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H From the statement Of Quarter

~ From the statement Of Quarter
master General Wood, of the ordnance
and ordnance stores issued by the State
of Ohio in The five months to October 1st
it appears that 45 900 muskets and 3,447-
$50 musket cartridges have been given
out, besides what have been furnished to
artillery and cavalry. The issue of mus
kets includes not only 1000 in the hands
of Ohio soldiers in active service, but
about 5000 loaned Indiana aud Virginia,
the residue having been issued to Home
Gnards for border defence.
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SThe means of living in Washingto

EThe means of living in Washington
are pretty high-partly from the difficulty
or procuring transportation, the railroad
being so occupied with the transport OF
troops and army supples-and because all
supplies from Virginia are cut off. The
soldiers also buy largely from thew ashing-
ton market Potatoes retail at s per bush
ell; best beef Sc per lb; lamb at IL tc; but
ter 25c; and -four $40 per bbl.; wood
about s8 per cord, and coal s6 to Sc pei
ton.
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A LEAP OF SEVENTY FEET.-The Wheel

A LEAP OF SEVENTY FEET-The Wheel
ing Intelligencer says soldier who was
attempting to escape from squad" that
WAS endeavoring to arrest him. leaped from
the Suspension Bridge into the Ohio, a
distance of seventy feet. He struck the
water feet foremost, went down, but soon
came to the surface, and struggled for life.
A boat put out and reached him after he
bad gone down the second time. Whisky
caused bis troubles.
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LINCOLN HATES AN ABoLITIoNIsT.-W g
find the following in one of our exchanges,
and we presume it is true. What white
man dom. hate an Abolitionist, no,with-
standing they often mix in with them as
they do here, for the sake of patriotism
and plundor: ...... ...
Whatever President Lincoln has hith-
erto thought of Abolitionism, he is sound
on the question now. A gentleman, who
recently visited Washington city, infor N.
the Pittsburgh Gazette that, in conversation
with the President, the latter remarked
Il hate an abolitionist as much as you do
| hold them in utter contempt"
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HF The recant letter of Archhisho

