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Thursday Morning, June, 5, 1862.
Democratic State Convention,
in aceordance with a resolution of the
Democratic State Executive Committee, mire
Dexocracy will meet in STATE CONVEN-
TION, at HARRISBURG, on Fripay, the
4th day of July, 1862, at 10 o'clock, a, M,
to nominate candidates fer AUDITOR GENERAL
and SURVEYOR GENERAL, and to adopt such
measures as may be deemed necessary for
the welfare of the Democratic party and the
country.
WILLIAM H. WELSL,
Chaiiman of the Democratic State Ex. Com.
- te ED ———
The Logic of the Press Editor.
Last weck we published the Proclamation
of the cditor of the Press, Mayor of Belle-
fonte. in which he threatens our citizens
that he 1s going to enforce the borough or
dinances against all offenders, without any
exception, in favor of gentlemen of color. —
We also took occasion to call the Mayur's
attention to the fact, that only the week be-
fore, he had counseled, through his paper,
the *‘knocging down" of citizens who might
utter disloyal sentiments, which would tend
to a breach of the peace. We did this, be
cause we could not understand how a man,
whose sworn duty it is to enforce the laws
and preserve the peace, could reconcile his
conscience to his sworn duty while counsel-
ing the people in such a way that if they
followed his advice they would become vio
lators of the law and breakers of the peace.
We also took occasion to say, that the
“Mayor” would likely reply to us, and call
us 4 Breckinmdge Democrat. We ere
right in our prediction, as the following ex
tract of an article, copied verbatim et liter
atin, will show. We copy it in paragraphs,
commenting as we go, upon each, in order
to show in full force the profound wisdom
and the magnificent logic of our town **May
or’);
“Better men, probably, (says the Mayor)
¢ than all the Chief Burgesses this Borough
** ever had, and who now stand in the ranks
** of the army of the Union, are not only be
«ing knocked but deliberately shot down
“ and murdered with the bayonet by these
‘very Breckiridgers who commenced the
‘* war to overthrow the government,”
Better men than our present and dearly
beloved Mayor being shot down, &c! Why,
we declare this is an astonishing bit of news,
and if true, it is really too bad. But this
we think is assuming entirely foo much,
as better men than our Mayor are in fact
very scarce, at least he seems to think so
himself, as he couples with his declaration
the word “‘probably.”” There are probably
better men being shot, &. There is evs
dently some doubt in his mind whether,
awong all that army of brave spirits Lat.
tling to preserve the government, there be a
&ngle one of more importance than his hon-
or, the **Mayor.” But next comes the rub,
just as we predicted :
** The Watchman editor is unquestionably
** a Breckinridge Democrat—he is in reality
“nothing more, nothing less.”
See now hew he proves this :
«If it were otherwise, his cons'ant cen-
“sure of Mr. Lincoln’ every effort to save
the country would, instead, be a laudable,
‘* patriotic support of the government.”
If it were otherwise than what ? Why,
the language of the two sentences makes it
plain that if the editor of the Watchman
were anything else than a De:nocrat—Breck-
iuridge or Douglas —there being no differ.
ence now, he might say about” the adminis-
¢ration just what he pleased, and all the
censure he could heap upon Mr. Lincoln
would be a laudable and patriotic support of
the government, 0, yes, being a Democrat
is our great sin, and if we were only an ab.
olitionist we could say just what we pleased.
We could then slander General McClellan,
sow dissatisfaction among his army ; we
could spit upen the Constitution, call it a
covenant with hell, say that we would rath-
er dissolve the Union into as many con-
tending fragments as there are States, than
that slavery should not perish 1 this strug~
gle, and, just like the Press editor, call ey-
erybody a traitor that would not say amen
to it all.
We thank “‘the Mayor’ for his candor for
once, in making this statesment, as it gives
the reason 80 long concealed from the pub.
lic why some pesple can talk treason every
day of their lives, slander our generals, our
private soldiers and civilians with the insin-
uation that, because they were Breckinridge
Democrats, they are therefore traitors. —
Their sin of commission is, that they were
Breckinridge Democrats, and their sin of
omission is, that they are not followers of
an Abolition God.
This craven cry of Breckinridge Demo.
erat ig the most shameless effort to boister
up the fast decaying form of the Republican
party, and to bully the people into silence
while the Constitution of our country is ben
ing torn to atoms, and the people’s money
fast disappearing from Uncle Sam’s coffers
into the pockets of a few hungry Cormor-
ants, that vulture like, hover around the
treasury department that ever was witness.
ed by any people, But they are fast begin-
ning to understand that is only the ery of
stop thief,
0 The following article which contains
a favorable notice of our fellow towsman,
Wm. F. Reynolds, we copy fiom the Clin
ton Democrat of last week. It affords us
pleasure to record the compliment it cone
tains, to Major Reynolds, as itis well de.
served, and we are glad to see that his mer-
it is appreciated wherever it 1s known.
It is time. toe, that the people were be.
coming aroused to the necessity of displac-
ing the present fanatical Congress by con-
Servative men, who will have a higher ob-
ject in view than the mere advancement of
the negro at the expense of the laboring
white man.
