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HUNTINGDON, PA.
Thursday afternoon, Aug.. 29, 1861
tTnion Conference.
'The Democratic and Republican
Committees of Conference appointed
by County Delegate Conventions of
the parties,.met in. the Court house
on Tuesday afternoon August 27th,
and put in nomination the following
'Union ticket :
ASSIZIBLY,
JOHN SCOTT, of Huntingdon
ASSOCIATE ROUE,
BEM'. F. PATTON, of Worriorsmark
COUNTY. COMMISSIONER,
JORN S. ISETT; of Franklin
COIrATI
JOHN A. NASA, of Huntingdon
DIRECTOR OF THE POOR,
JAMES HENDERSON, of Cassvillo
13DI Olt,
MILTON SANGREE, of Walker
The following resolutions were read
and unanimously adopted by the Con-
ference
Resolved, That it behooves every true pat
riot in this important crisis in our Country, to
lay aside party trammels and sustain the Na
tionaland State Governments in supporting
%the Constitution and preserving the Union of
the States.
. Ms°lred, That we should use every effort
to foster and keep alive the fire of patriotism
now filling the breasts of all true and loyal
American citizens.
Resolved, That this Convention, represent
ing both the political parties of the county,
have the fullest confidence in the integrity
and capacity of lion. GEORGE TAYLOR, and
they commend him to the support of the peo
ple for President Judge of this Judicial Dis
trict, believing him to be a pure and upright
citizen and a learned and able Jurist.
The Union Ticket.
The ticket put in nomination on the
27th inst., by the Deinocratic and Re
publican Committees of Conference, is
such an one as every man in the coun
ty can feel safe in voting for., We
shall give it our cordial support, First,
Because we know every man upon it,
and know them to be well qualified to
fill the several offices for which they
have been nominated—and Second, by
giving it a united support, we, with
the people, avoid that party strife
that has • too often disgraced all po
litical parties,—has resulted detrimen
tally to the interests of the taxpayer—
and has aided much in bringing our
Country to its present deplorable con
dition.
There can be no good, patriotic rea
son offered why this ticket should not
_receive a united support.
Democratic County Committee.
• The following gentlemen have been
appointed the Democratic County
Committee for the ensuing year.
RAIN LOVE, Chairman
of Democratic County Convention.
John R. Hunter, Petersburg, Chair-
man.
Charles C. Ash, Barree.
George BbY, Brady.
Michael Star, Cromwell.
Louis Stever, Cass.
Joseph S. Reed, Carbon.
James Henderson, Cassville.
John Carl, Dublin.
Sohn Zentmyer, Franklin.
Simon Bailes,'Henderson.
D. P. Gwin, T. B. Lucien, Graffus
Miller, Huntingdon.
John Porter, Dacia Wilson, Alex.-
andria.
Livingston Robb, Porter.
Robert Gill, Penn.
Joseph Johnston, Petersburg.
John B. Weaver, Hopewell.
David Hamilton, Tod.
Mathew Miller, Jackson.
Thos. P. MeNite, Shirley.
J. P. Dunn, Orbisonia.
Wm. A. Copely, Birmingham.
N. K. Covert, Springfield.
P. H. Bence, Clay.
Alexandria McGee, Tell.
Henry S. Isenberg, Juniata.
Robert Wilson, Oneida.
Joseph• C. Sealer, Mt. Union.
Jacob H. Miller. Union.
John Nail, Walker.
William Wray, Warriorsmark.
David Barrick, West.
Henry Hultzaple, Lower West.
R. F. Haslett, Morris.
-M. J. McKinnon, Shirleysburg.
,rte The new Treasury demand
notes were issued in Washington city
on the 26th. They were eagerly sought
by western men for home circulation.
The denominations of the " Demand
Bills" are 85, $lO, and $2O; while
those bearing interest are $5O, $lOO,
$5OO, $l,OOO and $5,000. There are
five kinds of five dollar notes, payable
on demand in New York, Boston,
Philadelphia, St. Louis and Cincinnati,
and of course, for all business purposes,
are better than specie. The name of
the place where the note is redeema
ble, is engraved on the face. The 85
note is embellished on the kit margin
with a full length figure of Crawford's
" America," with the motto " B Burt
bus Ununz," and on the right a portrait
of Alexander Hamilton. There are
also five $lO notes, made redeemable
as above. On the left is a likeness of
President Lincoln; in the centre the
American eagle; and on the right a
full length figure representing the arts.
These notes have been put into circu
lation. In the centre of the $2O notes
there is a full length figure of Justice.
They are also redeemable at the places
above indicated. They are all a little
larger than ordinary bank notes, and
being redeemable on demand, will be
highly prized as a circulating medium,
and therefore holders should not sub
mit to any shave.
