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tain
Unawed by party or unbribed by gain;
Pledged but to truth to liberty and law,
No favor sways us and no fear shall awe.”
C. T.
<1 AigR aves; } Editors and Publishers,
Delegate Elections.
The same good old Democratic party of
the past, which has always been in favor of
sustaining the Union and Constitution of
Those who advocate and maintain the ry
of the people of all sections of the Unfon
under our present Constitutjon ; those who
are anxious to perpetuate this, the best
government in the world. and handgt down
to their children, and their children’s child-
ren untarnished, tothe end of time ; those
who oppose fanaticism in the North and se-
cession in the South, as the great evils of the
times in which our lot is cast, and the pow-
erful engines which are fast destroying our
cherished government ; those who afocate
the Democratic and conservative doctrines
of the great founders of our government
first promulgated by the illustrious WasmH-
INGTON, perpetuated and handed down to us
by JerrERSON and Jackson ; those who
desire that PEACE, HAPPINESS, PROSPERITY,
and UN10oN should take the place of civil
war, discord, disunion, and the humiliating
spectacle of a down trodden and 4X RIDDEN
people, will meet on Saturday, the 24th day
August, in ‘their respective Townships
d Boroughs, at the usual places of hold-
our fathers and the enforcement of the rr
number of delegates to which they are enti
tled, whose duty it shail be to meet in Coun-
ty Convention at the Arbitration Room, in
the Borough of Bellefonte, on Tuesday Eve-
ning, the 27th inst., (Court week) at 7
o'clock, P. M., to-nominate candidates to bo
voted for at the general election. 3
+ By Order Stand. Com.
Bend Good Delegates.
Democrats of Centre County, the time is
near at hand when it will be your duty to
send men to represent you in County Con-
vention, to nominate candidates for the sev-
cral offices to ‘be filled this Fall. It perhaps
is useless for ug to'urge upon you the ne-
cessity of selecting your very best men to
thus represent you, a8 we have no doubt
that the events'that are now transpiring in
our unhappy country, have fully aroused
you to a sense of your duty.
then, fellow Democrats, all little party ani-
mosities and jealousies, and send in to our
Convention, men who can not be swayed by
mere pettyfogging politicians. Send men
who will consult the best terest of the
party in preference to men pledged to the
suppor t of some particular indivi who
happen to be their friends, and con-
fident we will thus get a ticke st w
have ever had in this County, hic!
every Democrat can cordially t#not
only this but one which hundre Repub-
licans, who now see the ruin that Republican
rule is sure to bring upon us, will gladly
support, in preference to any that that de-
funct organization can get
Throw aside
Union ‘$6 bad, let them vote for Democratic
candidates, and we can assure them they
will be woting for Union men. :
eee A A
The Church and the War,
If there is one thing more painful than
another in the present aspect of onr unhappy
country, it is thesposition of the clergy, who
have joined in the public - clamor of war.
We make no distinction bt n the North
and the South in this respect. The awful
responsibility which rests upon the acknowl-
edged guides of the consciences of nen
will be felt hereafter when calmer moments
of reflection come over them, That in too
many instances it has proceeded from mo-
tives of personal ambition rather than mista-
ken patriotism, cannot be doubted. The
opportunity affofded by a pulpit an an
audience tg become a leader iff a gif pub-
lic demogsti ation, presents temptaffons dif-
ficult to resist 4 and the tempigiiplh once
yicla#d to, the unhappy victim 16888 reason
arff@judgment. The facility wit! old
Bply truths are forgotten ofexmplained
aWly, the cagdihess with whiclktests are
hufited up in the Old Testament by way of
justification of violence, the terrible ingenu-
%y with which the words of the Saviour and
His apostidfifiwe distorted into phrases of
warlike encouragement, the blessings which
are poured upon the warmakers, the pro-
found silence of the bitter denunciation
which is visited on peace makers,—all these
things are characteristic of the course of too
many of the clergy in all sections of the
land.
Had a different course been pursued by
the clergy generally, what an amount of
good the church might have performed in
these dismal times. Its holy mission of
peace was designed for just such days
as these, God never charged it with the
duty of stirring men up to conflict. He has
provided other means for that. Govern~
| ments and authorities are the divine institu.
