VOLUNTEER. b. amiN B. BRATTOr*, Kdilur k Proprieor. - -•• '4 4 '• , ' 1. 0". A • fq - k :7 01 o CAKIiISLE, PA., AUGUST 11, ISM FOR PRESIDENT IN 18W, GEOROE li. mm AN. [Subject to tbe decision of t National Convention.] STANDING COMMITTEE MEETING* At a mooting of the Democratic Standing '"Committee of Cumberland County, held in Carlisle, on Saturday the 23d inst., it was Resolved, That tho Democratic County Cnn vention to form a'ticket fur the ensuing Elec tion. shall meet in the borough of Carlisle on Monday, August 15,1864. at 11 o’clock. A. M., and that tho election for Delegates to the Convention shall be held on Saturday, Aug. 13, as follows: In tho townships between the hours of -1 and 7 o’clock, P. M. In the boroughs nf the County, between tho hours of 6 and 8 o'clock. P M. In the borough of Carlisle, between the hours nf •! and 5 o’clock. P, M, , RUFUS E. SIIAPLET, Chairman. P. A. Keller, Sec 1 !/, pro temp. DEMOCRATIC MEETIXGS. The Democrats of the EAST WARD. Car lisle, will meo* at ITeisf.r’s Hotel, on Friday •evening. August 12. at 7 "Vlnrlc. The Democrats of the WEST WARD will meet at Curvil’s Hotel, un the same evening and at the same hour. C 7" Wo learn from the Perry County Z)c ■moo'at that Captain Thomas O'Bryan, a highly respectable citizen of Newport, in that county, died suddenly on Wednesday morn ing. lie was a man of excellent character, a good citzen and had the confidence nnd re epect of all that knew him. lie represented ihat county for three successive years in the Legislature of Pennsj’lvunia nnd discharged his duty with fidelity, lie was about 70 years of age. Call tor 503,000 Men'. —The following are the quotas for the various Wards, Bor oughs and Tuwiships of this County for the ■coming draft, without deducting any surplus of former quotas : tSub-D. 44. yiiippcnsburg Borough. 45. “ Township, 46. Southampton 47. Newbury Borough, 48. Hopewell Township, 41*. Mifilin 50. Newville Borough, 61. Newton Township. 52. West Pennsboro' Township, 63. I'rankford " 6 1. Penn " 55. Dickinson ,l 50. North Middleton * “ 57. Middlesex “ 58. East Ward, Carlisle, 59. West “ £O. Smith Middleton Township, 01. Silver Spring “ 02. Monroe *'* 63. Upper Allen “ 04. Mechnnicsburg Borough, Go. Lower Alien Township, 66. Now Cumberland Borough, 67. Hampden Township, 68. East Penusburu’ Township, Total, Stamp Your Receipts. —The new startup duties went into operation on the Ist inti.-?* It concerns everybody to know that all re ceipts for amounts over twenty dollars, and all chocks or drafts at sight, whatever the amount, must have u two cent st&mp aitach «l. Fires.—la the midst of tho excitcmenton Saturday last, about noon, jxt, ■were startled by nn alarm of fire. It was discovered that a stable on North street, upon the premises of Mr. William Lytls, was on /ire, which wna soon entirely consumed. Loss small. About 3 o’clock, on the same afternoon, the stable of Judge Graham, at the foot of tho lot upon which our office is located, was discover ed to bo on fire, and notwithstanding tho stren uous exertions of the firemen and citizens, it, together with its content?, was speedily con sumed. By this latter fire, Mr. lluncnv Bell lost his ice house and a large amount of ice. At one time tho Ama icon office, Hannon’s stable, and several small tenant houses, were in groatdanger. This fire wasscarcely over, when another alarm was raised, which was eauaad by the discovery that the roof of the reaidenee of Mr. James Lot' don, on West High street, was on fire. This had evidently caught from sparks from the late fire. The firemen, however, soon su'.dued it without its causing any material Injury. These fires and alarms, coming at a lime when the public mind is in a feverish state of excitement caused by apprehended rebel raids induced many of our people to imagine that rebel spies and emmissaries wore actually emong up. Robberies. —Several small robberies bare been committed within the burough limits within the last ten days. Tbs house of Mr, John Csrotiiess was entered recently, and $ll stolen therefrom. The home of Mr. An drew Martin, (Constable,) was also entered, and $BO abstracted. We have also heard of fttveral other small roberios bavingbeen com mitted, but cannot trace them to .any reliable source'. Curing these times of high excite ment, oar citizens cannot be too careful in guarding their premises, as our town is filled with desperate and worthless negroes, who will nut only beg but atcal. [CT'By their fruits ye shall know them. Throughout the waole country there is not a single Lincoln lender who speaks one word in favor of the Union as our fathers made it and the observance of the Constitution, as our fath ers observed it. [£/” A “ three years soldier” complains in the Philadelphia Press that the Sanitary Commission’s stores never reacli the soldiers, being exclusively appropriated hy officers. «Ati—»f »- Anuthcr -great scare—the greatest of the season—was felt in this town'and throughout tho valley, on Friday lust. News had been recoiled that the rebels had aga.n the Potomnc in force, for the purpose of ma king a grand raid into -Pennsylvania. The news was soon confiruVcd by & despatch, in forming EstlVat the enemy occupied Hagers town with two regiments of cavalry and two of infantry. After crossing V.l tShepherds town il appears thf.t they passed 'through J Shurpsburg and Funkstowu. So sudden was j the descent upon Hagerstown that the opera tor who communicated the fact was compelled to leave on a hand-oar, closely pursued by a cavalry force. He was in range of their re volvers for a considerable time, and only es caped after hard work at the wheels. Of course our citizens were-nt once plunged into excitement, NVe can give,no idea of tho consternation that" prevailed. Everybody ran to his or her own house, to>‘pack up and send off such valuables r.s the}’ desired to save. "Wagons loaded with boxes, and even furniture, crowded tho streets, and men, wo men and children could bo seen on the run in all parts of tho town, intent, we suppose, upon saving all they could. The trains of cars go'ng East were filled to their utmost capacity, with hundreds of negroes on top.