4 BinKER, Editor and Proprietor. TOI 1HJTCIIIWSOW, Publisher. I WOULD RATIIER BE RIGIIT THAN PRESIDENT. Hexbv Cljy. TERMS S2.00 PER A.UJI. A81.&0 IX ADVASCE. VOLUME 3. EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1801. NUMBER 13. DIRECTORY. ySEPiRED EXPEE8SLY FOR "THE A L LEG HAN I AN'.' LIST Of POST OFFICES. Post OJiccs. noun's Creek, gjthel Station rarrolltown, riiess Springs, Cresson, Ebensburg. Fallen Timber, tf.iUitzin, Hemlock, Johnstown, Loreito, Mineral Point, Minister, Pershing, Post Masters. Joseph Graham, Joseph S Mardi3, William M. Jones, Danl. Litzinger, John J. Troxell, John Thompson, Isaac Thompson, J. II. Christy, Wm. M'Gough, I. E, Chandler, V- Shields E. Wissinger,. A. Durbin, Francis Clement, Andrew J. Ferral G. W. Bowman, Wm. Ryan, Sr., George Conrad, B. M Colgan, Wm. Murray, Districts. Yoder. Blacklick. Carroll. Chest. Washint'n. Ebensburg White. Gallitzin. Washt'n. Johnst'wn. Loretto. Conem'gh. Minister. Conem'gh. Susq'han. White. Clearfield. Richland. Washt'n. Croyle. 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The mails from Newman's Mills, Car rolliown, itc, arrive on Monday, Wcdncsday and Friday of each week, at 3 o'clock, P. M. Leave Ebensburg on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, at 7 o'clock, A. M. S5F Post'Oflice open on Sundays from 9 to 10 o'clock, A. M. RAILROAD SC3IED ULE. WILMORE STATION. "et Express Train leaves at " Fast Line " " Mail Train " East Express Train - " " Fast Line " " Mail Train " CRESSON STATION. West Express Train leaves at " Mail Train " East Express Train " " Mail Train " . The Fast Lines do not stop 9.44 A. M. 10.09 P. M. 4.01 P. M. 8.25 P. M. 2.28 P. M. 6.23 A. M. 9.22 A. M. 3.31 P. M. 8.53 P. M. C.oO A. M. COIJXTY OFFICERS. Ju ljes of the Courts President, Hon. Geo. Taylor, Huntingdon; Associates, George W. Easley, Richard Jone3, Jr. Prothonotary Joseph M Donald. A'jister and Recorder Ed.vard F. Lytic Sheriff. Robert P. Linton. District Attorney. Philip S. Noon. County Commissioners D. T. Storm, James Cooper, Peter J. Little. Treasurer. John A. Blair. Poor House Directors. David O'llarro, Michael M'Guire, Jacob Horner I'oor House Treasurer. George C. K. Zahm. Poor House Steward. James J. Kaylor. Mercantile Appraiser. II. C. Devine. Auditors. Henry Hawk, John F. Stull. John S. Rhey. County Surveyor. E. A. Vickroy. Coroner. James S. Todd. Superintendent of Common Schools. James Swank, EBESBURG BOR. OFFICERS. Justice of the react. David II. Roberts Harrison Kinkead. Burgess David J. Evans. Town Council Evan Griffith, John J.Evans, jvilliam D. Davis, Thomas B. Moore, Daniel - Evans. borough Treasurer George Gurley. Weigh Matter William Davis. School Directors William Davis, Reese S. Lloyd, Morris J. Evans, Thomas J. Davis, Hugh Jones, David J. Jones. Treasurer of School Hoard Evan Morgan. C-.nttahle George W. Brown. 'fa Collector George Gurley. Ju'lje of Election Meshac Thoina. inspectors Robert Evans, Wm. Williams v,'tor .Richard T. Pavi?. Sckctjpoctrn. The Equality of the Grave. The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armor against Fate Death lays its icy hands on kings. Sceptre and crown Both lie down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the fields, And planj fresh laurels where they kill ; But their strong arms at last must yield; They tame but one another still. Early or late, They stoop to Fate, And must give up their murmuring breath When they, pale captives, creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds Upon Death's purple altar now, All heads must come To the cold tomb ! Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. A BOLD A;!D flfr-ELY SPEECH. GEOUGE FKAXCIS TKAIS BEFORE AS ENGLISH AUDIENCE. From the London American. The reflecting men of England are con centrating their thoughts on the American question; all. classes discuss it, and it is the general theme ol conversation wherev er men gather together. Each newspaper has its leaders, and each member of Parliament has his fling at the "Hubble bursting liepublic of the West." "At a dinner given by Henry Wood Esq., the larjre anchor and chain manufacturer of Birkenhead, at the Westminster Palace Hotel, this all-absorbing subject, the American question, was the feature of the entertainment. Our Consul, Mr. Morse, made a most eloquent speech. Mr. Bell the builder of the amor, Mr. Gladstone, and a distinguished gentleman from Geoi gia, who recently left that State for his Union sentiments, and several other gen tlemen joined in the animated debate between the English, the Scotch, and the Americans. Mr. George Francis Train, whose strong Union sentiments have so often been recorded in these columns, created some excitement by his attack oa England's unmanly course in this ungodly rebellion, and some of his strictures were emphatically denied by some of the gen tlemen present the chairman especially, who asserted that he knew thero was the most friendby feeling in this country to wards America. Some extracts from Mr. Train's speech will show the warmth of the debate. Mr. Chairman You are an old friend of mine, and knowing me so well I am surprised that you call me up on street railways