VIE LANCASTER INTELLIGENCER, PUBLISHED EVERY WHONISDAY DY H. 0. SMITH et CO. 11. G. SMITH, A. J. STEINMAN. TERMS—Two Dollars per annum payable In all cases in advance. THE LA:COASTER DAILY INTELLIGEN p CER a l. Erllll,)ullslaininuevmerlyneaTdevnainnf.Sunday mom t OFEICE—SorTnwEsT POILXHIL Da CENTRE QUAILS.. Vortrp. [For the Intolllgeneer.] =MD ()It, nit•mory I gentle memory, Thi•re's triagic in thy strain; COlllO tshen thou wilt 011th the soul In pleasure or In pain; And when thought's fairy fingers run Acres:, thy golden strings, Nauvlit on the; earth eau Wu, ein(.l The o.l'lll its music brings; For Its sweet and softening port r The soul Is lulled to sleep; And o'er the heart steals a repose, Profound, and pure, atilt deep. Oh, memory ! bllsful latunury ! 'Flion sheLhlest peace WI 10111; thy power r n usetll Joyn :\ till love to mitring to birth; lfhere's not a heart, however nolo, 11,twever t:h.opell in sir', fl it what, thou clnsl 111111 SOIIII. retreat. 'l'llgain :an entrant, in, 111,11 f, of heaven 111111, Lilit It gulden harps and love, Let n. rejoice that memory. Shall follow tis ahoy. f+lisrettameous. Deceli e(1 The Incumbent or ling.fthol I had j 11,4. arrival from Oxford, and ,tandin.4 at Om I,ook-rgall of the I'aildillgll,ll tct•ini HUH, inquiring for a .01,,wap, edition of one of LeVer'S 110VC1,1, 'illll.ll n middh• raged III:III, a clergyman, came up to 111es:tine stall, and 11,1“01111e hu-Ming 111.NV•paps t . 111011, who sets busy folding a lunolle of newsimpers still wet from the press, fora snr•ond-111111 copy. of warbortow., ('rcxrrnt. and !hr Cro. I hardly knew wlly, but i Mt face of my MI Myr-pm . .. 11:1,T ruck tie remark able one; :Lrel 'wingn little of au and a1....it as pity,,i4.grionii,t, I _aye him a Mug. and ,tmlimis look.— ll' ma , n tall, ,trongly-malle clergy man, in high church ccostnine: Ii t coat, CAS! , ,,Pi: Wnistemit and I{omen culler, tunl there Wag drt•p Lund of 1,11111 his lint. A high wide brow, dooply furrntccd 1,3; contemplation; cold, gray vyrs; a claw-pressed and a full, Lold rhiu, indicating an inflexible will, were the chief pnintii 0 1, H frooil, oaindiining tii produve ILe face ora roan i.l Ffir a ?fib:dim:fry or it II:tvolm•k the sOl.lior and --such a fai•o,ounioil t•Vt . ry 111:11111,q, IIIi.4IILIELVVIR,OII lio,l Toy collt•g,., :14 tny ill the illy firm, 11, illy olootor iu llio limn . a , lily priest, :In IllY 1ii , h4,11, I could hate bk•li,V(q1:111111.01111- di•cl wall. A iting,iletie scitse ,e1'111,.11 lu 11:1-. frolil hint :11111 ii,tataly \v,alo•i• nitt,ll'."' I " 'l'\\ I illine~ 1 tool: out lily pur , ,, hut I found to I liatl nu worn :Ltd only th, tV:1) L . 20 !lofts my fatin.r had tr Illy trip to Corn wal I. " I :tin Z.0 . 1 . V, " 141 flit, 111/)l\':`.l:ii] iiiiVe f/I),i/VIT, and Only LW,, .C2ii WIN,. I 'Oil/I/1,4( . 1 ( . 1/id(' nut tak the I/111/k and hit* it, \\Awn I rctUrll- Ctlfl'olll "Nol emititty," said the malt he to- I'vis ihitit• that mice ttio orlon. N.., nut fir nevi! not he itt,ittent," 1 rather "\\'r givt. tlik cs !" " Pray ve;hr plr:uurr t 144• 1,44,1; ill 4014 , ,ii44:1," said lily j' 114,w 14111.4.11'.1 , -4•1., ,14.41,14itig 14,ward 11111 4 "I 1 11.1,11, I 111 ': 11.11 Y 11,1 ' 1, Y Yr"' \v're 4.4,1144_4; 11'4.-1 In 1'4,11 4‘v;411. a :lin I. WI. 110- 111:11ilo.t1 liiri, tif•ck•plod cxplailw,1111:11 I 114)te, in illy ...11V1 . 1% tl. till' I:reNt \Ve , iprri 11”101. wa- , he. 1\ ly ;111,1 he believed, ie1 . 1,1-.1 cone 011 by the saint \Ve walked together to the hotel. Ile proved 1110. t ag:reealde ; a thorough traveled inan full of alter dote and hutininue-itlltision. Reverend henry Viearago, I;agshol, that \Vas lilt. 1111. addli•ss litl Wr Mood in ft,. 1,0,1 taking stir !nal roout. We WL•Ill boill, W 0 found, going to Exeter, hy the 7:11 I. M., train lhr nest day. I one of my Hole., paid hack the sinall suin ',arrow ed, thanked narte,.l. "I lope !nee! ii.galo," lie said parlirez. Il e lit porter who carried hia trunk 1,22', upstairs. I \Vatelit.4l liiut Its he Went Mil col and Said to 'Tiuit \v”s lu,ru fi,ra,ult,s iiinti or ; What a 'lily such a utiul .should lie roslrirlril to (Ile 11011', ran. , a sill:III 11,1114111 HI . i•Vt•l'y our Was in lii.: tik world \v , all.l he very I \vont to the theaue that night to see the it , t horh•-iitie, as eager for London an I ix ford man \Obi had been 1'1,1,1111'4' hard for degree might. hr lu\rduuoil for Leine. I did nit stay l'or die Inst. piece, itid got back to the howl about half-pa.t VieVell. 'Co while half:111 ilOlll . I ,11 , 11i , 211 hill/ the near the hotel. There was a ralli-dt sort "r pseudo-military 111311 Isere playing with a friend, a little Jew. They played reasonably well, and oin, t \dee the Captain Ins lie was ealled made a winning hazard that rather :tsbutislted me, had it not been obviously the elfeet of luck in., that' skin. .kt the end of the game the Jew left, :ind the Captain :titer one or two experimental -.I rokes, in which he fail ed, asked nie if I had any' ohjection to a game. I accopted the invitation, being rat lie.r proud of my play. Just :Is I had selected my rue and chalked the end, the little Jew returned and perched him self on a high ,eat close to the marker. Five shilling , a game the Captain pro jit,t to prevent it being insipid. " One get, so careless," lie said, " if elle titieSll . l play ytos s , he kind enough to touch the bell. I must hsll wane lirandy hot. That infernal eh:imp:l,4lm Wl' 11:01 lee-, I ilerlil.lli, 11:1110 Ile' feel suite The Waiter 1,11110, 11114 II gulp or the brandy, the Captain said he felt notre I, and 1o:e11em.. or two very lair strokes; then fill tin' again, missed Ip ice. " pried, pen', Ile ; "r 1,1111" said the I shalt put till 111111)ey ou this gentleman, fie . I 111,1 1 1, MI, o r thr e e v e ry good strokes iu sacee,ion, ono oenra,l.l by this praise mss that 1 ; livery time I ..cored, the Jew roll,l 1111e1: i 1 his Seat 111111 051i:1ill, : " Stroke, indeed !" A, I turned to chalk my cue and take the red ball out of the left hand top pocket, into which I I Lall struck it, I SilW it, Illy 51111iiii-ie, the stern, calm face of my friend of the morning fixed steadily on me. Ile had corm , nl un noticed by me, and was sitting near the marker, and speaking to hint in a low voice. I nodded to hint, and went on With the Which 1 Well ill it Canter. " Like Illy eonfouti,dcd luck!" said the Captain, to , -iti_ down the tive shit lings,:mil spitefully di , zging his cue into the chalk till it a,tually squeaked with pain ; but I'm always a happy go lurks' ; come, I'll have another go." " 'l' I lot ' s right, Fred," said the Jew, " never say die: but, lord, you're no match for this gentleman. You never, could do the long stroke, you never put Side enough ell, Lilies he, marker The drowsy marker, who had been ineehanically doling at the seore„slirtig ged his shoulders and said : " The Captain plays a very good game When he tries; but he does not always leave 'cm as he should do." "Suppose we have a little noire liquid before we begin again," said the I'm,- tain to me. " \\Amt shall it lie? I fen awfully dry. Let's have some more brandy. I can't hit it, somehow, to night at all. How awfully I missed that last earom !" " Well, you did," said the Jew. " \V hy, I believe I could have got that.'' "Of course, you could ; you can do any thing. ' P ouch the bell, marker; thank you. Excuse me a moment, sir ; I must go and secure a bed. I didn't tell them I should sleep here. Come along Mosy and See about yours." The moment they had gone, the Vicar of 13agshot came straight up to me with a very serious and earnest expression on his face. " You may think me intrusive," Ile said, "but do let me strongly advise you not to play another game with that fel low. That's 'Macdougall, one of the most notorious billard sharpers in Lon don; the Jew is an accomplice. The rascal has let you win the first game; VOLUME 71 he'll now propose higher stakes, and win. Take care too, or they'll doctor your brandy. They've gone out now to get something to make it get into your head faster before the bettings. I have no motive, you must see, but the inter est I feel for a young man unacquainted with London tricks. Hush: here they come." Just at that moment the brandy and the two thieves came in. I observed the Jew instantly go toward the smok ing glasses and stir one of them round as bc turned his back to use. The captain pulled off his coat, turn ed up his right shirt-cuff, and spotted the red ball with Lis usual gay non chalance. "You begin," Le said. "'Thank you," -aid I, putting on toy coat, "I don't think I 011111 play any more to-night." " Not play? not play", why, you en gaged with me," lie said, looking.round the room in surprise, half in suspicion, half in anger. "May I ask, sir, what has produced this sudden change of in tention " Marker," said I, you may take that hrandy and water—l have had enough ; I'm afraid you'll find it rather strong." " U, I see," said the Captain, unmask ing at once and advancing threateningly toward the Vicar, who wits watching him like a hawk. "'Phis fellow here, whoever he may he, has lien good enough to slander me and 111 V friend while my hack was turned. And pray, sir, who arc you As he said this he walked up to the Vicar, nourishing the butt end of his cue menacingly. " I don't know your name," he said with a long, impudent, fixed " or where you are parson, but you'r as like a lag I onee kiIL.W in Auartlia ns turn You remcmher Gentleman Jack, :Vlosy " or course, I do, and, sv . vill Me, hint he's the very illiagu of him," jaltbered the Jew. • " You Were, then, I pre,tllne, in the same chain-gang," said the Vicar, :Ls he rose and clenched his list. " I'll bear this insolence no longer. You are both notorious billiard sharpers; the marker knows it, and has been paid for admit ting you. The police till know you. One word more and I'll ring the hell and send the waiter for a constable and give you in (liarge. Now you be MI: I won't take the trouble to knock down this sham Captain fur his incidence—a feat her would do that. (bo, both olyou; I'll not let my friend here be robbed by two such pitiful thieves." The Captain was, a poltroon. r saw that he could have stabbed the Vicar on the spot. Fits odor conic 111111 Went. lle had once resolved 4,11 a rush then a liar sei•r.ed him, as he saw his adVersary standing like a tu:u•Lle statue—a pha lanx in himself. .Mtitterilltr and curs ing the two rascals slunk away, like Satan from the spear or the archangel. " Perfect, st ranger to toe, I assure you, gents," said the Marker; " never seed 'mu afore in my life." Yon don't take to your brandy," said 1. "4,11'1 ',ow lu care for any int:re, thank ptti ‘1 , 4,1.1 ply rer t 1 1:11Pli " l le dittisn't deserve it, but still lnc, said the Vicar. 511 I " The police shall know how these rooms are contlueted, depend upon it," he said to the marker its we heft; " you !night :IS garrote a man at once.