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OUR 7 1 C4._
Now our flag is flung to the wild winds free,
Let it float o'er our father land,
And the guard of it, apotleas fame shall be
Columbia's choaen band.
"CLING TO THE CONSTITUTION, AS
THE SHIPWRECKED MARINER CLINGS
TO TAE LAST PLANK; WHEN NIGHT
AND THE TEMPEST CLOSE AROUND
HIM."-DANIEL W EBSTE R.
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET
FOR GOVERNOR:
GEORGE W. WOODWARD,
OF LUZERNE COUNTY
FOR JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT
WALTER H. LOWRIE,
OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY.
TO THE DitdIOCIIACY OF THE CITY
AND COUNTY OF LANCASTER.
In accordance with the resolution of the County Com
mittee adopted at their meeting on Thursday, August 6th,
yes are requested to assemble in the several Wards of the
City, and Boroughs and Townships of the county, on
SATURDAY, the 12th day of SEPTEMBER next, then
and there to elect the usual number of delegates to a
County Convention, to be held on WEDNESDAY, the 16th
day of SEPTEMBER next, at 11 o'clock. A. M , at Fulton
Hall, in the City of Lancaster, for the purpose of nemln
sting a ticket to be supported at the ensuing October elec
tion.
The Chairman would respectfully call attention to the
fact, that by the past rules and nsages of the party, dela.
gates are elected from Wards, Boroughs and Townships
ai2ly, and not from election districts.
The Township Committees are requested to give early
notice of the time and place of meeting for the election of
delegates.
R. B. TUMMY, Chairman
A. J. STMESAN, Becratary.
Uranus, August 6th, 1863
Democratic Ratification 31ass
Meeting
THE UNION AS IT WAS--THE CONSTI
TUTION AS IT IS.
RALLY ! RALLY ! ! RALLY !! !
In accordance with the resolution of the
Democratic Central Club of the City and County
of Lancaster, and the action of the Democratic
County Commilee, at the meeting on Thurs
day last, a Mass Ratifioation Meeting of the De
mooracy of Lancaster County, to endorse the nom
inations Or WOODWARD and LOWRIE, and re-affirm
the everlasting principles and truths of the great
Democratic party, will be held in the
MTV OF LANCASTER,
On THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1863,
AT 1 O'CLOCK, P. 111
The Democracy of Lancaster County are, there
fore, requested to rally in their might, on the anni.
versary of the birth-day of the Constitution of
the United. States, the only power to which the
Democratic party swear allegiance and loyalty.
- Eminent speakers—from several of whom favora
ble responses have already been received—will bo
present. Their names will be announced in the
posters and through the columns of The Intelli
geneer in due time.
Rally, rally, friends of the Union as it was, and
the Constitution as it is.
By older of the Democratic. Central Club.
SAMUEL WELCHEM,
ABRAM SHANK,
WILLIAM A. MORTON,
.HENRY WILHELM,
E. SCHAEFFER METZGER,
Executive Committee.
LeNcesrzn, August 11th, 1863.
Governor Curtin Re-Nominated.
The Republican State Convention
met at Pittsburg on Wednesday last,
and, after an angry discussion, re
nominated Governor CURTIN on the
first ballot—the vote standing 90 for
him to 43 for all others. The Cam
eron influence was brought to bear
with great virulence against him,
and a disastrous defeat was predicted
by several of the speakers if he were
again placed in the field. That such
will be the case we have not a doubt,
but the same result would have fol
lowed any other nomination. Gov
ernor CURTIN is just as-strong as any
other candidate named by the Abo
lition party, but neither has strength
enough to come within fifty thou
sand votes of au election. The doom
of Republicanism is sealed in Penn
sylvania, and nothing can save it
from the terrible retribution which
awaits it at the hands of a betrayed
and indignant people at the ballot
box.
Hon. DANIEL AGNEW, a Jurist of
small calibre who presides in the
Common Pleas of Beaver county,
and scarcely known out of his dis
trict, was nominated for Judge of
the Supreme Court. His only re
commendation with his party is that
he is an out and out Abolitionist of
the blackest type, but this will go
but a little way in eliciting the favor
of the people. He will be worse
beaten than CURTIN, and will never
be heard of atain after the second
Tuesday of October.
We shall have more to say of the
Abolition nominees hereafter, and
shall quote from leading Republican
papers to show that they are utterly
unworthy the support of the people.
In the meantime the Democratic
nominees, Messrs. WoonwAnn ,and
LOWRIE stand before the people with
characters pure and unsullied, no
man ever daring to accuse either of
them with any dereliction from the
path of rectitude and honor. They
are both_ gentlemen of great moral
worth, of commanding legal and
statesmanlike ability, and will reflect
credit on themselves and the Com
monwealth in the .high .positions to
which they are destined to be ele
vated 'by the people of Pennsylvania.
The Itentticky . Election.
As was, expected, the Kentucky
election on yesterday week resulted
in the election of nearly all the so
called Union candidates for Gover
nor and Congress. It. could not be
otherwise, when we consider that the
infamous BURNSIDE issued an order
but two or three days. before, the
election placing the whole State nu=
der martial law, and directing the
election officers to permit none to
vote but those who sustained the
present Administration. The elec
tion, under such circumstances, was
nothing more or less than a misera
ble farce, and shows to what extreme
lengths of tyranny and oppression
the party in power will go to retain
their positions.
But we are not without hope that
several—perhaps a majority—of the
members of Congress elect will be
found acting with the conservative
party when they get to Washington.
They are all natives of Kentucky,
we believe, and therefore we can
hardly suppose they will play second
fiddle to the Abolitionists of Con
gress. Time will determine their
status in this respect, and their Con
gressional course will be looked for
ward to with considerable interest.
To show that our belief is well
founded, we subjoin the following
extract from a letter addressed by
Mr. BRAMLETTE, the successful can
didate for Governor, to the Cincin
nati Commercial, in which he corrects
the misrepresentations of the Repub
licans with regard to a speech he had
-made a short time previous at Car
lisle, Ky. He says :
" I am made to say. in reference to the war
policy of the Administration, ' While Ken
tucky expressed no opinions, either dissenting
from or approving these measures,' &c. At
Carlisle, and in every speech made by me
elsewhere, I stated, with all the point and
distinction I could, that the ' Union Democra
cy' of Kentucky condemned, in the strongest
terms, all the radical measures of the war
policy of the Administration, and were pledged
to we all peaceful and legitimate means to
correct them ; that they held the Government
to be right, and the best Government in the
world, and that it should not be overthrown
because of any obnoxious measures or policy
of any Administration. That they hold that
there is a marked distinction between any ad•
ministration of the Government and the Gov
ernment itself. The one is transient—of
short duration, and may be all wrong ; the
other was formed to endure forever,' and is
all right.
" I have said in every speech, without ex
ception, and I have been particular .so to do,
that I gave my full and unreserved assent to
the platform of the Union Democracy'
adopted at Louisville,in convention assembled,
on the 18th of March."
JUDGE WOODWARD
The following sketch of Judge WOODWARD
was written many years ago, while he was a
member of the Convention which framed the
State Constitution. He was then only start
ing out on his public career, but his brilliant
talents had already attracted attention. The
high anticipations then made of the man have
all been realized, and to-day he stands without
a superior in the State on the score of per
sonal worth, public virtue, and mental attain
ments :
"GEORGE W. WOODWARD, OF LUZERNE.-
Mr. Woodward, of Luzerne, sits next to Mr.
