Dad Aa C. T. ALEXANDER, : JOE W. FUREY, ! Editors. soprre————————— BELLEFONTE, PA. Thursday Morning June, 19, 1862. DemocraticState Convention, In accordance with a resolution of the Democratic State Executive Committee, THE Democracy will meet in STATE CONVEN- TION, at HARRISBURG, on Fray, the 4th day of July, 1862, at 10 o'clock, 4, x. to nominate candidates fer AURITOR GENERAL and SURVEYOR GENERAL, and to adopt such measures as may Le deemed necessary for the welfare of the Democratic party.ard the country. WILLIAM H. WELSJ, Chairpaan of the Democratic State Fx. - ep ts GPO T5~ We understand that some of our Re publican friends take exceptions to &n arti- cle which appeared in the last week's issue of the Watchman, headed “Infamous Lics.” The article alluded to was copied frown thie “Selinsgrove Z'umes. a staunch little Demo cratic sheet, published in Snyder county, sand we copied it, simply because we believe «ed it, and endetsed it with all cur hearts. We understand that the republication of ‘that article has given our politica! &dversa- ries a fine chance to again repeat the old and almost worn out charge of ‘‘sccession 4sm,” which has been so cften and so mali- «clously feveled against tle Watchman. Well, we can’t help it. If to publish wwhat we belieé to be the truth be seces- :sionism, then we are secessionists, and that is all there is of it. We love truth and jus. tice, as mach as we despise lying and mis- representation, and when we hear such slan- derous and contemptible charges against a portion of the American people, who, al- though they may be wrongfully ergazcd in rebellion now, are nevertheless as just and humane and generous as are we of the North, who now presume to accuse them of the most inhuman barbarity towards our sick and defenceless soldiers, because of the unlawful acts of a few of their rowdies and hangers-on, whose cold-blooded atrocities, it they be true, will find just as scvere cons demnation in the hearts of the people of the sunny South, as they can possibly do here among the less excitable people of our own scction. The writer of this article lived too long among the people of the South, “way down in Alabama,” te be easily gulled by such incredible and truly ““infamous’’ storics as Abolition newspaper reporters have sought to impose upon the people of the North since this war commenced. Ile knows the Southern people, whatever may be their peculiar ideas and opinions as to ithe present state of affairs, to be too humane, #00 generous, too enlightened, and too chris- ‘tianized, to be guilty of such inhuman acts as have been laid to their charge. Of course ‘there are always bad men in all armies, who will be guilty of such things, but is it just, is it maguammous to hold the whole Southern people responsible fer the acts of a few miserable savages, whe act irresponsi- bly and always when out of reachof the au” thority which would most certainly be ex- ierted to prevent all such barbarous and in- human actions ? Truly it scems that we have forgotten that the North and South are ‘only branches of the same parent stalk, and that although we are now at war with each other, we were once brothers, and gloried in the same associations, the sare ancestry, and the same blood. eee 17 The order concerning the rebel wo- men of New Orleans, supposed at first to be fals'y imputed to Gen. Butler, tarns out © be genuine. We record this fact with the deepest regret. It is true, the order as explamed by a reference to certain municipal regulations of New Orleans, signifies barely that the wo- <nen offending shall be imprisoned in the -calabeose ; but giving this explanation its «due force the language of the order is never- thelessitotally indefensible. 1tis language ithat a United States officer and a gentleman cannot use without degrading himself. It is the language not merely of passion bat -of scurillity. Apart from all considerations of effective policy, which such language clearly sets at defiance, the order isa dis- graceful one. [It shocks the sensibilities of right minded people. Tt is utterly abhorent to the sense of ‘manhood, We rejoice to see that the order is almost mniversally condemned by the press even of New England where Gen. Butler belongs. We do mot doubt that Gen. Butler himself will condemn it in his cooler moods. He jg ‘a brave man; a friend of Southern instita- tions and a most vigorous, skillful, and in- genious officer. A stain like this ought not to rest upon his name. We hope that on reflection he will of his own motion revoke or modify the offensive order. If he does not, we hope the President will do it fof him. We know indeed that many of the rebel women have disgraced themselves by heap- ing insults unprovoked on our soldiers, and we are heartily in favor of just as stringent measures as may be necessary to protect the gallant defenders of the Union from such indignity ; but there can be no effect- iveness in blackguardism, and, if there could be, only a nation of blackguards would sanction its adoption. - Let us ‘have -rigor but not vulgarity.