AMERICAtfVOLtJNTEER-,
JOHN B. BRATTON, Editor & Proprietor.
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CARLISLE, PA., MAY 21, 1803,
Welcome, to onr Soldiers.
Reception to the Nine Months Men.—
Notice. —The Committee of Reception to
give e welcome to the returning nino months
men, gives notice as follows : ,
The returning Volunteers will bo received
by the firing of a salute at the Gas Works.
They Will then bo received at the Public
Square by .the Coriimilteo of Reception, and
dismissed. On their arrival the bells of the
town will be rung.' [Persons baring charge
of Bolls trill please pay attention to this.]
After the reception a dinner will bo given to
the soldiers of the 130th Regiment, to which
all honorably discharged soldiers are inrited.
■ Bv THE CoJiMITTEE.
Ordination of Pastoks—:l nteuestingSek
tioes. —The Second Presbyterian . Church
(0. S.)pf this place was the scone,of a most
interesting service on Wednesday, the -13th
just. This was the day. appointed .by the
Presbytery.ot Carlisle for the ordination and
installation of Rev. John 0. Bliss as Pastor
of this church, where he has, been preaching
since last fall. • Accordingly, at 10, A. M.
: the Presbytery ..entered upon the solemn ser
vices..' The venerable Dr. CaEicri of Moroors
burgb, presided) putting the usual questions
to pastor'and people ; Rev. Samuel J. Wil
son, D. D;; Prof. ofEcol. History in the West
ern Th.eologicalSeminary, preached a forcible
and striking discourse on Uo's. 2 : 21.22.
Rev. Isaac N. Hays, of tbo Middle Spring
chnrob, gave the 'charge to the paster, and
the Rev. W. C. Catell of Harrisburg, that to
tho people, .The interest of the occasion was
enhanced by the ordination, at the same
time, of the Rev. Wii; C. Stitt, .who has ac
cepted a cal! to thechurch in Hagerstown, Md.
The sight of these two young men kneeling
together before tho pulpit, while the Presby
tery gathered around them, and; placing
their hands upon- their heads, solemnly set
them apart to tho work of tho ministry, was
ono of great impressivness. After the bene
diction was pronounced, Mr. Bliss received
the greetings ot the congregation. Judging
from the hearty hand-shaking he received ■
from all, both old and young, these evinced 1
a sincere and delightful cordiality in their 1
welcome of, him as pastor. Altogether the 1
occasion was one not soon to he forgotten. ■ '
Democratic Club of Carlisle. —The fol
lowing ate tlio officers of tlio Democratic
Club of Carlisle:
President—Andrew Kerr.
Vice President—Wm. Gould.
Treasurer—James Armstrong,
Secretary—-Jt'-U, Wunderlich.
Corresponding Secty.—Wm. M. Penrose.
At the regular meeting of the'Club,’ oh
Saturday evening. May IGth, the following
resolution was adopted and ordered to bo
published in the Democratic papers of this
Borough
Ker.o!red, That the Democratic Club of
Carlisle regard the recent arrest,and trial by
'Court Martini of lion. Clement L. Vallnn
dighiim, as illegal, unconstitutional ami tv
ranical; and they protest respectfully, but
firmly, against snob usurpations of power by
the President of the U. S', and the officers of
the army, as destructive of the j-ights and
subversive of the liberties of.tho people.
.Democratic Meeting in Frankfoud.—A
largo and enthusiastic Democratic meeting
was hold at tho Stone School House, in,
'Frankford‘township, on Thursday evening,
the 14th ihat., for the purpose pf organizing
tv Democratic Club. Mr. Jno. Waggoner
was elected President, and Jacob Nickey
Vice President pro. tem. The meeting was
then addressed by Rufus E. Shapley and C.
E. McGlaughlip, Esrits. of Carlisle. A per
manent organization of tho Club will be
effected and a Constitution and Bv-Laws
adopted at tho nest mooting—on Thursday
evening, the 28th Inst. Old Frankford is
“ wide awake."
ECE’Eor proceedings .of Democratic meet
ings hold in Southampton and South Middle
tou townships, see first page.
Looks 'Fine.—With a few exceptions the
grain fields in this section present a promis
ing appearance.
[Cw’ The’flowors, leaves and blossoms have
sprung forth with marvellous rapidity during
the present week.
0“ The 130th Regiment ( nine months
men,) is now at Harrisburg, waiting to he
pnidpflf and .mustered out of service.
Spring Clothing,—Livingston, North
Hanover Street, is fully prepared for an im
menss-Epring business. Tho largest stock
of seasonaWe, fashionable and stylish cloth
ing for gentlemen, hoys and children, ever
offered in thru town, will be found at this ex
tensive establishment. In every particular
the present stock of this popular clothing
house may safely challenge the criticism ol
purchasers. Tho beat goods of foreign and
domestic manufacture aro.mado up by Liv
ingston, and none but tho'best workmen are
employed by him. Wo therefore hazard
nothing in saying that no better.goods and no
cheaper can be bought in Carlisle, than at
Livingston’s, North Hanover Street.
'Original Disdn’ionxsts.— On tlio Isl of
February, 1850, a petition was presented in
lh° U. S. Senate praying for a dissolution of
the Union. But three Senators voted for it,
v.A : Messrs. Chase. Hale and Seward. Two
Of these men are in the present Wash button
Cabinet, nnd the third is still in, the Senate
nnd is the right hand man for the administra
tion, and talksflippantly on the subjeetot" loy
alty." Is it not a strange fact that every
jnan who for twenty Or thirty years has fa
vored a dissolution of the Union is now a great
pet with the Washington dynasty 1 “ Straws
show which way the wind blows."