M'Cahen. He is very tall and slender, and
very pale. His look, voice and manner indi
cate that he is a young man of no ordinary
cast, and of his age—fur he is but twenty
eight years old—l question whether he has
many superiors, either in Pennsylvania, or in
the Union. Cool, firm and dignified, the ob-
server will at once perceive, when he touches
a subject, that a giant's grasp is upon it. His
voice is clear and agreeable—his language
plain but well chosen, and he possesses that
rare : faculty of knowing when to stop, and
seldom says either too much or too little upon
the theme in discussion. He is always lis
tened to with the greatest attention, and the
best evidence of the estimation in which be is
held may be found in the fact that such men
as Chauncey, Hopkinson, Forward, &0., are
generally found to overlook others in debate,
to grapple with him. To a stranger, Mr.
Woodward appears self-poised, cold hearted,
and calculating, but in private life he is un
derstood to be warm in his attachments, and,
probably from precarious health, is subject to
great fluctuation of spirits. He is gifted,
however, with an unusual share of self-control.
He is a lawyer. The political party to which
he is attached has reason to be proud of such
a member, and constitutional reform has few
.\incerer or more powerful advocates."
THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE
DRAFT TO BE TESTED IN PHILA
DELPHIA.
A bill in equity has been filed in the Su
preme Court of Pennsylvania on the com
plaint of William Francis Nichols, a - citizen
of the United States and a citizen and resident
of Philadelphia. The complainant avers that
his rights have been violated and hie personal
liberty is about to be invaded by the defen•
dante under the pretence of executing the
conscription act. That he is advised that this
act is in derogation of the reserved rights of
the States, and of the liberties and rights of
the citizens thereof, and that the same is un
constitutional and void, there being delegated
by the States and the people thereof to the
Federal Government no power to enact such a
law. There are other counts in the bill,
which concludes with a prayer for a writ of
injunction to restrain the defendants from
further proceedings with or under said enrol
ment, requisition or draft of citizens of Penn
sylvania. Messrs. Charles Ingersoll, George
M. Wharton and George W. Biddle appear
for the plaintiff. No time has been fixed for
the argument, ‘vhich will be before a full
bench and at an early day.
APPREHENDED TROUBLE IN JAPAN.
—By way of San Francisco we learn
that, on the 18th of June last, the
American Minister to Japan, and the
Consul at Yeddo, hastily left their
residences in that city, with their
families, and took refuge on board of
an American steamer, fearing assas
sination. A bad feeling toward the
foreign nations which have been en
deavoring to establish commercial
intercourse with Japan, has been
recently evinced; and it is probabie
that there will be trouble before mat
ters are arranged on a satisfactory
basis.
Editors in Luck.
COI. ALEXANDER, of the Clarion
_Democrat, has been re-nominated for
the Legislature. His long and con
sistent service to the party, not less
than his ability and efficiency as a
legislator, render it a deserved com
pliment._
A. P. WHITTAKER, Esq., the spicy
and popular Editor of the Venango
'Spectator, has been nominated for
Register and Recorder of that county.
B. F. MEYERS, Esq., of the. Bed
ford Gazette, is also nominated for
the Legislature.
The Louisville Journal re
gards the result of the recent elec
tion in that State as " a deep warn
ing to two Administrations—the one
at Washington and the other, at
Richmond."
A kir° 'r
MUD OP
BROODY ARISTdda
RACY.
Demi, Dottatrewri, Esq.,. of Philadelphia,
addressed the Gcetheart.rind Diagnothian So ,
defies of Franklin and Marshall College, of
.
this city, on the 28th nh., and in: the course
of his remarks he gave 'his audience the fol
lowing - sketch or - the condition'of society as'
now exhibited in- the chief places of resort
where:nch "Jaeltitinablett" as-are present on
the surface "most do congregate." It is sadly,
painfully, lamentably true:
" Grief may shed its bitter tears in the
silent chamber, poverty may starve in its
hiding-place, the patriot may mourn, but no
grief, nor fear, nor feeling &Pam to dwell in
the public mind or touch the public heart.—
This year has been wild with fashion, hilarity
and show. Oar Northern cities eclipse the
past in gorgeous.dissipation ; more diamonds
flash in the glare of the gay saloons ; the
gentlemen stop'at no extravagance, and the
ladies in full dress powder their hair with
gold ; dinners, ball and masquerades, in os
tentation and luxuriance, turn midnight into
day; prancing steeds and gaudy equipages
carry light-hearted loveliness through all the
drives of fashion ; stores where jewels, pearls
and precious stones, and the rich goods of
Europe and Asia are exposed, are crowded
with purchasers, and have doubled sales,
though gold touched a premium of seventy
per cent.; speculators in stooks make fortunes
in a day ; palatial stores and marble dwellings
are springing from the earth on every side ;
resorts of amusement were never so numerous
and never so crowded ; prize-fights excite for
a time more interest than the battles of the
Republic ; thousands of dollars are staked on
the favorite of the race ; gambling- hells are
wide open to entice to infamy the young;
crime is fearfully on the increase ; the law
grows impotent, and men who have, by the
basest means, defrauded the laborer, the
widow and orphans, hold high their heads
and go unwhipped of justice."
Well might he enquire, "Is all this the
ruddy glow of health, or the hectic flush ?"
And truthfully does he also say, of politicians,
that " becoming millionaires by the war, some
of them care not when it ends." From some
ugly things he says of Demsterats we perceive
that he has forgotten all he ever did know
about them ; but he may safely be presumed
to know his present political associates very
well.
PIERCE AND BUCHANAN TO JEFF
DAVIS
A Vicksburg correspondent of the Cincin
nati Gazette, speaking of the capture of Jeff.
Davis' private library and correspondence, by
a body of our soldiers, says:
" Among other things found, there were
letters showing that the conspiracy to disrupt
the Union had been in existence years before
the election of Mr. Lincoln. Letters from
Presidents Buchanan and Pierce were dis
covered. They show no small obsequiousness
toward the mighty Jeff."
It is to be hoped that this discovered cor
respondence may be published, forming, as it
must, a valuable contribution to the history of
the rebellion.—.N. Y. Post.
We presume the authors of the letters al
luded to would not have the least objection
to their publication. We do not believe they
contain any word or sentiment unbecoming
an independent, honorable and patriotic
American citizen, and the insinuation to the
contrary, by vindictive partisans, le the trick
of cowardly calumniators. The fact that
among Jeff. Davis' effects was a cane present
ed to him by Franklin Pierce, is paraded with
great significance, for the purpose of impress
ing the public with the belief that the Ex-
President approves of Davis' present position,
when every candid man will at once admit
that in the circumstance there is nothing to
excite any special attention, and is only evi
dence of ordinary courtesy and kindness
existing between a President and a member
of his Cabinet. Such contemptible libels as
are resorted to by the radicals to injure every
one who does not join in their schemes, would
be scorned by honest men, but are the very
food they feed upon.—Boston Post.
"This discovered correspondence " will not
be published, as the N. Y. Post pretends to
desire. But it is probable that garbled and
distorted extracts and pretended abstracts
may be—made up with the base view to mis
represent and falsify the sentiments f the
writers. If there is any thing in the letters
that can be used to that end, we may rescue
bly expect them to be thus used ; but the
writers have nothing to fear from a full pub
lication of " this discovered correspondence."
