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Tnt!HS OF THE JOURNAL
n,. RATTSMAii'i Joe" published on Wed-
J"irUd t $1-50 p.r .ou.re, for three
i uU iwert ions-Ten linei (or few) counting
For. very additional insertion 50 cenU
ffiootton willb. medo to yearly mdrertiaert.
TRVI5 BROTHERS, Dealers In Square A Sawed
I La-ber. Dr, Good Oroeerie. o-r, Grain,
it , c, Barnside Pa
FREDERICK LEITZINQER. Manufacturer of
b -U kindl of Stone ware, Clearfield, Pa. Or
Un lolicited wholesale or reUil. Jan. M 1863
rBANS BARRETT, Attorneys at Law. Clear-
I ttld. Pa. maj to, iooo
j,. j. : .
.
WALTER BARRETT.
ROBERT J. WALLACE. Attorney at Law. Clear
field Pa Office in Shaw's new row, Market
itr, eppomte Saagle'l Jewelry store May 38.
H NACOLE, Watch and Clock Maker, -and
dealer In Watches, Jewelry, Ao. Room in
ftnhsni i row, Market street. Nov. 10.
HBCCHER 6W00PE. Attorney at Law, Clear
field Pa. Office in Graham's Row, fourdoo
wejt'ef Graham Boynton's store. Not. 10.
rp KRATZER, dealer in Dry Goods, Cloth
Hardware. Queensware, Groceries, Pro
uii of ie. Front Street, aboTe the Academy,
Clan field, Pa. Apr"
Wl LLIAM F. IRW IN, Market street, Clearfield,
Pa., Dealer in Foreign and Domestic Mer
chandise. Hardware, Uueensware, uroceries, ana
fimilv articles generally. Not. 10.
TOHN GUELICH, Manufacturer of all kinds of
J Cabinet-ware, Market street, Clearfield, Pa.
also makes to order Coffins, on short notice, and
attends funerals with a hearse AprlO, 59.
D
R
M. WOODS, Practicixo Phtsiciah,
and
Examining Surgeon for Pensions,
OSes, South-west corner of Second and Cherry
treft, Clearfield, Pa. January Zl. 1863.
mUOMAS J. M'CULLOTJGH. Attorney at Law
I Clearfield. Pa. Office, east of the "Clearfield
. Bank. Deeds and other legal instruments pre
pared with promptness and accuracy. July 3
JB M'EN ALLY, Attorney at Law, Clearfield,
. Pa. Practioes in Clearfield and adjoining
eeanties. Office in now brick building of J . Koyn-
t , 2d street, one door south of Lanicn s uotei
RICHARD MOSSOP, Dealer in Foreign and Do
mestic Dry Goods, Groceries, Flour, Bacon,
Liquors, Ao. Room, on Market street, a few doors
west ot Journal Offiee, Clearfield, Jf a. April.
mUOMAS W. MOORE. Land Surveyor and Con
I veyancer. Office at his residence, i mile eaet
f Pennvilla. Postoffice address, Grampian Hilla
leeda and ether instruments of writing neatly
executed. June 7th, lS6i-ly.
HTM. ALBERT A BRO'S. Dealers in Dry Good
W t roceries. Hardware. Queensware, Flour,
Bacon, etc.. Woodland, Clearfield county, Penn'a
AUo, extensive dealers in all kinds of sawed lum
ber. shiuzles. and square timber. Orders solici
ted. Woodland, Ang. 19th, 1863.
TAR. J. P. BUROIFIELD, late Surgeon of
XJ the 83rd Reet Penn'a Vols, baTing return
ed from the army, offers his professional services
te the citisens of Clearfield and vicinity, rroi-
feraional calls oromntly attended to. Umee on
Soutn-Eaat corner of 3d and Market streets.
Oct 4. 1865 fim-pd.
4 UCTION EER. The undersigned having
l been Licensed an Auctioneer, would miorm
tie eititens of Clearfield eounty that he will at
tend to calling sales, in any part of the county
whenever called upon. Charges moderate
Address, JOHN M'QUILKtN,
May 13 Bower Po., Clearfield co., Pa
AUCTION EER The undersigned having
been Licenced an Auctioneer, would inform
tie eititens of Clearfield eounty that he will at
trad to calling sales, in any part of the eounty
whenever called upon. Charges moderate.
Address. NATHANIEL RISHEL,
Feb. 22. 1865. Clearfield, Pa.