— Louisville Journal. ? tee 17 The name of the Farmers High School has been changed to that of the Agricultural o College of Pennsylvania, Abolitionism and the War Long before there was any manifest in. tention on the part of the Southern people, to rebel against the government and set up for themselves an independent organization, the intention of the aboliticnists to either destroy slavery or destroy the Government, was openly avowed. In fact, of late years, the idea of destroying the institution of sla~ very without first destroying the Govern- ment which tolerated it and the Coustititue tion which recognized and sanctioned it, was looked upon and so declared by some of th:mtoobe impracticable, and they there‘ore resolved to war upon both. Rather than tolerate the institution of sla- very (that condition which is best suited to the African) they resolved to destroy the government under which we a5 a people bave so highly prospered, and rear in its stead any sort of governnient that chance or fortune might cast upon us when the work of destruction should be ended, They did not appear to be very particular as toits form, or whether it should be ad- ministered by the peeple in their sovereign capacity, or by a monarch or a despot, pre- ferring either of the latter in preference to the former with slavery. They had fixed up in their cwn minds a sort of imaginary paradise upon earth for the negro race, which was only to be accom- plished by the overthrow and destruction of white men’s government and white men’s freedom, and they therefore devoted their time and energies to the accomplishment of To this end, they inaugurat- ed the irrepressible conflict spoken of by Seward, knowing full well that a conflict of ideas once instituted between two sections of this governtrent, whose local interests were so widely different, must lead to such a disturbance of the machinery of govern- ment as would either stop its harmonious action and render peaceful separation prefer- able to & discordant Union, or else bring about such a clash of arms as the world never before witnessed, in the hope that during the straggle the institution of sla very would perish. Before the election of 1860, they clung to the former idea, and e.couraged the spirit of secession that began to manifest itself in many places in the South by arguments in favor of the right of secession, and also by declaration, that if the States attempted se- cession they had the right and might go in peace, They were justly called then, and gloried in the denunciation of “Union sl. ders.” “Let the Union slide,” said they. We wili be better off without them. <A Union with slaveholders is not worth pre- serving,” &e. By these means the Southern people were induced to make the effort, and for this rea~ son it is that an abolitionist is so justly called a conspirator with the Southern reb- el m the hellish purpose of destroving the best government in the world. The South, acting upon their advice, did secede, with out consulting the fcelings upon this subject of the great conservative heart of the North. ern people who were not willing that this great Union, established by our fathers, should be so rudely torn asunder. Seeing a manifestation of this feeling mn the North, the Abolitionist then changed his tactics, and now secks to accomplish a dou- ble purpose in the destruction of both sla. very and the Union. To this end, they seek tc pervert the war into a crusade against the irstitution of slavery and for the purpose of subjugation that they may no longer cxist as great States in the Union, but only ag conquered provinces or territories. The whole action of this radical wing in Congress the present session has been to ac- complish this end. According to their pro- gramme, twelve States of the Union are to be destroyed. Twelve of the stars upon the beautiful embl cm of owr country are to be blotted out, if they succeed in brow-beating the conservative element in Congress into submission to their purpose. The two ele ments arc nearly balanced now and a slight change to radicalism would give them the power. Itis to be hoped, however, that they will soon adjourn. Then arouse, ye this purpose. - lovers of your country as your fathers made it. Ye who are satisfied with the Constitu- tion as it is ; ye who still love the old flag with allits stars shining in their resplendanc beauly upon it, and who desire to biing about such a termination of this unhappy war forced upon the country by the joint action of the abolitionists and secessid ists, as will harmonize once more the embittered feclings now existing between the tw) ec tions engaged, that the Union may bs re- stored as of old, with its every part tilling the place it occupied in the past, to r:m ain 80 in harmony forever. Arouse —a new Congress must be elected and you must fill the places of these radical demagogues who are trifling with your best interests, with conservative Union loving men, who may yet be able to preserve the government as a whole, although so nearly destroyed by those twin hell hounds—aboli- tion and secession. If we will preserve this government, we must vote right at the com: mg election. 1t way be too late then, but if not then, too late forever. ——vons—— A Wip MAN Carrurep.