"Hgg^i"'WW 1 ■Wff u l - 1 ■■ I *n —,—t, ~, ~_ Whole No, 2614, Dili Ji DDDii^> -jj a t JOHN KENNEDY $ Co's. I rCST RECEIVED. 10 bbls. Pic Nic Crackers, 10 " Boston Biscuit. 10 " Sugar Crackers, 10 " Family " I .. 5 boxes Soda Biscuit. I ~ e> u from the Bakery. Low to the trade, | tor sale by JOHN KENNEDY & Co. jpissnsj'ipsaiß) iisyis) iptgnsxuissiisES) JAMES FIROYLB, Salesman, VBE selling goods at prices that defy com petition. They keep a large stock of ali kinds id goods such as Sugars, at 7, 9, 10, IL. Coffees at 10, leas 88, Syrups at GO per gallon, 100 boxes of Mould Candles 10 oz to lb., (to dealers at 13 ets. by the box,) 14 cts. per lb., Segars, very low. Sugar Cured Hams at 12, Dried Beef 12, Calicos, Muslins, Ging hams, and all kinds of Dry Goods for sale at prices that can't be surpassed. Everybody and anybody are invited to come and see the sights. Don't forget to bring along the ready cash, as you may be sure its that we're after; and don't forget that we sell goods to suit the hard times; we take produce tf ail kinds in exchange for goods. JOHN KENNEDY &, Co. feb!4 J. B. FIROVED, Salesman. LEWISTOWN ACADEMY. f|MIE second session of this institution will 1 commence on MONDAY, May 20th. In addition to the common English branches, instructions will be given in Latin Greek, French, German, and the Higher Mathemat ics, also, in Drawing, Painting, and music. No extra charge fur the Languages. ltates of Tuition. —B3 00, 4 50, and $6 00 per quarter of eleven weeks. Drawing, $3 00, Painting, $5 00, Music, 810 00, Incidentals, 25 cents. A Teacher's Class has been formed and is in successful operation. This class is design ed for those who desire to thoroughly qualify themselves for teaching. It will continue till July, affording ample time for a thorough review of the studies pursued in common schools. Teacher® can enter this class at any time, though an early attendenou of all who wish to join it is desired. For further particulars inquire of M. J. SMITH, Prin. Lewistowu Academy. Lewistown, April 25, 18G1. New Spring and Summer Goods. | ) F. ELLIS, of the late firm of McCoy JLV • & Ellis, has just returned from the city with a choice assortment of Dry Goods and Groceries, seleeted with care and purchased for cash, which are offered to the public at a small ad vance on cost. The stock of Dry Goods em braces all descriptions of Spring and Summer Goods suitable for Ladies, Gentlemen and Children, with many new patterns. His €*roccvlre comprise Choice Sugars, Molasses, Java, Rio and Laguyra Coffee, superior Teas, &c. Also, Boots and Shoes, Queopsware, and all other articles usually found in stores—all which the customers of the late firm and the public in general are invited to examine. R. F. ELUS. Country Produce received as usual and the full market price allowed therefor. Lewistown, May 16, 1861. WATT 1 SALT! f rHIE undersigned are agents for the Onon- I dago Salt Company. Wholesale price, $1.60 per bbl. of 280 lbs, or 5 bushels. Retail prica, 1.75. MARKS & WILLIS, del3-6m Sole Agents for Mifllin County. THE MIIITREE, THE FLAG OF THE FREE. A lit — Itetl. While, ana ]Jlnc. •| ' >h well we rciiieiiiher the story, | When Columbia, the child of a day, j I lore her banner, all covered with glory, j Wherever the tyrant held sway! 'Neath the stars and stripes see them gather. From the mountain, the plain, and the sea. I And their shouts rend the blue, vaults of ether, "We die on the field or are free!" cuoias. -We .lie on the field or are free ! \Y e die on the field or are free F' And their shouts rend the blue vaults of other. "We die mi the field or are free!" The memory lie cherished forever, Of the martyrs who fell on the field, j Who -wore that their heart-strings should sever lire to Tyranny's mandates they'd yield, j 'di sacred the spot where they perished. And green may their graves ever be, j And age after age shall be cherished The (lag that waved, over the free I ! The heroes have gone to their slumber, All silent and peaceful they lie, i \Y liile the stars, -till increasing in numlier, T.ike a wave seem to mirror the sky— i And high o'er laud and on ocean. In vict'ry it streams far and wide, j Till our hearts seem to burst with emotion, As we gaze on the banner with pride. \Y here'er dash the wild waves of ocean, Where'er its dark waters divide. Where the storm bird foretells its commotion. There floats out our banner in pride— t)n mountain-top, plain, or in valley, Wherever a footstep may be, The host of Columbia doth rail v. And shout for the Flag of the Free! uh, brethren, sa.v, SAY, would ye sever The bond once cemented in gore ? j Would ye shame that proud banner? Oh never! Till Time and its trial are o'er; Beneath its broad folds and M> OTHER — When discord and madness -hall flee, Let us rally, each man as a brother, And shout for the Flag of the Free! [From the Providence .Journal.] ON! BROTHERS, ON ! Alß — Jl'iil to the Vhhf. ur SARAH WAIINEK UROOES. On! brothers, on! for the ling that is peerless! .Striped from the rainbow, and starred from the sky— On ! with a sturdy step! dauntless and fearless! Oil! to unfurl