O. R. POSTBR, EDW. FBRKS, J. D. If filRK,
WM. T WRIdKT, W.A. WAIXAC," A. K. WRIGHT,
aiCSABDSBAW. JAS. T. LKOJABD, J AS. B. BABAM
a. L. REBO.
Banking and Collection Office
or
FOSTER, PERKS, WRIGHT ft CO
Pbilipiburs. Ckntrb Co., Pa.
ISills of Exchange, Notes and Drafts discounted
Deposits received. Collections made. and pro
eeeds promptly remitted. Exchange on the Cities
constantly on band. The above Hanking House
is now open and ready for business.
JhilipabBrg, Centre Co., Pa., Sept. 6, 1865.
nAUPT ft CO., at Milesburg, Pa., continue
to furnish castings of every description at
short notice. They have the best assortment of
patterns in the country for steam and water-mills
of every description. AH kinds of machine and
plew easting furnished. NewWorld and Hatha
way cook-stoves always on hand. They make 4
horse sweep-power threshing machines, with sha
ker and SO feet of strap tor $160 and 2-horse
tread-power machines, with shaker and 30 feet of
strap for $175. - Warranted to give satisfaction in
threshing, and kept good to thresh onoerop, free
of charge. . , June 28, 1865-y.
Isaac Haitpt, at Bellefonte, continues to take
risks for insnrance in anv good stock company in
Jthe State. Also in New York; the Royal and Et
Aa at Hartford ; and the Liverpool and London,
Capital 36,009,10.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK of Curwbi'B
villb, Pa.
Johs Pattos, Pies't. Capital paid in $ 75,006
Sam 'l Arnold, Cash. Authorised cap 5200,000
61RBCTOR8 : . .
Wm. Irvin, . John Pattou, . Samuel Arnrld.
F. K. Arnold, Daniel Faust, E. A. Irvin,
J.F.Irvin, G. H. Lytic, 'H.P.Thompson
This bank bnys and sells all kinds of Govern
men t securities. 7-30 notes always on hand and
.for sale. Receives money on ieposiL and if left
for a specific time allows nteiest. Buys and sells
drafts and exchange. Notes and bills discounted
at legal rate of interest, and does a general bank
ing business.
We have recently erected a very substantial
banking house, with a good vault, burglar safe,
Ac., tnd will be glad to receive any valuables our
friends and customers may have, that they desire
to leave for safe-keeping.
W e would respectfully solicit the business of
-lercnanta, Lumbermen, and others, and will en
deavor to make it their Interest to do their bank
Dg business with us.. - SAMUEL ARNOLD,
Curwensville, Pa. Oct. 25, 1P65. Cashier.
BONUS AND NOTES FOR SALE The
undersigned is prepared ta furnish, to those
eexing investments, Government and eounty
bonds Also five per cent Government notes.
, . H .B. SWOOPE, .
Clearfield May 4. 1864. , AU'y at Law.
LOT OF CLOTHING inclu
ding some extra quality of Beaver Over-coats,
and a
complete assortment o: cassimei gwius,
made no in suits to match for sale by
Dee.6,l65.. 1KV1JH St HAttianum
TEACHERS WANTED Five competent
teachers wanted in lSeccaria School District
for the term of 4 months, to whom liberal wages
will be paid. 11. A. WKlUiiT, secretary
Glen Hope, Pa., Dee. 6, 1S65 pd.
CAUTION. All person are hereby caution
ed against purchasing or meddling with the
Pine timber and saw logs on the premises, or
lands, of Elias Burns of Union township, as the
same was purchased by me, and are subject to
myorderonly. HENKY B. BAILEY.
Union p aov. 30, lHoo-qoc. o. -
THE MASON & n A.MLI CAHISET
ORGAN Forty different styles, adapted
to sacred and secular musio. for $80 to 5600 each.
FIFTY-ONE GOLD or SILVER MEDALS, or oth
er first premiums awarded them. Illustrated Cat-
e .j 3 f A CV t- II 1 UT TV Daa.
aiogues iree. Aaarefs, iio. uniuuii., w
ton, or MASON BUOTilERS, New York.
New York, November Z lj-iy
CURWENSVILLE nOUSE, Curwensville,
Pa. A. J Draucker. having leased the Hotel
recently occupied by Benj. Bloom, tsq , is now
prepared to receive transient and permanent
boarders. -.Every department eonneciea wua
his establishment will heconducted second to none
in the county. His stabling is ample for sixty
head of horses, with good wagon sheds and yards
connected He respectlully solicits a snare oi
public patronage. Deo. 6, ISftj-'f.
