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<pective places of holding elec-
tions, on SATURDAY, the 22d day of AUGUST
st 3 o'clock, P. M.
J. DUNLOP SHUGERT,
Bellefonte, Jn'y 31, 186: hairman.
Democratic County Meeting.
A meeting of the Democracy of Centre County
will be held at the COURT HOUSE, in the bor-
oug of BELLEEONT, on
TUESDAY EVENING, AUG. 25, 1863,
which wi | be addressed by
SAMUEL H. REYNOLDS, ESQ.,
of Lancaster, nnd other good speakers. Turn
out one and all, J. D.SHUGERT,
Chairman Stand. Com.
Democrats ! Rally!!
MASS MEETING.
A GRAND MEETING of the citizens of Cen.
tre. Mifilin and the agjoining counties, who are
in favor of the supremacy of the Constitution and
the enforcement of the luws, and opposed to all
arbitrary arrests ard every other feature of ty
rauny and despotism, will bo held at
CENTRE AILL,
Centre County, Pa., on SATURDAY, September
5th, 1863, at 2 o'clock, P. M
Rosert SwiNerorp and Josern Bucner, Esqgs.
of Union County, Josers Parker, Esq., of Mif-
flin, Joux 1. Orvis and C.T. ALEXANDER, of
Centre, and other able speakers will be presen t to
address the Democracy. By order of the
COMMITTEE.
Our correspondents this week, have been
neglected for want of time,
—— re
07 We expect to see a large turn out of
+ Democratig friends, to the County Meeting,
which will be held, on Tuesday evening
next, (Court Week) at the Court Eouse, in
Bellefonte. A rich treat is promised, all
who attend, Mr. ReyNoLps, of Lancaster,
will be here for certain, and none should
fail to hear him speak.
eG mewn
Tus Deareed MeN from Bellefonte and
Spring and Benner townships, having been
ordered to report at Williamsport on the
21st inst., (lo-day,) left here yesterday for
that place. Awong the conscripts is the
«galliant” little cditor of the WATCAMAN,
who was grafted into the army much to the
joy and satisfaction of his political czemics
in this county. Their joy, however, will
be of short duration, for we, his substitute
in the editorial chair during his absence,
can tell them that Gray Meek ain't going to
the army. Like a good citizen, however,
he has obeyed the law, and gone to Wil-
liamspoit lo report himself, where be will
take the proper means to resign the office
which Abraham Lincoln has conferred upon
him. We congratulate the cucmics ol
Peter Gray Meck on his speedy return, and
beg to assure them that they will not so
easily get rid of the man they hate or the
lashings which his ready pen has given
them and under which they have writhed
for the last two years,
The drafted men generally are in good
spirits, and mo: t of them, from this locality,
at least, have gone off with their pockets
full of rocks. The poor fellows have no
choice but to go to war or help to keep up
this tottering and rotten admmistration a
little while longer, by shelling out their
‘three hundred.” This wil! be done, and
by such numbers and in suck quantity as
will astonish and gratify the hungry cor-
.morants who are tugging at the life of the
nation and grasping alike at the golden
eagles of the rich and the hard carned dol-
lais of the poor.
Oh! what joy and peace and blesscdness
the Administration of Abraham Lincoln
has conferred upon the country ! Mother,
don’t you love him for the sake of the dear
son who now sleeps beneath the soil of the
old Dominion. Wives, don’t you bless him
for the noble husband he took away from
you to dic and moulder in the stranger's
land 2 Sister, don't you revere him, inas-
much as the manly brother who loved you
so fondly and on whose arm you leaned £0
proudly, now “sleeps the sleep that knows
no waking ¢" Sweetheart, don’t yon honor
him that the man you loved is dead? DBro-
ken hearts, all over the land, don't you ven-
erate him for the grief you feel to day?
But the day is far spent sud the night of
his calamity is ucar at hand. Let him be-
ware ; for when the darkness overshadows
him and he gropes in despair for the land-
marks he despised in his day, there will be
those to ‘mock at hig calamity and laugh
when his fear cometh,”
Regard for Law.
1t is astonishing with what coolness and | 5,
cftrontery, the present party in power dis-
those of their own making.
have long since ceased to be of any account,
and the liba ties and rights of the people are
now and have been for two long years, de-
p n'ant upon the will of the powers that
be. ‘Lhe written laws of the land are
nullitics, and the statue book hus become a
farce,
By the terms of the conscription act, the
drafted men were to have ten days in which to
report after receiving the notice of their con.
scription. In this district, however, they
received their notices on Wednesday and
were ordered to report on Friday or be con-
sidered as deserters and treated as such.