#gy-To lovo your country, it does not fol
low that you must love u,nigger., *
/‘UNCONDITIONAL LOYALTY,”
lu reading the resolutions adopted by tbo
various meetings of pur, unprincipled, politi
eal opponents, wo always find ono advoca
ting “ unconditional loyalty tp tlio Govern
ment.” -Mr.. Wendel Phillies holds his
Abolition carousals in New York,, and after
spitting forth tho most unadulterated treason
: —after sneering at tho laws and tii'o Consti
tution, and toasting that ho lias been “ work
ing for twenty-fivo years to effect a dissolu
tion of the Union,” his mooting adopts a
resolution pledging “ unconditional loyally
to tho Government.” Tho small fry of tho
same party—the “ loyal Leagues” of country
towns, like Carlisle, follow tho example of
their great leaders, PmLnrs, Beecuer and.
Mrs. Lucretia Mott, and ro echo in their
resolutions, uncondition loyalty to tho Gov
ernment. ” What they mean by “ uncondi
tional loyalty” is a blind submission to every
act of tho administration—approval of tho
Emancipation the purchase of
.slaves with tho people’s money, the arming
of negroes, tho .suspension of tho writ of
habeas corpus, negro equality, tho arrest and
imprisonment of-men whoso only crime has
been a strict adherence to the laws and the
Constitution. These things—these outrages
—are what wo are asked to approve ; this is
the “ unconditional. loyalty” that is re
quired., This is Jlist tho kind of “ loyalty”
that Democrats spurn' ; and Mr.- Lincoln and,
his‘minions who make the demand are very
ignorant of American charactei- if they,sup l
pose tho,people can. bo .either frightened or
coaxed into an endorsement of'the' outrages
we have enumerated.
‘^SoNCVji
It is ■ a burning ■ shame that tho re
bellion has not been throttled and crushed
long ago.- Wo have been at war now fir
over'two years, and every field of battle
is pregnant with the bodies of the slain, and
yet wo see no prospect of peace, and no
bright hopes for, the future, and why? Be
cause of the mad, reckless and absurd policy
adopted by tho Administration and its Ab
olition friends. Had tho Administration
adhered to the text—had tho President made
:ho restoration of the Union Ihc object of tho
war, we believe the con test'would have been
at an end long since) with a united Union as
tho result. But, no ;■ the President, against
his' own judgment, yielded to -the Abolition
“ pressure,” and adopted the extreme meas
ures again°t slavery that sucji crazy-men as
Philips, Beechbu,., Jim. L.vnf, and Sumner
’dictated. They assured the President that a
compliance with their demands would aug
ment the army—that tho streets and lanes of
Now England would “swarm” with anxious
thousands ready- to join tho army'. What
. was the result ? No sooner had the President
agreed to yield his, own judgment and adopt
tho Abolition programme out out for him,
than enlistments stopped ; scarcely a man
volunteered his services to the Government
after the extreme measures had teen adopted.
Greeley’s “000,000” men wore not to be
found, and Gov. Andrews’ “swarms” have
never been heard from, and now drafliuy is
tho order of the day. These extreme meas
ures have ruined our cause, and have
strengthened the enemy. Every man of
sense knows this, and yet wo who deprecate
these" measures and’thc fanatics who sugges
ted them, are asked to approve th’eni, if we
desire to bo considered “ unconditionally
loyal.” Vcver, never !
The Herald and Carl Sciiurz. —The
Herald makes an effort in its last to prop up
tho military reputation of Carl Schcaz, and
in doing so introduces a kind of introductory
fjr the purpose of making it appear that wo
were actuated by personal ill-will when we
■exposed the-manner in which Sciiurz’divis
ion acted in front of tho enemy. There is
scarcely a semblance, of truth in the Herald's
introductory, but this does not surprise us,
for the writers lor that delectable sheet would
be seized with convulsions if they, in mistake,
even attempted to utter a truthful sentiment.
The Herald, in speaking of Schurz, calls
him “ a brave and accomplished soldier,” and
to prove that tho men of his division did nut
break and run as soon as they were confron
ted by tlie rebels, a letter is published signed
by .0.- 0. Howard,' ’“Major-General of tho 11th
army corps, in which an effort is made to
screen Schurz. Now,lie it remembered that
if was this 11th Army Corps, commanded by
Howard, (to which Corps Sciiurz’ , Division
belongs,) that “broke and ran .pell-moil,"
(wo quote from the New York Tribune.]—
IVe tin ik, therefore, that Howard is nfit a
very competent witness. It is notorioua that
tins Corps did run, and it is also notorious
that it was the Division commanded by
Scudrz that first gave way. Gen. Hooker,
in making up the causes of his defeat, men
tions the defection of the 11th Army Corps
(Howard’s) as having contributed tu it. The
President says tlie same tiling ; nil the cor-
respondents lur tlie city, papers concur in tlie
statement,-and the New York Post— good
Abolition authority—demands the removal
of botli Howard nnd Sciiurz. Are these
men (President Linci in and others,) ami
these papers all falsifiers, or is it tho Herald
that is guilty of “a brace of lies” when it
attempts to screen Sciiurz, ami speaks of
him as a “ brave and accomplished soldier 1”
Let the reader decide..
Wo feel no desire to asperse the character
Of any officer in the field who performs his
duty. We aro ns ready to praise Sciiurz rs
we are to condemn him. But, tho appoint
ing of mere politicians to high military po
sitions has, demoralized Iho army, and caused
tho loss of many battles and thousands of
valuable jiies. It is timo tho “weeding”
process should apply to them. Sciiurz. is no
soldier—uover was, and never will be,
Butinsi Plead Guilty.— Wo clip tho fol
lowing from the report of tlie Dauphin coun
ty Court proceedings given in tho Patriot <£•
Union.
