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They are interesting and instructive, especially at the present time, as illustrating and demonstrating bis character, ar.d oonse" quently, to some exteDt, the char.-.cters of those who, well knowing him selected h m as the Kena Sahib of the Southern Sepoy muai'y. I do n"t think it worth while to go into the details of his threatened duel with Cel. Ed ward Bissell, of Illinois (since deceased in ■ the Governorship of that State.) though a gen al reference to it is proper to show the undisputed faet that—having appeared in pubiic to provoke aod seek a mortal ccmbat —in private correspondence he was availing himself of every paltry quibble to evade the impending consequences of his rash repeti tion of the very stale trick of a Southerner bullying a Northerner in Congress, OD the presumption that a man in the North will not fight a duel, knowing that a duelist' is more infamous here that a coward is in the South. I have never I eon able to suppress my ! contempt in reading a correspondence tend- j ing, or relating to. a proposed or supposed possible duel. The cast is invariably sa be. ! fogged with technicalities, and pettifogged with rascalities, which would make an attoi- j ney in the Marine Court or. Tombs blush on I suggesting, that no honest man of average I courage can feel a particle of respect for ; either party—principle or seconds—after the j perusal. I have been friendly and intimate with maiy men who have done these silly tb:'n 'B, but have never been able to esteem or honor one of them after such a perfor mance. I only refer to Davis's affair with Bissell to remind the public that he " backed down" and backed out of a fight which he himself; first proposed ; and that he requested Col. Bissell to allow him to do so, on a pretext suggested and furnished by himself. It has been repeatedly announced that Jefferson Davis will command the Southern Sepoys in person in the campaign now com mencing. I hope he will lead their army on the first battle field, for I mean to be there ; myself. But I very much doubt whether Mr. ; Davis has the eourage to expose himself to I the peculiar risk—not of immediate death, j but of capture—which he would incur in that " WE STAND UPON THE IMMUTABLE PRINCHO.ES OF JUSTCE-NO EARTHLY POWER SHALL DRIVE US FROM OUR POSITION." Bellefonte, Centre County, Penna., Thursday Morning, June 27 1861. position. Some of" our bovs" are " bound" ! to " have bis carcass" ulire, if it costs a i thousand of their lives. By Ihe way, if Jefferson Davis should lead the secession army in person, it is to be h >ped that his memory (or courage) won't I fail bim, as it did at the battle of Buena j Yista. when he omitted to give the third and essential command to throw his regiment into solid squad ; By the right and left of flank battalions! To the color— march t"— The consequences of this hiatus valde dejlen• | dus teas, that his regiment was left spread ; in the form of a Y, to ieceive tho ehargc of 4000 Mexican cavalry, coining down upon J them in full career, on the slopes of Buena : Vista. The survivors of that regiment know ; that nothing saved them from annihilation i hut their practiced, deadly marksmanship S with rifles. Perhaps it Was well for Jefferson Davis ! that Zieharv Tay'or was his father-in-law, | though unwillingly so. A sterner and more j Brutus-iike commander might have ordered a court martial on the spot, that would have j condemned him to be shot for cowardice, or : other moral incompetency. • In my opinion, Jefferson Davis should j have been court-martialed for his disgraceful | misconduct at that battle, as soon as it was deified. Perhaps he would have been, but for his peculiar relations to Major General Zachary Taylor, whose daughter he had married by stealth, in opposition to the ex pressed wishes and positive commands of the father. General (then Colonel) Taylor said to bis daughter: "If you marry Lieu tenant Davis, I will never see your face again, dead or alive !" The infatuated gill nevertheless, eloped with Davis, who had taken advantage of U e fridndly patronage of his commanding officer, and vio'ated the law- of hospitality by secretly gaining the i affections of his danghtcr. In such abhor rence did Zachary Taylor hold Dayis, that he kept his word with a firmness that may be deemeil pitiless cruelty. When in the course of time, his disobedient daughter lay on her death bed. and sent to him a penitent message, entreating him to visit her, that she might die in peace, with her father's blessing, or, at least, his forgiveness, the stern reply of the inexorable old man was: " I warned you that if you married that man. I would never see you again, living oi dead, and I never And so the unfor tunate lady died, unblest and unfurgiven by him. When Davis came under the immediate command of his father-in-law in the Mexican war, General Taylor refused to recognize him in any way, except officially, as in giv ng orders, and in other maUers of purely military form and duty. There was a two-Lid obstacle to Taylor's performance of his duty in the Buena Yista matter. Davis was his son-in-law, and was at the same time, known to be tho object of his barred and nbhorance. lie could not well have escaped suspicions of bad motives or persooal feeling, in either