Wm. F. Reynolds is in truth the man fo
the times and we are pleased to;jsee that the
people of Clinton county seem to know it.—
Whether he wants an office or not, is not,
and should not be the question in a crisis
like this.
The office now must hunt the man, and
not the man the offie, and if the people of
Centre and her sister counties choose the
man and that choice should doom the Major
to one term in Congress, he must go, will-
ingly or rot :
Lamar, May 21, 1862.
Editor Clinton Democrat—Sir :—The
time is fast approaching when the people of
the Counties composing this Congressional
District will be required to select some sui-
table man as their candidate for Congress.
In times like these it behoves them to con-
sult tozether, andlaying aside all preferences
for individuals on account of personal friend
ship, select a man from among the people,
whose known ability, personal integrity and
loyalty to this, the best government in the
world, cannot be disputed. The unseemly
sight that has been witnessed in the present
session of Congress, of unprincipled dema.-
gogues and political tricksters, old political
backs, in the midst of our country’s greatest
peril, working solely for the aggrandizment
of self, at the expense of the tax-paying peo-
ple, and the utmost peril to constitutional
liberty —placing their own advancement and
the negro far above the Constitution and
the Union —should arouse the lovers of
Republican institutions toa sense of the
awful precipice upon which we, as a nation
have been forced by the negro nabobs of
the present Congress. Let us then, fellow
citizens of Clinten county, irrespective of
local right, or local issues, select a ‘man to
represent us in the next Congress who loves
his country abve all things else, and who will
lebor to preserve our government in its pris.
tine purity and integrity. Thecitizens of this
portion of this county, (and I have consul-
ted with not only a few,) seem to think
that WM. F. REYNOLDS, of Bellefonte,
Centre county, is our best and most availa.
ble man. His personal integrity and known
abilities as a busmess man are unsurpassed
and for his ability as a statesman none can
be btter. He has never sought an office,
and we do not know that he will accept the
Congressional nomination, if tendered him ;
but this we do know that if he does, we will
have in Congress a representative of whom
we need not be ashamed and who will, if any
human keg can re-cement, by his consery-
ative influence, the dismembered fragments
of this now unhappy Union. We would
suggest his name for the consideration of
the people,
A JEFFERSONTAN DEMOCRAT.
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[T= We give, to-day, in another column,
the particulars of therecent great fight at
Fair Oaks, near the city of Richmond, which
we were only enabled to mention last week.
It was a terrible conflict, and our loss in
killed, wounded and missirg, according to a
recent dispatch from Gen. McClellan, foots
up toover 5,000 men. The loss of the ene
my was still much greater, and they suffer-
ed a most disastrous defeat. The move-
ments of Gen. McClellan have thus far been
most brilliant, and in a few days or weeks
at furthest, we may expect to hear of the
fall of Richmond.
From Gen. Halleck's department we have
intelligence ot the capture of Memphis and
Fort Pillow and Chattanooga, in Tennessee,
one of the most important stragetic points
in the whole South, it being the place at
which converge several of the most import-
ant railroads in the Confederacy. This gives
the Union army the control of the Memphis
& Charleston Railroad throughout its whole
length of about two hundred and eighty
miles, which is of inestimable value to us.
We presume it will also give us control of
at least a portion of the Western & Atlantic
road, which runs from Chattanooga, through
Dalton and Marietta to Atlanta, Georgia,
thus opening up the way of the Union army
to the Northern portion of that State, and to
the Eastern portion of Tennesses. Alto-
gether, the news is certainly very cheering
to us, however depressing it may be to the
confederates.
[== It may be a fair question whether a
slight knocking: down would not materially
Improve the: low-ebbed patriotism of the
Watchman ?—Central Press. i
Our devil wonders whether the Press edit-
or thinks himself man enough to do that.—
“Come on, Macduff, and d—d”’—if we don’t
set Frank on you.
ett meres
TREATMENT OF Union PRISONERS AT WiN-~
CHESTER. —We take the following from the
Harper's Ferry correspondence of the New
York Times :—Major Wilder Dwight, of the
Second Massachusetts, who wag taken pris~
oner in Bank’s retreat, was held in Win-
chester a short time, then released on parole
and given the liberty of the town. He says
he was well treated, and with great respect
even by officers and men, and 80, he says,
were all the other Union prisoners that he
saw or heard of. He says the enemy re.
leased all the Union Surgeons immediately
—on the sole condition that they should re.
port at Washington and use their influence
to have al! Surgeons on both sides regarded
as neutral. One of their officers was very
indignant when told what atrocities were
laid to their charge and asked, Do they
think we are barbarians 2” Colonel Kenly
of the Maryland regiment was confined at
Mr. Barton's house, and was treated by
Barton with exceeding kindness aud care.
GALLATIN, Tenn., May 20, 1862.
