Laticaoter 3ntetligenter 0160kS_AINDIERSON, ZDITC!R. A.IAMDZUBON, Assostati. ZA1 4 117,411p,..,8A., WE-28,A 1864: 111#L - M. Peresease k Co.ti Aveseeteme Amer, C ruet Row, Nor York 010, and 10 Iltairmitrort,Bookon. - IL Tamen& * ere UeLee-lbe The Zeweaster , ezei the moot Mwm and Us rgent circa' . To - United Sestet. had the Oenedeie,— They aro a loodutract brae at' oar kossit titer . gar llt nava A Amin, No. t 36 Broadway, New York, ars minuend to metro odverlisomortts kwThe hstea toroor. at au boost Woo. gone linarriMaht Armtuvaam Assam is located at N 0.60 North 6th street, Philadelphia. Be is =thorned to moons adverNsegoents and saberviptions for The Lancaster ilt= No. 15solnyn Building Mani St., Boston, ts our anthed Agent for receiving advertisements, tr. OUR 4 Now our flag is Bung to the wild wind. free, Let it float o'er our father land, And the guard of its spotless fame be Columbia's chosen band. "CLING TO TILE CONSTITUTION, AS THE SHIPWRECKED MARINER CLINGS rO THE LAST PLANK, WHEN NIGHT AND THE TEMPEST CLOSE AROUND HIM."--:DANIEL WEBSTER. Valedictciry. With the present number of THE INTELLIGENCER my connexion with the paper ceases. It will be publish ed hereafter as a weekly and daily paper by Messrs. COOPER, SiNDi:R SON & Co., and will in the future, as in the past of its history, render a faithful and fearless support to the men and measures of the Democratic party, and to the great and leading principles of the Constitution which are the only bond of our Federal Union. Here I might safely stop but an intimate relationship with the De mocracy of Lancaster county, as the ' publisher of their organ for the last fifteen years, impels me to say a few Words, in addition, upon taking leave of the editorial chair. Coming amongst you almost an entire stranger, I have, nevertheless, from the first, enjoyed your confidence to a very large extent, and have bad repeated proofs of your kindness and good will. In return, you will pardon me for saying that I have, with unflagging zeal in the good cause, endeavored to the best of my feeble ability, to do my whole duty; and if I have failed in any particu lar, (and who has not failed at times in accomplishing all that was ex pected of him,) the failure arose less from intention than it did from a want of judgment. It was an error of the head—not of the heart. But, amid all the ups and downs of politi cal parties, the changes and tergiver sations of men with whom I was once pleasantly associated in politi cal fellowship, and the turmoils and difficulties with which the country has been familiar for the last three or four years, growing out of the elevation to power of a sectional, anti-national party, it is a .gratifica tion to know that the good old Democratic party of Lancaster coun ty preserves its integrity pure and unsullied, and that its numerical strength is fully one-fourth greater than it was when I first "pitched my tent " in your midst. This will be clearly manifested by contrasting the popular vote of 1863 with that of 1849. Fifteen years ago you counted less . than six thousand voters, all told—to-day you number nearly eight thousand good and true hearted men who can be implicitly relied upon in any and every emer gency. My successors are comparatively young men ; but they bring with them to the discharge of thir re sponsible duties, considerable ex perience in the business, with clear heads, honest hearts, abilities of a high order, unflinching devotion to the principles of Democracy, and a determination to succeed in the en terprize upon which they have em barked. They will do their part manfully and fearlessly ; but their success depends on the manner they may be sustained by the Democratic party. Kind wishes alone will not avail. They must have something more substantial. The entire pa tronage of the party should be con ferred upon them with a liberal hand; not a half-hearted, sentimen tal, stinted support, but a living, ac tive and energetic patronage in sub scription, advertising and job work —and then prompt payments in ready cash to cheer them on their way. If this is extended to them, by every man in the county able to afford it, they will succeed in their undertaking, and in proportion as success attends them the party will be correspondingly benefited and strengthened. And now, having introduced my worthy successors to the favorable consideration of the Democracy of the County and State, it only re mains for me to bring my editorial labors, for the present, to a close by wishing the most unbounded success to the Old INTELLIOENCER, which for five and sixty years has so faithfully battled for the right against political wrong and corruption of every kind, and to bid my Democratic friends farewell. To my political opponents of the press and others, tor many of whom personally I entertain a high regard, I have not an unkind word to say at parting. They were en titled to their dissenting opinions, at least so long as the Federal Con stitution was in full vigor, and, al though we disagreed politically, and ever shall disagree, unless they get their eyes opened to the dangerous fallacy of the doctrines they advocate and support, the difference was of that nature as that it has left no heart-burnings behind, at least so far as I am concerned. • My only regret, in retiring from thil paper, is that our beloved court ' is not in the same state of peace I erity it was when first my editorial duties in time be near ani ante laatiCaSter at hand when this cruel war shall be brought to an honorable close, and we shall again become one peo ple, with one Constitution, one Flag, - one Union and one - Destiny. GEO. SANDERSON. To Delinquents. The above article speaks for itself, and shoWS the absolute necessity of a prompt settlement of the books of the old firm of SANDERSON & SON.— They will remain in possession of the undersigned, at the Mayor's Office in Lancaster, unit the Ist of October, after which all unsettled accounts will be placed in the hands of a Magistrate for collection. A word to the wise ought to be suffici ent, as no longer indulgence can be given. GEO. SANDERE3ON JUNE 29, 1864. ger We are requested by Messrs. COOPER, SANDERSON & Co., the new proprietors,--to state that THE IN TELLIGENCER will be issued weekly on Thursday hereafter, instead of Tuesday as heretofore. The Convention Postponed. The Democratic National Com mittee has postponed the meeting of the Chicago,:. Convention until the 29th of August. This change has very generally been advocated by the Democratic press of the loyal States, and may be the best policy— although we can not exactly see it in that liz,ht. Still, the deed is done, and it is the duty of all to submit, and in the meantime endeavor to get the working machinery of the party'in order, so as to be ready for a short, vigorous and decisive cam paign of two months after the can didates aril placed in the field. The $3OO Commutation Clause. The Senate on Thursday week, passed a bill to repeal the $3OO commutation clause of the Con scription law, and allowing the fu ture term of service of drafted men to be restricted to one year. The ote on its final passage was '24 yeas to 7 nays. The House, however, on Tuesday last, struck out of the bill before it. the section repealing the $3OO commutation clause, by a vote of 100 yetis to• 50 nays. So that it is not likely the repeal will pass during the present session. LINCOLN'S GREAT JOKE Mr. LINCOLN'S favorite joke about swapping horses while crossing a river, has become a great argument. He first told it when asked to remove Cameron from the office of Secretary of War. We• were then engaged in great military operations, and it was no time for a change in the War Department. But the great occasion on which he used it was when the committee of the Baltimore convention in formed him of his nomination. He thought the convention acted wisely, and that the people would act wisely in confirming that action, and to illustrate and enforce this view he repeated his spat joke. Since then we notice that civet' the learned and dignified EDWARD EVERZTT has condescended to employ the same argument in support of Lincoln's re election. As this joke or story has thus be e trne historical, and is to be made the great support of the " smutty joker's " claims to re-election, it is well that the reader should have the story in full. It is, in brief, as tol- , lows : An old Dutchman undertakes to swim a niare and a cult across a river : and he, not being able to swim, grasps the colt by the tail for safety, when the trio - plunge in and make for the opposite bank. The colt, with his heavy load, soon spends his strength, shows signs of giving out, and as he begins to sink, lookers on, standing on the banks, shout to the Dutchman to let go the , cult and lay hold of the mare's tail, as she is as strong as ever, or both will go down ; but the obstinate Dutchman replies It is no place to swap horses in the middle of a stream." Down he goes with the colt to a fool's death: Now this story is peculiarly applicable to " the situation," and the prospect is that the adherence to the old Dutchman's rule, by our peopl', will he followed by a like result. If the Dutchman had swapped horses in the middle of the stream," he would probably have got safe over—saving not only his own life, but his colt also. But adhering to his notion that it was no place to swap horses, he lust both. Now our people and their Govern ment are literally in the middle of a stream, and, like the Dutchman, they find they have a weak and unreliable support in those who are unfortunately in charge ol their affairs. Shall they, then, follow the stupid and fatal rule and example of the foolish old Dutchman, or the sensible dictate of common sense ? Shall they stick to the sinking coIt—LINCOLN, or lay hold of the strong mare—the patriotic Democracy ? This is the great question, and the full story, su often brought forward by the ' smutty joker," forcibly suggests the only correct and sensible answer. ABOLISHING SLAVERY In the House of Representatives, on Wed nesday, the bill or resolution proposing amend_ manta to the Constitution of the United States, abolishing slavery throughout the Union, was defeated. The vote was ninety-four ayes to sixty-Jive nays, being eleven short of two thirds. But three Democrats voted for it, viz : Messrs. Bally, of Penn, Odel, of New York, and Griswold, of New York. It thus fell eleven yeas abort of the two thirds necessary fur its adoption. The House was s very full one at the time of calling the yeas and nays on this question, and the vote was the largest one there has been this session. Mr. Ashley, of Ohio, subsequently gave notice that he would move a reconsideration of the vote, and the matter will probably be post poned till next session. No ABATEMENT ON STATE TAXES —By recent Act of Assembly, the abatement of 5 per cent. heretofore allowed to counties on the innount of all State Taxes paid into the State Treasury prior to the let of September in any year, has been repealed ; land in i s stead, a pe na lty of 5 per cent. will be added cn all State taxes that remain unpaid on and after the first et August, to be charged in the duplicate against each delinquent tax payer in orreare at that date. It will therefore be seen that the prompt payment of State lazes will henceforth be equivalent to a saving of 5 per cent, to all our tax paying citizens—a molter of considerable importance to those who are rated high on the tax lists. A Joe? DECISION.—The Supreme Court has affirmed the decision of the Common Pleas of Cumberland county, in the case of Kennedy vs. Oswald and others. This is the celebrated Mechanicsburg case in which a self-oonetitu ted " Vigilance Committee" arrested a Dem ocratic oitisen of York county on suspicion of being a secessionist, and were mulcted in $l,OOO damages. sir Gold rated at 217 in Phila., delphia, on Saturday. The" Wax. The movement made by General Grant has at length become plain. He has divided his army into two portions. One part, consisting of Brooks, Smith and Burnside's corps, is entrenched in front of Bermuda Hundred and CitZ Point, the outer lines extending almost to Peters burg% The other part, consisting of all the cavalry and Wright, Warren and Hancock's corps, has been sent westward on a gigantic raid around Petersburg. The object of this column is to cut. the railroad run ning south from Petersburg to Wel don, in North Carolina, and the one running southwest from Richmond to Danville. By keeping Burnside, Smith and Brooks in the entrench ments running across the neck from the James to the Appomattox, and from thence south between City Point and Petersburg, Grant hopes to accomplisho objcts. He would defend his supply posts, and prevent any large force of the enemy from going after the other column. That be will defend his supply posts is probable, but it is not very likely that he will keep Lee employed. The moving column left the neigh borhood of Petersburg on Tuesday night. The cavajry led the advance, - Wright followed them ; Warren fol lowed Wright, and Hancock brought up the rear. They retired some dis tance from Petersburg before they began marching westward. They then advanced around to the south and west on a curved line with a radius of about ten miles from Petersburg. They then moved close ly together so that Wright and the cavalry led the advance, whilst War ren and Hancock brought up the rear. They crossed the Norfolk Railroad and the Jerusalem road running southeast from Petersburg, a short distance beyond the railroad. The rear guard closed all communi cation with City Point. The cavalry on Wednesday reached the Weldon Railroad running south from Peters burg, and began tearing up the rails. On Wednesday night the rear cross ed the Jerusalem