Vrtss. TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1.863 .4er We can take nu notice of anonymous commute mliations. We do not return rejected manuscripts. 4:11`. Voluntary correspondence solicited from all parts of the world, and especially from our difthrent 'iddinary and naval departments. When used, It paid for.- .The President and Governor Seymour. When Governor SEpiourt wrote hislong letter to the President of the United States; asking a suspension of the draft in the State of :New York, he surely had 'no expectation that such a request would be granted. Pro bably-he wished to give to the - party whose teachings produced the riot additional evi deuee of his fidelity to its principles. Proba bly he . desired to make more plain the fact 'that the Government is denied-his sympathy and aid in this struggle ; but this was unne cessary. He need not have written to the President to assure him of this sad truth, which the country has known for months. Yet he has taken superfluous pains, in nearly three, columns of close type, to make the people acqbainted with What a wiser man would, willingly have written. twenty . , columns to conceal. In future years, theugh.no man will, trouble himself. to Mint- through dusty neWspaper files for a 'letter which - cannot even now he thought, interesting, history_ cannot help re cording the brief, tact,. that a Governor of's. great. State used all his influence against the Government-at a time when it moat needed the aid of every 'citizen.- Opposition to the Government may, for a time, be popular with rioters and politicians; but the time will come when all Americans will denounce, as loyal men iron* denounce, every one who is weak or wicked enough to embarrass the Government in its great efforts to end the rebellion: If Governor S.F.Tmotia lives to see that day, he will regret the course he is now pursuing; and wonder how he could have been so strangely misled. That he is fully aware of the consequences of his ac tion we cannot - think; but we know that the men who have most reason to rejoice in it are the rioters of New York city and the rebel leaders of Richmond. • - These are the men who will thank him for this letter.: Had the President suspended the draft, as he reql*ts, the rebellion would have directly profited. -GoulloJEFFEß ,sitai Davis receive any news from the North more 'gratifying than an assurance that the -draft had proved a failure, and that instead •of having to fight a new army of three hun dred thousand men, he would still contend with the decimated regiments of armies on -reinforced ? This is the inteLigence Gov. SET - MO - UR would send to Richmond. What- ever he may really intend," the evil %tore and disloyal effect of his course must throw suspicion on his motives. These, however,- are unimportant; the people, the Gove'rn ment, - and the enemy, are interested only in the effect of his action. It is merely a mat ter of personal interest, whether he under stands his own policy, or whether lie is ig norant of the dark prinCiples it - `embodies ; the policy itself is the question, and if it be proved unpatriotic and injurious,' we need not' trouble oUrselves about the motives of its instrument or auttior.- - Governor Sky - Amines argument is unfor-, tunately not so clearly expressed that Wean be ea - 811y understood ; but, disentangled from the confusion of superfluous words, it seems to be this That, as the.draft - is unpopular, especially with the rioters of New York, as the - question of its constitutionality has not been determined in the courts, as volun teering will probably fill the armies without its aid, and as the quota of. New York is said to be incorrectly distributed among the districts, therefore' the draft should be sus pended for.an indefinite period, until the re sult of volunteering •is known, or until its r.onstitutionality is, determined, ,or until the quota, is redistributed.. None of these rea hivie any value. The Presidenc in his reply to the Gn i rvv—'--ite ---- sa ys 0-.1 wince e wi ing to auide a decision of the United States Supreme onstiutionality, Ccant on thoque.tl6-n- 9 f c to lose the time necessary to'obtain it. As for the volunteering sys tern, the—Governor should have been candid enough to admit its failure, the . causes of which' are apparent to every thinker. We might wait thirty or sixty days for the quota of New York to be supplied by volun teering, and then would have to depend upon the draft to supply a great deficiency. Governor SBYMOUR may be willing to leave the subject of reinforcement to this uncer tainty, but the Government and the people better understand their duty. Of the alle gation that the quota is incorrectly distri buted the President promptly disposes, and in a manner which cannot fail to satisfy all reasonable men. He will dirett the draft to be made in all the districts, Init will hare a new enrolment made in the districts said to be unjustly treated, and, to satisfy the " suspicions" of which the Goveinor speaks; bis agents are to see every step of the process: But the draft is not to be suspended on this account. Nor, indeed, dismissing as absurd all suspicions of a desire to oblige the rebel Government in the matter, can we imagine why Governor SEYMOUR is so very .anxious to have it suspended, unless, having pledged himself to the rioters and murderers of New York that it should be, he is anxious to keep his word. Whether such a pledge is morally,binding must be a question of con• science ; and if the Governor really thinks himself bound in honor to those- men, we have a clue to his singular behavior. The letter of the President, in answer to Governor SEYMOUR'S, is as brief and clear as the other is lengthy and confused. It illustrates the tendency of Mr. LINCOLN'S mind to go directly to the vital matter 6f the question ; to begin at the beginning, an end •th the ending of the argthent. with It is candid and concise. He tells the Go . Ternor at oncq, and, through him, all rioters,. politicians, and opponents of the Govern- 'anent, that he cannot consent to suspend the