11ILBON N I it II Ullik FLAG. • - beltrrainintat ktothiiir, and patrol 14 the iotl, PlghUpg (or the ;repeal we gained by bones • • . And when our detta wale threatened, the cry :tome near . and fart 'kart& for Blue ist beers the siattle - liar 1 r111:11! • ifetrril: Annals, for Soo ireita rights hurrah ilarrab! for theApowila . -Blue Flat That bean the single scar. ;An long le ate UninnWaa faithful to her trdst, Like friends and like brothers, kind were we and just But now when ItTorilejn triaeberyattempts our rights We held 4an high• the,,bonnie Blue Flag that Lean tle slog's star. I nn,. gallant 13 iut► Carolina nobly matte t►e stand; ' I . Then eishe Alabama; who' loot her by the hand; NestAniokly Mississippi, i,:Jeorgiis and Florida— All raised the Bag, the 'bonnie BlaG Flag that bears a single star. Ys mon of valor, gather round the bander of the right; Texas and fair Louisiana join us In the 64 4 6 E, . `Mavis, our,loved President, arid Stephens, states-' menace; ' .-How rally coned the bOuttle Bine Fla; that bears a single uteri kdd here's to brave Vlellnia! the Old 'Donde. tow SW*. the. ..feel" Contoderaey at length has linked her fit s ' Impelled by her example, now ether States prepare To, hoist oh high the bonnie Blue nag that bears • single star. -Vimmelbeeete-4seur-4esfedereerretrtnerww , and brave, Like patriots of old we'll fight, our heritage - 4 to save ; And rattles than submit to shame, to die we would prefer; - • kio cheer for the bonnie Blue Flag that bear' a single ;far. Than cheer, boys, eheer. raise the Jo.> ous shout, iur Arkansas and North -Carolina now hare both gone ; 'And let another rousing cheer for tOriG/211/60 Le Risen, The 'lnto etar of the bonnie Blue Flag has grown to be sloven bale. % Recurd. FROM THE tilL REGIOkS 1 ". 11110LLUM VIIV‘Mi t CLQ - CO., Februnry 21.), 18135. j To THE EDITOR Or TRY VATCRIIANI . After devoting several days . to the acqui. r 'Mon and gleaning of facts MMtincted with and relating - to the rise and progress of the, 'oil business, I date l thin fruit what I con-! ',naive (and I may add by way of parentheais that the relative receipts of the largest wells 'below EMI above ads point, as we I as the . uui Ily conceeded opinion of those longest acquainted and most 'familiar with . the bustnese bears me out in the assertion), to be the centre of the Petroleum Basin otherwise known as Petroleum ,Ceps, • the head of the Postal Bureau at Wash- =I The history of the di;covery of Petroleum 'in Venengo county elet be known to every Intelligent person in the country; but in 'aiming, I may remark that, nowhere in the world—oertainlY not in the great west,, where I residua two years, nor in California' where I have witnessed the growth of a town in a. night, L'ave I heen so vividly int pressed with the reintAable results of a 'new discovery, as evinced in every token, 'exhibited upon every hand here of wealth, ingenuity, and persistent energy, together, .with that inseperahle' concomitant of suc cess—contempt Of the prices and rntes i which govern the rest. of the world, Wrill 'glancing over the valley of Oil creek. This, however, if I may Judge from the presence of vast inunhers of thor ough , traifted, thorough going Imminwis men, , with the usual proportion of profes4ional men, t hus found utternnee in more than ens way, 'in private as well as public charnels—the 4remarkable eneeess attending the efforts of the pioneer's in the new enterprise, as well se the undeveloped resources of the country everywhere attracting and compelling the instant attention of the philosophet, and 'enfatilisC — Tenving the much discussed 'origin of Petroleum, together with the exact - amount of trollops and gills of the emote at our disnosid to ~be decided by those Who have more learning and leisure than your correspondent can claim, I will endeavor to convey to your,readers some idea of the 'conformation and resources of that portion 'of Venanto County which: up to this period t han yielded oil in large quantities, and which is properly termed oil territory ; With A few figures which may useful to those meditating an Investment in same, and in teresting to thweLlous.. From the. haters of the Allegheny to Titusville, lbe general ihmiracce of that portion et yinetigo county which may be strictly termed 011 Territory, presents a rugged, uninviting aspect ; the land is ste -441e, broken, uneven, hilly, and in many ideties'oovered - wick - pine- Before the oil • excitement •began, land was :iiiirtken an average , ;.w ac e,4 dollars per acre. Ten ihousayik is now demanded for an acre, where as yet the farms are undeveloped The theatre of Ile g igselligeittiPpiP ea kred upon by our Ihdomltable, wide awake basimme men is more properly confined to " ' oil Creek and the surrounding country—no Other region bee outjct. irodueed any con eiderable4uantity olPstroleutfi;, oertetnly nothing commensurate with the capital and energy expelidal. Here we have the oil gushing out qi every Core: From the mouth of 011 Creek lb Titusville, the number of laying wells has open estimated at two hun dred and fifty. Many of these are flowing wells. • Five tioutniii4 barrels of oil are produced tilt or itait 1,815,000 a year. At eight &I rs pet barrel, this •'amount ,Wineld bring $14,600,000 a year. • The trovaller Mitering ott,rily, situated on the Aerie bank of