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HUNTINGDON, PA
Friday, November 21, 1862.
•
c 4. 0000?000
NOTICE.
We have not the time nor the incli
pation, to dun personally, a large num
ber of persons who have unsettled ac
counts upon our books of several years
; standing. We shall, therefore, from
,lay to day, without respect to persons,
Ottee into the hands of a Justice for
collection, all accounts of over two
sears standing. All those who wish
do save expense, will do well to give
us a call.
Thanksgiving Day in Pennsylvania.
Ilmousuuno, Oct. 21.--The Governor
has issued the following proclamation :
In the name and by the authority
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylva
nia, Andrew G. Curtin, Governor of
the said Commonwealth.
A PROCLAMATION.
'WnEttlus, It is a good thing to ren
der thanks unto God for all his mercy
aMd• loving kindness ; therefore,
I, Andrew G. Curtin, Governor of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
do recommend that Thursday, tho 27th
day of November next, be set apart
by the people of this Commonwealth
as a day ofsolemn Prayer and Thanks
giving to the Almighty—givingilim
humble thanks that he has been gra
ciously pleased to protect our free in
stitutions and Government, and to
keep us from sickness and pestilence—
and to cause the earth to bring forth
her increase, so that our garners are
-choked With the harvest—and to look
-so favorably on-the toil of His child
ren, that industry has thriven among
us, and labor has its reward; and also
- that He has delivered us from the
hands of our enemies, and filled our
Mfieers and men in the field with a
loyal and intrepid spirit, and given
.them victory—and that he has poured
, ont - upon us (albeit unworthy) other
great and manifold blessings.
Beseeching Him to help and govern
us in his steadfast fear and love, and
to put into our minds good desires, so
; that by his continual hblp we may
'have a right judgment in all thins;
and especially, praying him to give to
,Christian Churches grace to hate the
thing which is evil, and to utter the
teachings of truth and righteousness.
declaring openly the whole counsel of
God; and most heartily entreating
Him to bestow 'upon our civil rulers
NVisdom, and earnestness, and counsel,
and upon 'Mir military leaders zeal and
vigor in action, that the fires of rebel
lion may be quenched—that we, being
:trilled with his defence, may be pre
served from all perils, and that here
after our people, living in peace and
,quietness, may, from generation to
generation, reap the abundant fruits of
His mercy, and with joy and thank
fulness praise and magnify His 'holy
name.
Gjvcri under my hand and the great
seal of the ta,t.e . , at Ilarrisburg, this
twentieth slay of October, in the
yetis• of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred apd sixty-two, and of the
Pommomealth, the eighty-seventh.
ANDREW G. CURTIN.
By the G,OyellaW%
ELI SLIFER, See 'y of Commonwealth
The Horse Contracts.
Some three or four weeks ago, an
,cditoria l Lartiele appeared in the Mold
t4ir defending the rascality of the 'Horse
Speculations in this place. The article
*as'eertainly prepared by one of the
contractors, as no other individual
would dare to defendtbe swindling of
the Government as was practiced in
this neighborhood. But the editors of
that paper, by admitting tho article as
. editorial, were just as guilty of an at
tempt to' deceive the people as the
.writer of the article was. Tho truth
i;i; the office is under the control Of the
inert who Were the most
,prominent in
tho, iorse speculations. Their means
and influence brought the paper into
existence, and of course it must be
subservient to their will.
As the people have a right to know
who have had a hand in, swindling the
Government, we publish the following
Report of R. JONES 4ajor United
States Army, Assistant Inspector Gen
.
oral :
REPORT
To Brigadier General L. Tnini4*, Ad
jutant General United States Army,
Washington, D. C.
FAsnirroxo*, D. C., Dee. 18, 1861.
General:—llaving completed the
duty assigned 'to me in special orders
No. 318, headquarters of the army, 4a
ted the 2d instant, I have the honor to
submit the followin i gsireport of the abu
ses alleged to have been comniitted in
.the purchase of horses atlintitingdon,
Pennsylvania.
It appears that on the-19th of Sep
tember ultimo the quartermaster-gene
ral, by direction of the Secretigy 'of
War, gave to Messrs. Lupfer & Sohth
ers each an order to furnish five Om
'dred cavalry horses, deliverable at
,Uttntingpr. within thirty days, 'for a
WILLIATt LEWIS, Editor and Proprietor.
