merely to occupy the troops during the prep arations for the Iteninsula campaign, then fully decided upon. The enemy's force, at Manassas was estimated at 11011190.0 nfield gnus and dOO siege ipUts. las • 714 1:i . (2 _ 411 , 1 4 1 0 1 14 iarisenin4a wb 85, 1 lA' elleallrettnirly In April.Aleigek his ' ;' son for not assaulting the wo aat Yo - town., describes the battle at Williamsburg, with special praise of General Hancock, and Rata' iiiiria4beerti) Richmond... The siege'.f - that city is narrated at length, and thrri ge of it,tritit Its attendant bat lifechaifi . • , tko d ian es e, toned Jude 26th, to Um n „ . a !:9 1 fonOt July 44362. "This Says Gen. McClellan, "the hard IliOng 011001 h 4 coed fe o pftbo l ift er _ noon of the 26th of June, in a series of en efetbritlinwhdfirtinpittilleled on this COD* -,tipm s ,:k_liptlinairopon and slaughter on hell — sitlei." July 4th the General telegraph- edhe thii Presidenitthat heefttmied, at Hurl lertitar,lreditionn "which could be tarried 01, 4 4-aareiwireinfing 'numbers." "The spirit of the army," he added; "is excellent; *Veen are finding their regiments, and the "sokbass.exhibit the best results of dis c:Vine." He sums up the results of the brief but flare wimpaign .., "I cannot now approximate to any statement of our losses ; but we were not beaten in any conflict. The enemy were unable, by their utmost efforts, to drive us from the field. * * * We Zee lest so guns except twenty-five on the field of battle, twenty-one of which were lost by the giving away of McOall's divis kat, under t 4 onset of superior numbers.— When alb the circumstances of the case aro known, it will be acknowledged by all com petent Judges that the movement lust eom !Med by our army is unparalleled in the an nals of war. Under the most difficult cir cumstances we have preserved our trains, oar guns, our material, and above all our honor." To this the President replied : "Be assured the heroism and skill of yourself, of ficers and men is, and forever will be, appre- C 1 If you can hold your present posi ,ts4_,_ • don we shall hive the enemy yet." On the 7th Gen. McClellan telegraphed : "If not at tacted to-day, I shall laugh at them. Flag- Officer Goldsboro is confident lie can keep orien my communication by the James."— g4pecting an attack, he says, as a necessity to the enemy, and feeling the critical na ture of the position, Gen. McClellan on the the seine day addressed to the President the following letter : IIgADQOANTERS ANDY' Or rite FOTONAC, CCM mu* HARNISON'S LANDING, VA.; hiondae, July 7, 1862. *P T ferftPant: — Ygu. have been folly in fettled thrit the rebel army 'is in our front, with . she paaperteef overwhelming 118 by at tag eme positions or reducing us by block n ear river communications. I cehnot but wurpissition as critical, and I earnestly ireview of possible contingencies to taft t rare your txcellency, for your praate esiidbrailen, my general views concerning alts. Waling state of the rebellion, although they Ito not strictly relate to the situation of theariny, or strictly to me within the scope of tray .alliiial eludes. These views amount to el o ri t : a ions,„,mol. are deeply impressed on mind hart. " 'Vet cause must. never be aban .4trthe cane elites institutions and ettlt A lleverhinens. T4te Constitution and Union must bepreserved, whatever may be the cost is dime, tristite and blood. If secession is auenesstel, ether-elistailations are clearly to be seen in the fiittire. Lot neither military disas ter, political' lketlettr, nor foreign war, shake eltatwitttledrows to enforce the equal opera • d em of th e . aws of .he United States upon the people' of el* state. The time has come Warta 4diteratiteitt. utast determine Upon k cix emi t p olicy egyering the whole =0 inn nati onal trouble. The respon• itlieheemining, declaring and support injured& civil . end militerY popsy, and of di renfinglite whole course of national affairs in ragouts-sberebefite . must now be assumed a lliTi ci t wi by t ' sritlltier li gi o lf r ett °U y r ou cause powe w r il s l u i flic l i o e s n 4 t even fee the present terrible exigence. This reaellialkitas esteemed the character of war : as such it should be , regarded, and it should be conducted tipoh the highest principles known to Christian cwilisatioa. it should not be a rar looking to the subjugation of the people of any State on any event. It should not be at all iMit apes pepalation, -inn against armed for cos gad political organization. Neither confis cation of property, political executions of per sons; territorial orgattiotticms of States, or forcible abolition of slavery should be contem plated for a-moment. In prosecuting the war alt private ptoperty and unarmed persons amok/ be strictly ntoute.ted, subject only to the tiecessity of military operetion. All private property taken for milita?y like should be paid or recetpted for, pillage mil haste should be treated as high crimes, all melees: awl trespass aternly . prelffbited, and offensive demeanor by the orduary rdwatd citisens promptly rebuked. Military arrests should not be tolerated except in places where active hostilities exist, and oaths not required by enactments constitution eV matte shook be ueitjier dcmate).o nor re ceived. Idijpary go,yernment shoelel be con fined to the preservation of public order and the protection of political rights. Military power [should no: be allowed to interfere with the relation% of servitude, either by supporting of impairing the authority of the master, Ex