'Commonwealth vs. William Brohst, of
Senatorial bribery notoriety. Our readers
will recollect that Brohst was charged with
•grossly insulting Mrs, Kate Davis and other
respectable ladies of this city on the street.
After the iinding of a true bill by the grand
jury, the counsel for.Brohst induced him to
wwn ? Co ,'-r l m,i .plea of guilty,
ine d^vpin o ' o,l P l ' o Venting the danmg
mg IcvtiopomenU wlnuh a trial .of the cnnc
tb°n cnst ‘ U f 6 IGltoj ’ • ITu was required to pay
the costa of prosecution and gitfi eeouritv in
the sum of live hundred dollars for bis fuU.ro
good bolmvtor. Vi a regard this, as very mild
punishment considering the infamous offence
of which Brohst was guilty.
DEMOCRATS OP TUB TOWNSHIPS*
Hold mootings —moot together frequently
—organize thoroughly—countyour men—talk
to those who are undecided—distribute Demo
cratic papers and documents, and do.all you
enn to enlighten tho people. Tho following
suggestions which wo take from tho Colum
bus (Ohio) Crisis, should bo heeded by every
Democrat and lover of his country :
“Friends in»tho cause of constitutional
liberty and the freedom of tho white,man, in
tho political divisions called townships, or in
soum States towns, do not now—your spring
elections are past, and in so many of these
townships gloriously passed—suffer your
selves to bo disbanded or disorganized. Vour
vv.ork in the defense of your dear-bought
rights, guarded by constitutional law, is only
fairly begun. You have yet a greater work
before you, and let ono evening, at least, in
each week ho set apart for consultation, and
preparation to organize for the fall campaign.
By these meetings at which some one or
more will always speak, or at least talk over
tho condition of tho country, you will be able
to learn what your political enemies are
about, where they hold their secret, oath-
bound conclaves, and also what false rumors
or open lies they spread abroad fur tho pur
pose of catching tho unwary. ■
When y-ou thus ascertain what is going.on,
you will be able to meet and counteract
it. You will bo able to ascertain the amount
of reading matter furnished your townships,
and compare notes as to its value and relia
bility. Such mootings, interviews and inter
course, will inspire confidence ami give
strength to youV efforts, aud,-efficiency to
your work. '
Do Tooqueville, in bis very elaborate and
remarkable book, on American-Democracy,
gives the'division of',political' organisations
iiito these small neighborhood towns or
townships,.as ono of his reasons, not only for
the successful struggle of the American peo
ple in establishing a. free constitutional gov
ernment,'but its-strict preservation up to the
time ho traveled through this country and
wrote his-book.
They teach people lo practice their rights
as a free people,.as in common schools, pre
paratory to largo and more extended labors
in tho political vineyard. They Vote by
.townships or districts in their largest elec-
tions as well as in their more, immediate and
bomb .concerns. They thus learn and feel
the importance of self-reliance ; and to these
nurseries of flcomen must wo look la the last
•esort. and fall back on them as upon firs'
principles. Let no. township, therefore,
think itself of too small consequences to en
gage in so great a work—let no individual of
a township, or even a school district, a still
more confined political division, think himself
of too little consequence in this great last
contest for freedom to act his part, and act it
well. Neither has ho any time to lose
or -to slumber. He can at least walk over of
an evening, a quiet balmy spring or summer
evening, to his neighbor, with whom he can
hold friendly and patriotic intercourse, and
talk over these matters, ami then seek out a
third and a fourth, until tho whole township
gets together and publicly organizes,
Ono hundred aud seventy thousand voters,
(in Pennsylvania two hundred and twenty
five thousand) sound, sensible, constitution
loving men, whoso heads are right, .and
loarts sound to the cere, in perpetual motion,
lotormihed do maintain their liberties and
their personal rights under tho constitution
and law, plainly and devotedly oxpressmg
their opinions, keeping always tho order and
character of their great truth in strict
discipline and subordination- to everything
just, and in accordance with our free' insti
tutions, and their fortified power will'bo im
pregnable, anil their influence a complete
ruuucs, when combined as a. whole throughout
this state or any other state. ■ =
.Von of-tlio farms and the workshops, to
yon, all ..must look for the sal ration 'of our
country anti the white man’s liberties." To
you all eyes are turned. Wo look not up to
those who have blossomed, and ripened,.and
mildewed in tho sunshine of popular favor,
matured, nurtured and made prominent by
your confiding virtue. While here and there
wo see one bright star glimmering tnmngh
the misty firmament, as beacon lights hoek-
Oiling ns on to-safety and honor, a thousand
have disappeared tu. await a clear sky and a
calmer sea. Wb mast, .therefore, fall back
on tho oarsmen and the jaboving/hnnds, anil
from which we never should hacc departed. We.
shall, therefore, not only gain strength at tlie
poilsMiiit secure -virtue, without which suc-
cess is a more show without substance, dlri
map a without ridory. ■
Wo need not anticipate what our political
opponents are going to do—we have but'to
take them at, their word, and accept tlioir ac
tions as a sufficient proof of their designs,
Those are enough—they fill the rocordiT'of
legislative hudios—they stand rivited on the
leaves of tlie statute books, and all time ami
all history will attest the truthful record of
their iniquities.
Freemen of the Townships! road, ponder
and net wisely, Hint generations yet unborn
may bless you. “ Act well yuur-part ; there
all the honor lies.”
