RIG KIT Oil WROKG. HID BIGHT, TO It KKPT RIGHT, OK M WR0.fi 0, TO BE.rU T RIGHT. THURSDAY :::::::::::::::::DECEMI?ER 3. "Half Slave and Half Free." "Whec our fathers formed tle American eonatitutioo, they made it with reference to a fret government. It is true, slavery iexitod in many of the States, but they -'did not look upon it as a permanent insti ' tution. Tho debates iu the Convention which framed it, the contemporaneous writings of tho men who had the most to do Tith it, and the doings of the old !conledcrate Congress, aro all so many evidences to the point. Under the lead of Mr. Madison, the words ."slave" and ; "slavery" are nowhere found in that in strument. They were carefully excluded, in order that the idea of property in man 'should nowhere appear. So far as slavery appears or is recognized in the constitu tion, it is a State institution, upheld solely by the municipal laws of be States. ,Washiugton, Jefferson, and all the great etatesm?nof the early days of the republic, .supposed slavery would die out and be come extinct in a few years. They did not even dream of the colossal monster as found at the openiDg of this rebellion. The idea that a great christian, enlight ened nation, a republic governed by a constitution, could live and go ou, half stave and half free, to the minds of many, for years, has been preposterous others have as stoutly contended that it could be donethat there was not necessarily an 'irrepressible conflict" between the two interests. Impartial history records the fact that' slavery and freedom never have been at peace in this country. There has always been a conflict raging between them. Sometimes the fires have been for a period smothered j then they would burst out into a flame. There is one phase of this subject that has never changed. The slave interest has always been contending for tho mas tery.. Although greatly in the minority, it has managed to override freedom and govern the country. Freedom leads, to a true democracy, Slavery to despotism and tyranny. Freedom tends to the equality of the people, slavery builds up an olig archy, an aristocracy of wealth; Freedom enlightens men, slavery makes them igno rant and debased. Freedom makes men christians, slavery makes them devils. Freedom contributes to the industrial wealth of a country, slavery creates the extremes of wealth for the favored few, and squa'id poverty for the masses. Freedom distributes farms among the many, slavery monopolizes the lands into the hands of the few. Freedom wakes men human, slavory makes them brutes. Freedom makes men morally upright, slavery demoralizes and degrades them. . And so wo might go to the end of the chapter. There is a natural eter nal antagonism between freedom" and slavery. They can no more be reconciled to each other than can the opposite prin ciples of right and wrong, truth and error. 1 Up to the opening of tho r-ibellion, fhere had been a war of ideas raging in this country for years. The grasping avarice, the domineering insolence, and the all absorbing lova of power of the hlave interest had kept up an eternal agitation throughout the length and breadth of the- country. The friends of lreedom have for year? seen the great conflict cotniog- To arfoid it they have yielded and yielded to the exactions and demands of the slave power, compromi sing from time to time, and giving their adversary the'advantage irr every adjust ment thus made. They have sought to Eettle these , matters in a peaceful way, resorting to the ballot-box instead of the cartridge-box. The slave power refused to abide this constitutional way of settling difference",' and because they Could not continue the despotic, slave-ridden dynas- ties of Franklin Piereo and James I?u-. chanan, viavguratcd civil tcart and that war ' ha$ beeu raging more than two years and a half. It is a war of slavery upo a free dom to-gain the mastery. Novo comes the great question whether we shall, iiTwindingup this war, continue thw. everlvRtiog, source of discord and trouble, of whether it is not best to blot it out, anc" rave the trouble it would inev itably britig ua and our posterity hereafter If suffered to continue. In our judgment,, the irresistable logic of events has sub stantially settled this question. The madness ami insanity of the rebels com pelled the President to issue his Emanci pation Proclamation, which made forever free every slave then under rebel authority. In tho Border States where the proclama did not operate, slavery is dying out of itself. Maryland, West Virginia and Missouri have virtually abolished