~~~~~ ~~z~~gaix~~x. glictigSDAY,l4:l3.qtrsT 4; 18K "The printing presses shall be free to every person .undertakes itteihe'.pro meetings of the legislature, or any branch - Of governiUpt; and. fin .law shall everlie made to restran the rigAt alereot lonero the Catkin Ot.ittOugat and opinis - of invaluable ,rlglits..Of. men; and ervery.hitizen ma y g rea ly. a p e ak, write and print on: any sub- Ject ; being..resporadble for the abuse of that liberty. u k ,picsecutions for, the publication of papersdnyestigating the official conduct of offi cers, or men in public, capacities, or where.the matter published is proper for public informa tion, the truth thereof may be given in evi dence:J_ponstitution of Pennsylvania. CHINESE WARFARE: SQ. far as those who administer the government of the United States have had a haild in it, the present war has been conducted very much like that waged by the Chinese against the Eng lish in '1842. It was the habit of the Chinese' officials, from the.. Emperor down to the Governors of the various cities beleagured by the English, to is sue proclamations from time to time, warning the "outside barbarians " of tht 'terrible punishment that was sure to:follow a persistence in their course, arid calling upon all loyal Celestials to rise and exterminate the ihtruders.— These proclamations were either thrown over the walls of the cities invested, or scattered in the neighborhood of the English camps, and, like LINCOLN'S last literary celebrity, they were intend ed to be read by " whom it may con cern." It is evident that Long Abe has bor rowed his war wisdoin from Kien-Long. He has issued as many proclamations us the Chinese Emperor and Governors all put together, and he has been about as successful as-they were. There is another respect in which the Administration's method of warfare re sembles that of the Chinese. It was a standing order to the soldiers of the Ce- EMpire, that whenever they were threatened with an attack, they should beat their gongs with great fury, make frightful faces, turn somersets, and twist their bodies into the most unusual shapes, so as to terrify the enemy. If our soldiers have not adopted this method of fighting the rebels, it is not from want of example from the author- Washington. STANTONc stands on his head and beats the ceiling of the War Department with his heels with terrible energy, whenever our capital is threatened by the outside barbarians . from Dixie. The grand army ofsivaldy contractors who garrison the hotels of the Federal city loyally follow suit and put their precious Lollies through the most violent contortions, taking good care the while not to gel anything uncomfortable put tlin,ugh their hoilies. HALLECK blows his ramshorns, anil OLDAIIE rides out as far towards the front as a prudent regard for his life will permit, where, with a very slight ex ertion of his facial muscles, he presents an uglier phiz to the "Johnny Itebs!' than the most ill-looking Chinaman in the Celestial Empire ever exhibited to "Johnny Bull." There is still another point of resemb lance. It mattered not how soundly the English thrashed the ( the officials of the latter niwifys gave it out that they had been grimilly victorious, and assured their countrymen that just one more encounter was rognitvil to ex terminate the barbarian , . llow habit ually has the Administration aroused the drooping spirits of the North with accounts of-"brilliant vietorit•s" that 'were in the end hound to have been disastrous defeats! The negroes of Balthnoru, stated, are about to present ih.n ABE with a splendidly bound copy Of the Bible, in token of the services he has rendered to their race. In view of the compliment he has pail! the Mongolians by adopting their mode of warfare, we submit that the ('elestials who have set tled in California ought also to make him a present of a pair of ,•Anl,-s( i THE $3OO EXEMPTION The Express is worried heyoml meas ure at the notice we tool: in our last is sue of the Conscript ion liaw, and espe cially to the remarks we made relative to the exemption of certain religioin• sects on the payment of On this subject our neighbor prates very learn edly.about the Constitutional rights of those people, just as though that instru ment had any binding effect on the con sciences of Tit - ADM.:VS STEN Exs and the other Abolition leaders who hail the act passed with the proviso of exemp tion. These Abolition meml,ers of Con gress, with ABxattnv Ltst oi.x at their head, all took a solemn oath to support the Constitution when they entered upon the discharge of their otlieial du ties, and yet it is a notorious f a ct, pa tent to the whole county, that t hey have violated that sacred liond of Our fathers times and ways almost without num ber. They to talk about the Constitu tionak rights of the Mennonites, etc., when they have no liesitatiai in steal ing negroes from rniou and ":•4ecesly" alike in the Border rlrlVu stales, and thus trampling under t wi r unhallowed feet one of the plainest provisions of the organic law! If certain religious , sects are exempted by the Constitution from bearing arms and assisting in the de fence of the country, the slaveholders of Maryland and the other Border estates who have never seceded from the Union are equally entitled, or should he, to the protection of their property under the same Constitution. If it he efii.4- tual in protecting one class of people, it ought to he equally so in regar.l eo other classes. But the secret of Mr. STEvEN.- , ' faVoritism is, because these religionists nearly all vote the A holition ticket . , and that is why he wants to keep them at home. As to their patriotism, the less the Express says about dial the hotter. They vote for the war• candidates, it is true, and thus express themselves in favor of continued war and blooilshed ; bdt when it einnes to shouldering the musket and taking a hand in it them selves, then their boasted loariotisin all vanishes into thin air, alai they prefer that the fighting shall tie done by the poor laboring man and Ineelutnic. mit upon such poteioNsiii .' If tiny believe the war is just and right, then they should be willing to fight in it. If they believe it is wrong, then why do they vote for the candidates pledged to its continuance?By so doing they only q expose their inconsistency, and give rise to the suspicion that their so-called conscientious scruples ark; more the re sult of cowardice than anything else.-- Our neighbor can make a note of this if he chooses. HARD ON TILE GOVERNOR A Harrisburg telegram to the associ ated press, dated July 29th, stated that a body of rebels had " crossed the Po torinic at Hancock ,end were heading towards the Bedford Springs, a cele brated watering place much frequented by secession sympathisers, whe'rr G'or. Curtin then :aces." .This slap at our loyal Governor by one of the numerous slanderers who fuinish despatches to the press, is 110 doubt on a par with a great deal of the trash we see'printed under the head of " • Generally some prominent Democrat is howled at by these LiNcoLS hounds, and it is rather surprising that the telegraph " barker " at Harrisburg shoUld turie indulged in so gross an in- sinuation - against the • loyalty of the foremost, man:-in the Republican ranks in .Pennsylvania. • • -• Star To-day (ThurSday), will be ob served imis.,day of Fasting and Prayer, by regikest•of ,ttie „President. ii PENSION FOE LINCOLN. If the Confederate government does not settle a handsome pension on old ARE LINCOLN when he retires from the nominal service of tlie people of the United States, it will be guilty of the basest ingratitude that ever blackened the character of any government in the world. As Commissary General of Sub sistence for the Rebel Army, he has rendered the Confederate government more substantial service than any other man on the face of the earth. When ever the Rebel army has found its sup plies running low, it has been enabled to obtain a complete outfit of provisions, arms, ammunition and clothing, by calling at some one of the numerous depots