nttlirgesx - . 4 ttV ofiltru ttsDAY, JUJ Y E 0 2,.%‘ 4 3 ../AJ ~o #3l/.141/le, tr,il"roaA.C.oll4l.ll; ur ' lLpy 1.116.14.-...,. '4./1 u/kvlr riga bie're - 01. - 61 "k . ' .11170/a; Lad 0401 W ellaZoll 11,,ZUIF ALI, 41/1, itlly-plup il.ll/111 U/ 1.41:11. lul-Lew . 1)0,1./Cal401. 1 01 PlAjlefesllfl t. .1:/10011.1CL:Ci0u1101.1al , ULU . " .40 , urii.4lYl4. 01 w/1111 Lae I.llaialC fitopur 1411 puulll uuur111:1- tiuu~ L.i4'Lauui Ly...tc.ji Luny L. g..veu 1/1 OVI - .IAI/0,01/Wantl.L. A tirtEkil-4 - 114.131 MMUS tililtiENS. On.,..eriday night last Thaddeus Ste veng;'- Cinigre444iiiti from this district, artik the ncitito wledged leader of the Ab ohtiouists in the lioase, returned to his Piniejia.ttdscity. lie was treated to a 44;•enacle _by the baild of the " Union - ..1.1e,"..and took occasion to make a . - Oharacteriatic speech, which we find lizletlyrei , orteu in the .E.ll)ceeB. Taking .care. Last to allnultMe that he had °P pOseet..the repeoi the commutation 'WI/Use:oi. colle4t_i ! ttun Mil, he re ./laa.dieu that tlte4iwtw une gratnying a l ,uu t it uUlu compel we '' . 4,.6,ltVerneaus to go, or to iurnisn substi- Imes:" VI cou:.,e, this utteiance was warmly applauded. - In this we have an exhibition of that vindictive character which is a pervad .lng seltiment with many of the Aboli tionists. _ They are not content to de nounce one-half of their fellow-citizens .as disloyal, but, while taking good care of their own cowardly selves, and keep ing well out of danger of rebel bullets, they rejoice with nendish exultation over a law which they suppose w,l. force every Democrat who cannot alibrd to pay an enormous price for a substitute -to enter the ranks as a cons..fipt. The time was when Democrats freely volun teered, and when men °tiered tneir ser vices to the Government in nimibers :that could not be accepted. Pui when the purpose and design of the war we, changed, when it ceas , :d to be carrier: on for the restora.ion tile i"nlon, am. was converted into a me:, mad e.usach. against slavery, then o:.'ne the nature, revulsion of feeling, an, volunicerim. almost ceased. The gross mismanage ment since displayed, the weeding out -of nearly every Democrat from office in -the army, and the enormous, and so fin -utterly unavailing, slaughter of mien has made the war unpopu,ar. it been :honorably conducted upon Ihe ha-is 0 the patriotic resolution so unaninionsi) passed by Congress just. atter the till .battle of Bull Hun, it might lon ..inn,. .have been honorably ,11;;;• ;. sub -etantiate this opinion we have the 1l di est avowals of such a belief from the ablest and most honest liepublioans; witness, the statement to that effeet ft the able circular put iurtil by those who favored the-nomination ex-sti•retary Chase for the Presidency. When the imbeciles of the present Adminisiretion Cut loose :from safe moorings, took their present position, they united the South while they divided the North. gave vast strength to the rchel arone, while they materially weakened nut .own, and made the war des. :ve,l'y un popular in the tnanuer iu winch it was conducted. Then Volunteern , .iCi':lll)t inactive, large bounties tailed u, undue. men to enlist, and the harsh proces of conscription became, in the Administratidn, a necessity, al:hough there has never been an whrai I, change of policy, and .! 1„ the originally avowed purpos(• of the war. would not hove been baSted v. lin (1,-- light by the masses, and a rcso,l seaption rendered unneecs,:ar . I t i-. not strange that men shonid disht; e to be foreA into the army, when I hoy ,ns .approve conc:;.:ntiously on which the war is (“11d0t•te , i, and when they can see no hope of a II: evl-IY or honorable termination of II struggle Which daily demand the -ta,•,tilice thousands. Once this 'vas tp,i so. Then is not. a comity ill tit: iti;tiiie, all nit. State in the. North, w hich did not re apond heartily to eNa , :ty call made iztri in the war—not, a single one of the oh .regiments which does tint htar idems to the readiness of Democrats to malt, any sacrifice demanded !;.v their er. ti try, even in a war not of their making and which they honestly helieved utlgh have been arrested In proper c ., ,11,1'S sions on the part of their teal oppo vents. The Atiministral ;on, in thei blind - fury, are aloe responsible th change that is eve.'ywhere al,pgruni public opinion. Since this wretched wet I.e•fitri, tiler. has been no more'di-;_u 'Li: es than that made publie in t he Thaddeus Rtes - en o o night last. Think of hi m , up, admitting that the v. ir a:-eta not for the purpose of vetoing tit Union; that he asks t, 0 .1 Ida.-ashennottsl:\ to forbid, but fe,- I IR' hatbox of tin fact!) for the fre.: , .!on, of the negro.— Think of no, as s'iatldiia_ 4 , amid a crow, of pa:asitical h , 112 words so clearly indicaltve of the hat, that rankles in his .1;:111.1,1:-) tinge a proportion . .,c-f his fell;.. -citizeus.— Listen to him, as with fiendish , delight he exults in the prospect of seeing thousands of poor Waite Lien Bragg,,. from their homes and put in the front of battle. 112 scents their 1 , 10,,d in inn agination, and to hint it is a pleasani odor. He hears their tlyinu emetic on the battle field, and this. conimin_ ;in: with the wail of widows and the pierc ing cry of orphaned chilth - en, is music to the ears of that man, exhausts his sympathies upon the negro. This le the true spirit of Abolitionism, its diabolism incarnate in the body of a practical amalgdmationist. A HIT AT "LOYAL" NEU SPAPERti. Governor Curtin, in his late cell ti , arms, deals to Abolition newspapers 1: hard rap over the knuckle,. During the present alarming raid they univer sally made light •,f the s tfair in its com mencement, and fo days continued cry ing out in the words Old Abe• No body's hurt." The Plua,delphia however, gave a truthful ~ count, and formed a proper estimate of •he a fu r from the commencement. THE INTELLIC ENCE The flattering comments lie,towen upon the appearance of the and ite contents by our brethren of the press of this city and other places in the State are received with liecorninL., spirit, Our constant effort shall he to merit ail the kind things said of us. (tentlenren of the editorial fraternity, one and all, we extend to you the 'right hand of fel lowship. PRISONERS AT THE (IMAGO CONTEN TION. The Democracy of Ohio, in thit se lection of Delegates to the Chicago i;on vention eeem to have taken care of those who have been the victims oi arbitrary arrests. Mr. Vallandigham., Gov. Medary, Dr. E. B. Olds, and Archibald McGregor, are Delegates from their respective Districts. For being in favor of peace as a means of saving the Union, these gentlemen, who suffered imprisonment and banish- meat at the hands of this Administra tion, are now deservedly honored by their countrymen. SONG SPOILED The repeal of the Commutation clause hai entirely spoiled the favorite song of the loyal leaguers, "We are coming lether.Abraltam, three hundred dollars =QM." They will now have to adapt It to; he tune of "two thousand dollars more." Query? Will the league funds hold-out?. EPITHETS AGAINST ARGUMENTS. For three years past the political principles and the governmental policy of the party now in power have ceased to be themes of argument, becatise Ad ministration orators and- editors have not deigned to enter the field of rational discussion. Mr. Lincoln and his party have persistently refused to render to the people a reason for any one of their acts. When the Constitution has been violated, and the rights of the citizen assailed, they have never condescended to offer an explanation for what so often savored of despotism. To every grave objection raised - against their repeated attacks upon the fundamental law of the land and the rights of the people, they have always offered tiae tyrants' plea of military necessity," and that only. The abolition newspaper press has, almost without exception, seemed to as sume' as a fact. granted that the people bad no choice left them, hut to obey any and every edict of an Administration, which it , . parasites delighted to dignify by styling it the government." Men have been imprioned, exiled, beaten by mobs, and not unfrequently murder ed, because they dared to exercise the inalienable, and well guaranteed rights of free thought and free speech within the boundaries of loyal conduct. and