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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 l 1862.
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THE PLATFORM OF TREASON, AS PRE
PARED BY THE LEADER OF THE
BRECKINRIDGE PARTY IN PENNSYL
'ARIA.
The following is the resolution written by Dr. F. 'W.
Hughes, the Chairman of the 'Breckinridge Democratic
State Committee, for the consideration • of the State Da.
mocratlo Convention. It is the most lucid and explicit
declaration we beve yet read of the opinions of the leaders
of the Secession patty of Pennsylvania;
Resoitted, That Pennsylvanit owes her growth in po
pviation, and the increase Of capital and wealth of her
citizens, chiefly to the advantages which the American
Union bad afforded for the development of her natural
resources_; and that her glory and paramount interests
are identified with the continuance of that Union.
66 SHOULD, HOWEVER, CAUSES HITHERTO
RESISTED BY TRIM DEMOCRe O Y or THE COUN
TRY BEND ASUNDER THE BONDS THAT BIND
TOGETHER THESE STATES, AND SHOULD THE
FIFTEEN BLAVEHoLtING STATES, CLAIMING
TO BE DBIV.EN BY THE NECESSITY OF MU
TUAL PBOTAOTION AGAINST THE EFFECT Or
SUM oeusEs, SUCcEhSFULLY ESTABLISH AN
OTHER CONFEDERAOY, THEN PENNsyLveif& -
must , REGARD lIER RELATION TO THE FACTS
WHICH CIRCUMSTANCES BEYOND OUR CON
TROL HAVE PRODUCED.
4s jilhe cannot then reform to perceive that she must
either take her place in some Northeno fragment of a
once-glorious Union, and rest content to be shorn of the
greater part of her manufacturing irdustry, and of
ier expOrt and import trade---to 4041 a secondary and
hapless relation to the Northeastern &ales, with no
outlet or approach from the ocean for her great East
ern or her great Western metropolis, ezcept through
the waters and before the forts and guns of a foreign
nation, and thus practically (for want of ability to
protect) be made to yield up all reliable direst foreign
trade,
4, OR ME MAY, IF A MEMBER OF THE NEW
CONFEDERACY, BEOOME THE GREAT MA NU
FAC TURING WORKSHOP FOR A PEOPLE PION
CONSUMING ANNUALLY $300,000,000 WORTH
OF PRODUOT/I AND MANUFAOTGRE FROM,
AND IMPORTED THROUGH THE NOR CHERN
STATES; HER (num 13E0OHE THE GREAT
001SIKEROI DEPOTS AND DISTRIBUTING
POINTS FOR TIM CONFEDERAOY, AND HER
WEALTH, Pc.PULAIION, AND. GLORY, BE PRO.
MOTED IN A DEGREE UNPARALLELED IN. THE
ISIBTORY•AND PROSPERITY OF ANY PEOPLE
..:That it will be the right and doty of her citizens to
consult their own best interests in a position so momen
tous, and decide between the lawful alternatives. Ana
that in stating the truths here announced, we haven°
desire to conceal that our object is to present to the peo
ple of other States theposition they may severally occu
py if the coercion disunionists in their midst succeed
in defeating an equitable compromise of existing &fit.
- mattes ." - FRANCIS W. HUGHES.
TIIE NEWS.
On Saturday
. .last, Colonel Lightburn, the cern
mandant at Point Pleasant, Western Virginia, sent
two regiments of i.fantry and a battalion of cavalry
to disperse the advamie guard of the rebels at Buf
falo creek, twenty-one miles above Point Pleasant.
One regiment reached. Buffalo a considerable time
before the rest, and attacked the rebels, taking
several prisoners and dispersing the rest.
BY the Persia we lave important news, of the
operations of the rebel steamer Alabama, known
as "No. 290." The Cairngorm, an English vessel,
arrived at Gravesend, England, from Sidney; on
the day the Persia left Liverpool. She reports that
when at Flores, Western Islands, throe whaleboat&
crews from the Alabama came alongside and re
ported that their ship, the Ocmalgee, of Edgarton,
Mass., had been burned by the Alabama, tinder
command of Captain Semmes, late of the Sumpter.
The Oemulgee had two hundred and fifty barre's
of oil, and her crew (thirty-fonr man) were made
prisoners. The Alabama had already burned four
whalers. She also captured 'an American shooner
(name unknown) in sight of the Cairngorni.
TILE police of Harrisburg arrested on Thursday
'a suspicious-looking individual, who is thought to
be the murderer of the German girl, a few days
ago, and which event was chronicled in The Press.
He will have a hearing to-day.
Tn "Triennial. Episcopal Convention of the
United States," now in session in New York, was
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engaged yesterday in rather a desultory debate on
, the restoration of degraded ministers.
A letter from Mt/aphis states that that city is
' ow infested with a large number of blacklegs,
, :ev ari es o , e p i r n os p ti r t i tt ee te , s, and highway robbers, plying
' . sir u 11, vocations. oharle t 0
13 Cotton pape is o csoenetminiu
to
o n g
apprehend
o eh m e e n i d n into
city in ix/greased quantities, owing to the large
- sp dy attack on and capture of that city. They
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ftiay extravagant compliment to Gen. Beauregard,
:wbe has assumed command, 'and• assure the world
that the people " wilt stand shoulder to shoulder to
repel the foe, and. whatever the odds, will exhibit
adefence worthy the ancient fame of =he , Nest of
Rebeldem2..." _____
Republican
One of the favorite complaints of the Breck
inridgera against the National. Union party,.in
the present campaign, is that so few. Democrats
have been placed in nomination for general
and local offices. This miserable and selfish
appeal is made at all their Willa and private
gatherings. A very few words will dispose of
it. In the first place, it ought to be recollected
that the loyal Democrats who_are,now;e2 ,- - - - -
operating with_ the. 110pm:snarls in support of
the Adininlitrati:n and the war did not break
loose forever from the Breckinridge organiza
tion in order to secure place for themselves.
In looking over the broad expanse of our
State, and in examining the long list of Demo
crats who have determined to maintain the
Government in its terrible struggle at whatever
sacrifice to theinselves of party association, we
find very few who would accept a nomination
from any political organization. They are
generally men of such commanding influence
that no position could add to that influence,
men who are sufficiently rewarded when they
see an opportunity to strengthen the hands of
the President, end when they feel that he
fully sympathizes with them in the determina
tion to put down the rebellion. It is worthy
of remark that whenever President LINCOLN
has been called upon to distinguish a Demo
crat he has promptly and gracefully done so.
It is unnecessary to repeat the many Demo
crats who have been appointed to leading
commands in the army, but it may refresh the
memory of even a Breckinridge partisan, and re
mind him of his unjust assaults upon the Na
tional Union party, if we state that such Demo
cl-ais as Josxrn BOLT, of Kentucky, ANDREW
Jouxsos, of .Tennessee, EDWIN M. STANTON
and Jong C. Knox, Of Pennsylvania, ROBERT
DALE OWEN, of Indiana, and hundreds of the
same type, have been called upon to discharge
dome ape most responsible and important
trusts of the Government. In the Union Con.
vention of this city, it is well known that' if
ElktirEL DOVGIIERTY, Esq., 'had consented to
run for City Solicitor, the honor of a nominatio n
would have been unanimously presented to
him ; and the ardor and enthusiasm with which
the Republicans are supporting that sterling
Democrat, EDWARD G. WEBB, Esq., in the
First district, show how
. gladly and gratefully
they recognize his claims to their patriotic
consideration. The nomination of FREDE
RICK C. BRICHTLY for Select Council, in• a
heavy Republican ward, is another proof of
the willingness of the Republicans to drop
all party feeling ; and if to the mere po
litician there does not seem to be a still more
generous recognition of this class of men,
it is to be found, we repeat, in the fact
that they are not place-hunters, and do
not recfuire' office to insure their support
of the Goverment. On the Union State
ticket, we have General WILLIAM S. Ross,
a Douglas Dtpecrat, for Surveyor General,
and in a nnmber of the counties of the State
the same kind .of Democrats have been se
lected for various positions. In Chester
county we have P. `FILLZER Snerir for the
'Assembly and Colonel Neiman for District
Attorney, both Democrats ; in Lancaster
county, Bzseastis CIIAMPNEYS, a Democrat,
on the Legislative ticket, and in the Biretta
and Lehigh di trict we have Judge KRAUSE, a
straight Douglas Democrat, running 'for Con
gress against ,that shameless sympathizer
STILES. Judge SuanzioN, and Dr. GROSS,
both Democrats, are on the Union Assembly
ticket in Allegheny,'aid in Berks county. the
Republicans are earnestly supporting Joan
B. WANNER, a Democrat, for Congress, against
ANCONA.• As a contrast to this picture, we
need only state the simple fact that, while the
Breckinridgors complain that Union Demo:.
crate have not been recognized by the Repoli
!icons when trey come lo make up their own
tickets, they take care, in almost every case,
to put forward as their • standard-bearers the
most extreme, uncompromising, and intolerant
advocates of Secession separation.
If any loyal man refuses to vote the loyal
ticket, for personal reasons or local prejudice,
let the ban - be placed upon him. He has
given strength to the enemy by weakening the
strength of his friends, and should be forever
marked as unreliable and false.
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Union !
The Raid upon our Borders
We have startling news from the border
counties. It is probable that the intelligence
we have is exaggerated, but there can be little
doubt that a portion of the rebel army'under
General STUART has made a raid into
some of our Southern border counties, with
the view of obtaining subsistence and plunder.
The forces of the rebels consist of, cavalry, and
are under the command of Gen. &DWELT. We
do not believe they have brought artillery, for
that would imply a more serious danger than
any we now anticipate. It is probable that
STUART has merely repeated his raid on the
White House. He has crossed at Han:
cock, where the Chesapeake canal terminates, ,
and taken a day's ride into the Cumberland
valley—partly with a view of embarrassing
IiIoCLELLAN's communication, and partly to di
rcct his attention from more serious operations
elsewhere. STUART may gain a number of
good korses, a quantity of excellent grain, and
a large amount of stores. He may annoy our
people, and destroy their property, but, be
yond this, we expect no other danger. We
trust to hear that some effort has been made
to punish his audacity by annoying his march,
harassing his flanks, and impeding his ad
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vanee: Every man in the border counties
should at once become a soldier.. With the
fowling-piece as his weapon, and a tree as his
breastwork, he should hang upon the foeman,
and do all in his power to accomplish their
destruction:
To us this invasion of Pennsylvania is a
duty and 'a danger. Our State is by no means
safe from rebel assault, and we must hold our
selves in readiness to answer a call from the
Governor. We must cultivate harmony and
organize ourselves to resist the advance of the
enemy. We must show, by our actions to-day,
our energy and our prowess—arid, above' all,
by our devotion at the polls on next Tuesday
morning—that we are one in heart and senti
ment, one in power and determination, 'one in
the resolve to meet the iniader breast to
breast, and resist his progress with our lives.
The Duty of Philadelphia.
One, thing our friends in the Fourth Con
gressional District should remember : They
must say whether this city of Philadelphia
shall go before the country as, the enemy or
the friend of the Administration. Judge
KELLEY is the only loyal representative in this
city now before, the people for re-election:
Wanta.6.3r E. LEMUR has been banished from
the organization that elected him forhis devo
tion to our cause. Mr. VERREE and Mr. DAvzs
have both declined renomination:. Mr. BID
DLE was the enemy of the Government. Judge
KELLEY was for the Administration in all its
measures. He was an earnest, bold, and un
waveiing adherent of the Government; and
as the friend of the Government he now seeks
a re-election. His constituents owe it to them
selves and the lair fame of their city, as the
loyal metropolis of a loyal Commonwealth, to
send Judge KELLEY back to the seat which he
filled with so much credit to his country and
himself.
