Whole No. 2641.
THE MINITREJL
For the Qat'tte.
Uncle Dan's Big Dinner Bell.
DT DL'&REU. 111<;DILDAKREI.!..
I have heard the famed Swiss warbler sing,
Whon her notes iu waves of harmony rolled ;
And the shouts of applause made the welkin ring.
That went up from admirers of numbers untold.
1 have listened to singers of every class,
Some of whom m:Te my bosom swell,
lint there is otto sound that all others surpass—
"Tis that of Uncle Dan's big dinner bell.
The soldier prides in the rolling drum.
The iniastrel starts at the banjo's hum,
The Italian sighs for the organ's tones,
And Sambo laughs to the rattle of the bones.
The maiden ealls for the light guitar.
The piano's notes ring near and far.
Hut what joy to me no tongue can tell.
When 1 hear I'nele Dan's big dinner bell.
I havw heard of the minstrel's marvelous power
1 have listened to his roundelays trolling;
The farmer's great horn at the dinner hour,
1 have heard up the valleys rolling.
1 have run to the mess room at the call of'roast beef.'
a suiiud hungry soldiers like so well—
Hut the sound most dear to me—'tis beyond all belief -
I- the ring of Cnclo Dan's big dinner bell.
Edited by A. SMITH, County Superintendent.
For the Educational Column.
The Late Convention.
In some respects the late meeting of the
County Association was a decided success;
in others, it was almost a failure. The at
tendance of teachers was not as good as it
might and sh.mld have been ; but ilic at
tendance on the part of the citizens of
Milroy and vicinity, was most encouraging
and gratifying, giving unmistakable evi
dence of an intelligent interest in the causa
of popular education. Their generous arid
hearty hospitality was a temptation, which
it waa almost impossible to withstand, to
indulge very freely in the 'good things of
this life.'
A quorum not being present, no meeting
c iu'.d be held on Thursday afternoon. This
was a source of considerable disappoint
lnent to those present, and for a while
things looked as though the meeting would
be a failure. This shows the importaneo
of teachers coining to such meetings the
first day and remaining until the close.
The meeting in the evening proved quite
interesting and instructive. Friday was
well spent in drills and discussions.
It is to be hoped that efforts will he
nude by teachers to put into practice the
excellent and timely suggestions of Prof.
Rates in regsrd to physical culture, venti
lation, and other means of promoting the
health and comfort o< pupils. Prof, li's
1 dure on Friday evening wes a very com
pact and able production, requiring close
nttsiitiuu throughout to insure an uuder
-taudjug of the subject.
1 he discussions, aa is too often th case,
were to a considerable extent off baud,
rambling talks—cause why: everybody
thought everybody else would be prepared
—effect: nobody was prepared, hence, ne
cessarily, the discussions fell far below the
mark they might have reached. The only
y.uaedy that can prevent a recurrence of
taiks, instead of discussions, is thorough
preparation on the part of teachers. The
excellent suggestion of the Rev. Mr. White
in regard to selecting speakers to open each
question commends itself to the attention
of the Executive Committee.
Hit, notwithstanding a few drawbacks,
.'he meeting was decidedly a pleasant and
profitable one. Many a teacher has gone
back to his schoolroom with enlarged views
aud now interest iu his duties. Thus both
teacher end pupils will be benefited. Ex
cellent suggestions, hints, and illustrations
were freely given. Old acquaintances were
reatweJ, and now ones formed. Such a
meeting, certainly, should uot be missed
for any other than the most urgent reasonn.
OBSERVER.
THE VOICE OF AN ENGLISHMAN.
HEIGHT'S SPEECH.
The North American says that Mr.
Bright made a singularly forcible speech
■on American affairs at Rochdale, England,
on December 4th, which is printed at length
in the Times of December Gth. As an ar
gument to Englishmen, and a rebuke to
the false pretenses on which a certain class
in Kaglaud make their stand as advocates
of a war with the United States, it could
not be surpassed. The Times admits its
force by filling its columns with editorial
answers to it; and all the war journals seem
to regard it as indispensable to break the
force of Mr. Bright's appeal if they would
succeed in driving the nation on to actual
war.
