Lancaster Intelligencer
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1862.
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OTJE, FLAG.
Now oar flag Is flung to the wild winds free,
Let it float o’er onr father land,
And the guard of lta spotless fame shall be
Colombia’s chosen band.
“ CLING TO THE CONSTITUTION, AS
THE SHIPWRECKED MARINER CLINGS
TO THE LAST PLANK, WHEN NIGHT
AND THE TEMPEST CLOSE AROUND
HlM.”— Daniel Webbteb.
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cessity oompels us to resort to the measure.—
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SIR. BUCHANAN’S DEFENCE,
The National Intelligencer of Saturday con
tains an elaborate reply from Ex-President
Buchanan to Lieut. General Scott, whose
recent publication he considers an undis
guished censure of his conduct during the
last months of his Administration, in regard
.to the seven Cotton States now in rebellion.
We shall endeavor to find room for this
able and incontrovertible document in our
next issue, and we incline to the opinion that
after our readers give it a careful and unpre*
judiced perusal, they will agree with us that
the Hero of Mexico has gained nothing by his
covert attack on Mr. Buchanan.
GALOSHA a. grow.
The defeat of this bitter Abolition dema
gogue is one of the fruits of the recent glorious
Democratic triumph in Pennsylvania. It will
he remembered that one ef the first acts of
Galusha A. Grow after his elevation to the
Speakership of the House of Representatives
at Washington, was to have the portrait of
Ex-President Buchanan removed from the
rotunda of the Capitol. The peuple of Penn
sylvania, in return for the bsse act of this
treasonable demagogue, have removed the
vile Abolition caroass of Galusha from the
Halls of Congress. Over this removal the
loyal people of the North send up one univer
sal shout of joy. The defeat of this man by
an overwhelming majority in his Congres
sional district, shows that the people of Lu
zerne and Susquehanna counties regard him
as totally unfit to represent them in the coun
oils of the Nation.
SER.GBANT-AT-AR.MS.
Mr. U. J. Jones, lately connected with the
Harrisburg Patriot and Union , we understand,
will be a candidate before the Democratic
Caucnß for the nomination for Sergeant-at-
Arms of the House of Representatives. Mr.
J. has been a Democratic editor for eighteen
years, and he claims that the only reward he
ever received for Berviceß rendered waß an im
prisonment Of sixteen days in the Old Capitol
Prison at Washington, at the instance of the
Harrisburg Abolitionists. We hope his nu
merous friends, and especially those of the
editorial fraternity, will speak a good word in
his behalf, as one both competent and deserv
ing to fill the position.
COWAHDII OUTRAGE,
On Friday evening week, says the Carlisle
Democrat , about eight o’clock, a number of
the Anderson Cavalry encamped at that place,
entered the Volunteer printing office and pied
and otherwise injured the materials in the.
office, effecting their escape betore they could
be recognized or arrested. Why this gross
outrage was perpetrated we are unable to Bay,
and trust that the guilty persons may be dis
covered and duly punished. Mob violence is
not the proper mode to redress imaginary
grievances. The law is ample, and it alone
should be resorted to for the purpose of cor
recting abuses, when they exist, but violence
never will nor never should be countenanced.
The rioters were evidently alarmed before
they succeeded in accomplishing what they
had intended, as we learn the damage done to
the office will not exceed fifty dollars. If the
Cavalry wish to immortalize themselves, they
had better turn their attention to some more
honorable employment, and in open day light.
THE DRAFTED MEN,
A large number of the drafted men from
Beveral districts answered to their names on
yesterday morning, and were sent to Harris
burgby special train in the afternoon. Others
will be forwarded to-day, to morrow and
Thursday, until the entire complement from
the county is filled up. Those who have not,
or do not answer to roll call, we presume will
be sent for by the Commissioner, and compel
led to enter the service.
THANKING GOD FOR OUR DEFEATS,
Mr. Trumbull, the Republican Senator from
Illinois, recently made a speech in Michigan
in Which he “thanked God that the Federal
arms were defeated at Bull Run, and on the
Peninsula, and under Pope, for without such
defeats we should not have had the Emancipa
tion Proclamation! Had we won at Bull
Run, or taken Richmond, he said the back
bone of the rebellion would have been broken,
-and the-Union would have been restored with
slavery remaining & it 1”
A TRAITOR’S LANGUAGE.
“Therefore we tell yon and the whole world
that this great conservative party will rear up
the shattered columns of the Union. We will
rear it higher np, still .nearer heaven than it
w.as before, and from its lofty top and growing
-grea tubas, there shall ever Wove your nation's
flag, with every star and every'stripe tbat has
been placed therein the wonderful progress of
onr conn try, and then, whatever other men
may say—l oare not; as for the conservative
peopleof thia country and aa for myself, other
men may say as they please; as for a division
of this Union and for breaking np that great
alliance made by and under God’s gnidanoe,
I never will consent to it—no, never —as long
as I have a voice to raise or a hand to fight
for this onr glorious country.” /
We are told, says the Police Gazette, that
Governor Seyhode, of New, York, is a traitor
to his conDtry, and yet at a meeting held in
Brooklyn, he expressed his feelings and
principles in the exact language we have
given Bbove; and if theee are the sentiments
of traitors, then, alas 1 we mnet confess that
we come under the same category, for they are
the same sentiments that have been onr
guiding-star-through life, and to which we
cling with a tenacity as strong as life itself.
This land—this Union—this Constitution—■
this form of government—we received as a
priceless inheritance from onr great fore
fathers. There is not—there never was any
thing like it o'n earth. It stands forth alone
and unequalled. It is the star of hope to the
down-trodden and oppressed Bf the Old World.
It stands forth in the politioal horizon of the
world—radiant and lustrous—the dread and
fear of tyrants—whose effulgent raye shake
their cowardly hearts, and causes the sceptre
of power to tremble in their hands, while
those who have been stripped of their rights
and ruled by an iron rod of despotism, view
the emblem of its power,.as reflected from the
Stars and Stripes, with hearts that heat high
with hope and joyous exultation. If Gover
nor Seyhoub is a traitor for indulging in such
aspirations, then the name of traitor has a
holy sound. It is a term of the highest
praise, and not of reproach; and to be suoh
a traitor should be the loftiest aim of every
lover of liberty, and to attain snoh a distinc
tion should command the noblest power that
nature’s God haß bestowed upon them.
MR. SEWARD ON EMANCIPATION.
When Democratic journals urge, as one of
the objections to the President’s emancipation
proclamation, that it is unconstitutional, the
advooates of that unwise measure, in order to
escape - thesissae, ascribe to them motives in.
consistent with loyalty. But the Democracy
are not confined to arguments of their own to
show the unoonßtitutionality of the abolition
edict. Among the many authorities whom
they may oite in justification of their views is
Mr. Seward, the present Secretary of State.
On the 22d of April, 1861, —after the War had
actually begun—Mr. Seward wrote to Mr.
Dayton, our Minister to Paris, the following
exposition of the views of the Administration,
the correspondence having been since officially
promulgated:
“The condition of slavery in the several
States will remain just the same, whether it
(the rebellion) succeed or fail. There is not
even a pretext for the complaint that the dis
affected States are to be conquered by the
United States if the revolution fail; for the
rights of the States, and the condition of every
human being in them, will remain subject to
exactly the Bame laws and forms of adminis
tration whether the revolution 6hall succeed,
or whether it shall fail. In one case the
State would be federally connected with the
new Confederacy ; in the other they, as now,
be members of the United States ; but their
constitution and laws, customs, hahitß and
institutions, in either case will remain the
same.
