tk Centre ipenwrat.
" BELLEFONTE, PA~.
Thursday Morning, Nov. 7 Gl.
J. J. BRISBIN, EDITOR & PUBLISHER.
V. W. BROWN, ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
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\ews from the Seat of War.
NOVEMBER 5.
There has been a battle between Floyd
and the forces of Gen. Rosecranz, on the
G tuley River. It appears that, on Friday,
Floyd opened fire from two points opposite
Gnu ley bridge, Bnd succeeded in sinking a
ferry boat, which, however, was raised
again during the same night. No one
was killed on our side during his fire, which
was somewhat heavy, though badly directed,
and few were wounded. lie had cut a road
uround a hill where Rosecranz was encamp
ed ; the latter, returning his fire, soon si
lenced two of his batteries, and was at the
latest accounts, about sending a force to at
tack bim in tbe rear, so that it was expect
ed that he would be entirely surrounded in
u very shert time. On Saturday there was
no fighting; at that time the position of the
forces on both sides were as follows: The
icbels held possession of the west bank of
New River; Gen. Sehnecks brigade was a
lew miles above the junction of the, Gauley
and New Rivers; Gen. Cox's brigade and
Gen. Rosecranz were near the junction, be
iweeu.the rivers, and Gen. Benliam was be
low the junction. It was believed by some
that Gens. Sehneck and Benliam would
cross the river above and below Floyd, who
has 7,000 men, aud that thoy would catch
him. We look with intorest for further de
tails.
From Springfield, Mo., wo learn that the
rumors of the removal of Gen. Fremont had
reached the Western Department, creating
a very great excitement, and producing a
deep feeling of hostility to the measure. It
was not, however really believed that the
Government proposed to take the step.
The number of the rebels killed the other
day in the charge of Gen. Fremor. t's body
guard is now ascertained to l>e at least 127.
No news had been received at Springfield
of the approaching change in the rebel army
by which Gen. Johnson was to supersede
i'rice.
Our batteries on the Potomac are going
on rapidly to completion. Yesterday the
gnns of one of them were tried on the rebel
fteamer George Page, with what result it
could not be ascertained. The Resolute,
arriving at Washington last night, reports
ihat seven of our soldiers have been wound
ed by the 6hot and shells from the batteries
as Shipping Point.
We have no definite news yet from the
great Naval Expedition, further than that ii
v. as spoken on Wednesday morning. It is
o 'lievcd that it escaped the severe gale
which raged along this section of the coast.
Oca EXPORTS. —Our large exptrts now
very encouragirg, fhev doubling what they
.v vlj e 1850 and LSGO, with an increasing de
mand yi Europe fur the grain of which we
have such an superabundance. If we had
not the rebel war on our hands, we should
now be in an unprecedented .condition <f
prosperity under the Morrill protective
Tariff which the Republicans passed Itiai
winter. Aa it is, that Tariffhas dene much
fu ? give us the great issources we possess to
carry on the war. With proper protection
to our industry, and the impudent aristocra
cy which is trying to subvert our free in
atitutions subdued, the advancement of this
country in material prosperity would beun
->*rfwl£l!ed.
THE COTTON- QUESTION.
The progress of thewar has served pretty
effectually to explode some fallacies, which,
at its beginning, found general currency at
the North with regard to the military power
and material resources of the Seceded
States. It is thus that calculations of a po
litico-economical character, founded as they
generally are, in parti on theoretical consid
erations, when brought to the test of experi_
ence are often discovered to be more illusory
than solid. But while such theories, as
were at one time prevalent among us, re
specting the exhaustion and destitution to
which the Southern States would be soon
reduced by the continuance of the war, seem
to have been, in a large degree, exaggerated
if rot unfounded, it is also apparent that the
received doctrines of the Southern economists
and calculators with regard to the imperial
power of tbeir great staple have been
equally scattered to the winds during the
last few months. If we have been in error
with regard to the extent of Scutharn re
sources, they have been egregieusly de
ceived in regard to the commercial power of
that mighty lever which, with the cotton
bale for its fulcrum, was once held suffi
cient to move the financial world and shake
the firm foundation of European thrones, if
[ these latter did not aid the loyal subjects of
| "King Cotton" in his attempts to found a
j new.dynasty in this New World,
That intelligent British journal, the Lon
don Economist, of the 31st ultimo, in allud
ing to this Southern delusion, remarks as fol
lows :
"It is believed, too, that they, (the South
ern leaders) still entertain the extraordinary
notion that by starving France and Eng
land—by the loss and suffering anticipated
as the consequences of an entire privation of
the American cotton supply—they will com
pel these governments to interfere on tbeir
behalf, and force the United Ststes to aban
don the blockade. If they really expect
such a high-handed violation of all interna
tional usage on our part, we can only say
their leaders are less sensible and experi
enced men than we have hitherto supposed.
