. _ ganagita ilt r lig , suchan utterly absurd conclusion? We g - t W raft HOW SOME KNOW-NOTHINGS CAME TO ; and to imperil tlie - liek; interests of this I country. Many sensible men entered BE DEMOCRATS. cannot trace it up. To. us, the proper i i 111UACWAY, JW, , X,.: 4 4 10t54......:l one ,course would seem to be the. lega , An article which appeared in the IN- i the ranks of the Democratic party, and - to arrest, try by jury, and punish the I TELLIGENCER last week, making in : some of them hold offices under it. They "Thetrmung.presdewanau.DU tree Lu every: parson wuu auuerusice 1,,, e w - exanune , pro traitors, if such are to be found. Of I quiry as to the whereabouts of that party i have shown themselves worthy so to do. ceetuags in W V . /egthiulure , or any Dr"ilic" or such bosh is the reasoning of Abolition- which once so religiously followed the gOVUrlUitula; antl I.IU law wain ever `resin wane - : MORE VICTIMS DEMANDED. to ua ia..trie.riuLulemas.:•Tra-Assreeeffmn , a- ists made up. They must have a very light of the dark lantern, seems to have naltuuta ut suwagonatill.upailkiS /S - one UL toe . pinion of the intellectual calibre stung two of the Administration jour- awh • invataiabie..tigais .4)1. _m e lt. ; axi ii.every. citizen pool opt nuLY Ixeely%Bl, Wrilm al-at Prlnvti . , ~ l 'ullY sup - of their readers, if they imagine they nals of this place smartly. They attempt emit jecl.; 1,..4116 , respunnwie Lor Lae auube La LULU N vv.)] ithercy., in.prusecuidunsiurtue ptuineauouul cannot see through such ridiculously to retort, by hinting that some who pliperei irivimugtitang cue 0/.11C14 CurlutleG Of UM- transparent sophistry at a glance. We were once connected with that descry (...,,„,, o f me . o ......paune. LlipttuiLles, ur. Wuure We ratat,6. puu.unueu la proper /or puuue AluurLua- have not time, nor have we the incline- - edly defunct organization are now act- lin )si to two, ''''',,„ : "" ia l ' aeral lalt Y a ' g' vea La a " - tion to follow up the absurdities of the in —with-the Democratic party. futu ewo aeuue.-- , -.....nauucwuuf .L - citiwyClAlaW.L. - _____._ __. _ article alluded to in full. There are We candidly admit that not a few of hist°l ;were kictitibthll Of' b.r.t.tutt. some remarks about theprobable dan- the best men of the old Whig party, trilled \ oled At the.lteau of our ecutorial columns ger of this government degenerating same of whom for awhile acted in con- mere phi. ) or ! will be rouuct au extract trout the Con- into a military despotism, which seem cert with the Know-Nothing organize- wicked run we I statution or this state, uenniug rue tree- to be lugged in by the ears, for the pus- tion, are with us to-day. Having been most four y ist. door or. speecn auu 01 me pies, as it 1 pose of making a fling at General Mc- born and brought up in antagonism to tion has ne' med required some prebend ti exists among us by sanction oi tue sus CLELLAN. These are so suggestive,Utic the Democratic party, it preme law of Yeausyivania. It is very I howeVer, that they will furnish matter effort for them to unite themselves with or to knot ; its palm, Witt so Wen exin'esseu that .U.O man for us in the future.mended. ar b Wno reatls it can lank to Mate/Stalin it __.........„„._ - a party against which they had been fighting all their lifetime. They are as if it we - hut periectly. It means just What it says, A WORD TO SUBSCRIBERS.and the t e w where they are to-day, because they a n d sa y s all that is necessary on a most I Those who have been subscribers to flippant c the have become convinced that good sense important, euttleut. lie wuo penueu it the hilelligencer heretofore, are respect-last man fter and patriotism alike demanded that fully requested to look at the article in fools, or i wh , evidently well understood the geniusl they should abandon a political organ- the local column under the head of of our government and the nature of ization which had abandoned its prin- patriotism ace; "Agents of the Intelligeneer." an indi , of our institutions. W e' eiples, become purely selfish, and capa must adhere to the rules there laid clown thought pa' ble of consenting to endanger the peace for ourselves, and we :ire sure it is best of the country and the perpetuity of the is said t' Yc for our patrons and ourselves that we fused th ecr( Union for the sake of the spoils of office. should do so. All should call upon our:gr. Fe , tit When the Whig party, which had long agents, or at the office, immediately,existed as a great and patriotic one, s° hun w and renew their subscription, as this ishave al 'en numbering in its ranks not a few of the the third number we have published, dollar. le : pure and great among our statesmen, and alter the issue of one more, those had, a oh betook itself to out of the way places, to who do not signify their intention toth , garrets and cellars, to barns and out- lie she continue will ll_, dropped from our list. no houses, there to hold conclaves in se- call f We ate Oad to is' able to state that our let cret ; when, ceasinr , to proclaim its may list of subscribers is increasing rapidly the s .oi principles boldly before the world, it at from day to day, and that our new termsfearfi if tempted to win success by making an seem to meet the entire approbation of g indescriminate assault upon one class he v • the none runs fri(-nd, of the hiteiti f pn- e, of eitizens on account of their birth, and yid'"? ,w. Let all our friends go to work vig-tit upon another larger class on account of stun, erously, .mil they can hell) its nnich.Vc their religious belief, then not a few of the See your neighbor, anti get him to take ' the more honorable of its members Lill' tl the paper. At present rates it is one ofDR )1 manfully refused to countenance any the cheapest newspapers in the State. such disreputable and wrong-minded has f t Let every Democrat in the county makesw( t‘.. procedure. Others, however, good, lion smile personal (-Mitt to aid us, and we res e est men, who ate now heartily with us. shall be able to make the old I,ll , llirjrn- rurnaii,d outside of the organization of hit f err all itn frielnis 4 qin expect or desire. the Democratic party, and acted with the e( Let a persoua I spurt lie made by every the Know-Nothings for a time. But , 'SCH i liv e Democrat throughout the countyd there eameaperiod when th[tergiversa- e ° during the coming week. We have lions of Know-Nothingism became in- i L i procured a fine sleant press, and are tolerable. When an unholy alliance P' iy busy getting ready to issue the daily. ' was made between the leaders of know- i( It will make its appearance (-ally in the ' Nothingism and the leading abolition- ' coming month. 1 . .„„__ ists, many, who were induced to wear s _.......„„.. LET DEMOCRATS SUStAIN THEIR the livery of " Sam," abandoned the , ' PAPERS. . rotten concern in utter disgust. 1 This is a goVernment of the people, but it is not a pure democracy, and the will of the people can only he made the supreme law of the land, when express ed in the manner and form provided by the Constitution of the United States, and in the several States by their State Constitutions. Even the people them selves dare not, at the peril of destroy ing the National and the State govern ments, disobey or disregard the inj une tions of thosesacred and well-established instruments. They dare not, in pas sion or wantonness, at the peril !of pro ducing anarchy, break down a single one of the barriers erected by those in struments, as safe-guards to the liber ties of the people, of whom even the largest majority constitutes but a part. The people themselves dare not, in a tumultuous or unconstitutional man ner, contravene or overthrow a single one of the rights of the individual citi zen, which our ancestors wrested from the hands of kings after centuries of mournful struggles. So tenacious were they of those fundamental and invalu able rights, that they had them again and again re-enacted in the forth of laws under the most public, solemn and im posing circumstances. They left noth ing to be inferred, but put down in black or white a long list of rights con sidered invaluable and inalienable, arid repeatedly forced their rulers to sol emnly swear to observe and protect them. To preserve these when assailed by encroaching executive power, how ever, they deemed no sacrifice of life or of property too great to be made. We might, in forming a new government upon this continent, have suffered our selves to be content with the frequent repetition and the recurring re-enact ment of these rights, as the fundamen tal law of England, and have rusted in the plausible assurance that no mere temporary ruler of this republic would dare to attempt to contravene them.