“It is hardly necessary to add to this incon
testable statement, the further faot that the
new President, as well as the oitizens through
whose suffrages he has come into the Admin
istration, have always repudiated all designs
whatever, and wherever imputed to him and
them, of disturbing the system of slavery as it
is existing under the Constitution and laws.
The case, however, would not he fully pre
sented if I were to omit to say that any suoh
effort on his part would be unconstitutional,
and all his actions in that direction would
be prevented by the judicial authority, even
though they were assented to by Cotigress and
the people.”
JUDGE CURTIS ON THE FROCLAMA-
Ex-Justice Curtis, late of the Supreme
Court of the United States, whose dissenting
opinion in the Dred Scott case was so much
lauded by the abolition press of the country j
has just published a pamphlet in which he
demonstrates, with irresistible force of logic,
that both the emancipation and the martial
law proclamations, lately issued by President
Lincoln, are in violation of the Constitution.
The turn of Judge Curtis’s mind is eminently
judicial; when he went on the bench he re
nounced all participation in party politics,
and has stood aloof from party relations since;
he is therefore under no bias which would
permit him to hazard his reputation as a con
stitutional lawyer by conscious sophistry.—
The opinions and reasoning of Judge Curtis’
pamphlet approach so near to the ability and
impartiality to be expected in the judgments
of the Supreme bench, as any opinions and
reasoning can do, which are not given under
the responsibilities of that high station, and
it may be regarded as certain that, if either
of the proclamations mentioned ever get into
the Supreme Court, they will be set aside as
unconstitutional, and therefore null and void.
Judge Curtis’s pamphlet is the heaviest gun
yet fired at Mr. Lincoln’s recent policy,
always excepting the late expression of public
sentiment at the ballot-box 1
GENERAL NEWS.
The excitement in Baltimore, consequent
upon the arrest of certain Union men by Gen.
Wool, increased on Thursday, and large num
bers signed the petition to President Lincoln
for his removal. GOv. Bradford demanded
that the parties be unconditionally released
and all the papers seized be given up. They
were released on Friday.
David Davis, of Illinois, has been appointed
an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of
the United States, and is assigned to the
Eighth Judicial District. The President has
made the following allotments of the Justices
of the Court: For the Firßt Circuit, Nathan
Clifford, Associate Justice; Second Circuit,
Samuel Nelson, Associate Justice ; Third Cir
cuit, Robert C. Grier, Associate Justice;
Fourth Circuit, Roger B. Taney, Chief Jus
tice; Fifth Circuit, Jameß M. Wayne, Asso
ciate Justice; Sixth Circuit ( John CatroD,
Associate Justice; Seventh Circuit, Noah H.
Swayne, Associate Justice ;' Eighth Circuit,
David Davis, Associate Justice ; Ninth Cir
cuit,Samuel F. Miller, Associate Justice.
The United States Marshal of Boston went
to Fort Warren on Thursday, in a sloop for
the purpose of serving the writ of habeas cor
pus, in the case of Wm. H. Winder; on Col.
Dimmiok, but was refused admission. He
reported the facts of the case to Judge Clif
ford of the United States Court, who remarked
that the Court had no means with which to
enforce the writ, and' ordered the pap’ers on
file. This probably ends the case for the
present.
What the President Says. —Washington
correspondents report pithy and significant
remarks of the President in reference to the
recent elections. One reports that he Baid:
“A little more Democracy in our platform
would have saved us.” Another says he re
marked: “I think that if I had a little more
Democratic energy in my Administration, the
country would have been in a better condi
tion.” The people have taken measures to;
put a “little jnore Democratic energy ” into
the Administration.
PRESIDENT LINCOLN’S COLONY.
The colony of negroes that President Lin
coln is abont to establish somewhere outside
of the United States at the people’s expense,
is likely to prove a costly affair under the su
perintendence he has selected. He has con
fided the experiment: to the hands of Senator
Pomeroy, of Kansas, and R. W. Thompson, ’
of Indiana—men in whose wisdom the peo-;
pie generally. have : little .confidence,, and. in
whose hotiesty they have none. The Albany
Evening Journal, a Republican paper under.
the control of Thurlow Weed, a warm per
sonal and political friend of the President,
seems to. regard the scheme with something
more than suspicion, and sounds the alarm in
very ambiguone language. The journal says:
“ This swindle is proceeding under the aus
piees of R. W. Thompson, of Indiana, and
Senator Pomeroy, of Kansas. It behooves
President Lincoln, of whose integrity there is
no question, to look well into this scheme be--
fore committing himself to it. There is noth
ing but dishonesty in the scheme, any way;
hut if colonization should become expedient,
}his surely is not the time to go into. it. The
government has quite enough upon its hands.
Mr. Thomson’s connection with the project ia
enough to stamp its character and purpose.”
The President having, himself, inaugurated
this “ dishonest scheme,” will probably not
pay muoh attention to the advice of his friend
Weed ; indeed, we do not see how he can, hav
ing once pledged himßelf to it; so that it is
more than likely Messrs. Pomeroy and Thomp
son will make a good thing out of it, whether
the negroes do or not.
FANATICISM.
The Philadelphia Press copies the following
paragraph from a ootemporary, and shudders
at the picture it presents, which would be
complimentary to the editor’s sensibility, were
his emotion genuine. But in this case, like
many others, hypoorisy exposes itself. In the
next column to'that which contains a shud
dering condemnation of this paragraph, is a
column of the most terrible acousations against
Mr. Buchanan, among which is the murder
of the late Senator Broderick. Here iB the
paragraph whioh the Press shrinks from :
“ Let room be made in front of the platform
for the introduction of Abraham Lincoln.—
When he is seated, let there b & formed a fu
neral procession of the corpses of the two hun
dred thousand gallant men who have perished
in battle and by disease since the war began.—
Let the escort of honor to the brave departed be
the three hundred thousand mutilated, mangled
and diseased men , whose wounds and diseases
have been incurred in this war. As chief
mourners, let there then follow the ohildless
fathers and mothers, the fatherless children,
the' widowed wives of the North ; let them
halt in front of the speakers’ stand, while
Mr. Linooln assures them that ‘nobody’s hurt.’
When the President has concluded, then let
tjie wail of the widows and orphans go up to
Heaven ; let the children, fathers and mothers
sing their song of bereavement.”
Now read the hypoorite’s oomment upon
the man who used to furnish him with food
and clothing:
“He could tell us how the first great sin
was the beginning of all his woe, and, like
Macbeth after the assassination of Dunoan,
crime after crime came rolling upon. his cold
and callous heart. The infamies of Lecomp
ton, the proscription of brave and good men,
the war upon Douglas, the murder of Broder
ick, would all form interesting themes, and
suoh as he alone oould treat.”
THE FOREIGN NEWS.
