gaftematt'js jfmtrnal
BT S. J. S0.
CLEARFIELD,-PA., AUG. 16, 1865.
UNION STATE CONVENTION.
A State Convention will be held at liar
risburg on Thursday, the 17tii August,
1865, at 12 o'clock m., for the purpose of
putting in nomination a State Ticket, to be
supported by the friends of the Union at
the coming October election.
The earnest and zealous labor of a loyal
peonle secured the great victory in 1864, and
wade the war, which our enemies denounced
as a failure, a glorious success in 1865.
Our flag has been maintained our ene
mies destroyed our Government preserved,
and peace re-established. Let every friend,
who aided in this result, take measures to be
represented in that Convention. We must
see to it that the fruits of our success are
not lost to the Nation.
Business of vatt importance will be pre
sented for its consideration, and every dis
trict in the State should be represented. By
order ol the Union State Central Commit
tee. Simon Cameron, Chairmau,
WlEN FORNEY,
THE NEWS. -
Accounts from "Wisconsin are to the effect
that the storm that passed over a portion of
the State on Monday night, August 7th,
show the damage in Sauk and Iowa Coun
ties to be greater than at first supposed.
Fruit trees were entirely stripped of foliage
and fruit. Standing grain was actually
thrashed ; $300,000 is a low estimate of the
loss. At least 100 farms were entirely des
olated, leaving many families almost desti
tute of the ueans of support.
A New Orleans correspondent says the
property of John Slidell, comprising eight
hundred and forty-two lots and squares of
ground, with stores, dwelling houses and a
banking house, were sold for $100,410.
Before the war it was estimated at $800,000.
Had the war not taken place it is estimated
that Mr. Slidell would have been worth $2,
000,000. Mr. E. M'Gillioroy ha3 furnished a state
ment of trade between Canada and the U-
nited States, beginning with 1854 and end
ing with the 30th of June, 1 864 ten and a
half years. It will be seen that the "bal
ance of trade" is in favor of this country
and against the provinces to the amount of
$104,858,067.
The steamer recently seized by the Nicara
guan Government has been confiscated,
partly because her papers were informally
made out by the United States Consul at
Panama, and principally because of being
engaged in an illegal and practical cruise.
The coat worn by tl e late Cpl. Dahlgrex
in his daring raid around the defences of
Richmond, has been recovered from a rebel
who had it in his possession. Five bullet
holes mark this interesting relic of one of
our bravest and most gallant soldiers.
The train from Muscatine to Washington,
Iowa, on Thursday afternoon August 10th,
broke through a briifge at Ainsworth, pre
cipitating one of the passenger cars into the
chasm. Four persons were killed and sev
eral wounded.
The expedition sent out from Nashville
by Gen. Thomas, to Carolville, Tenn., is
stirring up a nest of thieves. Two of
Thomas's men have been killed. Several
thieves have beeu shot or hung and others
captured.
The propellers Meteor and Pewabie, Lake
Superior line, came in colision on Wednes
night, August 9th, on Thunder Bay, Lake
Huron. Pewabie sunk in three minutes,
ana seveniy-nve or a nundred lives were
lost.
A Donegal grarid juror writes to the Lon
don Times boasting that in the assizes there
has not among 240, 000 people, been a single
case to try, and the Judges are reduced to
fishing in order to kill time.
It is said that the reason Ford's Theatre
is to be made fire proof is because the rebel
archives which are to be preserved there,are
incendiary documents and were used in fir
iug the Southern heart.
"I mourn for my bleeding country," said
a certain army contractor to Gen. Sheridan.
"So you ought, you scoundrel," replied
Sheridan, "for nobody has bled her more
than you have."
For the past four months discharged Phil
adelphia soldiers have emigrated to the West
to locate under the Homestead law, at the
rate of between two and three hundred per
month.
A mine of solid petroleum has been dis
covered in Western Virginia. The vein
varies in depth from 50 inches to 250 feet.
A ton of the ore yields about 170 gallons of
pure oil.
A returned rebel soldier named Paine
killed a colored man a few days since in
Nashville for playing marbles with his
children.
The Philadelphia papers still claim Gen.
Grant as a resident of their city.
The rebel General Ben. Hill was again
attested for disorderly conduct.
SHALL THE NEGRO VOTE?
