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Abolishment of Slavery.
Slavery relic of the darker ages bane
of our National existence tbo prolific
source whence- have emanated the untold
evils now afflicting us as a people Slavery
is no more ! It was killed in the House
of Representatives on Tuesday of last
week, 31st ultimo, by the docisivo vote of
"119 to 56, and it ouly remains to the
States in their sovereign capacity to bury
the loathsome carcase fathoms deep out of
sight, and we will be troubled by it or its
ghost no more forever. "We give on to
day's outside the Associated Press account
of the deliberations of the House on the
subject, together with the yeas and nays,
to which we refer the reader.
It will be remembered this Amendment
was introduced and passed in the Senate
on the Sth April Ixst, by the vote of 38 to
C. It came betoro the House Juue 15th,
following, where, after much debate, it
was defeated by 94 yeas to tU naya two
thirds of the members not concurring.
Fresh instructions having been issued to
Congress by the people at the late elec
tions, a reconsideration of the question
was moved by Mr. Ashley, of Ohio, aud it
came up before the House again the
present session. Wiser counsels prevailed
this time, and, after twenty or thirty
speeches thereupon, the Amendment was
finally adopted by G3 majority, or three
more thau two-thirds of all the members
voting. Nothing now remains to make it
the supreme law of the land but its ratifi
cation by the Legislatures of twenty-seven
State?, or three-fourths of all the States of
the Union.
The States that may bo counted on as
certain to vote for the amendment are,
Maine. New Hampshire, Vermont, Massa
chusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New
York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, In
diana, Ulicois, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas, Nevada,
Oregon, California, West Virginia in all
twenty-two. New Jersey, Delaware aud
Kentucky are doubtful. Wc think, how
ever, that both New Jersey and Kentucky
will finally give their consent to it. If the
present Legislature of Delaware refuses to
do so, as it possibly will, the people will
next year elect those who will do it. The
vote of the reconstructed States of Ten
nessee, Arkansas and Louisiana may be
counted on with certainty, and will settle
the question. No time is fixed by the
Constitution within which the ratification
must tale place, the' votes of the States
being valid whenever cast.
The Amendment has already been
adopted by the following States Mary
land, Illinois, Rhode Islaud, Michigan,
Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania,
and West Virginia.
Three Pennsylvania Democrats, Messrs.
Bailey, Coffroth and M'Allister, voted aye
on the question. The country owes thsse
wen, with the other Democrats who voted
with them, a debt of gratitude it can nevr
repay. They have shown themselves the
men for this crisis in a great country's
affairs ; lovers of their country and their
country's good ; fit representatives of the
progressive principle evoked by the war
that Slavery and whatever else opposes
must be wiped out to the end of the resto
ration of the Uuion. "Well done, faith
ful servants !"
With regard to our own Representative,
Hon. Archibald M'Allister, we may be
permitted a word. Born and bred a Dem
ocrat, and elected to the position he now
fills on a purely Democratic platform, lie
has proven himself a patriot cf the first
water by cutting loose from his old associ
ations and ranging himself o:i the side of
Rightand Justice. The moral courage
necessary to the performance of such a
tcp should not be underrated. The man
who walks up to- the cannon's mouth
unmoved, or faces danger in any form
without the tremor of a ruuselc, is brave,
n9 the world counts bravery. BGt how
inGnitely braver, in a core exalted seiise
of the ;ord, is he, who, turning his back
on his Prty which he is the favored
exponent and on all - its principles and
tradition!, whb a prayer to God for 6uc
0Cs, and unnio'vd bv tho storm of defs-
iiiation and foul abuse he well knows will
follow hi act, disavows a heresy which
has been bone of his bone and flesh of his
flesh from youth up! " The former elicits
our applause, yet it is brute courage the
latter is a virtue which might be attribu
ted tu the god?. All honor, then, to
Archibald M'Allister! Any former mis
takes he may have committed ara lost
sight of in our admiration of the sublime,
ennobling qualities he has herein evinced.