VOL, XVIII,
regiment which I presume it was de
signed to raise at that place, the name
of the colonel of which being at that
time unknown, and still remains so, no
steps having been taken, as far as I
could learn, to raise the regiment, ei
ther at the time or since,
It was stipulated in the order of the
quartermaster general that the horses
should be inspected by a board of reg
imental officers, but the regiment not
being organized when some of the hor
ses were ready for delivery, it became
necessary to provide other inspectors,
and Captain E. C. Wilson, assistant
quartermaster of volunteers, stationed
at Harrisburg, was directed by the
quartermaster general to have them
inspected.
This officer, charged with similar
duties at the same time at both Har
risburg and Chambersburg, employed
Mr. P. Miller to inspect the horses at
Huntingdon. Of the faithfulness with
which this inspector discharged his du
ties some idea, and probably not an in
correct one, may be formed from the
fact that be accepted but twenty-fom
ent of about seventy horses presented
by the contractors. The latter, seeing
that he was determined to do his duty,
refused to present any more, and he
fore the inspection was resumed Capt.
Wilson superseded Mr. Miller, so he
states in his report to me, herewith
enclosed, on account of his violent tem
per and quarrelsome disposition, and
selected General J. Y. James, com
manding the camp at Huntingdon, to
carry on the inspection. Gun. James
called to his assistance Messrs. John S.
Miller, of Huntingdon, and Abraham
Lewis, of Mount Union. As far as
could be ascertained, the horses passed
by these two inspectors, numbering
about three hundred, and accepted by
General James, were generally sound,
though many of them were unfit for
cavalry purposes.
General James becoming sick, Mr.
Shubaher was appointed by Captain
Wilson to continuo the inspection, and
I found that the allegations of D. Mc-
Murtrie, J. S. Griffith, and other citi
zens of Huntingdon, referred mainly
to the horses passed by him. It was
currently reported in Huntingdon that
Shubaher had boasted, while in a state
of intoxication at Harrisburg, of hav
ing received $2,000, more or less, for
accepting unsound horses; but this re
port could not be traced to any authen
tic source, though I learned that one
of the sub-contractors, Mr. 'William
Colon, of Huntingdon, stated as a rea
son for withholding money duo his
partner, or associate, Mr. John Porter,
of Alexandria, which is a small village
near Huntingdon, that he had kept it
to pay the inspector, Shubaher, for
passing his horses.
These reports, in, connexion with
the evidence furnished by Inspector
Shubaher himself of his own dishones
ty or incompetency, probably both,
viz: the horses accepted by him, fur
nished abundant evidence of the deter
mination of the contractors, or at least
of one of them, to make as much out
of their contracts as possible, regard
less of the means used to attain their
object.
I carefully inspected nearly every
horse, and Ibund less than two hund
red fit for the cavalry service, and about
ono hundred good work horses, and
one hundred and fifty indifferent ones,
and thirty-AN-6 mares in foal, the .total
number of mares boinr , one hundred
and sixty-four. Of the balance ono
hundred and twenty were over age,
ranging from nine to twenty-two years,
eighty-six under age, being two and
'three-year-old colts, sixty under the
standard height, most of them being
ponies, six partially and two entirely
blind, three with the heaves, and two
with the poll-evil. Of the remainder,
one hundred and thirty, more or less,
about thirty artillery, horses might bo
I selected, and the rest are affected with
various blemishes, sonic being ring-
I boned, sonic spavined, some curbed,
some lame, and evidently permanently
SO.
Many blemises among those which
should have been rejected for other
causes also exist. I also found the
distemper among the horsq.2, and as
certained with absolute certainty that
large numbers of diem had it when
purchased, one having died with it
the day after he was received, another
six days afterwards, and since then
others have dlid with it. They are
now, however, generally on the mend,
but it probably will attack all that
have hitherto escaped.
In regard to keeping the horses, I
found that Captain Wilson contracted
with two parties, responsible citizens
of Huntingdon, Huntingdon county, to
keep them at 39 cents per day per
horse, and that the contractors gave
them out to the farmers in Huntingdon
and Blair counties, Who received on 4n
average 25 cents per clay per horse.—
There is no good reason why the gov
ernment should not contract directly
with the farmers for the keeping of the
horses, though there may have boon
at the time it became necessary to pro
vide for them, and Captain Wilson has
initiated steps for having them kept
directly .by the farmers.
In concluding this report I would
remark that there are many horses
among them that can bo of no service,
aiid which it would be econemical to
dispose of. Lpointed them out to
Captain Wilson's agent, who accompa
nied me in my inspection of the horses.
