C|e Centre Democrat.
BELLEFONTE, PA,
Thumda}' Morning, Oct. IT '6l.
J. J. BRISBIN, EDITOR & PUBLISHER.
W. W. BROWN, ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
The Treasonable Watchman's
" Glorious Victory."
In the last campaign, both through our
paper nod on the stump in gome sixteen
meetings, in some ol which R. G. Durham
Esq., Hon. J as. T. Halo and II n. Henry
Johnson the gloriously elected Senator of
this District participated, we told the Re
publicans of this county that if we suffered
tne Democrats of this county to succeed, they
would rejoice over it, as a glorious Democrat
tic victory. That we were right the last
number of the Watchman will bear us testi
mony. Hear the Watchman in its boast and
Bragadocia. It sys, over the beading of a
" Glorious Victory
" One year ago the Democratic party in
" this county was defeated by the combined
" efforts of the Abolition and Republican
"parties. We bavo long been disposed to
" look upon these terms as idencial—lanati
" cism run wild. (We say the man who
says so is an ignoramus or a liar ) " Noth
" ing served to stay the tide that threatened
"to overwhelm us. Democrats who stood
" up in the midst of the adverse circumstan
" ces, which surrounded us, and warned the
" people of the danger to be appreheoded
" from the triumph of sectionalism (this is a
dead bit at their own Breckinridge Demo
cratic party) " were reviled and contemned
'• by the very people who hare been so much
" exercised of late for the weilare of the
•' Union." (The Treasonable—presented—
Watchman for iostance.) " Had these per
'• sons (Toe Breckinridge Democrats) thin
" honored and revered the Stars and Stripes.
"bad they been regarding them as a rich
" legacy, transmitted to them as a prioceless
" inheritance, by the early founders of this
"Government, we shou'd be rej -icing to-day
" in the choicest blessing of peace and pros
" perity."
Now, fallow citizens wo that the
above quotation icith our remit.cs in paren
tbasie added, exact and truthful gives the
history of the Breckinridge wing of the
Democratic party. But the Watchman did
not so intend it aud therefore we shall not
hold them to our version. We shall give
them the benefit of their in terpetation and
treat it accordingly. The writer of that ar
ticle knew fully as well as we, that he was l
misrepresenting facts in every line he wrote,
lie knew that the only sectionalism that
everexistedin 4 his country was in the Breck
inridge party ar.d platform. The motto of
the Republican party. " Freedom is Na'iuti
al—slavery sectional," while the Breckin
ridge Democracy advocated the veiy reverse
of this. Let the Editor of the Watchman
look at the Breckinridge Platform and deny
our assertion if he dare. Tne Republican
party advocated the old Jefferson djotrine of
'equal and exact justice to all men' whiie the
Breefcinridge wing of the Democratic par y
in their platform, advocated that slavery was
the natural condition of tho working men
without regard to color. We can cito quota
tions from Southern Democratic papers if
necessary.
We have not ro m, however, to go into de
tail this week. The Watchman may boast
of its victory in the county ticket, but we can
boast over the defdkt of the most cunniDg, as
well as the most wisny—washy politician in
this county Col. Win. 11. Blair. We fought
him hard, not because we bad any tiling per
sonal against him, but because we knew him
well. Let them crow. Is it a victory to
elect men like Amos Alexander, Dr. S:ro
becker, Proudfoot and Dr. M.t htll, alj
standing upon a platform endorsing treason,
because it endorsed the Democratic Watch
man presented by a sworn Grand Jury of
tbe county ?
But who enabled the Watchman to crow
over tbe defeat of the Republican party ?
Did they elect their men ? Nay, verily ! It
was only because they were aided by some
of the richest and most injiuencial members
of the Republican party, and because about
seven hundred Republicans in the couDty
good and true, (but feeling too sanguine) did
not go to the election at all. A comparison
with the vote of last year and of this, will
prove our assertion. Another cause of-our
defeat is, that this side the mountain inclu
ding, Potter, Harris and Ferguson townships
have sent twelve hundred soldiers to the
amy. If these men had all voted in the
army our victory would have been complete,
and our humiliation spared, We Just not
ODly most of their votes, but their influence
in our community at home. We wish to b6
understood. We do not claim that the whole
1200 soldiers were Republicans, but we do
claim that the Republican party has sent
eight men for every three that have gone out
of tha Democratic party from this county.
The five German townships, in which the
Berichter claims that BLAIR reoeived 1000
votes, have not sent to war, to battls for the
Constitution and the Union TWENTY soldiers,
claiming to be Democrats.
llow easy then to gain a victory, when at
east seven hundred Republicans from this
county are in the war, and almost, if not aL
tsgetber as many more were too sanguine,
and did not go to the Polls. Last fall we
polled 5,989 votes,this fall including the vote
of the soldiers who voted, will not exceed
4600 votes. Almost every vote in tbe Ger
man townships were cut. This proves our
assertion to be oorrect. What humiliates us
is, to know, that the Watchman crows over
ns, snd th state and national Adminiss
1.&..0U8 simply because lUpuijiioun!) aided
them in achieving that victory.
