RATES OF ADVERTISING•
Pour lines or less oonstitnte half a square. Ten lines
or more than four, constitute a square.
Half sq., one io 30 One sq., o n e
west_ da 2 00
y...—. so 50
" one Week-- 120 s
one month.. 640
0 , 10 month.. 300 LL
ti three months 500 4 4 three monthslo 00
g six m mast.. 800 " six months.. 16 00
„, one ear..... 12 . 2 00 cc one year 20 00
IQ' plaindsa noticesineerted in the LOCAL COLII/111,
or before marriages sod deaths, TEN CENTS PER LINE for
each insertion. "re' merchants and others advertising
by the year, liberal terms will be offered.
Kr The number of insertions must be designated on
the advertisemen t.
ID"' Marriages and Deaths willbe inserted at the saiMe
rates as regular advertisements.
AlistelLamm.
PEEN lONS, BOUNTIES, BACK PAY,
War Claims and Claims for Indemnity.
sTEVIART, STEVENS, CLARK it CO.,
Attorney and Counsellors-at-Law, and Miciterr
for all hinds of Military Claims,
460 PENNbYLVANIA . AVENIIII,
WASHINGTON, D. C.
This arm, having a thorough knowledge of the Pen
sion Business, and being famillar with the practice in
an the Departments of Government, believe that they
can afford greater facilities to Pension, Bounty, and
other Claimants, for the prompt and successful accom
plishment of businelis entrusted to them, than any other
firm in Washington. They desire to secure such an
amount of this business as will enable them to execute
the business for each claimant eery cheaply, and on the
basis of their pay contingent upon their success in each
tam Nor this purpose they will secure the services of
Law firms in each prominent locality throughout the
States where such business may be had, furnish such
with all the necessary blank forms of application and
evidence, requisite printed pamphlet instructions, and
circulars for distribution in their vicinity, with asso
ciates names inserted, and upon the due execution of
the papers and transmission of the same to them by
their local associates they will promptly perform the
business bore.
op Their Mumma will be int dollars for Vim* and
Ste dollars for riving.% for each Pension or Bounty and
Back Pay obtained, and ten per cent. on amount of
Claims for Military Supplies or Claims for Indemnity.
ju". Soldiers enlisted since the let of March, 1861, in
any kind of service, Military or Naval, who are disabled
by disease or wounds, are entitled to Pensions. All
soldiers who serve for two years, or during the woo,
should it sooner close, will be entitled to $lOO Bounty.
Widows of soldiers who die or are killed, are entitled to
Pensions, and the $lOO Bounty. If there be no widow,
then the minor children. And if no minor children,
then the father, mother, sisters or brothers are anti
_ied en above to the $lOO Bounty and Beek Pay.
JOSEPH B. STEWART,
szs - ron L. STEVENS,
EDW &RD CLARK,
OSCAR A. STRUMS,
WILLIS B. GAYLORD.
WAsauorron, D. 0.,11182.
. Cr' apply at our office, or to our Associate at
Ibutaisauaa, Pa.-4014N A. BIGLER, Attorney and
fr,minseuor.
Prrinevan, PA.—ARTHIIRS it BIDDELL, Attor
neys-at-Law.
Porievrmui, R. SMITH, Attorney and
counsellor.
PHILADIIIMEIA, Pa.—J. MINNICHILD, 48 Alwood
street, Wit M. SMITH, Attorney and Counsellor.
IMAsinuaron, PA.—BOYD ORIIMRINGII, Attorney
end Counsellor.
jyal-dly
JACKSON & CO.'S
SR 0 - E S
NO. 90M MARKET STUART,
HARRISBUB6 I , PA.,
Where they ntond to - devote their entire time to the
mennfactnre of
BOOTS AND SHOES
all kinds and varieties, in the neatest and most faalt
onable styles, and at satisfactory prime.
"rheir dock will convict, in pert, of Gewriernenls use
ailland Patent Leiria* Beets and Sims, latent styles;
Ladies , and Misses , Gaiters, and otherAhoee in great
misty; and 'in fact everything connected with the
Shoe business.
CUSTOMER WORK will be putt =laxly attended to,
end in all came will satisfaction be warranted. Lusts
*teed up Ay au of tbs best makers ix the country.
She long practical experience of the undersigned, and
their thorough knowledge of the business will, they
tmat, be millelest guarantee to the public that they
Will du th.... 1 yusuoo, saw. rawai 011. thaut.an article the
will recommend itself for utility, cheap.. ! .. . ..,a
DIMS] JACKSON & CO.
wURINGER'S PATENT BEEF TEA,
51 a aohd, concentrated extract of
BEEF AND VEGETABLES,
convertible immediately into a nourishing and deli
along soup. Eighty approved by a number , of eminent
rtgoiciaxs.
Th.s admirable article condensed into a oompact,form,
all the substantial and nutritive properties of a large
bulk of meat sad vegetables.. The readiness with which
it dissolves into a 4ch and palatable Soup, which would
require hours of #reparatien according to the usual
method, is an advantage in many situations of live, too
obvious to need urging. Its highly nourishing qualities
combined with its delicacy, renders it invaluable for the
sick; while for those in health, it is a perfect substitute
for fresh meat and vegetables. It will keep good in any
Ornate.
