1 :1 ! e ' • • totitwer. IL W. JONES, Editors. JAS. S. JENNINGS, "DM : Country, One Constitution, One Destiny." Ilttz WEDNESDAY, APRiL 13, 1864. Plkat• :PRESID.EST IN 11.8,6#, GEN. GEORGE B. rsipq.E,LlA9 ASsibject to the Decision of ae Democratic Nq Convention.) &Wit,'le the army is lighting, you as cit limits see that'the ilvar Is prosecuted for dur preservation d( the Union and the coustitutJop, and of your nationality and our o rklitss citi7ens,” GF" RePLELX*.N. . ‘The Constitution and the Vnion I place Wan together. If tutor stand, they must Maud together; if tkey fall, they must fall together,"--Daniel IVet seer. The Late Republican Meeting at the Court House. As a !gathering of the politicians of tha faith in the county to make arrangements t e .i carry out party plans with a view tp eifect party objects, these meetings are regarded, among politicians, pretty much as a matter of course. There were a few novelties about ihiS particular meeting, however, which could cot fail to excite remark. The pleating was organized in the usual way, and Messrs. Wells, Hager and Smith were appointed a committe# a to prepare reso litkaia for the consideration cf the meeting. They stihniitted a preamble and resolutions, is 'Which We find thi#, from them, most ex traordinary 'sentences, "The day has gone tLy for parties." "We want no party," &c., tttc. ';snsv this is well enough in theory, but is it true in paint of fact ? The very Rurpose for which they had asseici4ed was to orgati ize their party preparatory to the next elec- The meeting was composed of parti zans the most consistent and rigid of their class. Only think of a committee composed of John H. Wells, John Hager, and Hiram I:sllfith preposing proceedings for a meeting composed of Messrs. 4, Myers, E. M. Sayers nftd Ten of similar views, professing to be no party men ! Men wii,o never yotea any thing else than a party ticket, and whose days and nights are given to the advancement of party purposes. 4nd they profesa to be no petty men, to disown party trammels and party obligations ! There may be in stances of cooler impudence on record. but we tail to recollect them ! The pretension wand be ridiculous but for its stupendous hypocrisy. _ _ tion . . They make professions of being the pecu liar friends of the soldier. That perhaps might be regarded as a matter of course.— But in this cQunty the 'Demoorats furnish better evidence of their patriotism. Th4t fundgl 4 1,49 sqldiers themselves. Lvetybody knows &tat a large majprity of the soldiers who have gone from this county to the war are Democrats. They refer to the votes of the Democratic Senators of Perinsylvania against taking up the question of increasing soldier's pay when offered in that body. The writer of these resolutions should have known, what every lxsly else knows, that the Democrats, regard ingtbe 4enate as not organized till the elec tion of a Speaker, voted against every mea sure of legislation proposed, regardless of their pursonal views, while the Senate was thus nnorganize4, But is nollitecessary to say that the Legislature of Benuaylvania did not propose to pay the soldiers by the State. Xis the business of Congress to provide for the pay of soldiers, and we refer with confi deuce to the course of the Democratic mern beat of that body as indicating the feelings of the Democratic party towards the soldiers. It is well known that a caucus of the Demo cratic members of Congress agreed upon a measure to La supported in Congress to pay the soldiers in coin or its equivalent in paper money—the effect of which would have been to make their monthly pay over twenty, in_ stead of thirteen dollars. When Aft., DANIr - S O ll illikega94.4l,4'resolittlon to 0114 effect in Congress the Republican merithera in that body promptly toted it down, and thus showed their disregard of the comfort for the soldier and his family. Air. 4awson but a few days ago again introduced his proposi tion, and the fdllowitig is the result of •the proceedings of Congress upon it : Pay of Soldiers. • The U. S. House * Of - Representatives having nnier consideration (March 21st,) the House Bill No. 198, making appropriation for the support of the army and navy : Mr. DAWSON said : 1 move to amend by inserting on page 3, after line forty, the following And that 1410 F ‘ alue same be paid in geld or itp orlvalent : _Provided, That the relative value of any paper currency tendered shall be ascertained by. the Sec retary of the Treasury, and his certifi cate shall be conclusive evidence thereof, if .dated thirty days before payment is made. STEVEZTIN That is going back in the ,Aila •object. ' The CIIAIRMIA.N. The Chair sustains the point of order. Chilies' iti appropriation bills %re regarded the same as sections in other bills, and the chose to which the amentltnent t pmposed Las been passed. Mr. DAWSON. I must sty I Cannot un derstand the principles dpou which the amendnient is Ailed out of order. The MAILMAN. Does