— \Vital it city !" lie said tome as we turn ed to the hotel ;ibid. I thanked him for his good advice. " Melt, :1 whirlimcd of gutless iniquity! Adulterated bread— Wille-1111111terated beer— adulterated nicilieines —the vtir:y• :clut tering ingredients themselves adul terated! .At every loot one NV;likS a snare, in every street it pit fall; virtlie only vire disguised, and vice itself at like virtue as if she was her twin sister; sham every thing! When trill the lire descend upon it \\lien trill the fire descend!'" it the colree rc0:11, where we sat till - half all Muir, I expressed my surprii4e at the Vicar's entering a public billiard room. \ ' i/11 du 111q.1:11i , sr me," he said. " ant like l'aley ; I ;on never afraid of humlitigs. I like to see the devil's schemes, that I may counteract thrill. \N'e I'lliirtili-of-England men I:now too little of the world ; that is win' the lie fiats and Asmodes of cities cheat and fool us so often and outrageously. 1 tnal:e a point when I visit the metro polis of going to such Another night you might have unit me at the erenitirne, or in the equitlly dangerous I Alhambra. It is my duty, sir, and ho \v- I ever unpleasant, I go every wht•re to SOU Sill 111111 hilly in their flood-title. You will at least admit that my experience of rascality has been useful to you to night." " I o‘ve you a thou,and than k,," I roidied. "I had heard of billiard ,barp ttr,, but had never met any before." " I think I'll wish Vail a good night now," he said, "as I am accustomed to early country hours, and begin to feel what children call the 'sandman' busy with my eyes. 'Po-morrow, then, at 7:15 we inert. hood 'tight.'' So [ wished the vicar good night, and we purled. I was out nearly all day, making calls, and transacting business. I got back to the hotel about half past six, ordered down my luggage, and asked if the Itev. Mr. Atkins was gone. The porter said he was on the platform waiting for me. Ile had just paid his hill anif taken his luggage forward. . „ 1 took my ticket, tun did not see him. I got my luggage labeled for Exeter; still lie did not appear; but \Olen the guard opened the door of a first-class carriage for ins, I found a plaid told some books nn the opposite seat. "There's a gentleman, sir, a clergy man, taken that seat. lle'S Leon look ing fi n • a friend. I suppose that's you, sir. If he don't look sharp he'll miss the train." 'rile guard had already conic for his tickets. The sharp try "'rake your seat !" had just gone forth when the vicar came running up, and said, "Open this door, guard.'' The guard opened the door, and the vicar took his place, laughingly, opposite me. I hardly knew him at lint, for he wore a large dark overcoat, and hail on a traveling cap drawn over his eyes and naps over his ears. lle hail a roll of papers and two magazines in his hand. "How I hate this fuss and hurry!" he said, :Is he folded his plaid over his legs; how I nit, this:lest:l:aim' of :ill individuality ! \\Then I was young., the conch-journey Nvas a deliberate, quiet Mr:dr—the traveler was a recognized in ~lividuslily' 'rho coachmen :ind guard knew von, and ehattted ; the ostler chat ted ; die insides and outride knew you, and chatted. There was interest in every village; the people came out to see yoti pass; the 111111 in net. NV a, 1111 I using. Now you are a mere parcel sent by train. the signalman, are mere ma chi illeB lint eared for hy you, and not caring for you. NN'hiz, rattle, battle, scream, hiss ! away you arc flashed, and the only thing to break the journey is the name of a station so prOnOWICCII as In be unintolligilde." I laughed, and hinted at the annoy ances, delay and dangers of the old sys tem—the overladen coaches, the exurb:- , ant landlords, the endless fees. "Well, - he said, "perhaps in a future age of balloons oreleetric-spark express- es, people will talk of the delight of railway traveling. The past is always praised in order to spite the present." Then we fell to reading. We had scarcely begun before—whirr '—the darkness of it tunnel fell upon us. "It is always so," said my amusing companion. "I never began to read in a railway in my life that we did nut pass through a tunnel." My traveling companion was an extra ordinary person. He had been every where, and seen every - thing. No capi tal of Europe but he knew intimately. „ You seem surprised at my having traveled so much, but when I was at Ox ford I spent till my long vacations in traveling ; and during the time I was in the army, before serious convictions in duced me to enter the church, I saw something of the colonies. The Vicar's information seemed bound less. He discussed the geology of Devon shire and the mineralogy of Cornwall. He had views on military tactics and artillery. He was interested in engin eering and chemistry, and seemed quite conversant with all the latest discoveries in the latter science. "I went the other day,'' he said to me, as it began to grow dark, " to a lec ture on alchemy. The Professor ex pressed his belief in great discoveries shortly to be made, in something that would supersede coal and steam, in wrial navigation, and in transmutation of metals. But tire you ? " " Not at all." " He expressed his own and Liebig's beliekthat the manufacture of diamonds and gold - would soon be possible by the merest tyro. He showed us small ru bies that had been produced by chemi cal action. There seemed no bound to the discoveries this thoughtful man did not suggest—the principle of beef and corn from the common earth, gold and jewels from the very road side flints ; gold soon would, lie said, be of no value, poverty would disappear from the earth ; new manures would turn the deserts into prairies, and double the resources of the world. He ridiculed steam ; he—" All this was profoundly interesting; but somehow or other, wearied by along day's fagging about London, I felt drow sy, and the words of my companion seemed suddenly to change into a buz, buz, hue, buz, that kept in cadence with the sound of the train as it tore through part of Devonshire. I fell asleep and a dream arose before me. I was alone at night in a railway carriage with a mum who thought me asleep. He stole toward the door, un locked it quietly with a railway key he took front his pocket, and opened it. 'then rifling my pockets, (some strange numbness pc,: .enting my crying out, he dragged one to the door, and shot rte out into the darkness. The horror of that moment, and some rustling move ment in the carriage, awoke me. .I. scarcely knew why, but a strange in stantaneous caution prevented me mov ing or at once opening my eyes. At that moment I felt a light hand, with prac ticed care, touch - my breast pocket, where my money was, and felt hot breath upon my c l uck, as if some 01w was listening to, my breathing. Presently 1 felt the breath no longer nor the motion of the hand, and heat'd my companion—for the breath and the hand were his—return to his scat. A tnoment or two after, without moving, I opened one eye for a Moment only, and to my horror and surprise saw the Vicar sitting at the further window perfectly bait and with a wig in his hand—a pair mustaehes and a beard were on Zi..4 7 :l'itatee:t, and he was slipping a pair of large green spectacles into a shagrecn case, a little bottle and a small sponge were on the cushion by his side. What did this mean ? \Vas it possi ble this intellectual, thoughtful clergy man was, after all, only a common swindler - flying from justice. What should I do? Should I at once arise and denounce him? No; he might. Le armed, and 'night shoot or stab toe be nire I could summon the guard or arrive at the next station. No. ' F reselved to lie still, and wait till I could either change earriages or inform the police. 'l'he train rattled on Os if bound to rush forever through illimitable space —on, on, through the yielding darkness. All at once a strange medicated smell spread around me before I could open my eyes, a sponge steeped in chloroform was pressed chokingiv tight over my nose and mouth. I tried to resist, but [ felt an irresistible faintness creep swiftly over me at the Caine moment toy watch and purse flew from my pockets and I was dashed back contemptuously upon the seat—a living corpse. When I awoke, I was lying in the Exeter Hospital, faint, and exhausted, and scareely able to move. The doctor said I had had so heavy a dose of chlor oform, that toy recovery had for a long time seemed doubtful. 1 need hardly say that I had been stripped M . every thing by my friend, the Vicar, who was professional thief of the highest class. About two years after that event the following pargraph met toy eye in a , Leeds paper: "STRANGE DEATif tiE A Tim:v.—On Thursday a first class passenger by the night Mail North fell from a carriage a few miles beyond Carlisle, and was kill td on the spot. It was supposed that he was a professional thief, alai having chloroformed and robbed a fellow pas senger, a rich manufacturer from Crad ford, was trying to creep into an empty carriage, the better to escape at the first station, when he lost his hold and fell, the train passing over him. A guard recognized hint as John Rogers, alias I 'Gentleman Jack,' a returned eiinvict, long notorious for railway robberies.— Rogers, w h o Wa , accomplished and well edlVated had utter cell in • the church ; but having lend his gown taken from lain for disgraceful conduct he left England, and obtained a com mission in the Neapolitan service; being eventually driven from that also, he turned swindler, card-sharper, and swell-mobsman. Latterly, having es caped from Australia, he has infested the English lines of railway under vari ous disguises, and from time to time chloroformed and robbed any pas,sengers who were unlucky enough to travel with lino by night atone." Home Politeness Should ;111 aequaintance tread MI yolll' dress—your best, your very best—anti by accident, tear it, how profuse you are with your "never mind; don't think of it ; don't tare at all." Irah us band does it, he get a trown ; if a child he chastised. " ! these are little thing=," say you. They tell mightily on the heart, he assured, little as they are. A gentleman stops at a friend's house and finds it in confusion. •'lle don't see anything to apologize for; never thinks of such matters; everything is all right, cold supper, cold room, crying children ; perfectly comfortable." Ile goes home ; his wife has been talc • ing care of the sick ones, and worked her life almost out. "Don't see why things can't be kept in better order; there never were such cross children before." No apologies except away front home. NVlty not be polite at home? Why not use freely the golden coin of courte sy? How sweet the sound, these little words, "1 thank you," or "Von arc very kind." Doubly, yes, trebly sweet from the lips we love, when heart smiles wake the eye sparkle with the clear light of affection. lie polite to your children. Do you expect them to be mindful of your wel fare to grow glad at your approach, to bound away to do your pleasure before your request is half spoken '.".l'hen with all your dignity and authority, mingle politeness. (dive it a niche in your household temple. Only then Will you have the true secret of sending inn into the world really finished gentlemen and ladies. Nearing the Other Shore Mien, after the weary voyage that I first made across the ocean, sick and loathsome, I arose ~ne morning and went upon the deck, holding on, crawl ing, thinking I was but a worm, I sun in the air some strange smell, and t said to the Captain, " \V hat is the odor?" " It is the late! breeze front elf Ireland." I smelt the turf, .1 smelt the grass, I smelt the leaves, and all my siekness departed from me; toy' eyesgrew bright, my nausea was gone. The thou g h t of the nearness of the land came to me. And when, afar olf, I saw the dim lice of land, joy came and gave me health, and, front that moment, I had neither sickness nor trouble; I was coming, nearer to the hind. Oli ! is there not for you, old man, and for you, wearied mother, a land breeze blowing off from heaven, wafting to you some of its sweetness? Behold, the garden of the Lord is not far away ; I know from the air. Behold the joy of home. Do I not hear the children shout? 