niti . 4,o'ilt**4l,. PO` TSVILLE 4% mut *tun iptirrum--is TW was A For 'genii' Niue pre' Threat° the istiembllng of the Chiesgo-,COneen and'ainisa the adjourn-. anent - Of that , moat hody, the. cry of "Peara, Peace," has been rung ha our rare in all iterture! berless variations. When' *need rebels fired on the gallant - band Of. weterane Within 'the wells'of Sumter, aid , raised their . bloody heeds - inrehel lioa the of their country, peace was . not epoloseof.. ;Then, he'who Weida. have come before the people, who had been: aronied hitheir might, • plainly, oPeolF 4vacated peace,, peace on anytenni with the traitors Manx* who were even then inarcldeg, to rapture the Capital, would_ Um. fitrelfierylbadly. Treitiori then, in the North,irtur *lmpelled to be - warS'. —After the first flUsWrif „patriotism. had'died sway, and the people saw the gigaritiesize of the Rebellion; msw.that lit was 'not, to oierthrown in a short: . campaign of three months W ith 75,000 men On! that. the .rebabi SPPLItatI7 were increasing their . armies, sag becoining stronger, better supplied and better eqhipped aneachmonth rolled by, there arose intOng the masses Of the people—the loyal,. devoted masses of the North'—f, Grin determine thin to barrjon the_ war and maintain our ernment; though fire and blood ,stratit indeso , listing paths through the fields anti:homes of the senny. , ,Scsdh., . Where before were sudden l npf risings-slid impulsive movements, there was now sitted,eshe determinsitkie to "strike till thelast _aimed foe expires." • •.- I•7'. • " • • - while the peoples as a people,- were imbued . with this - spirit; AO were going forth compering arid to . Sibiniviet in,- the good ranee, there here those wile Were t raitors among rer,and who' • began to show their titration and -perfidy. They st first. peofessod .ti 3 be patriotic, and to be in fever cif -the mairdetmece of the Goiernment; bet titer .the Union/mu had experienced their first I reverse, 'their . true mindiples wire • generally I bronght to light. Then was pease first hinted st, • though - they had not suffiehint - boldneen to Pro, claim it openly. Ai time pealed on and - the, war "dragged its slow I,l eteth t4 o ets'," the oPPeeittan I leaders in the Ilinth, growing bolder with every succeeding year, beanie more open in their ory of peace. - Tesilly,taking • advantage of, every I straw intlitik favor, . theyadvocata peace on any tennis Whieh thelords of the Smith may.be pug to grant to the ritudillts of the North. In their papers, M -their Speeches, in-their tiorrespondenes„ and in their Private life, they are industriously circulating their notion of rites'. The leaders .of, the Peace party are doing their utmost to seduce the people from their loyalty to the Gov ernment by all manner of misreoresentntions, sophistry, and appeals to their ~assigns.. Re • gardless of truth they charge the 'Admix{ stration withfraud, :tyranny, Corruption; narrpation;_etc., ' and for all these imaginary vices—cretsted as they are by the fancies of disordered iinaginations—. they recommend an unconditional peace as st sure This peace movement, too, is not.only advised 'by a few, indiViduals in various parts of the coun t • . try, but the principle has been ineorporated-ra a ' . • plank 2 —a fundsmental doctrine 7 of the platform adopted by the Democratic party it ,Chicago. The second resolutiorilof that platform is as fol.-, - • _Resolved, That this Convention .doos explicitly . • declare, as the Renee of the American people, that after four . yoansya faiturt, v.>. restore the Union by the experiment of war, during which,' under the pretense of a military . necessity, _or war" paler higher, than the Constitution, the 'Constitution • itself has been disrogardedin every part; andpub , lic liberty and private rights alike trodden down, and the•matenal prosperity of the country easen tially impaired, justice, humanity, liberty,. and the public welfare, demand that immediate efforts . ' be made for a cessation of hostilities, with' a view to an ultimate Couventibe of all the States, or other peaceable means, to the-end that, at the - earliest practicable moment, peace may be, .re stored 0u the bailie of- the Federal Bohm of _the Here we-are brought face to face with the ob ject of the'-opposition party in the North, as avowed hi a public document professing to repre sent the' principles of their parti. Plain as is the • design of the above 'resolution,„ the more ultra peace men find fault with it and say that it 'should hare, declared for unconditional peace. - We are tusked in this resolution to suspend hos-. tilities. Why? • Becanse.the foe has been attiring to ruin our Governntent ; to make us a laughing stock before the world; who has attempted to ' establish-"a government founded upon slavery ; • who has with bloody hands welcorinid. thousands of our. brave 'men to hospitable graves ; has st list - repented of the error of his ways, and is will ing to come once mare .under the protecting folds of the old banner, if' that boon be, but granted to ' hint?' Not This is, not the reason ; but ae cording to thede sages who so recently aseembled ' in *maim in . Chicago, hostilities must be sus pended because the experiment of 'war has .re . •Sulted in four years of failure 1 Have then, in