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Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-06-29
Ask No Questions.

John W. Forncy, in late number of
his Press, says in substance that call WHO
now ask questions as to the object of the
present war are traitors"
eff this be So" says the ClearfOld Re
publican, Eve can assure him and all 9TH
ers interested that this is the ceyy question
that almost every man you meet is now
asking, and if this makes a man traitor
the army of traitors is so numerous that
no man can number them. 1t is question
that occupies the thoughts of every citizen,
and it is earnestly propoundcd upon the
streets, at every crossroads, in the social
circle, and at every freside-and no man
is able to give satisfactory answer.
"The President called for IS 200 volun-
tccrs for the purpose of defending the Cap
itol, enforcing the laws, and 'pr0JaJly to
rc-possoss the forts &c within the sccc.
dcd States. Now, that the Capitol has
been defended, and pronounced out of
danger, has not the country right to
know whether that which was in doubt and
probably on the 18th day of last April,
when the President issued his first procla-
nation, has yet been decided. SO far not
word has been uttered by any one in
authority, and the country is left to con-
lecture. One letter writer says that the
object of the war is to rctakc the forts,
&c, Another says it is for the purpose of
subiugating the Southern States, and com
pclling them to remain part cf the Union,
and their citizens to become loyal subj
Another says it is for the purpose of 'dri.
wing slavery from the continent; and others
again, that it is all merely for the purpose
of demonstrating to the world that the
North is stronger than the South-that
twenty millions of people are able to whip
eight millions And in the face of all
These confused contradictions the Chevalicr
| Forney prouolnccs it treason to ask any
questions as to the objects of the war =
/ The people hcretatore, under the Impression
that they were 'thc source of all political
power under our Constitution, and that
our Government could not be put upon a
war footing, and war actually commenced
without formal declaration of war By
Congress, are branded as traitors, if they
ask any questions in relation thereto.
"Judging from the proceedings of the
Iowa Lcgislaturc-among the last of the
Northern States in which We should look
for anything of the kind-it is evident that
the people OF that State are beginning tc
ask traitors questions. We believe that
the Government should be maintained, but
we do not believe in that assumption Of
dcspotsm which seeks to gag the people.
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-06-29

TIE ship Monarch of the Sea, from
Liverpool, arrived in New York on We'd
ncsday, with nine hundred and ffty-four
Mormons as passengers They left on
Thusday, for Utah.
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-06-29

Con. WILLIAMSON, of the Sickles Brig
age, has sworn that "tho TriJune mu
not and should not be circulated among tLa
soldiers at Camp Scott"
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-06-29
Watches Jcwelry and Silyer.Warc.

* We wond respectfully inturm our friends pa.
EAA irons and III" public general tha, we have now
rsss4 IN Stur, AT uii,r Who'll sale aud Retail al h
lowest cash prices, large aud very choice stock OF
atr"s' Jewrry Silver aud Plated Ware, of every va
ri y and style. - "
Every description Of rDiamond Work and other Jew.
ery made To order at short notice. - Al goods war
tdurh 10 bras represented B.Paiicular attention,
GN"n tn repairing Of Watches and J;wcry of every
description,
STAJFFER & HARLEY
M. G!2 Market street, south side
March |. lSkl-9ur
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-06-29

To DE liberal without being just, is wye
generous pride; which is very apt to e'r
demn those who bound their liberality l7
their real circumstances.
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-06-29

\ MAN winds up his clock to NAL
run, and his business to make it stop.
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-06-29

DoG.sTEALING in the second degI o.
stealing city-made saugages.
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-06-29

THE Sun should shine on festivals, bui
the moon is the light for ruins,
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-06-29
W here we Are,