egpt far repress ng disorder, as in other cases. Slaws contraband under the act of Congress, seeking military protection, should receive it. The sight of the Government to appropriate permateentl,y to its own purpose claims of slave. labor should be asserted, and the right of the ow ee t re to compeissation therein' should be re cogniatal. , This prieeiple might be extended upon grounds of military necessity and securi ty to ad the slaves within a particular State, dins woek'ng manumission in such State; and in'ttlissburi, perhaps in Western Virginia, al e*, and peon* even in Maryland, the expe diency of. Stich a meesure is gni) , a question of time. A system of yielicy thus constitutional and conservative, and pervaded by the influen ces of Christianity and freedom. would receiye the support of almost all truly loyal mail ' would deeply impress the rebel masses and all it:trete nations, and it might be humbly hoped that it would commend Itself to the favor of the Almighty. Unless the principles govern gel the future conduct of our struggle shall be made known and approved, the effort to obtain requisite forces will be almost hopeless. A dettiaretion of radical views, especially upctu I sjamery, will rapidly disintegrate our present armies. The policy of the Government must he supported by concentrations of , military peweg. The national forces should not be dis erseld in expeditions, posts of occupation ttod etelherons armies; but should be mainly eel lertesi fate masses and brought to bear upon the amies of the Confederate States. Those dioieughl y defeated, the political strut:- parts which the/ eepport would soon cease to riot. cavyjn,, ,, out any system of policy w let - you malt Torre, you will require as Costrawelef•in-Chitit of the army one who pettmesses your confidence, understands your views, and who is competent ieexecute your orders by direeting the military forces of the nation to the accomplishment of the objects by you proposed. I do not ask that place for Oxatelf.l em willing to rrrve you in such peteakeertm you may assign me, and will do so its faitefelly AS ever subordinate serves' superi or .i'S Amy be on the brink of eternity, and as I Asper sllfgitieuess from my Maker, I have writtens letter with sincerity toward you tr P° frein 16 ' 4. to mY "tun B. 141cCLELLAN. falimeed] GF.. y. .0. Agile iia Aueses), t army was ordered to Aerie. , The emoditacti cf./attics at Wash hrgliWAiliwinuthe cionpaign of Pope, is 8411 11 1 1611 P oleseremoi, Sept. ItAllintPresWeat ateltalleik VisCideilas= mo d . -• of effNi obis and Gen. Pope's ammo ? and find the'enenty. On the 17th of September, 4- dot= was fought, South Mountain and Orampton's dap having been won already by us. Not a single gun of color was lost in Artotinoss In ails at by Geniis,' MgelleMan at 12,489. Thaz :Aim into Virginia • a eftniint* *Maisel, with en account of the digester by which that advance was delayed. On thvnight of November 7th, Gen. Mc- Clellan was relieved, and the command transferred to Gen. Burnside. Gen. Mc- Clellan thus describes his own report : "This liepoit* fad tin 3 history of the army of the Potomac. Daring the, period occupied in the organization of that army it served as a barrier against the advance of a lately vic torious enemy, while the fortification of the Capital was in progress, and under the pat. ronage which it then received. It acqnired strength, education, and some of that exper ience which is necessary to suceess in active operations, and which enabled it afterward to sustain itself under circumstances trying to.the most heroic men Frequent skirmish es occurred along the lines, conducted with great gallantry which served our ,troops to the realities of war. The army grew into shape but slowly, and the delays which at tended on the obtaining of arms, continued late into the winter of 1861-'62 were no less trying to the soldiers than to the people of the country. Even at the time of the or ganizanization of the Pennsylvania eimmaign, some of the finest regiments were without rifles, nor were the utmost exertions on the part of the military authorities adequate to overcome the obstacles to active service,— When at length the army was in condition to take the field, the Peninsula campaign was planned, and entered upon with en, thusfasni by officers and men. Had this campaign been followed up as it was design,- ed, I cannot, doubt that it would have res ulted in a glorious triumph to our arms, and the permanent restoration of the power of the Government in Virginia and North Car olina, if not throughout the revolted States. It was, however, otherwise ordered, and the army of the Potomac was recalled from within sight of Richmond, and incorporated with the Army of Virginia._ The disappoint ments of the campaign on the Peninsula had not damped their ardor or diminished their patriotism. They fought well, faith fully, gallantly, under Gen. Pope; yet when compelled to fall back on Washington, de feated and almost demoralized, the enemy no longer occupied in guarding his own cap ital, poured his troops northward, entered Maryland, threatened Pennsylvania, and even Washington itself, Elated by his re cent victories, and assured that our' troops were disorganized and dispirited, he was con fident that the seat of war was now perma nently transferred to the loyal States, and that his own exhausted soil was to be re lieved from the burden of supporting two hostile armies. But ho did not understand the spirit which animated the soldiers of the Union. I shall not, nor can I living, forget that when I was ordered to the command of the troops, for the defence of the Capital, the soldiers, with whom I had shared so much of the anxiety and pain and pilfering of the war, had not lost their confidenna in me as their commander. They sprang to my call with all their ancient vigor, discipline and courage. I led them into Maryland.