ipraocnit. HARVEY SICKL.ER, Editor. TUNKHANNOCKJ PA. Wednesday, Dec. 31.1862. Summary of News. The news from the army of the Potomac since the late massacre at Fredericksburg, has been comparatively unimportant. The army since the retreat, has remained in statu quo. (Jen. Banks has arrived at New Orleans and has superseded Gen. Butler in the command of that department. The difficulty in the Cabinet has, to all ap pearances, been settled. Seward, and others who tendered their resignations, have resum ed their duties. Gen. Burnside's resignation was not accepted. By his attempts to save the authorities at Washington from the odi um which justly attaches to their incompe tence and criminal negligence, he has placed his own former good character as a General, in no very enviable light. The developments made from day to day in the McDowel and Porter cases, disclose the corruption and imbecility of Stanton, Ilalleck and otner officials at Washington, and the forbearance of their intended victim Gen. McClulian, who to-day stands h'gher in the confidence of the army and the estimation of ail fight thinking men than ever before. Our subscribers who are in arrears are again notified that between this and Court Week, we expect them to pay up at our advance rates—§l,so per year. After that date, we shall adhere strictly to our published terms and charge two dollars. The advance in the cost of paper, which is now 150 per cent, higher than two mouths ago, makes this course necessary. We shall ad here to it inflexibly. i • The delay in getting out our piper week before last, induced us to adopt the custom of the fraternity in omitting one issue during the holidays, in order that we might catch up with our work. We hope to avoid a recurrence of this state of things hereafter, and to issue our paper regularly as hereto fore. MORE UNION SOLDIERS lIUCHERED A petition is now in circulation among the citizens of New calling a public meet ing, for the purpose of expressing the senti ment of the community in regard to the mis management of the war, and the suicidal policy of the Administration. This move ment is eminetly proper, and such meetings should be called in every county in every Northern State. It is high time that the people should demand from those who conduct this war an account of the lives of brave men who have been slaughtered to make an Abo lition holiday. What account can the Ad ministration give of the reason that induced (hem to cause the failure of the campaign he fore Richmond, of that before Washington, of the neglect to forward suitable supplies to the army after the battle of Antietam, in or der that an immediate advance into Virginia could he commenced, of the removal of Gen eral McClellan on the eve of the completion of his plans to force Lee into a battle, of the ailure to have pontoon bridges at Falmouth when the advance column of General Burn side's forces reached that place, and of the peremptory order to Burnside to cross the river and attack Gceral Lee in position, when stien a movement was against the judg ment of every officer in command at that place 1 The people demand to know why, in all these, cases, the army was sacrificed by the stupidity or wilful acts of the Adminis tration 1 If the President and his military advisers are determined to make this war an Abolition job, regardless of the misery it is entailing on its countless victims, the people should know that fact, and then they can ap ply the proper and efficient remedy. But it is idle to talk of success to Northern arms whilst blundering imbecility or black-hearted treason to the Union and the Contitution sits enthroned in the White House, the War De partment and the office of the General-in* Chief of the Northern forces, and orders and directs such scenes of willful and aimless murder and butchery as that on the heights in the rear of Fredeickshurg. Will not the people of this City and State imitate the excellent example of New York, and hold meetings at which this whole ques tion of the war, its end or continuance, and the mode which it has been and continues to be conducted by the Abolition Administra tion of Mr. Lincoln can be fully and freely discussed ? The time for free, bold speech has come. The cries and groans of the tens of thousands of tnen mained and crippled for life, and the tears and wants and miseries of the pale, stricken ones made desolate by the death of their protectors, who fell victims to the blunder of an Abolition President, or Se cretary of War, or General-in-Chief, are the provocations and warrants for such a course as that mapped out by the originators and supporters of these meetings. More than this, the Union will he gone beyond all redemp tion if this Abolition conducted war is suffer ed to longer bear such fruits as that plucked at Frcderiekshurg. There must be a change and this can only he