There is not the remotest chance that either
Power would feel justified for a moment in
projecting sttsh an act of decided and unwar
rantable hostility against the United States.
We are less dependant upon the Sou|h than
the South is upon us, as they will ere long
begin to discover. It is more necessary for
them to sell than for us to buy. As we have
more than once shown, the worst that can
happen to us from a continuance of the
blockade will be that our mills will have to
work two-thirds time; and it is by no
means sure from present appearances
whether the aggregate demand of the
world would suffice to take off much more
than three-fourths of a full production even
if we had cotton in abundance. Oq tbe oth
er hand, if the South Americans sell noth
ing, if they and their enemies agree to for
bid any cargoes leaving their shores, tliey
will have to do without the £40,000,000 or
£50,000,000 which they are accustomed an
nually to raise by the sale of their produce.
Whether they can forego this vast annual
income they only can judge, for they only
know how much poverty and privation
their political passions will enable them to
endure. Their reported scheme of selling
or mortgaging their crops to Government
will not really pnt them in funds. It will
be no actual sale. The planters will be paid
merely in promises to pay—i. e. in Treasury
notes—which, though they may be made
the basis of a new form of paper currency
will be in no degree available for the real
increase of the resources of the country.
The cotton and tobacco will neither been
sold or paid for, nor exchanged for any ac
tual commodity; they will merely havo
changed hands within the territory—the
new holder promising to pay tbe original
holder for them at some future time.
"We still adhere to the opinion we have
expressed from the beginning. We believe
that 60 Boon as the Confederate States are
satisfied that 'cotton is not king'—and that
France and England have not the slightest
intention of intervening in the strife—all
the Southern produce will come down the
rivers as fast as is safe and as eoon as is
necessary; and that considerable cargoes
will contrive to evade the blockading squad
ron—in quantities pretty exactly propor
tioned to the European price of the article
required."
The London Mercantile Gazette of the 2d
instant, in referring to this same subject, in
timates the expression of its belief that the
bloekado of the Southern ports by the Fed
eral Government is not effective, and that
cotton could he readily procured in British
bottoms if the confederate authorities had
not established an interior blockade on the
transportation of cotton to the seaboard, in
the hope of thus construing a British or
French intervention for the purpose of rais
ing the national blockade, not in the interest
of commerce, hut for the interest of "South
ern .independence." To this effect that
journal says:
"The absence of American cotton from
the markets of Europe is, in reality, due not
to the efficacy of a blockade which, in the na
ture of things, could not be and is not effi
cient, hut to the mutual understanding and
determination of the Confederates them
selves. The Southern factor and underwri
ters have refused to have any dealings with
the cotton planters if the cotton is brought
down to the ports. It must be stored where
it is grown. The object is to prevent the
cotton leaving the country, in order that
such a pressure shall be put upon the cotton
consuming countries of Europe as will re
sult in an active intervention to terminate
the present interference with neutral com
merce. This is the natural explanation of
the fact that of tho 4,000,000 bales of cot
,Lon already packed, not one pound is on the
ocejjpci; and not the efficiency of a blockade,
which, in .the nature of things, could not be
efficient, for the simple reason that the Fed
eral Gover.nstieut not the disposable
force to make it so. f
"Whatever may be our want of cottOD,
we have abstained from taking advantage of
tl.e laches of the Federal GoTMtnl in
THEE CENTRE OEOMCEAT.
this matter of the establishment of a block
ade in order to procure it. We can still af
ford to pursue the policy on which we have
decided in reference to the contending par
ties in America, and so little do we advo
cate the cotton monopoly of the South, that
our hope is that one consequence of the-pres
ent disturbance will be tho cessation forever
of that dependance-on America for the sap
ply of a material which has hitherto been the
distinguishing characteristic of our commer
cial relations with that country."
