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VOLUME 15.
BLOOM SB U KG. COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY AUGUST 31, 1864.
NUMBER 45.
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"THE TEARS OP THE LADY THAT
LOVED MM."
He is' dead on the field of honor,
And many will weep for his fall ;
But the tears of the lady that loved him
Are the bitterest tears of all.
And paeans of triumph may comfort
The land for her fallen son, ,
But the tears of the lady that loved him
Will fall, though tbe battle be won.
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She'll be weeping, because of the sunlight
That's turned into shadow, and pall i
She'll be calling tho tears, but the soldisr
Will sleep and be deaf to her call.
She'll seek him with tears in her dreaming
When midnight is dark on the plain,
With the finsliinz of dawn on the mountain
Her tears will be falling again.
Oh ! there's healing for grief that is honest,
In the coming and going otyears,
But the"good that is in the future
Is bard to discover through tears.
Senator Cowan on the War.
On 'the 27th of Jane last the Hon. Edgar
Cowan, Republican Senator from Pennsyl
vania, made some very truthful and happy
remarks in bis place in the United States
Senate. He said that "our coarse io regard
to the Southern people "has been of a char
acter entirely tbe reverse of that which
would have been successful in suppressing
tbe rebellion.' He said, "we started out
with exaggerated notions of our own
strength, and dUdained to think that suc
cess depended upon tbe loyal men 'of the
South." He said, further, that everything
bad been done by our Government which
Jefferson Davis would have 'prayed for to
unite bis people. He would hae prayed
for 'outrages on the common prejudices of
the South ; for genera! " and indiscriminate
confiscation ; for threatening both Usurpers
and their victims ; for emancipation laws
and proclamations to fire the Sooiiern
heart, &c, just as had been rflone by oor
Government- Alter showing that the Fed
eral Congress and Administration had oni-
e1 lte So0lQ. b
"And where does, history show the' fail-
ore of any united people, numbering five
or six miHions, when they engage in revo
lution ? Nowhere ; there is no such case."
Tbe following are the concluding remarks
of the honorable Senator :
What did we do to bring this unity about
in the South ? Wo forgot our first resolve
in July, 1861, to restore the Union alone,
and we went further, and gave bat that we
would also abolish slavery. Now, that was
just exactly tbe point opon which all South
ern men were most tender, and at wbich
they were most prone to be alarmed and
offended. That was of all things the one
best calculated to make them of one mind
against us ; 'there was no other measure,
indeed, which could have lost to the Union
cause so many of them. It is not a ques
tion either as to whether they were right or
wrong that was a matter for their consid
eration, ndl ours ; for if we were so desirous
of a union with them, we ought not to have
expected them to give op their most cher
ished institutions in order to effect it.
Unions are made by people taking one
another as they are ; and I think it has nev
er yet occurred to any man who was anx
ious to form a partnership with another that
he should attempt to force that other either
to change bis religion or bis politics. Is
not tbe answer obvious would not tbe
other say to him, (tIf you do not like my
principles, why do you wish to be a partner
with me Have I not as good a right to
ask you to change yours as a condition pre
cedent V
So it was with the Southern people :
tbej were all in favor ot slavery, but one
halt of them were still for Union with us
as before, becaose they did not believe we
were Abolitionists. The other hall were in
open rebellion beoause they did believe it.
Now, can any one conceive of greater folly
on our part than that we should destroy the
faith ol our friends, and verify that of our
enemies ? Could not anybody have fore
told we would have lost one half by that,
and . then we would -have no one left to
form a Union with ? We drove that half to
ibe rebels, and thereby increased their
strength a thousand fold.
Is not all this history now t The great
fact is staring as fall in the face to-day ; we
are contending with a united people des
perately in earnest to resist us. Oar most
powerful armies most skillfully led have
heretofore failed to conquer them, and I
think will fail as losg as we pursue this fa
tal policy.
Now, Mr. President, I appeal to Senators,
whether i is not time to pause and inquire
whether that policy, which has certainly
united the Southern poople in their canse,
and which .quite as certainly has divided'
the Northern people in their support of j
oars, ought not to.be. abandoned at once ?