draft, because, among other reasons, tiros is too important: He alludes to the rebel con scription" and the necessity of meeting the army it will speedily create, and briefly shows that the draft is the only method by 4 which it can be met. , We, are glad that he •does not condescend to reply to the inuendo that the inequalities of the quota fall most heavily upon those districts which have lieen opposed to the political views of the Admin istration "—words which Governor Siv moun'should not have written, no matter who advised him to do so—unless indirectly he may be considered to reply, when he says, firmly and nobly, I ' illy purpose is to be-in my action just and constitutional, and yet practical, in performing the important duty with which I au( charged, of main taining the unity and the, free principles of our common country." This letter, in short, is a gratifying assurance to the army, and to all loyal citizens, that the laws of the United R t t o to9 are not to be suspended at the bid ;ding o f y - ; mob, and that the draft will, there beenfoi—ed• Brace the above.was written we have read -the reply of Governnr 4. !* . TCYMOUR to the Pre -sident, and, if his first letter was discredi table to his judgment, the laito',, q certainly disgraceful. lnspired by a false o Pi b - jon of his own importance, and of the powe? of .the New York riots, he actually threatens -the President, and positively addresses .him in tones of rebuke. " You cannot and will :not refuse to right this gross wrong." - Partisans may consider these words firm, - but we regard them as impertinent, and almost as precluding ,reply. It was ,in this way that NAPOLEON was used toad- . dress .14.effending marShals, but Goverrimi forgets, that the privileges of ;greatness and mediocrity are not ecnial,.and that the. President of the United States is so far his superior that it is questionable whe ther he. should address him at . all. Nor when this :daring letter-writer regrets that the refusal to suspend the draft will in terfere 'lola the reinforcement of the army, can. Iva • regard his hypocrisy as anythino less than a cunning prediction' of new riots, an artful invitation to old rioters hd,s in Mis letter removed the distrust with which every loyal citizen has hitherto regarded him, for he has forced upon the Country a faith in his disloyalty. Doubt has lecome certainty. We are sorry to say that this disrespectful and insulting letter proves Governor SwirmoUit to. be at once a bolder and a weaker man than we had per mitted ourselves to believe. Yet we are glad that it . is written, for the exposure of evil is for the benefit of the good, and it has never been from the open hostility of such men as he to the Government that the country has expected danger. The Canvass for Governor. We. suppose it is, safe to assume that Mr. JUStiCEY.VkIODWAIID is the Democratic can didate-for Governor. If we had any donbt upon the matter, iterose from an unwilling ness to believe that a gentleman of acknow ledged position as a jurist, and, as we had supposed, jealous of the fame of the Judi .citil ermine, would consent to become ,the leader in a politicid campaign, and at the same time hpld his place as a judge of the highest court in the State. No such scruples, hoWever, seem to affect Mr. Jus tice WOODWARD. Wheiher he believes that an office in possession is better than one ill prospective, or is governed by a proper feeling of anxiety, and does not care to risk a certain office, with its emolUments and honors, and a regular monthly stipend, for the deubtful contingencies of a campaign; `-we are not enough in his confidence to say, but it is certain that he is still on the bench, and at the same time in the midst of a po litical campaign. There are many good and sensitive men with a high respect for the judiciary who will feel aggrieved that such a scandal should be permitted, but we can only say that the service of the new organi zation called the Democratic party does not permit such a consideration for the feelings of good and sensitive men, and that 141 r: JUZ.V.CC YI T C.%ODWARD perinitted his name to be used.before 'the Deinocratic Conven tion as a candidate for Governor, he felt that a portion orthe price would be an absence of any scrupulous feeling of honor. Therefore, he remains upon the bench to deal justice between man and man; and at the same time is a bitter and interested partisan. The candidacy of Mr. Justice WOOD - WARD being, then, an assured fact; we may ask what claim has this judicial partisan to be the Governor of Pennsylvania, the suc cessor and successful competitor of such a man as ANDREW G. Gaullist . ? In a time like this we cannot be exacting:in. our de sire to see a gentleman of our own political faith in the executive chair. We are not in the temper to quarrel with any man for being a Democrat, and the mere fact of Mr. Justice WOODWARD being a member orthe Democratic party would be a small consideration. This is a time when all loyal men should act together, without regard to their sentiments upon minor matters. They should sick all Such sentiments in the great I desire to save and strengthen the country. There are .many men in the Democratic party whose action' in this crisis will forever endear them to the country. Su ?,h a Demodrat as Mr. Bnouort, in Ohio, would have been:glad ly sustained by us as a candidate for the Gu bernatorial chair, and for the reason that he has never allowed his Democracy-to weaken his allegiance to the flag.. He is a loyal man—the type of many thousands of such loyal men in Pennsylvania. He is loyal to ! the Republic. This is everything,the Al pha and the Omega of our political testa ment Mr. Justiee WOODWARD; however, does not fall within such a selection: The difference between Mr. - Bnouori and such a man is as great as between loyalty and trea son—for, while the record of one is earliest devotion to the Republic; the record of the 1 other is kbold and earnest sympathy with treason. - This is a serious chargelatidin making it we feel a difficulty that is inseparable from the position of our