legitimate argument The invariable reply of abolitionists to democratic reason and democratic logic has been a repetition of vulgar and abusive epi thets. They have exhausted the vocab ulary of i)illingsgate, and when they have found men of sense and thought remaining silent rather than enter into such a contest of unreason, they have I swelled and strutted with an insolence of pre:eutiou3 intolervoce almost Mimi 'er“ble. To call an opponent vulgar aames, when afraid or unable to meet in a fair contest, itad to abuse and al, antagonist, when circuru ,cances enable it to be done with iinpun ,ty, .!:aun,;',..iristie of cowards and Such has heen, to an 'extent almost exclusive of anything better, the course abolition editors and orators for three years past. They have delighted in Lang uhrases, and have made gross abut-,• anh ~vulgar personalities do the !irk - of legitimate argument. They nave hectored and liullied their oppo nents after the most approved style of !owardly "swells," but have always re used to 'meet them in the province of :afin anil dispassionate reasoning. They :lave denied the right of the people to ,liscuss measures of public interebt in a ..hovernment rusting upon the will of the people, where, more than in any other lorm of government, such form of dis cussion is eminently right, flit ug and proper. They have, with amazing im iitulenvi•,-,lemanded an unqualified en dors,•ntent of public acts which history' ill stiamatiz as absurdly foolish and •ritionally w. ong. They have, with a slavish subserviency, which is at once heir shame and their disgrace, volun tarily surrendered all right to think and -Teak for themselves; and have had the audacity to demand that their oppo hems with similar baseness, and dire nitekliva subserviency„ surrender this Is st and tielsd cherished right of freemcn, I f any mit:, whethei: in pub- Ite lih•, or only a private citizen, refused indorse all the acts of an AdnUnis trai ion which will descend to history to Is. \ered with infamy and buried in Its has been denounced, villi tied, and itbused without stint. It is true t he vocabulary 6: these Mien: e loy alists has not been very extensive—that of I du:l:guards seldom is—but as black ,tuirds always do, they have striven l i ar!! oi niake up in loudness of (rice and fruittency of repetition for any miter tart.oo They have yelled and howled, Copperhead, Copperhead!" .4,•ceslt, Seee: "'Traitor, Traitor!" ynipiultizer, - Sc., until, too often, bey lung n u mag: e d to drown, with-mere out,:ry, the mild and persuasive of reason. 2, tiler, senseless rep_ . lit ion of epithets meant to be oppro di,,us, and a personal application of hero in season and out of season, has the principal stock in trade of abo t di editors :111,1 orators for the whole if thrs• years past. Everywbcre the whole body of the t: nidcratie party has been denounced disloyal, and democrats personally -tigniatized aiders and abettors of resison. and as sympathizers with the ,hellion. They have b-en persecuted, sted, thrown into prison, exiled, ,r,,scribed in business, and ostracised in -oeial \ et they have lived and burl-bed and increased, and are this !ay vastly stronger than ever before dnee this war began. Tlic pre,- and the pubile speakers of he democratic r. y, true to their pt'in ,p, s, and impelled by the purest and most enlightened sen. ,, of public duty, vt: 1,01i.11y :111.1 Creely discussed many if the unwise acts of the present POr :upt and imbecile administration, but, h :is, doing, they have not been been im pelled by any feeling of factious op . position. They have, on the contrary, oucti actuated Icy right principles, and moved by a proper sense of patriotism. I hey have at all times endeavored to lt-fend the Constitution front violation, 0 harvest a cmnplete breaking down ,f the harriers which hedge the rights Ind the liberties of tine people from t he :tide assaults of arbitrary power, and, while so doing, have ever been ready .rill willing to. make any sacrifice de manded to restore the Union. They have criticised the acts of the Admin istration, sharply it may be, but they have never exceeded the bounds of proper political diseussiou, which em braces every act of our rulers and every pull!, movement affecting the rights or he interests the people- Dad the democratic party been a band if traitors, had they even sympathized with the rebellion, they could easily have strangled this war in its inception, ar have stopped its further prosecution .11 any period since it began. They nave always had the power, and they slave always known they possessed it. Yet, with devoted followers, numbering more than a majority of the voters of the loyal States, as any free and fair eb.",2tion would demonstrate, they have !ft:a:bred the odious and oppressive eon ',NA-ARAI law to he quietly executed, when by precoucerted action in their political organization they could have prevent4.d !c, easily. All the re,syl• es of the various Lsinocratic State Conven tions hell billet. the war began have breathed a spirit of lofty patriotism and deep to the Union. The Democratic party has borne much, but not through fear, for cowar dice in a feeling to which it has ever been a stranger. It has been content to bide its time, and to - wait patiently till the hour came when a proper con stitutional remedy could be applied.— That period is rapidly approaching. We will go into the present campaign as a party boldly demanding the rights of entire freedom of speech, and a free ballot-box. We will not submit to be prevented from discussing all public measures, and the whole policy of the war before the people. We will insist that there shall be no military, or other improper interference at the polls, and shall refuse to recognize an election car ried by force and fraud as conferring any right to office. We shall conduct the canvass upon rational prindiples, and shall hope to see our opponents do the same thing. The day for indulging in mere abuse is over, and vulgar epi thets whether they come from abolition editors and orators, or from fools and blackguards in private life,- have lost their force. They may insult still, but they can no longer harm. 4s ingults alone should they be regarded and re plied to. It is high time those who have been so long indulging iu such things should make an effort to mend their political manners—their political - morals we fear arc past amendment.— Epithets will no longer avail against ar gtunents.. THREE SOMERSETS IN THREE DAYS. The following official comruunicatioi from the Adjutant General of Pennsyl vania, received by a citizen of Philadel phia on Saturday, goes as far to prove the utter incompetency of our national rulers , as anything we have seen since this unfortunate and disastrous war be gan: LEARRItIBURG, July a, lsst.—Henry C. Lea :—I n reply to your telegram yesterday, I was authorized to say that the hundred day men will be mustered by minimum companies, so confident were we mat such authority would be given by the War De paruneut in reply to a . joint telegram st:nt by the Governor and General ('ouch. 'I he War Department, however, for retcfons given at length, declines to nnslitv the mus tering orders, and I feel it my duty to in form . you that the mustering must be done by tumimmu regiments, as set forth in Gen eral Orders, No. 50, of these headquarters. A. L. RUSSELL, Adjutant-General Pennsylvania. Just look at this picture! Gov. CUR-, TIN, at the urgent. request of President LINCOLN, calls tier twelve thousand men to serve for the period of one hundred days. A citizen of Philadelphia desires to know whether these men can be mus tered in by companies. On Friday the Adjutant General is authorized to say that they can he mustered in by compa nies. On Saturday it beeolites his duty to say that they can not he mustered in by companies—that it must be done by regiments; and on Sunday Gov. CUR TIN himself issues au address, which he causes to he read in all the churches at Harrisburg, in which the following paragraph appears: The authorities of the United Suites at Washington are so impressed with the ne ee,sity of Mimeo hate t-tiort, that they hare this morning by telegraph authorized moil to ha mustered in by ewnpriitie. , , which rlwy had poremptomg Were the eyes of mankind ever before bothered with such contradictory or ders to these? " Head