EF The recent letter Of Archbishop
Hughes, in reply to Archbishop Lynch, Of
Charleston, on the rebellion, and his re-
cent article on the slavery question, pub
Iished in the Metropolitan Record, has at
tracted great attention at Washington and
meets with the approval of persons in
high political circles. It's understood
that Mr.. Seward has written letter to the
Arch bishop, in which he strongly endorse,
his views, and |, is said that the President
has expressed himself much in favor o
the sentiments contained in those docu
ments.
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The Prussian War Department has sold
twenty thousand percussion muskets to
the United States Government, which
we're forwarded to Hamburg last wee X,
from whence they will be shipped to New
York.
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Lord Lyons has issued circular to all
the British Consuls in Southern ports that
they shall take for their guidance the law
of blockade as announced by the State
Department, which does not permit ves-
sells to take in cargo in blockaded port.
after the announcement Of the blockade.
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Gov. Yates and Hon. William Kelloo
Of Illinois, have obtained from the Govern.
ment for the armament Of that State. 81
100000 IA batteries, of Jans's rifled can
non, g, 600 muskets, and 5000 rifles.
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Certainly it is not necessary to announce
10 the British Government row that an
insurrection, attended by civil and even
social war, was existing in the United
States when the proceedings which have
thus related took place. But it does seem
necessary to state, for the information of
that government, that Congress is by the
constitution invested with no executive
power or responsibility whatever, end, on
the contrary, that the President of the
United States is, by the constitution and
laws, invested with the whole executive
power Of the government, and charged
with the supreme direction of all munici
pal or ministerial civil agents, as well as
of the whole land and naval forces Of the
Union; and that, invested with those am
pie powers, be is charged by the consttu>
ton aud laws with the absolute duty of
suppressing insurrection, as we'll as of pre-
venting aud repelling invasion and that
for these purposes, he constitutionally ex
ercises the right of suspending the writ Of
Habeas Corpus whenever, and whereso-
ever, and in whatsoever extent the public
safety, endangered by treason OF invasion
in arms, in his judgment requires.
The proceedings of which the British
government complain were taken upon in
formation conveyed TO the President by
legal police authorities of the country
and they were not instituted until be had
suspended the great writ of freedom in
| Just the extent that, in view Of the peril,
of the State, ae deemed necessary. Fol
] the exercises Of ths. discretion, he, a. vel
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MURDER.-From the Rocky Mountain
News Of the I'd. inst we learn that \ few
nights previous, 0. ]. Wright, printer
ormerly Of Wisconsin, was found dead at.
his ranch near Oaks Mill, with a loaded
gun at his feet. His skull was broken.
and thore was severe wound over his eve.
lie had been murdered.
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The GATEWAY OF THE CAPITOL A
letter from Munich says: The work on
the grand gateway o. the Capitol of Wash
iugton is on the point of being terminated
in the royal foundry, and in about sors-
night Will be publicly exhibited in one of
she large rooms Of the establishment. 1t
is q work of the grsndest style, and the
6asso relieve representing the principal
scenes in the War of Independence excite
great admiration
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The STRONG MAN.-Dr. G. C. Winsbin.
the strong man, has developed his strength
to such an enormous degree, that he ad-
veftises to lift, on a platform, twelve men
weighing l40 pounds each. eaazs
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retary of War and the Secretary of State
is responsible by law before the highes
judicial tribunal Of the Republic, and anne,
nable also to the judgment of his country
men and the enlightened opinion of the
civilized world.
| The British Government have candidly
conceded, in the remonstranee before me,
that even in this country, SO remarkable
for SO long an enjoyment. by its people Of
the highest immunities of personal free
dom, war, and especially civil war cannot
be conducted exclusively in the forms and
with the dilatory remedies provided by
municipal laws which are adequate to the
preservation of public order in time OF
peace. Treason always operates, if posi-
BILE, by surprise. and prudence and hu-
manity therefore equally require that vlo.
lence concocted in secret shall be prevent
ed, ifpractieable, by unusual and vigor
Gus precaution. | am fully aware of the
inconveniencies which result from the prac-
tiee of such precau.ion, embarrassing
communities in social life, and effecting,
perhaps, trade and intercoure with foreign
nations. But the American people, after
having tried every way to avert civil war,
have accepted it at last as stern necessity.
The chief interest, while it lasts, is not the
enjeyments of society, or The profits of
trade, but the saving of the national iife.--
That life saved, all the other blessings
which attend it will! speedily return, with
greater assurance Of continuance than ev-
erbefore. The safety of the whole people
has become,in the present emergency, the
supreme law, and, SO long as the danger
shall exist, all classes of society. equally,
the denizen and the citizen, cheerfully &C.
quiesce in the measures which that law
prescribes.
This government does not question the
learning of the legal advisers of the Brit
ish Crown, or the justice of the Difference
which her Majesty pays to them. Never
theless, the British government will hard
ly expect that the President will accept
their explanations of the constitution of
the United States, especially when the
constitution, thus expounded, would leave
upon him the sole executive responsibility
of suppressing the existing insnrrection,
while it would transfer to Congress the
most material and indispensable power to
be employed for that purpose. Moreover,
these explanations find no zeal support in
the letter, much less in the spirit of the
constitution itsef He must be allowed
therefore, to prefer to be governed by the
view Of our organic national law which,
while it will enable him to execute his
great trust with complete success, receives
the sanction Of the highest authorities of
our own country, and is sustained by the
general consent Of the people, for whom
alone that constitution was established
l avail myself of this opportunity to Of
fer to your lordship renewed assurance
ofmy very high consideration.
WILLIAM II. SEWARD.
The Right Hon. Lord LYONS, &C.,
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A HUMAN DEvIL.-Jos. Grebbe was
held to bail in Cincinnati, on Friday, in
the 'ln Of 81 900, to answer the charge Of
poisoning his own child, and a..s.np.;p, ,
to poison his wife.
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Pensions are already being paid by the
government to the families OF soldiers who
ell at Manassas.
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NAvr.-Upwsrds of 10000 men-me>
chanics, laborers, 10, &c-ars now en-
,ployed at the Brooklyn, CharIestowu, Phil.
adelphia, Washington and Portsmouth
navy yards.-Comparasively few new boats
being IN the course of construction at the
navy yards, these ten thousand men are
chiefly employed in fitting out and repair
ing purchased vessels, and in arming the
new gun-boa,s built by private contract.
There have also been many old United
States vessels put in rebair lately.
Tia urit of holeak cOrr1tIs b as haan uns =
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Mr.. SEWARD TO LORD LYONS.

