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GEORGE RICHARDS, TO THE PUBLIC The undersigned hav ing purchased the entire stock of the late firm of Moore A Etxweiier, and having made large ad ditions thereto, is now prepared to wait upon cus tomers. Thankful for the very liberal patronage heretofore extended to the firm, he hopes by strict personal attention to business to merit a ounttuuence of the same. March 26, '62 -tf. D. F. ETZWEILER. PROVISION AND GROCERY STORE. The undersigned keeps constantl on hand at his store room in Philipsburg, Centreycounty. a full stock of Flour, Hams. Shoulders, Sides, Cof- Jee, Tea, bnirar. nice, Molasses, Ac. Alto, Li wquors of all kinds. Tobacco. Segars, Snuff, Ao.; all vi which be oflers to purchasers on tbe most I vantageoua terms Ciive him a call, and try! .articles. (mar21J - ROBERT LLOYD llfAJiTED FOR THE GALLANT 84TH v T 500 able bodied, moral young inen to join tbe army of the Union, for the crushing out of the wicked rebellion that is now distracting our be loved country. Come and help us save the pres ent ana best Government uod ever gave to man ! Men will be enlisted for any Pennsylvania regi ment in the field ..Twenty-five dollars bounty aud one months pay in advance. Clothing, food and medical attendance gratis. Recruiting office in Graham's How. Clearfield. Pa MATTHEW OGDEN, Capt. S4th Reg P. V. July30,lS62. - Recruiting Officer. CLEARFIELD MUSIC SCHOOL Foria struction upon the Piano, Melodeoo and Uui tar. and in Harmony and Singiuz. Terms For pupils under six years old. f 5,00, fur seventy two lessons of one half bour each ; for all pupils over six years old. SI 0.00. for seven ty-two lessons of one hour each; upon Piano, lie Judoon. Guitar or in Harmony, Payable, one-fourth at the beginning and the balance at the end of tbe Quarter. Vocal music free to all Instrumental pupils. 11 ... . ciuaie'i aione. qr.j.uu per term. . Rooms at Mr. Alexander Trwin's. Oct. 1. I860.: t 1 K. A. P. KINDER, Teacher. VALUABLE TIMBER LANDS FOR SALE. 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The joysof childhood's happy hour, The home of riper years, The treasur'd scenes of early youth,' ' In sunshine and in tears; The purest hopes her bosom knew, When her young heart was free, AH these and more she now resigns, To brave the world with thee. . Her lot in life is fix'd with thine, Its good and ill to share, And well I know 'twould be her pride To soothe each sorrow there ; Then take her and may fleeting time Mark only joy's increase. And may your days glide sweetly on ' - In happiness and peace. , THE SECESSION CONSPIRACY IN 1851. ' From the New York Tribune. The Plotting cf Rebellion the Issue in its Magnitude- Eleven year3 ago, a leading spirit of Vir ginia addressed a leading spirit of South Car olina, and distinctly presented the great issue of to-day. The following letter, written in 1851, by Mr. Garnctt, then a member of tbe Virginia Convention sitting to revise the Con stitution of the State, to Mr. Trescott of South Carolina afterward Assistant Secretary of State under Mr. Buchanan, is fully significant of the matured designs of the Secessionists. This letter was captured at the residence of Mr. Prescotf, on Barnwell's Island, and con tains the reasonings aud motives of the trai tors who inaugurated the Rebellion. The meaning of the letter is clear on its face. It ceeds no commentary. We ask our fellow- Democrats to read and ponder it. As Demo crats we accept the issue as the traitors them selves understand it as we understand it and as the leading rebels wlio control the South have forced it on the nation Slavery and De mocracy incompatible! Which shall go un der ? Let true Democrats answer the question. Lorenzo Sherwood, . George P. .Nelson, ilenry O'Rielly, x John J. Speed, Chas. P. Kirkland, Ilenry C. Gardiner, Thomas Ewbank.'" - - Corresponding Committee of the Democrat ic League. . . New York, Sept. 20, 1802 Letter from Mr. Gurnet!, of Virginia, to Mr, Trescott, of South Carolina. . Va. Convention, May 3, 1851. My Dear Sir : You misunderstood my last letter it you supposed that I intended to visit South Carolina this sprint. I am exceeding ly obliged to you for your kind invitations and it would afford me the highest pleasure luiciunausc, iu person, seuiimenis witu a friend whose manner of thinking so closely agrees wi ih my own. But my engagements here closely confine me to this city, and deny me such a gratification. I would be especially glad to be in Charles ton next week, and witness your Convention of Delegates from the Southern Eights Asso ciations. iue