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Why persist in it longer .can we ao noin-
ingtq retrieve'our fortune by retracing oor
steps I (Jan we not civiae tne reoeis ana
unite the loyal men of. the loyal States by
going back to the'single idea of war for the
Union ; or is it now too late? Have we
lost Irrecoverably our hold on the affections
of our countrymen who were for the Union
in 1861 even ink1862'l (s there no way
by which we could satisfy them that we yet
mean Union, and not conquest and subju
gation ? And what a difference in the
meaning of these two phrases ! The first
offers the band of a brother, the second
threatens tbe yoke of a master. Or are we
obliged now to' exchange the hopes we bad
of Southern Union men for that other and
miserable hope in the negro? Is be all
that is left of loyalty' in tbe South, and the
only ally that we can rely upon to aid us
in restoring the Union? Ye gods'! what
have we come to at last ? Either to yietd j
to an unholy rebellion, to dismember an
empire, or to go into national companion
ship with the negro ! Is -this the alterna
tive to which our madness has brought us?
Mr. President, these things are enough
to drive a sarie man mad. After all our
pretension, alt our boasting how absurd will
we appear in the eyes of all other nations
if we fail in this sirncsle ! Especially as
almost all the measures about which we
bave occupied ourselves for the last three
years have been based upou our success,
already assumed as a fixed fact. We pro
vided for confiscating the estates of rebels
before we got possession ; we emancipa
ted slaves before we got them from their i
masters ; and we provided for the disposi
tion of conquests we have not made ; we
have disposed of the skin of the bear, and
the bear itself is yet uncaught. All this
we have put opoq tbe lecord : the statute
book will bear withe'ss against us in all
coming time ; and we cannot escape the
consequences if we fail.
Mr. President, our Government was in
tended to be one of law, pre eminently of
law. , There was to be nothing in the ad
ministration of it left to the arbitrary will
of an individual or individuals. This was
its merit, or intended so, 'par excellence. I
am for preserving its character in that re
spect strictly. Let no man, from the Pres
ident down to the most petty officer, dare
to do anything, whether to friend or enemy,
except a warranted by law. Let us make
war according to Iaw,and let us have peace
according to law. If we fight a belliger
ent enemy, let us do it according to the
law of nations. If we punish or restrain a
refractory citizen, let us do it by the law of
the land, "by dne "process of law." Had
we faith in our Constitution and laws and
oor people, we had not been in our present
condition. Had we made war and war
alone, the loyal people North and South to
a man would have beeowith us. The
voice of Taction, if not entirely hushed,
would bave been harmless. The capital
of tbe demagogue would have been worth
less, and the nation would have been irre
sistable." Legislative.
Messrs. Jackson and Kline submitted the
following objections :
Tbe undersigned reepectfally submit the
following reasons lor voting against tbe fi
nal passage of House Bill No. 1557. entitled
"a supplement to the act for the organiza
tion, discipline and regulation of the mili
tia of the Ccmmon wealth of Pennsylvania,
approved May 4th, A. D. 1864.
1st. Tbe majority of this House, whiUt
mhking loud protestations of Toj ally "and
claiming to be par excellence -the true and
only Iriends of tbe soldier, having attempt
ed to deprive him of the right of electing
bis own officers, and by this bill place the
power of appointing (hs regimental officers
in the hands of the Governor.
To this we object as being wrong and
contrary to all precedent.
2. The bill places in the hands of the
Governor a power which, in our opinion,
should never be placed in tbe hands of any
single individual, viz : The power of des
ignating in what .portions of the State a
draft shall be made for the .purpose of fill
ing up the Slate Guard, leaving it in his pow
er, if he sees fit, to draft the whole number
required from Berks, Northampton fhd Co
lumbia, whilst Lancaster, Allegheny and
others go free.
3rd. Tbe State ot Pennsylvania 'has al
ready furnished for the United States army
over 280,000 men, and on the 5lu" of Sep
tember will be again required to furnish by
draft 65,000 or 70,000 more ; and past ex
perience teaches us, that tbe men compos
ing tbe State Guard will not be exempt from
a national draft, but that on the contrary,
after getting the number required from the
State to fill up tbe quota, tbe War Depart
ment will order the State Guard to the front.
