Y Editor. P. GRAY MEEK, BELLEFONTE, PA. AAA NAMA RA AAA AAA AFAR ASS AAAS AANA AL Friday Morning, August 24, 1863 Democratic State Ticket, FOR GOVERNOR, W. WooSwaRD, OF LUZERNE. GEORGE FOR JUDGE-QP THE SUPREME COURT. WALTER H. LOWRIE, OF ALLEGHENY. Democratic C.unty Convention. By order of the Standing Committee, the Democratic Convention of Centre County, will meet at the COURT HOUSE. in the BOROUGH OF BELLEFONTE, on TUESDAY, the 25th day of AUGUST. at 1 o'clock, P. M. Meetings fur the selection of delegates to said Convention will be held in the several townships and bor- sughs, at their re Don’t forget that temorrow 1s the day for electing delegate to the county convention, which meets at the Court House in this place, on Tuesday the 25th, inst., atl o’clock P, M. Iet the Democrats throughout the county see to it, that souad and reliable men, are sent to represent them. —_————ter————— For the Watchman) Communicated. When we look back but for ten or twelve years, and view the vast but happy progress of our beloved country, and then return and take a look at it now, the heart sinks within the bosom of every country loving 1. atriot. He sces his proud land reeling within the graep of her present rulers. Trampled un. der foot is the ‘“flag cf our Union,” the Constitn lion the laws of the land, aud every tie that ig dear to the hearts of the American people. fe sees his fellow countrymen dragged from. their homes, into a war that is fast depriving him of a home and country. The mad raving maniacs of abolition despot- 1sm are fast hurling, our noble, but bleeding couniry into the whirlpool of destruation: Soon, ah, soon, will the time come when we can bid an everlasting farewell to the “land of the free, and home of the brave.” Time after time have these mad iron heart- ed fanatics been warned as to the condition otfour country, and as to what would surely follow did they not cease executing their their fearful schemes and designs. But a deaf car has been turned to all the appeals and warnings of the wisest statesmen that haye ever known the page of history. “They that take the sword shall perish by the sword,” we find written within the pages of the Book of God. They aro sow- ing the wind, and so surely shall they reap the whirlwind. All are traitors that do not believe and take part in the villainous plots of the present rulers of our country, All who wish the restoration of the Union aud peace to their bleeding country, shoulg walk bcldly to the ballot-box and hurl these fanatics into the snare they are laying for tho land that has protected them from their infancy up. Democrats, the responsibilty for saving the country rests upon your shoulders. Will you do it, or not ? Time and October next will tell. Our last prayer and hope is in you. To you we make our last appealin be- half of our bleeding nation. For upwards of sixty years you have had control of the reinsof Government, and no na- tion in the history of the world was ever known to “ascend the hill of fame so rapid- ly.” Wo commanded the respect of the world ; whether or no the few feeble monar- chics of the globe wished to give it, you com- manded it, and, that, by your anceasing la- bor and trials for the benefit of your coun- try. And now alas, is to be seen how soon the antagonistic party can tear down what has taken years of hard labor to build. On. ly three short years and our glorious Repub- lic is no more: God help them to see the er- ror of their ways and profit by them. JEFF. teem QP {Z7Ta Washington, tho other day, a number of soldiers partially buried a drunk- en companion, * who was however subse- quently rescued by the Provost Guard. - ———eaeo Tie Look of growling, snarling, snapping author may very properly be dogs-card, Kentucky Sends Warning to Ohio. If the people of the North allow the elect- ive franchise to be tampered with, tie doom ot the Republic is sealed. One after the other, our rights and liberties have been as- sailed. One after the other, the props that sustained our Republicanism have been un- mined. Free speech, free discussion of polit- ical questions, personal liberty, the right of trial by jury, and other priceless heritages so fortified by constitutional guarantees that we once deemed them secure from violation have been stricken down and trampled up- on. But while the exercise of the elective franchise remairel to us, there was a rcme- dy for every evil and a path-way from every danger. The elective farce that has been played in Kentucky, shows that now the Administration aims to annul the franchise without which we are powerless against er- ror, fanatisicm, and ambition The spoiler reached anor the brightest jewel of our nationally ; wo inust guard it at every gos we must protect it av gvery hazard, for within it dwells the soul of our freedom, and when we relinquish it, the Republic dies. The elective franchise is valueless unless it be pure, untrammeled. and uninfluened by force or fear. Tt cannot exist in tho atmos- here of martial law. The citizen at the polls should feel himself a sovereign about to perform