O@N "O IA o.
The Charleston Me, cury exhibits somo
anxiety to find out "where are the North.
ern men who have heretofore professed
friendship for the South 7" We can an
swer for some Of them, says the HaNey
Sp"", perhaps for all. They are now
where they always have bccn-on the plat.
form of the Constitution and the Union
The Northern Democracy have all along
maintained firm stand in defence of tho
Union. They have contendcd that the
principles of the Republican party we're
not warranted by the Constitution, and
that the triumph of that party would en-
danger the Union, They forcsaw tina.
mischicvous men at the South would take
advantage of the triumph of mischicvous
principles at the North, to bring about a
dissolution of the Union, and they worked
with disintercstcd and untir;ng but unsuc.
cesSiul zeal to avert that calamity.
Having opposed the Republican party
chiefly on the ground that its success would
! divide the country, could it be expected
that the Northern Democracy would turn
round and help the Charleston Mercurv
and its co-laborers to make the division ?
Our aim was to save the Union, not to
break it, and our obligation to fight for it
is Just as strong now as it was last Novem-
Der.
It will not do for our late Southern al.
lies to charge us with abandoning them
1t is they who have abandoned us. We
never agreed to 60 beyond the Constitution
and the Union to defend their rights
Within the pale of these, we would have
stood by them to the last; and If they had
stood by US just one year longer, the Re-
publican party and its pernicious and un-
constitutional principles would have been
buried forever.
Between the Republicans and the Sc
cessionsts the country has been brought to
dismal plight, The Northern Democracy
have no share in the responsibility, but
they arc unanimously taking hand in the
work of preserving the Union. When
that good work shall be done, they will
place themselves as protecting wall
around any section of the country whose
constitutional rights may be invaded.
-----s>>~-
AT AN evening party lately, young
man from England was boasting of the
pedigree, wealth and Importance of his
ancestors.
go yes" said Sam H., your father AM
mine spent part of their lives together"
"Whcrc was that?" sharply replied tho
other.
"In the Bloomingdalc poor house :" was
the singing answer,
-----~->~~
"WHERE do you hail from ~ qucried
Yankee from q traveller.
"Wherc do you rain from!" was the
response.
Don't rain at all :" said the astonished
Jonathan.
"Ncither dc hail, so mind your own
business.
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-06-29

Or what color is grass covered Tih
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-06-29

Coon order is bread; bad order is
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-06-29

"WnERE do you hail from ?" qucricd 6
Yankee from q traveller.
"Wherc do you rain from!" was the
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-06-29


"Don't rain at all :" said the astonished
Jonathan.
"Ncithcr dc l hail, so mind your own
business.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-29

The FIRST oficial act of the Government
d this point recognising the new ProVi-
SIGNAL Government at Wheeling as the
State Government of Virginia. took place
to-day. Regular official intercourse vas
opened with Gov. PierPoint, by communi-
eating 70 him the superintendent Of Vir-
SiNia for the XXXVlIth Congress. The
Legislature has been convened to meet in
the new Custom House, Wheeling, on the
lSt of July PrOximO.
The above appears 10 the Washington
dispatches Of the n. Y Tribune yesterday.
1t confirms what Vs had previously writ
ten in our article to-day about Uuitsd
States Senator'S for our Legislature, being
at once admitted.
Governor Pierpoint is nov in full COM
-municstiOn with the various executive de-
Partments of the Government, and his I'D.
ministrattOu is just as fully recognized as
So that of Governors Deunisou and Cur
1aia, Of Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-29

TzE articles 10 the July Eclectic are sew
enteep in number. They cover as great a
variety of topics. Science discusses "The
Sea aud lite Living Wonders" and "Hail
Storms" History speaks of "Polana.9-
Criticism deals With Motley 5 Netherlands"
aud "Nacaulay's Last Volume" and "Dr.
Browns HOrs Subjective i" and in 'Ro-
nance in Japan" both historical investiga-
ton aud critical judgment are exhibited.
Science of war shows US the character and
value Ct "Riaed Ordnance" Then there
are tales aud poems that make up an at
tractive aud valuable number. The illus
tration for the month is a portrait of
ClarlemRgne.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-29

"A MEMPHIS paper says that many Of the
ballots at the recent election in Tennessee
bore tho inscriptiou-''No more Yankee
school teachersI" Was ever anything
more absurdR The South is more indebt-
ed to New England school teachers, male
and female, than to any other class of per-
sons, native orimported. The school mas
ters from Vermont or Massachusetts have
always been the first to teach, more or less
successfully-to the young sprOut of
"chivalry" the proper mode of speaking
the English language; the first to attempt
that most difficult task-the eradication of
the strong faint of the peculiar dialect
which SO generally marks the pronuncia-
ton Of Southern people. Having helped
the youngliugs in this way for several
years, she commonly marries an intelligent
planter, and further serves the South by
introducing, through her progeny, an i'm
proving flow of Yankee blood into popu-
latiOn that greatly needs such wholesome
Reinforcement OF the male teachers we
say nothing except to ask-what would
Southern schools and colleges be without
them2
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-29
The London WTimes" PrOcIAtms its
ReVenEes.