The Cincinati Gazette, which is supposed
to reflect the views of Chief Justice Chase
in the course of an article on the question of
immediate negro suffrage in the South re
marks :
We admit that justice would remove the
disabilities of the black Americans, and
make them citizens in every respect. We
believe that equality before the law would
eventually be the most effective emolient for
the hospitality of race. But we have to
sonsider the means by which so great a so
cial revolution can be carried, and to see
that the blacks are not crushed in the oier
ation. Under ordinary social and political
conditions, even without the perplexing el
ement of predjudice of race, ft is doubtful if
many icould go for so sweeping a reform as
immediate conferring of the franchise on the
man of legal age in a popidation of four
millions, icho had hitherto been kept in sur
vife ignorance. The great majority of those
who advocate it in this case do so because
the current of political theories hold that
the rebel States can be governed only by
their own people, and this would put them
back into the power of the disloyal, unless
the loyal blacks could be brought in with
votes to turn the scale in favor of the nation
al government and thus to protect them
selves. For our part, we do now, as we
have heretofore, protest against bcin plac
ed in any alternative in which we shall be
compelled to call on the negro vote to save
us from the rebel vote. We have the right
to hold the State under subjection until
there is such a condition of loyalty restored
in the inhabitants who before had the Iran
rhLe.thatwe can trust the elections to them.
They seized the belleigerent rights : we have
thfi riffht to held them to the late or war
until we have obtained satisfaction, and can
abolish beleigerent conditions consistently
with the safety of the nation. If we are to
have the black vote, let us have it in addi
tion to a loyal white vote, and bee? use it is
right, not because our own precipitancy in
restoring power to a hostile population
makes it necessary to eall on the black Her
cules to save us.
Some writers go further and are discus
sing the propriety of settling the question by
an amendment of the constitution of the U
nited States, which shall dispense with the
ouestion of race, and prescribe a uniform
rule of suffrage, applicable to all States,and
to all colors alike. On this subject the
Chicago Republican of a late date, closes an
article as follows :
The proper question for the people of
this day is not whether negroes shall or shall
not vote ; but whether we should have an
uniform rule by which a free citizen of the
United States, native or naturalized,
shall have the same right of voting
wherever he may take up his residence; and
whether that rule should be fixed in the
Constitution, above reach of the-local ha
treds and the local feelings of States and
communities. That rule should recognize
freedom aa the fundamental condition for the
rifrht of voting. The additional aualifica-
tion oi a voter should be a capacity to read
the Constitution and to write his name to
his oath of allegiance, Any freeman who
can do this should be admitted to the polls ;
any man with boundless opportunities of
qualifying himself in this particular, refuses
to do so, may be xecluded from voting with
out iniurv to personal or public liberties.
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If the neerro be intellectually degraded ; if
he be ignorant and incapable of being taught,
his exclusion under this rule will be gener
al. If he thinks enough of his political free
dom to qualify himself to the extent of be
ins able to read the Constitution of his
countrv. and thus elevate himself to that
general political level; we do not see on
what principle of justice or reason he or any
other freeman should be excluded. If the
white voters, who will be generally in the
proportion of five to one, and in all the
northern and most populous States, fifty to
one, choose to vote with the negro, is the
responsibility of so dotng with the negro or
with themselves? and will it not be an argu
ment in tavor of the discriminating capacity
of the freedman in the exercise of his polit
ical privileges ?
As a matter of course, such an amedment
of the Constituiion could not be made to af
fect those who ace voters at present. Its op
eration would only be prospective, and
hence no reasonable objection could be urg
ed against it.
What Southern Leaders Say.
The Augusta Clironicle of August 1st
notices the presence of Gen. Howell Cobb
in that city, and says :
"In a conversation with the General, he
expressed a great desire to have all matters
now in agitation settled at once ; and wish
ed most heartily to see Georgia once more
resuming her former position in the Union.
The issues which have lately convulsed this
country he considers forever disposed of.
Slavery, he says, can never be resuscitated
in any shape. He thinks it best that all
submit promptly and willing to the United
States authorities ; that matters which have
passed should be numbered among the
things that were, and should not be dragged
into the present, thereby creating discord
and trammeling the movements of those who
are doing all they can to settle affairs. " The
same paper speaks of the arrival in town of
Ex-Gov. Brcwn, and says: "Gov. Brown
speaks hopefully of the future, and thinks
it would be well for the convention to de
clare slavery at an end in Georgia, without
excitement or discussion. He also says that
the people of Northern Georgia are anx
ious for an opportunity to take the oath of
amnesty, and will return conservative men
to the convention. He regards the question
of secession as settled by the 'result of the
war, and that any further agitation on that
and kindred topics should be studiously a
voided." At the semi-annual meeting of the mem
bers of the Massachusetts Grand Lodse I.
