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Generous as Well as Patriotic.

1t is so easy TO be patriotic nowadays,
so far as 10 be able TO pass muster on the
march 10 the banquets of political mana
gers and 10 secure any spare crumbs, that
may escape the voracious appetiles of the
fortunate occupants Of The "first table" in
tie partzan feasts and we behold conin-
ually so much of the cheap a1d pharisaica
patriotism, that it gives US great pleasure
10 pay tribute and practical generosity
prompted by sincere devotion to our
country, and deeply grateful appreciation
OF the services Teadered by ,he patriotic
men who have fallen in defence of the
Union.
A short time after the battle of Winches-
ter, Virginia, the Legislature of Pennsylya-
MIA appointed committee of three gentle
men from each house, Messrs. Reilly, Ser
ril and Kinney, OF the SeIaie, and Messrs
Banks, Blanchard and Barron, OF the House
OF Representatives, 10 proceed 10 Virginia,
and bring home the bodies of Col. VIM. G.
Murry, Capt Patrick Gallager and Lieut.
Charles Keen, of The as4th Pennsylvania
Regiment, for inlermenl in their native
State.
The committee performed their dnty with
scrupulous fidelity, and were allo we'd a
compensation by The Legislature, to detray
The actual expenses OF Their journey The
amount exceeded S675, which instead OF
being pockeled by the membe of the
committee, WAS appropriated to the relief
of the yyidouvs ,rd ornba,s of Cao, C.It,o
her aud Lieni Keen. Mr. Banks one OF The
committee, was deputed TO convey the gif
10 the afflicted families of The departed he
roes, which agreeable mission he fulfilled
with becoming delicacy, an with his ac-
cusiomed kindness
What a contrast does this simple and
praise-worhy charity afford, 10 The con
duct OF The rapacious patriots in high posi-
tons, who have habitually taken advantage
OF the distracted condition of the country,
and ts financial embarrasments TO join
hands with swiniling contractors and plum
der the already depleaied treasury, TO the
verge OF bankruptcy.
III The contemplation Of this remarkable
contrast IN the phases OF patriotism, we
have the consolation 10 know that while
the country will be happily rid OF some of
these plundering patriots, The Honorable
gentlemen OF the committee, Messrs. Reilly,
Serril, Kinsey, Banks, Blanchard and Bar
ron, will remain al home among their fe-
low-citizens, to exempIify, at all times, in
thought, word and action, that genuine and
benefcient patriotism so unlike the selfish
and spurious article which has become so
common since the bribery and corrup-
ton commenced.-PhFa.E EUening Journal
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Hor Folly.

The bill 10 abolish slavery in the District
ofCoIumbia has been signed by The presi-
dent, and is therefore a law of the land
Amongst other provisions il appropriaies
ONE MILLION OF DOLLARS 10 pay the
value Of the slaves TO their owners, and
100000 to pay the expenses of such OF the
released slaves as may wish to emigra,e TO
Hayii. Liberia or elsewhere This is anolh
er beautiful specimen of Abolition Legisla-
ton. At time like This, when the nation
is plunged deeply into debt, and the people
will soon be made to groan under heavy
load OF taxation for the support of the war
the mad franlics who role at Washington
throw away whole million of money 10
pay for few thousand negroes. What
next ?-LGnca,ter IntelhgenceT.
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aireemNood sesnimary.

DNHE Spring Term OF ihi> Institution will
L commence on the 7Ih OF April next.
The Principal will be assisted bv able
instructors, and as ample facilities will be
afforded 10 qualify Students tor teaching,
for business or for a more extensive course
i'll literature, liberal share of patronage
Is again solicited.
Pupils who do not come from home, or
are not put under The charge o! near rela-
lives, must board al the Seminary, and be
subject TO the regulations thereof They
must provide their own towels and have
each article of clothing distinctly marked.
Eleven weeks cors;iluie a quarter and
there will be vacation OF about six weeks
in mid summer.
Boarding, washing and Tuition. with
furnished rooms, viii be S25 per quarter,
oCe halt payable IN advance.
To ition alone 10 Common branches, S. 90
. including advance Algebra
mathematics history &c. 6 90
in Latin, German or French
each extra 60
For further particulars address
WM BURGESS, Principal
Millyille, Col CO., Feb. 90, 1862.
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Mime. DcsnOrest's
QUARTERLY MIRROR OfFASHIONS,
GREAT IMPROVEMENTS!