The latest news from Europe, seems to indi
cate a determination on the part of England
and France to interfere with the affairs in this
country. It is reported on what is termed
“ reliable, semi-official sources,” that Lord
Lyons has received instrnetions to report a
programme to Mr. Seward, looking to a settle
ment of our difficulties ; that if the programme
is rejected, then tho independence of the South
will be at once recognized. Lord Lyons was
to have sailed from Europe on the 25th nit.,
bo that his arrival is daily looked for. How
the private instructions of Lord Lyons oould
precede him is a mystery we are unable to
solve. The story looks to us more like a
“ feeler” thrown out from Washington, than
anything else. The tone of the British press,
and the speeches of members of Parliament,
however, are emphatically on the side of the
South.
DEMOCRATIC JUBILEE AT PHIL A-
DELPHIA.
The Democratic meeting at Philadelphia,
on Friday night last, to celebrate the anni
versary of the Constitution and the great
political triumph of the 14th of October, was
a grand affair. The Press, withitß character
istic mendacity, characterizes it as a small,
but noisy meeting of “devils, fiends, witches
and bogles,” but the Ledger says that “Inde
pendence Square never saw a larger gathering
of the people,” and this is in harmony with
information from other reliable sources. It
was a tremendous out-pouring of the people,
a great jubilee of grateful hearts. Charles In
gersoll, Esq., presided, the meeting was ably
addressed by several distinguished gentlemen,
and appropriate resolutions adopted. The dis
play of banners, torches, &0., was grand, and
imposing, and the numerous bands, playing old
national airs, struck terror to the hearts of the
Abolition traitors, who saw in it all the hand
writing on the wall, proclaiming their speedy
downfall.
What are they now Waiting for ? Greeley
said, a few weeks ago, that if the President
would issue an Emancipation Proclamation,
900,000 radicals would at once join the army;
and Gov. Andrew of Massachusetts said “ the
roads would swarm with multitudes ” hasten
ing to the battle-field. Well, the Proclama
tion was issued six weeks ago, and yet neither
Greeley’s 900,000 nor Andrew’s “ swarm ”
have yet been seen on their way to the seat of
war. Where are they, and what are they
waiting for ? Are they kept back to vote in
favor of disunion and treason instead of going
to fight against them ? Are they waiting
for the draft ? Or are they kept back until the
President can be forced to dismiss Genera
McClellan and appoint the incompetent and
insubordinate Fremont in his plaoe ? What
ever the reason, the failure to respond to tho
President’s demand for troops is disgraceful
to the Abolition leaders in those States, and it
exposed the hollowness of their professions.
Pay of Drafted Soldiers. —The pay per
month of the militia volunteers in th 9 service
of the State is the same as that of volunteers
in the service of the United States, as follows :
Colonel, $222; lieutenant cpjonel, $198;
major, $179 ; captain, $l2O s*; first lieuten
ant, $llO 50 ; second lieutenant, $lO5 50 ;
brevet second lieutenant, $lO5 50; privates
$l3. The pay in case of the invasion of the
State is essentially different from during riot,
tumult,breach of the peace, or when the militia
are called upon to aid the civil process. In
such emergencies non commissioned officers
and privates receive $1 50 peFdiem each, and
commissioned offioers the same compensation
as those of the regular army. —Philadelphia
Press.
Apples are so plenty in Western New
York that they can be bought for fifty cents a
barrel 1 Potatoes Bhow no symptoms of
disease, and the best oneß are sold for a dollar
a barrel, including package. One farmer has an
orchard of choice grafted fruit, and offered the
whole of his crop of apples at twelve and a
half cents per bushel, the pnrohaser to gather
the fruit and seleot only such as he wanted
and could sell. ;
EJECTIONS—TO-DAY.
The elections in New York,' New Jersey,
Delaware, Hlifioie, and several other States
teke plaloe to-day. Look out for.BOme Demo
cratic thunder about' these times! ' - '•
BOLD ATTEMPT AT FRAUD.
We see it is stated in Abolition papersjthat
a bogus army vote will be gotten np to de
prive Messrs. John L. Dawson, Jesse Laxear,
W. H. Miller and A. H. Coffrotb of their
seats.’ Oar friend Myers of the Bedford;
Gazette, in Mr. Coffroth’s. dietriet, thus specks
bold attempt of the-raaoals :’ >. . .
“We give fair notice to the isbameless rascals
whd are trying this game f that, if they persist
in their fraudulent efforts they will have to
meet two thousand stalwart seen from the hills
of old Bedford, each with a rifle on his shoul
der and at least fifty bullets in bis shot-pouch.
We register here our solemn determination to
resist the consummation of this fraud even un
to blood. Democrats of Bedford oounty 1 Be
ready for the emergency 1
In-Adams county, in the same district, ten
abolition Retornr Judges refused to sign any
of the returns, until the army was heard from.
: The Gettysburg Compiler thus notices thia
malfeasance in office:
“Just previous to the election of 1861 Gov.
Cnrtin issued a proclamation authorizing an
army vote. Subsequently the law was pro
nounced unconstitutional by the Supreme
Court. Therefore the Governor did not issue
a proclamation for an army vote at the elec
tion of Tuesday last. Did MeConanghy’s Re
turn Judges think of this when they followed
hie lawless lead on Friday ?”
The Harrisburg Patriot. & Union, Mr.
Miller’s District, gives the rascals timely
warning of their attempt to defraud the voters
of the district by so fool a trick:
“If the Abolitionists dare to use a partial
army vote to change the result of Tuesday’s
eleotion—or resort to any other base trick to
defeat the expressed will of the people there will
be REVOLUTION 1 * * We warn these
miscreants that if they persist in their infa
mous and lawless work, an outraged and in
dignant people will assert the majesty and
supremacy of the laws, by visiting on their
heads the most fearful retribution.”
If the scoundrels have the audacity to carry
out the iniquitous programme, they will have
to meet Five’Thousand Demoorats ofold West
moreland, armed with instruments aud mis
siles of death, to maintain the Laws and the
Constitution. Demoorats of Westmoreland,
arm yourselves and prepare for the bloody
alternative, if it is forced upon'you. — Greens
burg Democrat. .
RENEGADE DEMOCRATS.
At the great Demooratio meeting in New
York, on Monday evening, in speaking of
Fremont, John Van Bueen said : *
“ His career, in my humble judgment, (and
I say it with regret,) is a warning to Demo
orats. lam now in an assembly of men of
that politioal faith, as well as their political
opponents, and I would say that no Democrat,
from Henry Clay down, including Mr. Rives,
Mr. Talmadge, Mr. Fremont, Mr. Tremain or
Mr, Dickinson—ever suffered himself to be se
duced from the Democratic ranks, by the hope
of politioal preferment, without, sooner or
later, finding himself politically, if not pecun
iarily, bankrupt.”
This calls to our mind the fact, that new
converts make the most zealous saints, and
that this same Lyhan Trehain, now vaunted
by the Abolition press as an immaculate pa
triot, and who is the Abolition candidate for
Lieut. Governor of New York, on the first of
February, 1861, in a speeoh at Albany, said :
“In my judgment, secession can be sustained
only as any other revolution can be, for causes
sufficient to warrant the people in throw
ing off the government—a right reserved under
the Constitution, and existing inherently in
the people—obtained not from government,but
from the Almighty Ruler of the world.” * *
“ But, gentlemen, while Ido not, in the ab
stract, justify secession, we must not forget the
fact that the South has had the most terrible pro
vocation to which civilized man has ever been
subject.” * * ; * “ Traitorous
though it may be, I stand here to oppose the
policy of war with the South now, hereafter and
forever!”
THE SOLDIERS’ VOTE.