the gentleniatt gpioeal from the dedaion ? Mr. DAWSON. No sir ; but I would be. glad to have tke ChairWF what I have to say. • The CHAIRMAN. Ae,Cliair decides the amendment out of ortlet': - Mr. DAWSON. Upon hat principle? The CIIAXEMAN. That,paragmphs in ap propria.thlu bills are re,gard44 as sections are u other bills, and we have passed ,the clause .the gentlemen proposes to tunend. Mr, DAWSON. Then I offer it as r amendment to come in at the end of the bill. Mr. STEVENS. Another point of order; either the law now allows us to pay soldiers in gold, or the amendment creates a new law. This latter would not be in order. m r . DAWSON. In answer I would say that I,,he presen t t ;does not specify the kind of money that shall be paid. Mr. STEVENS. Then the amendment ,caseates a law providing payment in a certain xy. Mr. DAWSON. Certainly. The CHAIRMAN. The Chair sustains the point of order. Mr. DAWSON. floes tine Chair decide . . that it is not in order, for the reason that it prescribes a particular mode in which soldiers shall be paid ? The CHAIRMAN. Pecauseit proposes to make a new law. • Mr. DAWSOT. Tappgal from the deCia r ion of the Chair i And upon that question have the right to ho kleard. I.t does Rot change the exiaing law. The law filing tbe compensation of soldiers does not pwcribe the currency in which they shall he paid.— Gold and silygr a,tv tfr onfy legal currency known to the Constitution, Mr. STEVIIIKS. If I understand the gen tleman, there is no law now The CHAIRMAN. debate is in order. The question is, "Shall the dc4sion of the .Chair 441)41 as the judgment of the commit ?„ The questing was put, and it was decided .the affirmative. 'So the decision of the Chair was sustained. Mr. DAWSON, I move to amend by ad ding at the end of the bill the following : Aid provided further, That the first payment made after the passage of this act shall be at the rate of twenty 491, lars per month for private Mr. STEVEN :S. I make a paint of order. his amendments-amounts to nothing, and he is pilericg frivolous amendments. The CIL4iIRMAN. The Chair sustains the point of order. The amendment proposes to change an existing Mr. STEVENS, I move that the commit te rise and report the bill. The motion was agreed to. This is the way .the Republican members of Congress support tha professions of their. Greene county Republican friends ! Ohio Democratic State Convention. The Demorcatic State Convention of Ohio, which met at Columbus, on Wednes day, adopted the following resolutions: 14EsoLvan, That the Democratic party is now, as it over has been, devoted to the Constitution Ls transmitted to us by the framers Of tbat instrument, and expounded by Jefferson, Madison, and Jackson, and as construed in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 and 1799, and as con straed in the report thereon in the Virgin ia Legislature ; and that for the maintenance of that Constitution and the preservation of the Union founded ander it, we, as did the Fathers of the Republic, pledge life, for tune and sacred honor. Ilwsof,vitn, That we would hail with delight any and every honorable effort toward 4 restoration of the normal condition of this Union, to ivit : Internal peace and harmo ny, and fraternal affection lletween the sec- 7 oral States comprising it, and we regret 04l metoplres of the present veveut such desirable result, and we there fore are uncrnipromisingly opposed to its continuance in power. RESOLVED, That we are opposed to the prosecution of tho war for the subjugation of States, or for the purpose of divesting them of their sovereignty, or infringing or impair !ng their constitutional rights, and being satisfied that its continued prosecution for such objects will, in the end, prove the utter destruction of our civil libprty. We there fore demand flie immediate inauguration of peaceable means to attain at, houurable set tlement and the restoration of the Union un der the Constitution. RESOLVED, That the moi sl.4tit now . ONO in our land is the natural a 44 inpvitaLle re suit of the violations of the Constitution and the laws by the party in power, and we deem this a proper occasion to renew to our people the warning of Washington against lawlessness in Government and people ; the tyranny of the present Administration hqs sown the seed from which we are now fear: ing a harvest of crime, AO*Ogq nf new States into the Union. The usual mode by which Territories have heretofore been made States, is, for Oqngress to pass "an enabling act," as it is caiied, by which the Territory is authorized to form a Constitntion, elect members of Congress, and a State Legislature; which in turn elects United States Senators, and at the succeed ing session of Congress apply for admission. If everything is regular, it is admitted, as a matter of course. In the case of Nebraska, Colorado and Nevada, provision for whose admission was made at this session of Con gress, a mode of admission is provide(' fair,bet ter