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Irrmi business in Greene, Washington, and Fay ette Counties, entrusted to them, will receive prompt attention, Sept. 11, ISOt—ly. hi. LINDSEY. J. A. J. BUCHAN•N. LINDSEY & BUCHANAN, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, Waynesburg, Pa. Office or he North side of Main street, two doors West oftn .- Republic:a' Office. Sept. 11, 1661. IL W. DOWNEY, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. office in Led ,pith's Building, opposite the Court House. Sept. 11, DAVID CRAWFORD, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Office in Sayers' Building, adjoining the Post Office. dept. 11, 16111-Iy. A. OLACK. JOHN PHELAN. BLACK & PHELAN, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AI LAW Office in the Court House, Waynesburg. Sept. 11,1861-Iy. PS TSIOIANS DR. D. W. BRADEN, Physician and Surgeon. Office in the Old Hank Ilruilding, Main street. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. DRUGS DR. W. 1.. CREIGH, Phyitolan and Surgeon, And dealer in Drugs, Medicines, Oils, ('amts, &C Lc., Main street; a few doors east of the Bank. Sept. 11, 1661-Iy, M. A. HARVEY, Druggist and Apothecary, and dealer in Paiute and oils, the most celebrated Patent Ntediciiies, and Pure Liquors for medicinal purposes. Sept. 11, 1861—ty 111"BaosAwrs. 'WM. A. PORTER, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Foreign and Domes -1:10 Dry Goods, Groceries, Notions, &c., Main street. Sept. 11, 1861—ly. GEO. HOSKINSON, Opposite the Court House, keeps always on hand a large stock of Seasonable Dry Goods, Groceries, Voote and Shoes, and Notions generally. Sept. ii, ANDREW WILSON, Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Drugs, Notions, Mardware, Queensware, Stoneware, Looking Gltuses, Iron and Nails, Boots and Shoes, flats and Caps, Main street, pee door east of the Old Bank. Sept. ii, A. WILSON, Jr., Dealer in Dry Goods, Queensware, Notions, Date, Caps, !Sonnets, &c., Wilson's New Building, Main street. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. R. CLARK, Dealer in Dry 000118, Groceries, Hardware, Queens ware and notions, one dour we.t of the Adams House, Main street. Sept. 11, ISC,I-Iy. MINOR & CO., Denleis in Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods, Gro ceries, Queensware, Hardware and Notions, opposite ins Green House. Main street. Sept. 11, 1881-Iy, CLOTHING N. CLARK, Dealer in Men and Roy's Clothing, Cloths, easel - meres, Satinets, Hats and Caps, &c., Main street, op. posite the Court House. Sept. 11, A. J. SOWERS, Dealer in Men and Boy's Clothing, Gentletnen • ■ Fur nishing Goods, Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps, Old Bank Building, Main street. Sept. 11, 1861-4 m BOOT AND SHOE DEALERS. J. P. COSGRAY, Boot and Shoe maker, Main street, nearly opposite the "Farater's and Drover's Bank." Every style of Boots and Shoes constantly on hand or made to order. Sept. 11, J. B. RICKEY, Boot and Shoe maker, Mayors Corner, Main street. Soots and Shoes of every variety always on hand or Diode to order on abort notice. Sept. 11, 11361-Iy. GROCERIES & VARIETIES. JOSEPH YATER, Dealer in Groce.ies and Confectioneries. Notions, Medicines, Perfumeries, Liverpool Ware, &c., Glass of $ll sizes, and Gilt Moulding and Looking Glass Plates. Cash paid for good eating App!es. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. JOHN MUNNELL, Realer in Groceries and Confertinnaries, and Variety Woods Generally, Wilson's Ncw Building, Main street. Sept. It, 18111..—1 y. BOOKS. &c. LEWIS DAY, Dealer in School and Miscellaneous Books, Station ery, Ink, Magazines and Papers, Wilson's Old Build sitg, Main street. Sept. 11, IS6I-Iy. BANK.. FAMERS' & DROVERS' BANK, Waynesburg. Pa. ASSN BOOK, Pre 't• J. LAZEAR, Cashier. DISCOUNT DAY. WEDNESDAY , U, kill—ly. rpn.)!)•,4_,.‘11 SAMUEL M'ALLISTER, goads, Hernia• and Trunk Maker, Main street, three 4pors west of the Adams House. - • IL 1861-1 . TOIBACOONTErriI **OPER & HAGER, Whelesale sad retail .deiallei . SnatilhellieDlWO4 Pipet, &e., Ming, Mai* *NW ore. 110661-Iy. putrg. FEVER, A cup of water, Nora, What ? do you call this cool I It is like they used to give us In summer days at schoo Well, well, good soul no matter-- It is all the same to me ; liaise the window just a little— I can hardly breathe, you see, It is the waltz of Weber That the musicians play, For fairest feet to dance by Over the way. You need not light the candle. But draw the stand to me, so That I can easily reach it— No, the tire is not too low, Ah ! I cannot eat ! to-morrow If the doctor thinks it best ; Must you leave me now I Good night, then— Oh that my brain could rest ! still the waltz of \Veber That the musicians play, For merriest hearts to dance by Over the way. How strange are-the shadows, flitting Around the dusky wall, But the tire in my heart grows strunger, And ghostlier than them all. Is that the town clock striking 1 I think that it is to-night My fever will reach its crisis— There are long hours yet till light. Delicate cooling ices Are plenty this night in May, For little red lips to toy with Over the way. I wonder if she loves me In her pride, and I so poor Yet I pour my life for her— Was that a step at the doorl itsis only the night wind rising With the waning moon. Alt, me! I wish 1 could see it glimmer Through the dear old locust tree Drooped are the shadowy eyelids, And low are the words they say, As the whispering waltzers pass them Over the way. Mother, at home, come, bless me ! Can you sleep when your boy's in pain Longs so for the touch of your lingers To cool his feverish brain Sing me to rest with the murmur Of your hymn, with its linly tune ; In my broken dreams I heard it Through the long, long afternoon. Again the waltz of Weber Sets heart and feet at play, Whirling and thrilling and throbbing Over the way. I cannot bear much longer— I've great, great work to do ; Wealth I must win for the dear ones— Fame ! How I wish I knew ! Perhaps, perhaps she would love ma, If she could but see the star That will one day shine above mo ! Ah, me ! 'tis so very far ! The soft, white cheek is flushing— Is it often so hot in May Talk they only party gossip Over the way. Quiet and gray was the gleaming That brightened upon the wall t For the merciful day was breaking, And the bi rda began to call ; But a face was changed in the shadows Of the early, lonesome dawn; And a pules had ceased its throbbing, And the fever all was gone. But hushed was the waits of Weber And weary, that dawn in May, The hearts and feet that danced so Over the way. grEttrt atstittattg. A Touching Appeal for the Union by a Great and Good Friend. WASHINGTON, Sept, 8 The Russian minister, Mr. Do Stoeckl, had an audience of the Pres ident on Saturday, and read to him the following despatch : [TRANSLATION,] ST. PETERSBURG, July 10. Mr. De Stoeckl, &c., &c.,: " SIR: From the beginning of the conflict which divides the United States of America, you have been de sired to make known to the Federal Government the deep interest with which our august master was observ ing the development of a crisis which puts in question the prosperity and even the existence of the Union.— The Emperor profoundly regrets to see that the hope of a peaceful solu tion is not realized, and that Ameri can citizens already in arms are ready to let loose upon the country the most formidable of the scourges of political society—a civil war. For the more than eighty years that it has existed the American Union owes its inde pendence, its towering rise and its progress, to the concord of its mem bers, consecrated, under the auspices of its illustrious founder, by institu tions which have been able to recon cile the Union with liberty. This Union has been faithful. It has ex hibited to the world the spectacle of a prosperity without example in the annals of history. It would be deplo rable that, after so conclusive an ex cience, the United States should be ried into a breach of .th 6" *IOW eparipact which, up to9lLaallif **de their power. fitro WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1861. versity of their constitutions and of their interests, and perhaps even be cause of. this diversity, Providence seems to urge them to draw closer the traditional cord which is the basis of the very condition of their political existence. In any event, the sacri fice, which they might impose upon themselves to maintain it are beyond comparison with those which dissolu tion would bring after it. Until they perfect themselves, isolated they are paralized. The struggle which unhappily has just arisen can neither be indefinitely prolonged, nor lead to the total des truction of one of the parties. Soon er or later it will be necessary to come to some settlement, whatsoever it maybe, which may cause the diver gent interests now actually in con flict to co-exist. The American na tion would then give a proof of high political wisdom in seeking in com mon such settlement beibre a useless effusion of blood, a barren squander ing of strength and of public riches, and acts of violence and reciprocal reprisals shall have come to deepen an abyss between the two parties of the confederation, to end, definitely, in their mutual exhaustion, and in the ruin, perhaps irreparable, of their commercial and political power. Our august master