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JoD-I'nfNTi.vG-rSnch ?.3 Hand-bUlg, Posting-bills Pampblets, lllunkn, LaboL, Ae. Ac., executed with ccuraoy and at tbo shortest notion. fMetlral. AUTUMN WINDS. ’AT SIILLIE I.RB CIIA.VDALL; Tho autumn winds aro sighing Around our home' t?-niglft, They tell mo my 'weary' vyos Will n.cvcr see tlio morning light; Tlmy murmur roftly, mother‘doA*, That I am dying cow— Yet shod for mu no bitter tear— - Dear mother, list, they whisper now, Theso winds arming me sighing, That softly fan my fovonsl brow, They tall mo F tun dying now— Bwimtcat meter hearost tbou ? They toll mo I am dying. Cat other tones aro whispering, .More thrilling and imi:o sweat— They say they’ll boar me gently on My heavenly home to greet; Anil when mine eyelids close at last And bushed in this faint breath, Tho/11 bmlr mo with their abcUVicg wibgd Through tho dark gates of death. g\Tcr.l angels light this darkened room, f I see them floating o’er mo now, I foil their soft wings fan my brow, As tln*y whisper, “ Thou art welcome homo 1” They whisper, “ Thu art vrolin mo I" Bimlhinmii LOVE L\ THE BREAKERS. A UTOnr OF CAPE MAT Y do not like fashionable watering places, j s'ilhoi- "n tho sou-board or ir-lurnl. Yet fate, ! jr inv re •’tless, wandering; spirit, lias more I than otnv led mo in *’ (lie season” to tiaratu- | H.i, Newport, Cape May, and tin* now de,~o laio and deserted ami once famous “ White tMilplmrs" of‘Virginia, Those,who know mu ft' 1 am —know well that I ad: happiest when fhut unt from the world, its frivolities, its ii'"i[);t!ions, and its hypocrisies. I wander in tin* wilderness of my own mountain home, touching the wild deer in its gambols, tho br-ut sporting In tho crystal wullm-s, or tho [eagle piercing tho cUfuds, far, hu* above the [loirv mmmtain tups. [ Hut to my story. { It wns than'y summers ago when “ the spi rit moved me to take a Hying visit to Capo , 'lt Wusih tho height of tho season frliun;! readied tho Cape, going by steadier arn# Philadelphia. Jdv.ery bidbl wits crowd -3‘l, d'e 'company was as various as compa hiox r.t Watering places are—belief liking for mates, beaux on tlio fane obont, I ay nnantity of fortune huntera,’knd a few. reasonable meti and women in that I 'i*t crowd. The fair sex was not repreaent llns I thought, by any “kill'ng beauties.” I oviuidoro.d in at three or four of the evening ■ litipa/' and made up iny mind that I ha 1 Ben as much beauty at a Mexican fandango,, w'iro in a danco on the green of an Andalu- Wi m village, and not less at a backwoods Biuce, where one fiddle formed thbhatul, and ilWgiiiia reel rlie-“ danchi£’’ 4 'Vrtl, , ‘ H‘l nnv nothing in the/Lct to drive away tny uioianchoW, laid made up my mind Bhi'l’c eue’gortfl .sivnn in the surf of old At- BntivUhd’then on the next day to start once B"i , e ler my buckwpod homo among tho glo- Ad.ivnfiducks. S'i when I ‘took my bathing suit from my fiik, and when the hum began W droop W tljo pinea in the went, I sauntered dotvn the beach- where hundreds yzero already [Piling m t j ie Burf—the shVfll lahghter and pty boreams of the fair ones 'making a fine Itmtrast with tire heavy roar of the surf, , |Fura fow moments X hesitated to outer the Pd, being more pleasantly engaged in sean- | m R tho scene before mo. Darloy never had Ifiiicr 'tfhknca *for 'sketching from life than hftVo Ivfrd there. A Hogarth frdoM gye been only too happy for the curicafurean gPWunities afforded him; For instance, a i l ' Reheating .citizen,- carrying at least two weight of mortality in his own per- the water with a wife oh his BP whose lean and lank figure, taller than EP ( 'wn, was too thin to cast a shadow on the Bp e sand of the shelly beach. And vice Hr o ’ n very fat lady and a man as lean as R hpoihecarv would bo seen—the one duck, fashion, the other “ totter- B toward it like a half-starved sand snipe. ■ *'°t a handsome woman ih thfljrwater I” ■jxiUered, as I gazed over tind among thh 'Hat that moment, nB if to rebuke mo for [ ac * °f gallantry, a vision passed me— denied to bo too beautiful to bo anything A vision—which made my epiyit retract • “JOpht of an instant; for the lady Vpas ului-—gloriously beautiful. One glance i tr oyes—.great, black, bewildering eyes /jP'm mo as b'io and I lelfc that I blushed from my head to my feet. She * did not so'oiii to walk—no oloso by her snow-white bathing robe actually j-'ojl me, and the contact throw an elec m()w through me in an instant. Tall, wo could, evbn in that ungainly garb, ec ° to be perfect—ho'r complexion al l0 ° 'air for the waves of jetty hair which about her white brow itnd nook; and; foT? A ,ouk °f melancholy upon her (!| [ features, that made my but 100 sus -s,'|° heart udio to bo her sympathetic I'l ljo' or . cy aifyrtor l if only suclui tiling *l h in my heart against the lr)ftn who could lid privileged td wait il SUo ** nn angol, I turned to see what 11 was ntfouding the goddess of my adurathm. 0p Wllrt no masculine present—no nno !». n! ' .•n.vSolf. She entered the Water iii n,lt fhnidly or with a shrinking stop, , a calmly provid Diana, when no pry woe near; Involuntarily I followed, though at a re* flpectlul distance, I watched her every mo tion, as she advanced farther into tho “yeast of waters.** Moving out until moro ' than half her queenly form was immersed in tho briny waves, she stood, and gently bowed her head to the groat breakers as they rolled in snowy wreaths upon her. Oh, how I wished that I was one—just one of those breakers? Would I not clasp that queenly form in my chaste embrace,’and bear it away to porno lone ‘’isle «f v beauty,” to be mine, mine forever ? Yu.