O. of O. F.. held at Odd Fellows' Hall,
Boston, on Thursday, Past Grand Sire J.
B. Nicholson, of Pennsylvania, in behalf of
the Grand Lodge of the United States, pre
sented an elegant set of resolutions expres
sive of th thanks and gratitude of the
members of the National Lodge to the Mas
sachusetts Grandl Lodge for the cordial and
brotherly manner in which they were enter
tained upon the occasion of their annual
meeting which was held in Boston last year.
The testimonial is enclosed in a beautiful
frame.
A New View of Gen. Lee's Case.
Dr. J. E. Sxodgrass has written a letter
to the Lieut Governor of Maryland, sug
gesting that General Robert E. Lee be
indicted by the authorities of Maryland for
the invasion of that State. He urges that
if the National authorities feel themselves
bound by the terms granted by Grant to
the rebel chief not to proceed against him
for treasou to the United States, that such
terms in no way compromised the right of
Maryland to punish him for his invasion of
her territory. Although it be the. duty of
the general government to protect each State
against invasion, it has no power to compro
mise the right of a State when invaded to
pursue and bring to justice the guilty par
ties. He claims that the South is estopped
from combatting the soundness of his posi
tion. Jacob Thompson, in a recent letter,
said: "On the subject of treason, the U
nited States could declare no act treason, ex
cept the making of war upon the United
States, and the giving of aid and comfort to
the enemy. Each State, however, being
sovereign, and having a larger scope of pow
ers, could declare almost any act treason."
In addition to the theory the South has furn
ished a precedent The case of John
Brown is a remarkable parallel to that of
(Jen. Lee. He levied war upon Virginia
and was tried for his offense and executed.
He surrendered to the National military
forces, and the general government did not
attempt to question the right of lrgima to
indict and punish him. To the same au
thority did Lee surrender,and there appears
to be no right in the National Government
to prevent Maryland or Pennsylvania-
which has a stronger case if possible than
Maryland, the most enthusiastic rebel never
having claimed her as a part of the Confed
eracy from indicting and punishing him for
invasion.
Dr. Sxodgrass quotes a portion of the
indictment against Jonx Brown, as "Com
mander-in-Chief" of his "usurped govern-
ment. and savs that the whole document
would be wonderfully appropriate as an . in
dictment against Lee, by the mere substitu
tion of his and his associates' names for
"Jonx Brown" and his, and the name, for
instance, of Antietam for that of "Harper's
Ferry," and of Washington county for "Jef
ferson." and Maryland for "Virginia." He
claims that the parallel is most oraplete,
save in the degree of criminality, morally
considered, and the amount of property and
number of lives destroyed. The wonderful
ly significant facts are not to be passad over
without notice that Gen. Lee, as "Colonel
Robert E. Lee, U. S. A.," was a partici
pant in the scenes which closed with JonN
Brown's execution, and it was to him, as
the commander of the United States forces,
that Brown surrendered.
How frightful is Lee's crime, compared
with that for which John Brown died up
on the scaffold ! The lives taken in Brown's
invasion of Virginia were counted by units,
while those taken by Lee in his invasion of
Maryland were counted by thousands. The
property destroyed by Brown was easily es
timated ; that by Lee remains yet incalcula
Lble. Brown fought for a cause he believed
to be jusf ; Lee for a cause he knew to be
wicked and unholy. Whjle sympathising
for Brown in his erratic enterprise, the just
ice of his punishment was universally con
ceded. Lee himself aided in and justified
it Is there as much reason to extenuate
Lee's crime as there was to throw the man
tie of charity, mercy and forgivness over the
erring enthusiasm of old Johx Brown?
There is not. Should not the fate meted
out to Johx Browx, with the aid and con
currence of Robert E. Lee, be certainly
and inexorably meted out to himself? This
is the tenor of Dr. Sxodgrass' letter, which
will in due time, we doubt not, receive the
calm and deliberate attention the importance
of the subject demands.
The Eesnlt in Kentucky.
There has been a good fight in Kentucky.
notwithstanding a complete victory has not
been won. To show what has been gained
it must be remembered that Kentucky last
fall gave M'Clellan 36,565 majority, while
the aggregate majority for the Conservative
candidates at the last election can amount to
but a few thousands. The vote in a few of
the Congressional districts tells the story.