The Latest News.
[Special Despatch to the Bulletin.]
Wisunioroli, Aug. 28th.—There are
rebel troops in considerable numbers a
few miles back of the Chain Bridge,
on the Virginia side. They line the
bank of the Potomac all the way up
to the vicinity of Leesburg.
Our scouts report that there is a very
large body of them at Leesburg and
its vicinity.
It is believed here that they will at
tempt to cross the Potomac this week
or not at all. Our forces are ready for
them.
The troops about here are in excel
lent condition. Only nineteen are re
ported on the sick list in Richardson's
Brigade.
[SECOND DESPATCD.]
WASHINGTON, August 28, P. N.—
There aro agitating reports of an at
tack of the rebels upon our lines, which
have caused much excitement on the
streets. But on careful examination,
I have found them to be without foun
dation.
Major-General McClellan is on the
Virginia side of the Potomac to-day.
Mr. Russell, of the London Times, was
invited over, but no correspondent of
an American newspaper was allowed
to have a pass.
[The reason of this discrimination in
favor of the Times correspondent, is
probably that his reports will not ap
pear in this country for a month, while
those of American papers would ap
pear immediately, and would probably
frustrate the military plans, as they
have done on several previous ocea
sions.—Ens. 13uLLETIN1
WASHINGTON, Aug. 280.----The 117a
liana?. Republican of to-day says: "We
learn from a reliable private source
that a large number of rebels are at
Mill Creek, about four miles above the
Chain Bridge. It is supposed here
that a large number of the enemy are
in their rear, and that they will fall
back during the night, for the purpose
of drawing on our forces."
FORTRESS MoxitoE, Aug. 98, via Bal
timore:—Anotlier flag of truce from
the rebels arrived this morning from
Norfolk, to inquire after that which
came in yesterday, and was detained
to 4 o'clock, P. M., to-day.
The twenty-three released prisoners
and fottr ladies were sent to Norfolk.
Our naval expedition having doubtless
reached its destination, further deten
tion was unnecessary.
Two ladies from Norfolk, arrived
here, state t t the rebels have lately
assembled a large force near Sewall's
Point, anticipating an attack upon
that place from Old Point.
ITYATISTOWN 7 Md., Aug. 27.—The
surgeon of Col. Gcary's Pennsylvania
regiment on Saturday took his sick to
the general depot at Frederick.
It is stated that Col. Geary antici
pated an attack from the rebels. The
surgeon reported that he heard heavy
firing near Poolesville, supposed to
have been between Gen. Stone's ad
vanced guatd and some of Johnston's
forces. He fell in with Gen. Stone,
who with full battery and the Tam
many regiment., started for the scene
of action.
The mail messenger from Pooles
ville also reported having heard firing
in the same direction, and it is believed
a fight was going on near Edward's
Ferry, but up to this present writing
your correspondent has been unable
to glean any further particulars of the
state of affairs.
FORTRESS Mosuon, Aug. 27.—The
much talked of expedition from Oki
Point has sailed under command of
Gen. Butler. It consisted of the fri
gates Minnesota and Wabash, sloop of
war Pawnee, gun boats Monticello and
Harriet Lane, steamers Adelaide and
George Peabody, propellors Fanny and
Adriatic, with a large number of
schooners, barges, etc. The Quaker
City will follow in a few hours. The
vessels carry over 100 guns and about
4,000 men. Several powerful gun
boats remain at Old Point and New
port News. A brilliant achievement
is expected from Gen. Butler and Com
mander Stringham. Cols. Max, We
bet and Hawkins take part in the ex
pedition.
ROLLA, Mo., via Franklin Mo., Ang.
27. lie tters received by Colonel Boyd,
from his wife, say that the report pre
vailed in Springfield that an attack
had been made on Montgomery's force
at Fort Scott, and that he.successfully
repulsed the rebels.
A small force started from this place
yesterday to disperse a body of rebels
at Hanes Prairie, sixteen miles north.
A sharp cannonading was heard in that
direction this morning.
Disguised Traitors,
A discouraging feature in the war
is, that, in the North, we are cursed
with two classes of men who give
"aid and comfort" to the enemy.—
The one, iu full sympathy with the
rebels, denounces the war as unneces
sary, unjust and unholy, and asks for
peace at any and all cost, even at the
loss of the best government God ever
made man. The other is assisting no
Ices in the demoralization of public
sentiment by decrying those in author
ity. The latter class, though probably
not traitors at heart, are as mischiev
ous and dangerous as the former, for
the reason that distrust and loss of
confidence in our rulers, thus created,
is a great damage to the cause in
which we are engaged—a cause that
should enlist the sympathy and sup
port of every patriot in the land.—
Both classes should be silenced. There
should be no toleration for traitors in
disguise, nor any countenance given to
the selfish, mercenary 47 ilifiers of those
who, at the head of government, are
doing all that men can do to sustain
and perpetuate the Union as it was
handed down to us by our forefathers.