established for its convenience by order of "A. LINCOLN." Through Gen. POPE, he handed over eight or ten million dollars' worth of supplies of all sorts to LEE at Bull Run. When these were exhausted, he handed over five or six millions more through MILROY at Winchester, and he has recently, with the aid of HUNTER and several other Abolition officers who are serving the Rebels under cover of the federal uni form and flag, supplied the Confederate army with many more million dollars' worth of military stores at various points iu the valley of Virginia. The Northern - Iptbrole have long been looking for the rebellion to break down from exhaustion of the resources of the South. But what reason have we to expect the South to become exhausted, when sup plies her army are constantly fur nished from the North'? If ever there was any good reason to hope that the rebellion would break down of its own weight, that reason ceased to exist when ABE LINCOLN voluntarily appointed himself Commissary General of subsist ence fur the Rebel Army. He has fed it when it was hungry ; lie has clothed it when it was naked ; he has put shoes on its bare feet and hats on its un covered head ; he has furnished it with arms, with ammunition with wagons, with horses, with mules, with cattle, in short with everything that tends to keep an army comfortable in camp and make it formidable on the field of battle. Whatever curses may be heaped on his head by the millions at the North whom he has ruined, let not the South add to the guilt of her, rebellion the crime of ingratitude to one who has served her so well and with a heart so purely de voted to the cause of disunion. The South can never fully repay LINCOLN for the services he has rendered her, but a pension would soothe him in the dis graceful retirement to which the people of the United States will soon consign him, and if there is one spark of grati tude in the Southern people, they will not let Mini go without this little re want. MR. VALLANDIGHAM TO SPEAK IN LAN CASTER. We have the gratification of announc ing to our readers that the noble patriot, statesman and martyr, Hon. CLEMENT J.. VA LLA NLIGHAM, will address the )enioerney of Lancaster County at their annual meeting to be held in this city un tire 17th of September next, the 77th nil:livers:ll'y of the adoption of the ( . 011- of the United States. A few weeks since one of the editors of this paper addressed a letter to Mr. V AL NDIGII A.ll, congratulating hint on his eseape front the odious and unjust ty num y to whi()l he had been subjected, ant! renewing the invitation extended some fifteen months before to address the 1 /einoeracy of this county. His re ply Will be found below. The reception of Mr. V. by our people will, we yen lure to predict, lie worthy of his exalted 11:1111e and fame: DAYTON. ( thin, July IS, 1564. Mg Derr Many thanks for your let nu of oongratulation. The promise made you irefore my exile," I will redeem. I havo ao,optod au invitation to speak at Ve nanao, Crn, ford county, Pa., on the 10th 4j . soptonthor, and will pass round east tt ir.l to I.ancastor, not hinv unforeseen pre vow nits, It you on the 17th of seja, , llll)er. With kind regards to all friends I ant, very truly, VALLANDIGHAM N I.:Sq WINNING HIS SPURS HUNTER, who made a bad fail ure in Kansas a year or two ago, and a Mill worse failure on the Southern coast at a later period,"and the worst failure of all in the Valley of Virginia a few weeks since, has now fairly won his spurs. He has sent the editors of the Frederick Citizen across the lines, an act that will commend him to the favor of the idiotic old ape who now " cuts rapia•s" in a station once adorned by the kingly dignity of WASHINGTON. Whenever a ( hiniiral - of the HUNTER, II - Ii NS IDE and HOSECRA NS breed—a shallow-headed, black-hearted Aboli tion knavc—fails in an encounter with he oncntc :lid finds himself in danger o . f losing . his command, he at once pro ceeds to propitiate the favor of the \Vasliington authorities by arresting sonie prominent Democrat and trans porting hint beyond the Federal lines. This " strategy" always wins at the N'N'ar Department and the White House, and it will doubtless save Ht - yrER from disgraceful dismissal he so richly (I , tt , . GREAT CHANGE TAKING PLACE. The man wlio does not see that a great reaction is going on hi the Minds of llae people against the present Ad ministration is either blinded by parti sanism or is an indifferent observer of whio is going on about him. The peo ple arc sick and tired of the jokes of Abraham Lincoln, and demand states manship. The follies and extravagance of his Adnlinistration are such as to disgust many honest men of his own party, who will either vote for Fremont, or join the old Democratic party, who want a man at the head of the Nation who will administer the laws impar tially, will protect the rights of citizens, enforce the Monroe doctrine, and seek slu•edy peace, upon an honorable basis. That there will be a change, this fall, in the National Administra tion seems miw to he a fixed fact. It is right, um, Mr it is unsafe to trust such a man as Lincoln, with hundreds of millions of patronage, with the admin istration of the Government for four gars longer. IN he is re-elected no man I:orn can foretell the fate of our ~lisu•ct>•tetl eountry. EVERY MAN'S HOUSE HIS CASTLE. The frAiowilig is Lord Chatham's hrillian ill ust ration the celebrated maxim ,or Eng lish law, that "every man's house is hi. castle :" "The poorest titan mad•, in his cottage defiance to all the forces of the erown. may be frail ; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it ; the storm may enter; the rain may enter—but the King of England cannot enter; all his forces derenot cross the thr..shold of the ruined tenement!" We have no such castles in this "land of the five," under the best (iovernment the world has ever witnessed.: Any man, claim .ing tp act under military orders, may enter . nian's house, seize his papers, steal his :hoods, and escort the owner to Fort Lathy ...tie, and the man that dare to say wrong lots been done is a branded Copperhead un worthy the choice blessings of free govern ment it is he proud lot of Americans to enjoy. White men have no rightathat our Abolition Administration is bound to respect. Ae-A full account of the destruction , of Chiunbersburg by the Confederate invaders will be found iu another col umn. We regret to inform our readers that Mr. COOPER, one of the editors of the Intelligenrwr, is !< sufferer to a large -amount HON. JOHN CESSNA BEFORE THE There are occasions when a sense of decency would preclude a distempered harangue on partisan politics, when no man with proper self-respect or true gentlemanly feeling would attempt anything of the kind. Such was the late meeting of the Alumni of Franklin and Marshall College. It is customary to invite some one of the number to deliver an address at each annual meeting, and usage and pro priety have alike rendered it almost itu-. perative upon the orator of the evening to select some literary topic. A 'depar- ture from the rule, for the purpose of introducing a political subject, might be excusable, if some man of enlarged views should undertake to treat of the great questions of the day in a states manlike manner, with proper calmness and a decent regard for the opinions of his fellows. He who would descend into the purlieus of partisan politics, and deliver a mere distempered political harangue at such a time shows a want of self-respect which is surprising, and a disregard for the proprieties of the oc- casion which is shameful. The oration of Mr. CESSNA (we sup pose he would insist upon its being dig nified by that title) was, however, in no respect such an effort as would excuse his departure from the proprieties of the occasion. He started out with a long array of testimony to prove what no man denies, that secession is unjustifi able, and was not the proper remedy for the South. It needed no labored effort and no long reading of extracts to prove that to a Northern audience. Men