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His receipts will be rce puled as payments. OUR 7' la .A. a , - Now our flag is flung to the wild winds free, Let It float o'er our father land, And the guard of Its snakes 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 HIM."-DANIEL WEBSTER. DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET. FOR GOVERNOR: GEORGE W. WOODWARD, OF LUZERN& COUNTY FOR JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT WALTER H. LOWRIE, OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY. COUNTY COIIILLIITTECE DIEKTING The Democratic County Committee of Lancaster county are requested to meet at Shnber'e Hotel, to this city, on SATURDAY, the 6th day of SEPTEMBER, 1563, at n o'clock, d. M. Thaniness of importance • will be promoted for their consideration. S. R. TSHDDY, Oluttrman A. J. BTIMIAN, Secretary. LABOASTIB, September let, 1863 TO THE DFCINOCRACY 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, you 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 • 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 nomin ating a ticket to be supported at the running October elec tion. The Chairman would respectfully call attention to the sot, that by the past rules and asagea of the party, dele gates are elected from Wards, Boroughs and Townships only, and not from election districts. The Township Committee. are requested to glee early notice of the time and place of meeting for the election of R. R. TBHI3DY, Chairmen d_ J. BTZINMAN, Secretary. Laitaasna, August 6th, 1868 Democratic Ratification Mass Meeting THE UNION AS IT WAS--THE CONSTI- TIITION AS IT IS RALLY ! RALLY ! ! RALLY ! ! ! In accordance with the resolution of the Democratic State Central Committee, and the prior action of the Democratic County Committee and Democratic Central Club of the City and County of Lancaster, a State Mass Ratification Meeting to en dorse the nominations of WOODWARD and LOWRIR, and re-affirm the everlasting principles and truths of the great Democratic party, will be held in the CITY OF LANCASTER, On THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1863, AT 1 O'CLOCK, P. M. The Democracy are, therefore, requested to rally in their might, on the anniversary of the birth-day of the Constitution of the United States, the only power to which the Democratic party swear alle giance and loyalty. The following eminent speakers—from several of whom favorable responses have been received— have been requested to address the meeting : Ex-President PIERRE, of New Hampshire. Hon. D W. VOORREL, of Indiana. Hon. JexEs BROOKS, of New York. Bon. Casabas R. BIICKALEW, of Pennsylvania. Hon. Witaaeu A. Poevran, of Philadelphia. Hon. WILLIAM H. WITTE, of Montgomery. Hon. BIZSTEM Cvnesn, of Berks. Hon. J. Glamor JONES, of Berks. Hon. CHARLES W. CARRIGAN, of Philadelphia. LEWIS C. CASSIDAT, Esq., of Philadelphia. JAIUSS BtroneieeN, Jr., Esq., of Philadelphia. R. R. Mousonau, Esq., of Chester. Jona H. BRINTON, Esq., of Chester. Hon. GEORGE W. WOODWARD, GUS distinguished nominee for Governor, will be present with his Democratic fellow-citizens on this occasion. Bally, rally, friends of the Union as It was, and the Constitution as it is. By order of the Democratic Central Club. SAMUEL WELCRENS, ABRAM SHANK, WILLIAM A. MORTON, HENRY WILIIELhi, E. BOkid.EFFER METZGER, Ziecuti►e Committee. .1421111.152111 t, September let, 1848. I'Demooratio papers in adjoining counties are re quested to copy.] The War News. There is still nothing definite from Charleston. The bombardment was continued at last accounts, but the result is not yet known. Its ulti mate fall is considered certain, but it may require longer time to reduce it than was at first anticipated. Stirring news may shortly be ex pected from the bouthwest. A Great Meeting. A monster Mass Meeting of the Democracy of Chester and Lancas ter counties was held on Saturday week, at Cochranville, Chester coun ty, which was presided over by that veteran Democrat, DANIEL SwiFT, Esq., of Lancaster county. The meeting was addressed by J. W. F. SWIFT, Esq., of this city, JOEL CooK, Esq., of Philadelphia, and Jourl H. BRINTON, Esq., of West Chester. The meeting was enthusiastic through out, and adjourned at six o'clock with three cheers for WOODWARD, LOWRIE, the CONSTITUTION and the UNIoN, and three more for General MCCLELLAN. The last was proposed by a Democratic soldier. Quite a number of Democratic lathes were present. SUSPECT= ROBBERY.-It will be recollected that the steamer Ruth was recently burnt on the Mississippi, baying on board a number of paymasters and $2,500 000 for Gen. Grant's army. It is now suspected that the money wall not Surat, but stoles, and the boat fired to corm the robbery. Woodward Stook High lip. Everywhere throughout the State the Democracy appear to be confi dent of a triumphant victory over the cohorts of Abolitionism. A visit to Cumberland last [Court] week gave us an opportunity of see ing and conversing with a large number of the leading and most in fluential Democrats of nearly every township, and they, one and all, gave it as their deliberate opinion that WOODWARD'S majority would reach 1000 or 1200 in the county.— The rebel invasion has greatly dam aged CURTIN in that valley. The people very justly charge him with neglect of duty in having failed, to protect them, and intend to hold him responsible for the defenceless con dition of the State. The same feel ing, we are credibly informed, exists in Franklin, Fulton, Adams and York counties, as will be apparent when the ballot-boxes are. counted off, and all along the Southern tier of counties the Democratic gains will be unprecedentedly large, and astounding to the Black Republi cans. We have never known the Demo cratic party of this State in as good trim as it is at the present time. It is everywhere a unit in support of WOODWARD and LOWRIE, and it is daily and hourly gaining accessions from the conservative portion of the Republican party. We have every reason to anticipate an old-fashioned Jackson majority in Pennsylvania on the second Tuesday of October, and, in addition, the Democracy ex pect to carry Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, lowa and Wisconsin to boot. The skies look bright all around the po litical horizon, and the days of Abo litionism are numbered. GEN. FITZ JOHN PORTER Hon. Reverdy Johnson, U. S. Senator from Maryland, has prepared and published a re view of the secret argument of Judge Advo cate Holt, by which the President was in duced to approve the atrocious sentence of a corrupt and prejudiced court against Major Gen. Fitz John Porter. It will be remembered, says the N. Y. Journal of Commerce, that Senator Johnson was the counsel of General Porter in his remarkable trial, and that con trary to all precedent and all propriety, the counsel of the prosecution having in open court declined to answer the argument of the accused, furnished a private review of the case to the President, to which the counsel for the defence had no opportunity to reply. Therefore Mr. Johnson has taken this oppor tunity of vindicating his own confidence in the innocence of the brave and persecuted officer, whose personal acquaintance he first made when he became one of his counsel. It seems to have been a pure labor of sincere and earnest admiration and sympathy for a man made the victim of injustice, and it is a labor well performed. No one can read it without perfect satisfaction in the innocence of Gen. Porter. That gallant officer, brave among the bravest, faithful above all his maligners, stands clear 'of guilt in the mind of every honest American who reads this reply, pre pared by one of our distinguished statesmen and lawyers. We believe the day is not far distant when Gen. Porter will need no de fenders, so high will his reputation stand among the people for whom he has fought, and the soldiers whom he has led to victory. Every day that passes, while the passions of men grow cooler, adds to the number of those who believe him unjustly condemned by parti san malice. The secret history of the days when Pope was defeated, and of the men who sought to shield themselves by diverting at tention to Porter, is certain to see the light before long. " BULLY FOR GRANT." The lowa Legislature passed a law allowing soldiers to vote, and the Governor has ap pointed a commission of forty black politicians to superintend the elections in