The farmers in Huntingdon and Blair
counties would doubtless be willing to
exchange work horses for the mares
in foal, and, under the circumstances,
it appears to be the interest of the gov
ernment to effect the excliage.
To convey some idea of th`d profits
of the contractors, I would' state that
one of the ben' hoi.ses was sold to them
for 880, and I coiad 'heal? Of hoilq"cor
which over $95 had been giveiCwhile
a very large number of them must
have been bought for prices ranging
from $3O to soo—and many of them
would have been high at $3O, being, in
fact, absolutely worthless for all Gov
ernment purposes. I feel safe in say
ing that the average cost of these hor
ses to the contractors could not have
exceeded $75 per head, and that it' they
were sold to-morrow, and they are now
in much better order than when pur
chased, the government would not re
alize within $50,000 of what it has
paid for them.
The Letter of the quartermaster gen
eral, together with that of the citizens
of Huntingdon to him, bringing these
abuses to his notice, aro respectfully
returned herewith.
I remain, general, very respectfully,
your obedient servant,
It. JONES,
.Jfajor United States Army, Assistant
Inspector General.
Quartermaster General's Office,
Washington City, Nov. 14, 1861.
General:—l respectfully rofer the
enclosed letter, making certain charges
in regard to alleged abuses in purchas
ing horses now at Huntingdon, Penn
sylania, to you, and request that the
inspector general, or an assistant in
spector, be directed to proceed to Har
risburg and Huntingdon, and report
upon the diets.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
31. C. 31E1GS,
Quartermaster General.
Major General George B. McClellan,
Commander, &e., U. S. A., Washing
ton, D. C
Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, 1
November 2, 1861. f
Dear Sir:—We, the citizens of this
county, make the following statement :
_Five hundred horses have been in
spected and branded in our town for
the "United States." It is said the
number is to be increased to one thous
and. For what imaginable use here
no man knows. A detail of who were
the inspectors, (for there were several,)
and on whose eontraet, is of no avail.
We will give only the result of the op
eration.
First, Among the horses arc those
that have nearly every disease and un
soundness that injures horse-flesh.—
Some are blind, some spavined, some
ring -boned, some with the curb, some
broken-winded, one certainly with the
poll-evil; some 60;01d as to be Utterly
WORIIICSS; many were colts, unable to
endure service; some under the stan
dard size; scores of gray mid white
ones, and mares witliqu!, Nita; sonic
bought at prices which prove that buy
cc and seller considered them of small
value. There are horses among them
absolutely worth nothing.
Second, These horses arc all put out
on a contract to keep at the rate of
about forty cents a day—nearly twice
the sum at which it could have been
done had there been any chance for
competition. It would be simple econ
omy if the government would detail
some honest inspector to come here
and select the bad ones and give them
away, or Lave then?. slip t. The money
paid for them is, or will be, thrown
away, and every dollar paid to keep
them but increases the loss.
This bold, bald ,inflimy excites uni
versal censure. Corruption so appa
rent deals a blow as fatal as treason
itself at the life of our country. The
virtuous almost doubt whether a gov
ernment so beset by the base and un
principled, and so used by the knavery
and cupidity of the vile, is worth pre
serving. Patriotism is sorely tried,
because those who coldly support this
war have such occasion to talk truly
of the corruptions which disgrace its
conduct.
Our country is in a - trial, and sur
rounded by imminent peril. The hon
est and Nadal citizen, who has not
gone to the field to defend the govern
ment with his life, must aid in every
service where his hands can help.—
Duty demands that we expose and
strike this monstrous evil. We can do
so only with effect by laying the facts
before the official guardians of its wel
fare, and aoc:ing investigation and a
remedy.
If our complaint stays the mistddef
b,efore it goes further we shall be glad,
and we earnestly trust that we are not
even too late to cure some of the wrong
already committed. If wo fail, we
have done our duty.
In the name of a bleeding and suffer
ing country, we appeal to the proper
department for prompt relief from such
unmitigated disgrace as has Willem us.
We are, with great respect, yrs., &c.
J. S. GRIFFITII, A. W. BLICF.DICT,
JAMES WM. P. ORIIISON,
WM. AFRICA, JOHN MCCULLOCLI,
GEO. W. GARRVISON, W3l. DORRIS, jr.,
G. W. Zorsismi, JortN F. MILLER,
HENRY GLAZIER, _ THOMAS FISHER,
JOlll , l FLENNER,
CHRISTIAN COLSTOCK, JOHN WHITTAKER,
joNA THAN lI.'DORSEV, D. MCMURTRIE,
Jong C. WATSOY, FRB. R. WALLACE.
