AMERICAN V 01.1'NEE EH. Jons li. BRITIOS, Editor & Propr i f - Q fa, i , ii,-`'. ut ,,,7,0‘ , . , . ',0,.._212.,' "''Pbai-;-;.,,L1_,.. CARLISLE, f A., df.NK ltd, ISO 4. FOR PRESIDENT-IN ISO-1, GEORGE B. irOLELLAN. [Subject to the decision of a National Convention.] I£7” Laborers and f'nrm hands aroexlreincly scarce in this pnrt of the country. lurmers are going to experience groat trouble in get ting their grass and grain crops secured. XT - A special election (or a member of the Town Council, to fill the vacancy occasioned ’Jy the death of S. W. llaverstick, will be held in the West Ward of the Borough of Carlisle to-morrow (Friday), between the hours of 9 A. M. and 7 P. M. Hay Making. —Our agricultural friends are now engaged in liny making. The yield of grass will bo very largo, and of excellent quality. ,lu the course of two weeks the cutting of grain will commence in tiiis valley. The crop will not be quite an average oue, but mjicb Letter than was expoctrd some time ago. The growing corn presents a fine appear ance, and bids fair to yield a good crop.—- The oats is suffering just now fur want of rain, but still wo think the yield will he an average one. A Reuel Raid Rumor. —A rumor prevails that the notorious rebel Moseuv crossed tiio Potomac on Sunday night, with a cavalry force of 2000, his intention being to enter tho Cumberland Valley. Wo can scarcely be lieve this report, but yet we think we 1 ad better all be prepared to defend our homes should tho rebels again attempt a visit this way. Fire.—On Saturday afternoon last, about half-past two o’clock, a lire broke out in two frame dwelling bouses on Church alley, in the rear of Rheom’s Hall, occupied by col ored tenants. Tho fire burned very rapidly nt first, and threatened the destruction of the surrounding property, but tho iron-will of our energetic firemen, who were promptly on the ground, soon conquered the flames, after doing no farther damage than the burning of the roof. The property is owned by tho wid ow of tho lato Hr. Elliott. The fire is said to have originated from the stove, which had been intensely heated by tho “ short-haired” occupants to bake cherry pies. The Fourth.—This glorious anniversary will bo upon us in ten days from now, and 0.0 yoV o. Ivo.t-o Vioawl <•.£ uo y. !•<■>L<x ing made by our citizens to.givo it a proper celebration in this borough, while other towns have taken the matter i ’ hand weeks ago and made their prepan. .ms accordingly.— Let us, by all means, have some kind of a celebration. Who seconds tho motion? O' The Grand Commandory nf Masonic Knights Templar of Pennsylvania, held their annual session in this borough on Tuesday and Wednesday of last week. They have elected the following officers for the ensuing year, viz: IL* S. Goodwin, of Harrisburg, R. E. Grand Commander. Wm, 11. Strickland, of Reading, V, E. De puty Grand Commander. Robert Pitcairn, of Altoona, E. Grand Ge neralissimo. Charles E. ‘Bannvart, of Harrisburg, E. Grand Captain General. Tho next annual session will bo held at Altoona. Dickinson College. —Below will be found a programme of the eighty-first anniversary of Dickinson College. The present Com mencement of this time-honored institution promises to be more than usually interesting. Quito a number of distinguished visitors are expected, and among them many of the Al lumni. The Junior Prize Contest will doubt less prove one of the chief attractions. Nearly tho entire class will enter the arena, and as there are a number of rival competitors of more than ordinary ability, each of tho con testants will anxiously await the award. As the citizens of this place wore last year, on account of the invasion, prevented from at tending this tyrfnual literary festival, it is to bo hoped that they will turn out cn masse on the' present occasion. Tho Commencement dinner will be at 3 o’clock, P, M. ; Presi dent’s reception at 8 o'clock, P. M., tho same day-* Baccalixursatc Address. —Sunday, Juno 20, at II o'clock, A: 31., by Preeaient 11. 31. Johnson, 1). I). Sermon Before the Society of Religious In quiry.—Sunday, June 20, 8 o'clock, P. 31., by liev. J. K, Peck. Junior Prize Contest. —Monday, Juno 27, 8 o'clock, P. M. Oration Before the B L. and U. I*. Socie ties, by Ilev. J. "Walker Jackson ; jPocmi Be fore the same, by Albert 11. Slape, Esq.— Tuesday, Juno 28, 8 o'clock, P. M. Alumni Address. —Wednesday, Juno 20, 8 o'clock, P. 31., by Kcv. William A. Snively, A. M.; Class of 1*852 Commencement. —Thursday, June 30, 10 o’clock, A. M. Emory Female College.— The Baccalau reate Address before the graduating class of Emory Female College, will bo delivered by Prof. y. 1). Hillman, A. 31., in the Emory Church,-at 3$ o’clock, X\ M., Sunday the 2Gth fcf&fc.. The Commencement exorcises will take place in Rhcem’a Hall, on Wednesday,*the 29th, at 10 o’clock, A. M, The President in Philadelphia. —Old Abb paid a visit to Philadelphiajast week, ostensibly to witness the Sanitary Fair, but really to do a little electioneering. With the exception of his office-holders and contractors, few noticed him. Gold sold in New York yesterday ai fiO, in Philadelphia at 198$. LINCOLN Ll' FUil RE-ELECTION, It is positively disgraceful to us as a pco* p]o, that even a Convention composed exclu sively of office-holders, contractors and de pendants, had the brazen impudenccdo name' Auuaii.vk Lincoln fur re-election, 'lt "was more than impudence for them to adopt atid publish what they call their “platform.”