rraaas; tea- a
oa this topic. It was the "old story." This
is a mighty struggle between a betrayed people
and a great corporation. He continued at
great length.
Mr. HOPKINS (Wash.) made a motion, the
hour of one having arrived, that when this
House adjourns it will adjourn to meet at half
past two r. e., and remain in session until five
P. is. Subsequently he modified his motion so
as to read, "and that this House remain in
session until the question now pending shall
be decided." This motion was adopted.
LEBANON OBE NINES
An invitation was received, signed by the
treasurer of the Lebanon Valley railroad, and
Chas. E. Smith, Esq., President of the Reading
railroad, inviting the members of the Senate
and House of Representatives to visit the Le
banon ore mines on Thursday afternoon next.
The train will leave Harrisburg at 2.15—a
special train for the occasion. Adjourned.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
lir. LUDLOW spoim in opposition to any
restoration of the tax. There was no reason
why one railroad should be so burdened, and
others should be allowed to go free. The
Pennsylvania railroad had done much for the
Common - wealth. Apart from the bad policy of
re-imposing such a tax• upon trade, was the
unconstitutionality of the proposed legislation.
It was necessary to keep distinct and separate
the legislative, judicial and executive branches
of the government, and the violation of a sol
emn contract by the legislative branch would
only be a stab at the institutions of the coun
try. There were allegations of bribery ; and
Oren now this cry was going forth. Whatever
might have happened in 1861, he could only
say now, that the man who thus cast a slur at
members behind their backs, and without evi
dence, was unworthy of the name of a man.
Mr. VINCENT said that it is now admitted
that the act of 1861 was perfectly constitu
tional, and was, moreover, a contract. Con
ceding these points, the opposition claimed
that it was the right of the Legislature to re
impose the tax. He proceeded to show that thin
claim was fallacious. The State had origintily
reserved the power to impose a tax upon this
corporation, but" the reservation had been
destroyed by the act of 1861, and the Com
monwealth had now no right to make a
re—imposition. He continued at lengtht
to show the injustice, both to certain classes
of people and to the company, which would
result from the legislation as proposed. He
touched Upon the question of fraud as connec
ted with past Legislatures, and disclaimed the
thousand rumors and innuendoes which origi
nated with irresponsible parties. They were
alike unjust to the Legislature and injurious to
the credit of the Commonwealth. He demon
slanted that it was a wise policy which gave
away the public works, and that the State
would still have been a gainer, even if she had
also given away tae tonnage tax.
Mr. SADIE insisted that the Legislature was
competent to repeal any act when it became
apparent that its provisions were injurious to
thipeople. He cited the case of the Erie and
North. East railroad, and the decisions of the
Supreme Court upon that question, in proof of
his assertion. Admitting that the set of 1861
was a contract, the Legislature still had a right
to repeal it, and fix the damages. Bat that
act was no such contract. He reviewed the
amendment imposing a general tax on all rail
-roads, and said sarcastically that if three cents
per Ton was to be charged without regard to
distance, there would be no need of any. ad
ditional revenue laws this session.
Mr.,SMITH (Chester) discussed the legal in
ability of the Legislature to impair an, char
ter or contract, without reference being had to
a judicial tribunal.
Mr. HOPKINS said that the original act
transferring the State canals was a great
wrong. Those canals for seven years had paid
MeV'e tretunry of the Commonwealth an an
nual net revenue of over $400,000. All this
was • given for a simple promise to pay
$3,500,000, and this very promise was soon
after wiped out for the benefit of other credi
tors. The Legislature gave the Pennsylvania
railroad company $BOO,OOO for the privilege of
releasing the tonnage tar. which was a source
of revenue. There was reason to believe that
this very $BOO,OOO was used by the Pennsylva
nia railroad company to influence members to
vote for the commutation
He continued at length reviewing the history
of the passage of the commutation act, and
thoroughly canvassing the subject.
After a session of five hoursin length, spent
in debate and parliamentary motions, a bill
was adopted taxing all the railroads in the
Elate on_their tonnage, and also on their capi
tal stook when dividends are. declared exceed
ing a certain amount. -% Adjourned.
Unros Leactrza—Wass Tams Ana.—The
Cleveland Plain Dealer, on the aubject of these
falsely named - Union Leagues--every member
of which is an enemy of the Union—says:
From a daily paper published in this city,
we learn, that these leagues are organised to
"counteract the insidious efforts of the Cop
perheads." The Order is to be "of a quasi
military character for the instruction of its
members in the manual and school of the sol
dier." "The places of meethig are to 'be known
se Bafrfeks." "It is to be a natural arm of
defence against traitors at home and in the
army."
Theit—You haver it. The laws of the land
are convicted of impotency to secure the rights
of the citizen. -Free government is pronounced
a failure. Military organizations are to be es
tablished everywhere. They are to decide who
are copperhead, and copperheads are to be
taken ' care of. There it is—a deliberate
avowal of iambi/dm A deliberate confession
that the civil establishments in the peaceful
States of the North have failed. A, deliberate
- publication of the intent to substitute, under
the guise of a Union society, illegal bodies Of
armed men, in lien of Ehe constiCuted authori
ties.
