gt . _*ii,:.6..li ~attctrir,-4ir. Nita* IMMOCRATIC LIZINCIPLOS CEASE TO LOAD, VII CVOS FO FO to3w ' Wf. M. BRESLIN, Editor add Proprietor LEBANON, PA. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1862. THE 'NATIONAL PLATFORM IF IMPOSES OF THE WAR Courage, by a rot* nearly unan Inoue, passed 'the following resolution, which expresses the ooloe-of the Nation wad Is the true standard of loyalty 'Tbatthe present deplorahleoivil war has been Touted upon the 'oountry "by tbe'diatinlonists of the Sonthern Stet's, now in arms against the =Constitutional Government, and In arms around ,the Capital; that in this National emergency, Congress, banishing all feeling of mere •paision or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country; that thia war is not waged on their pert in any spirit of oppression, or for any purpose of conquest or subjugation or purpose of Overthrowing er interfering with the rights or aetablithed institutions of those States, but' to de- Sand and maintain the sopremaey of - the Consti• tption, and to preserve the 'anion, with all the .dieffy, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired ; and that as soon es these objects 4fe aectompliihed the war ought,to Geese." -Demos:math, MO Convention In accordance with a resolution of the Demo• •cretin State Intuitive Committee, THE DzwonitA• :OS of PinnintraetA will meet in 'STATE CON VENTION, at HARRISBURO, on 45' /MAT, the .4P 47 of. July, 1862, at IQ o!clook, A. to nominate ca'ndldates for Avrtmon GwernAL and Evairasoa GERXRAL, and to adopt ouch measures as may be deemed amnesty for; the welfare of ithe Democratic party and the county. . WILLIAM 11. WELSII, Chairman of the - Democratic State sx. tom. TILE PUBLIC DEBT. The Abolitionists in Congress are 'figuring at Urn. amount of the public debt, and the result is proven that either they nor the administration know anything about it. They all speak by authority; and give the a• mount as Mr. Tawas, Mi. Berrie, Mr. BiMlllOlll, •'Mr. /Freeendeo, Mr. Powell, Dawes speaks of the present tiopeend the others of the end of tho fiscal year the 31st. init. It will he teen that they vary .over two hundred millions • s pf.dollare, while }lr. Powell, (Dern.) ie probably nearest the mark, dlf fere, nearly tevenAundred with them.. • ..... lit n in t i.ac. k orders leaned Last , wee'k by wry.: ',WM*** ovorAlß.fe,-9,rgriC"3- issockthe militia, have all been cone 'tams' nded, as the emergency which ;demanded their immediate service, no 'onger' exists. ,346., Gov. Sprague of Rhode Island, -was 'elected Cr. S. Senator, fa six ;Sears, from the 4th of Karat, next, wben Senator Simmons' term expires. He received 92 votes out of 108. - Is. Major 4 - asiir Downing says wthis government Is a ,Dimooratip Xaehine and none inxtDemonrate an ", how to rutOe''' ........seakercrrigiiders are direetofl ,to a perusal of the J9ttoF of the,.)3.08. fir. Put:, of sew tOrk, in Another part -of the oiteranfrieza. Duet fit' an oldaine Whig, and esp Ope ly the Union-party plovipiejitso u,p 'by the B,epubliettis fp, *at fitkkto t 4 nd atm attetiptediqininylvants. • the kind et-patriotism that Gay. Andrews ezbibfeed when the Ptesklent called for mote tioops last Week; is vtly cleaignated “thkn skin ned , pgrtotham." We ilavo , tOto of that kind of patrlots i tn, i oa, place— they are for the Uninftfth dondititma and reservations. 106., Our neighbor of the Cowier has a machine for grinding, poetry.--- He tried it last week and produced such miserable ' 44 scintillations," that lie threw It (the machine,-.the poetry ate publiehed,).inta a isomer in dis , gust. Our devil- happened to see it f Wee undertoOk turn the eiank, ,and produced' the following,—doubt leea a continuation. of the Courier's 41/4log-grele."-- Of Soul Maims it 4tioaturii died Jiadhaisdie alwayk lied WortbAess name, 141iPoply Anne Was that of universal lying; The only good ifs trirorcoaid tow upon the "world Was—dslag. lisreafter l ou tills spot to show Bow, ripes t a one now Zleslsicow, To marls his prate- • ' lib reloads will rafts . • • „, • anoahnieutal draw • pot brass— 'AO litiforti a tilifer. • The Chnmtlle c r ` i rg V alley of last week ity,6, that over one hund red '' , oontrabancle" arrixedie that. 'Vne on Monday and Tuesday' last, apod were added. to their , adored pop. elation alreadf44oo i!tfuldrous• they Worii?.., so6ltiety. But should they be indnatrioes wont they.talte • the labor ototerhundred white; ...iatrOgingsfor from'twenty.tWe". to 6.46 y; the only proe. raw ifor 4 l4lo *bite laborer, then . * lita "ingctiterikidlelda of the he Voutiy now deprived of theJaz. bor. Albin very` ifeontrabands:" witt ,x, ,-, 7l arilk,innhangf, ) it is atety dleadiant age of boinA,Psoplapf the 210 1481,701,145 M1;00000 • 460j000030 720;060,0011 Desrly, 1,200;000,00 Mil It will be seen that , this letter - is dated the' 19th. On the., 25th', ix a 4 q days thereafter, Gen, .13anks was de feated *bin the;same evening dov: Andrewslasued the required prOolat mation, quite a different tiling from the above reply. no Omer hCia thought it saw an opportoility for c Misrepresentation and a meawless,and accord/Pe? proceeds . to, confound the ) Prod4imitiPrt wit . th'e latttor, and says that 'fit -is im osiiiblarfor vs (the Adeertfor)o tell the truth." 