Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, September 25, 1863, Image 1
ETE ER VOL. 8. ~ @he Democratic Watchman, BELLEFONTE, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1863. Bhs Blom. [Witten for the Watohman.| GOD IN NATURE. BY JOAN P. MITCHELL. How many wonders tell the power Of Heaven’s Eternal King ; The giandest works of Nature tower, The tend’rest flowerets spring; Vesuvius casts forth its flame And mortals, filled with awe, Bow down before the mighty Name— The Cause of Nature's law. The thundering cataracts proclaim The might rn] Nature’s hand ; We trace the same Immortal Navn In every grain of sand ; The lightning’s swift, resistless thrust, 1s made by Nature's power ; The self-same hand which sifts the dust Upon the tremb’ling flower. Fhe law which bids the Ocean roll, Heaped high above the land, Btill, serves its waters to control And bid ite billows stand ; The power which bids the earth to sway Upon its ceaseless track And bring recurrent night and day, Bill drives old Ocean back. The self-same law that gives the might Which tells the tempest’s power, Dintils the soft ana gende light Of twilight’s peaceful hour Tne law which heaves the mignty deep, When discord’s voice is loud, @radles thedying 3a to sleep And softly weaves his shroud. ¥rom Earth's poor speck of dying clay, To Heaven's remotest bound, The same eternal laws have rway, 1he same great Minn is found ,— The laws which guide the shining spheres That sweep around the sun, Held sway a thousand million years Before Yime's march begun, Fhe flaming comet, as it sweeps The utmost verge of space, Is guided through the awful deeps By laws which kere have place ; The power by which each crb is whirled, And all of Nature's laws, Bach sbeaks, in thunder, to the world, Ot the ALMignry CAUSE! Phe Grear JEHOVAE made them all, His edict binds them still ; And thouga each orb from Heaven fall, They’ resubj ect to his will ; And man though but an atom, small Aa floating dust in space, May seo his Maker through it all And meet Him face to face. AH point us upward to the Throne Ot Heaven's Eternal King, Aud tell us it 18 God, alcne, Plumes Nature's tireless wing. $3 adoration, let us bend Before Ilis Awful Face, That we, when Death’s dark shades descend, 3 In Heaven may take our place. Bowarr Pa, Sept 20, 1863. Miscellaneous. B@= We have been permitted to publish the following extract from a letter written by a soldier in the Army of the Potomac, to a friend in this county. It will be seen that Ae does not consider ‘poor Andy’’ the +‘eoldiers friend.” — Ep. WATCHMAN. | “1 see that the political campaign has commenced in old Centre. Well, I say let the Democracy go ahead—the democrats here feel anxious for the defeat at home of the advocates of Negro Equality —I mean we of the thirteen-dollar-per-month brigade. The guilded-strap gentlemen are generally m favor of complying with the requests of their superiors, who are getting the “big pay” and splendid times; for they know hat if the negro’s friends are defeated, sheir ‘‘occupation’s gone’ and the big dol- lar stopped, when they will have to return to their several avocations, where many of them should ever have remained. We now snd then get a sight of the I atchman ; it is a great treat to us, for it has truth and Justice for its base. But the greatest sport that we have have had was realing the Harrisburg Telegraph of the 7th of Au- gust which contained a speech of Gov. Cur- tin toa ratification meeting on the evening before. In that speech he bestowed a bap- sismal title on President Lincoln. He calls him the * visible head of the Government I’ This sounded strangely to us American sol- diera and we squalled right out. We had heard and read of the “ visible head of the Church militant,” but this is the first time in the history of our country that we have seen this appellation bestowed upen a mere servant of the people; and as one good turn deserves another, Father Abraham should recognize the Governor as Cardinal CURTIN. This certainly would look well on paper.— ‘For new made bonors doth forget men’s names,” and as an act of gratitude the ‘visible head’ in his robes, and the Governor in nis Cardi- nals hat, should exhibit themselves 1n the first place to the Lamp-lighters in livery, the redoubtable Wide Awakes, and then at his ‘headquarters in the army,” and the Guver- nor in his Ciceronian voice, call unto us :— “‘Fellow-soldiers, behold your visible head, and his */oyal liege’ Cardinal and Chief Bu- gler of the Proviaco of the Pennsylvania!’ It wold be a rich treat and worthy of the occasion, and would establish a loyal prece- dent to be hereafter foliowed by all loyal officials. Peor Andy! he has let Lincoln shear him of all official power and dignity, and reduce himito mere supervisor of roads and bridges, a self-constituted member of eanatory committees and B&F visitor to Religious Aid Societies. Let him have a foreign mesion—get clear of him. If the vank and file were at home they would help. We would sooner have an game-cock at the bead of the old Keystone than a blabbering orow. ® n © ® a E27 The recent cool weather is tho first A GLANCE AT THE POSITION. ening their lines of defence, in consequence of the reverses of July, and are now stan- ding on the defensive. That they are abun. dently able tv maintain a position in this way 15 proved by the fact that Gen. Meade makes no demonstration towards attacking Gen. Lee. Cities may bejtaken, and disticts of country may be ravaged, but the ‘rebels’ are as far from subjugation as they were one year, or iwo years ago. As far, we say, for war and battles will never subju- gate the South. Charleston may be taken. but it is not taken yet, Richmond may be taken but we see no signs of it—but, if all these be taken, so long as an armed force of one hundred thousand, or fifty thousand, or if twenty thousand men are kept on foot in the name of the Southern Confederacy, the South will not be subjugated. This is well understood in tbe cold and heartdless diplomacy of Europe. Had Eng- land, in her grim and inhospitable sea girt fastnesses, ever doubted of the complete ab- ility of the Confederacy to have sustained itself, she would, on the very moment, have felt the impulse of “British philan- thropy” for a people struggling for liberty, and have intervened. France, in the in- tervention of Napoleon in Mexico, and the establishment of a French protectorate there looked on the severance of the old Ubion, as un fait accompls, and as Louis Napoleon feels bound by his destiny never to take one step backward, haying planted his foot in Mexico, he will extend his right hand, by firm alliance to the Southern Con- federacy. Rather in the adversity than in the pros- perity of the Confederacy would he reach out hi# hand,and that is the meaning of the fact brought to light by the latest dis- patches from Euroye, that—disdaining the tortuous and indirect methods of the British Government—he has openly admitted o Confederate privateer to refit in the Imper. ial Docks of Brest. The question of the full recognitioz by France of the New Con- federacy, and of her firm alliance with it, i8 one, not of consideration, but only of time, It is a question, of weeks or months, And what wiil the imbecile Negro Ad- ministration do then ? Why, what the: have already done! Uunseemly bombastic vaporing, while thedanger is in the distance —-abject and shamefu! submission, waen the sharp issue of the ultima ratio is thrust in their faces ! Does any one doubt it ?2— Let him reaa the only igneminious passage in the whole foreign diplomacy of the coun- try, since it had an existence. Our natioaal character had, always before been that the blow was 1eady to follow the word. But read the Trent case, from the beginning to the end, and learn how dis- tinct and opposite the Lincoln-Seward Ad- ministration, abroad as at home, is from anthing else in our political history. Cra- ven Seward, after the most disgusting va. poring of what he would do, went down on his knees, and apologized, when the fist of John Bull was rubbed close under his nose, But Lincoln, Seward, and their cabal will have their revenge! Against England !'— Never! Against France 2 Not 2 bit of it ! But like a drunken negro, who, when whip- ped mn the street, goes home and whips his children, this Abolition Administration when when France orders it to withdraw its troops from the Confederacy, will try to turn them upon the States of the North! Will the volunteers—those who, in good faith, were coaxed to *‘go into it,’ on the idea of sav- ing the country—will they, fight against the States of the North at the bidding of the Abolitionists 2 No they will not It was a very gracious act to hurry off the Federal coldiery from new York city, after having them here to try and overawe the Stase.