Wo unto these foolish wretches if they in
augurate such a system. Wo unto them and
their children after them if they rashly, and
under any pretence whatever, build up armed
clubs throughout this land—let them heed the
revolutionary history ofFrance. Let bankers,
merchants, the "solid men," the owners of
stone fronted,mtumions, tremble when the time
comes that they hold their wealth at the mercy
of furious clubs, when, as in the old cities of
Italy, every borne becomes an armed cootie,
and the laws are•powerless.- We feel an unut
terable contempt, horror and scorn for the
reckless anarchists who would deliberately pro
pose or sanction a project BO fraught with death
la American Liberty. •
DZILOOBATIC Power. —There need be no mis
understanding with regard to the position of
the Democracy in this war , and all carping of
the Repub li can press, and all interpolating and
suppressions with which they seek to chatige
the tenor of Democratic speeches cannot alter
it. The Democracy are in favor of the Union,
the Constitution and the laws. They are willing
to fight for them., and have done so. They are
willing to sacrifice all they possess for their
maintenance 'and have given abundait proof of
their liberality in the manner in which they
have rwonded to the numerous calls of the
goverrithent. And the Democracy do not feel a
sympathy with the war for the abolition of
Slavery Slone. They do not affiiliate with the
admirdatiation—nor do they sanction its viola
tions dam Constitution. The stand the Dam
ao:ate hate taken is for Union and the Coneti
intim audit admits of no misconstrution. Not
jil the traitors in the South or their Abolition
oonfreres in the North can swerve us from our
Impose; We have aught to oriticiee the ad
ministration and we shall nxerciee it. And so
long as Swaim and ultraiits are peludtted to
shape thii destinies of the Republic, just so long
dual we denounce and condemn eubh *mistaken
And Atal. polic7.o/4velayminiiin Dealer.
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IT would require an extra editor, devoted to
that duty alone, to follow up and expose the
numerous falshoode of the Telegraph. _We give
it up. Their name is legion. There has not
been anything in the political editorials of that
infamous sheet for weeks, we might say for
months, perhaps with strict veracity for years,
but misrepresentation, falsehood and calumny.
it seems to shun the truth as a mad dog is said
to shun water; falsehood is its element, ca
lumny the atmosphere it delights in breathing.
The salamander lives in fire; the Telegraph is
an amphibious monster, and lives in lie. For
a full account of its habits, see the speech of
Mr. Representative Rex, on our first page.
THE little Abolition Dispatch, Pittsburg,
seems to be seriously offended at this paper for
maintaining that the people have rights under
the Constitution, and more than intimates to
Uncle Abraham and hie War Minister, Stanton,
that our imprisonment would afford it pleasure.
Accept our profound acknowledgments, Mr.
Dispatch, and permit tie to Observe, (sub reas,-
that you would.be more likely to succeed in
your proper line of duty, recruiting negroes
for Gov. Andrew, whose "swarms" are not yet
quite full. You have not done well—onit
fourteen darkies from your department so far
you have been a laggard, and the adminis
tration is displeased with you. Be more in T
dustrious—get up a full battalion, as you
ought to do—put yourself at their head—march
them to Massachusetts or Washington ; then
you may be listened to, and your prayer
granted.
More Abolition Frauds.
Fraud follows fraud in such rapid succession,
since the accession of the- Abolitionists to
power, that we are compelled to believe the
whole administration, in all its departments,
a stupendouslraud—a fraud without parallel
in the history of mankind, from the creation of
Adam to the inauguration. of Abraham. The
country groans under an enormous debt—abo-`
litiola fraud is at the bottom of it.• The war
stagnates; the soldiers culfer; incompetence
is everywhere. . All the result of fraud, in
trigue, imbecility and corruption. All is rot
tenness—the taint of decay• has touched the
whole body—it is one vast putrefying sore.—
Here is the latest revelation. A Washington
dispatch to the New York papers says :
“Important revelations disclose the custom
house and other frauds among federal officials
to be so open and flagrant as to compel the
Secretary of the Treasury to , remove every one
of them implicated from office, with the Presi
dent's sanction."
New Hampshire Election.
The returns from . New Hampshire make it
pretty sertam that there has been no election
of Governor by the people. In regard to mem
bers of bongrees, the impression prevails that
the three Abolition candidates have been elect
ed, though there is some doubt expressed-as to
the result in the First district, where the vote
appears to be very close. The three candi
dates, who ran for Governor, amlra A. East
man, Democrat, Joseph A. Gilmore, Abolition
ist, and Col. Walter Harriman; who was sup
ported by a small faction callitag themselves
Union War Democrats. The returns as far as.
received to the time we - write this, from about
one hundred and seventy-five towns, foot up
thus : For Eastman, Dena., 25,772 ; for Gil
more, Ab., 24,881; for Harriman, U. W. Dem.,
;up. It requires a majority of all the votes
cast to elect. Up to this time we have not re
ceived the Congressional vote, but only a gen
eral statement that it is close, but favorable to
the Abolitionists.