'Of Ifich Stuff alt vielaite*indicated, ,knd' arguments in favor of abolition, emancpatiOp, 4634the'piiisflled w9ol i :* -That 4 : tOiielgePm. .Vl ,t & disgusted 4.lyAvh it we 40, nntrvann-- 41WAT.d . tjzattfurtrtrbtuladlnpitandi &foams; falseXperdidinfiigibif . ft - 'I LITTLE MEANNESSES We would be ashamed to be guilty of the little, meannesees to which the Lebandn Courier weekly stoops, and if we had no better arguments to ad 'ranee in favor ntijiknooratic pririci piea, men and measures, we would throw down the pen and_politios, and retire in disgust: - '' "o itiow the kind of stnEthe - - 04;4er publishes, we mike the following extracts from its TaiCfeifhe.fzTge;f4re the ibierepreeentation with' which its' columns weekly Worn:, - 4.The Advertiser stripe of the lave but little sytepa thy for the brerastest who are lighting our battles, a4d , are glad to see themAistreuohised." When-the - editor penned the above be knew-that helletze coining 'a false hood, for nothinghas appeared in our columns to justify4suell an asSumption. On the contrary r t . lii' abstained par posely- from renarks on the decision of {tie Supreme Cdurt (always yield ing a ready obedience thereto, a com— mendable-example forlhe Courier to follow,) ..relatiVe to the alloy vote, because we rwere':diaisstisfi64 there with, and merely announced the fact of the decision and he effects there. of. Our reasons for - --satiefaction are that it disfranchieeethe soldiers and throws out of office men elected, not legally it seems, but by the popular 'will. The attempt of the Courier to curry favor with the soldiers, (not the first instance,) at our expense, by a -misrepresentation, will be appreciated by them, andis by us. _Here is another of its little mean news, in the same iesue "The last Advertiter warns Pretelchint Linealn that If be iostempth 'to interfere with elavery he will become a "peurper—werlme moredespleable than treaeoniteelf." This expression clearly show' that -, the Advertiser con ' alders slavery more neared than the 'Union." In the face:alb° fact, apparent in every issue of the Courier, that itpre fere the abolition of 'shivery to the preservation of the. Union, it has the assurance to charge, without the least show of foundation, that we bold aim. ilar views to itself—pamely, that we are in favor of the Union with reser. vations. We are for the Union first and above all things, and have no such qualms of conscience for or against slavery as the Courier has. , :We said that if .VrOdent Lincoln assumes powers not givon him by the Consti tution that he becomes an usurper, and.not, as the Courier falsely says, "if he interferes with slavery." Here is still another 'little mean ness:" 'The Lel:linen Advertiser Is finding fault with the .de. •termlw ct action of Congress agelnit the rebels," oot on what article in our Tager this misrepresentation is bassi„ talless it is that wextisappror. ed of the proposition tramite by- a Ite publican in the House te semi a ne gro to 'South Carolina ats dts (Gover• make the most of it And still another.: "The%Advertiser * follows VallawdiffbamiindorPing to prey nt any effective measures from tieing :adopted against the traitors:* This little meanness is in keeping with the above,.and is based, we . pre sumo, on our protest against con gress devoting all its time in legisla tions for the negro, and ,neglecting, . as it does most shamefully and trea sonably, the success * dad welfaro of ant. arthtea add tho.• best i tere s .of _the. country . If Congress had not Ibsen ip session for thelntst 6 months • the .reb..eilion would , bel mach nearer , -Its' end than • it:is ti6W;; , ' We usiit room Ito notice but , PRP more pf 4,4 e c o pie r s Itttle mean. neap:lF-this...week., .It,is in reference to-the,disloyal reply of Governor An .... dreyvts to the Gq i ernktent's :ricrtdst tion !pen tits fo more troop; fr:Od , ~. Massachusetts, W tell . ras . alliallOWS : ~r. ' ' *oppsw,lial 111, te 2, -" : 7s;,:the Run. B. X. sr ,p7O, georstify of m :--fiiir :---I bare tide Mettient received a telegram he these words, v(e: iib e gesrot a ry of War desires to know haw soon i you.can raise and organise three or Nur more infantry,regimmits, pind litoie them ready to he forwarded here to btririned and equippsd; 143iasp viewer immediately. add state the •nturibi‘rYap °all ratio. ~,,', ; ."- ' /,,, TI3OmAS, Attyutant- General. • A Galls° sudden and'an'espetiled finds me' i t h out materials for au intelligent reply.- psi 'bung men are all pre:go/ivied - with other views. Still, if' real call for iltrill rsaira9P6 is raaile I . be- Hive we can raise them 11i:forty days. The Brim and equipments would need to be furnished here. Quf Teeple are never moulted without them.— They go into ramp while forming into regiments; and are drilled* and riiietleed with arms and meakettnarsoldiers. Teattemfil the other course wpnld diungenonthusiasm and make the men feel lint theY were ngisaldiere l bits a !web- 0, Again, if Ourwoople feel iliftt the; ere going , into. the South to- help fight is - o.se .wire-win kill' and destroy them, krt,ikeneitlir kiownto -shir liges_.ae Welt es.eivilliedmeil, *III deceive them by - fraudulent Sags of frube:'and lying,pf_eieries, as they did the lifitaliollueette boys tit-Williams harg,;will use their negro.sisivez *plait `them both as hltiorera and as figlq.ing man, while‘they tbemseiveumust 'parer lite at the enem y's , iiege, • sloe, x think they wilvfaa it:IS - dried la heavy on their liatrietietn. But it:the:President will sue. tale etell • Rueter, and recognilge' all' men, even black men, as legally `aaplible of that loyalty the blacks arewititing to Manifest, and leflheM fight with God •and human nature on their side; the roads will swarm, if need 4 be, withenultigideewhom Nit,' England will poir nut-to obey your call. diwsiyerinfdy fei do rai aniaraii,' - fremnin, blioet faithfully, your obedient servant, - • -JOGS, A. A.NDILBW. is as rapidly falling to pieces as it was built up, is the inevitable - consequence. We are often, asked- why we do not bandy words With the Courier—mia represent and abuse it and its party. Is not the Republican-party and the Courier vulnerable enough to be bro't down with the. arrows of. truth, and are not Democratic principles too no ble and undying that they cannot. be defended on their own merits? That truth crushed tcy the earth will rise again*is already apparent all over the country, and `a 'signal instance took place last week, when a "Breckin ridge Denionrat,7•2as the Republicans call - him, was elected by an increased majority to Congress'from the Bucks and Lehigh Disfrict to...fin the vacan cy occasioned, by the ‘ death., of-Dr.. Cooper. Newt fall will improve upon the lessen; :=to> the utter confusion of the party that Stole from tlie Nation al Treasury , , More , - money in, one year than the current yearly ,expenses of Ur. Buchanan's administration. NEGROPHOtA • TRIUMPHANT The Home of Representatives, last week, passed the Confiscation bill by a rote of 82 yeas to - 68 nays—Mr. Winger voting with the yeas, who were all Republicans with the ,excep tion of a Mr. Brown from Virginia, who claims to be a:Union man. • On the same daythe Virnanciptition bill was rejected by a vote of 74 to 78—Mr. Killinger ioting with the nays. The yeas' were a//:Republieans. .Previous to' voting Mr. Killinger objected to further debate, inai3ranch as he was compelled to print, his re marks. and had no opportunity to de liver them. Debate here was useless, but our people at home had a right to understand our position on these greatpoints. His speech would ad vocate Confiscation, as a measure of indemnity for the past and as a mili tary necessity for the future. He was against the passage of any -.shah tion enactment. Let slavery take Care of. itself. While he stood on the Lincoln platform of compensation and colonization, he was against ne gro worship and negro legislation per se. He was opposed to negroes 'swarminginto Pennsylvania, and pro tested against their being supported ,by Government liberality. Tho defeat of the emancipation bill was the occasion of much cOngratu. Latina among the opponents pf the radicals, but a reconsideration "has. been moved and to-day (Wednesday) the Matter will be up again, when its passage will 'probably bO accomplish• ed, under the lash ,of the ultraiats, several weak-kneel members, ‘who ..KiteLazaiejtit-J...ay.iggralready yield. en (1 . ffs arid - iiit tifik .- itaye - serr-way-.- The object of the passage of these megro bills Is to discourage the Union men of the §outh, and to let loose a :horde Negroes upon the Northern states. The Courier of last week goes it atrong-on its favorite bobbies of abo lition, and confiscation. It is as ultr9, on-these points as Wendell Phillips ever was. Some titne aio it used to try to hide its abolitionism under the guine ofemancipation, compensation, .confiscation, and so on, gut:of late it thiowe'dff theee disguise's and oßenl3. Ifthrocateiabolition. Terrible Battle near mond, The .145.4 .1344,804: r ps fc lowing is the , chspatch of Gen: Mc lellan relative te the terri ble; battle recently fought in the vi. cinity , of Richinend. This affeneiVe movement of the Rebe)s preVes conchisiv.ely , that the rumored eVA.enacion 9f• 'Richmond waS.incorrect, and that the se : called Confede,raey 'does not in. tend to relinquiihlossession of their Capital witheut a feimidahle t.#l)Peao iningninnry streggle. WABILINGTON Jaoe L—,The follow ing despatch was received at the War Derhirtment this afternoon :-- - Fttom THE rtxr, t n F. BATTLE, ;one rei:b o'clock , 'neer3.44e the Hon. STAN .§ecretary of War.— we have had - a:desperate battle,' in Wbieh the= - corps of _Gen.` Sumner, Heintielman and Keyes hair° >been engaged, against greatly superior nuimbers: Yesterday, at one o'clock, ttni enemy, taking advantage of a terrible storm, 'which , had floodedthe' valley of the Chickandrniny, attacked dnr the right Casey's Division, Which' was in the first line, gave way - untiopeuntably, and - this' .eageed a ;lever:wary Confu sion, during - whioh_the•guns tinclbag gage wereleit, blit''Genertils Heint el.Olen an &Rear n.ely:'• neet, `'gallantly 1 brought lup theittroopej.whiell check ed the enemy, end at the scams time, however, anteceded" by great exertions in' bringi6g across rSecigivi9k and Richardson's Divisionsmelio (frolic back the enemy at the.pdint'of the bayon et, covering the gronn d with his'dead. This Morning' the enemy - nattemp tedi to renew' the 4360fiict, but vas eV erywhiro • ~We- 'have , titkisit! many prisoners, anieng &nem/ ' Pettigrew al:M.oa 'Deng. c ; e 1 ; • Our Noss is lieaty r btit that of - the my,n3 ust be 'el:Winona.. -With thesxeSption of •Oasey's Di= vision ,:the 'men ; behaved Splendidly. SeveKahtime bayonet :cirsigeS have beenitiade.l-'.The' madelnAtoittveakt ; v.