effected by arousing the people thiough the agencies of public meet ings. Shall we have one I—Constitutional Vnion. PROTEST AGAINST THE 111 EE IDEM- I NIFYING the PRESIDENT AGAINST PROSECUTION FOR ARBITRARY AR- R EST. I In the House of Representatives, on Mon day, Mr. Pendleton, of Ohio, asked permission of the House to put upon the Journal a pro test, signed bj r thirty-six members of the House, against the passage of the bill to in ch mnify the President for arrests made under suspension of the writ of habeas corpus. After stating the ciicuinstances under which the bill was passed, they conclude as follows : They protest against the refusal cfthe House to permit the consideration and dis cussion of the bill as an arbitrary exercise of power by the majority ; unjust to the mem bers, unjust to their constituants, and dero gatory to its character as a legislative body. They protest against the passage of the bill. First—Because it purports to deprive the citizens of all existing peaceful legal modes of redress for admitted wrongs, and thus com pels him tamely to submit to the injury in dicted or to seek illegal and forcible remedies- Second—Because it purports to indemnify the President and all acting under his au thority for act.-, admitted to be wrongful, at the expense of the citizen against whom the wrongful acts have been perpetrated, in viola tion of the plainest principles of justice and the just and familiar precepts of constitu tional law. Third—Because it purports to confirm and make valid, by act of Congress, arrests and imprisonments which were not only not warranted by the Constitution of the United States,but were in palpable violation of its express prohibitions. Fourth—Because it purports to authorize the President, during this rebellion, at any time to arrest any person, and anywhere, throughout the limits of the United States, to suspend the privileges of the writ of habe as corpus, whereas by the Constitution the power to suspend the privilege of that writ is confided to the discretion of Congress alone, and is limited to the places threatened by the dangers of invasion or insurrection. Fifth—Because, for these and other rea. sons, it is unwise and unjust—an invasion of private rights—an encouragement to violence' and a precedent full of hope to all who would usurp despotic power and peipctuate it by the arbitrary arrest and imprisonment of all who oppose them. # Sixth and finally—Because in both its sec tions it is a deliberate, palpable and danger ous violation of the Constitution, according to the plain sense and intention of that in strument, and is therefore utterly null and void. Geo. 11. Pendleton, Chas. A. Wickliffe, Wm. A. Richardson, Chas. J. Riddle, Pa., James C. Robinson, James A. Cravens, Philip R. Fuuke, Elijah Ward, Jas. 11. Morris, Philip Johnson, Pa., Anthony L. Ivnapp, John D. Sliles, Pa., C. L. Vallandighatn, George W. Dunlop, Chilton A \\ hite (O) llend'k B. Wright, Pa- Warren P. Noble, Wm. A Wadsworth, Wm. Allen, (0.) Aaron Harding, Samuel S. Cox, Ilenry Crider, Elijah H. Norton, Chas. B. Calvert, George L. Shiel, James E. Kerrigan, S. E. Ancona, Pa., Ilenry May, Jesse Lazear, Pa., Robert 11. Nugent, Nehemiah Perry, George 11. Yeaman, Chauncy Ilibbard, Bradley F. Granger, John Law, The resolution and protest, on motion of Tliad. Stevens, of Buckshot War notoriety, were laid on the table by a vote of 75 to 40. Democrats do not seem to enjoy any rights in the present Congress. • Objects of Abolitionists. That the Abolitionists would destroy the Constitution and introduce a despotism, is no empty charge. The following extracts will show the temper of that party, The N. Y. i Times says: <: A man of firm and resolute will, with a million of men in his arms to support him, can do pretty much as he pleases. They have to learn that Constitutions, however con venient they may he, can he laid aside or sus pended when necessary." The Rev. Dr. Bellows in a late sermon on the proclamation, said : ' The policy of the utter destruction of slavery and the slave power once avowed, the next is to cashier every General who dare to question or disregard it, to dismiss every Cabinet officer who disputes it, and to silence every press that lifts its guilty columns against it." And again Dr. Bellows said : "This is a war of extermination—a war to get rid of slavery and slaveholders, whether it is constitutional or not." E. C. Ingersoll, Abolition candidate at large in Illinois for Congress, sate in one of his speech es : "If the President should determine that in order to crush this rebellion, the Constitution should be suspended during the rebellion. I believe he has the right to do so." Rosette, a candidate for the Illinois Legis lature, gave utterance to the following : "I am not a Constitutional man ! lam for carrying on this war under the Constitution, , over the