VOL. 50. AMERICAN VOLUNTEER PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING BY SJOIIM B, BKATTOS . . . . A’ E 11 A S': ; •Sdßsbntmosf.— Two D'.llftrs if.ji/iid wUlnnVfip ; f jar j and 'Xwo Dollars and Eifty Cool's, if not paid MOun tho year. These terms will lie rigidly. ad hered to in every instance. N"o suljso’ript’io n dis j3ontinuod until all arrearages are paid unless at tCo option of: the Editor. • by the cash, and tiofc bßeecding.oWo will lie 1 inserted three Aimes’forOno l)‘6lTaIt> 1 t> arid iwohly-fiVc cents for each -additional insertion...-Those of a greater length in .proportion. , Jon-tmNTiNQr-Such as Hand-bills, Posting-bills; Pamphlets, Blanks, Labels, <fcc. &c., executed with ~oouraoy and dfc tho shortest notice. ■PLAIN FACTS ABOUT THE “ SOLDIER’S ' FRIEND.” . The. Pittsburg. .'the leading tlepuii lican organ; West ,'of the . .Alleghenies, in its ipstfo qfui'o 20 th of July, yyarisyery severe on Andy Curtin arid his sboddjr contracts, Which inflicted' such great injury upon the soldier, rihd .who were victimised by his unskillful and fniudulent dgonts: ; Goy. Curtin was en trusted with tlio privilege;of'expending the first appropriation made, by, the Legislature for the purpose of equipping those who re sponded to the first call of their 'country.— Among the numerous charges made by the CatcWe is the following : “ Those brave young men who have respon ded so generously to the first call of their Country were in rags, with shoddy-vestments, shoes whoso soles were stuffed with shavings, and blankets almost as thin land, transparent as a-window pane.” ,C This charge is literally true. The Legis lature, at its qpeoial session, mUde ample pro vision for clothing the soldiers of Pennsylva nia comfortably and creditably. But’Gov. Curtin, through his agents, squandered the dp pro print ion, ilnd clothed the Volunteers in the most wretched; yestmdnts'. Take the. Third PorinsylvAnih roginient, composed of the hardy nliners, colliers, fur nace and rolling mill and railroad then, of Blair and Cambria counties, as an' example. It was uniformed at York, Ta.aboiit the middle of May. and in less than six .weeks from Unit time the.rogimont was in ragsl— Won appeared -on dress, parade in their draw ers. and so disgraceful was’ the spectacle that" Col. P. P. Minior ordered them to;their quar ters. Some were shoeless, and were competed to perform duty barefooted; others were hat- I'oas, -and everywhere throughout the three months’ cartinaign they were the subject of Hdieuld, ft rid known as the “ ragged Third 1” When they returned to Harrisburg, thuy met with anything but a cordial reee|” lion, for their appearance was not in the least prepossessing. '.-Their, garments were scarcely any bettor than the most ragged and flijajndated wom.by .rebel Wlui Ui.vo Lo«r»-brii[.sporti‘J' th'ririiugliv ■ lllrhi; Many of . these men .‘sought, their llohies under the shadow of night to hide their- nakedness, and escape the jeers: and ridicule of their, fellow-citizens. This is no over-drawn picture, hut the plain, unvarnished truth, and can be verified by scores of men: who were in the three months’ service from Blair county. Yet An-, tlrbw O. Curtin is held up to the people rta tho "soldier's friend,” while the fact, jli-uye that lie and his confederates squandered the lyoney appropriated by tli'o State for tlio ben efit of her soldiers, robbed .them of its intend ed benefits, and enriched himself and his agents with' whilt IViiS duly provided fiif the soldier’s comfort iind health.— Mol. Standard. £555“ “Governor Curtin, thosuldicr's.frieod;; the saver of the-Union, and .the ohuiue of.the. Jl'onpl a,"—Lancaster Inquirer. : ' ■ The “ soldier’s friend" is the man who was chiefly instrumental in clothing the soldiers from Rumisylvonia with shoddy. It is,rath er early to call any m tn“ the saviour of the Union.” It would ho safer to speak of tl.ur tiu as one of the men who have helped.to destroy tlie Union. Whether or not tie is the tiliuicb of thh peuplß -will ho better known, after Tuesday next. If the people tire about to choose a tit man for private lipj; Curtin may ho sot down ns their choice: Ho will ho elected to that position by tt fofv litrgo imijority; " . 0”Tlio Hon. John P. Hale, of New Ilamp shire, said in the Senate of the United States I ‘‘l declare upon my responsibility, as a senator, that the laws of this country are in greater danger to day from the* corruptions and from the profligacy practiced iu tho vnr- Jblia departments of the Ooyernnib'nt, fhpn they are from the enemy of the open field- W, This is good Republican authority “for the! profligacy practiced in the various Depart ments of the Government:’’ JBSy Let the soldiers who may bo at horde on the day of the election, remember that Andrew G. Curtin, the shoddy candidate for Governor, was id tile' Conspiracy against Oon. McClellan, and that it was his iiiflu fcnoo ns much as any other causis that in duced the President to remove McClellan from the coninfand of the army. McClell an is the “ soldiers friend,” and the soldiers are his friends, and they owe it to themselves to strike down tho enemies of their heroic commander. -- CT’Tho Now York World estimates that Mr. “Government” Lincoln is now paying dbout one hundred thousand dollars a day to Republican officers of the army, Who are ori the stump making Abolition speeches. Ibis money comes out, of the tax payers pockets. Was it arty wonder that Rosb crans mot with a disastrous repulse in the battle of Chiekamauge? Yuliy one third of his_ officers and thousands of his men were in Ohio and Indiana, talking politics 1 dan the people put up with such sooundrelism much longer?. . . BZTMeff Davis has turned Abolitionist—so days , the Solinsgrovo Post ; however the change is so slight that it is of little con sequence, it being simply a jump from one of disunionism to the other. Wo have always contended that the Abolition was a disunion party, and no\f when it is joined by the chief of diaunionists, no one can deny it. ‘‘With ainy man of ability, clear record, jyid above all, honesty, the triumph of the ““fdj is secure; TljE NOMINATION TA WILL ITIO TANTAMOUNT TO THE PARTY, and for this suit the Union men should hold tho Con 6awe , pollsonall y responsib W’—Plttshttrg olinh!.?! 