cannot resign himself to admit such deplorable an ticipations. His Imperial Majesty still places his confidence iu that practical g,(7)(1 sense of the citizens ofthe Union who appreciate so judiciously their true in terests. His Majesty is happy to be lieve that the members of the Feder al Government and the influential men of two parties will seize all oc casions, and will unite all their efforts to calm the effervescence of the pas sions. There are no interests so di vergent that it may not be pos sible to reconcile them by labor ing to that end with zeal and perse verance, in a spirit of justice and moderation. If, within the limits of your friend ly relations, your language and your councils mat- contribute to this re sult, you will respond, sir, to the in tentions of his Majesty the Emperor, in devoting to this the personal influ ence which you may have been able to acquire during your long residence at Washington and the consideration which belongs to your character, as the representative of a sovereign an imated by the most friendly senti ments towards the American Union. This Union is not simply, in our eyes. an elegant essential to the universal political equilibrium ; it constitutes besides a nation to which our august master and all Russia have pledged the most friendly interest; for the two countries, placed at the extrem ities of the two worlds, both in the ascending period of development, ap pear called to a natural community of interests and of sympathies, of which they have already given mu tual proofs to each other. I do not wish here to approach any of the questions which divide the United States. We are not called upon to express ourselves in this contest.— The preceding considerations have no other object than to attest the lively solicitude of the Emperor in the presence ()f the dangers which menace the American Union, and the sincere wishes which his Majesty en tertains for the maintainance of that great work so laboriously raised, and which appeared so rich in its future. It is in this sense, sir, that I desire you to express yourself as well to the members of the general Govern ment as to the influential persons whom you may meet, giving them the assurance that in every event the. American nation may count upon the most cordial sympathy upon the part of our august master, during the im portant crisis which it is passing through at present. Receive, sir, the expression of my very deep consideration. [Signed,] "GORTSCHAKOFF." Colonel John A. Washington, Who was killed at Cheat Mountain, had five large landed estates in Vir ginia,—three in Jefferson county near Charlestown, one in Fauquier county of one thousand acres, undone thousand and seventy-five acres left at Mt. Vernon, after the ladies had se lected their two hundred. The New York papers have confounded Colonel John A. Washington with Colonel Lewis Washington, of Belleview, near Harper's Ferry. It was the latter upon whom John Brown made his at tack. A Washington friend of the former, receiving much good treat ment from Colonel John Al Washing ton, denies that he was at heart a secessionist, and desires to say thus much in justice to his five little chil dren, now entirely orphans, their mother having fell dead, about a year since, in the excitement of welcoming her husband home, on his arrival at Faquier from Mount Vernon. The war sword of General Washington is in the United States Patent Office, with his regimentals. His dress sword is at Fauquier, the property of John Augustus Washington. An or dinary sword is with Col. Lewis Washington, near Harper's Ferry.. Arne American Risress took through Onetime", lindist, nine tons 0' army , 49 1 1,184ng lb? A Story of General McClellan. The Washington correspondent of James Jackson, of North Alabama, the Philadelphia Inquirer tells this well known in New Orleans, particu larly to the turfites thereabouts, nzitvol story of General McClellan. It may „red as a private, and joined the be true: 4th Alabama regiment, which suffer- "General McClellan is in the habit of riding around occasionally in citi zen's dress, accompanied by a few of his staff. A few days ago he was walking through one of the encamp ments, across the Potomac, and pass ing the rear of the tents he saw a bucket of coffee standing near a fire. lie asked what it was, and one of the soldies said "coffee." "It looks more like slop," he replied. "Oh," said the soldier, "it is not fit to drink, but we have to pat up with it, and our other food is not a bit better." "Oh, our Quartermaster is drunk most of the time, and when he is not lie is study ing how to cheat." McClellan pass ed on, and seeing more evidence