Constitution, through, the Constitu tion, around the Constitution, < r against the Constitution. Any way whatever, so as to put down the rebellion." The abolition party is done for. The last election did the business. The nigger shock. | Like the animal In "Mother Goose's Melo dies : "While it lives, it lives in clover. Ar.d when it die?, it dies all over." • Sic' We tender to our readers the salu- j tations of the season; hoping that all had a " Merry Christmas," we now wish them a " Ilappy New Year." County Superintendent. The Columbia Co. Democrat in its issue of last week, under the above caption, 6ays : For the information of the people of the county, who have a deep inter est in the matter, we intend to bring up the record, on the subject of the head cf this ar ticle, They have a right to know what po litical and party movements have brought about the present state of things. The draft was made on the lGth of October; and on the 25th, Dr. John published the following article: ff. Among the drafted in this county | was the County Superintendent, Mr. VVm. Burgess. It was generally supposed that if School Directors were exempt, the county ■ Superintendent ought to be, but it appears that the office of county Superintendent was made since the Act of Assembly exempting School Directors, and through oversight no provision was made to meet an exigency i which at that time no one ever dreamed would ever occur. Feeling an interest in our public schools, not one of which can legally ; open without the teachers undergoing an ex amination and receiving a certificate from the Superintendent, we wrote the Depart ment at Harri.sburg respecting the matter. — Having no authority to act in the matter, but realizing the importance of the subject, the Secretary of War was consulted, who at once authorized the Governor to order the Commissioner to relieve Mr. Burgess from the draft. Henceforth County Superinten dents as well as School Directors will be ex empted from military service. Directly upon the heels of that, came the announcement that " Mr. Win. Burgess" bad removed to Tunkhannock, Wyoming county, and was publishing a republican newspaper, j It was patent, therefore, that the good of the schools was not the reason why Mr. Burgess was relieved from the draft; and in order to j test the question, on the 13th of December, j the following paragraph appeared in the Co- j LUMBIA DEMOCRAT. ,?l" J *g~* Have we a County Superintendent of Public Schools among us ; or is he up in Wyoming county, publishing a black repub lican newspaper ? It will be remembered that I)r. John announced with a great flour ish of trumpets, not long ago, that the Coun ty Superintendent had been released from the draft, by the Secretary of War, because the Schools could not go on without him.— Where is he now, and how do the schools go on, and who draws the Salary 1 and was he n< in. Durgess, So it is perfectly clear, cither that "Mr. VVm. Burgess" stated a falsehood to the De partment, or that he was relieved from the draft on political and parlizan grounds. For, observe both of these veracious gentlemen claim that Mr Burgess was exempt because lie teas County Superintendent,' while he he now confesses that " more than two months before the draft* he had made " engagements to remove to" Tunkhannock, and abandon the business under which he claimed the exemp tion. Did Mr .'Burgess tell them he was go ing to resign his office in a few weeks, and en gage in newspaper publishing ? If he did, then he was relieved on political and partizan grounds, as we queried ; if he did not, then lie was relieved under a false claim , knowing ly made to the Department. There is the record. Dr. Jo hn may fake one horn of the dilemma and "Mr. Wm. Bur gess" the other, and look each other out of countenance, l ive la humbug. FOLLOW L.WV AS FA it AS CONVENIENT."— The following extraordinary paragraph ap pears in recent letters from President Lincoln to (Jen. Grant, Governor Johnson and others exercising authority in Tennessee, in which he recommends to their consideration one Thomas 11. Smith, who goes to that State for the purpose of securing the election of re presentatives to the next Congress. Mr. Lincoln says : " I shall bo glad for you and each of you, to aid him, and all others acting for this ob ject, as much as possible. I.i all available ways give the people a chance to express their wishes at these elections. Foilow law and forms of law as far as convenient, but at all all events get the expression of the larg est number of the people possible. All see how much such action will connect with and after the proclamation of September 22. Of course the men el -cted should he gentlemen of character, willing to swear to support the Constitution as of old, and known to be above reasonable suspicion of dilplicity. " Yours, very Respectfully. [Signed] " A. LINCOLN." Mark