Mg. PreNTICE—Dear Sir: When your
quotation from, and comment on my “last
letter reached me, I had just closed another,
-and a very lengthy one to you, in which I
abused you to my heart’s content. The vo-
cabulary of acrimonious words was come
pleteiy exhausted, and I was satisfied with -
out sending it to you. I have avenged my-
self upon you, Mr. Prentice, by abusing you
and the sweetness of revenge, to my wo-
man’s nature briigs its own reward. Real-
ly, after all there is said, I can scarcely be-
lieve you are so bad as my preconceived
opinions had made you out, though you are
bad enough still.
If you would cease to abuse rebel ladies,
their fathers, husbands, brothers, and sweet-
hearts, we might all think so well of you ;
for surely you are Righly possessed of “ the
vision and the faculty divine.’ Genus,
talent, and superior attainments are certain.
ly yours in an eminent degree ; but you em-
ploy them oftimes unworthily ; you permit
the rankest weeds to luxuriate in the flow-
ery walks of Eden ; you devote the highest
attributes of divinity to ignoble purposes.
I know that woman should not soil the
delicate and refined sentinents of her nature
in the foul pool of politics, but to some ex.
tent she is excusable in times like thess,
when our social and domestic as well as po-
litical relations are seriously involved in the
tide of revolution, which seems to threaten
with its boisterous waves, every institution
of which an American might justly boast.
I might discuss these questions with you
ad infinitum without either losing or gaining
‘a point,’ since you are confirmed in * the
error of your way ” and I in the rectitude
of mine. So in the future, I shall act upon
the hypothesis that something good ”’ can
‘‘ come out of Nazareth" even, and shall at-
tribute the error of your course toa misguid-
ed judgment more than to the wilful promp-
tings of an evil heart.
If you knew the * fiery ordeal ”’ through
which the heart of many a woman has pass-
ed since the commencement of this bitter
and relentless strife, douotless you would !
be a little more tolerant of ¢ she~devil ’
rebeldom.
In conclusion I have a proposition to sub-
mit: If you will agree in future to with~
hold your abuse of the Southern ladies, I
will myself renew the proposition for a per-
sonal interview, and will, furthermore, be
happy to welcome you to the hospitalities
of the *fierce little rebel’s mansion.”
In token of ** a covenant of peace ”” which
I am willing to ‘ establish” for the future,
I send you herewith a white rose bud, as
bright and beautiful as sver grew in the
garden of the Hesperides, which shall con-
tinue as a token of peace between «t thee |
and me,” at least so long as you withhold
in future your bitter epithets of rebel ladies.
In as much as I was the aggressor in the
first instance, I deem it my duty to ask for
the first armistice, as well as to propose the
first treaty of peace,
MINNIE MINDEN.
Dear, dearer, dearest Minnie, we are very
glad that you did not send us the letter 1n
which you abused us to your ‘‘hearts con.
tent,” for we are sure that such a heart as
yours, whether in anger or in love is not
eagily contented.
Minnie, you venture to think that we»
though * bad enough,’ are not quite so bad |
as you have supposed us to be. Ah well,
we wish we were better, but, it you knew |
how often ard how earnestly we have labor~
ed, not all unsuccessfully, in behalf of the
unhappy and as we think guilty captives |
from the South, and especially if you were
to read our earnest remounstrances against
the adoption of any harsh governmental pol
icy toward the people of that beautiful sec-
tion, you would think far more kindiy of us
than you do now. We love the South, bug
are for the prosecution of this war on the
part of the United States because withcut
war the Union cannot be rescored, and bes
cause with the death of the Union the last
hope of freedom on earth must perish. We
are now fighting a mighty battle in behalf
of mankind not only of this generation but
of all time. It is because we want perman
ent peace and freedom, instead of perpetual
wars and a remorseless despotism, in this
lately happy and giorious land, that we are
willing to fight against the terrible crime of
dividing into two miserable sections the
country which our grey old fathers bequeath-
ed to us in unity and strength.
You cowplain, Minnie, that we have call -
ed rebel women ¢ she- devils.” We have ap-
plied that term only to those females, who,
by insulting words and unwomanly deeds,
have grossly outraged the feelings of Union
officers and soldiers We Lave too lofty a
regard for your sex to call such beings
women, and we seriously doubt whether Sa-
tan will not undertake to hold us personally
responsible for calling them devils.
ever we will fight the old rebel if he likes; |
indeed we have been doing this all our li ves.
You are so kind to say in reference to us
that vou think ¢ something good may come
out of Nazareth even.” Well, well, as
great a good as Jesus Christ came out of
Nazareth of old, and so we shall not quar
rel with you for styling us a Zazareth, but
trust that our soul may be the birth place
of some thoughts and feelings partaking of
the spirit of the divinity.
You promise, dear Minnie, to welcome us
to the hospitalities of your mansion if we
will not abuse rebel ladies hereafter. We
could not abuse ladies, rebel or loyal, withs
out doing violence to our nature. Oh that
all ladies were as just and true to themselves
as we are to them. Finally, Minnie Minden
we thankfully accept your rose-bud as a
token of peace between us. Its perfume is
PEN, PASTE & SCISSORS,
I= The best arrival of late is the splen-
did rain we had last week.
37" Who first introduced salt provision
into He navy ? Noah, for he had Ham in
e ark.
077 You need not tell all the truth, unless
to those who have a right to know it all.—
But let all you tell be the truth.
