THE GAZETTE. LEWISTOWN, PA. Thursday, December 6, 1860. $1 rer annum in ah ancr—slso ol end of six months—at end of rear. Papers sent out of the County most be paid for ia advance. WThc subscription cf,Lher cat of this county to whom thf# paragraph murke.i. has ex; .red, urn! unless re tienvd will be discontinued. We have a'o set-a litalt InOfUßln county, beyond v.hlch we Intend no man In future shall owe us lor subscription Those receiving the paper with this paragraph marked, wm therefore knew that they have come under cr.r nil.-' and if payment Is not made within one mouth thereafter we *hall discontinue *u sneh. ffoliees of New Advertisements. or a sp.'endid assortment of Toys, Fancy Goods, and other articles suitable for Holiday presents, call at Felix's. John G. M-eCord offers his services as Auc tioneer. Marks and Willis, agents for the Onondago Salt Company—wholesale price, £1 00 per btl of 28l> lbs.; retail, $1 75. HVivorce Notice—List of Letters. President's Message. We had made arrangements to give our readers a portion at least of the President's Message in to day's paper, but as it was not delivered on Monday we go to press at our usual time. It will either be issued in an extra, or appear in our next paper. ©SA„Congress met on Monday, and after the usual preliminary appointments of Com mittees to wait on the President, drawing for seats, Ac., adjourned. Air. Grow made a move to get up the Homestead Bill. Not a word of ill-feeling was uttered. The Secession Movements. South Carolina continues to-swear and: bluster, no one being there to say nay to the Jacobins who are bent on rule or ruin. I In Georgia the Governor and Legislature are making fools of themselves by passing senscles. laws with bombastic preambles, ' but there is a strong feeling against ultra 1 measures which may check the revolution- j ists there before committing themselves to j South Carolina Jacobinism. In the mean | time in these States as well as others South, ; trade is paraiized, business in great part ; suspended, banks in the first stages of bankruptcy, and credit dishonored,, which ; will inevitably be followed by the ruin of j many heretofore doing well, and entail j much distress on the poor. Keel-liauling Members of Congress. In all parties, as soon as it becomes ap parent that success is certain, the members i of Congress in probably every district in Pennsylvania are half-bored to death by , aspirants for office and their friends. To such an extent is this systematic pursuit carried, that we have no doubt all the mem bers from this State will feel an infinite re- ' lief when they are again at Washington, hundreds of miles away from those whom tkoy are always glad to see and meet as ; friends, but who as button-hole borers be- j come perfect nuisances, and render visits, j whether on pleasure or business, as disi- ; ! greable as they possibly can be made. For a month past no member has had a mo- ; ment's peace. lie is waylaid at every cor- ! Tier —is watched at every house—is dogged, i haunted, and barked at, until from bis in- ; most soul he wishes the office and its im munities at the bottom of the Red Sea, or in some place as hot as South Carolina at j least. Will people, in this respect, never I learn common sense ? A man, even if he j is elected to Congress, or Governor, or j aught else where loaves and fishe3 are sup posed to centre, likes ease and quiet just j as much as he did before his election, and ■ if a sensible man has as much dislike to be i harrassed for promises, and claims for ser vices ding-donged into his ears almost with out cessation, as a traveler would have who would be told every mile that he passed j over that somebody was no better than he I or she should be —that an old woman had ! a sore finger—or that Tom, Dick or Harry j had struck Billy Patterson ! If there is ! no other remedy for this disease in the body politic, we would suggest to Curtin, Hale j and others from this day forward to get a ' few labels printed in large letters—say ; " YJLSIT os BUSINESS" —and " Visit for the accommodation of office-hunters —5 j minutes allowed to each"- —and as occasion requires display the. appropriate badge on the hat in front and the back of his euat. • If to this would be added the declaration that if on business a " bore fur office" would be considered as detrimental to the applicant, we think the Governor elect and members of Congress might occasionally travel in peace —a feat they can now no more perform than lift a tub in v, hieli they are standing. SegrA number of citizens of Maryland having applied to Governor Hicks, of that State, to call together the State Legislature, to consider the disunion question, he replies by refusing the request. The Governor is willing to go ns far as possible in defence of Southern rights: hut he is unwilling to place Maryland in the position of seeming to enter tain treasonable designs against the Govern ment and the Union. Object of Disunion ists. It is a matter of notoriety, says the Na tional Intelligencer, that the Southern States which contain the largest numbei of advocates for secession and disunion are the States which have suffered least in the pest from any of the aggressions charged upon the Federal Government of their eon federate States of the North. It is also a matter of notoriety that the Southern States which (King at the border) have suffered most from the sectional disturban ces that have so long prevailed are precise ly those of the slave-holding States which are least disposed to adopt the policy of separation. What is the indubitable inference from i this ? Simply that the policy of disunion finds its most strenuous supporters among those icho loolc fir it to the attainment of \futun purposes, and not at all fur the cure :of past grievances. 