— Very gracious, no doubt, but accomplished not soon enough ever to make those soldiers consent to be the tools of despotism in the subjugation of the people of New York. — We could wish that all the armies of the Federal Government might be brought here by divisions, in turn, and encamped among the people of this city. The effect wonld be the same ! Oh! Bat the Administration have the negro *‘coldiers’’ to fall buck on. And then they have “‘conscripts” and “‘substitutes,’” who are kept in jail, and marched in irons, “very much as a butcher drives bullocks in- to his slaughter pen,” Well, when the hand- cuffs are off, and weapons put in their hands these will be dangerous men—to somebody c« else it is a curious fluid that runs in their veins ! What is to come ofall this 2 Will some one who believee still in a «*vigorous prose- cution of the war’ tell us? it ————u B&@™ The following certificate of warriage was found among an eld lady's writings: *¢ This is to satisfy all whom it may con- cern, that Arthur Waters and Amy Yurily were lawfully married by me, John Higgin- 80m, on the 1st day of August, Anny Dom- ini, 1703. I, Arthur, on Monday, Take thee, Amy, till Tuesday, To have and to hold till Wednesday, For better or worse till Thursday, I'll kiss thee on Friday, If we don’t agree on Saturday, DPereid of The appronetring winter. The Confederate forces have been short_ A DISGRACEFUL BARGAIN. When Andrew G. Curtin announced in a special message to the last Legislature of Pennsylvania that he wouid not be a candi. date for re-election, it is weli known that he did so upon the promise of the National ad- ministration to give him a foreign mission at the close of his official term, In consid- eration of this douceur he agraed to aban- don tke contest for the Gubernatorial nomi- nation, and leave the field to John Covode or ‘any other man” who might be accepta- ble to the central despotisin at Washing on, For some cause or other not yet made pub- lic, the disgraceful bargain was not con- summated ; and in opposi‘ion to the earnest of hundred of abolition leaders. Andrew i+ Curtin was a second time favored with the nomination of his party. —Age. One of the causes, at least. for the change of the Executive mind, is this, When Caur- tin's ‘high official position” arrangement was made with the powers at Washington, a part of the programme was that Gen. Moorhead, of Pittsburg, should be Andy’s successor as the Republican candidate for Governor. To carry this out, it was agreed that Senator Johnson from this district should be elected Speaker of the Senate by the Republicans, so as not to havea man in that place who would become a formidable competitor for the Republican nomination for Governor. But Sen=tor Penney, of Pitts- burg, succeeded in the Republican caucus and was elected Speaker. He would be a formidable candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor! Moorhead became indignant, and assistant Goveruor M’Clure would not be ruled out of his share of loaves and fishes in that way. Stanton swors that Curtin should not have the promised ‘high official position at any rate.” Lest all be lost, Curtin & Co. resolved to stick to the Gubernatorial pony. The tirm labored per- sistently, with all their unscrupulous tena city and energy, but all the time blinding Cameron, Stanton & Co. by denying that the head of the establishment desired a re- nomination, Theygpointed triumphantly to his official message, wherein he declared that his failing heaith would prevent him from serving another term, as well as that patriotic reasons demanded that he should not become the centre of political attraction. Finally, smarter ‘than the rest, Forney discovered the trick, and raised the cry of alarm. He declared that the interest of the party demanded that Curtin should be “postponed,” as his nomination would te disastrous to the abolition cause. Came- ron’s Harrisburg Telegraph wailfully took up the cry, which was speedily thundered in stronger and louder tone by Moorhead’s Pittsburg Gazeite and Dispatch, But, too late—all in vain. Even ‘Covode’'s tears would not save the ¢ clan Cameron”—M’- Clure’s strategy had outwitted them all, and Curtin was renominated. That's the history of the case, Mr. AaB.