when the American question is on the table. (Hear.) I admit I am good for a speech on that oi any other opic. but to-night I intend to sink the shop and talk the Senate chamber suffice it to know that my success is complete. (Hear, and cheers.) I have run the gauntlet, with all kinds of weapons aimed at me, but have passed the Manassas Gap of English conservatism and introduced a carriage for the people (cheers) with colors flying and lots of money still in the treasury. (Hear and laughter.) But no more of that, let me talk on America. I thank you, Mr. Wood, and you gentlemen, for your good wishes for peace, but we want no peace. You say England is with us, I know that she is against us, and has been from the firsr. (No, no.) I say ye?, yes and the question is, how much plain talking can you stand from a man who loves his wife, his children and his God, but who loves his country more than all (loud cheers) for a man without a country is unworthy of wife and children, and poor God-forsaken devil he had bet ter die (hear, hear) and this gentlemen, is what England has recommended. (No.) England's neutrality has already cost five thousand lives. She has made a great mistake, and three months hence she will acknowledge it. Will you let me speak my mind ?Ycs.) Now, I beg of you, gentlemen, not to get excited when I tell you a few startling facts to prove how unwise, how ungenerous, how danger ous has been England's so-called neutrality on the American question. England's sympathies are with, and have been with the South, not out of hate to the North, but because she wished to see us break in two. (No.) When a man is very ill it is, to say the least of it. bad taste to go and order all your mourning, for perhaps he may get well again, and how surprised he would be to see the notices of his death which were prepared. England's neutral ity consists in standing on the platform and cheering the rebels on. Head the secession organs of the country. Secession organs, did I say ? There are no others save the Daily News, the Star, the Liver pool Post, and two or three more journals the rest all have flags flyingand cannons booming to stimulate treason on to mur der. The press leads the way. The Cab inet would declare Tarat once if it dared; and I am not sure but what the Mexican intervention is war in disguise. Head the speeches of members of Parliament to their constituents. You find them seces sion to the backbone. Is there any ques tion about Lindsay s language, or Captain Jarvis, or Bulwer Lytton ? . I like Bulwer for his frankness and his honesty. lie is no hypocrite. lie talks as he thinks, and says that he hopes the country will not only break up in two, but in four pieces ! It is already too powerful, and its growth should be checked. England's neutrality consists in giving all her sympathy to the rebels. Suppose you and I, Mr. Chair man, were friends of forty years' acquaint ance, and some night ou the highway a burglar tries to assassinate you after hav ing stolen your money, would you not think it almost out of the pale of human ity in this civilized age to have me remain neutral ? or, what is worse, to hear me cheer the thief on in his bloody work ? (Chairman It is not a fair analogy.) Analogy or not, that is England's position to-day toward America. (No, no) Ere many months you may have revolution in this garden island the revolution that arises from a starving population for is there not unmistakable signs of a corn famine in Ireland and a cotton famine in England ? Suppose such to happen, and class should be arrayed against class, would you not think it damnable for America to join the rebels, and cry lustily for the destruction of this,proud nation, as Eng land is continuing to cry for America's ruin ? (Hear, hear, and No.) Here are the facts I wish to make known. The South has always been the enemy of England, as the North has been her friend. (Hear and true.) Every act of hostility has emenatcd from that quarter. Look along our history's page. hat was the Non-Intercourse act previ ous to the last war but a Southern insti tution ? The whole North was against it, and the Hartford conventionites, to this day, are subjects of derision by the South erners for the sympathy 2s ew England showed for Old England. (Hear and cheers.) What was the High Tariff act, the twenty-five cents a yard duty on cot ton, of 181G, but a Southern institution : All New England voted against Mr. Cal houn's American svstem. It was the same in 1820 and 1824 ; but the South having passed their High Tariff, the North showed its enterprise by putting up cot ton mills, and it was not for some years after (1828) that the North voted for protection. Then Mr. Calhoun, in 18.J2, wanted to kill the bantling he had created in 1816, and bfccau.se lie could not suc ceed, started his hell-born nullification cry, which was so summarily stopped by General Jackson. What was the Mexi can war but a Southern institution to get new slave lands ? What were the fillibus tering expeditions against Cuba but South ern institutions ? Where did Lopez hail from ? where Walker ? Where did Lynch law, the bowie-knife and the duellist