up and heels down" one day, and ." heels up and head down" the next, and a "back soul erset" the third! What would hir neighbors think of him if the owner of a Lancaster• county farm would one day direct his tenant to sow his grain broadcast, and the next order him to put it in with a drill, and the third tell him again to sow it broad cast? Would it• not soon be whispered around the neighborhood that the poor man was crazy? Yet in doing this lie would give no stronger indication of craziness than our bewildered officials have given in the contradictory orders above quoted. Mr. LINCOLN wa.s on one occasion in vited to resign by a party of gentlemen composed mainly of United States Sen ators and Members of Congress, and all of them leading and influential Repub, licans. They advised him to return to Illinois and give the government over to Vice President HAMLIN, whom they considered far better quail tied to admin ister it. The advice was good, and the gentlemen who gave it a year or two ago ought now to repeat it with empha sis. LINCOLN is a disastrous failure and a standing reproach. lie has learned nothing statesmanlike and forgotten nothing - vulgar. HAMLIN is more out spoken in his abolitionism, perhaps, but really no blacker at heart and he has the advantage of being a gentle man of considerablr ail llily, as well as a public man of kilt. e Nperieuee. There is reason to l'.elieve that he might eon litet public affairs better Oki. they are now conducted., anti it is hardly possi ble he could. manage them worse. I , IGHTING BY PROXY Quite an excitement is being pro duced, in newspapers at least, by the latest sensation, " fighting, by proxy." By this means rich old men, until for service, rich young men, who have no stomach for fighting, and even some of the "patriot daughters" it is expected may be induced to add their names to the list of the valiant who go forth to battle. The Union Leaguers of Phila delphia, and elsewhere, are said to be so completely taken by this new idea as to look upon it as the most legitimate, proper and aristocratic style of entering the army. Loyal. negro-worshipping Massachusetts is. however, far in the advance in this business. Since it has been decided that a State may send agents into any slave State to enlist ne groes, and he credited on the coining draft with all picked up, Massachusetts has sent out a multitude of recruiting officers. It is supposed the quota of the State will thus soon Le tilled, and the abolitionists of that puritanic o‘omuion wealth be relieved from all terrors of the impending conscription. When Massachusetts is fully represented iu the army by negroes, it would be only in accordance with their avowed prin ciples, if her people should send some Snowball or Sands.) to take the place of Sumner in the Senate of the United tates. He represents the negro almost as well as any sable son of them all could, but it seems to he hardly in ac cordance with abolition doctrine to put all the burthens upon Cuffee, and to re fuse him all the honors and profits of public place and position. By all means let the abolitionists of Massachusetts be represented by negro proxies, both in the army and in Congress. READ OR TAIL? We seeby General Orders No. 38," issued from the headquarters of.ibe De partment of the Susquehanna, that Gen. Coticx is authorized to call for one thousand mounted men for special ser vice. They must be good riders .and gallant meu, and must furnish their own horses and equipments. VCiNV of the facts disclosed in Ad jutant General liussEm.'s telegram to Mr. LEA and Governor CURTIN'S print ed address of Sunday last, we would advise Gen. COUCH to ascertain to a dead certainty, before he musters in these mounted men, whether " the au thorities at Washington " will allow the men to ride with their faces towards the horses head and use the bridle in the usual way, or whether they will require them to face to the rear and use the animals tails for steering apparatus. EATING MEAT The abolition newspapers, and espe cially the New York Tribune, are urge lug poor people not to buy meat at pres ent prices, and to abstain from eating it. If things keep on as they have been going, that will soon be superfluous ad vice, and our laboring population will do without meat, as they do without many other necessaries, not from choice but from necessity. THE LITE KING OF WIIHTEMBERG The senior of the sovereigns of Europe and of the world, William the First, King of Wurtemberg, died on the 25th of June at his capital of Stuttgart. Had he lived three months longer, he would have been eighty-three years old, for he was born on the 27th of September, 1781. He had reigned over his snug little kingdom for nearly half a century. There was only one King of Wurtem berg before him ; for the reigning sovereigns of the territory were called dukes, until his father, in 1803, assumed the title of elector, an& subsequently, under the favor of Napoleon, that of king. -, WHESE ARElltrit-SOLDIMS? There are a million men in the service of the United States, and under the ex travagant management of the imbecile :LEN - coux and his -." Forty Thousand Thieves,'? each of these men is (*sting the people one thousand dollars a year: The price would he high enough if the best possible use were made of the men ; but where are they and what are they doing? We have only two armieg. in the field at the present time. One of these is under GRANT in Virginia and. the other under SFIERMAN in Georgia. The one under C4IL-kNT, counting its sick and wounded, and the garrison at Wash ington, can hardly number more than two hundred and fifty thousand. The one under SHERMA-N, counting also its sick and wounded, and throwing in the forces stationed at various points in Tennessee, cammt number more than one hundred and fifty thousand. These are liberal figures, and combined they amount to four' hundred thousand.— Where are the rest ? The people of Pennsylvania have a good right to ask this question. Their soil has again been. threatened with in vasion. The, inhabitants of those coun ties that lie between the main ridge of the Alleghany mountain, and the point where the Susquehanna river passes into Maryland, have again been com pelled to fly with their moveable prop erty to the east side of the river. Their htfSiness has been broken up add their grain has fallen to the ground, uncut and ungathered. Of the million men whose names are on the pay-rolls of the United States army, not enough were at hand to act as scouts in this exposed PVrtion of the Commonwealth. The Governor had to resort to his-ac customed (Ipedient--a proclamation calling out the militia. What a COM mentary is this upon the management of the war! A million of armed men at the command of President LINCOLN, and yet an exposed part of Pennsylvania left so utterly undefended that the Gov ernor had to call for twelve thousand militia when the enemy ;vas forming his columns on Mason and DrxoN's The district thus left constantly ex- posed to the incursions of the enemy, is, with perhaps the single exception of Lancaster county, the best cultivated and most productive in the United :-.tatcs. It is easily defended and well worth defending, and yet nothing, has ever been done to prevent the rebels front plundering it at discretion. If one-half the troops who have been kept in front of Charleston, only to sicken and die in the hot sun on the sandbars near the mouth of her harbor, had long ago been put inside of earth works in the southern part of the Cum berland Valle,y, they might have se cured Penhsylvania against invasion and contributed to the safety of Wash ington. The troops put at the disposal of Gen. BANKS in New Orleans for cot ton-stealing purposes—or which he has iittempted to use in cotton-stealing ex peditions, whether they were put under his command for that purpose or not— if judiciously posted along the Potomac, could successfully resist the crossing of any force short of LEE'S whole army. But one Massachusetts General LER) made an immense fortune iu cot ton speculations in Louisiana, and op portunity must now be given to another B.INKSi to do the same. Both of them will no doubt contribute very liberally . to carry on the campaign for LINCOLN, and this will cover up the failure of all their campaigns against the rebels. Does any one suppose that if it were a Yankee State that was thus abandoned to the enemy, the neglect would be passed over in silence? Massachusetts showed a disposition to revolt, and for a time flatly refused to furnish mote Troops, because President LlNcoLN•did not come up fast enough to the abolition standard. Transfer the war to her borders—leave her unprotected against invasion—let her Boston shopkeepers be compelled to hide with their "no : lions " among the mountains of New Hampshire—let the cobblers of Natick and Lynn hand over their boots and shoes to a rebel army in exchange for confederate notes—let wagons taken from her fanners be loaded with the muslins and calicoes of Lowell, the paper of Springfield and the miscellan eous goods and wares of other towns— let her husbandmen be plundered of their - horses, their cattle and the pro ducts of their soil—let these thing - , be done to the Yankees of MassachuseLs /Hs( onoc, and they will demand protec tion from Mr. LINCOLN ill tones that will make that poor idiot tremble from head to foot. But the people of Pennsylvania, he ing neither Yankees nor Negroes, are left to the tender mercies of the Con federates, whq come over when it suits them and carry off what they please.