judicial candidate. It is part of the decorum of the bench that the men who administer the law should be as free as possible from any participation in the exciting, events of the day. We do not think that_:; in a time of danger to the country, seat upon the bench should release a citizen from the active duty _ ing and acting at all times in behalf ot the = country. Many good men ,upon the 'bench have thought with us, althongh many: other good men have remained silent. Among• these we. :find Mr. Justice WOOO - For two years he has lived in a country rent and torn by civil War ; he has seen the Republic almost in the agony of a death-struggle ; he has seen the State inva ded, and grim-visaged war in our midst, with all the terror and death that come in its train ; he has seen the uprising of the peopie to sustain the Government, and during all that time has said nothing. The ermine has or dained his - sile - nce, and he has not deigned to speak. The record of such a man it is difficult to find, for he has lived during the grandest years of- this century, and kept his peace. To find what Mr. Justice WOOD WARD really thinks, we are compelled to go back before the beginning of the war; and read the only speech he has made con taining reference to the troubles of the country.. This was - a speech delivered in Independ ence Square, the occasion being a mani festation of-devotion to the - Union which our readers will all rememberf--the time December,lBoo—Mr. LINCOLN the President elect—the Southern States filled with wrath —the traitors of South Carolina busily en gaged in arranging the faggots, and prepa ring for the great , conflagration. And - in this speech he said : "It seems to me that there must be a time when slaveholders may fall back on their na tural rights, and employ, in defence of their slave property, whatever means of .protection they possess or can command." Precious words for the angry faggot-bearers in South Caro lina ; fearful words for every loyal man - an the North. This declaration is published in the last speech Mr. Justice WOODWARD has been known to deliver. It stands among others, but we single it out as the text of the coming' campaign. It is for having -uttered these words---=for having printed them and permitted them to remain in print—for having allowed thesegreat years to pass without , exhibiting regret or emotion for his country, that we arraign him before the people, and denpunce him as a sympathizer with treason, and an eßskay of the country.- Such a' man Gove - oi. of Pennsylvanial Better far, that we have - JEN - knis, or EWELL, or one of LEE'S satraps, who lately visited Pennsylvania •" to employ in defence of their slave property " .the means of protection at their command. Better one of these men, for then we would have the assurance that they, were brave enough to attempt their threats against the Republic. Mr. Justice WOODWARD has manifested no such courage. Before the war began, he spoke these words. Since that time he has.said nothing, and we • are therefore doing him small justice in as suming that, having manifested such an ear nest sympathy with treason in the beginning, he has been consistent in his sympathy ever since. The Campaign iu Ohio. Our friends in Ohio are making a mag nificent campaign. With the gallant 30EN BROUGH at their head, they have car ried consternation into the ranks of the sympathizers with treason, and it is said that VALLANDIGIIAM is being urged to -with draw. They' find the "eminent martyr," who is now enduring the pangs of banish ent at Niagara, Falls, not as available as was hoped in the beginning. Be is another "Old Man of the Sea," and the Ohio Democracy beg to he delivered. VAL- I,ANDIGILM still clings to it,,and persists in being carried. He will not • resign, he will not change his platform, he will be elected with all his imperfections on his head. And so the champions of free speech (for traitors) are having a very gay and happy time, and some of the faint-hearted are abandoning the cause in disgust., We expect to hear 'of Mr. Cox and some others of the half hearted retiring to the sea-sidenr the moun tains—anywhere, out of the unfortunate condition of affairs now prevailing in Ohio. Well, they shall have all the sympathy they deserve ; but the best thing they can do is quietly to leave Mr. VALLANDIORAM alone to his British friends, and vote for Joan Bitonon. They will have the assurance Of knowing that Ohio has a good Democratic Governor, and at the same time that they have done a good and loyal act, The True Policy. There are many ways in which a difficulty can be overcume. We may walk over the mountain, or around its base, or,' by the•aid of shovels and axes and engineering skill, construct a tunnel and go through it. The tine policy, however, is that which seeks the briefest distance and the shortest space of time, and the easiest method, of employ ing them. 'the general who moves directly upon the works of the.. enemy, will, all things being equal, and with proper pru dence and skill, be mire of capturing them. Ingenuity and strategy, and the gift that men call genius, are merely methods of shortening the tine, and we see the full fruition of man hood and talent when we see the energy and skill and • patience that always succeed in breaking down when destruction is necessa ry, or building up when that is our purpose. When General GRANT moved upon the enemy's works at Fort Donelson, the morn ing atter the first assault, it was a swift ap plication of his means to the end, and he "triumphed: When he advanced by slow approaches, and for the space of weary weeks, upon the fortifications of Vicks burg, it was an application of the means to the end equally as swift, for he triumphed. We are told that he might have suiceeded in the beginning, by throw ing his victorious army upon the enemy when he first invested Vicksburg, but the price would have been ten thousand lives, and the demoralization of his legions. He paused, and we see in the result that his part was the part of wisdom, for he triumph ed. His triumph was complete and exhaus tive. We now see him moving compactly and bravely upon enemy, w hile 33 E.T.'