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C. T. ALEXANDER, :
JOE W. FUREY, ! Editors.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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