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MEETING OF THE DEMOCRATIC CO
COMBIITTEGEG.
The Democratic County Committee met, pursuant to the
call of the Chairman, at Ehober's Hotel, in this city, on
Thursday, the 15th inst., at 11 o'clock, A. M. The roll
being called the following members answered to their
names:
Bart, William Pickel; Brecknock, David McColm ; Con
estoga, A. R. Hess; Colerala, A. D. Whiteside; Conoy,
John Filbert; Drumore, John Hastings; Donegal East,
Thomas J. Albright; Elizabethtown Bor., J. H. Blot.;
Elizabeth, Joseph S. Keener; Ephrata, P. Martin Heftier;
Eden, William Dungan; Hemptield West, John M. Weller;
Lampeter East, Joel L. Lightner; Lampeter West, Samuel
Long; City, N. W. Ward, Frederick S. Pyfer; N. E. Ward,
H. B. Swarr; S. W. Ward, John A. Sbeaff ; S. E. Ward,
William M. Qormly; Leacock, Molton R. Sample; Learock
Upper, Dr. A. S. Bare; Manheim Twp., Benjamin Eby;
Manor, George G. Brush; Marietta, Charles Kelly; Mount
Joy Bor., Henry Shaffner; Paradise, Amos Rocky; Pequea,
Lyman Fulton; Strasburg Twp., Franklin Clark; Salis
bury, Truman Wallace; Warwick, T. Lichtenthaler ;
Washington Bor., J. E. Charles.
On motion it was
Resolved, Tbat the Chairman of the Democratic County
Committee be authorized to issue a call for a County Con
vention, to be held In the City of Lancaster, on Wednesday,
the 18th of September, 1881, for the purpose of settling a
full County ticket.
In view of the above resolution, the Democracy of Lan
caster County are requested to meet in their respective
Wards, ToWnships and Boroughs on SATURDAY, the 14th
of SEPTEMBER, to elect not more than FIVE nor lees
than THREE delegates to meet In Convention at Fulton
Hall, in the City of Lancaster, on WEDNESDAY, the 18th
of SEPTEMBER, at 11 o'clock, A. M., to nominate a ticket
for the following offices:
One Person for President Judge.
" " Associate Judge.
" County Treasurer.
" County Commissioner.
Four Persons for Members of House of Representatives
Two " " Directors of the Poor.
" " Prison Inspectors.
One Person for Auditor.
The Ward and Township Committees will give due notice
of the time and place for holding the delegate elections.
FREDERICK . S. PYFER, Chairman.
P. MARTIN HELIUM, Secretary.
ADDRESS OF HON. JOSEPH HOLT
On our fast - page will be found the great
speech of this distinguished statesman—late
Secretary of War under President BUCHANAN.
It is a truly able and eloquent production, and
places the cause of the Union in a strong light
before the country. Whether we shall be
accused of treason by the Republicans for
publishing it, we do not know, and, what is
more, we do not care. What a pity it is that
Mr. LINCOLN'S Cabinet was not composed of
just such pure and patriotic statesmen as
JOSEPH BOLT.
IMEICMI
We incline to the opinion that we—the
senior of the Intelligencer—are about the best
abused man in this community, if not in the
State, at the present time. But we are not
conscious of having done anything to warrant
it. We have never helped to rob the Com
monwealth of thousands of dollars in a
legislative, or, any other capacity. We have
not committed the crime of forgery, and been
incarcerated in a Prison for defrauding a poor
woman out of a boarding bill. We have never
slandered respectable ladies, and have not,
intentionally, wounded the feelings of a single
individual, male or female. On the contrary,
we have faithfully endeavored to do our duty
as a law-abiding citizen and a magistrate.—
We have always stood by the Union and the
Constitution, and will uphold the stars and
stripes of our beloved country to the last.—
We are, and always have been, opposed to
Secession, and its twin sister Abolitionism, in
every shape and form, and have no sympathy
whatever with the traitors, either South or
North, who would strike down the emblem of
our Nation's sovereignty. We want to see
the civil war now in progress carried on en
ergetically by the Government and brought to
a speedy and successful issue; but, at the same
time, we are opposed to the unprincipled horde
of peculators and plunderers and camp follow
ers who are daily robbing our brave soldiers
as well as the Government, and whose patriot
ism is measured by the length and breadth of
their own capacious pockets.
Such is our position. Those of our base
slanderers who still charge us with being a
traitor, will oblige us very much by pointing
out a sentiment we ever uttered or a sentence
we ever wrote and published which would be
pronounced treasonable by any unprejudiced
man in this or any other community, or by
any Court of Justice in the civilized world.—
We dare them to the issue.
ANOTHER IMPORTANT ARREST
Mayor BERRIT, of Washington city, has
been arrested by order of the Government,
and sent to Fort Lafayette, in New York har
bor. We do not learn what his offence was,
other than his refusal to take the new oath of
allegiance to the Government administered to
the rest of the city officials. Without knowing
all the facts of the case, we think he should
have complied with the requirements of the
law whether the act of Congress was right or
wrong in principle. We go for obeying the
law, under all circumstances. Whether he
deserves the punishment inflicted upon him,
before he is tried by a jury of his peers, is
another question, and one about which we
express no opinion.
SERVED TIM RIGHT 1
MONTGOMERY Maul, Postmaster General,
it is stated called to see Gen. MCCLELLAN, and
began to give him his views as to what ought
to be done. The General replied as follows :
"Gen. Scow and myself will be responsible
for the campaign, and we shall conduct it as
we think best." Mr. BLAIR took his hat and
departed.
glir PIERCE BUTLER, of Philadelphia, was
arrested a few days ago on the charge of hold
ing correspondence with the rebels. He is
held prisoner at Fort Hamilton, New York.
Several other Philadelphians are reported by
the New York papers to have been arrested,
but we see no confirmation of it.
jerThe official return of the United States
logs in the battle near Springfield, Missouri,
fi l 223 killed, 724 wounded, and 291 missing—
in. .7128. This, out of a force of only
5,500 " ) .Okeged, a very, heavy lose. The
lossof the Seoeeaioniste ie believed to be much
greater, although they olaim that it is ooneid
erably less.
A REIGN OF TERROR.
The Democracy must prepare to maintain
their rights under the Constitution, if need-he,
at the point of the sword. The bitterness and
malignancy of the Republican leaders have
raided a point, that it becomes the bounden
duty of every Democrat and of every real
friend of the Union and the Constitution to
stand up manfully in defence of their persons
and - property, and of their sacred rights to
discuss the measures and policy of our rulers.
Since the elevation of Mr. JEFFERSON to the
Presidency sixty years ago, to the present
time these rights have never been assailed ;
but now a second " Reign of Terror," more
odious than the first, has been inaugurated,
and every man who presumes to speak or
write or publish anything in opposition to
the " powers that be" is hunted down-as a
traitor, and his life and property placed in
jeopardy. We are no longer free men in this
heretofore free Republic. The country is
rapidly verging to a military despotism, and
unless the honest masses rise in their might
and show an unmistakeable determination to
defend themselves and their property at every
hazard, we shall become the most abject slaves
to the veriest tyranny that has disgraced the
nineteenth century.
The Democracy here and every where else
throughout the free States haie opposed the
heresy of secession and stood by the Comfit°.
tion and the Union, and will do so to the end
of this unnatural and suicidal war. Nay
more, they have nobly volunteered by tens
and hundreds of thousands to defend the flag
of our common country, and to save the Union
from the hands of the spoiler; and they will
continue to do so as long as the war shall lass.
