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Adver tisements charged to persons handing them in. _ PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS CARDS. - ■ U7 H. AKKKS, ATTOHNEr AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Will attend promptly to all business entrusted to his cere. Military claims speedily collected. Office on Juli ana Street, two doors north of the Inquirer Office. April 1,1564 —if. ESPY 31. AESIP, ATTOR!*ET AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., Will faithfully and promptly attend to all busincs en trusted to his caro in Bedford aod adjoining counties. j Military claims, Pensions, back pay, Bounty, Ac. spee- , dilv eollected. Office with Mann A Spang, on Juliana street, 2 doors south of the Mengel House. Ajjfil 1, 1564, —tf. J. It. DI'BBORKOW, ATToIW-f AT LAW, BEDFOJtb,' PA. Office one dour south of the "Mengei Honsf," g Will attend promptlyw all business iotra -N. dtubfi eare Celieeuous made on the sbertcst notice. Having, also, been regularly licensed to proseeute Claims against the Government, particular ntteutiop wiil be given to the collodion of Military claims of ali kinds; Mansions, Back Pay, Bounty, Bounty Loans, Ac. Bedford, ape 8,1884 —If. i ~ ALEX. klSft, ATTORKKT AT LAW. And agent for procuring arrears of Pay and Bounty money. Office on Juliana Street, Bedford, Pa. April 1,186-I—tf. kIMJIEIh A lISeESFEITEB, ATfORNEVS AT I.AW, BEDFORD, PA. Have formed a partnership in the practice of the Law. Office on Juliana Street, two doors South of the Mengel House. April 1, lSGt—tf. JOHN MA JOB, JUSTICE OP THE TEACE, HOPEWELL, BEDFORD CORSTT. Collections and all pertiningto his office will, be attended to promptly. Will also attend to the sale or renting of real estate. Instruments of writing carefully prepared. Also settling up partnerships and ether ac ' counts. . April 1,1564 —tf. MO. MOWER, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BSDFORD. PA., April 1,1864. —tf. - JOSEPH W. TATE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD PA. WILL promptly attend to collections and all business entrusted to his eare in Bedford and adjoining couq ties. Money advanced on Judgmen T, Notes and o'ber Claims. Has for sale Town Lot.-, in Tatesville, and St. Joseph s on Bedford Railroad. Farms and unim proved land in quantities to suit purchasers. Office opposite the Banking House of Reed A Schell. npr. 15, 1361—10 m. RUPP, SHANNON, & CO., BANKERS, liedfortl, Pa., BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DF.POSIT. COLLECTIONS male for the East, West, North ind South, ami the general business of Exchange, trans acted. Note 3 and Aecnunts Collected, and llcmittanees promptly made. REAL ESTATE bought and sold. 6. W.-ltrrr, " 0. E. SHANSOX, F. BENEDICT. | apr. 15, 1864—tf. , I DANIEL BORDER. PITT STREET, TWO noons WEST or THE BEDFORD ROTEL, Bedford, Pa. WatehmnkerADealer in Jewelry. Speetaeles. Ac HE KEEPS ON HAND A STOCK OF FINE GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES, SPECTACLES OF Brilliant Double Refined Glasses, also Scotch Pebble; Glasses. Gold Watch Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Rings, best quality of Gold Pens. _ He will supply to order any thing in his line sol on band. apr. "8,"1864 —it. fgygKIASS. &C. I. N. BOWSER, DENTIST. Permanently located in Woodberry, will carefully and punctually attend L> all operations en treated to his oare.— Taeth inserted from one to an entire sett, in the latest and most approved style, aad.at rates more reasonable than ev er before offered in this section of conmry. Call and tee tpeeimeut of. work, AH operation* warranted. Woodbury, April 1,186-k—tf. C.N.HICXOK BEJiTIST, OFFICE IS BANK Bl ILDINK, I BEDFORD, PA. April 171864.—tf. DR. B. F. HARRY, Respectfully tenders "his professional services to the etthensbf Bedford and vicinity. Office and residence on Pitt StieeTjln thebuilding formerly occupied by Dr. J. H. April 1, l c 6t—tf, J. L. MARBOURG, M. D. Having permanently located respectfully tenders his profeerfdnai services to the eitiiens of Bedford and vi cinity. Office on Juliana Street, opposite the Bank, one door north of liU A Palmer's office. - - r . April!, 1864 —tf. ■ i .. .. HOTKLK. THE MENGEL HOUSE. _ TaßKDpwui>P ßr ** ?P>tto BqcAM^Jpu*aßT . / I Bedford, Pa.- mais HOC6E so wcU known to the traveling public, X continues under the charge of Isaac Mengel. Ho spares no pains to sugply tbe Wants and comfort of all who favor him with their patronage. .-His table is spread with the jscrt the market affords. o ßje ohotaUrß are handsomeTv flirnifhed. A" convenient stable it at taohed tq tjf House, attended by careful hpstiere. apr. 8, 1864—at. .Ik?- ■ 1 V-. fiXCMAIVGE HOTEL, HTJ>fTIISrGH>OK,PAi T JOHN S. MILLKK, Proprietor. April *fch,Aßqi.