-- But our fathers had not so learned the lessons of liberty from a ,jealous ances try. They took good are to set out in bills of rights in all the titate Con stitutions adopted, and in the Federal Constitution, all the privileges to wretch they as the people were entitled. Foremost among these rights, and as sacredly guarded and insured as any other, was the well-established right Of free speech and a free press. This was especially well protected, because it was justly regulated as the chief corner stone upon which our republican forni' of government rested. It was carefully provided for, and well-hedged in and protected by the Constitution of the United States, and by the Constitutions of every one of the different States, which composed the Federal Union.— And it was never assailed until the Ab olition party came into power. Every instance which the journals of that party attempt to parade as a specious defence against the outrages upon tree speech, are but the veriest false pre tences, the mere lying7excuses of the hireling defenders of a would-be despo tism. True it is; that in some of the Southern States laws entirely whole some and proper existed, which im posed a penalty upon any one who by violence of speech attempted to excite the slave population to insurrection.— But there was no State in the Union, either North or South, where some wise enactment did not exist to prevent evil disposed persons from exciting any part of the populace to riot and blood shed. It is not true that, during soy period of the long series of years in which the Democratic party ruled the destinies of this Nation, that there ever was - any improper restraint imposed upon freedem of speech or of the press, either by law or by the unjustifiable and arbitrary acts of the executive. It was reserved for Abraham Lincoln to cover and crown himself with lasting infamy by arresting, imprisoning- and exiling his political opponents for dis cussing the acts of himself and hi, party in a manner entirely proper in a government such as ours. He is the first President of the United States who has dared to be despotic enough to at tempt to muzzle the printing press, which has heretofore always been en tirely and completely free. That Abra ham Lincoln should have dared to do this, is astonishing, that it should not at once have provoked a violent outbreak is equally astonishing, bui that it :Mould find a defender, or even an apologist in any newspaper pretending to respecta bility, is the most surprising thing of ali. Yet it has so happened, and to their lasting shame and ineffacable disgrace be it said, there are editors in the State of Pennsylvania so lost to all sense of their own rights, and so regardless of the rights of the people, as to become. the truckling defenders of the most bare faced exhibitions of despotic power. We had an instance of this in the Ex press-of last Saturday: An article ap peared in its columns, making a defence of the Administration in this respect, which for weakness we-think is unsur passed, so far as our notice has extender even in the annals of Abolition journal_ ism. There is not a single well-taken point in. the whole production, and no attempt at argument which is not most illogically absurd. The writer, who ever he may be, (for au indistinct aster isk which is appended would seem to indicate that it should be credited to some one outside of the Office, thought .it is leaded and occupies the place allot ted to the leading editorial,) assumes that a secret order, known as Knights of the Golden Circle, exists - in the North. He declares it to be a treasona ble organization. Therefore, he argues, Democratic newspapers ought to be suppressed. Now that would certainly be a harsh—not to say an unjustifiable . procedure. To calm the author's fears, we would assure him, that in, all our peregrinations we have yet to see the first indiVidual, who either professed to belong to any such association, or to know anything about it. - We,defy him, moreover, to prove by a single extract from any Democratic newspaper pub lished in Pennsylvania, that any such organization exists anywhere. But, suppose, for the sake of argument, it did, and suppoSe too, merely for the sake_ of 'argunient, that it was a treason able association, how would he arrive at the inference that Democratic papers, which have never alluded to it, should be 'suppressed; and Democratic orators Who have never spoken of it silenced? Will he be good enough to explain to ciiitiffire by which he arrived at The coming political campaign will the most important, as well as one of the most exciting we have ever wit nessed. Never before in our history welt. so many and vital principles pre sented for 11. e candid consideration of any p-Hple. There is scarcely a single a re a ; p , piilar right which has not been hy the party now in power, and ‘..,arcel . : on, of the monument, of pop ular that ha, tot hem attacked. We hay, -viii ihe ,tealtity steppings of a de,pw.c..iii I hat would fain niake itself alp-olinc—"ver-tidimi - the Con,tittitiort, an d t r , nl , , ,, ng (;,,, it the harriers i..et up to opp,-; it. for the lira [inn. in our 11:1, ho).11 made 111)011 i 1,111;. 11:11C1. , ri:2.lit- or fr,(-1,,,,111111(1 ;.11H :111, \v"papyr pt,s p:,rty 11:1. r,iu , y4l to Le ,i1V111 . 1% It ha , :pol:en nil Ivith wire: but it 11;1.11d:or ditliyulties. The \Val' llitS III( . . , 11(•1111IIIII•eii the 'Wirt' I.VCry :111i. hc in printing'. thot th, profits or ~‘ "Hi( r e Pap-N e-pe , :janY hay . o bccii very truck euTtaiied. rh•me crutil• “i• have nittn- aced lc i . uggle along, and have mani heste.l g , ,l energy and decided ability. NVe fear, howover, that the people have not been as liberal as they should have heed. There never WaS a time Wheil 111 , 11 of all classes could so illy iviti:ont rood, relinhhe nelv,paiii.r h ;he In tie itur people gill Le 1 , 1111- PC . ll(i o: • c ;~~r p oiitiea l information pri , !I theft party . 1 hat :Ley \ and aiily eve lizivi• mai iiiitiht. There are ha; few Dealiwrati- in the State crime eaLlll.l. to take nt leas; .nc, paper. 11 . there are son:, to.) poor they should it.• t'urnisheti , tvitit the 1111 . 1.111 S of i It ft Vt•S typo v&• h milvy to spare. Every township in ilitVti a I)(9llotiratii club or_tttniz,d at once, if one is not al reaf iy 111 111011ey S110111(1 rzli,yll hy Ives, or voluntary conirikut ions, to put Hie rit2.lll kind of rpzuling inat, - rial in the hand , every tutui ovlto all , :Ind willing to read for it :7- Ow duty of every 1110111 , 1 I 1 loti nt . iglthoty, 110 1/lid, 1c h::! , •111:1111 , 111,, lias to look ttt truth. We vvrily kind of cfroll Nvere Pla , !L ti cirenl,rh. I)enierzitie \s:.-pa per. f:oit the Fezd_i of diet'. combined Miluenee N‘ould I,t zi , toni,liing. Them , imuoi he organized action in chi- , e-pcet, mol not a ikly :1101.110)c in prittir,. tlu machinery of a vigorml , , Denlocratic' lull in operation in ery election district in the loyal The first and most important ; use these will be to ilis;sentinate the right kind of reading matter. As a general ihlllo, the country papers of this :=tale are published at exceedingly lOW rates for the ealllpaign. If others, are deemed desirable, they i'an he lied. The ..