Two Dollas per Innun i . U. J ACOSF, PaMisberO Truth and Itighi ftU and our Country. VOLUME 15. A FORTUNE FOll ALIM EITDEU JIKS OR lrOIEN ! ' NO HUMBUG, bat an ENTIRELY NEW Ihicg. Only three months in this country. No clap-trap operation to gull the public, but a genuine money matin? ihing ! Read the Circular of instruction once only, and you will understand it perfectly. A Lady has just written to me rhal.fhe is making as high as TWENTY DOLLARS SOME DAYS! giving inspections in this art. Thousands of Soldiers are making money rapidly at it. Ii is a th in z that take belter man auytmng ever .ottered, iou can make money with it ho ma or abroad on steam boats or railroad car, and in the country or city. You will be pleated in pursuing it, not only because it will ; ield a handsome income, but also in conse buenca of the general admiin'Jon which it elicits. It is pretty much all profit. A mere triflejs necessary to start with. There is scarcely one person oat of thousands who ever pay? any attention to advertisements of this kind, tfiiakina ihey are humbugs, Consequently those who da tend for instructions will have a broad field to make money ;n. There is a class of person? in this world .who would think that because they hive been liumbnsged oat of a dollar or so, that everything that is advertised is a humbug. Consequently V.e try no more. The pers n who soc ceeds is the one that keeps on trying until fee fT.is sometfSng that pays him. This art Wet ma on thousand dollar and I expect to make nt mey out of it and ell who purchase llie art of rae will do the ame. One Dollar sent to ma will insure the prompt return of a card of ins ruction in the art. The money tcVl It rilurmJ It tkiue not ioli'fad. Address WALTER T. TINSLEY, No..l Park Place, New York. Oct. 2!, 1863. 3m. IMPORTANT TO LADIES. Fr. 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Price SI. - Dr. Harvey's Treatise cu diseases of Fe "males, pregnancy, miscarriage, itarrenne-s ' sterility, roductian, and abuses, of N: lure, and emphatically the ladies' Private Medical Adviser, a pamphlet ol 64 pase ent free to any address. Six cents re quired to pay postage. The Pills and book will be sent by mail when deir-d, securely sealed, and prepaid " by J. BRYAN, M. D. General Ag't. No. 7C Cedar street, New York CF'SoId by all the principal druggists. Not. 25, 1863 ly. .BELL'S SPECIFIC PILLS Warrated -ivallcases. Can be relied on! Never fail ";tocore! Do not nauseate! Arespeedy : in action ! No change of diet tt quired ! Do not interfere" with -business pursuits! Can be used without detection! Upward of 200 cores the past month one of them yery eevere cases. Over one hundred phy .' sicians have used them in their . practice, and all speak well of tbeirefficacy, and ap ' prove their composition, which is entirely vegetable, and harmless on the system. Hundreds of certificates can be showu. I Bell's Specific Pill? are the original and only genuine Specific Pill. They are adapted for male and female, old or roang, and the only reliable remedy for effecting a permament and speedy cure in all cases Sperms.torrrea,or Seraioal Weakness, w'ub all its train of e- iis. such as Urethral and VTag'tDal Ducfcarges, the whites, nightly or involuntary Emissions, Incontinence, Geni tal Debility . and Irritability Impotence Weakness or loss of Power, 'nervous De ability, &c, all of which arise principally fromv Sexnel Excesses or eelf-abuse, or tome constitutional derangement, and in capacitates the sufferer from fulfilling the dulie3 of married life. In all sexual die ease?, Gonorrhea, Gleet and Strictures, and ia Diseases of the Bladder and Kidneys, they act as a charm! Relief is experi enced by taking a single hex. : Sc!d by all the principal drugg.sts.Price Tby will be sent by mail, secarely seal ed, sad confidentially, on ; "ceipt of the r-4rav by " J BRYAN, M. D. money, oj ?6 CeJar 6,r8eti New York rrnsaltin? Pbysic'ans for the treatment of Seminal, Urinary, Sexual and .Nervous Diseases, who will send, free to all, the following Taluab'.e work, in seated en- ' TT& S ' FIFTI ETH " THOUSAND-DR. TOLL'S TREATISE on se!f-abne, Prema decay, impotence and loss of power, mxI disease, seminal weakness, nightly !":r:0n, genital , deb.Itiy, , &c , fcc, a rr-vt of 64 pages, containing impor-i- .'