.7resarmy is drifting about the South- Western States like the fragments of a wreck ripen the sea. The victory of GnArvr was based upon the true`policy, and his success was the tribute that, is always obtained by energy, courage, and skill. The principle that guides the man in active life, in his business relations, in his management of armies, and the execution of any project, should also guide the states man. Here -we are. A war engrosses all attention. Everybody suffers from it, or in a certain way feels its effects. It is at our homes, in the shape of conSeription, which is merely exacting from the citizen the last duty due to his country. It has been with us at. Gettysburg in all the horrible grandeur of active combat. We feel it in the feverish and unnatural activity of business—the sud den gaining and losing of money—the in juty done 'to our commerce by the dread of piracy, and in the suffering and grief of those who have friends in the armies of the Union. There is no good in recapitulating its rise and origin, for it is here before us in all the grim reality of slaughter and deso lation. We have pledged to its prosecution the honor of America, in order that vic tory may be gained. We can do this by the dispersion of armies, the occupation_ of the stolen forts and disputed territory, and compelling the flight or surrender of the leaders of the rebellion. This, would be called the victory of the sword. After that may come the victory'of the pen, or the ex ercise of clemency, severity, magnanimity, or power, as the situation of affairs may de mand. At present we have determined one thing—that it is necessary to continue the war; and being necessary, as all men know, we should insist upon the policy that should govern- its progress And manage ment. While we do not think that there is a man in America who would not rejoice at a pro clamation of peace, no patriotic citizen de sires to hear such peace , proclaimed until it can be done with honor'and pride. Those who think otherwise'are no friends of the country, and should have no voice in its councils. However dreadful and cruel this war may be, it does not compare with the hdrror and shame that would be left us and our children if it were terminated by a peace that left the Southern traitors mas ters of thußepubllc. As we survey the situation now, there can be no peace unless with all emphasis and on every occasion, that they would never consent to a re establishment of the Union. We are bound to believe them. They have every. motive to resist a reunion with the loyal States. They are guilty men, and liable to severe and cruel penalties. Therefore,- . a re- established Union means a summary arrest, trial, and an execution by rope and timber before the assembled people. The instincts of safety, the dread of death, and par ticularly an ignominious death; Would make them the enemies - of reunion. We might grant them an amnesty, and even go so far as.to admit them to all the rights of citizenship. the memory - nf their crimes ; the knoWledge that their hands had become crimsoned with brothers' . blood since last we parted; would be forever in their way, and nothing but dreary memo ries would exist between us The Union, to them; would be as the body of death to which the galley : slave was bound: " Sus picion all our lives would be stuck full of eyes." They Would find " treason trusted like the fox ;" and generations would pass before the wounds and scars would be healed. It is folly to snp_pose that any reunion, based upon a dishonorable peace, could be effec tive. We cannot efface the past by affecting not to remember it. To us, and to our chil dren, these leaders of the rebellion are trai tors. Our history must proclaim them as such ; and when themothers of =other age tell the children ,of the glorious deeds, of their ancestors, they must tell them that the men upon whom these deeds were com mitted Were wicked; false, ambitious men, and that they . carried to their graves the memory of their wickedness and falsehood. There can never_ be a reunion by such flimsy and.unstable methods. We may put the new wine into the old bottle, but the bottle and wine will soon be destroyed. 'The leaders:of an exhausted South might accept a convention, or an armistice, or even peace and reunion ; but as soon as the exhaustion was over, the war 'would again break forth like the consuming flames,. and all the details of this 'sad drama would be enacted over again. . Any policy that 'con templates such a peace merely giv . es aid and comfort to the rebellion ; for, as we have shown, if pursued to its logical consequences, it would result in the tri umph of the South, and the concession on our part of every unjust and wicked de mand. By the successes of our arms ,we have scourged and punished the South; and for the first time since the war f iegan we can see the coming of-the end. Indistinctly shaping " .. itself, rising over the horizon, and giving no sign but the bright and ruddy glow , that always heralds the morning," feace is throwing its first f b Yne• Urn in the Lend es 4 c e a w a a But Mr. Lft. suppose that when. a fact has aa , e , publicly affirmed and publicly de nied by the two pprtielli most interested, the question between t h em on be decided - by the production of anaasmous Jitters. We -agree with the friends , a ,„ rn ju t .. ,naird consulted that he had a right to use all ,a,cuments : including the Washington letter of in his own vindication; and, indeed, the, e question hairing become a public one, ti..