view, A friend, to whom I read the foregoing a short time since, gave me the following sketch of Davis relations to an old Missisipi an, renowned for [desperate and reckless courage: Alexander McClung often proved himself,on the battlefield and on the dueling ground, a man of dauntless and unsurpassed valor, showing an absolutely suicidal con tempt uf death on every occasion that presented. lie kil'ed many men with his own band, and finaly shot Limself in th® head. I happened to be in constant communica tion with Colonel A. R. McClung of Mississ ippi in 1843 and 1850, and had almost daily conversations with him in relation to promi nent Mississippians, As a matter of course, Jeff Davis was frequently named, and for him McClung entertained the most supreme contempt. He said Jeff, was not a man of true courage —that he wished to be regarded as a duelist; but, in giving a chalenge, would always cast about for a non-combatant, and would exercise enough prudence to creep out of accepting one from ac antagonist over whom he had not a great advantage.— MoClung said on one occasion : '• lam sorry I ever fought a duel. It is not a pleasant business, and yet I would like to fight one more, with one man, and that man is Jefferson Davis, because I think the Umted States would be better off without him. But he will not fight me ; he is too great a coward. In fact, he is not now,, never was, and never will be, a brave man. in the true sense of the word. Ho is a dan. gerous aDd wily politician, loaded down with vanity and self-conceit, wishing oniy for his own aggrandizement, and he cares not at what expense or over how many desolate households. He thinks of himself, and him self only; and I should not be surprised to find him, one of these days, taking such step in public as will place his neck iD a baiter; for he is a bad man and a scoundrel, and I have frequently denounced him as such be fore the people of Mississippi, eßd the dirty poltroon and artful villian never had a cour age to resent it." These conversations occurred on board ship Levire, B. Gardiner, master, on our passage from New York to Valporaiso. Mo- Clung was on his way to Bolivia, as Charge d' Affairs from the United States. In introducing to the notice of the Sunday Mercury's readers these facts in the history of the arch-traitor, I nin not violating any rule of propriety which protects the "strictly private" moral delinquencies of public men. By common consent of all gentlemen engaged iD the business of writing for publication, and of all publishers, the sins and errors of personal and domestic life are not to be bla zoned to the world, as a means of injury the general reputation of any politician, htwev er deserving his political course may be of condemnation and moral reprobation. As I said in my article printed in the In dependent, a few months ago, exposing the systematic thefts of a Yale College 6tudent, committed thirty-three years since : " Had not that little thief (now a Senator in Con grLS>) reproduced in public life the morality of his early private life, the secret of the sins of his you k would have remained hidden in the bosoms of those who then knew, and now remember them "- Tne Tribune, Times aud ether papers sny that my " little thief" was Judah P. Benja min, now Attorney .General of the Southern Confederacy of traitors and pirates. I did not publish the name of the person described, but will promptly furnisn it whenever the right mam calls upon me for it ! When Bet.edict Arnold (a man of furhigh | tr character as to courage, truth and hon j esty, than any of his present imitators at the ' South) committed his bold treason it was | consilered justifiable to search through h : s j whole previous life, to his very childho d, | for evidences of his innate total depravity : : and incidents constitute an interesting and j instructive portion of his published biogra phy. I am doing no more or less than a sim | Die duty in contributing to the history of our time and country these " characteristics of Jefferson Davis and his co-adjutators in trea son, theft, assassination and piracy." Among them may be specially mentioned David L. ' Youle, ex-Senator from Florida, of whose early life I will give some familiar sketches at my earliest leisure and convenience. 1 affix my name to these statements, not merely on the general principle that annony mous charges are entitled to no respect or belief, but because I am particularly desi rous to furnish my proofs and authorities to the immediate " parties in interest," when ever they dare apply to me for them Of no other person will I take any no'tce in this connection. To those whom I accuse, I alone am responsible, F D FRANCIS BACON, M. D. A Richmond Editor's Ravings About the " Yankees." To be conquered in open and manly fight by a nation of gentlemen, aud subjected to their sway, might drive us raving distracted with rage and s'tame ; but for Yankees—the most contemptible and detestable of God's creation—the vile wretches, whose daily BUS tenance consists in the refuse of all other people—for they eat nothing that anybody else will buy —for tbom to lord over us—the English language must be enlarged, new words must be invented to express the ex tent and depth of oir feeliDg of mortification and shame. No, it is not possible that