— Lock Haven Democrat, DEMOCRATIC MEETINGS. A large and enthusiestic meeting of the Democracy of Howard township convened in the School-house in Howardville, on Thursday evening the 10th anst, Mr. A. J. Gardener wad appointed President, George Hoy, Sr., and, Wm. Allison Jr., were ap- pointed Vice Presidents, and Balser Weber Esq . Secretary. A large delegation from Marion township accompanied vy martial music. were in at- tendance and added much to the interest of the occasion. On motion of Dr. Knorr, J. S. Barnhart, Esq,, former editor of the Democratic Watchman, was called upon to address the meeting, which he did in an able and effec- tive manner. CO. T. Alexander, Esq., was next called apon, Hoe responded in a speeeh of an hour 1a length, during which he was {requently and enthusiastically applauded, Calls were then made for J, H. Orvis. Esq. This gen leman made his appearance, and confined his remaks to the State policy of Pennsylvania, He referred, with telling effect, to the course pursued by Gov. Cur- tin, in reference to the Pennsylvania Rail: road bill, which course induced Attorney General Purviance, through motives of self respect, to withdraw from his administra- tion. At the conclusion of his remarks three cheers were given for the speakers, and hree more for Woodward, Lowrie and Lib- erty, when the meeting adjourned. * B@™ The Democrats of Patton twp held + meeting at Waddle's shool house on Tuesday night last. I. was well atterded and the best of feeling prevailed. Wm. Cross of Half moon was elected president. Jos. MoDivit and C. Cambridge Vice Presi- dents and W E Meek of Furguson secratary. C. T. Alexander E<q., our candidate for Assembly, made an able and telling speech, after which the meeting adjourned with three rousing cheers for Woodward, Lowrie and Liberty. Little Patton will give a good report of herself on the second Tuesday of October next, Hox. G. W. WoopwarD,—The most grat- ifying intelligence reaches us from every portion of the Commonwealth, and unmis- takeably indicates a hea:ty, united and vig- orous support of the choice of the Democ- racy for Governor. His unbending integrity, ability, energy and capability are admitted by both political friend and foe, and create more enthusiasm than has been shown in the nomination of any man for the position We'll pert again on Sunday.” within onr memory. — By. (¥ rom the Chattanooga Rebel. SOUTHERN SERTCH OF A, LIN- COLN. nin Abraham Lincoln isa man above the medium height. He passes the six foot mark by an inch or two. He is rawboned, shamble-gaited, bow-legged, knock-kneed, pigeon-toed, swob-sided, a shapeless skele- ton in a very tough, very dirty, unwhole. some skin, His hai is or was black and shaggy, his eyes dark and fireless, like a coal grate in winter time. His lips are large, and protrude beyond the natural lev. el uf his face. but are pale and smeared with tobacco juice. Ilis teeth are filthy. In our juvenile days we were struck with Virgil's description cf the ferryman who rowed the.disembodied souls of men over the river of death. Lincoln, if our memory fails us not, but be a near kinsman of that offical of the other world. —At all events they look alike, and, if a relationship be claimed when Abraham reaches the ferry he will be able, we do aot doubt, to go over free of toll. In the next place his voice is course, untutored, harsh—-the voice of one who has no intellect, and less moral na- ture. His manners are low in extreme,and where his talk is not obscene, it 15 sense- less. In a word, Lincola, born and bred a rail-splitter is a rail splitter still. Bor. tom, the weaver, was not more out of place in ths lap of Titania than he on the throne of the ex-republic, And his is the wan, who, incapable of a stronger or high-r in. spiration than that of reyenge, aspires to be master of the South, as he is of the enslay- ed and slavish North. This is the man who bids armies rise and fight, and cow- mands and dismisses generals at will.— This is the man who proclaims (as such could only do) the equality of the races, black with white. Tuis is the man who incites servile insurrection, ordains plander and encourages rapine. This is the man who trembles not at the horrible butchery which heaven will call him to answer for, yet quakes like an aspen at the approach of peril to his own poor carzases. This is the man in fine. who has been selected by the powers of evil as'the only fit representative in all America to do such dark deeds as the dark ages only know, deeds which civiliga- tion blushes to record, and men in other lands refuse to credit. Kneel down and kiss his royal feet men of the South. A——r nr. For the Watchman.) Mr. P. Gray Meex—Dear Sir: After waiting two weeks we are informed that the no-party Union League have placed a list of candidates before the people for support.