General M. C. Mmus, Quartermaster-
General, U. S. Army.
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HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1862.
W3I. LEWIS,
-PERSEVERE.-
" The Overthrow of the Adminis-
tration."
What do the enemies of he coun
try hope to gain by organising an op
position against the Government?—
Even supposing them a majority in
Congress and in the Legislatures of
the Northern States, what can they
do to aid the Union or suppress the re
bellion, committed as they are to com
promise conciliation, separation, and a
dishonorable peace? "We belong to
the Opposition," Mr. Van Buren said,
substantially, in his last speech, " and
we intend to oppose the Administra
tion. It is not fbr ns to have a poli
cy. That is the duty of the Adminis
tration, and we have only to oppose
it in a fair and honorable way." Mr.
Charles Ingersoll presented the same
argument when he declared his pur
pose to be the " overthrow of the Ad
ministration," but not " the overthrow
of the Government." Mr. Fernando
Wood is more violent, for lie purposes
to send sonic Cromwell into the Capi
tol to disperse Congress and to compel
Mr. Lincoln to adopt his " sword and
olive-branch " policy. In plain words,
Mr. Van Buren, who is mill, merely
wishes the Government to be over
thrown by the ballot, while Mr. Wood,
who is extreme and violent, would use
the sabre and bullet. These two opin
ions link together the odds and ends
of the Opposition party, and comprise
every opinion represented in its ranks.
They differ as to the acrimony and ex
tent of their enmity to the cause, but
upon one point they all agree, and
that is, that the Administration must be
overthrown.
Let us suppose a calamity, which
the goodness of God can never permit
—the overthrow of the Administra
tion. What is to come after? Crom
well has driven the Senators and Rep
resentatives from their chambers, and
soldiers with fixed bayonets have pur
sued them through the grounds, under
the shadow of the classical figure of
Wasffington, that looks with the eye
of Jupiter into the everlasting air, and
down the rugged and steep slope that
leads from Capitol Hill. In order to
leave no blotches in the work, 'Crom
well has taken the President and sent
him under a guard to the Old Capitol
Prison, having released the traitors
there confined as erring and wayward
brothers, whose incarceration is no
longer necessary. Of course, means
would be att.emnte4to establish-Crom
well's power in the - Northern cities.—
In Philadelphia we should have a mil
itary Governor, Mr. llughes. perhaps,
with Mr. Reed as t Provost Marshal
—a position for which his long experi
ence as a criminal prosecuting attor
ney would abundantly fit him. If
Robert Tyler could be obtained from
Richmond, ho would be more accepta
ble, and perhaps Mr. Davis would
gladly get rid of our late fellow-citizen
as an unprofitable burden upon his
treasury. Cromwell would certainly
avail himself of the great experience
of the venerable ex-President Buchan
an, whose achievement in holding the
Republic by the throat until its ene
my had sharpened his knife and stab
bed at its heart, exhibited abilities of
the highest and rarest order. As the
faculties of this happy and religious
old gentleman are still keen, he would
no doubt be placed in the State De
partment. Should General Twiggs be
alive, he might be sent' fbk and placed
in command of the defences of Wash
ington, his difficulty with the amiable
and peaceful ex-President, out of
which a duel was threatened, being
first settled. As money would be nec
essary to pay these gentlemen, Crom
well would certa inly . legalize the ; lot
tery business, and place the chief
agency in Now York, with a highly
respectable firm, of large experience.
Boston being the cause of all the war,
Fort Warren would be taken, Mar
shal Kane released; that he might take
command of •Baltimore, and a few
shells thrown at Faneuil Ilall. Gen.
Burnside would be ordered to aban
don Virginia, General Grant would be
sent back to Cairo, and General Rose
crans directed to remain at Louis
ville. Generalßntler would be recal
led iu disgrace, as a coarse and violent
ruler, and Mr. Soule sent to Now Or
leans to act as Military Governor.—
Messrs. Mason and Slidell, being far
more reliable than such Abolitionists
as Adams and Dayton, would be re
quested to represent Cromwell at the
courts of Victoria and Napoleon. A
few malignants, like Mr. Sumner and
Mr. Greeley, would be executed, while
others of a more Moderate type might
be sent to the different prisons. This,
of course, would have a salutary ef
fect upon the great masses of the
country.