177 Colt’s armory at Hartford is to be
doubled in size and capacity, making it the
largest establishment of the kind in the
world.
077A son of Sim Houston of Texas, was
wounded at the battle of Pittsburg, and is
now a prisoner at St. Louis. Pierre Soule’s
son is also & prisoner.
07 Captain Silk! What a name for a
| soldier “The finest name in the world for
| & captain,’ said a lady, ‘for silk will never
be worsted.’
IZ=7The Philadelphia Press gives an elas
borate article to prove that the negro, when
! freed will perish off. Emancipation will
| then be the ruin of the negroe race.
| OC” The principal difference between the
| original British lion and the Canadian vari-
ety of the animal, is that the latter wants
Maine,
07 When the Federals arrived at Nash.
ville, alady remarked with much accerbity,
«There goes the Northern circus.” Yes,”
exclaimed an aristocratic mule driver, ‘and
our last performance was at Fort Donel.
son,”
IZ=A young man, on being asked by his
sweetheart what phonography was. took his
pencil and wrote the following, telling her it
was phonography : ‘URABU 1, IL, N
(you are a beauty Ellen !
[~The Democrats of Maine have called a
State Convention to make the usual nomina-
tions, to be held at Bangor on the 26th of
June.
0Z71t is estimated that the Pension bill,
recently passed by the House, will draw
| from the Treasury not less than 40,000,000
annually.
JA printer whose talents were but in
ferior, turned physician. He said, in prin-
ting, all faults are exposed to the eye, but
in physic they are buried with the patient,
and one gets off more easily. .
IZ7If words could kill, Magruder would
have slaughtered half the rebel army before
| their retreat from Yorktown. If he had
| persevered, perhaps he would have succeed-
ed ; for we remember to have read that once
| upon a time a great multitude was slain by
| the jawbone of an ass.
i J7~When the Federal tax gatherer comes
around, you won't hear quite so much talk
among the philanthropists about paying for
{ the niggers. When we pay for the war,
| that is all the money we will have to waste
| this generation.
IZ7 Gen. Banks has not yet made a full
report of his loss at Front Royal. A far as
| known, he lost 37 killed, 145 wounded and
868 prisoners, This however does not in-
clude all. The Confederates claim to have
taken about 2500 prisoners.
[7A free negro man in Washington is
| the husband of a slave woman, and the fath-
| er of six or seven children who follow the
| condition of their mother, and are slaves
also. So the father has put in his claim
| for compensation, valuing his niggers at
| $300 each,
IZ7 A man who had been sick away from
home, wrote back thus; “I am so changed
that my oldest creditors would hardly know
me.”
[= An intelligent farmer being asked if
his horses was well matched, replied, ‘Yes,
they are matched first rate ; one of them is
willing to do all the work, and the other js
willing he shoald.” yg
T77The commissioners appointed to ex-
amine the cases of the political prisoners
have released Mr. Malcolm Tves, imprisoned
in Fort McHenry by order of Secretary
Stanton, saying they could find no charges
against him.
CHIPS FROM PRENTICE.
77"There are no salt sellers in the South
now.
077=We guess, that, after the next naval
| battle near Fort Wright, the rebel flotilla
| will float “illy,”
| [=~ Beauregard has issued quite enough
| proclamations. Ie had better die without
further issue.
0Z7In regard to Abolitionism and Seces-
sionism. it is difficult it not impossible to
| decide which is the father and which the
son,
0C71t is seriously feared that the horrors
| of war are to be aggravated by the extension
| of the Congressional session through the
| summer.
| -0=The people of the United States are
| multiplying the production of flax. King
| Cotton bids fair to be *‘flaxed out.”
| T>=Upon the ocean Iron is King; but
| whether in the shape of iron plates or can.
non balls—that’s the question.
0A she rebel writes to us that the sight
| of our paper caused her dog to fall down in
lafit. It does seem to have that effect upon
| a good many dogs—of both sexes.
| 177The editor of the Richmond Whig
| confesses that, whenever he sees it announ-
ced that the whole Federal army has
| been annihilated, he feels very sure of hear-
{ing of a great Confederate defeat the next
| day.
| 0T7A telegraphic despatch published yes-
! terday says that Gen. Halleck’s forces have
*‘got a strong position right in the enemy's
teeth.” We hope they havn't got a position
right between his teeth.
07=1f Gen. Floyd shall be hung, the
| sheriff and clergyman on the scaffold had
better look out for their pocket books.
| 0Z=The Cincinnati Enquirer says that
| “*Cemmodore Porter does not let the grass
| grow under his feet.” People who work on
| the water seldom do.
| O7If Jeff Davis and his gang be not hung
| our good mother earth will probably refuse
as sweet as the incense that goes up from | in disgust ever to bring forth another crop of
the flowers of Eden, and when your pretty | "¢TP.
fingers plucked it from its stalk, it must | rebel government is raising fresh soldiers in
[7=The Memphis Appeal boasts that the
have been as white and beautiful as if born, | the South. One might suppose that all the
Dike Beauty's Goddess, from the foam of the soldiers in that section would be fresh, it
sea.