— The •Chicago platform has been ruthlessly trampled under their loot, and their new one docs not contain one promise or one feature [ of the lying platform the}' patched up four years ag l *. The Coicaa" plull>u*m was a uj ceptiMii, adopted fur the very purpose of mis | leading the people, and it was null fur them, in arranging their new planks, that they east aside all thuso used in their former model.— The present one deals in generalities, talks very “ loyall”. and eulogizes the muu who feeds his supple tools so well. It amounts to nothing; indeed, platform?, as a general thing, are humbugs, gut up by crafty dema gogues fur their own purposes. Hut, we wore speaking of the nomination of Lincoln, and repeat that it was an net of i shameless impudence for his office-holder?, placemen- and menials to name him for rc- I election. Ih> they consider the people blind fools, that they dare to thus insult them ? Is it nut patent to all men that this war has been purposely prolonged by Mr. Lincoln. —pro- longed too for the basest political purposes? If his interested office-holders deny this, then they must admit that his lack of statesman ship has been the cause of our want of suc cess. Considering our resources of men and means, the rebellion should have been crushed long since. It would have been*had we had a statesman instead of a mousing township politician in the chair of Slate. The people are becoming tired of this war—tired of hear ing the everlasting cry “ more men,” “ more money.” Seven hundred thousand men have been added to the army since last October, and now, according to Air. Lincoln’s speech in Philadelphia, wo want “more meal”— Had he said wo want-6ra/ns, statesmanship, honesty, and less polities, he would have hit the truth. These wo want, but in vain do we look to the Administration for them. Tor the Haiti more offiec-holdci s Convention, therefore, to renominate Mr. Lincoln, with all his sins of omission ami commission,-was ;i 11 outrage that the people will sternly re- buko. He has violated every promise ho made to tho people; ho admits himself that ho has disregarded many of the provisions of the Constitution ; his Administration has been clnvracieti'ed from first to Inst, by n wretched imbecility; frauds r.nd robberies arc so numerous, that the people are no long. or startled by them ; licentiousness broods over the capital r.ud in the public depart ments, and tho nation reels and totters un der tho blows inflicted upon it by armed trai tors in tho South and fanatical Abolitionists in the North. Anti yet tho joker at the White House is merry’ as a cricket, ami ap pears to think of nothing but his negro equality project and politics. The people, wo sav, will not put up with this Administra tion a day longer than they can help, and a voice is now going up from tho masses, which increases in volume as November approaches,' “give us any man hut Lincoln —any man y>ho ka.9 *• miuA -»/ 7*l» ORGANIZE, DOOCkATS! Democrats! —there never was a time when there was a greater necessity fur organization and unity of action. Wc are soon to enter upon a canvass, tho results of which will be of vast importance to the nation. In view c.f the calamitous condition of the country, it is all important than the-present party in pow er should be defeated. There is much to en courage the Democracy and inspire them to action. The very bitterness of the opposition, the abuse of their authority by persecuting Democrats, demands that no effort should be spared to eradicate them from office. As wc value our liberties and the welfare of our families, we should do oUr whole duty in tho coming canvass. If we succeed,, as wo cer tainly will if we doour'duty, our reward will be ample. If we fail we will have nothing I with which to reproach ourselves. It is a time when every freeman should guard well his liberty at tho ballot-hox. Our political adversaries are active. They are organizing secretly, and are pledged to support the Ad ministration in every act. Wo have already experienced tho acts of usurpation done in the name of tho Union, which have all been sustained by that party. We may rest as sured that, if it can bo done with impunity, they will be increased a thousand fold. Let the Democrats and conservative men of Penn sylvania be up and doing. Lot us all go to work and pursue our course regardless of tho abuse or intimidations of the Abolitionists. The hearts of tho people are with us. We have only to conduct tho campaign with firm ness, determination and zeal in order to achieve a glorious victory. Tho Democratic party, however, is no place for cowards. He who cannot receive tho intimidations of the Abolitionists with indifference should at once surrender and make terms with them. He is nob fit to be a freeman. Eternal vigilance is tho p r icc of liberty, and they who have not tho nerve to resist encroachments which it .requires no vigilance to discover, are unwor thy of the boon which they.havc not the cour age to defend. Wo, therefore, appeal, to the Democrats of this county and this State, ns they love their wives and children, as they value their liberty, us they prize the com forts of their homes and firesides, in the name of all that is dear to them, to arouse themselves and prepare to defend at the bal lot-box the precious and sacred heritage of freedom, left them by their forefathers in the Constitution of the United States. Organize in every neighborhood, form clubs, and pre pare for action. Delay not, hut straightway put your shoulders to the wheel. Rest not in fancied collision and security, but remem ber danger is upon and around uo. Arouse, then, Democrats, and redeem your State and nation from the rule of madness which now disgraces both. The Now York Evening Post says that the rebels “have had their hands tolera bly full