Vittsiturgh ograttig. TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 7 Ulnas Con•t Ticket. Par ProAdesi Jape ef tV Did Omar/ 'MOM HAMPTON. roe Lam ably. L JOHN P. GLASS. n. A LIMBO &AOC. rn. BANS B. RIBBON. • ty. WI. H. DENNIBTOE. TIMM J. HIOLIAX. P's• 474.4 of M.o. WM. A. /111160 N. J. Cbfet Tnaon, DAVID AIICILT4 Ja. Mondir. ADDLEL MoOLORM. Par WIL J. RIOH L A MVP. r+ - Omit, r.eta g sa nc ... main HAMILTON. JOHN N. Ft. D Dinsitor N Ppm RAW. State Eights ant Nieto Defence. We note among' the new dodges of the copperhead Democracy a recurrence to' the doctrine of State Rights, which had been made so odious by its recent fruits as to renderit a somewhat delicate operation to handle it as heretofore. It is suggested, DO doubt at the present time, by the failure of the General Government to render that protection to the State which is always sup posed to be the consideration of allegiance, and in our case is pledged by the instru ment which vests in that government the exclusive control of our armies, as well as by its renewed call upon the inhabitants to defend themselves. People will natu rally look to that quarter to which they find the authorities at Washington turning themselves in their extremity so often for relief. We are not surprised, therefore, to find the sympathisers with the rebellion taking advantage of the oiroumstanoe, to prepare the way for the establishment here of the idea that we are bat a Federal boys and not a nation, and that of course the ■eoesviou of the Cotton States was well warranted, and may, be legitimately fol lowed by the withdrawal or revolt of our own. If they skaU succeed, with the aid of the authorities at Washington, in indoctri nating the people with this heretical and mischievous notions, the rebellion is not . only justified, but the government of the Colon is at an end.. We would not give the toes of a copperfor such a combination `of jarring -and discordant elements as a - confederacy of these states, or any consid erable them, would make with the privilege to all of them of withdrawing upon the slightest provocation, or without any provocation at all, and setting up for themselves. We should be the prey of the powerful, and the contempt_ of the world, with nothing but anarchy and bloodshed for our portion. God save us from such an infliction. fibs a curious fact, ho waver, that at the vePy outbreak of this rebellion, and even while the present Executive of this State waa con ferring with the ornsserrative Republicans, and (*.operating with the equally eonserv , ative Democrats upon the efficacy of liitseble pie, and the danger of provoking hostility' on the part of the Border States by putting our own Commonwealth in a state of de. fence, the whole influence of his position was exerted to bring about a Congress of Ambassadors of pretended sovereignties under the very nose of the General GOT ernment, and In clear violation of the very spirit and letter of the Constitution of the United States. To effect this, either for the sake of the miserable patronage which it conferred, or because he really thought that the Union was to be patched up by this kind of statesmanship, he spared no pains to win over the leading men of both parties to the reergnitlon of the pestilent heresy which wu Just then threatening the exiet ince of . iiis nation, by accepting the invi tation o f old incorrigible culprit Vir ginia, to meet with her and other States, in contempt of the authority of the Union, for the purpose of resettling the Government, and deciding upon what terms the offended ' soversigis would consent to submit to the vote of - the people as expressed in the elec tion of Lacroix. The panacea failed, al though a majority of the Governors' dele gates were found voting -throughout with the Ambassadors of the Southern princi palities, and Pennsylvania remained tutor gashed and unarmed, to reap at this day the fruits of the wisdom that feared offence 'inn In the exercise of $ provident regard I for the safety of her own citizens. And this reminds us of another plisse of statesmanship of • the same kind, which looked for the care of our national evils in further voluntary prostration. and self abasement on-the part of the Northern States. Wise men, like WOODWARD, were of the opinion that Pennsylvania could save the Onion, not by arming—for that would ' have been as offensive to Southern pride as the parade of Sherman's Battery in the av enue—but by repealing a harmless section of our penal code on the subject of kidnap ping, which was only an affirmance of the common law, and of whieh nobody had ever complained.- Cbssareatieis statamen—lica _nu save the markl--aves of Brynsbiirata prefee.lons, were equally speed upon the all-healing 'Macy of a gentle emetic which should indeed our statute-Wok of this supposed cause of offense, and the newly elected Governor, who had called la a con isrvati;;:tor to revise and flatten down hie ins 1, was not bobbed the rest in the opinion that meekness and milk-and water, submission and slops, were einem reign remedy for the diem* of a State, ,Wideh was then throbbing with the agonies of an incipient revolution whose causes end elements were fermenting sting down among the foundation-stones on which it rested, and far below the visual reach of the ourfieserexplorers : —the mere politioal rag . ph:kin—who believe in court-plasters and cateplaeout. The heresy, however, .which was involved in lbls potent electrum, was of the same class precisely as the former, be cause .it looked to Mate action—of a very ridiculous character, to be sure—for the correction of a supposed evil, which grew, if it existed et all, out of our Federal sols titial exeltudvely, and was only remedia ble at the hands of the' General Govern ment, through its Legislature or its Judi. Upon: the other