the Allegheny river, .?bier!"it here, and then a derripk i as he rime!! his Goitres 4 Oil Creek the number dzilithe is reminded, as he looks 1!:; the right sad bill; and as far aa his gate Rat imill num the hills of the shipping of Our flows& perte—lee views literally a forma at derricks. ),any of these 'were Greeted i I( f) I lit Ittali Vol. 10. In 1861 and 1862„whon oil sold at' fifty oents and twinty-ilve cents per barrel. Their projectors abandoned them in'disgust after boring perhaps one hundred add fifty or two hundred feet. These ;rolls are now „bold at talklous rates by eastern men in nearly every instance ; their present owner aro determined to ma thorn down through theiecond and tinirtraandstonerriere they cry pecati The astonishing success which has inttonded those who have carried out Alibi design renders It almost impossible for the laggard in the new enterprise to secure a single abandoned well, be he ever so anxious 'to invest. km the travetpr pursues his' intricate course upwards through this forest of der ens, his ideas expands just in proportion is the hugh oil tanks increase in site. and number, until be halts at the swine of the fountain, the old Davidson farm. The histOry tb - egoble, Empire, and Mapl. Shade wells must be familiar to every one Interested in or Connected with the oil busi- ECM Perhaps I could uol.better illustrate the wording and profits of lho buainepe `jinn by giving hese a brief history of the [ameba Hyde & Egbert fitnit, as I reoeivekl it from the lips of the oldest employees, corrobor ated by the .superWctidents and Managers of the various Interests which now divide the farm. • The farm was purchased of M Dewison by Dr. A. G. Egbert in 1861, for the sum of $2,600. Subsequently Mr.4.ltarleS Hyde paid the same amount to Dr. Egbert for an equal share of the farm. , Their rue 'oess will be understood frotu a careful peru sal of the fello;ving list of flowing many of Which they hold id'their own hand, and in all of which they own the land inter est-1. r., cjte half: Graff and Hassan well, began Rowing. July, rm, three hundred barrels per day ; Maple 'Shade well, /began flowing August. 1862, nine hundred barrels per day'; Key stone No. 1 will began flowing September, 1863 forty barrels per.day ; Keystone No. well began flowing Ootobor, 1863, sixty bar rels per day ; Yankee well, began flowing October, 1863, sixty barrels per day; Turtle well, began flowing October, 1863, seventy five barrels per day; Eagle well, began Hewing October, 181 t, sixty barrels per day.; Keystone No. well, began flowing Novem ber, 1863, 100 barrels per day ; libinoce rotts well, began flowing December, 1363, sixty barrels per day ; _Eagle No, 2 well be gan flowing February, 1864, thirty barrels per day; Porcupine well, began flowing February, 1864, twenty five barrels per day ;. Kepler well, began flowirirg June, 1864, one hundred barrels 'per day ; Jersey well, be-' gan flowitig Ane, 1864, three hundred bar rels Per day; Olive Branch well, began flowing October, 1864, forty barrels per day; Keystone No- 4 well, began flowing Novem ber, 1864, fifty barrels per day ; Coquette well, began flowing NoveMber, 1884, eight hundred barrels per any. tis In additiOn to these flowing, there are sixteen pumping wells, yielding three ima dred and fifty barrels per-day. The Maple Shade flowed eighteen months—now, yields but eighty barrels per day. The Jersey well still pours out a ceaseless stream, as steadily as when it was first struck. The last on the iist of attiring wells is a misno mer. Those best acquainted with the his tory of the large wells assert that is the steadiest flowing well in the world. There is nothing coqt.itth about It. The history c the location of this famous well is a bit of romance, and borders °lone ly on the Marvelous. The present energetic manager of the well, prior to his Bre t t visit to the OH territory, bad a remarkable dream, -which I will relate here just as I had it from 41 own lips. lie thought ; ho was prospect ing for oil, when at the (dose of'a weary day's walking over tlto.hilta which hound the valley of oil creek, he espied, at tbshort distance before him, a stalwart Indian seated On the ground, with his back against o rock, plimping vigorously at a rude pump, from which Mr. Kepler beheld a steady stream of oil pouring. Almost at the same instant the red man perceived' Kepler glancing over his shoulder and through a crevice iu the rook. Drawing att arrow from his quiver, he was preparing to draw his bow upon the intruder, when the latter was relieved from his dillemma in a manner as unlooked ter as it was novel. A fair dam sel, an esteemed acquaintance of the dreinier's, who had earned the reputation of a nequette; apprOtioited suddenly and steadily with a warning-gesture, bearing , her hand the dreruner's highly . , , priied rink In an instant the gtm was levelled and die ohargeditt the Indian ; with the discharge the dreamer viva Ciet the rook, and be held, at( ice expresses it "nothing but Oil! OW" upon his arrl4ing at the fartni„pbse quently, he jestinglyt related his dream to his cousin, Mr. A. C. K epler , „ who, In the same sportive mood, requested him to den .signate the spa.. the drill was started, and at the depth of five 'hundred and nineteen feet, struck the largest well now flowing in oil creek.' Notwithstanding