slavery. In none of these States are plaves of any real value to their owners. Both masters and slaves so understand it. In Maryland, slavery is bing swept out by hundreds and thousands every week, by the simple process of enlisting the slaves into colored regiments, paying their masters the bounty of three hundred dollars each and making the slaves free. In all the other Border States, slavery cannoi by any process sur vive the war. Slave owners so understand it, and are leaking . their calculations accordingly. The union men there so uuderstand it, and ore fast becoming warm advocates of tTie emancipation policy. The great union sentiment of all tho border States will soon be a unit upon this ques tion.. The rebels South and their friends and sympathizers in the Free States will very soon bo left alone in advocating a return of the rebellious States to the union icith slavery. And that man is infidel in his opinions who does not see the finger of God in this gieat movement. Pharaoh oi israci go until ten tern been visited im- " If ire, him'in to escaj prcssiot of the ii that, in colored l Almifhfy sides icith his county for our cou great truth. svJ iT'Tc The victory Georgia is, pe the war the dealt the ret overcome Bragj three days' dura caused him to with the loss of y thousand prisone. small arms, camp, and ten battle fla rebels were coniplt their grand army fly for safety. . Grant termined to end up Southwest by the tot, ouly opposing army Tennessee is redeeme and the bogus Confede blow from which it wei ble to recover.; I The Army of the Pj. advanced, crossing the 1 different fords. The ret) our approneh,- contracting Correspondents represent .3 in the best possible trim, i brush. Lee. is represented 50,000 men. In all probal battle will occur soon. B, In the narrative of the large number" of oar army Sai Richmond, we find this not undoubtedly refers to Senator Indiana county : !; Olajor White, of Pcnnsyl tempted to escape with the-Su City Point, but was detected by a . and sent back. Iu extenuatioi offence, the Majjr stated that endeavoring to get to the North., purpose of effecting such arrangeit would insure the exchange of our s prisoners. The Major was sent.bi be confined in the dungeons dark am of the Libby." We fear this is the last we shall hear of Maj. White until perhaps the adjourn ment of the next session of tho State Senate, in which his presence is necessary to f,ne the friends ot the Union a majority.' . ' - gST It is reported that Geh. Rosecrans will be assigned to the command of the Eighth Army' Corps in Baltimore and Maryland, i place of .Gen. Schenck, who has resigned" ta take his scat in Congress. E, The XXXVIIIth Congress will couvene iu the capitol at Washington on next Monday, 7th inst. TTe will lay the President's Message before our readers at an early day. , J56yThe Stat3 Superinttnent has issued a call for a meeting of the County Superintendents at Harrisburg, on the 12th of January next. . tij2iThe notorious female rebel pdy. Belle Boyd, who had been confined iu tho Old Capitol prifion for some limn; has been sent to City IVict for exchange. ttoottStlr does V,. v vlO aire rings of Our Prisoners at Richmond We subjoin the experience of a Union Chaplain in the military prisons at Rich mond. An attempt has been made to demonstrate that our prisoners ; in the hands of .the Rebels aro the recipients of the same favors, the same rations, the same medical attendance, that the rebels themselves receive does this look like it I Having but recently been released from participating rn the hospitalities of Libby Prison, under the dominion of rebel rule, I would join my testimony with others in presenting a true picture of our unfortu nate officers, soldiers and citizens who happen to be prisoners in Richmond. Doubtless, many are ready to reject the accounts given as being too highly wrought; and I wonder not,, for had I not been an eye witness and a vic tim to the inhumanity of some of their officers, I, too, would have been incredu lous to the facts that 6uch malignant tyranny could be found in America among professedly a eivilized people, and even with those claiming to be our superiors. I was one of the unfortunate Chaplains captured at Winchester, Va., Juue 15th, whilst administering to the comforts of our sick and wounded, in the hospital. IIere,"like most others, I had my horse and baggage taken from inf., eo that I was left without a change of clothing. Soon afterwards 1 was sent to Richmond in charge of some officers' wives, under the assurance that we should at once be sent through the lines. On our arrival there we were examined by the ProvostJajwVMajor Griswold,) . 