— Fifteen days after they had fallen back de feated before Washingten, the:) , vanquished the enemy on the rugged heights of South Mountain, pursued to the hard fought field of Antietam, and drove him broken and dis appointed, across the Potomac into Virginia. The army had need of rest after the terrible I experience of battles and marches with scarcely an interval of repose which they had gone through from the time of leaving the Peninsula, the return to Washington, the de feat in Virginia, the victory at South Moun tain, and again at Antietam. It was not sur prising that they were in a large degree des titute of the absolute necessaries to effective duty. Shoes were worn out, and blankets were lost, clothing was in rags ; iu short, the army was unfit for active service, and an interval for rest and equipment was neces sary. When the slowly forwarded supplies came to us, I led the army across the river, renovated, refreshed, in good order and dis cipline, and followed the retreating foe to a positlen where I was confident of decisive vict9ry, when, in the midst of the move ment, while my a4;„mced guard was actually iu contact with the enemy, I was removed from the command. * * * . * Instead of reporting a victorious campaign, it has been my duty to relate tile heroism of a reduced army, sent upon an epetlition in to an enemy's country ; thereto abandon one and originate another new ril.s4 of campaign, which nright and would have been succiessful it supported with appreciation of its n.ePt'ssi , ties, but which failed because of the repeat failure of promised support, at the most crit ical, and, it proved, the most fatal moments. That heroism surpasses ordinary description. Its illustration must be left tint the pen of the historian in times of calm reflection, when the nation shall be looking back to the past from the midst of peaceful days. For me now it is sufficient to say that my comrades were victors in every field save one, and there the endurance of a single corps accom plished the object of its fighting, and by se curing to the army its transit to the James River, left to the enemy a ruinous and bar ren victory. A Judicious Amendment. Ilan, 4, Coffi:oth, of the Bedford Dis trict, bas lgsed an amendment to the Conscript t a-Mph should be imme diately adopted. it is as follows : "RxsoiNsn, That the Military Committee be directed immediately to inquice into the expediency of amending the'act 444.t1ed 'An Act for enrolling and calling out tjw natisinal tbrces, and for other purposes/ ap„nroved March 3, '1863, to compel the provost tear_ shale of the different congressional distpict toliold their examinations for physierd alsat lAlity, of any other Cruise of exemption, at the county town of eaeheoanty in the respec tive,congressional distekts," fir u fa i m p Gewal oidpg street •WO*l-10 1 11414 0 6*::40 1 0eg to ..4. 4 E150s Aix* PAP' officers and men the importauce acid great safety of doing it with a rush." ght . qub 1.4. ANIL JAM. 8. JEY#llloljild".l6 `"One Country, One Constitution, One Destiny." IM,IIIASSSiN) ?i,Ne WEDNESDAY, JAN. 20, 1884. FOR PRESIDENT IN 1864, SEN. GEORGE B. McCLELLAN, [Subject to the Decision of the Democratic Na- tional Convention.] 46 While the army is fighting, you as cit izens see that the war Is prosecuted for the preservation of the Union and the Vonatftutiondand of your nationality aed your rights as citizens.” GEO. B. IicCLELLAN. j-• The Constitution and the Union! I place them together. If they stand, they must stand together; if they fall, they must fall together."--Daniel Webster. OUR TRES. Our su . bseribers would all do well to remember that the terms of the Musses- GER are TWO DOLLARS per annum, and not one dollar and a half. Ware frequently asked to take the latter sUra, but uniformly refuse. It is out of our power to furnish the paper for less than Two Dou.A.as, and no degree of coaxing, scolding or palaver will make us take less. Our terms are the same to all our our patrons, and all will be treated alike. This is the only fair way of dealing, and is our way. We trust it will not be necessary to repeat this no tice to subscribers. "A hint to the wise" should be sufficient. OBEDIENCE TO THE LAWS. It is the duty of all good citizens to obey the laws. Laws may be injudi -1 . mous, unwise or oppressive ; but the fact that they are so, does not justify their 'violation. They may be unconstitution al ; hut ever that gravest of all objec tions to them will not excuse contemp tuous disobedience of their requirements until the Supreme MO, the highest ju dicial tribunal of the country, so pro= nounces them. The idea that a man is under no obligations to obey a law that, in his opinion, is unconstitutional, is both ridiculous and preposterous. It is neith er more nor less than to make his judgment the supreme rule of action in all civil and political matters, and to override the expressed will of the major ity of all the people as embodied in the enactments of their representatives.