° t I would! 13111, a hoarse "shout from (ho men/ard a cry of warning, and a thousand screams from rosy lips fumed suddenly white,'recalled mo from the wild drpam winch was taking pim sohmloii of me. My queenly vision had gme further out than the rest; so hud I t when a roller of thrice t;,e usual length#cumo tumb ling in upon hr, In a moment sho was hidden from my view ; the next second I was under a hundred tons of water, or so it oqcmed. Half strangled, I buffeted my way to the top of the water, only to find that the “ un dertow” had swept mo outside of the surf, be yond breaker, and that tho tide was bparing mo seaward. I though* niU of my own danger. V/here was she ? At instant I saw her—a look of despair upon he:: beautiful face—within a fow foot of me, just sinking; ■ for she evident ly could nut swim, as she made nfc attempt to do so. Heaven ! what strength came to mo then ! Never did strong swimmer in his agony" ct’;fke our, more boldly than I did then ami thfere. ‘Hi an instant I was by her side, in;/ hand supporting her and my voice uttering these words : “ Lady, do not despair. I will save you or die with, you J’ # Oh, how'her look went through me. Words pever could so express gratitude. Wave af ter wave .beat over me, but I lifted her bright, bcaptiftil head above them all. “ If your strength will hist, a fow minute*, wo are saved 1” slip said, in tones that were melody condensed, farified, analytically mo dulated (excuse my rhapsodies—-I cannot help them). “For they aro launching surf boats," she added. I had not thought of that, or cared.for It, or hulked for lb I only looked la her too beautiful face. “ They will soon bo hero. T)o not let yohr strength give way," she said again. How I wished they’d sink, capsize, do any tiling lint come there and'share with mo the felicity of saving her. But they came. A great lobster-fisted hand was strechcd out, and it rudely grasped her round,‘peerless arm, and she was lilted into the boat. I would have sunk myself-—fur wbh her went al! my strength—had not an other pair of lobster looking hands lilted me also from the wafer, and tossed me as carelessly as if I had been a hulf-growned dog, into the bottom of tho boat. I bclivo I was so weak as to faint; for I knew nothing more until 1 found myself on a bench on the beach, surround by huudrMs of men and women who wore drowing tho 1 noise of the ahrf with their cheers. One man was pouring brand down my throat to revive mo. I pushed his hand away and looked ar ound for her. * There she stood, pale, but, oh, so beautiful yet; and looking graitude enough out of those largo black eyes tu pay for death a hundred tilncs over. “ £o come up to tho Ocean House, Room and Parlor No. Ib,".sho said, in her iPusical voice, '“just as soon as you are able. T- can not thank you euo,Ugh for saving my life ; bht my (lehr husband, who is confined to his room with an attack of the gout, will do all that man can do to prove bin gratitude to tlio preserver of his wife’s lile." “Oh, what a fall was there, ri*.y country men 1" Hor bu-diand I—a man with the gout linked to Mich a living angel 1 I don't know what I said or did just then. 1 believe I asked somebody to blow riiy brains out. — They took me up to my room, t did not leave It that night’. .The next nay I did leave it, nnd left Cupe May also, forever. I dare not again look at the angelic the innu who had the gout. But f start^n off at mice for my bachelor home in the wild Adinunhicks, for only in their deep solitudes could linn) the . peace which had been s<> fearfully disturbed -by “love in the break ers 1" Lincoln’s Defeat ConcbOed. —The Alba ny Statesman, one of the leading Abolition journals uf Now York, concedes the defeat of Lincoln. It says ; “la nominating Gen. McClellan the Deriio ’crpts place their very strongest man in the field—a man who will poll a larger army vote than any Democrat who could possibly bo put in nomination. The abuse which Mc- Clellan met with in the convention from Mr. Harris of Maryland, and other traitors of the amo stamp, cannot fail to.be beneficial to u ;ho. nominee with the better •'pdrtion of tho American people. • ♦ “The Democrats having nominated Gener al McClellan, focros the Republicans to do one of two tilings— withdraw Mr. Lincoln Jj'otii the canvass, or else see the Democrats carry the election by an overwhelming majority. As j ilr. Lincoln cannot unite the party he inust be dejedied . ” ;o the defenses of the principles nf civil lib erty. it will be. ill with ns, nnd those snored principles will bo lost forever to us. There fore it is that I come hero to speak to you of tbo principles of constitutional liberty, and to denounce the advance of despotism in tbo administration of one man. More than eigh toen bnnbred years ago Rome was governed by three men in the end of that republic. One was Augustus Caesar, another Mark Anthony, and the other a noble Roman.— They were all nf noble blood. And wo ton, have now our triumvirate—Linobtc, Stanton andTlalleok ; but, unfortunately, neither of them can boast d' very high descent. [A laugh.] I speak with profound respect of the'powers that bo. [Laughter continued.] But the parallel was further. There suc ceeded to Rome an Emperor that could fiddle and dance when their city was burning.