[tions for wielding the sword of justice, and
there was enough of the spirit of war, blood-
shed, and violencesin the land, for all desira-
ble purposes. The mission of the church is
to be the promoter of peace ; to calm the
minds of men ; to mortify human passions
by suggesting the duties of the christian ;
to be ready at any moment when the oppor-
tanity shell offer, to step in between con.
tending parties and reccive on itself the
blessings pronounced on the maker of peace.
Let us hope for better things hereafter and
for good growing out of so much passion. It
cannot be but that the men who have for-
gotten the words of peace so long, will,
when the excitement passes, finds their own
consolation in returning to them. For the
Cromwell times, when every deed of vio-
lence was justified by some flaming passage
from God's dennnciations of Egypt and Chal-
dea, or the prayers of David. ;
A very remarkable suggestion was made
by a
style it prayers in the churches of the
belligerent clergy. It was this —that "al-
most all the prayers which we hear, relating
to the condition of the country, aré address.
ed to the God of Battles, while ‘the Prince
of Peace is almost wholly ignored. Wer
the clergy to address their petitions to Him,
ger.
article stati
i @itor of the Doylestown
ibel, a verdict of guilty
the libel being that the edi-
. Black a secessionist and
Boicia Stand a trai g this case as a precedent,
Deme u are told by Abolition Re- | there i for any number of libel
public 1tafs your duty to forget par- suits on F the faithful and good
ty ginciple patriots and Union| Citizens , because they could not go in
loving men e doctrinics you have blindfoled, without remonstran into a
5 ge you ever upheld
principles that wasWital to the existence of
this Government ? Have you ever supported
issues that were opposed to any part of the
Constitution ? if not, why should you now,
at the order of a sectional party, repudiated
your own ideas of right and forsake the only
panty that will ever bring peace: and pros.
petity to our distracted country. You bat-
tled manfully during the last campaign, for
the Constitution and the Union, but went
down neath the fearful waves of fanaticism.
You fought nobly for the nghts guaranteed
you by the fonnders of this Republic, but
were overwhelmed by the hideous doctrines
of Abolitienism, and now the country is
reaping the reward of the triumph of the
Republican party. It is to you Democrats,
that our country must look for support, and
you alone can rescue it from the desolation
that now awaits it.
Stand firm, then, though the Abolition
Republicans denounce you as *traitors’ for
keeping up your party orgamzation. Heed
them not—they are only unprincipled men
who seek place and power, though they hurl
at you the bitterest epithets their revengeful
minds can originate. Labor on. Your du-
ty Bg yourselves, your God, and your coun-
.ty demand it; and if you vroul® 1k a rec-
ord that will ngver fade, and a name
+ that will never We forgotten, stand firm for
the principles of Democracy, the principles
of WASHINGTON, JEFFERSO d Jackson.
Hold your Township mecti Elect your
Delegates to the Osunty @emvention, and
instruct these delegates to vote fer none but
true « Detnocrats, and when the ticket is
formed, the. Republicans can cay if there
shall be a Union ticket or not. If they wa ut
ferocious wir, under the name of enforcing
the laws, have been denounced as secession-
ists, traitors, &c. Now, as treason is a
capital crime, it stands to reason that to
it, merely from political animosity, or to
damage him or his business, is a highly ac-
countable offence, and if the perpotrators
are not taught this expericnce, it will be
because they are treated much more for-
bearingly than they treat others.
EER a
A Brown Republican orator told the citi-
zens of our town last fall, that, “ seventeen
men and a cow ”’ had nearly scared the Vir-
ginians to death, and that 75,000 Northern
men would lick these ‘* cowardly Southern.
ers before breakfast?”
This Brown gentleman has proven him-
self to be an ASS tute prophet with a slight
variation, By refering to the procecdings-of
the gentlemen who are running the machine
at Washington now, it seems they want 500,-
000 men and $500,000,000 and probably five
years to complete the job. We wonder if the
Brown gentleman has engaged in the scare ?
—Clearfield Republican.
A strange question friend Republitan to
ask a :sensible community. . Why, Mr.
Brown isin Bellefonte now, and intends re-
maining here. H e goto war! Nonsense.
A handfull of snow will drown the fire in the
infernal regions when Biniy Brown goes to
scare the Southencrs,
A dog that barks will never bito,
A bragging man ’s afraid to fight.”
