&suite nab Dumont. READING, PA. SATURDAY. NOVENDER 11, 1563. l', ---- Ci .t2,- - - -I,.f r: \ i t ;L ,_-....,\,-,--\ -1-- , 0-': ' -' --'?' -?-- '.s *%-- -4. -*= - - A=— _,:V_.-.--f_.\--7---- -t- -\ - I :t, -- 1 l , \ v.* gets! brightest Bernier that fiats eo tOP gale. Flag efthe country of Was:l.lll4;ton, tail! Eed are thy i.triper with the bloc' of the brave, Bright are thy eters as the run on the wave; Writtit in thy folds are the hopes of the Free, Banner of Ww,hington bletbings on thee! _VP A COMMUNICATION frets "TEAellett, — en ale bobj,t of our Schoo getiaral I raiuinp of the 'coati' of ear city. to unecoldably pol.tpeced until coot week. TO OUR ADVERTISERS. We publish, from week to week, a number of advertisements of Real Estate, Executors' and Administrators' Notices, Orders of Court, Sze., for which the parties interested could just as ire't pay the mrsh as not but witch, from the habit of the thing, they tell us to charge to their accounts, where they generally remain from three to six and twelve months, and often longer, be fore payment. Now, when we state that all our expenses have to be met with cask—tbsti not a sheet of paper is used in our office until it is paid for—and that those who wort: for us nerd their wages every Saturday night; it may be imagin ed that we often stand in need of the money that this advertising should bring us. Acy one wilt understand that it is no easy matter to comply with the •• cash system" in what he buys, and at the same Limo allow the credit system" on what he earns. In these days of universal cash payments, it will not be considered unreasonable in the printer to remind his friends that he is no exception to the rule. We therefore hope our customers will, in all cases where it may lie con venient, favor us with the ea,b for their adver tising favors, instead of having theta charged. We have no disposition to be doss-fisted or die obliging; but mulie this request simply es a .business necessity," of which all should see t be force. I.I . SOOusTI'MPIONALITIt OP TEM CON.CR!PTION ACT.—lmportant Dceifion of Cie Supreme Court of Pennxyluania.—ln the Supreme Court of Buie State, at Pittsburgh, on Tuesday last, Chief Jim Lice Lowrie rendered a decision in the mn.ter of the application of three drafted men belonging to Philadelphia, who filed bills in Equity to test the constitutionality alba Conscription act. The applications were for injunctions to restrain the Government officers from sending the complain ants into the military service. The Chief Justice decided the act. of Congress unconstitutknal, and granted preliminary injunctions in each case. Concurrent opinions were read by Justices Wood ward and Thompson, and dissenting opinions by Justices Strong and Read. Justice Woodward sums up his opinion in the following words " I rest my objections to its constitutionality upon these grounds: " lst. That the power of Congress to raise and support armies does not include the power to draft the militia of the States. ..t2d. That the power of Congress to call forth the militia cannot be exercised iu the forms of this enactment. " 3d. That a citizen of Pennsylvania cannot be subjected to the tules and articles of war, until lie is in sternal military service. "4dt That he is not placed in such aClnat service when his name has been drawn from a wheel, and ten days' notice thereof has been served upon him. " For these reasons I am for granting the in junetion." As a majority of the Supreme Bench makes its decisions, this settles the question of the consti tutionality of the Conscription Law, unless it be over-ruled by the Supreme Court of the United States, or by—the " higher law" of Federal Pio— tatorshin_ DEATH OF AN OLD MERCHANT.-Mr. Thomas Diehl, who died in Philadelphia on the 7th at the advanced age of 88 years, was one of the earliest merchants of that city, and among its oldest and most respected citizens. The North _American 99.7H!--" Ile possessed many virtues. Hie history 'would be an exemplar to young men of business. He reached the extreme age of 88 years. For sixty continuous years ho was a subscriber to this paper. His friendship was lasting, and very many now in prosperity owe to his helping baud the foundation of their for tunes. Ho died tranquilly, as he lived. Many will lament him, though to him death is a gain." Mr. Diehl was the father-in law of J. L Stich ter, Esq., of this city. lie was the son of Nioho• las Diehl, wilt, commanded a troop of horse in the Revolutionary war, and the last survivor of the " Thompson Blues," a Philadelphia Volun. leer company that was called out in 1793 to quell the Whiskey Insurrection. Mir WE ARE BERRY that the figures we pub lished last week, to show how Curtin was re elected, have had the unlooked for effect of riling our friend iiiestand, of the Lancaster Ervnziner, to such a pitch as to make him forget