On this subject the “ doodles ” have much
to say in echo of the Chicago Tribune. Some
idea may be formed of the manner of con
ducting soldiers’- elections by the following,
from the Dubuque (Iowa) correspondence of
the Chicago Times :
“We have not only a prospect of giving
Mr. Mahoney a majority of the home vote,
but of carrying the Democratic State ticket!
Our gains iu every place are very large. The
soldiers’ vote is nearly five to one against us.
Through political trickery of the Governor’s
orew, the whole thing is a base fraud. We
have letters from the 21st lowa, stating that
Democratic soldiers in that regiment were not
permitted to use Republican tickets to write
Democratic names on, and that the Demooratio
tickets were all destroyed by Republican offi
cers, and, in one instance, a soldier who made
himself prominent in working for the Detiao
oratic cause, was arrested and confined in the
guard-house until evening ; also that over fifty
Democratic votes were polled in certain Du
buque companies, and that the officers said
they must reject such as were written in
pencil. We kuow here, as a matter of fact,
that Mr. Mahoney had but fourteen votes re
corded to their count, and Judge Wilson hut
twenty. This is the no party but one party
style of doing business.”
PRICE OF NEWSPAPERS.
It has already, or must soon, become a mat
ter of necessity with newspaper publishers to
raise the price of subscription and advertising.
The reasons are fully stated in the following
from the Baltimore Sun .-
“Printing materials of all kinds have very
materially advanced since the commencement
of the war. On some articles of prime neoes
sity to the printer, the advance is fully equal
to thirty per cent. In addition to this the
government taxes them three per cent on the
paper they use, three per cent, upon their ad
vertisements, and three per cent, upon their
income, if they are fortunate enough to have
any. In view of these facts we notice that
some of our Northern cotemporarieß are
about to raise the price of their issues. The
Brockport (N. Y.) Republic of a late date
says :
“ ‘Most of the large daily papers in West
ern New York have advanced the price of
their issues. An editor of a leading New
York daily informed us last week that the
publishers in that city would soon follow suit.
Many of the country journals are also pub
lished at increased prices. The advance is
caused mainiy by the advance in printing
stock.’ ”
Millard Fillmore in Favor of Got. Set
hour.— The N. Y. Journal of Commerce says :
“ We are authorized to state that Hon. Mil
lard Fillmore is unconditionally in favor of
ex-Gov. Seymour as candidate for the Chief
Magistracy of this State. Authority for the
use of bis name in this connection was given
to the officers of the great Seymour ratifica
tion meeting in Brooklyn on Wednesday
night, but a suitable opportunity for makings
the announcement did not offer. This is a
harbinger of coming victory. The Old Line
Whigs, of whom Mr. Fillmore is a life-long
representative, now stand, as they always
have, firm in support.of Constitutional meas
ures, and will, in this great crisis of the na
tion’s history, conservative men, to sustain
the Government. Whigs, Democrats, Con
servatives—regardless of party names and
paßt differences,—will now make ‘a long pull,
a strong pull, and a pull altogether,’ if happi
ly they may rescue the country from radical
rule.”
J®* There is Baid to be $50,000,000 due our
soldiers. Some regiments have not reoeived
a cent for eight months, and a large number
have been without pay Bix months. So says
the N. Y. Tribune, and if it is true it is dis.
graceful to the Government., Contractors and
swindling favorites do not have to wait' a day
for the money they claim, but the poor soldier
goes unpaid. Can’t the Government
machinery make money fast enough to meet
the demands ? If not, then let all other claims
go, and pay the soldierß promptly. Good
policy and justice both demand this.
A TRAGEDY AT DAYTON, OHIO.
Dayton, Nov. 1,
J. F. Bollmeyer.editorof the Dayton Empire,
was shot dead this morning by Henry M.
BrowD. The difficulty grew out of a personal
misunderstanding, occasioned by. the shooting
of a dog belonging to. Mr. BoHmeyer by
Brown's ! son BroWn'gave himself up, and
was sent’to jail to await a trial.
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
Lieut. Colonel Miles.— Captain . David
Miles, of Co. By 70th Regiment, has been promotetUo the
Lieutenant Colonelcy, rice Lisat CoLJlachman. resigned.
001. Mils ft'most excellent officer, having 'served for years
• before this rebellion broke oat In the volanteer service of
this city. He was OrdeHj Sergeant otthe Fenciblea in the
three months’ servtee. and was sleeted’ Captain of Co. B
upon the promotion of the gallant and veteran Duchmas
to Lieutenant ColoneL He Is a worthy sncceseor of that
officer, and his promotion gives general satisfaction.
Night Watchmen.—The following appoint
menta have been made by the Mayor;
N. W, Ward— Henry Deal, 9 Hugh-Fitzpatrick, Andrew
Do nr art.
N. JL Ward—Joseph Dorwart, Philip Doyle, Henry Shier.
8. W. Ward-Henry Hes : , Davis M. Fralm, Peter John*
son.
8.-E. Ward—James Messenkop, Jerome Doench, B. Fitz
patrick.
•Mr. Deal being rick. his place was supplied temporarily
by the appointment of David McClain.
They were sworn in at the Mayor’s Office on Thursday
morning, after whieh the Mayor gavethem.a few words of
advice. They.entered upon their duties on Friday night
last, and will continue until the lit of April.
Hohe on a.Forlough.—Capt. Michael H.
Lochzs and Lieut. Robi&T M. Dt&art, of the 79th Regi*
ment, are now home on a furlough, to recruit their health
—the firet from a severe spell of sickness, and the latter
from a wound received at the battle of Chapliu Hills, Ky.,
on the Bth of October. Both officers, although looking
considerably “the worse of the wear,” are In fine spirits,
and expect soon to be able to rejoin their brave comrades
of the bloody 79th.
Admitted to Pbactice. —On Wednesday
last, in the Court of Common Pleas, on motion of Newton
Ligbtner, Esq., Giorge Naum as, Esq., was admitted to
practice law in the several courts of thiß county. Mr. N.
studied law In the office of Messrs. Shaeffer and Brenemao,
and is a young gentleman of finished education, fine abili
ties and agreeable manners, and will donbtless soon take
the front rank among the younger Attornies at the Lan
caster Bar. He is the son of oar esteemed fellow-citizen,
Col. Gsobgi Nacman, U. 8. Army.
Pbohoted. —Our old friend Dr. J. F. Hdber,
formerly Assistant Bnrgcon of the 49th P. V M has been pro
moted to the position of Bnrgeon of the 131st Regiment,
with the rank of Major. The regiment is now in Fltz John
Porter’s corps, and the doctor is as popular with his regi
ment now as he was in the 49th, which latter regretted his
loss, while they rejoiced, as we do, in his well-deserved
promotion. The 49th is now in Franklin’s corps, and' one
of the Assistant Surgeons is a Lancastrian—Dr. B. F.
Sides.
Sentenced.— On Saturday week, Judge
Cadwalader Of the U. 8. District Court sentenced John Me-
Clune, Esq., and James Dnnkel to an imprisonment of five
years each, in the Eastern Penitentiary. They are both
from Lancaster county, and had been residents of Martic
township where they were arrested a few weeks ago, on the
charge of presenting forged and fraudulent claims to the
Pension office, Washington. They both pleaded guilty to
the indictments found by the Grand Jury, aud were sen
tenced as above.