— AP.
Though we stand alone, give us the right.
We want no popularity which docsnot spring
from an appreciation of our love and practice
of right and justice. :
—— ttl AA AP pe reit.
Where are the good times promised by
the Republicans last fall 2 #cho angwers—
gotle to the-#—woods.
present we have had too much of the style of
B d some days since, on the present
e case of Henry
charge a man with it who is not guilty of
SARI 7
—
A Frank and Manly Article.
i ® * Weare engaged a
bitter, bloody and devastating civil war,
with all the resources of both parts of the
nation rapidly becoming involved in it. Our
duty to ourselves to civilization, to
man and to God, demands that we task
our utmest: wisdom and forecast in esti-
mating the objects of this war aright. Nay,
more ; that duty demands of us not merely
that we should ascertain the rightfulness of
its objects, but also that we should have an
assured moral conviction that the right
means are used to accomplish those objects.
If one were to state the rightful objects of
this war to be the preservation of the capi-
tal of the United States, and the vindication
of the authority of the Union againsi the
doctrine of State Secession, no reasonable
man could dissent from the proposition.—
The vindication of that authority and the
restoration of the seceded States to the Un~
ion are one and the same thing. % *
If there is a reasonable probability that
war will do it, the means are appropriate to
the end, and the end itself is a right one. If
the military subjection of the South is not
probable, or, if being probable, it is not
likely to be followed by a state of things,
which will again make such a system as the
American Union a practicable government,
then the means are not ‘appropriate to the
end, and the end should be sought in some
other mode. y
With regard to the first’ of these condi-
tions—the probability of the military coer-
cion of the South—opinions may differ. The
public mind has been so poisoned with de-
liberate inculcation of contempt for our ad-
versaries and their resourses, that even the
Government has been driven to the sacrifice
of lives which the public could ill spare, and
whose private loss is irreparable.” This has
been done, apparently, in sheer delusion as
to the power of the enemy ; for there was
certainly but one important man in office in
the nation, and he the very man on whose
judgment both the Government and the peo-
ple should have implicitly relied, who is now
known not to have shared that delusion.—
Whether the North ' can ultimately reduce
the South to submission, 1s a military ques-
tion, on which it would ill become mere civ-
ilians to express a confident opinion, In
all the resources of war we are the superi-
ors ; in'courage and in military capacity the
inhabitants of the two sections are probably
equal, But resources, courage and military
shill arenot all that are needed to overrun
| and hold in subjection so vast a country as
the seceded Stales, if the peopls of that coun-
try are united and determined. That they
have become united and: determined, is ap-
parent; and it is only encouraging a mis:
chievous and fatal delusion to pretend the
contrary.
But, assuming that it will be in the power
of our government to take military posses-
sion of the South, there lies back of all that
another question. T'Aat questvon. is, whesher
the American Union, as we have known it, as
it saoned to be, and as alone it can be
rega practicable system of governs
ment, ¢a Jestored by such means? A
ungyopinion on this subjeet must depend
greatly on the nature of the Union, and on
the principles on which the practical excr-
we should be calmer and more peace- | : : .
ful paths, a s we might once in a cise of its authority necessarily rests.
whila,get in lon of peage evén at the Thegovernment of the United States does
shcrificewt RN tulius or age io n | pot reSfupon force, and its authority cannot
be exercised through military means. Its
ji 0 person and property of the
his person and property can be
through the judicial tribunals.
pinistration, many and every
carried on by local officers ;
ust involuntarily participate
e representative machinery
by wich its central administration is kept
alive. T ous heresy of State se~
nded authority of a
izens from their legal
obey the laws of the
more inconsistent with
the true character of our system, than is the
idea that the laws of the United States can
operation of the people, The monstrous
character of the secession theory does not
alter the fact, that every State possesses a
government, and therefore possesses an or
ganized and powerful means of resistance,
rebellion and revolution.
Let it be supposed, then, that the seceded
States are overrun by military power and
completely subdued. What reason exists
for expecting that a people thus conquered
will voluntarily return to the exercise of
those cil functions without which there can
be no Union, and no reliable cxercise of tie
authority of the Union among them ? When
the hate engendered by military conquest
has become a passion, to be transmitted as
a sacred duty of patriofism from generation
to generation, who can look for that partici-
pation of the people in the civil dutics and
rights of the Union, without which the Fed
eral Government is no Government at all ?