The State Lekislature
Bear in mind, voters, that tho next Legisla
ture of Pennsylvania will have to discharge
some most responsible duties. They will first
be called upon to sustain Governor CURTIN,
whose heroic and energetie efforts in support
of the General Administration and the war
have entitled him to the gratitude of the
people of the whole country, and whose pru
dent, cautious, yet determined course has
'contributed vastly to the preservation of our
soil from rebel invasion, and they will have 'a
U. S. Senator to elect for six years from ths
4th of March next. The fierce and factious
antagonism of the Breekinridgers in the last
Legislature should admonish our people against
allowing a .majority of the same party to take
possession of that which is to, meet next
January.
The Mends of the Government have put in
nomination the following tyret
&UNA OR
Sectnd District-31,00u E. RIDG WAY
Fourth DRAYiet—GEORGE CONNELL,
. • A HANDL Y.
First FOSTER
Secorai Phitritt--Illowrox A. ETERLY
Tblid District—Tito:4as T. WaLs.
Fonzih District—eAticrim J. REA.
Fifth Markt—JOSEPH MOORE,
Sixth DiErIiotH.OHARLES lOLINGIN
.—Ecooarah-Watrfat.......THoNAß AJOGIIRAE.
Meth DistrfotlAbtes N •
Ninth Dibtrict -Joux A BURTON.
701:011 Dittrict—i. B..PANcoor.
Eltveuth Distrlct=FnANKLlN D. STERNER.
Twcllth Dialtiat—tuxe V. SUTPHIN. SR.
7 tihtlnup - Dlitiict—. Amiss 11OLGATE.
Foorteentb'Dititect—ALXXANDlß CUXHINGE.
Fifteenth Ditittlet—WlLLlAM F. Stant .
Sixteenth Diettlet—Enwean G. LER .
EeTeatetntb Dietzfct—OßAßLßß F. Anson , : . •
We trust that all loyal men w'
vote .for us . non a...r-vr - thirA r ational Union
;platy in their respective Senatorial and Re
presentative districts, surrendering all personal
feelings to the common good, andpatriotically
remembering that he who gives up personal
quarrels is thereby makingla new, contribu
tion to his country. It is not our purpose or
our province to run a contrast between the
rival candidates for the Logialatttre in this
great city. Suffice it that the men who ran
on the Government or Unbin ticket are
pledged to maintain both, to' encourage our
armies in the field, to uphold..the President of
the United states and the Governor of Penn
ivania, and to do everything in their power
to crush out this Infamous rebellion.
Foreign Opinion
Some little curiosity has existed akto, the
manner in which the news of Ifaion,snecessei
would be, received in Englitn . .ofcomic,
She Tames affects to I donbt, the fact of Con
ft derato defeat in Maryland, suggesting' that
the news lc must have been cookedittt Wash
ington." The Daily News, Star; and other
papers frankly congratulate us upon our
triumphs, and go to the length of placing MC
CLELLAN'S troops upon a par with British, as
regards endurance and persistence in battle,
and of acknowledging the enterprise and good
generalship . of General McCLEnnen. • In the
Naval and Military Gazette, edited by W. H.
RUSSELL, It is admitted that the.rebel raid into
Maryland was a decided failure. TALKERS.
TON'S own paper, the Morning Post, apparently
had not heard of MCCLELLAN'S victory at
Antietam, nor of his Having compelled the re
bels to recross the Potomac. In Paris, the
Cons'itutiownel doubts the victory, and men
tions a despatch to the effect that, after the
battle, IticCninnix had fallen beckon Wash
ingtf.n. The American war-news had iudaced
a rise in the price of cotton. On the whole,
the foreign press seems to have an idea that
our soldiers can light and do fight to some
purpose, with ce a fair 'field and no favoi.”
However a few journalists may affect disbelief,
they cannot ignore the reality of Confederate
defeat in Maryland.
AtFXANDER CUMMINGS, Esq., is making an
energetic and fearless contest for the Legisla
hire, as the candidate of the National Union
and War Party, in the Fourteenth district,
and we sincerely trust that he may be
triumphantly elected. Mr. CL131?11:109 is one
of the .best-abused men of the day, but he
has been successfully vindicated against the
assaults of his enemies, not alone by his own
pc rsonal• statement,• but by the manner %in
which, during his absence,:he was placed yn
nomination as the ,Union candidate for, the
Legislature in his district. He is a gentle
man of decided talents, extraordinary de
cision of character, and undoubted loyalty,
and, as a member of the Legislature of Penn
sylvania he would be, with his large expe
rience in public affairs, a most industrious,
efficient, and faithful public servant.
Now and Then
The knowledge of the fact that Mr. Arrr.-
wm L. Ilinsr, the Democratic candidate for
City Solicitor, was a vice president of the
Secession meeting held at National Hall,
January 16, 1861, will not help his prospects
with loyal voters. That meeting passed redo
.ltitions favoring the secession of Pennsylvania,
and .professed to . feel the "wrongs of their
bretbrin of the South" as "their own." The
stern patriotism of Major APDERSON was ut
terly ignored, and the &mg on the American
flag regarded as of no consequence whatever
to them. Those choice patriots, WILLIAH B.
Bran and Gronee M. WHARTON, wore the
chief speakers. Every man connected with
that atrocious meeting should be consigned
to political infamy; and certainly,the party
which selects such Secession sympathizers
for its candidates, deserves overwhelming
defeat.
Gen. James S. Jackson. _
Among those who have fallen in Kentucky
we see the name of Brigadier General JAMES
S. Jikeksoii, of that State. General JA.ek.sozr
was about ferty years of age, and has.been
well known as a politician and a public man.
He was a member of the old Whig party, and.
an.intimate friend of HENRY CLAY, JOHN J.
CRITTENDEN, GEORGE D. PRENTICE, and the
leaders of that great organization:: With the
end of the Whig party he beeame anAmeri
can, supporting Mr. FILLMORE in -4856, and
Mr. BELL in 1860. When the rebellion broke
out, he laid aside all party associations, at
tached himielf to the Union cause, and,. with
the aid of CRITTENDER, GrOTHRIE,
PREN
TICE, •HARNEY, and others, raised the
Union banner in Kentucky. When. Ken.:
tucky gave her overwhelming vote in favor
of the Union, General JAcKsow was chosen
a Representative to Congress. The war
began to assume greater proportions--
Kentucky was invaded, and ALBERT SIDNEY
JOHNSTON established' his camp at Bowling
Green. General JACKSON at once left his seat
in Congress, proceeded to Kentucky, and
raised a regiment of cavalry, under an order of
Secretary CAMERON. He entered 'into the
campaign under General Blau,, and Very soon
became famous for his bravery, skill, and en
terprise. When the war lulled, and hisse r vices were no longer necessary in the field,
General JACKSON returned to Congress and
occupied hia seat until the ad)ournment. For
his meritorious services he received the ap-,
pointment of Brigadier General from Presi
dent lasoom. Returning at once to his State,
he was placed in command of a division.
With his division he took part in the recent
battle at Bardstown, and died gallantly fight
ing in the cause of his country.
To die such a death, and for such a cause
was the highest ambition of a man like JAMES
S. JACKSON. He was the type of a Kentucky
gentleman. To, a commanding personal ap
pearance he added an exquisite grace and
suavity of manner, an honor that never was
sullied, and a character that seemed to embody
the purest. and noblest chivalry. He had the
conscience of this fight. He was a Union man
for the sake of the Union, and now, with his
heart's blood, he has sealed his deveition to
the flag.. He leaves a multitude of friends,
who will honor his courage and patriotism,
arid mourn his untimely, and gallant' end.
A Leaf from a: Shameful Record
We have said so often, and so often proved
the charge, that the leaders of the Breekin
ridge party are in favor of a dissolution of the
Union,sand anxious to make Pennsylvania a
member of the Southern Confederacy, that it
may seem like supererogation to repeat it.
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The evidence is accumulating,however, and
we have now, enough to, convince all but those
who are disloyal themselves or under disloyal
influences. Here we have an extract from a
speech delivered by Wm. B.,REED, before the
National Democratic Association September
'4, 1860, in support of 'JOHN C. BREOKINRIDGE.
The whole speech possesses'a painful and a
shameful interest in view of the events that
have transpired since its delivery. The ex
tract.we select, however, will show that the
mind of Mr. REED was filled with the idea that
animated Fit Axers W. Rearms when he wrote
his celebrated Secession resolution six months
later. It shows that even then the secession
of Pennsylvania was a foregone conclusion in
the minds of the Breckinridge leaders ; that
Mr. REED, and Mr. HITCIDES, and Mr. RAN
ntkr.L were laboring to place Pennsylvania in
the position of Virginia, so that, side by side,
they might drift into the abyss of treason,
revolution, and civil war :
t 4 What, then;inthis crisis, when the North, the
compact, fanatical North—for such in its antisla
very organization it is from the northern boundary
of this" Commonwealth, eastward and westward—
is thus advancing in its:, conscious and aggressive
power, and the South suspicious-I do not like to
say timorous, though the feeling may welt be ex
cused, with the danger before them and around
them—but alniost desperate; what, then, I ask, is
the duty, what the interest, what should be the at
titude of Pennsylvania—this great State, that has
never yet cast her controlling vote in favor of Abo
litionism, or anything tainted , with Abolitionism,
but always with national and. Union men, and on
the side of the Constitution? Her vote now, if
she will be true to her history and her great tradi
tions, can save the nation and the Union:: If she
vote with the Northern candidate, Pennsylvania
becomes, as one of your resolutions the other night
said, the fag-end, or in more dignified phrase, the
rear-guard of the great Abolition party, and is
separated forever—for it is - a st p that cannot be
retraced--from her natural allies of the South and
Southwest. Yes, fellow-citizens, her natural allies
of the South and Southwest; for I undertake to
say, that it can be demonstrated, aside froth oer
vast and controlling interest in the prosperity of
the Union as it is, that the bulk of the manufac
tured products of Which we are so justly proud, and
about which we are,so properly solicitous, finds its
. market in,the South, and especially tb Southwast,
or south of a parallel running due.west. The best
trade for our railways is of coarse the local trade,
and next to it, is that which, comes_from the smith
ward and westward."
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Garibaldi Cann r . •
Itanesro—
r written by Mr. P.
error,—.err. an English Parliament-man, who:
went to Spezzia to see dAainer.nr, that, from
theieverity of the gallant leiuld's. wounds, it
is•nOtlikely he can even be moved out of his
'bed for a long time. The most serious in
jury is • in bits uncle, and it is feared that it must
terminate in permanent.lameness. Mr. TAY
LOR is the gentleman who, in the House of
Commons' debate on American affairs on the
6th of August, made an eloquent speech in
reply to Mr. LINDSAY'S diatribes against the
Union, and. effectually silenced that notorious
s.ympaihiser ' with cc the so-called Southern
Confederacy." He is the friend' of good
government and freedom all ov'Er the world.
te Addresseg Will be delivered by CHARLES
J. BIDDLE, Lewis C. .Cassidy, and GEORGE
W BiD4E." This is, an extract from an
advertiaement. in the daily papers. CH&RLES
. 3 . ;•3l3xupiaz has a reemeviall.known ; GEORGE
'W.linanar is the gentleihin who refused to
his..name apPea r among those who
blot -to do hono.v,to the-Union,. and forward
.enlistments for • pie War *me LEwis C.
