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WEDNESDAY, 14, 1866.
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"The Printing Presses ehalrbe free to every
person who undertakes "to examine the pro
ceedings of the legislature, or any
..branch of
government; and no law ever be Made
tO restrain the o ly thereof. The free COZOMU
nication of th t and opinions is One of the
invaluable righ of men; ,and every citizen
may freely speak,' write Mid print on any sub
ject; being responsible for the abuse of that
liberty. In prosecutions for the publication of
papers investigating - 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.” • . .
THE EXAMINER, referring to the am
nesty proclamation issued by President
Johnson, which it approves, expresses
a " doubt whether any other govern
ment, at the close of a greatinsurrection
against its authority and existence, ever
followed up its triumph with such sweep
ing liberality as this."
Our impression is that the British
government was equally liberal with its
rebellious subjects in India a few years
ago. Next to our own, the Sepoy Re
bellion wasperhaps the most formidable
that has occurred during the present
generation. Nearly all the actors in it,
from the highest officer to the humblest
private, were, up to the moment of the
outbreak, in the military service of the
government against which they rose.—
This put them on the same footing With
officers and soldiers of our old army,
who deserted their flag to take part in
the rebellion.
At the outset, for the purpose of strik
ing terror, the British authorities in
India indulged in severities which we
rejoice to say our Government never re
sorted to. A number of the rebellious
Sepoys—possibly ten or fifteen, or even
more—were tied up to the muzzles of
cannon and blown to atoms. These
shocking executions were soon discon
tinued, either because the Governor
General of India found that they did not
produce the desired effect, or because
the Home Government disapproved
them.
At the close of the war, according to
our recollection, a general amnesty was
= extended to the vanquished rebels.
Even the King of Delhi, who bore the
same official relation to that rebellion
that Mr. Davis has borne to the one our
Government has just succeeded in sup
pressing—having been installed as its
civil head—was, we think, though taken
into custody, not called upon to expiate
his offence with his life.
It is true this Sepoy rebellion did not
threaten the " existence " of the British
government. It threatened only its
" authority "in India. If it bad been
successful, the British government
would still have continued to exist,
though shorn of its immense possessions
in Southern Asia. But would the suc
cess of the Rebellion in our own coun
try have put an end to the existence of
the government of the United States ?
Not necessarily. We think it would
not. We believe the government would
have continued to exist, though shorn
of its authority in the Southern States.
We are under the impression that the
liberality of which the Examine• speaks,
and which we areglad to find it approve,
is not without example in the recent
history of one of the leading powers of
Europe. But if this were not so, we
should still hope to find our govern
ment a fit representative of that high
order of christian civilization which
the North (and especially the New
England portion of it) has claimed as
its distinguishing characteristic.
IF JEFF. DAVIS don . E, get a trial of
some sort, it will not be because the
newspapers have not set up enough tri
bunals to try him. One day they have
told us he would certainly be tried in
the civil courts, and the next day they
have told us he would certainly be tried
by a military court. And now we are
worse muddled than ever, for the Wash
ington Republican of June 6th asserts
with great positiveness that the Gov
ernment has not decided to try him be
fore the civil court of the District of
Columbia, but before a military coin
mission ; whilst the Washington Star
of the same date says preparations are
going forward to try him before the
civil court in about ten days. There
seems to be as much doubt about this
matter as there was about the composi
tion of " weal pie?' in the days of Sam.
Weller. " But what's the difference
when the pie -men themselves can't
tell ?"
THE DEMOCRATS of Mercer county,
as we learn from the Pittsburg Post,
propose liberally to support any sound
Democrat who will undertake the pub
lication of a newspaper for them. There
are nearly three thousand Democratic
voters in the county, which is one of the
largest and wealthiest counties in Wes
tern Pennsylvania. The Post says :
" Any person, who will publish a
thorough Democratic paper, will be well
supported, both with the needful and
with brains. There is a printing press,
owned by some Democrats in the county,
that can be procured to . publish the
paper. All that is wanted, is a man
who combines thorough business ca
pacity, and a practical knowledge of the
business, with capability, and he will
be ably sustained. Let such a man ad
dress J. P., P. 0. Box 36, Sharon, Mer-
CCP county, Pa., and he will receive all
information required."
REV. JOSEPH CLARK, of Chambers
burg, died at that place on Friday last,
from injuries received on the Monday
previous. Mr. Clark was born near
Carlisle in 1825, and graduated at Mar
shall College in 1848. In June 1852 he
was ordained and installedpastor of the
Presbyterian congregation of Chain
bersburg, which he continued to serve
until October 18 , 57, when he was com
pelled by physical disability to relin
quish the active duties of the ministry.
He then engaged in mechanical pur
suits, in the prosecution of which he
met the accident that resulted in his
death.
The Repository says : " Although it
was well known that his injuries were
severe and painful, yet no apprehension
was felt for his safety until°. few hours
before his death. His condition first
became known to himself, and to the
great surprise of his friends, at a time
when all indications seemed favorable,
he expressed the opinion that he could
not recover. His loss will be mourned
by a large circle of friends, and will be
sorely felt by the church, of which he
had for a long time been an earnest and
able supporter, and by this community,
of which he was a valuable member."
"The Bloodhounds of Zion."
The General Assembly of the New
School branch of the Presbyterian
Church, which held its session in
Brooklyn, New York, by a resolution
unanimously adopted, recommended
granting the right of suffrage to the
negroes of the South. " These clerical
bodies (says the Cincinnati Enquirer)
act as if they believed they were com
missioned to exercise a general super
vision over all matters relating to human
government as well as to exercise the
special one of saving souls. Probably
their jurisdiction embraces all that ter
ritory. If so, the Good Father ought to
have endowed them with more brains
than they give evidence of possessing."
THE HARRISBURG UNION says the
water will be let into the Pennsylvania
Canal, at the several feeders between
Columbia and 'Hollidaysburg, on the
15th inst., an,d . .boating will commence
on or about the 20th,
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The fact that Jamaica and other West
India Islands, which were among the
most productive portions of . the world
so long as they were tilled by slave la
bor, have becon*little.better than bar
ren wastes since :the iidiviersion of the
slaves into " freedmen," led us to ap
prehend that th4'abolition of slavery , in
our Southern States woulitwork - -43adt
vantageotisly there also. Looking over'
the map of the world, we could pick
out no spot that was prospering under
free black labor. Jamaica and Cuba,
lying side by side at the mouth of the
gulf of Mexico, were found to be strong.
