AMERICAN VOLUNTEER.
JOHN B. BRATTON, Editor & Proprietor.
CARLISLE, PA’,, MAT 28, 1863.
BALLY, DEMOCRATS!
Tho Democratic Club of Carlisle, Trill meet
in their Hall, “the Cumberland Engine
House," on Saturday evening next, May 30.
By order of the Presiden t.
J.U WUNDERLICH,
Secretary.
Retobh of oDr Troops. —The 130th Regi
ment P. V., having served its full term of
nine months, and performed its duty credi
bly, was paid off and mustered outof service
on Saturday morning last, at Camp Curtin,
Harrisburg. Two companies of this noble
regiment —the one commanded by Capt. Wii,
M. Porter, and the other by Capt. {John
Low—had been organized and enlisted in
Carlisle, and their return to their homes was
anxiously looked for by relatives and friends.
They'arrived in the. oars on Saturday after
noon, and wore cordially welcomed by our
citizens generally, and by scores from the
country who had come in to take by the hand
the long absent soldier. After marching
through our principal streets, the companies
h alted in the square, where an address of
welcome was delivered by James R. Smith;
Esq. Mr. S’s remarks were truly patriotic,
prudent, and well timed, and we regret we
have not a copy of ’his speech that we might
give it to our readers.' 'Suffice it to say, it
gave great satisfaction to the brave troops to
whom,it was addressed, and to our citizens
generally. •.
After this the two companies were marched
to different positions, where R few words of
thanks were addressed them by their re
spective commanders. Three hearty cheers
were then given their officers and the com
panies dispersed, and each member hurried
homo to embrace the loved ones.
These companies bad seen hard service—
had fought in a number of sanguinary bat-,
ties—and alas, many fell in the noble-cause
of their country. In looking upon the faces;
of the men who had returned, two feelings
Would spring up in every breast—a feeling of
gladness and.a feeling of sorrow—gladness
tO'See so many return in safety, sadness to
know that many were left behind, sleeping!
beneath the sod of a Southern sun.
The Committee of Arrangement request
ns to announce that an abundant collation
■will be served up at 12 o’clock, A. M., on
Saturday, at the Meeting 11. Springs, for the
benefit of the two returned Companies, and
for nil other honorably discharged soldiers.—
We have no doubt it will be a dinner worthy
the occasion, and creditable to our citizens.
The Companies in question are requested
to meet in the Court-house square at 9
o’clock, A. M., of said day.
Old Newton Awake !—A large and en
thusiastic meeting of the Democracy of New
ton township was held at Stoughatown, on
Thursday evening. May 21, at which Capt.
Samuel Cope presided. Addresses were de
livered by Messrs. Williams of Newvillo, and
Maglaugblin of Carlisle. The meeting ad
journed with three cheers for the Union, the
Constitution, and Democracy.
Silver Spring Moving. —The Democracy,
of Silver Sprigg township assembled in large
numbers at Kingston, on Saturday-evening
last, at which Col. John Clendenin presided.'
Speeches were made by Mess'rs. Poins, Her
man and Maglaugblin, of Carlisle, and the
best of feeling prevailed. The Democrats of
that township are active and zealous, and
will not be satisfied with less, than 300 ma
jority this fall.
South Middleton Club. —The Democratic
Club of South Middleton township met at
Papertown, on Saturday evening, the 23J
jhßt. The meeting was called to order by the
■President, the minutes of last meeting read,
the Secretary, and the following resolution
was unanimously adopted :
Jiesolced “ That the Democratic Club of
South Middleton township regard the recent
arrest and trial by Court Martial of Hon. C.
L. Vallandigham ns illegal, unconstitutional
and tyrnnical ; and they protest respectfully,
but firmly, against such usurpations of power
■by the President of the U. S. and the officers
of the army, ns destructive of the rights add
subversive of the liberties of the people.”
The meeting was then ably and eloquently
addressed by H. Newsham and Rufus E.
Shaplcy, Esq., of Carlisle, and John Moore,
Esq., of Dickinson township. Adjourned to
meet again at the same place, on Saturday
evening, June G, at 7 o’clock.
Godev’s Lady’s Book.— The Juno-nuraber
of this highly popular periodical is on our
table, and is equal, if not superior, to former
numbers. “ The Little Tease” is a splendid
steel engraving, representing' a little lad
sleepingon some hay and “ The Little Tease”
(his sister) tickling him with a straw. The
colored fashion plate, containing six figures,
is superb. It also esntains a number of oth
er engravings, embracing dress, embroidery,
crochet and other ' The reading
matter is of such a character that it cannot
fail to please the ladies. Published by L. A.
Godoy, Philadelphia, at $3 per -year.
tBV ßepublicans, attention 1 You said if
old Ade would issuo a Proclamation decla
ring freedom to the slaves, you would join the
army and make it “ swarm.” The President
took you at your word. Now, why don’t you
volunteer|
' 18 reall J astonishing how many
Democrats there are now-a-dnys. There is
not an old Abolitionist of twenty-five years
opposition to the success of Democratic prin
ciples, but claims that he is yet a Democrat.
E7* The Assessors appointed by the Na
tional Administration are getting ready to
assess the income tax.
C 7“ In two weeks more the Volunteer will
enter npon the fiftieth year of its existence.
AVUAT TUB SOLDIERS SAY.
