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GEO. SaumeDsoN, EDITOR
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Now our flag ts flung to the wild wind. free
Let It float o'er our father land,
And the guard of Its spotless rune Alan be
Columbia's chosen band.
" CLING TO THE CONSTITUTION, AS
THE SHIPWRECKED MARINER CLINGS
PO THE LAST PLANK, WHEN NIGHT
AND THE TEMPEST CLOSE AROUND
HIM."-DA NIEL WZBEYMIL
Hon. Alexander Long.
This gentleman, who has, by the
action of the Abolition Speaker of
the House of Representatives, sud
denly found himself famous as a
statesman, is a representative in Con
gress from the City of Cincinnati.—
He is about forty-five years of age,
of florid complexion, is quiet in his
manners and strictly temperate in
his habits. For many years he was
a member of the Ohio Legislature,
where he won an exalted reputation.
As a Lawyer he has few equals in
his State, and is a perfect gentleman
in every respect. Of the purest
personal and political character, he
is loved by his friends and respected
by all who know him, and is destined
to make a mark in history. His
convictions of right, as set forth in
his speech, are doubtless the hon
est thoughts of as honest a man
as is to be found in or out of
Congress. We shall publish his
speech in our next issue, so that our
readers may be able to
,judge for
themselves of its merits or demerits.
" There is a satisfaction in knowing that
the Government is able to keep down the
prices of tea, coffee, butter and sugar, and
that it has already successfully opposed those
speculations which tend to increase them Un
necessarily."
g We clip the above from a
leading editorial in Forney's Press,
of Friday last, and it will be likely
to astonish our readers as much as
it did us when they have read it.—
As FORNEY speaks by the book, we
suppose he knows whereof he as
serts ; and we would then ask him,
why it is that the .Government., if it
possesses the abqty, don't interfere
to bring down the:Yprices of the ar
ticles referred to? The prices are
now about four times what they
ought to be, and what they were
before the war, and still going up,
so much so as to place them beyond
the reach of the laboring classes in
the community. If the Government
can control this matter, then is it
derelict in its duty to the people, in
not doing so. But we rather sup
pose it is one of FORNEY'S many
flights of fancy which has nothing
substantial to rest upon. There is
one way (but this is not the way
contemplated by the Press) that the
Government can reduce the prices
of these and other articles of neces
sity, and that is to make a speedy
end of the war. But this it will
not do, no matter whether halt the
people are obliged to starve, and the,
other half (except - the shoddy mil
lionares) to he content with half
rations.
Great Central Sanitary Fair.
The attention of our readers is in
vited to the advertisement of the
great Central Fair to be held in
Philadelphia. Here a fine oppor
tunity is offered to each man, woman,
boy and girl, in the State, to do
something to aid in the great and noble
work in which the Sanitary Com
mission is engaged. Persons of
every trade and profession are ap
pealed to to contribute a day's labor
or -a days income. Business men
are invited to give a day's profits.—
Let every one who reads this paper
consider himself or herself directly
addressed by the Sanitary Commit
tee, and then aid in doing good.
The State Interest.
The bill to pay the interest upon
the State debt of Pennsylvania for
the future in legal tender notes
passed the Senate, after an exciting
debate lasting all Wednesday night,
and until 12 o'clock on Thursday
morning. It had previously passed
the House, and awaits the Gover
nor's signature to become a raw,
which of course it will receive.
Our thanks are due to Hon.
JOHN L. DAWSON for valuable public
documents.
GREAT RISE IN GOLD.—The price
of gold took a sudden rise on
Thursday last in the New York and
Philadelphia brokers' markets. It
opened at 179 f ; rose, amid great
excitement to 188 ; fell back to 180 ;
rallied again to 184, and fell to 174,
closing at 176a1761.
air GEORGE W. PEARCE. Esq.,
Stationery Clerk in the United States
Senate, and editor of the West Ches
ter (Pa.,) Republican, died in the City
of Washington on Thursday last, of
scarlet fever. He was ill but a short
time, and his death was very unex
pected to his friends. His body will
be sent home for interment.
THE DRAFT POSTPONED TILL JUNE
In.—A dispatch from New York
dated April 14th, announces that
"The draft is postponed till the Ist
of June." - Whether this postpone
ment is general, or intended to apply
only to the State of New York, we
do not know.
A doiagrossional Stahl.
The House of Representatives at
Washington is becoming a perfect
bear-garden. The entire sessions of
Saturday week and two or three
days of the last week, were oc
cupied with a stormy discussion,
originating in the introduction -of a
resolution by the Speaker to expel
Mr. Lona, of Ohio, on the charge of
advocating, in debate, the recognition
of the independence of the Confeder
ate States in preference to a further
continuance of the war. It was denied
ly several members that Mr. LONG
had used the language imputed to
him, and the speech as written out
by him previous to its delivery was
produced in evidence of the fact.—
The debate was conducted with great
spirit and acrimony on both sides,
and, finally, the further considera
tion was postponed until Monday.
Immediately, thereupon, Mr. WASH
BERNE, of Illinois, offered a pream
ble and resolution, declaring that
Mr. HARRIS, of Maryland, in defend
ing Mr. LONG, had also been
guilty of using
treasonable language,
and that he be expelled from the
House. A long debate ensued, in
which FERNANDO WOOD and others
participated, and at its close the vote
on the resolution of expulsion was
81 yeas to 58 nays. As it requires
a vote of two-thirds to expel a mem
ber, the resolution was rejected. A
resolution of censure upon Mr.
HARRIS was then adopted.
The debate on the resolution to
expel Mr. LONG was continued on
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
by Mr. VOORHEES and others, and
finally, the Speaker, becoming
ashamed of what he had done, or
for some other reason, withdrew his
resolution of expulsion, and con
tented himself with a harmless reso
lution of censure upon Mr. LONG,
which was passed by a vote of 80
to 70, and thus ended the miserable
abortion
A more high-handed outrage upon
the freedom of speech was never at-
tempted. Even the Abolition jour
nals are ibrced to condemn the action
of Speaker COLFAX and the radicals
who supported his resolution. The
New York Times, which is the organ
of the Secretary of State and the
Administration, says:
'' We have protested against the attempt
to expel Representative Long on the ground
of expediency. We now wish to say a few
words in respect to the right of the matter.
The Constitution takes care to secure the ut
most freedom of debate in Congress by mak—
ing special provision that 'for any speech or
debate in either Rouse, members shall not be
questioned in any other place.'
" What could have been the object of this
unlimited immunity, but the recognized ne—
cessity that every representative should be in
a position to do completest justice to his own
sentiments and those of his constituents?—
This is a principle which lies at the very
foundation of every representative govern
ment, But why is it not as much a violation
of this principle for men in the Capitol to
deter a representative from speaking his sen—
timents, as for men outside the Capitol? It
is the intimidation that is the evil, and it
don't matter a particle whence the intimida
tion proceeds. For any power in Congress or
out of Congress to exerci ,, e it, is to violate
one of the most sacred principles of the Cm—
stituti,o
" Mr. Ling has debied the right of coercion.