1 ; llllNUl-l. VViirS ppm, -wnero mere 1 i No supper was -.A 1 --eaten but little tisfv trip PMin(T9 i - " ..oat. 1 rnmio nf tnm o AJ o- i SO pe ' ft ao d6covl -ja i could the 8tH' commending - tcAoeu.ptV. vpace f0r rest. n.? me on the ut down my Cbv a kind- Vil- he would full, of eived with teofe, and it -1ll lt"V .! meditate ir I frank- FotCooRtei.;eDSbutg- o'f beinff lft time, rs, all f the j. uner 4 6ut, an ;bj a Idbe VTinay its Ulm Jat5 Con1 er till""- . . VaVR I" ww teas"" - . tve t&1' . ftTe - . uu" on t-ue . W at . VaTA Cu . rm- ectoie8 ot'ot apCt tVus increased co oaUn fia4tVn Bumer, meaa9 aCtuaoss. apd. 0081 uvft it creates oU)t - CT and otbevB .tf undou protiws . price Tbertf61" . rtfatTU8t. fS rfK 8aueo . . carfe .Pr Bombay thousand. Vusneia , - entrance to a new- 3 ro.uv and toe t TCet ,n I frit. t:Bv - - . -t a d to ot 1 -K3 .irQ'd iare ir uuiier, uut x par- . nothing-but a little dry bread and drank some muddy river water with it. That day being Sabbath, at the request of the prisoners I preached to them with much satisfaction, as all 'seemed to bo eager listeners. But the authorities seemed to object to this, and accordingly had me removed, the same evening, into, another room of the building. Here I soon found a 'channel through whi?h I could buy something to eat. I was kept here for Ivedays, with the assurance that I was to be sent off on the first boat; at the expiration of that time I was sent to Libby. ' . Kere I was again searched by the In spector running his hands rudely into my pockets, and taking from me all my remaining papers, money, &c., that he could get his hands on. They took from me here $100 in greenbacks and 19 in rebel, promising to refund again on my release, which, of course, .was not done. They did, however, allow me to draw the H'"- 1 11 1 T f Con federate scrip for use iu prison Confederate scrip ior use iu prison, u would here mention a special act of inhu manity and cruelty. Among the papers . -m. in w ioBCT Vnfcnsuao ce -bo.- ,-tbe Sierra Nevada, making it, when tera, 1 ,t Ibe euo. ,unttfgeted, tno third line belonging to -1 nMIl tmv' taken from me were two faolscap sheets containing nothing but a memorandum of the names of dead and wounded, with addresses of their families, and the last messages of the dying to their surviving friends ; for this I made a special appeal, butnt was all vaiul I would just as soon expect a favor from a wild savage as from such a man as Inspector Tumor. In this prison I remained from July 1st to October 7th. A portion of that cime, like many others, had to be spent' in the hospital, sick. Of the manner of our fare, rations, &c, enough may have been said by others, yet even then the half has not been told. I would adviso all our officers to run a most fearful risk rather than to throw themselves iipoo the hos pitalities of heartless rebels, and experi ence the realities of this vile and loath some prison. Whilst in the hospital, and able to go about, I was permitted as a favor from the Doctor to visit the hospital situated in a lower room of the same building, where our citizens and private soldiers were brought. Here I conversed freely and received the testimony of many a poor fellow, whose vital energies had almost eked out at the cruel treatment received. I have seen as high as twenty brought in at a time from Belle Isle, and seated on benches whilst they would take their names, but before they were half through with this ceremony, one ihird or more of the number would be fallen to the floor, and many tf them insensible, and some only to wake up in eternity. My heart has sickened at the sight, and I now make these statements, not with a revengful feeling, but only to warn our noble soldiers from falling into such hands. If when closely pressed and a thought of surrendering crosses your mind, pass in review before you the gaunt, half famished forms of those unfortunates, and it will stimulate you to a desperate effort to escape, or even to die on the field of battle rather than to fall into such hands. Our citizen prisoners seem cveu to fare worse, if possible, than any others. Some were taken forcibly from their peaceful homes in Pennsylvania and Maryland, and without a moment's warning, or an oppor tunity of changing their working apparel, or supplying themselves with a little need ful change, or giving a word of comfort or advice to their weeping families, were hurried off on foot, in front of the bayonet, and traveled thus for five day3. The only rations issued