The points of this speech are, as we
have said, especially levelled against En
glishmen, and are, therefore, not such as
wc stand upon ourselves. In England it
has long been pretended that solicitude
tor the amelioration of slavery was a lea
ding idea in all they proposed. Mr. Bright
exhausts every phase in this aapeot of the
case, and shows the hypocricy whioh would
wage a war on the free side of the Union,
gragggaiß AHIB gCTgaHSinami s-a- si£-a-cESj®aHi s sjssrwwmrms 9 sumHFimsT s>i^
in order to establish a government based f
solely and distinctively on eternal slavery j
as its corner stone. The foreo with which
this argument may be made to recoil on
British secessionists at the hands of any'
one is increased by Mr. Bright's mode of
putting the appeal, and it will be impossi
ble to destroy its effect with those who are
not utterly lost to honor. If all the people
of England can now join with the Yanceys j
and Spratts in re establishing the slave
trade, the world has indeed retrograded
well on toward a new barbarism. Mr.
Bright charges, finally, ' that slavery has
sought to break up the most free govern
ment in the world, and to form a new state,
in the nineteenth century, whose corner
stone is the perpetual bondage of millions
of men.' 'The slave States offer them
selves for the recognition of a Christian
nation, based upon the foundation—the
unchangeable foundation in their eyes—of
slavery and barbarism.' We shall sec what i
that ' Christian nation' will do in the case.
The fierce determination of the British j
government and people never to permit the !
separation of the least fragment of territory, j
colonial or in the British island*, from the i
undivided control of British power, is the
trait prominent above all others in their ,
history. They admit no such right in us :
however. They deny all justice in the
claim w* make for the loyalty of States
whose interests are identical with our own,
whose people are the same, and between
whom and ourselves there can be no inter
national boundary. It is not a question of
self government that is at issue in this re
bellion—it is simply a question whether in
ternal violence shall be permitted to dis
msinber and destroy a nation. Mr. Bright
puts this truth in the most forcible light,
citing the repeatod votes in Maryland,
Kentucky and other States against the
disunion scheme, and showing that it is a
wish to violently dismember the United
States that alone actuates our enemies on
both sides of the water. 'lf a bare rock
in your empire, that would not keep a sin
gle goat alive, be touched by any foreign
Power, why the whole empire is roused to
rosist.mce; and if there be, from accident
or from passion, the smallest insult to your
flag, what do jour newspaper writers say
on the subject, and what is said in all juur
towns and iu all your exchanges ? I will
tell you what would have been said if the
government of the northern States had
! taken their insidious aad dishonest advice:
They would have said that the great repub
lic is a failure, and democracy has murder
ed patriotism ; that history affords no exam
ple of such meanness and of such cowardice,
and would ha' c heaped unmeasured oblo
quy and contempt upon the people and
government who had taken that course.'
Of eoursc wo do not need the stimulus
of these allusions to aid us in maintaining
our position, but the people of England do
need the rebuke which Mr. Bright so vig
j orouly administers. Thero is reason to
j believe that this speech will have a great
j influence for good among that people, for
| to avert war is more to their advantage
! than ours.
THE TRENT AFFAIR.
The Official Correspondence Published.
The National Intcligencer has the offi
cial announcement of the adjustment of
the Trent difficulty, arid the correspon
dence between Lord Lyons and the Secre
tary of State, is published in full. The
InteHigeneer, in an article apparently semi
official, says :
" Whatever may be the disappointment of
any at the result to which the administration
has come in the settlement of a question,
which constitutionally devolves upon the Ex
ecutive branch of the Government, wa are
sure that all will applaud the firmness and
sincerity with whioh the administration, res
isting a national tendency impressed by the
concentrated drift of public opinion in our
own country, has resolved to do what it be
lieved to be right in the premises, and it
should give a pause to all who may be dis
posed to challenge the propriety of the reso
lution to which the administration has come
when they note that a contrary dcoision
would leave us in opposition, not only to the
view of Great Britain, but also to those which
the Government of France announces, res
pecting the principles of public law involved
in the transaction."
The Intelligencer says in conclusion :
" Whatever, therefore, naav be eaid by any
in the way of exception to the extreme terms
of the demand made by the British Govern
ment in the ease of the Treat, it is at least
just to admit that the ease has been QOadjust
ed by our Government as to subserve, we
would hope, the great cause of neutral rights
against the assumptions heretofore asserted
by England, but now repudiated by that pow
er in common with France and the United
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1862.
States. The law of nations, as traditionally
interpreted by our Government, has received
a new sanction, though at the cost, it may be,
of some national sensibility, waked into dis
proportionate activity by the temporary ex
acerbations of civil fueds. The latter, let us
remember, are but for a day—the law of na
tions is for all time."