But they will no longer tamely submit to the
threats and indignities of a virulent and un
principled political foe, whose ill-gotten power
has made them insolent and overbearing in
the highest degree. The Republican leaders
are evidently bent on inaugurating a civil
war in our midst. They are not satisfied with
the war for the Union, now being waged by
our gallant troops, and which may take years
to bring to a successful issue; but they must
needs produce violence and bloodshed here at
home, where all ought to be union and har
mony in defence of our time-honored institu
tions. It therefore becomes the Democracy
to buckle on their armor and prepare to defend
their rights at all hazards, not as aggressors,
but as defenders of Constitutional law, order
and civil liberty. In no instance should they
commence the conflict ; but, if attacked, they
should not merely defend themselves, their
families and property from violence, but like
wise retaliate by " carrying the war into
Africa" and giving their black-hearted enemies
their fill of it. s Our motto is—PEACE—
LAW—ORDER ; but no insult—no personal
or unprovoked attack—no reign of terror—
should for one moment be tolerated by any
true-hearted Democrat and lover of his coun
try. We repeat, let us one and all be de
termined that, knowing our rights, we dare
and wiir maintain them at any and every
hazard.
THE UNION.
Most of our readers have, doubtless, read
that affecting passage in the book of Ruth, in
which the beautiful Moabitess, speaking to her
bereaved mother-in-law, exclaims : " Whither
thou goest I will go, and whither thou lodgest
I will lodge," and the malediction she called
upon her head, if aught but death should part
them. And it is thus every true patriot now
feels toward the Union. And why should
not every American citizen, whether he be
native born or naturalized, love it ? It has
been our bulwark in war, and in peace it has
made us the freest and most prosperous nation
on the face of God's earth. It has been a be
nevolent and kind parent to all, and has spread
the same panoply of protection over the lowest
as well as the highest citizen. qt is the legacy
of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and the
other illustrious revolutionary patriots and
statesmen who have gone to their reward, and
we should cherish it as a jewel beyond all
price. Let us, therefore, with one heart and
one soul, guard, protect and defend it. With
it we are citizens of a great and free Republic
—without it, we would be outcasts upon the
face of the earth, and a by-word and reproach
to all nations. It is controlled at the present
time, it is true, by men who are nbt equal to
the task confided to them; but that is no
reason why we should abandon it. It is
freighted with all that is dear to us as men,
and as American citizens we - should prize it
above all earthly good. The Democracy have
always been true to the Union, and in this
trying hour, when the earth almost literally
rocks beneath our feet, we are confident they
will still be found carrying the glorious old
flag of our common country, and keeping step
to the music of the Union.
THE CONSTITUTIONS
It may be'well, in these times of lawlessness
and outrage upon the rights of the people, to
remind the public that there are such provis•
ions as the following in the Constitution of the
United States :
" Congress shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion, or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom
of speech or of the press, or the right of the
people peaceably to assemble and petition the
government for a redress of grievances."—
U. S. Constitution, Ist amendment.
" The right of the people to be secure in
their persons, houses, PAPERS and effects, against
unreasonable searches and seizures, SHALL NOT
BE VIOLATED, and no warrants shall issue but
upon probable cause, supported by oath or af
firmation, and particularly describing the
place to be searched and the person or thing
to be seized."— U. S. Constitution, 4th amend
ment.
And in the Constitution of Pennsylvania,
may be found the following provisions:
" The printing presses shall be free to every
person who undertakes to examine the pro
ceedings of the legislature, or any branch of
government, and no law shall ever be made to
restrain the right thereof. The free communi
cation of thoughts and opinions is one of the
invaluable rights of man ; and every citizen
may freely speak, write or print on any subject,
being responsible [to the law, not to a mob]
for the abuse of that liberty."--Pennsylvania
Constitution, Declaration of Rights, Article
9th, Section 7.
" The people shall be secure in their per•
sons, houses, papers, and 'possessions, from
unreasonable searches and seizures."—.Same
Article, Section 8.
"No power of suspending laws shall be
exercised, unless by the legislature, or its
authority."—Same Article, Section 12.
" The citizens have a right, in a peaceable
manner, to assemble together for their common
good, and to apply to those invested with the
powers of government for redress of grievances,
or other proper purposes, by petition, address
or remonstrance."—Same Article, Section 20.
GEN. JANES SHIELDS
This noble hearted veteran has been appoin
ted by the President a Brigadier General of
volunteers in the army of the Union. We
chronicle the fact with pleasure, and give Mr.
LINCOLN credit for thus setting aside party
trammels in order to secure the services of the
best men in this hour of trial and danger to
our beloved country. Gen. S. gallantly served
his country in the Mexican war, and received
a severe wound at the battle of Cerro Gordo.
SOUND DOCTRINE.
The Hon. CALEB B. SMITH, Secretary of the
Interior, in his recent speech delivered at
Providence, R. 1., says
It is not the province of tho Government of the
United States to enter into a crusade against the
institution of Slavery. I would proclaim' to
the people of all the States of the Union the
right to manage their institutions in their own
way.
A WORD IN REPLY
"If the Grand Jury of Lancaster county
would present a certain paper published not
far from the Court Rouse, it would be doing
the State some service."—Examiner, otHred,—
nesday.
Well, why didn't they do it? Simply, we
suppose, because the Grand. Jury (although
Republicatu3 with bat one solitary exception)
was mainly compospd of sensible men, and knew
that the paper referred to contained nothing
of a treasonable character in its columns.—
It has, to sure, charged that the Editor of
the Examiner is a good legislator for his own
pocket, and that the people of Pennsylvania
must "pay the piper" for the pecalations
and robberies of dishonest and unprincipled
officials and plunderers ; but it has stated, to
the best of our knowledge, nothing but the
truth, and we are not aware that the publica-
tion of these things against a public officer
is an indictable offence, much less treason,
under the laws of the Commonwealth.
But, fearful that the Grand Jury would not
listen to the dictation of this corrupt and
debased sheet, it has the unparalleled auda
city, in another article, to covertly counsel a
mob attack upon the INTELLIGENCES office,
similar to the cowardly outrage perpetrated
on the Easton Sentinel and West Chester
Jeffersonian. And this is not the first time
that such counsels have been published in the
Examiner and its infamous and unprincipled
ally in South Queen street. Now, all we have to
say is, that that is a game two parties can
play at, and, perhaps, if one printing office in
this city is demolished, there may be others
that will not fare much better before the per
formance is ended. We deprecate, from the
bottom of our soul, mob violence, and have
labored day and night almost for the last four
or five months, ever since this unnatural ex
citement began, to prevent its outbreak in
Lancaster, well knowing that no one is safe
in his person or property when such rule
prevails ; but if the Republican leaders are
determined to force it on this heretofore
peaceful and orderly community, upon their
own heads be the responsibility, and they will
have no right to complain if the full measure
of the dose is meted out to them to the over
flowing by our Democratic fellow-citizens.
A word in conclusion. If the Grand Jury
of Lancaster county had made a presentment
of certain Senators who are supposed to have
enriched themselves by plundering the tax
payers of the Commonwealth, they would have
conferred a lasting benefit upon the public in
general.
N. B. We paid the above compliment to
the Grand Jury from what we had heard
spoken on the streets during the week and
down until Saturday morning. But we were
slightly mistaken, and therefore withdraw it.
This erudite body actually did take some
notice of us in an indirect way in the report
which GEIST prepared for them. But' it is
neither a presentment nor an indictment, and
therefore we are at a loss to know how to
characterize their unmanly fling at "a partisan
weekly paper" in this city. We publish the
document in another column, and, after think.
ing over the matter for a day or two, if we
shall conceive it to be worth the powder em
ployed, may ventilate it for the benefit of our
readers.
THE TRUE GROUND
As far as we are able to discover amongst
our exchanges, the Democratic press of the
North may be said to be a unit in favor of
sustaining the Government in the energetic
prosecution of this war. The Democracy of
the North deny the right of secession in toto.
