It is a notable circumstance that the rebel leaders are now making prodigious efforts to disarm all their own citizens, by a compulsory calling in of all their firearms. Though the blind put forth is, that the measure is prompted by the scarcity of arms, and it is given out that they will be paid for (in Confederate scrip,) it is very evident that it springs from a determination to render the people as helpless as possible for the purpose of preventing them from orignating counter-revolutions. The Richmond usurpers, while stoutIy denying abroad the existence of a spark of Unionism, either latent or patent, nevertheless take good care to act at home on the very sound theory that a very deadly hostility to them is rapidly developing, and that the safe plan is to render this hostility as unoperative asa they can.
Sunbury American, Sunbury, PA