—A wild man was last week found in the woods of Jack- son county, Indianna, captured and taken to the Superintendent of the poor to be ca- red for. When taken he was found lying behind a tree thinly clad and asleep. The unfortunate man says that for the last four~ teen years he has subsisted almost entirely upon roots, herbs and berries, and during that time but rarely met with any human being. Since his capture he has partaken of but little nourishment, and the indica- tions are that he is fast ebbing away. All efforts to ascertain his name and parentage bave proved unavailing. . Kansas is bleeding yet. A Leavenworth correspondent of the Milwaukee News, speaking of military movements there says —Some ten or fifteen regiments have been kept marching over Kansas for the sole pur- pose of quelling the fights ameng the differ- ent clique of Abolitionisty and Jayhawkers. } A pleasant state of society, The Contrast. been disabled by wounds and debilitating fevers. Not being any longer efficient in charge and transportation to the capital of Pennsylvania. They arrive in our mid without a cent in their pockets. They ask for their pay—they learn there is no officer here authorized to pay them! They ask for rations to protect them from starvation —they are answered that there is no au- thority to issue rations to them?! They ask for transportation to their homes—they ere informed the United States Quartermaster cannot give them transportation ! They beg their I read of our citizens ; they beg their transportation of railroad ‘companies. teered to fight the battles of the Comnstitu- tion and the Union against rebellion ; who have been mutilated, or who have lost theif health in the service of the Government, re- upon public charity to save them from pinch- care ‘of sytapathizing friends. Who is to blame for this heartless deser- tion of our brave invalid volunteers ? Hag this important matter 2 While it author~ ized the discharge of sick and wounded sol- diers by army surgeons, did it make provis. tion to their homes, for pensions, in reward of their patriotie services ¢ Alas, no! they unfortunately are white men! Now mark the contrast. All the runaway negroes that find their way into the District of Columbia are fed at the expense of the white tax pay. ers of the North ; all the run away negroes that hang about our armies in the field are furnished rations and live at the cost of the tax payers of the North. Af least one hun- dred thousand dollars per day of the peo- ple’s money is thus expended to feed thous ands of idle negroes, while the sick and wounded white volunteers of Pennsylvania are left to beg their way back to their deso~ late homes ! We have in nowise exaggerated here the forlorn condition of our returning dissharged volunteers, whose sufferings are dafly wit, | nessed and aleviated by our citizens, and | whose numerous and frequent applications for reiief to the Governor of Pennsylvania and to the Mayor of this city are as notori: ous as they are disgraceful to the authori. ties who neglect to fulfill the most impera~ tive obligations of the country to her brave dyfenders.— Patriot and Union. — ao = Death of Young Henry Clay. Another victim to disease contracted in this unnatural war is ansounced this mern- ing under our obitaary head. Henry Clay, the grandson of him who was more beloved in this country than any man except George Washington, and the son of lim who gave up his life on the field of Buena Vista in maintaining the honor of his country, died yesterday of Typhoid fever contracted in the camp, where he had served with distin- guished zeal and gallantry as an aide to General R. W. Johnson, in.putting down the insurrection, which bold, bad men, un- der the guise of patriotism, have forced up on a portion of the American people. With all the noble impulses of his immediate pro- genitors, and deeply imbued with that pat- riotic devotion to the Union which was their distinguishing characteristic, he drew his maiden sword when the cffort was first made to force Kentucky into the secession ranks. Disdaining the circean lures and un- influenced by the specious sophistries which were thrown around him to dazzle his judg- ment, he saw clearly the path of duty, and: with all the vigor of his young and ardent soul, he entered upon its performance. His was not a soldier’ death upon the battle field but his epitaph will be as proud a one as if he had dicd beneath the folds of his coun- try’s flag and amid the shock of arms.— When the sad. tidings came from the far off plains of Buena Vista that told the fate of a beloved son, the Sage of Ashland was alive to hear the intelligence and receive the sym- pathies of sorrowing friends, while the knowledge that his child had died the death of a patriot brought consolation to his aged heart. In the far off :¢ undiscovered coun try,”” where he now learns of the death of lus grandson, a martyr to the holiest cause in which man has ever drawn a sword, how will his spirit cling to the golden memory that another of his descendants has vindica- ted the honor of his nation at ‘the expense of his life. Glorious grandsire, chivalric son and gallant grandchild, how fitted to bear | the same name and that the name of Henry Clay! Let us thank God that amid treach- ery and deceit and macness there has been no specs upon that loved name, and that | Kentucky and the world can still speak it | with pride and reverence.—Louiseille Jour- nal. Sl reset Tur Narionar Homer PoisoNiNG—THE Mistery SoLvep.