- Tho excitement bent anything we ’ever wit nessed,, and was kept up tho entire day and also on Saturday. On Sunday morning wo received intelli gence thut tho rebels had rccrossed the river and returned to their own country. This gratifying news tended to quiet our citizens, and at this writing all is quiet, and business, to a certain extent, has been resumed. The rebels rccrosscd the Potomno on Sat urday evening, and it now appears probable that their intended raid has been abandoned. Let us all, however,' be on the alert, for our enemies are wily and may j’et pay us a visit, ‘‘ Forewarned, forearmed. M 01 the election held in Cumberland 'County, on (ho 2d in*-*t., on the proposed Amendments to the Constitution Carlisle Dislrici Monroe, Upper Alloa, 112 59 116 63 HU 63 Lower Allen. lilt 23 136 131 New Cumberland, ft 3 6 69 f»’J Last PcKusborougb, 266 73 206 10 272 6 Hainpdun, Mechr'n'iesbnrg, Silver Spring, Middlttsox, IMiunfi'ell, Newville, Newbnrg, Shijipcnsburg, I yt^burg, JaclißOUvillo Penn, Slone Tavern, Quotas, Total, Majorities, 1339 3381 5371 Death from Sun-Strokr. — Robert Me* Nickel, a U. S. soldier at Carlisle Barracks, died very suddenly on Monday afternoon from the effects of eun-stmke. The deceased was returning from town to the garrison, but be fore reaching that place he dropped over on the roadside, where he was fo-md in a dying condition by some citizens and taken to the hospital at the baracks, where he expired shortly afterwards. His body was followed to ttie grave on Tuesday afternoon by his for mer cumrudes-in-arms —the band playing a solemn dirge—when the last tribute on earth duo a brave soldier was paid to his departing spirit. He was married and leaves a wil* and child to mourn Ins sudden death. O'* Denmaik is reaping the fruits of ton much dependence on John Ball’s profnise.s and pluck. After standing a galiant.defence against the whole of Germany. and been bad ly worsted, she is now to be absorbed in the Germanic Confederation. Xot parcelled out ftinonsrthem, ns was tir&tapprehended, but ad mitted as a State, and controlled hereafter by the-central authority, as other German Slates are. If this is the way England backs up her friends, after getting them into p, scrape. Mr. Mason need not regret that England has not openly espoused the rebel cause.— Phila. Ledger, England longer a first-rato power in European affairs, and hereafter in all great matters of European concern, she wi.l rank merely a* a second rale power. Already tho continental nations scoff at her power and treat her influence with contempt. Her hold upon India is much weekend of late years. Canada is a dead weight upon her; and in a war with any of the continental powers, Ire land would take occasion to shake off the chi'in which so long have hound-her. John Bull knows this, and his fears of the “ Banin Broth erhood" are most intense. Fiom being the arbitral* of European affairs, in a general war, England herself would have too seek protec tion. Hitting inn Nail on tub Head.— Tho Poughkeepsie Engle (a Lincoln organ) Is cor rect in paying that— “ Tho people arc very tiVed of hearing of drafts; they dread thorn ah they do a pesti lence, and will rejoice greatly when they be gin to see that they are likely* to' be rid ol them.” And we may add, says the Poughkeepsie Telegraph, what is becoming an equally gen eral feeling, that the only way to get rid of drafts, nod to finish up the war without fur ther exhausting the country of its people and the people of their subsistence, is for the peo ple to set the whole concern at Washington adrift, and to put men hi their places who can do something for the white race, instead of wasting all their time and the people's mon ey in philanthropic experiments for Ethiopi ans, whose condition is only made worse and worse hy Abolition socialistic tinkering. The Evening Telegraph (Philadelphia, Abolition) states that Grant lost 0,000 men in his attack upon the foA V 'bndcr which he exploded a mine. Oon.' Bartlett was cap tured hy the rebels and many other officers. The loss in the negro regiments was very heavy, they having become disorganized at the first fire. No ground was gained by the Federal forces. TSIE LIST GREAT sCi'RE. OFFICIAL RETURNS Ijl Ain't. 2a’ Ain't. ?>d Ain’t. For Ag. K*t A*. Far Ag. 070 -199 1000 72 1001 7-1 174 Oil 197 42 197 42 M 74 170 179 2U9 32 234 2 236 1 '94 219 1-14 100 112 ISO 100 69 K-6 ’ 106 MS 15 123 123 420 130 480 48 4*3 49 92 5,0 115 34 112 37 291 30 291 4i 2‘JO 43 30 12 39 11 30 11 28 30 65 2 55 2 89 136 221 221 17 46 4 1 16 43 1 7 2927 1 68S 59u6 634 BM*6 624 16SS 524 621 lt is currently reported m Washing ton, that while the invaders were threaten ing the city, President Lincoln was safely ensconced in a gunboat in order *o escape a rupture hy the Confederates'. A CONTRAST. ■Last Vebruflfy a miaarablo little town in Massachusetts, called Gloecbestcr, was de atroyed by fire. Immediately thereupon, Mr. Alley, member of Congress from that district, introduced in tho House of Kepis eontutirca a resolution- authorizing the Sec retary $F 'the Treasury to temporarily sus pend tho collection of taxes in that town. None of the New York or Eastern Abolition papers saw anything potty and unpatriotic in this. Although