Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1862-11-08
Coming to His Senses.

Col. Frank Blair, of Missouri, has at
las. come to his senses. He has all along
been the acknowledged leader Of the abo-
ition party and champion of all who op.
posed conservatism. He is q candidate
for re election to Congress, and has issued
an address to the citizens of st. Louis, in
which he boldly charges John @. Fremont
with having intended to overthrow the
government and TO make himself military
dictator" Col. Blair says that if his
iFremonts) ability he'd been equal to his
ambition and treason, he would doubtless
have accomplished his infamous design.-
He denouncos the abolitionists as privy to
the designs Of Fremont and favoring him
in his intentions. He declares himself op-
posed to revolutionists of every hue. He
denounces the policy that would arm the
negroes and prclaims himself thorough
conservative man.
When it is remembered that Col. Blair
is the brother of the Postmaster General
and has heretofore been in all the secrets
of State, we are startled at the charge he
brings against Fremont and his friends
for we are compelled to believe it to be
! true. We are confirmed in that belief
when we remember his sudden removal
from thr command of the Army Of the west.
We never did believe the cause of his reo
movaI was his extravaganza and embezzle
ment of public money, for we have wit
messed others who stole thousands to his
hundreds, who are either still in Office or
removed from one to another affordiug
better facilities for stealing and hiding
We are compelled to believe COL Blar's
charge, and that the Presidtnt removed
him from fear. But is it not an outra g
upon the people to reappoint such man
to a hhg and responsible position afford
ing him another opportunity to carry out
his traitorons designs upon the government:
Instead of high military command give
him rope--H. Wayne Iinses q. Union.
! CONTRIBUTIONS TO TEE ARMY. The
Columbia Democrat, of Bloomsbury, men
tions the circumstance of Mr.. Peter Ent
of Columbia County, having fOur sons il
the Union Army. This is doing we'll, tru
ly, but Mr.. Wesley Shannon, Of this plao
rather leads him yct-having four SC ms
Robert NJ, Samuel, ohm, and William ant
John Watson, bis sea law, in the rank:
and thinks it quite probable that q fittl
son, residing in Illinois, has gone W.
trust that Gods blessing may rest upoi
them all ard that they may be shielded b.
his omnipotenr hand, and permitted to re
, turn, as was the desire of the sons of ia
cob, from Egypt, to bless their parents il
old age.-Pi,kS'0n Ga7ttte.
ESsya Robert Coleman, proprietor Of III
Cornwell Furnace, Luzerne County, wa
drafted. One of his workmen volunteer
, cd as his substitute, and received $1,000
I with the guarantee from Alr. Colema
| that, in the absence OF the substitute, h!
family was to receive snm each wee
equal to tEst which he earned as labor
or. In addition to this sum, Mr.. Col
man stipulated to pay to the wife of tt
, man 4hus acting as substitute, the SUI
of $1,000, i'll case he should be killed
battle, or die by any Of the Diseases inc
&ent to the camp.
MRs. LINCoLN's SISTERS On Monda
= last we observed three beautiful ladit
promcuading Whitehall street, and wei
Informed that two of them were sisters
Mrs. President Abe Lincoln. The ladiG
we saw, we arc pleased to know, are sec
ond to none in patriotic devotion to tn
South. They reside in Selma, Alabama