-- t -een two Cian-ernments, it wail 'his duty to do •so ; but, thou, if:the letters are to be worth anything as evidence, he must- publish the name of his correspondent. If he cannot do this, his case breaks down for want of evi dence, If - Mr. Laird merely wishes to show how became to be possessed with a certain belief, these letters may suffice, but if he wants to convict the American Government they are worthless. The departmental memorandum, which Mr. Laird pub- Bisbee, and to which he, apP r ears to attach import ance, contains no reference to him, and is just such an one as would be given to an American contractor. There must have been scores of similar memoranda issued at Wasbington ,to persons who were pro viding the American Government with- home-built ships. We submit to Mr. Laird that he cannot let the matter rest where it is. There must have oeen appaling lying somewhere, and we hope the guilty party will be found out. In the meantime, Mr. Laird's ietters prove nothing to the purpose. [From the N. Y. Post.] •_ Everybody remembers the letters which a Mr. Spence, of Liverpool, wrote to the London Times, in 1861 and 1862, in support of the rebels. These letters professed to come from an Englishman of in dependent opinions, and as such they, had a certain influence, until, by the capture of a retie! despstch. bag and the publication of the despatches, it became known that this impartial and high-toned English advocate of slavery and rebellion was a salaried secret agent of the rebels. Since this discovery was made, Mr. Spence's letters pass in England for just what they are worth—the special pleas of a hired attorney. Another and equally disreputable transaction has just been brought home to another English sup porter of the rebels. Messrs. Laird, Sons, & Co., of Birkenhead, near Liverpool, build Alabamas and iron-clads for Self Davis; and Mr. Laird, the senior partner of the firm, is a member of the English Par liament, Of the propriety of a member of the Bri tith Lesielature engaging in such business we will say nothing here ; though if ever hereafter a mem ber of the United States Congress is found to be en gaged in fitting out privateers to prey, under a fo reign and unrecognized flag, on British commerce, no doubt we shall receive lectures enough on the subject from the London Times. But Mr. Laird was not content to reap his gains in silence. He must' endeavor to justify himself; and some time ago he asserted, in Parliament, posi tively, that at one time - he had received from. the Navy Department of the United States an order to build ships for our service. When this was hrought to-the attention of the Secretary of the Navy, he promptly and explicitly denied the truth of the as sertion, and this denial was made public in Eng land. Thereupon Mr. Laird seeks shelter behind certain anonymous letters, which purport to be writ ten, in Washington and New Yerk, by a person whose character, position, antecedents Mr. Laird himself takes care not to vouch for in any way, and whose language betrays him to be =a foreigner, and in all probability any adventurer— probably one of those "lobby agents," who, needy and unscrupulous, hastened to Washington, on the outbreak of the war, to try to turn a dishonest penny by dint of impudence and pertinacity. . This wonderful correspondent of Messrs. Laird, Son's & Co., was not the only one, according to Mr. Welles ' who " importuned" the department "-in he half of Mr. Laird." We hope the remainder of Mr. Laird's bagmen were more skilful persons than this anonymous writer whom. he says hetelieved, though it is evident that he did not trust him enough to even take the trouble to send him plans and bids for " a shot and shell.proof battery," such as he asked _tar. colfesp - difdett - apenas - outuiy enough of " our Government," but he betrays himself ludi crously when he speaks of the frequent interviews with "our Department of Naval Affairs," and of " the Minister of the Navy"-two phrases never used in this country at any time, and which none but a recently•arrived foreigner, ignorant even of the commonest phraseology of our administrative de partments, could have invented. ;Yet, while thus convicted of ignorance,. he constantly speaks of " our " affairs as though he were a citizen of the country. *lt.f. In July this person speaks repeatedly of our " Mi nister of the Navy, but by October he has learned better, and writes of the "Navy Department." In the meantime. why did Mr.. Laird correspond with such a person l Is it the fashion of great English mercantile firms to transact their business with un• known intermediariest Mr. Laird says he believed his correspondent. We can only say that if he had written at once to our: Navy Department, when he received the first letter, he would' have saved him self from what' must be a humiliating and ridicut bons position, in which he is now placed. We are quite sure that an American business man of equal eminence would have taken - pains first of all, to convince himself, by application to lieadquarters, of the character of .the agent who had approached him.. Terms of Readmission. The Washington Cl,ouicle of Saturday contains the following : Before long some of the rebellious States will be soliciting permission' tore-enter the Union, from which, in an evil hour, they seceded. It is mon strously absurd to contend that the Constitution provides for, requires, the reinstatement of such a people in all the privileges which they enjoyed be e their suicidal secession ; that the fundamental law of the Union prohibits the imposition of any con dition upon those who, after violent, armed, and per sistent efforts to destroy it, now sfek again to come under its shelter! Yetthis is really the ground taken by home-sympathizers with the rebels. They first affirm that the Federal Constitution does not pro vide for the deprivation of a rebel State of the rights it possessed before it rebelled, and then argue- that what is not in terms authorized in the Constitution is in fact prohibited to the Government and people. Put intsplain English, their position is this: Re bellion may be a mistake, but is never a crime ; State may secede, repudiate the Federal Constitu tion and authority, make war upon the Federal Go vernment, just as long as it has any hope of success, and when convinced that it must fail, return into the Union and resume all its rights under the Con stitution, and its full shsre of blessings under the Government it has sought to overthrow ; that, in fact, during the whole time it is in armed