-fric advertises a cam paign paper at very low rates,. to eluliS.4. Let there be a united ell'ort made to extend the eircuiation of the right him; of 10111iosl iloultnitnts to every men wim will read. There is no Way in which teen Of 111 , aDs 0;11.1 Rio more osa with their money than in tit's. Let there a a united, liberal ef fort made to spread the light of truth, ; ;;‘• giving I fathooratie newspapers a whler eireulation (luring the present eampaign then they have ever i the eiThrt i t made, as -it should I e-, we shall set t li, 1.111* , 1 grn r ryj ng changes as the legitimate result. All that needed is It proper organization, and moiv liberality in money matters. Let the iieopic everywhere organize at once. The struggle before tie is one in eannot fail to succeed, if we can tlltly get a thir (•hanee to appeal to the reason and the good sense of the people. There is no way in which this ; eau he so effectually done as through the apency of tai active, vigilant news paper press, effectually sustaineil and liberally patronized by the people. We ; hope to hen' that the circulation of every reliable Democratic journal iu the bitate has been largely inereased. THE BUSINESS OF SUPPRESSION. Lincoln's Administration started out to suppress the rebellion. In this it has not yet quite succeeded, but instead has most energetically suppressed free speech and a free press. Our cotempo rary of the Nashville Press loyally sug gests the expediency of suppressing all extant copies of the Congressional Globe and all books containing the Constitu tion of the United states. Let a Sup presser 1 - ,(-• appointed for every county, with a salary of $5,000 each, whose duty it shall be to collect all such pestilent works and make fires of them to warm the, niggers the first frosty morning in October. There are plenty of "loyal' people who would like to have a suck of the kind proposed at the Treasury teat. Without, some such step there is danger that the revolution itself will fail to be suppressed. Hon. J. GLANCY JONES, Of Read ing, late Minister to Austria, was in the city yesterday. He is looking remark ably wall. The unhallowed alliance was made in the year 18.56, on the floor of Congress, in the national capital, at the city of Washington. N. P. Banks, since dis tinguished as the commissary of "stone wall Jackson," and of the rebel generals in the southwest, was thereby elected S'peaker of the House. He was the nom inee or the New England abolitionists, who, less hold than they have since to come, attempted to avoid the odium which so justly attached to them by calling themselves the Free foil party. They were able to "Non :nand 105 votes. before a coalition was laid. Richard- son or Illinois, present Democratic Sen ator from that State, had Ti. Fuller, the genuine Whig know-nothing can didate, had 41 votes. Perhaps we can I teller understand the eliaractcr of the tilliance then made by personifying tin parties. There was Mr. Demomai•y, a sound, male, tine looking gentleman, in the primc of life. Ile proudly and truthfully boasted that he wits the legitimate son of a long line of milers. lii pointed to the Crowing greatness and the Mere:Nine renown of this nation, and rightfully claimed these as an inheritance front his forefathers, the accumulated result'of their wise rule and far-seeing Stal , •,ol:,n , hip. It was a sacred tr.&l t t hlto, held by hint in guardianship, to he transmitted, as he hoped, through a long future as the heritage of white men, for the use of white men and their descendants for- ever. There was Mr. Know-Not hingism pro per, a spruce young buck, the bastard son of old Mr. Whiggery, begotten (>ll the body of an ancient hag known by the name of Fan-Aticisni. This youngster, having helped, at the (le v lish instigation of his mother, to put his aged and somewhat decrepid father out of the way by ftml Means, was numb aggrieved to find the patrilnollylcfl hint but an exceedingly scant one. Be ing a rOyslering blade, and a great po litical spendthrift, found himself sad ly in want of the werewithall to indulge his profligate propensities. Loose in principle, and of too low origin to he blessed With a proper sense of pride, he was not at all choice in his company or fastidious in his tastes. Th,r c . too, was Dinah of the Aboli tionists. She was an uncomely m‘gro wench, but lascivious, anl therefore de sirous of enticing. to her eillbrave one or the oilier of the t wo parties then occu pying the 1-tall with her. She had, too, a considerable amount of political capital on hand, with which to cover up some of her hideous ugliness, and tempt to a ole,ird/i,or. First she approached Mr. Democracy saying:—" Ri ! VI ! Mr. Democracy, me want to marry. .)Ile can give you power, place and position. Won't you marry toe:"' Mr. Democracy, mindful of his de scent, proud of his long ancestral line of illustrious statesmen, and indisposed to sully the purity of his race, indignantly, and without hesitation, replied :—" Not i, indeed, Miss Dinah! i may he poor, with no offices to distribute, anal no places to IlestOW-1 may be poor, hut am all the prouder for that. 1 mine of an illustrious family, mid cannot marry with such as you." Dinah turned, with a fling away, and rolling the white of her eye, and giving an extra breadth of curl to her thick lip, approached Mr.Know-Nothingism with the same otter. I le, less fastidious than Jl r. Democracy, and strongly influenced by lust of office, abandoned all self re spect, accepted her offer, and entered into the unholy alliance. Then and there, upon the floor of Con gress, the marriage ceremony between Abolitionism and now-Nothingism was celebrated by the elect ion of "Stone wall Jackson's" 00Innlissary, Hon. Gen eral N. P. Ban ks,as Speaker of the House. The legitimate issue of that most un holy alliance was the Black-Republican party. True it looked comparatively white when first brought forth, but that is the ease with every negro baby. - It rapidly greir darker, and assumed more and more the features of its mother, un til at Chicago, in obedience to the per emptory order of the notorious German infidel, Carl Shurz, it abandoned every principle of its male parent, took a sous ing plunge over head and ears into un mitigated abolitionism, and came out a well defined and distinctly marked negro party. :Since that date nothing has been heard of poor Mr. Know-Noth ingism. " Where he's gone, and lion - he fares, 'Nobody knows, and nobody cares." But the same spirit of intolerance and fanaticism which prevailed then, exists now. It has only changed its object, and now attempts to proscribe the whole body of the Democratic party, be cause they will not sing hosannas to Lincoln. It is not strange that some good, hon est, truthful, patriotic men, men who loved country more than party, should abandon such an organization. The mass, however, allowed themselves to be led blindfolded and unresisting into the Cimmerean mazes of abolitiondark ness,by leaders who had no higher ruling motive than greed of office, for which they were 35-Ming to sacrifice principle, ,The patience with which the Ameri can people have submitted to innumer able outrages and wrongs, during- the existence in power of the present Ad ministration, will be looked upon in the future as one of the wonderful things of history. Never were:any people so trilled with, hefooled, and made tire mere playthings or incompetent and wicked rulers as we have been for al most four years past. The Administra tion has never seemed to be able to com prehend the condition of the country, or to know what its best interests de manded. The war has been conducted as if it were all a huge Lincolnian joke, and the applause which followed the flippant cry of "the last dollar and the last man," so often in the mouths of fools, or knaves who wear the cloak of patriotism to conceal their vices, is but an indication of the utter want of thought on the part of the people. It is said the New York bankers have re fused the new Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Fessenden, the loan he asked for so humbly—so we may conclude we have about expended the last available dollar. But the last man is yet to be had, and Lincoln seems resolved that he shall be forthcoming. The present call for five hundred thousand more, may not fetch him, but should the struggle continue at the present fearful rate of slaughter, it will not be very long until the last indi vidual Yankee, solitary and alone, shall stand confronting the armed traitors of the South. We have already given Mr. Lincoln more than EIGHTEEN HUN DRED THOUSAND' MEN. What has become of them? Let the dead an swer, if the living will not. What good result has he accomplished with this huge army of slain heroes? Let a few thousand freed negroes reply. Will the 590.000 men now demanded be forth coming as volunteers? Let the Union Leagues lead off in solid column, :and perhaps they may. But we have no idea that they will do this. Rich men will busily bestir themselves to hunt up substitutes for themsblves and their sons. lint such a luxury must be en tirely beyond the reach of every indi vidual in ordinary circumstances. Here tofore all conscriptions Ave been very light afflictions compared to the i 4me that is to come. That an inexorable at tempt will be made to enforce it we have no doubt. The law is most strin gent in its operations. Poor men must either go into the