— AVo also have our Emperor, Lincoln, that can tell' his stale jokes whilst the land is running red with the blood oi our brothers and sene. And must this be received as a gleam of glory in the future of eat country ? tVo read in ancient history of the groat city of the Hebrews, lind that whilst Titus was daily battering down their walls, the fac tions Jews were quarrelling among them selves every night. But for God's sake don’t lot us bo like the Jews quarreling amongst ourselves, and de votiTing one Another in these tunes nf the extremity of imperiled institutions of free dom. For mynelf, I tun an old time Henry. Olay Whig. *My father, was a Whig; and I expect yet to die a National Whijj;. But at the same time I toll you all horo, if you pro* , cood to nominate ft constitutional Union man for Pmidonfc; though ht D*raoorat I (C7* At a Lincoln club just organized in Washington, the collector of internal revenue was elected President, an assessor Secretary of the meeting, and a commissioner of pub lic buildings was made Chairman of the Ex ecutive Committee. The district attorney al so made one speech. A strong sentiment pre vailed that other office holders must show their colors, and it Was openly charged that in ono department largo numbers Vvoro Mc- Clellan men. I y In Now York, Philadelphia, Newark, Albany, lludsnn, Rochester, Troy, Buffalo, Utica, and other eastern cities, one hundred gUns were, fired in.honor of McClellands uom inatirtn. In the West and Northwest the sa lutes were not so numerous, ns the people of t|iose sections are notalldwod to liny powder. They can make up the wAnt of it, however, by huzzaing fdr the anti-Lincoln candidate. jgf Remember, voters, that the him of the preseht Administration is for the formation of a Union that will bo destructive of the present Constitution. I’liat failing, the Re publican-Abolition loaders will declare for the establishment of a Northern republic,"in which they cun hold on to the reins of Gov ernment. J@r Gen. itockor said in a speech in Now York State the other day, that ho wan not so sanguine an many personn were about the spee dy ending of the war. He ought to know the way things nro managed by the Government pretty well by this time. Ilia remark shows that he doi»; "OUR COUNTRY—MAY IT ALWAYS BIS RIGHT—RUT RIGHT OR WRONG OUR COUNTRY." K„-'- fMflraL SPEECH OP LESLIE COOMBS, OF KEXTUCKT, AT THE CJIICARO COXVEXTION. ' The speech of tho occasion was made by Gen. Leslie Coombs, of Kentucky, Being introduced, he said: FEiXmv-CmzßNs—T hope C>r a r ew mo .niontfl only to havn your attention. An old soldier nskn it of you in n good cause, for f think I have a right I * call myself an old soldier., I have not np.dcou here since years ago, when the lamented Douglas was here, ;ond the Mayor oi Gincinnatti was hero; and I said then whatT say now, that I was hero fir.it in my boyhood, when tho State of s Ohiu was a frontier &tate, when tho Territories Northwest wore border territories ; am] your Chicago crock, I rnmmnher—it is a river now—and a few buildings wore in tho place ol your city. It was when our hoys' for tho first time crossed the Ohio Uivor, and came to din relief of (ho men of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Illinois. iSo distinct arc mv recollections of those days, that it,{*ccma al most that I am speaking of eomebedy else, or that I am still a hoy. I saw tliis country when there wore but few—a settlement hers r.nd there —and now I come, and l.mjmld “ the city full". The Qner.n of tho AY eat on the Father of Waters —and this, f believe, they call it, the Queen of the Lakes. Having seen these things, my fellow citizens, yon can imagine lnnv it weigha heart when f turn me to . contemplate to night those dark scones of strife and bloodshed that now shroud our whole country in gloom. Alas, that I .mould live to see those evil day*; to think that our jSouthcrn hrethern .should draw (he sword! • told them In the beginning of thin r.Hfb uf Factions,'That they were throwing fire-balls to ambitious devils that would turn them on our’ own house, and that thov would ** .1 n ifu \u-ni hup on lire. [Laughter.J But, sir, allow’ me to say 1 shall live—old ns I am f shall live to see this strife ended ; I shall live to see the bonds of national fra ternity again united ; I shall live to ace this paper money abated ; this gunpowder cur rency, which I would not use for wadding to kill a prairie* chicken., abated and turned in to gold and silver'. [Applause.] And that can be don© only by removing tins abomina ble administration., f state n fact; whan Mr. Lincoln entered upon his high duties, ! went to him and told him this: Mr. Lincoln, you was horn in tho State of Kentucky, and Mrs. Lincoln also, I believe, and you cannot ho indifferent to the prosperity of Kentucky, and that of the whole country, and if you will proceed to administer the Government trppn the principles of tlio fathers; upon the prin ciples of the Constitution and for the pros perity of tlio whole Jconnlry, [ will support vour administration. He told mo he would do so. Bur what followed ? I was in Washington tho time of tho first Bull Run fight. There was the call for 7.5,- Qt)o men—thou for the gioat armies. Then rivers of blood did How, and have been flow ing ever since, Hundreds of thousands have fallen. Almost every house in the land is in mourning ami yet there is no prospect of ending 1 the sad strife. Ha- not blood enough been shed? [Cries of “ Y r os," “yes.".] I have furnished, from my own family, two ; one has had two horses, shot from under him, and the other commanded at Shiloh, I have furnished my full share of help, and now I pray to God that this war may terminate. 1 am tired of this war. lam tired of the lam entations in my ears all around me. 