■ v-. !
Profitable Invottpacmt*.
The Philadelphia Forth Amirican gives some
excellent advice to those wbi).jwisb to. invest
money, It is well for all- wholfire in funds to
heed the counsel'" Tbough-inoney has been
temporarily scarce, capital con mass abundant;
and the recent tumble id tbe/t-tuCk' market has
brought capitalists to a realising sense' of the
unreliable character of manyof the securities
dealt id. It is gre filly to the orsdit of-tbq Gov*
rrnmeqt that its loans, of all'the securities dai
ly dealt in on the market,; have maintained
their integrity of price better than almost any
thing else. Its Five-Twontyyeareix percent,
Joan, the interest on which is fjromptrt paid in
gold, has been subscribed through the
nresfure in the money marke.tp.at'BU avqgagq of
' mere than two millions per'day. And what
is n»t tbs least gratifying fc-ct in Connection
with the daily large subscriptions to this pop
ular loan, scarcely any of it i f returned to the
market for sole. It is taken, fur investment,
nod is held with unfaltering confidence in its
reliability. And 'why should it not- be T It is
roen that the. Government nh^,'after two yeore
the most gigantic war. tHftjthe wprld has
ever'known, exoerienbes no in com
manding the necessary mean t to prosecute it,
nr any in paying, regularly tbs'lnterest in gold
ns it fallMue. If this can brl done while the
war, is being waged, who .cs® anticipate any
difficulty in readily accomplishing it when the
war shall be ended? What.'fictter investment
then, for capital, than thp-f-Fiva Twenty"
Government loan? Bat it Bi|y; doubt, let.him
refer to the statistics furnishVtf] by the census
tables of the'various national of the world,
fho facts which they preaefit will prove the
most satisfactory mode of dispelling the num
berless gloomy apprehension/ which are being
continually conjured up by.lWowho are. dis
posed to exaggerate the exlfiKt-of the calamity
occasioned by our A reference to
the state of most of the prosperous nations of
the old world clearly disproves such a position,
nod shows that the highesfjippditions of na
tional advancement have ntot been materially
effected by the extended -wafei in which those
nations'hove been imiriemnrifflly engaged, and'
that a heavy national .indebtedness has not
proved an unmitigated evil, j *
“•‘For .instance, Great- Britain; France and
the Netherlands will undoubtedly bo conceded
to represent tbe highest prosperity that has
l>e»n attained by'any of the.-Europenn nations.
yet no nations have been called upon to
endure fiercer or more prolonged wars, domes
tic and foicign, than they. The effect has been,
unquestionably, to incur nn njntmous national
indebtedness ; but neither their wars nor their
indebtedness, have had the effect to destroy
their elasticity, nor ta-cbock .the progress of
their general prosperity; Tbp. reefilt i-syould
bftvo been different, probbaly, if these nations
bad keen fulling into decays instead of being,
nt they really were, in a statepof devolopemont;
and in this respect their our
own, with enormous' advbniitges in, ourjTay'or.
Those nations, while undergoing the trials of
war, were oppressed by the e»ils of an immense
rxOdtis of their people, enuafid' by the density
of their population, the iropdssibility to pro
vide occupation for ’them, this low price of la
bor, end the scarcity of teftfitory. Compared
with our own country, the/ possessed slight
room forfuture development/ they were settled
in'Cyery part, B«d no vast teotory lay inviting
ly open tq encourage enterpf Se and settlement.
Their, great problem has eve? been whitt to do
vfitb their surplus populafioti, which, in its
turn, has sought new fields for adventure and
self-support in countries like .our own, where
nn illimitable territory waltjt
and where incalculable resigtrees invite indus
try arid energy. The encnufiagenient to be de
rived from these facts andjeomparisons of cir
cumstances Is very great,ii|nd to the mind of
any dispassionate reosoher-s is convulsive that
the course of this great country is onward and
upward, and that its credit-will live unimpair
ed to the-end." 5 - : , ♦
( .
Anti-Slavery Sentirdem f Arkansas.
There seems to be no ronW’to doubt that there
it a strong Dnion sentiroehliin Arkansas. ■ In
deed, radical opinions prevail in gome parts of
rhe State, and, correspondents tell os that the
people would rejoice at thtj.uuer extinction of
slavery, which ihey regard Ids. the cause of .the
rebellion. • A letter to the Cincinnati .Gazette
eays:, > i __ ■ ;,s', A ,
: “This desire to be slavery is. almost
Universal with the non-slk ’ebolding class, and
also shared by many df-tfie owners ofsUvea.
They see that it has beetr the cause of their
troubles and may continued# be so in the fu
ture, and they desire to do away with it.—The
political leaders, some oflthein sincere men,;
while oth,era are only, seeding to go with the;
. current, are falling in with; this sentiment, arid
are using it as the key notfj of all their oppera
lions, • A return to the C('km without slavery’
is their motto. Cnion in I/iUle Sock
get up an enthusiasm ontjgte question, and the
measurers everywhere reived with favor.