We have conversed with dozens of the, re
turned (nine months) soldiers, and without a
solitary exception, we find'them, M’Cleli-a.v
men. Men of nil parties speak alike, and
express the belief that M’Clkm-an is tllo on '
ly General wlio has the full confidence of the
army of the Potomac. They make no dis
pnrnning remarks Vhon allusion is made to
Gen. Hooker ; on the contrary, many of them
regard'him a loyal and intrepid officer . Rut
they are almost unanimous in lelicyoing that
he cannot, successfully, handle the immense
army he now commands. Some of them de
sire to see him have another trial, and wo
consider this nothing more than justice de;
.raands. ,
Such is the voice of tho soldiers, so far ns
we have ascertained their opinions. Is it
not strange and most unaccountable that the
administration continues to turn a deaf car
to the supplications of the army of the Po
tomac? We wore never of those who be
lieved Gen. M’Cleli.an to be an equal of the
first Napoleon in military genius ; but we do
think .it is indisputable that as a General he
is more than a head and shoulders above any
other officer at the command of the govern
ment. And the national safety demands
that the best we have should he placed in the
highest .position—not merely commander of
tho .army of the Potomac, but-Goinraaiidor-in-
Chief. While M’CLELr.AN held that position,
we at least suffered.no such lamentable de
feats as have followed, first his subordination,
and then his retirement from active service.
If Gen. M’Clellah, while in active command
of the.army of the Potomac, did not always
gain great and decisive victories, he at least
was never defeated. And that much cannot
bo said of any of.his successors.; In fact, it
must bo, said of them that they have been de
feated in every battle. We care nothing for
Gen. M’OleljLajv, more than any other man.
Wlmt wo desire is the suppression of tho
rebellion—no matter whether it receives its
death-blow from him, from Geh. Hooker, or
from any other General. And that should
be the feeling of every man ; hut we regret
to have to say that it does not seem to pre
vail with a largo number of the leading Ab
olition demagogues who dictate to the Ad
ministration, and their echoes throughout.the
whole country. With them it is, anybody but
M'Ci.ei.t.an, no matter what the result. They’
tell us, in their blindness, that Gen. M'Ci.el
lan is forgotten in the army. Wo tell.them
to go to the railroad any day that a returning
regiment is passing, and broach the subject,,
and they wii,l find that from the highest offi
cer to the lowest private, these veterans, who
have done their whole duty, under all the
commanders of the army of tho Potomac,
are not only unanimous blit passionate in
their expressions in favor of Gen, M’Clel
■lah. From extensively- mingling with the
returning regiments, wo believe there is lit
tle room to doubt that a large proportion of
their men will soon re-ehlistif M’Clei.i.a.v is
placed in chief command—if lie is not, they
gave no encouragement to entertain such-a
belief.
Surely the President is cognizant.-of such
facts as tve state, and to n thousand fold
greater extent. IVill ho permit pride of
opinion or the clamors of politicians; and
contractors, who have brought nothing but
evil upon his administration, to prevent him
from re calling our best General to tho head
of tho army ? -
fir. T/iIMVDICimi EXILED,
The administration niust.have been sorely
perplexed .to decide in what manner V.iljLax
mbnAM" should be tortured. . First, it was
announced (by authority,) that he was to be
sent-to the Dry Torgus for two,-years. This
decision, however, was rc-considered. Next
it was confidently assorted that ho had been
sentenced to Fort Warren. This decision
also fell through. The last intelligence we
have concerning the martyr is contained in
the following despatch ;
Cincinnati, May 22. —Tho President has
oViangedtbe sentence of Vallandigbam from
confinement in Fort Warren to .transportation
through our lines. Ho loaves to-day for
Louisville, in tho gunboat Exchange,-whence
lie will be delivered, to Gen. llosocrans, whp,
under a flag of troop, will deliver him into
tlio lines of Gen. Bragg.
We presume the above is true. But, sup
pose Gen. Bsagg refuses to receive Vallan-'
Dion am, what then? It is well known that
the Southern people hate Vallandioiiam and
are afraid of his. teachings. His strung Dn-,
ion sentiments—the determination he has
expressed that “ the Union never shall be
destroyed, notwithstanding the efforts of the
Administration”—his well-known advocacy
of law, order, 4 ‘ the Union ns it was and the
Constitution as it is,” makes him no favorite
with Southern men. If they receive him at
all, it will ho with the object of silencing his
clarion voice, for they have always regarded
him the worst enemy to their cause they had
to contend with. Whether, then, the South
will permit Mr. Vallandigham to occupy
their soil remains to he seen. If they return
him to Burnside, wo suppose the hero of
Eredricksburg will make short work of him,
and chop his head off. “ Long Ji.vo the Re
public !"
Washington County. —Tlio Democrats of
Washington county held an immense Mass
Meeting on tho 18th inst., which was presid
ed over by Hon. Wm. Montgomery. On the
subject of Governor, the meeting adopted
unanimously tho following:
Whereas, Col. Wm. Hopkins having declined
being a candidate for the nomination for Gov
ernor, our delegates to tho approaching De
mocratic State -Convention nrp without in
structions, therefore
Ileeoleed, Thai the Democracy of Washing
ton county, in Mass Convention .assembled
recommend said delegates to vote for lion.
Win. 11. Wittio ns our.next Democratic can
didate for Goi oruor.
ißSy* The rebels have been making new and
extensive earthworks along the ridge of hills
in the rear and to the left of Fredericksburg.
There is d report that all available soldiers
now on detached service near Washington,
Baltimore, and along the railroad, are to bo
sent to Hooker’s army forthwith.