of all parties are ready to assent to the proposition at once, and a mere state ment of it would haVe been amply sufficient. What is strange, however, considering Mr. ('Essx A's political an tecedents, is that he should, while utterly denouncing the whole body politic of the South, not have had a single word to say in condemnation of any man or any set of men in the North, if we except his malicious hit at ex- President Buchanan, which, under the circumstances, was uncalled for, un timely, and ungentlemanly. In dis- cussing the rights of the States remain ing in the Union to eoeree those rebel ling he did, however, probably without intending so to do, plant one blow which struck abolitionists and secessionists alike squarely. He asserted that "no compact is made without the right ex isting and being recognized, of each party to bind the other to the perform ance of their corelative obligations." He took good care, however, while lay ing all the blame of the violated trust and bioken faith upon the South, not to say so much as one word in condem nation of the wrong acts of the Aboli tionists of the North. They were throughout entirely blameless, if Mr. CESSNA'S oration is to be listened to, and the South wholly in the wrong. Verily the conversion of this gentle man, in so brief a period, should be characterised as one of the most aston ishing political regenerations of modern times. In alluding to the dangers which now threaten the life of the republic, Mr. CESSNA treated them all in a tone of levity and flippancy which, in our opin ion, illy comported with their magni tude. Foreign intervention was scoffed at as impossible. Our huge debt, so vast a burthen already, and so rapidly increasing, was spoken of as " but a lit tle thing," which could be easily pal at any sot time, say on July 4th, 1876, by a subscription to be circulated by our patriotic , ladies. Our resources were pronounced to be .4() enormous that, "if Providence should see fit to obscure the sun the whole world might be lighted by coal oil from the wells of Pennsylva nia for ten years." It is just such flip pant declamation, such extravagant and baseless assertion, such exaggeration of the truth which has blinded the minds of the people from the c•ommencemen of this straggle. The silly cries, " You can't kick the South out—an army, of old women with broomsticks would whip them back—it would only be a breakfast job, (Sze," were of a piece with Mr. CESSNA'S treatment of public atliiirs as they exist to-day. In either case there was an entire failure to compre hend the magnitude of the danger, or a hypocritical denial of its existence, with a deliberate intent to deceive the people. It was, if not a great folly, the mean subterfuge of partisans to secure tempo rary success, and a chance at the spoils of office. When Mr. CtissNa came to the third cause of supposed danger to the repub lic, it was evident that he had at least reached the point at which he had been aiming from the start. He speedily made it manifest that he had seized the occasion of an invitation to deliver an oration before the Alumni Association as a proper opportunity to bring himself once more before the public in an im tirely new political character. In treat ing of the danger to he apprehended front the existence of opposing political parties, he cast aside all the restraints which a sense of the proprieties of the occasion should have thrown around hint, and indulged in such a tirade of low slang and vulgar vituperation as would have been regarded as indecent on the hustings, even in the midst ()fan excited political campaign. This base prostitution of himself, and of the oc casion, drew forth applause from those who, like the orator• himself, had an eye solely to political effect, but we venture to say there was not a man of true gen tlemanly feeling present who was not disgusted. During the whole of his speech Mr. (!ESSNA had not one word to say in deprecation of the repeated vio lations of the Constitution ; not one manly utterance to make in behalf of freedom of speech or of the press ; not a syllable of condemnation for arbitrary arrests, illegal imprisonments, suspen sion of writ of habeas corpus, or of any of the gross violations of the rights of the citizen by which the present Admin istration has so disgraced itself. On the contrary, he took pains to travel out of his way to defend the outrage on Mr. Vallandigham, and to denounce as un • worthy all those who dared to express their indignation at any of the unlaw ful and tyrannical acts of those now in power. From the commencement of his ha rangtie to the end of it there was no ex hibition of broad, comprehensive, states manlike views ; no proposal of any rational method of adjustment ; no in dication Ihat the speaker appreciated aright the unfortunate condition of our public affairs. There was nothing in it but a disgusting display of excited po litical animosity, which ever rankles most sharply in the bosom of the : dis appointed and unduly ambitious as pirant. Thepperformance had not the slightest literary merit, and was so rudely con strue4l, and so roughly framed, as to be enthely beneath legitimate -literary criticism. Its logic was bad, and its rhetoric worse. It abounded in Sopho morical flights, gaudy figures, and ex travagant rhodomontade, which showed the coarseness of the speaker's nature, and displayed an utter want of culture and literary taste. A majority of the Alumni present were completely dis gusted with it, and, when the subject of printing it was about to come up, two thirds of those present were prepared to vote against any such proposal. A : vote of thanks was tendered, but the speech was left to find an appropriate burial in the columns of the Abolition news papers of this city. .wit JOHN CESSNA. NO PEACE WANTED It must he apparent to every unpreju diCed reader that Mr. LINCOLN does not want peace and a restoration of the Union, short of negro, emancipation.— This is a condition precedent with him to any negotiation )l - hatever, as stated in his c,ommunicat,ton to the Southern Commissioners who recently met Mr. GREELEY and the Private Secretary of the President, Mr. HAY, in Canada. In other words, his only terms are the abandonment of the Federal Coustitu tion,nnd the substitution for the great work of our patriotic forefathers his own proclamation of the Ist of January, 186'3. Thus, if his imperial will is to prevail, we have announced to us, as the Aboli tion programme, perpetual war among the white races of the country until the miserable negro shall be made'our equal in rights and citizenship, to sit at our board, to marry our daughters, to vote ' with us, to rule over us. These are the terms on which Peace and Union are proposed to be restored under the pres ent Republican dynasty. Here is the Abolition ultimatum : EXECUTIVE MANSION, ! WASHINGTON, July 18, 1884. To Whom it May Concern: Any proposition which embraces the res toration of peace, the integrity of the whole Union, and the abandonment of sravery, and which conies by and with an authority that can control the armies now at war against the United States, will be received and con sidered by the executive government of the United States, Mid will be met by liberal terms on other substantial and , collateral points ; and the hearer or bearers thereof shall have safe conduct both ways. (Signed) ABRAHAM LINCOLN. But the flagitious attempt to substi tute the will of one foolish and imbecile man for the Law and Constitution does not stop here. The terms of the South to be proposed as a basis for negotiation are also furnished us, and are as follows : " First, All negroes which have been act ually freed by ilre war, to be secured in such freedom. "Second. All negroes at present held as slaves to remain so. "Third. The war debt of both parties to be paid by the United States. " Fourth. The old doctrine of State rights to be recognized in reconstructing the I-nion." Now, whatever may be thought of the proposal to place the Confederate debt on our Treasury books, here, at least, was