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AZ REMOVED RIR OFFICE TO NORTH
N
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30251 S *ALLSTON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
QITICE WITH A. B. WANNER, NORTH
Sixth Street. (above the Court Ilonee,) Reading, Ps.
abniary 21,1863-1 y
.REMOVIAL.
- WILLIAM H. LIVINGOOD, ATTORNEY AT
yy LAW. ham removed his Wilco to the north side of
Court street first door below Sixth. [dee 22-0
Charles Davis,
ATTOR A TTORNEY AT LAW—HAS REMOVED lIIS
ome to the Catee lately occupied by the Mu- Dania
NEY
deeeooed, in Sixth street, opposite the Court
House. [mini' 14
Daniel Drxnentront,
ATTORNET AT LAW—OFFICE Di NORTH
&rat street, corner of Court alley. [aug 18-1 y
David Neff,
ArrHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN
F9reigq and Domestic DRY GOODS, No. Sr. East
Taxi street, Reading, Pa. [Mara 1I),
LEBANON VALLEY INSTITUTE,
LEBANON COUNTY. PA.
A SELECT BOARDING SCHOOL.-COURSE
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endora my promptness and fidelity. My charges are
uedsrateand no charge made until obtained.
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ect IS-tf] Altorney at Law, Court St., Reading, t•a.
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from the 11. B. Government, by application to
ABNER K. STAUFFER,
March Collection ONce. Court Street, Reading.
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(Late Hart & Alayeri)
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ail, at Philadelphia prices. Sign of the Golden Bee Hive,
So 14 East Penn Square. lapril 17—If
P. Bushong & Sons,
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Absolut«, Deodorized and Draggigso Alcohol; also,
' e Oil, which they will sell at the lowest Wholesale
prices, at Reading, Ps
414. Orders respectfully solicited.
G. M. MILLER, M. D.,
Eclectic Physician and Surgeon,
AGRADUATE OF THE ECLECTIC MEDI
cal College Philudetphle, offers Ms profeselonal su
rto.. to the citizen of Hamburg and vicinity. Painful
Surgical operation*, such as Setting Broken and Dielocuted
Limbs, Amputations, Cutting Cancers, Tumors, do., will
he performed under the inanence of Hiker, at the consent
uf the patient.
OiSce at Me resident* In Main street, Hamburg, Pa.
May 9,15634 f
DR. T. YARDLEY BROWN,
SURGEON DENTIST.
GRADUATE OE PENNSYLVANIA
Dental College. Teeth extracted by Fran-
Blectro Magnetic proms, with Clarke's
improvement. With this teethed teeth are
attracted with ranch let pain than the usual way. Ito
extra charge. Oldos in Fifth street, opposite the Presbyte
rian Church. [sprit 2-17
CHARLES LANCASTER,
MEDICAL ELECTRICIAN,
Fourth Street, above Penn, Readtsg.
January 24, 1563-tf
SOLDIERS'
BOVISTP-ELONLY, BACK-PAT
AND PENSION CLAIMS
TRONP'YLY ATTENDED TO BY
A. Lt. STAUFFER,
Attorney at Lair. 01Hee In Court Street,
Jan 31-111 SEADINOrPA.
F. p. HELLER,
WATCIIMAKER, JEWELER,
AND MAVEN IN
WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY,
SPOONS, SPECTACLES, GOLD PENS, &c.,
Signet tbe BIG W&TCH,” No. t3',{, East ?Din
Street, above Sixth, north eide. Reading. Pa.
Every article Warranted to be what it is sold for
Watches, Clbeks, Jewelry, &a., repaired with partieniar
attention, and guaranteed. [Feb 1-if
TRUSSES.
ItUPTURE CAN BE CURED BY A TRUSS
OP TUE RIORT KIND. IF PROPERLY PITTED AND
ULY ATTENDED TO. This bait been abundantly de
monstrated in innumerable instances by the use of the
bIULTIPEDAL TRUSS of DR. RIGGS, during the last few
year. TIM. trims, being covered with Hard Rubber, is
perfectly waterproof, may be used in bathing, and is al
ways cleanly as well as indestructible by ordinary tinge.
if not satisfactory after a fair trial of sixty days, it may be
returned. It challenges comparison with any truss known.
Pr. RIGGS' Office, No. S BARCLAY ST., New-York.
Nov. 15-17
TO SPORTSMEN.
FINE ASSORTMENT OF GUNS, FLASKS,
Shot Bags, Pouches, Game Bags, Btu's Caps, Dupont's
Superior Powder, at reduced prices, by
J. L. STICHTER,
stpt 2a-41 Fitch and Penn Streets.
VOR SALE AT TILE OLD JAIL, 1000 SETS
J. Common. Teaware.
T ±
lOR SALE AT THE OLD JAIL, THE LARG
est assortment of Liverpool Ware ever offered is
Meadieg.
T,POR BALE AT THE OLD JAIL, A LARGE
assortment of Pittsburgh, Boston and French Glace
were of every description.
VOR SALE AT THE OLD JAIL, THE CHOIC
-4! eq - variety of Bar and Hotel Obese, China and Relearn-
Ware furniture ever offered in Reading.
FOR SALE AT THE OLD JAIL, 60 BARRELS
Mackerel at Philadelphiawines.
sank ZS WILLIAM RHOADS, Jr.
BALTIMORE LOCK HOSPITAL,
Sir ESTABLISIIED AS A REFUGE FROSI QUACKERY.
The Only Place Where a Cure Can be
Obtained.