'l'he air is full of music to our silent thought. Oh, how full of music when our journey is almost done, and we stand upon the bound and precinct of that blessed land ! Hold on to your faith. Believe more firmly. Take Lola fly prayer anti by faith. Away with troubles and buffetings. Be happy; you are saved. In a few hours visions of t iod and all the realitiesof the eternal world shall be yours, and you shall be saved with an everlasting salvation. Bound to be on 'rime Sergeant Patrick Ryan, of a detachment of Cavalry at the West Point Military Acad emy, received a furlough a few days ago, which, however, expired at ten o'clock Monday night. On the afternoon of that day he was in New York city having a good time, and waiting till the last moment, he hastened to the depot at Thirteenth street to take passage on the 7 P. M. train for Garrisons. After the train started, he as certained, to his extreme disgust, that the train did not stop at Garrisons. lie pon dered the matter over, wondered what be could do, and finally concluded to jump off as the train passed the station and take his chances—and ne did. lie rolled over and over, receiving severe cuts about the head and many bodily injuries, though no bones were broken. As he lay partly unconscious, a strong hand jerked him from the down track in the face of a southerly hound extra train just in time to save his life. He was then carried to the ferry boat and conveyed across tho river to the Military Hospital, where the surgeon administered to his wants. He-had promised to get back on time, and he did.—Pouglikeepsic Eagle. LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING JUNE 1, 1870 Senator Wilson and Edwin M. Stanton A Scathing. A_rtlele from the Pen ofJoAlgo THE TEETH OF HISTORIC The following remarkable strong paper appears in the Juno number of the Unfazy, in reply to the article by Senator Wilson, hick was published in the May number. To the, lion. II zNier WILSON, Senator from Massachusetts: In the February number of the " Atlan tic Monthly" appeared an article of yours entitled "Edwin M. Stanton." It contains some statements which aro very wonderful, if true: and if false, they ought to be cor rected. I ask you to review this produc tion in the light •f certain facts which I shall now take the liberty to mention. My principal object is to satisfy you that you have wholly misunderstood the char acter of Mr. Stanton, andgrossly injured him by what you supposed to be a pane gyric. But beibre I begin that, suffer tae to correct swim of your errors about other In your vituperative description of the Buchanan administration, you allege that '• the President and his Attorney General surrendered the Government's right ofself preservation " and "pronounced against its power to coerce a seceding State."— You refer manifestly to the opinion of the Attorney-General, dated the Muth of November 111011, defining the duties and powers of the President, and to the public acts of the President which show that he took the advice of the Law Depart ment and squared his conduct accordingly. Upon this ground mainly, if not entirely, you denounce that administration 119 not only steak and unpatriotic, but wilfully wit hoi I and treasonable. I propose to show that you have committed a cardinal er ror, i 0 not something worse. The coarse way in which you charge the dead as well as the living with the highest crimes, would justify a reply in language much plainer than I intend to uso. Yllor modes of thinking and speaking on subjects of this kind are so loose and in accurate, that it is necessary to furnish you with an idea of certain elementary princi ple., which to most ether men are too famil iar to talk about. I. The government of tho United Series is tho (702'36h/bon and laws. 2. 'File prezervation of the government consists Uinta/uta/ming the supremacy of the Constitution and laws. 3. For this purpose certain corTrire pow ers are delegated to the Es eeutive, which he may use to defe n d the laws when they are resisted. d. But iu tlik country, as in every other, except where the government is an 311,4,- 111LOdcsp,tiuu, the authority of the Chief Magistrate is //tailed and his hands arc tied up by legal restrictions, to prevent him from using physical force against the life, liberty, and property of his fellow-citizens, unless in certain prescribed ways and en proper occasions. 5. Ile is bound by his inaugural oath to keep within those limits; if he breaks the lasts, he destroys the government ; he can not stab the Constitution in the back be cause he is afraid that somebody else will strike it in the face. it. The government of the United States, within its proper sphere, is sO e - eignA :is Much as the States are sovereign within tilt'ir sphere. It ants immediate/3/ upon the people ;ind claims their direct obedience to its laws. As a State cannot make war upon a city, or town, and put alic i a inhab itants to the sword because sonic of them have acted or threatened to act illegally, so the General Government is also restrained from exterminating the whole population of a State for the offences, actual or intend ed, of some who live among them. 7. The so-ratted onlinances of secession in I.SiIU-'GI were the declarations of certain persons ayhn made them that they intoWieri h. di.sobey the laws of the Ivnitod States." IL was the duty of Congress and the Presi dent to see that forcible resistance to the laws, when actually made, should be !net by a counter-force sufficient to put it down ; but neither Congress nor the President hail authority to declare war and begin hostili ties, Icy anticipation, against all the people at once, and put them all in the attitude of public enemies without regard to their per sonal guilt or innocence. The opinion of the Attorney General, which you have garbled, and the messages of President Buohanan, assert thi•se prin ciples in plain English words. We held that the whole coercive power of the Uni ted Slates, delegated by the Constitution to every branch of tilt) govermitent, lOgiSla; i ye, and executive, including its military and naval force, might and ought, in the appointed way, to 111.3 used to main tain the Supreinaey of the laws against all opposers, to hold or retake the public prop erty, ninnl collect trite revenue. But we as serted, also, that powers; not given ought not to I), usurped, and that war upon a State, in the then circumstances of the eountry, would be, not only usurpation, lad destruction of the Union. (n . eon roe, you cannot be so ignorant of the funnimental law as not to know that our exposition of it was perfectly sound and correet. Y.l never pretended—no man with sense enough to know his right hand from his left will ever pretend—that the President lend constitutional or legal au thority to make an aggressive war against the States, by his )0011 act, nor had Congress any such power. But you think I ought not to have answered the President's ques tions truly, that he ought not to have been Miluenecil by constitutional scruples. 'that is the rub. There is IT, dispute—never was, and never ( . ;111 the ; but Mr. Bui•hanan's wickedness and treason l'i;11- ,i,ttql in obeying it when you think he ought to have broken it. her this cause vim try to excite against his memory those I ad party passions by Which he was Mani ' del and persecuted during all the last years of his life. ' I will make no effort to convince you that Mr. Buchanan was right in standing, by the Constitution which he had sworn tin preserve, protect, and defend. That I know would be _altogether hopeless. 'rim lectured admirer of John Brown, the polit ieal ally uC Jill; L3llO, the partisian of Baker, the advocate of general kid ! napping and special murder Iffy military COIIIIIIiSSiOIIS, the :open sup- porter of measures which abolish the right of trial by jury and build up an Asiatic des potism on the ruins of free government sueh a man would entirely misunderstand the reason (simple as it is) upon which I put the . justilication Ma dead President for refusing to perjure himself. But, if I can not perhaps I can C.tetide him. I Will offer sonic apologies which may possi bly disarm your censure, or at least miti gate the severity of your righteous indigna tion. In the tirst plane, then, Mr. Buchanan Ivan born of Christian parents and educated and at the moment of his death, he felt that ear of (toil which a respectable authority has de c lared to lie, not weakness, but the beginning of wisdom" and the only source of truo greatness. Tiro curruptions introduced into the church by the polit ical preachers ,)t - New England never reached him. I ft. seas simply a Christ ian man and a firm believer in the morality taught by the New Testa ment. Now, you know (at all events you must have heard) that persons who adhere to that kind of religion always contract a habit of regarding the violation of an oath with inexpressible horror, whether it be committed by an oftieer or a witness; whether the olject of it be to destroy the character of a political opponent, to pro mote the interests of a party, or to enslave a State. All kinds of false swearing arc alike to them. They stubbornly reject the reasoning which ;woks to convince them that observance of oaths by magistrates and legislators is a mere question of expe diency and self-interest, varying with cir cumstances. Mr. Buchanan being a man of this class, I submit the question whether his projinlices against perjury (unreason able as you may think them) aro not en titled to some