The League Fizzle,— The Herald attempts
to account for tlie slim attendance at the last
meeting of tlie Carlisle disloyal Longue by
saying that it was on account of a misunder
standing about tlie hour, of meeting. This is
a naked falsehood. The Leaguehas the same
hour for all its carousals, and the call for the
meeting-in question was published the same
ns tho preceding meetings had been. False
hood, therefore, will u»t answer as an apolo
gy fur tlie fizzle.' The fact is the “ abolition
league” is a failure. It was a'second Know
Nothing,.Wide Awake or no party bantling,
but was moonstruck in its swuddeling clothes,
and is -last dying hmidst loathing and dis
gust. Its first audible utterance was “ Cop
perhead ’ and its last will bo appeals to
grnnnyOiiEELV for help. It was pointed to
as tlie babe in the manger, but tlie shepherds
did not come. The old game of enticing
■Democrats was tried, but the people have
seen enough of-tho clap-trap and shallow pre
tentions of its originators ; they have tested
their humbugs, and are now reaping the
dread realities of their intrigues. It has
notiiing to recommend it but proscription, big
otry and violence. Its prominent friends are
tho old abolition agitators, tlie advocates of a
“ higher law than tlie Constitution,” and the
“ irrepressible conflict." Tho endorsers of
tho infamous Heli-er book and tho instiga
tors of the mobs of tho past two years are al
so in tho ring. Stevens and most of their
lenders hnvo openly advocated violations of
the Constitution, nnd oven the doctrine of
setting it aside altogether. Let all lovers of
liberty, law and constitutional government
continue indignantly to spurn these new in
trigues of -a destructive faction, nnd labor
diligently for tho good old principle nnd
good old policy of tlie past.
US?” Wo learn from the Boston Common
wealth that Dr. Augusta, an “ American of
African descent," was examined by the
Medical Board at Washington recently,.and
passed a creditable examination. 110 is now
a surgeon in the Army with, the rank of
Major, and has been assigned to service with
ulman’a Brigade.
ion will Ije squelched in the orininal ninety
Jays, and that, the only reason why a few
old' women did not whip the rebels before
breakfast, was because Father. Abraham,'in
the kindness of his.heart, {'see-Tod bn deser
ters) failed to conscript them, out of tender,
rpgr.nl for ago and sCx. '
.-;.“.We don’t believe any body’s hurt, the
crisis being purely artificial. It'is our belief
that a largo.stimis, mure easily paid than a
larger one ; and .wo tiro sure, from personal
experience, Unit it i&.oasier to pity when we
have the means, of paying, than When wo
have not. ■
“The national debt we consider a mere trifle,
as we have'been convinced, by an arithmeti
cal that ear women can churn it
out in ten years. ‘ C.nne, butter come.’
“■We,believe in the ‘ Union Party that is,
wo don’t.believe.it’s party at all j butdevised
for the pure and holy purpose of putting,
down ibis wicked rebellion, and saving the
hest.Government.in the world. Its leaders
are all honest patriots, oaring nothing for
oltice, .except when it is force ! unon them.—
Their motto is ‘To the devil with your offi
ces 1 \y<s are for our country—our, whole
country—and our home is in the bright set
tin’ sun.’ .
“ We are very much in favor of calling
■Democrats.‘Copperheads,? and ‘enemies in
pur midst.’ We think they all ought, to bo
killed. Burning at the slake would ho emi
nently proper.. -Sharp pine splinters ought
to he stuck into their flesh, and set on fire.—
No Union man should deal with them, exeep
to take their money—never neglecting to cal
liesn traitors its soon as they leave the stoi;e
ir shop.”
The New State Officers.—Oh Monday,
the 4th lust., in accordance with law, the now
State officers, to wit;
Isaac S.lenker, -Auditor General,
James P. Barr,' Surveyor General,
William'V. McGrath, State Treasurer,-
-VII Dymocv^l^wjuoyvefe.elected—the. ft rat
two pained, b/pwpfeppjg in October last, jind
the last by ,the Legislature in January—en
tered upon the duties of their respective offi
ces. They succeed Thomas E. Cochran as
Auditor General; Ilenry Souther (who was
appointed for the unexpirod term of the late
Gen. War. 11. Tviooi) as Surveyor General ;
and Henry D., Moore ns State Treasurer—all
-Republicans. .
Tlic now Auditor General lias re-appointed
W. Q. Wallace as Chief Clerk, a position ho
has hold for man/ years, under various Ad
ministrations.
■ Ihe now Surveyor General has appointed
Map Thomas J. llohrer, as his Chief Clerk.
Mnj. llohrer held this plaoo for a lons time,
under all changes of Administrations, until
removed by tho late Gen. Kiem.
The new State Treasurer has called our.
old friend, Win, I). Boas, Esq., back to his
old place as .Chief Clerk and Cashier of the
Treasury—and a bolteror more faithful offi
cer docs not live. Men-of all parties must
and will approve this excellent appointment.
Daniel K. Weiduer, Esq., of Berks, late a
member of the Legislature, has been appoint- 1
cd an Assistant Clerk in.the Treasury De
partment.
, Among tho other appointees by tho new
incumbents, we notice two well known (l gen
tlemen' of-the Dress,” to wit;—John M; Coo
per, Esq., o( Cliambersburg; and J. Mont
gomery Forster; Esq., of Harrisburg.
Address of Ma. V.u.i.AxmGUAji.— The
newspapers publish tho following address is
sued by Sir. Vallaudigham to the Democracy
of Ohio, before the.commonoementof his trial.
It dclines his political position at the present
crisis:
Militarv Prison, Cincinnati, 1
May,s, 1803. J
To tho Demoofacy of Ohio: lam here in
the military basiilo'for no .other offence than
my political opinions, and tho defense of them,
and .of tho rights of the people, and of your
constitutional liberties. Speeches made in
the hearing of thousands of you in denuncia
tion of tho usurpations of power, infractions
of the constitution and laws and of military
despotism were tho solo cause of my arrest
and imprisonment. I am a Democrat, for
Constitution, for daw, for tho Union, for lib
erty—this.is my, only “ crime."