'I tell yon, gentlemen, vou know nothing of tlio horrors of - ; ills war bore. Ifyou could see tlio guerrillas pourbig into your villages and every part of the State, ami citizens liv ing, as I have seen them in my town, Lex ington, you ‘would know something of the horrors of tf.is war, And when I hut just how left my homo, my tow'h.was guarded by negroes, no whit.e man Wt with the privil ege of a gun in his hand, I am not a slaveholder. Light years ngo I set mine free. I emancipated them myself, IT T did not intend to let any .other n; u: emancipate tlffeift. [Applause.] So I b my f- m’dy in the hards of emancipated slaves, for mv ne groes would not leave me. I tell yoiK I have seen those guerrilla.' .hargingdown through town whan it wim vaihor delicate looking out of the windows, because you could not know where a bullet might be coming. I left my family under commanders (hat think the no gru a, little bettor than the white man, nn.d : they account ail disloyal because wo think the white man a little b»-tUn '.hf nr-grn. In such a condition I left my manly— the gnerrilli.s prowling'nronnd, and they tell us if the government takes imr negroes they have a yi?;ht to take our horses. Fellow-citizens. I address you with the freedom of an old soldier, and I felt that I might regard myself as a watchman on year tower,**. And I could desire, when you ask mo “ Watchman, what of .the night ?” that I could answer “'all’s well ; jdoep outlet your babes rest .in quiet.” B.ut now, since despotism Inns taken’clmrgo of the country, iuid everything is disregarded except tho will of one man, if I am asked now, “Watchman, what of tho night?” I must answer, “ All's ill.” Yes, sir, I tell yon all’s ill now, unless iVo arouse ourselves before tho dawn of day CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29,1864. will vote for him. [Applause.] I am an ohUlaptist, too, baptised all over in running water, yet if you nominate a Sprinkler, and ho bo otherwise a constitutional Union man, I will voto for him for all that. [Laughter and applause.] Shall I tell you. gentlemen, what further we have had in Kentucky to make us tired of military rule. It was hut two days before our late August election that a military commander in our State issued an order (bat one.of ymr candidate# for Judge of tin Ouurt of Appeals (we had hut two cuu didaVr?) should not he aoandidate, and wo submitted under the stress of bayonets. li.it wo rallied and nominated another gentleman and .succeeded, and elected him over the negro candidate. [Applause.] I mention this in view ef the fact that we have another election ifi Kentucky next November and, will vote then'us we did in August, ami car i*3' our candidate U/si 11 our thousands.— (Oop/inucd applause.) Sir. ( nm a freeman. I will Vote. iVhv not? It is my right.— I’lo you think I will fail to exercise m v right ? I will vote-or die. Ami Kentucky will voto ijf.vc November, and will carry Iho nominee ofnext Monday's convention hy fifty thousand majority. [Unbounded app’ uise.]' Wo will do it. and report ourselves r.£ h' , !idqr.r.iters in good order. And those men who have been oppressive and ruining the country, .v/iU he driven to their mountains, and they Vlll*rail upon the mountains to fall upon them and hide from the fierce indignation of the people. [Cheers.] Gentlemen, I cannot but warn you against their negro emancipation policy. - If they Atq the slaves you will have to food then).- You aro bound to take them hero in Illinois. I want to send my share of them in to Illinois to Mr. Lincoln to support. — They won't work, they will cat and do noth ing else. And at the same time you will be bound to pay taxes. You wi.ll be taxed [Upon every thing pcrtoYhing to life and business. You cannot draw or pay out mon ey, but vou will have to « •**- f. '*.* Ywu wnl uu overwhelmed .With taxation, ne sidea the cave of the negroes; and what a time you will have of it. lor they will not work, or if they do, it,will bo for half the compensation of the white in an/.and be In the shade half the time. j, Laughter.] Gentlemen, when I war. Invited to speak here to-night I felt that I could not, and you perceive well enough that, witlv this wind in my face, I have no ydeo ;or no large a hear-, ing. I have done what I could. This is a great -confederacy of States, and it is your part, gentlemen, to sec that under laws, each .shall he kept in its own nphore. Let each man kiss his own wife, and nobody el affirm, that on immediate pet (lean nt of our national troubles is perfectly feasible ; Imt tve fid carfain that two-thirds of ih“ American people on either side of (he diruiho? hue anx iously, nbsorbinyly desire peace, and arc ready 1 io wnhe all sacrifices to insure it, ' Then ichy shall it he tony 1 cdh-hehl f Lri ns huotv as somt a. y may be, the most that (he rebel clrbf 1 nil do io semre peace; Ictus next ascertain ichnt is the " uttiinntuni" ca our side; ami. if the dif ference between these ia material, let as tight all the harder till ope side or the other is rea dy to make tho ’needful concession. It is high time matters were coining to a point.” . If, as the Tribune affirms, tw.j-tliSrds of the American people, on each side "1 the divi ding line, “ anxiously, absorbingly desire peace, ami are ready to male** all ncodfnll sac rifices to insure it,” the turthcr ’continu ance of the war is a reproach to tho author ities who stand in too way of ver.lirhig this ardent wish of tho country. A cnt\rding to the view of tho Tribune , the nal.mn is cheat ' ed nut of peace hy the n