WORFEY^AT-LAW, . CAULIRLB. PA. .4 n.i smith Hanover Street, opposite rv sjooiJs store. [UCK & PARKER, ATTOnVEVS AT LA ]V. t M.ilu Btroot. In Marlon Hall, Car- 0. S. E 31 I G ATTORNEY- AT-L.AW, -- Crlki* with S. Hepburn, Jr. East Main Hind, CARLISLE, PA Ti-iy IIS'.VKDY, AttGunuy at Law .irlNlo, I’ijnim. Oilloo same as thutol nrtui Volunteer.” . JKOROB S. SEAIUOITT, Den fmm (he Haitimore Cnf/rue oj Dental Odin 1 at the resUlHiiao of'his mother wStri'ot-, three doors below Bedford Vmm. jijatg ano cCniKS SH'ARRIVAL OF ALL THE .V Fir- STYLE& .OF ITS AND CAPS. vrlhcr has .lust onenccl at No. 15 Forth jrrd. a few doors North of the Carlisle mk.nne of (ho largest, and best Slocks uni CAPS ever olleml In Carlisle, .<,Cii hear me tell, Pray listen, while I tlx the date When daughters haste with eager feet, A mother’s dnllv tolls to share; . Can make the puddings which thev enf, -„ I „ T A.U(J..Uie-u (l.Uie.Kl.ouklngs-w.hioh-lhey^.wear><”>. When maidens look upon a man , As In hlinseH whet they would marry, And not ns nvmv sold lei s scan A sutler ofa commissary. When gentle Indies who have got The offer of a lover’s hand. Consent (•> share hls “purl ajv lot.” And do not mean his lot of land. When young meehnnlcs are allowed- To find and wed the farmer’s girls, Who dotrf expect, to he endowed With rubies, diamonds and pearls! When wives. In short, shall ficHvglvn Their hearts and hands fo rid their spouses, A*”! live ns thev were wont fo live. Within tholr sire’s one-story bouses. Then, madam.—lf I’m not too old— Rejoiced to null this lonelv life. . I’ll brush rnv heaver, eense to scold And look about me for a wife. DO DEAD MEN TELLTALES? Survivors vi/h Clear J rrmorles-Odm Do—Jeremiah 8, Dladc's L/tt'r to Senator IFi/soa, of MuxsachxwUs. STANTON EITHER A GREAT IMPOSTOR OR A HUMBUG Inside View of the Cabinet that Lntiahlrm 1 .Honored, hut Did Not ' r niif~Thnt Midntqht erecting at - Sumner's—-'A Terrible Cabinet Scene, ’ A COUP D’ETAT UNEARTHED ! [F;v»n The f,',iloY>/.for Fthrunri/,] To the Honorable Jfenn/ Wl.son, Senator from Mas* tachust-Us. But let justice lie done though the Leavens should fail. Fmno nl least nf vour Htjilemenfs are true, unless’Mr. Dawes. Mr. Howard, Mi’. Seward and Mr. Simmer have volunteered to help you hy sacrificing tiie character of Ihe “meatHcerclnry.” -j will pot waste lime upon Ihe details which your witnesses havegivop of his Irenehery, It appears to havedieen n free-will offering of It is own, induced hy no solioi'af ion of yours, hut tendered hy himself cx mern mofit.— Tlu; moment he was Inducted inti) office he looked about to asceitain who were the bitterest .and most malignant one mlcs of 1 the men to whom he owed all his public Importance and much of his private prosperity. -He found them quickly—and though they wore entire strangers to him —he put himself imme diately into secret, cornimmicai ion. wil h them—look service under them as their regular spy, and.exercised himself del in eptly In that base vocation, making re ports to litem daily, and sometimes twice n day, until the close of his official term, when his occupation necessarily ceased. Tills mean employment must have taken lip most of Ihe which should have been devoted to (he duties of an office on which the-public business —always heavy—was then pressing with unusual weight. He did not communi cate any knowledge’ which wa,® necessary to guide you In tlie discharge of your duties, for every fact of (hat kind was as* accessible to you ns (o him; the admin* inflation kept nothing hack; the Presi dent \oiunteered to give all he knew concerning the state of (he Union ; no department was closed against your in* vestigaiions ; every call for information' was fully and promptly answered. Tf that had,not been enough, every member <>f the Cabinet would have been perfectly free to speak with any member of Con gress, or lb go in person before any coni milleo. Mr. Howard did confer with me fully nt the State Department in open daylight, without and dodging • «i|out 11; nod ho was always welcome, as lie is now, to b-11 everything that passed, foT In* neilhcr a*-ked, nor could have asked any qinsMon, if the country had an interest in it, which I was not willing to answer. With aid (lie channels of trut hfnl. in format ion thus open and unobstructed,'yon preferred to get what you wanted from a spy. Mr. Howard has (he check to proclaim that during the “labors’’ of hi» committee, instead of acting upon Inmost and legiti mate evidence, he sent in ptiries to'this secret.informer, who answered by giving information of “ great importance,V but bis communications “ wen* always indi rect and anonymous!” If then* he one sentence in your whole article which is marked