army as unwilling conscripts, or prepare to be hunted down by Provost Marshals. The choice either way is a most bitter one. How long will the people endure to be ruled as they are now ? Are they prepared to aid in perpetuating the military despot ism that now oppresses them, and that threatens to destroy the last vestige of their rights as freemen ? Is it not high time that we should have another eliange of rulers: What say you, Oh ye men that voted for honest (? Old Abe? You sir, and you, all you who are liable to be drafted', and without the NV erewithall to purchase even a negro substitute, what say you '.' Do you think a change just now could make matters worsc."chink of it, and try to give a sensible repiy id the ballot-box in the coming Presidential election. STILL-BORN Never in the political history of this country did the nomination of any can didate fo• the Presidency by a great po litical party fall so utterly still-born upon public expeetation as that of Abra ham Lincoln has done. The gang of interested otlice-holders, which assem bled in the well-packed Convention at Baltimore, did their work according to, coot/VI:1. Of course they are looking anxiously forward to the time when they shall receive their reward ; but, as yet, there has come no response from the people. Everywhere there is an apathy, and a want of interest mani fested-which is ominous of defeat. The people are looking anxiously Mrward to the future, striving in vain to discover some gleam of light amid the darkness which has settled down upon us like a pall. In the meantime, the work of death goes on, with no apparent com pensating. result. Thousands tire dying daily in a struggle to which no honora ble or desirable end can he seen. The finalities of the country seem to be about to fall into irretrievable ruin, and politi cal chaos promises soon to come again. Look where we may no gleam of light falls upon the pathway of our future.— All is unmitigated darkness and un broken gloom. It is not strange that in the deep despondency the people should feel averse to the re-cleetion of Abra ham Lincoln. They know that he would not change his ruinous course of policy ; that to put him in power for four years longer would he to endorse his acts, and to ask virtually for a continuance of the same measures which have resulted in con tinuous disaster. There are very many thousands of those who voted fin• Mr. Lincoln in Pennsylvania who will re fuse to do so again. lhey know and feel that he is utterly until for the po sition he occupies, and they will gladly exercise the right ,of freemen in a con stitutional manner• to effect a change of rulers, and a change of policy. All the acting and enthusiasm exhib ited as yet by the opponents of the Democratic party has been confined to the ranks of the Fremont organization. They are lighting for what they con sider vital principles, and they exhibit a vigor and vitality which is quite ti` de cided contrast to the entire apathy which prevails everywhere among the Administration party. We have yet to hear anywhere a single cheer for Alie." It will lie utterly impos sible for the office-holders to get up any enthusiasm in his behalf. It is evident that he has no hold upon the affections of the people, and that he does not even command their respect. The Democratic party will go into the campaign with all intensity of earnest ness and an enthusiasm which will strike terror to the hearts of our oppo nents. That both our platform and our candidates will be endorsed by the masses we have no doubt. There is no danger that the nominee of the Chicago Convention will fall still-horn as " Old Abe" has clone. DEATH OF A NOBLE WOMAN Mrs. REBECCA VALIANDIGHAM, the mother of the Hon. C. L. Vallandig ham, died at her residence in New Lis bon, Ohio, on Friday morning, the Bth inst., in the 76th year of her age. She was the widow of Rev. Clement Vallan digham, who died in 1839, after having labored for thirty-two years as pastor of the Presbyterian church of New Lisbon. Mrs. Vallandigham was a woman of much more than ordinary intellect, of high character and of devoted piety. She leaves three daughters, and besides the Hon. C. L. Vallandightioa, two other ; sons, the Rev. J. L. Vallandigharn, of Newark, Delaware, and Dr. George S. Vallandigham i of New Lisbon, Ohio. CFRE FOR COUGH OR COLD.—Ae soon as there is the slightest uneasiness of the Chest, with difficulty of breathing, or indications of Cough, take during the day a fe of "Brown's Bronchial 'noshes." Containing demulcent ingredients, they allay Pulmo nary Irritation. Military Officers and Sol diers should have them in readiness upon the first appearance of a Cold or Cough., THETIrMIRRATIC PIRTT---TRUTH /Or The character of the times and A REPUBLICAN SOURCE. I the deplorable condition of our country We invite the attention of all think- i are such as to lead evert- thinking man ing men in the Republican party to the to. - cast a retrospective glance back to article copied below. - It_ is.:frord: the 'the past. The Democratic party are Newbpryport Herald, an able, indepen- about to make another vigorous effort to .dent, conservative Republican paper. obtainpoaseasion of the reins of govern-. It states concisely and clearly:the truth ment, 7 aint`tbe prOsentl'eampargii will of history in regard to the great Demo- i necessarily lead to a l " close examination eratie party of the country—the party of the causes which. produced the war, which has always been the .party of the and the means by which it was brought whele - Country, the great champion . of about. Everything which tends to the rights and liberties of the people, throw light upon the subject must be of the supporterand defender of the Con- interest to the people. We 'take occa stitution and the Union. It is no won- .sion,.therefore, to republish the special der that men feel proud to have been message of Ex-President Buchanan associated with this party and to have i which will be found below. given it a life-long suPport.. Jefferson, I Read in the light of the history of the Madison, Samuel Adams, and the other I dreary years which have elapsed since great Democratic lights of the early days it was written it appears wonderfully of the Republic, were its founders, and full of signifiCance. Mr. Buchanan had, our eountry's greatness is a monument in his regular annual message, called to the correctness of its principles and the attention of Congress in the most the statesmanship which has controlled earnest manner to the danger which its policy. While its principles, which seemed to be impending, but they heed were those of the Constitution, prevail- ed not his warnings, and refused to see ed, the nation prospered; when they the ruin so plainly staring us in the were overthrown by sectional fanaticism face. They refused to act upon any one ruin came. It is only by a return to the of the wise and judicious measures pro practice of those principles that the posed in Congress by the friends of the country can now be saved, and its re- Union, and suffered the nation to drift publican institutions preserved. Let us I into the vortex of destruction. At trust that the people, now taught wis- length, when the hostile attitude of dom in the dear school of a bitter expe- some of the States had put all remedies Hence, arc ready for such return, and above and beyond Executive control, that in November next they will so de- Mr. Buchanan sent the following earn clare in a voice that shall make extrem- est and solemn appeal to Congress. It ists and fanatics in both sections of was also unheeded. In the madness bf the Union fear and tremble. The fol- their fanaticism the majority of that lowing is the Herald's article: body refused to take any step calculated THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. to allay the excitement, or to prevent "Now we have to say of the Demo- the inauguration of the terrible civil eratic party, that, separated from all war which has scourged this people as connection with slavery, it is the party no other was ever scourged before. of the country, and is, politically speak- sol ing, essential truth. All other organi- Had the earnest appeals and the zations have been temporary, based upon emn warnings of Mr. Buchanan been false principles, and often aiming to heeded we should have been happily sustain sgrong measures. So not one of spared all the woes that have since come them has continued. There has never upon