I:wi! liugnoss or the inability <.f tho ineft ’if,'; awe able and of Fiesldeut Lincoln on the other; for when it says “ lot us know, so romi as may bo, tlie most that the rebel chief will do to secure peace,” and immediately adds “ let us next ascertain what is the ultimatum on our side, we suppose it intends to leave the ultimatum nf the loyal States to he fixed by Mr. Lincoln, as it assumes that the ultimatum of tho so coded Slates is to be Used hy Mr. Davis. \Vo have many and,,us we conceive, weigh ty objections to this prepo-hum, If “ two thirds of tho people <»n each side ot the divi ding lino anxiously, absorbingly desire peace and arc ready to vmkc aU needful! sacrifices to insure it,” wo must insist that tho terms and conditions of peace should he ascertain ed and concerted by tho people themselves. Wo already know the “ ultimatum” of Air. Lincoln, ami this being such.as to leave no hope of peace during bis administration, wo’ are not nt all curious to know the “ ultima tum” of Air. Davis, which we ‘think it very likely would as little reflect the popular will and wish on his side, as tho President has little reflected tho popular will and wish on our side by the supplementary condition ho has announced as . the ground on which ho will receive any proposition looking to “peace and the integrity of tho Union.” If peace is to be secured its terms must bo acortiuned by those who, as the Tribune says, “ are w ill" ing to make all needful sacrifices to ” I^ vc it”—that is bt the people themselves, w ho, but tho people on each side can determine what eacrificras they deem to be “ ncedlul fur the assurer restoration of peace? wc are very sure \hat two-thirds ui tho people .on our side of tb\“ dividing line” would have no hesitation in\“sacrificing” many .things which’PresidentyLinooln is nob prepared to sacrifice, in order wo secure peace. Ho is so hampered by bis “proclamations” and pledg es that of ail men ye is must disqualified to i approach the consideration of this subject, for what 'audience could be expect to receive from tho people of the seceded Stp.fcaa in com mending to their adhesion term.;, which, it is i safe to say, are considered hy,a majority cf , tho people oven in the loyal Whites to be as • little proper for tho President t<> offer as they . are little likely to be (iccepoted by the par r ties to wlidni they are addrcsseiU . It is clear to our minds, therefore, that it k any negotiations are to bo set on foot with n . view to peace, they must be preceded by n i cbatw'o of front on tho part of those who ui r yect Sx% ami Adminigtratipu of W country. The present policy of the Government on the I conduct of the war must lie reversed by a re turn to tho principles and maxims which have been left out of sight in what the New York Times calls the “ blind, race of radical ism and barbarism.' ” IVe know that Presi dent Lincoln does not yet perceive tho neces sity of such a reversal. On fhe contrary, he Jias within tho last few weeks committed him *Bolf by hid late manifesto moro expressly than ever before to the logical conclusions of. the policy.that now dictates tho'ends and objects of the war. But, apart from all questions persons or ( f forms, it seems to. us, as we have already intimated, that if tho pimple are ripe for peace they should bo allowed to express their wishes and views to that effect,. with the least possible • indirectness or. cenfnaion resulting from tho intervention of third parties. And now how shall this bo accomplished? As thcrewore many who, at the beginning of the secession agitation, avowe I their will ingness to refer all question** at issue between “ the North” and “ the Suu’lh” to the arbitra tion of a . National ’Convention, so nfcvejy stage of the war which has followed it bos been supposed that, whatever might .be its result, a National Convention would he call ed to re-adjust our organic policy with refer ence to the altered relations left My the war. Ami it regard bo had to the rulijeet-mafter of the dissections out. of which the war grew, ■ it would seeiq that they could, in substance and in firm, bo-moat properly allayed by a free conference of the Skates composing the Union. The foundations of (ho l(nion, were laid by such.a (Jonventhm, and it is the only body which is competent to re-a I.}lists the ba ses of that Union,. A.portion ol die people in the States have weight to subvert these bases hy violence, and violence on the one side has heggotten violence on the other, nn- | til, in the confusion of the horrid iray, it would seem that we have forgotten every, ctli ".V.'i’PAi'".!?. 0 . V:Vf- Convention is practicable in the present aspect of our po litical uiVaivs. And if this aspect could be changed, it might soon appear that none was ncccssnrv for lho purpose of bringing about arpructioal fcstoratien of the constitutional relation uf all the Stales to the National Gov ernment, And so far as our own views ex tend in this direction, we should not care to see a resort to this expedient until it shuf.ld he demonstrably clear that the great mass of the people of the South are no less disaffec ted toward “ the Constitution as it is and the Union as it was”, than wo know to he the case with the anti-slavery party at the North. T n that' event, with «uch c. concurrence of antagonisms to the “old Union,” wo should despair of i’ts restoration. But as wo have recently seen a grout reaction in puldic sentimental the North, wo arc not the hope that, under auspices calculated to produce ‘t, there might he an equal reaction at the South.