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BELLEFONTE, PA.
Thursday Morning June, 26, 1862.
Pemooratic State Convention:
En accordance with a resolution of the
Democratic State Executive Committee, He
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 aud the
sotuury. :
WILLIAM H. WELS,
Chaliman of the Democratic State Ex
reteset 6A fpr =
{7 Owing to the absence of both the ed-
itors during the earlicr portion of the werk,
this impression of the Watchman lacks its
usual variety. The ¢ Pen, Paste and
Scissors’ and ¢ Chips = from Prentice”
have been omitted on this account. Editors
#al8 are also wanting for the same reason.
PENNSYLVANIA ALWAYS AHEAD —OUn gat
#rday morning last, our efficient State Trees.
Jaret, Hon. Henry Br. Moore, paid to the As.
sistant Treasurer of the United States the
anm of $350,000, being the final instalment
of the 8 ate’s quota of the direct tax impqs
ged by the act of Congress of last July ¢ ihe
whole amount paid by the noble ol Key
General Halleck’s Army.
The New York World, commeating upon
the results of the evacuation of Corinth,
says the main objéct for which the loyal ar-
my of the West was organized seems on the
one of complete ahd triumphant accomplish-
ment. It was created for the purpose of re-
opening the Mississippi from Cairo’ to its
mouth recovericg the magmficent valley
which at drains, It Halléck’s activity during
the coming week shall correspond’ to the
uniform success of his previous military ad-
ministration we shall witness the final and
fitting consummation of the great work
itted to him on his arrival from Cali-
fornia, He will not only have succeeded in
clearing out the valley of the Mississipps,
but he will have accomplished it with as
much celerity as could have been expected,
considering the magmtude of the work.—
While he was awaiting the completion of
the gnnboats, which were his indispensable
auxibaries, he snuffed out the rebellion in
Missouri, which presented a formibable front
when he took command of the department.
The gunboat flotilla being completed in sea”
gon to take advantdge of the spring rise of
the water in the Cumberland and Tennessee
rivers. no time was lost in carrying out the
admirable strstegic plan of a flank move_
ment, through these rivers, on Columbus
and the rebel strongholds on the Mississippi.
lating from the completion of the gunboats
there are few examples fn military history
of movements so rapid, and battles so nu-
merous and uniformly sucessful. as those
which have taken place mn Gen. Halleck’s
department. There have been no reverses,
no failures. Wherever the enemy has dared
to fight he has been beaten. The number of
guns captured has been etornious ; the nem-
ber of prisoners almost without g
parallel. It isa very Righ complivent to
General Halleck that Beauregerd, with the
concentrated rebel strepath of the West and
invne of the siror zest positions on the con-
tineat dare? not await his attack, The pop-
Je “nd enterprising rebel general had the
aentucky rebels under Breckimidge and
Marshall, the Tennessee rebels under Don -
elson, Price’s troops from Missouri, Van
stone Site being nearly two wmillions. By Dorn’s from Arkansas, in addition to those
thaking the payment at t*s time the ‘Com
monwealth saves ths fifteen ger cent, author
teed by the aot to be deducted from the to-
tal amount, Pennsylvania was the first
Wate in the Uuion that has complied
With the terms of the law. She was first
to fly to the rescue of ti e capital when it
was menaced by the rebels, and she was
first in contributing her share of the expen-
ses of the war. Mr. Mooreand the State
authorities are deserving of much praise for
the excellent manner in which they. have
managed thir business.
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Our GOVERNMENT AND Mexi0o, —The Lon-
don Times says : As for the United States
‘Government, it need not be said that it lost
uo time in making its opinions known. Al-
‘though the Senate had refused to concur in
Mr. Seward's scheme for an advance of mon-
ey to Mexic), in order to enable her to pay
the sums due to the intervening powers, yet
Lord Lyons states his belief that the Sen-
ate’s only reason was a desire to draw no
further on the pecuniary 1esources of the
country, and to avoid interf erence in Mex-
fcan affairs at a time of intestine trouble. —
©] believe,” said Lord Lyons, ¢ that the al-
tied expedition to Mexico is extremely un~
palatable to the American people. and that
the establishment of a monarchy in that
country would be regarded by them as ex.
tremely offensive ; but nevertheless, it is
felt that the interventien of the United
Btates should be postponed until it can be
affectual.”
A ProposAL ror NEGRO%S.~<The Danish
“binister at Washington has made a formal
“proposition to our Government through Mr,
Seward Secretary of State, in relation to ne-
groes who have escaped from Rebel masters
and who are now under Federal protection.
‘He proposes to take them all oft our hands
and remove them to St. Croix (a Danish
West India Island ) free of charge. They
will there be apprenticed for three years, to
make sugar and rum, receiving stated wa-
gus for their support, and after that they arc
to be unconditionally free. The proposition
certainly looks well, and we hope it may be
accepted. St; Croix, or Santas Cruz, as it is
sometimes called, is a small bnt fertile Is-
land, about 30 miles long by 8 miles broad.
The climate is just suited to the blacks,
and 1t would doubtless be a paradise for
them.