KSS' The -Warren Mail says that “ at the
battle of •Clmnocllorsville Col. G. A. Cobhnm,
Jr., of the UHli regiment, had a narrow es
cape. A ball struck his left breast, going
completely through a large wallet andlpd*
mg in a gold watch he bad purchased in
Washington a short time sines.”
ANOTHER NEWSPAPER DESTROYED!
Th o 'Monitor, a Democratic newspaper of
Huntingdon, this State, was entirely de
stroyed by an Abolition mob on - the 20th
inst. The material of the office, valued at
$2,000, was thrown into the street, and ut
terly ruined-
We, have always advised against a mob
spirit—we have urged Democrats to violate
no law, oven in self defence. We have been
convinced for some time that we are living
under the meanest despotism that was over
established on the face of God’s green earth,
and we deemed it bettor to boar the yoke
meekly during tno balance of the term fpr
which the people, in an evil hour, elected
Abraham Lincoln. Wo say wo Have always
deprecated the doings of the vile mob, and we
hope wo over shhll be actuated by this feel
ing. But, really, forbearance has ceased to
bo a virtue, and us the Abolitionizod Repub
licans appear determined to rule by violence,
and at their pleasure destroy Demooratio
printing offices and the property of Demo
crats, it is time" we meet them on their own
ground, and give them a taste of their own
medicine. The Democrats of Huntingdon
county, in retaliation for the outrage commit
ted upon them, could not be censured if they
meet together and destroy the two Abolition
papers of that county. Wo must in future
practice the precept “ an eye for an eye and
a tooth for a tooth." Let the Democrats of
the various counties swear in their hearts
that for every Democratic printing office that
is injured or destroyed, two Republican offices
shall );e razed'to the ground, arid perhaps
our,Abolition assailants may learn wisdom.
Let Democrats never be the aggressors, but
let them, determine that hereafter force shall
be by force and mob by mob. The Ab
olitionists appear anxious -for anarchy, and
bloodshed, and Democrats can no longer evade
the issue. Our , advice to Democrats to be
loyitl, law-abiding, and even forgiving in
spirit, has been construed by the Republi
cans to mean cowardice. We must change
our tactics, and give blow, for blow, always
waiting to receive the first blow ourselves.—
These Abolition outrages should not and will
not bo longer tolerated, and if the Jacobin
friends of the administration consider it fine
fun to destroy property holoriging to Demo
crats, we must let them know that two par
ties can work at the same game. We dislike
violence, but if wo cannot protect ourselves
in any other way, we will bo forced, in self
defence, to use the strength and power God
has given us. “An eye for an eye,”,we re
peal, and two Republican printing offices for
every Democratic office destroyed, must be
our watchwords hereafter. If there is no
chance for legal redress, let the lex ialionis
be appealed to. " ,
GOV. SeTUOUr’s IjETTER TO THE YaLLAN
digiiah Meeting.—Albanv, May 17. —The
following is the letter of Governor Seymour
to the Yallandigham meeting last night:
Executive Department, May IG.
I cannot attend the meeting at tho Capitol
this evening, but I wish to state my opinion
in regard to the arrest of Mr. Vullandighnm.
li is an act which has brought dishonor-upon',
our country. It is full of danger to our per
sons and our homes. It bears upon Its front
a conscious violation of law and justice.
Acting upon the evidence of detailed infor
mers, shrinking from the light of day, in tho
darkness of night, armed men violated . the
house of an American citizen and furtively
borne him away to military trial, conducted
without those safeguards known to the pro-,
coedings of our judicial tribunals, The trans
actions involved a series of offenses against
our most sacred rights. It interfered with
tlie freedom of speech ; it hiblested'oiir .rights
to be secure in our homes against unreason
able searches- and seizures; it pronounced
sentence without trial, save one which was
a mockery, which insulted ns well as wronged.
Tho perpetrators now seek to impose punish
ment, not fbr an offense against Jaiv but for
the disregard of an invalid order, put forth
in tho utter disregard of tho principles of
civil liberty. If this proceeding is approved
by tlie government, and sustained by the
people, it is not merely a step .toward- revo
lution—it is revolution ;it will not only lead
to military despotism—it establishes military
despotism;- In this aspect it must be accept
ed, or in tills aspect rejected. If it is upheld,
our liberties are overthrown, the safety of
our persons, security of our property will
hereafter depend upon tho, arbitrary .will of
such military rulers as may be placed over
us, while our constitutional guarantees will
be broken down.
Even now the Governors and courts of some
of the great Western States have sunk into
insignificance before the despotic powers
claimed and exercised by'military men who
have been sent into their borders. It is a
fearful thing to increase the danger which
now overhangs us by treating the law, the
judiciary, and the State authorities with con
tempt. The.people of this country now wait,
with tho deepest anxiety the decisions of tho
administration upon these acts. Having giv
en it a generous support in the conduct of
the war, we pause to see what bind of gov
ernment it is for which we are asked to pour
out our blood and our treasures. The action
of the administration will determine in the
minds of more than one-half of lho people of
the loyal States whether this war is waged
to put down rebellion at the South or destroy
free institutions at the North. We look for
it's decision with the most solemn solicitude.
(Signed) Horatio Seymour.