us. Standing as he does now, in been a party opposed to the Democratic party that hasoutlived a single National the midst of the wretched present, he Administration after COILIID , r ' to power. can look hack upon the past with a con- From the days of John Adams to the .scions sense of rectitude, and a calm as last year of the terns of Abraham Lin- surance that history will put to silence coin, this fact stands out as truth. They - every one of his calumniators, and abun eould live well enough when out of pow er, for then their whole duty was to erit- dantly vindicate his fame as a wise and icise and grumble ; but brought to the eminently safe statesman. We are sure test of practical action, they all so far our readers will thank us for republish failed as to be rejected by the people ing this message : upon the first election afterwards ; and if Mr. Lincoln proves an exception, he MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE will he the first in seventy years. On UNITED STATES, OF THE EIGHTH OF the other hand, the Democratic party is JANUARY, 1861 more popular in power than out, 'be cause its platform has embodied the prineiples upon which the nation was founffed, and without which it could not continue. We refer to its recognition of the writ ten Constitution ; its strict construction of that Constitution, and as a conse quence, its limitation of Executive and Congressional powers: its affirmation 'of the rights of the States—rights re served in the formation of the Union; and its defense of the liberties of Ameri can citizens everywhere. Its measures relating to finance, internal improve ments, tariffs, taxation, the army and the navy, and intercourse with foreign Powers, were all based upon its funda mental principles. Now we do not care what be the name of the party that tblopts this platform ; it will he the party to control the country in the long run,' unless tins revolution shall produce a radical change in our Government. The country can not he governed otherwise and maintain the distinctive character it has had, and by which have come our wonderous growth, immense power and great prosperity." The Boston Post says the Herald will find the organization of the Democratic party as durable as its principles, and that the mutations it may experienci will only add to its power, and afford it the discipline necessary to increased wisdom and ability to control the na tional policy, and we Vein. this opinion. tt Vastly more official :torn ption has been brought to light thus far during Mr. administration than oc curred during the administrations (:f all his predecessors; and no doubt much more remains uncovered than has been brought to light. The war has really been conducted by speculators for their own benefit ; expeditions, like that of Banks up Red River, have been under taken for their exclusive use; it is they who have been most instrumental in the inauguration of radical policies by the administration, that. the war might be prolonged in the interest of contracts ; all the enormous taxes are to swell their gains. They care nothing for the sacri fice of human ; if a few millions can be made by the expenditure of in few thousand lives, the million; are made and the lives expended. They swarm everyWhi•re, as the locusts swarmed Egypt, but nowhere so thickly as about the Presidential Mansion and the Ex ecutive Departments in ‘Vashington. They renominated Mr. Lincoln, and they will contribute millions to re-elect hint, that the war may he continued and their carnival enditre indefinitely. It is not for their interest that the Federal arms should succeed in any decisive ex pedition ; quite the contrary for every Federal defeat opens the way for calls for more men and eonsequently for inure contracts. There is, but one avenue of extrication from this condition, and that is the defeat of Mr. Lincoln. Secretary Chase's Treasury Exploits Mr. (Anise informed the country in his ]act vet Kiri that "for the first time in the history of the country has a real approach to a uniform currency been made, and the benefits cif it, though still far frorn the best attainable condition, are felt by all. - He also gave repealed assurances that the is- HllO Of paper currency v.Oula be stopped, while persistently inflating it until it reach ed the enormous aggregate of nine hundred and seyenl} - -nine millions of di/liars. Mr. base left the Treasury Department after adopting the following expedients under pretense a borrowing at a low rain of inter. , est. I. Paper money convertible lot coin. G. Legal iPriflor paper money. 1. Legal temli.r postage stamps. 4. Legal Lemler f ra•lional ”tirren,y. 7i. Legal tender live per rent., MO years semi-annual coupons. Le gtil louder five 1 , , , r rent., two yottni, intortot maturity. 7. torider . pno vonr, irit,r,st at maturity. Crud tender six. per ,•em., three years, iutur<•st at mat urity_ eumpounded semi-an nuall. 9. , ; oven-thirty per cent three years, interest semi-annual. ie. Legal tender seven-thirty per cent three• interest at maturity. li. t'ortiti,alt , s intichtednoas, six per cent., one year, interest in coin. Certificates of indebtedness, six per issnt., i,ne year, interest in paper. 1:1. Certificates of deposit, four per rent., ten days, interest in coin. LI. Certificates of deposit, five per cent., ten days, interest in paper. 15. Certificates of deposit, six per cent., ten days, interest iu paper. lti. rational batik notes, legal tender from and to the govermnent. A thousand millions of dollars are wanted for the expenditure of the current year, or more than eighty millions a month, on the heels of Mx. Cliasc,'s failure to borrow sev enty-five millions. This is the problem which Chase, hailed as a great ti us crier, has left to his successor. WHAT MR. CHASE THINKS The Washington correspondent or The World says : Mr. Chase compares the attempt of the Seward Republicans to revive the finances, by nominating Mr. Fessendeh Secretary of the Treasury; to the galvano-pla,ll;f' process used in the covering or common metal with silver and gold. " They may gild as much as they choose," said he to one of his friends, "they will never succeed in 'making their lead spoons and forks look like gold. Mr. Fessenden is certainly a capable man ; hut were he endowed with the fertility of a Walpole or the genius of a Colbert, he would fail as will any man who will consent to identify his policy with the policy of Mr. Lincoln and of Mr. Sescard. • Ilow can he cover an annual deficit of nearly seven hun dred millions of dollars ? This is a question which all the financiering skill of world combined cannot solve to :the aatisfaetpn of the interests Of the n:atten, uness through a change policy; of which the preetent • January 9, 1861.—Read and referred, with . instrucions, to a select committee of fire, and ordered to be printed. To the Renate and House of Representatives —At the opening of your present session I called your attention to the dangers which threatened the existence of the Union. I ex pressed my opinion freely concerning the original causes of these dangers, and recom mended stud; measures as I believed would have the effect of tranquilizing the country and saying it from the peril in which it had been needlessly and most unfortunately in volved. Those opinions and recommenda tions Ido not propose now to repeat. My own convictions upon the wholtSsubject re main unchanged. The fact that a great calamity was im pending over the nation was even at that time acknowledged by every intelligent citizen. It had already made itself felt throughout the length and breadth of the land. The necessary consequences of the alarm thus produced were most deplorable. The imports fell off with a rapidity never known before, except in time of war, in the history- of our foreign commerce; the treas ury Was unexpectedly left without the means which it had reasonably counted upon to meet the public engagemmits ; trade was paralyzed ; manuffiet tires were stop ped; the best public securities suddenly sunk in the market ; every species of pro perty depreeiated more or less; and thous ands of poor men, who depended upon their daily labor for their daily bread, were turned out of employment. I deeply regret that 1 am not able to give vou any information upon the state ot' the 'lnion which is more , satisfactory than what I was then obliged te communicate. 