The Talatchman,
BELLEFONTE, THURSDAY, JUNE 27.
‘ Here shall the press the people's rights main:
tain, ;
IInawed by party or unbribed by gaih ;
Pledged but to truth to liberty and law,
No favor sways us and no fear shall awe.”
ALEXANDER & MEEK, Editors and Publishers.
No Party Now.
And yet how strange that President Lin-
coln 8ull keeps the political axe in motion.
Day after day brings us intelligence of the
mighty work being done, by him in the re-
moval of Democratic office holders, to wake
room for some worshipper of the Chicago
Platform. He wields the political axe with
asmuch untiring energy, as he used to
wield the sharpened steel in felling the
mighty forest, and at the end of each day
he counts his victims equal in number to
the rails he used to split per diem. To this
we do not object, as we never expected any
thing else, and he has the right to do just as
he pleases, and at the end of thirty days
we will not be surprised not to find a single
Democrat holding a federal office. But we
do object to this constant cry of no party by
Republican newspapers, when every act of
their federal head gives it the lie. We ob-
ject to it becanse we hate duplicity, and
seorn the man who tells us one thing and
does another. If you are really in earnest
in saying there is no party, come straight
out and denounce the President for his par-
ty acts, then we will believe you and not
sooner. But (here is one party which shall
always exist, notwithstanding these at-
tempts to howl it into nonenity. It is that
party which favored liberty in the trying
days of '76. It is that party whose founder
penned the Declaration of Independence. —
Ttis that party which in the Congress of
1780, passed our present good old Constitu-
tion. It is that same party who have ever
supported this Constitution, and under
whose Administration our nation has enjoy-
ed such unparalleled prosperity. The par-
ty, in short, that has made this country all
that it was prior to Lincoln's election, and
the party that must rescue it from its threat-
ened destruction. Ir fine, it is the good old
Democratic party of our grandfathers, that
opposes northern Sectionalism in the shape
of Lincolnite Semi-Republican Abolitionism,
and that opposes southern Sectionalism in
the shape of Secession, and that knows no
North, no South, no East, no West, nothing
but our whole Country, the Union, one and
inseparable. This party, we hope we shall
never see go down, for with it goes repub-
lican government. It is made up of that
conservative clement, which alone, in a
government like this, is fitted to rule, and
when that element 1s crushed out, God save
the country. We have it plainly demon-
strated every day, that Republicanism can
not rule the nation, for just so soon as they
ct the control of the Government, every
thing goes wrong. Civil war at once com-
mences, and their efforts to quell rebellion
prove unavailing, and time will show that
in the end a Democratic Administration
aust settle and restore the country to what
it wag prior to the triumph of Republican-
ism. To those then, of the Republican par-
ty who now see the error in their creed, and
who favor the obliteration of party lines,
we would say that the best way of getting
rid of the odium of Republicanism is to sup-
port the one grand Union party—not any
new fangled concern gotten up by men who
have their own political aspirations in view,
but the good and true old Union party of
the past, and of the present—the Democrat-
ic party.
= —vveae-
* Consistencv.”
Party foelings were) But asthe people in-
buried in the ruing of tend re-electin, bt
Eumtor—let not vandalfHutchison, and Samuel
hand digturb the sacred{McWilliams being spo-
debris in trying to rouseyken of strongly for As-
them again, — Press. semblyman, there is no
uso getting hot on the
immaginad Union partys
— Preys.
“uch inconsistency as is to be seen in the
above extracts, is surely too palpable to go
unnoticed, and shows conclusively, the
course the opposition intend pursuing, to
maintain the ascendancy at the coming elec-
tion,
The editor of the Press was among the
first men in this county, to speak of a Union
ticket ; was among the first to raise the cry
of “no party,” and stl pretends to advocate
the ‘‘obliteration of party lines,” as will be
seen by the first quotation, while in the same
column, but in another article, he brings
out men to fill the most important offices
that will be vacant this fall, whow, our
readers know, to be two of the most
rampant Republicans in Centre county—the
last persons who would sacrifice the least
mate of their principles for any cause what-
over—men who advocate the doctrines
enunciated in the Chicago Platform, who
uphold them as the fundamental principles
for American Statesmen to steer by—men
who openly denounce and condemn Demo-
crats, snd everything that pertains to De.
mycracy, no difference, good or bad, it meets
with the samo fate at their hands.
