AMERICAN VOLUNTEER. JOHN S. BRATTON, Eflitox & Proprietor CARLISLE, PA„ JULY 20, 1865, 'DEMOCRATIC STANDING COMHITTEB. The Democratic Standing Comriiitteo of Cumberland county will meat at Sureiner’s hotel, in Oarli sic, on Saturday, July 29, at 11 o’clock, A. M. A general attendance of the Committee is requested. JOHN B. BRATTON, . Chairman. o*Wm. Blair & Son, Groceries & Queens ware, Wholesale and Retail, Just received, Jars arid Stoneware. Lost.— At Mount Holly Springs, on Tues day evening, a lady’s .gold watch, with trin ket and chain attached. The finder will be liberally rewarded by leaving it at Br. Zit eer's office, in this'borongh. Church Dedication. —'The now German Reformed Ohuroli in Meclmnicsburg, will bo dedicated to the service of God on Sabbath, 30th inat Festival Concert. —The “Ladies Associa tion of the Reformed Church” of this place, propose to give an entertainment at Rueeu’s hali, on the oveningof August 3d. The best musical talent of our town has been secured for the occasion, and every effort will be ex erted to make the festival and concert a suc cess. ’One feature of the entertainment will be the gratuitous distribution of refreshments to all visitors. The proceeds of the evening arc to bo appropriated to objeots beneficial to the church, and we therefore bespeak for our friends of the Reformed congregation the influence, good-will and presence of our citizens. The Cehetery. — We paid a visit a few evenings since to the beautiful spot recently selected for a cemetery. The location (a piece of ground at the Eastern side of our town, formerly belongingto Col. Penrose,)' is admirably adapted for a cemetery, and can bo made very beautiful. Mr. A. B. Ewing has charge-of the enterprise, and we-learn that he has already sold -quite a number of lots. The long-talked of and long-needed Cemetery, therefore, is to bo a success at last. This is right; our grave-yard is already fill ed to such an extent that it is difficult to dig a new grave without disturbing an old one. The new Cemetery will bo convenient to town, and the price of lots will bo low enough to justify almost any one in buying. Paper Mill Destroyed by Fire.—On Wednesday morning, 12th inst., the exten sive Paper Mill of Given Brothers, at Mt. Holly Springs, this county, were entirely do etroyed by fire, together with the machinery and stock. The loss will amount to about thirty thousand dollars. The firm is insured in the Franklin, of Philadelphia, for $5OOO ; Cumberland Talley Mutual Protection Com pany $5OOO ; and Columbia Insurance Com pany $5OOO. The fire is supposed to hayo originated from a spark from the stack ful ling into the rag room. A few weeks ago, Col. Leo, a lawyer in Pennsylvania, was convicted before a milita ry commission sitting in Philadelphia, of for ging soldier’s enlistment papera, and senten ced to pay a fine of $5OO and bo imprisoned three years. Last Monday morning, Lee’s wife, a prepossessing, cultivated lady, called on the President, accompanied by two of her children, and succeeded in obtaining a par don for her husband.— Exchange. It was not the good looks or hard pleadings of Col. Lee’s wife that induced the President to grant the pardon. Other influences much more potent operated upon him. Col. Lee a member of that nest of “ bummers” called the “Loyal League,” of Philadelphia, which was organized for the express purpose of stealing from the Government. Ilis com panions in infamy were the men who ob tained his pardon, just as they have obtained pardons for hundreds of others belonging to their association. The “ Loyal League” thieves have drove a successful business for the last four years. Destructive Fire in New York,—Barn urn’s Museum and a number of adjoining buildings in Now York, were destroyed by fire on Thursday afternoon. Nothing but the glass engine in the Museum was saved. Six buildings on Broadway, eight on Ann street and five on Fulton street were destroyed.— The loss is estimated at §1,000,000. The Museum buildihg belonged to the Astor es tate, and the loss upon it is estimated at §40,- 000, It was insured. Barnum’s loss in cu riosities, furniture, machinery, &c., is set down at §300,000, on which he has insuran ces to the amount of $75,000. The Bodies, of the Executed Conspira tors.—A Washington telegram says that no objections exist to delivering tho bodieS of tho persons executed last Friday to their re spective friends after the lapse of a sufficient time to prevent any excitement that might ensue from' immediately doing so. It was feared that friends of tho deceased might get up funeral parades, which would provoke vi olonco ; and to prevent the possibility of this, tho authorities decided to withhold tho bod ies until passion has somewhat subsided. wonder whether tho of Zion” over read tho following paragraphs from the teachings of “ One who taught as never man taught f< Blessed are the peace-makers, for they shall be called the children of God.” Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, dojgood to them that hate you aud de spitefulty use you and persecute you.” “ Judge not that ye be’not judged.” “ Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.” . Tho -book that contains the above is a seal od volume to the present race uf blood-thirsty proashore. “WAIT TILL TUB SOLDIERS COSE HOME.” For the last two or three yoar£ it has been the habit of Jaoobin-negro-equality editors and spouters to try to make it appdar that the soldiers of our armies were very hostile to Democrats anti tho democratic cause.