Another Soldier Gone.— On Monday
morning last, Lieut. J. A. Graham, of Co F„
I3th Penn’ii Cavalry, arrived here, having in
charge the body of his brother, Sergt., George
W. Graham, of the same company. Deceased
was killed while a body of our Cavalry was
ou the road near Ashby’s Gap, Va. From
what we can learn, the circumstances are
about as follows : A body of Ilohol Cavalry
iiad captured .a number of Union men, and
our cavalry was sent to recapture them if
possible. Sergt. Graham and Capt. Utt (a
Virginian) were in .the .advance, and when
riding along the road, passed a woods in which
were a portion of the Kobels with their pris
oners. Two Jlehels came out of the woods
in the rear of the above named porsono, and
deliberately fired on thorn, killing both in
stantly. Sergt. Graham was a very excellent
young man, and a son of Mr. George M. Gra
ham, of West Pennsboro’ twp. Ho was about
21 years of age. Ilis remains were interred
in the Presbyterian burying-ground, on Tues
day.—Newcitle Star. ■
o”The lion. William Whiting, solicitor
■of the War Department, contradicts the re
port from the N. Y. Times, that the 5300
clausa in the conscription is to be sot aside.
Don’t Want 'Eh. —A merchant, advertis
ing for a boy, adds; “ Lads who part their
hair in the middle need not apply.”
O” It is on old saying that “it takes the
devil to lie,” but some of his imps who hdit
“ loyal” Abolition papers in this country .boat
him alt to pieces.
The Way tho looney Goei,
Tho Doylestown Democrat, of the pth in
stant, published a letter from Beaufort, South
Carolina, written by the editor of that jour
nal, Col. W. H. 11. Davis, which contained
the following.paragraph :
“ There is a largo number of civilians here,
both men women, mostly from Now. England.
Among these are numerous young ladies who
have opened schools for tho instruction of
black children, but with what success I am
unable to say. Schools, are established on all
tho neighboring islands, and tho expenses
paid by tho Government.”
This is “ tho way the money goes.” Thou
sands of dollars of tho hard-earned treasure
of the people are squandered by the party
now in power to attempt to educate black
children, and, at tho same time, to pay sala
ries to Now England Abolitionists. The es
tablishment of those schools for this purpose,
the expenses' of which are paid by tho Gov
ernment, is an unlawful exercise of power
on the part of tho Administration, which
should promptly cease. The Abolition lead
ers cannot justify it on their usual plea of
“ State necessity.” There is no authority
for it derived From any act of,Congress. It
is a palpable violation of duty to take money
from tho Treasury for any such purposes;
and tho people, from whose pockets the rev
enue is obtained, are taxed heavily enough
already, to meet the pressing necessities of
the Governmeut, without being called upon
to'support schools for young negroes and.pay
s alario3 to female teachers of Abolitionism.
Sensible- and Patriotic. —Judge Davis,
of the United States Supreme Court; in his
■address*to the Grand Jury, at Indianapolis,
on the 16th inst., says: , .
' “ The heart of the patriot, is sickened and
humiliated at the discovery of the frauds and
speculations whichhnVe been perpetrated
upon the government. It is a matter of the
profoundest grief, that there are living among
us those who are ha.se enough to cheat the
Government, when the homes, of our people
are darkened by the horrors of civil war, and*
our blood and treasures are freely given t.x
save the life of the nation. The loathing and
scorn which they deservedly received■ will
not stop this evil. The only effectual way.
to dp it, is to enforce, the laws. If men will
cheat and defraud in a time like this they,
should feel the pressure ot the law, and be
made,nf possible, to.disgorge their illgotten
gains. If subject, to the rules and articles
of war, they should be shot; if in civil life,
the severest penalties of the law should be
their portion."
Blair on Freedom op the Press-t-Mt.
F. P. Blair, father of the Postmaster General,
and of the Missouri Congressman, was a Dem
ocrat, and a gallant champion of popular free
dom. Ilad he ;npt been such he could not
have retained the confidence of General Japk
son. While ho edited the Globe and was
battling with wonderful power and energy
.against the ideas controlling the Government,
ho said-. 1 i
Under no possible cmeryeneu, not. even in
insurrection, Oil AMID TUB ''THROES OF
CIVIL WAR, canihis Government justify offi
cialinterfcrencexvith freedom of speech or of the
press, an;/ more than it can with the freedom
of the ballot. The licentiousness of the tongue
and of the pen is a minor evil compared with
the licentiousness of arbitrary power.
, Soarcitv or . IvAjpnu.—Detroit Itroo
Press says that nPsomo parts of Michigan
the scarcity of laborers is severely felt. The
war has effectually thinned out a largo,pro
portion of the laboring population, leaving
many places so destitute of help that even
women have been compelled to labor in the
fields. This scarcity of laborers has caused
a corresponding .advance of wages, which
have thus early in the season, in sonio parts
of,the State, reached ah unprecedented figure.
Armv or the Potomac.— Hooker will re
main at the head of’ the Army of the Foto
mac. The World writer says ■;
The effort to have him .removed has failed,
chiefly on account of the urgency of General
Daniel E. Sickles, who professes unbounded
faith in General lltioker’s capacity and Gen
eralship. . It is reported that a vote was ta
ken in the Cabinet touching the reappoint
ment of Gen. McClellan to his old position,
and that it secured the votes of. Secretaries
Seward, Blair and Upshur. The President,
it is understood, has decided that there shall
bo no change in the Army.
Gen. Rosocrnns has leased 200 acres of
garden land near Nashville, and lias sent to
Cincinnati to Quartermasters to purchase
vegetable plants and seeds. Ho designs rai
sing vegetables for his army to last through
the present summer and fall.
More Abolition league Outrages,
The Gettysburg Compiler, of the 18th inst.,
gives an necouhtof the arrest of eight respect
able citizens of Littlestown and vicinity, in
Adams county, in this State, on Monday of
last week, by a squad of soldiers attached to
the Provost Guard; at Westminister, Mary
land, to which place they were taken. Sub
sequently they were released. The sin or
offence of these men was that they were con
stitutional men—Democrats—white men, fa
vorable to the whito'man’s government, and
outspoken against Abolitionism in all its fea
tures.