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I~ The Paducah correspondent of the
Chicago Journal, who is vouched for as a
man of veracity, and in a position to know
whereof he speaks. informs that paper that
within a few weeks over five hundred deser-
ters from the the rebel army at Corinth have
arrived at that place, reported themselves at
the Provost Marshal's office, and voluntarily
taken the oath of allegiance to the Govern-
ment of the United States. These men ex-
press themselves disgusted withthe wicked
rebellion into which they have either been
deluded or forced. They come stragsling in
almost daily ; worn, weary, and dejected—
and declare themselves sick of Jeff Davis's
Confederacy. Many also reach Fort Henry,
Columbus, Hickman, and other Federal
posts. Some of the more timid of these
deserters resort to various expedients to re-
port themselves to the Federla military aus
thorities.
(=~ Gen, Butler in New Orleans convened
the presidents of the city banks a few days
ago and invited them to bring or order back
to thier vaults the specie they had sent out
of the city, assuring them he would not
se1z¢ it or permit any interference with it.—
We presume there is no probability what-
ever that the money will be returned. It
of course rightly belongs to the depositor
snd other private citizens, but they will
never get a dollar of it. Even ifthe bank
officers wished to have it restored to thei
respective instutions, es we are quite sure
they do not, the Confederate military au
thorities, who probably have it in charge,
“will no} relax their grip upon it,
from the States bordering on the Gulf, rein-
forced more recently by Lovell’s command
from New Orleans, and yet he made the
most emphatic confession of inferiority bY
withdrawing without a battle.
General Halleck’s merits as a soldier are
not so much to be estimated by the detailed
consideration of particular movements as by
the broad general 12sults of his strategy .—
He has accomplished all that he was expect.
ed to accomplish when invested with his
most important and responsible command. —
Ile has rescued the valley of the Mississippi
from the military control of the rebels. He
has driven them out of Missour: and defeated
them in Arkansas on the western bank, re-
covered Kentucky and Tennessee on the
eastern. and can now march into any part
of Migsissippt he thinks expedient without
formidable resistance. It is already safe to
anticipate the verdict of history on his mili-
tary carcer. He will rank as an able strat
egist, a soldier of a large, comprehensive,
well- balanced mind, and a courage and en-
ergy equal, to great results,— Louisville
Journal.
rere reer A eee eres
Our Half Dozen Armies in Virginia.
Major General Sigel has now, it appears,
an indépendent command in Eastern Virgin-
ia ; so that with McClellan, Fremont, Banks,
Shields, and McDowell, we have now no
1:8 than six Major Generals in that region,
each independent of all the olhers. Each
separate command goes about without any
regard for the movements of the others.—
Fremont went as far as Port Republic a few
wecks ago ; but as he could not subsist
his army there, he had to fall back, and
was lately at Mt. Jackson. Shields went
with a little column of two or three thous-
and men, most of them shoeless and ragged,
ostensibly to support Fremont, but he was
whipped and had to fall back also. Me~
Dowell's army has been enjoying inglorious
ease in Fredericksburg ; its commander,
whose headquarters seem to bz at Wash-
ington, goes down by rail to see it ozcasion-
ally, but we have heard of no great exploits
done by it latcly. One fine division, greatly
to the joy of its officers and men, has been
sent down to reinforce McClellan.
As to the movements of Major Generals
Banks and Sigel, we are not informed, but
we are quite sure that both of them would
do well if there was any plan of campaign
at the War Department, whence all the or-
ders issue. As things are going now, the
war in the valley of Virginia has been dis
gracefully mismanaged. Jackson drove
Banks out, and frightened Secretary Stanton
out of his senses. When he got over his
fright, he ordered an immense force into the
valley to cuv off Jackson's retreat. But
there was no concert of action, and Jackson
not ouly escaped, but contrived to whip us
badly as he retreated, and may now, for
aught the world kmows, be chasing our
troops down the valley again Oh, for one
General with brains to take this tangled
military web in hand and stretch it out in
decent order. Some of the half dozen Major
(Generals in Virginia have the brains, but
they are overruled by the strategists of the
War Department, who have made this Vir-
ginia campaign one that is to be forever
memorable as showing how a great army
can be shamefully mismanaged.—Philadel
phia Bullelin.
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CoxGress.—Mr. Richardson, of Illinois,
in a speech in Congress the other day said :
+¢ Without disrespect, we would say, your
army would do better and the cause of the
country would be advanced, if you would
read the riot act and disperse both Houses of
Congress.” There is more truth than poet-
ry in the remark. If Congress does not soon
adjourn, Providence will certainly curse
our cause ; for never since governments were
instituted among men was there assembled
such an immoral miserable set of canting
hypocrits as constitutes this present Con-
hs. All they think about is the negro.—
Vhite men’s interests are forgotten.
rrr GBP
I Gratitude is the music of the heart,
! when its chords are swept by kindnes.s
‘Words of Soberness.