these shanties, redolent of the savory odor Of tho codfish, were des troyed by no-calamity arising out of tho wtir, no one found cause to sneer at the "economi cal method Yankee ingenuity took at “ma king tho owners whole’* at the expense of every other man and woman in tho United States. But now, when tho groat State of Pennsylvania, from a blind confidence in tho honesty p.nd ability of tho Federal Govern ment, is laid open to the ravages of a war waged, as tho President unblushingly pro claims, for the abolition of slavery,-when her valleys are desolated, her homesteads dbs- t troved, her citizens fugitives, and her whole internal cctfnomy of railroads, collieries and manufactures threatened with annihilation, no word-j’Ere found too strong to express the contempt and disgust which are felt by the Yankees for her weakness and pusilanimity. " Why didn’t she defend herself?” “What does she call on us for?” “ Poor devel that she is, sneaking on her hands rfnd knees to us for contributions!” Such is now the lan guage nf tho Tribune and the Eastern Abo litionists. Is not this contempt a bitter les son to us ? Will it not sting our people into a proper -appreciation of the value of such friendship—of the worth of an alliance With Hindi neighbors? Just hero wo quote a sensible article from the New York World, elicited by the abuse heaped by Abolition journals upon the peo ple of (,'hambersburg and Southern Penn sylvania generally: WHY ABUSE THE PENNSYLVANIANS ? It seems to us that the Administration journals might bo better employed than in continuing their abuse of the unfortunate people of Chmiibersbiirp and Southern Penn sylvania. As it was a Republican'Congress Unit placed tiro whole military power of the country in tho I amis of the Administration, and destroyed the militia of the States in do s it is a lit le too much to arraign the ex posed 'Border Slates for mit having an im promptu militia force in readiness to resist unexpected invaders. The people of the country were assured that if this gre* l *- Unili tarv power was given to the Administration the”rebellion Would bo crushed beyond all pornd venture ; and surely the people of Mary land and Pennsylvania, fn the immediate; neighborhood of the national capital, could not have expected, after these assurances of the Republican press and leaders, that the rebel army world bo marching ami counter, marching among them in the fourth year of the war. The people of Maryland and 'Pennsylvania‘ should not bo called upon to make any greater sacrifices than the people ot Vermont or Wisconsin. Equally with these last Stales they have supplied tlreit quotas to the na-| tional armies, and it is the houndon duty of the Administration to protect them .in their homes, in this late stage of the war, without excessive calls uoon them as compared with other States. That Governor Curtin ia gross ly inefficient is no dmibt true ; but the blame fur hia retention in office must be laid to the credit of the Republican party of Pennsylva nia. who re-elected him, and with him a Re publican majority in the Legislature. It has been made to appear, as the World stales it, i. 0., that the “ Republican party reelected" Curtin; but that party, with the aid of 30,000 selected votes, which Stanton boasted of having sent to Pennsylvania from the army, and with the aid of the must mon strous frauds at the polls and in the returns, were only able to figure up about half as much apparent majority as were fraudulently tbr-<wn into the ballot-boxes by Lincoln's Secretary of War. The truth is well known that Curtin was never re-elected, in the true seine of the word, and that his retention of, his seat as Governor is an enormous fraud and I a crime against the people of Pennsylvania. I Rut the Republicans did support him, and ho now fills, to Pennsylvania’s shame, the office of Chief Magistrate. The argument of the World is therefore not affected by this state ment; and we only make it to vindicate the (ruth of history, and to enter, as we have done on all proper occasions, our solemn protest against the assumption that the disgrace of re-electing Curtin rests upon the people of Pennsylvania. The World continues i Now. we insist that the people of Cham ber-burg have a fair claim upon the country, or at leso't upon the Republican party* for in demnity for the damages inflictea upon them by tint rebels. When the llepul lican press ot the country were urging Congress to pass a conscription law giving tho Administration the la-t man if ho was needed, they lulled the people of Pennsylvania and Maryland, ami all the Border States, to a deceitful nc curity, by promising them that all that was wanting to crush the rebellion was that great power in tho hands of the-Administration.— It is they who are to blame for the disasters which have comp upon tho people in not, standing by the Democratic party in /Con gress, and insisting thfit the raising oPour armies and their equipment should bo left where the Constitution placed it—with tho lo cal authorities of tho several States. Had that been done we would to-day havn had an effu-bnl.militia system, not’nnly in Pennsyl vania, hut in sill the Northern Staten. Tho impotence of tho exposed States is due ex clusively to the Republican patty, and it is with them the blame properly belongs. M’Ci.eu.an. —A late letter Irom Washing- ton says “ The pressure on the President to restore General McClellan to command, and put him in charge of the army and defences of Wash ington, is constantly increasing. Leading and influential Republicans are constantly urging, personally and hy letter, the neces sity of something of the kind being done.