The. officers will obey. The "Guard" vill
be sent forward although the Governor may
gently remonstrate, and thus Pennsylvania
be compelled (at a great expense to her
people) to furnish more (ban her share of
troops, and then without any soldiers when
again invaded, she calls opon the Federal
administration for help, will be cooly told
to defend herself.
Whilst anxioas that a sufficient force
should be organized for the defence of the
State, for these among other reasons, we
are reluctantly compelled to vote no on the
passage of this bill.
Geo. D. Jicxsoy,
Chab. A. Klihe.
Eieitement In New Jersey,
AN EXAMINING SURGEON BRANDS A
CITIZEN.
The people threaten to hang him, etc.
About the middle of last week a most re
markable outrage was committed by one of
the, examining surgeons in the employ of
the Government at Morristown, who, it ap
pears, branded a young man on the back
with nitrate of silver to prevent his being
passed as a substitute or 'joining the 4army
as a volunteer. From the following facts
gathered by one' of our reporters it will be
seen that the case is one of considerable
interest as showing the shameful disregard
of the rights of citizens exhibited by thore
in the employ of the present Administra
tion. It appears that a young man named
Caleb M. Beach, a resident of Rockaway,
N. J., bad been drafted in that district to fill
the last call of tbe President for 300,000
men. Not desiring to go as a conscript,
however, he made application for exemp
tion on the ground of physical disability,
but Mr. S. Wittingham, the surgeon in at
tendance at the time, decided him to be a
proper person, and fully competent to do
duty as a soldier, and passed him accord
ingly. Mr. Beach, who ie said io be not
very well off in the world, procured the re
quisite amount, paid bis commutation fee
and was discharged.
Fearing now, however, that he might be
again a conscript before the termination of
the coming draft, and knowing that noth
ing but a substitute could save him, he de
termined to enlist for one year and receive
such bounty as the authorities are paying in
the'dislrict. Mr. Wittingham was still on
duty there, and having passed him before,
of course the would-be-soldier supposed '
that as he was as good a man now when j
a conscript, he would have no delay, bat ;
go at once and receive the bounty. To bis
surprise, however, he was 'pronounced un
fit for service by Mr. Wittingham, the same
doctor who before had passed him. Mr.
Beach then wended his way homeward, but
had not gone very far before he felt a disa
greeable itching about tbe middle of his !
back. This continued togro stT!l worse,
until at last, unable to bear it any longer,
he sought a place of retirement, and, witb
with the aid of a friend, ascertained that a
large mark, in the shape of a cross, had
been made about half way up his back
with what is believed to be an indelible
fluid. Enraged at the conduct ot the doc
lor, Mr. Beach immediately communicated
tbe facts to his friends in Morristown, all of
whom advised him to '-procure a warrant
artd have him arrested.
He made application accordingly, and on
stating the facts to tbe magistrate the war- '
rant was promptly issued and placed in the '
hands of the proper officers for execution. '
Mr. Wittingham, on bearing tbe course
things had taken, attempted to make his
escape, and started on toot for Madison, '
about four miles tiittant,'(but was overhaul- I
ed by the officers when near the latter
place and taken back to Morristown, where
he was held to bail in S4.000 to answer the
charges against him. The people, .in the
meantime having learned what had bean
done, flocked to the place, and would, it
was said, have dealt harshly with the doctor
had not tbe authorities taken the proper
steps to prevent it. Even now there is a
suppressed feeling of indignation existing
among, them that broods no good for thore
who may be so foolish as to attempt such
an outrage in -tbe fnture. Wherever one
goes, in the workshops, on the cars, and '
even on tbe way to church, there is but one J
opinion expressed in regard to tbe affair,
and that is, that "the rascal ought to be
hung." In only one instance did our re
porter hear any one attempt to defend the ;
doctor, that was in a store at Chatham ; but
the party bad to leave the premises in less
time than it takes to write it.