A
rL getio Agents for Junius Henri Browne's War
Adventures Nothing can excel this work in in
terest of subject matter, or in the sparkling graph
ic style in which the author delineates his experi
ences. It furnishes a ereater variety of incident,
and gives a better '-inside view" of the adven
tures and Tissnudest war. man any etner won.
O. D. Cask dt Co., Publishers,
Deo. , l865-3t. Hartford, Conn.
HOLLIDAY P R E S K .1 T 8 .
AGENTS WANTED
Gieat Sale of Jtwtlru and Silverwar?. Xhe Ar-
randale Lrreat trttt UittrthHtion.
Our Aeents are makinz from Five to Thirty
Dollars per day . and we still need more. I.ato
invoices trnm Europe have swelled our stocit to
Over One Million Dollars. A splendid assortment
of Watches. Rings. Ladies and Gentlemen s Jew
elry of all kinds, of the most fashionable patterns.
selling at $1 each. Send 25 cents for acertificate,
and you will see what you are entitled to ; or SI
for five oertiGcates, or $b for thirty, or eenx a 3
cent stamn tor our terms to Aeents, which are of
the most liberal kind. Now is your time !
ARRANDALE & CO..
No 167 Broadway, New York.
Dec. 6. lS65-3m
TIT US1CAL INSTRUMENT S
ill B. M. GREENE
Has oDened his Musio Store, one door west of
W. Lewis' Book Store, where he keeps censtantly
on hand Steinway A Sons' and Gaehles Piano
Manufacturing Company's Pianos, Masn A Ham
lin's Cabinet Organs and Carhart, Needham A
Co.s' Melodeons; Guitars, Violins, Fifes, Flutes;
Guitar and Violin btrinzs.
Music Books Golden Chain, Golden Shower
Golden Censer. Golden Trio, 4c , Ac.
Sheet Musio He is constantly receiving from
Philadclphiaall the l&test music, which persons
at a distance wishin ean order, and have sent
them hv mail at nublisher's prices. -
rsPianos and Orcaus Warranted for five yeirs
Those wishine to buy any of the above articles
are Invited to call and examine mine before pur
chasing elsewhere My prices are the same :s in
New York and Philadelphia.
Circulars of Instruments sent promptly - upon
application with any additional information de
sired. B.M.GREEN,
Hill street. Huntingdon, Pa , One door West of
Lewis' Book fetore. Dec 6, 1865
T1L1
j Session of -his Institution will commence on
Mandav. December 11th. 1863.
Pupils can enter ot any time. They will be
charged with tuition from the time they enter to
the close of the session
The course of instruction embraces everything
that is included in a thorough, practical and ac
comnlixhed education of both sexes.
The Principal having had the advantage of
much experience in his profession, assures pa-
rents and eusrdians that his entire ability and
energies will be devoted to tbo mental and moral
training of the youth placed under ais charge
Terms of Tcition :
Orthoeraphy, Reading. Writing- Grammar,
GeorrnDhv. and History per sesssion (11
weeks.) $5.00
Algebra. Geometry, Trigometry, Mensuration.
Surveying, Philosophy, Physiology, Chemistry
and Book-keeping. ft-v
Latin and Greek, with any of the above
branches. . $10,00
rNo deduction will bo made for abscei.'Ce
For further particulars inquire of
P. L. HARRISON,
Dec. 6, 18C5. Principal.
1TEW SKIRT
FOR 1865-6 The Great
11 Ii
nventionof the Aee in HQ:JP SKIRTS.
J. W. Bradley's New Patent Duplex Elliptic
(or double) bi'iUNG Skirt.
This Ixfetiox consists of Duplex (or two)
Elliptc Pr be Refined Steel Springs, ingenious
ly BRAiaKD tishtly and firmly together, kdg
t Knee, making the toughest, must flexible
elastic and durable spring ever used. They
seldom besd or break, liKe the bingle Springs
and consequently preserve tneir perfect ana beau
Hfnl Shane more than twice as Ion as any Sin
Kni-inir Skirt that ever Has or Can be made
The wonderful flexibility and great comfort
and pleasure to any Lady wearing the Duple
riii;. RVi,-. will be experienced particularly i
all crowded Assemblies. Operas. Carriages, Kail
Pews. Arm Chairs, for Pro men
) a and ITrniftA Dress, as the Shirt ean be folded
when in use to oeeupy a mall place as easily
and conveniently as a silk or Muslin Dress.