'When this subject was before the
Hous e on a former occasion, I voted
against the measure. 1 have been in fa
vor of exhausting all the means of concil
iation to restore the Union as our fathers
made it. 1 am for the Union, and utterly
opposed to secession or dissolution in any
cay or iliape. The result f all the peace
missions, and especially that of Mr. Blair,
has satisfied ine that nothing short of
recognition of their independence will
satisfy the Southern Confederacy. It
must therefore be destroyed, and in. voting
for the 2rcsenl measure, I cast my vote
against the corner-stone of the Southern
Confederacy, AND DECLARE ETERNAL WAR
AGAINST THE ENEMIES OF MY COUNTRY."
There is no uncertain utterance no if
nor buts about that. The meaning is
clearly apparent. It i3 the determination
of a strong man to sink party and political
prejudices away out of sight, and see in
the future his couutry, his whole country,
and nothing but his country.
In the name of his constituents, we
thank Mr. M'Allister for the stand he has
taken aud the vote he has cast, confident
he will never regret either.
Xo Peace !
It is well known that informal negotia
tions looking to Peace between the North
and South, with President Lincoln and
Secretary Seward as participants on behalf
of the former, and Vice President A. II.
Stevens, R. M. T. Hunter, of the rebel
Congress, and Judge John A. Campbell,
on behalf of the latter, were attempted
last week. The conference was had on
board a boat at Hampton Roads, and last
ed four hours, at the expiration of which
time the paities separated, mutually con
vinced that an amicable adjustment of the
differences between them was impossible.
Thus vanish into thin air any hopes en
tertained that the rebels, taking counsel
of wisdom, are ready and willing to come
back into the Union. Unless they are
guaranteed everything they demanded at
the beginning, which is precisely what we
could not and cannot give them unless
we acknowledge their independence, and
so ad ib it the war on our part has been a
mistake and a failure unless we consent
to a disruption of the Union, to prevefit
which we have all along been fighting,
their voice is still for war. Very well.
We undertook the job of putting down
tbo rebellion in maintenance of certain
principles. These principles are as highly
cherished now as ever, and we will con
tinue to maintain them to the end. God
giving us strength, these principles must
and will triumph. The eud may not be
just yet, but it is certain. So war let it
be!
Rebel Barbarity.
Cambria County and tlie Dralt.
Just as wo are going to pres?, wc have
received the quotas of the several sub-districts
of Cambria county. They are as
follows :
Allegheny 15
Loretto 4
Carroll 17
CarroRtown.. 5
Susquehanna 14
Chest 7
Clearfield 20
Chest Springs 7
Mhite. 7
Washington 7
Munster 4
Croyle C
Summerhill .. 9
Richland 20
Taylor 22
Coneuiaugh tp 15
Yoder 14
Johnstown 103
Cambria bor ....10
Conemaugh 13
Millville 18
Cambria tp 18
Blacklick 2
Jackson 14
Ebensburg 16
Gallitzin... i 6
Wilmorc.. 3
Total number to be drafted... 405
Pennsylvania Votes for Freedom!
The joint resolution ratifying the act
passed by Congress abolishing Slavery in
the United States, came before the Penn
sylvania Legislature for consideration on
Friday. In the Senate, it was passed by
a vote of 14 to 8; and in the House, by
55 to 33. The Union men voted solid
for, an J the Democrats against it. Penn
sylvania thu.? goes for freedom for all, and
is among the caiJiest of the States to ratify
the amendment.
SSfGcn. Sherman i? moving on the
hot-bed of treason Charleston. Stirring
ncw3 may be expected from' that direction
soon.
It is reported that a general ex
change of prisoners has been agfeedupon
between Grant and Leo, to go inta effect
immediately.
Z37 Hon. G. A. Krcrner, of IHinoi,
II. S. Minister to Spain has resigned his
r-osition.