They have always done so. They denied the
right of the New England States to secede
from the Union in 1814. They denied the
right of Massachusetts to secede, as she
threatened to do in 1844, if Texas was ad
mitted—and they now emphatically deny the
right of Texas to secede. They go for sus
taining the Union now, as they have ever done
—presenting no petitions for its dissolution,
and scorning the men who would, under any
circumstances, " let it slide." They also go
for the Constitution and all its guaranties,
including the Liberty of Speech and the Free
dom of the Press. This we call the true,
manly and patriotic ground; and peace and
harmony can only be re-established in the
land, and secured for all time to oome, by an
inflexible and united adherence to this Con.
stitutional position.
ATROCIOUS SENTIMENT
The Philadelphia Inquirer—a Republican
organ—in its attempt to justify the attacks
upon the Democratic printing presses through
out the country, has the following editorial
sentiment in its issue of Wednesday last :
" Being in a state of war, we must adopt
the Roman maxim and set aside the laws,
WHICH CONTEMPLATE ONLY THE
CONDITIONS OF PEACE."
Set aside the laws, because they are not
intended to have any binding effect in time of
war. They were only enacted for a time of
peace. This is the atrocious doctrine inculca
ted by a newspaper making some pretensions
to respectability 1 It is enough to make every
law. abiding citizen start back with horror
from the terrible abyss to which we are rap
idly drifting. What 1 No law, but mob law,
in time of war—no person to be safe in his
person or property 1 Is this the entertainment
to which free American citizens are invited
by the organs of the party now in power ?
The protection of all law to be taken off, and
the wildest anarchy and confusion and blood
shed to rule supreme May kind Heaven
avert the frightful catastrophe which seems
to be rapidly approaching.
WORDS OF WARNING
We presume that nobody will dispute the
claim of General JACKSON to have been a
friend of the Union, and a far-seeing; sagacious
patriot and statesman. Read, then, the follow
ing extract from his Farewell Address in
reference to the encroachments of the Federal
Government, and its tendency to overstep the
limits imposed upon it by the Constitution :
"It is well known that there have always
been those amongst us who wish to enlarge
the powers of the general government; and
experience would seem to indicate that there is
a tendency on the part of this government to
overstep the boundaries marked out fur it by
the Constitution. Its legitimate authority is
abundantly sufficient for all the purposes for
which it was created ; and its powers being ex•
pressly enumerated, there CAN BE NO JUSTI
FICATION FOR CLAIMING ANYTHING
BEYOND THEM. EVERY attempt to exercise
power beyond those limits should be PROMPT
LY AND FIRMLY OPPOSED. For one evil
example will lead to other measures still MORE
MISCHIEVOUS ; and if the principle of con—
structive powers, or supposed advantages, or
temporary circumstances, shall ever be per—
mitted to justify the assumption of a power
not given by the Constitution, the general
government will before long absorb all the
powers of legislation, and you will have, in
effect, but one consolidated government."
ANOTHER VICTORY.
A telegraphic despatch from Cincinnati says
that on the 20th inst. a skirmish occurred in
the Kanawha valley, in which a force of the
insurgents, four thousand strong, were driven
back, after having fifty of their men killed and
a large number wounded and captured by an
Ohio regiment. With the exceptions of the
battles of Manassas, Great Bethel, Vienna and
Springfield,ln all of which the enemy possess
ed great advantages, the Union troops have
uniformly met with substantial success; and
they have, in a number of oases, defeated
greatly superior forces. The results of all the
battles of the•war,..so far, should, inspire us
with a feeling of confidence in the ability. of
our soldiers to defeat the traitors Whenever
they d'a not possess overwhelming numbers.
FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, August 22.
A feeling of security pervades our entire
community, both in the social and business
relations. The reports; therefore, that our
citizens are panic struck, and Risk women
and children fleeing from the °ht.' are posi—
,tively untrue. Some apprehension :existed
several days ago, but this was soon quieted by
the measures of the Administration to guard
against all possible contingencies.
The feints of the rebel, on the line of the
Potomac are now better understood, and
military men, whose opinions are entitled to
great respect, say that even with the ordinary
dependence on raw troops they would desire
nothing better than for Johnson iir - Beituregard
to attempt that part, of the rebel_ progriunme
which contemplates an advance on Washing—
ton.
It is reasonably suseecte.l, in as reliable
quarters, that this rallying cry is adopted to
sustain the flagging spirits of the rebel troops,
whose numbers, it is positively known, are
fast thinning by small pox, measles, pneumo
nia and other diseases. Many absurd rumors
are from time to time propagated by persons
active in causing dissensions among our troops;
and among the latest is that Johnson has
crossed the Potomao, together with other
important movements; but special .enquiry at
the proper source warrants a positive contra—
diction. It is certain that no such information
has reached the headquarters of the army.
Senator Wilson, several days ago, was
pressingly tendered by General M'Clellan a
position in his staff, since which time he has
had the subject under consideration. Today
he has, by the advice of Secretary Cameron,
Postmaster General Blair, and other distin—
guished gentlemen, accepted of the appoint—
ment, from the advantages which it is
considered that he will be able to render more
efficient service as Chairman of the Senate
Committee on Military Affairs.
• Senator Wilson leaves Washington to—
morrow to aid in the organization of a
regiment in Massachusetts, with a flying
battery,of artillery attached, having already
obtained authority for that purpose.
Col. Baker's California Regiment was
reviewed, this morning, by the President and
Gen. Scott. This regiment is now in fine
condition. It is encamped a mile and a half
from the city.
The rebel leaders undoubtedly intended,
some ten days ago, to cross over into Maryland
and try their fortunes there. It is, however,
believed that at present they are afraid to
venture on so daring and hazardous a step.
Some fears of fever and ague are expressed
here, provided certain camps in this vicinity
are not moved to better positions, now that
the unhealthy season is coming on. The
matter has attracted attention in the proper
quarters and will be seen to without delay.
General McClellan insists on a more rigid
system of responsibility in the subordinate
military departments.
Much property has been carelessly or dis—
honestly appropriated heretofore, such as
provisions and horses, and it is to this that the
General refers.
The streets of Washington are in a shocking
condition, owing to the late rains and want of
repairs.
Mayor Berrett seems to have very little
interest in the condition of the city. . He still
refuses to take the oath of allegiance.
Much feeling is manifested at the release,
by order of the Secretary of War, of the rebel
prisoners who go to Norfolk today under a
flag of truce. Among them is one colonel.—
A captain is also of their number.
A fugitive slave was yesterday arrested
near Rockville, Md., and subsequently given
up. He was hanging about one of our
camps until pursued, when he ran into the
country.
The Government is satisfied that General
Fremont could not have Bent reinforcements
to the aid of Gen. Lyon previous to the late
battle at Springfield, without risking the
Federal success in Southeastern Missouri.
THE DEMOCRACY OE NEW YORE
The Democratic State Committee of New
York, after declining the invitation of the Re
publican Committee to abandon the Demoorat
ic organization upon the terms prescribed by
the Republicans, issued a call for a Convention
tb nominate State officers, to meet at Syracuse
on the 4th of September. The oall is in the
following terms :
All citizens are requested to unite in the
selection of these Delegates, who agree that
,the present crisis demands the subordination
"of the interests of party to those of the coun
try ; who believe that the vigorous prosecution
of the War should be accompanied by the most
liberal proffers of peace ; who seek the resto
ration of the Union, by extending equal
justice to all the States ; who regard no War
or Peace as defensible, which is based upon
the idea of the ultimate separation of these
States ; who, while willing to oppose Secession
with all the resources of the country, consider
Sectionalism at the North as a pregnant
source of the evils that afflict us, and demand
that public affairs shell be conducted hence
forth upon broader principles of constitutional
duty and patriotism, and who agree that justice
to our soldiers and our taxpayers requires the
immediate institution of a more rigid admin
istration of expenditures, and the expulsion of
corrupt men from office.