11 the latter were the inspiring causes of the movement it would proceed from the States which have the most, we may almost say the only, substan tial reason lor complaint. Reduced, then., to,the inevitable logical necessity of finding the primum mobile of this agitation, so far as it takes its motives .from calculations of interest, in some pros pective aims which cannot be secured in the Union, but may be secured in a "Southern Conlcdeiaey," we obtain a use ful hint on the subject from the following prudent outgivings, which are commended | to the special attention of our readers j in th 2 border slaveholding States. We J quote from the communication of a writer in the Charleston Courier, who signs him- i self" A .Southern Planter," and who, after ! stating the labor demands ol the South, j expresses the hope that the South Carolina Convention will not discuss the question of reviving the foreign slave trade, and he ' •rives as a reason for this cautious reserve 1 that such a discussion may repel anu dis- . gust the frontier States. He says: O "The question of more labor and the open ing of the slave trade should be postponed until all the slave States are icil/ing to unite with us in forming a Houtkern Confederacy and hate perfected their internal arrangements; nor should any measure that is calculated to keep any of our Southern States from us be argued or acted upon by the Convention.— The opening of the African slave trade 1 am satisfied will have an important hearing on the action of many of the present frontier States, either in uniting them with or separating them from us, and even if a common destiny forces them into connection with us hereafter, it would bs preferable for them to become willing rather than unwilling co partners in our concern. This question will also have much influence with the great nations of Eu rope in acknowledging our independence, and will create a like interest in the commer tia! treaties they may form with us." In other words Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina and the rest are to be invei gled into the new Union before the real objects are declared. They are necessary to strengthen the Confederacy; but, after they shall have been used for this purpose, the opinion, not only of the border States, but of the civilized world against the re vival of this deplorable traffic may be suc cessfully braved. Who shall venture to predict the disasters —moral, social and fi nancial —that may ensue to the beneficent form of servitude which now exists in the South if the arrangements of the present Constitution ho disturbed ? Lewi stow n Democrat continues its assaults on the people for electing Lincoln, and attributes every evil to that event. In its last isue it avers that the low prices of grain and stagnation of business are owing to this event. We have known grain much lower than it is now, and times fully as bard when democracy ruled the roast. In our opinion any one who will look at our idle manufac tories and the fact that Europe—which sup plies what our labor ought to make -does not need our grain, will readily see the cause fur low prices and dull business. X. 15. Major Elbow desires us to ask the Democrat whether Lincoln's election has put up the price of butter and eggs ? S@fc.The Clearfield county Bank commenc ed operations last week. This is the first bank under the general banking law. It is based on State stocks and deserves success. Mrs. Elizabeth Fertig, one of the old est inhabitants of Dauphin county, died at the residence of her son, near the village of Dauphin, on Tuesday of last week, aged 81. ov. Letcher, of Virginia, has issued a proclamation, in which he gives nine of the electoral votes of the State tj Bell, and six to Breckinridge. State Convention in South Caro lina is called i'or the purpose of Seceding— that of Georgia for Deliberating —and those of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana for Consulting. BS*L.'iT.o Cincinnati (Ohio) papers record the death of Jackson Thorpe, probably one ! of the fleshiest men in the United States, i lie weighed at one time 410 pounds, and for i threo years past has not weighed less than 300 pounds. 1^- Article IV., Section 2, of the Constitu tion of the United States reads as foilows: •' See. 2. The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immuni ties of citizens in the several States.'' We have yet to see the first democratic pa | per that has in any shape or form condemned the almost daily violation of this clause in the excited Southern Stnteo. Speech by Governor Curtin On Saturday evening last a complimen tary dinner was given to A. K. McClure, Chairman of the People's State Committee, at which Col. Curtin and a number of oth er prominent gentlemen were present. In answer to a toast proposing his health, the Governor elect rose and said — Gentlemen of the City of Philadelphia:— After the contest was over, 1 retired to my home amid the Blue mountains of Pennsyl vania, to watch the smoke as it might arise from the field of battle, and to prepare my self for the great duties to which the partiali ty of the people ol my native State had call ed uie. There! intended to remain until sum moned to come to this city, to be present when it was your pleasure to render some testimony of your gratitude to those who had, been most conspicuous in that great contest. 