— The President, it is understood, is disposed to yield, a* least ho far as to authorize him at once to raise fifty thousand men for the special service indicated; hut a lending member nf the Cabinet opposes it. There is a very lively row going on about this matter, and its importance is by no means overesti mated by either the friends or enemies of McClellan. The result is yet uncertain ; but if the opposition of the individual referred to wore overcome no further difficulty would bo experienced in arrangingit.” jjgjy A fight occurred-between parlies of citizens of Fayette county, Illinois, eight miles from Vandalia, Friday morning, which resulted in the death of throe persons and the wounding of several others. Much ill-feel ing exists in that county, on account of po litical differences. The fight was the result of a p-dincnl quarrel. BEN. WADE'S ATTACK ON fMSIOBNT ‘BIN- tOLN. The protest. of Ben. W*de .and IlßKirr Winter Davis against J&r. Lincoln's proc-, lamation of tho Bth of July refusing to Vi£n tho bill “to guarantee to certain' whoso governments have been Usurped, a republican 'form of government,” and an nouncing liis intention to abide by bis own une-tetith proclanvationTnstead, is a blow be tween the eyes which wifi dmo the Presi dent more than General ButlEr says his el ectioneering for-the i presidency has done. : It priivesVnh guilty of executive usurpa tions which ought to subject him to impeach ment, of hypocrisy which should alienate from him tho confidence of all honest men, of an unscrupulous'ambition which is wil ling to clutch at its prize though-risking civ il war at the North, \Vo have no disposition to remind Messrs. Wade and Davis of those other executive usurpations with which Mr, Lincoln has crowded the three years of his administra tion. They have been for tho most part at tacks upon, and outrages of, tho rights and privileges of citizens. The rights of Ameri can citizens, especially those of tho Demo cratic party, these gentlemen dirtvo thought it no part of their duty to denounce and re sist. We congratulate tho country that two Republicans have been found willing at-last to resent the encroachments df the executive on tho authority of Congress. /That is a gain, The ambitious usurpations of the one-tenth scheme have been exposed and denounced in these columns rcs'they deserved to be. The scheme was upheld by tho Abolition press, the Times particularly, even after the Olus teo massacre proved that Mr. Lincoln was as willing to sacrifice 'lives 'as to purchase votes for tho gratification of his lust for office. Wo resign those organa now to the vigorous handling of “ old Ben Wade. There ’to only one point in this protest to which wo desire to call an especial attention, though we trust no teader of Me TT orld will fall to peruse the whole document with caro, and then pass it around to his Repub lican friends, Messrs. Wade and Davis say : “The President, by preventing this bill from becoming a law, holds tho electoral votes of the rebel.states at tho dictation of his personal ambition. “If those votes turn-the balance in his fa vor, is it to bo supposed that his competitor, defeated by such means, will acquiesce ?” The President, Messrs. Wade and Davis. and the Republican party may as well have the benefit of an explicit answer to this ques tion. And on behalf of the Democratic par ty wo take leave to say that if tbe Chicago nominee shall have been elected by a major ity of the electoral votes from the loyal States, and Mr. Lincoln and his supporters shall then undertake to reverse that result, and to secure him the election hy carrying out this long-projected and 'deeply-laid scheme of counting in the rotten-borough votes, tho president elect and'the Democrat ic pprty will not “ acquiesce," but they will immediately' proceed to administer to the usurpers, and at whatever cost, to establish in tho chair of the Chief Magistrate the Chief Magistrate rightfully and lawfully chosen hy the pe iple to fill tho same.— N. Y. World. -—This is the cry ofall the Aholl ion papers. “Tux iis”—“ tax every thing” —“ tux high”—“ lay on the tasccs.° Mure inoney is wanted—four millions a clay arc being used vip—tire Government owe four thousand millions of dollars, and prohahly more if nil just claims are considered —“ tax us, tax us” —U requires the highest possible taxes to pay the interest on the debt. The men who squelched out the Peace Con gress— who looked upon “ blood letting ns wholesome—'who denounce the word “ peace” ajj wicked —who deny that the South have any rights, and claim that Northern armies shall destroy their institutions—whodenounc everybody as a traitor who dares to say that such a war will ruin the whole country—who rejoice in mobs and the destruction of jiber ly—who fatten upon the spoils of War, and roll In luxuries and strut in diamonds, whilst the country is becoming impoveriohed and the hones of a million slam men are strewn over the land—these men cry tax üb,” “ tax everything, 0 “wo want more money/* “wring it out of the people.” Crush out the State, banks—sweep our cap ital into the maelstrom of war—grasp it all. Destroy the South—break up their system of labor—devastate the ir homes—drive them out of existence; and then, to accomplish tfffa. drain the North of her able-bodied men, and tax her people, but above all, vote for Old Abe that all this may he continued fur " Tax Us.” another four jearo Significant Soldier’s Letter. —Tho fol lowing is from tho late editor of the Tunk hannock Republican , a Republican sheet: Near Petersbuko, Vii., July 3, 1804. Dear Wife: A great many want to know, ! suppose, how tho last battle went. My an swer is, invariably, that we have had hut one and that eomnionucd on tho