Mr.. SEWARD TO LORD LYONS.
Department of State, !
Washington, Oct. II, 1861. {
Ny LORD! | have the honor to &C
knowledge your lordship's note of the pres
ent date
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as bis advisers, among whom are the Sec
retary of War and the Secretary of State,
is responsible by law before the highest
judicial tribunal Of the Republic, and ame>
nable also to the judgment of his country
men and the enlightened opinion of the
civilized world.
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The writ of habeas corpus has been sus-
PENDED in the District Of Columbia,
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-11-16
What's Wrong

The Harrisburg Telegraph, radical
Republican sheet, of the NJ. B. Lowrie
School, mourning ever she election, says
" The lesson of Tuesday last revives,
with mournful force, the memory of the
fate of the once glorious and intellectually
powerful Whig party. Our defeats in
certain localities remind US Of the ingrati-
tude which cursed Che last throes of th at
mighty organization and thus, by the
inculcations of the present, the Republican
organization is fearfully warned that the
same path, torturous, dark ard uncert tain,
has been opened to it, through which its
honest masses will be forced to tread"
There is no use of your crying over split
milk, Mr., 1slegraph 1t is all up now
you are gone dead entirely, This new
Union dodge did the business in these
parts. How about Harrisburg! Hurrah
fer The Democratic Union party
Truth crushed 10 earth will IIe agaln,
The eternal yeats el Sod are heTs
While error, wounded Writhes 10 pdln
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-11-16
The Wide-AWake Man.
DEDICATED rs the srAY.Ar.HoAr BLACK cArAs.

DEDICATED TO THE srAY.ArHoAE BLACK cArKs
Now, while our soldiers are fighting our battles,
Each at his post to DO all that he can
Down among rebels and contraband chattles
What are you doing my Wide.Awake mani
Al the brave boys under canvass are sleeping,
All of them pressing to march with the van
Far fromthe home where their are
What are you waiting for, Wide Awake man.
You with the terrible war like moustachet,
Fit for Colonel or chief of clan,
You with the waist made for sword belts and sashes
Where are your shoulder.straps WideAwake mani
Bring him the buitonlcss garment of womanl
Cover his face lest it frockle and tan
Muster the Apron String Guards on the Common
That is the corps ofthc Wide Awake man.
Give him for escort file Of young misses,
Each Of them armed with deadly rattan;
They shall defend him from laughter ana hisses
Aimed by low boys al the Wide.Awak man
o, but the Black Cape Guards are the fellows
Drilling each day since our troubles began
"Handle your walking sticks" shoulder unibrcllssr
This is thu style Of the Wide. Awake man.
eaten me cohliiing my person with strangers,
Ihink now the cowardly Guli.runners tanl
In the brigade of stay at Home Black Canes
Marches my corps, says the Wide.Awahe man.
such was the stuff Of the Maakofr takers
such were the soldiers that scaled the Rcdan;
Truculent hOusemaids and blood.thir Quaker.
Brave not the wrath Of the Wide.Awake man
When the brown soldiers come back from the borders
How will Ihcy look while his features they sean?
How "!ll he feel when he gets marchiag orders
Signed By his lady.love, Wide. Awake man
Now then nine cheers for The torch bearing Rangers
BLOW tbs great fish Horn and beat the big pan
First IN the field that is farthest from danger,
TAKE your white feather plume Wide.Awake man.
PaRHy Fair.
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| dents. One Union man, who had kept
five sons from joining the secession forces,
had his place literally guttod, the men of
Asboths and Styles divisions killing, on
his farm alone, forty sheep, three cows,
two steers, and stealing eight horses
The cavalry gallopcd over prairies lassoing
mules and shooting oxen, sheep and hogs,
then chucked them into their already
overloaded wagons. There is scarcely a
feathered biped left within five miles on
either side of their march; not a whole
looking. glass or an unriAed bureau, or
blanket that has not been seized. For all
this there is no excuse, the army having
an abundance of provisions and stores.
" The army has now reached Warsaw
and can ddrance ne further, and never
'0as intended TO ad0ance further. Price
and his army are to-day more than seven
ty miles ahead Of ours. Fremont does not
expect, and ne yer did expect to oyertake
him.
" Let the least disaster happen to us in
front, and not man will ever return to
tell the story-for we shall have left be
hind us q maddeued, beggared, famishing
frenzied population, in which those who
were Union meu ten days ago, are to day
our most bitter enemies"
Such license adds horrors to the legiti-
mate and unavoidable evils of war An
army that leaves such remembrance
along its line Of march will be forever
eyecrated.
1t is sad to record these things Of
youthful general, from whose career the
country looked for heroism tempered with
humanity. But high as our hopes were of
Gen. Fremont, We cannot afford, When
whether from fault or misfortune--so much
depends on the wisdom and integrity of
generals, to be deceived. I am, by the
force Of evidence which canno. be resisted, /
constrained TO admit that he has signally !
failed to discharge, with usefulness to the !
country, or credit to himself, the duties of
bic stat:on.n
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The Republicans imme ediately bristled Up
and denounced US fer denounoing FIRE.
MONT and endeavored to make him out a
badly abused and prosecuted man. Thur.
low Weed, the personal and political friend
and associate of President Lincoln has
very kindly stepped forward to sustain us.
In his correspondence, from Washington,
to his paper the Evening Journal he gives
the following full length portrait of Gen.
eral Fremont. The Republicans can take
good look at it aud then continue to
denounce US, for denopncing General Ere.
mont, to their hearts content -"
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-11-16
C5cuera! & l)oIitlfaI.
The Fremont Imbroglio.