For no disobedience to tho Constitution ;
for no violation of law ; for no word, sign dr
gesture of sympathy with tho men of tho
bouth who are lor disunion and Southern in
dependence, but in obedience to their demand,'
as well as the demand of Northern Abolition
dißumonists and traitors, I am hero in bonds
to day; but •;
lime, at last, seta all things oven 1”
Meanwhile, JDemnefuts of Ohio, of tho
Northwest, of the United States, bo firm, bo
true to your principles, to tho Constitution,
t tho Onion, and all will yet bo wc.ll, As
for myself, I adhere to every principle, and
I ‘ ,, “ a . k :° S° oc !' through imprisonment and
bfo itself, every pledge and declaration which
I have ever made, uttered or maintained
from the beginning. To you, to the people
to time, I again appeal. Stand firm 1 Fal
ter not an instant!
(C 7” It is worthy of attention that the only
Republican General who has yet developed
brilliant talents, Gen. Banks, is the one thiCt
is least popular with the papers and politi
cians of his party.
Cincinnati, May 10. —The writ of habeas
corpus applied fur in the Vallandigham case
has been refused.
•' Loyal Talk.”
The Logan. Gazette, - published at Bollo
foutaine, Ohio, is a spirited paper, full of
life and satire. Wo transfer to our col
umns of to-day' its ■ Loyal Talk, which wo
reoommened to the perusal of our reader: .
“Having become entirely convinced that
tho‘Administration is tho'Government,’ wo
propose to express some truly loyal views
iu truly loyal words :
“We hold that Abraham Lincoln is the
greatest statesman of tho ago. That ho is
thoroughly informed on all matters of Gov
ernment policy, and especially conversant
with the intricacies of tho Tariff, that he is a
very handsome mam a very refined man, a,
thoroughly .educated wan, and has hud all,
the training requisite for a successor of
Washington and Madison iu the Executive
chair.
"Wo hold, also, that the aforementioned
Lincoln is 1 honest,’ and that his Adminis
tration is distinguished for tho integrity of
ail its members and their appointees; that
Welles never gave fat-con tracts to Morgan ;
that Cameron never dabbled in frauds ; that
Tucker never made money outof transports;
that Fremont never speculated in Austrian
muskets; that Seward and Stanton violated
no law in making arrests; that tho Constitu-
tion required Blair to exclude Democratic
papers from, tho mails, and that Chase is
sincere, frank and manly in his conduct.;
‘ wearing his heart on his sleeve ;’ never
saying one thing and meaning another - and,
withal, a pure’national patriots holding him
self above all sectional prejudices.
“ Wo hold, moreover, that tho conduct .of
the war has boon marked by a brilliant sc
ries of tho most wonderful victories, except li
few instances, of disaster,.caused by-such
copperheads as. McClellan aijd Buell.
“•We still believe that this wicked reboll-
C. L. Vallandighau
JOHN VAN BOREN.
The.No-partv Administration. — Thoßc
f publican Blacksnakos have boon much ih love
i with John Van Buren of late, because ho
i attended a meeting of a “ fin ion League” in
Now York, and made one of bis funny speoeh
; ,cs. John has been making another speech
lately, which tho Republican papers have not
: published. Hero it is:
John Van Buren has rooently.raade a speech
before tho Democratic Union Convention of
New York, so replete with good nature and
capital hits that I had determined at one time
to forward it, to you, but fearing it would bo
a little too much for a weekly in these stir-.
’ ring -times .of nows, have reconsidered and
1 enclose an extract-only,' lie said there were
some things tho President--might do, if ho felt
inclined. “To.unite tho North, ho must en
tirely abolish his party organization. I road
every day in the republican papers that it is
necessary tho North should be united. But
the President of the United States cannot
tell us to -put down party when ho is entirely
partizan himself, Tho ostrich, who sticks
his.head in the ground, with all tho rest of
him exposed, makes a much more effectual
concealment of himself than the President of
the United States, who tells you you must
not have any party and yet appoints soveraT
thousand tax.assossoro and commissioners all:
oyer tho United .States, exclusively.of one po
litical party;.who. finds'it necessary to arrest
and incarcerate democrats. '[Tremendous
cheers.] If ho does not want any party, lot
him put one republican in prison by way of
showing his impartiality. .[Laughter and
applause.] Tho President of the United
Status cannot rescue himself from tho .imputa
tion of party politics who removes from,the
command of . tho Army McClellan, [Tremen
dous applauscijwho never yet has been able
or dared to assign a reason for doing it;, who
not only gives him no other command, but
ignomininiously orders him to the- rear, thus
notoriously' depriving the , public of his ser
vices, and for, what ?.. •
,1 said to you three mohths ago to night
that it was not wise or prurient to pass judg
ment.upon the acts of the'Administration at
all without giving it a chance.to be hoard,
and that I should wait and hoar' what the
reason was for the removal of McClellan, and
I have- waited" for three, months [Voioo —
“Have you heard ?”] and I have never hoard
a reason assigned for it. The President of
thd.United States who removes a gallant and
glorious soldier like Fitz John Porter [great
applause, continued for several minutes, and
throe tremendous, cheer’s for G.eu Fitzi-John
Porter] —the President of the United States
who removes a groat and gallant soldier like
Fitz John Porter, and restores Tom Ford
.[loitd hisses and groans.] must not come and
toll us there is no party in this .thing, and
that democrats must -combine in support of
the Administration and prosecute fho war to
overturn the institutions of the South, and
to deny their own, notions of constitution and
lawl , [Laughter.] lie might order mo ar
rested. [■ Never, never ’. * Let ’em try it.’j
It is an iml iota bio offence .to bring tho Gov
ernment into contempt, and it, is' a.miracle
tome how Lincoln has-escaped indictment
so long." [Great .dud continued laughter.]