The Hon, Neil S. Brosn, Ex-Governor of
Tenhessee, in a speech made at Columbia,
ic that State, on the 2d inst., in'tHe preséncé
of a large assemblage, urged his fellow citi-
Zens and compatriots to desist from’ all fur
ther participation in the war against the
Government. This speech is so interesting,
from the character and antecedents of the
speaker, and the advice it gives is so impor-
tant, as well for the influence it is likely to
‘have on the péople of Tennessee as for the
indication 1% affords as to the direction in
which the minds of thoughtful men are bé-
ginning to turn at the Soith, that we advert
to a few of its points for the information of
our readers. Ex-Governor Brown, they are
aware, has for many years been a prominent
public man in Tennessee, of the Whig school
of politics, and at one time engaged in the
diplomatic services of the country. He was
originally opposed to secession, but, after it
was assumed that the State had ‘‘gene out
of the Union,” he gave his support to the
rebellion, and became one of the Confederate
Military Committee, which held its sessions
at Nashville. .
He thus describes the state of mind in
which he was left when, yielding to the
stress of circumstances against his convic
tions of right and expediency, he found him-
self arrayad in war against the National
Government. He said :
« Last spring, against his carnest counsels
and his deliberaté judgment, fepeatedly ex .
pressed in public, the question of disunion
was raised and supported by influential lead-
ers and a powerful and active party. The
people seemed hurried off by frenzy. When
he saw the avalanone descend upon ud irre-
sistible ns that which breaks its icy cable
and glides on its mission of ruin from an
Alpine summit ; when be saw that he could,
no longer struggle to any purposes against
the tremendous storm, he determined, come
weal come woe, he would stand by Tennes-
see. lis oppogition would have been use~
less dny longer ; it would have ended in
street broils and fearful altercations. He
felt the State was gone for the present. His
mind was tortured. At times he felt as
though he would like to fly the country, and
leave a scene of horror and misery for which
he had uo appetite. But he felt that this
would be unmanly, and that he woud stay
and use his influence to moderate the fury
of others and protect his old friends. He
did what he felt was bis duty, but he felt
disconsolate, heart broken, unhappy. He
would rather die than lead a life made of
such dark and dreary and bitter years as the
one through which he had just passed. He
had seen young men, the hope and flower of
the State, discomfitted, wandering hither
and thither, scattered now from the prisons
along the Northern lakes to the marshes and
sanebrakes in the intérior of Mississippi. —
He would not go into a discussion of the
controvery or its causes. Whether the
North was right or the South, or whether
both were wrong, it was not his purpose to
argue, He wished only to say, that in his
deliberate and settled judgement, taking all
the facts as they now present themselves
into consideration, he was bound to declare
that this rebellion was ‘played out’—it was
an utter failure. He had ties the doarest
in nature to the Southern side. His only
brother was a prisoner, and his two sons
were in the Southern army, and to day he
would give his right arm to bring them back.
He never asked them to go there; they went
against his judgment. It was his solemn
duty to-tell his old friends that the Confed
erate cause was ruined and hopelessly lost.
He had never been a desponding man, but
for months he had felt no faith mike rebel -
lion. Ic had not scrupled to say so to all
lus friends. The longer it lasts the worse it
will be for the South.”
The considerations of virtue of which he
urged upon his fellow citizens the duty of de-
sisting from the fratricidal strife stimulated
by the secession leaders are thus strong'y
enforced :
I want this war stopped! Whose heart
has not dropped blood who has a son in the
Southern army ? I know something of that
unspeakable sorrow. Think of this you
who stay at home and blaster about whip.
ping Yankees and establishing a Southern
Confederacy. Let us stop this wanton,
hopeless war. I would say this now, even
though 1 had been in the habit of eating fire
five times a day. It is ruining us. The
rebels are burning up the cotton. Why, in
the name of reason, why ? Don’t it impov-
erish the people and the Government ?—
Don’t it kill their credit and their banks 2—
Don’t it ruin our hopes abroad ? Then this
conscription law. 1 will not swallow it un-
til I swallow alioes, gall and wormwood.—
It is a base fraud upon those brave boys
who had enlisted for a year, and wh) were
packing up their dear mementoes of home
in their knapsacks when this infamously ty-
rannical law came to arrest them on the eve
of their peparture and drive them back, in
violation of all faith, into the hardships and
sufferings of a soldier’s life. It binds our
boys hand and foot against their will, It
seizes upon the poor soldier who has been
dreaming for nights of returning to his wife
and children, and dashes his visions of bliss
cruelly to the ground. It places the gallant
Tennessee volunteer on a level with the con-
scripts of Ausfria. This whole policy was
unjust ard ruinous. Now look at things
just as they are, and not as you might wish
them. Tf I was the rankest secessionist alive
I could not resist the conviction that this
rebellion cannnot be successfully managed
with Southern resources. Will you wait till
an overwhelming force drives you into. the
ground ¢ Will you struggle against this
hope ? You were deceived 1n this matter,
aud facts show themselves in a strangely
different light from that which colored them
a year ago. Now, if ] am employed as your
lawyer, and and you make me a highly fa
vorable fiction of your case and your evi-
dence, I tell you you can. gain 1t. But it
turns out, on investigation, that the facts
are wholy different from your representa
tion of them, and then it is my duty, as an
honest counselor, to. tell you to desist. I
commit a fraud if I spur you on to. your own
ruin.”