At length the string prOtrudes little
way out of the sheath. Involuutarily,
unwittiugly, to be sure-but sufficient to
let Americans see it. The Times has done
thing which, from several causes, is I'M
usual with that paper-giyen its reasons.
Either from fondness for the imperial
style, or because it had no reasons, and
acted from no priR:um mobile but interested
impulse, having weak cause to crush or
a strong one to flntter, the Times has never
been giver of reasons. Butnow, by one
of those sudden incautions which strange
Iy happen Mt times to the most sel6shly
wary. and are the providential safeguards
against them of the generous and unsus-
pectiug, the animus of this English news
paper is disclosed. Neutrality of the
7Tmes's kind is revenge in vulgar English.
1t is the cold shoulder of to-day for the
tf0ddeu foes of yesterday-the punishment
of reviving America for the arrogance of a
dead Buchanan.
"This country has chosen its course, and
is not likely to depart from it. That the
Americans should expect ue 10 pc 6Wayeu
by any strong feelings of attachment to
the United States Government argues an
extraordinary forgetfuluess of what the
conduct of the Government has been to
us on all occasions. While our behavior
to the people of the United States has
been always cohciliatOry it is no exagger-
alton to say that their Government has
been uniformly hostile and ungenerous be-
You'd any European precedent, except per-.
haps that of the first French Empire. In
our European disputes our statesmen,
when called upon to face hostile despot-
isms, have always been haunted by the
fear of having the American Government
on their Backs Is the paltry quarrel they
fixed on us in the business of the enlist
ment, or the tone of Mr.. Stewards speech
es, likely to rouse us to enthusiasm in the
cause of the government at Washington
Neutrality-strict neutrality-is all that
the United States Government can claim;
and, as we maintained neutrality in the
Italian war when all our sympathies were
awakened, much more shall we maintain
it when we look on a struggle where our
judgement still waits for further informa-
ton, and where we shall assuredly not re-
joice in the military success of either par
| tyD
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-29

TaE way the rebel journalists abuse the
language in which they attempt 10 write
their saugulnsry editorials, is caution to
young rhetoricians If those newspaper
sarriOrs could only crack Yankees akun
As often as they break PrisciaH's head; and
could kill the Presidents Americans as
fast as they murder "the Kings English"
victory would perch on the rebel standard
in less than q weeks time, and the Union
would be il hopeless condition as the
pseudO-C OnfeI ierncy Is At the present Wri-
ting. But, j ekily, the thing can't be
done.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-29
Meeting OF our LegisIaturs--ThsE lee-
tion OF q. S. Senator.

tiOn Of q. s. Senator
The legislature meets in this city on
Monday next. One of their FIRST duties will
he to elect two c. s. Senators, and these
two Senators will go on to Washington and
apply for admission to the seats lately fill
ed by R. NJ. T. Hunter and James NJ. Mason,
two as unworthy and trescherous men as
ever sat in any deiiberative body. There
Is NO doubt about the action of the Senate
on the application of the two Senators
whom the legislature will elect. They will
be admitted promptly, for they will bear
with them under the sign manual Of the
Governor their proper credentials. The
body that will send them is the only Con-
stitutional body in the State of Virginia,
authorised to accredit representatives to
the Senate of the United States. 1t is the
only body known to the Government.
With their admittance follows the legali-
cation Of the whole entire Western Virginia
Conventional movement. 1t will be the
government with which the Federal au-
thOrities will communicate. twill receive
all the support and protection and recogni-
tiou that any State government in the
Union ever did. The usurpers at Richmond
will be outlnwed just as the DOrr rebels
were in Rhode Island, and Congress will
vote its men and its money to make good
our recognition.
In this view of the case-With the GER
tainty of admittance-it becomes our leg
iSlarure to look well to their selections!
Let us have two of the ablest and discreet
est men that can be sent. As to one of
those men we presume public opinion is
fully made up. Who should it be, but the
man who has lead the front rank in the
great movement for the restoration of con-
utitutional liberty to our people. We mean
the Hon. John S. Csrlile. His election is,
so far as We know, a fOregOue conclusion
in the minds of everybody.
But who shall be his colleague2 That is
the question. We do not pretend to be
Nbls to answer this question. We doubt
II any considerable opinion has conferred
ON any one. Still we have no doubt that
whoever he may be he will be sound
reliable man. Such legislature as will
convene would not elect any other kind
Let him be ever so mediocre in point Of
talent rather than let him fall short one
iota in reliability on the Union question,
win be the voice of the people. But there
will be no reason why both good head
and good heart cannot be secured, and
we only hope that the Legislature will
possess itself iR perfect patience, and be
In no undue hurry to make selection
One election will answer any present ne
.eesSity that may be thought to exist fol
a representative in the Senate, and the
other can we'll afford to lie over for days
Let all the Incidental considerations of the
selscttOn be well considered, for they may
have bearing of the utmost importance
to the cause.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-29
The Rebel,s Dostruotion OF Property.

