craiß "rebels," and 41 traitors," is an unprofitable misapplication < f words, hut on the morning of the late Bridgeport election, the following brazen placard was extensively posted about the city : "FREEMEN AROUSE ! Town Election this Day ! Monday, December 22d. "Wh'le 3'our brothers are shedding their life-blood, to put down rebellion, l4 iet it rot be said that you suffered 4 its 'northern allies' to triumph at the Po!h. Be on hand, and vote the Union Ticket —Vote Earh !" The freemen d d "rouse"—as requested and fouled, for the first time in years, by nearly three hundred majority,the publishers of that IMIMJ slander.— New Haven Register A PROCLAMATION. Wheteas, On the twcnty„econd day of September in the ot our Lord one thou sand eight hundred and sixty tvro, a Pr. cla tnalmn was issued by the President of tire United States,cottta'ming, among other things the lceiismn, Assumption, Terre bonne, Lafourehe. St. M irtin and Oi leans, in eluding the city of New Orlean-), Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia (except theforiy eight counties designated as West Virginia and also the counties of Berkley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, Y"ik, Piincess Ann and Norfolk and Port sin >uih), and which excepted parts are for the present left prcisely as if the proclamation were not i>sued. And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within the said designated States and parts of said States, are and henceforward shall be free ; and that the Executive Government f tfie United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recegmZe slid maintain the freedom of said persona. And I hereby enj< in upon the people so declared to be free o abstain from all vio lence, unless in necessary self defence, and 1 recommend to them that in all cases, when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And I further declare and make known that such persons, of suitable Condi tn>n, will be received into the armed service of the United States, to garrison forts, posi tions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in the said service. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act ofjnstice, warranted by tlie Constitution, upon military necessity, I involve the consid erate judgment of mankind ami the gracious favor of Almighty God. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and cau-ed the seal of trie United States to be affixed. [L.S.J Done at the city of "Washington, this the first day of Jauu ry, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and six'y-three, ami of the independence of ihe United States of America the eightv-seventh. ABKAUAM LINCOLN. By the President. WM. II SEWARD, S< cretary of State Shameful Facts. A private letter from a soldier in Burn side's anny, to hts mother in this city, writ ten from Falmouth a day or two previous to : the disastrous battle of Fredericksburg, states 1 that on the day when the letter was written, I there were brought into the dead house. twelve deud bodies ofour soldiers who had been Jrozen to death while on guard duty ! He sa_\s several of the men were on guard doty without pantaloons! having had for two or three weeks only overcoats and drawers ! The inercurv on two nights mink to 13 deg and 14 deg., and ice six inches thick floated down the riv'-r. Their shoes were, in many I instances, wi rthle:-s, being Mas-achusetts j contract shoes with soles glued on ; and the j men were moreover, halt starved. The writ ; er had just received soine money from home 1 and he says i.e devoted 25 cents of it to ihe ; purchase of a quart of meal which he stirred up with water ami b tiled ; ami he adds that 1 it was tiie best dinner he ha 1 had for two or ; three mouths. There is a errihle responsibility resting on | tlie heads of guilty contractors, quartermas ters and shoddy patriots general I), who have directly done so much to cause these evils. White white Soldiers are nb.oluti Iv freez ing to death in Vir mia, our Government is absolutely having 50,000 suits of cl< thes ■ made in New York for negroes! And many | thousands of dollars 1 worth of life necessaries ; are sent abroad to help the suffering poor of Great Britain, while our own ,poor soldiers ' die of nakedness and starvation at home [ Hartfrrd Times. " The Proclamation of Freedom." The character of this document was so j fully overshadowed m its September precnr s<>r that public interest center* m>>re oti tiie fact of its issue than on the nature of its con tents. What principally strikes public at tention, is the fact that President LINCOLN has fully and finally committed himself to the policy of emancipation. The jiartictiJar