it in triumph, or die! Honored in all the lands— Now shall unholy hands j Trail it. defiled and despised, in the dust? Down With the "traitor's rag!" I'p with the Starry Flag! Death for our Banner! and God for the just! j Fiercely at Sumter have thundered their cannon— ! Bravely the guns ol our hero replied! j <'n! for the ashes that slumber at Vernon ! Oil! for the city whose name is our pride! Now h-t our country's guns Swoop down the bastard son-! ) Woe for JUT chivalry's flower in the dust! Down with the •• traitor's rag!" I'p with the Starry Flaw! I H-ath for our Banner! and God f,.i the just! On! with a prayer! there i- peril before u-! On! in the face of death, fearless and proud! | Life! with the Flag that our fathers waved o'er u-! j Death! with its erinson-.-tained folds for a .-•hrotid! Now for ottr "father-laud"' Strike with true heart and hand! Loyal our venture—and Heavenward our trust! Down with the "traitor's rag!" I'p with the Starry Flag! Death for our Banner! und God for the just! Be Firm. Let the winds blow, and waves ofsorrow frown and beat around you, if they will; but keep your soul in rectitude, and it will ;be firm as a rock. Plant yourself upou j principles, and bid defiance to misfortune. If gossip, with her poisoned tongue, meddles j with your good name, if her disciples, who invest every town and hamlet, make your disgrace the burthen of their song, heed them not. it is their bread and meat to j slander. Treat their idle words as you ! would the hissing of a serpent or the buz | zing of many insects. Carry yourself i erect, and by the serenity of your counte | nance and purity of your life, give the lie ; to all who would berate and belittle you. Why be afraid of any man? Why tremble j and cower in the presence of the rich?— j Why crook the pliant hinges of the knee, | that thrift may follow fawning? No, | friend, fear them not! Build up your char acter with holy principles, and if your path be not strewn with flowers, let it be beauti ful with the light of divine life, and you will leave behind you a noble example, | which will be an aid to the world ; a pe j rennial flower, whose leaves will be a heal ing to the nations, and its fragrance the panacea of the soul. A Receipt For Contentment. Try to compute your artificial wants — the number of things which you fancy come under the list of must haves' merely because other people possess them, and not because you would not be quite as well off and as happy in their absence. Try it for one week, whenever you are tempted to dally with your purse strings. Record in your memorandum book what, in view of this, you sensibly resolve not to buy, and see what a nice little sum will be left yen . for real necessaries. It is seldom by these last that one is hampered or annoyed • Make the experiment and see if it is not so. A just ecupomy is not niggardliness ; one need not be a miser in avoiding the ex travagance of a spendthrift. THURSDAY. JUNE 13, 1861, mW&AMWk The Church and the War. SOUTHERN' AND NORTHERN EPISCOPALIANS. The Mobile Tribune published the fol lowing extracts from a letter written to Bishop Potter, of^ Pennsylvania, by an Al abamian. The letter was called forth by the circular to tho clergy of the diocese, issued by Bishop Potter some weeks ago : " 1 desire, most sincerely, to know how, or i>n what grounds, a churchman—especially a Bishop uf the Church—and, beyond all, a Bishop bearing the reputation for modera tion and discretion which belongs to you— can denounce, as 'in error,' and 'in arms against Ihe constituted authorities of the land,' those who are armed, as we are in obe dience to the only de facto, and, as we firmly believe, the only dv jure authorities of our land, for the purpose of defending ourselves against an atrocious invasion. * * * "Two clergymen from my own immediate vicinity, have sent their sons as privates in the ranks ol tho volunteer companies that have already gone forth towards the Virginia borders, perhaps to meet in battle some of those who may be encouraged to level their muskets and lift their swords against them by the very language you have put forth.— Right reverend and dear sir, there is some terrible mistake here, on one side or the oth cr. It is monstrous, horrible, that such things should be. I beg you to explain how it is possible tbat you could under the circumstan ces, give so much sanction and encourage ment to those who are engaged in this unholy, unprovoked, wanton attempt to destroy us and ali that is dear to us. "Ifyou can say anything that will tend to a restoration of that charity and confidence so deeply wounded, if not entirely broken, by the language of the prayers attributed to yourself and other prominent ministers of the church, I beg that j ou will vie it." These were the material portions of the letter. A postscript was appended by the two clergymen mentioned above, respect fully uniting in the request for an answer to the question propounded, and an explan ation ol the Bishop's extraordinary prayer. To this communication Bishop Potter re plies in the following letter: PniLADEi.rina, Monday, May 