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FL Now oar flag is Arum to the wild wind' free, Let it float o'er our father land, •nd tbs - guard of its spotless fame shall be 'Colombia's chosen band. PERSONAL We need money badly, and it will be a very great relief to us if our friends and patrons will furnish us with a little of the " needful " without delay. If they cannot pay all, let them at least give us a part of that to which we are justly entitled, in order to relieve us from our embarrassments. We think we have been very indulgent, and therefore hope to meet with a ready response to what we con ceive to be a reasonable request. We shall have a Collector out during the present and succeeding weeks, and we hope he will receive a hearty welcome. In the mean time we shall be prepared to receive our friends at the office, and furnish them promptly with receipts for whatever amounts they may de• sire. Persons at a distance, and those resid ing out of the county, can remit by mail at our risk. Come, friends, give us a lift without longer delay, as we must have money to keep the wheels of the old INTEILIGENCER in mo tion. POLITICO-MILITARY OFFICERS The unfortunate affair at Great Bethel, on Monday week—although of very little conse quence, per se—serves to expose the suicidal policy of appointing mere party politicians to high military commands in the-Army. They may do well enough for .Company officers, where they have any military knowledge at all; but to make of them Majors, or Colonels, or Generals, and entrust them with the lives of hundreds and thousands of our brave and loyal men, is unpardonable folly and next akin to treason itself. It is not every man who can spout .at a political meeting, nor manage a County Convention to suit his own purposes, who is fit to "set a squadron in the field," or direct the movements of an army or even a regiment in battle, and the sooner this system of rewarding political fa- vorites or manufacturing paper officers is abandoned the better. Our soldiers at Great Bethel evinced undoubted bravery, and db.. played the courage of veterans under the most trying circumstances. But they were badly officered, and might have been literally cut to pieces if their safety had depended on the skill of their General and Colonels. The sooner the Government can get rid of field officers of this description the better it will be for the successful prosecution of the war and the safety of our brave soldiery.— The Secessionists, as a general thing, have skilful and accomplished officers, and will be ready to improve any and every advantage given them by the ignorance or unskilfulness of many of the newly appointed officers in the service of the Republic. We have a powerful army in the field—composed of brave men and true patriots—but its strength may be frittered away without accomplishing the ob ject intended, if continued to be led by officers whose vanity and inefficiency are their pre dominant traits of character. Let us, by all means, get rid. of these paper Generals and Colonels with as little delay as possible, and have their places supplied with officers in whom the army and country can have some degree of confidence. AR a proof of the above, it may be well to state that ex-President PIERCE, who was in Europe at the time, recently stated to a friend that the personnel of the Austrian army in the Italian campaign of 1859 was the finest he had ever seen ; but everything went wrong on):tOoount of the inefficiency of the superior officers, and the utter rottenness of all that related to the administration of the commis sariat. DIPLOMATIC DINNERS, &C Every few days we have accounts from Washington of the "brilliancy of the Diplo matic Dinners," the " Secretaries' Entertain ments," the balls, receptions, parties, and, in general, we learn that feasting and hilarity are the order of the day amongst the guests. This may be all very well in its place ; but, in the present deplorable condition of the country, such feasts had better be dispensed with, and the persons engaged in them should set an example of abstemiousness, instead of riotously making merry in the midst of the general gloom and distress throughout the land. Such scenes contrast to great disad vantage with the universal prostration of bus iness and the sufferings of the people gener ally, and should be dispensed with by those high in authority at the National Capital.— When the civil war now in progress is over —when rebellion is crushed out, and pros perity again returns to our beloved Union— it will be quite time enough to " rejoice and make merry" at our good fortune; but not before. WESTERN VIRGINIA The Union Convention re-assembled , at Wheeling last week, and have taken the pre liminary steps to organize a provisional government for the whole State, to depose the present rebellious and treasonable State authorities, and to re organize the local gov ernments. Forty counties (about one.fourth of the number in the State) were represented. A resolution was unanimously adopted, thanking General McCLELLAN for sending troops to Western Virginia, commending the troops for their gallantry at Phillippi, and complimenting the brave Colonel Kelley. gar Amongst the recent appointments of Governor Curtin, is that of GEORGE H. BARD WELL, whilom of this county, to be a Brigade Quarter Master, with the rank of Captain, for the Foirth Brigade, Pennsylvania Volunteers. George is in luok, and will make money out of thejob, or we are very much mistaken in his financiering abilities. Jparjonw L. HAYBB, Esq., of New Hamp shire, ,hee been 'appointed Chief Clerk of the Patent, Office, at Washington, in place of S. T. ShAtiri; of Penneylvania, removed. —THE ILINANZIWIIEST/0 1 . It is rumored at Washington, says the Harrisburg Patriot, that the Cabinet have decided to instruct General. Butler not to receive any more fugitive slaves into Fortress Monroe. ,This species of property is becoming an annoyance. It was very mani fest from the beginning that General Butler could not treat fugitive slaves as contraband of war for any great length of time, and that some other policy would have to be pursued with reference to them. The only proper way is to have nothing to do with them, assuming that the business of the army is neither to encourage, protect or return negroes escaping from their masters. This duty of itself, if once engaged in, might absorb the whole time and attention of the , army. .=GI The laws of the United States with reference to fugitive slaves are not annulled, though they may be extremely difficult of execution .by reason of the Southern rebellion. But Southern slave-owners have themselves alone to blame. If a loyal Southern master chooses to pursue his runaway negroes into Pennsyl vania or any other Northern State, we know of nothing that would prevent his reclaiming them under the provisions of the Fugitive Slave law, which remains unrepealed upon the statute book. It is as much the duty of Com missioners to execute that law now as ever it was—though perhaps 'it would not be worth while to try the experiment, as slave property must be very insecure in the Border States as long as this rebellion lasts. The North is as deeply interested in the return of fugitive slaves to their masters as the South, if not more so—and if this stam pede of the colored population continues until one or two hundred thousand negroes are ad ded to the surplus population of Pennsylvania, we will begin to realize this truth. DEATH OF HON. TDOINAS S. DELL This eminent and distinguished politician and jurist died in Philadelphia, on Thursday week, from the effects of a cancer with which he had been suffering for a long time. Judge Bell was born in that city in 1800, studied law with the Hon. James M. Porter, at Easton, and settled in West Chester, where he prac— tised and presided as a lawyer and a judge with great ability and deserved distinction.