AMERICAN VOLUNTEER. JOHN B. BRITTON, Editor k Proprietor. CARLISLE, PA., JUNE 29, 18C5 Wu. Blair & Sos. —Tyre Iron at 5 cents per lb.; Nails. $5 65 per kog—6 coals pet lb.; Horse Shoes, $7 50 per keg. CELEBRATION OF THE 4th of JULY, 1865 . AND WELCOME HOME TO OUR BRAVE AND WMmiKDiS S'MMBIBSa The Citizens of Carlisle, desiring to testify their appreciation of the services of our Citi zen Soldiers, propose a Celebration of the en suing Anniversary of American Independ ence, which shall have for its leading feature a cordial and enthusiastic welcome home to our returned Volunteers. All Citizens of Carlisle and vicinity there fore who have served in any capacity in the Armies of the Union during the last four ycarr, are earnestly and cordially invited to participate in the exercises of the day, and to partake of a collation to bo prepared for them. The Committee of Arrangements ap pointed at the recent Town Meeting, have adopted tho following PROGRAMME On tho morning of tho 4th a National Sa lute will be fired on the Public Square. After tho Salute tho Bells of the various Churches will bo rung in joyous* peals. A Procession will bo formed on tho Puhho Square at 10 o'clock, A. M., under the direc tion of tho Chief Marshal and Aida. Tho Returned Soldiers, Fire Companies, and other Societies will appoint their own of ficers far the Parade. The column will move through the several streets, terminating its march at the College Campus, Arriving at tho Campus tho assemblage will be duly organized as a public meeting, and the farther exercises will be as follows ; . 1. Music by the Band. 2. Prayer. 3. Singing of a National Hymn. 4. Reading of Declaration of Independ ence. 5. Singing, G. Address—“"Welcome and Congratula tions to the Soldiers.” 7. Music. 8. National Address. 9. Music. 10. Benediction. The assemblage will then adjourn, after which the Soldiers will be escorted to Rheem’s Hall, whore a collation will bo prepared. in the evening a beautiful display of fire works will take place from tho Square. —The Gommittce~of-ATrangements"rljquesr that the returned Soldiers will meet without delay for organization, and that they will re port tho number who may bo expected to take part. Tho Firemen and other organizations are also requested to elect their Marshals and re port their names immediately. Citizens are earnestly requested to join in tho Procession. By Order of tho Committee. Delightful Showers. —We bad a aeries of delightful showers on Monday last. Al though possibly doing some damage by re tarding the gathering in of the hay crop, still the corn and potato crops will bo much bene fited thereby. These summer showers arc among the choicest and richest blessings which a kind and bountiful Providence deigns to enrich earth's inhabitants. Harvest is almost at hand. The wheat and rye are ripening rapidly, and the latter is almost ready for the sickle. The crop of the present season is said to bo unu sually heavy—a cause of gratification among the farmers. Hay making is progressing ns rapidly as circumstances will permit. The force of hands is somewhat limited, although laborers are not as scarce as during last sea son. Mad Dogs. —We notice by our exchanges that mad dogs are beginning to make their appearances in different parts of the State.— One was killed recently in Chester county, and another near Philadelphia last week.— There are in this borough hundreds of yelp ing curs and some of larger growth, running upon the streets day and night, and wo trust that our Town Council will adopt an ordi nance ordering them all to bo muzzled.— The loss of the life of one citizen by hy drophobia would be more to bo deplored than the absolute extinction of the whole canine family. Odh Markets. —For several of our last market days there has not been a full supply of butter, owing in a great measure to the fact that our farmers are engaged in hayma king, and preparing |for harvesting. On yesterday morning it sold at 22 and 25 cents *■ n pound ; eggs, 25 cents per dozen ; chick ens, 50 cents, and spring chickens 25 to 30 cents each ; old potatoes 15 and 20 cents and * new ones 35 cents per half peek ; peas and string beans 20 cents per half peck ; boots from 5 to 10 cents per bunch ; cabbage from .10 to 15 cents per head; tomatoes 20 cents per dozen ; cherries 4 and 5 cents, raspber ries 20 cents and currants 5 cents per quart; choice cuts of beef, mutton and veal 25 cents per pound, and down to 12 for inferior pieces ; hallibut 20 cents per pound. Festival and Fair. —The members of Le tort Lodge, No. 03, I. O. of G. T. purpose holding a grand Festival and Fair in their Lodge Boom, in Ebeem’s Hall, on Saturday, Monday and Tuesday evenings next, July Ist, 3d and 4th. Their efforts for good in our community have not been in vain, and they should receive a generous portion of public patronage. Object—the refitting of their ■ _ fc ALEXANDER 11. STEPHENS. 41 Among tho petitions received by the President, asking for a special pardon, is that of Alexander 11. Stephens, late Vice- President of the Confederacy, Mr. Stephens enters at length into an apology or vindica tion of tho action ho has taken. f Among the reasons which led him to espouse the cause of the rebellion , he refers to tho fact that the New York Tribune , known to be a powerful and influential supporter of the Republican Administration, m jopenhj advocated the right of the Southern”people to independence. Mr, Stephens inferred from this that independ ence would be conceded South without war. He acknowledged that the question has been decided forever, and ho desires here after to -be, and- to-be considered a good dud loyal citizen of tho United States. Mr. Ste phens’ document covers some seventy pages, —New York Times'(Republican paper,) The document received by tho President from Mr. Stephens, is