(041)84/ : ` ,ll- .o4F.Aftibiltar<, 11114or-Glrfpilil l :COW !minding. two. In the following : the New York Tribnne tells us that the 93d Regi ment was lately a part of General Casey's Division: It may and it may not have belonged thereto, but we are confident that if it did, and was in the battle, that the men did their du. ty, and -.did not retreat until - further resistance would have been madness. It appears . -that when the enemy'• at tacked Clasey,s _Division they were about 10 to, 1, - "and took advantage of a tlittoder-storm and a flood in the Chickahominy. If-men give - waynn- der:Such -, odds eed.retreat it eertai my does not prove - them cowards. The -of jumping at conclusions,, .is very, apparent ; just now; Banks' whole army retreated over . the Pote- Mac, ant:the; country is ringing with praises at the '.'splendor of - the re treat"' 'When CaSey's Men ,give way, and do the. same thing under perhaps more pressing circumstances, the first conclusion by some is that they acted the - coward.. -Ilitel.est : has alsO 4ich to do with' the"first reports of engage ments.. Some papers hive a habit of writing up partieulay officers and men at the expense of . \ ottiers. . . GENERAL. CASEY'S DIVISION, . [Wrote the New York Tribune.] Brigadier General Casey is a regu lar army officer, , and had under his ,cemmand . three brigades. They were originally composed of a bri 'gad e under C01 . .-Davis,. consisting of thepne Ilundied and Fourth Pennsyl vania, Eleventh Maine, Fifty-second Pennsylvania( Fifty-first New York and Col., Beidan's Sharp-Shooters; a second under Col. Tridball, of the Fifty-ninth New York, the Eighty. fifth Pennsylvania and the Ninety third Pennsylvailia ; and a third un der Col. Allen, of the 9th U. S. Infan try, the Eighty4fth New York, the Eighty-ninth Now York, the Sixty fourth Now York, and. Fourth U. S. Infantry. W bather this -was still the constitution of i,he Division at the time of its defeat we, of course do not know, but presume it has not been essentially changed. THE BATTLE FROM A BALLOON. WASHINGTON, June J..—During the Whole of the hattl4f this morning Prof. Lowe's balloon w.is overlooking the ter rific scene from ariAtitilde.of about 2,000 feet. Telegraphieommunication from the balloon to Gen.McClellan, .and in direct connectfon witi) the military wires, was, successfully maintained; Mr. Parker Spring ofLagcaster a acting as opera- Mr. Overy movernerii of the enemy was obvio'ias and instanfly,epprted. This is believed to hethe first time in Which a balloon recophOissance was suc cessfully made during a battle, and cer tainly the first time in Which a telegraph station has been established in the air to report the movements of the enemy and the progress of a battle. The advantage to Gen. 'McClellan must have been im mense. -FORTitES . MOM - 013, Jurils:4l----I,cearsling , Howlers broil -EV orougln down by the boat from White House, the object of the rebel attack on Saturday, upon the left flank; was to reach the river, and thus cut off our communication.— This was the purport of the address made to the rebel troops before leaving Rich mond. THE VICTORY INCREASING IN IMPORTANCE. WAseinTozi, June 2d.—Despatches of an unofficial character received from the Headquarters of the Army of the Potomac, say that the importance and, dimension of our victory increase as they are hourly developed. Evacuated. The quarters occupied by the Reb els at .Corinth were becoming too warm for them, so , they cut sticks on Thitrsdays laat;and rub. 'Tbe follow ing Are ; The Particulars • GEN. HALLECK'S HEADQUARTERS, May 31X-Lburin 0. nearly all last night the moving or cars and the suppressed sound 'of steam whistles betokened • that some movement was going on irithe enemy's camp; lint this notbe in Was ,any xtraorclinaa wo,y occurence, it not consideredworthy of more than passing notice. About five o!,clock this morning, several explos,ions were distinctly heard. Immediately afterwards skir mishers ..,were thrown out, and a gen eral advance of the United States army commenced, when it was found that the en emy had left-his western strengthold and fled. There being some twelve, or fifteen tracks of raitroad running from . the depot to tA9liirrettehments, With side tracks' . arta7fwitches, 'the enemy was enabled to I,fanie off with ,great rapid- From all irifoin'riaton - that can be gleaned from the prisoners taken, it is thought that the evacuation was orrnmenceid at, sundown, last night, the enemy retreating in three direc tions—east, west, and south. 'Beatiregard stated to the citizens of Corinth,last, night; that he inten ded to throw himself on both our flanks. At this hour, Corinth is held - by . our army as an out-post. Our cavalry are seeking for the en. emy. The - foreesent from Gen. Pope command came upon, and, dispersed, the enemy, eight Relies below Corinth, on the Mobile. and Ohio. Railroad, w:~iilo in theraetot burning the bridge at that point: Ferty -- prisonere 'were captured. ' • ; The eneniy?s rear guard destroyed the.railroad depot at Corinth and a church, and. intended to- destroy the entift village,r but the - 'inhabitants saved some, fifty of the 'houses. A few balesef Sefton Were coesumed.-- ItheyTalso broke open.-mazy of tbe stores and burned the Contents. A. : large force of the United Ste . :tek cavalry, under Colonelliot, was s ent.. out on Wednesday inorning-br4l.*4!-;; egitons ront,to destroy. 