In every slave State in w'Wch the power of the
rebellion has been this reverse of sen
timent of the slavery question—that natural
and inevitable product ul; war’s reacting and
revolutionizing influence-r’i is rapidly manifest
ing itself. -Erery truly patriotic heart, as pell
at every Christian and human heart, rejoices
in it, and demands a poljcy which shall stim
ulate and encourage the c.range, The infinite
baseness of th* .spirit’ Which we call Cnpper
headiem* is roost repulsively manifested in its
counter despotism.— Buff. Ex.
A Contrast. —Whilst) Ifie Union prisoners
. atdtiehmond are suffering^ntensely from pangs
of. hunger, and man; of mem dying from star
vation,'rebel prisoners iff par hands do not fait
•to acknowledge the' kindness which they receive.
An officer who is confine-lnt. Johnson’s Island
. writing, to a friend in Newi York, says: -
“Our prison life hertj is far pleasanter
than «a anticipated. I. papnot speak in too
high , terms: of thecare, attention and good
•management displayed id the copdaot of this
prison bv those who havft.it in charge, - Every
indulgence compatable Itvith our position as
prisoners is allowed os jl and.if in the' future
of the war. changing fortunes should, throw
Federal prisoners in my eftarge, 1 shall certain
ly endeavor to show that)! am not-insensible to
the magnanimous trea'mint I have experienced
at their bands." ’ s <
—l
roa Tnßßtsnars.ilf.The Cincinnati Com
racial »ay» that the vd&rable Catholic Arch
bishop Purcell, accouipmped by Bishop Hose
.crane, appeared at* the polls in that city on
Tuesday, fur the first time in twenty-five years,
And voted an open Colon .ticket.
'-Innntite the si
bsen hwrsweiipf^OOft
’ .-i- •}
a,, ? I
- < ' I
The taking of a city is, in itself, a matter of
'ifUle consequence) considered jn its bearings
upon the present struggle. Bull the destruction
of s 'well organized and disciplined array-5s
something of very great importance indeed.
To take Richmond is no longer an ob
ject of the army/' of the Potomac, even if
it evfir has been. If token’ at all it will be a
'simple incident of a campaign made for the
destruction of the power which lies behind
Richmond, and Which upholds and sustains
the arms of Jefferson Davie. -
The siege and bombardment of Charleston
makes it necessary for Mr. Davis to kee/p a
small army there in readiness to repel any as
sault by our forces. la-that respect the .siege
of. Charleston operates to forward the Union
cause. But it could not benefit ns one iota if
to day, we bad Charleston, Richmond, and Mo
bile, and Bragg and Lee’s armies yet remained
intact.
The true policy of war, and it is the policy
adopted by the Government, is to disable the
enemy in every considerable way. To destroy
hie armies and material, to shut him up in as
small a compass as possible, by cutting off bis
communications with the outside world, and to
impoverish hirri in men—this is the shortest
route to a permanent peace through the down
fall of the rebellion and the destruction of its
aiders, directors, and abettors.
Perhaps] no other made of disabling the re
bellion could have been devised so effective as
the proclamation of freedom to the eiaves. The
slaves of the southern nabobs are their hands
and feet as well as the conservators of their
false and lying social status. When Mr. Lin
coln proclaimed freedom to the slaves of the
rebellious States, he virtually ordained that tbo
rebellion should be deprived of its hands, arms,
legs, and feet*
We have yet to see or know any man of
.thought, not a traitor in deed or thought, who
has one word to say against the proclamation
of freedom. We have yet to see, or know of,
one sympathiser with rebellion who has not a
vocabulary of abuse for that great action of the
President,
Jefferson. Davis hates it and denounces it.
So does Lee, and Benjamin, and Tombs,'and
Wigfali, and all the traitors in arms. So,
also, Fernando Wood, Horatio Seymour, Geo.
W. Woodward, C. L. Vallandigham, and all
northern rebels, not in arms, denounce the
proclamation of freedom.
Thera, must be concord among traitors, or
treason oouid not Sourish. When villains fail
out, justice reigns. Were all Northern public
men to rally around the Government, how long,
think you, could the South sustain itself in this
contest? Not long.
For the loti eight months of tear and its at
tendant horrors,- its -vast expenditures of blood
and treasure these northern rebels are entirely
responsible. They gave their nobler southern
co-adjutors to understand that they would put
the country against the Government in the
summer and fall elections, and tbns disable the
administration of tjie Government in their ef
forts to destroy the rebellion. With this assu
rance, Jeff. Davis and bis fellows, proceeded to
recruit new armies and to devise new modes of
prolonging the war through the summer and
fall.
of Ufegsa hu
s/ —?f-“
thß Agitator;
M. H, COBB, BBITOB A»t> BBOPRIETOB.
WBLLSBOBODOH, PENN’AI
WEDNESDAY, : : : DECEMBEB 9.18G3.
