James P. Bari - , ,
DAILY POST.
ADDRESS
OF THE
Democratic Ftate Central Committee.
To the People of Pennsylvania i
An important election is at hand, and
** s&ffi Wfrf* in M i now claim ;
yodr attention, The tide of war has been
rolled back from our borders, and with
thanks to God, and gratitude to the skill
and valor which, by Hie favor, achieved
the prompt deliverance of our invaded
Commonwealth, we may now give our sol
emn conmderation to the causes that have
brought to its present condition a oountry
once peaceful, united and secure. It is
now the scene of a great civil war between
Statea-that lately ministered to each oth
er's prosperity in a Union founded for
their common good. It was 1 this Union
that gpye thenr.peace at home nhd'respect
abroad. ; They coped successfully with
Great Britain on the ocean, and the “doo
tnneM uttered by President Monroe warn
ed off the Monairchs of Enrope from the
whole American Continent. Now, Prance
carves on. of it an Empire, and ships
built in England plunder our own com 1 '
merce op every eea. A great public debt
and h cohseription burden the people.
The strength and wealth of the nation are
tnrnedTcqm productive industry, andicop
eumedia the destructive arts of war. Our
victories fail to win peace,: Throughout
the land arbitrary power encroaches upon' L
civil liberty.
What has wrought the disastrous change 7
Nu natural cause embroiled the North add
the South; Their interchangeable pro*
ducts and commodities, and various insti
tutions! were-sources of reciprocal benefit,"
and excluded competition and strife.—
Bnt an artificial cause;of dissension was
found in the position of the African race?
and' the ascendency in the National Coun
cils Of men pledged to an aggressive and
unconstitutional Abolition policy has bro't
our country to the condition of “the house
divided - against itself." The danger to
the Union began where statesmen had
foreseen it—it Degan in the triumph of a
sectional party, founded on principles of;
revolutionary hostility to the Constitution
ana the laws." The, leaders of this party
were pledged to a conflict with rights rec
ognized and sheltered by the Constitution;
they called thiß conflict “irrepressible,”
and whenever: one *party is determined to
attack, what another is determined to de
fend, a-conflict ean always be made ‘'ir
repressible.” They counted on an easy
triumph through the aid of insurgent
slaves, .apdimtitia,reliance, were careless
Soon ; they provoked a collision.—
democrats SndNioifserVativcs strove to
avert the conflict. They saw that Union
was the paramount interest of their coun
try, and they stood by the great bond of
union, the Constitution of the United
States. They were content to leave de
bateable questions nnder it to the high tri
bunal to decide them ; they preferred it to
the sword as an arbiter between the States;
they strove hard to merit the title which
their opponents gave them in Bcorn—the
title of “Union-savers.” We will not, at
length, rehearse their efforts. In the
thirty-sixth Congress,. the Republican
leaders; refused their assent to the Crit
tenden Compromise. On thie point, the
testimony of Mr.. Douglas will Bnffloe ; he
said ; ‘ I believe this to be a fair basis of
amicable adjustment. If you' of the Re
publican side are not willing to accept this,
nor the proposition of the Senator from
Kentucky, (Mr. Crittendon,) pray tell ub
what you are willing to do ? I address the
inquiry to the Republicans alone, for the
reason that, in the Committee of Thir
teen, a few dayß ago, every member from
the South, including those from the Cot
ton States, (Messrs. Davis and Toombs,)
expressed their readiness to accept the
propositions of my venerable friend from
Kentucky, Mr. Crittenden as a final set
tlement of the controversy, if tendered
and sustained by the Republican members.
Hence the sole responsibility ot our disa
greemsnt, and the only difficulty in the
way of an amicable adjustment, is with the
Republican party.”
The Peace Congress was another means
by which the Border States strove to avert
the impending strife. How the Republi
can leaders then conspired against the
peace of their country may be seen in a
letter from Senator Chandler, of Michi
gan, to the Governor of that State :
‘To his Excellency Austin Blair .-
“Governor Bingham and myself tele
graphed yon on Saturday, at the request
of Massachusetts and New York, to send
delegates to the peace or compromise Con*
gress. They, admit that we were right,
and they were wrong ; that no Republican
State should have Bent delegatee ; but they
are here and cannot get away. Ohio, In
diana, and Rhode Island are caving in,
and there is danger of Illinois ; and now
they beg ns, for God’s sake, to come to
their rescue, and save the Republican par
rupture. I hope you will send
stiff backed men or none. The whole
thing was gotten up against my judgment
and advice, and will end in thin smoke.—
Still, I hope, as a matter of courtesy to
some of onr erring brethren, that you will
send the delegates.
Truly, your friend,
L. CHANDLEE.
1 B. S,—Some of the manufacturing
States think that a- fight would be awful.
Without a little blood-letting, this Union
will notj in my estimation, be worth a
rush.
“Washikgtok, Feb. 11, 1861.”
In Pennsylvania, too, the same spirit
prevailed. It was not seen how necessa
rily her position unite<f her in interest
with the Bbrder States. She has learned
it since from contending armies trampling
ont her harvests and deluging her fields
with blood. Gov. Curtin Bent to the Peace
CongreßS Mr. Wilmot and Mr. Meredith.
Mr. Wilmot was chiefly known from the
connection of his name with the attempt
to embroil the country by the “Wilmot
Proviso,” baffled by patriotic statesman
ship,in, which Clay and Webster joined
with the Democratic leaders, jnst as Clay,
and Jackson had joined in the tariff com
promise of 1833.
Mr. Meredith had published his belief
that the mutteriogs of the. rising storm
were what he called “stridnlonscried,"
unworthy of the Bhghtest attention.