more than another with, your characteristic hardihood of assertion, it Is that, in which you try to make n merit of »T ANTO N' S TR E A CIIK R V Xt. is curiously and for that reason worth giving in your very words. “ The-e Jaffa, ’* nay yon, “wore staled to’ illustrate Mr. ftlautmi's exalted patriot ism. which prompted him to rise above the claims and’ clamors of partisan?))ip, and to involve the aid of loyal men be yond (he linos of his own party, and outside of (lie administration of which he was a member to serve his imperilled country, menaced with a fouinnd wick cal revolt” Why, (his Is precisely what the President’ and all ti e honest mem bers of (he Oahinef were doing openly and above hoard. They hail no legal power which could avail to serve the “imperilled country” without the co-op'- oration of (’murreys, which was wholly ruled hv the opposition. They invoked the aid of loyal men beyond the lines of their own party and outside of the ad ministration, ”became U was from Ihehco only that aid could come. But with you and your associates the “claims and clamors of partisanship” were so much higher than considerations of public du ly, (hat you not only refused all aid to the country, but you instilled and abused and vilified the President and Ills friends for asking it. Was Stanton', like tlie other members of the administration, in voking aid for Iho Imperilled couotiy?^ — Did ho skull? about in secret to efleet in that, way what his brethren were trying •to accomplish by an open appeal to the reason and conscience of their political opponents? Ifso, how did he succeed ? Did his secret, anonymous ami indirect ciimmunicafionfi ever produce the slight est syroplom of patriotic emotion in the minds of those who received them?— What did you. or Mr. Sumner, or Mr. Dawes; or Mr Howard, or Mr. Seward ilo In avert the great calamity of civil war? What measures ill 1 any of you bring forwmd to serve the country ? Jn that hour of ■peril what man among you anted like a man ? Which of you “ rose to ti e height of that great argument,” or showed himself fit in mjn.d-or-heart to meet the responsibilities tif the Mme? — The Union was indeed “menaced with a foul and wicked revolt,” and all you did was to “let the Union slide.” The pub lic danger excited no anxiety in your ■minds; public nflairs received no alien fion at your hands ; hut yon were ell the time mousing about after some peisonal calumny by which you hoped to stir up the popular passions against the .true friends of the country ; and Stanton, unless you slander him, made love to the Infamous business of helping you. You have given us hut small samples of the “indirect and anonymous Communica tions” which Htanton made to you and your associates'. The hulk of them must be enormou**. He was engaged for two or three months fabricating at least one tale every day for Mr. Seward, and another consisting of “the moat startling facts” to suit the needs of Mr. Howard, while you and Mr. Dawes were gratified in a similar way at the same time. Are theae “startling facts” held back for some other funeral occasion ? Take notice yourself, and tell your friends, that while their stories are hid away from the light, the presumption Hint they are not only false hut known to he fated Is grow ing stronger ami stronger trvory day.— You had belter open your budgets at once Them te a point or two here on which I would 11Uo to draw you v out.— Mr Reward sav.s that lie and Mr. Fhm tmi di-eusM'd and seti'ed measures. The topic which absorbed the attention o( ail . niimlautthat lime was Fort Sumter.— Compared to that, all others are inalg- WHEN I MEAN TO MARRY. JOHN O. SAXB ( Concluded.) CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16. 1871 mficnnt; tint! of course the measures re lating to It were , not, overlooked. It Is known from the published statements of Mr. Welles, Judge Campbell anti others, that Mr. Seward was deepjy"'wignged In a plot to surrender Ihnt fort, wiilcli plot he afterwards brought to a head\nm! by sundry tricks very nearly made It suc cessful. Stanton prqfessed to agree wills' Tua-rimr the mrr'-YingKrTrt" r ’ ,,, h^nf^irr hut you have shown that his pro fessions in t-he Cabinet were not very reliable, and Governor Brown lias proVed that he could ho a secessionist as welt as anything el«e, if occasion required it. Now, what did they settle upon about Port Sumter ? They were engaged at something which both knew to he disreputable if not criminal; their secre cy. their employment of a medium, their quirk dodge when they meton the street, the mortal terror of detection which they manifested throughout, all show plainly enough that they had no honest object. Tell us if they were