road. General Lee had discovered the movement almost as soon as it be gan. He sent columns out of Peters burg along the Jerusalem road and the Norfolk Railroad. These col umns reached the _Federal troops marching westward across these roads, on Wednesday night. The Federal flank was attacked.. Han cock at once faced towards Peters burg and began a contest. The Confederates captured four guns and four hundred prisoners by a sudden surprise. The column advancing westward was halted and turned towards Petersburg. Wright formed the left, Hancock the right, Warren the reserve. The Confederates made some brisk charges but were re pulsed. Thus stood affairs when our report suddenly closes. Scarcely had the battle with Hancock began, when the Confederates made an at tack upon the entrenchments in front of Burnside at City Point. The result of this is not reported. Our latest intelligence from the army is to 6 o'clock on Thursday morning. It is unofficial. Secretary Stanton has sent us nothing. Over forty hours has elapsed since the last news left City Point. He could, we suppose, have done so last night. Grant's position is a perilous one. His army is divided into two parts l; The enemy is between them. Thurs day last must have witnessed the most important events. Secretary Stanton must know the result. No storms or raids have interfered with the wires. He has not even, as is his custom, told us that he had no intelligence. Last evening the telei graph office gave us official notice that no more news would be sent, as early as half-past twelve o'clock. The usual hour of such a notifica tion is from two to three o'clock. To-day a steamer leaves for Europe. Secretary Stanton, by his silence at a most critical moment, causes all to fear the worst results. General Forrest has just started on a raid to cut the railroads in Sherman's rear. His forces are marching against the one. connect ing Nashville with Chattanooga. On June I.7th he crossed the Tennessee River near Eastport, in Alabama, just south of the Tennessee line. All the Confederate forces which have been in different portions of Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama, are with Forrest, and he has a large command. Eastport is about one hun dred and fifty miles southwest of the Nashville and Chattanooga railroad. It was Forrest's intention to start on this expedition some time since, but General Sturgis' advancing col umn prevented it. As Sturgis is now out of the way, and the de struction of his army broke up the only force capable of withstanding Forrest, he will have a clear course. The correspondents from the portion of Tennessee threatened by Forrest, write in a very gloomy manner.— General Rousseau commands the department. He has a large section of country to defend, and a very small force. He has built block houses at various points, in anticipa tion of this raid. They are to be posts of refuge for detached forces, when the enemy can be kept at bay, until a force, held in readiness to march wherever needed, can go to their rescue. The idea of opposing Forrest, however, seems to be given up. It is taken for granted that the railroad will be cut and the only re deeming feature of the prospect is the hope that Forrest will not hold it long. In preparation for this raid the Federal authorities have stored large quantities of provisions at Chattanooga.—Age of Saturday. IMPORTANT ADMISSION.—The N. Y. Timer, the leading Lincoln organ in New York, Had Mr. Breekitiridge, Mr. Douglas, or Mr. Bell been elected, there would have been no rebellion. Let all men bear this in mind and ponder it well. All the misery and woe of the last three years, which Lincoln - himself admits have literally caused thelteavens to be hung with black, have resulted from the triumph of the Republican party. All sensible men now see and admit that the putting of Lincoln and his insane partisans into power, was the cause of this gigantic war. .The only way now to remedy this, is to put Lincoln out and put a Conservative Democrat in. et an ac.,. ......... LOCAL D'"'zirARTICON The I:l7lW HE M ac e lli a t i ll oa,ri naxi lca a m l i g lia ill o Plia lias ieK a . r . rived in . DEAT nail 1N,0,.., pta.leisehpliawaglolfbLeee:ln: 3115.1tb754;1 7 .,;: 0! ‘... L ti..... .1 6 : , c i i yi -----' s:rt ... " 2 ot. ai ri2 s elas . IL. -4" fll7l P a i n ie d hed este f r whose Maximilian has at ' a::::::::dtanh:o3 a,..0.: ( 7 3 . ptr preside, was received with so" el; manufactur t e i d me,‘afev Called by s h n y i , nd II daubtlega by this ' . for the ii.let . i.. e i rk7 M. liJusvt,; , f this ci ty , e member e o n:e a : i n t : l ed_ e in the Urine of theM. :berg , yri:ipurot b:::4_0::11:,31::::bi.e.:,:or fari,.l.„7:4l7...;:cfr:l::l:ll4:l,:iii..lrisn:t. ,iiirri.h:::::::::irsti:l:dat..bl.....:sl.Ld‘r:;t.:l;ti:filat:-.%:.. e ln ity ht o ti f er m W e , x lf i d e e :W n the national hai n g eel qtr, ~, and abort, t a,, i I. e . d j. ,t et, a b : i: : :,.. l , ii,h4 6 : :, ,i ‘ Jiit it, . 1 . , : ,,, h ,: ti i,i l f : nc.t: 4 ti., : :: : ..:.. a 4 barn . 4 r ; : e„, , h' 7. .. 4 t h id i a : . ::.o rc u ,th :: h m .id ": m o bK : . :I : 1 :1 ° ,. .1 .t. : I o i l , , ,ys :v I:::ucttiar::: Cemete ry.r p w l ::::, .::: h t ir . n. o i e: Y o r r. a x ir i L d e L , " r" ; : 1 1:: ; a l. : . its .low length alono wiroour an; p i rAachlng dragging indication of its en h d ile visible, the - p.oanratee:tunli....l r„ t '„,,.' ki .i . , ,.. ,i,1.,.th...,..0th i u . i . 1.,,,,,.4 xiime.....useis fill rrm, propnr _ f .!.t::: have r, t o Pi t ' o c: thei r '.'' ' -.. 4 w*.ll-I"3'''' rep - ii tai oanb e ,. ° ,,: v r e civilr ni n ' ' e w rit ar of ba. .lrl : e tb z : i e c h t . T . Pri J a ms WAG, Zof this Cite. A I:l2 lk.d em rn of ai th an e di : y a foreign army, nn 'niddwo: largelym.Pr'ded C.` B Ca pt . . n' "4" *fienir'''' has been overthrow,' imperial throne established, and a foreign prince placed upon it, not only without the opposition, but v ith the tacit consent of the present administration of this country. How ever its principal officers may seek to palter with the people in a double sense, and equivo cate as to what it has really done in the mat- ter, no sant man can doubt that the Monroe doctrine has been virtually abandoned by our government, and that when the Archduke Maximilian accepted the throne proffered him, be was well assured that he need fear no in terferenee on the part of the United States. It is unquestionable, says the New York Atlas, that Louis Napoleon could never have 'succeeded in hie designs upon Mexico if our government had firmly resisted them from the first. They could have been completely frue• trated two years ago, easily and peaceably, and without giving the French government any just cause for complaint. The pretext for the invasion, in the commencement, was the collection of debts due to European sub jects, of which only a small portion was due to those of France. A loan of a few millions only would have enabled Mexico to pay off those claims, or at least make such satiefaoto6r arrangements with her creditors as would have taken away all excuse for an invasion. Mr. Corwin, our minister, negotiated a treaty with Mexico for a loan for this purpose, but its ratification by the Senate was defeated by the influence of the adminis tration. Again, there can be no doubt that if the United States, in connection with all the Cen tral and South American governments, who would gladly have followed her lead in such a case, had solemnly protested against the sub version of the Mexican republic, and evinced a determination to defend its 'integrity by force of arms if need be, the Emperor of the French would have desisted from the prosecu tion of his scheme and declined a contest with a whole continent. At that time the Monroe doctrine could have been enforced by di plomacy, now it can only be vindicated by actual warfare. 