— The result of the general practical adop tion of such a course would be down right anarchy, and could be nothing else and nothing less. Such a doctrine and teaching as we allude to is as mon strous and indefensible as the "higher law" fallacies of Abolitionism. The former renders his judgment the sole guide of the citizen in his respect for, or disregard of, the provisions or restraints of law, and the latter his conscience.— Practically, is there any difference be tween them! and are they not equal ly heretical and equally dangerous and mischievous ? Under our political system, the reme dy tor all the pernicious legislation which is not declared unconstitutional 444 Aousequently void by the Supreme Court of the State or the United States, is in the fi4t.r.or Box, the- sure correc tor of all the evils and wrongs inflicted by bad laws. When it • is denied the people, or when it is corrupted by bad rulers, and the laws and usurpa tions of men in authority become intol erable, the great right of revolution re mains, and it is a right Ik - high the Amer can people, if we know aurtbing their character or traditions, would not Evil to assert. We trust, however, the necessity for : its exercise may never arise.. Those who doubt the disposition of the people to rebuke the wrongs of their rulers, when the opportunity is afforded them, and to blot from the statute books burthensome and unconstitutional laws, have no faith in their intelligence, their spirit or their sense of right. With such men we have no sympathy. Our 'oontNence in the capacity of the people tc~er[j► .themselves is unshaken, and we bre or* renfidenixi in the repute rllte power Finnicar, -Tama. It anti Prk,i lt :"P' 011 ti t 0 lllliiiThßLAl9 4 ,ofWrosiii 1 1 4. 6 0 t: Vermont, has bemifillod 69 volonttering. !~"~7 Art Electioneering Scheme. The project embodied in the late Procla mation of Prgident -Law* for tie rikstoreP, tion to the %donof the *Mee !ri rebellion is everywhera.regarded as a shrewd scheme to effect his re-election to the Presi dency, and to perpetuate the Abolitionists in power for years to come. These evils of themselves are sufficient to awaken the keenest apprehensions of the pat riotic citizen, who wishes the speedy resto ration of the Constitution and laws to their accustomed supremacy. But these are not the only evils in the the train of this dangerous, mischievous and I revolutionary project. The following ex- , tracts from the late profound and statesman like message of Gov. Seymour to the Leg islature of New York, portrays in letters of , living light some of the evils connected with this most shameless attempt to subject the majority of the people of the great States of this Union to the control of the greedy I speculators and corrupt jobbers who will be all powerful in wielding the public opinion of the States restored to the 'Union under this scheme of President Lincoln : On the other hand, it is insisted that the war shall be prolonged by waging it tor pur poses beyond those avowed at the outset and by making demands which will excite a des perate resistance. A demand is made that the people of the South shall swear to abide by a proclamation put forth with reluctance, and which is objected to by a large share of northern people, as unwise and unjust, as it makes no distinction between the guilty and , the innocent. They are to take an oath to which no reputable citizen of the North of any part will subscribe ; that they will up hold any future proclamations relating to slavery. They are to submit themselves to utterred and unutterred opinions and decrees, No longer regarding the war as directed against armed rebellion, it is to be waged against people, property, and local institu tions. It is held that the whole population within the limits of certain states are strip ped of all political rights until they are purged by Presidential clemency. • The disorganization and destruction of the South are not to save us from the cost of war. The plan for the future government of the seceded States demands the mainte nance of armies and a continued drain upon the persons and property of our people.— Whenever one tenth of the voters of either of these States shall submit themselves to the conditions imposed, they may form new gov ernments, with new or old names and boun daries. This inconsiderable minority is to be supported in the exercise of power by the arms and treasure of the North. There will be no motives on their part to draw the re maining population into the support of the governments thus created. There will be every inducement of power, of gain and of ambition, to perpetuate the condition of af fairs so favorable to individual purposes. It will also be for the interest of the national administration to continue this system of government, so utterly at variance with a representative policy. Is not this the same mistaken theory upon which other nations have tied to govern their dependencies?— Has complete subjugation for centuries pro duced the quiet, the obedience to law, the order, the security to life and property, the kindly feelings, or the. mutual contributions to prosperity which belong to real peace ? Governments thus formed would repre sent, not the interests of their citizens, but the wills and interests of the power that creates and sustains them. The nine States thus controlled would balance in the House of Representatives in the choice of Presi dent, and at all times hi the Senate, New- York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Missouri, Kentucky and Wis consin, with a united population of 16,533,- 383 ; whieh is more than one half of that of our whole country. The one,teuth who would accept the proclamation for the price of power would not only govern the states made by executive decrees, but they would also govern the North. While the plan is harsh to the body of the Southern people, it is still more unjust toward the North.