—It seems to be pretty | well established now that the poisoning af- | fair which occurred at the National Hotel at | Washington was a part of the rebel con spiracy. The object was to destroy James Buchanan, who was stopping at that house before the inauguration, so as to make the traitor Breckinridge President, in order to carry out their plans successfully. This | Buchanan knew, for he was informed of it, and placed on his guard. The effect was that the miserable old imbecile threw him self into the hands of the conspirators, and when implored to exert the power of the Government against the rebels, by a friend he confessed that he dare not do it, because his life was in danger. But few persons can realize the hellish character of the Eeb- el conspiracy. — Sunbury American. The above is another lie, we believe, man- ufactured out of the whole Jloth. The pies- cut citcumstances and condition of the coun: try is now taken advantage of to impose one of the meanest crimes upon the South- ern people, and at the same time trying to make capital out of it that indirectly might Many of our Pennsylvania volunteers have ! the ranks, they receive an honorable dis The patriots of Pennsylvania who volun. | turn to their homes as paupers, depending ing want, while the prompt payment of their | dearly earned wages would help them on. ward to cherished homes and the consoling | our Republican Congress done its duty in | ion for their immediate pay, for transporta~- | CHIPS FROM PRENTICE. (I7"The poor man’s wife who breeds too freely, breeds a famine. [55 Let all the ends thou ainiest at be thy country’s, thy God’s, and truth’s ~~ Shakspear. The ends our soldiers chiefly aim at now are those of the fleeing rebels. | [77 Under the operation of the pills ad- | ministered by our army and navy, the rebel fortifications get very suddenty reduced. | =The editor of the Jackson Mississip- ! pian begs somebody to assinate General | Butler. Why doesn’t he do the work him self. 17 The rebel army is like ‘an ‘inveterate cofjuette ; it backs out from all engage- ments. 17The Knoxville Register complains that the Union men in a town in East Tenn- | eszee, while some of Morgan's were passing | on the street, ‘threw rocksat them.” Per- haps they wanted to rock the rascals to sleep, 177 The rebel cditors can hardly write an article or paragraph without proclaiming that the rebellion can’t be put down. That's because they feel and know thet it can and will be. [7 Mississippi has a small stream called «Lost River.” Her big namesake 1s her lost river now. 77 Those who make sales to Uncle Sam in this war may not be war horses but they | are generally tremendous chargers. [7 Two great geographical discoveries yet to be made— the source of the Niger and “the last ditch.” 7" There is probably not an unblistered | tongue in the editorial corps of the rebel | Confederacy. 3 | 077A Northern editor predicts that wool | will be king. Does he mean wool on the back of the sheep or on the head of the nig- | ger? IZ" Probably Beauregard will not try to | rally. If he does, all his efforts will be like | his soldiers—bootless. 7"The Mem phis papers of the 21st and | 22d have long letters from Corinth. One of | them states that Butler's *¢ infamous order” | has fired the army.— Cin. Gazelle. Yes, the army was “fired.” words it went off. 07 There is a prospect that the fellows lin New Orleans who are just now so hot | will be cooled off About 200 cargoes of ice | are about to be cleared for that port from Boston alone. - It is common in the rebel Confedera- In other | cy to call Beauregard ‘the Southern game cock.” Ile seems just now to be a cock with his comb cut, his tail feathers pulled out, and his gizzard out of order. [77 The Memphis Avalanche, of the 17th ult., complains that the ladies of that city are ‘‘continually buying useless articles at the stores. to get rid of Confederate notes.” Wher's the objection to their exchanging on e useless article for another. {77 Our armies think that a march is mos® hard when the ground marched over is least 0. 77 Beauregard took most of his munitions away with him from Corinth but failed alto~ gether to take away his character for pluck. 7" The question with Gen. Halleck now is hot whether he can whip Beauregard bat whether he can catch him. 17 The Richmond Examiner, after as- suring its readers day after day that the capture of that city was an impossibility, and none but cowards thought otherwise, has gathered up its traps and gone to Pe- tersburg. : J+ There is to be no more retiring,” said the Richmond Enquirer about a week ago. Ah well. but when is there to be an end of the skedaddling ? 177Our people have always been laughed at by foreigners for the rapidity with which they eat. But it is now scen that they don’t eat half so fast as they fight. 1-7 The leading rebels of Memphis have long been begging us to come to their city and have even offered a reward for our de- livery there, and yet now, when we are about to make a visit to their place, they are all running away. Isn't this very un gentlemanly ? ———— EO Been PEN, PASTE & SCISSORS. [7 According to the advice of our town mayor, promulgated several weeks since, there has been considerable ‘¢ knock- ing down” going on around town. But the Mayor himself hasn't yet called around our way for this purpose. We guess Frank scared him last week. When he does come there will be a muss in the camp, by jingo! «That's so,’ says Frank. 