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IMPORTANT NEWS.
EVACUATION OFYOEKTOWN.
" The. rebels retreated from Yorktown en
masse on Saturday night, leaving a large
amount of camp equipage and artillery be
hind. Our troops occupied it early on Sun
day morning, and a strong force was imme
diately sent after the flying enemy. This is
one of the most important achievements of
the campaign, and is next in importance to
the capture of New Orleans—the more gratify
ing because it has been achieved without the
loss of life on our part. Virginia will soon
be restored to the Union. The following
official dispatch from General McClellan
will be read with absorbing interest:
Official Dispatch from Gen. McClellan—
Evacuation of Yorktown.
Fortress Monroe, May 4.
Yorktown was evacuated by the rebels last
night, and our troops now occupy the enemy’s
works. A large amount of camp equipage
and guns, which they could not destroy for
fear of being seen,'were left behind.
HzADQUABIEES ABUT OP IKS POTOMAC, >
May 4—9 o’clock, A. M. >
To the Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War:
We have the enemy’s ramparts, their guns,
ammunition, oamp equipage, &c., and hold
the entire line of his works —which the en
gineers report as being very strong.. I have
thrown all my cavalry and horse artillery in
pursuit, supported by infantry. I move Gen.
Franklin’s division, and as much more as I
oan, by water, up to West Point to day. No
time shall be lost. Our gunboats have gone
up York river.
X omitted to state that Gloucester is also in
our possession. I shall pursue the enemy to
the wall.
(Signed) G. B. McClellan,
Major General
OUR POSITION.
The Union, of this city, whoße editor Swears
in the words of his illustrious master, Thad-
DEua Stevens, is very much worried at our
opposition to the emaficipation of the negroes;
and beoause we oppose the setting free of an
ignorant horde of blacks to eat out the sub
stance of the free white laboring classes of
the North, it denounces us indirectly, if not
directly, aB a traitor and secessionist. It, and
the other Abolition journals of this city—for
they all seem to be tarred with the same stick
—uses these obnoxious terms with great flip
pancy, and every little mangy Abolition
whipper-snapper in the community, many of
whom do not understand the meaning of the
epithets, takes up the cry and rings a thou
sand changes upon it from week to week. But
this Abolition slang has no terrors for us.—
We expect to survive it all in the future as
we have done in the past. We stand precisely
now where we always have stood on this
negro question, and advocate the same doc
trine whioh we advocated more than twenty
years ago, following the lead of Jackson and
Olay and Silas Wright and the other illus
trious statesmen of a former generation.—
Recent events have only had a tendency to
strengthen our oonvictions on this subject.—
We look upon the question of negro emanci
pation at the present time as utterly imprac
ticable and impolitic, to say nothing of the
Constitutional objections to it in the way pro
posed/and for the following, amongst other
reasons: First— lt will not benefit, but, on
the contrary, injure the blacks, unless imme- I
diate colonization follow. Secondly —To pur
chase the slaves of the South (4,000,000) |
would add at least twelve hundred millions to
the present enormous publio debt, and the
Government cannot afford to squander the
funds in the Treasury or oppress the people
with Btill greater burthens for such a purpose,
either in whole or in part. Thirdly— All
measures of emancipation at this time have a
tendenoy to depress the Union feeling in the
South, und, of course, encourage the rebels in
the same ratio. And, Fourthly —lf the slaves
should be liberated, they would pour in an
overwhelming stream upon the free States,
and especially into Pennsylvania, fill our poor
houses and prisons, compete with our white
laboring population, and overturn the peace,
happiness and good order of society.
This is, in, few words and plain terms, the
position we have taken on this Abolition
question. It will be seen that we do not refer
at all to forcible emancipation, which the ultra
wing of the Republican party contend for,
and which would be a gross and palpable
-.yiolaUoh of the Constitution. We have
merely looked at it in the light of a voluntary
emancipation on the part of the States, with
an adequate remuneration from the Govern
ment for the value of the slaves. In either or
both aspects we view it as impracticable, im
politic and unjust, and as suoh shall oppose it
to the bitter 'end, despite the snarling and
.snapping of the Abolition curs who are upon
onr track.
. Thaddeus Stevens was mainly en
gaged daring the past week in the laudable
work of bolstering up the characters of Simon
Camebon, General Fremont, Alexander Cum
hinos, Simon Stevens. (that pink of purity!)
and' the rest of the corrupt crew, who have
plundered the Government, according to the
testimony of Mr. Dawes, a Republican member
.VpLldohgftisa. to .the tnne of about SIXTY
. MILLIONS OF DOLLARS during the last
year!. We give this as an evidence to his
constituents that Mr. Stevens is a very indus
trious Representative, and should be sustained
JW'liis. oonstituente of^-Lancaster county I
fiweral of Major General Smith
takesplaoe at'Dhiladelphia today/'
' i*o,the poon jUboimm
'The first time we heard of Mr. Hamlin
since his elevation to the Vice Presidency
was when he left his chair to welCotne thjii
arch traitordigunionjst, Wendell Phi^
• o£|osSfr>S. Setoff. s B^
iympfttiiie« now tovbe
ezenased In negro frieipda, and
acooirdingly wejfad that baybas organized;
tbr<y^i' tit&3*on,"
Belief Association of Colum
biathe object of whiCh'lsYas expressed in
their oiroolar, (a copy of which we have be
fore ns,) 41 to relieve the wants and educate
4Uwr bf^tMs-peopU—children-of - that:
God who * hath made of one blood all nations
of men ’ —to act in harmony with the Go Ivern
ment of the United States ;” and “ to furnish
them with olothing, temporary homes, and
. employment, -to 4eaeli them r.to;-jead - and,
write,” 4s, And .to ; accomplish this object,
the Association “ solioita from the friends of
this oppressed people contributions, of new
clothing-suitable for men this
class f calicoes, shirtings, flannels, and gar
ments for women, girls, and-infants; and
money to'aid in carrying out the-objecta above
set forth.”
Mr. Hamlin says farther, in’ his circular,
that “ the contrabands in the District of Co
lumbia are already numerous, and their num
bers are constantly increasing, as others oome.
in from the adjacent rebel State of Virginia.”
He also says that “ they are of both sexes
and of all ages, from the tender infant to men
and women grown gray and feeble in sla>
very.”
Now, then, here is a chance for the negro
sympathisers every where to assist their
*' colored brethren and sisters,” who have es
caped from their masters or been set free by
the Government* Can there not be an auxil
iary association gotten up in this county to
aid Mr. Hamlin in his <( work of true philan
thropy and Christian benevolence,” as he
styles it ? What say the Abolition papers of
this city to the suggestion ? We leave the
subject in their hands, feeling confident that
they will cheerfully lend a hand in furthering
the laudable object. Mind, they must tell
their readers to send new clothes to the dark
ies ; old clothes, we suppose, are considered
good enough for tHe poor whites, by these
Abolitionists.
SIMON CAMERON CONDEMNED.
In Congress, on Wednesday last, the follow
ing resolution, as submitted by Mr. Holman, ol
Indiana, from the Investigating Committee,
was read:
Resolved, That Simon Cameron, late Secretary of
War, by investing Alexander Cummings with the
control of large sums of the pnblio money, and au
thority to purchase military supplies without restric
tion, without requiring from him any guarantee for
the faithfnl performance of his doties, when the
services of competent public officers were available,
and by involving the Government in a vast number
of contracts with persons not legitimately engaged
in the business pertaining to the subject matter of
suoh contracts—especially in the purchase of arms
for future delivery—has adopted a policy highly in
jurious to the public service, and deserving the oen
sore of the House.