If any such has been discovered, it undoubt
edly bears date years before the breaking out
of the war.
A TORY SRN .EIDIENT
That paragon of mixed " loyalty" and men
dacity, the Harrisburg Telegraph, gives utter
ance to the following :
" .11 we do not harmonize our diff:irences
and concentrate all our forces, the enemies of
the Government will succeed in electing
Woodward Governor, a result to be estimated
as more disastrous to the cause of the country
than the defeat of Meade by Lee. Indeed, it
would be far better to allow Lee to penetrate
Pennsylvania and establish himself in Har
risburg, than to allow Woodward to succeed
at the ballot-box and then be inaugurated
Governor of the State."
Such a sentiment, truly observes the Har
risburg Union, could come only from the bead
of a traitor and the heart of a villain. And
yet the owner of the paper is Mr. Lincoln's
Postmaster and the editor Gov. Curtin's State
Librarian. Is it any wonder the people have
lost confidence in Executives who employ such
dirty tools? Better that Lee bad defeated
Meade than that Woodward should be the
Governor! What honorable man —what pa.
triotic citizen will indorse the atrocious sent!.
ment ? If there is a single man who has any
just claims to honor or patriotism willing to
do so, we should like to see him. In the
mean time we shall cherish the belief that the
owner and editor of the Telegraph—Lincoln's
Postmaster and Curtin's Librarian—stand
alone in their infamy.
INSURRECTION IN CALIFORNIA
It appears that the officials sent to take
possession of the Almaden quicksilver mines
in California, were resisted by the miners,
armed to the teeth, and fortified to preserve
any infringement of their rights. It was not
deemed prudent to shed blood in asserting
the authority of the General Government over
the property, and consequently, by direction
of the President, the military force was not
brought upon the ground to disposess the
miners.
Th 3 condition of the class of men who
work these mines is very rude, and they are
not expected to understand nice points of
of law. It has been their custom to resort
to the rifle in all disputed matters, rather
than to the precedents and judgments of
learned Courts ; and it is not an easy matter
to convince them of the propriety of so
knowledging any other title to the property
upon which for many years they have worked,
but that which poses.iion gives them.
,W 2 JOHN A. MAGEE, editor of the
Perry County .Democrat, has been re.
nominated for the Legislature in the
Perry district. Mr, Magee served
with great ability last winter, and
his constituents justly rewarded him
by a re-nomination for the same po
sition. We hope that instead of hav
ing seven he will have seven hun
dred majority.
A NEW 'COUNTY PROJECT DEFEATED —At
the last session of our State Legislature, a
bill was passed erecting anew county out of
the northern part of Luzerne, to be called
Lackawanna. The Seal decision of the ques
tion, however, as a recent amendment to ours
Constitution requires, was left to a vote of the
people of Luzerne county, to be taken at a
special election. ' That election was held on
the 21st ult., and the result is a majority
,of
3,737 against. •the' oounty. The vote
stood, 3, 350 for, and 7,187 against it. •
SokTtkp tiiimPUBLICA.N SLAVERY.
The freednin-shriekers, the men who brought
upob the Country this awful war, and all the
ruin, blefid, suffering and ivoe - resulting from
out of pretended sympathy for the,slave
_ .
and.-tietestation of slavery ; -- this , :,party'have
, .
alreadY begun to enslare the neiroe' herein
the 'North I And there is little doOtt that 'WS
ehadl yateee a system of slavery bt.ieteo etf:itiek
as oppt4isiVe to the negro as titiffrom Wch
they are liberating him at such a terrible cost
of blamrand treasure. A correspondent of the
Newark Journal, writing from Orange County,
New York, makes the following statement
Four farms are worked" in this town by
slave labor, Instead-of slavery. being;abolish
ed in the Southern States. this war is plant
ing it on Northern soil. From the window by
which I write, I can see a New York slave at
work. The farmer pays. a Government agent
fifteen dollars, and two contrabands, male and
female, are sent him, and he owns them ab
solutely body and soul, fortwo years,. and,
(quoting from Seward's bell ringing speeeh)
" No power on earth except the President of
the United States can release them." To effect
this, families that once lived together on a
-Southern plantation are now divided. The
children, so the Republicans say, are to be
educated, and when old enough to work,
bound out, and as the grown-up negroes can
not get a living of themselves, they must work
under an "instructer " for two years, after
which they may get wages if they can. Other
Republicans than the four that I know of are
about to buy slaves for two years and die
charge their white laborers. They say they
would be doing injustice to themselves not to
u.e the means that God and Abraham now
offer them to till their farms, as white labor
is hard to be got, and after the draft will be
still more scarce. How the negroes' condi
tion is much bettered, I can't see, but as the
government must be supported, I have noth
ing to say.
DISAFFECTION IN NORTH CAROLINA
The disaffection of North Carolina to the
Richmond government, so long indicated has
taken a bold phase in the recent declarations
of the Standard, the leading paper of Raleigh,
the capital. It openly denounces Jeff. Davis
as a repudiator, in whom no confidence can
be placed, and whose efforts to establish a
Southern confederacy will be a failure. Ip re
ply to the Richmond Enquirer, which calls
upon Jeff. Davis' " to suppress the Raleigh
Standard and wipe out the Supreme Court of
North Carolina," the Standard says that Gov
ernor Vance will stand by the Supreme Court,
and that if Jeff. Davis attempts to use phys
ical force to suppress the Standard, he will
be met with physical force, and a revolution
in the State will be the result.
The Standard also says that North Caro&
has furnished ninety five thousand soldiers
for the causeless war, forty thousand of whom
are killed and wounded ; and that she should
send a delegation to Washington at once, and
see what terms can be obtained, and not wait
for Jeff. Davis.
TERRIBLE EVENT IN NORTH CARO
LINA.
The correspondence of the New York Her
ald, describing the late cavalry raid under
Gen. Potter, from Newberg, N. C., to Rocky
Mount and Tarboro, and the destruction of a
vast amount of rebel property at the former,
and.of the bridge at the latter place, states
that the order to fire the bridge was given too
soon. A large number of contrabands had
just got over, many were still on the bridge,
and many were on the other side, all eager to
join our column and flee from their masters
in Dixie. Some of our own men were also on
the other side, but, with a few exceptions,
they contrived to make their escape. When
the burning bridge, fell it is feared it carried
into the stream below, or consumed in the
vain effort to extricate themselves, between
five and six hundred poor negroes.
The rioor negro suffers everywhere at the
bands of his philanthropid friends. They steal
him from his happy home, force him into the
army, put him into the front ranks and drive
him upon the batteries and bayonets of the
enemy. At Port Hudson, a negro regiment
was placed in front in the assault ? and driven
on, by friendly bayonets behind, to the terrible
slaughter which met them. The same was
done in the assault upon Fort Wagner near
Charleston, with the Massachusetts negro
regiment; the Boston Journal's account says
" regulars were stationed behind to shoot all
runaways, and five were thus killed." This
is the "freedom" which abolition philan—
thropy secures to the poor negro, after making
hie alleged wrongs the means and occasion of
plunging the country into this terrible war.
THE BLACK B EIGADE
It is announced by the special correspon—
dent of the N. Y. Tribune at Washington,
that
" Adjutant General Thomas will itnmedia
lel), return to Vicksburg and the lower Mis—
sissippi to prosecute the work of organizing
colored troops, so auviciously commenced by
him."