— Now, we can say nothing of the private charcters of the candidates, but let us look for 8 moment at the candidate for County Uommissioner. How will the township vote which Mr. M'Calmont has had charge of, and in which he has proscribed every dem- cerat that has been named to him for collec- tor or juryman. Ie has always appointed ultra-abolitionists. Even in his own town- ship where two responsible freeholders were returned, he proscribed both and appointed an ultra man, When asked why he did so, he replied that he could not appoint them because they were not loyal. men. And we are informed upon inquiry that both appli cants and the said Commissioner are mem: bers of the same Church. We think at least two townships in Centre county will remem- ber Mr. M’Calmont on the 2d Tuesday of October next, for appointing irresponsible men when he had responsible men returned for that appointment. We thick that Fer- guson and Marion townships have been made to feel the weight of despotic power: and we ask the well-thinking voters of all parties to look well to such official asts, let them come from where they will. Wo have heard a great deal said about ‘‘economy.” Contrast the taxes of three years ago with those of the present and then vote. If the next Commissioner pursues the better course, continue him : but to continue the present incumbent three years more, will ruin every tax-payer in Centre county Two TAX-PAYBRS. —l il Oe. DEMOCRATS, write to your soldser friends! For not only have the leading Democratic city papers been prohibited from circulation in the armies commanded by Ab- olition Generals, out a system of espionage upon the mails is jn operation which pre- vents the circulation of nearly all Democrat ic papers in any of the srmies. This is quietly but we believe effectively done. On- the editor of this paper on the street and demanded to know why the Democrar was no longer ‘sent to him. We assured him it had been sent regularly. He thought there must be some mistake about it. as up to two months ago he had received it regularly but since then had not seen a single number of it. We have similar complaints from several others, from circulating among the soldiers, as a general thing, we regard as a fixed fact. It fairs at home. — Lock Haven Democrat. ten 8&5 As soon as the radicals are choked off, and the Democratic party takes control of the Government, we will have peace. trian ly a few days ago, a furloughed soldier met | ' French Revolution to our shores, and we That Democratic papers are prevented | is for that reason thatwe appeal to the Dem- | ocrats to write to their soldier friends, and | give them a true account of the state of af- Speculation filled ‘the pockets of a large | number of shoddy patriots—and many graves PROFIT AND LOSS. As rather an unscrupuious fellow named Ben was coming down one morning he met Tom, and stopped him. “I say Tom, he seid, here's a pretty good counterfeit three. If you pass it, I'll divide.” Z ‘‘Let’s sep the plaster,” ssid Tom, and after examining it carefully, put it in his vest pocket, saying— “It 18 an equal division—a dollar anc a half a piece.” “Yes” said Ben. “All right, ? said Tom, And off he went. A few minutes afterwards, he quietly stepped into the store of his friend Ben, and purchased a can of oysters for a dollar and a half, laying down the three dollars for them. The clerk looked at the bill rather doubtingly: when his suspicions were im- mediately calmed by Tom, who said : “There is no use looking. for I received the note from. Ben himself not ten minutes ago.” . Of course the clerk, with this assurance forked the dollar and a half in change, with this deposit and can of oysters, Tom lett. Shortly afterward he met Ben, who asked hiw if he had passed the note, “Ob, Yes,” said om at the same time passing over the dollar and a half to Ben. That evening when Ben had made up his cash account, he was suprised to flud the same old counterfeit three in the draw- er. Turning to his “locum tenans,” he ask. ed: ‘Where did you get this note ? Didn't you know it was a counterfeit 2” “Why “Tom gave it to me and I sus- pected it was not all right, but he said that he had just received it trom you, and I took ity The whole thing had penetrated the wool of Ben. With a peculiar grin, he muttered “Sold” and charged the can of oysters to profit and lossacco unt. GAA ee. Waar Tuer Prowisep.