of the dirty and slovenly manner in which the Quartermaster continued his operations in his tent., he accos ted him with the remark that the men were complaining of bad treat-merit from him. The Quartermaster flew into a passion, and it was none of his business, and he had bette rnot come sneaking around trying to make mis chief. McClellan answered him, tell ing him he had better be cautious how h e talked. Quartermaster replied, "who are you, that you assume so much apparent authority?" -I am Gee. B. McClellan, and you can pack up your traps and leave!" The Quar termaster was struck dumb, and Mc- Clellan turned and left him. That evening the Quartermaster left to the a Rogue's March," played by some of the boys who had got wind of it. They now have _a Quartermaster who does not get "dru»k" and that regi ment would risk their lives at the can non's mouth for the man who does care how the men are provided for. ''The story has been circulated around some of the camps, and the officers are now always on the look out for the General, and of course do not have too much lying around loose. so "" More Fighting with Lee--Reynolds Holds his own--Another Skirmish, &c. A special dispatch to the Cincin nati "Gazette," dated Carnifex Ferry, 1-ith, states that Gen. Lee resumed the attack along our whole line at Cheat Mountain the day before. Af ter a long contest, Gen. Reynolds fairly repulsed him, with considera ble rebel loss, and little or no loss on our side, owing to the fact that our troops fought behind entrenchments. Lee has manifestly a large force, but is alarmed lest Roseerans should come up in his rear. We presume the following from Elkwater are more detailed accounts of the affairs in the neighborhood of Cheat Moun tain : On the P2th a detachment of three hundred men, from the Four teenth Indiana and Twenty-fourth arid Twenty-fifth Ohio Regiments, dispersed three Tennessee regiments. under Gen. Anderson, on the west side of Cheat Mountain, completely routing them, killing eighty and ob taining most of their equipments.— Our loss was eight killed. The enemy made an advance on Elkwater the same day, with a force, it is supposed, of fifteen thousand men, but were driven back by de tachments of men from the Fifteenth Indiana and Third and Sixth Ohio Regiments, and shells from Loomis' battery. They have retired some eight or ten miles. A strong force of Arkansas, Tennessee and Virgin ia troops also threatened the east side of Cheat Mountain, but have not had a general engagement.— A shell thrown from one of Loomis' guns, two miles into the enemy's camp, killed ten and wounded four.— The Thirteenth Indiana had a severe skirmish with superior numbers of the enemy on the 12th, and killed ten or twelve, with trifling loss. As the enemy advaced ou Elkwater,ithe col umn was handsomly checked by a detachment of the Indiana Seven teenth. Lieutenant Morril, of the Topographical Engineers, was taken prisoner by the rebels while ou his way to Cheat Mountain. Cool Reception of Com. Barron. His officers; descended to the deck of the flag ship Minnesota, where Commodore Stringham was stationed on the quarter deck to receive him, Gen. Butler presented Barron to the gallant old Commodore, saying, "Commodore Barron! Commodore Stringham." The later raised him self up to his full height, looking the traitor straight in the eye, and barely inclining his head, replied, "I have seen Mr. Barron before." Bar ron, who has always prided himself on the hauteur monde, fairly winced under the whole volume of sarcasm contained in that look and sentence. When the first salutations were made between the United States officers and Commodore Barron, ho asked "how many were killed on the fleet?" The answer was "None."— "How many were wounded ?" "None," was the - reply.. "Why," he exclaimed, "you astonish me. I thought that to capture these forte it would cost a thousand lives, and it wgyldbe clasp at that." 114.40 4.POr °l* I — Far ig i r Russia are &Vont to the men. Secession Anecdote, ed so severely on the 21st. On the first charge of that gallant regiment Jackson was shot through the lungs and when the regiment was pressed back he was left among the killed and wounded. Shortly after, a Yankee approached him and said ?" "Friend, you appear to be badly wounded; what can I do for you!