the expression, " Follow law and forms of law as far as convenient." In the estimation of the President, whenever law is inconvenient it should not be followed What a beautiful doctrine to be preached by a man whose duty it is to execute the laws ! Surely the President cannot be serious when he advises his officers to obey the laws only when it is " convenient " to them. A nice man the President is to compel others to obey laws, when he only regards thorn when they are convenient. ABOLITION TREASON, Thaddeus Stephens, in the debate on the admission of the proposed new State of Kana wha, made a very extraordinary speech of which the following paragraph is a specimen brick . " I say, then, that we may admit West Virginia as a new state, not by virtue of any provision of the Constitution, but under oor absolute power which the laws of war give us in the circumstances in which we are placed. I shall vote for this bill upon that theory, and upon that alone ; for 1 will not tultify my self by supposing that we have any -warrant in the Constitution for this proceeding. " This talk of restoring the Union us it was and the Constitution as it is, is one of the absurdities which / have heard repeated until 1 have become about sick oj it. This Union can neveube restored as it was. There arc many things which render such an event impossible. This Union shall never with my consent be restored under the Constitution as it is, with slavery to be protected hi/ it." This frank admission of the unconstitution ality of the Western Virginia scheme is cred itable, but the treason which it masks is gross. By Mr. Steven's own confession he is as much a traitor as any man in arms against the government. On taking his seat in the present Congress he swore that he would sup port the Constitution of the United States, and he expects to repeat that oath in the next congress, to which lie has been elected. Yet here we find him deliberately announcing that he is governed in votes, not by the Constitution, but by his notion of the laws of war, even when these are in conllict with the supreme law of the land— N. Y. World Illegal Arrests. Recorder Hoffman, of New York, in his charge to the grand jury last Monday, said : The removal of any person from this State into any other State or territory, to answer to any charge of having committed here an offence against the laws of either the United States or the State, is without the authority of law. And every person, whether he be an officer or private individual, who shall thus seize and confine any person whomso ever with intent either secretly to confine or imprison him here, or to remove him out of the State, acts in violation of the statute, and renders himself liable to indictment and im prisonment. L pon the tr.al of such indict ment, the fact that such seizure, confinement and removal was by order of the President oj the ( niled Slates, or any member of his cabinet, or any other officer of the govern ment, will constitute no legal defence. Nei ther the President nor any member of the cabinet, or other officer, (not judicial.) has an)- lawful authority to order the seizure, or imprisonment, or removal from the State, of any citizen of the State, for any offence what ever, committed, within its borders. Ami again: 1 hat in a State, not heing the scene of ac tual military operations, not having even an army within its borders, not even any sol diery, excepting such as may be on their way to fight the battles of the Constitution and the Union, whose laws ate not obstruct ed or defied, where no form ot the u law mar tial'' can, by any construction, be made ap plicable to any person not mustered into mil itary service, it is my duty as a judge to de clare to you that the seizure of her citizens, their secret imprisonment against their will, their removal from her borders without au thority of law to answer to criminal or other charges, their confinement in places be} ond the reach of legal process, is in violation of the rights secured to them by the Constitu tion and by the laws, and it is the right ar.d solemn duty of the grand jury to indict any person or persons who have in these respects offended against the law. THE XEH YORK W EEKLY CAUCA SIAN. The Democratic paper, issued by the pro prietors of the DAY BOOK, and for the pre sent taking the place of that paper, is once more before us. It has been deprived the use of the mails by the Administration at Washington for over a year, yet it has never suspended publication, or changed or modi fied its course a particle. The ban is now re moved, the recent Democratic victories have produced a change of policy at Washington already. All our readers who desire a ster ling Democratic sheet from New York City, should send for a specimen copy of the Cau casian or white man's paper, before subscrib ing for another. Its terms arc as