The War Department seems to conic
in for the largest share of detraction.
It is no more than right that the peo
ple should be made acquainted with
the fact that the complaints and un
just attacks upon this Department
have been originated by bold, bad
men, whose designs upon the Treasu
ry of the Government were no doubt
frustrated. Disappointed contractors,
like disappointed placemen, because
of their failure to secure that which
they sought, have made and circula
ted charges which only had existence
in their imaginations. Let the people,
when they hear denunciations from
this class, scrutinize the motive, and
they will find selfishness, of the most
discreditable character, at the bottom.
The Chief of the War Department
is bound to conform strictly to the
laws of Congress in the disposition of
all contracts, and in the disbursement
of money under his control; and we
venture to say there has never been a
Secretary of War more scrupulously
careful and honest, in this respect, than
Secretary Cameron. Time will demon
strate the truth of what we here utter,
and put to shame the base calumnia
tors, who always prefer " pilfer" to
" patriotism," no matter what may be
the condition of the country.
There has never been, since the ex
istence of this government—there has
never been probably in the history of
any nation—a greater amount of pat
riotic labor performed, in the same
length of time, by the head of any
government or department, than has
been performed by Secretary Cameron
since the present war was inaugurated.
Ile has been equal to the emergency,
and will meet, from a grateful people,
the reward he is entitled to. The time
will come, when, after all is known
concerning the details of his adminis
tration, it will be acknowledged by
the whole people that he has served
the country filithfully, laboriously,
wisely and honestly.—Philp. Bulletin.
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Troubles of Union Men in Kentucky
and Tennessee.
FAMILMS DRIVEN FROM TIMM 11031E6
The Louisville (Ky.) Journal says:
"We stated a short time ago that
two young men named Bushey and
Harp, arrived in this city from Hick
manr-vpounty, Kentucky, having been
driven from their homes by the seces
sionists of Southern Kentucky and Ten
nessee. Three large families, cumber
ing fully twenty-five souls, arrived from
the same vicinity yesterday, and stop
ped at the Oyler House, on Market
street. The heads of the families were
John Boswell, John Busby and Win.
Harp. Their condition is really de
plorable. They were forced to leave
their farms at a few hours' notice, leav
ing their crops and household goods at
the mercy of the heartless rebels. They
traveled with the aged and infirm, and
youthful and tender members of their
fitmilies from Hickman county in wag
ons, and encountered ninny hardships.
They inform us that fully fifty families
in Hickman and Ballard counties have
been forced to leave their homes, and
to abandon their crops and nearly all
they possessed in the world, their of
fence being that they entertained Union
sentiments."
TENNESSEE THREATENING KENTUCKY
A letter from Georgetown ; Ky., dated
August 19, says :
To-day, being our regular county
court day, was selected by Colonel
George W. Hanson as an appropriate
occasion for making a very inflamma
tory and traitorous speech. His object
was to stir up a hellish spirit of war.
He began with an attack upon the camp
in Garrard county. He declared that,
if those troops are not disbanded in
Thirty days, they will be put down at
the point of the bayonet. He said he
saw Governor Harris, of Tennessee, a
few days ago, and that Harris declar
ed that he should consider it a viola
tion of Kentucky neutrality, and that
Kentucky would hare to meet 50,000
Tennessee troops in battle array if those
camps were not speedily vacated. Thir
ty days are given to you. Union men
of Kentucky; use those thirty days to
a good advantage, or a civil war will
confront us with all its horrors."
BRECKINRIDCiE BUSY
The transportation of a number of
guns, intended for the loyal Kentucky
troops, through the town . of Lexing
ton, Kentucky, created a disturbance.
The Louisville Journal says:
"
We hear, that, when it was ascer
tained that the guns were coming,
Jain C. Breckinridge bustled about,
arousing his secessionists to resist their
passage. At the same time armed aid
was summoned from Harrison and
Scott.-4 , In the meanwhile, Dr. Dudley
mustered two companies of the Home
Guards to sustain the government.
There was a very fair prospect of a col
lision, but the sudden and very imlio
sing appearance of the cavalry from
Camp _Robinson put an end at once to
all danger of a breach of the peace.
All honor to the gallant Union men of
Lexington.