'a brittp"-:. ,, , tite r Ilfobi le (end. °hip of _alrinth: tatongti It.be eexp yit.teturnedp-4.a. „learn Weih ths,,;.pglawiettuthatit tatarilonowri. Corin Wiest- night that agarge*Tidgc' had been destoyed, forty miles south, by a body of our cavalry. They also state that one of the twenty-pounder Parrott shells fired from Gen. Pope's column, exploded in their camps, killing• eighty men and a hundred horses, andtbat a thir ty-pounder Parrott shell thrown into Corinth as an experiment, by-Gen. POPe, destroyed a locomotive and . killed'ita engineer. It is thought among military men that the ..destruction of the bridge south of 'Ciiiinth; the unco►nfortable proximity of our falling sliells,aud the possibility of ra, Federal success on the Xississippi, were the causes of the evacuation. : Th,b eneniy's works were certainly bf ~a-ve r y &eat strrengtb and capable of a stout resistance. Ellintt, of Gen. Pope's Di vision, in. Gen. Halleck's, Arrny, by fdieed - maiches &e succeeded in reaching j the railroad at: Booneville, on the. Both and destroyed the track, ,, burned the depot, loeomotives, twenty.six cars with supplieS, 7,000 stand of arms , and a variety of other material. GEN. BANKS' REPULSE At th'elatest accounts Gen. Banks' col umn was at Williamsport. His retreat ing army safelvrossed the Potomac with out another-ilia from the rebels. The loss of our killed, wounded and prisoners is heavy, but the official accounts have not yet been published. .On the retreat about 50 wagons were captured, but most of them were worthless. The most im portant loss of material we sustained, were about 1000 European rifles. • By a -dispatqh received at the War De partment, on Saturday, we learn that our troops have again taken possession o Front Royal, with a slight loss. Martin burg is also occupied, and Jackson's com. munication with Richmond is cut off.— From all accounts our army is again ad vancing and regaining the lost ground, and probably will punish the enemy severe ly for their timerity. Among the reports of the retreat of Banks, is is said that the women of Win chester fired from the doors and windows with pistols upon our retreating soldiers, and that the sick and wounded were treat ed in a brutal manner. ESCAPE OF A BALTINLOREAN FROM WINCHESTER. BALTIMAE, Juno 2.—A. respecta ble citizen of Baltirnore has just ri hOtne *Din 'Whchester, having escaped from there on last Thursday. He states that Col Konley and a large portion of his command were prisoners there, and that the many rumors that we have received with regard to the brutal treatmentof this regiment are altogether unfoUnded. The stories of burning-the hospitals with all in them is altogether untrue, neither of the buildings having been timing up in bed with a wound in his head. A number of officers' of the Second 'Maryland were .et large on parole. The rebels Claim to have taken 5,. 000 prisoners, but from what he saw in Winchester, he suppoaed that half of 'that number is nearer the truth. The 11th, N. Y. Regiment passed through this place the begin ning of -last week, on its way .to the seat of War. Upon arriving at Har. per's Ferry the men .refused to be sworn in,.much to the d isgust oftheir commander, Col. Maidhuff, the Wien saying that they wanted to go to Washington. Major Boyer, .9f Gen. Saxtoto3 staff, addressed them as .61- 10w5,.: • • • "Tho&e . of you wining to .aeknowl. edge yourselves cowards, here in the face of the. enemy, .atep out of the ranks'•' They did so, and were , or dered AO leave and pay their own way back to New York. But few remain ed at Harper's 'Ferry. Gen. Saxton rejected the whole regiment, saying that he did not want cowards in. his command. tair Gen. McClellan's army took possession of Hanover Court House, last week, after -a severe fight, in which-the enemy were completely routed. We took upwards' 'of 500 prisoners - and the enemy's loss is set dn'wn at 1,000. Our loss was 379 in killed, wounded' and missing, of which. -53. were SP ACIAIe AlESBAoL—President Lin cOin - has sent a - Message to the House of Congress., assuming the responsi bility of Ex- . Secretary Cameron's acts. The Cualt - 4ings agency is •disauctly aPoWed Vs• own suggetition: Af ter-the eilepPOr es of the Van Wyek Committee e looked for better WOO ,in . that; quarter. • pig- Jet'', pay's, in : a speech :delivered in the Senate in May, 1848, said that : "Cesar, .Fr,edefick and Napoleon, the three:gteatest,generals, have demon:drat; ed that celerity of movement is the great ground-work of military success." This we now see proven in the Virginia moun :tains by Gen. Stonewall Jackson, who has so skiAfully ' kept.hisomparatively small &roe in motion, sllit one . day, four I.lnion generals: - far apart, telegraphed that he menaced them, and that an attack was certain to be made by hind within ~: few hours.. Yet afterwaids out that, with theexception of a feWskirm lahersile was sbsik *Pei McDow ell„411046141411409 , cause for a- airOltrit 111166 iieweoers complain that fftoei:sepY adrift ;•Wthe isiiikak author:lo6s lir3l4rie . igh ;taint stfitei,ziir raliidlyllll4 Ttekhils, 4iirii•hotißis arid peniteiiiiiiies-Of stiis imil*llmfor enforeetii oFlittotaagaidist ,ene-bi • fiis peirOeli pmciiitts- Oflhe; . :Stitlei. 4 " Vier *mos istitttithilt toW•iri • *his it icariptotifenftalai*tihfilkii :40401e•of the slive AiitirpOrpcl3B. , libliatelheirshives, they6flindt lo reside anriotigst thWin. --I "we have'a friend in President Linc oln.; he is striving to free our race; and in Fremont, who will he Ilia successor, we will •find one who is Gm to our cause. It is well for us that .the lqortb and South are fighting with each other. After they bare fought long and weakening their pow ; ere, we will rise up and say to Mr.. White man thit we . have power to defend ourselves. ' Cam eron because he sought to abolish slavery, had his bead out off, and that of a bunker piaeed in his stead„ : This ()poetry ie trying to untie the knot that. will soon be ont.