If the Republicans of New York are sin
cerely desirous of ignoring party distinctions
they can find no difficulty in uniting with the
Democrats upon this platform, which is broad,
comprehensive and patriotic. But when the
Republicans proposed union, they meant
union upon such terms as they prescribed.—
Union was the expedient by which all criticism
of the neglects, outrages and corruptions of
the Administration was to be silenced, and
every man's mouth closed in reference to the
conduct of individuals in power.
For The Intelllgencer.
THE 14 EXPRESS ,9 IN SEARCH OF A
TRAITOR :
Minns. Entrees: Bor the last few weeks the "Editor-in-
Chief" of the Daily Evening Express, of thin city, has been
in search of a traitor, with as much assiduity and apparent
earnestness as Japhet exercised while in his famous search
for a father! The unwearied pen of this would-be public
benefactor has wandered all over the city and county of
Lancaster, with the hope of finding some victim upon
whom to pour out the phials of his wrath, whilst pleasant
visions are careering through his prolific brain of the de•
lightful anticipation of at last being able to wipe out all
the stains and sins of hie past life, by the patriotic and
christian (I) service of fastening the suspicion of Treason
upon some good citizen.
The recent Democratic meetings in the oonnty—the meet
ings of the Jackson Home Guard and other associations of
this city—the Constitutional-law protected hidden secrets
of the 11. S. Mall, and the Adams' Express Company, and,
no doubt, the well-guarded and truthful operations of the
Telegraph, have each in their turn been subject to the
"right of search," in some way and by some mysterlona,
secret power granted to this model Editor.
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His long neck and yet longer ears are ever ready and
eager to bend in obedience to his insatiable thirst for such
knowledge as he can obtain, no matter by what means, in
order to enable him to accomplish the object of his iond
endeavors. The sacred privacy of the home circle; the
pleasures of the social evening party, and even the private
discourses of the ladles of our city are each in their turn
made the subjects of his scrutiny, and the objects of his
venom and abuse.
Not content with making his paper the gossiping medi
um of the town, and himself the centre and exponent of
all moral and political as well as civil law, his censorious
spirit must urge him to assume judicial and executive
powers,and he site in solemn j udgmeut not only upon the ac
tions of his fellow men, but on their thoughts, motives and
secret purposes, and then executes his righteous judgments
against them. He seeks the destruction of citizens, better
than himself, by endeavoring to school the public mind in
the Satanic business of making traitors and criminals of
those who think it not only a privilege but a virtue to
differ in sentiment with him. He arouses suspicion, and
thus surrounds his victim with a maze of, difficulty, and
then, with a devilish pleasure, goads him on to madness,
when he can neither by law or personal violence resent
the insult.
A thirst for the blood of the people of the South le not
sufficient, and their denunciation as barbarians, worm than
the savage Indians, is a theme scarcely fall enough of
interest to satisfy the comprehensive cravings of his pious
mind. He turns with a savage warfare upon the beet of
his fellow-citizens at home, and seeks by false imputations
to stain their characters, and blast the good names of men,
who have always been loyal to the Union, with the direct
charge of the highest crime known to the Constitution and
laws of our country.
He has succeeded, however, In finding not only a single
Traitor, but a number of them. He has ventured to name
some of them, but as cautiously as possible, lest after all
be might be mistaken, and the thunder-bolt he has pre
pared for them might break upon his own head, and thus
render a merited rebuke for his own officiousness. When
it comes to the culminating point even his corrupt nature
revolts at the act of boldly pointing out this or that man
as a Traitor—when he knows his only crime to be an exer
cise of his political opinions against the Abolition senti
ments he has himself ever held.
But, sir, beware how you counsel men to personal strife
and deeds of violence. The whole tenor of your efforts of
late has been to this end. Your conduct cannot be passed
by lightly. If you think you are varying your country by
calumniating your fellow men, or if you suppose your bab
ble about "treason," and "masked batteries," and "maces
sion," is going to frighten any individual, or the masses
of the Democratic party, you may at once undeceive your
self. No men regards your talk any more than be does
the barking of a cur in the street. If you wish to inaugu
rate civil war in our midst, and if personal violence is the
end and malt of your efforts and those of your emissaries,
you. will by no means escape the consequences
DEMOCRACY-" A sentiment not to be appal.
ed, corrupted or compromised. It knows no
baseness; it cowers to no danger; it oppresses
no weakness. Destructive only ofdespotism, it
is the sole•consemator of liberty labor, and
Prope r ty. le if. the sentiment, of ll'oedom, of
equal rights, of equal obligationi—the law of
nature pervading the law of the land."
The-August farm of the - Court of Quarter
Beidons was held last week—Judges - Hayes and Brinton
.011 the.bench. The morning seadou of Monday was occu,
tad with the usual mutineer preliminary business: Judge
Hayes delivered the-charge to the Grand Jury. addl.
tient* the usual hurtrerctkees as to their duties, he adverted
r
thigolitaring terms to the recent sober of the iagialre:
tune on the =Wetter Treason: •
On the 18th day of April last, the Legislature of Pon*.
ejivanla passed law, that if any Person or Prima Ne•
longre or residing winds this State and under the pro
tection of its jaws; shall take a conimisaion or commissions
from any person, State or States, or others, the enemies of
this State, or of the United Statesof.America, or who shall
levy war against this State or Government thereof, or
knowingly and willingly shall aid or assist any enemies
In open war against this State or the U. S., by joining
their armies, or by enlisting, or procuring or persuading
others to, mast fbr that purpose, or by tarnishing inch
.61141M1.11 - with arms or ammunition, or any other articles
for their aid and comfort, or by carrying on a traitorous
correspondence with them, orahall form or be in anywise
concerned in forming any combination, or plot, or conspir
acy,-for betraying this State or the United States of Amer
ica Into; the hands or power of any foreign enemy, or any
organized or pretended government engaged In resisting
the laws of the Government, or shall give or send any
intelligence to the enemies of this State or of the U. B. of
America, or shall with intent to oppose, prevent or subvert
the Government of this State . or of the U. 8. endeavor to
persuade any person or persons from entering the service
of this State or of the U. S., or from joining any volunteer
company or association of this State about being mustered
into service, or shall use any threats or persuasions, or
offer any bribe, or hold out any hope of reward, with like
intent, to Induce any person or persons to abandon said
service or withdraw from any volunteer company or mod.
talon already organized under the laws of this Common
wealth, for that purpose; every person so offending and
being legally convicted thereof, shall be guilty of a high
misdemeanor, and shall be sentenced to undergo solitary
imprisonment in the penitentiary, at hard labor, for a term
not exceeding ten years and be tined in a sum not exceed
ing dye thousand dollars, or both, at the discretion of the
court.
This enactment la but a detailed description of many of
the particulars which constitute treason—the sum of all
crimes, as involving every enormity of wrong and outrage
that human depravity, in the excess of fiendish malignity,
can imagine or perpetrate. The act just recited was passed
immediately after the attack upon Fort Sumter. By
specifying numerous possible instances of treason, it ap
peals to the patriotism and vigilance of loyal citizens as
watchful guardians of the public safety, to make known
all such violations of duty as the law thus strongly de
menaces,' that the guilty may be condemned and suffer the
penalty due to their crimes, and the people saved from the
effects of their machinations. In times of public peril, it
is the highest duty of every good citizen to see that the
republic suffers no detriment; and if the duty rises in
obligation in proportion as the danger increases, the regal
tuition of this statute is much more imperative to-day than
It was directly after its passage. No prudent man, then,
doubted the ultimate design of the rebels and traitors.—
Hence the unanimity with which this law was enacted.—
Hence the universal response of the Northern, Middle and
Western States—of twenty millions of free people—to the
call of the Government in support of the Union. The petty
bickerings of party were silenced by the mighty voice of
so many millions, resolved to maintain the laws and Con
stitution. The sordid croakings of selfish partizans were
no longer listened to, and by the unanimous consent of
all lovers of their country, it was agreed that every effort
and every sacrifice should be made for the public safety—
all good men holding, with the illustriona law-giver of
Greece, that in times of sedition even neutrality lea crime.