-4-f;: /'t\f " .Q I - T.I V'- F F 11 "J UNION HOTEL. VALENTINE #FECKMAN, PROPRIETOR, i We Pitt Steresot, Berifbrri, Pa., S„ {Formerly the Glob* Hotel.) E , publ'i^-pap ,6-Tn< that. he.haamadenpUt Mb ingemenu to accbmmodauaJl that may favor him A LOCAL AN I* GENERAL NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO POLITICS, KDpCATION, AND MORALS. PBOCLAMATION, - (t ~4 11 < '■ vi >OlfA* r? SPECIAL ELECTION, TO BE'HELD ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 2,1864. IN THE NAME AND BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE • eiMWEALTII OF PEAMMII, ANDREW N TUESDAY, THE SECOND DAY OF AUGUST,"!S6i, for the purpose of voting on "a joint resolution proposing certain amend- j merit? to the Constitution of the Commonwealth, which arc as follows: There shall be an additional oetion to the third article of the Constitution, to be designated as section four, as foil.'h 3,: '•SEC. 4. Whenever any of the qualified electors of this Commonwealth shall be, in any actual military service, under a requisition from the President of the United States, or by the authority of thl- Commonwealth, such eleetens may exercise the right of .suffrage In all elections by the citixene, under saeh regulations as are, or shall ho prescribed by law, as fully us if they were present at their usual place Of olcetion." SEC. 2. There-ball be two additional sections to the eleventh article of the Constitution, to be designated as sections eight and nine as follows: "SEC. 6. N biH shall be passed hythe Legislature con taining more than ono subject, which shall be clearly ex pressed in the title, except .appropriation bills. "SEC. 9. No bill shall be passed by the Legislature granting any powers, or privileges, in any case, where th authority to grant such powers, or privileges, ha? been, or may hereafter be conferred upon the courts of this Commonwealth. The electors of the Borough of Bedford and Township ] of Bedford, to meet at the Court House in said Borough. I The electors of Bread! Top Township, to meet at the School Houso in the town of llnpowolL The electors of the Borough of Bloody Run, to meet, at | the School honsa in said Borough. The electors of (lolerain township fo meet at the bouse of I>. Stuck.ey, in Raiqsburg, in said township. The electors of Cumberland Valley township to meet at j the new School house erected en the land owned by John Whip's heirs in said township. The electors of Jlurrison township to meet at School house N...-5, near the dwelling house of Henry Keyser in said township, The electors of Juniata township, to meet at Keyscr's School house, in said township. The electors of Hopewell township to meet at the School house near the house of John Dasher, in saiti L/wuihip. The electors of Londonderry township tq meet at the house now occupied by Wui. fl. HHI as a shop in Bridge port, in said township. Tat elector* of Liberty township to meet at tho School" houee in Stonerstqwn in said township. The electors of .Schellsburg Borough to meet at the brick School bo tire in Borough. The electors of Monroe township to meet at tho house lately oeenpied by James Carnell in ClearviUc, in said township. The electors of Napier township to meet at the brick school house, in the Borough of Schellsburg. The elector* of East Providence township to meet at the house lately occupied by John Nycum, Jr, in said town ship, , o The electors of Snako Spring township to meet at the school house near the Methodist church on the land of John G, Hartley. The electors of Wert Provident*; township to meet at school house No. 4, near David Sparks, in said township. Ijie electors of St Clair township to meet at tfio atoro near the duelling house of Gideon D. Trout ia said town whip. The elector* of Union township to meet at the school houso near Mowry's Mill,-In said township. The electors of Southampton township to meet at the house of Wm. Ad.-una in said township. The electors of .South Woo liberty township to meet at the hou-e of Samuel Otter near Noble's Mill in said township. The electors of Middle Wi eJhury "township to meet at the house of Uury Fluke in tiro Village of Woodberry. MEETING OF RETURN JUDGES. Pursuant to the provisions contained in the 2nd section of tho act aforesaid, tho Judges of the aforesaid districts shall respectfully take charge of the certificate or return of the election of their respective districts, and produce the n at a meeting of one Judge frotn each district, at the BOROUGH OF BEDFORD, on the third day after the ■lay of the election, being FKTDAY. THE FIFTH DAY OF AUG I BT, then and there to do and perform ihu duties required by law of said Judges. Also, that where a Judge by sickness orunavoidable ac cident, is unable to attend such meeting of Judges, then the certificate or return aforesaid shall be taken charge of by one of the Inspectors or Clerks of