his ordi— nary courtesy toward us, and take to calling maraca. John ought to be in a better humor after the successes of his party in the late elec tions, and not allow himself to get savage just because a poor Democrat attempts to find conso lation in cyphering out how the votes should have been counted. John kdows as well as we do that tt figures won't lie," and if these we printed happen to show that Curtin's vote was by far ton large to be accounted for in any rea atonable way, why the fault is in the fact they disclose, and net in us. Cheer up, John You have every thing your own way, now, and "hadn't ought to" be so querulous, Tns GCRMANTOWN TELZGRAPII —The announce ment of this old and favorite Newspaper, for 1.9e4, appears in our advertising columns to-day. The ladies—and they art the best judges—are of one opinion in pronouncing it decidedly the best family paper now published. Next to the Ga zette, of course—and barring lie occasional po litical partialities—we heartily coneur in this opinion, and rem:rewind the Tthgraph, to our country friends p brt icularly, as •• a gpod thing to have in the hcm4e." 11101.1 WORKS SOLD —The executors of the es late of James Rittenhouse, deceased, have sold the igitcgow Forge property, with 224 acres of land, together with grist mill, tenant twine, .te., in Pottegrove township, Montgomery county, to William Trailer, Esq., of Longswamp township, Berko county, for 51G,500. APPLES / N NEW-YORE: STATE.—Pratt. growers say that two hundred thousand barrels of apples will be sold in Orleans county, New l'Ork, this Autumn. A RADICAL PLATFORM. A c ~ vention of Fe-called " radical Gent - ISMS" assetubled at Cieve,land, Ohio, on Saturday, the 17th of last month, nod eat (including Sunday) until 010 fell wing Wednesday. The. Abolition newspapers tell us that "the preeuediugu weru very harmonious, and the debates showed the most onion! and patriotic zeal. Fifteen States were represented, including three slave States." The lel:ening platform was I t :trete , ' by the eon- vention: 1. I:o.i:why of the Union and subordination of Itat several States under the sovereignty of the people of the United States. 2. Ut,eanttitional euppreseion of the rebellion. At3.2ntlon of slavery in the entire territory of the United States in the shortest any 4. Revision of the Constitution in the spirit of the Declaration of Independence. Trettuteut of the reconquered rebel States as territories for the purpose of recoil— struction. G. Cmion of the confiscated lands in the spirit of the Homestead Bill, as well as dona tion of portions of land to the defenders of the country, of whatever color, and to the liberated slaves 7. Re-Ai:Allot) of the Monroe doctrine. S. Alliance with European revolution opirtit foreign interveni ion. t. Proreolion of the foaalont of the press and speech against military usurp:idol. 10. Estatit.liroont of a national military eyr,tera mih, to the 5 wieft nycicin. Universal obligatiou for military tervico. I]. Support of such candidates for publio offices as stand nearest to the principles laid down in this platform. This platform is certainly '•radical" enough to suit our American statesmen (!) of the Sum ner, Phillips and Greeley school, to a hair. It is ns thotottgbly revolutionary in its sentiments and aitn as the Southern rebellion—and even more so. Let us scan, for a moment, its several proposit if/Ile—taking each one separately: 1. This inecus, if any the obliteration of Skate limes, and the erection of a consolidated centralized empire, titer Ito modtl of the Euro pe:le despotisms ; contrary to the idea of Koostil the I:anarian patriot, wito taw, in our system of local self-government, at once the secret and and safesnard of the libolies we enjoyed. 2. This is mere bravado, or else it means war to the extent of exterminating the whole South ere people; for no civilized belligerent powers can mak., pease without agreeing to 80111,C sort of terms or conditions. Even in our wars with the Indians, we attempted to enforce no such savage doctrine as thzir unconditional subjection. 3. This the present Administration is endea voring to do, as far as Executive Proclamations and .rbltrrAri milltars orders cam an if. To sure, the Cons.hoi ion from which it derives oil the power it possesses, gives it Ur,;ynitiorit y far any Rich proceeding. But, 'what of that? The man who rates about obedience to the Consti tution now, has Leen declared n "tr4 - .3tor" by 11)01 . e than one of Pregitisut Linooln'o mouth. MZEI 4. After the preceding, proposition, something like this became iz,cliztpcnsahle. Our "radicni t3er• tuAtt " Itotteut than many of their American Abolition allies,—tlefl plainly enough, and cmfess that "the Cons itation as it, ie " gives no warrant to Abolitionism, and therefore they desire its revision " to snit. the times." But, did it never strike (hero