The following is the testimony given
before the Committee on the Conduct of
the War, by Albert D. Richardson, a cor
respondent of the New York Tribune, who
lately escaped from rebel captivity:
"I was captured by the rebels May 3d,
18G3, at midnight, on a hay bale in the
Mississippi Iiiver, opposite Vicksburg.
After confinement in six different prisons,
1 was 6ent to Salisbury, N. C- February
3d, 1864, and kept there until December
18th, 1864, when I escaped. For eight
months Salisbury was the most endurable
prison I had seen. There were six hun
dred inmates. They were exercised in the
open air, comparatively well fed and kindly
treated. Early in October, ten thousand
regular prisoners of war arrived. Our
treatment immediately changed into a
scene of cruelty and horror. The prison
was densely crowded ; rations were cut
down, and issued very irregularly; friends
outside could not even send in a plate of
food ; the prisoners suffered constantly and
intensely for want of bread and shelter;
those who had to live or die on prison
rations always suffered from hunger. Very
frequently one or more divisions of one
thousand men would receive no rations for
twenty-four hours; some were left without
a morsel of food for forty-eight hours;
a few who had money would pay from five
to twenty dollars in rebel currency for a
little loaf of bread ; many, though the
weather was very inclement, and the snow
frequent, sold the coats from their backs
and the ehoes from their feet.
"I was assured on authority entirely
trustworthy, that .a great eommissary
warehouse near the prison was filled with
provisions ; that the commissary found it
difficult to find storage for his flour and
meal; that when a subordinate aked the
post commandant, Major John H. Gee,
'Shall I give the prisoners full rations?'
he replied, 'No! G d n them; give them
quarter rations I know from personal
observation that corn and pork are very
abundant in the region about Salisbury.
For weeks the prisoners had no shelter
whatever. They were all thinly clad;
thousands were barefooted; not one in
twenty had an overcoat or blanket; many
hundred were without shirts, and hundreds
more without blouses. One Sibley tent
and one 'A tent were furnished to each
squad of one hundred; with the closest
crowding, these sheltered about half the
prisoners. The rest burrowed in the
ground, crept under the buildings, or
shivered through the nights in the open
air upon tho frozen ground.
"If the rebels at the time of our cap
ture had not stolen our shelter tents, blan
kets, clothing and money, wo would not
have suffered from cold. If the prison
authorities had permitted us, either on
parole or under guard, to cut logs within
two miles of the prison, wc would gladly
have built comfortable and ample barracks
in one week. Dut the commandant would
not consent. He did not even furnish one
half of the fuel needed.
''The hospitals were in a horrible con
dition. More than half who entered the
hospitals died in a very few days. The
deceased, always without coffins, were
loaded into the dead cart, piled on each
other like logs of wood, and so driven out
to be thrown in a trench and covered with
earth. The rebel surgeons were generally
humane and attentive, and endeavored to
improve the shocking condition of the
hospitals, but the Salisbury and Richmond
authorities disregarded their protests.
"On November 25th, many of the pris
oners had been without food for forty
eight hours, and were desperate. Without
any matured plan a few of them said, 'We
may as well die one in way as another.
Let us break out of this horrible place.'
Some of them wrested guns from a relief
of fifteen rebel soldiers, just entering the
yard, killing two who resisted, and wound
ing five or six others, and opened the fence,
but they had neither adequate tools nor
concert of action. Before they could
effect a .breach every gun of the garrison
was turned on them, the field pieces open
ed with grape and cannister and they dis
persed to their quarters. In five minutes
from its beginning the attempt was quelled,
and hardly a prisoner -was to be-seen in
the yard. The rebels killed, in all, sixteen,
and wounded sixty. Not one-tenth of the
prisoners had taken part in the attempt,
and many of them were ignorant of it
until they heard the guns.
"Deliberate, cold-blooded murders of
peaceable men, where there was no pre
tence that they were breaking the prison
regulation, were very frequent. Our lives
were never safe for one moment. Any
sentinel, at any hour of the day or night,
could deliberately shoot any prisoner, or
fire into a group of prisoners, black or
white, and would never be taken off his
post for it. I left about six thousand five
hundred remaining in the garrison, De
cember 18th, and they were then dying at
the average rate of twenty-eight per day,
or thirteen per cent, per month.
