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THE HUNTINGDON GLOBE, A DEMOCRATIC FAMILY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS, &C.
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THE GLOB
Ci'rculati'on—the largest in the county
LEMBLIPIMDOAD.
Wednesday, suly 28, 1858,
ZeOMIPTATiONS.
kat. JOE OF SUPREME COURT,
VN.lni A. POltl Elt s of Philadelphia.
FOR CANAL COAIMISSION,FR,
Wr..STLEY PROST, of Fayette Co.
PRINTING IN DRY COLORS.
Having purchased the right of this
county for printing in Dry Colors, we in
form our friends and enemies that we are
now prepared to accommodate all with the
most beautiful Posters, Bills, Cards, Cir
culars, &c. Call at the "Globe Job Office"
and examine specimens.
Democratic County Convention.
The Democratic voters of the respective townships and
boroughs of Huntingdon county, are requested to meet in
Delegate meeting, at their usual places for the holding of
the Delegate Elections, on Saturday the 7th day of August
next, between the hours of 5 and 7 o'clock P. Sc., opening
the meeting and keeping it open during the whole three,
for the purpose of electing two delegates to represent
them in a Democratic County Convention, to be held at
the Court House, in the borough of Huntingdon, on Wed
nesday, the 11th day of August next, at 1 o'clock P. M., to
place in nomination a Democratic County ticket, and tran
sact such other business as may be thought necessary for
the proper organization of the party.
JOHN N. CIINNLNGHAM, Chairman.
New Advertisements.
XII - Stray Cattle.
AM - Executors' Notice.
- Camp Meeting at Black's Grove.
AM' Camp Meeting at Pleasant Grove.
AM - Largo Copper Kettles at Brown's store.
M - Notice to School Teachers, by J. D. Walsh.
tar J. Weichelbaum, Optician and Oculist, will be hero
during the first week of August Coart.
Afiii - We invite the attention of our readers to the ad
vertisement headed "Farmers, Attention !"
Aar See advertisement of Dr. Sanford's
Liver Invigorator in another column.
giY - See advertisement of Prof. Wood's
Hair Restorative in another column.
Ser The Military of the State are in
trouble—they will read the letter of EDwrf
C. WILSON, Adjutant General, in another
column.
FOR litto.tn TOP ClTY.—Visitors to Broad
Top City will notice, by advertisement in
another column, that a car ♦rill run to that
place on Wednesday and Saturday mornings,
of each week.
Air. The Franklin High School, at 'Martins
burg, Blair county, will open on the first of
October next. COI. JOHN' C. EVERHART has
been elected President of the Board of Direc
tors. -An excellent selection.
Xpir. We understand that the manufacture
of the best quality of Coke has been com
menced at It. HARE POWELL'S mines on Broad
Top. It is pronounced by good judges to be
the very article for foundries, runouts, or
for any purposes coke is used.
CONGRESS.—The Democratic Delegate Con
vention of Somerset has instructed. in favor
of Judge KEMMILL, of that county, for Con
gress. The Democrats of Cambria have in
structed in favor of C. L. PERSEfING, Esq., of
Johnstown. The only other gentlemen we
hear named, for the Democratic nomination,
are JESSE B. CRAWFORD and TLIAD. BANK'S, of
Hollidaysburg,
ANOTHER NEW MILITARY COMPANY.—On
Saturday last a new military company, the
".Montgomery Guards," Ni7as organized at the
mines, on Broad Top, in presence of Gen. B.
C, MAGILL, and elected their officers, EDWARD
M'lltron, Captain. There was sixty-three
able-bodied men signed the constitution and
by-laws r.t, this, the company's first meeting
"ln time of peace prepare for war."
We also learn that the "'Union Guards,"
of Petersburg,. JOSEPH JOHNSTON, Captain,
have received their uniforms and will be out
to-day, in full uniform, fin drill.
The "American Guards," Capt. WArEnn,
of the ancient borengh, are making arrange
ments to appear in full uniform in a short
time.
EMIGRATION' FROM GERMANY.—The English
Consulate, a Leipsic, furnishes the following
figures of the emigration from Germany, du
ring the year 1857:
From Braman
" Hamburg
" Antwerp
fs Nacre, (estimated}
Total.
This was a considerable increase on the
years 1855 and 1856, but still a falling off
from the years 1852, 1853 and 1854. For
the last ten years the figures have been :
1848 81,695 1853.
1849 89,102 1554.