1 come with pleasure. I must acknowledge the service of the State Central Committee. It was well cast; its members performed their dnty, and all their duty, with great fidelity to you and to the pnr ity which you represent. But I come to your ! city, especially, as it was your pleasure to i make some expression of the estimation in : which you hold the chairman of that com mittee. [Vehemeut applause.] Gentlemen ; of Philadelphia, no man in Pennsylvania re ceived with more surprise the announcement t than he who was at the head of the organiza- I tiou oi the People's party of the State in our great contest than did Col. McClure. If I had never in my experience in life shown judge ment in regard to men, I certainly offered some evidence when I voluntarily said to this gentleman, " I desire you, sir, to he chairman of the Central Committee." In response to my proposition, he turned to me and said, " The chairman of the State Central Committee j should not expect official favor from the Kx- j ecutive, if our cause should prove successful, i I say to you, sir, I will ask and desire noth- ! ing." [Applause.] Gentlemen of Philadelphia, I crossed the lines of the Central Committee all over Penn sylvania ; T felt the pulse of the great heart of the party, and it was always regular, strong and healthy, [applause];; Lis heat was responsive always to my h ghest expectations. I was a soldier in the held and I filled the ap pointments made for me : the candidate of a party I acted as the Committee directed; and here to night, if all the members of the Peo ple's Party of Pennsylvania were present to hear me, i would testify to the ability, the sagacity, the fidelity, and the unremitting la bor of this gentleman, [loud cheers] ; and if I did not do so in Philadelphia, this heart would be false to the dictates of a common gratitude. Now, gentlemen of Philadelphia, what ! have we achieved? No victory over our ene , mies. We have elected a President, but we i have not defeated an enemy. We have asser j ted the constitutional right of the people of | the United States to elect a President. [En thusiastic cheers.] Those who differed with ' us, North or South, are our brothers and j our friends. [Applause.J Let us putPenn : sylvania right—Pennsylvania, who, by her i geographical position, has the lines of trans- j it and travel, east and west and north and : south, passing through herborders—Pennsyl vania loyal to the Constitution, and always obedient to the laws. [Applause.] Pennsyl vania in the recent triumph, has not attempt ed to violate the rights or the interests, the goverinental prerogatives or the rights of pro perty, of any State or individual, North or South. [Cheers.] Pennsylvania has been in steady pursuit of the rights of her own people. [Applause.] We have steadily ask ed from our National Government that our great resources be developed, that the inter ests of our people be protected. We have urged protection to industry and labor, and the development of our wealth ; and we have done it independently, in vindication of Penn sylvania interests and the rights of Pennsyl vania men. [Applause.] That is all we have done ; and the people of Pennsylvania are this day stricken with surprise that, in the assertion of a constitutional right, there should be disturbance of the public peace. Now, fellow-citizens of the city of Phila delphia—the great manufacturing city of the United States, the metropolis of Pennsylvania, j the city of our hope and our pride—let us re : member, in this day of our political triumph, i that these gentlemen who desire to disturb ■ the Union should be our brethren. [Cheers.] ; We have an inspiring history in Pennsylvania | —traditions rich in the legacy of the Chris i tian heroism. Our fathers stood by the Con- j stitution and the Union when they wero form- j ed ; they have ever been loyal to that Union as Pennsylvania is to night. [Applause.] Our chairman has truly said that this is no time to indulge in jubilation or exultation. It is a time which witnesses the triumph of principle; and no principle vindicated iu the great political contest in which we have re cently proved so signally victorious, will ever be deserted by the people of Pennsylvania. [Applause ] With a spirit of brotherhood, with a fidelity to the past, with a hope for the future "of Pennsylvania, let us conciliate, let us deal kindly ; but let us stand up like peo pie worthy of the name of Pennsylvania, in defence of our rights. Our aim in the late contest was that the Government should be liberalized, that there should be progress, de velopement of wealth : and, most of all, that there should be protection to the languishing interests of the people of Pennsylvania.