'tie peculiarly well adapted FOR TRAVEL - 11R% by
land or sea, who can thus avoid those accidental deprive
Lions of a comfortable meal, to which they are so liable.
NOR INVALIDS, whose eapridous appetite can thus
be satisfied in s moment.
FOR BPI/RUMEN and NXCITBSIONISTS. to whom,
both its compactness and easy preparation will recom
mend it. For sale by
. ae.p2441
CHARTER OAK
FAMILY FLOUR!
UNEXCELLED BY ANY IN THE U. STATES!
AND SUPERIOR TO ANT
w . a 71ir R.,496 10 - J:11 OS
OFFERED IN PENNSYLVANIA!
IT IS MADE 02
CHOICE MISSOURI 'WHITE WHEAT.
fre Delivered any place in the city free of charge
Tonne Mat OS delivery.
iY3O WM. DOCK, 35., k 00.
"lOLDIER'S CAMP CoMPANION.—
TOA very convenient Writing Desk; also, Portfolios,
Idensiorandam Books, Portnaonnaies, at
SUMPTER% BOOKSTORE
pHEESEII-100 Boxes Prime Cheese
'kJ (on consignment) for sale at less than market rate.
jylo WM. DOCK, Js., & CO
V_OTIONB.--Quite a variety of useful
and entertaining articles--cheap—at
SCHBFFER'S BOOICSTORB.
ANTED. - -A GOOD COOK at the
BONGARDNICE. ROTEL. Apply immediat
PLARET WINE ! ! !—We are closing out
w a Isar 131714111.1011 LOT at Itss than cost!
VP WM. DOCK Ts CO.
DRIME POTATOES LARGE•LOT
fwd received and for sale low.
oct2t-dtf WM. DOCK, 7A., & CO,
MINCE ME ' —Very superior, just
received and for sale by WM. DOCK, jr.. & CO
C °Nll
ENSEID MILK '---Just received
and for sate by WM. DOCK jr., k CO.
TITERMETICALLY SEALED
Peaebee, Tomatoes, Lobster, Salmon, Oysters,
Bides& Oysters, for Bale by WM. DOOM, jr., & 00.
otoKED nmaßirr I—A very choice
) 6 7 ar ticle, Jed received and for sale by
WM DOCK, & CO.
BENCH MUBTARD , ENGLISH and
Domestic Pickles, (by the dosen or hundred,) Su
me„ gag 011, ketchup, Sauces and oondlmenta of
every description, for sale by
surirp WM. DOCK, Co
TAKE TROUT ! Sinai i nvo i ce o f
LARK TROUT, (Mscklnaw,) trimmed, and tho
quality “A. N 0.1, 1, just reatthred and for sale very low
by WM. DOCK, Ja„ do 00
:WAR! WAR' —BRADY, No. 62
V V Market street, below:Third, has received a large
assortment of fiwomm, Sianss and BaLrs, which h
will sell very low. a ii.o-dtt
QELF SEALING FRUIT JARS !-
'6,1 Beet and Cheapen% in the markete! muu and
examine them.
192 d
VOR, RENT—Two desirable OFFIVE
x ROOMS, second dicey front of WyattOs Building
corner of Market Square and Market street. Applyst
kis ogles sealld4r
•
M AOKERRL!!!
-
MACKEREL, Noe. 1, 2 and 11, In all mixed paekagee
new, end auk, padinge warranted. Just received and
or ade low by WM. DOOR, JR.. & do.
WM. DOCK. Ix., & Co
WM. DOCK, IL. k CO
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VOL. 5 -NO. 180.
Buointoe earbo.
- C. WEICHEL,
SURGEON AND GUMMI',
RESIMINCE NBAR NORTH STRAIT.
He k now fully prepared to attend promptly to the
duties of profs/don in all branches.
& %ONG visr stroonserra. mninctu. EZPlntniOn
jnetiles him in promiiing full and ample utlesetion to
all who may favor him with a Gall, be the disease °brook
or env ether nature.
WM. H. MILLER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
ONPION IN
SHOEMAKER'S BUILDINGS.
SECOND STREET,
,Dirrffsgli WALNUT AND MARKET SWARD,
no2B] Nearly oppoelte the Buehler Hone!. rditwly
T HOS. C. M&oDOWELL,
A . r - roteNEY AT LAW,
MILITARY CLAIM AND PATENT AGENT.
Office in Burke' a Bow, Third aired, (Up Stairs.)
Having formed a connection with, parties in Wash
ington City, who are reliable business men, any busi
ness connected with any of the Departments will meet
with immediate and careful attention. me-y.
CHARLES F. VOLLMER,
UPHOLSTERER,-
Chestnut street, far doors above Second,
(OPPOSITI WASHINGTON MSS BOUM)
Is prepared to furnish to order, in the Tory beet style of
workmanship. Spring and Hair Mattresses, Window Cur
tains, Lounges, and all other articles of Furniture in his
lies, on short notice on( moderate terms. Haying ex
perience in the business, he feels warranted in asking
share of public patronage, conlidentof his ability to girl
satisfaction. janrf-dtf
SILAS WARD. •
NO. 11, NORTH THIRD ST., HARRISBURG.
