BY S. J. ROW. CLEARFIELD, PA., "WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1863. VOL. 10. NO. 14. TERMS OF THE JOURNAL. The 1' ArTSM ax's Jocknal ia published on Wed nesday al Sli3" Per annum in advance Adver tisement inserted at SI. 00 per square, for three or lew insertions Twelve tines (or less) counting a iunare. For every additional insertion 25 cents. A deduction will be made to yearly advertisers. PROFESSIONAL & BUSINESS CARDS. TRVIN BROTHERS, Dealers in Square Sawed Lumber. Irj Goods, Groceries, Flour, Grain, 49 , Ac. Burnsido Pa., Sept. 23, 1863. RKDERICK LEITZIXGER. Manufacturer of II kinds of Stone-ware. Clearfield. Pa. Or dcrj solicited wholesalo or rotail. Jan. 1, 1SG3 RAXS A BARRETT, Attornevs at Law. Clear field. Pa. "May 13, 1863. l. i. crass. : : : : : : w alter barrett. ROBERT J. WALLACE. Attorney at Law. Clear field, Pa Office in Shaw's new row. Market :ret, opposite Xaugle'e jewelry store. May 2rt. f T F. NAUGLE. Watch and Clock Miker, and ll . dealer in Watches, Jewelry, Sc. Room in Graham's row, Market street. Nov. 10. HBUCIIER SWOOPE, Attorney at Law.Clear . field, Pa. Office in Graham's Row, fourdoo s west of Graham A Boynton's store Nov. 10. P. KRATZER Merchant, and dealer in Boards and Shingles, Grain and Produce. 1 ront St, above the Academy, Clearfield, Pa. jl 2 "7ALLACE A HALL, Attorneys at Law, Clear- field, Pa December 17, 15d2. WILLIAM a.wallace. :::::::: Jons o. uai.l. I' J A FLEMMIXG, Curwensville. Pa., Nursery man and Dealer in all kind of Fruit and Tiiamenta! Trees. Plants and Shrubberv AM or ders by mail promptly attended to. May "13. "I I fILLlAM V. IRWIN'.Marketstreet, Clearfield, Pa., Dealer in Foreign and Uorr.esiie Mer chandise. Hardware, Queensware, -Groceries, and Ismily articles generally. Nov. 10. JOHN iil ELIC1I. Manufacturer of all kinds ol Cabinet-ware, Market street, Clearfield, I'a. He also makes to order Coffins, on short notice, and ktteuds funerals with a hearse. Aprl0,'ii-. DR. M. WOOIH. PRACTicisa PavsiciAS, and I.iauiiriii.ir Surgeon for Pension. flico. South-we.n corner of Second an I t'hTry .-reet. Clearfield, P. January 21. lao3. r W. SHAW. M.l.. has resumed ihi prao- . tie? of Medicine and Surgery in Saawsviile, i'snn a. where be still respectfully solicits a con tinuance of publio patronage. May 27, 1;G3. J.' B M EXALLY, Attorcev at Law. Clearfield, Pa. IVvjticet in Clearfield and adjoining ucuittiei. Ufficein new briea buitJiag oi .). rsoya ton,2i street, one door south cf Lanich's Hotel. r) 1CHARD MOSSUP, Dealer in Foreign and Do V mestie Dry Goods. Groceries, Flour. Bacon, Liquor, ic. Room, on Market street, a few doors ttoj; of Joirrni!0ire, ClocrSeld. Pa. Apr27. m HOMPSUN", A WATSON". Dealers in Timber J Saw Log. Boardi and Shingles. Marysville, t:esrfield county, Penn'a August 11, 15r3. i. w. Thompson" : : : : : j as. . watson. 7 ARRIMKR 1 J field. Pa. & TEfcT, Attorneys at Law. Clear Will attend promptl v to all legsl :'.:id other business entrusted to their care in Clear t'e!J and adjoining counties. August 6. I'iofi J.ll H. LAP.RIMEK. ISP.Atl. TEST. ; R. W.M. CA:.'P3LLL, offers his professional J services to the citizens of Mosh aiu.n and vi cinity. He can be coniulted at his residence at lJ times, unlee" absent on professional business. MosiiiiiDuii, Centre co., Pa.. May 13. lVi. TM. ALBERT A BRO'S, Dealers in Dry Goods. ,V Groceries, Hardware. Quenswar. Fiour. In .-on. etc.. Woodland. Clearfield county. Penn'a. ;.-). extensive dealers in all kinds of sawed lum l.or. ihinzles, and square timber. . '.rders solici t'- v ood!and, Aug. 19th, 1863. mfiOMASJ M'CULLOL'GII. Attorney at Law, 1 Clearfield. Pa. Office, east of the ' Clearfield rn.Eatk. Deeds and other legal instrument pre wired with promptness and accuracy. July 3. i u Btsa. :::::::: t.j.m'itllocqh BUSH A MXl'LLOCGH'S COLLECTION C'fFICK. CLKAUFIELD. PeN.Va. Q 1 n Rt'WARD. The above reward will be Vl" paid for information that will lead to up jrehension and conviction of the persons or pcr 'n. wlio set lire to and buined down a portion of tt-e fences ou the premises of the subscriber, re niing in Brady township, on Saturdav niht. Xo-n-mterUth. ANDREW PENTZ, Sr. Prady township Nov. IS 1SG3. VCIlANliJi, The electors of tho several t iwui-hips of this County will take notice that a A;toJ' Assembly wa3 parsed last winter chang-i-g the time of holding the Spring elections in several tow nships ot this County from the third tr:dav of February to the last Friday of Decem wr.aiinually. (being Christ in a3 day for this year) t-ODitables and other township otileers will please 'ske Eotioe. The Commissioners of the county "ill be in session on the Tuesday following the !rion for tho purpose of paying off the return juijes. By order of the Board. -W H. iS63.