suited to the present emergencies of the Republican party, to wit : instead of apply ing at the next session of Congress for ad mission, they are to be admitted by PRESI DENTIAL PROOLAALtpO. To let things take the usual course, they would not be in the Union in time to participate in the NEXT PRkBIDENTIAL I acrioll. Bence this change, which affords iinothcr evidence of the total disregard of the usages of the• country, by the present reckless and partizan ildminis tratiou, which professes No Berne •testimony concerning the late election in TennesSee proves that most of the votes in Germantown were cast by the Sixth Tennesisee cava,ry, the members of which re side in other ca.ntiei, - and had no right to vote. Over 300 were thus cast for the radi , cal ticket. rA man was- convicted of blasphemy in a town in Canada recently, and sentenced to three months imprisonment at hard labor, and pay a fine of five dollars Republioans turning Cpppipios;ds . . We copy frqtrt the Fremont paper lately establisAed in New York called the "New Xation," the followixts c.riti4.4ls upon Mr. 14ncela and his Adi..44isiistration. It sounds very much Ake the raanly protests which we have heard from We Democratic papers for a year or two past, upon the invasions a the rights of the people by the Adininistratlen in power—for which these papers have re ceived so much abuse from their Abolition opponents. "Disloyalty" and "Copperhead ism" were the very mildest term applied to Democratic papers which presumed to ques tion the right of the Administration . and its subordinates to dispose of their personal and constitutional ri,ghts at their pleasure. Pub lic opinion, happily, now has suppressed, to great tii.ese p.utrages. A wholesome dread of personal consequeages, together with ,the apprehended effect of the continu auceof these wrongs, in reference to the ap proachlugelection, has, to a ,considerable es tent, caused this discontinuance. The free dom of the Vress . a . ad freedom of speech, per sonal liberty and security of property, are now rarely interfered with in the Northern States. It is wonderful what forbearance the Democratic party has eN.ibited in refer ence to them. It was on,iy t tleir hive of or d,v, and their dread of being, p.ven in ap pearance, the cause of violence and disorder, wl4c.,h prevented them from redressing their QW% grievances. It is well that it was so.— Public qpiniost has done bettor and more ef lee,tually for them than an army . with ban ners. The danger now most to be apprehend 44 by the Democracy is the insidious tampering with the ballot box. The election iu ken tucky, last summer, is an illustration of what we mean. In that instance, liappily, those who used the military were in part, at least, deceived. Abolition has so little place there, so few followers, that it only in part affected its purppses, lint in Maryland and Delaware it dig its work more effectually in suppres ing the voice of the people. And it had less excuse, here, even than in Kentucky. In Delaware it was not pretended that there was necessity for military intervention, and only in one Congressional District in Maryland did the existence of a small squad of Seces sionists afford the slightest pretense fur mili tary tampering with the ballot box. Thp farce lately enacted in Louisiana is a sp,-..chpen of the danger to which our instiz tutions are to be subjected by the lawless disregard of constitutional usage by this Ad ministratinn, So of Arkansas, and so of the fatally bloody blunder which was recently committed in Florida. We wish nobody to misnaderstend us In reference to those States in Rebellion. We wish then. heartily back into the Union. We heartily concur in the necessity of the pun ishment of the Rebels. And we agree that there must be a beginning to their return to the Union—a nucleus around which the friends of the Union in the Rebel States may gather, preparatory to the return of these States to their duty. But if it were not for the political advantages connected with their use to the Republican party in the next Presidential election, no one would think of any other government for these States than a military one, such as herotofore prevaiipd in Tennessee—a kind of government grow ing out of the very necessity qi the case, and con f ined in its operation to these States, without connecting them, while in that con dition, with the general government. What right bay° the small number of actual citi zens who will participate in one electionu in Louisiana and Arkansas to the fall repre§c;l - of those States in the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States? Why should these few persons in those States have a larger representation in Congress than the other States? Why should ten or twelve thousand persons in Louisiana have the same representation on the floor of Congress as six or coven hundred thousand citizens of Pennsylvania! But this is not the worst or part of the case. Suppose it