FfHE Summer Number will contain four
large and splendid Fashion Plates, three
Full Sized Pauerns, comprising the new
French Waist, and elegant sleeve, and
Misses Sack, together with nearly 100 en-
cravings oil air the novelties ior Summer
bonuets, Cioaks, Trimmings. Children's
Dresses, etc, Valuable information 10 Mil
liners, dress makers, mothers, and ladies
generally. presenting the largest and best
Fashion Magazine m The World, published
47o BfosdWay. and sold everywhere al 25
een's, or sent by mail pest tree. on receipt
OF The amount, Yearly 81 with The follow
ing valuable premium.
Each yearly subscriber viii be entitled
10 the selection of so cents worth OF plain
patterns, from. the designs iC the book, or
from the show room. or they may be order
ed and sent by mail any time during the
year. by paving the postage.
n Splendid inducements 10 Cauvassers.
The summer hnmbsr will be ready on or
about the Ii OF May
April 30.b, 1882.
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The Army of Gen. Curtlss.

The correspondent; of the ST. Louis Re-
publican, writing from the headquarters of
Gen. Cur,is's army at Forsyth says;
"fhe entire army is removing short dis
tauce from thls place, where something can
be obtained toward the support of the army.
The tendency is eastward. Gen Davis
division is encamped on the Springfield
road, aboui 5 miles north; Gen. Asboih's
division, four miles east of the Springfield
road on Swan Creek; Gen. Carr's division
was, I'LL yesterday, on Bear Creek, but has
moved eastward; and Gen. Osterhaus di-
vision is to-day moving out from this mis-
erable town, first TO The nor.h and then in
an easlerly direction. What the final move
ment is 10 be no one knows. Price has
gone 10 join Beauregard, to aid if possible
in auesling the progress of our arms down
the Mississippi river. There is probably
nothing left in Arkansas bui rowing bands
of rebel jayhawkers. The people of Ar
kansas, our commanding General thinks
are more friendly 10 US than those of South
west Missouri, and there is less persecution
OF Union men. II now appears more and
more probable that we are only waiting for
the possession of the Mississippi as far
south as The mouth OF the Arkansas, to
make forward movement, and thenceforth
occupy that State, and receive our supplies
from ST. Louis by wafer"
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COMMODORE 47ooTR This gallant officer
has applied TO the Department for release
from duty on account of his foot, which is
so much swollen as TO prevent him from
properly meeting his esponsibili,ies His
physicians certify that he needs rest, but
the Department is reluctant 10 part with
him, and has appointed Capt Davis as his
co-laborer. The Government should take
warning by the fate of the chvalrous Ian
der, and give The Commodore, who has not
asked ii a moment 100 soon, chance TO
rnSf
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New York Frssman's Journal.

This able organ of the Catholic faith,
which was forbidden the use of the mails
some months ago, and lis editor James a
McMaster, Esq imprisoned in Fort Lafay-
elite has been restored its privileges, and
again made It's appearance. Mr. Mem. is
an able writer and bigh-loned Journalist. and
Why he was deprived Of his liberty and the
means OF subsistence, he nor nobody else
can tell. In the number before us, for which
we are indebted to the kindness of an es
teemed friend, the editor ays OF his pas,
course:
eve stand by the record we have made.
We have not a retraction 10 make, nor an
explanation-noi single sentence or word.
Il is written, and will remain. Outside of
what we have published in out own paper,
there is not word written, nor an ael Dose
or attempted, thai by the most vicious can
be tortured into charge against esp
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Abolition OF Not.

Congress has passed the following acts,
and President Lincoln has approved OF
them:
A Resolution 10 induce the States to free
their negroes.
. AnAct freeing the negroes in the Dis
trict of Columbia
3 An Act empowering the negroes TO car
ry the mails
A new Article of War, prohibiting Off
GERS in the army and navy from returning
the negroes who run into camps
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SnlferingS Of The wounded.