-3t. W. S. BRADLEY, Clerk. 'rnt: estate of Frederick fish ier, deceased: , l. CU7rfie,t County, ts: In the matter of I ! the appraisement of the Real Estate of J "" Frederick Fisher, deceased, setting oat to the widow S3H0, her claim was on the 30th of eptember 1S03 read and confirmed Ni Si and or- tret the Court that publication be made iu Me newspaper published in said County notify '"S jl persons interested that unless exceptions tiled ouor before the 1st day of next term will MLErmed absolutely. By the Court Jv. IS. 1S03 I. G. BAKGER, Clerk of O C. 'T'lE ESTATE OF JOHN BlTRC;r 1 ER,I)IX'EASED: : p"rjN.CearJr Count y, t.t : In the matter of z- J iae appraisement of the Real Estate of , 'J John Burgunder,deceased, setting out "fie widow ?300. her claim was on the 3t)th of fI':inber read and confirmed Ni Si and ordered - 'ae Court 11,1.1 n.,kH.tw.n innno "Taper published in said bounty notifying all 1 fsius interested that unless exceptions are filed or before the first dayof next term will be con ""?! absulut.!,. By the Court. T 13. I. G. BAR tER. Clerk of O. C. The estate of be.njamix yi-ng-deceased; i Eal "rf'-M County, ss: In the matter of sOs) l!ie appraisement of Real Estate of Wtt.k benjamin Yingling, deceased, setting dif Wi(low S;J"- her cUim was on the 2Sth UJ P,enf'er l3 read and confirmed Ni Si r.c.r, Publication be made in one tor er Publ','led in said County notifying all on . v 'n;iecd that unless exceptions are filed i.tosi I0 re first day of next term wil1 be con" mux I. G. FAROER. Clerk of 0. C. SOULS NOT DRESSES. Who shall judge a man from manner ? Who shall know him by his dress? Paupers may be fit for princes, Princes fit for something less. Crumpled shirt and dirty jacket .May beclothe the golden ore; Of the deepest thoughts and feelings Satin vest could do no more. There are springs of crystal nectar Ever welling out of stone ; There are purple beds and golden. Hidden, crushed, and overgrown. God. who counts by souls, net dresses, Loves and prospers you and me ; While he values thrones the highest But as pebbles in the sea. A SOUTHERN APPEAL FOR PEACE. ADDRESS Br THE PI ON. K. W. GANTT.' TO THE PEOPLE OP ARKANSAS. Mr. Gantt has long been a resident of Arkansas, and lately a member of the Rebel Congress and a General in the Rebel Army. His address is dated at Little Rock, Arkansas,4)ct. 7, 1S63. Fcl!ow-Ci(i:ns : Since the third day of June I have bo en a prisoner ia the Federal Si ties. Having but recently been through the en tire South, having studied ita recourses, and wept over its ruin ; and having become f u My acquainted with its condition, and the charac ter of its inlors, I have chosen, alter long hes itation, to remain here and address you, in pr- ference to being sent home and exchanged. I am now out ot the service, and can there fore speak with unreserved freedom. M course in this struggle as known to the country. In the armv and in prison, with a 4ive in fiont and iu rear I have been with you a: u ol yon as long as hope remained. And to day, I know no devotion so strong as that I bear to my Southern home, and to the mnsses ot our people, whose terrible surteiings bind mo closer to them now than ever. 1 fhail give you try views and counsel for what they are worth, frankly and fully in this address, and earn not for the consequence to myself. It is the path of duty, and I shall tollow it 1 earier-sly. JEt'tERSON DAVI3. This gentleman I. as proved himself totally unsuiled to the emergency. With the whole cotton crop and neaUJi of the South at his dis posal, and the friendship of many European powers, he has accomplished nothing abroad. His foreign policy has been a stupid failure. He has pretuitted himself o be over-reached and outiuaiaged iu everything. His policy at home, while proving him to be strong in some respects, has showed him to be weak, mean, and malignint in other. He is cold, ulfiish, and supremely ambitious , and, under the cover of outward sanctity and patriotism, flows concealed the ssrongest vein of hypocri sy and demegogllistl). He has ntver betn up to the magnitude ot the undertaking. He refused troops for the war in May, a. i. 1863. bi'e:it;s.? h did not, "know that they would bo needed." His idea, at first, seetii." to have been that hostili ties would soon cease, iin.l he bi-t;t his ener gies for a chrap war. li in preparations and Jul lit were, accordingly, contracted and par simonious. Awakened to a sense of his error, ms next aim seems to nave fieen to conquer Ins foes, and put down every man that had crossed his pathway in his life I admit that in some things he looms up above other men; but he has so manv defects and weaknesses beneath others, that it reduces hiiiito a very poor second rate character. And you can