In the Louisville District, Gen. Rousseau
the Radical candidate, is elected by fifteen
hundred majority, while last fall tli3 vote
stood, Lincoln, 4,208, M'Clellan, 8,160. In
the Covington District, Green Clay Smith
Radical, is elected by 1,000 majority. Last
fall the vote in that District was, Lincoln
4,996 ; M'Clellan, 7,626. In the Third
District, the vote is represented to be very
close, between Lowry, Radical, and Grider,
Conservative. The vote there last fall was
Lincoln, 777 ; M'Clellan, 7,912.
The Next Six Months.
It is asserted on good authority that the
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maximum ot liabilities lor the next six
months is, say in round numbers, $335,000,
000, of which a considerable proportion wil
be settled with interest-bearing certificates,
irtl-1 ,1 1 11
and or wmcn anotner consiaerapie propor
tion can b-3. put over till Congress adopts
further financial measures. The minimum
of actual resources is $428,000,000, to which
must be added all" the receipts from sales of
property by the War and Navy Departments.
andjhe power to loan at least $100,000,OOQ
more through Certificates of Indebtedness.
"What is there for fear, or doubt, or dread,
All demands will be promptly met.
THE CHOLERA.
At this moment a.l Western Asia and
Southeru Europe are panic stricken by the
terror ot sudden death. That strauge curse
which, as the Red Death, the Black Plague,
the lellow tever, has so otten swept like"
fire around the world, and in its proteuc j
forms is still one Pestilence, has again aris- ;
en as swift and as stroug as of old. The
cholera has unexpectedly revealed itself in
the East, and tor the third time begius its
terrible westward march'.
Egypt, breeder of so many monsters, is
the mother of this. Centuries ot dirt and
degradation have rooted the plague so firm
ly in Egypt, that its return every ten years
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is as certain as ine aaiiy rising oi me sun.
Nile, with his overflowing waters, cannot
cleanse the land. Even the religion of Mo
hammed has become the protector ot dis
ease, and this year the cholera first appear
ed among that immense throng of Pilgrims
which annually journey through Egypt to
Mecca and .Medina. Ihese poor people
ive iu dirt , for though the law of the 1 roph-
et requires frequent ablutions, they seem no
cleaner tor its observance than the Arabs in
the desert, who, for want of water, perform
the sacred washings with sand. In three
days the Cholera slew from four to six thou
sand pilgrims in Mecca and Medina, It
pursued the survivors on their homeward
flight and the stagnant canals, the crowded
roads, were strewn with the dead. It
caught the Egyptian Arabs in their huts of
mud and straw ; decimated the dirty towns
and villages, and finally entered Alexandria
and reigned there in triumph. Iu Cairo up
ward ot tour hundred people perished in
one day. Thus it ravaged Egypt till about
the middle ot July, when the mortality,
still great, seems to have "decreased. Of
its course since we are not tully mrornied,
but it seems to be spreading along the Med
iterranean coast ; it has penetrated Sicily,
established itselt m Uonstantinorle, and is
already as far west as Ancona, Italy.
V estern Europe is alarmed and on the
defensive. But it is hard for the po.ice of
an Empire to arrest this invisable murderer,
which nas all the poverty, crime, filthiness
and recklessness of the world tor its accom
plices. Eugene Sue, in his greatest novel,
refers forcibly to the apparent progress of
the Cholera, at the rate ot a man s daily
march. But it will travel faster in 1SG5
than it did in 1831. The Cholera is not
blown about on the winds. It passes from
man to man ; the ship sails with it over the
sea ; the steam cars speed with it over the
land: it crawls along the sewerage, and
creeps from street to street with the besgar.