STEINWAY'S PIANOS,
MELODEONS, VIOLINS, GUITARS,
Banjos, Flutes, Fifes, Drams, accordeons,
STRINGS, SHICET AND NOON =MO, &e., &e.,
PHOTOGRAPH FRAMES. ALBUMS,
Large Pier and Mantle Mirrors, Square and Oval Pram*
of every description made to order. Rewinding dons.
Agency for HoWe'S Sewing Machines. •
Er Sheet Music sent by Mail. oetl-1
JOHN W. GLOVER,
MERCHANT TAILOR!
Has just received from New York, an assort-
ment of
SEASONABLE GOODS,
which he offers to his customers end the public go
nov22) MODERATE PRICES. dtf
SMITH & EWING,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
THIRD STREET, Harrisburg, -
Practice in the several Courts of Dauphin county. Col
lections made promptly. - ' A. C. SWUM
feb2B J. B. SWING}.
J
COOK, Merehanetallor,
• 27 CHESNUT ST., between Second tuad
Has Snot returned from the city with an assortment of
CLOTHS, CASSIMERES AND VESTINGS,
Which will be sold at moderate prices and made up to
. .
order and, also, an assortment of READY MADE
Clothing and Gentlemen's Furnishing Goods.
- - - - nov2l-Iyd
DENTIST - Rl.
B. L GENI I D. D. S.,
N 0 . • 119 MARKET STREET,
• I li kV*
RRY k BUILDING}, UR STAIRS.
]4nB-0
RELIGIOUS BOOK STORE ,
TRACT AND SUNDAY SCHOOL DRPOSITORY,
• '
E. S. GERMAN.
ST 'SOUTH SZOOND STREET, ABOVZ
KAsszszoso, PA.
Depot forth, We of StereoscopesAtsreosooploiriews,
Music and Musical Distrumento. subseriptions
taken for religious publications. IION•dy
JOHN G. W. MARTIN,
FASHIONABLE •
CIARD WRITER,
MIMI HOTEL, HARRISBURG, PA.
Allmanner of VISITING, WEDDING AND BUSI
NESS CADDS execrated in thepnost artistic styles and
most reasonable terms. deol4-dtf
FRANKLIN HOUSE,
BAITIMORN, MD.
This pleasant and commddious Hotel has been OM
roughly re-fitted and re-furnished. It is pleasantly
situated on North-West corner of Howard and Franklin
streets., a few doors west of the Northern Central Rail
way Depot. avery attention paid to the comfort of his
guests. LNIONRING, Proprietdr,
jell-tif . Mats of Saline Grove. Pa.)
T HBO: F. SOHEFFER,
BOOK, CARD AND JOB PRINTER
NO. 18 MARKET STREET, HARRISBURG.
Irr Particular attention paid tq printing, ruling and
binding of Railroad Blanks, Manifeets, Insurance Pan
das, Checks, Bill-Heads, &c.
Wedding, Visiting and Business Cards printed at very
low prices and in the best style. jan2l
DYOTTVILLFA GLASS WORKS,
PHIL ADBLPIII4I
11111IIIIPAOTIIi1
CARBOYS, DEMIJOHNS,
WINI, PGATDR, MINIM WATER, VIOHLZ AND
PIitEBRIVTS poTrL.ss
OP FUMY DOLIONIPTION.
H. B. & G. W. BENNER%
oele-013.7 AT Routh Trout ateiet. Philadelphia.
MUSIC 'ST OB.SI
NO. 93 MARKET STREET, HARRISBURG', PA.
SHEET MUSIC, PIANOS,
MELODEONS, GUITARS,
VIOLINS. BANJO STRINGS,
Of every deeeriptlon.
DEXIMII, !INNS, 1/LITTBB, ACMORDRONS, etc. at
the lowepst CITY PRIORS, at
W. KNOCHIPS NUM STORM!,
No. 98 Menu, Emmet..
A BOOK FOR THE TIMES I
American Annual* Cyclopedia and Register of
Important Events for the Year 1861. In 1 vol
8 ye. over 760 pages. Cloth 08, Leather $8.60.
Published by 1). Appleton 4 Co., New York.
The Mips of this work is to furnish a record of all
the important knowledge of the yeas. The events of
the war, owing to their prominence, will, of course, oc
cupy a-conspicuous part, but all other branches-Ibl.
eace, Art, laterature, the Mechanic Arte, &a. will re•
alive due attention. The work will be kublished ex.
elusively by anbeeziption, and ready for dettvery in nue
next.
• -
Ab . w, new complete
Bentotes Debates of Cosgress, 36 volumes, 13 and $B,OO
per volume.
Beatonis 771irtg Yeari in S. S. Senate, Pee/notes, 52.31
and IP per ad.
Cyclopedia of American . Elogitenes, containing Mr
speeches of the most eminent Orators of America, 111
steel portraits, 2 vols. 22.60 sack.
Parton's Lift and Times ofAsdraa .Taekson,B volume',
$2.60 sash. '
Address J.P. BTILLSBAI7I2II, Harebiburg, Pa.
General Agent for D. APPLIITON & CO.
Por Olroulars descriptive of Annual Cyclopedia.
april3-datirtf.