'Ol4ll/31DIr afipt!glas .pein9erit! cc To what
base noes do we 'come at lint."
Mr. McMichael
The :statesmanlike speech of this veteran
journalist, as delivered at Norristown, on last
Thursday., Overiing, will be found at length on
our fourth Page .thb3 morning. Never, at any
period of his life, has Mr. McimnAEL more
, efficiatly . proved his sincere devotion to the
Government than dpring the present emer
gency.
Public Entertainments
WALNUT- STREET THEATRE.-MT. Eddy performs for
the laat time to-night, appearing ae Charts de Moon in
Schiller's play of The Robbers," and as O'Callaghan,
in " Hie Last Legs."
In the performance of both these obaracters, Mr.
Hddy proves himself to be not only a good but a eersatits
actor; and, although the houses during hie engagement
have bton well attended, we believe he would continue to
grow in public favor if his engageinent'continned longer.
Mice Charlotte Thompson is' announced to appear,on
Monday night, for a short engagement, playing. Alice; in
the drama of that name, produced Tait season with the
little of tt Adelheid.,,
MISS BATSMAN —Politica and the war have taken
such complete posseesion or our column, that wo can
only and room to say that Miss Bateman still keeps on
her triumphal course, with applauding thousands at her
'.harlot wheels. Her performance or Pauline last eve
ning was an exquisite piece of acting To.night we have
the pretty comedy of the 44 Honeymoon," and Min
Bsttman in the peculiar and difficult part or juriana.
°Arrests Witatems —The exhibition of this hale,
hearty, honest Jack Ter i$ ono of the most unique and
plearant entertainments now In the city. Those who
may object to the theatre or the opera will be delighted
with the Captain, while those who admire trne, because
natural, dramatic power. equal in its freshness andyough
beauty to any effort on the stage, will enjoy the Cap
tain's entertainment's at Concert Hall. We heartily re
ooncuend him to the patronage of the PUbllO.
ABEL & Co 'S STEREOPTICON, ASSEMBLY BUILDINGS.
—The proprietors of this wonderful instrument have re
ceived an offer from an enterprising Clothamite for the
removal of their beautiful exhibition to that city. Oat
citizens should avail themselves of the present opportu
nity to witness the marvellous productions of ale instrq.
ment. The programme for this afternoon ie especially
prepared for the amusement and gratification of. the
ladle' and juveniles. None should fail to go at once.
New Publications
"The Wife's Stratagem" is a collection of slight sto
ries, somewhat awkwardly set in the framework of
another story, which needlessly ends sorrowfully. The
book was evidently written by a woman, and many may
think it pleasant reading for an hour. It is carelessly
written. In the sentence (p. 257) 'I One day he threw
a plumber who had insulted his mother out of a second
story window," the render has to gnus whether the
mother was insulted out of a window or the plumber
thrown out of it.' Published by Appletons ; on eMe by
W. P. Hazard.
The American Sunday-Schcol Union has just pub
lished a new set of books for children, well written,
neatly printed, and prettily illustrated. They are called
e' Uncle Jab( ,4 A Secret Revealed," "Miss Rated
Little Maid," and "Kate Morgan and her Soldiers."
These are tales which even pareats as well as children
may read to advantage—which we take to be tho test of
a juvenile volume.
INGLISH PICTORW.B.—We have the Illustrated Lon
don News and illustrated New: of the World, (both
witb fine portraits of Garth&ldi,) of the 27th Keptember,
received from Mr. Upham, 403 Chestnut street.
THE PRESS.-PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1862.
I wish I could folly impress upon the peo - -
pie ofPennsylvania the intense interest that is
felt here by all good. men in the result of your
election on Tuesday next. Not merely in of
ficial circles, but wherever a thoroughly loyal
man is to be found, whether from _the free or
border States,: the hope is warmly expressed
that you may utterly overwhelm the Breckin
ridge leaders. •Should did Pennsylvania, with
the issue so fairly presented to her; (Franeis
W. Hughes declaring, by all his words and
acts, in favor of secession and separation, and
the friends of the Government declaring, by
all their words and acts, in favor of tht Union),
decide for Hughes, and against, the National
Union men, it will carry more dismay to the
hearts of the friends of- the good cause than
if, a great victory were won by the rebel
armies that are eating out the substance
of poor old Virginia. In , other States the
so-called Democracy, whenever they place
themselves decidedly under the Breckinridge
banner, d"ontemplate with cold philosophy the
utter certainty of defeat. But in Pennsylvania,
where the leaders Of v the , opposition to the m
Administration are ore defiant and open
than elsewhere, their allies and sympathizers
here seem to haire made up their minds that
they are to be sustained. This fact should be
taken closely to, heart by every Republican
and Democrat really in favor of the Govern
ment and the war. It should heal all dissen
sions, whether they occur in municipal, legis
latire, or Congressional districts. The very
unity of the enemies of the Administration is
probably the best., inducement that could be
presented to its:friends to.unite at once in a
solid phalanx. The loss of the Keystone
State to the Administration, on' Tuesday
next, would almost be irreparable. It would
be hailed as a verdict it favoi of the
very worst doctrines of the -.common ene
my. It ,would be accepted 'as
o a decree.
affirming the monstrous heresies of ladies
Buchanan and those who have heretofore
acted and continue to act with him.. Its effect
abroad would be .electrical. There is not a
foreign journal adverse to .our country that
would not hail it ,as equivalent,to a defeat of
the armies'of the, Republic.
~:It would be the
forerunner of - dissensions in Congress and
. among the people,
,and probably of such a
peace, as; begipniNrin
. the dislocation of the
States, would terminate in a new and a more
protracted chill- 3war. In ray 'conversations
with the tioldiers who come . from the camps to
this city, I have been struck by the language
they hold in *- -regard to the issues to be
decided in - the coming elections. They
laie been so fully taught the 'lnfamy, and
'ingratitude, and cruelty of t. 4•43, 'rebellion,
that :they can see no other 'path to
pursue but that which leads to 'the mainte
nance of the Federal authorities. The man
who contributed' to the disruption and deatruc
tiOn of the Deinocratic Party, Jelin C.' Breck
inridge, is now in arms against the country ;
a major general in the rebel army, and yet
the heroic soldiers of the free States, who con
tend against him• and his companions, find
men who are safely at their own homes sym
pathiiing with hira, and teaching and en
forcing the deleterious doctrines of 1860;and
'even forgiving his bloody and remorselesi
.ido;
gratitude in 1862 The Administration 'of
Mr. Lincoln looks upon the election in Penn
-133 ivania as upon the impending battle in
ginia. It trusts to see all its friends voting
for it in your State, as all its friends are fight
ing for it in the Old Dominion. This senti
•ment is not only worthy of study and remem
brance by the people, but by those who hold
place and make money under the Govern
,ment. This class should recollect that the
people, the unofficial and disinterested people,
are giving their all td, the good cause, and
they cannot rescue themselves from grave
censure if they do not 'go far beyond the pa
triotic example of the loyal masses.
LETTER FROM " OCCASIONAL.'
WASIIINGTON, October 10, 1862.
FROM WASH;NGTON.
Special Dem Patches " The Press."
• • Wiennimvon, October 10, 1862.
•Position of Gen. McClellan.
The intimate fib:Kids of Gen• - IlloOzzu..er in this city
. ray. that he has become convinced of the folly of on.
.deavetlng to conciliate the pro-slavery feeling of certain
bitter partisan politiciany in oar loyal States, and that he
'hasmsveru since the war commenced, entertained any
other Bentim t than that of Aniavowed:-intege'llkt
•. • .
"Omitting the* rebellion at' all hazards, wording to the
..inletrof - civilized ,. warfare, and, those anymested„hy...the
itateamenisAt
-rrOmliFent Derablicans here insist that be heartily en
dorsee the
. President's policy of emancipation Mt a most
!teary warlmeastre. Ono ofi. kfc'OL eta:a:VSmost
trusted friendr,,a genet:al staff officer, is known Whey°
drawn up the emancipation bill for the -
District of Co.
tumble. Weed, it cannot be denied that our young
chieftain is itt favor‘of using every honorable means in our
grasp to crush the hateful rebellion. He and the Presi
dent entertain precifilly the same opiniane as to the pro
.
iriely of the emancijettion of the slaves of rebels. It is
hie desire that every case shoal!' sustain the present Ad
ministration, aid favel• a vigorous prosecution of the
war. "
An Important Orger by Secretary Welles.
First Lieutenant EndeSE A. F3IALLEY, of the Ma7m
Germ was tried last mrinth at Norfolk on the charge of
assure without leave from bis station at the Gosport
navy yard. The court found him guilty and sentenced
him to be reprimanded in general orders by the Honorable
Secretary of the Navy. The decision on this sentence
has required seriorik consideration on the part of the
revising power. The Secretary, in hie general order,
pays: "If It were /let con firme d , the officer Convicted
would altogether escape punishment for an offence Which
themejority of military men would certainly regard as
of a grave character, particularly when - committed in
time of war, at a station bat recently in the possession
of the enemy, and still in the vicinity of hostile 'opera
.
tines.
"The court hey. aiverted to no palliating circumstances
in explanation of the lenity of their sentence, and on re
viewing the record I can perceive none except the plea
of limited experience of the duties of an nfffmr urged- by
the accused in this defence. This sentence Artnememins•
Med by any comment, is not calculated properly to en
large the limited experience of a poring edgier; or give
him correct notions of the importance of discipline. It
would tend rather to mislead him: I am . coristrained,
therefore, in confirming it, tO acc4sinPany thls reprimand
of Lieut. EritaLLar with an admonition to him and'other
young officers in the corps not to regard the sentence in
-this cane as indicating the true character of the offence
committed." .• • •
Naval Orders.
Lieutenant COSlMEander JOHN G. WALKER has been
ordered to the liiissishippi rquadron. Acting blaster 8.
N. Feat haa been ordered - to the command of,the
United States mortar schooner C. P. Williams. Acting
Master B. C. DEANK has been ordered to the command
of the United States molter schooner Dm Smith. Acting
Master W. G. Warner has been ordered to the command
of the 'Crated Steees_mortar . schooner Artella.. Chief
Engineer O. H. Loarxc has been detached . from the Min
netts, and ordered to Cincinnati to superintend the
construction of Government machinery. Chief En
gineer W. W. DUNGAN hiss been ordered to .the Minne
sota. First A.esistant Engineer N. B.t Lirrin', Second
Aeehtent H. W. ROME, and Third Sigstents W. A.
Ditirrs and Josarn Hoorss, have been nideird to the
iron. clad steamer Passaic. Lieutenant A.B. puoksitzis
has been detached from ordnance didy, and Ordered to
the South Atlantic squadron.
.
The : leeue Of Postne Stamps.
. .
Dutingt the, last quarter 'ending with September, the
Post Office Beretta:tent issued to pottimetgers onelittn
drtd and three millions nine hundred and three . .thou
sand for hundred and twettly•tive poetage igampa; ail is
shown by the bill of the rational Bank Note Company.