Something New. —We have received from
our friend Wxsthaxffzr, 44 North Queen street, a package
of the '‘Patent Stamp-Sealing and Post-Mark Preserving
Envelopes,” the advantages of which are fully set forth in
an advertisement in to-day’s Intelligencer. This envelope
Is a decidedly ueefnl invention, and can be obtained at a
small advance in the price of the ordinary envelope, and
we therefore commend it to those who are in the habit of
writing many letters, especially on busiuess.
Passed Throdgh.— The bodies of William
Eckert, of Company B, 79ih P. V., and Captain Samnei J.
Boone, of Company C, (formerly Captain Dysart’s,) who
were killed in the late severe engagements, passed through
this city, the former on Wednesday and the latter on
Tbnrsday afternoon. The former was taken to Leman
Place and the latter to the Gap, aod delivered to the friends
of the de ceased.
Important to Butchers, Auctioneers, &c.
—Toe Commissioner of Internal Revenae has decided that
uuder the new tax law, butchers who run a wagon through
the country, from which to sell their meat, must take out
a pedlar’s license for tbo same. The license is ten dollars
for one and fifteen dollars for two horses.
It has also been decided that vendne criers come under
the bead of auctioneers, aud most take oot a license before
they can henceforth cry a single sale. The price of an
auctioneer’s license is twenty dollars.
Hucksters who boy up produce through the country and
sell iD towns or cities from their wagons must take out a
pedleris license. If they haul their produce to the city or
town aDd sell thence from stalls or tables, they are required
to take out a dealer’s license, providing their sales reach a
thousand dollars annually.
Rendezvous for Drafted Men.— The draft
ed men in this county are b directed to report themselves
as follows :
On Monday, November 3d, at the Conrt House, in the
City of Lancaster, the districts of
Bart 8 Leacock tipper 10
Clay 60 Manor 149
Earl West 63 Peon 69
Lampeter West 36 Washington 18
On Tuesday, November 4th, at the Court House, in the
City of Lancaster, the districts of
Elizabeth 27IHempfleldrWest 64
On Tuesday. November 4-h, in tbo Borough of Mount
Joy, the districts of
Conoy 55|MountJoy 69
Donegal East 57 Rapho 112
Donegal West 601 Elizabethtown 15
On Wednesday, November 6th, at the Court House, in
the City of Lancaster, the districts of
Coleraine 32 Little BiitaiD 19
Coneßtoga 24 Pequea 22
Drumore 32 Providence 6
Eden 3 Salisbury 41
Hempfietd East 49 Strasburg township 3
Lancaster township 4 Columbia—L. W 63
Lampeter East 24 Manheim township 74
Leacock 26
On Thursday, November Otb. at tbe Court House, in the
City of Lancaster, the districts of
Adamatown
Brecknock
Cmrnarvon ...
Cocalico East..
Cocalico West.
.50 j Earl East.
.301 Ephra'a...
.SHI Warwick .
.87 (
Drafted Common School Teachers.—The
Governor has received authority from the War Depart
ment to discharge County Superintendents and Teachers
from the draft, and his authorized the State Superinten
dent of Common Schools to give notice that if any Teach
ers have been drafted they will be discharged on forward
ing to the Department of Common Schools a certificate
signed by the President aud Secretary, or a majority of tbe
members of the Board of Directors, stating the fact that
their withdrawal from their schools at the present time
would be injurious to the cause of education. The follow
ing copy of a letter addressed to County Superintendents,
which we find in the advertisingcolmnns of a Harrisburg
paper, contains full instructions how to proceed to obtain
a discharge:
Department of Common Schools, \
II arhisbubg, October 29, 1862. J
Dear Sir : The Governor has received authority from
the Secretary of War, to discharge County Superinten
dents and Teachers from the draft, when it is proper so to
do; ond ban authorized me to 6ay that if any have been
drafted In yoor county, w hose withdrawal from the schools
will be injurious to the cause of education, they will be
discharged on forwarding, to this Department, a certificate
signed by the President and Secretary, or by a majority of
tbe members of the Board of Directors, stating
Ist. That they are Teachers either in actual charge of
schools, or appointed to take charge of schools at the com
mencement of the next ensuing term of teaching in the
district.
2d. That they are holders of valid certificates front the
proper County Superintendents.
3d. That tbe withdrawal from their schools at tbe pres
ent time wonld be injurious to the caose of education.
Upon receipt of this certificate, which should the
names of the Teachers desired 1o be discharged, of the dis
tricts where they are teaching, or are about to teach, and
the Poet Office address, the necesß&ry order will be issued.
County Superintendents who may have been drafted,
will state the fact to this Department, and will at once be
discharged.
Yours very trnly,
Tnos. H. Borrower
Superintendent of Common Schools.
To —— Esq., County Superintendent.
Roll of the Ephrata Mountain
Cavalry, now in Camp Simmonß, Harrisburg:
Captato—W. H. Spera, Kphrata.
Ist Lieutenant—Cyrus Bentz. Reamstown.
2d “ Joseph S. Shnltz. Schoeneck.
Orderly Sergeant—Benjamin M. Herr, Willow Street.
Quartermaster Sergeant—John Eock, Ephrata.
Commissary Sergeaut—Edward E. Wood, Fulton.
Ist Sergeant—Benjamin Yentmyer, Warwick.
2d “ George Greise, Warwick.
3d “ Samuel G. Kemper. Earl.
4th “ James D. Trego, Ephrata.
sth “ Isaac E. Bentz, Elizabeth.
Ist Corporal—Barton P. Roam, Reamstown.
2d “ Benjamin F. Bns6er, Manheim township.
3d ‘‘ H. 8. Fiickinger, East Cocalico.
4th “ J Levi B. Doner, West Cccalico.
sth “ Abraham Colden, Ephrata.
6th “ Jesse B’ry, East Cocalico.
7th “ Edward 81oan, Upper Leacock.
Bth “ Michael Albright, Ephrata.
Teamsters—Alexander Gerhart, West Cocalico; George
Smith, Ephrata.
Farriers—lsrael Badorf, Warwick; Davis Horting, Eph
rata.
Saddler—William .W.‘Lewis, East Cocalico.
Wagoner—Jacob Ruth. East Cocalico.
Privates:
1. Ansel, Henry, East Cocalico.
2. Adams, Israel, Epbrata.
3. Albright, Richard, Earl.
4- Appel, Daniel, Warwick.
5. Burkholder, Henry M., West Earl.
6. Bechtol, John, West Cocalico.
7. Bentz, James, East Cocalico.
8. Bingamao, George. Ephrata.
9. Brackbill, Christ, Warwick.
10. Boyer, Peter, Elizabeth.
11. Bentz, Rudolph, West Cocalico.
12 Brubaker, Samuel J., West Earl.
13. Brown, Daniel 8., West Earl.
14. Caulwell, John, Earl.
15. Cochran, Jacob, Earl.
16 CramliDg. Adam, East Cocalico.
17. Dougherty, JohD, Manhelm.
18. Druckenbrode, Jeremiah West Cocalieo.
19. Eshleman, Henry, Warwick.
20 Everhart, John, Epbrata.
21. EDgle, Cyrus, Elizabeth.
22. Frankbauser, Harrison, East Cocalico.
23. Garmau, Jacob S., Earl.
24. Einzer, Ephrata.
25. Glass, Heory 8., Epbrata.
26. Gerhart, Harrison, West CocaUco.
27. George, David, Penn.
28. Groff. Abraham U., Earl.
29. He>sh, Henry E., Earl.
30. High. Samuel, Earl.
31. Heigh, Lewis J , Eohrata.
87. Hortiog, Henry, Ephrata.
33. Ilart, Jacob, West Earl.
34. Hart, David, Earl.
35. Hinkle, Emanuel, East Cocalico.
36. Holbert, Christian, Ephrata.
37. Irvin. George. Warwick.
38. Joe, Martin, East Cocalieo.
S 9. Jacoby. David,'Earl.