writer from The late battle fed al Pitts
burg Landing, gives the following:
NEGLECT OF THE WoUSDED.-The horror
OF horrors connected with .hs battle, is the
treatment OF tie wounded. In the first
place, there were poor facilities for treating
them, and in the second place, there was
not ftlh enough surgeons 10 attend them.
would gladly draw a veil over the hor-
rors on this point, but duty to our gallant
volunteers demanded that the truth be told
A large number of the wounded had crawl
ed or been carried TO the bluff opposite the
landing, on Sunday and Monday. Some
found the shelter of tents, but others lay
out in the open AR. There those men Law,
without surgeon or attendant, without
mouthful TO eal or drink until Wednesday
morning.
They groaned and died with no one near
to pity them and the dead and the dying
lay there together. On Wednesday moru>
ing one surgeon was sent 10 them, and one
attendant, with hard crackers and water -
And that was their treatment until they
eihe. died or were conveyed to one OF the
boats which presently came 10 the relief OF
the wounded.
Ifspirits of the heroic dead could return
TO earth, the shades OF the murdered woun-
ded of the battle of Pitlsburg, should haunt
the halls of the Congress day and night.
say murdered, for with an efficient medical
department, hundreds who are now dead
or will die, would have been saved 10 their
friends and their country.
At present, nearly week after the bat
tie, many of the wounded are not fully car.
ed for. They are lying abodt i'll tents, up
on straw, with TO nourishment, and expos
ed TO the weather. Several boa, loads have
been shipped away out still many. very
many, are here. now write in the cabin
OF the Tycoon, with four lows of them in
ront of me.
Our boat, the first one of the Cincinnati
Sanitary Commission, arrived al three o'ck.
By eight O'Clock her cabin, her guards, and
her decks were filled with the wounded
How thankful The poor fellows were when
laid on soft beds, between clean sheets and
stimulated by nourishing diet. They for
got their wounds, their pains and hurts, s,and
laid down and sweetly slept
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PA1RIoT.

ABoLITIoSIsM IN CoSGREss.-Mr Yoor-
hees, on the floor of the House in Congress
a few days since, said, in regard 10 AboIi-
tionism -
why come il here now7 II ne,e was
friend TO the Union, and it is not so TO-
day. 1t never wanted Union will Slave
States, or fellowship with slave1wners,
and does not Tow. Ii is at war with the
Constitution it is an enemy to the Govern.
ment il is the twin m onsier TO the doctrine
of secession, and like the wilheed and
hateful hags on the blasted hearth Of Scot-
land, the two together concocied he hell
broth OF the present civil war. Let the
spirit OF the Union, born of the Con iiitution
rise np between them like bright angel,
and banisk them forever. Then will the
uation renew lis mighty youth, and go on
again IN It's swift flight of rosperity aud
fenown. Then will 'skindreG and country
men, once more assemble under he same
flag, and obeying the command of the
Prince OF Peace, ''love one another
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BoMBARDMgsT AND CAPTURE OF FoRT Ma
CON Fort Macon surrendered on Friday
25lh inst, after bombardment OF ten and
half hours The batteries were planted
behind heavy sand banks. The preaching
battery was eleven hundred eei distant,
and the mortars fourteen hundred feet and
entirely concealed from the Fort. The
Garrison were allowed the honors of war =
The officers reained their side arms, and
all paroled. Seven men were killed and
eighteen wounded, two moralIy. The en-
emY's loss is not known.
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20 MOre Recruits Wanted.

II appears from declarations made in the
U. S. Senate, by Messrs Wilson and Fes-
senden, that we have from $50 ,OO0 TO 200. :
600, more men in the field than was
contemplated by Congress Mr. Wilson
says, clearly aud distinctly 4" We all know
there are great many more than Congress
ever intended there should be" Five nun
died thousand was the intended limit, bus
the army appears TO have Increased 10 sew
en- hundred Thousand The department
having attention caIled to This, has ordered
The discor'inuance of iurher recruiting
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HAND-TO-HAND ENCOUNTER WITH
THF. ENEMY

WAsHiNGToE, May 5-The following de
spatch has been received al the War De
partmenl
HEADQUARTERS AMY OF THE PoToaAc,
May 4 O'Clock, p M
To the Hon Edwin d. Stanton, Sec. of Var
Our cavalry and horse artillery came up
with the enemy's rear guard in their en-
trenchmenls, about two miles this side OF
Williamsburg
brisk fight ensued. Just as-my aid lett
Gen. Smiths division of infantry arrived on
The ground and presume carried the enc
my's works, though | have no. heard
The enemy's rear is strong, but have
force enough up there to answer all purpo
ses.
We have thus far seyenty-one heavy guns
and large amoonls OF tents and ammunl-
lion.
ALI along The lines their works prove TO
have been most formidable, and am now
fully satisfied ofihe correctness OF the course
! have pursued.
The success is brilliant, and you NAV
rest assured that lis effects will be of The
greatest importance
There shall be no delay in following up
the rebels.
The rebels have beer guilty OF The most
uurderous and barbarous conduct in placing
torpedoeS within the abandoned works, near
wells, neat springs, near fagstafs, maya
zines, and telegraph offices, and IN carpet
bags, barrels of flour, ETC.
ForureIy, We have no. lost many men
IN this manner. Some four OF five have
been killed, and perhaps dozen wounded
shall make the prisoners remove them al
their OWE peril
G. B. MCCLELLAN,
Major General.
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Agric,llturai Notice.