(meaning .stavery.)— rf This country should be entangled' with a for eign power, we, my people, would be a suitable ally with aforeign power, as we•know the geo• graphy of the country and could lead the army to the most prominent positions, s nrld ther eb y free 'ourselves and he elevated to sin iquiditrivith other "tees." • The- general tendency 0f4.1)e lecture was-to instil into the minds ot;.his people rebellion, and have them prepared at some. proper ttrrke and unite With another. pow . .0* and,,he elevated to an equality with the whites; and have the rights, of suffrage as . therhave. At the close of . his lecture . three persons, citizens of - Trenton,. Made* up a purse of money a,nd r eiVe•it to the. , . speaker. • Kr" A. 41--- ME • • I, • Islli l i k W I : ( 4 e r 91 3 i S rX i re thus ar„,O I .I4ThLIPtA I I9III,I9- Rigbt in f°ne i t lPit-Vr0,49 3 c Aviker. innrw hgre not, o l i f* 'bosom Ili* gone.' • A MOTHER POISENS HER CHILD, AND THEN COMMITS SUICIDE'. A sad affair, growing out of the pres ent war, occurred at No. 332 Avenue A, New York city, on Sunday evening 4.— Some months ago, it appears, a French. man named Jean Phillipe, joined the Ex celsior Brigade, and departed for Wash- - ington, leaving behind him a wife and an interesting child about five years old.-- On Saturday Madame Phillipe received a letter from the - seat of War, announcing the death of her husband in a recent en -gageMent. She was devotedly attached to the brave fellow, and .so terrible was the shock produced by the sad tidings, that - her reason - was dethroned, and she deterrnined to follow her husband to the grave. Accordingly, on Sunday she made the necessary preparations for the disposition of her remains, when the cur tin should fall upon the last act of the melancholy tragedy. She determined le destroy the life of her child. also, and thus complete the drama by killing herself. Having procured a phial of laudanum, she administered a portion ofthe poison to her offspring, and then swallowed the bal ance herself . . Some hours afterwards the unhappy woman was discovered to be in a dying condition, with her. child folded closely to :her bosom. She was immedi ately removed to Bellevue Hospital for medical attendance, but died in an, hour or so after.her admission. The child lin gered until yesterday afternoon, when it succumbed to the infitience ot the poison ous draught, and expired about three o'clock. Coroner Colljet_imaggated the affair, and upon searchineets of thesuicide, he found a note which she had written the night before, giving all the necessary directions for the disposition of the bcdies. She bequeathed her little property, consisting of household •furni ture, &c., to her mother, and requested that the latte hould make all the arrange ments for thineral. THREE MEN SWEPT. OVER NIAOA., RA FALLS. : On Sunday last, the people of .Niagara ails were,startled by thel'incirt that three men were swept over the falli in a row boat. The occurrence is skid to have taken plabe about six o'clock a. is., and was first discovered by a porter at the Cataract House, who saw the boat con taining the men in the Middle'ofthe river, and saw the final plunge from the brink of the awful chasm, whose' depths have.al ready engulphed many IMAan beings in a - destruction terrible to the itnagination, and appalling to.realize. 'Tile fatal catas trophe was also witnessed from near the Clifton House. ,The men were seen putting out from . the Canada side, near Chippewa; with the evident intention of landing near the south end of Coat Island: . After getting out a short distance the current'was found too strong for them, the recent high Wind up the lake was still forcing more than a usual quantity of water through the riv er, and although they made every exer tion to stem the rushing tide, yet their ef forts were entirely unavailing. They were seen, after battling fer a time' des perately against the current, indraw their oars from the water, and sit motionlessin the boat, resigned to their fate. In this condition they were swept over the falls. The names of the unfortunate men were obtaineAl..: Aecidents of this 'kind havetaken place several times before, to persons who were foolhardy enough to attempt a passage a cross the Niagara -river in an open boat near Goat Island. REPORTED CAPTURE OP NATCHEZ VICKSBURG, AND WARRENTON, MISS The announcement of the surrender of Natchez, Warrenton and Vicksburg comes to us from the rebel jopinals in those quarters. Our fleet, after Accom plishing the capture of points, is said to be on its,way to Memphis. On the 12th inst. the Common Council of Natchez', Miss., met to.consider a corn municatiogrorn =Commander Palmer, of the U. S. steamer Irotatiois, demanding the surrender of the r eity. The Mayor was directed to reply to the commander—said that the city`was entirely defenseless, and of course no, opposition could' be made to its occupation by the,-federal forces ; he could not answer Tor What indignities might be offered to the Union flag by the people, but he" would use every means in his power to preserve order. Scott has been unanimously re-elected Vice President of the Pennsyl vania Railroad, and will soon enter - upon the Management of that Company, the President, Edgar Thompson, being about to depart for Europe,' THE W. IN KANSA% which is now raging between Gov. Robinson, Jim Lane's friends ancU the JayhaWkers generally, seems likely. to swallow up all thoughts of the rebellion, and to resolve itself into an other border.ruffian contest, with this sin gle dirferencq, - that the•present trotible is' .entirely between the free-soil men :them selves. The 'Democrats and conserve= tives are quietly looking op. It requires, it seems, the presence of our twelve thou sand Government troops in the State to. keep the free.soilers and abolitionists in Kansas from destroying each .other. ~• A NEGRO REBELLION THREATEATER.