-i'Sica to the afHicted, and which re3i by every sufferer, as the 5 cfcTjra in tha severest stages is .':..' forth. Two stamps inquired, la 1 ! . - , ' r' ov. 25, IS53. Jyf BLOOMS BURG. COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 10, 1864. PCBHSHKO EVERY WEDNESBiT BT WM. II JACUBY, Office on Main St., 3rd" Square below Market. TERMS: Two Dollars pur annum if paid within six months from the time of subscri bing : two dollars and fifty cents if not paid within thfc year. No subscription taken for a less period than six months; no discon tinuance permitted until alia rrearages are paid, unless at the option of the editor. 7ke lei ms of advertising trill be as follows: One square, twelve lines, three times, SI 00 Every subsequent insertion, 25 One square, three months, . ". .... 3 00 One year, ... 8 00 Choice yoetrn. THE SUPERFLUOUS 3IAN. BY JOHN a SAXE. It is ascertained by inspection of the reg ister of many countries, that the uniform proportion of male and female births is as 21 to 0; accordingly, in respect to mar riage, every 2 1st man is naturally super fluous. -Smith's Tteaties on population. I lona have been puzzled to gties, And so 1 have frequently said, What the reason could really be That I never hate happened to wed ; But now it is perfectly clear ! am under a natural ban; The girls are already assigned And I'm a superfluous man. Those clever siatalistical chaps Declare the numerical run Ot women and men in the world, Is Twenty to Twenty-and-one ; And her.ce in the pairing you see. Since wooing and wedding begun, For every connubial score They've got a superfluous man ! By twenties and twenties they go, And giddily rush lo their late, For noneW tha number, of course, Can fail of a conjugal mate; But whi'i they are yelding in scores To Natore's inflexible p'an, There's never a woman for me Fot I'm a superfluous man ! It isn't that I am a churl, To solitude over inclined ; It isn't that I am at fault In morals or manners or mind; Then what is the reason, you ak, I am Mill wjth the batchelor clan ! I merely was numbered ami And I'm superfluous man ! It isn't that I am in want Of personal beamy or grace, For many a man with a wife Is uglier lar in the lace ; Indeed among e'egant men I fancy myself in the ran ; Bat what is the value of that, When I'm a superfluous ? Al.honah I am fond of the girls, For aught I could ever discern The lender emotion I feel U one that they never return ; 'Tis idle to quarrel with fate, Fur struggle as hard as I can, Thej're mated already, you know And I'm a superfluous man I No wotrder I grumble at time. With woraefi so pretty and plenty, To know that I never was born . To figure as one of the twenty ; But yet, when the average lot With critical vision I scan, q I think it may be the best That I'm a sapsrfloous man ! JLove and Pridk A writer makes the following sensible and judicious remarks, which we commend lo the intention of those for whom they are attended : "Many a man has seen his choice for a partner in life, the humble girl, far benealh him in the opinion of the world, and al though love and pride might have strug gled with him fot a while, yet pride tri umphed and he sought one Irom higher walks of life. In all the vicissitudes of so cial existence nothing can be mora capable of inflicting more certain misery than is sure to follow such a course. It distracts the general harmony of our days, mis shapes our ends, shortens tha length of life, lessens the statute of manhood, and is con trary to the divine instructions of tfio Bible, for it declares where love is, there f3 peace, plenty and thriftiness. Every thing good. ia sure to follow a happy union. Let no pride interfere in this matter." Little 51ac Nearly every Democratic exchage paper we receive contains at its editorial bead tha name of General George B. McClellan as the next Democratic can didate for President of the United States. From present indications "Little Mac the people's man" will receive the unanimous support of the Pennsylvania delegation in tha National Convention. . Female Modkstt. Modesty in a young female is the Mower of a tender ebrub, which is the promise of excellent fruit. To destroy it is to destroy the gam of a thous and virtues, to destroy the hope of society, to commit an outrage against nature. The air of the world is a burning breath - that every ay blasts this precious flower. . Lucoli's Poor Kelativxs. The widow of tha rebel General Helm, who was killed at ChiokAmaBga, ia a sister to Mrs. Abraham-Lincoln. So Bays an exchaga paper. 