to them during the time was a pint of flour per day ; and not until the evening of thof third day were they allowed to make anything like dough and bake it in the ashes thus being compelled to eat raw flour like beasts, and this by the boasted chivalry of the South. I have seen these same men begging like children, even for a crust, of bread to satisfy their appetites men who had, 'perhaps, never known what it was to want for anything. For some six weeks several, hundred occupied a lower room in Libby, and in tho night the officers would pass down through the cracks in the floor all the surplus bread that could be procured through the savings of the officers, and I was told by one of our doctors, that he had actually seen them fish bread out of the sinks, where all the filth from the rooms above passed through, and wash it off and eat it; so near were they to star vation I I have seen citizen prisoners in Castle Thunder, over seventy-two years of age, simply for clinging in their old age to the time-honored flag of their country. Friends at home, if you can do anything for our poor prisoners at Richmond, either 7. 1 t 11 -w ... Iie agency oi our noDic unrmtictn Uom- mission, rest not until you have done your Mluty in mitigating their sufferiigs and eering their sinking spirits, and a kind !f oviden ce and many grateful hearts will Chaplain 87th Ilegt. Ta. Vol. Infantrr, . Army of the Potumac. tot Telegraphing facilities are rapidly asing along the Pacific slope. A line t extenaing tne woric trom Sacramento ua unu ul vy ui w i:i ariiri va pv , .. meet it. to t . ;aThe Sccretarv of War has issued that I" ; . - vvi .t, a. l:.. f it,, i) t -i j conftt610 fo bureaux of that department to -duke inquiry and report a just and reasonable rate of advanced wages that should be paid by the government in view of the increased cost of ' living. The government seems disposed to act liberally towards all who are in its employ, and the country will not fail to applaud its action. Egi An exchange paper furnishes a new plan of the Copperhead pyramid, as erected from the result of the late elections. Alas for tho "Lone Star '." NEW JER S 13 y gyThe complete vote of Delaware shows that Nathaniel B. Smithers, Con gressman elect, and an Unconditional Unionist, has 7,791 majority over Brown, hi 3 Copperhead competitor. The notorious rebel horse thief, John Morgan, with six of his associates, escaped from the Ohio Penitentiary on Friday night. , - 8 Judgo Agnew takes his seat on the bench of. the Supreme Court of Pennsyl- vania on next iuonaay, un inht. Mgr, The President has been sick for a! few days, but is now recovering. TTbo Gave Slavery IU Deepest M ound T It would certainly seeiii cs if the mad ness so manifest in the conduct of those who began this war wa3 to be carried out in its most rabid form, even unto the end. The manowner and his friends would uphold and perpetuato slavery, but every act of theirs tends towards its destruction. Their very successes in the field seem only to seal its doom more certainly ; for after each one of those seeming triumphs, there has been exhibited so ferocious and insult ing a demeanor, such a malicious and revengful spirit, that the northern mind is more and more determined on its abso lute extinction. Our people have hesita ted at times, as the contest went oa, doubtful whether an-institution so deep rooted could safely bo touched or destroyed by the national arm. Had not Johnston come up with his opportune reinforcements when the routed rebels were fljing from the field on that sanguinary day of the first Mauassas, who can fay that an early peace might not have restored slavery to its old position in the Union? cruel and arrotrant as cf yore, aggressive, turbulent, defiant. Can the leopard change his spots ? It was not to l2. With an iiiiatuation marvell ous and inscrutable, those red-handed rebels forgot or heeded not their narrow escajfc from destruction, arid shouted aloud with insane exultation, and boasted as if they had repeated Waterloo. They stood bleeding and exhausted on that hard fought field, unable to pursue, afraid to venture from their lines. Yet with recovered breath came back their .wonted folly and presumption, and they exulted as.though they had mastered the conthieut. Their savagery was let loose. They carved the bones of our dead soldiers into ornaments for their women, they shot cur defenceless men for looking from their prison windows, and uttered yells of exult ation over the prospect of sacking northern cities. Our northern people perceived the. trua character and purposes