— He served as a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1837. In the, succeeding year he received a certificate of election as State Senator from the Chester and Montgomery district, and was an active member of that body during the turbulent and exciting scenes of the memorable Buck-shot war. An error in the returns gave the seat Occupied by Mr. Bell, after a spirited contest, to his com petitor, Mr. Brooks. On the death of Judge Darlington, at that time President Judge of the Fifteenth Judicial District, the deceased was appointed his successor. In 1846 Gover nor Shfink elevated him to a seat on the bench of the Supreme Court. After the expiration of his term in 1851, he returned to the practice of the law. Soon after, he was appointed President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas at Easton, by Gov. Pollock. He retained that poSition but for a short time, and in 1857 he was elected State Senator from Delaware and Chester. This useful career was ended on Thursday week, amid the sorrow of his friends and the regret of 'the community. THE STATE LOAN TAKEN. We learn from the Harrisburg papers, that the entire State War Loan of $3,000,000, has been taken at par. The following sums were taken in Lancaster county, viz : Farmers' Bank of Lancaster $20,000 Lancaster County Bank 20,000 Columbia Bank - 40,000 Mount Joy Bank 5,000 Inland Insurance Company 2,000 Reed, McGrann, Kelly & Co. 5,000 Thomas E. Franklin 1,000 James B. & G. T. Lane 1,000 Hager & Brothers 1,000 George M. Steinman 1,000 Hon. Henry G. Long 1,000 A. Herr Smith 1,000 John Baer's SOns 1,000 F. A. Muhlenberg, Jr. 1,400 John P. Myer 1,000 John F. Long & Co. 600 R. F. Rauch 500 C. A. Heinitsh 500 John F. Sehner 500 Charles Herbst 500 N. Ellmaker 500 R. H. Kirk 500 John W. Jackson 300 DEFEAT OF HENRY WINTER DAVIS Maryland elected a full delegation of Union men to Congress on Wednesday last, with pos sibly a single exception, one district remain ing in doubt. The defeat of that arrant demagogue, Henry Winter Davis, by some two thousand majority, is something we did not anticipate. We trust that his defeat dis poses of the last of the Plug Ugly tribe.— Mr. MAY, his successful opponent, is a firm Union man, and more reliable than Davis, who industriously pandered to the vilest mob spirit as long ache could obtain a seat in Con gress by this means. During the secession outbreak in Baltimore, he was nowhere to be found, but as soon as the tide turned, he too turned up, and by the usual appliances of fraud and trickery foisted himself upon the Union men as their candidate for Congress, much to their disgust. Though devoted to the Union, this was a little more than they could bear—and the verdict of Wednesday last in formed Mr.. Davis that his career of political infamy was finished. FROM THE POTOMAC The latest accounts from Fortress Monroe state that the rebels, in anticipation of a re newal of the assault upon their fortifications at Great Bethel, had retired from that place towards Yorktown, carrying with them their artillery and destroying the adjacent buildings. The total number of killed in the late engage ment is stated to have been not less than twenty-five, and the wounded fifty. A num ber are reported as missing. The retreat of the 11. S. troops from Great Bethel was in ac cordance with the determination of a council of Colonels, summoned by General Pierce.— The latter has made no report tending to exhonerate him from the suspicion of incom petency. SPECIAL CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION.-GOV• Curtin has issued a proclamation, ordering a special election to be held on Saturday, the 22d day of June, 1861, in the Congressional District composed of the aunties of Montour, Columbia, Luzerne and Wyoming, for the purpose of choosing a Representative to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of George W. Scranton. The Democrats of this District have nominated Hon. Hendrick B. Wright, of Wilkesbarre, as their candidate. par Hon. E. JOY MORRIS, the new Minister to Constantinople, telegraphed to Governor CURTIN on Thursday, resigning his seat as Representative from the Second Congressional District, Governor CURTIN responded, accept ing it, and appointing Tuesday, the second day of July next, as the day for a special election to choose his successor. Hon. GEORGE M. DALLAS is spoken of as the Democratic candidate. GEN. CADWALADER. This distinguished military officer has joined Gen. PATTERSON'S Division. We have every confidence in his military skill and courage, and shall be much mistaken if he does not distingiish himself at the first opliortunity. HON.-eDonon ta. DALLAS. This distinguished statesman, for the last fiveyears the able and accomplished Minister of our Government at the English Court, returned to Philadelphia a few days ago, and was waited upon at his residence by a large WWI - of,his fellow•citisens, irrespective of party, on Thursday last, for the purpose of paying their respects to him. During the reception, Col. J. Ross &sown= addressed Mr. Ames on behalf of .the gentlemen present, referring to the satisfactory manner in which he had sustained thehonor and interests of his country in the high and responsible position to which he had been assigned. He also alluded to the present perilous condition of- our beloved country, and to the want of true and tried statesmen in this crisis of our affairs. Mr. DALI.AB replied as follows : It is impossible for me, just returned from an unusually prolonged residence at a foreign Court, not to feel in the highest degree grati fied by the cordiality of your welcome. I thank you, my fellow townsmen, from the bottom of my heart, for this your generous proceeding ; it will be remembered with pride during the few days still left to me ; and be assured that the kindness and esteem which prompted it are reciprocated with warmth towards each and all of you. The painful and portentims events which have marked the history of our country during the last six months, engage, however, all your thoughts and feelings. Let them do so, to the exclusion of every, thing else. When more than fivelrears ago I took the post assigned to me near England's exemplary Queen, the possibility of a war was far from remote. The construction given by' British statesmen to the Clayton and Bulwer Treaty respecting Central America, and the impending dismissal of Mr. Crampton by President Pierce, were fraught with mutual irritation. These exasperating topics, however, passed harmlessly by, and soon an earnest of friendly disposition signalized the Ministry of Lord Derby, in the frank and full surrender of the long inflexibly maintained claim to the right of search. From that moment the career of the United States in the expansion and security of their commerce, in the development of their prosperity, in their recognized and ever increasing weight in the scale of civilized Powers, was unobstructed and onward. The noble and beautiful symbol of our institutions —the symbol consecrated by all the blood of the Revolution, by all the heroism of 181 1 ,2, and better still by the blessings of all the free and enlightened of the world—the Flag of the Union, floated glistening in the sunshine, a welcome presence in every harbor and on every sea I Let me remind you that the present fit ful effort to substitute another, comparatively unknown and local, for this world wide famous banner, is not the first that has been made. The reserved right to nullify your law, and at discretion to break up your Government as a cobweb contrivance of mere State part nership, perhaps meditated at Hartford in 1814, was certainly and formally claimed by South Carolina in 1832. At that epoch there were•giants in debate; and no giant more for midable or dangerous than the author of this subversive doctrine. But, gentlemen, it was overruled as perverse and untenable. The calm Senators from this good old Common wealth, who were. William Wilkins, of Pitts burgh, and myself, steadily insisted upon hoisting the " Stars and Stripes" high above the " Palmetto," and I presume would do so still, and the renowned citizen of Tennessee, who bad routed the invaders at New Orleans, dispelled by the mere show of a " Force Bill" the delusive Quixotism which was brave and blind then as it is now. Nor am I aware that this decision of Congress has ever undergone revision reversal. It stands on the records of the nation as s great judgment upon a ques tion utterly incapable of further elucidation by the wit of man ; it is against nullification, which you must be aware is but fragmentary, ' subdivided, or bit by bit secession, both built upon the same false keel; and it points, with an emphasis too peremptory to be disregarded, to the course of duty which the official guar dians of your Constitution, laws and liberties are bound to pursue. Let us, then, be firmly linked, as a " band of brothers," around this unchanged standard. For my humble self, born beneath it, having imbibed from a venerated father's inculcations a devoted attachment to its comprehensive import; having dearly loved to the last a brother who gallantly gave his life to its sup port, and, dying in a distant field of duty, found it his noblest shroud; having spent my life contented and happy, though poor and inglorious, under, its