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In WOW: UM 15,1854.
rea pRICSIDENT IN 1804,
OEN. GEORGE B. McCLELLAN,
[Subject to the Decision of the Democratic Na
tion ol Convention.]
44141/Ila =Ana) ? Is Pighting. you ascit-
Wit fee t tpe war is prosecuted for
flnulerratiou of t)ie Union and the
diellstiention, and of your nationality aLd
YAW rights as citigens. 9o
GM). MCCLELIAN.
J oill-"The ICapatltatkm and the Union
tame s = Ingather. If they stand, thty
al tagather; If they fall, they
atagether."-.Daniel Webster.
COIMIT CONVEiTION.
Is conformity with the usages of the
Democratic Party, a Convention will be
held in the Court House, at Waynes-
r im*, on
Tuesday eviinktg, March 22, 1864,
Ding in the first week of Court, for the
purpose of seleeting a Chairman and
GentrdCorunittee for the ensuing year,
end to consider upon the propriety of
orgatabing Democratic Clubs in the
various townships of the county, and
with a view ..to the traroaction of such
other holiness as may he deemed of in
terest to the party.
It is expected that Gnu. S. B. Wu:.
soar, of Beaver county, and several other
able speakers will address the conven
den. P. CV,AWFORD,
I:3olmag of the Central Committee
Al Al Mi.* in Legislation--the Stets
eta withont a Speaker.
ilew days since, Dr. St. Clair, who was
clotted to the Senate of this State to fill the
money ocoastoted by the resignation of
Mad. Harry White, of the Indiana District,
took his seat in that body. It was at once
pitratedthat, the Senate proceed to the elm
** o( ,a Speaker, .hut the Abolitionists re
fused. though they consented to the selection
oVeihiet *Seers. This, says a Harrisburg
eeelgeirlauitult tithe Philadelphia Murcua•
hilrthatihttacratoprecisely in the same po-
AO, h they bare been since the first
stf the 118.44015. They contended that the
piain ccentitutiepal prevision is, that each
Hews shell meet-and elect its Speaker and
alma. and they refused to recognize the
Speaker elected to serve during the recess,
as the Speaker bf the present Senate, The
refightt of the flepttWans to go int* an elec
tion. leaves the Senate nearly, if not quite
as tigtiAL..disogapized as it was before. No
r
bill oiesi:lleough unless under the lash of
the previonevettion, and even when it is
velledo and the limber of yeas and nays
called, and amendments proposed, so retard
matters, that if this state of things is to con
tinue, the overage passage of bills will not
bit over two a day. As it reqtdres a two
third vote tp puma a rule, no bill cap be
res lwiee the eame (ley, and the now,
gift*** that it Must have three hestriags at
tire tusakum op diffetaat dive,
.X4O/litymxicatic Senators are right. They
estabibibed principle, and they ere deter
inteddontaintain it at all hazards, The
*by wilionehdn them. They have present
ed no petitions, and 'erase to act upon
apy of the standing committees. The Ile
palilcang, now having the power to elect a
Speyer, but refusing to do so, are pursuing
the very muse they charged upon the Demo
crats—retarding legislation.
lkitll.r. Penny is not quite satisfied that
bets the legal Speaker of the present Senate,
without being elected to that position, and
it is more than intimated Oat he will resign
the chair with a view to resuming it again
ender a more satisfactory title.
And this intended action of Mr Peppy Is
rendered the more necessary by the sugges
tion that it he should continue to retain his
seat as Speaker of the present Senate with
/Ml:Station to it, all the acts of this Legis
!attire Tepid be liable to have their authori
ty pelted the Courts of the Common
mils* 04 that, therefore, all individual
anktorpqrsto r y ;interests and titles,
vesting by v Wee of eneif Jegielation, would
be efiheriiittid validity, and iuigl i tt be declar
ed of no binding force-in law by Elie civil
trittliWe of *f a StA td •
/mem* vogy Begions iview be whole
quegliito smite thetalpeolterehiP atthe Senate,
and-ihgrialreliably agog* the *publicans
to asesaitioart ghbehlau, mad thereby virtual
ly reengage Ad** tie aottudnese of the
welkilittakelOttilhaeginteertiere the begin
leg by the Defeeeratieakmitors.