Thus ',temps represent the aggregate' amount of
53,116,(79;' or more than $1,840,916 for the quarter
ending with the thirtieth of June. e. 'large proportion
of the feet tune II tat in the hands of postmasters, an.
said, though, no doubt, half a million of dollars' worth
at ttainps are in
.cirCulahlon as currency- The National
Bark Note Company. hilye furnished pOetage stamps as
well as treasury.and nOts currency, far In adtanoo of the
contract, and are constantly extending their facilities for
it: creased daily supplies.; ,
A Conference with the Preoident. '
Jonst Boss, accompanied•br the Commisaloner of In
dian Affalre, DOLE, 6nd Colonel COFFIN, Suporinterkdent
nf the Southern Indian Megaton, had a conference with
tilt A esident this afternoon, on hushes' connected with
the Cherokee and other Indian tribe.. •
.No More Lint Revd*.
Through' the contribnticolL'Of the people, in resiouse
to the appeal heretofore made, the Medical Department
bee been aupplied with immense quantities of lint and
dressing, and therefore no more are at- present requlrett.
The Protection of the People of Colorado.
Governor IVAFS, of Colorado, le here in order to niers
arrangements for the protection of the Territory from
Indian depredations, and guarding the overland route,
by which the people are furnished with domeetio im
plies.
The Indian Hostilities in Minnesota
Intelligence wee received here' to day, in otnial quar
ters, that the Sioux Indians in Minnesota have coaled
their hostilities, and were eurrendeitog, and that the
authorities were severely punishing the moat
prominent of the guilty parties. The entire number of
warriors does not exceed 1,100
Stand of Colors.
The stand of eoloze presented to Yorkßegi
ment, by the city of Brooklyn, will be committed to the
care of Col. Dodge, late its colonel.:
The Postage Currency.
The Notional Bank Note Company hive got , the &Idly
delivery of poetise crirreitoy up to $&T,600,
deratood that it will reach $50,0f0
,by the early,iaifiif
next week. The total amount alreidy 'dellyerid4ll4;-
161,000.
•
The order from the War Impartment issued in August
last, hes boen modified by substituting the ward "su
pernumerary" instead of 6i incoMpetent," as character
izing the officers to be mnst.red out of service on the
disbanding of the 67th Pennsylvania end 87th New York
Volunteers, the men having been transferred to other
regiments from the same States, under the direction of
the general commanding the Army of the Potomac...„
Curious Incident.
- A - gentleman from Harper's FerrTstates that, on the
top of a pillar of one of the churches, which was much
battered in the Antietam fight. Elmo one hid written, in
largo lettere, ci 'ma RESULT ON SLAVERY." Hundreds
had written their names on the post below endorsing the
sentiment. : 1
Appointnients and Promotions.
Brigadier General James 13. McPherson, to be major
general of volunteers; De .Witt Clinton, to bo ald•da-
camp, with the rank of captain ; Revs William A.Hitch
cock, of Connecticut, and James A. Woman, of Penn
sylvania, to be chaplains in the navy. Lieut. Comrnsii
dere J. U. Febiger and H. B. Newcomb have been pro•
noted to command ore in the navy. Mout& Abner
Bead, Le Boy Fitch, and T. H. Eastman, have been
Promoted to lieutenant commanders. Second Lieut.
William B. Brown has boon promoted to a flrst lieute
nancy in the Marine Carps. Thomas hicEllwell has boon
appointed an acting ensign, and ordered to the Minds
tined.
The Yellow Fever at Wilmington, N. C
There appear' to be no abatement of the yellow fever
at Wilmington, N. 0. Dm-log the week ending on Fri
day evening last, October 3, 247 new case' and 82 deaths
are reported.
There was a double row of applicants the entire length
of the Treasury'Department to day for the postige cur
rency.
•An influential citizen, named PRANK lizzar, was
knocked down to.nlght on Peanaylvania avenue, near
Orover's Theatre, by tseveralrufilans. It it supposed he
wee followed, ea a dark place was chosen to commit the
outrage. Snob/Male Isetened on certain rebel' synipa
thlzere whom Mi.. RIPARY bad denounced.
Dr. JANE ' S EigOidivigon surgeon of the Penneylvani
Somme Corm was to.day relieved, to 883111210 the position
of Surgeon General of Pennsylvania, to wbioh "place he
has been appointed by Governor OURTIN, Vice Dr. H. H.
SMITH, resigned. Dr. KING has been for over a year in
the field, and is regarded by the army as one of the moat
successful and efficient surgeons.
HIGHLY IMPORTANT NEWS.
Rebel Raid into Pennsylvania,
STUART'S CAVALRY AT RERCERSBURG
AND CHADBERSIZURG.
SURRENDER OF THOSE TOWNS.
HA lIRISBURG, October 10-7.30 P. M. —10 , 01%0r Cur
tin has just received the following despatch from Colonel
McClure : , . . f . .
Onemnzasnrria, oOtibei; 10 --Mercerabctrg
pied by Staart'a rebel cavalrY to• day, and they are nosy
advancing on Obamberaburg. • I
They 'took the borne and all other property they
wanted et Idereernburg, offering rebel serili for
Thtp~did no injury to individnale, that I htivoi4d . of.
• , -ThenatentiaG t OCtober 10, 11 o'clock P. bf..l--Pies
ratchet; Just received from Shippensburg, confirm the
news of the rebel occupation of Ohambersbnrg.
'The advance force coneleted of 1,000 cavalrrand ffig
pieces of artillery, The rebels have cut the
.401 . *1 . bora
burg telegraph wire,
Great Union Victory h,Kentucky.
General Buell Defeats Brigrs Akmy.
OFFICIAL DESPATCHES RECEIVED AT
THE WAR DEPARTMENT.
WASHINGTON, October.o : —The Stctr;of this evening
contains the following gratif ying intelligence:
A few minutes bofore to•day's second edition of the
Star went to press, the War Department received a
despatch from the West, conveying the welcome news
that yesterday Genera Buell fought a great battle with
the army ardor Major General Bragg, in which he
gained a great victory for the canoe of the Union.
The telegrapher adds assurance that ,$ there is no mis
take about this result this time."
Further information—official reports—of this most im
portant engagement and Union victory will doubting
loon come to hand.
Signal and Decisive Victory of
General Buell.
OCCASIONAL.
Lotrisvrt.t.y, October io—[Special to tbs.:New York
Herald.]—Baal{ has gained a signal and decisiire
Bragg is need up. ' •
-The Fight, ea Thursday.
liovravitut,. October 10.—Early yesterday morning
Gefl 'attacked Gon. Bragg's forces, at Choplln
-ate Ininiediato vicinity of PerrYvllle.
. A abort but-terrific fight ensued, when the rebels broke
ibrukrietreatediapidly,over three diverging r 'ads, Dona,-
Oar forcee were in clue pursuit, and hoped to bag the
At the last accounts Gen. Gilbertt.!l forams were in the
reas.4lll4le rebels, and acme &dance halow,them.
`hrenninspcatiresjdon. of the
tome of the place. .
_ _Th er e ore no further accounts of_thi!,liiitoiw"Onifarir
aide.
Louisville is in
.a stateof,great anilety end excite
ment
_
ment respecting the fate of our soldiers Ist• the pending
battle. -
Oeyt. Olderebaw, Jacksost'e adiutant,, le on he way
hither free; Bardstown, with the remains of Generals
Jackson and Terrell, and Colonel Webster, of the 98th
Ohio.
LOUISVILLE, Oct. 10.—Among the 'oaaualtlEs at die
battle of Perryville, ou Wednesday, aro the
KlLLED:—General Jackson, General 4 mill, Acting
Brigadier General Webster, Acting Brigadier General
Lytle, of Ohio; Lieut. Col. Jewett, 15th Kentucky
Cavalry; Major Campbell, 15th Kentucky Cavalry.
Womman. 7 -Oolonel Pope, of the .15th Kentucky
Cavalry. There is no confirmation of the report of
General Eheridan's death. General Bossean is re
ported to haveLeen slightly wounded. Colonel Wolforfi,
of the Ist Kentucky Cavalry, after five charges, took
two batteries, and the enemy, after fighting, wore driven
back eight mike. The foregoing account relates to the
fight which took place on Wednesday.
There are various rumors In circulation concerning a
fight which is said to have taken place yesterday (Thurs
day), with a favorable lame to the Linton cause, but
they are traceable to no authentic Pewee), At the head-
Quarters In this city, up to eleven o'olook this (l?riday)
morning, no advicee have been received from the battle•
field later than Wednesday evening. Our forces in the
fight on Wednesday numbered about 15,000 Infantry,
eight batteries of artillery, and 2,500 cavalry . . Reinforce
ments were received 'towards the close of the engage.
ment. The rebel force EMS not been estimatod.
No accounts have yet been received of the losses on
either tide, but they are supposed to have been large from
the mortality among the field • officers. A large ambu
lance train is now leaving Louisville to bring the wound
ed hither.
FORTRESS MONROE, Oct 9.—The flag of truce boat
.Netan3ora arrived this morning from Aikin's Landing.
She brought no papeis.
Capt. 'Grier Tailmage, Quartermaster at this place,
is lying very ill With thojaurdice. He is not expected
•
to live until morning.
Dr..J. Zaoharie, the chiropodist, accompanied by his
with tent, arrived this morning. He is authorized by the
War Department to examineihe feet of the soldiers, and
remove any corns,bnnions, &o. He brings testimonials
from a large number of the commanding officers In our
army, President Lincoln beading the list.
The Persnit of the Rebels byßoseeraus.
(Imo, October 9.--The reported deisth of General
Oglesby, from wounds received at Corinth, is incorrect.
The report of the Federal occupation of. Grand Junc
tion is not confirmed.
Our troops occupy Rienzi. We have Chased PriCe as
far as Ridley, and so far.aa can bo ascertained the chase
is 10 kept up.
THE NEW MERRIMAC NOT YBT READY FOR SEA
WHAT THE. REBELS THINE OF MARYLAND.
• A genreman who left Itiehmond on Saturday says be
was on board the Iderilmac Ho. 2, on Friday last. " He
stater, contrawise to the report published yesterday, that
the Ittcrrimac No 2 is fully plated. She is not yet ready
for sea, but has all the plates which Ills intended to put
on her, and has had-for two m mtbs... Her guns are all
on board, bat only one of them is mounted. She would
have been ready for sea two months ago, but one of tier
eugh es proved too small, and Is to be replaced by
largerone.
Our interment was also in Fat Darling, which is now
maned by three, companies of artillery and a company
01 . marines.
Troops continue to arrive in Richmond, but in small
nureters, end are hurried Nora' to reinforce Lee.
Three or four bundrel wounded arrive daily in Blob
-mond, but are always brought in during the night. and
the papers never mention the number the desire being
apparently to bide the disastere as much as possible from
the priblle.•
The rends are building another Iron. clad 160 feet loug.
/The bonfede ate - disgusted with Maryland." Before
Lee's entrance into that State its redemption was the
thtzite of all Secesh. Maryland," whleh was heard
, on'all occasion°, in parlor, hall, and on the street, is now
tabooed ? and noon° °lnas it. •
-
• Firet-claill negroos .sell in Bichmond at $1,200 Con
fide rate money. . , • ,
The - 'Richmond Whig of the Bth fut. oontline an order
of Gen. Lee, thanking his army for their services is the
recent battles. but telling them that mucti'more remains
to be accomplished, as the enemy again threatens lava'.
don.