THE ABMY MANUFACTURING
BUSINESS.
Every day brings with it illustrations of
the wide spread activity caused by the pre
parations of the government for a long war.
JPassiog, or rather endeavoring yesterday to
pass through an alley way in tho central
part of the city, we found it barricaded with
packing boxes. The boxes are the work of
a man who three months ago could hftrdly
find any occupation. He is now making
packing boxes for the government with all
the hands he can employ, and carte blanche
to continue work until ordered by the Quar
termaster to stop. Goods made for the U.
S. Government are delivered at the arsenal
government finding the boxes. The re
ceipts of clothing at the arsenal are enor
mous. To inspect the operations is well
worth a day's time. One single establish
ment delivers daily 3000 shirts and 3000
pairs drawers ; from another is received on
equal number of hose, and these are but two
sample establishments of the many that are
engaged in pouring into the arsenal their
various products. The number of mills run
ning solely upon army cloths and army
flannels are becoming legion. Mr. Divine,
of Bank street, has no less than six, while
scarce a day passes in which some cotton
mill is not altered into a woolen mill, aDd
set to work upon cloth and flannel.
Where hayforks and scythes took the at
tention of a manufacturer, sword blades and
bayonets are produced instead. Brass tur
ners have left off making faucets and door
keys, and are doubling the products of
their industry in making trappings for cav
alry and the more delicate workmanship
upon gun carriages, sword sheathes, Ac.
Trunk makers have taken to the fashioning
of knapsacks, and men who once made car
riages for the wealthy are now making am
bulances for the soldier.
The result is that the city is gradually be
coming one vast workehop, and the hum of
industry each day grows louder and louder.
From the streets beggary has almost disap
peared, and the demands upon the commitee
by the families of absent volunteers are daily
diminishing from the abundance of employ
ment offered to the industrious.; The pres
ent war may pinch in some places, but it
carries employment and comparative ease
to others.— U. S. Gazette.
ASTOUNDING DISCOVERY IN FRANCE. —Tho
following sounds very much like stories of
the Arabian Nights, or Sinbad the Sailor
but as it come from a respectable source, we
give it for what it is worth :
It has been a great mystery to English
bankers, and to the Directors of the Bank of
England, how the bullion of the Bank of
France could be so greatly increased within
the last three years, while the institution
has been constantly sending gold to England
to Germany and to America. Not long
since the Bank of France drew some fifteen
million francs in silver from the Bank of
England, which it paid for in gold bars with
the French Mint stamp on them. At its
last report it showed a balance of one hun
dred and seventeen million francs in gold,
while the amount one year ago was under
eighty million—nearly ODe third increase.
It is whispered that this abundance of gold
is the result of a scientific discovery, which
the Emperor Napoleon has secured the
monoply of. Gold is at the present moment
manufactured at Paris in a secret manner.
The principal articles used are lead and
arsenic ; and, though it is not known how
extensively the precious metal is produced
yet several hundred weight of the material
are taken to a certain place on the first of
each month. Everything is conducted with
the utmost secrecy. None of the workmen
are allowed to leave, and nothing definite
can be known , but the fact that gold is
produced is beyond peradventure.—How
long Napoleon 111, will be able to keep this
wonderful secret remains to be seen.—
Banker's Reporter.
THE NATIONAL PLATFORM.
PURPOSES I>f~THE AVAR.
Congress, by a vote nearly unanimous, pass
ed the following resolution, which exp esses
the voice of the Nation and is the true stand
ard of loyalty.