little respect. . A part from the religious obligation of his oath, he loved the Constitution of his country on its own account, as the best government the world ever saw. Ido not expect you to sympathize with this feeling; your affections are otherwise engaged. But can von not make some allowanco for his attachment to that great compact which was framed by our forefathers to secure union, justice, peace, State independence, and individual liberty for ourselves and our posterity? Another thing: All his predecessors governed their conduct by similar notions of fidelity to the Constitution. In peace and in war, in prosperity and disaster, through all changes, in spite of till threats and provocations, they had kept their oaths and assumed no ungranted power. It was the most natural thing in the world for Mr. Buchanan to follow the example of such men as Washington, Madison, and Jackson, rather than the precepts of these small but ferocious politicians who thought their own passions and interests a "higher law" than the law of the country. Again: All his advisers—nnt I alone, hut all of them—expressed the clear and unhesitating opinion that his view of tho law on the subject of coercing States was right. His' legal duty being settled, not one among them ever breathed a sugges tion that he ought to violate it. Besides : There was a question of natural justice, as well as legal propriety, involved in making war upon the States at that time. Nine-tenths of the Southern people were thoroughly, devoted to the Union, and had committed no sin against it even in thought. Would it have been well to bring the visita tion of tire, sword, and famine upon whole communities of innocent persons? You will probably answer this in the affirma tive. You think that no opportnnity to shed the blood and plunder the property of men, women, and children who live be yond the Potomac ought ever to be lost. Mr. Buchanan might have seized that oc casion to imitate John Brown on a large scale, and thus made himself an "heroic character" in your eves. Butyou must be aware that he would have been regarded by the mass of men as a moral monster; and the admiration of yourself and your party in -Massachusetts would have been but a poor compensation for the eternal weight of infamy with which the rest of the world would have loaded his memory. Further still: Yon know that the Gene ral-in-Chief of the army had reported live companies as the whole available force for operations in the South, and you never proposed to increase it. Yet you wanted war. Why? You must have desired the Union cause to be disgraced and defeated, for nothing else could have resulted from such a war its you now abuse Mr. Buchanan for not making. You and your party ni Congress were strictly non-committal.— You did not recommend peace, nor offer your support to war. You would take neither the olive branch nor the sword. You refused to settle, and you made no preparation for a contest. But you reveal now what was then the secret desire ofyour heart—that the administration, in defiance of law and without means, w•oulti declare war on its own responsibility. This would have been an expulsion of the Southern States from the Union, for it would have placed all their people beyond the protec tion of Federal law ; they would necessari ly rise in self-defence; our little army of rive hundred men would perish in a fort night; before thoith of:March the indepen dence of the South would be a settled fact. - Moreover, as you and Your party friends in Congress did not call for a war, the President had a right (had he not?) tn sup pose that you approved of his determina tion to keep the peace. Perhaps your ap proval of his conduct is not very powerful evidence of its justice or legality. But hero is the point: flow cant you have the thee to denounce a man as a criminal, after he is dead, for public acts which you consented to by your silence at the time they were done? But this is not all. You give your un qualified approbation to Mr. Lincoln's ad • ministration. I its not say you were true to it (for I believe the evidence is extant which proves that you were not.); but you have lauded it as strong and faith ful. Mr. Lincoln adopted precisely the same legal principles with regard to the coercion of the States that Mr. Buchan an had acted upon, and carried the policy of reconciliation infinitely beyond hint. Ile avowed his intention not to make war or provoke it as plainly as his predecessor had ever done. Neither he nor his Attorney- General asserted their constitutional au thority to commenceaggressive and general hostilities' for any cause then existing. Jig received conunissioners front the Southern States. He pledged himself not to retake the forts, arsenals, dockyards, custom houses, etc., then in the hands of the seces sionists. Ile promised to continue the mail service In the seceded States if they would permit him. He wont further still, and publicly assured the Southern people that he would not irritate them by attempting to execute the Federal laws at any 'dace where it would be specially offensive to them. All these were eoneassions to the South which Mr. Buchanan had steadily refused to make; and iflie had made them, you would no doubt have prtalatllleeti them treasona ble. liut the Lincoln administration did not stop there. That Cabinet voted six to one in furor SlO•rendering Fort Sumter— Mr. Blair being the only dissentient. The President, if he did not yield to the major ity, must have wavered a considerable time, the Secretary of State was so sure of him that he caused the South Caro lina authorities to be informed that the fort loot(/ he girt, !up. You will not deny these facts, but you will continue, as heretotbre, to say that the Buchanan administration weakly and wickedly fa vored secession, while that of Lincoln was firmly and faithfully opposed. 'The malt who involves himself in such inconsisten cies, whether from want of information, want of judgment, or want of veracity, is not qualified to write on an historical sub ject. I have given more time and space than I intended to this part of your pap,. But I am addressing a man of peculiar chara,•ter. To a person whose moral perceptions are healthy ;mil natural, 1 could make my de fence in a breath. But being re.illireti to apologize for not violating a sworn duty, Stalle ciroutidoeution is necessary. Tour mere railing avensiations against Mr. Buishanan are hardly worth a reply. The place he is destined to occupy in his tory does not depend on anything Sall 11111 say or forbear to say. You have m;',lsmowl c,lge whatever of Isis character. Morally, intellectually, and politically 110 Wll,l, alto - h10111111•11,,ra man for you to com prehend. The world will look for its inforniatiomeenverning him to the acts of his life, and to this testimony of men who knew hint and had minds large enough It, take in Isis dimensions. would not titer yea the word of a Dem ocrat ; but among those who were wills him continually during the last weeks of his administration are some who' have since supported Hadieal mew-fur, with a zeal Walla enough to make thens good witness,. Let corral Dix speak Isis knowledge and say whether he saw anything of the treason, the Wl.:Otness, or the wickedness which you impute so boldly and Se reckless. Mr. King, the Postmaster General, cannot be ignorant of any important fart which bears ors this question. Mr. I has already, on several 1/11eaSt11119, delivered his testimony. It is a fervent tribute to the "wise states manship and unsullied patriotism" or Ji r. Buchanan, as well a, to "the finis and generous support." which he constantly gave to men and IlleaSllre, approved by Psis conscience. The proltla of Isis groat ability and his eminent public serviees are found on every page of MS country's Isis tore from lrSu ut ISfil. During all that long period he steadily, faithfully, and power ! ully sustained the principles of tree con stitutional government. This nation never had a truer friend, nor its laws a defender who Mould inure eheerfully have given his life to save them from violation. ° No man was ever slandered so brutally. Ii is life's life was literally lied away. In the last 1 months of his administration he devoted all the energies of his mind and body to the great duty of saying the Union, if possible, from dissolution and civil war. Ile knew all the, dangers to which it was exposed. and it would, therefore ' be vain to sac that ho was not alarmedor fhis country; but lie showed no sign of unmanly fear on Isis I,Wlllteet/ 1 / 1 1t. I lie met all his vr-st respon sibilities as fairly as any thief Magistrate we ever had. In no ease did he shirk from or attempt to ovade them. The accusation of timidity and indecision is most prepos terous. Iris faults were all of another kind : his resol site ins once Shrived were_ general ly immovable to a degree that bordered on obstinacy. I M every matter of great im portance he deliberated cautiously, and sometimes tried the patience of his friends by refusing to act until he had made up an opinion which he could live and die by.— These characteristics explain the fact that his whole political life, from the time he entered Congross until he retired from the Presideney—all his acts, speeches, and pa pers—have a consistenoy which belongs to those of no other American statesman. lie never found it necessary to cross Ins own path or go I,:iek upon his pledges. His judgment wan of ~mirso not infallible; and in Sill lie atinntinecl 3 I.loterlaillatit,ll with ref rep r o to the South Carolina coin inis,ioners which I and others thought er ne-Won, 11i1,11311L703b1e. 11111'.X.- peetedly, and altogether contrary to hie ustud habit of steadfast self-reliance, he eon,enteil w reconsider and materially al ter his derision. This change, and all the cireurnstanees ti Ludt brought it about,were alike honorable to his understanding and his heart. I admit that you were not the first inventor of these ;hinders; hut you ought to know that it does not beutine man in your station to take up an evil re port and repeat it, like a parrot, without stopping to consider whether it has any foundation or 110 t. YOU are not content with traducing Mr. ==l of departments who served under hint, and deal out your tierlitTlCiation , upon nearly all in sneeession. MM= was deranging the finances and shik the national credit. Upon whom does this fall? Was it Cobb, or Thomas, or Dix that committed that crime? The charge is equally untrue whether made against one or another. You never saw a scintilla of evidence to justify it. You tell your readers that the Secretary of \Var scaitered the army and sent guns and 1111111i6011S to the secessionists. What- ever Mr. Fle - d may have I lane in his lifetime, it is well establishe,l that ho never did this. Numerous charges have been, and others might be, made against that officer with some show of truth. It is curious that your appetite for scandal could be sallied only by selecting one which is well known to be unfounded. You inform the country that the Secre tary of the Navy rendered that ,f rot power /eon. This is nut anew charge, It has been made several times before, and solemnly investigated more than once. Not only has it never been supported, but it has uniform ly been met by such evidence of Mr. Ton cey's perfect integrity that every respecta ble man among his political enemies acquits him without hesitation. In your present reiteration of it, you aro simply bearing false witness against your neigh bor, in fiat violation of the ninth command ment. But perhaps the most extraordinary of all your averments is, that the Secretary of the Interior permitted the robbery of trust funds. You did not mean it to be under stood that a rubbery occurred which he knew nothing about, and of which he was, therefore, as innocent as any other man.