1)0 the Contrary, matters are still worse at pres ent than they then were. When Congress met, a St rolig hope pervaded the whole pub lic that some amicable adjustment of the subject would speedily be made by the representatives of the States and of the peo ple, which; !night restore peace between the oattlieting sections of the country. That hope has li‘en diminished by every hour of delay; and as the prospect of a bloodless settlement fades away, the public distress becomes inote and more aggravated. As evidence of this it is only necessary to say that the treasury notes authorized by the act of 17th December last were advertised, according to the law, and that no responsi ble bidder offered to take any considerable sum at par at a lower rate of interest than twelve per vent. From these facts it ap pears that, in a government organized like ours, domestic strife, or even a well-ground ed fear of civil hostilities, is more destruc tive to our public and private interests than the most formidable foreign war. In my annual message I expressed the conviction, which I have long deliberately held, and which recent reflection has only tended to deepen and confirm, that no State has a right by its own act to secede from the Union, or throw off its federal obliga tions at plea-sure. I also declared my opin ion to be that, even if that right existed and should be exercised by any State of the con federacy, the executive department of this government had no authority under the Constitution to recognize its validity by ac knowledging the independence of such Suite. 'Phis left me no alternative, as the chief executive officer under the Constitu tion of the United States, but to collect the public revenues and to protect the' public property so far as this might he practicable under existing laws. This is still 'my pur pose. My province is to execute, and not to make the laws. It belongs to Congress, exclusively, to repeal, to modify, or to en large their provisions, to meet exigencies as they may occur. .I possess no dispensing power. I certainly had no right to make aggres sive war upon any State, and I am perfectly satisfied that the Constitution has wisely withheld that power even from Congress.— But the right and the duty to use the mili tary force defensively against those who re sist the federal officers in the execution of their legal functions, and against those who assail the property of the federal govern ment, is clear and undeniable. But,the dangerous and hostile attitude of the States towards each other has already far transcended and cast in the shade the ordnary executive duties already provided for by law, and has assumed such vast and alarming proportions as to place the subject entirely above and beyond executive con trol. The fact cannot be disguised that we are in the midst of a great revolution. In all its various bearings, therefOre, I com mend the question to Congressi as the only human tribunal, under Providence, pos sessing the power to meet the existing emer gency. To them, exclusively, belongs the power to declare war, or to authorize the employment of military force in all caves contemplated by the Constitution; and they alone poisess this power to remove griev ances which might lead to war, and to se cure; peace and union to this distracted country. On them, and on them alone, rests the responsibility. The Union is a sacred trust left by our revolutionary fathers to their descendants ; and never did any other people inherit so rich a legacy. It has rendered us prosper ous in peace and triumphant In war. The National flag has floated in glory over every sea. Tinder its shadow American citizens have found protection and respect in all lands beneath the sun. If we descend to considerations of purely material interest. when, in the history of till time, has a con federacy been bound together by such strong ties of mutual interest? Each por tion of it is dependent on all, and•all upon each portion, for prosperity and domestic security. Free trade throughout. the whole supplies the wants of one portion from the productions of another, and scatters wealth everywhere. The great planting and farm ing States require the aid of the commercial and navigating States to send their produc tions to domestic and foreign markets, and to furnish the naval power to render their transportation secure against all hostile at tacks. Should the Union perish in the midst of the present excitement we have already had a sad foretaste of the universal suffering which would result from its destruction, The Ca lamity would be severe in every portion of the Union, and would be quite as great, to say the least, in the Southern as well as the Northern States. The greatestaggravation of the evil, and that which would place us in the most unfavorable light before the world and posterity, is, I am firmly con vinced, that the secession movement has been chiefly based upon a misapprehension at the South of the sentiments oithe major ity in several of the Northern States. Let the question be transferred from political assemblies to the ballot-liox and the peo ple themselves would speedily redress the serious grievances whitqf the South have suffered. But, in Heaven's name, let the trial be made before we plunge into armed coattict upon the mere assumption that there is no other alternative. Time is a great conservative power. ;Let us pause at this momentous point and afford the peo ple, both North and South, en opportunity for reflection. Would that South Carolina had been convinced of this truth before her precipitate action! I, therefore, appeal through you to the people of the country to decLsrs In their migh t Mat the Union - must and shall be presorved by all ormititritional means. I most earnestly recommend that you devote yourselves, exclusively, to the question how this can be accomplished in peace. All other questions, when compared with this, sink into. insignificance. The present is no, time for palliation; action, prompt action,. is required. A delay in Con gress to prescribe or to recommend a dis tinct and practical proposition for concilia tion-may drive Mi to a point from which it will be almost impossible for us to recede. A common ground on which - conciliation and harmony can be produced is surely not unattainable. The proposition to compro mise by letting the North- have - exclusive control of the territory above a certain line, and to give Southern institutions pro tection below that line, ought to receive universal approbation. In itself, indeed, it may not be entirely satisfactory; but when the alternative is between reason able concession on both sides and a destruc tion of the Union, it is an imputation upon the patriotism of Congress to assert that its members will hesitate for a moment. Even now the danger is upon us. In sev eral of the States which have not yet seced ed, the forts, arsenals and magazines of the United States have been seized. This is by far the most serious step which has been taken since the commencement of the trou bles. This public property has long been left without garrisons and troops for its pro tection, because no person doubted its secu rity under the flag of the country in any State of the Union. Besides, our small army has scarcely been sufficient to guard our remote frontiers against Indian incursions. The seizure of this property, from all appear ances, has been purely aggressive, and not in resistance to any attempt to coerce a State or States to remain in the Union. At the beginning of these unhappy trou bles I determined that no act of mine should increase the excitement in either section of the country. If the political conflict were to end in a civil war, it was my determined purpose not to commence it, nor even to furnish an excuse for it by any act of this government. My opinions remain un changed, that justice as well as sound policy requires us still to seek a peaceful solution of the questions at issue between the North and the South. Entertaining this convic tion, I refrained even from sending rein forcements to Major Anderson, who com manded the forts in Charleston harbor, un til an absolute necessity for doing so should make itself apparent, lest it might unjustly be regarded as a menace of military coer cion, and thus furnish, if not a provocation, at least a pretext for an outbreak on the part of South Carolina. No necessity for those reinforcements seenies Ito exist. l was assured by distinguished and upright gen tlemen of South Carolina that no attack upon Major Anderson