Cromwell having overthrown the
Administration with the sword, now
sheathes the sword, and having procu
red an attractive oljve branch, would
probably endeavoii to persuade Mr:
Van Buren and Ingersoll—gen
tlemen whose cultivated and winning
manners and unexceptionable descent
would make a great impression on the
South—to go to Richmond, to' confer
with the erring Mr. Davis and the
wayward Mr. Benjamin. It is very
probable that the misguided General
Stuart and the benighted Gon. Jack
son would take adviptage of the olive
branch mission to make a trip into,
Pennsylvania, where shoes and salt
aro said to be more abundant than in
Virginia. Of course, they would be
welcome by a committee of brethren
from the Breckinridge State Central
Coriimittoo, and, considering the fact
that the shoeless soldiers wore hretlr
ren and gentlemen, their wants
would be' supplied out of our Mtii•ket. ;
street stores, any unreasonable de
mands for f...ompensaton being. met
With Confederate scrip; a quantity of
which could bo printed at some of our
newspaper offices, should the supply
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run short. In the meantime, our
" mixed society" would have the op
-1 portunity to show, by their attentions
Ito the erring and misguided notorie
ties, the grace of their accomplish
ments; the extent of their magnanim
ity; their love for chivalrous brethren ;
their respect for the sacred institution
of slavery, and the utter loathing and
contempt which they bear to those
horrid New England Yankees. All
allusions to the unfortunate occurren
ces at Corinth, Perryville, Antietam,
i and elsewhere, would of course be
I avoided, out of respect for the feelings
of the guests, and especially as it is in
such vulgar taste for social assemblag
es to discuss politics.
Cromwell is in power, Mr. Lincoln
is in prison, and has paced the tedious
hours away until every twig and stem
on the trees across the way, become fa
miliar friends. Mr. Sumner and Mr.
Greeley have met the flute their great
crimes deserved. Gen. 13arnsiders ar
my has laid down its arms as an offer
of conciliation to the misguided South,
the London Times is shrieking with
ecstasy over the magnanimity of the
North and the valor of the South, Ad
-miral Semmes, late of the " Alabama?'
has relieved Admiral Dupont at Hil
ton Head, Gon. Hunter has been com
mitted, to take his trial for feloniously
arming certain loyal uegroes at Beau
fort, whose masters had run away from
them, General Scott has been stricken
from the rolls for a certain letter re
vealing the courtesies of the Ex-Presi
dent to the Southern Commissioners,
and the olive-branch Commissioners
have met a warm welcome in Rich
mond. There have been one or two
slight outbreaks of Popular sentiment
in some of tho Northern 'cities, but the
friendly aid of the shoeless brethren
has repressed the i-evolution after an
occasional massacre. Everything
moves pn smoothly, and the Republic
is quieL English tradesmen are car
rying cottO under a &Althorn free
trade tariff to English"'ports, and
while there is starvation and idleness
in Philadelphia and Lowell, Southern
planters arc realizing- large profits
from their crops. In the meantime,
enterprising citizens of Cuba are trans
porting slaves from Havanna to Char- I
leston, and the Southern people are
growing rich while "negotiations are
pending." 7 C VOM.WeII Mille into power
;. - us a coMpromising ruler, and the ne
gotiations proceed. Mr. Davis de
mands that the sacred right of_slave
ry shall be acknowledged; -that the
Confederate scrip shall be recognized
as currency, that the debt of the sov
ereign States of the South, incurred in
maintaining their sovereignty, shall
be assumed by the Northern States as
the invading powers, and that Wash
ington City being a part of Southern
territory, shall become a city of the
Southern Confederacy. There could ;
fib terms of compromise that did
not embrace all these propositions, for
Davis has so declared it, and would
most certainly exact an acquiescence
in his demand. lie might then per
mit those of Pennsylvania and New
York who think the natural interests
of their States are -with the' Southern
States, to join the fortunes of- their
Commonwenlils . with the new nation,
reducing New England into a colony.
The next step would boa monarchy, Da.
vis as the King, the gentlemen of the
South the aristocracy, and Cromwell,
as a reward for his services, and a grat
ification of his ambition, might bf the
suzerain of the new dependency.