2frs. Lincoln mnstba disloyal, for accord in5Tp"21boIition logic 'Ioyal" people don't Lava "relative ia the rebel array. THE TWO TRAVELERS. Some years ago two gentlemen and a la dy had taken their places in the diligence from Faris to Havre. One of the gentle 1 men, M. Mallaquent, merchant of the capi tal, as indolent in mind as in body, slept profoundly from the commencement ; the i otner, M. Lus?ac, a commercial traveller, a person ol a very animated character, did not allow his tongue to rest a single instant, j Amoug other things which he mentioned, he let it escape that he had on him fifteen thousand (ranees in bank-bills, and that the greater part of the sum was intended for the purchase of colonial productions, and the rest as a present for his wite. M. Mallaquet, on the contrary, during the rare intervals when he was sufficiently awake to speak, said simply that he was goi ng.to Havre. The diligence arrived at Pontoise, where the horses were changed As the road , , . , . ,. posed to the travelers that they should walk ... , . .. up me nui. L.ussac emoracea tne propo sal with pleasure, and Mallaquet, from po- litariAja o fTa s . I t e Y a n r taut iIaIi'tK tarl though, in fact, he had no deair to put his ' 1 leys in movement. n... Knv. din. I n iti. ,;!! .( r the diligence tollowed them. Soon darkness came on. But the trave-j lers coutinued to hear the diliigence rolling they both remarked that they had wander- ! o ; r ... . , . . . . .... Li, : ranee from the air ol tranquility which he ed from the riht road. Ihey wished to re- i . ? . . . . . i r .1 : , rho deem him-e f a victim, Mmulaied. turn t here;o, rut the sound of the wheei ' ' .... T. - , , He went back to bed with contented heart. no longer reached them. 1 h indolent , . . , , . . ', And the ren t was, that neither ot tha tra- Mallaquent crew a'raid. Mn'term a few " . ' , , , . . e wrs having Plept, but neither of them aNo oaths, he bean to march at a more rapid," . . rate, and tl is mdden change ave birth ... the soul 6t M. Lussac to a sombre prei-eut- itnent. iienierril'ertr.g ins unpruoeiii avow- f . . I .knf 1 1 f'ioii it, rkt, lu I Irurriil flif!l .... , . , . ie lldil Willi mm, iud uiDoi . m; i tl- .L-d him,lf ; J i. - . i Paris, and each of the partners amuses terror whether this suspected companion " ... ,0T , ' " u ... k himt-elf with te) ng the sinsular c.rcum had not plat ed w.th th5 conductor to rob ",c' " ' ' - - . " . 1 ,. , p , kj ' stances which led to their bus-.nes rela- him in some olnary place. Perhaps, he ! ' . , ' . ,- m-, . tions. It is nver, however, without emo- a ?o thought, another accomplice m:sht be 7 . . . - - i . t on that Ma laqnet hears Lussac speaking urk ii2 n some spot near, ready to pounce , 1 ' . . u r - ,i of the moment when the knife wa kept on mm. in iruui, puor .(..at ucrmcu j hirasf If a lost man : he deterunued, thtre- fore, lo be on hi auard. Willi regard, to Mallaquet, when he saw Lussac become suddenly silent, he at once conceived similar suspicions to those of his " i:i. . cnmnariimi. tie na 1 not. u is irue. -.k- ! - , Lussac been guilty cf any indncretion en dangering his own en lerpri-te, but his pick ets were filled wi;h important papers, and the avowal ot his companion appeared to hint new only an adroit trick to inp'tre him with confidence. Keeping at as greit a distance as po'ib!e from each other, the two travelers w a ched each other's move ments. At last, a march coming in the way, forced them into immediate contact on a narrow path. Their alarm and distrust went oa increasing. Mallaquet raised his hand to wipe hi brow, bathed in pre.-pira-lion. Luaac then stopped, thinking that be saw "in his companion's hund an instru ment ot murder. However, ' to brace his courage a little, he likewise raided hU hand to take a pinch of snuff. Mallaquet, seeing this stooped don lo the muddy ground to escape the expected pistol-shot Alter some time passed in the anguish of these mutual suspicions Lunsac determined to give utterance to his dread in words. We inuil," eaid he, "be thoroughly on our guard here. It is the very demon him self who has thrown us thus on tha high road in the middle of the night. Fortunate y if we meet-with any misfortune or at tack there is nothing to be found on me but empty pockets." 'Indeed,'- replied Mallaquet, "yon surely forgot the fifteen thousand francos which you have with you." - "Ob ! that was all noneence," cried Lus sac; "my words on this point were the merest wind; of course 1 was only joking." This speech did not fail to increasa the terror ol Mallaquet. . Well, whatever happens," he said, af ter a few moments hesitation, 'I am deter mined not to yield till I have fired my pis tol as often as I can," "Pistol!" exclaimed Lussac; "but do you not know that it is forbidden to carry arms'?" . . . 