AMERICAN VOLUNTEER.
JOHN B. BRATTON, Editor'& Proprleor.
CARLISLE, PA., AUGUST IS, 1804.
FOR PRESIDENT IN 1804.
GEORGE B. M’CLELLAN.
to the decision of » Notional Coimntion.]
Democratic County Ticket.
FOB CONGRESS,
A. J. GLOSSBRENNER, of York,
FOR ASSEMBLY 1 ,
Sa. JOHN D. BOWMAN, of E. Pennsboro’,
FOR SHERIFF,
JOHN JACOBS,'of Silrer Spring.
FOR COMMISSIONER,
HENRY KARNS, of Monroe.
FOB DIBECTOB 07 THE POOH,
WILLIAM WHERRY, of South Middleton
FOR AUDITOR,
JOHN A. HEBERLIG, of North Middleton.
THE COUJiTY CONVENTION.
Id another column will he found tho pro
ceedings of the Democratic County Conven
tion, which assembled in tho Court house, iu
this borough, on Monday. Every town and
township in the county was represented, and
the best of feeling prevailed. The ticket
nominated cannot fail to give satisfaction, as
it is composed of men unexceptionable in
every respect. Wo expect tooled this ticket
by some twelve hundred majoity.
It will be seen that the Convention, by a
Unanimous vote, adopted, a resolution favor
ing Gen. M'Clellan for President of the
United States. This was right and proper,
for wo are fuljy convinced that the people,
without respect to party, regard him as the
man for the present emergency.
The Congressional Conferees wero'unani*
mously instructed to support Adah J. Glob
berner, Esq. of .York, for Congress. Mr. G.
will therefore r receiv6 the united vote of the
Conferees representing the District, an hon
or he is well worthy of. Of course he will
bo elected by an overwhelming majoity, and
then the Democrats of Cumberland, Perry
and York will be represented in Congress by
a man worthy their respect and confidence.
More anon.
OLD SOUTH MIDDLETON.
At a meeting pf the Democrats and con
servatives of South Middleton township, held
in Papcrtown, on Saturday, August 13, to
elect delegates to the Democratic County
Convention, the following resolutions were
offered and unanimously adopted, viz :
Whereas, The Administration of Are
Lincoln has proved the greatest curse and
calamity ever inflicted upon the American
people, and that his famous “ To all whom it
may concern,” proves that lie intends that the
present “cruel war” shall bo waged until
slavery shall be abolished, and negroes made
the equals of white men. Therefore
Resolved , That the only road to peace is by
driving back the tide of Abolitionism, and,
at the ballot-box in November, dethrone the
tyrant who now disgraces the Presidential
chair, and for ’the accomplishment of this ol>-
ject we earnestly call upon all patriotic citi
zens to assist us in the great work.
Resolved, That in Major General Geo. B.
McClellan we recognize a firm 'patriot, a
hero, and a statesman, and that he is n fit
person to fill the chair disgraced by Abraham
Lincoln, and we trust that cur Representa
tives to the Chicago Covention, which assem
bles on the 29th inst., will present him as tho
first choice of the citizens of this State for
President, and that they will use all fair and
honorable means to secure his nomination.
• Resolved, That the Convention which meets
in Carlisle on the 15th inst., may present to
the people of this Congressional District a
man who will represent us in Congress, and
not prove a “ Judas Iscariot as did the im
becile, Joseph Daily,
. Resolved, That the great McClellan meet
ing, held in New York on the 10th Inst.,
proves to the entire country that the people
have no faith in the Administration of the
buffoon Lincoln, and that in order to stop
n°i War fbe government must be administer
ed by men who have the good of the country
at heart and not party gain.
Fatal Accident—Death of Michael
Burke. We regret to learn from the Harris
burg papers that Michael GoRKE,a wealthy
and much esteemed citizen of that city, met
with an accident on Monday, which resulted
in his death. He waa crossing tho railroad
near the canal bridge, when a locomotive
struck tho baggy in which he was seated,
causing him to fall heavily upon his head.—
In a few hours ho breathed his last. Mr, 8..
was an Irishman, and was some 70 years of
, age.
KIT" The Printing Office of the Valley Spir
it, at Chamberaburg, was entirely destroyed
by the fire which laid waste that town on the
Slat nil, under the vindicative orders of the
Rebel General McCaualand. The publishers
have lost all except their wearing apparel ;
and are compelled to appeal to their friends
at home and abroad for assistance in re-es
tablishing their business. The Valley Spirit
was a staunch and able Democratic paper,
and the party cannot afford to do without its
services in the present crisis. We hope the
Democracy of Franklin county and of the
State at large will contribute liberally tow
ard making up the heavy loss the publishers
have sustained, so that the publication of the
paper may be resumed at an early day.
We shall be happy to act as the agent for
forwarding to ouf unfortunate editorial brelh
ern any donations which our Democratic
friends in Carlisle and Cumberland county
may be inclined to make (or their relief.
The New York Tribune, after advocating
for years such political measures as have
brought the country to its present deplorable
financial condition,<refuses to accede to a de
mand of its printers for such an advance of
wages ns will enable tbepi to live over the
reign of high prices.