13, 18GI. MY DEAR SIR: —You " beg me to explain how it is possible that 1 could, under the cir cumstances, give so much sanction and en eouragement to those engaged in this unholy, unprovoked, wanton attempt to destroy us, and all thai is dear to us." Your misconception is so radical that I al most despair of correcting it. What you re gard as an " attempt to destroy you and all that is dear to you," is considered by us as simply an attempt to defend ourselves and the capital of our country from threatened invasion, our Constitution from destruction, and even our Southern brethren from that which is the surest pro'ection of themselves and their peculiar institutions. From the secession of South Carolina to the storming of Fort Sumter, the General Government re mained all but passive. It then became in dispensable that we should know whether it was n Government, whether it could retain its hold of Washington, and whether the whole system that Washington and his com peers inaugurated in 1789 was not a delusion and imposture. This, my dear sir, is the whole story- Your theory not only disre gards your own obligations under the Consti tution, but it leaves to us no Government, except in name—opening the door for perpet ual discord, and for secession without end. I do not believe that at the North one man in fifty desires an invasion of your soil or the destruction of your social system. They sim ply desire that you should not break up the Union by .your method of leaving it, but re fer all subjects of complaint to a convention of all the States, which will be competent either to redress all grievances or to provide away in which you can retire from the Un ion without dissolving the whole fabric of out- General Government. I nder the present exasperated state of the sections it is impossible to say to what length this conflict may go. But I assure you that in the few lines above you have the whole animus of the loyal States and of the Union men everywhere. Only the smaller number of fanatics think or talk of slavery. The whole question is one of self defence, and of Government or no Government. Yours, sincerely, ALONZO POTTRR. Hon. C. M. Clay and the London Times. To the Editor of the Times : Sir —Allow me your journal to make a few remarks upon the complications of the Uni ted States of America, which, I am surprised to find, are so little understood this side of the Atlantic. " What are ice fighting for ?" "Wo the people of the United States of America" (to use the language of our Constitution,) are fighting to maintain our nationality and the principles of liberty upon which it was found ed—that nationality which Great Britain has pledged herself, both by past comity and the sacred obligations of treaty, to respect; those great principles of liberty, that all power is derived from the consent of the governed; trial by jury, freedom of speech and the press; that "without law there is no liberty"—which we inherited from Great Britain herself, and which, liaving been found to lie at the base of all progress and civilization, we desire to per petuate for ourselves and the future of all na tions. The so-called "Confederate States of America" rebel against as —against our na tionality, and against all the principles of its structure. Citizens of the United States—of the one Government (not of Confederated States, as they would have the world believe —but of "us the people"), they propose, not by common legal consent, but by arms, to sever our nation into separate independencies. Claiming to " be let alone," they conspire against us, they seize by force our forts, arms and stores; appropriate to themselves our mints, moneys, and vessels at sea; capture our armies, and threaten even the capital at Washington. The word "secession" is used to cover up treason and delude the nations. They stand to us iu the relation of one "people;" the idea of "State sovereignty" is utterly delusive.— We gave up the old "Confederation" to avoid just such complications as have now occur red. The States are by our Constitution de prived of all the independent sovereigns, and the National G vernment acts not through State organizations, but directly upon the citizens of the States themselves—to that highest power, the right of life and death.— The States cannot keep an army or navy, or even repel invasion, except when necessity will not allow time for national action : can make no treaty, nor coin money, nor exer eise any of the first great essential powers t f "sovereignty." In a word, they can no more "secede" from the Union than Scotland or Ire land can secede from England. The professed friends of the independence of nations and popular rights, they have not only overthrown the Constitution of the Uni ted States, but the Constitution of the Con federate States themselves, refusing in every ease to refer their new usurpations to the votes of the people, thus making themselves doubly traitors to both the States and the na tion. The despotic rulers over 4,000,000 of enslaved Africans, they presume to extend over us, the white races of all nations, the same