-- -
TAR JOHNSTON HAS DISCOVERED THE
mot Certain, Speedy and only Effectual Remedy in
the World for all Private Diseases. Weakness of the Back
or Limbs, Strictures, Affections of the Kidneys and Blad
der, Involuntary Discharges, impotency, General Debility,
Bervonene.., Dyspepsia, Languor, Low Spirite, Confu
sion, of ideas, Palpitation of the Heart, Timidity, Tremb
ling. Dimness of Sight or Gtchituoto. Moog:a of Oa. Bead,
Throat. lose or Skin, Affeetious of the Liver, Lunge,
Stomach or Bowels—those Terrible Disordern trising from
the Solitary Habits of Youth—those SECRET and solitary
practices more fatal to their victims than the song of Syrens
to the filtuiotla of 171)woo. bli;htiog their most brilliant
balms or nuncipatione, rendering marriage, be., impossible.
VOTING IVICEN
specially, who have become the victims of Solitary Vice,
that dreadful and destructive habit which annually sweeps
to an untimely grave thousands of Young Men of the most
exalted talents and brillivt. intelinet, who might other
wise have entranced listening Senates, with the thunders
of eloquence or Waked to ecstasy the living lyre, may call
with fall confidence.
Married POTIKIIIf, OT 1941)1c Milo contemplating mar
riage, being aware of physical weakness, erg-attic debility,
deformities speedily cured. .
He who places himself under the care of Dr. J. may
religiously confide in tits honor as a gentleman, and con
fidently rely lapee lds skill as a physician.
ORGANIC 11111.RAIENESS
Immediately Cared and Full Vigor Restored.
This Distressing Affection—which renders Life and Mar
riage impossible—is the penalty paid by the victims of im
proper isiduigences. Young persons are too apt to commit
excesses from not being aware of the dreadful conse
quences that may ensue. Now, who that understand the
subject will pteteud to deny that the power of procrea
tion is lost sooner by those falling into improper habits
than by the prudent? Besides being deprived of the pleas
ure of healthy offspring, the most serious and destructive
symptoms to both body and mind arise. The system be
comes Deranged, the Physical and Mental FIIIIMIOIIS
Weakened, Loss of Procreative Pots er, Nervous Irritabil
ity, Dyspepda, Palpitation of the Heart, Indigestion, Con
stitutional Debility, a wasting of the Frame, Cough, Con
sumption, Decay and Death.
Oirsee, No. 7 Booth Frederick street.
Lett hand side going from Baltimore street, a few doors
from the corner. Fail not to observe name and number,
Letters mast be paid and contain a stamp. The Doctor's
Diploma hangs it, kis Mike.
A CURE WARRANTED IN
TWO DAYS.
No Mercury or Nauseous Drugs.
DR. JOHNSTON.
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London ,
Grad
uate from one of the most eminent Colleges In the United
States, and the greater port of whose life has been spent
in the bospitale of London, Pavia, Philadelphia and else
where. hits Minded some of the most astonishing cures
that were ever known; many troubled wish ringing in
the head and ears when asleep, great nervousness, being
alarmed at sudden sounds, bashfulness, with frequent
blushing, attended sometime with derangement of mind,
ware cured immediately.
• •
1"r. >ll. =l -1 1 , :r ; -44
Dr. J. addresses all those who have Injured thetuselves
by improper indulgence and solitary habits, which ruin
both body and mind, unfitting them for either /meditate,
study, society or marriage.
Tease are some of the sad and melancholy effects pro
duced by early habits of youth, vies Weakness of the
Back and Limbs, Paine in the Head, Dimness of Sight,
Lees of l‘luscular Power, Palpitation of the Heart. Dys
pepsia. Persons Irritability, Derangement ofthe Digestive
Po oct tons. General Debility, Symptoms of ConsamptionAo.
biaarar.Lr.—The fearful effects on the mind are much to
be dreaded—Loss of Memory, Confusion of ideas, Depres•
dons of Spirits, soil Forbodinge, Aversion to Society, Self-
DiStrnst, Love of Solitude, Timidity, bc., are some of the
evils produced.
Tear - es:ins of persons of all ages can now judge what
is the erase of their declining hweith, losing their vigor,
becoming weak, pale, nervous and emaciated, having a
singular appearance about the eyes, cough and symptoms
of consumption.
YOUNG WEN
Who have injttred themselves by a certain practice indul
ged in when alone, a habit frequently learned from evil
companions, or at school, the effects of which are nightly
felt, even when asleep, and if not cured renders marriage
impossible, and destroys both mind and body, should ap
ply immediately.
What a pity that a young man, the hope of his country.
the darling of his parents, should be suntan d front 01l
prospects and enjoyments of life, by the consequence of
deviating from the path of nature and indulging in a cer
tain secret habit. bitch persons MUST, before contemplat
ing
/11.31VELIAGB,
reed that a..gami.l mind and body are the most =nary
requisites to promote connubial happiness. Indeed, with
out these the Joartiey throngh life becomes a weary pil
grimage; the prospect hourly darkens to the view; the
mind becomes shadowed with despair and Riled with the
melancholy reflection that the happiness of another be
comes blighted with our own..
- - -
DISEASE OP XDTP.RIMENCE.
When the misguided and imprudent votary of pleasure
finds that he has imbibed the needs of this painful dhease,
it too often happens that an ill-timed sense of shame, or
dread of discovery, deters him from applying lo those is ho,
from education and respectability, can alone befriend him,
delaying till the constitutional symptoms of this horrid
disease make their appearance, such as ulcerated sore
throat, diseased nose, nocturnal paine in the head and
limbs, dimness of sight, denfne., nodes on the shin-bones
and arms, blotches on the head, face and extremities, pro
gressing with frightful rapidity, till at last the palate of
the month or the bones of the nose fall in, and the victim
of this awful disease becomes a horrid object of commis
eration, till death pats a period to his dreadful sufferings,
by sending him to that Undiscovered Country from
wheneo•ro traveller returns."