Tne Press and the Farmers.
In the Philadelpia Press, of Satuiday
last, the following made its appearance :
"As regards the extortionate price ot but
ter the case is different. To demand and
obtain it no forestalling is necessary. Tbe
thing is done in the most direct manner,
by the farmers themselves, who bring this
produce into the market generally with the
understanding for several successive weeks
past tbat they will put on an extra five
cents on each mprket day. Thus the price
was 65 cents on Wednesday week, 70
cents on Saturday, and 75 cents on last
Wednesday. We can understand an ad
vance in the price of tea and coffee, sugar
and rice, and other articles of food in or
dinary inse, becaose thesa are taxed, and
their original purchase money is augment
ed by the rise in the price of the specie
xhicb pays for them, but Congress, which
has showered down taxes, by its Internal
Revenue laws upon every other class, has
siugularly favored the farmer. Neither his
milk nor his cream, bis butter nor his
cheese, his corn nor his wheat,hia vegetables
nor bislruit, bis pigs nor bis fowls ,h is oxen
nor his sheep are in any way taxed. If be
kill any cattle, -swine, calves, sheep or
lambs, he may do so, tor his own consump
tion, without paying the usual duty upon
slaughtered animals. There is no tax up
on the manure which Enriches bis. land,
upon the horses whicb plough it, opon tbe
cereals it yields, upon the flour, meal or
bran which are manufactured from this pro
duce. Thefarmet is singularly exempt from
taxation. Yet it is thi farmer, ungrateful and
grasping, who hat Ueblei and quinlrupled the
price of butUr in our markets.
It may be said, by him or for him, tbat
this increased price has been caused by the
dearness of all other things. We deny it
lor when we were at Lewisburg, in Union
county, in this State, a few weeks ago, as
fine butter as ever was made in Chester,
Lancaster, Montgomery, or Becks counties '
was selling there for twenty five cents a
pound, the Philadelphia price then, being
fifty cents. The present price in Union
county is twenty-five cents, against the
Philadelphia extortion of beventy-Sve.
Surely, butter can be made as cheaply in
one county asjn the other? i
Against this extortion there is a remedy, j
Discontinue the purchase of butter until
tbe price has become more reasonable.
fend the farmers home on four or five suc-
cessive market days without effecting sales
and they will be sharply brought to reason.
We do nottxpecl arty thing so miraculous as
that they will repent of their barefaced audac
ily, that they will mourn because greed has
made them dishonest and extortionate, but we
know that if they were unable to dispose of
their butter in three . successive markets,
they would very gladly take reasonable
and still amply remunerative prices, after
a sharp lesson. The New, Yorkers, when
like extortion was tried on them, formed an
anti-butter-buying league, and brought the
farmers back , to reasonable prices, in a
very short time. Let this example not be
lost on us."
No doubt, the thousands of "loyal" farm
ers in Chester, Delaware, Montgomery,
and other counties in the State, who have
hitherto yielded a hearty support to the
present Administration, will be highly de
lighted with the Government organ's dis
sertation on the price of butter. The un
called for and unjustifiable abuse contained
in the above extract the flippant, charges
of "baretaced audacity," "dish onecty," and
'exto-l!on" wiil fall pleasantly upon
their "loyal" ears. But this is not all.
They are coolly told that;tAey have no right
to expect increased prices for their, pro
ducts that they are "singularly exempt
from taxation" and that in (he framing , of
tbe Internal Revenne laws they, as a cl ass,
have b$en "singularly favored." Indeed,
one would suppose, from reading the Press,
that Congress bad been as tender and so
licitous of their interests as it showed itself
to be of tbe negro. But what say , the. far
mers of Pennsylvania? Have they felt no
ill effects from this wicked and dreary Abo
lition war? Has not the hired tax gatherer
stalked in their midst, and takec their sub
stance to be spent by shoddy contractors
or squandered in fruitless campaigns?
