he The Watchman, C. T. ALEXANDER, | JOE W. FUREY, BELLEFONTE, Pa. pm mem Thursday Morning, May 29, 1862, Democratic State Conventicr. In accordance with a resolution of the Democratic State Executive Committee, THe Dexocracy will meet in STATE CONVEN TION, at HARRISBURG, no Frivay, the “4th day of July, 1862. at 10. olock, A, M-, to nominate candidates ler AUDITOR (FENERAT and SorVEYOR GENERAL, and to adopt such ‘micasures as may le deemed necessary for the welfare of the Democratic party aud the country. WILLIAM H. WELSJ, Chaiiman of the Democratic State Ex. Com. ev De 77 The rebel leaders told the Southern people at the commencement of this war, that the ohject and intention of the Lincoln Government was ‘0 abolish the insti ution of slavery, and fearing the consequence of «cman ipatien among them of four willivns ofmegrocs, they folowed their leaders 1m ttheir wholly work of destroying the govera sment. 3 hem we commenced the war in de tence of the government, ve denied most emphatically having any intention of inter. fering with the local ins itations of any of the States as will appear by the following resolution, passed at the extra session of Congress : That this wards not waged on (er part in any spirit of oppression, or for any purpose of conouest or su’ jugation or pur. pose of overthrowing or wterfering with the righ's or established stitutions of those States, bu! to defend and maintamn the su. premacy of the Constitution, and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, cquality and rights of the several States animp: and that as soon as these objects are accom. plished the war ought to case.” Under this resolution, six hundred thous- wad Union volunteers rushed to the rescue wf our capital, and are stiil in the ficld haz- aarding their lives in defence of the Govera- ment. Is the object of the war on our part still the sam: that it was, and are the rebel Headers sti | deluding their followers with aleclarations that we do intend ovirihrowing their local institutions ? The abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia looks wery much as though it was being slightly interfered with even in the face of the reso- lution of the extra Session. {f any man will take the Congressional «;lobe, and read the column efier column of Abolition speeches that are daily being #nade, and look at the votes that have been taken as indicating how the majority will ‘vote on the emancipation bills now up, he will certainly come to the conclusion that the ohject of the war on our part is not now . what it was at the beginning, and that Cen gress, when it pa sed the above quoted res olution, ‘lid not mean what it said, and in tended only to decieve the people, or that the present Congress is recreant to its past pledges, and is misrepresenting the will of the people composing this Government, This Congress is doing just what the reb- el leaders want them to do, and just what they told the mass of the people (who, oth- erw'se, would have been for the Union) they would do. Tt gives thems aid and comfort by firing up the flarzing sprits of the masses who, at the beginning, were dispos. «d to doult the represcntations of their lead «Is, When will this war ended, if these men who ave dikunjonists at heart, are per- mitted to go and feed the flume of rebellion #n this manner. Old Ale has imprisoned unore thas one Democrat without even a mock shadow of a trial for ics eznse than this. If he is honest, he will {reat these zuen the same. red ; be e9eoe deneral Order No. 23, EleApQUARTERS PeNNsyLyvansa Minera, § Harumspure, May 26, 1862. On the pressing requisition of the Presis dent of the United States in the present em ergency it is ordered, That the several Major Generals, Driga- der Generals, and Cclonels of regimen's, throughout the Commonwealth muster with- out delay all the military organizations with- in their respective divisions, or under their control, together with all persons willing to , join their commands and proceed forthwith to the eity of Washington, er to such other points as way be indicated by fuwre or «ers, By order of A. G. CURTIN, Governor and Commander in Chief. A. L. Russe, Adj. Gen. TO ARMS! TO ARMS! We have barely time to call attention to the proclamation of the Governor received at a late hour last evening, and published in our paper this morning. The appeal is an urgent one, and not made without the most pressing cause. — Laat it will be patriotically responded to iby the people of Pennsylvania, there can be #0 doubt whatever. {Banks has been defeated by a large force of the enemy, and driven north of the Poto- aac. We are without particulars, but fu~ gitive soldiers who have arrived at Hagerss tawn report the rebel foree at 100,000 men. This is doubtless an exaggeration, but em- boldeved by their success the enemy may push on to Washington or Baltimore. in any cvent there is no time to lose in raising men to check them. There is no cause for unnecessary alarm, but if ever there was time for prompt action that time has now arrived. - Patriot & Union. hey ? Upon glancing at the head of this article, many readurs will silently say how simple, man that will ask such a question ? Does