said to be a paper of great power, and places tho Jacobin-Repub lican-Negro-Equaljty party in a most humili ating position. Ho shows and proves that se cession was never thought of in the South until after scores of prominent Republicans had endorsed the dogma. Tho South believed tho professions of these eminent men, and Southern statesmen wore induced to think iat they could secede with safety and with- out war. Mr. .Stephens says in his petition to President Johnson, that the people of tho South wore educated into tho belief of tho right of secession by Northern men, and bo refers to numerous able articles that appear ed in tho Now York Tribune (Greelv’s pa per, and the acknowledged mouth-piece of the Abolition party,) to show that accession was not a Southern but a Northern'idea. More than this, he mentions a fact known to all men, that tho Abolitionists of tho New Ung lued States had boon in tho habit, for a quar ter of a century, of sending petitions to Con- gress praying for a dissolution of tho Union, and that these petitions were considered and defended by Abolition members and opposed bftSouthern men. He shows that Seward, Chase, Hale and Burlingame, four distin guished men holding high positions under Mr. Lincoln, had repeatedly voted for a dis solution of tho Union, and had always advo cated the right of secession I Mr. Stephens' document is not yet pub- lished, but it is understood that it contains various extracts from the speeches and writ ings of prominent Republicans, going to show that secession is not treason. Among other things, it is said ho calls attention to tho fol lowing ; “Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have a right to rise up and shako off cho existing government and form a new one that may suit them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right —a right which wo hope and believe is t 5 liberate the world. Nor is the right confined to cases in which tho whole people of an ex isting governmontmay choose to exercise it —any portion of such people that cm, may revolutionize and make their own of so much t of tho territory as they inhabit. More than this: a majority of any portion of such people may revolutionize, putting down a minority intermingled with or near about them, who may oppose their movements. '’-—Speech of Abraham JAncoln in Congress—see Congres sional Globe , Jan. 12, 1848. “ If tho cotton States shall becomesatiafted that they can do better out of tho Union'than in it, we insist on letting them go in peace. The right to secede mag he a revolutionary one , but it nevertheless exists,”—New York Tribune , Nov. 9, 1860. “ If tho Cotton States unitedly and earnest ly wjsh_to withdraw poncefuUy._fram-J.lie-,- Uuion we think they should be allowed to do ac."— Tribune , Nov. 2G, 1860. “Any attempt to compel them' by force to remain would bo contrary to the principles enunciated in our immortal Declaration of Independence—contrary to tho fundamental ideas on which the human liberty is based." Tribune , same date. “ Wo must over resist the right of any State to remain in the Union and nullify tho laws thereof—to withdraw from the Union is quite another matter. .Whenever a consid erable section of our Union shall deliberately resolve to get out, we shall resist all coercive measures to keep it in. We hope never to live in a republic .whereof ono section is pinned to another by bayonets."— Tribune , samo date. “If the Declaration of Independence justi fied tho secession from the British empire of three million of colonists, in 1780, wo do not see why it would not justify the secession of! live millions of Southerners from tho Union in 18GL."— Tribune , December 17, 18G0. “ Whenever it shall be clear ihat tho groat body of the Southern people have become conclusive alienated from tho Union, and anxious to escape from it, wo will do our best to forward their views."— Tribune, Feb. 23.1801. Such are some of tho authorities quoted by Mr. Stephens, to prove that the men of tho South were not tho first to advocate secession and a dissolution of tho Union. For himself, ho says ho was always opposed to dissolution and rebellion,.but as the North-diad so long (apparently) desired to cut loose from tho South, Southern men at length took them at their word, and expressed a to “bo lot alone," and determined to maintain their independence at fill hazards. This paper of Stephens’ must bo a re markable document, and contains remarkable exposures. .Davis, Stephens and others, are now confined in small cells in Fortress Mon roe—prisoners of the United States, Many loading Republicans cry out constantly “haugthom! hang them!" But, hold onl There are others implicated, and the wor|jl will say, “ hang them first, for they were the first transgresoOta—the first to recommend se cession." Those men— Greelv, Beecher, Stanton, Butler, Dickinson, Fred Douglas, and others—should not bo permitted to es cape the just penalty of their treason. They conspired together to bring on tho war, and then again conspired to coin money out of tho people’s sufferings. Lot them, we repeat, bo punished. Democratic Cerebration at Harrisburg. —The Democrats of Harrisburg and vicinity intend to celebrate the 4th in a proper man ner. From all we can learn the celebration will be an imposing affair. The chairman of the committee of invitation requests us to. publish the following: The Democracy of Harrisburg and vicinity intend to celebrate the coming anniversary of our National Independence in the old fashioned way, and the Democrats and con servatives of Cumberland county are cordial ly invited to join us upon that occasion.