10 - A -boli.tionists ox poct to carry tho cuiou by unfair moaua. It EM AUKS OF James P. Sliunk, Esq., of York> At the Mvns/cr MaSs Meeting in Independence Square, Philadelphia. Sir. Shunk said’that it was eminently pro per that the Democracy of. Pennsylvania ahoVild nskeiYiblo at this time and on this spot. The tiii'ie \Vas'the anniversary of the, adop tion of the Constitutied of'the United States; the spot was the birthplace of that great law. Here, if anywhere, in these diiya of disaster and oppression, vVlien the charter of our lib erties hits been supplanted by a “ higher law” interpreted and discerned bv Abolition sneers —when the more will of the President Avails to strip the citizen of the securities for which his fathers paid the best blood of the world here is the place, this is the day in which to assert once more the ancient liberties of this Republic. The Democratic party have always been the party of the Constitution and the Union.' They have held fast'to them in season and out of season—in time of war as well as in time' of peace. Through ill 'the long period in Miqh they hold control of'this Government, and were the masters of its power and patronage, the rights of nq State were invaded—the liberty of no citizen was abridged—the press and the rostrum wore free—the forts which frown along our coast were a terror to every foreign foe, but not prisons for the free born citizens of our own land. In those days of peace and prosperity the people wore taught by our leaders that Ibis Government was founded dpon 'ounces sioi and compromise—that by the matchless nVisdom of the great men wild framed oiir ’Constitution, separate Paid sovereign politi cal commiiniti’es; scattered oVet half a conti nent, differing not more widely in clirmUo than in institutions, laws idd.. habits of thought—were united under oho Government —a Government holding only a few great powers, and having relation to only a few great powers, and having relation to only a few large objects—but strong enough" to! maintain our honor and dignity abroad and peace at homo—potent to assert the rights of all these States, ■■ withput infringing upon the liberties of any of them. As long as the teachings of our statesmen were respected, as long as the compacts of the Constitution were honored, as lung as State kept faith with State, wo continued to grow great, and three years ago w<3 sfddd, if not foremost, side by side with .the great powers of the ttroWdv Wo now have been taught by the 6 oldest experience through which any na tion ever passed, the wisdom of tnac policy which kept us together so long. The lessons which id our madness, we refused to l isten to from the tongues'of grave and'reverend statesmen, we read now in letters of blood.— They are burned into our souls by tho fire of gunpowder, sounded in our. ears by the roar ol artillery, V/o feol now .what we scorned to fear. The industry of the land, instead of being employed in the oultivlltion of tho soil and in those peaceful arts Which contributed to.tlfO wcnltU anjl^ooinfosLof-tlitt .!« iidw- divertad 'fs ■fljb 'riilVnufiioffiro'bf tools for —to the forging of bayonets add the moulding of guns—to tho invention, of new and Satanic methods by which brother may shed brother’s''blood. ' The fields which in Democratic iiilys wore mellow with har vests are, in this Abolition millcnium, red and soaked with the blood of the reapers.— flic Policy of our. party, saved the. Union while.it lasted—that policy only can restore it: We were called “ Union, iavm,” and sneered at by the wretches who hold power, bee use wo sought to maintain the integrity of the Lopuhlie. We.are called " Copper heads” and “ traitors" j$ till;, sitme people po\v, because we are bending our might to restore it. Mr. Shunk then adverted to the base slilri ■ ;dcrs of the Abolitionists ooncerning the ehar . actor and opinions of. Judge Woodward:— “They' tell us” said ho “that he is a seces sionist—that in ease of his election he ySill carry Ponnsylvilnja into the Smltliofn Cori ■federacy.’’ Fellow citizens, the man who mikes this assertion is cither a consume to knave Or an incorrigible ass—he is moreover, a ,traitor, giving, to the enemy the very'aid and comfort which ho wants; If Judge . Woodward, a son of Pennsylvania—born up on inir soil; dnd habituated to its honors— tho chosen, chief of a great party—without an aero of land, or a drop of kindred blood within the whole nrpa of the South—is bo'itt upon allying this Commonwealth with tho Southern Confoderoy, and the leaders of the rebellion can ho made to believe it, wall it not put fresh strength into their armies? Will it not nerve them for a longer struggle and for battles more desperate than any which they have yet fought? They believe no such thing they know hotter. Rot this is nottho fault of tho Abolitionists. - ’l’hey have steadily represented since the beginning of this war that the Democratic party was in alliance with the rebel States. They have reiterated this miserable slander ill thti face of th'd fact that a majority ot our armies are Etaniocnits —tliitt tile' greatest General this war has p'r’o-, ducod—tho idol of the' people—the best be loved of the soldier—the hero of Antiotani, and, the saviour of the capital—George R. McClellan is a Democrat.