that, as some of tho men who signed the Deep - ation of Independence also aided in framing the C.nstilution, and all the framers of that instrument were the com tem poraries and fellow-laborers of the signers for our freedom and intivrendence, they were likely to have coder Mond •• the spirit of the Decla ration " petty welt ° It would not ba a violent prl!.9111111111.11 to think so. 5. That's Stunner's docttine—and radical and revolutionary enough it. is. Old fogies may argue that Stater oatet rebel, and mast therefore retain their municipal existence ; but what of that? In these war times, " might makes right." G. Aba! Now we sea the object of the pre ced kg proposition ! A premy scheme of plund er and spoliation, truly, for a civilized and Christian people to engage in ! Why it beats ail to pieces Alextioder, and Atilln, and Cortez, and William the Norman, and the whole line of freebooters whose history is a recold of pillage and conquest on a scale hitherto considered un• appreachable by modern Kings and Warriors. But there is one redeeming, feature in this plan of wholesale robbery—it admits no distinction of color in the distribution of the spoils t 7. When the Democratic party held power, and, acting upon the conviction that in Union consisted our national strength, made all other questions subordinate to the preservation of the Union in its entirety, the Monroe doctrine was recognized and respected by all foreign pow: era_ It. will never be realized again, until the American people are one—art in mere form of government—but in sentiment, feeling, inter est, and nationality. 8. Washington and Jefferson, who were gener ally supposed to know something about what was best for the seenrlty and perpetuity of the free dom and independence they assisted to achieve, taught. a very dffernnt. lesson in regard to Euro pean alliances. But then, their ideas are not progressive enough for the present age. And, after the rebellion is put clown. how shall we em ploy our big armie.t . , and our immense munitions of war, if we don't mix in with European revolu- tionary movements? 9 If the t , radical Germans " are sincere in This proposition, they must have inl.ended it as a direct slap at the present Lincoln administra tion ; for its policy ilati been liter:lly " Suppres— sion of the freedom of the press nod of speech by military usurpation." 10. This proposition becomes a necessity if the Bth be adopted, an d pot in practice. We shall 1144(1 " A hational military system " even more sorely than we do now, when our "alliance with European revolution " transforms us into a light ing- nation. The "radical Germans" will not bind ;any ex isting party in this country that. embodies all the principles laid (town in their platform. But. it is easy to perceive what party stands nearest to them. To that, they will doubtless give their support, as they have done in times pest. Can any one tell us, though, hew the integrity of the Union is to be t•eototed, nod free government preserved and perpetuated, by the success of principles so diametrically opposed to the tradi tional American school of politics ?—principlee which, in their very essence and design, are agrarian and destructive,when the country now needs, of all things, a spirit of wise moderation and conservatism. A DP:310011AM CoNaltnet3l4l7 ELECTRD.—At the recent election in New York, the pemnerata elected John V. L Proyn, Eoq , one of the ablest men iu that State, to C.ongress from the Albany district, by a large majority, to fill the vacancy ocessdened by the resignation of lion. Ernetna Corning. Bet the telegraph wires have neVeT (a 4 far as we know) allowed the fact to be known. It troubles the Abolitiuhists Otat there IS a Democratic party. Dot they can't help it, after all. And they'll hear from it, too. FATAL EXPLOMON.—On Wednusday morning, 4th inst., an explosion occurred or the powder lal:oraiory of Mrssra. Leibcrt, Raiff and Eshbach, a short distance below Norristown, Pa., resulting fatally to Mr. Henry Leihort, and 'William P. Reiff, both well known and respected oitizens of Norristown. A MOCKERY OF FREEDOM Tie late election iu Maryland airorda a glaring instance of federal disregard of Slate rights and interference withfree elections. Bach voting place was surrounded by soldiers, Who were un der orders to prevent all persons suspected of " disloyalty " from giving in their ballots; I'M a test oath was also prescribed, which every voter was obliged to take. The soldiers acted se judges of the t , loyally " of the. eitimur, ! Of course, under such a regime, only one side voted, and the consequence was, the election of four out of the Sic Lincoln candidates for Congress. In one district there would seem to he no •loyal" people, for the anti Administration candidal e Was allowed to be elected. The Governor of Maryland, Mr. Bradford, an undoubted Union man, wrote a letter of remonstrance lo the Pre sident. against this exercise of tyranny, but ra dioed very little satisfaction; and at length, unable to do anything else, ho solemnly protest ed against it, in the name of the people of his State, by a stirring and sensible proclamation. (ion. Schenck, however, the Military Dictator of Maryland, forbade the publication of the procla mation, food sent Ms soldiers, with bayonets fixed, to prevent freemen from voting. If it were not so serious a stretch of arbitrary power as to amount to a gross outrage, we should cad the Maryland election, under influences lilts these, a farce. DorLonainn CONDITION OF UNION PLISONENS AT RIIIIIIIIOND.