protection ; having been honored far beyond my deserts by my fellow. citizens, and especially by those to sustain whose equality and rights I shrank from no personal sacrifice, I come back to you, gentle men, filled, it is true, with grief at the national calamity, but unaltered in my determination to stand, come weal or woe, powerless I con fess, but unalterably by this flag of the Ameri can Union, the whole Union, and the Union forever. It is no cause of surprise that the Southern people have such entirely false and unfounded views of the objects of the present war, and of the designs of the Federal Government, when high officials put forth such statements as the Governor of Georgia embodies in a late procla mation, when speaking of the Northern peo ple: $105,300 " They appeal to the very basest passions of the human heart, for the purpose of exciting their soldiers, and preparing them for the exe cution of their diabolical plans of rapine and plunder. They promise to apportion our lands and divide our substance among their base mercenaries as a reward for our extermination and butchery. In some of our largest cities, ' beauty and booty' are made the rallying cry to induce the lowest rabble to enlist against • We have here the evidence, of the evil effects the declarations made by the ultra Northern press at the commencement of hostilities, that this war was to be prosecuted until slavery was utterly extirpated. It was even gravely suggested by the New York Tribune that the lands of Virginia should be partitioned among the volunteers as a compensation for their services in the war. Reckless suggestions such as these, which are totally condemned by nine tenths of the people of the North, are eagerly picked up and used by Southern lead ers to fire the Southern heart. DISPOSITION OF FORCES. President Davis, in a recent speech at a review at Richmond, claimed that he had 68,000 troops in the State and 25,000 on the way thither. The vanguard, 5,000, is at Manassas Gap. The Federal troops at Washington, number 34,015. Of this number 20,866 are in Wash ington and Georgetown, and 13,149 are on the Virginia side. In addition to these there are about 9,000 of the District militia, who are nqt liable to be ordered out of the District. General Patterson will have, it is said, about 30,000 men in his division, and who are now gradually approaching the Potomac. Gen. McClellan, it is stated has arrived at Cum berland, Md., with two regiments of his corn• mand, and that he will remain there gotil his rear forces from the west come up, leaving a sufficient number at different points to protect the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, all the bridges on the road previously destroyed, and other damages, being repaired to that point. THE ARMY FRAUDS. The 11. S. Grand Jury, lately Bitting in Philadelphia, have made a report relative to the army frauds in this State. They say that while the most indubitable evidences of the perpetration of frauds have been elicited, they have been so carefully concealed, so sedulously guarded by the parties committing them, that the ,Grand Jury have found it im possible so to separate them as to be able to present cases which would properly bring the guilty parties within the jurisdiction of the Court; The Governor is charged with having appointed men entirely incompetent to take charge of and assist in managing the most important military departments, and in no case which came to the knowledge of the jury was there in the Commissariat or Quar• termaster's Department anything in . the form of a written contract betwessithe Govertunent agent and tlte parties furnishing supplies. NO WONDER! LOCATE DEPARThMN7'; Tribute of Respect to the Memory. of the Late Senator Douglas. On Tuesday evening last, at 8 o'clook, a number of oar citizens assembled. In Reuben - Hall, South Queen street, to pay suitable tribute to the virtues . and memory of the great Statuxuan of the West, ftrxraiar. A. DOUGLAS. On motion of Wni. IL Wllson,Esq., the meet ing was organised by the election of James L. 'Layneids, Esq. as President, and the following gentlemen as Vice Presidents and Secretaries: Vice Presidents—Hon. Henry G. Long. Hon. A. L. Hayes, Hon. Ferree Brinton. Hon. I. .E. Bleater, Hon. Thomas E. Franklin, Bomberger, Geo. M. Kline, John F. Ling, !John Bleak. Luther. Rich ards, James Peos. John IE-Beed. Jamie H. Barnes, Wil liam P Brintu n , Charles R. Fralley. George Brubaker, William Carpenter, John D. Skilea, Samuel H. Reynolds, Watson 11. Miller. Dr. F. A ?duhlenberg, John C. Hager, John S. Dongherty, H. E. Slaymaker, Dr. P.Casaidy, Chu. A. Heinitsh,Richard • McGrann, Sr., Amos S. Henderson, Jacob B. ?Unmake, John B. Livingston, Col. William S. Ainweg. Cleo. Sanderion, Samuel E. Kellen', Ell . Ourdeer, B. R. Tahody. Seerehuies--Carpenter McCleary, fd. A. Wylie, Amos A. Hanks. M. Johnsten. The organization being completed, the object of the meeting was explained by the President -in a brief, nertt-. nent and eloquent address. He referred to the assembling of the people to eipreas their deep - and!unalloyed grief et the national calamity which had befallen them, in com mon wish the universal sentiment of the country, at the ;irreparable kiss it has sustained. Since days when, one by one, the patriots of the Revolution had been taken from the scene of their earthly labors, the Republic. had been smitten with no severer rod than that which removed from us by - death Stephen A. Douglas The speaker was temporarily in Washington when the news cf Judge Doug las' death was received. Civilians and military, court and camp, exhibited the deepest sorrow. Grief pervaded every heart, from the Counsellors of State to the humblest of the people. • We know fall well by the teachings of faith, and as far as we are capable of judging by reason, that He whri has safely guided this country from her past !oily position to her present proud eminence, and protected her in the height of her prosperity; does all things for the best, and that He will yet direct this country to emerge from her present national troubles and trials to her piloted place among the first nations of the earth. And it is meet that be, whose name and deeds hare passed into oar country's history, whose dying injunction to his children, and through them to his fellow-citizens, "to obey the laws and support the Constitution of the United States"—a senti ment characteristic of him who uttered it, and replete with that patriotism which-death- mold not- conquer— should receive the well-earned tribute of the respect and the regard of all good citizens and pare patriots. (Ap plause.] Hon. Benjamin Chimpneys, at the conclusion of the President's appropriate and eloquent eulogy, moved that a committee of five be appointed to draft resolutions ex preedive of the sentiment of our citizens on the death of Judge Douglas.. Adopted. The following gentlemen were appointed by the chair, in accordance with the motion: Hoe. Benjamin Champ nays, John W. Jackson, John B. Barkley, Jacob B. Am wake and Francis Heckert. During the absence of the Committee, Major Dltmars made a brief and appropriate - speech. The Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions reported the following: Resolved, Tliat as citizens of Lancaster, without distinc tion of party, in common with the sentiment that pervades the whole nation, we heard with emotions of .the deepest sorrow and regret, of the decease of the Senator from Illi nois, Stephen A. Douglas, whose distinguished career in the public service has been Invariably marked by "the sagacity to perceive and the decision to act,^ which. are the necessary constituents of a great statesman. Be was equally distinguished for his consummate ability and un corrupted integrity. Resolved, That we cannot better express the command ing position which he occupied as a statesman, than by adopting the languaceof one of the ablest of his politieslop ponents,in which, user reviewing the political career of Mr. D..as part of the history of the country, in which he has stamped himself upon ita.legislation more than. any other etatesman of the age, he says that the acts reported by him organizing Western Territories, and: his powerful Speeches -in carrying them through Congress, will forever remain monuments of his labor as a legislator. By Such efforts he attached to him as with hooks of steel the mighty NorthWicat; and became the representative man of millions of his countrymen. Resolved, That the concluding remarks of Senator Doug las to the Illinois Legislature, when in feeble health, and with a frame exhausted by long