was the purpose of au unscrupulous party to elect a President by votes thus obtained?. Suppose the election to be thrown in the House of Representa tives, in which the votes are cast by States, and it should turn out that one of the candi dates were elected by votes furnished by Florida, Louisiana, Arkansas and the six re maining rebellious States brought into the Union on the famous one-tenth principle of President Lincoln, and that another candi date was voted for by New York, Pennsyl sylvania, Ohio, and six of the other larger States, would an election thus effected in the present feverish state of public feeling be submilted to, without producing the moat intense and dangerous excitement, not to say vi9lent outbreaks ? Put we have been led away from the ex- tract ue proposed to submit to our readers from the organ of Gen. Fremont. Speaking to Mr. Lincoln, it says : "We have been imposed upon long enough. The ruin which you have been unable to accomplish in tour years, would certainly be fully consummated were you to remain in power four years longer. Your military governors and their provost marshals override the laws, and the echo of the armed heel rings forth as clearly now in America as in France or Austria. You have , .9r.0,10- ed upon our liberty without securing victory; and we must have both." tiirThe Emperor of France pays his sql ; (hers in American gold. Four million dol lars have just arrived in France for that purpose.--[Louisville Democrat. That is more than our government does. It pays its soldiers iu depreciated paper— paper that is worth 35 per cent, less than gold. The government has a large amount of gold on hand, but instead of paying it out to the soldiers, sells it to the speculators in Wall street at a great premium The gold is for the holders of 5-20 bonds and for speculators, while the army is obliged to take depreciated . paper. Orin England there are sixty-two indi viduals to every hundred acres ; in 4e.land but thirty-four. In British North America there is but one person to tll9. Who shall Pay Tax". The Illinois State Register, gives out a few thoughts on the subject of Taxation which are worthy of attention : "The Chicago Tribune, in common with the majority of the Abolition press, is clagn ering for a further issue of the 5--20 loan— advocating au increase to the extent of five hundred millions of dollars iu addition to the amount already sold. This is another in stauce of the crushing effects of Abolition policies upon the working and agricultural classes, which it wil;11,:e t9r their interest to consider. . Government aecnrities are, by law, ex empt from taxation. Men who own farms, or who earn their bread by daily labor in the workshop, are ordinarily not able to invest in 5--20 bonds, their little capital being all required in the prosecution of their business, Each dollar of these bonds, therefore, creates so much more of national debt upon which the people must pay interest, while the bank er or capitalist who holds it does not contrib ute oue cult towards its liquidation. For in stance, if boinit smith owns a farm worth ten thousand dollar, he bears his proportionate burden of interest upon the bonded debt of the country. But when he exchanges his farm foe ten thousand dollars'. worth of 5--20 bonds, he pays no taxes whatever pp 911 these bonds, but the man who buys his fare} pays taxes, not only upon the land ; as Jqlui Smith did before selling it, but tipqrt the ten thousand dollars, by whicl? the 6ht, of the country is increased in the additional issue of bonds. Qapitalists, therefore, are very gen erally investing money in these securities, while the working classes, who have pone to spare in this manner, pay taxes, not only up on the land or other property tliey possess, but also, upon the increased debt pt the na tion. If, then, Mr. Chase should be authorized to issue $500,000,000 more of these bonds, the ta-payers of thp country will harp to pay $30,000,000 mole of interest annually. But it will not be the bankers and capital ists of the country who pay this interest, but the working, classes, who have no surplus cash to invest in "loans to the Government." The principle of all this is wrong. All sources of revenue should be taxed alike; or it any discrimination be made, it should not Le against the poor man. Ten thousand dol lars in value should pay taxes to support the government, whether it be in the shape of 5-20 bonds, a farm, or a workshop. Every increase of the govarpment debt under re publican policies, ordy increases the taxation upon men least able to bear it, while it really decreases that of men whose ready money is so abundant that they can afford thus to in vest it. This is one of the many questions, and not the least in importance, which the people are to discuss before they can vote understandingly upon matters of national policy. If they would change the present system, and have rich men pay taxes upon their wealth, and some