HUNTED MEN TURNING 'WARRIORS
A gentleman of Danville, Kentucky,
makes the following statement:
"On Monday, August 19, two hun
dred and forty ugitives from East Ten
nessee, mon driven from their homes,
were fed hi the Seminary yard in that
town. Some of them. were elderly men
and some young, and all had been com
pelled to abandon their families, and
were ill clad, almost barefoot, weary
and hungry. Their situation was in
deed deplorable. Several hundred
more were expected to arrive yester
day. The whole of the two hundred
and forty fugitives enlisted in the Uni
ted States service at Camp Robinson."
WE MUST HAVE A GOVERNMENT.-
"Occasional" writes some pointed
truths. In a late letter he says :
We must have a Government. With
out this, we have no liberty, no law,
no property, and, in fact, no safety for
life. The plotters against our Govern
ment must be put down or put out. If
they succeed, wo aro all slaves; and,
if we would not be slaves, they must
be punished. God is trying us very
sorely. He is making us feel that if
we would deserve our freedom we must
suffer and die for it. Ile has sent upon
us this epidemic of Secession to test
alike our courage and our constancy.
If we can contend against it, we shall
have a long lea'se of constitutional self
government. If we yield to it, we shall
not deserve our own respect or the re
spect of the nations, but will add ono
more failure to the black list that
frowns like a gloomy admonition upon
the eloquent page of history. If we
would triumph, we must be bold and
relentless against all shapes of treason.
And we will triumph. As the greatest
modern poetess ofEngland,Mrs. Brown
ing, said before she died, in Florence,
last June, when referring to the Uni
ted States; "It is your transition-time
your crisis; but you will come out of the
fire purified, stainless, having had the
angel of a great cause walking with you
in the furnace."
ter Arrests are numerous in and about
Washington just now. Several ladies,
heads of families, and their daughters,
are amongst the number arrested, for
giving aid and comfort to the-enemy.
Judge Douglas' Position,
The secession organs . have been en
deavoring for some time to create the
impression that the late Senator Doug
las, was opposed to the war policy of
the present administration; and have
published a few garbled extracts from
a speech delivered by Lim, bolero the
attack on Fort Sumter and the open
declaration of war by the so-called
Confederate States, in the hope of in
ducing some of his followers to fall into
the ranks of the rebels, and to lend
their aid to impede and embarrass the
Government in its efforts at self-pre
servation. It is right that the people
should not be deceived by unfair mis
representations of such journals, and
we therefore give a speech he deliv
ered in Chicago, on the first of May
last, in the presence of an immense
crowd which had assembled to wel
come him to the city. Ile spoke as
follows :
MR. DOUOLAS' SPEECH
CILURMAN: I thank you for the
kind terms in which von have been
pleased to welcome me. I thiink the
committee and citizens of Chicago for
the grand and imposing reception. I
beg you to believe that I will not do
you nor myself the injustice to believe
this magnificent ovation is personal
homage to myself. I rejoice to know
that it expresses your devotion to the
Constitution, the Union and the flag
of our country. [Cheers.]
I will not conceal gratification at
the uncontrovertible test this vast au
dience presents—that what political
differences our party questions may
have divided us, yet you all had a
conviction that, when the country
should be in danger, my loyalty could
be relied on. That the present danger
is imminent, no man can conceal. If
war must come—if the bayonet must
be used to maintain the Constitution—
I can say before God, my conscience
is clean. I have struggled long for a
peaceful solution of the difficulty. I
have not only tendered these States
what wits theirs of right, but I have
gone to the very extreme of magna
nimity.
The return we receive is war; ar
mies marched upon our capital; ob
structions and dangers to our naviga
tion; letters of marque to invite pi
rates to prey upon our commerce; a
concerted movement to blot out the
United States of America from the
map of the globe. The question is,
are we to maintain the country of our
fathers, or to allow it to be stricken
down by those who, when they can
no longer govern, threaten to destroy?
What cause : what excuse do Disu
nionists give us for breaking up the
best government on which the sun of
heaven ever shed its rays ? They, are
dissatisfied with the result of a Presi
dential election. Did they ever get
beaten before? Aro we to resort to
the sword when we get defeated at
the ballot-box ? I understand that the
voice of the people expressed in the
mode appointed by the Constitution
must command the obedience ofevery
citizen. They assume on the election
of a particular candidate that their
rights are not safe in the Union.—
What evidence do they present of this?
I defy any man to show any act on
which it is based. What act has been
omitted to be done ? I appeal to these
assembled thousands that so for as
the constitutional rights of slavehold
ers aro concerned, nothing has been
clone and nothing omitted of which
they can complain.