"That the present deplorable civil war has
been forced upon the country by the disunioniets
of the Southern States, now in arias against the
Constitutional Government, and in arms around
the Capital j that in this National emergency,
Congress, banishing all feeling of mere passion or
resentment, will recollect only its duty to the
whole country; that this war it not waged on their
part in any spirit of opprettion, or for any pur
pose of conquest or subjugation, or purpose of over
throwing or interjering with the rights or establish
ed institutions of those States, but to defend and
maintain the suyremacy of the Constitution, and to
preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality,
and rights of the several Statee unimpaired; and
that as soon as these objects are accomplished the
war ought to cease."
SCENE IN Dixn.— Sympathetic Husband—
" What's tbe matter dear ? you look quite
forlorn."
WJe —" Matter, George! matter enough to
make any woman look forlorn. Your stupid
secession has kept me away trom Newport
aod Saratoga. I havn't a dress that I havn't
worn at least six times. I have only -an
half ounce of cologne left, and only one
pair of shoes— and—and (bursting into tears)
I enow the fall bonoets ara out in New York
—aad—aad—l can't even get to see one."
A Yankee is a calculating institution, and
nothing comes along that he does not subject
to the ordeal of figures in 60tue way. The
last instance that has come under our obser
vation is the following, which occurs in the
way of some editorial speculations upon
comets; " Ite tail is at least 6,000,000 of
miles in length. To grease that tail, it is
estimated, would use up a baain of fat as
large as Lake Erie, and make constant em
ployment to 15,000 'daubere* for ten years."
Gen. Scott Retires from the Army.
HIS LETTER TO THE SECRETARY OF WAR.
SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CABINET.
GEN. SCOTT'S RESIGNATION ACCEPTED 1 .
GENERAL M'CLELLAN IN COMMAND.
The President and Cabinet Wait upon
Gen. Scett at hia Ririeact.
ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN.
PATRIOTIC' RESPONSE OF GEN. SCOTT.
FUTURE POSITION OF GEN SCOCT STAFF.
REPLY OF SECRETARY CAMERON TO
THE COMMUNICATION OF GEN. SCOTT.
WASHINGTON, NOV. I.
The following letter frcm Lieut. General
Scitt was received by the President on Yhurn
day afteinoon.
HEADQUARTERS or THE ARM T, )
Washington, D. C Oct. 31. i
'lhe Hon. Simon Cameron, Secretary of War:
SIR : —Fur more that three years I have
been unable from a hurt, to mount a horse
or walk more than a few paces at a time,
and that with much pain. Other and new
infirmaties—dropsy and vertigo—adtamish
me that a tepose of mind and body wLh the
appliences of surgery and medicioe are nee
tssary to add a little more to a lite already
protracted much beyond the uraal space oi
man. It >s under such circumstances made
doubly painful by tho unnatural and unjust
rebellion now raging in the southern states
of our so late prosperous end happy Union,
.that I am compelled to request 'hat my name
be placed on the list of amy officers retired
from active service. As th s request is found
ed on an absolute right (ranted by a recent
act of Congress, I am natively at liberty to
say that it is with deep regret ihat 1 with*
draw myself ID these momentous times from
the order of a President who has treated me
with distinguished kindness and courtesy,
whom I know upon much personal inter
course, to be patriotic, *wiibout sectional
partialities or prejudices, to be highly con
scientious in the performance of every duty
and ofunrivAlled activity and perseverance.
And to you Mr. Secretary, whom I now offi
cially address for the las: time, I beg to ac
knowledge my many obligations for the uni
form high considerations I have received at
your bands and have the hoDor to remain,
sir, with high respect your sbedient servant.
[Signed] WINFIELD SCOTT.
A special Cabinet Council was convened on
Friday morning at nine o'slock, to take the
cubject into consideration. It was decided
that Gen. Sooct's request, under the circum
stances of bis advanced age and infirmaties,
could not be declined. Gen. McClellan was
therefore, with the unanimous agreement of
the Cabinet, notified that the command of the
army would devolve upon bim. At four
o'clock in the afternoon the Cabinet again
waited upon the President and attended bim
to the residence of Gen. Scott,
On being seated the President read to the
General the following order:
On the first day ol November, A. D.. 18G1,
upon his own application to the President of
the United States Breve: Lieut. General
Winfield Scott is ordered to be placed and
hereby is placed upon the list of retired offi
cers of the army of the United States without
reduction in hie current pay, subsistence or
allowances.