HOW TO DESTBOY BEBEfMOH.'
Without an army, the rebellion caunot exist
one day. Should the timp arrive when' the
South resorts to guerrilla warfare to euetaio its
failing fortunes, that day will be remembered
as the dying day of the rebellion.
What have the fall elections accomplished i
Can we read the news from the seat of war
and not .see that the rebel armies fight with
much less tenacity than ever before 7 Are
they, not everywhere retiring before on ad
vance 7 Can any one point to a single field:
where the rebel armies have fought with their
old vigor and determination 7
These northern rebels lied to their southern
dopes. They bad done that thing eo often be
fore that it is a wonder that the dupes remained
dupes. That they took the words of Wood
■ward, Vallandigham, Sea., shows that they were
reduced to a desperate strait. They can never
deceive either traitor or true man again, if the
friends of freedom and law are vigilant and
active. - ‘
Thomas Jefferson is claimed to be the
founder of tbo late Democratic party. During
the second childhood of that party—when it
consented *to be known, and to speak, through
such base fellows os James Buchanan, Jeff.
Davis, and Geo. W. Woodward, —it was fond
of the sounding introductory—“ in tbo words
of the immortal Jefferson, the great apostle of
Democracy.”
We shall cheerfully admit that Thomas Jef
ferson was the founder of the ancient and hon
orable Democratic party. We shall also admit
that while that party kept within bailing dis
tance of his doctrines it constituted the strong
est party the country ever saw.
But Thomas Jefferson was an Abolitionist
No man who reads his published works will
deny, that. ' The surface men who only know
Thomas Jefferson through « few letters Written
during the last five years Of his life, will prob
ably deny it But for such denials there need
be no lt is by the grand average of a
man’s utterances that be most be judged after
he becomes a histqpc character.
From fats eariirat entrance upon the stage of
public life until - he left it to pat on tbe gar
menu of theprirate cituten, his testimony was
uniformly hostile to slavery.. In feet after be
stage, hie tetters to /ohft^watMd
E TIOGA GOD KXY AGITATOR.
;Othe» are fall of regrets Wnd deprecation of the
[baleful influence of slavery upon'the physical,
political, educational, social and moral con
dition. of the Southern people. He snys-that
the entire intercourse between the master and
the slave is an. exhibition of boisterons pas
sions. He constantly expresses the hope.that
atimo may arrive when Slavery may be wiped
put and the nation redeemed.
. -The petty Which stillfondly callsitself “ the
Demooretio parly/' still’ quotes Jefferson as
one of its apostles—its chiefest apostle, in faot.
Therefore, admitting its claim, how can that
party be other than an abolition party T Par
ties and sects always rally around the princi
ples promulgated by their founders. Is it not
so f ”
EDITOEIAX. COBBEBFON33ENCE,
Washington, Decembers, 1863;
When an American wishes to illustrate Brit
ish cruelty be cites the martyrdom of our brave
soldiers in the “ Sugar House prison" and pris
on-ships by the agents of old King George.
And these historic relators of fearful suffering
in the old time' have helped to keep the pop
ular teeth on edge for nearly ninety years,-so
that American hatred of Great Britain has
come to he considered undying.
Within the last twenty-four hours I have
listened to a relation of suffering which most
become historic at tbe cost of everlasting
shame to the rebel leaders. It was the tale of
the;sufferings of our soldiers on Belle Isle and
in Libby Prison, related by eyewitnesses and
partakers of rebel humanity, exemplified in tbe
brutal treatment of Union prisoners of war.
With tbe main features of (his cruelty, the city
journals have doubtless informed the reader.
But the inside bistory of the matter can never
be portrayed in language.
Picture to yourself, reader, tbe spectacle not
seldom seen in newly. settled districts, where
men arc able to barely pick along, and provide
a rude but to shelter their humankind from the
inclemency of tbo weather; and where you
may see tbe settler’s cattle huddling under the
lee of a log fence, or a. few bushes, with arch
ing backs—endeavoring to shelter themselves
from tbe.freexing winter wind and the falling
eleot. ‘ Picture to yourself this spectacle—for
.you will travel far in Tioga county now-a-daye
before yon will see it in reality—and you have
the faithful description of the condition of our
captive soldiers in Richmond.
Nuked, or nearly so; starving on insufficient
and uneatable food ; dying at tbo rate of fifty
per day, consumption and paralysis of
tbo digestive organs. Such is the report,
brought to us by returned surgeons of the con
dition of our brotbere in arms.