We had intended to not say one word
III the subject of the Fremont troubles
but justice to the administration compel,
us We know that DR.. John told over
the County that Fremont would he sus,
tanned ; We see set OF Republican news.
papers denouncing the President for re-
moving him. and we desire to put the
facts before the people and show them
;hat Mr.. Lincoln Is ight, He will be
cordially sustained by :he people. Let
the aboIitionsts howl The Chambers.
burg Pa0fy Spirit says -
" There is one peculiarly about the
conduct of certain Republican papers, in
these war times, that might afford us some
amusement was it not dictated by 80 much
malignancy. Whenever Democratic
journal denounced any of the many blum
ders committed by our commanding Gen.
erals, or the innumerable villainies of Ar.
my Contractors, these patriotic Republican
papers forthwith ven: their virtuous iudig.
nation on our devoted heads without stint
or mercy, Che mob spirit is invoked to
put US down, we ere threatened with 'oss
of patronage by oe.tain qatriotic individu.
ais, and their friends, Interested in contracts
or hunting after petty government Offices,
the terms traitor and 'sccossonist' are
freely applied to us sI all pruaem oeca-
sions and all this for merely speaking
the truth that bluuders may hereafter be
avoided and the robbery of the public
treasury prevented, This course on the
part of Democratic papers does not meet
the appreciation Of the cormorants who a:e
SO clamorous for the war to continue that
,heir rapacity may be satisfed-it touches
the pocketnerye, which is the sensitive
part with them, and is sure to bring down
vengeance on any one presuming to initiate
It. 1t now and then, however, happens
that these blunders and villainies become
SO glaring that Republicans themselves are
forced to denouuce them. This they do
very gingerly and with the implied reser-
yation that none but themselves must pre-
sumo to meddle in these family matters.
Should Democratic paper, regardless of
its own safety, take a similar tack and
chime in exposing the men and measures
prolonging the war, and robbing and dis
gracing the country, they are Immediately
given to understand by some self constitu-
ted eason'smeller that they must "come
down peg" be mobbed or suppressed in
the mails. The Republican papers, in
which these stories generally originate,
that they have made a sufficient
display of their honesty, and now, that the
Democrats are making handle of them,
take the opposite track and become the
apologists of the public plunderers and arc
exceedingly solicitous to cover up their
miEdeeds. We had all this fully illustrated
IN the wrongs perpetrated OF the three
months Volunteers and we now have ano-
ther striking example of it in the FREWoNr
'n'6TogIio. The Republicans first de-
nounced FREMONT, We saw the business of
She!r accus atoms and denounced him to-.
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-11-16
The Army Vote.