theditHeulty of obtaining tanks to receive the vast amount of oil which has sowed from this wonder among large wells, not a single barrel of oil bee been lost, the aisertions of various corres pondents to the contrary notwithstanding. This, I have been informed by those con neoted with the well, ltai foam solely owing to the enoellent management of the well by Mr.. Hilitol 4 ge M. Hetet ; Here we ha ve , on fOrty cores thirty-two wells and but one dry bole . Its ,parallel cannot be found. About one hundred hands are employed iticitit lbe yarto4 wells, at Elie rate of three dollars and Ally Omits per day. The oil is sold trout the taiiis at prices !NEI BELLEFONTE, PA.,; FRIDAY, MARCH - 17, 1865. varying from eight to ten dollars per barrel, the purchaser furnishing the batrele Passengers on the road experience diffi culty in passing the thousands of teamscon itantiy hauling the oil. The carriage is high, rating from three to four dollais from this point to Franklin, fifteen miles ; and from ono dollar to one dollar and fifty'eents to Titusville, eight wiles. Some of these teamsters clear fifty dollars a week. • s• , I had the curiosity to leariithe pace of a farm lying due east of the liyde gi Egbert farm, and divided from the,latter by one 'or two small iinrroir leases. $BOO,OOO for s farm of eighty mires! The small leases overlooking the farm, and located on the edge of the bluff have changed hands at even higher rates! floitig further back, the rates are oorrespondingly high ; in•short parties who pmpose purchasing anywhere on the eastern side of Oil Creek, but especially in the vicinity of Pnlreleurn The society is superior to that commonly I:pos.4l*n ; 1 4.. eatutty-b-y—thcAleui tens of our largest cities. However, it. must be aimitted that in more respects than one the genetal tone and bearing of the men who have "pitched their tents" in the valley of Oil Creek resemble= in -a stronikawe the outipokev,, hearty, irtfortikr, — western people. In looking over the country and listening to the conversation of the oil princes—in vickli‘g the enormous, amount. of oil stored up and awaiting tralasportatioh, my surprise' has been excited by the dilatorymOvements of our leading railroad companies. The Oil Creek Road should have been completed last year. Here we have a gap of twenty five miles, over which tht dealers and• eon 'timers bf the article'pay a - toll of from 30 to, 40 eeno per mile per barrel. To sum the matter up in brief, when the road is raid through the valley, net only will the shippers and dealers have the advanta ges which accrue from a Imprudent market ; but the world at large will !ben be enabled to purchase their light at rates- never dreamed of, for which oonsumation let ue devoutly pray. Yours, truly, VICE PRESIDENT JOHNSON.'" The editor of the New York Independent, Henry Ward Beecher, wht; Wait personally present in Washington during the inaugura tion, gives the following notice of the pearance of the Vice Piesident on that occasion': And now, concerning the Vice President and the humjlitating spectacle which on that day he furnished to the world, shall we speak or remain si;ent ? Perhaps there ex ists some goed reason why the sad truth should be suppressed, but no such !von have we yet discerned. We cannot therefor? join with our three neighbors, the Tribune, the Times and the EveTriv Pool in pardoning with silence the treat disgrace which An drew Johnson inflicted that day upon his country. Had the tables been turned, and a similar offence been committed by George 11. Pendleton, we can hardly believe that these journals would have said their flitgess upon their lips in a hush of criticism. As for ourselves, we trust we are habitually slow to speak ill of public men, even of sue us deserve dispraise ; and certainly among the many journals which have aforetime been hckrty in their krnd words of Andrew John skoone have been heartier than this sfieel l ; ant' such an appearance as ho presented during his inauguration is to pass without public rebuke, in these and in other news paper columns, then there no longer re mains to the press - ant.duty of impartial criticism of men 'in °Medal stations. Onoo or twice we have felt it our duty to speak against the excessive use of Intof icating • liquors by some of our public men. It may be asked, What is the duty of a public journal in such oases ? It seems to us plain. We hold that if a public man is drunken in private company, he is not amenable to comment in the newspapers, but if he be drunken while noting his part on a public ° cession, his offense is against the public, and should never be shielded from the Just punishment of public censure. In the Se nate Chamber, on the 4th of March, itt presence or the Senate, of the House, of.