question, hoverer ' of ming the State for the eiaergestoy, widch was w tenderly esaltewed, than was I pe agar Iltasia for Interest:Lilo; beams; the oronisation sad weird of the militia, in the !Amid anwittim of actual yaw, be. 7 longto die Mates alone, and,* awes prat, itiactio authorities row is welding for the ocesidon the only way is wideh they mobd ham legitimately and • . ! effectively intervened. That, however, which fs now admitted to have been-a cap. Dal error, and is appropriately set down by some of the Philadelphia newspapers to the account of the legislature, as a grave and palpable neglect of a high public duty, was not the fault of the Republicans proper, or Radicals, as they were called, who re presented the great Western and Northern counties of this State. When one of our own members, who urged this point again and again, exclaimed in his place that "The way to save the effusion of blood was to show that. we were ready to shed it, if necessary, in such a cause "—that "every drop that should actually flow in the con test would be on the heads and consciences of the timid counsellors, who whispered poses and t advised concession," and that "in stead of talking of oonceattions, the cry 'to arms,' should ring out from the State cap. ital, through every valley, and along every mountain top in Pennsylvania," or "t - he programme of the traitors would be extend ed from Washington to Philadelphia and Harrisburg "—he was denounced by the Philadelphia press, and regarded by the Governor himself as a bloody-minded vis ionary and little better than an incendiary while Philadelphia Democrats and Peoples' men were alike condemning his tatraiem and relying on the repeal of the 95th sec tion—the Peace Convention of State Hover signs, and the compromises of the fossil statesmen of the Crittenden school, as an easy and efficient substitute for men, and muskets, and big-throated metallic persuad ers,withtrnmpeta and with drums. While we admit, therefore, the soundness of the complaint, though somewhat tardy in the utterance, we take eatiefaction herein being able to reply, "thou canal not say we did IL" What we now aim at in these remarks ie not, however, any idle crimination, but the praoLcal fruits of the lessons which these things teach us. One of the greatest Of them is to put no further true; in those whose timidity and want of etateamanthy nave once already betrayed us into blun ders that have proved so fatal. now dif ferent would have been the tone of public sentiment among the unhappy luptives of the Cumberland Valley, With a ruler here of tried courage, and wisdom, and integ rity, who could have inspired the people with a just confidence, and breathed Into their hearts a little of that ancient spun which flamed out in deadly volleys from every bush and fence, as the yeomanry of New England, with their own trusty rides, rolled back the tide of mercenary inTasioa from the commons of Lexington and the streets of Concord, instead of showing them the aspect of white lips and chattering teeth, and a dismantled capitol, denuded even of its Revolutionary relics, its high dignitaries in travelling dresses, with hor ses ready bridled at the gate, and a half utterod "Sauce gui past" just trembling upon their coward tongues? Shades of Mifflin and McKean, how telt you of shades can feel) when your portraits were taken down from the walls, and hurried to places of security which you would have scorned to seek yourselves? Lee's drmy•-Its Numbers•.lts Chan. ces of Escape. Contrary to the general tendency of cor. respondents writing about the numbers of the rebel army, hero is one who wrote the other day the following very moderate es timate: From persons who had counted them, and in whose judgment I cad great etinffilence, I learned mat the whole force that had passed through Greenciitle and Cnan.bels. burg, incl./din teamsters end officers, in fantry, cavalry and artillery, did not ex ceed thirty-four thousand. That about two thousand still lay outside Greencastle that had not been counted, making in all thirty six thousand men, This, with the force under Early at York, would make the whole rebel force north of Hagerstown not more than forty-thousand five hundred. Ac companying this army were one hundred and sixty-two pieces of artillery, forty of which were the heaviest kind of Parrott guns, sixty of Wile' were heavy brass cannon, and the rest consisting of Napo leons, for Oro wing shell, awl a thin mouthed rifled cannon, which I had never seen be fore. These, with the cannon with Early's force, make the rebel artillery amount to one hundred and eighty-four pieces. The whole force of cavalry and mounted in fantry did not exceed 1,600. Only ,about one- taird of these were regular cavalry men, armed with carbine; sabres and re volvers. The remainder were armed with sabres and Eutleld rifle; without bayonets. I learned that Gen. Swell, wish his Whole force, except that poruon which was tinder Early at York, occupied the extreme front; that Loogetreat and U. H. lint were within supporting distance of r. sett up-near Snip. pensburg and Carlisle. General A. P. dill's cope amounts to about sixteen thousand. This would leave a twee of eighteen to twenty thousand in the Cum berland valleys, Cu antheniburg to Harris burg, at the present writing. During the progress of Leis late move ment from the South side of the Rappa. hannock to the Shenandoah Valley, and thence Northwards Into Maryland and I Pennsylvania, we read from day to day, in the newspapers, the usual exaggerated statements, or estimates, of the number of his prom, which were represented to amount to a round 100,000 at least, but more generally the figures were curia up to 126,000. While we read, of Nunn wa felt that those exaggerations were designed by the rebels to Nubians Nino good pur pose In