— Free press,” “free speech’ and ‘freedom,’ protection to American industry,” economy and reform,” ‘good times for (he poor man’’ and the rest of mankind, ** protection to State sovereign- ty and State institutions,” *‘a return to the policy of the fathers.” ‘ obedienze to the Constitution and laws,” ‘peace, hurmony and national prosperity,” WHAT THEY GAVE US, A muzzled “press,” “free speech’ striek. en down by mobs and executive power, ‘‘freecom,’” usurped by arbitrary arrests, bastiles and bayonets: ¢‘American indus- try,” destroyed, ¢‘Economy and reform’ lost sight of by the most stupenduous sys- tem of robbery, party peculations and ex- travagance ever known to the world, — ¢t Good times,” turned into the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of our citizens, the weeping of widows and orphans and untold misery and pational woe ¢ Protection to State sovereignty,” stricken down. ‘‘A re- turn to the policy of our fathers,” turned in to a co-operation with the Devil, *Obed:- ence to the Constitution and laws,” exchan- ged for military necessity, tyranny aud des- potism. ‘Peace, harmony and national prosperity,” swallowed up in dissolution and riveas of blood. Yet these men have the audacity to ask you to vote for them again! gay Voters of Centre county remember that every vote cast for Andrew @. Curtin, for Governor, will be constructed by the Abolition party, to be in favor of a contin- uation of the war, with all its concomitants the draft will be “vigorously” enforced, tax- es will be increased, and everything we con- sume will double in prices in the event of hie election and a few men will become wealthy nabobs, at the expense of the many and the present white owners ot prop- erty in common with the less fortunate of their race will be reduced to perpetual sla- very. The defeat of Judge Woodward would be hailed by the Jacobins with unbounded joy, and a demand would at once be made for ‘the last man and the last dollar.” A half million of new made graves, hundreds of widows, and thousands of orphan chil- dren will be the legacy lett to the American people, if the Democracy fail to carry the great central State. On the other hand the success of the Abolition party, transfers the drama of the all must drink the bitter cup, “Tus SoLpiERs FRIEND.—The people are asked to re-elect Gov. Curtin because he is the “‘soldiers friend.” Go ask the war worn veteran of the Pennsylvania Reseryes who is *‘the soldier’s friend,” and he will tell you that his recollections of the shoddy uniforms furnished at Camp Curtin-—-which exposed them t) the inclemencies of ths | weather, and io the jeers of the soldiers of other States,—are too vivid for him to for- get who is not tho * soldiers friend,” That with betrayed soldiers. The ¢‘soldier’s friend”’ indeed ! —Clearfield Republican. (TF ¢ Jack, you are missing all the sights om If negroes are 88 good as white peo- [on this side.” ple, why did the Oreato: not make them alike ? “ Never mind, Tom, I'm sighting all the miwses on this side.’’ THE SOLDIER'S FRIEND. The Indiana Democrat says: ‘ The Abolition papers are in the habit of speaking of Andy Curtin as the * soldier's friend.” Xie showed his friendship by plac- ing half a million of dollars that was appro- priated to clothe the Pennsylvania Reserves in the hands of his particular friends, who provided the soldiers with blankets that they could see throngh. shoddy coats and pants, aad shoes that had soles filled with shavings, In two weeks the brave men were bare- footed and nearly naked: A pretty ** sol- dier’s friend,” to be sure, How much of the profits Curtin pocketed the public never discovered." The Washington (Pa,) Review hits this hard blow : ‘The only good word the Abolition friends of Governor Curtin can say of him is * that he is the Soldier's friend”” Who are the friends of Governor Curtin ¥ The ree- ords of the Quarter Session of Allegheny show that three of his personal friends were indiated in that court for cheating the sol- dier, in his clothing, his food, and his arms, ** Love me, love my dog,” says the proverb. You may know & man by the company he keeps. Friends of the soldier, explain how you acted in unison with the knaves who struck at the vitals of all military strengtp —food —clothing—and arms. ANDREW G. CurtIN, who is now traveling