Add to this the damning fact —For it i a a
fact—that of nil the abundance of food provi
ded and forwarded by the Government for theiti
relief, not <v pound has been distributed to out
men by 'the rebel authorities., Their Commft- -
sioner— Quid—fatly denies that the rations sent
have not been distributed, and when confront
ed with unimpeachable evidence to the contra
ry, says that food will not be distributed, but
only clothes I
The intention of the rebel leaders is dis
closed in the publications they make in tbeir
journals. They intend to force us to return to
them all the prisoners in anr hands—and this
includes an excess of some 10,000 —for which
they will return to us all their prisoners df
wm. The excess in our hands to be held by
them only on parole'. Their journals deny that
there is any scarcity of food in rebeldom and
claim that they can subsist all the rebel sol
diers we have in oar hands.
This opens up a new era of brutality. It
discloses the fact that our men in tbeir hands
are not starved from any necessity of economi
zing their supply of food, hut oat of pure vin
dictiveness. f
This is the fruit of the system of
slavery. That system is destruction to those
finer feelings which seem to ally man to tfae
angels. The slaveholder becomes familiar with
scenes of human Buffering, and learns to look
upon it as the butcher lobks upon the dying
agonies of the brute he slays for man’s conven
ience or luxury. For one 1 thank God that the
system is dead in fact, and trust that its bale
ful influence upon man and woman may disap
pear with the.present generation.
Let us bear no more about "Chivalry.”
There is nothing of the sort, save in the lia
tare of exceptions, south of Mason and Dixon’s
line. The " chivalrous Southron” and the
"Gentle Savage” are each as real as the otbfr.
The man or woman who lives in habitual vio
lation of the rights and liberties ' of.eyen
the humblest of humankind, can- neither pos
sess the virtues nor practice the precepts 1 of
Christianity. Every man who has seen the in
side life of Slavery, must recognize in Jojbn
iHenry Hopkins and George W. Woodward tiro
bold, bad; abandoned infidels, enemies not only
of humau freedom but of human virtue.
Let as hear no more about Thomas ’ Paine,
or Voltaire, or Home, or Gibbon, by way of
extraordinary reproach. These men were white
and spotless in contrast with John Henry Hop
kins and Oeo. W. Woodward. The former
were theoretical- infidels; hut the latter are
practical traitors to the trust the Almighty has
placed in their hands, ;
Which is the worse—the whit# body with a
black soul, or a black bpdy and a white soul.
M.H.C.
Washington December 5,1863.
' This cosmopolitan public is just now endea
voring to aolre the problem of Meade’s retro
grade, movement. Theories are as plenty as
theorists and hypotheses as. thick .as files, in
August. 1 , j ,
With no better facilities than other* for
knovnng tbe why and- the wherefore of Meade’s
falling back, I - shall- at o'oee (W the
to giveth»t««Wß*pn.: ,/•- '
Meade left Brandy Station with eight days
rations. He pressed the Rapidan without seri
ous resistance,-owing to the-faot that the rebels
• were informed that he would cross at Germa
nia Ford. .This .he never intended .to do. It
J”was a white lie to mislead, Gen. Lee swallowed
-the .baifc. :- - - . - •
Meade-pursued the retreating rebels to Mils
Run—a stream too wide and too deep to ford at
this season of the year. Behind that gully the
rebels had provided formidable defences; so
formidable that no man .of common sense
would attempt to carry them’in front. The only
feasible plan was to outflank tbe rebels.
But to send a flanking force to tbe right or
left of the rebel position would have required
much time and an uninterrupted line of com-,
munioatlon with the base of supplies.
Now it was well known that Gen. Meade had
caused the rail* to be taken up from Brandy
station to the Rapidan. This was precaotion
ary—to prevent the rebels from carrying the
iron away to Dixie, a trick they have several
times performed. Thus, the : Rapidan ran be
tween Meade and his supplies, and is liable at
any tine, lit this Season of the year, to become
uofordable. i
Any one fit to keep a hotel will comprehend
that it is no small matter to cater for 90,000
men. Meade could not properly undertake to
flank Lee without two weeks rations for his
whole force. And there were no facilities at
hand by which rations for so many men could
be brought forward.
Therefore, Gen. Meade fell back to Brandy
Station with 90,000 men, apd his campaign is
known as “ a reconnoisanoe in force."
It ought to be known that some things are
possible, others impossible. Meade confines
himself to .the possible, and, I presume, will
Jose his bead for so doing. lam a Gen; Meade
man, but do not like his coming back to Brandy
station. I would have preferred an attempt to
flank Gen Lee, rations or no rations, Rupidan
or no Rapidan, reserve or no reserve. But
Geo. Meade did not do me the honor to call me
into bis councils. Therefore be fell back to
Brandy station.
It is high time that the public mind should
be disabused of »n error concerning Gen.
Hooker. He is reported to bo a sot. That is
not true in any sente of the word. Gen, Hook,
er is a temperate man. I can find no man who
has ever seen him intoxicated. And a gentle
man of position and repute, whose veracity is
nut questioned, assures roe that Geo. Hooker
is far removed from liabiliy to such a charge.