not everybody in this free government know what Yberty is ¢ Don’t we sce it? Don't we fel it, don’t we know it, and while in the very enjoyment of the thing itself, how igno aut must be the man who wilt ask the question— what is liberty ¢ know what that is ? Now, reader, stop — be not too hasty to pronounce judgment Are you quite sure that you can give a cor- If you can, and e with yourself rect and definite answer ? all men had cqual know! were qually honest, that blessed government which protects you in the enjoyment of lib. erty, woull not be imperilicd and its vory foundations shaken to their centre by the shock of civil fat ws demonstrate this fact. Natural liberty, says Blackstone, (than war. whom better anthority cannot be given), consists properly in A powet of acting as one thinks tic, without any 1 unless by the law of nature ; being a right inherent in us by birth, and one of the gifts of Giod (0 man at his creation, when constraint or he endowed him with the facalty of fice will, Thi test cxensive signi , then, is liberty in its broadest and that a man has the right to do and to act just as he pleases, subject only to the laws of his own ut this liberty no man who is a ation nature. member of society, or who lives uuder this what is called a free government, can or does enjoy to this extent. that men would do that they do not, were it i rot ur the mumcipal law. | There are many things To quote from our able jurist again, law is “a Now what is the municipal law ? i rule of action prescribed Ly the supreme | power in a State commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong. The law, therefore, is a brrricr to the enjoyment of a man’s nataral liverty. Ile is not permitted to act as he pleases, but must conform ‘his actions to the laws of the iand. No man, therefore, who lives under this or any other well regulated government, docs or can enjoy his natural Liberty. Tt is always curtailed by the municipal law. But why put a restriction upon that freedom “of action which the Almighty gave to cvery human being at bis creation 2 Simply be- cause mankind are so wicked, vicious, and depraved that without such restraint no so- ciety or order could be maintained in any com.nunity Riot and disorder woull run wild ; the stronger would overpower the weaker; and thus a general tumult would be kept up all the time, that would render any man’s life a curse to him. Mankind are not yet sufliciently civilized to enjoy this-liberty without abusing it. Even we, white American freemen, who boast so much of our intelligence and civilization, cannot do it, and, therefore, we have created the municipal law, and set it over us to keep us from doing evil ; in other words, to restrain our natural liberty which we acknowledge we are not sufliziently civilized to enjoy, What so loud and so much ? Simply the right to do as we please, provided we do not violate the law of the “nd. The only difference between this govern ment and others as respects the liberties of the subject is, that we do, or at least should enact our laws upon the hypothesis that the subject should be perritted to enjoy just as much of his natural liberty as his intellect and state of civilization fit him to enjoy, without infrir ging upon the rights of others, or, as is compatible with the promotion of the good of society. While other govern ments— the kingdoms and despotisms of Eua- rope govern their subjects upon the assump- tion that what is good for those who govern their kings, prinees, nobles, &c., is also good terests of the people, while they strive only to promote the interests of the rulers. The best human government is that which gives to the subject the privilege to enjoy the greatest possible amount of his natural liberty that his inteidect and degree of civil- ization fit him to enjoy without abusing it. Such a government is ours, and such is the extent and meaning of our liberty. With this understanding, then, of our own, or what we call white men’s hberty, let us understand what the term’slavery im- ports, and then we can determine whether or not slavery exists ugder this government, aud to what extent. Slavery, properly speaking, can only exist when a man boids another man of the same race, endowed by his ercator with the same gift of natural freedom, at all times subject to his will. very, is the right which the Constitution of our country has guaranteed to the citizens of certain States in the Unien, te hold sub. ject to their will certain human beings who are not recognized as citizens under our government and who, it is admitted, belong to an inferior race of humanity. According to our first definition of what the term slavery properly means, it will be readily admitted that real slavery does not anywhere exist in the United States. It re- mains only therefore, for us to examine sla- very as it is said and thought te exist, ac- cerding to the understanding of the people, We have seen in our discussion of the term liberty, that our own liberty is restrained within certain limits by the municipal law. That the best governments, of which ours is the very best, grants unto its subject the enjoyment cf the greatest possible amount of their natural liberty which their intellect and degree of civilization fit them to enjoy, without abuse to themselves and others. The African race being much inferior to us, both mn intellect and civilization, how much more necessary to restrain his natura] jiberty. The less the degree of civilization the grerter must be the restraint. Now, what are the facts as they really exist, strip- But what most men understand by sla- | RB SN RE SPE TE ye Liberty and Slavery— What are | ped of ail the T | how foolish or how ignorant must be the | le | ate him for this And ns for slavery, why, is it not the the procecds of his labor after providing for very opposite of liberty —3oes not every man | | master is bound to provide for him while in upon him who asks the above tnestions.