But, honest Republ'cans of CeDtre, this is
no time for complaints and heartburnings.—
No time to talk about *' rainy days" or dry
d-js. It '3 a time to feel our humiliation,
our disgrace. But above all, ifie time to for
get the past and go to work for the future.—
Toe victory must, in the end, be ours, for
ti .d is with the right, and the wicked will
finally be punished, the rebellion put down,
and the Union restored. Let us both forget
end forgive, and in so doing " heap coals of
flie on the heads" of (hose failed to do their
j duty, in our humble opinion in this election.
' Let us unite as heretofore and make another
i long and strong pull altogether, and by next
i fall we will be able to crush oat all there is
left of treason and secession in our glorious
| old county. Remember, ye Republicans,
good and true, that
" Truth crushed to earth will rise again,
The eternal years of God are hers,
While error wounded wriths in pain
And dies amid her worshippers."
Look at the g'orious result of the
election in the five gallant German town
ships—Haines. Penn, Gregg, Miles, and Pot.
ter —where the people are hone9t and en
lightened, and when the BERICHTER is read
in almost every family. Blair's majority in
those townships is nearly ONE THOU
SAND! It is a glorious result in favor of
the UNION, and a rebuke to Disunion Re
publicanism. What did we tell you before
j the election? Hurrah for our side and the
r Union.— Berichter.
Yes, men of Centre couty, look, and weep
j as you It ok ! The five gallant German iown
| ships that read the Berichter in every [family
■ havo cast their votes almost as a unit against
! n
the State and National Administration, and
their hearty and honest endeavors to bring
peace and prosperity to the country by
crushing out one of the most wicked rebell
ions ever got up in any country to enable
the aristocracy to enslave the working class
es and shut them out from a participation in
all the affairs ol the nation.
But could anything better have been ex
pected from men so lost to all sense of
patriotism, that while 1200 men, from this
side of the mountains, have shouldered their
muskets and bidding farewell to all they held
| dear at home, have gone to risk their lives
1 for that liberty bequeathed to them by their
fathers—not even a corporals guard have
gone froia toe Jive gallant townships except
Republicans? Truly these Jive gallant town
! ships must be the deceDdants of the gallant
Hessians that so nobly fought in the battles
of the revolution against liberty.
Who were their candidates ? Samuel Stro
hecker, John Proudfoot and Amos Alexan
der were their chosen exponents, and who
will dare say that either of them was a Union
man ? It is true that they bad Blair and
Mitchell on their ticket, but net from choice
—oh no !it was forced upou them by the po
litical managers of the Jive gallant town
ships.
But we need not wonder that the Demo
cratic editor points with enthusiasm to his
Jive gallant townships when we see by the
' vote of our armj that the gallant Union sen
-1 timents of the Democratic party have kept
, them all at home, using at least a negative
' influence in favor of the Southern traitors
: and agairst the Government of our fathers.
The Jive gallant townships are true expo
nents of the gallant Democracy all over ihe
State, and they have by their votes repudia
ted their own Government, and virtually said
that they would rather be under the traitors
flag and be governed by the traitors Consti
tution—one article of which declares that
neither Dutch nor Irish, nor any other for
eigner, skall ever baye the right of citizen
ship in the Southern Confederacy—than by
tne Government of Washington.
llow proud the Bericter must feel of his
five gallant townships who were all either.
afraid to go to war, or staid at home because
they were enemies, like the majority of Dem
ocrats, to their country, its Constitution and
its laws.
Five gallant townships, you have showß
jour galantry by a vote that debases you to
the condition of eastern serfs ; by a rejection
of your own Government for tint of traitors,
squirm a a you will yon have done it, and the
bitter fruit will be of your own raising when
you complain of taxation, want of markets
and general distress. One solid vote at the
last election to sustain the Government wo'd
have ended the war in three months ; your
vote may lengthen it to three years—your
five gallant German toionships.
Yes, look at the fee gallant German town*
ships, not one of them has sent even a corpo
rals guard to protect the capital of the na
tion or drive back the hordes of traitors now
seeking to destroy the tiovernment of our
fathers ; aye, look at them ; their candidates
were Samuel Strohecker, John Proudfoot and
Amos Alexander. Look at the gallant can
didates of the five gallant townships and ask
in what their gallantry consists ? Has it not
been in opposing their own Government to
favor that of traitors.
This side of the mountains has sent 12,00
men to assist in driving back traitois and in
protecting our Constitution and from being
overthrown, and yot the Berichter knows of
nothing gallant in doing so ; but the Jive
German townships staid at home and refused
to lift an arm in defence of their country, and
10. this Democratic organ vaunts their galan
try to the skies.
But why need we wonder ? The vote of our
soldiers show where we stand, while tbe sen
timents of the Berichter, the votes of the
whole Democratic p' j in Pennsylvania
have all said the reve:.-. , and that is simply
that they would take no part against the
traitors and in fovor of their own Govern
ment ; in other words they will be silent trai
ors because they dare not be active ones.
