®|t iUmntnit. HARVEY 9ICKLEH, Editor. ISUNKMAKNOCK., PA. Wednesday, March 4, 1 863. 8. M. Pettenglil & Co.—No. 37 PARK ROW NEW \ ORK, & 6 STATE. ST. BOSTOX, arc our Agent 3 for the N. B. Democrat, in those cities, and are author ised to take Advertisements and Subscriptions for ns at our lowest Rates. Close of Congress, Before this article reaches many of our readers, the present abolition congress at Washington will have closed by constitution al limitation. The majority of those com posing that body have been engaged, during the dast two years, in puliig down and de stroying what three generations of men be foro them, have Been laboring and bestowing their talents, treasures and blood to build up and establish—a free Democratic furm of government, limited by a written constitu tion and founded upon the consent of the gov erned. The fanatics and desiruciioniat-. com posing it have repeatedly, willfully, and in tentionally violated not only their oaths to support the constitution, but the most sacred and inviolable rights guarantied by and en joyed under it. Private property and per sonal liberty have, with nil their safe guards, been violated—a worthless paper currency has ken substituted and declared a legal tender in lieu of gold and silver. Negro emancipation acts, and acts taking the bread from the mouths of thousands of white wid ows and orphans to buy feed, and clothes worthless vagabond negroes have been enact ed. Laws confiscating property without tri al, have heen passed. Freedom of speech and of the Press have been violated. The writ of habeas corpus has been suspended. The right oi trial by jury has been denied.— The list of outrages upon the liberties of this people which have been perpetrated bv this abolition congress, would till volumes ; to which might be added the useless sacri fice of thousands upon thousands of lives and millions upon millions of treason. The whole forming an epitome of crimes, wickedness and folly, without a paralell in the history of nations. The wisdom of tho revolutionary Fathers in making one branch of the government amendable to the people, at least every two years was never more clearly demonstrated than at the present lime. Had we yet to en dure two years more of Abolition miss rule, the last spark of constitutional liberty would be extinguished and the dark cloud of des potism which has for a time brooded over us, would for ages rest upon our shore. God flave the people from the scourge of another abolition President, cabinet and Congress ! A writer iu the last Republican, who sub scribes himself " Chaplain of the 171 st Jiegt. Pa. M.," after quoting the following from our paper of some weeks since: " John Webster, who joined the militia from this county, as a substiiute for George Harding, a drafted man, has returned to iliis place, having lost his right eye, through the ignorance, or carelessness, or both, of the Surgeon of the 171 st Kegt., to .which he was attached." Says, we arc " too personal" and if we " wish to keep out of difficulty we had bet ter attend to our own business," and thai the article is " basely false. Ac." This Reverend sneak is hereby notified that we are now, and have been in times past attending strictly to our own business, and that his threats of getting us into difficulty we look upon as we do their author ; with the most supreme contempt. We have the authority of Mr. Webster the victim, (which we regard as far better than that of any abolition, white handker chiefed horse-jockey preacher in the amy.) for saying that the article is strictly true If some other man, than the regular one was at the time, acting surgeon .of the regiment, this does not disprove what we have said. One fact is apparaat, John Webster entered the service with two good eyes, before he left it, one of them, had run out ( f his head and the other was only saved through the most skillful treatment, after his return, lie says that a foreign substance—ashes, got in his eyes by accident—slight infiamation re sulted ; and that in treating it, by the surgeon, hie eye was burnt out, by nitrate of silver or lunar caustic. It matters little which sur geon did it, an acting assistant, or chief. The eye is lost! and no brainless quack Doc tor, nor abolition hypocrite of a preacher can restore it. We may hereafter, have something to say, in regard to this class of men—preachers who have been engaged for the past quarter of a ceDtury, in preaching treason and nigger ism, instead of the gospel of Christ; me n whose bowlings from the pulpit and the •tump have brought on this war, and who have now entered the army, as non combat ants! with no other object, than the pay, and plunder