— You intended to make the impression that he wilfully gave his permission to the criminal asportatiou of the funds in ques tion, made himself accessory to the felony before the fact, and was as guilty as if he had done it with his own hands. You could not possibly have believed this, unless you perversely closed your eyes against the light or plain truth. All the circumstances of the transaction to which you refer are as well understood as anything in the history of the country. A committee of Congress, consisting of members opposed to the Sec retary, examined the evidence when it was fresh, and reported upon it. The correct ness of their judgment has never been im pugned. IM the face of these recorded and well-known facts, you deliberately sit down and write out, or get somebody to write and publish to the world on your au thority, the accusation that Mr. Thompson has committed an offence which should make hint infamous forever. The force of mendacity can go no further. I admit that you are a loyal man, in the modern sense of the word, and a Senator in Congress from a most loyal State; and it is equally true that Mr. Thompson was a rebel ; that ho was for years an exile from his home and country, pursued wherever he went by an Executive proclamation which put a price on his head. This gives you an im mense advantage over him. But the fact is still true that no department of this government was ever managed more ably or more faithfully then the In terior while he was at the head of it. Yon may haveall the benefit of loyalty, and y,,fl may weigh hint down with the 'huge bur den of rebellion ; nevertheless, his mental ability, good sense, and common honesty put him so immeasurably far above you, that you will never in this life be able to get a horizontal view of his character. I come now to the more important part of your article, which directly concerns SI r. Stanton. Your attacks upon Buchanan, Toucey, and Thompson might be safely passed in silence,but theeharacter of St an u it i must utterly perish if it be not defended against your praise. You give us the first information weever haZifithat Mr. Stanton, though acting with the Democratic party, was an abolitionist at heart almost front his earliest youth. For this fact you vouch his derlara tbm to Judge Chase more than thirty years ago, at Columbus, Ohio; and you attempt to corroborate it by }citing hi+ association at Washington with Dr. Mario y and other abolitionists. If you tell the truth, ho was the most marvelous int pester that ever lived or died. Among us, hi+ po litical principles were thought to be as well known as his name and occupation. Ire never allowed his fidelity to be doubted for one moment. It was perfectly understood that he had no affinities whatever with men of your school in morals or politics. Ills condemnation of the abolitionists was un sparing for their hypocrisy, their corrup tion, their emnity to the Constitution, and their lawless disregard for the rights of States and individuals. Thus he won the confidence of Democrats. On the faith of such professions WO promoted him in his business, and gave hint office, honor, and furtune. But, according to your account, he Was all the while waiting and hoping for the time to come when ho could betray Oct Constitution and its friends into the cruel clutches of their enemies. ,For this cold blooded and deliberate treachery you be speak the admiration of the American peo ple. You rnightas well propose to canonize Judas Iscariot. - - I maintain, on the other hand, that ho was what ho seemed to be, a sound and sincere friend, political and personal, of the men who showered their favors on his head. lle had at least the average amount of atl:lMl ment for "the Constitution of the United States, and for the peace, good order, ale: happiness of the same." As a necessary consequence, he dreaded the dishonest awl destructive rule which he foresaw that you would be sure to establish as soon as you could. His democracy (lid not cease rotten the war opened. In the ((winer of IsOl, when your anti-constitutional principles began to be practically carried out by the kidnapping .of innocent citizens, by the suppression of free speech, and by the en slavement of the press, ho imprecated the vengeance of God and the law upon the guilty authors of those crimes with as much energy as any Democrat in the nation.-- Only a short time before his appointment as Secretary of War, his love of liberty and legal justice impelled hint to curse Mr. Lincoln himself with bitter curses. Fl, called !din by contemptuous names, and with a simian, if not with "swinish phrase soiled with his aklitien." I ethnic that he changed these sentiments afterwards, but I deny that he had adopted your way of thinking while he pretended to concur iu Lis conversion was a real one, tine duced by what he regarded as " good and sufficient reasons him thereunto moving, - and it was accompanied, or immediately followed, by a corresponding change of his party attitude. 1I e was not what you make him out, a mere fawning hypocrite. The issue is plainly made. The frietols of Mr:Stanton will not permit you to gib bet him in the face of the world, after death has disarmed him of the power of self-de fence. You must prove the injurious alle gations you make, or ii elso accept the just consequences. If the chief Justice will say that he knows Mr. Stanton In have been "in entire agreement' with the abolition party thirty years ago, his testimonial may silence denial. But you must not trine with us; we will hold you to strict prof ; hearsay evidence will not be received ; least of all will the fact be admitted upon the second-band statement of a person who thinks, as you manifestly do think, that deception, fraud, and false pretence arc an honor to the man who practiced them. Next in the cronological order is y o ur assertion that Mr. Stanton, while yet a pri vate citizen, advised :dr. Buchanan that it ,the duty and the right of the Federal Government to coerce seceding States ; that is to sac, make war against all the inhabi tants of every State in which art ordinance of secession had been or should be passed. Now, mark how plain a tale will put you down. Mr. Stanton never was commited on that subject, by the President until af ter he was Attorney-General ; and he never at any time gave such advice as you put into his mouth. Ile never entertained any opinion of that kind, for hoorms a lawyer of large capacity and could not believe an absurdity. lie hadtoo much regard Mr his professional character to maintain a legal proposition which ho knew to he false. lie certainly would not have so debased himself in tho eyes of the administration with Whom he was particu larly desirous, at that time, to stand well. (iii this point I wish to be very distinct. I aver that Mr. Stanton thoroughly, cor dially and constantly approved o f and con curred in the constitutional doctrines which you denounce as timid and treason • able. Ile indorsed the opinion of his pre decessor with extravagant and undeserved laudation ; ho gave his adhesion to the an imal message in many ways ; anti the spe chd message of tint January, 1551, which expressed the same principles with added emphasis, was carefully read over to 1111,1 before it was sent to Congress, and it re ceived his unqualified assent. The exist ing evidence of this can be easily adduced : it is direct as well as circumstantial, oral as well as documentary, and some of it is in the handwriting of Mr. Stanton himself.— If you are willing to put the question into a proper form for judicial inves tigation, [ will aid you in doing so,and give von an opportunity to make out your case before an impartial tribunal. It your statement be true that Mr. Stan ton disbelieved in the principles to which the administration was unchangeably pledged, how did he come to take office un der it? \Vas he so anxious for public em ployment that he consented to give up his own convictions and assist in carrying out measures which his judgment condemned as the offspring of timidity and treason ? Or, did he accept the confidence of the Pre sident and the Cabinet with a predeter mined intent to betray it? Either way you make him guilty of unspeakable baseness. But conceding that he would accept, why did the President, with the consent of his advisers, give the appointment to a man whom they knew to lie hostile to them upon points so vital not only to the public interests but their own characters? That at such a time they would invite an undis guised enemy into their counsels, is a tale as wildly improbable as any that ever was swallowed by the credulity of the Salem witch-tinders. Your own - consciousness of this compels you to explain by attribot ing it to a special intervention of Divine Providence. Your impious theory is that Almighty (toil procured this appointment miraculously, in order that you the enemies of the American Constitution might have a spy in the camp of its friends. This will serve your turn. Reason never refers a human event to supernatural agency, un less it be impossible to account for it in any other way. The mystery of this case. is easily cleared up by the hypothesis that yon 'have misrepresented it from begin ning to end ; which is no miracle at all, but quite in the natural order of things. The truth is, Mr. Stanton vias in perfect accord with the administration, before and after he became a part of it, on every ques tion of fundamental principle. Ile had unlimited confidence in the men with whom he was acting, and they confided in him. For his chief and some of his collea- ;pies he professed an attachment literally boundless; for all of them who stayed dur- ing the term, and for Thompson, who did not stay, he was warm in his friendship. You would now have us believe that these were merely the arts of an accomplished impostor ; that while he was, in appearance zealously cooperating with us, he was re porting to