despotism, by ignoring the political rights of all but their own class, by restric tions upon the popular franchise, by the sup pression of the fredom of speech and of the press, by the terrorism of "Lynch law," or tyrannical enactments, backed by standing armies, to crush out the independence < f thought, the ineradical instincts of our world wide humanity—with the atrocious dogma that negro slavery is the only basis of real conservatism and progressive civilization, and that the true solution of the contest between labor and capital is that capital should awn the laborer, whether white or black. The sucees3 of such demands would send the tide of barbarism not only over the mil lions of the New World and the isles of the western oceans, but roll it back over England and emancipated Europe, and blot out from history this, the greatest glory of our times. 2. "Bateau yon subdue the revolted States?" Of course we can. The whole seven revolted States (2,103,000) have not as much white population as the single State of New York (3,851,563) by 1,500,000 people. If all the slave States were to make common cause, they have only 8,907,894 whites, with 4,000,- 000 slaves, while the Union has about 20,- 000,000 of homogeneous people, as powerful in peace and war as the world has seen. In telligent, hardy, and "many sided." their late apparent lethargy and weakness was the self possession of conscious strength. When they had made up their minds that farce was ne cessary, they moved upon Washington with such speed, numbers, and steadiness as is not surpassed in history. We have the money (at a lower rate of interest than ever before), the men, and the command of the seas and the internal waters. We can blockade them by sea, and invade them by land, and close up the rebellion in a single year if we are "let alone V' For the population of the slave States is divided perhaps equally for and against the Union, the loyal citizens being for the time overawed by the organized con spiraey of the traitors, the North is united to a man, the late allies of the South, the Democratic party, being now more earn est for the subjugation of the rebels than the Republicans. 3. "But can you govern a 'subjugated' peo ple and reconstruct the Union ?" We do not purpose to "subjugate" the revolted States —we purpose putting down simply the rebel citizens. We go to the rescue of the loyal Uuionists of all the States. We carry safety, and peace, and liberty to the Union loving people of the South, who will of themselves (the t} r rant overthrown) send back their rep resentatives to Congress, and the Union will be " reconstructed" without a change of a let ter in the Constitution of the United States. Did England subjugate Ireland and Scotland? Are the united kingdoms less homogeneous than of OJLJ, before the wars against the re hellion? So will the United States arise from tho smoke of battle with renewed stability and power. In turn now let us ask the Brit ish public some questions. 1. Where should British honor place her iu this contest? We overthrew that political el ement in America which has all through our history been the studied denouncer and real hater of the British nation, while we have been always from the beginning the friends of England. Because, though under differ ent forms of government, we had a common cause, and therefore a common intarest.-- England was the conservator of liberty in Europe—the Old World; we in the New. If the Confederate States are right, then is England wrong. If slavery must be extend ed in America, then must England restore it in the West Indies, blot out the most glori ous page of her history, and call back her freed men into chains! Let her say to the martyra of freedom from all the nations who have sought refuge and a magnanimous de fence on her shores, " Return to your scaf folds and your prison houses ; England is no more England!" Let the Times cease to ap peal longer to the enlightened opinion of the world; nay, let the statues of the great dead through which I passed in reverence yester day to the Houses of her political intelligence be thrown front their pedestals, when Eng land shall forget the utterances of her Chat hams, her Wilberforces, and her Broughams —that natural justice is the only safe diplo macy and lasting foundation of the indepen dence of nations. 2. What is the interest of England now ? If we may descend to such inferior appeals, it is clearly the interest of England to stand by the Union of the States. We are her best consumer; no tariff will materially affect that fact. YYe are the best customer of England, not because we are cotton growers or cotton spir.nera, agriculturists or manufacturers, but because we are producers and manufacturers and have money to spend. It is not the South, as is urged, but the North who are the best consumers of English commerce. The free white laborer and capitalist does now, and al- New Series—Vol. XV, No. 32. ways will, consume more than the white mas ter and slave. The Union and theexpausic.it of the States and Republican policy make us the best market for England and Europe.