— [Cheers.] We have stood up manfully in the late contest for the glory of the State, and the happiness and prosperity of the people. The law making power of this State has never designedly placed upon our statute book laws to contravene or obstruct the exe cution of any act of the Federal Govern ment; but if there be any statutes on our book which, in effect, do contravene or con flict with any legislation of the National Government, or obstruct the execution of any law of the United States, upon being fully satisfied that such is the fact, let us repeal them, j Earnest and prolonged cheering.] Let Us show to the South, and the North, and all the world, that while Pennsylvania vindi cates her own interests and rights, she is faithful to the Union ; and that the right of no State or man in the nation shall ever be interfered with, restricted, or limited by any act of the people of P nnsylvania. We have attained cur triumph through much labor. For fourteen years Pennsylva nia has been struggling for the vindication of her rights and interests. She lias been frightened from her propriety, and, as has been properly said by the gentleman to whom this compliment is tendered, by falsehood. We shall only be faithful to our history and traditions, to the fathers of our Constitution, to our theory of government, to our instincts, our sentiments, and our habits, when we as sert that Pennsylvania, now and forever, will vindicate her rights, and will demand that every State, North arid South, shall he faith ful as herself to constitutional obligations. [Cheers.] 1 have aaw said all that I designed hi say to night. 1 am here, surrounded by gentle men. who have served with great fidelity the party that I represented in the late contest, and have many friends to thank. I pray for strength, that, in the next three years of Pennsylvania's history, her public affairs may be so administered as to advance the great ness and the power of this State and the hap piness of the country. To all that concerns Pennsylvania in her prosperity and in her strength, I pledge to you to night the utmost powers of my head and heart. [Cheers.] — \Y hat could I do less for the people of a State who, in the recent contest, were pleased to select ym as their standard bearer, and who have crowned me with so much honor? National Grievances. The North lias seldom complained of disadvantages, and although Pennsylvania has suffered more loss during the past ten years by the depression of* her iron inter ests than allnbe slaves arc worth that have run away since the formation of the Gov ernment. she has never threatened'to rebel, dissolve the l.'nion, or do aught else than to let southern democracy know th-ojigh the ballot-box that she didn't like it.— Many people suppose the South hos wrongs, but it is equally true that these wrongs do not affect any of the States threatening to secede. Hut even admitting all have cause for complaint, have they not also many benefits ? For instance, during the Inst nineteen years, from to 1859, inclu sive, the fifteen slave States have co.-t the Department $00,.344,410 13, and they have contributed to its support only 52<.549,020, OS, while fifteen, free States have cost it 800,891.293 34, and they have contributed to its support 808,- 048,519 t any banking house, as most of the so-called detectors arc. It should Le in the hands of every storekeeper in the whole country; and we would advise all persons who handle paper money to send one dollar in a letter, for a year's subscrip tlon, to the publishers, and thus subset ibe for the monthly issue of it at once; or two do! lars for the semimonthly issue. It i- pub lished by T. B. Peterson it Brothers. No. 3tHi Chestnut street, to whom all letters should Lc addressed. fey ib- a -xjUC. A Union School in Lewistown. Mr. Editor: —ln a recent numbi r • t the Gazette 1 noticed one paragraph, which sug gestc-d several ideas and argumr-nf- in vopect to the subject nam* 1 above. \.u spoke of the recess of the public schools as being " a nuisance." Not doubting your wise use ol language, I wish to call the attention of the citizens of Lewistown to a few considerations, which, if thev do not produce immediate a tion toward a Union school will at least elicit some discussion of the matter. I suppose the reci ses are " a nuisance" for two reasons ; first, because the children are on the street, and then-fore ve; > liable to be in somebody's way, and second, because they make such an amazing quantity of noise, not of the most musical quality. Every one believes in the utility ■ f recess es, for the purpose of affording both teacher and pupil opportunity for relaxation, fur re gaining vigor and freshness of mind. This implies some active, merrv exercise, which in turn, implies sufficient room to move in. In the yard near your office are from two hun dred and fifty to three hundred scholars; of course the recess for all the schools taught there must be at the same time, otherwise you can imagine the vocal power necessary in any school while the other schools were having a recess. All being out together, the yard seems a prison ; there is hardly any room for them to turn around; so they pout out into the street and naturally make recess just what you called it "a ngis .nc It is more or less so of nil the other schools in the b<>r ough. and in the present arrangement of school buildings, it cannot be otherwise. The one remedy for this evil, or antiayanco, ami the one grand improvement now needed here, is a Union school house, large enough to ac commodate nil the schools iu the boiough, with proper regard to its probable growth, and surrounded by grounds sufficiently am pie to give room for all necessary recreations. Some of the mors important advantages resulting from a Union school are these: —Ist. A more complete graduation and classilica ti in of scholars could be effected than is pos sible now. This would bring together those of the same degree of advancement, and from the apportionment of classes that could thus be made, teachers would have m<>re time for ever} 7 recitation and could pursue a more thorough and full systematic course of in struction. This remark may seem of slight moment to those who are not familiar with the workings of scholars : but those who are familiar with these, will recoguizc its great importance. 