The result of this election has shown these
facts to the world and it is futile to deny
them, and even now the leaders of the Dem
ocratic party are saying let us go with the
Southern States, let Pennsylvania be one of
them, and let the Government recognize their
independence. Will the gallant townships
let their aristocratic leaders sell them thus ?
Perhaps they will—we shall ste.
Sterling Events at Hand.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.
The excitement and anxiety which pre
vailed yesterday and the day before has
gradually pa-HPII away, and the city to day,
uuts.de ui the muvemeut of tne soldiery,
presents a quiet appearance. Everthmg,
however, betokens stirring events at hand.—
Beforcto-morrow night it is expected that our
forces will be strongly entrenched at Fairfax
aud CentreviUe. A strong reconnoissance
was made this morning from the neighbor
hood of Lewinsville. It is not believed that
the Rebels will make a stand at either place,
but that they will retreat as they did from
Munson's llill. It is more than probable
that the nest great blow will be struck on
! the old battle ground at Bull Run. One
thing can be depended upon, that Gen. Mc
| Clellan is determined that there shall be no
retreat or backward movement.
"THE CEBTTRE OEMOCR.AT.
OFFICIAL RETURNS
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THE COUNTY OF CENTRE.
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Senator and Assembly.
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Bellefonte, "133 108 115 tH
Milesburg, 34 56 32 58
Ur.ionville, 30 30 26 35
Benner, 131 67 125 72
Boggs. 101 172 97 177
Burnside, 13 24 13 24
Curtin, 26 15 25 16
Ferguson, 196 142 198 135
Gregg, 264 51 265 50
Haines, 209 82 205 85
Halfmoon, 37 90 37 90
Harris, 152 222 149 222
Howard, 66 97 65 99
Huston, 19 61 18 62
Libertj, 34 74 34 73
Marion, 71 41 69 42
Miles, 237 33 233 36
Patton, 50 71 50 71
Penn, 264 27 260 31
Potter, 306 120 307 123
Rush, 43 54 40 58
Snowshoe, 33 40 29 44
Spring, 107 139 97 149
Taylor, 12 37 13 '36
Union, 37 58 33 62
Walker, 131 128 131 130
Worth, 43 37 43 37
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B-dlefonie, 109 111 129 129
Milesburg, 30 45 57 57
Union ville, 36 25 35 34
Benner, 121 127 73 73
Boggs. 98 99 176 173
Burnside, 13 24 24 24
Curtin, 21 23 18 20
Ferguson, 179 184 161 149
Gregg, 257 261 58 53
Haines, 199 205 87 84
Hallraoon, 36 37 91 90
Harris, 128 134 243 235
Howard, 63 51 100 111
Huston, 17 16 62 62
Liberty, 34 34 71 61
Marion, 64 63 41 37
Miles, 218 222 45 43
Patton, 47 47 74 73
Penn, 255 256 40 35
Potter, 304 304 125 124
Rush, 40 41 57 57
Snowshoe, 29 29 44 44
SpriDg, 94 95 150 151
Taylor, 12 10 37 36
Union, 32 33 63 62
Walker, 131 129 132 128
Worth, 41 41 38 39
Treasurer and Commissioner.
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Bellefonte, 139 104 118 128
Milesburg, 32 55 32 58
UnioDville, 27 33 26 34
Benner, 140 53 126 69
Boggs, 106 167 97 176
Burnside, 13 24 13 24
Curtin, 25 17 25 16
Ferguson, 193 139 191 139
Gregg, 264 50 264 45
Haines, 205 84 214 76
Ilallmoon, 37 90 37 90
Harris, 171 200 145 230
Howard, 66 95 65 9i
Huston, 18 61 17 62
Liberty, 34 71 35 70
Marion, 72 37 67 38
Miles, 234 36 238 19
Patton, 49 71 51 69
Penn, 262 29 273 19
Potter, 308 119 305 124
Rush, 43 55 41 55
Snowshoe, 32 41 29 44
Spring, 127 115 104 142
Taylor, 12 36 12 37
L'nion, 32 62 32 63
Walker, 141 109 132 128
Worth, 43 37 41 39
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Bellefonte, 113 128
Milesburg, 31 58
Unionville, 26 34
Benner, 124 72
Boggs, 95 179
Burnside, 12 24
•Curtin, 25 16
Ferguson, 191 147
Gregg, 266 48
Ilaines, 205 84
Halfmoon, 37 90
Harris, 139 234
Howard, 64 99
Huston, 18 62
Liberty. 34 70
Marion, 70 41
Miles, 226 35
Patton, 48 74
Penn, 260 32
Potter, 304 120
Rush, 42 55
Snowshoe, 28 44
Spring, 98 146
Taylor, 12 37
Union, 32 63
Walker, 131 128
Worth, 43 37
figf A beginning has been made in Ohio
towards brenkiog up the organizations of the
Knights of the golden Circle, which are.
known to exist in various parts of the state.