The Intelligencer contains five columns I
of the correspondence. The despatch from
Earl llussell, her Britannic Majesty's Sec
retary of State of Foreign Affairs, after re
citing the circumstances under which he
understood the capture of these parties to
have been made, proceeds to characterise
it as an outrage on the British flag, and
after expressing the hope and belief that it
had not been authorized by our Govern
ment, asks a reparation appropriate to such
an aggression, that the four gentlemen des
ignated should be released, and an apology
should be given for what the British Gov
ernment deems an affront to her flag.
In responding to this demand, Mr. Sew
ard, after reviewing the circumstances un
der which the arrest was effected, accor
ding to the report of our naval officers, and
thus developing the inaccuracies and omis
sions of the British statements, proceeds
to analyze the facts and principles of pub
lie law involved in the case, and arrives at
the conclusion neglect of Captain
Wilkes partly voluntary on his part, to
bring the Trent in for trial as a lawful
prize, may be justly held to operate as a
forfeiture of the belligerant right of cap
ture accruing under the laws of nations,
and that the government of the United
States, as well as from the consideration of
the inconsistency with its own traditional
policy respecting marantine rights of neu
trals, would be in its own wrong if it
should refuse a compliance with the Brit
ish demand, so far as relates to the dis
position that shall be made of the prison
ers taken iuto custody by Capt. Wilkes,
under circumstances to be justly open to
exception on both the grounds thus indica
ted.
So far as regards the apology asked by
the British Government, none is tendered
because a simple statement of the facts as
they are suffices to thow that no offence
could have been intended on thcpaitof
our government, as it had given no instruc
tions whatever in the premises, while the
proceeding of Capt. Wilkes in so far as it
fails to accrue to the benefit of bis govern
ment and to conform to the rules of pub
lic law, was dictated by considerations of
kindnesss and forbearance.
" The decision of the President in this af
fair, as announced and explained in the lucid
despatch of Mr. Seward," says the National
Intelligencer, " has the approval of every
member of the Cabinet."
Mr. Seward in conclusion says:
" If I decide this case in favor of my own
Government. I must disavow its most cher
ished principles, and reverse and forever
abandon its essential policy. The country
cannot afford such a sacrifice. If I maintain
those principles and adhere to that policy, I
must surrender the case itself. It will be
seen, therefore, that this Government could
not deny the justice of the claim presentsd
to us in this respect upon its merits.
"We are asked to do the British nation
first, what we always insisted that all nations
ought to do to us. The claim of the British
Government is not made in a discourteous
manner. This Government since its first or
ganization has never used more guarded lan
guage in a similar case. In coming to my
conclusion I have not forgotten that if the
safety of this Union required the detention
of the captured persons, it would be the !
right and duty of this Government to detain )
them ; but the effectual check and waning <
proportions of the existing insurrection, as !
well as the comparative unimportance of the
captured persons themselves, were dispassion- ;
ately weighed, happily forbid me from resort
ing to that defence.
" Nor am I aware that American citizens j
are not in any case to be unnecessarily sur- |
rendered, for any purpose, into the keeping
of foreign States. Only the captured persons,
however, and others who are interested in
them, could justly raise a question on that
ground. Nor have I been tempted at all by
the suggestions that cases might be found in
history where Great Britain refused to yield
to other nations, and even to ourselves, claims
like that which is now before us.
" Those cases occurred when Great Britain,
as well as the United States, was the home
of generations which, with all their peculiar
interests and passions, have passed away. —
She eould, in no other way, so effectually
disavow any such injury as we think she has
done us by assuming now, as her own, the
ground upon which we then stood. It would
tell little for our own claims to character of
a just and magnanimous people, if we should
so far consent to be guided by the law of re
taliation as to lift up buried injuries from
their graves to oppose against what national
consistency and national conscience compel
us to Tegard as a claim internationally right.
" Putting behind me all suggestions of this
kind, I preter to express my satisfaction that
by the adjustment of the present case upon
principles confessedly Amorican, and yet, as
I trust, naturally satisfactory to both the na
tions concerned, a question especially and
rightly settled between them which, hereto
fore, exhausting not only all the forms of
peaceful discussion, but the arbitrameut of
war itself for more than half a century, alien
ated the two countries from each other, and
perplexed with fears and apprehension all
other nations.
"The four persons in question nre now held
in military custody at Fort Warren, in the
State of Massachusetts. They will be cheer
fully liberated. Your Lordship will please
indicate a time and place for receiving them.