— | ness his wants are many, and his value { : on nothing ; and in his old age, when his fee: then, is our boasted liberty of which we talk | for the subject, we strive to promote the in- | | port him comfortably as long as he lives. honor painted robes in which the abolitionists have clothed them. In the { first place we have only restrained his liber- ty by the same wholesome laws that we have restrained oar own. This not being of itself sufficient, owi g te bis ignorance and lack of civilization, we to placel over him. whose duty it 1s to see th t he obeys the law. #Ihe master is responsible to a ain extent for the violations of the law by those ‘under his control, and to remaner have allowed a master be <, he is allowed to enjoy his necessities and wants. And while the bis infaney, when by reason of his helpless. bleness renders him valueless, the Constita- | tion of our country has given him a proper- | ty in his labor during those yeare of man. | hood when his ser s are valuable. which | enables him to reclaitn him when he runs | away. and to dispose of his labor to others | for a valuable consideration. There is no such thiug as property in the man himself, claimed, we beheve, by the adherents of slavery, nor is it necessary, to support the institution, There is, theretore, no such thing as a traffic in human flesh and blood. as is asserted by ‘the alolition- ists —the traffic being only in the labor of the individual. The relation existing between master and slave, is the same as that existing in Penn sylvania and other Northern States between master and apprentice 3 the only difference being that the slave is black and an inferior being {o his master, while the apprentice is generally white and the equal of his master. The one an apprenticeship for life, the oth. er for a {crim of years. Such then is the institution of slavery-— | an apprentice ship for life with the right of | transfer by the master of the propery he | has in the labor of the apprentice, coupled with the stipulation that when the appren- tice becomes old and feeble thot he will sup- Now, we have said that if everybody un- derstood the meaning of liberty and slavery in this their true light, and then have striv- en only to promote the true interest of the | whole people 201 the government, our coun- | try would nob now be racked to its centre by the shock of civil war. The abelitionists, as Phillips says, have | striven for the last thirty years to overthrow fhis government, because the Constitution rocognized and protected this system of aps prenticesbip. They have misrepresented the nature of civil liberty and slavery to the people, and aroused to hostility the North | to the latter institution, who resolved upon | its overthrow. This gave the South the | pretext, for rebellion—the result is the press | ent civil war, the end of which is not yet | visible. ! wlan i iyo : The Decision of the Supreme Court. The decision of the Supreme Court of | Pennsylvania as delivered by Judge Wood ward, declaring the army vote unconstito- tional, is so exhaustive and conclusive that 1t cannot fail to receive the concurrence ot the public, However much the Court have regretted the necessity of this decision it obviously could not have determined oth- erwise consistently with its duty to ex- | pound, and not to make, the fundamental | law. The rejection of the army vote will have the effect of displacing Mr. Ewing from the office of Sheriff in Philadelphia, and Mr. | Stevenson from that of Clerk of the Or- | phan’s Court, and also give the Republicans a majority in the common council of Phila- delphia. At least five Republican members of the Tast House of Representatives were elected over ther Democratic opponents by the ar my vote, viz : Messrs. Hall and Russell, of Luzerne, Busby, of Adams, Crane, of Wayne, and Daugherty, of Schuylkill. — These men sat and vo‘ed as members of the House, and gave the Republicans their ma~ jority in that body. By their votes John | Rowe was clected Speaker. and the most iniquitous Congressional gerrymander that ever disgraced the statute books of the Com- monwealth was passed. Had this decision been rendered before or durirg the session of the Legislature, it would have changed the political complexion of the House. Whether the decision will oust persons who now hold county offices in different parts of the State by virtue of the army vote in cases where a contest was not coms menced within the time proscribed by law for filing petitions in cases of this deserip- tion, is a point upon which we do not feel competent to venture an opinion.