There has never been a time from the
day that Washington was inagurated
first President of these UniteeStates,
when the rights of the Southern States
stood firmer under the laws of land,
than they do now; there never was a
time when they had not as good a cause
for Disunion as they have to-day. What
good cause have they now that has not
existed under every Administration,
If they say the Territorial question.
now for the first time there is no act
of Congress prohibiting slavery any
where. If it be the non-enforcement
of the laws, the only complaints that
I have heard have been of the too vig
orous and faithful fulfilment of the fu
gitive•slave law. Then, what reason
have they?
The slavery question is a mere ex
cuse. The election of Lincoln is a mere
pretext. The present Secession move
ment is the result of an enormous con
spiracy formed more than a year since,
formed by leaders in the Southern Con
federacy more than twelve months
ago.
They use the slavery question as a
means to aid the accomplishment of
their ends. They desired the election
of a Northern candidate by a sectional
vote in order to show that the two sec
tions cannot live together. When the
history of the two years from the Le
compton Charter down to the late
Presidential election, shall be written,
it will be shown that the scheme was
deliberately made to break up this
Union.
They desired a Northern Republican
to be elected by a purely Northern
vote, and then assign this filet as a
reason why the sections may not long
er live together. If the Disunion can
didate in the late Presidential contest
had carried the united South, their
scheme was the Northern candidate
successful, to seize the capital last
spring, and by a united South and di
vided North hold it. The scheme was
defeated in the defeat of the Dis
union candidate in several of the South
ern States. • ,
But this is no time for a detail of
causes. The conspiracy is now known.
Armies have been raised, war is levied
to accomplish it. There are only two
sides to the question. Every man must
be for the United States or against it.
There can he no neutrals in this war,
only patriots—or traitors.
Thank God, Illinois is not divided
on this question. [Cheers.] I know
they expected to present a united South
against a divided North. They hoped
in the Northern States, party questions
would bring civil war• between Demo
crats and Republicans, when the,South
would•step in with her cohorts, aid one
party to conquer the other, and then
make easy prey of the victors. Their
scheme was carnage and civil war in
the North.
There is but one way to defeat this.
In Illinois it is being so defeated by
closing up the ranks. War will thus be
prevented on our own soil. While there
was a hope of peace I was ready for
any reasonable sacrifice or compromise
to maintain it. But when the ques
tion comes of war in the cotton-fields
of the South or the corn fields of Illi
nois, I say the further off the better.
We cannot close our eyes to the sad
and solemn fact that war does exist.
The Government must be maintained,
its enemies over-thrown, and the more
stupendous our preparations the less
the bloodshed, and the shorter the
struggle. But we must remember cer
tain restraints on our actions,-even in
time of war. We are a Christian peo
ple, and the war must be prosecuted
in a manner recognized by Christian
nations.
We must not invade constitutional
rights. The innocent must not suffer,
nor women and children be the victims.
Savages must not be let loose. But
while I sanction no war on the rights
of others, I will implore my country
men not to lay down their arms until
our own rights arc recognized. [Cheers]
The Constitution and its guarantees
are our birthright, and I am ready to
inform that inalienable right to the
last extent. We cannot recognize sej
cession. Recognize it once, and you
have not only dissolved government
but. you have destroyed social order,
upturned the foundations of society.—
You have inaugurated anarchy in its
worst form, and will shortly experience
all the horrors of the French Revolu
tion.
Then we have a solemn duty—to
maintain the Government. The greater
our unanimity the speedier the day of
peace. We have prejudices to over
come, from the few short mouths since
of a severe party contest. Yet these
must be allayed. Let us lay aside all
crim inations and recriminations as to
the origin of these difficulties. When
we shall have again a country with
the United States flag floating over it,
and respected on every inch o Ameri
can soil, it will then be time enough
to ask who and what brought all this
upon us.
I have said more than I intended to
say. [Cries of "Go on."] It is a sad
task to discuss questions so fearful as
civil war, but sad as it is, bloody and
disastrous as I expect it will be,J. ex
press it as my conviction before God,
that it is the duty of every American
citizen to rally around the flag of his
country.
I thank you again for this magnifi
cent demonstration. By it you show
you have laid aside party strife.
Illi
nois has a proud position. United,
firm, determined never to permit the,
Government to be destroyed. [Pro
longed cheering.]
On a still later occasion Senator
Douglas used the following language:
" The conspiracy to break up the
Union is a fact now known to all.—
Armies are being raised and war levied
to accomplish it. Turtts CAN BE NO
TWO SIDES TO TIIE CONTROVERSY. EVE
RT MAN MUST BE ON TIIE SIDE OF THE
UNITED STATES OR . AUAINST IT. Trams
CAN BE NO NEUTRALS IN TIIIS WAR.—
TIIERE CAN BE NONE BUT PATRIOTS AND
TRAITORS."