1850 82,404 1855 .
1851 112,547 1 1856.,
185" 162,301 1 1857.
Total
Annual Average
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. -7-A crude idea
may be formed of the magnitude of the Cen
tral Railroad company, by EL glance at a few
figures taken from the last , annual report :
Length of road -
Length of second track laid
" sideling and branches
Shops are located at Philadelphia, Parkes
burg, Columbia; Harrisburg, Mifflin, Altoona,
Conemaugh and Pittsburg, employing up
wards of 2,000 men. Independent of this
number, 2,200 are otherwise directly employ
ed in the company.
Total tons moved on the road for one year
extends considerably over 1,4)00,000 tone.
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Total freight 'receipts $3,376,516 00
From passengers and qber sources 1,470,153 00
Exhibiting a grand total of earnings for ono
year of $4,855,669 00
The receipts are greater per mile than any
other road in the country, the gross receipts
being less only than the New York Central,
which is running over 600 miles of road.
he New Democratic Test---The English
A story is told of a sailor who, while wit
nessing the performances of a juggler, was
blown through the roof of the house by the
explosion of the juggler's combustible mate
rials, and landed unhurt in an adjoining gar
den. Getting up, and rubbing his eyes, think
ing his sudden change of situation was but
one of the juggler's tricks, he exclaimed, ".1 .
wonder what the devil the' fellow will be at
nest!"
So may every Democrat who has been sud
denly thrown out of the Demodratic party by
one or another of the Lecompton explosions,
exclaim, "I wonder what will be done next?"
The first great Democratic test that was
made on the Kansas question was, that " all
who were in favor of a submission of the
Lecompton Constitution to a vote of the peo
ple, and only those, were in the party."
This was the party Democratic "test" up
to the time that John Calhoun - decided that
it should not be submitted to the people.
Then a new test was got up, and all those
who were in favor of submitting it to a vote
of the people, and they only, were out of the
party—no man was to be considered in the
Democratic party who dared to suggest the
propriety of adhering to the former test, and
allowing the people of Kansas in any way to
accept or reject the Lecompton Constitution.
Well, hardly had the party been fairly put
through this full "half wheel" manoeuvre, at
the command of Messrs. Toombs and Ste
phens, and got fairly into line, in the new
front, when 10, and behold ! Mr. English in
troduced a new move, and, presto, the orders
were " quarter wheel back," and a new line
was to be formed, as they say out West, of
"sort" of submission of the Constitution to
the people, and a "sort of not" submission.
This new line, called the "finality," is
now the "test" of Democratic fealty. Such
is the order of Messrs. Toombs and Stephens,
and. all who do not obey are to be executed
without benefit of clergy by all the executive
officers of the General Government. "Can
such things be, and overcome us like a sum
mer cloud, without our special wonder?"—
Yes I this is the doctrine laid down by those
who profess to speak for the Administration
and the Democratic party. This is the doc
trine announced at the Democratic meeting
in Independence Square on the sth of July,
drawn up and written out, as we have heard,
by three of the members of the Cabinet of
Mr. Buchanan, who were in this city just
previous to that day ; and whether written
by them or not, it was, we know, in exact
accordance with their expressions to many
Democrats, and it has never been retracted
by- the Washington Union. And what is
the language thus authentically announced
as the new test of Democracy ? Why, that
"any Democrat desirous of remaining in fel
lowship with_ the party must submit to the
party's irreversible decision, (on the Kansas
question,) and to accept it as a finality."—
This is the new "test"=the "English finality"
—and all Who do not bow obsequiously to i
this cannot remain in fellowship with the
party. And for what reason is it that the
Democratic party is' to adopt this new drill,
this backward "English quarter wheel," as
the test of Democracy ? We are told by
these same Cabinet ministers, speaking thro'
the resolutions read in Independence Square,
"that, inasmuch as the terms and modes of
settlement (the English finality) have been
assumed and endorsed by a Democratic Presi
dent and Cabinet; by a Democratic Senate,
on a strict party vote, (not true) ; by a Demo
cratic House, with scarce half a dozen Demo
cratic votes in the negative ; and by. the
strong utterance of the party organizations
in almost every State in the Union ; and is
in conformity with the principles of the
Democratic party."
Such is the new test, and such the reason
gives for its adciption.