fifth day of May last. The soldiers all console themselves with tho belief that this season will end tho war, and I believe so myself. If wo can’t whip them by fall, wo never can. The sol diers will stand it no longer. They Will go for anew Administration. In fact,l hate changed my views considerably from what they were when I left home. There is too much nigger in tho present Adminirtration, and too many lies published in newspapers. I find If I want to approximate anywhere near tho truth, 1 have to take it Iront Democratic papers. Inclosed you will find a silver dollar, (if it ever reaches you,) which I send to tho little “ cherub," and one which I prize quite high ly for two reasons j one is, because they are scarce, and the other is because it is a relic from the battle-field near Petersburg, and was once the property of some Reb. I picked it up shortly after the battle. 11. A. TiffaSVi Boldly and Truly Spoken. —The N. Y. Express, in a recent bold and able article, truthfully says, in reforeuoo to the military campaign of this ennimer; " Before God and the Country, Mr. Lincoln and his associates are responsible for the ru inous policy whion has cost the nation a hun dred thousand lives and a hundred billions of dollars.'' • Again— “ If the Executive persists in his plans and policy, nothing but tho Providence of God can save tho nation from total ruin." A WARNING TO MALCONTENTS, Tho great object for which all true lovers of. their country are now contending is tho defeat of Abe Lincoln’s aspirations to re-el ection. This will bring peace and Union, if any thing can. Therefore, and conservative Republicans should unite and all dissension and difference on minor points be merged in the great issue. The following from tho New York World , the or gan of the so-called “War Democrats,” con tains our sentiments exactly: Now that the presidential canvass is fairly opened, it behoves Demntjms to close up their ranks and sternly discountenance per sons oi* cliques who may attempt to distract tho party organizatisn. Tho vital Object with all who claim to bo Dcmocrats r.nd pa triots is to defeat tho present administration. This can only he done by tho united action of all who believe that'Mr. Lincoln and his advisers are unable to properly conduct tho war or restore the country to peace and union. All tho foolish misunderstanding' which has been rife among Democrats should not bo tolerated hereafter. If those who call themselves war Democrats are found de nouncing those who claim to bo peace Dem ocrats, or vice versa, it is pretty clear that dvelv 'person so acting is either a fool or is Working directly in the interests of tho ad ministration, fie ’is either an office-holder, a contractor, dr he hnsfho ‘proUiise -of a con trfict. Wo are now fighting 'a cdtiufion .'ene my, find any frittn who : Utldbrtakcs to'distract our ranks by‘belaboring‘his neighbor ie a traitor, or a spy, and should bo shot down in his tracks, or sent to tho rear under guard. This thing cannot be tolerated. Wo have no vtimo ,to waste in quarreling with each other. The opposition which is lortnlng against the present administration cortiprises not alone peace Democrats or war Democrats, but it •ombraccs as well conservative men whodiavo ■hitherto acted with tho Republican iparty through mistaken motives—-of sincere radi cals, who arc disgusted with the imbecility of Lincoln, and also a great number of.dis ■contcnted but patriotic citizens who-do not really belong to any particular party in the ■country. All these different representatives of opinion’are now ready to act together for' the overthrown! the present administration ; and any person claiming to bo a Democrat, whether of tho war m* ponce stripe, Hio spends his time in denouncing‘his fellow- Democrats, is, as wc have said, either an ar rant booby or a traitor, having the interests of Lincoln and his corrupt crew at Ircart. If such felloVs were caught and stripped, wo will wager that a contract would bo louno in tho linings of their coats, or a thousand-dol- Inr greenback in the sides of their boots.- Let us have no more of such people. We must restore tho discipline <>l the good old parlj, which never permitted wrangling in its ranks, and which subjected bolters and malcontents to the sternest party discipline. Let ns have a union of all shades of the op position for the sake of' tho Union t.nd of peace. The first thing to do is to pilch over board Lincoln and all his works. GRANTS CAMPAIGN. the National lalelligcnecr of Saturday last gives an exhaustive mwnte of Gen. Grant’s recent Virginia campaign, the conclusion it an ives at seems to bo 1. That tiro plan of the campaign was a mistake ; 'General Grant having cither over estimated his'otvn power of aggression or un derestimated Leo’s power of defense. 2. That evciy movement of tiro campaign was unsuccessful, the only exception being the capture of a rebel division on the Po. 3. That Very little tactical skill was dis played in any of the engagements, which consisted simply of pushing masses of men "against strong ' works, before which they were uselessly slauebterlM-. 