— The oration will be delivered by Col. Charles J. Biddle of Philadelphia. It is a free pic nic, including refreshments, music, <to., open to all of our .respectable white fellow-citizens that will honor us with thsir presence. By order of the Com. of Invitations. D. D. BOAS. Chairman. B&" Market price of Gold 140, All TRUTH The following editorial; which wo repro duce from the Louisville Rcmocrat t contains nothing but tho truth: “ Wo should judge from tho tone of a part of the Northern press that tho war was not half over. They feel now more ferocious than over. ■ Wo are at a loss to-see what they want with a Union with a country that they hate, and with a people that all deserved to be hanged. Some of those organs bayo al ways been disunionists, and some have just now to show an unusual patriotism to avoid suspicion, they having rather doubtful ante cedents. In short, tho stay-at-home patriots take pleasure in feeling mad, and fooling so a long time. - There is no profit in it, howev er; indeed, it is expensive. Party animosi ties cost us this war with all its sufferings and losses. There is no telling what it may yet cost. The brightest days have been sud denly overcast with clouds, and tho clearest sunshine has been followed by storms. **lt might as well be recollected that our ] Government has a task before it now which i physical force can’t accomplish. One half of ] tho Union can’t bo pinned to tho other with j tho bayonet. Wo must have tho co-operation of States and people in harmony 'with the , Federal Government on earth. The status of a wboloraco of people, numbering three or four millions, is to be changed. What change is to bo made docs not appear. One system of labor is tq be broken up and wo have now quack schemes and tinkering which only prove that their authors don’t know what they are about. Mere hate and revenge and assininc theories are substituted for wisdom and common sense. Wo are shown flattering visions of prosperity amongst a people with animosities to bo made chronic by cherished hate and revenge, and nob soothed by justice and liberality. Whore is tho prosperity to come from amongst discon tented and (lissuffccted pc.ople ? What pro ducts profitable to tho South are to bo ex pected when one system of labor is broken ub and untried experiments arc pufc in their place, with a people, too, utterly hostile to these experiments? ** * Let not him that puttoth on bin armor boast himself as be pultefch it off.’ There is too much to do just now, and of a magnitude that would have appalled our fathers, who would have appreciated it at its real size to allow auy time for boasting. Wo have de stroyed a rebellion ; physical power and re- sources could do thi>t; but to restore a coun try is another matter that force will not ac complish. Tue Radicals* Defeated. —The new con stitution of Missouri, which limits the rights of suffrage to white citizens, has been adop ted. The radicals who arc in favor of negro suffrage opposed its adoption most vigorously, but the conservatives triumphed notwith- standing. The Legislature of Tennessee by a large majority limited the right of suffrage to the white citizens of the State, and every South ern State will do the same under cho policy of President Johnson, as set forth in his re storation proclamation. In Washington city the radicals were de feated at a popular election but a few days ago. The same in Wheeling, Virginia, and in Connecticut. In fact if the signs of an awakened conservatism, and a returning sense of right are not illusory the radicals and fanatics of the North and the South who by their extreme views and measures plunged the country into a long and bloody civil war, will be swept into a common grave, and the true, honest, conservative men of this coun try will again attain to power and ahowor the blessings of this government upon the North and the South. The President “ Still a Democrat.”— Judge Charles Mason, Chairman of the Na tional Democratic Resident Committee, Co!. Thomaa B, Florence, publisher of the Consti tutional Union and Chairman of the above committees, and Mr. Schadc, a prominent lawyer of Washington, had a very pleasant and satisfactory interview with President Johnson, on Friday. His Excellency gave them to understand that ho was a Democrat, had always been a Democrat, and that he was too old a man to change his politics now, and that wo have “ more to fear from consol idation than secession -, that States have rights that cannot ho ignored under the Con stitution.” This has the ring of the right metal, and wo hope it will ring out loud and clear, until it ushers in the bright dawn of the day of redemption of the Union from the sad misrule of sectionalism and fanaticism, under which our glorious land of liberty has been well nigh betrayed into a gigantic cen tralized despotism. Return of Governor Aiken to Charles ton;—Governor Wm. Aiken was cordially welcomed back on his return to Charleston. As ho made his appearance ho was recog nized and enthusiastically cheered bv the crjivd on the wharf. Ho was, says the Charleston Courier, afterwards surrounded on all sides by his . friends, shaking hands and offering their congratulations. A carri age was immediately engaged by the crowd, and the Governor convoyed to his residence in Aiken Square. He speaks in the warm est terms of the kind treatment and recep tion ho met with during his stay at the North, particularly in New York and Wash ington. Ills interviews with the President wore of the most pleasant and agreeable na ture. The Gettysburg Cerebration, —The com manding officer of the Department of Wash ington, by direction of Lieutenant-General Grant, has selected the Fiftieth Pennsylvania Veteran Regiment, a battalion of the First Connecticut Cavalry, and n battery of eight guns from Brevet Brigadier-General Rob ertson's command, and tho band of the Fif ty sixth Massachusetts Regiment, and tho band of the Ninth Regiment Veteran Re serve Corps, to proceed to Gettysburg, to participate in tho celebration there of the Fourth of July. The cavalry will move overland and the infantry will go by rail road, and all tho troops will report to Gener al Geary, on July 3d, at Gettysburg. New Counterfeit Fifty Cent Note.