--.ln a lecture delivered in Trenton, New :Jer sey; recently, by the negro, hihn S. I liock —the' speaker used the following Jan ; guage. Hon.. William Deter, 'of Ne York . on Union fo7► Ike • Union. O's.w - r.Go, May 16, 1862 MY DEM% SIR :-•I have received yenr letter inviting ma to meet yuirraelf and other gentlemen consiitutiog a committee appointed by certain members of th'e Legiala.ture designated as -no. publican and Union members," with authority, after consultation with committees of other or ganizations, to fix the title and place for holding a State Convention for the nomination of State officers. I will give you the reason why I think it proper to decline this invitation. The meinbcrs of the Legislature by whom thu committee Will appointed with which you invite me to consult, adopted an address and resolutions declaring certain principles and inviting to a convention which they recommend, "All Repub licans, Union Democrats, and other loyal citi zens supporters of the policy of the. Administra tion and responding to the principles and policy" sot forth in ouch address ma resolutions. I cannot call myself "a supporter of the policy of the administration" and Ido not respond to the principles and policy sot forth in the address and'resolutions" and, therefore, though a loyal citizen; lam not embraced within this invita tion. , j ao3ready indeed, to support the Musluistra• . , tion;ln. the prosec nth= of the war for tliiii:**er cation, of oar Coneritutionca Union, and I knoW that, to this policy the President is pledged by numerous acts and declarations, the sincerity of which Ido not question. But whether be will , 'adhere to these 'pledges inepite of that powerful , influence in his ow n I ,4lrty which is , seeking to. convert the war into an aolition war, is yet to be proved.. no has already recoi2mendeg jos. poi tent measure which in my judgement is politic, and unwarranted by the Cortatioution,— With respect to the vital quesiions that remain I regard the "policy of the Administration," as somewhat unfixed and uncertain, and until I see more clearly what it is, I am unable to call my self its "suppOrtar." But laying aSide this objection which does 'not seem Eo embarrass, Republicans who are the open opponents of the policy to which the President is pledged, let us consider the proposed Union up. on its 'merits. Is it expedient, and will it pro mote the public welfare, to unite with the Re publicanisarty*Opou the principles of the legis lative address and resolutions, - for the purpose of defeating the Democratic party of this State at the approaching election ? That is the vies- Con, A year ago when the country was in imminent danger the Republicans of New York and of oth er States invited Democrats and all other loyal men to , lay aside partisan controversy and unite with them in the support of the war teethe per.. temation of the Constitution and Union. No oth er motives or purpose for the war was then heard from the leaders of the Republican party or in deed in any quarter having the slightest influence upon public opinion. The messages and speeches of the President; the proclamations of his Generals pledging the public faith to the people of the invaded States, and:4 which his merA,ellenee was an approval and confirmation ; Gie;.yesolutions of Congress passed almost unaninionsly, only two Republi cans voting egainst thorn the House of Repre sentatives ; the language of the press and of pop ular meetings--hil united.zdoelaring that the war was to be prosecuted not to subjugate the South, nor to change Southern institutions, nor to de prive Southern men of their property. Or rights, but simply to establish the authority of the Con stitution over all the - States. Such were the ap peals and assurances under which the war com menced. But when we had Italia million of men in arms 4 when tar armies were-filled with Dens °anus and ethers who volunteered to.'fight for Tan CAMSE and not for abolition ; when >lary 7 land, Kentucky and Missouri, relying' upon our promises, had sent loyal men to Cungress, open ed their 'territories to our troops and placed them selves in' our potver—then first we heard, thatsle very being the cause of the war, atteery must be deitroyed. It is notorious, that at this day a large portion (to say the deast) etthe Republiean party repudiate these pledges add trample even on their own Chicago platform. They are the open advocates, of the abolition of slavery in the States, and (if measures, of confiscation so sweep ing end relentless that their like has not been known since the days of William the Conqueror. They have theories, several theories. Some - of them maintain that the seceded States are out of the Union, and therefore have no rights. They adopt the doctrine of eeoesson, attaching to it a consequence that enhances its absurdity. The States, they say, are gone as - States, but remain as Territories, subject to absolute power. This is the theory of Air. Sumner, It is the theory a dopted by a great meeting 'in the city of New ork, over which a son of Alexander Hamilton presided. Others derive the power to abolish slavery from a different source. It may be done., they say, by the war power—in other words, by derpotio-powor. Who can bound the war pow. or 7 And to what a miserable state must that country be reduced, where it shall be thought a justification of every violation of constitutional law to say that it may be done by the war power!. r know that all these gentlemen claiin to be (prominently even) the 'friends of the 'Union.