the election of said district, who lhall do and perform tho duties required of said Judges unable to attend. Given under my band, in my Office, the eighth day of July, A. D. 1864. JOHN ALDSTAPT, Sheriff of Bedford County. SaEßirp's Orrtor. ) Bedford, Pa., July 8, 1864. j [jyl,64-te. RJETURN OF THE BIROS. NR WILLI A U CRU-GX BRTAHT. I hear, from many a little threat, A warble interrupted long ; I hear the robin's flute-like note, The blue bird's slenderer song. Brown meadows and the ru?ct hflf, Not vet the haunt of grating herds, And thickets by the glimmering rill Are all alive with birds. Oh! Choir of Spring, why come so soon? On leafless grove and berdloss lawn Warm lie the yellow beams of noon; Yet winter is not gone. For frost shall sheet the pools again; Again the blustering East shall blow, Whirl a white tempest through the glen, And load the pines with snow. Yet haply, from the region where, Waked by an earlier spring than here, The blossomed wild-plum scents the air, Ye come in haste and fear. For there is heard the bugle-blast. The booming gun, the jarring drum, And on their chargers, spurring fast, Armed warriors go and come. The mighty hosts have pitched the camp In valleys that were yours till then. And earth has shuddered to the tramp Of half a million men. In groves where once ye used to sing. In orchards where ye had your birth, A thousand elittcring axes swing, To smite the trees to earth. Ye love the fields by ploughman trod : But there, when sprouts the becchen spray, The soldier only hresks the sod To hide the slain away. Stay. then, beneath our ruder sky ; Heed not the storm-clouds rising black, Nor yelling winds that with them fly, Nor let them fright you back— Back to the stifling battle-cloud. To burning towns that blot the day. And trains of mounting dust that shroud The armies on their way, Btay. for'a tint of green Shall creep Soon o'er the orchard's grassy floor, And from Us bed the crocus peep Beside the housewife's door. Here build, and dread no harsher sound To scare vou frprn the sheltering tree, t Than winds' that stif the branches round i And murmur of the bee. And we will pray, that, ere again.. , The flowers of autumn bloom and die, Our genprals and their strong-armed men May lay their weapons by. Then may ye warble, unafraid, , -,, Where hands, that wear the fetter now, Free as your wings shall plv the spade. And guide the peaceful plough, t ' ! 1 i t '>. ' .. j I : Then, AS our oonqnorlog hosts return, . J, What shouts of jubilee shall break From placid vale and mountain stern, 1/ j Aad shore of mighty lake! And mid'aud plain and ocean strand ' ' j Khali thunder: "Glory to the braTe, ' Peace to Use tarn and bleeding lend. And to the slave!" ] —Atlantic Monthly far Jufg. J PRMLWITIOA BY TiimSIBEAII, tfartial I.aw Declaree in Kenrucky>>The Habeas Corpus Suspended. M ASHINOTON, Tuesday, July 5. By the President of the L'mted State of America". A PROCLAMATION. Whereas. By a Proclamation which was issued on the J.ith day of April 1861, the President of the i mted fttates announced and declared that the laws of the I nited States had bee*, for. some tune past, and then were, opposed, and the exe cution thereof obstructed in certain Status there in mentioned by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial pro ceedingii. or by the power vested'in the Marshals by htw : and. Whereas, immediately after the issuing of the said proclamation the land and naval forces of the 1 nited States were pat into activity to suppress the said insurrections and rebellion ; and. Whereas. The Congress of the United States, by an act approved on the third day of March, 1663, did enact that durimr the said rebellion the President of the I nited States, whenever in his judgment the public safety may require it, is au thorized to suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, in any case throughout the United Suites, or any part thereof : and . Whereat, The said insurrection and rebellion still continue, endangering the existence of the Constitution and Government of the United States: and Whereas. The military forces of the United States are now actively engaged in suppressing the I said insurrection and rebellion, in various parts of the -States where"the said rebellion has been suc cessful in obstructing the laws and public authori ties, especially in the States of Virginia and Geor gia, Whereas, (In the fifteenth day of September last, rbe Presidentpf the United" States duly is sued his proclamation, wherein he declared that the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus should be suspended throughout the United States/in casfes whereby the authority of the President of the I nited States, the military, naval anil civil officers of the United States, or any of them.hold per&ous under their command