never change him. His life has been warped by political intrigue. His preju dices have been narrowed and his hates em bittered by years of partisan strife. And you had as well take the oak which has been bent while, a twig and fjeat upon bv the storms of centuries, when its boughs are falling ofl and its trunk decaying, and attempt to straighten it up toward heaven, asto attempt the straight ening of a character so warped and bent by years of political storm and intrigue. . . . WHAT SHALL WE SO ? The question naturally comes up after all that hs preceded. If Mr. Davis, when he held the lives and fortunes of many millions in his hands, so blundered as to loose his op portunity, what can we hope from him now that a scene of blackness, of anguish aud deso lation reigns, where wealth, happiness and plenty smiled ? If he would not protect Ar kansas when he could, but, instead, gave it over to oppression by his pets, what have we to hope now that he trembles in Richmond for his own safety, and wakes up at last to the terrible reality ot bis own weakness, folly and indiscretioD ? if we were not protected when we could have been, and if we cannot now be protected, what must we do Soni.i say con tinue the struggle. Let the last uiau die, &c, &c. I tbink differently. We ought to end the struggle and submit. But you say it is htt-milliating- No more than to surrender when whipped. We have done that often. Always when we could do no better. I have tried the experiment twice and found it by no means foolish. Submission is but surreuder. "We are lairiy beaten in the whole lesuu, ana should at oncu surrender the point." If we don't get the happiness we enjoyed in the old Government, we can get no more mis ery than we have felt under JeSerson Davis I But I look for peace there. We had it many years. Even while we are arrayed against it, I find that hostile forces in our midst give more protection tocitizens than they had when Holmes aud Ilindtuan were here. It is true, the Johnsons tell you that General Steele h-as imprisoned and oppressed people here. Not a word of truth in it. And they know it is all false. In a few months, when no more Confederate money can be invested, and nothing more made ont of the people, they will sneak back and claim his protection. 'But we are fairly whipped fairly beaten. Our armies are melting and ruin approaches us." Wiil continuing this struggle help us 1 Every battle we gain might ought to wriDg tears from the hearts of Southern men ! We are just that much weaker that much nearer to our final ruin. Anguish and sorrow and desolation meet us wherever we turn. The longer the struggle the more of it. "Don't let yourselves be deceived with the hope that the United Statea will abandon the struggle." They can never do it. They have toiled and spent too much to see the so lution ol thaprobIeru,and not foot up the figures They scarcely feel the war at home. Their cities are more populous and thrifty to-day than ever. For every man that dies or gets killed in battle, two emigrate to the couutry. Their villages and towns, their fields and country flourish as fresh as ever. They could sink their armies to day, and raise new levies to crush us and not feel it. How is it with us 7 The last man is in the field. Half our territory overrun. Our cities gone to wreck peopled alone by the aged, the lame and the halt, and women and chil dren ! While deserted towns, and smoking ruins, and plantations abandoned and laid waste, meet us on all sides. And anarchy and ruin, disappointment and discontent, lower over all the land. FOREIGN INTERVENTION. You rely upon loreign intervention! Alas and alas .' How many lives, hopes and for tunes have been hurried under this fatal delu sion. It has held us on to a hopeless strug gle, while the belt of delusion has girdled us closer, and the sea of anguish and sorrow ris en higher, flushed with the tears of ruined and bereaved ones! France will not interfere. Louis Napoleon has at heart the building of the transit route connecting the two oceans. If bo can keep up this struggle until that is accomplished, the star of England's decendancy on the ocean goes out before him, aud the whole commercial world be comes subsidary to him. To keep up this struggle he will delude us continually with false hopes, reckoning nothing how much we bleed and suffer. I even suspect that the pre tended loans to us in France rest upon a poli cy of this sort, and that he is at the bottom of it. But if Louis Napoleon does not propose to interfere and take us under bin "protection," what then ? Another Maximilian tor us for Americana! "Forbid it, my countrymen! Forbid it, Heaven !" Our forefathers threw oil colonial dependence upon a European crowned head. It would be