By this proceeding numbe:s of poor men,
who had not the money to pay their exemp-
tion, but could have raised it within the ten
days, were exceedingly embarrassed and in”
convenienced, and were forced to resort toall
sorts of humiliation and sacrifice inorder to
raise tie needed funds, while some were un.
able £0 raise them at all, and, of course,
obliged to enter tha ranks as conscripts.
What authority the Provost Marshal had to
order these men to report on Friday, we
cannot tell. Ie certainly did not get it
from the conscription act, for that expressly
states that ten days shall be allowed for the
drafted men to report in. We are forced to
look upon it as an exercise of arbitrary au-
thority, illegal and unjust, but in perfect
keeping with all the acts of this administra-
tion. It shows what regard our present ru-
lers have for their own laws, and how little
dependence can be placed in anything they
say or do.
Though it was hardly to be expected that
a party so covered with infamy, would re-
spect the laws of its predecessors, yet it
was supposed 1t would pay some regard to
its own. But the result hag shown that it
has lost all sense of honor and shame, and
that it will work out its ends, .be the conse-
quences what they may.
Citizens of Centre county, we have here
an instance of the injustice and uticr disre-
gard for law which has ever been the char-
acteristic of this administration, so palpa-
ble-und so plain, that no one but he who
shuts his eyes, can fail to see if, And this
outrage has been committed not alone in
this district, but in other counties and in
other districts. Mea have been summoned
thus sudderily away, ere they had scarce be-
gan to thiuk about it, and before they were
at all prepared. It is an act of the grossest
injustice, and should stir a fever in the
blood of every man who has the nerve to
look hig tyrants in the face, or to wield a
sword in defence of his trampled rights.
As they have thus violated this last law
of their own making, what guarantee have
we that any law now upon our statute books
will not be violated should it ever stand in
the way of the accomplishiient of any of
their purposes ? None whatever, Time was
when we could pomtto the Consutui‘onof our
fathers as the rock upon which we stood,
and beyond which no proud usurper dared
to go. But that sheet-anchor of our liberty
is no more, Trampled in the dust by the
fect of wicked men, shorn of its glory and
robbed of its strength, it is but the wreck
of what it once was, and is no longer able
to throw. its protecting aegis around those
who once rallied so enthusiastically and
confidently beneath the folds of its glorious
banner. No protection have we now from the
tyrants power, save the ballot-box. Should
that be interfered with by federal bayonets,
and fair election be denied us. then we must
appeal to the God of Justice, and trust in
qur own good right arms, and courageeus
hearts.
One hope yet glimmers through the dark-
ness—{ne success of the Democracy in the
coming elections, Should we triumph, we
may hope for Letter days—should we fail,
then we need not seck to venctrate the deep
darkness beyond. With our country torn
and distracted by civil war, our Constitu-
tion trodden under foot, an Abolition dynas-
ty reigning at Washington, and the flag of
our glory trailing in the dust, we are, indeed
in a pitiable s'tuation from which it seems
that no power of man is able to extricate us.
Add to this, the triumph of the abolition
party of the polls in October next, and to us
our Jast star Scems to have sct—our last
hope to have vanished as the mist of the
worning. We may then, in the an-
guish of our hearts, exclaim, ‘alas, poor
country ! but yesterday she might have
stood against the woild, now. none so
poor as to do her reverence.”
Democrats, be organized ! Let us make
one moro offorl to rescue our beloved land
from the worse than traitor rule of the party
that is now rushing it to destruction—One
more cffort to rc-ichieve our independence
and restore our Constitution and country to
thejr pristine strength and glory.
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[= We heard a drafted man, who, by
the way, is a black Republican, and who
lives about four or five miles from here in
the neighborhood of Pleasant Gap, say the
other day that /e was going to the army,
ard that any drafted man that didn’t go,
was cither a coward or a traitor. Now,
this same mah 1s well known as a regular
“zas-house™ anc has been threatening hell
and damnation against everybody that didn’t
believe as he did ever since the commence:
ment of the war. [f itis any man’s duly
to go this man certainly should leave at
once. Ile has been talking long enough—
now Jet us see him act. But while he says
he will go, we suppose to convince the peo”
ple of Lis bravery, his friends have been
raising money to purchase his exemption,
and at the last accounts, the money had
been secured. Ve shali now sce whether
this ¢rave man will turn coward or traitor.
We very much fear he will, as we never
learncd that he had any courage to spare.—
To be consistent he ought by sll means to
go, but then probably three hnndred dollars
can do away with his consisfency as easily
as it can dispose of his courage.
. P. S.—The last advices from the country
state that the man alluded to thinks he can't
obey and violate the laws of the land, even {00 js such a demand for his services at
Constitutions |
leave his business. Although he thinks it
the Juty of every man to go, yet he really
ca how he can get off. The wagon-
making business 1s good just now, and as
home, he “guesses” he will pay his ‘three
hundred.” Of course, though, he don’t
wish to be considered a traitor or a coward.
