers of the 3rd inst., gives an
account ¢f ths capture of two hundred Fed-
eral soldiers by fifty confederates, in the
Kavabwa Valley, Rether 3 ‘biz haul,”
“contemptible wretch that may wish
will |
kad, {cy a fow men.
The U. L's.
Itis said the woolies are establishing
their secret nests of treason in every part
of this county. Democrats, look to it, that
none of your young men are seduced into
this abolition gall-trap as so many were into
the lodges of Know Nothingism, They use
the word Union as a cover for their treason.
There can be no good in a secret political
organization, They desire merely to betray
and enslave democtats. If you are invited
to become a member of such a society, spit
in the face of the dog who thus insults your
manhood. Such sécret organizations are
nothing but hot-beds of infamy end treason.
Crush them out as you would so many nests
of vipers. Young men, democrats, you who
really love your country and honestly de-
sire a restoration of the good old union of
our fathers, work opetly, boldly and man-
fully for that end, and never be caught sneak-
ing into dark corners at night fo consult
about things of which you are ashamed to
let your neighbors know. We have now
warned you in time, let none of you who
may be victimized, hereafter, come and
whiningly apologize that you were deceived
in the character of the society of which you
thus become & member.
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3 abolitionists in Bloomsburg, Co-
lumbis connty, attacked an old man named
Eyer, and beat and abused him in a most
shameful manner, A suit was brought in
Court against them, and after a fair and im-
partial trial, the rioters were found guilty
and sentenced to pay a fine of $50 each and
the costs. Immediately after the rendering
of the verdict, application was wade by the
abolitionists of that place to Gov. Curtin,
who at once made oat and sen: back an un-
conditional pardon.
Such is the justice the people receive at
the hands of the abolition officials. Altho’
the Courts vindicate the rig4z, yet the Gov-
ernor sets their verdicts at defiance. Cul-
prits are fined for violations of the law, yet
Andrew G. Curiin makes the people foot
the bill. Would it be wrong for Democrats
to be armed and defend themselves against
the assaults of abolition mobs? We think
not. There is no hope of obtaimng redress
through the Courts while abolitionists have
control of the government, and our only
hope is in brave hearts and determined
hands. Let the people prepare to sustain
their rights.
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(IZ A frightful accident occurred to the
up train, on the Penn’a Central Railroad, at
Millersburg, on last Monday morning. A
large rock which had rolled down upon the
track, threw the train over the embankment
into the river, killing a couple of passengers
wounding a great many, and smashing the
cars up terribly. Several gentlemen from
this place were on the train at the time, but
escaped unhurt, with the exception of Mr.
Kurtz, editor of the Central Press, who was
considerably bruised.
Gen. Simon Cameron has offered to lead
the negro army which Lincoln is about rais-
ing, “‘into the very heart of the Rebellion.”
Rather funny to see the old “Winnebago
Chief’ driving negroes down South. He
knew however his offer would not be sccep-
ted, for even Granny Lincoln would not
trnst Simon in the Confederacy with two or
three hundred able-bodied “American citi-
zens of African descent” for fear he would
trade them off for a seat in the Confederate
Senate.
te bin
We hear that the galvanic gentleman who
claims to be at the head of the Bar of this
Qounty, has exhibited symtoms of insanity
since the Conscription Bill passed, Irom wor-
ryiug so.much for the fate of his ‘dear blight-
ed lillies,” videlicet the ebony tenants uf his
model farm. Deamereatures, and dear old
man! Be calm now, old Turpentine or you
may worry yourself into actual illness ; and
should we lose you what would the young-
er members of the bar do?
{= Let the voters of this Congressional
district remember that Hale, Conservative-
Democratic-Republican-Abelition-Hypocr iti-
cal James T'. Hale of Bellefonte, voted with
Lovejoy and Greely and Hickman and Ste-
vens and the rest of the Aboiitionists, to
suspend the ot writ of Habeas Corpus deny-
| fag them the ripht of triel by jury, and pla-
cing their liberties in the hands of any poor
to see
them confined:
JZ" It seems very much as though the
Couf.d:raie Navy was having a “streak of
luck” in the last two weeks, besides captu-
ring two new ‘‘iron-clad” rams in the Mis-
sissippi, the most formidable vessels in the
Federal service, they have also taken the
“Jacob Bell,” aship ladened with Tea, val-
ued at $1,500,000. The duties on which
alone would have amounted to over 175,000
had it reachea New York.