This resolution was adopted by a vote of 75 yeas
against 45 nays, viz :
Yeas —Messrs. Aldrich, R., Allen, D., Ancona,
D., Bailey, D., Pa., Baker, R., Biddle, D., Blair,
K., Mo., Blair, U., Va., Browne, U., R. 1., Buffin
ton, R., Calvert, U., Casey, ClaTk, R., Clements,
Cobb, D., Conkling, Fred. A. R., Corning, D. Cox, D.,
Crisfield, U., Crittenden, U., Cutler, It., Dawes, R.,
Delano, R., Dunlap, U-, Dunn, R., English, D.,
Gooch, R., Grider, U., Hall, U., Hanohett, R., Har
ding, U., Harrison, U., Holman, D., Horton, R.,
Kerrigan, D., Mallory, U., May, D., Menzies, U.,
Mitchell, R-, Morrill, R., Vt., Morris, D., Nixon,
R., Noble, D, Noell, D., Norton, D., Nugen, D.,
Odell, D., Patton, R., Pendleton, D., Perry, D.,
Pike, R., Richardson, D., Robinson, D., Rollins R.,
N. H., Rollins, U., Mo., Sbiel, R., Smith, D., Steele,
D., N- Y., Steele, D., N. J., Stratton, R., Thomas,
R., D., Md., Train, fR., Vallandig
ham, D., Verree, R., Vibbard, D., Voorhees, D.,
Walton, R , Vt., Ward, D., Webster, D., Wheeler,
R., Wickliffe, If., Wilson, R., Wood, D., Woodruff, D.
Nats —Messrs. Arnold, R., Babbitt, R., Beaman,
R., Bingham, R , Blair, R„ Pa., Blake, R., Burn
ham R-, Campbell, R., Chamberlain, R., Colfax,
R., Conkling, B. R., Duell. R-, Edgerton, R , Eliot,
R.,Ely, R-, Fessenden, R., Franchot, R., Frank,
R., Goodwin, R., Haight, D., Hooper, R., Hutchins,
R , Julian, R., Kellogg, R., Mich., Kellogg, R.,
111., Lansing, R., Lehman, D., Lovejoy, R., Mc-
Pherson, R., Moorhead, R., Morrill, R., Me., Rice,
R.,Me., Riddle, R-, Sargeant, R., Sedgwick, R.,
Shanks, R., Sheffield, U., Shellabarger, R., Stevens,
R., Trimble, R., Trowbridge, R., Van Valkenbnrgh,
R., Wall, R., Wallaoo, R., White, R., Ind.
Of the yeas twenty-eight are Republicans,
and the balance Democrats and Union men.
The nays are all Republicans, with the excep
tion of Mr. Haight, Mr. Lehman and Mr.
Sheffield. A large majority of the Republican
members voted against the adoption of the
resolution. All the Republican members from
Pennsylvania who voted at all, voted against
the resolution; but the majority of them
dodged. Those who ventured to place their
names on the record are Messrs. Babbitt,
Blair, Campbell, McPherson, Moorhead and
Stevens—five out of nineteen.
After this emphatic vote of condemnation,
which includes many of his own political
friends, can it be possible that the President
will still persist in sending such a man to
represent US at the Russian Capital ? Surely
Mr. Lincoln will not thus brave public opin
ion, and set at defiance the wishes of a large
majority of the American people. We shall
see.
DOING INJURY TO THE UNION CAUSE
The newspaper tirades against the South
and the violent speeches made in Con
gress, by such men as Lovejoy, says the
Delaware Gazelle, it must be obvious to every
candid reader, are doing great injury to the
Union cause. The officers of the army in the
towns and cities which have been evacuated
by the Southern armies and occupied
by our soldiers, are using their greatest
efforts to restrain the soldiers from violence,
and to cultivate a kindly sentiment among the
peonle. But these newspapers are oarried
there, and do much to destroy the little confi
dence which the officers have been able to
seeure. If the Southern people are to live
with us in the Union, pains should be taken
to cultivate their friendship. Our efforts to
conquer a peace are not worth the making if
it is not to be lasting—and it is utterly im
possible to make a lasting Union, unless it be
a “..Union of hearts." They are rebels and
they admit it—they are our enemies and they
admit that also. But it is our wish to prove
to them that we are their friends ; that under
our government and beneath the graceful folds
of the old flag they will be secure and happy.
Is this confidence to be awakened by the
constant tiradeß of abuse, which certain par
tisans are disposed to hurl continually at
them ? Certainly not. Unless we cultivate
the friendship of the Southern people, it will
require several hundred thousand soldiers to
keep them in subjection after they shall have
been conquered. Now, this is certainly not
the wish or aim of our people; they do not
desire to saddle themselves with such a tax
as that. On the contrary, we desire to re
establish the old flag and abandon it to the
protection of the people themselves, who, re
assured as to the security of their persons and
property, will promise defend it to the
last against all foes.
“ The man who prates about and
quotes the Constitution in this great orisis,
is a traitor.”— Wade, in the United States
Senate.
■ The above is an extract from- a speech
delivrred in the Senate by one of its recog
nised leaders, and shows to wbat lengths the
party now controlling that body would carry
their assaults upon the rights of the people,
if they dared to go farther than they have
already gone in thrusting loyal men into bas
tiles. The time is fast coming when the people
will get their “ huge paws ” upon these fat
tened and pompous higher law vaunters, and
then . look , cut for a full settlement of old
accounts I
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PATKIbniK. ‘
The Plrilidelphie Jferaoy TBiy
appropriately remarks that “itis Somewhat,
singular what strange notions are
lent" as to the qualifications necessary *to
make aman a patriot. .The old-fashioned
patrirtisni.' tiiat of j|jni rhv«jgpo£
fbrone’s ooufitry, <j|the|Bal o£§ba§;
gined superiority of its lawieL andjinstitutione
seems to have'
passed away.
Formerly, to be an American patriot, it was
required that a man should not only profess,
but naturally feel a profound and awful regard
for-the sanctity of the Constitution.- Now*
however, there appears fo be quite a different
notion prevalent J "He Only is a patriot,' in
theae tiHiee, who ie~prepared to subscribeto
the despotic plea that ‘necessity ’ authorises;
.the manifest violation of the most vital pro
visions of the Constitution.. Nor are you
even alTowed to question'the fact of the exis
tence of this ‘necessity,’ withoutbeing stig
matised as a traitor. A party in power
eoncdots certain scheinesfor the attain men t of
certain objects, one of which, we may suppose,
is the repression of what is admitted to be a
causeless rebellion. But these schemes are
thought by others, many of whom, are risking
their lives in fighting the battles of the, cause
of _authority, to be violent and not calcnlated
to effect their object, as unconstitutional, and
as leading to a line Of policy that most end in
the establishment of a despotism where before
was the freest government the earth ever be
held. Yet the plotters of these plans, while
they prate of the freedom of speech, denounce
as traitors, as enemies of liberty, as men
seeking to break up the oountry, those who
may dare to whisper their fears for the Con
stitution which they see about to be violated,
under the false plea of restoring and perpetu
ating it.
Again, he only is a true -patriot, in the
modern acceptation of the term, who falls down,
and worships that divinity of recent invention,
whioh is presented to ns nnder the name of
‘ The War Power.’ To intimate that it
would be difficult to find any authority for the
worship of this deity of despotism in the Gos
pel and Charter of American Liberty—the
Constitution—iß to expose one’s self to the
danger of being stigmatised as a rebel in dis
guise, or, in the mildest terms, as a secession
disorganizer.