the several regiments. Reasonably suspicious of foul play, the Democratic State Committee propose to send a Committee to watch and contract the partisan games of this commission ; and as a preliminary step they addressed a letter to Gen. GRANT, asking whether a free election would be held, and whether their Committee would be allowed proper privileges and facili ties in the matter. To this letter, Gen. GRANT replied as follows : In reply, I will state, that loyal citizens of Northern States will be allowed to visit the troops from their State, at any time. Elec tioneering, or any course calculated to arouse discordant feeling, will be prohibited. The volunteer soldiers of this army will be allowed to hold an election, if the law gives them the right to vote .; and no power shall prevent them from voting the ticket of their choice. That is fair and just, and all the Democrats ask. " Bully for Grant," we say, who is the only commanding General who has the cour age or the disposition to act independently and to square hie conduct by justice and the Con stitution, in political matters. A HABEAS CORPUS FROM THE SII - PREME COURT The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, sitting at Pittsburg, issued a writ of habeas corpus, week before last upon the Provost Marshal, to produce the body of a drafted man who had been exempted by the Examining Board and a certificate to that effect given him, but who afterwards had been arrested, examined and pronounced fit for duty, the allegation being error in the first examination. On a partial hearing the District Attorney obtained leave to amend the return in order to put in a plea against the jurisdiction of the Court, contending that the State Courts had no jurisdiction over questions arising under the new conscription law. On the subsequent hearing that plea was abandoned, and the argument was confined to the point above stated. After a full hearing Chief Justice Lowycis ordered the discharge of the man, holding that, from all that appeared by the return, the Board had exhausted their power when the certificate of exemption was granted, and that they had no further control over the prisoner. ss THE SOLDIERS FRIEND." The Abolition papers are in the habit of speaking of Andy Curtin as " the soldiers' friend." He showed his friendship by placing half a million of dollars that was appropriated to clothe the Pennsylvania Reserves in the hands of his particular friends, who provided the soldiers with blankets that they could see through, shoddy coats and pants, and . shoes that had soles filled with shavings. In two weeks the brave men were bare footed and nearly naked. A pretty " soldiers friend," to be sure. How much of the proflts Curtin pocketed the public never discovered. Ora PARTY.—The Wheeling, Va., Regis ter says : " Oar party,' says a Union ex change, 'is a Union party.' Yes, it is a Union party—a Union of shoddy contractors,' horse contraotors, army jobbers, navy supply furnishers, railroad monopolists, postmasters, collectors, appraises, revenue officers, paymas ters, &o. They join a Union in order to keep the treasury of the Union under their control. The Democratic peace party, without any patronage, is the Union party, for it labors to restore, as our fathers intended it should a perpetual Union of willing States!" JUDGE WOOD'PrARDIS SENTIMENTS. THE lINIOV. " These States are glorious in their indi viduality, bat their collective glories are in the Union. By all means, at all hazards, are they to be maintained in their integrity and the full measure of their Constitutional rights —for only so is the Union to be preserved— only so is it worth preserving. It is the per fection of the prismatic colors, which blended, produce the ray of lieht. It is the complete ness of these assembled sovereignties, lacking nothing which they have not lent fur a great purpose, that makes the Union precious.— This word Union is a word of gracious omen. It implies confidence and affection—mutual support and protection against external dan gers. It is the chosen expression of the strongest passion of young hearts. It is the charmed circle within which the family dwells. It is man helping hie fellow-man in this rugged world. It is States, perfect in themselves, confederated for mutual advan tage. It is the people of States, separated by lines, and interests, and institutions, and usages, and laws, all forming one glorious nation—all moving onward to the same sub lime destiny, and all instinct with a common life. Our fathers pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honors, to form this Union—let ours be .pledged to maintain it."— GEORGE W. WOODWARD, JULY 4, 1852. WHO IS THE SOLDIER'S REAL FRIEND? Extract from the decision of Judge Wood ward sustaining the Stay Law passed by our Legislature in favor of the soldier: "Now, if a stay of execution for three years would not be tolerated in ordinary times, did not these circumstances constitute an emergency that justified the pushing of legislation to the extremest limit of the Con stitution ? No citizen could Le blamed for volunteering. He was invoked to do so by appeals as strong as his love of country. In the nature of things there is nothing unrea sonable in exempting a soldier's property from execution whilst he is absent from home battling for the supremacy of the Constitu tion and the integrity of the Union. And . when he has not run before he was sent, but has yielded himself up to the call of his coun try, his self-sacrificing patriotism pleads, trumpet-tongued, for all the indulgence from his creditors which the Legislature have power to grant. If the term of indulgence seems long in this instance, it was not longer than the time for which the President and Congress demanded the soldier's services." " I am not and never have been a ' Native American' in any political sense, any more than I am or have been a Whig, Anti Mason or .an Abolitionist. * * * The speech so often quoted against me, I am not responsible for. It was introduced into the debates by a Whig reporter, in violation of the rules of the body, which required him to submit for revision before publication, and which he never did. * * * I promptly denounced it, in the face of the Con vention, as I have done many a time since, as a gross misrepresentation. * * The Native American party itself is my wit— ness. Seven years ago I was the caucus nominee for United States Senator. The county of Philadelphia was represented by Natives. They asked whether, if elected by their votes, I would favor their measures for changing the naturali, ation laws, I answered them NO, and they threw every vote they could command against me and raised a shout of triumph over their victory."—GEOßGE W. WOODWARD, Pittsburg, September 14, 1852. POLITICAL PREACHING. At recent meeting of the Congregational Association in Hartford, COllll., it was stated by one of the committees that the Episcopal Church baptised five children to their one ; that few additions were made to their church membership and that there was a lamentable dearth of interest in the cause of Christianity. The reason for all this is apparent enough.— It is political preaching. The Christian churches cannot prosper, so long as their houses of public worship are turned into po litical caucus rooms. The N. Y. Journal of Commerce, speaking of political prel / ching from the pulpit, for the past few years, says: " The people in some parts of the land have been wholly without clergymen. The latter have turned into political orators, and have been making the temple consecrated to wor ship, a place of brawling and contention. We heard a clergymen preach a sermon on the Lord's prayer, in which he said that we had no right, nor was it our duty to forgive our political enemies, and that the prayer for for , giveness as we have forgiven others, was not based on any trespasses other than of a person al and private nature ! This horrible distortion of God's word was actually made to defile the atmosphere of a New England church on a calm summer morning, a church in which men were accustomed in other and better years to hear the pure word of God from lips undefiled by the passionate wine of man's wrath, which makes drunken so many in our day." HOW GEN. JACKSON WAS PROVED A COPPERHEAD AND TRAITOR--A GOOD STORY. The editor of the Tullome (California) Democrat lately put as original, at the head of his editorial