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VOLUME 2,
DIRECTORY.
pjEPAUEU EXPRESSLY roa "THE ALLEGHAXIA.SV'
LIST O
Pcf OCices.
B. T.n3 Creek,
Bethel Station,
C. irroilto-.vn,
Caess Springs,
Cresson,
f.tll Timber,
Ga'.IUziq,
Joaasrown,
Loretto,
Mineral Point,
Muaster,
Persian?,
Piitiiririe,
St. Augustine,
Scaly Level,
Soanian,
Sunuurhill,
Summit,
Wikaorc,
jtf Masters. Districts.
Joseph Graham, Yoder.
Joseph S Mardis, Elacklick.
Benjamin Wirtner, Carroll.
Daul. Litzinger, Chest.
John J. Troxell, YVnshint'n.
Mrs. II. Al'Cague, Ebensburg
Isaac Thompson, "White.
J. II. Christy,
"Wm. M'Gough,
II. A. BoggS,
"Win. Gwiun,
E. Wissinger,
A. Durbin,
Francis Clemeat,
Andrew J. Ferral
G. W. Bowman,
Wm. Ryan, Sr.,
George Conrad,
B. M'Colgan,
"Wm. Murray,
Miss M. Gillespie
Andrew Beck,
Gallitzin.
"Washt'n.
Johnst'wn.
Loretto.
Conem'gh.
Muuster.
Conem'gh.
Susq'han.
AVhite.
Clearfield.
Richland.
"Washt'n.
Croyle.
Washt'n.
S'mmerhill.
turscaES, kixisteiis, &c.
Presbyterian Rev. 1. Hauiuso.v, Pastor.
P;e:,.c!ua.'r every Sabbath morning at 10
o'clock, and in the evening at 3 o'clock. Sab
b.v.a School at 1 o'clock, A. M. Prayer meet
ing cverv Thursday evening at G o'clock.
ti:hodist l-.'Jizcopal V.iurcn uev. J. otiAN E,
prea.aer in charge. Uev E. II. Baird, As
siitint. Preaching every Sabbath, alternately
a: 10 V o'clock in the morning, or 7 in the
e-ening. Sabbath School at U o clock, A. M.
Fravtr'meeuiig every Thursday evening, at 7
o'clock.
Welch Ind.pendcn Ret Lt. R. Powell,
Paf.or. Preaching every Sabbath morning a:
!j o'ciock, and in the evening at C o'clock.
Lb bath School at 1 o'clock, P. M. Prayer
nectlng on the first Monday evening of each
month r,nd on every Tuesday, Thursday and
F;iJiv evening, excepting the first week in
cacii month.
Ca'i iv.ietic Methodist Rev. John "Williams,
Piitcr. Preaching every Sabbath evening at
Zxi'l o'clock. Sabbath School at 10 o'clock,
A. M. Prayer meeth,g every Friday evening,
it 7 o'clock. Society tvry Tuesdaycvtriiag
t. 7 o'clock.
Disciples Rev. W. Lloyd, Pastor. Preach
ia? everv Sabbath morning at 10 o'clock.
"Pariiinlur Baptists Rev. David Jeseixs,
Fiitor. Preaching every Sabbath evening tt
Z o'clock. Sabbath School at at 1 o'clock, P. II
Catholic Hav. M. J. Mitchell, Pastor.
Services everv Sab;uh morning at 10 o'clock
i-d Vespers at 4 o'clock ia the evening.
EBE5S33JEIG MAULS.
MAILS ARRIVE,
listers, dr.ily, at 12 o'clock, nocn.
VesUrn, at 12 o'clock, noon.
MAILS CLOSE.
Fi-tcrn. ds.".Iy, at 4 o'clock, P. M.
Wvitcrr, ' at 4 o'clock, P. M.
&Cf The Bill's from Butler,Indiana,Sir;ngs
to.v.:. arrive oa Tuuis lay of each week,
iit j t ClUCrl, 1'. M.