— 11 Wait till tho soldiers come homo/' was a ‘kind of unlawful throat that shoddyites and plunderers were constantly holding up be fore Democrats, Intimating by this menace that the soldiers, after their discharge, wore to become cut-throats and assassins, and that their victims woro to be prominent Demo- crats. Tho loading Jacobins, who are as coward ly as they ore dishonest, would rejoice could they induce tho discharged soldiers to become incendiaries and outlaws. Such conduct on the part of odr discharged sol diers, wa repeat, wonld have been very nc ccptiblo to the nogro-equality-stay-at-home patriots. Well, the soldiers are at last coming home-, thousands of thorn are already here. Wo have conversed with scores of them, and on several occasions our sanctum has been filled with them. Many who served with Sher man, and many who served with Grant, in many hard-fought battles, are here, some mi nus an arm or a leg, but all joyous becausg of the end of tho war, and because once more iey are permitted to enjoy tho'society of the loved ones at home, and to feel that they have no foe to contend with. Do they come home, filled with bitterness, and ready to menace Democrats, as the shoddyites hoped? No, no. They talk like men of sense, are liberal in their views, and patriotic in their sentiments. To a man they arc opposed io negro-equality; opposed io negroes voting \ opposed io “ loyal thieves,” and opposed to those heartless rascals who remained at home to fill contracts, and pile up mag nificent fortunes at the expense of the sol dier and the Government. These are the men, these the measures the soldiers are hos tile to•; and mark it, they will let their re sentment bo felt at the proper time and in the proper way. Hereafter they will vole' as freemen and as they please. Many of them remarked to us “ wo are now out of the army, with no one to threaten us with Danish menb if wo refuse to vote the ticket furnish ed us; hereafter wo vote according to our own judgement.” That’s the way they talk, and, they arc in earnest. Hundreds, Jbhou sands, aye, tens of thousands, who left homo throe or four years ago, rampant Abolition ists, return ‘cured. They have seen enough of abolitionism ; enough of the doings of the leading men of that traitorous organization. One raao who had boon a leading Abolition ist in his township, and who has been in the army for more than throe years, told as that ho was fully convinced that the sudden man ner in which the slaves were sot at liberty was a most terrible calamity to them. Ho had* witnessed the suffering that had follow ed, and was horrified. Gradual emancipa tion, ho said, might have worked well, but freeing four millions of slaves and turning them loose all at once, thousands of them to perish, was a piece of wickedness that no man with a heart in his bosom could endorse. These were the views of a man of sense—the views of a man who entered the army a big oted Abolitionist, and who returns to his home a full believer in the principles of the Democratic party. Hereafter ho will act with and vote with ua. “ Wait t-i-ll the soldiers come borne.” Well, we have waited patiently, and right glad are wo to sec the soldiers and to hear them talk. They arc with the Democrats, and the only mon against whom wo hear them hurl their curses are the “ loyal thieves” and the ne gro-equality advocates. Thank, God, the eoldiors are again fieemen, and cannot bo approached by a hireling of the Government, or instructed how to vote. SOLDIERS! _ HEADS UP 11 EYES FRONT U NEGRO SUFFRAGE. This is tbo question to be submitted to you on your return from the fields of blood and carnage through which you have so man fully waded in crushing out the late rebel lion. At the great convention recently held in Massachusetts, Wendell Philips, their great orator, let off the following : “NOW COMES THE CRISIS. WHAT IS THE NEGRO? WELL, I SAY. IN THE FACE OF ALL PREJUDICE, THAT AMID THE GALLANTRY, THE PA TIENCE. THE HEROISM OF THIS WAR. THE NEGRO BEARS THE PALM.” (Great Applause.) Now, we call upon you, returned soldiers, to read and reflect on the crisis which the Republican party of the United States have determined to force upon you. We appeal to the blood of your ancestors, which courses through your veins ; we call upon you iu be half of your children, to come forth at the approaching election, and by your votes vin dicate tho truth of history. Lot it not bo cast up to your children that tho negro has displayed more gallantry , more jiaUence, more heroism in this war than the white sol dier. Wipe out tho foul aspersion I A Pook Assortment. —Tho Harrisburg Patriot, of a recent date, published a letter from an imaginary loyal office-holder, to a dermal friend, which is tho best specimens of political satire wo have read in a long pe riod. Alluding to tho common and insult ing intimation of so-oalled “ loyal” lecturers that Democrats will bo so ashamed of their coarse that they will want to change their names and those of thoir children, tho wri ter fnoetitiously says; “ What shall Pohnnge it to ? If I call my self Greely they might think that I wrote that poetry about tho ‘ flaunting lie’ and the ‘ starry rag/ If I call myself Garrison they will swear that I was the chap, that denounc ed tho Constitution of the United States as a covenant with Death and an agreement with ftlell. If I call myself Sumner I might he mobbed for saying that the man who obeyed the Constitution was a dog. It I took the name of Wright, who knows but that I should bo followed up ns the howling infidel who said that if God Almighty did not abolish slavery, lie was a very great scoundrel. And I certainly shan’t call myself Phillips, for fear excited bondholders should lynch me for proposing to repudiate the national debt. * * * If I have to drop my old name and take a now one, you have a d — n’d poor as sortment iu the Abolition vocabularly to choose from." KT” Market price of Gold, 142, IS JOHN CDVODE A TRESIDESTIH WEST? Johp Covode— fariuUarly known as “ Glo ry to God OoVode"—arrived at New Orleans, the other day, in the course of his " smell* jog” investigations in rclatioirto the net crop of loyalty that has been produced in ihe South' aa tho result of tho, various regenera tion schemes of Abolitionism. Upon tho next day after his arrival, bo “ lot off" at .a negro Sunday School, saying to tho piccanin nies, during the course of his eloquent re marks, that ** tho day would come when they would stand in the halls of degislatioo."