'Forbidden, do yon Bay?" continued Mallaquet, assuming an air of great cour age : 'ttbere are resolute fellows, however, who do not much ' regard who, in fact, laugh at such prohibitions." This conversation was interrupted by the trot of a horse; the rider waa postillion, who told our travelers that they had gone astray, and that they had, at least, a walk of two hours to tha nearest posting station. Both more alarmed than ever, sought re lief in larious oaths. . Presently a carriage passed ; Mallaquet attd Lussac rushed towards it. ; Lussac wanted to gel op behind, but the coachman struck him so fiercely with his whip, that be was forced to let go his hold. Behold our travelers, then, dragging their weary liraba mew along the highroad. . ?. ... Alight gleamed in the distance. Oar travelers, drowned in . prespiration and crushed by fatigue, inarched towards the pot where tha light was shining. J t was a Tillage; everybody had gone to bed j but they at last succeeded ia discovering an inn. t ' Fresh mishap! - All the rooma were oc cupied ; bnt; the. 'landlord, yeiiding after awhile to their pasVtonate reqoefjf gave lhara. the room which be had reserrei for himself. Hungry and weary, however, the two companions felt the irresistible need for" some food. The delay caused by the repast was marked by an absolute silance ; and in nearly the tame silence Mallaquet and Lussac prepared with their exhaufcted frames to taste the sweets of repose. 'The moment . am in bed," thought Mallaquet, "I Bhall. pretend to be asleep I shall even snore with tolerable emphasis if reedful ; but I shall keep myself alert for whatever may occur. As for M. Lussac, after , having slipped his -portfolio under his pillow, wished his companion good night, and blown out the candle, he 'placed himsell cosily in the bed as he could, but kept his eyes fixed ( in the darkness of the corner of the room where the brigand was. Two hours passed away, marked by thp most complete immobility on both sides. The first feeble light of the dawn was be ginning to peep through, when JVI. Lussac i perceived his neishbor rising with precau- , "tcc, ou . , . ! lion, nnd aoproachin.1 his own bed on tip- toe. MaIlaqUtft then stooped down over M. : Losac's lace. M. Lus.-ac's heaU beat like IIU1I U 'HI ' 'team-engine. Fortunately howev.r ho r l ..I . .- I raft, lev rtfirlur ItlA i fiau nis Kniie oweuci Deu-ciomes. l . l He afked hme'.f whether v, .,m .mi in hn hfnrehant with the as- sain. But a litlie cowardice, and the ex cps of his emotion, forced him to wait, without stirring, the development of event s. I uninft ;iinr- having suffered any greater harm than a , - . ()f , tha morninsf - tlttV IIIL'llll 1 ..IHltllW.!.. ... ' - - t in in arm TOT liO 1PR. DC I Tl I. ,' came intimate friend;?, and ended by form- i;i a cotnmeic:al partnerjnip The house ... ,Jrior al M Kllaqnel and Company still prosper at ready under the bed clothes for a fatal stab. Tie New Draft. ' Josrjih is not and Simon is not, an t ye will ; w w-jznin aunj. .cut... .... ! will rifl f mill thonxniuU of humble homes I.l-n.' !.i .lm (Hit I l . I - all of f the land when the six snort lines, signed "Abraham Lincoln, "which we pub lished yesterday morning, at tha head of the first pae ct the lUi'y Xfivs, shall find their way into the lowly dwellings One and a hall tm!lioii3 of halo hearty men have been taken trom the productive ULor which hat made the greauie-is, wealth h;ippir,e and honor ol our beloved country; and now half a miilion more are to go! "When, in God's name! is all this to end V we may suppose to be the sad and anxious exclamation of many a worthy mafon, as ebe takes her seat at the frcg.il board for the evenicg meal to morrow and next day, and next day, as the doleful news shall reach the farm houses throughout the land. "When, in Gtid's natna ! is all this to end ? Jioberi was killed at Ball R:iii ; John at Chatice!lorvii!t;Sam has returned, mu'ilated and bed-ridden 'or life from bloody Chickamoga ; Thomas alone remains to us. Peace ! Peace ! Oh God, giva on peace. Th'n war is not worth" what we are pay ing for it. Our own fields will remain un cultivated ; our own homes will become desolate, to say nothing of a 6iil greater misery inflicted upon our Southern brethern if this horrable war continue?. Shall we longer sutler, and inflict all this for the emancipation of the oegro, who is much happier, tlave as he is, than free as we would we make him?. When, oil