It is this mode or transmission that makes
its progress so difficult to stop, yet because
ot this it is not useless to try theenect ot all
sanitary precautions. If this pestilence
were a poison in the air, we might abandon
all hope of controlling it, and idly await like
theIohainedanlataiist, tne mysterious pun
ishment of God. But we know, what ever
be its primal cause, that it originates in
countries which are the sewers of the world;
that everywhere filth and foulness are its
allies, and cleanliness its greatest enemy
Our duty is therefore plain. If Europe
cannot stop the pestilence, and precedents
give little reason to suppose it, the Cholera
may reasonaDiy oe expected in America in
the Autuin nor Spring. New-York, with its
immense ioreign commerce, is not easily de
fended, and in its present condition cannot
be. We dare not trust entirely to the qua
rantine ; the outworks of a fort are useless
if the enemy has allies in the citadel, and the
Five Points, the Shambles, and the Mark
ets, are even now ripe for the embraces of
the plague. We sound no unnecessary a
larm. No one can doubt that preparation
is demanded, and that even if the Cholera
should never come all the elements oi dis
ease are exhaling from our gutters. The
street-sweepers should not always be kept on
Broadway and the Fifth-ave. let them go
where they are imperatively needed, in Bax-
ter-st. and Pearl-st, and all the crooked
alleys of the Five Points. Make the city
clean and leave the rest to Providence. It
may be well for our officials to remember
that those who from carelessness or greed,
invite the Cholera, may be obliged to re
ceive in their homes the fatal guest, as the
first victim ot the guillotine was its inven
tor. N. Y. Tribune,
The Issues of the Hour.
The following article from the Harrisburg
Telegraph of August 10th, in our opinion,
views the issues of the hour in their proper
light:
A Traitor in New York, one who has the
blood of loyal men on his hands, lately boast
mgly declared that the question ot vegro
suffrage icould divide the ISlackhepubucans,
Traitors everywhere depend on this hope,
The Democratic party in the North and
South, bases its hope of success on this di
vision. Now as a cotemporary well asks, do
the friends ot the Union mean to make good
the predictions of this Southern rebel?
Slavery exists legally in certain portions of
the Union, and it exists in fact in many por
tions, where, by the language ot the procla
mation, it is abolished. The ratification of
the amendment of the Constitution abolish
ing slavery all over the Union has not been
secured. We are just on the pivot point of
that great question. One or two States
from the slave States, or from the intensely
Democratic ones, must be secured before
that act of abolition of slavery is constitu
tionally complete.
More than that. The Democrats are ral
lying in all the States, hoping to carry the
autumn elections, and the coming winter
repeal the acts of ratification passed in the
Free States. . Let Democracy succeed in
one or more of the States where theratifica
tion resolution has been passed, and all thus
far done to secure the amendment to the
Constitution is undone.
Yet with all this before our eyes, we, the
Union men, are driving, with the beetle fur
nished by our implacable foe, the wedge
that shall split us asunder, and leave this
great question for future repeated combats.
.Let us be taught by our enemy, and, al
lowing the broadest latitude for individual
sertiment, let us discard all questions not
yet ripe for solution, and keep our eye
steadily on the one great question of a re
stored Uuion, relaxing not our grasp upon
the throat of the lately armed traitors,
nor raising our foot from the neck of the
prostrate secesh Democracy, until freedom
shall be absolutely and irrepealably pro
claimed throughout the length and breadth
of the land. When slavery shall have been
buried, then we can afford to divide, if
needs be, upon minor questions.
. In "sixteen years the emigrants to this
country hav Bent home $65,000,000.
Important Eailroad Arrangement.
We learn, says the-St Louis Dispatch,
that Eastern gentlemeu, heavily interested
in the Pennsylvania Central Railroad, and
other roads connecting with it, have pur
chased one-half interest in the Union Pacif
ic Railroad, leading from Wyandott in
Kansas, through Lawrence, towards the
West These gentlemen, and others con
nected with the Ohio roads, are now in St
Louis to make arrangements by which there
will be a through connection between the
Union Pacific Road via the Missouri Pacific,
the Ohio and Mississippi, and the Little
Miani.i, the Columbus and Pittsburgh and
Pennsylvania Central roads to Philadelphia.
This connection, it will be observed, involves
St. Louis, and insures the passage of the
great continental traffic from the Atlantic
and Pacific through that city. The sale of
half their road supplies the Union Pacific
Company with means to prosecute their road.
and they, can confidently expect to have it
finished to Fort Riley hy the first of June
1866.
The Democratic party believes that it can
give the country a better government than
its opponents, in prooi oi it proudly
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points to the past. Brookvilie Eagle.
The people have not believed so for the
last five years. The last Government the
Democratic party tried its hand at, had
Richmond for its Capital, and we know it
didn't prosper well. That is one reference
to the past The last hold that party will
ever have on the United States Government
was when the O. P. F. was President, and
as his administration was only intended to
furnish materials for its Richmond succes
sor, it didn't strike the Jeople as possessing
any virtue whatever. It is a settled thing
that the Government President Johnson
administers is infinately better than the last
bogous Democratic concern, and as the lat
ter surrendered with its commander-in-chief,
we hope it will not continue its conflict with
the former. The deeper we go into tjie
past the darker it seems.