It la n melancholy fact that thousands fall victims to
this terrible disease, owing to the unskillfulness of ignor
ant pretenders, who, by the use of that Deadly Poison,
Mercury, ruin the constitution and make the residue
life miserable.
IMILILNGERS
Trust not yonr lives. or health, to the care of many Un
learned and worthless Pretenders, destitute of knowledge,
name or character, who copy Dr. Johnston's advertise
ments, or style themselves, in the newspapers, regularly
Edncated Physicians, incapable of Curing, they keep you
trifling month after month taking their filthy and poison
ous compounds, or an tong no the smallest fee east be ob
tained, and in despair. leave you with ruined health to
sigh over your own galling disappointment.
Dr. Johnston is the only Physician advertising.
[march 12
Hin credentials or diplomas always bang in his office.
His remedies or treatment are unknown to all others,
prepared from a life spent in the great hospitals of Ramps,
the iirot in the country and a more extensive Private
Practice than any other Physician in the world.
INDORSEMENT OP TEE
PRESS.
The many thousands cured at this Institution rsar after
year, and the numerous important Surgical Operation.
performed by Dr. Johnston. witnessed by the reporters of
the "ban," “Clipper," and many other papers, nodees of
which have appeared again and again before the public,
besides his standing SS a gentleman of character and re
sponsibility, is a sufficient guarantee to the atliicted.
Skin ;Diseases Speedily Cared.
or Ile letters received enleasponc-paid and containing
a stump to be used on the reply. Persons writing should
state age, and send portion of advertisement describing
symptoms.
30312.11 TM. SOUSTSTON, .
Of t h e Baltimore Lock Itoopital, Baltimore, Maryland
May 23—]y
Desirable City Lots For Sale.
MRE UNDERSIGNED OFFERS AT PRIVATE
Sale at moderate rates,
Five Building Lots on North Ninth street.
• Five Buildin4 Lots on the west side of Moss alley, East
of Ninth street.
Three Building Lots on the west side of North Tenth
street, and Fourteen Building Lots on the east side of Moss
allay.
The conditions will be made easy to purchasers, the pro
prietor being willing to leave two-thirds of the pnrcbaee
money stand on the prelude., if secured by Bond' and
Mortgage, and allow payment to be made In installments
of 10, 20 and 50 Dollars, until the whole debt is paid,
provided that one-third of the purchase money is paid on
delivery of the Deed.
This is a rare chance for Tsthorers and Mechanics to se
cure boat., aetb•. 'ow are in the neigh horlotoct of the Steam
Forge and Industrial Works; and us it is understood that
all the Depots of the Junction Railroads will be pat up
near the property.
f Plano of the Lots may be seen at, my ofllee, or that
of - e. °war Wagner, Esq., Court street.
Jan Pt—tf] FREDERICK LAUER.
PRILONATHEAN INSTITUTE,
Near Birdsboro, Berta County, Penna.
rHE EttVEIsITIT TERM OP T1111:11.NSTITU
-1_ TION commences on Monday, Angus! 10th lEdig.
The Principal is prepared to accommodate In his own
family from sixteen to twenrybearders of both sexes. An
early application Is advised to secure a place.
In 010i4444. 40 the astral thorough coarse of het:motion
given here, a NOttlitAL DEPARTMENT - will be armed for
those preparing to teach, during, the first and last quatter
of each term.
The especial ears and attention of the Principal will be
eonstantiy devoted to the health, safety, habits and man
ners of those placed under his chars°.
bay scholars received BR usual.
For full particulara apply for a C,abiloy,ue.
Ina:Maly SMITH, 6. B
Birdsboro, Pa., July 2.1,156.3.
Commercial Broker.
9111 E UNDERSIGNED HAVING TAKEN
oata Lteense as a COMMERCIAL lIItOKEE, 18 pre
pared to negotiate for the purchase and sale of
REAL ESTATE,
BONDS.
NOR Tad. CBS,
and other Securities, Goode in unbroken Packages, Collec
tion of Rents, and any other business of a Commission
Broker or Agent.
Ira` Parties Easing business to do in his lineare request
ed to give him a ran.
JACOB C. SCHCONER,
[tuna In Court Street, neat door above Alderman
fabanier. Ireb 23
rd.a.REZZILGE.
COIN,
BTOCK.9
,folitteat.
For the Cla,-.ette anal Democrat
More about the "Loyal" Journal.
Ma. GNTZ:—The readers of the Journal can
not have failed to notice how frequently and
savagely Mr. Knabb has branded as copperheads,
traitors, all Democrats who have expres,ed,
a desire that peace might again reign throughout
our beloved country—not such a peace, however,
as Mr. Knabb contended for doring the Mexican
War. Then, (Sept. 25, 18470 Mr. Knabb de
clared: "WE ARE GLAD TO HAVE PEACE—
ON ANY TERMS I!" The following article,
which appeared in the Journal (June 26, 1847,)
will go to show the feelings of Mr. Knabb on
the subject of peace at that period. Then he
said : " GIVE US PEACE! We call upon our
rulers to put a stop to the WORK OF HUMAN
BUTCHERY," and denounced war as being re
volting to the human mind and disgraceful to human.
ill', and declared our true policy was to cultivate
relations of amity and friendship with all nations,
kindred, tongues and people, &c. ; nevertheless
Mr. Kuabb has had the barefacedness to Bay in the
Journal of Sept. IS, last, that from the corn
mencentent of the Mexican IVar to the close the
Journal did all it could to encourge volunteering
and arouse the masses in sustaining the honor
of the good old flag. Mr. Knabb must calculate
very much on the 'vibrance or stupidity of his
readers if he believes that they will, after having
perused the JOurnal's "Peace" article, give him
credit for sincerity, when he says, that he did
all he could to encourage volunteering, &c.,
during the Mexican War. Publish at the pre
sent time as original such an article in the Ga
zette, and, my word for it, Mr. Getz, this pure and
loyal" Mr. Knabb will denounce you as a tory,
copperhead, double-dyed traitor, secessionist,
dm. You will be charged by him with aiding and
comforting the enemy and discouraging enlist
ments ; and imprisonment in a hostile or fort will
be your fate for such boldness. During Mr.