— Jackson replied, "Some water, for Uod's sake." The Yankee in giving him the water, noticed a fine fob chain hooked in his vest, and said "Young man, _I see you cannot sur vive, give we your watch and I will send it to your mother." Jim look ed at him askant, and said, "Horse, that game is played out; I know you will take the watch from me and I want to make a trade with you. If you will place me in the shade and fill my canteen with water I will give you the watch." The trade was struck in a minute and after placing Jim in the shade and filling his canteen until it gurgled over, Jim told him to unhook her and draw her out ; and before he left said to him that if he evermade a match race and wished to know the speed of his horse, to time him with that watch. fur he had given $285 for it at Liver pool, and there never was a better one turned out from the manufactory. Jim is getting well, having laid un til Monday about 10 o,clock before he was found. and declared that his watch trade was the best trade he had ever made since he arrived at man's estate. ijitaz of ttt Pats. Battle at Lexington, Mo.--Price's Forces Repulsed with Great Loss. JErrEasoN, Mo., September 18.— Two couriers have just arrived from Lexington. The following inteli genee is believed by the commanding officer here to be in the main reliable: General Price commenced the attack on the entrenchments at Lexington, commanded by Colonel Mulligan, on Monday. The fight was very severe. lday long Price assaulted the works but was repulsed with severe loss.— The fight was renewed on Tuesday morning, but feebly sustained.— When the couriersTleft, Gen. Lane was at Johnstown, Bates county, with a force of from two to three thousand men, marching to the relief of Lex ington. The rebel loss -on Monday is reported at four thousand, and that of the the Federal troops at eight hundred, which is probably exagger ated. JEFFERSON CITY, Sept. 18.—Monday afternoon Gen. Price sent word to Col. Mulligan, at Lexington, again demanding a surrender. Gen Mulli gan's reply wsa a decided refusal. An attach was immediately made by first opening with artillery, and then made advance under its cannon on the town. Price was repulsed with a heavy loss. General Lane with an estima ted force of five thousand Kansas troops is reported to be within forty miles of Lexington, rapidly advanc ing to reinforce Col. Mulligan. Our federal troops are rapidly moving forward from St. Joseph and other points to reinforce Col. Mulligan.— The Bth, 22d, 24th and 25th Indiana regiments have gone, via steamer, to Lexington. Also, the forces sent from St. Louis on the steamers Des moines and White Cloud. Those re inforcements number about 6,009 ef tbetive troops, and will reach Lexing ton to-morrow morning, the 19th.— Every confidence is felt here that Colonel Mulligan will be able to hold Lexington until reinforcements ar rive. The Osage bridge, eleven miles from here, on the Pacific Railroad, is said to be the first point threatened by \lcCulloch's forces, now believed to be advancing rapidly from the Ssuthwest. Price at Lexington 7 Movemente of MoCul- loch. JEFFERSON CITY, Sept. 18.—The correspondent of the St. Louis "Dem ocrat" says: we have no definite re ports from Lexington, but it is cer tain that that place is invested by Gen. Price with some fifteen thou sand rebel troops. Good military au thority here however arc confident that the United States troops have been reinforced, and that unless the place was take yesterday, it is safe. Price is reported to have a large park of artillery, part of which are the guns taken from Gen. Siegel's bat tery at the battle of Springfield. A part of Price's force is reported to be forty miles from this city. His scouts have been seen fifteen miles from here. Ben McCulloch, with eighteen thou sand well armed rebels, is reported to be advancing rapidly from the South west, in the direction of either Rolla or this city. Many think this will be the point of attack. Another object of his march is said to be to get be tween our troops at Rolla and other points and prevent junctions, while Price is operating against Lexing ton and the capital, and if these plans are successful, then farm a jupction with Price. • trim COrropmArmts. For the Messenger. Who are Secessionists and Traitors? When our national difficulties first as sumed a warlike attitude, by the outrage upon Fort Sumter, many of the Republi can presses and politicians indulged in the most insolent and insulting language to ward the Democracy; and they have con tinued it until the present day. In many localities, all Democrats are denounced as secessionists and traitors, and the most inso lent threats of personal violence are made against any man who dares reiterate his attachment to, and confidence in, the long tried principles and policy of the Nation al Democracy. It is not enough, that Democrats should rush by thousands and hundreds of thousands to the standard of the Government, in its efforts to put down rebellion—they must go