From some facts stated by the Compiler it
is pretty evident that the instigators oft'his
outrage wore the “Disunion Leaguers” in
Adariis county, who had secretly and coward
ly belied aqjl misrepresented (as the Aboli
tion Leaguers everywhere do) their peaceful,
law abiding neighbors.
It is about time that Democrats and con
stitutional men all over the country should
awake to proceedings of this character, and
affix thoyesponsibility and apply the kemedy,
not to Lincoln and his officials,"(from whom
time and the Ballot box will relieve the peo
ple,) but to the instigators— the Abolition
League leaders. These are the men "who
should bo held responsible for all outrages
upon the persons and property of their Dem
ocratic neighbors. It is quite common, in
almost every town and neighborhood, to hoar
these miserable cowardly hounds, (who care
a great deal more about abusing the Demo
crats than lighting the rebels,) nay of this,
Coat, and the other Democrat: “lie ouo-ht
to bo .hung,”—“ he ought to bo burned out,"
‘be might to be torn out,” —“ ho ought to
be driven South,” &0., &o. The purpose of
such scoundrels, for they are nothing less, is
to operate on others and indueo them to in
augurate violence and outlawry upon Demo
crats, simply because 'Democrats continue to
think and to soy that a white man is better
than a negro, and that Abolitionism has been
and is now ■ a great curse -to, the country.
These League leaders , thus proving them
selves enemies of law and order, should bo
known, marked and remembered by Demo
crats in every community. Democrats, stand
ing true to law and the Constitution, should
keep their eyes upon these men, and hold
them responsible whenever and whercever
their hellish teachings are attempted to bo
practically enforced, by illegal violence or
outlawry.
nin. Tallaadlgham o Maniac!
The reader’s attention is called to the ar
ticle below from the Syracuse Union, on the
subject of Mrs. VALtANuiaHAii’s insanity,
caused by the late outrage upon her husband.
Her affliction will, doubtless, proxe a source
(•f delight to the malignant and embittered
souls of tho wretches who now pass for pa
triots and philanthropists, but it will bring
poignant sorrow to tbe heart of every true
man and Woman in the land. Tho article
from tho Syracuse paper,.speaks-; our senti
ments so-well that wo need not comment
further upon , this Sad subject. At last ac
counts Mrs. VAi.r.AN’mGHAU had been removed
to an Insane Asylum. Glorious victory for
the administration and tho Butcher of Fred
rioksburg?:— VaMjAndioiiam exiled from the
country, and his wife sent, to an Insane
Asylum 1
' [From tho Syracuse (N. Y.) Union.]
A Maniac Wife 1
These midnight arbitrary arrests have
other victims than the bold and manly hearts
at which they are aimed. When the sturdy
oak is stricken down, tho clinging vine, which'
lias twined itself around it and garlanded its
sore trunk and broad branching arms with
its graceful drapery of leaves or flowers,
falls with it or is torn from its hold upon the
genial soil, and perishes with its fall.
. In Dayton there was a gentle woman,
lovely in person, agreeable in manner, the
life of a circle of appreciating friends, edu
cated; and refined." She, with a woman’s
strength of instinct and affection, had twined
around one nianly soul, the-clinging tendrils
of woman’s best affections, and all the genial
hopes and blissful visions of woman’s dreams
of happiness and home. . At the dead hour
of midnight, when only thieves, burglars and
assassins stalk abroad, at 2 o’clock', in-tbe
morning, she was startled by unusual and
disturbing sounds, from sleep, perchance
from blissful visions, perchance froni dreams
of fearful potent for the loved one upon whose
strong arm and manly spirit she reposed as
the solo happiness of her present life, the
whole stay of her future years. Like the
startled fawn she. awoke. to fear, but alas:!
not like the startled fawn to run instinctively
from the sounds that menaced danger.—
Clinging to'Cie side of'him who was her
defender and her pride, site approached with,
him the.window of their chamber and saw a
sight of fear, The murky night, fitfullyand
dimly illumined by the pale light of the
silent stars, added to the scene a mysterious
dread. 'Armed men, with the deadly musket
and glittering bayonet, had surrounded the
house. They had come for her husband;
and he must accompany them. .She had,
heard him denounced as a traitor by the
lunatic and the fool ; and she had known of
the cold-blooded assassination in the same
city by a murderous fanatic of the bold and
ehivalrio.Bollmeyov, the editor of the Demo
cratic paper in the city of Dayton, the ill
fated city whore it Was her misfortune to
reside. Startled by the spectacle, she bogged
and entreated th.at he would not triist himself
with men whom she knew to be the tools of
power and feared might bo sooner or later
the assassins of innocence. “Do not. go to
them,” sho.begged, in piteous Accents, “ they
will murder you,!”.' Ascertaining that they
had no legal warrant for his arrest, ho refused
to accompany them. With repeated blows
that shook the house, one door, was broken in,
then another, and then another ; and the
armed men rushed into the chamber of the
noble man and devoted—alnsi tooloviug.and.
devoted wife'!