"The simple truth is that the rebel au
thorities are murdering our soldiers at
Salisbury by cold ?nd hunger, while they
might easily supply them with ample food
and fuel. They are doing this systemat
ically, arid I believe are killing them
intentionally for the purpose either of
forcing our government to an exchange,
or forcing our men into the rebel army."
Mr. Browne's testimony is ta the same
effect as the above.
A Remarkable Peace Rumor.
The New York Post publishes as a con
spicuous editorial article the subjoined
statement. W know nothing respecting
its authenticity, but the details are cer
tainly curious.
"Among the rumors which are circula
ted in this city and elsewhere, respecting
the informal conversations which have
been held at Richmond and Washington
on the subject of peace between the Uni
ted States and the insurgent organization,
is one of a different character from the
rest, which deserves a place by itself.
"It is said that in these conversations
the plan has been suggested of allowing
the rebel host and its leaders to withdraw
from the United States to the provinces
of Mexico, without hindrance or molesta
tion, like an army going out from a be
siege'd citadel with the honors of war.
Once beyond the limits of tho United
States, their expectation would be that
they are no longer to be regarded as the
enemies of the Federal government, but
rather as an integral portion of the Mexi
can population, to which they will add
themselves, and by the majority of which
that is to say, by the liberal party
they will expect to be received as friends,
if not in the higher character of liberators.
"Arrived in Mexico, their plan will be
to follow for the present, the profession
they have learned in the last four years
that of war. The rumor goes that the
migrating army will by no means think of
recognizing the government of Maximilian.
They are to offer their services, as soldiers,
to the government of Juarez, fully confi
dent that the men who have so long and
under so many disadvantages maintained
themselves against the. vaet power and
resources of the loyal States will find it an
easy task to drive out the invader and
usurper from Mexico. When this is once
accomplished the liberators will of sourse
look for their reward. Mexico has large
tracts of fertile unoccupied land on which
the warriors will expect to settle, and their
superior intelligence and energy will give
them at ence a high position among the
mild, indolent and imperfectly civilized
race which forms the mass of the inhabi
tants. A large share in the direction of
public affairs would ol course fall to their
lot, and tho exiles from the United States
would hope to become the magnates of the
government whose independence they had
vindicated.
"One stipulation, besides that of not
being moleste and interfered with, and
one only, we have heard connected with
this scheme of migration, and that is,
permission from our government to dis
pose of the cotton which is still in their
hands, in order to raise a sufficient outfit
for their retreat to Mexico, and the means
of maintaining themselves for a while in
their new country. In regard to slavery,
we have heard of no condition whatever
demanded in CDnnection with this exodus
of the rebels from the country of their
crimes and their misfortunes. The rumor
supposes them too sensible of their own
desperate condition, and too well informed
of the inflexible determination of the peo
ple ot the United States on this point, to
raise any question concerning the contin
uance of slavery, not to mention the strong
hatred borne to slavery in Mexico. A
peaceful migration with their arms and
the proceeds of their cotton are the sole
conditions that we have heard of belonsr
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to this scheme.
mg
K,Gen. R. E. lice has been made
commander-in-chief of all tho armies of
the Confederate States.
JBS?" Rebel deserters assert that Peters
burg will positively be evacuated within
a few days.
Educating the Poor and the Ne
groes in Georgia. A correspondent of
the Boston Tiavder, writiting from Sa
vannah, says :
"General Geary, who now governs the
city, fully understands his position. I had
an interview with him yesterday. . His
whole heart seemed interested in relieving
the puffeiings of the poor, especially in
providing for the wants of the negroes.