Tbe American people will bear with sad
ness and deep emotion that Gen. Scott has
withdrawn from the active control of tbe
army. While the President and the unani
mous Cabinet express tbeir own and the na
tion's sympathy in his-.personal affliction,
and their profuuud sense of the important
public services rendered by him to his coun
try during his long and brilliant career,
among which will ever be gratefully distin
guished his faithful devotion to tbe Constitu
tion, the Union and the flag when assailed
by a paricidal rebellion.
[Signed] ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Gen. Scott thereupon rose and addressed
the PrtS'deot and Cabinet, WLO had also
risen, as follows:
PRESIDENT. —This honor overwhelms me.
It over-pays all servi.es I have attempted to
render to my country. If I had any claims
before tbey are all obliterated by this expres
sion of approval by the President with the
unanimous support of his Cabinet. . I know
the President and this Cabinet well. I know
that the country has placed its interests in
this crying crisis iu safe keepiog. Tbeir
counsels are wie, their labors are untiring.
As they are loyal and their course is tbe
right one.
Mr. President, you must excuse me. lam
una- le to stand lunger to give utterance to
the feelings of gratitude which Oppress me.
Io my retirement I shall offer up my prayers
to God for this administration and for my
country. 1 shall pray for it with confidence
in i's euceess over its enemies and that
speedilv.
The President then took leave of General
Scott giving him his hand and saying he
hoped soon to write bim a private letter ex
pressive of his gratitude and affection.
The President added: "General, you
will naturally feel solioitious about tbe gen
tlemen of your staff who have rendered you
and tbeir country such faithful service. I
have taken that su'oj ot into consideration.—
I understand that they go with you to New
York. I shall desire them at their earliest
convenience after tbeir return to make tbeir
wishes known to me. I desire you, however,
to be satisfied that, except the unavoidable
privation of your counsel and society which
they so long enjoyed, the provision which
will be made for them will be such as to ren
der their situation as agreeable hereafter as
it has been heretofore.
Each member of the administration then
gave his hand to the vetenn and retired in
profound silence.
The Secretary of the Treasury and Secre
tary of War will accompany Gen. Scott to
New York to morrow by the early train.
The following is the response of the Secre
tary of Way to the letter of Gen. Scott:
WAR DEPARTMMNT. )-
Washington, Nov. 1, 1861. j
GENERAL : It is my duty to lay before the
President your letter of yesterday asking tc
be relieved under the recent act of Congress.
In seperatiog from you I cannot refrain from
expressing my deep regret that your health,
shattered by long service and repeated
wounds received in your country's defence,
should render it necessary for you to retire
from your high posiiiob at this momentous
period of our history. Although you cannot
temain in active service, I yet hope that
while I continue in charge of the depart
ments over which I now preside, I shall at
all times bs permitted to avail myself of the
'benefits of your counsels and sage experience.
It has been my good foriune to enjoy a per
sonal acquaintance with you for over thirty
years, and the pleasant relations of that long
time have been greatly strengthened by your
cordial and entite co operation in all the
great questions which have occupied the De
partment and convulsed tbe country lor the
last six months. In parting from you I can
only express the hopes that a merciful Prov
idence which has protected you amid so many
trials will improve your health and continue
your life long after the people of the country
shall have been restored to tbeir former hap
piness and prosperity.
I am, General, very sincerely, your friend
and servant.
[Signed, ] SIMON CAMERON,
Secretary <rf War.
Later From Missouri.
REMOVAL. OF FREMONT
GEN. HUNTER IN COMMAND
A BATTLE HOURLY EXPECTS Dt
SPRINGFIELD, MO., NOT. 3.
Yesterday small bodies of the enemy oame
within twelre miles of us and news was re
ceived of the approach of* their advance-, 2,.