„ Reader, tbe tyrant had achieved his work
of despotic cruelty upon the innocent victim
of political malice. Vallandigbam was in
their hands. But the despotbud achieved
another and m.rtre terrible result for which
he bad not calculated. The angry tones, tliei
armed men, the glittering arms, ihe crashing
doors, the shadowy, spectral midnight, the
rush of eager and hostile footsteps, had ter
rified beyond the -power of woman’s endurance
the luving and devoted wife ; and. from that
hour, Mrs. Clement L. Vallandigbam, the
ormimont of every circle and the beloved of
every acquaintance, was a maniac I Her
reason reeled in that awful hour, tottered for
a brief moment upon her recent throne, and
gave way to lunacy!
. Day by day in that same chamber, hour by
hour, she wastes the cruel hours in wiping
away from those walls which seem to her
stained .all over with life’s blood, the
purple gore of li murdered husband. The
towel is ever in her weary hand, and ever
wearily she strives and strives; again and
again, to wipe away the damned spots that:
will not out; for alas ! they exist not upon
the stainless walls, but in the fevered and
frenzied brain of the poor unfortunate whom
cruel tyrants by a lawless midnightraid have
“ nk into the night and horrors of lunacy!
Reader—this is no picture of the imagina
tion. Wo give to you the touching tale as
wo have received it from trustworthy sources
and it needs no embelishmont. Abraham
Lincoln, Wade, & Co., and their supple mil
itary tools, by their midnight raid, have made
the gentle and gifted wife of A T allanfiigham
a maniac. And all the gentle card and kind
persuasions of family and friends avail not
to remove from the fevered brain the fearful
vision'of.a beloved husband's blood ; nor do
all the medicines and resources of attentive
physicians avail more.
Ah', tyrants'!'if ye .must play -upon your'
bold and chivalric opponents the tricks of
despotism hitherto unknown and unpractised
in this land -of liberty—if ye must state your
political malignity and law-defying spite,
upon MAN, can ye not at least’seize your
victim iii the face of day, and away from his
home, and spare at least for a time, the gen-,
tie and timidspirit of the devoted wife?
Martyred wife of a noble and heroic hus
band—for such ho must have been who could
have inspired suclrdevotion in the heart of
woman—martyred wife of freedom’s martyr,
long after the despots of to-day shall be re
membered only to be execrated, thy devofli n
to the husband of thy love, and thy cruel,
doom, shall bo the theme of the poet and the
burden of story, and they shall yet enshrine
thee, and ennoble the-sex of which thou hast
boon an honored member, in the heart, and
the reverent love of tiny country and of man-,
kind 1 i
Ah, little.recks sho now—she wholmdihe
deepest interest in his presence and his fame
little recks sho now, whether they send
him to the Tortugas or to the South, or again
restore him to that honor and Liberty which
he has never forfeited, and could not by any
act or deed of his ever stoop to forfeit. To
her, alas I lie is dead forever. But banish
him to hostile camps ; and, hostile camps could
not bo half so cruel to her or him as has been
the military tool of Abraham Lincoln, in tile
abhoreff person of the Butcher of Fredericks
burg ! ....
Such .are-ever the,fruits of arbitrary pow
er. It strikes at one victim, but, alas! it
wounds and lacerates and slays and tortures
many by one fell blow 1 .
God I are there any longer men in the land,
and can such things be ? " Are wo all become
weak, fainting women, that a wild storm of
manly wrath is .not everywhere aroused and
uttered in startling tones through the length
and breadth of the land, to drive the suppor
ters of these odious arrests from the sight and
the haunts of civilized man? Can eternal
Justice look calmly down upon such outrages
and hot bring down a terrible retribution up
on those who enact them, and those who be
come partioips criminis by approving the
crime ? While such things are tolerated look
ye forward to more bloody Frodericksburgs
and disastrous Chnnoellorsvillos 1 Thoro is
Divine justice though human justice fail.
And Vallandigbam must bo more than
mortal man, if the desperate agony inspired
by the unmerited fate of an innocent and
loving wife, do not impel him to seek some
direct atonement and revenge 1
Why VallandigliaDi was Arrested.
The Washington correspondent of the In
quirer, true to hie habit of falsification, al
leges that Mr. Vnllandighatn has made
“ many efforts to destroy the Union." The
truth.is, thorp is not a more devoted Union
man in the country than Mr.: Vallandigham
Ims ever been. It was because be opposed
the disunion policy of the Administration,
which is using the whole power of the .gov
ernment to destroy the Union, that ho was
arrested and imprisoned. The'men in power
are afraid of all consistent Unionists—they
are afraid of all true friends of the Consti
tution and the country. They are bent up
on the destruction of the Constitution, the
Union and the country, though loudly pro
fessing patriotism, and when they find a man
so capable and willing as Vallandigham, to
tear the mask from their hypocritical faces,
and eiposo them and, their designs in all
their naked ugliness to the public, they trem
ble for' their own safety and the success of
their infamous plans; and, to save them
selves, arrest and imprison him. Had Val
iant! iglmm made speeches in favor of disre
garding the Constitution, the rights of the
Slates and the rights of the people, and in
favor of establishing n centralized despotism
with a view to the perpetuation of Abolition
•rule, ho would have boon caressed by this
Administration, and applauded by its base
hierlings and parasites all over the North.—
We repeat, the Administration arrested.Val
landigham because they were afraid to have
the truth told to the people oj <J]iio. The cow
ards in office are trembling, like guilty cub
prHa in the prisoners’ box, whenever a breath
of truth is uttered in their case. They know
that they are betraying the people—destroy
ing the government and blighting the
hopes of centuries. They know that they
arc oppressing the white man for the sake of
the negro, and outraging every sentiment of
justice and decency to gratify the malignant
malice of New England Puritanism, against
all men, South or North, who oppose the
l igntry of that bigoted , section ; they know
they are trampling under their feet the most
sacred provisions of the Constitution, -mid
violating principles for the supremacy of
which.men have been struggling ; hnd breed
ing for hundreds of years ; they know that
they are robbing the. people and squander
ing their substance for the benefit of scoun
drels; they know that they are disgracing
and degrading the people of the North in the
eyes of the civilized world, and making
•America the jest and sport of. nations ; they
know that they are earning the enmity.of
our people and the contempt of Christendom,
and, knowing nil this, it is not wonderful
that they seek to silence all who would ex
pose their wicked course and arouse the coun
try to a due sense of its danger. They are
afraid of Hie people, and, therefore, afraid, of
a man like Vallandigham, whose character
and talents give him the power to awoken
the people.. They have been industriously
lying to the people for two years, and fear
exposure.' They desire uninterrupted sway,
until they can so arrange matters ns to in
sure’ their re-election to power. They are
afraid to let go the reins of power—they trem
ble at the, thought of abdicating the throne,
and they seem to have determined that no
man shall speak or write Whose words may
endanger their continuance in office. Mr.