- the Cabinet, of the Supreme Court, of the Diplomatic Corps, of the newspaper ,press, of a gallery of and (during part of the time) of the Presi dent of the United States—and on an mit sion forever historio"-the Vice President elect presented hiniself to take his solemn oath of aloe n a state of intoxicaticl. Not in anger bn't rn sorrow do we chronicle this fact, wrltiohwe have ._ no just right to suppress. — 7t few weeks 'ago the Speaker of the House of Represent*Hve* *as com manded by vote of that body to administer a public reprimand to a member who had committed a similar offense with Tess Oen „ spicuoue shame. If a member of Congress is to be punished for such an sot, shall the President of the Senate remain unpunished? Of 0t3485, the Renate will choose its own Method of reaching the ease--a method which, we true(, will be kind, moderate and Just. But meanwhile, it is the plain duty of Mr. Johniotk i elther to apologize for him conduct or . to resign his office . in the name of an insulted peopte , we are com pelled to demand that so great an affront to the dignity of the republic shall be mndi to bear a fit penalty; atonement and warning. —. ~ A large meeting wp4 held at Mobile on the lath February, at which resolutions were aifiiited with "Victory or death" as the watchword. -sirAmex azawrs AND rinyinuim UNION." SVIIRIT OF THE.PitESS ARREST or P.,,GRAT MZEK, EXP..— The Editor of the Bellefonte Watchman was er a • rested by the military on the 2d inst., with out any specified charge against bid, and no opportunity, wasgiven for bail. He was hurried off to Harrisburg, and the last we heard of him was confined in the Look up for ordinary criminals. His militaiYarrest is therefpro an act of tynanny vind outrage at once the meanest and most intolerable, especially as a republican Cougness Asa,junt passed a law prohibiting such Arrests, and in effect condemning the President for hav ing heretofore per pitted theta. Mr. Meek -is p young luau of expellent personal char acter, a writer of . decided ability, sometimes impetuous, and we have often thought un necessarily and unprofitably harsh in his mode of expression. To say that he was free from error ?bold be claiming more for him than any of us are entitled to. but that his impulses areAsp4st and his motives are patriotic, vie do Rh believe that tiny man doubts. The civil courts, certainly, are amply efficient to punish him for tiny real or imaginary misdemeanor, and it is there fore a IlianiefuLand inexcusable act of tyntday to - arrezt tilm by military authority or try him by a military court, or to inflict mtit.n r y ,It is high time that all such lawless pro ceedings be stopped, or as sure as the time rolls round anarchy will take the place of law. We also remind our Itcpublicaufriends that the time noodling when the Democracy will administer the law, and the charitably inclined of our party may not then be able to so control it as to prevent the fierce pun ishment of .thope who now so meanly and ruthlessly dutrage private right and public law, and especially the liberty of the citizen. It would scarcely be deemed unreasonable that these in power then who bad been under the yoke .wouldturn upon their for mer persecutors, and yield to them by the same measure they had dealt out. We want to see no such thing; and above all, lest it come, let there be ,ne cause for it. Let all law be strictly obeyed, none violated—if there be, ady guilty let them be tried.and punished by the law and not over the law— and above all let us have no mere examples of officials trampling upon all law and the most sacred rights of Alle citizen. Where there is not the fttlleseproteotion of the lave t0a . 11,, it will soon afford protection tvione - —where every ettizen is not perfectly free, amenable only to the law, soon none will he, free. l i et us . vlarned In time, and not fatally push on in error until all remedy is impossible. ,„ I'. S.—Since the Above was in type, w e . received a telegraphic didpatch from qarris, burg dated March 8, announcing Die dia- - charge of Mr. Meek from custody .—itttnton Democrat. IxioT ARREST OF MR. MEEK or CENTREOUR TT. —thoarrest of Alr.,Meek, of the elle fonte Watchman, turns out to be, as w from the first supposed, oue of those shakneful exhibitions of petty tyranny which is degrading our otiutitryoki. Lome, and dis graoingour people in tile , oyos of nations abroad. Mr. Meek is ignorant of the cause of being thus seized by a squad of soldiers, 'armed to the teeth, who have dragged their prisoner from his home id Centre county to this•place, and lodged hips in the common guard house. amongst, tkiLsorderly soldiers and arrested deserters, !without even the comfort of a bed to lie ttn. Doubtless the cause of this lawless prtieeeding i -ie, offence somewhere taken amongst,the ministers and minions of power, at something which ap peared in the columns of the Watchmon—as Mr. Meek has never been drafted or enlist ed as a soldier. Being a civilian, we de mand, then, in the name of. the Constitution and the Laws, why he wan n ot arrested ,by the proper of fi cer upon rocess lamed in due form by the Civil Courts of the coun try. We dented again, in ,the same light, that, being thus seized by military force, why he is not handed over as the law of .ngress prescribes, to the custody of the Court' of the United States, of the proper district ? ~ Thank 911 i rbrocghout th e long and eventful history of the Democratic party, hid of the near seventy years it held the rettut of Government, NOT OINTE single ar rest like this stains the bright retrospect. The Military was always kept subordinate to Civil power; and the right of trial by jury, so dear to every Anglo Saxon Inert, was never denied to any citizen, or even resident of the land ! The people are pon dering upon these things ; the record is making,op in every honest heart; and when "tbo HOUR and the MAN Shall have come," they will be followed swiftly, by a DAY OF VENGEANCE.