Nr Bp en
[> We do not believe there is an honest
man in the North but 1s thankful that time
has brought to a close the last session of
the Thirty-Seventh Congress. Never before
has a nation Leen disgraced by as infamous
a pack of rascals, black-legs and hypocrites
—never again, we hope, will our country be
cursed by such a mass of corruption in its
Legislative Halls.
Why did we not hear from ‘Tax Payer’
last week, through the ‘‘Press ¥' Sam, did
you get a flea in your ear? Got afraid the
people might be a little too curious did you ?
Record not quite as clean as you would like
eh ? Samyule, discretion is the better part
of valor.
I= Mr. Weirick, editor of the Selins-
grove Times, who was arrested some time
since for ¢ treasonable publications,” has
been tried and acquitted. The abolitionists
of Snyder county, have the pieasute of pay-
ing the costs. :
EramTETcmT.
I= Let the laboring classes remember
that they are the persons who have to fill
the ranks of the Army of Conscripts,—
Three Hundred Dollars exempts & man.—
The rich can pay 1t—the poor cannot.
Some time last Summer a party of
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0 Man, Who Art Thou?
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REFLECTIONS ON PEACE AND WAR.
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BY JUSTICB
(Continued from last Number.)
War, the destroyer. of life, ‘continues
broad-cast over our country, I have made
no false-colored picture of the evils flowing
from this hydra‘headed morster, whose
hell-bound curse is shielded under the wings
of political corruprion. And to the ever-
lasting disgrace of the Christiau professor.
has politics too often taken the place of the
Gospel, and through political corruption
have the mandates of the Prince of Peace
been trampled upon, and many who profess
to advocate the injunctions of -the sacred
pages, are found now upon the blood-stain-
ed field of carnage. Pastors leaving their
congregations and accepting Chaplaincies in
the army. Any minister, be he who he
may, who cau leave his congregation to ac-
cept a Chaplaincy ia an arwy, is at heart a
traitor to the cause of his Master, and his
conscience has become callous to the cause
he has professed to espouse. You dare not
take the teachings and example of our Sa-
viour as authority for such acts. Then un-
der what shield will you undertake to cover
your acts of iniquity ¢ This is a bold
charge, but nevertheless one of great mo-
meat, one which you may now treat with
contempt, but itis one which you caunot
hide. Then under the acts of political cor-
ruption, (the fountain head of this accursed
war) you plead your excuse for traducing
the cause of Christ. Therefore, you are
now engaged in dong the works of Satan.
«+O, generation of vipers, how can ye, be-
ing evil, speak good things ? for out of the
abundance of the heart, the mouth speak-
eth."—Marr. 12:30. No true miuister of
the gospel, kuowing his duty, can ever be
induced to leave his congregation for a pusi-
tion in an army, under apy circumstances.
The evidence of Scripture against acts ol
this kind is too plain for any lurther com
ments, and the closing scene in th's hornble
drama is but stepping down from the pulpit
into the field of mammon, and to asgist in
the destruction uf ‘brother agamst. brother.
These are culy 4 few. isolated instandes il-
lugtrating the effects of a system which pro-
{essing Christians are upholding and defend-
ing at the sacrifice of virtue, to the utter
disgrace of religion and the dishonor of
God. They are not romances, but histori-
cal facts ; which, for the credit of humanity
we may wish to couceal, but which we can:
not deny.
¢¢ That no mau go beyond and defraud his
brother in any matter, because that the
Lord is the avenger of all such, as also have
forewarned you and testified. For God hath
not called us unto uncleanness, but unto
holiness. Ile, therefure, that despiseth, de-
spiseth not man, but God, who hath also
given unto us his Holy Spirit. But as tonch-
ing brotherly love, ye need not that I write
unto you ; for ye yourselves are taught of
God to love one another.”’—THESSALONIANS,
3d chap., 6ih, 7th, 8th & Oih verses.
In reading the proceedings of a religious
society, which was held on the 3d, 4th and
5th of September, 1862, among the resolu-
tions, I found one which reads as follows:
Resolved, That notwithstanding the pres-
ent rebellion, we recognize the hand of God
in bringing good out of evil, in the over-
throw of the great moral evil of slavery by
the hands of those seeking its perpetuation,
and that we look to Him for a solution of
ovr national diff'culties.
If the butchering of brother by brother,
and the flowing ef blood like rivers of wa-
ter, the waking of widows and orphans by
thousands, is where the good is recognized
from the hand of ‘God, then I must confess
I do not comprehend the teachings of Christ
What! God making use of one evil to de-
stroy another? If this is not mockery of
the will of the Deity, pray, tell us what is.
