~1 ~ ~~~~. FRIDAY, BEPTEMB.SB 8, 1865. Secretary ft - canton, Mr. Sessraid, and Montgomery Blair. The following cart, from Marlow Weed appears in the New York Zimel of yes terday: :lb the Editor of the New York Times: ' The m alignant but. senseless assault of Mont -uomery Blair upon Secretary Stanton is nay -4-),,s one good effect in calling our, us it does, triumphant vindieations of the character and cervices of a really great and patriotic states man._ Col. Forney and an intelligent corre spondent (C. P. S.) in the Times have furnished contributions to a vindication still, however, iuvcmplcte j for if it were ever essential to a Government that it should have the "right Man in the right place," this Government was twice preeminently fortunate in having Mr. Stanton—first in the Cabinet of Mr. Buchanan, rind next in Mr. Lincoln's Cabinet. There is, somewhere in Maryland, a supposi fitioue locality where Mr, ]hair affects to find fellow-citizens j , on whom he inflicts imagi nary speeches. These fictions enable him to get long-winded tirades into the newspapers), one of which, garnished with flaming head lines, appeared in the World, and the intro ductory expletives in the Tribune. Mr. Blair Pare "It is apparent, from the whole course of public affairs, that Mr. Seward acted in concert with Buchanan's administration during the last three months of his term. He was, no doubt, ad vised, through Mr. Stanton, who was in Mr. Iluchanan:s Cabinet, of the policy it had adopted in reference to the seizure of every thing that appertained to the nation in the South. It was to the coalition then formed between Mr. Seward and Mr. Stanton that the latter became Secretary of War to Mr. Lin coln. He apprised Mr. Seward of this treaty of the War and Navy Departments, under Bu chanan, to make no resistance to the policy of din. Solving the Union—to offer no coercion to impede its march to independence—and Mr. Seward's Course shows that he approved and adopted this policy. Is it not strange that Mr. Seward „should have kept thatparalysis on the country from the 4th Of MAMA to the 13th of April, when the conflagration of Sumpter aroused the people V' This treason—for such is the charge=-was committed, if at all, before Mr. Lincoln came into office. Why did Mr. Blair not only conceal it, but sit there with Mr. Seward in the Cabi net, claiin lag, all the while, to be Mr. Seward's friend and champion, quarreling with others, but even furiously supporting . Mr. Seward? But the charges are untrue—viciously untrue. The TRUTH is, that the first and paramount design of the Secession leaders was to obtain before or on the 4th Of March, by coup (Pettit, possession of the capital with the sanction of the Government THAT DES/ON WAS THWARTED DT Sin. STANTON. As a member of Mr. Bucha- Dan'S Cabinet, he became informed of the trea sonable objects of his colleagues, Cobb, Thome son, and Toucey, and of the imbecility, at least, of the President, Placing him self in confidential eoramunleatien. with Seward, Mr. Stanton went to his watch and his work boldly and sagaciously. Trai tors were by degrees weeded out of the Cabinet, and their vacant seats given to Gen. Dix end Judge Wilt, who eceoperated with Mr, Stanton and Mr. Seisard in preserving, the Government. The 4th of March approached, amid treasons and conspiracies in the highest classes. Washington was, without doubt, dis loyal. A conspiracy to assassinate Mr. Lin coln at Baltimore was discovered and thwart ed. On the Occasion of the inauguration, Gen. Scott had scarcely more than 5,000 troops for the defence of the capital. The danger was imminent But the chief traitors had been ejected from the Cabinet. Their plans were disconcerted. Mr. Lincoln ices inaugurated, and the Government, prevailed. For that Go sediment's salvation the people and the Union are indebted to the Roman virtues of Edwin 2d. Stanton. It was,d doubt not, owing to the "coalition then formed between Seward and Stanton," that the latter was called into Mr. Lincoln's Cabinet. Such ordeals "try men's souls." The life of the nation was in the issue. It was saved as "a brand from the burning." The struggle bound Messrs. Stanton and Seward together with "hooks of steel." During the five or six weeks that Mr. Stan ton was trying to preserve the capital, though in jeonstant communication through a trusty thirdparty, Messrs. Stanton and Seward never Met. When the danger was over, and the day of rejoicing came, Mr. Stanton