rebellion against the Constitution, it never loses its right to the immunities and protection of that great histru ment. . We repeat, that this is monstrously absurd doc trine. Yet it is the doctrine, stripped of its subter fuges, of the rebel sympathizers of the day. If it were a sound interpretation of the fundamental law in the case, a perpetual premium would be held out to attempts at successful rebellion, inasmuch as a State could lose nothing by revolt, and might gain terri- I ory, public property, independence. It might get pos session of the public lands, the Federal sub-treasuries, cuetom-houzes, arsenals, armories, guns and muni tions of war within its State lines,and the Federal ves sels 'Within its harbors, and relieve itself of all Federal taxation. Success would give it all these. i Failure would be merely followed-by the recapture of them, or of such of them as had not been destroyed. Ac cording to the rebel sympathizers and peace Demo crate, this would be the only effect of failure. Nei ther the Government nor the people of the Union could punish the offence, or impose any condition upon the State before it Was reinstated in the Union, or even exact a pledge that it would not re . peat the offence. On the contrary, the Senators-and Representatives could take thew seats in Congress while insultingly declaring that they would try the experiment again the first favorable opportunity. We surely need not multiply words to show that this reading of- the Constitution cannot be accepted as a solution of the inquiry suggested in the first ,paragraph of this. article. In the view of common sense, and common justice, and as an element vital to the Republic's self preservation, the Government and the people who have been so foully wronged by the rebellion of the seceded States must , have, if not "indemnity for the past," at least " security for the future." The right to that is inherent in every Government. Place it where you will, for that is im material to the argument, there is a Government of this Republic; and it is noronly its inherent right, but its imperative and sacred duty, to obtain the best security possible againat a repetition of this terrible foray upon the country—Ahis fearful wreck of pro perty, and slaughter of hundreds of thousands of citizens, to gratify the greed of ambition and the lust of power of wicked and designing men, backed by un grateful and revolting States. Unless such security for the future is provided, anarchy only, not Govern molt, is our heritage. If there be Government, then there must be power to impose conditions on a State that, laying down its arms, seeks to be re-established in the fellowship of the Union, Surely, if such 'a thing can be deviled, it may take bonds for the State's good behavior. If it cannot do this, it can net take the first step toward providing for its own preservation. and insuring libirty, and the pursuit of, liappinets to ' its ' citizens. Yet this ould be imposing a condition. The right to impose a condition includes the, right to make one; and then follows in our judgment, the right to make and impose such condition as shall best secure tae object sought by its imposition. We need not push • the argument further at present, or give it gqy specific application. PRICSEWTATION TO. GENERAL ROSECRANB.—An interesting event occurred in the Army of the Cumberland some weeks since. The members of comp'any K, roth Indiana, had prepared, by one ol their number, from a muscle shell taken from Stone ricer, on the battle ground (where the shells are found of very large size), a beau • cross, about two and a half by one and a tits which _was formally presented to Crepe halfinches regiment was in General Rose. ml Po ' secrans. th,:e-months service, was 00.. - -mended by him at the battiC of Rich Mountain, and the present was intended by the Pompany to express their regard for their general, as- ft kind remelt.- brance of their mole intimate relations r;',lth him In the campaign in Western Virginia, and affa Memen to of the great battle mid victory oT Stone river. The cross, cut froth the centM of the shell, was of a beautiful pearl celbri, EaVfng I.)try, much the appear ance of pearl It was' sent to" Nashville, where it was mounted With Old attlie - tillt, and a. plate in serted in the Shaft, upon which was engraved: "Presented to Generallidie:crahs, by Obmpany K, Tenth Indiana:" SthieTyrtrrass trf'RbriEfatOtio.—"A Richmond' paper ofthe 7111 sass Substitittes are beginning to command a large mim. This -morning' a man in Richmond offered sfp,C6o, and another offers $4,000 for &man to talcs his place in an artinity company.. This sibstitute system oughtto be stopped, as it las already dose much mischief in (dr army. ' At the Atijutant'Clehel'alite office have been received 60,000 cubstitutes in place of an equal number of ablobtaliett metr capable of bearing arms." Public Entertainments. The reconstruction of Mrs. John Drew's Aral& Street Theatre is rapidly progressing. The warier is nearly completed, and the whole will be intense by the time, next month, when the regular season is to commence. The . Mains' Opera Troupe, of which Miss Caroline Etchings is prima donna, Will give the first performances at this new theatre. It is understood that Mrs. Drew has secured a new play of high' merit and striking effects, in whiCh she will make her own " first appearance this seism" She is now at the sea-side, after a successful starring tour in Washington and the provinces. WAVNIII , ST1212.111! .THILATB.S, continuing under the lesse+ship of Mrs.JM. A. Garretteon, has been re. modelled during the recess, and also re.decorated. A few days ago we mentioned that the performers' "drawinprooms " were to be improved. This was an error of the press, as the dressingrooms were in tended to be named. They now are worse in this theatre, and better in the Academy of Music. than in any - other theatre of reputation in the United States. Mr. E. L. Tilton continues stage- manager, but it is said that Mr. W. H. Paul, late agent for Mr. Barney Williams, will take the place of