columns, the following : " But the Constitution cannot be main tained, nor the Union preserved, in opposi— tion to public feeling, by the mere exertion of the coercive powers confined to the General Government. The foundation must be laid in the affections of the people ; in the secur ity it gives to life, liberty, character and property, in every quarter of the country ; and in the fraternal attachments which the citizens of the several States bear to one an— other as members of one political family, mutually contributing to promote the happi ness of each other. Hence the citizens of every State should studiously avoid every— thing calculated to wound the sensibility or offend the just pride of the people of other States. * * * * * "If such a struggle is ever begun, and the citizens of one seotion of the country are ar rayed in arms against those of another, in doubtful conflict, let the battle result as it may, there is an end of the Union, and with it an end to the hopes of freemen. The vic tory of the victors would not secure to them the blessings of liberty. It would avenge their wrongs, but they would themselves share in the common ruin." His Republican neighbor immediately branded the author of such an article as that as a "traitor" and a " Copperhead" of the worst stripe. The Democrat then stated in its next issue, that the author was Qeneral Andrew Jackson, and that the extracts could be found in his farewell address to the Ameri can people on retiring from the Presidency in 1837. It added that heretofore people had regarded General Jackson as a patriot, and that it remained for the Abolitionists of to day to asperse his memory by denouncing him as a traitor. ley' The Abolition papers are constantly denouncing the Democracy as " traitors " and enemies of the country. If this is so, the Providence Post says "it is certainly wonder ful that the Abolitionists should be striving to get so many of them into the army. In New York they proposed to take about nineteen Democrats to every ten Republicans drafted, and in this State every member of the Repub lican ' Union League' who has been drafted, has been willing to accept a Democratic sub stitute. It is said, upon what we consider good authority, that the Union Leagues here embraced three-fourths of the Republican voters in the towns in which they were located; yet we think' it cannot be shown that a single member of that organization out of the whole number drafted, has put on Uncle Sam's uniform, or that one of them has volunteered as a substitute. They seem per fectly willing to trust the defense of the country to ' the enemy '—the copperheads." THE " STAR OF THE NORTH."—William H. Jacoby, proprietor of the " Star of the North," has reoommenoed the publication of his paper, after an absence of nine months in the army. He raises the Democratic flag and is now fight ing the Abolitionists for the success of Consti tutional Liberty and the White Man'e Gov ernment. The names of WOODWARD and Low - m; float at the head of the " Star of the North." GENERAL JIM LANE. The destruction of the town of Lawrence, Kansas, and the massacre of one hundred and eighty of its inhabitants is one of the bloodiest episodes of the war. To understand this sanguinary proceeding, we must go back to the early Kansas troubles, and the intense hatred engendered in these conflicts between the Kansas Abolitionists and their pro-slavery neighbors in the border counties of Missouri. The ferocity of Atchison's border ruffians found a counterpart in the savage atrocities of the Jayhawkers under Jim Lane, Jenni— son and Montgomery. The latter carried his tactics into the Department of the South. and at the head of a negro brigade plundered and devastated thercountry, culminating with the wanton destruction of the town of Darien, Ga. Tillages reduced to ashes and fields laid waste, the work otthese Jayhawkers, inspired them with the fiendish spirit which wreaked such bloody vengeance on the town of Law rence. Among the residents of Lawrence at the time of this attack was the notorious General Jim Lane, that great Abolition war orator, and General, who every few months is about to organize an expedition that is to wipe out the South. . At the commencement of the war, Lane received a commission from the Government; and planned some expedi tion. The expedition never set out, because Lane and the President could not agree as to the correct method of conducting the cam paign. Lane proposed to liberate all the negroes and to avoid any future trouble with the white population of the South he designed roasting them in their own houses, as he went along, effectually clearing the way for the immigration of a more loyal set of people. This benign plan being rejected, General Jim Lane sheathed his sword in dis gust and took to stump speaking. He came this way not long ago and indulged in a vio lent speech. He was still attached to the autodafe style of disposing of Southern Rebels, an amendment to hang every man in the Northern States who voted the Demo cratic ticket. Well, when Quantrell's band at tacked Lawrence, what did this mighty war rior do? Simply—he ran away. The report says, he "escaped on horse back," which, of course, is a mild way of putting it. It is possible that his horse might have ran away with him, as Lord Car digan's charger did at Balaklava. If so, it is a remarkable coinoideno of animal sagacity —both animals took the direction in which safety lay. But what was Lane doing on horeback at that particular time? When last heard from, this Abolition Bombastes had rallied twenty men, and was in pursuit of the guerillas, but not in the slightest dan ger of getting . hurt. So much for Lane. He is a fair specimen of the Abolition leaders who have been spouting blood and thunder, fire and fury, breathing rapine and slaughter. When the moment for action arrives they " escape on horseback." Greely, in a sub terranean restaurant, hiding behind a greasy bill of fare during the New York riots, and Lane "escaping on horseback," from the sack of Lawrence, would make a pretty pair of historical pictures, instructive and enter taining.—Brooklyn Eagle. ANOTHER ABOLITION OUTRAGE WRITE MAN FLOGGED I. Lincoln's Provost Marshal of Allegheny county, arrested an alleged deserter, by the name of Hagen, the other day, and without warrant of law had him lashed with a cow• hide until his back was like a piece of raw flesh, and he sunk down in utter exhaustion. Read DR KING'S STATEMENT "The first I knew of this affair Captain McHenry entered my office, which adjoins the provost Marshal's office, and seizing the man Hagen, who was sitting on a chair near me, said ' God d—n you, we want you ; come out here." Hagen was then taken out to the foot of the stairs, where Mo Henry said to the Sergeant, " Take him up stairs and give him twenty-five lashes," and after a pause, added, " Yes, God d—n him, give him fifty." Hlso told the Sergeant to put the hand edger' on him and get the cowhide. Hagen wasJthen hand-cuffed and taken up stairs.— I followed to the head of the stairs, but I could not bear the idea of seeing a white man whipped, so I turned and came down. I saw the, man after he was flogged and dressed his hie wounds yesterday and to-da.g. His back is all cut up, along and across. I should say from the appearance of his back that he re ceived from Sixty to seventy lashes. There were several persons by when ttie flogging took place, and McHenry told me himself to day that he held the man while the stripes were being laid on. This is all I know about the matter." SERGEANT MORRISON'S STATEMENT. " I belong to the Provost Guard, and had just came down from the " Girard House," when Captain McHenry told me to put the hand-ouffs on Hagen and take him up stairs and give him twenty-five lashes. I said that I was not very well, and that I was not strong enough to do this. I did not,like the idea of flogging and would rather leave it to some body else. Capt. McHenry then told Corpo ral Palmer to flog him. I put the hand cuffs on Hagen by McHenry's orders and brought a cow-hide with which to flog him. Hagen was then taken up stairs. There was a pillar nearly in the centre of the room, and he was placed standing with his arms around it. The hand-cuffs had by this time been taken off.