It is well known and acknowledged likewise
that the battle of Gettysburg was planned by
Gen. Joe Hooker, Geo. Meade only executed
tbs plan. It is proper to add that it is no light
duty to execute well an intricate plan,
I do not by this intend to foreshadow the re
turn of Gen. Hooker to the command of the
army of th(j Potomac. The Bohemians monop
olize that business. M. U. C.
Vote tor Speaker. —Whole number of votes,
181. Necessary to a choice, 92. Colfax re
ceived 101: Cox 42: King 6 : Mallory 10:
Stebbins 8; Dawson 12.: Blair 2: Stiles 1.
The Clerk declared Colfax duly and legally
elected.
WAB NEWS.
Advices from Cumberland Gap to the 3d Inst,
say that Gen. Foster bad driven the Rebels un
der Longstreet from Clinch River, and was in
hot pursuit of them. There was little hope felt,
the enemy would fail to make
good his retreat, as our forces were checked on
Wednesday and a wide distance put between
the armies. The column sent to the relief of
Gen. Burnside is under the command of Gen.
Sherman, whose force is pretty certain by this
time to have reached Knoxville.
The news from. Chattanooga to Saturday re
ports everythinjtquiet along the line. The dis
patch pats the casualties of the Union army
at 4, 500 menTn ! all the= recent battles. We
captured 0,400 prisoners and 46 guns.
Washington, Dec. 6, 1863,
On Saturday afternoon the Rebels made a
feint of crossing at the several fords of the
Rupidan. Oor forces were kept on the alert,
and everything in readiness to retreat if an
assault had been made by superior force. Du
ring the night the enemy crossed over two or
three regiments at each ford, and took posses
sion of the north hank of the Rspidan and our
old signal station, so that they can now over
look all our movementa while we remain past
ed as at present.
At half past six o’clock last night a gang of
guerillas attacked a train on the Orange and
Alexandria Railroad two miles east of Bealton
Station. The engine was struck by bullets iu
fifteen or twenty places, and Engineer Taylor
bad bis cap pierced by a rifle ball.
Gen. Meagher, who was with tjje army as a
visitor to his old brigade, was captured, in cit
izen’s clothes, near Mine Run, during the re
cent engagement, and is now in tfae bands of
the enemy.
Washington, Deo. 6.
Rumors from the front to-night are that Lea’s
whole army is on this side of. the Rapidan.
It is also believed be has been reinforced by
Longstreet.
Washington, Deo. 7. ’
The message will not be sent to congress till
to-morrow. The Secretary’s report on Wednes
day.
-- - FobtsSss Monbob, Deo. 6.
The Richmond Sentinel of Deo. sth says:
Gen. Bragg has nndoubtcdly been relieved,
of the direction of the army now in North
Georgia, and Gen. Hardee is in the command.
Ohio Sbxep to 88-pastoaEß in Illinois and
lowa. —One of the most singular results of the
failure of the crops in Ohio, is the fact that over
50,000 bead of sheep have already been shipped
from Harrison, Jefferson, and other counties,
to the West, to be pastuted on the great prai
ries of Illinois and' lowa. Two hundred and
fifty sheep can be placed in one car, and the
freight on these' U $55, from Canton, Stork
county OhiOj to Ghicago, Illinois,
. Noflag nowjjasts over 8a m pter, abd only an
Soldier** BslUf Association of Tlog* and
auuotMk.
The Soldier’s Hsiief 'Association of-Tioga
and Mill Creek, organised in Nov, 1861, was
one of the earliest organizations of the kind in
the State. -Our first -work waritt response to
on appeal from our late Quarter , Master I Gen,
Hale, for stockings for our State troops; We
famished him with one-hundred and twelve
pairs of woolen socks, for which we received
$30,24. ; With this fund we commenced work
for the Hospitals, adding to our means by oc
casional Ice-Cream festivals, &a.
We organised “ for the war," and though we
have met’with’discouragements, and labored
under many disadvantages, yve have continued
our efforts with little or no intermission, though
with different degrees of-energy. Oor first
boxes were sent through: Gen. Hale, whom we
. always found prompt—and faithful in the dis
tribution of our contributions.
Since May, 1863, we have: sent to the’W. P.
B. U. S. Sanitary Commission, an institution
which has our entire confidence—though there
seems to be quite a prevalent impression that
the soldiers seldom get what la seat them; but
; that the officers,pby'aicians and nurses, appro
[ priate the delicaees, and sail tbe elutbing. Of
{ coarse only the most unreasonable andpreju
: diced believe this, though it inj frequently given
' as an excuse for withholding, donations, stcl
j While we should be glad to sie a more general
interest manifested- ini pur work, we are not
discouraged, but hope to do < even better than
jwe have yet done. *. j
Our entire receipts ini money hare amounted
-to $169,55. A part of this has been expended
in purchasing material* for [ blotting, jellies-,
dried fruits, Ac.