Democrats, you can see new how this
grand “Union’’ project is to work. Yau
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can see {he kind of men to be placed on the Reaction. nation that it shall not be disrupted without Whe is 0 Blage! LouisviLLe, June23.—The Democrat statd
Union Ticket. You can have an idea what
the object is, and if you are willing to repu-
diate your party, to denounce the ever glo-
rious principles of Democracy, and vote for
Republican candidates from Alpha to Omega,
THEN you can belong to the great, the glori-
ous, the everlasting, overwhelming, never
fading “Union Party,” which is to be built
on the crumbling foundations of the Chicago
Platform, concocted only to deceive unsus-
pecting men.
The Republicans know that the doctrines
of their party have become 80 abhorrently
disgusting to the masses of the people, that
they would fain cloak their deceptive princi-
ples under a more honored name, did they
not know that their party was so hopelessly,
everlastingly dead, that even Gabriels trump
cannot resurrect it, they would be the last
men to offer a Union Ticket, and be willing
to divide the *‘spoils of office.”
a——n ly A Al Rp rere tt
Pennsylvania's Ragged Regiments,
Correspondents write from Washington
that the volunteers from Pennsylvania are
so poorly equipped in comparison with the
troops from other States that they are con-
tinually subjected to disparaging remarks.
Ono writer thinks the Keystone boys are in
danger of gaining an unenviable notriety as
the ** ragged regiments.” Much of the cloth-
ing is said to be wretched in qualily, and so
hastily tucked iogether that it will fall to
picces after afew weeks wear. Thin and
well-ventilated blankets, shoes with white
pine soles, and overcoats of four different
colors for the same regiment are reported
among the contributions to the comfort and
ornamentation of the men who have left their
homes in Pennsylvania to peril their lives in
defence of the Union. Every citizen knows,
from personal observation, that the regiments
from other States that have passed through
Philadelphia are very far supperior to our
own in respect to equipment. Yet no State
has been more liberal than Pennsylvania in
appropriating money for flitting out the vol-
unteers. Who is responsible? Who are
the parties engaged in swindling the State,
subject ing the volunteers to privations and
exposing them to the jeers or the pity of their
countrymen? The men who can devote
themselves to such nefarious business at
such a crises merit the severest punishment
and snould be pilliored in the popular mem-
ory. It is asserted that broken down politi-
cians, nnscrupulous adventurers and greedy
sharpers have been permitted to take ‘“ eon-
tracts” for furnishing supplies of various
kinds. A blanket transaction from which
an ex-Buzzard reaped an enormous profit,
is a theme of public gossip. One of ourciiy
Commissioners figures as an ‘‘ agent” in
purchasing various articles, the bills for
which would hardly pass an honest scrutiny.
It is sufficiently evident from the large ex
penditure of the public money and the mis~
erable results, that there is wholesale swind-
ling going on on the part of somebody, and
that somebody ought to be ferretted out by
a regular investigation. The State is plun
dered at a time when every dollar is required
for the exigencies of the public service.—
The volunteer is robbed, because if his cloth-
fng gives out in a short time after he has
entered upon duty, he must procure a new
suit out of his monthly pay. As in many
cases, a portion of this pay is intended to go
towards the support of families left at home
wives and children, also, are made to suffer
by the infamous conduct of the charpers who
have contracted to furnish the supplies.—
And this isnot all. The shabby appearance
of our citizen soldiery reflects disgrace upon
our State, and subjects us to the charge of
niggardly parsimony, while, at the same
time, we are conscious that we have done
our whole duty in urging and approving the
most liberal provision for the benefit of our
volunteers. There is no use of endeavoring
to screen the scoundrels who have engaged
in this most disreputable business. Public
indigriation has beed kindled. Our State
pride has been sorely wounded. The volun-
teers are waking their complaints heard.—
An ivestigation is imperatively demanded,
and if we cannot obtain one at this time, we
shall insist upon a rigid inquiry at the next
meeting of the Legislature. In any event
if legal proceedings will not reach the cul.
