Centre Democrat. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, November 07, 1861, Image 2
tk Centre ipenwrat. " BELLEFONTE, PA~. Thursday Morning, Nov. 7 Gl. J. J. BRISBIN, EDITOR & PUBLISHER. V. W. BROWN, ASSOCIATE EDITOR. Now is the Time to Settle Up. As ws are making ready to enter ilie army it if necessary for us to SETTLE UP OUR BOOKS AT ONCE. There are many of our subscribers who owe us for tb ■ year 1860 and for the present year. We have fui ght along thrcugh the hard times and endeav oring to serve our subscribers as best we could.— We hud nothiDg to begin with and during the two years that we have been publishing this pa per wo have struggled with all our might and m iin to keep out of debt—for there is no man un d. r the broad heavens shorn wo dread as tnvch r.s v c do a cte'.itor. At times we became discour. • trt-J and resolved to give It up ; but thus far we have oarried it through, and now that Mr. Brown ,i> r.iising a company we are about to suspend op r.itiaus and go with him. Notwithstanding our dread of creditors we have contracted some debts. Theso must be paid. No man need "tremble in h.e boots," for fear that he will lose anything by us. Every man must see the necessity of our settling up our accounts. We hope that our sub scribers all possess honor enough to do what is right—that is all we ask. We have labored hard and it is right that we should be paid. After the November Court our books will be left iu the hands of the proper officer, and collected just as fast as "the law allows." Uur subscribers will save costs by calling upon us on eur before Court Week. J. J. BR IS BIN. Settle Up. As we have now commenced te recruit a coin pi y and will leave for the seat of war as soon as eighty men are carolled, it becomes necessary far us to settle up our business as fast as we can. We therefore call upon all persons knowing them selves indebted to the Centre Democrat from 185-4 to iha Ist day of January, 1860, to call at once uu'.l settle their accounts. The November Court will be a good time to at tend to this business. If you bavs not tbe money vim want your note. We hate orer seven tbous i.i.d deiiurs on our books, and we owe debts which must be paid with this money. We hope, there fore, that all will hoed this notice and settle up ne soon as possible. We will take Corn, Oats, Wheat, Rye and Buck- So bring it along and save trouble and cts. W.W.BROWN. \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.