- Prom such hardy falsifiers, it would ho too much to ask justice for Woodward., Fellow-citizens, while there is no danger that Judge Woodward contem plates any such folly as his slanderers impute todum, there really is groat danger that un ,dor-the...management of Governor Cdrtiri, the linos of Jeff Davis vrill be extended oyer our borders. Twice bn.vo rebel armies entered pur.State. Tho first time Curtin politely al lowed them to leave unmolested, '.the second time ho spent the precious hours which shoiiltl have been given to preparations for defence pleading with tho powers at Washington for leave to call out his own mi litia; Meantime,;■ by tho blessing of God; there wore two Governors, belonging to th'd despised and disloyal “Copperheads,” who knew their rights—exercised them without on their kndos to Mr. Stanton for per mission to actp~and sent the cohorts of Dem ocratic New York and Now Jersey to 1 defend of. Pennsylvania, while our own im 1 - becilo rind “loyal” Executive was trembling hiS ntarcow-fjones before the throne at .Washington. ; You could except nothing bet ter from him. .The man who has suffered free citizens of Pennsylvania to bp kidnap ped by tho Federal, Government and carried out of this Commonwealth is not tho person to keep rebels from coming into it. A! now day will dawn on u'a when WoodwaVd takes his scat. lie helped to make our free Con stitution—-for many years ho has righteously expounded our laws’. Ho will take to bd our Governor tlVatf that Ooti slitntion and those laws shall be respected by' ruffians high and low~i/i office as well as out of office—by poopTb in Washington as well as i by people everywhere else. No deputy kid napper, armed with a dispatch from tho War i Department—no rebel general, armed with i instructions from Jeff. Davis, will then dare 1 ,to cross our borders, or pollute with lus trend < tho sanctity of our homos. Should .invasion threaten our homes, our militia, instead of being palsied, as they ■wore under Curtin hy. contradictory orders, or dragged away as a body .guard for tho trembling imbeciles at Washington, will look to their lawful and chosen chief for tho word of command,, And march with cheerful hearts and a united fVont to hurl back the invader. Mr. Shtmk then expressed the most perfect confidence in our success—a confidence found ed on letters and conversations with promi nent men in communication with tho Central Committee, from every section of the State. Ho believed that every vote cast for the par ty at tho coming election was a vote for the return of peace and the re-enlistment of the Union under the Constitution, and of liberty witliiti tlVabounds of law*. '■Picayune Duller’' The New York World thus speaks of this shameless umn : . General Bon. Butler, (who imule -a million °f dolhtrs in Now Orleans) is stririiping Penn sylvania in support of the administration which never .compelled him to disgorge his plrindcr. Of course ho is a very loyal man, and ho regards all who look with apprehen sion on a war conducted for tho honolit of men, like himself as disloyal. Secretary Seward, in a formal diplomatic .dispatch da ted November 10 last, wrote Minister .Adams that the administration must not be con founded with the government, and that a cit izen mdy oppose tho one without thought of disloyalty. to the other ; hut General Butler,, (whom tho administration allowed to take a million of dollars at New Orleans) is of a different opinion. lie holds “ that you can not divorce the administration from the gov ernment, as it is the only r'epr'esohfative it has grit ‘And all who do not .believe in Mr. Lincoln or in the propriety of Butler ma king a million of dollars (which he did at New Orleans) are traitors., General Butler, of coarse, is foi the war (ho hds already Made'a million of dollars by itjand doii’t believe in a. restoration of tho good old Union. • It is true ho never, won a battle, while ho lost twh—one at Big Bethel and the other at Lowell—the last with a stone unison ; but,-notwithstanding these dis asters, his voice is still.for war, and—another trillion of dollars. The people of- Pennsyl vania. can judge how disinterested’ is the ad vice of this millionaire stumper.. Ills loyal ty,his dislike of “ Copperheads,” his detes tation of the old Union, and liis clamor for a war.of subjugation, all mean—another mill ion of dollars. Shall (he Soldiers Vole ami UoiV ? The Abolitionists profess to-be''in favor of letting thb soldiers’ vote. ■ But they hive proved b]r their practice that they are not willing; the soldiers shall vote unless they will vote so as to please the Abolitionists.— It is notorious that in tlio recent elections in Itiiodo Island’and Connecticut, only those t trunpa ..i B ihouve'vUiusc^ptiftr tlos.wm'e known to’bo favorably to tlio Ad ministration, while all tho honest Democrats in the same regiments' were denied the priv ilege. They .were refused , furloughs and kept from the pulls, v On one occasion, Lieut. Bdgorly,- a m ist worthy and liht'vo otlioor, was actually dismissed the-service 'without trial; because,' being (It his ilonle in Now Hampsliire on the day of ail hloctiofi; lie til ted, ns ho always had done before he entered the army, the Democratic ticket-. And this is precisely, what Governor Crrtin ami his party in this Statu mean; wlihii they insist oil the right of the Pennsylvania soldiers to .vote. The brave defenders ■of tlio country tire to liitve thb tight to vote for Abolitionists, but not for Democrats. Socli suffrage is nut free—it is nut .suffrage at all—it is a mere privilege to oast jLballot at tho dictation of a despot, and tliat-is not the franclii.se of an American freeman ! It is not, such.a fran cliisfe iis tiny •man of spirit, and proud and trite soldier, would exorcise. The right to vote iiftplies a right to, choose—a rightof the voter-t'o decide tin-whom lie will vote, and then to vote according to that decision. Bat the soldiers in our army, are denied thatdih erty, as we have .shown, and if they were only true to themselves, they would insist that the right oi free suffrage should lie al lowed to ail of them alike, irrespective of their different political opinions, of, hey Would' all alike reject it., Tlio unjust discrimina tion which-the Washington Administration has exercised in this matter, has already caused a bad feeling in thearmv, and per sistence in it will certainly produce a Mel ons and wide-spread ’ discord and disaffection among the troops, which may ultimately cul minate in a disastrous tumult. Wo hope that ail tlio Pennsylvania soldiers will he al lotted to conic horiio to vote in October, and. to vote, as every freeman should vote, with-’ out restraint or coencioni Bat wo no'w pre dict, cither'that none will be allowed to re turn, except such ns will first engage to vote for Curtin, Agnow, ami the w'liolo Abolition, ticket, or that if all are sent into'the State, measures will ho taken, to interfere with the freedom ol their balloting. Poor FeijOow.