contriving a plan to put the strongest military fortress of the government into the hands of its ene mies. TUB MIDNIGHT MEETING between Messrs. Sumner and Stanton Is in nil Its aspect** the most aslonmlimr of historical revelations. If you recall Mr. Sumner to”the stand, it is Imped that ho will see the necessity of being much more explicit than he has yet been. From what, lie has. said it appears that ■Stanton “described to him the determi nation of the Southern leaders, and de veloped particularly (heir p'an to gel possession of the -national capital and • Hie national so that they might substitute themselves for the existing government 11 This is so extremely in foresting that it would he a sin against the public not to examine it further. Enrlv in the’ winter somehifdy started the sensational rumor that on or before the 4fb nf March « riot would begot up in Washington,' which might seriously endanger the peace of I hat city. Tt was discussed and talked*abon 1 -, at d blown. np'*n in various ways, but no tangible evidence of its reality could ever be found. The President referred-to it in a message to Congress, and said that lie did not share in such apprehensions; hm he pledged himself in any event to preserve llie peace. When the midnight meeting look place, the rumor lived Its life out had paid its breath to lime, and the mor tal custom of such things at Washing ton; it was n dead canard, which 'had eensed to alarm even women and child ren. This certainly was not. (he subject of (he communication made that niaht nt 1 o’clock.' Stanton did not surround himself with.all the adjuncts of secrecy, darkness nod terror, to tell an which bad been in everybody’s month' before, of an impossible street riot by the populace of Washington. What he im parted was n secret not only new, but deep and dangerous, fit for the occasion, and'worthy to be vvbispered conliden tially at midnight. He disclosed a “plan of the Southern lenders to get possession of the capital and (he archives, and *o substitute themselves’ for the existing government.” Tt was a coup d'etot of tiie first magnitude—a most stupendous treason, Tbj? plan Mr. Stanton “ devel ops! particularly,”, that is to. say, gave all the details at length. Mr. Sumner manifestly believed what he heard ; he received (he revelation Into his heart with perfect faith ; and he did not mi (loi'e«l I mate, the public danger; hut he did nothing fo defesit the treason, or even io,expose It. He was thoroughly uml minutely ln f ormed of a plan prepared by Southern leaders to revolutionize the g- vernment, and he kept (heir counsel a« faithfully as if he had been one oi I henisei ves. He took St an ton *s frightfu I commnnication as quietly as he look (be . President's message. Nothing could stir liTosbigvlsh loyalty to anv act which might.~lend to save h.ls “ imperilled country.” Mr. Sumner says (hat when Mr. Stanton made these statements to him In* was struck *'by (he knowledge he showed of hostile movements.** This is precisely what' strikes me al*«o with wo.mlerand amazement. Where In (he world did be learn “(lie determination of tin* Southern leaders?” Where did he get an account oft he Intended c.oupd ctnl —so detailed that he was able to develop it particularly? This knowledge be comes astounding wht*n wo recollect that, so far as now appears, nobody else out side of the “Southern leaders” hail, the least inkling of It. Tt is possible that his connection with the secessionists, ami Ids professed devotion to their cause, went, so far that they took him Into their cnnffdencp* anti told him what hostile movement they intended tomakeon the government ? * How did' lie get these se erets if not from them? Or must, we be driven at last to the conclusion that the whole thing-was a mere Invention,'ini rmsed on Mr. Sumner to delude him? But Mr. Sumner owes it to. the truth to to make a fuller statement. Let us have Hu* particulars which’Mr. Stanton devel oped to him. We have a right to know noi only who were the Southern traitors encaged in this plan, hut who were con-” federated with them in Washington. I suppose Mr Sumner, as w«dl an Mr. S'anton. had “Instinctive Insight Into men and things” enough to know that no government was ever substituted for another by a sodden movement, without prune co operation or connivance of of ficers in nossusslon. Who among Stan ton’s colleaLMies did he say were engaged in this affair? Did he charge the P evi dent with any concern in it? If he de clared all or any of them to he innocent, far as I have seen them, all these accounts differ from ononnothei, and none is exactly, oroven very nearly, !ik>» yours. But they agree in presenting a general picture of Mr. Stanton