a tender or negotiation, which any sincere lover of his country ought to en- ter upon with a heart full of thankful ness to God, but which is scornfully and rudely rejected by the President. Here was an offer to come to terms, to enter upon friendly negotiation, to make peace and restore the Union—the South ern proposal comprised in four simple items, all of them open to discussion and modification. But Mr. LINCOLN treated them with scorn and derision, prefer ring that war and desolation should go on interminably, that the blood of hun dreds of thousands more of the white race sho.uld be shed rather than that any por tion of the negro race should be longer held in servitude. The question presented to the white people of the United States, divested of all superfluous verbiage, is simply this : Shall we hare eternal war for negro emancipation, or shall me have the coun try restored to peace on the basis of the Federal Constitution ? This greht ques tion must lie decided at the ballot-box in November next. Mr. LINCOLN pre fers the former. Are the honest farm ers, mechanics and laboring men—the yeomanry of the country—prepared to sustain him ; or will they rise in their might, vindicate their manhood, and Burl from power au Administration which has shown itself to be powerless for any good and only potent for evil'? Upon the American people rests the tremendous responsibility. SixcE it became apparent that more trwps would be needed, there has been no time to summon them into service in season tbr em ployment this year. If the draft had been ordered during the present or next month, the troops would have been mustered in at such a limo that their term of service would have expired in the middle of an active campaign next year. Now, with a draft on the sth of September, the men will not be collected into regimental organizations till october at the earliest, and will remain in service during, all next summer.—.Vel, York Tribuve,.hrly This, to say the least of it, is frank and candid. The five hundred thou sand new troops just called for or, not 101. 4,7)* l'i CP ill is gear; they are intended for next !/cur's ownpctign ! Heretofore, whenever a fresh call was made, the pretense of the Abolition newspapers has been that it was the last, and that its object was to finish up the war sud denly. That sort of humbug and decep tion is given over. The Abolition press has ceased to place any limit on the du ration of the war. It foresees another year of the bloody strife, and admits it with as 1111.1 ch unconcern as it refers to the most trifling' or inconsequential event. Another year of war will add twelve or tiftek?ii hundred millions to the public debt, cost six or eight hun dred thousand human lives, break down the financial fabrics, prostrate every in dustrial interest of the country, and at the close of the year the rebellion will have grown in strength, as it has grown from the day of the adoption of the Abo lition policies of emancipation, confis cation, subjugation and extermination. And all this for the negro! THE TRUTH The N. Y. 1l'or•ld comments upon the recent peke negotiations in Canada, as follows: " The essential fact which looms up above the mirage of this, asco is, that the President of the United States has defined his position on the most vital question of the time. He has declared, in the face of the world, to whom it may concern,' that he will listen to no proposition for the return of the Southerb States to their alle giance which dues not include the com plete abandonment of slavery. Now, if Mr. Lincoln does not know, the peo ple of the loyal States will teach him, that they will not supply men and treasure to prosecute a war in the in terest of the black race. He has rio right to continue the war a day for that purpose, nor will the people sustain him in so doing a day beyond the time when they can constitutionally depose him from office." TILE tbllowing letter from Mr. Greeley to Wm. Cornell Jewett, Esq., was, for reasons that are self-evident, omitted from the series transmitted to the papers of the country by the agent of the Associated Press: NIAGARA FAI.Ls, N. July 20114 ltiti i. W. C. .lEwErr, Esq. Dear sir: - In leaving the Falls, I feel bound to state that I have had no inter course with the Confederate gentlemen at the Clifton House, but such as I leas fully authorized to hold by the Presiant of the UnlYed Zitates, and that I have done nothing in the premises but in fulfillment of his in junctions. The notes, therefore, which you have kindly interchanged between those gentlemen and myself, can in no ease sub ject you to the imputation of unauthorized dealing with public enemies. Yours, HORACE GREELEY. THE PEACE SENTIMENT-ITS GRATIFY ING PROGRESS.-TllO New York World, hitherto the leadibg exponent and organ of what has been termed the War Democratic sentiment, seems to have recently snuffed the popular Democratic breezes, and now shows a strong tendency towards the advo cacy of the Peace sentiment. It says: "We think the events of the past - six weeks have led to a very general belief, among thinking men of all parties, that the Union cannot be restored upon the policy pursued by the present Administration; and that if so great a blessing is in store for the people of this country, it can only be obtained through a change in the chief ex ecutive of the nation." The World then quotes an article from tife Albany Atlas and Argus in favor of a peace platform, and mentions that its ex changes contain many similar expressions of opinion respecting the proposed action of the -convention, THE BERM% OF CHAMBEBSBOBG The destruction of the main portion of the town of Chambershurg on Saturday last, by the caValr7.• under Areausl - and, was au act of vandalism that can have only the slim excuse of retaliation: No matter how justifiable it may hare been, it Is no - less a harsh and barbarous tntrisacticm, because the innocent, aged, youthful and helpless -Ire made to suffer for the sins of their rulers and of persons they have never seen and have not aided nor abetted in similar cul pable performances. With but a moment's notice hundreds of helpless women and children were turned into the street, and the fiery torch applied to homes aud objects endeared to them by rears of pleasing and happy associations. The scenes of distress must have been thrillingly horrible to those v.lio were so unfortunate as to be its wit nesses. The sufferers by this calamity de serve the commiseration and aid of their friends and counti men everywhere, and those who have brought upon them such grievous losses should be held to a strict accountability. It can not be difficult to discover the authors. Abraham Lincoln is the principal cause of this calamity to the people of Chambersburg ; Gov. Curtin, liens. Banks, Hunter and others are his subordinates, while M'Causlanef s band of marauders are only the agents under the Federal Executive. It may seem treason able to " loyal " people to say this, instead of insanely denouncing the plundering crew who applied the torch ; but it is true if it is treason. A few words will explain how this sort of treason may be truth. A considerable while ago Jacksonville, in Florida, was burned without any military necessity, by order of one of Mr. Lincoln's officers, who has never been either repri manded or dismissed. Later one of his ad mirers performed the exploit, in the same State, of destroying several hundred private salt manufactories, and knocking a whole village to pieces with shell, from which no hostile demonstration had been made, as his own official statement declares. The gallant tar is still in good standing and in the way of promotion. Later still the city of Alexandria, on the Red river of Louisiana, fell a prey to the torch of Banks. The hor rifying scenes during that act of vandalism have as yet been feebly described. Gen. Banks still retains the confidence of his master, and has never been reproved. His temporary suspension has been, not for the wanton destruction of a city—but because he failed to do more