— Patriot and Union. may eeaeb The Secretary of War, in his statement to congress at the commencement of the present session, represented that we had then jo the field some six hundred and ninety thousand men. Since the last re- quisition hss been made, it is stated by Re- publican Jouruals that we never had more than five hundred thousand men. There is evidently a lie here somewhere. This fact, however, is certain, that the government has been paying and furnishing provisions for six hundred and ninety thons- and men. If weonly have 500,000 men, who got the pay for the (90,000 men that we ne,er had in the field? Lid Simon or sowme other Republican Patriot. veer = 177" When the bill to provide for the pro- tection of the Bald Eagle, commonly called the American Eagle, came up in the Iouse of Representatives on its third reading, Mr. Severance the author of the bill, arose in its defence, and addressed the House as fol- lows: *¢ Mr, Speaker—I have only to say that any man who will in any way injure or take the life of our national bird is mean enough to carry rotten sardines in the same pocket with musty fine cut tobacco, and pass the same around on the ace of spades at the communion table ; or would empty the can- teen of a rebel prisoner and sit upon it and whistle a confederate air through the keya hole of Washington's tomb,” The bill of course passed unanimously. — St. Paul Pioneer. Democratic Patriotism, OF all ucts of partisan baseness which the history « f the country affords, says a cotem- . . ‘ porary, there is no single act which is so | shameful and dishonorable as the attewpt of of the Republican press to impugn the loy alty of the Democracy of the country. There never has been a parallel in the history of free governments of a surrender of paris sun feeling 0 great and so generous, as that of the Democracy of the country, upoa the breaking out of the present rebellion. — | Feeling, aye knowing, to a moral certainty that had their advice been followed, the Un- | ion would have been preserved with Louor, | and without war ; yet, when war ‘came, with a patriotism and devotion to country unparalleled, all party feeling and strife were comparatively suspended, and those who had been, in part, friends, pronounced enemies, means and supplies unlimited in amount were given to the government, and with cheerful alacrity they rushed to arms by the bundred thousands side by side with their political opponents whom they believ~ ed to be in part responsible for the war. Democrats are in every companmy, and | Democratic officers have led on every battle field of the war. Indeed. whole companies and regiments contain none other but Demo- | crats, and without 2emocratic soldiers the old Capitol would to-day be the headquar- | ters of Jeff Davis, and the United States of | | relief of the starving population. America would be only known in history. This is the glovious Democratic record ; and, while We point with pride to the histo~ ry of the patty, from the days of Thomas Jefferson to the present time, we believe | there is no one period of its history which will present so bright a page to the admir- ing patriot, us that on which is recorded the | self sacrificing patriotism of the Democrat- | ic party in this hour of the country’s pesil. Aud how has this been requted on bes half of their political opponents 2 They have neither received nor asked political [a- vor. Bat they have asked for justice, and have been repaid by base ingratitude. Their loyalty is impugued, their patriotism im- peached, and insult heaped upon insult, even while the government, under their oppo- nent’s administering has been given over | to the rapacity of plunderers and specula tors. When the history of the civil revolution now going ou 1s written, posterity will not know which wost to wonder at, the mag nanimity of the Democracy thus devotedly sustaining thew politi ol : ; staining thew political opponents, or the i indignation meeting when they ' sce Gov. Johnson established his military | sordidness of the hordes of speculators in their trains, who saw, in the moment of na- tional penl and confusion, only the opportu- | nity to pillage the Treasury. eco How Mortars are Loaded and Fired. The following description of the mortar practice is by a correspondent of the Cinein- i nati Commercial : ‘+ 1 took a position on shore near the point and alongside the mortars, to witness practice. weighing from cighteen to twenty pounds is The derrick drops the shell in; the angle is calculated ; a long cord is attached to the primer ; the gunner steps out upon the plat- | nce of the crew upon the | and | form, and the ba shore. The captain gives the word, the gunner gives the cord a sudden jerk, a crash like a thousand thunders follows, a tongue of flame leaps from the mouth of the mortar, and a cloud of smoke rolls up in beautiful fleeey spirals, dropping into vings of exquisite proportions, One can see the shell as it leaves the mor- tar flying through the air, and apparently