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EBENSBURG, PA. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 5, 1862
VOL . 9-NO. 9
Irlrrt offrq.
PEUKMBER NOW THY CREATOR IN
' THE DAYS OF THY YOUTH.
Kemcnjler thy Creator now.
When youth and years are bright,
Fit evil tliys draw nigh, when thou
Shalt find them no delight ;
Now, whin the moon and stars above
Arc pleasant things to see;
Now, when thy days are soft as love,
Ao' all jy and glee.
The voice of song and mirth must cease,
And Music .s daughters die;
The hirdrs sweet voice be hushed to peace,
And earth's best beauty fly ;
Anil Almond buds shall blossom white.
Where now thy locks are dark.
T dim thy young ryes sapphire light.
Or hyacinthinc spark.
Or ever then the silver cord
Shall loose the golden bowl,
nememWr thy Creator Lord
With overflowing soul ;
For dust to dust insist mingle then.
And earth its earth must claim.
And thy free spirit flit again
To (Tod, from whni it came.
Valuation of Cambria County, for E62, as returned by the Assessors.
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'l'w the V.'lii-.r nf the Dmir-crat and Sentinel
A prat deal has recently been said and
wittfii relative to ft law. passed at the last
yv of the lA-sislaturp. entitlevl An
Art to e-'end the provisions of an Act for
t': pruiii tion f Sheep and taxing of
Uc?. in the County of Clair, to the county
f ('.ind.ri i." In view of this fact, and as
:ae mend ht under wlm-c auspices the act
f.vs pasM. I desire also, with your jwrniis-k-u.
to s.iy a few wi.rds in regard to it.
throush the columns of jour paper.
In reply t the abuse which ha been
heaped njn roe. 1 will be brief. No mat
ter what course he may pursue, it is pimply
impossible for a legislator to please every
Wly. In matters purely of loal concern,
:h' best rule he can adopt is. to pass or
tr.deavor tt pass such bills as may be pe
t ti'ined for, when he lielieves the.n to be
r:!it in tliemsel ves. and likely to prove
h. i.tficial to his const ituents. If he legit--!.it
in this wise, then, whellur his mea
Kurc-i are popular or unpopular -whether he
j'le.-.sc or displeases he has at least i) c
pr.iud 5 itisf i-i"n of knowing that he fi.
iiAV'irtd to do his d:ify. I ol.Vm to have
li'Ti i'"Vi rned by this nile. in securing the
l-"ago of the bill in question, and if I erred
t w.vs an ermr of the head certainly not
f the heart.
It is not my purpose to enter into any
' it red defence of the Pdair county law.
v'-.hh has lecn roughly assailed, and
.'.;u h, by the passage of the act of the last
?si"ti, it was intrwle'l to Cambria. I leave
( sje:k for itself, merely remarking that
'i li a law had teen asked for, and upon a
! :' elimination of its provisions, I b-Ii-vcd
'At. if extended and properly carried out,
r- cmM not fail to prove benhcial to our
p-'j'e. Ard while nothing has transpired
'r.re o rh.mge my opinion. 3-et it is a fact
-r :i,y of r.ote. that some who wore anxious
f r ' passage, and who pronounced it a
c-i-.ll. w at first, suddenly turned around
;,' ;ned in its wholesale denunciation. A
rvi:ti..n so violent and sudden, can only
.-iti-f.ietori!y explainotl. upon the hy-p,-
';n that such things lire sometimes
f.r the purposes f political capital.
It cann- t lie denied that the "law" under
' Ps.dcration has its friends as well as its
::e.ies; au in judging of them, the true
' "'Ti i:? seems to be this the law is yp
' m itu tliosc engageil in, or in favor of,
h'ir'.ness of raising and kcepiug Shetp,
w-it is iDijx-pular with those in. or in
f-iv'-r ( f . ti e bxiicss of raiirg and
I'tvI'lTV DlkT.a VnntirmK- u-om1i n , fill
fte'.tshave leen urgel again.-t it by thelat-t-:r
clvs a fair sample of which pressed
V'U my attention but a few days since. It
w this : There is not half enough oDoys
tr Gmntij, and oo many d d Free
Against the crushing force of an
agiimcut like this, it will readily be seen
l-at no other argument, however 9ound,
f'ij or sophistical, could possibly prevail.
But let rae state a few facts connected
the passage of this " law," and the at
rnj.t m.vle to enforce its provisions this
lav which it sc.-ms to be generally conceded
s co law H all.