— All appeals to the Presißut for protec tion against invasion, (tr for succor in the hour of danger, have been in vain. That public functionary is too busy with his schemes for adding some mil lions of Southern neeroes to the popu lation of the middle states, to give at tention to any place Mr defending the white people already here. OUR PRIME OF WILES Master Bob Lincoln, the first born sou of Mr. and Mrs. Government, acid a very fast young man ,being about to grad uate at Harvard College, is said to be desi rious of wearing the livery of his father. shouldering a musket and becoming " than of war ;" but Mrs. Lincoln prefers Robert should select a branch of busi ness attended with• less hazard of life and limb, and furthermore, she thinks it would be a dreadful thing for Robert to shot all his Southern relatives. On this we differ with her majesty. We think Robert should go—by all means go! If not drafted, let him volunteer, and if olunteering should not be in progress, let him be the substitute for some drafted man whose opinions are opposed to the war, and who will not fight any to speak of even though placed in the ranks. We would like to see Robert return as a hero. Of course we would, and so would his anxious parents. Everybody wishes that the heir apparent should show himself a man of metal. More thrrn this, the country expects the family of the Gov ernment should do its share of the fighting. Take the position of a soldier, Robert, and let the ; militaryfame of your father he you inspiration. The drum beats. Answer to roll call ! Hurrah for Prince Bob ! That military coat and Scotch cap may still be retain ed in the family. THREE REPUBLICAN EDITORS IN PRISON. Howard of the New York Times, Stanton of the Tribune, and Henderson of the Post arc now safely esconced in Fort Lafayette. Democratic editors are sent to Fort Lafayette but there is this difference between the " order of their going " and that of the Shoddies. The former are sent because of their political opinions, but the latter are sent one for forgery— another for furnishing the enemy with ogntrabanclgoods, and a third for mrind - ling the government. girJOHN I. HARTMAN, Esq., of this city, has become associated in the edit ing and publishing of the Lancaster Ffrnminer. John is a most excellent practical printer, and, barring his poli tics, a very clever fellow. We cordially welcome him into the editorial fratern ity, and trust the Examiner may have mash pealmiar, meow. WHERE ARE THE KNOW NOTHINGS ? It is just ten years since there existed in Lancaster city and county; as well as everywhere in the United States, a political , ergo !motion known as ,Know Nothings. There are, perhaps, in Lan caster county, several thousand gentle men now claiming connection with the Republican party, who - are able to re member more than they:would like to tell about that congregation of political saints. These gentlemen will have no. trouble about recollecting how they stealthily crept along dimly-lighted halls and stole up creeping stairways to a tightly closed room, where, by the glimmering light of a dark lantern, they took an oath against Foreigners and Catholics. They will remember well how solemnly their leaders assured them that the only danger to free insti tutions in America sprang front our practice of occasionally electing a For eigner or a Catholic to ()Mee ; and they will recollect how implicitly they them selves believed that a German was more dangerous than a Grizzly Bear, that an Irishman was worse than a Bengal Tiger, and that the Pope was far more to be dreaded than the Devil. We have uo wish to bring back on these gentlemen the dangerous tit of pa triotism and piety that afflicted them in Ihs-1. We do not desire to vex their righteous souls with fresh apprehen sions of danger to our Republican in stitutions or to the Protestant religion. But, whether it alarms them or not, we must• call their attention to the fact that ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, has lately signed an act passed by Congress to eiwourage the im migrotion of fureignf lo this country. What now will he done by the Lan caster city and county gentlemen to whom we are referring—the enthusias tic Know Nothings of 163.1, who helped to pile up the majority of thirty-four thousand given that year in Pennsyl vania in favor of putting down "For eign and Catholic influence'' in Amer ica. Will they admit that they were wrong ten years :Igo Will tliey admit, in spite of all they said to the contrary, and of all they dire t to the prove the sincerity of what they said, that the Foreigners who collie to this country are desirable accessions to our popula tion Will they concede that the posi tion taken by the Democratic party on that question at that time was correct". Or will they hunt up their dark lanterns, and meet again in their old nimiliar haunts, and renew their solemn oaths, and go to work in secret against Mr. LINCOLN for signing a bill so flagrantly violative of Know Nothing principles as the one to which he has just put his signature" Gentlemen of the old Know Nothing party, if you support ABRAHAM LIN COLN in this campaign, that will he an open confession that the principles you professed ten years ago were founded in error; and if you confess that you and your party were wrong then, how can you expect the sober-minded people of Lancaster county to believe that you are right now ? Conceding that as Know Nothings you humbugged the people into the support of false principles, you have no right to expect them to put faith in you as Republicans. PP IN A BALLOON Our editorial brethren of Heading have been en;,:vin,4 the exeiting pleasure of a bal loon 11,4e;q1Si011. made under eirennistanvos very favorahle to personal safely. 'rho lowing is the aeeount riven 1 v ihe elin , r of the Jour - , o ,r 1 of his ,‘xperienee:— " S. 'l'. Lowe, the celebrated Fiat loonist , whose ngnerations in the:lolly of the l'otouute have rendered his liii iii• ht all newspaper readers, :it-rived itt n- tvli at the close of last week, alt apr ssitnual visit. lie hroitglit with hint hi- splendid balloon 'Washington,' and during: the past week has treated our citizens to the novelty of what are called topical ascensions, ais practised in the artily t'or the purpose of re count, tisane , . ascensions are toade in this w - ise: Tile halloorn, after being inflated, is atniehed to a strong calile one thousand feet inn The iJass,oger, pnnidod with proper ballast, then takes his stand in the car or fai.sket, and is let up :tiny height ticsireil within the limits of the cattle. sev eral iscetisitats of this kind were loathe 4)11 the 101 l of .1 1% - ititessed or course by all our citizens and those of the surronciing country within a range of ion Tilt kis, to their 'great .delight. "On Tuesday Coroloon a portion of the Editorial fraternity lltrough the. kind per inissiott.or detF.noinod t , ,inake the at-ekr•iit. A half dozen or so,.if otell were 0 , 114..010.1 to loan the ropes r. rianolt, of the //-ittoo;/, ,atrself of the .lournal, and Mr. ; e tz, of the foLett&•,- tier, , in turn let up.