condition or tnings in your State deeply Interests me ; her wise foresight and manly independence have placed her as the head of the South, to whom alone true- hearted men oan look with any hope or plea sure. Momentous are the consequences which depend upon your action.' Which party will prevail? the immediate Secessionists, or those who are opposed to separate State action at his time ? . For my part, I forbear to form a wish. Were I a Carolinian, it would bo very different; but when I consider the serious ef fects the decision may have on your future weal or wo, 1 ieel that a citizen of a State which has acted as Virginia, has no right to interfere, even by a wish. It the General Government allows you 'peaceably and freely to secede, neither Virginia nor any other Southern State would, in my opinion, follow yoo at present. But what would be tbe effect upon South Carolina? Soraeof ourbest friends here suppose that it would cut off Charleston from the great Western trade which she is now striking for, and would retard very great ly the progress of your State. I confess that I think differently. I believe thoroughly in our own theories, and that if Charleston did not grow quite so fast in her trade with other States, yet tho relief from Federal taxation would vastly stimulate your prosperity. If so, the prestige of tbe Union would be destroy ed, and you would be the nucleus for a South ern Confederation at no distant day. But I do not doubt, from all I have been able to learn, that tbe Federal Government would use force, beginning with the form most embar rassing to you, and least calculated to excite sympathy; I mean a naval blockade. In that event, could you withstand the reaction feel ing, whioh the suffering commerce of Chailes ton would probably manifest? Would yoq not lose that in which your strength consists, the no ion of your people 1 I do not mean to imply an opinion. I only ask the question. If you could force this blockade and bring tbe Government to direct force, the leeling in Virginia would be very great. I trust in God it would bring ber to your aid. But it would be wrong in me to deceive you by speaking certainly. I cannot express tbe deep mortification 1 have felt at her course tbis Winter. But I do not believe that the course pf tbe Legislature is a fair expression of tbe popular feeling. In the East, at lesst, the great majority believe in the right of Seces sion, and feel the deepest sympathy with Car olina In oppositiou to measures which they re gard as she does. But tho west Western Virginia there is the rub? Only 60,000 slaves to 494,000. whites. When I consider this fact, and the kind of argument which we have beard in this body, I cannot but regard with the greatest fear tbe question whether Virginia would assist Carolina in such an issue. " ' i . : ' I must acknowledge, my dear sir, that I look to tbe future witb almost as much appre hension as hope.. You well object to the term Democrat. Democracy, in its original philo sophical sense, is, indeed, incompatible with Sla very, and the whole system of Southern society. Yet, if we look back, what change will you find - made in any of our State Constitutions, or in our legislation, in Us general course for the last fifty years, which was not in tbe di rection of Democracy ? Do not its principles and theories become daily more fixed in our pract ice ? I had almost sid in the opinions of our people, did 1 not remember with pleas ure the great improvement of opinion in re gard to tbe abstract question of Slavery. And if snob is the case, what have we to hope for the future ? I do not hesitate to say that i the question is raised between Carolina and the Federal Government, and the latter pre vails, the last hope of Republican Govern ment, and I fear of Southern Civilization, is gone. Hussla will then bo a better govern ment than ours. ; 1 fear that I he confusion and interruption under which I write may have made this a rather rambling letter. Do yon visit the North in the Summer ? I should be happy to welcome you to the Old Dominion. I am much obliged to you for the offer to send me Hammond's Eulogy on Calhoun ; but I am indebted to tbe author for a copy With esteem and friendship, yours truly, ' M. R. H. Garnet?. Wm. II. Trescott, Esq. - A DEMOCRATIC DIALOGUE. We clip the following dialogue from tbe Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch, which occur red a few days siuce between a good Union Democrat, who loves his country, and a Breck uridge-Vallandighamer, who, like a good many more of the same kidney, thinks more of rebel feelings