WHO IS TO BLAfiIE t
In {tie ffiesengo to the oxsra session of the
Legislature, Gor. Curtin holds the National
administration responsible for the Irtto rebel
raid into Pennsylvania* and fot tho burning
of Ho embraces in his men-
letters ho uud Qon. Coucn wrote to
Lincoln and the Secretary of War, in which
tho National authorities were assured that
both Pennsylvania and Maryland were at
the mercy of the rebels, and, in all probabil
ity would bo Invaded and if au
thority was not given tnem (Curtin* and
ooccii,) to place a sufficient force on tho bor
ders of our State to repel tho marauders
when they made the attempt. Old Abe's re
plies to these applications are also published
in the message. The President, it appears,
refused to give a man for the protection of
pur Slate. lie answered tho Governor and
Gen. Coven (through a subordinate,) in a
half dozen of lines, in which he. with lizard
heart, tells them, that he will not permit
Pennsylvania troops to defend Pennsylvania 1
Therefore, according to the Governor’s show
ing, Abraham Lincoln, President of tho
United States, is responsible for the rebel in
vasion of Pennsylvania and for tho burning
of Chambersburg. And so ho is, and if he
U worth the money—and, from all we can
hear he is—ho is liable to the people of
Chambersburg for the losses they have sus
tained—some two or three millions of dollars.
We repeat, Abe Lincoln should be held re
sponsible for.lho losses sustained by the peo
ple of this valley from the late rebel raid
and before a court of justice damages to tho
full araountcould ond would be found against
him.
JRNCgJ
But, notwithstanding Lincoln’s guilt, his
utter indifference, and his imbecility, Curtin
is not guiltless. When he appealed to the
miserable creature Lincoln, for tho privi
lege of calling out troops for the protection
of our Southern border, and was refused, why
did he not, as Governor of Pennsylvania, ex
ercise his authority, and call tho troops out
himself, and explain to them the situation
of affairs? By doing so ho could have pre
vented the rebel raid and saved Chambors
burg, in spite of Lincoln. We hold Lincoln
guilty, but at the same time wc cannot ex
culpate Curtin. He is not as guilty per*
hops as Lincoln, but bo is culpable, and has
exhibited a cowardly and craven spirit that
deserves condemnation.
The Constitutional Amendments. —The
Carlisle Herald , in informing its readers that
tho majoity for the first proposed Constitu
tional amendment, (giving the soldiers tho
right to vote,) m this county was 1339, uses
this language:
“ As we predicted the politicians of the
Democratic party did every thing they dared
dotodefeat the first Amendment. Their tick
ets were all printed against it and in favor of
the other two. They industriouly circulated
the story the first Amendment allowed ne
groes to vote and used every unfair and dis
honest objection conceivable against it.”
The above is a misrepresentation—a false
hood. We printed and circulated tickets
both for and against the amendment, and so
did our neighbor of the Democrat. Nor did
the Democrats do “ everything they dared do
to defeat the first amendment.” The ques
tion was not a political one, nor did anybody
attempt to make it euch. Had the Democrts
of the county arrayed themselves against the
amendment, instead of 1339 fur it, there would
have been that majority against it. The
Democrats of this county “ dare” do as they
please in political matters, without regard to
the opinions of collar men, who are forced to
support disunioniats and infidels for high po
sitions.
The soldiers, we think, understand tho new
formed zeal that is exhibited by tho shoddyites
in their behalf. It is no love for tho soldier
that actuates tho disunionists ; the soldier’s
vote is what they are after. Thank fortune,
the soldiers are not fools; they never asked
for tho right to vote in the field, but now that
the right has been granted them, they are de
termined to vote as they please, even if old
Lincoln and his menials should howl like
whipped curs.
Kentcckey Election.— According to in
telligence contained in tho Ohio Statesman,
the Democracy hare swept the State. This
may also be inferred from the piteous howls
that come up from the Abolition newspaper
offices at Cincinnati. Martial law had been
proclaimed all over the §tate, and the Aboli
tionists 'supposed that under its benign in
fluences they could easily achieve a victory,
even though they knew themselves to bo in a
contemptible minority! And then, General
Burrbidge also came to their aid, throughout
his entire satrapey, with his military orders,
proscribing candidates that he didn’t want
elected, and refusing to let their names ap
pear on the poll-book—as in case of Judge
Duvall in the District of the Appellate Court,
opposite Cincinnati. But it seems the Dem
ocrats were not to be put down this time in
any such manner. Nothing daunted, they
put George Robertson,of Lexington, on the
track as their candidate the day before the
election, and when it was too late for Bur
bridge, the military satrap, to suppress him.
The result is, thatßobertson has nearly three
thousand over; his Abolition competitor, M.
M, Beaton, of. C ivington. It is intimated
that an attempt will be made to prohibit the
Judge elect from entering upon the discharge
[ of bis duties. Wo hope nothing of the sort
1 will be done. The people who elected him
will, of course, see to it that he is inducted
1 into office.
Stop the Draft. —Petitions — ay e,petitions
to Abraham Lincoln—by chance, orby Ileny
en’s wrath—President of the United States,,
are in circulation in the Western States, with'
numerous signatures, asking the postpone
ment of the draft, in these words following;
TO THE PRESIDENT OP THE UNITED STATES,
The undersigned citizens of the State of
Ohio, without regard to party, and in eentb
ment devoted to the Constitution and the Un
ion, respectfully petition and request that the
Draft for Half a Million more Mon, ordered
to take place on the stb day of September
next, may be postponed until an attempt has
been made by negotiation, to secure Peace,
based on the Constitution - and Union.
August, 1804. |
K - It is hinted in Washington that Gen.