continued and arduous labor, being his last great effort in the cause of his coun try. in which he said, "I believe in my conscience that it is the duty we owe to ourselves, our children and our God, to protect that flag from every assailant, be be whom he may and his dying menace to his children, "to obey the laws and support the Constitution of the United States." should be engraven upon every heart, and be watchwords to incite every citizen to a faithful and patri otic performance of duty. Resolved, That his able, fearless and patriotic course In devoting his whole energies and talents is supporting the President and Government, in their firm determination to maintain the Constitution and the laws and the integrity of the Union, will ever make his memory revered by all the loyal citizens of the Republic. Resolved, That we highly appreciate the magnanimous and patriotic spirit of the President and beads of Depart ment at Washington. in recognizing the great services and abilities of Senator Douglas. by placing the Presidential mansion and all the Departments in the habiliments of mourning. The able and efficient Secretary of War, from our own State, recognizes in the order which he issued upon the death of Senator Douglas, a loss common to the whole country; and, as an appropriate testimonial to the memory and services of one whose last roiss'on was in ral lying the people of his own-State to support the Constitu tion as it came from our fathers, he has directed, as the highest honor in his power to confer, "that the colors of the Republic be draped in mourning In honor of the illus• trions dead." Resolved, That we witness in the energy, .courage and ability of the President of the United Stated; and of the late Senator Douglas, each representing a great party in the late Presidential contest, elements of chars-ter which constitute the strength of our Republic, and which confer upbn the humblest in the community the pOwer, without the aid of fortune or family influence, to rise to the highest positions in the Government. The heroic struggles against the adverse Influences encountered in the rugged path to eminence, necessarily give that bravery and integrity of purpose which are the true guarantees for the faithful per formance of public duty. The resolutions were unanimously adopted. Judge Cbampneye said that be bad intended to make some rs marks upon this occasion; but the President had no fully and ably expressed the feelings of deep grief and sorrow that pervade the hearts of all present, that it wonld be unnecessary for him to make any extended comments. A motion was adopted directing the Secretaries to pub. fish the proceedings in the city papers. Adjourned. FIRST REGIMENT, PENNSYLVANIA RESERVED VOLUNTERRIL—The First Regiment, Pennsylvania Reserved Volunteers, to which are attached the Union Guards, Lan caster Guards and Safe Harbor Artillery, has been orga nized by the election of R. BIDDLE ROBERTS, of Pittsburg, as Colonel: H. M. MCINTIRE, of West Chester, Lieutenant Colonel ; LEMUEL TODD, of Carlisle, Major: L. W. REED, of Norristown, Surgeon. These are all excellent selections The Regiment is composed of the following companies: Brandywine Guards, West Chester, Capt. Nielda. Tinton Guards, Lancaster, Capt Barton. Lancaster Guards, Lancaster, Capt. Neff. • Safe Harbor Artillery, Lancaster county, Capt. Hess. Carlisle Guards, Carlisle ' Capt. Todd. Carlisle Light Infantry . Carlisle, Capt. McCarpey. Phceolx Artillery, Phceoixville, Capt. Dobson. Slifer Phalanx, Rockdale, Capt. Dyer. Archy Dick Artillery, Chester, Capt. Talley. ---, Gettysburg. Capt McPherson. —Below will be found the muster rolls of the Colon Guards and Lancaster Guards, of this city. We have not yet received the muster roll of the Safe Harbor Artillery : MUSTER ROLL OP THE UNION GUARDS. Officers: Captain—Thomas B. Barton. La Lieutenant—Harry Hook. ' 2d " William L Bear. let Sergeant—Strickler R. Everts, 2d " William E. Murray, • 3d " John 0. McCracken, 4th " George M. Bauman. let Corporal—Thomas S. Blac1;, 2d " Philip L Sprecher, 3d " William M. Iloffmeler, , 4th " Theodore Wenditz. Masiclana—Frank A. Hail:lee, Thomas Judge. Privates: Nathan S. Beer, Robert B. Marehbank, Benjamin F. Benedict, William G. McClean, Albert H. Bitner, George M. Miller, Abraham E. Bear,„ Gilbert C. Myers. William H. Bubb, Emanuel C. Metzger, James Coffee,George B. Miller, William W. ,oz, Henry Metzger, William J Cake, Grabill B Myer, George A. Coz. Peter L. Magentas, Augustus C. Buchman, James T. McCully, William L. Dellet, John McClain, ' John C. Eicholtz, John A. Mons, • George W. Engle, John L. Nauman, Edward Frankford, Ambrose Neyman, • Henry Feller, Charles R. Pinkerton, Frederick D. Friday, Theodore C. Parvin, Isaac H: Fortoey, John B. Benner, E. D. Freeland, Lewis A. Rauch, Abraham Greenawald, Miles Rock,' James G. Humes, , John K Rutter, George W. Horner, George F. Steinhauser, William B. Harman, Isaac B. Steers, Peter M. Heiser, E. L. Sanders, Henry Hackman, James E. Strachan, Henry G. Hiestand, Samuel S. Strachan, Robert Holt, William D. Stauffer, Matthias Hart, Joseph R. Thomas, John C. Harvey, Frank Whitlock, Obed H. Kurtz, John Weidel, Henry M. Killian, John M. Wort 4 Christian Kline, Milton Weidler, George W. - Kendig, Jacob T: Zellers. MUSTER ROLL OP THE LANCASTER GUARDS. Officers: Captain—Aldus J. Neff lea Lieutenant—P. I. O'Ronrk, 2d William T. McPhail, let Sergeant—George L Werntz, 2d " Ambrose Maynard, 3d " Daniel C. Fralich, 4th " Isaac Picket. Quartermaster Sergeant—Jacob M. Strickler. let Corporal—William F. Aument, 2d - " Jasper Morrison, 3d " r amuel J Cooper, 4th " Charles O'Neill. Musicians—John Eicherly, Jonathan Slyer. Privates: Armstrong, Henry Lefever, dohn 8. Blackburn, James Lefever, Elam Baker, John Lithgow, D. W. Black, William Lockwood, George T. Brindel, Jacob Lonions, William A. Cunningham, James Markley, Charles A. Cunningham. Israel • Morrison, John EL ernmel, Jacob Miller. Alfred H. Downey, David Milscheack. Augustus Dougherty, Andrew Henke. Philip B. Double, B. F. Hopwood, John Elliot, John • McKeegatt, John Eshbach, R. H. • McLeall, Franke Foreman, Foreman, Joseph Potts, L B. Foreman, Harrison Patton, Edwin C. Getz, Jacob Phrame, Eel:trait, J. Greenly, Andrew G. Read, John C. Highstreet, J. D. Rioter, Samuel Heargmves. W. G. Rioter, Jacob Hannum, Abel H. Bettican John Herr, Lorenzo D. Riley, John Hughes„ David N. Ruth, Hiram • Hughes, Edward Ruth, David Jackson, John K. Stark, Charles S. Kunkel, Peter Seibert. John Reese, George W. Short, Andrew Keene, Joseph Templeton. Jacob Kline,-John White, John Kech, George Wolfert, Peter Kelly, Jesse Winour, George Lambert, D. Werry, John A. THE MILITARY CADETS.-The Military Ca dets elected their officers on Tuesday evening last, as al lows: Captain, E. K. Young; let Lieutenant,.D. P. Rosen miller; 2d do., William T. Wylie; 3d do., Johq H. Sanni gardner. Ist Sergeant, Jacob H. Barr; 2ti do., A. Zebra; ad do., James Lechler; 4th do., John P. Striae. let Cor .poial, A. Herr; 2d do.. W. R. Gerhart; 3d do., 0. Brady; 4th do., J. Shreiner. After the election, the company Pro ceeded to Gruel's Ice Cream &Moor, North Queen street, and heartily partook of the delicacies there set before them. Speeches were made by Liente. Rosenmlller and Wylie, and the "Star Spangled Banner" sung by members of the company, after which they adjourned. BODY FOUND.—A few days ago Coroner Balmer held an inquest on the body of a man which was found on a rock in Conewego Tells, in the Susquehanna River, near the _Lancaster and Dauphin line. • The body was very much disfigured, having evidently been in the water for some time. The deceased appeared to have been respectably:dressed, and a silver watch was found on his person. He was supposed to have peen an upriver turn. barman. , PARTY LINES OBLITERATED!-Tile Post muter General him made appointments at the following places in this county .1 Ulna P. BRADY. Postmaster at Mt. Joy. vice Joshua Leader, ri3mored... J. H. Ifiss,.Postmaster at Safe . Harbor. riee.lobn Help, ranored. DAVID Bewares, Postmaster it- ?daytime; . IiCIO Jacob , Garner removed. 8 4 mury BoyD, posAMASAD Oreene,,vice lemh lgV Mager. fan, removed.' Tbls Is "obliterating Tarty lime alto a 'vengeance!' CELEBRATION OF rate Fomera.