a sovereign function, than which none more sacred and potential exists in the Commonwealth, The presence of a con- trolling military power is destructive of the very essence of a election, The gleam of bayonets and the grim show of artillery keep the voter within doors. He is either too timid or too proud to exercise his right un- der the supervision of armed soldiery. He yields his privilege rather than submit to che cross-questioning of some impertinent and arrogant subaltern, and thus the elective franchise is virtually suspended. Gen. Burnside's declaration of martial law in Kentucky, upon the eve of an election, demonstrates the insolence and reckless pre- sumption of the administration and its mili- tary minions, There was no further neces- sity for martial 1aw at that period than at any time since the commencement of hostil- ities. [It was proclaimed in view of the elec- tion, and for the purpose of affecting the election, It was the first step of other steps that are intended 1n that direction, It was an avant courier, and advance guard of the enemy, a pioncer sent forward to ex- plore a hitherto untrodden path. It was an experiment, a bold and cunaingly contrived expedient, to make a trial of the efficacy of military machinery upon elections, and to test the temper of the j ¢ upon the sub- j In regard to the t motive, it has ceded to a mi ntucky has had its election hut the voice of the people has spoken never a word. Tho verdict on that occasion has been constrained, a false and subservent utterance that came not from the heart of the insulted State, Ler citizens were compelled to pronounce an oath of fealty before permission was graciously granted them to exercise their inalienable rights. They were made to pur- chase that which was their own by indisput- able inheritance from their fathers. Condi- tions were impose !, withoutaccepting which they were denied the fulfillment of their du- ty and their privilege as freemen. What wonder is it that thousands upon thousands, unwilling to make terms wih soldiers for their most sacred rights, remained within doors upon the election day. This system of military supervision of clections will undoubtedly be attempted in Ohio, and if Ohio submit to it, woe to the Republic. If ever during our political ex. istence there was no need of a perfect and positive unhindered exprossion of the popu- lar will j if ever there was a paramount ne- cessity for the elective franchise in its pur- est condition, it is now. The Democracy of the North looks to Ohio for the preservation of the most sacred of our national rights. Should they fail, then the days of republi- camism upon this continent are numbered. — N. Y, News, C e Cie. 4 a Questions For the People. — What infernal influence is at work among the people, inflicting hatred, strife, violence, and personal feuds ? — But a few months ago, and men toler- ated differences of opinion, each allowed the other to be honest, even if mistaken, and cach allowed the other to entertain and ex- press his own views. — Then Democratic and Republicanneigh- bors lived side by side, visited each other, neighbored with each other, and were in the constant interchange of kind ane friendly offices. — What a sad change the last few months have produced! The friendly visits have ceased, the kind act is withheld. Hatred has usurped the place of friendship. — The Democrat all at once finds that old friends have become his deadly foes. The Democrat is taunted and insulted at every step, his wife and children are abused. his life is threatened. — Mobs convene, angry and threatening, and are only held at bay by revolvers, m the hands of determined men, while even Republican women so far forget their sex, as to ery to the angry and brute: mob: “Go on! kill them ; burn their houses—if You don’t we will,” — Of course, inevitably, as sure as God lives, these persecuted outraged people, WIO ARE TIIE MAJORITY, will soon reach a point where endurance abruptly ceases, andl defence of home, wife and chil- dren begins. — "This is the reign of anarchy ; it is the beginning of lawlessness and violence ; itis whetting the pike and lighting the brand ; it is inciting an internecine conflict, too big, too wide spred. too devlish for soldiers to quell. May Ieaven in mercy, avert the horrors which impend. — The cause of all this is to be found in the loyal leagues. The mass of the members mean well ; but they are incited to madness by falsehood, they are made devilsih by ap- peals to their passions. It is here that bad men make their influence supreme. — And who is it controls these Loyal Leagues ¢ It is that infernal Jot of office beggars, some of whom were paupers, and Lave grown rich without a day of toil. —~ These are the responsible men, These are the men who. manage the hellish engin- ery which begets hatred and animosity and violence, which, before long must end in as- sassinations, conflagrations, anarchy. — Ilold them to their responsibility. Don’t forget it for a moment, To secure ofiice, they are employing instrumentalities which put in jeopardy