when shall this eruel war stop ?" The father liftens to this apostrophe of his wife, but sits by pale, ' thoughtful, and silent. Thomas, too, finishes his meal without uttering a word. Tom, my, boy you'll have to go this time, I fear," says the father fcer'.ously, rising from hi chair. "Will l?"is the curt reply ; and there is something in the eye a id about the lip of Tom, as he leaves the room, which sug gests to his parents that Tom t not quite of the same opinion with his father. X. Y. Daily Xews. How the Mossr Goes. A son of ex Senator Cameron has just, afler two yenr' service, teen placed on the retired list as an army paymaster, with a salary of of two thousand dollars a year for life! No matter he is a poor man and probably has his mother to support. The Press of the 4th instant, in an editor ial says : "Tha passage ofa General Bank rupt Law by Congress seems to be certain. This is "loyal" authority, and the annnncia tioa of this important news, has ol course the sanction of the Government. McClellaw Delegates. The Dernoerate of Montgomery and Huntingdon counties have appointed delegate to the next Dem ocratic convention, with instructions to support General McClsllan for President. That's tight. With "Little "Mao" as our Btandard bearer, all the thieves, shoddy contractors, office-holders and bayonets in the country cannot prevent the success of tha Democratic parly. Tu work! makes ns talkers, but -solitude makes os thinkers. Llneola's Abolition Policy. In his last message the President has thrown to the winds everything like consti tutiontional law, the vested rights of States and conciliation and with autocratic dicta tation has prescribed the future status of the Rebel States and their inhabitants. Thi? cunningly deviled document is to te used as a political lever to perpetrate his own dictatorial power upon this continent. He knows that no considerable number of Con federates will ever subscribe to the test oath he has created to support the proclamations and other radical measures he has inaugu rated during his Aboliiion rule. Conse quently onr anguBt master creates a law al lowing ine tenth part of thtf people of a Staid to represent inch Stale. With the idea, probably, that the patronage 'and in fluence of the Government would be suffi cient to corrupt and secure a tenth part of thi most corrupt element of . each State to the purposes of' the taction in power, o.ur ruler has e?n fit to i.ue this ukase. The experience he qas had with such parlifians a Judge Advocate Holt has doubtless de cided him to risK the chances of securing jhi-i frac ion of the voters of each State. According to this messages we can have no peace, no restoration and no cessation of the enormous waMe ol li!e and treasure, until the peculiar idea and policy as well a the political aspirations of Abraham Lin coln have been fully carried out. The ab solute will ol our iUJiCiil Abolition rulers is herein announced as ihe future rule of action, respecting war, peace and the exifl unc of States. On oi condition and one S only, can those in ar-n again.-t the United ! Stritfiti be allowed to return to their alleg- ;nr urid thfl.r richt under the constituiton , Thi5 COiuh,iouJ9 llM oa!k to tttbacribe to tht I private ov'u.vms, cud lite um'jilwn posom uiul virtv dtsigns of Alrchw Lincoln, Ihe pre -at uponetit if the radical Abolition fac- ; jn j Is lhre a lensible man in the United i States who doubts but that this usurpation ! ol dectorial power will tend directly to pro ! long the war iodefir.ately, to continue to ' deluge the nation in blood, and to rash us t on to national bankruptcy ? The South ha always maintained an3 ! sincerely believed that th election of a i j Republican President and the establish- j me nt of a Republican party would conti- i j lute a direct attack upon their domestic in- ! stitutior. ol slavery. They have assered I i ar.d believed that the union and harmony , ; of the States would be deemed ol secondary ; ; importance by the party in comparison , , w't h the aboVtion'of slavery. Many years j of meddib.