Why should he be expelled for that? No
Congress ever sat in Washington in which
the same denial has not been made. The
denial has been met a thousand times by ar
gument, by ridicule and by denunciation, but
no man before ever dreamed of meeting it by
a resolution of expulsion. Mr. Long also
affirmed that, in his belief. it was impossible
to subdue the rebellion. If be honestly be
lieves that, he has not only the right, but it
is his duty to say it. It is the duty of every
honest legislator, when great public concerns
are at stake, to declare his honest convictions.
It is none the less, but all the more, his duty
to do this, if these convictions are opposed to
the dominant sentiment. It is the weakest
side that has the stro ogest need of argument;
for it is their only power. Mr. Long's only
responsibility for hie arguments is to his con
stituents."
The New York Le veniny Post, rad
ical Abolition, is equally strong in
condemnation of the expulsion
movement, and so of several other
Republican papers.
=l3
FRED DOUGLASS in a late speech in Hart
ford, said the " negro must vote and be voted
f " that he must be permitted to hold any
office that a white man can hold : that in the
body politic and in social relations he must be
equal of Vie whites; that no law (for instance
that against the marriage of Negroes with
whites) must be permitted to retard his
progress. This is " the new doctrine " which ,
is to prevail in the nest Presidential election,
if the Republicans succeed in carrying it.
The Hartford Times truly says that when the
President proclaimed emancipation, he pro
claimed also the mingling of races. The one
follows the other as surely as noonday follows
sunrise. This is Abolition doctrine ;itis a
part of their creed. Abolitionists control the
Republican party ; they will not support the
party unless it comes up to their creed ; and
the Republican leaders know it would die at
once should the Abolitionists proper withdraw
from it. Some voters say they are not Abo
litionists, but that they vote the Republican
ticket. In voting that way they are inconsis•
tent, for their votes support all the abominable
doctrines of the Abolitionists.
REPUBLICANS FALSE PROPHETS
Of all prophets, truly remarks the Brook
lyn Eagle, surely the leaders of the Republi
can party are least entitled to belief. After
laboring to show that the Union of these
States was not worth a dollar, they predicted
that the South could not be kicked out of it,
When a sectional party triumphed at the
North, it was predicted that the South, in
stead of endeavoring to get out of the Union,
would content herself by forming new com
binations within it. When the thoughtful
men of the country were alarmed by the
gravity of the times immediately following
the election of Mr. Lincoln, that functionary
himself assured us that there was nobody
hurt, and that there would not be. When war
actually broke out, we were assured that the
Southe.n people were endeavoring to 'deceive
themselves 1 th 1 they could not deceive so
astute u p ditician as the man who-made the
statement•. Mr. Seward. Then came the
" sixty days " prophecy, and finally the iotal
ligent contraband, too, took his plane among
the prophets and the s uth was to be starved
out. Give us, 8.49 Mr G73ely, an emancipa
tion policy and 900,000 men will take the
field. Free the slaves, and the roads of New
England will swarm with volunteers, says
Gov. Andrew. Proclaim the extinction of
negro slavery, and the news will be carried
from plantation to plantation, says the
Tribune, and the rebels will have as much as
they can attend to in putting down servile
insurrection. Every prediction of these men
has been falsified ; yet unabashed, they con
tinue to prophesy, and the credulity of their
dupes is not yet exhausted.
ger Gold was selling at 173 in Philadel—
phia, on yesterday.
the AptioMonmetit,
On 'Thursdaiw'eek, Mr. CottRELL,
Chairman of the Select Committee
appointed to apportion the State into
Senatorial and Representative dis 7
tricts, reported a bill, in the Senate,
which we presume will pass. Under
the bill the counties of Lehigh and
Northampton shall compose the
Seventh District, and elect one Sena
tor. The counties of Lehigh and
Northampton shall elect three mem
bers of the House of Representa
tives, and the return judges shall
meet at the Court House, in the
Borough of Easton, in the county of
Northampton. The counties of Car
bon, Monroe and Pike shall have
two members, and the return judges
shall meet at the Court House, in
the Borough of Stroudsburg, in the
county of Monroe. The county of
Wayne shall have one member.—
The bill is shamefully unfair through
out. Look, for instance, at that
good, staunch old Democratic county
of Montgomery. Her 18,057 taxa
bles are to have no representation in
the Senate, or what is infinitely
worse, she is to be swallowed up by
the Abolitionists of Chester and
Delaware, while the counties of Ly
coming, Union and Snyder, with
but 16,407 taxables, are to have a
Senator ! Call you this justice ?
Nprthampton and Lehigh counties,
with 26,255 taxables, are to have but
one Senator, while Lancaster, with
27,368, or but 1,113 more taxables,
is to have two Senators. Franklin
and Adams is to have two Senators,
while York and Cumberland, with
23,338, is to waste its Democratic
material of 7,000 over the ratio ou A
single Senator. The counties of
Somerset, Bedford and Fulton are tif
elect one Senator, with 13,096 taxa
bles, or less than one-half of the
number required to elect one in
Northampton and Lehigh, and with
but a few votes more than half the
number required in the district com
posed of the counties of Westmore
land, Fayette and Greene, which
foots up 25,496.
The Representative districts are
equally unfair and unjust to the
Democratic party—so linked togeth
er that a majority of the people will
be disfranchised. There never was
a more rascally " Gerrymander
perpetrated upon any party, not even
in the days of Anti-Masonry. We
have but one consolation, and that
is that no fraud of the kind was ever
perpetrated that did not recoil upon
its unscrupulous originators ; and
we look forward to the fall election
with confidence, to see a signal re
buke administered to those who dare
resort to such a palpable fraud to
perpetuate power.
WHO HAVE FAVORED DISUNION
" We hold that the secessionists could have
had a peaceful dissolution of the Union had
they really desired it, and had the people of
their States, after a free and fair discussion,
decided to separate from the Union. So we
told them at the time; so some of the lead
log Republican journals told them—all in
good faith. President Lincoln, Governor
Morgan, and nearly all of us, openly favored
a convention of the States, which (and which
only, as the disunionists well know,) would
have had power to_decree a peaceful dissolu—
tion of the Union." - --Arew York Tribune.
There it is—says the Cleveland Plain Deal
er —the held, undisguised declaration of
Horace Greeley that not only himself, but
President Lincoln, and " nearly all " of the
Republicans were in favor of a peaceful dis
sol :tion of the Union. Moreover, Greeley a
vers that they so told the Secessionists. This,
it is to be observed, is no declaration made
some time ago, but is published in Monday's
issue of the Tribune. There isn't a " loyal "
sheet in the country which will have the
hardihood to deny that Greeley has now ma - de
free confession of his guilty complicity with
the Southern rebels, and charged Lincoln
with being particeps criminis. When it is
remembered that the Southern leaders in re
bellion are charged with having been plotting
the great revolt for years, it should he graven
in characters of fire upon the memory of the
American people, that with full cognizance
of the designs of Davis, Yancey, Toombs &
CO., the leading Republicans, through their
mouth piece, assured them that they might
peacefully dissolve. The strong fact demon
strated by this confession is that the Repub.
lican party really coveted the disruption of
our glorious Union ; it ardently thirsted for a
division of the nation, rather than there should
be any further participation of the South in
the public councils. We have now the very
key to the anti-slavery excitement which was
fomented by radical journals and stump
speakers. It sprung from no genuine hatred
of slavery, and no genuine philathropy for the
negro, but was a mere engine used to bring
about a separation. This was the real object
of the statistics so often prepared by Wendell
Phillips to show that both North and South
would be bettered by dissolving political con
nection. This was the object of Mr. Lincoln's
celebrated argument in favor of the right of
even a segment of a State to revolutionize.