Now let us look this `:finality" right in the
face and see what it is, and what it is likely to
be in future. It is an agreement on the part
of the United States that there are people
enough in the Territory of Kansas to entitle it
to be accepted as a State in the Union,lf the
people there will agree to accept the Le
compton. Constitution, making it a slave State;
but if they will not accept this Constitution
they cannot be admitted under any other until
some future indefinite period of time, when
the Territory shall be peopled by another
and largely increased class of citizens.—
This is the finality. Now suppose the pre
sent people of Kansas choose to reject this
finality—this Lecompton Constitution, be;
cause of its slavery provisions, and immedi
ately thereafter, through and by the same
process that this Lecompton Constitution
was made, make another ConStitution—the
same, if you please, with the slavery provi
sions left out—which Constitution shall be
submitted to and approved by a large major
ity (three or five to one) of the bona fide cit
izens of the Territory, and shall present this
Constitution at the next session of Congress
or to the next Congress, with their applica
tion to be received into the Union as a State
under it—what then? Will not the accept
ance of the "finality" close the doors of Con
gress against their application ? and what
will be the reasons given by the "finality"
for rejecting or refusing their application?—
Not that there are not people enough in Kan
sas to entitle it to admission—that would be
absurd after they had all voted that it should
come into the Union with its present or a less
population. Not that their claims for land
were extravagant—for the same claims may
... 42,448
-. 31,556
... 13,150
... 24,825
...118,990
162,568
203,537
.84,761
88,983
118,990
.1,187,058
118,706
355 miles
268 "
58 "
t' Finality."
be in the new Constitution that were in
the ordinance attached to Lecompton, and of
fered by the "finalities." What, then, will
be the reasons assigned for their refusal to
admit it? Will they say it is because the
people of the Territory have approved of the
new Constitution by their votes at the polls,
and that this is contrary to " the principles of
the Democratic party," and is not,"republi
can ?" Or will they say that, inasmuch as
the provisions authorizing slavery in the Le
compton Constitution are not in the new one,.
it is therefore not Democratic, nor republican,
and consequently cannot be admitted?
On - which of these two grounds of refusal
will the.finalities go before the people of the
United States in the next Presidental elec
tion, or the election now going on for mem
bers of the next Congress ? That the people
of the Territory voting for and against the
adoption of the Constitution is anti-Demo
cratic or anti-republican ? or that the rejec
tion of slavery is anti-Democratic or anti-re
publican ? One or the other, or both, are the
only reasons that can be given for the refusal
to admit Kansas into the Union, should she
ask admission at the next session of Congress,
or of the next Congress ; and whether such'
be the reasons given or not, they will be
forced upon the " finality Democratic party"
whenever it shall present itself before the
people for 'their votes. 'What the result of
such issues throughout the whole non-slave
holding States will - be needs no prophet to
foresee or foretell.
This is our view of the future of the
" finality." Will the Democrats of the non
slaveholding States sit down quietly and suf
fer the "finality" to thus prostrate them to
the earth for . at its authors or acceptors
say, in these same resolutions in Indepen
dence Square, "is a really unimpori,ant sub
ject?" or will they not rather rise above the
whole of these miserable contrivances to ig
nore the great principles of the Democratic
party that were so signally triumphant in the
elections of General Pierce and James Bu
chanan, and re-assert them as those of the
party now and hereafter? These, and these
only—the time-honored and time-approved
principles of the party—the equality of the
non-slaveholding And slaveholding States, and
the great and fundamental doctrine of "Po
pular Sovereignty"—these, then, aregthe gods
of Democracy—the only true testsrof the
Democratic faith.
Tried by those tests the English finality
cannot be accepted by any true Democrat, and
least of all by any one who desires the suc
cess of his party. •On the contrary, it will
be repudiated by them all as an incubus upon
it, paralyzing its powers, which it ®§ their
duty to the party to shake off as soon as pos-•
sible. But it May be asked, how is it to be
shaken off? Easily. By electing members
of Congress who will do justice to Kansas- -='
who will admit her into the Union as soon as
she requests it and presents a Constitution
approved by her people. - This the 'English
finality refuses—this the Democracy must do
or it will not only be defeated, but disgraced
and destroyed. It will not do to say " the
Kansas question •is settled," and that those
who deny this are agitators, enemies of the
Democratic party, and allies of the " Black
Republicans." Thequestion of popular sove
reignty, though partially strangled by the
English finality, is not dead—it only sleep
eth—and gathering strength from the at
tempts to strangle it, will soon again be the
great question before Congress and the coma,
try. If the Democratic party be true to itself
and act wisely, it will be bound by no finality
that does not fully and freely acknowledge
this great principle by admitting Kansas as
soon as she presents an approved Constitu
tion, and asks admission. This will be doing
justice to Kansas, and justice to the princi
ples of the Democratic party, and will settle
the Kansas question as it only can be settled.