prits, the storm of pubiic execration will.—
Swindling by contract may be passed over
as a thing of custom ir peacefull times ; but
when the very existence of the Government
is at stake, and the libertios of the people
are in peril, the man who undertakes to
prosecute such a game displays 2 baseness
of heart ard & criminality for which no pun.
ishmeul could be too severe. The future
historian, writing of this terrible epoch,
will, doubtless, give due credit to the ‘‘ rage
ged reigments ’’ for their promtitude, disci~
pline and endurance, in particulars they may
possibly stand comparison with the « ragged
regiments ”’ of *76; but what will he say
of a powerfall and wealthy Statc, filled with
patriotic and enthusiastie people, compelling
her soldiers to suffer all sorts of privations,
while a pack of hungry and sorded specula~
tors are waxing fat onl plunder of the
treasury 2—=Sunday Mercury,
ese.
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ber of this supurb publication is on our
‘table teeming with its usual variety of prac-
tical information and attractive literary pro-
ductions. The following proposition is well
timed, and will no doubt be responded to as
its merits deserve. The publishers say :
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for One Dollar. 'This volume comprises
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contain seven steel engravings, six of the
large extension fashion plates, and all the
winter cloak patterns.’
In some quarters the effort is atill being.
made to convince the South that the North
is still swarming with traitors to the Govern.
ment. From the clamor kept up about
treason and traitors, persons at a distance
into whose hands such papers fall, might
very readily infer that a serious division of
sentiment exists in every Northern locality,
when such is not the fact. The treason
buaters really furnished comfort to the ene-
my by their misrepresentations, and were
themselves doing mischief to the cause they
professed to serve with extra zeal.
In noticing the great reactioi ih public
sentiment in reference to this treason busi-
nesss, the Journal of Commerce remarks
that some weeks ago the word *¢ treason’
had acquired a new and broad signification
in tho..columns of republican papers. It
was bandied about with a freedom that was
appalling. The liberty of the press,”
which here means the right to call any man
a scoundrel, a thief or a traitor that you
dare take that liberty with, this liberty of
the press has the freest exercise. The rule
fas been ¢¢ if any man differs from you a3
to the propriety of the war, call him a trai-
tor ; it any man says there is a christian
south of Virginia, call him a traitor ; if any
man does anything to calm the public ex-
citement, call him a traitor; if any man
says this is an anti-slavery war, call him a
traitor; if any man says this war is not
a war for thegextermination of slavery, call
him a traitor.” ?
In short, whatever is proposed, whatever
is advocated that does not meet the views of
the war newspapers, is treason. There are
exceptions it is true. It depends very much
on who says the thing. Thus, for a Repub.
lican editor to propose to ‘‘ supersede the
President,” is not treason, For a man of
the same sort to say that General Scott is
too old and too slow, and that we want
John C. Fremont, or some such man in his
place, and that we want Pennsylvanians to
march on Harper’s Ferry without waiting
for Washington orders—this is not objec-
tionable—for an out and out abolition sheet to
print daily is its head-line that ‘‘ the Con-
stitution of the United States is a covenant
with Hell,” is not treason. For Republican
papers to argue that in war times the letter
of the Constitution is to be disregarded, and
the President of the United States ought to
assume and exercise the powers of a dicta-
tor, is not treason.
