he Democratic
atchman.
VOL. 7.
BELLEFONTE, THURSDAY YORNING, FEB. 20, 1862.
NO. 7.
Miscellaneous.
Memorial of. James W. Wall, Esq., to
the Legislature of New Jersey.
Ty the Honorable the Senate and House of
Assembly of the State of New Jersey.
Your memoriglist represents to your Hon-
orable bodies—That he is a citizen of the
State of New Jersey, and fully entitled to
all the rights, privileges and immunities per-
taining to such citizenship. That on the
eleventh day of September last, he was ar.
rested. by Benajah Deacon, United States
Marshal for New Jersey, accompanied by an
armed force, William R. Allen, Mayor of the
city of Burlington, being present, and assist.
ing with ona or two of his police. That the
said Marshal, upon being called upon for his
authority, produced a printed form or order
in the words following, as near as your mes
morialist can recollect :
«To Benajah Deacon, Esq., Marshal. &c.
You are hereby commanded to arrest James
W. Wall, of the city of Burlington, and con-
vey him to Fort Lafayette, in the New York
harbor, forthwith. By order of the Secreta-
ry of War. Dated, Washington, September
1861.”
Upon reading this singular document,
your memorialist demanded of the Mar-
shal the nature and cause of the accusation
against him, and a copy of the affidavit or
affirmation upon which such warrant was
based. He took occasion at the same time
to deny the mightof any member of the
President’s Cabinet to issue any such war»
rant, much less the Secretary of War, and
warned the Marshal that he would hold the
Secretary responsible, and all who presumed
to act under his authority ; that this official
had in this overstepped the limits of his of-
ficial authority, and having usurped powers
not delegated to him by the Constitution, of
by some law made in purauance thereof, he
had put himself beyond the pale of the pro-
tection of his office, and was liable like any
private citizen, with this distinction, that
having used his official position to effect this
gross injustice and oppression, it was a
great aggravation of his guilt, and would be
considered so in a criminal prosecution, or
in asking for exemplary damages in a civil
action.
To this protest and warning of your me.
morialist, the Marshal made the following
most extraordinary reply : “That he knew
nothing of the cause and nature of the accu-
sations, or of any affidavit or affirmation
upon which the warrant sas based ; that
he kad received the order through the post
office, and was bound to execute it at all
hazards, and if any resistance was made, he
would resort to the armed force then sur
rounding the house.”’
Upon your memorialist requesting time
for preparation, and to have an interview
with his family, 1t was peremptorily refused
by the Marshal, who further declared ‘that
he had orders to take your memorialist at
onceto New York via the Camden and Am-
boy line, which would pass through Burling.
ton in the course of ten or fifteen minutes.”
Against such an arbitrary exercise of pow-
er as this, never surpassed by the most sub
gervient minjon of the vilest despotism in
Europe, your memorialist entered his most
solemn protest, and prepared to resist such
invasion of his rights by physical force.—
Resistance, however, proved in vain, and
your memorialist having succeeded in
reaching the hall of his house, was there
overpowered by a large armed force, torn
from the midst of his family and dragged to
the railroad station. From thence he was
conveyed a prisoner by the Marshal, accom
panied by six of his armed posse, not only
through the State of New Jersey, but thr’o
a portion of the State of New York, and in
that State delivered over to the United States
military authority commanding at Fort Ta~
fayette, 10 New York harbor.
In this Government fortress he was con-
fined for nearly two weeks, his correspond~
ence subjected to the most impudent sur-
veilance, and his person to all those indigni~
ties and petty annoyances which a military
despotism understand how to inflict. He
was finally released from confinement upon:
taking what was called an oath of allegiance
and extra-judicial oath, unknown to the
Constitution and the laws, but unobjection-
ble to your memorialist, inasmuch as it
pledged him to “protect and defend the Con
stitution against all its enemies,” thus impos-
ing, if it were possible to do so, additional
obligations upon him to resist the unconstis
tutional acts of this high official, and punish
his gross violations of the personal liberty of
the subject. There can be no greater enemy
to the Constitution than that man, who, be
neath the cloak of power, conceals the
stiletto with which he thrusts at his vitals.