The following is a list of the articles we have
sent at different times, to the State Quarter
master, and to the-Sanitary Commission :
Fourteen bed-quilts, 8 shins,! blanket, 28
pillow-cases, ( 12 pillows, 4 bed-ticks, 71 hew
shirts, 15 worn shirts, 16 pair drawers, 13 pair
woilen socks, 13 pair cotton socks, 42 handker
chiefs, 4 vests, 2 cravats, 1 collar, 1 linen coat,
38 pair slippers, 52 finger stalls, 42 fans, 46
cushions, 175 linen towels, l) i dozen towels, 6
sponges, 1 sick chair, 2 checker boards, bag of
hops, 12 cakes of castile soap, 12 papers farina,
6 papers uf common starch, 2 pounds tobacco,
' 2 pounds dried peaches, 2 quarts dried whor
tleberries, 22 pounds raspberries, 2 bushels
dried apples, 3 firkins j cucumber pickles, 1 fir
kin tomato pickles, 2 jars pickled plums, 2 jars
sliced tomatoes, 1 jar ebrrant butter, 40 pounds
corn meal, 1 barrel eggs, 2 firkins Butter, 5£
gallons raspberry vinegar, 2J gallons currant
wine, 6} gallons currant jelly, 7 quarts black
berry syrup, 1 bottle Whiskey, 6 cops marma
lade, 1 jar preserved gooseberries, 1 bottle to
mato catsup, 2 bibles, 2 prayer books, a quan
tity of sondoy school books, magazines, and
newspapers, 50 pounds lint, and over two hun
dred pounds of bandages, old linen, and muslin.
; S. R. Arrant), Sec’y.
Tioga, Nov., 1863.
[For the Agftator.]
Copperhead. Constitutional Logic.
The recent opinions of Justices Jowrie and
Woodward, coupled .with thennnual message
of James Buchanan for 1860,'Constitute a re
markable exhibition of Copperhead Constitu
tional exposition. According to these dis
tinguished luminaries of constitutionsl law the
following positions are correct;! A state has no
constitutional right to rebel, ibut if it does,
rebel there is no constitutional power to sup
press rebellion.
There is no constitutional power to coerce a
state to constitutional require
ments. -I
The Constitution confers upon Congress the
power to raise armies unlimited in numbers,
and provide 1 a navy; without restriction as'to
size ; but, at the same time, recognizes the
power of the individual stales, through their
militia laws, to preveht the Government from
obtaining a single citizen of the United States
for service in either army or naVy.
If, in any manner, the Government should
raise an army, yet if a rebellion broke out the
army cannot be used for its suppression, as the
only means provided for -this purpose is the
calling forth the militia.
If rebels cover the ocean with pirates and
devastate and destroy oar commerce, the navy
cannot be employed against them, as the only
constitutional remedy is to call forth the mil
itia. 1
Whenever militia is called forth to suppress
rebellion it can come or not just as the " Sov
ereign State” or the Governor thereof 'may feel
inclined. . .
Comment seems to be quite unnecessary.
W.H.
CAUTIOHrj
ALL persons are hereby cautioned against purcha
sing a Judgment against Jobp A. Vancise, pay
able to James H. Smith, for I will never pay it.
Charleston, Deo. 9,18D3. JOHN A. VANCISE.
CHRISTMAS GIFTS.
MRS. A. J. SOPIBLD will open for sale at her.
Millinery Rooms, a choice I variety of Christ
mas presents,.which will be sold low. She is now re
ceiving from New York a carefully selected assort
ment wf Toys of every variety, j China, Alabaster,
Rubber, Wooden, Ac. Also a new and fine assort
mont of bead- dresses, hats, drerr eeps, bonnets, and
everything comprising a good stock of Millinery.
Weiisboro, Deo. 9, 1883. I
DEimsrnv.
**ss® o. B. 3?fR ice,
WOH LD {return thands to his numerous pairbns
of Wpllsboro and sorroanding country far
their libera! patronage during his{i visit with them,
and would respeotfnlly announce that he will remain
until Deo. 226, 1863, which will terminate bis visit
in Weiisboro for this season. Persons needing bis
services are requested to call early.
Office Room, No. 4, Hotel.
Weiisboro,jDec. 9, 1863. |
ESTRAY.
CAME to j the enclosure 6f the subscriber bn or
about the 20tb of Nor., one Red Rinehart Tear! •
lug Heifer, acme white on the tail and bell;. The
owner is requested to call and prove property, pay
charges, and take her away, or she. will be disposed
of according to law.
Sullivan, Dec. 9,1865-31*
; 1-
LIST OFjLETTERS remaining in the Post
Office at Tioga, Dec. 2,1863;'\ ‘ i
Bornudo, Mn. Melvins, Lewis, Hlm'SHsn
Clark, B. W. Lafrance, T. C.,.