We send you our blessing, Minnie, and it
“will do you no harm.” We would send
you a spirit-kiss, but spirit-kisses are too
cold and unsubstantial —only a sort of ghost-
kisses. Wait. In the meantime, you can
find a letter at your post office.
GEN. OAseY,—General Silas Casey, who
commanded one of the divisions in the bat-
tle near Richmond, 15 a West Point gradu
ate of the class of 1822. He served with
credit in the Florida war, and also under
General Worth in the Mexican war. He
was severely wounded n the battle of Chur.
ubusco and Contreras, while leading a gal-
has been so long since they have had any
salt.
[Jeff Davis says that the brave men
composing his armies expect that their blood
will run freely. We think it most likely
that their whole bodies will run—blood, flesh
bones, and gristle.
JA despatch from Corinth to Richmond
stated that John 0. Breckinridge had all
his clothes shot away. We think it far
more likely that he was scared out of
them.
(IZ=Somie of the officers of the army hate
Gen. M’Clelian because he ranks higher
than they in military positicn. He can say
with Hamlet, though in a different sense,
*¢ Oh my offence is rank.”
lant attack of the stormers on the enemy’s
works. For his services 1n Mexico he was
breveted Lieutenant Colonel.
last General Cagey was made a
General of volunteers.
In August!
Brigadier |
He is a native of
Bhode Island,
17One Col. Stone lately published an ad-
| dress to the Confederate troops is New Or
leans to *‘stand their ground against the in-
vaders.” “Wo guess that at the advnce of
the gunboats he proved himself: the fastest
kind of a stepping stone.
Infamous Lies.
Before the war broke out, and during a
long series of years, the most infamous ly-
ing had been practised by Northern Aboli-
tionists agaist Southern people. Since the
war broke out this mean practice of lying
has been improved upon and intensified by
a set of Abolition scribblers who follow in
the wake of the army as newspaper corre-
spondents. At nearly every battle the Con-
federate soldiers have been represented as
murdering our sick and wounded. These
lies have always been exposed some time
after, but we fear too late to remove false
impressions. Again, a lying correspondent
from Gen. Banks’ column, says:
*¢ Chapin says with his own eyes he saw
the wounded and sick shot down like dogs
while attempting to escape. Also that the
hospital steward and two lady nurses from
Ohio were murdered in cold blood. He
spent the morning in carrying in the wound-
ed from the field, aided by others, and while
engaged thus two shells “were thrown into
the house, which probably set it on fire, and
when he left the building was in flames, and
all who attempted to escape were deliber-
ately butchered. He only escaped by giv~
ing them leg bail, going out through the
back yard and across the fields. The Un.
ton Hotel, also used for a hospital, was also
burned with the sick and wounded yet ia
their beds. * * * *
Surely such a people deserve the fate of
Sodom and Gomorrah.”
The following, which appears reasonable,
entirely refutes the above lies :
BALTIMORE, June 2.— A respectable citi-
zen of Baltimore has just arrived from Win-
chester, having escaped from there on last
Thursday. He states that Col. Kenley and
a large portion of his command were prison.
ers thers, and that the many rumors that
we have received with regard to the brutal
treatment of this regiment are altogether
unfounded. The stories of burning the hos-
pitals, with all in them, is altogether un-
true, neither of the buildings having been
injured.”
Another correspondent says : »
‘“ All the prisoners are well treated. The
sick, wounded and disabled, as well as the
surgeons and hospital stewards and nurses,
were paroled. Only a small portion of the
prisoners were taken along with the rebel
army. They claim to have taken 2000 pris-
oners.”’
These infamous lies are gotten up by
these Abolitionists for the purpose of exeit-
ing the passions and prejudices of the North-
ern against the Southern people. It 1s an
Abolition scheme to prepare the Northern
people through prejudice to sustain every
unlawful measure the Administration may
propose to inaugurate. The object seems to
be to exterminate the whole Southern peo~
ple, and no measure or means are too re-
volting.—Selinsgrove Times.
Northern Conservatism.
The Richmond Whug, which was opposed
to secession until the State ot Virginia join-
ed the Southern Confederacy, thus discours-
es on Northern censervatism :
* The people of tke Northare divided into
two parties, in the present war, as in the
peace that preceded it—the conservatives
and destiuctives. The latter are our old
enewmies, the Abolitionists, who are crazy
people—honest, perhaps in their fanaticism,
but fit only for a straight j~cket. The for.
mer are our old friends, who used to declare
that they loved us better than themselves,
and that, before an army of invasion should
march against the South, it should march
over their dead bodies. It seems to be sup-
posed that they Lave changed their charac~
ters, and been merged by war into one seeth-
ing cauldron of Abolitionism. This. how-~
ever, is a great mistake. The war has not
changed their character, but only discovered
it to the world. It has shown them to be
the falsest, the most treacherous, and the
most hypocritical of mankind. But for con-
servative men and conservative money, it
could not be carried on a single day. Con
servative cities have provided the cash and
the soldiers ; conservative generals have led
their armies ; conservatism has, in fine,
proved the most formidable of our enemies.