. By fife' Lincoln’s election in Novem
ber, 1860, the power to save or destroy
the Union was in the hands of his party ;
and po adjustmen t was possible with men
who rejected themdgment of the Supreme
Court, who scorned conciliation and com
promise, ana who looked to a “little blood
letting” to cement the American Union.
Till this time, the. Union mien of the South
had controlled, with little difficulty, the
small, but restless class among them, who
desired a separate; nationality. The sub
stantial interests of the South, especially
JKttsburgb ;})ost
the slaveholding interests, were drgwnj-e-
Wctantly uitoißefciaribn.? GerE JTSIS'-Blfir,
of Missouri, an eminent Republiean. said
very truly in the last Congress : “Every
■plan acquainted with the facts knows that
ifiis fallacious to call this a 'slaveholder’s
rebellion.’ * * * A closer scrutiny
deponHt rates that th&TQbellioQ originated*
chiefly with the non-slaveholders resident
in the strongholds of the institution, not
springing, fcoweyer, from of sla
very, but from an antagonism of race,
l? 8 idea of equality with
a *ll lP ?e emancipa
|lt was the triumph of the Abolitionists
?if er xTto® Pe m poratß and Conservatives of
the North'thaf Secured' h like tnumptffc
the Secessionists over the Union men of
the Sonth. The John Brown raid was
taken as a practical exposition of the doc
trine!of the '‘irrepressible eonfliot.” The
exultation over its momentary success, the
lamentation over its failure had been
swelled by the Abolitionists so a 3 to seem
expression of Northern feeling.
Biota and rescues had nullified the consti
tutional provision for the return of fngi"
tfves. The fake pretence that slavery
would monopolize the territories, when
we had no territories in which it coaid
t exist, had been need as a'meSns of con
stant agitation against slavery in the
i Southern States. A plan of attack upon
it had beenpnblishedin.“Helper’s 800k,!.’-
formally endorsed and recommended by
the leadhHrof the" parly that was ahinrt to
tksnnje the admraistratiou of 'the Federal
Government. Leaders who openly incul
cated’contempt for the Constitution,-con-'
Wmpt for the Supreme' Court, and pro
fessed to : follow, a “higher law,” Thus
the flame of Revolution at the South was'
kindled arid, fed with fdel, furnished by .the,
Abolitionists. ■ It might seem superfluous
to advert now to what is past and irrivo
tcable, were it'. not.that it’ is against the
same men and the same influences, still
dominant in the councils of the Adminis
tration, .that an appeal is now to be made
to the intelligence of the people. • The
-Abolitionists deprecate these aflnsions to
the past. To cover up their own tracks,
“'ey invito ns to spend.all our indignation.
npon “Southern traitors;” hat. truth'
compels ns to add tbatin the race of trea
son, the Northern traitors to the Consti
tution bad the start. They tell ns that
slavery was the eauee of the war ; there
fore the Union istb be restored by waging
a-war upon slavery. This is not trne° or
only.true in the sense that any institution,
civil or religious, may be a cause of war,
if war is made upon it. Nor is it a just
conclusion that if yon take trom your
neighbor “his man servant, or his maid,
or anything that is his” you will thns ea
tabhsh harmony between yon. No danger
to the Union arose from slavery, whilst
the people of each State dealt calmly and
intelligently with the question within their
own State limits. Where little import
&nce attached to it, it soon yielded to mor
al and economical considerations, leaving
the negro in a position of social and po
litical subordination,nowhere more dear
ly marked than in the Constithtion and
Laws of Pennsylvania. The strife began
when people in State 3 whqre it was an im
material question, undertook to prescribe
the course of duty upon it to States in
which it was a question of great import
ance and difficulty. This interference be
came more dangerous when attempts were
made to use the power of the General
Government, instituted for the benefit of
all the States, to the injury and proscrip
tion of the interests of some of the States.
It was not merely a danger to the institu
tion of slavery, bnt to our whole political
system, m which separate and distinct
colonies became, by the Declaration oflnde
pendence, “free and independent States,”
and afterwards established aFederal Union
under the Constitntion of the United
States. That instrument, with scrupulous
care, discriminates the powers delegated
to the General Government from thoso re
served “to the States respectively or to the
people. And let it be noted, that in
speaking of the powers ao delegated and
reserved, we refer to no vague doctrines
or pretensions in respect to them, bat to
the clear provisions of the written instru
ment. which it is the-duty of every citizen,
and especially of every public functionary,
to respect and maintain. The protection
of American liberty, against the encroach
ments of centralization was, left to the
States by the framers of the Constitntion.
Hamilton, the most indulgent of them to
federal power, says: “It may be safely
received as an axiom in our political ays
tem, that the State governments will, "in
all possible contingencies afford complete
seonntv against invasions of pnblio liber
ty by the National authority.” Who can
be blind to the consequences that have fol
lowed the departure from the true princi
ples of our government? “Abolition”
vies with “Secession” in sapping the very
foundations of the strnoture reared by our
forefathers. In Pennsylvania, the party
on whose acts yon will pass at the ballot
box, has trampled upon the great rights
of personal liberty and the freedom of the
press, which every man who can read may
find asserted in the Constitution of the
State and the Constitntion of the United
States. The dignity of onr Common
wealth has been insulted in the outrages
perpetrated upon her citizens. At Phfla
delphia and at Harrisbqrg, proprietors of
newspapers have been seized at midnight
and hurried off to military prisons beyond
the limits of the State. Against acts like
these, perpetrated before the eyes of the
municipal and State authorities, there is
neither protection: nor’fedresaf ’"The sei
zure of a journal at West Chester was af
terwards the Bubject of a Buit for damages,
in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.—
It came to trial before Chief Justice Low
ne. Rehearsing the ancient principles of
English and American justice-, hecoedemn
ed the the actß of the Federal officers as
violations of the law that binds alike the
private citizen and the public functionary.