A Lady having Enjoyed the P'easure, Comfort
and Great Convenience ot wearing the Duplex
Elliptio Steel Spring Skirt for a single day will
Never afterwards willingly dispense with their
use. For rhildren, Misses and Young Ladies
they are superior to all others
The Hoops are covered with 2 ply doubio
twisted thread and will wear twice as long s the'
Single yarn covering wMcb is used on all single
Steel Hoop Skirts. The three bottom rods on
every Skirt are also Double Steel, and twioe or
double covered to prevent the covering from
wearing off the rods when dragging down stairs,
stone steps, etc., etc.. which they are constantly
subject to when in use. ,
All are made of the new and elegant Corded
Tapes and are the best quality in. every part,
giving to the wearer the most graceful and per
fect Shape possible, and are unquestionably the
lightest, most desirable, comfortable and econom
ical Skirt every made. tv '
Wests' Bradley A Cary, proprietors or the in
vention, and sole manutaoturers. 97 Chambers,
and 7tt ir 81 Reade Streets, New York. ,
For Sale in all first class Stores in this City,
and throughout the United States and Canada,
Havana de Cuba, Mexico, South Amerioa and the
West Indies. . . , ,
- ryinquire for the Duplex Eliptse (or double
A LARGE
Spring Skirt.
C.
CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20,
Select i'ectru.
TIME.
What is time, 0, glorious Giver,
With its restlessness and might,
But a lost and wandering river
Working back into the light?
Ceaselessly its waves are calling :
To our days, that as they fade,
. Though the Jnnsets still are falling
To its realm of ancient shade.
Man, whatever light is glowing
On its surface understands
That the waves beneath are flowing
Cold and white with dead men's hands.
Yet each gloomy rock that troubles
Its smooth passage, strikes to life
Beautiful and joyous bubbles
That are only born through strife.
Overhung with mist-like shadows,
Stretch its shores away, away,
To the long delightful meadows
Shining with immortal May,
Where its moaning reaches never.
Passion, pain, or fear to move,
And the change bring us ever,
Sabbaths and new moons of love.
THE TEEASUEY EEFOET.
Below we give a synopsis of the report of
the Secretary of the Treasury, containing
its most important statements of fact and
opinion, including the three topics of Cur
rency, Public Debt, and Itevenue. and pur
suing the order in which they are treated
by Secretary McUullough :
1. The Currency. The key to the policy
which the Secretary advocates may be iound
in the declaration ot his belief that the au
thority ot Congress to make the obligations
ot the Covet ument a legal tender resides
outside of the Constitution, and that the in
flation which ! as followed upon the necessa
ry exercise ot tnat authority Uiir.ug the war
is prejudicial to both public and private in
intere&ts. While, therefore, he does not
advocate the repeal of the legal tender acts,
nor beaeve it possible to reduce the volume
of the currency by violent measures, he is
of opinion that those acts should be regard
ed as only temorary, and that the work ot
retiring the notes which have been issued
under theiu should be commenced without
delay and carefully and persistently continu
ed until all are withdrawn. The rapidity of
the process will depend upon the ability
to dispose of securities, ihe specihe meas
ures retoinnienueil are as loliows :
First: That Couirress declare that the
compound interest notes shall cea.se to be a
legal tender from the day oi their maturity.
These notes were intended to be a security
rather than a chculatius uAidium, and such
a declaration by Congress would be neither
injurious to the public nor au act oi baa
taith to tne holders.
Second : That the Secretary be
ized in his discretion to sell bonds
author
of the
United S.atcs, bearing iutcrest at a rate not
exceeding six per cent, a;;d redeemable and
payable at such periods as may be conducive
to the interests of the Government, for the
purpose ot retiring not only eompouud in
terest notes but the United States notes.
The amount which the Secretary esti
mates as necessary to ba retired in order to
bring the currency within proper limits is
from one hundred to two hundred millions,
iu addition to the compound notes, the
amount of which hitter, Oct. 31, was $173,
012.141. all due in 1807 and 18G8. The to-
tal Daner circulation of the United States
at that date was $734,218,038, to which
should be added suNiiOO.rfJOO, the estimated
amount of compound interest, notes actually
in circulation. The total is likely to t e still
'further increased by the issue of notes to
the National banks now daily going on, and
destined to continue till the limit of $3000,
000.000 authorized bv law shall have been
reached, as it will be at no distant date,
As but $18.5,000,000 of National Bank notes
are included iu the estimate of $7344218,038
20. thorp. riMii.iin 115.oOU.OOO to be added,
and the ajrgreirate amount of circulation will
then be SS49.218.038 20. If the reccnv
mediations of the Secretary in regard to
contraction be fully carried out by retiring
$ 200,000,000 of United States notes aud
the $30,000,000 of compound interest notes
actually in circulation, there will still re
main a total circulation of . $619,218,038 20,
even supposing that no extension of the
amount of National Bank notes now author
ized to be issued be granted by Congress.