of these half savage people, and arose to the work before them. They' were more than ever determined to quench the fire of rebellion, and from that day to this their progress ha3 been onward. Month by month the traitors are pre?scd backwaid, and through" their dislocated lines come forth thousands of liberated bondmen. Not until the Mississippi shall reverse its downward current can these fugitives return to servitude not until some miracle from diabolic sources shall reiavigorato the shattered confederacy can the great Moloch he set up in its original place. Politicians ma' look back longing ly for vanished flesh-pots, and half disloy al governors may still attempt a dalliance with the accursed thing. But all i3 vain and hopeless for the devoted worshipers Up that easy ladder of preferment the' can never climb a'rain, slippery as it now is with blood and tears. Thus has ithappened that the fierceness and malignity of the slave power, though undoubtedly an element of strength and success, has also had a counteractive consequence. The spectacle of rage and violence, exceeding by far what the noith had anticipated, aroused in our people an unconquerable resolution to quell the re bellion, and at the same time inclined them to regard slavery as its primary cause. Duy by day has this opinion become general and . confirmed among reflecting men, until now it begius to sway tho masses, and impel the government to corresponding action. With each blow aimed at the guilty institution, the rebels have writhed and howled, and struck more desperately to defend it. But we all see that their power for evil is steadily diminishing. No longer are they foolish enough to talk of invading these northern States scarcely can they defend that j remnant ot the insurrectionary district which now remains to them. . The rulers of Europe, too, after some vacillation and coquetry with the rebels, seem inclined to aid them no further. For this we may thank the right-minded masses of the European population, whose feelings were averse to human slavery, and whose wishes ' could not safely be disregarded. They submitted cheerfully to some loss and privation, w orked ; along as best they could with inferior cotton, and gradually accommodated themselves to a condition of things only removable by a sacrificfa of principle. Our rebels had boasted they would convulse the world by withdrawing cotton, and force the Euro pean governments to aid them in uphold ing slavery. Equally futile was their threat against the free States of famine, anarchy and revolution. We also can exist without cotton, and need uot to prostrate ourselves before Juggsrnaut. Never before have folly and arrogance been so rf-.buked.' The rebel was not only confident in his ability to coerce mankind into a sanction of his horrible institution, but he vaunted his expectation and purpose so brutally aud offensively, that ho dis gusted and repelled even the monarchists who coincided with him in his hatred of freedom. The arrogant spirit engendered by slavery overshot its mark. The world began to despise as well a3 to hate, when, through the multiform conformations in the current of human aflairs, it gradually became evident that.tho products of sla very, though valuable, wero not indispen sable. , , The believer in providential arrange ments cannot but see in all these concur ring circumstauces the mode by which slavory is finally to disappear. By tho very means devised for its permanence and extension has it received ifH death-blow. To save it tho republic was to perish.. The republic survives, but the institution ; is toiieriug 10 ua iuii. hen it ; f.. prostrate and extinct, heie in" the ch r scat of its power, tho world may n rejoice ; for everywhere else it ri m, inevitably die. Spain and Brazil will P prompt in their conformity, and etea interior Africa we may hope to see t lino of limitation continaal'v rrt' ' inland. 1 he barracoon and slave-pen m be equally dispensed with. Barbarian? nude or iu broadcloth, may gnash the! teeth in rage or disappointment, but tlf escape of their victims seems a thia, foredoomed. North American. 6 T70R SALE. JO A Faber ENGINE, 8 inch cvllader inch stroke, nearly new. in complete ord 2 pumps, one cistern holding 30 blh. r-J'!' boiler 20 inches, 20 feet long, fire front l'i complete. Price $650. V.i:l take Lutlbt at cash prices in payment of same. J r II. F. LUDWICE ilanor Station, Pa. RR., 21 miles ") eat Pittsburg, Dec. 3, 1SG3. TN THE ORPHANS' COUrTop ! Cambria county. . .. Notice is hereby given that the fu'.Iowiiw appraisements of certain personal propertT jf lecdent3, selected and set apart tor Vj widows of intestates, under Act cf -AesobVt of tile J4th April, 1851, have been filed ia ti Peiser's OHice, at Ebensburg, and will b presented to the Orpanns' Court forappr07i! on Wednesday, the itli of Dec. nc-t. 