no larger than a marble. The next you sce of the shell, a beautiful cloud of smoke bursts into sight caused by explosion. Im- agine ten of these monsters thundering at once, the air filled with smoke clouds, the gunboals belching out destruction and com pletely hidden from sight in whirls of smoke the shel screaming through the air with an uncarthly sound and the distant guns of the enemy sending their solid shot and shell | above and around us, dashing the water up | in ghstening columns and jects of spray, and you have the sublime poetry of war. An incident however, will show how completely the battle may loose its poetry and develop into a stern and suggestive reality. Impatient of being at a distance, and wishing to witness the effect of our shells which were playing upon the head of the Island; in company with one or two others, 1 strolled around the point, until we came m full view of the enemy’s lower forts. We kept along the bank until we passed our pickets, and then took to the cornfields and behind fences, until we reached an old de- serted mill, where we emerged in plain sight of the floating battery. No sooner had our parity come in sight, than a flash of light shot from its sides, and a shell came scream- ing like a fiend over our heads, bursting a | short distance behind us. The poetry of shells suddenly changed with a double~quick retrograde prose. Stanton AND MoUrnerLan.—The following paragraphs from two of the most loyal and respectable New York papers contain mats ter for grave consideration. The New York World says : But why were Lhe rebels permitted to es cape from Yorktown at all ? The answer is at hand. and the time has come when it should be made public. The rebel army has escaped only because General McClel- lan’s plans were interfered with, and in an essential particular upset by the Secretary of War, General McClellan proceeded down the Potomac with the understanding that Gen. McDowell was to follow him with his corps d'armee. It was tended that the operations against Yorktown should be pre- ceded by the taking of Gloucester Point by McDowell. Had this plan been adhered to retreat would have been impossible. It is the Secretary of War who is answerable for the escape of Johnston's army—a blunder which has defrauded our brave soldiers of- the glory of that valiant and vigorous fight~ ing for which Mr. Stanton professes so much admiration. Upon the above, the Commercial Adverti- | ser remarks as follows : So says the World, and sooner or later official statements and revelations will prove that it speaks only the truth. In fact, the 'I'ribune, once so bold and marked mn its laudations of Seerctary Stanton, at length admits that the Secretary of War *¢ once op- | posed a request” of Gen. McClellans, ** but | the President granted it on the ground that | he had promised to do so.” The truth is gradually coming out, and the charges of | interference by the Secretary, first opeuly | charged and condemned by the Commercial Advertiser, will eventually be more than proved. i I have taken from the rebels not less than five | gard. | ments of the orld, they have shown | more elearly that it nceds none.—Prens | | tice. | their | The firing of a mortar is the! very poetry of a battle. A bag of powder | as happy as a polly woggle. dropped into the bore of the huge monster. — | | tremely ludicrous. | ing it pretty good, thought he would make | the reply, and if that's too crowded, one of FEN, PASTE, & SCISSORS. 17 Beautiful. — The weather. 07 Skeedaddled— Gen. Bank's army T7Good —Mrs. Sourbeck’s Ice cream. 1 Look well —The grain fields. TZ~Svon to be here—The Fourth, J 7 Excited—Our citizens over the news Of Bank's retreat on Menday. {7Slimly attended —The Lecture on Mon- day night. [7"He wht asks do questionsis queer, Lut who asks many is the querist. [Never turn n blessing round to sce whether it has a dark side to it. 171f Richmond’s doom isn’t staring her in the fhce it is close after behind her back. — Prentice. 177 Within the last eight days our armies immortal hundred pieces of heavy artil'ery. 077 There are Southern rebels, and there are Northern rebels— the former are the more respectable by far.— Prentice. 07+ What stingy fellows they must be | in New York ?” exclaimed a fine country t+ Our Sallie says she never could get a buss without paying five eents for it” 77 The rebels are the oppesite of = Achil- les. His danger was in his heels. Their whole safety is in theirs.— Prentice. [It seems that Jeft Davis’s coachman has run away from him. Well, Gen. M’- Clellan can drive him.— Prentice. 177A large quantity of provisions is to be taken immediately to New Orleans for the We were ready to give them a bellyfull of fight, but as they politely declined that, we will give them a belly full of victuals. — Prentice. J27 There are thousands of people calling themselves patriots, who are extremely anx- ous (o have Gen. M’Clellan put down.— Well the country will gladly pat him down —as one of the greatest Generals of any age. --Prentice. 077A Southern paper advises that Gen. | Floyd be nominated for a Major Generalship. le way be nominated and confirmed, but, if s0, he will be just what he is now—acon- | firmed scoundrel. 