How " auspiciously " the work has been
commenced we shall let a correspondent of a
Chicago paper tell. He writes from Vicks—
burg, under date July 24th, as follows :
"Emancipation is beginning to 'plague
the inventors.' Black igades are foileres,
whatever may be written to the contrary.—
About 5.000 black soldiers are in this depart
meet. They are wholly inefficient—if for no
other reason—for lack of MATH and,disciplinc
They are neglected at Washington. They are
not properly organized here. Their officers
are scarcely recognized at present, and left
without the means of doing more. Nearly a
thousand men were brought from Natchez
last week. Gen. Grant orders that none but
men fit fir duty he accepted at present, and
that the others be notified that they aro free,
but advised to stay with their former masters
and earn a living, until he can nroVide for
them. Probably not less than 12 MO women,
children and men unfit" fir duty are now here,
and daily fed at Government expense ! What
shall be dune with them ?"
FREEDOM. FOR THE NEGRO
The N.Y.Post, in descanting over the probable
effect of war upon slavery, very safely comes
to the conclusion that it may still survive the
" irrepressible unflict" which Lincoln & Co.,
are waging, and says :
"If slavery is to be continued in this coun
try, we want the Irish and Catholics to take
the place of the negroes, and let the mere in
telligent and more virtuous blacks be libera
ted."
The people of Ireland immortalized their
love of liberty by a long list of patriots
in the contest which freed us from the inset
lence'and tyranny of England. With the first
cry of liberty they aroused themselves kr
battle, and in every plan wherever and
whenever the cry to arms has been heard,
either to win or save the independence of our
country, Irishmen
" Have pour'd their blood like ruby wine
On Freedom's altar shrine."
It is this people the " Post" propose to
enslave in order that the negroes may he free.
What philanthropists these Republicans . are.
Guy. ANDREWS. 900,000 NOT DisPoeED TO
Go.—The draft is but the merest farce in some
of the New England districts. For example,
in the Fourth (Boston) district the whole
number examined week before last was 1,135,
of whom 937 were exempted, 70 paid three
hundred dollars, which makes 1,007 that got
clear, 108 offered substitutes, and ten were
passed as fit for duty. Thus, lees than one
in a hundred of the original conscripts go
into the army; and this; too, in a section of
country that only required the recognition of
the negro to "otiose every road leading to the
National Capital to swarm with recruits."—
At this rate it will require ninety millions of
-conscripts to obtain the ."nine hundred thou
`sand meti" so -enthusiastically. -promised
Father Abraham by the Rs:dioals. '
LOCAL DEPMIrIM.
EXEMPTS PROM .TEE DR&PT.
62t A J Sandshoe Pity HEW physical disability:
637 Hobert Price City N E W physicel dleabillty and de
• L. - . ' - fectivrosight.•_ -
64.1eriacItaliershall W. Donegal ander Hit years. .-
62113enry-J Seabe! Warwick physical disability.
628'idanraRel4elmchWarwiek lore teeth, - -
6231,1sisattat.4 nip* Wetrt:irick defect in both feet—
Undone.
11111 1 14, - JohealidetrW Donentltader 11/yetrs.
-.44llaraWit Brturir Derti Sal.lonlAr %rim*
Iliartyll,lol s 4llarattr cart lirtighie cogriste — s.
6 Henry Enoch Warwick loss &rapper teeth.
6'34 George W Hepp Warwick amanroda.
635 SimonllStanfer Lancaster twp physical
618 Gangs Wolf W Earl physical disability.
657 Abram Shultz Eden die in right shoulder.
6 , 8 Hiram S Witmer Manor gun shot wound In left leg.
639 Isaac Goble Warwick only son and support of aged
- • and infi:m parents..
647 George WelnholdEL Coertico reconsidered and dis
ebused for disability.
.651 Ifccry.GErriadylitanoi hernia.'
642 Wm H Gable Strasburg bor physical
64.4 Andrew B Clements W Lampeterhernia. _
644 Burt Gochenour W Ilempfield loss teeth.
645 John Realer Providence physical diaability
-648
Isere Leacocicingulnal hernia.
647 Michas' M Seersanig & Earl amaniosie. •
618 David H Mellinger Manor shortening of left leg.
649 - Adam Degas N-Earl mental:and physical disability.
.670 Elias Beam Leacoek t.hyeical disability.
651- Conrad Stump E Donegal elec'u of parents.
652 Harry Efievene.ll Lampeter, loss of ell the teeth of
upper jaw. • '
653 Christian Wade, Drumore. epilepsy
664 Barton Atchisen,brumore, disease of the cutaneous
glands of the body and sheet
6'S Mlcha-1 Glackea. Dramore partial blindn's
656 Cyrna Charles, Dramore, furnished a substitute last
draft
657 Michael Helm, Dramore, over 36 years of age and
married L.
678 Isaac Thomas, Dramore, shortening of left leg
659 Gee W Weaantt, Dramore, empliy seas of large
660 William Brice, Drnmore, deficient capacity of lungs
661 Abraham Cramer, Dnunore, vary large hellions on
both feet
682 TlrOmas 51 Barnes, Dramore, surgeon's-certificate of
phtisis pulmonalle
663 George Eiensey, Drumore, otorrhoea and imbrcillty
864 Wm Evans, Dimmers, loss of all the teeth in upper
. jaw
665 Thomes Wilson Dramore, blindness of right
eye from nebula on cornea
666 John M Bishop, Dramatis, only eon and support of
aged mother. -
667 Wm H Todd, Drumore, two of the same family and
household now in mll'y service
.668 David Halliger, Drumore, epilepsy
689 Wm Drybread. Earl, incerted tumor on back
676 John Martin, Earl, disability from wound inright
forearm
671 John Haverstick. Drumore, resides in Sadebary
township, Chester county
672 John Wesley McCall, Drnmore, purulent otorrbeett
673 Thomas Matthews, Dramore, gunshot injuries of left
arm and pelvis
674 Jacob Zimmerman, Earl, over 35 years of age and
married
575 Carpenter W Weaver, Earl, substitute in service
last draft
670 John Mentzer, Ertl, father and only support of three
motherless children
677 Jonas Pfautz, Earl. ulcer on left leg
678 Gideon Beyer Earl, surgeon's certificate epilepsy
679 Wm L Weaver. Earl, physical deformity in chest
B°o Wm H Rum, Earl. physical dicabllley
681 Isaac Eshleman, B Earl physical dle'y
655 Joseph Martin, B Earl, stronmorus disease of the
Tared
683 John (3 Kurtz, B Earl, hernia
684 George Stills, B Earl, in service March a
605 Joseph C Mote, B Earl, disease of lungs
086 lease S Oberholtzer, S Earl, enbetitute in service
last draft
657 Lazarus Wolf, IS Earl, only eon and support of aged
parents
688 Isaac Arnold, B Earl, only eon and support of aged
widow
089 Jeremiah Steal, B Earl, hernia
Jesse Beeler, B Earl, atrophy, with disability in left
arm
f9l John R Sourbeer, Coneetova, father and only sup't
motherless children under 12
692 Jeans D Swartly, Hemplield 8, burgeon's certificate
of ph tilde pn'monalle
693 John B Masser, Danegal W, under 20 years
694 Solomon High, Earl E., ettbetitute in service from
last draft
695 George Trostel, Earl 11, over 35 years of age and mar
ried
698 Hezektah Killian, Earl 31, father and only support of
motherless children
697 John W Colm. Earl 8 , dilatation of aorta
698 William G-ahr, Earl B , disease of heart •
699 Isaac Martin, Earl 8., father and only support of
motherless children
700 George Guise, Donegal W; furnished substitute het
draft
701 Peter H Sanders, Earl E., disability In right leg from
fracture
702 Adam B Hoar. Earl W, lose of teeth
703 Daniel Burkholder, Earl W, hernia
704 Urish Miser, Leacook, surgeon's certificate of pro-
lupine of the rectum
706 !logos. B Landis, Earl W, under 20 yrs
706 John liinsinger, Earl W. alienage
707 Isaac B Zwalley, Earl W, defective teeth
708 L Miller Wilkinson, Lampeter W, over 35 years of
age and married
769 Sohn Riddle. Hempfleid W, alienage
710 8 H Brubaker, N W W City, dis ability in right
hand
711 Joseph Walton, Martin, permanent contraction index
and middle fingers left band
712 Ephraim Net zel, Hempflold W., only son and sup
port of aced and infirm parents
713 Henry Appold, Mt Joy Bor, reel lee Rapho
714 Nathaniel Given, Columbia, lose of ring and middle
fingers of left hand.