In brief, to be a patriot, nowa-days, one
must he prepared to applaud the violation of
the dearest rights of freemen ; witness without
complaint the abnegation of the most impor
tant article of the Constitution ; to glory in
the incarceration, in military prisons, of unof
fending citizens, against whom no tangible
charges have been brought; to regard the
political liberties of the white citizens of the
Republic of less importance than the elevation
of the colored race; and to stigmatize as
' Breckenridge Democrats ’ all those who still
cling to one yet bright hope, and struggle for
the attainment of one glorious object—the
restoration offHhe Union and the Constitution
as they- were. Men may offer freely their
blood, their treasure and their lives, in behalf
of the repression of this rebellion ; but, unless
they can subscribe to these doctrines of new
fangled patriotism, there is a oertain con
glomeration of the odds and ends of all
parties who will continue to assail them as
enemies of their country, and as aiders and
abettors in treason.
The Forneys and Phillipses, the Garri
sons and Greeleys, and all the foul-mouthed
curs who so disgrace the American obaraoter,
are now the types of patriotism. Unless a
man grovel with them, or howl with them, he
must expect to be reviled, and barked at by
them."
THE CAPTURE OF NEW ORLEANS
It is at last accomplished. One of the
large commercial cities oi the South has sur
rerdered to the Federal arms, and the stars
and stripes again wave over the plaza of the
Crescent City. The fact is farther evidence
of the activity and zeal of our loyal navy,
(for, from the accounts, to that branoh of the
service alone is due the credit of the capture ;)
and is also a forerunner of the fate that will
soon overtake the remaining fortifications on
the river, when they are assailed from below
as well as above. If this report be true, and
there is no reason to doubt it, the navigation
of the Mississippi must be free to loyal ves
sels before the first of Juiy, and robellion in
the southwest practically dead.
This sacoess will be of more importance to
us in its effect on European governments than
any yet,achieved. The people abroad may
read o'f a battle gained somewhere in the vast
interior, without being able tp understand its
importance, but present to them tbe capture
of a great city like New Orleans, and its
significance is appreciated. John Bull, es
pecially, will remember with groans his in
effectual knocking at the same gate in 1815.
RICHARD J. HALDEfiIAN.
This gentleman, who is now rusticating
somewhere in the south of Europe, has re
cently been writing a secession letter to T.
Butler King, one of the Southern Commis
sioners on the other side of the Atlantic ; and
lo 1 straightway the Examiner of this city
dubs him a “ Breckinridge Democrat \ ” This
will be news to the people of Lancaster
county, most of whom will recollect that,
less than two short years ago, Sir Richard
was the veritable Chairman of the Douglas
Exeoutive State Committee, and, as such,
Bhowed himself to be one of the most violent
and uncompromising opponents of John C.
Breckinridge within the broad limits of our
Commonwealth. The Examiner, it is well
known, is notoriously given to lying, but this
last whopper out-herods Herod himself. The
writing editor of that paper must have taken
an extra quantity of Lager before he indicted
the above mentioned bare-faced falsehood.
THE NEW TERRITORIES.
It is stated that the Senate Committee on
Territories has determined to report favorably
on the bill to organize the territory of Arizona
os it passed the House. We presume, there
fore, that the measure will soon become a law,
as, also, will that of Mr. Pomeroy to organize
the territory of Launiwa, By these bills two
new territories will be added to those now
attached to the Union, swelling the number to
nine, viz Washington, Nevada, Utah, Color
ado, Nebraska, Dacotab, Launiwa, New
Mexico, and Arizona. Of these Utah haß
applied for admission as a State, but will, no
doubt, be refused, on acoount of inadequacy
of population. New Mexico has population
enough, but possesses no apparent desire to
assume the responsibilities of Statehood.—
Nebraska and Colorado are the most promis
ing aspirants, and will be likely to gain ad
mission earliest.
oca x,oss.
The Cincinnati Commercial, of the Ist inst.,
makes our loss (officially) at the battle of
Pittsburg Landing 13,763, viz : ki11ed,1,735 ;
wounded, 7,882; missing 3,956. About 300
of'the wounded have since died.
The loss of the rebels is thought to be fully
equal to ours, although their published
acoounte do not admit it It was unquestion
ably one of the mostbloody battles of modern
times. ■ ■ -• ■
. J©“ Lieut. Sahuel 8. , Todd, a brother; of
Mrs. Lincoln, whose cruelty to the Union
prisoners ; confinedin Richmond after the
battle of BuU'Run'.had bedoihe proverbial,
waskilledatthe battle'of Shiloh. •••’’
YrautlttHanfclMrp ftWbt
HOW THtODECS WAS COHYKBTED.
--Jjlr. Thaddeus Stevens, in his speech der
livered in the House. of Bepreaentatives on
Mohday last, tells ns -how' he was converted
Sum a bitter enemy *into BajioJt:
Oameron. It is neoess&ry ttfjjnreiniijie that tlti'
Hiwss, of Massachusetts; t&Hbn tedflje coni I
version of so many of fonnersnemiss
>o;iJ}e mollifying
contracts, and that a certain contract for sup
plying arms to Gen. Fremont, whioh was given
to one Simon Stevens, , of Lancaster, a re
puted nephew of Thaddeus, had entirely
aoftened the hard heart of the obdurate Chair
man of the Committee of Ways and Means.
Mr. Stevens denies that' Simon Stevens is a
relative his. but endorses him as a con
stituent of'as high aeharacleras any .man in
the House, though he did attempt to swindle
the Government out of $90,000 on a gun con.
tract. But let iis hear why Thaddeus became
the friend of Simon Cameron :
Mr. Sterenj said th» gentleman from Massachusetts had
criticised his conduct is regard to Gen. Cameron*He, with
some of his colleagoeg, bad protested against the appoint
ment of Cameron, though the protest was not of much
avail. Afterwards,.Cameron took a different, coarse from
what they expected, and, among other things, wrote the
remarkaMe wotds to Gen. Bherman —“ Yon will assniw-all
persons held to involuntary labor who may be received in
the service of the Government, that they will, under no
sjwnTiiitpffHMj ho agninredncad to thelrfonnar. condition.
pni«f« they choose to return* 1 * And ail will remember how
his repert tfa* emasculated then. He (Hr. Bterens) felt
proud of the man be had frnnerly opposed, and 4wtond
he would support him. Mr. Cameron had eat his acquain
tance, whieh was then.renewed, and he had determined-to
support him as long as he supported his country*
'When he concluded the Honse adjourned.
Ia the estimation of men like Thaddeus
Stevens, Abolitionism covers a multitude of
sins. It is even a broader men tie than charity.
Thaddeus protested against taking Cameron
into the Cabinet and was “cut ” by Cameron,
but the moment the Secretary, of War wrote
to Gen. Sherman instructing him to free the
negroes, Thaddeus felt proud of the man he
had formerly opposed, and declared he would
support him.”
On the same day that Mr. Stevens thus an*
nounced that it was a rule with him to feel
“ proud ” of, and to give his support to, any
man who was an Abolitionist, no matter how
corrupt he might be, he offered a resolution,
declaring “ That nothing has occurred to les
“ sen our confidence in the honesty , integrity
“ and patriotism of Major General Fremont.”