Ptimeighe fienge'
buthoiallegs pasugulles
__ear . • .
bepiihswessoptiesstMet.ffleMiliw,
hissitihileAkens hOtedi 'VeleilhAffo ; iroti
far the reconsideration of the Senate vote od
the a for the tine of ;laying bounties
to voluntert, and the other to the members
othptitifoveso 711=_t ttrollit form
*was te told
i l oo.onouniteionad aim* balkilisee ado.
lations woad have pawed the Senate' unani
mously had that boy bean properly organ
hod. As ft was, they went through by a
very slow process, and too late to be of any
utility at Washington.
The attempt of the Republican press to
make a little capital fur their sinking party
out of the fact that the Democratic;Senators
refuse to vote for any measure brought be
fore them, until a Speaker is chosen, will
prove a complete failure. Sensible people
will see, at a glance, that no matter how
wise and proper an Act or Resolution may be
in itself, its support by them would be tanta
mount to acknowledging thit the Speaker of
the Senate continues to occupy Lis position
from year to year and until his successor is
chosen, regardless alike of legislative prece
dent and the plain provisions of the Consti
tution.
P. S. Since the above was penned, Mr.
Penny
. has resigned the iSpeakershik and
been re-elected, thus showing that the Abo
litionists themselves had no faith in their
opinio,na and pretensions concerning the
Speali.-ership.
Gov. -Seymour of N ew York..
There has been a wide spread conspiracy
among the radical press to fix upon [this
pure, upright and talented gentleman charges
affecting his patriotism. They have charg
ed him with disloyalty, hostility to the war
and instigator of the riots in New York city
in July last. But in this they have only
treated him as they have treated every
Wier prominent. Democrat of the country,
who has protested against the flagrant inva
sions of the constitution and laws, by the
present administration. It is needless to say
that their charges have been stimulated only
for the purpose of vainly attempting to tarn
ish his well earned reputation in the country
and that the most severe of all their charges
is the truth, in relation to this much abused
statesman.
Re foiled the corrupt and dishonest
schemes of the subordinates of the adminis
tration at Washington. in their attempt to
fix a grossly fraudulent quota upon the
Democratic Congressional Districts of his
State, in relation to the draft last spring
by directing a draft from them in many in
stances more than double the number that
should have been assigned to them. Gov,
Seymour, as it was his duty, as the repre
sentative of his State, remonstrated against
the wrong, and demonstrated its rank
In
justice, and that it could only have arisen
from a fraudulent design on the part of the
vindictive subordinates of the administra
tion. The draft was hurried, at first regard
lees of these exposures without periniting
any investigation to be had. The result was
the terrible and disgraceful riot of July. The
ignorant masses of the city took this mis
•taken and fearful remedy in their own hands.
The administration seeing the hideous effect
of their meditated wrong, finally consented
to draft from the City Districts, which were
Democratic, in the same proportion as the
country Districts, which were mostly Re
publican, and postponed the investigation of
the facts demanded by the Governor till a
later period.
This investigation was recently made,
under a commission of three disinterested
persons appointed by the Government at
Washington, and has resulted in reducing
the quota of the Districts complained of over
fourteen thousand, and thus vindicated Gov.
Seymour from the foul and villainous accu
sations of his political enemies.
The following is a list of the Districts—
embracing New York and Brooklyn cities—
together with the quota originally assigned
and the corrections made t
Original Corrected Reduc
quota, quota tion.
District 2 5,056 8,337 1,719
District 8 3,905 8,000 905
District 4 7,192 8,060 4,132
District 6 8,963 2,962 1,016
District 6 5,520 2,660 2,860
District 7 4,240 8,008 1,232
District .8 '5,935 8,950 1,985
District d 8,245 2,843 402
Totals 39,081 24,810
Reduction In New York and Brooklyn,
14,251.
The "World" oommoutiug ou this subject
says ;
Governor Seymour owed It to the people
of the state whose chief magistrate he was;
he owed it to the cause of good government
and to the principles of justice and of right,
to insist upon a correction *of this gross and
palpable wrong. He owed it to his own dig
nity and honor, to the noble men who had
stood by their country's cause in the hour of
trial ; he owed it to the blind and reckless
administration at Washington to set bounds
to their headlong career of partisan maligni
ty, and force them to a decent respect for
the rights of the_people of the Empire City
and the Empire State.