You say * we recognize the hand of God in
bringing good oul of evil.” Then, accord-
ing to this argument, God is the cause of
this war, not political corruption, and as a
matter of course. it could not have been
avoided. O, shame ! where is thy blush ?
We read in the New]Testament that Jesus
Christ came into the world to save, not to
destroy men’s lives. That among the fruits
of his religion is the visiting of the widow
and fatherless in their afflictions, but noth-
ing like war, which makes widows and or-
phans by thousands, and then leaves them
to drag out a miserable existence and die in
obscurity, unnoticed «ind unpitied by the
worid. We do not lind that [le ever prayed
for the destruction of nis enemies, as some
of his profcssed followers do. There 8 no
instance where he ever encouraged any one
to return evil for evil ; none where he ever
countenanced retaliation ; nor did he ever
tell his disciples that his kingdom was of
this world, and that it was lawful for them
to fight,
On the other hand, he always inculcatel
the principles of peace—forgiveness —mercy
—Ilove—patience-—compassion and kind-
ness. “ Blessed,” says he, * are the peace-
makers, for they shall be called the Children
of God.”” ¢ Blessed are the merciful for
they shall obtain merey.”
And yet with the plain teachings of the
New Testament before us, with the com-
mands of our Saviour plainly set forth, do
professors and teachers of the Gospel en-
deavor to screen the mad ambition ef blood
stained rulers, by trying to cover their wan
ton acts of carnage, bloodshed and mu: der,
under the plea that this sccursed war is
sanctoned by God.
Humanity sickens at the con‘emplatron
of these scenes of confusion, and every
principle of religion rogoils from such mad
exhibitions of moral depravity. We ree
ognize (says the Resolution) the hand of
God in bringing good out of evil.” The
popular, bat false notion, that the Almigh-
ty brings ‘‘ good out of evil,” has been fre-
quently appealed to, in order to show that
the Deity makes use of the angry passions
of men to produce-a general benefit to the
mass of mankind. - There is no truth in the
axiom that *‘ good comes out of evil,” but
it is true that blessings« often follow great
afflictions, or that great good sometimes fol
lows great evils. We should ascribe the
good to the Source of all good. Man is the
author of the evil. He brings upon himself
affliction and distress, while God in his
mercy brings his goodness into the evil, and
lessens or disperses it. He does not bring
the out of the evil, for there can be no
i sob Can bitter water and sweet
flow from the same fountain? Verily not.
Then, no longer charge this war, which for
almost two years has been and is now, des-
olating our once peaceful country, to the
Providence of God. What produced misery
in the Garden of Eden but man’s own diso-
bedience to the commands of God * And
just so to-day has the disobedience of men
brought on the present desolation. And the
great seducer, Political Corruption, under
the cover of religion, seeks to hide its work.
ings of death, misery and destruction, on
the pretext that it is the Providence of God.
Say not that this carnage, bleodshed and
murder could not have been prevented, We
all know it could. Blind Ambition, seek
no longer to hide your polluted hands of
blood under the cover of the sacred page.
“ Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again
thy sword into his place ; for all they that
take the sword shall perish with the sword.’
—Sr. Marr. 26:52.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
A Wisconsin Republican Newspaper for
gace.
The Fox Lake Guazeite has the following
significant article :
The still small voice of peace is slowly
but surely finding its way into the hears
of those who have held to the opinion that
nothing but powder and ball would “settle
the difficulties of the nation.
Even our soldiers in the tented field are
listening to the syren voice, and beccming
convinced that fishting will not settle our
present disturbances and restore peace and
tranquility to the troubled waters. A friend
writes us from the army that the main thing
they are fighting for in his locality is, to see
which can burn and plunder the most from
aur Southern neighbors. We judge that he
is becoming disgusted with the policy pur-
sued, and has made up his mind that some-
thing besides fighting 1s secessary to bring
about a peace between the belligerent “ar-
mies. In his letter he asks us, «Ca
settle this matter quicker and better by Con-
vention than by Fighting 2” and further
says, ‘‘so think the officers and soldiers
here.”’
Now this is a question which we have
long thought of but never spoken our thoghts
above a whisper. But as the question is
thus brought before our mind in a manner
aud from a source we neyer dreamed of, we
are forced to speak our thoughts ¢right out
in meeting.”
This gigantic rebellion has been in vogue
nearly two years and we are, seemingly, no
nearer to the end of our troubles than when
it commenced. This unnatural war has
caused the loss of thousands of lives amd
valuable property and without either party
gaining any particular advantage over the
other.