ignominious in us to go back a half century and more to ac cept what they freed us from. Much less to risk a despot over us. So eager are some of our leaders for this interference, that, I am told, it is proposed to give Nepoleon Texas as a bonus lor bis good graces and kindly aid! Aud the "Lone Star" may be handed over by Davis at any moment, so far as he can do it. The thought ought lo make the blood of every American citizen mount to his cheek. Whenever this is attempted, "1 shall be one to meet the legions of France under the old flag," to battle tor the sacredness and safety of republican institutions. But suppose he oilers recognition alone ? It is a barren offer ing. Suppose lie otters it coupled with assis tance ? It comes too late ! Timeo Danuos munera ferenles. No more dangerous. and de structive alliance, in our prostrate condition, could be found, however eagerly we tuigiji, . nr.n have grasped it. For, even if we should succeed with his aid, and the struggle would be as doubtful as terrible (and he would aban don us at any moment.) the French empire of Meiico, right at our doors, would swallow up Cuba and all the contiguous islauds, and ab sorb that part of Mexico that we as a nation would hope to get. "And the day we settle deliberate ly a monarchy on this side ot the ocean, we prepare crowns for kings, and tet ters for the people, on every foot of ground upon the American continent. But, as I said, there will be no interference." DISiSE.NSIOJiS IX THE NORTTI. Have no hope from a divided North. It is ou the surface. Scarcely goes to the bottom of their politics, much less shaking ihe great masses of their determined people. Remem ber, too that much of tue South is with them. There is no division as tar as fighting us is concerned. That rejected, they are to press us with redoubled energy. Let us not, after all our misfortunes and blunders, construe the struggle between politicians for place iu to sympathy for ourselves. But how could they propose peace ? Who would bring the message ? To whom would it be delivered And should the proposition be made aud re jected, we are much worse off fo rit. "We must propose peace, for we ought to know when we have got enough of the thing." . . NEGRO SLAVERY. I am asked if Mr. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation will stand. If you continue the struggle, certainly. He has the physical force at his disposal to carry it out. If you cease now, you may save all in your hands, or com promise ou gradual emancipation But let, I beseech you, the negro no longer stand in the way of the happiness aud safety of friends and kindred. The changes of sentiment upon this question in the South have been curious. Not many years since it was by no means unusual tor the press and public men, as well as for the people generally in the South, to concede that slavery was an evil, and regret that it should ever have existed, expressing, howev er, no disposition or desire to be rid of it. Yet, a few years more, the demand for cotton having increased, the price of negroes having advanced, and the agitation of the slavery question having increased in virulence, Gnds us defending slavery as a divine instituton, Ve Bow's Review, and other Southern papers and periodicals, with' Senator Hammond, of of South Carolina, were prominent iu this de fense. Their object was to educate the Southern mind to this belief. Such a course h id be come vital to the existanee of slavery, be cause, to concede that negro slavery was mor ally wrong was virtually to concede the whole argument to the Abolitionists. As the con troversy warmed we became sensitive, and so morbidly so that the North might have threat ened with impunity to deprive us ot horses or other property, yet the whole South would be aBlazed if some fanatic took one negro. Such was the public sentiment South at the com mencement of this most unfortunate and bloody struggle. Bat revolutions snake up men's thoughts and put them in different channels. I have recently talked with South ern slave-holders from every State. They are tired of negro slavery, and believe they could niAe more clear money and live more peace ably without than with it. As for the noo- slaveholdera of the South, I honestly thought the struggle was for him more than for his wealthy neighbor. That to Tree the negro would reduce to comparative slavery the poor white man. I now regret that, instead of a war to sustain slavery, it bad not been a strug gle at the ballot box to colonize it. This will clearly be the next struggle. . I am of opinion that, whetner it is auivine j institution or not, negro slavery has accom- i plished its mission here. A great mission it hun. A new-arid fertile country has been dii covered, and must be made