40 *Jones, William, East Cocalieo.
41. Kemper, Henry, Epbrata.
42. Killian, Elias, East Cocalico.
43. Kaln, Davis, Earl.
44. Lanffer, William, EastCocalico.
45. Lewis, Samnel W., East Cocalico.
46. MeDtzer, William, Epbrata.
47. Martio, John M., Brecknock.
48. McEntire, James, Ephiata.
49. MartiD, William, Brecknock.
50. Nixdorf. Edward, Earl.
51. Peters, Gibson, East Cocalico.
52. Roads. Barton P., West Earl.
53.. George, East Cocalico.
54. Rupp, Benjamin, East Cocalico.
55. Rnpp, Lemon W., Ephrata.
56. Sbaffner, Henry, Warwick.
57. Shirk, Hiester, Ephrata.
58. Showers, James, West Cocalieo.
59. Shirk, Reuben 8., Leacock.
60. Smith, Franklin, Adamstown borough.
6L Suely, Harrison, East Cocalico.
62. Shirk, Henry, Ephrata.
63. Snyder, William, East Cocalico.
64. Strickter, Jonathan, West Cocalico,
65. Shimp, Daniel, East Cocalieo,
66. Sands, -Aaron, Reading, Berks county,
67. Bpangler, Jacob A.. Warwick.
68. Trager, Henry R, Warwick.
69: Ohrich. Jefferson, Ephrata.
70.. Weinhold, William, West Cocalieo.
71. Walter, WUUam } :East CocaUco.-
72. Wolf, George W„ Warwick.
73. Wade, Johh; Epbrata. .
74. Widman, Henry* Brecknock.
75; Wise, Henty 8., Ephrata.
76. Tandt, William, Ephrata.; "
77. Tonng, Christy Ephrata. ■ ' %
78: Zwally, Emanuel; Ephrata. > *-i ~
OHD in Prison. —Oh Thursday afternoon
to county prison from Penn twp.,
charged with an attempt to commit a burglary upon the
mTmmw’ J pi n ®Ji Uer ' * nd »'*’ threatening tile life of
Sa’.vi th# ..“ u «“ ° f the It ie apparent
Dm.. .IS? at of inanity or vumtaapotu
** i?® g» T ° hl * n “»"Hehiy Myen,and again
as Henry Frey. On Thursday he died in prisen and
Friday morning Deputy Coroner Snyder- held as inqneet
A verdict of dazth from intemperance was returned. Tbe
man* unknown here. He was apparently about 35 or 40
years or age, welldressed, ond from a paper found in his
p ,dcpt it appears that ha was doing bndnetw for a liquor
firm in Beading. The.body remains In the house at
the Poor House for a few days for identification.
CIIFCIMSATI OOBJBJBBFOHDKHCB.
~ . Caraasan, Oct 27th, 1862.
Bos. Irtxlugiscxs: Thinking a few lines from this
border city might prove acceptable to tbe numerous read
ers of your valuable Journal, I will endeavor to give you a
few inklings of the doings in tbe West. Now that the war
excitement in Kentucky is being further removed from us,
and the smoke of the late political battle has blown away,
the dead bnrled and the wounded cared for, onr city is
beginning to assume the usual routinoof basiness, pleas
ure, etc. The fall trade of the city has been fair, in many
departments very good, while others languish. The ex
traordinary high prices for all articles of general consump
tion will have a telling effect upon the poor the coming
winter, and there Jwill uaturally be An increased amount
of destitution. The almost fabulous prices for all kinds of
cotton goods, the great advenes in coal, (about 100 per
«nt.,) together with a corresponding increase of prices in
“•.vegetable market, tend to make ordinary living quite
a luxury.
The farmers In the surrounding country are sofferlng
* rom great drought prevailing in
this region; it has been Impossible for them to get in the
fall crops. The Ohio river at this point will soon be among
the things that ha*e been, and now scarcely looks the
ghost of itself; the Pontoon Bridge that was so rapidly
constructed during the memorable raid upon our city will
soon become useless, end navigation upon those splendid
and palatial steamers that ply up and down tbe river have
to be suspended. In short a rise Jn the Ohio is impera
tively demanded.
A few words in regard to the result of the recent elec
tions in Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania, a glorious trio.
They have covered themselves all over with glory; and by
their late verdict I trust forever pot the seal of condemna
tion npon those miserable fanatics that have so long been
fomenting discord to our once'.united and happy country
the pride of every American and the asylum for the op
pressed of the world.*
The victory of the Democracy at the late elections may
be ranked as the greatest trinmph of the people since the
formation of this government, and folly Betties for all
time to come the fallacious doctrine that daring the war
the functions of the Constitution are suspended, and the
people placed at the mercy of the rulers that be.
The issue of tbe endorsement or rejection of the late
proclamations of President Lincoln was faliy and fairly
placed before the people, and they have spoken in such a
way as admits of no farther controversy. In this State
wharo last year tbe Republicans carried their ticket by
55,000 majority, and where they fiauntingly boasted a few
months ago the Democrats could not raise a corporal’s
guard, we have carried almost every thing, the entire State
ticket elected by about 10,000, 14 out of 19 members of
Congress, and in this city and county a clear sweep of
every man on the ticket, giving us two members of Con
gresa for the first time in many years.
There are no doubt many things occurring in this region
that wonld be of interest tivyonr readers, if portrayed by
some more able correspondent, bnt I shall desist.
I see tbe draft in old Lancaster ie no respecter of persons,
and find the names of many old acquaintances among tbe
lucky prizedrawerg. It glyes me much pleasure to find
Little Eden clear of the draft, and enrolled as one of the
few Democratic districts of the Old Guard.
For The Intelligencer.
I propose to throw together a few reflections upon the
present crisis. We have been told that in these times there
can be but one allowable party—that for the Union. This
assumption I take to be one of tbe greatest fallacies. If
ever parties were necessary, they are so now. In pe i"ds
of turmoil and confusion the temptation aDd tbe disposi
tion, b?th, to nsurpation become multiplied in proportion
to tbe disturbance, and therefore the vigilance which par
ties only can command grows doably important.
The basis of all onr institutions !b Fre-dom, which in
cludes rights. There can be no freedom without discussion,
and free discussion gives rise to parties; for those who are
interested in the contrary will never yield to a mere argu- 1
ment, however strong, until it is placed beyond a doubt,
or is enforced by such a power as to make resistance vain,
—either the voice of the majority, or any other authority
that must bo acknowledged. What would become of the
boasted privileges of the people of this country, if they
were no longer to debate the propriety or impropriety, the
beneficial or injurious effect, of this or that public meas
ure? How soon would the sense of their essential inter
ests vauish altogether from the public mind, or grow ob-'
tuse and abortive?