It is, perhaps, in view of these or similar
calculations that the Secretary adds to his
suggestions the remark that '..'neither ' the
amount of reduction nor the time that will
be required to brir g up the currency to the
specie standard can now be estimated with
any degree of accuracy. T.he first thing to
be done is to establish the policy of contrac
tion."' 11. The liblic DcbUma Secretary re
gards it as a public burdeiv the work of re
moving which should not be long postponed.
He sees no way of doing that except by an
increase of the national income beyond the
national expenditures. The first step is to
fund the obligations that are soon to ra
ture. The next, to provide for raising reve
nues necessary to pay the inferest on the
debt, and a certain definite amount annual
ly for the reduction of the principal. On
the 31st Oct., since which time no material
change has taken place, the public debt
amounted to $2,808,549,437 55; for the
items of which total, readers may refer to
the report itself. Receipts for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1K65 were $1,89S,
532,f33 24, of which $864,863,499 17 were
from loans applicable to expenditures, and
$607,361,241 68 from loans applied to pay
ment of public debt, aud $209,464,21; 2d
from internal revenue. Expenditures were
$1,197,674,224 09, of which the War de
partment is chanredwith $1,031,323,360 (y,
redemnfion tif tlebt as bove stated ; interest
on public debt, $77,397,712. , Balance July
1,2865, $858, 309 15. Total increase of pub
lic debt during the year, $941,902,537 04.
Xhe receipts tor tne quarter ending oept-
30, 1863, were-440,226,770 27 ; expenses,
5.J 1 3,0tS,254 83; leaving balance Ucu l,
$67,158,515 44. Estimated receipts for the
remaining three quarteis of the year ending
June 30, 1866, are :. .
iialance $67,158,515 44
Customs $100,000,000 00 -
Lands 500,000 00
In't Rev.. 175,000,000 00
Miscellaneous 30,000,000 00-305,500,000 00
$372,658,515 44
Estimated expenditures for the same per
iod are $484,853,462 64, ot which the War
Department (tor payment of troops and clos
ing up existing balances) wants $307,7S8,
750 57, and Interest on the Public Debt,
$96,813,868, 75. Deficiency for the year,
$112,194,947 20.
Tor the year ending June 30, 1867, esti
mates are .
It KC El ITS
Customs $100,000,000 00
In't Rev., 275,000 000 00
Lands 1.000,000 00
Miscellaneous 20,000,000 00 $396,000,00000
Expenditures.
Civil Service - $42,165,599 67
Pen's and Ind's 17,5u9,640 23
War Department S9.017.416 IS
Navv Deo't 43,982.457 50
In't onPubDcpt 141,542,065 50 281.317,1S1 8S
Estimated surplus of receipts Sill.6S2.SI8 12
The past due debt on the 31st'October,
beside the compound interest, the United
States and the fractional notes, amounted to
1.373.920. 09: dbt due in 1865 and 1866
to 187.549.646 46: debt due in 1867 and
1G68 to S848.323.591 80. Ot the latter
item, $$30,000,000 consist of 7 3-10 notes.
As thev are convertible into bonds only at
the pleasure ot holders, tne secretary ae
sires to be authorized to fund them, when
ever it can be advantajreonsry done, in aa
vance to their maturity. To meet deficiency
for the present fiscal year he desires authori
ty to sell, in his discretion, bonds of a simi
lar character, to reduce the temporary loan,
to nav maturinar certiScates of indebtedness,
and also to take tin anv portion of the debt
matiirin!? inior to 1S(9 that can be advan
tageously retired. "It is not probable,"
remarks the Secretary, that it will be advisa
ble, even if it could be done without pressing
them upon market, to sell a much larger
amount of bonds within the present or the
fecxt fiscal year than will be necessary to meet
any deficiency of the lrcasury, to pay tne
past due and maturing obligations of the
Government, and a part ot the temporary
loan, and to ratire an amount ot the. com
Dound interest notes and United States
notes sufficient to bring back the business
of the countrv to a healthier condition
Bat no harm can result from investing the
Secretary with authority to dispose of bonds
if the condition ot the market will mstuy it,
in orde'r to anticipate the payment of those
oongaiions inac musi soou ue pruviucu iui.