— Fourteen hundred men in Florida would balance in the Senate of the United States the power of New York. Less than seventy thousand voters in the nine States named in the President's proclamation would wield a power to weigh down that of the nine most populous States in the Union. We should thus have, with the nominal States of Eastern and 'Western Va., a system of rotten boroughs which would govern the Union and destroy the representative nature of our government. This, in connection with existing inequalities in State represen tation, would be a dangerous invasion c.f the rights of a majority of the American people, It would enable an administration to petvet: uate its power. The Purity of the Ballot Box---The Right Talk and the Right Spirit. At the late Democratic State Convention of New Hampshire, Hon. EDMUND BURKE offered the following Preamble and Resolu tions, which were unanimously and enthusi astically adopted. Every true Democrat and patriot in the country will heartily endorse them : WHEREAS, The freedom of the elective franchise is essential to the preservation of public liberty, and, while that remains, all outrages and assaults upon the people's lights can be ultimately redressed and reme died without a recourse to arms; and Wommes, The Administration at Wash ington has in several instances interfered in the elective franchise in several of the loyal States of the Union by military force, thus defeating and suppressing the true expression of the people of those States, and subverting every fundamental principle of republican government ; therefore RasoLvan, That the freedom Of the ballot must and shall be maintained sacred and in violable ; and that we, the Democracy of New Ilampshire, will unite with our breth ren of other States, by force of arms, if need 'be, /4 resistance to every attempt, from whatevsp senrce it may come, to over tufa or abridge, by menaces or direct inter ference by military force, tha independence and purity of the ballot-box in the ensuing elections, State and National; and to this end we pledge each to the other, and to our brethren of other States, our lives, fortunes and sacred honor, being firmly resolved to maintain at all hazards our rights as free and patriotic citizens of the American Union. RESOLVED, further, That our delegates to the National Democratic Convention to as semble at Chicago for the Nomination of a candidate for the Presidency, be and are re quested to present this subject to that body, in order that suitable measures may be de vised for the protection of the people's rights, and that men in power may be seasonably warned of the guilt and peril of such atro cious treason against the sovereighty and majesty of the people as is involved in the attempt to sumpress the freedom of the elee tive franchise. Dement% - National C•nveniliett NEW Topa r Jan. 15.—At a full Donating the'of DslitWil t ie Nat i ** Cemnit/ee head tiirA fq"Yfal iifft* -N . IPCN a Pear) " 1.41 / 1 4111. ‘ 144 * 4. Auttr. , ,z 41;4 14.1 400 , 4.ty , wpaw , ..**s, t boway i National Convention in'Chtcai) on the srpendered it % and then he kurag, hiln 7 fourth of Jnly. A Move in the Right Direction. It is notorious that the price of all the ne eassaries lifebee, latgettl/easetpliSp the passage of the At of *Wow &Jig the soldiers' pay st thirteen- dothrs per month. In view of this state of things, we are highly gratified with the following resolution unanimously adopted by the caucus of the Democratic members of Congress, which as sembled at Washington City on Saturday evening Jan. 9th. It is hoped that this amendment, when in • troduced into Congress, in accordance with the resolution adopted, will meet with a bet ter fate than did the resolution of Mr. Den nison, the Democratic member of Congress from the Luzern° District in this State, a fem, days ago, to increase the pay of the private soldier to thirty dollars per month, which was promptly voted down by the Re publican majority. As gold and silver are at a premium of over fifty per cent., the effect of this amend- meat, it adopted, will be to make the sol diers' wages about twenty dollars per month. This is less wages than he could earn in any other employment at this time, and we hope will be adopted as a matter of justice to the soldier and his family : WHICREAIi, Gold or silver is paici. to our ministers, consuls and commissioners repre senting the nation in foreign countries, and gold and silver only are received from people at the Custom Houses in payment of duties, and whereas, the people are forced to pay capitalists their interest in specie on their investments in the national debt, therefore be it resolved that the officers, soldiers and sailors in tie army and navy should be paid in gold or silver, or their equivalents in amount, and be it also resolved that the Chairman of this meeting be instructed to prepare amendments to the army and navy bills to this effect. The following resolution from a commit tee appointed to consult upon the political matters likely to come before Congress, was • also adopted : RESOLVED, That the President's Procla mation of the Bth of December, 1863, is unwise, inexpedient, revolutionary, and unconstitutional, and is therefore disappro ved. The Spirit of the