Leave Ebensburg on Friday of each week,
:'6 A. -M.
ITJi. The mails from Sewraan's Mills, 'Car
ru'.lrown. tc, arrive on Monday, Wednesday
3d Friday of each week, at 3 o'clock, P. M.
Leave Ebensburg on Tuesdays, Thursdays
and ?triays, vt 7 o'clock, A. M.
3" Post Office open on Sundays from 9
to 10 o'cbck. A. M.
RAILROAD SElSOU,E.
W1LMORE STATION.
West Express Train leaves at 9.03 A.'M.
Mail Train ," 8.17 P. M.
Eii-Exr.r?ris Train " 7.20 P. M.
FasULine . " 12.35 P. M.-
" Muil'frain, " 6.23 A. M.
The Fast Line West does not stop.
COc:.'TY OFFICERS.
Juljts nf the Courts President, Hon. Geo.
?vii,r, Huntingdon; Associates, George "W.
E!ey, Richard Jones, Jr.
Prothc-noiary Joseph M Donald.
Ptfirur and Recorder Fd.vard l''
Lytle.
ishertf. ILobert 1. Lanton.
ltepty Serijf. William Linton.
District Attorney. Philip S. Noon.
Oju-ii.tj Commictionert. Abel Lloyd,
Storra, Jaroe3 Cooper.
Clerk to Commissioners. Robert A. M'Coy
Treasurer. John A. Blair.
iW House Directors. David O'llarro,
Michael M'Guire, Jacob Horner.
Poor House Treasurer. George C. K. Zabm.
Poor House Steward. James J. Kaylor.
Mercantile Appraiser. II. C. Device.
Auiitors. Henry Hawk, John F. Stull.
iolin S. Uh-py.
ju,ity Surveyor. E. A. Yickroy.
Coroner, J.i-aes S. Todd.
Superintendent of Common Schools. T. A.
a-igaire.
CBCXSSURG ISOU. OFFICERS.
Jutticet of the Peace. David II. Roberts,
i&rrisou Kinkead.
Burgess David J. Evans.
7Wn Council Evan Grifiith, John J. Evans,
pliiaiu D. Davis, Thomas B. Moore, Daniel
0. Evans.
CUrk to Councii T. D. Litzinger.
Borough Treasurer George Gurley.
Wtiah Master William Davis.
School Directors William Davis, Reese S.
J-'oyd, Morris J. Evans, Thomas J. Davis,
"'Jgh Jones, David J. Jones.
Treasurer of School Hoard Evan Morgan.
ft-nttalle Gtorp W. Brown.
Collector George Gurley.
Juil,J'- of Election lie shac Thomas.
orRobert Evans, Wm. William3
'""orRichard T. Davis.
Select Boctrn.
A SCORE OF YEARS AGO.
Down by the breaking waves we stood,
Upon a rocky shore ;
The brave waves whispered courage,
And hid with friendly roar,
The falt'ring words that told the tale
I dared not tell before.
I ask'd if she with the priceless gift,
Her love, my life would bless ;
"Was it her voice, or some fair wave
Forsooth, I scarce may guess
Some murm'ring wave, or her sweet voice,
That lisped so sweetly, "Yes."
And then, in happy silencej too,
I clasped her fair wee hand ;
And long we stood there carelessly,
"While o'er the darkened land
The sun set, and thefishing boats
"Were sailing for the strand.
It seems not many days ago
Like yesterday no more,
Since thus we stood, my love ard I,
Upon the rocky shore :
But I was four-and-twenty then,
And now I'm forty-four.
The lily hand is thinner now,
And in her sunny hair
I see some silvery lines, and on
Her brow seme lines of care ;
But, wrinkled brow or silver locks,
She's not one whit less fair.
The fishing boats a score of year3
Go sailing from the strand ;
The crimson sua a score of years
Sets o'er the darkened land,
And here to-night upon the clilx
We're standing bond in hand.