—The Union prisoners, inettreent. led at Richmond, are in a most deplorably con dition—many of them actually dying from star vation. Of the last number paroled some died Limit way to Eurtress Monroe and many have since passed away, having become so much reduced for want of food that it was impossible to save thein. 1 person who saw them land at Fortress Monroa, says: "Never before, in the course of my life, have I ever seen ouch a scene as she viten presented. They were living skeletons. Every man of them bad to ho sent to the hospitals, and the surgeon's opinion is that snore than one-third of them must die. being beyond the reach of nourishment or medicine. "I questioned severql of them, and :di stated that their condition hoe been brought.en by the treatment they hare received at, the hands of the robots. " They have been kept without food and ex posed a largo portion of the time without sholtel of any kind." Since then information hae bec-n received at Washington, stating that the lobe! authorities have at length altogether stoppe.l the very small iticat 1 aiiou here:oforo aitewed t.n our tow-vies eol diers in 'heir prisons. The exerße alleged is Oho: they have Ceiteed io be able to tin nisi' their own soldiers wish meat. As assurances have been given our Govern moot that. any suppties of clothing and food that may he forwarded loam 1„i-.nuers in Ilielttunttd, through the proper eltannets, will be delivered into their hands, the dictates of gratitude. sym pal by and humanity demand that. immediate cf rot ts should be made by the citizens of the peace ful and undistuilred porticos of the Union, to relieve the sufferiugs of their unfortunate court. ttyrneu who have fallen iu:o the enemy's hands through the vicissitudes of war. Mijf:DER IN CARMN CoctTr.—On Thursday evening, sth inst., Mr. George K. Smith, a mem ber of a coal firm operating , at Yorktown, in Carbon county, was deliberately murdered in his own house, at that. place. It appears, from the best information that we have been able to oh toia, that four men called at bis house and stated that they had a letter which they were required to deliver in person to Mr. S. On his coming down from an upper room, he was fired upon and instantly killed, One of his clerks then made his appearance and fired upon the assassins, wounding, as he supposed, one of them. In turn he was fired upon and wounded. Several bails also passed through Mrs. Smith's dress. The party then tied. It is said that Mr. Smith had provoked the hostility of the miners by giving information to the Provost Marshal which en• ebled him, with the military under Captain Yates, to find the drafted men. A.:3 it wz,s feared a riot would vomit from this trouble, a large number of soldiers were imme diately seal to that locality, and : , everal of the operators closed their mines, but up to this time no further violence has been committed. TALL VoTinu.—A cotrespond:nt of the Har— risburg l'alriot presents the following 61111110.1i— eon of the vote of Turk, a Democratic county, with that of Venango, an Abolition county, by way of showing how Cortia'S niqjurity of 15,000 was obtained. It proves a glaring ease of fraud, or else a miraculous condition of health, &c., in the people of Venango In 3802 it (Venango) polled 4,407 Iroi,C9, giving Cochran 70 majority, The number of mashies returned before this vote was 0.275. In 1862 this county polled 6,274 votes, giving Cur tin a majority of Sl4. M'Ciure's estimate mint to the New• York Tribune asked for 300! " York, a Democratic county. polls 13,591 votes out of a tax lief of ltl. i i 6, leaving for r•idows, orphans, non•resideuts, bide, &0., who could riot vote, 5,195 persons. Venango, an Abolition county, polls 6,274 voles out of a lax list of 6 275, leaving for widows, c.rphans, nos residents; sick, bto., who could not vote, 1 person : A county containing souls, does not often piesent so clean a bill or health as this." —Or, the writer might. have added, 80 h?:7 a vote! THE DA3"II.E OF 61:1rVSBURIS —Messrs. J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia, have just pub lished a neat. little volume of 48 pages, entitled "Notes on the Bebe' Invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania, and the Baitle of Qettphttrg," The author is Professor M. Jacobs, of Peunsyl satins College, Gettysburg, who witnessed nearly all that he narrates, and who derived his knowl. edge of what ho did net Witties4 frail the best authorities. Au excellent. map accompanies Ms narrative, and rashes every thing perfectly clear; The volume is for sale at all the Bookstores. TIIE DE3treATIO VOTX OF Onto.