K cow ing how sensitive men generally are
: regard to the subject of taxation, it was
n'y after I rceeivetl a number of letters and
Vc'iifns earnestly reiuetirg it, and when
minted that it would prove tweeficial,
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Tlie Commisssior.ers .f Gmibria Cnir.ty will meet as a Board of Revision at their office during the Second and Third week of February next, for the purpose of revising cor
recting an 1 e.piali.in the valuation of all property taxable by law for said County, when they will hoar all communications relative to the same.
All persxHis interested may attend if they think ppp?r. The Assessors of the several Townships in said County will be notified of the time when they may ho required to
at ten 1 - IK T. STORM.
"Commissioners' Offiee. ' JAMES COOPKll.
Ebenaburg, Jan. 27th 1S62. PETER J. LITTLE.
and was desired by the people of the cour.ty led up at all. But Senator Hall with
that I determined to secure the passage of ' whom I conversed in regard to it, informed
an act similar to the one in question. No
bill having been sent to me, it devolved (
upon mo to draw one myself, and while
making preparations to that end, my atten
tion was particularly called to a couple of
bills which came up. on the 12th. of Feb.
One of these- was entitled " An act to tax
Dogs in the county of Erie." and the other
was an act to extend the Blair county law
to the county of Crawford. After examining
lth carefully, I concluded the Blair county
aet was the better one. r.nd believing its pro
visions in harmony with the wislus of those
asking a similar enactment, I determined to
ad-pt it. In the bill extending it to Craw
ford, therefore, I proposed at first to em
brace Cambria also, but did net do so for
tl-e reason 'hat the bill had abeady passed
the Senate, and the member from Crawford
was anxious to have it pass the House with
out amendment, in order that it might re
ceive the Executive approval, and become a
law as soon as possible.
Having both passed the House, on the 12
February, the Erie county bill was taken to
the Senate ; and the Crawford county bill
was sent to the Governor, whose signature
it received on the 27th. of the same month.
With this precedent before me. 1 drew up
a bill extending the Blair county act to
Cambria, which was read in place and pre
sented to the House on the 1st of March
following. Knowing the member from Craw
ford to be experienced in matters of Legisl
ation, and supposing of course that he knew
whether the Blarr county act was in force or
not, at the time bis bill passed. I did even
think of making any inquiry or examination
in relation to it ; nor was it natural, unier
the circumstances, that I should do so. By
the passage ot the act extending it to Craw
ford county, both Houses, as well as the
Governor, had but a few days before recog
nized it is as an existing law, and in the ab
sence of any knowledge cr information to
the contrary, it wjuld have beeD exercising
more than ordinary prudence to have look-
further.
On the 26th of March, my .11 passed
the House, and it was. I believe, in the
evening of the same day. that I first learn
ed that tbe Blair county act had been re
pealed. My informant, if I mistake not.
was the member from Blair, who merely
stated it as an impression. Having exam
ined th matter, and found his statement to
be correct, the next morning, (March 27)
I went to the Senate, with a view of having
the bill indefinite! v postponed, cr not cal-
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me that it had already leon passed.
It was thnn quite too lae in the session
to introduce an other bill and secure its pas
sage, or is it quite likely I should have
done so. But regarding the ono passed as
leing inoperative, I gave the matter ro
further though;, until Informed one day, by
the member from Erie, that tbe bill passed
in relation to his county had been vetoed
by the Governor. Involving, as I thought
precisely the same principle of taxation,
though not the same in detail, I supposed
indeed, that mine would share a similar
f-ite. I was somewhat surprised, therefore,
when on the 8th of May, in a Message an
nouncing the approval of some three or four
hundred bills, I found it too among the num
ber.
Here then, was a law which, though r.g
ular enough on its face, was nevertheless
very doubtful and defective in its character
not to call it an absolute nullity. Ter.
fectly harmless ia itself, and obligatory
upon nobody, the attempt to enforce its
provisions, after a knowledge of the facts,
could only be viewed as a very delicate and
hazardous experiment. While therefore I
iiavc no desire to shhk any responsibility
attaching to the passage of the bill, or
which might or could have legitimately re
sulted from it, yet I wish it distinctly un
derstood that I am in no way responsible
for the effort recently made to carry its
provisions itto effect. It was but a short
time after the adjournment of the last Leg
islature, that I had a conversation with j
Abel Lloyd, Esq..(then one of the county
Commissioners, in which I informed him
that, although an act had been passed, yet
for the reason already indicated. did not
think it could be enforce!. And he then as
sured me. that, even though it were a legal
and valid enactment, the Commissioners
would take no action under it until they
had first received an exemplified copy of
the bill.