715 Henry H Martin, Rapho, substitute In service last
draft.
7 6 'Levi Brandt Rapho substitute in service last draft.
717 Joseph Hammer Rapti., subetitute In service last
draft.
7 8 Martin Grebe Rapho substitute in service last draft.
719 Jacob libeinhart Eapho substitute in service last
draft
720 John 5i Shank Manor permanent contraction of mid
dle finger on left hand.
721 John M Reeser Mt Joy tap disability 11? right arm.
723. Henry Ressler W Lampeter I.es of great toe on left
foot.
723 Joe Barr McCasicev City N W W surgeon's certificate
of chronic rheumatism.
724 Jacob Z .11er Mt Joy tap election of hie parents.
725 Abraham Mumm a Eapho cefective appositi st of
Jaw . and teeth.
728 A 3 13E,W•it'S City Di W W resides in Augusta, Va.
727 Prim, D Miley Ephrata physical
728 Gro mclllienny Dlanheim twp in Erervice March 3
1881.
729 Henry Weitzel Earl deafness—emir. certif.
730 .7“hu M . Friday W Elempfield physical disability—
probably phthiete
731 Jesse French Washington bor only eon and support
of widowed mother
732 }emboli Weever, Eapho, over 35 years of age and
married
712 Henry Do4ter, Warwick, die'y in left leg
734 George Wall, Pity 6 W W, two of came family and'
homa.hold now In mire tier - Vice.
745 D P Morrison, City 76 E W phthisis pulmonalis
736 James ranches, City N E W, only ton and support
of widowed mother
737 Harrison Fekert, Leasock, substitute in service last
draft
738 Levi Lenbart, W Lampeter, substitute in service
last draft
109 William 8 Smith. Penn fracture of skull
740 Israel Greenawalt, flit Joy Bor., 108 i of sight in right
eye
741 Andrew Greider, W Etemptleid, disability In right
arm
742 Frederick Lercher, City S W W. hernia
743 , 4 W Porter. Manheirn Verp., phie'l dls'y
744 Henry Keller. Lel:mock, lose of teeth
745 Geo W Miller, Strasburg TwP, excessive stammering
746 Wm Frankhonser E. Cocalico trachial consumption.
747 Ono Wolf Man physical disability in left leg.
749 Bfinj H Lutz Elizabeth anbst In service tact draft.
749 Peter Meleky Elizabeth hernia.
750 Andrew Brown Eden loss of teeth.
751 Beej Johnson Colombia L W physical disability.
753 Jos B Miller Ellz •heth epilepsy Bur. cert.
753 John A Striae Columbia II W loss of teeth.
751 Daniel I. Killian Elizabethtown strnmous die
756 Francis Elllian Elizabethtown intellectria , die.
756 Matthew Simpson Elizabethtown physical disability
in right leg.
757 Addison Miley Elizabeth in service March 3.
734 Jacob Kurtz Ephrata physical disability.
755 Wesley Mc•^.bate Colerlin two members oZ same
family and household now in military service.
760 Peter BKurtz .Epbreta
701 Peter Ulrich Ephrata caries of left thigh
762 William Meek Ephrata diseased tibia,
765 Jacob apple Ephrata election of mother.
761 B Mellinger 'Ephrata injury right foot,
765 Martin Hoffman Ephrata hernia
766 Pnril Bingamaa Ephrata physical disability.
1137 Martin Andel , Ephrata diseased ulna.
768 George King Ephrata bunions.
769 David baring Ephrata physical disability,
v7O Berj L cover Ephrata subst in service loot draft
771 Danl. C Fredanck Ephrata over 35 yrs a..d married.
T H E CITY'S EXCE3S.-0.1 Saturday morning-
Mayor Seances,, received n letter from Col. .11031Z“BD,
Prevent ;Marshal Geusral of Peons. I vanes, at Ilarriaburg,
to relation to the city's excess. It appears that Cl. Ii re
volved an answer to hes Inquiries iron headquarte
at Washington. Provost Marshal General Fry says: "When
the fact is shown that the city of Lancaster has actually
fornilhod a greater number of men than has been called
for lip to the time of ordering thu draft, au equal number
may he discharged ; bet until that fact is proven, no ac•
Lieu ran be taken "
Gs,mcz M buss, Peg, and CHARLES It l'asazzr, Erg,
Ms 3 or's Clerk, proceeded to Harrisburg yesterday, by re
quest of Mayor Sanderson—the latter gentleman having
received 4 despatch frogs Gov. Curtin, requesting his at
tendance at that city, with the noc-seary documents in
reference to the city's excess. The Mayor was unable to
gu himseP, but deputized those gentlemen, who are CAT
prepared with the necessary proofs, Se. , to establish the
just,ce of the city's claims.
A cans precNely similar fr, *that of Lancaster hag been
brought to the attention of the authorities at Washington,
with favorable results, as we learn from the following
Item among the telegraph news "The Bon Alfred fily,
of New l'ork, has presented to the War Department the
claims of the corporation of Rochester and the 281t1 Cons
groasianef District, to be Credited on the present draft in
his district with the excess of men tarnished by it on
former quotas. It is understood that the Department se
ceded to the alto-canoe claimed, and that the order will
apply to other ximilar cases."
FURNACE BLOWN IN.—Ovger'e Furnace, in
the i.outbern part of the city, which has been lying idle
for a number of years, was blown in last week, and DI new
in full and successful operation. We are Wad to note this
returning evidence of prosperity in the mechanical later.
este of oar city.
PASSENGER AND MAIL SCHEDULE.—The dif
ferent Pas‘env, Trains on the Pennsylvania IlailrAd
leave this city
LECZN EASTWARD.
Thrl,o Escrow
Tiloot Joy Accommodation__
I aniriater Acccmmodation
Fa-t Lino
FAS G Anil
Mount Joy Accommodation, No 2
11.nrrieburg ACCOM/1100 !ion ......
. LI& VE WZYT WAE.D.
_,.
.... .
Through 'Express 1.....1 a. Ta
Nest 91.i1 , 10-55 '.
Mount Joy Accotumedition 11.05
Feet Lino 2.23 p. m.
liiirri*hurg Accommodation 6.08'
Lai.cmster Accommodation 744 "
Mount Jo:: Accommodation ' No. 2 7.50
The mails arrive and close at the (3,ty Poet Office se fol.