Since his release, your memorialist has
applied again and again to the Secretary of
‘War, for the cause and nature of the accu-
gations agsinst him ; but thus far all his ap-
plications have received not the slightest. no-
tice. This persistent silence of the Secreta-
ry of War raises the presumption that the
unconstitutional warrant by which he dared
to deprive a citizen of New Jersey of his lib-
erties, has not even the bald pretence of a
written accusation to give it the flimsiest
shadow of a decent formality.
Your memorialist, by reason of this cruel.
unmanly silence of the War Department, has
been compelled to submit to have his good
name and fame called in question, fus loyalty
to the Constitution doubted, and the most un-
grounded and unjust prejudices engendered
against him. Tt is the grossest injustice to
place an individual in such a position—vio-
late all the rights, privileges and immunities
that belong to him asa citizen—punish him
as if he were the vilest criminal, and then
cruelly withhold from him the nature and
cause of the accusation against hm.
Your memorialist therefore makes this ap-
peal to the Legislature of his native State,
that it will, through our Senators and Rep
resentatives in Congress, demand of the
War Department the nature and charges on
filein said Department, upon which such
warrant was issued. or, if no such charges
are upon record, that. then it shall be so made
to appear. ” * » *
I am fully aware that in the ancient com
monwealths, self-preservation was consider-
ed the first necessity of the State, as it was
of individuals, and could be used as a justi-
fication of “the temporary veiling of the
Statues of Laberty.’’ The dictator who. in
the hour of the Nation's peril, came forth
from the Roman Senate with absolute pow
ers over the life, liberty and property of the
Roman citizen, was only the creation of this
dangerous idea. And during the reign of
Elizabeth there was a notion that a kind of
paramount sovereignty existed, which was
denominated her absolute power, incident,
as it was pretended, te the abstract nature
of sovereignty, and arising out of its primary
office of preserving the State from destruc
tiom But even then, in that tyrannical
reign, it found men bold enough to dare the
terrors of the royal frown. and declare “that
this insidious plea of necessity means too of
ten the sccurity of the sovereign rather than
that of the people.” The opposition to this
pernicious doctrine went on gathering
strength until, in the reign of the First
Charles, it culminated in the far famed De.
claration of Rights, that is the beacon light,
casting its blaze afar, to warn tyrannical
governments against the invasion of the liba
erties of the people. |
And yet, we are asked to believe the mon-
strous doctrine in this high noon of the
nineteenth century, in a government like
ours, made by the haters of kingly preroga
tive, with a written Constitution defining
and limiting che powers of every depart-
ment, there really, in time of war, lurks in
the Executive this dangerous element of
power ; and against which there had been
a continued and successful struggle of five
centuries in England. In the eloquent words
of Mr. Pendleton, of Ohio, words that have
the true ring of the metal of the olden time,
“Can it be believed that our fathers. pro~
testing against kingly prerogative, revolu
tionists because of outrages on personal
rights by their sovereign. would clothe the
executive of their new government with a
power over the citizens, which their former
master had never dared to pretend that he
possessed ¢ Canit be believed that they,
proud of their English lineage, proud of
their English liberty—aye, proud of their
loyalty to the Enghsh Constitution, would
sacrifice that right, which their English an-
cestors accounted their chiefest glory. Those
ancestors had battled for centuries, bravely
for popular rights. They had placed the
crown upon the brow of the people—they
had decked it with many a jewel, it was ra-
diant with the glories of popular liberty,
and can 1t be believed that our fathers would
tear away this priceless gem, that sparkled
in the very forefront of that cornet, and
‘with 1t adorn the spectre of executive power.