IIc is a very brave man, but business— you
know. .
Well, as wc have never rejoiced lo see
any man go to the army, we cannot say
"that we are sorry for the determination
which keeps this man at home. Still, af-
ter all bis assertions, we think it would
look better for him to shoulder his musket
and we have no doubt he would have done
so, had it not been for the fact that three
hur——that his business would suffer in
his absence, we mean.
Judge Woodward's Likeness.
We are in receipt of the following letter
from Messrs Duval § Son, Philadelphia, to
which we call the attention of our readers,
A hthographic likeness of Judge Woodward
our noble nominee for Governor, should be
mn every democratic family, and we hail
with pleasure the opportunity which enables
us to inform our readers that such likness
is being published and made ready for cir-
culation. The noble dignified face of Judge
Woodward, upon which is stamped honor,
turth, firmness, and integnty, in lines of
unmistakable clearness, is one which dem-
ocrats and all lovers of liberty everywhere,
delight to look upon, because it is the face
of the man that 1s to rescue our State trom
the depth of misery into which she has fal-
len and thus open the way for the restora-
tion of peace and happiness to our entire
land. Let every democrat send for the
picture 2nd hang it up in the most sacred
corner of his house, side by side, with
Washington, Jackson, and those other brave
spirits, who saved their country, in its hour
of peril mn days gone by, just’as Woodward
the noble, glorious Woodward will do when-
ever the people invest him with the sacred
vight to siretch forth his powerful arm for
their protection. But here is the letter:
Prninapenpina, Jury, 1863,
Dear Sir :---The friends of Judge Wood-
ward have "authorized the und ened to
publish a Lithograph Likeness of him, to
be distributed through the State, during
the present canvass for Governor.
You are respectfully requested to advance
the interest, of the party by circulating in
your District. . Yours,
DUVAL & SON,
S. W. Cor, Fifth & Minor Sts.
PHILADELPHIA
TERMS CASH.
25 Copies, post-paid, for « - - - $450
60 Copies, post-paid, for -- - - 8.00
100 Copies, post-paid, for - - - - 15,00
07> 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
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Cie. 4
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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
<f the Company, will be PROSECUTED at once.
The SAPONIFIER, or CON (ENTATED
LYE. is for sale by all Druggists; Grocers, and
Country Stores. 2
§
Take Notice.
The United States Circuit Court,
District of Pennsylvania, No. 1, May Term,
1862, in suit of THE PENNSYLVANIA SALT
MANUFACTURING COMPANY vs. THOMAS
G: CHASE, decreed to the Company, on No
vember 15, 1862, the EXCLUSIVE right gr.nt
ed by a patent owned by them for the SAPON
IFIER Patent dated October 21, 1856. Per
petual injunction granted.
THE PENNSYLVANIA
Salt Manufacturing Comp.
OFFICES:
127 Walnut Street, Philadelphia,
Western
Pict St, aud Dupuesne Way, Pittsburg
mayl5 3m
More Goods for Less Money
CAN BE HAD AT
R. KELLERS, CENTRE HILL,
* Than at any cther Establishment in
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA.
Ho keeps constantly on hand a choice
stock of
STAPLE & FANCY GOODS,
BOOTS AND SHOES,
HATS § CAPS,
Ready Made Clothing, i
Notions, “
Queensware,
Hardware, y
Willow and Wooden Ware.
And in fact a complete assortment of ali the
articles usually found in a first class
Country Store.
PRODUCE
Taken in Exchange for goods, and the
Highest Market Prices in
CASE,
PAID FOR
GRAINS OF ALL KINDS
CALL AND SEE. |
AUDITORS NOTICE. 1
The undersigned, an Auditor ap
pointed by the Orphans Courtof Centre Co, fo
make distribution of the balance remaining in §ho
hands of Samuel Giililand administrator of thy
Estate of Wm. Price Dec’d after settlement o
his account will attend tothe duties of his ap-
pointment on Thursday the 20th day of August
1863 at the Store of George Jack “in Boalsbure, at
2 o'clock P. M. when and whereall persons in
tended may attead if they see Bs er.
JOHE HABSON,
Jluy 3, 4t Auditor.
JXECUTORS NOTICE. —Letters testa.
mentary on the estate of Simon Segner,
late of Ferguson township, dee’d, having been
granted to the undersigned, he requests all per-
sons knowing themselver indebted to said estato
to make immediate payment, and those having
claims againsc said estate to present them duly au-
thenticated, for settlement.
CONRAD U. STRUBLE, Ezcculor.
August 14, 1862.
VV ANTED IM MADIATELY.
A boy to learn the Caniago
Smithing trade. One from the country preferrod.
Apply to 8. A. M'QUISTON, Bellefonte. m22
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