BY S. J. ROW.
CLEARFIELD, PA., "WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1863.
VOL. 10. NO. 14.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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