of the burdens thus shift ed from the shoulders of the poor, they must change the administratinn with which it originates. Democratic policies have al ways been the policies for the masses." It mustbe evident to every one who has considered the subject of taxation with any ati,eption that the States have had far more equitahlo plans of taxation generally than the plan which has been adopted by the General Government. The great study at Washing ton has been to exempt the wealthy to the greatest pßssible extent, and to malce all the burden possibly fall upon the laboring class es. It is plain that a tax laid on a merchant or a manufacturer in the end has to come out of the consumer; and, as a general rule, a rich man consumes very little mere than a poor one. But the worst part of all this is that the tax is levied mainly to pay interest to a class of money-lenders, who are made nearly ex empt from taxation ; and all this when the peopb3, are ready to lend the Government any amount without interest by taking treasury notes, not only for salaries, but for every sm t of supplies fop thp grmy. New York Sanitary Fair. The New York Sanitary Fair for the bene fit of the soldiers is in full blast, and a mag nificent affair it Is! They think nothing of taking In 40 or $50,000 a day! On the 7th inst., $54,573 were realized. The ladies, under whose management it is gotten up, have resorted to many ingenuous devices to raise the wind. Almost every trade, profes sion or calling has contributed in some way. Among others, we observe the following in genious mode of contributing the means to add to the comfort of our soldiers in the field and hospitals : Tiffany & Co., wealthy jewel ers of the city, contributed two magnif icent *words, to be presented to the two offi cet,s in the army and navy who may receive the most votes at a (10114 a vote. Every man, Woman or child who pays the peces 7 sary dollar to have the rigilt to vote, and they vote as often as they choose to pay the requisite dollar for the privilege. The old cry of the city politicians to "vote early and often is frequently resorted to by the good-natured crowd, to keep their respective favocites ahead. The principal contest for the military sword is between the friends of Grant and McClellan, and the naval sword between those of Farragut and ROwan. The latest announcement of the vote we have seen, is : For McClellan, 1128 " Grant, 991 For Farragut, 91 " Rowan,' 58 A Neat Hit. The following Resolution was offered in the I Senate of tivi United States, on the 7th inst., Senator Saulsbury. It very neatly hits pf the propensity of the Abolitionists to mix Pli *Air peculiar doctrines with everything they do or say "RESOLVED, That the chaplain of the en4le be respectfully requested hereafter to pray and supplicate Almighty God in our )oehalf, and not to lecture him, under pre tense of prayer his, said chaplain's, opinion in reference to His duty as the Almighty, and that the said chaplain be further re quested, as aforesaid, not under the form .M prayer to lecture the Senate in relation ' f p questions before the body. (From the eilicago Times.) The Riot in Illinois. Sty:corium, 11l , March 29.—The tin t:* in .cores county is the topic of conver sation here to-day. It is impossible to ar rive at the facts from what we have heard, although several telegrams have been re geived by the military authorities here. It is stated that John R. Eden, member of Con gress from that district, made a speech in Charleston yesterday. Ile was replied to by Dr, York, Surgeon of the 54th Regiment, and a violent abolitionist. A row was got ten up and Dr. York was shot and killed.— By order of Col. Mitchell, of the 54th, Mr. Eden was arrested and confined under paid in the court house. The 54th Regiment, roost of wbon: :were at Mattoon, was sent for during the row. It is said that six Re publicans and two Democrats were killed and twenty wounded on both sides, among whom was Col. Mitchell. It is also stated that a row occurred at 'Ramsey, on the Central Railroad, and the military were sent fur, but nothing serious occurred. Ma•rroox, Ira., March 20.—0 n the re ceipt of the news of the riot, at Charleston, Illinois, 250 men of the 54th Illinois regi ment, rendezvousing here went to that place. The rioters having left before the troops arrived, persuit was made and thirty pris oners were taken and brought here. Their friends, in this and adjoining counties, imme diately commenced mustering their forces with the avowed intention of rescuing the prisoners. The rioters were reported last night to be fortified twelve miles from Char leston. Colonel True in command of the post here, has received authentic information that they are in farce at Copairus Mills, ten miles south, and at a place eight miles west of Mattoon. Col. Oakes, Provost Marshel General, has arrived. The 41st Illinois Reg iment, has been ordered here from Camp Yates, and 000 men have been ordered from