-ume interference, of abuse and vi. operation o;i the part ol their orators, ed itora and pamphleteers, long since convin ' ced the Southern mind that they had noth- ing to hopo from this party but bitter, per sitent a',d uncompromising ho-tiiiiy to their domestic iustitution and their mater ial interest. With these impressions the South rushed into rebellion, and our sec tional and partisan rulers accepted the con 'est with the end and aim of extermi- nalinz their Southern enemies and f-lavery ; at the same time. And what has the result j proved ? Simply that the Southerners weie : right ; that the war hud not been waied I for the restoration of the Union and the j t ature fraternity of the States, but for the j abolition of slavery and the forcible perpet i uation ol Abolition sway over this once free Republic. ! Mr Lircoln no longer wears a mask, bnt ! bids the people of the States of the Union to j bow down and worship the neg'O idol he has set befcro them, or remain beggars, disfra:ichi.-ed, and outlawed vassal. He has constituted himself the law and the Constitution, and has graciously allowed hi Southern eubjects to exis', provided they wilt adopt Vis radical negro policy. give up their slave property, and ssbmit to bis ruie. X. Y. Didy Aeifj. I.v the recent Conservative Conventon in Philadelphia, which nominated McC'ellan, one ot the speakers said : When he first came to' this country he was one ot the most radical Abolitionists that ever lived, but he was horribly and in famously deceived. (Lauzhter.) The find afr:iuiri! .,;,.. nlda ill thiS COUntrV WIS I V v, f.w.ia,.. " -' ' . 1 ! Gerritt Smith be found him at that tune not only workins for the freedom of the negro, but for the Gubernatorial chair at Albany he also formed the acquaintance ot Wm. 11. Seward, and xvas obliged to say that in all Kurope he never discovered so much rascality as he -saw in this cour.tiy. He was not a man to be bought or one. to be sold, he went by lacts. Although he wiohed the country treed of every slave, yet he had found that it was only the true old Democratic principles that secured equal rights to all. In alluding to tha present power, he said : They say their life ia full ol holy facta, They say they'll go to heaven lor all their ' 'acts, If really ihey reach that heaven of Pure, They'll rob God' Treasury the same as yours ! The speaker endorsed in strong terms the name of George B. McClellan as the man for the emergency. He reviewed tha course of that General while in command of the army, and ol tha progress mada by the arrny afterward. Ha alluded to the conscrip tion and suspension of the habeas corpus by a Government which called itself free. What McCIellah wished fot, was for the crushing but of tha rebellion and re-establishment of the Union. What I'oime Do We Steer ? If a citizen ol this Republic, having been absent from his country during the past three years in some remote region in ignor ance of the -events that have tran&piied, should suddenly return and come in social contact with his fellow countrymen, his principal theme for wonder would be the apparant resignation of carelessness with which msnj members of the Democratic party allude to anticipated fraud on the part of the adniinis ration in the next Presiden tial election. It Is commonto hear people who in tetter days would have repelled the idea with indignation, now express their conviction that the re election of Lincoln by fraudulent means, in opposition to the popular will, is a foregone cos elusion ; a.id many go so far as to admit that Mr. Sew ard's theory will be practiced, and that the present incumbent will retain his office by a suepension of the exercise of the elective franchise, making necessity a plea for dis pensing with the election. Several journals claiming tci be Democratic have of late ac knowledged that the popular sentiment will be dented the privilege of expression, and they already take it for granted that the in trigues and arbitrary action of Mr. Lincoln and his adherents will enable him to hold lor another term the absolu a scepter he has asfurneJ. There is no denying that a great peril threaieus the elective franchise, and the most careless observer of the recent acts ol the sdrrinistration will be impressed with the conviction that a sys'ematized plan is in the operation to remove from the peo ple the choice of their next Faderal Execu tive. The late proclamation of Gen. Put k, which if carried into e.Tact, will give the civil jroverrment of Louisiana into the con trol of a fpw Federal retainers, has set the machinery in motion. That proclamation furnishes the first modem instance of the abrogation ol a state constitution by a mili tary commander. The first Napoleon, wielding at once an imperial scepter aad a conqueror's sword, never, in the hight of his power, presumed with a stroke of his pen lo overturn the tundamentals of a State's political system. He dethroned kings, changed dynasties, and transferred