He said, “all public functionaries in this
land are under the law, and none, from
the highest tpthe lowest, .are above it,’'—
Impatient" St any restraint" fronl law, a
partizan majority in Congress hastened to
pass an act tp take from the State Courts
to the United StateaCodrti'all suits of
prosecutions “for trespasses or wrongs
done or committed by virtue or under
color of- any authority derived from or ex
ercised under the President of the United
States; and such authority was declared
to be a full deferrae for th&wrotfg’doeP in
any action, civil or criminal. The Amer
can Executive is, as the word imports, the
executor ot the duly en&cted laws • yet the
pretension 13 made that his will can take
P la , ce of the laws. The liberty, the
character of every Wtiagii«tp ßt £ &
mer '7 ?» w functionaries called “Pro
vost Marshals. A Becret accusation be
fore these officials takes the place of open
magistrate, ; and no
wnt bf habeas corpus may ifqpi r 6 the
cause Of the arrest. To illegaf arrests,
have been added the mockery of a trial of
a private citizen;'for his 1 political opin
ions, before a Court martial, ending to
&ityj invenwatjy-tneir resident Oral® ti qJ.
tea States. We need not comment upon
aots like, of the
United Statis haS' r no' ; aultidrifv, in peace
or war, to try even an enlißtedSoldier by
Court Martial, save by virtue of and., in
: strict conformity with the military
down in the act of Congress “eatab-
and dtftioleafok
raentof th&armiea of-the United States.”
Xet his proplanjation will make all citi:
i Q .® a ®eAable to military courts. He has
I violated the great principle of free gov
ernment, on which Washington conducted
ot the Revolution, and Madiaon
the war of 1812, —the principle of the sub
orarnation of the military 1 to the civil pow*
er* He has assumed to put “martial
law,” which is the rule of force at a spot
where all laws are Bilenced, in the place
pf civil justice throughout the land, and
has thus assailed, in some of the States;
eyen the freedom ofthe ballot box. : Thege
are not occasional acts* done in haste, or
heat, ocignoraacej'but a new-aystem of gov-
the place of .that ordained and
by the people. That the Queen
v DOt *hat hec6uld,'waa Mr. Sew*
f l / to>the British Minister. The ;
military, arrests 7 ' of Mr. Stanton receiv-
e P fhe “hearty commendation” of the
convention that renominated Governor
Unrtin ; and it pledged him and his party
to ‘‘hearty co-operation” in snch acts of
Administration in future. Such is the
afe|rading platform on, which, a candidate
f<?r Chief Magistrate of Pennsylvania
stands'.before her people. These preten*
eioQS to arbitrary power give ominous sig
nificance to a late change in our military
establishment. The time honored Amer- 1
man-system of calling on the States for
drafts from their militia*, has been replaced
•bv-a Federal cousoription on the model of
hjuropean despotisms. We' would not
.minister to the excitement which it has
caused among men of all parties. Its
constitutionality will be tested before the
charts. If adjudged to be within the
PP w ® p Congress, the people will decide
oh J propriety of a stretch of power, on
which the British Parliament—styled om
nipotent—has never ventured. On this
yt>u will pass at the polls, and the next
Congress will not be deaf to the voice of
the people.
i political evils, a constitutional
remedy yet remains in the ballot box. We
will not entertain a. fear that it is not Bafe
in the guardianship of a free people. If
men in office should seek to perpetuate
r 6l l £* >ower by wresting from the people
of Pennsylvania the right of suffrage ; if
the servants of ihe people should rebel
against their master, on them will rest the
responsibility of an attempt at revolution
of which no man can foresee the conse
j quences or the end- But in now address
es you upon the political issues of the
day, we assume that the institutions of
our country Qre destined to endure.
Ihe approaching election derives fur
ther importance from the influence it will
exercise upon policy of the govern
ment. The aim of men not blinded by
fanaticism and party spirit would be to
| reap the best fruit from the victories
achieved by our gallant armie3—the best
fruit would be peace and the restoration
of the Union. Such is not the aim of the
party in power. Dominated by its moat
bigoted members, it wages a war for the
negro, and not for the Onion. It avows
the design to protract the war till slavery
shall bo abolished in all the Southern
otates in the language of one of its
pamphleteers, “how can a man hoping,
and praying for the destruction of slavery,
desire that the war shall be a short one. 5
Mr. Thaddeua Stephens, the Republican
leader in the last House of Representa
tives, declared, “ The Union shall never,
with my consent, be restored under the
Constitution as it is, withslavery to be pro
tected by it. The same spirit oppeara in
Mr. Lincoln’s late answer to the citizens
of Louisiana, who desired the return
of that State under its present Con
statation. Mr. Lincoln postpones them
till that Constitution shall be amended.
The Abolitionists desire the war to
last till freedom is secured to all the slaves;
hordes of politicians, and contractors, &Ba
purveyors, who fatten on the war, desire
it to last forever. When the slaves are
all emancipated by the Federal arms, a
.COastant military intervention will be
needed to keep them above or equal with
the white race in the Southern States.
Peace has no place in this platform. It
proclaims Confiscation and Abolition as
the objects of the war, and the Southern
leader catches up the words to stimulate
his fo.lowers to fight to the last. It is not
the interest of Pennsylvania that a fanati
cal faction shall pervert and protract the
WB F’ ‘ O JL ru * noua > perhaps unattainable
e ? North needs is the return
of the South with its people, its territory,
its staples, to complete the integrityof
oar common country. This, and not
more devastation and social confusion,
would be the aim of patriots and states
men. The Abolition policy promises us
nothing better than a Southern Poland,
ruled by a Northern despotism. Bat his
tory is lull. of. examples- how wise rulers
have assuaged civil discord by modera
tion and justice, while bigots and despots,
relying solely on force, have been baffled
by feeble opponents. That a temperate
Constitutional policy will fail, in our case,
to reap the fruit of success in arms cannot
be known till it is tried. The timeß nre
critical. France, under a powerful and
ambitious monarch, is entering on the
scene, willing again to play an important
part m an American Revolution. The
English Government is hostile to us—it
IfaS got all it wanted from- abolition, and
Will have nothing more to do with it.