We are not censors of the press or pecple,
but we record with hopefulness the change
that is coming over our people in this re.
spect, and the disgust which good men
everywhere are begining to feel at the a-
mount of vituperation which has been made
use of. One of the New York papers a few
days since devoted an editorial to rousing
the North to vengeance, even to wiping. out.
in blood the insults of the Southern news-
papers in calling us bad names— utterly
forgetful that it had been for years steadily
calling slavery ¢¢ the sum of all villianies,”’
and charging every slaveholder with being
guilty of a violation of every command in
the decalogue !
But with time comes reason.
quers all things The most bitter vengeance
will finally fail. The strongest passions
sleep calmly after a little. The more terri-
ble the tide of the flood, the more swift is
the ebb. Already, though violent and pas=
sionate men continue to call names and
abuse men’s reputations, already the effect
is past, and the argument that a good cause
requires no such assistance, is begining to
be felt. Let not the reaction be too strong.
Coming, as it is now very rapidly, the den-
ger which experience teaches is, that in re-
actions men too freequently lose all sense
of right, and only remember their own
wrongs. The inventor of the guillotine is
said to have suffered by it. The promoters
of the maddest Republicanism in France,
went in hordes to the block. But we trust
that the American mind will reach its old
balance-point without those great reactions
which ordinarily occur in such cases.— Pat«
riot and Union.
Time con
eee
Licensed Treason,
The special Correspondent of the New
York Tribune, giving an account of the ad-
vance of the army under Gen. Patterson, in-
to Virgninia, gives vent to the following sen-
timents:
The sight of the army crossing the Poto-
mac was very grand and impressive, as well
for the scene itself—in the midst of the most
lovely landscape, glowing with richest vers
dur, under a clear sky and bright. summer
sun—as for the great occasion so remarkabl
and memorable in its character. Was it
not, the Army of Freedom entering into the
land of Bondage, to proclair liberty for ali
men ? I trust so; for, if nei, it was only
an idle and a worthless pageant, and wiil
be a burning shame on the free men of the
Free North. Yes, freedom for the divine
Humanity! If this War were for anything
short of realizing a perfect equality of
rights for every human being, it us the most
foolish crusade, or the direst butchery, that
this earth was ever stained withal, On
trinmph of freedom over slavery rests the
honor and the fate of this nation. We
achieved national liberty through the Revolu-
tion ; we m=z: now achieve individual liber-
ty for all men in the nation, to make usa
people the worthy standard-bearer of that
holy cause which we claim to have espoused
for all the world. ‘
This war 1s for the Union and the enforce-
ment of the Yayws— Republicans have said so
—Democrats have said so—nine-tenths of
the people have said so. It is not a war for
the subjugation of the South, for the de.
struction or for the liberation of slaves. If
it was for any of these purposes the Admin.
{ caused by love for the Union and a determ,-
isitration could not sustain jt for 4 single
Mmenth., The unanimiy Or wu. North 1g
a struggle for its preservation, When the
Davises sud Beauregards issue proclama-
tions exciting the Southern people to resist
the invading Northern hordes who are com-
ing to despoil them of their posesions and to
liberate their slaves, the North tvith ome
voice pronounces them attrocious falsehoods.
Our (Generals assure the Southern people
that they do not advance irto their territory
to violate private rights but to put down
treason. E.ery where the same voice is
heard declaring that the war is for the Gov~
ernment, for the Union, for the laws, against
the insurrectionary violence of Southern se-
cessionists, and not against slavery. Yet
with full knowledge of the object of the Gov
ernment and of the army; this correspondent
writes and the T'ribune prints the attrocious
declaration that it this war is simply for the
purpose of sustaining the Government or
subduing rebellion, ahdnot for the liberation
of the slaves, ** it 1s the most foolish crusade
or * the direst butchery that this earth was
ever ‘stained withal.”