useful. The ne cessities of mankind pressed for its speedy development. Negro slavery was the in strument to effect this. It alone could open up the fertile and miasmatic regions ot the South, 8oIvingthe problem of their utflity, which no theorist could have reached. It was the magician which suddsnlv revolutionized the commerce of the world by the solution of tins problem. It peopled and made opu lent the barren hills of New England, and threw ita powerful influence across the great Northwest. Standing as a wall between the two sec tions, it caught and roiled northward the wealth and population of the Old World : nd held in their places the restless adventurers of rew England, or turned thenj along the groat prairies ana valleys ot trie West. Thus New England reached its climtrx, and the North west was overgrown of its age, while the South with its negro laborers, was sparsely settled and comparative! v poor. Thus sla very had done its utmost for New England and the Nortwest, and was a weight upon the South. If, at this point, ita disappearance cou ia have clearly commenced, what untold suffering and sorrow might have been avoided Its existence had become incompatible with tue existence of the Government. For, while ii uau stooa as a wall, damming up the cur rent and holding back the people and labor ers of the North, it had, by thus precluding iree intercourse between the sections produ i , . . 1 ecu a marKHU cuauge in their manners, cus toms ana sentiment. And the sections were growing more divergent every day Ibis wall or the Government . must give way. l he shock came which was to settle the question. I thought that the Government was divided, aud negro slavery established lorever. i errea. I ne Government was stronger than than slavery. Reunion is certain, but not more certain than the down fall of slavery. As I have said, the mission of the latter is accomplished. And as his happiness must al ways be subordinate to that of the.white man, he must, ere long, depart ou the foot prints of the red man, whose mission being accom plished, is fast fading from our midst.. While I think the mission of the negro is accomplished here, I am clearly of the opiu ion that the time will come when civilization and learning shall light up the dark sbodes of four hundred millions people in India, and when their wants and necessities will put the patient and hardy negro to toiling and open ing up the great valley of tho fertile but mi asmatic Amazon. But such speculations are out ot placo here. Let us, fellow citizens, endeavor to be calm. Let us look these new ideas and our novel pfeniou suuarely in the face.; yy foht for negro slavery. We have lost. We may have to do without it. The inconvenience will be great for a while. Tho loss heavy. This, however, is well nigh accomplished. Yet, be hind this dark cloud is a silver lining. If not for us, at least for our children. In the place ot these bondsman will come an immense in flux of people from all parts of the world, bringing with them their wealth, arts and im provements, and lending their talents and sinews to increase our aggregate wealth. Thrift and tiade and a common destiuy will bind us together. Machinery in the hills of Arkansas will reverberate to the music of ma chinery in New England, and the whirr of Georgia spindles will meet responsive echoes upon the slope of the far ofl Pacific. Protective tariffs, il needed, will stretch in their influence, from the Lakes to the Gulf, aud from ocean to oceau, bearing alike, at least, equally upon Arkansan aud Veriuonter, and upon Georgian and Californian. Differ ences of section and sentiment will wear away aud be forgotten, and the next generation b more homogeneous and united than any since the dais of the Revolution. And the descen dants of these b'oody times will read, with as much pride and as little jealousy, of these battles of their fathers, as the English and Scotch descendants of the heroes of Plodden Field read ot their ancestral achievements in the glowing lines of Scott, or as the descen dants of highland and lowland chiefs, allu sions to their fathers' conflicts iu the simple strains of the rustic Burns. Let us live iu hope, my grief-stricken broth ers, that the day is not far distant, when Ar kansas will rise from the ashes ot her desola tion, to start on a path of higher destiny than with negro slavery, she ever could have reached ; while the ro-united Government, freed from this cankering sore, will be more vigorous and powerful, and more thrifty, opu lent aud happy, than though the scourge of war had never desolated her fields, or made sorrowful her hearthstones. The sooner we lay down our arms, and quit this hopeless struggle, the sooner our days ot prosperity -will