This official vindication of the act ot Gov
ernor Seymour is none the less.significant
from the tardy manner in which it has been
made at Washington. The injustice to the
several-congressional districts sought to be
punished by Secretary Stanton for tneir De
mocracy was patent and palpable, and the
President, when his attention was called to
the matter, ought not only to have corrected
the evil, but. he should have discharged every
official who had been implicated in the great
wrong,
It would be too much to expect, of ,the
ribald sheets and to.ignes which have Wiled
in promulgating the false charges against the
governor, that they will retract . a word of
their unjust aspersions, their oft-repeated
calumnies. They had a political object to
gain, and it is no part of their system of po
litical morality to acknowledge a wrong or
correct an unjust attack ,upon an upright
public officer. The government has been
compelled to subscribe to a full vindication
of Governor Seymour's official action on this
subject. Ills political detainers will hold
their tongues, to hide their shame.
Miscegenation.
The Troy Daily Whig—an able and lode
penant Republican paper—in 'peeking of
4 , l4ksvnation," says: "We dare any that
oar readers will be solarised, as we are, to
Inas the eldest to which this dividing
thoryllids otrodstes , amtligthe extreme
Ateataimiibi, iiltd to* tir tendlair Silt is is
iielemnim a prominent article in their emed."
It will be • et the
r ome iper o p, mit Batardly
Usti "tharthe Ilioneougy of Gree ne
have indlustedibeir pamihrenui for General
hicelelhus as the auslildate for the next
Presideatel. The party throughout the coun
try seem to be almost unanimously in favour
of his nomination, and are sanguine of their
ability to elect him, if they have fair play or
the last color of justice :from the party in
power.
What it Costs.
It is well for us to consider occasionally
what we are paying for a chance to have
Mr. Lincoln's scheme of reconstruction
carried into effect. Let us, therefore, re
call what Wendell Phillips said fourteen
months ago :
I will not speak pf the cost of war, though
you know that we shall never get out of it
without a debt of at least $2,000,000,000.-
1 will not remind you that debt is the fatal
disease of Republics—the first thing and the
mightiest—to undermine Government and
corrupt the people. The great debt of En
gland has kept her back in all progress at
least a hundred years, Neither will I re
mind you that, when we go out of this war,
we go out with an immense military spirit
embodied in two thirds of a million of sol
diers, the fruitful, the inevitable source of
fresh debts and new wars. I pass by all
these, and lying within those causes are
things enough to make the most sanguine
friend ' s of free instillations tremble for our
future.
A Bolt Threatened.
The Missouri Democrat, the leading Re,
publican organ west of the Mississippi gives
the following klnpha4ic warning to the Lin
coln wire-pullers :
'flf a high-handed attempt is to be made to
force Mr. Lincoln's nomination upon that
convention, the attempt will necessarily be
get a revolt, for which, and for whatever
disasterous consequences flow from it, these
desperate schemers will be held responsi
ble."
Riot in Greensburg.
The abolitionists of Greensburg, on Mon
day, the 22d ultimo, instigated a number of
soldiers belonging to company 13, of the 28th
Pa. regiment, to make an attack on the
office of the Greensburg Democrat and also
on the Tittering Rouse, but they were in
gloriously repulsed, and it required much
effort to save the property of the °vile politi
cal hacks who had instigated the outrage.—
The company had been brought in from
Mount Pleasant for the special purpose of
doing the dirty work of these scoundrels.
geenan, Esq., the proprietor of the
Democrat, at the commencement of the re
bellion enlisted as a private in one of the
Pa. Reserve regiments ; was promoted to a
position on General McClellan's staff, where
he served until the officer was removed.—
He then resigned and again took charge of
the Democrat. Thus, it will be seen, that
unprincipled Abolitionists will even attempt
to destroy the property of soldiers who have
the manhood to denounce the policy of the
present corrupt Administration.
Confederate Minister to'Mexloo.
Mr. Jefferson Davis seems determined to
have:alrecognition of the rebel confederacy by
some foreign government. Re has tried En
gland, France and Spain, and failed. Now
he is about to try the experiment with
Napoleon's Lieutenant, Maximilian, who, it
is said, has finally consented to wear the
imperial diadem of Mexico, which Napoleon
has bound himself to place safely on his
head. The Atlanta, Ga., Register, announ
ces that Brig. Gen. William Preston. former
ly Minister from the United States to Spain,
is on his way as Minister Plenipotentiary
from the confederacy to the Court of Mexico,
and adds :
"He is instructed to make a treaty with
Maximilian, based upon the mutual recogni
tion of the two governinents, with a commer
cial clause granting re rocal privileges of
trade and "cominerce.W recoguition by
Maximilian will be tantamount to a recog
nition by France,"
Demooratio National Convention.