you that "he saw treason in every part of the government;" and that he was secretly using all the means in his power to stir up the ♦ilest passions against us. Some overt acts of the treachery you ascribe to him are curious ; for instance, the Sumner story, which you tell with singu lar brevity and coolness. Mr. Sumner called on him at his office, for the purpose you do not disclose. Mr. Stanton did not receive his visitor either with the politeness of a gentleman or the courtesy due to a Senator, much less with the cordiality, of a friend ; but hustled hint out of the building as i f ashamed to be seen with him indaylight. He told him expressly that he did not dare to converse! with him there, but would see hint at one o'clock that night. The hour came, and then, when the city was wrapped in sleep, he skulked away to the meeting place, where, under the cover of darkness, ho whispered the tales which he did not dare to utter in the hearing of the parties they were intended to ruin. And those parties were his friends and benefactors 1 I Into what unfathomed gulfs of moral degra dation must the man have fallen who could be guilty of this! But remember, this is another second-hand story, anti you arenot a competent witness. We Will trouble you ;to call Mr. Sunnier, ifyou please. Let him I testify what treason Stanton disclosed, and explain, if he can, how this midnight anti secret information against men whom he was afraid to confront is consistent:with Mr. Stanton's character as a courageous, oat ' spoken, and honest man. ; Ile said nothing whatever to us about the ' treason which he saw in every part of the . government. He made no report of his dis- I coveries mate President. He maintained un- I broken his fraternal relatious with his col leagues. By Won r own ave. - gulf. he ad mi tied I to Mr. Sumner that ho did not dart to speak i of such a thing even in Msown office, lest it might reach the ears of his associates in the administration. Among the members of Congress whom you name as the recipients lor his secret cumin uniCatioll3, not OM man of moderato views is included ; touch less i did he speak to any friend of the party ac cused. lie mutiously selected their bit terest enemies, and poured his venom into hearts already festering with spite. The House raised a eommittee "to investigate treasonable machinations and c,,rspira ; eies," upon which there were members of both parties. !Swahili did not go beton, it • • and tell his story; nor did he mention the stillteet to Cochrane, Iteyn, Oils, or Branch ; i but he - Made an arrangement by which Messrs. Iliovard and lames were inform- ' ed" of whatever they wanted to know. It i appears, trio, that 0 committee of vigilance ; was orpinized by the inure active Republi can members of Congress ; in other words, the extreme partisans or• both Nausea got 1 I ilp a secret body of their own. not to per- , form any legal duty pertaining to their offices, not to devise publie ramsures for ,iverting the ruin which threatened the ' country, hut to prowl about In the dark for something, to gratify personal malice or ' make a little capital fir their party. You were a mernlsir of that committee, as it was tit you should be, and Mr. Stanton , gave you "warnings and suggestions" how !to proceed. This is what you call "rising in that crisis above the claims of partisan ' ship." At night he assisted you to rake , the sewers in search of Materials t, IJespat- I ter lii, colleag ues, and every morning he ! appeared before them to "renew the astsur i tames of his distinguished eonsideration.', ; It Was thus that, in your estimation. "he ' 1 conseerated himself lo the b,py duties ,if an ' r.rdted patriotism." What cargoes or deraniawry cakehood I he must have consigned to your keeping! You do not break the foul bulk, but you have given us some samples which deserve , exam illation. Ile denounced M r.Tonvey as I titles to his country, inspired ItaWes . reso- i [Mien against him, and expressed the be- lief that he ought to be arrested. Let no look at this a moment. To Mr. Toucey's kw° Mr. Stanton breathed no syllable of censure upon his official conduct as head or th, , Navy De partment. Ti. the Presidont or Cabinet he expressed no doubt of his wisdom, much less of his honesty. Ile met hint every day with a face of sniffing friendship. Tourey eertainly had not the remotest idea that Stanton was defaming him behind his back, or conspiring with abolitionist:: to destroy his reputation. Ire would as soon hi t ee suspected him of an intent to poison his food or stab him in his sleep, Can it lie possible that Stanton was the milieu - of the Dawes restitution? That resolutton is found in the Coingres xiored GluLe, Second Session, Thirty-sixth congress, 1,60-61, part second, pp. 14'2:1-24. The proceeding was begun, no doubt, in the hope of finding something nun which the charge could ho founded of scattering the navy to prevent it from being used against the Smith. But that failed miserably; and the committeo reported nothing worse than •• a grave error " of the Secretary in accept ing without delay or inquiry the resigna tion of certain naval officers. Even this had no f ou ndation in law or fact. Its truth was denied and the evidence called for; wine was produced. The right to explain and defend was demanded, but the gag of the previous question was applied before a word could lust said, The accusers knew very well that it would not hear the slight 'tt investigation. Mr. Sickles said truly amid erica of " order") that "censure without evidence disgraces only those who pronounce it. Mr. Tonecy's reputation was never injuriously affected by it in the estimation of any fairminnled man. html vott tkli it up from the oblivion to which it has I consigned, and try to give it de cency and dignity by saying that Stanton inspired it. You do not iypear to perceive the hideous depth to which your assertion, if true, would drag him down. It is not trite; the whole business hears the impress of a different mind. . . Mr. Stanton ;Lis,' suggested that his col- Icagnle and frietui Toucey ought to be ttr reoted. This could wit have been a propo sition to take hint into-legal custody (pit a criminal charge regularly made. That would 10.1V0 [Well utterly illlpiiiiiiihili told absorb. The Dawes committee itsel f eoul .1 rind nothing against hint but an error et judgment. The sug.,,,,tion must have been to kidnap hen, without an aCialiiiiitiiill or profit probable muse, awl consign hint to some dungeon without trial or hope ut other relief. It Stanton attempted to gel this done, he was guilty of such perfidy as would have shucked th e basest panderer in the court of Louis XV. lint to confute your libel upon Tottery and Stanton both, it is only necessary to recollect the fact that kidnapping of A int•rican citizens was at that time wholly unknown and absolutely tin possible. Vie were living wider a Demo cratic wlininistration, the countryAvas free, and law was supreme. Tyranny had brit vet ,unk its bloody tangs into the vitals of the national liberty. Die systematic per jury which afterward nettle the Constitu -1 thin a dead letter was not then established as a rule of political morality. Your whole account or th,.. " cabinet steno" :it which Flovil, "raging and storm ing, arraigned the President and Cabinet," and "the President trembled and grew pale," and "Stanton met the battled traitor and his fellow conspirators with a storm or nerve and fiery denuneiation," is a pure and perfectly baseless fabrication. It is absurd to boot. What was Floyd's arraigninent or the President and Cabinet tier? You say for viola ting their pledges tit the secessionists; and the charge against the President awl Cabi net or violating their pledges seas predicted solely on the fact that Col duel Anderson hail removed from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter; and Floyd was dimipp,,tnted is rs,hmel Ar 1 ,h,,,,,, whom he " had expect ed," as a Southern man, to "carry out his purposes in Lill` interest ut I.lit'aSioll," 'rills , mere drivelling at best, and it is com pletely i•xploileir by the record, which nilha, that Colonel Anderson ' s trallShir of his force from Fort. Moultrie to Fort Sum ter was in literal obedience to orders front the President, which I•Thiyil himself had drawn up, signed, and transmitted. More over, Floyd at that time was not in a eon dition to arraign anybody. Lie !Muse] had jug before that been not only arraign ed, and the President had notified him tha he would bo removed if he did not re sign. \Vas it this broken-down an, powerless man who made the, l'resi dent tremble and grow pale by cum plaining that a subordinate had un expectedly obeyed his own orders? Viol are not silly enough to say so. Was i , Stanton's "storm of Morey and fiery denun elation?" Stanton wa..s uu stormer in On _ . . presence of such men as he then had to dea with. Ii is language was habitually defer his Whole bearing decent, and hi behaviour at the council board was entire Iy free from the insolence you impute to it Your tales do not hang together. No ow ran give credence to your report of bold any stormy denunciation by Stanton in the presence of his chief and colleagues, and a the Manic time believe what you say of hin at another place, where you describe hin as a dastard, skulking about in the dead 0 night to lied a place of concealment remote enough to make hint safe, tint isedessing that he did not dare to breathe his accusa tion in the face of day. The crawling syco phant—the stealthy spy—who bargained so carefully for darkness and secrecy when he made his reports, must have been wholly untitled to play the part of J nutter TI,11:01 , in a square and open conflict. It is not possible that the fearless Stanton of your "Cabinet scene" could bo the same Stanton who, at ono o'clock in the night, was "squat like a toad" at the car of Sumner, Essaying by his devilish arts to reach The organs of hie fancy. I take it upon me to deny most emphat rally that Mr. Stanton ever " wrote a full and debuted account of that Cabinet scene" by which von can have the least hope of being corroborated. I cannot prove a neg ative; but I can show that your assertion is incredible. That he should have coolly indite,' a letter, even though he never sent it, tilled with foolish brags of his own prowess, which half a dozen men then liv ing could prove to be false, was uut consist ent either with his prudence, veracity, or tasto. Besides, he often spoke with me about the events of that period, and never in my hearing did he manifest the slightest disposition to misunderstand or misrepre sentthem. On the contrary,w hen a statement resembling yours about the Cabinet scene was published in a Loudon paper, I sug gested that ho ought to contradict it; and he replied, explaining how and by whom it had been fabricated, but said it wus not worth a contradiction, for every man of common intelligence would know It to be a mere tissue of lies. You cannot destroy Stanton's character for sense and decency 1.),y citing his own authority against himself. or can you find any other proof to sustain the story. It is the weak invention of some scurvy politician, who sought to Win the patronage of one administration by malig ning another. Some busy and Insinuating rogue, Some cogging, cozening slave, to get sosne • Rath devised this slander. Your history of his appointment to the War Department is as erroneous as that NUMBER 22. which you have given of his eonduet while Attorney-Goner:Al. You say that he not - - dially indorsed Mr. tiameron's recom mendation to arm the negroes against the white people of the South ; that Mr. Lin coln disapproved this and required it to be suppressed; that afterward, when Cameron "felt the pressure of the iniildplied labor," he proposed to resign, but coupled his offer with a condition that "sonic one should be appointed not unfriendly to his policy," mutely, the policy of arming negroes, to which Mr. Lincoln was himself opposed that Cameron did resign upon these terms, and used the privilege conceded to hitu by suggesting. the naLllO of. Stanton. Every body who knows Simon Cameron will un derstand the objeet of dragging this thing by the head and shoulders into your article. In fact and in truth, there was no kind of connection between these twii 111011-110 sympathy nor mutual respect. Cameron did not resign; he sea: ',lamed far good cause. 