Hr. Donnelly, as business agent. It will be difficult to fill the place of Mr. Donnelly, whose obliging dispo sition and cdurteous manners made him generally acceptable to the public. it is stated that. Walnut street Theatre will be opened for the seationon the 31st instant, Madame Isabella Cubes, the (Immense, appearing in anew piece, written expressly for het, in which, fe , lo wing the example of Celeste, she wilt appear e . an actress as well as a pantomimist. Amonr the " stars " who, it is said, will annear 'after Cuban, are Barney and Mrs.' Williams, Forin Booth; J. S. Clarke, Matilda Heron, Edwin Adams, Laura ICeene, Jane Coombs, Charlotte Thompson, and Margaret Mitchell. At thiCheetnut•street Theatre, where Dir. Wright continues stage manager, with Mr. Philip Warren as treasurer, there is now an able company giving performances after the manner of the Ravele, with whom they have been long connected. At the be ginning of next month, the regular season will COO. mence with " The Duke's Motto," a play which has already had a run of sixty nights at Niblo's Thea tre, New York. At the Academy of Music, next Monday evening. Mr. S. S. Clarke will commence a short season. We hear that Mr. Edwin Booth, the tragedian, will be his trump card at the opening of the game. Neist Monday, also, two iPhiladelphia tavorites— Mrs. Bowers and Mrs. Cowell—will appear together at the Winter Garden,. New York, under theimanage nient of Mr. Humphrey Bland, in a new piece, called "Natalie," written for Mrs. B. by the late Charles Silby, comedian and dramatist, of London. At the close of this engagement, Mrs. Cowen proceeds to. the Boston Academy of Music, where she is engaged ae leadink lad y .. hPapproaching season. It will be difficult to supply In the wand street company. Mrs. Emma Waller, whose rare merit as dienne was first , recogoized, on this continent, .in 'Philadelphia, commences her starring season at Buf falo, in about ten days. She will have the valuable assistance, in her tour, of the gentlemanwho sated as her agent during the last season. Of cisme, we shall see and welcome her in this city. LARGE POSITIVE SALE OF BOOTS, &Toes, Bao. GANS, &c.—The particular attention of dealers is re quested to the large peremptory sale of boots, show, brogans, &c., embracing samples of 1,100 packages, A choice assortment of prime fresh goods, to be sold without reserve, by . cittalogue, on four months' Sr.. alt, commencing this (Tuesday) morning, at tea o'clock precisely, by John B. Myers & Co., auction_ eers, Nos. 232,and 234 Market street. SLAVES TN SOUTHERN KENTUCKY.—The Nash. vine Union says: •'We have conversed recently with several large slaveholders from Southern Ken tucky. They say that the decline in the price of slaves is from thirty to fifty per cent., the average decline being nearer the latter figure. The priceof a slave depends almost whollyomhis personal attain- Lion' and feelings. A steady - slave, who has a wife on or near his owner's farm, is considered valuable in his neighborhood. But slaves brought front a distance, or young men and women who have no domestic ties to bind them, or slaves who have mt.. manifested - a disposition to run off; will not bring, any price at all. They are considered as intangible as the wind. A man would as soon think of invest ing his money in a contingent interest in a flock of wild pigeons, or a school of herring swimming in mid ocean, as to invest itin such fugacious children of Ham:, A DESERTER ELo66lll3.—One Joseph Hagen, who is alleged to have deserted from the 63d P,ennsylvs- Ma Volunteers, was severely whipped, by order of the provost marshal, in Pittsburg - , on the 34 instant. Hagen, after having deserted from the army, had the bo'dness to enlist as a substitute on the 30th of July, when he was again sworn into the service, but de serted the same night. On the 3d instant he received $250, and enlisted - as a substitute, and was about to be sworn into the - United States service the third time, when be was discovered. Provost Marshal Captain J. Heron 'Foster immediately ordered him to be handcuffed, and to receive twent - y-tive lashes as a punishment to himself and a warning to others. The corporal charged with theexecution of the order administered thirtpoeven lashes in a severe manner. The affair created a great deal of talk in the city of Pittsburg. Capt. Foster says he will cheerfully sub mit to punishment for assault and battery. TRH GRAVES OF NEW YORK SOLDIERS AT GET. TTSBUR42I.—The meet noticeable and important pa per sent to the New York State Soldiers' Ddpdt, in Howard street, is a map of the locations of the, graves of New York soldiers at Gettysburg., This was made by Dr. Theodore Dimon,. of Auburn. Ac companying this map is a list of the names of the buried, as far as they can be ascertained." This list will, be copied into such a book as will be adorable and proper record of these brave soldiers of this State. 'As far as practiccbie, this will be done for the soldiers who_ be.ee fallen on other battlefields. of this State has authorized Gover nor Curtin, of Pennsylvania,- to purchase ground suitable for the burial of those soldiers who fell at that place.—New York Express. WHICH is RIGHTI—Some of the oppoattion lead ers have for , a long time adopted the following vsatehword! "The Union as it was and the Con stitutiOn as it is." The Ohio Slatesmun is the organ of that party in Ohio, and is published under the eye, if not absolute direction ,ofS. S. Cox. It de clares "the restoration of the Union as it was, with the Constitution as it is, is impossible." As the Statesman is the organ of Vallandigham, it probably agrees with him. and favors the division of the coun try into four confederacies, which - shall be virtually independent o f each other, have a common Congress, and be ruled by minorities. PRAIRIE CHICKENS.—The .Dubuque Times says that "never since lowa has been settled by the white man have prairie chickens been as numerous as at the present season. In Buchanan and Blackhawk counties they can be killed with stones and club; and huntindthein;with guns is next to no sport at all. So plenty are they that the farmers importune hun ters to try their, luck on their grounds, and in some instances they: have manifested a willingness to pay for the killing." BATTLE WITH THE UTE INDIANS.