as engaged in some violent con* Hict which his colleagues were too dull, too'unprincipled, or too timid to under fake, thouuh some of liiein afterward plucked up heart enough to follow h s a load. They declare that Stanton took the moat perilous responsibilities, boldly faced the most frightful dangers,* and with heroic cmmrgo fought a desperate fight against tlio most fearful odds ; that the other members of the Cabinet looked on at the awful combat as mere specta tors of his terrific valor, while the Freai dent wna so frightened by the “fierceand fiery” encounter that all he could do was to “tremble and turn parte.” All this is (fo A uso Stanton's own language) “a tissue of lies;” a mere cock-and-bull story; a naked invention, purely fabulous; a falsehood ns gro-s and groundless as any in the autobiography of Baron Munchau sen. Mr. Stanton was never exposed to any danger whatever while ho was a member of that. Cabinet; never had any occasion to exhibit his courage; neVer quarrelled with any of his' colleagues ; ‘never denounced tlir.se he dillered fiom, and never led those with whom he agreed. Ho expressed hisdi-sent from the Sout hern. members on several question-*, hut no man among us took halter care than be did to avoid giving cause of' piusonal offence. He acquired no ascendancy ah the council board, and claimed none ; he proposed no measure of his own, and when he spoke upon the measures orlgl tinted by others, he pre'-enleil no views that were new or al all, startling. He and T never ’once differed on any question, great or small; and this, though of emnso accidental, whs still so noticeable that he said he was there only to give two votes Inutpud of one. Ho 1 1 ivell’that my only refuge is silence. You garble my words so ns to make* their appear like a denial that Mr Stanton ever wrote any letter at all on I he subject of the “(Jiibhiot Scene,” whereas I as serted that no letter written by him would conoborate your version of it.— After pooHy striking out from the sen tence quoted the words which expreaa VOL. 57.—N0. 36. niv proposition, you proceed to contra dict it by the statement of Mr. Holt, who says Unit a letter was .written, but ho (tan) Inca to say what was In it. I knew tnat Mr. Schell had addressed Mr. S'anton with tho object of getting him to tell thoimth and tearaway the “tla ruo of lies'* which so many hands had woven ahou tth Isjm.bJpct.^'l_f hs*an>twer r ed nt nlr,"ijie ]>f^«uni|)ilmiwaV that* tie would answer truly ; and if he answered truly, Instead of cormhomtlng'you, he must have denounced the whole story ns a mere,fabrication. Do you think how that, In 7 the absence of nil evidence allowing or tending to show tho contents of the letter, wo ought to assume that Stanton Illled It with bragging lies ? I donor mean to let (bis stand as a mere question of personal veracity between you and me, though f have the advan tage, whicli von have not, of knowing whereof I affirm. Hut my denial throws the harden of.procf upon you with Its full weight. Kecolled, also, that the strength of your evidence must be propoitioncd to the original improbability of the fact yon seek to establish, and that the rea sons n priori for disbelieving this fact are overwhelmfngly strong. All presump tions are against the idea that a man who dodged about among the abolition ists as their spy, ami vowed himself to the secessionists ns their ally, and all the time manifested a dastardly dread of being discovered, would openly* insult I,he President or do anything else that was bold and violent.' But you have taken (lie task of proving it, and how have you done it ? I certainly need not say that -Mr. Holt proves nothing by writing a I-fter in which lie declines to (ell what he knows. FI is expressive silence, on the contrary, is very con vinclm:' that lie knew the truth to be against yon. As 'Pile, nay, less, if less were possible, do.you. make out, of his speech at Charleston. He deals there In glittering generalities, sonorous periods, ami obscure allusions to-some transac (ion of 'v hicli Im gives no definite idea, except. Unit Stanton,was not an actor In it. hut a spectator; tor lie-mention# him only to nav (hut “he looked upon that scone.” What th*» scene , *wnslie declared to ho a secret, which history will per imps never get a chance to record. Fall ing wholly to get,anything out of Mr. Iloit. you naturally enough resorted to Mr. Dawes; and Mr. Dawes, willing but tillable lo help yon, called in the al l and comfort of his wife. “She” her husband says; “distinctly remembers hearing Simuon tell at our house the story of that terrible conflict in tho Cabinet!’