— John evidently thought that tho road ho tra versed to those balls might easily bo tia voled by tho stupidiest of his dark-skinned audience, and in -this every ouo who knows him will entirely coincide. After John had got through with the “little i darkies, ho slushed round again until ho fi ■ nally turned up at a meeting of the ‘‘Uni versal Suffrage Committee,” at which he used tho following language-: “Gentlemen, you will not, df course,’ex pect a speech from but 1 have a Tew words to say to encourage you in your eftorts. I know tho sentiment of Congress, and I feel perfectly sure that until (he people of Loui siana will adopt tho policy advocated hero to night no representatives of your State will ever bo admitted on the floor of Congress.— [Loud applause.] You may find obstacles in your way; you may bo betrayed; but stand ‘firm, gentlemen, and the loyal people of tho nation will stand with you. [Renewed applause.] •* lam glad X have come hero. T came to be posted through j ersona-1 observation on tho state of affairs. I have seen the freed men on the plantations. lam going back to Washington well aware of the condition of things, and will have to report my views on .the best policy for the Government to follow. My view is that all loyal men ought to vote. ] Applause.] My view' is that the, struggle bo not for nought. Tho disfranchised colored men would be in a condition worse than be fore. I advise you to continue in your poli cy. I'will not detain you any longer ; but, without further remark, I will say that you are on the right track. [Loud applause.] The above report may bo safely -relied up., on as John’s own coinage, for -it has all tho native roughness of tho man without anyac compnnimont of tho usual Doric strength; l and it is said, as he carries his own corres pondent to put a readable “ spell" upon his utterances, there can bo no doubt that tho foregoing “ speech" was laboriously dressed up especially for the Northern market. Short thougli this “ speech” of Covode’s is and coming from an illiterate politician who looks to no higher object than his own ad vancement-and the supremacy of his own party faction, there are still some things in it deserving of serious attention. In it is the declaration that no representatives frsm Louisiana will bo admitted to seats in Con gress unless they demand admission as tho representatives of negro constituencies.— That is what is meant. White men’s voles will not bo sufficient to create a member of Congress—not even tho most loyal white men in the State, acccording to Covode, will' bo allowed to havo a representative. But, on the other band, every representative claiming a seat in Congress on negro votes, no matter whether a single'white vote has been cast for him, will be at once admitted. This is the position in which Govode D puts it to the “ Universal Suffrage Committee.”: — And, to back this up, he says he knows this to bo the sentiment of Congress. lias the radical disunion plot spread and deepened thus far? Have the political factionists and , scoundrels, misrepresenting the country in Congress, already formed a coalition to dis franchise the white population of the South ern States and to have that whole section represented in Congress by creatures who shall bo merely the representatives of negro ■ cjnstitucncies ? Although the speaker is called 4 ‘ Honest John Covode,” wo are in clined to doubt that Congress has so deter mined.- If CovDdo speaks truly, then the plain duty of Andrew Johnson will be to declare that body revolutionary; destructive -Of frho nnpqmvoen.] rights of tU^pCOpleT-ttntlr with a view to guaranteeing a republican form of government to every State of the Union, he should at once prorogue the whole treasonable concern and order a now olcc- tion. But, there is another reflection. Oovodo says ho “ will have to report his views on the host policy for tho Government to follow.” To whom will h,o have to report—who' sent him nosing around the plantations ; squinting through short-focus epnctacles at tilings he knows nothing about, arid of which be is incapable of comprehension?— Congress, as a body, did not send him—did , Andrew Johnson, President? The term—: “ tho Government” —used by him, very plainly indicates that Covodo desires to be considered the creature nfld agent of Presi dent Johnson. His assertion, however, would have lijllo weight of itself, and, were it not for collateral testimony, would deserve no notice- Thatcollatecal testimony consists in tho fact that Chase, Sumner, Wilscn, and others of tire extreme radical school, have hut lately returned from tours iu tho South, where every effort was made by them —un- rebuked and unobstructed by the President —to induce or frighten the people into ah lowing the negroes the ballot. . Further than this, President Johnson, intimated to tho South Carolina delegation that Congress had the power to determine the qualifications of its members —a bine, perhaps, •that unless their members of Congress came to Wash ington sanctified by black votes they would nob bo admitted among tho radical shoddy faithful. And, still further, Andrew John son is said to have stated that his reason for not declaring in favor of negro suffrage was that the negroes would vote for thoirdisloyal masters. These facts, taken in connection with Coyode’s declaration, put a suspi cious look upon tho “ restoration” scheme just now. Add to these the other fact that the very precincts of tho Executive Mansion were thrown open on the 4th of