— 'lle balance of the 'orps lint prisiiiil and failed t. onion this rari• ntorning was ,•ielir and calm--pre et, It mtlited lin' a trill to the tipper Mr. • 1:11211 tip tirot , 'nit Iv:I, on tanteil hal In: t.i ripply 111, ballad lingo :is woulil otherwi-e have attained. Vi.- twit: took tan' place in the ear, prodded svillt a small canvass hag tilled v, - itlt enai ashes, weighing, about In pounds, and ii largor one of earth, weighing probal,h . ,, - •tu pound s . ou r inhtructious 1 - ititlLY the ash bag it a sign;:' front the lirolessor, :111.1 ono-half the content s of the earth-liag. at a setiond signal. Thus instructed we hid good-by to terra !Irina, :nu: struck a 1.o• liar .towards the zenith. " The balloon, thanks to our light weight, went Wr,ight rep --nit hat a swag or a kink in the cable—to its entire length. In three tuinutte acti.e leas itn,, terra firma. we were floating in Mc pure air—li thousand feet or so above the earth. The view at this alti tude was indiscribably grand, and not feel ing the slightest sense of danger or nervous ness, we enjoyed it to the full. We had, for the tirat time in our Life IL cart[ bird's eve s less- of 1,111" ,qty and its surround ings. Beloui us was the busy world--its inhabitants dwarfol. to almost lillipution littleness—the houses low, Mal ,Very one within sight. The tall Lutheran Steeple, which Reeding people kook alt to and pri.le themselv“s u ,on, we looked ,b,ten upon With ft Sort of ekanempt. It positively did nut SC-01111. , ua to be More than (104 storie.!, high. The Court House looked like a very re spectable one story structue, , with a low steeple and .1011 sort of figure upon the top. 'the morning trains of cars just arriving from liarrisburg, Pottsville and Allentown, attracted our attention by the whistles, but were in appeal - M(.. out a cry groat .h-al larger than the toy imitations that the little Iblks so delight in about Christ mas. North Sixth Strict, directly below us wit h its new covering of bine stones, looked like a small street oh' blue marble with tiny houses on each side. The Schuylkill windittg like a thread of sliver through the lovely valley was very beautiful. The Whit. , Spit on Penn's Mount appeared to la• within easy hailing distance. and we l'olthl almost dis tinguish The svparill, stouts upon its sof fz,,— awl w hat is better, could look over it to the beautiful country beyond. But all these ~,o",,,thE were not euptal to the .grand extended view. Our opinlim I hut, except towards the north where the view was a,tuided by the- blue mountains,' we could see at least /iffy miles, probably more, in every direction. All the tov.ins within thirty miles of Heading were in sight, india dinetly to Ire sure in proportion to the dis tance, but visible neverthelCss, But the grandest sight of all, was to take in the whole taitioranta—t he grand circle bounded apparently 1,3- mountains is' 44eVatiOLIS throughout its entire circumference. Our altitude gave us a very tine view - Of the whole of Berks county, curl assure our readers that a Sight of 'old Berks,' in one sweeping view, is very grand indeed. There are ma ri3 - beautiful stretches of country on this beautiful earth we know, but if there is a fairer portion of man's heritage than the one in which our lot is east, we should like to go up in a balloon to see it. " The drawing-in process wan very curi ous. We didn't seem to descend—m fact we appeared to he stationary all the time. In going up the earth apparently receded from, and in coming down 'it ascended to our stand-point. The only motion we felt, was when we changed our position in the basket. " The ascent, was one we shall always re member with delight. We can concelve of nothing grander than a regular balloon voyage, with au experienced man, like rrof. Lowe, as Captain of the ship. The ca ble arrangement is a very nice thing for safety, but it is Just 'atom on a par with a sea voyage restricted by a hawser which confines one to an auchorge near the shore. In either case one is strongly tempted went loose. and 'let her rip.'!' EXTENSION OF TUE EAST PENNSYL VANIA RAILROAD.—The East Pennsyl vania Railroad is to be extended to the Delaware river, by the -route which passes north of Bethlehem, via Butz town, to Seip's Hotel, and thence along the Bushirill to Easton. The distanoe by this route, from the Allentown Depot to Easton, is only fifteen and a half miles, the fall 12 feet to the mile. The cad estimated at $45,009 to the mile. GEN. - SAMUEL D. STEED'S.' The officer's name who heads this article, one of the bravest and most ac complished iu the regular army, is now the special target of abuse for the whip pers-in and . lick-spittles of the corrupt crew lu:power. (3en. STUBGis is a native of Shippensburg, CUmberland county, in this State. He graduated with high honors at West Point in 1846, and ever since has occupied positions of the ut most responsibility and highest import ance in the army. But the misfortune with him is that he a sound National Democrat, t " Copperhead," if you please,) and does not believe in making this a war for the freedom of the miser able negro, despoiling of property, etc. The following article from the Chicago Times places the position of Gem S. in the proper light : The Abolition papers are already re joicing over the relief of General Stur gis from command, owing to his late misfortune at Guntown, Mississippi. It is easy to understand this gratification on the part of the Abolition press, when it is known that Gen. Sturgis, being a conservative man, has all the while been regarded with hostility by the Administration. He has always of fended Abolitionism by refusing to make war upon civilized principles, and has drawn upon himself its bitter indigna tion because he never stole negroes, never burned houses Of peaceable citi zens, never sent home to his wife a piano or a set of plate, or a uantity of silk dresses and underclothing. For these reasons he has been deemed un sound, and it was for these same reasons that the Senate for months refused to confirm his nomination as a Brigadier General. "And yet it WILS this same Sturgis who long before this war broke out, was promoted fur distinguished services against the Indians. It xva.s , he who succeedetj Laitkp at Wilson'A Creek, and made a in' retreat in the face of impending annihilation: It was also lie who carried, by a desperate assault, the Stone Bridge at Antietam, and for which Burnside received allthe credit. It was also Sturgis who, at the head of the (11N-fifty three in East Tennessee, admin istered to Longstreet the first cheek he met with after raising the siege of Knox ville. It was, in line, Sturgis who. up to his late encounter, never 'net with a single disaster, but whose record has 1 one long, unwary ing series of bril liant successes. " Butler never won a victory, and has lost every contest in which he has been engaged ; hut Butler labors for I lot' and humanity ; he tines and banishes and imprisons women anti clergymen; he rescues I Anglice negroes ; and performs all other Abolition operations with punctuality, an , I. in consequence, he is never " relieved " froin command. such is the ease of Hooker and Burn side and Turchin and others ; but Stur gis fails once, and he is relieved, even before his version of the 'tattle has time to reach It is superiors. Butler, Burnside, Hooker, et als., are • sound ' on the negro question, the Presidential question, the eontiscation questions, and all other Administration questions; and hence they may lose battles Until the day of judgment. but Mr. Lincoln would not relieve them. They fail not only once, but always, uud are not relieved even after time has shown their incapacity—their responsi bility for the failure. Sturgis, the Democrat, fails once, and he is relieved upon the first whisper that he hag nett with disaster. " We can readily see gootkreasons for Sturgis' misfortune. He 11 ad an as sorted force, made of odds and ends of regiments, of provost guards, seetions Of batteries,. skeleton infantry emu 'minds, and negroes. The prime eause of his failure is probably to he iound in his negro troops, We have yet to learn of the first ( . 