and rebel property, than be does of the lives of loyal soldiers, and the perpetuation of our free . institutions. We commend it especially to those who are al ways howling about the "Constitution" and 'Abolitionists": Vallandigham Bemocrull am in favor of putting down this rebellion if it can be done constitutionally. Union Democrat I am in favor -of putting down this rebellion, and preserving tbe U nion, even if we have to annihilate every reb el in tbe country and reduce the rebellious States to a desert like that of Sahara. V. D.l am opposed to interfering with slavery ; and if tbe rebellion cannot be sup pressed without doing so, I say let tbe slave States go. We have no right under the Con stitution to interfere with slavery. - V. D. I hold that a traitor to bis Govern ment has forfeited all rights that he ever bad guarantied to him while he remained a loyal citizen even bis life. While I am opposed to interfering with slavery when it is unnec essary, yet if it becomes necessary in order to crush this rebellion, I say take away from every rebel bis slaves and send tbem out of the United States, or use them in any way that will help us destroy the rebels. The reb els do not hesitate to employ their slaves in every possible way in whioh they oan be used against us. Let us retuin the compliment and use their slaves against them. V. But I am opposed to confiscating the property of the rebels ; it is unconstitu tional ! U. D. The d litis! Your opposition to this confiscation business, my dear Vallsn- dighatumer, is probaiily the result of your fears lest you should suffer its consequences. I repeat again, that a traitor has no rights un der the Constitution. In committing treason he forfeited all bis rights, and f am decried ly iu favor of confiscating his property, and applying it to the payment of the expenses of the war which his treason has caused. V. D. I am opposed to suspending tbe writ of habeas corpus. , f. i?. So were the traitors in New Orleans, when Geueraljackson suspended it and caused their arrest. V. D. And I am opposed to old Abe Lin- cold and bisd d abolition orew. U. D. So are Jeff Davis and all the infer nal traitors who are backing bim. V. D. I would a thousand times rather tbe South should succeed in this war than that the country should be governed by tbe Abo lition Republican party. '; U. D. Precisely ! then why don't you re move your cowardly, treasonable carcass to tbe South, where it belongs 1 Why do yoo remain here among loyal people who despise you 1 Go wbere you belong, you black-hearted traitor! Don't atay here, belching forth your treason and claiming the protection of our laws. Exit VaUandigbamcqer, amid tbe hisses of the crowd. v ; . - TO THE PEOPLE OF PEflTTSYT.VAKTA.1 From the Miner's Journal. Sept. 27.1862. The Democratic State Central Committee having authorized their chairman, Francis W. Hughes, to place before the people of the State of Pennsylvania snob matter h committee think the people ought to reflect upon at this time, and Hughes having under taken to do so, it is the duty of such persons as know Hughes well, to give the people such facts as will enable them to determine for themselves, whether Hughes is laboring to serve the North or tbe South, whether he is trying to have the Union restored or to have the rebels succeed, the States divided, and a Southern Confederacy established. To'ena ble the people to judge for themselves and act as they.tbink right, I give the evidence fol- lowing. C. Loeser. Pottsville, 24th September, 1862. At a public political meeting, held in the oourt bouse in Pottsville, Schuylkill county, in iebruary, I!:6l, John T. Werner, who was sheriff of Schuylkill oounty from 1846 to 1849, was present, and he heard Francis W. Hughes say, when speaking about the amount of cot ton that was exported from the United States, 'button is king, and I thank God for it." ? TIT ... . . .. iur. nuruer reaa ine above tbis morning and says it is correct. , C. Loe3Er. Pottsville, 17th Sept. 1862. Donaldson, Schuylkill county, Pa., September 13, 1862. C. Tower, Esq., Pottaville, Pa. : DaARbia: In the winter of 18611 was in the cars, going to Philadelphia, and while be tween Pottsville and Reading, I was sitting on tbe left hand side of tbe car, and Francis W. Hughes, of Pottsville, was in the same car, sitting on the right hand side of the car, and two seats ahead of me. I think there was not anybody sitting on the same seat of the car with him ; I knew there was not with me. He was conversing with a gentleman, who sat right opposite bim, and tbe second seat ahead of