harm. Gen. Butler, too, after all his acts of wantonness and bar barityyretains a high position. But, later than all, come the exploits of Gen. Hunter. The words Hunter and torch might, after the Kanawha retreat, be considered synony mous. The destruction of the Virginia Military Academy, the Female Seminary, the residences and appurtenances of Uov. Letcher, A. R. Boteler and Edmund J. Lee, ought to give to that general the distinctive appellation of the Great Torch-bearer. And still, after all these acts of wanton and un j ustitiable vandalism, lien. Hunter retains a command, and is exercising his transcem dant talents down at Frederick in sending to the South all the residents whom he finds objectionable to Isis august presence, or who are likely to want to vote against his royal master at the November election. ' Do these facts make the case look as though Mr. Lincoln and his subordinates were guilty of destroying Chambersburg'? If not found sufficient, then take the reit erated declaration of Lincoln's agents— M'Causland's band—themselves, who said, in the streets of Chambersburg, that the work they were then performing was iu retaliation for the vandalism of Hunter! And the three former visits of the rebels to Chzunbersburg since the war commenced, witlmut being attended with any destruc tion of private property, furnish additional testimony, if more is necessary, to make the vase entirely full against Hunter as sub ordinate and Lincoln as principal., But there is still another view of the mat ter. President Lincoln has taken the re served rights of Pennsylvania, through the subserviency of a weak Governor, and merged them into those appertaining to the Federal Executive. Thereby he has de prived Pennsylvania of all her young and able-bodied men, who have been carried far away beyond her borders, leaving the State entirely defenceless and open to the attacks of either large or small bodies of the enemy. Under this aspect of the case Mr. Lincoln is responsible for the calamity which has been visited upon Chambers burg, and unless he speedily renders a good return for the resources of men and money which he has taken from the State, the peo ple will hold him to a summary account.-- Pennsylvania has given her sons and means freely, and has acquiesced in every project of her Governor for assisting the ), ederal Executive, but it is natural that the people should look for some protection at this late stage of the war, and if not accorded them, they will as naturally conclude that there is incompetency or treason in high places. To remedy such evils thee hate ,•oti stitutional prerogative whi,..11 titt.c will not be slow to use. It is of little avail to cry out against the depredators themselves. Abits,• w, )111,1 be wasted upon them, and to hang ur shoot such of them as are captured, as unreason ing persons demand, would lc only pro vocative of a similar fate upon the luckless soldiers of own State who might fall into limit. hands. The proper way is for the two ; plc to elect an Executive who will gather around him as counsellors :ual command ers such men as aro alike distinguished lbr humanity and military genius. A general liko'McClellan, with magnanimity and tree roan sectional prejudice, would achieve victories by moral powm'alone, where offi cers like Banks, Butler and ii outer, only reap disasters through the narrow bigotry of their souls and the irritating and despi cable elutracter of their actions. While (ten. McClellan did command there were Union men in the South, but that class of conserv atives, through the "policy"of the great Washington captain and his subordinate geniuses, is now a M y th. Were it possible to have hint restored to command, with a change of !whey, it is not unlikely that Unionism might, plitenbt -like, even yet spring front its ashes, At any rate there would be every assurance that the borders of Pennsylvania would not la open to the incursions of predatory bands of burning and plundering rebels Iwo or three times every veer. The plans ire long lign sug gested to the Administration for affording us protection, by the secure holding of the Shenandoah 'Valley, would doubtless be fully carried out unless prevented by the President, as heretofore. But, there is no hope of amendment at the seat of itovern ment, and the people must await in patience all the remaining humiliations in store for them, content if even they save the rem nants of the Republic from the destructive reign of radicals, lunatics and incompe tents.-- Pateiet u ! Union. "TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN." Abraham Line,'hi, or t . ztivh 4th, Isttl. and Abraham Lincoln or .inty lath, 15 t 4. cut the following rigor. Lincoln's hunt/how!, ..11a7h 4th, 1861 I deelare t hat I have; no purpose, DIRECT-' LY OR INDIRECTLY, 10' interfere with the in stitution of slavery in the States where it I exists. I believe I have NO I. I.A NV F Rl' IIT TO 09 so, and have NO INCLINATION TO DO SO. The RIGHT of each ; State to order and control its own do-. mestic institutions according to its own. Judgment EXCLU SIVELY, IS ESSENTIAL to the balance of pow er on which the per fection and ENDUR ANCE of our political fabric depends. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. SIGNIFICAST SO The following is from the late editor the Tunkham:look firpithlican, a Republi ran sheet: NEAR PETEusuuuu, Vu., July 3, IRIA Dec/ ' Wile: A great many want to know, I suppose, how the last battle went, Mv answer is, invariably, that we have hail but one, and that commenced on the fifth day of May last. The soldiers all console themselves with the belief that this season will end the war, and I believe so myself. If we can't win') them by fall, we never can. The soldiers will stand it no longer. They will go for a new Administration. In fact, I have changed my views considerably from what they were when I left home.— There is too much nigger, in the present Ad ministration, and too many lies published in newspapers. I find if I want to approx imate anywhere near the truth, I have to take it from Dernoerp.tic papers. Inclosed you will arid a silver dollar, (if it ever reaches you,) which r send to the little " cherub," and one which I prize quite highly for two reasons ; one is, because they are scarce, and the other is because it is a reli• from the battle-field near Petersburg, and was once the property of some Reb. I picked it up shortly after the battle. H. A. TIFFANY. vAtirous.—A court martial recently found Wm. H. Strachan, Provost-Marshal- General of the Northern District of Mis souri, guilty of "prostituting his official power and position to the aceompliskuuent of base and grossly immoral ends," in the fact that he compelled a Mrs, Humphrey to accede to his base desires upon threats of his to have her husband killed—he being a prisoner in Strachan's power. The find ing of the court was disapproved by Gen. Hosecrans, not because the scoundrel was not guilty, as charged and proven, but be cause he had " discharged with great energy and efficiency the duties of his office, at it time when those duties were laborous, diffi cult and ill-defined." Ho was accordingly "honorably released." (!) Is it wonderful, when the grossest. criminals go unwhipt of justice, that the cause of our country is lan gulehing and every day losing supporters? Correspondence of the Lancaster Intelligencer THE DESTRFCTION OF CHAMBERSBURG I:IIA3I.BERSBURG, Allg. 1, 1864. On Friday evening last information was received bore that a Rebel force, whose numbers were unknown, was at Mercerss burg, seventeen miles southwest of 'this place. • Of course no one knew their desti nation; and, although it AVM feared they might come to Charnbersburg, our, citizens were not very greatly alarmed, and most of them slept soundly and contentedly through the night. Towards morning some scouts came in and reported that the Rebels had arrived at St. Thomas, a village seven miles west of Chambersburg, on the turn pike leading to Pittsburg. Upon the receipt of this information, say about two o'clock in the morning, a company of infantry and two pieces of artilery—the whole force at the " Headquarters of the Department of the Susquehanna !"