This was the object of the bitter invectives in
Congress against the South, winding up the
taunt that " the South couldn't be kicked out
of the Union." For this object such men as
Thompson were imported to widen the breach,
and such legislation as the " personal liberty
bills" made chronic, and the foolish enthusi
ast John Brown urged on to his mad raid in
Virginia. It may be asked what has brought
about a change in the sentiments of these
men? We reply that there is no real change.
The terrible recoil after the firing on Sumter,
scared the Abolitionists, and the hope now of
utterly subjugating and crushing out the
Southern people, placing negro soldiers over
them, and sharing with these black troops in
a general plunder of Southern estates, besides
the immediate enjoyment of all the offices,
emoluments and pickings incident to the war,
make them for the present prate of Union, but
at heart they are as honest and absolute
traitor as they ever were.
A pretty set of fellows to be denouncing
Jeff. Davis and the Confederates!
WHO " PROCLAIMED WAR ?"—The New
York Times, an accredited leading Republican
paper, in its issue of the 6th ult., in an edito
rial taking issue with THADDEUS STEVENS for
stating that the rebel States are belligerents
and " that they are no longer in the Union,"
writes down as a fact that cannot be gainsay
ed : " The Confederacy wanted
_peace, and
sent commissioners to Washington to secure
it. We would not receive them, and pro
olaimed war 1 They accepted war. The
question who fired the first gun is nothing."
NEW YORK Sricutavotte.—A letter from
New York states that a speculative move
ment is on foot in that market to buy all the
teas there, and that already $2,000,000 worth
bas been " gobbled" up. A similar combi
nation has been effected to buy up the coffee,
and that too will probably be successful. In
time the same class of harpies will be buying
up all the butter, and all the sugar, and all
the beef.
:,
WllLit AS klloLtilloS PAPIIIII. RAYS. I ,
The Cincinnati Gazettt, en able end influx 1 4 : /MAI / WARThrart
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POLITICAL.—Quite an enthusiastic meeting
enact' Abolition paper, arguing in favor of :
oitiledi,
vita postponing the National Convention of that . of the YOun Mre
their new ro g em-,- e ici a Irtg s itn i` ilitT ai y at e i n ala t ei re7en ,
uses lee- . W pr .i. e.i i ti d e e s b ,l4%, ,.. .r e ,Ire o, laaabt_d
wetter
Samcf: '
patty beyond the month of June,
guage which, were it to appear in a Demo- )
&" fin ` i i i • l '' 'Aii ' -s 1: . . •°. (tuft E'l
' ad it "
, of the Logan ON^ y invitation,
cre.tie paper, would be pronounced treasona- and imis.red a brief, graphic and o °quota epeech on the
1 , emulator/ of affairs and necessity . f
ble. It says : ,
v..
Ho
..s
re,,motel
to. or Democratic organise
!meta a copy of the lime for
"We are- at the beginning of a militar ; publication in The Ilitalr ,
the .e i l h a ti nd the
lifter some
was di
g Vetted to be entered upon '
campaign, in the third year of the war, wit remarks , thanking the Association forlte fa
result will be either the destruction ' of thee li ta i r.rto itle ti tr e ke wh ar d ibstantlidly as fallen:
rebel armies and the triumph of the National ' ati m erth tl e . forT an tal necessary, were neaZ a e7; a li t an a clii t er
cause, or such a failure of exhaustive rep at , g e o, wasar en d e Aw the dissemination of comet "
priiftesplZ t Of
rid commendable ror well
ration and protracted effort as will ha P ve thea : i t ini o ld e ual A rec t ;
moral effect of establishing the Confederacy,° tic'''. patriotic and law abiding, feud the t c e
verse a ci a f a Ltc as al
and will convince foreign powers that our at- m n e gorid . and other moo
'Rion organLations, e villo " :1
tempt to conquer it is hopeless, and ought i to plot treason and malign eil7i th" lore
not . to be continued. One crisis is enough atolCetv•ip/ltri standpe perpetrate ttlet.Crattetion,
maintain the laws , and desiredate
f a tic ti t m . e. While the preparation for this con- fath o eza t n o d o ha f nd it down to thr latest generation asas of
shaking the land, and anxiety for the ' lt n ; oar revolutionary ancestors, who
cleared Despotism gri a m u l
result s r t tpr e e t e o sesthe people, it is an ins rO -' mightores, a e rlo w ffer t ed a
h oi ls e b ie lt d l7:... Liberty where freedom '
priate bring forward a political con- fetter of despotism, and in oALa ti t l „ - ,
flict for the next Presidency." tempt the tst a rit Ooddesl fro fro m m th h ei e r r ew e w th e eri d a o l oi homea
the stars of a heaven
It is thus the rival factions of the Abolition pluckedoe them o b f a t a h n o euo yo w l ave over the land or the
fre; h and t he i il t o o me a
party are contending fur political supremacy, erefi t ire, I t rie t t iappy oi t e e ttr et with you this evening,
while the fate of the nation is suspended in and true
o flr w al ide a h si i :i e tire of great good to oVr P eciTe e try m , at tlie lY w i til e fa a r a.