800 strong. Preparations were making to
go out and attack them, when Geo, Fremont
received the unconditional order from Wash
ington relieving bim at oaca from bis com
mand. Simultaneously earns- the newspa
pers announcing the fact that the intelligence
spread like wild firs through the camps and
created indescriable excitement and indigna.
lion. Great number of officers signified tbeic
intention u resign at once, and many compa
nies laid down tbeir aim, declaring they
would fight under no one but Fremont. The
General spent much of the afternoon ex
postulating with tbe officers, and urging them
by tbeir patriotism and by their personal re
gard for bira not to abandon tbeir posts,, and
also issued the follawiag farewell to tbe
troops t
IIXAD WlsJlM DSPA&TXINT, 1
Springfield, Mo., Nov. 2d, 1861. j
Soldiers of the Mississippi Army:. Agreea
bly to orders this day received. 1 take leave
of yuu. Although our army has been of sud
den growth we have grown up together and
1 have become familiar with the brave and
generous spirits which you bring to the de
fence of your country and which make me
anticipate for you a brilliant career. Con
tinue as you have begun and give to ray suc
cessor the same cordial and euthusiastic sup
port with which you have encouraged me, —
Emulate the splendid example which you
have already before you and Ist me remain
as I are, proud of the nebie army wh'ch 1
bad thus far labored to bring together.
Solditis, 1 regret to leave yeu most sia
crvely. I tbank you for the regard and con
fidence you had inviariabiy shown to me. 1
deeply tegret that I shall not have the honoi
to lead 1 you to the victory which you are just
about to win ; but I shall claim to share
with you in tbe joy of every triumph, and
trust always to be fraternally remembered by
my companions in arm*.
[Signed,] JOHN C. FRSMONT.
Maj. Gen. U. S. A.
Day of Thanksgiving and Praise.
The following eloquent and appropriate procla
mation, appointing a day of general thanksgiving
and p aiae, haa just been issued from the Execu
tive office of Pennsylvania. There is something
in the composition and tone of this production
unlike any other proclamation on the same sub
ject which has ever issued from the same depart
ment, and we cannot but commend both its ele
gance of diction and really eloquent sentiment:
FENXSYL VAX IA, SS :
In (ht name and by the authority of the Common
tesaUh of Pennsylvania, Axr>ntfW U. CtilTIX,
Goesrnor of laid Common malth.
PROCLAMATION.
WHBBSAS, every good gift is from above and
comes down te us from the Aliuigbty, to whom it
is meet, right and the bounden duty of every peo
ple to render thanks for Bis mercies ; Therefore
I, ANDREW (J. CURTIN, governor of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania do reeeommend to lb*
people of this Commonwealth, they set apart
Thursday, 28 th of November next,
as a day of solemn thanksgiving to God, for hav
ing prepared our corn and watered our furrows,
and blessed the labor of the husbqnumnu, and
orowned the year with His goodue-s, in the in
crease of the ground and the gathering in of the
fruits thereof, so that our barns are filled with
plenty : and for having looked favorably on this
Commonwealth, and strengthened tbe bars of her
gates, and blessed the children within ber, and
made men to be sf one mind, and preserved penco
in her borders; Beseeching Him, also, on behalf
of these Unite. States, that our bolovei country
may have deliverance from those great aud ap
parent dangers wherewith she is compassed, and
that the brave and loyal men now battling in the
field for her life may have tbeir arm? mado strong
and tbeir blows neavy, and may be shielded by
His Divine power, and that He will mercifully
still the outrages of perverse, violent, unruly and
rebellious people, and make them clean hearts,
and give them grace that they may see the error
ef their ways, and bring forth fruits meet for re
pentance, and hereafter, in all godliness and hon
esty, obediently walk in His holy command
ments and in submission to the just and manifest
authority of Republie, so that we, leading a quiet
and peaceful life, may continually ofTar unto him
our sacrifice of praise aud thanksgiving.
[L. S.} Given under my band and the great seal
of the State at II arrisburg, this sixteenth day of
October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty ene, and of the Com
monwealth the eighty-sixth.
By the Governor: A. G. CURTIN.
ELI SLIVSR,
Sssretary of th I ComnomstaUh.
DIED.