incident to their positions. _4*. "NEGROES PREFERRED." —The House of Congress recently made an appropriation ot $52,000 for medical attendance medicines for the contrabands now in the hands of the Gov ernment. How happy many a poor white man and woman in the North would be if their doctors and medicines could be provided by Uncle Sam. JCST A family in Lowell sold the cottou contents of their, mat trasses last week for S6OO. Loyalty. The word loyalty, as defined by the Abo lition administration, is about as vague and uncertain as its definition of treason. To gain the reputation of being loyal it does not seem to be necessary that one should be un conditionally for the war. Else this Aboli tion administration would hold the following extract, taken from a speech lately delivered by that arch traitor Wendell Phillips, as dis loyal " Now I would accept anything on an an ti-slavery basis ; 1 would accept a separation-, I would eccept a compromise; I would ac cept a union ; I would accept peace, and pay the whole Confederate debt at par on an an ti-slavery basis." So it does not seem to be an element of disloyalty, if one with Cameron believes that the "Southern Confederacy will re-estab lished," nor does it seem to be a " disloyal practice" for Wendell Phillips to say that " McClellan's guns never hurt any body," nor does it seem to be "discouraging enlist ments," when Wendell Phillips publicly and advisedly slanders toe whole Army of the Potomac in language as follows : " Not that I distrust Hooker ; he is a brave man and means to fight. But with that ar my two-thirds McClellanized, he will do all that is possible for a brave man to do. J5 On the contrary, language of this kind seems to have the special sanction of tins miserable Administration. For lias not Wendell Phillips lately been at Washington? Was he not there closeted with Old Abe ? Was he not a short time ago introduced on the floor of the Senate to A ice-President Hamlin and entertained at the house of Speak er Grow ? Fresh from Washington he seems to be the special mouth-piece of the administration to parade its views before the country. Soo too if one dares to express what he cannot help believe that the Eman cipation Proclamation is a violation of the Constitution, or that negroes are unfit for soldiers and ought not to be placed side by side with white men in battle, or that the confiscation bill is unconstitutional and im polite, or that the consription bill can never be enforced, or that the establishment of Western Virginia as a State is not according to law, or that legal tender notes are not the best money in the world, or that the Presi dent cannot supersede all .law, arrest men without war rant, suspend the writ of habeas corpus and hold them in durance vile until it suits his pleasure to let them off, or if one is opposed to b tying up negroes wholesale MI the District of Columbia, in Western Virgin ia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri, or :f one expresses the opinion that the war is mis managed, that Cameron is corrupt, that Old Abe is an ignora nus, that Stanton does not wield tho sword of Gideon and that Welles is not dead but sleepeth—all these express ions and opinions are traitorous and rebell ious in the extreme. The Woolly heads ar rogate to themselves all the patriotism, ail the loyalty of the country. It does not seem that fidelity to the Constitution is required, nor an honest purpose of restoring the Union desirable. On the contrary, it is the rankest treason to taik of the Constitution as it is and the Union as it was. Thad. Stevens is an intense loyalist according to the adminis tration definition ; so is Wendell Pnillips ; so is Henry \Y ard Beecher ; so is Charles Sumner; and yet they openly oppose the restoration of the Union as it was ; they call the Constitution a useless parchment ; and they th;nk-our forefathers were egregious fools for adopting such a form of government. The key to admittance to this precious set of loyalists is the negro. Whatever other opinions a man may hold, if he will but join the shout of the noble arn^'of contractors: " Great is Old Abe and the idols lie has set up for us," then in truth he is a loyalist and need have no fear of bastiles, chains or prc vost marshals! There is however a large class of men in these Northern States—sometimes called Democrats, sympathizers with treason, trai tors, Copperheads—who don't join in shout ing Te Abrahamutu Laudamus, and who are for the " Constitution as it is and the Union as it was." They are quite a large class of men and are said to have carried the elections in New York, New Jetsey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indianna, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Del