or in (heir custody, either of war, spies, or aiders or abet tois of the enemy, or officers, soldiers or seaman enrolled or drafted or mustered or enlisted in. or belonging to the land or naval forces of the United States, or as deserters therefrom, or otherwise amendable to military law or the rules and articles of war. or the rules and regulations prescribed for the military or naval services by authority of the President of the United States, or for resisting a draft, or for any other offence against the military or naval service; and, Whereas, iaany citizens of the State of Ken tucky have joined the forces of the insurgents. have on several occasions entered the said State of Kentucky in large force, and not without aid ami comfort furnished by disaffected and disloyal citi zens of the I nited States residing therein, have not only greatly disturbed the public peace, but have overborne the civil authorities and made flagrant civil war. destroying property and life in various parts of that State, and Whereas, it has been made known to the Presi dent of the United States, by officers coinmandlug the National armies, that combinations have l>csn formed in the said State of Kentucky, with a pur pose of inciting the Rebel forces to renew the said operations of civil war within the said State, and therefore to nwfoarrass the United States armies now operating in the said States of Virginia and Georgia, and even to endanger their safety. Now therefore. 1 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Presi dent of the United States, by virtue of the au thority vested in me by the Constitution and laws, do hereby declare that, in my judgment, the pub lie safety eepeeially requires that the suspension of the privelege of the writ of habeas corpus, so proclaimed in the said proclamation of the 15th of September, 1863, lie made effectual, and be duly enforced in and throughout the said State of Ken tucky, and that martial law be for the present de clared therein. I do, therefore, hereby require of the military officers ip the said State (hat the privilege of the habeas corpus be effectually sus pended within the said State, according to the aforesaid proclamation, and that martial law be established therein, to take effect from the date of this proclamation, the said suspension and estab lishment of martial law to continue until this proc lamation shall he revoked or modified, but notbe vond the period when the said rebellion shall have been suppressed or come to an end. And I do hereby require and command as well as military officers all civil officers and authorities existing or found within the said State of Kentucky to take notice of this proclamation and to give full effect to the same. The martial laws herein proclaimed, and the things in that respect herein ordered wii! not be deemed or taken to interfere with the holding of lawful elections or with the pro ceedings of the Constitutional Legislature of Ken tucky. or with tire administration trf"justice in tb> courts of law existing therein between citizens ot the United States in suits or proceedings which -do not effect the military operations or the con stituted authorities of the Government of the United States. In testimony whereof I have hereunto sot my hand and caused the seal of the T nited States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this sth day of July, in the year of our Lord 1864, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-eighth.. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By the President: WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State. ORIENTAL. STORY TELLERS. Travelers in Persia, China and Japan tell us oi professional story tellers and tradition reeiter? who, standing in the streets and market-places, tell marvellous tales to all who may choose to list ep. The following is one of these Chinese para bles: FOHI, in the course of his wanderings, comina to a village, knocked at the door of a rich woman, and begged permission to enter. "W hat!" said she, "do you think I receive into my house every roving vagabond ? No, indeed; it would be uu behttiag a respectable woman —go your way!' Then lie went to a cottage of a poor woman, who at once kindly begged him to enter. She set be fore him the only food she had —a little goat's milk —broke a piece of bread iuto it, and said : "May Fohi bless it, that we may both have enough 1" She then prepared him a couch of straw" ; and when he fell asleep, perceiving that he had no shirt, she sat up all night and made him one out of some linen sne had made by her own hard labor; in the morning she brought it to him, begging he would not despise the poor gift. Af ter breakfast she accompanied him a httlo way; and at parting Fobi said: May the first work you undertake last till evening!" Wfien