features of the proclamation which seem de serving of remark are tbe-e : the President rests the measure on purely militaty grounds with u distinctness winch did not appear in the September proclamation ; he avows an intention to receive the emancipated slaves into ihe military and naval Service of the United States; and he recognizes the state hood and unity of all the designated states, including Virginia, excepting the forty eight western Counties in such terms as to imply that they are still c unties of the ts'aie of Virginia, despite ihe fact that the day be fore is-uing t e proc amation he had signed the oill for the admission of those Counties into the Union as a new state. The most imp rtant question that can arise relative to this proclamation respects its legal effect. Immediate practicul effect it has none; the slaves remaining in precise ly the sinie conditio) as before. They still live on the plantations ; tenant their accus tomed hovels ; obey tin? Command of their master or overseer, eating the food he fur nishes and doing the work he requires pre cisely as though Mr. LINCOLN had not de clared them free. Their freedom, then, it is clear, is only a dormant freedom ; if free at all, they ace not actually but on'y legally free. If the proclamation is of any legal orce, it is like a deed purporting to convey the fee am pie of a piece of properly to which there is an adverse claimant being in actual I os-ession. The tide of the slave to his free dom is to be made pood by asserting it in a court of competent jurisdiction. The naitfe of the suit is such that the United States courts have no jurisdiction except by appeal or on a writ-of erne*. The original remedy of the slave (if lie has any) is in the local Courts <>f the state where he lias Lis domtcil. These courts, we know beforehand will not entertain his suit. They -Jo not recognize the validity of the deer, eon which he rests his claim. So long, therefore, as the present pol.tical and military status continues, the freedom declared by this proclamation is a dormant, not an actual freedom. The legal maxim will apply to it that de vou apparen libus el de nan exislenlibus ratio est eadem —laca> that do not appear are to be classed with those that do not exist. The slaves might, to be sure, take the vin dication of their tights into their own hands, by rising, en masse, against their masters. But this they could have done any time with in the last filtv years with quite as good ad vantages and as strong a color of right as now. Mr. LINCOLN'S paper proclamation is of no more force than ttie impre-er.ptable title to freedom born with human being who has couage and vigor of character to assert it. Tliere has never been a time when the ne groes had so little to hope Imm mi insurrec tion as at present. The whole South is in arms. If the slaves were dtposed to run aw ay, they are hemmed 1.1 by large armies on all the s utliein frontiers. Whither could they flee ? 11, assembling in iarge bodies, they should offer a show of violence, what have they, unarmed against the abundance of improved artillery and fin arms in the liand ot the superior race. It tney result to the torch cf the incendiary, how are they and and their litile ones to subsist ? Whatever small chance th y have of gaining their free dom is by a servile instirr ctioo ; but tiiey have leu chances to rush on to destructi >n to one of escaping from servitude. It. s obvi ous, therefore that for the prc+e't the proc lamation is inoperative an I fe.-10. It may strengthen the resistance of the rebels, but it cannot benefit the slaves. It may be said that the proclamation estab lishes a legal claim to freedom Which the slaves may successfully assert afier the milita rv subjugation of the South, Bui this knocks ihe bottom out of the proclamation ntd all its con'ents. The proclamation is issued as a war measure; as an instrument for the sub jugation ofill rebels. But t) a> cannot he a means of military success winch pre supposes this same military snccti-6 as the condition of its own existence. It Confound- all ideas of means and ends to call emancipation a war measure when eman cipation is obviously unattainable until aftet military resistance is put out of the way.— ff the war should end in the triumph of the rebellion the proclamation would, of course, amount to nothing. 