'Phe administration has, by its truckling subserviency to France, placed this country in such a position that we must either give up the traditionary policy that has come down to us from our forefathers, or en gage in a war in which Mexico, France, and probably Austria, will be united against us. There is no third course open to us. If we intend to uphold the Monroe doctrine now, we must be willing and prepared to fight for No•argument is required to prove that the administration does not intend to become in volved in a war with France, or any other European power, if it can possibly avoid it. It will rather prefer to abandon the Monroe doctrine, provided that it can be done with safety to its political prospects. It dare not recognize the Mexican empire at present, and therefore Minister Corwin is conveniently absent from his post on leave of absence ; but after the presidential election has taken place it will no longer have any motive for dissimulation, and we may expect to see Mr. Corwin return to the City of Mexico duly ac credited to the Emperor Alaxiinilian. The only way Atochich the predominance of the influence of the United States on this conti nent can be secured, and European interfer ence rendered forever hereafter impossible, is by the election of a President who will bring the war to a speedy close, and turn the united arms of the restored Union against the in truders upon American soil. WET BLANKET The nomination of Lincoln is everywhere a wet blanket to the hopes and enthusiasm of the rank and file of the Abolition party. The three years' trial of him makes the people almost shudder at the thought of seeing him at the head of affairs for another term. In other Stares, the failure to respond to the nomination (outside the office-bald ors' ring) is observed as is as marked here. The nomina- Von falls with a damp chill. The Detroit Free Press. says : " The news of the re-nomination of Lincoln fell like a wet blanket on thh few seething Abolitionists of Detroit. They acted as though they were heartily ashamed of the work of the Convention, and we don't wonder they were. We supposed they would fire a rusty gun, raise a flag. or hire a few cheap boys to burn crackers, but not a sound was heard, not R funeral note.'" The Chicago Times of the 10th says: "The intelligence of the nomination of Lincoln at Baltimore fell dead upon the pub lic sense of this city ; the attempt at a ratifi cation meeting last evening was a still more mortifying failure. It was indeed a most sig nal failure. The meeting was held iu the open air, hut the people present would not have filled Byron Hall. And the proceedings were as spiritless as the assemblage was meagre." The Nashville Press, published at the capi tal of Tennessee us the orgaiit of the " loyal " voters, declared, befure the nomination, its estimate of the candidate tor the Vice Presi dency as follows: "As between Fremont anti Lincoln, The Press is unconditionally for the latter, upon condition that Andrew Johnson is not placed on the ticket." Andy Johnson. a supporter of Breekinridge in the last Presidential .ampaign, seems not to be popular at home more than here. INCREASE OF PAY IN THE ARMY The President has signed and approved the act to increase the pay of the soldiers in the United States army. It provides that on and after the Ist day of May laet, and during the continuance of the present Rebellion, the pay per month of non-commissioned officers and privates in the military service shall be as follows: Sergeant-Majors, s'26 ; Quartermasters and Commissary Sergeants , if Cavalry, Artillery and Infantry, $2O; Sergeants of Ordnance, Sappers and Miners , and •Pontoniers. $34 ; Corporals of Ordnance, Sappers and Miners, and Puntoniers, $2O ; Privates of Engineers and Ordnance, of the first class, $lB, and of the see .tid class. $l6 ; Corporals of Cavalry, Artillery and Infantry, XlB ; Chief Buglers of Cavalry: $23; Buglers. $l6; Farrier: and Blacksmiths of Cavalry. and Artificers of Artillery, $lB ; Principal Musicians of Ar tillery and'lnfantry, $22 ; Lenders of Brigade and Regimental Bands, $75 ; Musicians, $l6 ; Hospital Stewards of the first class, $33 ; Hos pital Stewards, of the second class $25 ; Hospital Stewards. of the third class, $23. All nun-commissioned officers and privates in the regular army, serving under enlistments made prior to July 22d, 1861. shall have the privilege of re-enlisting fur a term of three years in their respective organizations, until theist of August next, and all such non-com missioned officers and privates so re-enlisting, shall be entitled to the bounty mentioned in the joint resolution of Congress, approved January 13th, 1864. In all cases where the 'Government shall furnish transportation and subsistence to dis charged officers and soldiers. from the place of their disoharge in the place of enrollment or original muster Into they shall not be entitled.to , travel pay or commutation of subaistenoe. Reg. P. V., who was wounded in the battle of the Wilder nese, died at Alexandria Va., on the 22d inst. He had hems in the service bate few months, and had already won the resrect of the officers and men by his soldierly qualities. Ills funeral took place on Sanded - afternoon, and was attended by Capt. Bear's company, Humane En gine Company, No. 6, and a large number of citisorts. The funeral cortege proceeded to Woodward Hill, where the remains ware interred. EDITORIAL Excoitslos.—The editors of our neighboring City of Reading made an excuredon to that moot delightful of villages on Tuesday last, over the Red• tug and Columbia Railroad. Judging from Die notif es In [bah - columns, they must have had a happy time. Of course they put up with the prince of landlords, LICHTLN TELLISB., who made the poor fellows forget for one day that they were really editors! The `• Knights of the quill "of this city would have been only to.i happy to have met their Reading brethren, but unfortunately they knew nothing about the eZCUrIIIOn. DEPUTY CITY TREASURBR'd REPuRT --The account of C. AL - Howell, Deputy City Treasurer, with the Bounty Fund, has been audited by the City Finance Com mittee. The following is the report BOVIriT rIIND Whole amount of Fund received.. Refunded to Farmers' Bank,.. Amount paid out on warrants, ...... ...