'to rit"! Appraisement of certain personal prcjrr set apart for tbe widow of Dnvid Riblet,cWd Appraist-meut of certain personal prorcrtr set r.part for the widow of Johu Brorn.dto i Appraisement of certain personal pro.e."? set apart for tLe widow of John "Vultz, dec'i E. L. LYTLfi, Cltrk. Clerk's OiTice. Ebensburg, 1 Nov. 10, lcC3. TVTEW BLACKSMITH SHOP.""' -JL The subscriber would respectfullr h form the public that lie Las bought cot thi well-known establishment of Iiaai Singer, ia the West Ward. F.ber.sbur-r. where be Wul carry on the JJLACKSrUITillNG business ij all its branches. Confident in rendering tr.tlre ffttisftoctioa, he bope3 for a there of patrcnaze. JOHN GRAI. Ebensburg, Nov. IS. 1SG3. MEW TAII.OQ SHOP. ' 1 The undersigned having opened out Tailoring Establishment over the "store room formerly occupied by Kvans k Son, respect fully informs the public that the busiaesi will there be carried ou in all iti branchei All work will be done in the latest e.t!, with neatness and dispatch, and on the sawi reasonable terms. D. J. KVANS. Ebensburg, Nov. 5, 1SG3. A DMIMSTKATOR'S NOTICE Letters of Administration on the esU: of John Humphreys, laie of Cambria townsuip, Cambria county, deceased, having been pram edto the subs-criberts, all pcrsous indebted to said, estate sre requested to come forward and pay their respective accounts, aad tbosi having claims g?.inst the estale will present them, properlv authenticated for settlement. MR?. ELEANOR 11UMPHREVS. ROWLAND J. HUMPHREYS. Nov. 12, 18G3-Ct. .. -; EGISTEK'S NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that the lollo. ing: Accounts have been passed and fled in the Register's Oifice, at Ebensbnrp, and will be presented to the Orphans'. Court of Cam. bria county, for confirmation and ailowanc, on Wednesday, the 0th dav of December nejt, to wit : The first and final account of WilHauSIici, Administrator of Rachel Slick, deceased. The second partial account of George Set tlemeyer, one of the executors of Godfrey Settlemeyer, deceased. The second and final account of Sarah IL Maclay, administratrix of William L VacUj, deceased. The account of Jacob 8 barb .nigh, gnnrdiaa of Jacob Stube, a minor child of Andrew Stube, deceased. The first and final account of William V Fnul, administrator of Moses Paul, deceased. The pecount of William A. Glass, adminis trator of Catharine Miller, deceased. The second and final account of Willian Kittell, Esq., executor of Jacob Bthe. dee d- The first and final account of E J. Wateri, administrator of Ann Evans, deceased. The first and final account of E. J. Wateri. executor of Ellis Rowland, deceased. The account of George Litzinger, adminis trator of Elizabeth Litzinger, deceased E. F. LYTLE, Register. Registers Oliice, Ebensburg, Nov. 12, 155." OPkETTO STAGE LINE. " WM. RYAN & JOS. F. Dl'RBLV. tU TJtit troy for Lorctto, Chest Sjrmyt ci St. At:jutine. The subscribers wish to inform the travel ing public that thev; 4ire now prepared to furnish them with "HACKS, CARRIAGES and every other accommodation in their Iin of business. They will run a daily hack froo Loretto to Crcssoa, to connect with the differ ent trains on the Pennsylvania Railroad, ac Ebensburg and Cressou Branch. Ther also run a tri-weckly hack to Chest Syrirg and St. Augustine, on Monday, Thursday Saturday of each week. This is the only sur conveyance on the road, as it carries the nw" and will always make the connection. Inquire for Ryan & Durbin'f Hack" vou wiih to be accommodated. RYAN & DURUI: Loretto, August 10, 18G3. CAIMXET WAIIE-IIOOM. . Re v A is 5 re- ' m spectfully in forms the tltizen 3 of Ebensbursr. and Cam- lv. thiit, h hai nn t5ii.4fcl!!--' hand and for sale, at -i;S "-YA his Ware-room, one square west of IJlair's T JioteJ, a largo ana .. v splendid assortment of FURNITURE, he will sell very cheap. COFFINS o;. order on the shortest notice and at reaso ble prices. Ebensburg, Oct. 6185 QOMETHIXG NEW! iVS O E. A. PULVER . SANTOS COFFEE, or MALT COFFEE- )Varrv:tcj to ffice tatis" Manufactured at Pittsburg, P-, J b( Pulvcr & Co., ta whom all orders shonm addressed. !trtr' For sale in Ebensburg by A. A- a - j Wra. Dsvis k Son. Shoetntiker Sot, Mills k Co . G. ii. Owccs, Evan h. Guriev, and bv the trade generally. . f:ep"t. 17. 1803. '
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