If any Demderatic paper bad ventured to
use such language as this, or permitted any
correspondent to do so—that this war to sus-
tain the Government is most a foolish cru-
sade and the direst butchery—it would be
pronotinced traitorous by the whoie Abolition
pack, and consigned to the tender mercies of
a mob provided with halters. But coming
rom such an orthodox, Union loving, law-
respecting sheet as the Tribune it is of
course eminently justand patriotic.— fz,
nl pm mr
Wanted —A Battle:
The great want of the American pttiple,
just now, says the St. Louis Republican;
seems to be a battle. Anxiety sits uptn
almost every breast as time passes, and
morning and evening alternate with each
other, and no news of a battle comes to
reward the longing expectancy. Armics
stand arrayed against armies; the fife and
drum sound throughout tke land ; forests of
bayonets gleam and glisten from the Kenne-
bec to to Pascagoula, and no fighting wor-
thy thename! For three months the nation
has been immersed up to its very eyes in
military preparations and camp life, but no
considerable conflict has thus far occurred.
To be sure thers have heen skirmishes on
the frontiers of the * seat of! war,” small
episodes of slaughter to relieve the ennui of
drilling and lounging around in tents, and
little guerilla incidents to keep up appears
ances. Two or three Colonels have been
killed, a few hundred promising young vole
unteers sent to their long hoaes, and, it may
be, as many mare cripled for life. Quite a
respectable list of widows, and orphans and
bereaved parents has been made up already,
and so far the war has been gloriously excit-
ing. But pshaw ! this will not do! We
must have a terics of battles—real, gigantic
battles—and public sentiment demands that
we have them right away. The popular
voice insists that there be no further child’s
play about it.
The people want a battle. The troops on
either side are aching to get into the brant
and thickest of the fight, and have the noble
of thie patriotic causes they espouse. They
would all esteean it a blessed duty to die for
their country. What inhumanity to longer
delay the conflict ! Why not at once bring
the serried hosts together and let the scenes
| of carnage, of reveling in fraternal blood
| begin ? Give rein, then, to the roused pas-
sions of human nature, let the phalanx march
forward, bring the contending columns to
the fild, cry havoc and let slip the dogs of
war! A grand and magnificent’ battle be
it, wherein the interested gaze may rest
from daylight to nightfall upon clouds of
mingled smoke and dust, through which at
intervals the desperate soldiers are seen rush-
ing in wild confusion upon one another,
thrusting their bayonets right and left,
stumbling over the bodies of the slain and in
| turn taking their places with them on the
rolls of death. We must have no child's
i play we repeat. Let the cannon roar—
speeding devastation in the path of its iron
messengers—and the sharp crack of an hun.
dred thousand rifics keep up its fearful de-
|
‘and indeed is a handsome affair.
the | ly.
tonations, Then we shall have a brilliant
battle, and with what loving anxiety woth-
ers and sisters and daughters and kindred
| will await the detailed reports of the courage
| and heroism of the men in arms! It will
| solace their hours of affliction to know that
those they mourn gave no quarter to the
| enemy, but died bravely in the cause of lib-
id We insist that we bave a real, big bat-
e.
| tenet Serres
MoNuueNT.—From a Lancaster paper we
| copy the following item :
| Mr. Louis Haldy is furnishing a fine mon~
| ument, eighteen teet in height, with a squar,
| column surmounted by an urn and wreathe
and will be erected over the remains of the
late Mr. Reynolds, father of W. F. Reynolds,
| and T. R, Reynolds, Esqrs., of this place.
The monument above referred to has been
erected in the Presbyterian burying ground,
I It 1s some -
thing of a family monument, bearing the
names of the deceased members of the Ee
It is a lasting tribute to the dead who
sleep beneath its shadows, and alike reflects
credit on the surviving members of the fama
ily, and the artist who designed it.
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privilege of shedding their blood in behalf !