Radicals. A certain Lieutenant Colonel Hoyt, a Kansas military dignitary of the Jim Lane stripe, gave utterance to the following senti ments in a late harangue :--- "I was once, while believing in no other possible deliverance from shame, for separa ting our Northern free institutions from the black bannered South. The trial of John Brown, of Kansas, in Virginia, in which I was humbly professionally engaged, made me a sincere hater of the South. I hate the South to-day, not only as my enemy, not only as the enemy of my government, but as the enemy of all mankind. I hate her pirati cal institutions, which rob men of their man hood and women of their virtue. I hate her history, and I hate her traditions, for upon all I behold the unwashed stains of that un avenged blood extorted by the lash of the slave-whip. I have believed, I still fondly believe, that the sun of another Saint Do mingo Inv rise upon her, and a million of Toussaint T i Ouvertures, clad in the habili ments of war, and with vengeance written on their faces, and with desperate and triumph ant stroke, dash in pieces the awned South. Are Kansans proud to own John Brown, of Ossawatomie ? I, for one, say, in the whole history of this State there is nothing reflect ing such lustre as the citizenship of the gray haired martyr of Harper's Ferry." The spirit of the man who expresses him self in such terms is simply DEVILISH ; yet we fear it is common to the reckless Abolition, fanatics with whom he is identified. Pennsylvania to be Divided into Three Judioial Districts. A bill to divide Pennsylvania into three judicial districts, and provide for holding Court in Erie, was introduced and referred in the lower House of Congress the other day. *Sr So says an Abolition cotemporary.— There is at present not enough business to give two U. S. Judges half as much employ ment as they ought to have to keep from rusting out ; and the only object in creating a third District in this Statceis to make a snug berth for life for some noisy and offi cious Abolition demagogue. An Act of Justice to Our Gallant Soldiers. In the Musa of Representatives, the other day, Mr. Ancona, of Pennsylvania, submit ted the following Resolution, which we are happy to say was read, considered, and agreed to : RESOLVED, That the Committee on Milita ry Affairs be directed to inquire into the ex= pediency of reporting a bill providing for the payment and refunding to soldiers of all sums withheld and deducted from their pay for clothing charged to them, lost, or thrown away through the exigencies of the service, while on the march, or in battle, by command of their officers. That's So. Tho Albany Argus says some men may think, ar,d teach others to think, that the people will hold in higher estimation those who boast of Wind adhesion to the Lincoln Administration and all its measures. At present this may, to some extent, be true— but there is a dark day before these cringing sycophants, these base betrayers of their country, and it is not far off. No delusion is grosser, and at the same time so selfish and cowardly as the idea that political pop ularity is to be gained by this civil war'.— Yet this false idea governs many ba,sowninds. On the contrary, all who helped incite it, North and South, and all who seek to pro long it a day beyond its true objet of re storing the country, will be execrated by the people for generations to some. Not Unlikely. The New York Tunes, a leading Abolition journal, says "The presence 43f our powerful Union armies will be absolutely essential in the Southern States for a long time after active hostilities agillatit the national authority shall have ceased." liaw it eenl4 !A otherwise, if the Abolition Polk', is Peni§tesi in, w 0144 be hard to tell. The Resonstrlllos Paikict of Presi- *it Una°ln. ►n• of the •etodes` which the Presi attars scheme •: . of rakeastruction of the Skates in Rebellion i to be brought about is illnatrated in *hat has been recently going on in Louisiana. The following ex tracts are from the accurate and reliable regular correspondent of the New York World in New Orleans. It will be recollect ed that the keen and searching expose by this correspondent, of the gigantic specula tive operations of Gen. Butler, contributed materially to swell the volume of public in dignation, backed by the real Union men of Louisiana, which at first demanded, and at last compelled the President to recall But ler from the Gulf Department, and for nearly a year kept that vigorous, adroit, but most unscrupulous of public men out of employ, until quite recently. We invite the careful attention of our readers to these ex tracts : THE LOVISIANA REPRESENTATIVES. It is amusing to see the radical journals here arguing away the title of Messrs. Field and Cottman to seats in Congress. Who or dered the election ? say they. Of course, no one mentions the fact that the last regu larly elected governor of the state ordered ; beyond the federal lines, for her military governor holds sway. That the constitution and the laws as they existed before secession required the election to be held on the second of November is clear ; if these provisions had not been abrogated by rebellion the people had a right to choose representatives, wheth er the governor ordered ark election or not. This brings up Mr. Sumner's notion of state suicide, which is no more monstrous than many other notions prevalent at this day, and, therefore, excites no surprise. The man, however, who would have taken Mr. Sum ner's position at