He most cheerfully gavo his consent in
all that we asked for them in the way of
hospital arangements aud educational fa
cilities. The freedmen's books I brought
are very timely. Ruildings have been
selected and teachers appointed from
among the colored people. The schools
are to be opeoed at once. We are going
to try the experiment of what the colored
people are capable of doing as in and of
themselves. In former years I spent a
a season in Savannah, and know that as a
class they are quite intelligent.
"Some thirty oMhem we have organ
ized into an educational association, with
an efficient sub-committee to manage all
details. Twelve persons whom the com
mittee presumed we examined, and found
capable of teaching reading and spelling,
and some of them all the ordinary branches
of a common English education. These
teachers will be paid by the people them
selves, and though I donated the books,
they mean that tho scholars shall buy
them. The idea of buying, owning, and
doing for themselves is a mighty, stim
ulus. "In a word, the plan is not to treat
them as paupers, or as children, but as
having the elements of manhood to be
developed, to be made to exert their own
strength, and to receive help only as they
require it.
"I speak now cf the teji thousand who
have been raised in Savannah. Of course
those who have followed the army from
the country are more ignorant and far
more destitute. Of these there are some
five or six thousand. They will need
much help from Northern benevolence.
The government is doing nobly. All who
can labor are paid 630 a month, and are
well fed. Those fit for soldiers will un
doubtedly bo taken into the army, for they
have pluck for fighting the same here as
everywhere else."
Gen. Sherman on the Rebellion.
The following letter was written by
Gen. Sherman, in reply to certain inqui
ries from a citizen of Georgia:
Headquarters Military Division of the
Mississippi, in the field, Savannah, Ga.f
January, 8, 1865. Dear Sir : Yours of
the 3d instant is received, and in answer
to your inquiries, I beg to state I am
merely a commander, and act only in that
capacity; nor can I give any assurances or
pledges affecting civil matters in the
future. They -will be adjusted by Con
gress when Georgia is again represented
there as of old.
Georgia is not out of the Union, and
therefore the talk of "reconstruction" ap
pears to me inappropriate. Some of the
people have been and still are in a state
of revolt; and as long as they remain
armed and organized, the United States
must pursue them with armies, and deal
with them according to military law. But
as soon as they break up their armed
organizations and return to their homes I
take it they will be dealt with by the civil
courts. Some of the rebels in Georgia, iu
my judgment, deserve death, because they
have committed murder, and other crimes,
which are punished with death by all
civilized governments on earth. I think
this was the course indicated by Gen.
Washington, in reference to the Whisky
insurrection, and a like principle seemed
to be recognized at the time of the Rurr
conspiracy.
As to the Union of the States under
our government, wc have the high author
ity of Gen. Washington, who bade us be
jealous and careful of it, and the still more
emphatic words of Gen. Jackson, "The
Federal Union, it must and shall be pre
served." Certaiuly Georgians cannot
question the authority of such men, and
should not suspect our motives, who are
simply fulfilling their commands. Wher
ever necessary, force has been used to
carry out that end; and you may rest
assured that the Union will be preserved,
cost what it may. And if you are sensi
ble men you will conform to this order of
things, or else migrat-e to some other
country. There is n) other alternative
open to the people of Georgia.
.My opinion is that no negotiations are
necessary, nor commissioners, nor conven
tions, nor anything of the kind. Yhen
ever the people of Georgia quit rebelling
against their government and elect mem
bers of Congress and Senators, and these
go and take their seats, theu the State of
Georgia will have resumed her functions
in the Union.
These are merely my opinions, but in
confirmation cf them, as I think, the peo
ple of Georgia may well consider the fol
lowing words referring to tho people of
the rebellious States, which I quote from
the recent annual message of Prcsideot
Lincolu to Congress at its present session :
"They can at any moment have pcaco
simply by laying down their arms and
submitting to the national authority under
the Constitution. Atter eo much, the
government could not, if it would, main
tain war against them. The loyal people
would not sustain or allow it. If ques
tions should remain, we would r.dju?t
them by the peaceful means of legislation,
conference, courts and votes. Operating
only in constitutional and lawful channels,
some certain and other possible questions
are and would be beyond Executive pow
er to adjust, as, for iustancc, the admission
of members into Congress aud whatever
might require the appropriation of money."