Polies Democratic administration Mr. Knablis
course of conduct was passed by without any
interference by officials. How different has been
the ruling during this despotic Abolition admin•
istralion of President Lincoln for much slighter
causes. Nothing but tyranny ! TYRANNY ! !
TYRANNY!! !
[from the Berke and Schuylkill Journal, June 26, /SIT ]
PEACE!
'4 We aie glad to see that public sentiment
throughout the length and breadth of the laud
is fast settling down against the continuance of the
present War with Mexico, brought about by
scheming and designing politicians to accomplish
certain political ends, because we believe that
this peaceable tendency of the popular will, will
go farther to ensure a speedy adjustment of our
"ditliculties" whatever they may be, than the
mast lavish appropriation of seen and money to pro
tract the strife. We are among those who believe
that the true glory of our beloved country is
identified with the onward march of domestic
enterprise and improvement, the progress of the
arts and sciences, the encouragement of com
merce and manufactures, which are beet advanced
under the benign influence of PEACE. War, in
almost every light in which it can be viewed, is
revolting to the human mind, dangerous to the
stability of the Republic; and disgraceful to
humanity. No nation can flourish under its in
fluence—few can long withstand its baneful ef
fects. Our true policy is to cultivate relations
of amity and friendship with all nations, kindred,
tongues and people, and those rulers, who for
light arid trivial causes,' ON to gain scone factional
end, embroil their country in a bootless and inglorious
strife, should be regarded as traitors by all true
patriots.
This growing desire for peace cannot but ensure
its speedy consummation. Our rulers, reckless
and unprin4led as they are, dare not thwart the
wishes of the people, who can unmake them as
they have been made—by a breath. Already do
we find the Administration manifesting symp
toms of alarm, and latterly they have begun
to evince a desire to arrest the evils they have
brought upon the country. Our Government seems
now as 110di00s to try the effect of further nego
tiation, as it was at first stubborn to enter upon
the plans suggested for the peaceable settlement
of the question at issue. Special Ministers have
been despatched to the army, duly authorized to
make overtures to the Mexican Government and
treat for peace upon easy terms. Even our Gen
erals have been invested with diplomatic powers,
and now extend the olive branch at the same
Lime that they chastise and threaten with the
sword.
It is high time the war were brought to a close.
lire have gained little or nothing by it, nor is it at all
likely that we shall. *
But while all must agree that little or nothing
has been or 4 likely to be gained by the war, let us
for a moment inquire what has been lost. Alas !
how readily will the answer be responded to by
every bean, Though little over a twelve month
has elapsed since hostilities were first declared,
thousand" of our best and bravest citizens leave al
ready fallen. Thousands of family hearths have
been desolated. In every part of our country
fathers have been called upon to mourn the un
timely death of their gallant eons, and widows and
orphans have been created almost without limit. We
have reared up a hecatomb of broken hearts, and de
prived the country of many of its bravest defenders.
Nor is this all. We have squandered a hundred
million of dollars already, and before the war is
ended will probably hare saddled upon the country a
National Debt that [bill take many gerteratiQui to
wipe out. . . _
We say then, in view of these things, GIVE
US PEACE. We call upon our rulers to put a
stop to the work of HUMAN BUTCHERY, suffer
ing and privation that is going on. What is the
phantom of military renown to the substantial !
blessings which crown a nation whose repose is
undisturbed by the wild conflicts of ambition
and revenge ? We pint with hearts overflowing
with pride and joy to our own glorious land as
the proudest monument on the face of the globe
of the majestic victories of Peace."
Can any one doubt Mr. Knabb's thorough
loyalty to the Government (?) and extreme anxiety
to aid the cause of the country by encouraging
volunteering and arousing the masses to sustain the
honor of the good old flag (?) after having read
the above contrast between glorious peace, and
murderous war, which Mr. Knabli declared was
revolting to the human mind and disgraceful to hu
manity—by which we had gained little or nothing,
nor was it likely that we should ; hut had lost
thousands of our hest and bravest citizens and deso
lated thouaantk of family hearths —by which widows
and orphans had been ca rtwi :without limit, and hec
atombs of broken hearts had been reared.
Reader, peruse Mr. Knabb's "Peace " article
again andtell us whether you do not believe that
whinings like the above had rather a tendency to
"discourage enlistments" than to increase the
number of our gallant and patriotic soldiery.
You will also perceive that Mr. Knabb was forced
to acknowledge in the foregoing article, that the
Government under Democratic President Polk
was anxious to try further negotiations.(implying
that a former attempt had been made) to bring
about peace—that Special Ministers had been
despatched to the army to make overtures to the
SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 10, 1863.
Mexican. Government and treat for peace on cash
lernie—and that even the Generals were invested
with diplomatic powers, and had extended the
olive branch of peace, whilst chastising and threat
ening with the oword, Would to God ! that the
present Abolition Government had exhibited the
same spirit towards our misguided; brethren of
the South, as was shown under President Polk
towards the u sister Republic" Mexico. Pilaus
long ere this, would have reigned throughout our
borders, and "human butchery" would have
ceased.
By your leavo I will add other specimens of
Mr. Kuabb's method of "encouraging volun
teering and arousing the masses in sustaining
the honor of the good old flag !"