further, and en dorse the madness and folly of that sectional ism, which has brought all this great trouble upon our once happy country. It is not enough that Democrats should raise their voices in the forum, and bear their breasts upon the battle field in support of the Constitution and Laws; but they must go thrther, and cease all opposition to the rot ten and profligate administration of Gov ernor Curtin, and all that selfish sectional ism .that mould let the Union slide rather than preserve it in the spirit in which our fathers made it. This, I say, has been the insolent and arbitrary course of Re publicanism. Their press and politicians freely denounce Democrats as secessionists and traitors, and even threaten to hang, without judge or jury, the most quiet and ' i , law-abiding citizens, merely on suspicion of disloyalty, not to the Union and Con stitution, but to the pernicious dogmas of the Republican party. Where is the Dem ocrat who is not for the Union and the Constitution? These have been our watch words ever since the rise of sectional abo litionism in the North. Love to the Union and Constitution lives in every true Dem ocratic heart, and each one bears upon his breast the noble sentiment of our immor tal chief, who declared "the Union must and shall be preserved." And yet we are de nounced as secessionists and traitors, because we will not fraternize with a party whose greatest leaders have openly advocated a dissolution of the Union. I do not 'say that all Republicans talk and act in this way. Thank God, I am permitted to know to the contrary. There are members ' of that party who frankly admit that the Democracy have always been a National Union party—they admit, too, that in all the great political contests of past years, the Democracy have been most con stant in warning the country against the inevitable consequences of Northern section alism—that, it must beget sectionalism in the South, and eventuate in bloody civil Nvar, it' not the ultimate destruction of the Union. They admit; that during the late Presidential campaign, even in Greene county, the Democratic press and speakers strongly urged the danger of electing a sectional candidate to the presidency, and predicted that civil war must be the con sequence. They admit that when these warnings were urged upon the people, the Republican leaders scoffed at, and ridicul ed them, declaring that we could not kick the Southern States out of the Union. They admit that thus far things have transpired just as they had been predicted by the Democ racy of the North. It is but comparatively few of the Re publicans, however, who will make these honest admissions, and they are not of the politicians or office hunters, but of that honest, patriotic class of the party, who think more of the peace and prosperity of the country than of the Chicago platform or the emoluments of office. The larger body of that party deny this measure of justice to the Democracy. They constant ly hurl the charge of disunionists and traitors at us because we put forth every effort to prevent civil war, by means of a fair and honorable compromise qf all matters in dispute between the two sections of the country. The very men who have heretofore denounced the Constitution as a "Covenant with death and a league with hell," and boldly advo cated a dissolution of the Union, are now stigmatizing n:= traitors and soyssionists those who have ever been National Union men. The very men who advised the Mex icans to "welcome our gallant soldiers with bloody hands to hospitable graves," are now occupying high places under the pres ent administration, and are crying out traitors or secessionists against all who dare question the policy or conduct of the war, or who denounce the stupendous robberies committed upon the Government and army by the remorseless vampires that are put in position to feed upon their vitals. It is true, that the Democratic party, during the last session of Congress, labor ed with heart and soul to effect a peaceful compromise between the North and the South. It is true that they offered awl voted for repeated propositions, submitting tke queetiosu ix. dispsds test direct vete of the people; but the Republicans were in the NEW SERIES.