a nicely adjusted balance, awaiting the issue every true Democratic heart; re:
that kind Of the
who think that war, and bl d
of the impending conflict, to determine the and carnage will re unite the bonds of our g n o ot o di t s h serZed
direction of the scale. This propensity—says of
f eiml—but that other class who, standing
eeoe th e lC:ti e s o t d itu tr t e i e o eo n, h dt i lhe gates of hell, Le ster e tnT of b`
the Cincinnati Enquirer—experience proves ogo t r o io d o o e ahlie,ristociffeer
be
no
g fo o r e, tpe ei sake . of perpetuatinreg winingth
no amount of public peril will suppress. The
the
ste h risp u e n h eo l u ed e by our fathom and who rallying around
the
g Banner proclaim, "Liberty and Union,
Jews murdered each other in factious contests now and f
for the leadership, while the Roman Titus This la trfi e re r. t o t a im e a e a i d n i tZe e r abl y e." thin
s e v i li d en t ale h ti pe ea e rt o r tr th i s t rtriot d d as e ta spa r despaired ofthe v il e e r pTlf?,
was thundering against their gates. The oarvaosbotatiAonp=mect
hie an abunrant a
Greeks of Constantinople disputed in arms t fu or it y P Tl= i't, r
obloquy
and der liberty i syourself
tca hfrongddoefowCooenistiiitutional
upon a point of doctrine, while Mahomet the
that from o th iti c m do in o lo o ns of
og tho e se d in power, wh a e n citrui d
Second was bridging the Ilellespont to bring
di p i i r n iti lo g n, th a e re t dest o wing d t t he libOrties owfhtaiit!apemoiiiieh,7ubnia
his hordes beneath the walls of their devoted
while
crying
g lin p g th r e ee Co t n i ls e tt i tl i o o n and
laws er in t the duet,
j o i or p t li o n g a e t v e e L o i te beLty o L ite wejl may the candid observer a of aa tie d
city. Rome was several times sacked by bar
, Oh, Caton I what crimes are per
bariaes because the people could not agree pel , r i s i i e ted Di tt o t name!' i
under what leader to serve in its defence. is th th e e tte rit o rT f tb3 t. p i e h o o pl m e, e a wi n e d e
mast ro p y r e oe t e he tt s i alTt l i Y on
France was overrun by foreign armies for a great
Democratictrust
reposed oeero in them, the hist u o a ry we ol h The af on th ly e
century because the nobility, exhausting
andci ment the world ever raw will speedily be close
themselves in ware with each other, could not of
on the events thereof recorded in blood, while the demon '
itieok a e rc i h , T , :ill . spread his dark wings ver our landd
combine for a common purpose. Italy was h Pirita or mischief, who will kindi eh 11 an
faggot, eo ilt frzi, every mountain and hill top, e rive e ry ' v e a a ll n e d y
brought under the yoke of an alien master,
pile
of . expiring
Liberty
the glaring light of the funeral
because, through jealousy, its people could
arm
the p U re e s m er o e c e ra w ti h • e p t a y r
° Ey , te o s ei 3 o o e t stretch c forth its strong
not forego their local quarrels even in the m it t 0 00 n i t
oh. r2 d o y ve o r t n o rri d t. t s lie i lm e e w h in soon be her: 6 V '
presence of the enemy. Spain was lost to
preserving, and when
f l i s oe ft to th eh e
the Moors—then the most refined people in rwl',eo7d'irotho vvrienilabeilesapeetrahltaeg
sense offtrehtrytr,u,fe
men
o ndition will become
Europe—simply through divisions , the result bonds "n t rag
e d i
. t a h a e d o ra ppressor will visit uponstraggling in the
e despoiler, of
their heritag h e bo a d, te e r ‘ ri ,o b ry le
e r e e i t i r e ibutica Then will every
of personal ambition ; a war, not merely for rivulet run y become a Golgotha MA
sovereignty or nationality, but for country everye frthl66yend„trth o Lii strong arms to strike once
Peaks, Theu millions of
acid life, against an enemy whose every step swords will lea from othe th e t o r . sc i eb te a r r i ds and wielded by
ttrong arms Hash i
ye
o outraged geooo people's
mien
t ilgeh
wi ts
i al o ad the t in a b t r n i m bl e e n t a : e o
; 1 5 e ii r ho o v
f a
re
in the path of conquest was an act of exter
mination, had not for them such terrors as t u ri 2e o r o, th eo e
d e: o r b th of ,
f:t i i i t e r;iti f sT i , o ki i re . practiFed the foulesT
to overcome that emulation between leaders perpetrated crimes which would make
savages blushl aity
and rivalry, between sections by which they Nowweak-kneed
the time when bad. hone is required.w
were being extinguished, no devotees at the altar, for therisis e in we th a e t
time can speed ori tt:z;
rate of our countryi s , os e c o tirg e ss twit as the wheels of
When the party in power took on this' war, o o b o too o ez , 0 d 05 .,;
In
t tl a nsv . l lls, or death il h eit f Ta s s
the ii barrier to a.
they took it subject to all the pre-established, too g r , t o
s n: t o
f ol o d eo p t a , :t i L o n t l . u“
Democracy;
the
political conditions ; one of which was a Fwa ro s v i e r roolol,
[he
t i t ,
, - 7r of trial, the i night of despotism
will be op
Presidential election to occur in November, Y 2S tfgrsf
i ti o n t o w oo i , th w t e h t et ii C a lt i i ii n s e t i i e t o u o i ion as our :h e i g ilm e l X,
iog
1864 They, perhaps, thought little of that.
will P re a turn fal t l ,ll,7ea th v e en c 7ro te m u' wife t n b c e
she lama,
of Liberty
condition at that time—four years is a vast earth nomore until a race of people
take our me ' e
placesre'wi re-visit
t o
n themselves worthy to be
period, almost an eternity. to apolitiol • • •
313, freemen!
~ The men who control affairs sow
whose conscious wantof • •
antiseptic elements manta -,. I have uttered treason consider
such
'eati
and such as you and I
renders him fearful of tip tiling bef re another traitors; but the time will • '
wb,_, .
el, .e wi Lome, and Is not far distant
a i r f il: will take place iii the affairs of our nation
;
election ; but
however lightly it may have — becosro and
of wh lto o d'is fe l o m et m ie u ie t te able eo l d aw i s te ti e ta t t te T o r d uth
3 mast „rr triumph,
been passed over then, it is now in plain view, e o i f ai th e e d
p a e n o d o t e he e s o u d n
h o o f Truth sheds his XI
inevitable and portentous, a national crisis into the
Isar benigno mantle over ou'r land, tha t'l l:l l° w ' ril ee t c h e ore re w a n d :
neither to be ignored nor escaped. It must
po s r ut e oaten i tations displays of loyalty for the
basest or purposes,
hiii cit l upon the reeks and hills to fall
be met in one of two ways : Constitutionally ,
upon them andjustice and the terrible
retributiils due their e c t r h i e m m es. from
by an election in conformity with the letter
oi,, , p c . , 7l , lo a n u pgl i tl , oLt i lr ih D i e e n k ioc t r h at f e I desire, above all
and spirit of the law ; or unconstitutionally ihefeyre
rho
s e
to b o e e e t ri v il g ,e
a:J o n:et izi es tiV ec temi ti i on enough to set t
by that which, either independent or legal
1 1 ! i o s n o b e y ig tzg &admix: speeches on a o l inh a e t s h t o r m ee e ts t° , ocrradsehnorebel
e
forms or by a misuse of them, is essentially d v isl i o n y t a o l, th a e ti e d rwi T y w o e u o l o d cab
ti all such men
why they do not
an usurpation. The intervening period is not
o p ro rl o c o h! i, Their cowardly legs would ru p ti a a ` wa s y e Ztgt=
very long, and practically, at best, the pre_
rebel
b } aorta, and whether at home or in the army no
:l ot
io n X. will ever do them injury, unless indeed a stray
liminaries can have but a brief postponement rear might accelerate their speed in fleeing
from T danger.