—The. Com mittee appointed by Gonnalbs to act In conjunction with the Mayor, for the purpose of getting op a celebration of oar National daubers:4y, met at the Mayor t •Office. City' Hall, on Saturday morning. The Committee COUltleta of Messrs. Dr. Henry Carpenter and-Maj. Charles M. Howell froM the Select branch, and Means. Jacob Bowers and A. Z. Itinkwalt from the Common. The Committee were all present, and the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: Raeheal, That thirty-four guns 'hall be tired, from 6 to 9 o'clook irrthe doming, and that ••band of made be en gaged for the occasion. Respire, That the enetchses of thirds, shall be held at 9 o'clock in Os morning, and that the Declaration of In dependence be read, thesatiosalsoag of theater Spangled Banner, snag, sod la *ration etdtatde to the occasion be delivered, at such place as may be designated hereafter. Resolved, That all our citizens, irrespective of party, ore earnestly invited to participate in the ceremonies. A nub committee, cousiitiug of Mewing. Rowell, Caper ter and Doyens, was appointed to carry the tint and accord resolutions into effect. when the Committee adjourned to meet again at the Mayor's Office; on Saturday next, to complete the arrangements. • GEO. SANDERSON, Chairman. Calm M. HOWELL, Sccr,tarv. . ...„ THE FOURTH CONNECTICUT REGIMENT.—Tbe Fourth Connecticut Regiment of Volunteers, one thousand strong, under command of Col. Woodhouse, Pawed through this city, on Wednesday last, at noon, en route for Chain hamburg. They are throughout a splendldlooking body of men, and thoroughly equipped in every raped- At olnintda, when the train was moving off, Priiate George Barrett, of Company H, we. killed. He was en deavoring to regain his place, missed his bold, and fell between two of the tare.' several of the bind cars passed over his legs, cutting and crushing them badly below the knees. He was also struck in the aide. The unfortunate man was from near Hartford. and was about 23 years of age. His uncle was' on the train—one of the volunteers— :tad was overwhelmed with grief at the sudden and terra. hie death of his nephew. He was compelled to proceed with his regiment. The remains of young Barrett we e forwarded to his relatives the same evening. Every pout hie mark of rasped was paid to them by the citiserus of Columtda. SHOOTING AFFRAY.—On last evening week, about 9 o'clock, a dispute occurred between two young men of .this city, named Erb Weitzel and John Roney, which resulted in the serious wounding of Roney. It ap pears that during the course of the afternoon the parties had a quarrel at the Conestoga; during which Weitzel ap• plied some offensive epithets to Roney. Meeting again in the evening near the Fish Market, in South Queen street, Roney asked Weitzel to retract what he said and apologize for his language, This the latter refused to do, when a violent quarrel ensued, during which Weitzel was thrown to the grormS. On rising hi drew a pistol and fired it, the bail from which struck Roney in the left side, inflicting a dangerous. perhaps fatal, wound. The injured man was taken to the office of Dr. Cassidy, who extracted the ball and dressed the wound. Weitzel was immediately arrested and taken to prison: He hada hearing before Alderman Van Camp, on Tuesday afternoon, and was committed for trial at the August Sessions. This affair should offer another lesson of warning to the many young man of our city who are now carrying about their persons concealed deadly weapons. It Is a useless and dangerous habit, and should not be Indulged in, and besides them is a law opium it which should be enforced. Had young Weittel not been armed he would not now be held to answer a charge of serious assault, perhaps of murder. DUNKER. LOVE FEAST.--On Saturday week the annual Love Yeast, or Liebe* Mai, of the Dunker per suasion of thin election, was celebrated at the residence of Chided - lan Wenger, near Endedlle, in this county. Thin Is Judd to have been one of the largest demonstrations of this kind ever witnessed in the county. The number of persona present on Sunday wan estimated at from 5,000 to 8,000. The celebration opened on Saturday and closed on Sun day at noon The exercises proper, consisting of washing feet. partaking of bread and wine, kissing, de.. took Wive on Saturday evening. After this sacrament ceremony, all present partook of mutton soup out of large tureens. On Sunday the exercises consisted of preaching„ainging, pray ing, dc., in the English and German languages. After- Wards tables were set In the barn, at which several thous and persons partook of a free dinner, made up of bread, pies, meat, butter, coffee, de. CARD OF THANKS.—We cheerfully give place to the following card of thanks, adopted by the Fen cibles' Band, of the First Pennsylvania Regiment, at a meeting held at Camp Chambers, near Chambereburg, on the 13th inst. The commendation which they bestow upon those of our citizens mentioned in the resolutions is well deserved, and we are glad to be able to give public expres sion to the feelings of the members of the Band : Reaclved,,That the thanks of the Band are tendered to Messrs. Charles IL Franey, Esq., H. L Zahm, John Adams and Msj. 0. 0. M. Cables, for the interest they have mant ra, ted in the welfare of our families, during our absence from them, in the defence of our glorious stars and stripes. Resolved, That we feel deeply indebted to the Patriotic Daughters of Lancaster, for clothing. &e., sent to ns, and hope the name they bear, like that cf the 'glorious Wash ington. the Father of his Country, will never be forgotten; Resolved, Should kind Providence permit us to return to the homes and firesides of our friends and families he triumph, we will still bear in memory those who thought of us while marching to the - battle-field to protect that noble flag, the stars and stripes. JOHN P. SHINDLE, President. Jos. M. Coons, Secretary. MILITARY SPIRIT IN WEST DONGEGAL TWP. Mimes. BANDAR-soz: In News , 'Re, West Donegal township, we have organized a fine military company, to be known as the "Buchanan Rifles," commanded by Capt. Christian Herr, Ist Limit. Jonathan Diffenderfer, and 2d Lieut. John Herr. This company is Intended as a Home Guard, but Ha officers and members are willing to march in defence of the Union and the Constitution, and the enforcement of the Federal laws, whenever or wherever their services are required. The rifles are about being purchased from your townsman, EBnry E. Leman, Esq. The uniforms are or dered, and will to delivered to the members in a few days. The company's head quarters are at the well-known Hotel of Lieut. Jonathan Diffenderfer, who is a military host in him-elf, and has been one of its leading spirits since the company was organized. The company dri Is twice a week. Tuesdays and Frid tys. Yon may expect a good account of Newville. Own OF' THEM. DEPARTURE OF TRAINS, AND CLOSING OF TUE ?dams AT TIM CITY POST OPTICS —The different Passenger Trains on the Pennsylvania and branch railroads leave this city as follows: Fast Line Through Express Lancaster Accommodation.. Harrisburg Accommodation Mail Train .. ..... Through Express 1.01 a. m Mall Train 10.49 a. m Mount Joy Accommodation, No. 1 11 00 a. m Fast Line2.lo p. m Elarriaburg Accommoda tion 6.08 p. tri Lancaster Accommodation 7.44 p. m Mount Joy Accommodation, No. 2 7 50 p. m Emigrant Train 11 65 p. tri CLOSING 07 MAILS DT RAILROAD. ... Eastern Through Mail—For Philadelphia, New York and Eastern States, at 8 a. m., 810 p. 111. and 9 p. m. Way Mail East—For Philadelphia andintermediate offices, at 8 a. in. Western Through Mail—For Harrisburg, Pittsburg and Western States, at 10 a. in., and 9 p. m. Way Mail West—For Landisville, Elizabethtown, Mount Joy, Middletown, Harrisburg, Lewistown, It)intingdon, Tyrone, Altoona, Hollidaysburg (and Way Mail between Altoona and Pittsburg) at 10 a. m. Southern Mall—For Columbia, York, Baltimore, Washing ton, D. C., and other points South, (except the Seceded States,) at 10 a. in. Baltimore and Washington, D. C., 830 and 9 p. m. Pittsburg Through Mail, at 1.30 and 9 p. m. Columbia,York and Harrisburg, at 10 a. m., and p. m. For Strasurg, via: Camargo, Quarryville, Iliartiusvllle, and New Providence, at 8 a. in. ARRIVAL OP MAIM BY RAILROAD. Through Mall East 100 a. in., 11.00 a. m„ and 2.10 p. m Way Mail East 11.00 a. to Through Mall West 2.42 a. m, 10.45 a. m., and 2.10 p. in Way Mall West 8.40 a. in., and 7.12 p. m Southern Mail 3.08 p. m CLOSING OP MAILS ON THE STAGE ROUTES. For Reading, via: Netreville, Litiz, Rothsville Ephrata, Reamatown, Adamstown and Gouglersville, daily, at 8 am. . For Bast Hempfield, Manheim and White Oak, daily, at 8 a. m. For Millersville and Slackwater, daily, at 1 p. m. For Safe Harbor, daily, at 1 p. to. For Hinkletown, via: Landis Valley, Oregon, West Earl, and Farmereville, daily, at 2 p. m. For Paradise, via: Greenland and Sondarsburg, daily, at 2 p. m. For Lida, via: Nelisville, daily, at 2 p. m. For Strasburg, via: Fertility and Wheatland Mille, daily, at 2 p. to. For Lampeter, daily, at 2 p. to. For Phoenixville, via: New Holland, Blue Ball, Goodville, Chorchtown, Morgantown, Iloneybrook, Cheater Springs, and Kimberton, daily, at 1 p. m. For Port Deposit, Md.. via: Willow Street, Smithville, Bock, Chesnut Level, Green, Pleasant Grove, Bock Springs, Md and Bowlandsville, Md., Tri-weekly, Monday, Wednes day and Friday, at 6 a. m. For Colebrook, via: Swarr's Mill, Old Line, Sporting Hill and Mastersonville, Semi-weekly, Wednesday and Fri day, at 6 a. m. For Vogansville and Terre Hill, daily, at S a. to. For Liberty Square, via: Conestoga, Martieville, Coleman ville, Mount Nebo, Bethesda and Rawlinsville, Semi weekly, Wednesday and Saturday, at 1 p. m. Office hours, from 7a.m.C08 p. m. On Sunday, from 8 to 9 a.m. Portage to California, Oregon and Washington Territo ries,lo cents. Letters, alleged to be valuable, will be registered, and a receipt given therefor, on application and payment of the registration fee of firs cents, in addition to the regular postage. All letters are required to be pre-paid wtth stamp' before they can be mailed. .30211 f .1. 