On the 26th ult., at Crawfordsville, Indiana,
Mr. JAUSS TARRANT, one of the three month's
vdunteers. He was at the battle of Bich Mounv
taiu from where he returned unwell and had not
recovered since.
On the 27th ult., at West Greetville, Pa,
GRORQIAXA B . daughter of George W. and Juliet
11. Curskaddon, of Typhoid form of Fever and In
iamation of the Bewels, aged 17 years, 8 months,
and twenty days.
THE ECONOMY OF HUM.TII.—Thi busy nation
of Americans have 12.000,000 working people,
whose service may be estimated at $2 a day, and
th ir annual loss by sickness at an average of ten
days each in the year. This is a total loss of
$240,000,000 a sum three t ; mes as large as the
whole cost of General Government including the
Army, Navy, Post Offices, Legislators, Foreign
Ministers and all. The amount over six hundred
tons in pure gold.
A large portion of this costly suffering might
be averted by the attention to diet cleanliness, and
obove all, by the proper use of the right remedy
in season. When a25 cent box of Ayer's Pills
will uven an attack of illness which it would take
several days to recover from, or a dollar bottle of
Ayer's Sarsaparilla, will expel a lurking disorder
that would bring tbe sufferer to his back for weeks
or months, does it take any figures to show the
good economy of the investment ? When Favor
and Ague is ranking in your veins and shaking
your life out of you, it is worth the dollar it costs
for bis Actus CURB to have the villainous disorder
expelled, which it does surely and quickly ? When
you take a cold it is prudent to wait ustil it has
settled on the lungs, v hen days or weeks or
months be spent in trying to cure it, even if it
can be cured at all, or it is cheaper to take Ayer's
Cherry Pectoral, costing a few shillings, and re
move the trouble before it is serious 7 It takes no
wisdom to decide.
A pure healthy tonic, and free from the de
leterious and injurious effects to foliate those in or
dinary use, has long been felt to be a desiteratum
in tbe medical world. Such a tonic, and one so
skilfully combined from the regetabh kingdom as
to net in perfect accordance with the laws of na
ture, and thus sooth the weakest stomack, and at
the same time allay nervous and other irritations,
and tcne up ali the organs of which the human
body is cotnposek, is offered in Prof. Wood's Me
liorative Cordial and Blood Benooatar. Hence
it is perfectly adapted to old and young. Reader,
try it. Thousands have already done so, and the
testimony is universal in its favor. Do not fail
to read the advertisement in our paper.
Why is that Hoofland's German Bitters is
preferred to all other remedies for-the cure of dis
eases or the Nervous System? Simply because it
nevor fails to perform ail that is said of it. Read
the advertisement in another column.
Neuralgia ean be permanently oured by
" Dr. Lelmnd's Antic Rheumatic Band." See ad
vertisement el " flrsat Cure" in another column.
U. S Volunteer Army
TO THE YOlJltfG MEJf
OF CENTRE CO,
Having been authorized by the the Govern©* of Pennsylvania to,
organize a Company of Yolunteers for the three years service we call
upon the
Friends of Freedom,
in Old Centre, to enlist, at once. The intention is to make this a
CRACK COMFA3VY
OF
SHARP-SHOOTERS,
to be attached to a Rifle Regiment of Picked Companies. The com
pany will be armed with the best Rifles in the world and thorough
ly uniformed and equipped. Each member will receive, monthly,
vmvm mu>m is me,
and besides this each member will receive, when discharged,
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ROUNTY
A3VO
160 Acres of Land.
All the Pension Laws in force apply to all men in the Volunteer
service and every tick or disabled soldier will be comfortably provi
ded for, and those dependent upon them will be entitled to
The County Relief Fund.
As soon as eighty men are enrolled, they will be taken to camp
where their pay will commence and their uniforms be received.
TO THE RESCUE.
Farmers, Mechanics, Workingmen of Old Centre, the cause is
your own. Your Liberties are at stake.
Now, now, the dangerous storm is rolling,
Which treacherous men confederate raised,
The dogs of war let loose are howling,
And lo ! our fields and cities blaze ;
And shall we basely view the ruins,
While ruffian force with guilty strides,
Spreads desolation far and wide,
With crime and blood their hands imbruing.