Sometime afterwards, I had ft second in
terview with Mr. Lloyd upon the subject.
He then informed me that the Board had
received a copy of the Pamphlet Laws, and
had examined the act in question, and ap
proved its provisions. But he added, that,
as I had suggested some doubts about its
validity, and as Vie assessments had then
all been made and were jmrfly distributed
they could not act under the law until the
following year and not then unless they
were first satisfied it was all right and prop
er to do so. With this underslandine I
informed one day that a Dog Tax" had
actually been levied ; and then Mr. Lloyd
assured mc that it had been authorized du
ring his abser.se from the sessions of the
Board.
Had the Commissioners pursued the
course indicated by Mr. Lloyd, it would
hive given a year to the people of the coun
ty to consider and discuss the merits and
demerits of the act in question, and assu
ming it to be valid and legal they might, if
they so desired, have secured its repeal by
the present Legislature. If, on tha other
hand, the act is reality a nullity, then it
should have lnsm treated accordingly. And
thus, in either event, if its pas-age had
done nobody any harm. But they have
undertaken to enforce this law, after having
ample notice of its doubtful character. I
they are right in this, so be it ; but they
are wrong, then I submit that, under the
circumstances, it would be unjust and un
reasonable to hold me responsible for any
unpleasant consequenses resulting from
their act. Respectfully. &c,
A. C Mclm.
EnEKSBcr.fi, Jan, 28th 18C2.
THE RUR ASIDE EXPEDITION.
Correspondence of the New York World.
Wasoisgtok, Jan, 23. Considerable
dissatisfaction is expressed among prominent
military men with tbe risks to which it it
alleged the Burnside Expedition is and
will be subject. These prognostications of
danger are based in part upon the incom
pleteness of the equipment and mobile fa
cilities of the sixteen thousand troops con
cerned.but principally on the exposed points
of debarkation attack selected for their
operations.
An officer of high rank and connections
as this morning expressed to roe his anxie
ty on this subject. He say (and this, owing
to the lateness of tho present daie, without
any violation of official reticence) that the
orders under which the Burnsido Expedi
tion left Fortress Monroe embrace the fol
lowing commands : The first peremptory
tbe second depending on the judgement of
the leader.
1. The entire fleet was to pass tlirougn
one of the inlets below Cape natteras, ren
dezvous in Tamlico Sound, sail up the
Ntuse river, and attack and possess the
city of Newbcrn, on the North Carolina
coast.
11. If matters should progress favora
bly, and a dash inland seem feasible. Gen.
Burnside was lo make a forced march with
his army to Gcldsboro, 6ixly miles from
Newbsrn. Goldsboro is at th junction of
the nrnxsiDE expedition.
roRTRfiss 2l0XE.cE. San 23, 2y Iho ar
rival of the steamer Eastern S!ztc, we have
the moet dirert and official intelligence cf
the arrival of the Burnside Expedition at
its destination. The Eastern iife hft
Hatttras last night and arrive! here late
this afternoon.
The recent storms were unusually set cm
atUatteras, and considerably delayed and
crippled th Expedition, tut when the jjn
Urn State left everything looked farorable.
jThe Expedition sailed from Hampton
Roads on the llth and 12th instants, and
consisted of 125 vessels of all classes. They
arrived at UatterM ltwcen the 12th and
17th. having been greatly r? tarded by se
vere storms and adverse wind which pre
vailed at that time. After their arrival,
they experienced a serici of storms of ruch
unp aralelled severity tht for two days in
succession, on more than cue occasion, it
was impossible to hold cE;niTinicit:oa be
tween any two vessels cf the licet.
After the first storm, it was discovered
that instead of vessels drawing eight and a
half feet being able to go over the Swash,
or bars, as Gen Burnside had been inform
ed, no vessels drawicg over seven and a
quarter feet could pass into Pamlico Sound,
j No vessel either could pass the outside bar
drawiDg over thirteen feet, unless killfully
7,00 i piloted ; consequently tho "steamer City of
Ar lork struck on the bar, loaded with a
cargo valued at 4200,000, and consisting of
powder, riCes and bombs, and proved a to
tal loss. The captain and crew, after brave-
I Iy remaining in the rigging for forty hours,
were saved.
The stearr-cT rocohonias went ashore
near the lighthouse. nd -became a total
wreck. Ninety valuable liTst-s belonging
to the Rhode Island Battery, were cn board
were all drowned, including several valued
at five hundred dollars each.
The Grcprshot parted the hawser ly
which she was towed, and went down at
rra. Her crew was saved.