Vallandigham is too honest a man, too true
a patriot and Unionist, to-be allowed to har
angue the people of the West; hence his ar
rest and imprisonment.— Phil. Evening-Jour
nal,
“ Another. Jackson Eajb." —The Wash
ington Eepublioan of Saturday says : This
afternoon a newsboy, in the absence of exci
ting nows wherewith tostimulate purchasers,
went through the street crying out V Nother
raid by Stonewall Jackson An excited
gentleman stopped liim with I ; , thought
Jnbksori was dead!" “ Well; so ho is, hut
his ghost is a matin’ this,’ere raid;"
[C7” The Troy Tunes cays 1 lint an ex-mem
ber of Congress in that vicinity has just sold
to the paper manufnctuers over a ton of doc
uments, to bo reconverted into paper.' They
brought to the ex-member §l2O.
K 7“ Messrs. Jay Cooke & Co, Bankers, are
about to build a commodious banking bouse
in Washington,.on 41 lot of ground adjoining
the Bank of Metropolis, for which they have
paid .$13,000: The building is to bo used
fov the. transaction of the war business, and
also to aeeomniodato the First National Bank
to bp established in Washington, under the
recent aet of Congress.
0“ Wra. B. Astor and John Robbins are
the two heaviest tax payors in Now York.—
The first pays a tax on one million a off a
half dollar’s worth of property, and'the Oth
er on one million. Mr. Robbins ownos no real
estate. lie onee owned a piece of ground in
the Bowery for one day.
Horrible.— A hungry pig entered the
house of a man named Magloire Girard,
at St. Antoine, Canada, and attacked an
infant which lay in a cradle, the rest of
the family being'temporarily-absent. The
pig actually devoured, one of the .child’s
cheeks, and lacerated its head and bbdy
so that it can hardly recover., «
Sy* Mrs. Dougins is again in mr,urning:fot'
her father. She is now loft alone to battle
with the world as best she can. " Her chil
dren’s Southern estate is now in the hands
of the rebels. One of her sons is upon Geh.
Burnside’s staff. Mrs; Douglas has busied
herself for the last tfwo years at the hospi
tals. There is not a woman in the country
who has been wore active in doing good than
she.
JEy” Governor Curtin, It is said, Ims offered
to raise .50,000 volunteers to man the fortifi
cations at Washington, and the proposition
is understood to have been accepted.
£7* Mr. Cox, of Onio, says bo “ can see no
difference between Republicanism that sus
tains emancipation proclamations, and the
real old, genuine, Congo Abolitionism. They
are links of the same sausage—made out of
the same dog.”
O' The Abolitionists who claim to pos
ses all the patriotism in the country, might
learn a useful lesson by reading the parable
of the Pharisee and the Publican.
o*PreDurations for the draft are being
made as rapidly as possible by the authori
ties at Washington.
O'.On the 17th inst., 1,220 foreign Immi
grants arrived at New York.
Generul Butler.
New York, May 23—A letter from Wash
ington to the Commercial .says Gen. Butler
lias not been ordered to that city, and promi
nent Senators have stated that all efforts to
secure a command for him have proved fu
tile.
It is equally improbable that there pan bo
any Cabinet change which will give him
a position, as the President has declined
to listen to the pressure for the removal of
either Stanton or Seward.
THE WAR NEWS.
Important News from ||, c
South-west!
.GLORIOUS NEWS!
VIGKSBURG OUR
Battles of Fort Gibson, Raymond, Jach„
Baker's Creek, Big Black Ridge, Vie;. 11 '
burg. tike. Desperate fighting by our hrat
troops, dee, ,
Washington, May 23,
Tlio following was received this luorniti'r at
the headquarters of the army : °
Memphis, May 21—11 a. m.— Major Beueni
Jlalleck, General-in-Chief: A eitincn Im^ar
rived at Lagrange, who,left Canton on Satur
day morning, who reports that Johnson wj.
at Calhoun, seventeen' miles north of
son,'with.o,ooo men, endeavoring fo effuut a
junction with Pemberton at Edward’s Sta.
tion. At Holly Springs he saw a despatch
from Canton, dated 10th Inst.’, as.follows;
*• Gen. Grant was reinforced and drove the
enemy into the intrenehinents on (lie B;;,
Black. Johnson has ordered all the prm>
sions from Canton. The Pearl Rivet bridge,
at Jackson, and the trestle-work, at Uranian’
wore destroyed.” . ■ . •
L, A. ITdrl/BUrt, Maj. Hen.