Union Leagues.
Let no man loyal to the Constitution and the
Ilnion be deceived into joining any of these
traitorous and unholy organizations. There
IS not, among all the prominent men engaged
in getting them up, a single one in favor of the
Union as it' existed under the Constitution;
not one of them can, without uttering a delib
erate falsehood, declare that .he is. It is a
fraudulent attempt to ensnare the unwary into
an association composed of public plunderers,
mercenary politicians and fanatic Abolitionists
—traitors who " spit upon the Constitution,"
and spurn the Union. The organization is a
lie upon its faoe--for, whereas its ostensible pur
pose is to rally together under the sacred
name of Union all who are in favor of the
Union, its real purpose is to, Organise and arm
secret bands who are prepared to sustain the
administration in all its despotic efforts to
subvert the Constitution; who believe with
Garrison that it is " a league w ith hell and a
covenant with death ;" and who concur with
Thaddeus Stevens that the restoration stag
Union under the. Constitution is an absurdity, and
who, with him, have determined that it issuer
shalt be restored, with their consent. The League
is a treasonable association ; its elements revo
lutionary—its object the subversion of the
government as it exists under the Constitution.
Habeas Corpus—the Effect of its Sus•
pension.
Congress, whether constitutionally or not,
having conferred on the President authority
to suspend the writ of habeas corpus, the in
quiry naturally suggests itself to every intelli
gent mind, "What will be the effect of suspen
sion 4"
The New York World makes some remarks
upon the subject which strike us as being
sound, though not being profound in the law,
we shall not assume that they are incontro
vertible, or advise any one to adopt and act
upon the main suggestion—the right of self
defense against arrest , g without due process
of law"—although, the statements being true
and the argument logically correct, the corol
lory naturally, legally and inevitably follows.
The World discards all analogies drawn from
the legal effect of a suspension by the British
Parliament, because, by the theory of the En
glish Government, Parliament is omnipotent,
whereas the power of Congress and the Presi
dent is restricted by a written Constitution,
which does 'not, in any case, permit arbitrary
arrests.
In England, or in this country, before any
person can be sent to prison, a warrant stating
the charge on which the arrest is to be made,
on the oath of the person at whose instance it
is to be made, must be issued by a magistrate
or juste. The distinction between England
and this country is that, in the former Parlia
ment has the power to repeal or `suspend the
law requiring the issuing of a warrant by a
magistrate or judge, while in this country the
Constitution prohibits Congress from even dis
pensing with these forms. In times of rebel
lion or invasion CongresB can Withhold from
the prisoner the privilege of being brought on
habeas corpus before a judge, who could dis
charge him or let him out of prison on bails
but it has no power to authorize arrests, except
on charges sworn to before a magistrate, who,
on these sworn charges issues his warrant and
acquaints the prisoner with the nature of the
accusation. Hence, the World , concludes,
"whether the writ of habeas corpus is suspended
or not, a person arrested without a warrant has
a right to resist and ff he kills the pretended (10-
cer, the law will regard it as a justifiable homi
cide, and an upright judge would instruct a jury
to acquit him."
The World then proceeds :
Of whafAihe then, it may be asked, is the
power to suspend the writ which is clearly im
plied in the Constitution ? Its only effect , is to
prevent the release on bail of dangerous persons
who,have been legally arrested on sworn char
ges: And this is, in fact, all that'the safety of
the eowitry can ever in any ease require.. The
arrest and - detention of innocent persons can
never be necessary to the public safety ; and
where there are reasonable grounds of suspi
cion, these grounds can always be sworn to
.before a magistrate and the order for commit
ment be issued in regular form. We repeat, the
only legal effect of the suspension of the habeas
corpus is to prevent dangerous persons, arrested
by due process of law, from being set at large
on bail. It leaves the necessity for sworn
charges and a judicial warrant, previous to the
original imprisonment, unimpaired and in full
force.
The proofs of this 'are clear and incontro
vertible. They are contained in the amend
ments, or,as they are usually called, the amen
ded articles of the Constitution. These amend
ments, made immediately after the adoption of
the Constitution, were intended as restrictions
On the powers granted in the body of the
instrument, or in; the language of one of the
several State conventions that recontnielided
them, they were "calculated to preserve ` public,
liberty by those checks on power which the
experience of.ages has rendered venerable."—
The power to suspend the:habeas wpm is con
tained in the body of the instrument, and must
operate under all the restraints contained in
the amendments. An aniendatent to a consti
tution, like an amendment to a statute, annuls
all the original provisions which are inconsist
ent :with itself. By English practice the
suspension of the habeas corpus dispenses with
the, necessity of ajudicial warrant as authority
for arrests. Our wise and jealous forefathers,
while conferring the power to suspend the writ
in certain specified cases, took care to so re
strain it by immediate amendments as to render
the liberty of the citizen inviolable, in all ca
ses, without the established legal fo'rinalities.