The Commort Council of Chicago have
passed a series of patriotic resolutions re
turning "thanks to the 'National Committee
for its selection of Chicago as th'e place of
meeting of its Convention." The hitspitaii
ties of the city are extended to the Conven
tion, and "gratificatian" is expressed "at
the assembling of the delegates of a great
and patriotic party in our midst on the na
tion's natal day." Several Republican
members of the Council voted for the resolu
tions,
to- The Daily News, of Philadelphia, an
out-and-out Abolition paper, says that
"candor as well as a just appreciation of
its duties as public journalists, requires that
it should state that in its own political
household the elements of discord are much
more rife than is generally supposed." We
think so too. Let Democrats prepare; the
light of better days is dawning!
,`There have been instances of audacity
since the war commenced, but we should
like to know what Oopperhead ever attempt
ed to show so conclusively the imbecility,
unpopularity and criminality even of the
present Administration as Messrs. Blair,
Pomeroy and Greeley?
Theodore Tilton says that "this na
tion has a bakY At the breast, the negro."—
Yes, and it is a plain p,nd palpable case of
desertion. The Abolition party bionght
the brat forth, and then, like any other piece
of depravity, palmed it off on a respectable
family.
Mir Chase has written a letter declining
the Abolition nomination for the Presidency.
We imspect he had either to do that or give
uP Lls , Peat in the Cabinet.
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The Late Elselees,
The late shades in Nev Hampshire re
suited in taw, occeo of 9iltstire, 14 143
lition candidate for tkaestior, by an estima
ted majority of 8000. All five of the Abo
lition Counsellors are elected. Probably
nine of the twelve Senators elected are Abo
lition, and also a large majority of the Rep
resentatives.
Nsw Yoax, March B.—The election in
the city to-day on the amendment to the
Constitution, passed off quietly. The total
vote cast was 23,280, of which 16,401 was
in favor of the amendment to the Constitu
tioNallowing the soldiers to vote, mid 6,879
against.
Roon - sersu4 March B.—James Brackett,
Democrat, was elected Mayor to-day by
nearly 200 majority. Last year the Demo
cratic majority was 509. Eight of the 14
Alderman elected are Abolitionists, which
will give them a majority of two in Common
Council.
SYnacusit, March B.—The charter election
here to-day resulted in the election of the
entire Abolition city ticket, except Overseer
of the Poor.
MIDNIGHT —Returns from only 48 towns
have been received up to this hour including
this city.L;:jlie majority in favor of allowing
soldiers to vote is 24,699. It is estimated
that the majority in favor of the amend
ment in the State will reach over 50,000.
The Clarion (Pa.) Democrat says the elec
tions recently held in that county have re
sulted in a complete Democratic triumph.—
The 4bolitionists carried only one township
in full and three boroughs in part. The
Democrat "would not be surprised if Clarion
gives a Democratic majority next election
high up in the teens," which we suppose
means from fourteen to eighteen hundred.—
That will do.
Damocneno Vicronv.—At the late annual
election in Lock Haven Pa. for borough and
ward officers, the Democracy carried every
ward by decided majorities, electing all their
nominees except one constable, whom they
lost by one vote. In the language of our
jubilant friend of the Democrat, we say,
"good for Lock Haven."
DEMOCRATIC VlcToliT ILLmots.—The
municipal election of Rock Island was held
on Tuesday, and resulted in the choice of
the Democratic ticket:by 177 majority, be
ing a Democratic gain of 150. The City
Cou . ncil stands seven Democrats and one
Abolitionist. The Mayor elect is Bailey
Davenport. The contest was fought on
national political issues, and the Democratic
triumph is complete.
Pottn&No, Ma., March 7th.—Jacob Mc-
Clellan, the Abolition candidate, was elected
Mayor of this city to-day, over John B, Car
rol, Dem. by a majority of 1156. The vote
stands, McClellan 1941—Carrel 805. All
the - wards have elected Abolition Alderman,
Councilmen, &o.
Changed his Mind.
When the Chicago Committee waited
upon President Lincoln to stiffen his back
bone for the great work of abolishing slavery
by proclamation, tho philosopher of the
White [rouse expressed his opinion of the
efficacy of the process in his usual quaint
way. "You remember," he said, "the slave
who asked his master, 'lt I should call a
sheep's tail a leg, how many legs would it
have ?' 'Five.' No, only four ; for my
calling the tail a leg would not make it so.'