In no other point in the Constitution did
they limit the rights of the people as admit~
ted at that day ; can it be believed that they
would, in this one vital point alone, restrict
the bounds of liberty, and enlarge those of
power #”
What course you, the Representative of
the State of New Jersey, may deem it prop-
er to take in reference to this wanton out-
rage upon the cor.stitutionally guaranteed
rights of one of your citizens, must be left
to your own judgments. It is for you to
say whether it shall be passed over without
a remonstrance. If by your silence now,
you constitute this a precedent, it may be
you to declare of what value hereafter
those high sounding clauses in the bill of
rights in our Constitution will be to any of
the citizens of the State of New Jersey 2 —
That bill of rights was intended as the enun-
ciation of certain general principles of free
government—to serve as the landmarks of
liberty and law. Did your present Senator
in Congress, Mr. Ten Eyck, when he intro~
duced it into your Constitutional Conven
tion, and his fellow meinbers when they vot-
ed upon it, consider its clauses as only a
“mass of glittering generalities ?” And
vet, what clse do they become, if any Cabi-
net officer may, under the authority of one
of these general warrants, invade your State,
with an armed force. kidnap any of your
of the State at his sovereign will and pleas-
ure, in any one of the fortresses of the Gov
ernment. Surely if such outrages are to be
and wicked shams.
I speak earnestly. because T feel so. 1
have been made to know the insolence of |
arbitary power. The most degraded crimi. |
nal in any of your prisons could not have
been treated as T have been. without an out
ery of indignation from every honest citizen |
in the State. I have been arrested without |
the form of legal warrant—condemned with
out the shadow of a trial, and punished by a
degraded imprisonment of weeks, withou®
at this hour, even knowing the nature and |
cause of the accusation against me. I know |
and appreciate my rights as a citizen of the
United States, and as a citizen of the State
of New Jersey ; and no man shall invade
and trample upon those rights with impuni~
ty. I envy not the heart. for itis corrupt,
nor the bram, for it is diseased. that can at-
tempt to approve, or by reasoning, justify,
such an atrocious act of tyranny as this. 1f
such an act can be done in a republic, with-
out redress, and with the approval of its cit-
zens. then I know no difference between it
and the vilest despotism upon earth, save
only, that the latter is the most honest gov-
ernment of the two.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
JAMES W. WALL.
TrENTON, Jan. 14, 1862.
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A Scene after the Battle.
About ten o'clock, writes the Chaplain o
the 31st Ohio, T lay down in a tent and tried |
to sleep, but the shrieks and groanings of |
the wounded and dying reached my ears, |
and pierced my heart, and I could not sleep:
In a short time Dr. Linnett and a Mr. Olds,
from Lancaster, Ohio, came in to sleep in
the tent [ was occupying. One of them re-
marked that there was a wounded soldier in
an old blacksmith shop, who was desirous
of seeing a chaplain. T arose from my couch
and after wending my way through the mud
and. wet, [ found the shop; and, to my utter
surprise, I found the shop filled with the
wounded, and one was Iving on the forge.—
Some were mortally wounded, and a few
were not. and praying
with one of them a short time he obtained
peace and pardon.
I Then asked him what regiment he be~
lon ed to. Said he, ** [ am your enemy, bot
we will be friends in heaven.” He then re-
quested me to write to his grandfather in
Paris, Tennesee, who is a Cumberlatd Pres |
byterian minister, and inform him of his
condition, and his being prepared to die in|
the full triumph of faith. I conversed with
several others, and tried to pont them to |
the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sins
of the world. I was also permitted to see
Gen. F. K. Zollicoffer, who was laid out on
a board in a tent, in the cold embrace of
death. I saw the place where he was shot,
and laid my hand upon his broad forehead.