in dealing recently with Gen. Butler:” Full of prisoners we suppose it means. ■flfaT* Gen. Banks has been making speeches in New Orleans. An officer who can’t fight better than he does isn’t entitled to talk. His shoulders disgrace the stars thfy wear. ABRAIIAII AND 11IS “ LOYAL” FRIENDS. Three of the members of the Republican National Committee couUl not sign tbo cttll for UiO Lincoln Convention held at Haiti more. Why 1 Because they wore and are in the penitentiary, having been convicted of stealing and treason. A majority of the President’s near rela tives—a score or tu ire—are lit the rebel ar mv. lie has not one relative in our army, except ten or twelve who are Paymasters, Quartermasters, d"C. Mrs. Lincoln's three brothers are officers in the rebel army ; and her sister, Mrs. Win™, acted as u rebel spy at Washington, and returned tu her homo, in Georgia, with medicines, percussion caps, surgical instru ments, reliel uniforms, &c., under a pass from Abraham Lincoln. , ' A number of inen havo been detected in soiling munitions of war to the rebels, and have been convicted. Who are they ? Lin coln’s' “ luval” office-holders in the Custom House at Now York. The man who forged a Proclamation and signed the President’s name to it, for the purpose of injuring the Union cause in the North ns well as in Europe—who is ho?— Howard, a Republican editor and confiden tial friend of tlio President, an officer of the Brooklyn: Union League ; the same who was one of Lincoln’s escort from his homo in Illi nois to Washington, in February, 1801, A million or more of stupendous frauds upon tlio Treasury havo been perpetrated during the last throe years. Who wore the robbers? Lincoln’s Union League friends, thousands of whom hold office under him, I and many of them were delegates to the late Baltimore Convention, and of course voted for Lincoln’s re-nomination. Some sixteen years ago an awkward mem ber of Congress, possessing limited knowl edge, from one of the western Slates, rose in his place ami made a. speech to the House, in which he maintained that any portion of the people of these States, feeling aggrieved, had a right to secede from the Union, and establish a now Government for themselves. Who was that member ? Ahraiiam Lincoln of Illinois. Here is an extract from the speech to which wo refer; “ Any people anywhere, being inclined, and having the power. have the right to rNo up and shako off the e.\i-ling go\err.ment. and form a new niiu that t-'uits them hotter. This is a most vnuablc—u um.-t aacrod right—a right which, wc hope and believe, is to liberate the world. Nor is tlii- right confined to cases in which tho whole people of our cxidfing Uovcrnmcnt may choose to exercise it. AnVy orlion of such people that ca» May revolutionize and make their own of so much of the territory a* they inhabit. More than this, a majority of any portion of such people may rev olutionize. putting down n minority, intermingled with or near about them, wba may oppose .their movements. Such minority was precisely the case of ihu'Turics in our own revolution. It is a qual ity ol revolutions-not to go by nhi lines or old laws; but to break up both and make now ones.” speech of Abraham Lincoln, mi the House, Jan. 12, 1813 The public plunderers, shoddyites, office holders, and Ihoio who fur thirty years have been noted disunionists, are banded together in the support of the same man for the Pres idency. Who is their candidate ? Lincoln, tho man Wendell Phillips prouunces “ a mud turtle.” A few weeks ago tho Democratic members of Congress submitted a Bill requiring the fti vcro**i. hi oui to to ifo nnni n*.. • f nuv soldiers and pay them their wages in gold or its equivalent. Who opposed and defeated that Dill? The Abolition members of Con gress, led by tho nefarious Stevens of this State. They considered green-backs, at 50 per cent, discount, good enough for soldier heroes. The gold is all to bo gobbled up by tho office-holders and pets of the administra- Who Eitid that ho could not, without viola ting his oath, issue an Emancipation Procla mation ? President Lincoln. Who did, subsequently, issue an Emanci pation Proclamation, and thus violate his oaMi ? President Lincoln. Who were the men who predicted that tho war would end inside of ninety days fiom the date of its commencement? The Presi dent and all the member? of his Cabinet. Who are the men who now say they rath er like this war,’’ and care very “ lutlo whether it ends inside of fifty years?" Sen ators Jim Lane and Sumner. But, enough. We might go on for a week asking and answering questions. The above will give the people an idea of who Abraham Lincoln D, and tho character of his “ loyal" tools and supporters. Slavery in Congress. —ln the House on Wednesday of last week, which had passed tho Senate, providing for the abolition of slavery throughout the United States, Constitutional amendment, was, after a debate, put to a vote, when the proposition was rejected—yeas 94, nays 05—two-thirds being required. Every Abolitionist in the House, Bailv of this district, being of the number, voted " yea," and every Democrat voted “no.’,’ The Democrats based their op position to the measure on the recognized rule that every State has the Constitutional right to regulate its own domestic affairs in its own way, and that the U. S. Government cannot and dare not interfere with this right. Their position was correct, and by standing together they have strangled this Abolition pot measure. Battle Monument at West Point.