— Counterfeits on tho newly issued fifty-cent fractional currency notes have just made their appearance. The execution is poor.— Tho engraving is scratchy, and the green plate on tho back of the note is of a faint and dim character. Numbers of them will doubt less ho placed in circulation and the public hould bo on the watch for them. VZT The Western crops are said to be growing very finely, and will be earlier than usual: Hands are yet scarce, but before the harvest begins they are expected to be plenty. Important Presidential Speech. Visit of the South Carolina Delegation, KB ADMISSION OP THAT STATE TO THE UNION. Washington, June 24.— A delegation from South Carolina, consisting of the following named, persons, had an interview, this afternoon, with the President, by ap appointmenl: Judge Frost, Isaac E. Holmes, George W. Williams, W. 11. Gilliland, J. A. Stoinraevor, Frederick Richards, Wm. Wha ley, James 11. Taylor, R, 11. Gill, and Jo seph A. Yates. . Tho President said it was his intention to talk plainly,' so'thero might ho no misunder standing. Therefore, it wore better they should look each other in tho face, and not imitate the ancient augurs, who, when they mot one another, would smile at their success in deceiving the people, Ho said if this Union was to bo preserved it must bo on the principle of fraternity both tho Northern and Southern States maintain- ing certain relations to the Government. A State cannot ho out oj tho Union, and, there fore, none of them having gone out wo must deal with the question of restoration and not reconstruction, lie suspected that ho was a boiler States Rights’ man than some of those now present. Mr. Holmes.—You always claimed to bo. (Laughter.) The President replied: —He always thought that slavery could not bo sustained outside of the Constitution of the United States, and that whenever the experiment was made it would bo lost. Whether it could or could not, lie was for tho Union, and it slavery set itself up to control the Govern ment, the Government piust triumph andsla very perish. Tho institution of shivery made tho issue, and we might as well meet it like wise, patriotic and houest men. AU institu tions must bo subordinate to tho-Government, and slavery lias given'way. lie could not if ho would remand it to its former status. Ile'ltnew that sor.io whom ho now address ed looked upon him as a groat people’s man and a radical; but however unpleasant it mlglit be to them, he had no hesitation in saying that before and after ho entered pub lic life that ho was opposed to monopolies, and perpetuities and entails. For this ho .used to bo denounced as a demagogue.— When they had a monopoly in the South in elivcs, though he had bought and hold slaves, ho had never sold one. From the Magna Charta we had derived our ideas of freedom of speech and liberty of the press, and un reasonable searches, and that private prop erty should noc bo taken for public uses without just compensation. He had these notions fixed in his mind, and was, therefore, opposed to this clays of legislation. Being providentially brought to his present position he intended to cxcit the power and influance of the Government, so as to place in power the popular heart of this nation. lie proceeded on the principle that the great Masses are not like mushrooms, cling ing about a stump and owing their existence to the murky weather. lie believed that this nation was sent on a great mission, to alford an example of freedom and substantial happiness to all the powers of the earth.— The Constitution of the United States, in speaking of persons to bo chosen representa tives in Congress, says: " The Electors of each State shall have the qualifications requi site for Electors to the most numerous branch of the State legislature.” Hero wo find a resting place. This was the point at which the .Rebellion commenced. All the States were in the Union, nnving in harmony ; hut a portion of them rebelled, and to some extent paralyzed-and suspended the operations of their Governments. There isa constitutional obligation resting upon the United States Government to put down Ho hellion, suppress insurrection and to repel invasion. The slaves went into the war as slaves, and came out free men of cohr. The friction of the Rebellion Ims rubbed out the_i The loyal who were compelled to bow and submit to the Rebellion should, now that Rebellion has ended, stand equal to everywhere. Hence the wish of restoration and trying to get back the States to the point at which they formerly moved in perfect harnnny. Ho did not intend to servo any particular clique or interest, lie would say to the del egation that slavery is gone as an insthution. There was no hope time the people of South Carolina could bo admitted into the Senate or the House of Representatives until they had afforded evidence by their conduct of this truth. The policy, nW'that the Rebel lion is suppressed, is nut to restore the State Governments through military rule, but by the people.' While the war has emancipated the slaves, has emancipated a larger num ber of whito mcn. Ho would talk plain. The delegation said that was what they de sired. lie could go to men who had owned fifty or a hundred slaves, and who did notcareas much for the poor white man as thsy did for the negro. Those who own the land have the capital to employ, and therefore some of our Northern friend's are deceived when they living afar off, think they can oxeicise a greater control over the freedmen than the Southern men who have been reared whore the institution of slavery prevailed. Now, ho did not