—Patriot and n eon. CASE OF .MR. MEEK-MILITARY TRIALS. —The Harrisburg correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer, who seems well posted io matters of, party policy of the Abolition ists, says tliakkir. Meek is "charged with violating some of the provisions of the en rolment act, in having published,* letter, under date of February 4, from Centre Hill, counselling and advising resistenoe to the draft, and an article, wider date of, Film ary 10, in. the same vein, containing the most violent expressions against the dfficers of the Governmen't of which Meek assumes all the•responsibility. ire will be tried by ' a military' Oommiseion." I We cannot credit this latter intimation; especially in view, of the severe cohdemna lion by Congress of these military trials of persons charged with' civil offenses Even General Holt, too, Judge Advocate General, has offiMally decided within a few -days past, that the military commission at Indian apolis, for the .trial of the alleged treason cases of Bowles, Mulligan and others, has no jurisdiction in those eases, and that they are to be turned over to the United States District Court for trial. .This decision is a remarkable one, in that it is in accordance with law, and adminieters a just rebuke to those who,ltaxe endeavored to set those tri bunals above the odurts. It will be remem bered that those Indian* arrecte were Made just before the Oefeber election, and in Stich i way as to justify the belief ihakthe whole thing was concocted fc affect that and the enameling precideptal election. ,A trial be fore a, v4l, court will unquestionably show that this conspiracy was gokup bytloverh meat detectives. We feel confident, there fore,, that not only Mr. Meek, but also all others ,now in donflnement, under .similar• oharges A will goon be released from amain altakether, or banded over to-the United Stites Courts, where they, call have the priyilege of bail, and eventually of trial by try .--ratriot and anion. ),. AXIILIiIIT or 1181 EDITOR.--On lut Thursday, P. Gray Meek, Seq., editor ,of the Bello tout. ,Ifetchawm, was arreated_ky the mill, tory ottikoritiesoad 'dragged from bishome from cenjo MAtuty to Harriebtirg, where 64 - -......„ . 1 - i t C‘L . tI. l f t _ ill ,. .1 Lo bah been thrust into the common guard house amoag ft st disorderly aoldiefe and , deserters, without even the common comfort of a bed to lie upon. Whet are the.charges against Mr. Meek we know not... IVa presume however he half otresmied some of the min-. lons of the despotism that now rules with a rod of iron over what was once a free peo ple. That his entire innocence of any crime will be mode to appear we have not the sliiibeet doubt. We know him well. Ands. purer nature, or a braver spirit than that cf P. Gray Meek is riot to bet found in the State. lie is one of the ablestbnd most fearless writers in Pennsylvania. We are sure he cannot ba lung kefri. in custody., 'The day for.auch infamous. oi4ragee must speedkly..pass away. The sentiment of the more decent men even of the Repntllichn party is tnrning against It. There will be a time when such outrages• ehall not only be no longer 'committed, but when the con demnation of all right thinking men shall rest upon mil' who have been engaged , in them. In the meantime it is the duty of every Democratic editor in the country to speak out boldly and fearlessly, as P. Gray Meek has done. if ILI-rested he can show thtminions of Despotism :bow a brave man can endure _vErrags- mid outrages ibr Jae_ sake of priciple,•as we know Mr. Meek will do.—Lancancr Intelligence-. RELEAREI?.---ir. Gray Meek,. Esq., the editor of ,the fielltfonte Watchman, whose arrest by the military authorities we noticed a few days since, has been unconditionally released. The charges brought against him were or the moat frivolous character, and net deemed worthy of consideration. Thus ends another cue in which the Meat Sacred rights of the ahizen have been wantonly violated at the dictation of party malignity. Gross its was the outrage upon Mr. Meek, Ma sufferings are not what most more our in dignation. It•is the thought that, in a land pretending to be free, the Jaw should,be so shamefully defied, and military force be set up as supreme. Under sash.% stat e of things the best and most cherished rights of the citizens are necessarily rendered insecure. Oui boast,of liberty has a hollow, mocking sound. We are not f r ee m e o man is really free while such things are poseihle. It is nigh time Urine %Jun mitt to all thus. —Lancaster Yntetizgencer. ARREST or nn Entron.--P..,Crity Meek, Fsq., editor of the Bellefonte Watchman, one of the oldest Democratic papers in the State,' was erreefed,and sent to prison somewhere, on some sort of charges, preferred by some body, somehlivr,t and it is said he is to be tried. by some kind of. military tribunal. This is another violation of the conscription law. in the name of this gagged and man acled prisoner, as a,fellow Democratic editor, we demand that he be banded over to the• united States Courts for trial hs the law provides. We know Mr.. Meek well, and thotiglila,very young man, ne .know him to be a fearless and uncompromising friend of Right, and his imprisonment will only ren der his work in the cause of truth the more effective. •The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church !"