"The right of the people," says the third
amendment, "to be secure in their persons
against unreasonable seizures shall not be vio
lated, and no warrant shall Wine except upon
probable cause, supported by oath or affirma
tion, and particularly deiteiihijig the persons
to be seized." In the fifth 'amendment again
it is stated, in positive and absolute terms,
that "no person shall be deprived of liberty
without due process of law.' The meaning
of this phrase is well understood, and was
never better or more truly defined thanit was
several years ago b,y Mr. Seward, in these
words - : “Due process of law is a writ or war
rant issued by a magistrate upon propable
cause,' supported by oath or affirmation ' deseri
bing the person to be seized"—which has the
advantage of giving the established and uni•
vernally recognized meaning 'of the. phrase in
the very words of the Constitution. The power
to suspend the writ of habeas corpus cannot 'T
artan these absolute and unconditional prohi
bitions, bat is restrained by thom, and nn*st be
exercised in consistency with their full vigor
and vitality. It is Clear, therefore, •that the
suspension of the writ gives the President no
other or greater power of arrest thin he has
iii ordinary and peaceful times.
Another Victim Demanded.
Insatiate archer! would not one antß.ce ?
Thy abaft 'flew thrice, and thrice—
The gallant patriots at whom it was aimed fell.
Men to whom your Fremonts and Hunters and
Fighting Joe Hookers are as Satyrs to Hype
rion—M'Clellan and Buell and Porier--Lhave
been Wiesen down by a weak and vacillating
President at your instigation, to gratify your
malevolence, and yet you are not satisfied, you
demand another—this time one of your own
party, yOur own flesh and blood, a Yankee
without spot or blemish, an, Abationist of the.
purest water and most kinky vrool, who ; not
long ago, was willing to " let the Union slide."
He has seen the error of his ways; unlike you,
experience has taught him wisdom, and, just
as Weis in the first prayer of repentandb, try
ing to make atonement for his sins, you—mer
ciless wretches that you ate, worse than New
Zealand Cannibals—demand, his sacrifice.
Well, we shall see what the President will do.
He will hardly resist the demand made upon
him, and thereby incur the odium of standing
«a,traitor to liberty and a liar before the
American people," as Charles fiumner's Mas
sachusetts organ beautifully expreseee it.
Gen. Banks must be decapitated, the_Abolition
Cannibals must hold their devilish orgies over
his dead body, or the "imbecile" "mud.
turtle," who presides over the destinies of the
nation at Washington, may preparci himself for
crucifixion. Read the following from the Bos
ton Commonwealth. 0! Abraham the First!
read the mandate of Charles Sumner, and obey,
or tremble for the wrath to come :
LEGIREE BANKS.—If the next steamer that
goes to New Orleans does not take out an order
cashiering Banks, after his execrable procla
mation, which shows that he is but a born
slave-driver, and which flouts the President
and• countermands his plain order that our
soldiers shall assist the negroes to , maintain
their freedom, it will show the President to• be
a traitor to liberty and a liar before the Ameri
can people. Let the friends of freedom now
watch the administration jealously. It has
modified Fremont and Hunter; it has since
made a show of emancipation ; its reality has
been doubted; Gen. Banks issues an order
which renders it null and void to all the freed
slaves of Louisiana—forbidding Me soldiers to
encourage slaves to secure their freedom, and
arranging for coercing the slaves to remain on
plantations at work. If the President's pro
clamation was not a sham we shall know it.
The rebels have set a high price on Butler's
head; if they will only take Banks' head for
nothing we should thank them: It is not
much, to be sure, but such as it is they lire
welcome to it. .
Johnstown Democrat.
This is the narw of a new, beautifully
printed, and ably conducted paper—if we may
judge by the first number—published in Johns
town, Cambria entity, and edited by James
F. Campbell, Esq., formerly of the Westmore
land Republican. We wish Mr. Campbell suc
cess, and doubt not that he 11111 deserve and
achieve it.
General . News.
The President has issued a proclamation in
reference to all soldiers enlisted or drafted into
the service of the united States now absent
without leave. They are ordered to forthwith
return to their respective regiments.- Those
who returnon or before the Ist of April, 1863,
and report themselves at any rendezvous desig
nated by General Order No. 58, of the War
Department, may be restored to their respect
ive regiments without punishment other than
forfeiture of pay and allowance during their
absence; those who do not return within that
time "shall be arrested as deserters and pun
ished as the law provides." All " patriotic and
faithful citizens" are called On "to oppose and,
resist" the efforts of " evil disposed disloyal
persons " to "entice and procure soldiers to
desert and absent themselves from their regi
ments," and to " aid in restoring to their regi
ments all soldiers absent without leave, and to
assist in the execution of the act of Congress
for " enrolling and calling out the national
forces, and for other purposes," and . to support
the proper authorities in the proieeution and
punishment of offenders
. against said act, and
in suppressing the insurrection and rebellion."
On the subject of enforcing the " enrolling,"
otherwise called the Conscription act, the Presi
dent may rest easy ; the Telegraph says that is
the special business of the Union-Leagues, and
as Postmaster Bergner is arittetive member, he
will see that no conscript escapes or dodges.