*- That is the length and breadth of her Ic'-limony. She icmembcre that Mr. Stanton told the story, but not the story itself. It was about a terrible conflict; but. we do not learn who were engaged in it, who fell, or who was victorious how the fray liegan or how It ended— only if. was terrible. Was Mr. fc’tanton the hero of his own story, or was he re lating (lie adventures of somebody else t * amuse or frighten the company?, Mrs- Dawes is nndonhtedly a lady of the very highest respectability ; but with all that, you will Hud it bard to.convert the idle conversations at, her house Into history ; and the difficulty is much increased by the fact that neither side nor anybody else is aide to tell what they were. The declaration of ?.fr. Holt that he would not reveal what he knew on (his subject, and Mrs. Dawes's statement that Mrs. Diwes told him that she heard {Stanton tell something about it, which she does not repeat,Ms all the evidence you offer point. Yet you affirm that this most improbable and slanderous story is not on I*, (me, hut sustained by the “dec larations of Mr. Stanton to credible.wit . esses, and (he positive avernjents of Jo «eph Holt.” Can thin lie mere ignorance? F am templed to believe that jmi have gone about I he- business wph a set pur pose to iinke yoprself ridiculous. I fear very much that on Ibis question, ns on so many others., yon have been guilty o' a wilful supprcsxio vrri. Did you not know that Mr, Holt’s testiuvmy would be against you. when yop took advan tage of his scruples about giving It ? Did not Mrs. Dawes recollect more than von have quoted? . I maybe wrong in this suspicion ; hut a man who mangles a public record must not complain if his good faith is doubted ' when he presents private evidence. Mr. Attorney (Jeneral Hoar, believing this ‘-caudal to be true, trier] in good faith In get. the evidence which would prove it. When.he found It to he false he 'passed over to you the Ictters'Which he had got in the course of his search, and yon printed them. The lawyer was too honest to reassert a tale which ho discovered to ho unfounded; but the politician had not magnanimity enough If) retract P ; and therefore.ho let you burn your lingers where he would not put his own. This story of a “CaM net-Scene,” as it United about among Ir responsible newsmongers, seemed for n while like a formidable slander ; but you have made it nl tcrl.v contemptible. VT., Your account of Mr. CanieronulH. retirement from the* War Depa'r truant, and plnnton s appointment on his .suggestion demanded.refutaMon. because It not only perverted ami misrepresented a fact of some general importance, hut was a se rious Injury lo Mr. Stanton’s diameter "usif ihp'n stood. I»ctv ecu these two men lidld not seem as if there could be any relations which Implied confidence nr friendship.' If Stanton himself was anv authority for his own sentiments, he had hn.ro'-pecl either for the horse contracts or the “nlggor arming” (as ho called It) of his ’r. and Mr. Lincoln had jnst as Mule. Stanton was appointed not to carry out hut to put an end to Garner on’s policy with all Us corruptions. I admit that since tho evidence you have furnished of Mr Stanton’s duplicity in other matters, It becomes possible to be llovo he mav have'lVoen Insincere about this aim. Still- your attempt to deceive the public was inexcusable. Of my own knowledge I know nothing..about Mr. Cameron’.-, appointment nr renmvnl; but 1 will give you the main facts Jqptfly and wit bout the alia cnorriifFi, aa I/hnve them on undoubted authority," and as I firmly believe them. A bargain was marie at the Chicago Convention 0f.1860, that in case of Lincoln’s nomination and election Mr. Cameron should receive a. Cabinet appointment. ‘ Mr. Lincoln party to this contract but after much persua sion and pressure he consented to ratify it by trying Cameron as Secretary of War. Before tho end of nine months the ex periment ended, aa yon know, and as everybody else knows, In n complete and total’ failure. Mr. Lincoln, seeing this, determined to get rid of him, ami ex pressed his resolution In a letter addressed to Cameron and carried by Mr. Chase, then Secretary of lire Treasury. That letter is not.now in existence, hut Mr. Chase described it ns curt—that Is lo say. plain, short and direct. Mr. Cameron understood anil felt it. as an abrupt ills rnis-ui. He a’lerwards got U suppressed, and a correspondence, different in its whole tenor and effect, substituted in it* place. Kver since then he has been try ing to. create the opinion that he retired from a department full of rich jobs, not only wTltonf'compulsion, hut In spite of the* President’s affectionate desire that he should remain and manage them as lie had dol e before ; and he makes It a part of the story that