—Bedford Gazetty, Asommow OUTRAO . E.—Mr, Meek, editor of the Democratic Watchman, Bellefonte, l'a., was liberated from a Lincoln Pest House that flourishes under the nose of Andy Cur tin, at Harrisburg, on Wetjpesday last; where he had been held in durance five days, at the instance of some meddlesome Aboli tionists, for daring to exercise the right guaranteed to him by the Constitution of the Commonirealth. Mr. Meek gives an ugly account of these filtby dens, where human beings are attempted to be brutalized preparatory to a . more familiar, apsociatiou with „the miscegenation .thigher 't9pe," in "the history we ate making."— Westchester leffersonian. P. Gray Meek, Esq , Editor of the Demo cratic Watchman, Bellefonte, Centre County, Pa., was arrested on Friday lost, and cornea off to some dungeon, by some agents of the despotism now ruling this, country. The cause of his arrest no one knows, but is gen erally supposed to have been instigated by some of his brave neighbors,wko, too cow ardly to'go tolhe front to fight the "rebels,',; are striving to inaugurate anarchy and ty ranny at homes—Lebanon Advertiser. R. GOAT lifxxx, Editor of the Bellefonte ,Watchnurn, was arrested by the military au thorities at Bellefonte, on Thursday last, and taken to Hafrisburg. No one who has ever read the Watchman will inquire the cause of this arrest. The eattot seemed to possess an uncontrolable itching for noto riety, and believing that a clainceNtevoffer ed him in the preseutt unhappy condition of the country to distinguish himself by an in tense, unscrupulous and utterly reckless hostility to the .Government, and adhesion to its &Mules, lie devoted hTiliself weekly to the production and publication of the most bitter denunciations of the Federal authori ties, the most monstrous and mendacious statements respecting the progress of our arms, find the most elaborate and vehement appeals to his readers to resist by force the execution of the laws. Possessing some talent fot writing, be strove to imitate - the Irish rebel Mitchell. of the Itiehniend gutter, Its well in his the hatred of the Yankee race, as In Hie fervid, classic rheto ric through which, he gives it expression. No loyal man would question the propriety of arresting and imprisoning the editor of the Richmond Inquirer if he were caught within our lines ; and yet Meek, commen surate with his capacity and the sphere of his influence; was as dangerous an, enemy to the Constitution and the Union , and to the I cause of peace and good order in society as the Richmond rebel. He counseled opposi tion to the Federal authorities with just as much seal and vindictive malice, and as earnestly sought the destruotion - Of constitu tional government. We sincerely hope brit-nglickly tender ness or affectation of contempt for his ca pacity t0,.,d0 harm will prevail to set Meek at liberty again to ftdminate-his treason du ring the eootinuenee of the war. When the war is over, his „liberation will be but an intensifying of his puniikment, as he will be printed et with the slow moving Anger of scorn and 'contempt as one,,Who mead his limited abilities to prothote the most. wicked rebellion that ever 8:11141011 the legrth,mnd to provoke armed insurrection among ,hie neighbors against the just laws of his country. •• t• • ao • But we do not think the authorities have gone far enough. ...Meek is not uholly. re inonsibl6 for the epUrse hi..paparvltas beep pursuing : A treasonable junto of political s944drels who Infest liellefont.-,pace been pi, constant torrestiondenos with, brother setae in Richmond, and, who will not gel Oedr deserts till the honguiim gets ;them-- Mass used Meek as the moldier used the oat, amt . should be matleasses Ake pouitty staid out to lihk- r etosins hopo6Roo, • No, 11. P. Gray Meek, Editor of the Dentorratir Inds/dean, the organ of the Copperheads of Centre county, was arrested a few days since, in Bellefonte, op the charge of having used the columns of his journal to encourage the ignorant and factious to mist the Gov ernment. It • will require little effort to. substantiate this charge, as the columns up aus Watchman, during the peat four years, Utemeti with ; Viler' abuse ,and falser state ments concernlng the.repTesentatives of the national authority, civil and.military, than could be found in-tire pages of any rebgl journal in Di/C14... While hundreds of gallant Centre county boys were periling their lives in defence of their country's,houor and glory—while the .Curtihn, the Beavers. the Gregga, the Irvine, the Dairda v ilie Bun kiss. the Montgomerys, and scores of noble and brave omit, 'citizens of old,tentre were in thd front, this creature 'Meek was in the rear, slandering the cause in which Aimee gallani men had risked their all in. the -front —doing battle for the Union and the Con stitution It is time euoh cowardly libellers as Meek were brought to justice —flarris- Eturg Telegrirph. STANTON'S REPORT ON ARBITRARY Secretary Stanton:et reizt. to Congress on arbitrary arrests is a remarkable document. It is official, and a part of the history of this war. There is nothing alarming now. The people cannot be alarmed. , They,would have no fears for their liberties, were Mr. Lincoln to declare himself Dictator for life, by proclamation, backed by Congress and ell the .State Legislatures. But it may be admitted that. I,he ofpial report of the Se;- retary of War upon the arbitrary arrests, 'and the manner in which the President has "used the extraordinary powers confided to him by the Constitution, in ease of insur rection," presents some remakable fasts touching remarkable transactiorks. Mr. Stanton informs us that many of the arbitrary arrests have-been made by the neveenors of States and the provost mar shals, without any nidersfrom Or knoWl edge of the President. ..This is remarkable —not alarming at all—but it is remarkable The said Governors-and Provos undoubtedly got their "authority from the extraordinary powers conferred by the Consditution in ease of insurrection"—.