110 bad no lot or part in bowing _ . his successor. The removal and the ap pointment were both made before Mr. Cameron know of either, and they were made because the President saw the neees sity of having a man at the head Or that de partment who was competent and incur. ruptibie. The eorrespondence afterward published under the names of Measrs. Lin coln and Cameron was fictitious, and got tat the instance of the latter to give the Affair a false appearance. It is meraily im possible that Stanton you'd have given his approval to Cameron's abortive report on the negroes ; for he was at that Little U white man every inch of him, proud of the great ram lie ....prang front, nod cult of faith in its eapaeity to tig h t Its mt n battles and govern itscl f. Nothing would have humiliated him moro than to see the American people relinquish their rightful place in the front rank of the world, surrender their inherit- 11110(' of tree governmont, and sneak burl: behind the A frit . . l.ll for prwte,tioil in War or in peace. Lunt; after he was Secretary of War he told Mr. )lallory, tor Kentucky, that he hart not only refuted to sanction the enlistment of a negro regiment but had Famished :In ffintYr or werely proposing' it. I understand that you !taco pr"lllisNl to contradict yourself on this subject, and I hope you will keep your word. Your account ot his raid tip on the Treav ury, in company ,ith lovcrllor Morton, would look very stranue In a paneizyriv Made by anyl” ,, ly el, but p.ti. I will re- ',tale the fact, you have guru, but without the drapery liv Avhich you eiineeal from yourself the view of them which must un- 'onlably In, taken by all nu, w ho the obligation or any law, burn:lllM' di vine. In the winter idlt , 63, the Legislature of Indiana was di.ssolvr•tl before the appro priations had been made to carry iin the State G,verniticilt or aid in !awing troops in the ltelil. tlf eon rse, Gongres, did not, and cmild not, make abpropriations tor carrying on the State tillvernment ur put ting troops in the ticld, which the Stole WaS hOUntt to raise itt her own expense. But the Governor determined to get what 111 , Tiey he wanted without authority of law, and lei looked to Washington foraii.sistance. Presi dent Lincoln deelitied to Mil him, bee:time no Money could be taken from the 'errantry without appropriation. Mr. Stanton, be ing applied to, saw the critical condition of the Governor, and, without scruple, Joined hint in hiN enterprise. Ile drow a warrant for a quarter of, million of dollars, and gave it to the t iiivernor to spend as he not only without hcingauthorized y LILY :mpropriation for that purpose, hot defiance W . eX pre, lalv lipm,proiting no same money lo another and a totally different objeet. If this be true, the guilt of the parties can hardly be over charged, by any words which the English language will supply. ft was get ting money out of the public treasury, not only un lawfully, but by a process iIS aid/10110A u.s larceny. It involved the making of - a fraudulent warrant, of which the moral tur pitude was no less than that committed by a private individual when 1w fabricates :mil o tiers a false paper. It was a gross and palpable violation of the oaths which the ifovernor and Secretary had both taken.— It was, by the statute of 1544, a felonious embezzlement of the money thus obtained, fflhilLtlfflHi iininent in the penitentiary. 'rho parties iteeoriling to your ver,tion, wore bath roll ens Of the high rite they Were perlie trating, for you make one >av to the other "If the cause fails, you end I wilt 150 racer et' kith priXieElltsolls 11.1111 prObllbly nn irisened or driven from the iiiinutry... Y , )11 not diwinish ur lllititZatf• the ulleu cc OM' Whit by saying that 010 money NVI. af terward A felialy cannot be etanponinled I2r I,lll.lllilCli by a sini 14e restitution of the spoil4t. ;Lrul lho law I have oiled \las niaffil expressly Its prevent officers charged with the safe keeping, transfer, or tleibtirsement ..f public money 1 . 1,111 Using' it :u•rsw rnndate friends in a " critical condition. - But what will bin said of your trustworthi ness as a clieteiblleir iry crhen the el learn that this \Vieth" story is bingos? I prunounce it untrue in the ag gregate and in thu detail—ill the Seel tutal and in every item. The truth is this: In ISG:t the Democratic majority of the Indi ana Legislature were ready and willing to pass their proper and usual appropriation bills, but were prevented liv the Itopubli ,in minority wit' " bolted" and left ti e • ousos WithrAlt a rouirtini 11111.1 i the eull.ti- LIUOII3I liwit ui their expired. 'rile iDN'CrIIOr refll,cd lu rt•coIIVCIIV thew, and hus, Icy his ~wri fault :ul.l that of riends, he was without the vacs and MO:MS o pay the current expenses (d the State. he was wrong, but his error nun that of a •iulent parti,an, not the Priwcotn ,•orrupt. nagistrate. Ile did not et/1111: to Washing on with any illtellLi"11 to relieve his noce.si ties by id undernu4 the Federal Treasury. Ile mad, no proposition either to Mr. Lincoln or Stan ton, that they ur either of them should beoomo his aceompheeN in any such till:11114MS crime, Ms purpose Vltt, to de mand payment of a deli due, and it,know l edged to be due, from the Coiled States to the State of Indiana. The n u nu•y /mil been _ . ,iproprtrao.l by C0n.41 - c.., to pay it and it leas pre/ aererlioe,q kII.IW not how I\l r. Nlorhin tuay like I, !ice himself held up as a felon confer,sing his guilt, but I eau say, with softie ,:onlideriee, that if Mr. Station were aliV. hn o v nulil call yon to a very severe reekving. What must 111111.0 the rem hers Or pill!" than anything oh t is feet sincerity of the Io which you express, directly or indirectly, in every lino of it, that the baSollll,euiellnd yeti at tribute to Mr, Stanton is i.ininently praise- worthy. You seem to be wholly uncoil seiom, Of dclatning the man you incant to eulogize. Hut, if your fact, be accepted, the trairar and honesty of them kill MA hi. IlleaSllred by your standards. It may be true that public opinion has of late been .rally thobauched ; but Ow peo )le havo not permanvntl v changed their 001, of morality. tielOd truth between man and man, personal integrity, social ndelity, observance of ):11.1is, and "hone.," to OW laws which Judd s wit•ty together, have heretofore been II timberod among the ;vir- ties, and they will he ;grain. 'rue govern ment of God hay tint. Item reconstructed Fraud nr force may aholi,h the( 'on,littilion hut the Ten Com niandinents and the I;rddei Hule are beyond your reach ; Sllme person. have faith enough to believe that even - lb, gates of hell shall not prevail :Igal Its thew." The Or'thins eharactor you have given Nfr Stanton is not merely unjust in itself, but if uncontradieted, it must teal to etLet utisromeep Lien, Lint. Besides the against laic, ,lustier, humanity, and trial which you have enumerated ;Mil assigned to him for Lis glorinvation, he has been ehargeil with ;Alters which, if established, must expose him to universal execration. For instance, it is asserted that, in the win ter of 1861, when he was a !number of the Cabinet, he gave to iiiivernor Brown, of Mississippi, the most emphatic assurance of his isinviction that secessum was right, and urged him to "go on" with it; that in 1,62, while he was writing the most af fectionate letters to Enteral McClellan, he not only maligned Mtn at Washington, but maliciously plotted his defeat and the des truction of his artily before Richmond ; that he refused in Istil to receive the An dersouville prisoners when offered freely without ransom, exchange, Or other equiv alent, though Le knew that if he left there they must perish miserably for want Of afar medicine and foist which their captors had not the means to give them. These accusa tions, you arc aware, have often been made, with horrible aggravations which I need not repeat.. Ills friends have denied and discredited them, mainly on the ground that his character was wholly above such But you have done your full best to make this defence worthless. If he wore the cloak of constitutional democracy with us, and put on the livery of abolition - isni with you, why hhould he not assume the garb of a secessionist with Men of the South? If he tried to get his friend Toucey kidnapped, what moral principle could hinder him from eontriving the ruin of his friend McClellan? If he craftily ex.- , erted himself at your end of the avenue GI bring on a bloody civil war, which accord ing to his own declarations at our cud was unlawful and causeless, what crime against human life was he not capable of commit ting? If lie wilfully left our prisoners to certain starvation, and then managed false ly to throw the odium of their death upon the political enemies of the party In power, and thus contributed very largely to the enslavement of the Southern States, was not that an act of "intense and abounding patriotism," as well worthy of your praise as some others for which you have bestow ed? Those who give credit to you will find it perfectly logical to believe the worst that has ever been said of hint. Sejanus has passed fur about the worst specimen of ministerial depravity whom we . have any account of ; but nothing is recorded of him which might not be be lieved of Stanton, if you are regarded as credible authority; for you have made it a labor of love to paint him as a master in the loathsome arts of trteachery, dissimulation and falsehood—unfaithful alike to private friendship and to pubilo duty. With the talents he possessed and the principles you , BUSINF-9.9 x‘DTEItTI3EMENT,I, ?.12 ft ye, per squre of ten lines; &s per rear fur etiell add I • tlonal square. A men" fh /ft °ruts the fin R ad rst, tilil-Teentlistof eneli+kintrnilisint..n Insertion. Ons f: I. litrra,l mut." a flue for Ihe 01,1. and 4 ...Lab Le on nh nUbsequt . ll Lion. SPACIAL Insetted In Local' enlurtins 18 vont. per IN o. SP - Oral. Nei - lova prooedinu ,00rring , ^ 11 detain, lo c. nta per lino for first Insortion and cents for every subsequent 11.1.1.1/0/1. L'ltekt. ANT , OTTIFIt NOTICE.I4-- EzeonWrs'. ...... Admlnistrallirs' 1101 Ire AK.ilitnee.s i n0tice5.........._ ..........._. Auditors' notices Other t'Notlees" ten lines, 'M . 