Now, gentleman, if I say to the States 'You
are free,' they would be no more free than
at presont."
This interesting conversation occurred only
a little more than a year ago, and yet, in
that short time, Old Abe has so thoroughly
changed his opinion that he believes to-day
or professes to believe—if you call a sheep's
tail a leg, the sheep will have five legs—in
other words, he imagines he has set all
southern niggerdom free by proclamation.—
Whst a queer fish he is.
The Idol of the Army.
We are favored by an old Democratic
friend with a vote recently taken in the
bOth Regiment, Pa. Vols., at Knoxville,
Tenn. The Regiment 000tained 810 men,
the vote stood :
For M'Clellan 777
" Lincoln 83
Majority fur M'Gieilan 773
— . M'Clellan is the soldier's man, and will
be the people'sPresidant.
ircnx OVER.—Seward recently asserted
that "every man in the Northern States is
richer in consequence of the war." His cir
cle of acquaintances is probably confined to
army contractors and highly pr4fl
We wish he were obliged to make his word
substantially good with every man in the
Northern States. He would then be compell
ed to fork over a few hundred dollars deficit
to us.—fPenp lan Democrat,
Sensible.
A movement is on foot among the Metho
dists.in various sections of the North to kick
political preachers out of the church. This
we regard as a sensible movement, and one
that might be inaugurated everywhere,
with great spiritual benefit to the churches.
ROYAL LEAGUE NOACIATA.TWIEG ;
For President—The Government.
.Fer Vice President—The Vice Govern
ment.
airAs soon as the preserit draft is filled,
wp are to have another. This is the agreea
ble information communicated by the Pro
vost Marshal !General to a member of °m
um..
SlMlLNntiona iII s Ante of wet are like in
dividuals ins stem of intoxication ; they
frequently mow* &btu when drunk, which
they are ohligadi to pay when sober.
MrGen. lAtior, Hon. Jahn L Dawson
and other asead*po of Col* woo will accept
oar thanks fop divers documentary aw on.
an.. Wendell Mips thinks he coup put
alt Thifenists in the South hates Amid
weir oinhibos.
Cretin In the Drift.
The Harrisburg Telegraph publishes
tere n
to be mons particularly
into :
A great mistake is being made'with .
reference to the credit on the draft, and
many districts, after having expended
large sums of money to fill up their
quotas, will find that they have not in
reality furnished a soldier to secure ex
emption under the present call. The
error is committed in this manner :
Agents are now in this city from all
parts of the State looking after the vet
erans who have just returned on fur
lough. These agents make it a busi
ness to bargain with the veterans, pay
ing each soldier a certain sum of money
to allow himself to be credited to a
certain district, when that veteran has
already been credited and received a
bounty. The locality of the enlistment
of the veteran—where he was first cred
ited, cannot be and was not changed
when he re-enlisted. Hence the wrong
of tempting these men into allowing
their names to be credited to localities
only now offering bounties. In all
cases, such credits will be disallowed by
the Provot Marshal in the several dis
tricts. The people will at once see that
if the double credit were allowed, the
Government would get no soldiers,
while the people would be enormously
taxed
This is an important select, and we
trust that great care will be taken to
prevent the injury likely to result
through it from becoming general.
The Age of Purity,
When Lincoln was elected one of
the Abolition sheets that advocated his,
election in a burst of exultation, ex
claimed
"THE AGE OF PURITY EETCRNS, and
HONEST MEN COME TO CLAIM THEIR OWN.
The thieves and plunderers that have
cursed us so long have been thrust
aside by the people to make way for an
Honest Man to rule, and honest men to
assist him. And in due time the Augean
stables will be cleansed, the Treasury
rats will be dislodged, and the govern
ment WISELY and HONESTLY ad
ministered, and will cease to be a curse,
and be once more a blessing and an
honor to the land.
An hail then to the era of Peace, Free•
dom and Justice."
To recall a reminiscence like this is
rather heavy on the party which was to
bring about a return of the "age of pu
rity." The "honest men" Old Abe
brought td 'assist him, were the Came
rons, the Staffords, the Hurtts, the
Cornwells, and others who have cleaned
the Treasury of MILLIONS OF DOL
LARS !