Clark, Mrs. Harriet Manignu, Richard B.
Flemings, J.iK. Page, Jacob
Farr, William Pierce, ET.
Qoodenough; D. Rider, Dr.
Grant, Franklin Rena, Elisa
Bakes, Hiss Jane Ralhborne, David
Hall, Mrs, J. A. Reynolds, Mrs. Minerva
Langon, Miss Mary J. Sampson, Mrs. A. A.'
Persons ailing for any of the above letters, will
please aay they are advertised.I 1
! ■ LBWIB DAGOETT, P, M.
Afl OLASSES and SYRDP—a No. 1. article
-LU- of both at fair prices, at f ( MATHERS’,
JJOEB ffi
OROBB' at
'" ' JJaW STOBB,
I
11. S. 5-20’S
THEJSecrttary of the Treasury bu not JetgiW' ’
notice of any intention to withdrew tbit pcmii v '
Loan from Bale at Per, end until, ten days notice i*
given, the undersigned, u "General Subscripting
Agent," will continue to supply the public.
The whole amount ef the Loan authorised Is pw
Hundred Millions of Hollars. NearlyPonr Sntidreif
Millions have been already subscribed for and paid 1
Into the. Treasury, mostly within the last seres'
months. The large demand frohr abroad, and tbs'
rapidly increasing home demand for use jas the basis' 1
for circulation by National Banking Associations now'
organising in all parts of the country, will, i n t ve _r
short period, absorb tbe balance. Sales bare lately'
ranged from ton to fifteen millions weekly, frfe.p(ly
exceeding thtae~ miliiona daily, and as it la
known that tbe Secretary of tbe Treasury baa ample■
and unfailing resources in the Unties on Imports and?’
Internal Revenues, and in tbe issue of the Intern!
bearing Legal Tender Treasury Notes, it is almost a
certainty that ha will not find it necessary, for a long
time to, come, to seek a market for any other loagM.
permanent Loans, The Interest oird Principals/ vh{ch‘
are payable in Gold, a
Prudence and self interest must force' the mindset -
those contemplating tbe formation of Netidnalßank*'
ing Associations, as well as tbe minds of all who have'
idle money on their hands, to tbs; prompt conclusion',
that they should lose no time in subscribing to tbit'
most popniarLoan,' It. will soon be beyond their'
reach, and advance to A handsome 'premium, at was
tbe result with the “ Seven Thirty" Lou, when it
waafoll sold and could no longer be subscribed for af
par. . • , . , , .
It was a Sis pfer Cent Loan, (be Interest add Prior
eipal payable in Coin, thus yielding over Niue per'
Cent, per annum at the present rate of premium on
coin, '' - '‘ ’
Tbe Government requires all duties fin Importtto be
paid !n Coin ; these duties bare for a long lime put
amounted to over ». Quarter ota. Million of Dollars
daily, a'eam nearly three times greater than that re*
qnired in the payment of the-interest on all tbe
5'20’8 and other- permanent Loans. So that it is
hoped that tbe suiplus Coin In the Treasury, at do
distant day, will enable the United Statu Jo .resggle
specie payments upon oßßabllitles.'
Tbe Loan i* caUed h-tO ffOm tbe feet that whilst
tbe,Bonds may run fofc/20 years, yet the-Government
has a right to pay theppoff in Geld at par, at-uy
time after 5 years.
Tbe Interest Is paid half-yearly, vis t on the first
days of November and May.
Subscribers can have’Coupon Bonds, which are
payable to bearer,and are $50,5160,5500,and51060;
or Registered Bonds of same denomination!, and in
addition, $5,000, add $lO,OOO. - Tor Banking -purpo
ses and for investments of Trust-monies the Regis
tered Bonds are preferable.
These 5-20 V taxed by States, cities,
towns, or counties, and the Government tax on them
is only one-and-a half per cent., on the 1 amount of
income, when tbe income ef tbe holder exceeds Six
Hundred'dollars per annum; all other investment*
aach'os income from Mortgages, Railroad Stock and
Bonds, etc,, most pay from three to five per cent tax
on the income.
Banks and Bankers throughout the Country will,
continue to dispose of the Bonds; and all orders hy
mail, or otherwise, promptly attended to.
The inconvenience of a few days' delay in the dV.
livery of tbe Bonds is' unavoidable, tbe demand beitg
so great; but as interest commences from tbe day of
subscription, no loss is occasioned, and every effort is
being made to dismiss the delay.
.JAY COOKY, Subscription Agent,
114 South Third Street, Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, Noy. 25, 1863.-st,
DR. JACKSON,
THE CELEBRATED_
REFORM BOTAHIC
AM'S
Indian Physician,
■OF ERIE CITY. PENN'A,,
May he ConeulUd as follow* —.Free of Charge,
Cameron, N. T., Briggs House,
Tuesday, Jan. 5,1864.