-t-Jh Imposing Ceremony. —A largo and brilliant company assembled at West Point on Wed nesday of last week, to witness the imposing ceremonies attendant upon the laying of the corner-stone of a monument to the memory of the heroes of the Regular army who.have fallen on the battle-field during the present war. The ceremonies opened with a prayer by the Rev. Dr. French. Gen. McClellan was then intrbduced by Gen. Robert Ander son, of Fort Sumpter renown, and delivered an oration commemorative of the virtues, Jjravery, intelligence, ami worth of our gal lant dead, concluding with, an impressive tribute to their memory. He was followed by another prayer by the Rev. Mr. Sproul. Gov. Seymour, and Generals Granger, Hart suff,.lCilpatrick, Sprague, Haupt, Hays, and other distinguished gentlemen were present. We will publish General McClellan's ora tion next week. Tub New Coin. —We saw one of the new two-cent pieces the other day. It is a very pretty coin—about the size of a thrco-dollar gold piece— if anybody recollects how that looks. CALLING THINGS DY THEIR RIGHT NAMES; ■The article following wo 'take from tho New York. -IForW. 'lt is a sovere-COmmentary tipon Lincoln, but yet it is Jtruo, as tho World says, that it is time to’cftll things by their right names. Too long has Mr. Lin* coln been permitted to escape just criticism; too long have his outrages, his want of states manship and his imbecility been submitted to. Now that his office-holders and whipper-1 snappers have forced him before tho people for re-election, the inddpendont press of the country should arid will speak of him as ho deserves to ho spokou of. It is enough to •turn men (particularly those who have broth ers and sons in this war,) raad crazy, when they contemplate tho desolation and destruc tion of life that have been occasioned by the wretched bunglers at "Washington. Wo say it boldly, and every man of sense will say it, that had Mr. Lincoln, during tho last three years, been oven a fourth-rate man, possess ing honesty, firmness and patriotism, this rebellion could have been and would have been crushed inside of eighteen months from the date of its commencement. But, to tho article from tho World ; A respect for tho high office which Mr, Lincoln unworthily fills restrained us, up to tho time of his ronomination, from going up to tho full bounds of ordinary parliamentary opposition. Wo have denounced his wrong deeds, but wo have bad very little to say of the wrong-doer. It would have been indecorous to name Mr. Lincoln tho buffoon that ho is, if lie had been merely the chief magistrate. But the truth must bo told when lie is *a chief magistrate seeking rc-elcction by the •suffrages of a free people whose need of statesmanship is*so great, whose national ealamites are so over whelming, 'A loading member of one of the groat reli gious organizations which have recently been passing resolutions and sending deputations to the White House, and who was intrusted with the speech-making part of the business, publicly describes the demeanor and lan guage of Mr. Lincoln on this occasion as 1 that of “ a buffoon and gawk—disgracefully unfit for the high office” to which he again aspires, lie says that lie departed from the Hast room with a sickening sense of the hopelessness of our cayso which has never left him since. Hero is a reverend divine compelled by a strict religious sense of duty to pronounce and proclaim such to be the character of the Baltimore candidate. Hero, again, is a Re publican Senator, honored by the Bin pi re State, and held in high esteem by the relig ious denomination of which ho is a member, reported to have left the President's presence because bis self-respect would not permit him to stay and listen to the language which he employed. And the nice and squeamish, tastes of the Republican journals revolt, do they, against the plain truth-telling winch they find in this journal concerning the buffoon who wauls to bo our next President? Pah 1 We toll those poor sycophants and tide-waiters that the American people, whoso m«ncy is going by the hundred million, and whose lives are go ing by the hundred thousand, arc in no mood to re-elect n man to the highest office at this most critical hour whose daily language is too indecent for a Senator to hoar with 'self respect, whoso manners a minister of the Gospel, at the head of a deputation of one hundred and fifty clergymen, pronounces those of “ a buffoon and gawk,” and who, ri ding over the field of Antietam, when thirty thousand of his fellow-citizenswere yet warm in their freshly-made graves,could slap Mar shal Lamon on the knee and call lor the ne gro song of “ Picayune Butler.” The war is a serious business to men whose sons h:\vo bipon l.«ilioro am under the Virginia hill-sides; it is a very se rious business to women whose children have come homo to them maimed for life, or whose husbands pine in the hospitals'or have per ished in the swamps of Virginia. Tbev can not watch the varying tide of battle winch for them may mean joy or desolation, and be reminded ofa smutty joke ; they cannot tread on fresh graves and grin and roar over a ri bald nigger-song. Nor do \we believe-the American people want to re-elect to the presi dency the man who can. The. life and the treasure which they spill is the proof of their sublime courage and faith that this Union, the home of our fathers, will stand fur us, for our children, ami our children's children. Yet it has been set on lire by the torch of treason; and the abolition abettors of traitors, their confessed confederates, who fan the flames of treason, are shocked, nice souls! when ho is called a fiddUr who fiddles in the midst of this conflagration, when he is called a buffoon who tramples the holy dust of our j gallant dead to the tune of “Picayune But- IftV ” VALLANDicJiAsr.