" I avail myself of this occasion to offer to
your Lordship a renewed assurance of ray
very high consideration.
(Signed) " Wit. 11. SEWARD."
Here follows a letter from Mr.Thouven
el, the French Minister of State, and
the reply of Mr. Seward. The French
Minister's letter sets forth the facts of the
arrest, and points out the dangers it involves,
and urges a compliance with the demands
of the British Government; Mr. Seward
replies that before Mr. Thouvenel's des
patches had been received, our Government
had decided in its course of action, and
concludes by an expression that the Presi
dent appreciates the kindly motives of the
French Government.
LORD LYONS TO MR. SEWARD.
WASHINGTON, Dec 27, 1861.
The Hon. Wm. 11. Snrard, drc.
SIR —I have the honor of receiving the note
which you did me the honor to address to
me yesterday, in answer to Earl Russell's
despatch of the 30th of November last, rela
tire to the removal of Mr. Mason, Mr. Sli
dell, Mr. Macfarlawd and Mr. Eustis from the
British mail packet Trent.
I will without any loss of time, forward to
Iler Majesty's Government a copy of the im
portant communication which you have made
to me.
I will also, without delay, do myself the
honor to confer with you personally on the
arrangements to be made for delivering tho
four gentlemen to me, in order that they may
be ngain placed under the protection of the
British flag.
I have the honor to be, with the highest
consideration, sir, your most obedient humble
servant.
(Signed) LTONS.
Forward Movements.
The Cincinnati Commercial says: We
have faith that the winter will not be pass
ed by our armies without striking decisive
blows at tho rebellion. It is no secret that
the Burnside expedition is aimed at East
ern Virginia, whether on the lower Poto
mac or byway of the Rappahannock, or
York, or James rivers, or through Norfolk,
can only be conjectured. It is quite with
in the limits of possibility and probability
that twenty-five thousand men will be ship
ped from Annapolis, this week, to deal the
blow. The immediate object of the expe
dition is to turn the rebel position in front
of Washington. It. is not likely that th®
rebels have fortifications on any of the riv
ers of Eastern Virginia superior to those
on Port Royal sound, and we may antici
pate with confidence, that Burnsidc's gun
and tuortar boats will be able to clear the
way for the army. The earthworks of the
rebels are not prepared to resist the verti
cal fire which will be administered to them.
Any map of Eastern Virginia will show
how remarkably vulnerable the State is to
a power commanding tho Chesapeake. At
least sixty thousand men can be spared
from the army in front of Washington, to
move down the Potomac. Hooker's divis
ion, now on the north bank of that river,
opposite the enemy's blockading batteries,
can be transported over in a night, and
there is reason to believe that ample ar
rangments have been made to secure suc
cess to such a movement. Five thousand
troops can be spared from Baltimore. The
whole force at Fortress Monroe, with the
exception of two or three regiments to do
garrison duty, can be put in motion at any
time. Thus it would appear perfectly
practicable to turn the right flank of the
enemy, and push into Eastern Yirgiuia
with an army of near one hundred thou
sand men.
The right wing of our army on the Po
tomac is not motionless, and when the left
moves, will not be behind it in activity.—
The movement of Gen. Banks to Freder
ick, and the concentration of troops at
Romney, under Gen. Reynolds, points un
mistakably to an advance upon Winches
tor, the key to the Valley of Virginia; and
that taken, our army could follow the track
of General Johnston, in July, and, from
Manassas Gap, make Manassas Junction
untenable. Advances in the east would,
undoubtedly, be seconded by movements
in the west.
Gen. Buell has not less than sixty thou
sand men in hand for a march upon Bow
ling Green; and while the great work of
bridge building is going on at Green river,
OUT camps are lively with the incessant
drilling of the men, the crude masses of
the volunteers being fashioned into the
similitude of the regular army, while the
hills of Kentucky are daily resounding to
the target practice of our artillerists; and
in the meantime, the inevitably " inade
quate transportation" is brought up to an
approximation to adequacy by extensive
requisitions for wagons, and the zealous
breakage of mules. However cautious
Gen. Buell may be, he clearly sees the
work before him, and is engaged in it with
alert and unwearied energy. Beyond doubt,
he is to take a prominent part in the im
pending effort to prostrate, at the great
points of contact, the military power of
! the rebellion.