By no effort of our political cnémies, ny
the ‘Chambersburg Valley Spirit, can the
blame for the severance of the bonds of the
Union and all the ruin, it hs brotizht upori
the country. be fastened on the Democratic
party. Their creed never ¢uld, and ney:
er would have brought such disaster an
disgrace upon the nation. We are most
appy to fling in the teeth of our political
opponents the opinion of the greatest states-
men that ever lived — Henry Clay —as to the
causes that would eventually produce a dis-
solution of the American Union. >
How sadly true, and how prophetic, are
these words of Henry Clay, spoken, in the
United States Senate on the 7th of February
1839. They certainly canntt be applied to
the Democratic party. The triumph of sec-
tionalism, as Clay oie, has beet the
downfall of the Republic and every man
who voted for Lintoln voted deliberately ant
knowingly for a dissaliition of the Union; of
there is no truth in the words of Clay—he
said :
«¢ Sir; T arm not in the habit of speaking
lightly of the posdibility of dissolving this
happy Union. The Senate knows thatI
have deprecated allusions, on ordinary occa-
sions, to that direfull event. The country
will testify that if there be any thing in the
history of my public career worthy of recol-
lection, it ie the truth and sincerity of my
ardent devotion to the lasting preservation.
But we should be false in our allegiatice if
we did not discriminate beiween the imagi-
nary and the real dagers by which it way
be assailed. Abolitiomsm should no longer
be an imaginary danger. :
The Abolitionists, let me suppose, succeed-
ed in their present aim of uniting the inhab-
1tants of the free States, as one man, against
the inhabitants of the slave States. Union
on’one side will beget union on the other
and this process of reciprocal consolidation
will be attended with all the violent prejudi-
Ges, embittered passions and implacable an-
imosities which ever degtdsd and deformed
human nature.
* *
« One section wil! stand in menacing and
Hostile array against the other ; the collisicn
of upinion will be quickly followed by the
clash of arms. I will not é&ttempt to de-
scribe scenes which now happily lie conceal -
ed from our visw. Abolitionists themselves
would shrink back in dismay and horror at
the contemplation of desolated fields, conffa-
grated cities murdered inhabitants and the
overthrow of the fairest fabric of human gov-
ernment that ever rose to animate the hopes
of civilized man. .
Es ete
THE LATEST NEWS.
From Missouri.
St. Louis, June 23. —The steamer J. C.
Swan, arrived at the Arsenal, from Boone-
ville, at 2 p. m., to-day, bringing 300 troops
from Jeflerson City, and the wounded from
Booneville, nine in nu:nber, and one died on
the way down.
Col. Blair arrived in the Swan, and will
proceed to Washington to-morrow, via Cir-
cinnati. He states the number of State
troops killed at Booneville is not less than
40, and thinks the numbet was fhuch more.
About 5,000 United Stdtes troops concen-
trated at Booneville, ettibracing thie Iowa
troops undef Col. Bates; the Kansas forces
utider Col. Spence, #4 Gen. [iyoft in coin-
mand of the United Stdtes Regulars and
Missouri Volunteers. ;
From the south west: we learn that Col.
Shield’s regiment was within three days’
march of Springfield and Col. Coleman's one
day’s march behind. 3
Col. Brown’s regiment left Rolla this
morning for the same destination, and Col.
McNeil's regiment left this morning for Rol-
> * x - *
*
a.
The latest from the whereabouts of Gov-
ernor Jackson states that he was joined at
Warsaw by the State troops that attacked
Captain Cook's command at Cole Camp,
and pushed rapidly on southward.
A letter from south east Missouri, to the
Democrat, says, that Gen. Walker is organ.
izing troops in nearly all the counties in
that portion of the State to co-operate with
the Arkansas force, now at Pocopantes,
Tennessee.
A large number of Secessionists from Mis-
souri are already congregated, and saftns
have been taken up White river to them.
The Mayor of Lexington, a violent seces-
sionist, has left the city, and his successor,
a good Union man, proclaims his determina-
tion to preserve law and order, and to pro-
tect the rights of all classes of citifens, in
which he is sustained by the almost unani-
mous voice of the people.
It is thought that Gen. Lyon will proceed
further to the southwest, where, in conjuric+
tion with Col. Siegel’s command at Spring-
fleld, he will invite a battle with Ben Me.
Cullough, or any one else in command of {He
Arkansas troops:
Repoits from St. Louis.