For good or for evil, the contest must, ere
o„ r h u o s i ttl i h e a i t st iTr iie t t r i rt e ts r
fa y m' a Y ettem
speedily .t be
i l i irty , _ h t to
long, be entered upon, and willing or unwill- old
ri ri o . o g f o f
r r o tl,: o u o n o i,on d may againfloat In ever; bir l i . :7:, t t h ii:
mg, the consequences, whatever they may be, tiloi r o ro oo o r f ie d i e . : i piit;, o and that u7x
ampled prosperity may
encountered. No prayers or remonstrances by quoting the language et a wise tit, tee ” Mia n u a . ""' 1 e.'s
to the Constitution ae the, shipwreckedmarl oe
will long suspend the movement of that po- ell ' P cling
gs to the last plank when night and the tempest close
litical Maelstrom, in whose currents we have aro , i, rt d him."
o mA
ut . iiw e as frequently applauded during the course
embarked, whoseas sweep is ae inexorable of bir; ''''
in..
rk ~ and at the close a vote of thanks was ton•
tiered
destiny, and the unknown perils of whose
vortex we are faud to realize.
WHAT ARE WE OOHING TO!
This is the mournful question asked by
nearly every working man in our large towns
and cities of a Saturday night, when com
pelled by the calls of hunger and necessity,
he puts his arm through the handle of a mar
ket basket and sallies out to throw himself
upon the tender mercies of the butcher, gro
cer and huckster. He knows that he must
eat—that his wife and little ones need food
and raiment—and that to be enabled to pro
vide for them, the necessary funds to supply
the wherewithal must be in .his breeches
pocket. And then the momentous question
arises —how in the world is he plug to make
the small stipend he has received for his
week's hard toil, hold out long enough to fill
his basket? He goes to the butcher and
finds that meat enough for two decent meals
for himself and family costs one day's labor ;
a pound of tea ditto; and then butter and
small• et ceteras demolish the third day's
earnings. He finds that a head of cabbage
that a few years ago would have cost him but
three cents, now fetches a ten cent shinplaster
in the market ; that in fact almost everything
has tripled its former value ; and if the idea
occurs to him to treat his little family with a
few little nic-nacks in the shape of winter
preserved-fruit, be is horror struck when he
demands their price, and concludes the pres
enlc no time for luxuries. In fact, before the
basket is half filled, his purse resembles that
historic one which was trodden on by the
elephant, and he can only draw a long breath
and sigh. " What are we coming to?" Next
—he remembers that coal or wood must be
bought—that has only doubled in price ; that
dry goods are n •ederl —they have only trebled ;
in fact, that the price of every thing, except
labor, has doubled, trebled, and in many
cases quadrupled, and the only satisfaction
he can get, in answer to his mournful inquiry
as to the " motive why," is that " it is owing
to the war !" to shout for the war—to screech
for the party in power• that brought the war
about; in fact to indorse everything that is
done by the Administration to increase the
price of the necessaries of life, and lessen the
prospect of labor by depreciating the cur
rency. Well may the poor man inquire
" what are we coming to ?" and his answer
can be found by consulting the market quo
tations. •
The new tax bill provides the following
rates : Coal illuminating oil, etc., 20 ots. per
gallon ; ground coffee and substitutes, 1 cent
per pound ; molasses, syrup of molasses, etc.,
5 per centum, ad valorem; sugars, 1 and 2 cts.
per pound; paper, of all descriptions, 3 per
centum, ad valorem ; salt, 6 cents per 100
pounds ; pig iron, $1 per ton ; blooms, slabs
or loops, $1 50 per ton ; staves and • hollow
ware, $3 per ton ; leather, of all descriptions,
5 per centum, ad valorem ; grape wines, 5 ots.
per gallon ; all other wines or liquors called
wine, 25 ets. per gallon ; ready-made cloth—
ing, boots, shoes, eto., 5 per cent. ad valorem;
manufactures of cotton,wool, silk and worsted,
5 per Deal., ad valorem ; cavendish, plug,
twist and stemmed tobacco, 25 cts.; smoking
tobacco, made exclusively of stems and shorts
and refuse, 10 cts.; snuff and snuff flour, 35
cts.; fine cat, 35 cts ; cigars, valued at $lO
per thousand, $5 per thousand ; valued at $lO
to $2O, $7 per thousand; valued at $2O to
$4O per thousand, $l2; valued at $4O to $75
per thousand, $25 ; valued at over $75 per
thousand, $4O. First proof spirits, sold or
received for consumption prior to July Ist, 60
cts. per gallon ; after July and prior to Janu—
ary lst, 1865, $1; after January let, $1.25.
Distilled spirits and refined coal oil may be
exported without excise duty.
GOOD IDEA.—An exchange paper asks, why
not borrow a brilliant idea from Secretary
Chase, and issue butter certificates ? If gold
certificates.can cure speculation in gold, but
ter certificates can surely cure speculation in
butter.
ox —A number of the friends of Lieut. Col. FREDERICK S.
DITER, 77th P. V., tendered him a supper as s, mark of
esteem for him as a man, and their appreciation of his
services as a gallant and distinguished officer. The Colo
nel accepted the invitation, and the supper came off at
Cooner's Hotel, West King street, cn Friday night last.—
At 9 o'clock the company, some fifty persons, sat down to
a sumptuous repast, tarnished by the 'mine host" of the
Red Lion, BILLY COOPER, and it is needless to say that the
reputation of this old and favorite hotel did not suffer on
this occa , lon. Col. Extent FRANKLIN ably presided at the
head of the table, end Col. PYPER was seated on his right,
and Col. Ireaunuotur on his left. After the gond things
had been sufficiently. discussed gastronomically, Col.
FRANKLIN called upon the company to fill up their glasses,
and in n few happy and felicitous remarks proposed the
health of Col. Pecan. Tne Colonel responded In an elo
quent and feeling manner, thanking the citizens of Lan
caster for their continued interest in his welfare, and
saying that he had never experienced anything hat kind
nese at their hands. He alluded to Friday night being the
anniversary of his having entered the service three years
ago under the gallant II AMDRlfilit, one of the bravest and
moat accomplished officers in the service He concluded
his remarks amid much applause by propcsing "The health
of the Army of the United States," which was very appro.
priately responded to by Col. HAMDRIGHT. Speeches in
resporre to further smtiments were made by Capt. THAD
DEUS STEVENS, Jr., Col. D. W. PATTERSON; COI. 0. J. DICKEY,
NEWTON LIGHTNER, EFq., A. HEAR SILITIL EN , WE. W.
BROWN, EN., and Mr. ALPRED SANDERSON. Lieut. D. H.
Herman and Col. ParratteoN favored the company with
a cauple of very humorous songs, and Capt GEORGE L.
Boi - ta sung the "fitar.Spangled Banner" in fine style. Mr.
WATSON H. MILLER, who Is perfectly inimitable in his re•
lation of anecdotes, told two or three capital ones amid
roars of laughter. The affair was a happy one throughout,
and reflected much credit upon the chief managers, Mr.
LEWLS HAIDY and JOHN A. Balmer, Eeq , who accomplish
everything they undertake. The company separated at
an early hour, and will long remember the pleasures of
WASRINGTON, April 15
COMPLIMENTARY SUPPER -A HAPPY OCCAB
the night
—Col. PTPER left foe Camp Chase, ColumbUs, Ohio, on
Saturday morning, in the 1.40 train, having been ordered
to report at the Parole Csmp at that place. He was ac
companied by his bride, and quite a number of their
friends were at the depot to see them oft.