she got home she began to measure her linen to see how much was left; and she wept on measuring, and did not come to an end uptii the evening, wluen ier house and yard were full of linen *. in short, she did not know what to do with her wealth. Her rich neighbor, seeing tips, was sorely vexed, and resolved that no such good for tune should not escgpe her again. After some months the traveler came once mqre to the villiage : sLe went to meet him, pressed him to go to her bouse, treated him to the best food, she had, in the morning brought him a shirt of fine linen, which she had made some tftpe before ; but all night she kept a candle burping u* her room, that the stranger, if he awoke might sup pose she was making his shirt. After breakfast, she accompanied fyim out ot the village; and when they parted, ha said: "May the first work you undertake laat till even- in?!" She went her way home, thinking the whole time of her linen, and anticipating its won derful increase ; but just then her cows began to low. Before I measure my linen." said she, I "will quickly fetch the cows some water." But when she poured the watcrinto the trough, her pail never emptied: she went on pouring, the stream increased, and her house and yard were under water ; the neighbors complained thai everything was ruined; the cattle were drowned, and with difficulty she saved her life, fir water nev er ceased flowing until the setting of the sun. THE NEW YORK INDEPENDENT AND THE CONVENTION. No one doubts the radicalism of the New York Independent. It has lead in the van in every pro | gressive movement upon the slavery question which has of late years been made, with a precej>- tion so clear as to make it a most safe and compe tent pilot. Its views therefore in the present con fusion upon the Presidential question are entitled to great respect, and the subjoined extracts, which we take from that paper, indicate a great deal ol penetration and goes] sense. Thev arc true in ev ery word and letter; and we would.ask for them a careful reading on the part of every Radical man who has not yet got his eyes opos as to the true meaning of what is defined as "'the Cleveland strat agem." Taken in connection with tho develop ments made at the late Now York and Cochrane ratification demonstration, they mqst carry conviction to every reasonable man. After describing the utterance of the Baltimore platform as being "beyond any point of anti-slavery com mitment hitherto reached by any political conven tion known to American history." the Independ ent thus gives its opinion of the Cleveland plat form ■ Wc can neither see the wisdom, the statesman ship. nor the radicalism of the singular position assumed by the Cleveland platform that slavery is already dead. It is well to say, for rhetorical emphasis, thai, the shot at Sumter destroyed sla very ; but niauy things gre destroyed, rhetorically, that afterward, like D.;uiel Webster, still live. — William Pitt had a habit of eloquently overthrow ing Napoleon, amid the cheers of Parliament, only to be at last brought to his grave by Napoleon s unceasing victories. The Cleveland Convention, sitting in May, knowing that the Fugitive Slave Law was still unrepealed, knowing that Cougress had refused to vote an amendment to the Consti tution prohibiting slavery, knowing that the proc lamation of emancipation, even without itsconfess ed dependence upon a doubtful Supreme Court, reaches only three, millions of slaves, while one million still remain legally unreleaaed—knowing all these things, nevertheless voted to say that sla very was already destroyed. Hut it was not dead then; it is not dead now; it may not be dead iu twen ty years. When Alexander the Great was report ed dead, the reply was, "No, else the whole world would smell of the carcass." We claim that it is an unmanly treatment of the slavery question to get rid of it by jauntily saving that slavery is al ready destroyed—as if the question were one which could now he safely put aside —as if Banquo's ghost would not reappear, is this a wise position for Radicals to take ? It is just the position taker not long ago by James Brooks, Copperhead, in r speech in Congress! They who wish to see sla very perpetuated would be glad to have all othei raen to believe it now extinct. They would be glad to see no further effort made to destroy it. v**** * * * * * The Cleveland Convention spreads a grave-clod: over a giant not dead but sleeping, who may sprint up at any moment with a weapon in his hand- Ii slavery lias come to its death, we are not anions the tear-shedders—only we hold with Montaigne that "the deadest deaths arc bost." A cat may suffer eight deathsand still have one life; and, as slavery is harder to kill than a cat, we are sorry that the Cleveland Convention should have dealt a blow only