'EVFiE ci,izens of the different cities aud
towns th:oughou, the Stale are invited
to con- upeiion for the place al which The
next ANNUAL STATE FAIR shall be held
Proposals containing inducements and adj
vaniages, sent to The undersigned Com
miuee, will be received up TO, and includ-
INC May 10 next.
COMMUNICATIONS should be addressed 10
either Of the following parsons
JOHN L. RUTHERFORD. Harrisburg,
JOHN II ZiEGLER, Harrisburg. Pa.
J. H. ZIEGLER Sec'y,
Arril 80 1862. Harrisburg, Pa.
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The Necessity Of q White Hans Party.

Although This republic was founded by
while men, 10 secure 10 white men personal
liberty, religious liberty and the individual
and colective prosperity which naturally
flows from enlightened free institutions, we
have now Congress aud many State Leg
islalures whose sole occupation seems 10
be exclusive legislation :or the benefit of
The blacks.
The imperative requirements of the war !;
the consequent necessities OF The Treasury !;
the stagnaion of commerce and manufac-
lures the angulshing condition of labor,
which daily appeal 10 The hearts and heads
OF our Legislators. are crowned in The Nigh
ty rush OF zeal that inspires our Solons with
multitudinous expedients to blacken the
records of Congressional legislation
The resolutions, the acts, the speeches of
that national body might lead TO the belief
that the Government was located IN Tim
buctoo, were il not iha, the documentary
evidence we daily receive of this African
legislation are dated from Washington, in
the District OF Columbia.
Meanwhile, the white men who loaned
their money to the Government to supp ress
a gigantic rebellion, are alarmed at The on
inous delay in Congress TO secure them
even the interest OF the vast sans they so
literally advanced in the time of greatest
need. White merchants ask in vain for re
lief; white manufacturers do the best they
can and white laborers already look with
apprehension upon the numerous bands of
runaway blacks that daily invade The soil OF
Pennsylvania and threaten 10 enter into
competition with them in the various fields
of their occupations. The white citizens of
Pennsylvania will soon feel, in the increase
of their poor and county taxes, the addition
al burthens put upon them by the sudden
accession OF lazy and improyident colored
population.
The counties OF Delaware, Chester, Lam
caster are already overstocked with these
contFabands. We see them daily passing
through Harrisburg, vending their way
northern and westward, and there is no ex>
aggeralion ir saying that, ere long. in every
county of the Commonwealth, our white la
borers will meet runaway blacks face to
face in competition for employment. The
inevitable consequence of this competition
must and will be the degradation of labor,
and the reduction of wages; they will then
detect, when too late, the false 2ie,enses of
the Republican party, whose laudations of
'',he dignity OF labor" were bn. cheat TO
lure them from the ranks OF the Democratic
party. which alone has, ever since the Rev
oIu,ion, honestly protected white labor
against the constant encroachmenis OF the
asistocracy of wealth. The day is nci far
distant when the white citizens Of the North
will awaken, as if from an oppressive dream
10 the dreadful realities which surround
them, and will join in mass the white mans
party that is destined 10 hurl from power
The black mans pariy-now hurrying the
nation into anarchy and irreirievable ruin.
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Meeting Of the Democratic Standing Com


At a meeting of the Democratic Standing
Committee of Columbia county, held in
3loomsburg, on Monday, May 9th 1862, il
was
Reso1Ued, That John G. Freeze of Column
ba county be- and with the consent of the
counties OF Montonr, Northum berIand and
Snyder, is appointed the Senaloria, Dele
gale from the Thirteenth Senatorial District
10 the Democratic State Convention, to meet
in the city OF Harrisburg, July 4lh 1862; and
that he be Instructed 10 support Hon. LEVI
l.. TATE OF Columbia county, for nomination
10 the Office of Surveyor General.
1t was also
Resoked, That Peter Ent of Columbia
county be, and with the conset of Montour,
Sullivan and Wyoming counties, is hereby
appointed ore of the Representative Dele
gates from the District composed OF the
above named counties, 10 the Democratic
State Convention, to meet in Harrisburg
July 4th 1862; and that he be Instructed TO
support Hon LEVI L. TATE OF Columbia co ;,
Tor nomination to the office of Surveyor
General
I On motion the following resolution was
adopted,
ResotDed, That we cordially approve of
the course OF our late Representatives in the
Stale Legislature, Col. Lew l.. TATE and
Hon GEO. S. TUTToN, aud believe that they
honestly, ably and faithfully represented
the wishes OF the Democratic party, and
merit the appreciation of every loyal citizen
10 the four counties of this Representative
District
On motion the meeting adjourned
VIM H. JACoBY. Chairman.
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EXECUTORS NOTICE.
Estate of Henry G. Miller, late o.
Hi67in finn dec'h