1-7 Efficient-——Our High Constable. T77Gomg out to collect —One of the ed- itors of this paper. Be ready with your dimes. We must have money. 17” What are the citizens of Bellefonte going to do on the Fourth. Better be wa. king up. 7 Bad boys will please commit to mem ory the following : The robin and the redbreast The redbreast and the wren, If you take out o' their nest, Yell never thrive again The robin and the redbreast, The martin and the swallow, If ye touch one o’ their eggs, Bad lack will surely follow. Nassau, N. P.—These words frequently occur in telegraphic dispatches. This place is the capital of New Providence, the mos important of the Bahama Islands and is the seat of government for the Bahamas. [7 Coming—The Fourth, and <fitin’ time.” Hope them *‘perlice” will be about, §7Must be sore.—The “dark” who got his head ¢* labelled” on Monday. 07 Works well —The ¢ Street Sprink- ler. 7A business man can go along without advertising, so can a wagon without greaset but it goes hard. To render frozen eggs as valuable as any— sell ’em for good ones. I~ A mischievous brain hatches a great many falsehoods; but the brood cannot gen- e.a'ly be raised. f= ¢ WHAT a clever invention is the sewing machine ¥ said Aunt Phebe Yes, sew it seams ’ replied Sharp. 7 The President and the Secretary of War have tendered their thanks to General Banks for his ‘masterly retreat.”” This is straining hard to swallow a gnat. If Banks had been a democrat instead of an Aboix itionist, instead of thanks, condemnation would have been poured upon his head. 177 A German paper announces the fors mation, in Berlin, of a society ’for the aboli- tion of Christianiy !” Free Love.—An Abolitionist and a nig- ger woman embracing each other PHoNETIC.— A young man on being asked by his sweetheart what phonography was reflect upon the democratic party. This country is bound fo be ruined by lying. T= Gloomy ~The weather. - took out his pencil and wrotc the follow- ing, telling her that was phonography :— “URA, BUT, LN!” (you are a beauty, Ellen!) ARRIVAL OF PRISONERS OF WAR.—A few days since Gen. Banks telegraphed to his excellency Gov. Curtin, requesting the State of Pennsylvania to rélieve him of several hundred rebel prisoners. The authorities here answered that they would take charge of the «ggeech’” in question. Accordingly the prisoners have been daily looked for» and our citizens have been constantly on the qui vive. On Saturday a dispatch was re ceived here that the party had arrived at Hagerstown, and yesterday information was sent that they had left Chambersburg by a special train at 11 a. m., and would proba bly reach Harrisbug about 2 p. mm. Many were the curious ones, hanging all along the railroad from the Cumberland Valley bridge to Camp Curtin, Some cven to be sure of getting a glimpse of Jeff. Davis's men cros- sed the river to Bridgport. At last they came, but the locomotive hurried through the streets and along the road to the camp. This produced a tre- mendous rush, Horses and buggies, sulkies, wagons and carriages, were put into requi- sition. Everybody ran—-men, women, and children—white and black—contraband and free. The delay consequent on getting the prisoners from the cars, and into line, affor ded many to get a sight. From the rail way to the entrance of the camp on the Asylum and River road was a motley crowd. The fences were fairly lined with people, and long rows of ivory showed the contra- band in full force. Then came the prison ers, seedy and woe begone it is true. They looked half starved. Their dress was varied -—many of them being clothed in a species of home spun with which Southerners gen” eraly clothe their slaves. The majority were mere striplings—while here and there the face of a foreigner made its apperance.— There was nothing of the boasted chivalry —but a downcast look and a heavy tread— told that the fortune of war was against them. In number probably there might be have been three hundred —all privates ex. cept one captian and one lieutenant. They belonged to the rebel Jackson's force—and we understand many of them had been im- pressed into the service. If this be true we presume there will be little difficulty in se- curing their own release, by taking the oath of allegiance. They were safely quar- terad im Camp Curtin where strict guard.will be kept. One thing is certain they will be better fed than they have been in ¢Dixie” for months past, being allowed soldiers ar: tions. How long they will be kept here is not known. Tu will be until they are ex changed or the rebellion 18 completely crushed out. No doubt they will continue for some time to be a cariosity for our cit- izens — Patriot § Union, Proposed Monarchy for Mexico. INTERESTING LETTER FROM GENERAL PRIM. General Prim, of the Spanish forces in Mexico, arrived in New York on Saturday by the Spanish sloop-of-war Don Antonio Uliuo, en route for Europe. The occasion of the return of Gen. Prim will be seen by the following letter written’ by him, show-~ ing the designs of the French Emperor against Mexico : Orizasa, April 14, 1862. Inflexible destiny is stronger than the will of man. Could I have doubted it, what has just occurred here would have convine- ed me. The tripple alliance no longer exists. The soldiers of the Emperor remain in this coun- try to establish a throne for the Archduke Mazximilian—what madness !