ly in contrast with one another. The
production and . commerce of the for
mer have run down to nothing, whilst
the latter is, both agriculturally and
commercially, a mine of wealth and a
hive of industry. Jamaica is free, Cuba
slave; and before she was free, Jamaica
was more prosperous than Cuba. Bra
zil, too, the only country on the Ameri
can continents in which African slavery
has existed up to this time, except the
United States, is (with the same excep
tion) the only one that has steadily
prospered. From these facts it seemed
as if the compulsory labor of negroes
was indispensable to the prosperity of
countries lying within or near the
tropics, and we feared that the sudden
uprooting of the slave labor system of
the South, would in a great measure
suspend the production of that great
staple which has so often turned the
" balance of trade" in favor of this coun
try. We are glad to find, now that the
Southern labor-system is undergoing
this radical change, that persons whose
means of weighing the probable conse
quences of the change are superior to
ours, take a very hopeful view of the
future prospects of the South. We hope
the Louisville Journal, from which we
take the following, may find all its
bright anticipations. realized :
"The lately rebellious States now pre
sent a most inviting field to the genius,
skill, industry, and wealth of the coun
try. With a rapidity greatly exceeding
any former expectation, the people of
those States are settling again into the
condition of peace and exerting them
selves to repair all injuries resulting
from the war. The South possesses
great recuperative power which will
soon prove more than equal to thelosses
sustained within the last four years,
and, after a comparatively brief period,
the people there will realize more than
their old property. Since the close of
hostilities, large public meetings have
been held in many portions of the South
to consider the new situation of affairs
produced by events of war, and, on each
occasion, the clearest practical views
have been expressed as to the course to
be adopted to place the South fairly
upon her feet again. The masses seem
disposed to adapt themselves as speed
ily as possible to inevitable destiny,
making the best of circumstances about
them. But little disposition appears to
quarrel or murmur over the destruction
of slavery, which was generally regard
ed as a foregone conclusion from the
downfall of rebel power. Turning their
faces to the future, radiant with the sun
of a new era, the people are seeking to
identify their interests and themselves
with the irresistible tendency of events
by which the nation is to be disen
thralled from old prejudices and broken
systems.
The war has carried desolation into
many portions of the South, but the
strong, healthy impulse now being dif
fused will soon gather up the fragments
of society and re-establish those chan
nels of wealth and labor which are to
give at last a more enduring prosperity
than the Southern States have ever en
joyed. Those States are yet but poorly
developed. They possess resources of
wealth as yet untouched by the hands
of enterprise and skill. A great war
brings out new forces, and, now that
our civil struggle is over, a wonderful
impetus is to revolutionize the social,
political, and material condition of the
South, which will rapidly bring to light
all the elements of greatness so long
concealed within her bosom. New en
ergy will be given to the cause of edu
cation, the spirit of nationality will dis
pel the mists of secession and nullifica
tion, and the inspiring touch of free
labor, taking the place of the slavery
system, will unfold a thousand hidden
sources of power from which the masses
have been excluded by the concentrated
wealth of the few.
In every city of the hitherto rebel
lious States able newspapers have al
ready been established, which are devo
ted to the discussion not so much of
politics as agitated by demagogues and
office-seekers as to the immediate, sub
stantial welfare of the South. They are
inculcating a sound, enlightened, popu
lar sentiment, daily urging the inest:s
mable advantages of the Union, seeking
to remove that sectional animosity
which gave birth to the war itself, and
pointing to those great interests which,
when properly developed, will make
the Southern States, more than ever, a
powerful and glorious part of the nation.
Thus instructed, the people are opening
their eyes as they have never done be
fore, and inviting capital and labor from
the Northern States to assist in the great
task of restoration. We congratulate
the country upon the cheering prospect
presented. It strengthens our confi
dence that the spirit of fraternity is at
work, and that it will soon heal the
bleeding
wounds of war, and re-unite
the old ligaments of the Union in an
everlasting bond."
Won't Swallow It
A letter appears in the Cincinnati
Enquirer, the writer of which, that
journal says, has been "an active and
influential worker in the Republican
party, "protesting against the new plank
of negro suffrage. We make an ex
tract:
" Some of my party associates want
the blacks to be put on an equality with
the whites—to have the elective fran
chise, &c., &c., in other words, to be
put on an equality, civilly, and politi
cally, with the whites.
_ . .
" That opens up a new question far
beyond slavery. Universal freedom
does not mean universal privileges.
Policy forbids women voting—that pri
vilege is denied them. Minors are not
allowed to vote, sit on juries or hold
offices any more than women. Aliens
are not allowed to do either until they
are naturalized. It is policy, not prin
ciple, that controls the elective fran
chise. Policy, therefore, impels me to
oppose negro suffrage, either North or
South."
New Idea of Freedom
The Philadelphia Bulletin, a bitter
Abolition paper, has a letter from Rich
mond, Va., which says :
"Swarms of negroes have come to the
city from a distance, kuowingthat they
are free, and expecting to be fed and
clothed and have nothing to do. But
General Patrick has determined to teach
them better, and a bureau is organizing,
at the head of which is Captain George
Gibson, of the 11th U. S. Infantry,
which is to organize all the idle negroes,
and set them to some useful employ
ment."
In the paragraph above is written the
history, or rather the result, of negro
emancipation.
REV. CHARLES LA_NE, who has just
returned from Charleston, relates an in
cident concerning Jeff. Davis' house
hold which has not before appeared in
print. In disposing of his slaves the
great traitor committed to the especial
care of Gen. Saxton a little negro boy,
who was about the same age (some eight
or ten years) of Davis' young son, and
who had been the latter's most familiar
companion from infancy. When the
time for separation came both lads made
the most demonstrative expressions of
attachment, literally being torn from
each other's arms, crying bitterly; and
soon after the oolored boy had been
placed on board another vessel he
jumped overboard, in order to go back
to " Bub Davis."
BEN Wade's Committee on - the Con
duct of the War, after a continuous ses
sion of nearly four years, has concluded
its labors, and found but one General
officer in the army not censurable.
That officer is Ben, Butler, of Lowell,
Mass.
` -- TirelcrEW'rtfitlt 'atm atiltiiiiiirz'oeff
sumers generally against the stories of
dealers in prints and muslin to the ef..
feet that these articles will soon - rim
to and beyond fifty cuts a yard b and-
Viet Itherioeds muetgoup in the:Bame
pro Portion. t th*dziontilsnt geode are
not abundant in the trii*et, the d&
numds are large andpricOare up. But
•it must be ,tieine in inltitir that all the
cottoh mina, many of which had sus
pended temporarily until - quite recently,
are now all running on full time and to
their fullest capacity. The Sun adds
that every indicationpoints to a decline
before many weeks: '
- The Hen/Lc/says it is not improbable
that gold will reacliisObefore.long. (In
that case the'Seen' , 4"eipectations of a
reduction in the price of cotton goods
would hardly be realized.) The specu
lative spirit on the Stock Exchange is
becoming stronger, and the bulls are
more hopeful of a rise than they have
been since the recent dePression, the in
creasing ease in the money, market
being in their: favor, while they argue
that prices are very low. It is also ex
pected that stocks will sympathize in
some degree with the further advance
of gold which is predicted on the basis
of the large legitimate demand for ex
port in the face of the limited supply.