A Foreign Wr.w of Loval- Leagues. —Tlio
truth of the’ classic statement, that it is
jjtmetimes-good and wholesome to learn of
an enemy, is illustrated in the following com
ments of the New York eorrespondi/ht of the
London Times on the Union Square Loyal
League mooting, which he describes in the
columns of that journal:
If the pain? and interests engendered and
fostered by this cruel and illogical war had
nut blinded the eyes, of Americans to. the
dangers to which thcir liboi-ticH lire, exposed
by its continuance, they blight have seen- by
the multiplicity of 'banners' and "placards
hearing the words-*-* Unconditional Loyalty,”
hdw low they' have fallen from.their once
high estate. TMt a Ireo people, justly jeal
ous of their liberty, should allow such ban
ners-to. bo Haunted in their.faces without
-indignantly tearing them down, or that they
should accept the doctrine of “ unconditional
loyalty” without Scornful repudiation-pf the
political slavery ■ and degradation implied,
-shows how much real freedom and-indepen
dence of mind the wiir has already destroyed.
Unconditional loyalty is more than the lilts
sians give to their Gzar,or the Turks to then
Sultan, and.has never been yielded to King Or
Government by. any people speaking the English
language since the days of Henry VIII.. Is
it not strange as-, well a?-humiliating that
such a.doctrino should first bo board of in
the English language in a, republic founded
by- Englishmen'! And should it hot load
modern Americana to inquire whether it re
ally, had its.- origin among nien of .British
blood and lineage, or whether it is due to the
Celtic, Teutonic, or other alien races that
have adopted .the English , language without
adopting the English liberty of thought,that
should-accompany it? Whateve’r may be
the reason, it is hub creditable that a doctrine
so long ago buried and forgotten in civilized
'Europe should ho exhumed in America, un
der the leadership of fanatics upon the one
hand, and of selfish traders making unholy
fortunes out of the war, upon the other. The
fact reniains, however, that the liberty of the
Americans is rapidly slipping out of their
grasp;-and while they avow a sentiment so
slavish, not to a King or Emperor claiming,
to rule by Divine right, but to a fetish of
their own malting, such as Mr. Lincoln, it is
scarcely surprising that military men should
bo ready to lake them at their word, and to
prepare means for their final subjugation and
reduction to that slate of thraldom to which
they would . subject their- brothers of the.
South.
[C7” A Boston correspondent of the Spring
field Republican dilates with enthusiasm
upon the oratorical abilities of tho now Abo-'
lition stump speaker, Miss Annie Dickinson.
After speaking of her “ culture,” ability*
beauty, and .good services in tho Connecticut
and New Hampshire campaigns, ho exclaims
in a tone of exultant ardor : “ Why not make
Miss. Dickinson the next President ?” The
suggestion is eminently appropriate. Aparty
that once supported Fremont for tho Chief
Magistracy of tho Union ; which has such,
a biiny ns Sumner for its leader ; which
keeps granny Stanton at the head of the
War Department; and has filled the. load
ng offices of tho country with the imbeciles,
vuujd fitly cap 'the climax of its career by
laminating Miss Dickinson as its next can-
didate for President. They should do,so by,
all moans. It would bo the right woman in
tho riglit place.
There seems to bo no doubt that tho
Administration intends to enforce tho con
scription. Jt .is supposed that it will bo
sot in operation about tho Ist of July.
Vau.andiguam’s AauEST. —The arrest of
Vallandigham was evidently illegal. Gen.
Burnside is now rashly dashing himself
against the law as ho did against the rebel
fortifications at Fredericksburg. But it is
the policy of the Democracy to keep cool and
he quiet.' All such oases will toll in their
favor in the.next election. When they have
control of jthe government, in 1864, they can
take Wendell Phillips, Greeley and a few
other fanatics, and hang them higher than
Hainan, under the very laws which tho fanat
ics themselves have passed.—A r . Y. Herald.
Day Weather.--, -After the ten days rain
some time since, tho weatbor'iia now exceed
ingly dry.
The Democracy lo bo Pat Down.
A Western paper says:
“ In consequence of Gon. Hasoall’s milita
ry order, and the fact that.no 'sort of fair
play is to bo allowed in the coming munici
pal election of Indianapolis, Ind„ the Demo
crats there have withdrawn all their candi
dates, oven for the schools. Nut a Democrat
will consent to be a candidate. Decry Hepnb
lican candidate, even down as low as for. ike
dog pound, icilt therefore be elected."
But in those places where the Democracy
are not likely to surrender their rights so
tiviuely, and suffer the 'elections to go against
them by default, military force is to to bo em
ployed to suppress them, as will bo seen by
the following bit of intelligence : ■ ,
■ A largo party of leading Union Leaguers
of Philadelphia, headed by Morton McMicha
ol and Ex-Mayor Gilpin, arrived bore to-day.
Senators Wade and Chandler and Colonel
Forney are their invited guests. It is sup
posed that steps are to bo initiated whereby
home forces shall bo organized under gov
ernment-auspices to repress disloyal demon
strations hud organizations in the North.—
Philadelphia baa already moved in this
matter.— Washington Correspondence of N.
Y. Herald, 1 -Uh last.
Confirmatory of all this, the Harrisburg
Telegraph, another seditions, 'Jacobinical
press, thus helps to foment the impeding civil
war in the North
■ “We sincerely hope that the example of
the loyal mon in Philadelphia, will be emu
lated by the. people all over the. Common
wealth and by every loyal State in.the Union.