Many a hearthstone has been made sad
by the ravages of war without accomplish-
ing the great desired result. Many of our of-
ticers have been weighed and found wanting
and portions of of our army have become nn»
better than robbers and murderers. Hardly
a day passes but we read of some swindling
operatiom in connection with the army.—
With these facts before us, how can we but
express the true feelings and sentiments
we en’ertain that all this might be stopped
at once without any more ‘shedding of
blood.
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More TaxarioN—More Burpens.- It
now appears from the statement of Comm s-
sioner Boutwell, that the internal revenue
will fall far short of the original estimates.
The consequence is, that new articles of tax-
ation are to be hunted up. Itis proposed
to tax whiskey$1 00 per gailon and tobacco
$100 per pound. This would be tax-
ativin with veogence ; but Jf the publie debt
is ever paid, or even the interest upon it,
there must be a taxation that will make the
people squirm: It does not stand to reason
that we can carry on war withan army of a
million men, and buy all the negroes n the
Universe, besides building railroads and
digging ship canals, to say nothmg of the
immense sums stolen by contractors and
party favorites, without rolling up a debt
fearful in its magnitude. If people will
dance, they must pay the fiddler. If the
present generation could be forced to pay
all the debt, it would be no more than even
handed justice. Lt would be a merited pun-
ishment for allowing & set of lunatics.to
destroy. tht ‘best government that ever ex-
isted,”” under the ridiculous plea of trying
to preserve it.— Ez. a
157 The ‘gassy’ editors of abolition
Journals declare that preparations are about
finished to recaptures the iron-clads lately
taken by the confederates on the Mississip-
pt. These same men, told the people we
believe, that the Forts occupied by South-
ern troops at the begmning of the war,
could be retaken before breakfast by sixteen
men and a cow. Strange that its not done
yet?
a
[7 The ““Queea of the West’* which ran
the Blockade at Vicksburg and was captur-
ed about the mouth of the Red River, with
the assistance of the Confederate Ram
“Webb,” captured the -‘[ndiancla’ a new
iren-clad, belonging to the Federal forces
on Monday last.
- 9
(Z7If the President can legally abolish
slavery in Georgia, he can legally establish
it in Rhode Island. If Congress can divide
Virginia without the consent of the Virginia
Legislature, as provided in the Constitution
80 it can consolidate the New England
States and make one only of the present
six. :
0
07> It is said that Gen. Lee has a regular |
office to parale Federal prisoners at Fred- |
erickshurz and that it is necessary to keep it,
open dai.y from 8 o'clock A. M. until 9 P
M. in order te succeed in paroling al! the
Federals captured in the vicinity.
Who are Traitors.
According to the Abolition way of think-
ing—
A'l are traitors who beleived the South
would secede.
All are traitors who did not believe the
South could be forced back with 75,000 men
in three months.
All are traitors who did not believe
the Sowth were almost exhausted at
the end of the first three months of the
war.
All are traitors who dil not believe
that 250,00 men would speedily end the
war.
All are traitors who did not believe the
suspension of the habeas corpus a wise
and just measure are traitors.
All those who did not justify the suppres-
sion of the press and restriction of speech are
traitors: t
All those .who believe that (he corrup-
tiors of contractors and certain officals
ought to have been kept Lefore the people
are traitors.
All those who did not believe slavery t0
be an element of Southern weakness are
{raitors.
All those who do not believe slavery to
be an clement of southern power are trai
tors.
All 'hose who believe that the Union
can be preserved without direct refer-
ence to the institution of slavery are trai-
tors.
All who do not believe the Presiden’s em"
ancipation proclamation a wise and juciciou-
measuse are tr ai.ors.
All those who believe that the pas t nine-
teen months have developed the fict that a
certain set of politicans ore totally unable
to preserve the honor and unity ofthe States
arr traitors.