We are not aware of a single Abolitionist
general who occupies a ccnspicuous position
in the Federal hosts. McClellan, Rosecrans
and others are somewhat ultra in their con-
servatism ; and M’Cook, who said that if he
had an Abolitionist in his army he would
cut off his ears, is the same who proclaims
‘the South must be subdued or exterminat-
ed.” The conservatism of these men is still,
however, conservatism, only it does not
mean, as we formerly supposed, the preser.
vation of the Constitution and the rights of
the States, but the conservatism of Northern
commerce and manufactures, at any cost
whatever to the South—at the cost of every
life and hearthstone in its limits—at the cost
of converting its whole territory into one
vast scene of blood and tears. That is what
Northern conservatism means, and nothing
else. Itis, ina word the most detestable
avarice—a love of money so passionate and
absorbing that it would murder a whole
people to fill its pockets. That is Northern
conservatism ! In what 1s it better than
Abolitionism 2”
eto
Speciar Notice * To THE DEMOCRACY. —If
you observe thatany one advertises in both
of the Republican papers in this place, and
not in the Gazette, be very sure that it is
for one or two reasons. Either, 1st : Be.
cause he wishes to proscribe your party,
and stifle its utterance through 'a free press;
or 2d : Because he dees not desire your cus-
tom. Don’t patronize him, therefore, to the
amount of a cent. If you do, you are want-
ing in self respect.
If you have a road notice, an attachment
or administrator’s notice, see to it that it is
published in your own paper, for no Repub-
lican ever allows a notice which he can con-
trol to appear anywhere but in an abolition
sheet.
If you have an estate to partition, or if it
be necessary to publish a notice to parties
in any case in which you are interested, see
to it that the advertising is given to your
own paper.
This is due alike to yourselves and to us.
— Logan Gazette. ’
Our friends of the Gazette deal out whole-
some advice, something that every Democrat
should consider.
—_— een
85 The motion of Mr. Porter, of Indiana
to reconsider the vote by which the negro
emancipation bill was defeated in the House
of Representatives, was considered on Wed
nesday last, yeas 84, nays 64—a number of
Republicans who voted against the bill
changing their votes, It was then commit.
ted to the select committee, with instructions
to report a substitute declaring free the
slaves of those who shall hereafier hold of-
fice of profit or honor in any of the rebellion
States, and also providing for the acquisitios
of lands on which to colonize such emanci-
pated slaves.
———— el em een
[I= When you are whistling in a printing
office, and they say “louder,” don't you do
it.
The Great Fight Near Richmond.
DETAILS OF THE SECOND AND THIRD
DAY’S FIGHT.
The correspondent of the New York Her
ald furnishes the following defails of the
second and third day's fight of the great bat-
tle near Richmond ;
SUNDAY—THE SECOND DAY,
On Sunday our men stood to their arms
before daylight, As the enemy chooses
Sunday for his battle days we expected him;
but we knew that if he did not advance
there would be no battle, as Sunday 1s never
chosen for a movement on our part, and
would not be, apparently, ¢ven to win back
our camp. So, fiom very early on Sunday
it began to look like what it proved to be—
an affair of three days.
Our men, at dawn on Sunday, were dis-
posed as follows :
On the left, stretched across the Richmond
road, the Sickles brigade was in the face of
the enemy, at scarcely two hundred yards
distance, posted on a slope so that the rise
of tke ground toward the enemy served as a
complete cover.
To the right of Sickles, in a thick swamp,
was Patterson’s New Jersey brigade. Both
of these brigades faced toward Richmond,
and this was the point at which our men
had been pushed the hardest and farthest.
To the right of Patterson, was Richard-
son’s brigade, the line of which was drawn
at right angles with the line of Sickles and
Patterson. Richardson faced towarl the
flank of the force, in front of those two bri
gades. Sedgwick joined on to Richardson,
and part of his division assisted to strength-
en Couch’s line in the wood from which the
rebels had been driven on Monday after-
noon.
Our first anticipation had scarcely settled
into the conviction that the enemy intended
to give Sunday to care for the dying and
dead, chan we heard the pickets at it. It
was in front of Richardson’s division. Rich-
ardson’s line ran, as we have intimated par-
allel with the railroad, and was on the north-
ern side of it. IL he enemy was in our camps
on the southern side of it. and in a strong |
position covered by a swamp. Force was
immediately sent forward to support the |
pickets, and became engaged in its turn.—
The enemy formed his men in line, and was
disposed to feel us again. Our men had
arisen from sleep in the anticipation of bat-
tle, and their minds were ready for it.— |
They were not green troops either, and the |
day gave promise of hard work. |
Soon the fire became general, and spread |
along the lines of the Irish brigade, Frerch’s |
brigade and the brigade of the gallant How. |
ard. This day also, the enemy’s fire was |
well directed and severe. Bul it was re |
turned with certainly equal effect. and our |
men pushed forward across the railroad and |
down into the swamp, and now the enemy
in his turn gave way. It was very difficult
ground, and the men could not at all times
keep the line, and were often up to their
waists in water in the advances through the
swamp. Yet still they kept on. Sometimes
too, there may have been a wei kness under
the fire, but the gallantry of the officers
<ept the men up to it. This was once or
twice the case mn Howard's brigade ; but
the young hero, by his own gallantry, gave
an example that restored all. Two horses
were shot under him in this advance, and he
received two rifle balls in his right arm;
but he bound up the shattered limb in a
handkerchief and kept the field. With the
continual din of the musketry, as it pealed
up and down the lines on either side, no or-
der could be heard. and only example served.