July for a negro saturnalia, at which Senator'Wilson insulted the white masses of the nation— whoso ground be stood upon—by inciting the negroes to fight for their “ rights.” And the other fact that “ martial iaw” reigns su premo in many portions of the South, with out apparent cause; that newspapers are suppressed upon tho most trifling pretexts ; that numbers of repentant Southerffers are now held as prisoners for trial by courts martial ; that a refusal has been made to modify the $20,000 clause of the Amnesty Proclamation ; and that coufiecation isgrind- mg out fend reducing to beggary thousands of victims. Do theso facts smack of moroy, conciliation and “ restoration ?” There are many persons inclined to think that the plan of “restoration” commenced by President Johnson is only intended to culminate in negro suffrage and tho disfran chisement of white men, in order that his party friends may live and thrive on spoils and power. Did Andrew Johnson -merely set tho negro voting' question aside, by pri vate agreement with tho radicals, iu order -that they as members of Congress might more' effectually control the Southern States to their own base purposes, upon tho admis sion of representatives ? These are questions ■which may have a solution before long. In the meantime', while “ Honest John Covode continues to splurge around among the plantations and to snuff the sweet savor of negro assemblages, as the agent of “the Government, 77 the Democracy will do well to watch and wait.— Patriot tb Union, k SAD STOItf. ‘*Aro there any human beings in this house ?” A few days ago these words were addressed by two ladies, whoso names we are not at liberty to give, (they arc on record, however, where all tears are wiped all deeds of mercy rewarded,) to a soldier’s wife,-who lay dying in tho topmost garret of one of our over-crowded tenement dwellings. The -story is a sad one, and, alas I there are many like it of which tho world never hears. The poor woman’s husband was in the Lex ington Avenue hospital, given up by the sur geons. One of his -kgs had been amputated, and a Minnie ball had passed through his breast, shattering bis lie had requested the ladies to find his wife, if possible, and, after a long search they suc ceeded. Tho garret, in which they found her was without fire, l>ed, or furniture of any descrip tion. She lay shivering upon a piece of old carpeting, with tho cold, winds blowing over her from a broken window, and a child only a few days old beside her. She was dying of exhaustion and exposure, with no creature near to save’her wailing babo^ •** Are there no human beings id the housa-?” said tho ladies. “There are plenty.-of "beings™ said tire un fortunate woman ; whether they are human or not, I cannot say.” It was too Inte to save her, wflß made as comfortable as possible, and died with sympathizing faces leaning over her pillow, and in the full assurance that her in fant would bo cared for. The husband, too, is dead.'— Boston jiaper, J[fa,rch. And this is New England philanthropy— this the care and attention the wives and fa milies of those who fought her battles and accomplished her objects, receive from the hands of her citizens. Had a public journal recorded such a scene in a Southern city, with a negro as the sufferer, a howl would have corao up from the land of puritans that would almost have wakened tlw dead. But tire neglected', dying mother w-aSyi white wo man—a soldier’s wife, and what cared these worshippers of Sambo and shriekers of. free dom ? She could hunt a garret, and, upon its dusty, dingy floor, without food, without bed, without covering, with the cold wind blowing about her, and the frosts of March freezing her life-blood—lay herself down up on a piece cf old carpeting to suffer the pains of travail, and die of want and neglect. And with tho«A Hoenan in their midst, with their starving paupers and dying poor, their suff»j foring thousands, and houseless, homeless hundreds, those negro philanthropists and puritan psalm singers have the* insolence to . turn around and lecture other people upon the ** sin of slavery”‘and shed crocodile tears over the fancied wrongs of the “ down trod den African.” No wonder our country has lost its glory, and the Union of our fathers been rent in twain. Massachusetts, whose ■soldiers’ widows are left to die in garrets, with none to feel or care for them, holds the reigns of power. Puritanism is triumphant, flow long it shall bo so God alone knows. Tee True Spirit.—The oxpres3ion|of such sentiments as thr' a Southern man, in 1686,-Ijy one of tho Ricaraond papers, does not look as if tho work of reconciliation between tho people of .the two sections was to bo as diffi cult as sorao would make us believe : Providence having willed that the peo ple of the United States shall constitute one great and powerful nation, let us indulge the hope that tho Fourth of July, 1865, may be celebrated by a thoroughly reconciled and united people. Let us. dedicate the period which separates this from the next anniver sary of national independence to the work of restoring those relations which united and welded together the people of the North and South dnring tho Revolution, when Wash ington and Warren, Hancock and Henry, Jefferson and Adams, labored fraternally in the same groat work/* If this spirit be met with corresponding frankness ana cordiality by the people of the North—if they will “letbygouea b J e bygones,” and instead of striving to keep abve tho ha treds and enmities that war has engendered, will show their readiness to resumo the friendly relations that existed in the halcyon days when the American people were one, not only in name and government, but in heart, tho restoration of tho Uniori, upon a drmer and more enduring basis than its foun ders prepared for it, will bo a comparatively easy task