aware. They are found in large proportions in the army and navy. They ate said to have filled the Lincoln bastiles because they exercised the right of Iree speech and free press. They are peace men, since the war has been turned into a negro crusade, and hope to re-unite the disevered States by en forcing the Cons'itntion in the spirit which originated it and the decisions of the Supreme Court interpreting it. Of course Woolly heads call them traitors. The army of con tractors name them Copperheads. The pimps of administrative favor look upon them as sympathizers with treason. Yet they still live and move and have their being. They intend carrying the elections in New Hamp shire ami Connecticut. They keep step to the music of the Union, and their flag has no fifteen stars erased ; but its azure field and glotious str pes remind one of 1770. 1812 and 1840, when it was the escutcheon of the nob lest, bravest, freest, best governed people on the face of the globe. Although much per secuted of late ; their presses destroyed ; their leaders imprisoned ; their families inti midated ; their private papers seized ; yet they are the very law-abiding people ; and in atl their trials have dared their prosecutors to give them a fair and impartial hearing And it has so happened that where thev have obtained such hearing, they have been ac quitted, redeemed, and disenthralled ! Their loyalty is to the constitution and the Union. They do not believe that Abe Lincoln is a Moses resuscitated. In their huuihle opin ion the government of the United States, as it came from the hands of Washington, is of more worthy adoration, than this same gov ernment as usurped by Abe Lincoln. Their shibboleth is " the Constitution as it is and the Union as it wa," " liberty and the Ua-1 ion, now and forever, one and inseparable, ' free speech, free press, and free men. Wool ly 4 heads call this disloyalty. Cot them make the most of it.— Carbon Democrat. Afraid to Trust the Government. Evidence, abundant and conclusive, pre sents itself on all sides, that the people—men of all parties—have no confidence in the Gov erntnen under Lincoln's Abolition Adminis tration and are afrain to trust it. If it is not so, why does it require $172 ir Lincoln greenbacks to buv SIOO in gold ? If it js not so, why is it that inonied men are unwilling to loan money to the Govern ment at 0 per cent, interest ? Thousands and millions of dollars are being loaned to in dividuals, corporations, and States at 5 per cent, inteaest. There is now on deposit in the banks of this country nearly a million of dollars—more than half a million in the B nk of Chester County—the most of it belonging to. Republicans who know that the Govern ment is begging for money, but they will not loan it a dollar ? Why, John Hickman, himself, who has contributed, by his speeches and votes, t<> push the country int its present ruinous condition, will not loan to the Government a red cent of the thousands he has poketed as a member of Congress. He votes for laws to draw money from other people, but his own he prefers to invest in West Chester Gas Stock, where he has hope of getting it back, to letting it go to the Government, which he (ears will never pay ! These Jacls speak for themselves. So far as Republican inonied men are concerned. they show them to be acting most hypocritically towards the public, and disloyally towards the Government. As honest and true ni n, they should at once plant themselves on constitu tional ground, in favor of Peace and Union, r come forward and loan their money to enable Lincoln's Administration to catty on the war on the emancipation programme. Their con duct seems to say : " J he c >untry has gone to the deal; tcc are trying to save ourselves !" This is truly an alarming financial condi tion of things. 1.-sumg more " greenbacks" will not, cannot better it. Lincoln and his Congress cull for men, but men and 110 mon ey will not auswer. "The last man" will be of 110 avail without " the l ist dollar.'* Why not, then, take money as they take men by consci ipthn 1 It is just as certain that there are millions of money as there are thousands ol men. And what i 3 money in comparison to human hie ? Is it not time fir rulers ar.i people to awake, when it is evident that the monied men ol the land, with millions lying idle, are unwilling and afraid to trust the Government? Oh that God would inspire the minds of rul ers with true wisdom, and tie hearts of the people with the patriotism of the Fathers, tl at the country, the whole country, may be saved, and ail the Stales be in umsou as at the beginning. Thee no 0110 will be afraid to trust the Government.