The total debt on the 1st of July, 1866,
is estimated at S3.OO0.000.000. lhe Sec
retarv believes the whole mav eventually be
funded at a rate of interest from 5 to 5j
nnr cent, and he s-.i!resta the application of
$200,000,000 per annum to the payment of
principal and interest together, ny wnicn
the whole would bo extinguished in from
28 to 32 vears.
TIT "Internal Revenue. The Secretary
recommends frequent aud careful revision of
t.hA svstem nt taxation. Wltn a view w its
hcpomiirtr alwavs more simple and produc
tivfl. For sneeifie recommendation he
awaits th renort of the SDecial commission,
pynoi'Ml p.n-lv in the present session. In
Southern States, the Sec-
rtarv rviiii mends that the collection of
taxes aecruins before the establishment
tlmrpin of revenue offices be indefinitely
postponed : that sales of property for direct
t:ivp f nnstnoned till the States have an
opportunity of assuming those taxes, as the
loyal States did; and that all transactions in
valid for want of stamps be legalized so far
as litis iu the power ot Congress. For a
great variety of statements and suggestions
on other points the report itself may be con
sulted.
Tn tliA Al:f1:im House. Mr. Smith
of
PhfWaw li introduced a bill to prohibit
hfitween the white and the
black races. Intermarriage is made felony
by the bill, punishable by imprisonment for
the whites, and branding and whipping for
the negroes. " Other disreputable connec
tions between the races subject the whites to
ifinonfii ft!Y. and imprisonment in the
fvmnftr i:iil for twelve months. The other
nirr; r' tliA rinifl are to receive ltone
hundred lashes on his or her bare back.
The colored population of New York
have apjointed a representative to Wash
ington, and furnished him with $10,000 to
his effort to further the in-
avv itviu
troeta rf t hp colored race. ' r lmllar , repre
KonmtWoa with an filial amount of funds
each, have been appointed trom mew. Jng-
' ' . . IT T,
land and Louisiana. Part ot che duties ol
the delegation will be to Tire the Jxecu-
tive to appoint colored Ministers Plenipo
tentiary to the black republics of Liberia
and HaytL
The . members of Congress are already
hplmwl with letters" and personal ap-
pications from parties who wish to be npm-
mated to tne ar iepaniucui iui
m th armv: si recent order having Deen is
sued for the filling of vacancies in the Regu
lar service by an equal apportionment among
tha Stnfoa nn First or one Second -Lieu-
tpnnnt tn bp. appointed from each Congres- J
I-- - (
sional District. - J 1 '' ' j
nf the Consti-
tutionality of the Congressional 1 test oath i is
now before the Supreme Court for decision,
u Ktn Mrtn ftf nne of the Arkansas
Congressmen elect,' aad will be argued m a
iew aays.. .
i-.r..: . - ; -"'- "-
1865.
THE DIFFICULTY WITH ENGLAND.
Earl Russell deserves high praise for his
candor, at least, as well as tor his decisive ac
tion. Pressed very closely by Mr. Adams,
on the question of England's liability to pay
the damages inflicted on the commercial ma
rine of this country by the piraces of the
Alabama and other British-built and Brit
ish-owned war vessels, he first suggested the
appointment of a commission, to which
might be referred anything but the same
question of damages aud compensation. Fi
nally, having been asked ichat he would re
fer, his Lordship paused to write a long let
ter, in which he reviewed his hole policy
as foreign minister, aud curtly said that this
would be the last notice that he should take
of the Americau claims ; that England hich
telegraphed for the stoppage of "No. 290,"
ais the Alabama after that vessel had
steamed out of Liverpool into the Irish Sea)
had done all she could to prevent the con
struction and fitting out of pirates; .that all
that was possible was done under the .for
eign Enlistment Act, and that, this noted
statue beiner ineneetive, the American and
English Governments might wisely deter
mine whether a better measure might not be
uevised."
This remarkable missive means war,
though Earl Russell may not know it.