supped with Mr. Seward. I was present, meeting Mr. Stan ton then for the first time. Confidence had been established between these eminent men while engaged as counsel many years ago, in an important and protracted trial, in Michi an, I believe. But it was then and there that I learned how large a debt of gratitude we owed to Edwin 11. Stanton before the rebellion broke out. And how immensely has that debt been aug mented by his three years of indomitable in dustry, inflexible integrity, high courage, and deviated patriotism, in the War Department? With a war Secretary, deficient in any of these great qualities, our trials, always serious, wouldhave become perilous indeed. But with a man at the head of the War Department whose courage and capacity rose with and triumphed over every disaster, all was safe. Yet, with a personal knowledge of the utter falsehood of his charges, Montgomery Blair, who was a "common scold" in the Cabinet, and a political nuisance everywhere, is en gagedin traducing, or endeavoring to traduce, Secretary Stanton. Of Secretary Seward, Mr. Blair says "Mr. Seward, it accrue, made no direct reply to a letter of Judge Campbell, referring to the pledges he communicated from him to the - Confederate commissioners, and stating to him that the pledge to evacuate Fort Sumpter is less forcible than the words you employed. These words were, Wore this letter reaches you, (a pro posed letter by me to President Davis,) SUMPTER WILL HAVE. BEEN EVACUATED.' Mr. Seward did, however, in an authorized statement made in the Albany Evening Journal, by Mr. Tharlow Weed, admit that he,' Governor Seward, con versed freely with Judge Campbell; .we do not deny, nor do we doubt, that in these conversations, at one period, he intimated that End Sumpter would be evacuated. He certainly believed so, founding his opinion on his knowledge of General iSeotts recommendation.: Mr. Seward has endured, as is his habit, much of misapprehension and obloquy in Te foPeneo to this queStiOn, without reply. I shall content myself now with Baying, that a few days will entirely clear away the mists which have rendered it obscure, placing the responsibility, with the reasons for his action, here it belongs. In allusion to Mr. Blair's unfounded slan der, that Governor Seward "played_ for and against the Union,:? Colonel Forney, nowing how much friendship the ex-Postmaster Gene ral professed for Governor Seward, remarks that he "does notknow when he took offence l" 1 can give the information. He "took offence" when give lawyer,". as Colonel Forney calls Mr. Blair was not appointed. Chief Jun- Lice. Mr. Blair says that Mr. Seward could have made him Chief Justice, but did not, and hence these false assertions, and hence, these tirades of personal abuse. T. W. isTATE ITEMS. The Mayor of Harrisburg has vetoed the ordinance lately passed by Councils of that city, allowing intoxicating liquors to be sold between the hours of 11 o'clock P. M. and 4 A. M. He thinks there " should be an intermis sion to drinking as well as to labor.” The railroad accidents in this State con tinue with exemplary regularity. Last week live people—four men and a woman—were killed at as many different, places. This is hardly sufficient to keep up the excitement. The Doylestown Democrat calls attention to the fact. that some of its exchanges misprint the name of our candidate for Auditor Gene ral. They have it W. D. H. Davis. The name of our candidate is William W. H. Davis. Pottsville is said to be the richest town of its size in Pennsylvania. Nearly six hundred persons pay taxes on more or less incomes in excess of six hundred dollars. .—Nearly all of the soldiers at Harrisburg have been paid and finally-mustered out, and Camp Curtin is again comparatively deserted. The period Axed by law for the shoot ing of squirrels begins on the first of Septem. ber and closes on the last day of December. A - piece of the tree under which Vicksburg was surrendered to Gen. Grant has been re ceived at Erie. General Morgan, the Copperhead candi date for Governor of Ohio, was born in Penn- aylrania. The German Shooting Club of Lancaster will hold a festival, at their grounds on the Conestoga, on the 2.d of October. The Adams County Agricultural Society fair will be held this year at Bendersville, on the lath, 20th, and Slat of the present month. The Sherry it Harrison theatrical troupe are performing at York. ELOME ITEMS. —At Newmarket (N. IL) is a tree wh