177 The rebels have got to ranning so | fist, that, try as they may, it will take them six months to stop.— Prentice. T7Itis said that the beggars of the Southern Confederacy positively decline Confederate notes. — Prentice. I~ Type metal is composed of 100, by weight of lead, 23 of antimony, and 4of tin. | About five per cent is usually entailed by forming the alloy. 17 The rebel Congress 1s taunted by its organs with having adjourned for the sole! purpose of enab’ing its members to secure the r personal safety by flight. 107 We suppose the retels will hold an lemin that { authority at Nashville, several ladies of that | city have been confined. — Prentice. J71If the events of this war have shown! that the U. S. Government has no friends to | rely upon among the monarchical govern- | still | 057 Sal,” said lisping Sam Snooks, «af | you don’t love me, thay tho ; and if you love | me, thay tho; and if you love me, and don’t | like to thay tho, theethe my hand.” Sal! put her hand upon her buzzum, Sam felt a gentle pressure of her tother paw and was (Z7>The Charleston Mercury says that the wholeSouth «boils with natural indigna- ton.” There will soon be an explosion or collapse of her boiler. — Prentive. 07 It is said that old John Bell has be- come terrible bitter againse tae world: He thinks of nobo y now but himself and the | devil.— Prentice. (7~The Richmond papers recently pro claimed that, if Yorktown - should fall the Confederacy would full. Yorktown has fallen.— Prentice. 77 Among the excuses offered for exemp- tion in the drafiing in Georgia some are ex In Smyth county. one man in enrolling himself, wrote opposite his | name, ‘one leg too short.”” The next man | that came in noticing his excuse and deem- his better, wrote opposite his name. « dot/ leas too short’ —7"When a poor woman steals to keep her from starving they call the act a theft and pumsh it as a crime. When a rich wo- man steals to gratify her longing for finery they call it cleptomania, and give her sym. pathy and a fashionable doctor. On the whole, says the Boston Post, it is an advan- tage to be rich, It promotes pleasant lan guage and charitable opinions. —Erchange. | 7A farmer's daughter was visited by a | young rastic, who finding it difficult to | keep up the conversation, asked the girl, | after an embarrassing silence had prevailed | some time, if she knew of anybody that wan- | ted to buy a shirt, : =No, I don’t,” she 1eplied, + have you got one to sell 2” «0, no,” said the rustic, ut in detail the tual occurence, too,——Mount Carrol Mir- ror. General McClellan. The Washington correspondent of the N, XY. Journa! of Commerce, a Republican journal that has stecod nobly by Clellan from the beginning, said in a letter written nearly a fortuight azo : I am glad to assure those of your read who have relatives and {riends in the before Yorktowr, that everything there going on in the most sat: McClellan stock has risen rapicly since the General commenced his operations be. fore Yorktown. Men who up to that time seemed unable to grasp fully his grand de sign and to understand the steps toward its consummation, now unequivocally and in public avow themselves anong the warmest admirers of the man whom at one time they were afraid fully to trust. 1 have it on the highest authority —one that admits of no error or misrepresentation —that whatever may have been the bearing of certain members of the Cabinet hitherto toward General McClellan, they are now unanimous in giving to him an implicit con- fidence. I may go farther and say thai the highest military authority in this city openly des clares that Gen. McClellan’s demcnstrations before Yorktown, whieh he has professional ly visited and inspected, are those of a mas. ter in military strategy. y General Me 15 bk I hurriedly write these few lines, good fortune having pat in my way the informa- tion they contain, because 1 think the knowl edge of these facts, which you know are as authentic as I have represented them to be, ought to be diffused through a city and State that have so many sons before York- town, whose fate hangs upon Gen. Mclel- lan’s generalship. Such may rest assured that the army will be handled with con- summate skiil and not a life b: needlessly | sacrificed.” We need not remind the public how faith- | fully and brilliantly Gen. McClellan has ful. | filled these assurances in the operations that | have since taken place. So grandly and vic- | torivusly has he borne himself, indeed, that | not ouly is the Cabinet now *‘wranimous in | givicg to him an implicit confi tence,’ even the abolitionists 11 Congress, u pressure of his glorfous conduct, ar Un Friday last, Mr. Love: with characteristic modesty ‘and consist & tn the House at chieftain “for the display of those high military qual. ities which secure important results with 2h few weeks ago, this same Lovejoy was amongst | the hottest of the abolition cligne who de lellan for permitting the | without a battle, | visit upon him there- | The | controversy,” said the New York Times of | that date, still rages in Washington as to | whether the evacuation of Manassas by the rebels is a matter for rejoicing or 