:My darling, there's our oldest girl,
Down on the rocks below ;
YTuat's Stanley doing by her side ?"
My wife says, 4,You should know ;
He's telling her what you told me
A score of years ago."
41 KtLLIKG bVbUBPEB,"
BY JAilEd K. PAULDING.
I am a sober, uiitltJle-acccd married iren-
tieiuan, of moderate size ; with moderate
wishes, and moderate means, a moderate
family, and everything moderate about
me, except my. house, which is too large
for my means or my family. It i., how
ever, or rather, alas ' it was, an old family
mausion, full of old things of no value ex
cept to the owner, as connected with early
associations and ancient friends, and I did
not like the idea cf converting it into a
tavern or hoarding house, as is the fashion
with the young heirs of the present day.
Such as it was, however, although 1 some
times felt a little like the ambitious snail,
which once crept into a lobster's shell,
and came near perishing in a hard winter,
I managed to live m it for ten or tweive
years very comibrrabh', and to make both
ends meet. 3iy iuruiture, to be sure, was
a Httlo out of fashion, and litre aud there
a little out at the elbows j but I always
persuaded myself that it was respeetaoie
to be out of fashion, and that new things
smacked of new men, and therefore rather
vulgar. Under this impression I lived in
my old house with my oId-fa?hioued, moderate-sized
family, and moderate means,
envying nobody; and indebted to no one
iu the world.
I had neither gilded furniture nor grand
mantle glasses nor superb chandeliers ; but
then I had a few fine pictures and busts,
and flattered myself they were much more
genteel than gilded furniture, grand man
tle glasses and superb chandeliers. In
truth I look down with contempt, not' only
on these, but also on all those who did net
agree with me in opinion. I never asked
a person to dinner the fcecond time who
did not admire my busts and pictures,
considering him a vulgar jreuius and au
admirer of gilded trumpery.
But let no man presume, after reading
my story, to flatter himself that he is out
of the reach of the infection of fashion
and fashionable opinions. lie may hold
out for a certain time, perhaps, but human
nature can't stand forever on the defens
ive. The example of all around us is ir
resistable sooner or later. The first shock
given to my attachment to respectable old
fashioned furniture and a respectable
four square double house, was received
from the elbow of a modern worthy, who
had grown rich nobody knew how, by
presiding over the drawing of lotteries,
and who came and built himself a narrow
four story house at the right side of my
four square double mansion. It had white
marble tops, with marble door and window
sills, folding doors and marble mantle
pieces, and was as fine as a fiddle," indoors
and out. lt put my rusty, old mansion quite
out of countenance, a3 my friends told
me, though I assure my readers I thought
it excessively tawdry and in Lad taste.
I "WOULD RATflER BE RIGHT THAX PRESIDENT. Hexky Clat.
EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, MAY
But alas I such is the stupidity of
mankind I could get nobody to agree
with mo.
"What has come over your house late
ly?" cried one irood-natured visitor; ''some
how it, don't look like it used to."
"What makes your house look so rusty
and old-fashioned V said another good
natured visitor.
"Air. Blankprize has taken the shine
o2 you," said Mrs. Sowei by; "he has hilled
your house y
Hereupon the spirit moved me to get
out and reconnoitre tho venerable man
sion, lt certainly did look a little chubby,
rusty, old-fashioned quakcr by the side of
a first rate dandy. I picked a quarrel
with it outright, which by the way, was a
very unlucky quarrel. I was not rich
enough to pull it down aud build a new
one ; and it was jrreat folly to quarrel with
au old house until you can get a better.
But if I can't build, I can paint, thought
I, and put at leat as good a face on the
matter as this opulent lotter' man, my
next door neighbor. Accordingly I con
sulted my wife on the subject, who,
whether from a spirit of contradiction, or
to do her justice, I believe from a correct
aud rational view of the subject, discour
aged my project. I was only the more
determined. So I caused my honest old
house to be painted a bright cream color,
that it might hoM up its head against the
scurvy lottery man.