Canto, May 23.—The reports from (loner,
al Grant’s army tiro important, anil
they are believed to be.reliable. It l seems
.that after-accomplishingft 11 .that waa desired
at Jackson, Gen. Grant marched towards the
Blank River bridge, burning all the' bridges
behind him, doubtless with the intention nt
preventing an attack.in the rear. At tin
Black River bridge a heavy battle was fmighl,
and it is reported that wp captured twenty
seven guns, a largo, number of prisoners, att'j,
that the rebels were being driven back In-'-
wards Vicksburg. If the rebels don’t escape
up, the Yazoo river most of them must he
captured;
Washington, Maj' 23.—The following dis
patch was; received by tlw President to
day : •
Memphis, Torin., May 23 —Colonel Anson
Stager, Washington, U: C, .'—Official inhu
mation from below, to- Wednesday bus l;ccn
received. General Grant bus captured Ilninc's
Bluff and.Uie entire .works of Vicksburg, a
large number of prisoners and . fifty-seven
pieces of artillery. The battle is till raging,
with every prospect of'capturing tlie entire
force ill Vicksburg.-. We bold Jackson, Blnok
River bridge and Ilninc’s Bluff. - A report is
being made up'for Washington.
W. G. Ft-uiiM,
Assistant Manager of the ..Telegraph,
Washington, May 23—11 p. ra.—The bil
lowing dispatch has just been received ut the
War Department :
. Memphis, May 23.- I forward the follow
ing, which has just been.received frpnrGolo
ncl John 11. Rawlins, A, A. 6., dated in tho
roar of Vicksburg on the 20tb :
“The Ariny of Tennessee landed! at Bom
lensburg on the 30tb of April. On the Ist of
May they .fought the battle, of Port Gibson,
and defeated the .rebels, under Bowen, whoso
lose, in killed, wounded and prisoners, was
•nt least fifteen lumdicii, and itr artl}'
levy of five' pieces. On the'lfth of May,
at the battle of Raymond, the rebels were de
feated, with; a doss of eight hundred. On the
14th we defeated General Joseph johiisoa
and captured Jackson,, with a loss to the one
niy of four hundred, besides immense stores,
and manufactures, and seventeen pieces of
artillery. On the 10th we fought the bloody
and decisive; battle of Baker’s creek, in which
the entire Vicksburg force under Pemberton
was defeated, with a loss of twenty-nine
pieces .of. artillery and. four thousand men.
Oh the 17th wo defeated the same fuico
at Big Black bridge, with a loss of twenty
six'hundred men and. seventeen, pieces of
ar.iUery. On the 18th we invtu'cd .Vicks
lung closely. To-day General Steele cur
ried the rillc pits on the north of tho cby.
Tho right of tho army res.ted uii'the Mississippi
above Vicksburg.
, [Jno. A. llaivu.vs.”
I loam further that tho i ear, from 15,000
to 20,000 men are in Vicksburg, that Pem
berton lost nearly nil his field artillery; ami
that the cannonading at Vicksburg ceased
about throe o’clock p. mi of tho 20; General
Grant has probably captured nearly nil.of the
enemy.; . ' ‘
AVasiunoton, May 24. —The Navy Depart
ment has information that Admiral Porter
has been co-operating with General Grant m
the siege of Vicksburg.. His.fleet cannonad
ing tho city and itsworks still in the hands
of the rebels by night, while Grant’s aj-mY
assailed it. by day, thus giving tho rebels
within the town nnd.entrenohments not a. mo
ment relaxation from tho perils of their situa
tion. The same. also received
official information that Admiral Farragut s
fleet is actively bombarding Port Hudson.
Fortress Monroe, May 24.— The Rich
mond Dispatch, of the 23d contains the fol
lowing dispatollt: '
Mom,iE,-May 21.; —In Saturday’s fight wo
lost thirty pieces of artillery, which were
spiked and abandoned. On Sunday the icu
erals advanced to take tho Big Black bridge,
but were repulsed. They crossed higher up
and .tooku sin the rear, when the bridge was
burned nad the works abandoned. The loss
is heavy. Vicksburg is. closely besieged, tho
enemy closing in on every side. .
Victory! Victory!! Victory!!!
Vicksburg is Ours.
AVasujngjon, May 24.
At 11 o’clock a. m. to-day the President
received the following telegraph announce
ment that Vicksburg is ours :
“Clenvoland, Ohio, May 24.—A dispatch
from Mr. Pallor, the telegraph manager at
Memphis, late in last night, said the stars
and stripes now float over Vicksburg and the
victory is complete. I have bold this message,
hoping to get the confirmation, but the line
has been interrupted, and I now give it
to you ns it readied me. I think the wire
wifi be nil right soon.” . ,
New York, May ffcraM's special
Washington dispatch say that advices hn
been received by the President from Genera
Grant, detailing bis proceedings to the ~ v ■'
Ho had -fought five days, and captured
guns and 9,400 prisoners.
I'lie Richmond Enquirer of the 20tli say 8 >
in relation to Vicksburg If so.no happy
combination bo nut made botwoen too to
under Pemberton and Johnson, the noioio
city must fall.'*
OFFICIAL DESPATCHES ' FROM
miral PORTER.
AVABniNO,ton, 'May 23.
The Navy Department has received the
following from the Mississippi squadron :
Flag Snip Gem. PmcK. I
Grand Gulp, Misa., May id. J
Sir :—I bqd tbo honor to inform you, from
Alexandria, of tbo capture of that place an I
the forts defending the approaches to tu