SWEET CIDER !—A very superior lot
Jug reeftived and for Bale by WM . l)O(ll[Jr.. &Co.
POTATOES.--300 BU- I Bii LB OF A
superior quality just received and for sale low, by
WIC DoCK, Ta., & CO.
D""D PE ACHED—PARED AND
lIMPABOD—inet resolved by
WM. DOM i 5.,,& CO.
: " 1 PA: S TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1863.
THE .
Weekly "Patriot & Union,"
THE CHEAPEST PAPER PUBLISHED IN
PENNSYLVANIA
AND
THE ONLY DEMOCRATIC PAPER PUBLISHED AT
THE SEAT 01 GOYUNMENT
FORTY-FOUR COLUMNS OF READING MAT
TER EACH WEEK I
AT THE LOW PRICE OF ONE DOLLAR
• AND FIFTY CENTS
winos
SUBSCRIBED FOR IN CLUBS OF NOT LESS
THAN TEN COPIES TCI ONE ADDRESS!
We have been compelled to daisethe club snbseription
price to one dollar and fifty cents in order to save our
selves from actual loss. Paper has risen, including
taxes, about twenty:five per cent., and is still rising;
and when we tell our Democratic friends, candidly, that
we can no longer afford to sell the Weekly Phew°, AND .
17Nrou at one dollar a year, and must add fifty cents or
stop the publication, we trust they will appreciate our
position, and, instead of withdrawing their subscrip
tions, go to work with a will to increase our liebin every
County in the Mate. We have endeavored, and shall
continue our efforts, to make the paper useful as a party
organ, and welcome as a news messenger to every fam
ily. We flatter ourselves that it has not been without
come influence in producing the glorious revolution in
the politics of the State achieved at the late election;
and if fearlessness In the discharge of duty, fidelity to
the principles of the party, and an anxious desire to pro
mote its interests, with someiexperience and a moderate
degree of ability, can be made serviceable hereafter, the
Weekly PATRIOT AND UNION will Dot be 'less useful to
the party or less welcome to the family circle in the fu
ture than it has Been in the past. We confidently leek
for increased encouragemept in this great enterprise,
and appeal to every influential Democrat In the State to
lend us his aid in running our sepseription list up to
twenty or thirty thousand. The expense to each *di
ddual is trifling, the benefit to the party may be great.
Believing that the Democracy of the State feel the ne
cessity of sustaining a fearless central organ, we make
this appeal to them for assistance with the fullest oonfl-
Andy of success.
The same reasons which induce us to raise the price
of the Weekly, operate in regard to the Daily paper, the
price of which is also increased. The additional cost to
each subscriber will be but trifling; and„ while we can
not persuade ourselves that the change necessarily made
will result in any diminution of our daily circulation,
yet, were we certain that such would be the cameo
queries, we should still be compelled to make it, or suf
fer a ruinous loss. tnder these circumstances we must
throw ourselves upon the generosity, or, rather, the
justice of the public, and abide their verdict, whatever
It may be.
The period for which many of our subscribers have
paid for their paper being on the eve of expiring, we
take the liberty of Waring this notice, reminding them
of the same, in order that they may
' RENEW THEIR CLUBS.
We shall also take it as an especial favor if our present
subscribers will urge upon their neighbors the fact that
the PATRIOT AND UNION is the only Democratic paper
printed in Harrisburg, and considering the large amount
of reading matter, embracing all the current news of
the day, and
TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCHES
Prom everywhere up to the moment the paper goes to
ELetut t miscellaneous, general and local news
CHEAPEST NBrirMTAFR - 1•77.15.1:44.35r.......-e... •
THE STATE!
There is scarcely a village or town in the State in
which a club cannot be raised if the proper exertion be
made, and surely there are few places in which one or
more energetic men cannot be found who are in favor of
the dissemination of sound Democratic doctrines, who
would be willing to make the effort to raise a club.
. DEMOCRATS OF THE INTERIOR !
Let us hear from you. The existing war, and the ap
proachieg sessions of Congress and the State Legisla
ture, are Invested with unusual interest, and every man
should have the news.
TEAMS.
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ifinglei copy during the session of the Legislature.. 2 00
City subscribers ten cents per week.
Copies supplied to agents at the rate of $l5O per han
died.
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WAYS IN ADVANCE. We are obliged to make this
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subscription. Any person sending us a club of twenty
subscribers to the Weekly will be entitled to a copy for
his services. The price, even at the advanced rate is
so low that we cannot offer greater inducements than
this. Additions maybe made at any time to a club of
subscribers by remitting one dollar and fifty cents
for each additional name. It is not necessary to send
us the names of those constituting a club,. as we cannot
undertake to address each paper to club subscribers
separately. Spa:bawl copies Of the Weekly will be sent
to all who desire it.
0. BARRETT ar. 00., Harrisburg, Pa.
N. B.—The following law, passed by Congress in 1500,
defines the duty of Postmasters in relatioi to the de
livery of newspapers to club subscribers :
(lies Little, Brown t Co.'s edition of the Laws of 1860,
page 38, chapter 131, section 1.)
"Provided, however, that where packages of newsps,
pers or periodicals are received at any post office directed
to one address, and the names of the club subscribers to
which they belong, with the postage for a quarterin ad
vance, shall be handed to the postmaster, he shall de
liver the same to their respective owners."