Is the question settled ? We say not, and
the future will prove it is not. Shall it be
settled speedily—before the next Presidential
election ? We say yes ! and point out the way_
to do it. Who, then, are the agitators 2--
, Those who keep Kansas out of the Union ?
or those who would bring her in ? • Is the
slavery question settled? We say , not, if
Kansas shall be refused admittance with a
non-slaveholding Constitution, if she made.
one, after having been offered admittance
with a. slaveholding one. Can it be settled?
We say yes ! by the admission of Kansas
with a free Constitution, if she make one, on
the same terms it was offered to her under a
slave Constitution.
Why, then, cannot the Administration, or
whoever manages the Lecompton-English
finality lines of the Democratic party, order
another move in the same direction of the
English men—another "quarter wheel back?"
This will bring the whole party in the same
line.—in the line occupied by the present Ad
ministration when it came into power—the
line of the Cincinnati platform—the line of
true Democracy. This will unite • the party,
and will go far to insure its future success.—
It will settle the Kansas and slavery question
by the admission of Kansas on fair conditions .
—it will establish forever the right of the
people of the Territories to govern them
selves. - •
On these conditons we are ready to let the
dead bury their dead—to let bygones be by
gones—to drop all tests but that of fidelity
in the future to these great principles. This
is our "finality."—The Press.
Vie-Fanners will read advertisement head
ed " Farmers attention ! The best article in
the world for raising Wheat is LEINAG'S Su
per Phosphate of Lime."
(g Professionalizing Educators."
NEWSPAPERS AS EDUCATORS DP THE PEOPLE.
—Wherever human society requires an agency
to serve its great ends and pukposes; there
creative genius supplies the demands. of ne-__
cessity and leaves the machinery to be regu
lated by society itself. So it has been in
commerce, in engineering, and in education.
Thus it has been with the 'art of printing
and the general diffusion of knowledge.—
This power of necessity is as mandatory if
not as positive in its results, as a law of na
ture. No sooner did civilization require a
general distribution of learning, than did the
power of letters begin to record the thoughts,
feelings, discoveries, and actions of men.--
Slowly and faintly, at first, was the process
carried on, 'but creative genius improves on
herself, and keeps-pace with all the develop
ments of our race. These messengers sentout
by the printing press are the natural vehicles
of thought, subject to theregulatiot of soci
ety itself, and as much the property of it, as
the air we breathe, the shower, and the sun
shine. The benefits arising from this means
of intercommunication will depend upon the
fidelity of those agents that society employs.
These processes for distributing knowledge
belong to the whole race of man ; and they
have a more extensive application than any
other agency whatever. All that is valuable
in science, religion and law,—all the inci
dents of history, the advancement of arts
and civilization—all the developments of ge
nius seek this medium of communication.—
A great and good man dies—a nation is
born to inherit the principles of liberty—"
pestilence sweeps over the land"—or earth
quakes shock it ; and these messengers bear
the news to the hovel and to the hall—to the
cottage anti. to the cot. From poetry up to
eloquence, every form of composition that
can give birth to genius, or add lustre to let
ters, enter this means of communication to
throw a restraining grace over the actions of
men. Neither does the mission of this agency
end here. So universal, and so powerful is
it, that it is the very watchtower of human
liberty. From it, we observe the grenadier
running at the sound of .tho tocsin to main
tain his civic rights—the engineer laying the
boundaries of commonwealths—the learned
civilian dictating terms of equity and justice
—the hand of industry compelling the earth
to yield up its treasures, and the minister
teaching the people how to live and how to
die. This all-shaping, all-controlling hand
of human energy must be the educator -of
public opinion. In its true mission it will
" protect the rights of individuals against
the oppression of tyrants upon the one hand,
and a more powerful tyranny of a perverted
public opinion upon the other."
But alas! hoW often do the devotees of
learning, of law and of morals, fail to leave
unsullied the track of their exalted mission!!
Nay, worse. How often is the mission itself
appropriated, and consigned to . the worst of
purposes. As educators of the people our
newspapers speak for themselves. Bearing
their high office with the dignity of heraldry,
they are the most welcome visitors at every
fireside.