— Jeffersoniau- Pardoning a Mob. "The quality of mercy is not strained," it seems, in the hands of Gov. Curt in. when he was called upon to exercise the pard ning power for the benefit oi a gang of abolition mobiles. Last summer a number of these last worthies in liloonisburg, maltreated and ahused an old man by the name of Ever, who chanced to visit the seat of justice of hi county. He is a Democrat, and in a time o! fierce excitement, that was a sufficient cause to warrant them in chasing him with a rail, a rope, and threatening him with various 01 her indignities unbecoming good and peace ful citizens. Mr. Eyer, after being thus roughly treated, appealed for redress to the law. lie bad all of the gang that he knew prosecuted, and at the last session of the Columbia Court they were convicted of rioL and sentenced to pay a fine of SSO each and the costs. The Bloomsburg Republican ra ther exulting says, '• The facts were forward ed on to Gov. Curtin, who at once made out and sent back an unconditional pardon." Can this be possible ! Is Gov. Curtin the guardian and protector of riots and mobs in Pennsylvania!? Every newspaper in the Slate ought to publish the outrage. If Gov . Curtin is thus going to interfere and defeat the ends of justice, and destroy personal se curity, then there is no means left but for every democrat to prepare to defend hitnn candidates. A very different rest.lt will, we firmly be heve, follow. Proud as the people of tlie Old Gianite State must be of their gallant representatives in the field, it w ill he regard ed as litile less than in insult that soldiers in the pay of the administration are to be used f>r merely political purposes. Military pipe laying of this kind must he discountenanced. Soldiers are officered, drilled, and paid to light battles and capture military posts, not to turn the scale or influence improperly peaceable political contests in a loyal state.— The atiempt to do so is fraught with mis chievous possibilities, and we hope that in the coming election the people of New Hamp shire wiII give the administration a lecture on this subject it will not soon forget. —N. Y. II orld. Minister from Huyti. This Administration and Congress are go ing it loud on the nigger question. They have not only put Sambo on an equality with our brave white private soldiers in the army, but at New Orleans they have Captains. Lieutenants &e., of the same color. The lat est novelty in this line is the announcement that a darkey Minister and S cre t a r V of le gation, from Hayti, -arrived at New Y -rk 1 Ins is quite a.v, innovation on y!uuty, and then remarks: " The lives of Lincoln, Stanton. Ilalleck, ami Buruside are no more valuable than the lives of those whom they marched out lo needless slaughter and misery. Why, then, should they be permitted to live and murder our people wnhout mercy? 4 [ mean to make the Army of the Potomac go to Rich mond, if they have to go on crutches,' .s the heartless declaration of a black-hearted mur derer and scoundrel who is unworthy alike of the respect or regard of men >r the mer cy or blessing of ILaven. We wish to God that the me t who caued the hell's' L ot--ery at Fredericksburg had been atjing u vic tims. "The lives of some of our relatives and friends have been sacrificed in this unholy war—unholy because for the God accursed nigger—and we have no mercy for their mur derers. May the vengeance of Heaven Earth and Hell 4 forever follow, rest upon, and abide with them.' " — The-olil Joker in a Dilemma. We heard it remarked in conversation, tliej other evening, that since Jeff. Davis had issued a certain proclamation, tn which he commended the interests of the South to the care of the Almighty, we had not gained a single victory. This somewhat siartled ns, and we temarked that Father Abraham had intrusted the interests of the North to the care of the Almighty, also, and we could not understand why Jeff Davis should have the preference. A friend sitting near solved the mystery by remarking that " G.d did not know whether Abe was in earnest, or only joking—Ex. Col. Thomas 11. Ford, who was cashiered for his disgraceful conduct in the surrender of Harper's Ferry, has been rein stated by the President. The President, on reviewing the testimony, reversed sentence iu his case, and permitted hun to resign his Commission. The man who lost us Harpers' feriy, and 11,000 men is restored—while Gen Fitz John Porter, the hero oj ma .y a well fought field is cashiered! The differ ence between the two men is that Gen. Por ter, is a Democrat, while Col. Ford is one of the ranting abolitionists of Ohio. What is this but polit.es in war ? CASSIUS M. CLAY GOING TO RUSSIA. It is stated that Cassius M Clay has finally deter mined to abandon his major general's com mission and to return to Russia. He will start in a short time and will ut once relieve Bayard lay lor, who has been acting mini-ter since Mr. Cameron's departure. Mr. Camer on it is stated is aleo relieved. Letter from the Army. CAMJP NEAR BELLS PLAINS, \a. ) Feb. 14th 18GG. $ DEAR FATHER : I received your letter about two weeks ag>, and was glad to hear that you were all well. My health has been poor for some time. lam a little better to day., I hope to le entirely well, soon, for it is a hard place to be sic* down here, lying on the ground with no one to take Cnre of me. A sick man is not noticed here, as long as he ■1 • 1;1 can stir. 1 will tell you what 1 think about this war, and the Usage the poor soldiers 1 down Iteie., When I enlisted I was to have one month's pay.in advance, and then t'be-paid everyi two months. It has now been over live months stride I enlisted and I huvir't been paid one cent, except our boun ty. Who would blame a soldier tor desert ing, who has a family at home starving, for want of six or eight months pay due from the government? Would it. not lie better to p y the soldiers the money the govern ment takes to pay and Clothe the negrres and j send them back where they belong to liicii masters ? 1 am no abolitionist. 1 came down here to put down the rebellion, but tliar is not what we are fighting for novr.— When our President took his seat I thought him ? good Union man, hut the abohtt mists have hmi now under their rule. The war will never end as long as t here is so many <>l them in Congress. 1 say, let i'nose who want the negroes free come and fight to In e them. The soldiers say if they had known that they were to be used to free negroes, they would never have enlisted I hear that another draft will be made in the spring, but f hope the men in the north have got awake enough to stand for their rights and not suff. r another dralt to be made, in such a war as this. No man can write half of the iniqui ties of tins war or tell of half of the wrongs suffered by the soldier Good bye to all. Fi otn \ our son EMS HIXKLCY. Napoleon did no; mvrge the publican into an tm; ip j re at one buM gtruke but gradua \y alu j surt .|y | ie t j„i |,} B Work . — Leitry the Eighth did not absorb the liberty of the English people into ins kingly preroga tive openly and at once ; but slowly and can ntngly he accomplished his purpose. " His tory repeals itself; ami a glance at the past may sometimes throw light oa the future.— Ewe tange. It cannot be done in this country. The people at e wide awake, and jealous of their rights, and as each returning election comes ihev will u cast out Devils, 1 ' and "pelorni other wotnler.nl works." Tee cur-e.; whtcn followed old John Adams' Administration will be in c unptrison to those which will fol low this one, oniy as a inoie lull is by the side of a mountain. £.-27* An upstart captain undertook 'to drive from bis seat att oiil gentleman muffled 111 a cloak, in the cars between Washington and Baltimore, not long since. The old gentleman bore the leilow's insolence as 1 ng as he could, when he threw >tf:iis cloak, revealing a major general's rig. and ordered the captain tin ier arrest for tit.gentlemanly and unsol iieilv cm duct. The oi l gentf man was Gen. Couch. STILL IIANRKKI.NI; AEIEU rue NEGRO.— W hen the aruiy apptopriation hill, which amounts m toe aggregate to ovei S7O, OOU/iOO W.is before the 11 -u-e of Jiepr. -en'.a : it es, Mr. M dlwj\, of ly.oifucKy, i fi'-tx-d tne to.iuvviug aim. minient : lirsoicttl mat no part of the money appro priated stiaii be > 1 expended a> to encourage the escape of slaves iruin their masters, or to support and maintain slaves that do escape froiu tfietr masters, or f.r any purp. el emancipation or c ionization, <-r f..r any o her object than re-t stabiishmeni of the authority of tne Constitution and the laws of the I til ted States over (he Rebels. This was opposed by he Abol tionists in that body and deleatcd by a vole 0} GG nays to .j,J yeas. So it seetns t hat we are not yet dolie paying taxes to keep niggers. £ y* Some of the Abolition papers advise the Lincoln Administration, to have a secret police appointed over the whoie Country.