Thus the mounted officers were compelled
to keep ahead in the advance to show the
men what was wanted.
There was an Irish Brigade in all the glory
of a fair free fight. Other men go into fights
finely, sternly or indifferently, but the only
wan that really loves it after all is the
** green immortal ” Irishman. So there the
brave lads from the old sud, with the chosen
Meagher at their head laughed and fought,
and joked, as if it were the finest fun in the
world. We saw one sitting on the edge of
a ditch, with his feet 1n the water--and the
sun and water was very hot—and he appar-
ently wounded. As we rode by he called
out to know if we ** had ever seen a boiled
Irishman.”
From Richardson's division the fire spread
around to the New Jersey brigade, on the
front which the enemy had pushed so far
the day before. Nobly did the Jerseymen
stand up to it and push up closer and closer
and the enemy fell back, through the thick
swamp slowly and steadily. On this front
the fire was not so severe as on Richardson’s
but still it told heavily on our brave fellows
though it did not prevent the advance,
Still further to the left was the Excelsior
brigade, and Gen. Sickles with it. Thougn
ou, we believe, his first battle field. the
General had not the air or manne: of a no-
vice. He was all activity, and thought on-
ly of the way to win,
Sickles’ men apparently lost their patience
and we suppose the officers did, and Generl
Sickles epecially. When men advance
across a battle feld, loading and firing as
they go they naturally do not go very fast
and the Sickles brigade voted the gait to be
decidely slow* So the order was given to
fix bayonets and charge, and they did it not
mincingly at all, but in terrible earnest and
with a glorious cheer, Some of the rebels
stood it and held theic places ; some stood
long enotgh to fire their pieces and then
run ; but the mass ran at once, scampered
away through the woods like so many squr-
rels.
That ended the fight for Sunday in that
direction for it would no do to let the men
go rashly too far into the woods. We didn’t
know what little arrangements of artillery,
&c., the enemy might have made there in
our absence, so with a wise caution the
Sickles Brigade was drawn back to the edge
of the wood, and laid away there snugly ;
and there it spent its Sunday ready for vis-
itors, though none came, if we except sev-
eral inocuous shells that the enemy threw in-
to the ood over their heads.
On Richardson's front, also, the fight
dropped oft very much as it had begun.—
It was apparently not the design that wre
should make any general advance on Sun
day, so we merely drove the enemy away as
he came up, and then fell into our places
again with a true Sunday calm.
It was only 9 A. m., when the calm came,
but in this short fight much had been done,
Howard's brigade alone, lost in this fight, in
killed and wounded, 536 men.
Gen. M’Clellan had ridden over very ear-
ly on Sunday morning, and when the fight
began he immediately rode down the Wil-
iamsburg road, and over the whole scene of
action, which he directed. His presence ex-
cited the most intense enthusiasm in the
troops, both on the field and later in the
day, when he rode along the lines and look~
ed kindly on the shattered regiments that
had been in Saturdy’s fight. To these brave
fellows—+¢ few and faint, but fearless still”
—the young Commander addressed a few
words of pleasant encouragement that thrill-
ed every ear, and then rode away.
The scene in the woods on Sunday told a
story that will be heard with sad ears, ,o
doubt, throughout the South. There lay in
heaps the dead, and those in mortal agony
terribly mangled—young and old —mostly
young. —from every Southern Sta te.
All day Sunday, after our own men had
been seen to, we had out parties in the
woods with stretches bringing in the woun-
ryiog them. Our enemies, tired of the fight
employed the greater part of the day in the
same way. And 30 went out the second day
of the battle of the Seven Pines.
THE THIRD DAY.
On Monday morning our position could be
summed up to about this: two divisions mu
reduced in strength from various causes,
had been attacked by a great! superior
force of good troops, and driven fay a mile
from the first point of attack ; but by the
arrival of fresk troops the enemy's course
had been arrested, and his purpose to drive
usinto Chickahominy decidedly defeated.—
Yet he occupied our camps and the position
he had taken.
On Sunday he had again attacked us and
been compelled to retire with loss. But
though Richardson’s division had driven him
on the railroad, and the Sickles: brigade
through. the woods on the Williamsburg
road, he still held nearly all, and certainly
much the greater part of the ground taken
on Saturday. Some men of the 10th Masg-
achusetts regiment went into their camps on
Sunday and brought awaya ham; but it
Wat quoted as a piece of dexterity, so near
were the enemy to the place, and the cam
of the 10th was in the rear of all Couch’s
division.
So now on Monday morning we were ap~
parently to begin the week well—to go for
ward and reoccupy dead or alive, the posit-
ion from which the enemy had driven us.—
Resolution was on every face, and all buck-
led themselves up with a determination to
do a full share of the work, and not only to
retrieve what had been lost but to ‘win
more.