11,1' in which an officer led negro trout, tool wets not 1101 . e:014i. Halt LWiee (hiring this war have assaults upon 101 l incurious beensueeessful—Port Pillow, and Plymouth—and in both cases a large portion of the garrison Was made up of the liegroes. negro troops have failed, aittl Sturgis could not make his ease an. exetittion to an inevitable rule... THE QUOTAS OF THE RESPECTIVE COUN TIES OF I'ENNSII.VINII-THE POINTS OF RENDEZVOUS. • The f . ,111 - , wing einqllar the 11111114 IS of 111(4 dillt.rent e , nlfltto ill II).• ~lnle ILLS boon issued hr the ILE.% INUARTEItS PENN,YLV.NN IA NI 11,\ July 9,1 , , I. T.. ;,..411'i Ili,' i Dot rp, liiiillll , ll franc I',:nn,ylvattia, 1:, - ila.: call ol 11, I'n:hi :lent If 11l 1 - int:::1 S'.:11:-:, 1:::. Ty :':: 1 ri f:::,:' Tlvortsef, , l Fr,ll,;il, •,• miy,,. 1 „ „,,,, tar lln fi 11 11 /14 / 1 0 +ls , 11111.-- " „ 111.1' di,- charged, ill P olins i'. :tun:. .Maryland and IVashingion and it, vicinity. the (2,, , , , :t ~i i 111.011 WilliVll will In' r:::14111,11 11, MI i•iti•li i'Olllll,V Or ill , ' U. 11111114 iliWilill It is lliii i i•lc , :ill- Illi Xtiti, viz: Adams .59' Juniata ..... ........ 134 Alleglnmy 1,4t , t, Liiillii:lSli'l 9141 .I.ruist MM.; 1 5, La V. rel ICI • 191 Bravur 242 Lehainat 2ls Bet - U.:n.l 227!Loltigh Ini Berke _ __ , , , 1,11z:::nr: 75:1 Blair 21211 I,y::::rnina 910 Bradford 11:4 Nl::rcrr :;117 Bueks 527 .Nlck..:::: II 71 Butler 271 1 .Nlittlitt 1:t 1- : CamlOritt 212 M:::::::::: 1'47 rant:•l,ll ' Mi.illgiillli•l'y ... . i ~, . 2 (strbon 175 Nl.,:tinair lon rltrstt.:r tits . N: , rthainpnot.... :11 , 5 I finer 224 N::rthu'lwrland. 24:: I larion 211 l't•rry 1.9 ('lint , 11 14:4 l'hiltuklphia :: :inn Ckarfirltl 15:1 l'ike 41 t'oluntl.dia 2tl:s P1114,r :44 I raWft,rd 1 0 ,5:Seht:\ lkill 715 Cunt' wrland 1:11 : : :::tly:1,1 . . 12.5 Dauphin 102 S.:tin:l - set - Delaware 2=6 Sullivan 34 Erir 411,9'usgurhanna .... :40:1 Elk Is Tinga Fayrtn: :t:l2 l y ni:::: 117 Franklin :A! , Vonanu , 21:4 .Fulton 75 Vt - arr:::: 1511 F::rrst ..... Washing - ton 391 I ;ret•no . 2:11 Wayne 21411 littutingtl::n 23:1 NV,:stinordand.... 141 Indiana 2.-,:: AN . ,::ruitig 1:14 Jotlorsnt: . 151 V:lrk 5t,” TraliNpurtnti , ,ll anti Irlkips 1,1.11 P. II 1, 1 , 111 1 / 1 1,111.111s eritie. retelezvote u.,diree!e,l In ,•j lax el tient-rid !beret,. at - tstobed. lic order of A, I'l'l2:MN, iovorni,r and % , 11111latlidt•I'-in-i A. 1„ It r.i., Adj Mani ;vill•ntl, 1 [I:A I ) EI'AILTMENT OF TILE SI. I 1.11.1.N25.1, 11ARIUSBI'10,, l'a., July The twelve thousand 1:2,1101/1 m e n being raised in pnrsuanee .11 the proelamation the I lovernor .if Pennsvh.ania, dated I n Harrisburg, July tith, Irma. for the defene.• of tae State, will he mustered into the United States serviee for ink,' 111.111.1 red days, unless so. met- .1 ischarged, to son .• in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington and. vicinity, as the safety and proteet ion ot the State may require. All responding to the Call west .)nhus tuntt and the Laurel Hill range of the mountains, will report to the oommanding officer, Camp lieytmlds, near Pittsburg, Pa.; all etist .if that line and west of and including Reading, Pa., will report to the commanding offieer, (lamp Curtin. lirris liur•!; all erist oi lioading and that line, will report to I he I, rwinandlng offieer, I 'amp cadwahnh•r, Philadelphia. 'orupanies, if possible, should be fore e.l. before starting tnr I he vamp of rendezvi l'i'on the apri of the eoininaniiing officer of ri squad ....usisting of not le:, lila! eight Is; men, or a oompany, to the agents of the ditilereitt railroad companies through- OM the. State, trransporlation to the ramp of rendez.% oils will be furnished. 13y o , uunatifl ..Nlajor I Innen:A .T 1 lit:, S. SLII'LTZE, Gon,•,"al LINCOLN lAN We publish in another column a pro clamation from President Lincoln. If any of our readers can understand it they will he lucky. Talleyrand once said "the principal use of language to a statesman is to enable him to conceal his intentions and his - thoughts." If Lincoln has ever heardof this much re puted saying, we can perhaps account for the muddiness of his public docu ments, (such of them, at least, as are original,) by charitably supposing he is endeavoring to act on the French states man's maxim. In literature a certain style is known as Johnsonlan; in State papers hereafter those most miserably executed may be happily termed Lin colnian. PRICE OF GOLD Gold sold in Philadelphia yesterday at 230; at that rate a greenback" dol lar is worth 35 cents. Falsoboods—tho state/Ilona of Abolition rapens that certain Domocratio journals in this State have hoisted the names of,Lin coln and Johruton. The Armstrong Demo crat and Lawrence Journal have, years ago, *wood to be Doutottsts pawn. WAR NEWS. (Front Monday's A ge.) Previous to last Friday the number of Confederates in Maryland was comparative ly small. They besieged Sigel in Harper's terry; held Etagerstown; and on Thurs day were in Frederick, General Walinne haVing on that day a skirmish with them near the railroad bridge across the Monoca cy. They held all the country west of Fred erick and were the advance guard of a more formidable -body. General Lee, it appears, a long time since, detached a large force from Petersburg to send northward. On Thursday last this force was advancing up the :Shenandoah Valley. A scouting party of between one and two hundred cavalry men was surprised by the advance guard near Leesburg, and all but ahoiit a do - An were captured. From Leesburg the Con federates marched towards Point of Rocks to cross the Potomac. On Friday that por tion of the enemy who were already in Maryland began to move in concert with the Virginia column. The party that held Frederick withdrew some distance, in order to induce General Wallace to advance from the railroad bridge to the town. Wallace fell into the trap. He marched front the bridge, entered the town, and telegrams announcing victories were sent from F-reder ick. In the meantime the Confederates abandoned Hagerstown and hastened to wards Frederick, and uu Friday night two eoltunns of the enemy began coining front Virginia; one at Point of Rucks; the other sonic distance above Edwards' Ferry. Saturday morning canes. The Co.rdeder ates, who l i ed been in Frederick, were en camped on the Catoctin Mountain, fur miles west of the town. The Hagerstown column had just reached them. Wallace was still in the town. From Point of Rocks a Con- Mderate collllllll was quickly IllarViling Up the We:11 :111k 4.f the Monocacv to seize the tailr ,ad bridge. suddenly, Wallace heard their coming. And ordered a retreat. The town was abandoned in a hurry. general Tyler and Colonel Seward commaru led the Ve‘leral roar. The railt , td trains Is ere sent towards the bridge. Some 0 ' ,1 over, but the Olionly, from Pout of Rocks, reached it and captured the stores. Some to Wallace's troops passed the bridge, hut the remainder Bound their retreat cut oil. They at once marched up the is iii to Ile , nnru p ike bri,Me. The enemy Mll,uyed them, and a ban le twuati. Th, 'olAmiy, from('al e rt in \locuuain, Caine cbncu, capturk4l Frederick, and marched totter d: the turupike bridge. Almost surrounded. Wallace's troops Mught bravely, b u t thy were soon OVerp.Wered. :rut. Tyler NV:I, vaplllrea. he troops reached the bridge in disorth•r some passed over, but the grente•I'11111111,r ere capt tired, and the enenis seized the bride. AVallitou's broken up, re treated to Monrovia, eight miles ea,--z of the litielleV, Olt the railroad. Ilia , lie ell deal:tired to rally theni. New thine - ors, hiiwever,appe,tred. Front the railroa,r and turnpike bridges the ,-neniv in strong force were marching di meet tot Monrovia. From Point ~ f Rock , . a ,econd column Caine through a small village eal led Urbana, ruth of Abairovia. 1.J:t0., in the evening, howe,er, he heard of•lhe third uu.l tart, ,teahlinit vt the carats. it Was lit:trolling from the Po tomac ithos.e Eilward i s Ferry, to tile Wash ingtn Railroad, belly...en the lleht,v House anal liul[inunr. Wall,tee at once iirdered another retreat. lie truth his troops -with drew, and by noonun Sunday had reached Ellieott's ele \en miles from Bahl- Moro. Here they rested for breathing Tuesdug', On :Sam lay ntoritirig the l:otifedera.tes ap proached Baltimore and AVashington in various columns. (Me 6'in, teas a itoisters town, seventeen utiles northwest of Balli inor(•. It Iv:is -‘.llot her force \vas at I arriottsville. on the Baltimore and lint Itail road, fifteen toil. west or milli ., (tot, (Ito reninants of his tinny. \vas retreating Retort it. Another Corot , was at Daritest,,wn, twenty miles northwest of \Vashington. A fourth 00l mon marched down the l'olomae, h\rdsand roeeiving eonstani aeee,..ions During Sunday ill. , ad vanced steadily towards Washington, A sire small rnoll of them. The cattle and horses they wire at . awe 'a lit to tlie south hank itoo, t, .1 it. k This is miles fn and piokets patrolled t he eoulllry Fill' ill Ili TWI. TeMmilyt"Wil, hr,.