The New York flour market was
firmer on Thursday, and the sales made
were at slightly improved prices. Cof
fee sold at 23 and 233 centsingold, equal
to 31 in greenbacks, for prime Rio.—
Cotton ranged from 28 to 50 cents, ac
cording to quality. Hops Bto 20 cents
for common to good, and 25 to 32 for
choice and fancy. Molasses 40 to 60
cents per gallon for Cuba, and 60 to 65
for Porto Rico. Sugarlol to 16. Spirits
of turpentine $1.70 to $1.75. Rice 9to
12 cents. Sales of three hundred pack
ages of meats at 123 to 14 cents for shoul
ders and 143 to 17n for hams.
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The aggregate value of the exports,
exclusive of specie, from New York to
foreign ports, during the week ending
June 6, was $1,250,702.
TWENTY THOUSAND Polish exiles,
who are now scattered over western
Europe, are said by the New York
Tribune to be "looking wishfully across
the Atlantic for a new home." That
paper thinks they would be a valuable
acquisition to any thinly-settled coun
try, as they are generally agriculturists
and shepheirds by training. " Mr. Jos.
Koronikolski," who issaid to have been
the leader of the Poles who were defeat
ed in the late insurrection, has arrived
in New York and is about to solicit con
tributions to aid the exiles in getting to
this country. They design planting a
colony and intend to apply to our gov
ernment for a grant of land. It would
be a somewhat remarkable exercise of
liberality on the part of the government
of the United States, which has just ex
pended four thousand million dollars
putting down a rebellion against its
authority, to make a grant of land to
twenty thousand Poles whose only
claim to our bounty is founded on the
fact that they are unsuccessful rebels
against their own government! The
public lands can be put to other and
better uses. National, like individual
charity, should begin at home.
The Effects of the War
The Church Advocate, an intensely
loyal paper of this city, has published
some extracts from the Fast Day Ser
mon of Rev. George Junkin, D. D.
Pastor of the Sixth Presbyterian Church
of Philadelphia. If the same language
had been used by any Democratic
speaker, a hue and cry would have been
at once raised against him by papers of
the Aboli Lion ilk for speaking disre
spectfully of our brave soldiers :
•
" Profai iitv, drunkenness, gambling,
Sabbath ' breaking - and debauchery prevail
over all the land, but above all, in the army
and navy. Many hundreds, indeed, have
been dis missed the service for these crimes
alone; 'out the expurgation has been only
partial, and this by reason of the humiliating
fact thi at some very distinguished officers
indulg• al in some of these criminal practices,
and th us seem to be: above law. Indeed,
the sentiment that swearing and intemper
ance are military necessities is not unfre
quen tly hinted at, if not distinctly avowed.
There is too much reason to believe that
alcohol has destroyed more lives in this war
than gunpowder."
Will our pious neighbor of the Ex
pvess, and his reporters and army cor
respondents, make a note of the above
and " pitch in" to the reverend slan
derer of the Union army?
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Some people cannot enjoy life unless they
have somebody always on hand to hate.
Life stagnates, becomes insipid, waterish,
without this. Nothing to talk about, nothing
to keep up the circulation, nothing to im
part heat to the temper. Some of the house
dogs of journalism, that stayed about home,
barking and gro‘ding, while others went
abroad and chased the enemy, are in a very
bad way for somebody to hate.—Last Eve
ning's Express.
Exactly so. What a life-like picture
our neighbor has drawn of himself and
the other "house-dogs of journalism"
with whom he has been in sympathy
for the last four years. These patriots
" stayed about home, barking and
growling, [at their Democratic neigh
bors] while others went abroad and
chased the enemy." Their greatest
pleasure seems to be in having " some
body always on hand to hate." " Life,"
with them, " becomes insipid and water
ish " when they have " nothing to talk
about, nothing to keep up the circula
tion, nothing to impart heat to the
temper."
We heartily thank the Express for its
candor. An honest confession is said
to be good for the soul, and we are not
without hope that this, our neighbor's
first step in the right direction, will be
followed up by a hearty and sincere re
pentance which will influence his future
conduct, and in the end make a decent
"house-dog" of him.
Who is Payne ?
The Washington correspondent of the
New York World, writing under date
of June 9th, says:
The mystery enshrouding the con
spirator Payne, instead of being
cleared np, is growing deeper every
day. His bearing and fortitude through
out the trial is something wonderful.
Heat, chains, handcuffs, and the awful
presence of certain death, the constant
gaze of the eager and curious crowd,
and all the surroundings of the commis
sion, neither appall nor terrify him in
the least. For his companions in misery
he deeplysympathizes, and only wishes,
because he is stronger and braver than
they, that he could be executed for each
one. To-day a Christian lady of this
city sent him a pocket7handkerehief
and a message that she should pray for
him, and that others prayed for him.
He received the present with the air
and bearing seemingly of a gentleman,
returning his thanks and as to the
prayers he said no one praying for him
should labor alone; that he prayed for
himself. This last remark was made
with much emotion, his eyes 'filling
with tears ; his nature is two-fold ;he is.
gentle, and yet as terrible as a lion. He
has more endurance than falls to the lot
of most men. He will go four days at
a time without eating or drinking, and
still be strong. He has sat in that court
room thirty-two days without relief
from the usual course of - natiare, and
during all that time has not tittered a
complaint as to his health. He is yet
young. His face is beardless. When
dressed as a gentleman he is lune look
ing. But who he is, and where he came
from, is the great mystery.
THE MANCHESTER (:Sew Hampshire)
Daily Union says: " Whe Lancaster In
telligencer announces that Mr.Bu chan an
has prepared'a history of the last six
months of his adrainistration, which
will be issued by a New York Publish
ing House in a month or two. It is
none to!. soon. H e and the Democratic
party have been n lost shamefully belied
in regard to ihe origin of the war, and
the truth of bistc iry will oettheturight."
~l~g the pa~ltc Debt: ~'~~
The proposition to• pay the debt
of the United States by voluntary
subscription, which originated with the,
New York Jourrsal of Cearameree, bit
of which the Herald, with: character
istic effrontery, now plarns the
paternity, is atill undergoing d*91113.4011
In the public journals of the eQuntrY•
Some think it practicable;tuid applaud
it; others argue against the expediency
of it; whilst nota few make it a subject
of ridicule, and accuse those who have
offered to subscribe with being actuated
by no very creditable motives:
For this people to raise three thous- .
and million dollars by voluntary sub
scription would seem to be almost im
possible. We do not believe it can be
done, and yet we would like to see it
tried. If there is a doubt about it, let
the proposition have the benefit of the
doubt and let the trial be made.
The people of this country have been
diligently cutting each other's throats
and destroying each other's property
for the last four years. Considering that
there was no good cause why they
should have done it, the fact will not
read well in history when it comes to
be put down by an unbiassed writer.