The secession leaders, and the presses
under their control, oppose re-union, pre
ferring, perhaps, even a humble depen
dence upon European powers. Bnt from
noany parts of the South, and across
the picket hues, and from the pris
oners and the wounded, has coma the
proof of a desire among the people of
the South to return to Constitutional re
lations with th ? people of the North.
Early in the contest this desire was shown
in North Carolina, one of the old Thirteen
associated with Pennsylvania on the page
of Revolutionary hißtory. Bnt the major
ity in _ Congress made haßte to show that
Abolition, not Re-nnion, was their'aim.
In a moment of depression, oh the 22dof
July, dSfilybeing«t rre f day battle'
of Bull Run, they allowed the passage of
a resolution, offered by- Crittenden, de
fining a polifiy - for the restoration of the
Union, But they soon rallied and filled
the Statute Books with acts of confisca
tion, abolition and emancipation, against
the remonstrances of t.-minent juri stemud
conservative men fof all -parties. JUt 1
Lincoln,-too, yielding, he said", ‘‘to pres’
Sore,” put his proclamations in place of
the Constitution and the laws. Thus every
interest and sentimental the, Southern
people.-jrere enlisted onthe side of rcsis.
tance by the policy ol e party, which, as
Mr. Stevens said,,will hot' consent to a
restoration of'the Union, with “the Gon-.
stitution as®; is.” . It is this policy that
has protracted the r wpp, and' - is'now the
greatest obstacle, to. itg tehhihatiofi.—
The re-unibn of thd States can alone give
them their old security at bomdy and power i
and dignity abroad. This end can never
p®, r. e^c h®d uppn the principles of the-par
, “ 16^r principles are
radically false, and can never lead to a
good conclusion. Their hope of setting
up the negro in the-place of the white man
runsmountertothaiaws-of nu»,~tKFlaws
of nature. Their statesmanship has been
Weaud found wanting;
a ' .Mood letting’ ’ has proved a
with our
SATURDAY urORWIWOy AjuCHTST 16,-IS8&
miea has often frustrated and- never aided
their sucoeas, till it has become a military
proverb that the beat thing for a General
is to be oat of reach from -Washington;
The partywas founded upofWhe politioal
and moral heresy of oppoSitiontQ oompro
miae, which is the only means of-union
among States, and of peace and good will
oh earth among men. In. a popular gov
ernment the people are the sovereign, and
the sound sense of the wholocomnuin ity
corrects, at the polls, the errors of politi
cal parties. The people of Pennsylvania
have seen,with regret, the unconstitutional
aims of the Abolitionists substituted for
the original objects of the war.. They have
seen, with indignation, many gallant sol
diers of the Union driven trcm' its service
because they had not bowed down to the
Abolition idol. They will see, with hor
ror, the war protracted in order to secure
the triumph of a party platform, or as Mr.
Chandler said, “to save the Republican
P&rty from: rupture.” The time is now at
hand when the voice of the people-will be
heard. The overthrow of the Abolitionists
at the polls and the re-establishment of
constitutional principles at the North; is
the first, the indispensably,step towards
the restoration of the Union and the vin
dication of civil liberty. To this great
oervice to his country each citizen may
contribute by his vote. Thus the people
of the North may themselves extend the
Constitution to the people of; the South.
It would not be a specious offer of poli
ticians, to be observed with no better faith
than the resolutions of July, ’Ol, It would
be a return to the national policy of the
better days of the Republic, through the
| intelligence of the people, enlightened by
experience. It would strengthen the Gov
ernment ; for a constitutioaal.government
is strong when exercising with vigor its
legitimate powers, and is weak whyn it seta
an example of revolutionary violence, by
invading the rights of the people. Oar
principles and our candidates are known
to you. The resolutions of the late Con
vention at Harrisbnrg were, -with some
additions, the same that had been adopted
by the Democracy in several Btntes, and
by the General Assembly of Pennsylvania.
They declare authoritatively the principles
of the Democratic party. It is, as it always
haß been, for the Union and the Cons ’
I tution against all oppoaera. The twelfth
I resolution declares “ that while this Gen-
I eral Assembly condemns and denounces
I the faults of the Administration, and the
encroachments of the Abolitionists, it does
I also most thoroughly condemn and de-
I nonnce the heresy of secession as unwar-
I ranted by the Constitution, and destruc-
I tive alike of the security and perpetuity
I of government, and of the peace and lib-
I erty of the peoplh, and it does hereby
most solemnly declare that the people of
I this State are unalterably opposed to any
division of the Union, and will persist
ently exert their whole influence and
power under the Constitution to maintain
land defend it”
We have re-nominated Chief Justice
Uowrie for the bench which fie adorns.
Our candidate for Governor, Judge Wood
rard, in hie public and" privoti?" character,
| affords the best assurance that he will
bring honesty, capacity, firmness and pa
triotism to the direction of the affairs of
the Commonwealth. Long withdrawn by
judicial functions, from the political arena
he did not withhold hie warning voice
when conservative men took counsel-to
gether upon the dangers that menaced
our country. His speech at the town
meeting at Philadelphia, in December,
18ti0, haß been vindieoted by Babsequent
events, as a signal exhibition of states
manlike sagacity. I
Under his administration, we may hope]
that Pennsylvania, with God’s blessing,
will resume her place as ” the keystone, of
the Federal Arch.”