St. Louis, June 23.—Half a car load of
powder was seized yesterday at Tipton, atid
about fhe same amount of lead.
The Kepublican leartis that General Price
tras dt Lexingtoti off Friday dnd is in ill
health, :
Troops were flocking rapidly to the State
standard. General Raines had arrived in
advance of some 1,500 from the sodthwest.
It is probable that 4,000 State troops will
be concentrated at Lexington before General
Lyon, who is understood to be at Boone
ville; awaiting reinforcements, can reach
there.
Between three atid four thousand troops
had collected at Jackson county, but much
disaffection existed among them ; some ob-
jecting to serve out of the county, while
others were anxious for a fight and ready
to go anywhere. Finally, over half ot the
number threw down their arms and went
home to attend to their farms, The balance
proceeded towards Lexington.
It is thought that one or both of the Kan-
sas Regiments, now stationed on the border
of that State, with Captain Prince's regulars
at Kansas City, will come down the Missou-
ri river in boats, and reach Lexington simul-
taneously with the forces under Gen. Lyon.
- Captain Steele, of the United States caval-
ry, resigned at St. Joseph, on the I8th inst.,
and left for Virginia. :
Governor Jackson, with about six hun.
dred men, passed Camp Cole on the 20th
inst., pushing southward, probably for Are
kansas.
The State troops have evacuated Lexiig-
ton and are marching towards Arkansas,
5,000'strong. 1t is said that General Price
ig at their head, but other reports say thst
he resigned previous to'the battle at Boon:
ville, and still others that he ia very sick at
exington.
The second regiment of Iowa volunteers,
under Col. Bates, joined Gensral Lyon's
command at Booneville yesterdey
that a lot of letters, percussion caps and car
triges for the Soitth hive been scized at Jefi-
etsonville. .
The same papbt says there is a great
probability that Mr, Brcd'unridge will not
claind his seat at the extra session of Con-
gress, and it is the unanimous wish of his
constituents that he shall not.
A speccial despatch to the Charleston
Courier says that only one in eigct shells
thrown by Sawyers gun to Sewell’s Point
burst and the gunner at Aquia Creek says
that he was Jately in the employ of the
Government §iilling bombs, which he did
with sawdust and sand. The shells fell
harmlessly among thom.
NEWS SUMMARY.
St. Louie, June 21.—The Demccrat bas a
special despatch from Syracuse, ahout twen-
ty-five miles south of Booneville, which says
that an expedition of nearly cne thousand
sirong, with fout pieces of artillery, under
Capt. Totten, of the regular service, left
B. 01eville on Wednesday hight; and reach-
el this place at 10 A. M., yesterday.
Gov. Jackson, with abort 500 ren, drrived
here on Tuesday, and after impressing prop-
erty of both friends and foes, biting afraid of
pursuit, suddenly left yesterday forenoon,
proceeding Southward towards Warsaw.—
Our forces haye gone forward tc-day, but
thers is little hope of overtaking the fleeing
party. 2
A’battle took place al sunrise on Tuesday
morning, between 800 Union Home Guards,
under Captain Cook, near the town of Cole
Camp, and a large number of Secessionists
from Warsaw and the surrounding country,
in which 15 Guards were killed, 20 wounded,
many of them severely, and 30 prisoners
were tiken.
Most of the Guards were in a large barn
when the firing began, but they immediate-
ly sprung to arms, and ’tis said, killed forty
of the attacking party before being overpow-
ered by superior numbers, but nearly all of
them finally escaped and are ready to join
our foreés to dispute the passage of the State
troops. ;
Capt. Cook reached he:e this mourning in
disguise. Ie says not over half his force
was arméd, and that not more than two hun-
dred participated in the fight. Ie hastened
torward to overtake and consult with Capt
Totten.