— They alleged that 110 Biack Republican is safe at his own fireside. The Democrats, they say, have all Lee nne members of some secret association, and ly.fights vre piowiing abut to gobble up innocent Abolitionists who may lie out after dark. We have no idea that the advice has been taken but still some fellows try to get near to listen whenever they see two or three Democrats Hiking together. They watcn where they go, and what they do Tuese Lincoln spies are contemptible but harmless beings. What if Democrats should practice such a contemptible business? ► THE CHAIN GANG. —Last evening some thirty captured deserters, chained together in Couples, were marched to the depot under a strong military guard, and put on board a trie officers report that the rebels have a strong net work across the channel to the entrance of Charleston haibor, and that the net-work' is filled with torpedoes, designed to Wow any of the federal fleet that may attempt ♦ enter the harbor. The resignation of General c has been accepted be lije p resl( ] ent) f )jf reasons bv ';/„ nse i f Btate(K He desi?ns m m other fields to c mtmuo his support of the war for the Union. The officers of his bn->. a full of startling rumors. It j s stated that on the 2Gth the Vicksburg cutoff was c -mpleted, the dredging machine having been at work for several days. It is asserted that the gun boats have a!! gone through and the transports are preparing to follow, after the rebel batteries at Warrentou are reduced. The whole force is to be sent agiiust Port Hudson. It in also stated tbat the small gun boat fleet have reached the Yazoo river, via Union Lake, and are playing mischief in the rear of Yicksburg. It is also reported that the boats have gone into Red Iliver, via Lake Provi deuce. CAIRO, Feb. 28. Full despatches in regard to the capture of the steatner Queen of tin If ml. by the rebels, have been received. On the day before her capture she went down below Chafalava a few miles, and cap tured a rebel train of seventeen v.agous. Up on returning, those who captured the wagon train were tired upon by guerrillas near Se nimes p' >rt. On the next morning a force was landed, who destroyed ail the buildings in the vicini ty. Toe Queen vj the West is said to have been considerably damaged by the Rebel fire. I He steamers wtnch a ceo upauied Iter wore 1.1 evil up :n order to prevent them from fall ing mtu the hands of the Rebels. DISUKAC'EFL'L AFFAIR NEAR STRAS3CRG \'A. WHEELING, March 1. Tin c urespondent of ihe Wheeling Inlelli g> net 1 at Wo.ciit -ier, un.'er date ot the 2Cih OI\I s the following particulars of a disgrace lui all'.iir between a pot lion of our troops and the Rebels. Oil 'he 2olh the Rebel cavalry >coui. eighty strong, came inside of our pick et> t of the prison ers and horse-, and also took a number of pt tsoners. The commander of our detachment trail -c-nded Irs .11 b rs and pursued them beye* d Wo >ut< ck, after driving in the Relit! pickets, w here he stood pailejing, without guarding against surprise. The enemy returned in free, and charging our men, threw them into confusion, killing and capturing two hundred in their flight of twenty miles. Our nt n made no stand, though outnumbering the enemy. On the I2th of February, in lat. 24, long. OS the Fioi da captured and burnt the spip Ja cob Bel' hound from China for New York. The J Cob Bell bad sixteen hundred tons of tea on ooird. Her passengers and ercw were transferred to a Danish vessel and arrived at St. Thomas on the 12th of February. WASHINGTON, March 2. The Navy Department had advices ftoai Cairo that intelligence has reached there tbat ihe rebels have captured the iron clad Itidi anola. 'I he dispatches are contradictory as to tiie imnnorin which she was cipture-l, but there is no doubt of the entire truth tf the matter. It is needless to add that the disaster iias created considerable alarm at the Capitol, occurring as it does so soon alter the more than sufficient calamity embodied in'-ho loss of the Queen of the West. Sp°cn!ation is rife as to the d n. consequences which ti l3 . v result to all our undertakings with reference to the opt ning of the Mississippi. The pro ject, which previously looked so feasible, of opening a passage to the Red river by way of the Tensas, is now regarded quashed, for the reason that ttie two iron cladi below are transformed from friends to enemis, against which the lighter fleet of Monitors to tie floated through the new passage will find it impossible to compete. Thoughts of ttie rb" er south of Port Hudson are also full of anxi ety. \\ )at havoc might be caused among our inefficient Southern Mississippi fleet by the onslaught from above of the two splendid rains that have just come into rebel posses sion ts a theme ot serious and popular discus sion. Only one of our rams, the Essex,'® known to be attached to Farragut's Act' l against which the Queen of the West, the Indianoia, and the Webb would bo over whelming antagonists. There are rumors of other and greater dis asters, of which no particulars have been re ceived.