he was permitted lo designate his successor. Ke contrived to induce, some belief of this on tho-mlnd of Mr. (’base; but if Mr*,Chase had known more of Cameron’s character and previous history he might have been leas credu lous. Of the fact that Mr. Stanton was appointed on Cameron’s suggestion, we have not a spark of direct evidence ex cept Cameron s own statement, and all the circumstances make that impossible. If the President made up his mind to re move the incumbent ho certainly would not have proceeded to execute his reso lution by writing him a curt letter of dismissal without having nettled upon somebody to succeed him; for at such a time ns lb»t he could not mean to leave tin* War Department actiplmlmt* while he would be bunting a head for it. But concede .that no thought was taken for the now officer before the removal of the old one, can it bo that the President de- Rates for H&uertisinQ. AnVEBTiMEMKjrra wui be inserted ni ii-n cent per lino lor tlio first insertion. ami Mve cent porllne for each subsequent insertion. Q,nar crly half-yearly. »ml yearly advertisements In serted at* liberal reduction on the above rate* Advertisements should bo accompanied by th# Cask. Wnenaent without any. length of ilna specified for publication, they will be continued Untllorderod out and onorged accordingly. JOB PRINTING, CAd'ns, llANDatiitiS.umoai.AUi, and every olh er description of Jon and Gaud Prlnttnff. | oided the whole question in favor of a man never mentioned before on the more I Migpostfon of the officer bo whs discard 'ing, and without seeking advice from those members of the*cabinet who still retained Ids favor? The suppressed letter is, therefore, not only an Important fact in itself, but. it has the greatest Influence ou o tho crediUj|lty tvbole^ Tafe. Other little in comparison to that. If the correspon dence afferwurda was not that which actually took place, we must presume everything against tin* party for Whom, or at whose instance, the spoliation was '•ommltted. The short, plain, direct curt note, with which Mr. Lincoln opened the business, would liavo explained every thing, if it had been permitted to see the light; and it could not have been des* troyed except for the purpose of making a false impression. This compels me to show that your conduct in the nffiir has beet) such as admits of no Justification except that burning loyalty and intense, patriotism which converts all vice Into virtue. After your llnstavtielo appeared, and before my answer to it. a lending and very distinguished member of the Re publican party In this State told you that you had misstated the facts concerning Cameron’s retirement, and especially the important and principal fact of the sup pressed note from the President; and he referred to the Chief Justice, who, upon being interrogated, gave you the authen tic information ; that such a note had been written, delivered, and suppressed. Thereupon you solemnly promised that if you ever hud occasion to refer to the subject again, you would tell the whole, truth. Besides, Judk’e Clntsc, after my review of you, wrote mo a letter from .Sandusky, Ohio, in which he said that he boro the nolo in question, and men tioned that lie hud also written to you. What-.ho \vr« te you of course I do not know, but lie certainly did not give you one version and mo another. You had, iherefore, the written statement of ttie Chief Justice, In addition to his verbal assurance. Wilh all these lights before you, and with all the obligation-* of com mon. veraclly'strengthoned ny an express • promise to tel I’t he .truth, what do you do In your,second article? Whv, you simply stick to your find story. Nay, you lake great-trouble to smuggle the trutJi away, and bury it out of sight; for, Instead of, producing Judge Uhuso’s letter to your- . . self, in which the fact, no doubt; la fairly , Muted, you give us.an extiaul from ano- , ther letter wrilleu hv Mm to .Cameron, fiom which you are “permhtt.'d to.qnote” nothing, however, on the suhj-ct of that Important letter. L forbear to say much that ought to be- said about this part of your behavior, because t,be dis tinguished gentleman before sunken of has taken you in band, and wilt doubt less jerk an acknowledgment of the facts out of you, in spite of all yourshuffling. VU. A word before we part about the two'hundred upd fifty thousand dollars raised out of the Treasury for Governor Morton .Taking your account of that btißhioss ns correct, I proved in my for mer letter that it was In the highest'de gree criminal. You left no esetpe fiom tl»,e conclusion .that the parties weie guil ty of emhezzleinentupder r.he.nct of IS-18. Vour narrative of the transaction Im pressed it wlm