— He was stripped of all but his pants and shirt. A soldier named Alfred Fogle was ordered by McHenry to hold his hands around the post while Palmer flogged him. Fogle seized his hands as desired, but after the first welt, Ha gen broke loose, and then McHenry seized him and held him till it was all over. The man cried out while he was being lashed, and made a good deal of noise. Before he was flogged, he begged that he might be shot rather than whipped. I did not count the lashes, but I should say that he received be tween forty and fifty. Near the close he sunk down by the post, but he was not unconscious. Palmer did the flogging." Verily white men are being made slaves.— Oh! ye philanthropic Abolitionists, where are those Crocodile tears you used to shed for black slaves? Have ye none for the white slaves of this Abrahamic age ? In your insane efforts to free the slaves, you enslave the white race in the most galling servitude that was ever witnessed on earth. Taxed I drafted flogged I What next, Abolitionists? oar Gen. MEADE has issued an order allow ing the soldiers of the Army of the Potomac to take such newspapers as they please. The abolition " loyal " demagogues have labored hard to get Democratic newspapers excluded, and have at times been partially successful.— But Gen. MEADE has ordered as follows : For the purpose of - living full freedom of choice to the army in the selection of news papers, it is ordered that any officer or enlisted man whishing to purchase any daily journal not now furnished by the agent appointed under the provisions of the circular of June 2d, may give notice thereof to the provost mar shal of the command to which he belongs, who shall forward the same through the provost marshal of his corps to the Provost Marshal General, who shall instruct said agent to fur nish the same without delay, and a neglect on his part to comply with such instructions shall be held sufficient cause for vacating his ap pointment. stir The friends of Curtin—his Harrisburg organ included—place him decidedly upon the Abolition platform. They support him main ly upon the ground of his advocacy of negro emancipation, equality and fraternity. We have no objection to meet the issue squarely— to fight the battle upon that single question, if they desire it. The contest is then nar rowed to this : Shall the negroes of the South —4,000,000 of them, and not half civilised— be sent free and made the equals and com panions, the competitors in labor of the white men of the North ? Shall we be overrun by this horde of semi-barbarians of a different race and color, and wages brought down by competition? Comm is for this—Woou waan against it. Let the white men of Pennsylvania decide which of the two they will choose. We are content to abide the Abolition issue. THE CROPS IN laziatro.—An English paper says there has not been a better or more abun dant crop than that which now covers the earth, in the memory of any living man. The potato, one. of the most nutritious, and per— haps the most useful of all esoulents, is so far free from blight, and appears to have every— where roomed much of its natural flavor. I AL DEPARTMZNT. EIXOMPTS FROM THE DRAFT. AUGUST 22. - 1088 John; Stark, Warwick. two of same family and. household now in military service 1099 Wm Wright. 13 W Ward, physical disability 1090 Frederick Yost. Marietta, only son and support of agod and infirm parentx 1091 Henry II Harr, Penn. physical disability 1099 Harrbion Helm Warwick, physical disability 1093 Joserlh Orr, W LaMpeter. alienage 1094 Johmatrnbaker,BApho. father of three motherless children under 12 years of age 1095 Predk Dasher, Providence, over 35 years of age and marsied 1096 JUG! Rice, Paradise. physical disability 1097 Job& Young. Bapho, substitute In service last draft 1098 W Leidigh. Paradise, physical disability 1009 Ali/vistas Gab's. Penn, only son and support of aged and infirm parents 1100 Mini L. Herr, Strasburg twp. physical disability. 1101 Kliaa'Hurtz. Salisbury, physical disability. 1102 Jacob Copeland, Manor, physical disability 1103 Jacob X Hershey, Manor, physical 1104 Hiram Brubaker, Warwick, substitute in service last drift 1105 MU* Shutter. Washington bor, phys'l disability 1106 Chridt'n Burkholder. Warwick, physical disability . . . AUGUST 24.. 1107 Will 'aim. Lamy, Penn, physical disability 1108 JohniE Hershey, Paradise, physical disability 1109 Henry It Witmer, Manor, physical disability 1110 Henry Farnnm, Rapho substitute in service last 1111 Martfn Singer, Penn. substitute ineervice last draft' 1112 Jacob Rise, Washington Borough, under 20 1113 Johall Britton, Paradise, over 35 years of age and ma f led 1114 Dania Hess, Pegnea. physical disability 1115 Robert P Mclivain, Paradise, physical disability 1116 Wm TAlninger, Penn, physical disability 1117 Thetis Shaeffer, Caernarvon, only eon and support of aged parents 1118 William Ludwig Paradise, physical disability • 1119 lean ` Gilbert . Sadsbury, father of two motherless children under 12 years of age 1120 Amo3Longnecker, B Lampeter, only support of aged mother 1121 Alexander Grande, Marietta, alienage 1122 Franklin blylin, Politica, physical disability 1123 Jacoh AI Rice, Paradise, two members of same tam. Ily and honsehold now in military service 1124 Jacob' W Weller, W Hempfield, only support of agmf,parents 1125 Thetas Armer, Paradise, only support of aged mother 1126 Abraham /Darer. Rapho, sent substitute last draft 1127 Uriath,Hummer, Penn, only support of aged parents 1128 Jacob B Herr, Peguea, physical disability 1129 Issaefickmiur, Pequea, physical disability 1130 David %reamer, Providence, physical disability 1131 Henry J Shirk, Providence, physical disability 1132 Bliss'%een, Providence, father of motherless chil dren under 12 years of of age 1133 Joseph B Snyder, Rapho sent substitute last draft 1134 Illister,Sherer, Rapho substitute In service last draft 1135 Johni Wisher, Sadsbnry, only support of aged father 1136 John P age, Rapho, physical disability 1137 John Borland, Sadsbury, only support of widowed mother 1138 Remy 8 Bush, Sadsbury, physical disability 1139 Joseph B Snyder, Rapho, substitute to service from last draft 1140 Jacob Connelly, Rapho, over 45 years AUGUST 26. 1141 Isaac:Brandt, Rapho, sent substitute list draft 1142 Abrabi Lehn, Rapho, physical disability 1143 John 33raybill. Hsi:Metro, alienage 1144 Christian Brubaker, Rapho, over 35 years of age and Married 1145 Frederick Rahm , Mount Joy township, alienage 1146 Irian B Newcomer, Manor, sent substitute last draft 1147 Conrad Ottenderfer, Ephrata, alienage 1148 Washington Rise, Washington Borough, only son and 'support of aged mother 1149 Aaron Peffer, Rapho Phy,ical disability 1160 Joseph El Poled, Strasburg borough, over 35 years of age and married 1161 George R %barman, 8 W Ward, physical disability 1152 Edward Baptist, Sadebury, father and only support of motherless children under 12 years of age AUGUBC 26. 1153 Abraham Quamony, Manic, election of parents 1164 Jima Moss, Mantic, over .95 and married 1165 Lawrince Markley, Sadsbury, alienage 1158 Christian Sanders, Salisbary, physical disability 1167 Joseph H Simes, Sadsbury, under 20 years 1158 Benjamin Lehman, Manor, residence in Snyder . county 1169 George W Diller, Leacock, election of father 1160 Samaal Green, Salisbury, residence In Carnarron tow4ship AUGUST 27. 1161 David S Clark, Salisbary, physical disability 1162 Levi Plank, Salisbury, under 20 years of age 1183 Johnlit. Wertz, Manor,election of father 1164 Cyrni B. Barr, Salisbury. physical disability 1185 Otorae W Hopton, Salisbury, only eon and support of aged widow 1168 Robert 8 Mollvaine, Salisbury, physical disability 1167 Harrison Ross, Salisbury, physical disability 1068 David Him. Salisbury, physical disability 1869 Benjamin Will, Conestoga, physical disability 1170 Henry H Leopold, Warwick, over 35 years of age and married 1171 Beal P Holtzhouse, Providence, Iwo of same family and household now in military service 1172 Andrew Ritenmiller, Strasburg twp, /Menage 1173 Johnl W Palter, Warwick, in service March 3,1863 1174 Elias Brtch, Warwick, furnished substitute last drall 1175 P B Stoltenbach. Warwick, physical disability 1176 David Bitner, Washington bor, substitute in service last draft 1177 Beni tßarge, Washington bor, substitute in service last draft AUGUST 28. 