"Bless me 1" quoth Mrs. Smith, "what
is the matter with this room 'i It don't
look as it used to."
"Why, what under the sun have you
done to the room?" cried Mrs. Brown.
"Protect me !" exclaimed Mrs. White,
"'why I seem to have got into a strange
room. "What is the matter?"
" You have killed the lasiJe.of your house !"
said Mrs. Sowcrby, "by painting the out
side such a bright color."
It vras too true; this was my firt crime.
Would I had stopped there ! bu destiny
determined otherwise. It happened un
fortunately that my front parlor carpet
was of a yellow ground. It was, to be
sure, somewhat faded by time and use, but
it comported very well with the unpreten
ding sobriety of my house, under the old
"regime." But the case was altered now,
and the bright cruam color of the outside
"killed" the dingy yellow carpet within.
So I bought a new carpet of a fine orange
ground, determined that this should not
be killed. It looked very fine and I was
satisfied that I had done the business ef
fectually. "Bless my soul!" cried Mrs. Smith,
"'what a sweet pretty carpet."
"Save us I" exclaimed Mrs. Brown,
"why you look as fine as twopence."
"Protect usl" cried Mrs. Sowcrby,!
"what a fashionable affair." Then casting i
a knowing look, around the room, she add
ed in a tone of hesitating candor, "but
uou't you think, somehow or other it kills
the curtains?"
Another murder! thought I; wrcrch
that lam, what have I done? What is
done cannot be undone; but I can remedy
the affair. So I bought a new suit cf 3"cl
low curtains. I will twig Mrd. Sowcrby
now.
Mrs. Sowcrby came the very next day.
"Well, I declare, now this is charming.
I never saw more tasty curtains. But my
dear Mr. Sobersides, somehow or other,
don't you think they kill the walls?"
Murder again ! Four stone walls killed
at a'blow. But I'll get the better of 3Irs.
Sowerby yet. So I got the walls colored
as bright as the curtains, and bade her
defiance iu my heart the next time she
came.
Mrs. Sowcrby came as usual. Her
whole life was spent in visiting about
everywhere, and putting people cut of
conceit with themselves.
She threw up her eyes aud her hands.
"Well, I declare, Mr. Sobersides, you have
done wonders. This is the real French
white," which, by the wajr, my unlearn
ed readers should know is yellow. "But,"
continued the pestilent woman, "don't
you think these bright colored walls kill
tltc chairs J"
Worse and worse. Here are twelve in
nocent old arm chairs, with yellow satin
bottoms and backs, murdered by four un
feeling French white,. walls. But there is
a remedy for all things but death. So I
forthwith procured a new set of chairs as
yellow as custard, and snapped my fingers
iu triumph at Mrs. Sowcrby the next time
she cuue.
But alas ! what are all the towering
hopes of man. Dust, ashes, emptiness,
nothing. Mrs. Sowerby was not yet sat
isfied. She thought the chairs were beau
tiful. . "But then, my dear friend," she said,
after au appalling pause, "my frieud, those
bright 3ellow satin chairs have killed (lie
picture frames!"
And so they had, as dead as Julius Cie
ear the picture framea looked like old
lumber amidst all my improvements.
There- was no help for it, and away went
the pictures to Messr3. Parker t'e Clover.
In good time they returned, "redeemed,
regenerated and disenthralled." Fwas so
satisfied now that there was nothing left
in my parlor to be killed, that I could
hardly sleep that night, so impatient was
I to tsee Mrs. Sowerby.
The pestilent woman, when she came
next day looked around in evident disap
pointment, but exclaimed with apparent
cordiality :
"Well now, I declare, it's all perfect;
there is not a handsomer room in town."
Thank heaven ! thought I, I have com
mitted no more blunders.