we can be reduced to a state to which there is no words to describe. Instead of tnis, we must bring these en franchised slaves back to their true condi tion. They have long looked upon them selves as our social inferiors—as our serfs— theirmean Diggatd'y lives— their low, vulgar and sordid occupations have ground this con viction into them. Bui of a sudden, they have come to imagine that their numerical strength gives them power—and they heve burst the bonds of servitude, and are run ning riot with more than the brutal passions i of a liberated wild beast. Their uprising has all the characteristics of a ferocious, servile insurrection. The first aim is demolition the destruction of everything which has the least appearance of superior virtue, which excites their envy and hate, and which, by contrast, exposes the shameful deformity of thpir own lives. Thep bave suggested to us the invasion of their territory and tbe robbery of their banks and jewelry stores. We may profit by the suggestion so far as the invasion goes—for that will enable us to restore them to their normal condition of vassalage,and teach them that cap-in-hand is the proper attitude of the servant before his master. A cock for a sail or, a goose for a poldmr—a yankee for a gen tleman— images incongruous and unuatural, —Richmond Whig. MURDER OF THE INNOCENTS.— The Chicago Post, says : "By the hands of a private in dividual, who has just escaped from a Seces sion mob in Knoxville, Tenn., we have re ceived a note from a well informed and cred itable person in that city. In this note is an account of the most wicked and wanton ■outrage that has yet been perpetrated in this war. An avowed Union man in Knoxville had refused to submit to the dictation of the mob, and to make his refusal the more poin ted he sent word to the ringleader of the mob that he would never take down a Union flag that floated over his house, and would never allow any one else to do it The mob immediately set up a barborous yell, and started off for the offender against the mor. tals of the traitors. At the gate of the house a little girl, three years of age, was seen at at play, and one sf the gang, on being told that she was the daughter of the object of their murderous mission, picked a stone from the ground and threw it at the child's head, killing it instantly. In the annals of even the Sepoy insurrection, no deed more wantonly cruel than this can be found.— Can it be that the people of Tennessee will not themselves avenge this little girl's death ?" Office and the Union. We have urged, says the N. Y. Tiibune, and understand it to be agreed that, in pros ecuting the War for the Union, no party and no political distinction shall be known but that of Unionists and Secessionits. He who is for the Union—frankly, heartily, uncon ditionally—is enti'led to any appointment or position in the Miliary service of the coun try that his abilities and character will com mand, and the fact that he supported for President, Lincoln, Bell, Douglas, or Breck inridge. is not to be considered in assigning that position. Gen. Butler, Gen. Dix, and hundreds more such, obtain coveted com mands and commissions in the service, whether regular or volunteer, not by favor of the Pres dent, not as implying or involving any change in their political convictions or rala'ion 7 , but as a simple, nak'd right. Tho fact—if it be a faet that they would vote to oust the Administration to-morrow, does not mil.tate in the smallest degree against their right to be treated by that Administration quite as well as they treat Messrs. Banks, Fremont, and other eminent Republicans.— In preparing and providing for the defence of the Union, party politics are not allowed to be considered. Should this rule bp extended to civil offices as weil ? Anti-Republicans say it should, and clutch at now and then a careless sen tence in the Tribune as favoring tbeir posi tion. We think differently ; and here are our reasons : The modern Democratic party, baeed on the comb nation of Crawford, Calhoun, and Jackson mm to oust Messrs. Adams and j Clay, succeeded in pjwer an Administration which never removed a man from office be cause of fcis politics. The new dynasty de ; liberately changed all this, substituting for | the broadest toleration a systematic pro scription. We are not arguing that this was right or Wrong : we simply state historical, undeniable facts. | The late Administration claimed to be a | lir eal successor of Gen. Jackson's, and acted i on the principle established by him of " re warding friends and punishing enemies."