[Berke and Schuylkill Journal, February 27, 1547.]
" That the war is now prosecuted for the ex
clusive benefit of the South, no can doubt. - x"
Let us understand what we are fighting fQr, ,Let
our Northern freemen know that every blow they
strike in the name of liberty, is in fact to ex
tend the area of Slavery for the especial lienefit
of the South. Let the people understand that
every dollar they contribute to carry on this VVAP,
is to acquire territory in which to perpetuate the
inhuman institution of slavery, and purchase
chains to manacle hundreds of generations un
born. Let us look at the consequences of this
war fairly and pause ere it be too late." •
Would any one after having read the boastings
of Mr. Kuabb, that from the commencement to
the close of the Mexican War ho did all he could
to aid the cause of the country, &0., suppose it
possible that he could have been the writer of
the foregoing ? If he desired to "aid the cause
of the country" why so extremely anxious to
prove to his readers, (amongst them no doubt
many soldiers) that the war was prosecuted for
the exclusive benefit of the South? Why so soli
citous that, his party friends should know, that
every blow struck in the name of liberty would
be in fact for slavery?'' Why so eager to tell
the people, that every dollar they contributed
to the war would be to acquire slave territory,
&c., and then close by significantly saying: Let
us look at the consequences of the war fairly and
pause ere it be too late ?
Can it be possible that Mr. Kuabb believed
that such language was 00c:dated to "eneourage
volunteering" and to "arouse the masses to
sustain the good old flog?" Who amongst his
readers can for a moment, doubt that his inten
tion was to " discourage enlistments," and to in
fluence his party friends in Congress not to con
tribute money to carry on (ho war": And yet
this " pure " and"immaculate" Mr. Kuabb has
the shamelessness to fell hie, readers, that "from
the emu - mien:tent of the Malt= War to the
close, the diournal was 'thoroughly loyal,' and
did all it could to aid the cause of the country
by 'encouraging volunteering' and arousing
the masses in 'sustaining the honor of the good
old Bag.' " Was there ever a greater falsifier
and hypocrite?
Perks and set:entail Journal, December 13, 1817.1
" War unhinges society, disturbs its peaceful
and regular industry, and scatters poisonous
seeds of disease and immorality, which continue
to germinate and tllfuse their baneful influence
long after it had ceased. Dazzling by its glitter,
pomp and pageantry, it begets a spirit of wild
adventure and romantic enterprize, and often
disqualifies those who embark in it after their
return from the bloody fields of battle, from en
gaging in the industrious and peaceful avoca
tions of life."
The foregoing is 1111 extract from (what Mr.
Knabb was at that time pleased to term it) a
"noble speech" of Henry Clay, to which Mr.
Knabb added:
"How truthful is this picture. With what
force is it brought home to those who have friends
or relatives engaged in the strife? And yet to
say one word against this ACCURSED WORK
OF HUMAN BUI'C FIERY is regarded as moral
treason' by the leaders of the party that brought
it about! What a mockery of patriotism!—
Shame ! —Shame!—on those cowardly heads who
cry war I.—war !—ani leave others to fight it
out!"
In the Journal of December 26, 1846, Mr.
Knabb eays: "Where's all the men that voted
for Polk? It is strange that after voting the
country into a war, they hang back and expect
other folks to fight it out!"
Such is the language spoken by Mr. Knabb,
whilst onr beloved country was engaged in a
bloody war with a relentless foe, and endeavors
to persuade his readers to believe, uttered from
patriotic (?) motives. Mr. Knabb, it seems to
me, has reached the pinnacle of hypocrisy.
Possibly Mr. Knabb may think he has a good
reason to find fault with me for accusing him
of inconsistency and hypocrisy. Ile may at the
present moment hold the sentiments which he ex
pressed and subscribed to during the Mexican
War, but now he is differently situated. Then
he felt independent—now he may likely be one
of those " corrupt sycophants who bow to the
Executive for place," us he then charged upon
those who stood by President Polk's adminis
tration. Mr. Knabb is at present Mr. Lincoln's
Postmaster, and as he is the owner of the Journal
the "Executive " may have demanded of Mr.
Knabb a sacrifice of principle to ensure "place."
Human nature is now what it always has been
heretofore (especially now,) and rather than lose
his " place " Mr. Knabb probably allows the
Journal to be used as a vehicle with which to
stigmatize his neighbors as double- dyed traitors,
secessionists, copperheads, rebels, &o.—men who
have never been lees patriotic than himself or
President Lincoln, his present master. S.
AIASSACRE BY NEGRO SOLDIERS.—The SL. Louis
140,!lean publishes the following, on the au
thority of a correspondent:
On Tue iday night the 25 - Th nit., a party of
thirty-eight negro soldiers murdered nine peacea
ble citizens in cold blood. The facts are as fol
lows, and were related to me by Mr. A. M. Gwin,
a planter, residing at Bromwich Point, Miss :
The .party of negroes got to the Hill place about
eleven o'clock at night., and arrested Mr. Sims
and Mr. Hill. They took them With them and
proceeded to Mr. Fero's, arriving there at sun
up, arrested him, and started up Deer Creek.
When a short distance above Mr. Fore's place
the prisoners were ordered to stand on the side
of the road. When Mr. Fore saw they were to
be shot, he eptlihg Into the ease ; at the same
instant the prisoners were tired upon. Mr. Sims
and Mr. Hill fell dead. Mr. Fore was shot
through the shoulder. They proceeded up the
creek to Mr. Oitirlie's place, and killed him at
his house. They next wont to Mr. Johnson's,
and killed him in the presence of his wife. They
next shot Mr. Chancy. They then returned
down the creek. The negro in charge of the
squad ordered that nothing should he taken
from any of the places. Mr. Fore made his way
in great suffering to the river. A negro man
from the Hunt plantation gave the information
of what occurred after Mr. Fore made his escape.