Important Case to be Decided.
The Tribunes Richmond correspondent
says: A very important case will shortly be
brought before the United States Court, to
decide whether slaves held to service after
President Lincoln's Emancipation Procla
mation had gone into effect, January 1,
1864, shall not be entitled to remuneration
for their labors. Colonel Brown, Super
intendent of the Freedmen's Bureau, is very
busy at present preparing such a case against
John Minor Botts, who refuses to pay the
wages of a negro owned and held up to the
surrender of Lee, notwithstanding that the
negro could have done to the Union forces
enormous work or labored in the Quarter
master's Department and earned at least
$16 per month. In view of the fat t that
Mr. Botts received 5.20,000 from our Gov
ernment for tresspass on property and for
cutting of woods. The claim in this in
stance is a strong one.-
Provisional Governments not a Finalty.
We have already mentioned that we
thought it probable that the reconstruction
policy cf the President was only a probation
for the South, and that he was not willing
to restore those States to the full powers
which they enjoyed before they seceded,
until they had shown their purpose to con
duct themselves as peaceable and loyal com
munities, willing to abide by the acts of the
General Government in relation to slavery
and all the questions which grow out of it.
The annulling of the Richmond elections,
and similar indications in Kentucky and
elsewhere, confirmed this view, and now we
have a positive statement in the Cincinnati
Gazette, purporting to come from a member
of the Cabinet that such is the design of the
Government. If this be so, the South will
have to manifest less symptoms of disloyal
ty or be left out until their passions have
time to cool. Pittsburg Gazette.
Nickel at a Discount Silver Wanted.
For the first time in four years, says the
New York Times, the conductors on the
city cars have this week begun to com
plain that they have a superfluity of nickel
coin. Pennies of the oldest and newest
substance and design are fast becoming a
drug. This is a good sign although it
may not immediately herald the ' universal
return to specie payments. By-and-by we
shall see the old silver bits of the smaller
denominations coming out of their hiding
places. They are a drug in the neighbor
ing provinces. In fact, they have been
formally voted a nuisance. Let them be
brought into use, then, where they will be
properly appreciated.
6en. Grant's First Speech. At Sher
brook, Lower Canada, General Grant made
his first speech. It was to the authorities
and to the point In reply to the welcome
address of the Mayor he said , "It gives
me much pleasure to meet you. Towards
Canada and all the British provinces I
cherish only the kindest feelings." Loud
cheering greeted this sentiment, and the
train moved away ami much enthusiasm.
Mr.'BtJRLiNGAME eays our merchants are
highly esteemed in China ; that our com
merce is rapidly increasing, and tbat our re
lations with the government and the people
are more amicable. Many large English
houses, anticipating a long war here calcu
lated so largely in the cotton of other coun
tries, that they are either ruined or seriously
embarrassed.
General Cameron and Jeff. IW
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very curious nniimmnn rf .V. . .
lion has been revived by the HarrS
lelegraph. It appears that in i860 whc
Jo Davis was threatening destruction to
the North as the result of secession, he, one
ua, in an auiiuaii-u conversation with Gen
eral Simon Cameron, exclaimed : "When
the South secedes, such paralysis will fall
upon Northern enterprise, that the grass
will grow in the streets ot your Northern
pities!" The retort, wa intrant i .
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eral replied : "Mr. Davis, if the Southern
i'"" . "u lau uii your
section. Your slaves will be liberated, and
will assist in your destruction. The North
will not be ruined, but, I will, with my own
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uauui iidut tvji ii in me ounces ui v iiarit
ton the cradle cf treason." True to his
promise, in the spring of this year, when
Gen. Cameron visited the South, he did
plant the corn, hired a soldier to atteud to
it, and has just received the crop with the
following note from Major Ceneral Hatch
commanding our forces in Charleston : '
Charleston, S. C, July 21, t5.
Hon. Simon Cameron Dear ,S'.- I shij,
to-day by Adams' Express.four ears ot corn
the product of the grain planted by yourself
in the early part of April. It is poor torn
at the lest, probably owing to the soil. It
received every care from the gardener at the
hospital, whose name is given Mow.