4. That after losing immense numbers of valuable lives, an well as trained officers, no advantage lias been gained, and the cam paign against Richmond is a failure. The Intelligencer has a right to its opinions, ol course, but we think that it does not make al owance fur Mr. Lincoln's influence updo the campaign. General Grant was r.ucecsa ful at Vicksburg when he did not follow Mr. Lincoln’s advice, as the latter acknowledged in a letter, and his failure in Virginia is un doubtedly duo to his adoption of Mr. Lin coln’s wish for an overland campaign. To this circumstance and to his repeated denials of Gen. Grant’s requests in regard to chan ges among his subordinate generals, can bo traced all the disasters in Virginia. There seems to bo a curse upon everything Mr. Lincoln meddles with in a military way. his inagural message President Lincoln said: I understand a prnposod amendment to the Constitution—which mnendmeut, however, I have not seen—has passed Congress, to tho effect that the federal government shall never interfere with the domestic inst'tutions of states, including that of persons hold to ser vice. ’ To avoid misconstruction of what I have said, I depart from my purpose—not to speak of particular amendments —so far as to say that, holding such a provision to notv ho implied constitutional law, I have no objec tion to its being made express and irrevoca ble. It was in tho same hour that Mr. Lincoln said that he should soon have taken the most column oath to preserve, protect, ano defend the Constitution. My. Lincoln, after indorsing evtiry aboli tion measure which has been passed in Con gress, now. perjures himself anew with tho declaration that he will not listen to over tures of peace till they propose” tho abandon ment of nl&voryi” A Cosif liment To Gen. Banks. —Tho edi tor of tho Cairo News has been furnished with a copy of tho Mobile Evening News of May 30, which contains the following re markable order, which has not yet been pub lished in Northern papers : Adjts. and Inspector Gen’s Office, Richmond, May 24, 1801 Special Order, No. 234,-LOwing to the in estimable service rendered to the Confeder ate States by Major Gen. N. P. Banks, U. S, A., all officers and men in the service of tho Confederate States are hereby prohibit ed from harming a hair of his head, and are especially ordered, under all circumstances, to allots him to escape. By order, S. OoopEti, Adjutant and Inspector General. Otiß Formidable Pension List. —lt is of ficially stated that tho work of the Pension Bureau is now well-up and that all applica tions made prior to the first of June have been disposed of. Tho number of claims al lowed to invalids and widows has averaged about five thousand a iriobth for the last four months. If the war is continued a few ycar 8 longer and our pensioners increase at tbo rate of five thousand a month Very soon wo shall have entailed upon us annual expendi ture quite equal to the cos£ of supporting tho vast armies now in tho field. O' A largo Democratic gain is noted in the’ city of Columbus, Ohio, at an election held for oity’officers on the 30th ult» A REPUBLICAN on the administration POLICY. Speech of Senator Cowan, of Pennsylvania, 1 in the Seriate, June 27. Mr. Cowan said : T "think, Mr. I’rosident, tilnt our cuurßO in rOfekrd to tho Suulbcrn people has been of a character entirely (he ■roverao of that which would have been auc ccasful iu eunpreaainp; tlio rebellion. We were tilled with incorrect ideas of the work wo were engaged in, or of the only methods by which we could perform the gigantic task we had undertaken. Wo started out with exaggerated notions of our own strength, and wo disdained to think that our success do pended upun*the loyal men of the South ; wo thought wo did not need them, and treated them accordingly. Think of such a proposal tion U 8 that contained in this lair, that if they do' not lay down their arms in sixty days they will bo punished by loss of their estates-/ Uow, pray, are they to lay down tbeir arms? Surely wo know enough to know that this, is mure mockery, and that the robe} .president might as well expect a sol dier-in our armies to lay down his arms upon a promise of-protection. Mr. President. .I'have sometimes* doubted whether we could bo serious when wo expect nny good result to come from such measuros ns this, which not only exposes *us to ridicule but docs harm to our cause. What was wanting in this crisis of our history with now criminal legislation, when tho code was com-’ pletc before ? We had a statue punishing, treason with death ; a just and proper 'pun ishment, one well according with tho magni tude of tho crime as well ns the majesty of tho law which inflicted it. For all those who conspired the dismemberment of the repub lic, who used the mears and perverted the stale governments to bring it, this is the fit ting punishment, because it is tho highest and falls upon tho guilty -alone, where it ought. I would have no additional laws ;in law (hev are not needed. 'I would liayo con templated no reforms within the area of the rebellion ; they cannot-bo made at such a time. What wo wanted was men and mo ney ; these -granted, the true function of Com gress was over until peace was restored and ■all *pni lies again represented.. Biit above all , things I would not have played into the hands of tho-enemy ; I would not have done •that which the rebels most desired to have done, because I have no doubt that Ibis and •all kindred schemes have been the very ones which they must wanted 'ns to adopt, i do ■not know that Jefferson Davis ever prays; hot, if ho dues, I ba-ve no doubt ho would F-ray . . , Mr. Wade. Pray for just such an advo ■ cate. Mr. Cmvan. Pray W just such ft states nuin ftn Hie honrtra'hlo Senator from Ohio, the most effective ally he ever had <»r could have. 110 would have prayed for measures on our part which were obnoxious t«* all people of l-hc South, loyal and disloyal, Union and din-- union. He would have prayed that we Should outrage all their common prejudices -And cherished beliefs; that we should do theflo things by giving ourselves over to the guid ance of men whom it was part -of'their reli gion to hate; to hate personally and by« name, with an intensity rarely witne'&Sed ‘in. the world before, lie wmiW hlivc prayed for confiscation general asid nfdi&crhnina’fC; threatening ub Well tlie victims ttf tiro Usur pation us the usurpers themsblveß: -a* well those wo were hound to reSbuo as those we were hound to punish. Fervently wo would have prayed for our ‘emancipation laws ami proclamations as means tofiic the softtliorn heart more potent than all others ; they would rally the angry population to hia stan dard of revolt as if each had persona! quarrel. He would then have a united South ; while as tire result ofthe Bam o nrcasr.ros a distracted and divided ftort'h. 