I do not mean to advocate party in all It* phases—party
spirit, partizanship in their excess—which may ruin, may
destroy a conntry; but it would be as reasonable to say
that because an'•individual may eat too much, he should
therefore abstain from all food, as that political parties
shculd bo ignored, because they may run into great abases.
Neither Bhonld they takelhe first place. Party and patri
otism need uot be at war with each other. The former is
an instrumentality; if the means are denied .the effect is
lost, and it woald be faliy as unprofitable to deny tbe
means necessary to an end, as to substitnte them for that
which is the real matter to b<* found or maintain“d by
their assistance. Perhaps it may be said, wo cannot piy
attention to two reqnlrementa, when tbe whole soul of the
land is Remanded for ods purpose. If that plea wore true,
it would be a lamentable drcumetnuce, since, jast in tbe
proportion by which the.material energies are taxed, so
are tffe mental and moral. The principle of freedom is not
single, but varied, aud if webave no room for its incidents,
we shall have to confess ourselves disqualified tor that
which bas been onr great benefaction aod distinction.
This notion of unmingled devotion to an undivided
cause I conceive to arise from indolence, 1 Or the one idea.
It would be much easier to go along a supposed stra ght
path, uncoiu'orsed in great part, Than to con'cmpleto and
comparo ita seeming deviations and irregularities. But if
any one is incapable of looking round to obaervo the con
tiguous indications, why there is then no remedy; be
might nearly os well bo eutirely blind, except os to his
comfortable progress, where he is already started; yet the
time of commotion is not tbo best or most appropriate
time for mere facilities. The “one man power” is an idea
not complicated; the “one man power” demands no exer
tions. A person of the most limited conceptions can com
prehend its relations, at leapt io some degree. He can ap
predate its bearing, he may puffer from it, but it will
never perplex him with any confused variety of choice,
whereby to direct hia next step into the fntnre.
Bnt without dwelling upon the remoter results of indib
ference to a necessity, or the neglect of agencies, let ns
glance at the present. Suppose the Republican party were
unable to extricate itself from the existent difficulties, to
finish tbe war, or to make peace. Such a sequence might
occur—either because of the pledges made by It, or the
force of unforeseen circumstances, which wonld make that
which bad seemed desirable the reverse; or, because
though they had accomplished that which they professed
to have much at heart, they mu.-t act—they were expected
and required to do so, and they agreed to as much ; it is
one of the conditions q£ their existence. Or, how mach
more Btlll wonld such a dilemma be imminent, if they be
gan upon an aggressive principle only, without reference
to a worthy couclusion. or the prospect of a final object at
all? A party can with as little grace as an individual
betray its pledges, and for consistency’s sake it must sus
tain the course it set cut with, or stultily itself, not to
duty bound—in honor I Ad individual : can always change
his opinions, bnt not his promised deeds—and so a party.
To cast reflections, or to say where patriotism or anti-patri
otism is, is Dot required in thiß instance. The motive may
be good or tbe contrary, and eqoal’y such a consequence
may ensue. Experiments mast be made in politics as well
as the arts, else there is no advance; bnt the very natnre
of an experiment is, that the thing tried is Dot proved, and
may thence turn out a failure, or be in part only what it
purposed, or something else.—and the very matter de
manded is thus left und'>ue. In each case a new power or
impulse is required, What, then, it there were no other
party to take up this excluded but essential position?—
Would not the former—having no effective antagonism,
absorbing all the activity within itself—would it not go
on to tbe ruin and utter destruction of the country, if such
a result came within the sphere of its progress? Undoubt
edly it wonld. It bas a career; it cannot step short in it,
for it is one of tbe very elements of its being. But let an
other party exist actively; in dne time it steps in, aDd
finishes without difficulty and to better purpose what the
other Initiated, bnt coaid not end, even though it now
would, because of the conditions which bind it, or because
It was in its very origin deleterions and virions, lhat
other p rty, alone, can remedy tbe evil, if there Is any
remedy.
We must come to this conclusion : Political parties are
necessary to,Freedom, especially to self-government. We
renounce it, if we cannot abide the discrepancies of party.
This principle is the foondstion of onr institutions; with
out it we have no country, for the idea of one’s country
lies in the sentiment, net in the geography. We shoald
have no Past, aod should be obliged to make another be
ginning for a new nation, even while the nation is yet
new. When tbe Pilgrims came to New England their
country was still the old one, although they lived and ex
pected to remain in the new one, till they made this their
own by tbeir deeds and remembrances. G.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT HARPER’S
FERRY.
Harfer’s Ferrt, Oct. 29.
A destructive fire took place here this after
noon. Some teamsters were cooking their
dinner under the trestle work in the vicinity
of the Point, where immense quantities of hay
were being unloaded from the cars. The
fiames communicated to several hundred bales
of hay, and soon enveloped twenty-four cars,
loaded with hay, which were standing on the
trestle work. It beiDg feaTedthat the burning
cars would communicate the flames to the
bridge, a locomotive was attached, and they
were hastily run across to the Maryiand
side, where they were soon burned up. Up
wards of 500 feet of the trestle work was des
troyed, but the bridge was saved. This is
the fourth time that the exteosive trestles
here have been destroyed during the war.
Head Quarters Army of the Potomac,
Wednesday evening, 10 30 P. M.
A train of twenty cars laden with hay, oats,
and corn,, was burned to-day, at Harper’s
Ferry, under the following circumstance.
The space under the trestle work on the
Virginia side of the river is used sometimes
as a depot for hay. The engineer of the
forage train, in passing over the trestle work
to-day, left the ash pan open, sprinkling a
line, of fire its whole distance, which was
immediately fanned to a blaze by a high
wind. In backing his train over the flames
it also caught fire, and in order to save the
bridge it became necessary to run the train to
the Maryland side where it was entirely con
sumed.
About two hundred and fifty feet of the
trestle work was destroyed. No trains have
been able to 'proceed beyond .Sandy Hook,
since. Workmen are now busily engaged in
removing the rubbish, and the trains will
probably be able to run to the ferry to-mor
row.
Death of a Noted Speculator. —The
death of Baron John B. Steinberger, at St.
Louis recalls to mind his former career in this
part of the country, where he most be remem
bered as one of the boldest operators and most
hospitable of men. At one time he joined
Nicholas Biddle in cotton- speculation, in'
which they cleared $3,000,000. Afterwards
he attempted to buy up all the beef in the
country and monopolize the market, but was
defeated by the New York and Philadelpha
dealers, and he was ruined. He then went to
California, and, after experiencing the various
fortunes of a large speculator, he became re
duced, and went to St. Louis at the time
Fremont arrived, being sent by a party of
beef contractors at $2OO per month. In a
short time he was abandoned, and he died in
extreme indigence. At one time he owned a
large interest in Biddle’s bank, and could
check for $lOO,OOO at a time. He was a man
of noble character, stately mien, elegant
beariDg.i— Nno York Sun* - x
OF THB BORDBR statri.
Tbe Loaisville Journal, isi announcing the.
great conservative victory in Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Indiana, saya: “ We. do so with a
lighter heart than toe have carried in our bosom*
fir many weeks.”
HURRA TOR THB PIOPLR !
If the conservative party North have not
won .the;,; victory they have
given radicalism a shook that will prostrate
it. , .