If you limit yourself to the collection of your
revenue, where will yi judges and jur-
ors fo enforce your forfeitures 2° If you cn-
force them by military power, what will
your government bgeome but % military
government? If ygm can gffect the con-
quest at all, how gamyyou expect ‘to do it
without making such isgoadls upon the gov-
cenment and the State authority, that the
political institutions of the people will be
broken down 2 If you can hold the people
in unwilling subjugation, how can you do it
without destroying their acknowledged con-
stitutional rights And when this is done
to ten or more States at one end of the Un-
ion, who can expeet that the character of
be administered without the voluntary oe
our Federal system will remain what our
fathers made it, and what we have so boun»
tifally enjoyed ?
In all history, there has never been an in-
stance of a free people, once participating in
the voluntary administration of a free popu-
lar government who have thrown off ther
connection with it, and_have . subseqently
been forced to resume it by a ‘military con-
quest. However true, just and Jawful, in
application of means entirely unsuited to
the end. In the nature of things, it must
ther off than it was before the consequend®
was attempted. We need not ask if ghe
Union ‘will be tolerable to the South, when
they are thus conquered. Will it be tolers-
ble to ourselves ? Can we successfully and
safely hold in military subjection guch a
portion of our common country ? Can we
undertake to do it, without creating a mili-
tary power, in which our own liberties must
be merged ?—Boston Courier, July 31.
re Ap nn nme,
Patriots and Traitors,
In good old times when we were a happy
and united people, that mag! regarded
as a patriot who loved his who
revered the Constitution, obey
and faithfully performed all his
as a citizen. He might support the Admin-
istration in power, or oppose it, without
having his loyalty to the government or his
patriotism questioned. Men equally good
and true were to be found on both sides.—
But in these troublous tithes a somewhat
different test of patriotism is sofight to be
applied. Loyalty and disloyaldy, patriotism
and treason, are not what they ‘were in the
palmy days gf the Republic. We live under
a new dispensation, and words have acquired
an entirely novel significance.
If, for instance, a citizen who used to ex-
ercise the liberty of abusing the President
of the United States, ridiculing the Supreme
Court, encouraging violations of the Fugi-
tive Slave Law, advocating the ¢ irrepressi-
ble conflict,” and hinting that, in certain
contingencies, the Union might slide, is now
a fast friend of the Admistration, in favor
of gagging or hanging every person who
ventures to whisper a word of dissent to
its policy, he is a patriot. He may not be
remarkabie for individual or official honesty,
he may even be connected with the fraudu-
lent schemes to take money out of the treas-
ury, in plain words, he may be growing
rich from the spoils of war, yet he is a pas
triot. He may encourage violations of the
| Constitution, infringements upon private
rights, turbulence and mob viosence, and
still he 1s a patriot. He must have a keen
scent for treason and traitors. He must
discover that his honest neighbor, who do.
not participate in his violence, are * seces-
sionists,”” and mildly suggests hanging. If
these neighbors should intimate that the
President of the United States 1s not exact-
ly a second Jackson, our patriot will mark
him as a suspicious’ character, and if he
should go so far as to express the obsolete
opinion that the Constitution is the supreme
law of the land, suspicion will deepen into
absolute conviction, and our patriots no lon-
ger doubts the necessity of establishing the
guillotine ‘to rid the country of pestilent
traitors:
On the other hand if a man deplores the
exercise of unconstitutional powers he is a
traitor.” If he doubts that war will accom.
plish the restoration of the Union, he is a
traitor. He may perform all his duties as
an upright and loyal citizen ; he may never
have been guilty of a dishonest, mean or
discreditable aetion ; he may have fought
the battles of his country and have contrib.
uted liberally of his means to sustain the
government and provide for the families of
those who have gone forth to fight, never-
theless heds a traitor. Our modern patriot,
with his pockets puffed gt with plunder,
says so, sand who shall gainsay his word ?—
Let the good citizen be a Democrat, and
venture to declare that if his advice had
been follow! hese things would not now
ban the gealous patriot does not have
im 5 p for uttering treasonable lan-
age it will not be his fault.