The wives of the murdered men are at their
homes, unprotected. Four more were murdered
by the same party before they arrived at Hill's
plantation, on their way up.
Slnnt the Boston Post.
TO PRESIDENT LINCOLN.
Homo= Sin:—
Now that so much depends on your will, it is
of great interest that your polioy be definitely
understood. Your letters, apparently frank, and
excellent in many respects, fail to set the public
mind at rest here. The nation does not know
how much the Government intends to accomplish
by the present war. The insurgents do not know
how much they will have to surrender by sub
mission to the Government. Would it not pos
sibly weaken their purpose and hasten their
surrender, if they knew on what terms they might
have peace ? They do not know definitely what
your demand on them is—whether it be simply
the relinquishment of their rebellion, with the
restoration of what they have taken—orwhether
it be the abandonnient 64 slavery, with, perhaps,
their original State Rights, and their proper
citizenship. Ought they not to know definitely,
how much they will give up, and on what terms
they can have peace ? Submission on their part
should not be prevented or delayed by uncer
tainty, or needless terror. In such a crisis as
this, humanity damn* that your policy be clearly
understood.
And, respected sir, we in the Loyal States have
need to know how much is included in your pur-
pose in carrying on this war. The volunteer and
the conscript have a right to know what they are
called to fight for, and what are the ends of the
war before them. You ask us to support you.
We wish to do so ; but we would know what your
plan is, and how much you intend by the war.
Von count us disloyal if we refuse to support
you, but we cannot act deceitfully, or dishonestly
or in the dark, in this thing. We must needs
know what we shall have to support and approve
in the case.
Last year we heartily approved of your policy.
It was definite and satisfactory. Ire have not
changed. Were we loyal then and ave we dis
loyal now? We defended you against the charges
and throats of radical men we wish to defend you
against the same now from othrr sources. If you
have not changed your policy since that time; if
the ends and purposes of the war are precisely
the same now as then,—we are with you still
with all our hearts and means. Otherwise, have
we become disloyal by holding precisely the
came ground as yourself, one year ago, and upon
which we were bold to defend you and your
Government? We are in doubt. We are true to
the Constitution, which we understand clearly:
now that pow are the Constitution, in some 'sense,
and all hangs, as it were, on your will, we wish
to understand you, and to act the part of good
citizens in sustaining you. But we ask—if ap—
proving the Administration be the test of loyalty
—what are we to do when we do not underetand
it, or when its pogo) , is changed, or the Admin.
isteation itself shifts hands?
therefore plead with you, sir, to let us
know whether you intend by this 'war anything
farther than the suppression of the rebellion,
and the restoration of the Union? If you mean
to add to this the overthrow of slavery and a
reconstruction of the States now in rebellion,
will you not inform us? If the rebellion be
given up now, and all that has been taken be
restored, would you stop the war, or would you
continue it in order to give effect to your procla
mation of emancipation ? It may be the rebellion
would end before the leaves fall, if those in arms
but knew ho, much, or just what, they would
have to surrender itt the ease. If it be simply
their rebellion, it would probably be so in half the
seceded states, humbled and weakened as they
are now. But if they must surrender their form
of civilization itself, and return to a condition of
vassalage, dictated to them by the enemy, the
war must be protracted indefinitely. it may be,
then, that the war is carried on now from ignor
ance of the terms upon which it might cease ;
then does not humanity demand that you state
your ground definitely? Opposition to the war may
arise from mistaken views of its real objects.
Multitudes who now, apparently, oppose the
war, do so because they regard it waged for
illegitimate ends. They would approve and sup
port it the moment it were limited to the single
purpose of crushing out the rebellion as such.
Honored Sir, you are not understood upon this
subject. You put the matter doubtfully in your
last letter, in which you say—" It would be an
apt time for you (the objector) to declare that
you will not fight to free the negroes when you
have conquered all resistance to the Union."
But would it not have been more to the purpose
to have stated definitely and frankly whether
they toosid or would not have to fight for other
objects after they have ochroored the rebellion?
The Republican Press, I see, understands you
oppositely here. May we know your plan?
But you say again—" The proclamation as
law is yalid, or it is not valid. If it is not valid,
it needs no retraction. If it is valid, it cannot
be retracted any more than the dead can be
brought back again to life."
But do you say, Sir, that that which creates
cannot also destroy? Is not the law making
power the law•abrogating power, too If, as
military necessity, you could do a certain thing,
can you not cease to do that thing, on the same
ground, if you should come to deem this, also, a
military necessity? If not, what becomes of
military power, and of military necessity?
Necessity is not checked by law, "it knows no
law." If that edidt Was put Ott military ground,
are you shut out from the power to annul it—if
need be—as a military necessity—to end a war?
or so much of it as has not gone into effect and
stands as a dead letter?
Unhappily for us now the supreme law is Un
written. Until the late Revolution it was found
in the Constitution. It is a first truth, or fact,
in enlightened civilization, that man has a right
to be governed by written law. And if we must
less that right temporarily, gip us the best
possible substitute for it, namely : clearly ex
pressed principles and purposes. For we feel
ourselves to be in a state where the public law
and will are not only unwritten, but are'indefinite
iy staled and widely misapprehended. If, there
fore, the exigencies of the State have for the
time put us under the supreme will with respect
to our greatest national interest, then have we
not a right to know definitely what that will is ?
We ask it, we claim it, as a matter of humanity
as well as of right.
Willi due reepect and affection,
Your obedient servant,
[VOL. XXIV - NO. 25. - WHOLE NO. 1989.