— -O Ome
17" Some of the abolition presses rejoice
over the fact that President Lincoln has
made himself responsible for the acts of
Cameron, for which he received a censure
from Congress, and talks of it as though the
matter was settled. This would be a nice
way to dispose of the question, but it so
happens that the President now stands un-
der the censure which the House assigned
for Cameron. Mr. Lincoln bas enough to
answer for himself, and if the calculates to
asgume all the plunder, abolitionism and
prodigality of his administration—together
with the sectional principles of his party,
which led to tho dissolution of the Si
he will have burden enough. The day has
gone by when stupid speeches will be re-
garded as containing some deep meaning,
and when ignorance will be regarded as
masterly workmanship. The fanatical
charm is broken, and the people will have
plenty of time to repent in sackeloth and
taxes for the folly of elevating such men to |
power.— Sunbury Democrat.
[From the Journal of Commerce.]
‘What are We Fighting For:
It 18 & curious hallucination that?posseses
the minds of some radical men, who when
they read of a fugitive slave sent back, or a
pegro turned out of camp, like any other
strolling non combatant start up in & fury
and ask: “ Isit for this the life blood of the
nation is spjlled ? is it for this we are fight
ing?’ WHy no gentleman it is not for the
negro, for his freedom, or for his enslaving,
that we are fighting. hy can’t you get it
into your heads that this’ war practically
and theorctically, has nothing todo with
the negro ¥ It is a war of white men, in a
country settled by white men, inhabitated
by white men, and ruled by white men, and
the war is for the ga of white men, and
white men only. Yet these same gentlemen
seem to argue in'a manner, satisfactoly to
themselves, that when itis admitted that we
are not fighting to enslave negroes, the con-
verse must be true, that we are fighting to
free negroes! A cotemporary gave us the
other day a sad picture of a wounded sol-
dier, perhaps a dying man, who had suffér-
ed in this war, and demanded if we thought
all man’s suffering was for naught, connec
ting therewith the notion that it was for the
negroes freedom that he had suffered and
his comrades had died. A thousand probs
abilities to one that if the man were asked
whether he had offered his life on the altar
for the cause of the negro, ke would repudi~
ate the idea with scorn.
Never since the world was made did a
nation pour out its trensype; its greatest
treasure, the life of its youth and manhood,
as this nation hag, been” doing. In every
mountain fa5iness, on every plain of the
North, there is a cottage from which a son
tr a brother has gone to the battle field. —
In every city, village, and hamlet, from the
prairies to the ocean, old ‘men sit sad eyed
and mothers look out of the windows,
through blinding tears, for tha return of the
brave who have answered their country’s
call. Does the wind shake the trees with
unaccustomed violence, there are a million
throbbing hearts that beat quicker, even in
the hours of sleep, lest the sound betoken
disaster from the the field of blood. Does
the morning break pleasantly with the soft
light of June, so pleasant in the old times,
there is scarcely in all the land a home to
welcome the son with gladness, an eye to
brighten with the cheers of summer light. —
The land mourns. Old women go tottering
to the grave for lack of the support of the
stout arms that lie nerveless by the Potomac
or the Tennessee. Young hearts are dar~
kened with long griefand young hearts are
broken with the long long waiting, and the
terrible story that comes at last. This is
what they have done and suffered who are
at home. Andis all this for the black
man’s freedom ? or is it for the glory of the
hast, the Union of the Fathers, the land of
Vashington ?
And they who have gone, the hundreds of
thousands who have given themselves to the
battle, what have they grne for? They
have endured, they have suffered, have
fought, have fallen in the cause for which
they have enlisted. Their graves are all
along the banks of our mighty rivers. For
what have they died ? Follow oue man of
that army from: his home through all that
he has suffered ; consider all that he has lost.
He was young and strong, and he had hopes
before, and affections around him. He
broke the bonds of home, bonds known no
where on earth so strong as here. He gave
himself to the nation. lle slept in the win
ter nights under the snow or under the stars
—he lived in one year as long, for exposure
and suffering and pain, as most men live in
seventy. He fought in battle after battle.
The worst enemy that he met was the fierce
camp fever that grasped him in hot conflict.
In his delirium the cool breeze of the home
was on his forehead, and in the calmer
hours. he remembered the well at his fath~
er’s door and longed for it, as David never
longed for the water of the well of Bethle-
hem. + Who can paint the terrible story of
the battle of youth and fever in the damp
and dismal tent of the soldier on the field,
Bat he conquered that enemy, and another
day he was on the battle field again, and
in the midst of the smoke and slaughter, he
remembered the blue eyws of the woman
that loved him more than life in the up.
country, and even then, as the memory of
those beloved eyes blessed him, death came
in at bis breast and the form that she would
have sheltered in her arms against every
human woe, lay on the plain, and the wild
flood of war swept hither and thither above
the unconscious clay. No—not quite un
conscious yet.. For once his comrades, lov~
ing him for all that he had been of gentle-
ness yet of firmness, a hero in the ficld. but
a child in the camp, his comrades as they
rushed by in the melee saw him open his
eyes, raise his right arms, and: though they
saw it not perfectly, they knew that he smi-
ted as he waved his hand once—only once
—before the darkress came.
Will any one tell us what that dying ges-
ture was to signify? Did it imply that in
the moment of passing. that moment into
which life is sometimes compressed, when
the soul gathers up all its memories to car
ry away with it inthe other country, did it
imply that he had remembered all that he
had suffered, and all he had struggled for,
all he had'lost, and died content, because it
was-all for the Southern black man and his
cause ?