--while the soldiers of England and Spain withdraw from the Mexican soil. - You who are aware of the attachment I have for the Emperor, and the truly frater- nal esteem in which I hold the brave French and all that relates to them, will readily comprehend the bitterness of my soul when 1 am obliged to quit the battle field and to separate myself from my comrades, when the finest dream of my life was to combat for the same cause as the French and cn the same ground. But 1t was impossible for me to remain without forgetting altogether what I am and what I owe to my Queen and my coun- try. The truth, after all, is that the Commis sioners of the Emperor have departed en- tirely from the convention of London, with the determination of acting on their own account only. The pretext was the protec- tion which they insisted on extending to the Mexican emigrants, Almonte and the rest, who arrived at Vera Cruz avowing that they came with the fixed plan of destroying the republic in order to create a monarchy in fa- vor of the Archluke Maximilian.” Since then, in the conference of the 10th, five days before the negotiation with the Mexic n Gov- ernment, M. de Saligny declared that he would no longer treat with the Government of Jaurez. In the last proces verbal all is clearly ex pressed, clearly established —in eatenso, as the diplomatists say—and that document alone will suffice for public opinion to de- termine who is right and who is wiong. As to myself (a Spaniard) you will read- ily understand that I could not support this radical charge of the political system of this country it a prince of the Austrian monar- chy was to be imposed on it, The Allies came here bound by the con~ vention of London, and we could not depart from it without placing ourselves in the wrong. I withdrew, then, my troops, and go to Havana to await the orders of my Gov- ernment. Yours, &e., PRIM. rr mre [7 United States officers recently from Beaufort and Port Royal, represent the at- tempt at instructing or enrolling the negroes as a ridiculous failure. The pure Congou breed there rejects all humanizing approach, and is lazy, inert and repulsive. Uncle Sam's rations are what they comprehend: much better than Uncle Sam’s work. The officers and troops are said to be disgusted at the contact and intercourse with negroes enforced upon them ‘by authority.” — 077 ‘I have brought you this bill util I am fairly sick and tired of it, said a collec- tor to a creditor, upon whom he had called at least forty times: ‘You are ch?,cooly re joined the creitor. ¢‘Yes,I am,”’was the res sponse. ‘Well,thén,you had better not pre- sent 1t again. There will be tw o of us plea~ sed if yov do not for to tell th e truth I am sick and tired of seeing that identical bill myself.” eet ts Z™ Bow to destiny, One of these days he may be polite and return your bow. President Lincoln s Hunetr’s Proclama- tion. A Criticism n Modifiction om The Providence (R. I.) Post, an able Dem- ocratic paper, makes the following criticism upor President Lincoln's modification of Gen. Hunter’s order : We of course rejoice that the President has so promptly disavowed General Hunter's insane Abolition proclamation, and all other like proclamations, as not having the auth- ority of the Government. We rejoice that he declares void the declarations which Gen Hunter makes in regard to slaves in Geor gia, South Carolina and Florida. In this re spect the proclamation of Mr. Lincoln must prove highly satisfactory to all conservative men, and equally unsatisfactory to Aboli- tionists. But we sinccerely regret, at the same time, that the President should seem ingly claim for himself a power which he once denied to General Fremont, on the grourd that it was not conferred upon the Executive authority by the laws of the coun- try, [If General Huunter’s declarations, like those of Fremont, transcend the boundaries which the law has set up, how can the Pres- ident issue them, any more than one of his Generals ? Has he any more right to disie- gard the law than General Hunter ? And we regret, also, to find an intimation —for such 1t certainly is—that he, as Com- mander-in Chief, may yet do what he pro- _nounces void in the case of his subordinate officer. It sounds to us like a threat to the South ; like saying, ¢ Yon had better abol« ish slavery peaceably, lest I do it forcibly.” It looks also like an effort to appease the Abolition friends of Gen, Hunter, and recon- cile them to the preceding paragraph of the proclamation. And finally, we regret that portion of the proclamation in which he urges voluntary emancipation, because the signs of Lhe times indicate the overthrow of the slavery insti- tation. The ¢¢ signs of the times,” we as- sure Mr. Lincoln, are understood to be in his keeping. He could stop this clamor for a new Union in an hour. He could render hopeless the efforts which are being made to forcibly emancipate all the slaves of the country by a single word. If he were known to stand now just where his first message placed him ; just where the Critten- den resolution—nay, and the Chicago Plat- form too, and the Corwin amendment of ’61 —placed his party, not another