We regret that the Speaker ruled this resolu-
tion out of .order; for we should like to see
how many members of Congress could endorse
the “honesty, integrity and patriotism” of
Gen. Fremont after Mr. Holt's exposure of his
performances at St. Louis. Mr. Stevens and
his fellow Abolitionists would have no diffi
culty in endorsing Fremont upon the same
principle that they defend Cameron—upon the
broad ground that Abolitionism justifies pecu
lation. But men with consciences unseared
by fanatioism might find difficulty iu facte
such as these:
Messrs. David Davis, Joseph Holt and Hugh
Campbell, Commissioners appointed to exam
ine and settle claims against the Government
at St. Louis during Gen. Fremont's adminis
tration, present a picture of favoritism and
fraud that must shock and alarm every man
not hopelessly depraved. We ask the attention
of our readers to the following extract (and
there are many more such) from Mr. Holt's
report, and then ask how they would like to
vote for a resolution endorsing Gen. Fremont's
“ honesty, integrity and patriotism”—
AraoDg the dealers in forage was E. L. Beard, a resident
of California. Vouchers Issued to him for forage were pre
seated before us to the amcuut of about $115,000. but all
in the name of his assignees except one for $17,768. Hav
ing learned that ho had succeeded in abstracting from the
treasury large sum 6, through a contract alleged to be
frandulent, for the erection of certain forts in this vicinity,
it was felt to be our duty to make an inquiry into the facts
with a view of setting off against the claim under con
sideration any right to reimbursement which might have
accrued to the government from payments under the con
tract referred to. Tbe history of his connection with these
forts we find to be this: General Fremont, on entering
npon his commaud in this department, came to the con
clusion that St. Louis, his headquarters, 'should be forti
fied. It was determined by him, without any conference
with the government, so far as is known, that the defences
on tbe land 6ide Bhoold consist of ten forts or earthworks,
which he at once directed should be built. Contrary to
law and all usages, tbe sites of tbe forts were selected, the
plans for them adopted, and tbeir construction entered
upon without any engineer officer of the regular army
baring been consulted. General Cullum, now on General
Halteck’s staff, and who had been for thirty years in ser
vice in the corps of engineers of the regular army, and has
the highest reputation as au officer, by the direction of
General Hallecfc, made a thorough examination of these
forts, and had the work and materials iu them measured
and carefnlly estimated. The results of this examination
he submitted to us under oath. So far as the sites are con
i earned he stated that they had been so unskilfully selected
that the forts were useless for the purposes Of defence; that*
they were so Dear the city that ah attack upon them
would be necessarily an attack npon the city itself Had
they been located, be stated, on the fine range of hills a
mile or two to the westward, commanding positions would
have been secured, and aciy conflict in which they might
engage would not necessarily have involved the city ; and
had they been Intended to overawe or resist the city, two
woold have been quite BQfficient. He added that they wers
notconstrncted upon any principle of military engineering
with which he was. acquainted, and that though he, bad
seen most of the fortifications of the old world, he had
looked upon nothing like these. According-to his testi
mony the five lower forts, erected under the supervision
of Major Kappner, were larger and better built, and would
properly cost more than tbe fivo upper constructed by £.
L. Beaid, as we shall now proceed to state. Tbe forts had
been located, and the work on them bad progressed for
several weeks, under the direction of Major Kappner, when,
on the fifth day of September, 1861, a written contract was
entered into with E. L. Bt&rd, providing by Us terms for
the construction of all the forts at the rates of tabor and
materials as therein set forth in detail. The prices agreed
upon were so exorbitant that‘tb6y shocked even Quarter
master McKiustry, and he took the extraordinary precau
tion of writing upon the paper, with his owu hand, that
it had been executed by tbe special order of Gen. Fremont.
Tt is evident that even he felt humbled at being used as an
instrument in the consummation of such a fraud. Gen.
Cullum deposed that the five upper forts/numbered 6,7, 8,
9, and 10, with tbe connecting “batteries,” would cost, ac
cording to the terms of the contract, $298,326,78, whereas
$59,456,27 would be a full price for them according to the
customary rates. An effort was made to conceal somewhat
the true character of tbe agreement by stipulating that
the work should be finished in five days. It was not, in
fact, sofinished, nor could it have been, nor,was it expect
ed that it would bo. For tbe night, as for the day labor, a
just allowance was made by General Cullum. Although iu
its terms the contract embraced oil the forts, Beard, for
some unexplained cause, assumed the control of and built
bat five; -the others, Nos. 1. 2, 3/4 and 5, were continued
as they had begun, under Major Kappner, and were paid
tor by tbe government, tbe aggregate expenditure being
$61,342,60%. If to this be added the valoe of the work
performed upon them by the United States soldiers, being
$14,000, the cost of them would be $75,342,50. As the
forts, were progressing well in charge of a professional
military engineer, and at only a fair expenditure to tbe
government, why Beard, who had no knowledge of mill
tary engineering, and was oniy conspicuous as an exten
sive dealer in forage, should have the entire construction
of the forts assigned to him, without any bond for the
compensation be was to receive. He was' tbe especial
friend of the commanding general. After this brief recital
of tbe facts, it must excite the astonishment of all to learn
that Beard has already received, in part of his claim for
; these forts $191,000, about three times what they should
have cost. The following are the dates and amounts of
the payments, or, as General Fremont in his order desig
nates them, “advances,” which have been ascertained to
have been made':
August S 9, 1861 ....
September 2,1861
I September 6.1861
September 6,1861,. -
1 October 3,1861....
October 15,1861.
It is very possible that other sums may have been
lavished upon him through some assistant quartermaster,
who has not yet reported; so that np to aud including the
day on which the contract was entered Into there was
certainly paid Beard $85,000, and that without the slightest
guarantee or indemnity of aoy kind to protect the United
States in the event ho (ailed to fulfill the agreement.
These vast snms were not taken from an overflowing treas
ury. During the period covered by these payments, or
“ advances,” from Augost 29 to October 15, inclusive, Gen.
Fremonthad, under the pressure of his military authority,
seized or. borrowed from the banks $752,102.42, besides
large loans effected with private individuals. At La Grange,
distant less than a day’s journey from St. Louis, it will be
remembered that Geu. Pope, in command ot the United
States forces, received on September 5, from the branch of
the Union Bank $62,877.5)/or safe keeping, which, together
with $5,379.10, delivered to him far the same purpose, by
the Bank of the Btate of Missouri, at Canton, he at once
forwarded to this city to be placed in the vaults of the
parent backs. On the arrival, however, of these funds,
they were seized and appropriated by order of Gen. Fre
mont. The contract with Beard had just been executed,
and the forts were only began. Comparing the dates it will
ha seen that on the day these funds fell into tbe power of
General Fremont, September 5, 1861, $60,000 was “ ad
vanced ” to Beard, and $66,000 ordered to be “advanced ”
the day after. Tbe effect of this proceeding on the Union
Bank has been stated. Its credit was ruined, and the
stock depreciated one-half, thereby destroying the living of
a multitude of people, many of them women and children.
It Is thas apparent, that at the very time this betrayal of
the pnblio honor and their sacrifice of the fortunes of the
innocent BDd helpless were made, the avarice of this
favorite contractor was being gorged from day to day by
tbe enormoos snms mentioned.
During this period tho troops under General Fremont’s
command were unpaid, and amutinoos spirit had In con*
sequence been manifested. Those who had furnished them
with clothing and food, and the cavalry regiments with
horses and equipments, and those who had supplied, under
contracts with the Commanding General, arms and muni
tions to the amount of more than $600,000,' were also un-
Money .could not be spared tortbeee. purposes, nor
.to satisfy the enrrent claims of the bumble mechanics and
laborers who built the five lower forts at an actual oost to
the Government.W only about. $61,342.50, of which to this
day $45,762.58 remains unpaid, though the pinching want
of these laborers and their famnifq .was continually ctamcr
ing for pay. Bnt for Beard tho military chest of tbe com
mander of the department was always open; not the less
so because his continual .and .exhausting drains upon it
had to be supplied from the coffers'of'the banks and
through violations of the public frith. It was deposed that
the $66)000 waa, in culpable, .disregard of law and duty,
paid by the quartermaster, under the positive Order of Gen.
Fremont, out of money thiat had been sent from Washing*;
ton, and was intended for the purchase or wagons, horses,
forage, transportation of troops, andfbr the general equifK
ment andmovemenfaofthearmy.