-powors so "extesor- slinary" — that ordinary ,people have been unable to discover them in the Constitution, or to comprehend them as principles at all consistent with a republican form of gov ernment, having three distinct and hide pendent branches, oue,oc iEhieb is judicia ry. But titres have changed of late, anti we supp,ose that, u,nder. these "extraordi nary" power* e( the Constitution, president* and postmasters, provos and press gangs, may arrest and imprison any cilizen at pleasure,-without even, the formality of Mr. Stanton says that among other arbi trary orders, wider the new and "extraor dinary" powers, measures were taken to prevent the use of the poet-office for trim- sellable correspondence. This is another remarkable use of even "extraordinary con stitutional powers." To kneys what was treasonable necessitated the examination of all correspondence—all letters ; and this certainly would be a very marked use of extraordittary'pewer. The post-office, It is presumed, is sacred to all correspondence. We recollect a ease that occurred in this city, when the lion. Gideon Welles was Postmaster. Officers were on the track of a criminal. They watched his wife or mis tress, and diticovered that she drophed a let ter into the postoffice. They immedfately went into the office and demanded the priv ilege of looking at that letter and to open it, for the purpose of discovering where the criminal was. Mr. Welles coolly replied that the 'materna° was as sacred to crimi nals as to anybody—no letters could be ex amined at that office,. aysept- by persons to whom they were directed, that to break over this rule would be to destroy the priv: Rey of correspondence; and that it would be as great a crime to open,the letter of that criminal as it. would be to open the letter of any merchant in the town. The law made no discrimination, but provided for the punishment of ally one who should open a letter, or pry into its secretsno matter who might direct the letter, nor to whom it was directed. He would not permit the officers even to look at the letter. Hie deoislon was right ; for the moment that he had assumed that one letter Ankfer criminal, ant( pm% - mittedit to be examined; -he 10104:alto de oide that any other letter oontalued matter of evidence relative to crime; and all letters would thus be subject to .. hkinerpetnion or the, rying curiosity pf Boy constable of the Joint. But, beyond - this, thelswermake-ne 41serimination, protecting "the secrets" of all letters, whether from.oriteinals or geed chime. But this oonnd law and correct principle have been abandoned Undel. the extrworessumption of extraordinary powers. But there is now &remarkable concession.' The Sedretany,, of War informs the pnblio that "extraordinary" arrests hereafter to be made only by the military authorities, the executive department of the government gives mottos to the judicial department that it may step aside when the military appear. —Hartford Threes. ss-="br. Martin W. Delaney, a fulikblooded African hat been" oommlssionefin ,Major of United States colored troops and ordered to report to Genetsl Snxton.;,, .—Provide . tioe did not itiknt a bright, clear nay-for Mr. Ullool4'l reinaugurstion. "The people who 'aeserohded et Washington to celebrate the event had to trudge through mud and vain. •• -,,Judging from the laws they artian, deavorkopto-pass, tbe.only business of thii Congreas.ll .to foroa people to bettonntool. alert who do not want to, IMO to oomp. the eolniounity toltand over their entire,wialth te . hiy,Lieeoln sad his wets. k' heit4 Wool reveutie laws amount pretty %psi Ii dendsootlon. ..,,-A-.-, HANNER TWFLIN TO " HEN 6EAR 4 NEAMIRE. • - (Tbe following letter *lls prameitsdl• correspondent by an Intelligent eosenslltend wise said be found It on the - Seld Gf bettlet).--"n nen's DARIIMIDA.LII, MM.. l'ob. 10, 10116 I . My dear, Net:mare : Your last letter has jos come ten hand, Awl the ear-ringg' tue. Keller says she'd mueb.bbleege4 ten yak; she looks rust rate in 'em. I games Mit southern gal felt kinder ebkallr whim .I.P I took 'ow Coat o' her,eare, /terra lap sight ! the cruel troVp (or Utast' en the sweat o' the poor colored , men's brollies. Lset ors* Capt. Bigelow sent his darter lisklettjr.,, splelOtazyttnner he captured froths gothic vAndel.wolnk.p,deoirn there. 'fihe bad gliii . impadence teu oall bkii,nkrhje and tt' the yin' Yankee : but be got • sikte h ?An Mat teu set fire tqu her dress, and sibtigoom sung another Leone. Yotle broiberJokluigtfellri agin in business and made atwoguk,:tOrtg and Ihrly thousand dollars, artd,neft, NOB got the bazdseteast'pew ,in chttroh. .?he Dillabys end Metcalfe and tiewlittles,' and • good many more Cl' our pagers, has gone deown teas Ba•aniter ten git a holt o' conk- oated property. 