the beginning of the war, would have been sent to Fort Lafayette by Cameron, or hung by Butler. What is strange in the discussion here is the anxiety displayed to show how small vote could have been polled in these two con gressional districts for Field and Cottman, when these objectors propose to get up a constitutional convention by a vote propor tionately less, even though that vote was al most nothing at all; to premit half a dozen parishes to make a constitution for the whole state ; to admit to the right of suffrage citizens of other states, who might have re mained here six months, -and even free ne groes, with the hope thus of shaping the des tinies of the people ot this state for genera tions yet to come, by a vote utterly unlaw ful and surreptitious and which it would be ridiculous to call a popular ono even if the existence of martial law and the presence of the bayonet did not exclude the idea of an unbiassed vote el the people upon any sub ject. The only course, just alike to the Union and to the great body of the people of this or any other St ate in insurrection, is to continue the rule of military governor so long as mar tial law is needed to control them ; so long as any part of the State is in hostile position, and await the moment that the whole State is under the protection of the stars and stripes, and its people can everywhere take part in reconstructing, it needs be, their constitution. If Mr. Lincoln's Emancipation proclamation has the effect of law, and its beneficiaries are already free, they cannot be enslaved anew ; if it be not law why should those only be per mitted to form a constitution who will through the latter make it law ? It is defended only as a measure of military necessity ; when the necessity shall have ceased, if it was lawful they will be still free ; if it was not lawful and the necessity has ceased, there will be no need of enforcing it. In the meantime, under the military rule, it will continue in undimin ished force. The hurry which is now manifested hero to have a constitutional convention, to be prac tically composed of delegates from New Or leans alone, and to represent but the twen tieth of its permanent population, arises wholly from the most corrupt and dishonest purposes, The northern men who are en gaged in It Mlle here not to fight for their flag, but to plunder under it, They are fat tening on the spoil, and desire, under the pretense of NNW , elections, to be confirm ed in public printing jobs, legislative and municipal contracts, and other schemes of public robbery, Their more despicable asso ciates in this city have gained their present low eminence by pointing cut to their allies the spoils to be rung from their former se cession associates. All have alike been enga ged in egpduct which will not bear investi gition Iltfore any just tribunal. If they can get up a civil government, in which the whole control shall be vested in themselves and their tools, they may escape the inves tigation which would at least hold them up to public scorn. That all the Union men here, ever hereto fore honored with public confidence, are op posed to the movement is enough to con demn it. That Roselia and Itozier, the only two of the seven delegates to the oonven tion which attempted to take the State out of the Union by secession who are within our lines are distinctly against it, is conclu sive with all who desire that the destinies of the State should be committed to the care of its real citizens and its really Union men. The Union men who in the country parishes are said to be hunted with bloodhounds are to have no part in settling the terms of citi zenship in their own State, and may find themselves put on a level with free negroes when first they come again to have the privilege of voting for their civil rulers.— Mr. Lincoln certainly cannot have intended that the tenth of the voting population whom he authorizes to form a State govern ,, ment should occupy less than a tenth of the area of the State and be mainly composed of army followers. The "Dead Lock" in the Senate. The failure to ornanize the Senate of this State is solely chargeable upon the obstinacy and unreasonableness of the Opposition.— We agree with the Harrisburg Patriot & Union, that "the proposition of Senator Clymer to effect an organization by the Abo litionists selecting a Speaker and the Demo crats a Clerk, or vico versa, and so on through the whole list of offices, was in eve ry sense fair ; it showed a disposition to set tle the pending difficulty in the shortest way and on an equitable basis; and since the Ab olitionists chose to reject it, we cannot see how the Democrats can make a further ad vance toward organization without comprOv mising their dignity and detracting from their self-respect." Senator Hopkins, of this District, Senator Clymer of Barks, and others, have made speeches on the subject of the organization, ably and completely vindicating the course of the Democratic Sellet t qrs, 'We r e gre t we have not the room to publish them. Republieau paper says, "Russia has been - true to Mr. tineoin's ' Administration." There is nothing at as idrange in this, for It 14 4 :V all44 A is tAkl4 o 4,ee true to ~. the • and one good Servs yes", know', deserve' another. Gen. mewhows Report. The Wathington correspondent of the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser has furnished a very brief digest of the report of Gen. 141e aellatis which, as the full report will not, probably, be published fOr some weeks, we insert on our first page. It will be found very interesting. The letter which the Gen eral addressed to the President from Harri rison's Bar, July 7th, 31862, says the Patriot & Union, will attract particular attention ; and it will be alrAost universally regretted, we think, that the President did net folloN the sound, christian and statesmanlike sug gestions it contains ; and yet that letter, we are confident, was the main cause of Gen. McClellan's removal from the head of the army and retirement from active service.