IXalleck, is the author of the editorial in the
NaliopallnUliyencer, which attempts to dem
onstrate the utter failure of Gen. Grant's cain
paign. ~i
LINCOLN, WAR, ANABCET.
Wo predicted in 1860 that tho electin'© of
’the Union-splitter, Lincoln, would be followed
by a long Bud bloody war, that the Con
stitution -Would he trampled under foot,
that State rights and State lows would be vi
olated, and anarchy prevail throughout our
once happy land—happy until' tho Vondal
hands of a ‘rockless, dishonest, treasonable
Abolition faction took hold of the ship of
State. Our predictions were laughed at, the
power of the South was onoerod at, and Ab
olition slangwhangors made themselves and
their hearers merry ut the expense of those
who warned tho people of the impending cri
sis. A sectional party was a, dangerous ex
periment. Washington and others of the
early fathers had warned us against giving
countenance to linything of the kind, but all
to no purpose. The words of departed states
men were forgotten or disregarded by tho
mad fanatics who had resolved upon war,
desolation and plunder. Nothing but “ a
little blood-letting” would satisfy them,, and,
God knows, they have had blood-letting in
abundance. Some seven or eight hundred
thousand men, North and South, sleep in go
ry grave's, and thi end is not yet. No, not
yet, and no man living has in idea when
this “ wicked war,” this sanguinary contest
is to ho brought to a close. Mr. Lincoln
has called for 500,000 more men, and he de
clares at the same time, with brazen audaci
ty, that the war is not to be prosecuted for
the purpose of restoring the Union, but for
tho abolishment of slavery. In violation of
his oath, ip violation of his plighted word
and the resolution unanimously adopted by
Congress, the President insults the people
by telling them that this infernal war is to
go on from year to year until the slaves of
the South are all set free and negro-equality
established. This accomplished, he will be
ready to recognize the South as a separate
and distinct power. Mark it, Lincoln is
ready and willing to dissolve the Union tho
very hour he is successful in the scheme
nearest to his heart—the abolition of slavery.
He always was a disunionist, and he isadis
unionist still. Twenty-two years ago he fa
vored (in a speech in Congress,) a‘dissolu
tion of the Union, and h© has never changed
his opinion on that subject.
The war will go on then so long ns Lin
coln is at tho head of affairs. Blood and
money will bo called for every sixty days,
and tho sanguinary contest will grow fiercer
as it progresses, until finally the people of
both sections will bo utterly ruined in popu
lation and in treasure. Will the people con
tinue blind?—will they permit this buffoon
Lincoln to go on in his treasonable course,
or will they rise as ono roan and hurl him
from the place he now disgraces? “Give
us a change ; give us anybody but Lincoln,”
are words that can be beard in all quarters,
and this is a good omen-. Let the hardy yeo
manry of tho country look at things ns they
arc, and, casting aside party prejudicies, let
them make a grand effort to save the coun
try.
Falling to Pieces.
The shoddy dynasty is rapidly falling to
pieces. Every day, allnost, and from every
section of the North, come evidences of the
abandonment of Lincoln’* fortunes by prom
inent members and editors of the Republican
party. The New London (Conn.) Chronicle ,
a Republican paper, in taking down the
names of Lincoln and Johnson from its head,
uses the following language:
There are more or less empty-headed idi
ots in every community, who, without know
ing why, belch forth their silly slang. They
are like dogs who bafk at any or all objects
toward which’ their masters exhibit their
aversion. Men who ha*vo a pecuniary inter
est in lauding Lincoln to the skies—whose
fat offices are dependent on his re-election,
pronounce every indication of mistrust in the-
President's ability, honesty and integrity, to
be rank Cupperheadism, and the wefek-mind
ed, easily led and thoughtless parasites ol
these officials take up the parrot cry and ring
the changes on a word which was coined to
illustrate a certain style of character, but
which by constant usage, on all occasions, in
season and out of season, has become a mean
ingless term.
We do not expect the office holders
nominated Lincoln to be honest; for their
business is to up the king’s deformities
and make his leprous spots look white as
snow. The intelligentand observantportion
of Lincoln’s supporters will gradually work
around to the true knowledge of tho Presi-
character, and be governed according
ly. Bu‘ to tho nimble-voiced parrots who
echo the sentiments of the pap-suckers, we
would recommend a cessation from their sil
ly gabldings long enough for them to read
tho comments made on Lincoln and his ad
ministration by such eminent 41 Copper
head” as Horace Greeley, of the N. Y. Tri
bune, By rant, of the N- Y. Evening Post;
Thurlow Weed, “ the father of tho Republi
can party Dr. Brownson ;'Prentice, of the
Louisville Journal, and the Congressional
manifesto of Senator Ben Wade, of Ohio, and
Representative Henry Winter Davis, of Ma
ryland. chairman respectively of the Senate
and House committees on the Rebellious
States, addressed— 4, T0 the supporters of the
government,” and published in the New
York papers of Saturday.
We shall comment hereafter oh the re
markable and deserved,denunciatiODB of the
President's course made by Wade and Da
vis. For to-day we will content ourself with
withdrawing, from the.support of “Honest
s old Abe.”
Thus the good work goes bravely on,—
Everything that is pure and ■upwright with
in the Republican party is rapidly leaving
it. Before the grand 'contest of November
every man who sincerely loves his country
and desires to behold it once more prosper
ous and united, will have abondoned the man
whose ineompotenoy and misdirected efforts
have brought so much suffering and ruin.