Lot it be plainly understood, that the organ l .
ization is practically intended to put down
treason in the loyal. States. If it is right to
pursue and shoot a,traitor in the rebellious
States, it is also right to visit the same pun
ishment on the same devils in the loyal
States. Let us organize, then, everywhere..
Lot us show to the Government that it will
be sustained and strengthened. Lol’us prove,
too, to traitors that they will be resisted and.
putdown.”
Well,-if the conservative people of the
North—the Democracy—are to ho .'driven to
arms in defence of their constitutional liber
ties, lot the strife come, and-the sooner the
bettor.
Yalluntliiisliam—The Dry Turiugns, etc,
The following very important paragraph
appears in the .Washington. Chronicle,. (semi- 1
official) : :
“ We understand that the members of the
Oonrt Martial-which has been trying C. L.
at Cincinnati, Ohio, have
agreed on a verdict, and submitted it to Gen.
Burnside lobe approved, or disapproved by
him. The majority of. the Court, we-learn,
have sentenced Mr. Vallandinyhdtn to the Dry
Tortnyas for two years. The minority, it is
said, were in favor of sending-him South,
with the injunction not .to return until the
war is over." ■
I'he Dry TOrtugas is the American Botany
Bay, and a. more cruel, or more atrocious
“ sentence” than this could hot bo rendered.
If over the Civil Law resumes its sway in
this country, every military actor in it will
ho the victim of that law, as long as .lie
lives.'
Even the Drum-Head Court Martial estab
lished iii'Oincihnati failed to prove oven its
own charges against VallandinghanV. There
was nothing in bis Mount Vernon speech un
patriotic.or disloyal ; ay n , nothing but. what
was in defense (it the Constitution and the
Laws, and in every respect conservative and
just. , ,
Beware, beware, men of the Admlnistra
■fioivtUat you do not stretch the .cord-of hu
man endnritnco-'doo far.- -prejer
Death to; Slavery. Remember, that if over
a Military-Despotism is established over the
Western People, they will avenge themselves,
in iiranns and assassinations. ■ .Stand by the
Law. overthrow not the Law-:-he true to the
Constitution of your country. 1 Desolate not
this Northern, land in the misery ot Civil
War, hv overthrowing her whole Civil .Law;
—N, Y. Dxprcss.
■ -It has not yet.-transpired-whether,General
Burnside and the Washington authorities
have approved this sentence. (Jan it be.that
they are,sufficiently unscrupulous to approve,,
it? Can'it bo'that they dare approve it? —.
Wo shall see.-
The Inquirer has • n “ Special dispatch”
from Washington, which contains tlio fol
lowing,-but wo doubt its truth ;
Yali.anoi.vruau to he Banished. —dVe
learn that Vallandingham. was convicted: of
tlio chargee preferred against him, ami seh
fcnced.to the Dry Torlugas until.tlio'close of
the war. Burnside approved the order, but
the President has changed it to sending him
South. He will consequently lie invited to
accompany a flag of truce and spend the
coming months beneath the skies of -the sun
ny South, and witness the benign-sway' of
•Jell'. Davis." $
Tub Drift of the War:— Recently an offi
cer of the Pennsylvania Volunteers,.who had
faithfully served in two campaigns of the
present war, on recovering from tile wounds
received, and impelled by patriotic motives,
wont to Washington and applied to the Pro
sident lor service in the “field," proffering
at the same time high' testimonials I ruin the
officers with whom ho had served. lie can
best describe the interview between the Cap
tain. and. the President in tlio colloquial
form - :
Captain —“ Mr. President, I- have served
two campaigns in bur army, was wounded,
and obliged tmnek for my discharge. Now I
have recovered, and want to serve my coun
try again ; place mo in any capacity that is
honorable. I ain a war democrat, and don’t
want to, remain idle,”
President L —“ Well, Captain, you seem to
talk like a man who meant what ho said—and
so you are a real. live democrat, full of
fight."
Captain —“ Yes, sir. I was raised a demo
crat, have always been a democrat, and I hope
I shall always Do one ; and in saying this I
trust you will understand mo to’-.bo sincere.”
President L —“. Democrats aro getting to be
very thick and very saucy, and I don’t intend
to appoint any more pi the army. I, don’t
like them—they won’t endorse my Emanci
pation policy ; but, Captain, ns you have
suffered from hard service, and seem to be se
rious, I would say to you, go home to your
district and identify yourself with pur party,
and then I may be able to do something.,fqr
von
Captain —“ Mr. President, I havo -learned
for the first tinio that you are .carrying on
this war for the .benefit of the detested Abo
lition party ; and as lam opposed to all ene
mies of my country, .1 withdraw my appli
cation. Good morning, Mr. President."
The Conscription. —A proclamation has
been issued by President Lincoln, under the
General Conscription Act, which was passed
at the last session of Congress, subjecting to
the draft all aliens between the ages of twen
ty and forty-Uye yeprs who have declared
their intention to become citizens, of the
Uuited Statcs. All persons of this descrip
tion who decline to obey the provisions (if the
.Conscription Act ore ordered to leave the
country within sixty-live days,front,the date
of the Proclamation.
Death op “
noted rebel General, Thomas Jefforsn r
son, commonly known as Stonewall , t
■ son,” died at Richmond Inst Sunday r
the effects of the amputation of hi B rom
an attack of peneumonia which follow’’T" 4
Ho was reported among the wounded
rebel side in the late terrible battle at C |
oollorville, and it is said that the
proceeded from an accidental shot by on! r
his own men. , He was buried on Tuenh °*
The deceased officer was a native
ginia, and not quite 40 years of a-e tr
graduated at West Point in 1840, nndVa,, °
diately entered the U. S. Army ns a.S w T]
Lieutenant of Artillery. Ho fought bra!!'
at Contreras, Cherubusoo and Clmpulte,, 3
in the Mexican war, fur which ho .w aB ?
motod, successively a First Lieutenant, c!