Bat no the possibility of doubt is extinguished by the
avowal, of the traitors themselves, that the causes formerly
assigned for their dissatisfaction were pretexts—that the
war which they had inaugurated and were waging against
the Union is the result of thirty years' conspiracy to de
etroy the Constitution and Government of the country,
and of a determination to make the assault whenever the
popular vote should ranee them in the minority. They had
previously declared they would not submit to the election
if it should be against them. That determination they
have carried out with an audacity equal to its unparalleled
wickedness; the rebels have met together in close conven
tion, in various places, and, usurping the authority of the
people, declared in their name, though contrary to their
known wishes, State after State as having seceded from
the Union, and arrayed them in open and avowed hostility
to the Government; in express violation of the Constitu
tion, forming alliances with each other, granting letters of
marque and reprisal, emitting bills of credit, making them
a tender in payment of debts, annulling contracts—laying
duties on imports and exports, levying and keeping on
foot large armies, and tinnily marching these hostile forces
north with the avowed purpose of seizing the National
Capital, and overturning the Government. They boast
that they have 250,000 men in the field, and that they will
in a short time double that number of active combatants.
Already they have made numerous attacks by land and
sea upon the defenders of the Union—they have covered
Eastern Virginia with their troops, and advanced to the
southern shore of the Potomac below Washington; they
have ocoupied Western Tennessee; they have invaded Mis
souri, and are waging a destructive war against that State,
that they may suppress the liberty of the people there as
they have done, by arms and violence, in every State in
the South, where by fraud and force they could obtain the
ascendency. With these facts staring him in the face, is
there in this community, a man of sane mind, of loyal
heart and honest purpose, that can halt between two opin
ions, or hesitate at the alternative which they present, of
maintaining, with a firm hand and generous devotion, the
country—which is the Unioa—ani its laws and constitu
tion, the only security of oar liberty ; or surrendering like
slaves all to the merciless domination of men, who, by
their acts and avowals, have proved themselves to be the
implacable enemies of human freedom, and of the Govern
ment by which alone that freedom can be preserved—the
Government of a majority ? The only question is—ahaLl
we, who are born free, preserve the best Government ever
framed by human wisdom—the priceless legacy of our
fathers to us, and transmit it to our children unimpaired,
or, with sordid, craven spirit allow it to be overturned end
destroyed by a band of the most ruthless and unprincipled
traitors that the world ever saw? In short, it is for us and
our posterity, a question of liberty or slavery—and never
was the Scriptural distinction more Applicable than It Is
to the position of our Government in this controversy
which has been forced upon ns—" He that is not with us
is against us;" and it follows, as the night the day, he
that is against us, is with the traitors by whom the Gov
ernment is besieged.
If there be any force in these views, we are all admon
ished to be watchful. There is no deception which such
an enemy will hesitate to adopt and practice, no means
too base for such an enemy to employ. Doubtless emis
saries are engaged in every district of the country to under
mine the public virtue, to create distrust, by circulating
false rumors, and by unfounded charges against our best
men, and that by systematic calumny and falsehood which
have characterized this monstrous rebellion from the be
ginning.
Coming from every part of the county, and intimately
acquainted with your respective neighborhoods and the
inhabitants resident therein, such treasonable attempts
would be most likely to fall within your knowledge. As
it is the duty of every citizen, who is cognizant of them,
to report them to the proper authorities, so it is peculiarly
your duty, gentlemen, as the Grand Inquest for the body
of the county, if any violation of the law which has been
read to you has come to your knowledge at any time since
it was passed, to make the same the subject of a present
ment to the Court. Von have observed what gravity and
importance the Legislature attached to these crimes, by
the penalty provided—ten years' solitary confinement at
hard labor in the penitentiary and five thousand dollars'
fine. This law was not intended to be a dead letter; and
let ns all see to it that it be not made so by our connivance
or default.
F. W. Christ, of Lilts, was appointed Foreman.
No cans of any great importance were down for trial at
this term of .the Court. except the murder trial. We give
a synopsis of the week's proceedings below:
Coneth vs. Elizabeth Gotider. Surety of the peace, on
complaint of Louisa Brown. The case was disposed of by
both parties entering into recognizance In $lOO to keep the
peace for three months—the county for costs.
Comth vs. James Dennison. Surety of the peace, on
complaint of Emanuel Groff. Both parties were held In a
recognizance of $3OO to keep the peace for six menthe, and
the coats to be divided:
Com'th vs. Joseph Huber. Surety of the peace, on corn
plaint of his wife. Each were bound over in their own
recognizance In $lOO, and county for costs.
Com'th vs. Elizabeth Huber. Surety of the peace, on
complaint of Hetty Heiler. Each party to enter her own
recognizance in $lOO to keep the peace for three months,
end county for costs.
Com'th vs. Lawrence Snyder. Surety of the peace, on
complaint of Jacob Sheets. Snyder was required to give
bail in $2OO to keep the peace for six months, and pay the
costs of prosecution.
Com'th vs. James Eblihor. SuretY of the peace ' on
complaint of Emery. Ebilhor was sentenced to give
his own recognizance in $lOO to keep the peace for three
months, and pay the costs.
Com'th vs. Francis Quinn. Surety of the peace, on corn.
plaint of Mrs. Susan Brown. Quinn was sentenced to give
security in $lOO to keep the peace for three months, and
to pay the costs of prosecution.
Com'th vs. Rinehart Rinier. Surety of the peace, on
complaint of Jacob Sheaffer. Case dismissed, and complain.
ant mulcted for costs.
Com'th vs. George Bowers. Surety of the peace, on com
plaint of Christian Grnbe. Defendant to enter Into his
own recognizance In the sum of $lOO to keep the peace for
three months, and pay the costs.
Com'th vs. Sallie Patton. Larceny of a gold watch, the
property of Fanny Jacobs. The property being recovered,
and the woman of unsound mind, a verdict of not guilty
was taken. She was sent to the County Hospital.
Com'th vs. Alfred Turner and William L. Smith, two
colored boys. Larceny of a silver watch, the property of
Ephraim W. Hogentobler. Verdict guilty. Sentenced each
to pay a fine of $1 and costs, and one month's imprison
ment.
Com'th vs. John Cooney. Larceny of about ten pounds
of gun powder, the property of Lewis Hineley. Verdict
guilty. Sentenced to pay a fine of $1 and ten days' im
prisonment. He promised at the end of that time to enlist
in the service of his country.
Com'th vs. Philip Frank. Selling liquor without license
in Mount Joy. Defendant plead guilty, and showed some
extenuating circumstances. Sentenced to pay a fine of $lO
and costs of prosecution.
Com'th vs. Wilhelm Silion. Larceny of a pair of gaiters,
the property of Jacob Ullman, of Marietta. Verdict guilty.
Sentenced to pay a fine of $1 and costs, and six months'
imprisonment.
Com'th vs. Rosanna Haag. Assault and Battery on
Catharine (Shrum. Verdict guilty. Sentenced to pay a
fine of $1 and costa.
Com'th ye. John Hoffer. Larceny of a basket of batter
from Daniel Kreider. Verdict guilty. Sentenced to six
months' imprisonment, and a flue of $1 and costs.
Com'th vs. Philip Ressler. Two charges of larceny, a
horse and a bridle being taken at different places. The
jury found him guilty of stealing the bridle. Sentenced to
pay a fine of $1 and costa, and two mouths' Imprisonment.
Com'th vs. John Flemish. Surety of the peace on cote.
plaint of John Clark, Constable of Conestoga township.—
Sentenced to give his bond in the sum of $3OO to keep the
peace for six months.