orig inate, but in the South ? Is not repudia tion purely a Southern institution ? Who was jt that showed their sympathies against England, in ths Russian war, but the en tire democratic party, which for forty years has been a Southern institution 'i The whigs were with England, but the democrats cheered the Ilussian arms. These are all Southern institutions, and certainly negro slavery is not an institu tion of the North. Where, then, does England find food for sympathy with the damned traitors in this hell-born conspira cy ? Was it the North or South who sent the contributions to Ireland in their dis tress ? (Hear, hear.) Was it the North or South who put the flags at half-mast on the death of Ilaveloek ? (cheers) and tell me, gentlemen, who received the son of your Queen with open arms, but the proud children of our Northern country? Boiling over with good will to England, we took the prince and embraced him, be cause we loved this oldland and its migh ty associations. (Cheers.) We loved to mix our history and lose it even in yours. (Cheers.) Wc loved your Christian Queen, and showed all these things in the warm and honest reception wc gave her son. (Loud chears.) All this was in the North, but when he crosssed the border into the slave country, he hastened away quickly, for fear of repeated insult ! Yea, gentlemen, it was in the capital of the so called Confederate States, Richmond, that the Prince of Wales feared the action of the mob, and saw for the first time that he was not welcome in the laud where his ancestors had once ruled. (Hear, and true ) Knowing, then that all these acts of violence and hostility against England came from the South, you can imagine the disgust of the North at reading the Times day after day, and the Telegraph, the Herald, the Chronicle, and nearlv all the entire British press, encouraging the rebels on in their unchristian work ! England has made a mistake a fatal mis take. To make sure that I am not in the wrong, I am preparing a book of opin ions of the press extracts from speeches of members of Parliament and the Minis try, which will prove the hostility of Eng land against the lederal Power. Mr. Bell asks, how could we have done otherwise than remain neutral : But I maintain that you are not neutral. When you find two boys at blows you must not forget that while you do net enter the ring, the more you hurrah for Bill, the stronger it makes him, and the more it discourages Joe. Y'on cheer one side continually, and hiss the other, and call it neutrality. (Hear, hear, and applause.) However, it has taught America one les son that is, not to put her trust in prin ces, (laughter) but to rely- ou her own strong arm. It has opened her eyes to many things, but none more important than this, namely, that England may war with Russia, with France, with Austria, and all Europe may be blazing away with the flash of musketry, the clang of armor, and the sound of cannon, without Ameri ca being affected. But when America, desirous of showing off her military na ture, gets "up a little national sham fight within her own borders in three month's time, with a million of soldiers, fires off a million of rifles, discharges a million of revolvers, and has her artillery booming on every hill I say, when the American people, in the absence of foreign war, get up a grand review, and kill ten thousand traitors on the Champs de JIars of the Potomac, all the world tremblingly stops to gaze, and all the world's commerce be- mies deranged. (Hear, heir.) Europe may fight bur America cares not. Amer ica plays with firearms to keep her hand in, and Europe is pale for fear, for it has come to pass that the commerce of the United States with Europe sums up each j-car one hundred millions of jounds ster ling! Stop this commerce for twelve months and millions here are thrown out of employment. (Hear.) Even my friend, Mr. Wood, will feel it, in the ab sence of orders from the ship yards of the North. (Hear, hear and laughter.) I have listened with earnestness to the bold words of Mr. Morse. I meet him to night for the first time, and I congratu late, at last, our people at having a live Consul to represent them in London. (Cheers.) We have had enough of dead men, God knows. (Cheers.) His Union sentiments are refreshing. Now we shall have no more treason-hatching in the American consulates of England. His predecessor was buying muskets all the time so was it at Liverpool, and so was it with the Paris Embassy the flag was outraged, the consuls and the ministers arc guilty of high treason and should suffer the doom of traitors. No man dared to speak out until the Bussian Ambassador arrived. I endorse every word of Cas.