-'-Iu his special message de clining a renomination for the Gubernatorial Chair‘Governor Curtin’ declared that: “Tho labors which I have necessarily undergone have already impaired irfy health. I should have serious cause to apprehend that a much longer continuance of them might so break it down ns .to render mo unable.to' fulfill .the duties of my position;” Now tho Governor should not bo permitted to go 1 on at this reck less rate; Tho State has no fight to claim rtny man’s services at such a price its this; and if tho Governor’s friends have no regard for his health, the people should have, and see to it that ho is not burdened with the crushing duties of the , Executive chair for rtnothcV three years. Governor Curtin must not bo permitted to destroy himself on his reckless patriotism; and a merciful people should allow him to retire to tho .peiVccf'ul shades of private life a'nd place tho Executive office upon a pair of good broad shoulders stfoh a's Judge Woodward carries about with him. The Prospect. —Lot us take courage. Dem ocrats ! Never were there surer indications of a complete and glorious victory than there now are ! From every fow'nship and county in the State, wo hoar ot honest, reflecting, patriotic moil, leaving the counsels, of the fanatics and despots who arc “moving earth, air and' heaven” to revolutionize our form of fnid government, l and coming into tho ranks 61 the Democracy—men who have hitherto opposed tho Democratid pr.Vty, hi)t Who,are now’ disgusted with the violated . promises, tho frightful usurpations and tho ruinous tendencies of Abolitiqnism, Lot them come' and welcome. They will swell tho hosts of Conservatism, until “more terrible than an army with banners,” wo will march on “eon quoringand to conquer” and rescue a violated Constitution and an impel Hied aud Weedin'- country trom the jaws of death! ‘ ‘.‘ODR COUNTRY—MAY IT ALWAYS BE RIGHT-BUT RIGHT OR,WRONG OUR COUNTRY.” CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, ISOS’. When Governor Corf in sent for Major i, Gen'ot'al Benjamin t. Butler to canvass tlio Stiit’o of Pennsylvania 1 in his behalf, he se lected n spokesman einotly after his own ; heart. So vile and corrupt was Butler proven to bo by his own'friends, that the Adminis , trntion was compelled ,to recall him in dis grace from New 'Orleans; and the Cabinet at Washington, havingiin its possession'the most positive and startling evidence of his unparalleled fraud and corruption, exiled him to Lowolj, whore he remained in retire ment until Andrew G.-Curtin , rescued, him from obscurity to bear his standard in Ponn sylVanfA;. ft 'Seems almost incredible that such a creature should he chosen by any one to speak to honest men j‘, and yet Mr. Wayne McTeagh, tlio chairman of the Curtin State Committee, made tljo pntraneo of this dis graced official into PenpsylVanid the subject of a special address to jhe supporters of the, shoddy candidate. Haying in our possession,. a loaf from the report of the lion. MrMVashlnirno, of Illi nois, on “ Government Cmitracts," made du ring the second session of the Thirty-seventh Congress, we present It to our readers, to show what testimony ithoro is on record against the honesty of Governor Curtin’s Massachusetts friends. ;.The, record roads in this wise: . . “ St. Nicholas 1I6&1, New York, 1 March 0, 1802. f - J. F. Whipple sworn :■ tj. titate your residence. A. No. 120 Fast Twenty-first street. Q. Where is your plirce of business? , A. 37 Broadway. , (i. Whitt kind of business ? A. lint business. . , Q. Have you.had any negotiations with ilny officers of the Government in reference to clips.? V .• A. I have, had negoti'hli'.'ils with General ’ Butler and ins QnartermasteK Contain Paul It. George'. , Q. . Wheti did you have tliis negotiation? .A. . About-the s.th of C'etober.—[lBo,l.] .. Q. ■ State all the circumstances, giving a narration of evorythlng,:tlmt transpired be tween you and either or both oftheiii ? A. ■At the- breaking but of the war I in vented an improved, military cap, and sent one to General Butler, whirwai then at For tieas Monroe ; and he trufu.lt and was pleased with it, as lie expressed to a friend of mine who gaye me the information. And at the time he came.from Hatkuas to Washington . I was at ‘Washington and mot him at iho ■ National Hotel; spoke to liilii about wbiit bo bad been through, anil..