——————o——
The Way the Money Goes,
A despatch from Washington says that
persons in a position to know say that at
least twenty-five millions have beea stolen
in the Quartermaster’s department duiing
the last few months. As all the telegraph-
ic despatches are “supervised” by the Gov-
ernment officials, it is reasonable to sup-
pose that this statement is below the trath,
has what has been done towards the de-
It is safe to say that nothing has been done
and nothing will be done. In fact, although
more than two hundred millions of dollars,
probably, have been stolen from tha Govern-
ment under this bonest Republican admin-
istration, we have uol heard of a single
single case where the thief has been brought
0 punishment! Some may bave been dis-
missed from cffize, but none have been
made to pay the ponaliy of their crimes.—
Let this fac. benoted, ITunlreds of loval
men have been arrested and imprisoned for
daring to stand up boldly and manfuily in
defence of the Constitution, and in opposit-
tion to the infamies of Nor hern disunionism
and Seuthern treason ; but not one of the
hundred of thieves, robbors and swindlers
wlio are daily stealing the money due the
poor soldiers, has been brought to punish
ment, Stealing and swindling are virtues
in the minds of our rulers. while pat-
rotism and devotion to the Constitution are
crimes. — Er.
nt
Tur Way tiey Feenox tus CoNSCRIP-
tion Bint 1x New York —We see that this
absurd rump Congress—which, happily,
dics to be foreaver damned, on Wednesday
of this week—thinks that it can give ©'Oid
Abe” power to call directly on us militia
men of New York to quit our occupations
and go down to the Carolinas to look after
his negro brethern. The Abrahamic claim
ig so rich, and so fresh, to us broguht up in
the traditions of our Governmeut, that we
cannot ot once write about i, because it
fills our mouth with jaughter, and our eyes
with the tears that spring from excessive
merriment. We are a very able bodied
man—on no plea exempt, from the military
service of our country when lawfully called
on. Governor Seymour is our Commander
an-Chief, and as Ae is very intclligent, and
a very conscien tious gentleman, and has la-
tely sworn to uphold the Coustitution of the
State of Mew York.which Aappens, but on-
ly since the year 1788, to include within it
the Constitution of the United States-—---we
are free to declare ourselves, within Coa-
stitu ional limits, ¢ 5 entireiy at Gov. Sey
wour’s command for any military duty, from
shouldering a long-range rifle to setting a
battaliion.. Bat, outside of his command.
WE OWE NO MILITARY SERVICE AND WILL PAY
NONE. The act of Congress, ignoring the
authority of States over their own
militia, is a bag of wind let loose and noth-
mg el.e. —Freema+'s Journal.
7 «‘Greenbacks” seem to be in a bad
odor with the Bark of the State of Indi
ava. Woe learn from a rcliable source that
the branches of this bank, in anticipation of
a future decline below the gold standard
of Treasury notes, and apprehending that
the Supreme court may decide that Congress
cannot make paper a legal tender,‘ they
have given votice that they will n> longer
receive that kind of currency on deposit un-
ss the depositor receives pay in ind. —
It is also stated that the bank is retiring
its votes from circulation, and that it is pay-
ing for them a premium of from one to two
per cent—From present indications in the fi-
nancizl operations of the country, we would
aavise all to ¢ stand from under.” —Frank-
lin (Ind.) Democrat.
077All Army Contractors, all gambling
Pay-Masters, all thieving Commissaries, all
Cotton Speculating Generals, Colonels and
staff officers, all heavily paid Tax Apprai-
sers and their thousands of plunbering De-
puties, all * Collectors of Tuxes receiving
heavy fees and having fat perquisites, all
their retainers and co-operators are d
éction Ant punishment of these theives ¥—
a —
The Queen of the West.
The capture of the Queen of the West is
officially reported in the Southern paners. —
As previously published. she was forced to
strike her colors and surrender to a battery
up Red river. How this sudden and most
unexpected transfer of ownership was brough #
about may be briefly stated. ;
On the 10th instant the Queen of the
West, accom aiied by the tr: nsport De Soto
lef: the foot of the canal opposite Vicksburg
on an expedtion up the Red river. On the
way up the river she captured the Confed-
erate transport Kra No. 5. Guided by the
pilot of the latter vessel who was forced to
take the wheel, the Queen of the West war
brought directly within rauge of a Confed-
erate battery. After a brisk cannonading.
dwing which she was disabled by a shot
which broks her steam pipe, her colors was
haulled down, and she drifted’to the oppo-
site shore, All of her crew, wiih the' ex-
ception of eighteen officers and men, took
to their boats, and, setting on board-the De
Soto- effected their escape. Tf subsequent
reports are to be credited, the De Soto, be-
ing closely p rsued. was burnec ¢) pr vent
her from filling into the hands of the Con-
federates. The Confederate steamer Era
was also re-captured. What became of
those who were on board the De Soto1s not
stated.
The Queen of the West was a wooden
tug strongly built foo special se.vice as a
ram ; was partially ironplated, and was re-
puted te be one of the best of her class.—-
The Confederate report that she was but
slightly injured in her biief engagement
with the battery, and would soon be in figh-
ting trim azan unless retiken by the
Federal gunboat - Indiajola, which hs
been sent up the Red river for chat
pur pose. — Fir.