An Alabama Incident,
A correspondent of the Pittsburgh
Gazette, relates the following:
While in Alabama, in the month of
May, a ruiner was afloat that a negro
had been detected in raising rebellion.
A meeting was immediately called,
committee form ed and despatched after
the negro, and witnesses, a jury of
twenty-four men "empannaled" and
duly sworn in, ready for trial. Stirred
somewhat by the unusual buzz on all
sides—in the house, street and office—
I attended the trial. The negro was
brought into "court" hand-cuffed. He
was over six feet in height, with a body
in proportion, His head large and his
forehead high, though a little retreat
ing. On being charged with breeding
insurrection, he plead emphatically
"not guilty."
The only witness that testified any
thing of importance was a half-drunk
white man, who had seen Randall (for
that was the slave's name,) open a box
in which he saw a paper; but on re
turning and asking where the paper
vas, Randall said there was not, nor
had there been, any papers of any kind
whatsoever in the box. The case rested
here. The white man affirmed ; the
negro denied; and no paper could be
found. This paper Randall could read,
hence the great crime of having a pa
per in his possession. This was the
first trial of t':e kind I had ever been
at, and I gave it every attention. Dur
ing the whole course of the trial I heard
iterated and reiterated, the words
"hang him," "hanging is too good for
him," "burn him alive ; make him dig
his own grave, make his own coffin,
and make him put the ropearound his
own neck." The jury was sober. though
the crowd was generally drunk. After
the absence of a few minutes the jury
returned with a verdict of"whippieg,"
three of their number dissenting ; they
thought he ought to be hung.
On that night he was whipped. He
received five hundred and fifty lashes,
three white men relieving each other
in this work. The negro was stripped
and laid on the floor. No words were
spoken by him until he had been beat
en with about three hundred stripes,
when lie told his scourger, " massa, I'll
fess up." He was taken to one side,
but said, to the great disappointment
of all, "massa, I doesent know any
about it." He was taken back and
whipped within an " inch of his life,"
Dr. Scholl, (Ed. H.) of Philadelphia,
being the physician attending. After
this whipping he was suspended by
the neck until nearly dead, but he
never uttered a word. He would only
reply to inquiries as to what he knew
Of "Linkam," &e., and saying he knew
nothing to confess. After this he laid
in a hall about four days, apparently
almost dead. I visited him and found
his back very much bruised up. Dur
ing his stay in the hall, public opinion
was strongly in fitvor of hanging him.
But Randall, probably helped by his
master : whose consent in all these pro
ceedings bad not been obtained, sud
denly took leave at night, and was not
heard of until a couple of weeks after
wards, when it was found that he had
gone with his , master's assistance to
another plantation, in a distant part
of the State. This I saw, and many
of the same "sort" did I hear of while
in the land of cotton.
The Government will exercise
the most vigorous measures to prevent
the publication of despatches or letters
relating to past, present or future
movements of troops in the neighbor
hood of Washington.
A Patriotio Example.
Among tho recent evidences of the
disposition of all true patriots to sus
tain the Administration in its efforts
to maintain the integrity of the Union,
the following manly letter of Hon. J.
Scott Harrison, who was nominated
by the Democratic Convention which
recently assembled at Columbus, Ohio,
as its candidate for Lieut. Governor,
is well worthy of attention, coming,
as it does, from one who had received
so decided a proof of the confidence of
those who tendered him that import
ant 'nomination :
• POINT FARM, Aug. 13,1861.
DEAR Silt: The extreme illness of a
member of my family has, for several
weeks, so engaged my attention, as to
leave me but little time for other en
gagements, and will account for , this
tardy acknowledgment of your fiwor
of the Bth inst.
I had noticed in the city papers the
proceedings of the Democratic Union
Convention, lately assembled at Col
umbus, and was not a little surprised
to find that my name had been used
in connection with the Lieutenant,
Governorship of the State. deeply
regretted that I had not been. con
sulted in the matter, and now desire
to say that I respectfully decline the
nomination. I have no inclination to
be a candidate for any office.
If I ever cherished ambition for such
distinction I have been cured of it, and
feel entirely reconciled to the quiet and
retirement of private life. But it is,
perhaps, due myself to say that if this
was not the case, and I felt entirely
free to enter again the field of political
conflict, I could not consent to be a
party candidate for office, in the pres
ent condition of the country. Party
spirit, in my opinion, has done more
than anything else to bring about the
sad calamities which now so seriously
affect us, and the poison which has in
duced this national paralysis would
not prove an efficient remedy iu the
restoration of the patient. 'The time
has come when we should forget party,
throw off its trammels and obligations,
and stand up for the country, its Union,
.Constitution,
and laws.