follows: Single copies, $1,50 per year. Four copies, $5. Ten copies, $l2, an extra one to the getter up of the club. Twenty copies to one address, $2O, and one to the getter up of the club, It is a good sized folio sheet, well filled with condensed reading matter, and belongs to the " unterified" school of Democracy Send for a copy. Worthy of Notice. * Tt is worthy of notice, as exemplifying the difference between the two parties, that on the first days of the session, Messrs. Cox and Yallandigham introduced bills of inquiry into the legality of denying mail facilities to the press, and imprisoning citizens on the or der of a Secretary. On the other hand. Thad. Stevens, and his co-conspirator, are just as busy in procuring the passage of acts to indemnify the minions of despotism for their lawless and infamous acts of oppression. Let them indemnify to their hearts' content. No law that they can enact for this purpose will have more than the shadow of validity. The wrongs of the people must and wdl be redressed. The outrages of the last year and a half must be atoned for. . 801 LER'S SPECULATIONS.— It is said that Cen. Butler and his brother have made live millions ot dollars, in cotton and sugar specu lations, in New Orleans, and invested the money in British securities. The New York Weekly Caucasian. I S THK WHITE MAN'S PAPER. f The proprietors of the Caucusian are hap -5 py fro announce that, " the press being once | more free," they can now send their paper by mail. The Caucasian is issued by the publishers of the Day Hook , the place of ' which paper it will take for the present.— ' | Through the long and dreary " reign of ter ' ror" it has been regularly issued, though at • great loss. During that period its proprie ' tors have received a multitude of inquiries for it which they could not supply. That ' time, however, is now passed, and they will ' be glad to furnish all with the paper who de sire it. Subjected as the Caucasian has been to the persecution of tho misguided men in j office, until its business is nearly ruined, it 1 1 confidently appeals to all friends of a "free ' ' press," and request that earnest elforts be made in every locality to extend its circula -1 tion. TERMS T Single copies, $1,50 ; Four copies, $5 j Ten copies, and an extra one to the getter up ; of the club, $l2; Twenty to one address, and one to the getter up of the club, s2o. J The Caucasian will contain reports of n;ar- I kets, news, &.c. Send for specimen : copies. Address— VAN EVRE, lIORTON & Co. IC2 Nassau street. New York. ARMY OF THF. POTOMAC. ) 132 nd Regt. Pa. Vols., Co. B, £ Dec. 21st, 1801. ) DEAR FATHER ; It is with pleasure that I state to you that lam well. I received the things sent by you. and was very glad to get them. I was about barefooted and naked too, when they arrived. I will send you my money as soon as I get it. I have not received any money since that you sent me | which was very acceptable. They talked about our driving the Rebels from the city of Fredricksburg. I was over there a week ago yesterday and to-day We were led up to the slaughter pen on the 13th inst. I had heard of these pens before, but I never thought of being led into one. I cannot begin to tell you what a situation we were placed in ; but 1 tell you we had to fight J cannons with muskets. It was terrible, the way they drove the men on to tne very can j nun's mouth, which poured into their ranks I grape and canister, until they were obliged to lice for the town. The Rebels had three i rows of batteries, one right behind the ether. 1 hey say it ;s not cold down here in Virgin ia. but the ground has been frozen from six to ten inches deep. We have nothing but shelter tents, and they are made out of Fac tory cloth, so yon can see we are not very well provided for, but do not worry about mo, for lam as tough as a bear. I shall come home if I live, when my time is out. I will tell you of hard times when I get there- I will send you my mono}*, if I ever draw any. Keep my colt till T come home. lam sorry that Ella has got the sore throat. Good bye, for tho present. From you s<>n, PORTER CARPENTER. To Samuel Ghrpeuter. Cannot Escape II story. Ihe Carbon Democrat , in discussing the President's asset tion that he and his admin- | istration cannot escape history, makes the ! following severe reply :t No ! You 'cannot j' escape history,' you will be remembered as j 1 long as mankind shall survive. You will be remembered as the men who ruined your country, destroyed ' the last best hope of earth,' in a base attempt to make the negro the equal of the white man. You will surely ] be ' lighted down to the latest generation' by i the memory of the burning cities and towns < of America, whose fires were kindled by the ' torch you supplied. You will be 'lighted { down' to your last home, by the flames of a 1 civil war which was the offspring