—This exiled patriot has turned up suddenly in Ohio, having made a speech yeterday at Hamilton. Either lie is coupling a new x transportation to Jlebeldom, or ho lias been pardoned by the President.— The latter hypothesis is the most likely to be correct.— Phil. Inquirer. The Inquirer speaks truth when it refers to Mr. Vallandichau as the “exiled patriot.” lie has voluntarily returned to his homo and his family, without oven saying “by your leave,” to the petty tyrants at "Washington, lie has not been “pardoned by the Presi dent.” No! he would spurn n pardon, fur ho has committed no wrong. As to the throai that he will receive “ a now transportation t( rcbeldom,” let his persecutors try that, if they daro I Ho is a freeman, and, “by the eternal,” ho will remain free; aye, and he will speak too, when, whore and at whatever place he pleases. The people, thank God, are beginning to wako tip to their rights, and these rights they are determined to exercise at all hazards, come what may. Mr. Val landigham will not again bo molested ; our word for that. On !—One of the resolutions adopted by tbo Lincoln office-holders Convention afc Balti more, reads thug: Resolved , That the foreign immigration which in the past has added so much in the wealth and development of resources and in crease of power to this nation, the asylum of the oppressed ol all nations, should bo fos tered and encouraged by a liberal and just polic)'. 0 Did you ever! But a few years ago the very men who passed this resolution, made war upon all foreigners and Catholics, r.n I tried their best to stop foreign immigration by a law of Congress. It would have endan gered any man's life, during the days of Know-Nothingism, to have uttered such a sentiment in Baltimore. There the dnrk-lau torn faction, with the demagogue Winter Davis at their head, ruled with an iron rod. And yet these are the wretches who notf prate for foreign immigration. Goon Bye, Hale. —The Abolition Legisla ture qf New Hampshire has nominated Aa ron W. Cragin for United States Senator in the place of John P. Hale, whoso term ex pircson the 4th of March. Jack’s certificates that ho took money for his services in hav ing prisoners released, in good faith, didn't B avc him. r DAT THE PEOPLE HAVE TO COMBER. Wo invito attention to tho subjoined rc- rnttrks of’ tho Now York Herald, a neutral paper in politics. Is is well known that tho Herald is no friend of the Democratic party, but condemns both parties as oftou ns it deems their measures wrong. As a general thing, it has sided strongly with Mr. Lin coln's administration, and so long as it be lieved the war was conducted tor tho purpose of restoring tho Union, it gavo-tho..adminis tration its hearty support. Tho article which follows, therefore, ia worthy of attention. It ia on tho subject of Mr. Lincoln’s rc-nomi nation by his office-holders and hirelings.— Tho Hcrahisixya : Mr. Lincoln is now fairly presented to the country for its decision. ■ lie stands as the nominee of tho Baltimore Convention, on the platform of that Convention, and com mended to tho people b} f the windy harangues of tho Convention’s very empty orators. But neither the ten times falsified platform of tho Convention nor tho speeches of its members are what the people have to notice and re flect upon in regard to this nomination.—• What they have to notice are tho three terri ble years that tho country has already gone through under the Presidency of Mr. Lincoln —three years of war, in winch tho country Ims endured every miscrythat tho President’s incapacity, in a military, naval and financial point of view-, could plungo it into. This is what the people have to consider - ; and what ’they have to decide ia simply whether or not they wish to repeat those years. Mr.'Lincoln is'responsible for every blun der committed in every department of tho government since the commencement of tho war. lie assumed the absolute control of our armies, with a flourish of defiance to the enemy and a Chinese announcement that’ our armies should move on a certain .day.— Under his direct guidance we experienced a scries of reverses without parallel. grandly organized Peninsular campaign was made to end disastrously by his interference, and Stonew-all Jackson's triumphs in the Shenandoah valley were duo. not to Jackson’s genius, but to Lincoln’s intellectual epacit}'. Ho organized the Pope campaign, which was merely a daily succession of frightful rever- ses to our arms. Ho conductor! from Wash ington Burnside's dreadful Fredericksburg slaughter, and lie i« equally responsible for the butchery at Chnnccllorsvillo. Our great victories at Gettysburg and Antietam and Grant’s victories in the West were won in spite of his policy. By keeping such a man ns Welles at the head of the Navy Depart ment ho has become responsible fur the blun ders that have well nigh made our heroic na vy contemptible, and has a fellowship in the incapacity that has driven our commerce from the seas. Every intelligent person in the country can sec that if Mr. Lincoln had been a man of any ability ho could have oqd cd the war by the complete destruction of the rebel armies eighteen months ago. But, in bis incapacity, he has not only failed to put the rebellion down, but he has fostered it and misistered to its growth, and to the devcl opement of its whole possible power. That Mr. Lincoln would not, and could not, end the war became clear to the coun try several months since, and then the pres sure of public opinion compelled him to put mr armies and the whole conduct of the war in tho hands