Not satisfied’with, this w*Rte of‘the public money upon
his friend, on the 19th October, in contempt of tbe diree
tfoDLOf tbs Secretary of. War forbidding it, Qba., Fremont
issued a peremptory order to Quartermaster Allento pay
t tt '*~ A -r~T w rf Tiftirrant rf thoss flirts This be
refused to do,|U4 to-his couregeand fidelity, and-tbe sub
sequent remora! ofth* General firont bis command, U the
6wpriiyiiiart>bdt»rld« ofthla
ordrr, aadtha further sura of S4T£2OTB, which no doubt
would ham been radar the end would
ham ben enforced, as the preriou* payments had been, by
military power. &> the matter stands. - At least $191,000
has been received for work worth not exceeding, under a
estimate, $70,000, aud'*BaKrd still holds an
order for the $60,000, and a claim under the extravagant
provbdons of the contract for vet $17,720.78. Neither tola
iprdtrjifor. claim. haa.been tnhMM ns. it Jmbegn'
douwai wfiTnodniihrYo ffrr.thyri ffnrmj'
under the liipicsaliuu that: in the in %
Qme andJpiacefbf
lt ttSttat, w& Mm
fraudulent dfissasdetipon tbipubflo treasury libe, this
tad beiges
BOX. THADDKXJB STKVKSB.
We Invite the attention of oar readers to
the following exoellent biographioal sketch of
the Abolition Chairman of the Committee of
Ways and Meanß, for which we ar® indebted
to" the Hirrißlmrg Patriot & JlTnm-: -May we
not hope that -the Abolition, journals of. this
City will also give. it _an insertion in their
columns, for the .benefit of their readers:
Sketob of the Bob. Ibad.
deus eteVeiist Chaiimiian. of the Com*
mitteeofWays aiuLAlesiu in ihehoiue
of hepreienutivesi 1862, . .
The broad stream of time, in~its onward course,
sweeps with its tide the generations of men. Their
toils, their, cares, .their virtues god their vices float
down with them to the great'sea of oblivion, and
scarcely leave upon the beach a waif of the past to
give plausibility to history—or to point the moral of
a hereto tale. Thirty-three years are the life of a
generation. The patriots 'of the Revolution have
passed away —the soldiers of the second war of inde
pendence axe reduced to a inere-sqnad of white
haired voteranß-r’the proud chieftains who marshaled
the contending 1 masses in the-political'contests of
Jackson’s era,- have descended to: the grave or are
lostintheobsourity of retirement.. Their patriotism,
their glowing eloquence, which cast a' halo of glory
over the annals of their country, are but bright
recollections of thejmst, which set off in more salient
relief the empty profusions' of the many demagogues,
and the cant andrant of most of the orators of-the
present day..
Among the few notorieties who have out-lived their
generation, and who still remain npon the political
stage, Thaddeus Scevxhs, representative of the
Lancaster Congressional District in Pennsylvania,
and Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means,
is most deserving of notice; not only on aooounfe of
the prominent position, he now ocoupies, but also
because most of his cotemporaries having passed
away, the many political aliases Under which he has
successively appeared before the people are calcula
ted to throw doubts upon his identity and to befog
the researches of the historian. We therefore venture
upon this hasty sketoh for the benefit of the present
generation.
Thaddbus Stevens, the subject of this notioe,
emigrated from the State of Vermont into the State
of Pennsylvania about .the year 1820, and took up
his residence in York county—where he kept school
fot some time. Possessed of a strong mind, cultiva
ted by a tolerable education, this New England ped-.
agogue presented to his awe-stricken pupils an iron
countenance brazened over with irrepressible'impu
denoe, a club foot and a baiting gait—suggestive of
the deviltries of Asmodeus.
It does not appear that the ingenious youths of
York sufficiently rewarded our hero in his efforts
a to teach the young idea how to Bhootfor he left
them and established himself at Gettysburg, where
he entered upon the practioe of the law. There he
oommenoed his labors in the cause of anti-masonry
and persevered in them until he was elected to the
Legislature by the anti-masonio party of Adams
county in 1833. He was re-eleoted several times,
and during his legislative oareer, got up a committee
to investigate the subject of masonry. As Chairman
of that Committee upon whioh he endeavored to
confer the attributes of a Star Chamber, he sum
moned before him many of the most prominent men
of the Commonwealth, and endeavored, in his own
peouliar style, to brow-beat into submission such
men as Gov. Wolf, Franois R. Shunt, George M.
Dallas, several clergymen and other respectable
individuals. In this he signally failed, but his
harsh tyranny disgusted the community and with
other misdeeds we shall relate, led to the defeat of
his party.
In 1837 Mr. Stevens was a prominent member of
the State Convention which amended the old Consti
tution of Pennsylvania. It was there he resisted
with all his energies the amendment of Benjamin
Martin of the county of Philadelphia, who proposed
to restrict the exercise of the elective franchise to
“ white” men. All the eloquence, all the ingenuity,
‘all the acumen of Mr. Stevens were displayed to
defeat this amendment. Of his sincere adhesion to
the cause of the blacks on that memorable occasion,
we cannot entertain a doubt; for, if his recent course
in the present Congress left room for any .hesitation
on the eubjeot, the proofs of his partiality for prao
tioal amalgamation, which he has left in Pennsyl
vania, would at once satisfy the most skeptical.
In the spring of 1838 preceding the fall election
for Governor, Mr. Stevens was appointed Canal
Commissioner by Governor Ritner. It was then, ho
pat into full practioe, the advice he subsequently
gave to an honest member of the Legislature to
“ throw oonsoience to the devil 1” Contraots were
given to party favorites without regard to the olaims
of lower bidders; the public money was lavished
like water in the construotion of the Wioonisoo and
Erie canals and of the famous Gettysburg railroad,
whose complicated intrioaoy of ourves drove engi
neers to the verge of insanity and threw far into the
shade the labyrinth of Dedalus. In conjunction
with these frauds upon the Treasury, the most stu
pendous election frauds were attempted, at the
Governor’s election, upon the line of the public
works, at Halifax, Youngwomanstown and Millers
burg, where thousands of spurious voters appeared
upon the tally lists. Notwithstanding these glaring
outrages upon the purse and the’rights of the people,
Governor Ritner was defeated at the election.. No
thing daunted, our Yankee Canal Commissioner,
resolved upon success, even at the cannon’s mouth,
imagined the famous coup d'etat,treating the election
as :if it had not taken place. Spurious returns from
Philadelphia were produced to ohange the political
complexion of the Legislature; troops were ordered
by Governor Ritner to Harrisburg, to lend the force
of their bayonets to the revolutionary action of the
Government—in short the ever memorable buckshot
war was inaugurated. But notwithstanding, the
people and the soldiers of Pennsylvania proved true
to themselves and to the Constitution. The conspir
ators met with an ignominious defeat. Among the
events whioh marked that dreadful period, when the
destinies of the Republio seemed as banging by a
thread, the moat laughable occurrence was the per
ilous leap of Thadde'us Stevens out of the baok
window of the Senate ohamber, who fled with terror
from the wrath of the spectators in the lobby, who
listened with indignation to the developments of the
blaok conspiracy hatched at jHarrisburg, against the
sovereignty and the liberties of the people. In his
flight he lost his hat and wig, and by the.aid of the
friendly mantle of night, he dodged his imaginary
pursuers and reached a plaoe of safety. Thns ended
the attempt of the distinguished Vermonter to set
aside the legally expressed will of the people. After
a lapse of years mellowing the enormities of the
past, Mr. Stevens took np his residence in the oily
oPLancaster where he practiced law and prepared
the miracle of his political resurrection. He was
elected to Congress from that distrlot, no longer as
an Anti-Mason, but as a well-known Abolitionist. —
His recent history we leave to the records of Con
gress,with the simple remark, .that the man, who,
during a long life, has displayed an indomitable
conrage in his frequent oonfliots with “ the tiger,”
is peculiarly fitted to fill the plaoe of the war Chair
man of the Committee of Ways and Means; and
that Lancaster county is under lasting obligations
to the of Vermont for the blackest
r of Republican Representatives,
it
THEY LIE DELIBEBATELY,
The Abolition press all over the Northern
States are charging the Democratic papers
with disloyalty and sympathy for the rebellion.