over the State, hat in hand, soliciting votes, like a blind beggar asking for pennies, de- livered at sj eech a Erie on the 10th instant, in which he charged Judge Woodward with being hostile to our adopted citizens. Even if the shoddy candidate had been correct in the statement which was made by him know- ing it to be false, it would have come with a very bad grace from the bitter and pro- scriptive Know-Nothing of 1854. Andrew G. Curtin greatly distinguished himself at that time by the prominent psrt he took in the persecution of men on account of their religion and birthplace; and some of the very men to whom he spcke at Erie had been with him in the secret meetings of the American Order. Is the miserable hypo- crite who retails a base slander against his manly opponent, pronounced ‘honorable and without stain” by the Chairman of the Abolition State Committee, deserving of the suffrages of the honest freemen of Pennsyl- vania #—Age.! TRUTH 1s M1GHTY.— When Boston closed the gates of Faneuil Hull upon the great Webster, the heart of the country opened unto him. When Philadelphia hung the palaces of her merchant princes in sable be- cause General Jackson bad triumphed over the monster Bank, labor lifted his lofty brow and showered blessings upon his venerable head. The Democratic party have always protected the people in the enjoyment of their nights, and although they be to the truth for a season, it must ultimate- 1¥ prevail. These fanatics who clamor down the champion of the right, remind us of the des- pots of the Old World--of those who terri- fied at the voice of the people and tremb- ling atthe approach of reform, seek to drown the toues of honest opinion mn a sea of blood, or to shut out the great doctrine of freedom by conecaling themselves behind walls of {tripple gramte. They hear nevertheless “the voice of the people and that voicej is a death knell to all their hopes. sp AxotHer DRAFT.—All persons liable to conscription will remember that Andrew G, Curtin said, in a late speech in Johns town, that he was *‘in favor of the imme- diate raising of an army of two hundred and fifty thousand more men,’ and that he *‘always insisted on throwing the largest number of men into the field—and of spar- ing no expense,’” If Curtin should be elect- ed Governor he will use his influence and power to have another draft made, and thus drag so many more victims to the field of slaughter and burden those left behind with debt—all for the beloved mgger, Think of this matter, voters of Pennsylvania when you come to vote. etl Aen. par The shoddy patriots have been com- pelled to establish a new daily paper in Pittsburg, called the Commercial, to advo: cate the election of the ‘‘twin relics” of war and negro equality—Curtin and Ag- new. There were three “loyal” papers in that city, but neither having had a direct interest in the shoddy interest, they all advertised the *‘soldier’s friend,” in rather a distasteful manner to suit the ‘‘uncondi- tionally loyal.” I= Six weeks ago the Republicans boast- ed of electing Brough by 100,000 majority ! Three weeks ago they came down to 50,000 To-day they are swearing that if Vallandig- ham is clected he cannot be sworn in and take hisseat! Thisis coming down rapidly and nice. One more pu!l and all 18 peace, order and calmness.— Crisis. IZ The following is part of a song which the Democrats are now singing in Ohio.—~ John Brough is the abolition candidate for Governor : « Peaceful be my silent slumbers, Tod and Giddings close my eyes; We shall fail for want of numbers, Wake ue up when John Bréugh dies.” compelled by fanatics to close their ears | NO, 3s THESOLDIER'S RIGHT TO VOTE. When a soldier returns to his election dis- trict, he resumes ail the eivil rights of citi- zenship, and his residence being unimpaired by his temporary absence, he has a right to vote on election day, but under the Coneti. tution to which his fealty is due, he can ace quire no right to vote elsewhere, except by a change of residence from one district to another. * ® ®. The learned judge deprecztes a construction that shall »is- FRANCHISE our volunteer soldiers. It strikes us that this is an inacctrate use of language. The Constitution world disfranchise no qual- ified voter, But, to secure purity of elec- tion, it would have its voters in the place where they are best known on election day. If a voter voluntarily stays at homes. or goes on a journey, or