To enable the Postmaster to comply with this Innis•
tion, it will be necessary that be be furnished with the
list of names composing the club, and paid a quarter's
(or year's) postage in advance. The uniform courtesy
of Postmasters, affords- the assurance that they will
cheerfullyaccommouate club subscribers, and the latter
should take care that the postage, which is but a trifle
in each case, bepaid in advance. Send oq the clubs
DR 0 CL AMATIO N.—Whereas, the
II Honorable Joan J. Pa/aeon, President of the Court
of common Pleas in the Twelfth Judicial District, con
sisting of the counties of Lebanon and Dauphin, and the
Hon. BAMESEL LANDIS and Hon. Moses R. Telma,. Asso
ciate Judges in Dauphin county, having issued their pre
cept, bearing date the 24th day of February, 18f3, to me
directed, for holding a Court of Oyer and Terminer and
General Jail Delivery and Quarter Sessions of the Peace
at Harrisburg, for the county of Dauphin, and to cont
inence on the third Monoay of April next, being the
27th day . of April, 1863, and to continue two weeks.
Notice is theretore hereby given to the Coroner, Jae
tices of the Peace, Aldermen, and Constables of thesidd
County of Dauphin, that they be then and there in their
proper persons, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of said day,
with their records, inquisitions, examinations, and their
own remembrances, to do those things which to their
office appertains to be done, and those who are bound in
recognizances to prosecute against the prisoners that are
or shall be in the Jail of Dauphin county, be then and
there to prosecute wind them as shall be just.
Given wider my hand, at Harrisburg, the 24th day of
April, in the year of our Lord, 1868, and in the eighty
seventh year of the independence of the United Stites.
J. D. 150A8, Omit
A PL E N DID ASSORT ME N T
0 F
LITHOGRAPHS,
Formerly retailed at from $3 to $5, err now rifered at
50 and 75 cents, and $1 and $1 50—tublished by the Art
Union, and formerly retailed by them,
Splendid Photographic Albans Pictures of all distin
guished men and Generals of the army, at only 10 eta.
For We at . SO if MEESE'S Rooksto re,
18 Market street, 'Harrisburg-
HAMS, DRIED BEEF, BOLOGNA
SAUSAGES, TONGUES, &c., for sale low, by
W M DOCK. Ja.. & 00.
MEW 0 EtLE ;NS SUGARl—hasit ix
?Hi Jimmy !--Nor sale by
iz~ W 11. DOOK, Ja., & CO.
ariot Sion.
TUESDAY MORNING-, MARCH 81.. 1863
THE EitEREAVE 9 S ODE.
The following is the Ode Written by THNNYBON
on the marriage of the Prince of Wales to the
Princess Alexandra of Denmark:
Sea-king's daughter from over the sea,
Saxon, and Norman, and Dane are we,
But all of ue banes in our welcome d thee,
Alexandra!
Welcome her, thunders of fort and of fleet!
WelcOme her, thundering cheer of the street!
Welcome her, all things youthful and sweet,
Scatter the blossoms under her feet !
Break, happy land, into earlier flowers !
Make music, 0 bird, in the new-budded bowers !
Welcome her, welcome her, all that is ours!
Warble, 0 bugle, and trumpet, 14are !
Flags, flutter out upon turrets and towers !
Flames, on the windy headland flare !
Utter your jubilee, steeple and spire !
Clash ye bells in tll@ merry March air !
Flash, ye cities, in rivers of fire !
Welcome her, welcome the land's desire,
Alexandra!
Sea-king's daughter as happy as fair,
Blissful bride of a blissful heir.
Bride of the heir of the kings of the sea,
0 joy to the people, and joy to the throne, •
Come to us, love us, and make us your own;
For. Saxon, or Dane, or Norman we,
Teuton, or Celt, or whatever we be,
We are each all Dane in our welcome of thee,
Alexandra!
TEE STATE MILITIA
From the New York World
Whatever may be thong& of the constitu•
tionality of the conscription act, nobody will
dispute the right of the States to proceed in the
organization and training of their militia pre
cisely as if no such act had been passed. The
Constitution makes a broad distinction between
the army proper, of which the President is at
all times commander-in-chief, and the militia
of the States, of which he is commander-in
chief only "when called into the actual service
of the United States." It contemplates the use
of•one, the other, or both of the - se descriptions
of force, according to the exigencies of the
country. The conscription law is not an act
relating to the militia, or if it is, is clearly void
because in conflict with the provisions of the
Constitution relating to that subject. If its
constitutionality is defensible at all, it is only
as an enrolee of the power to raise armies ;
power entirely distffict from that of organizing
the militia. Whether, therefore, the conscrip
tion law be constitutional or not, it leaves una
bridged and in full force whatever power over
their own militia was possessed by the States
previous to its enactment. True, if the act is
constitutional, the general government may
draft as many as it has occasion for of the men
liable to duty in the State militia, just as, un
der an ordinary law for recruiting, it could en
list men liable to the same service. But its
authority over these in no way impairs the
authority of State regulations over the men
that remain; and there was never a time when
the public interests so imperatively required
ittallikle, of the loyal States should be
The leading Republictin journal
few days since, a confident opinion that no
draft would be necessary under the late act ;
that the prospect of an early termination of the
war was so hopeful that the government would
merely need to call out the uniformed militia
for a brief term of service to garrison impor
tant towns on the rebel frontier, while our
veteran troops are pushed forward into the
heart , of the Confederacy to give the rebellion
a finishing blow. Whether this expectation.is
cherished in good faith, or its expression is a.