Every sign of the times augurs success for a
new man with better principles than Mr.
Lincoln’s. All that is now demanded by the
people is a candidate standing upon a plat
form whoso planks are the Constitution and
the laws. The triumph of suoh a candidate
is as certain as that another tom of Abra
ham Lincoln would make America a desert
and our children beggars and slaves.
We cut the following paragraph from
a_New York Republican paper; “Themain
difficulty will be next year’s supplies. La
bor is almost impossible to be obtained. The
negroes that were brought here are seldom
retained by those who try them. They do
not suit our farm economy, and still less into
family life. On largo farms, where a special
negro quarter may be erected, this may be
different, but near this city there are cone
suoh."
WAR CONTRACTORS
On« ofleh hears the expression, “Stop the
opportunities of making money, and this war
will come to a close." This is true, and it ie
exceedingly painful to ndmit its truth, for
such an admission reAdcts fearfully upon tho
selfishness and depravity of human nature.
At the conclusion of this horrid war, we shall
he recompensed for the death of multitudes,
and tho crushing influences of a tax that will
grind us to the dust, by contemplating the
sudden glories of agents, contractors and com
missaries, whose equipages will shine like
meteors, and whose palaces will rise like
exhalations. Those wretches grow in wealth
in proportion As their country sinks ; and at
all times tfyoir voice is loudest for tho war,
and fiercest in denunciation of those who op
pose it. There are men all around us to-day
who dwell in palaces rather than in common
habitations; who revel in luxury and riot;
who, without virtue, industry, or courage, de
rive a splendid revenue from the ruin of their
country; who look upon every new contract
ns an estate for which they would sacrifice
one-half of their species ; and when the toils
and dangers of battle are over, they will treat
with contempt, and turn insultingly from
their doors, tho very men through whoso suf
ferings and privations they were made rich.
Well did Erksine, in one of his finest bursts
of eloquence in tho House of Commons, in
1792, say of just such characters:
There are wretches who without virtue, la
bor, or hazard, ore growing rich as their coun
try is impoverished. They rejoice when ob
stinacy, ambition, or folly adds another year
to slaughter and devastation, and laugh from
behind their desks at bravery and lienee
while they are adding figure to figure and
cypher to cypher, hoping for a new contract
from a new aimamcnt. and computing tho
profits of a siege or a tempest.
If wo could hare our way wo could put tho
whole army of fawning office-holders, agents
contractors and commissaries in tho front and
most exposed rank in tho next great battle,
and every bullet or shell from the enemy that
struck them from tho ranks of the living,
would be the Heaven sent agent of humanity
to bring about and secure a speedy peace for
the country. We know a number of those
contractors who, anticipating tlfo total ruin
of the Federal currency, at no distant day,
have invested their blood-stained earnings
over the sea in British securities, expecting
to take refuge abroad when the crash comes
from bankruptcy *at home. Still, the cry .for
more war by the prostituted press, these crea
tures keep in their pay goes on. The people
are being gradually exhausted, without any
definite result. The public are beginning to
perceive in the incrased price of living, and
diminished income from taxation, and other
causes, tho. fearful consequences of this drea
ry war. It will not be long before tho oyes
of the people will bo fully opened to the de
lusion of which they have been made tho
victims; and then let these shoddy contrac
ters, Administrate n pimps, and prostituted
editors beware. “ Sowing the wind,” they
may then begin “to reap tho whirlwind."
Parson Bmvnlow on Andy Johnson,
Aa Parson Brownlow is the leading sup
porter of the administration in Tennessee, it
may amuse and interest some of our readers
to see what he thought of the Republican
candidate for the Vice Presidency a few
years ago. The redoubtable Parson held
forth thus :
11 He (Johnson) is a member of a numer
ous family of Johnsons, in North Carolina,
who are generally thieves and liare, and
though he is the best of the family I have
ever met with, I unhesitatingly affirm to
night that there are better men than Andrew
Johnson in our penitentiary 1 Hie relatives
in the old North States have stood in tho
stocks for crimes they have committed.—
And his own born cousin, Madison Johnson,
was hung at Raleigh for murder and robbe
ry I * * * Is he not the last man living
to talk about respectability on tho part of
any one? Certainly he is.
We ilon’tthink that anything could induce
us to write thus about the family of, any can
didate for office, whatever we might think
proper to say, about himself. And, though
we hope we are a praying man, we don’t be
lieve that, while praying, wo could pray at
any poor mortals as tho good Parson prayed
at Andy Johnson, in his church at Knoxville,
in the latter part of November, 1855. This
was his ejacu/stion:
“To Thy watchful proyidence, 0! most
merciful God, we are indebted for all our
mercies, and not any work or merit of ours;
for many of us entered the eoramble to ele
vate to the Executive chair of tho State the
present incumbent (Andrew Johnson,) with
a perfect knowledge that he had abused Thy
Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord, on the floor of
the State Senate, ns a swindler, advocating
unlawful interests. We knew that ho v<>
ted in Congress against offering prayers to
Thee. Wo knew that he had opposed the
temperance cause, which is the cause of Gnd
and all mankind. We knew that he had vil
lified the Protestant religion. * j* * *
Yet such were the party ties, 0 1 most migh
ty God, that we went into the support of our
Infidel Governor blind.”
