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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.