-- The better we become acquainted with thef t able, accomplished and ill-used officer, the more we admire him and the more we de test and despise his weak and malignant, persecutors. His day of reward, however, and their day of abasement will come. Another Abolition Project—The Rad ical Plan for Wiping out Slavery. WASIIINGTOA, January 11.—The bill intro duced by Mr. Stevens, of Pa.. to-day, the consideration of which was postponed 41} February next, provides that within all the territory of the so-called Confederate States, which has been or may be conquered and sub dued by the Federal arms, all laws and parts of laws which permit slavery are henceforth abolished, and that slavery shall never again be established within said territory, and that hereafter no portion of it shall be admitted into the Union as a State, or be represented in its Congress except by delegates of the same, until the people within the territory forming such State shall, by its organic law, forever prohibit slavery therein: The Commutation Clause. A telegram from Washington, of the Stb, says : The House was not in session to-day, having adjourned over in honor of Jackson and New Orleans. The Senate devoted most of its session to the discussion of the Conscription Bill, and particularly of the three hundred dollar clause. Mr. Wilson op posed its repeal, and declared a very heavy preponderance of public opinion in favor of the clause as it now stands. Mr. Lane, of Indiana, and some others favored a repeal , but no conclusion ,was reached; but it is pretty safe to say that the three hundred dollar clause will be retained in a modified way. W.A.sinsoTas, Jan. 13.—The Military com mittee of the Senate and Honse had a joint meeting this morning. The enrollment act will be under discussion fur two or three weeks, but the commutation clause will re- main A Carnival of Corruption. The Albany Statesman says : Chase is bit terly complained of for his Barneys and Butlers, his Cornwells and Callicots, his Rev enue and Confiscation agents ; and Mr. Lin coln is complained of for Custom House and contracting swindling ; yet there is not the first move in Congress or out to expose or ar rest the frauds. There seems to be a perfect carnival of corruption and crime in every department of government, and little or no effort to stop it. By and by, unless there is a change, it will be found that Republican nominations as well as Republican institu tions are a failure. Frauds ! Frauds I We might fill a column of our paper every day with frauds committed in every depart ment of the government, civil and military. Arrests are taking place almost hourly, and yet, strange to tell, we seldom hear of a trial and still more seldom of conviction and punishment. Prominent politicians are now in confinement for deeds of prime rascality, but there we suspect it will end. Palmer and his assistants, in New York, and Given and his accomplices, in Washington, and scores of others, are just now finder a cloud— but political influence, and the fear of es posing others still more prominent, we fear, will soon relieve them. Frauds in the War Department, frauds in tho Treasury Depart ment, frauds in the Navy Department, frauds in the Custom Houses, in the Com missary and Quartermaster's Departments, in the navy yards—frauds everywhere.; in fact the whole administration is a stupendous fraud; and, the fountain being muddy, the stream that flows from it is discolored through its whole length. Whenever one of the rascals now in durance is tried, convicted and punished, we shall make a note of it.—[Patriot and Union. cotemporary complains that sixty millions of dollars annually are wasted in firing salutes. If all the powder were used up in the same way, infinitely less harm would be done to the cause of the Union, and hundreds of thousands of lives would be saved. FOE TUE MENIENGZR. The Soldiers of Gen. McClellan—An Incident. Happening at Pittsburgh a few days ago, on the occasion of the return of some Wis consin and Michigan regiments to their re spective States for the purpose of recruiting their shattered ranks, I was the involuntary witness of the strong attachment of the old Army of the Potomac to their former com mander—Gen. McClellan. There was a strong sprinkling of Germans, especially among the Wisconsin men. You may not happen to know that a more fanatical set of Abolitionists is nowhere to be fourul than about Pittsburgh. A knot of these stay-at-home patriots were denouncing Gen. McClellan, it the usual complimentary style of these gentry, as a Copperhead, traitor, kc., in the bearing of these soldiers. A scene of angry excitement ensued, and an instant, indignant and simultaneous protest was the result. Even swords and pistols were in immediate requisition for defence ageing.assailints their behoved chief. Theini 4p4s, 'mane aokva of *woe Abolition shouters was no a little .tuft..asim to me, quiet spectator of the scene. -I OE
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