word would ever be breathed in favor of the Confiscation and Emancipation bills now before the two Houses of Congress. Why, then, does he warn the Souin against the signs of the times. Certainly the seceded States, in their present excited condition, cannot be expected to commence the work of “gradual emancipation.” They could not if they would. Why not, then, invite them, in a single sentence, to come back to the old Union, which is the Union which the Presi dent swore (0 preserve ? Are we so weak —s0 very weak—that we must threaten to tramule upon the Constitution and obliter- ate State institutions, older by a century and a half than the Constitution itself, as a means of suppressing this rebellion ¢ If we are not, then why are these threats resorted to ? But enough. Gen. Hunter is rebuked and his proclamation-is void. We suppose we ought to be satisfied. What They Sacrifice for Principle. From au army correspondent mear Rich- mond, we glean the followirg in reference to the old Curtis estate, the family inio which Gen. Washington had married. The press ent proprietor is a secessionist and has left for Richmond to avoid the Unionists. This correspondent seems to be at a loss to know why a man thus situated should forsake all. He says : *“ When we look around, and at every turn find some vew luxury, we can hardly realize that the owner should have had a want unsatistied or a wish he could not gratify. A little more thin a year ago he bad a happy home here, upon the bank of the Paumunky —as romantic a place as one can find anywhere ; thousand of broad acres vielding untold wealth ; hundreds of ser- vants to do his bidding ; game of all kinds n his forests ; a shady grove upon the beach close to his door ; a steamboat landing, a railroad station and a telegraph office at the side of his house ; a house furnished in all the splendor that wealth could buy—he could walk forth for miles and exclaim, “I am monarch of all I survey.” Iis rights there was none to dispute. Men and beasts were alike at his mercy and lived but for him ; an ancestry that any might be proud of ; a heritage as fine as there was one on the continent. As a citizen of the United States he could have been respected the world over, honor ed as he was by the whole country ; but he has sacrificed all! He is a beggar, a wan: de :r from his native hearth ; a traitor to the land of his birth ; his soul stained with perjury ; the mark of Cain set upon him and a reward upon his head. What has he gained ? To day ten thousand camp fires are built upen bis broad meadows; his woods are filed with the trains and cavalry, his cattle and stock are being slaughtered to feed the army, his grain is being devoured by the horses ; his house is protected for the memory of one we all revere—his name is mgntioned, but with a sneer or an oath.” Sach sacrifices, says the Selinsgrove Tames, doubtless appear remarkable to ma. ny Northern men who estimate everything, even religion, by its value in dollars and cents, and whose only question as to the right or morality of any thing is, * will it pay ?” Bat there are men who are govern- ed by no such sordid motives, and who act from principle. Now, we hold that when a man makes a sacrifice like the above, there must be some sacred principle of right at the bottom that impels him. ee From Memphis : Mepis, June 12. The secession sympathizers are becoming more bold daily in expressing their sentis ments. The Union citizens complam of Col. Fitch’s rule over the city as too lenient, and that until assured better protection, they cannot avow their sentiments. The Provost Marshal requires an oath from all applicants for passes or permits to ship goods. The stringency of its require~ ments are such as has already caused con- siderable excitement in this city. An officer occupying an important posi- tion over railroads running into this city, just returned from Grenada, says that Gen. Hindman is said to have gone to Arkansas, with the troops of that State after the evac- uation of Corinth. Gen. Pope had reached Okalona. Beauregard still retreating, and Price with him, Jeff. Thompson is at Grenada, with less than a thousand men. The rolling stock of the Memphis and Ohio railroad are all at Panole station, this side of Grenada. The Post Office and Adams Express are both open. 'I'wo steamers leave to-day with cot- ton, sugar and molasses for St, Louis. Num- bers of the citizens are also leaving for the North. JZ Hollins hasn’t got any ram; but he feels sheepish himself, Not a Word, Hassthe republican press had a word to say against Wendell Phillips who publicl; boasted that he has been engaged for 1 years in the work of destroying the Union % * Not a word ! Has it had a word to say against Vice President Hamlin who, knowing Phillips's treasonable sentiments, publicly left the Speaker's Chair, in the United States Sens ate, and almost embraced him on the floor of that body. Not a word ! las it had a word to say against Sen- ator Wade who declared publicly in the Senate that—‘‘the man who prates about the Constititution in this great crisis is a traitor ? Not a word! Has it had a word to say against Repre- sentative Bingham who said in the House only a menth ago,—“Who in the name of Heaven wants the Cotton States or any oth. er State this side of