-called attention to ' that cap, and told him (Fwas inventor of it; . and.he. told me that he wanted a large quan- . tity ot them—about six thousand; and that he.had a quartermaster at Lowell that he had great confidence in ; and ho wanted mo. week,-aixd. there they. xV.j'ul’.Uinvc me a coh- I tinier#ino'atli oTOct'iP* b&‘ —tliafe was wjis .sitting in •vxeficral Uutler'woffice i|» %\ uvoll, waiting /or 'uni; ami there I .saw i'.uU 11. George, qmir- 1 ilitretli; \Vlioni I afterward learned to be isiuir A Uildret.it, General Butler's brother ii-law and I showed, the samples to them bat 1 took wit'l mc; 7 and the cj nartermaster ikb.l them; and then thisJMr. Hildreth took io into a batik ufllco and wanted to know the prices of these goods, and what discount we yjave, .and if an order could be got for a quan tity of tliiirii;. if I would make any deduction in price for cash in band. I told him I came there to negotiate with General Butler, and did not know anything about any other per son in ibis matter. . • ■ . Q. What did you tell him about the price? A. I told him the price would ho $l5 a dozen, o.per cent, off cash in hand. In the evening I met Oen. Butler and several mem bers of his staff - and friends that happened in his office, and told hint 1 had come on at his request, and showed hii'n my samples; arid then the price was asked, and I told him the same. , lie demurred-at the price, and said ho could buy a good wool hat for fifty cents, and pillled olft ii Ifill from Bent & Bush, cor ner of Coilrt find Washington streets, Boston, where he had bought hats for fffty cents apiece, and mentioned that he hdd bought those for his soldiers, and they wefts now wearing them at the barracks. I saw the bill and noticed it, because they are parties' I sell goods to. and know thorn. I asked him if he wrts going to give his soldiers Such hats as those, lie showed nic the halt, a bliiok wool hitt. - The thing was then dismissed.- He told me he would see me on Monday in Boston. In the meantime, during my, wait ing in Lowell for General Butler, I made the acquaintance of Mr. Cushing, of the firm of Cushing & Miick, tin workers and stove deal- ers. Mr. Cushing heard the conversation passing between go arid Captain George; and. alter Captain George’ left the rooin he askfed mfc whore I was from ; I fold him, fiad what my business was; and ho said to me: ‘ Now, 1 want to tell you how you have got to do this thing. You come from Now York and da not know thoiri op bore. I aril 1 ma king stoves and camp kettles, and stove pipes and tanks, and all tlioir tin and iron ware that is wanted for this brigade. * And, said ho, ‘ The ijuartonnastor, George, detides upon what ho wants, conies to m.y simp and selects what ho wauls; thou J arrange the price with Mr. Hildreth, Ooucral Butler’s brother inlaw. Then I make out my hill to Hil dreth ; Hildreth takes the goods and charges them' to* the Oovdrnirion't at Whatever price ho has a mind to.’ Another thing, I hoard George giro Cushing instructions how .to make various articles at that time; and Mr. Cushing took mo around,to bis.establishment iff LOwell, and showed mo the articles ho was nicking for Butler's brigade, and the amount of tin and iron ware he had in vari ous stages of making. On Monday f wont to Boston and wont to Jlutler’s oflioo, and there I mot several of his staff officers, .one of vfhofff was ffis Adjutant; George C. Strong; and Colonel George Shopley, of Portland, and Captain Paul R. George, and one other person whoso name I do not remember, witli General Butler. Then I showed them my sa'mplAs, ah'd they looked at the various sam- Slos and decided upon one stylo. Then Gen. utlor took this sample in his hand and came up to mo and asked me the price. I told him SIS per dozen, 5 per cent, off for cash in' hand. Thou General Butler said, ‘ Now the question is this, and wo might as well talk it right out. Can you let us have six thousand at your price, giving my quar termaster 10 per cent, to divide I think those are the exact words. I put them down nt the time' when they were fresh in mV memory, and gave them to Quartermaster Vinton, of this city, who gave them to Gen. Meigs, Quartermaster General. I thou told General Butler that he had mistaken his man, and turned nruund'and gathered up my sam ples and put them in my box, and told him at Urn same lime thatl had been able' to keep From'tlib. Ago. THE TWO PBIENDS. to, emlio to liowell bn SiitifrdiVt' of the siinio nilaster, and limnnhytho name of*M the mill going without resorting to anything of that kind, and when it could not bo done without it, it would bo stopped. Upon that, bis Adjutant, Strong) stopped up to General Butler and says: ‘ I have known this gontlo- since I was a boy, lie used to .bo my Sabliatu so'h'po), te?o|iyr,„ and if he is the man now that ho used to be, you have cer tainly mistaken your man, And further more, let mo say to you, if there’s any cor ruption hero 1 am counted, out.' ito then took his cap, put it on his head, and left the room. Then General Butler stopped up to mo and Baid i ,‘ \vait | a moment ;’ and ho took his quartermaster, Captain Paul R. George, and went into another room ; they were gone jihout three minutes. During this time Col, Shepley said he liked those goods, and was hound to have &is regiment have them if none of the others had them. lie took the sample t had, and my address. Then Captain PnuJ 11. George came to mo from this little .room and took my address, and said lie would call upon me'atmy place of husinessin New York and settle this matter. I packed up my. samples, and after I had lelt the room,.lmet this Major Strong, and he said to', mo * Friend Whipple, I am sick, I suppose that there is hut very little .’corruption; in the general army; and 1 suppose there is some in the volunteer service, hut I never dreamt of any; thing of .this kind before, and it makes mo sick.'"'. All these facts, published long ago, were fully known hy Governor Curtin, and yet, in the face of this damning record, he invited his friend Butler to visit Pennsylvania arid stump the State in his favor. But they are fit associates and coin pan ions. They should appear side hy side before the outraged arid insulted freemen, of Pennsylvania. It will he long before the public will look upon their like again.' By all means, then, let the two friends exhibit themselves, together, espe cially between, this time ami the second Tuesday of this riidhtli; for after that day llaniun and Pythias will no longer he visible —the one will he socking oblivion amid the retired shades of Lowell, and the other jprc; paring.lo ‘ harden the Uronzo upon Ills check under the hot sun of Spain.’ HIT” If you -want ‘ negro equality’ vote foi Curtin. If yon wdrit lilud times to continue, Vote'foi- U'urtim - , JIT” if you want the country to go to the devil, vote for Curtin. JKS“ If you want to defeat a pure, upright ami honest man, vote for Ourtin, C 7” If you want to crush out all hope el ending this war, vote for Curtin; : O” If you want to elect a sycophantic and .unprincipled deningogue, vote for Curtin. U@”' If you want to elect the real ‘ soldier’s friend;’vdto for Woftijward. 0“ It you revere the Constitution of our fathers, vote for Woodward. [Cr’lf you want to. give a death-blow to ahoUtion-niggerlsivl, vote for Woodward. ,1 [CP - If you want the Union restored as our »&LtVv4Vi!«. tua<l rt. ltv.xali> fan C£&y It' yon have any regard for,’die-wel fare of yoiu* posterity, vote for Woodward.' you want peace, plenty ami pros-, pority to x*eign iu the land, vote for Wood ward. BZf W you want to elect the purest man since the days of' Frank Shank, vote fur Woodwrird;, _ , JET”. It'you want to kindle a hope in the hearts of. the people that the country may yet hfc saved, vote for Woodward. Us 3 If you luve God and your country, vote for Wood ware. : CT”Mr. Horace Greeley contributes an es say on Wendell Phillips to the Independent, in which occurs the following singular pas sage ; 1 ' “Mr, Phillips over-estimates the impor tance of the part played by himself and his little band in the great drama now approach-, ing its o msummation; These sworn foe’s of phnriscoisni have a most pharisaic conceit of their own work and its consequences ; which misleads and unduly inflates (herii. ; They assail or else condescendingly patronize men who have been Its fditUfUi tu I lio’if light and as useful iii their sphere ns, themselves.— This conceit often distorts and exhibits them to disaclviintago. ‘Hitch your wagon to a star’ is wholesome advice ; but if you should happen to got the notion into your head that you are drawing the star* instead of being drawn t'y it you will probably be led into mischievous phantasies and pernicious eccen tricities.” Every word of this is as true of Greeley himself ns is of Phillips. The ‘ mischievous phantasies’ rind ‘ pernicious eccentricities’ for which ho is noted spring from' the same narrow egotism of which he complains in his associate agitator. If he and the fanatical party ho acts with could only realize that men who differ from them in tolo may bo as honest arid as ‘faithful to their light’ and ‘ useful in tlieir spheres’ as thoriiselves, it would bo the beginning of a nevv era of good feeling in this corin'try. Hut so long as we have a party in the country that believes its creed cm braces till the truth; arid insists ripon forcing Its notions upon all other parties, so long will the fountains of bitterness continue to flow. ‘ Physician, heal thyself.’ Tlfs Sriiuf or the BEMoea.fcf, shall hot bo quenched by persecution or abuse. It is not to be discouraged by the vast difficulties which hedge it; in its glorious mission to re store this land to its old footing of constitu tional law and liberty. It appreciates the terrible power which is terribly wielded by its opponents—power given for another pur poso—dfut it does not despair, through the in nate virtue of the people and the awakening intelligence of the people,' of overcoming aft these otttradrdany moans levelled against it, and of finally saving the institutions which our. fathers bequeathed us. The Republican party is committing polit ical suicide. It gloats in the idea that it is absorbing for all time in itself the manage ment of this groat nation. It will awake up from this feverish dream, as the Turk awoke, who according to our American poet, saw in visions of the night, a proud people bending in sdpplianoe to his brutal behests, only it will not be the clash of arms but the dropping of thousands of ballots that will disturb this frantic faction from its drunken repose. Lot us bo of good sober, solid hope. The groat masses of this republic have not grown indifferent to the government of their fathers. They will, in their own good time, rescue it." though every hour of the day should witness a now decree, unwarranted by our laws, is sued from the foolish counsels of the Capital. The diUvii is. at hand.. Bo hopeful 1 Be reso lute! Be vigilant! —Plain Dealer, 03 p 'Tlio Ifon. William Wilkins, ot Pittsburg wo learn, is out for Woodward aud.Lowrio- So is the lion. Hendrick R. ’Wright, of Lu zerne. The Abolitionists nothing'since were boasting loudly of the alleged friendship of these gentlemen lot the AduuuldU'aUuu. Curlin Trying to use Meade. It has already been authoritatively denied that General Meade in his sword presentation speech made any appeal to the soldiers to support Curtin for Governor—that part of tho speech was interpolated by somebody jiired to do it, or probably hy Forney or Cur tip hiiripelf, either of them little enough to be guilty,pf sue|i a fraud. Now wo have some thing mope, and quite as discreditable fo tho parties concerned.An exchange pays ) „ • “ The soldiers gromqd jin hornets at learn ing that the presentation of tho sword to Gen. Meade was delayed from the early part of ■last winter—when tho sword was purchased —until the’ present time, in qrdcr.t|iqjf polit ical capital might ho made put of the occa sion.” i- ,- So it appears that the sword was ready for presentation last winter, hut the presentation ‘ Was delayed. The reason is plain enough;— Last wiutcr Curtin rvas not re-nominated, hut being pretty certain that, by a resort, to falsehood and political jugglery, with belli of which ho and his friend M'Clure are famil iar, ho could,secure a rb nomination, means were used to postpone the presentation, until after the happening of that event, in order that capital could ho made out of it. But soldiers are not easily humbugged, and Cur tin will find, after the election, if .all the soldiers are permitted to vote, that his, tricks are ns well understood in the army as they are out of it. ~ Strong Testimony.