Has not a relentless and merciless conscrip
tion torn Irom them their unwilling kins
men ,and hurried them off to tbe bloody
shambles of Virginia? These things, the
editor of the Press once told them, would
justify the moft extreme measure of oppo
sition ; for said he, "resistance to tyrants is
obedience to God !" Yet now, when taxa
tion is burthening them to the ground
when the draft has taken away their help,
hnd increased the demand tor labor th at
the wages paid to secure their crop have
treble'J when ruin, desolation, bankruptcy,
and all the horrors of civjl war are crowd
ing thick and. fast upon them when they
are compelled to'pay inctea?ed rates for
all the necessaries and comforts of life con
sumed by their families xbey sre insolent
ly told that they are ' ungrateful and grasp
ing," because they recognize the depreci
ation of the Lincoln. currency in the same
light as Other men, and refuse, like others,
to sell the products of their industry at the
same rates they did when gold and silver
were "the current coin of the realm." The
advance in the price of labor and commod
ities follows the depreciation of the cur
rency, and is not dependent alone on in
creased taxation. This the farmer feels as
much as any other cla in the community .
But the farmer is taxed taxed frightfully
and it is sheer nonsense to attempt to
make him believe that he is a favored
member of the community, and therefore
has no right to join his voice in the gener
al and universal curse that is now pursuing
to destruction the corrupt and wicked Ad
ministration of Abraham Lincoln.
We trust that the farmers or Pennsylvania
will remember this assault upon them, and
avenge it in a proper manner. Perhaps,
Mr. Rawle may be employed to prosecute
them for conspiracy ; but if tbey escape
punishment and remain freemen until the
day of election, they will then have ample
opportunity to strike a blow.not only at the
wicked Administration that has brought
ruir. and distress upon them, but also at tbe
paid libellers of the press, who are adding
insult to injury by delaming and villifying
them. Age.
Kow Kegro Troops are Treated by Yankee
Officers.
The N' Y. Anglo African has a Lonsiana
correspondent, who furnishes it with tbe
following case of horrid Ueatment of a ne
gro soldier by a Massachusetts Yankee
Officer The sufferer was a member ol
the 5th Mass. Cavalry. The writer says:
"We were a few days ago, eye-wi mess
es of an act. a most atrocious crime, per
petrated on an inoffensive creature, a prl-
.vata of this regiment George Washington
of Co. L. The poor fellow was tied to a
pole by his two thumbs, his feat scarcely
touching the .ground. Tbe distance was
net less than saen inches, All his efforts
at stretching to gain a resting place lor his
weight from severing his thnmbs were vain.
His aims and legs ached Irom his exertions,
He felt that his strength was gradually
passing away ; his stern heart and strong
resolution refused sympathy witb the ap
proaching weakness of his outstretched
form. t.Tbe little strength which trench dig
ging, throwing up breast works and heavy
marches had led, soon became exhausted.
The new ieagrass twine cleaved to bis
thumbs pressing them like a vice, cutting
with razor sharpness: i - ,
tThe pain, becoming so excrutiating, be
struggled vainly to release himself; his
mouth became opened ; his eye-balls were
almost forced from their sockets by the
great agony he suffered. He felt as if he
could live but a few minutes longer. A
hn.rible.paitrv .it was, for his own leaden
weight seemed toi be against his having
any relief. He could no longer support
himself and falling unconscious to the'
ground, he left bis flesh cleaving to tbe
new seagrass twine ! a spectacle of hor
ror to his tellow soldiers '. How tightly
wrappped it was! Agon heart-rending
agony ! He was taken up insensible, and
the Doctor arriving, his wound. was dressed ; -,
his consciousness, "his natural sight, sense
and feeling returned, and he felt relieved.
The murderer, the carnivorous miscreant
whose savage intentions were gratified was
present, and with fiery eyes gazed upon
ihe ioul work he had so cowardly done.