'Pkay is the way 1 think lie would have pnavedand Wtuld pray how, I.* any man so Bthpid\vH • that the great desire otiN-lie pftrTnfevery Abel is embark in re volt wttfi him ot the disaf fected districts ? Is bus not that hetjn considered enough to iusUte succors to him ? And where dhcß nre of any united people, nunnJering five or six millions, when they engaged in revolu tion ? Nowhere ; there is no such ease. . What did we do to bring this unity about in the S nth? We forgot uur first resolve in July, 1801, to restore the Union alone, and wo went further, and’gave out that we would also abolish slavery. Now, that was jVist ex actly the point upon which all southern men w v ero most tender, and at kvhich they were .most prone to ho alarmed and offended, i hat was of all things the one best calculated to make them of one mind against ns; thcro was no oilier measure, indeed, which could havedost to the Union •cause so many of them. It is not a 'question either ns, to whether they wore right or wrong—that was matter h»r their consideration, not ours ; for if we iVerc Bo desirous of a union with them, wo ought not to have expected them to give up their most cheHshed inQiltutionn in order to e!T« bt it. Unions are made by people taking one another as they ore, and I think *-t has never vet occurred to any man who was anxious to form ft partnership with Mother, that lie should first aittoibpt to force that other either to change his religion or his politics. Is not the answer obvious; would not the other say to him : “ If you do not like my principles, why do you wisli to be partner with me?— Have I not as good a tight to ask you to chnngo yours as a condition precedent?” Suit was with the Southern people; they were alt in favor ot slavery, hut one-half of them were still for Union with us us before-, because they did not believe wo were aboli tionists. The other half were in open rebel lion because they did believe it. Now, can any one conceive of greater folly on our part than that wc should destroy the faith of our friends and verify that of our enemies? Could not anv body have foretold wo would have lost one-half hy that, and then wo would have no one left to form a union with? Wo drove that half over to the rebels and thereby in creased their strength a thousand-fold. Is not all this history now ? The great fact is staring us full in the face 10-dny ; wc are contending with a united people despe rately in earnest to resist us. Our most pow erful armies most skillfully led havo hereto fore failed to conquer them, and 1 think will fail as long as we pursuq this fatal policy. Now, Mr, President, I appeal to senators whether it id nol time to pause and inquire whether that policy, which has certainly uni ted the southern people in their cause, and which quite as certainly has divided the nor thern people in their support of ours, ought to bo abandoned at once. Why persist in it I longer? Ciin wo do nothing to retrieve our I fortune hy retracing OUr steps? Can wo not divide tlie tfebMs and Unite the loyal men of the loyal stated by going back to the single idea of war for the Union ; or is it now 100 late? Have we lost irrecoverably our hold on the affections of our countrymen who wore for the Uidon in 1861—even in 1802? Is there no way by which we could satisfy them that wo veb inean Union, and not conquest abd subjugation? And what a difference in the meaning of thopo two phrn'sea 1 The first of fers the hand of a brother, the second threat ens the yoke of a master. Or are we obliged now to exchange the hopes wc had of south ern Union men for that other and biiserabfo hope in the negro? Is ho all that is loft of loyalty in the South, and the only ally wo can rely upon to aid us in restoring ChO Union? Ye gods! what have wo cntiie to at the last ? Either to yield to an unholy Rebellion', to dis member an empire, or to go into national com panionship with the negro! Is this the al ternative to which our madness has brought UB? . ' . Mr. President, these things are enough to drive a sane man mad. After all our preten sions, all our boastings, how absurd will we •in the eyes of all other Tuitions if we fail in thfs struggle ! I measures about which we have oconn; I bclvus fur iho luHt'throo yours have heon J |° Ur cd upon our success rflready assume, „ T' 1 ' ed fact Wo provided f.,rcontSna { states of rebels before we g () t , ina "f 10 C| --1 emancipated slaves before ot „„1 »* | their masters, and wo provided for tlmV roln sition of conquests wo 'have nut ~, ,3 P o ' t have disposed of tbo skin'of the b e „ r , e j Ko j; bear itsoll is yet uncuught. All tl i 1111111,10 1 upon the record ; the statute-book win', Pl,t £ witness ‘against us in all joining ' Ut “ r |i wo cannot escape tbo consequence.. ;r ' ? n ' J fJ Mr. President, our govern mm fllil ‘ 1 tended to bo one of l.m. ,,:'o in 'l law. There was to bo notliin.r i n tlie-A 1 ! 7 - 01 1 istration of it left to the arbitrary will I individual or individuals. Tbis'wa ■ an ß it, or intended so, par excellence J ltp nier-H preserving its character in tiiar fllr I strictly. Let no man, from tl le i)'^- s P ect I down to tbo most petty officer ,t„ es " cnt I anything, whether to friendor ‘° d ° as warranted by law. Let us make w CCpt I cording to 1.. «r, and -let us have new „ ar n ?