But if, after censuring us for the folly
and wickedness which led to the waste
of so much blood and treasure, the his
torian should say that after the - carnage
and destruction had ceased we had
voluntarily raised enough money to pay
the gigantic debt incurred, the bright
ness of that page of our history would
dispel the darkness of all the rest.
If those who are agitating this matter
in the eastern cities are in earnest about
it, they should go at it systematically.
Mere newspaper blowirg will fall far
short of the object aimed at. A Nation
al Association will have to be formed ;
then State Associatio,us ; then County
Associations, and perhaps Borough and
Township Associations.
In New York city, where the plan
originated, a National Association ought
to be formed on the fourth of July.—
Under their direction, all the other As
sociations required throughout the
country might be organized in the
course of two or three months ; and by
the fourth of July 1866, the question
might be fairly tested and fully settled,
whether this grandest of all debt-pay
ing schemes is practicable or impractica
ble.
The Journal of Commerce, arguing
the possibility and the economy of the
project, says:
" The suggestion, as we have said, is
popular, and has many features to re
commend it, but the difficulty lies more
in the length of time it would take to
carry it out than in the present unwil
lingness of the people to render it suc
cessful. Americans are impulsive and
take hold of projects of this sort with
wonderful energy ; but they have too
little patience to keep up the necessary
excitement until the whole amount could
be raised. Unless the whole could be
done on a given day throughout the
Union, the subscription, like many an
other which started well, would taper
down to such small sums that the inter
est on the debt would overtake and de
vour them.
" Still the discussion itself is hopeful,
and if the nation is really determined to
remove this incubus upon its prosperity,
there will not be wanting a practicable
way. Perhaps if the subscription were
at first directed toward that amount of
the debt, say a little over one thousand
millions, which is now redeemable at
the option of the treasury, the way to
reach the remainder would be free from
extraordinary difficulties.
" In the trying necessities of the hour
of danger the public have borne their
burdens nobly, and in any proper way
they will now come forward and com
plete the sacrifice they have so freely
made, by contributing to liquidate the
enormous sums which have been ad
vanced upon the national credit. But
they will not tamely bear through years
of peace the fattening of hungry officials
upon the spoil wrung from the hard
hands that have too little for home com
forts; and all thought of that experi
ment may as well be abandoned. Let
us pay the debt to lighten the burdens
of labor, and not for the sake of a fresh
chaiace at the poor man's scanty store."
The New Gospel
As a specimen of the new Gospel of
Hate, which is now being inculcated
and propagated by the "Bloodhounds
of Zion," we select the subjoined ex
tract from the eulogy pronounced over
the remains of the late President Lin
coln, - upon their arrival at Springfield,
Illinois, by Bishop Simpson, of the
Methodist Episcopal Church :
"And now, my friends, in the words
of the departed, ' With malice toward
none;' free from all feeling of personal
vengeance, yet believing the sword must
not be drawn or borne in vain, let us go
forward in our painful duty. Let every
man who was a Senator or Representa
tive in Congress, and who aided in be
ginning this rebellion, and led to the
slaughter of our sons and daughters, he
brought to speedy and certain punish
ment. Let every officer educated at
public expense, and who having been
advanced to position has perjured him
self, and has returned his sword against
the vitals of his country be doomed to
this. I believe in the will of the Ameri
can people. Men may attempt to com
promise and to restore these traitors and
murderers to society again; but the
American people will arise in their
majesty and sweep all such compro
mise and compromisers away, and shall
declare that their shall be no peace to
repls."
When the " big guns " of the Church
give evidence of such vindictiveness
and malignity, what may be expected
from the small fry throughout the coun
try who are bound to swear in the
words of their clerical master? No
wonder that infidelity is making giant
strides throughout the land when the
Gospel of Peace is ignored by the mag
nates of the Church, and the Gospel of
Hate made to take its place.
The Cavalry
The cavalry formerly attached to the
Army of the Potomac, and that which
has heretofore operated in the Shenan
doah Valley, is now encamped on the
Orange and Alexandria Railroad, and
is being reorganized and consolidated in
consequence of the mustering out of
those whose terms of service expire prior
to October 1. About 4,000 have already
been mustered out, and but 2,000 of the
same class remain to be discharged as
rapidly as circumstances permit. It is
believed that a coming order from the
War Department will direct the imme
diate discharge of all whose term of
service expires before January 1, 1806.
A board of officers is in session daily for
an examination into the merits of every
officer of the entire Cavalry Corps, and
the result of the investigation is for
warded to the War Department. Meri
torious officers making application to
remain in the service receive an ap
pointment in the new consolidations,
upon the recommendation of the Ex
amining Board The entire strength of
the Cavalry Corps commanded by Gen.
Davies is about 12,000. The Ist Ver-
mont Cavalry has been ordered to re
port to Gen. Dix, in New York, and the
6th United States has been sent to Fred
erick, Md.
IT HAS been heretofore stated that
Booth embarked his theatrical baggage
for Nassau some time last year. It ap•
pears that the vessel was wrecked, but
a portion of the cargo saved, among
which were three trunks marked "J.
Wilkes Booth." The Quebec _News of
the sth instant says : "An application
was yesterday made to the Hon. Mr.
Black., Judge of Vice Admiralty Court,
for a commission of inspection of the
trunks, which was granted. The appli
cation was made by Mr. Dunbar, on be
half of the American Consul .at this
port. It remains to be seen whether the
opening of the trunks will throw any
light upon the Washington•murder."
.
Jefferson DIM and Our Government.
"Malcolm," the able and intelligent
correspondent of the New York News,
• gives the following important informa
tion with reference to Mr. Davis and his
treatment by the 'United States authori
ties since his arrest:
- I need not tell the readers of the News
that all the ridiculous stories abont-Jef
ferscmDavis, that have ,been set afloat
- ever since his capture, are pure fabrica
tions, without the least foundation:—
They have originated, and have been
circulated, with the sole design of mak
ing Mr. Davis appear ridiculous, and of
,depriving him of the ,sympathy which
he otherwise would have received. Mr.
Davis is our enemy . ; but he has been
captured and is a prisoner; and never
before in the history of any enlighten
ed and Christian nation, has there been
an instance where a captive has not
been treated with kindness and gentle
ness, with courtesy, and with ,all that
consideration which is due to the rank
and the position he formerly held. It
has been reserved for this enlightened
nation to treat an illustrious captive, a
Christian, a gentleman, a refined habits,
in a manner so cruel, so barbarous, so
unnecessarily severe, as will leave an in
effaceable stain upon our history.
The falsehood about Mr. Davis having
been disguised in female apparel is now
exploded, and only brings ridicule upon
those who believed it. It served its pur
pose, however, and probably not one in
a thousand of those who heard the false
hood have since seen its contradiction.
The inhuman treatment which Mr.