Com'th vs. William Evitts. Assault and battery upon
Martha A. May. Both are children about 12 or 13 years
of age. Verdict guilty. Sentenced to the House of Refuge
at Philadelphia.
Com'th vs. William McCheeny. Assault and battery on
Frederick S. Bletz. The defendant plead guilty. Sentenced
to pay a fine of $1 and costs.
Com'th vs. Charles Snider, larceny of a coat, the property
of John Polkas, of Marietta, plead guilty, and was sem
tenced to pay a Mae of $1 and costs, and six months im
prisonment.
Com'th vs. Edward Mackey, charged with kidnapping
John Brown, with the intention of selling him as a slave.
On the night of the 7th of March, 1880, Frank Watson
and Gilmer Hull went to John Brown's house and told
him that they were officers come to arrest him for robbery.
He went with them, this Mackey being introduced to him
as hie Master, and was taken to a carriage and driven to
MeCall's Ferry, where be was kept some time and then
taken to Maryland, where he was pot in a slave pen In
Baltimore. One pen wouldn't have anything to do with
him, suspecting him do be a free man, another took him,
and he fell into the hands of an hone st man, who let him
go and assisted him home.
Two men named Boetick and Gordon were engaged in
the affair, but have since absconded. Gilmer and Hull
were disposed of at a previous Court, and this Mackey, the
remaining one of the five, is now indicted for kidnapping.
This was the statement of the case, made by the District
Attorney. Verdict guilty: Sentenced to pay a line of $1
and caws, and five years' imprisonment in the County
Prison,
Com'th vs. Peter Wagner. - Larceny of two quarter dol
lars. The defendant plead guilty, and was sentenced to
pay a fine of $1 and costs, and six months' Imprisonment.
Com'th vs. Francia McCoy. Assault and battery on
William Preston. Verdict guilty. Sentenced to pay a
fine of $1 and costa.
Com'th vs. Francis Quinn. Assault and battery on
Patrick Coyle. Verdict guilty. Sentenced to pay a fine
of $lO and costs.
Coin'th ye Patrick Coyle. r Surety of the peace, on com
plaint of Francis . Quinn. Held in $BOO to keep the peace
for three months, and pay the costs of prosecution.
Com'th vs. Linnaeus Otinnegam, for involuntary man
slaughter. The defendant, being a little boy ten years
old, accused of killing his step slater near Elizabethtown,
reported some weeks ago, at the advice of his friends, (step.
father, mother, and counsel,) plead guilty, and deetred
that he be sent to the House of Refuge, which was accord
ingly done.
UNION DEMOCRAT
com'th ye. Jacob Sheets. Assault and battery on Hen
ry Snyder. "Verdict not guilty, and costs cosily divided.
Com'th vs. Jacob H9l/10y. Larceny of a copper kettle,
the Pr°P.ort9 of fdr:lHeder, of West Donegal township. Ver
diet gnuty. Sentimood to pay a tine of $1 and oasts, , and
six months' lmprbionment.
no Grand .1 - m7 Ignored the bill spinet Adam Itni•
LOCAL DEPAR==T.
Court of Quarter Sessions.
taker. on both county, murder end manshaishter. This
ymng man. it will be reconeo ed shots soldier from Camp
Johnson, while committing s !heft on his father's property.
Com.th ii Joseph •lEurts.• desenit and battery on Bar.
bars Keyes. Verdict guilty. &Mtelleed to pay ► fine of
$l5 and ends
Com'th vs- Wood Shrives.. Aseactit'and battery on Wn
.Wateon. both colored men. Verdict guilty. Sentenced to
_pay alleareflirand coda.
fken'th vs. Urban WeltsaL Assault and battery with
intent to kill John Roney. Thlpease was folly reported
in our columns at the time cff its occurrenee. Verdict not
giant*. Cketa divided between plaintiff and defendant
Com'th vs. Maria Allen , Murder of her husband, Abra
ham Allen. The parties Heed in a little collier's cabin in
Conestog;• hiernship,abouta nilleand a half from the Sus
quehanna. On the Sd of March last Maria ran to the neigh
bors, Messrs. Hill and Me-Carden, representing that there
was a white man beating her husband, and begging them
to come down. They did so, and found Abraham lying on
the rude bed, with his bead almost entirely cut to pieces
with a sharp instrument From bin position, the cute were
given while in that position, asleep or drunk. It must
have been in that position, sa the instrument cut the pil
low beside his bead. He never moved alter gasping once
or twice alter the neighbors arrived. She said a white man
had done it with a club, but the parties saw the cuts would
not have been made with a dub, and on search found a
sharp axe, covered with blood, under the bed. She said
the white man had come with her husband from a sale the
even i ng before, and they had a quarrel about some money,
and afterwards they procured whisky, and all got on a
spree. In the morning the white man renewed the quarrel,
and began to beat Abraham with a large club, when she
ran for the neighbors. -She said that she ow the white
man run away. From the testimony of those who followed
her instantly, no man left the cabin at that time, as she
said. There were no marks of any struggle outside, and
no blood anywhere but on the bed where the murdered
man lay, and on the axe. There was blood also on her
clothes when she was examined, and she told different
stories of the matter herself. They had previously been
very queurrelsome, and she had committed several assaults
upon her husband. Verdict, guilty of manslaughter. Sen
tenced to 12 years' imprisonment at bard labor and soli
tary confinement in the Eastern Penitentiary.
THE GRAND AIRY REPORT.
lb the Honorable Judges of the Must of Quarter Sessions of
Lancaster Meaty:
The Grand Inquest of the county respectfully report:
That they have finished the business placed in their blades
and are happy to state that no Indictments for crimes of
the higher grade were brought before them, but are sorry
to say thatthe large number of petty awes returned entail
a heavy expense to the county; many of these might be
settled by the magistrates.
They also reendorse the action of a former Grand Jury,
recommending aid to the needy families of volunteers and
soldiers who enlist in defence of the country, and are sorry
to hear that the enactment legalising the appropriation of
$20,000 for this purpose, through circumstances not then
anticipated, does not allow relief to those who enlist for
Immediate service under the National Government The
intention of the appropriation was to relieve all ; we there
fore urge and recommend that the Commissioners assume
the responsibility to extend such relief, believing this to
be the desire of all loyal citizens, and that it will receive
the legal sanction of the Legislature as Boon as convened.
Complaints from different parte of the county represent
that the Supervisors in some districts seem to be entirely
ignorant of, or wilfully disregard, the laws, especially in
the opening of new roads. We recommend, if in the power
of the Court, some action which will create a reform.
They have visited the County Jail, Poor House and Hoe
pital. In the former they were pleased to find order, eye
tem and cleanliness, everything denoting good manage.
ment by the keeper of the same. At the Poor House they
find a marked change and improvement in the outside ap
pearance of the place, while the inside of the house is all
that can be desired—the rooms clean, well ventilated, and
the inmates well provided with food and clothing—and the
farm well attended. They would, however, suggest the
building of a wadi house, or a thorough repair of the old
one. The Hospital they also find well kept in all its parte,
with but one defect: Ventilation in some of the rooms or
cells is defective, a matter which the Steward cannot rem
edy, the defect being in the building.
To the Keeper of the Jail, Mr. Cadwell ; to the Steward of
the Poor House, Mr. Fairer; and to Mr. Taylor, of the Hoe
pita], the Grand Jury are under many obligations for their
kindness and attention.
The Grand Jury most heartily respond to the sentiments
of the Court delivered in its charge, upon the present state
of the country, and the duty of all good citizens in the
present crisis; but they deeply regret that a spirit of dis
loyalty is manifesting itself in some districts of the county,
which we believe to be fostered by a partisan weekly paper
in the City of Lancaster.