party trick to break the effect of the conscrip
tion law on the Connecticut election, it equally
suggests the contingency, liable at any time to
happen, of a need of militia for prompt service •
by the federal government. It is one of the
mischiefs of the late impolitic law that it tends
to paralyze State effort by diffusing the impres
sion that it renders the government hereafter
entirely independent of the State militia, It
is certain that the Constitution never intended
to render the government thus independent ;
for in that case it would not have given ten
times as much space to provisions respecting
the militia as it does to provisions relating to
the army, The framers of the Constitutidn
evidently regarded the militia as the right arm
of the public defense'; the authors of the late
act seem desirous to dispense with it altogether.
But they could not expunge the militia provis
ions from the Constitution. The States retain
all the power they ever had to keep up their
separate militia systems ; and this power is
pla,ced'by one of the amendments to the Con
stitution beyond the reach of federal infringe
ment. "A well regulated militia (article second,
amendments) "being necessary to the security
of a free State, the right of the people to keep
and bear arms shall not be infringed."
If the Federal government has been so fool
ish or improvident as to declare its indepen
dence of the States, and place its whole reliance
for troops on a new and, in this country, un
tried experiment, alien to the habits and re--
pugnant to the traditions of our people, that
is no reason for State inaction ; but, on the
contrary, a powerful additional reason for
complete and efficient preparation for supply
ing a prompt remedy, if she experiment snould
fail, or if the administration should, on reflec
tion, judge it wiser not to try it, but to rely
on the old methods which have heretofore
proved so successful.
If the conschiptiota law should be permitted
to produce its intended effect of paralyzing
State effort to keep up and invigorate the mi
litia, it might turn out to be the most deplora
ble blunder of the war. Suppose the fortunate
contingency should arise of the possibility of
utterly extinguishing the rebellion by the temt
porary aid of a hundred thousand militia for a
few weeks' service, to set all the veteran forces
free to follow up a sticceseioneof victories :
where are they to come from if the States are
led by the conscription law to neglect their
militia? Suppose, on the other hand, that a
succession of unexpected reverses should put
it in the power of the rebels to invade the
Western or the Middle States with a great and
hungry army, glad to escape from destitution
to abundance: how would it be resisted, if the
militia of the several States is allowed to fall
into disorganization and decay ? . Suppose that
the obstacles and delays incident to the first
trial of a new and unpopular system should
protract the raising of soldiers by conscription
beyond the term of the nine months men, and
it should be necessary to call out militia to fill
up the interval; bow can militia regiments be
called out if they are not previously organizeu?
Considering the state of the country and the
uncertainty of the future, it is the clear duty
of the State governments, while hoping the
best, to prepare for the worst.
Respecting the power of the States to put
their militia in a state of the moaccomplete
efficiency, there can be no doubt whatever.
Alt that Congress can do is to prescribe the
mode of its organization and the forms of its
discipline ; it can exert no further control over
it until some portion of it is actually called
out, where that portion—always a small frac
tion of the whole—is subject to be governed
by rules prescribed by the Federal Legislature.
Until it is actually in the service of the United
States, its commander-in-chief is not the Presi
dent, but the State Governor. The rules for
its government are not prescribed by Congress
but by the State Legislature. No Federal law
passed in pursuance of the power "to raise
And support armies" can in any way effect the
militia except by withdrawing (by voluntary
enlistment or otherwise) a small portion of the
men who compose it. The Stete Legislatures
have as free a field for legislation on this sub
ject as they had before the conscription law
was passed, and it is a duty which they owe
alike to their respective- States and to -the
Union to see that adequate provision exists for
a well organized and well drilled militia. Be
sides the other occasions, to which we have
alluded, for the possible employment of the
militia, a necessity for its use may grow out
of the very conscription law, which was inten
ded to supersede it altogether, If, great and
dangerous riots should accompany the enforce
ment of the conscription, nothing but the
militia of the vicinage cou ld put them down.
Regiments from the army are too far distant,
and could not be spared. Such riota .are as
likely to happen in one place as another, and
it is absurd to suppose that' the government
can send home troops enough for the protec
tion of every loyal community. If, after the
conscripts are drafted, they should mutiny on
their way to the seat of war, nobody can pre
dict the outrages they would be tempted to
commit on defenceless communities through
which they might pass on their way home.
These are oily a few of the possibilities against
which a wise precaution ought to provide, but
they are sufficient to demonstrate the neces
sity, now greater than ever, of keeping up an
efficient State militia. We trust the Lttisla
ture will not adjourn without giving this sub
ject due attention.
Alexandra!
THE CONSCRIPTION A CT.