Now at the risk of being denounced as
traitors, we venture to affirm that every cit-
izen of this Free Republic (we are not yet
prepared to admit that this is a misnomer)
has a right{o examine and criticise all the
acts of his rullers—public servants th
mit be called—and to express their #n
approval or dissent. If the Executive
exceeded the powers confidoige i the
Constitution, hoflas a right say —
and if the public money is squandered, it 18
his right and duty to protest.. The plunder
ers may protest, but that is to be expected.
They may prescribe hanging, but what of
it? While law governs there is not much
danger. Itis true that in these times, when
the habeas corpus is a practical nullity, the
citizen 15 not entirely secure against illegal
incarceration—but this power has been'ex-
ercised in 50 few cases that 1t has hafdly
caused a perceptible flutter, Men still dare
regard themselves as free Citians, free
cnlightened country, and so long as they
respect the laws and per obli-
gations, they will contig to ex.
press their opinions, unawed ®y power and
unrestrained by the tnt of violence from
pseudo ‘patriots. :
B&F™ The large rified-capnon * Union,”
now at Fortress Monroe, is to be mounted on
the deck of the Minnesota, It carries a 350
pound shot, and is supposed to be the most
destructive weapon ever mounted. Neither
its range nor initial velocity is as’ great as
some othefgguns, yet the weight of the shot
will be sugh as tosink any ship, and ulti-
mately ibeog almost avy (ortification,
* ren. gy
* %
theory, such a conquest “may be, it" i8 the |
leave effects which will put an end still far-.
"The Object of the War.
‘The New York Tumes, in commencing on
the late fight says:
¢« There is a divinity shaping the Course of
this war, and we must accept its fortunes
and its misfortunes with equal trust and
hopefulness. There is one thing, and only
one, at ghg bottom of the fight—and that is
the negro. - And yet the North and South
are Boul studiously ignoring the fact, and
deceife the world as to the cause of the
uarrel. The South pretends to be fighting:
for #hdependence—but is fighting for the
establishment of human bondage as the ba-
‘| sig of republican government. The North,
or loyal States, claim to be fighting for the
re-establishment of the Constitution, and
laws, and to have no thought of property or
social institution in their minds. But they
know that until slavery changes its relation
to government and becomes its complete
subject, instead of its arrogant master, the
peace and safety of the Republic are impos-
sible.
«If our army had been victorious at Ma-
nassas they would have marched on to
Richmond, and ended this war on a false
basis ; both parties ignoring to last cause of
the war. The God that rules over all, and
does exact justice in the end to bond and
free, would not permit a compromise of this
sort to forestall his providence. And he
has awakened the natipn as by the shock of
an earthquake.
« Would anything short of our unexpected
repulse at Manassas have quickened the
conscience and judgement of twenty mil-
lions of people in regard to this conduct ?—
The ghost of long murdered liberty to mil-
lions of weak and despairing captives leaves
its tomb, and haunts our army, and frights
it to panic and to flight. Now shall we
learn, anew and rightly, our position and
duties. We have an enemy to meet who
has, for years, setat defiance, alike, the
laws of God and man—who has for two
generations outraged justice and humanit;
—and who threatens to extend over a whole
continent the Gigi of his rule. Shall
we strike the monSter where he is vulnera-
ble? Shall w
the cancer ot
Shall we «
hrust in our spear where
crime invites to surgery ?
t the devil with fire,” accord-
ing to the y3Msdom of the ancients? Let a
paralyzcd®nd a reeling nation answer.”--
The &ision Advocate and Journal says,
¢ Directly we are contending for govern-
ment, but indirectly for Ziberty. Though
‘| the country takes the sword, not for the
extermination of slavery, buf, for the uphold-
mg of the Constitution, tf may be compelled
to go farther.”
The Northern Christian Advocate says:
«The ery for the Union, the military ar-
ray for the Union—the absorption of all
parties in: this movement, only carries for
ward the glorious car of emancipation.”
The Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Inquirer, writing under a late
date, says : ’ :
«It is understood that the Cabinet have
decided that all slaves, in all places and
térritories occupied by our armies are to be
liberated, employed and paid,”
a a
IhsREPUTABLE DiSAPARAGEMENT'—In a
time like present, when every loyal State is
battling for the integrity of the Union, it
appears to be ill-advised and importune in
papers of New York city tobe fomenting
petty local jealousies by studied and contin-
al abuse of its neighbors. If we are to
dge from the inflated @@lescriptions of their
army correspondents, the whole success of
this war depends entirely upon the courage
of the New York tia. Every success
which is yet achieved has been done by
their troops, and everything they do isa
success. We have copied into our columns
those highly wrought pictures of. Gothamite
glory, for we are willingito let the heroes
paint their ogn portraits. But thé New
York journals are not satisfied with this.-—
They not only exalt themselves beyond
measure, but they studiously and pémistent.
ly disparage the from Pennsylvania,
who are as fine a body of soldiers as there
are in the army, and who will, probably,
perform their duties before the war is over
quite as ‘effcctually as any body of men
from New York. Their insinuation against
their pluck comes with an ill grace in ghe
face of the facts at Bull’s Run. The Rogi-
ment of Col. Einstein, the only Pennsylvli-
nia Regiment in service in that division of
the army, marched to the field of actiof on
Sunday night in the midst of the retreg and
brought off’ the batteries that more experi-
enced troops left behind. Itis certainly a
creditable proof of courage for one thousand
men to march back to a field which forty
thousand are flying from. If Pennsylvani-
ans do not boast of this in the inflated pa-
thos of the New York journals, itis because
they are more accustomed to deeds%han to
words, and are content whem thew duty is
well discharged.
Free Speecu.—We commen follow-
ing sensible remarks to thoggl Who, just
now, think it an awful for @ man to
speak his senti ts u y happen to
chime in with lic The extract
is from the 2 G ew; of
Massachuset Legis! a lew
weeks ago. glad able to
ccord such a thing for o m a Repub-
lican : ned
¢ Let us nev饙=gnder gany conceivable
circumstances ofprovocal or indignation
—forget right of free discussion of all
public qugilions is guaranteed to every in-
dividual lassachusetts soil, by the set:
tled conviCtion of her people, by the habits
of its successive generations; and by express
provisions of her constitution. And let us
therefore never seek to repress the criticisms
of a minority, however small, upon the
character and conduct of any administration
whether State or NatioNaL.” -
rt —— A PAP nn a ’
. Goon—A Union Meeting of the law-abid-
ing and Peace loving citizens of Medina Co.,
Ohio, was held at Sharon Centre in that
county on the 4th of July. Among the res-
olutions passed, was one to suspend all social
intercourse with the town of Medina, except
court session, and to withhold all patagnag®
from the merchants of that place the
people are cured of their politi gadnags.
Washington Ni 7
Messrs. Garman, Abplegate; ind’ Sterling
left Washington on Thursday with a flag of
truce, bearing a communication from the
Secrecrry of War, having for its object the
recovery of the body of his brother, Col, Cam-
eron. They yesterday returned without sué«
cess, owing, it appears, to the communica-
tion having been addressed .*‘ To whom it
may concern,” and not to. §ome, pi lat
prominent officer in the Confederate army.
This objection removed: there is no: doubt
the body can be recovered, as the place of
interment ‘is marked and. every faculty
promised to accomplish that purpose. The
gentlemen’ carrying the flag speak in high
terms of the courteous and kind manner in
which they were treated by Col. Stewart,
commanding the first Virginia régiment, and
other officers within the field of his operations
They, however, were not permitted to ap~
proach directly to Fairfax Court House.
By the abandonment of the Norfolk Navy’
Yard more than twenty-five hundred cans
non ahd a vast amount of ammunition and
military stores fell into the hands of the reb-'
els., By the first abendorment of Harper's
Ferry all the costly machinery of the nation«
al workships there fell into the same bands
and taken to Richmond, and’ Fayetteville
where thoy are in active operation. Cunpneg
has now determined to investigate the facts
connected with the abandonment of Govern«
ment property, and on: motion of Messrs.
Hale and Trumbull, a Committee are now
inquiring into the matter. "The country will
look for their report with deep interest.
ORGANIZATION OF BRIGADES. !