I was not:, as you know, a supporter
of Mr. Lincoln for the presidency—
neither do I approve of ail the acts of
his Administration. But it seems to
me this is not the proper time to ar
raign the Administration for these er
rors of policy; and that it is neither the
part of wisdom nor patriotism to assail
the Government when the enemy is thun
dering at the gates of the capital. Let
us first settle the great question of
Country or no Country, Government
or no Government, Union or Disunion,
and having accomplished this great
work of duty and patriotism, we will
have ample time to inquire into these
alleged delinquences of our rulers; and
if we find them wanting in the Jeffer
sonian requirements for office, let them
be condemned by a verdict of the peo
ple.
I certainly owe to the Republicans,
as a party, no debt of political obliga
tion, and 3 - et Ido not hesitate to say
that the Administration has my warmest
sympathies in its efforts to put down this
rebellion ~and I am in favor of doing this
effectively and permanently—in peace if
we can, in war if we must.
A distinguished member of Congress
is reported to have said in his place in
the House of Representatives, during
the last session, that he was for "peace
peace before the Union." I, too, am
for peace, but lam fbr the Union be
fore peace, for I know without the
Union we can have no peace.
In repeating my determinatien to
decline the nomination which, as the
organ of the Convention, you so kind
ly tender to me, I beg to assure you
of my proper appreciation of this mark
of respect and confidence on the part
of the Convention.
Very respectfully, your ob't serv't.
J. Scorr HsnllsoN.
To William A. Johnson, Esq . ., Secretary
of the State Central Committee.
English Opinions.
Have the American people entirely
forgotten that we declared our inde
pendence of England on the 4th of
July, 1776 ? J luting from the extreme
anxiety shown by many of them, and
especially by certain of our 110%% spa
pers, as to the views of England, it
might be thought that we could sac
ceed in nothing without the consent and
support of the people of a country
whose views, and whose army and
navy, we defied more than three score
years ago.
This is puerile, weak and unworthy
of the people of a great nation, such
as we profess to be. We are quite
sure that nine-tenths of the English
people wish us to succeed in our strug
gle with rebellion, and that it is only
from a portion of their cotton men,
cotton politicians and cotton editors,
that the unfriendly language comes,
which so disturbs a portion of our citi
zens. It would, it is true, be grateful
to our hearts, to have the cordial sym
pathy of all England, in this difficulty;
but it is not essential to our cause. If
we cannot succeed independently, we
do not deserve to succeed.
We have been wasting too much
time and thought upon the course to
be pursued by Great Britain, and a
number of foolish newspaper writers
in New York aml elsewhere, by their
violent abuse of England, have pro
duced a degree of alienation and un
friendliness in the London press that
would not have been shown if thOre
had been no such abuse. The present
angry tone of the English newspaper
writers is more a measure of retalia
tion than of wanton, unprovoked hos
tility. •
If we now attend to our own affitirs,
and cease to vex ourselves about Eng
lish views, we will do more to get the
good opinion and sympathy ofEngland
- and other nations, than we can ever
do by either flattery or abuse. We
can afford to be taunted with the in
efficiency of our army at Bull Run,
when the taunts come from a country
with whose arms we have successfully
contended in two great wars. We
must repair our damages and show
that we are as capable of fighting
formidable foe now as we were in
1776 and in 1812. Unless we do this,
we shall never be entitled to the good
opinion of the English. The London
writers and politicians always incline
rather to the side of success, than to
that of mere moral right and justice.
We have right and justice on our side;
let us now add success, and there will
be a sudden conversion of English
opinions in our favor, that will satisfy
the most anxious.—.Eveninv
Affairs in and around Washington.
[Wont MlN%Linton Star, of tilts 2.Gtlt4
AN ALARM
About 11 o'clock, A. M 4 yesterday,
a eountrymaid came into one 'of the
camps on the other side of the river,•
and spread a report alleging, the, ap-1
preach of Beauregard's army in ,con
siderable force. The troops there were
very generally turned out and, pre
pared to receive the enemy, and in
formation was promptly sent to head
quarters here; resulting in the instant
summoning of all officers to their posts
who were,at church, or elsewhere not
immediately with their respective com
mands. The occurrence is worthy of
notice, in so far as it demonstrated the
great improvement in the emtdition of
the army on this side of the Potomac
that has lately' been achieved.' A.
month ago, four . , times the number of
officers, in proportion to the foreenow
here, would have been found absent
from their posts, and it , would have
been found impossible to hunt them
up speedily. Now, however, no offi
cer leaves his post except with written
leave," and after taking due care to•
leave directions where he is to be found
instantly, if required. ,
A , MARE'S NEST
, .