to wound and not to slay. The Ball imore Convention, instead of saying that "the rebellion has virtually destroyed slavery," says just the opposite, namely, that "the narioual safety demands its utter and complete extirpation.' : This is the sensible view. This we believe, is the view which would have been taken by the Cleve land Convention, had not that body, in making its platform, sought to use a canning form of phrase, which the coming Democratic Convention at Chicago might not deem too heretical to adopt. We suppose that Mr. William Goodell, Mr. Ste phen S. Foster, Mr. Parker Pilisbnry. and Mr. Henry T. Cheever had 110 thought- at Cleveland, and have ho thought now. of making an alliance with the Democracy. But Mr. Fremoptand Mr. Cochrane, the Cleveland candidates, show no blush at. playing their cards tor the Chicago nomination. We reject the anti-slavery position of the Cleve land platform as one unworthy of the the greatness of the casend unworthy of those gpod men in the convention who, while there, seem to have stranecly lost the warning voices with which they have been accustomed to speak else were. ********# That convention in the minds of its chief mana gers and most interested parties, were simply th< first caucus of the coming Ch icago Convention. A few r.oblc minded men and women, by their pres ence or by letter, contributed their influence to the meeting, because, in view of the unsatisfactory progress of the war and of general public affairs during the present administration, they thought a change of administration would profit the coun try. This view hasbeen held by many thoughtful minds outside of that convention. It has had its utterance in many a faithful presence. We our selves would have preferred, for the next four years, a more complete change of administration the Baltimore Convention has already provided lor. Thongh that Convention has already provi ded that its candidates, in accepting its piatform, must make changes in his cabinet. But when we are asked to take the Cleveland platform with its lnadequate anti-slavery position, and its candidates with their uneommendable political in exchange for the Baltimore platform wtih its great er explieitness, and its candidates with their surer honesty, we respectfully decline. We refuse to make ourselves an alley, in guv way, directly of in directly, with the so-called Democratic party.— There are now three Democrats —the War Democ racy, the Radical Democracy aria the Peace De mocracy. We believe that the larger and better part of the War Democracy will join itself hefore November to the one great party of the Union, leaving the Radical and the Peace Democracies to join themselves in a fellowship of the earthern and the ipgn not, the -one to break and the other to sink, and Doth fogo to the bottom of Salt river. Our chief regret in view of the Cleveland Conven tion js. that it has unhappily led a number of excel lent friends of the good cause into a snare. The spirit qf its leaders has become more apparent since the Convention than before. Among respectable American journals, not one, in any* quarter seem to us so entirely unpatriotic, bitter, and malignant as the New Nation, Mr. Fremont's special organ op which we are told, he has already spent $20,000 in printing extra copies for gratuitous circulation. " There is *0 tittle difference," says this organ I 'between this party," that is the party formed at Cleveland,. ''and the Democracy,' that is, the par ty to meet at Chicago, "that it would be eaty toa aopt a common ticket. True! But there ts too much difference bettceen the Democratic party and the great Union party to adopt a common ticket, Mr/V'allandigham hjmaglf is a delegate to Chicago. When Mr. Fremont proposed tosit down with Mr, Valandigham for the making of a common ticket, it is time for Mr. Fremont s friends of 1856 to rise in a common opposition. Those well-known Abolitionists identified with the Cleveland movement— lad whose sincerity and Vol. 37: No. 29. uprightness we do not for a moment question— foive unwittingly placed then; selves in a false posi tion, where their influence is working against the best interests of the count ry and'is bringing a la mentable discredit upon themselves. All that we ask oftnem is that they shall narrowly wateh the development of the Cleveland stratagem, and be convinced of their error by tfeg unhappy facts of the case, as these shall day bv day be revolved. So far as the movement was an honest conscien tious. single minded protest against an inadequate administration, it was entitled to the highest re spect ; for. so far, it would have stood in a similar attitudo. with the old Liberty party, or the Free Soi party, or the Gerrit Smith partv —a party of con science, always reputable before God and the world; but when it