BusiNEss CHANGES.—Mr. OEo. D. SPEECH
rat lately purchased the Agricultural and Seed Warehouse
of his brother, No. 29 East King street, and has an be
manse stock of everything pertaining to his line of bust.
Dees on hand. We think Mr. 8. has the largest establish.
meat of the kind in the State outside of Philadelphia. He
is, as most of our city and county readers know, a first
class business man, and his assistants are amone the most
polite and accommodating men we know of anywhere.
Messrs. BIAJECK & Purrs, late of 27 North Queen street
recently purchased the large building of Dr. William B
gahnestock, at No. 26 West King street, and have fitted
it up Into elegant store mama, which they no,: occupy.—
These gentlemen are enterprising and industrious, and
are doing quite a large business in the dry goods line—
The upper portion of the building bee been fitted up as
one of the finest Photographic Galleriee in the State for
One of our well known city firms, Eberman & Stehman.
Mr. J. Roman, of Middletown, has opened a Wine and
Liquor Store, at No. 65 East King street, where he keeps
on hand the finest assortment of foreign and domestic
liquors. Mr. It's domestic wines of his own manufacture
are said to be of a very superior quality. He eold some
twelve barrels to this city last year.
Oar young friend, Hr. JONATHAN SPILECHER lies taken the
old Leopard Hotel, In East King street, formerly kept by
Ms father, and of late years by his uncle, who recently
purchased and has taken charge of the Exchange Hotel,
on the same street. Jonathan is very clever and agreeable
in his disposition, and we should Judge ought to know
"how to keep a hotel." He has completely renovated and
refurnished the Leopard.
Mr. H. K. [(mutt, Merchant Tailor and Clothier,
late
of North Queen street, has removed to No. 1 East King
and Centre Square. Harry is a pleasant, accommodating
fellow, and does a good business. Serves him right.
LITERARY EXHIBITION.—The 23d Annual
Exhibition of the Gmthean Literary Society of Franklin
and Marshall College came off on Tuesday evening last,
at Fulton Hall, in the presence of a large and well pleased
audience; all the gentlemen aoguitted themselves with
honor to the Society, and the subjects of the different
speeches indicated much care and thought. We were not
in the hall at the beginning of the exercises, but from
what we heard afterwards, the speakers - AM the occasion
performed their parts well. Among those whom we would
particularize for good selection of subjects, elevated and
well digested thought, fine delivery and superior elcr
quence, were Messrs. L K. EvaNS H. C. kioLAvontur and
W. A. Hess, the latter, unfortunately, laboring under the
drawback of a deficient English pronunciation, which
perhaps caused the loss of some of the beauties of the
poetry, which he gave as his part of the evening's -enter
tainment. Some of the speakers' voices were dihedral,
tageouslyriow and indistinct, and therefore it is Imposed
ble to give a fair criticism upon the pieces they rendered.
However, the exhibition was In every way creditable to
all concerned, and compared very favorably with the
previous entertainments of the Society. The 79th Regi.
meat (Fenclbles') Band was present, and added much to
the occasion by their fine music.
TERPSICHOREAN.—The 79th Regiment gave
a bell for the benefit of their Band, on Wednesday eve—
ning last, at Fulton Ball. The price of admisdon was $5.
It was a very fine affair and was largely attended. The
Regimental Band and Miller's String Band' furnished the
music on the occasion. Everything passed off in the moat
satisfactory manner, and when the "wee sins' hours" had
fairly set In the participants separated to their homes
enraptured with the night's gay and festive scenes.
EDITORIAL VISITOR.—WILLIAM C.. GOULD,
Req., editor of the Logan (Ohio) Sentinel, paid us a j visit on
Wednesday last. Mr. G. has been a consistent Democratic
laborer in the editorial vineyard for the last fifteen or
sixteen years. He le a native of "Old Mother Cumberland"
in this Mate, and learned the printing trade with the
senior editor of The Intelligence, more then twenty years
ago in the alien of the Carlisle Volunteer. Daring bin stay
in the city he was invited to addresa the Young Men's
Democratic Aecociation, which invitation was accepted,
and he delivered a bold and eloquent speech, which is
given In full elsewhere. We were glad to take our old
friend by the hand, and find him in such fine health and
spirits. He is a nephew by marriage of the Rev. Joan J.
Synths, of this city.
Fulmouaa EXPIRED.—The furlough of the
79th Regiment expires to morrow. They will probably
leave this city on Thursday., and encamp at Chester, below
Philadelphia. The rumor fs that the Regiment will be
transferred to the Army of the Potomac. Of warm there
will be general regret at their departure.
SUICIDE IN PRISON.—A man named JAMES
FORWOOD con fi ned in the County Prison, for larceny from
the Roll ing Mill Company's Store at Safe Harbor, commit.
ted suicide by hanging himself in bin cell on Tuesday
evening last. The deed was committed by magus of a
cord fastened to one of the spikes In tha transom window.
An inquest was held on the body the ume evening by
Deputy Comm . •
(learn Steatotre' Cont.—The April term
or the Conn of Qaatter &salons commenced yesterdsy—
Judge Lose presiding.
Tin MAY NUMBER-1r "The Lady's Friend"
haa been received. -It is a magnificent number lo
liluetra-
Mons and Trading matter, and la well trortby of the large
patronsgs it is receiving. Pub' , Whoa by De.con k Peter
atm, 819 Walnut street, Phlletelphla, at the low rate of
S 2 par annum.
11.. VOORHEES N THE UNION
The Administration organs persisiently
misrepresent the position of all Democrats,
but they have taken particular pains to falsify
the record of Hon. D. W. VOJRHICKS. of Indi
ana, representing him as not a loyal Union
loving man. The following extract from the
closing passage of a long and eloquent speech
made by him a few weeks ago, as we find it
in the. Globe, more truly repreeente him:
" But why need I dwell upon these evi
dences of disunion ? The great leader of the
administration on this film., the gentleman
from Pennsylvania (Mr. SrsvEris), has de
liberately here announced, after all our sacri
fices, sorrows and loss, that the Union of our
fathers is dead, and he who attempts its resur
rection is a criminal instead of a patriot. He
goes further, and admits all the seceded States
have ever claimed—theiio nationality. They
have sought in vain in all the four quarters
of the earth for recognition. They find it at
last at the hands of those who speak for the
administration on this floor.
"Sir, I deny this doctrine. I plant myself
on the constitution which recognizes an un
broken Union. I shall stand there in every
vicissitude of fortune, and if I fall it will be
when the people themselves abandon their
own constitution. By the principles of this
mighty instrument, I expect finally a restora
tion of the Union of the States. Every hour
which the party in power prolongs its control
of affairs postpones the auspicious day, but as
I behold the future it will assuredly come.
Material and indestructible interests unite
every section except that which prospers on
fanaticism. And I here to-day, in the spirit
of one who expects and desires his posterity
and theirs to live together in the ancient and
honorable friendship of their fathers warn
the southern people not to I ,ok forward to a
separation and independence, hut to embrace
every opportunity for co-operation with the
conservative people of the North, who will aid
with their lives, if need be. to scours to them
all their rights and institutions as free and
equal citizens of the United States. If this
be done, the approaching Presidential election
will bring peace, Union and liberty. But if
the peaceful popular revolution of the ballot
box fails to produce these results, then dark
ness will settle upon the face of the deep
and the free instituti Ts of America will exist
only on the page of the future historians.