Mercy on us! We cannot help fancying
that some preachers can prav worse than
others can curse. If the pious shepherd
thinks proper now to make Andy a bell
weather of hisdlock, ho can say in his next
prayer that he wos mistaken in 1855 and
beg the Lord not to remain deceived by-what
in the holy and raging fervors of his soul, ho
stated at that time. The Parson will make
it allright in his next prayer, wo dare say.
—Louisville Journal.
The Coal Merchants of Philadelphia,
are endeavoring to raise soldiers in. anticipa
tion of the draft, as they did a year ago. An
exchange expresses the idea that if they can
raise their *• Coal Regiments" ns rapidly as
they bare raised the price of coal, they will
do well—and better, too.
C/“Col. Wiluam McGanm-Ess, late of the
Pennsylvania Reserves, in a letter to the Ad
jutant General, declines the proffered honor
of a Generalship, and says that “ the post of
honor, as the war is now conducted, is in re
mainining a private citizen.” lie Is Presi
dent of the Keystone Democratic Club of
Philadelphia.
Orestes -A. Bhownson, a Republican
candidate for Congress last year, says :
“Here is one of.the most serious dangers
that threaten us. Convert the war. in the
popular mind, into an abolition war ; make
it a war of the North on the South, or for im
posing Northern ideas on Southern society,
and the nation, as a republican nation,, is
ruined forever. Northern ideas are as much ex
aggerations in one way as Southern ideas are
in another.”
!C7“ Four hundred discharged soldiers pass
ed through Portland recently, one hundred
and thirty of them on a single leg each.
IL W. VOORHEES ON OLD ABE.
WVhftvo room for only the following ex
tract from nbtilliant and powerful speech,
delivered by Mon. H. W. Voorhees, at Green
Cattle, Indiana, On the 6fch insfc. Hon.. E
merson Etheridge had just concluded a very
able speech of throe hours, when Mr. Voor
hees closed tho moating by making a short
but telling speech. Here are a few specimen
paragraphs:
Five hundred thousand more men—that's
all! When Mr. Lincoln was nominated at
Baltimore, I was at Washington. Each del
egation hurried down to congratulate -him,
and to tell the story of their servile, bnao de
votion to n mere man—and a very ordinary
specimen of a man at that. [Laughter.]
Tho contractors, tho thieves, the money-chan
gers, the substitute hirers, tho cotton specu
lators, the- greedy tariff plunderers of Now
England, came rushing down upon him to
congratulate him hpon his'nomination for
tho Presidency. I have watched and looked
around Washington city. I have road the
papers that recorded the devotion of these
men to Mr. Lincoln. They say that Mr.
Lincoln flashed with wit, ana merriment, and
jest, when they waited on him, and that he
had a joke for every one of them. One of
them says, in giving an account of it, “you
ought to have been there to have heard tho
laughing." Now let mo tell you that on that
night, from Mr, Lincoln's window, there was
in plain sight at that time not less than a
section of land covered with hospitals—not
less than a mile square of hospitals, in which
men were lying with, one leg and one arm off
—wounded, sick, and dying. Every jest ho
told was marked by at least three deaths in
tho hospitals of Washington City. Three,
human souls were heralded into eternity by
each of Mr. Lincoln's jests and jokes. An
other section of ground, in view from Mr.
Lincoln’s room, had been dug up for a grave
yard, and* while he jested’and joked with his
servile crew, he could look out on this scene
of dying and death, and yet you proposed to
me to retain that monster in another term of
office—that monster that, with an utter disre
gard for human life and human misery, has
proposed to prolong his term of office. Gen
tleman, it seems to mo that I can heat tho
spirits of tho hundredsof thousands who have
been uselessly sacrificed in this war pleading
against the re-election of this man.
to me that the very stones would rise ftgjto
protest against it. It seems tome that inan>
iniate objects and dumb beasts would cry out,
“Enough ho had his day." Bloody, gory,
reeking, let him go out into a hateful obscu
rity, there to spend the rest of bis days with
the ghosts of the murdered dead gibbering
around bis unhappy pillow.
Another administration of war I No change
of policy! Mr. Lincoln has laid down hie
programme. He says, without the abolition
of slavery you can have no Uuion. Another ,
four years of war! and mark mo, now, my
friends, there can bo no mistake about tho
next four years of war. You know precise
ly what kind of a war it is, and is to ho. In
the commencement of this war, Mr. Lincoln
said he had no desire to encumber the Union
question with the question ot slavery. Ho
did not want to destroy State fights; hut now
he has served notice on you, that those who
vote for Lincoln will vote for four years more
of war; not to restore the Union, but to abol
ish slavery and free the negroes. lie has
said it himself. By the abandonment of sla
very, and by no other means, says he, can you
have Union. 1 here is no other name by
which it can be done, except by the cmanci- .
pation of tho black man, and Ms freedom
here in our midst. You will take notice of
this, and govern yourselves accordingly.—
Whoever is fir this war and prlonging Abra
ham . Lincoln’s tenure of office, does it with
his eyes open. Abandon slavery, and you
can have Union, says Mr. Lincoln.
Branding White Men. —Tho Provost Ma
rshals of New York have commenced to brand
the letter X on the backs of such persons as
apply to be enlisted in the army. The ex
ousels that such damaged pieces of humanity
will bo more easily detected at subsequent
examinations, and prevented from getting
into service to tho loss of the Government,
because they are -not fit for service. Such a
reason is, however, not very strong, for boards
of enrollment are notorious for compelling
service or payment of money from drafted
men who absolutely have' one foot already in
tho grave. No excuse is sufficient for the
outrage of scarifying the back of a white
man in that manner. If the barbarous prac
tice is permitted, it may not be long until
men in service will bo coriipelled to' have the
brand of " D. S.” put upon them, like the
horses and mules owned by the Government.