me, on the same side with me. I beard Francis W. Hughes, then and there, say to that gentleman, "I am. a delegate to the Dcm- ocratic State Convention at Harrisburg, and I am going over to attend the Convention, and when there, I intend offering s resolution be fore that Convention, that Pennsylvania se cede from the Union, and join herself with tbe South, and leave Rhode Island, and Con necticut, and Massachusetts, and them d d little petty States, to subsist on their codfish and Plymouth rock." iou are at liberty to make any use of this statement you may think proper, and I shall be ready to verify it by my oatb, at any time, when required to do so. Very respectfully, David Lomisoh. Pottsvilie, Sept. 8, 1862. C Tower, Esq Dear Sir: I have duly con sidered the importance of your inquiry rela tive to my personal knowledge of the attempt made some eighteen months ago by F. W. Hughes, Esq., to "switch" the State of Penn sylvania out of tbe Union, in nearly the same manner, and by tbe same unboly means that were employed to carry Tennessee, Missouri, Louisiana, and other States out ; aud in com pliance with your request, will endeavor to give a plain, unvarnished statement of suoh facts as I may be possessed of, confining my self as strictly as possible to the precise lan guage used at the time. , A day or two prior to tbe assembling of the Democratic State Convention at Harrisburg, in February, 1861, 1 heard it bruited about that Mr. Hughes, (who was a delegate to that Convention,) designed to introduce into that body a resolution, the object of which was to carry Pennsylvania out of the Union, and to join the so-called Southern Confederacy. The report notwithstanding my knowledge of Mr. nughes? sympathy for the South, (he having previously told me in conversation with him, that the only mistake; in Mr. Bu chanan's Administration was that "be did not receive Messrs. Rhett & Co., of South Caroli na, as Commissioners, instead of 'distinguished citizens,' and treat with tbem upon tbe sub ject of their mission;") the report, , I say, struck me as being so manifestly absurd as to be scarcely worthy of notice. ; . On tbe evening of the day of the Conven tion, (I think tbe 22d of tbe month,) while on my way home. I fell in comoanv with bis nephew, John llughes, Esq., (law partner of W. Hughes,) and as we walked a consider able distance in tbe same direction, I took oc casion to mention to bim tbe reports I bad beard iu regard to Frank's secession resolu tion. He replied, "Yes I think that Frank is doing wrong in that matter." I asked him if it were really true then, that be designed to offer such a resolution 7 He answered, " Yes he took such a resolution with bim 1 read it myself several times, and advised bim not to offer it." I need scarcely say, that wbat I was disposed to regard before as an idle rumor bad now become a stern reality. On my re. turn from tea, I stopped to see tbe late Judge Hegins, and communicated wbat John Hughes told me. The Judge smiled and said : "Why, j Frank showed me that resolution before be left, and asked my opinion of It. I advised bim for God's sake, not to offer it, as it wonld kill him politically, fortver." I anxiously a- waited, the published proceedings of the Con . vent ion, and was ratified to see that the res- olntOD in question was not anions: them.' f Thus natter8 rested until some time, I think, 10 APr, or Mav lollowing, when, on tbe way to ray place of business, I met Mr. James Gowan, of Harrisburg, an old friend and ac- quaintance. The war' having been actually commenced, our conversation naturally turn ed npon that subject. Some pretty' severe strictures were made by myself on what I con sidered the mistakes of Mr. .Buchanan's admin istration, and as being in my opinion the di rect cause of all onr troubles. My friend, on the other hand, defended Mr. Buchanan's pol- m uue ioui engagea, we were joined by tren.J. Y. James, of Warren, a mutual friend and acquaintance of both of us. Mr. James sustainud my views on the question,' and the "talk" became somewhat animated, in th course of " which I mentioned tbe effort at tempted to be made by Mr. Hughes in the late Democratic State Conventiou to "switch" Pennsylvania out of the Union, when I was interrupted by Mr. James, who said: "Why, wasn't I in that Convention, and on the com mittee to draft resolutions ? And didn't Mr. Hughes come to me in the committee room and ask me to support his d d treasonable resolution?" He continued : "After I bad read it I got so d d mad that I shook my fist and swore that il be attempted to offer that