— Mr. Dawes, of Mas sachusetts, an Abolition member of Congress, thus exposed the corruption of his party, in an able speech delivered upon the floor ol tho last. Congress, on the twentv-thi.d ol April, 18(52i. . - .-•* ' , “The gentleman must remember,that in jtho first year of a llepuhlicrin Administra tion, which came into power upon professions of reforiii and retrenchment, there is indubi table evidence abroad in the land that some body has'plundered tho public Treasury well nigh, in that 'single year, as much as the current yearly expenses of the Government during fhp Administration which the people lurried from,power hecarifo.of its qqpfpp.tion.”, Voters 1 Boar this in mind ori your way to tile polls, on Tuesday next. 1 babining. Record, Andrew,G.- Curtin has been Gtovornor of this State for. nearly three years, and besides pocketing himself, and squandering.upon his shoddy partisans, the thousands appropriated by the Legislature for the benefit, of her brave soldiers, he has actually approved of acts, passed by. an Abolition Legislature, which have robbed the State of h'early twenty millions of dollars. .Look at it: , ; , Sunbury and Krie Railroad bill ,$ 7,0d0,0( Rills for the merger or transfer of that road to the Pennsyl vania Central ' ■ Release of the TonnagoTax col lected and dub the State ot' tho 'Vonnago 'i'ax for tho .- . yeai-s 1801, 1802 itnd 1803 jSiich; tiix-payers of Pennsylvania, Is, the record furnished you of the honesty and in tegrity of Andrew G. Curtin, by. the Pittsburg .Gazette —-the ablest Abolition journal in Wes tern Pennsylvania. lias be not signally failed in Ins duty in protecting the interests of the Coinmonwealth 1 And is ho not un worthy oI the suffrages of honest freemen 7 Then vote for. George W. Woodward, who will stand by the welfare of the State and the liberties of her people. IC?* President Lincoln, in his late letter to theabulitionistsof Illinois, pays a direct insult to the white soldiers of the army of the Uni ted States, in order to puffhis liivorite soldiers, the nq/ro troops- lie stijts “I know as fully as ony one can know the opinion of others, that some of -the commanders of our armies in the fold who have given us our must im portant victories, believe the Emancipation policy and the aid of the colored troops con stitutes the heaviest blows yet dealt to the rebellion; and that iit least one of those im portant successes could npthave been achiev ed when it was, but for the aid of black sol diers,” Wc would like to know, when and where it washhat the negroes performed such valorous deeds that white soldiers could not do, or whiit victory could, not have. been achieved by white soldiers, but for the'aid of black soldiers. Bi.acic RepuducanLovai/tv. —They prate about LOYALTY!. You, the people- have made sacrifices with pure and generous hearts. You have sent your sons, to battle, and vou have given money thitt you have earned'by hard toil in your holds. But what sacrifices have these men made? None! None! 1 None! ! ! They-got high office, and call it —Loyalty! They enrich their families, arid call it——Loyalty! They buy lauds, and they build line-houses, which your hard toil pays for, and they call it—Loyalty! How CiiANOEi.i.oasvii.i.E was Lost.—Uev, Henry ward Bcceher, at a recent speech at a temperance breakfast given him iu Loudon, is reported to have said: “if it were fit, he (Beeehor) could point to several great misfortunes which had befallen the North ou the field owing entirely to the drunkenness of officers. The battle of C'hun collorsrillo. was lust from this cause; but ho had heard it from almost direct authority that the General thus implicated, knowing his weakness, had been previously abstain ing,'hut that having received a severe contu sion, ho had boon prescribed whisky medicin ally, and it was when taking it for this pur pose that the old appetite hud been revived and hud overcome him.” Native Americanism.— “ lam notandnever halve b’eou a ‘Native American’ in atjy .polit ical sense, any niore than I am’or have been a Whig, Antimason or an abolitionist. * * The .speech so often quoted against me, I am not responsible for. It was introduced into the debates by the Whig reporter, in vio lation of the rules of that body, which requi red him to submit it for revision before publi cation, and wbieh he never did. * * * -. I promptly denounced it, in the face of the Convention, as I have done many a time since, uS a gross misrepresentation. . * * *• The Native American party itself is my witness. Seven yeais ago 1 was the caucus nominee for U. S-Senator. The county ofPhiludol- phiajwns represented by Natives. They as ked whether, if -oloctovj by their votes, I would favor their measures'for changing the naturalization laws, I answered them no, and they thjow every vote, they copld com mand agoinß mo and raised a shout of triumvir over ihoir victory.”—Goo. W Woodward, Pittsburg, Sept. 14, 185". War men light. They don’t slay at homo to make speeches and piles rcsolutous. Abolitionists Who Shirk Ike Draft. Mr. Tliurlow Weed' don’t seem to'think much of abolitionists who shirk the draft. Id a letter ho has just published, Wer his own signature, he walks into Mayor Opdyke and Mr .Theodore Tilton in the following hand some style: It is to be regretted, that leading, boister ous abolitionists, who are ,sp, free ,ol their pbuip of all who .