of General Grant. Under that groat soldier tho nation felt some security that its military operations would be carried on properly. Yet Mr. Lincoln has /Managed to interfere very dangerously with tho pres-t ent campaign, and has even seriously com promised its success. Who knows how dong, lie will respect that public opinion which compelled him to put General Grant where ho is? If Lincoln bo re-cleclod I ho country has no safety that Grant will still command our armies—no security against his removal at any moment, and no Impo for such dofi lid ; and yet no Democratic paper speaks harshly of Gen. Grant, or condemns Ins j Course or proceedings. No man however novr looks for decency or consistency Fn an üboli- Thero is a wonderfully distinct Issue be- tion newspaper. to success against the rebellion as will cn io war foro the people in this nomination of Mr. Lincoln. The issue lias no reference to the nonsense of this or that political platform. Ft is (lie clear question whether or not the people of the United States will elect for another term of four years a man who has proved over and over that he does not pos sess the ability to administer the government, a man who is either ignorant of the constitu tion or ready to trample it under his foot at any moment; A MAN UNDER WHOM THIS BLOODY AND EXPENSIVE WAR CAN NEVER BE BROUGHT TO AN HONORABLE CLOSE. Tije Monroe Doctrine. —The resolution of the Lincoln Convention affirming the Monroe doctrine, and at the same time approving the course of the Administration, ia a’ piece of sublime impudence. "When we consider that the House of Representatives, by a nnar.i- mous vote, approved the Monroe doctrine, and (hat Mr. Secretary Seward subsequently apologized to the French Emporer, and as* sured him that the Administration would in no wise be affected' thereby, what arc wo to think of a body of men who, knowing the facts, approved in ouo sentence the doctrine aud the repudiation of it? It was an act unworthy of any body of honest, sensible men, hut wo grant perfectly consistent with the character, and policy of the men who passed it. Wo do not believe the people enn bo deceived by such a palpable effort at fraud arid deception. The Administration is op posed to the Monroe doctrine, and in favor of subverting the Mexican Republic by French bayonets, as is proven by all its acts since the incipioncy of the French invasion? It lias truckled in every instance to Franco and England. It has dishonored the nation over which ft rules—it lias made us a by-word and a reproach nations of the earth by its folly, its weakness and its inconsistencies, and it is too late in the day to wipe out the reproach in the eyes of the people by a de ceptive resolution passed by a' convention composed mainly of delegates bought by offi cial fayor and packed for a particular pur pose. The Beauties of the War. —“ Carleton," the correspondent of the Boston Journal thus describes a visit which ho made to one of the hospitals attached to Grant’s army near Rich mond; “There was a lull in the tide of battle and I improved tho opportunity to visit tho hos pitals. There were long lines of ambulances bringing in the wounded, hundreds lying on tho ground under tho trees. There wore un conscious men upon the tables, lying help less in the hands of the surgeons—to wake from a dreamless sleep, with a limb gone—a bleeding stump of a leg or arm. There were bits of bone on tho tables, great gashes where the sharp blades had cut through tho flesh, severing arteries and tendons in an instant; there wore logs, arms, hands, fingers, clots of blood—human blood I There were moans— low murmurings, wrenched from 'the men against their wills. There were men bab bling, in their of other scones.— dim recollections which were momentary re alities. To be with them and not do for them—to see suffering without power to alle viate—gives painful tension to tho nerves, even though one-may bo familiar to scones of carnage.' I turned from tho scene all hut ready to say, “ Anything to stay this terrible destruction of human THE BALTIMORE PLATFORM. An Opinion by a Qepublienn Paper; The New York jVeio Nation, one of the illicit. llopublioan papers in tho country, with Seventy thousand subscribers, thus speaks ofi/iNcooN, thoßnltimoro Convention, and tho Platform it adopted. Head, Eopub- Beans, and be instructed : If the six hundred individuals, comprising tho Baltimore Convention, and presumed to bo leading men and tho highest representa tives of tho American peoplo, are to bo be lieved,-then must wo despair of tho future of America, and rank our country as an agglo meration of mankind, aspiring to become a nation, but as yet only an imperfect embryo. Happily, however, tho name of tho spokes man of that Convention, of the man deemed worth? to represent it, Mr. llaymond, suffices to assign it its real political and moral value. Tho Baltimore Convention was'simply a mooting of contractors, assembled in order to retain the privilege of robbing tho peoplo, and in yielding to the man among its mem bers who is most interested in a continuance of tho present regime , and who, in this re spect, ns well as in many others, is especial ly fitted to bo tho spokesman, it acted for once consistently during the two days’ sos- But it is adding irony to insolence with sion. an impudence worthy of Barnum, to utter on behalf of tho people absurdities fm vague and ‘contradictory us those enunciated in express ion of an adoration of power. What I after insulting and robbing the people, can yon dare declare that they are satisfied and that their greatest enemy has been their saviour I We have consulted