$114,40S BeLune In Traunry, We, the undersigned Finance Committee of Lancaster city, having examined the account. of Chau M Deputy City Treasurer, report the same to be corn ct, and find a balance in ids hands of Three hundred and • ighty 87.100 dollars, to which Is to be added the amount of war rant No. 207, In favor of Lancaster Township, of N Bart POD 68 100 dollars, being the accounts of all receipts and ex penditures of the Bounty Fund. G Ztax, CELIA F. Hanouta, J H. Ittrxxrixte Juno 21, 1864. Finance Committee. The Anal report of the Bounty Committee will be made at the next stated meeting of 00uucils. LARGE STRAWBERRIES.—We were shown a few days ago a box of Strawberries from the garden of Dr. Gunton J. Moyle, of Paradise, which surpassed anything of the kind that we have seen fur a long time. They were of the Triomphe de hand variety. and averaged from five to six inches In circumference. .We underetand that the Doctor raises them by the bushel, together with equally great quantities of raspberries, currants, gooseberries, grapes and other good things, all on a village lot contain. log a little more than a quarter rf au acre. PREAMBLE and REBiILUTITNB on the death if Finney M. KILLIAN, Co. it," let Reg% P. R. V. 0., (Union thiamin ) adopted by hie surviving comrades : Wsuases. Our brave and beloved comrade, Henry '3l. Killian, died In Mt Pleasant Hospital at Washington, ou the 20th of June, 1884. from the effects of a severe wound through the right groin, Inflicted in the battle of Spott xylvania on the Bth of May, 1864, near the close of three years' earnest and heroic rervice in defence of the com mon goad; he being ever cheerful to endure, true and generols to hie comrades, and always at hie pool of duty, therefore be it Resolved, That we give public expression to our sincere sorrow, that he was stricken from our ranks aimed at the end of oar three years' perils; that he had to sniffer, fur so many days, such torturing pain before his death; that he bad to leave his comrades, friends and parents in the pride of youth, in the lively expectation of soon re• turning home, and in the fond hopes of his future years. But we find consolation in the fact that he died a heroic death, and bore his sufferings its a spirit worthy a patriot .d Uniou soldier, and that it was lode will that he should thus die a hero, and we know that "He dosth all things well " esolved, That in his death we have lost a kind and warm-hearted companion ; the country a young but use ful chg.; the army a tearless, and the government one of its bravest defenders. Resolved, That the bereaved parents and friends be ae• cured that they have our heartfelt sympathy in their great sacrifice for our country, and that we share their sorrow, for he was a pleasant and kind hearted comrade, as well as a brave and noble so;dier. Resolved, That a oopy of these resolutions be furnished the family of the de,ased, sod that toe city Papers be mint sled to publish the same; that we attend the funeral in a body, and wear the usual badge of mourning. FRAD. D. FRIDAY, } JACOB 8. Gems, Mum Roca, • Committee. REV. BISIIOI' SCOTT will preach in the Duke Street M. E. Church on Sunday next, morning and evening. A LOT OF OLD ' NEWSPAPERS for sale at this For The letelligeneer Nissans. RPMII.S: I noticed iu the last issue .4 tit , Ex aminer A. Herald. an account of a small fight which oc curred in chorclitown, alemt a work ago, which the re.. pee er cheose4 to call a ''Llnpperheaol riot." The whole of as stated in the paper. is nil • Infamous mierepr dßentn• Hon of the occurrence, and the author of it I suppose is one of the party. and in order to rover the diagram, thought he would throw the blame on the Copperheads of the place. I know not what the political sentiment of the Baud or the whiskey bloats, whom they bought with them, is; but the nom who we,t, engaged in it ab ut Chur"htown. were both Democrats and Republicans—all of them respectable men. The author wculd like to make it appear that the men from the town were in the fault, and they altogether innocent; he says they drank too free ly of what he calls — pc.tash and rain water:' but the members of the Band appe,rell to he pretty fond of It, for they took eight ornine drinks of it before they came up to the Academy, where they were to play for an entertain ment which was given there by the Principal of the Academy. As I mentioned before, they had drank too much of the article which steals away the brain, where there is any; I do not know whether they would have non ducted themselves much better it they had drank none, for their heads are about as empty as the drums upon which they beat. And the result of it was they threw up the contents of their stomachs in the room, which the Principal had to clean oat the next day—by the way, not a very goo recommendation to give any person who wants to procure their services. Some of the members of the Band are fine men, gentle men in every sense of the word ; bat a part of them and some whiskey rangers who travel with them, are a die grace to the community which they repreeent. I should have said nothing about them, If they had not made Bud' a gross misrepresentation of the affair. It appears from what I could learn that the building was noon tilled, and some ladies that came late, were obliged to remain outside of the building, and during intervals, part of the Band and the afore mentioned things with red eyes which look as if they were trimmed with red lace, commenced blackgnarding the ladles who wore present, in such a shocking manner, that some of the citizens of Church town and vicinity chastised them pretty severely by playing on their whiskey swollen noses with their fats; many of the cowardly scamps thought prudence the het ter part of valor and retreated into the Academy, not, however, till some of them wore badly hurt; some escaped with the lose of their bate and parts of their clothing, but not a man from Churchtown or vicinity was hurt. They like all cowards wore so frightened that they would not leave the Academy, and they asked one of the teacher, to lock the door and let them remain in the building till the citizens could be persuaded to retire to their homes, and about four o'clock In the morning they made their (racoon. some of their eyes were no swollen that they had to be led to the wagon. I believe they are in the habit of lighting and quarreling wherever they go. For The Intelligeneer COPPERHEADS BY EXPRESS The Daily Express of Jane 23d, 1864, Bays of the Copperhead' that,— "De owes