11 the rebellion is sub dued, the proclamation merely gives a color, able ground for suits for freedom befote the tribunals of the country. Its wit >le vffiu-icv must finally depend on whether it is sus tained by the courts. That the cour's of the slave states in which the suits must orig inally he brought will not sustain it admits of no doubt whatever. That the Supreme Court of the United States, to winch such suiis may be carried for final adjudication, will declare the proclamation void is also morally certa'n. It is clearly unconstitution al and wholly void unless sustainable as a war measure. A war measure it clearly is not, in .-much as the previ us succe-s of tlac war is the only thing that can give it validity. Worldc EXECUTION OF INDIAN MLHOERERS ST. PALL, Minn., Dec 271 L—Thirty-eight con demned Indians were hung at Mankato, at 10 o'clock A. M., yesterday. The gallows were so constructed that all the condemned were in attendance. All passed off quietly. Hon. Thomas 11. Hicks Appointed U. 8. Senator from Maryland. BALTIMORE, Dec. 29.—The Governor of Maryland to day comtaKsioncd ll>>n. Thomas If. H'cks as Senator to represent the State of Maryland in the U. S. Smate until Ihe next meeting of the Legislature, in place of Hon. James Pearcc, deceased, MILITARY DECiSFOXS. If a soldier ft discharged before he has serv. Ed two Whole year*, or at the end of the war, if sooner ended, he forfeits his §IOO bounty. The back dues for wages, and fifty cents for every twenty miles traveled from the place of discharge to the place of enrollment, he is en titled to on the pay certificates from his near est paymaster. — If a soldier is killed or dies of disease, before the end of two years or the close of the war, he has, under the liberal construction of the law served to the end of the war so far as lie is or can be concerned. Congre s intended, by the provi-ions of the law, thai no one should have the bounty until the end ofihe war. The §IOO bounty by fhe law, will be iuitnediatily paid, so soon as au dited. Under an order *nd ru'e of the war Depart • uient, there can be procured for the wives .f the soldiers imprisoned in the S<>uth, the monthly pay of the soldiers, to the date of the allowance, except the last month's wages which the Government rese ves. If no wife, the minor children, by their guardian' are en titled. If tlie soldier is unmarried his wid owed mother is entitled. An important decision has been made by the Secretary of War ami Paymaster Gener. a', in effect that the soldier is entitled to pay from the day he enlists, and that he has not to wait until his company is lull, or (lie for mat muster of the regiment into the Govern ment service. MR EDITOR : That the pedigree of the I present party in power may not be forgotten, | w send for publication a list of the names it j has borne from the earliest times up to the I present date—which, up to the year 1840, was given us by a soldier of the war ol 1812. Yours, &c., E, TIIOMPSOM, \V.m. F. CAIUL, Monroe, Jan. 2, 18G3. Take a Squint at Modern Abo'.itionism, Be it liuvui to all nun that theleaders of the party low opposed to the Democrat c party and the Coiisiitution and iu favor of negro equality. In 1772, were Tories. " 1773, Nova Scotia cow-bogs. " 1787, Conservative Monarchists. 44 1790, Black o"Ckad rs. " 1808, Anti .Jc-ffers >n impressment men. | 44 1811, Bii tisb Bank men. " 1812, The Peace Party. • 4 1813 Blue Lights. u 1814, Hartford Conventionists. 44 1810, Washington Benevolent society* men. i " 1820, N > Party men. " 1824, Ffiler.il Republicans. 44 1820. National Republicans. " 1828, Anti Masons. " 1834. Ami Masonic Whigs. " 1837. Cott-t rvativys, " 1838. Abofitionists. 44 1839, Independent Loco foco Demo cratic wings. 41 1840, Log cabin and Ilard cider men. 44 1844, II trry Clay Whigs, 44 1840, The Peace party. 44 1848, Wilm.it Proviso men. * 4 1850, Anti Compromise men. 44 1854, KV>w Nothings. 4i 185G, Bleeding Kansas Republicans. 44 18G0, John Brown Abolitionists. Be it known to all men that this is the ring, ' streaked and speckled abolition party, against wi icb the Democracy have alwa) s contended ; the fanatical faction that nominated Abe Lin coin o the Presidency ; ihe party that since Ins election, lias plundered people, thrown them in prison, tnobhed their presses, suj - pressed freedom of speech, suspended the writ of habeas corpus and trampled under foot the constitution. - ■ - Let us Understand Each Other—Renewed Threats of Arrest in Xew York. The Philadelphia Press, to-day, which is presumed to speak for the Administration, -ays. in reference to New York, and New York politicians: "The course of the Administration in ar res'ing traitors will he Governed by the eir" cntnstances that Controlled it in other times. If the danger should again demand the sum mary arrest of traitors in New Y. rk , they will be or rested. n If ty "traitors," the Press means Demo crats, or Old Line Whigs, or C mservatives, in New York, they will nut be thus arrested, or if arrested, 'hey will be liberated, by t fie whole posse comitatis of the Democracy of the States, if necessary, 300,000 men in arms, and New Jer.