Davis has received, however, since his
incarceration in the-dungeons of For
tress Monroe, deserves to be placed be
fore the world in its true colors. I here
with send you the facts as I havelearn
ed them.
The conduct of Mr. Davis, ever since
he has been imprisoned in the Fortress,
has been exactly what those who were
his former associates in' the United
States Senate would have expected from
him. He knew that it was useless for
him to struggle against his fate or repine
at the misfortune that has befallen him.
He has, therefore, accepted his misfor
tune in a spirit of true Christian resig
nation. He has never given utterance
to an angry, sentiment ; nor used lan
guage unbecoming a gentleman.
The man is to be pitied, indeed, who
is credulous enough to believe that
Jefferson Davis railed at his jailors, or
at the Government, that he threw his
food at the head of the attendant, that
he knocked down two of his guards in
succession, and that he violently re
sisted the guards, while they were plac
ing the shackles and manacles on his
limbs. Any man of common sense
would know that it would - do no good
to act thus; and Jefferson Davis has
never for a moment forgotten himself,
or the position which he occupies in the
eyes of the world. At some time, not
far distant, the secrets of his prison
house will be revealed. •
Mr. Davis is entitled, by the usages
of nations, to the treatment of a general
officer and to the food and table service
pertaining thereto. Every European
Government would have recognized
that right, and Mr. Davis, knowing
that it was his, demanded it, in firm but
courteous language. lie refused to eat
the coarse food brutally thrown down
before him; and his right to proper
food has since been grudgingly allowed.
The placing of the manacles upon his
limbs is an outrage for Aftich there is
no excuse. He was not violent; he did
not knock down either one or two of his
guard; he had done nothing affording
the slightest pretext or provocation for
such an outrage. It was done to gratif
fy the most malignant feelings of res
venge and hatred, and it was not au
thorized by President Johnson. It is
pretended that the brutal act was or
tiered by General Miles, and that it was
sanctioned by telegraph by Secretary
Stanton. No resistance, except by
words, was made to this last indignity.
Who, but a crazy man, would have
thought of resisting a party of men
composed of an officer, a blacksmith,
and four stronm '
soldiers, all armed to
the teeth, with eight more soldiers at
hand ? All these facts, I repeat, will
one day be known to the world.
And now, how much more it would
comport with the honor and dignity of
the country ; how much more lustre
would it shed upon President Johnson's
Administration, if General Miles had
been directed to take the parole of Mr.
Davis not to escape, and then to have
allowed him the liberty of the Fortress
and a seat at the General's table? I
presume a great many of your readers
have seen Fortress Monroe, and remem
ber its internal arrangement. Guarded
as the prisoners could be, even with
this liberty allowed to him, his escape
would be literally impossible. With a
guard of 60 vigilant men, 20 on duty at
the time. with orders not to let him be
out of their sight for a moment, he
could not escape, even without his pa
role. It is not too late to change the
manner of his imprisonment even now.
It cannot be denied that, up to this time,
the indignities that have been heaped
upon Mr. Davis and his rigorous im
prisonment have not been owing to fears
of his escape, but in order to wreak
vengeance upon him for some fancied
complicity of his in the assassination.
Even to permit such things is unworthy
of a mind like President Johnson's, and
it may be hoped that lie will put a stop
to them. MALCOLM
Allegheny County Leads in Opposition to
President Johnson.
The first official declaration of the
Abolition party of Allegheny county,
places it in direct antagonism to the Ad
ministration of President Jbhnson, and
side by side with Wendell Phillips and
the New England revolutionists. The
Convention of Wecinesday,emphatically
resolved that "the people of the loyal
Northern States have the right to de
clare the conditions upon which the
people of the revolted States shall be
permitted to reorganize their State Gov
ernments." In another resolution one
of these "conditions" is thus set forth :
"That to permit any of the seceded States
to resume the exercise of the rights and
powers in the Union,
while refusing to
guarantee, by constitutional enactment, to
the loyal colored people of such States the
enjoyment of all the rights of citizenship,
including the elective francise, on the same
terms and to the same extent as they, may.
be guaranteed to the white people of these
States, would be inconsistent with sound
policy and the dictates of true patriotism,
they having performed welZand truly their
part in the great struggle for tuitional life."
The gist of all this high sounding lan
guage is, that as a " condition precedent"
to the re-organization of the revoted
States, negroes in those States must be
permitted to exercise the right of suf
frage and hold any or all State offices,
"on the same terms and to the same
extent as the white people."
President Johnson, in his North Caro
lina proclamation, rejects this " condi
tion precedent," and plants himself
squarely on the constitutional right of
the loyal citizens of the revolted States
to determine for themselves the identi
cal questions which our local radicals
assert Congress must control and de
cide.
Thus, at the very outset of the new
administration, it meets with direct op
position and embarrassment from those
who claim to be its especial and exclu
sive friends, while Wendell Phillips and
his jacobinism, are espoused and cham
pioned. The Convention should not
have stultified itself by a hypocritical
expression of confidence in the Presi
dent, and at the same time emphatically
indicated opposition to what promises to
be the great political question of his ad
ministration.
Query.—Do the intensified loyalists of
Allegheny county propose to embar
rass the Government?" to render " aid
and comfort" to its assailants? in a
word, have they concluded on "trea
son," and made up their minds to wear
the brand of " traitor ?" Or have they
lost all remembrance of applyihg these
terms to those who hitherto questioned
Executive infallibility. The portals of
Fort Lafayette opened on hundreds who
ventured upon such temerity. Political
conventions were dispersed for no great
er offense, and printing offices mobbed,
pulpits vacated, and communities dis
franchised. Let the Loyal Leaguers be
ware!—Pittsburg Post.
Who Payne Is
Who Payne is, the assassin of Secre
tary Seward, still remains a mystery.
Miss Brandon testified before the Court
that she knew him as far back as the
battle of Gettysburg, where he acted as
nurse in Union hospitals, and was call
ed Powell
AprommtENT.---Edward J. Iloye,
colored, who twenty years ago,
was a
- barber in Terre Haute, Ind., has been
appointed Chief Justice of Liberia, to
fill the vacancy occasioned by the death
of Rev. Boston J. Drayton
Address by the Governor.
Piniassri..warte EszcirrrvE CHAMBER,
Rizrwritrao, PA., June 10, 1863.
To the People of Pennsylvania:
The bloody struggle of four years is
ended. The fires of rebellion are quench
ed. The supremacy of la* and right is
re-established. The foulest treason re
corded in history has been beaten to the
earth. Our country is saved.
• These blessings we owe—ander God
—to the unequalled heroism—civic and
military—of the People. In the darkest
hours—under the heaviest discourage
ments—falter who would—they never
faltered.
They have been inspired with the de
termination to maintain the free Gov
ernment of our fathers—the continued
Union of our whole country—and the
grand republican principles which it is
their pride and duty to defend, for the
sake not only of themselves, but of the
human race.