That part is all right—as to the rest, we advise
all enlisted or drafted men absent without leave
to report in time, and we warn all " evil dis
posed persons" to desist from aiding and en
couraging desertion.
On Tuesday the Prince of Wales, Albert
Edward—the young heir to the throne of
England—who visited our Capital a few years
ago, was married to the Princeis Alexandria,
of Denmark. Of course all England rejoiced.
The name of the Princess in full is Alexandria
Carolina Maria Charlotte Louisa Julia---the
royal husband is Albert Edward, ,PliMe
•
Walea, Duke - of Saxony, Prince .of Saxe. Coburg
Gotha. He,must-very much belie his appear
ance and reported character if he ever makes
a very great mart or a very good one.
The rumor current in . Washington of a great
disaster to our troops by the return of the
rebels in force to the •Velky of- Virginia, is
contradicted by a Harper's Ferry dispatch of
-the 10th. Our force in the valley is Strong,
commanded by Gen. Kelley, who is prepared
to meet anything less than the Whole rebel
force at Fredericksburg. So the dispatch says.
Col. Dodge at the head of his cavalry has
made a successful reconnoissance out from
Norfolk. He marched 110 miles, encountered
the enemy at Windsor, near Blackwater bridge,
routed him after a, forty minutes' fight, and
forced him to retire to the Blackwater.
prom the army of the Cumberland, Tennes
see, we learn that Van Dorn Us retreated
across Duck river; that there are no rebels
between 'Franklin and Celutabia, and that all
is quiet at Murfrepaboro'. Another repqrt is
that Van Dorn has b”n defeated and the
greater part of his army captured. •
Gen. Roseerans has ordered that all persons
whose natural supporters are in the rebel ser
vice, and whose sympathies and connections
are such that they cannot give assurance of
their loyalty, will hold themselves in readiness
to go south of our lines within tea day's.
The following items come' direct by tele
graph:
A dispatch from Providence, Rhode Island,
February 11, announces the nomination by the
Democratic State Convention of W. C. Cozzens
for - Lient. Governor; the Conventions of both
parties have nominated J. A. Bartlett for Sec
retary of State aaid-L. A. Parker for Treasu
.
rer:
A Cincinnati dispatch sayi the Little Miami
railroad company has seoured.the control of
the Dayton and Western railroad, and will take
Possession on the 12th of April. 'The Chichi
ati, Hamilton and Dayton railroad company
has leased the Dayton and Michigan railroad,
and the Little Miami railroad has under con
sideration the propriety of leasing the San-,
dusky railroad.
A special dispatch of the llth, from Jackson,
Tennessee, says that 200 men, with two pieces
of artillery, of Gen. Sullivan's division, were
surrounded by , a body of rebel cavalry and
captured. A dispatch from Memphis says the
city is full of rumors of an engagement at
Port Hudson. Gen. Pemberton, rebel, has
been
. eupereeded Gm Bragg, rebel, in the
command-• of the Department of the Missis
sippi. Gen. Longstreet will command'Bragg's
old division in Middle Tennessee. Gen. Price
has returned from Richmond, invested with
all the power he asked for;•and will go to Mis
souri. Gen. Holmes is to be - removed, and
Gen. Hindman sent east of the 'Mississippi:—
Gen. Kirby Sinith will take command ofell the
rebel forces in Arkansas.
The U. S. Senate, on.the 11th, adopted the
resolution of Mr. Davis,- of KentUOtb Thio li
we published yesterday, with an amendment
by Mr. Grimes, Odin the Iyords, "41 ,orkr
to show in what capacity such civil officers
have acted." The Senate then went into Ex
ecutive session.
For the Patriot and Union
TRH HALEIDOSCOPE. - NO. 3.
The Democracy in Council— They have a Great Work to
Perform—The Coming Man—The Spring Elections—
The BLit Birds—Marn Sttiai—The Month of March
—Two Years Ago—Prospect and Retrospect.
The people in the interior of the State are
in daily consultation as to the course they
ought to take, in view of the peculiar circum
stances of themselves and their country. They
are watching the newspapers, and are judging
of the direction of events, as much from what
is not said as from what is said. It is yet too
early to even guess to what conclusions the
masses will come upon the question, as to what
course shall be adopted and pursued 'to bring
about a reconciliation - of the people and a re- ,
storatien of the Union ; but when the purposes
of Lincolrehave a little more fully developed
themselves i according to their direction they
will be seconded or met. Many yet believe,
or affect to believe, that, relieved from the
pressure of his radical Congress, and it going
out of power, he will listen to toward and
Weed, and more moderate councils will prevail,
as they are supposed to be of that persuasion.
They are looking to you for indications of the
falling or rising tide.