and listened to tho people, and their language by no moans resembles that used by you. Wo have given heed to tbo poorer classes, to the people who toil and fight, pray and die, wh( sc blood and money pay for the contracts that Lincoln has given you in for your admiration and disinterested patriotism, and wo have scon them restrain their lamon* tation and tears in the fear of dampening the nation's patriotism, which has ever been great and strong, and sagacious when left to itself. . Their language is not like yours; it is tho voice of a great nation conscious of its strength and warning you before makingyou recognize it. Tho people told you at Cleve land that they wished to bo free, and that their first wish was liberty, for the white man as well as for the ncgi'o, and not the servi tude of both that your master has practiced and which you have decreed a continuance of. Wo have not time now to review the whole platform, which, had it been draw n up by men. of intellect, would be a cutting sa tire upon Lincoln’s-Administralion. but, as it is, it is simply a mass of insipid adulation. “Our Soldiers Busily Digging.”■ is one of the 'head lines of that loyal sensa tion newspaper, the Philadelphia Inquirer vi the Bth June. Everybody remembers the holy horror and the vast indignation of the above paper and all others of African proclivities, at the uso of, the spade by Oon. McClella'n. There Was no defense,, excuse or oven paliation for such a proceeding. Ridicule, denunciation, epithets were heaped upon his devoted head. “ Chickahomlny Grave Digger” was nmong the mildest names applied to him by the Loyalists. Now, two years afterwards, we have Gen. Grant directly in McClellan's tracks) and with great gusto tho radical papers announce “ Our Soldiers busily digging.” And there before those Chickuhominy Swamps, Grant, has already lost’more men than McClellan JBSy*To show the depths to which fanati cism and the leaders vt the Lincoln party can go, wo append tho following precious morsel from the Cincinnati Gazelle .* “It is true the South Carolina delegation is mixed in complexion—some may think tills puts a different color on the question,— But the Constitution of the United-Stales knows no color, and the Constitution of 'South Carolina is in suspense. And to # us the co|or of a man’s loyalty ia-of much move moment than the color of Ida skin. Shall we refuse admission to Robert Small, who brought a steamboat into our lines, and who has ever since rendered valuable service to tho army and navy as n guide and pilot, and shall wo admit Mr. Fishlmck, who helped to translate Arkansas into Secession ? Or, while Mr. Lincoln welcomes back the stray Secession sheep, shall wo exclude lus colored lambs which wont nob astray ?” It is worthy of remark, tho manner in which tho miscegenation editors apeak of Old Abo I They do not allude to him as an offi subjeet to a Constitution and laws, but they talk of him jis a despot whoso will is law and whoso subjects tho people are 1 ' u . JESS'* Tho Lincoln Convention in South Car olina has been held, and the following is the result. The New Orleans correspondent of the Now York Herald says : “ I, forward herewith tho resolutions adopt ed at the Mass State Convention hold at Beau fort on Tuesday last. The call for the Con vention invited tho people of this State 4 ‘ without distinction of race or color” to par ticipate in tho election of delegates to the Na tional Union Convention to be hold at Balti more on the 7th of next month. Tho conse quence was that about 150 negroes and two thirds as many whites assembled at the Sax ton House, and after much noisy and acrimo nious debate selected twelve whites and four Africans ns delegates. Tho choice should have fallen tho other way. By fur tho lar gest, portion of tho population in the 11 re claimed 41 region of tho State are contrabands, and if they are to represent the State in the Baltimore Convention; they should have justice done them at tho start. I consider that they have not boon fairly treated in this manner. of Pennsylvania, in hia_spoooh in Congress, thus eulogized American citi zens of African descent: “ Mr. Speaker, (ho men of this era of whom the poet will sing in highest strains, the men whom the orator will most eulogize, the men in this grand civil war of whom the historian will write his most glowing panegyrics, are the negro soldiers of the loyal army." The white man must stand back hereafter when the merit of this war is discussed, lie is a decided failure. Hip* Last week Gen. Butler issued the fol lowing order to Gen. Ames : “ You will immediately detail three bravo ffioors from your command, who willatonce report to these headquarters, to try cow ards.” It is tho judgement of mankind that But ler should have been tho first man tried by this improvised tribunal. There wonld have boon no lack of evidence to convict him. !C7” If nn abolition lawyer finds his busi ness dull, or n politician fails in his expec tations, he can apply to the Administration for a Major-Generalship. YALLANDIGHAM AtToji IlfS ARRIVAL AT BAYTO’ HE SPEAK'S AT IIAMILTn HE IS .ELECTED .DELKOATV CHICAGO CONVENTION 0 ‘ Cincinnati, Juno 15 Vallandkd his appearance at tho Deuiocr-J„?v' lli Convention hold at Hamilton to°l l!l ' apparent surprise to the huge- nm-,- * assembly, and.was received «■!(), „. lon of| sidsm. ilo spoke briefly f rom a ‘I* 1 “"'I ument, narrating hia asreat ami J.r , liis action, ho said tho assertion of ti i, 1 dent that ho was arrested because! i, bored with sumo effect to prevent 11'° .. of -troops, and encouraging dew.f ri11 , 5 ' 1 the army, and bad disobeyed or f u compel obedience to lawful nuthorUv ■ absolutely false. lie appealed f,,. -' every speech he bad made, and toil,!!