This is a fancy sketch, but the lim
ning gives no pleasure. We would
rather not contemplate such things,
but our desire is to, show the people
how anarchy, usurpation and civil
war may come from any ifuceessful
overthrow of' the present AdmiMstra
tion. When it falls, liberty falls; for,
by it alone, liberty is sustained When
we paralyze its man, the sword drops
—we are unavenged—the enemy
comas upon us unrelmked, and treas
on becomes patriotism. The power to
protect and defend is lodged in the
President of the United States, and
those associated with him in the mili
tary and civil departments of the Gov
ernment. We can only be defended
and protected by sustaining that
power. Let the Administration be
overthrown, say the enemy, but who
will take the place of the Administra
tion ? Who will then protect a de
moralized and disheartened North
against i united South? Will it ho
sonic Cromwell in our Midst, like the
one we have drawu—A man combin
ing all the audacity and power of the
great captain, without his sincerity
and justice, or Jefferson Davis himself,
the leader of this causeless rebellion,
and the Most infamous traitor in his
tory ? Let it be Jefferson Davis, by
all means, for if the party opposed to
the Administration succeeds, he is the
only person living who should enjoy
the triamph.—The Press.
CONDITION or Ricumomi.----A letter
from Richmond, in a Charleston pa:
says :
" Richmond is now worse than Na
ples, worse than Baltimore was when
Winter Davis was the Wilkes of the
Plug Ugly swell snob of that laWless
city. No ono thinks of going into the
Cimmerian streets after nightfall With
out arms. A large and well organiz
ed gang of cutthroats' has taken the
town.' They lie in wait at almost ev, 7
cry cornet; well provided with slang
shots, billies, brass knuckles, atall
the other devilish iMplements pf mis
chief which the city higliWaYman uses
to disalA his hitirivs;and they attack
everybqdy' that - Walks alone, often
times gentlemen when attended by la
dies. That they are not found out is
matter of grave reproach to the city
police. But this corps is t3o small
that they chi] do little for the protec
tion of a city spread over tai minions°
surface of ground, and withbut a light
from one end of it to the other."
TERNS, $1,50 a year in advance.
The Border State Bugbear.
[From the Ft. Look Democrat.]
The goblin which so long affrighted
our Government from the pursuit of a
vigorous war policy is at last pretty
well despatched. Thu danger which
was so nervously apprehended by old
women in the Cabinet and conserva
tives all over the land—the danger of
a general_ bolt by the Border Slave
States In ease of the strong, unglovod
hand of the Federal Executive was
laid upon the institution of slavery,
according to its deserts—has proved
to be of the imagination, and has dis-
appeared like the thing of air it was.
The test of loyalty to the Border States
has been applied, the most efficient
possible, and that right vigorously,
and how satisfactory to all true patri
ots has been the result!
Maryland, of all the Border States,
was regarded as the nearest approach
to the " sick man," and the one most
in need of careful narsing. Pretty
nitwit the same judgiient` seems to
have been entertained of her status
upon both sides of the loyal question.
"Maryland, my Maryland " was es
pecially commiserated by the Confed
erates, fey her unhappy' ebndition of
forced obedience to the Onion. In
their eyes, she was a maiden wedded
to a Blue Beard of a lord, sorely
against her own heart, and was hourly
sending out signals of distress to has
ten the approach of her deliverer.—
Nor can it be denied that our Govern
ment was' not wholly dispossessed of
the green-eyed monster in her case,
and did not fail to lock the door of the
castle, with "great care, against the
possibility of her exit, and safely car
ry the key in its pocket when requir
ed to be absent., And yet, when Leo,
avowedly as her deliverer, scaled the
castle wall and stood in her presence,
armed to fight the battle of her liber
ation, she turned her back upon him,
and clung to her lawful spouse, the
Union.
Kentucky was supposed to be but
little better disposed toward the Fed
eral Government than Maryland.—
Her patriotism was represented to be
like the affection of a capricious wo
man, sound so long as her whims were
gratified and no longer. Particularly
sensitive was she supposed to be on '
the subject of slavery. Slavery was her
passion. Well, slavery, her pet insti
tution, was rudely stricken by the 1
President's Proclamation,' and '41111.i
her heart was yet smartin.v, fromAlm:
indignity, Bragg marches across her
border with b,anners flying, and in
vites her to come and join her desti
nies to his standard. Hero was no
mean test of her fidelity, and she
proves true to the Union,
Missouri is another Border State,
whose reputation for loyalty has not
been above suspicion. When the Pres
ident's Proclamation appeared,' not
one of her mon high in Ace—not a
Congressman or Senator—dared in
dorse it. Even Mr. Blair, while from
policy as a candidate, be would not
denounce it, proclaimed it to be with
out ':'vitality," and Mr. Rollins, his
political half brother, declared that the
word "forever hi the Proclamation
was breath, and nothing more." Mr.