— ! No Reppb'ican was placed by it in any civil j station that a Democrat wanted, nor left in one unless in the very rare instance where a Republican was d'emed peculiarly if not ex clusively qualified. We doubt thaty?ee Re publicans in all were in office under tbe Fed eral Government in this city on the day of the late Presidential election. Mr. Lincoln was eho uglas bid pledged his support to President Lincoln, ; ai.d in quick succession it was followed up with the news that Ex-President Buchanan participates in the genera! determination to sustain the government at Washington ; that General Cass had contributed lioerally to a large subscription for the equipment of the Michigan quota of volunteers called cut by President Lincoln ; that Ex President Fill more presided, nt Buffalo, over a meeting called to aid the Government in th j enforce ment of the laws: that Gov. Sorsgue, of Rhode Isiand, just re-elected by a large ma jority over a Republican cempetitor, had tendered a regiment of troops to aid Lincoln, and offered to command it himself—they were struck with amazement and charge cer tain parties and certian public journals with having deceived them. But this is net all. Northern men in the pas f have misled Southern leaders, but these leaders have carried it still further and mis led their people. For instance such men as Gon. Wise and others, to induce Virginia and the border States to seceie, have know ingly and intentionally misrepresented the feelings of the Northern leaders. A short time ago, Gov. Wise, in a speech announced that he knew " Gen. Scott had reeighed in consequence of the secession of Virginia, and that he was only detained in Washington by j the personal entreaties of President Lincoln ; • that Lincoln was drunk when he had con s-med to issue the proclamation calling for i 5,000 men, and had been made so by the extreme Republicans before he had consent ed to sign it. Wise further s iid that there was no doubt that Lincoln was badly scared, and that he would scon yield the capital The \ irginians had but to hold out firmly, and the independence of the Confederate States would be accomplished with Lt;le or no bloodshed."— Columbia Republican. To End in Compromise. When the Government made its first effort to check the rebellion, that has become such a terror in the South, the allies of sedition in the North denounced the legitimate means of the Administration to viudicate its author ity and enforce the law, as coercion, and de clared that the d fficulty could only be adjus ted by compromise. Compromising right, while the wrong doer was secretly engaged in consolidating bis power to u-urp the au thority of the Govern ment, was one of the plans adopted by the leaders of the present secession movement to achieve success, and now that these plans are about to fail, they are also about io try their old game of com promise, to escape the penalty of the laws they have violated, and get rid of the res ponsibility they have assumed in arraying ; themselves against the government, in tram- I pling on its laws, and arming themselves to j destroy its political, civil and religious eziat j ence. We are now gravely informed that John J. Crittenden is preparing another compromise, to be submitted in the approach ing session of Congress, but the public so far are in the dark as t3 the terms on which Mr. Crittenden will propose tu restore the coun try to peace, business to prosperity and, and still preserve the dignity of our forms of gov ernment. We are at a loss, too, to under stand how the two principles of government the one adopted by the patriots of the rev olution, amid prayer confidence and frienl ship, and the ott.e; proclaimed by the par t asites of this rebellion, amid the destruction of private property and the desecration of public law and order—we are at a loss to understand how a compromise is to restore peace and perpetuity between sueh opposite und beligerant principles, without effecting the staoiii y of a pure Government unless the evil is utterly and forever crushed out. We are at a loss how a compromise can be effect ed, by which the assassin, the plunderer and the usurper can be set free, and the consti tution and laws maintain their prestige and their power. If Bucb a compromise can be effected, —if the deliberations of the approach ing session of Congress are to result in no greater benefit to this country than a compro mise, we will forever be compelled to mourn the policy that convened it, aud deplore the diplomacy and statesmanship that dictated such an adjustment of our difficulties. Com promise now will only entail confusion here after. Compromise with traitors will infuse it to treason the concious power of influence and ability, to rise in arms again, when am bition becomes dissatisfied with the Constitu tional preferences of the people. Gouipro mise with an armed rebellion, that has pol luted its path with crimes, and stained its banner with the blood of free and innocent men, would not only forever destroy the abil ity of man for self government, but it would affect tte power of all government, and ren der the safety of communities, life and pro- perty the mere toys of violence, asuassiaa. j tion and incendiarism. j Theie is DO reason why this rebellion sho'd | be treated any other than a common mob, and left to the suppression of the proper offi ! cars who are empowered to enforce the law. There is no reason why those who are enga ged in it should not suffer the punishment ! they have invoked. There is no complioa* tion in the trouble—it needs no mnthemati.. cal or philosophical solution—andi: is bound to disappear before the force of the jaw, pro" vided there is no attempt at compromise made. But if Congress legislates to exouse : crime, instead of exterminate criminals, our ■ position will not only become doubly preca j rious at home, but before the nations <>f the ! world cur claim to fairness and justice will be in danger of invalidation. The laws which : we propose to uphold will no longer corn j mand respect abroad. The