The people have a stupendous work on their
hands. it is nothing less than, by strict and
true constitutional means, to restore this go
vernment to a constitutional basis. The Con
gress has most undoubtedly violated it, in let
ter and spirit, in almost every bill passed at
each of its three sessions. The people know
that as well as the most astute lawyer, and
they are now waiting to see if Mr. Lincoln and
his Cabinet intend to govern, for two years,
in the spirit of the usurped powers proposed
to be given to them by the Congress, or whether
they will confine themselves within their pro
per constitutional spheres. In disseminating
the .proper information, you can be of vast
service. It requires only that the people should
know what is done by the "powers that be,"
in order to secure prompt and efficient action
by the "powers that are to be." The people
are quiet now, because they have con
fidence in their own powers and resources ;
and because, moreover, and principally, they
know that a thorough and constitutional re
form can be had at the ballot-box. It is to
that they are looking, and in that they are
trusting, to cure all the political ills to which
the state and nation is heir.
That trust and confidence they know and
feel, however, after all, depends greatly on the
man into whose hands shall be given the helm
of ;he ship of State, If into weak and/ in•
competent keeping, Men all is loot. Oh ! that
you politicians, in and about Harrisburg,
would see to it that no jobbing is tolerated in
the coming nomination for Governor. Give us
a sound and tried man—give us one who loves
our institutions in his very soul—who reve
rences the Constitution and who believes in
the Union—who has the judgment to see and
the firmness to do his whole duty. One who
knows the history of Pennsylvania and appre
ciates her vast resources, who knows that She
existed as a sovereign and independent State
at least as far !melt as 1774, and as such helped
to form the Union now broken, and the Con
stitution now'disgraced' and trampled upon.
One who has a knowledge of_ the - number 6f
square miles within her, herders, her immense
mineral resources, and her overflowing agri
cultural abundance. Above all, give us a man
of energy and decision, whose instincts are
right, and who has a firm and abiding faith in
the virtue, intelligence and patriotism df our
citizens. .
Such a man will not be likely to belittle the
State, misdirect her policy; or impede her pro-
Riess. To such a man, placed on a constitu
tional, law-abiding platform, the people will
give an overwhelming majority. The spring
elections in the States north and east of us
give augury of coming results in our favor.
Among the people the signs are hoftefnl, and
the government should take warning and con
form itself to constitutional rule. Patience
Great Heaven I grant us patience and feast us
upon hope—as for charity, we, can have none
for the destroyers of our country.
Nature, kind mother, is ever the same. The
warm sun, every few days, comes out, and a
solitary blue bird gives earnest of spring—the
chirp of a robin makes the heart dance; and
they all prove that the seasons; in obedience
to the Great Ruler, shall not cease in their .
courses, however nudeser*ing we may be.
Come, little bird, once more to your box, and
may yon unmolested sing your song and rear
your, young. Can we do the same ?
The sun has loosened the sap - from the fro
zen roots, and preparations are being made to
manufacture maple sugar. In, the country it
alone is used for sweetening, and if the season
is propitious, vast quantities will be manufac
tured.in all the States. It is higher here than
I kave ever known it, and is not likely to re
cede: You can go home andget some, Harry;
they make it there to perfection.
The month of March, so far, has been mild
and gentle; if we except:the first tWenty-four
hours, during which it snowed, and blewed,
and froze, and thawed, and .frowned, and
smiled ; a correct indication of its course.
We'; were at peace two years ago—will we be
two years hence ? I trust so. Then we shall
see. at Washington, a etnistitutiofially elected.
Democratic'President, and we shall once more
live, under the law—we shall hold our pro
perty and our lift) by a secure and certain
tenure, not at will; we shall gaze with aaton
ishment and hoiror at the four years of Abra
ham Lincoln, a complete and truthfulhistory j
of whose 'reign can never be written. Oh that
it could all be blotted out. Ban Vanua..
It is reported and believed that one of the
btinciplea of the Union League is to refrain
from all business transactions and intercourse
with Democrats.' Now,‘as there are a number
of lawyers, merchants, grocers and others be
longing to the League, who derive most of their
wealth and living from Democratic customers,
it is well, that there should be a,clear under
standing upon this subject. Therefore,
we mail
upon the League to define itself upon th is ques
tion. If' his .odious and nistraceful proscrip r
tion is to be inaugnratid, we want the diehon.
or to remain where it belongs; and we want no
secret. assassin game to be rayed. Littheih_
be an open contest, and then if Aliolltionisin''
thinks it can subjugate us by nob means,let,
it, try the experiment. , LiWaskin' gicCazantir;
ME
GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
. New Ynrk Prices.
U. S. Be, due 1881, Coupon 1014' 1 , 2
Do ....due 1881, Registered Int. off. mg 101
U. S. 7 3-10 Treasury Notes 105 105,14
One year 6 per cent. certificates 98% 99.4
U. S. Demand Notes, old Issue 62 ea pr
Market steady.
SPECIE QUOTATIONS.
BANKABLE CURRENCY ERE STANDARD.
GOLD.I SILVER.
American 81%a61%pr American, prior to
Do (dated prior 1852 $1 65 a 1 80
to 1834) 65 a 67 pr Do Quart's....l 55 a 1 60
flov.,Victoria*. 750a - 7 55 Do Mmea and
Bov.. old 745 a 7 50 Half Dimes. 145 al 55-
Napoleon, 20frs. 555 a 5 60 Do Halves sod
10 francs 2 75 a 2 85 Qrtls(new) 1 50 a 152
Prue. Doub. Fr. Dollars, Am. and
Vora.. .... a .... Mexican.—
Doubloons, 4..23 00 a 24 50 Do Sp.,perfect 154 a....