It was still dim and misty when the lines
were under arms, and but little later when
the advance of gkirmishers was thrown for
ward. Cautiously the men went on; every
Step was made completely sure before the
| next was taken, until a position was gained
on the Williamsburg road where a battery
could be posted. There a battery was accor«
dingly placed so as to command the whole
road, and again the men went on. Farther
and farther, and the enemy fell back, his
pickets in sight. 1t began to look very
much as if the third day— the day of reoc-
cupation was to be a bloodless one.
And so indeed it proved, and our men
pushed on step by step, pushing the rebels
on before with a slight exchange of fire, but
no serious resistance, until we were once
more entirely at home.
Then they pushed on again, through camp
and beyond it, and once more they were on
the move to Richmond, and they kept on it
and that night our pickets were posted with-
in four miles of the rebel capital, and near
to a line of works that we fancy is, or rep-
resents, the celebrated last ditch where the
rebels are to make a final stand.
Thus the affair became complete, We
had lost our camp—ours once more, and we
felt a satisfaction in the result that would
not have been greater if we had taken the
camp as bloodily as we had lost it. His
departure was a full acknowledgement
that he had failed ; and was defeated in the
purpose for which he came.
On the field even yet lay a large number
of the rebel dead. and even some of their
wounded were yet alive and uncared for on
the third day.
— tes Oe
Despairing Letter from J undge Rost.
The True Delta publishes the fo'lowing
letter from Rost to Yancey, with the remark
that it is given *‘at the desire and request of
Gen. Butler 7:
Hotel d’Ynglaterra, Madrid,
March §224, 1862. }
‘‘Hon. Wm. L. Yancey, Richmond :
‘My Dear Sir :—Trusting that you have
ere {this reached the new field of your labors
I avail myself of the departure of the Cadiz
steamer to let you hear from us and our do-
ings,
. “For some time after Mr. Slidell’s arrival
in Paris the weather was extremely cold,
and my wife being in feeble health. 1 delay-
ed my departure until the 18th of February.
I stopped on my way at Bordeaux, at the
request of Captain Huse, to see about get
ting some of his freight on board of a steam-
er loading in that port, and then went in
the neighborhood to sce one of my sisters,
who had been seriously ill. There my wife
fell sick, and after a few days, I parted from
her on my way to Marseilles, where I took
the French steamer of the 5th of March for
Valentia. Mr, Fearn met me on the way.|
** T arrived here on the 8th, and Was we
received unofficially, but, as far as I can as
certain, there is truth in what was told me
at the Spanish Legation in Paris, and also
by M. Thouvenel, that Spain would not act
alone on the American question. When you
left, we did not expect that our government
would be recognized, but we had a well.
founded hope that the blockade would be set
aside. You will, no doubt, have seen that"
the declaration of Earl Russel, that it could
not be considered effective, had been sus.
tained in Parliament, and that a similar de«
claration of the French Minister Jhad also
been carried into the Chamber of Deputies
by a large majority. Tis destroys the last
hope i fo that those governments would do
Justice between the belligerents.
«* It must now be manifest to every one
that we have only to rely exclusively upon
ourselves and our internal resources to es-
tablish our independence. After wesucceed
we will owe the European Government no
thanks, and a war duty on imports sufficient
to pay the interest of the debt, which their
course forces us to incur, and create a sink-
ing fund, must be levied.
* Coupled with the declaration that the
blockade was not ineffective, Earl Russell -
made the statement, unsupported by anv
reason, that he trusted that by the first of
June, or even before, the civil war would be
ended. After reading in the President's in.
augural that the war would continue a series
of years, I am forced to conclude that the
Earl gives faith to the assurance of Mr.
Seward, thatjthree months after the people
of the Confederate States had become con-
vinced that they had nothing to hope from
England or France, the rebellion would end.
¢ The last news of our reverses, exagger-
ated as they have been by the Northern press,
has done great injury to our cause. hen
people hesr of fifteen thousand men, strong-
ly fortified, routed and made prisouers by
an equal number of assailants, they begin to
doubt the bravery of Southern troops and
their ultimate success. Can you not, thr'o
Mr. Helm, or by some other channel, send
us reliable Southern papers, exposing the
falsehoods of the Northern press 2
*“ Remember me to Gen. Sparrow, Messrs.
Semmes, Conrad, Perkins, Kenner, and
Marshall, ‘and, believe me, truly, your
friend, P. A. ROST.
«<p, S.—Present my {respects to the Press
[5™As aman was driving cattle and wish
ing to alter their course called out to a boy
at a short distance to turn them. »ays the
boy, they are right side out now, Well
head them then. They have heads on.—
Whose boy are you? "I don’t know: I'll
gon and ask mother. The drover ca-
ved.
[70 mother do send for the doctor!"
said a little boy of three years old. ‘What
for my dear #7 +“Why there's a gentleman
in tho parlor who says he'll die if Jane
ded rebels, and other partic sazaged in bu.
don’t “marry him— and Jane says she
wont.