return. WUY I HESITATED TUE SHTATION Til R REMEDY I hesitated long, my fellow citizens, before I determined to issue this address.' I dislike to be abused and slandered. But, more than all, dislike to live under a cloud with those friends who have not yet reached my stand point, and, besides, all I possess is in the Con federate lines. Their leaders will deprive my family of slaves, home, property debts due me in a word, reduce them from competence and ease to penury. Aside from what I have inside the Confederate lines, I could not pay for the paper this address is Written upon. But it may all go. Did I desire future pro motion, and could bring my conscience to it, I would do like the Johnsons, safe from bul lets and hardships themselves, they assist in holding you on to this hopeless and ruinous struggle, and at the end of the conflict, will come back and say : "I staid with you to the last!" "Honor "me and mine!" God de liver me from such traitors to humanity, and to the interests of our bleeding people ! To me, the path of duty is plain. It is to lend my feeble aid to stop this useless effusion of blood. And though it beggar my family and leave me no ray of hope for the future, I shall follow it. I have witnessed the desolation of the Southern States from one end to the other. This hopeless struggle but widens it. Each day makes new graves, new orphans, and new mourners. Each hour flings into this dreadful whirlpool more of wrecked hopes, broken for tunes and anguished hearts. The rich have mostly fallen.. The poor have drank deep of the cup of sorrow, while surely, and not slow- Jy, the tide of ruin, in its resistless surge, sweeps towards the middle classes. A few more campaigns and they will form part of the J general wreck. Each grave and each tear, each wasted fortune and broken heart, puts us that much further of! from the object of the strnggle, and that much further off from peace and happiness. - Viewing it thus, the terrible quest ion was pre sented to me, as to whether I should continue my lot in an enterprise so fruitless and so full ot woe, and help hold the masses ot the peo ple on to this terrible despotism ot Davis, where only ruin awaits them ; or whether I should be a quiet observer of it all, or lastly, whether I should assist in saving the remnant of you from the wreck 1 I have chosen the latter. I shall send this address to every hill and corner of the Slate, to the citizen and soldier, at home or in prison, and shall send with it my prayers to Almighty God to arrest them in their pathway of blood and ruin. Why trust Davis any longer? Had he twice our present resources he would still fall. With success he would be a despot. But the whole thing is tumbling to pieces. Soldiers are leaving disgusted and dishearten ed, and whole States have gone back to tl.eir homes in the natioual galaxy. Maryland and Delaware will never again be shaken. Ken tucky has intrenched herself in the Union be hind a wall of bayonets in the hands of her own sturdy sons. Missouri is as firmly set in the national galaxy as Massachusetts. Tenn essee, tempest-tossed aud bolt-riven, under the guidance of her great pilot, steers tor her old rmorirtg, and will be safely anchored be fore the leaves fall ; while tho rays of light from the old North State, flashing our fitfully from her darkness across the troubled waves show that she stirs, is not lost, but is strug gling to rejoin her sisters. None of these States will ever join the South again. Then, with crippled armies with devastated fields, with desolate cities with disheartened soidiers, and worso than a with weak and corrupt leaders, what hope is left to the few remaining Mates, but especially to poor, oppressed and down-trodden Arkan sas 1 None! Better get our brothers home while they are left to us. Open the wav for the return of husbands, fathers and sons, and bind up the broken links of the old Union. The people must act to do this. I tell you now, in grief and pain, that the leaders don' care for your blood. Your sufferings move them not. I he tears and wails of your an guished and bereaved ones tall on hearts of flint. While thev can make a dollar or wear an epaulet they are content. Filially, with griuf stricken and sorrowful heart, I implore mothers, sisters, wives and daughters to assist by all their arts, in saving their loved ones from this terrible scourge, ere ruin overtakes you and them irretrievably. While God gives me strength, daunted by no peril and swerved by no consideration of self, I shall give you my feeble aid. esty, patriotically and sorrowfully made, the Jounsons and certain reptiles who crawl around Little Hock, under Federal protection together with all other life men, who from their own innate corruption, are