—were sent out on an emi nence about a mile from the western boun dary of the town. Here they halted and fired two rounds into the darkness in front of them, and then retreated to town, appar ently frightened at the sound of their own guns, as no enemy pursued them. Per haps an hour later, and just about day break, the rebels arrived on the same emi nence and looked down on the town, which was just becoming visible through the gray dawn. Pausing until it became light enough for them to distinguish objects in the town, they sent a shell at the splendid school-house standing one square northeast of the centre of the town. This school-house, it may be worthy of remark, was used as a hospital for wounded Rebels after the bat tle of Gettysburg, and in it hundreds of the enemy had received kind attentions from the now homeless citizens of Chambers burg—attentions dictated solely by human ity, and which would not have been forget ten by any body of men less devilish than those under ISUCausland. 'Phe shell, if directed at the school-house, which formed a prominent mark, was well aimed. It fell in the garden of A. H. New- man, about thirty yards short of the school- touse. lan right in line with it. The shell s unexploded, and is now in Mr. Newman's time, and is said to have passed through one or two buildings on a swell of ground just within the western limits of the bor ough. The first shell traveled through the air about a mile and a half before it fell, and the second struck inside of a mile. No response was made from the town. The enemy, consisting of mounted infantry and cavalry to the number of perhaps four Or live hundred, then advanced to the suburbs of the town. Here the infantry were dismounted and thrown out as skir mishers, and son they began to swarm in along the streets, through the alleys and across the lots, like rats making a recon noisance iu force through a cheese manu factory. Squads of cavalry kept pace with them, and seemingly in a few minutes the whole WWII was occupied. Some few citi zens on the streets were picked up and preSsed as guides, and at the peril of their lives were ordered to show the marauders where goods could be obtained. They rang the Court House bell and ordered the citi zens to meet, and when some had obeyed the summons, they demanded five hundred thousand dollars, and threatened to burn the town if the money was not speedily pro duced. It was not produced, and the threat wus immediately carried into execution.— The torch was applied about eight O'clock in the morning, and probably in from fifty to one hundred places, so that in a few mo ments one half of the town was burning. To (Amble your readers to form some 111,, of the extent of the damage done, I %yin enumerate, Its far us possible, the buildings burned, stating the owner's name, when ever kia.wn, ❑nd the purposofor w Melt the building wits , teettpied. Beginning at tile intersection ,A*.M.ain and Market streets, in the public square, and proceeding south want, liking the west side of Main street, We 1. The Franklin Hotel, owned by C. M. Duncan, and occupied by W. 12. McNulty as a hotel, and hy I. T. noskinson us u clothing More. The lar g est hotel in the )lace. 2.. The Bank of Cluunbersburg, occupied for banking purposes, and as a residence fort:. B. illeusersinith, cashier. 3. Mrs. f ; tnore's and a clothing store. 4. M rs. shop, oceupied us u shoe store. 5. Nfrs. Gihnorc•'y shop, occupied by o mosber. I. B. Miller's tin and stove establish- 7. 1)r. Richards' residence and olRa•. and Snangler's drug store. S. Burkhart A: lierslwy's dwelling and isaffeciionery. a. J. M. Cooper's building, occupied as follows: By Mrs. Wolf's boarding house, Aughinbaugh's jewelry store, a restaurant, the post-otlice, the Valley ,S'pirit printing office, Bishop's photograph gallery, and two private families. M. James L. Black's store and dwelling. 11. Br. 11 - amnion's dwelling. and Grove's marble rooms and yard. Li. Jacob bluttoti's dwelling, shoe store and small store-room, 13. J ohn M ell in t h.k . , hat attire and d web 14. L. Shoemaker's coulectio levy and dwelling. 15. Samuel (Ireenawah ; occupied by Ben der's confectionery. hi. Samuel treenawalt ; occupied by a tobacco store, restaurant and dwelling. 17. lieyser s drug store, and Dr. Reed's dwelling and office. ls. kieyser ; occupied as shoe store. 19. I leyser ; Croft's grocery and dwelling. 20 1 I Eyster; china store and dwel ling. dl. Mrs. Ileyser's Here Rev. Dr. Fisher's dwelling and store-room, Lehner's dwelling and shoe store, Reineman's dwelling and jewelry store, and Feldman's dwelling and eating saloon are saved. 'l2. Ludwig's brewery and dwelling, and the Mechanics' Saving Bank. Lincoln to the Rebel lommissioners, duly Bth, Istit : .Any p ro pm sit i 0 11 which embraces the restoration of peace, the integrity of the whole Union, a n d THE ABANDONMENT 2:1. I'. F. Miller; hat store. 24. U. F. Miller; saddler's shop. 25. U. F. Miller; justice's other. 2a. F. Miller's dwelling. 27. Adam Wolff's restaurant and dwel ling place. 28. John Forbes' 29. Millinery shop and dwelling. 30. Ditman's grocery and dwelling. 31. Deckelmeyer's confectionery and dwelling. 32. Samuel Ott's dwelling and carpenter shop. :13. Samuel Ott; millinery store. 34. Shellito's whip manuthetory. :15. Jacobs' tobacco manufactory. 36. 14. Radellaugh; This brings us to Washington Street, two squares from the place we started at. We now cross Main street and go hack 'on the east side. OF SLAVERY, and e 4 a lies by an authori ty that rnu control the arAties now at war with the United States will be received and 'considered b y t h e (Executive Govern ment Of the United States, and will be met by liberal terms lon substantial and collateral points ; and the hearer or bearers thereofshall have safe conduct both ways. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 37. Spahr's dwelling and butcher shops IS. P. Spahr; milliner's shop. 39. Lehmaster's dwelling. 40. The old Whitmore store and dwelling, owned by A. Heineman. 41. Perry's grocery and dwelling. 42. The old Dr. Senseny dwelling and ;L tobacco store. LDIER'S LETTER -13. Taylor's Indian Queen Hotel. 44. Ludwig's stove store, tin shop and dwelling. 43. Iluty.'s store apd dwelling. 46. Reisher'S dwelling, two law offices and fancy store. 47. Kuss' jewelry store and dwelling. 4S. Istuu Hutton's dwelling and shoe store. 19. Dr. lambert; J. Eystor's sti.ellery store.- 50. Dr. Lambert ; Schoticlirs cabinet manufhctory. 51. , Dr. LAimbert's residence and Dr. Mc- Lenegan's dental office. 52. B. Wolff; Kirby's confectionery. 53. B. Wolff's 'residence and Huber LV Folbertfm hardware store. 54. Wallace's store. 55. Fisher's Hotel and Huber ct Leh ma.sttir's grocery. 513. L. 13. Eyster's lamp, gas fixture and oil store. 57. D. Reisher; Mrs. Fohl's dwelling, Feldman's shoe store and Louckheimer's clothing store. 58. George Eyster, (Provost Marshal,) dwelling and Nixon's drug store, 59. James C. Eyster's dwelling and Fah nestoek's grocery. ' I. A. Eyster's dwelling and Eyster lionebreak's law office. Eyster (i• Brother's store and Ware house. 62. Brand 4.1: Flaeic'§ dwelling and hard ware store. 63. A. J. White's dwelling, and I. L Derhert's hat store. • 64. H. M. White's dwelling, and White 'o's clothing store. 6.5. John Jeffries' dwelling and conrec tiortery. 66. Hamilton's tin and stove store. _ _ 67. Mansion House, owned by' S. R. Fisher & Co., and occupied as follows: Printing and publishing office and book bindery of the German. Reformad Messenper, quartermaster's office, Shryocles book store, Metcalfe's store, telegraph office and livery stable in rear. 08. 1/ 0. Geln• ; Bush's tobacco shop, 69. D. 0. Gehr ; Franklin Repository of. floe and J. R. Orr's law office. 1 This bringa U. opposite the place of be ginning. Another was fired in a short *ORME BLUR STREET—EAST SIDE. 70. The Court House. • 71. Franklin Hall, occupied by Croft's liquor store, Brown's restaurant, Paxton's hat and shoe store, Matthews' billiard sa loon, McLellan & Kimmell's law office, Hamman's justice's office, Columbus Lodge and Chanilbersburg Lodge, I. 0. 