From the Weetotoreland Republican
We desire to call' the serious and candid
attention of our readers and the public to the
terms and tendency of a bill passed, amid the
tumultuous scenes of the closing hours of the
late Congress, commonly called the . " Con
scription Act." Without entering into minute
details, it may be accurately, though briefly
stated, that this law provides—First, for placing
at the absolute control of the President of the
United State all the inhabitants of the coun
try—citizens and foreigners, white and black—
capable of bearing arms. Second, that it di
vides the whole territory of the United States,
as indicated by Coniressional districts, into
military divisions, each commanded by a pro
vost marshal, and all acting under the direc
tion of a Provost Marshal General at Wash
ington. It is declared to be their duty to obey
all orders of the Proviist Marshal General, and
to exercise certain functions of a quasi judicial
character, in order to prevent or punish eva
sion or avoidance of any draft which may be
ordered by the President, or even, without
reference to the exigency of a particular case,
counseling drafted men not to appear.
This law, in effect, createit a forced standing
army, composed of all the available strength
of the country, and totally destroys the militia
of_ the .severst States, by robbing them of the
The militia istliqi - ftnuient attic-sorru uvscuido
of the people themselves against all enemies,
foreign and domestic. It existed from the corn-.
mencement of the colonization of the country
—it defended the early settlers from both In
dians and French—at Concord and Lexington
it inaugurated the revolution-'-at Bunker Hill
it met, without dishonor, the flower 'of the
British army—and so, throughout the Revolts
den and the war of 1812, it mainly maintained
the nation, down even to New °Heaps, when
Jackson and his militia closed• the war in a
blaze of glory.
The Constitution of Pennsylvania declares,
in regard to the militia, that "the freemen of
this Commonwealth shall be armed and disci
plined for its defence."
Has the Federal government the power to
annul our Constitution, by destroying the mi
litia?—has it the right to pass this conscrip
tion act? That g,overnmeat is not an original
sovereign; but an artificial and limited political
organization, created by the Constitution, and
can exercise those powers only which are con
ferred by that instrument; which, itself, de
clares that "the powers not delegated to the
United States are reserved to the States respec
tively. or to the people." •
No clause in the Constitution gives even sem
blance of power to make such enactment; on
the contrary, the State militia is distinctly
recognized, and the control of Congriss over
it is limited to calling it forth when nioessary,
and for governing it only when employed in
the service of the-'United 'States ; reserving to
the States ,the appointment of officers and the
training of the force. The Constitution, there
fore, contains no authority for this absorption
of the militia; but actually forbids it, by re
serving to the States the powers which substan
tially control it. In the face of these plain
provisions, argument would be superfluous.
Any men of common sense must perceive, and
any. court of law would determine, that the
conscription act is unconstitutional and void.
But it is said in this, as in other cases, that
necessity justifies—that necessity knows no
law. If this argument is good to justify Con
gress in disregarding the Constitution, it is far
better to justify the people in disregarding the
law. But in truth it justifies neither. Both.
are bound by every legal obligation, and neither
holds the power of self dispensation. The
supremacy of the Constitution and the laws is
the sole assurance of liberty, security and
order, and the usurpers of Washington who
deny this doctrine, proclaim themselves tyrants
by the act.
But, apart from this, the instant response to
the recent draft for three hundred thousand
militia, shows that the pretence of necessity is
false in fact. If the government needs ad
ditional force, why not resort to another draft
—legitimate, legal and sure to be obeyed?--
Why does the Federal government prefer the
course of usurpation—this insolent defiance of
the States—this tyranny over the citizen ?
it so, that the blood of our butchered brothers
owes a recoil from the battle field, to be met
only by i Federal bayonets, driving new myriads
to slaughter? No—the passage of this act is
an equal insult to the courage and patriotism
of the people. In the face of all the disasters
consequent on the ignorance, the presumption.
the corruptions, the vacillations and the
jealousies of the administration,they are ready
for freso efforts, any time, any where, for any
legitimate object; for they hold enshrined in
their heart of hearts the pure flame of patriot
ism, such es their oppreesois know not of, ready
to burst and blase in all consuminglire; before
which will perish alike the tyrant ti of the Norjh
and the traitors of the South, and out of which
will come a renovated Union and a vindicated
Constitution.
If this law could be carried into execution,
inasmuch as it would deprive the States of all
power of self-defense. its effect would be to
lay them prostrate at the feet of the. Federal
government, which, ceasing to be their agent
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for the oxercise of certain defined and limited
functions, would become a vast consolidated
military despotism, ready to be seized by any
Csesar, Napoleon, successful soldier, and to be
wielded amidst bloody contentions between
anarchy and •tyranny. Ie this to-be the heri
tage of our children f It was not that which
from our fathers came to us, and which we
possessed in peace until the present adminis
tration assumed the power of the government.