The army correspondent of the Savannah Repuldican
writes from Winchester, September- 28th. giving a most
gloomy account of the condition of the Confederate
!gamy, in want of food and clothing .
The bog cholera is fearfully_ prevalent in Virginia ) and
a meat famine is dreaded.
The Whig hen' the following- Confederate account of
the battle et Corinth : .
!dolma, Oct..?.— a special deapatoh to the Advertiser
and 'Resist( r de ted Talmo, eth, F. M. says :
"Nothing reliable from Corinth since Van Dorn's des
patch. A courier, &rev( d to day, says that on the 4th,
our boors drove the enemy from and occupied their en
trenchments but fafterwards were forced to fel back
ronithe town. Heavy osnonading was heard yester
day f rom points above here. The fight must haie
been most bloody. A courier it houdy expected from
the scene of conflict "
D. W. Rogers. of the 14th Virginia Regiment, is to be
executed for desertion.
Jedpe E. P. Pitts, of Virginia, is to be tried for treason
n Mob= ond.
"THE BATH RIEFITGIC IN THE DAY OW
°AlaiAMITY."—This is the subject of au edifying ser
mon, ard ono eminently calculated to give oomfolt,
eonildence, and good advice from the teachings of the
Holy Beilyturse to the people, during the prevalence of
the war. The sermon was delivered in St. Jude's Pro
testant Episcopal Obnrch .iu this city, on Sunday, dee-
Artnber 7th, current year, by the rector, Bev Edward
Lt.unehery, and has been published in neal pamphlet
fordeby
,the vestry of the Church,
An Important Order Itlodified
The Postage Currency
Miscellaneous.
The Battle of Perryville, Ky.
FROM FORTRESS MONROE.
Newia from the Rebel State 8.
LOCAL POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE
Enthusiastic Meetings Last Evening.
A number of meetings wore held in the various
wards of the pity last evening, by the loyal people,
in order to adopt measures to enable the AdMinis
tration to prosecute with increased vigor and bring
to a speedy close the war, and also for the purpose
of ratifying the nominations made by the National
Union Convention. The proceedings at the differ
ent places of meeting were as follows ;
UNION IABETINO IN T/IE TIPTEENTIT WAR D.
A large meeting of-the National Union party was hold
In the Fifteenth ward, on the open lot at the north
wait corner of Eighteenth and Green streets. A tine
band of music enllvenid the proceedings, and great en—
thusiasm was mai:ideated. Coleman Boilers, EM.,
pre
sided, assisted by'a number of vice presidents and etere-.
taxies. Col. John W. Forney was the first speaker. He.
. ,
said
I do not doubt, fellow-citizens, that but for the unPro="
pillow state of the weather. alid meeting, which id eul
ciently large, would have been an overwhelming demon-
Oration. lam here in response to the invitation of your
committee, not intending, on account of the rain which
beginui og to fall again, to take up much of your time
in discussing the issues involved in the election which
takes place on Tuesday next. '
The truth is there never has been a political contest in
this ccrintry in which the principle contended for has been
so well understood and so widely circulated. In other
days, there were issues which concernedcur passing pros
perity, but which, compared to the present issue, wore
immaterial—issues relating to finance, to territory, and to
those matters which form a part of the ordinary legisla
tion of the country. But now, when there is no part, in
volved in this contest, we have only to know that it is for
our country that ye are fighting; and the man who does
not respond is either wilfully blind to his Interest, or wil
fully resolved to neglect his duty. I fool eo profoundly in
this crisis!, that I can scarcely believe that any American
citizen would hesitate; and the appalling and astounding
fact which is presentee to us in the array of a large holy
of our citizens against the Government, is beyond paral
lel in eur own- history, and beyond extlane,tion on the
part of the vvieeet and beet of men.
It is extraordinary that, •In view of the sufferings of
our brothers aid friends in battle, and in view of the
atrocities, the on'ragee, and the murders of those who
are fighting against our beloved country, that any one
living here in the peaceful and prosperous North, and
seeing the strait in which we stand, should refuse to give
the Government his aid, and to sustain and strengthen
those who are fighting our Palace. In after tiniest, when
the historian comes to wilts of these days, he will bo
more puzzled to account for the conduct of that party
in the free States which oath! itself Democratic, than to
account for the fanaticism and the Watts/Ilion of those
in the Southern States, who have plunged us into this
war.
And let me Bay here that I deny, as I have denied else
where, and shall deny all the time, the right of this or
ganization to the name of Democrat. I have spent
twenty-rdd 3 care in the Democratic party, have served
it faithfully end well, have believed in its dectrines, and
have been reared, as it were, at the feet of its Gamaliel.
I was taught that the creed of that Democracy which I
professed and practised up to the year 1867, was, first of
all, devotion to theAmerioaelfthien, hatred of all aristo
cracy, unceasing, alnorbing, and religious. love for the
majority principle, and devotion to the rights, the
interests, and the well being of the laborer and tho
mechanic [Applaneed This was the Domooraoy
which I understood, and to forward which I have
labored. What right bas the party which to-day
usurps the name of Democracy to that title? Look at it.
If there are any present who tvill not Bee the sufferings
of theirthleetiog country; who will not hearken to her
cries as she eels upon them to come forward and save
and serve her in this the darkest hour that ever befell a
Lee people; if they will not be affected by this, their duty,
let me see whether I cannot' appeal to them by another
consideration—by that which proves the: the so- led
Democratic party is a selfish, a proscriptive, .and an aris
tocratic organization. That's so l" and cheers.] I say
it is an aristocracy.
It is an aristocracy first inns leaders. Take the leaders
of the Democratic party in the city of Philadelphia: I need
not mention their names , they are familiar, very familiar
to you. They are all of that class' of politicisne who
have heretofore constituted themselves an exclusiie oasts,
the parvenues, Vie regire'sentatives of a faded and gone
by regime, having no more sympathy with the masses of
our people than the old nobility of France had with those
who, at the end of the last century, overturned their
rotten monraohy. ,They are an aristocracy:4n their
leaders, but - they - are more an aristocracy in
the ends tt ey have. to view. Their organization
rests exclusively upon slivery (loud-Oheerii)—upon hu
man slavery—an institution without which the Southern
States we nid have been a howling wilderness, Or else po
pulated by mon like the freemen of the North; an insti
tution which has cultivated a class of men •in the South
who, if they have any instinct, it is that of contempt for
the working men of the North; an institution which
was fitly repreeented in the pillion of Senator Ham
mond, who desisneted the laboring people of the free
States as "muddle " This class of people in the South
entertain 'the sincere opinion that every man who
works for hie living is their inferior, and it has made them
arrogant, insolent, and dictatorial—[ 4 That's so "]--and.
It bas made the women (1 speak of teem with entire
respect) inxtu ions, enervated, and lazy. It has made
an exclusive caste—a caste which introduced itself in
Washington, end regarded us as unworthy to be its
social , companions', and only to be tolerated in
the Democratic party because we allowed . it to
lead tie.. Thir, then, is the Democratic party—
an obnoxious iris tocrace resting upon slavery ;
an aristocracy more hateful than any in the world's
history. Is it possible that the Democrats of this
great old
. city, who, in days gone by, have responded
to the appeals of such statesmen as Lewis Oaea and George
Dallas, and Beery Horn—is it possible that they are
now willing not only to follow the leadership of men who
are in their whole nature aristocrats, but to rest open
an institution which is intensely and entirely aristo
cratic 7 [ 4 .No l"]
But, I contend nuttier that these so-called Democratic
leaders ere an aristocracy in a still worm sense that in
any I have yet shown. Apart front their sympathy
with the murderers of their country's !thanks,
[i 4 guid") apart• from the fact that day and night they
are looking ferward with hope to see our armies aofeated,
and that they cover this over with thin veil of loyalty to
save their worthless lives from popular inaignation,. is
the extrabrdioaay feature that they ere trying to Mace
the despotisms of the old world to aid the alaveholding
rebellion. Who cvt r heard before of the Democratic •
Party ;.heirg in sympathy with England against its
awn country 1 Who ever heard of a Democrat who
did not regard the. aristocracies of the old, world '
with hatred and contempt '1 [Cheers ] No por- '
Lion of the creed of the Democratic party has been
more strongly written than that in which it appeals to
'the people here to avoid the snares and the delusions of
foreign intetferefice 7 - Aril yet to. day wo have the Demo
cratic party, or an organization of leaders better named
the Bre okintige party, [cheers,) praying, and imeloriort,
and waiting for the interference of our foreign foes.
[Cheers To their credit be it said, they do , not deny
this accusation, but glory in admitting it. Who
would have supposed, ten years ago, that hero in
the State of Pennsylvania, In whose chief metropolis
are contained so many glorious memories of the Bosnia.
tion ; the State in which the Declaration of independence -
was Brit.preethaimed-; -- therEllitee where the,(Yeeentittion
made ; the State of the fleet. Con t inue - ; the State of
graml,ice l e..usseia..essoracanl Germantown; the State
ervstanalin and the heroes and sages of the past—all of
whose rt cords and' whose history are Illuminated with
their glorious deede—that here, in the name of the
Democratic party, the banner of the dissolution of the
Union - would be boldly raised 7 The deliberate corn•
nlacency With which this hag been done startles my mind
• the more I reflect trpon it.
From ptember, 3860, when 'William B. Beal called
upon his followers to vote:for Breckinridge, and told
them that .PerioSylvania must go with the South and
cut loose from the North ; from tbo 16th of January,
1861. when the seine leader, aided and abetted by the
men who are now opposing the National Union parry,
Enid smelling .the Administration, laid down the same
dootrine—viz: that we meet cut loose from the North
and go with the - South ; and from February in the
same year, when the prevent mouth-piece of the
Breckinridge party attempted to introduce his trea
amiable platform into the • Democratic Convention—
from that ,day down to she present, through all the
intermediate blood, earnests acid death, while your
households hMee been fil ed with mouruirg, while
day after day the long fuceral t ain has passed by your
doors, following some cherished boy, who died that oar
country might live—thatlhas been thqplatform of these so
called Democratic leaders. [Cheers ] Why, you would
believes, ingrates. I was going to say cowards, if, with
such a record before your eyes, you did not rash to
the polls on Tuesday next, to avenge this insult
and put the traitors down. [Cheers.]
They are candid, as I have before said, in theth
Emirate of sympathy with treason. Did you ever hear
any of them in their speeches,-in this or any portion of
the city of Philadelphia, repudiate those platforms?
No t") Is there a tingle speech that has been uttered by
any one of the _ chew piens of the Brockinridge party, is
I:11kb be has dented befell committed to the doctrinee of
that party as asserted in September, 1880, and in Janu
ary end February, 1881 1 On the contrary, what do
you hear from them? Nothing but' denunciation,
abuse. and threats of the vilest character. It is a
common thing for the most outrageous and atrocious
threats to ho made against Union men who dare to
stand up end brand these people as they deserve. In
many legatees the lives of gentlemen who have de
voted themselves to this muse have been threatened by
anonym( us letters and in various other ways. awl proba
bly before this great Woggle is over some of these men
may have to lay down their lives as poor Broderick did
in California, where they slaughtered him, or the gal.
lent Douglas did when be was hunted by slaveholding
bounds to his early grave. lA. voice, "We settle that
score next Tuesday." Applause ) I trust you wiil let
ttle it next Tuesday.