I glory in saying that the people of
Pennsyllenia have been among the
foremost in the career of honor. Their
hearts have been in the contest. Their
means and theirblood have been poured
out like water to maintain it.
The remnants of the heroic bands
that left the soil to rescue their country,
are now retur.,ing, having honor
ably fulfilled their service. They
have left tens of thousands of their
brothers on many a bloody field.
Their memories will be preserved on
our rolls of honor. For their widows
and families, a grateful country will
suitably provide.
Let the survivors who are now return
ing to us have such welcome as it befits
a brave and patriotic people to give to
the gallant men who have saved the
country, and shed new lustre on Penn
sylvania.
I recommend that in every part of the
State, on THE APPROACHING ANNI
VERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE, special
observances be had of welcome to our
returned defenders and of commemora
tion of the heroic deeds of themselves
and their comrades who have fallen.
An Interview with Forrest—llls Versio
of the Fort Pillow Massacre.
A correspondent of the New Orleans
True Delta describes an interview with
the rebel General Forrest at Meridian,
Mississippi. Forrest, he says, is a man
of fine appearance ; about six feet in
height; dark, piercing, hazel eyes ; care
fully trimmed moustache and chin
whiskers—dark as night; finely-cut fea
tures and iron-gray hair. His form is
lithe, plainly indicating great physical
power and activity. The writer asked,
after some preliminary questions:
"Now that you have time, General,
Ito you think you will ever put upon
aperghe
, true account of the Fort Pil-
"Well," said he, "the Yankees ought
to know; they sent down their best men
to investigate the affair."
- -
"But are we to believe their repor
General?"
" Yes, if we are to believe anything a
nigger says. When I went into the
war, I meant to fight. Fighting means
killing. I have lost twenty-nine horses
in the war, and have killed a man each
time. The other day I was a horse
ahead, but at Selma they surrounded
me and I killed two—jumped my horse
over a one-horse wagon, and got away."
I began to think I had some idea of the
man at last. He continued : "My
provost marshal's book will show that
I have taken. thirty-one thousand
prisoners during the war."
"At Fort Pillow I sent in a flag of
truce, and demanded an unconditional
surrender, or I would not answer for my
men. This they refused. I sent them
another note, giving them one hour to
determine. This they refused. I could
see on the river, boats loaded with
troops. They sent back, asking for an
hour more. I gave them twenty min
utes. I sat on my horse during the
whole time.
The fort was filled with niggers and
deserters from our army—men who
lived side by side with my own men. I
waited five minutes after the time, and
then blue my bugle for the charge. In
twenty minutes my men were over the
works, and the firing had ceased. The
citizens and Yankees had broken in the
heads of whisky and lager-beer barrels,
and were all drunk. They kept up
firing all the time, as they went down
the hill. Hundreds of them rushed to
the river and tried to swim to the gun
boats, and my men shot them down.
The Mississippi river was red with their
blood for three hundred yards.
"During all this, their flag was still
flying, and I rushed over the works and
cut the hallyards, and let it down and
stopped the fight. Many of the Yankees
were in tents in front, and they were in
their way, as they concealed my men,
and some of them set them on fire. If
they were burned to death, it was in
these tents.
"They have a living witness in Cap
tain Young, their quartermaster; and I
will leave it to any prisoner I have ever
taken if I have not treated them well."
Darkey Rebellion in the Car
On Tuesday last, a colored gal got on
board the morning train, East, on the
Baltimore Central Railroad, at Avon
dale, and, passing by the seats assigned
to passengers of her color, with great
boldness took possession of one of the
middle seats of the car. When the con
ductor came along for the tickets, he
quietly informed her that she was not in
the proper place, and requested leer to
take a back seat before reaching the
next station. When the train arrived
at New Garden, wenchey was still in
her choice seat. The conductor again
asked her to change, and she refused.
He gently put his hand upon her to
ease her up, but she held back and
showed a disposition to resist. De
siring to avoid anything like a fuss with
the impudent creature, the conductor
was about leaving her, when she broke
out upon him in a loud voice; told him
she had heard of him before ; that he
could not make hersit where he pleased;
that he was a mean fellow; and, (per
haps by way of showing her loyalty),
denounced him as a " copperhead."
She having thus fired the first gun
and opened the the war, the conductor
concluded that this rebelTion against
his rightful authority under the laws
laid down by his superiors, must be at
once suppressed. In order to effect this
without injury to the person of the re
bellious passenger, he called to his aid
the brakesman, and baggage master;
and they, not in a violent, rude or angry
manner, but as gently as possible, picked
up Miss Wenchey, carried her out, and
carefully deposited her upon the ground,
shd however during the process, vocif
erating " murder ; and making all the
noise and resistance in her power. The
train then Moved forward, and peace,
law, order reigned in all the cars. Such
is our report from disinterested and re
liable sources. It so happened that the
conductor denounced by the colored gal
as " a copperhead," is a verydecided Re
publican, and was an ardent supporter
of Lincoln. We have frequently travel
ed in trains under his charge, and,
though differing from him in politics,
we cannot but say that he always de
meaned himself with the greatest pro
priety towards passengers, and we be
lieve he is universally regarded as a
very civil gentlemanly conductor.—
Westchester Jeffersoniau.l
Opinion of Stephen A. Douglas.
In the discussions before the people of
Illinois just previous to his last election
to the U. S. Senate, Judge Douglas said:
" I hold that a Negro is not, and
never ought to be a citizen of the United
States. I hold that this Government
was made upon a white basis by white
menJor the benefit of white men and
their' posterity forever, and should be
administered by white men and none
others. I do not believe that the
Almighty made the Negro capable of
self-government.
" Now I say to you, my fellow-citi
zens, that in my opinion, the signers of
the Declaration of Independence_ had
no reference to the Negro whatever
when they declared all men created
equal. They desired to express by that
phrase, white men of European birth,
European descent f lind had no reference
to the Negro, the savage Indians or
other inferior or degraded races. At
that time every one of the thirteen
Colonies was a slave-holding colony,
and every signer of the Declaration
represented a slave-holding constitu
ency, and we know that no one of them
emancipated his slaves, much less
offered citizenship to them when they
signed the Declaration."
A CORRESPONDENT of the Shippens
burg News proposes the purchase of a
home in the Cumberland 'Valley for
General Sheridan, who "cleaned out';
the rebel General Early in the Valley
of Virginia.
General Grant's Arrival at the Military
Academy.
[Correspondence or the World-1
W.V.sr POINT, Thursday, June 8.