But when we turn our attention to that
portion of the press, devoted to clubs and
combinations of men,—God in Heaven ! what
a phantasmagoria of wrong and licentious-.
ness, of imbecility and wickedness,—of un
chaste and scurrilous creations,—of naked
heroes and witless scriblers, does the reality
present! Indeed, when we look at it, what
a motley mass of political poltroons—of ill
bred aspirants itching for notoriety—of im
moral scape-goats croaking about morality;
in fine, what a libel upon civilization itself,
does this wicked legion present ! And above
all, what means do we often observe employ
ed to accomplish the worst of purposes. Ob
serve what willing tools to cliques and com
binations of irresponsible men these messen
gers of society often become. Plots are laid,
schemes formed, miscreants are marshaled
and lies are published, repeated and affirmed
a thousand times in evidence I No sooner is
the attack made than every whelp in the club
hurries to yelp •around the curish contest.—
The better thinking people grow sick and
tired of 'such inhuman categories; but vitia
ted tastes enough can always be found to
uphold and applaud such scoundrelism.—
" However perverse the undertakings of some
men, others can always be found weak and
wicked enough to form a counterpart in the
design." This is the intelligence spread by
this class of educators. Every trick that a
depraved ingenuity can invent, every false
hood that treachery and deception can pro
vide, is published and palmed off to deceive
and delude the simple and credulous. "Those
who poison wells generally do so by stealth
and at midnight ;" but these miscreants spend
their small poison in the most public manner
and then raise a complaicent cry over the
ruin they have wrought. They raise the de
ceptive cry of "Poor people," " Tax-payers,"
" Injured people," or some other hypocritical
chant as the chorus, and burden of their bar
rangues. - [To be continued.]
,A TOAST WORTH READING.-At a dinner
given by the military of Richmond to the
military of New York, at the recent re-inter
ing of President Monroe's remains, the fol
lowing toast was drank :
Woman—The joy and torment of man's
life—the Alpha and Omega of his•existence
—the main spring of all his actions—the-ty
rant from whom there is no appeal, whose
slightest caprice is law, whose subjects are
slaves, yet whose thraldom we desire to last
forever.
ALBERT OWEN.
Young Men's Teniperance Association,
at Unity.
[For the Huntingdon Globe.]
Ma. LEWIS :—Permit me, through your pa ,
;
per; to tall the attention of your young read
ers to a certain organization, some five miles
from Huntingdon, which has been established
and is controlled entirely by young men. It
is styled the "Young Men's Temperance As
sociation, of Unity." Its meetings are held
in the Unity (Presbyterian) Church. Being
present at the meeting of this association on
Saturday evening, 17th inst., I was highly
delighted in witnessing the zeal and interest
manifested by those young volunteers in the
noble cause of Temperance—a cause, which,
elsewhere, seems either to lie dormant, or to
be entirely abandoned. These young men
are directing their expanding energies in a
channel of usefulness, and if they persevere,
will undoubtedly establish for themselves a
high standard of moral character, which will
tell favorably on the community around them,
and which, in subsequent life, shall be of
more value to them than thousands of gold
and silver. It is now more than a year since
they formed this association. During this
time they have encountered and surmounted
many difficulties, yet their zeal is unabated,
and their numbers steadily increasing. The
young ladies, too, forget not to lend the weight
of their influence to this laudable enterprise.
This shows that they are alive to the interests
of their own sex. For what have not they at
stake? and where is there a more appropriate
field for the exercise of female influence, one
in which may be secured so many mutual
advantages?
A Temperance celebration is contemplated
by this Society, to be held sometime in Au
gust. May your young readers, under whose
notice this article may come, consider the
mighty influence which they may wield for
good, and then, "go and do likewise."
Huntingdon, July 22, '5B. VISITOR.
Fasliions---Now and Then.
An old gentleman furnishes the Philadel
phia Evening Bulletin with the following in
teresting reminiscences of fashion :
"In 1795 the ladies each wore a single
hoop, which was as large as the lower one
now worn. The hoop was worn as high as
the hips, and below it depended a train,
often five or six yards long, that was carried
by waiting-maids or boys. The old gentle
man recollects seeing Mrs. Robert Morris
walk along Broadway, New York, in com
pany with Aaron Burr, while her train was
borne by six French mustee women, richly
dressed, and with turbans on their heads.—
The women all wore stays, and shoes with
heels two or three inches high—immense
silver buckles being on the shoes. Silk
dresses were not then common, and muslin
ones worn were admired according to the
size of the flowers on them--roses as large
as one's hat being•considered most elegant
and tasteful. At that time, enormous head. ,
dresses were worn, towering far above the
head of the wearer. The head-gear for the
street was a sort of cap, which was placed
upon the top of the head-dress, with a cur
tain of cope at the sides and back, which
hung down to the shoulders."