-ey to statin by us—with more than half of Connecticut, now. It is well to understand each other if these things be de signed.—N. I*. Express, 24th. The Abolition Governor of Mass* cliuseiis promised 44 Father Abraham" fust summer that if he would issue a proclamation freeing the slaves that the highways of New England would swarm with Volunteers en route to suppress the rebellion. Will the proclamation was issued, and sotne three months have expired, and Massa chusetts has not yet furnished even her quota of troops ! A draft uas ordered by the Presi dent ; it was executed iu Pennsylvania and el.-ew lu re some two months' ago ; but in loyal Massachusetts —who 44 made the war,'''' as is tauntingly claimed by one of her 44 noble up per class" inen—not withstanding Gov. An drews' promise to the President, it has lieen postponed fr the fifth time,until the Bth of January next. We think it is high time our counfymen should see the hypocrisy of Abolitionism, as practiced upon the nation for the last twenty uvnths,and appreciate it at its true value. '1 he effort of the Gvernor of massachu-etts toiseap#the responsibilities of this war of , Massachusetts own making , is becoming J more apparent every day. THE PRESIDENT. The Boston Commonwealth is a new week ly journal, very neatly printed on fine paper, and edited with that sort of ability which is peculiar to highly literary and refined fanatic ism. It is said to be the organ of Char!e„ Sumner, and, judging frotn its tone and tem per, we believe it is. In the sixteenth number of the Common wealth, dated December 20th, 1802. we find a variety of noticeable articles, among which is one 1 ended "The President," from which we cut the following passages: "Nearly two years have p "ssed over the! country since the President advanced to the helm of state. Suppose at this moment he J shotilt) bo caljt a from the world, what would be the record on the page of hiet< ry life by hitn ? History must inexorably assign him a place in the rear, along with the many weak and inadequate men of the time.' This is a melancholy truth, although it was uttered by an Abolition journal. The ariicle frotn which we quote, complains that Mr. Lincoln has not gone far enough nor fast enough in emancipation, and closes by exhorting him to go the whole figure imme diately. "Must the leader of this nation be foiever outside of the Government ? Be their leader! Throw away from ynu 'he whole trihe of se!f--eekers and fools; call to your Cabinets and to the field those who are the champions of L'berty ; cast away the Sewards, Blairs, Smiths, Bateses, Stanleys, and all the wretch ed Border State clique—heave them like a nightmare from your breast ! Sound the bugle ot Universal Freedom—let the wild joy of America's Year of Jubilee ring through the startled world, bringing every true heart and sinew of the world to your side ! "You will have to c< me to it— or some leader will trample over your dishonored political grave to come to it ! Why then let this lacerating, horrible, spiritless, aimless, needles slaughter go on, until in the phrenzy ot despair lite nation already tossing you frotn h"rn to horn, shall take the great stride whose first effect will be to grind you under its heel, and leave of you only a name to be 'lighted down with dishonor to the latest generation V This means that, if Mr Lincoln shall refuse to do all tie radicals desire, they will find a leader (Fremont, for instance.) who will as sutne control of the Government and •'tram ple over" Mr. Lincoln's dishonored political grave" to accomplish their purpose. It was probably with Something like the spirit which prompted this that the late Senatorial causus was moved, when it demanded the retnova' of Mr. Seward, and it is not to bi presumed that this spirit is yet '' laid." It will, doubtless, make further attempts to co erce Mr. Lincoln to make his Cabinet utterly radical. But, that the Abolitionists will ever be ble to execute the threat of deposing Mr Lincoln, though some more acceptable leader, we do no' believe. The army does not love them or their doctrines well enough to aid them in such an enterprise. Fremont could not lead our soldiers into such a business and everybody knows that the Abolitionist* themselves have not the requisite courage t" undertake a work involving so much of per senal hazard. But, why should the radicals desire to de pose Mr. Lincoln? He has done almost, it not quite,all they have asked him to do. lie has suspended the privilege