was intended, but that, on the contrary, it was the desire of the State authorities, as touch as it was my own, to avoid the fatal consequences which must eventually follow a military collision. _ . And here I deem it proper to submit, for your information, copies of a communica tion, dated December 25, 1860, addressed to me by R. W. Barnwell, J. H. Adams and J. L. Orr, "Commissioners" front South Carolina, with the accompanying docu ments, and copies of my answer thereto, dated December 31. In further explanation of Major Ander son's removal from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumpter, it is proper to state that, after my answer to the South Carolina " Connuission ers," the War Department received a letter from that gallant officer, dated December 1860, the day after this movement, from which the thllowing is an extract : I will add, as in opinion, that many things convinced me that the authorities of the State designed to proceed to a hostile act." Evidently referring to the orders dated December 11, of the late Secretary of Win•. " Under this impression, I could not hes itate that it was my solemn duty to move my command from a fort which we mold not probably have held longer than forty eight or sixty hours to this one, where my power of resistance is increased to a very great degree." It will be recollected that the concluding part of these orders was in the tNlowing terms : rl'he smallness of your for will not I,er mit 3'ou, perhaps, to ooetipy nto• Man one of the three forte; but an attack on, or ;lA -1010111 to take la tssmssion of either one of them, will he regarded as an :tot of hostil ity, and you may then put your e . ommand into oh her of them whieh p m may tl1:•111 most in oper w, r ”I• n.si,,_ You aro I t o lak t i simi lar defensive stop. , whenever you have tangihle 0V1111.114 . 0. ,If a design to proet,sl to it hostile :WC' It is said that serious apprehensions are, to some extent, entertained, in which I di, not share, that the peace of this District may lie disturbed befttre the .Ith of March next. In any event, it will he my - duty to preserve it, and this duty shall he periiirmed. In conclusion, it may be permitted to 11110 to remark that I have often warned toy countrymen of the dangers which now sur round us. This may he the last time I shall refer to the subject officially. 1 feel that my ditty has been faithfully, though it may be imperfectly, performed ; and whatever the result may he, I shall carry to my grave the consciousness tlt.o I, at hoist, meant well for my cotultry. JAMES BT'CIIANAN. (IT), 1 4 61. HR. LINCOLN'S OPINION THREE YEARS On the Sunday preceding the adjourn ment of the extra session of Congress,in 1861, says the Harrisburg Patriot, Mr. Mallory, in company with Messrs. Crit tenden and Jackson, called upon Mr. Lincoln in relation to the confiscation law then just passed. Mr. Mallory says twit they had a long and free conversa tion upon that and the emancipation policy, in which, Mr. Lincoln expressed himself as opposed to the whole system of legislation. But the most remarka ble part of the interview was, when Mr. Lincoln addressed Mr. Mallory as fol lows : "Mr. Mallory, this war, so far as I hare anything to do with it, is carried on on the idea that there is a Union sent iment in, these States, which, when set free from the eontrol now held over it by the presence of the Confederate or rebel power, will be sufficient to replace those States in the Union. If lUM mistaken in this, if their is no such sentiment there, if the i)epple of these States are deter- Mined with unanimity, or with a feeling approaching unanimity, that their States shall not be members of this Confederacy, it is beyond the power of the people of the other States to force them to remain in the Union; and in that emergency— in the contingency that there is not that sentiment there—this war is not rfizly an error; it is a crime," If ever there was n respectable amount of Union sentiment in the South, three years of war such as Mr. Lincoln has waged have thoroughly eradicated it.— It is everywhere conceded that there is the most thorough unanimity in the South to remain out of the Union, and therefore, according to Mr. Lincoln's own declaration, It Is not in the power of the other States to force them to re main, and the war he is now carrying on against the *nth is an ERROR and a CRIME. Presidfmt Lincoln thus stands convicted uncle f his own sentence. 4.3 i VOLT PICTURE In the R. S. Senate, in the year 1859, Andrew Johnson thus spoke of the men who were extolling the old horse thief and murderer, John Brown " But, Mr. President, Senators have undertaken to rebuke those of us who have spoken of John Brown's acts as theft, murder, and treason ; and apolo gies are offered for the man who has committed such outrageous offences. I picked' up a newspaper not long since, which, referring to the acts of John Brown, said, that if he passed from the prison to the scaffold, making no false step, his gallows would be more glorious than the cross ; that Christ, in the depth of his agony, had asked that his cup might pass from his lips, but that John Brown has drank it to the dregs, and therefore John Brown and his gallows has become superior to Christ and his cross. The idea was that the coming and mission of Christ was a failure, and that John Brown and the gallows on which he was executed, would be their modern cross and their Cltrist. Such is the blasphemy of their teachings. I have heard it said that fanaticism al ways duds in hell or in heaven. I be lieve it is true. It is one of those wild meddling passions that take possession of the human heart, and that always carry it to excess. There is no medium, and there is no cure for it, but a con sumption of the passion itself. " I have got another idea in ethics, and that is that there never was any people on the face of the earth greater than the gad they worshiped; and if John Brown becomes the Christ, and his gallows the cross, God deliver us from such people as this, whether they are fanatics, Democratic or Republican, or any other description of persons—l care not by what name they are called." 440 this is the same Andrew John son, now on the ticket with Abraham Lincoln, who was one of the admirers of John Brown. "Oh ! consistency, thou art indeed a jewel;" _me,- Don, MYER STROTTSE has been unan imously x•e-nominated for Congress by the Schuylkill County Democracy. A just compliment to an able and. worthy repre sentative.- - - - • TUESDAY'S , 'FIGHT NUE WaItIVEMIt. . The fight on Tuesday week isihns de scribed bythe- specialsorrespondent -of the Wsahingtoii Star: When within a mile- of -Fort Stevens, we could begin to hear the picket firing;'ivith its peculiar sound like "chip, elup": as though some woodman was Cutting down a tree. We soon reached a lino of sentries placed:across the road to stoti-6;;ilitire We got by without much trouble, and soon reached the top of the hill at the south of the fort, and about 300 yards downinto the vsl ley we could see the opposing skirmishere banging away at each other, at times very vigorously - , then again lotting with onlyan occasional shot. Here we could see the ruins of the houses destroyed yesterday, so that the rebels could not use them for cover. • The chimneys were all standing, remindin_g na much of the burnt chimneys - near Rich-- mond, where the sanguinary fights took place between McClellan and Lee, just be fore the Seven Days' fight. The houses near Seventh street destroyed by our forces were those of Richard Butt, W. Bell, J. H. McChesney, Abner Shoemaker, and the res idence of the late W. M. Morrison, Esq. On Monday the rebels got within a hun dred yards of Fort Stevens. It was only a thin Ime, the men being so far apart that the heavy guns of the fort could not be used against them. But the infantry in the fort drove them back ; the dwellings that were afterwards destroyed giving them shelter on Monday, while our army was forming its picket line. Last night, about ten o'clock, while the Federals were forming their picket line out the Seventh street road, near widow Corber ry's, the rebels assaulted them with some impetuosity and drove them back.