It would seem that no indignity is too great
to be put upon poor humanity during these
times when the most degrading, lustful, and
brutalized creatures are brought to tho sur
face of society as the ruling elements.
An “ Olive Branch” From Richmond.—
The Richmond Sentinel, tho reputed orgnn
of Jeff. Davis, in a late article on the recent
conferonzo at Niagara, makes a suggestion
for tho attainment of peace, in the following
half-earnest, half-bantering language:
“Let peace commissioners be appointed by
either section, and, invested with plenary
powers of negotiation, meet on neutral terri
tory, and discuss tho terms of peace. Let
all subjects be open to free discussion and
negotiation. We of the South consider inde
pendence as the great and first object of tho
war, and that oeparation is essential to inde
pendence ; yet we shall he willing'to listen to
what you have to sag and propose on the oth
er side. Yen may"offer ue something that
will secure our equal rights within the
Union; you may propose to give the Slave
holding and free States equality of votes in
Congress and in the election of President ;
and partly to effect this you may throw all
New England Into one State, or give her to
England ; or, if England won’t have her, let
her secede. Now, that would be a tempting
bait. Wo don’t sny it would satisfy us, but
the subject is worthy of consideration.”
Bostonians have had an immens 0
number of severe things to say of the British
Government for employing Ilossiana to fight
against the revolutioniste in 1776. They are
now themselves engaged in importing Hes
sians to take their places in the ranks against
the revolutionists of the South. The crime
of employing mercenaries does not seem tobo
so heinous at “ the huh” as formerly; and
the word Hessian, from signifying something
bordid and contemptible, must, hereafter, bo
elevated to at least the respectability of “ re
presentative loyalty.” And what should
hinder a Yankee from becoming a Hessian,
or a Hessian from being as good as a Yan
kee 1
[CT'It is only the negro that stands m the
way pf peace. It is for the negro that the
war is to bo continued indefinately. For the
negro hundreds of thousands more of white
men's lives most be sacrificed, hundreds
of thousands millions more of the white
men's treasure spent, and the existence' of
this whitduuan’s Government destroyed. Bo
says Abraham Lincoln.
What say the people 7
tST Market prio* pf gold, 256,
DEMOCRATIC CODNTY CONVENTION.
Tho Democratic County Convention assem
bled in the Court House in tho borough of
Carlisle, on the 15th inst. I'. P. BLAIR
was appointed chairman, andD. Wherry and
W. Kennedy, Secretaries. The following
gentlemen presented credentials and were ad
mitted to seats in the Convention;,
Carlisle, East Ward.—J. T. Rippey, A.
F. Meek.
Carlisle, West Ward.—W. J. Shearer, J.
Boutz.
Dickinson; —Sami. Spangler, Geo. Kiss
inger.
East Pennsborough.—A Blessing, Jesse
Laverty.
Frnnkford.—Jacob Nickey, George Gilles
pie. _
Hampden.—Christian Deitz, George C.
Shaffer.
Hopewell.—Sami. Christloib, T. Hefflolfin
ger.
Lower Allen.—John Myers, Jos. Trafford.
Mochaniosburg.—W. C. Houser, Wm. Y.
Johnson.
Middlesex.—James Clondenin, David Vo
glcsong.
Monroe.—M. L. Hoover. John Paul.
Mifflin.—John Jacobs, David Sterret.
Newton.—John Westhefler, Sami. Cope.
Newville.—John Brisker, Jos. A. Wood
burn.
Newburg.—Philip Long, D. Wherry.
Now Cumberland.—Lewis Young, JohnG,
Miller.
North Middleton.—Jacob Gutshall, Sami
Hess. '
Penn.—Sami. Green, Sami. A. Tritt.
Silver Spring.—James Williamson, Peter
Snyder.
South Middleton.—Wm. B. Butler, Jacob
M. Goodyear.
Southampton.—S. Wherry, L. Strohm.
Shippensburg Bor.—E. J, M’Cune, Wm.
Kennedy.
Shippensburg Twp.—Thomas P. Blair,
Allen Brown..
Upper Allen.—Jonus Roller, Joshua Culp.
West Pennsborough.—James Carothors,
Wm. A. Ker^
On motion, it was, Resolved, that the Con
vention vote by ballot.
On motion, it was, Resolved , that tho Con-
vention proceed to ballot for candidates for
the several offices, with the following results :
For Assembly,
Dr. JOHN D. BOWMAN, Wa'S dominated
bv acclamation.
Par Sheriff,
John Jacobs had 27 votes.
Jacob Shell “ 39 “
S. A- Eminger V 4 “
Whereupon JOHN JACOBS, of Silver
Spring, was declared duly nominated for the
office of Sheriff.
For Commissioner,
Henry Kama had 37 votes,
Goo. Attick “ ' 6 “
Jas. Graham " - 4 “
Geo. Elcholbergor . 3 “
Whereupon HENRY KARN3, of Monroe,
was declarod duly nominated for the office of
Commissioner.
For Director of the Poor,
Ist bul. 2d bal.