But I reckoned without my host. I
was destined to go on murdering in spite
of myself. The Spring w:is coming on,
.and the weather being mild, the folding
doors had beeu thrown open between the
front and back parlors. This latter was
furnished with green, somewhat faded, I
confess. I had heretofore considered h
the sanctum sanctorum of the establish
ment. It was only used on extraordinary
occasions, such as Christinas and Xew
Year's day, when all the family dined with
me, bringing the;r little children vr.i'a
them to gorajandize themselves sick. Tho
room looked very well by itself, but alas !
the moment Mrs. Sowerby caught sic-ht
of it, her eye brightened fatal omen.
"Why, my dear Mr. Sobersides, what
has got into your back parlor ? It used to
be so genteel aad smart. Why I believe
I am loosing my eyesight. The green
curtains and carpet look quite yellow I
think. Oh, I see it now the fro at par
lor has killed 'lie hack one!"
The deuce! Here was another rfretty
piece of business. I must either keep
the door shut in summer aud be roasted,
or be charged with killing a whole parlor
carpets, chairs, sofas, walk and all.
lt would be but a mere repetition to re
late how this wicked woman led me from
murder to murder. First the new carpet
killed the. curtains, then the new curtains
killed the walls, the new painted walls
killed the oil satin chairs and so little by
little all my honest old furniture went the
way of the honest yellow.
"The spell was broken at last," I cried
rubbing -my hands in ecstac3r. Neither
my front parlor nor my back parlor can
commit any more assassinations. Klatcd
with the idea, I was waiting on Mrs. Sow
erby, to the front door, when suddenly
she stopped short at the foot of an old
fashioned winding staircase, the carpet of
which I confess, wa3 infested here and
there with that modern abomination
a darn. It was moreover, rather dingy
and faded.
"Your baekparlor has killed your hall,"
said 31 rs. Sowrbery.
And so it had. Coming out of the
splendor of tho former, the latter had the
same effect on the beholder as a bad set
of teeth in a fine face or a rusty iron grate J
iu a hue room.
I began to be desperate. I had been
accessory to so many cruel murders that
my conscience had become seared, and I
went on, led by the wiles of this pestilent
woman, to murder my wa from ground
floor to cock-loft, without sparing a single
soul. Xuthing escaped but the garret,
which haing been for half a century the
recoptable for all our broken or banished
household goods, resembled Hogarth's
picture of the "Fnd of the World," and
defied the arts of thatmischicvous woman,
Mrs. Sowberby.
My house was now fairly revolutionized
or rather, reformed, after the old French
mode by a process of indiscriminate de
struction. I did not like Alexander, after having
thus conouered one world, sigh for auoth
cr to co.nquer ; I sat down to enjoy my
victory under the shade of my laurt-ls.
But, alas ! disappointment even follows
fruition. It is pleasant to dance until we
come to pay the piper. By the time cus
tom had famiiiiarized me to my new glo
ries, and they had become somewhat in
different, bills came pouring in by dozens
and it was impossible, to kiil my duns, as
I had 1113' old furniture, except by paying
them; a mode of destro-ing these troub
lesome vermin, not alwa3"s pleasant or
agreeable. From the period of commen
cing housekeeping until now, I have not
had occasion to put off the payment of a
single bill. I piided myself on paying
reaa3' money for everything and it was an
honest pride- I can hardly express the
mortification Ifeltat now bciug sometimes
under the necej5sit3r of giving excuses in
stead of mone)
I had a miserable invention at this sort
of work of imagination, and sometimes
when more than usually barren, I got
into a passion, as people often do when,
they have nothing ele to do.
More than once I found myself sudden
ly turning a corner in a great hurry or
planting myself against the windows of a
2, 1801.
picture shop, studying it very 'attentively
in order not to see certain persons the
very sight of whom is always painful to
persons of nice sensibility
Not being hardened to such trifles by
long U5c, I felt rather sore and irritable.
Under the old regime it had always been
a pleasure to hear a ring at the door, be
causs it was the signal for au agreeable
visitor ; but now it excited disagreeable
apprehensions, and sounded like the knell
of a dun. In short, I grew crusty and
fidgety by degrees, insomuch that Mrs.