General Grant arrived here shortly
before 11 &clock to-day. He left New
York in the steamer Henry Burden,
which was plentifully bedecked with
flags, fore and aft and upon her wheel
houses. Grant and lady took places
above the cabin under the awning, and
while they chatted pleasantly in the
blue atmosphere of his cigar, the aids in
true soldierfashion drew corks and grew
merry below stairs. The general's un
mistakable figure and physiognomy
were recognized even from the shore,
'and all the way along the North river
he was hailed by platoons of cheers.--
The clay was fine and the Hudson
sparkled with graceful sails, under
which the various crews, on the lookout
for Grant, gave him the benefit of their
hats and voices. To all of these he
either made standing obeisance or took
off his corded hat.
Itis remarkable how well Grant stands
the heat and'worry of popular ovations.
He is the toughest man in the service,
both for fighting and for squeezing; yet
all the while his twinkling good humor
is prolonged, as if the cigar he smoked
was an invigorator.
Meantime, at West Point and Coz
zens all the country people were gather
ing.
The Cozzens House has in it a tall and
mantled figure, who walks upon the
piazza slowly, with the assistance of a
staff. He may be six feet five inches
high, and in his lofty shadow we lesser
men seem members of a degenerate
race. His hair is very thin and white,
like a new-born child's ; upon his blood
less and furrowed, yet plethoric face,
there are marks harsher than time, and
the grand stature is a little stooping,
as
if invisible years were heaped upon his
broad shoulders. He wears soft slip
pers, and his voice is broken, like one
who talks in sickness: All the boys
and grown-up folks look at him as he
passes, and then their eyes wander and
grow abstract, as if they saw behind
him a phantom panorama conjured up
by his age. His dress is civil; he is
very kind andgrave, and when he speaks
in his feeble way, his long arm raises,
and the index finger has in its sweep the
ghost of high command. His face is
large and his eye has the wreck of splen
dor about it. This is Winfield Scott.
The old lieutenant-general, to give the
new one a fitting reception, attired him
self this morning in a handsome dress
coat of blue, with yellow silk lappels
and golden buttons ; he wore no shoul
der bar, and the remainder of his dress
was altogether citizen, except his vest
of white Marseilles, which buttoned
with the regulation eagle.
At eleven o'clock the Henry Burden,
which had been signaled far below,
came up to Cozzens' Landing, but to
everybody's disappoinment, did not
stop. There was at once a general va
cation of the Cozzens' House, all the
teams on the place being required to
convey half the guests to West Point.
The landing at the latter place had
meanwhile received the taut little ves
sel, and Grant and party disembarked.
The entire body of distinguished visi
tors numbered only a handful. There
was Mrs. Grant, a plump and sensible
lady, who seemed conscious that her
husband was the honored guest, and she
only reflective of his greatness ; Mrs.
Waller, a fair and intelligent lady, just
past youth; Miss Stetson , the pretty and
modest daughter of the proprietor of the
Astor House; Colonel Parker, Grant's
big Indian ; Colonel Badeau, and Col.
Bowers, Grant's aids; Captains Ammon
and Babcock, aids also; Generals Hunt
and Augur, of the New York headquar
ters. These got into carriages at once
with Captain Boynton, adjutant of the
post, General Cullum and some other
minor officers. They drove straight
through the grounds of West Point,
where many visitors were already as
sembled, and passing the cadet barracks
received tremendous cheers from the
young gentlemen in gilt and gray.
At the residence of the superinten
dent, the ladies adjusted their toilets,
as all ladies will do, even on state oc
casions.
After this they all repaired to the
library, where the examination was
being conducted. The spacious hall
was plentifully filled ; all the visitors,
with the exception of Doctor Campbell,
being in their places, and about a hun
dred brilliantly dressed ladies occupied
places sitting and standing along the
walls.
General Grant's entrance was the
signal for the cadets to suspend their
display of mineralogy and the test of
the hydro-oxygen blow-pipe. He was
upon the arm of Cullum, his wife fol
lowed in the escort of Adjutant Boyn
ton, and other officers of the Point
brought in Mrs. Waller and Miss Stet
son.
"Gentlemen of the Board of Visitors.
A. G. CIIRTTN
said General Cullum, " I present to you
Lieutenant-General Grant."
All rose, and the general shook hands
immediately with each of the board,
and afterward with the faculty. He
then presented several of them to his
wife, who remained seated. She wore
a bonnet of orange straw, gauze bosom,
and a splendid lace shawl and a travel
ing dress.
While the various gentlemen of the
board paid their respects to Mrs. Grant,
the general invaded the ladies' side and
took the hands of all of them. There
were some beautiful young girls, just
turning womanhood, who pressed up to
him and spoke ; and at the request of
some of these, he sat at a desk and wrote
his autograph. There were no speeches;
the customary dignity of the room was
for a time suspended, and when the
doors were closed, and sentries placed
upon them to keep the crowd back, the
place within was transformed to a chatty
and agreeable drawing-room.
After a lapse of time the lessons were
resumed, and then General Grant took
up a bound report of the institution,
and silently looked over it.
The visit to General Scott took place
at 1 o'clock. It is a mile from the point
to Cozzens, and two barouches took all
the party. As these passed the little
Gothic church, and turned into the pic
turesque lawn, a gun boomed out from
the ferry below, and the grand piazza,
crowded with beauty and manliness,
sang out glad cheers to welcome the
herb of the republic.
He alighted from his carriage, and
seized the hand of the grim old veteran
of former wars.
" General Scott," said Ulysses, "1 bid
you all good wishes. I am pleased to
see you well !"
"And you, general," said 'Winfield,
" I thank God that you have passed
through so much peril and glory un
harmed. Welcome to my bachelor
home !"
The dense crowd fell back reverenti
ally, and arm in arm the little man
went under the shadow of the colossal
figure of whom he had read in his child
hood. Age and strength, the veteran
and the commander, they went together
through the breezy, wide hall, and turn
ed into the great drawing-room.
There they sat side by side, and the
ladies were presented to the general of
Lundy's Lane.
s he stooped down to take them each
by the hand, the people who had fol
lowed them in uncovered, and the old
man said something touching and
courtly to each.
Then Grant and Scottchatted gravely
together as to the present and the past,
and while thef satin mutual reverence,
the people in couples and by single file
'lked up and took the hands of both.
They partook of a collation, chatting
pleasantly as they sipped foaming cham
pagne, and after awhile they gave each
other the right hand of fellowship again,
and Grant joined his carriage to tre
mendous cheering.
While the ladies at Roe's Hotel were
getting themselves up fur the grand
dinner, Grant and a few of the Point
officers went around the buildings, of
which they are many at the Point.
They visited the cool and solemn chapel,
whose walls contain black slabs of pol
ished marble, commemorative of the
good patriots who have fallen in battle;
they looked up to Kosciusko's monu
ment in passing, and drove to the plaza,
where, among historic trophies, re
poses the remnant of that prodigious
chain stretched across the Hudson in
the Revolution.
' The dinner given to General Grant by
the board of visitors commenced at half
past 4 o'clock, and was truly a magnifi
cent affair. Fifty-four plates were held,
and the entertainment, served by Mr.