-iius M. Clay, and wish all our representatives were equally na tional. I say I welcome our new consul, and give him a cordial shake of the hand over his brave, bold words for the land I love; and you, too, my eloquent friend from Georgia whose name shall not go into the papers, for I would not have your children who remain in the State suffer for your love of the Union 3-ou, too, we welcome for your honest defence of the nation. You have astonished many pres ent by your graphic description of affairs in the South. I knew it must be so ; I knew that the Southern country was full of Union men, who will spring around the flag the moment our forces land in Sa vannah ! (Yes, and cheers.) Secession in your part of the country is fashionable. No wonder the fair Southern ladies are enraged, for all their crinoline was used up long ago, and they do not make it in the South. (Laughter.) How can they be out of fashion ? They believed that Mrs. Davis would hold levees in Wash ington ; they believed that Mr. Walker would raise the traitor's flag on the oapi tol ; but when the truth breaks upon them, what a sensation of shame awaits them ! For it must be a terrible thing to realize that they have been the wives and daughters and sisters who have made red so many battle-fields. It looks to me, I am sorry to say, as though the rebellion were nearly dead the war nearly over. I want it to last another year. I want Europe and England to know us better, and an other year's war will best explain our strength. I have a policy of my own. Away with free trado these distracted days. Let England have her own lavs, and let America have her3. You may not agree with me few people do but nevertheless 1 have opinions, and will ex press them, even if the distinguished archangel who got put out of Court on a memorable occasion had his carriage at the door. (Cheers and laughter.) Here is my platform : Take China and Japan for a model ; that is, live a few years by ourselves (cheers) clap an export duty on our cotton and our tobacco, and double the Morrill tariff. Destroy the port of Charleston, make a Scbastopol of its lorts and channels, and give Beaufort or Sa vannah all its commerce. Partition the State, and ink-blot her name out of the map. Build the Pacific railroad, and es tablish a line of swift steamers between San Francisco and China. Make New York the stock market of the world. Es tablish military schools ; have a decent army it looks respectable when you want a review. (Laughter.) Augment the navy, and. srive 1 S pain a hammering for ner lmpuuence in landing in ct. uomingo. Wait till she gets into Mexico, under the guarantee of France and England, and get the military roads built; then let the Northern and Southern army close up aud take Cuba as a dependency, and carry out the Monroe doctrine. We want more room. (Laughter.) We are getting cramped and crowded, and we must have an outlet for the rush of emigrants that will pour into the country when we declare peace. Put a discriminating duty on, shutting out English goods, if England continues to side with the rebeb. Don't get alarmed, gentlemen, you know it is all fun. (Loud laughter.) You know you call me eccentric, and I must keep up the illusion. England has slept in the middle of the bed lone: enough ! The times are chanfrinjr. The speck on the horizon is already bigger than an ox cart ! The fires of free opinions have been smouldering in Europe for nearly fifteen years, i'oor 1'oland is in sackcloth and ashes ! Hungary sleeps awakiugly, and will shortly spring upon the enemy's camp, when Caprera's chief will laud in Venice. France groans under a disordered commerce and .a diseased finance. Europe has enough to look after without troubling herself with America. Let America lock her jrates for a while economize buv no foreign fabrics live within herself manufacture her own cotton, and take the profit we have so long given to England. Our strength is shown by this contest. Six hours of such rebellion would have changed a dynasty in France; six days in Austria, or l'ru?sia, or bpain. fcix weeks without a Ministry would capsize the -En glish Constitution, but after six months of preparation, America begins to show her strength. It was a clever move of the Presideut in this great national game of chess to give up Fort. Sumter always give away a castle to checkmate your op ponent. (Hear, hear.) The Cabinet have done nobly; Seward upheld our for- eign relations, and proved Jnmself the man we knew he was. So has Chase, and Welles with his five hundred ships of war, armed to the teeth : and Cameron, too. with his half a million of. fighting men. (Hear, and cheers.) I don't believe "the reports of corruption in the departments; they are circulated by rebel spies and en emies of the country. I have faith in Seward and Cameron and Welles and Chase, and kuow the President is an hon est man. I like the strong measures of the Administration. In times like these 1.1 f 1 M one cannot uo tilings too- firmly. Act first and apologize afterward ; strain a point in the Constitution, if necessary, to save a nation ; over witn tne spies ; down with the traitorous women ; down with the vile hoards who infest the country with their treason ; macadamize Fort La fayette with the best bones of the land if they have crystalized into patricides. ihe civil power is nothing when a coun try i3 to be saved. Give us martial law ; overboard with Habeas Corpus Act, and command obedience n'ith the sword and the gallows. Yes,gectlemen, to put down treason I wjuld put on the thumbseiew. Out with the guillotine ; raise the inqui sition and enforce the