the exe cutive authority to the creatures of hi will, but he respected the essence of the politi cal fabrics beneath which the people dwell. Nation, it is true, have been robbed ol their nationality, as in the ca-te of Poland, who-e oppressors have so warmly greeted by the debtors of Pulaski and Koeciuko but those upheavals of political foundations were consummated by the co-joined action of potentates, not by the single will of mili tary captain. It has been left for a solJier of tbU Republic to exercise, toward his own country men, the most absoluie ol des potic civil functions. But the approach of thi period designa ted for a Presidential election rendered it necessary lor the schemers to develop their bold plot. The creation of this itnpromtu civil government of Louisiana willl give so many Abolition electors from that State for the Presidential electoral college. Arkan sas and Tennessee will be maJe. to furnish their quotas by the same process. In otter Sidles of the Confederacy where a snifi cient number of Federal soldiers and ne "roes to constitute one-tenth of the voting population can be brought to the polls un- dtr tiie Abolition oath, the mummery will be hurried through and the subservient electors will be duly qualified. Idaho, Ne- vada and Nebraeka, po-tibly Utah, will be lcgi!aed iiito the luiion in lnne to pay their forced tribute lo the Abolition candi. date, their sparse population, of course, controlled by federal authority or bought 0f e war. Rev. Mr. Trumbull, an army by Federal patronage. What will be do.ie j chaplain hose service and sufferings en in Deleware and Maryland is evident by : titled him to speak for the information of the record of what has been done. And if . tne meet:n2. made an impressive address. all this should not suffice to stem the tor- rent of popular opposition, the means that , timed address from a clergyman whose al carried Ohio asairist the greatest vole thai ' iUsi0ns to the sacred scripture were little was ever before polled there for a guberna- j ete than blasphemous, certainly foolish torial candidate, will be employed in bo ! and calculated to do no good. He seemed northern S'.a:e. Contemplating the vast , to cteire to create the impression that the nel that U thus being woven, well may the ; peoble of the South are unfit to be members people of this Republic be appalled at the ; Qf our body politic, while we are pouring imminence ol the- danger that threatens the j out OUr blood and treasure to compel them very existence of their political system. I to be such, With a boy's foolishness he But shall it be said that the people ac- thought to make a good point by telling cept the destiny thus Traced out for them by j his hearers that Judas was the only apostle an unscrupulous a-id reck'ess faction ? Are borne in Southern Palestine, forgetting that the Democracy so faint-hearted and sub- I lne Lord himself was born in that South, missive as lo ak cow ledge that thy see the meslcs, and net put forth their strength to rend them asunder? Shall Democratic journals camly comment upon the probable result, and, confessing that they understand the peril, 6Ugest no measures to avert it? Must we shrug our shoulders, and like the Mussulman fatalist, say it is wi'hin ths book of Dooms, and bend our necks to the bowstring? It is this apathy, this appa rent indifference, '.his careless, sometimes jocular allusion to the purposes of tyracny, that gives strength and audacity to the con spirators. Let the people seriously survey the treacherous grouud before them; let them look at the pitfalls and traps that en viron them let them consider bow feasi ble the project of the men in power, unless an organized and determined effort be made to preserve the elective franchise in its pa rity. Do not let us drift into a confirmed absolutism, without bending an oar or un furling a sail to stem the current. If the voice of the people at the next Preoideniial election should be stifled, it will be hushed forever, until in some generation of nobler spirits it rings rot again in tha thunder tones of revolution. WanTKD Five hundred thousand more soldiers by Old Aba. Turn oat, boys ! NUMBER 16. The Cfcorca and the War. Doubtless the great conservative element in a democratic country is a pure religion But that religion can never remain pnra when it is prostituted to political purposes. Its mission is to the heart of the individual person, and not to the collective body poli tic. Its conservative and purifying iofluenco must be effectual, if