2d:—There might and should be a regu lar course of instruction, from the Alphabet through the studies usually taught in the best Academic s. arranged for each session and for each school, thus foriping a complete system of instruction open to every child in Lewis town, a system, which if properly passed through, would give as full and useful an education as is now attainable outside of Col leges and a very few Seminaries. 3d:—There would, of course, be a Princi pal whose qualifications and experience would be a careful supervision and success ful operation of the whole. Assistants would naturedly be continued for a series of yeais, if properly qualified, and thus the school would have a dignity and permanent charac ter highly beneficial to pupils, and eminent ly honorable to the town. Other important advantages might be men tioned, as the preservation of the health of teachers and scholars," which the present high school building docs not secure; the great benefit of having one responsible person at the head of the schools here, giving system and efficiency to all. Suffi -ier.t lias been said to show the desirableness of a Union school house. How about the cost ? lam confident some j plan can be devised by which the burden of i erecting a suitable building may not fall ! heavily on the people of Luwistowu for any ) one year, or for a series of years. Of course ! the tax would necessarily be increased to ' some extent, but cot so as to be seriously trou- ' blesome to any. I do not propose to offer j any plan : doubtless there are men who take 1 an interest in this matter, who wiil commun icate some plan. It suffices for my present ' purpose, to call public attention to the sub- ! ject, by suggesting some considerations that ' seem to me full of importance. Lewigtown has good churches ; let her also ( have a good school building worthy of her beautiful situation, affording the best of edu- j cational advantages to her children, and prov ing the wisdom, generosity and public spirit of her citizens. - • ttSk-The excitement in s.-. lne - ginta is increasing against Richmond, a man who would no' t*ii lance Committee where he f iVi ®" what his in the or was ridden on a rail. When th-" finished riding him about, he cooH^ ,Wee them that he was from Columbia spoke too late,. ' ' ' Me A passenger train on the Beaver M. a Railroad, Pennsylvania, was thrown fi- ' ? track, last week, by the breaking 0 f s * and a car containing 28 passengers cipitateJ into the Lehigh River, a distJ fifteen feet. Four passengers ductor were drowned. The rest of the sengers were rescued with much difficult Hollo way's Pills aud Ointment liK but true. The gradual wanting of theboH i ,ar, ~ wikh has puzzle J the faculty to jiartk-ular moih- of treatment ipreacriteOa^^y.* becomes tho victim of experiment. ir,* 1 * 11 "'' .!>• wot be tried on him until he expire, throned - r ,na * nurence ot the came oi his disease This . ****** i of meiikal .speculation is in gUrlriK contraTt ! k pr ftl vitalunm powers of llolloivay '.s I'lil w nkb ,ei, "tr rut cause —MAC tilouj—and purify it -and bv Sfi" tbe'll - various funci lons—they recuperate the dehmfi^i* 11 "* stitution, and rive life to ,-ach than.. str.-u-tk.i .2* c ">< ceis and the bloom of health to the paiidchit*®.?* ek-ausm,' the stou ot nil hlotche*. and l.imnk . t ' br scurvy, the Ointment is sure and speedy in SSct A vire,jt Medicine for Females. Iluri li eds of stimulants have been invented . , p. .porting to be specific In the carton* dwiwr** rou -ments to which the delicate iorrn of u< " o-r Siibiect. The result Of all li.oiacutary activity to the nervous svsieS, i.'c vigor to ine iiiuscies; twit If thi. relief has be?n' an " ceedcl a do. ;.-Sim, and prostration Vr&SXZT ' v m , e fi-cateaatteinpte of Invalids to build th±" v .w- up by ih-s-.- false rem- tics, have niiaiiv .lirj?'* 0 -troylnsr what tittle vital organt-rl.l I?!" k- ;r 4t "Jtierbaci v Holland Itlttcrs," you vili t|,,j „ "Ifidrons rest,its. It is a purely vcVetabte 1 '.vpareii on strictly s.-ientlric principles, ' I'm celebrat i Itoiiand Professor tnJri-1 . s her iiiliUi-iuv, every nerve and muscle receives'new „ 1" . ' - ai'pr tUc -uid sleep return, and flnallv pen m.'.ti. -i. bee alvertUement in another coluiuu. ~pu,e- . JOHN C. McCORD ivts'osasisyaaiiia Strode's Mills, Oliver Township, i \ ITERS ilia services to the public on teas- V " unable terms. dec6-it JOHN NELSON vs. MARY NELSON. Mifflin County ss. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to MARY NELSON, Greeting^ X >V Whereas Jphn Npfson did on SEAL Itho 3d day A. 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