Steps were taken to expose the oaths of the
order, which are of the most treasonable and
infamous kind, and Mr. Frederick Court, a
leading member, was arrested at Marion,
Ohio, on the7tb inst. An unsuccessful at
tempt was made by a party of three huDdred
led by Prosecuting Attorney of the county,
who is supposed to be a member of the Order
to rescue the prisoner. Warrants are now
out for other prominent members of the gang
of scoundrels. It is said that persons obnox
ious to them, and who is leared would expose
their oaths and plans, have been put cut of
the way mysteriously—perhaps murdered.
fgyThe impression is from recent advi
ces received from Richmond, that it is the
intention of the Rebels to winter the bulk ef
tboir army in that oity.
Drafting.
We notice that soms of the newspapers of
this ADd other states, still continue to discuss
the prospect of a draft tu fill ub the requisi
tion for troops made by the last Proclamation
of President Lincoln- Many of these jour
nals do not fully understand this subject,
while others have not taken the trouble to
inform themselves as the legal forms and
regulations of a draft. Now, as to drafting,
strange as it may seem, we feel confident in
the matter, that there is no power in the
laws of the United States, or of any state of
the Union, which enables the authorities to
draft, or to force any man to bear arms
against his will beyond the limits of his own
state. Much as this is, perhaps, to be regret
ted, we may as well state the truth as we
understand it. Laws have been enacted de*
manding tbe enrollment of the malitia, deter
mining that all white male citizens between
the ages of eighteen and forty-five years shall
hear arms in defense of this state, but these
are merely state ordinances, and can force
no man into the army to do duty beyond ihe
limits of the immediate sovereignty in which
he resides.
In regard to ibis power to draft, we repeat
that there is not now within the law books of
the United States, or of the State of Pennsyl
vania a single provision by which men can
be forced to bear arms. Tbe President may
for the term of three months, call for any
number of troops ; he may arrange the quota
cf his demand on the states according to
population and militia resources; but there
is interference with the sovereignty of the
states is at an end, so far as the demands of
tbe army are concerned. In complying with
this requisition, the Governor of our state
may call for volunteers for active service, in
such sections as the President may think it
propel to demand it. Any further ptovinee
on the part of the Governor is controlled by
tbe constitution of the state, which only ena
bles the Executive to enroll the militia of one
of these purposes—to suppress an insurrec
tion, or to repel an invasion or threaten in
vasion, of the state. In the latter named
proposition only can the militia bo Carried
beyond the limits of the state, and then only
to repel or crush out any force which may
endanger the safety of the Commonwealth.
Drafting, a polisy which is nearly akin to
tbe conscription act of England and France,
has been resorted to on but two occasions in
this country, and then ODly ic accordance
with the above rule and by especial acts of
the Legislature of the respective states. In
the Revolution the President male a requisi
tion upon the states of Massachusetts and
Connecticut for six thonsand troops and they
were supplied without a recourse to any
method than to order the enrolled militia in
to service. In the war of 1812, a demand
was made upon the authorities of this state,
and the refusal of one of tbe militia ordered
fourth by the Governor brought the case be
fore tho courts for a final decision, and then
it was shown that the only manner in which
the militia could be reached was by an act
of legislation of that state to which they be
longed.
So far as drafting is concerned, wo opiDe
that each state will, as a matter of justice,
be expected to make up its quota before tbe
conscription would ha levied. Many of tbe
states hkve not filled their quotas by several
thousand, and so that if drafting is resor
ted to, it would of course commence in the
states thus deficient and not in those like
Pennsylvania, which have more than filled
theirquotas. And even then, the fact that
drafted reei uits could not be re.alned in the
service more than three months, would be of
no avail in a requisition calling for men to
serve for three years. The limit of three
months is the extent of time for a draft.—
This is the legal exposition of the drafting
system —but we are convinced that the spirit
of devotion which prevails in the Old Key
stone state would scorn the system of draft
ing, and if it were necessary, fill up the army
wherever there was a deficiency, if it requir
ed every fighting man in the commonwealth.
Aod when these fail, we have old men with
Derve sufficient to repel an enemy or resist a
traitor, while there are thousands of brave
woman in the state who could figfet a rebel
and pull a trigger that would remind him of
his lovalty or bring him to his grave.—
Harrisbury Telegraph.
The North and the South.
Those who immagine that in the present
contest of the traitors have been more suc
cessful than our own troops, and that they
have exhibited greater capacity for a protrac
ted war than the friends of the Union, great
ly misapprehend the true position of affairs.