CHARLES J. BIDDLE, Chairman,
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A joint RESoi.rnoy proposing
CERTAIN AMENDMENTS TO THE
CONSTITUTION. if iy'L .W
and Hon «« of. JtepMnUkllva of theiVommon
of PonujlranM «n Gmoral Attmblv mrt
That the following amendments be rrooceed to
the Constitution of the Connuonwellth in M
cordanoe with the provisions of the tenth artiole
thereof;..
Uiero ihall be an additional section to thethird
article of the Constitution, to be designated as
Beotien four, aa follows:
U;-Section 4. Whenever any ef the qualified
Selectors of this Commonwealth shall bo in aotual
military serrioe, under a reqnisition from the
President of the United States, or by the anthor
ity of this^ommoiiWMiih.fjHjh .electors-may ex
ercise the right of suffrage in all elections by the
oituens, under suoh regulations as are, or shall
be, prescribed by law. as fally as if thoy were
present at their usual place of election.
There shall be two additional sections to the
eleventh article of the Constitution, to be desig
f Dated as * ections eight and nine, as follows •
- Section 8. No biß shall ba passed by tbe
idaturo containing more than one subject, which
the title, except ap
. Section" 9. No bill shall bo passed by the Lev
islature granting any powers, privileges, in any
ease, where the authority to grant suoh powers,
or privileges, has been, or may hereafter be.
oonJexred upon the courts of thta cnnTmr.nw>»*T'u£?
q u «. , « JOHN CESSNA,
Spoaker of the Houae=of Representatives,
JOilN P- PENNEY.
Speaker of the Senate,
Otooo OF TH* }
PEfIRBT ABY OF 7HC- COMMGiTWBALTH *>•
PENNSTL^W^ 1 - 1563 - i
poranjoertalnamcndmonta to tha.Oodiititutton,”
0! tha same mmtinn on file In tfila office. r
Dos to ba affixed tno day andyearabovewTitten.
Secretary of the Commonwealthi c
£IH£AJP B«WW ISO SHOES
fIOMMBMUL ISFOKMATION.
Arbitration Committee or the Board
„ of Trade.-
j Wm. M. SHINN. V. P. |; J A 3.1. BBNNETX
|JNO - a
1 tMOßisr mAritct. .
OORSTSOTIP DAILY FOB TUB WJRKIK3 POST BY
AQS&S. KOtnrag <fc HERTS* BBOKXBS;
NO, U 8 WOOD STREET.
for T Gold U gK.To. t ! 13 baTlE * ond 80lUnB tO3
gold;
1 23 00
culver.,.., j . qa
.Demand x 22 00
Eastern
igaw York.i.-., «>&.....
(Philadelphia pnj Q
jßpston.%, par
; Western Exohange, -
...... pay w
jL0ai5vi11e.............. par Q
iClevel&nd «... par 2
;OS» pa?
j PITTSBTJI3H OIL TEALS.
;The market has partially revived- buyers man
ifesting more disposition to operate. The prin
cipal sales, however, weremade /or future de
liVeryj several thousand barrels changed hands
in that way. ..
The market in New York exhibited a slight
improvement. The rate?, however, are below
tljis market, when the cost of transportation is
considered. ?
busineaa'in thfeoity is.in aigre&t measure
speculative. The present rise in the Allegheny
enabled a moderate amount of oil to reach this
market. The river is egaTn on the decline.
current rates, with light sales, were as
fallows:
:Crade—3sQ bbls, packages inoladed, 29<&29>£ci
Inot brisk at the latter figure,- 1200 bbls in
; various lots as follows: 22@23c,packages return
ed: 290 packages included.
Refined—Bonded seemed to havenhe call.
The sales were rretty liberal/all things con
sidered. The rotes fo;r October delivery were
63@5-ie; for immediate delivery 490 was demand
ed, Free Oil was held at the usual advance of
from 9(jsloc per gailnn.
The shipments East were 67f. bbls. Wtat, 231
bbls, . .
The reoeiijtd by the Allegheny were 1,462 bbls
aD told.
wa? dull and the price* were too
unsettled to five anythin? like correct quota
tions.
PITTSBURGH PRODUCE MARKET.
Of non or mgDaily Post,!
Saturday. Aug. 13:h. 1863. /
Th« weather continues o.veessively warm; the
thermometer ranging from SB° to 92“ in the
ahade- Occasionally we are somewhat relieved
by i no. bracing showers. else it would go hard
| with us poor mortals that have to go the rounds
of the city. Our rivers are again on the deoline.
The new steamers that were ready made their
arrangements to go out on the presont water.
Bacon—The market was firm with u fair
mand. The better descriptions are mostly held
at a slight advance- Hams are becoming qaite
snaree,hut prices hare about reached the top. os
a further advance would out off a certain class
of purchasers from indulging in that article.
The seasen for country 13 about over. Flour-
We have nothing new in regard to this article.
The supply is fully equal to the demand, the only
inquiry being for lots for loco' purposes at
former prices. Groceries firm and in fair de
mand. Piioes unchanged.
Flour continues duP'land prices about the
he l ?. o ' ' h ° East and West wo notice dull mar
-6els‘ rS f" ot there is no active demand in any
K» rt ° f the c untry. Amongtho sales were some
tobblsin lot, at Extra, $5 25@5 35; Eqtra Fam
fS£kr o s?Clsis°notlar^. riOM pno --
firm; sales at scales of
new at s22®&; old wold bring *32,®;y per to?
at 10c P«rdozen.
8?*h te * r derate sales atl7@l9sper pound
fieda^4?@fse Unohanßed: Sale 3 “ bbls dt >’ ti!