000SIRAN, Postmaster. —The following instructions from the Poet Office Depart ment are published for the information of the public: June let, 1861. ALL POSTAL SERVICE in the States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mis sissippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas, has been sus pended from and after May Slot. Letters from offices temporarily closed by this order will be sent to the Dead Letter Office, except those for the fol lowing Counties in WESTERN VIRGINIA, which will be sent to Wheeling: Hancock, Taylor, Jackson, Brooke, Harrison Mason Ohio, . Doddridde, Putnam, Marshall, Tyler, Kanawha, Wetzel, Plesusants, Webster, Monongahala, Ritchie, Clay, Preston, Lewie, Roans, Berkley, Braxton, Calhoun, Randolph, Gilmer, Cabell, Dpsher, Wirt, Wayne, Barbour, Wood, Marion. The Postmaster at Memphis, Tennessee, having refused to distribute the mail matter sent to that office, the Post master General hes directed the following order to be hatted: POST 017101 DSFAlrridt3T, ApPOINIXE2ri OrPICZ.—The Post Office at Memphis, Tennessee, is discontinued. The Postmaster General orders all Postmasters to forward to the Dead Letter Office at Washington all mall matter which is directed to that office. Signed, JOHN A. HASSON, First Assistant Postmaster tieneral. THE EDITORS' BOOK TABLE GODBY'S LADY'S BOOK, for Jnly, is one of the beet numbers of this deservedly popular periodical yet issued. "The Fisherman's Family," the Fashion Plates, and other engravings which beautify the book, are really superb, and the reading matter—both prom and poetry—is entertaining and unexceptionable. As an inducement to parsers who desire the Lady's Book to grace their centre tables, the elztpthird volume, commencing with the July number, will be sent to subscribers for One Dollar. This volume comprises the six best numbers of the year, and will con tain seven steel engravings, six of the large double exten sion fashion-plates. and all the winter cloak patterns.— Address L. A. GODLY, 323 Chestnut street, Philadelphia. THE PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL JOURNAL—The June number of this popular Educational periodical is more than usually interesting to Teachers and the friends of Common Schools generally. Edited and published in this city by HOD. Tnoaoo H:BURROWCS, State Superintendent of Com. mon Schools, at $1 por annum, in advance. THE HYMN OF OCR COUNTRY.—This is the illie of a' Hymn, composed for, and dedicated to4he Daughters of the Regiments at Washington City, May 19, 1661. The Hymn is to be auog.to the tune of "Kate Heaney," and the chorus, "A Southerly Wind." The Publisher is C. Bohn, Washington, D. C., who paid one thousand dollars for the copy-right. For sale at.Westhaeffees, N 0.44 North Queen street. leer Hon. 0. H. BROWNING (Rep:). has been appointed 11. S. Senator„ by the Governor of Illinois, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the decease of Judge Douglas. , MR. MOLT ON SECESSION. DUTY OP KENTUCKY TO SUPPORT THE GOVERN- Hon. JOSEPH Hour, late Secretary of War under President Buchanan, has written a published letter on the duty of Kentucky to support the Constitution, in which he reviews with ability the Secession conspiracy, and shows its objects - and the inevitable rain it will lead to. ,The folloWing extracts we take from this patriotic praduction SENTUCEY'S NEUTRALITY The Legislature, it seems, has determined by reso lution that the State, pending the present unhappy war, shall occupy neutral ground I must say, in all frankness, and without desiring to reflect upon the course or sentiments of any, that, in this struggle for the existence of our Government, I can neither prac doe nor profess, nor feel neutrality. I would as soon think of being neutral in a contest between an offi cer of justice and an incendiary arrested in the at tempt to fire the dwelling over my head; for the Govan:Mixt whose overthrow is sought, is for me the shelter not only of home, kindred and friends, bat of every earthly blessing which I can hope to enjoy on this side of the grave. If, however, from a natural horror of fratricidal strife, Or from her intimate social and business relations with the South, Kentuoky shall determine to maintain the neutral attitude as sumed for her by her Legislature, her position will still bean honorable one, though falling short of that full measure of loyalty which her history has eo constantly illustrated. Ber executive, ignoring, as Lam happy to believe, alike the popular and legis lative sentiment of the State, has, by proclamation, forbidden the Government of the United States from marching troops across her territory. This is in no sense, a neutral step, but one of aggressive hostility. The troops of the Federal Government have as clear a constitutional right to pass over the soil of Ken tucky as they have to march along the streets of Washington ' and could this prohibition be effective, it would not only be swviolation of the fundamental law, but would, in all its tendencies, be directly in advancement of the revolution, and might, in an emergency easily imagined, compromise the highest national interests. I was rejoiced that the Legisla ture so promptly refused to endorse this proclamation as expressive of the true policy of -the State. But I turn away from even this to the ballot box, and find an abundantoonsolation in the conviction it inspires, that the popular heart of Kentucky, in its devotion to the Union, is far in advance alike of legislative re solve and of executive proclamation. THE OR.TECT OF THE REVOLUTION The object of the revolution, as avowed by all who are pressing it forivard, is the permanent dismember ment of the Confederacy. The dream of reconstruc tion—need during the last winter as a lure to draw the hesitating or the hopeful into the movement— has been formally abandoned. If Kentucky sepa rates herself from the Union, it must be upon the basis that the separation is to be final and eternal. Is there aught in the organization or administration of the Government of the United States to justify, on her part, an act so solemn and so perilous ? Could the wisest of her lawyers, if called upon, find material for an indictment in any or in all the pages of the history of the Republic 7 Could the most leprous lipped of its calumniators point to a single State or Territory or a community or citizen that it wronged or oppressed ? It would be impossible. THE SLAVE STATES ALWAYS PROTECTED BY THE So far as the Slave States are concerned, their protection has been complete ; and if it has not been, it lies been the fault of their statesmen, who have bad the control of the. Government since its founda tion. The census returns show, that during the year 1860 the Fugitive Slave Law was executed more faithful ly and successfully than it had been during the pre ceding ten years. Since the installation of President Lincoln, not a case has arisen in which the fugitive has not been returned, and that, too, without any opposition from the people. Indeed, the fidelity with which it was understood to be the policy of the present Administration to enforce the provisions of this law, has caused a perfect panic among the run away slaves in the free States, and they have been escaping in multitudes to Canada, unpursued and unreelaimed by their masters. Is there found in this any reason for a dissolution of the Union 7 That the slave States are not