When insurrection and rebellion aro arrayed in hostile
and formidable attitude against the peace and perpetuity
of the Government—when the sword is invoked by this
rebellion ' and life and property are Jestroyed—when the
flag of the country is fired and trampled upon—when the
claim "I em an American Citizen"is dishonored In his
own land, and his appeal is answered by outrage, impri.
onment and exile—when we see and know all this, we are
struck with amazement at the infatuation of men, be their
number ever so small, to whom neutrality to not even suf
ficient, but who openly print and aid in the dissemination
of treasonable papers and matter, calculated to give to the
enemy "aid and comfort," who, by exciting the unwary,
seem .bent upon transferring the civil strife to our own
firesides—who see the fire, and with torch In hand would
spread the conflagration—whose love of country is meas
ured by the bitter rancor of partisanship. Do these men
believe that by using the rebels' weapon, "Masked Batter
ies," therm° hide their incipient treason under the cloak
of freedom of speech and of the press, and pratings of
peace? Our forefathers, In the wisdom and purity of in
tention, when they guaranteed these priceless privileges
to us, never anticipated the inhuman crime to which they
are now attempted to be converted. When the wise, and
patriotic, and thousands of the youth and bone and sinew
of the country, forgetting all past differences, have laid
and still offer to lay life and treasure upon the altar of
their imperiled country, these men would despoil the
offerings and lay traitors' hands upon the altar. If the
teachings of history have been lost upon them, do they
mistake the spirit of the American people? Do they deny
that this temple of liberty, with its countless blessings, is
"God's appointment for man's happiness ?" Do they not
know that the parricide of his country will be consigned
to lasting Infamy and execration.
The Grand Jury, to closing their report, beg leave to
return thanks to the Court, District Attorney and Sheriff
for the kindness and courtesy extended to them.
FRANCIS W. CHRIST, Foreman.
Elwood driest, Peter B. Niesley, Martin S. Fry, Levi G.
Kemper, Samuel L. Leaman, Henry IL Shirk, Day Wood,
Michael Zahn], John Kennedy, Benjamin Herr, James Col
lins, Geo. S. Becker, Jas. McCaa, Robert Gibson, Robert A.
Hyena, John P. Schaum, P. G. Eberman, Jr., Thomas
Wilson, J.lll. Dahill, John H. Pearsol.
RESOLUTIONS OF THANKS.—At a meeting of
the Jackson Rifle Company, held on Tuesday evening, the
20th inst., the following resolution was unanimously
adopted:
Resolved, That the Jackson Ride Company extend to
Mr. S. C. Slaymaker, the gentlemanly proprietor of the
Ephrata Mountain Springs, their most cordial thanks for
the profnee hospitality with which he entertained them
during their recent visit to that delightful and popular
resort. Also, to Mr. S. Lichtenthaler, of the Litiz Springs
Hotel, and to his kind lady, the Jacksons offer their
warmest thanks for their liberal hospitality, so gracefully
and kindly tendered.
MILITARY.--001. HAMBRIGHT'S splendid
company, the Jackson Rifles, paraded on Saturday alter.
noon last with full ranks, making their usual fine ap•
pearauce.
Col. Hasmatorreis Regiment, we learn, will be filled up
In a few days—the gallant commander having met with
great Busses&
Lt. Col. THOMAS Wets% of Columbia, has been appointed
by Gov. Curtin Colonel of one of the new Pennsylvania
Regiments. A most excellent selection.
The Cincinnati Zonave Guard, (CO: D, 2d Reg. 0. V.,)
held a meeting on their return home from the seat of war,
and paused a series of highly complimentary resolutions
to the citizens of different towns and cities, and Lancaster
receives a big share of the compliment. It will be recol
lected that the let and 2d Ohio Regiments wore encamped
on the Fair Ground, in• this city, for two or throe weeks.
CANE PRESENTATION. —Our good big-hearted
friend Maur was presented a few evenings since, at
Metzger's Clothing Establishment, No. 4 East Xing Street,
with a cane, which was obtained by one of his friends,
when on their trip to West Chester some two months
since. The cane was presented in a few neat and appro
priate remarks by Atatest Sousa, Esq., and received by
ELUDY with all due solemn gravity and importance. The
cane is mounted with a minature bottle, containing some
pure old "J. 8.," a little of the article contained in a
" pop" bottle which was slipped into HAUT'S pocket, and
afterwards drawn forth by that prince of wags, Wax-
Ha 1741.11, to the great amusement of the bystanders and
consternation of HALDY, who is well known as a strict
teetotaler.
BURGLARY AND INCENDIARISM.—The store
and dwelling of Mr. Rosser 801715/37, in Mortis township,
were entered on Wednesday night last, by three men, who
set fire to the same, which were destroyed, and most of
the store goods and furniture shared the same fate. The
barn had been also set fire to, but by great exertions the
flames were extinguished by young Mr. Soulsby and the
neighbors who had become aroused. Mr. Soulaby was in
this city at the time, but was informed by his eon of the
burglary and fire on Thursday morning. Mr. Boulsby's
loss will be about $l5OO, which was partly covered by in
surance. It is to be hoped that the infamous scoundrels will
be discovered and their just deserts inflicted upon them.
AN INTERESTING TRlP.—Three young gen
tlemen—James O'Reilly, Henry McConomy and Harry
Rhoads, started from Lancaster on Monday last, intending
to travel on foot through Lancaster, Berke and Lebanon
counties. They left Lancaster on Monday, at 6A. M., and
reached Reading at 7P. M., the same day. They will re•
main here a few days, then start for Lebanon and Harris
burg, from which place they will proceed to Lancaster.—
The young gentlemen enjoy themselves very much, and
tell great "yarns" about their trip.
Dressed as they are in military costume, with knapsacks
strapped on their backs, many of the good people along
the road thought they were returned volunteers, and ac
cordingly asked them many questions relating to the w•r.
Being well posted up with the very latest news from the
"seat of war," they gave graphic accounts of the move
ments In Virginia and especially about the great battle of
Bull Run.
Altogether, they are well pleased with the trip ao far,
and have enjoyed themselves much more than by going
hundreds of miles off to Borne fashionable watering place.
The good farmers along their route, to whom they related
their real object, were very much pleased with the idea,
and made them partake of the hospitalities of their happy
homes.—Saturday's Reading Gazette.
AN EXCELLENT APPOINTMENT.—Dr. M.
Limn Lemnat, of this county, has been appointed an Act•
tug Surgeon in the 11. 8. Nay Dr. L. is a young gentle.
man of brilliant talents, and his selection is an admirable
one in every respect.
THE DEFENCES OF WASHINOTON.-A cor
ppndent of the Boston Transcript gives the
following general information of the defences
around Washington. He says:
Any one to march around the environs of
Washington, would be astonished at .the ex
penditure of time and labor that htis been
made in the erection of earthworks, felling of
woods, &a. Long Bridge is very strongly
guarded on the Virginia side, cannon frown
ing upon you from the embankments at every
turn. Directly opposite the entrance, at a
distance of three hundred rods, a strong en
trenchment has been built, called Fort Runyon,
with twelve bristling long toms ; while a few
hundred rods further another fortification is
located, styled Fort Albany, with fifteen pieces
of very heavy ordnance, all ready to dispute
the possession of this important thoroughfare
and military road.
So far as the eye can reach, heavily fortified
works and encampments can be discerned in
every direction. They reach up to Harper's
Ferry, one continuous chain forty miles in
extent.
This forenoon I went over to Alexandria.—
The brigantine-of-war Perry commands the
river side, while the impregnable Fort Ells.
worth, located on a high eminence overlooking
the whole city, is the most strongly fortified
place in or around Washington. They have
mortars and rifled cannon in abundance—one,
in particular, throwing shell nearly five miles.
FROM FORTRESS MONROE.
FORTRESS MONROE, August 22.