The era of Peace, (negro) Freedom
and Justice is: Draft, Internal Revenue,
Heavy Taxation, Inflated Currency,
Military Rule and Arbitrary Arrests and
Imprisonment ! Such is the age of pu
rity brought about by Abraham Lin
coln's Administration.
What we are Worth.
The entire value of land and other prop
erty in the United States is estimated at
$6,000,000,000. We have contracted a
debt of $2,000,000,000 within the period of
three years. Mr. Chase has asked of the
present Congress appropriations to the
amount of $800,000,000, and other expendi
tures will swell that sum to $1,000,000,000.
Hence at the end of the present fiscal year,
one-half of the value of the property in the
United States of every description will have
been expended by the Government at Wash
ington. The debt of England is a little
over s4,ooo,ooo,ooo—the value of property
of every description is $30,000,000,000; in
other words, the debt of the United States,
at the end of 1864, will have risen to one
half the value of the whole wealth of the
country, while that of England is only about
one-eight of the real wealth of the country.
Abolitionism Practically Illustrated.
We are authentically informed that
Gen, Burnside said in this city last
week, that out of 30,000 contrabands
in the department assigned to him, full
one-half had died within a year, owing
to destitution, starvation and diseNc.—
Abolition of slavery has thus become,
practically, abolition of the nen° ; and
reasonable reflection must teach us
that this sjecies of " philanthropy"
could have no other result. We do
not observe that the radical papers here
make any allusion to the statement of
Gen. Burnside on this subject.—Boston
Courier,
A Venal Body.
The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial, writing on the 20th
of February, speaks as follows of a body in
which its own friends have an overwhelining
majority :
"It really looks as if a set of unprincipled
speculators owned the present, Congress, and
had bought the whole arrangement, body
and soul=if, indeed, it can be said to have a
soul, which I very much doubt. * * *
They do not hesitate to say within the walls
of the National Capitol that they can carry
their point, whatever it may be, and woe to
the man who has the honesty and patriotism
to cross their selfish purposes."
Better than Mass Meetings.
A Democratic exchange says
"Now is the time to make advances.
Flood your townships with newspapers.
What democrat is it who can't afford to
spend from three to ten dollars in
spreading amnocratic pipers ? This is
the way to insure the, success of democ
racy in '64. A few dollars spent in
this way will do more good, than hun
dreds in getting up the mass meeting*.
In thieway, quietly and surely, the pub.
lie mind may be disabused; and awaken
ed to a sense of the awful condition of
our dearly beloved country. Shall it be
done"
The Pr. ideatfal Term.
Wm. H. Seward pays that Lincoln was
elected President of the United States and
ALL of them for four posts and is entitled to
serve out his full te'm, and as he has been
President d the Northern Slates alone his
lbw pens will eminence only when his
pewees exhimilniee over the Soothers Mahe.
At ail this we agien pswehied ihteeln
ippress the esdond term of leer year in the
Confederate States.
4111MMON.
A • ef e ats from the Fe
towndillps of County was held in
'the Court Hain at. Waynesburg on Satur
day last, in accordance with the call of the
County Committee. On motion, BARNET
WHITLATCII, of Franklin tp., was called
to the Chair. Taos. W. TAYLOR, Esq., of
Washington tp., Tnoi. laxis of Morris, Jons
BRADFORD of Franklin, and WM. GRIMES, of
Jackson, were made Vice Presidents, and
Col. Jas. S. Jennings of Marion and George
Thomas, of Franklin, appointed Secretaries.
On motion of Wm. A. Porter, it was unan
imously
RESOLVED, That Col. R. W. JONES be our
Delegate to the approaching Democratic
State Convention, and Dr. Alexander Patton
be his alternate, and that the Delegate be in
structed to favor the nomination of Gen.
Gao. B. McaaLLAZI for the next Presiden
cy.
On motion of D. Crawford, Esq., the
Convention adjourned.
[Signed by the Officers.]
A Card.
MESSRS. JONES & Jr.szNiNas :--I under
stand there is a report in circulation in some
parts of the county that I have left the Dem
ocratic party. It is utterly false. I will give
any man fifty dollars that will establish it.—
lam as firm a Democrat as there is in the
county ; but when Abraham Lincoln was
elected President constitutionally, I was in
favor of letting him serve his time out, and
then defeat him and the party in power by
electing George B. McClellan, or any other
good Democrat that the National Conven
tion may see proper to select.
EDMUND SMITH
The Florida Slaughter.