No ons can misunderstood the law with
reference to the army vote, uness the
misundersa anding be wilful one, and
intended to accomplish unworthy objects.
The Prothonotary of the Court of Common
Pleas for the City and County of Phila.
deIph;a, has not the slightest right un tcy
tie law, to take into consideration Regi-
mental returns, so that the Schimmelp lpfen.
ming returns, pUrporting to be Regimental, +,
are of no more use than so much waste
paper, and if the Prothonotary desires to
retain his good name for honesty, and to
act in accordance with his oath of office,
with fidelity to ali parties whose interests
are entrusted to his keeping, he will, with
out another moments hesitation refuse 10
act on that ncfarious return.
There is also, no doubt Of the frauds
committed in McLeans Regiment, as cer-
.fcates have been produced where two CIR
three companies held no election, but the
returns have been received by the Pro.
thonotary, giving the Republicans large
majority, not only for city and county
officers, but Wayd Q9iserS.
A committee of gentlemen have been in
Washington investigating the frauds which
have been porpctrated against the army
and the citizens of Philadelphia, and it is
alleged chat they intend to prefer charges
against Col. Mclean, at headquarters,
for having signed returns without knowing
that they were genuine.
The Committee are still actively at
work, and some astounding developments
may be anticipated 1t is said the Com.
mittee was Informed by General McClel-
Ian, that an officer of company who
would desigrcdly practice such a fraud,
was not to be trusted, and should not re.
main in the army.
However, as the law stands we have
nothing as yet to do with the Co.cu cI
he Regiment SO far as the Prothonotary
s concerned, but merely with the Captains
and iicutenants of companies. The
committee have abundant evidence to es-
abli,h the fact that certain companies Of
McI.eans regiment never voted at all,
when at the same time returns Of UOteS as
f cost By these companies hauc been re-
urnsd TO the PrOthoaota,y, and moreover,
he Captains of those companies deny that
my vote was given by them.
These election frauds have rot only
Deen attempted SO far as this city is con,
erned, but throughout the State, with
eferenco to the Assembly ticket and
oun,y officers, in order TO defeat the anti
PepwJiican caadidates, so that the Re,
,ublcaus may have a majority in the Leg
stature.
We call again on the independent press
throughout our Commonwealth to look
fter this thing, as in the present troubled
tate of affairs, i. is highly important that
he BALLOT Box should not be used by
lemagogues 10 accomplish their damuable
.nds. Let this Infamous conspiracy be
rushed in the bud, while Philadelphia (
md Pennsylvania are still exempt from
he horrors of intestinal 'ttifc.--Ph''12ft'
oh.2 E,cn!"g IopyHql !
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-11-16
Select llloetrp. y
Our Orders.

Weave no more silks, ya Lyons looms,
70 deck our girls for gay delights
The crimson flower OF battle blooms
And solemn marches ii II the night
Weave but the flag who.e bars today
Droop heavy o'er our e arly dead;
And honieiy garments, coarse and gray,
For orphans that must ca III their bread
Keep back your tunes sc viols sweet,
That pour delight from other lands
eouse ih2re the dancers restless feet
The ttunpet leads our warrior bands.
And ye that wage the war of words
Win mpst fame and subtle power,
60, chatter TO the idle birds,
Or teach the lesson Of the hour
Ye Sybil Arts in one stern knot
DC all your Offices combined
stand close while Courage draws the lot
The destiny OF humankind
And ifthnt destiny could fail,
The sun would darken in the sky,
lhV eternal bloom Of Nature pale,
Ana God, and Truth and Freedom die
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ts~ The Hon, John J. Crittenden, in
spite of his advanced age, is said to be the
first private in the Frankfort Home Guard
and has declared hi, intention to go into
camp and remain in service until the Con-
fcderates are driven from the soil Of Ken