the lives and property of every human being in the county. — We implore tho hundreds of good and well meaning men in this county, who have been mveigled into these santanic dens to leave them. Don’t quarrel with your neigh bors and true friends, don’t endanger the peace of community, don’t bring danger to your own fireside, merely to keep in office a worthless set of freebooters, who care noth- ing for you, and wouldn't stop to speak to you, if it wasn’t for your vote. ——— A DP 1¢ a woman could talk out of the two cor- ners of her mouth at the same time there would be a good deal said on both sides, 4 © Ee T'wo of Gen, Mcade’s Sons are drafted in Philadelphia. The Dying Present, and the Living Past. To live is to contend, The life of manon earth is a continual conflict. These, and the like sayings have passed into maxims.— In this contest, the right, almost inavaria- bly, seems to go by the board. So the Pa- gans, idealizing, pictured truth as hover- ing on the wing, as if on the point of aban- doning the abodes of men to take refuge in the bosom ofGod, form whom it came. The contest of true men on earth is still in the midst of contradictions, to preserve a home for truth, for right, here below. These scem to fail. In their day they are count- ed as visionaries, theyare usually accounted as unpractical—but what results 2 Their ideas lwve ! Non omnes moriemur. ‘We do not altogether die.” It is a small thing, whether, when our bodies have mingled with the dust of their mother earth, our names are inscribed,or not, in the scroll of history. History itself, commonly is a x ing jade.’ Who cares what she says? To have lived for a purpose, and that purpose a right onc; and to have helped, and to have within ourse.ves the testimones of a good conscience, that, through good report and through evil report, we have helped on the cause of mankind—this is the consolation that a man desires, and will desire, if he be not a fool, as his last hours approach. As the tides and the seasdiis, so oil hu- man institutions come and go. They have their beginaings, their increase, their climax their decay. What is transitory in them passes away. What is geminal of truth, is offered to the free-will of the men who come in to administer on the past, We hear men talk of ‘the Union as it was, and the Constitutionas it is.” ‘The Union as it was.” isdead! We have heard that word * dead,” when 1t stunned our sen- ses, and when, waking or dreaming, our will sought to refuse belief to its reality.—- But, we have had to reconcile our mizd to the terrible fact. Death is the doom of all that is of earth—individuals or institutions. The Union formed by the men of 1787, and accepted in the years soon following by the original Thirteen States, 1s now gone, ¢ The Constitution ag it is" is broken and disregarded on every hand. Some States have openly rejectad it. All the rest of the States have rushed into a war in violation of its restrictions. In form and in sub- stance, in general and detail, the Constitu- tion, as drawn up and agreed on in 1787, has been violated. Iixcept as rescued by the living tra litions ot the generation, that, having grown up under it, is now on the stage, these institutions of what was once our country, are dying, and will soon be no more. Whatever number of wise men there be among us, it 1s for them to discern and formulate what there is of permanent, and of living, 1n the Institutions of our past, — “The Union,” as implying a Federation of of Statcs coverning a fixed area, is not among the living or the enduring. Ohio, Indiana and Illinois ; Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri, were none of them partners in the Union that was devised in 1786. Yet they are more a part of the living interests of the present of New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia , and more indentifled with the living interests of the future of these seaboard Central States than Massachusetts. This is, in regard to geographical boundar- ies, considered as a term of the Union. But that which is our real life—our ¢soul,” as Vallandigham has well put it in his letter which we publish this week—that which 1s the living principle which is our glory, and on which our happiness is to depend. is the preservation of our liberties. Thisit is alone, out of the past, that still lives, All the rest has seryed its turn, and sleeps with the dead, Our liberties are the one great good for which we must struggle—our liberties of person of family, of conscience, our civil ana our political liberties,~ All are bound up in one same bundle, and all must perish or be preserved together, What are the practical instruments that will threaten these ? 1. A consolidated Government. A Gov- ernment without the checks and balances on central power which our forefathers pre- pared in the Constitution of the United States. Dazzle the people as yon may,with the figment of a tremendous ‘‘national” ef- ficiency against other and distinct nations, itean be produced only by the abrogation of freedom atthome, The freedman-in such a system, loses his character, ceases to he free and is, call him **American of Anglo- Saxon descent,’ or ‘“Amcrican of African descent,” —call him still in name citizen or call him sovereign—he is a slave, and noth- ing but a slave. 