Phelps, Mr. Hall, and many others of
her lading Mem were loud in their
condemnation.
Soon, however, an election comes,
when her people—the masses—have
an opportunity to be heard,.and what
voice do they send forth ? An Eman
cipation Legislature is elected. A ma
jority of Congressmen are chosen
heartily endorsing the Proclamation,
and elected on that issue. Mr. Blair
is replaced by a man who has had no
scruples about the " vitality " of the
Proclamation, and Mr. •Pholps, " the
father of the House," anti a man of
great former popularity io his district,
is defeated by a gentleman scarcely
known to politics, but who was known
to be in favor of the Proclamation.
And little, Delaware, another of the
Border Slave States at the same time
elects an Administratien Governer,
and shows a haliinced vote on the Con
gress and Legislature tickets.
These events tell the true story of
the hearts of the people of the Border
Slave States toward the Government.
Never were men worse belied by their
politicians than they have been.—
When we co riSider how long tiro wheels
of the CreVernident have - boon kept
stationary in the prosecution of the
war; at:their bidding; when wo con-
Sider bow many brave men, who had
entered the service•of their country to
fight the rebels, have sickened and
died in the ignoble work of watching
the rebel's property, because the -rep
resentatives of the Border States said
that, unless it was done, they could
not answer for the loyalty of their
constituents; When we censider how
many millions oftreasure bay!) boon,
worse than thrown away tO relieve
their idle fears and conciliate their in
tense Pro-SlaveryiSnr, may we not re
joice; may not the whole country re-
joke, that at last the reign of the. " Bor
der Slave states Delegation " is at an
end? its fall goes one of tho main
props of the rebellion.
The Greatness of Ailierioit as a Unit
—pqglaytiN PAO.
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[From the 14chniqnd Examiner, Nov. B.]
The grniariess of merica is a repent
revelation to Europe. Ilrith the iirortk
and South confederated under "the old
Gouernment, the United &des possessed
a military Power, and an abundance of
resources which her citizens, even in the
excess of their self-complacney, neF.Or
dreq»ied. But few minds in 134,1110
had any idoti . of the ppwor, j,•ourig
gi'ant in the 'Weston? Wq1(1,
fAyq of their palio inen, 4 Oainnr or
Napoleon, Might' have :4pprebended,
by ti;e. force of genms, the mili
tary magnitude of America. But it
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wfts gepeyally a dim speculation in
Europe. Our basis op mili t ary p'c4eP.4
were frequently ridiculed by
.the English
press and passed as transatlantic blaster:
But this war has shown 'that ei;eit—
those boasts fell far sliOrt'of` the real'i
ty.• It has revealed to thO NV brig nit
enormous power that overshadBwe
whatever there is of military disfila
in modern history, and .has amazed,
the most arrogant nations of Enrope.
Within eighteen months of 'this war,'
the North and South have raised arit,4e47
larger than those of the first Ka_p • oPon ;
iron clad fleets have been launched eapa-
I blc of destroying the combined navies' of
I England and France; two viglion:§ - 0,"
men have tea PO 'in the flel(C; and yet
the internal system of the industry of ther
country, and the , ordinary infrsuits 'of.;
peace have been but little interrupted, un,- ,
1 less from the excePtional cause of the.
' bloOkade . of the Southern seaceast.'
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Had the ; North and South' continiied as'
one nation there could seaHely have been.
any limits to the achievements' of their,
military power." En g hiniroi.od' have,
never checked it. We could 1104
overrun the continent,taken Canada in
the teeth of a combination of all the Eu
ropean powers, and crushed' England.
alone as an eggshell undertheliammer.,
The bloody and unliapp:irA , §4elatioN,
which this war has made of enormous
military resources hihi naturally kii,,en
to Europe, and especially tti'Englinid,
an extraordinary interest in its, con;.
tinuation. Nothnig could be Mori4
contrary to the wislmg a4ir klicY of
England than that' the war eilintild,
end in reuniting the North and South.
and consolidating and'renewing in 41-.
valiy to her a military poWer WhiCh'is
now wasted in internecine' strife,
That the Union Bever shall - 61i ii - e c
stored is a foregone and Wattled' co'h,
elusion with the British '9overnment.