Wm. Wherry had 18 29
W. A. Coffey “ 13 14
J. Rhoads “ 12 7
Jesse Zoigler “ 7
Whereupon WM. WHERRY, of South
Middleton, was Declared duly nominate! for
the office of Director of the Poor.
For Auditor,
J. A. Heherlig had
Geo. Atticks “
Whereupon JOHN A. HEBERLIG, of
North Middleton, was declared duly nomina
ted for the office of Auditor.
for Congressional Conferees ,
Dr. G. W. Ilaldeman had 2G votes.
W. Kennedy •* 17 ••
W. Harper " 8 “
J. W. Cncklin '« 7 “
W. A. Ker *' JO “
John QirtsharU “ 14 ,l
W. Y. Johnson r ‘ 43 “
J. P. Rhoads ,r 4 “
Whereupon Dr. G. W. Ilaldeman, W. A.
Ker, and W. Y. Johnson, were declared duly
e'ectcd Congressional Conferees.
Mr. Meck, of the East Ward, Carlisle, of
fered the following resolution, which wus
adopted unanimously :
Resolved , That we are in favor of General
George B. McClellan for President of the
United States, and hereby instruct the dele
gate representing this district in the Chica
go Convention to vote for him and use all
honorable efforts to secure his nomination.
Mr. Butler, of South Middleton township,
offered the following resolution, which was
unanimously adopted ;
Resolved , That wo concede to York county
the candidate for Congress, and hereby in
struct the Congressional Conferees this day
appointed to vote for the nomination of Adam
J. Glosbrenner, Esq., of York,
Mr. Johnson, of Mochanicsburg, offered
the following resolution, which Was unani
mously adopted;
Resolved, That the course of ortr Senator,
Hon. George 11. Bucher, and of our Repre
sentative, Dr. John D. Bowman, deserves
and has the cordial approval of the Democ
racy of Cumberland ; but that wo deem it a
duty to declare that Joseph Bailt, in voting
against the Dawson Resolutions and in.favor
of pet measures of an abolition administra
tion, has forfeited and.no longer deserves the
confidence of the Democratic party. Having
proved recreant to the trust confided to him,
we cannot and do no not regard him as a
Democrat. By his votes wo judge him.
The following persons were appointed
members of tho Standing Committee for the
, -
ensuing year:
J. W. D'. Gillelen, J. B. Bratton, East
Ward, Carlisle.
Charles E. Maglaughlin, Theo, Cormnan,
West Ward, Carlisle.
John W. Huston, W. Galbraith, Dickinson.
11. N. Bowman, John B. Heck, E. Fenns
borough.
John Wallace, Jacob Kosf, Frankford.
Joseph A. Brenner, John 11. Myers, Hamp
den.
Adam Ramp, Adam Ileherlig, Hopewell.
George B. Ileok, George Eiohelberger, Low
er Allen.
11. H. Eborly, W. C. Ilowserr, Mcohnnios
burg.
James Clennenin, Henry Snider, Middle
sex.
Wm. Devinney, Christian Cline, Monroe.
William Lennoy, John B. Sballenberger.
Mifflin.
M. Williams, Charles Horn,.Newton.
- Geo. W. Brioker, John Murphy, New Ville.
John S, Hawk, William Lusk, Newburg.
Geo. Hess, Joseph Beaman, New'Comber
land.
W. 11. Crain, John Grissinger, North Mid
dleton.
David P, Tritt, James McCulloch,, Penn.
"• Kost, ! M. E. Leidig, Silver Spring.
Middleton’ ® ut er ’ Merman, South
Levi Strohm. W. D. Means, Southampton.
John 11. Onewell, Wm, Kennedy, Ship*
penabur/r Borough.
John N. Blair, George Wonder, Shippens
burg township.
A. B. Seohrist, J. Bowman, Upper Allen.
Peter L. Snyder, Jacob Rhoads, West
Psnnsborough,
Crffion. Republican
Elteilon to go by Drfaalt. 01 T “<
~ [Correspondence of tho N. Y. tVorld
. wMinotok, August 11.—x h . .
tions dt the leading Republican ° ,boril '
this city. New .York, Boston and el' K ° r |’ in
have led to a moat singular dotermln • " erB
their part. It is stated, Upon verv „ oa
thonty that they .have determined n " -
tho election to go by default, and 1 ° nll ' nr
Domocrntio party to elect their Pm •, T °
the House of Kepreaentntivcs. It - 1?
tary Chase who is said to bo tho 8 n re
this very curious political movementV f
reasons lor tho adoption of this nnf ‘
follows: First) the Republican lS #M
satisfied that the war is near its con I • oro
that ddisunion peace is inevitable-a nn ■
wish the Democratic party to suffer d"-?
miny in history of being the political ‘ gni>
zation which consented to a senam,- ° rgai1 '
North and South. Second, they a, 11,0
no more money is to bo mads out l,lOl
and that tho finances of the country lo *" *
in such a state that contractors IJ“'T' T
lose, hut cannot make money j i n sho t i
tho public orango has been snuoeroil / ' th>t
that the election of a Democratic Pnvi" 111
a id House of Representatives wn , jj
latter party in a position whereby t l„v! ,5
not conduct tho war nor moko.ony n "‘i 1
their friends, and would becomnellel !' r
mit to a dishonorable plan. Third it B , ub ‘
ther argue that should Mr. Lincoln' be elecu
ed, pence would likewise bo inevitable
ing to his wretched management of u. e ’
but that a peace under Republican 1
would forever ruin tho political fortuneHf
every public man connected with thiim!, '
Fourth, that as tho Republic ,ns wnulr/T 7 '
a majority in the Senate during the o f,',!
term of a Democratic President, they P „ i!
prevent any ponce that would not bring w-i h
it tho abolition of slavery in the Sm.l!.