ot th u rit of ha beas corpus, and imprisoned those who pro t s'ed against their doctrines and practices ; he has signet! their bill abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia ; their bill spnal ing the Wilmot Prov'se over all the Territo ries ; thrir confiscation bill— al! their bills; he has procl timed universal emancipation ; be has so managed as to render the recon struction of the Union, on the basis of our I "pro-slavery" Constitution, as hopeless as they could wish ; he has—what has he riot done, that the\ have desired hitn to do ? It is certainly, very ungrateful tor the Ab . olitiotiists to threaten Mr. Lincoln with de j positien. Should the Conservatives of the country employ such a threat, he might ex cuse them, for, them has he offended. Some ,i>fthe Abolition papers are complaining of t e New York Express lor hinting at the neces sity for despostng the President. Let them not over look tie Commonwealth ; nor forgei that the New \ork limes, more man a year ago, recommended that some military leader should stqiersede Mr. Lincoln. Poor Lincoln ! What a sad thing it was for hi in, (and for his country ton,) that he was called away from the Springfield bar W hat he is to do with the country, or what the country is to do with him, Heaven only knows ! We would fain hope that " some leader" uf the ABOLITIONISTS will not " tram ple over his dishonored political grave," and yet, we should hope that he may not be per muted to trample upon the grave of this Government—the Constitution and the Un ion—as be has trampled upon the most sa cred rights of the people. THE REASON WHY ?—The Abolitionists are opposed to using M spades" before a battle that there may be the more use for them af terwards—in digging the graves for their dead victims of their " infernal" policy. 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GODEY. 323 Chcftnut Street Philadelphia, Pa. DEPART MEN TOF COMMON SCHOOLS, > • II ARKISBURG, December 11, 1862 (11 WHERE A*, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEEmI the M in.-Sebl Clissieal Seminary, locatMH Mansfield, in Tioga county by resolution adoptdiil a meeting of the Board on tho twenty-fourth dsji j October, ISO 2, on file in this Department, malef,i mal application to the State Superintendent fori j privileges ot "An act to provide for the ttsissfl ofteaehers for the Common Schools of the Stsu i approved the 24th day of May, IS 7, and the saps* j ment thereto, approved the 14th day of April, 13fl and WHEREAS, In pursuance of said application, ? Slate Superintendent of Common Schools, to?ei*4| with Hon Geo Smith, ot the county of Del awn Hon. A. 1.. Havs. ol the county of Blair ; and few C. T B!i., of the county of Bradford," compt!®?! aul disiutereste I psrsms," appointed byhim, *2;| the consent of the Goveraor v as Inspect' rs, and C; J Coburn, Superintendent of Bndford county ; A j Bullard, Superintendent of Susquehanna enne j Hugh Castles, Superintendent of Lycoming cous-w and II.C Johns, Superintendent of Tioga couuty'fl on Thursday, the eleventh day of December. lLa personally, and at the same time, visi and inf | said School, an • alter a th>rough examinationti* t of, and of its by-laws, rules and regulations, sri a its general arrangement an 1 facilities for instruct j by written report on file, in this Department, spit :1 the same, and find that they fully come upte'J provisions of said act, and its supplement, ana til certify the same to the Department of Cost 3 Schools with their opinion that said School has a j complied with the previsions of said act, and i!.'*xa plement, as far as can be done before going iRt 1 ij eratioii under thern. Nor. therefore, in pursuance of the required of the seventh section of the act aforesaid, I dtlfl by give public notice, that I have officially x ed the Mansfield Classical Seminary, as a mal School, for the fifth Normal School District.'*, | posed of the counties of Bradford. Susquehanna. ; oining, Sullivan, Lycoming and Tioga, an 1 tb ! * | school shall henceforth enjoy all the privileges' i nnmnities, and be subject to all the liabilih#* j restrictions contained in said act and supple^ 6s In testimony whereof, I have bereun'c hand, {L. S.J and affixed the seal of tho Dcp**''; of Common Schools, at Harrisburg, this 11th ■ December 1862, TIIOS. 11. BURROWEn Sup't Common Schw* j utniißiriin This preparation, made fronrthe best is rocommcnded by physicians as a superior ML TIOI.S BEVERAGE for General Debility, sia, and all billions disorders. Thousands wh"J been compelled to abandon the use of votfee * J this without injurious effects. 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