~
The Baltimore secessionists are disgust
edSSat General Johnson's Wholesale destruc-
ton of railroad property at Martinsburg,
Va. The Baltimore Sun of yesterday says:
"Our iuformauts state that the immedi-
ate reason of this wholesale destruction
was handoill, (since discovered to be
forgery, having been entirely without their
authority or knowledge, yet purporting to
be issued by the Baltimore aud Ohio Rail-
road Company, and said to have been
posted Mt Rarper's Ferry and other places
in Virginia,) to the effect that the COM
pauy wanted two thousand men at once,
two dollars day, in order to restore the
bridges and put the road in order for the
use Of the Federal Government. This
movement is believed to have been ruse
by interests hostile to the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company to deceive the
Southern authorities, so as to lead to the
destruction of its property.
The Patriot has these comments:
"This property, destroyed so needlessly,
is not owned by the Federal Government,
against whom this rebel army is warning,
hut it belongs to private individuals and
coTporations-amoug which the city of
Baltimore holds nearly four millions. The
reason given is that this road would be re-
CURED for the use of the Federal Govern
ment, and, therefore, it must be destroyed.
Do they not knoY that when the Federal
government wants the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad they will have it, and also the
whole State Of Virginia It Is the height
of nonsense to try and prevent this. If
General Scott had needed the use of that
thorOpghfare for his purposes, he would
have had it long ago. He can do without
it much better than the rebels can, and
they will ind this out, ::perhaps, before
they get up some morning. We put in
judiCious proclamation Of General McClel-
Ian, OF the Federal Army, to the people OF
Western Virginia"
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-29
The FranlstnE Prlvllsgs.

The Postmaster General having receiv-
ed many letters of inquiry as to the ex-
tent OF the franking privilege, the follow
ing letter has been prepared as general
answer:
"PosT-0FT1CE DRPARTNEST,
"APPoINTWEST OFTICE, June 81, 1852.
"SIR: Your letter of the 18th inst, is re-
ceived The franking privilege conferred
upon members of Congress was intended
to cover their own correspondence, public
or private, and such public documents as
may be sent free of postage under the sew
eral laws Of Congress. 1t is a personal
privilege; travels with the party enjoying
it; can be exercised in one place only at the
same time, and cannot be delegated to an
other. 1t therefore follows that the frank
ing of letters written by others, aud in
which the member has no interest, is not
within the spirit or the meaning of the
law. Any construction of it conflicting
with this view has not received, and can
not receive, the sanction Of the Depart
ment.
"The genuine frank indorsed on letter
by the member himself Is, prima faeie,
correct and legal. II. however, it appears
clearly that the member is not at the time,
nor has recently been, in the vicinity of
the Office of mailing, or that tue use of
the frank appears 70 be utterly apart Fro'"
and covering mRTIer not known to the
member, you will assume the use of the
frank to be unauthorized by him, rs you
cannot presume that one of the makers of
the laws viii consent to their violation.
All such letters must be held for postage
aud II the writer's, after general notice, do
not come forward and pay the postage, they
must be sent to the Dead Letter Office. 1t
will be proper for you to give notice Of
your determination to enforce the regula-
zion before endorsing them.
Il am, respectfully. &c,
tJoHN A. KAssoN,
"Pirst Asst P. NJ. Gen'l.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-29
C. w.R,not pa.setl over.