It is true that we have encountered some sad
reverses, and that we havo not accomplished
all that we desired to perform. But there is
a disposition to magnify the extent of our
revereoa and mistakes, and to undervalue
the effect of our offensive operations, and the
magnitude of our preparations for defence,
which should he corrected. It should not he
forgotteu that our enemies will never risk an
important battle unless it is offered under
such conditions as render their success
almost certain. On all ordinary occasions
their policy is to make retreat alter retreat,
until the patience of our troops is exhausted,
or they are enticed into extremely unfavora
bly positions. They have captured Fort
Sumpter, won the battle of Manssas, and
compelled Col. Mulligan to surrender, but on
all these occasions their armies so vastly
outnumbered our own that their triumph
was alwost inevitable. On the other hand,
we can point to the triumph of Lyon at
Booneville, the brilliant successes in Wes
tern Virginia, our triumphs in many minor
skirmishes, our capture of toe forts at Ilat
teras Inlet, our destruction of a number of
their privateers, including the recent dash
ing exploit at Pensacola, cur complete de
fence of the capital despite their vainglori
ous threats of captureing it, our efficient
blockade, our well-maintained line of forces
along the Potomac, in Western Virginia, in
Kentucky, and in Missouri, It is evident,
too, that every new day increases .our
strength and weakens our enemies. We are
adding to the number and improving the
condition of our men, and constantly obtain*
ing new munitions and powerful means of
aggression, by land and by sea. Their pow
er has already culminated, and every hour
diminishes it. Few new recruits can be ob
tained for their armies, and the means of
supporting and equipping them are consum
ed much more ripidly than they can be pro
duced or replaced. Whenever the curtain
which hides the real state of affiairs in the
South from our view is partially withdrawn,
a frightful picture of destitution and misery
is disclosed to us. The people of their sea
board cities are living in daily dread of at
tacks from powerful combined naval and
land expeditions against which they have no
efficient protection, ar.d wkh their trade al
most entirely destroyed, and every man com
pelled to perform military duty, their condi
tion is inconceivably deplorable. Tbe peo
ple of their rural districts, having no market
for their products, and no means of supply
ing most of their numerous wants, are redu
ced to a ssmi-barbarous state, and the dread
of servile insurrections constantly thrills
them with horror. They are rapidly reali
zing the terrible realities of their position,
and it would not be surprising if a fearful
rebellion against the rebellion should break
out even in the heart of the South.
' The Rebels are taking up the rail
road track at Vieoaa, and hauling it down
' to tbe Manassas Railroad.
Kentucky in Arms.
The sword of Kentucky has been flung in*
to the scale. The bugle-call of Holt, of
! Prentice and their friends, has been respon
j ded to by a roused people.* Volunteers, by
j thoueands are pouring into Louisville, Frank
j fort, Camp Dick Robinson, Gen. Sherman's
; Camp, New Haven and Henderson. Gene-
I ral Anderson, on the part of the United
i States, and Gen. T. L. Crittendon, as the
State Commander, are enthusiastically at
work, and from every quarter their arms
sre strengthened. Thrilling war cries ring
through the columns of the loyal press, un
til the perusal of the Louisville Journal and
its allies, is like standing on the battle field
and hearing the clarion voice of the hero of
Fort Sumter. Traitors are fleeing to their
rebel friends, and the armies approach each
other hourly. Every one ieels that the war
on " the dark and bloody ground " will be
desperate and sanquinary to a degree not
yet realized ezcept in Missouri.
The course of events in Kentucky has
been most singular. One would have
thought that if there was a spot from the
St. Lawerence to the Gulf of Mexico, where
white-winged Peace might rest, it would
have been Kentucky. The grave of Clay
should have been holy ground. The home
of Crittendon should have been sacred. The
memory of the hosts of fraternal peace-mak
ers should have shed around influences se
rene and strife-dispelling. In Kentucky,
too, slavery presents its most patriarchal
aspect. Nowhere is life on the plantation
so easy, contented, happy. The chivalry of
Kentucky has ever been real; the magnan
imity, generosity, and honor of her sons
have been held as stainless. Some of the
warmest champions of free labor have been
proud to be natives of her borders, and
there has always been a latitute of opinion
on that question conceded by Kentucky,
whith exists in no other Southern State,
save Delaware. Yet all this could not avert
the stroke from Kentucky ! Sullen Mary
land with the blood of loyal soldiers crim-on
ing the streets of her metropolis ; with ev
ery brand of treachery upon her forehead,
escapes the schock of arms, the torch of the
incendiary, the ravages of " cow boys," the
desolated fiields and the ruined homes which
are the inevitable accompaniaments of civil
war; while old Kentucky, with her kindly
feelings, her love for the old flag, and her
longing for peace, is on the verge of desola
tion. The hours may almost be numbered
which yet remain without terrible strife.—
There will not be time to gather the crops
which arc uncut to day. With the realiza
tion of her duty to herself and to the Gov
ernment, the pursuits of civil life are thrown
aside, and the entire force of the State is
concentrating to drive back the invader. —
No thought of peace now fills a singles Ken
tucky breast, and it is only such appeals as
this from Prentice that have any power to
enter the ear and the heart of the roused
warriors:
" Iventuckians, it is Kentucsy that ad
dresses you ! It is her voice not ours tha'
summons you to her defence in this hour of
sorrow and of peril. You could not if you
would resist the call of that magic voice;
and you would not if you could. By the
renown you have inherited from your fath
ers, by the shining fame you have yourselves
won, by the liberty and independance which
constitutes the breath of your proud exist
ence. by the kindling traditions of the past,
and the bright realities of the present, and
the thrilling hopes of the future, by what
you are and what you aspire to be, by all
that is sacred and binding in obligation, and
all that is touching in sympathy and exciting
in ambition, you are bound to answer the
call with the whole might and ardor of your
fearless hearts. And you will do it. As
well might sea or forest resist the wild spell
of the tempest as Kentuckians resist the
call of Kentucky when her life and honor
are at stake."