Four years more of uur present policy will
leave the Republic an unebapen mass of ruins,
a wreck more melancholy' and hopeless than
'any that strew the pathway of ages. And
here in this fair young World, as in all format
times, a despotism will arise from the Aim
tered fragments of self-government, to which
each succeeding generation shall pay the ex
torted tribute of its blood and toil."
The following is the Bill introduced into
Congress by Mr. STEVENS to "regulate the
Currency." We think its appropriate title
would be, a bill to legislate the State Banks
out of existence. But as it proceeds from a
" loyal" man, we presume the Banks them
selves will have to admit its justice and ne
cessity as a " war measure."
First. That every person, and every bank,
association, or corporation, issuing notes. bilis,
or other obligations calculated or intended t
circulate as money, unless thereto authorized
by act of Congress, shall pay a duty of one
fourth of one per cent each month on the
amount of such notes, hills, ur other obliga
tions so issued by said person, bank. associa
tion, or corporation, and shall, on the first
Monday of each and every month, mike end
deliver to the assessor of the district in which
such bank, ass relation, or corporation may he
located, or in which such person may reside,
a true and accurate return of the amount of
notes, bills, or other obligations so issued,
whether in circulation or in its vaults, or
elsewhere in possession or on deposit, and
shall annex to every such return a declaration,
with the oath or affirmation of such person, or
of the president or cashier of such bank, as
sociation, or corporation, in such form and
manner as may be directed by the Commie•
sioner of Internal Revenue, that the same
contains a true and faithful statement of the
amount of the circulation as aforesaid, and
shall deliver a copy of the said return to the
collector of the district in which said bank, as
sociation, or corporation is located, and shall
within ten days front the first Monday in each
and every month pay to the said collector
said duty, one-fourth on the amount so re
turned ; and for any neglect to render or
make such return or payment as aforesaid,
every such person, bank, association, or cor
poration, shall pay a penalty of one per centum
on the amount of notes, bills or other obliga
tions issued as:aforesaid which amount shall,
in default of a proper return, be estimated
by the assessor upon the best information he
can obtain ; and every such penalty may be
recovered fur the use of the United States in
any court of competent jurisdiction.
Second. That after one year from the pas
sage of this act it shall be unlawful for any
person, bank, association, or corporation to
issue or circulate notes or other obligations
designed or calculated to circulate as money,
unless authorized t4reto by act of Congress.
THE. MONROE DOCTRINE.
The following extract from President MoN
ROE'S Annual Message of December 2d, 1823,
c9ntains the assertion of that policy in refer•
ence to the extension in America of the Mon.
arohical system of government, since known
as "The Monroe Doctrine:"
EXTRACT FROM PRESIDENT MONROE'S /NM (JAL
MESSAGE, DECEMBER 20, 1823.
" The political system of the allied Powers
is essentially different in this respect from that
of America. This difference proceeds from,that
which exists in their respective Governments.
And to the defence of our own, which has
been achieved by the loss of so much blood
and treasure, and matured by the wisdom of
our most enlightened citizens, and under which
we have enjoyed unexampled felicity, this
whole nation is devoted. We owe it therefore
to candor and to the amicable relations exist
ing between the United States and those Powers,
to declare that we should consider any attempt
on their part TO EXTEND THEIR SYSTEM TO ANY
PORTION or THIS HEMISPHERE, as dangerous to
our peace and safety. With the existing col
onies or dependencies of any European Power,
we have not interfered, and shall not interfere
But with the governments who have declared.
their independence and maintained it, and
whose independence we have, on great con
siderations, and on just principles, acknowl
edged, we could not view any interposition
for the purpose of oppressing them, or
con
trolling in any manner their destiny, by any
European Power, in any other light than as
the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition
towards the United States.
THE PRESIDENT'S DISLOYAL RELA-
The Chicago Post, alluding to the passage
of Mrs. Lincoln's sister, with contraband
goods, through our lines endorses a strong
condemnation of Mr. Lincoln for his alleged
course in the affair, and adds the following
interesting statement:
" In the recent diabolical outbreak of seces
sionista in Coles county, in this Sta.te two of
Mr. Lincoln's own cousins were ameng the
active and leading participators in the attack
upon the soldiers, and fortunately both of
them are now prisoners. They are W. F.
Hanks, of Charleston, and S. Greenville
Hanks, of Big Creek, Edgar county. The
latter, when arrested, boasted that he was the
man who killed Surgeon York."
To be sure, the President ought not to be
held responsible for the doings of his own or
his wife 't3 relations ; but since it is the fashion
with some extremists to judge a man disloyal
because his father, son, brother or cousin may
be a secessionist, we don't see why the rule,
if it is a good one. should not have a °nivel.-
aal annlication.—Buffalo Courier
y®- Jut LANE wants the war to be " made
a permanent institution." The Administra
tion and its supporters are laboring to accom
plish that end ; or at any rate,. they do not
mean it shall close as long as there is anything
left, North or South, to be stolen.
THE SOLDIERS , VOTE IN OHIO
The Supreme Court of Ohio has decided
that the law allowing soldiers to vote is con•
stitutional •
MASSAOIII3IIII , TS AND VIRGISIA.
Pending the contest for the election of Speaker of
the Rouse of Representatives in 1860, the Hon. Mr.
Borsisa of the Rupees Ferry Dletrict , in Vir
ginia. sp oke as follow":
tt When, air, I have heard the name of a gentle
man called here day after day, first on the roll—a
great historic name (Mr. Adams)—l have been re
minded of Massachusetts in her prouder day, in the
heroic age of the Republic. I.have been reminded
of a historical incident connected with the county
in which I live—that county selected by John
Brown for his bloody raid, and feel that I have a
right to appeal to the Massachusetts Delegation
here; if they are not deaf to the voice of oonsangn
inity ; and If they are, 1 appeal from them to their
people on this question; I demand of them to come
up to the rescue of the country now as they did in
the good old times of the Revolutionary fathers.
The district which I represent and theoounty where
I live, that carroty made famous by the raid of
Brown, was the first in all the South, to send succor
to Massachusetts in the time of her direst necessity !
In one of the most beautiful spots in that beautiful
county, within rifle shot of my residence, at the
base of a hill, where a glorious spring leaps out into
the sunlight from beneath the guarded roots of a
thunder riven oak, there assembled on the 10th of
July, 1775, the very first band of Southern men,
who marched to the aid of Massachusetts. They
met there then, and their rallying cry was 'a bee
tins for Boston.' That peaceful valley—the val
ley of the Shenandoah '—had never been polluted
by the foosteps of a foe ; for even the Indians them
selves had, according to tradition, kept it free from
the incursions of their enemies. It was the hunting
range and neutral ground of the Aborigines. -The
homes of those who lived there then were far be
yond the reach of danger. But Boston was beleagur
ed. The hearth, of your fathers were threatened
with pollution, and the fathers of those whom /rep
resent rallied to their protection.
tt They left the plowshare in the mould,
Their flocks and herds without a fold,
The sickle in the unshorn grain,
Their corn half garnered on the plain,
And mustered in their simple dress,
For wrongs of Yours to redress.'