all he possesses, whether property ac quired or the rigitt to enjoy the proceeds of his daily labor, to that nWe government which he uow.re- Tiles and opposes," No such thing. By Copperhead' Democrat is meant, and we Democrats owe nothing of any value to those whom we condemn. On the contrary, we owe the blessings enumerated, not to a set of perjured Abolition corruptionists, but to as Union as xt was and the Constitution as it is. In a disorganized and impoverished community there would no schools nor education, and the Cop perhead and his family would be as ignorant of let ters as the most stolid private in Lee's army." Then why this Abolition disorganization, when the Union as it was gave us education , t Mr. Geist (Geist, dam heiszt, wenn wir Englied' sprechen Oder schwetzen—ghost,) must have fallen into Mr. Lincoln's habit of joking, or he would not talk of bringing as to the level of " the most stolid private in Lea's army," when our own is so well supplied with stolen and runaway slaves, who in one night from the " ignorance of slavery " develop into " in tellyjnm counterbanns." But I had almost over looked the fact that many of the Abolitionists con sider the black to be the superior retie, and they be lieve that when he become, a Southern planter, be will be ready at any time to give a poor white man a scent or two. ANTI-SHODDY. FAIRFIELD, Lancaster County, June 16th, 1864. EDITORS INTBLIJOENCER : There was not a little excitement in this usually quiet village, occasioned by the shooting of &citizen, supposed to be a deserter, by an assassin who claims to be acting on authority from the Provost Marshal of the county. The cir cumstances of the shooting are substantially as fol lows : An unknown person (since discovered to be a fellow answering to the name of Byerly, and a resident of Puddingtown, this county) entered the hotel of E. D. Waters, about four o'clock in the af ternoon, where meeting the wounded man he ac costed him as follows: " Your name is Edward Hewes, and you must go along with rue." Hewes demanded his authority for arresting him, which Byerly refused to exhibit, saying, his pistols and handcuffs were his authority, and drawing the hand cuffs from his pocket, attempted to fix them upon the wounded man. Hewes shook him off a pace or two, when Byerly drew a • pistol and deliberately fired two shots, one taking effect in Hewes' left arm be low the shoulder, and the other entering the upper front part of the right aide of his chest, penetrating the lung and inflicting a dangerous wound. The assassin immediately left the hotel, crossed the street, entered a store kept by a very loyal" citizen, tarried but a moment, came out, entered his buggy, and drove off at the top of his horse's speed. That the military authorities have no„,iust, claim upon the wounded man, would appear from the fol lowing circumstances: A person claimed to havelis longed to the same Regiment and CoMpany that Hewes does, was arrested last fall, confined a while in Fort McHenry, taken from thence to the Rapidan, marched with and was present at the capture of the rebel position at Mine Run by the Army of the Po tomae, for a period of three months subjected to all the ignominy and privations of a prisoner, being closely guarded all the while, and finally discharged from custody on the ground that the regiment - to which he belonged, if any such organization ever did exist, was not in existence at the time. There is living in this district the son of a fiery loyal " citizen, known to belong to the same military organization, of which Hewes is a member, (the two appear to be the only survivors of the Regiment,) who Is still at large. Nothing is said about arrest ing, nor the least disposition manifested to Interfere with him. These facts are known to the greater portion of the citizens of the township, erien to the keeper of ,the Horned BMW Tavern, where Byerly has been in , the habit of stopping, and without doubt han. been made acquainted with the same notwithetandbir which, Brady h eeWu heard to express himself to the edict, that would not at tempt to arrest Hewes, but would if he got his eyes upon him shoot him down. -fa view of all the air eumstanees of the Ogle, the question naturally arises has not the treetuanitof Hewes been meet pointedly partisan, end are nota set of base men employed to assassinate Democrats on the merest pretexts ? That Hewes has many Mends who deeply sympo. this, with him in his misfortune is evidenced by the crowds that, visit him daily; but that there are some In this community et utterly lost to every feelbg of humanity, as to exult over the probable death of a - felloW creature is lamentably the fact.— Two persons, one a brawling Methodist, the other (perhaps a third, recently committed,) preying Prabyterian, (both rather below the average reli gious morals of the neighborhood,) have been heard to rejoice over what they conceive to be the consum mation of an ardently wished for murder. A correspondence between the President of the Southern Confederacy and the Governor of North Carolina, which took place last De cember, has just been published. It shows plainly enough that the' denials of the Wash ington officials and of the Republican press that any measures toward peace had been attempted to:be inaugurated by the Confeder ate authorities were unfounded and false. Gov. Vance, because of wide-spread discon tent with the people of his State, addressed a letter to Jeff. Davis, imploring him to make overtures of some sort to our government for the cessation of hostilities, in view of bringing about a permanent peace. The Governor ex presses the belief, that their overture rejected, it would have the effect of crushing out all discontent in his State, and of making the people a unit in the cause of Southern icicle ,. pendenoe. . Jeff. Davis replies to the Governor at length. in opposition to his suggestions ; but as we have no interest in points of etiquette regard ing the personal opinion of either, we confine ourselves to quoting the following important paragraphs from Davis' communication. He says : "We have made three distit.ut efforts to communicate with the authorities at Washing ton, and have been invariably unsuccessful. Commissioners were sent before hostilities were begun, and the Washington government refused to receive them or,bear what they bad. to say. A second time I sent a military officer, with a communication addressed by my-elf to President Lincoln. The letter was receirod by General Scott, who did not permit tho officer to see Mr. Lincoln, but promised that an answer should be sent. No answer has ever been received. 6132,925.00 ...... ...... 