WRS9®ISSp , S^ r “ # rB4U63[: Sales 120 b °*<*
u^hdng^* e, * SteadyWif ' ba ,fl ' rl^eniani t. Prices
whiii CU t nt i n rS? a « S9@9oafnr prime crude
whae. 1 4 @1 5(1 h,r desperm: 63(@65e for dis
-1 tilled red city, and So@9Uo for Western summer
JuitT? 1 * 1, to Quality. Linseed sells
3 j&i °v 1 orusi^ hand* at 1 03@1 10 in casks
lfiai b Aft* bu iw2 i r *° a ? Ie ? C( l u dbe ‘-laoed oyer
? i( f l . 05- in improved demand,
and is held with groat firmness, notwithstand
ing the unfavorable foreign nows ; sales of 1.0,0
».,irJ?t^ bon:l t '’"’’ora' option all this
month at 5-J4@530, and 3 000 do do, buyers option
for November delivery at 65a. We quote on the
epot crude at 34@35c ; refined in bond atso(2>s2c
and do free at 59®60p Spirits Petroleum or
Naptha commands 20023 c.
There is a very s'oady demand for mess pork
si < t>/»io' 1 Kn r r t,n .? r^® ra aD d the market is firm at
v>^t«,o n e fo I lgb J° (rood oountry mess, and
12 to@l3 for heavy do. Some holders of fanoy
nIS. an £ s y C l 6! wUI not seU
under Is 50@14. Those who have tn>» best means
of knowing say the entire stock of barrel pork
m the city will not roach 7,000 bbla; the country
is also entirely bare- Dry salted hams are scaroe
and hold firm at 7M@Bo, and the stock is very
near exhausted. Shouldvis are nominal at
;kl c g 00 ij e ' Th'fohas been more demand for
rough aides and sales are reported at $4 60
a SUPPLY OF HEIH.
fust and R °" Wasb '
Jy3o 69 Fed’ora'ist AUoghJny.
I CASK CARB Atf .nOfriA>JCST BR<
oeivod and for salo by
GEO. A. KELLY,
jySO 69 Federal St., Alleghany*
ATEBS' PECrOBAts, SARSAPABII*
LA. and Pills, Lindsay’s Blood Searcher,
iiurnott aCocome, Lyon’s Kathairon, Mrs. Wil
son’s Soothing Syrup, just received and for sale
b y. .. WBO. A. KELLY,
JfSO 69 Federal St.. Alleghany.
Medicine chests suitable
for steamboats and families. The medicine
warranted of host quality and properly assorted
received and for sale by '
KENEDY’S MEDICAL DISCOYEBY,
Mustang Liniment, Bcerhsvo’9 Bitters, To
bia’s Liniment, Mo Lane’s Pills and Venniiuge,
received and for sale by
SAYINGS INSTITUTION,
IStATCBB OPPENNSYLVASIA.
Open for Deposits from 10 . -n. to 2 n ’dock, n.
m. dally: also on 3ATUKDA V EVENIN&S
from 6 to » o'clock.
*®-Offioe.-63 FOURTH STREET.
INTEREST ALLOWED
On Deposits in this Institution at
SIX PER CENT. PER ANNUM
Payable to Depositor* in May and Novemb
which. If not drawn, will be added to the priu
pal and compounded.
' PfiESTDSKiF—ISAAC JOFEB
Vwa PaKpiDSHT-W. B, OOPELANi.
TSUSTSBS*
ffrm Thoa Mfiowe '' I Hon »TK Moorhen
Wa. >• f jj&Sm*
.Harvy-Childs. B '
Troasnrer-A. A. CABRIBB
ATTORNE?: A&P COUNSELLOR AX LAW.
•>* It BIWIAIaSS ESIBBSTBP TO
A primpt»tt«nt}on. Co?
Jietiosa made
dacftlrd
ai9BHadnt(«.
Buying Beilins
Saturday, Aug. 15th, 1&3.
York OH Mnrkel.
Chicago Market,
_ GEO. A. KELLY,
69 Federal St., Allegheny.
GEO. A. KELLY.
69 Federal St., Allegheny*
REAL ESTATE
INCORPORATED BY THE
080. It. COCHRAN,
DEAhEES 111 OiliS.
B. M. K 1 EH &'SO,,
aisnpAOTOajaa os*
No. ! Oarboti Ollj
’ J . • ABD
B ES I*-25 O Xi S
SlEBsi * «*-«•
oil iranantaiL onSJpd
j TfIEARDESCO Olt COMPINy
IWAHOTAOTiIBB: AHl> SATE fOB
iTJLsalo a superior article of : . ,
; Beamed Ardeseo 3511,
UOK-EXPLOSIVB. Al<si>, ...
VUS E B E H E O B S, ;
warehouse, 27 1RW88 STRESS
; PITISBUHGE. PZSRA. ;’, . '
Lucent Oil Work
DtmoAH, ptm&isb? * go;,
: .
• PPSR BEFIHSI9 ;
€3 A. T& S 3 O KT O ; E . )S :*■:
kP K0 * * r3 * a ItIBKaST 16-TRBET, Pitts-.
bargh. Pa. myitaid
(nfAiSPJ I,bbs l brackets,
JU CORNICES, OANDELBRASS, LAMPS,
1 EEGLLDED OB BEBEOHZED.
abd made equal to new. Alno. Clibndelierfi
Ac,, altered to bum Carbon ;o£l, at the
i Lamp and Oil Store of
WELDON, REISTBKE A^SULTi,
ap&ily ; 1&4 Wood,gtroet. noarfl™- 1
PIANO DEALERS.