— W hat has the world to gain—England, France or any of tiie Powers to gain bv re ducitig the United States to a Mexican civili zation ? ' 3. Can England a/lord to oft ml the great nation which will still be " The United States of America" tre a if we should lose pari of the Stiiith ! Twenty millions of people to da v, with or without the Slave States, in twenty years will be 40,000,000! In another half eenturv we wiii he one hundred millions!— \Y e will rest upon the Potomac, and on the west batiks of the Mississippi river, upon the Gull of Mexico. Our railroads will run 4,0u0 miles upon a single parallel, binding our empire, which must master the Atlantic and Pacific oceans ! [s England so secure in the future against home revolt or foreign am bition as to venture, now in our need, to plant the seed of revenge in all our future ? If Ireland, or Scotland, or Wales shall at tempt to secede from that beneficent Govern ment of the ! nited Kingdom which now lightens their taxation and gives them secur ity and respect at home and abroad, shall we enter into a piratical war with our race and ally, and capture and sell in our ports the property and endanger the lives of peaceable citizens of the British Empire all over the world? 1 enter not into the discussion of details. England, then, is our natural ally. V> ill she ignore our aspirations ? If she is just, she ought not. If she is honorable and magnanimous, she cannot. //' she is wise, she will not. Your obedient servant. C. M. CLAV, United States Minister Plenipotentiary, &e.. to St. Petersburg Morley's, London, .May 17. Col. Anderson in Cincinnati. Col. Anderson, on Sunday a week, made the following neat little speech to the scholars of the German Mission Sabbath School in Cincinnati : ! did not expect, my dear children and friends, when I came, to be asked to ad dress you, but it is well, perhaps, for me to say a few words. 1 have been placed, providentially in a position that has attrac ted the attention of our country to me and my little band. But I would not have you misunderstand me or my position and the causes which have led mo safely through the dangers by which I have been sur rounded. No mortal assistance, no individ ual aid, would have sufficed to that end. I am willing, and I am not ashamed frankly to tell you my young friends, that no event, no transaction took place there, in any day, of any interest or importance to the cause, without my first appealing to God in tho morning, to give me spirit of wisdom to understand, that I might comprehend If is will, to give me strength of purpose and resolution to know my duty to 11 im and to, my country. Therefore the credit of what ever was done does not belong to me. Be fore 1 left Fort Suxnter 1 received letters from friends telling me that I should be in more danger from my friends than {was from my enemies—that I must be careful not to be spoiled by flattery. The advice was well timed ; but T trust rn God tbat He has saved me from the dan gers in which 1 was placed. Feeling, be lieving, and hoping thus, I confess I have not believed in my own mind that I was entitled to the least credit for what I have done, because God put it into my heart to do that which I did. Therefore, my young friends, I would urge upon all of you, in the transactions of life, that you will bo called upon to perform—and each individ ual has transactions to perform as momen tous to him as what I have performed is to me; his eternal happiness depends upon it —I would have you all put your trust in God. Do that with an humble heart, and you will be blest in this life, and prepared for everlasting happiness in that which is; to come. 1 can say no more. African. —A recent African traveler, Mr. Petheric, tells some funny stories.— < iue t ibe that lie encountered used to steal his tobacco and smoke his pipes. He filled a pipe, placing among the tobacco some gunpowder, and toJJ them that the pipes were so indignant at being used by them, that they would evince their dis pleasure. One of the chiefs, in the trav eler's absence, 'tried it on' again—and the pipe exploded into fragments. After this the traveler was looked op as a prophet, and his goods were not meddled with.— Another tribe had a singular mode of salu tation. The chief spit in his face. At first he deemed it an insult, and thought of knocking him down, but contented hirti self with spitting back. This, as it proved, Vas the right thing to do, and it was re ceived as a civil response to a courteous overture. Terrible Place for " Yamiints." —The destruction cf human life in India by wild beasts is almost beyond belief. Within the last two years nine hundred and nine ty-nine children have been killed by wolves iu the Punjaub, and a large number of adults. Although the government pays a considerable sum for the destruction of wild animals, they do not seem to diminish in numbers. In 1859 there were killed 12 tigers, 192 leopards, 170 bearsj 1,174 wolves, and 2 hyenas—total 1,567. In 1860 there were killed 35 tigers, 103 leop upds, 3qo bears, apd 2,080 wolves —total 2,658. ' to whom honor is due