He was about six feet high. and compactly
and well built, one among the fincst heads
that I ever saw. :
After .conversing
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Mr. Harris, of New York, and Mr, Cowan,
of Pennsylvania, are both Republican mem-
bers of the U. S. Senate, both members of
the Judiciary Committee, and both opposed
the expulsion of Jesse D. Bright—not. it
may be presumed for any regard for that
person, but from high and conscientious con-
victions of duty. In the Senate of New
York, as in the Senate of Pennsylvania there
has bee® an earnest and able discussion upon
a proposition to instruct United States Sen
ators how they should vote with reference to
Mr. Bright. In the Senate of Pennsylvania
a resolution instructing in favor of expulsion |
was passed. Inthe Senate of New York a
resolution precisely the same character was |
introduced, and not passed ; but in its place |
another resolution was substituted by a vote |
of twenty.one yeas to eight nays which ex-
pressed the opinion that Jesse I). Bright was
a traitor and ought to be expelled The
distinction between the resolution of the
New York Senate and that of the Pennsylva-
nia Senate is apparent. The former ex.
presses an opinion in which most men will
concur, without attempting to control the
action of Mr. Harris upon a subject of which
he was the sole judge, The latter isin the
form of a peremptory mandate to Mr. Cowan
instructing him how to cast his vote. The
one showed some respect for the deliberate
conclusions of a United States Senator ; the
other, none whatever.—Patriot §& Union.
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177 A little girl went to camp meeting,
and when she got home she said the sisters
in the various tents told her a good many
things, and asked her questions about the
Bible. On being pressed to state what they
told her, she said one thing they told her
about Peter, © who swore three times before
he crowed.’
I= Gen. Buei’s command in Kentucky,
consists of 1014regiments of inane, 9 re-
| allowed the moment of victory to pass.
giments and 9 companies of cavalry, and 19
batteries of artillery.
Qur Sufferings are Intolerable.
The Memphis (Tenn.,) Appeal says:
¢« Price isin full retreat -Southward.—
citizens and immure them beyond the limits | pi;oe will probably continue in full retreat
for there are several —indeed no less than
three—Federal armies, each as large, better
armed, and better equipped, converging up-
passed over in silence, and with impunity, |; him, His past victories have been ren-
then I do not hesitate to declare that your | gered valueless. Federal forces have been
State Government is a fare, and the clauses | po <ceq in Kentucky too great for a man of
in your bill of rights the mest contemptible Sidney Johnston's calibre to attack, and the
paralyzing of Price through the withdrawal
of McCulloch has rendered the oversrnnning
of Missouri to the Arkansas frontier an easy
task to the Federals. We're forced back
out of Missouri—check-mated in Kentucky.
Chase has obtained his moner in Wall
street
«¢ The blockade is unbreakable by us as|
yet. Inone word we're hemmed in. We've |
We
| were so anxiously watching the operations
| of England that we stand azhast on turning
our eyes homeward again to find ourselves
ten-fold worse off than we were ere tha com
mencement of Price’s last forward move
ment, and that accursedly used sensationism
the arrest of Mason and Slidell. Day fol
lows day, and in lieu of being weakened, we
find the Federal armies, at all peints, be-
mg strengthened, almost every article of
manafacturing and domestic. necessity
quadrupled in price, and our money wil]
soon be exceeding scarce, for lack of paper
and pastecboard wherewith to make it.
« We pay fiftcen cents a piece for sperm
candles and are told we ought to be glad to
get them at that. Our twelve months sol.
diers’ time will soon be up and we cannot
help asking, as they do themselves, whag
bave they been permitted or led to do ? It
is an old and over provea truism,that where
two nations are at war, that which has the
least means must find success in early and
rapid action, for it can gain little by time,
whiie the other finds in time the power to
bring into efficient use ms more varied
means.
« Cabined, cribbed, confined as we were,
and evidently would be, our shortest, clear
est and most noble policy was to find in the
rapid use of our early Revolutionary enthu
siasm an overmatch for the slower and less
spirited but more enduring North. Where
shall we ask relief 2- Where should we ask
it, save in the camps on whom we have lav
ished our heart's blood, our hopes, our
wealth our, whole; where but upon the
banks of the Potomac? When shall we
see an end of the farce there being enacted
at our expense ?