KBTABF/S PIANOS,
Whioh for power and sweetness of tone, easy and
agreeable touob, and beauty of finish have by
judges been pranoancedjmtivalled*
Aa to the relative merit’s of Knaba’s Pianos we
would rarer to the certificates of excellence frhin
TEA LB KEG, BTRAEOSCH; G* BATTER and
H, VIEEXTEMPS, .
QSalso from some of the most distinguished Pro-
and Amateurs in the country* ' 1 "
’A beautiiul now stock of Knabe’a Ranpe are
now being- aeleoted by the subecriber in Haiti,
more- \ _ . .
CHARLOTTE BLUME,
•" 43 Filth-street*
Modern school fos the
VIOLIN,
A thorough and arrangement of
easy, progressive studies, adapted to the wants of
scholars ra every degree of advancement. Add
-19 to which is a large selection of popular Song*
Walties, Polk*e, Danoes, Marches, Quicksteps,
Ac. By L. O. Fessenden.
Tr !^. o author of this work is a teacher of -the
Violin, and gives this School after a long ex
perience in its use. For Exercises and Examples
selections are taken from Sargino, LabltskL
Pieyel. Mcnani. Czerny and others of like celeb
rity as teachers and composers. Tho second part
of the book is intended to meet the wants of
those whs are desirous of well arranged Airs,
Quadrilles, Waltzes, Polkas, &c,
Prioe, $i 00.
CHAS. C* KSLIOR,
81 Wood street.
SPRING GOODS,
"WB WOtm> CALL THE ATOS>
v v tion of Buyers to our stock of
SPBING AND SMB (MOBS,
embracing all the newest styles of
PLAIN AND FANCY CASSIMEBES ,
\ raitfiblo for Business Suits. A lull nnd complete
: assortment of duo black
CLOTHS AND CASSIHEBES,
Plain and figured 811 k and Caskmero Vesting,
W. H. McGEE * CC.,
143 fXBEBAL S a’BEET,
Square, Allegheny otty
CgigLgg UAQB,.— —...J. BOD1LU! HIOVS*
SASBE «& HIVES,
Importer! and dealers in
Cloths, Cassimeres, Sattinets
Vestings, Tailors’ Trimmings,
265 MARKET STREET,
Nortb Side, PHILADBtPHIfI
• iy4.—GoS-lyd
HENRY W. BEAUMONT *CO.
DIALERS EN
Foreign Brandies, Wines and Gins.
Aiso, BlackbOTry, Raspberry. Wild Cherry, and
Cinijier Brandies, Old MononshAhela, Rye, and
other Whiskies, Jamaica Rum, Ac. ,
No. S 3 Liberty
Opposite Fourth street.
PITTSBURGH, PA.
a *~ Hotels. Tayotns. and Families, supplied at
moderate profits for Cash,
mygblyd
J. & M. BI’S'S’EJEJ’r ,
Brass Founders*
GAS AND STEAM FITTERS,
AH kinds of Brass and Iron Coelis
made to order.
BRASS CASTINGS, OT ALL KIRLS
Made at the shortest notice,
81 A 84 WATER STREET, near Liberty.
The members of this firm bolnc praoueal mo
ehanta, of many years’ ezperienoe in tho bnsi
nMs, win i»suro to give satisiaotian in every re
B"”*- seßlyd -cJu29
pBIYAIE DIStASBS
DB. BEOWN’S OFFICE,
60 SMITEFIELD STREET,
_ CJitijons and strangers in need ofi medical cA*
vioe Bhoald not fail to give himanaU.
Dr.Brown'a remedies never lalf-io'eura Impu
nfiM. aorofolOTifl and venereal- amacteons—Albo
nereditary taint, such as tatter, psorltisis and oth
er akin ..peases, tho origin of w&nh the patient
is ignorant, .
bro,^ t oa
by solitary habits, we the only m« Heines hnoora
■ "»*“*■ »* ■«*«»
RHEUMATISM.
iShl attain 0a " nfew
He also treat Piles, Sleet. Sonny inhoe, Uretbal
Discimrees. Female Diseases. PaJ hs in {he Back
and Ridnoys, Irritation of Hie Bladder. striSt
(trees 810. . .
QITRpnT.LAP* answered must eontaihat least
oirr sale of someb
ra*of^’k£dT°-' Sno PmV rella> - SForfe
as ®ss.“J^^.sMSi
CHABLEB L. CALDWKT.jt.,
P n ° HKp AO K ;b B
;■ J)ealerlaß “oM^r4 1 Sarar-Cnred Hams,
xr tflawked Beef Ac. '
First street* PUfabEigh.P*,
fiKSTS usTiiu caaMat o.V~
TERSI “
EstaMlshedl&iSfc
f la
! . TO. .THE.:F£TBtIO,, ,
■gjispb.ci Ajat*"''
Ij Modert g fall denotat-'
nations, treat sesret oil- flat——^neat*^
delicate disorders, e»w- ”WT|!lli(l(yy/awk,
abase and diseases. oi
taatlena oommoneiidin- '~~" :^wßßßßwsgss»r
cldeßt toyoathadf both- 1
aajriaae throaah hlmhtTokaß.CT&Bimb,^
hea.or nocturnal muijlssi naa. are completely cii»t j -
la a traty short npnii.of timesy remedUs,
whiobnrepeonllarly.bls own, ntoyarodoapcandi‘ ’
Itfomthe' yezMwde-'lusgdomi'haviaa! neea-the
trestmoai.to b« abandon,
edit and OataHtated the yen table' Femls dis
aareaara treated with marked Bcfcgfr-flaTcah&d <
oyer.forty yean (ft) exporieneo .mthrnr coat- ''
men tin hospitals of both the CbdWorJd and la '
tto United him to onyr-ta. an s«th,« .