for the legislators upon whom the work now devolves. Let there bo a re-union of hearts among the people, and the more perfect union of States, for which we.aro all desirous, will follow naturally and of neces sity. Mon in power should sot the example, hy keeping, in good faith, the pledge con tained in Mr. Lincoln's last Inaugeral : “ TViih’inalicc toward none—xoith charitt/ for all” S®“ The Tribune correspondent from Washington, states that the last words of Mrs. Surratt on the gallows wore, “ I am in nocent.” Mrs. Douglas, the wife of the late Senator, made two personal attomps to ob tain from the President a reprieijo for Mrs. Surratt, but in each .case was denied. A very bitter feeling in regard to her execution exists, particularly among the Catholics, who intend to call a public mooting for tho pur pose of denouncing the action of the Military Commission and the President. The Wan Debt.— The editor of the “Fi nancial and Commercial” department of tho New York Herald says that, “ instead of three thousand millions, tho national debt now appears likely to aggregate from four to five thousand millions.” This is probably tho reason why the Treasury Department re fused to tho amount of the debt on the Ist of July. Doings of “ Loyal Thieves;” It.'BAKER, A PET OF THE LINCOLN ADMINIS TRATION, HAS BEEN PILING IP THE GREENBACKS. Why Democrats were arrested and casf, into Drizon—The argument they had to use to gel outj—Rich Developments, &c. Moat of onr readers have heard of “Col Baker, tho secret Government detective. 77 — Ho was and is hold in high esteem by all tho shoddyites of tho country, because of his bru tality toward Democrats. Thousands of inno* cent mon have been cast into prison by this -pot of tho administration, there to remain until they or their friends raised money- to buy their freedom. Not long since “Harpers Weekly, 7 ' & publication devoted to the inter ests of tho “loyal thieves, 77 contained tho likeness of this Col. Baker, together with a brief history of his life. Ho was tho pnrfic ulftr tool and robber for bTSlly Stanton, and was considered intensely “loyal” by all Gov ernment robbers. Well, this Col. Baker has come to grief. Ilia villainies are about to be expose, and the prison doors, wo trust,, are soon to open to receive him. Road the following New Vork, duly B. —Tho Exprets tills evening states that some forty snitspptinst <3ol. Baker, tho government detective, are about being brought by ex-llocorder Smith. Several affidavits are printed showing that persons were released who had been summa rily arrested by paying over various sums, varying from §5OO to §3ooo* One affidavit states that §120,000 was divided between Stanley, and others, who were employed by Baker. [From tho N. Y. Express of Saturday.] A series of suits are now being instituted ■by cx-Rocorder Smith for several parties against Col. L. C. Baker, for the damages for alleged false imprisonment and assault and battery. The affidavits reveal a moat curious story, and tho developments of tho trial will place a prominent Republican lawyer in rath er an unenviable position. Copies of these affidavitshavo been sent on to the War De partment, and an investigation demanded by tho parties who claim to have been unjustly treated. The first affidavit is £hat cf James Leo, who states that iu the early part of Februa ry, 1865, he wan a recruiting broker, ant} was sent for by Col. Baker, at the Astor House. On his arrival all his valuables were taken from him by-Col. Baker, and he was sent to the Old Capitol prison. “While in prison a well known Republican lawyer waited on him aneroid him he could be got ffut for $5,000. After so'mo demur ho gave a check for $4,000 and after some delay was released, without knowing why he was arrested, or the charge agfinethim. John Devlin also swears to being arrested and paying $1,700 before he could bo releas ed ; that ho never know the charges against him ; all his money and valuables wore seiz ed by Col. Baker, who, it is alleged, delivered them to the same lawyer, Simon Burts testified to having been ar rested and imprisoned without cause,.and on ly to gratify the malice of Theodore Allen, a friend of Col. Baker, and that no charges were ever preferred against him. Michael Manahan testified to being arrest ed by order of Col. Baker, taken before Mar cus C. Stanley, who was in charge of the of fice, and after his money and valuables were taken from him, ho was sent to the Old Cap itol Prison; while in prison ho was waited on by James Hughes of the firm of Peter Ri ley & Co., and advised to give pertain infor mation ; on deponent saying he knew noth ing, Marcus C. Stanley said, loud enough-for him to hear, “ Well, it will be his own fault if ho goes up; 7 ' a few day after by the same process as in Leo's case he was released on. pay ing $500; in a consultation with Stanley, it is alleged ho informed deponent that unless Lee paid up ho would bo sent to the Dry Tortugas, Frauds Devlin testified that ho went on to Washington to see his brother John, who was under arrest; that Colonel Baker locked-him up, and it cost him $5OO to get released. William C. Landan.late bookkeeper of the firm of Peter Riley & Co., recruiting agents, testified that at the request of Theodore Al len, one of the firm, he went to see the May or of Jersey City in March last, to see about getting the firm to raise the quota of Jersey City; the Mayor agreed to pay for 150 men, Col. Baker Baying that what he did with Ri ley &Co „would be all right; ho paid the firm $126 000 for the rao'h* on the 10th of March, 168 men were enlisted in Hoboken to the credit ol Jersey City, but after they were arrested and sent to Fort Lafayette by order of Col. Baker. Not one of these men were paid any bounty, A few days after, the affi davit charges, the sum of $120,000 was divi ded in Marcus Cicero