(lifer with them, fail to justif y their precepts by their examples. The edi tor of the independent, whose zeal, for the draft, led him to rail at all who questioned its \viadorn, \vben drafted h.injself, ingloriuusly shirk sft om taking lus share, of duty Q nd dan ger.f, Ejhaipe.on such a, sneak! , Subject by l.iuy 'to military du ty', mid eunstpnfly.prpssing p.tliers, into the field, Mr.; Tilton musp.be.cra l von in spirit, without patriotism, pride 6i manliood, to skulk a draft himself, while he is merciless in regard to the mechanic and la,- borer .who. is compelled to leave his wife and children. ~ '■? ’ Still more mortifying, if possible, 'is the course of Mayor Opdyke, whoso drafted son; instead of gallantly stepping forward, as an example to poor men,! skulksl.. The. mpyor is filled with tie is gorged with government contracts;, ho Icanii heavily upon the government to make good his profits; but his son, when drafted, is not strong enough to he a soldier; he is, however, strong enough to held offices; but these offices do not, expose him to anything but salary and fees. Being a soldier is quite a dillorent thing. Out upon such false pretences--such cheap loyalty-vsuoh bogus' patriotism! > .„-,V , This,ought,l6,lend tp'.v .(pistols, SrJdicoffips;*- for three ; but there is not muoh danger.— Tilton and Opdyke have too profound a. dis like to tlie use of. villainous saltpet rp to ris.' cveii a challenge with an old “ veteran of 1812” like Mr. Wood. -' ; : 'r « ,■; . Tilton ,is catching it hot and heavy all over the country for .his rcoreap.oy to his own pre cepts. The follow, iqg .passage from Burke has been applied to hlpi: ,i, ~ / I can conceive no existence under'hdiivqip 1 that is more truly odious and disguising than an impotent, helpless creature, without civil wisdom or military skill, without a conscious ness of any other qualification for power but his servility to it, , bloated vyitl} pride, pad or-; rogance, and calling for battles Which be is not to fight. ■ The AnvTANjTAqE op.Rosencrans’ Defeat.— Enough of Rosonorans’ army was and sent into Ohio to electioneer and votq against Yaliandigham to have insured us a victory over Bragg had. they remained in the field and participated in the Chickamaugd tight. Ten thousand killed and wounded, rnilliops bf .ptqirpa arid scores of guns lost, a disastrous retreat, els, are the, price tyhip.U the adminiatrritibtf pays for tllo.poljtifib,!,advantage of the defeat of the Ohio Democracy! ■ There are those who will think that IH» business of the array is in the field, and that the less Mr.’Lincoln apd Mr. Stanton mix in .polities and strive to influence State elections the better for their present success and future welfare. But,it is plain that the President and the Secretary of wpf estimate differently political ajjvantages, and think a shameful defeat to oiir armies and the loss of hundreds' of lives a cheap price to pay for winning a State election. That this is their view ofthe case no one will deny who considers that not one soldier has boon sent put of .Ohio, in spitfi of the pressing danger of Rosoticraris, -Ilia' reinforcements will he drawn from.' other! quarters till the Ohio election is over, in spite' of the increased distance; time, expense apd peril.— a t . r. mm: 11,000,000 700,000 1,000,000 $19,700,000 Under this title, self-assumed, Mr. A. Q. Curtjti B.eek3 a re election to the Gubernator ial chair of this State. To.all unprejudiced minds it must have been long since appa rent that, as Governor of this State, Mr. Cur,-, tin did no more than the Governors of other States, in providing for the wants of the Vol unteers ; while the njilitia men who respon-. ded, on two occasions, to his were treated liy the Governor and his under- lings with a cool disregard for their welfare which is only equalled by their impudence in claiming votes on the plea of being the soldiefs’fripnds. When. General lee pxr pooled to make a move on Hagerstown on tliOl second night after the battle of Antietam had been fought and won, Governor -Curtin, for getting his many promises,- to lead the mili tia iu person, withdrew to a safe retreat leav.v mg in the hour of peril the dray Reserves of this city to hold an important position under the command of Colonel Charles J. Biddle, that “infamous copperhead." who was dis loyal onougli to jeopardize his life in the front, while the Vfiliant commander in chief, under Stanton, took up a secure position some, miles in the rear. The true soldiers’ friend,' who kept Lee from Hagerstown, and.sent him reeling back into Virginia—that manlfo whom the soldiers’ welfare was a matter of the first importance—Gori. McClellan—was removed from command through the machi nations of the Altoona conclave, of wjpcff- Curtin was a member, and to Mr,,Curtin as.- a member of tbpt wo'indebted not only for McClellan’a - val, Porter’s mock trial and sentence, but for the slaughters under Burnside and Hooker at Fredericksburg. McClellan never use lessly sacrificed a life, while Curtin is respon sible for the never wakingsleop of thousands, butchered by fanaticism and imbecility.— Shall we permit this culprit to go unwbipt of justice, or shall we hurl him from power, and put a soldier’s friend in.bia place 7— Ajc. Beauties of the Conscription. —[Scene —. Provost Marshal’s office—-Enter A.J .. ■ A,.—l have a wife, ly[ng A !&o point of death. lam popti and have uot’a week’s pro-, vision a-hoad for.- her mauitainanee. Will " not.this, exeiq pt mo 1 Provost MAhsHAhL.- No. Eall into the ranks', .... . ■. -. [Enter B.] —B. I have five little children, ■ all dependent on my labor, who must suffer - in my absence.’ Their inotber ia-iir .feeblai health, ..tpid capnot rijOTide.thbm with the ne cessaries of-!ife. Jqiiatl . ,t P. M.—Of course you must Fall in—fall in. [Enter C.] C.—My wi<b.is,,well. I have, abundenco to lease, with my-family. -' 1 could > go to battle .as well as not.- ;>TJut I’m itioh • enough tq-huy myself off, , I'dljotpoor niCn— the ragged rabble— fight this war. Here’s $3OO. and now lot mo go. „. a-,•!•••»• 1 P. M.—Of coutso, sir. you are at liberty to gO. Is it possible'.that any poor wan will vote with a party that treats him.in tftfs ptannor,fj A party that’ favors t llo.ricband oppresses tho. poor. —Logan Gazette. A man's wife often gives him all tho mural R.lrongth .he has. She is at once his rib and his backbone. S • NO. 17. Tile Soldier’s Friend.
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