want the late slavhol ‘ders to control the negro votos against white men. Let each State judge of the depifeita ry of its own political power. Ho was for emancipating the white man as well as the black. Mr. Holmes asked, “ Is it not altogether accomplished V* The replied that ho did not think the question was fully settled. The question as to whether the black man shall be engrafted in the constituency, will be Set tled, as we go along. Ho would not disguise the-fact that, while ho had bc(jn persecuted and denounced at the South as a traitor, he loved the great mass of the Southern people, lie opposed the Rebellion at its breaking out and fought it everywhere ; and now ho wan ted the principles of the Government carried out and maintained. Mr. Holmes interrupted fiy saying, we want to get back to thc-same position as you describe. As we are without law, no courts arc open, and you have the power to assist us. The President replied:—The Government cannot gc on unless it is right. The people of South Carolina must have a Convention and amend their Constitution by abolishing slavery and this must bo done in good faith, and tho Convention or Legislature must adopt tho proposed amendment to the Con stitution of the Union which prohibits and excludes slavery everywhere. One of the delegates said;—Wo are most anxious for civil rule, for we have had more than enough of military despotism. The President, resuming, said that, ns the Executive, ho could only take tho initiatory steps to enable them to do tho things which it was incumbent upon them to perform. Another of, the delegates remarked that it was assumed in some parts of the country thn'f, in consequence of tho Rebellion, tho Southern States had forfeited their rights as members of the Confederacy, and that if they wore restored it could only he on certain con ditions, one of which was that slavery shall bo abolished. This could bo done only through a convention. Tho President repealed that tho friction of tho Rebellion had rubbed slavery out; but it would be better to so declare by law. As one of the delegates had just remarked that tho Constitution of South Carolinadid not es tablish slavery it would bo better to insert a clause therein antagonist^to slavery; —Judge Frost said :—The object of our pray er is the appointment of a Governor, The people of South Carolina will accept these conditions in order that law and order may bo restored, and that enterprise and indus try may be directed to useful ends. We-de sire restoration as soon as possible. It is the part of wisdom to make tho best of circum stances. Certain delusions have been dis polic'd by the rcvolutfou, among thorn that slavery was an element of political strength and moral power. It is very certain that thd old notion respecting State rights, in tho maintenance of which those who in South Carolina made tho Kobellioa, erred, mas ceased to osist, Another delusion, namely, that *• Cotton is king,” has also vanished in tho mist. "VYe nre to como back with those notions dispollcJ and with .a new system of labor. — The people of South Carolina will_cordially_ cooperate with the Government ia making that labor elective, and elevating the negro as much as- they can. It is, however, mure the work of time than fcho labor of enthusi asm and fanaticism. The people oftho South have the largest interest in the question.-- Wo are willing to co-oporalo for selfish, if for no higher reasons. Wo hayo taken the liberty, cucouro-gcd by your kindness to throw out suggestions by which the policy of tho Goyormnent will be most surely and ef fectively subserved. # ! I repeat that the new system of labor is to be inaugurated by sober, sound and discreet judgment. The negroes are ignorant. Their minds arc much in play with liberty. They arc apt to confound liberty with licentious ness. Their great idea is, I fear, that free dom consists in exemption from work. AV e will take in good faith and carryout your intentions with zeal and tho hope for tho best, and none will rejoice more than the people of tho South if emancipation proves successful. Freedom to the slave is freedom to the master, providing you can supply a motive to industry. The people of South Carolina, from their fidelity to honor, hove submitted to great sacrifices. They endured all. We are 'defaced and conquered by tho North, who are too strong for us/ The same good faith which animated them in tho con test will not bo found wanting in thdir loyal pledge of support to the Government. There may grow out of this blessings which you have not foreseen, and some pleasing rays now illuminate tho horizon. I suppose the oath of allegiance will bo taken with as much unanimity in South Carolina ns anywhere else, and wo will submit to tho condition of things which Providence has assigned, and endeavor to believe— “ All discords of harmony not nndcrs'ood, All partial evil, universal good." Wo cheerfully accept the measures recom mended, and would thank you to recommend at your convenience a Governor to carry out the wishes you have expressed. President Johnson asked the deputies to submit whom they would prefer ns Provia innal Governor. To this they replied that they had a list of five men, namely:—Aiken, M’Elhanoy, Boyce, Colonel Manning, (late Governor,) and B. P. Perry. All of these were spoken of as good men, hut hud been more or leas in volved in the Rebellion, Mr. Perry was a District Judge in the Confederacy until n few weeks before it collapsed, and it was said that he had always been a good Union man and of strict integrity. The people certain ly would respect him, and ho could not fail to ho acceptable. The President said he knew Benjamin Per ry very well, having served with him in Con gress. There was uo spirit of vengeance or vindictiveness on the part of the Government whose