—The Den,oo - of Ohio, although bealea at the late election, polled a larger vote, by 16,000, than the highest vote they ever east before; and 31,000 greater than their vote of 180. The following figures show the Democratic vote of Ohio for Govern°. in the years named Medi!! Medill Payne Itanney Jewett Vallandighan• gig Fury. Dn. ilAtteAentt, pastor of St. John's Qiutob, at Cohan-:n, has been electedlifeseur of Didactic Theology, &c., in the Seminary et Mercer.9latrg, by the Synod of the ( - Jarman Re. f..vatcd Church rear,: iy lu ae-c-;ion at. Carlisie, in place of Rev. 1) , . B. C. w,a, re,igned Schaff has relitiu!shed in the H , Last I.lecnittiey for It period of two years, de eiguitig to visit Hs friends in Europe. PIVIZPOCKIOS AT THY, LEIIIMI COUNTY FAIL- Recently while workmen were etwteed in re— pairing the privy vault on the Lehigh county Fair Grounds, they discovered s'ne twenty or twenty-tire pocket hooks in the vault, rifled of their contents, with the exception of valueless pa pers. They had evidently been thrown in during the late Fair by pickpockets, who musthave had a righ burnt. Cll4 _Affairs. Sef • EPISCOPAL SERVICA AT TILE COURT noraa.—Divine servlcetvill he bald at the Court House, to•morroty (Snaday) moralag, at 10 o'clock ; also in the evening at 7 o'clock. stir THE UNION GRAS };R lS NETIIIO Will be. 11,:•,k1 to-.sorrow (Stinday) ariennoo, to the Second German rielormed Church, South Sixth street, at 3 o'clock. All reran-. are reveetrol , y invited to uttered. "QUARTERLY M givrixa in St.. Peter's M. E. Cb 'oh, South Fifth Street, Seodny, Nov.lnth, (to•morrow). Love Fount at Sh A. ; PreAchiug by Rely. W, L. Gray, at 10 A. M. ; Preaching to Young Men, by the Pastor, at 7 P. M. ie r° SALE OP "DREES AND &num AT MARKET atortarao.—Atteation M tnvltod to the sale of Fruit Trees, Evergreens, Shrubbery, Sm., from a lirstrclass Nur sery, to take place title morning in the Weetern Market Hoene. DarA NATIoNAL BANK IN READING —We Uri derrtand that a new Deola under the National Banking Law, is ebent to be establish. 3 in this city, with the title of " The First Maio:tat Bonk of Reading," by portion who have the requisite means and facilities for placing the enterprise upon a proper footing V.V" TILE )I%M OF 1 3 OTTSTOWN, in 'which a considerable amount of stock is bold by residents of the lower cod of Dellis county, has just made a half-ycarly dividend of it per ;rent. At the election for Directors, to he hold on Monday next, a proposition to IRCTIXISO the capital Cio,ooo will ho voted np.in.. The present capital of the Bsek is sloo,oteo, which it is authorized, by its char ter, to increase to $200,0f 0, , Zee' SUDDEN Dl:ATlT.—Joseph R. Priestley, Cashier of the Dank of Nortbumberlaria, died end den ly, of hearbdisease, at the Railroad Depot, in thin city, on Tuesday Morning lost, immediately after stepping off the train from Philadelphia, le which he had been a pus gouger. He was a sou of Dr. Joseph Priestley, a diatin guislied Euglieheliemlst,aud advocate of the Unitarian faith, who cams to this country in the year lint, andwas among the earliest settlers of Noilintuthertand county, He was also a son.i.u. law of the lake Marks John Biddle. EFCI., of Reading, and leaves relatives yet residing here, in whose charge his body was taken home to Northumberland, on Wednesday, for interment. Mr. Priestley was 71 years of ago, and had teen for a long limo connected with the Bank of Northumberland as (lathier. He wan a gentleman of affable manners, benovo• loot disposition, and high character in business and social life. Ile was widely known is this Stole and aniversagy respected and ...teemed. the death wilt be a eer lone loos to the community la which ha re-idol, as well as to the numerous friends elsewhere, who know and appreciated his sierling worth. 1.6 Y" 0. U. A. M. —.MINITEL COVIA OF Lr.C• ran gemonts have been wade by Reading (loon- Oil No. 4 , 1, tinder of Mined American Medlarles, fur .be delivery, tiering the wintee, by Its member.,, of a ismer° 0,- sea ems; apes .01.4 eppropriew eubjert —not re ligions or political—once a mouth. in the Alrcha nice' hull, (Urn. Sollade's linildiug) No. fir; East Penn street. The first pthlm-o allot eerie- was 11plIvoriotoaTborsaey rvon by 6,1). C Cetinlacr ; sail consisted eta trihnto to ; he memory of the Ism Da oiel Seldom, one of the oldest Ineed,re of the Order, who patriotically volenteered in 'lie dornit