I have already spoken longer than I intended—[arise
of " Go on !"]—and longer, perhaps, than you desired
to bear me. [" No, no •; go on
. 1 I have but a few
words more to say, and I will then give way to some one
else .on.Tneedity next you have a duty to perform more
important than has devolved upon you at any former
time. I have certain strong opinions as to that dirty. I
hold in contempt those men who are opposing the Go
Torment, and,predict that the day will come when they
- will fly before the populace as they did after the fall of,
Stinariter, in 1861. [Applause.] We at home should re
member that our relatives and friends are away fighting
our enemies, and that, if we would be true to them, we
should be true to ourselves and• our country on Tuesday
neat. [Cheers.] If there is a man holding office under
the General or the State Administration; if there le
a man receiving a dollar from ,a Government con
beet, that man ought to be among the first to sup
port the Union ticket, and if he did not do it-heartily
and earnestly he ought to be expelled from office.
["That's so," and (tears There are very many of ,
these contractors who are realizing immense fortune, oat
of the Government; and every one of them should act
upen the advice given to me by the Secretary of War a
few weeks ago '-I bold," he said, " that every man
who makes a dime ont of the Government in this dark
hour '
ought to spend half of th at dime to save the G evern
meet from destruction." [Cheers.] I am frank to
say that in the past I have been against
the practice of dragooning men in the Government ern
ploy into the support of the party that may be in power
at the time; belt sow, when the Government, like a great
able, may to staggering into the very depths of the hell
of snatchy and disunion, I hold that no man, whether
capitalist or 'mechanic, should be cchtent to take money
of the Govethment and refuse to ma, to the pens and vote
for that Goverument on -Tuesday next Pi we 11 keep the:
old ship afloat," and cheers]; and so I was glad to
see that our good old `friend, honest John Govode,
Went - down to the navy yard' yesterday afternoon,
and told these ttnths to the men working there.
I bed the_ pleasure of' following his example at tho
Arsenal this morning, and I believe that wherever a good
Union man has men in - his - employ. he should make the
point upon them to support - ,the Government. Work
ing tner not so fortunate its' to be 'lie the employ
ment of the Government, and rich - men, who
have earned their, money by honest industry. in former
days, are ready to give up everythlcg. 'They send
frith their children to battle, and are p eared to 80
themselves -We are here now as a great- reserve army,
waiting for the hour which may come when it will be
our turn to go forth to battle, and, it may be,.hillehee
side our brothers who have already fallen in the cause.
I thank you, my- countrymen, for the Patience with
which you have heard 'me, and respectfully:ll)ld you
good night. [t beers.]
Ron. Wm. D. Kelley was received with loud cheers,
and commenced by alluding , to Col. Forney'( remark,
that we are the great reserve army—and there is no
part of that which will respond more promptly then the
men of.the Fifteenth ward. The grand turning out of
the citizens of Philadelphia in defence of their homes
and firesides was a eight which has never before been
equalled. The preeeut issue of events is no'trivial pm:
illicit issue, The question is, shill wo continue to have a
country 1 Government or no Government. If eleven
States may assemble in convention and ref oive to go'out,
every other blots may do it! What is to m event New
England from setting up an independent confeleracel
The bloodiest tales of history spring from the
question of bouedary lines between Governments:
The voila° blood of the multitude of our dead, as it
bedewed the gratis, seemed to convert the very blades
into armed When Abraham Lincoln became
,Pre
sident, the Union, in. the language of the Democracy,
had become' dismembered. fits oath of °Moo bound him to
maintain the Union of the tbirty-four.thatee—the thirte
four stars on our flat! [Apple tee,] Will you stand by
hinol Pit* of "Yoe!'] It you do not, constitib.
Lionel heedom muse bid the world a long, long farewell.
Our country has been a common country, cad will, thank,,
God, again be for our posterity. [Loud applause] In
answer to the reports about him, the speaker would mere
ly say that be bad voted for Abraham Lincoln's Att e .
ministration [immense applauds 1 All he had to Lay
in con eueion was, do not faq to eustain the Adminis
tration ; while your sons are fighting the enemy abroad,
lire solid political shot into the enemy at time.
Judge Kelley retired amid long-contluned applause.
Bon. Beery D. Moore desired to call the attention of
1113.11am:18ra to one point of the negro question. Those
Democrats - sibs pretend to have the interests of the
working nun at beset declare that if the emancipation
sot goes into effect their counties will be overrun with
a million of former leaves, while,' at the v, ry moment
they ate preparing a convention to take the workmen
dOwn among the negroes ot 'the Beath: •
The epeeker read' an article frcm the Breckinridge
Democratic r,aper, the Mobile Evening News, stating may be greater than you annum. The
He shall ' lll. S .
the panic of the North—their PREPARLTIONS for action creel that no man shall bedeprived or J o i,:, tub e , ,
and the Smith's ItgADINESS for motion—their men, such ty without due process of law.
half-naked, and but upon probable cause, sulattortod by 0 , 4 err -
- not b, ' •'y
as marched through Baltimore
who do not know the breech of the cannon from the lion, nor imprisoned without trial bet, t , t tz,
muzzle. . fellow- zens in his own count -- 'Mr
wltil.s ttis4l..„t;
[The speaker bad been reported to have denounced has been swept laway. Any D e l i k . /6 v, sii 4
he had merely, in liable to be seized, conveyed
his traps,
b W il a t t bii o t_o w n b , it " , .
the whole Democratic party, whilst
fact, dented the right of Hughes to speak for the Demo- tried, not by a jury
cretin arty ; p because there were hundreds and thousands tricked off with aboulder• straps. I . e ught . :e liel.
of men as tree in that party, as in any other ] persons have been arrested. detalaed tee ti nt '
A. series of resolutions read by theisecretary, Oharlea prison without an opportunity of cent men ,. onstb,
Miller, ER., were adopted. They read as follows : sera face to face, and then set at litymtp
Resolved, Tha t
in Abraham Lincoln, President of the discharge. Why wero they arrested I r ot t a L bee,,,*:.
United States, we . recognize a statesman graded and con- Oh, for no cause l_ A more ILIDIIStrOIIS 61, 0 2 4 t Cia,.
trolled by the holiest motives, the purest love of country, was never heard of. ' , I of p,.;;
end that we aro ready to make every sacrifice to aooom- Mr. Biddle then referred to, the arrival e t At
plish that which he has made the great object of his Ad- this 'city. Tho Government, not content ~..r ' 1 33,5 1.,
ministration, the restoration of the Union as it was and intimidate Democrats by suspending th e 411 ?rile
the preservation of the Conatitution as'it is. ' aquae, by abridging the freedom of apee e h i Lrl
• Resolved, That ail the acts of the Government in th rMng Mr. Ingersoll and
aroseoth has enge ge e'.• ool by
prosecution of the war against the preseAt unholy robot - bunineee, and has found pe anon 'Lea
lion meet onr hearty approval, and that the National Ad- do it in Mr. John Govode —an i„,,, eat%
ministration is deserving our unwavering confidence and came I n t o notice - from having
is
name 7 ri 'vlian .'
support in its noble efforts to save the Republic from the bath of Oonspeeeional reports. would , t c h, tvd ce
perils everywhere threatening it. - that in two of the Government establishmst,),tet
Resolved, - That our - grateful acknowledgments are due men had been - summoned by the tap of a b ."° IN.
to Governor Andrew G. Curtin, whose ability and ruitlr- structed how they should vote I w ould an et, oil
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lug exertions have won for our beloved Pennsylvania the believed that American citizens would ere e l l , 4 t L I ,
admiration and respect of her sister States, by intereos- forced to put up with such a humiliation , -44 ' .
ing her iron strength whenever and wherever danger to efon, be counselled his bearers that th e work) ,"'lli .
the Union was most imminent. next was of solemn Importance, not old ) , to tb, .teti,
Resolved, That the courage and the determined will of but to their children ;if they neglected t o ,„__.' 4 4.
the American people exist in the gallant , McClellan, his rights as freemen, if they neglected to stmtk e 4 l 3 _ a rk:
officers and men that their action in the past have won tun and the best interests of their count, ' 4, 4
them imperishable renown. and that in -the future the ny might never again 'occur. r, th, , ilit
honor of the Republic is safe In their keeping, and the The proceedings closed. with a harazo o 1,,,
day sof the rebellion are numbered when they again Bruner. -Js lit.
strike.
Resolved, That while they are fighting our enemies
on the field of battle, it Is our duty to see that no trai
tors at home undermine the Government and rob them of
the fruit of their victories.
Resolved,That the sympathizers with treason in the
North are trying to destroy confidence in the Adminis
tration and spread disaffection and discontent among
the people, in order to aid the rebellion and bring about
a separation oi the Union and a disgraceful peace, and
that for that purpose they have piesented a ticket to be
voted for on Tuesday next, the candidates on which, if
elected, will prove to be insincere in their professions . of
loyalty and the secret and wicked enemies of the Govern
ment.
Resolved, That in a time like this there can be but
two parties—a party for the Union and a party against
it; that we recognize the former in the National Union
party, and the latter in the party headod by Francis W.
Hughes, calling itself Democratic, but false to every
principle of democracy and truth.
Resolved, Thatthe Union sentiment is well represented
by the National Union ticket, composed as it'is of men
of ell parties, and that in voting it every citizen will
know that be is aiding to elevate to power men of un
questioned patriotism, who will strengthen the hands of
the Government.
Speeches were made by the ctber gentlemen present.
AS were listened to with rapt attention, and sainted
with hearty cheers.
MEETING OF THE FRIENDS OF, THE ADMINISTRA
TION OT THE SEVENTH WARD.
Nottnitatanding the disagreeable taste of the weather
an Immense concourse of the residents of the -Seventh
ward assembled last evening, at the corner of Nineteenth
and South streets, to endorse the nominations made by
National Union Convention. A platform was erected on
the corner of the streets, and a fine band of mualc'was
in attendepce. The meeting was organized by calling to
the chair Francis A. Godwin, Esq. A serieseit resolutions
expreeeive of the sense of the meeting and endorsing the
acts of Administration were read by John D. Walston,
Eq. and adopted amid great ontneiasm."
Chas. Gilpin, Rig , was the tlret speaker. Ile briefly
alluded to the Importance of the struggle now before the
people. and called upon all present to sustain, with their
suffrages. the Administration.
Colonel Philip B. White followed in one of hie peculate
witty, and patriotic addressee. Although a Kentuckian
by 'birth, whose friends were all south of the Potomac,
yet he was for the emancipation scheme to the letter, as
he felt that this was a sure way of bringing the war to a
speedy close.
Charles O'Neill, Rage the National candidate for Con
um, wee introduced, and received with loud cheers.
• - Dom. - . O'NEILL'S SPEECH.
FELLOW-CITIZENS OF THE SEVENTH WARD: We have
heard with much pleasure the eloquence of the speakers
I who have Already spoken, and whose efforts ream sure
will lead yon all to earnest and active interest for the
suttees of the nominees of the National Union Party-
The voters of Philadelphia have never had presented to
thed better • men for the positions for which - they have
been nominated. (I speak, of course, for the other can
didates.) You are certainly twat the deity of
all citizens is to aid in the election -of the whole ticket.
The triumph of a portfoilof tbe ticket only would be in-
complete, and give our menthes 'encouragement. Then
let us all work together to secure the election solid.