'Your father thinksl4.e.re bent deown II ilifnie write eu soon;; 'Ate" llil sap ontil them Sptil.hern eonfedert cusses Is ;mot and cent ektermfttated.."lhk 'ealelatee they'll preowl amend •o',Ar/Its and mar- der and set fire' few the loykl **stern folks in cold Mud; and Ilan, fur by all4licleouhta they're 'jeit as savage as wild injige,s t ml wont stay cen.iscntpl ; no Matter what potty great and noble president says. Keefe' rays she wonders yeou bain't sent her any silk dresses yet ;, she says mebbe )sou got some sweetbettrt &own there toe i ' - ten; but I guess that's oul her fun, for she knomiotLivatdde't thin tak'.' a chips ' teu any aush•gotbio randehi flll all folks in this section goes for a vigerous penmen tion - of the war,,but purty mtnitt,,all onion has eloped for Cauady to sit char the draft. We've got •a new minted,' We. Fle's ably preached the tow ,lest 'Abbott's; he goes in strong.for war andextenoriustio!.. He says that if he had his way he'd impar. the bull confederacy in keroseele c tle,. Ind set fire tee whelk. allbut the colored folks. Ife like him bet:- ter than any minister we t ever bed in Dar keyesdale, he's so good. Debby nobody has gin her little 'bey to a trete* ,Irethan that was atayin' here,if opt:11,10st summer. fibs made Debby some presents for lettin' ,her take little , E:noeb, and neow the french womanras took him evvey ten franCif Debby says 'the ; kind Providenee was inteu it, 'eauseltielli-sava her all theer.- penes of his diothin', and pefis sions. There's 40 moray o' the e - mes tollts gone away from here, it seems is If there was'nt nothin' . 44,,but. relulc„ an d. therm euttin' tip erns than Satan.. I don't know what'll,ttecomi o' the critters It the southern ,00nfeilersoy sin't fflicterminsted soon; so that Abair busban'a and brothers can sfp, home (1 , ...m Canady teu see tau 'Nob. Gineral Butler baa been makin'Artesehins ca ten Lowell and Boston ilbpoutnaTin: hie +Nat, Old glawharAl..tha. piton eopperhead,!daye he guesses Butler sated more Entim ,than miffs, and he come in the stlier night and •showed a picter (a earielmieur he called it); it was a dog, with Olneral Butler's minetear for its head ; it's goys cullar tf4. ij . neci with "Shyster" wrote oa •t,•_l`bere was three,tin kitties tied-to the dog's tits , with "big "duoth gem' , linti;:fart OW'{ wrote on the kettles, enihtberre,eae a road post with "Lowell" !man it„. and Mr. Lbr cola was a standin' with a nip in his hand, a isayin' teu the dog ."git, abut," agd there was. epious lonkin' person on tea the pleter,si "it's ambominable!.7.Year father told old Stanohard Atter he seen it that be oat to be sent teu fprt ,werren.- bloat all the ear cora deown south frt these parts bee been sendin' spine pyinners and platers and mar, vel stutters ; but I think they'd 4 good deal, butter send on silk dresses jewlry.'and let the soj ere burnsthe 'tatters and plotara. The pyanners will deu well enough for thu young folks tau peound onteu,4mt the jowl ry an' dresjies Is jest the same as cash. Yonr father says yeou must hurry up en' git the South exterminated as soon as you can, for then we're•comin' deown teu Gen,. -- Amite an' locate, and so is the most of folks abeout here, and pour father wants yeon teu lotbim him know the very-nil:tit flurry's:- -- exterminated and subjugated, so he can gig . deown there abead_o'anybodrese, Retire says don't forget some silk dresses for Lan yeour!brot her Job says if yeou can captors good gold watch an' a diamond pin be-don't wind allowing you a fair second-band „vice for 'em in r petrolyum stock, which hest the president of the company. Exterminate, as many of the gothic randels as yen cast, and captor all the property yeon, eati dad, and don't forzit ten read Yonr.blble 'teddy, Is the wish an' prayer of yeoar affeashesit mother. HANN= Tartaric Oh! P.. ff. I forgot ten tell you that .eation Pardon's darter, Idehltable, Is gobs' ten be married next harvest time fetus col ored man that skewered, hie .libity from bondige in the suthern. climes., by settle lire to hie gothic master's mansbun ,and bundle - up - the founityi - ste airewria" thetr jewiry-an' then rseapin' Oven Massaybusetta, the . :viva a' the pressed colored MAIL Mpg' good-41.n en' pious; thocet /en . Diehltate lopysight him reound ten eour heouse Jollier evanie' ensvialt;.lhe • rooan was pooty warm aa .l he smelt a little Wind, but-hlekltabler-liarr be's fond o' dlae sent, 'eauee . mieser lion that eroto a book absent it, lays its healthy Obi oopßerCedd Staneherd atept in a pliaq spell drier they. went 'out, sad we conliWt beat it out of hie stulibteit lutiAt • that there -was'el a skunk,in 9ul Whit says that air. Stiankey .(ttMit l Ur, colored belify. name) Appeo.,llenalfreY, le. goin' ,co study fur '4,,,,11,4ryir„ '...14100. learnin;,liim Lis I,ttlaw„pli"abeadrlctlkofp!: taw week , a arit aIeIiS ; AAPYII4:4 II OIWeAd Netted rhea lees airke''ttiqb that abomnable Stancher& , eare' ' lea read theta it be•Oa titivi Ina bit:aug , . Iblarahater....— en t —tho Pi 4 • • itirA)olKe s... . !air . 111-71411 4 1111 "I 1 ;gitillilif tkres. ' • ng=l
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