/ We were in error yesterday in stating
that C. w. Russell had been passed over
by the "seceshers" at Richmond in their bal
lettings for members of the Southern Con-
gress. We were misled by stray Rich
mOnd paper. Those papers nowadays
are about as reliable in their home news rs
they are in their GAINESVILLE dispatches.
In the National InteEligencer, of yester-
day, we find the following:
We learn the following Delegates have
been chosen by the (old) Virginia Conven-
tioe to represent that Staten the Southern
Congress at its adjourned session, which is
appointed to meet in RiChmondOn the goth
of July next:
l. r. NJ. 7. Hunter,of Essex.
2. John Tyler, of Charles City.
3. w. H. Mcfarland, of Richmond City.
4. Roger A. Pryor, of Petersburg.
8. Thomas S. B. Cook, of Appomattox.
6. W. c. Rives, of Albermarle.
Z. Robert E. Scott, of Fauquier.
8. James N. Mason, of Frederick.
8. John W. Brockenhrough of Rsckbridge.
10. Charles W. Russell, of Wheeling.
IL. Robert johnson, of Harrison.
IL. Walter Staples, of Montgomery.
l3. Walter Preston, of Washington.
For the State at large, James A. Seldom,
of GooOhlaad, aud W. D. Preston, OF Mont
gomery.
A special despatch to the New Orleans
PieOyune from Richmond, and coming this
via Louisville, states that the Virginia Con-
vention had proposed an amendment to the
Constitution of the Confederated States
giving Virginia the right to secede in GER
tain Contingencies. We supposed that the
right of secession in all or any contingent y
founded upon the exercise of that very
right.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-29
DOu'T be alarmed, brother Jacob, sbuu.

DON'T be alarmed, brother Jacob, about
Whesliipg She will not run the new gov
Srnmeas near 90 bad As you give out
You know you never did like her.
Another thing You .dnpt do US, indi-
E'duHaIy ,!iustss about THOSE arms. But
it'i TOO small matter to take ptiras with
during she var. To your town belongs tbe
glory OF tue cOusigpmeut-to ourS just a
little Of the preliminariea.
As for that other little matter sou apa
the DiIpa'eG can 6ght it out.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-29

snMs, of Kentucky, is of The valiant
breed. He pald in a speech. that if elected
70 Congress he "WOuId go to Washington
and speak and Yote against LineOln's wick.
ed SRd upSspsk itutiepal war, if every tile
0p the hOuAstoSS vas i devil in arms" :
His telloEzrouAtrymeu concluded not to
let him sEpase Aipsslf 70 such danger and
voted for Mr.. cyEtteuaeu.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-29
% Nhylor coneluae. 10 sIlenr.

Ne are glad to see that Joe NaylOr, of
,.W0llERprg, has, Rfter much prayerful con.
.idsEs'iea, concluded 70 take the oath Of
.allegiszes: Considering that Joseph orig
mated In Ohio And neTer Owned = niger,
--Alth0gsh he wrote \ thesis sbogttbem-
1t is really not 50 strange after ell that he
should be 80 patriotic .ns to swear to be
true to his country. But ths idea of him
hSa!iating, on a point of sORssiaace, is a
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-29

8od RuaFl eur Dag, and keep each star
Zach strips A. bright - now they WHTep
siuI make Il lead OHr ranks In war.
Still 6oat above each patriots grave,
Death TO the traitor that would dare
To trail Il through the dust Of shame.
All honest hearts It's lot will share
And follow II 70 Death or PANE.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-29
Editors Of BE- Iatelliesaeer

Inasmueh Is certain RtpeFeRS gentle
men, also legal and medical men, as we'll
as talented editors, - and others, who have
gone voluntarily into the camp Of the enc
my, and are reported in the Richmond pa
pers, and elsewhere among the traitors, as
having been ''drirsR array" from Wheeling,
ought they not to be expected to give an ex-
PLANTATION as to these R6eES on our people,
when they return amongst usR