The Union men of this State will hail the
result with unalloyed satisfaction. It is just
what they wanted. Radicalism seemed to be
rampant and dominant. We could hardly
foresee what wild,, impracticable and sangui
nary measure would come next. If the con
servatism of the North did not assert itself,
the darkest olouda hung all round the horizon.
Even then this-Umon could not be dissolved
permanently ; but it would have provided for
indefinite campaigns of blood, and the expen
diture of oceans of treasure that may be saved.
The Disumomsts per se need take no comfort
from this; indeed, they will not.- They un
derstand it too well. They have not been
deceived. The Riohmond papers, in their
oroaking, have found out and announced that
the conservatives of the North are fighting the
battles, not the radicals. The latter stay at
home, riot in spoils and power, and abuse the'
Generals who fight the battles, and strive to
divert the war from its legitimate purpose to
accomplish party ends. - They hear now what
the' millions at home say, and if the soldiers
were at home to vote, radicalism would not
have had room to lay its pestilent head. The
result means that the war is to be conducted
to restore the vitality of the Constitution and
the laws made in pnrsuance thereof in all the
States, and when this is accomplished that the
war shall cease.
This was the promise made at the beginning
of the contest by the President and by Con
gress. The rights of the States are not to be
overridden.
The'Disunioniats per se, the men whose am
bition demands a separate Government in the
South, need not ‘flatter themselves that they
see in the result any day-light for their pro
jects in these elections. Notwithstanding the
party lie, these men elected in opposition to
the Republicans or Abolitionists are the true
Union men. They will demand of the seceded
States obedience to the Constitution and laws.
They will accept no compromise, but that. —
The people of tbo South will see, however that
they have mistaken the North. The majority
now under the moßt unpropitious circum
stances demand the Union as it was and
tbe Constitution as it is. —Louisville Demo
crat.
CAMABGO.
THE POPULAR REVOLUTION.
Hallelujah ! —The wisdom, the judgment,
and the patriotism of the people—their ability
to govern themselves—has again been asserted
in the result of the recent elections in Indiana,
Ohio, and Pennsylvania ; and we have a right
to shout hallelujah 1 The people have en
gaged in a revolution which is to work out
their political salvation, and to bring back all
the States to a glorious Union—first in dis
carding, as they are doing now, tbe faithless
servants who have brought these monstrous
troubles upou the country, and putting in their
places men who will 6eek assiduously to aid
the President in the adoption of such measures
as will ensure the restoration of Peace and tbe
Union of the States.
No political revolution has ever been accom
plished under equal adverse circumstances,
aud yet no revolution was ever more thorough
and astonishing than that which was achieved
by the people on Tuesday last. No army yet
marshaled in the field against'the rebel hosts
could have hoped, in its most sanguine
moments, for so splendid a victory ; a victory,
too, achieved without the loss of a single life
—without any extraordinary excitement —
without expenditure of hundreds of millions
of money—but simply by the ballot-box—
that mute instrument to which we have been
referred by General McClellan for the settle
ment of all our political and sectional differ
ences ; and to whieh, if Southern States and
Southern Congressmen bad been true to them
selves and the Union, the appeal would nofc
have been made in vain 1 The votes of the
States last Tuesday show it—the votes to be
given on the fourth of November will confirm
it. Revolutions commenced under such aus
pices never go backward ! Missouri Repub
lican.
From Ibe London News.of Oct. 6th.
THE COTTON PROBLEM
The day was sure to arrive when the general
inability to believe in a supply of cottrn from
other sources than American Cotton States
must give way before the fact?. The day
seems to be near at hand. At tbe end of last
week the cargoes from India began to arrive.
Upwards of 10,000 bales from Bombay came
in during three days, and the quantity from,
that one port actually at’sea and at Liverpool
was found to be 397,000 bales ; so that Mr.
VilHers, whose promises were held to be rash
when he spoke of 400,000 bales appears to be
fully justified in the hopefulness of his tone.
The next disclosure was. that we have a pros
pect of a supply, in 1863, of 1,630,000 out of
the 4,000,000 which is the largest quantity
desired at the ordinary rate of price. This
amount was just double the quantity used
per for the last three months ; and
thus it would 6eem that the worst must be
past.
At the recent high prices, the weekly
average taken by tbe trade bas been 15,278,
and the promised supply, independent of any
change in American affairs, will yield 31,346
bales per week. The so.urees of this supply
are India, the Brazils, Egypt, Turkey, Greeoe,
Italy; chance cargoes from America, and
“other sources.” These “other sources” are
credited with only 25,000. Considering that
the West Indies are included under this hetfd,
it is reasonable to hope that the supply may
torn out to have been underrated even for the
coming season. The reports from Jamaica
are in the highest degree encouraging, both as
to tbe flourishing condition of the growing
crop and the rapid increase of the area devo
ted to cotton. In Guiana and Demerara the
proprietors are setting heartily to work to
procure the requisite labor, which may proba
bly be supplied from the United States.—
Agricultural machinery of tbe highest order
has been sent out to Porto Rico, wbicb is ex
pected to supply a large quantity, not less than
the produce of 2,000 acres, next year, and the
quality of ttfe West Indian cotton is declared
to be scarcely short of the highest rates of
America. Already we see that, as time pssses
on, we find ourselves under the process of being
weaned from our obstinate reliance on the
slave States, and from month to month we
shall learn to give up the irrational hope of
.any settlement in America which can restore
the old state of affairs.
16?-The Saints at Salt Lake have received
large additions to tbeir population tbe past
summer. There were on the plains last month,
en-route for Utah, of 5.000 emi
grants, carrying with them 640 wagons,
4,000 quadrupeds, and more than 100 tons of
machienery. The* Mormon agentß in Europe,
since April 16, 1861, to May 19, 1862, a
period of thirteen months and three days,
chartered no less than tweive ships for this
emigration—all arriving at New York. Seven .
of the shipß sailed from Havre, and a few
others came by “ miscellaneous ships.” Of
nationalities, there were 2,612 English, -251 _
Scotch ; 309 Welsh, 19 Irish, 1,515 Swedes, 115
Norwegianß,'lBo Swiss, 3 Italians,2l Germans,
5 French, and 11 Americans; making a total
of 5.556. These figures exhibit that England
still keeps the lead in furnishing disciples to
the new faith, and Scandinavia is close after
it. Of course both of these countries have a
larger supply of musiooaries than the others,
propagandi6m having full swing there—while
in France and Italy it is almost certain ban
ishment to attempt 1 ' the spread of the, work,”
besides there is a magnificent lot of priests
and monks in both these countries, and those
gentlemen, with all due respect to .them, are.
everything but the patrons of innovations.
WORDS OF PRUDESCK
The Newburyport Herald, a Republican
paper, says
To our* minds tbe elections just taken
place are a popular condemnation of radical
ism ; they are a warning to party leaders ; they
are a declaration in favor of a restoration of
the country to what it was originally, and
they are a vote in favor of peace at the earliest
hour it can be had on reasonable termsi If
the Republicans will read the writingupon
tbe wall, /and being warned, reject ultra
leaders, and measurs of doubtful.utility to say
the least, they will yet stem the tide and keep
in their own hands the adjustment of the
present questions that must soon be settled.
The people are capable of self government,
and if they cannot do that one way they will
another. The people will have the .Qqpstitn
tion and the Union, and everything eiso will
have to that object. ■ v .