Very respectfully, Your obedient servant
Johx P. Hatch, B'v't M.ij. Gen
David Fitz Gibbon, Gardener,-
"We have been piesented, says the Tel
egraph, with an ear of the corn." which we
will be glad to exhibit to our visitors."
Speculators Coming to Beggary,
Interested parties in Chicago and other
cities in the west, where large depots lor
the storage of grain are located, have been
engaged, for months past, in crcatiug a
panic on the failure of the era n crops.
Previous to this effort, the:-e parties had
purchased immense quantities of grain, and
the purpose was, before the harvest of the
crops in the ground, to create a panic, and
when prices had reached an exorbitant fig
ure, put the grain in the depots in the mar
ket, and thus, at the expense of labor and
the poor man, realize immense fortunes.
But before their scheme could become suc
cessful, the harvests of the grain growing
reigons of the west unsettled the markets
of the whole country. The crops all over
the country were immense, so that instantly
the value of stocks of old grain depreciated.
Then followed a panic such as has not
taken place in the grain market of Chicago
for many years. Men who were possessors
of princely fortunes the day before, sudden
ly awoke in the morning to realize that they
were reduced to absolute beggary. Specu
lators who had invested thddr all and exaust
ed their credit for grain, only sold their
stock to establish the tact that they were
bankrupts. While we do not rejoice in the
misfortunes of an3 man, says the lelegraph,
and while we believe in the legitimate uses
of money, to make money, we have no
sympathy for the miseries of any set of men
who become bankrupt while speculating in
the necessaries of life.
The Great Cable Failure.
There can no longer be any doubt of the
failure fa the Atlantic cable, which, we may
conclude, will for the present end all
such enterprises on the other side of the
ocean. The British have tried their hands
often enough to be satisfied that it is not in
them to girdle the world so far as the Atlantio
is concerned. Perhaps the Yankees will
think it best to show them how. As to
that, however, our sympathies for the pres
ent'are with the overland enterprise going
forward with so much zeal and success. Ex
perience has weakened confidence in subma
rine cables, not one of the many laid down
having continued to be serviceable anyjeon
siderable time. If the cable has failed,
science has gained something in the experi
ments that have been made, but we doubt,
it that will satisfy the English stockhold
ers. Iit tsb u rg Co m m ercia I.
Grant and McClellax. It may not
be generally known that immediately after
the attack upon and capture of Fort Donel
son by Gen. Grant he was placed under
arrest, yet such is the lact. uen. urain
was never iniormed of the charges made
against him, for his discr arge was ordered
without trial or court of inquiry, but he did
ascertain who ordered the arrest. It was
Gen. George B. McClellan. The latter
subsequently wrote several cordial letters to
the man whose daring and success had as
tonished and alarmed him. Portland Press.
Potato Rot. This scourge has made its
appearance in differeent quarters. The
Chicago Journal says : "We regret to learn
that the potato crop, in this part of the
country, is likely to prove a failure. The
long continued rains have had the effect of
killing the vines and rotting the roots. Ma
ny potato fields, west of this city, have the
appearance of being burned over being
black and blighted. We learn that, on ex
amination, the new potatoes in these fielas
are lound to be full ot white specks, ana
rotting rapidly."
One Patrick Maguire had been appointed
to a situation the reverse of a place of all
work ; and his friends, who called to con
gratulate him, were very muh surprised to
see his face lengthen on the receipt of the
news. "A sinecure, is it?" exclaimed 1 at
"Sure I know what a sinecure is ; it is a
place where there is nothing to do and they
pay you by the piece, ' '
A correspondent of the Rural IFrisays
that common bar soap rubbed upon tbo
trunk and roots of apple trees will keep on
the borer, while on peach trees itdoes no good.
Advertisement trt tn targe type, eutt, rout tfuttuU
ttyU trill be ehcu-ged double price for tpaceeeeupH.
COAL DIGGER TV AM TED. A good eol
miner, desirous ot obtaining tody employ
ment, is wanted immediately. For further pr
ticnlart inquire at the Journal office,
Clearfield, Pa., August 18, 1865
EX EC C TOR'S HOTl C Ej-Letten i testa
mentary on the eotateof Peter Stoaffer ta
of Burnside township, Clearfield county. ra,eo
having been granted to the undersigned, aiip
eoni indebted to said estate are requested to m
immediate payment, and those having cl"
gainst the same will present them propny
thenticated for tg BT0AFFB,
Aug 1,1S5. ExKumi