Captain, and finally, at the close of that w!r
a Major. In 1852, ho resigned his c.'unniis'
sion ih the Army, and became a Professor o *f
Mathematics in the Military Institute at
Lexington, Virginia. Ho was twice married
—his first wife having been a.daughter oftho
Kov. George Junkin, formerly of this State
his second, the daughter of the Ilov. Dr’
Morrison, a -Presbyterian minister-of.Chat
lotte, N. C. On the secession.' of Virginia, h.i
“went with his State,” and was.'
at the head of a Regiment of Ihfantrv, and
subsequently promoted to the rank of Lieu
tenant General in the rebel Army. U 0 , VIH
among the must, celebrated of nil the fohrl
Generals, on account of his. daring raids
with the light cpfps which be'eonnnaudl-d.
In.bis demeanor ho is represented as havin'-
■ been extremely . quiet and modest, plain arid
unostentatious in liisdross, silent and thouHit
ful ; in his hfibits temperate, in' his conduct
strictly 'moral; and in religion a rigod mem
ber of the’Presbyterian Church. . In charms-- -
tor and capabilities, he was, confessedly a su
perior man; worthy of a better cause than the
onq'.in Which bo has.sacrificed his life.
■ Death or the Rebel Gen. Tax Donx.—
The report that the rebel General, B.u-l Vim
Dorn, was shot-and'instantly killed, by I)r.-
Pelers, of Maurny county, Tennessee, at the
diouso of the latter, which came (rom Nash
villo last Saturday, is confirmed. It is stilted
that Tan Dorn was discovered in criminal in
tercourse with the wife .of Peters.
Bari Tan Dorn- was born in Mississippi
about forty -years ago,, graduated at West
Point- in 1842, and was appointed a See»l
Lieutenant of U. S. Infantry. lie -smol
with gail-antry in the Mexican.- war, ni-.d
in tbb expeditions against tlio Indians iu
Texas in 1859. Bor -bis conduct in Mexicn,
bo was several times promoted, ■ and hold
a Major’s .commission In'the U. S. Army ut
the. breaking out-of the rebellion. He was
bravo and daring.as a-soldier, but recklessu
a fault,-and dissolute in bis private habits.
The affair which caused his death .was a.truo
index to his character. ■
03= The following is. a summary, in tabu
lar form, of the work accomplished by, Geu.
Stonernan’s expedition in Virginia
‘Bridges destroyed,
Culverts destroyed.
Ferries destroyed,
Uaglroads brokpn, places.
Supply trains burned, ; ■
■Wagons'destroyed,
Horses captured, .
Mules captured, .
Canals brolceiij . .
Canal bunts burned,
.Trains of eafsdoslroycd, ■
Storehouses .burned, 7 .
Telegraph, stations burned.
Wires out, pianos,
Depots b’uruiid, •■•.’■
Towns Visited,
Contralnmds liberated,
, ; Besides tlio destruction .of large quantities
pork, bacon, flour, wheat, corn, clothing and.
other articles of groat, value to the' rebel
army.
lE7* The arrest of Mr- will
undoubtedly give great joy to the rebels. A
few day's,ago the Richmond. Enquirer,, speak
ing of him and Mr. Cox, used the folio,wing
language: ,
“ Wo wish from our hearts they were both
already safely chained up at the present
writing. . They have done us. mAreharm, they
and their like, than ten thousand Rewards and
Sumners.
“ Oh, Dictator Lincoln ! -lock ye up (huso
two Peace Democrats—together with .Rich
ardson. —'in, some of .your‘military prisons.”
The President,'accommodating soul that ho
is, has partially' taken the Enquirer's ad
vice 1 ,
JOSy A- correspondent of the Boston Trans
cript, an Abolition print of the deepest dye,
says, witli truth, approaching to-“ treason:”.
“ Only those who have been brought.into
personal contact with tlio agents of tlio gov
ernment, know the utterly corrupt hi d mer
cenary motives which control their action. I
have little doubt that government is Icing
swindled as lew governments ever were
before.”. .
The Transcript had, better take care of
what people write to it from Fortress Monrou
—the place from which the letter is dated—
nr its editors may bo arrested for disloyalty.
Dvery -patriot-must say of MivLincoi.n’s Ad
ministration: “Whatever is, is right."
Never mind the agents of the Government.
O” The Rebels have a rumor in Richmond
that Gov. Seymour, of now York, has culled
out thirty thousand men to resist the execu
tion of'the Federal laws.— Cincinnati Com
mcrcial.
The rumor was, of course, started by the
Abolitionists,, who would bo intensely grati
fied 11 it Was true. It is another proof ol
the fact we have so frequently asserted, that
the opposition journals are the ones that give
encouragement to the rebels.
Hard on the Leaguers. —Parson Brown
low, in a letter to an abolition league mee
ting nt Chicago, used the following,.plnin
language: .
“You citizens nt Chicago call yourself
loyal; you glory in your loyalty, you- P l '. 0-
claim it upon the streets, and herald-i 1 -
your press, and declare it from every.-plaP
•form ; but it costs nothing to be loyal' here
, Chicago , so far away from dangev. ■
leads to the field.”
Question for Loyal Leagbesss.—lf
takes one oath to make an Ahnlitjmiist loyal
to tho government, how many oaths would it
take to bring his patriotism «p to a volun
teering and lighting pitch ?
The VaMjandioiiam Case.—lt js rumored
that the ense of Vailandighara is not yot de
cided, that Mr. Seward.-favors his release.
Ko War Bujsmjk.—•iflo.,v. , ar rumors of any
kind have prevailed here for some days.
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