1178 Thontae Linton, Drumore, &nonage 1179 Christian Morrie, Washington bor, resides in Manor totanship 1180 Henry Speidle, South West Ward, phys'l disability 1181 Franklin Heck, Marietta, physical disability, sur gecat's certificate 1162 Eli IL Hacker, Pens., physical disability, surgeon's certificate PotrricaL —The chair of the Democratic Central clitb, on Thursday evening last, was ably filled by Capt. Joule Wm. The first speaker of the evening was WILLIAM W. BROWN, Esq., who spoke for about three quar ters of an hour in a profound, historical, eloquent, logical and convincing manner on the cause of the rebellion, and the utter ibability of the Abolitionists to make the negro the equal 6f the white man. He spoke boldly of the con duct of the Administration in perverting the war from its original purpose, viz: the restoration of the Union and mainteriarice of the Constitution, to a war for the freedom of the negto. Mr. 13. spoke to a Democratic County Con vention, DX Fulton Hall, abopt eighteen months ago. and the very whrds he then uttered as to the rouree and cause of the warfare now confirmed and verified. He concluded by speaking in glowing terms of the undoubted success of our nominees in October next. ree'Suas warmly applauded by a crowded audience. H. B. Ethan, Esq , followed in an interesting speech on the formation and success of the Democratic Central Club. His remarks were also warmly in favor of our standard bearers, and he was justly indignant and eloquent on the counts of the present National and State Administrations. He spoke; derisively of the Abolition party and Its "Loyal" (7) Leagues claiming all the loyalty, etc., and charging the Democratic party with disloyalty. He con cluded with a stirring appeal to the Democracy to main tain and distend their rights. Messrs. A. Z. RINOWALT, CHARLES G. DEAL, B. J. Mo- GHANA, J4Oll B. EVERTS and Lewis ZECH= were appointed a committee to make the necessary arrangements for the participation of the Club in the procession on the 17th. ToWN MEETING IN FULTON HALL —The Democracy of the city will assemble In town meeting, in Fulton Hall, ou Thursday evening next, at 8 o'clock. They will be ad. dressed ontthis occasion by Hon. MYER STROUP., of Potts ville, Meniber of Congress elect from the Schuylkill dis trict, and ity COI. EDWARD MCGOVERN, of this city, late of the 122 d Ititgiment, P. V. Both these gentlemen are able speakers, and of course an Immense audience will be pros ant to heart them proclaim the truths and principles of the great Demecritic party. MUTING AT COLIMIIA.—The Democracy of the Borough of Columbta and vicinity will meet In the Odd Fellows' Hall, Ole evening, (Tneeday,) at 8 o'clock. The meeting will be aohlreared by Hon. lILLAC E. Munaa and others. Mll'lll, - 601 EAST L&MPltr.ll.—A. meeting of the Denaoc. racy and conservative men will be held at the public home of Mv. Henry Keneagy, In East Lampeter township, on Saturday neat, September 6th, at 4 o'clock, P. M. Ad. dresses will be delivered by Hon. ISAAC E. 1111sTilt, D. G. EeinamiN4Egq., J. W. F. SWIFT, Esq., In English, and Mr. D. E. SCHGMLuI, In German. rdstmamior THE DEMOCELTIC CLUB or 110IINY Jor.—This Club met it Henry Shaffner'. Hell, on Saturday evening, the 16th Dist. The announcement made a few days pre vious to the meeting that BEESIIEL H. REYNOLDS, Esq., of Tancitster,krould address the Club caused the Hall to be well filled , y the Democrats of Mount Joy and vicinity.— A few of the inquisitive Jacobins also came to bear him, one of whdm took a front seat, and as soon as the meeting was opened commenced taking notes. Judging by his po eltion, it as his evident intention to intimidate the speaker; it however had the contrary. Mint, and the speaker wits no doubt bolder and more fearless than be probably Would have been had the intended insult not been giveth Mr. RiTif OLDS is a calm, deliberate, impressive and elo. quent speaker, and hie speech was received throughout with marked attention and applause. He boldly and ale. quently advocated the Jeffereonian and Jacksonian prin. ciples of Democracy, the Constitution or the United States as it is and the Union as it was. He convinced the audi ence that the present Administration la incompetent to adminlatei, the affairs of this Government in times of peace and much rises in times of war; in fart he did credit to himself and the cause which he so boldy - and nobly advo- cated. r Mr. R. Was followed by Dr. fientrat WILCELINII, of Lan caster, who addressed the Club in a patriotic, and eloquent style. It Was Indeed a reel pleasure to bear how the Day ttir — wrnered the Republicans, by graphically holding up lodoilit - their eyes the broken promises and the glaring con tyldfctionetof which they are guilty. His remarks were a Just and fearless condemnation of the rotten Aristocracy in Washington and the corrupt Administration of Andy Curtin, this so-called soldiers' -friend, and the would be choice of the people. After a Vote of thanks to the speakers, the Club ad journed. I have never attended a more orderly meeting in my life, and I ins satisfied, J edging from the attendance of the Democrats et the few meetings I have been at lately, that on the sechnd Tuesday of October next our candidates, Woodward' and Lowrie, will be triumphantly elected. I delayed sending you this report until the Jacobin re port should make Its appearance; but I have waited in vain, for Itihas not yet appeared, and I fear it will no:. I prestime that by the time the reporter analysed the speeches he heard and had taken notes of, he found noth ing to condemn. The speakers proved all their positions as they wept along. BOtzka. Monier Jisr, Aug. 26, 1863. • /, Ang. 20, Worm Oix Alava AND IN MOTION!—On last Friday eve ning, the 2Sth Inst., a very large and enthusiastic meeting of the Penh Township Democratic Club took place at the public bom4se of Samuel Myers. Telling speeches wore made by Dr. H. B. DUNLAP and the veteran HVIRT SHAY/- Nun, Seq., of Mount Joy, who were followed in a few brier remarks 14 R. R. Tsumir and Jostew S %zzaza , &gra , In the German language. Penn township will show a good record in Ontoberl OLD WARWICK ALWATS OUTNITHDLICIED, RUT NEVER VAN QUISHED 1-4110 next regular meeting of the Warwick Dem ocratic Club will be held at the public house of Peter Rat froth, in the village of Millport, on Saturday evening next, September Lth. The Club will be addressed by Col. Enwean McGovaxst land William R. WiLsow, Fag, of this city.— The work goes bravely ! A TERRIBLE AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday afternoon last Miss Mary Solider, a young lady employed at Shoberts Eden Paper Milt, was instantly tilled. She was passing along the outer part of the mill, when her areas came in contact with an iron shaft run ning marl* horizontal from the water wheel. to the mill gearing, and about twelve inches from the outer edge of the building. In an instant she was wrapped around this shaft, and whirled around at the rate of fifty revolutions a minute, her body at every revolution striking the build. log. The 1?ody was horribly bruised and mutilated, and presented A sickening eight. LITERARY.- GODXY'LI tiLDY'S Boos, for September, contains as its principal einbellishment a line engaving of landscape and figures, " The Happy Party, " a double page colored Faahlon Phite, containing five figures in full dress, and over fifty engravings, illustrating new styles of drosses and bonneth, patterns, trimmings, ac., Ac. The literary contents are of the first order—in fact each successive No. of Godey'a incomparable 'Book,' is an improvement upon all previonerisimes. It is emphatically the Lady's Book of the country', and no lady or housewife should be without it. Terme $3 a year.—L. A. Hodey, Philadelphia. Pantasoar,s Maelazose, for September, hew a beautiful en. graving, ''Bdith," and the latest Parisian fashions, em broideries, 4e., ite. Its reading matter also is very choice and intereating, and nothing seems to be omitted by the enterprbfing Publisher to make the Magazine second to none in the , eountry. It Is well worthy . 