only desire was to restore tho relations which formerly existed. Ho was not now prepared to give them an answer ns to whom he should appoint; but at the Cabinet meet ing on next Tuesday ho would repeat the substance of their interview, with a hope to the restoration which the gentlemen present so earnestly desired. Tho delegates seemed to bo much pleased with tho proceedings, and lingered for some time to individually converse with tho Presi dent. m 55” The Contractors and “ loyal thieves” cf Harrisburg, intend to celebrate the com ing 4th by themselves. In selecting officers for their.meeting, they used, without au thority, tho name of Col. Witman. Tho Col onel declines the honor in tho following card to the Patriot <0 Union : Editor Patriot and Union. — l see my name used in connection with a celebration of the coming 4th of July to bo held irre spective of party. Nothing would give me more pleasure than to Join my fellow-citizens on such an occasion, but since my return to the city, I have seen and hoard enough to convince mo that it is to be a Contractor’s glorification, (a class for whom the soldier has no great love,) and I therefore respect fully decline the honor—preferring to cele brate that holy day with those who entertain more liberal principles and are decent and re spectable enough for my association. E. S. WmtAN, Lato Lieut. Col. 201st P. V. Message op Governor SAULsmiar.—Gov ernor Saalsbury, of Delaware, in his mes sage to the Legislature of that State, takes strong and tenable grounds in favor of the unrestrained fre'odom of speech. Ho urges the members of the Legislature to guard with earo against all attomps to make the negro the equal of the white man. He also de clares that the Government can gain nothing by dealing harshly with those who have been in rebellion. His mbssage throughout is a very able and exhaustive document. The radicals may depend upon it that if Presi dent Johnson does not change his constitu tional course with reference to State rights, not a negro in the whole South will ever be Hewed to vote. , Death or Mrs. Seward. —Mrs. Secretary Seward died on Wednesday morning at ton o’clock, of illness caused by care and exer tion for her family since the terrible night of April 14th. She was 59 years of age. Her remains were taken from Washington on Thursday, and her, funeral services were to take place on Saturday last, at St. Peter’s Church, Auburn, Now York, her former homo. IC7* Simon Cameron, Chairman of tho Ab olition State Central Committee of Pennsyl vania, has published a-notice announcing that that the State Convention of that party will not assemble at Harrisburg on the 19th of July, ns appointed, hut that it is “deferr ed until further notice.” What’s tho mat ter? Are the “loyalists” afraid to show their hands? Perhaps they are not fully persuaded to ondoiEe Andy Johnson 1 ■ DT7” Edward Ruffin, Sr,, who.fired the first gun upon Fort Sumter, and who killed him self on Sunday, tho 18th, was seventy-four years old. lie placed the morale of a mus ket in his mouth, touched the trigger with hia cane, and blow his brains and gray hair against tho ceiling of his room. Hq- loft a letter, the last line of which reads: “ I cannot survive the loss of the liberties of my country.” HZt" Itis proposed to erect monuments in New York city to the memory of Fulton aai Morse, the inventors. LETTER FROM EUROPE. Baden-Baden, May 28,1865 Editor Beading Gazelle ;■ Since my last letter from Brussels,, wo passed through a considerable portion of Eu rope. I could describe to you thousands or objects of interest, but roust content myaelt with a few brief sketches, ns our time is very much occupied. Upon reaching .the valley of the Rhino, with its supremo beauties and innumerable relics of antiquity, it seemed ns if I was transported into a labd of dreams,, and thoughts crowded my. mind, I can scarcely find words to express. This mag nificent country is literally covered with vine yards to the vary tops,of. tho, hills, and every, few moments you notice hero n village and there a town, and the hills are crowned by ruina and castles of u thousand years stand ing. ■ Arm ng the last, is the castle of Stolzcn fcls, at present the summer residence of the King of Prussia; a' splendid building, com manding a magnificent view* On the chim ney of a bouse at the foot of the hitbr, 1 no ticed the inscription A. D. 738. Am along the river Rhine, a number of old towers are still standing that were built by the ancient Romans. ' ... May 23d, in the forenoon, wo arrived at Mayenco. After getting through with our Brewer business and other matters in con nection, wo started for Wiesbaden. This is a wonderful place. The boiling hot springs, amrtbo very tine shaded wslUs and lawns, afford the traveler a rich treat, end at the so called Russian obnpel a view-may ho had over the most romantic portion of the valley ;of the Rhino. Prom Mayenco we wtnc_ by I way of Darmstadt and many pleasant villa ges to Heidelberg, and the whole country ap pears like one vast garden whoso beauty gains in interest bv the numerous ruins at the hill sides. Heidelberg, with its castle, is a fine J place for recreation. Hero, also, is to bo seen the famous wine-tub, holding 1000 bar rels. Wo arrived at 9A.M. on the 24th, and at 2 P. M. wo were already under way again for Landau, Bceehingen and Bad Gleiss .teeiler. The Utter place has increased con siderably through its bathing facilities and water-cure establishment. Early on the 26th wo started for Carlsruho, where we soon got through our official business with the officers of the government, and then left (or Baden- Baden in the evening. Here wo shall stay until Monday morning and then wo go to Stuttgard. From Heidelberg to Landau our road took us through the splendid wine lands. The vineyards look very fine