A Better Time.
The Boston Transcript says : "There can
be little doubt that those who have bravely
withstood the gale without lowering their
colors, will shortly see better times and
brighter skies. The stagnation existing for
the last ten months, in its depressing effects,
has prevented production in the great sources
of wealth until recently. As a consequence,
consumption never stopping, a market has
been gradually forming. `lt is an ill-wind
that blows nobody any good.' The wrecks
that dot the ocean of trade are so many bea
cons of safety to after adventurers, not only
in the advantages afforded by example, but
from the fact that the pecuniary destruction
of every individual carried down by the vor
tex, decreases the disagreeable riValship of
trade. With the enlarged home demand,
the diminution of the means of supply, and
the easy terms upon which capital can be ob
tained, why should not the coming season be
one of profit to large classes of traders, and
to many descriptions of manufacturers ?"
LOVE IN TIIE CAns.—One of the employees
on the Pennsylvania Railroad informs us of
a singular adventure which occurred on the
passenger train of cars coming into this
place on Saturday evening last. In one of
the cars a young gentleman 'was seated, ap
parently deeply occupied in reading a book
he held in his hand, until he got to Lancas
ter. At that 'place a very handsome young ,
lady entered the cars, and took a seat oppo
site to him. Before she had been long in
the train, the eyes of both met, and they re
cognized one another as old acquaintances
when young, having been separated by their
parents moving apart—those of one to the
West, and of the other to Philadelphia.—
The two soon became enwrapt in earnest
conversation, fell ardently in love with one
another, and by the time they arrived in our
borough, had resolved to be united as man
and wife and travel on their journey to the
lady's home together. Accordingly when
the train arrived hero, they took lodgings at
a hotel, sent for a minister, and were united
in the bonds of connubial bliss, and taking
the next train, were off on their bridal tour.
Our informant says he is acquainted with
the parties, and that they both occupy high
positions in society.—Harrisburg Herald.
JEWS AND THE SAVIOR.—The London Re
cord says It has become a fashionable
practice with modern Judaism to disown, and
that in the strongest terms, all feeling of _hos
tility to the Christain religion. A letter re
cently appeared in one of the daily papers,
in which the writer,_a Jew, protests against
the common belief that Jews must necessari
ly be the opponents of Christianity. Re
maintains that, so far from this being the
case, the Jews are enjoined by their most
venerated authorities highly to reverence the
work of Jesus Christ, who, was one of the
greatest agents employed by God in prepar
ing the way for the coming of the true- Mes
siah !
fter'One of the most estimable citizens of
Spencer, Mass., Erastus Sanderson, was in
stantly killed on Wednesday last, while at
work - in his mill, by the bursting of the main
drum. • •
To the "Voltinteets of Pennsylvania.
ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Harrisburg, July 22, 1858.
I have received many letters m aking.inqui
ries as to the payment of Volunteers visiting
the Encampment ordered at Williamsport,
September 7, 1858, and it- being impossible
to asvrer all of these communications, I deem
it proper to make this public reply.
The 6th article, sections 1 and 2 of the
Constitution of our Coinnionwealth, requires
its "freemen to be armed and disciplined for
its defence," and in obedience to that injac
tion, our Legislatures froia time to time,
have passed laws regulating the - Militia, the
last law bearing' date April 2t, 1858.
Our Militia System,. for meaty causes, has
failed heretofore to llCtlairrplish the purpose,
at least of discipline. The law of last win
ter was passed with especial reference-ter that
design, and as an inducement to our able
bodied citizens,-farmers, mechanics and la
borers—to form themselves
,into companies
uniformed and equipped in a proper man
ner, provided 'npayment to them of one dol
lar and fifty cents per day, (not to exceed six
days) as some equivalent for the time con
sumed in schooling themselves in military
tactics. The Legislatures wisely provided
for the proper payment of these and other
military expenses, by authorizing and requir
ir°r a military tax to be assessed and collect
ed throughout the State, and appropriated
especially to the military fond, sa much
thereof as should be necessary to be used for
military purposes, and directed the surplus.
left to be paid into the State Treasury. No•
other fund can be touched for -the payment
of the volunteer militia but this one ; and the.
surplus, after it reaches the Treasury, can
not be touched for the payment of any Divi
sion or Brigade military expenses. The'
State Treasury is relieved from any burden
or liability in these matters.