resolution, either in committee or Con vention, that I would pitch him and bis reso lution headforemost out of the window." "I don't know," continued the General, "wheth er it was my threat or what, , but I neither heard nor saw anything more of that resolu tion." Tbe material points of Mr. James' statement were subsequently admitted by him to Mr. L. F. Whitney, of this borough in my presence This is substantially all I have to say in re lation to your queries, and is given in nearly, if not precisely, the same language used at the time. It has been hastily drawn up, but you are at liberty to make whatever nseof it you may think proper. Very respectfully, fcc, Jerome K. Boter If necessary, I will verify the above on oath or affirmation. " J. K. B At the time of the Democratic Convention at Harrisburg, in February, 1861, Francis W. Hughes was a delegate from Schuylkill conn ty to that Convention. In a conversation be tween the Hon. Charles W. Hegins and Ben jamin Pott, Hegins said "Hughes is making a fool of himself," that be bad shown him (Hegins,) resolutions be (Hughes) bad drawn up to offer at that , Convention in favor of Pennsylvania joining tbe Southern Confeder acy, Hegins said be gave bim a hell of a scold- tng. Mr. Pott read the above this morning, and says it Is correct. . C. Loeser. Pottsville, 9th September, 1852. In the latter part of summer or fall of 1861; Francis W.. Hughes, of Pottsville, came into the office of William B. Wells, an attorney-at law of the same place, and who bad been, from tbe year 1850 to the year 1854, the law partner of Uugbes. Lloyds's Railroad map, showing tbe State was banging, against; the wall,. in the office, open. Hughes pointed to tbe map witb bis cane and explained to Wells what be (Hughes) thought would be tbe result of tbis rebellion ; that tbe Western States would eventually join the South, as their interest lay with tbem; that the New England States, together with New York, Pennsylyania, New Jersey, and be may have included Ohio. Ohio would be all that would remain of these United States, and that they would have to bear .a II the expenses or burden of this war ; and that would be, as be thought, the result of this rebelliou, and the disgrace of repudation would finally be the result ; that he (Hughes) did not want to live in such a oountry. He said if be could fix his matters to suit bim or language to that effect he would go to some other oountry or place ; Wells does not remember which. Wells then asked Hughes wbere be would go. He replied, to Sandy Bottom, as Natty Mills used to say." Wells said, "Hughes, you come to these conclusion upon the basis that tbis re bellion cannot be put down." Hughes replied, "ves." IV ells then asked him what conclusion be would come to, upon tbe supposition that this rebellion could and would be put down. He said, "Of course, then, I should come to a quite different conclusion ; but said, at the same time, ihat be believed it could not be put down. Wells reiterated that be firmly belie ved that it oould and would be put down. Hughes to tbis replied,tbat be wished be con Id see or believe as Wells did ; but be could not or would not. " " i " Tbe foregoing was read by Wells, and be says it is correct. He says Hugbea gave rea sons for bis belief, the chief of wbich was tbe bad feeling between tbe North and Sontb, re lating to the negro. Hughes justifies holding tbe negro in slavery. f- -'- C, Loeser. Pottsville, Sept. 8, 1862. -:: In July last, about two weeks after ttw f one- ral of tne on. unaries w . Hegins, which was on the4tb ot J uiy,obni. Hobart, late Sheriff I or fccnuyuun connty, ana nis wire, were at bunbury, and while there called npon Mrs. Donnell, tbe widow of tbe lata Judge Uonoeil, - of Snnbnry , and. ttje sister Judge -Kefina, j I on a visit of friendshin. In the course of con. versation Mrs. Donne 11 said, "Mr Hobart, yon J know my brother was a' patriot in every sense of tbe word, and for some time before bis deatb the state of bis country troubled hlmvery much. A short time before bis death be called me to bis bed, and said overtures bad been made to him by a prominent politician of your place, Schuylkill (I mention; no names,), to join with them which he declined doing. And he then said, tbe course the Democratic party wete now pursuing' was the 'greatest fraud ever practised upon the country." Mrs Donnell then said, I aujhoriz j you to telUhis in fottsvii e By Mrs Doonell's statement, Mr. Hobart and his - wife were both satisfied that Judae Hegins bad named to his sister the prominent politician of Pottsville, Schuylkill