Indirectly, every mouthfull we eat is tax-
ed ; our babies wear taxed caps and shoes,
taxed paper, our girls
wear taxed ealicoes, our men do a taxed bu-
siness, and hopelessly ride ir. a taxed hearse
to a taxed grave, and we, forsooth are hurt:
ing *¢ the cause ” if we dare to tur~ frow
Messrs. Mason and Slidell to look at the
country we were born and bred in, and hav-
ing looked, we are hurting the cause if we
dare to tell what we see.”
LAND AND SEA FORCES oF THE GREAT POw-
Ers.—The following, according to the Alma
uach de Gotha, was the state of the dispo-
sable land and sea forces of the Great powers
of Europe in 1861 :—
FRANCE,—Aruy on war footing, 767.770
men, 130 000 horses ; peace footing, 414,868
men, 72.850 horses. Navy, 600 vessels
afloat, building, and - under transformation,
carrying together 13'353 guns. Out of that
number there are 373 steamers, of which 56
are iron cased. The crews of the fleet, who
on a peace fooling. amount to 38,375 men,
can, in case of war, be increased to 60.000.
The seamen forming part of the maritime in
sriptien are 170.000 in number. The effec~
tive strength of the marines is 22 400 men
in peace and 36 879 in war. Custom house
officers or coastguard, 25.591 men.
GREAT Briraiy.— Army, 232 773 men 21.-
904 horses. Navy '893 vessels, carrying 16.
411 guns, The crews number 78.300 men.
of whom 18,000 are marines and 8.550 coast -
guard men.
Russia. —Army, 557.859 men regular
troops; and 136 regiments of cavalry. 31 bat-
talions, and 31 batteries of irregulars.—
Navy 313 vessels, of which 242 are steamers,
carry together 3,85I guns. The Russian
government has also 474 vessels acting as
guardships at different places and for trans:
ports. *
AvsTRIA.—Army, 587,695 wen: Navy
58 steamers and 79 sailing vessels, carrying
together 895 guns.
Proussia.— Army peace footing, 212,649
men, war footing.622 366 men. Navy. 34
vessels, of which 26 are steamers.
Iravy. —Offizial strength of the army on
the 10th of June. 1861 327 290 men divided
into 68 reziments of infantry 26 hattalions
of bersagliert 17 regiments of cavalry uine
of artillery, two of engineers. and three wag-
on trains. Navy 106 vessels. carrying 1036
guns. and 18000 men
our boys write on
EGET
IZ © Tell your wmsiteess that [ve torn the
eartain ’ said a lodger to the servant.—
+ Very well, sir, mistress will pat it down
as oxtra rent.”
A New Remedy for Small Pox.
A medical journal reports an interesting
discussion at the Epedemiological Society,
upon a paper sent from Nova Scotia, by Mr.
Miles, Surgeon in the artillery. Capt. Har
dy, of the Royal Artillery, an accomplished
and intelligent officer, who has been for years
among the Indians, says that ‘the old
squaw’s remedy had long been known to
them as an infallible core for small-pox,”
and that the Indians believe it to be suc-
cessful in every case. * From the informas
tion gathered from the Indians, the follow.
ing observations hove been carefully sifted.
1. In the case of an individual suspected
to be under the influence of smallpox, with
no distinc t eruption on him, a large wine
glass full of the infusion of the root of the
plant ¢ sarraconia perpurca,” or pitcher
plant (several specimens of which, including
the root, were exhibited on the table,) is to
be taken. The effect of this is to I ring out
the erruption After a second or third dose
given at intervals of from four to six hours,
the pustules subside, apparently losing
their vitality. The patient feels better at
the end of each dose, and in the graphic ex-
pression of the “Mitmac,”’ knows there is a
great change within him at once.
11. Ina subject already covered with
the eruption of small pox in the carly stage,
a dose or two will dissipate the postules, and
subdue the febrile symtoms, Under the in-
fluence of the remedy, in three or four days
the prominent symtoms of the constitutional
disturbance subside, althoagh, as a precau
tionary measure, the sick person is kept in
camp until the ninth day. No markes of
the eruption as regards pitting, &e., have
been left in cases examined if treated by the
remedy.