0. F. 72. Hoke's dwelling and store. 73. Dr. Laughine's dwelling and office. 74. Bruner's tobacco store. 75. Montgomery's hotel. 76. Dr. Montgomery's dwelling and office. 77. Trestle's hotel. 78. Susan Chambers; shop. 79. Susan Chambers' dwelling. 80. Alonzo Frv's dwelling. 81. Fry & Welsh's carriage manufactory. 82„ A. Hell's dwelling. 83. Mrs. Gcettman's dwelling and grocery. Here we cross the street, but go further out north and then return towards the place of beginning. NORTH MAIN STREET-WEST SIDE 84. Beni. Chambers' dwelling. 85. W.G.Reed's dwelling. 86. Mrs. Snider ; dwelling and tin store. 87. Allen Smith's dwelling and grocery. 88. C. Flack's dwelling. 89. Scofield's dwelling' and grocery. 90. M. Welsh's dwelling. 91. C. Stouffer's dwelling and Boyd's grocery - . 92. Abu. George Chambers' dwelling and office. 93. Rosendale Female Seminary. 94. Miss Barnitz's millinery store and a dwelling. (This and the Seminary owned by Judge Chambers.) 95. A. J. Miller ; express office, drug store and dwelling. 96. Watson's book store and dwelling, and a hat and shoe store and restaurant. 97. Gelwick's grocery and Mrs. Noel's dwelling and milliner shop. 98. John Noel, formerly Golden Lamb Hotel ; Felheimer . s clothing store, Miller's shoe store, G reenawalt's liquor store and several families. This brings us up to our starting point, and embraces about all the buildings de stroyed on Main street. WEST MARKET STREET-SO[7'FR SIDE 99. W. S. Stenger's 1 District Attorney) law other, owned by U. M. Duncan. 100. ('raster's dwelling and tobacco store; building owned by Henry Marks. 101. Mrs. biggitt's dwelling and Miss McLellan's millinery shop; building owned by E. Aughinbach. 102. Dr. Boyle's dwelling and olitee. 103. Miss Gillan's dwelling andmillinery store. 104. Wright's book store and bindery, 105. S. Greenawalt's dwelling. 106. A. H. Moenlloh's dwelling. 107. Rev. Nelson's dwelling. 105. Mr. Bush's dwelling, owned by .1. P. Culbertson. 109. Edward Aughinbangh's 110. Hon. F. M. Kiunnel's owned by Mrs. Riddle. 111. E. Finefrock's dwelling and restau rant. 112. Eyster's foundry and machine shop, 113. Edw. Eyster's 114. R. E. Tolbert's dwelling. 115. (=Ulan's' building; Tritle's grocery, Gillan's saddlery and one or two thmilies. 116. Alex. Fritz's dwelling. 117. Miss Buchanan's. 118. John Burkholder-several families. 119. Mrs. Campbell's dwelling. 120. 5. Lightcap's. • 121. John Bickley's dwelling and paint shop. 122. Ben. Cook's dwelling. 123. Miss Read's. 124. N. .P. Pearce's. 125. B. Wolff's. 136. Wolikill's dwelling and store. Mc Dowel's, Peiffer's, and live or six other buildings, unharmed, 127. Geiger's dwelling. 128. Richard Woods'. 129. John King's. 130. Unknown-formerly Liglow's. 131. Misses Stouffer's and one or two other small families. 132. Andrew Banker's cooper shop, and house occupied by Mr. Frvshcon. 133. Mrs. Butler's dwelling. 134. Dwelling unknown. 135. i, 1110 re than hall a Wilt. Isrota tht. point 4tlht•tzittnintLat I'etart ,, tquartr. liere NVI• rvet and rotnrn a cluartvr ti a mita hattaa. tot that a building I)unit-qt. 136. McDowell's property, late McGrath's Hotel, comprising dwellings, wagonmaker's shop, blacksmith's shop, hay scales, &c. 137. House near the rear of this property, but not on this street, unknown. 13s. rs. 'ham hers' dwelling. W. Brewer's. 141. John Miller's Hotel, with wagon maker's and blacksmith's shops. 111. Daniel Miller's dwelling. 142. Cook's building; Fellows paint shop, Bruner's shoe shop, a photograph gallery, awl Iwo dwellings. 143. Cook's dwelling and tannery. 144. C. W. EN :11.,1' siour mill, Nu. 1. • No. I!. 140. Lambert's mammoth paper mill. 147. C. \V. Eyster's 14t. S.]. M. Shillito's dwelling and gun shop, and T. M. Carlisle's law office. 149. I'. A okerman's dwelling kind tailor shop. 150. .Tames King's marble yard. 151. Peter Brugh's new residence, not en tirely finished. EAST MA RE ET SI It EET 152. Elope Engine house 153. 1). 0. Gehr's dwelling 154. 1). 0. Gehr, 111. W building, not tin ished. 155. B. F. Nead's 1511. A. D. raufman's. 157. Mrs. I tttttnian's. 154. John Goettinan's dwelling anti gro cery. Penna. A: Foltz's carriage manufac toryt known as "the old jail." 160. C. C. Foltz's dwelling. 161. 'l'. B. Kennedy's. 162. Rev. Dr. Schneek's. 163. Dwellinfr ' occupied by several fami lies; owner unknown. 164. Samuel. Etter's dwelling. 165. Dwelling unknown. 166. Sebastian Eckert's. The dwelling of the Misses Denny, north east corner of and Third street, not burned. The Franklin Railroad runs along Third street, and there is nothing hurried east of the Railroad. truss to south side or Market street and return towards Centre Square, ES= 1(17. Wulrkill's dwelling DK. Dwelling unknown, 109: 17e. 171. .1. C. Austin's dwelling. 172. W. S. Everett's. 173. W. E. McDowell's. 174. Capt. Brown's. 179. Jacob Sellers' Hotel. 176. Little's grocery and dwelling. 177. Martin Brown's dwelling. 178. Mrs. R. Cook's. 179. Mrs. Jordan's. 18.0. L. S. Clarke's dwelling and law office 181. M. Duncan's dwelling and law of rice. 182. T. B. Kennedy's law office, 183. Dr. E. Culbertson's dwelling. 184. Military office, ( Mrs. Bard's.) 185.. T. W. Douglas' law office, (Mrs. Bard's.) 188. Hasting fehr's law office, (Mrs. Bard's.) 187. Stumbaugh & Stewart's law office, )Mrs. Bard's.) 188. Jere. Cook's law office, (Mrs. Bard's.) 189. J. M. Sharpe's law office, (Mrs. Bartrs.) 190. C. S. Eysler's law office, (Mrs. Bard's.) . 191. Mrs. Bard's dwelling. 192, W. S, Everett's law office, (Mrs. Bard's.) 193. Hon. G. W. Brewer's law office, (D. O. Gehr's.) 194. .Tohn Stewart's dwelling, (Gehr's.) Opposit, place of beginulng on Centre Square. 195. T. M. Carlisle's dwelling, (Thos. Car lisle.) 196. Jacob Henninger•s, (Thos. Carlisle.) 197. Siert•l'S cabinet warehouse. 198. " manufactory. 190. Rev. S. Hoover's dwelling. 200, John Huber's, 201. Mrs, A, Grove's, 202. McElwain and Cook's, owned by Kindlines. 203. Misses Kindlines' dwelling. 204, D. Washabaugh's dwelling, (Thos. Carlisle, owner.) 205. Thos. Carlisle's dwelling and edge tool store. 206. Mrs. Julia Grove's dwelling. 207. Sol. Allison's, owned by Mrs. Grove. 208. Baptist Church. WEST QUEEN STREET—SOUTH HIDE. 200. Andrew Banker's dwelling. 210. Mrs. Eyster's. 211. Mrs. Porter's. 212. Samuel Myers. 213. John Cree's. 214. Mrs. Davis'. 215. Mrs. Nixon's. 216. Mrs. Lindsay's, owned by J. D. Grier. 217. J. D. Grier's. 218. 11. Sierer's, owned by ;\lrs, Steven , son. 210. Mrs. Stevenson's. • 220. Mrs. Fisher's. 221. Mrs. Clark's. 222. Mrs. Blood's. - 223, Charles CreSSler : H. EAST QUEEN STREET—SOUTH SIDE. 224. Cook's meat shop, owned by B, • Wolff. 225. Mrs. Lindsay's dwelling. 226. Wm. Wallace's. , 2 27. Mts . . Vander's. 224 I. N. Minder's. 2.t.. ) 0. I. T. HashinsOn's. 230. John M.u.l.l's. No more 18.1114 ed on this side of East • - ' Queen. EAST QUEEN STREET—NOBTI3 SIDE. 231. Chambersburg Academy. 232,Brown's Hotel, partly consumed. 233. Dwellingurdrlown,fornierlY'Brants 2tt, lame as 253, 235. , Dr. S. D. Culberteon's dwelling 236. Reid's. • - • 237. N. Snider's. 238. Ovined by Wm. Wallace. - 239. 44 66 46 240 . 46 44 64 CI 64 241. ‘• 242. Dears dwelling, (owned by Cham bers.) _ 243. Elder's " (Chambers.) 244. 11. Washabaugh's dwelling. lery " - brewery and dis til. 246. Sierer's planing and saw mill. 247. Old full'ag .., SECOND _STREET. 248. Associate RefOrmed Church. 249. E. M. Worley's dwelling. 250. D. Eiker's shop. 251. Mrs. Kirby's dwelling. 252. John Keefer's. 253. S. M. Armstrong's. 254. H. Crawford's. 255. John Dee')ler's. 256. Peiffer's new carriage warehouse. 