In this crises of her fate old Kentucky
possesses a claim on her sisters on the other
bank of the Ohio, which it gladdens us to
see they fully recognize. The volunterrs of
Indianna and Ohio crowd to her cities and
her camps, and join their bright bayonets to
the arms now grasped in the stalwart hands
of the sons of Kentucky. We await the tri
umph of their united forces with anxiety,
though inspired by ennfidenee. May that
victory soon crown their standards, and
Peace and Union strike hands in Kentucky
over the grave of rebellion, into which no
sound shall ever pierce of the trump of res
surrection.
Pennsylvania and the War.
Gen. M'Clellan has now the uncontrolled
eomraand of the army on the Potomac. Thi 8
has been conceded to him by the Cabinet, so
that henceforth fee is to be charged with all
defeats and credited with ail success in that
vicinity of our oferaliions. The young sold
ier feels the responsibility thus resting upon,
him, and is ever willing to listen to the aug*
gestions or advice of veterans like Scott, and
yet, like the first Napoleon, after listening to
the counsels of bis aids and associates, be
generally forms his own opinions, matures
his own plans, and acts on them promptly
in every case. Pennsylvania has cause to be
proud of their connection and identificati >ns
with this struggle. Her force is now the
largest in the field and in the camp. One of
her youngest men is at the head of the larg
est federal force in the field, and one of her
most practical, energetic and able statesmen
is at the War Department. All these eon
nections and facts must be gratifying to the
people of the Keystone State, who in their
admiration of this young hero and more ma*
ture men of council, do not forget that men
such as these belong to the whole Dation, and
that their labors and their fame cannot be
circumscribed.
jggy* The Pati iot and Union claims this
morning that on the popular vote in the
State, the Democracy are largely in the ma
jority. A few weeks since this same sage
organ ol the Breckinridge Democracy, asser
ted that the army of Pennsylvania, now par
ticipatingin the struggle fcr the Union, was
mainly composed of Democrats. Which of
the two assertions contains the falsehood ?
Will Deaoon Barrett of the Patriot answer?
I®" Gen. McClellan has detailed some six
hundred lieutenants from tbe army for a
signal corps, to serve in case of Dight march
es. In this manner collisions among our
own regiments will ba prevented.
Foreign Sympathy.
Oar readers have all read in their youth,
the celebrated fable of the Lark and her
Young, who had made their nest in a wheat
field. As long as the owner relied on neigh
bors or friends or relatives to reap the grain,
the lark felt safe, but so soon as he told his
boys that they would rise at daybreak the
next morning and cut the crop themselves,
the lark mide arrangements for mov ng.
We have beeD altogether too much con
cerned about foreign sympathy, and we are
beginning to learn the lesson—everything is
in the Bible and iEsop's Fables—"put not
your trust in princes." "Against the insid"
ious wiles of foreign influence," says that
which is next to the Bible, Washington's
Farewell Address, ("I conjure you to be
lieve me, fellow citizens) the jealousy of a
free people ought to be constantly awake."
We have let down our watch, since these
words of Washington were uttered. So clear
was our course to us, so full of kindness tow
ard all mankind were our own feelings, that
we could not believe that the right, the
truth, liberty, government itself would all
be as nothing to the old aristocracies and
despotisms of Europe in presence of their
self interest. Their travelers, iheir litera
ture, their society had laughed at our jeal
ousy of Europe, our simple attachment to
republican institutions, and our inherited
feeling as to the corruption and selfishness
of foreign courts. We had come at last al.
most to feel that these opinions in which we
were reared were mere prejudices, and that
Western Euorpe would judge of us in ac
cordance with the truth and righteousness
of the case ; that if we deserved sympathy,
we should have it, and that in a great war
in which every right principle is on one side,
and every wrong one on the other, we should
at least be cheered by warm words of en
couragement from all .civilized nations.
That it is far otherwise is now but too
apparent. The words of England have
struck cold to the very heart of America,
and never has there been, at any moment in
this country, so deep a sense of her invetert
ate dislike and fear of us. We were taugh
as school boys that the British were our
natural enemies. We have all been trying
to unlearn it. We have persuaded ourselves
that our early prejudices were unworthy of
us, and that England WBS the home of ev
erything elevated and excellent. We shall
have to make a second change, and come
back where we stscd when we read Wtem's
Life of Washington, and the Exploits of
Marion. England is not to be trusted. —
Washington says again—"Constantly keep
in view, that it is folly in one nation to look
for disinterested another ; that
it must pay with a portion of its independ
ence for whatever it may accept under that
character.