Turning from the Southwest to the
Southeast, we find (.Jen. Sherman's army
reinforced by several regiments, and hav- j
ing definitely possessed the islands of the '
coast of South Carolina, prepared to strike j
on the right or left, or in front, with at 1
least fifteen thousand bayonet strength.— j
In the Gulf, Fort Pickens has given the
rebels a specimen of its volcanic power,
and is ready for another and more destruc
tive eruption. Our force there has alrea
dy been increased, and Gen. Bragg has
called lustily for reinforcements. Our I
trorps on Ship Island menace New Orleans
and Mobile, as those at Hilton Head threa
ten Charleston and Savannah. Galveston,
the most important cf the Texan towns,
has been deserted by the rebels as untena- \
ble; and the panic on tho Southern coast, !
which was wakened by our guns at Hatter- j
as, has spread like an epidemic, until it is
felt at the mouth of the Rio Grande; and
the Gulf of Mexico, which, in the dreams
of the Cotton State conspirators, was to be
the Mediterranean sea of a Southern em- j
pire a3 vast as that of Rome, is to thcrn
full of terrors, as the highway of the de- '
stroyers of their ambitious and guilty
sohemes; where, in the intoxication of an
ticipated triumph, they saw argosies laden
with the more than golden fleece of the
cotton fields, giving them supremacy over
the commerce of the world, every sail that
glistens, and every smoke that rises over
the waters, causes them to quake with fresh
alarms.
WAR NE WS ,
Captain C. O. Loomis' Battery of Mich
igan Artillery, numbering one hundred
aud forty-two men, one hundred and thirty
two horses, six wagons and six rifled can
noD, has been transferred from Western
Virginia, where it has done excellent ser
vice, to the Department of the Cumber
land.
Seven hundred Regulars, of the force
surrendered to the Rebels in Texas by Ma
jor Lynde, lately passed through Roches
ter, destined for Rome and Syracuse,
whence they will go to Sackett's Harbor
and Oswego, to garrison the forts at those
places.
On Saturday a week General Prentiss,
with four hundred and fifty men, dispersed
nine hundred Rebels, under Colonel Hor
sey, at Mount Sion, Boon county, Missouri,
killing and wounding one hundred and fif
ty and capturing thirty-five prisoners, nine
ty five horses, and ono hundred and five
guns. Our loss was only three killed and
eleven wounded. The Rebels have burn
ed another train on the North Missouri
Railroad. They say that they intend to
destroy all the cars on the road.
Mr. Ely, recently released from Rich
mond, states that just before his departure
from Richmond, Gen. Winder sent for Mr.
Ely and asked him to designate several offi
cers to be released in exchange for those
lately discharged from Fort Warren. He
undertook the delicate office with a view
to humanity, choosing those most likely to
suffer from long confinement, and the for
tunate selections include Lieuts. Dickin
son of New London, Conn., Ferrish, of
Providence, G rover, of Bath, with 250
privates.
The news from New Mexico is peculiar
ly gratifying: There is a strong Union
feeLng prevalent throughout the Territory,
and at the latest dates all was quiet. Col
onel Canby, in command of the Depart
ment of New Mexico, has retaken Forts
Craig and Stanton, on the Mesilla border,
and at last accounts he was on his way to
dispossess the Rebels of Fort Fillmore,
which was traitorously surrendered to them
by Major Lynde. There are about six
thousand Indians on the Big Bend of the
Arkansas, consisting of different tribes,
who are anxious and willing to fight in de
fence of the Union.
The Government stables at Washington,
near the Observatory, took fire on the 20th
and over one hundrd horses perished.
The Rebel schooner Fashion has been
captured by the gunboat Ethan Allen and
sent into Key West.
The Death of Prince Albert. —Tho steamer
Persia brings us the unexpected intelligence
that Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria,
died of gastric fever at noon on Sunday, the
15th December. He was born at Rosenau, !
August 26, 1819, and was the second son of
Earnest, Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha. On I
the sth of February, 1840, he was married to
Queen Victoria, since whioh event the Brit
ish Parliament has given him a personal al
lowance of $150,000 a year. He also held
numerous luorative and honorary appoint
ments, and by his accomplishments, his de
votion to art, science, agriculture, and indus
trial interests, he gained the respect and
kind regard of the people of England, and of
nearly all other civilized oountries. Although
forbidden, by the peculiar nature of his posi
tion, to interfere in political affairs, the em
ployments to which he devoted himself, and
his high personal character, won for him a
reputation which many monarchs who poeses
j sed far greater power never obtained.
ygA boy named Levi Schoch, nearFree
j burg, lately committed suicide by hanging
j himself. He was about twenty years of age.
| No cause given.