and a rich vintage is expected. The grain fields, also, are rich and full, and promise an abundant haivost. The poorer people here work very hard ; es pecially is this true of the female sex. In the morning at 4 o'clock already you see them in the fields or vineyards, or attending their potatoes, or cutting grass, which, they carry homo on their heads. It is indsed, slavish. All the cities are full of soldiers guarding the monarohs, who are enabled to live in luxury and idleness, in part, by the bard work of these woman. Although wo have experienced similar things over on our side of the water during the last four years, yet things have changed again with us. We passed tjirough a trial, the like of which overy-nation may be subject to, but not every nation may be able to come out o( this fiery ordeal as gloriously as wo did. Oh, glorious America, you are the chosen asylum for the millions of oppres sed of those lands 1 I did not expect to find among the Germans such excitement, such kind predisposition nnd such lively interest in our struggles. Gentlemen traveling with us in the cars, as soon ns they heard that we came from America, pressed us with ques tions, and many wept for joy after I explain ed to them how matters were turning now. Mon of means inquire very carefully about our financial affairs, which I explain to them to the host of my abilities, giving them al ways some insight into the resources and the wealth of our country. It has also got abroad already that the Americ;ffis were -ratigcmenls “to pay - their debts, and I told them that in 20 years everything would be paid off. They seem disposed to buy 0. S. Stocks. Our Commission meets everywhere with a welcome reception. Baden-Baden is a place of resort for the higher classes of nil nations. Everything is hero got up in the grandest stylo. During the week a a well as on the holy Sabbath, Op eras are performed in the public park by an orebestraj of some 60 musicians. In the “ Conversations” Saloon, gentlemen and la dies are seen at the gambling-tables, where the money is ventured by thousands of dol lars. It is a terrible sight. 1 must beoff now. I shall write again from Munich. Yours truly, FREDIC. LAUER. [Mr. Lauer’s letter from Munich, having arrived in advance of the above, was pub "ished in last week’s Volunteer.] SZr" On Tuesday' lust some insubordinate demonstrations wore made by a couple hun dred members of Bartlott’s divison, at Wash ington City. The men had not been paid for ten months and many of their families were destitute. An order to take a now camping ground across the Potomac created much dissatisfaction, and an attack was made upon a hotel where a number of officers were supposed to be enjoying their ices and sherry cobblers. The difficulty ended by the post ing of a placard- with the following appro priate and sarcastic motto, which was used at a grand review a week or two ago : “The only National Debt we cannot pay is that we owe to our country’s brave defenders.” Lamentable Truths.— The Pittsburgh Commercial, as if to ridicule its Abolition contemporaries who are demanding votes for the Southern negroes, published the follow ing bit of “ contraband" information -. “ From information known to the public, it appears that the Government is reeding more than a hundred and fifty thousand no? groes-in Virginia, besides largo numbers of white people. The land, in the meantime, is lying waste for the lack of cultivation. In Georgia, it is stated that the War Depart ment is feeding two hundred, thousand per sons, not connected in any way with any branch of our service. Wo have no means ot verifying these statements, and hope they may he exaggerations, though we have not yet seen their accuracy questioned." Tho Chicago Tribune (Republican) is alarmed at tho prompt action of tho Presi dent, and says “ the people of the- West are astounded by the precipitate and thoughtless haste by which tho work of reconstruction, according to tho theory developed at Wash ington, is going on.” Tho same journal is very much concerned about Gen, Sherman’s insubordination. JEST Chief Justice Chase has been down South for some time now, engaged in making speeches to tho niggers. This is anything but dignified employment fur a Chief Justice of tho United States. Tho Digger Indians Jiavo, at least, an equal claim with the nig gers, and we suggest that our dignified Chief Justice pay them a visit 1 Death op Wa. S. Campbell.—Willau S. Campbell, proprietor of the St, Lawrences Hotel, Philadelphia, died "recently at his homo. Ho was a prince of a landlord, and had many zealous friends in nil parts of the State. Orir Soldiers. || General H. W. Slocum had a flatterin»M coption at Syracuse, N. S'., last ThursdaJ t|_ General S. in response to a welcoming paid a grateful tribute to the conn notl |«8 dior: ■ pli Ho referred to an article in a Syrn e Ml newspaper, which, ho said, “ had the reception given to an ofliccr with p il|| given to a ptivulc soldier. .Both enteredt'irli service from this county—both had be.,£>l wounded in the same battle and returnifiS under similar circumstances—yet how ont their receptions.- The officer was mel'f—l the depot by a largo number of friends moat, cordially greeted'. The soldier was JSI by an only sister, and by her aiono acoorfl nied to his home. I presume there are J,V|| ten men within roach of my voice who member the article to which I refer, an ll am very confidant no one was more imbrci J-fl* by it than myself. I felt- it, for I was sKi officer to whom the allusion was made, JkjJS I could not but acknowledge the justices'll the article. -Our private soldiers, unlit ; l| those composing the armies of other codjKl tries, enter the service generally from p uti )y patriotic motives. They make equal (ai . iS rifioes, and endure oven greater hardship SI than their officers. In all those traitsiKS character which you delight to honor, llpi soldier has claims upon you equal at lea'stlE's' his officers. V - -v. The field of battlp is not the only test iL»u"> courage and manliness in the life of a dier. Tho long and' fatiguing marches, ftitS .labor in trenches, the short allowance of fovlpfl are all tests ns severe as any presented battle. I have seen tho men rmy oommnni SSI after working waist deep in water, builds :||| bridges overtho rivers and - roads through til.