• 4,r 6 , iir i. 41,1111. Sei•ll in It, the that_ road \, ere Din with tNVelyti yeston lay, till. hilii• not hel'u Tiler , i•Xcliellielit iu Wil.:41111gli in. 'Filip, wire soul to the flirt, lit ortli \vest of the city. 'rho Department Irks \vow onienvol to propane for notion. The delete.," of \Vashington run from the l'otoitnes aoross the eotintry north of the cite. to and I.,•vt,nd Itladenshiirg. The', I kg:11111i or this ill pi, 10 , 1 till' Balliunn'r Railroad. hill it point i•• 11 Wil.Shilli4- t,m almost to the lielay !loose the railroad is without detl•ner. At Annap,lis.ftmetion the i2:1 , .11111i 11111 . 11,i Ve works. \Vltilst the allVallia . 1 / 1 . 11111 111:1(11• upon Washington, the 'oillederates on the Haiti and Ballo nal 1.1 lo,ved :Lateral Wallnet•'s 1,1 1,0. 1)11riltL! Siltuhly, his liw troops were one:wiped Elliott ' s lilts. eh, en miles from liattiniot,•. The croon' ad% front larriott- Stinday r"..1,, on lrttitt and 5:51111 ill In 1110 City. \ 111• sh furry of Cedecal soldiers is as posted at the Relay and a n other heal the turnpike run -4.11 , lust out ~1 wsc 11. 1 . ;111 , ' , /11 . S 'tills was al , and. med. but at IXX 5511 . 11 :111010111 it . 1111 ,, 11111111 ,, 11 C . 111,011. it 55 - 115., 1101 knusrn w11 , 1111•r OW I ' , /111 . 1 1, 11 . 1":11/, 1111 , 1 1 . 111 ,1 1"eli 11/1• 111111 1 0. 1 1. 1 1, 1111 1 1 :111 , 011 ' S Alilts 5 1 , 151 11l M:111111 , 11111'Lt, a 1111.1111,115 of se,.-onty tls e the 11:tItititore tend this, Railroad is in t . c,llrviii`rall• 11uscev..iual. (.11 ' the 511110 of Aran, al M1111111, 1 1,111 . a 11 1 41111/a tear 11 , 11- 1111 l• i. kll l, ‘‘ 11. There II:, 110011 110 , 11111*- 111:111,01 1 , 1 . 1110 11 , 1 1 111/1111 1 0 by Iltu ter. As 1111. 5 - :11'1 , 1115 'ollll•tlerate columns 0115 ant,olistN\ - ard, hey abandon theeortntry pr4•s iou* 1..1.1 ill \Vestern Nlaryland. liigerstossn has been , and Gen era,' ( * ouch h. ads it. ' 111,• ' , 4l6.(lerate rear ;nand is. 1 , 1 , 1,0 , 1. :it l'retleriolt. and Harper ' s Ferr. and torn tg places at Point of liooks 'Si the and lielow, are the most 4 olt\ einem 1111 1 :1115 of assess to Virginia. They are on the direct rottd. to 1, , 11111 . 1-1 :11111 N1,11111,,a,, 11,111 of which aro -414 . 1 , 1 Ily the I . t,ll re , 1,rai•,... The bards Point of Itocks are not used. ns Sunday the northern colunin ot the 'oaf slorates as at Reisterstown. It was a large oil, :0111 1.11,/s 1 1, 1 rapidly. At ton thelnurniit it roac lied the Northern Central lt:tilroad :it cockeysville, eight miles east of Roistersh 555 n. he sires were out and craitinult.cat ion 1105 . 155011 liallilllol . e and Ilarrishnrg 1 1 ,1'441. Near this place the r,,ad 'nooses the litinpowdor River on a bridge about Isvo hundred feet ' tong. Tlie hrith.r.t , was burins I. The force was then 11i yided, (1151 unirolletl north towudrs II arristairg other south thwards Balti more. railroad in this neighborhood 1 . 0 /eel', rums bridges. All were littrrietl and the track torn up. Until night carne, the two part ies advanced along the railroad, tit •strt , ying it as they inarciied. Yesterday morn mg at dawn they sent out a third party, .a Melt niarelpd ,loss 11 the north bank it t:impolvkler River towards the Philadelphia and 11a:tinter,. Railroad. ' clic , two parties on tile Northern l. ' entritl Railroad contin ued their lestrtietion. Cockeysville , is fifteen miles trent Italtine,re. South along the road the Confederates marched 011[11 they reacliet 1 Bo\ anstow It, but live tidies from Baltimore. They destroyed the road and burned the bridges all the. slay. A party oante a utile. nearer town to the rosi tence of ;(,vernor Bradford, of :\ltirylainl. They hurnssi it. ' lliis ,VaS probably done in retaliation for (lie burning of the resi shmee of 1.4 1 .\ - uriv.r Leicher, of Virginia, by witeral 11 tinter on his Lynchburg raid. The party marching ttlong the railroad at not n yestenkty, 11:1(1 reached \Vhito 1 tall, twe r ve miles north 4,1 l ' ookeysvillt , . For twenty-four milt , the Northern Central Railroad has 6eeu torn up. Bridges, have 111,11 1)111111'd, 111111 Ca, alld ran., 515 - stroyed. th•st root ion lute been sitniliar to tliat of [lie Danville Railroad by \Nilson :net Kautz. The expedition sent down the north hank of the Gunpowder marched about twelve miles to the Baltimore and Philadelphia Railoaul. in Sunday fears began to be ex pre,:sed ft,r its safPty: Yesterday morning three tugs, ;11'1111qt with naval batteries, tin manned by seamen, where sent front the Philadelphia Navy Yard to 513 through the Cal lid front the Delaware to the Chesapeake. t roe was tin sail up each or the three rivers, over which the Baltimore Railroad has long bridges. Late last night they were ex - pecte, I t , . reach their destinations. This pro tection Was ton late, however. At 12 o'clock yesterday in the midst of a despatch an nouncing fears for the safety of the railroad, the telegraph wires were cut. The last connnunication with the North was gone. The Confederates had reached the railroad at Magnolia, a small village north of the Gunpowder, and seventeen miles front Bal timore. One hundred men with a small brass gun is the usual Federal garrison. It could be quickly dispersed. The longest pile bridge on die railroad—a mile and a quasar in length—was at the mercy of the enemy. noun as the railroad was reaehed the track was torn up. Parties were sent north and south around it. Federal gunboats were at Havre de Grace; in 3ush River, north of Magnolia; and one in Gunpowder River. The trains froth Philadelphia re ceived timely notice and were turned back. Those from Baltimore were not. Two of them ran into the snare. In one was Major General Franklin returning home from Petersburg. He was captured. The second train was loaded by the enemy with com bustibles, fired, and sent towards Gunpow der Bridge. Guards and gunboats could not stop it. The bridge was fired and the immense structure burned. The enemy did not stop here, Other bodies cut the railroad between Gunpowder River and Baltimore. Their cavalry swarmed in every direction. On all sides they approached the city. From the northeast to southeast it was threatened ; houses burned ; man shot. There warmly rocas, from the /sok of re sistance, to be any.. one to defend the town. At nine o'clock last night the telegrtiph was reconstructed by a new road. It has not yet been destroyed. Washington is still in more danger than Baltimore, Along the Potomac and from Rockville Jarge bodies of the enemy' are approicliing. On Seventh street, which runs north, May are encamped but five miles out; Ott 'the Po tomac River Road they are but six miles off. Tenallytolvii has 'been abandoned by Federal troops and is on debateable ground. In all attacks the enemy have been victor ious. (From Wednesday's Age.) On Monday morning the Confederates ap proached Washington from the northwest. They came in two columns. One marched down the Potomac from Edwards' Ferry the other marched southeast from Rock ville. On Monday evening the Confeder ates encamped about five miles from Wash ington. The Edwards' Ferry column was just beyond Tennallytown ; the Rockville column halted on North Seventh street, about six miles from the city. All night they brou g ht up their forces. Blair's house Seventhou street was burned. Every at tack by the Federal pickets was repulsed. - Yesterday morning cannonading began before daybreak. The Confederates beyond Tennallytown were found to be in large force. The Rockville column on Seventh street was also large. The Federal troops, few in number, withdrew towards the forts. The enemy advanced. Tennallytown was captured. Down Seventh, Fourteenth and SvVVllieentli streets they cause, until, at 11 o'clock, they were but three miles from the vity. Early in the morning the Confeder ates had detatched from their eastern flank a cavalry expedition, which, passing