Do. Mexican... 22 00 a 24 00 Do carolus .. 154 a ....
De. Costa Itlca.2o 00 a 22 00 Do S. Amor_ 154 a....
Bars 900 tine— .. prm Do Norwegian ... a ....
California, $5O I Five Francs 1 45
land $2O pieces. 5236 prm I Francs . 29
California, $lO Guilders. 84
and $5 pieces.. 52% a Prussian Thalers...... BO
10 Guilder Pie- German Crowns, 1 17 a
ems ~... ...... 5 il) a 5 75 ; French. —do.— 114 a
Ten Tinders ... 9 00:Eng. Silver p. £, 7 00 a 715
20 Mille Reis,Spanish and Mex. em.
Brasil 11 25 all 351 silver, per or. 170
Bars, U.S. assay, p. or. 1 89
22s 5 darts. 2% grains.
it , A heavy Sovereign wei
Discount.
New England X
New York City.. X
New York State X
Jersey—large X
Jersey--small liS
Pennsylvania Currency. ,if
Delaware par
Delaware—small X
Baltimore X
Maryland . . ..... .....% a 3
Dis. of Columbia X
Virginia 85 a 40
Discount.
Boston.- par a 1-10prm
New York... 1-10prm
Albany 3 a X
Baltimore... X a X
WaGhlust 9 .,D.o X a
Pittsburg % a 34
Detroit, Mich.. X a X
Lexington, Hy.. 2 a..
Milwaukie,Wie. X a 3(
NAME OP BANKS. WEARER REDEEMED.
Allentown Bank, Allentown Mama. & Mech. B'k.-
Bank of Catasanqua Farm. & Mech. Bank.
Bank of Chester County ...... ....Farm. & Mech. Bank-
Bank of Danville Bank N. Libertine.
Bank of Delaware County. Bank of North Amor.
Bank of Germantown
Bank of Montgomery Count
Back of Phcenixville
Doylestown Bank, Doylesto
Easton Bankq Boston
Farm. 13 7 k of Buck* Co., B
Farm. & Mech. Bank, Dote
Farmers , Bank, Lancaster..
Lancaster County Bank....
Mauch Chunk Bank
Miners' Bank, Pottsville...
AT Discover IN
Alleghen3r Bank .
Anthraoiteß'k,Tanuigna
Bank of Beaver C 0..... X
Bank of Chambersbarg. X
Bank of Chester Valley,
Coateeville ... '
X
Bank of Crawford. Conn-
ty, Meadville
Bank of Fayette C 0..... X I
Bank of Glettysburg M
Bank of Lawrence C0...1
Bank of Middletown... • X
Bank of New , Castle....l
Bank of NorthumberPd,
Bank of Pittebn4;prem. 60
Bank of Pottstown X
Citizens B'k, Pittsburg, x
Clearfield County Bank.. X
Columbia B'k Columbia X
Downingtown Bank
Bachauge 10k, Pittsb'g. At'
Farmers , B'k, Pottsville - M
Farmers , B'k, Beading..,{
Farmers' & Drovers' B'k, I
Waynesburg
Franklin B'k,Washing.. x
Harrisburg Bank
Honesdale Bank X
Iron City Pittsburg,
NOTICE.—Pig Iron and. &rap are being-
NO frequently stolen from tie premises of the sub
scribers an,d other places of cleposit in the- nity,.wewarn
all proprietors of foundries and other persons not to.
purchase the Vianie, otherwise they will be dealt with
according to law, sPRICE & HANOOCK-
Ilarilsbnrg Furnace, March 9; 18824%U:silt
WEBSTER'S ARMY AND NAVY
PeCIEET DICTIONARY.
Ault received and for sale at ,
• SOHEPPERT BOOKSTORE.
A SPLENDID A SSORTMENT
OF
LITHOGRAPHS
Formerly retailed at from $3 to $5, are now cffered at
50 and 75 cents, and $l. and $l5O-Published by the Art.
Union, and formerly retailed by them.
Splendid Photographic Alton, pluforou of on
gulahed men and (Intersls of the army, at op:ly 10 cts.:
For sale at 'SCREFFER '8 Bookstore,
18 Market street, Ifarrisbaiv-
EMPTY BARRELS.— A large number
of amity Wino,. Brandy and Whisky Barrala for
sale by WM. DOCK, jr. , &
LOTS FOR SALE—ON NORTH ST.
.14 tind PennsylyanAa Avenue. Apply to
B. J. HAI/DEMAN,
inars-dtf . Ccu-;Pront and Walnut MC
DE.SI R A BLE BUILDING LOTS
FOR SALE, west of the Capitol, fronting on Grand
street and Hammond lane. 31:14111k* of
ORO. CM/MLR,
68 Market street,
fel,ll-13na
MINCE -PIES!