Estate OF Henry @. Miller, late Of
Nifin fwp., deed.
NOTICE is hereby gwen that letters tes-
lameutafy on The estate of Henry g
Muller, late OF Mifflin township, Columbia
couniy, deceased, have been granted by
the Register of said county, TO John II.
Heller, residing IN the township aud coun-
" aforesaid. Ali persons having claims or
demands against the estate of the dece-
denl are requested to present them TO the
Executor for settlement, and those indebted
10 the estate to make payment forthwith
TO The undersigned.
JOHN H. Heller, Executor.
Mifflin, May 7, ls62.-6i.
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REVIEW OF THE MARKET,
CAREFULLY CORRECTED WEEKLY
MaRRIED.

On the 18th of ApTil,by Rev, H. Hoffman,
MIR. j. w. SheIlhammer, % Miss Elizab eth
Evans, both of Luzerne co.
On the 22d inst, by the same, Mr. W.
Gouschall, OF Schuylkill CO., to Miss Z.
Wenu, OF Luzerne co
On the 26lh by the same, Mr. Solomon
Meyer, 10 Miss Sarah Thomas OF Luzerne
coanty.
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OUR PUBLIC DKBr.-Hon. Thaddeus Sic
vens recently stated on the floor of Con
gress, that our public debt, on the first of
July next, would be 5000 100000 He ike
wise informed The house that the expenses
OF the government at the present time
were SO, ,0O0, 900 day.
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STARTLING! BUT TRUE.-Ths voIun-
teers are brayipg the dangers si Fever,
Scurvy, Wounds and Cholera Many a
eaIIan, fellow will leave his bones 10 bleach
who by the aid OF HoIloway's Pills & Oint-
ment, would have reinrned 10 bis family
strong and healthy. Soldiers Try them
oniv 9s cents per Box or Pot 226.
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Maj Gen. e F. Smith, one of the COM
manders at the late battle ofShilok, died a
few days ago, OF dysenInry, at Savannah,
Tenn Gen Smith was one OF the best off,
GERS in the army, and his loss will no, be
easily supplied. He was PennsyIyanian
b. birth. son OF Or. Samuel B. Smish, Of
Philadelphia
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Kew Definitions.

Observation-Disclosures faith in
Greedy and Wendell Phillips as sound Uuion
men.
DIsLorALTY-To stand by the CousiiiD-
corpus, free speech, free press, sc.
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DIED.

In Anthony township Moniour CO. on.
the 18th OF April, Mr. Jacob Biddle, aged
about 65 years.
In Hughesvie, on Wednesday morning
Gen. Gersiom Biddle, in the 54,h year
OF his age
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NEW gsAEsRER slxOP.

Opposite HE Court House and ae1t door 10
Democrat Ofiss
THE unders' 'gred >pec'iuIly informs his
friends and customers thai he has opened
4 New Barber shop.
the Office ol the Columbia Drmocral where
he wIll be b=ppy 10 waIt upon all customers,
and irc-n loug experience and slrct alter
non to business, be hopes 10 merit and re-
ceiye liberal shar. of public patronage.
E3~ All things here done IN decenc; and
in order" THOMAS BROWN.
RIoomsh shnrg MArch 5 ls6E
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Mcclellan can easily obtain he applause
OF lhs sbolitionis.s- He may achieve noth-
ing in military matters. but il he viii run off
darosY or two from Virginia. he wilI be al
once as great General as Fremont is. Me-
CleIIan will find still grealer advantage ia
taking he negro msnia. He can STEAL as
much ns'hs pieass-. He and his friends
car pa@ke; the money. and still he viii
have hosts Of admirers and apoIogisis. who
viii insist on his lille 10 The highest military
and civil honors. although he may never
show by words or acss. any capacity in
war OF peace