" Thus they mustered round the spring I speak
of, and from thence they made their ' bee line for
Boston.' Before they marched, they made a pledge
that all who survived would assemble there 50 years
after that day. It is my pride and pleasure to re
member that I, though but a child then, was pres
ent when the fifty years rolled round. Three aged,
feeble, tottering men—survivors of that glorious
band of one hundred and twenty—were all who were
left to keep the tryste, and be faithful to the pledge
made fifty years before to their companions; the
bones of most of them had been left bleaching on
your Northern hills, Sir, 1. have often heard from
the last survivor of that band of patriots the inci
dents of their first meeting and their march; how
they made some six hundred miles in thirty days—
twenty miles a day; and how, as they neared the
point of their destination, Washington, who hap
pened to be making a reconnoissance in the neigh
borhood, saw them approaching, and recognizing
the linsey wooley hunting shirts of old Virginia,
galloped up to meet and greet them to the camp ;
how, when he saw their captain, his old companion
in arms, Stephenson, who had stood by his side at
the Great Meadows, on Braddook's fatal field, and
in an Indian campaign—who reported himself to
his commander as from the right bank of the Po
tomac '—he sprang from his horse and clasped his
old friend and companion in arms with both hands.
lie spoke no word of welcome, but the eloquence of
silence told what his tongue could not articulate.
lie moved along the ranks; shaking the hands of
each, from man to man, and all the while, as my
informer told me, the big tears were seen rolling
down his oheeks.
Ay, sir, Washington wept ! And why did the
glorious soul of Washington swell with emotion 7—
sir, they were tears of joy ! and he wept because he
saw the cause of Massachusetts was practically the
cause of Virginia; because he saw that her eitizens
recognised the great principles involved in the con
test. These Virginia volunteers had come sponta
neously. They had come in response to the words
of Henry, that were leaping like live thunder
through the land, telling the people they must fight,
and fight for Massachusetts. They had come to ral
ly with Washington to defend your father's firesides,
to protect their friends from harm. Well, the visit
has berm returned.
„ . . .
John Brown selected the very county . whose citi
zens went so promptly to the aid of the North when
the North needed aid, as the most appropriate place
in the South to carry out the doctrines of the Irre
pressible confli.it;' and as was mentioned in the
Senate yesterday, the rook where Leeman fell was
the rock over which Morgan and his men marched a
few hours after Stephenson's command had crossed
the river some ten miles further up. May this his
torical reminiscence rekindle the embers of patriot
ism in our hearts ! Why should this nation of ours
be rent in pieces by this "irrepressible conflict
Is it irrepressible? The battle will not be fought
out on this floor. For when the dark day comes—as
come it will—when the question that now divides
and agitates the hearts of the people, shall be thrust
from the forum of debate, to be decided by the
bloody arbitrament of the sword, it will bo the sad
dest day for no and all mankind that the sun a:
heaven has ever shone upon.”
The Albany Evening Journal has the
f , llowing. apparently from the pen of Mr.
WEED: .
LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATIONS —Without
questioning the importance of measures be
fore the Legislature involving large appropri'
ations, or impugning the motives of those who
press these measures, we cannot forbear to call
upon the Representatives of the people to re•
member how heavily they are already
burthened, and how much farther the war is
likely to involve them.
" For thirty years our State debt—never ex
ceeding $24,000 000—was the occasion of
popular solicitude. Our elections hung and
turned upon the canal debt. Now, our ap
propriations for the war, coupled with our
county, city and town bonded war debt, far
exceeds the canal debt 1 The present debt of
this State reaches half or nearly half of the
whole Federal Government debt at the close
of the war of 1814 Superadd to this, a sitxth
part of the war debt of the General Govern
ment ($4,000,000,000, for, close the war to
day, and this sum would be below the real
figure), and we should find our State nearly
$1,000,000,000 in debt!
" Think of this, legislators, while you are
importuned to appropriate more millions.
Remember that pay day will come. All is
easy and smooth while paper-mills and en
gravers/make ' money plenty.' Bat this will
not, cannot last. The delirium or intoxica
tion, of paper money, will go off, and then,
forced by financial laws which no nation has
ever been able to evade—we must get sober,
and work out of an irredeemable currency
and up to an arbitrary, inflexible specie
standard—then we shall see values perishing
and fortunes evaporating—then we shall re
alise, in gigantic proportions, the financial
trials which we passed through after our war
with England."
Think of this, too, tax-payers of New York.
One thousand millions of debt is the share of
New York, if the war was now stopped!
This is two-thirds of the aggregate value of
all the property of the people. The last val
uation of the State was :
The debt, in fact, is about up to the full
value of the real estate all the people. In
other words, our farmers have, during all
these " good times," been silently at work
mortgaging their property up to its full
amount, and so it will pass down to their
children. And when the day of general pay
ment comes, the price of real estate will
shrink, while the debt will expand under the
enormous interest which is paid.
The State of New York now owes a debt of
one Thousand millions, provided the war is
now stopped. But suppose it does not stop,
but is prolonged—is "made a permanent in•
stitution," as Jim Lane would have it ? What
then ? Will the debt continue to swell, or
will it burst and disappear ? Have the Arch
itects of Ruin plummets long enough to
sound the deep abyss, and answer'?—Albany
Atlas and Argus.
CLEVELAND, April 16
THE DEBT OF NI W VOTE
Real estate
Personal . .
Corrected aggregate
tor If the debt of the State of New York,
growing out of this war, is, according to
THIIRLOW WEED, One Thousand Millions,
what is the probable debt now saddled upon
the people of Pennsylvania, with about th ree
fourths the wealth and population of the
Empire State? We leave our readers to figure
it out.—Eds. Intelligencer.
'1 ( IIR WAR IN AR/KANSA - •
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., April 11
Advioes from Gen. Steele to the 7th have
been received. His expedition had reached a
point five miles south of Eken Ferry, on the
Little Missouri river, about twenty five miles
from Camden, where he expected General
Thayer with the Fort Smith force to join him
the next day. •
On the 2d, Shelby attacked General Steele's
rear guard under General Rice, with twelve
hundred cavalry and two pieces of artillery.
He was repulsed with a loss of one hundred
killed and wounded. Our loss was forty-four
killed and wounded, and fifteen prisoners.
On the 4th, Marmaduke made an attack
with three thousand to four thousand cavalry
and five pieces of artillery on the south side
of the Little Missouri. After five hours
fighting he was routed, with a loss of four
killed and twenty•three wounded. There is
a large force of rebels five or six miles in
Steele's advance, but it is not expected, that
they will make a stand. Nothing has been
heard from Banks or the gunboats.
BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHTIL—Theee Loz •
enges are prepared from a highly esteemed
recipe for alleviating Bnosonua, Amenovos,
ASTHMA, HOARSINISS, COUGHS, COLDS,j-RIA
Irritation or Soreness of the Throat,
1863.
2,1,119,708,722
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