fair trial, health and hauplaess'yjSl tsaia bloom *
npoa-the now—palled chostaiSriCo no lenyerwith
montebanss and aoaoks. bat como and bo cnred
Conaomptlcnand'eH ofit! "sdsdrodOlmmos, o| :
K=gaaa ?^
M three firsts
vant&sp'cf otst &*ty ycai? .expjEleneo find
mmc treatment cif ead wfcoli
dpi l7 consulted by tho profeaicn. as wdl as reooa
mended by repeatable dtisens. publisswra. p» j
pnetera of hotels, &c/ S& Smitaaild
street;-a£a* v sJsane»d strcrte P?fc*te coaaSySS
&<m sD »~-j vas« *tete«yfeE
tencodtew virsrtti*-.:•
ises'sefiu
M fbs&iiiTesiOfisi,
BYBUP or' atASDBAKLE AK& STH#-
j ' ••
'Having had-a man employed for tfie last six
years compounding the above oxcolloirtTemedieff■
mr my own and having; used them.with -
uncommon, suoQgss m all that time,'l - fed it a‘ '
duty tu.flet themVMfb?^rtho v! pdt©ei : & 'ffiyexpe
rienoe.le.ads.irietothinh theltoß ; aa iftto soberness
as any. romedi^:'w@U f eati
hamehr: .BtttjftuL- Coi&p; Syphilis,- tod -
alfdii qaspa thdrariie' ftoht state t>fthe
thie will convince .-any pimo of
theirfitnessforthosediseases;v- • <
Prepared tod sold by l
J. W. BRANSTSUP. M- H. >
85 SmithfieldaW Pittsburgh, Pa.
STiftM BOILDIIS
Ea°OQ S’dsia'flC'sa s*
SSBHM. BKBISiSTi &?§ ea®3 BAKESS.
Hess tie Peas. B. B. Psssas®*' BotcS, ~'
taST AJSWS'ACnrgJKB : &H 2, - SXHOS: .OF
* t mscoonstnieiton ot
Bnginesand for Eriai mills, ana for
npn*ht3.'nmlBy ana cbrmlar saw min.y • ■•’■•
Havealao on Asad, 3 nlshqd.andready for Bail
ment at shortnotioe. Siidair sad Boilers orererj
dossnptlon. • ■ 1 •'. '. , i... ;;
Atevftmusi Boilers and Shervlron separately,
Wronant Iron BnafHnir. Hangar and PuffiesTn ■
variety,. and eononaq the mnnnfaotnr&oi- .
Woolen Maomneiy and Maehino <ferda, ’
Oar prices are low, oar machinery manafcbotnr- ;
ed of tno host quality of materiel?, and warrant'd
In all cases to jive Eafiafeetion. - ■
OSrOrdera from all jparts of the country ooEoit
od end promptly 511 td fhzlrd&w
■MEW BOXUBR WOIIKi.
J, J. POWERS
A.TTMDS TO THK MASHTACTTOE
■*»> ef Steam Boilers, Stills. Tankß, Agitators,
Salt Pans, Sugar Pans. Sheet Iron Cbimneyß,
Breechings, ana all other articlesnsu&ily man
ufactured at rfmiir.r concerns. • • . .
Promnt attention paid to all kinds of repairs oa
reasonable terms.
Works CORSES OF LOCUST mi DUQUESHE
WAY, sth Ward, Allegheny river,
jyB*lyd . ;
Hydropolts, or Garden Sprinkler.
A WKW ABB CSEFCX ABTICIE FOB
wettinyplantaand flowera, waahinswindowa;
carnages. Ao. Pumps of every description sold
and repaired. Day kin’s PatontWaor Drawer
“ *“* w'kLD ON i fcELLY, TSi Wood St,
J“>3 One door from sffih.
GBAVNI. HOOFING.
Repairs pbouptli at.
TENDED TO.
LIJFTOK, OLBBM &CO.,
Corner Fifth and Wood streets, second story.
MO
OUQUESNE BRASS WORKS,
CAD MAN & CRAWFORD.
Mannlhatnrors of every variety of finished
BBASB WORK FOE PSUMBEBS
©A® or SS’EASfFI'O’ESS,
MAUHINESTS asd CCPPERSMITgS,
W»BASS CASTINGS OP EYRKY 08.
Also, sole agents for the Western Distort oi
Pennsylvania. fof the sale oTManh, LaiSdeß*
ae. aPatont S 3 phon Pomp, the best ever invon*
J? 1 ™ 1413 not i* ab if to «« oat of
order and will throw more water than any pnmn
wiee Jts oao. , reblpfiy.
HOlom OP UVEBT STABLB
ScL hayißKremovftd^Jilßiar^
ner&la will roaciy e mai roeoial attention* ; -
NRATL BBIOEUjgB.
ELSDIGBIIBG GBAPE. ,
W l .®*® fiwnsEA raw mas
°** 29 J jhftSt.
DAtrte & OAPPBUi,
SSKMCIWABTB' 3 , AH 4 ©s*» i t
We H4TB just BBcsmn *•
toss and well stock of A
Spring: CJ-oods,
cosdstiiit of :
cioiba.casimeres, Vestin&e,**.
* Al£o—
FURNISHING GOODS,
taplndln* SechTia.md mrg
uung usually keptby JSratjJaHParolai Ink fflorj
vMera Promptly exeeutoa. sn3o:Jy«
W. H-Uureos.. ~J,B..Qw»**
LFPTOS & ©IBDEIf, 1
XAjroy4(nKlM* A3DDaxtnaTs: >
FELT CEIIBKISfiBSVEfcBOOfiIiG
§mm-
svK aAuei^r
Jj27-St ]B2£S»dflKy,
t'XT^k’-fcicßSiio,