18,140.60 $114,784 80 880 87 $114184 50 The third time, a few months ago, a gentle man was sent, whose position, character and reputation were such as to insure his recep tion, if the enemy were not determined to receive no proposals whatever from the , Oov• ernment. Vice President Stephens made a patriotic tender of his services in the hope of being able to promote the cause of humanity : and although little belief was entertained of his success, I cheerfully yielded to his sugges tion, that the experiment should be tried. The enemy refused to let him pass thro' their lines, or to hold any conference with him. He was stopped before he even reachep Fortress Monroe, on his way to Washington. To attempt again, in the face of these repeat ed rejections of all conference with us. to send commissioners or agents to propose peace, is to invite insult and contumely, and to subject ourselves to indignity without the slightest chance of being listened to." Our object in quoting this is to direct the reader's attention to Davis' statement regard ing the mission of Mr. Alexander Stephens. We all remember, for it is about a year ago. when he approached Fortress Monroe, on a mission to Washington, and how our authori 'ies refused to receive him. When it was Meted that he had been authorized to enter into Deg itiatiuns fur peace, it woe denied by the Administration, President Lincoln himself declaring that he had received nu hirers what ever trout Richmond, of a desire for a cessa tion of hostilities. At last we have the truth, however. Mr. Stephens desired a conference with our authorities, but as soon as the nature of his commission was ascertained, he was re fused an audience. He went back to Rich mond, and immediately our Administration commenced lying in regard to his purposes in visiting Washington. It was feared that Stephens would offer to lay down the rebel arms thatdenied himadmission to Washington. lie had always been a thorough Union man, up until the opening of the rebellion, and is so now ; and the fact of Jeff. Davis sending him on a mission of peace to our government, shows bow anxious they all were-to lay down their arms end return to their allegiance. But in order to prevent him or his govern ment from ever again asking for peace. Mr. Lincoln issued his proclamation, which Davis notices as follows. It will be seen how suc cessfully Lincoln has man.ged to prolong hostilities. Alluding to Lincoln's proclama tion Davis remarks : " Have we not just been apprised by that despot that we can only expect his gracious pardon by emancipating all our slaves, swear ing allegiance and obedience to him and his proclamation, and becoming in point of fact, the slaves of our own negroes ? Can there be in North Carolina one citizen so fallen beneath the dignity of his ancestors as to ac cept, or to enter a conference on the basis of these terms ? " Nobody grudges a word of praise for the negro troops which they honestly deserve. Whenever they do better in battle than is expected of them, it is but fair that they should receive credit in reports of command ing generals, provided, always that the valor of the white soldier ie not unjustly slighted by omissions, or by invidious comparisons. But fulsome laudation of the negro at the expense 91 the white soldier is quite another matter. It is nauseous and intolerable ; and• if indul ged to to any extent by radical war corres pmdents and newspapers, must produce an intensity of dislike, on the part of white to wards black soldiers, which will have a bad effect in all army operations where the latter ar engaged. )me remarkable specimens of this exagger at, hero-making of the colored soldier, and Stu ied depreciation of the white one came all the say from Cincinnati by telegraph, on Fr day, fur the " Associated Press," accom panying the details of Gen. Sturgis's defeat. The negro troops are glorified throughout ; but there is not a word of extenuation for the pour whites. " The colored troops were the last to give way." " The negro troops gath• ered ammunition from the east away accoutre ments of the white troops, and thus were enabled to keep up the fight until they reached Memphis." "One body of 1,600 (white) infantry which were out off and supposed to have been captured, were defended by 200 negro tro .ps from the repeated assaults of the rebel cavalry." " Another body of negro troops came in (to Memphis) having escaped by vt.rious roads. All brought their arms and accoutrements with them." The inference which the reader is expected to draw from these statements is, that the white troops were a mob of cowardly wretches, and the negroes a phalanx of heroes. Every man an Ajax, gallantly taking eight craven whites [in the ratio of 200 to 1,600] under his powerful protection ! It is not worth while seriously to refute such a string of pre posterous _ absurdities. A man might as gravely undertake to point oat the probable exaggerations in the travels of Lemuel Gulli ver or Baron Munebausen. Every intelligent person knows, without waiting for truthful and impartial reports to come along, that, however the black truopa might have conduct. ed themselves, there can be no reason for this continuous, insulting disparagement of the whites. The radicals, who originate theee etoripe fur well known political objects, will find that they aro handling a weapon that cuts both ways ; for nothing would be so likely to bring about a tremendous reaction againmt negro troops and their injudicious eulogisers as this class of outrageous libels upon the whits sol diers of the republic. IDIPORTfiNT REVELATIONS I GLORIFYING NEGRO TROOPS SPENCE' OF UON. BILIDYI76 J. CLAY. Mr. CLAY, of Kentucky, (Rap.) the Army Appropriation Bill being under consideration in Congress, thus spoke of Federal treatment of negrocs : " You (Radicals) care nu more for the ne— gro than you do for a hog; not a bit more. Your course us this in itter is dictated solely s, by your own interests. You are governed by dollars and cents. Sir, as a slaveholffer I have been scoffed at here, and villified for the last four or five months. I have held my tongue and refrain ed from answering; but patience is worn out by this continual abuse of elaveholders. I would rather be a slaveholder than one of you who sit here and legalize this robbery and stealing all over the country. That is what I think about it. I do not profess to belong to the other side of the house (Republican): but I must admit that all my feelings and in clinations disposed me to go with them, be— cause-I supposed they were in favor of sustain ing and supporting the Government. We . have pledged ourselves to the last man and dollar to go with you to accomplish that pur— pose. I shall remain firm and steadfast, no matter what you may do ; but yet while 1 pledge you the last dollar if necessary, I do not mean that'you shall come and rob me of my last dollar and turn use out on the cold chari ties of the world. lam willing to give dollar fur dollar with you, but I am not willing that you shall come and rob me. That is what I complain oE Your agents cheat negroes out of half their earnings end