—A. fierce battle was fought on the Bth of July, in Idaho territory-, b tween a band of the Me Indians and a company of the 7th Kansas Volunteers, led by - Lieutenants 13rundley and Williams. After a two hours'. fight Lieut. Williams charged them with the bayonet, and the Indians broke for the mountains, leaving 2t killed and 39 wounded on the field of battle. Our loes was alight, the Indians mostly firing over our troops. TIDE CITY. The Therinometer. AUGUST 10, 1882. i AUGUST 10, 1888. I 6 A. m..... 12 31......3 P. M. 8 A.x.....1231[ 3P. X. 89 89 82 ..93 - 963 WIND. W. WNW.. '.NW NW. NW .5E....S by W. JUDGE SHANNON AT THE CONTINENTAL— AN ELOQUENT ADDRESS IN FAVOR OF THE ADM. NIST.RATIos.—Last evening, about nine o'clock, the Continental... Hotel and vicinity were well-packed with a large audience for the purpose of hearing an address from Judge Shannon, of Pittsburg. Previ ous to this Birgfeld's band, wldch was in attend ance, gave the orator of the evening a delightful se renade. Shortly after nine o'clock the :fudge stepped upon the balcony and was received with cheers by the crowd. He spoke for about half an hour in sub stance as given below. His remarks were frequent ly interrupted by loud and long applause, especially when he alluded to the acts of the Administration and those of "Governor Curtin: FELLOIV-CITIZENS : I assure you, with the most grateful emotions, that I thank you for this compli ment to an humble member of a loyal party of For no merit of my own—for no intrinsic worth can I claim this ovation as my due. But as a representative, as one who from his first vote until Democratic rebels fired on our flag at Sumpter, never swerved from Democracy, I speak to you to-night. Thus laying claim to the Democratic party, I assert here, in behalf of the `precepts of Jefferson and or Jackson, that the only true test of Democracy to-day is to stand-by our country, and our country, right or wrong. [A.p. Valise.] If this was true when it was the bugle blast of the Democracy of the States, it is true now. No foreign or imperial power has dared to assail the rights and liberties of the people of this country. Alas, those who have reared their stand ard against the Constitution and the Union are those who in times past we have loved and honored. Under the same flag we fought, and under the same flag martyrs were buried. Who were the men of the past who stood forth- in the defence of every right guarantied by the Constitution? Whigs of the North, Americans of the North, Republicans of the North, and Douglas Democrats of the North. The so-called Vice President of the Southern Confede racy, in a style of peculiar eloquence, says that there never was a law enacted by a Christian peo ple more faithfully observed and kept than the fugitive slave law, which compelled the white man to restore the slave to his owner. No law was ever more faithfully kept than that. What cause of warfare had , these men? Don't you know that scarcely a slave from the cotton States was ever allowed to escape? We stood faithfully, and the history of Christendom will acknowledge it. - As long as these Southern Democrats were willing to light - for the Union inside of the Union, we were willing to stand by them. When they did otherwise, we de nounced them as what they are—traitors, scoun drels, and villains I It was a part of the conspiracy, that not merely should the De• mocratic party be disrupted, but that their anew Government formed by these Southern Democrats should be built upon slavery. Abraham Lincoln is greater to-day in the affections of the people than all the crowned heads of Europe are in the affections of their subjects.- He has his right hand -grasped around the flag of the Confederacy. You cannot conquer the Republic. We have eaptured Vicks burg, we have taken Port Hudson, and are hem- Wring away at Charleston, and Charleston will soon fall. What had we a right to expect from Bu chanan and his Cabinet? In his message he stated that, while Seeettlieri wall wrong aad to he deplored, if niiy.;;Vathein State seer fit to withdraw from the Union, there is no Dower itlthe KlEetnativel 11 9 POTR in Ve:.=.• to low, her back again. go, to night, whilst the winds of a M.Z.th lake since sweet requiem to, the memory. of Stephen 4• Douglas, Democrats, where do you stand? By a B — reckiniVri or by the grave of Douglas? There can be no synie pathizers to-night with Breckinridger I speak to you to-night in all the depths of sincerity.' When the rebellion broke out, Floyd was engaged in strip ping the arsenals of the North of their guns and munitions of war. We had a gallant litlle'rravy. What was the Democratic Secretary of the'DtaNy about? You had a Democratic Secretary - of the Treasuiy, Howell Cobb. What Was he engaged in ening? I say to you to-night, that never was a na tion so betrayed, plundered, degraded, as. by James Buchanan and his Democratic cabinet.. Had he one thousandth part of the energy of Andrew Jackson, that rebellion could never have lasted- for thirty days. Your journals say that the only way' to re store_peace is to restore the Dernocratic'party. But if this were done, I would not.give a farthing for mach restoration. Pennsylvania is the land of beauty and of virtue. - I speak to you to-night in virtue of your churches and public schools ; I speak proudly and gloriously in opposition to. Francis W.-Hughes, la' model% pretentious Democrat; I say that Pennsyl vania shall never and never be switched into the Southern Confederacy. Pennsylvania. blood has been poured out like water. Democrats, -Republi cans. Americans, Germans, and Irish, have poured out their blond. We must be a unit. `• Pennsylvania; 'lin mbe 'made loyal by October. Croyerner-durum lies done more for Pennsylvania than any other Governor has done for any other State. life is the man whom the soldier loves, Amongst