recognized as equals in the Confederacy, has, for several years, been the cry of demagogues and conspirators. But what is the truth? Not only according to the theory, but the actual practice .of the Government, the slave States have ever been, and still are, in all respects, the peers of the free. Of the fourteen Presidents who have been elected, seven were citizens of the slave States, and of the seven remaining, three represented Southern principles, and received the votes of the Southern people ; so that, in our whole history, bat four Presidents have been chosen who can be claimed as the special champions of the policy and principles of the free States, and even these so only in a modified sense. Does this look as if the South had ever been deprived of her equal sh re of theationors and powers of the Government? The Supreme Court has decided that the citizens of the slave States can, at will, take their slaves into all the territories of the United States ; and, the decision, Which has never been resisted or interfered with in a single case, is the law of the land, and the whole power of the Government is pledged to enforce it. That it will be loyally enforced by the present Ad ministration, I entertain no doubt. A Republican Congress, at the late session, organized three nest territories, and in the organic law of neither was there introduced or attempted to be introduced, the slightest restriction upon the rights of the Southern emigrant to bring his slaves with him. At this moment, therefore—and I state it without qualifica tion—there isnot a territory belonging to the United States into which the Southern people may not intro duce their slaves at pleasure, and, enjoy their com plete protection. Kentucky should consider this great and undeniable fact, before which all the frothy rant of demagogues and disunionists must disappear as a bank of fog before the wind. 2.42 m .1n,45 a m .8.40 a. m ..3 08 p. m -7.12 p. m WHAT WILL KENTUCKY GAIN? For this catalogue of what Kentucky must suffer in abandoning her present honored and secure posi tion, and becoming a-member of the Southern Con federacy, what will be her indemnity? Nothing, absolutely nothing. The ill-woven ambition of some of her sons may possibly reach the Presidency of the new Republic; that is all Alas, alas. for that dream of the Presidency of a Southern Republic which has disturbed so many pillows in the South, and, perhaps, some in the West, also, and whose lurid light, like a demon's torch, is leading a nation to perdition ! The clamor that in insisting upon the South obeying the laws, the great principle that all the popular govern ments rest upon the consent of the governed is viol ated, should not receive a moment's consideration. Popu lar government does, indeed, rest upon the consent of the governed, bat it is upon the consent, not of all, but of a majority of the governed. Criminals are every day punished and made to obey the laws, certainly against their will, and no man supposes that the principle referred to is thereby invaded. A bill passed by a Legislature, by the majority of a single vote only, though the constituents of all who voted against it should be in fact, as they are held to be in theory, opposed to its provisions, still is not the less operative as a law, and no right of self-govern. ment is thereby trampled on. The clamor alluded to assumes that the States are separate and indepen dent governments, and that laws enacted under the authority of aIL may be resisted and repealed at the pleasure of each. The people of the United States, so far as the powers of General Government are con cerned, are a unit, and laws passed by a majority of all are binding upon all. The laws and Constitution, however, which the South now resists, have been adopted by her sanction, and the right she now claims is that of a feeble minority to repeal what a majority has adopted. Nothing could be more fal lacious. Civil war, under all circumstances, is a ter rible calamity; and yet, from the selfish ambition and wickedness of men, the best governments have not been able to escape it. In regarding that which has been forced upon the Government of the United States, Kentucky should not look so much at the means which may be necessarily employed in its prosecution as at the machinations by which this national tragedy has been brought upon us. When I look upon this bright land, a few months since so prosperous, so tranquil, and so free, and now behold it desolated by war, and the firesides of its thirty millions of people darkened, and their bosoms wrung with anguish, and know, as I do, that all this is the work of a score or two of men, who, over all this national ruin and despair are preparing to carve with the sword their way to seats of permanent power, I _cannot but feel that they are accumulating upon their souls an amount of guilt hardly equalled in all tha atrocities of treason and of homicide that have degraded the annals of our race from the foundations of the world. Kentucky may rest well assured that this conflict, which is one of self-defence, will be pursued on the part of the Government in the paternal spirit in which a father seeks to reclaim his erring offspring. No conquest, no effusion of blood is sought. In sorrow, not in anger, the prayer of all is, that the end may be reached without loss of life or waste of property. Among the most powerful instrumentalities relied on for re-establishing the authority of the Government is that of the Union sentiment of the South, sustained by a liberated press. It is now trodden to the earth, under a reign of terrorism, which has no parallel but in the worst days of the French Revolution. The presence of the Government will enable it to rebound, and look its oppressors in the face. At present we are assured that in the seceded States no man expresses an opinion opposed to the' revolution but at the hazard of his life and property. The only light which is admitted into political discussions is that which flashes from the sword or gleams from glistening bayonets. A few days since ono of the United States Senators from Virginia publishes a manifesto, in which he an nounces, with oracular solemnity and severity, that all citizens who would not vote for secession, but were in favor of the Union—not should or ought to —but surer leave the State." These words have in them decidedly the crack of the overseer's whip. The Senator evidently treats Virginia as a great negro quarter in which the lash is the appropriate emblem of authority, and the only argument he will condescend to use. However ,the freemen of other parts of the State may abase themselves under the exercise of this insolent and proscriptive tyranny, should the Senator, with this scourge of slaves, en. deavor to drive the people of Western Virginia from their homes, I would only say, in the language of the narrative of Gilpin's ride : " May I be there to see." It would certainly prove a deeply interesting spectacle. THE CONTEST 4 MOMENTOUS ONE Said M. Fonld, the great French statesman, to an American citizen, a few weeks since:."Your _ Re public is dead, and it is probably the last the world will ever see. You will have a reign of terrorism, and after that two or three monarchies." All this may be verified should this revolution succeed. Let us then twine each thread of the glorious tissue of our country's flag about our heart-strings, and look ing upon our homes and catching the spirit that breathes upon us from the battle-fields of our fathers, let us resolve that, come weal or wo, we will in life and in death, now and forever, stand by the Stars and Stripes. They have floated over our cradles, let it be our prayer and our struggle that they :Mall float ever our graves. They have been unfurled from the snows of Canada to the plains of New. Orleans, and to the flails of the Monteaumas, and amid the solitudes of every sea; and everywhere aa the lumi nous symbol of resistless and beneficent power, they have led the brave and free to viotory and to glory. It has been my fortune to look upon this flag in for eign lands and amid the gloom of an Oriental despot. ism, and right well do I know,. by .contrast, .how bright 'are its stars, and how sublime are its inspire, tics,: if this banner; the emblem for tus of all that CONSTITUTION is grand in human history, and of all that ill trans porting in human hope, is to be sacrificed on the altars of a Satanic, ambition, and thug disappear for. - ever amid the night and tempest of revolution, then will I feel—and who shall estimate the declaration of that feeling'?