perdition to remain in the Union, if slavery is to continue 2” Not a word ! Has it had a word to say against Thads deus Stevens, who recently said in Congress that he ‘was not for the restoration of the Union if slavery is preserved.” Not a word! Has it had a word to say against any of the tanatics who declare—“the Constitu« tion a league with hell” and the Union a covenant with the devil. Not a word ! Has it had a word to say against any of its friends who have plundered the treasury in one year of a greater sum than the yearly current expense of Mr. Buchanans adminis. tration. Not a word ! — Lebanon Advertiser. Has it had a word to say about the im- prisonment of hundreds upon hundreds of citizens out of political revenge. Not a word ! Has it had a word to say about the stri- king down of the writ of habeas corpus and the denial of a trial by jury or even of infors mation concerning the causes of arrest ? Nota word ! Has it bad a word to say against the law- less mobs of last ywar, the destruction and suppression of Democratic papers, the tar- ring and feathering of men whose only crime was to save the Union and prevent the ruin which Abolitionism has inaugurated. Not a word !—Selinsgrove Times. ————— GO me AN Errzari.—Mr. Cox, of Ohio, conclus ded his speech of June 9th with the follow- ing : Weary in watching its mad designs of revolution—and its crazy crochets of black freedom —and for the self preservation of my native State and the North from the black immigration with which it is threat. ened, I shall go to my home and ask the ballot to speak its denunciation. A few months and that expression will be had.— On it depends the fate of the Republic. My belief is, that the people will write the ep- itaph of this Congress, nearly as Gladstone wrote that of the Coalition ministry daring the Crimean war: Here lies the ashes of the XXXVII Congress It found the United States in a war of gigantic proportions involving its very existence ; It was content to wield the scepter of Power and accept the emoluments of office ; and use them to overthrow the political and social system of the coun- try whieh it was sworn to protect. It saw the fate of thirty four white commen- wealths in peril; but it babbled of (he NEGRO! It saw patriotic generals and soldiers in the field, under the old flag ; It slandered tbe one and in the absence of the other, it destroyed his means of labor.. 1t talked of liberty to the black, and piled burdens of taxation on white people for schemes utopian. The people launched at it the thunderbolt of their wrath; aad its members sought to avoid punishment by creeping into dishonorad. political graves! Requiescat.! ———— et From the Mountain Department. WASHINGTON, June 13. The War Department has received the fol- lowing : Headquarters Mountain Department, Harrisonburg, Va,, June 10. In my dispatch of yesterday F omitted to. state that Col. Cheseret’s brigade, consist. ing of the 60th Ohio, 8th Virginia, after. wara; supported by the Ganbaldi Guards, formed an advance and commenced the bat- tle of Cross Keys by sharp skirmishing at & o'clock in the morning. During the day, they obtained possession of the enemy’s ground, which was disputed foot by foot, and only withdrew at evening, when order- ed to retire to a suitable position for the night. The skill and gallantry displayed by Ches- cret on this and frequent former occasions during the pursuit in which we have been engaged deserves high praise. Respecttully, J. C. FREMONT, Major General. From Gen. McClellan’s Army. re Headquarters Army of Potomac, Saturday, June 13, The movements of the enemy to-day have been extensive and as yet are involved in mystery. Large bodies of troops have been seen moving down trom the neighborhood of Mechanicsville bridge and Richmond toward the late battle field. Our pickets were yes- terday driven in from Old Church, during which Capt. Royal, of the cavalry, was wounded—showing that the enemy design making a demonstration in that direction. A contraband who came in yesterday re. ported that a force of about 3,000. cavaley left Richmond on Wednesday, proceeding in the direction of Fredericksburg. (This is probably the force which appeared at Old Church.) The rebels opened a sharp fire from ar- tillery at daylight this morning in front of General Sumner. [It lasted for about three hours. We had only one man killed and one wounded. A number of prominent citizens living be- tween New Kent Court House and the Chickahominy have been arrested by order of Colonel Joyalls, on suspicion of commu. nicating with the enemy. There is no doubt that the rebel Generals are duly advised of every movement of our troops by the people who have remained at home. The weather is hot and sultry. Gro. B. McCLELLAN, General Commanding. eet ly A Ape. Death of Hon, R. M Palmer. PHILADELPHIA, June 14. Hon. Robert M. Palmer, Minister to the Argentine Confederation, died at sea, April 26th, on his way home frour Panama. ently OD i ——— Reported Surrender of Fort Morgan New York, June 14. The New Orleans Delta, received here by the last mail, says that Fort Morgan, below Mobile, surrendered to Com. Porter’s mortar fleet on Thursday, the 29th ult. Fhe other New Orleans papers do not mention the re~ port. vy ~ wy
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