States. Now that they consider the
hopeless, tho Republicans are willing -non.h
that there should be peace, but it ?,,uTI
peace with disunion, so that they would J
have tho political power of the South to con
tend against in n re-uniled Union.
These considerations have had ao m nel,
weight with, the leading Republicans that
they are quite willing to see Mr. Lincoln de
feated in every State of the Union; indeed
their purpose to do so is stated without reser'
vation, and tho course of tho lenihV ormns !
of the party shows that they regard'd* dec- 1
tion of tho Chicago nominee as n lore-one j
conclusion. From present appearancesthere
will be no presidential contest woilhv the I
name. 1 I
G.ieat McClellan Meeting in New York.
An immense meeting of the Democracy of
the city of New York was held in Union
Square on Wednesday evening, fur the pur
pose of expressing public opinion in favor of
the nomination of General McClellan tW
Chlcoga Convention. There were not less
than one hundred thousand persons present
who were addressed fro’ra four stands by Mes
srs. Hiram Kctchum, F. A. S mver, E. B.
Norton. John. B Hasken, and other abb
speakers. A aeries of strong resolutions were
unanimously adopted, one of which was as
follows:
Resolved, T'linti in Majoi* Cortenll Oonvgs
B. McClellan worecognizo those sterling qual*
ities which chmacterlzo the true patriut. sub
die", statesman and gentleman, and which,
will insure an 1 administration ahko elevuiiug
to the nation and creditable to the civilizin
tion of the ago ; and While we wOnlil not dig.
parage the claims of his brother sdiliw, vo
but rertcrutc the voice of the toillinn which
comes upon the wings of the wind from every
part of the land when wo decline him the cm*
bodimeiit of the hopes, us he is the choice of
the American people.
The greatest enthusiasm prevailed in the
meeting, and notwithstanding the vust mini*
here present all separated in quietness.
40 votes.
10 “
“ Loyal” Sympathy. — Tho Rev. Alfred
Nevin, formerly pastor of the Uornian Kefnnn*
od church in (Jlminhcnsburg, hut recently (»
resident of Philadelphia, publishes a card in
the I're.ss of Monday, asking aid for the Chain*
bersburg sufferers, lie prefaces this card
with the following sentence; ** Those of the
sufferers at Chnmbcrsbarg who art for \h
Union should have material aid at otiee.”—
What right has this gentleman to presume
that there are sufferers at ChamberHhurj: who
are not for the Union ? If he has reliable
information that there are any such pewms
in Chuniberaburg, wo would like to know their
names.
have probably as general an acquaint*
ance with the citizens of Chnmberfihurp ns
the reverend gentleman has, and wo know
of none such But even if there were,and
they were houseless and .naked andeicknnd
suffering, are they therefore to bo debarred
from public charity? That sacred volume,
with which Dr. Nevin is so familiar, telle us
“If ihine enemy hunger feed
thirst give him drink.” This is true ChnV
tian charity, but it does not seem to bo “by
al league” charity,— bhippensburg Si/ihnd.
tUT* She Democrtic pnpets sny tliat Ihert
have been political cfmnges in. their fowr
since Mr. Lincoln's letter demanding the
abandonment of slavery before pence; nnu
we believe that this time they tell the truth.
That is what the Newburyport (Mass.) Utr
aid, an Abolition paper, says; and wo beliovs
that this time the Herald tells the truth.
d7* The Boston Post says there is nj
truth in the report that Mr. Lincoln is aboil
to issue a new proclamation "to whsm it nicy
concern,” warning rebels not to approach
within five miles of Washington.
From General Sherman’s Jhnijv
An Unsuccessful Assault —Tlie Ene
my Repotted to be Reinforced.
Cincinnati, August 15.—The correspon
dent of the Cominerti&l from General oner
man’s army before Atlanta, gives an swoon*
of an action, on the 6th inst., in widen 100
23d Corps lost over 500 men in a partially
unsuccessful assault on the enemy’s line B.
At the last accounts, August Bth, oilr li"
had advanced three miles nortlnveet of At
lanta, and within a mile and a half of tn
Macon road. .
The Gazelle has received Atlanta adriM
to tho 10th inst. ...
Since Gen. Schofield’s movement on
sth to reach tho Macon road, nothing imp '
tant had been done. These movements j
been partially successful and the right o
line had assumed a position three nulosn
of East Point, and about a mile ‘ ronl ~s
railroad. It thence extends north nr
the city to the Chattanooga road.
Gen. Sherman was making B et J, or “
preaches and is very near tire enemy s "
with works nearly as strong as theirs.
It was thought that Gen. Hood, , 8 .
mnnd of the enemy, had received rot
8 ‘ A SOUTHERN DESPATCH*.
[From tho Richmond Whig]
Atlanta, August 9. —Last nigbt an i Q[l
morning passed without ony demo
on the port of the enemy. . t 0 the
Some few shells are still thrown
city, without doing any damage. . jtcn J
The enemy evinoo- a disposition- 1
their right further,- which rests
Campbeilton road. McCocl’i
A captain and lieutenant from * j #( t
raiders, who deserted from our nr j
'wiptor, were captured yesterday-