The Reading Gazette thus tersely answers the
charge made against it by an Abolition paper
in Bucks county, but the remarks will equally
well apply to Lancaster county. The Gazette
says:
" The assertion that “ we have not a word
to say in condemnation of the rebels,” is an
unmitigated lie. (We use a plain word, that
we maybe the more readily understood.)
Ever Binee the first blow in the rebellion was
struck by the Beceßsionists at Charleston, we
have, in the most emphatic manner, denounced
it as an unjustifiable and inexcusable attempt
to overthrow the best Government ever devised
by the wisdom ol man ; and just as emphati
cally have we upheld the authorities that have
been legally entrusted with the administration
of that Government, in the employment of all
its constitutional powers for self-preservation,
and the suppression of the formidable treason
that assails it. Farther than this, the true
allegiance we bear to it, will not allow us to
go. Politically, we recognize no “ higher
law” than the Constitution, and owe obedi
ence to no chieftain, whether in civil or
military station, who undertakes to transcend
the powers it confers, or disregard its obliga
tions. Our Government has inherent strength
enough to sustain itself, and the assumption of
any extraneous or unauthorized power by its
Executive, will inevitably lead, not to its
preservation, but to its destruction."
.$10,000.00
. 15,000.00
... 06,000.00
- 20,000 00
... 20,000.00
$191,000.00
THE TRUE REASON.
“If we had no slavery in this country we
should have no rebellion.”: —Republican
Paper.
The correct reading of the above is this—if
we had no Abolitionists in this country we
should have no rebellion. Slavery existed in
the country at the time of the formation of the.
government and still exists, but we had no
rebellion in consequence of it. But no sooner
did abolitionism raise its head, than we have
rebellion, civil war, bloodshed, carnage and
devastation throughout the length and breadth
of a once peaceful and happy country;
NEW DEFINITIONS.
LOYALTY*—means Abolitionism, .and im
plicit.faith in Wenmil Phillips,; Thaddevs
Stevens, Owkn-Loybjov and Horace Greeley
as BCund.Union mem
. ; DISLOYALTY—means -to stand- - by- the
Constitution and the Union, and be in favor
of; the writ ‘of Habeas Corpus, Free Speech; a
; Fret Press, *o. See.
' ix>caldepabtment.
Lutheran OrawAi, The Lutheran
Omani Bjnoa, MEOwa from an parti
of the Union, «x£st .s■? States, eommsoecd Its
session in this dtj' UkvTrtnttj Lutheran Ghwreh, Bake
«treeL4n Thnnsday mendngl*is?toe Synod Is composed.
'«SQa«Ss r or^flD^loQkinelnWlectiisl body of men' miny
ofWßronflmnit mtafirtafi being present
Thgjtfuuflfc smiluu tfiCgiimirTft >n able and eppropri
togas afteroon gentlemen vers elected
Asrittairt Secretary—Ptnt Levi Sternberg.
Treasurer—Hr. 0. A. Morris. i
The Tensrabls Dr. Kusxs, who is perhaps tbs oldest
member on the floor of ttniljnod; and nae been amlntster
of tbe chorehfbr almost half a century, made a T«rj inter
esting and Impraadre address, in wM& he returned thanks
to the body tor the honor conferred npoa him, referred
briefly to eome of the trials endured by the Synod daring
tha~veaknmwnfita.lnflmcjpaboqt forty, yearr
the present extended and honorable to
which the body has nines attained; to Us ovn identifica
tion with the Synod from its eery Indplency, end the no
cnmaUtiog eeidsncea-that-he-vas -&ov-«apldly~passing
away;'at the'same'time'promlrttfg'afelth'ftil performance
of the duties to which he had now been called.
The Treasurer, Hr. O. A. Honsxs, snbeeqnantiy tendered
his resignation, which was accepted, and Mr. A. V. Ocxxss
iriTTWCTj ritry eleOted a his stead: •>
The Anniversary of the Lutheran Publication Society
waaeelebrtteiion 1 Friday-evening, ib SfcJohnfoLutheran
Church, Orange street, when thbnraal business incident
to each an occasion .was transaetedT an address dellrered
by Re*_ F_ W. Cqxsad, an&ifao fhllowing gentlemen elected
officers of the Society; .
- Biller Latter,-Beading. ‘
Secretary-r-D. M. Fox,Esq _ ■ ■
Board of PobU cation—Rev. O.'W. Sneaffer, B. B n Rev.
W. J. Mann, D. 8., Rev. B. Keller, Bev-L. E-Albert, Rev.
M. Sheeleigh. Bev. T. T. Titos. Rev. C. A. Baer, Rev. G. J.
Shrehart, Rev. O. A. Hay, B. B , Rev. (J. F;Krotel,ReT. J.
H. Heek, Rev. S. Laird, Re*..C. P. Krauth. Jr-, B. Rey*
Prof. 8. 8. Schmneker, t>. 8., Rev. J. Q. Morris, D. B n and
Messrs. C- KuglwV G. Wagner, L. L- Bhehler, J.
L. Frederick, RTB. Miller, L. Bremer.
The pulpits of a nnmberor oar churches were fllled on
Sunday by member* of the Synods On Sunday afternoon,
at I\£ o’clock, short addresses war* delivered to th 6 scholars
of the Sabbath- Bohools attached to the Lutheran Chnrehes
of the dty by Rey. 6. F. Ksotix. and otters A Communion
sermon was delivered at 3 o’clcck by Rev. Dr. Scsacucsm,
and the members oif the Synod then participated In the
Communion service.
toe Bynod will likely be In session for a day or two yet.
We believe the members, eome. two hundred and fifty in
Bumber, are highly, gratified with the treatment received
from our citizens. -
Rejoicing. —A salute of thirty-four guns
was fired last evening in Centre Square, and the bells of
the city rang, by order of the City authorities, in honor ot
the evacuation of Yorktown and the bloodless, though
highly important triumph of General-MoClellah and bis
brave army. Bonfires were also in lull glow daring the
evening, and any number of flags displayed throughout
the city. *
Rev. J. Walker Jackson, of Philadelphior
will preach in the Duke Street M. E. Church, on Bnnday
morning and evening next. Mr. J. Is said to bean able
and eloquent pulpit orator.
Death of an Aged Woman. —Another of
the representatives of a past generation has passed away
and gone to her rest. Mrs. Elizabeth Eordan, whose death
has been recorded in onr obituary column, was, so far as
we can iearn, the most aged person in this city—tbe next
oldest being Mr. Martin Shreiner, who is about two years
her junior, and Mrs Smith, residing in the western part
of the city, who 1b over ninety. Mrs. Eordan was aged
about 06 years. She was the daughter of George Huffnagle,
and widow of Martin Eordan. She had been a widow over
fifty years. Both her hnsband and.her brother, George
Huffoagle, were in the Revolutionary War, in which they
rendered important services—the former having at one
time been taken prisoner; tbe latter was a light dragoon,
and received several severe wounds in battling for the in
dependence we now enjoy. Mrs. Eordan herself distinctly
remembered Washington and other distinguished men of
that day.
She died in tbe property in which shq was born and lived
for more than nine and a half decades. Sho was bifetized
and confirmed in the German Reformed Church, of which
Rev. Mr. Kremer is at present Pastor. The mother of five
children, three of whom preceded her to their rest, she
leaves nineteen grand-children and forty>three great grand
children.