Iowa: '
ALLRIVALS.
Thronh Mall from the Last-1 2! a, m. and 223 p. m.
Through Mail from the West-330 a. ID. and 2.25 p. m.
Wav Moll from the East-10.55 a. or.
Way Mail from the'Weat-9 a. m. nod 225 p. m.
Southern Mail from Baltimore and Waabington, 2.25 p. m
LOGPS TOIL CLosISG MAILS.
Eastern Throogh'Ehill, for Philadelphia, 1.30 p. m. and 8
p. m.
Way Mail East, for Philadelphia and Intermediate offices,
a' 8 it m.
New York and Noitbern and Eastern States, 1.30 p. m.
For Harrisburg, and Cumberland, Franklin and Perry
counties, at 10 a. m. and. 8 p to.
Northern Central, Juniata and Western New York, at 10
Way Mall Wort—For Landieville. &deluge, Mount Joy,
Elizabethtown Middletown, Higbspire, Rempfleld,
Mauretania, Wrightsville, Maytown, Bainbridge axed Fal
mouth at 10 a. ne.
For Columbia, York, &e., at 10 a. no.
For Baltimore and. Washington, 1). 0., at LBO p. m. and 8
. ,
.
. .
p. m.-
Pittsburg Through Mall at 130 . p. m. and 8 p. Ea.
3or Columbia, York, Marietta and Harrisburg at 10„ a. in.
:-and 6. p. m. . _
Rev. daitl2l WOOD, D. D.,
Bishop of the Diocese of F . hifidelottia, administered. the
Bacnonent &Confirmationto nearly one hundred persens
in Et.. Mary's Tettholle March, Vine street, on Sunda)
morning last; it-8 o'clock. The exerthes were deeply
solemnand interesting. •
--At 10 c.7olock the inimical prellininary to the imparting
of the Papal Blessing took plebe. A little after that bone
thelistgrp made his appearance In the Mts. accompanied
by. the venerable:Father Ifampus, Revair. °Tam. Rey
J. SicCososrr and Rev. Jamas 11.lgiT, when Mass was
sal& Before Ininertipg the Papal Blessing, the Bishop cic.
livered a 'beet extedip' oraneons&secotrae from the words
of the text,: ~, , Thonait Peter. Itpari - thle rods I will band
mr chlutb,..! ellioesoina tie iticamient, interesting
and Instriactive;and the Blehoplifhirmumer of speaking
is inipresiive and pleasing. "He spoke of the persecutions
to which the chorea had been subjected—bat God. acconi
ing to his promise to Peter, had always come to its relief.
In conoiniing he save an exceedingly interesting aceount
of his visit to Rome a year ago, to attend the canonisation
of the Martyrs of Japan. He told that the Pope, Pius IX ,
felt a deep latex...a in the church in this country, and had
-egrreitied a strong desire to be among his people here. At
t convocation of Cardinals, Arch litehopsiand Bishops,
he, the Pope, had given them permission to Impart, in his
stead, the Penal Blessing and also to grant plenary 'tidal
gene. The Pepal gleaning was then imparted amid deep
-mnitis and reverence, after which the congregation
ring dismissed.
The music by the Choir and Organist, Rdllll.T Drexel,
on this occasion was fully up to their high reputation.—
Where all did so well, It would be insidious to particular
ize se to the excellence of any one voice.
- Crowded congregations were present at both the morn
ing aervieee, there being many in attendance from other
churches.
POLITICAL.—The address of GEORGE Nat•
araw, Jr., Esq., before the Democratic Central Club. on
Thursday evening Nat, was a tine effort, and, notwith
standing the intense beat of the weather. was attentively
listened to by a crowded audiem.e. Mr. N's speeches are
always characterised by sound, practical sense and strong
reasoning sod argument
Mr JtMEB B Zucca); of York, followed Mr Nauman in
a brief and truly eloquent addre•e. We presume, as Mr.
Z 1a a very young man, that thin wan hie first political
speech. We Judge then, from his maiden einrt, that he
will become an able, eloquent and accomplished orator,
and doubtless hen a brilliant future before him.
The Glee ( bib were p'ecent, and performed their parts
admirably. Thin has become quite an loatitntion.
Mr. DAMIXI. E SCH(EDLIII will address the Club on Thurs
day evening next, at 8 o'clock, in the English language.
A Democratic meeting will be held on Wednesday, Avg
mit 12th. at 7 O'clock, P. NI, at the public hose of Mr.
George Diller, in the village of intercom's., which will be
addreened by-J. W F Swim Eeq ,of this city.
The Democracy of Providence township will meet at the
publir home of Mr. Cyrus Winters, Elickory Grove, on
Saturday, August 22d, at 1 o'clock, P. M. Several addresses
will be delivered.
The proceedloge of the Democratic meeting at Elizabeth
tewn, on the evening of the Bth inst., came to band too
late for this Issue. They will appear In our next.
Home ON a FCTRLOUGH.—We had the plea
sure, on Friday last, of taking by the hand our old and
esteemed friend, Lt. Col. nannies 9 PYYSR, of the 77th
Regiment, who had Jost returned on a furlough of twenty
days from Gen. Rosecrans' army. The Col. Is looking well
and Is In buoyant spirits. He has the reputation of being
one of the most gallant and accomplished officers in the
iionthwestern service. He looks every inch the soldier.
Capt. Jones C SEIROAD, commanding Col Pyfer's old nom.
penv, accompanied that officer home. Capt. S. left,here
as Ordetly Sergeant of the company, and by brave and
meritorious conduct alone has succeeded to the command.
Ho Is a Due officer, and highly esteemed by the officers and
men of the 77th.
Mu. 'D. E. SCREDLER, the Berke County
Orator, is again in this city, where he will have his bond
quarters until the present campaign is over, and whereat!
three wishing to communicate with him will please ad.
dress him.
Comtarc Hous.—Col. Franklin's Regiment
has been ordered to this city, where they will be mustered
out of service and discharged. it le understood toat they
will ba here as soon as the proper transportation can be
obtained, which may be lu . a day or two.
BLACKBERRY SYRUP.—We are indebted to
our good friend Capt Haase SLASMAKER, Agent for the
celebrated Reig - art's Old Wine Store, No. SI East King et,
far a bottle of tile delicious Blackberry Syrup. It Is a most
excellent medicinal beverage for di:mares, &c., and the
Captain, although making a large quantity of the article
every year, le scarcely able to supply the demand.
STATE SENATORSHIP.—/YESST3. Editors: As
the Democratic County Convention trill soon be bold, it is
not unadvisable for us to begin considering who should be
candidates for the various positions to be filled, but the
importance of having a good selection for the office of State
Senator cannot be overrated. We need talent, ability and
integrity; a man whose patriotism and regard for the true
welfare of the country has not been sunk In the uncondi
tional loyalty of Abolitionism. We need one who will be
a tine and undoubted representative of Democratic policy ;
for with that he will be Identified with the only policy
that can save the nation.
HENRY SHAFFNER, of AiollOt Joy Borough, combines the
requisites for the place. He is honest and incorruptible;
a fearless, unalloyed and undoubted Democrat; a fluent
and ready debater, and having a sound judgment and good,
practical sense. His sterling character and fine social
qualities have won him, hosts of admiring friends and
made him deservedly popular. He Is emphatically "a man
among men," and if selected to fill the position wonli do
so with honor to himself, credit to the party, and advan
tage to the public interests. J.