Stanley’s office in four equal parcels, one to Peter Riley, one to James Hughes, one to Theodore Allen, and one to Mr. Stanley. Mr. Landan says “Stan ley was a confidential man between Baker and Allen, obtaining and imparting informa tion one from the other.” He further ssys $54,000 of the money paid by Major Cleve land was reserved by Colonel Inglis to pay to legitimate recruits. Allen & Co., offered him $lO,OOO to pay it over to them which he declined to do unless ordered by the War De partment. Allen and Stanley then wrote to General Fry and in responco a telegram was received directing the money to bo paid to them. Upon advice, Colonel Inglis paid Over the money to Allen & Co., who as deponent believes gave part to Stanley.' To this affidavit'Mr. Landan annexes a schedule, which he claims shows that the amount of $242,053,80 had been received in a few months by Riley & Co., by recruiting fra mis. Then follows the affidavit of John Eagen and some forty others who testified that they went to Hoboken, to enlist, in good faith, having never been in the army before they were arrested, all valuables taken from them and sent to Fort Lafayette by Col. Baker. In a few weeks they wore released, though they never knew the charges against them. Arrest of llon. Emerson Etheridge.— The military arrest of the lion. Emerson Etheridge, a candidate for Congfess in Tenn essee, on account of his political sentiments, is another of tho lawless assumptions of des . potio power to which tho people have become accustomed in the last four years. They used to be justified upon the plea that it was war time, and that civil rights wore therefore suspended; but since peace has come, and all rosistonao in tho South entirely erased, we find them going on just tho samo. Eth eridge has been from tho start one of the strongest Union men in Tennessee, and was driven into exile on that account in 18G1. 0“ Arlington, tho former home of Gener al Lee, is now used as a vast negro pauper house, where tho “ Government” distributes thousands of dollars monthly, that are wrung from the white laborers in the shape of tax es, to feed and clothe tho hundreds of starv ing nogrres, that Abolition philanthropy has stolen from homes of plenty in the South. IC7“ Tho Louisville Journal says “ Horace Greeley proves conclusively in an able and elaborate article, that the negroes are.ns fit for suffrage as ho is 1" of.tbo Reading Gazette.] LETTER FROM EUROPE. Frankfort on the-Matne, ) Juno 10, 18G5. ) J. Law«bncb G.etz, Esq. ... j To day we arrived at this place, and 1 win j brifly givo'you a few hasty sketches,' . ' Berlin has a population of near GOO,UUU in- • habitants. Frederick' the Great founded this city, and changed a swamp and sandy desert j into ono of the finest cities in the world. On this account quite a number grand statues and monuments were erected in of this distinguished man. Especially -under the Linden, there is a colossal statue of Freder ick the Great. The beautiful broad streets, with their splendid edifices, give this efity a modern appearance. The blficiai nature of. our Commission gave us ah opportunity to become acquainted with Cabinet Ministers, Doctors and Professors, who all received us very cordially. Mr. Engel, one of the Cabi net Ministers, seems to take a particular in terest in American affairs, and to know all the prominent statesmen of our country. It is astonishing what amount of information one* finds among the .government officials hero. Mr. Engel presented mo with a work from Ms own per* We'visited several of the public institutions at this ple&p. The library contains GOO,OOO volumes and 14,000 manuscripts ; and among them very rare specimens, such as the first translation of the Bible" and the first printed ■copies of Luther’s writings; Guttembcrg’s 42 lined Bible upon parchment, of A. D, 1450; the first book printed from moveable •type ; the Code Wiiickindi; a manuscript of the four Evangelista, of the Bth century, said to have been presented by Charlemagne to the Dukb-of Saxony; a number of miniature portraits by Lucas Cranach ; 36 volumes full of likenesses of distinguished personages, with their authographs in alphabetical order ; piany Chinese writings, printed on silk pa • per; a small eight-centered Koran ; two se mi-spheres, by which Otto Guerike* tried his first experiments with the air pump; Tetzel’s Certificates of lndulgenco ; and a number of other interesting articles. From the Library wo proceeded to the Museum, and here I no ted down more than 100 items, which would require 10 sheets of paper to describe them - all.- It is .astonishing to what expenses this government goes in matters of artand science. > Every American who visits Europe should •. not fail to go to Berlin. In front of the Mu r seam is a polffhed bowl of solid grapite rock, 22 feet in diameter, which shines like a mir ror. Snob a thing was never before hewn • out of stone, • The Gallery of \Vorks of Sculpture owes its origin chiefly left ho purchases which Fre derick the Groaiimcß made in Rome through Bianeoni, nnda purchase of the collection of Cardinal Pulignac. The entrance is through a large circular hall, vhich ia as high as the building, item a large number of superior works of art are exhibited that have been brought together from different parts of the world. From hero we went to the Gallery of Paintings'; .but here [ must/not venture a description, for such magnificence can only be npprcciatocTupon personal inspection. Wo nest visited the Exchange. As soon as the brokers learned that we heailed from Amenta, they crowded around us to obtain some information upon American affairs.