BarTisore, June 23.—A gentleman, just
arrived from Frederick, says that on Satur~
day;at noon, the advance guard of Col. Stones
column was at Point of Rocks, moving to-
ward Haiper's Fercy, and Major General
Patterson’s columns had passed through
Greencastls, goin in the same difection. No
doubt was entertained in the vicinity that
Harper's Ferry would be occupied to-day by
Federal troops. The Government has pos-
sess on of the telegraph lines, and parmite
nothing to be transmitted relative to the
movements of trcops in that vicinity. Our
informant also learned that the report of the
hanging of Colonel Bowman and Mr. Chase,
at Martinsburg, was current there yesterday
morning, but was ascertained to be incers
rect.
The First Wisconsin, Fourth Connecticut,
and Eleventh Pennsylvania Regiments, are
one mile further on, and the Second and
Eighth Pennsylvania Regiments are twelve
miles below, on the Sharpsburg ternpike.—-
The Yiftesrith ahd Sixtcenth Pennsylvanid
Regiments marched on Thursday night. —
The Twenty-fourth Pennsylvania Regiment
are on their march to join them, The des-
tination of this column is the Maryland
Heights. opposite Harper's Ferry.
Mr, Alvey, the Secessionist, who was Tfr-
rested at Williamsgort, has been taken hencs
to Washington.
Harrissure, June 23.—There has Leen an
unusual excitement about the War and Ex
ecutive Departments to-day, consequent up-
on the reception of the news that Cul. Wal
lace was hemmed in at Cumberland by 20,
000 Kebels, and that all escape for that gals
lant officer was cut off, except by rétrearing
into Bedford county, Pennsylvaitid. Orders
wore immediately issited to Col. Biddle’s
Rifle Regimeni, Col. Simmons’ Infantry
Regiment, and CampbelV’s Battery, consist-
ing of ten field pieces, with the necessary
supply of borses and ammunition, to prepare
to leave to-night at eleven o’clock.
The arms, ammunition, and equipments
were issusd to the men this afternoon, and
each man was provided with a goodly supply
of rations. Their ¢lotbing isin excellent ora
der. They will go on the Pennsylvania Cens
tral as far as Hifiotingdon, and thence to
Hopewell, on the Broad Top Railroad. From
the latter place, they march either to Bedford
or Rainsburg, a dis'suce of between forty
and fifty miles, through 2 cool country, at
the bade of the Allegheny. Each man is
thoroughly equipped, armed, and furhished
with five days’ provisions.
Wranborie, June 24. —A horrible acei-
dent ocourred at Wyandotte, Kansas, yes-
terda y, about 10 o'clock, A. M.,; by the falls
ing in of the walls of two buildings and part
of a third, bu fying the inmates, some forty
person. The buildings were some four ato-
ries high, situated on the Levee, and having
been used as the bead quarters of the First
Regiment of Kansas Volunteers. Yesterday
Capt. Haines with a company of 40 men ens
tered the building, for the purpese of drill-
ing, preparatory to being received into the
United States service, when the centre hall
of the building suddenly gave way, plunging
the whole company beneath the ruins, A
number were intsantly killed, and one, a
German, iame unknown, died shortly after
being liberated. One man bad both legs
and arms broken. Twelve or fifteen others
were slightly injured. Some escaped with«
out a bruise. The loss by the destruction of
the building is not known.
WasrINGTON, Jute 25.— The Agent of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Martinsburg
arrived here this morning, and reports great
destruction of the property of the company
there by the Rebels, Forty-eight locomo«
tives, and a large number of coal and other
cars were surrounded by piles of wood and
sét on fire. All the perishable portions of
this property has been consumed, and the
iron damaged perhaps beyond repair,
The large hotel there, occtnied by H. B,
Carpentér, was with great d:fficulty saved
front the conflagration, A gentleman states,
a8 80, that he and Martin Mechanic Edwards
were arrested and carried before Gen. John
son, for trying to stop the destruction of
property. The Agént says there are about
five hundred Rebel troops at Matinsburg and
ic vicinity.
The War Departinsnt have discovered that
female Secessionists in Washington are car<
rying on a regular correspondence with Beauw-
regard by way of Mount Vernon.
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