How can men do such foul dishonor to the
soldier of the Union? Whatever be the
future course of the war, aod whether the
radical views: gain supremacy so that it
dwindles from the proportion of a war for
the nation into a war for the negro, or
whether it remains as now a war for the
American Union, let no man dare to dese
crate one grave on all the fields where our
dead. lie side: by side, with any monumental
stone to tell the fasehood that they fought
for the men of Africa, and the freedom of
the negro race. Rather, if the future be in
store for us, which God forbid, that thcse
men gain their way and make the war a
negro war, rather let the dead lie in un-
known graves, and be counted where the
Union they fought for, will then be counted
among the glories of the past.
re er Gr Apt
Mone TesrisoNy. —Capt. John J. Robin-
son, of Tuscarawas county, now a Captain
in the Eighteenth Ohio.regiment, near Cor~
inth, thus writes to the Holmes County
Farmer, about the damaging effects of the
abolition emancipation projects that are be-
ng passed by the present Congress :
¢ The legislation of Congress on the sla
very question has greatly strengthened the
rebel cause in the south-west. The rebel
leaders now say, ‘Did we not tell you what
the Abolitionists would do.if they succeed~
ed.” The Abolitionists have thrown all the
doubtful and wavering on the side of the
rebels, except a very’ few, who count the
chances of success and act accordingly. It
is hard for soldiers to crush secession when
Congress is trampling upon the Constitution
and enforzing the dogmas which aided in
bringing this devastating war upon. the
country, It will take the last life's drop ef
many poor soldiers to repair the damage
that the present Congress has done to the
Union cause.’
The above expresses the sentiment of the
whole army, and every other discreet, sen-
sible man in the Union. Jeff Davis seems to
have Congresses in his interest at the pres.
ent time, and the one at Washingten is do-
ing fia far more good than the ona at Rich
mond.
A Commander-in-Chief’s Encampment:
Few civilians ever think of General Mc.
Clellan’s home in his gréat tented field with-
out having a confused ixture of tents,
horses, soldiers, and other military matters,
constantly before their eyes« They have no’
idea of the modesty 2nd regularity, the neat-
ness and order, of the home of the General
and his staff. Perhaps, to satisfy this need,
it would not be superfluous were I to send
vou a description of the headquarters, en-
campment near New Bridge, at which place
for the next ten days, the business of an ar-
my of one hundred and fifty thousand has
been transacted. : :
In the corner of a fleld of five hundred
acres, surrounded on two sides by woodland
the tents are pitched. 'I'lie camp is on a
hill, a quarter ofa mile from any road, and
the whole covers a space of four acres. The
ground plan of the camp is a parallelogram.
with the staff tents on the long sides, the
General's tent on the short side, nearest the
road, and the guard tents on the other.
At the upper end of this parallelogram, a
space a hindred feet square is marked out,
constantly guarded by sentinels, and upon
which no one, no matter how high mn posi.
tion, is allowed to encroach. In the centre
of this sacred spot are two wall-{ents, each
about twenty feet square, set * alongside of
one another, thoueh with a slight interven
ing space. The left hand one is occupied
by General McClellan, the other by his fath-
er-in-law, General Marcy, the chief of staff,
Both arc furnished alike ; each has a stove,
camp stools, and table, corsege, camp bed,
desk, and toilet materials, and various wine
bottles lying about, denote the means used.
even by major generals, to beguile weary
hours and entertain visitors. In front ot
the General's tent, a hundred feet wide
street runs, to the opposite side of the camp,
where two or three peaked Sibley tents are
pitched to accommodate the soldiers acting
as the camp guard. On each side of this
street tents are pitched, whose occupants
decrease in honor according as they are far.
ther away from the General. These are the
tents of the staff officers--the provost mar-
shal general, the adjutant general, the in-
spector general, the quartermasters, the
commissaries, the aids to the commander-in-
chief, &. A row behind these, on each
side, is devoted to under officers and clerks,
and a third row to servants, Outside of all
this the horses are picketed; and further still
are the headquarters baggage train, so use
ful in moving all this paraphernalia. Each
tent is like a small parlor; well, furnished,
and having every comfort and luxury one
could expect. The officers who occupy them
are always about, chatting and talking. the
business of many of them not requiring at
tention more than one fourth of the time. —
The clerks and aids, however, have the most
difficult duties. They prepare everything
for those they assist, a simple reading or
signing: being generally all that is required
of the superior officer.
"The above is a brief description of the en-
campwent of the leader of the army of the
Potomac. As little space as possible is al~
ways occupied, ard amid its gniet and se-
clusion those plans are formed which will
soon make a proud foe succumb,
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How tue Tmxe 18 Working. — We find in
the Dayton Emp:re a communication on the
subject of negro labor displacing white la
bor. We make an extract from it to show
its character. We presume such complaints
will grow in number as the months roll
round :
Mg. Epitor :—As the Einpire is the or-
gan and friend of white men, [ wish through
its columns to call attention of the working
men of the eity of Dayton to the fact, that
at no tiwe heretofore were there so many
negroes in the city as there are at the pres-
ent time. Go where you will, you meet
them, their dusky faces greet you at overy
turn, and a majority of them seemingly
strangers. 1 believe there isa branch of
the Under ground Railroad in operation here
for they all seem to get ready employment
on their arrivals
For instance : .