™' of the military commission by tlio ir’T sentence of which bo was banished Ti offense laid to my ■Charge was words, r cism of tho administration, addressed! political meetings of my fell.nv-cit'ii;„ n ° more thim one year no public man W arrested or newspaper suppressed itiir Stale for an expression of public e" whilst hundreds in public assomliliM through tho press (with Innguiwc unj lonco in which I never indulged,) hive cised and condemned the nets and Pu || the administration, denounced the !v ar maintained oven tho propriety of r cco»ni the Southern Confederacy. I do not r any longer to bo tho only man of d, e , who is to. bo a victim to arbitrary p, II Abraham Lincoln seeks mv life let' so declare, hut ho shall not again roe me from my personal' liborlyiexiw.t", due process of law. Ho denounced nnh under which he was arrested,and nidi against the Constitution and laws, and out validity, and that all proceedings ui it were mill and void. The time ha" a rr i when it becomes mo, ns a citizen of Ohio tho United States, to demand, ami bvrav not to vindicate, tho rights, liberties ana vilogos which I never Inrfcitod, butofwi for so many months I have been deprive lie reiterated his right to criticise the no, tho administration, and cautioned his po cal friends from any acts of violence nn account; but advised none to shirk from responsibility, however urgent, il forced him. Yallandigham was accompanied to the pot by an enthusiastic crowd. iloarrived Dayton 10-night, V/hcrc it will make another speech. The convention elected delegate to the Chicago Cuvontum. , Cincinnati* Juno lo.—’Yallundi'rltaui rived at’Hamilton, Ohio, this moniiii", made a speech in the public Krpmrc. Hr on (he afternoon train for Dayton. Ti was a good deal of excitement at llrtfij during his stay there. J Vailandiglmni arrived at Dayton at.)/ clock this afternoon, and imir atoly to his residence. There was nodei stration. Humors wore current that 5-m.n ter his Arrival l>o had taken (lie night ti for Toledo, hut it was subsequently !iniio:n. that be would deliver a public spm-hurn row. Thorn is considerable nppivWu trouble at Dayton, and the people are much excited. ’—Sac' BaI.TIMORR C; INVENTION'. — This I* 'lViVit nominated Lincoln and dclcuicd Hindi How wu« this that Johnson, a "slaveholder and supporter ot UroL'inurrli: 18(30, should he taken :n the iJ.imil Ham As for Lincoln’s nomination, that vimi no oomdu-don, ns a perusal ol the flf of the Convention will prove, number of delegates in attendance was a five hundred ; of those there were ' 1 holders under tho AdiuiiiLtmuon, «i.• sire to retain their places four yearn lou the relatives and friends of the nlli!• numbered 120 ; the contractors -ai.d tl friends numbered 90 ; ConJ?rn«pn:pn,«!i.' dabble in contracts, numbered 1 i; legates from South Carolina and lor, numbered 10, and tbo meanest of all about 20juintcrj Abolition editors, wh 0 ! been living off the cnnflls winch hill «• Old Abo’s” table. lloro we have .140 0f.500 miserable pensioners in favor of coin’s continuance in office because the sire to remain in office themselves. Ano nomination is styled a popular domonstra of Lincoln's popularity with the people Pittsburg Post, New KvatiAND Generals. —Ihe All Argus says i ‘ Now I'jnglßftd has given to (he war larcenous philanthropist ami era! Neal Dow* the coarse arul rapadousi ler, and the sleek and corrupt Hank*. *■' Iho day of Big Bethel clown to the tho KeJ Kiver, their parha have been mat hy calamities and shame/ Negro Murderer Par doned. —Tlie > soldier, Charles llidloy, who shot n w citizen nt Camp William Penn a fewmi« ago, and was tried at Norristown, conrii of murder in the second degree, und ed to a term of imprisonment, lias own doued by Governor Curtin. THE WAR HE Till-; WAK IN VlBffltHU. Petersburg in the Possession of Troops. Crossing of the James-Successful Oin A ring JSn Route for Petersburg^* Smith's Assault—nriskfightm<! WS rue Principal Line of the Me") Petersburg—Hancock with Works in Front of Rormiln Abandoned by the Rebels—lhtßc tween Petersburg and Richmond uen j From Gens. Sheridan and Slur’ miu Fortress Monroe, June 10,— morning at 4 o'clock the Eightocat 11 , under command of W. F. Soiidi, Point and marched into'Petersburg; General Kautz's cavalry, cO P'P r SA sth and 11th Pennsylvania ami m Columbia regiments, attacked tbs e , monts of- tho rebels outside of f “ ters ,, Kli 11 o’clock yesterday morning, ana sut in carrying them and entered tho ct were supported by tho advance guar Smith’s forces. , rl nk Tho troops wore at tho Inst ' ur. marching in tho direction of 1° fast as.lhey landod. . nll[ ar Thocrnssing of tho James river by« is described by those tvho had 11 b |,,illi tune to view it, as one of the w scones of tho war. , 9 bn! An endless stream of tramp . and schooners had been inakio„ „[ ■ up tho James river to tho uoff u plies all days. . ,■ nn i c |i J»' Wasuinoton, Juno 17. —A P [,,, Ta t “He \dquarters Ar ut oF . noW c« Bi June 15," says that the army , m vVilci James river at two places, on ,| lot abi Wharf to Windmill point, and the two miles below. wstorday" 1 Tho Second corps crossed y t |,j s moi first mentioned place and the , t ut ing. Tho headquarters wit 0 fui o’clock. Some rebel infim r ty °^. 1 supporting the cavalry, , lro ' v e thomfr' Fifth corps came up and soon ll tho position to .White Oak “ lro ng P c place the enemy were foona ...j. a c orp tson, with artillery posted and till j a i support. Skirmishing oontm
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