Sowerby often exclaimed :
"Whj", what is the matter with you, Mr.
Sobersides ? "Why, I declare somehow
or other 3-ou don't seem, the man you used
to be."
I could have answered the new Mr.
Sobersides has killed the old Mr. Sober
sides. But I said nothing, and only
wished her upstairs among the old furni
ture. My sj'stcrn cf reform produced snother
source of worrying. Hitherto my old
furniture and nn-seli were so long acquaint
ed that I could take all sorts cf liberties
with it. I could recline on one end of
the sofa on an evening, or sit on one of
the eld chairs, and cross my legs ou any
cr, vithutit the least cercmon3'. But now
forsooth ! it is as much as I dare do to sit
down on my new acquaintances ; as for a
lounge cn the sofa, which was the Cleo
patra for which I would have lost the
world, I should as soon think of taking a
nap on a fine lady's sleeve. As to my
little ramtiple boys, who had hitherto
feared neither carpet, chairs nor sofa, the'
have at last been schooled into such awe
of fiucr3', that they will walk about the
parlor on tiptoe, sit on the edge of a chair
with trepidation, and contemplate the
sofas at a distance with profound venera
tion, as unapproachable 'divinities. To
crtp the climax of my S3steni of reform,
my cas3r-old-shoe friends, who came to see
me without ceremony, because they felt
comfortable and welcome, have gradually'
become shy of my new chairs and sofas,
and the last of them was fairly locked out
of the house by a certain personage for
spitting accidentally upon a new brass
fender that shone like the sun at noonday.
I might hope that in the course of time
these evils would be mitigated by the fur
niture growing old and sociable 03' degrees,
but there is little prospect of this, because
it is too fine for common use. The carpet
is always protected by au old crumb cloth
full of holes and stains; the sofas and the
chairs in dingy covered sheets, except on
extraordinary occasions, and I fear that
they will last forever at least longer than
1 .shall.
I sometimes solace myself with the an
ticipation that my children may live long
enough to sit upon the chairs with impu
nity, and walk on the carpet without go
ing on tiptoe.
There would be some consolation in the
midst of these sore evils, if 1 could onl3'
blame 1113' wife for all this. Many philos
ophers are of the opinion that this single
privilege of matrimony is more than
equivalent to all the rubs and disappoint
ments of life; and I have heard a vcrj'
wise person aflirin that he would not mind
being ruined at all, if he could only-blame
his wife for it. But I must do mine the
justice to say that she combatted Mrs.
Sowerby gallantby, and threw cvcr3r obsta
cle in the way of my System of reform,
advocating the cause of every old piece of
furniture with a zeal worthy' of better suc
cess. I alone am to blame in haviujj
yielded to that wicked wemau, Mrs. Sow
crbj'j and as a man who has ruined him
self by his owu imprudence is the better
qualified ibr giving good advice, I have
written this sketch of 1113' own hists- to
caution all sober, honest, discreet people
against commencing a S3'stcm of reform
in their household. Lit them Ltwarc of
tie first murder!
Everybody recollects the diamond
wedding of the rich old Cuban and the
3'oung New York belle. A recent letter
from Cuba sa3's : "It ma3' interest un
fair readers to remember that Havana is
the home of Signer Ovcido, the hero of
the diamond wedding. Here' he is known
as a mulatto, at least half black, and he is
said to be a Blue Beard for brutality.
lie is rich; but, as he and his biide arc
of course excluded f rom all good societ3T,
hi3 wealth can hardly compensate his
lady for the slights and sec!uiou to which
her life is henceforth destined. A sad and
dearly bought conclusion of so brilliant a
bridal."
J6-G5 Nature has strange waj'-a cf doing
the most beautiful thiugs. Out of the
oozy earth, the mud and rain of earty
spring, come the most delicate t!oTcr.i,
their white leaves Lorn out of the fruit, jus
unsoiled and pure as if they had bloomed
ia the garden cf Paradise.