authority that | we boast ot as wielding at home, will ba : trampled under foot when it suits the pur ! poses of any set of men banded together, I either for rebellion or self-aggrandi-ement. j To offer to compromise HOW, is to cast aside i the glories of the past, the bleslings of the l present, and the hopes of the future. Notb i ing but a stern adherence to the law, and a i determined punishment of those who have i violated its sanctity, can 6ave the American Union, and tbse who attempt a compromise with traitors who have armed to abrogate such laws, are doing the people a more vital injury than are those who have their daggers to their throats. Let us, then, have a com* plete and entire dissolution, betore we broacb ! the thought of a compromise by whiob our ; enemies can caD escape the just wrath of our i brave defenders.— Harrisburg Telegraph. THE LION IN HIS LAIR. The correspondent of a Chicago paper gives the following picture of the General that tr made a retreat, as ht appears in his office at Washington : " Enfeebled in body, but clear minded and vigorous intellect as ever. General Scott is now cheerfully undergoing labors that would overtax the strength of many far his juniors in life and in service. An early hour of the day fiuds him surrounded by aids and advi. sers, and not until a late hour of the night does the work cease. The bustle and din of the city and camp are hushed at nightfall, but not for many hours later does the head quarters of the Lieutenant General lose its features of activity. " The scene on the day in question was one on which the pencil of a Leutz would dwell lovingly to the production of a painting that should be vivid history. General Scott, suffering more than usual by an attack of gout, lay half reclining upon a lounge drawn into the centre of the large apartment, his feet resting upon pillows (not the pillows of Tennessee, upon whom, if the fellow does not retreat to a ditch, he will set his foot presently.) '• On the wall opposite the lounge occupied by Gen.Scott were suspended two large mil itary maps of Virginia and Maryland, with all their careful details, closely represent ing the country, its features, accesses, fast nesses, and approaches. It was noticeable that about Harper's Ferry, Richmond, and Norfolk were drawn large circles, within which the details became more minute, with symbols and signs abundant, of significance to the military men, to which belongs to the War office. " By General Scott's side lay a long l'ght reed, which he made use of in pointing to different localities on these maps. Aids, amamienses, advisers were all busy, quietly and all without stir or confusion. In and on such scenes and consultations, rest safely the fate of this war and the speedy and condign punishment of traitors. Probably no one but the hungrier of the Washington correspondents, will regreat or fail to applaud the wisdom of the War De partment, or indeed, of the Government, as a whole, in only sparingly admitting to con fidence the newspers and the general publio. It is enough to know that the Government is thorougly at work in all its departments for the crushing out of treason, and that General Scott, is. indeed 4 a close and volun tary 'prisoner' to duties, whose execution will make the setting sun of the old hero il lustrious in all time." TUB OTIIRR SIDE.—We take the following from the Richmond Whig, to show how Se cessionists justify their treason : " Surely if there be such a thing as the right of self government, for which the sev en years' war was fought, these people, thus unanimous in asserting it, are priviledged to enjoy it. But our Yankee brethren tell us, this is a great mistake ; it is rebellion and treason ; —that the only genuine sort of self government is that which they may choose to dic'ate to us ! They are the gentry, who, in virtue of their brute force, are alone in vested with the pattent right for issueing models of self-government! They raise great armies and threaten us with an over whelmong invasion to coerce us to enjoy this right of self government, according to their understanding of it! True, they cov er their designs under the pretext, that there is a Union party at the South overawed and oppressed by a tyranical minority ; and they are coming for their deliverence, But this is pure pretence—for they cannot be ignor ant of the fact, that the very men, whom they insult with a tender of their sympathy ! and protection, will be among the foremost to meet them with musket and bayonet. The contest, stnpt of all disguise, is on® for freedom on the one hand a despotism on the other. The men of North Carolina and Virginia—whose ancestors did as much as any equal number on this Continent to es tablish our Independence, are too well vers ed in constitutional government and practi cal liberty to be deluded by words. They know the difference between a government resting on their own consent and a govern ment resting on Yankee consent. The fiirst is liberty, the last is despotism. With a voice as firm and united as was ever uttered by a free people, they have declared their determination to maintain the first, or die resisting the last. Around their standaid will rally as many brave men—their kindred from the States West and South, as ever graced a battle-fiield." Number 22