‘ I ing to law. If we light a belligerent 1, rJ ' I let us do it according to the law „f . T If wo punish or restrain a refractory n?, lot us do it by tbo law of the land ■>, process of law.” Hud wo bad foi’u, |^ uo Constitutiun and laws ami our peer,] r had not been in our present condition in wo made war and war alone, tbo 1,,v',.i 111,1 pie North and South to a man wnukl £ been with us. Tbo voice of faction if,,! entirely bushed would have bcoi, ha’rmle Ibo capital of the demagogue wank! |,JI been worthless, and the nation would I,™ been irresistible. Had wo treated the nl gro as tbo Constitution treats him, „ Ba M son, as another man ; bad wo made no dis" tindtion or difference lietween liim nndotbtr citizens, we bad not aroused against him that tribal anti'(ihtby which will be farm™ likely to destroy him than a lalso p|,i| M . tbropy will bo likely to elevate him hi tin scale of'being. If Ho was friendly to us, tbo *llllO use coiiid have been made of him that wo have made ; we etilld have enlisted him in our armies now ns wo hartsbeen rnlistinw him in our navy for long years. We could have received him ns a volunteer, il ho wm able-bodied, without looking tu hisemnplex ion, and we could have drafted him without inquiring into the rclationli 'which dialed boCWben him and Ilia master, hr,',• marc than wb inquire into the relations cif tl,o-wbite man ot twenty yc-afs (if ape with bis patent or his gunrditui. 'State laws a'lju-lej all those questions, but to Iho ‘United State! it made no vlifforcnee whether lit lined-his service to indlvidanls or not; lie owed his frrs't duty to the rtpu'bl'io'as mi’iitiirV servieo ii'hs ’rcfpiiTefl. And thih wits lawful, and no loyal nimi ever did or would Imvcmimphiined j of it, kindly done in the prupdr spirit. 1 ImVC olily to say. in coiicTfisbin. sir, that I hope I'fiat tlte joint rcCluth-M will not bs rbpchVcd -and thlU this and all kindred pur jeolb will Tail in the (uiuie, for the simph reason thnt they strengthen the rebels-by ’Uniting their people with them, and the; wehken tbo Union by dividing its frlcndi nnd distracting -them with unnecessary is ottos. Lht Us unite upon the single idea el suppressing the arnted opposition to thegur eminent. Let the energies of the nation bs de'voted solely to that' purpose, and success may yet come, if success is possible. every section of tlio country come such atom rebukes of the Adminislra tiorj for its sudden interruption of negotia* Fiona towards peace, that the longings of tbt p'fiblic heart are plainly told. The must sit neat supporters of tlie Administration dart not to defend the President in the line of con dnet lie has seen fit to adopt, and it is quin evident that even they believe that hewa .00 hasty in obtruding his conditions mil trampling upon the cxtoiiieded olive branch , I low long will it be, after the insults lie ha put upon irfcjuSStidently ’» earnevt,bcf.refln other 6uu|iu golden opportunity JUsd-iWo hiring the authiiized arhiiernuftjj two • face to face, in rediuimU confeVeiic’e ? » Healthful Effect of the Tom™.—Th tomato U one of the most healthful, nswel as the most universally liked, of all th Vegetables. Its healthful qualities do not J( pend on the mode'of preparation far the inb.f it may bo eaten thrice a day, cold or Imt.cou ed or raw, alone or without salt or pepper( Vinegar, or altogether, to a hke advantag unb in the.utmost that caU bd taken dilu appetite. Its healthful quality (irisesfromi slight acidity, in this making it na vsluaW perhaps a«berries, cherries, currants,and o ilat- articles. It is also highly "nutnUoi The tomato season ends with the frost. the vines are pulled up before the frost com l and hung Up in a well ventilated cellar,wi the tomatoes hanging to them.the“loieafpJ will continue ripening until Christnw*. i cella’r should not be too dry her toown The knowledge of this itiay b fi hnproa great practical advantage for the bene t ninny vtho ate invalies and aho &re- 01 of the tomato. TliE Grave Ciiterpillnrah taken possession of the grape rise 3 a[l making sad liavoo with the growing 6™P They fix thcinsolvea on the stems nml 3lt eat off the grapes singly or whole hunchc! a time. • The rascally pests Jo the w effectually as if they had been taught W' doit. Cun’t somebody suggest a r ®°f get rid of this nuisance ! ICT-When tlio President, says I' lo Argus, adds that lie will refuse to a proposition of peace, and willaage the “abandonment of slavery, ol ?. t || per, and undertakes to wage ivaf'Til' sanction and in violation of ilio C,l " S^' oHer lie has just as much, constitution" P wage war fur the establishment«' ‘ 1 danism, ns lie has for the abolition o The subject of slavery is onewhiot'. Constitution, belongs exclusively to 18 CU* Major James 11. Lane, of S. colored troops, was recently trl ° inertial at the Ninth Army Corps (( ters, upon the charge of du'ot unbecoming an officer an I and sentencod “to bo oasbiere , eco all pay and allowances now due ° r^ twnl due him, his shoulder-straps an bo cut off and his sword broken ft ' c " tll bs» once of his regiment, bo therea jU j fined at hard labor ct the Dry “ « the expiration of hid term o p 6r _ ID” Mr. Vorheds dcolarei : that Mr. Lincoln dare n0 "’ r eJI0 ko» tions for Union and peace, 00 i that his party cannot outllV ° tion of" that his power and the restore Union are" inconlpatiblo. i Zi Ark» n!ll! ' cay The Federal troops P oontly destroyed the library 0 . - n $ the poet. It is said to 11 ,5100,000.
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