— As wo explained matters thoy looked at eacfc other, laughed and said: 44 Didn’t I tell you, America will be all right?” Then came a Jew; he thought if our bonds stood so well with us; they would send theirs.over. I told him only to send them on, that we had plen ty of mopey to buy them up ourselves. We afterwards took a coach, to eeo tlfo city generally, nod especially tu take a look at the Royal Palaces, the University, the Arsenal, .and the Menagerie, with their splendid parka. Of the splendor and beauty of some of the European cities, wo know comparatively very little in America. * At 8 o’clock in the evening we left Berlin for Frankfort-on-the-Maine. We passed Pots-- dam. the resdenco of the King, situated on the Havel river, which hero forms a lake.— The city is surrounded with the most beauti ful woods and parka. If our time had per mitted it, wo should gladly have .remained hcio for one day. In tiro north of Germany it now gets night only after 9 o’clock, and at half-past three day breaks again. Ons can gain time here, which I turn to tho best account. At 12£ wo reached Magdeburg, a celebrated old city. Moonlight gave us amopportunity to see the doty and its environs, with its fine parks aud gardens very plainly* Early in tho morning wo passed through Goettingen; its famous University lies opposite the railroad, upon an ; eminence. Tho city itself was too far away from the road to see much of it. Somewhat later, we came to Cassel, the. Gapitol of tho Electorate of Hesse; the residence of the Elector is situated very fioely on a hill; we next passed through Giesen, a very fine place; then through Marbourg, famous from tho time of the Reformation ; tho ,former Castle has been turned Into a Penitentiary, and lies upon a'fine eminence. From hero to Frank fort a number of villages arc scattered. As soon as one leaves Berlin tho country appears to become richer and more fertile.— It is, however, very dry in northern Germa ny, yet the grain stands very fine and only the potatoes appeared to want rain.. From Cassel to Frankfort the heaviest and moat beautiful grain fields are to be seen. Wo saw the house in which Rothschild was born. In the old town the houses date mostly from the 7th and Bth century, many of them built a thousand years ago. The new portion of tW city is, however, very remarkable for its beauty, and contains the most magnificent Rouses and streets. The number of inhabit ants amounts to 90,000. Business generally seems to flourish here, as Frankfort is one of the principal money markets for Germany. FREDK. LAUER. Geneva, Switzerland, I Juno 23, 1805. j J. Lawrence Getz, Esq. Dear Friend ;—Wo loft Brlonz on the morning of the 2lst, after wo had seen the beautiful Giossbach, and the splendid illumi nation of her Falls, 1100 feet high. Wo went to Interlnohon by steamer, and stopped at the new and magnificent Hotel, the Jung francubtick. named after the Glacier and snow-topped mountain about 20 miles dis tant, and plainly seen from this Hotel. We took a carriage for Grindelwald, about 23 miles distant, going up.* hill half the way, which I walked, in a hot sun and dry dusty road, with Glaciers and snow-topped moun tains in view. We reached it in three hours, took a guide, and viewed the masses of solid ice from one to seven hundred feet thick.— Tunnels are cut in the ice, similar to Lager Beer vaults. We wont inside and found mu sic and a jolly party singing. The ice is formed like a rnok and clear as crystal. Half a mile up the Wetterhorri is a lake of ice, 3 miles long and nearly a mile wide. English ladies come hero to skate on it, but our time was too short to see it, and we had our curi osity gratified by seeing some of the Glaciers in natural formal ion. The Wetterhurn is 11,412 feet high ; Berg stock,- close by, 11,000 feet; Schreokhorn, 12,570 feet ; Auser Eicher, Inner Ember, Grand Mqeneb, and the Jungfrau, in the dis tance, all ranging from 12,000 to 12,800 feet in height. We returned well pleased with our trip. Wc left Interlnohon for Thun by steamer. This country is full of little lakes. Thuner lake is only one mile distant from Brienz lake. We had a beautiful view of all the principal Glaciers in the Berner Oberland.— From Thun we took the railroad for Borne, and reached there at 10 o’clock in the even ing, delighted with our trip. Sixty thousand visitors make this, trip per annum,, out of which there are about twenty americans, all told ; rather a poor compliment to our taste. On the morning of the 22d I presented my letter of introduction .to tho President of th_ SwiSe Reoublic, Mr. Dubs, who was very kind and obliging ; presented me with all the ne cessary documents nod-introduced mo to the State Secretary, Mr. Solmmacbe", With sur prise I discovered that he is tho son in law of my old £tjend Steiner, of Phlln. I- went to his houso’nt onoo to see my old friend, Mrs., Amma, who was pleased to hear from Ame rica. Tho principal hotel keeper of tho Eu ropean Hof here, where wo stop, is a brother ol Augustus and Herman Kraft, formerly of Philadelphia. In tho afternoon, at 2 o’clock, wo left for Genova, tho principal city of Switzerland, and arrived here at 8 o'clock, P. ftC., stopping at tho Hotel do Berge, where wo have a beauti ful vieiv of the Lake of Geneva. . 