A ccld shudder would have run -through
the veins of tbe most hardened mortal wit- -nessing
the scene. 1
The real cause of this punishment was
that the poor worn out creature had bid
hunt-elf, or could not be found when wani
ng to go on duty. Tne regiment had just
arrived Irom. the front and had gone into
quarters, which tbe 36th U. S. C T. bad
just evacuated, the men were busily enga
ged in removing the rubbish which had ac
cumulated. The 5:h Massachusetts cavalry is sap
poced to be Irom a christian .State is sup
posed to be commanded by christians
by men of uncoutaminated morals and
good standing, but we see daily occurrences
of crime. At the moment ot my writing,
many are suffering living deaths aye worse
than crucifixion ! These offenders these
worse then those eogaged in ibe massacre
of St. Bartholomew, and permitted to con
tinue their duties in defiance of justice ;
Ob, Goddess of Justice ! Witt tbou not
hasten the time .when these may be brought
to know that thine edicts must be trampled
under fool with impu nity ! Yes ! metbinks
1 bear the distant roaring of (by chariot
wheels ! Metbinks thy annihilating thun
der bolts are near and ready to fall. With
hold not thy power, but come witb the de
structive strength of the whirlwind, and
save us Irom tbe havoc wbich these law
less miscreants bave inaugurated.
It would be far better to' .be in tbe boods "
ot acorsed- slavery, thsb to breatae
tbe breath of freedom io such a withering
atmosphere. It would be better to be ia
tbe State Prison than to be soldiers sustain
ing the banner of a country that has - al
ways kept us lor .its Union aggrandisement,
that has always tsei us only because .the
estofie was genuine.
Lincoln, War, Anarchy.
We predicted io 1860 tbat tbe election of
the Union Splitter, Lincoln, would be fol
lowed by a long and bloody, war, that tbe
Constitution would be trampled under foot,
that Slate rights and State laws would be
violated, and anarchy prevail throughout
our once bappy land bapp) until the van
dal hands ot a reckless, dishonest, trea
sonable Abolition faction took hold of the
ship of State. Our predictions were laugh
ed at, the power of the South was sneered
at, and Abolition- slangwhangers made
themselves and their hearers merry at the
expense of tboe who warned the people
ot ihe impendig crisis. A sectional party
was a dangerous experiment. Wsshino
ton and others of the early fathers bad
warned us against giving countenance to
any thing ot the kind, but all to no pur-
pce The words ot departed statesmen
were forgutton or disregarded by the mad
fanatics who had resolved upon war, deso
lation and plunder. Nothing but a little
blood-letting would satisfy them, and, God
knows, they have had blood letting in abun
dance. Some seven or eight hundred thou
sand men, North and South, sleep in gory
graves, and the end is not yet. No not yet,
and no man living has an idea when ibis
"wicked war," this sanguinary contest is to
be brou ht , to a close. Mr. Lincoln has
called for 500,000 more men, arid he de
clares ut tbe same time, with brazen au
dacity, that the war is not to be prosecuted
tor the purpose of restoring tbe Union, but
for the abolishment ot slavery. In viola
tion ot his oath, in violotion of his plight
ed word and the resolution unanimously
adopted by Congress, the President insults
the people by telling them that this infer
nal war is to go on from year to year until
the slaves of tbe South are all set free and
negro equality established. This accoin-
plished, be will be ready to recognize the
South as a eaparale acd distinct power.
Mark i: Lincoln is ready and willing to dis
solve the Union the very hour -be is suc
cessful in tbe scheme nearest bis heart
the abolition of slavery. He always was a
disunionist, and he is a disuniouist still.
Twenty two years ago he favored (in
speech in Congress ) a dissolution cf the
Union, and be has never changed his opin- '
ion on that, subject. .
The war will go cn then so long as Lin
coln is at the head of affairs. Blood and
money will be called for every sixty days,
and the sacgrinary contest will grow fierc
er as it progresne, until finally the people
of both sections will b utterly ruined in
population and in treasure. Will the peo
ple continue bliod ? will they permit this
buffoon Lincoln to go on in his treasonable
course, or will tbey rise as one man and
hurl him Irom tbe place he now disgrace?
"Give us a change ; give us auybvly but
Liucoln," are word that can b) .irtrj in
all quarters, and this is a good o:UtJu. Let
the hardy yeomanry ot the country loofc
at things as hey Hie, and, rtitri t. is -party
prejudice?, let . iixa-.n make i ranJ
effort to save the country.