But, fellow-citizens, we are meeting to. night, not as we
have been accustomed to meeteto discuss Diets party
Questions, but es men aiming to aid and uphold, by all
means in our power, the Administration of this Govern.
ment in its patriotic and unceasing efforts to subdue a re
bellion against the Constitution, the laws, and the Union
of thirty-four hitherto prosperous and happy States.
The old issues between parties, which in the past led us
to the polls, and rallied us to exertions for the success of
our candidates, have, for the present, subsided, and even
the time-honored name of the gallant Henry flity, and
the glorious American system of protection, the reference •
to which, in this locality especially, nerved the arm and
cheered the heart of the workingman as ha toiled in the
factory and the shop, are laid aside and lost [tithe more
exalted rally,—Our GOvernment ! our Government!—lt
must be saved—it shall not fell ! [Applause.] Oar coun
try !—our country!—our country i—in ono unbroken
bond of Union—it shall not perish while we, its citizens,
have a dollar to spend, ore life to lose. [Renewed ap
plause.]
Fellow-citizens, there is a responsibility resting upon
us greater than we have ever had before. Loyal men of
the People's party, of the Republican party, of the De
mocratic party, or of any other party, are called upon to
make a united exertion to support the Administration in
such a way as to crush out rebellion and to destroy it at
once. You aro not asked to give up your principles;
you aro not implored to lay down forever the cherished
ideas you may have had while the strength of party pre
vailed ; you are not entreated to eked •eone jot or tittle' ,
of your admiration of party successes hitherto achieved;
but Low, in this crisis of our history, in this period of
evoelleaud miseries. tied tribulations, national and indivi
dual, you are asked, you are entreated, to eland up
for the Government, to come forth as a solid, unbroken
mass of patriotic men. determined, by your votes, to sus
tain what has been already, and what may hereafter be
necessary to be done, to preserve for you and your pos
terity such a country aneleanahia Government as is now
striving to save itself from the wanton destruction and
desolation it. ' enemieetire trylig to bring upon It.
[Olicere.] ! - • - • ' •
Fellow cite ens, lot us look for a moment upon what
has been done by the °lamented' our noble State and city
in aid of the Government. Millions of dollars have
been expended ; at least 150 000 men have volunteered
for the army; thousands have laid down-their livei upon
the held of battle, and many are at this moment suf
fering, without complaint, from wounds received in their
countries service [Applause J -
Where will not Pennsylvanians and Philadelphians
go under the lead of their . brave and war- worn 'chief
Genes alLOteflauT [Lend -- eresteseiel
e Tneekee ee eeelife a man in this large audience who is not.
even now willing to give his life and to bear wounds for
his country's cause. And yet. my fellow. citizens, what
avails the liberal outpouring of blood and treasure In the
pest eighteen months, and what may yet have to be given
of both in the future, if we at borne are not anxious to
yield our hearty support to the Government by sustain
ing the men at the polls whew% give the Administration
• full and entire aid to the last exhausting limits of its
I ewer ? [Cheers j
I think we can fairly bring before the world the gal
lant and -patriotic action of the sons of Pennsylvania. I
know howmucb her soldiers are relied upon by command
ere in the field. I need not tell you how the spontaneous
uprising of 70,00 of her. citizens, from every walk of
life, saved her borders from the pollution of a malignant
end bloodthirsty raid of an immense Secession army. All
this is history. All this wilt be looked upon, hereafter,
as the brightest page of her annals. But there is a duty
for you and I yet to perform. That history will not be
complete—that page will not be full of her glee r—unless
the men of the National Celine" 'made taleof all par
ties, work as they have never worked before; to seoure
tho success of that ticket which is now presented to the
I voters of this city and State, and which is pledged in au
I solemnity to the uncompromfaing centime tune of the
warfare, until every vestige of rebellion is swept away;
until traitors moot their doom, and the flag of our coun
try is acknowledged by every State which has been
trampling it in the duet. [Applause ]
let:Why, fellow. citizens, the result of the election in
Pennsylvenia is looked upon with great anxiety and
hope by all reteldom. Generals at the head o. Confed
erate armies, men in their ranks, Jefferson Davis and his
advisers at Rictimend, are now calculating upon a blow at
the Administration of Abraham Lincoln on Tuesday
next. [Applause ] The Confederacy it flattering itself
that the. o is a party in loyal Pennsylvania aiming to
give it aid and ccmfort. Where is that party ? Where
are the men who will cast a vote in this city in which
Jeff Davis may delight? They aro not the men who
have joined the National Union Associations. They are
, not the meet
. who have heretofore been connected
I with parties and have fctight each other at the .polis
in Teats gone by, but have now Naffed their party
strife. Where are the men, I akl I want to know
who can have the heart to strike down the old flag.
Such men arelnot in this audience. (Cries of Thefts ao,"
and cheers ] They are' not among the loyal Demecratic
citizens, who love their country and will vote to sustain
the Government. Where can such men be in this State
of Pennsylvania? My love and affection for this old
Commonwealth will not let mo believe that her citizens
can support any men who are not true to the country.
ktrict party organizations may endeavor to seduce
voters; may "endeavor to force upon patriotic men false
and subtle issues, but the cause of the country cannot be
defeated. Party Welt may be invoked, the spoils of
office may be held up as the reward of victory, but in
this crises of our Government the tricks and impositions
of more partisanship will not prevail. The masses of the
poop% are true and honest. The confidence of the coun
try In Abraham Lincoln is unbounded, and I Bay to you
this night that my conviction is settled and firm that the
coming election will be triumphantly carried by the voters
of the National Union ticket. [lmmense cheering ]
Speeches were also made by Hon. Wm. B. Heap, John
Dolman, and e others: Great 'enthunisem prevailed
threughout the whole of the proceedings, and the meet
ing, for a ward gathering, was one of the finest we ever
at'ended. The election of the whole ticket, together
with Mr. O'Neill for Congress, is looked to without doubt.
UNION MEETING AT NINETEENTH STREET AND
GIRARD AVENUE.
A meeting of the loyal citizens of the Twentieth ward
was held at Nineteenth street and Ridge avenue last eve
ning, for the purpose of enr oiling the nominations of the
Union candidates new in the field. Isaac S Eshleman,
EIQ., ptesided. Speeches were medo by Messrs. B. IL -
Homes, Alex. Cummings, Col. Philip S. White, and lions.
Wm. L. Kelley, Charles Gilpin, and others. The fol
lowing resolutions were res.! and approved:
Resolved, That in Abraham Lincoln we recognize a
second Washington, and that hie Administration is en
titled to, and wilt receive, the earnest support of every
true American citizen.
Besolved, That the matotainance of the Linton is the
sheet-anchor of our national existence; that there is but
one alternative; we must have either a trinmphant vic
tory over enr country's enemlai, with blasting DrosPoritr,
or an ige °minions defeat, with nati,nal and individual
ruin. - -
Resolved, That the success or deeat of the National
Union ticket at this election will be regardtd as an index
of lbo feelirg of this community on the great national
et:mations of the day, and that its defeat win
,rejoice and
inspirit the traitors at Richmand, and the hYmpatblzera
hero.
MEETING O.F BRECKINRIDGE DEMOCRATS Or
SEVENTH WARD.
Last evening a meeting of the BreCkinfidge worthies
transpired at O'Neal's Hall, Broad and Lombard streets.
1-omebody having forgotten to pay for the neeof the ha'l,
cf ccuree the owner refused to ••• light 'op:" but the im
broglio was finally comproinised" in the usual Breck
inriege style, and the twenty individuals on hand, (the
meeting was .not in a tavern; and the at - eudance was
arnedlo proceeded to organize. - Ms Stuart took the
chair, made a nervous snatch, and subsided out of view.
Omlin thee stepped np and enlightened his hearers,
who had now increased to thirty. His grammar was
fearful. A tan-colored terrier, which trotted up stairs
and into the room about Dino o'clock, was startled by the
invictivii:and•preolpitateli retired. . • -
Afttir kir. Carlin came Mr. Otimptiell, who we, logical,
sarcastic, and humorous by turns.
SPEECH OF CIWILES J. BIDDLE.
In the middle of his remerks• Mr. Campbell was inter
rupted by the entrance Of Mr. Biddle, whose appearance
was bailed with a vigorous stamping of feet and thump. !
lug of canes. Waiting until. Mr. Oampbell had wound
up gracefully, Mr. Biddle ascended the rtatforrit and thus
began;
FELLOW-DEM OCRATS OF TRIt Blil VETT% NeaRD t I am
glad to be again with you, and thank you for your kindly
greeting. If 7nu have been delayed waiting for my arri
val I regret it, but the fault wlmnot nay own. -I informed
the committee mho applied to me this morning to eddreei
Sou, that I bid 'already swot:billed le . eitieek at another
meeting to, night.but" after I hadlintabed that eugage
ment I would endeavor to be with you: neving.already
spokes once this evening, I do not foal able to expretss
myself at length, and shall detain you but a few mothenta.
As I entered the door I beard the Jett speaker say
something of governments. The only form of govern
ment which can secure the happiness of a people te that
which rests 'titan a free expression of their Bedtime:rut
through tbe elective franchise. Sometimes a men more
able and ambitious than his fellow-man may seize the
reigns of cow rnment, and for a time deceive the people
into a beltef,that the one man power lathe beet for them,
and that despotism is security. Snob a man "was Napo
leon, but even be wee destined to see the capital of his
nation occupied by a hostile army. :
7
7 do not believe that President Lincoln is a Naseteoa.
If Le fancies be is, he is the only one who entertains that
notion . . [Laughter.) It is true, some of hie reorients
tionslavor of despotic power. It is the object of that
party to Intimidate you. They are not hall ea bold as
therWould like you to belicve. Why,- I Was _lold the
otberday that there were to be no electiOnti anictiore;
that all that thing had been done imity with I [Lsegh:
teal *end yet the dengere white three, hat To= tibettlie
MEETING OF THE FOCIITII-w
UNION AF3I3OOIARION.—A meeting of th 3 p
ward Union Aeeociation was bald at th,i, erof, 'At.
pasayunk road, below Bbippen rtreet, last erttle l 4
Wm. Mr. W. B: Mann r
addreseed the Meeting, i f ;
menced by saying that, from present appears e.",
well, and be was satis fi ed that the Utdon tirkatv
elected. The .contest has now narrowed 6.4—'4
queetion o f loyalty and disloyalty, aud the Dei. hu
commenced to nnderetand the inane.
Merrick 8; Boys tolbeir omployeee, entreathai.
to imppirt the Union ticket, was then reteredVl
eulogized by Mr. Mann. Even in the Ar Eknt
there are thontande of Democrata. the ponds
tertnined to sustain the Government et On
Tuesday next.