We are a peaceful people; we never have
wilfully provoked, annoyed or insulted any
other nation. e have just emerged trom
a tour-years' war, forced upon us by an lll-
advised portion of our iellow-citizens, and
coucluded at a vast expenditure of blood and
treasure, it is true, but with the uoble re
sult of wholly abolishing slavery within our
mightv empire. We have a large national
debt, which has imposed upon us a heavy
weight ot taxation, but we arc ready, as a
people, to take up arms a "am, if the bitter
need must be, and contend, on the field and
on the wave, for the maintainance of our
national honor, by forcing England to com
pensate our merchants and ship-owners lor
lhe damage done to them by British pirates,
sailing under the Confederate nag, yet not
one of which ever cast an anchor in a Con
federate port. We laid our claims before
the British Government iu a firm and re
spectful manner, and after various shift s
and delays are now told, with all the inso
lence ot office added to his own, by a little
whipper-snapper ot an aristocrat, who has
accidentally became the chief adviser and
servant oi Uueen V ICTORIA, that he really
cannot be troubled any more with such com
plaints from us. it Lord IICSSELL imagines
that he can bluff us off in this cool manner,
he will find himself mistaken aud his col
league, Mr. Gladstone, instead of propos
ing new reductions ot taxation, (which, by
the way, did not diminish the amount of
public revenue raised) will have to prepare
tor a war-budget, with new taxes, a large is
sue of exchequer-bills, and an increase of
the National Debt. Our just claims on
England must be conceded peaceably, it
possible; tbrubly, if necessrry.
The insclence of Lord Russell is noth
iug new. His policy, while in the Foreign
Offices was to bully the small, and be obse
quious to the great powers. Perhaps he
thinks that because we have just ended a
great war, we may be unable or unwilling
to assume a hostile position against Eng
land. He is mistaken. If this country be
insulted, we shall not think it too much to
vindicate its honor nnd obtain what is our
due. It would be no small strife if it be en
tered into. A tew more impertinent letters
from the British Premier, and we do not
see how it can be avoided. We may have
to force justice from England. If so our
people will say with Palefox, ; "War to
the knife."
The loss of Lord Palmerston will now
be felt and lamented more than ever, lie
had his faults, but his sagacity was great,his
experience extensive, L is temper well-regulated,
and his common-sense practical, lie
would never have permitted Lord Russell
to play the fool, as he has done, in the c; scs
of these claims and the Shenandoah. Even
The Times, notoriously an ti-American in its
politics and prejudices, arraigns Lord Rus
SFLLtorhis unconditional surrender of the
officersand crew of the Shenandoah, hopes
this was not done '- without communication
with - Mr. Adams,.; declared that Capt.
WadDell's treatment of "the unfortun
ate men v hom he had captured in the
whalers was singularly brutal,," discredits
the statements in his letter, and affirms
that it is for the American Government
either to prosecute Waddell and his
ruffians under the British law, "or to claim
them under the extradition treaty." "Claim
Uiemf Of whom? Lord RqsSELL will
coolly fay,"'- "discharged them. Look for
them, and if you find them you will not lose
your labor,"
The people of England, we are confident,
have na desire to have a war with the Uni
ted States. No doubt they will express
their opinion. There is now a good oppor
tunity for our excellent friend J oas Bright,
to move the peace party, and remonstrate a
gainst the unstatesmanly ami
injudicious
One thing is
the head of
ultimatum ot Jjora xiussisli
nortnin ho rannnt remain an
the Britssh Government if he continues" to
blunder as he has coromeneeo. oay wnas
he may, do what be wilL England must and
Say what
will pay her just compcusauou, aa ucui abi
ded, for damages done to American commerce
J y British pirates. Press,
Postal. During the year ending June
30th, 465,000,001) letters passed through the
mai s of the United States, at a cost to the
writer of $13,986,350 87. As this amount
does not include the States lately in rebel
lion, it makes an average'of a little over twen
ty letters a year for every man, woman and
child in the country. '
- Orders have been, received at Fortress
Monroe to discharge all deserters held as
prisoners in" Virginia. -z ,f
VOL. 12.-NO. 15.
FKEE FIGHT AMONG THE FENIANS.
If it were not that two or three matters of.