north of the detatched works defenaing - the Balti more Railroad, turned eastward towards it. The road was undefended. They reached it sometime in the afternoon; tore up the triuik and cut the wires. Washington was isolated from the North. Of the occurrences since the wires were cut nothing definite is known. At eleven o'clock in the morning, the Confederates tie:mn an al Lack on the torts on Fourteenth and Seventeenth street,. These works are _ _ . • - oi, ant two miles from the city. At half-past eleven n battle began. Heavy cannonad ing was heard in the city. What occurred iMerwards is not authentically knvwn. It is rt•portetl, however, that _Fort Stevens, on enteenth street, two miles north of tl.e White House, was attacked and captured. This is the current rumor, though there is no Wily of testing its truth. When the tele raph wires were broken, a severe contest Was raging. The Confederates were within three miles of Washington. . . I:altimore seems to lie out of danget. It owes its safety not to any stubborn defense of the citizens, but to the fact that the Con federau, have directed all their efforts' ngninst \ Vashington. Gen. Wallace, having is removed. t ;en. Ord succeeds him. Business is at a standstill in the city. All ihe avenues of approach are closed. The Northern central Railroad has beenseri n,ly injured. The Philadelphia and Bal timore Rai is also badly broken. One- Mini of Me Gunpowder bridge is de ,t ,yed. telegraph wire runs to Baltimore. II follows a turnpike crossing Tie. Susi inehanna ten miles above Havre do Guuhoat., protect Havre de Grace, and are in all the rivers emptying into the i'ltesapeake Bay. The Confederates, how ever, have disappeared from the line of the Philadelphia Railroad. Th e confederate cavalry overran all of eastern Maryland. They approached the shores of the Chesapeake. Every town and village as visited. They were in the su burbs of Baltimore. They did as they pleased. They carried oil much booty, but were quite Ito in their conduct. .They certainly Cap( 1 red Gen. Franklin. Yester day morning tltere was evidence of their withdrawal. All the detached columns were called in, and at noon they crossed to the west side of ti n e t:cntral Railroad, seven miles from Rah ioe we. They turned sont ward. passed hevnutl Smith's Mills and joined the confederate forees near Wash inglom Beyond :Ind pickets, there is no longer :my 'otifishirate forces northof south of We town, however, thev ms.arod quite near the - Belay House, and no lotil•1 :ire all along the Baltimore and Washington Railroad. Prone t ien. shernitin's army we have in l'ormat ion CI M 01110112' OW if the COll - tllo t'attahoochee. They are drawn up I whind the river and in front .a'.ltlanta. tine ciTrps, hem ever, is still on the north hank ,q• the Chattahoochee, and has several bridges behind it, connecting with the Cenfolerate main body. General shi•rina n's army has advanced to the stream. The Federal centre confronts the 11 sly ~ft 'onfederates north of the river; the tv ingS an, advaneed on each side to the iN",r bank. The Chattahoochee is about six miles from Atlanta. A hmly (asullt•rillas hacr• captured Park- X:insas. •I'he Missouri River, ~ve .1 oilers nt City, is infested with guer illas, It is misafe for stearnbuath. The l'r,titlent. it is said, has prepared a oall for fire hundred thousand men. The hreak ing of the wires prevented its being announced. THE FLORIDA OFF OUR COAST She Burns Five VesselN--A Sixth Bonded ---The Flaming' Vessel Seen from the Coast—Great Destruction of Property. CAPE MAY, July 11 The schooner Howard, o Ni* York, has just lunchedm fro her pil boats the crews it ) of live vessels that w re captured and burned by the rebel stem ter Florida, cft the asst. The crews came up to the town as sun as they wCre lauded, and attracted' much attention by their singular condition. 'Ult..): number about seventy men, and are rpi ileipally Americans. The barque Golconda, from the coast of Chili, was captured by the Florida ) on the morning. of the atlt, off Fortress Monroe. 'rite Golconda had a cargo of oil, and was valued, with her lading, at $250,000. She , a, (401111 - lnded 1.3. Captain Winslow, and as ~,,m as she was in the hands of the rebels, the crew were transferred to the Fiorillo and the Golconda burned. The Florida then tell in with the schoon ,•r :Margaret Y. Davis, a few hours after wards, Caps. West commanding. The Davis was empty. The Florida immediately set her on lire. The barque Greenland, Capt. Everett, as the next prize. She was a valuable vessel, from Philadelphia to Pensacola, :111a was captured about twenty-four hours out of the breakwater. She had a cargo of nine hundred tons of for government use. The Florida then fell in with the General Berry, a barque ecnunandeo by Captain ifooper. Iler cargo consisted of 12(0 !Ants of hay, which were destined for Fortress Monroe. The Gen. Berry was captured off cbineoteague. The last prize was the Zelinda, a barque sun pais, miller charge of Captain Shack ha-(1, (ruin New Orleans, in ballast. All these were burned, and the two last vessels cast a glare upon the water that was visible at Chincoteague, a lew leagues dis tant. Captains Winslow and West were sent to Nassau on an English schooner. The other trews wore all sent here on the schooner Howard, which was also taken by the Florida, but was bonded and relea.;ed. The allidr has created intense excitement among our citizens, and great anxiety i 3 felt For inbound and costing craft. Proclamation of the President in Refer• ence to States in Rebellion. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINOTON, July 9, 1894. j At the late session Congress passed a Lill " to guarantee to certain States whose governments have been usurped or overthrown a republican form of govern ment," a copy of which is hereunto annex ed ; and Wherea.s, The said bill was presented to the President of the United States for his approval less than one hour before the sine die adjournment of said session, and was not signed by lnin ; and 11" /weer's, The said bill contains among other things a plan for restoring the States rebellion to their proper practical relation in the Union, which plan expresses the sense of Congress upon that subject, and which plan it is now thought fit to lay be fore the people for their consideration: Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, do proclaim, declare; and make known that while I am, as I was in December last, when, by pro chunation, I propounded a plan for restora tion, unprepared by a formal approval of this bill to be inflexibly committed to any single plan of restoration ; and while I ant also unprepared to declare that. the free- State Constitutions and Governments al ready adopted and installed in Arkansas and Louisiana shall be set aside and held for nought, thereby repelling discour aging the loyal citizens who have set up the same as to further efforts, or to declare - a constitutional competency in Congress tta abolish slavery in States, but at the same time sincerely hoping and expecting that a constitutional amendment, abolishing slavery throughout the nation, may be adopted ; nevertheless, I am fully satisfied with the system for the restoration contain ed in the bill, as one very proper plan for the loyal people of any State choosing to adopt it, and that I am and at all times shall be prepared to give the executive aid and assistance to any such people, so soon as the military resistance to the United States shall have been suppressed in any such Slate and the people thereof shall - have suf ficiently returned to their obedience to the Constitution and the laws of the United- States, in which cases military Governors will be appointed, with directions to proceed; according to the hilt In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United StateS to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this eighth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtfour, and of the Independence of the !Jutted States the eighty-ninth. AsttanAM Lumpur, By the President _ 1 3 ,31. H. SEWARD, Secretary of State, , . Lincoln is now residing at the stadia's home, near Washington. ireescorted daily to and from thelatterplacebyasgnad of cavalry. slats imperial /IF 9 29 44 , e a republican goyim:Stat.
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