LET FREEMEN REMEMBER
That the country was warned for years, that
the triumph of the sectional, disunion, abolition
party would bring . civil war and dissolve the
Union.
cr Let them Remember
that as soon as this abolition party came in pow
er, the Union crumbled, and that while'llemo
orate were in favor of the Crittenden compromise,
which the South promised to accept, the Ab
olitionists ware opposed to it and voted it down
against the petitions, the protests and the
votes of the Democratic party—thus throwing
us into this stupendous civil war.
Sidr• Let them Remember
that the abolition designs of the party in power,
were soon after developed, by trying to strike
down the freedom of the press, of speech and by
the adoption of the universal emancipation and
amalgamation policy.
SIO - Let them Remember
that the party in power have plundered the gov
ernment of millions upon millions of dollars,
have made an odious and oppressive system of
taxation, have burdened us with a most sic
pendent; national debt, have created scores of
new offices for the benefit of their favored par
tizans, have quartered troops upon us without
cause, and have shown the most astonishing
profligacy and extravagance to enrich their own
partisans at the expense of the country.
» Let them Remember
that the party in power, after making the most
solemn promises of free press and free speech,
and keeping the motto standing in their papers,
have since shown their disregard of all pledges,
by trying to destroy by mobs and brute force,
these great rights of freemen.
fit. - Let them. Remember
that their promises to the poor man, like all the
rest, were false and deceptive, as the poor man
must now pay double prices for all he consumes,
must compete with negro labor and be classed by
this administration us a negro's equal, and not
only that, but must, because he has not $3OO, be
forced by bayonets, away from his family into
the army, while the rich do not feel the loss of
the pries which erempis them.
far - Let them Remember
that this is the old Know Nothing party, with
Curtin, a Know Nothing, at its hbad, in favor of
breaking down the sovereignty of the States,
and erecting a despotic form of government, in
Whiell the wealthy and aristocratic shall have a
monopoly anti rank above the laborer, as in des
potic countries in Europe. Can the poor man aid
them by his vote to destroy his own liberty ? If
he does, he is not worthy to be a freeman, and
will not be one long.
Let them I?emember
that Androw G, C 1,41114 ii 110 only n Know No
thing, in favor of denying foreigners rights which
he would give to negroes, but that he is reported
as having once asserted that the Pennsylvania
Dutch all had
sX~" Double Skulls,"
and that he has favored the violations of both
State and National Constitutions by arbitrary
arrests, and has favored mobs, outrage and riot
ings by pardoning rioters and ruffians, after they
were tried and convicted for qutraging decency,
law and humanity. This he did in the Oliver
and Osterstock case at Easton, and yet he asks
law abiding and constitutional men to give him
their votes! They will give him an invitation
to leave Harrisburg.
;io Let Freemen Remember
all these things when they go to vote on the nth
of October, and cast their ballots for WOODWARD
and Lowntr., men of character, who respect the
law and obey the Constitution, who hold princi
ples of equality between the rich and the poor,
and who make no lying promises to the people
as the abolition party have done. Let them re
member that Democratic principles do not
change—that they have blessed the nation with
peace, plenty and prosperity in the past and will
do so hereafter. Remember these things, and
vote the Democratic ticket, from WOODWARD
down to Auditor.
FACTS TO BE REMEMBERED.
The Constitution was adopted Sept.. 17th, 1787,
and ratified by nine States (the number requir . ed
to set it in motion,) in 1788. The last remaining
State of the old thirteen (11thode Island) ratified
the Constitution in May, 1790. In the original
Constitution occurs the clause The privilege
of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, except
when in cases of invasion or rebellion the public
safety. may requiro it." The Constitution as it
thus stood was afterwards amended—viz in
December, 1791, nearly tr.•o years after all the
thirteen States had ratified the old Constitution.
The amendments are important, as they qualify
and explain many parts of the original Constitu
Lion. It is in the amendments that these passages
are found :
"The right of the people to keep and bear
arms shall not be infringed."
" The people shalt at all times be secure in their
houses, persons and effects, against unreasonable
searchings and seizures."
"In all criminal prosecutions the right of trial
by jury shall Le preserved, (except in oases of
persons in the military or naval service of the
United States in time of war)."
" Persons accused shall be entitled to a speedy
trial by jury within the district in which the of
fence is alleged to have been committed."
"The powers not delegated to the Federal gov—
ernment are reserved to the Stales or to the peo
ple."
"Cruel or unusual punishments shall not be bi
'Dieted."
How do these amendments accord with Lin—
coln's claim to supreme power as commander•in
chief of the army. Refusing men jury trials, or
inflicting unusual punishments by sending them
into exile.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
DREAD RIOT AT Monive.—Another bread riot
broke ont#Mobile on the 4th.of September. As
in the former disturbance, the women of the
city composed it, openly declaring that if the
authorities did not devise some means to relieve
their suiftrings; they would burn the place down.
General Maury, the Rebel Commander, ordered
out the Seventeenth Alabama Regiment to sup
press the riot, but they refused to do duty, and the
Mobile Cadets, who chivalrously attempted to
put down the women, were defeated, and forced
to fly. The paroled prisoners from Pemberton's
army, who are at Vicksburg, are suffering for
want of care and provisions.