-. But the line was formed after a slight brush: After this quiet was preserved. About daylight on Tuesday skirmishing again commenced. The Confederates ap peared in good force on the left, between Fort Stevens and Fort De Russy, Lu widow Corberry's woods. The gunners in the fort (13th Michigan Artillery) threw a few shells in that direction, which had the effect of driving them out, when they (the rebels) worked around to the right, endeavoring to get in between Fort Stevens and Fort Slo cum. Here the First Brigade, 2d Division of the Sixth Army Corps, General Wheaton, were posted in skirmishing line. At first the Federals got the worst of it, but finally the rebels were driven back, out of a field of low undergrowth and bushes, from which they terribly annoyed our troops. Two prisoners were captured, belonging to the 21st and 12th Georgia regiments. They were dressed in grey jackets and pants.and presented a terribly filthy appearance, as though they had marched many weary miles. Two other prisoners had previously been brought in, one belonging to the 21st Virginia Cavalry and the other to the Forty sixth Battalion Virginia Cavalry, of Gor man's Corps. These prisoners had very little to say, but seemed to take their cap ture with as much nonchalance as possible. The 21st Virgina cavalryman wore a man of-war linen frock, with blue collar. 'Phi rebel forces in our front are Generals Rhoads's:3la nsom's and ft ordon's divisions, all under tit,. immediate command of Breck inridge, who was a short time ago made a Lieutenant General. These are the forces that opposed Hunter in the Valley. Many of them are from Western Virginia. Up to I I oicloek the skirmishing was con tinued, the rebels endeavoring to reach a tield of low hushes on the right of the Sev , enth street road. At one time they broke cover, and the Federal troops could be seen rushing across the road as though in pur suit. Soon a vigorous hanging took place. Several Fedora Is were seen tb fall on the right of the road. Among them was Colonel Battier, of the 9Sth Pennsylvania, who was shot through the righ thigh. The wound is very painful, but not dangerous, All this skirntislting took place within three hundred cards of Fort St..vetts, the rebels occupying, the house of the widow t'orherrv. Several shells were thrown at it, with what efb.et we void, not tell, though smoke tt 21 , hu oonte Iron it for a time, A I:trgo iitiffihor of sjoectaters assent Wed on the top of the hill beside the fort, where a breast work ~f !lilts ran teross the road. The rola is o 1 casdunall y would elevate their rifles and send a ball :tinong them. Several stampedes dery tints occasioned. One or thelmlis struck a negro in the jaw some fifty arils at the rear of the fort. the Parr.il guns turd- Slocum hait. , ,y on the heft threw shell whenever an opportunity offered. Off in the distance, out the Seventh street , road at least three miles, a heavy Muck sinoke was it ,served, us though a dwelling was on tire. It MIS 100 much .smoke for a camp tire. Th.• rebels 11,, doubt desired to throw up rifle-pits at about three hundred yards from the forts; hut those in the Mrts threw many burger shells. A. M. Weoltbrk, formerly of Baltimore, Md., where he practiced modicine,lbut now an assistant surgeon in the 2d Maryland Cavalry Battalion of Bradley T, Johnson's command, Wits captured this morning in front of Fort Stevens. Wool lurk says he was left by Gen. Johnson to watch the movements of the Federal troops, and that their farces left the vicinity of Fort Stevens last night, and moved in the direction of the Chain Bridge. John SOWS force, Wool fork says, is the same that was operating near Baltimore, and they came from there yesterday morning, and crossed the railroad at Laurel Station, where they burned a train clears (an old construction train), and tore up a portion of the track. The Third Maryland Battalion, before crossing the river, only numbered about 150 men ; but when near Baltimore, they received one hundred recruits from" ly[y Maryland." The invading force, Woolfork states, consists of two corps ; commanded by dens. Early and Breckinndge. Early's corps has (tens. Rhoads, Gordon and Ran som for division commanders, and Break inridge's corps consists of three divisions, commanded respectively by Brig. Gen, Wharton, General Vaughn and Gen. The cavalry is COMM anded by Ransom, and consists of four brigades, commanded by Imboden, McCausland, Johnson and —, Woolfork had no arms when captured, but says he was left to watch the movements of our troops because be knew the country, The residence of the Hon Mr. Blair was destroyed, with all its contents, which act of vandalism entails considerable loss on the Postmaster General. In a grove on the opposite side of the road from lion. Mr. Blair's residence was found a hook (the eighth volume of Byron's works) tacked by a rebel soldier to a tree, which I have brought with me, and transcribe the following inscription, which is written on a " Near Washington, July 12, '64.—Now Uncle Abe, you had better be quiet the baj ance of your administration, as we only came near your town this time just to show you what we could do. But if you go on in your mad career we will come again 806/1 and then you had better stand from under. " Yours, respectfully, 'THE WORST REBEL You EVER SAW "13th Virginia Infantri." There was a very intelligent prisoner at the fort, front whom but little could be 4047 certained. The substance of his statements was that the raiders had had no intention to make an attack upon either Baltimore or Washington, their demonstration here being simply that of their rear guard, to cover the retreat of the main body, with the very large quantity of plunder which they have gleaned from over in Maryland ; also, that a larger proportion of their forces were in-. Pantry, which has been mounted on horses stolen during the raid, The President Calls for 500,000 Men, and If not Furnished by the sth of Septem• ber a Draft for the Defficieney will then be Made. WASH INOTON, July 18, 1864 By the Prmident— WILEREAs ; By the Act, approved July 4th, 1%4, entitled an Act further to regulate and provide for the enrolling and calling out the national forces and for other pur poses, It is provided that the President of the United States may at his discretion at any time hereafter (!all for any number of men as volunteers for the respective terms of one, two or three years, for military ser vice ; and that in ease the quota, or any part thereof, of any town, township, ward of a city, precinct or election district, or of a county not so subdivided, shall not be filled within the space of 50 days after such call, then tile President • shall immediately order a draft for one year to fill such quota, or ally part thereof which may be unffiled A nd, whereas, the new enrollment hereto fore ordered, is so far completed as that the aforesaid eel of Congress may now be put in operation for recruiting and keeping up the strength of the armies in the field, for garrisons, and such military operations as may be required for the purpose of sup, pressing the rebellion, and restoring the authority of the United States government in the insurgent States— Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do issue my call for five hundred thousand volunteers for the military service: Provided, nevertheless, that this call shall be reduced by all credits which may be es tablished under section Bth of the aforesaid act on account of persons who hairs; entered the naval service during the present rebel; lion, and by credits for men furnished to the military service in excess of calls heretofore made. Volunteers will be accepted under this call for on s c i ,t3vo or three years as they may elect, and will be entitled to the bounty provided by law for the period of service for which they enlist, And, I hereby proclaim, order and direct that immediately after the fifth (sth) of Sep. tember, 1864, being 50 days from the date of this call, a draft for troops to serve for- one year shall be bad in every town, township, ward of a city, precinct and election dfs trict, or county not so sub-divided to fillthe quota which shall be assigned to it wider this call or any part thereof which May- be unfilled by volunteers on the said fifth .day of September, 1864, • 1 In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal the Unite). States to be affixed. • Done at the City of Washington *asigh, teenth day of 'aulyi M the year 'or . our Lord one thousand eight hum [sus.f.,] dred and Sixty-fouri'find of the Xfl peedencis of' ffie . T.Trthed - Statiff- as. eighty-flintl4-' AIIRAILAILLINCOLM. ,, By the President,: , - Sect of SW&
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