Atolls'. JOY, Aug. llth, 1863.
A WORD IN REPLY TO AMOR PATRIA:
- There appeared in the Express of Wednesday eve
ning last the first of a " series of letters of caution "
to the Irish Catholics in the United States. The
author is impelled to give the deluded countrymen
and women of his ancestors the benefit of his experi
ence by the reason that they are about to be misled
by "wicked and designing politicians, demagogues,
'and base traitors," and asks to be heard upon the
'ground that he came very nearly being an Irish
Catholic himself. The only little difficulties which
prevented him honoring the Island and ornament
ing the Church are acknowledged to have been the
Blight accident of birth on the American shore of the
ocean, and another (an inferential reason) that it
would not have been half so profitable an invest
,
ment to have adopted the stubborn and antiquated
belief of his ancestors! There is no doubt that the
Irish Catholics will look forward most anxiously for
each succeeding letter of the series. Always gener
ous, it will fill their hearts to overflowing to know
that in their benighted condition one disinterested,
unprejudiced pen is being employed to instruct and
elevate them! '1 hey will doubtlessly see in the very
signature over which this "series of letters" are to
be written the sufficient proof that the author is of
that magnanimous stamp of men,-hitherto supposed
to be the peculiar product of Now England, who are
not of the chary, stupid set who must be asked for
their commiel before they will think of offering it.—
Anon PATEtuE falls on the ear with a tenderness
which cannot fail to interest the undutiful Irish
boys and girls, and will moreover increase their ad
miration for the depth and solidity of the forthcom
ing series of letters, convincing them that their in
structor knows a thing-or two, that he has made
sufficient exploration of the classics to enable him
to get the right verb and the proper inflection of the
noun.
It is unfortunately the case that the mere pro
fessed object of an individual corporation, or par'y
does not in all oases carry with it conviction. 'I he
history of mankind seems to justify the suspicion
which men naturally have of each other, and it is
more than probable that that suspicion will not be
obliterated until poor humanity is elevated into
that sanctified sphere enjoyed by that happy class
of men of which AMOR PATRIR is the type. Here
might be recalled a familiar instance mentioned in
an old and much reverenced book proving that Aaron
Perim& had an example as long ago as when Chris
tianity's beautiful light broke upon the world:
There were two individuals who went up to She tem
ple to pray • the one was very well satisfied with
himself, and thanked God he was not like other peo
ple. The other
man seems to have been pretty well
convinced that he , was no better than he ought to be,
and so stood afar off asking forgiveness. We com
mend to the serious study of AMOR PAMIR the ex
ample of the latter individual. A few hours of
meditation on this subject we. turtie no doubt will
fully convince him that there is an ample field for
labor at his own door, without obtruding his advice
upon a people whose countryman and co-religionist
he might have been had he been born on the other
shore of the ocean.
But under all the blandness ao studiously assumed
in the first letter of the series we think the true ob
ject is apparent. Over the whole North the Aboli
tion press have given unmistakable evidence of their
disposition to revive the days of 1844 and of 1854
and 1855. The Tribune and TIM'S of New York,
the North American and Press of Philadelphia
have sounded the key-note, and we should be our
priced if our own intense pen-and-ink patriot of the
Express did not joln in the chorus Perhaps Amon
PATILLE has some reminiscences of '44 or '54 which
would make an association in a revived proscription
quite a familiar and an agreeable work. Be per
haps has penetrated the purlieus of the oily with his
dark lantern that the countrymen of his fathers
might be deprived of privileges he by accident fell
heir to. To be eharitable, we will even suppose that
this loving patriot did not conspire against the
political and religious privileges of the Irish Catho
lics, still the question would remain, by what right
he assumes to advise a people who have shown their
devotion to the laws of the land on every battle-field
from the first Ball Run down to the victory of Get
tysburg? By what specious pretexts are the mem
ories of thousands of Irish Catholic dead filling the
trenches on every field to be questioned and Insulted
by stay-at-home, street-corner patriots. •
The poor Irishman, no matter bow freely and
bravely he may pour out his blood in attestation of
his fidelity to the laws of the land, beams destined
never to escape the pen of the libeller, the knavery
of the demagogue, and the bbrotry of the political
preacher. The lines are as true to-day as when they
were first written. Be is still
" the victim of that canting crew,
So smooth, so godly,—yet so devilish too;
Who, arm'd at once with prayer-books and with
whips,
Blood on their hands, and Scripture on their lips,
Tyrants by creed, and torturers by text,
Make this life hell in honor of the next."
If leisure should be ours we propose following
AMOLL Parana through the series he is about giving
to the public. Yours, at
August 8, 1863. •
THE COST OF DRAFTING AND ITS RE-
The Hartford Times makes the annexed estimate
of what the draft will cost :
3 r ) m.
.840 • 4
9.00 • 4
.725 '•
.2-21 p m.
.548 • •
.G. 03 `•
It requires about 30,000 men to make the present
draft all over the country—enrolling officers, assis
tants, boards of examination, icc., and so on. These
cost the Government, in salaries, about eight times
the amount paid to soldiers. Multiply 30 000 by
and we have 240 000—or in other words, the means to
pay 240.000 comm •n soldiers, as long as the army of
enrolling and drafting officers. with their assistants,
are continued in office. In addition to this expense
in carrying on the draft, the Provost Marshals have
" guards," and more than 50,000" Invalid Soldiers "
are distributed over the country to aid in enforcing
the draft. Most of these are able bodied soldiers, fit
for duty in the field. It is evident that the cost of
the draft, with the Provost Guards, is equal to the
pay of an army of 300,000 men through the present
year at least.
The N. Y. Times supposes the whole number of
men called for under the draft is 450 000. Judging
from the results thus far experienced at least one
third of this whole number, and probably more will
secure exemptliin by payment of $3OO each. This
will yield not far from fifty =idioms of dollars,
which makes the conscription law appear more like
a revenuttmeasurc than to procure soldiers.
DON'T 00 TO CBURCIL—If your throat le
sore or Mogi irritated, don't - go ti church or
to the play without a few of Bryan's Polmon.
Jo Wafers in yonepooket. They stop a cough
in ten minutes, and cure a sore throat in an
hour. 25 cents a.box. Kaufman &. Co. sell. it.
MEM
THE FUTURE UNFOLDED.
The laboring men of the North do not yet
realize the stupendous blow which has been
struck at their interests by the fanatics who
compose and support this Administration.—
What does the separation of this country,
which Mr. Lincoln and his crazy party are
endeavoring to bring about, involve_? We-un
derstand; and are, now beginning . -
-to feel, a
portion of the_punishment which tbiti. terrible
war will inflict upon uti:. We aretated equal
to the debt.ridden-subjects at Eighth(' already.
Every breath we draw pays tribute to the foul
scheme of " wiping out the South." On all
we eat, drink, wear, see, feel or enjoy, on the
very blessings for which our fathers fought
and died that we might inherit—the blessing?
of "life, liberty, - and the pursuit of happi
ness "—the stamp of war taxation is placed,
and, like a moral plague-spot, Stares us in the
face and sickens us to the soul. The poor
workingmen know that, from now onward, of
every dollar they get, at least one-third will
go to pay the interest on the war debt, and to
this extent will they be cut short of the neces
sities of life on a limited expenditure. -I mean
to say that it will cost the poor man one-third.
more to live ; his groceries, his clothes, his
shoes, the school books he gets for hie little
ones, will increase at that rate.-through the
terrible infliction which fanaticism has brought
upon us.