Every county in the State is constituted a.
Brigade, and the militia tax raised in each
is applied to the 'payment of its military ex
pense; and if the military taxes paid are
less than the expenses, the volunteers of that
Brigade must then remain unpaid to that
amount. There is established in every bri
gade a Board of Auditors, composed of mili
tary men, who are required to audit the mil
itary expenses-of their respective brigades,
and are authorized to draw an order on the
County Treasurer for such as shall meet their
approbation, to be paid out of the military
fund, if any, in the Treasurer's hands.
Military companies attending Camp "Sus
quehanna" in September next, are entitled
to daily pay for their attendance, which will
be paid out of the military fund of the bri
gade to which they respectively belong, brit
should there be no fund in the particular bri
gade to pay the same, then the companies.
will remain unpaid, but if the collectors a-re
faithful in their dtltie , .4, each brigade will
have a fund more than sufficient for this and
their ordinary expenses.
The rules and regulations from my office
are now in the hands of the State Printer,
and will soon be ready for publication. I
make the following extract from them, its ap
plicable to the present subject, viz :
31 ILITA RY EXPENSES
" The military fund in the State Treasury
is responsible for no military expenses except
those of the Adjutant General, General Staff,
military storekeepers, repairs of arsenal and
repairs of arms, &c.
If the military fund in any county is not
sufficient for the payment of the expenses of
the brigade, the county treasurer will make
a pro rata division among the sevcrat claim
ants.
No officer whatever, in any division or bri
gade, has any authority to make expenses
which shall in, any event be chargeable to
the State.
The c,ounty treasurers will be careful and
observe the law, in making payments, and
are directed—
1. To pay no military expenses unless on
the order of the Board of Auditors, as direct
ed by act of Assembly of April 21, 1858.
2. The salaries of 'Brigade Inspectors will
not be paid until the close of the military
year, being the last day in December in each
year; if paid before,,and the said Inspectors
have not made their proper returns to this of
fice, the treasurers do so at their own risk.—
The law requires this salary not to be paid
until notice is given to treasui ers by the Ad
jutant general.
The Brigade Board of Auditors will ob
serve a proper economy in the expenses of
their brigade, and pass no bills that are in
any way exorbitant.
All military officers are enjoined to take
especial care that the proper assessments are
made, and all the military taxes collected.
All collectors and treasurers will be held
to a strict account, under the law in rela
tion to the collection of military fines and
taxes."
The Encampment at Williamsport will be
large and respectable, and it is desired by
this department that as many, companies as
possible be punctually in attendance at that
time. It is a "Camp of Instruction," and
many able military men from this and other
States will he there to impart instruction and
give to the volunteers assembled the benefit
of their knoWledge and experience.
However much we may regret their ab
sence, yet those who cannot bear the addi
tional expense are not expected to be ,in
camp—but all who can do so conveniently
should have military pride enough to' attend
promptly where duty calls them.
A sufficient number of excellent tents will
be provided for the accommodation of all,
and ;the Quartermaster General will assign
quarters .to all companies immediately on
their arrival in camp.
In closing this communication, lam pleased
to state that the Commonwealth is likely to
receive a handsome surplus from the military
fund, which will find its way into the sink
ing fund, and assist in paying the debt that
hangs so heavily on our people.
Respectfully, EDWIN C. WILSON,
Adjutant General.
MARYLAND SLAVERY TROUBLE.—Since the
demonstrations made by anti-slavery friends
of Jas. L. Bowers, the pro-slavery residents
of Kent Co., Md., have held a meeting, as
we learn from. the Baltimore American; at
which they request all anti-slavery people to
leave the country, and also :
"That in such
a 'contest there can be no neutrality; he that
is not for us must be regarded as against us,
and \VG therefore deem it proper—and we
pledge ourselves accordingly—not to traffic or
deal with any man in the country, who will
not openly and plainly, without limitation
or mortification, express his detestation of
everything like a tampering with our slaves,
assist or induce them to abscond, nor with
any one who shall express a desire or wil
lingness to see violence committed on those
who asist in causing such' offenders to leave
the country."