71 place on every eentre-tablei, Ma. to! E. SCHCIIDLZR, the Berke County Orator, it again in this city, where he will hays his head. Quarters until the present campaign ls over, and when all thump wlohlos to oonintoutiosto with him will plow 'd ewLha Tin "LOYAL" MEIT'SNLEGATIMIETTNOS. —The "loyal" (1) men had a rough time of It at their dele gate meetings, in one or two of the city wards, en Saturday evening lest. In the Southwest Ward (the glorious old "Shaughai,"which the "loyal" (1) Men always come within 160 or MO votes of carrying) a leader of the "loyal" (t) men, a veritable Lieutenant Colonel, who was never in a battle, and never even emelt the burning of powder, one who is as savage as a meat axe, but not near so dangerous, was exceedingly boisterous and furious, and swore terribly, as much so as the celebrated army did in Plandere! This sotogerour officer, by his bravado and blustering, succeeded in carrying the ward by Volts majority—but his opponents say that it was by the grossest cheating and fraud. But among them be it—lt's only a family quarrel! The eondnct of the individual alluded to will, of course, not be men tioned In the "loyal" (7) papers. That would be treason able! If it had only been a "Copperhead," how nirfuoutdy indignant they would have been I In the Southeast Ward the delegates of the redoubtable Colonel Price, who Is anxious to serve hls country, not on the field of battle, but as a State Senator, were elected over those headed by Major Thaddeus Stevens, Jr. What in the world are we coming to, when the =Wary leaders of the "loyal" (?) men have commenced fighting among them salve./ The cane of "the Government," "Mrs. Govern ment" and the 'little Governments" =uncertainly suffer, for by such conduct they are giving "aid sad comfort" to the "Copperheads" In the Northwest and Northeast Wards, as far as heard from, "everything was quiet along the lines!" What a beautiful party these •9ayaUets" are! All the d axnw y, (J) honesty (?) and respectability (?) have found a resting place in their ranks I IMPORTANT •TO DRAFTED MEN—THE $3OO COMmirrArrow.—The following opinion of Hon. Thaddeus •Stevene, in regard to the effect of the payment of the $3OO commutation by a drafted man, sets forth the Law of the case in so clear a light that we cannot see why there should be any conflict of opinion on that point The con clusion arrived at is not only law but it is common sense; and laws ought certainly to be construed in accordance with common sense: LANC6BrnIt, August 27, 1863. Dxea BM: In answer to your inquiry, my opinion is that the payment of the $3OO commutation and the furnishing a substitute have precisely the same effect. Either of them frees the drafted man from further draft for three years He is in effect in service, either by himself or another— The payment of $3OO makes the government his agent to procure a substitute. The government has consented to act as such agent The taw says he may "on or before the day fixed for his appearance furnish an acceptable substi tute, or pay such sum not exceeding $3OO for the procura tion of such substitute, and thereupon the person furnish ing the substitute, or paying the money, shall be discharged from farther liability under th tt draft." No one doubts that turni king a substitute excuses for three years. To give a different effect to the payment of the commutation seems to me little leas than so absurdity. It is a very mischievous misconstruction, which, if need be, I have no doubt Congress will correct ED REILLY, Esq STATE SENA TORBH IP. —Messrs. Editors: AB the Democratic County Convention will soon be held, it is not unadvisable for us to begin considering who should be candidates for the various positions to be tilled, 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 'true and undoubted representative of Democratic policy; for with that be will be identified with the only policy that can save the nation. HENRY SHAFFNER, Of Mount 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 tine 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 would do so with honor to himself, credit to the party, and advan tage to the public interests. J. 11100 NT Jo:, Aug. 11th, 1863. PASSENGER AND MAIL SCHEDULE.—The dif ferent Passenger Trains on the Pennsylvania Railroad leave this city as follows: LEAVE EASTWARD. , Through Express 3.30 a. m. hiount Joy Accommodation 8 40 "m. Lancaster Lancaster Accommodation 9.00 " Fast Lino 725 " - Fast Mail 2.20 p.m • Mount Joy Accommodation, No. 2 5 48 Harrisburg Accommodation " • 8.03 " LEAVE WESTWARD. Through Express 1.21 a. m Fast Mail 10.55 " Mount Joy Accommodation 11.05 " Fast Line 2.23 p. m Harrisburg Accommodation o 08 " Lancaster Accommodation 7.44 " Mount Joy Accommodation, No. 2 7.50 " The mails arrive and close at the City Post Office as fol lows : eaniveas. Through ?Jail from the East-1-21 a. m. and 223 p. m. Through Mail from the West-3.30 a. in. and 2.25 p. to. Way Mall from the Eaat-10.55 a. m. Way Mail from the West-9 a. m. and 225 p. m. Southern Mail from Baltimore and Washington, 2.25 p. m MOlnts FO CLOSING MAILS Eastern Through Mall, for Philadelphia, 1.30 p. m. and 8 p. m. Way Mail End, for Philadelphia and intermediate otlioes, at 8 a. m. New York and - Northern and Eastern States, 1.30 p. m. For Harrisburg, and Cumberland, Franklin and Perry canaries, at 10 e. m. and. 8 p m. Northern Central, Juniata and Western New York, at 10 Way Mall West—For Landisville, Balunga, Mount Joy, Elizabethtown Middletown, Highspire, Elempfield, Mountville, Wrlghtsville, Maytown, Bainbridge and Fal mouth at 10 a. in. For Columbia, York, ac., at 10 a,lll. For Baltimore and Washington, D. C., at 1.30 p. in. and 8 P. m. Pittsburg Through Mail at 1.30 p. m. and 8 p. m. For Columbia, York, Marietta and Harrisburg at 10 a. m and 5. p. m. For The Intelligencer At this moment, while contending armies march to bat tle, it becomes necessary to attend to matters more domes tic than the cry of civil war. Much has been said as to the origin of the conflict now waging. Some have attributed it to slavery, some to the manner in which the Northern agitators have attacked that peculiar institution, some to climatic differences, and others to the natural Jarring of commercial interests and a greatly and rapidly increased material pros perity. But so vague are the inferences, none, perhaps, that would settle down into a conviction, that any one of these causes, alone, could have such an unequivocal ef fect, and many would doubt that all of them together should eventuate so thoroughly in sock a wide-spread die rend.; but all seem to have acquiesced in the belief of a disaffection, or, at least indifference to the Union, or the Government, as the nearer result from which the present acerbity and disintegration has sprung. Lot ns descend from the general to particulars. In the county of Lancaster we find apparently two po litical parties The stronger for a quarter of a century, though frequently changing its name and professed ob jects, we observe ever rolling, sometimes slowly, some times quickly, into very nearly the same inevitable and certain majority—the weaker, still its like, always In a decided minority. In the popular apprehension the former was, also, under its various transformation., yet the same party. With slight exceptions, through slight individual changes from one to the other, the same men composed Its. bulk, and the same moo, or their successors, were un der each aspect its identical leaders. First, the Whig., then the Native Americans, now the Republicans. And yet scarcely anything can be more politically distinct, than the last named and the old Whig party. Even that pert of the elder political creed—one term for the Exacta. tive office—which had been adopted by the country, and which had become already a custom, has been repudiated by the late Republican Convention, which has ronomina. tad the present Governor for the succeeding executive term of the State of Pennsylvania. Here let us ask, does any one believe that an honest principle was the ground work of such a uniform and easily accomplished prepon derance in every changing alternative? What has been the consequence of this invulnerable and everlasting majority? It gave certainty to the arrange. manta of the initiated and active managers, and power to enforce their decisions. Every one knows the settling of the ticket was the election. The voters of their own faith were called upon to record their approbation of that which had been resolved, had already been done, and to endorse the edict, not less commanding than that of an emperor, which was sent forth, and set before the gaze of the mul titude, and to which these could only cry "amen;" while the party In opposition were permitted to perform a sera mony, to go to the polls, as hopeless of result from their act as one that would throw a brickbat at the moon—a mere ceremony I Such a spectacle might in.pire curiosity, or it might be witnessed as an imposing pageant, but the pnblic could take no real interest in ft. There might in deed some momentary excitement be brought about, some artificial Impetus, to serve a momentary purpose. It would prove a clamor only, and would soon fade away, to leave the participants es barren as all pageantries do, when they are expected to answer beyond the hour of their appear ance. To all but the expectant.: to them such a scheme is highly convenient. Through a series of years continued and perfected, such a machinery become, so apt and adap table that theiapplicant for office, honors and emoluments has comparatively little trouble. He makes his terms with individuals instead of the masses. As told' abilities, they will not be invidiously inquired into, If he is docile and gives sufficient assurance that he will not disturb the harmony of things: that is, of this peculiar authority and system. upon which alone he Is dependant, and not upon the public. At least, he is not held in a long suspense.