We have read with pain the letters writ
ten probably by a member of the suite of
Prince Jerome Bonaparte, but no doubt with
his approbation. They lean strongly to the
South, or rather against the power and unity
of the nation. As long as they speak of
Jiaits common to our whole people, they are
acute and somewhat philosophic. But when
they coine to the question as between the
North and South the chject becomes appar
ent. it is to weaken the Union by lauding its
enemies.
The enmity of Spain can scarcely be kept
within civil bounds. Less cunning than
England and France, they show their pro
clivities so plainly that the Secretary of
State has been obliged to inquire into the
matter, that we may see whether the caso
does not require something more than
words.
Meanwhile we have an allied European
fleet—English, French and Spanish—taking
advantage of our circumstances to bully
Mexico and effect some kind of advantage
for themselves in that quarter. It reminds
us with painful v ividness that Washington
and Monroe were far seeing men, looking
into the future from the watchtower of the
past.
The truth is this, and our fellow citizens
of America must learn to lay it to heart r
The wish which lies at the heart of Eng
land, France and Spain, is the division of
onr Repeblic. It is the old principle : Di
vide and conquer. They care nothing about
the South, per se. The Secessionis are val
uable to them only as tools, but they fear
the greatness of this nation, and the secret
wish of them all is our weakness. They
would, if they could, break us up into Detty
sovereignties like those of Germany, that
thev may be undisturbed in their career of
conquest, and that they may by intrigue
dictate such tariffs and laws of commercial
intercourse as would work to their own
profit. They cannot for a moment be trust
ed.
The letter of the Emperor of Russia, has
far more significance than has yet been at
tributed to it. Russia is the natural ally
of America. It does not seek empire in the
Western Hemisphere. Its field is Europe
and Asia. Moreover, it desires to hold in
check the western powers of Europe, and
for this, America is the fitting ally. It does
not fear our strength, for that strength
weakens not Russia, but its enemies.
We must'preparo ourselves to fight out
this fight single handed, and to allow no in
terference. No ! not by a hair's breadth
must foreigners be allowed to dictate or in
terfere. We cannot be too jealous of them.
Let them say what they please, and let 'us
mind it far less than we have ever done ;
but the slightest overt act of interference
ought to be condignly visited. Let us stand
together as one man against every onemy,
as many as choose to come, but asking no
favors and allowing no meddling.
A LARGE CONTRACT. —Mr. Stephen CMM
well, of Camden, Ohio, has made a contract
oy which he is to furnish one hundred and
fifty thousand cords cf wood for the Ohio
Central Railroad company. The magnitude
of this contract can be understood only when
we take into consideration the fact that it
makes a pile four feet high and not less than
two hundred and fifty-seven miles in length,
and requires the delivery of nearly fifty a
a day (Sunday excepted) for ten yeaas
Great Flood in the Weet Branch of tho
'utqnehnnna.
IMMENSE LOSS OF PROPERTY.
The storm on Friday, savg the Williams
port Gazette, of the 2d inst., caused tho
West Branch of the Susquehanna to riso
with an unparalelled rapidity and to an un
usual height. The rising commenced on
Saturday morning and cogtinued until about
midnight on Saturday night. For a time
during Saturday forenoon the water rose at
the rate of three feet in an hour. The great
est he.ght attained was twenty-one feet and
a few inches, (by marks, two and a quarter
inches less than the noteable flood of Febru
ary, 1853, and twenty inches less thafi the
memorable flood of October, 1847—the
greatest ever known in this river.) The lOS 9
of property by this flood is enormous. From
early Saturday morning until night about
one half of the surface of the river was cov
ered with lumber, mingled with farm pro
duce. The lumber was in round logs, square
logs, boards, shingles and lath—in rafts,
piles and single pieces. Various estimates
have been made by lumberman of the amount
(including all descriptions) that passed this
place, and from all these we judge that fifty
million feet would be a fair amount to name.
Although some of the Williamrport lumber
men suflcr severely by this calamity, the loss
does not entirely fall upon them, but rather
the la r gest proportion of it upon those oper
ating above this point. All the booms along
the river were more or less damaged. The
Lock Haven boom was emptied and crippled,
and the Susquehanna boom partially cleared-
From fifteen to twenty million feet remain
in the Susquehanna boom, and considerable
in its adjunct, leading behind the islands at
the lower end of Williamsport. The value
of the lumber that passed this place must
exceed twenty million of dollars, but of
course it is not a total loss to the owners.
