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has superseded Gen.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
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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.
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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."
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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<<t released from the draft, because, un
less he was, that nigger sympathizing news
paper in Wyoming county could nut go on ?
I ice Id humbug.
It acted like a charm. Dr. John, in terri
ble trepidition, turns to " Mr Win. Burgess''
for aid, and Mr. Burgess steps upon the wit
ness' stand, and answers all our (piestions in
the affirmative :
A LETTER FROM MR. BURGESS. .
TLMVUA.NWOCK, Pa., Dee. 15. 1362
Dis. P. JOHN Having been charged indirectly
through one of your papers with a neglect of official
duty, I wisli to state through the Republican for gen
eral information, that luy engagement to remove to
this place occurred more than two months before the
draft, and that I consented to remain in Columbia to
iny pecuniary disadvantage, to conduct the annual
examination of teachers, while I was paying house
rent and other expenses here, but that on leaving I
tendered my resignation to the School Department at
llarrisburg, to take place as soon as a successor could
be appointed. That there should no serious difficulty
grow uutot a vacancy, 1 consented to perform such
official acts as might be absolutely required until
the vacancy should be filled.
If my position was such as to clear nic from the
draft, 1 was on the same footing as those whose
names were drawn from the wheel, without any bear
ing whatever upon thekiud of business I chose to
follow for a living after that event. 1 also expected,
on acceptance of my resignation, to express a few
parting words to teachers and the friends of educa
tion in the county with whom I have so long min
gled on terms of mutual friendship.
lours truly,
V> 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.
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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.
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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.
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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 <ur
wonderfully large circulation enables us to give
tliem, Other magazine cannot afford it. We never
spare money when the public can be benefited.
These fashions may be relied on. Dresses may
be made after them, and tho wearer will not subject
herself te ridicule as would be the case if she visited
the large cities dressed after the style of
the plates in some of our_so called fashion magazines.
Onr wood Engravings, of which we give twice or
three times as many as any other magazine, are of
ten mistaken for steel.—They arc so far superior to
any others*
I Imitation. Beware of tliem. Remember publi
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Everything that is useful or ornamental in a Lotus
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Drawing lessons. No other magazine gives them
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umes.
Our receipts are su :h as can be found nowhere
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the Nursery—tho Toliet—the Laundry—the Kitchen
Receipts upon all subjects are to bo found in the pa
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department, and have peculiar facilities for making it
most perfect. This department alone is worth tho
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DEPART MEM OF COMMON SCHOOLS, )
ll vnitisni no, December 11, 1862. J
T TT IIEREAS, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES of
\\ the Mansfield Classical Seminary, located at
Mansfield, in Tioga county by resolution adopted at
a meeting of the Board o l the twenty-fourth day of
October, 1362, on file in this Department, made for
mal application to the State Superintendent for the
privileges ot "An act to provide fur the training
ofteachers for the Common Schools of the State,"
approved the '24 th day of May, 13":7, and the supple
ment thereto, approved the 14th day of April, 1859 -
and
WHEREAS, In pursuance of said application, the
State Superintendent of Common Schools, together
with Hon. Geo Smith, ot the county of Delaware ;
lion. A. L. llays, of tho county of Blair ; an 1 Dr.
C. T Bliss, of the county of Bradford," competent
and disinterested persons," appointed by him, with
the consent of the Governor, as Inspect< rs, and C. It
Cohum, Superintendent of Bradford county ; A >'.
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.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my
hand, (L. S.J and affixed the seal of the Department
of Common Schools, at Hnrrisburg, this 11th day of
December 1362, TIIOS 11. BI'RROWES.
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