Such deaths as her's are rarely seen. The type of a hardy
generation, of which we have ceased to look for tbe coon
• terpart in this fast and effeminate age, she died as she bad
lived to a good ripe old age, free from organic or constitu
tional disease. Her depaTtore was a tranquil “passing
away.” Conscious of her approaching dissolution, she was
rational to the last moment, and called her family to bid
them adieu. Almost her last andiblo words were the ut
terance of a German prayer, and thus, peacefully and tran*
qnllly, she departed to that Better Land—~
*• Whetlejoys unseen by mortal eyes,
Or reason’s feeble ray,
In ever-blooming prospects rise,
Uncousclouß of decay.”
The funeral will take place from her late residence to
morrow afternoon at 2 o’clock. She will be interred in the
Lancaster Cemetery by tbe remains of her hnsband. which
were some time ago removed from the old German Reform
ed barying ground.— Thnrtday's Express.
Change in Railroad Time.—Oa yesterday
a new schedule went into operation on the P. R R., in
which important changes were made. The News Express
is discontinued, while tbe time of all the other trains is
changed, except tbe Harrisburg Accommodation and Lan
caster trains west. The Fast Line east arrives at 6.55 A. M ,
stops 15 minutes for breakfast, and leaves at 7-10 A. M.—
Below we append tbe hoar of departure of the various
trains under the new schedule:
. EASTWARD- WESTWARD.
Through Express, 2.45 a. m. Through Express, 1.21 a. m.
Mt. Joy Ac. arr n 840 a. m. Mail Train, 10.40 a. m.
Lanc’r Accom., 0.00 a. m. Mt. Joy Accom., .10.50 a. m
Fast Lino. 7.10 a.m. F«6t Line, 2.18 p.m.
Ilarrisborg Ac., 6.08 p. m. Harrisburg Ac., 6.08 p. m.
Fast Mail, 2.53 p. m. Lan, & Col. train, 7.44 p. m.
Emigrant train, 10.20 p. ns.
The Spring Fever.—Jones, tbe inimitable,
the “gay aud incomparable,” of the Harrisburg Patriot, is
always ap with the times. He has lately been suffering
from a severe attack of that delectable disease, the Spring
Fever, and thns he discourseth:
, This is a disease peculiar to the American climate, and
although we have looked in vain in Webster and Worces
ter for a definition of tbe term, have concluded to give onr
own views of this not very fatal epidemic. Spring Uver
is a disease characterized by a languor of body and ennui
of spirit—prevailing at the opening of partic
ularly; Laziness in considerel.by some as synonymous,
but we agree to differ with each. It Is a disease sui generis,
and unlike any other. We never beard of It in England,
In France, in Germany, or in China. Travelers in South
America never allude to it. and so we have concluded that
it is strictly a peculiar diftase, prevailing in a particular
district and at a certain season of tbe year. Spring Fever
exhibits a great diversity of-phenomena,-which is this
brief monagraph it were folly to attempt even an allusion.
The attack comes on abruptly, in the midst of general
good heal th, but never occurs at night. This is one of the
characteristics of the affection. The patient complains of
want of mobility-—a desire to recline, and. If left to himself
in a cczy spot, sleep conies on and tranquility ensues. No
age or sex is exempt. After a few hours gentle repose in tbe
arms of Morpheus, all signs of tbe disease have vanished.
The next day however it returns, and frequently with re
doubled fury. The nature and catise of the disease are doe
do doubt In thB first place to the warm and balmy breath
of the Spring-tide air upon the nerve-force of the system—
and in the second place to contagion. That tbe latter is
very frequently the cease of the affection many deny, but
we bold to the opinion we have ofttimes broached, that
Spring Freer is contagious. It is thought by tome that
acclimated persons are less liable to attack than foreigners
—but the reverse is the case. A susceptibility tirtske on
the disease is acquired. The diagnosis of the affection is
nowise difficnlt, while the prognosis is favorable in most
Instances. As regards tbe treatment, most authors would
no donbt disagree, bot we will confide -ourselves to tbe
plan of treatment pursued by ns in oar own and other
cases with eminent success. Generally tbe disease will ran
its course in.a few days, but when it continues longer,
prompt and energetic measiyes should be resorted to.—
Neither the regular practice, (vulgarly denominated allo
pathy.) or homeopathy, or hydropathy, d id omne genus,
will avail in themselves—but onr plan is to treac all snch
empirically, allaying tbe symptoms as they arise. If the
patient for instance is found in a hypnotic condition, a cold
douche will quickly arouse him to sensibility. If too great
lassitude exists, a bnnfele of twigs laid emartiy-OQ tbe ba«.k
will increase the circulation and thereby augment tbe
nerve-force of the system, and so on until the disease is
completely checked. Since “an ounce of prevention is
better than a pound of care,” (so rans an old “saw,”) it
were better in the first place to remove the canve.' Permit
none to come in contact with those affected with tbe dis
ease. If once taken it is liable to return annually.
8o much for the subject of Spring-Fover, bat-with tbe
closing advice to onr readers: Beware lest j e also fall Into
that state ia which this dreaded (!) disease is' sure to come
on. Be warned in time, for it. is indeed loathsome, and.
more to be dreaded than the peora (itch).
Complimentary.— The..following proceed
ingß have been soot to tbia office for publication:
Camp Blair, near Eaatvllla, Ya., April 25,1862.
At a meeting of the.non-commissioned officers and pri
vates of Battery B, Glat’e Artillery, Parnell’s Home Border
Legion, boldea at C&mp Blair, April 25tb,-3862, for the
pnrpoee of expressing regret at the resignation of Lieu*
tenant John M. Bulloch, of said Battery, Sergeant Trayner
was called to the chair, and Joseph Barnet was appointed
Secretary. The following resolutions were unanimously
adopted:. . ’
Baolved, That we deeply regret the resignation of our
worthy Lieutenant, John .‘J. Bulloch, of Battery B, Pur
nell's Home Border Legion, who during his ministration
among us has wou (he esteem and confidence of each and
alt of us. *
Besdvtd. That we deeply sympathize with him In the
causes which led to said resignation.
Betolvtd, That at a mere fitting opportunity we purpose
and design offering a more suitable, testimonial of onr re
gard for him.
Rcsolvtd, That the foregoing proceedings be published
In pur county papers, also a copy bo presented to the sai d
Lieutenant Bulloch.
(Signed.) WH. TRAYNER, President.
Joseph Barnes, Secretary
f Chester county papers please copy.l
PLAIN TALK
Vallandighah answered a villainous at
tack made upon the Democratic party and
himself, week before last, in the proper way.'
Wade, the Abolition Senator from Ohio, bad
the unblushing impudence and assurance to
make the following remarks:
“ I accuse them (the Democratic party) of a
deliberate purpose to assail, through the judi
cial tribunal and through the. Senate and tbe
House of Representatives of tbe United States
and everywhere else, and to overawe, intimi
date, and trample under foot, if they can, the
men who boldly stand forth in defence of their
country, now imperilled by this gigantic rebel
lion. I have watched it long. Ihave seenit
in secret. I have, seen its movement ever
since that party got together with a colleague
of mine in the other House, as ohairman of
the Committee- on Resolutions —a man who
never had any sympathy with this Republio,
but. whose every breath is devoted to its de
struction, just as far as bis heart dare permit
him to go.”
. VALLANMGHAit read the extract in the
House, and replied to the insult on the Demo
cratic party, as follows:
“Here, in my place-in this House, and as a
.Representatiye, I denounce (and I speak it ad
visedly) the antbor of that .speech aB a liar, a
scoundrel, and a coward'. His name is Ben
jamin F. Wads." .'
The time is about past when disunion Abo
lition scamps can inßu'.t Democrats with im
punity. It has been canted too far already.