257. " " workshop. In addition to the foregoing, fifteen or twenty houses, shops, &c., including the Lemnos Edge Tool Factory and the Rail road Company's warehouse, situated in various parts of the town, were burned, making a grand total of at least two hail drod and seventy-five buildings destroyed, with all their contents. This does not in elude barns and stables, many of which were more valuable than some of the houses. The number of stables burned cannot be less than one hundred and fifty. The part consumed covers perhaps one half of the territorial area of the town, and contained four-fifths of its wealth. It Would be hard to state with anything like accu racy what the total loss amounts to, but it can hardly fall short of three million dol lars. As everybody within the limits of the I iurnt district lost everything, even down to the smallest article, the full amount of the loss can never be known. • The ,:cone presented by this ouce beauti ful :Old flourishing town is tile sad dest that the human eye ever !stoked Ul/011 in Pennsylvania. So utter is the destrue thAl within the limits given, that tnvu,a~ of bl.llllt property can with ditliculty distin guish the places where their houses used to stand. The hoineks, inhabitants generally bear their heavy tatliction with admirable forti tude, and their fortunate neighbors, outside of the line of conflagration, are extending to them malt assistance and comfort us it in in their potter to give. The people of other towns also are kindly sending ferward sup plies, which are now us welcome to rho man who was a few days ago worth his fifty thousand dollars,tlts to him who never had It week's wages ahead. It being impossible to provide shelter of any sort for one-half of those thus risittered howskiss iu itn hour, several thousand of the sullerers have gout off to other towns. Most of them would soon return they. could find roofs to rover 010111, itntl all who are able would begin torebuild as soon as workmen and material could 6c got, if they felt any 'on thlence that they would hereafter have the protection which is so clearly due tip theta, but which hits hereto .fate issin most unaccountably withheld. NVlaul aIt.CE, in hta speech at the I),rniurrati.. JuLy 4, in .1 . 11, NIP.V 1:11111)Silin , , 11,4`111.1',1 thus hiS hope t'oroslrirntir,ul . l , llllotir present dill upon " moral poker"and' net up,ni" the :ige.res,i, inst re mente.lith, ui tuilitery peNver," the Itepubliettn papers curl ur;LLur, earne down upon hilt, in 0 ter hid \ ile! t)C \ . 1141 - 1111 , 1 inaliglatitt dt•toniciations had no hounds: no t•pithet. ~ttrt no vilo, no alms,. too bit ill . , 110 illll/11111ti./11ti 1111011 his patriotism :11111 h,)111,1 too malignant to be heaptst upon hint. The paragraph iti that speech which oKeited this tit•reo dlanUnCip•- tinll was :is follows: Now, fellow-citizens, after having said this much, it is right that von should ask me, what would you do in this fearful ex tremity? I reply, from the beginning of this struggle to the present moment, my hope has been in moral power. There it re poses still. When in the spring of 18G1, I had occasion to add rt,s my fellow-citizens of this city, from the baleony of the hotel be fore us, I said I had not believed, and did not then believe, a-•••res: .1i le mruts was either a suitable br p• •.• . . teedy evils, All Ile,: • . • . e..rted has but strengthene,i in this regard. I ~a•n.insjudgment impels me to rely upon moral force, and DM upon any of the coercive instrumental ities of inilitary power. We have seen in the experience of the last two years, how futile are all our et - forts to maintain the Union by Incc of arms; but even had war been carried on by us successfully, the ruin ous result would exhibit its utter impracti cability for the attainment of the desired end. Through peaceful agencies, and through such agencies alone, can we hope "to form a more perfect -Union, establish justice, insure, domestic tranquility, provide fur the common defence, promote the gen eral welfare, and secure the blessings of lib erty to ourselves and our posterity," tho great objects lie which, and for which alone, the Constitution was formed. 111= The enlightening and touching experi ence " of the past year, as the Boston Jour oat would say, seem to have brought the minds of some very prominent " war hawks " to the same view of this matter.— At New Orleans recently, a complimentary supper was given by the Bar to Generals Banks and Sickles; and in Gen. Banks' speech upon the occasion occurs the follow ing remark:— I confess, sir, that I believe the first duty of this people is to make such sacrifices on the field of battle as success may demand, and also that the Nelllonent of our dijJlcul lies proceed from the moral power of thts country, which is greater and more ef ficacious than military power—the pen is mighter than the sword. This power will command the assent of the people of this country and the respect of all courts, either judicial or political, on the face of the earth. The same sentiment was uttered by other speakers—" loyal supporters of the Ad ministration. Now we ask those who were so tierce and bitter in their denunciation of Gen. Pierce, to note this identical sentiment nf Gen. Banks and tell us whether it is any less " treasonable " when proclaimed by him in New Orleans than when uttered by ten. Pierce at, Concord? It is a great truth which the country must soon adopt and act upon, or irretrievable ruin will follow. Leaving the Poor Man out In the Cold. It is whispered around that quite a num ber of the rich and well-off Leaguers, who are loudly for the war, and against compro mise and peace, have been putting in sub stitutes, at ;$BOO to ;31000 each, in order to save themselves from the threatened draft. Of course, they will now be still more vo ciferously bellicose than ever; clamorous for the pushing on of the war to "the last man and the last dollar," and. zealous for the enforcement of the odious and unjust conscription regardless of the views, feel ings and interests of the people. They thus leave, so far us they can, the poor men out in the cold, They look on themselves now as sure to be among '• the last" men, for the :i'4300 commutation having, at Lincoln's re quest, been repealed, there is no hope of es cape, (not even for men who risked their lives for nine months in the 124th and 175th Regiments; except through a big pile of greenbacks, :aid they are wholly indiffer ent how many or who of their poor neigh bors and acquaintances, are conscripted into Old Abe's "slaughter pen." Now, instead of exhibiting anxiety only, first to save their own " bacon" by their money, wouldn't it have been rather more creditable for these would-be patriots and tongue-warriors, to have suggested and fa vored some movement for filling up,,the whole quota of the county, thereby reliev ing the poor as well as the rich? They are of fighting age and physique, and have liten talking fight ever since the war commenced, why, then, shrink from doing fight when called on? The way to increase Old Abe's rank and tile, is, for those who, like these Leaguers, believe the war is right, and must be prosecuted at al iy and :di sacrifices of life and treasure. to lead off—not to say to others "! , o, but to say "come along with us." There would be at least, a show of earnestness and sincerity about this; but to slink off through their money, and all the time be crying "go," instead of saying " come," is, in them, most cowardly and disgraceful, By resorting to the greenback dodge, and sending a substitute, each counts only One, While if they went themselves, each would piblittiOcount two„for his-et ample and influence would doubtless carry with him one equally loyal and patriotic stay-at-home fellow-Leaguer. We may take occasion, hereafter, to give the names of some of these gallant and brave "able-bodied League-war-advocates who thus skulk from the - ,battle-field, for the purpose of imposing all the perils'of the dratt and the war upon poor men.— West (Mester Jefersonian„ The Harrisburg correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer says that Governor purl* has for a long time been unsuccess - fully soliciting permission iron!. the Pederaf Executive to organize the militia of Pennsyl vania! Could there be a more humiliating confession than WEST ETICG STREET " MORAL POII ER."
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