It would now hesitate for a mdbient
to recognize the south, unles4 firmly_
persuaded of our ability and resolution
to carry on the war, and utile - Si - it 'fia '
another object to gain beside that
a permanent-division in the nalklitalit ,
ty and power of her old itival. ' -Wit)
object'la the qball-stiWof bqh :Nos k and South. • ' .. . -, ,
England proposes to effect the - con,
tinuation of this Lear, as far as potiiible,
to the mutual ruin of the two mail'
engaged in it, by ti , r uding aiae mail
,
trusthw, that, aft'sr_, vast expenditures,
of blOod and waste of resources,.the
separatios be the Union will be (pito'
as'surely accomplished by the self-de;
-voila.. saf'Al 1 iA-§h al i..J,.c.- hy_thalesx-imi-1
fitable mode of foreign interventiou. r „
To the adynntages she hopes_to , g-iiti___.
from this separation she desired to add
those which she expects from loss and
ruin to both North and South in a Icing'
war. Her present polleYef neutral:
with reference to the Liar isiquude '
in the confidopce that; the 460 idalble .
to achieVUller independence, and' qiitt
the prolongation of hostilities does' riot
Hsi( her subjugatiop. ' • " -
In this inbnplan,9l-:
culation, England has rightly'es4ma::,
ted the spirit and resolutionli
of_tlfq
South. We are prepared to - win ,4 1 y
independence with the great prices of
blood grid suffering that Englan4 h
Minted. A:W .- We understand ~lier -in'
this matter. Behind her mask-of con
science and pharasMeal precision ther .
lurks a hideous and devilish piirpOse. ,
, .
The - first volume of the e-19H fag
England, which has
,lost been' issuek
shows the number and 'distributioli
the people in the several parishp . s
places. An ab,stract tic rettirnO,
was published last year; a careful rq-1
vision of them shows that oia, the :SA
Of spril, 1861, the population ,of Eng r ,
land and Wales 'With.the Isle Of Man
and Channel Islands; including the'ar2
my at home and the navy and segment
ih the - ports, rivers 40 orgel.:s, Agt,,j4
to say, all the persoidin t h elingdom.,
—amounted in number to 20„209,671.
The returns for Scotland having , beer,'
also revised, the popnihilen of Great
Britain on tfiat day is found to have!
boon 28,271,965.; and -the returns fok
Ireland, when the revision of thes,al l
so is completed, will bring theliop4ll :
tion of the United Singe oni to above
29,000,000. The increase in England
and Wales alone Since the .censair
1851, has been 2,138,615, notwith
standing that in the interval 2,25,0,1).00
per.solis e4grated ihe voted'
Kingdom, of whom if is ealculated that
640,316 wore English. Since the eon . -
sus of 1851, the male population: of.
England and. Wales has increased 11: 7 ,
33 per eci4. The female populatiOq
12-50 per pent. The e.cess of folliales
ovef males, 365,159 in • 1851, -had
groWn 510,708 in . 1861; and thesd
figures do pot include the army, navy
an 4 seamen out of the hingdph.,l4 .
Scotland the disproportion - El still
greater; in Great Britain ; ' with: the .
islands in the British seas, the .eceffs
of females,over maleS Wrivas.,67B,4,
471, to which the Irish returns,,accor-"
ding to ,the Mireiirsed - abstract, haie
about 150,000 to add.. thi'lhe:Tonswa
night, q2,40' -persons -wore heard
vessels in' '.the. }MVO's 1 P 3 4
etieks of England and Wales, without
reckoning persOns in barges on cariaig
,
iiithe metropolitan 'cliStiiet 8084 per;
sons were on -beard , vessels. in• thil
docks and en •the Thames. ' In Firid•
land and Wales 124,962 persons urn
in Workhouses and workhOusesc;hool;
18,456 . in hospitals, 24;29 in Ainiitie
asylums, 26,391 in prisons and reform=
atones, 23;05 in orphan asylums and
other principal charitable institutions,
without reckoning in any instance the.
O'ffiptr 'staff 'in' elarge of these
tibias; 80,839 persons, tuiliOry MLA'
flinailies of military, werp"in'harra&e:
The' population of the, ple of 'Man and
the Channel Islatda;ly:laii;li had provil
ously been increresiig, has, in too years
under review, h' illy mairitain'ed its
nuinber, Mscept by an Vilklease of the,
military force. • ,"' !•
Census of England.