is as plain as a pike-staff that the managers at Cleveland have been using the names of good men to cover the schemes of bad. of ma king revenge instead of patriotism their anima ting spirit, usipg the name of liberty as a promise to the ear to be broken to the hope of plotting a coalition with Copperheads to overthrow the loyal party of the North—we denounce it with the righteous indiguation which it merits from every loyal soul THE PIKATE ALABAMA. Highly Interesting Details of the Battle from | Minister Datum's Son-The "Alabma"' Fair ly Whipped--A Clepr Case of Intervention. | PARIS. Tuesday,, June 21 v IK64 —This time we ! have a bit of exciting war news to send you from i this side of the water. Tbesiqfciqg of the Ala j btima by the Kmrxage, off the port of Cherbourg, i occupies, l'or the moment, the thoughts and the conversation of everybody, for it is rare that so : many circumstances combine to give interest to' j any one event. The joy of our loyal people here i is. as might be expected, something beyond de | script ion: I need hardly tell you that for the Se | oessionists and their European sympathisers, the Wow was terrible, and provoked louder and more prolonged swearing probably than any event of this eventful war. L shall attentpt to give you all the most important-details relat ing tp, this exciting drama. In one of the many conversations the American Minister lias been obliged to hold with the French Government on the subject of the asylum which is furnished to the Rebels in the Freneh naval ports. Mr. Dayton. lam told, said to the Foreign Minister that all that was wanting to complete the hospitality of France toward the Rebels was to give refuge to the Alabama: that then they would have given aid and protection to the whole Confederate pavy, and he terminated by saving that this vessel, knowing how Its mates had been received in France, would.no doubt soon enter a French port to demand the hospitality which had been accorded to others. To this the Foreign ! Minister i§ said to have replied with great energy that it weald nqt he permitted, that he would not allow the Alahauux tot come in, and that their ports should not be made a place of common re sort for these vessels. This was three months ago. At that time, al though watching with interests the course of the Alabama, we did not anticipate so early - a visit from her. Only a fortpight ago Mr. Forbes, of Now York, arrived from Shanghai, and gratified us all by assuring us that we would never see the Alabmna again in European waters, for that slrO was badly used up by her long and active service, and from this fact and the fact that the maritime interdictions against her in the East had been made very severe, she would probably be sold there. We were therefore not a little astonished to find the Alabama was in the port of Cherbourg, and that she made the run from the East, in tho remarkable short time, for a vessel in her condi tion, of a hundred days. So impossible did it seem, that when she entered the-port of Cherbourg last Friday week, both the American Vice-Consul at that place and the Maritime Prefect telegraphed to Paris that it was the Florida. Immediately the American Minister at Paris telegraphed to Captain Winslow, of the Kmr tarffe. then lying in one of the ports of Holland, and to the old sailing frigate St. Louis, supposed to beat Cadiz, to repair immediatelv to Cherbourg to catch the pirate, if possible. The Kearjprge arrived at at once, but. the St. Lnnis, bad not yet had time to arrive at the moment of tho fight.— The American Minister also protested at once to the French Government against the admission of the Alabama , and reminded the Foreign Secretary of his previous promise in regard to the vessel.— The American Minister could,with more justice protest energetically in view of the fact that the Alabama did not come into a French port under stress of weather; she seemed to have struck a straight line from the Cape to Cherbourg; she'did not turn either to the right or to the left; she did uot attempt to go into either the ports of England,, or of Holland, or of Belgium. or of Spain, or of Port ugal, as she might have done with the same facility. Mr. Dayton, therefore, made a most apt aud most forcible point in declaring to the Foreign Miuistcr that, by his indulgence, the Rebels were using Fcciich ports exactly as if they were their own, that they paid po regard to the stress of weather clause, and that, such had been the hospi tality shown them in France that they were fast learning to make it their only rendezvous. The result of this protest was that Setnmes, af ter thu thing had gone through the circumlocution' office," received a notice from the Marine Prefect to leave as soon as he had provisioned and epaled., and not to wait lor repairs, as he ba