deed. thrall foil. years of suffering and toil, hard - skip and "heroism; marching and fighting, been one grind; stupendous: failure? , - Have our brave • menmarched to the connotes month, faced death - in many A well-foughthattle, and many thonsends of them laid awn their livens, willing sacrifice to - the cause of their *matey, only to add Mors blood to a monster failure? Has the nation poured out I its treasures inlavish - profueion to defend its own - independence, only to add in •vaints to an anon- . moue failure? Have all that we .have endured,_ all that we leave Sacrificed, all that we hare !pent, all that he hate risked in the preservition of our GrOvernMeot, been .in vain .l' . from, erierY. loyal heart in the North; from ever,' villages town - and city, from every glen and nook from Maine to California,. 'conies a ehoutwhich rising high above • the peaks of the Rocky Mountisins; and shelling upwards, in the midst of the lightning's flash and the thunder's roar, bears agrarei Powerig answer. "No r 'The Antericin people do not think, this war a failure, and they have masons for thinking thus. - • • • In 1864 when the rebels 'of the South- raised the gangland - of rebellion against the Union, the _ position of „aXiten, was this.:—TheY I ?lilintod and exercised absolute Control over , eleven gates-- Eastern Virginia, - North Carolina,' South enrollees Georgia, Florida, Alabnmi, '-sippi; sne, Ilskaa; Arkansas and - Tenne ssee _ ; and Over ' 'Kentucky, Missouri, Western Virginia, and Mary . land it partial weird, -• Within this grand area of . many millions of acres, they pesseseed weary fort, • sweetie' and public building belonging to tare Uni ted States. The 'Mississippi River, ; .on whose • broad waters floated - .'the commerce 'of the giant - West, was held by them, and their :gins effectu ' • • ally stopped all commeiroe on it. Their army in Virginis threatened the capture •of Washington ; • in Ilissoun,' St., units was •in danger of falling into their hands. All the seaport's= the Atlantic • • coast smith of the clieraposke Btywere,held by thorn, and their irasels - ient, in and. out at their - pleasure. Their armies wore large and lull of newqaoM ardor and eager for the. fray. On every hand, after long years of preparation; they : - were ready to carry on a victorious war. How different was our condition in the North I Here, when the eland first rung out - and' the "bugle sounded the call for the war," all was' confusitm. • • There was hurrying , to and fro, besting of deaths and waving of flags, arid it was evident the North was unprepared for war. Men had to be muster . ell; arms and clothing had to be' -manufactured; • ollicare had to be improvised from *beetle who had . never handled a „gun or Wielded a sabre . ; 11: 4 navy had to bo created, and everythitig pertain ing to the art of War...hid-to be manufactured be fore' our armies could becorrei effective. The • rebels, before they_took up arms against the Gov - - eminent, had' stolen all our arms and ammo ration, sent our regular army, small as When,: to , far 'off , militaryprate, scattered our. : little navy - around the' "wida r stide, world,"- and • then atter leaving ne nothing but the unswerving loyalty of the. people :on which to tidy, prOclaimed there - selves Mdeptaident. Thee at the outset the rob • Wls had a great advantage over us., • But who his . , • the advantage now.? Hew stands the 'case now, • in. September, 186 t ? ' , , • To-day the bogus Confedersky is con fi ned with . . in very contracted limit*. 'There is not ono State of all the elevate - Ith which, it began, :ever which it•exereises an undisputed. sintlicaity: • There is not a single Southern State in which the *United States army has..riot a foothold ; every Soinhern oort is blockided by a powerful fleet, and •all, with ono Or two . exceptiitns, exteptions; are effectually closed. / herr:arnica* sealed, as it were ; the 'rebel gm,' • is no. longer • scattered-over a large, extent of territory, but by force of circumstances con centrged within very:narrow.limits. — The ffebel • Navy is among the things that were, for. With the exception of a very few pire.tical craft, they ham - 'not a single vrasel, of war. upon the sea. - One after anotbrr the strOngholde of the" rebellion in quick are-failing into the Wool* of Effocz of alar • ga l l a nt:ixtops., —The mou,., Under the command of able lei Ora, Are , advaUO ~ Mg into the heart the hot*, Confederacy, driving the rebel legifint before, them. The Navy, :finder such kederif>ti the' ietain and *de toured nrregut, ennisingthe fewnweatining rebel ports M:,ejualutAit theiryery ceuters„: 'Grant sad l3heititaitOry - the irrefdable logic .bf their thundering cannon, are every day warning *the rebels of the weakness Of Weir Every'' Wttere, In the East, Weer hipr9itM!St,„Wfavetrably.: Day after day the Re: hellion is beittgliite ry. Tbs army and the navy . are alike trieun OTIS-the marshalled hosts or usitir;untlie /04.