THE ALLIES OF TRAITORS
That the Secession leaders of the South and
the Abolition leaders of the North, are allies, is
Proved by the fact that they are both striving to
accomplish the genie end—the destruction of the
Union as our forefathers made it. Both have
thrown off their allegiance to the Constitution—
and on the one side it is assailed by armed re
bellion, sod on the other by usurped and arbi
trary power, exercised under the tyrant's plea
of State necessity." Read any of the Southern
papers that supple the rebellion, and see Wheth
er they do not all agree that the policy of Lin
coln, and Sumner, and Thad. Stevens, is precise
ly what they want to inovire.the success of their
scheme of separation anddieunion, and that the
only fear they have of a restoration of the Union
is in the success of the Democratic party. Here
is an example to the very point in question, token
from a late number of the Mobile Advertiser
There is only one party in the North who
want this Union restored, but they have no more
power—legislative, executive or judicial--than
the paper we write on. It is true they make a
show of union and strength, but they have no
voice of authority. We know that the Vallee
dishont school wants the Union restored, for he
told us so when he wee here in exile, partaking
of such hospitality as we extended to a real
enemy to our struggle for separation, banished to
our soil by another enemy, who is practically
more friendly than he. And if Vallandigham
should, by accident or other cause, become Gov
ernor of Ohio, we hope Lincoln will keep his
nerves to the proper tension, and not allow him
to enter the confines of the State. His Adminis
tration would do more to restore the old Union
than any other power in Ohio could do, and
therefore we pray that he may be defeated.
Should a strong Union party spring up in Ohio,
the third State in the North in political importance,
it might find a faint response in some Southern
States, and give ns trouble. Bat as long as the
Republicans hold power they will think of con
quest and dominion only, and we, on the other
hand, will come up in solid column for freedom
and independence, which we will be certain to
achieve with such assistance as we may now
(after the refusal of the Washington Cabinet to
confer) confidently expect, before the Democrats
of the North onceget into power again, and come
whispering into our ears: - Union, Beconstructiou i
Constitution, Concession and Guarantees.' Away
with such stuff. We want separation. Give us
such men like Thaddeus Stevens and Charles
Sumner. They curse the old Union and despise it.
so do we. And we now promise these gentlemen
that, as they hate the Union and the 'accursed
Constitution,' let them keep down Vallandignam
and his party in the North ; then they shall never
be troubled by us with such whining about. the
Union and the Constitution as they are sending
up."
Can Any Adopted Citizen Vote for
Curtin ?
Andrew G. Curtin, the man who clothed the
Pennsylvania volunteers with shoddy, and now
claims to have done so because he was their
"friend," was a bright and shining light of the
Know Nothings. We give below the oaths taken
by him, and aak, can any foreign-born American
citizen vote for him ? .
44 4 4
THE OATHS TAKEN BY GOVERNOR ANDREW
G. CURTIN WHEN HE JOINED THE DARK-
LANTERN OR KNOW-NOTHING PARTY.
I=
"In the presence of Almighty God and these
Witnesses, I do solemnly promise and sweat that.
I will never betray any of the secrets of this
society nor communicate them even to proper
candidates, except within a lawful council of the
order; that I will never permit any of the secrets
of this society to be written, or in any other
manner to be made legible, emeept for the pur
pose of official instruction ; that I will not give
my influence for any man, for any office, in the
gift of the people, unless he bean American born
citizen, in favor of Americans ruling America.
nor if he be a Roman Catholic ; that I will in all
political matters, so far as this order is concerned,
comply with the will of the majority though it
may conflict with my personal preference."
SECOND DEGREE
"1 of my own free will and accord, in the
presence of Almighty God and these witnesses,
do solemnly and sincerely swear that I will not,
under any circumstances, disclose in any manner,
Ear suffer it to be done by others, it in my power
to prevent it, the name, signs, pass words, or
other secrets of this degree, except in open Coun
cil for the purpose of instruction ; that I will
support in all political matters, for ail political
offices, members of this order in preference to
other persons; that I will when elected or ap
pointed to any official station conferring on me
the power to do so, remove all FOREIGNERS,
ALIENS OR ROMAN CATHOLICS tram office or place,
and that I will in no case appoint such to any
office or place in my gift . . Ido also promise and
swear that this and all other obligations which I
have previously taken in this order shall ever be
koyt throuylt life, sacred and inviolate. All this I
promise and declare as an American to sustain
and abide by, without hesitation or mental reser
vation whatever, so help me God t"
HORROR! HORROR! HORROR!
Can the mind conceive any greater deeds of
horror than the murder of two Rhode Island sni
fflers for refusing to be consolidated with a nig
ger regiment? If the statement he trues the
Governor of Rhode Island owes it to humanity,
and the honor of his State to demand from the
Federal Government reparation for the infamous
outrage.
MORE HORRORS OF THE WAR-"-TWO RHODE
ISLANDERS SUOT
A correspondent of the Providence Prcas, 'writ
ing from Thibodesuxville, La., Sept. 12, gives
the particulars of the killing of two members of
the Second Rhode Island Regiment. This regi
ment was ordered to be consolidated with the
" First Louisiana," which is, as we understand
it, a negro regiment. But the men disliked the
order, and did not march to the negro camp ;
they laid down their arms and clustered all to
gether Wei); place, Tiiev, Col, Robinson. of
the First Louisiana, came over on horseback and
repeated the order, but nobody moved, and only
a few answered—" We belong to
.Rhode Island,
and not to Louisiana."
The men were then threatened that if they
didn't start they should be fired into, just as they
stood all clustered together; a regiment stood by,
with guns ready to execute the order. Colonel
Robinson, as he saw only a few move, Added,
4 4 hurry up, or I'll fire right into you.'" That this
was no idle threat, we found out afterward. The
men slowly fell into line ; the two last; Richard
Smith, alias Murphy, front Boston e lt harness
maker, and William Davis, were taken, their
hands tied behind them,
and led over to a field
in front of the camp. They then marched us
over there, and the men of the Pint Louisiana
formed on our right and left at right angles with
us, thus forming a square open on the side where
the two prisoners stood guarded by two squads
of men.
Their eyes were bandaged with red handker
chiefs, and every preparation made for their axe.
cation. Although we could not believe at the
time that they would shoot these men for having
simply dared to show that they were not satisfied