In one shop in this city, there are four ne-
gro blacksmiths. In a certain glue factory
all the hands are negroes,
A white man maxing one dollar a. day,
running a stationary engine in a certain
carpenter's shop, had to leave to make room
for a contraband at eighty cents per day.
A certain nabob on Main street, and a
great war man and encourager of our brave
boys to volunteer, some time ago had a white
man to work for him. One morning he told
the man that he wanted him to do additional
work. This same nabob had also a negro
be was raising, a grown boy. The man ex-
postulated with him, and told him that he
thought that the negro ought to do it.—
White men of Dayton, what do you think
was the nabob’s reply ? Why, that the ne-
gro was too tenderly raised, and he did not
want him to doit. The man, of course,
left, ag any man of spirit would, and his
place was soon occupied. by a newly import-
ed. contraband.
Another Main street gentleman, having a
palatial residence, ground down a poor white
man in his wages so low that he was com.
peiled to leave, to make room for a low pric-
ed contraband,
An Officer Disgraced.
A few days since Col.’ Baker's regiment
and all of the divisions not ou duty, witness
ed a very interesting but a very solemn cer-
emony —that of disgracing a captian pub-
licly. It appears that at West Point, Va.,
Co I, of the 34th New York volunteers, was
color company, and the disgraced officer
wag captian. The Colonel wanted to assign
the colors to another company, and at dress
parade the captian refused to parade his
company, and even stacked arms and told
the men to refuse to take them. He was
arrested and tried by a court martial for
mutiny , convicted and would have been
shot had. not Gen. M’Clellan commuted his
sentence.
The ceremony took placein a large field.
The Regiments were formed in columns of
divisions; each column was. close to the
next, so that it made an unbroken front.—
They were then, formed into a hollow square
the commanders. of regiments, Brigades di:
visions and staffs were in the centre. The
prisoner was brought in under a heavy
guard and handcuffed .They marched to the
centre of the square. The prisoner stepped
two paces to the front of the guard ;the offi~
commanding the guard then came forward
and told the prisoner to take oft his hat. |
He then read in a loud voice the charges
specifications and sentence of the court mar
tial, which was —** That the sword be bro-
ken before his face, that he be. publicly disv
graced before the division, and serve one
year in the Columbia jail; and that 1t shall
be disgraceful for any soldier of the army of
the Potomac to associate with him hereafter.
After this was read a sergeant came forward
and cut all the brass buttons from his coat,
and took his sword and broke it in half say
ing as he did s0.—¢ I hereby declare it dis-
graceful for all men of the army of the Po-
tomac to associate with this man hereafter.’
and then threw the pieces on the ground.—
The prisoner was then mached off under the
same guard, and we were marched back to
our camp.
eee eet
Wouman's Grier.—A stingy husband.
Wosan's CrowNiNG Grpory,—Her bonoet:
07> The following debate occurred in the
U. 8. Senate, a few days ago, from which it
will be seen that the Republicans are not as
harmonious as some may be led to suppose.
Mr. Wade, abolition republican from Ohio,
makes én unmanly attack upon Mr. Cowan,
conservative republican from Pennsylvania,
to which Mr. Cowan very fittingly replies:
Mr. Cowan claims that & fair constrec
tion of the Constitution was clearly against
the proposed tax. It was perfectly evident
that the framers of the Constitution intanded
to prohibit just such 4 tax as is now propo-
sed to be laid, and it seemed to him that no
trie Union man would try to avoid the spir=
it and intent of the Constitution. The very
men who propose to lay this tax on slaves
would with the other hand free all the slaves
of rebels, and thus destroy the very source
of reventie which they purpose to collect.—
But he was sorry to say that the two dollars
a head was not the real reason for these
measures. It might be said that he was
peioscing the Senate. Well he intended
to do'so. Tt might be said he intended to
lecture the Senate. He thought the Senate
deserved it, by passing acts which are cal-
culated to trample on the Constitution. Tt
might be said he was dogmatic. Well, he
intended to be dogmatic.
Mr. Wade (in his seat)—All bat the mat~
ic.
Mr. Cowan— When that Senator settles a
little account which he has with a colleague
in the other House, I presume it will be time
enough for me to pay attention to that re-
mark. Till then he must excuse me. When
he said he intended to be dogmatic, he
meant that he intended to express his own
opinion firmly, as he had the right to do.
Mr. Wade said he did not see any use in
the Senator getting up and declaring especial
devotion to the Constitution. He was wills
ing to listen to argument, but would not
allow any man, by implication to reproach
him with perjury. What right has the Sen-
ator from Pennsylvania to lecture the Sen~
ate and reproach the Senate ? Who was he
and where does he come from? Who ever
heard of him ? Yet he has the presnmption
to come here and lecture the Senate. He
was willing to be criticised, but he wanted
it done by somebody with some authority.