— He does not hazard much in au open chase; and if there should be no room for him among the recipients, he will be made acquainted with such good reasons, or he may bide his time, though not indefinitely, thathe will hardly have it in himself to be much mortified at his circum stances, in degree only, not in kind, lees enviable than he had perhaps imagined. Meanwhile the man successful, perchance in bargaining, appears in an advertisement, or in the proceedings of a deliberative body, as a candidate. None know why, what claims he advances, what his deserts are. Neither will he ever have any Intercourse on the ground of per suasion with the one that is to choose; he will never con sult him. But the voter is aware that the matter is fixed. And he is himself rather satisfied than the contrary, since he need not Concern himself. Heretofore, if he has in quired, moat probably, be has found the individuals pro posed good men, very good men. perhaps. They who really selected them were not unmindful of popular appearances; inquiry is lulled, and superficial requisites are suf. ficient. Now convenience is in itself desirable, but ludo lance is not to be recommended. This easy mode may even seem plausible, bat there is no vitality. No man in the common walks of life is tempted in giving or in re ceiving a bribe; no man's conscience appeals to him in the choice between the representatives of more or less doubt ful principles, nor are his feelings wrought op In the close issue between those for whom he has on the one side a preference of friendship or favor. The elected, to obvious perception, amid like Inducements, is moderate and cafe; if he does no mighty good, he does no ostensible evil Is it wonderful that, amid such languid relations, the Government, however it is, whatever it is, wherever it is, and the public are at loggerheads? This Is in truth alienated, that is independent, but stands alone. Thus It has no other elenient of animation left but that of force and fear. And if something'of the same habit has obtained or obtains now throughout the land, as in this particular district mentioned, we may believe that the preeent doubt, difficulty and apprehension in reference to the wonted progress of the country are not altogether Inexplicable. But it may be contended that the conditions thus held preferable would lend more latitude to intrigue, which could not but be deprecated. What can be more effective intrigue than that which removes, annuls everything that can counterbalance or hinder in? Besides intrigue would be better than inanity, for where there is no life there can, be no worth. It error must fall before reason's freedom, so intrigue may apprehend exposure when it deals in the open day and with the popular element, instead of shield ing itself under set forms and perfectly regulated organ'. rations. The public will and public opinion, however operated upon and influenced, inspire our institutions, and if these ere cast aside the whole fabric of them crum bles, and such a remarkable inconsistency predominates as cannot but eventuate in utter discordancy. They may be erroneous; they will most likely be corrected. They may be tyrannical; 'twill be only for a season. For there is this vast difference between individuals and cliques in popular respects, that the public has never an Interest in the continuance of public wrong, perversion or destruction; just the contrary. No doubt the mechanism alluded to would still in part exist, nay, be necessary; but it would not monopolize the essence of political action. No doubt many a one would be sorely creased in his views; but the hindrance might be preferable to a lethargic success, cal culated and dull. Besides, does not Fortune animate all human affairs? If fortune were excommunicated from mankind, what a wretched, lingering, Languishing exist ence were infallibly theirs! Fortune—that is the very spur of all emotions In the human breast, the mystery, the surprise, the happiness of that which is not so much a working as a finding! The popular misapprehensions might leave room for repentance or emendation, or if beyond a remedy, they would yet be the least of two evils in the pathway on which the nation must needs go or be foiled. If in a battle all the spoils were beforehand enum erated; if the slain, the wounded, the captured and the escaped were in anticipation numbered, and such and such designated for each condition, what sort of a martial spirit could we Imagine thence to be evoked by such an artificial contrivance? Not lees will the same Infelicity, non-natur alism, if not impossibility, hold of other antagonisms in their dame, which partake of the nature of a contest when conducted according to such a stultifying process. We might yen sot warssionsbly hope fora sonar re. salt hem the elective franchienexircised on anathralluils, than from many a moral conflict which may be wielded, impelled by fanaticism or a mistaken zeal, where the polo slots are atttimes appealed to and enlisted more than the understanding, and from whose ferocity there is some. times to adequate protection; whereas a popular election may be considered as a patriotic game, wherein, though the passions have scope, when the play is ended, (a play though for a good and efficient purpose,) they are set at rest. and the fury expires with the occasion, to be again resuscitated as a means of dissipating all bitterness, in place of treasuring it up from year PS year, and multiply. log its venom without knowing when the epidemic will have Its stay, or to what fatal finality it may at last lead. But in the ease hare contemplated in this particular county, where a few only, if any, realise the true meaning and intent of an election, where rotation in office, width Is the very cement of our Constitution, is but partially Isg• amplified, political parties are practically no longer parties. Their bad qualities alone remain. They become only fee• dons; and If the element In which they have their being prevails, the Government will unmistakeably lay the baud of authority upon them, or tire versa, since it is Melon. dent, and they are without interest in it, and therathre adverse; and it cannot live without Its proper connections, no more than the head In an animal body without the heart. That spirit or essential nature of any constituent expunged or neutralised, the constituent becomes lifeless. Thence comes force; and they shall have to bind them to one another by the fear of danger and through the prin ciple of coercion, till they find means of a nearer relation, and interests not separate but united. Otherwise, they they shall have to yield all that the country'. fathers con. tended for, and mankind rejoiced in hoping—namely, that a brighter day was dawning, which Would still make pro. grew toward a more enviable hour than had yet been for humanity. Where the blame ilea the writer of this will not pretend to say. Others may be better advised than he. But in his opinion, and if the foregoing be admitted, It will require an occasional minority instead of a stereotyped majority, especially where parties carry out only the ex istent policy and evolve no new hypothesis, to give °spree. idols and offset to the vital principle herewith advocated. From a slender sprig springs a large tree, and some dele terious plants, have they but a single rooting, can