not able to appreciate pure motives in otheres will tell you that a desire to go Congress has influenced my conduct. Do they suppose that I would lose the last dollar I have and subject myself to their slander and abuse for the chance of run nini tor an office when peace is made Does not my refusing upon principle to take my seat in Congress in 186J,afteratriumphant electiou in which I carried tventy-two out ot twenty- eizht counties, show them what little value I set upon such a bauble t But I will stor their mouths by the solemn assurance that there are not people enough on the continent to induce me to go to Congress. I am sick and tired and disgusted with public life Peace! ueace. and the safety of what is left of our noble and suffering jeop!e is my only ambition f We must bear in mind,, too, as we go along, that in conceding the chance ot a "Congress," they acknowledge the failure of tho Confederate cause. . . . . . . To those who differad from me in the com meucemeut of this Rebellion, the extent and bloodiness of which no mortal could foresee, I must say that developments show that you were right and I wrong. But let by gones be forgotton, and let us all unite to bring about peace, and to lure our lost Pleaid from her wanderings, that she may again sparkle in our nation s coronet of stars. Your fellow citizen, E. W. Gantt. Little Rock, Oct. 7th, 1863- Kkmarkablb Scene in Cocrt. James Sutherland, who has been on trial at Indian upolis lor four days for killing Roddy A Small, was acquitted on Thursday. 11 is wife and three children were in the Court at the time, After the announcement of the virdict there followed a scene, says the Indianapolis Journal, not often witnessed in a court room The prisoner that was a prisoner now no lonzer fell uuon his knees, and liftinrr bis eyes towards heaven, uttered an earnest pray er of thanksgiving and praise to the Gad, whose justice and mercy had been so won derfully manifested in him. The prayer was irresistibly eloquent, and when Amen was pronounced, Amen came back in response from every part of the room, aad there were toars in every rye. All rose lo their feet, the acquit ted man advanced and took each juryman by the hand with a fervent "God bless you ! You have saved an innocent mau from shame aad disgrace, you have taken a foul stain from my name God bless you!" And to the pros ecutor, whose conduct in the case command, admiration from all for fairness and honesty, he gave a cordial "God bless you !" The old white-haired father, whose firm trust had sup ported the son in the darkest hours of trial, now melted in tears of joy that his boy was acquitted of guilt, and his own good name re mained untarnished. Tho Judge, wiping bis eyes of the tears that had come unbidden, or dered the Shenn to adjourn the Court. A blacksmith who has been for years de prived of tho use of his legs by rheumatism, saw a few days ago that be had been robbed. He was so excited by the discovery that he burst into a general and profuse perspiration. He instantly recovered the use of bis legs,and has been ever since perfectly well. The rebels in St. Domingo have possession of the larger portion of the Island, though the Spaniards claim to have recently obtained two victories. A new Spanish Captain General has been appointed. The North-western Fair, at Chicago for wounded soldiers, has already yielded twenty thousand dollars. CORRESPONDENCE OF THE "JOURNAL. Letter from Philipsburg, a, Philipsbcro Penx'a, Nov. '2Si, 1863. Dear Journal: The past week has opened another bright page in the history of Philips burg. For a great many years, and I presume, I am safe in saying, ever since this place hid an existence, the farmers of Halt Moon have brought the produce of their farms to our mar ket, and exchanged it for lumber and coal the staple products of our town and vicinity. The farmers always had the inside track, for their produce was that which would prolong both man and beast's stay in this "neck of timber," and consequently our lumber and coal dealers bad to come to the terms that the "Egyptians" asked. They were dubbed E gyptians from the fact ot their chief article of trade being corn. Thus matters continued for a long time. The aeaaou for delivering was the "first suow," or "sledding." These clauses were always understood in all con tracts, verbal or written, whether mentioned or not. The "Cleardelders," for be it known that the "Egyptians" call all west of the moun tain, "Clearfielders," bore up under the great humiliation that their f riends from modern E gypt compelled them to do often saying, no don bt, "If we catch theui once upon tho hip, We'll feed them fat the ancient grudge we bear them." On last Saturday, 21st lust., the "Cleartiold- ers ' threw