The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-05-02
War Movements in Philadelphia.

RiralS IN PatriotiSn-Om Ctty B1a2in
scitt ZeaS-ArhtGeS Of Women-Reg1
alentS Of 0IuSeS-D Business Traitors.
Philadelphia. April 23, 1851.
Pennsylvania has for once ecipseJ
New York! In this contest for the priz
of self-sscri6cinE patriotism which nov
prevails among tie States. you can gen
erously afford to listen and acknowledge
the fact. Pennsylvania passed the frs
thoroupbgoiug war bill, authorizing th,
Governor to call out any number OF men
and giving $500,000. New York fol
lowed With $4,000, eco aud 10000 Beu
This vas worthy o! the great heart o.
New, York. 1t electrified and staggered
us-we were faisly outdone. Bat whcI
Sumter was assailed VIC recovered our e.
quiIibriun, and our Legislature, By unan
imous vote, the whole Democracy fu.ins
with US, pledged the State of PeUnsylva
MIA ITO any amount, and 10 every extent,
to su-taiU the Government aud put down
treason. There it stands upon the re-
cord, wholly unsurpassed, oUertoPping e
ven gloTious New Y ork. Do what 9th
ers may, can any devotion to the Uoiou
exceed tbisl Now this is not bravaio
Our whole population is abiaze with ca
Rerness to zee it realized. Our city
banks Immediately Of. red ail the money
Pennsylvania might want. Private citi-
zeDs rendered Doney 10 amounts never
before offered, and | do believe ths; il
Government we're to offer Sl00, 000, ,000
of Treasury notes 10 PenG.yiEsnia. sm all
enough for general circulation. they would
be absorbed in less than thirty days
Oar confidence in the Government is
hrDer than il ever gas, and every new
development OF it, sigorous policy serves
TO strengthen it, TEo such communities
as NeR-York and Penusylsauia moving
shoulder to shoulder. seeking to ousto
each other in the rsce of degotIon to a
common couutr5, present spectaele at
which the world osy DOT only woDjef.
but exug. and before which trea,on vill
ere yet call cPoo the noQutsip> to cover
It.
90 Fri3ay last it vas discovered that
10000 uniforms for oar volunteers must
be Supplied by the State, aud ordere we're
at cDoe issued for making them. The
empty Girard House vas rented, n army
of cutters employed, cloth furnished by
merchants st Gere nominal prices, and
our somen taking FIRE at the call, cane
by Thousands to offer their help to make
VI. No such sight was ever seen. The
large building i DOW filed With ladies,
vises OF our hest citizen, wth their
daughters, working all day Oh coats aud
blankets, aided By an army of sowing.
mscbues. At tleast 3,000 persons. IL ost-
IL ladies', are noE at work. aided by 100
cutters. Ladies coue from all parts,
town and country. volunteering to take
home work, aud Chesnot street is fairly
blocked up With these patriotic women
seeking to DO something for the cause -
The work thus goes brsvely on. Aroth-
er incident of the tine is the organizing
of a body of some 300 women as nurses,
experienced hsnds, who intend going
with the troops 10 take care OF the sick
and wounded Most OF these are young
women in robuss health. The same anx-
iety to aid the cause apPears in ell the
ighboring towns. In short. the specta-
Gle Of a people so united has probably
never been seen.
The general enthusiasm breaks forth
10 a multitude Of novel shapes. Boys
are peddliag Union Flags mounted on
sticks in all our tboroughfares, and from
their hands they fod their way into all
the ueig boring towns. where they hsug
from window and doorpost. Men walk
our streets under umbrellas made Of
material printed with the Stars and
Stripes. The 6rst who showed himself
uader such a baDUer vas greeted with
cheers as be moved along. Union para
soils of printed silks are coming out for
the ladies' -Four hundred girls in one Of
our public schools have each contributed
stitches 10 huge flag, and raised it on
the school house amid TREMENDOUS cheer
ing The xomen are working laborious-
ly for the volunteers aud their families,
whom they leave behind them. They ere
preparing reception and sword for Gen.
eral Wool, if be will halt long enough on
his passage through the city to receive
them. One lady has smuggled herself in
as volunteer alongside her husband.
dressed 10 suit of bis clothes. and pass.
ing as bis brother. Others. unm married.
have offered themselves as viVsndiers, to
sesOmpany the troops. The owUers of
many small bouses occupied by depart
ing volunteers have notified them that
they shall charge no rent while they arc
absent at the wars. aud others are imi-
tati6g the example thus set. A vast ar
my of uaues-some 40.000-bas been
signed to the pledge of fsithfulness to the
Government drawn up and headed By
Horace Binney. Capt. Arcbambault, an