law, at whatever cost of money and men. Break up the printing press ; shut the mouth that dares to breathe 'against the "Army of the Con stitution." Who thinks of saving brush and comb, sponge and towel, when the house is in flames ? Who stops for over coat and carpet-bag when the ship is in the breakers ? Who thinks of wearing white kids when shells are exploding in the drawing room ? Let the Administra tion save the nation and ovcrlcok any lit tle thing that "may hav e been omitted. Christians hate Iscariot, Romans despise Catalinc, Americans loathe the name of Arnold. So will the Southoj-n pirate chieftains in their exile be marked with contempt by the patriots of the Constitu tion ! Separation is impossible! Anni hilation 13 absurd '. Who ever heard of twenty millions being annihilated ? Amer ica must change her policy ; be more re publican, less aristocratic, overcome our 'modesty, and not be too religious about forms. America fights with her own men; our soldiers go to battle for liberty, glory, law; Europeans fight for pay. Ours is a volunteer army; we have no Hessians or hired battallions. Our thirty million loan, so readily taken by our people, is nothing to what we can do. England spends that sum every year on army aud navy. The days of Perry and Decatur and Paul Jones are to be re vived. The fleets are off ; a new set of tactics ; take Hatteras. Send back the North Carolina troops! telegraphs the Governor. Take Savannah! Send back the Georgian regiments, telegraphs the general in command to Beauregard; take New Orleans ! send back the Louisiana contingent, and shortly Beauregard is left high and dry without an army, having reduced Virginia to a desert, like a vine yard destroyed by locusts. Where is Beaurecard? alone, uncared for, forgot ten. Wh ere is Davis? ill in mind, ill in body, the shattered frame battling with the diseased brain and the seared con science. The North flourishes amid the clash of arms stocks rising, bullion in creasing, ships launching, factories buil ding, corn shipping, while the South is paralyzed, and England and the world wondering where it is all to end ! Why do consuls droop day after day unless there is some terrible secret in Downing street ? Why does France borrow two millions on the Bank of England unless France is about to lead an army some where? Verily the times are chanjrins; ana it may turn out that America is not only the richest countrv, but possesses one half the common sense, three-fourths the enterprise, and seven-eights the beau ty of the world. ("Laughter, and loud applause.) m m Gen. Malleoli's IMan. The Enquirer's St. Louis correspondent gives what he understands to be General Halleck's plan of operation against the enemy. He says : Ihe newspapers of the country are con tinually alluding to the expedition down the Mississippi river, as if that was actu ally the contemplated programme of the movement under General Halleck. The movement will not be down the Mississ ippi river, but go up the Tennessee river, where Gen. Halleck's forces, 75,000 strong, will leave the river and march in the rear of Columbus, Hickman, and other points. towards Alemphis- J his manocuver will compel the rebels at Columbus and other points to fall back on Memphis, thus leaving the river clear for the gunboats and transportation vessels to pass up and down unmolested. The Confederates are occupying their time in fortifying New 31adrid, Columbus, and other points, and are mounting the same with a large num ber of guns. Upon the approach of our troops toward th eir rear, rather than be cut off from all communication with the South, the Con federates will have to fall back. No de fences have been thrown up on the Ten nessee river, and the continual running up and dosvn that stream of gunboats has kept the shores entirely clear of masked batteries and fortifications. Our army will meet with no resistance, and will by this movement accomplish the same re sult without loss of life and property that the river expedition might have dono after severe loss on both sides, and a fearful destruction of property, both pri vate and public. The column of Major General Halleck will move forward in conjunction with General Buell's division of 00,000 men from Louisville, which pro ceeds through Kentucky, via Bowling Green to Nashville. Vanity Fairies. Epitaph for Wood : Peace to his ashes. The best' War report: The report of our cannon along the Potomac. What we will do with King Cotton : "Flax" him. Davis's Straits : Between Richmond and Nashville. Government Sinking Fund: The ap propriation for the Stone Fleet. The most obnoxious paper to Mason andSlidell: "Wilkes' Spirit." Question for a Debating Society : As to whether Shaker Hosiery is adapted for people of Steady Habits. Shakspoare, altered a little for our Sol dier Bo"S : "Do not stand upon the or der of your 'going in,' but go in -at once . Give and Take: The Rebels say they will give no quarters in Charleston. Well, Uncle Sam may, for all that, take up his quarters there. It is also more than probable that he will, in return, compel them to take the bit.
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