—that the sun has indeed been striokea from the sky of our lives, and that henisel forth we shall be but wanderers and outcasts with nought but the broad of sorrow and penury for our lips, and with hands ever outstretched in. feebleness and supplication on which, in an hour, • military tyiant may rive t fetters of a despairing bondage. May God i h infinite man y doom of and m and the land we e e is s much love, from the s u ch a degradation. . No contest eo mometous as this bas arisen in human history, for, amid all the conflicts of men and of nations, the life of ne'such Government as ours has ever been at stake. Our fathers won the independence by the blood and sacrifice of a seven years' war, and we have maintained it against the assaults of the greatest power upon the earth ; and the question now is, whether we are to perish by our own hands, and have the epitaph of suicide written upon our tomb. The ordeal through which we are passing must in volve immense suffering and losses for us all, but the expenditure of not merely hundreds of millions, but of billions of treasure will be well made, if the result shall be the preservation of our institutions. 4 LATEST FROM VIRGINIA. Affairs at Harper's Ferry -- Flight of libel Rebels---Harpers Ferry Bridge Dem •troyed. FBZDKRICK, June 14. It is here reported upon the authority of a messenger, who arrived here this morning from within one mile of Harper's Ferry, that the bridge urges the Potomac at that point was blown up and entirely destroyed between four and five o'clock this morning. The ex— plosion was distinctly heard and the smoke seen by parties there. The messenger further reports that all the troops have been withdrawn from Maryland shore and that the ,rtown of Harper's Ferry had been evacuated by the main body of the rebel troops recently stationed there. A small force is yet there, probably the rear guard of the retreating army. It is rep wteil that eight car loads of provis— ions were destroyed to prevent their falling into the hands of the Federal troops—who were supposed to he concentrating upon Har— per's Ferry from the direction of Greencastle and Cumberland. The wife andfamily of General Hager were at the Ferry last night, and had engaged a private conveyance from this city to take them to a point further Southward, but were com— pelled to accompany the column on its sudden flight. The destruction of the bridge may be regarded as certain. Confirmatory intelligence of the fact has been received here. A gentle:- man from this city who was at Harper's Ferry last night, saw the , preparations being made for the blowing up of the structure. The bridge at Shepardstown was also burnt last night. THE RETREAT OF THE CONFEDERATE ARMY- DESTRUCTION OF BRIDGES WILLIAMSPORT, MD., (via Harper's Ferry,) June 14.—The Shepherdstown bridge was burnt last night by the Secessionists. The smoke and flames were distinctly seen:from here.— The Confederate pickets have been withdrawn from all points for s distance of twenty miles above and ten miles below this point. A ru— mor reached here this morning that the enemy are throwing unearth worksat Shepherd- t between Dain No. 4 and Shepherdstown bridge. A gentleman who arrived here this morning visited Stewart's Camp at liainsvil:e, four miles this side of Martinsburg, last evening, says the camp has been broken up, and the troops have moved in the direction of Mar— tinsburg. FURTHER FROM HARPER'S FERRY-EVACUATION OF THE TOWN CONFIRMED-DESTRUCTION OF THE GOVERNMENT WORKS. SLIARPSBURG, June 14. A reliable escaped Virginian, who has ar— rived here, reports that the Confederate troops left Harper's Ferry to day—one part retreating in the direction of Winchester, and another into Loudon county—which movement would seem to indicate that a retreat to Manassas Junction is intended. The railroad bridge was blown up an hour after sunrise this mor ning. The remaining Government buildings were all burned. The railroad bridge at Martinsburg was also burnt to-day. Also the bridge at Shepherdstown. A dark cloud of smoke is still ascending from the burning buildings at Harper's Ferry. The agent of the Associated Press has gone to the Ferry to obtain full particulars. FREDERICK, June 14. A resident of this city who has but just re turned from Harper's Ferry states that the bridge has been entirely destroyed, with the exception of the piers, which are yet standing. The treSsle work of the railroad within the town was also destroyed. The goveroment buildings were being severally burnt when he left at 11 o'clock this morning. The armory was first fired and destroyed ; the rifle works, it is supposed, will follow next. All the ma chinery had been transported into the interior several days ago. He estimates that only a bout 4 000 troops remained in the town when he left ; the main body; it is said, has been pushed forward to Charlestown and to a point near Leesburg. DETAILS OF THE EVACUATION OF HARPERS SHARPSBURG, June 14—Midnight. A messenger by the name of Jno. T. Crut chley has arrived here from Harper's Ferry. He saw the work of destruction at the Ferry, in company with Wm. Chambers and John Pitcher, of this place. He ; - ,reports that the Railroad bridge across the Potomac was burnt, as before stated, at 5 o'clock this morning.— The bridge was fired on the Maryland side. The first half of one of the rolling mills was fired one hour afterwards. The whole of the Government works and the tresseling on the Winchester railroad caught fire and the most of it went with it. Fifty men were engaged in pouring water upon the tresseling of half of the bridge to prevent the flames from comma. , nicating to and destroying the Wager Hotel.. They at last fired shot at the burning mass for the purpose of scattering the fire. The messenger left the Ferry at 7 o'clock,. and reports that the Confederate troops were. leaving rapidly, moving off at double quick time, taking the road to Winchester, Va. The troops left Maryland Heights late yes— terday, carrying with them two smell piece& of brass cannon, the only cannon they had in their possession, unless they brought them down the night'before. No Confederate troops are now this side of Harper's Ferry. All of the Shepherdetown bridge has been destroyed except the abutments, and no trace is left of the superstructure. Capt. Doyle. with a Virginia troop of cavalry, is stationed there. FREDERICK, June 14—Midnight. The special agent of the Associated Press has just returned from the Maryland Heights, overlooking Harper's Ferry, which point he left after 7 o'clock this evening. The Con— federate army has mainly left the place. Only about 2,ooo,troops remained at that hour. The route of the main body of the retreat— ing army was by the turnpike leading to. Charlestown4nd Shepherdetown, but their precise destination was not known, as others were lost in the distance, and no one was in , the vicinity sufficiently informed to give the necessary information. A rumor existed on both sides of the river that they had gone toward Winchester, whilst other parties suspected that they were going to Martinsburg to make a stand in that vicinity. At five o'clock this morning the great bridge of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, over the Potomac, was fired, and soon after a tremen— dous report was heard, caused by the explo— sion of mines under the centre span. In one hour the entire structure was in ruins and fell into the river. THE SEIZE I) TELEGRAPHIC DE.. !WATCHES. The commission engaged in examining the seized telegraphic despatches have examined only those of the Washington office during February and March. They think it wi 1 require three months at least to complete their task.—N. Y. Tribune. The Albany Argus says:—lnstead of seeing its foes " struck by lightning" .as it thought, the Government has burnt its own fingers, in the recent coup de telegraph.. Harvey's trea— , son, when it is traced to its source, will reach back to the Cabinet of Mr. Lincoln, and lead- . ing partizans of the Administration, it is said, are implicated in other discoveries.. . It is for, this reason that revelations are now postponed for three months 1 The object of the postponement is to throw the matter be.:l yond the' scrutiny of Congress. That body, when it meets, should force the Government, to justify its violation of the Constitution, by the proof of vital necessity, or should impeach. the the wrong doers. • • . Hon. ANSON BURLINGAME, whOMI the Austrian Government refused as ginieter fr has becin appointed Coinmitisioner to China, so says the Philadelphia, Press.
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