Nothing of interest has transpired here that
is proper to communicate.
General Wool held a grand review and in—
spection this morning. - He took in his hand
and examined every musket belonging to the
garrison.
NEWS ITEMS.
The War Department hail issued a new
order, declaring that officers not mustered into
the service have power to enrol_ men, but are
not competent to meter them, under the
provisions of General Order No. 58. As
companies are mustered they wi:l ,be sent to
camps of rendezvous, with fall descriptive
lists. When the men of a company have been
mustered by more than one officer, the fact
must be stated on the muster roll: Field and
staff officers are to be mustered into service as
follows: Colonel, when the entire regiment
is organized ; Lieutenant Colonel, four . oom—
panies ; Major, two companies, and other
officers the entire regiment.. The cost of
transportation from the places where troops
are mustered to the camps, will be paid from
tlfb appropriation for organizing volunteers.
We have intelligence of several skirmishes
in Missouri. A battle occurred at Charleston,
on the 19th, between 250 federal troops, and
600 rebels, in which the latter were completely
routed, losing forty killed. The federals lost
but one man. Fifty mounted federal% on their
way to reinforce the troops at Charleston, met
one hundred rebels, killed two, and captured
thirty- three without loss. The town of Com—
merce was re taken from the rebels on the
same date, by five hundred troops from Cape
Girardeau, by order of Gen. Fremont. The
rebels made no stand. A train from Syracuse
to Jefferson City was fired on by the rebel%
one soldier was killed and six wounded.—
Guerilla parties of secessionists are scouring
western Missouri. The rebels hold Springfield.
General Price has taken possession of several
points in the Southwest, and many of the
people are leaving there. An attack is ru—
mored on Jefferson City. Price has published
a proclamation, declaring that all citizens
acknowledging the authority of Governor
Gamble will be treated as enemies. General
Siegel is in St. Louis.
The Abington Virginian reports that the
Union men of Johnson county, Tennessee, in
the extreme northeastern portion of the State
have taken up arms, and many of the seces—
sionists have fled from the county others
having been made prisoners by the loyalists.
The Wheeling Convention, on Tuesday,
passed the ordinance dividing the state of .
Virginia, by a vote of fifty to twenty-eight —.
The ordinance provides fora convention to
form a constitution, and for the submission of
the act of the convention to the vote of the
people on the 24th of October. The name of
the new state is to be Kanawha.
We have news from Santa Fe to the sth
instant. It is reported there that Major Lind,
of the Seventh Infantry, with five hundred
federate, surrendered to the, Texan troops
without firing a shot. It is believed that the
Texans have seized the stock of the Santa Fe
and El Paso mail. On the 3d an engagement
occurred at Mesilla between federal troops and
seven hundred rebels. Night ended the battle.
The Texans remained in Mesilla, and the
federate marched to Fort Fillmore, one hun—
dred miles distant. Doubts were entertained
for the safety of Fort Union.
The arrival in Lexington, Ky., of guns from
the federal government, a few days ago,
created great excitement. The military were
called out, and the Louisville Courier states
that serious difficulties would have ensued but
for the action of JOAN C. BRECKINRIDOE, who
urged the crowd not to use violence, but to
permit the troops to convey the guns to their
destination.
A SENSIBLE CLERGYPIAN
'The venerable " Father Taylor," the devote
ed sailor preacher in Boston, seems to have
got sick of the cant and humbug of his broth
er clergymen on the negro question. At the
session of the. New England Conference in
Boston,he opposed a set of abolition resolutions,
saying :
What has all this slavery agitation done ?
What slave's manacles have been knocked off?
In what instance has the lash been spared in
consequence? On the contrary, restrictions
have been multiplied and the slaves deprived
of many privileges they once had. " The sum
of all villainies !"—he thought enough had
been said about this for gentlemen to drop it.
The remark has been attributed to Wesley—
where is your proof? Ten dollars to the one
who will bring it. He never said it. What
would be done with slaves if they were liber-
ated ? The abolition clamor was a curse.—
He opposed the introduction of resolutions
like these at such a time, when we hardly
know whether we have a country or not.
LETTER FROM MR. MAGRAW
The following letter from Henry S. Magraw,
Esq., of this city, who went after Col. Camer
on's body, and is now a prisoner in Rich—
mond, has been received at Washington:
- .
" Arrested 23d, on the ground that we had
come within the lines of C. S. improperly.
We are now held as prisoners of war, and
are quartered in a tobacco house, in com—
pany with the captured Federal officers.—
Have met many friends here who have been
exceedingly kind. Indeed, we were treated
with kindness and consideration from the
time we were put under arrest at Fairfax
Court House. The officer in charge of us,
and I believe of all the prisoners ' is a
brother of Mrs. Lincoln, a Mr. Todd, of
Kentucky. When the United States govern—
ment refused to recognize the C. S. govern—
ment as belligerent, and failed to send a flag
of truce under which their dead and wound—
ed might have been properly oared for, the
authorities on this side became very rigid in
reference to these prisoners.
"Before this they were allowed to remain
at an hotel on pdrole. Now they are con—
fined and under guard all the time. As we
passed the battle ground day before yester—
day, we saw some of the dead lying unburied.
When the Confederates had buried their own
dead, and oared for their wounded, they then
turned their attention to the killed and wound
ed of the enemy. Harris and I have no ex—
pectation of beinereleased at an early day,
although efforts have been made in our behalf
by leading Southern gentlemen in high posi—
tion. But they will not bend the rule in our
favor, and say that the measure meted out to
their captured shall be our fate."
THE CORRUPTION OF THE ADMINISTRATION.
—The Chicago Tribune, the leading Repub—
lican paper of Illinois, under the caption of
" Army Contract Frauds," speaks as follows :
" The Special Committee of the House on
the frauds in the army contracts, has asked
and • obtained the fullest extension of its
power, so as to include not only the contracts
that have been made, but 'any that may be
made hereafter in any department of the
service connected :with the war. Mr. VAN
WYCK, chairman,, says that the committee
find that in the past two months there has'
been an amount of fraud in Mr. Camerons's
department " unparalleled in the history of
the country." We have no doubt of it, and
when their report shall be made to Congress
next winter, it will cover with a cloak of
comparative respectability the boldest ex—
ploits of Mr. Cameron's predecessor in the
office. Mr. Floyd ought to feel deeply grat—
ified to the Pennsylvania Secretary for the
services he has rendered his reputation in
this respect, unless, indeed, he should feel
jealous of him."
GEN. SHIELDS ON THE WAR.—Gen. Shields
delivered the oration at Columbia, California,
on the 4th of July. In the course of his
remarks he said :
" We are in the midst of a civil war; may
God preserve us from any more of its horrors I
The North does not wish to subjugate the
South, but only wishes to do what is clearly
its right and duty to do—to regain, protect,
take, and hold and preserve the public insti—
tutions and property of the United States,
which belong to our posterity. If any one
refuses, or does not feel willing to, perform this
duty, he is not worthy of this country, and
ought not be allowed to reside in it. In con—
clusion, I feel a presentiment in me—so strong,
that I do not hesitate to express it—that the
next Fourth of July will find our beloved
Union reunited stronger- than ever. " When
the South learns the intentions of the North
towards her, she will throw off the harlequin
yoke of Jeff. Davis, Toombs, Wigfall and
others, and grasp our hands in a Union
forever."
An Editor Tarred and Feathered.
BOSTON, August 20......
Ambrose L. Kimball, editor of the "Essex.
County Democrat," a secession sheet, was
tarred and feathered last night, and then rid
den on-a rail through the town. Subsequently
under threats of further violence, Mr. •K.'•
promised to give no further aid to rebellion
and he was liberated. The town authorities
and many good citizens unsuccessfully at-
tempted to quell the mob and protect Mr. S.
from their violence.
" JULY 25