™ swamps'of tho Carolines, go quietly to thef||| tents, and without a change of clothing, makSi an oar of corn supply the place of .the usmf*|| ration. 1 have scon this frequently— never yet heard a word of complaint. pily, all jhesa things are now over. Tho sollSi diers’„work is done, and well done. Thej ||| return toyou bettor men, physically and men-3 .tolly, than when they left you ; and I am cot Si fldent you will find tho great mads of thecfCl uninjured in florals. Open your shops iTil them—you will find them as faithful as cW ; fl zona as they have been as soldiers.” fv'| Misrepmenjaiions About the South, -J[| [From tlio Richmond Republic,'Juno 20.] '.'.Ml The Southern correspondents of a class i p||]j Northern journals are engaged in a vigorous* conspiracy to oatabliah a distrust, in tIuKS Northern mind of the public feeling at llu South. One Jay our people are representeihip as cruel to the liberated nogroCs. AnotliafoJ; day the few elections that now and come off are declared to go OTerwhelminglfe'|| for secessionists, the whole body of the peillJ pie perjuring themselves by .gulping Union oaths and voting in a. mass for wciaF'/S dyed rebels. These are but samples of tlu-ijll gross misrepresentations with which evetj issue of a class of journals is filled. ',‘yj It is hardly worth while to attempt a re ;„i|| futation of those calumnies. They are signed to servo a political object; and tho; '"A arc employed on that old principle of parUcjS warfare, that “a lie well stuck to is as gooOi as the truth.” One remark, however, ought-to be madcl-g There never was'a time when such were more inappropriate ur unfounded. Thep'f South, as one man, is renewing its aUegiancCyl to the Union. The people are acting in goodK;'; faith. They have no motive or-,'- thought in what they areuuing. They a« in solemn earnest, and are in no mood foil; ? trifling. There aro no parties in the South. ;;•••'■ The whole land is- in mourning. Sorroff '-; and privation is in every household. Tlif country is ruined and prostrated. The pco plo have ho heart for politics. They a« strangers to party and to partisan thoughts!- i and machinations. They are voting vr little ; and when-they-vote,- they-select-hl csfc and good men for their suffrages, wi no referance to old or new party affiliafcioL It is, therefore, a slander upmjthese Dei> pie to impute to thorn any spirit of partisan ship in their present condition aud action.— It is a brutal and heartless slander. In or dinary times, such temptations arc matter of course in partisan procedure. But none but a brute or a maniac can now so outrnga fact and truth as to ascribe to a mourning, bankrupt, prostrate people the artifices and animosities ot mere partisans. 565“ The National Intelligencer, officially announces that the cause of the remission of . J the sentence of the Court Martini, in the oast ’> . of Congressman Harris, was “ the produo tion of overwhelming testimony impeaching the character of the witnesses, upon whoso fsjt, testimony the prosecution relied.”* This is ||| suggestive to any one who has investigated the testimony of some of the witnesses before VS| the Commission bow sitting at the oapitol.— 1 In endeavoring to connect Davis, and others, in the assassination plot,' How -and Stanton have brought forward witness' yJjj es who admitted themselves scoundrels of the most unmitigated typo. •As a consequence, the finding of the Court —except in the case 1 ; ■ of those whom the public have already con- w vioted of the assassination—will carry bid little weight with it. P;.' Horrible Thought. —President Andreit Johnson, in 1860, advocated, the election of John C. Breckinridge for President of the United States. He endorsed the Breckin ridge Platform. This must be a horrible thought to the loyalists. A Breckinridge! for President! Worst of all, ho was elected by themselves ! These facts must now rise up before thorn and. otavo thona in tbo face like some terrible ghost. A Brockinridger President! *. jggf Twenty-four negro suffrage Yankees have unfurled themselves at Norfolk, Ya., as the “ sure Union men," under the title ot “ The Democratic Republican Association.” It seems that nothing can Sourish without a tingo of Domooraoy. Even the name is a valuable talisman. Hence if any sot of sooun drols'can onco got safely under-it they think they are safe—like the ostrich which imag ines its w! ol) groat ugly body is hidden when it gets its head under a stone. XT’ A radical paper asks, bitterly : “ Hoff long is it sinco the Democracy have loft denouncing President Johnson and commen ced patronizing and supporting him ?” That is easily answered. They left off denounc ing him just at tho time when the radicals quit praising him, and commenced support ing him just when he took the Constitution as his rule of action and tho radicals bn commenced giving him the cold shoulder. XT John Covodo, of Westmoreland coun ty, has received a roving commission to visit the South and ascertain the condition an wants of the "loyal masses.” It is said ho will not bo required to swear to his accounts. —-which will be a fortunate thing for John.. XT Largo numbers of rebels, among them .Beauregard and Kiohard Taylor, have taken, their residence in New Orleans. i 1
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