11,, ascribe to Min, ho might have made tut n - valuable Grand Vizier to a 'furLi:di hui tan —provided the Sultan were in the tirrnic life and bad no powerful brother near the throne; but in a (rile limitary such a ch,f - actor cannot be thought of without and abhorrence. In your eyes the "intPll.l and abound ing patriotism" at Stanton is bufficient to atone not only fur all the faults he had, lint fir all the offences against law and morals which the ottnred fertility Of your imagina tion tan lay to his charge; and patrimii.in in your vocabulary means devotion to tlic interests of that piilitioal sect which has you for ono of it priests. This Will You cannot safely ht:a.kou It Wall M ilh on • • . hand and noutraliie the eltect on the whitewash of patriotism pith the other. Patriotism, in itS doesh indeed dignify and adorn human natio, It is an exalted and compretausisc of charity, which hides a multitude ot sins. The patriotism of Washington, sohiwh hod broad and deep the foUntiatitlii of iliStalltitiliS mnl set the Wilily ovmulde of implicit obedience 1.1 the laws; the patriotism of John Hampden, soh.. voluntarily devoted his fortune and his life to the maintenance of legal justice; the patriotism of rat°, w hn resisted the dr structiyo madness of hint I . ountrynten and greatly fell with a tailing Suite; the patri otism Of Daniel trConnell, solo 0110111 his limo and talents in t•onstatit efforts hove his peoplo from the galling yoke of clerical oppression ; the patriotih i af ol tine elder Vitt, who, speaking in the cause of universal liberty, loudly rejoiced that America had resisted the exa••tions of a tyrannical riu - liament--1, such patriotism some errors may be When town like these are found to hove fault, it is well that history should deal with it tenderly. its angels for I lir , tiii4Al 1111121 . 0 Weep to Nl,ll to ill. lint the loyalty that tramples on law—the fidelity which stab 4 the Nbertios it ought to protect—the piddle zeal which expends it self in gratifying the vinilietive or mereen. ary passions of ono party by the unjust mp pression of ate ither—this kind i.ipatrimisiti has less claims to the admiration el the Nverld. It Is a cheap thing, readily sup plied hi lITIV faetion unprincipled enough te pay ter it. It is entirely too "intense and ;"aud its intensity anti :ince are always greatest in the worst titers. It does not sanctity evil deed+. If it let nit a sin In itself, it certainly deserves to be ranked among what 1 n...lohmon Cita% MM. rascally virtues." : 7 4tanton'el reputation IN just now In a •ritienl condition. Ito took no care of it Olin , he lived, and lie dit•d like Bacon, eaving a vulnerable !iamb "to mon's char- t4lllll , speelllCS." Ho TI MIS a tlwro riminating otilotzi,t thou nutl a far jolter ileft•mr lhan I aILI able io woke. I qualities; I intended only to protest ;11.1:101st your 14110.111e1e5 , 1 pill•ath , of Vit'Vek to \VlM:hilt , IViuniot adtlivteil,andcrillicsWhirllllo neyrr ConlIllittf . 11; 1111,1 this I 11:1V0 114.110, not only her:luso it is just I. him, hilt 1101 . 1 . SH:try thu vindit.ation of others. .1. S. 111.A.,1:. TOM In the Shumneln tttttt t—The Pennay I •nn In Canal Company In Coort. On the 21st of NI/Volllllllr, 1,67,a tree 1.111 was found in the court of (.2 uarter Sessions of Dauphin county on a suit brought by the l'onittion wealth of l'entisylvttuia against the l'enn'a Company for maintaining a 1111114111100 in the shape ordains in the lillo quelutlina river, whertMy fish and partuni - larly spud were prevented from ascondnig and descending the stream. 'rine bulk:linen in the case Was preferred under the net tf March 30, IS(III, relating to the prtssago of fish in the Susqueliatilint river. The ease was tried on the r,th of.lanuary, ISGS, owl the jury submitted a special verdict 011 1110 same day, setting forth that the deft(ndan to had not eoinplied with the Art of As:senility providing for the free passage of fish in the Susqueliamm, and that the lout at ('OIIIIII Ida remained the 1.1111110 1111 before the 111011 t of the lute. TllO jury theroula (it sub witted that if the upon the Gu-t:, stated, should tin rd' opliden that the de fendants were guilty In manner and term :is they stood indicted, then they found (1,- I(nel:tilts guilty and judgment to la , given aveordingly ; If not guilty, the vordiet and : judgment to be fiir defendants. The I ',tort filed his opinion in the ease 1111 the I:ith of l'cbrilary, last year, %%hen he ,et forth that it would not be that the Legislature, by the net of North .(ii, tat', undertook I, coustruu or imelity the charter Or the Pennsylvania I 'anal l'ompany, which had uo Ifigal 1•Sis10111 . 1 1 at 01111.111101 but was incorporated on the Ist of Slay, Isfin, and severed a truusli•r of the works fr..mi the l'elinsylvania. Itailroad Company on the nOth of Starch, asserted that. the whole ail of usseinhly rehition to the passage of fish WILS 11.11111,1111. the railroad company, 114"1 1 f the charter of which the Legislature had no control what ever, itn.lconeluded by stating that it was his duty to declare the ant null and far as it iilll/1,421111111.1111 Pennsylvania I 'anal Company the duty of changing the 1111110 s at it, own proper cunt (although he was 111 1.110 opinion that the alteration, if deemed desirable, could be tient, at jtuhlic ex pens. , 1, and he, therefore, rendered Judgment in favor of the delendant on the special ver dict. 0,1 the 261.11 last a writ error was tiled, specifying that the imirt erred in directing judgment to bo entered or the Pennsylvania Canal Company on the spe cial verdict, liiitead of for the Common wealth. The c.ase has been reached in the supreme Court and has boon argued for the Commonwealth by J. W. Simonton, Esq. ; followed by Francis Jordan and Loins W. Esqs., for the defendant in error; the argument being closed by Attorney I lenor al F'. Carroll Brewster for the Common wealth. The courtadjeurned withouLniumuncing a decision in the rave. The decisions ill 1114.11 this and the Mobilier of A in,- lea case will probably be published soon,, Ulm, during the Juue MINNi1)11 I,i dill Su preme Court. Arrival of 1)1,11.1.1;4 . 0t.hed ontera —Habits of the Gentle Maytag,. Was May 21.—Tho delegation of aborigines from the borders, consisting of the two Brute Sion x chiefs—Spatial Tad alld Swift Itear--and two warrior, Yellow flair and Fast Pear—arrived horn to-day, aecompaniod by their agent, Captain De witt C. Pool, United States Army, and In terpreter C. E. quern, a Fri-minium, who has lived twenty-six years among the Sioux. Spotted Tail is the great chief of the Brutes, and has under has rule about live thousand human beings of his nation. Ile is about furty-eight yearsof age,of large, muscular frame, and thoroughly Indian in every particular. This evening the whole party took a stroll along Pennsylvania avenue. They were dressed in their native -buckskinust our, leggings and mote :v ins, elaborately worked With beads. Around their bodies they wore a blanket, with a white stripe diapmally across it. Strapped about their waist, but nut of view, each savage carried his six shooter, and In his hand his pipe. During their prmcuco till the avenue this evening a torchlight pro cession of negroes passed by. 'fhonwner nun Chinese lanterns, the bands and shouts of the crowd considerably bewildered the sons of the forest. They looked on and, pre serving the usual stolidity of their race, said nothing. The party loitered bark tothe hotel where they areinitting up, and its early as s o'clock turned in for the night. The Indians ecupy three rooms, which are fitted up • with rots. The royal savages, however, • not knowing the row fort of mattresses and sheets cling to their primitive notions of I luxury by sleeping on the the,. The del egation will visit the lnrl tau Departrliellt. ,111OrrOW, nod Cloud is expected here in a few days. Spotted Tail's party are rather Sceptical about Red arriving here, notwithstanding the llNSUralleel.l, that 11. is coming. They think the white people are deceiving them. The two warriors above referred to have each killed pale flees, and accordingly were selected as inns tile Indians. 'rho newly arrived Indians were eight days on the Journey and can plain of fatigue. They were much pleased to be informed through the interpreter that the accounts of their killing white people had preceded them, as they esteem such butcherings to be evidences Of valor.— Spotted Tail and Swift Hear wear as ern:i ntent:4 the medals hearing the profile like ness Of ex-President Johnson, which were presented to them by the Prato Commis sion in Isuh, of which lien. Sherman was President. The chiefs, Spotted Tail, Swift Bear, Fast Bear and Yellow Hair, who aro now in Washington, had an interview with Com missioner l'arker. Tho Commissioner told them they were regarded UM friendly to the United States, and he would he ready to hear their complaints when they wore prepared to make them. Ile alluded to the coming visit of Bed Cloud and party, and promised them interviews with 'lie Presi dent and General Sherman. When the Commissioner had spoken, Spotted Tad said he would make known their com plaints after they had rested. The pipe of peace was then produced, most of the party taking " a few whiffs," and the Indians retired. Despatches from Buffalo and Montpe lier, Vt., indicate another Fenian ad vance on the border. From Montpe lier, it is reported that two companies of Fenlnns left Burlington for the frontier, that another large body were going from Plattsburg by boat, and that all the doubtful teams in St. Albans and Burlington had been taken for use last night. Large bodies of Fenians also left Buflillo last night, but it is not known whether they intend to cross the neighboring frontier or to aid Biel in the Red River District. A number of Fen ians are reported to have left ,Brook lyn, N. Y., for Canada, last night. Movements of Fenian bodies are also reported at Albany, Rochester and Au burn, N. Y., all bound for Canada. MEE
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