-—dispensing with the nccjsslty of culling a ArAiop.al Convention, ft could he called only by the concurrent voice of the 1/i'gir.laturcH uf two thirds of the States uni ting in tins request at the hands of Congress, and it would hive to ho preceded by nn ar mistice for a period long enough to permit its assemblage. But a National Convention is “ impossible,” and If, au aruustico im possible,” what solution of our complication can commend Itself *to the claim of bmng “possible?" President Lincoln and Con. ’Jefferson Davis Imvo no right or power to settle between themselves the terms on winch the nation shall have peace, except as the former shall ask what lluj latter shall agree to accept —that is a return of the sece ded States to their allegiencc under the Con stitution, with all the rights and duties de fined hy time instrument. But as the terms uf Mr, Lincoln ignore the constitutional rifhta uf the seceded States, and as the terms of ueii. Jefferson Davis ignore’ their constitu tional duties* it is plain that negotiations be tween the President and the “ rebel chief," according to the idea of the ’Tribune, arc “ impossible.” Wo question whether in the present stage of the war there are many who believe that the policy of “ subjugation mid ('•.'.termination and coattscatioji” is among the possibilities of our situation, and those who uttered those words, under the delirium of Miolr sectional i phron/.y, aro fast comjng to rpcak in a mure ratufoal and sober dialect. Like the Tribune, wo do nr.l disguise from ourselves the dillieulties of t-hs.prims. Y/ith it, we do notnflirm that ” immediate ~qtile mcnr ef our national troubles h perfectly, feasible, but, as on a farmer occasion we know It avowed a readme*?! to eco a Nation al Convention called at the cVse ot tho war it has occurred to us that i ur contemporary, in whom wo recognize a no less sincere than influential advocate of peace, might ho wil ling to accept this arbitrament (>r the pur* po.se ol dosing the war itself. As prelimin ary to such a conleronji of the Stales ’.t would Ijo entirely proper fqr "President Lin coln (or ii is successor.) to open, negotiations with Gen. Jelfcruon Davis ha* an a-rmirtice, based on the principle of uti pouxidcjitt during tho term of its eoncinuem'O. ami which should be concluded fur a period Jyu«t enough to admit of such a conference; 'ibr, as the President is C./innmnder-ia-Ciiiot of tho Ar my and Navy of the United States, and na General Jefferson Da via is “tho authority which controls llie armies at wav against tho United Stares,” it would bo out indy cumpe tent iur them to conclude an amdalieo with ibis end in view. Wo shall not be suspected of wishing to turn the thoughts of any from tho things that make for peace when wo Bay that it is possi ble for the patrons of this boon to allow their zeal to outtrun their discretion. It is easy to cry “peace, peace,”‘when there is no peace; for, as Napoleon once, in substance said, 4 ‘Poac?o is a word—tho conditions of pcuco are everywhere.” When tho fountains of the great deep have been broken up as they have been in this distracted country, it would bo idle to expect an immediate and total subsidence, of tho surging waters. ; la the days of the Hebrew monarchy under King David, the sacred historian records that “tho children of Isaachar were men that derstanding of tho times to know lsr ael ought to do.” Our country is perishing for tho want of men like the. children of Is eachnr—-men who havja. understanding of tho times to know what tho nation should do. • igjjr* A letter from an intelligent friend in the army of the Potomac says—** The feel ing fur M’Clei.lan exceeds anything I have er teen. Mon of both parties are for him, OV d certainly I.am not wrong in paying that the event of all ,tlip soldiers voting, ho will m oive nino out of overv ten voter cast.” roc (£TWo loam from Western papers that, tho prairies are all ablaze with excitement and zeal iu behalf of tho Democratic ticket. OCT Lincoln Bays ho is for tho Union and tho CouatUutioiij with a lew alterations. — J*ri Davw th* iam« thin& M’CLEciviVS MIDNIGHT LETT EH TO LINCOLN. WRITTEN AETETI THE if ARCH THROUGH WHITi: OAK SWAill’. The following important and memorable letter, written by General McClellan at mid night in his tent, bn the James River, imme diately at the conclusion of his masterly move ment, securing the salvation of his army af ter the awful Seven Days' Cattles ot i’.'oh mond, will lie found worthy of preservation for convenient reference by all classes of \ oo plo. Had McClellan's r.rmy not been fatally weakened by the blind aud malicious jealousy, of Mr, Lincoln and Ida War Secretary, the result would have been tho capture of Rich mond. As it. was, the General, after unpar alleled fighting, executed a masterly and sa ving movement that has excited Iheadmira tion of th.o best military minds of America and Europe. y Uii" letter answers all -Republican charges of “ treason.’.' It Is full of wise suggestions to Mr. Lincoln. Ha l tho latter heeded its patriotic admonitions, instead of listening to to tho demands of Ins malignant War Secre tary mid the Garrisonian Xbsur.iuauts, the situation of tlio country would bo far dif lerent far more hopeful for tljo cause of tho war than it now is. But Mr. Lincoln lias chosen to change tlio .war from its original declared purposes, and now rnfu sen to end it and restore tho Union,‘except on tho condition that the .South shall first abol ish shivery I Head McClellan's letter. UEmsuAnjEM. An W)l jMY'“;r ' ■■ July 7tli, 1802, j MEM “Mr. rni:s : rE' ; : ;—You have been .