He would rather be lectured by. anybody else
than the Senator from Pennsylvania. That
Senator has a perfect night to. be the mere
advocate and watch dog of the traitors in
the field but not to come here from the wilds
of Pennsylvania to lecture the Senate.—
What vote has he ever given here but as the
advocate of traitors on all occasions ? Let
him not rise and assume to correct the Sen-
ate. Mr. Wade contended that this was
simply a proposition to tax the owners of
what they claimed as valuable property, and
was constitutional, and would not injure
the men of the Border States. The loyal
men in the Border States are not slavehold~
ers—not one 1m twenty.
Ar. Cowan said he might be a very hum
ble individual, apd might be inexperienced
and unknown, but he was here as the Rep~
resentative of Pennsylvania, representing
three millions of people, and was not going
to apologize for his people, for his inexperi-
ence or for his youth. He never understood
that age and long service here would sanc-
tify folly or give character to Billingsgate
which mignt be learned of fish women. He
would leave his past history to those curious
to inquire, and if the Senator who made the
unwarrantable on him can reconcile his con-
duct to his own conscience and sense of pro
priety, he (Mr. Cowan) was willing to leave
the matter. He (Mr. Cowan) had made an
argument, whether good or bad was not of
much consequence. The Senator from Ohio
had made a low vulgar ejaculation, to which
he (Mr. Cowan) replied. Did the Senator
from Ohio answer the argument when he
indulged in a. hall hours tirade, charging
him (Mr. Cowan) with being the watch dog
of slavery and a hundred other equally un
just things ? He was here as the represen
tative of Pennsylvania, to preserve the Con
stitution and restore the Union. If he had
to defend himself in the Senate in that duty
from unjust attacks, and resist projects
which he considered wrong, he had nothing
to regret.
eS Eas arerims
Waar GENERAL MiLans. Saxs.—On Sat-
urday last, General Prim and suite, before
their departure for Spain, visited Camp
Washington and witnessed the trial of the
Union repeating gun. The Herald thus re
ports the opinion of General Milans, the
chief Spanish General with Prim : The
conversation next turned to the late visit of
General Prim and suite to the army of the
Potomac before Richmond. General Milans
was most enthusiastic on the subject. He
had seen all the armies of Europe ; but
never had he witnessed anything to, surpass
the discipline, spirit and pluck of General
McCleilan’s forces. He witnessed a review
of 30,000 Union soldiers,and stated that their
bearing and intelligence were those of veter-
ans of ten years experience. For General
McClellan not to conquer was an utter im.
possibility. The spirit of the soldiers and
the confidence in their leader were suck as
rendered success beyond the shadow of a
doubt. McClellan’s plan of operations in
Prim’s opinion was. perfect. It was impos
sible for the leader of the army of the Poto-
mac to lose one inch of ground, and the
complete subjugation of the rebels was, he
thought, the work of a very few days at
further.
Capt. Chauncy remarked, that of course it
was not to be expected: that our soldiers
could be as perfect as veterans. General
Milans, with an immense and peculiarly in~
telligent shrug, replied : “I do uot care
whether you believe me or not, ; I have seen
thirty thousand of your troops in review,
and they are as perfect as veterans of ten
years service.” Capt. Chauncy stated that
the opportunities to see our troops to ad-
vantage was very meagre. General Milans
answered that he did not care for show.—
He had walked about from man to man, and
found they fully understood how to use the
arms in their hands, and that their 1atelliv
gence and courage were of the highest order.
Such soldiers would suffer no defeats of any
consequence,
A Minitary Ebpirog.—Col. Nixon, for-
merly editor of the New Orleans Crescent,
recently came into Gen. Mitchell's camp, m
Alabama, with a flag of truce from Beaure.
gard to effect an exchange of prisoners. A
cofrespondent of the Cincinnati Commercial
says : The Colonel is a fine type of South-
ern Chivalry, has a fine opinion of himself,
agood deal of contempt for ‘ Yankees,”
says Gen. Butler did ‘just right” in sup-
pressing his paper, that it was a *¢ rebel
sheet,” drinks good whiskey, and waxes
warm upon the subject of the ‘last ditch.”
Take him all in all, he is worth a score of
the sneaking, cowardly wretches who lack
the courage to take up arms, and, while pro-
fessing Union sentiments, are acting the
spy and trying to betray those whom they
fear to fight.
027 An old minister up town the other
day asked a woman what could be done to
induce her husband to attend church. 1
don’t know,” she replied, ‘ unless you were
to put a pipe and jug eof whiskey iv the
pew.”
@en. MoClellan on the Battle Field.
Correspondents at Chickahominy, writing
on that bloody fleld, have one uniform tone,
touching the patriotism and bravery of the
pauiotic’ Commander-in-Chief, We give
two or three extracts
[Special ¢orrespondence ot the N. Y. Tribudf. 1
Oh that rain which I described ! Had it
not been for that, McClellan would to-mght
have been in Richmond. His plans were
matured, and our march in overwheltning
force and vigor could not have been stopped.
But it is only a question of time with the
commander. I felt to day for the first time
a full sense of the vast labors he undergoes,
and of the exceeding heavy burden of the
responsibility which weighs down his heart
and his brain, when I saw him dismount
from his horse at a brook, and bearing his
head, ask an orderly to bathe it with water
scooped up in his hands. Overburdened,
harrassed, hampered soldier, way the God
of Battles give you success, and give you
rest !
[From the N, Y. Herald.]