--VOL. 3, NO. 16. majority, and in every instance voted down all such propositions—they would not trust the people • with a matter of such vital im portance to the country. It is true that the Democracy have always been in favor of giving to the South, as . well as to the North, all the rights which each section can justly claim under a common Consti tution, and to neither a whit more. It is true that while we were in favor of requir ing the South to live up to the letter and spirit of the Constitution and Laws, we were in favor of wiping from the Statute Books of the Northern States, all Legisla tive acts in conflict with, or contrav(, ; ng the same Constitution and Laws. It is true that when the Southern rebels attempted to coerce the Federal Government into terms and to rob it of its property, every Democrat in the North, with the lamented and immortal Douglas in the lead, was ready to fly to the support of President Lincoln and his administration, to assist in putting down the insurrection and in vindicating the honor and power of the Government. Democrats did not stop to ask how this war had been brought about —whose fault it was, or who had the con trol of the Government. It was :enough for them to know that the Constitution and the Union were in danger—that the Stars and Stripes bad been assailed, and they leaped to the defence. Yet in the face of all these facts—these undeniable, indis diutable facts—the Democracy are charged with being secessionists and traitors, and are impudently asked, in many instances, to reiterate, by oath or affirmation, their loy alty to the Union. In our own District the Democratic press was threatened with mob violence, because it made the distinc tion between sustaining the Government and endorsing Black Republicanism. Even in our own county such threats were made. Now, if any man, whether Democrat or Republican, be guilty of treason, we say let him suffer the penalty according to the Lou's —but let no man, or set of men, presume to take the law into their own hands, and to deal out its penalties as they may judge proper. The Constitution itself plainly de fines what treason is, while Congress has declared death to be its penalty. No man can be legally convicted of treason, except by ft fair and impartial jury of his coun trymen. It follows, therefore, that the man who has been urging mob violence against Democrats or others, has been set ting the Constitution and Laws at defi ance, and is morally guilty of treason to the Government and Laws. Now this is all wrong. We are engaged in one of the most bitter and bloody--as it will prove one of the most eventful—wars in the his tory of the world. It is all important that we should be harmonious and united in the prosecution of this war. So far as a hearty and vigorous support of the Government, in all its Constitutional efforts to put down the great rebellion -is concerned, we should know no party distinctions. Democrats and Republicans must stand side by side and shoulder to shoulder in support of the Government—reserving the right at all 'times to criticise fully and freely the offi cial conduct of all our public servants, both great and small, This is a right the Con stitution guarantees to us, and to destroy or abridge that right is as flitch a viola tion of the Constitution as secession itself, and would soon lead to inevitable despo tism. When that Constitution fails to protect us in the rights and privileges it assumes to guarantee, it is no longer worth our effort to save it. Whenever it is made the pretest for mob violence and galling wrongs upon a portion of the people, it is worse than anarchy. But to maintain and preserve this Constitut,on—the great char ter of our liberties—in its letter and spirit, in its intent and purpose,—should he the first object of all good citizens ; and to do this all men, of all parties, must be equal ly amenable to its provisions—the subjects of its protection, or the victims of its In conclusion, therefore, I would advise all men, whether Republicans or Demo crats, to stand together as one man in support of the Union and the Constitution —uphold the Government and Laws—and then when you go to the polls, be sure to vote for that party and that policy which you religiously believe will the soonest restore the Union, and bring peace, prosperity and happiness to the country. JUSTICE. iiiirThe announcement that the greater portion of the second Benton aneies still vacant in the new regular regiments will be filled by the promo tion of deserving non-commissioned officers and soldiers, appears to have produced a good effect upon the r g ulars in and around Washnigtoii, judging by the letters received from some of them who are working hard. to entitle themselves to a commis sion. SUFFOCATED.-A Toronto lady, on Sunday night last, in extinguishing a gas light, turned the stop cock entire ly round, and was found dead on the floor of the apartment ne was delicate health, and in -consequence was probably very quickly overcome by the escaped gas.
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