Tho Post is endeavoring to find some
other cause for the recent defeat of our
forces in Florida under General Seymour
than the bad conduct of the colored troops.
Accordingly, it makes a series of unwar
ranted assumptions, totally without any
foundation in the evidence as yet presented,
and upon these it bases an attack upon Gen.
Seymour. That officer may have been
grossly to blame ; but the country will re
quire some evidence in proof of it besides
the desire to represent the negro troops as
far superior to the white troops under his
command, in endurance and courage.
Whosever the specific fault for the slaugh
ter of our souldiers at Olustee, the respon
sibility rests at last on the shoulders of
President Lincoln, and cannot be shifted.—
He ordered the expedition to be sent to
Florida against the wishes of his military
advisers in Washington, in spite of the pro
tests against the "scatteration policy" of his
organs in this city and elsewhere. He sent
the expedition thither on his own responsi
bility, for his own purposes. Those purposes
were, to organize Florida as a rotten-bor
ough, to have his young private secretary,
John Hay, returned to Congress as the rep
resentative of the state, and so to secure its
three electoral votes for himself as a can
didate for the next presidency, or, in the
event of the election going into the House
of Rapresentatives, to have John Hay with
the votes of a single regiment of men
counterbalance and destroy the votes of
New York with its four milliqns of inhabit
ants. For these three electoral votes Mr.
Lincoln has already paid down the lives of
1,200 brave Union soldiers. Nor is this al
their price.—N. Y. World.
The Negro Question.
A correspondent of the New York Times,
(administration) is severe on the radicals of
the party in Congress who never permit a
daily session to pass over Without introduc
ing the negro in sune shape. The game is
becoming monotonous, to such a degree that
the outsiders are becoming tired looking on.
The Times correspondent says;
"Let me illustrate : Slavery is the cause
of the war ; and slavery Awn sig DEsTaorso.
This is admitted. The war will destroy it ;
and if it does not, an amendment to the
Constitution will. But is that .any reason
why, like Monsieur Ning Tong Porer, we
should breakfast, dine, and sup on Slavery ?
It seems to be the notion of Mr. Charles
Sumner, et id omne genus, that we the peo
ple of this country dorrt know anything,
and can't do anything without we take our
bitters before breakfast, in the shape of a
resolution against Slavery."
Abolition Traitors.
The only Northern man, since the war be
gan, known to have given valuable informa
tion' to the Confederates, is Mr. Harvey, a
Republican, and now Lincoln's minister to
Portugal. It is also a fact that the only per
sons in the North known to have tarnished
materials of war to the Confederates, are
Republicans—as Palmer, Collector Barney's
Clerk, and Chairman of the New York Re
publican Central Committee, Lincoln prompt
ly put him under Federal protection, to shield
him from prosecution for his crimes,
Waite of Benevolence.
A correspondent, writing from Chat
tanooga, enters into an alaborate detail
of the frauds committed on the sick and
wounded of the army in the dispensa
tion of the benefactions so liberally fur
nished by the various charitable com
missions established throughout the
country. But a small fraction of the
necessaries and luxuries reaches those
for whom they are intended. They are
arrested on their way to contribute to
the revels of the army officials, and even
of the pious agents of the Commission.
The Term Traitor Defined.
}lel, Wade said, in his place in the United
States Senate, that the man who "quotes
the Constitution in this crisis is a Traitor : "
Daniel Webster said :
"The Constitution of the United States
it a written instrtonent, a recorded FUN
DAMENTAL LAW ; it is the bond, the
ONLY BOND OF THE UNION of
the States ; it is all that gives us national
character."
oft,.The whole number of National
Banks organized on the 12th of January
was 208, isavinF au aggregate capital of
1132,134,200_ , dazided among 23 States,
and ** 1101444. at.Ceintabia. Shies
*a Mk t ahue been *Old
to the above with a eapihd of eel*
412,500,000.
TV, Nor aillanal Banks.
The motes of the new banks are to
be rid out by the Government and
thew creditors, and employees must,
take them. What shall they do with
them? If the banks refuse to take
them, 'sell them to the brokers. But
you say "the banks dare not refuse to
take them." So say we, but that, like
Beecher, on the origin of evil, only
shoves the difficulty back a step, doing
nothing toward removing it. The
banks take the new currency, but what
are they to do with it If they paid it
out again indiscriminately, the people
will begin to sift it, and after awhile
these institutions will find themselves
holders of a large sum of notes distant
from any point of redemption, and un
avavailable for the legal discharge of
their obligations. No! the banks can--
not pay them altogether. If they take
them at par the people will pour them in
on deposit, and in payment, "until the
banks will be choked with them.—
What outlet have they ? Sell them to.
the brokers They will come back at
once.