up their hands fur joy, having at long last seen the day when the order of things were reversed and -The 'Egyptians' com to judgment." Ten eight-wheeled box cars, loaded with corn, came riding on the rail, to tho once held in bondage corn-fod critters of Clearfield. Glorious era one that should have a monument erected to its memory. This, the more grand and magnificent since it is that the crops of grain and hay have be-n a failure with us, the past season. Oar log-men and lumber-men, generally were hard put to, to get grain for feed, at any price. Some data ago, one or two "Egyptians" ventured to transceud the time honored custom of wait ing for the "first snow," and hauled out a load ol corn with the wagon. It wasaii unex pected move, for oar traders did not think they would venture the experiment. The E gyptiaus tapped the market in the nick of time. Buyers swarmed about them asking tbe price, the "Egyptian" was afraid to say for fear he would be taken up, and then have the remorse that he did not aak more, some thing similar to the "Hebrews" of Chatham street. Finally, after closely reconoitering the position, he said $1,25 jer bushel. Snap went the "gum band," and a volley of "green 'bHek7,.?!3 ,he result. The "Egyptian" look ed his bump ot accumulation, and crowded his mathematical prognostic to say $1,50, per bushel but it was too late. The uext morn ing ere Hyperion had decked, iu golden rays, the topmot peaks ot the Alleghanies,the "E gyptian" was wending his way towards his "native heath," a happier man. Immediate ly on his arrival, he sounded the "greenback" clariou call and reported the entire success of tbe expedition that he had carried the "Clearflelder's" pocket-book bv storm and re lieved their gum bind of the outside pressnre ot an attack from the guerrillas. The "Egyp tians" at once determined to fit out an arma da of wagons, loaded with corn, and reducn the surplus of "greenbacks" that was in th bands ot the "Clearfielders," to the augmen tation of corn. The beginning of the past week was the day appointed for the assault. Long ere the God of day had run bis round. the well-fed nags of tne Egyptians" were seen in the distance. The '-bears" of North Stccad aud Presqueisle streets, determined to. bull" tbe market, and to the utter astonish ment of our "Nile" friends, they were only offered $1,20, and heavy at that. They reser ved their sales, but finally had to capitulate. and the "bulls" went in on a flank movement, eh turned the closing sales to $1,15, de mand heavy at that. The "Egyptiaus" beat a retreat, and have ouly returned in squads of one or two wagons at a time since. The bulls" now, in town, become the "bears." and they run up the price to country custom ers at $1,10 a 1,45 ; and tows consumers wh were the unfortunate owners of a svioe or two, (thanksgiving, Christmas or New Years prospective roasts) were asked to pay $1,50. But the ten carloads arriving on Saturday, a- hke sealed the fate of "Egyptians." "bulls." bears," and speculators in the staff of lifts to "critters," geuerally. So much for the Kail Koad. Your compositor made my letter of tbe 8th instant say, "that tbe flocks almost perished with cold aad hairy men of a savage and fierce aspect, and a marrow path." I am inclined to think that the flock a had a "hard road to travel," and the soldiers a greasy one. accor- ding to the typo's ideas. But the readers wilt please consider a comma (,) after cold and an (n) for (m) m marrow. I be beautiful weather continues, though wo bad a full days rain on Satnrday yet it came down as gentle as a shower in May. I would not doubt, but a few more such showers would produce November flowers. I noticed a cou ple blooming red a few days siuce. They were flourishing on tbe cheeks of a damsel just "sweet sixteen." I fell in love with them; but a moment afterwards she blushed and I saw tbe rogue rise in flakes. . The works of art are splendid, but the works of nature are preferred by Leroi. The question has been asked, why it is con sidered impolite for gentlemen to go in the presence of ladies in their shirt sleeves while it is considered in every way correct for the ladies themselves to appear before tbe gentle men without any sleeves. A blacksmith, who was advised to a suit for slander, said he could go into his shop and hammer out a better character in six months than all the Courts in Christendom could give him. . -.-. Rents are enormous, as tbe poor fellow said when he looked at his coat. - The total debt of Philadelphia is now about twenty-five million dollars, A sixty acre field of sulpber has just been discovered in Nevada. A wild flower show was one of tbe novelties ol London this fall. US .i
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