of your am- ' bition, and which was needlessly prolonged , by your fanatacism, and your greed of pub- i lie spoil. You ' cannot escape history,'but s future ages will point to you in the samo ( spirit that they now point tn the Jacobins of 1 France, or the tyrants of the House Ilaps- ' burg. Tho Bastiles of America will cry out against you. The blood of a quarter of a million of deceived but honest patriots will dye your hands so red that eternity will not cleanse them. The mutilated remains of the great charter of liberty, like the ghost of murdered Banquo, will hunt you at every turn, and shake its gory locks in j'our very faces Liberty, with her garments trailing in blood and dust, will raise lier beseeching face to Ileaveu and pray for vengeance upon her de spoilers. A hampered, tax-ridden and op pressed posterity will cry out against you, and inscribe upon the page of history that re cords your acts, ' dishonor." Lincoln, in his message, says "if the slaves leave their old places they leave them open to white laborers." They surely may go down South and take the places vacated by the slaves. In plain words, if the negroes come North and take the white laborers' places, can't the latter go down South and take the negroes places ? The President says so, aid laboring men should all feel glad that the subject has thus been plainly eluci dated. We learn through the Pittston Gazette, that over Forty of Capt Bradley's Company, of the 142 nd, were killed and wounded at the battle near Fredericksburg. Among the names c-f the wounded we notice that of Capt (now Maj.) Bradley whose leg has been amputated. Lieut Cyrus K. Camp bell, in calf of leg. and Serg't. G. Brink in foot. GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK. FOR ~ Great Literary arid Pictorial Year / The publisher of Godey's Lady's Book, thankful t that public which has enabled him to publish a m ° nzine for the last thirty-three years of a larger circu lation than any in America, has made an arrange ment with the mtfst popular authoress in this country Marion Ilarland, Auihoress of "AloDe," "Hid,j en Path," " Moss Sides," " Nemesis, " and Mirsatp who will furnish a story for every number of the I A . dy's Book for 1863. This alone will place the dy's Book in a litertry point of view far ahead of any other magazine. Marion ilarland writes for no other publication. Our other favorite writers wlil all continue to furnish articles throughout the year The best Lady's magazine in the World, and the cheapest—The Literature is of that kind that can be read aloud in the family circle, and the clergy in immense numbers are subscribers for the Book. | The Music is all original, and would cost 25 cents I (the price of the Book) in the music stores ;but most of it is copyrighted, and cannot be obtained except in "Godey." Our Steel Engravings. All efforts to rival ui jg this have ceased, and we now stand alone in this de; partment, giving as wo do, many more and infinitely better engravings than are published in any other work. Godey's immnese double sheet fashion piates con. taining from five to seven full length Colored Fash ions on each plate—Other magazines give only two Far ahead of any Fashions in Europe or America —Godey's is the only work in the world that gives these immense plates, and they are such as to hav excited the wonder of publishers and the public. The publication of these plates cost 810, COO More than fashion platos of the old style, and nothing but '. Bullard, Superintendent of Susquehanna county ; Hugh Castles, Superintendent of Lycoming county ; and 11. C. Johns, Superintendent of Tioga county, did, on Thursday, the eleventh day of December, 1862, personally, and at the same time, visi" and inspect said School, and after a thorough examination there of, and of its by-laws, rules and regulations, and of its general arrangement and facilities for instruction, by written report on file, in this Department, approve the same, and find that they fully come up to the provisions of said act, and its supplement, and did certify the same to the Department of Common Schools, with their opinion that said school has fully complied with the provisions of said act, and its sup- ; plement,as far as can he done before going into op- eration under them. ✓-JNW. therefore , in pursuance of the requirements of the seventh section of the act aforesaid, 1 do here by give public notice, that I have officially recogniz ed the Mansfield Classical Seminary, as a State Nor mal School, for the fifth Normal School District, com posed of tho counties of Bradford, Susquehanna, Wy- jj oming, Sullivan, Lycoming and Tioga, and that said t school shall henceforth enjoy all the privileges and immunities, and be subject to all the liabilities and restrictions contained in said act and supplemenr. 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