The traitors who are now in arms against the country which
they have plundered and betrayed, insult you as a degraded race ;
declare that you have not the courage to defend your firesides, and
are unfit for freedom. Give them to understand that this is an in
famous slander ; show them that you are not only freemen, but pa
triots, who rally to their country's call, to triumph in her victories
or perish in her fall.
REMEMBER YOUR REVOLUTIONARY SIRES !
Remember Bunker Hill, Yorktown, and New Orleans ! People of
Centre County, shall it be said of us that we are unable to preserve
and maintain the Liberties which a handful of Patriots wrested
from Old England—that we are net capable of Free Government ?
Rail) then—Rally now. Join the defenders of the
STABS AND STRIPES,
In the name of Liberty— in the name of God and humanity, let IU
defend the Old Flag.
God of our Fathers ! in thy name
We nail our Standard to the mast —
To conquer or to die. We claim
No greater honor. While the blast
Of civil strife sweeps o'er the hind,
We'll strike the foe who dares to mar
Our lovely ensign, and we'll stand
A wall of fire to guard each star.
Meetings will be held at the following time and places, and will
be addressed by W. W. Biown, Jas. H. Rankin and otherg.
Zion, Monday Evening, November 11th,
Halfmoon, Tuesday Evening, November 12th,
Boalsburg, Wednesday Evening, November 13th.
Pine Grove Thursday Evening, November 14th.
Bailey's School House, Friday Evening, November 15th,
Howardville, Saturday Evening, November 16th,
Unionville, Monday Evening, November the 18th,
Martha Furnace, Tuesday Evening, Nov. 19th.
Potters' Bank," Wednesday Evening November 20th.
Spring Mills School House, Thursday Eve., Nov. 21,
Aaronsburg, Friday Evening, November 22nd.
Rock Forge, Saturday Evening, Nov. 23rd.
Bellefonte, Tuesday Evening, Novembei 26th
Nov. 7th 1861. W. W. BROWN.
BRECKENRIDGE. —The Memphis Appeal
states that the traitor, Breckenridge, ar
rived at that place on Tuesday last week,
and was given an enthusiastic reception by
his brother rebels. It was understood that
he was on his way to Richmond. No one
will doubt that Brenckenridge is now an
unmitigated traitor; but he is not a whit
morr so than he has been at all times since
the rebellion commenced; and ho is not
acting as dishonorable now when he is an
open traitor, as he did when he held his seat
in the U. S. Senate to embarrass the Gov
ernment and aid the rebellion.—Brecken
is as deserving of the halter as any traitor in
the country.
YOUTHFUL PRISONERS OF WAR. —Among
the prisoners captured by the rebles on the
steamer Fanny, at Chicamacomica, Hateras
Inlet, were George W. Gorber and Henry
Hines, of Lancaster ci*y. The former, who
is but fifteen years of age, was an attendant
to the Colonel of the Indiana regiment which
came so near being captured at Chieamaco
mica, and the latter was an attendant of a
captain of the same regiment. Young Hines
is not fourteen. Both of these youths are
sons of very respectable parents of that
city, and about four weeks ago left home
without the consent of their parents.
FINDING FAULT. —It is at times necessary
to censure and punish, but very much more
may be done by encouraging children when
they do well. Be, therefore, more eareful
to express your approbation of good conduct
than your disapprobation of bad. Nothing
can more discourage a child than a spirit of
incessant fauc-finding on the part of its pa
rents ; and hardly anything oan exert a
more injurious influence upon the disposi
tion both of the parent and ohild. There
are two great motives influencing human
actions—hope and jjear. Both of theso are
at times necessary. But who would not
prefer to haye her ohild influenced to good
conduct by a desire of pleasing rather than
by the fear of offending? If a mother never
expresses her gratification when her children
do well, and is always censuring them when
she sees anything, amiss, they are dis
couraged and unhappy, their dispositions
become hardened and soured by this cease
less fretting; and, at last, finding that
whether they do well ill, they are equally
found fault with, they rolinqush all ef
forts to please and jbeconje heedless of re
proaches.