Roe, was rare and excellent beyond
anything knowh at the Point.
General Scott was obliged by feeble
ness to decline an invitation forwarded
to him.
In the evening at six o'clock General
Grant reviewed the battalion of engi
neers, Colonel Black commanding. The
young fellows mustered about 1,201, and
passed creditably through many 'diffi
cult evolutions. About five hu dred
FIIOII WEST POINT.
spectators were' present. At the:end of
the review, amid the firing of cannon,
the general took his departure for Al
bany.
Gerrit Smith's Speech.
His Views as to the Punishment of
Traltorg
• •
Gerrit Smith addressed a large audi
ence in New York, on the Bth, holding
that the way to a permanent peace lies
through justice and love. As one of the
founders of the Abolition party, his re
' marks possess peculiar interest. We
quote the points of his argument :
"The South, in plunging this nation
into war, committed the great crime of
the age. The North, under the persist
ent clamors of press and pulpit to punish
the South for treason, is in danger of
committing the mean crime of the age.
All over the North there is clamor for
the blood of the leading rebels whom
we have captured and those whom we
hope yet to capture. I have no sym
pathy with this clamor. The South
fully surrendering, let bloodshed cease,
and all punishment. Of course I have
no reference here to the assassination of
our beloved President, nor to the starv
ing and murdering of prisoners. Let
all merited punishment fall on those
who are guilty of these infamous and
infernal crimes. His position was
simply this—that the South shall
not be punished for the rebellion, or, to
use other words, the South shall not be
punished for treason. He admitted that
she had been guilty of treason, but con
tended that she should not be punished
for treason, because the North agreed
that she should not be. The North
came very reluctantly to the agree
ment to conduct the war according to
the rules of war, by which he meant
the rules of international war. He went
on to say that the South was treated as
a belligerent, and read copious extracts
from Vatel,Hallam,Macauley and other
writers, to show that the North treated
the South in that way because the laws
of war required it. He was not willing
that it should go down through all the
ages and over all the earth that millions
of his countrymen were pardoned
traitors. Another reason why our civil
war should be 'conducted according
to the laws of war was found in the
fact that where great masses of men
took very momentous and very respon
sible steps it was not only charitable,
but just, to conclude that they had a
sincere and deep belief in the wisdom
and rightfulness of such steps, and that
they had, in fact, no little reason for
taking such steps. He was of the
opinion that if our government had re
fused to conduct the war according to
the laws of war we should have lostour
cause and country. Where such
great num ers o len carry on a war
we may will belive there has been suf
fering enough in it, especially to the
defeated party, without adding punish
ment at the close of it for treason."
Mr. Smith held that the North was
to blame as well as the South, and that
the pro-slavery spirit—the cause of all
our troubles—existed in each locality.
Booth, he said, was a product of the
North as well as of the South ; be was
moulded by northern pulpits, northern
presses, and northern spirits, as well as
by Southern pulpits, presses, and
usages."
Horace Greely was called out. He
said be was in favor of trying all men,
North and South, who had violated the
laws of war by starving and shooting
prisoners; but they could not be
brought to trial unless it was assumed
that the laws of war governed the con
test. When that was proved the men
who were paroled under the
. laws of
war—he did not care if it wa'4 Lee—
could not be tried or hung without a
black violation of faith.
A Difference
We invite a comparison between the
spiritof the following resolutions, adopt
ed by the General Baptist Association
of Virginia, on the sth of June, and the
action which characterized the General
Assembly recently in session in Pitts
burg. It will not reflect very favorably
on the violence and church property
zeal of the Old School Assembly, for
while the Baptist resolutions breathe
the spirit of enlightened Christianity,
their " deliverance " was far from merit-
ing such praise :
WHEREAS, The unfortunate and deso
lating war in which this country has,
for four years, been involved, has been
brought to a conclusion ; and
WHEREAS, It is the manifest design
of an All-wise Providence that the States
of the American Union shall continue
under one Government ; therefore
Resolved, That whatever may have
been our past views, aims or eilbrts, re
garding issues which have divided the
Northern and Southern States, we deem
it our duty as patriots and Christians,
to accept the order of Providence, yield
unreserved and faithful obedience to
the powers that be; and to cultivate
such a spirit, and to pursue such a
course of conduct, as shall best promote
the peace and prosperty of the country.
And we earnestly recommend to our
brethren throughout the State to prove
themselves to be loyal; citizens of the
United States, and to enter, with zeal
and activity, upon the dtscharge of the
responsibilities devolve on them by
their new social and civil relations.
The Opposition of the Radicals
The Nashville Union, which may,
perhaps, be regarded as the home organ
of President Johnson, in its issue of the
Gth inst., says:
"The failure of the Administration
to come up to the standard of the most
progressive of the anti-slavery radicals,
will, probably, cause the formation of a
strong opposition party, composed of
active, enterprising, aggressive ele
ments. The loss of these to the Admin
istration party might be regarded with
seriousness, were it not for the assurance
that their places would soon be filled
by steadier and more reliable supporters.
If this should be the result, the country
would be benefitted by the change.
" The policy of clothing a race of
people unlettered, and ignorant not
only of the ordinary affairs of the Gov
ernment, but of business life, with the
ballot, is not a thing to be determined
in the midst of excitement, and with
out deliberation. Too much is involved
in the result to justify anything like
haste or want of proper investigation.
The interest of both races and of our
institutions, are in the scale. We trust,
therefore, that, notwithstanding the de
mands of the inconsiderate, the admin
istration will not be swerved from the
matured policy announced."
The Dead Letter Office
The public may be surprised to learn
that the number of letters which are
now being received at the dead letter
office, sent there under the new law,
which makes prepayment of postage
compulsory, amounts to more than
15,000 per week. These figures denote
great carelessness or ignorance of the
law on the part of the senders of these
letters. The public should remember
that the old law allowing letters not
prepaid to be sent forward according to
the address and double postage collect
ed of the , receivers, has been repealed ;
that now every letter not entitled to be
carried through the mails free must
have a stamp upon it, or it is sent ei the
dead letter office. Especial care should
be taken by every person to observe at
the time of depositing a letter in the
post office that the postage stamp is
firmly fixed upon It. Such attentive
scrutiny would soon reduce the number
of letters "held for postage," and con
sequently prevent the embarrassments
and vexatious delays now arising from
this class of letters.
TIIE Pittsburg Gazette is in favor of
striking the word white out of our State
Constitution. The matter will be
brought before the next Legislature in
the form of a proposed amendment.
This is the first step towards striking
out the white race altogether by amal
gamation with the blacks.
Blair County.
At a meeting of the Democratic
County Committee' of Blair, held at
Hollidaysburg on the 31st ult., Dr. J. P.
Thompson, of 'Williamsburg, was se
lected as the delegate to the State Con
ventim, to be held on the 24th of Au.
gust.