. _
If a man cannot Eustain the Government e )
Govetnment should not sustain him by lent., b . I .De
on be bounty. The universal opinion is that ' l6l
are now embarrassing the Government ebo o h a t'llo
down, and that speedily.. We are going to Girt
election, and every man emit do hie duty. D t ,
1
tion ate making everyldishonorable effort to 6, 0 , 4
ticket. Isn't it gslisme that, when thirGovereaet.
a etruggle for existence, that these vagabond, ere t y,...
around end endeiyoring to elect, by every dish
effort, those who 'are known to be its oneake:'.r.
vagabonds want to rob us of our voter by w et i n tl..
lent means, Alexander Henry is the best Merin
delphia ever bad. and should be re• e'eeted. wb igh t
of th e Democratic. party is endeavoring to
people by making fake assessments, &c. ki
Mr. Diann then drew a vivid picture of thsks,.,
Antietam, and among other incidents of that
struggle, he said that, at the fence where ow beep 7 `
driven the raids across on the right, there ere, e: 11 1
Union volunteer found on the day after the beige oh
his bayonet stuck through the rail, and hie bodyiZ
with numerous bullets. A bullet hod also goeetiii: i
muzzle of hie gun, widening it so much that 'task
possible to remove the bayonet. Now, said theire4l
these Democrats of Philadelphia want to ire a I
into the muzzle of your ballot-box like the ret,,bod
Into the muzzle of - that eoldier's gun. He mated
man to do his duty on Tuesday next by 'mit t
f
Union ticket, so that the decision of Peterrizeuhei
be on the side of the Constitution and the l;nile
are no Republican or People's party now, het thl6
of the country, determined to carry the flag of th t
by to a glorious victory.
From California.
ELK FRANCISCO, Oct. 9.—The market le witho4
eat, except that there is a fair jobbing trade. ter,
Bud it difficult to force sales at anything like the otj
rates of many of the goods now arriving via the liem
under instructions to sell and remit gold by'4,,
steamer. The consequence is a general didrurt
preeeion regarding the future of the market for
staples.
9be proposal 'raid to be urged at Wash's*.
raising ten thousand cavalry in California le r
here as impracticable, If they are intended to ea s
service before the fall of 1863. They could
sense the plains before April or. May, arriving
court in July or August in a worn-down and heff
condition. Ttn thousand cavalry houses would etti
CalLorola twice their value in the W,astern blette •
SAN FRANOISCo, October 10.—Tbe ottingentrie
money market is increasing. Bank accommodatiet2
cent. Mining stocks, in which much enemata' 5
prevailed, constituting the principal came of the rest
money pressure, have declined materially-ond %0 1.
cat The latest sales of Ophir were at 83,03,1',
showing a decline of STOO, in face of inc'eariegE
dende.
Exchange on liew York is quoted at 143401; j I"
disoonnt. Eterthig Exchange is at the same price s
was held on the departure of last steamer. Legaiter i i
notes 10016 IF cent discount.
The receipts of treasure at Ban Fraarteto for the tia
months past are aa follows:
From the British Columbia Mines 9.941
" Oregon and Washington i;6010
re Wasboe &KO
I. Mexico
Valiftrnia mines . 53,04i1
Total •
..MOWS
f.111A14411.!,1 AN] COMMERCIL
THE MONEY MARKET.
PncLADELpuLt, 0ct.14,31
Gold made another upward movement to-dsr. t11:1-
mend coming froth aliase who require it for emit
highest figure paid was 128. In New York 122 rent
ruling figure for a short time, bat a reaction eansial
the market closed rather unsettled, at 121 Lir:se
amounts. Old demands rose to 123, with a Mil: tai:;
122 01223( was paid for small lots. Toe moser =or
are still over flawing with money, and tour per cm
call is the ruling rate, 606 to borrowers Brie& goils•
cority.
LThe . stock market was rather weak to day, er,4 piss
generally are a shade lower than yesen-dsy, Goyim
manta are firm. Mate fives were in deo:seat 95, obsin
firmly. City tiles, old issue, rose ; Vas new +maim
at yesterday's figure. ...Schuylkill Naviginin sixes dosi
Weak 'at 70% ; eusquelhanne Canal sixes rose ; turd
Pennsylvania Railroad iiixes sold at 81, closing A lent
the tens declined Inez. cent. Camden and Ambuns
1882, continue firm at par; Lehigh sixes at 107; Rate
esx - e's, 1880, were firm at 86; 1880 s extended roil
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal elms sold at 85: &A
Ingehares were weak, opening at a decline or 7;.fiCi:‘,.
but recovering to former figure; Catawiesa fell re
preferred declined X before the close ; Camden set hi•
boy brought 1421 Norristown ; 51%. Long Ishafiele
22, but continued steady. Pennsylvania Baikal fell) ,
recovering 31, and closing on 6271 bid. liarrheupd
at 58X rat.P. Ninehill at 48. North Paint triValbAN
were steady at 10%. Little Schuylkill at 21. Is.,
fell g the preferred was firm at 30. Lehigh Elip
steady at 32, the shares falling X. Passengers reap
orally lower, brit with considerable activity. TeStice
and Fifteenth Fifth and Sixth soli at 50. ii;res
end Pine • advanced X'. Green and Coates
College fell 35. ' Thirteenth' and Fifteenth I. Sri'
focond and Third 1. The market closed firm, site de
amounting to $66,000 in bonds and 2.690 sbs - H yt
regular boards
Drexel & Co. Quote— .
New York Eichange larei•ab
Boston Exchange, , parßl It Ku
Baltimore Exchange .prir
Country fume
Gold b.1,027i St
Old demands 2 4 ,1. 4 1 IL
.
Quartermaster's 9 01 , 4 is
Messrs. M. Schultz & Oo . , N 0.16 South Trani 1.6144
Quote foreign exchange for the steamer Ottysil , l ,
timue, frcm New York, as follows:
London, 60 days sight. . 14;) elt
.. ' 3days ice% olili
Paris, 60 days sight 4f 0'2% oil tri
is 8 days ...... .... •ifoSh WEI'
Antwerp, 60 days sight 4LOIN
101010
Bremen, 60 dais sight
Hamburg, 60 days sight 4eser
Cologne, 60 days eight eigeNt
Leipsic, 60 days eight i*ietti
Berlin. 60 days eight .... 'Aker
Amsterdam, 60 d eyesight 6: 0
Frankfort, 60 days sight 8:
Market strong.
The following is the amount of coal trar.e.x.rtel ORM
Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain PoiirAhl fxY
week ending Wednesday, Oct. 8, and since Jaaon 1
Week. ,•
34 ';
.Tone; Tone.
1882 " 7,188 • 04,455
1881 • 8,291 190,755
Increase
Decretme 1123
The inerections of . Flour end Neal is Phils , llo
luring the week ending October 9, IA vet II
fellows :
Half barrels of Superfine...... .
Barrels of Superfine '
' do. Fine... .;;A•
do. Middlings.•
Go. Bye ' 1 •
do. Corn Neal •
do. Col/detail&
Total ''' Ir.i.
The following is a statement of the receipts of WO
quehanr a canal for the 'ear np to Oct 7th, 156: „
Receipts to Oct. 7, 1E62 Rlg 7
tilamo time in 1861 ' 30,1te
_.-----:
Increase In 1852 5.-1' ,:01
Philadelphia Stock Exchange Snlee
(Reported by B. E. SLATMAILEA, Philo Farhat;
SALES BEFORE BOARD.
10500 American G01d..127-60 Bead's; bstlo-•'?".
560 Reading B 38X I 50 do .. .. .
• 2 50 do .....*
.28 8.16110000 American . 8.141- 1 -""
FIRST BOARD.
6460 abt Am G01d....127 20 PODIA It ..... :••••
1500 d 0.... 2000 V 8 6eRe8 111 , 1 ;•1 1 1'
tO Catarrieea R..... 5X 1000 Schyl Nar 6I 6
8 Cam & Amb R. 142 5000 do ........ .y
1013th & 15th et B. 24- 500 Cam & Ato Sr . 53 1; •
50 15 on istorrn 8... 61,X - 11 faarr:ebarg g••••
100 Long bland 8.. 22,X 22 do ... ......
100 do -23 7 Minehill ......
10500 Penna be 95' 50 Lehigh Scrip•.....
1580 sbt do 95 13 North Peons B
2700 . do ' 95 1000 U 5 7-30 7 NAtt.;„ •
400 do% 91m 1(00 do .....
250 Besding - B..bb. 38 1000 do.. • .-ood' 1 ;.•
100 do 38 25 Hach 8eek.....
200 ' -do bb. 37M ,17 Man & idea
100 Cataw'Sß pref.. 15x1 400 Lehigh S . ...
50 do 05. - 16' 13000 Stan 050 11
1400 City 5, 101 .5000 do .. . ... , t
8 Penns B '!643t 114 Little 801 8
20 do - X 5001 N Penna 5!..' 1 1
. 8 do ~543( 4250 N Penns
EM BARD.
50 Beading B BETWE
, 7X12000 0 Read S hia
Ifo 711600 ET 8 7 30 Tr o-• •
Ifoo Reed', g 6e
850 Reading B. • - 37%
COO do . ..37M I
- 5i1001213
300 Long Wand 11'.:* 22'
3000 Bell. Kay Si 70%
400 do • 70x
- 2 o,sin & Amb
29 . do 1413(
1600 Beading Ba'BB.. 98
10000 "d0....)88.. 96
3000 C & Am 6e'83..100
100 6th & 6112. et 8.. 50:'
10 Spruce & Pine.. 163(
160 d0:—.030. 15X
1000 Amel leen Said -127 X
1000 do '1273(
SINOMSE:it.
18 18111 & 15th- et 31....233(1
100 Beading B 38 s !
100 do 030..383(
150 do . ' . '
PSI(
Bid. Asket - i.
C. B.Ba'Bl 104 1043(
US Tr 7 8-10 N. 105 X 10531
Philada 63......301. 1013
Philada fie new.. 1043( 1043
Penna 6e .95 -96 x
Reading R.. 38 ' 883(
Bead m 6 8 ,8 0 ,48.108 109
Beading bde '70.101 102
Read rat Ele '841.. 96 9631
Penne R:.
.. . 63% 54X
Penns 81m65..110M 112.
Penns B2m 8e..104 '10431
Monist:lel Con.. 66% 3 67
Morrie Onl ProLl26
Sob Nev Stook.. 6X 6
Bob Nay Pref... 16 16%
Bob N , 703 f 70%
Elmira B 18 19
Blinks B Pref.. 30 303 f
Elm 78.18. 95 90 3(
CLOtING PR .
50Eemling 8...05.. 38
10004 m G ol d ..830938 - 127
200 Beading B 37X
53,700 5....
400 Beading 11 - - ' l).9 ili
100 do ....... •••
BOARD._,
20 Elmira or••• -
50 N FOlll3B it..y. 101
"°750
U P U s ili no °7ll O r k ir'd
2 •
do. ......••
S da ......
33 d 0....
14 d 0...... •
20 Gram .t Cos:! 3 t ; 5 11
50 Ostaw's /11" Ilt
.120 do ....•••' 55
1000 Ghee & Del 63•-••
N BOARD
. 0
No • R e uling 15 :.§
100 do ..... s
100 do .....
21 .....
Es_siattl.
But* - 01
L Teal:dß es-di
Loh Ci N..... „ 61 51
L e a& NV/NA 51, 12
N Penile 1/...•• 511
NPaB 08 .....• '
N
penile B 1° ""5
;thitaw Coo—
Ithitawiess Prl-•
Fr Sooth'k r
&.
Beo Third St
Bk 9 91
Ekes& V-etBl/
Abil 5;
W rbils ine }/••"".
BAraCe 8;11°6. ss,i 5 : 3
Gr & Clooto°•;; t O.
Obeid & Widis . , s
Aroh Bt. ......
& rift , oth- 1
Mir l b 7
Seven & Nino
Girard Colleg e- , s3g Rt
Tenth
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