Indiutapolis. Gen. Ifeitit4ohnan is expected here to-night, • Sheriff O'Hara has been joined at his rendezvous by the Sheriff of Edgar county, with a band of desperadoes. A spy sent out by the insurgents was captured this af ternoon. Ile confessed that there are large bands at the two places above mention ed, but refuses to give further information. The telegraph wires east and west of here have been cut. Reports front different sources say that the rioters are 1,500 strong, and will attack this place to-night. Every precau tion is being taken to give a warm reception. Tt is believed that with the united efforts of the citizens and soldiers still here, the place can be held against the rioters until the arri val of reinforcements. &ER INGd IEL 13, ILL., March 29—Colonel Oakes, Assistant Provost Marshal, started from c.',h4rieston Coles c.unty, last night, and telegraphs to-day for the forty-first regi ment, which left this afternoon. General lleiutieltnan has also been requested to send troops from Indianapolis. This indicates that the troubles in that quarter are of a serious character. The Latest--The Riot at an End Merroos, ILL., March the I.—E.very thing seems to have resumed its usual quiet, and the rioters are believed to have dispers ed. The 47th Indiana regiment has left, and . the 41st Illinois Voludteer regiment will remain until the return of Colonel Oakes from Charleston. [From the New York World, March 28.] How the People are Robbed. Government has officially announced that the legal-tender dollar is worth only 66i cents. With the price of gold at T7O the legal tender dollar is worth only about 68 cents. Government fixes the price at eight cents more, or 6135-, by agreeing to take. at the custom-house, payments for gold dollars at a dollar and a half in legal-tender dollars. This official admission of the depreciation of legal-tender dollars to 66i cents operates disastrously on Government credit. It places prominently before the people the fact that everybody who receives for his !A ber one legal tender dollar is robbed of 831 cents ; that every man on a salary or fixed income of three thousand dollars a year, when paid io legal-tender notes only receives two thousand dollars and is actually robbed of one thousand dollars. This suggests nat urally the questions ; l y whom am I robbed of one-third of my just dues, from whom and for ghat ? Does my loss - of one-third of my just dues go into the United States Treasury? Does it go to caocel the public debt, does it go to put down the r ebellion, and if goes to none of these things, which it does not, where, then does it go? Every laborer, every salaried man, every holder of a bond and mortage, every landlord, every receiver of a dividend on a railway stock, or a railway mortage, is robbed of one-third of his just dues by the Government legal-tender paper policy. In other words, if we assume the daily receipts, from those sources, of the twenty millions of loyal citizens at one dol lar per head, or $20,000,000 per day—which is an under estimate = then the loss deducted from the income 9f lc,Tal citizens in cash is about $6, 600,900 per day. The daily ex penses of the Government are about $2,006,- 000, per day, according to the official esti mate. It follows, therefore, that the twen, fy millions cf loyal citizens could afford to pay in cash every day $2,000,000, or ten per cent, of their cash income, and thus car ry on the war without any national debt, on a specie basis, besides being gainers daily of about $4,600,000 of what government calls money. Under the present paper money system the twenty millions of loyal citizens are swindled out of their just dues in order to enrich Washington officials and their friends. The nation is robbed and impover ished, legitimate trading is paralyzed, and gambling is fostered and stimulated for the avowed and sole purpose of enriching a parcel of Washington officials and their cor rupt hangers on and adherents. 116 Y-The Democratic State Central Com mittee of lihiAde Island have announced the following nominations for State officers : For ciovernetr, Gee. H. Browne, of Glonces er Lient. Governor, Henry Butler, of War-. wick. [From the Indianapolis Gazette (Republican)] How Preajdent Lincoln ,Secured the Indiana Nomination. It was the Mass Convention that did it and the way it was done was this : The Convention was organized by the appoint ment of a temporary chairman, who seems to have been in the secret of the intended movement, and scarcely bad he taken his seat when a resolution was offered endorsing Governor Morton, whom all present were in favor of, and instructing the Indiana dele gation for Lincoln. The consequence was that to vote against one man was to oppose the other. This resolution the chairman hastily put, despite the attempt at protest and explanation, and pronounced it carried without calling for the negative. Some one s?eing the triek, then moved the ,tollowing resolution RESOLVED, That