An unknown schooner ladeced with onts.
with the road from Raleigh, and thus a
main point on the great through line from
Richmond to Charleston. Savannah and the
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uuu. lis occu nation woui a noi, uowevcr, iso lost on ine Deacu. MX oi me crew
completely sever the Rebel railway conneo ) the latter perished.
ttons, inasmuch as they have a roundabout j The steamer Louisiana struck on the bar,
and another schooner, also unknown, were
of
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iraiw uoiii ibiuei' ij- iu iiut;i;ii. .11114 it.
'North Carolina Railroad.' But if the
march to the interior should seem too peri
lous, tho leaders of the expedition were au
thorized to re-embark their force?, make a
two days' sail fcr Gipe F?ar river, and oc
cupy the important and strongly defended
seaport town of Wilmington. The latter
cky is also a main point on the grand
route from Richmond to Chariest.
HIT It X $ I DC AR 31 A D.4.
From the Rich'mowl DirjxitcJi Jan. 25 1SC2.
This formi cable fleet of all sorts of vessels
ami all sorts of troops has certainly been
held very uncomfortably since it departed
on its mission of love to the Suth. The
sharp winds of a stormy interval of weather
on a very dangerous coast must have cxn
casioned some peril, if cot some disasters
from it. There would be no tears t-hed in
this part of the world if the diststcrs were
the greater that ever befi.ll such an armed
force upoa the seas.
W'c have said that if its destination was
Palm:c3 Sound .we did not see any great re
sults in store for it : and if the people of the
South were to select a point for its attack.
thct point would be the North Carolina ;
Cast. But it is so far from being certain j
tnat tuai pomi was seiecieu oy me euemy,
that it may now be rather believed that a
more Southern field is that chosen f t the
more threatened demonstration. Mobile has
been suggested v iih much plausibility, as
the point for which it took its departure.
The entrance into Talmico, in that case, was
merely to escape the storm.
If Mobile is the object of the grand naval
prjparation, employment will bo given to
every able and gallant officer and well dis
ciplined and brave army under him, that
have been a long time waiting anxiously for
the appearance of the enemy In some way
or oth.T. More delibcate and terrible sal
vos which quieted the ferocious Brown, may
have some effect on Burnside.
never thought of the matter agVm, nnliljth Wilmington and Weldon Kail Road
where she still remains. The report of her
having been burned is entirely incorrect.
Sne may be got off.
The Ei s tarn Queen and also the Vvltigtier
are ashore. The Latter will probably bo
got off.
The water vessels had rot reached their
destination when the Ejsicrn Sizie left, and
had it not been for the condemnors on board
of some of the vessels and on there, terri
ble sufferings would have occurrrd. As it
was, the wator casks were old whiskey,
camphine and kerosene c:l casks. It is
thought that the Union Pilots of Ilatteraa
have proved themselves traitors, having ins
tint tonally ran several vessels ashore.
One of the storms can only be described
as terrific. The waters in every direction
were covered with foam, the waves dash'ng
with a clear sweep across the Hattcras shore
and completely cutting off the post from all
communication. The current was rus-hing
at the rate of five miles per hour, and tho
chop seas prevented Gen. Burnside from
answering auy of the signals of distress or
communicating with his Generals.. At one
time flags would appear Union !own on a
number of vessels, indicating a want of wa
ter, Coil or provisionr,
TR03I P'RT noY.il
A gentleman fiom Port Royal in the steam
er S. II. Spaulling says that on Thursday
when she left Hilton Heal, the joint ex
pedition againft Savannah was about to sail
The gun boats of Commodore Dupont were
moving towards Tybee Island by the way
of Skull Creek, a much fchcrter route, and
intended to pass in the rear of Fort Fulaski,
so to as avoid that formidable fuTtrc?".
The troops were in fine spirit? and were
being put on board the transports. Tho
weather war mild and pleasant, more like th
monta tf May in this region than that of
January. Gen. Sherman and Commodore
Dupont were acting together in the most
Burnside is certainly now presented in a harmonious manner, and had n early com-,
questionable shape. Where and when he j pitted all their arrangments for this most
will throw his thundeibolts are questions important expedition.
net to be answered except by himself. Xo civilians were allowed to land at nil
Should the weather not frustrate him als ! ton Head, those who had afrivt I on the
together, we st'ppoi-c he will soon let us , transports being compelled V remain on
know.
board th? vcsrtls.
The vote on the confirmation of the
Kwttiwk .Tan John Cowan-was cx- i
ccuted to-day. at Newton, for the murder of j nomination of Mr. btact n. a. S arret ry r f
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