I SI.SO IX A VAZVCE.
NUMBER 87.
Tlie Law Under WU. Ic Ii Jlie 31111
tiu ol" llae toauiry in Culled
Out.
We give below the section of the act of
1795 uu'der which the President of the
United States has called forth the militia
of the States in his proclamation. That
law was passed in reference to the insur
rection Pennsylvania, when many thous
ands of insurgents were in arms against
the Federal authority. That formidable
outbreak being happily quelled, no farther
action was had under this statute till 1814
when war with Great Britain existing, its
provisions were found effective in bring
ing the forces of the country under the
control of the Federal Government. Con
gress, however, iu that year extended tho
time of service to six months, it being
limited by act of 171)5 to three months.
The amendatory act of 1814 was restricted
a3 to its period of operation to the dura
tion of the then existing war and by its
own terms expired at its close, leaving tha
provisions of the act of 1705 in force. It
will be observed that the President has
in his proclamation quoted the exact text
of the statute, the section referred to being
as follows :
"Slc. 2. And he it further enacted. That
whenever the laws of the United States
shall be opposed or the execution thereof
obstructed in any State by combinations
too powerful to be suppressed by the or
dinary course of judicial proceedings, or
by the powers vested in the marshals by
this act, it shall be lawful for the Presi
dent of the United States to call forth tha
miiitia of such State, or of any cher Stata
or States, as may be necessary to suppress
such combinations, and to cause the laws
to be duly executed, and the use of tha
militia to be called forth may be-continued
if neccssarj-, until the expiration of thir
ty days after the commencement of
the then next session of Congress."
The power of the President to deter
mine the existence of the facts which es
tablish the necessity of calling upon tha
militia has been settled ly judicial deter
mination. In the case of Martin vs.
Mott, reported in the 12th of Wheaton,
p. 19, the court says :
The authority to decide whether tho
exigencies contemplated in the Constitu
tion of the United States and the act of
Congress of 1795, chap. 101, in which tho
President has authority to call forth tha
militia of the Union, suppress insurrections
and repel invasions,' have arisen, is ex
clusively vested in the President, and his
decision is conclusive on all other per
sons
The clause which limits the term of
service of troops called out under this act
is found under the fourth section, and is
as follows :
"And no officer, non-commissioned ofS
ccr or private shall be compelled to serva
more than three months alter his arrival
at the place of rendezvous, ia any ono
year."
It will be observed that the concluding
clause -of the second section quoted above
makes the term of service also expire
thirty days after the assembling of Con
gress. It is noticeable that it wa3 in tha
power of the President, by declining to
call an extra session of Congress, to have
provided a longer period of hostilities, in-,
asmuch as the troops ordered into the field,
upou the first requisition could, at the ex
piration of their term of service, have been
replaced by a new levy, aud thus a sufS-.
cient army have been kept under arms till
the first of January next. It is not doubt
ed that the spirit of the States furnishing
the troops would have promptly advanced
the money necessary to maintain their
several quota in active operations, relying
on the General Government for repayment.
The Administration, however, have pru
dentby put it beyond the power of tha
Executive to continue troops in the field
beyond the first of August. In calling
Congress together, the Government will
have deiorred to the ienators of the States
and the Representatives of the people tho
responsibility of the measures and the
policy which alter the date of their assem
blage 11K13' be held requisite to preserve
the public peace.
How women do admire weddings ! not
their own, merely, but anybody else's !
How they throng the churches, 'just to
ste the ceremony I Then what animated
descriptions of the whole affair, lthat
glowing accounts of what the bride 'had
on,' especially, do they give ! In short,
what au immense amount of simper, end
giggle, and prattle is ventilated ! and all'
because two inoffensive people arc goiut,
in a legal and orderly way, to cct up
htinsekctpiiig for themselves. Querious,
ain't it.
TriE returns of the .Philadelphia Links
show that they bavo nott over Gji.CC0.
000 ia their vaults.
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