Ce edows oy
Our Basket of Butternuts
The golden days of Democracy are gone,
and behold the green-back days of abclition-
ism are upon us,
“The Ox knoweth his owner and the Ass
his master’s crib,’ so it is with those who
declare in favor ¢f Lincoln’s abolition poli-
cy. :
Patrick Henry said: ¢Zive me liberty or
give me death !”” The Ab-o-lish say : ‘give
us the the Free Americans of African descent
or give us death.
The drafting bill recently passed by the
United S ates Scnate grants exemption to all
those who pay three hundred dollars cash —
just the price of a nigger. Thus it appears
that he who buys a nigger is excused from
dying for one.
Our army is sadly divided —the officers
for a vigorous prosecution of the war:
the privates for a vigorous prosecution of
peace.
Gold is at a premium of sixty-five per cent.
[tis equalled only by the premium of But-
ternuts.
At the rate muslin is advancing in price
how long will it be till the people will b¥g
compelled to fall back ou the fig leaf sys-
tem of Adam and Eve.
The Butterouts are willing to fight
for Uncle Sam, but they are not
inclined to do quite so much for Uncle
Sambo
———O
Soro —The Hartford Courant published a
day or two since, half a column of highly
ociginal poetry in which there were sprink-
led several lines in itallics, These lines.
read backward, wer® as follows :
“Oh. bles« our brave Confedarates, Lord ?
Scourge with thy wrath the Yankee horde!
Belp, Lee, Bragg, Jackson, Johnston Joe,
To give them fits in Dixie, 0!
Bring Nincompoop the First down flat !
And all his erew, old Nut Banks tou!
And every low barn Yankee rat!’’
The Curaxt gracefully “owned up” by saying
it all came from being unaccustomed to
the ways of the wicked. The document in
question was mailed at New Orleans,
accompanied by a letter in the same band,
and was signed by Emily E. Washing-
ton. It bore every mark of being gen-
uine.— Eu.
——0
The Abolition Purpose Revealed. —* Well
thus ends tt. Twill be a Senator. and you
shall never regretit. Iwill be the most pow-
erful man in the Senate; the entire state of
affairs of this government will be chansed :
NOTHING IS MORE CERTAIN THAN
THAT THE SOUTH WILL GAIN HER
INDEPENDENCE, AND THEN WE WILL
HOLD THE CONTROL OF THE GOVERN-
MENT, and 1 will te ahle to serve my
friends. —Simon Cameron to Jefferson
Boyer.
SUGAR VALLEY WHISKEY
AGAINST THE WORLD
To be had of
W. A. MURRY,
SUGAR VALLEY Pa.
ONEY WANTED.
Moy,
pursuance of an act of assem-
bly, passed on the 14th day of February A. D.
1863. TI aw authorized by the Town Couneil of
the Borough of Bellefonte, to negotiaty a loan
for improving the Water Works, and fur other
purponsos, to the amount of five thousand dollars,
for which Borough Bonds will be given. The
security, of course, is undoubted, and the act au:
thorizing the loan, exempts it from taxaticn.-—
Eor the prempt payment of the interest as it ba-
comes due, a part of the.Borough fund is eepei-
cially set apart.
Murch 3d. 1863.,—3t G. LviNGsTo
Boro’; Treas! ,y
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.
Letters of Administration having
been granted to tha subseribar on the estate of
Jno, Merritts dec’dlate of Howard township. He
requests all persons knowing thamselves ind=bt-
ed t7 said estate to make immediate paymnt.
and those having claim3 to present them, daly
authenticated by law for sertlement.
March 5th 1863, -6t" EPHHRAIN BLENN.
uy
to peace on any terms! [It is for their ad-
vantage that the war should be prosecuted
as iong as possible ! —They it is, who while |
they are denouncing Democrats as ¢ Butter- |
nuts,” Copperheads,” ‘Secesh,” “Rebels,”, | and the public. Office on Mill
i the National Hotel.
are plunging their arms into the Treasury
aud robling it, while the people are reeling
i lating burtken of Taxa-!
; Omo. i
rsourg
DE. Z. W. TIHIOMAS,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
MILESBURG, CENTRE C0., PA,
Respectfully offers his services to his riends
Jsile
Refersto Drs..J. M. McCoy,
¢ 8. Taomrsox,
“ T.C. Tuomas
Mursh 20, 1862—1y