{ally Informed that tlio rebel army is in tho froa-t, with the,purpose of overwhelming us by at lacking our positions or by reducing us by blockading our river communications. I can not but regard our condition tia critical, and T earnestly desire in view of possible contin gencies, to lay before your excellency, for your private consideration, my general views concerning the existing state of tho rebellion, although they do not strictly relate to tlio situation of this army, or strictly come,with in tho scope of my official duties.* These views amount to convictiou-a, and arc deeply impressed upon my mind and heart. Our cause must never bo abandoned ; it is tho cause of free institutions and self-government.. Tho Constitution and tho Union must ho preser ved, whatever may be the cost in time, treas ure and blood. If secession is. fmccessfnl, other dissolutions aro dearly tc bo soon in tho future. Let neitheiyfnlitary disaster, po litical faction, nor fmiei'gn war shake3'our set tled purpose. to LMib'Uie the equal operation of the laws of tlio United States upon tho people of every tftato. “ The time |i:*s come when the Government must determine upon a civil and military pol ity, covering tho whole ground of our nation al trouble. , • “ 'i'lio responsibility of determining, decla ring and supporting;-such civil and military polit*v, and nf directing the whole course of national affairs in regard to the rebellion, imist in-w he assumed and exercised by you, ur oi:r cause will. ha lost. The Constitution give.; you power, oven for tho present terri- Jjln r»:-: igorm?, ■ This rebellion ha* assumed (he character of a war; as mic|i it should ho regarded, and it shmiKl-be upon the highest prin liplo.s known to Ghrimirn ci'dli.mfion. It sltould not he at nil a war upon population, hut again*! armed lows and political organ uMh)n>». Neither cuuibvathm of property, p.diti.-nl oxecuiioas <_l‘ persons, territorial ur ‘jran'rzaiiona of States, or forcible abolition of slavery should be - coutm'uplutcd for a mo ment. “ In prosecuting the war, all private prop erty and unarmed persons should ho strictly protected, subject only to rho necessity of mil itary operations ; all private property taken fur military nso should bo paid or receipted for; pillage and waste should he treated as hijrii crimes ; all onno'ccs-airy tresspass stoni ly prohibited; and otfensi vo demeanor by the xiiililivvv towards ciXwnis promptly rebuked* Military arrests should not bo tolerated, ox ovpt in places wheio active hostilities and oaths not required by enactments, con stitutionally unub 1 , bhoald bo neither deman ded not* received. “ MdiKrv government; should be confined to the preservation of public ordw. and the protection of political'right. Military pow er should not he allowed to interfere with tho rel.nioj’H of ecrviiud* 1 , either by supporting or Ur.p-ivuiy the authority of the master, ex cept (’"!• repressingdisevder. as in other oases. Slaves, contraband, under the act'ol Congress seeking military protection* should receive it. The r’ght of the (.Jovcriinumt to appropriate permanently to its own service claims ter slave labor blmuld he asserted, and tho ri^rht of the owner to compensation therefore should bo recognized. This pr n dp’o might be extended upon grounds of mditaiy ncc-s.-i y ami secu rity, to all the slaves of a particular State, thus working niaunmihsion in such State ; and in Missouri, perhaps in Wo.deru Virgin* in. also, and possibly even in Maryland, the ex podieuey «f a measure is only a question of time. A system of policy tlras constitution al, and pervaded by the influence of (Jhri-p tin nit'/ and freedom would receive the sup )>ort ofalmust all truly loyal men, w.ould deep ly impress the rebel masses ami all foreign nations, and.it might ho humbly hoped that it would commend itself to tho favor cf tho Almighty. “ Until the principles governing the future conductor our struggle should be made known and approved, the effort to obtain n requisite force will bo almost hopeless, A declaration of radical views) .especially upon tho subject cf slavery, will rapidly disintregato our pres ent armies. The policy, of tho Government must be supported by concentrations of mil itary power. The national forces should not he dispersed in expeditions, posts of occupa tion, ami numerous armies, but should bo mainly collected into masses, and brought to bear upon the armies of tho Confederate States.- Those armies thoroughly defeated, tho' political structure which they support would coon cease In exist, “In carrying out any system of policy which you may form you will require a commander in-chief of the' army, one who possesses your confidence, understands your views, and who is competent to execute your orders, by direc- Giv the military forces of tho nation to tlie accomplishment tf the objects by you pro posed. Ido not nsk chut place for myself.— I am willing to servo you in snob position as ynu may assign mu, and 1 will will do so as faithfully tiu ever subordinate served superi or-. “I may bo on the brink of eternity; anil as I ho.