If there be any doubt that such would be the
legitimate effect of the execution of this law,.
look at its next 'grand feature. Every State is
to be cat up into military districts, ruled each
by a deputy provost marshal, each edited to
the Provost Marshal General at Washington,
and all appointed by, and responsible to the
President. That in certain oases there may
be an appeal to the civil tribunals, does not in
the least impair that military power whiah t lby
its very nature, must be supreme wheriier it
exists. All this is utterly without warrant and
is wholly incompatible with the existence of
free government. It is an exaggerated copy of
the military organisation under which despot
ism reigns in Russia and France—nay, it
infinitely transcends the latter. In this coun
try, under this act, the extent of the consinip
tion is limited only by the will of the President,
whereas, in Prance the conscripts are divided
into classes, and only a certain number can be
taken in each yehr. Even the first Napoleon on
his return from Waterloo, found his deman d on Senate refused for anticipation of conscrip
tion. The President of the 'finked States has
a legislative body more false and foolish than
that of France in 18l&, and wields a power un
known even to Napoleon the Great. •
It appears then that the the inevitable con
sequences of the execution of this conscription
law must be :
1. The destruction of State rights, followed
by that of the States themselves, by depftving
theta of the militia, their sole defense.
2. The destruction of popular liberty, by the
erection of a military despotism.
What shall be done! Three courses are
1." To submit. This is wholly out of the
question, unless indeed we have already sunk
so low that we are fit only to be slaves.
2. To resist by force. It is only is the ex- '
tremity of intolerable and irremediable tyranny
that resistance by tome, to organized govern
ment, is allowable, and to that extremity we
have not yet arrived. If we ever do, an appeal
to arms in self defense would be justifiable be
fore God and man, for without the reserved
rights of revolution, tyranny would be eter
nal.
S. An appeal to the courts of law. This is our
true defense. In the sanctuaries of justice we
shall find the vindication of our rights.. The
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania• will not hesi
tate to declare the law. By the jedgment of
the judicial tribunals we are bound—to it we
should all submit. They are the sole exposi
tors of the law. We should not. hesitate to
yield instant and hearty obedience to this au
thority, which, without passion or prejudice,
judges alike legislatures, Presidents and peo
ple, and • vindicates the Constitution of the
country for the good of all.
Receiving from our fathers a Union and
Constitution which formed, with the. co.or
dinate State governments, a political system
the most perfect which the world has ever seen,
and under the harmonious action of which the
-, - 11, 1.2---haa-nrogressed in prosperity Impala
great guarantees ot - Treerro. these
This was the people's war,to assert the integri
ty of the Union and to vindicate the supremacy
of the Constitution. For the attainment of
these objects, blood and treasure have been
poured out with lavish protasion. The people
are ready still,without stint or limit,:to proceed
in this course of sacrifice. But they have a
right to insist upon energy, wisdom, integrity,
and regard for their rights in those to whom
are confided the great national trate, and who
solemnly promised, at the outbreak of the
rebellion, that they would do nothing except
that which was legitimate and necessary to
protect and defend the Union and the Consti
tution. If the views which we have expressed
in regard to the conscription are correct, to
attemptito enforce it would lie a violation, of re
peated and solemn oaths and pledges, and der
atructive alike of the rights of the States and
the liberties of the people—more than this, it
would be injurious, if not disastrous, to t he
cause of the country—for right eannnotresult
from wrong.
THE CLERGY AND CONSCRIPTION
A writer in the German Reformed Messenger
says :
"So far as my knowledge extends, no Chris
tian nation, Protestant or Catholic, has ever
compelled ministers of the Gospel to go to war.
Heathen nations exempt the priests of their
religion from the duties of war. • Even Jeff.
Davie rebel government has not done this.
My impression is that this act is to be traced
to the infidelity of 'our Congress, as well as its
hostility to the Church of Christ."
"The
. galled jade winces." Who are more
responsible for the present war, the bloodshed
and carnage of battle, the irreligion and de
moralization of camp life, than the fanatical
clergy of the North? Ex empt them from the
consequences of their on misdeeds! Have
they not for years been preaching up a crusade
against the constitutional rights of a portion
of cur citizens? Have they not turned the
sacred pulpit of the Gospel into a mere rostrum
for the promulgation of heretical and fanatical
politics? The Sabbath was made for religion,
but they, notwithstanding man had six days
for politics and but one special day for reit
',eon, have degraded it to a day of political
conventions.
They have need their position and their
time to inculcate disrespect_for the Constitu
tion and the laws and the tribunalwestablished
for their enforcement. That arch old traitor,
Cheever, bee made, in a book published by
him, the assertion over and over again that the
Supreme Court of the United States had deci
den in the Dred Scott wise that "a black man
has no rights which a white man is bound to
respect"—that is, a white, man may take a
negro's property, may beat him ; aye, may kill
him, and cannot be punished, and there have
been fools enough to believe it. The pulpit has
compared John Brown with Massa and St. Paul,
and a preacher in the city of Cleveland, who
preached John Brown's duplicate fun'ral ser
mon in the Melodeon, with a letter in his hand
from John Brown, Jr., showing that his father
had for twenty years been of the opinion that
the only way slavery could be done away with
was by the shedding of bloodextelled Brown
to the skies, notwithstanding his murders at
Harper's Ferry.
These ministers for many years have avow
edly been educating the North up to the stick
ing point, and they have at last succeeded.
They, perhaps, little thought that their own
precious caresses would be put in danger. Now
let them grin and bear it. We only' wish every
one of them drafted would, 'have no way of
avoiding the battle field. Widowwand father
less children, and all otherswhe have suffered
by the war, may well turn to almost any
preacher and say. - "Thou art the man."
The crazy Congress that , has jot adjottraetl