1egret. — There was some talk of a movement in Con- gress to censure McClellan for thrashing the enemy without spilling blood.” The con trast presented by the action of these zealots on IMiiday shows that their zeal however flaming is still largely tempered by discre- tion. Notwithstanding their wildness, they are cool enough to see that Gen. McClellan's success over the cnemy in front has at length made him invincible to the encmy in the rear, and that, as calumny is no longer safe and praise unavoidable, the quicker praise is given the less awkward the revolu.. tion will appear, and the less hollow the vir- tue they would make of necessity. There is manifestly a wonderful deal of method in their madness. Very difterent are the feelings with which the true friends of the country look upon Gen. McClellan's success. The praise they render him 1s a virtue indeed and a thrilling Nay, they share even his personal tri umph, for itis but the fulfilment of their own generous pledges in bis behalf, from which through good and through evil repert | they have never swerved. They cherished | a proud faith in him, aud proudly has he | rewarded it. Yet even now the full gran- | deur of his success is not generally compre- hended. The public has but caught glimps- es of his wighty achievements as a strate. gist, though the glimpses caught have been most significant, as well as most honorable to the gallant officers who have furnished the | revelation. I beg to say to the General | commanding the armies,’’ said General Burn | side in his official report of the battle of | Newbern, +‘that Lhave endeavored to carry out the minute instruclions given me by | Joy . evacuation of Ma © | | | events have been singularly coincident with his anticipations. I only hope that we may remaining plans of the campaign. The only thing 1 have to regret is the delay caused by the elements.”” “How far,” said a trust- | worthy and accomplished correspondent of | the Wheeling Intelligencer, writing [rom | Washington in the early part of April, ‘Gen. McClellan is the aathor of the general plan of the campaizn—how far he may be ered- ited with what has been done at the South and West—is another matter of hot dispute. Some deny him any right of authorship — others grant the fullest credit, and will nov allow that a singlespcint has been gained which was not in his programme. Iere, however, I have a bit of interesting testimo ny. The subject was under discussisn at a dinner table where Gen. Banks was present, and he, who by the way, stands by General McClellan most loyally, quietly remarked that while in consultation with Gen. Me. Clellan Jast November or December, the lat- ‘er ncidentally took down & map, and pointed out to him upon it every movement that has since been made by our armies ; and, as to Manassas, said that we should either drive the rebels from it in a success ful battle, or they would evacuate it of their own accord.” «We have good authority,” said the New York Journal of Commerce, not long ago, ‘for saying that a letter has been written by Gen. Halleck to a membot of his family in this city’ in which, with a soldier’s anx- iety for the giving of honor to whom honor is due, he ascribes the credit of the entire plan of movements at the West, and the successful combinations which have result- ed in the repossession, by the Union. of Mis souri, Kentucky, and Tennessee, to Major General McClellan.” It is plain that the whole story of the young chieftain’s triumph is yet to be told. But enough is already known to redeem the bright hopes that centred upon him,— Enough is known to wreathe his name with unfading renown. For our own part, when we think of what he has done and of what he has suffered, of the enlightened energy with which he has wrought and of the, Christian patience with which he has en- dured, and finally, of the crowning splendor of his conduct on the field, we can but deem him in many respects one of the loftiest and brightest characters of the age. Weeks ago a New England poet addressed McClellan in these vigorous stanzas : Through the paths of toil and danger Manfully thy soul endures ; For the pulse of a great nation Throbs in unison with yours, Although slander go before thee, Scorn each foul, mahgnant word : While the Eagle hovers o'er thee, And thy country claims thy sword ! * * * * * * Answer not your vile agsaile 5 ; - - Abolition’s coward clique— Ww ilson’s cobblers, Sumner’s railers, Phiilip’s scanted Corps d" Afrique.” Heavenward look for inspiration ; For thy mission i3 divine, 3 forty millions wait Salvation Thro this ministry ef thine : not zow thy heavy burden, Fhe Old Umon”’ nobly guard ; Immortality thy gurdeon Kecp thou constant watch and ward. Steady, Patriot soldier, steady ! ard thy destiny sublime, watchful, ever ready, Waiting on the bridge of Time. In the spint of this stirring invocation has he acted. Let hus example be cherished. It is worth more to humanity than the whole series of his brilliant material victo- ries, inestimable as their value is. — Louise ville Journal, Ea Cotton, Flax and Wool, BY TIlii AUTHOR OF ‘*THERE IS NoBODY HURF.’’ You may talk of monarchies rotten, And princes of noble birth, But of all the kings, King Uotton Is King of the Kings of carth, "Neath the sunny skies of the tropics IIe sits on a snow white throne, And his kingdom is universal Wherever the arts are known. Ie moves a million of spindles By a wave of his delicate hand And furnishes work and raiment For the poor of every lami, {Ie is King of the toiling million Who live by the sweat of the brow, Uf those who ply the shuttle Of those who guide the plow, From the Gulf to the polar regions, From the East to the distant West, In every humble dwelling Ile 1s always a welcome guest, | He is a friend of the poor and nzedy, As well as to the rich and brave, | ile clings to us white living, And follows ns to the grave. : ladies are all ms courtiers v of all their charms divine, e half are composed of cotton And the other of crinoline. They talk of flaxen kingdom, Of the tlax that is yat to grow Of the age when the ladies breastworks Are all to be made of tow. jut.hiow could the delicate creatures Forsake their cotillions and reels And de their mothers before then, Sit down te their hatchels and wheels, Without the aid of King Cotten They would all be moved to tears, And the wheels of civilization Roll bick a score of years. Yet croakers say he is haughty, That with gold his coffers are fall, And instead of being blessed with cotton We are cursed with a reign of wool, y is wool in the daily papers, is wool npon every page, ure generations 1 this the wooly age, Puere is wool in the eyes of thy people, And many are frantic and blind, And instead of the fleecy cotton Choose wool of the blackest kind. There is plenty of wool inthe palpi, There 15 wool tu the chair of S.ate. Cur foreign relarions are woolly As the wool on a negro’s pate, = There is wool in our national contitils, It 1s twisted and piled across : Our Congress and Senate are woolly As Fremout’s woolly horse. Our national credit is woolly — We have little at home, none abroad ; Bink paper is all suspended, By a sleader woolen cord, ’Iis said that on Abraham's bosom The wool refuses to grow, And cannot be breught to the surface By Greeley, Beecher & Co ; But he stands between Samuel and Sambo, Keeping the latter at bay, Acting much like the donkey that perished Between the two bundles of hay, Wher this reign of corruption is over, Its measure of infamy full There will be found in our national coffers A very large bundle of wool. Bryan, Oho, Jan. 6, 1862. ————— Dre 17 If what the telegraph said yesterday of Gen. Hunter is true, which we are not disposed to believe on the present authority Ie should be promptly recalled by the Pres- ident, . ‘he conduct imputed to Gen. Uanter is an outrage, not only upou humanity and the constitution, but upon the dictates of sense both common and military. It 1s a reckless and guilty violation of poli y as well as of principle. Such conduct, if unchecked, would euatralize, and more than neutralize, the brightest victories we have achieved on the Gulf. An officer capable of conduct at once so criminal and so stupid, merits the disgrace he would bring upon the cause he betrays. We cannot as yet believe that Gen. Uuuter is such an officer. If he is, let him be instantly recalled ; for, in the very hour of triumph, he throws open the doors of our stronghold to the enemy, turn- ing victory to ashes in our grasp. In this case, whatewger Gen. Hunter may be in mo- tive, he is, ee his exemplars in Congress. a traitor in eflecct, But we sincerely hope that this case may turn out to be not the true one. If it should, we are confident that the President, as in the less heinous case of Fremont, will discharge his impera- tive duty with promptitude and decision.— Louisville Journal. ew rw AsorrrioNesy IN ConGRress,—Mr. Vor hees, on the floor of the House in Congress a few days since said, in regard to Abolis tionism : «- Why comes it here now # It never was a friend to the Union, and it is not so to day. It never wanted a Union with Slave States, or a fellowship with slave owners, and does not now. Itis at war with the Constitu- tion ; itis an cnemy to the Government ; it is the twin monster to the doctrine of Seces - sion, and like the withered and hateful hags on the blasted heath of Scotland, the tao together coucocted the present civil war. Let the spirit of the Union, born of the Con- stitution, rise up between them like a bright angel and banish them forever. Then wil the nation renew its mighty youth and g on again 1 its swift flight of prosperity and renown. Then will ¢* kindred and country - men ’’ once more assembly under the same flag, and obeying the commard of the Prince of Peace, * love one another.” Asa al AN INCIDENT OF THE BATTLE OF SHILOH. — The following incident of Shiloh is related by an eye and ear witness : — Two Kentucky regiments met face to face, and fought cach other with terrible resolution, and it happen- ed that one of the Federal soldiers wounded and capoured his brother, and after handing him back, began firing at a man near a tree when the captured brother called to him and said, «don’t shoot there any more—that'’s father.” ano. 177" Who would make the bast soldiers ? Dry gouds men ; they have the wost dril- ling. - ™ PCTS S50