The President then alludes to the geD
eral pardon and amnesty offered for Uiore
than a year past, upon specified and more
liberal terms, to all except certain desig
nated classes, even these beiug "still with
in contemplation of special clemency,"
and adds :
"It is still so open to all, but the time
may come when public duty shall demand
that it be closed, and that in lieu more
vigorous measures than heretofore shall
be adopted."
It seems to me that it is time for the
people of .Georgia to act for themselves,
and return, in time, to their duty to the
government of their fathers.
Respectfully, your obedient servant,
W. T. Sherman, Major General.
mi
Terrible Conflagration in Savan
nah. On the night of the 27th and the
morning of the 28th days ot January,
the city of Savannah, Ga., was the scene
of a terrible fire, involving the destruction
of a great part of that city. The number
of buildings destroyed is roughly estimated
at two hundred, and as these were princi
pally dwelling houses, the amount of suf
fering endured by the homeless wanderers
thus cast out during the inclemency of the
winter, cannot be estimated. The fire is
supposed to have been the work of a rebel
incendiary. The arsenal was totally con
sumed, and a large number of shells, that
had been stored there by the rebels, ex
ploded, doing a great deal of damage. It
is reported that about twenty persons were
burned to death or killed by the explosion
of the shell. It will be several days be
fore the full damage can be ascertained.
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BS. Robert Lincoln, eldest son of the
President, and familiarly known as "the
Prince of Rails," is about entering the
army as one ot Gen. Grant's Staff.
A prize fight took place last week,
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left-hand corner, with the word "Transient."
4. Place the post-ige stamp on the vpprr
right-hand corner, "an J leave space between
the stamp and direction kOT post-marking with
out interfering wi'.h the writing.
N.B. A request for the return of a letter
to the Avriter, if unclaimed within 30 days or
less, written or printed with the writer's name,
po.it oijicc, and Slate, across the left-hand end
of the envelope, on the face side, will be com
plied with at the usual prepaid rate of post
age, payable when the letter is delivered to
the writer. Sec. 2S, Law of 1863.
JOHN THOMPSON, P. M.
February 0, :SG3.
TIGIITII ANNUAL STATEMENT
UJ OF THE
PROTECTION MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.
A nit. cf property insured as per
seventh annual report $147, "703 19
A int. of property insured since
seventh annual report 143,572 03
$20G,27G 17
Deduct crnt. property insured in
policies cancelled and expired.. 53,431 53
Total anat. prcpertj now insured. $242, S14 VJ
Aait. premium notes in force as
per seventh annual report $1C,43S 21
Amt. premium notes taken since
seventh annual report 12,773 70
$20,216 21
Deduct premium notes cancelled
and expired G05C 21
Total amt. prem. notes in force... $23,1C0 00
No. policies issued as per seventh
annunl report 1C3
No. policies issued since seventh
annual report "
303
Deduct no. policies cancelled and
expired
"Whole number policies in force... -oi
STATEMENT SHOWING TUB OPERATION'S
OF THE COMPANY, AND ITS PBEstM
CONDITION. ft
Bal. in treas.ani in hands cf nrcnts.!? -S
Amt. percentage, ic, received since
seventh annual report
$G30 57
Amt. compensation of cf3-
cers and agents $34C 63
Amt. incidental expenses of
past vear 9- 52
Amt. paid Isaac Crawford,
los3 sustained by fire 12o 00
Bal. in treas. and in hands
of agents ... CG 3G $CS0
JOHN WILLIAMS, President.
D. J. Joxas, Secretary, jan2Mo
NOTICE !
All persons holding Borough Ed
are requested to bring thcui in to tne .
the Burgess and Town Council, "Kiucuiac.. .
for the purpose of having them stamped ana
tho corporation seal aCixed. ,rr
GEO. M. KEADE, Secretary.
F.hpnshnrrr January 2G, lS63.4t
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