a serious nature are involved in it, the fuss
among the official Fenians woud be very
funuy. Uere we have a body ot men who
have set up all the machinery oi civu gov
ernment on the soil ot the United States,
either to control the political afiairs of a
people three thousand miles away under
another government, or else to make war
for the liberation of Ireland by the utter
ance of discordant noises after the fashion of
the Chinese. We have, from time to time,
given brief accounts of the progress ot the
discord prevailing at the Fenian capitol in
JSew lork ; hrst, the denunciation oi pres
ident O'Mahoney by the Senate for issuing
bonds without authority, and declaring said
bonds to be worthless ; next, the response
ot O'Mahoney denouncing the Senators as
"factionists, instigated by corrupt motives,
and now we have the rejoinder of the Sen
ate in the impeachment, trial, conviction
and deposition of their late Chief ; and lastr
ly, the defiant appeal of O'Mahony to the
Fenian brotherhood of the United States,
backed by the Fenian Circles of New York,
and the calling of a new Congress to meet
on the 2d of January. The charges and
specifications on which O'Mahony was tried
set forth that, he had refused to communi
cate with the Senate asenjoined by the Con
stitution ; he has kept from them the books
and account of the Secretary of the Treas
ury; he has usurped an office for which he
draws $1200 a year after he was rejected by
the Senate ; he has divulged the secrets of
the brothel hood ; he has been guilty ot
waste and extravagance in taking a house
for his official residence at$18,(HHl a year,
and paying for it a. year and a half in ad
vance ; he has made inflammatory speech
es ; and finally, he has refused to pay over
to the Secretary of War moneys appropri
ated for the tT.se of his Department. Such
are the charges and the ostentatious parade
of them, and the exhibition of Secretaries
of tin: Treasury.and War, and the sitting of
the Senate ?sa high Court of impeachment
would be lnilicrous enough if it were not as
we have said for the serious aspects of the
affair. 1 1 will be observed that the last item
in the list of eharees above civen is about
moneys refused to the Secretary of War to
use in his Department. Whac those uses
are is stated by President O'Mahoney him
self, with singular frankness in an open con
versation. He said that General Sweeney
(oneot our volunteer Generals) who appears
to be Secretary of War, wanted him (O'Ma
honey) to pay over to him (Sweeney) $50,
000, without vouchers for the purcl ase of
"supplies to puttroops in the field." This
is rather a grave matter, and we are unable
to see how the Government at Washington
can avoid taking notice of it. These facts
and enthusiastic gentlemen do not seem to
be aware that the United States have laws
on this subject which punish infractions of
them by heavy fines and imprisonment .
Another grave aspect of the matter is,
that the poor Irish people ot this country
appear to have made large contributions to
the Fenian cause out of their hard earnings,
which is not only being used for unlawful
purposes, but is being wasted by their lead
ers in wild projects, luxurious living ana
private speculations. Let us name a few of
the disclosures. There are $27,000 for the
rent of a house, $5000 for extravagant fur
niture, $50,000 asked to supply troops in
the field (what field?) $T0,000 lost in gold
speculations, and $250,000 said to have been
loaned to some newspaper- Some of these
sums may be overstated, but they are all
given npon authority of O' Mahoney him
self. It is a cruel bhame that the poor,
hard-working Irish people of this country
should have their earnings taken from them
for such scandalous purposes. We trust
their eyes will be opened by this faction
fight among their leaders, both as to the
waste of their money and the unlawful pur
poses to which it is to be put in the United
States. t
In the detailed account f the difficulties
we find that Mr. O'Mahoney sieaks openly
of having scut iusttuctions pver to Ireland
for Mr. Stevens, the Fenian Head Centre
there, who has just escaped from a Dublin
Prison. By this he. at once connects the
Fenian operations here with the conspiracy
there, com promising, his friends before the
laws of this country, and even Stephens
himself. What cause would be safe in the
hands of so imprudent a man? . :
Thns poor Ireland has her welfare ten
in hand by a parcel of visionary (and if
their own accounts of each other be true,
mercenary ) men ; and thus the day of her
liberation is put off, The struggle for her
.liberty among the Fenian chiefs has deeen
eaated into a miserable squabble of which
the possession ot the money is the begin
ning and the end. Ledger.
Ninety-nine out of every one hundred pa
pers cordially approve of the President's
message. The exceptions areas insignifi
cant in character as they are in numbers,
and belong generally to the out-and-out reb
el school or to the Conquered Province and
Universal Confiscation tribe. . . ' " J
Whn a national bant receives its charter
ft mTiSt pay into the United State Treasury
a "sum equal to its autnorisea circulation, so
that whether it fails or not its notes will alT
ways be payable- '
The Madison (Indiana) ' Courier says it
has heard young ladies singing "Who will
care for Mother now ?'r-while their old
mothers were wearing themselves out in the
kitchen over the family washing.
A New York merchant, living in Nine
teenth street, discovered the ot her day, that
ho had lived for two years in the same block
with his brother whom he had not seen for
twelve years. ' " ' - - - ' ; ' '
V The "Legislature of North Carolina has
ratified the Constitutional amendment. . ;
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