county. .Mr. and Mrs. nobart read the above this morning, ana say it is correct. , Pottsville, Sept. 9, 18S2. C. Loeser. ', WHO i.KE FIGHTING OUK BATTLES! t .To the Editor of the Phil'a Press: . : Sir :-A class of political partisans have, during this war endeavored to create divisions in the North, by deolaring that the burden of tbe war is borne by tbe Democratic party, who, they : assert, compose three-fourths if not more of the tank, and file of the army'. So often ha this statement been made by stump orators and newspapers, that numbers of our citizen seem to regard it as truthful, and the re sult is, that remarks of an offensive '.nature have been made in tbe presence of persona' who differ in politcal opinion with the De-. mocracy of the present day, especially that. class known as Breckinridge Democrats. That the remarks I allude to are not only unjust, but absolutely without j foundation in truth, tbe enrollment for the draft proves beyond all cavil, a - ; ; ; - ' - , ; -It must be plain to every mind, thst if the Democrat realy form three-fourths of the rank and tie of tbe army, the enrollment will show that' a greater percentage of the fight ing poulation have enlisted in ' tbe DemocrtlC than in tho Republican districts of the State; Now, the enrollment shows tbe very reverse, of this, for from it it appears that a - far greater per centage of tbe fighting population of the . Republican districts have gone to war than, from the Democratic districts. The Demo cratic county of Northampton . has -sent less men to war than tbe Republican county of, Blair, and yet Blair polls but little more than , . one-balf tbe vote of Northampton. ; Tbe Re-t publican county . of McKean has sent more -men to tbe war than tbe Democratic county ot Monroe, and yet Monroe polls almost fifty - per . cent, more votes than McKean.' The fighting Quakers of Republican Chester county have ; sent within five per cent as many men to war as Democratic Berks, and yet the vote of Berks . is thirty per cent, more than Chester's. Tbe combined vote of the Republican counties of Lawrence, Union, Clinton, and Blair, at the last Presidential election, was fourteen; -thousand four hundred and fifty-three, and tbe combined vote of tbe Democratic counties of Berks, Northampton, and Monroe, at the ' same election, was twenty-seven : thousaud three hundred and thirty-three ; yet the Re puplioan counties named have sent to the wajr over three hundred more men than I he Demoi ' cratic counties they are contrasted with, al though they polled hardly more than, half the, number ot votes. Tbe morning ; paper from ' wbich I culled the information regarding the men sent to tbe war from tbe foregoing coun ties has nerer exhibited Republican -procliv-i itics; indeed, its conductors seem perfectly , willing that the corner-stone of the rebellion ; shall remain untouched, to breed future dis-t' sensions, if not future wars. If the marshals returns fro:ne all the counties of Pennsylvania. could be ptiblisbed, I am confident such a con,-, ditionof things would be revealed, that no. . longer would the sneering inquiries be beard, "Where ar your Wide-Awakes ? Where are . your Republicans, now 7" . . Mr. Editor, the truth is, that the rank and, ' file of tbe United States army, as far as Penq sylvania is concerned, is almost absolutely made up o" Republicans and Douglas Demo crats. Tb'sre are . Breckinridge Democrats, also in the urmy, but you see tbem as quarter masters, as colonels, and as geneials. It was witb no wish to wound tbe feelings of any, but that in order the pause of justice ' and truth should be served.. I penned the , foregoing. , The facts of the case have been so long falsified to acomplish as I believe . sinister ends, that I conceive it foil time tba( ; the trnth should be set before tbe people. . I am, respectfully, your obedient servant, . . Ajt Ahercaw CryizEM. ; A Good Joke. "Now remember said, ait - officer to as Irish soldier ,J"when tbp jTokwel asks you what battery yoo are in tefl him bat tery I. : New dont forget." "No, be jabber. I won't forgit," said Pat. Tbe Colonel met , bim day or two afterwards aad asked him wbat tbe Captain told him to say, when Pat -stepped op to the Colonel and without saying a word, gave bim a blow in the eye, "What d0 you menu V shouted tbe Colonel,' la no. eoi humor, on beinsr struck bv an' Irish sol dier. Felth,.an the Captain tould me t batter yer ye, tf ye axed me slch a question,' aaid the terrified Irishman.' The Coiarnjl, ot course, too tna c. i r t nrr
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