But there is another feature not yet reveal
ed to the poor man. What is to be the price
of labor when peace comes, and the total pros
tration of the o•ountry sets in ? Remember,
my hard-working friend, that the tax must be
paid. Your table and mine, your wardrobe
and mine, your humble cot and mine, upon
which we rest our weary limbs after a day of
toil, all must be made to give to the treasury
of the country a portion of its cost. How do
you expect to keep employed, when the coun
try is divided and the South witholds her
purchases from the North, and obtains them
from Europe ? How are you to afford to pay
enormous taxation, with a diminish d income?
But I hear the ignorant Abolition fanatic say,
" The North can take care of herself ; let the
Union slide, and the business of the South go
with it ; the North is rich in resources."—
Rich in resources ! How long would Stewart
sustain his marble palaces on Broadway, if
his customers left him? And if hie custo
mers did leave, how long would he employ his
hundreds of clerks, porters and draymen, and
the scores of mechanics who are already em
ployed in consequence of the sales of his dry
goods to the extent of millions ?
Now, my honest workingman, I tell you
that if the South, through the f•tnatioism of
the war party, is forced out of this Union. the
North is commercially ruined. New York,
Boston, Philadelphia, the manufacturing
towns of New England and those of the
Northern States, our shipping interests, our
insurance companies, our commission houses,
our wholesale merchants—all are swept away
as by a huge wave. The hum of industry,
the sound of the axe and the anvil, the loom
and the spindle, will be heard no more for
ever, and the grass will obliterate many a
mile of iron track over which to day is trans
ported tons of material, fabricated by north
ern brains and northern hands.
The man who sneers at the idea that the
South have mainly contributed to the success
of the North, and denies that out of Southern
wealth have come Northern profits, that the
four millions of Southern slaves have mainly
kept the ships, the manufacturies, the work
shops, the stores, the hotels, and the railroads
of the North profitably employed for the past
fifty years, is an ignoramus, who never studied
the trade statistics of his country. Who em
ploys northern ships? The North owns 80
per cent of the tonnage of the country, the
South only 16 per cent, and the West 4 per
cent. The products of the South furnish six•
sevenths of the freight to Europa for these
ships,our own N irthern productions only one
seventh, and such has been the proportion for
the past fifty years. In 1859 the entire earn
ings of the Northern ebips were $2B 000 000,
of which Snit'vra nr ' , loots paid $24 500,000,
Northern prAucts $2,000,000, and Western
products $1,500,000.
Take away all this. wipe out these freight
and commercial results, let northern com
merce and northern mannfactures be support
ed by northrin pr. duets and northern con
sumption solely, and what will be the condi—
tion of the pour man here? Does he not at
once comprehend that a diminished sectional
business on Lind, and a loss of the ocean car—
rying trade, will reduce his labor, and the
price of it also ? Is the poor man, the laborer
in the North, not interested in the fact that
we have hitherto sent into the South of our
domestic: goods, $240 000 000 per year? of our
imported goods, $lOO,OOO 000 perlear ? Is it
a matter of no colisequence to us that they
(the southerners) have paid us in interest and
brokerage, $62 300,000 per year ? that they
have paid our hotels, and railroads, and shops
and fashionable watering places, $55,000,000
per year, and still keep on prospering in the
North, as of old ?
What will be the fate of New England and
her manufacturing classes after the South are
" exterminated ? Her surplus manufactures,
in times of peace, foot up $200.000 000 per
year. If the &nth does not buy her usual
proportion of this surplus, New England is
ruined ; for the balance of the northern States
are yearly adding to their manufacturing in
terests, the West especially is yearly less de
pendent upon its neigh bunt. In twenty years
the great West, which has largely contributed
to the profits of New England, and other
northern manufacturing States, will be inde
pendent of all outside support in that line, for
notwithstanding her immense agricultural
resources, she is rapidly developing a manu
facturing interest which will soon meet all her
necessities.
In 1860 the West reported a manufacturing
interest of $139.000,000 per year, and the past
ten years have given it a great impetus, an
increase of many millions. Not only will
New England terribly suffer from the results
of this unholy crusade against the South, but
our own State, and with it our great and lead
ing commercial emporium, New York city,
will have the main source of its commercial
glory tapped at the foundation, the result
of which roust be to impoverish labor here to
a degree never witnessed in this country.—
When we investigate this commercial question
the results are startling.
In the past seventy years, the mere customs
collected from the South and West, a large
Proportion of which have been disbursed at the
North, foot, up one thousand one hundred mil
lions of dollars. The fisheries of the Eastern
States drew $5 000,000 as bounties paid out
of the Federal Treasury, to the date of the
abolition of thot,e bounties. The mere profits
to the North growing out of the trade connec
tions with the South. are figured through a
dozen sources, which have been alluded to
during the discussion of this subject, at $232,.
000,000 per year. Are. the poor men of the
North not interested in this profit? If it is
lost, will they not feel it ?—.N: Y. Caucasian.
DISASTER ON THE HMIS STPPI
Sr. Loots, August 5, 1663.
Major Febiger, Wet of the pay department of
Mississ.ppi, has just received a telegram stating that
the steamer Ruth, which left Vicksburg on Monday
morning, wee burned a few miles bolow Cairo last
night, and the boat and cargo were entirely<oott•
sumed. Major Greenwalt, paymaster, and three
clerks, were lrst, and several other paymasters, on
their way to Grant's army, escaped only with the
clothes on their backs. Two million and a half of
dollars in Government funds were consumed • Many
lives were lost. The above are the only particulars
that have yet been received.
ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS
CAIRO Atprust 5, 1863.-
The steamer Rath, valued at $lO 000; was burned
last night, at midnight, at the foot of Island No. 1.
She was bound for ilelena, and had on board eight
paymasters and their clerks, with $260,000 in 'green
backs' to pay General Grant's army.
Altogether about thirty lives were lost. The boat
had on board ninety-nine head of beef cattle, one
hundred and twenty mules, four hundred tons of
commissary and sutlers' stores, and about one hun
dred tons of private freight, which were lost There
were about two hundred persons aboard. The boat
was insured for $5OOO. The fire broke out in the
att pert of the boat—some say between decks, others
in the nursery rooms. As son as the fire was dis
covered the boat was headed for the shore, on the
Missouri a de, and struck the bank with full force,
the fire having driven the engineers from their posts,
and the engines consequently continuing to .work.
As soon as she struck, a number jumped ashore, but
her stern soon swung round down stream, and as
the engines were still working, bet how was turned
from the shore, and she again started down the
river. When she left the shore about thirty persons.
were on board, nearly all of whom mast hare per
ished.
ainm IN lOWA. -
Muscernm. lOWA, August 4th
The Journal of this morning has the following
A collision occurred on Saturday between the red.
ioal Democrats and Abolitionists. at South English,
Keokuk county. About fifty shots were fired on
both sides. Tally, a leader of the radical Demoorata,
was killed, and two others died of their wounds.
The latter were driven out ofshe place.
Lernit.—The Sheriff ofileokuk reached
thle morning, - en route for Davenport; to apply; far
military assistance. Ile reports that the insurgent/ .
gathered to the number of 1600, and are beurly
eressing.in numbers.. All are armed, mut fall,o1".