gamely be eradicated; so an unprofitable order of things, though the seal, of lie operations be confined, may thrive to large proportions, and may affect with harm many a one beside those at first and immediately concerned. G. LANCASTER, August 29th, 1863. Masons. EDITORS: it Seems tome thatint he'pro grass of the present political campaign too little stress is put by onr newspapers upon the most important dif ference now existing between the two political parties. Surely in the midst of a Civil War, such as this is, no subject can be of more interest and im portance than that which relates to the conduct of the war and its speedy and honorable termination. If we give our money and our lives without stint, as we of the North have done since this war began, who will deny us the right to know for what the war is waged? The object of the war is surely its very soul and body. As long as this is praiseworthy and noble so long is the war justifiable and right. Why did the whole Country, men of all parties, rush to arms in 1861? Because we all were willing to give our life's blood for the preservation of the Constitu tion and Union of our fathers. It was a holy object. No nation in the world's history ever fought in so sacred a cause. The new President, although be had many enemies, made them all friends by his patriotic and statesmanlike actions in the early part of his Administration Bat, alas! why were the good men of the North soon compelled to take issue with the President? Why were they driven to the organization of an opposition party? Because he abandoned his policy, proved false to his pledges, and gave himself up entirely to' the control of the ultra-Abolition wing of his party. Because he lost sight of the only object of the war—the restoration of tee Union, and lined himself with the fortunes of those men who in the very halls of Congress gave utterance to treason suoh as this : " Who, in the name of God wants the Cotton States, or any other State this side of perdition, to remain in the Union, if slavery is to be oontinued?"—Binghans. " The Union never shall with my consent be restored under the present Constitution as it is."—Stevens. " This .war is for the African and his race."—Lowry. These, Messrs. Editors, and other speeches without number, found no echo in the hearts of the real patriots of the North. They love their Country and the Union, and were in duty bound to oppose, with all their might, the prosecution of the war for such objects as these. Now, in the coming election the people of Pennsylvania will decide for what object this terrible war shall be waged. Whether the blood of their sons and brothers in arms shall be spilt for .the " African," or whether in the sacred cause of the Union. Those who vote for Judge Woodward will put their seal of condemnation upon the attempt of those in power to make this a war for the negro, while they who favor the re-election of Gov Curtin, will give aid and comfort to those men who in their hearts do not desire a restoration of the Union, bat who, to deceive the people and thus gain power, shout loud for it and establish Union Leagues. THADDEUS STEVENS HISTORICAL COM PARIRON OF TRES REIGNS OF TERROR OF '99 AND' 63. Ma. Inv : As a native of Pennsylvania, born and bred in the good :old Jeffersonian and Snyder's school of DEMOCRACY in old Berke county, I cannot but feel rejoiced and encouraged to see once more the Democratic spirit of '99 aroused in my native State. ''Old Democratic Berks," was the first county in the State and the Union, to which the true- De mocracy arose in '99, to 'oppose the Reign of Terror inaugurated by the Federalists under the Administration of the elder Adams. The Alien, Sedition and Gag laws—which made it seditious and criminal for citizens to meet peacefully to express, or print, or utter any sentiments opposed to or censuring the national Administration or any Federal officer was, first attempted to be enforced in the arrest of Henry Snyder, and the suppression of his German Democratic paper in Reading. This Federal, tyrannical usurpation, aroused at once the Democratic spirit of a little Spartan band of noble patriots headed by John Frees and John Miller, who held a Demooratio meeting at Miller's Mill, in Eleas township, some 5 or 7 miles northeast from Reading, and passed resolutions disapproving of the Federal Administration and the arbitrary ar rest of Snyder and the suppression of his paper, and asserting their inherit Constitu tional right to the freedom of speech and the press. Government soldiers were at once forwarded from Philadelphia, where the seat of the Federal Government was at that time —to arrest this noble patriotic band of Demo cratic freemen. Miller made, however, his escape by hiding under hay in a barn, and I often beard him declare and say, to use his own words: "that he felt the cold steel of " the Federal sword on his very body, run in "to the hay under which he laved, by the Federal bloodhounds," as he called them— who knew that he was somewhere in the barn, but could not find him. " But Frees " and eight of his compatriots were arrested, " dragged or forced to Easton, and there " locked up in a dark cellar, knee deep in " water and mud, for 48 hours," and then, under a strong guard of Federal soldiers drove like cattle to the slaughter to Philadelphia and imprisoned, where they soon received a mock-trial. Frees was condemned to be hung, and the others sentenced to the Penitentiary, some for 8 to 9 and the others from 1 to 5 years. But the Federal usurpers in power, did not dare to hang Frees. The true De mocracy arose in Pennsylvania and the whole Union in their blight and sovereignty at that fall election and hurled the Federal tyrants and usurpers from power. Thomas M'Kean was elected Governor of Pennsylvania, and Thomas Jefferson President of the United States, with overwhelming majorities, and the Federal Administration did not dare to execute their sentence upon Frees and his compatriots.— And the very first official act that President Jefferson performed, after his inauguration, was to pardon Frees and his fellow victims of Federal persectition and tyranny, and when they were releaSed from their long confine ment, the people met in a large mass meeting before the jail,and constructed a high platform, on which they carried Frees, high above their heads, through the streets of Philadelphia, amid the shouts and buzzes of thousands of Democratic freemen. Thus ended the Federal tyranny and mis rule in 1799 and 1800. The Alien and Sedi tion laws were repealed ; the freedom of the press and speech, and the rights and liberties of the people, and " good will among men," were once more restored and preserved by Democratic men and measures in the adminis tration of the Government for sixty years, until the present Abolition Administration came into power ; and now we have in 1863, a Reign of Terror, teu thousand times more tyrannical, despotic and degrading to free. men than the Reign of Terror in '99. It is enough to make the patriotic blood boil with indignation in every honest Democratic heart, to see at this day, the base, malicious persecu tion and tyranny of some of the very imps of these old " Federal bloodhounds," now in power, in arresting, abusing and denouncing the very sons of those noble Democratic fathers who are unwilling, as were their patri otic sires, to bow their knees and necks to the present Abolition tyranny. J. M. CINCINNATI, August 25. The steamer Lady Madison was being loaded with ammunition at Vicksburg, and had received nearly a full load, when a negro, carrying a percussion shell on board, let it fall, causing an instant explosion. The boat took fire and communicated to the ammunition. The steamer was entirely de stroyed. Out of one hundred and sixty men on board, only four are known to have escaped. The steamer was a large side-wheel boat, owned by Capt. J. S. Neal, of Madison, and worth about $40,000. By the 95th section of the act of Assembly of the State of Pennsylvania of 2d July, 1839; it is enacted that " No body of troops in the army of the United States, or of this Commonwealth, shall be pres. ent, either armed or unarmed, at any place of election within this Commonwealth, durd►y thi OM Of =oh election." For T4o Intolligencer From the Somerset Democrat DISASTER AT VICKSBURG. TROOPS AT ELECTIONS.
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