|>o forgiveness from mjr Maker, I have written this letter with sincerity towards you, anO from I<»v.o of mvcmintry. • “Very respectfully vour obedient servant, ■GKOUGHH. M’OLKLLAtf, “ Major Genera!, Commanding,” "Ills Excellency A. LihcuLN* President.” A Member «f Ills* KcpuMUan giato Ccn** tral Committee oat far IlliClcllao, At {ho grand Mass Ht;elin£ held in Phil adelphia on last Sat* relay evening D. C, Gilluspia, ot Jefferson county, ppoko as fol- lowa Mil. Chairman and Citizen* I After the er.hauetive speech of my venera ble hieml, n!io has just finished .iddroHsing you, I fool that anything I might add to his remarks would bo superfluous. But, as I cornu from the forest, every breeze that passes through the piu.es of the North west, where Indeed everything breathes of McClolUn and victory, I-fuel that I must s«y «onu i »hin ; ~. to yon. [Choirs.J Thu anodence before mo is the'largest that I over haw. 1 have often heard of a aea of faces but this gathering, my fi lends, looks like a vast wilderM’-ss ol patriots. [Cheers.J I greet you with good will and tidings of good cheer. ■ The rural districts .will do their duly, but yon can do much to stem the lido ofoToi d '•■irruption ami mad fan aticism. (Cheers.] Bet tno here say that my whole life beivtoloro, lias boon npent in bitter opposition to (he party L now- nd diuHS. I Cheers.] I hope it.wiM nnt o.Tund my irlemls ol the Kepubllcan pe.ity to know Hint I was appointed a member ot-thO Ka put 1 iciti State Cummitt****. I aled held tho position i t Assistant Collector for Jeflorsou county under (lie present Administration, and resigned both positions tho Uo publican party deni ed of me self aluiflca lion. [Cheers.J I havu not in my poor KxHflft/itrrffiiiri' »i!l A'ii? '6°j.\yftiL?‘thia Administration has cut greenbacks enough to purchase my fro#* expression of opinions. [Cheou.) Tho first volo J cast was for iionry Olay, one of the purest of statesmen* whoso soul I tiiißt now rests In Ilaveb.- My lilu, us 1 bolero said, was spent in opposi tion to'tho Democratic party, but; when those who oppose that p.i~ty .violate tho rights of tho people—when the P.epublicon Adtjuiniilraiiun ol Abraham Lincoln direct- • ly violate and oven oendoam tho laws of the nation, thou am I against thorn. [Cheers.] dudas betrayed his master for thirty pieces of bilvor, aui there are men now living who would, I think’, for 10 per cent, on a shoddy cent act. [Loughtor.J J followed tho Kepubhci a parly ao long as they followed the resolution of Congress explanatory ot the object for which tho wtp is waged. [Cheers.J I will stand upon that resolution, which u adopted by Con gress almost without di? «ent, until wo viu dicato its purpose or go dovvn in oblivion. [Cheers.l I challenge Republicans lb incut uiu upon tlio resolution of Congress, ot which tho immortal Crittenden, who, I liupu, now sits near the seat of Kfcrnal Tnitu, was the framer. When tho hag was fired iipou at Fait Suuilur, wo all full our hearts lired with more fervent devotion to tho Union, and saciificed homos, dear onus and ail fur its perpetuity—not for tho abandonment ol slavery. There are but two questions now Loiore tho American people—whether wo preler tho restoration of the Union and ’an early peace, of th« abandonment ofalaveiy and years cf war. Iftwoor three millions of negroes aro worth mure than the Union, then Abe Lin coln and Ids .‘‘tateifiiiea arc right.u.Jßut if tho Union our fathers gave us in proco bo . more valuable than tho freedom of slaves, then we arc .rigid. Tho abandonment of slavery should be gradual, and if tho poli cy of tiiti present Administration is to b» followed, p : etuiis to yourselves tho dosola Man th.it will fall upon us. i jell thu Ko publiu.m puny becausa i religiously; be lieve that the Union can’only bo saved by tho Democratic uud Conservative citizens of this couut’-y. 1 conjure all by the love they hear the laud of Freedom, by their (iod, by every fund attaohment on earth, to join us in our good work. I still, feel that my country is yet to be saved, and that the wisdom ol our people will conduct us safe ly from a sun ol cioublu. Abraham Lincoln is likened by some to Moses, who was sent ilowu to liberalo the Israelites when tho land ot ligypt was cov ered with Irog.”. Father Abraham propos es ti* aid us In. envoi lug the land with lux.- gathers. [Launder 1 You aay this i-s > o best government giv en toman and re /ill 3g to tlio giiidanen o* lit Ira.uors ol tho Consltp tut iuii and Uni j ay tl.o. Hand of Heaven., You believe ihfttuiir fithors of the Itcvolu lion merited in I heir work tlio aid of Heav en. It tUui, then, bo trr.o. I would ask: Why, it (• 0.l gave it v* and everything must im peilecLtli.it coiues 1 horn Ji:u), how is it that ho permitted slaveiy to exist in one half of it i[ .If our govcruiu.enC u from tho Hands of Leay. -i, v-!> »t ’ ’ght have wo to at* tempt its alternation against the ordDjanoon of the Alnuahly I W-h it -is pioposed,.by tlio Abolitionists I Ai raham Lincoln says that this war .shall m-t close until the whole land be saturated with the blued of freemen. Ilia plan must bo accepted*or millions ot A'ortiii'i n friemen ma.sldia upon the battle field. Ye.s. to free theslavu.of the South, Anralmm Lincoln has said liiat all the blood and treasure ol tin* Luiih and SmiHi must bo exhausted, i lie lioliow-hoarted philan thropy of tho IS* uh in tv fchuiu—it is mock ery. * W lio are the men that dare to tnako tl.o iasuo between pre&ervatiuu of tho Um« n and tho abolition ot negro slavery upon *.'i icli our libertiua and lives depend S Wm. Lloyd Garrison is one; he that I heard Lr two hours,harangue against tho sanctiiv tu’tho Lmd’s Day*.. Horace Gree ley ia anolhor, who believes in-nothing but negro worshiping. IHuce this Goyeriifpept in the hands ol men who, ary traifoWjjlo Heaven, and what but desobtion cap cqdiq of their rule ? • [Choora.].. Vfu htwo Olellan a niodura. Mo.stvj, < -yho tQ*n:ghJ,;s upon the momifiiia top, not to. recsiv