One cause of the late disaster at Bull Run
was the fact that the army at that time was
but little more than a heterogenous mas’ of
Independent regiments. This. grave error
will never again take place. As the new reg-
iments arrived here they have been organi«
zed into brigades and immediately drilled
as such. The want of such training was se<
vrorely felt on the fatal field. ;
THR PENNBYLVVNIA APPOINTMENTS.
The army appointments, made at tho in-
stance of the Pennsylvania delegation, aro
at once recognized on all hands as appoint~
ments eminently “fit to be made.” That of
Gen. McCall, especially, is: looked to with
the s¥peciation that is will _redound greatly
to the honor of the country. There are ru«
mors here that still higher honors are in
store for Gen. McCall. a AR
ARTILLERY COMING,
If the artillery continues to come on as it
is new doing, we shall speedily have this
arm of tke service in the proper degree of ef~
ficiency. Every day now, six peices bf eplen-~
did brass rifled cannon, with carriages, cas-
sons, &c., complete, are recieved here. Maj
Barry, the chief of artillery on General Mo-
Clellan’s Staff, has this part of the service
in his special charge, and will soon bring it
into a state of great «ficiency. The" efforts
in this direction will not be ‘suspended until
wo have in the field a train of artillery em-
bracing two hundred and fifty ‘brass ‘rifled
cannon, organized into batteries and com-
manded by experienced army officers.
GENERAL BUTLER. i
It is understood here that General Butle
has been summoned to: Washington in order
that he may be assigned to an important and
responsible position elsewhere ; and not be-
cange the Administration arsdissatisticd with
his tourse at Fortress Monroe.
THE DEFENCES OF WASHINGTON.
Congress has now woke up-to a realizin
sense of the becessity of strengthening Wash-
ington ; and the House, yesterday, on motion
of MF. Thaddeus Stevens, passed a bill ap-
propHating $100,000. for the erection of field
fortifications. No time should be lost in ex
pending this amount in the most judicious
manner. It would be folly, of course, for
the Rebels to think ‘of ing Washington
now. But the fortune of war is uncertain,
and they are playing a desperate game. If
they should dare to attack Washington, they
would certainly be repulsed,
rere rpm
Gen. McClellan and His Men,
+ Headqarters Army of Occupation, -
Western Virginia, Beverly, July 19th.
Soldwers of the Army of the West: m
more than satisfied with you, Yeu h#¥&anw~
nihilated two armies, commanded hy educa~
io and experienced soldiers, gatighobeil in
untain fastnesses and fortified at ir
leisure. You have taken five guns, twelve
colors, fifteen hundred stand of arms, 1,000
isoners, including more than forty officers.
ne of the second commauders of the rabels
is a prisoner, the other lost his life on the
field of battle., You have killed more than
two hundred and fitty of the enemy, who
have lost all his baggage and Samp equip-
age. All this has been accomplished with
the loss of twenty brave men killed and six~
ty wounded on your part. - You have proved
that Uzion men, fighting for the preservation
of our government, are more than a match
for our misguided and erring brothers.—
More than this you have shown morcy to the
vanquished. You have made Jong and ar-
duous : mar vide sufficient food, fre-
quentlg exposed to tHe “inclemency of the
weatl€r, I have not hesitated io demand
this of yeu, feeling that I could rely on your
endurance, patrictism abd eourage. In the
futuge I may still bave greater demands to
make upon you—still greater sacrifices for
you to offer. Tt shall be my care fo provide
for you to the extent of my ability; but T
know now that by your valor and endurance
you will accomplish all that is asked. Sol«
diers—I have confidence in you, and I trust
that you have learned to confide in me. Re-
member that diseipline and subordination
are qualities of equal value with courage. I
am proud to say that you have gained the
highest reward that American troops can
plause of your fellow citizens. 8
. Geo. B, McCrrLLAN, Maj. Gen.
"For the Warqmuax.
‘Messrrs, Epirors i —We need some one
to represent us in the next Logislature, who
has been tried and. found capable of filli
so important a station. * A $han of determin
ed purpose, one who will defend the rgiht
of the people a gainst the machinations o
political hucksters, should be our candidate.
A Democrat, whose history is untainted
with *jsms’’ ‘of any kind—one upon whom
the people can rely. Such a ‘man in the
Hon. Janes MAOMANUS, ef - your. To
should the Convention see
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coive—the thanks of Congress and the ay §