the delegates to the Na tional Convention from this State shall re main perfectly free and untrammelled to cast their votes for President and Vice President as will at the time be most conducive to the welfare of the country and the honor of the State. This resolution the chairman refused to put. The whole proceeding is thus characterized by the Gazette: "It was a most unfair and shameless tirck, an outrage upon all parliamentary rules, upon all precedent, and upon decency itself, as well as upon the feelings and rights o f a large number of delegates who were present. The like, we venture to say, never was known before in a respectable delibera tive body." The Journal, the other republican paper publishied in Indianapolis, speaks of the proceeding as an "error," and describes it as likely to have a damaging effect upon the Union cause in Indiana. The Germans of Indianapolis have signed a protest against "the frauds," as they term it, and prominent men throughout the State have taken occa sion to denounce it, Kentucky. The announcement of the determination of the Union men of Kentucky to send delegates to the Democratic National Convention has excited great indignation among the Aboli tionists. It anything like a fair election can be had, the vote of all the Border States will be given next November for the Demo cratic candidate, and the prospect may well provoke the New York Tribune, The peo ple of K.entucky think of the Administration as does the Louisville Journal, which well says "The Republican party, with Mr. Lin cole at its head, has repudiated alike the Crittenden Resolution, the Chicago platform, and the Constitution of the Union. It has made a clean sweep of all itv solemn engagements to the peo ple. It has foresworn itself and betray ed the nation. In order to get into power the Republican party pledged itself to maintain inviolate the constitu tional rights of the States, and, in order to coll ,, ct a mighty army, it renewed the pledge ; but, now that it has got into . poWer, and has collected a mighty army, it tears its pledge to shreds, and tramples the constitutional rights of the States in the dust. Miacegnation. This abominable dogma of the Abolition ist, euphoniously dcPPininated "the coin mingling of the races" is attracting consider able attention, and producing considerable comment. Alluding to the hybrid idea the Louisville Journal in its usual pointed man, ner remarks that "There is to be substituted a hybrid race, an amalgamatioh " cross be, twee,/ the abolitionist and the negro. Such crosses usually result in a deterioratka of both the original stocks. Whether in this instance it wrnild be likely to improve the abolitionist we are mat prepared to say. but all men of observation will agree that it must materially injure the negro." The Hero of Paduca4a Col. Stephen G. llicks, who so gal lantly whipped off Forrest the other day from Paducah, was in the Mexican war, first as Captain iu Ferris Foreman's 3d regiment of Illinois volunteers, and afterwards lip lieutenant-colonel of Col lins' regiment (6th volunteers) for the war in Mexico. He was, we think, wounded in the campaign of 1847. On his return he settled on a farm hi Jeff erson county Illinois, but afterwards purchased a farm in Marion county, near Salem, where he was when the present rebellion broke out. He raised the 40th infantry- regiment from the counties of Marion, Hamilton, White, Wayne, etc., and was commissioned by Gov. Yates as Colonel, on the 28th of July, 1861. .The regiment served a long time in . Sherman's division, in the vicinity - of Grand Junction, Miss. Col. Hicks . being in bad health, was honor ably discharged frqm service in Novem ber, 1862, but was subsequently again appointed to the Coloneley of the sante regiment. Can't Move for Sometime Yet. Gen. Grant left Fortress Monroe on Sunday morning, on the steamer City of Albany, and arrived in Washington, where he is actively engaged in the War Department, preparing for his future movements lie has gone to the front. Seven days continuous rain has left the camps and roads in Virginia in a fright ful condition. It will take four weeks of sunshine to enable our troops to move The spring campaign will thus be thrown into the summer. Some dissatisfation is said to exist in the Potomac Army among the officers of the extinguished corps. A few of them were put under arrest, and this checked the insubor4a tion. The State Quota. It is stated, says the narrisburgh triot and Union, 'that an adjustment of the credits due this State, at Washing- ton, reveals the fact that we have an excess of ten thousand over our quota under previoqs calls, and that it will re quire but sixteen thousand volunteers to fill our quota under the last call for two hundred thousand men. Govern or Curtin, it is now rumored, has relia ble itticllig,ence to this effect; and if so, no doubt it will be officially prontulga ed ;it an early day. kteuv. FROM LOUISVILLE. Forrest's Troops Leaving Kentucky. LOUISVILLE, March 30.