RAISINS; • CURRANTS,. •
-
CITRON, LENIQNS,
SPICES, CIDER,
WINEB,—BRANTIES, &43.,
Ylor sale by , Wiff M. D O Ol4 Ja.. & CO
p T.T.BLIO
In pursuance of an order of the Orphans' Court of
Dauphin-Bounty, will be exposed to gale,
On SATURDAY, the 21nt" of MARCH ,
Next, at r the Court MINN a of around, situate on.
Third street, between Pine street and Cranberry alley,.
and bounded by , property of Bobtert W. 111.'Clure ow
'the east, and by Thomas 0. M , Dowell on the west, the
same being twenty feet four inches in front, more or
less, by one hundred and Ave feet deep, to property late
of Peter Keller, deceased, on which Is erected a Two-.
Story Brick Dwelling Rouse, to., late the estate of'
Andres , Murray, deceased.
Sale to commence at 2 o'clock, p. m.,of said day,
when attendance will be given and conitions of sale
made known by A. K. PARNESTOOK,
"Administrator efs bins Som.
lona RINGILLIM, Clerk, 0. 0.
Harrisburg, Feb. 2 1 1, 1863--reb26-ileawte
gAVANA ORANGES.—just received'
ORANGES:;-Just by ICC DOCK, JR., & CO.
BLACKING} !!--- , MAgorr's ti CHALraitos
BLAarsza. , 7-100 Geese, assorted else!, jut is
eeived and for eale, eekolesale and retail.
WM. DOOK, Ja., & 00.
6.000 _POIND S
.r .F . a c tra Prime Sagu
nto by -li
MINCE MEAT. -A SUPERIOR Alt-
ILLTICLS just received and for sale by
_ - . "WM. DOOM, &
A DMINISTRATORT__N 0
as C E.-
ri Where, Lettere of .admialitration on the estate
of Isms Sierran, late of the - City of:Harrisburg, Dan
phin oonnty, demmsed, having beengranted tothe sub
sdriber, all persons indebted. to the mid estates re re.-
gnedted to make immediate
.payment, and those haling
claims or demands token' said estate will make hump
the same withoa, delay. CHRISTIAN E. JAUSS,
feblo-doaw6t • Administrator.'
IQOSTON, OBACKERa=-A LARGE
Ji SVPPLIP dentine crackers just received
and for eels by • Doolk, JR. ? * 00.
OLD.. PEN' I—The largest aid • tei
„stook , from gl.OO to s 4 . oo —warraaied--ai
1101101.11111.800K8TOILI.
EXCELSIO.a.! .
dITRAT
„
-11A11114 !—A. Delicious Rani cuing apresslfr for
family use. They are Everi.or to any tuna in the mar
imptt '1m3 14 .1 WM. 'MIK, IR" 8G CO
" AKFAST. BACON.--A small but.
Tay choice lit Oftikkai tiara "Breiskfase limas
aclia,to th• IFtca e leit Torkibfre) Just
'-'17291-• • • `" WM. DOOK, Jay lc CO
MIME
MONETARY AFFAIRS.
CORRECTED DAILY FROM THE PHILADELPHI& DIAL
EY QUOTATIONS.
Discount
UNOIIRRENT MO
Wheeling 2 J
Ohio par
Indiana par
Indiana—Free. 1 ji
Kentucky. par
torments,' 10
Missouri 2 to 20
Illinois • • 2 to 60
Wisconsin 2 to 60
Michigan ig
10wa.... —1%
Canada prm 60'
TIC ZIECHANEEE
RATES OF DOME
•
Die coUnt.
St. Louis a
Louisville ..... 31 a ..
Cincinnati ..... 31 a 3(
Cleveland ) a ,4
C6lcago }[ a pia
Dubuque, lowa, 1 a ...
Davenport, do.. 1 a ...
St. Paul, Min.. 1 a
Montreal, Can.. a..
PENNSYLVANIA 00IINTILY BANK NOTES.
, AT PAR IN PHILADELPRIA.
MMAM
Manuf. & Mech. B'k.
.....Philadelphia Bank.
Bank of North Amer.
atol..Parm. & Mech, Dark,
n Girard Baak.
Mechanics' Bank.
...... Western Bank.
Girard Bank.
Bank of North Amer.
i NTRY RANK NOTES
PHILADELPHIA.
PENNSYLVANIA 00
Jersey Shore Bank
Hittanniog 8ank........
Lewisburg Bank
Lebanon Wk, Lebanon.. M
Lebanon Val. B'k, Lab..
Lock Haven Bank
Mech , o B'k, Pittsburg..
Mechanicsburg Wk . , Me
chanicsburg
Merchants' & Manufact.
Bank, Pittsburg
MiMin CountylPk, Lew
istown .
Milton Bank, Milton...,
Monongahela Bank,
Brditurciille
Mount Joy
Northumberland County
Bank, Shamokin
Oatoraro Bank, Oxford..
Pittston Bank, Pittston
Stroudsburg Bank .
Tioga County 8ank.....
Union Bank, Reading...
West Branch Bank,•Wil
lianisport
Wyereteißilt,Wilkeab'e
York Bank, York 3(
York County Blk, York, .4.
New Wntertiotntnto.