The nertdaythe Republicans attempted to
pass a vote of oensnre on V for
his vety propel: language.ip *sg»d to. Wapa,
bathe outmanoeuvred them/iagarUaßietttary
taotics, the matterwss -dropped. t
DEiietoß orPLmocaiEi;
In a speedi nude in Congress on yesterday
week, H->n. Thaddem Srsvipo-Qaine np man
fully to the defers
in the Republican pajyCvXt-was in reply to
Mifc pAW« ) ; of of
.Committal W$ make the
foitojqiig exlraote.and wochd'especially direot
the at|»ntUl§f ofOnrTeaderßjn thiCoity to the
who
hasbeen to makeaTgplSbof (90,000 in
the sale of trjot of worthless gnns to General
Fremont. When “Old Thad” made the
declaration that Simon “ bore as high a char
acter jib any man in the Honse,” he could not -
hate been a certain inetrument of
writing held by a well known gentleman in
this oity with the name qf SiMON attaohed, or
else he has a very .low opinion of the oharao
ter of his fellow members of Congress; Sdoh
are ignorant of Simon’s true character, but it
will not.do in Lancaster where he ie’ao well,
but not favorably .known. We make the ex
tracts from Forney’s Press, the bible by whioh
the Republicans swear now-a-daya :
DEFENCE OF CCMMINGS.
Mr.. Stevens (Rep.), Baid such at least
was the general course of the committee. In
order to, censure ex-Secretary Cameron, it was
necessary to impeach the character of two ot
his agents —Governor Morgan and Alexander
Cummings. Contrary to what the Government
had charged, Alexander Cummings had not a
dollar in his handß. They accuse him of re
taining $140,000 in his possession, when it
was expressly stated by him in his note that
the amount was in the bands of Messrs. Dix,
Blatohford and Gpdyke, where it was originally
placed by the Secretary of the Treasury. The
report as to Mr. Cummings was founded on
an assumed mistake of the printer, which Mr.
Stevens said, was founded on a falsehood.—
This was fraudulent misrepresentation No. 1.
DEFENCE OF FREMONT.
Fraudulent mistake No. 2 is the case of
Saccbi, of New York. The committee find
that such a man had made a large contract
for horseß, but he failed to appear, and they
go on to censure it as a fraudu'o it transaction
made under General Fremont, and state that
the newspapers say that this Saeohi is on Fre
mont’s staff; but all this tnrns out not to be
true, and that Saccbi on the staff never knew
anything about a horse contract.
Mr. Washburno (Rep.), of Illinois, asked
Mr.. Stevens where he got this information.
Mr. Stevens said from the affidavit of the
real horse contractor.
Mi>. Washburne said ho knew nothing about
the case.
Mr. Stevens supposed not. That was like
a good many other things in the report. The
committee ought to have known all about suoh
matters before visiting them with, their een- '
sure. It was of this ignorance that he oom
plained.
SIMON STEVENS DEFENDED.
Case No. 3 is tho contraot of one Simon
Stevens, for carbines. The gentleman from
Massachusetts, not knowing a higher motive,
informed the House that on this account the
Bpecial committee had encountered the oppo
sition of the Committee of Ways and Means ;
but he would inform the gentleman, that
Simon Stevons was no relative of his, although
their names were similar. lie was a constit
uent. and bore as high a character as any man
in this House. Ho had nover heard Simon
Stevens attacked before the gentleman from
Massachusetts made hie speech. The com
mittee infer and insinuate that this was a
purchase made by General Fremont through
Stevens, when they have direct evidonce to
the contrary. This was not the way in whioh
men’s characters.sbould be destroyed by com
mittees of this House. The committee com
plain that they are charged with lyiDg. He
now proposed to call a living witness. He
i read the letter of General Fremont to the
committeo on the conduct of the war, showing
that many things in the report of the special
committee were false.
J6y Mr John W. Forney, in his letter to
the Press of the Ist instant, furnishes ub with
this delightful piece of information :
“ Let ns hope that the spirit which animates
the Republicans of New York will be emulated
by the Republicans of Pennsylvania. I have
jußt learned that in the district,represented by
Mr. Grow, the Speaker, of the House, this is
the almost unanimous feeling of the friends of
the Administration, and I om happy to add
that Senator Wilmot cordially sustains the
movement.”
The movement here alluded to is the Union
no party movement of the Republican mem
bers of tbe New York Legislature. . The faot
that the district represented by Air. Grow, the
blackest Abolition district in this State, is
almost unanimously in favor of the adoption
of the Union contrivance, is enough to stamp
its trne character ns an Abolition movement.
“ I am happy to add,” says the virtuous Eor-
NEr, “ that Senator Wilmot cordially sustains
the movement.” Anything that; Senator
Wilmot cordially snstains must Decessarily be
bad. Senator Wilmot wrote a letter to the
Cooper Institute meeting last winter, cordially
sustaining Senator Sumner’s treasonable the
ory that the Southern States, by the act of
rebellion, bad severed their connection with
the Union, and were to be treated as Territo
ries, and not as States—whioh theory, is a
practical endorsement of the odious doctrine of
State secession. "
Senator Wilmot, who is a mere echo of
Sumner, has announced himself as a candidate
for re-election to the United States Senate at
the next session of the Legislature, and of
course he is read; to sustain an; movement
that promises to elect a majority of members
of his Abolition stripe—but' the fact that he
and Grow and Forne;, and other notorious
political adventurers, cordially sustain any
movement, is sufficient to induce the boneßt
masses to turn from it with abhorrence. —
Harrisburg Patriot.
ABOLITION PREACHERS.
We see in a Pittsburg paper, that professes
to be religious, a voluntary, unpaid local
notice that Wendell Phillips lately lectured
there to a fulL house, and that Beeches is
expected during the month of April.
We think religions papers are engaged in a
very small business when they voluntarily
“ puff” such men os Phillips and Beeches.
Such men as these, and political preachers
generally, have already produced incalculable
mischief, have done more to olog the wheels
of the Redeemer's Kingdom and bring religion
into disrepute, than all the infidels in America
twice told. The men who take upon them
selves the solemn vows of a minister of the
everlasting Gospel, and dedicate their lives
and energies to the work, and while professing
“ to know nothing but Christ and him cruoi
fied,” and labor exclusively for the salvation
of souls, will then defile their robes and tar
nish their cause by getting down into the
arena of sectional strife and party politics,
ought to be scouted and discountenanced in
every community; they are not worthy of
either support or consideration. We are em
phatically opposed to the kind of reception
Phillips had in Cincinnati, but we would like
to see all such apostates consigned to oblivion,
by a purified and correct overwhelming publio
opinion.
We want no combinations, either of Church
and State, or of the pnrse and Sword.—
The country is abundantly supplied with-pol
iticians, and we will resist giving-the matter
into the hands of the clergy to the bitter end.
Unionlown Genius of Liberty
VALL. AH DIOR ABI.
The Republicans are very much out of
bnmor with Yallandighah. The reason is
that he is in no-wise mealy-mouthed; in de
nunciations of the nigger policy, corruptions,
4c. They charge him with being the ‘ leader
of the Breckinridge Democracy 1’ Ho never
was a Breokinridge - man. He was- the
personal friend and champion of Douglas, and
the leader of the Douglas
In 1860 he received, in his district, for Con
gress, 11,052 votes, while Breckinridge re
ceived less than 250 votes the same year, in
the same district. There is do Breokipridge
or “Douglas party now, —they are-'all’ Demo
crats and Vall ANDionav is one of them, and
that is the trouble with the Republicans.—
Lebanon Advertiser. .
Firth, Pond & Co., New York,— Weinvite
the attention of our readers to the advertise
ment in another column of this well-kh'own
and old established Muaio Honse. Messfs. F.
P. 4 Cq. .have probablythe largest and best
catalogue of mueio to be found ohAhisi conti
nent. They import, manufaotnre.nif jdefl in
, newly, cverjL musical inairumopt noyr'in .use,
and dealers, teachers," and the musical frater
nity-genetelly,' will -find to their
adyantage th pVe th'ehrtt o*dl-br?Behd f fbr a