- and the sea,. Tteinci le ferr-hilig. oll o. lr ,b l ß l T e . leading ous herfite i ‘nelfterf, spkvalagt nobler arid - tiscire diking deas In. Adel& Of"their country. TraitonteverywhereMe becoming den- Per": enctfar e , casting about them for 901X10 1 means of relief Aa i - droirning man will catch i t t'ervartivt:tcr4stelihriseL; 4 ao - t herehela g ni n Pl after -this preposition of an armistice, hoping) thereby to gain time so , that :they can more sue eissiardly resist the adiencing armies_ of the Uni-1 0n.,. Order to aid thodesigns of these traitars, their friend" in the 15 - orth raise the cry pf "14**,1 Peace,hecauee . the experiment of war is w ail nre." It is not failure, hut so far hae been .rt decided armee', mad ere long the Flag of 'our tlliral will float in peace over every city and hazel. let in the land.: 'The.loyal Men in the 'North want pence, but mate . them Northern . sympathisers, they say, "Give nsl peace,' but give us freedom AMC Let us have War—war to the. kni fe — until ' tresion ie destroyed and traitors lay dciwn their arms, Unconditional) and' then, ind not until then, let as bane peace.r • , Iffzerad• or sue: Uroori Th COaorassmaar. . Cowmne or. vac Tont rralar---Nowl- NATION OF HOWELL FOULER, ESQ.- , -011 Mon.; day afternoon last the Conferees appointed to select aOandidate for Congnms for the Union party. of -the Tenth District, composed ot Schuylkill and Lebanon counties, met 'in the . Borough of Lebanon. - The conferees of Leh i anon were Messrs. Thomas Usher; David Hollinger -and John H. Immel; for. Schuyi-: kill,.Mossrs. C. F. Shindlei Danl. - Nagle and F. B. Wallace. .The meeting was organized . • by calling Mr, 'Asher to the chair, and ari-' pointing Mr. Wallace Secretary. On motion of Mr. Shindel it-was resolved that - Hoviet.t. rumen, FM, of Schuylkill County,, be nom inated bracelanuttion; as the Candidate for Congreats, at the approaching October election, Of the. Union . men of the Tenth district. The Secretary was then. directed to - Worm Mr., Francs that he. bad been nominated, - and the conference adjourned • sine die., .The ut most harmony and good' eeling prevailed du ring the meeting. There is every probability that Lebanon will giveldr. Punch in Octo:- ber, and LLIMOLE and - JOicasox in_November, the largest majorities'. ever given -by that staunch County to candidates for her stiffra . On Monday last - the - Union County Con vention. of : Lebanon was in session. During the afternoon Mr. Fisher Wasirivited to ad dress It. He complied, *and delivered a spir- - ited, patriotic rpeech.- . The campaign has fairly opened, and the Union men of this County and of this District, must labor unceasingly until the election to secure a triumph at the polls. = The military strength of this Itebelliiin has , been broken by the army and navy, and the last hope of the Rebel leaders rests - upon the success of 'the Democratic party at the approaching election.:. lithe Democrats with their peace-. on:any-terms Platform, should be permitted to succeed, it will encourage the 'Rebels - to per Severe, and lend new, — igor to the attempt to destroy, the Union.:. Defeat the Democrat ic party, and the Rebels must succumb, foi they will perceive that the North is resolved to prosecute the war to. an honorable and safe conclusion, and_ thattlieir cause, is hope-- , less. ';et every _man who desires speedy_ peace work - earnestly for the re-election of Abraham Lincoln. The Rebel papers wel come the nomination of MeClellan and , Pen , dleton, as-favorable to disunion, and hope for their election. It rests with . the - people of ' the North whose National life is in jeopardy, to decide whether this Rebel< hope shall be gratified.. - Let Schuylkill and Lebanon re spond in tones of-thunder in October and November. ' . • On 'Monday last .. . President Lincoln issited in addition to orderalor the tiring of salutes at the different arsenals of the Country, the following recommendation: • • • . = Ext.:curves Mktisto:!, t liqraros Cirr, Sept. 3, ',1864. .1 The signal alleCeBB that providence hart recently vouchsafed to the operations of the Uni ted States fleet and army in the harbor of Mobile, and the, reduction , of Fort Powell,' Fort Gaines and Fort Morgan, and the glorione achievements of the army' under Ma4. 7 Gren. Sherman in -the State of Georgia,- resulting in the eapture'of the city of Atlanta, call for devout acknowledgements, to the Supreme Being - in whose hands are the 'destinies,of nations...lt is therefore requested that On next:Sunday, in.- places - of worship in the United States, thanksgiving be offered to Jilin for Isis mercy in preserving our national-ex- Istence against, the insurgent Bebe% - Who have , beeu "Waging a Cruel war -against the Government of the United States for its 'overthrow, and also that prayer he made for divine .protection to.onr brave soldiers and their leaders in-the field, who have eo often and so gallantly.periled their lives inlbattling with the enemy, and for blessing and comfort from the :Father of Mercies.to the .sielc, wounded and prisoners, and to the orphans and "widows of , those whohave fallen in the service of their country, and: that Ho - will continue -to up• hold-the Government of the United States against -all the efforts of public enemies and secret foes. Aim/Laps LINCOLN. • - This appropriate recommendation, breath ing,in unassuming language, theitrtie spirit of thankfulness to God for his many mercies to this Nation, , will be generally adopted, and to-morrowfrom wip• wicentl special preiseaxid prayer fcir the great victories He has graciouslyvouchsafed to