The bridge erected by Sedgwick's corps
across the Chickahominy was swept away
after the passage of Gen. Sedgwick’s divis.
ion by the swollen and swift current of the
stream. Gen. McCleilan upaware of this,
fact, dashed with his staff up to its former-
position to find it gone. The staff’ stoodi
aghast at the appalling fact. What if it had:
happened before the transit of the troops.
across the swollen current to reinforce their
brethren in Casey’s and Couch’s despairing
divisions ? Nothing daunted; however, our
idolized young Napolean dashed. into the
swift current, through which his noble steed.
safely carried him to the the opposite shore
This was not an act of our General to gain
the applause of a multitude, but one occur-
ring while he was surrounded by his stafh:
anda few spectators, in the discharge of his.
ordinary duties and away from the excite-
meat of the field.
[From the Boston Traveler.}
Permit me, before I close my letter, to
give your readers the position in which Gen.
McClellan is held by the common soldiers,
by the rank and file of the whole army.—
When I say that Gen. McClellan’ is beloved,
trusted and perfectly idolized by every com:
mon soldier in the army, I am not saying
one bit more than the bare truth. They
will follow him anywhere and everywhere,
for they know, to a man, that he will not
necdlessly or unnecessarily expose them to
danger. No matter how. great the peril or
difficult the task may seem, when he com-
mands they will cheerfully obey, and, with
the most unbounded confidence, will face
any danger or overcome any obstacle. In
fact, the feeling towards. Genera] McClellan
partakes almost of adoration, With such a
General. the Union cause can never fail.
tien. McClellan had rode over very early
on Sunday morning, and when the fight bes
gan he immediately rode down the Williams.
burg road, and over the whole scene of ac~
tion, 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 1eziments that had
Leen in Ssturday’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.
{From the N. Y. Evening Post.]
Gen. McClellan rode over the field where
the battle of. Hanover occurred, and
greeted with tremendous enthusiasm §y
the thousands ot brave hearts who had pers
ticipated. in the engagement.
A Resern Boy’s Dearu Scexe.— Lieut. Ad.
Smith, of Black’s regiment in a letter to a
friend concerning his adventures at Hano-
ver Court [louse describes the death scene
of a youthful rebel soldier. After ths bat=.
tle, Lieut. Sm'th, feeling the want of his
overcoat, which hz threw away upon enter.
ing the fight, in company with a sergeant
proceeded in search of it in the woods. On
the way they stumbled over the dead of
both sides. and every now and then were
startled by tne cries and groans of the woun-
ded who had not yet been discovered by the
detail sent out, Lieutenant Smith, after
mentioning his failure to find the over coat
says:
7 Determined: not to sleep in the cold:all
mght without some covering besides the
light blouse I had on, [ stooped down and
unbuckled the knapsack from a rebel sol~
dier, who was stiff in death. From oft this I
took a large white blanket, and was about
to move away from the spot, when [ was ar-
rested by a prayer, uitered.in a wea, child
ish voice, that made tha blood ran cold in, my
veins. [I proceeded to the spot whence the
sound came, and discovered lying close
alongside a decayed log, and partially cover-
ed with a fallen limb, a youth of not over
sixteen, mortally wounded in the abdomen.
Oh, how earnestly and piteously he effered
up his supplications to Heaven. He prayed
“that his daar mother would forgive him for
going against her will to fight.the Yankees,
and that God would forgive him and take
him, into his care and keeping. He was too
earnestly employed to know. of our presence
although I asked him several questions and
turned him on his back while the Sergeant
placed a stick under his head and a canteen
of cool water to his lips. He was now in
his death agonies, and we had done all in
our power to make his exit into eternity as
comfortable as possible ; it but remained for
us to see him give up the Ghost. Poor boy !
he kept us waiting bul a little while, for his
spirit soon had flown * to that bourne from
whence no traveler returns.” We turned
from the spot, and unconsciously the tears
trickled down my cheeks as the dying words
of the young rebel still rung in my ears.—
His last words were ¢ Oh! my poor dear
mother, what will you do!” His words
cut me keenly, and caused me to draw a
picture of the future which was perhaps in
store for me.”’
a - sey .
7=We observe that W. H. Armstrong is
out for the Republican nomination for Con-
gress. Mr. A. was an industrious, able,
and (se believe) honest member of the Leg-
islayire from this district for two years pas
sed. His ultra political course, however
during the last session, was in Singuiar
contrast to his conservative course the win-
ter before. ;
B. Rush Petriken, long a most in®9 dg
and persistent office seeker, is also aspiring
toa Cougressional nomination. Strongly
Republican as the district is, we would have
a hope that the Democracy could beat Rush.
Nothwithstanding his constant candidacy
and importunity, he never held but one off
ice—Receiver or Register of a land office in
Towa, under Van Buren, some time between
1836 and 1841.—Clinton Democrat,
———
[7 Law, ma, ’ere’s a heagle !"”
Mamma reproachfully-—“A" heagle t ©
you hignurant yal. Vy its a howl.”
Keeper of the Managerie respect{ully—
‘Axes parding mum, ’tis an 'awk !”
0Z7 Rosseau used to say, ¢ To write 8
good love letter yoa ought to begin. without
koowing what you mean to say, and to tin-
ish without knowing what you have writs
ten,"
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