All along the river the water made sad
havoc with farms by inundating them and
carrying away fences, outstanding crops,-
iStc. The West Branch Canal was also dam
aged at several points. Lock Haven was
inundated ane communication with-it cutoff
until Monday. In Williamsport the water
surrounded a few houses in the southwest
corner and some others on the southeast cor
ner of town, but did no great damage within
the borough further than that ca-useiS by
filling cellars, overflowing gardens, floating
plankwalks, and in a few instances coming
in contact with steam machinery.
Including the value of logs gone adrift,
the damage done the valley will probably
not fall much short of a million of dollars.-
PRESIDENT LINCOLN —The Phil delphia
Press thus kindly and justly speaks of Mr..
Lincoln;
No man stands higher in the affections of
the American people than Resident Lincoln.
Amidst all the detract'or. and ( ritioiein which
have been viaited upon hie counsellors and
agents, no word lias been u fered against the
President himself, fie pieesses the torfi
dencH of the American peoj 1 move thorough
ly than any other public man since the days
of Andrew Jackson. They fee! that he is
an honest man, that he has the conscience of
this fight, and that he labors w'th hut a sin
gle eye to the glory, the greatness and the
per) eiuity of this republic. And, aftf* all,
honesty is the son! of public service—the
Bturoe of the public welfare —for with purity
at the head of the nation, the body is healthy
and happy.
THE WONDERS OPTS". MlCßOSCOPE.—under
stand it is torough the agency of this marvel
viewing ihstrument that L>r. Ayer has at length
succeedid in finding the PALUDAL MIASM and de
termining its cheraeter. Of its effects wo ia this
section have aunbdant evidence in the FEVER AND
AGUE which it alono produces when absorbed
through the lungs into tho blood. It has long
been held to be a vapor or something in the vapor
of water from decayed and decaying vegetation.
Under a great magnifying power, the Doctor has
found this vapor to coniain distinct organisms or
living bodies, corresponding precisely with those
found in the blood of Ague subjects. They are
13,000 times loss than visible to the naked eye,
but have distinct oharactcr and form. He thinks
they are reproductive in deca in decaying matter
or in the blooi, and hence their long continued
life or tlin remote efiects of them in the system.—
He maintains that they rescmple in character the
other fermentative poisons, or such as the virus of
rubles of a dead b )dy, Ac., all cf which are known
to reproduce themselves with great rapidity like
yeast in moistened flour, so teat the slightest
duantity impregnates, the whole ma-s. Yeast
through a powerful magnifier is seen to be a for
est of vegetation which grows, blossoms, and goes
to seed in a short time. Mitsm is not so distinct
ly vegetable, hut has more tho appearance of ani
mal life, although its motions cannot be perfectly
distinguished. What the Eoetor claims to have
sottlen is thut it is an organic substance and he
has further found and embodied in his " Ague
Cure" what will destroy it. — Lender, St. Louie,
Mo.
We have been shown a document signed
by thy Mayors in ofEco of tho citios of the United
States and Conada, certifying to the superior ex
cellence of Dr. Ayor's Compound Extract of Par
sapnrilla and to the value of all his remedies so
articles of great public utility. Such ovid • i
from such high sources bears us out triumphantly
in the position we have long maintained with re
gard to Dr. Aycr's preparatious, or more particu
larly our advertisement of them. No publishers
neeu be more opposed than we are to the promul
gation of quackery ih any shape, but wo knew
when wo began, that his remedies were above aDy
suspici n of deception—that they were about tba
best it is possible to produce for the cure of dis
ease, and tbnt they have the confidence of all
communities where they are known. Not alone
because the Mayors of the whole country believe
them useful to their people, but because we know
from experiende that they are BO to ours, do we
believe we are rendering a substantial service to
our readers in making their virtues known to
them.— Courier, Princeton, JCy.
Prof. Wood's Restorative Cordial and
Blood Renovaior, for the cure of genera Debility,
or Weakdess arising from any cause; also, Dys
pepsia, Norvousness, Night Sweats, Incipient
Consumption, Diver Complaints. Biliousness, Losa
of Appetite, Female Weakness in all stages ; also
to prevent the contraction of disease, is certainly
the best and most agreeable oordial tonic and
Renovator ever offered to the afflicted, and so
chemically combined as to be the most powerful
tonic ever known to medical science. Reader try
try it. It will do you good. Wo have no hesita
tion in recommending it, since we know it to bo
a safe, pleasant, and sure romedy for the disease*
enumerated. See advertisement.
rrrXS- Read the advertisement respecting " Dr.
Leland's Anti Rheumatio Band," in another col
umn, According to the report of those who havo
tried it—and who have been cured of the most
violent attacks of Rheumatism—there is no reme
dy extant equal to this in case of Rheumatism—
and having no reason to doubt the statements wo
have heard in favor of the " Band," we cordially
reccommend its use to those who are afflicted with
this disease. Be sure and read the advertisement
most carefully.
Hoofland's Balsamic Cordial hos acquired
a reputation that places it at the head of all ram
dies for pulmonary diseases. An advertisement
in another eolumn.
Render, have you seen Prof. Wood's ad
vertisement in our paper. Read it; It will inter
est you-