Rftthbonville, N. T., Rathbon House,
Jan. ft, 1864.
Addison, N. 7., Doolittle Souse.- 4
Thursday, Jan. 7,1 J 64.
TIOGA, Pa., Johnston Honae, Friday, Jan. 8,1864.
WELLSBORO, Pa., U. S. Hotel, i-
Saturday and Sunday, Jan, 9 and 10, 1564.
BLOSSBURG, Pa., Hall’s Hotel,
Monday, Jan. 11,1564,
Corning, N.Y., Dickinson House, i
Tuesday, Jan. 12, 1864.
Bath, N. T., Union Hotel, Wednesday, Jan. 18)1864.
Elmira, N. Y., Brainard House, ,
Wednesday, Jan. 20,1664,*
TBOY, Pa.;-Troy House, Thursday, Jan. 51,1864.-'
Havana, N. Y., Montour House, ,
Friday, Jaa, 23,1854.
Watkins, N. Y., Jefferson House, , .
Saturday and Sunday, Jap. 23 and 54,1804,
Dundee, K. Y., Ellis Honse, . Monday, Jan. 25, 1864.
Penn Yan, N. Y., Benbam House, ,
Xossday, Jan* 2t, 1864.
Canandaigua, N. T., Webster House,
Wednesday, Jon. 27, 3864.
Those Ssfferisg Bronx Chronic Disease,
of any description may be assured that their? eases
will be treated fairly and candidly, and they wUI net
bo encouraged to take my medicine without a corns
ponding prospect of benefit.
Dr. Jackson can be consulted ad his Boons, in re
gard to all* diseases, which be .treats with unprece
dented success, on a new system. He cures Chronic
cases of diseases, which have been pronounced t»«i
rabU by tbe Medical Faculty generally, such $1 Ner
vous and Neuralgic AffeetioD8 f Diseases' of Women,
Paralysis,"Epilepsy, Asthma, Salt Rheum, Bwnitunt
and Intermittent Fevers, tbe diseases of Children, etc.
All cases of Seminal Emission* which is carrying
thousands to the grave annually*
Remember the Doctor does not promise to cure all
stages of diseases. While all diseases are curable, if
taken in season, all stages are not. Tour ease may be
curable thie week, not not fc-norrsw;
hence the danger of delay.
JISF" Consultation* free.
Distant" IntalyU. —Patients unable to visit Dr. J.
by appointment, can communicate tbeir symptoms by
letter, and have proper medicines sent to any part of
the world by express, with certainty and dlspatsb.
All letters of inquiry must contain one stamp to pre
pay reply. Address Dr. A. C. Jackson, Brie, Penas.,
Box 30. Dee. 2, 1863.
50,000 AGJBKTS WAHTEIK!
75,000 Watchei, Gold Pena 6t Pencils;
VEST, GUARD A NECK CHA&S,
CHATELAINE CHAINS AND TINS, -
ENGRAVED bracelets, -■
ENGRAVED SPRING LOCKETS,
Seal Slone Singe, California Singe, doted Siegi,
dfaeonie Singe and Pine, Genie California Diamond
Pine, California Diamond Ear Drope , Beautiful Sete
of Jewelry, New Slgtee Slude and Bnttone, (It,,
IVOSTB $400,000,
To be sold for Ooe Doli.r each, Without regard to
value, odd Dot to be paid for till you know,
what yon are lo get. -
In alt transaction by mail wa shall charge fondCS?
the business 25 cents eaoh,wfatoh mail be enclosed
when the request is made to know what yon can bare.
After knowing what yon can hare, then it will be *t
yonr option to tend Sri, take the article or not.
Tire articles can be ordered for sl—.eleven for s 2—
thirty for ss—sUty-fivo for slo—and one bundled
for $l5.
D. BOSE.
’ With the information of what yon can have will bo
tent a Circular giving fnlUnttrnctiona to Agents and
a full Catalogue of ankles, and then it will be at jour
option to send and get the article or not.
Alto, for $l,l will send a solid Silver Shield »*
either Army Corps Pin, with your regiment sod
company handsomely engmved open it.
Address, S. it. ff AKD A CO.,'
Box 4876, New Tork. SOS Brosdws/.
Beeomber 9,1863-3 m.
EXECUTOR’S IfOTICE-
T ETTEBS testamentary having gr»!! le * V*
i'i the subscriber on the estate of E|Ut> l.oonart,
late of We'stfield, deceased, notice is hereby given IB
those Indebted to make immediate payment, thin
those having claims to prennt them properly ccMW
ticated for settlement to
- , ‘ STEPHEN A. LEQNARDj.Hjee'J.W 1 *
Westfield. Dec, j, , ,
s?J,
BARE OPPORTUNITY.