joins the army of hig country, «an it be said the Oonstitution has disfranckised bim? Four of the judges of this court, living in other parts of the State, find themselves, on the day of every Presidential election, in the city of Pittse burg, where their official duties take thews and where they are not permitted to vote,— Have they a right to charge the Constitation with disfranchising them? Such is our case and such is the case of the volunteers in the army. The right of suffrage is care- fully preserved for both them and us, to bs enjoved when we return 10 the places which the Constitution has aprointed for its exer- cise. —GEo. W. WoopwARD. Se — A A PA re — 07 The people don’t consider what Strong and almost countless interests ate inheted in favor of prolonging the war, and against all terms of peace, Here they are: All the Provost Marshals and their pefty understrappers, swarming like Egyptian frogs, in every township of the North, All the railroads —a tremendaous influ. ence—for they are growing rich by trans. portation. . All the manufacturers of wosl, of co'ton of shoes, of arms—in a word, all New Eng- land, And the daily papers, for it doubles their circulation, Lincoln and his Cabenet, and Republican leaders generally, for it gives them an army to enforce despotic acts, and keep down up position. Don’t the people of all parties, see that their interests is exactly the reverse of the idterests of the men named above. The people want peoce the first moment thet the Constitution is vindicated. Bat the men above named want ws r, the bigger, the bloodicr, the more costly, the bettar for them, so long as any excuse can be found for keeping war going. Now_the people cap see why Lee was al- lowed to escape out of Pennsylvania ant Maryland, why Louisiana vas rej cted, when she proposed to return to the Union, under the Constitution; and why. when Alex, H. Stephens was known to be the bearer of propositions for Peace, Lircoln and his associates rejected them without even knowing what the terms were ! Waar We Owe 10 LiNcoLN.— When the tax collector comes around with his wep rant. When we have to go and buy s stamp to put upon 8 deed, note, &c. When we have to take outa license tn buy or sell. When we go to a store and pay forty cents a pound for coffce instead of ten. When we look at our pablic debt and find it accumulating at the rate of over 82,000, 000 per day. When we look at our sons and brothers dragged from their homes to fight in a war for negroes, and . When we look at the vacant chairs, er new made graves of those who have died, let us remember that all these we owe to Mr. Lincoln and the party that supports him, —Ez, ———— i A een. B&~ The people of Pennsylvania must not overlook the important fact that Daniel Agnew, the Abolition nominee for Supreme Judge is in favor of negro suffrage in Penns. ylvanis, Whilst a member of the Reform. Convention, he persistently voted to confer that right upon all colored men in the Com. monwealth [Te is the friend of A. G. Cur. tin, and running upon the same ticket, their views and opinions are identical. Can the white freemen of Pennsylvania cast theip votes for the candidates of shoddy and ne- gro equality, rr “WE WILL ARREST THE ~TRREPRS SIBLE CONFLICT,” WE ARE NOT RE4e DY TO GIVE UP CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTY FOR LICENTIOUS LIBERTY ; WE WILL NOT SACRIFICE ALL THR MEMORIES OF THE PAST AND ALL the HOPES OFTHE FUTURE FOR NEGRO FREEDOM.—Ggorae W. Woopw4ro, I= If you wish to give your sanction to the immense system of plunder, robbe y and corruption that has characterized tie State and Natioual administrations for tie last three years, aud wish to have a repeti- tion of it, vote for Andrew G. Curtin. the more graceful they become in theip movements. Those acquire the best car- riage who do not ride in one. > Sr —— A A nina B@™ An order has been issued for the removal ot Charleston, as its presence is considered dangerous during s bombard mert. . — ire B& Tho first full negro regiment from Penusylvania, lett Philidelphin on the 14th, to reinforce General Gillmore ms Charleston. The Abolitionists had sixty negroes in their procession at Bellefontaine, Ohio, — White men of the Republican party just think of that. ———————ees A Northern traitor on a mission ef dis- uvion to England. Who is he?! Conway wditor of the Commonvéalih, 7 The more ladies practice walking, lS BG Gai 0 BLA a... Lo smn iawn ~IN