111. With regard to the medicine act
ing (as is believed by the Indians) in the
way of a preventive, 1n those exposed to in
fection, it is curious to note that, in the
camps where the remedy has been used, the
people keep a weak infusion of the plant
prepared, and take a dose occasionally du-
ring the day, so as to ‘¢ keep the antidote in
the blood.”
A discussion followed the reading of bis
paper, 1n which Mr. Mason, Dr. Copland,
Dr. Waller Lewis, Dr. Babbington, Dr.
Morehead, Dr. Milroy, Mr. Radcliffe, Mr.
Lord and Dr. McWilliams took part. All
the speakers concurred in the desirability of
requesting Mr. Miles to procure a further
supply of the root of the * sarraconia pur-
puree,” with the view of having its anti.va
rioloid properties tested in this country.
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T7 A certain witnss in an assault and
battery suit we once heard, mixed things up
considerably, in giving his account of the
affair. After relating how Dennis came to
him and struck him, he proceeded :
« So, yer honor, I just hauled off and wiped
his jaw. Just then his dog cum along, and
I hit him again,”
¢ Hit the dog?’
+t No yer honor, hit Dennis. And thenI
up wid a stun and throwed it at him, and
rolled him over and over.”
+ Threw a stone at Dennis 2” .
+ At the dog, yer honor. And he got up
and hit me again.”
«The dog *”
«No, Dennis. And with that he stuck
his tail betwixt his legs and run off.”
“ Dennis ?”’ §
«No, the dog. And when he came back
at me he got me down and pounded me, yer
honor.” .
+ The dog came back at you?”
+ No, Dennis, yer honor, and he isn't
hurt any at all.”
«« Who isn’t hurt 2’
«t The dog, yer honor.”
BURriED ALIVE— The body of a woman is
Displaced in Her Coffin.—In the early part
of last week a woman who resided on Mil
ton street whose name our informant, Lieut.
Montgomery. of the city police, eould not
rem:wber —su idenly died, and in the abs
sence of her husband, who is a soldier in the
army was placed by her friends ina vault
mn the Cumminsville burying ground. On
Wednesday last the husband of the deceased
returned heme to be not ouly surprised but
: severely shocked with the melancholy news
that awaited him. Anxious once more to
behold the beloved features of his departed
wife before her remains were deposited in
the grave, he had her coffin opened in the
presence of several friends, when what was
his horror and astonishment to find she had
changed position, and was lying flat upon
her face, having in her struggles and ex~
treme despair torn the flesh entirely oft one
of her shoulders. The feelings of the hus-
band and friends can readi'y be imagined,
at the exposure of such an awful death.
The lid of the coffin was replaced and then
lowered in the ground, there to lie forever —
Cincinnati Enquirer,
— edt
Kren RerorT.—An old bachelor was
| rather taken aback a day or two since as
| follows : —
| Picking up a book, he exclaimed seeing a
"wood cut representing a man kneeling at the
feet of a woman—
« Bef re I would ever kneel toa woman
1 would encircle my neck with arope and
stretch it.”
And then turning to a young woman, he
'inquired—
+= Do you not {hink it would be the best
thing I could do ?”
+ It would undoubtedly be the best for the
! woman,” was the sarcastic reply.
Origin of the Telescope and Pendulum.