Here then the redemption process be
gins. The banks must send them
home for conversion into legal tenders.
This will be the greatest financial job
ever undertaken in any country. When
it is remembered that the banks are lo
cated at different points from Maine to
Kansas, some idea of this task may be.
conceived ; but no one who has not
tested it in practice can fully realize its.
magnitude. But why not compel,
these banks to redeem in New York 1—
Yes, indeed, why not This is the
proposition now before the proper
Committee of the House of Representa
tives. But it is not all plain sailing,
even here. If the issues are allowed to
redeem here at a discount, and the gov
ernment may legally pay them out at,
par, there will be some confusion, and a
possibility of dissatissaction on the part of
the public. If they are compelled to
redeem at par they will find the task
one of great difficulty, and in case of
expansion, will all be broken in the first
pressure. We throw out these hints as
topics for thought and discussion. They
are practical, and the questions cannot
be evaded.—Yew York Journal of COM.
'Tierce.
The Future of the Negro.
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican,
thorough Administration journal, says :
" After the war the demand for their
labor will determine the habitat of the
negroes and all other questions connect
ed with them."
What a confession is this, that after
the war the status of the negro will be
determined! So the war which was to
"settle the negro question" affords no.
settlement at all. And this, no doubt,
is the fact. By irrevocable laws, de
creed by the power which arranged the
various zones and tropics, the Southern
States are mainly devoted to agricul
ture, and under circumstances where
competition from white labor is impos
sible. Negroes are probably destined
to constitute the great body of the la
boring classes at the South for the fu
ture. Any disturbance of this arrange
ment must be artificial and temporary.
Other questions relating to the govern
ment of these black laborers, must
mainly be determined by the respective.
States in which they reside. The lan
guage of the Republican seems to indi
cate that this subject is receiving new
light.—Jour. of Corn.
Sugar Making.
The present weather, frosty nights
and sunshiny days, is favorable for sugar.
making, and those who have "sugar
camps" are now busily engaged in col
lecting and boiling the sweet juice of
the maple, and converting it into home
made molasses or sugar. The busin
has long been regarded as a sort of
country amusement, but since the re
bellion has doubled the price of sugar,
there is profit as well as amusement, in
maple sugar-making. The annual pro
duct is now very large, and will no
doubt be greatly increased during the
present season. Hundreds of farmers,
who never paid any attention to their
sugar camps, further than to get a home
supply, are now manufacturing for the
market, and will• obtain a ready sale at
good prices for all they can produce.—
Every farmer in the country who has
"sugar trees" on his place, shogld turn
them to account, and thereby confer a
benefit upon himself and tbie rest of
mankind. Maple sugar is delicious, and
we can't have too much of it.
13 `The political friends of the Ad
ministraton prate continually about free
dom, and yet they fear freedom's great
est safeguard—free. open discussion be
froe the masses. When they first be
gan to discuss the merits of slavery,
they deelfweil that the system must be
evil because it shunned and feared pub
lic discussion. Now this argument
recoils upon their own heads. The acts,
of this Administration must be evil be
cause it shuns and fears public discuss
ion. Good and honest men love the
light of day, none but rogues skulk in
the thick mantling darkness of the night.
Hypocrites may prate and brawl, but
be is the true friend of freedom who
stands immovably in defense of its great
bulw arks,
sarWho does not see the shadow of
death that is passing over our land?—
That eyary day there is less sun ? That
faith has perished, that love has perish
ed, that union has perished, tnat all
which made no happy at home, and
great abroad, has perished I` What
have we left I We have Mr. Lincoln,
the negroes. the bastile, the Congress.
God have mercy on us . Henry Ward
Beecher and Fred Douglas! The fu
ture ? Go not thou into its secrets, oh,
my soul.
II ..The type founders have inmedTa cir
cular to all printers that they have raised•the
price of printing material 25 per cent. Pa
per-makers have raised the price of paper
one hundred per cent. The reader will see
that publishers of newspapers are not likely
to become millionaires in a hurry under this
sate otairairs. Tho only way to get along
at all is to insist niers prompt - idttlernopt4
accounts.