'ln all the country through which Wo wont tho crops look beautiful, except the grass, which is short in some places. Tho weather ts very slry and roads very dusty. If no rain falls ebon, the Summer crops will bo short in " some ef , 'the conn trios ; however, tho abund ant grain crops will make up fdr tho defi ciency. Throughout Germany not,many horses are kepi for doing farmers’ work. Oxen and cows, principally, do the hauling and plow-' ing. Tho cattle look splendid, particularly in Switzerland. I nevorsaw better—so clean and nicely washed. The people work very hard hero, and earn poor wages. With all their savings they have just about enough to live. Whoever is poor here is hound to stay poor., A great many'of the laboring classes seldom soo moal ; , and butter is entirely out of the question. I merely wish to mention this for the benefit of our laboring people, and that they may con trast the way of living bore with tho abend? anee of good things tbatr all oaa enjoy la our glorious country. Yours with respect',. FREDIC. LAUER. * MILITARY USURPATIONS. Tho New York Tribune, the organ of Ab olitionism, thus, speaks of military, commis- sions: * N ’ . * The war being over—not a shot having been fired for weeks, and not a man on earth being now in arms to resist the authority of the United States—we renew our prayer for a prompt, full, unequivocal restoration of the privilege of habeas corpus, coupled with ft clearing out of our militaryVprisons by tho liberation of their inmates or their rendition to the civil authorities for detention, trial and punishment. Wo can imagine ho good reason for tho further dominance of martial law in. any State north of the Potomac and Ohio. We have had abundant exhibitions of u Military Justice” throughout the past four years, as was reasonable and fit—in-fact), rather' more than that. And, so long as Military power and law were required to keep treason under, We heartily uphold them. We hover supposed that their admin istration would bo perfect; bub wo wanted the Republic saved, even at the cost of some temporary encroachment on public liberty and private right. And, now that the work is done, we want to get back to old-fashion ed civil law at the earliest practicable mo ment. Let Military men bo subject to Mili tary law, if they must; but give us civil law for everybody else. There have been instances when we need* cd in tho field all our officers who possosss any fighting capacity, yet when not less than fifty of them were serving or dancing at tendance on court martials—half a dozen of them being engaged for three months or over, in the midst of a momentous campaign, in proving one brigadier a scoundrel at a cost to the Government of not less than §20,- 000, when any Tombs lawyer would have done that same conclusively in three hours at a cost of §25. We hear talk of more Court Martial for tho trial of other than persons mourwnUita* -ry-servieerand-we-protest-in-ndvanco against them. We have Courts enough, law enough, and at least as fair a chance for justice with these ns with any that can be improvised out of our army by an order from the War De partment. We do not much care what Eu rope may say of our jurisprudence ; wo are only anxious that she shall have no just cause for censure. If any rebel has conspir ed to starve our soldiers, or infect our cities with pestilence, or do any act abhorrent to humanity, let him bo fairly tried for the crime; or if it is thought best to arraign some of the rebel chiefs for treason, so be it; but let us deal with them according to law. It will bo a grievous mistake—an avowal of weakness—a blander and folly—to hold an other Court Martial for the trial of other than •military offenders belonging to our own ar my. Such a Court can render no verdict that will carry weight with it in the judg ment of impartial Christendom—the fact that sifeh a tribunal is resorted to will bo trumpeted by thousands as a virtual confess ion that a fair trial was not desired—its ver dict of Guilty will bo decided as preluding and preparing a judicial murder. Let us return to the dominion of Law 1 A Destructive Tormado.—Tlio pretty lit tle village of Viroqrfay Vernon county, Wis., was last week’tho scone of a terrible tornado, The La Crosse Democrat gives tho following description of this almost unprecedented storm; At four o’clock black clouds rolling heavi ly in the sky betokened a storm. In a few moments the wind sprang up, and almost immediately could bo seen coming from the northeast a cloud of wind, rolling at times close to the earth, dust, stinks, etc., filling the air. At the same time there appeared another cloud of like nature coming directly toward the village from the west. The'first current was passing to the southwest, and the points met half a mile west of the village, when it seemed as if a mighty strife was go ing on between millions of invisible spirits in the two currents. People ran lor their houses in terror—the whirlwind with a shriek and howl kept on its eastward course, the larger current turning the smaller one back, t ;o two going on together in their work of destruction. Iu two minutes its fury was spent at Viroqua, and the southern portion of the place (and the most beautiful) was made a scene of wild devastation. Lug,chains, harness, dead hogs, pieces of furniture, broken ploughs aud other ngrioul tural implomenie, feather hods badly rip ped, picket fenSes, rails, fence posts, door frames and barn timbers, dead chickens, calves, sheep aud oats, and all the things im aginable, hang in tops of trees, bushes, &<s■ The scene is one that beggars description, and one which never was equalled in this country. The air was fijled with fragments ofhouses, entire out-houses, broken timbers, log chains, rocks, cellar walls, stoves, fan ning mills, hoes, ploughs, wagons and hor ses. The loss of property will exceed two hun dred thousand dollars. Persons are left sick and penniless, and we appeal in their bs half to all the benevolent ones—to the busi ness men—to the ohurohos—to the philan thropic here and elsewhere—for aid for tho now poor, needy, and doubly deserving. lO" TBo New York Tribune's Washington special says that Secretary Stanton woilld not let spiritual attendants visit Mrs. Sin* ratt’s cell, on the day of execution, until they promised not to proclaim their belief 111 her innocence on the scaffold. O’ A contraband in Washingto i city I 1 1" ing asked the other day how ho liked fro o, dom, said, “ Oh, very well; but must bayed o right of suffering, (suffrage) afore Fee. real satisfied.’' 10
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