at all, on single men and women, the resulting effect being on the public interests through those individ uals. In all countries, when men have brought the church into the strifes of na tions or of patties, the effect has been not only to injure or debase the church, but al so to destroy its influence for good over the hearts of individuals. When it becomes a machine for political effect, it ceases to have powerfor moral good. It makes no difference whether the cauo it espouses be the right or the wrong caaee. The result on the church is always the same, aud al ways bad. The clergy, as individuals, have not only a right, but are under an obligation to duty as citizens. Their right to political opinions ar.d political preference is an unquestion able right. At the same time, in excer cising that right, they are bound to be ex ceedingly cautious that they do not attempt to use their holy profession for political porpose. They are made men with duties as men, citizens with duties as citizens; but the minestry which is entrusted to them by their Master is not subject to their owq whims and caprices, nor have they right to use it for any other purpose than that which is stated in their commission the delivery of a message to mac from God; the preach ing of a gospel, not to nations or govern meuts, which are things of an hour, but to the soul of man, which are to outlast tha evancescent dynasties which men devise. It is impossible for a right-thinking xnaa to avo;d a sensatiorf of pain, and perhaps a deeper emotion, when he hears a clergy man recklessly degrade his character and mission by making it other than Gad has made it. The danger of this, has always been recognized, and therefore in all civil iztd countries, and even in barbarous coan . tries, there Las been a uniform practice of exempting clergymen from soma duties which might lead to an intermingling of tha two characters, the clergyman aad the citi zen, so as to debase the influence of tha former to the level of ihe latter. The clergj for example, have been exempt from mili tary duty, and in some countries have been, debarred from holding civil office. Tha latter provision has not met with general approval. The former has always been re garded as necessary to the pnri'y of religion in all nations, until the radicalism of onr own country abolished the exemption and broke down this important wall between religion and politics. This was doubtless the reult ol the abolition effort which for years declared that the accompi&hr&ent of its designs cootd only be achieved "over the ruins ot the American Chbrch and the American Union" The attack of tha in fide! forces was directed as against tha church as against the Union, and it is to be feared that they have succeeded in doing almost as great injury to one as to tha other. The war meeting at Cooper Institute, was the in main, a reat success. The arrange- mem were made without distinction of politica! parties, and both Democrats and j Republicans joined in it heartely, sinking I m-l30r differences. Well-known Democrat j ic anj Republican public speakers address- ed the meeting in patriotic speeches, say ing nothing to offend or rouse the feelings of men of opposite views as to tha measure! But the proceedings were marreJ by an ill- . an, his small wit was only a sneer at the birthplace of Christ. We respectfully submit to tha clergy who stay at home, to preach to the peopla that the illustrations of existing things with us which some of them occaisonally seek in Holy Writ, are not calculated to do good, but rather to do evil. The treason of Juda6 is vastly too sol emn a story to be cited even in a war meet ing for the purposes of rousing hatred and indignation against a class of people, and the aid which such citation afford to the men who would bring religion into disre spect is great. It is not necessary, nor is it desirable for the public good, that men should be called on to adrei w&r mealing, who drew their illustrations from those high and holy sub jects which belong solelj to the relations of man to his God Let tha church be preserved from the dangerous attempt to make it apart of human political machinery, however valuable its influence may seem to be for humta ends. It must be preserved for higher good, even than tha saving of a great country. Journal of Commerce. There t a pressing demand for wbis officers of negro raiments. Here U a s -chance for our Abolition friands to oer their services.
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