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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