all the murks of what is called in the flash language of Washing ton, ‘*a big steal.” You showed that the parties themselves so understood it at the time, for you puta con vernation Into their months by which they were made to ad- . mit their Ifab'llly to prosecution and im prisonment. I saw plainly tljat this could not lie true. Mr. Hlunton's worst one mies never charged him. with that kind of dishonesty, and Gov Morton bad a reputation which placed him far above i lie suspicion of spell baseness. Both of (hem may have had 'serious faults, but they would not rolF the Treasury under, any elreumslancis, or for ally purpose. I ; a-ked three members of the Indiana de-, l -gufion whether there was any* founda tion mr yournssertion; tbeyall answered no, and gave me the explication which I.osed in my published letter. Your re plication to Mils point is ode of the most astonishing parts ot ail y*.ur wonderful production. I denied that Messrs. Sian ton and Morion had committed a felony, and vavo a version of the affair which* show •■d thorn Imt.li to bo perfectly innocent- You grow ilMemperedand vituperative upon this, airl charge mu with “uncon ce led, not to say, ostentatious, nmlig- , ulty.” I confess this is turning the tables upon mo in a way I could not . have expected. In general, the malig nity .is presumed against tho.party who makes an injurious charge, not against. him who repels it. There might have heen.somo hope for you yet if you had recanted your Ilrsl assertion, or admit-* ted the errors of your statement, or made some effort to explain away the " effect of it, by showing that you did not mean what you said. But you hold to eveiy word of it; not a syllable do von retract. On the contrary, you insist that it is effrontery in me to affirm'that a debt was duo to tin* State, and that it was paid according to law. What you say in youy last, in addition to your first staiement, makes the case look worse than it. did before. But il ls ii«»l true. The payment was not made on account of arms furnished to loyal citizens in rebellious States, nor was the 1110003’ given 1 1 the Governor, to be disbursed by him on his own responsibility, as agent of the President. That much I can say on the official authority of the ' present Secretary of War, w’m wrote me on th« 271 h of last month that “tho transaction appears to bo based upon theelaimsof thoStuteof Indiana for ex penses incurred in raising volunteers.” But Gov. Morton is still above ground, and can take care of him-olf. If lie ' made a raise out of the public Treasury without authority of law, and in defi ance of the penal statutes in such ease madeumd pro Ided, lie owes it to you to confess bis guilt fully and freely, if he Isinnoceat (ns I believe him to be), ' it is duo to himself and the memory of Mr. Stanton that he deny your allega tions, and exhibit the true state of the facts, without delay. The sum of tho case as it now stands,is this: Mr. Stan ton put into tho hands of Gov. Morton, not a warrant, its you say, bui a requi >itlon on which the Governor got oucof tlieTreasury 9250,000.' If this requisition was based on a just claim, and drawn against a fund appropriated to the pay ment of it, tho whole transaction wits perfectly honest, exceedingly common place, and precisely niinilar to other acts done every day, before and since, by all the Secretaries—a simple di-charge of routine duty, involving no responsible . ity whatever, no honor, and no blame. But it suited your ideas to glorify Mr. Stanton by declaring that be took the great responsibility of helping Governor Morton to tin* money contrary to law, against the principles of common hon esty, and in violation of ids oath, there by'exposing both himself and Ids ac complice to tho danger of prosecution and imprisonment in the penitentiary. This was the feather you stuck in Ids cap; for this you think him entitled to the “grateful admiration of his loyal c* untrymen.” Isoughttodoprivohiin of the ‘decoration you bestowed on him, by showing that the money was paid according to law on a claim satisfacto rily established, out of money regularly appropriated to that purpose. I tried to prove that it was notan embezzlement, and that there was nothing erio iual in it. But this took tho loyalty' out of it, and left It without any merit in -your eyes, Thereupon you fly into a passion and become abusive, which shows that | your moral perceptions are ver3* much 1 distorted, and makes mo fear indeed that you nro altogether incoiriginle. This paper hasgrown much longer than I intended to make it, nt.d I have no -space for the exhortations I meant to give you In conclusion. I leave you, therefore, to your own reflections. J, 8. BLACK.