2. A necessary part of a consolidated government, of a strongly centralized gov- ernment, of such a government as it is pro- jected hy the uxhinged miscrzants who aro plotting to “rub out these State lines”’—to “‘abolish this idea of State Rights" —a necessary adjunct of this despotic, or cen- tral, system, must be a huge standing ar- my. Wherever this latter exists, their nei- ther is, nor can be, any civil freedom. The rank and file of a standing army, are not freemen, but automatons. The subordin- ate officers—not only line and field officers, but general officers as well—are not free.— They have the right to their liberal pay, and to obey orders. They have the chance—one or other of them, as he may happen to have the requisite talent and the opportunity —to displace the tyrants in power, and to substitute himself, but the system must re- main. A centralized government 18 a des- potism, and a despotism must have a one head that is absolute. Changing one des- pot for another is no relief but only an aggravation of the general misery. The same results continue. Half a million of the healthiest and strongest young men of a country are taken away from productive mndustry—taken away from the habits and sympathies of virtuous domestic life, and kept with muskets loaded and bayonets fix- ed, pointed at the breasts of the rest of the people, to keep them at work for the sup- port of the system, of the tyrants, and their petty satraps. This system has impover- ished and and rendered bankrupt each of the so-called Great Powers of Continental Europe. It must impoverish and bankrupt any country. Such a proportion of the vigorous bone and muscle of a coun- try can never be turned from producers into consumers, without effecting the ruin of a country. The living past—all of the past that does live—speaks this warning to the dying present. Will the voice be heeded. Will the people of these States understand that the vulgar and embecile usupers, who are playing tricks with our Federal Govern. ment, are the sure precursors, if they fail to be the instaurators, of this horrible system, unless they be met, and hurled from their seats in the early stages of their usurpation? Are the people ready to live—if need be to die—freemen, in order that this cup of ago- ny, and this inheritance of misery, may not be established, for generations, as the por- tion of their posterity 2 These are problems that the next year or two—aye, perhaps the next few, months—must solve—f'ree- mans Journal. We have seen a couple of sisters who had tu be told everything together, for they were so much alike thai they could not be told apart, Ar Wheeling, on the 21st, (July) the jail- or of Ohio County County was held to bail in the sum of two hundred dollars, to an- swer before the next County Court for whip- ping and beating brutally a female political prisoner. The testimoney before the alder- man was direct, positive and shocking —and included only not lashing her across the shoulders with a cowhide, bnt dragging her down stairs by the hair and kicking her on the way to the cell, against the incarcera- tion in which she protested and resisted. The facts need no comments She was a *‘Confederate’’—so the report in the Wheel- ing Reguster calis her. A SMALL ITEM IN A Bi Bin,—It may interest the public to know that the cost of maintaining the seventy-four major generals and two hundred and eighty-four bragadier generals in the Federal army, with their staffs, amounts to the nice little sum of three millions of dollars per anum. It has been said that this sum and the number of generals might be reduced one half, without imparing the efficiency of the army, as the officers are vastly in excess of the proprtioon proper to the number of privates. A AR A nen “Dis aM Massa LiNkuN’s Procrama- TI0N.—T'wo negroes, who had deserted from the military service in Massachusetts, were arrested’a few days since. As the guard were taking them down the to wharf, in Bos- ton, heavily handcuffed, on the way to Fort Wircen, one of them heldZup his manacled hands and exclaimed : **Dis am Massa Lin- kun’s Proclamation.” The effect ean be better imagined then dcscribed.-—New Ha- ven (Conn.) Register. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. GARDNER & HEMMING'S ~ @REAT AMERICAN CiREUS Entirely remodeled and refitted for the Season of 1803, with entire NEW BAND WAGON, NEW BAGGAGE WAGONS, NEW TRAPPINGS, N¥W HARNESS, NEW WARDRORE, and everything Elegant in the ex- tree, and which, in point of beauty, excels the outfit of any Traveling Show in America, THE PAVILION «largo and comfortable, and is ar- rang«d =o a8 to afford easo and com- the patrons of this Establish THE STUD OF HORSES AND PONIES i i attention, as rest blooded, sin the world. among whom stands the Great Talking Horse WASHINGTON, a beautiful thorough-bred Arabian Charger, who will be introduced by his t Mr. DAN GARDNER. Ar ; the Ponies will be found Camiite, Fire Fly, Prince, Jupiter, Dancing Star, Lucy Long, Grey Eagle and Bainbridge. The Educated Mules DAN AND DICK, troduced by Dan Gardner, ety of Laughable Perfor. gether, and we intend t ho Best Circus Entertainment that has ever been witnessed in this country. Look at the GREAT ARTISTES, and judge for yourselves! Mr. Richard Hemmings, fhe great American Horseman, and Tight Rope Dancer. He will appear at each Entertainment in a great variety of his thrilling Performancus. DAN GARDNER, the Old and Favorite Clown. As a good Clown is as necessary to a Circus #s Lread is to breakfast, the public may congratulate themsélves upon seeing the happy son of Momus at each entertainment. The Little Fairy of the Arena, Miss Eliza Gardner, in certainly the Lest Female Eques- trian in exixignce. She exceutes the most elegant and ¢lassic motions, com- hited with daring Leaping, splendid Dancing, &e., upon the back of her spintad horee, while at full notion, cowcluding with her dashing act of LEAPING THROUGH 15 Balloons. Signor Wambold, the extraordinary Contortionist and woitderinl Boneless man; his per- forinances must be seen to be believed. John Foster, the People's Joster---one of the most uriginal and laughable Clowns that ever enterod a ring. The Polish Brothers. These astonishing Gymnasts will ap- ear in a varioty of their classicaland vonderfull feats. George R. DeLouis, will appear in his performances on the Horizontal Bar, and introduce tha TRAINED DUG JENNY LIND, in her Amusing and Entertaining Tricks. Together with Mme Camille, the Beautiful Equestrienne. La Petite Camille, the pleasing Danseuse. Young Sam, the Pocket Clown. HERR MARTIN, W. HILL, GEORGE KING, HENRY PETERSON, SIGNOR BALDWIN, and the excellent Company who fill ed Ganpyex & Hemaminag's Amphi- theatre, Philadelphia, nightly, fora period of four months, The entertainment will commence with the ZOUAVE HALT. The Performance will comprise every variety of Trick Riding, Scene Riding, Tumbling, ‘Gymnastic Ex. loits, Two and Four Horse Riding Xc., &c., with Music by the Band, All under the immedjate direction of DAN GARDNER The GRAND PROCESSION will enter town about 10 }-2 A, M., dur- ing which the Band will discourse moat beautiful music. Two PERFORMANCES cach Day, A¥TERNOON AND EVENING. Doors open at2and 7 P. M. Per [runes to commence half an hour ter. Admission, 25 Cents. NO HALF PRICE. WILL EXHIBIT IN * PHILIPSBURG, Tuesday. Sept. 1st, 1863. BELLEFONTE, Wednesday, Sept. 2d, 1863 LOCK HAVEN, Thursday, Sept. 3d, 1863. W. H. GARDNER Agent. LEGAL NOTICES. ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE. Letters of Administration, on the estato of John Vanpool, dec’d late of Taylor township, having been granted to tho undersigned all persons knowing themselves indebted to said estate, are requested to make immediate payment and those havinglelaims to present them duly au. thenticated by law for settlement. July 31st, 1863, —6t. CATHRINE VANPOOL. AUDITOR'S NOTICE. The undersigned, an Auditor ap- pointed by the Orphans’ Court of Centre county to make distribution of the Jucheg in the hands of John W. Hays, Admr. of John W. and Martha H. Donaghy deceased, to and among those legal. ly entitled thereto, will attend to the duties of his appointment at his office in Bellcionto, on Satur. day the 8th day of August, at 10 o’clock, A. M. when and where all persons interested are re- quired to attend or bo debarred from coming in tor a share of said fund. ADAM HOY. June 24, 6t. Auditor. JCXECUTORS NOTICE. Letters testamentary to the estate of Georgo Garbrich, late of Benner township hay ing been granted to the undersigned, ali persons indebted to the said are requested to make pay ments and those having claims against said estate will make known tho same without delay to Julyl7 6t BENJ. CORL, Executor. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. . CHANGE OF ADMINISTRATION HO! YE LOVERS OF LAGER CAL AND SEE W. S. M'FEETERS, WHO has purchased, refitted, and fixed up, the OYSTER AND BILLIARD SALOON, formely kept by George Downing under tho “IRON FRONT.” FRESH LAGER, XXX ALE and drinks of all kinds together with eatables of every description. The only : BILLIARD TABLE in town, is in this saloon. Call and enjoy your- selves. July 30th, 1863. —1y. SAPONIFIER, OR CONCFNTRATFD LYE. The Family Soap Maier. 108 The PUBLIC are cautioned against the SPU. RIOUS articles of LYE for making soap, etc., now offered for sale. The only genuine aud pa- tented Lye is that made by the PENNSYLVA NIA SALT MANUFACTURING COMPANY, their trade mark for it being “SAPONIFER, or CONCENTRATED LYE.” The great SUC« CESS of this article has led UNPRINCIPLED PARTIES to endeaver to IMITATE it; invoid lation of the Company’s PATENTS. h . All MANUFACTURERS, BUYERS, or SEL- LERS of theso SPURIOUS Lyes, are hereby NOTIFED that the COMPANY haye employ- ed as their ATTORNEYS, GEO. HARDING, Esq., of Philadelphia. WM, BAKEWELL, Esq., of Pittsburg. And that all MAUFACTUPRERS, USERS, or SELLERS of Lye in violation of the rights