New Series—Yol. XYI, No. 10-
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
In the Senate on the 23d Mr. Grimes'
gave notice of a bill to have one of the
military hospital* at Washington placed
under the care of homoeopathic physicians.
Hon. Harrett Pavis, Senator from Ken
tucky, appeared and took his scat. The
bill appropriating one million of dollars foi*
gunboats in the Western waters was pas
sed. Mr. \\ ilson submitted a bill prohib
iting the employment of the military in the'
re turn ot fugitive slaves. The bill increas
ing the number of Cadets at West Point
was debated and postponed. The House
bill increasing the duties on tea, sugar,
coffee, and molasses, was passed. It goes
into effect on the first of January.
In the House of Representatives Mr.
Yallandigham submitted a hill to enforce
the writ of habeas corpus. Mr. Wilson's
resolution instructing the Military Com
mittee to report an additional article of
war prohibiting officers of the army from
using the forces under their command in
returning fugitive slaves was passed. A
bill increasing the duties on tea, coffee and
sugar was passed under a suspension of the
rules. The bill fixes the duties as follows
—teas, twenty cents per pound ; coffee five
cents; raw sugar two and a half cents ;
white sugar three cents; lump and refined
five cents; molasses six cents prr gallon.
In the Senate on the 28th, Mr. Ilale
introduced a resolution committing the
Government against the rendition of Messrs.
Mason and Slidell, and a belligerent speech
thereon. The Senate, however, refused to
take any inconsiderate action on so impor
tant a subject, and tabled the resolution.
Mr. Pavis, the new Senator from Kentucky,
I gave notice of a bill to confiscate the prop
i erty of those participating in any capacity
jin the rebellion. The House met, but no
quorum being present adjourned.
The Senate after a brief session on the
30th, adjourned until Thursday. A com
munication was received from the Secreta
ry of War declaring it to be incompatible
with the public interests to furnish the
correspondence between Gen. Scott and
Gen. Patterson. Mr. Davis, of Kentucky,
introduced a bill declaring certain persons
alien enemies and confiscating their prop
erty. The House of Representatives also
adjourned until Thursday.
A Sade Mistake. —What where supposed tci
be the remains of the son of Cap*. Jewitt, of
Vienna, lowa, were carefully setot home for
burial. The family and friends, with the I
col military, assembled to bury the dead,
when the coffin was opened, and the face was
that of a stranger. The funeral ceremonies,
howcTcr, proceeded, and the strange young
soldier was buried in the grave prepared by
loving parents for their own son.
Clearfield Rcpobficnrrr, patent
democratic newspaper, in commenting on the
employment by farmers of a few contrabrande
in Washington county, Pa., at $5 per month
—probably taken out of charity, for farm la
bor is light in winter—endeavors to make
capital.'out of it, alleging that the introduction
of the blacks will lead to a reduction of white
labor!; and then,with consummate hypocrisy,
turns round and ridicules the President's re
commendation for oolonizing them, by declar
ing that "if all our ships were engaged, fhey
would be unable to transport even the natu
ral increase."
ftST'lf the patent democratic
arc to be believed, the Declaration of Inde
pendence must be abolition doctrine, and
those who believe in it abolitionists 1
g(ay*The Caucasian, an infamous sheet
which the traitors of the New York Day
Book established in place of the latter, has
been eicluded from the mails. Of coarse
there are some " democratic" howls.
Sfeg"The Democrat of the 25'tb copies edi
torially from that democratic secession paper,
the Selinsgrove Times, one of those traitor ar
tieles which uphold slavery as harmless in
having produced the present rebellion, aDd
throws the whole blame on " Northern Abol
itionism." A few months ago, when appoint*
ments were wanting in the army, is., demo
cratic orators and papers did not hesitate to
say that this rebellion was projected thirty
years ago; and of course either those mett
lied then or else the patent democratic papers
lie now.
Estate ef Mary Clayton, deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given that letters of
administration on the estate of MARY
CLAYTON, late of Derry township, Mifflin
county, deceased, have been granted to the
undersigned, residing in said township. All
persons indebted to said estate are requested
to settle immediately, and those having claims
to present them, duly authenticated for settle*
ment. YfM. MITCHELL,
dec!B-6t Administrator.
by the barrel or hundred —Fancy,
Extra Family and Superfine Flour for
sale by JOHN KENNEDY A Co.