rule them with an iron rod. They ate worse thau any slave , holders in the South. You talk about freedom Is there any freedom or humanity iu taking a negru from his home where he is well fed and clothed and well treated, and putting him in charge of an agent whose sole object is gain, who will cheat him out of the fruits of his labor? Is that the kind of slavery you wish to inaugurate in this country ? The people will never suffer that kind of slavery to exist in this country. Do you sup pone that they will permit the control of all this class of people to be in the hands of the Secretary of War, as provi led for in your bill? I hope not. if they d o , t h e :-; cer ,,,_ Lary will he the great rdave au- ,eritt of the country; he will have more agenro and sub agents under his control, with large salaries drawn frum the Treasury of the United States, thereby sucking the very life•bluud of the na tion, to control and take care of these four million slaves, to furnish them employment, clothing and food, and provide them with homes opal) the abandoned plan , vions of the South, as is provided for by the gentleman's bill, than there are row .wners in all' the southern States I .t,dt nothing fir my people but what is guaranteed to th •ui by the Oonsritution of our country, and I would seem to ask as a boon that which they are justly entitled to under the laws of t lie land. 'FOE DOCTU.I2IIIIf. OF SULCLDIS. The Hen. D. W. VouRnEEB, of Indiana, ill a letter written te his oiiiistituoilts ou publi6 affairs, remarks " But you may ask, in this connection, end in view of the fact that war lies failed to bring ue reSt , rittiOn. and has resulted in so much destructi. in of life and treasure, whether I em willing c.. give up the Union and surrender to the doctrine of State secessict. I answer that I am not. I shall cling to the last to the hope of bringing the once happy, now bleeding and belligerent States tut, harmony and peace. The doctrine that :1 S'at- hot- , r under the Conetituti !e 0,0 thy U o.er:• ment at its own it the :11 , 0tril.0 of . suicide, c:Lftll , ; 1.341 , ..th in,ans adopted hy this Administration tc curs the evil, ere to my inlud, the w ;nit that a mld he devised." Mr. VoORLIEES ie a leading Democratic metni,er of Congress, and we presume exp ens -08 the sentiment of nine-tenths 01 the Democrats of that IsAy. And yet thsy all utwed by ly for the country in this c;isis, tiontr.tl its policy and ra.ek disunion and unlimited des potism, as sympathizers with rebellion. Ws think he well says the doctrine that States can at Fi-l-rtimure dissolve their otinnection with the Federal Government. •• it the doctrine of sui cide and cannot l e defended"—but it singularly enough happens that that was the doctrine of the '• loyal" & Cc., before the war, when they objected to coercion, and asked to " let tae Union elide." Such men—and such are those who now gov ern the country—denounced Democrats before the war as " Union savers," and denounce them now because they would, if possible, conciliate the people of the rebellious States and bring about a restoration of the Union under the Constitution. When the history of this bloody war and imbecile Administration comes to be written by a capable. and impar tial historian, it will be shown that those who most vaunted their " loyalty" were the greatest, perhaps the only, traitors in the land. A MILLION OF MEN On the Bth inst., a debate °mired in the U. S. Senate upon the bill relating to the $3OO exemption clause, in which Mr. WILSON, Chairman of the Military Committee, made sevecal statements of deep significance. In reply to Mr. COZ‘INESS, of California, he said : A 4,1. listened to the earnest, intense, nu :u say passionate words of the Senator fru n California, I almost wished that I too was a man of courage, that 1 too had this confidence, this hope, and this boastfulness. The Senator from California speaks of the spasmodic action of the administrators of the government in raising men during the last few months. Does he not know that we have raised or re enlisted since the 17th day of October last six hundred thousand men, not to count black men, and that within the past year we have put in the field seven hundred thousand men ; that we have made an exertion, such as few nations can make; that we have spent $26,- 000,000 in bounties ; that we have drafted ; that we have used the whole power and influ ence of the government to increase our mili tary forces ? Sir, we'have put forth an effort which excites the astonishment and commands the admiration of the world ; yet the Senator from California, whose constituents have not been drafted or called upon, rises to-day and rebukes the Administrat:un, rebuked us, and talks ,glibly of the timid c .unsels of men who are quite as hopeful, d.tortnined, and brave as himself. Mr. President, Ido not question the devotion or courage of.the men of Cali lornia. They have proved their devotion to the country un more than one occasion. But, sir, that Senator should remember that some of us live in communities where the calls are over and over again ; where sons, brothers, relatives, friends, neighbors,' all have been summoned to the field of duty, and have re sponded to these calls. While we, their rep resentatives, are ready to vote men and to vote money, we want to make these sacrifices of men and blood bear as lightly as possible upon our people. Humanity and justice alike demand it. General Grant is in front of Richmond. The rebellion is `• coiled," to use the language of General H Joke , ,at Richmond, and within ten miles of the capital of treason. We have sent forty-eight thousand men to reinforce Grant,since the commencement of his march toward the rebel capital. Within thirty days we have gathered up over the country these reinforcements two thousand of whom are the one hundred days' men , raised in the State of Ohio. Using these startling assertiot.s as a basis, the Washington Intelligencer calculates that this government has now under arms for *le suppression of the rebellion one million of men as follows: The seven hundred thousand men put in the field during the last year are exclusive of those whose previous term of enlistment for three years, dating from the summer and fall of 1861, has not yet expired, and are, we sup pose. exclusive of the " hundred " days' men recently added to our present forces. The ['vast aggregate of the troops now under arms in our service, and on the pay rolls, can there fore be easily conceived, if not accurately known in the 'absence of official statistics. The number can fall but little if any below a million of men, and certainly touches a height which justifies the statement of Mr. Wilson when he says that the country has made " an exertion " to fill. up the ranks of the army " such as few nations ever made and few cations can make." 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