It sems scarcely credible that that wonder-
ful far seeing instrument, which brings the
most distance worlds under our curious ken,
should have its origin in childs play ; yet
so it 15. The children of spectacle- maker in
Middlesburg were allowed at times—proba
biy on wet days-—to play in their father’s
workshops. ©n one of these occasions
they were amusing themselves with some
spectacle glasses, when one of them placed
two together, one before the other, and look-
ed through them at a weathercock on a
neighboring steeple, To the childs aston-
ishment, the vane appeared larger and near-
er to it than when seen through the glass
only. The Father was called to see the
sight, and struck with the singular fact, re-
solved to turn it to advantage. His first
plan was to fix two glasses on a board, by
means of brass rings, which might be
brought nearer to each other, or further off
at pleasure. He was thus enabled to see
distant objects better and more distinctly
than before. The next improvement was
the glasses in a tube, which may be termed
the first telescope. Galileo soon heard of it,
The mention of this great man, recalls to
mind his accidental discovery of the pendu-
lum. A correct time keeper had long been
a desideratum in the world. Water clocks
had been tried and found wanting ; Alfred's
candles would not do for the world at large.
Another lucky accident must supply the
want, and it came as follows: The future
great astronomer, though then only a young
man; was in the cathedral at Pisa. Oue of
the vergers had been supplying a lamp wit
oil, which hung from the roof, and left i
swinging to and fro; this caught Galileo's
attention ; and carefully noticing it, he ob
served that it vibrated in equal times, and.
first conceived the idea of applying it to the’
measurement of time. It cost bim fifty
years to complete his pendulom, After the’
telescope and pendulum, we can hardly pass
over Sir Isaac Newton’s discovery of the
law of gravity, though it 1s too well known’
to require more than naming. An apple ac-
cidentally falling to the ground before his’
face revealed to him this mighty all perva-
ing secret of nature. What vast results’
have sprung from these seeming trifles !—
Distaut worlds have not only been discover-
ed, but weighed and measured. The path:
less ocean can be traveled over with the
sare certainty as tf guide-posts were every
three or four miles; and time can be meas-’
ured to the greatest nicety.
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eases
The Hunter and Lane Imbroglio.
The New York Herald thus pitches: into’
«Jim Lane, the blower.”
«We have all along believed that Gen.
Jim Lane, like the long lane of the proverb,
would havea turn by and by, and Gen.
Hunter seems to have given it to him recent:
ly. In a general order, which we published’
yesterday, Major General Hunter announces’
that he intends taking command: of the’
Southern overland expedition in person, un+
less expressly ordered not to. do so by the’
Government. This pricks Lane’s balloon
nicely. For some time Lane has been brag.
ging that this was *‘his’’ expedition, and
that he was to command it and do what he
pleased with it. Now he sinks into the com:
paratively insignificant position of one of
nine brigadier generals under Major General
Hunter. The publiz could scarcely hear
more welcome news. Congress and the
country have been disgusted for months
with the bragging aud boasting, the pomp:
ous assumptions, the false reports of conver-
sations with the President and the genera!’
Munchausenisms of this swaggering, jay-
hawking, bushwhacking border ruffian, who"
has won for himself the appropriate though®
inelegant nickname of ¢ the blower.” From®
the style in which he talked about ‘¢ his”
soldiers, the way in which he threatened to’
{ree and arm all the negroes he met, wheth-*
er the administration liked it or not, and the’
manecer in which he promised ¢ his” sol«
diers a negro apiece to enable them to “play
gentlemen,” it began to be undoratood that
there were two commanders-in-chief of our
armies, and that President Lincoln’s com
mand ceased at the Mississippi,where Liane’s
began. We have no doubt that Old Abe,
having endured the impertinence of this ime.
pudent fellow long enough, has a hand or
foot in his present summary squelching.—
As far as the expedition is concerned, *Lane
knew as little of good generalship as he did
of good manners or good grammar, and: the
public will be glad to hear that the position:
he assumed is to be filled by an able,. expe-
rienced and trustworthy army officer: As
for the rest, we trust that Lane and: his- ab-
olition admirers are beginning to learn that
the country has a President who can make
himself obeyed, and a policy which is iden-
tical at the West and East alike, and in the
overland as well as m any other expedition.
It is the general opinion that General Lane
talks too much to fight well ; barking dogs
seldom bite—and we are sure that be will
be shot for wutiny if he carries bis present
tactics into military service.”
and applied it to astronomical purposes.— -