On Saturday last a train of onelim
dred and two wagons loaded with
tents (that had never been unbaled)
reached this city, from the eolumnrof
Maj. Gen. Banks. Their, appearance
on Pennsylvania avenue gave rise
,to
stories representing the army of Gen.
B. as being in full and hasty retreat
on Washington! Secessionists of course,
started tbem,, and glibly rolled them
over their tongues to all who would
listen to them-.
The truth is, there had 'been for
warded to Gen. Banks a large surplus
of tents, which had never been used,
and they were accordingly forwarded
by him to this point. That's all there'
is in the appearance of the large bag
gage train from the upper Potomac on
Pennsylvania avenue on Saturday,
last.
MORE PICKET GUARDS MURDERED
NEAR BAILEY'S CROSS ROADS; Alex
andria county, Va., Aug. 26#--I hear
that two members of a Massachusetts
regiment were killed (shot), last night
while doing picket duty on the Lou
doun and Hampshire Railroad, about
a mile from Bailey's Cross Roads, to
wards Alexandria. I have not yet
learned their names, and have barely
time to notify you by this opportunity
of their murder.
A MOVEMENT OF THE ENEMY
—lt is no longer to be doubted that
the gradual concentration of troops in
and about.Leesburg grows out of the
withdrawal of almost the entire force
of Beauregard and Johnson from points
higher up the river. In all, the force
at Leesburg on Thursday last was
probably in the neighborhood of 12,000
strong. The movement of the column
of Gen. 13anks, down to the mouth of
the Monocacy, seems to have been the
natural result of this change in the
position of the opposing fume.
ARREST OF A CILIPLAIN
Rev. Jim. M. Green, chaplain of the
Tenth Pennsylvania Regiment, (Col.
.MeCalvert,) was arrested on Saturday
by detectiv'es Allen and. Dasher, at the
instance of Mr. Clephane, the city post
master. The reverend gentleman act
ed, it seems, as poStmater of the-regi
ment, and is charged with opening let
ters, and abstracting money belonging
to members of the regiment, and other
persons. He had the confidence and
respect of - Me entire regiment, and
they were astounded at his arrest.—
Ho is a minister of seven years stand-.
inm and has a wife and two children
at home in Pennsylvania. Hozwas,
after examination before Justice Donn,
committed to jail.
The Experience of a Deserter.
[From the Waahtngton Star of the 2311.]
. There is now at the Central Guard
house, in this city, a man by the name
of Angustine Johnson, who was. for
merly a citizen of Steubenville, Ohio,
where hehas, or had a few months
since, a mother and four children liv
ing. In the last four months his expe
riences have not been of the most agree
able kind, as will be seen on reading
the following narrative of his adven
tures daring that time. He is quite
intelligent, and gave us, this morning,
a detailed account•of his "moving acci
dents by flood and field." his "hair
breadth 'stapes," &e., from which we
condense the following statement: -
Early last spring he embarked on
flat-boat for New Orleans, where he
arrived after a,trip abounding with the
usual incidents of life on the river. On
the 25th day of April last be and many
other Northern men were impressed
into the rebel service. To distinguish,
these Northern VOLUNTEERS from the
chivalry their heads were closely
shaved, so that they might be easily
spotted. It was Mr. Johnson's fate to
fhil into the First Special Battalion of
New Orleans, Major Wheat comman
ding. After much snffering for want
of proper food and clothing, the batta
lion found themselves at Manassas
Junction, Mr. J, suffering more than
his comrades, because he was suspee-.
ted on account of his Northern birth.
Wo omit an account of many painful
incidents, and come at once to the bat
tle " Stone Bridge," •or " Bull Bun."
Major Wheat's battalion was stationed
on our extreme right. Near him was
a South Carolina regiment under cover
of the pines. Separated by an open
space from the Federal infantry, also
under cover, Major Wheat advanced
his men into this open space, and was
tired on by the South Carolina regi
ment. Somewhat confused by this un
expected attack from friends, the bat
talion wavered, and a deadly fire was
then poured in by the Federal troops,
Miijor Wheat being the first to, fill.
The loss of life by that fire was terrible.
Near Mr. Johnson were two other
Northern men. Ono of them, David
Vance, of Philadelphia, was instantly
killed. The other, a comrade and
warm friend of Johnson's, an Illinoi
sian, named James 11. Hutchinson,was
shot under the eye. Ile was in such
agony that Johnson carried him from
the field a long Way to the hospital,
occasionally restin z ff with the wounded
R
man's head on his lap. After taking
his friend to the hospital, he thought
the time had conic to try and escape,
as in the confusion there were no pick
ets out. lie took his gun and started
westward, up a ravine. - After getting
a considerable distance from the bat
tle-field, he threw away his gun and