— They would sooner abolish slavery than that the Union should perish. They would exert a mili tary despotism in the South -for the sake of the Union. They are so passionate in their lave that they.wouTd sacrifice law, liberty. the Constitution itself save the Union. Well, the Union to to which they are so devoted, is one for which confess I have no respect or attaohinent. I knew no Union but our constitutional Union:of free and equal States. It is an abuie of words to sail anything,else 14. Union. Upon the' hew plat form; Phillips', whodeolares that for twenty years he has been the enemy of the Union, and Garri son:mho formerly' stigmatised it as • a compact 'with -}`Tell; are both 'Union men. 'lt is the opin ion of these gentlemen that the law of 'Hod and the Constitution of the United States are at va riance with each other, and ;therefore thui hav,e sought the •overthrow of the Union, but Ahoy have become converted since it has been discov ered that one may be an enemy of the' Gonstitti tion, and.yet n friend .of the Union- So, Mr. Oereltßutith, whp'sat :in a. seat -of Ironer' at the New Ybrk Meeting,leforms us in his ciieular the he hi4ei the Constitutien he , topes the Union. The legislative attiress invites to tile proposed Union oonvention•Fall Republioans,.l7nion Dem ocrats and . other loyal citizens." This Implies that 'all Republieittesare loyal ; that disrOykliy may be totted tenionibemoerats and other .Citi nous, but nowhere else. Such ie not my opinio`. We are in atmteagainet the disloyal men et :the Sohth. • . ifono here now oppose the Vrar.: th a. Here that led ividuale'rerty be intAißTOrth who sympathise with the rebebtAnditilsli- them -oneness. But it:Would be ablualle — orginize a political party against persons so few and insig nificanViind who dare only speak in wbispers.— The disloYalmen. of the North, front whom dan ger is to be apprehended, are those who seek -to convert the war into a war for the ematioipetion of the black race' by means of the overthrow ; of the 'Constitutiod: ArtiOrWare these men to' be found ? Sumner is one of thems• Wade another; Thaddeus Stevens a third. If there are Demo mats among them, I think they will be found to fraternise with the Republicans, or rather to be in a transforniation etude, Is it not plain that it we need a Union .party at the North,-it. is in or der to .defeat tbeatititireiee" of these men ? But how call that he if they *re invited to like part in the rnovetneet?, • There is no resemblance between this snora. meut and that whioh resulted in the nomination of the Union ticket in this State last fall. There was then, a: elms, of •opposition to the war at the NOrth,.but no difference as to its purpoge...— 'We all then were or proposed to be Constitution al Uni - on men. Now all opposition to tha • War has disappeared, but a COD trovers*tiaa arisen -„ It to the object for which it shall be proseout e d whether to establish the Constitution or to -be er . throir it, and reduce the,South' : to the ocAdition of a conquered provinen t Kfpon, .thin question. the only political) quastion•thit really dieid e e the people of the North, a trak-Union F.arty cannot be neutral or silent. Yeats p for £ tl i tiare o,:atight that there n tiuti'cnal Union party. 18w5o is . hed i h t h o a p t e4 en f o o b r ai t par. ai ty air mil i g n bt is b e60 wn .F it o a r n tw oc e e l as ve tty other loyal men .f°iP4thinlka that loyaltDelliderita, loYe7 Republicans, and all Quebt.te 'Unite and form snob a party 'now. The basis of: smolt an organization (which mightbe tempo - tory, leaving present par- Cm to resume their former relations *hen the ' Mike &Sall be restoyed). may be round in the resolutione adopted 'by:the 001:mitten of conserv tire members of Coragress of which Crittenden was Chairman. But 1„lonk in vain for aoY 5001 declaration as the times demand in the address and resOlntions adopted by the (so.oalled),Uelyn members of'-our` State 'T,iekislature. Tee ",is is moot! -there' about t alevary ; but little or, itOkng* about - the Constitution. There is no daaration, against abolition or general coonactitiOn; co,as_ immune to loyal..Soutlierit men th.ak„ . their kigb i ts. shall all-be :respected •no reor4o - itiou,'of, say rights remaining to - the pante of tito t eeeed e d 'States; no condemnation. of. that Most ablurti :form of `4ll3EaiOnieflll which converts States Into Territeries, and erecte a militavfleilintiam upon the-rains of the Coun 7 titutioll, - The pray of Rem. let with the part, of Haiiiletoleft out is not wore ridion'irstthau a Union.party that op; the flatuititmii on. l • ••• _ . • entertain the hope tko.the eeesere a t l y e joeu , '.of the North will in sainkliay- unite aud•net•in iootroert with the loyal oitizenccifiCentuoky, Ma ryland and all other S 'when Ste fez that are or Ell
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