—About, one hundred rebels of Col. Forrest's force crossed the Cumberland river at Eddy vile yesterday. Au officer, direct from east Kentucky reports a large force of rebels concentra ting at Pound Gap, under Buckner, with five days' rations and forage, and he thinks an extensive raid will be made into the very heart of the State of Ken• tucky. The rebel force which evacuated Bull Gap several days since, has gone North, And will either join Longstreet in Vir ginia or effect a junction with General Buckner, LOUISVILLE, March 31. The Lexing- Observer says : Camp Nelson, owing to the change of base for supplies, has been, evacuated, and military 'stores removed to Nashville. A rumor prevailed at Lexington, on Tuesday, that many of the buildings at Camp Nelson had been destroyed by fire, but this assertion if; not credited. The military authorities here have leariied that of the rebels who crossed at Eddyville recently several have been cat tured, some gave themselves up under the amnesty proclamation and the re mainder scattered. There is no further apprehension from Forrest's command. Two or three hundred.mounted rebels have appeared in Kentucky, this side of Pound Gap, suppoSed to be covering the advance of Longstreet's forces.— Our troops are ready for them in what ever numbers they present themselves FORREST'S MOVEMENTS. He is Endeavoring to Escape---His Force is 3,500 Strong. ••• The Nashville Union, of Tuesday, says that after leaving Paducah, it is be lieved that Forrest divided his commard into two or three bands, the better to make his escape, as he discovered that formidable preparations were in prog ress to catch him. Two Regiments'c cording to a telegram received from Co'.C Baldwin, of the sth Kentucky, are east Of the Tennessee, and a small force uc der Lieut. Wheeler is east of the Cum berland. The remainder are west of the Tennassee. The whole force will not exceed 3,5C0 menond it is believed that a large num ber of them will be captured, as their horses are jaded. The gunboat, No. 23, is patrolling the Cumberland below Fort Donelson, and others are expected from Smithland to aid it. Several are watch ing the Tennessee, and troops are sta tionod at all the chief points to intercept him. The wires are cut between Fort Don elson and Smithfield. The guerrillas are aiding Forrest when in their power to do. so. From Knoxville. Ksoxvit.i.F., March 28.—About sixty rebel deserters came into our lines dur, the past week, making the total number of over 1100 for the past month. They state that all of Longstreet's baggage has been sent back towards Richmond, and that his whole force is under march ing. orders. Last night a party of forty guerrillas captured a Mr. Foster, of Blunt county, and carried him off in the direction of Marysville. Col. Woolford left here. on Saturday. He has been summarily dismissed from the service by the President. KNOXVILLE, March 31.—The rebels, after destroying trestle at Balls Gap, fell back beyond Greenville. They took up the wagon and railway bridge across Lick Creek, and carried off t portion cf the rails and tulgraph wire. Desertero continue coining in, and report large numbers trying to make their way into the Union line. Parson Brownlow telegraphs from Knoxville :---'General Sherman left this morning for Chattanooga, after return ing from the front. All quiet at Mossy Creek. Knoxville is so well fortified that we can hold it against all Lee's army_ Longstreet's forces are at Watu ga, more than 100 miles east of here.-- A three of cavalry remains at Bull Gap to protect the retreat. lam still of the opinion that the rebels are intending forthwith to make a raid into Kentucky. The War News. There is very little war news of spe cial interest. Everything appears to be quiet, not only along the line of the Army of the Potomac, but also in the Southwest. It is repotted by a dispatch from Ringgold, Ga., that the Confederate c.av airy have heen increased to about five:, thousand, and are encamped in a valley beyond Tunnel U ill. There is also a cansiderable force about six miles b e low' Ringgold. Their picket line is generar ly within a mile of the Federal pickets, but there is no disposition shown by eith er party to advance. It is not believed that Gen. Johnson has been reinforced. Forrest, however, is reported to be re ceiving reinforcements, but he is con sequently harassed by the federal cav alry. Advices from New Orleans to the 27th ult. state that Gen. Banks started for the front on the 23d. Admiral Farragut had been at Pensacola fbr a few days and would leave on the 2G,th for the Texas coast. The operations at Fort; Powell, near Mobile, are snspeztded for the present. The advance pf General Banks' forces had reached Alexandria. La., after some light skirmishing, and capturing eighty or ninety prisoners.— On the 21st ult, three hundred Confed erates were also captured about twen five miles from Alexandria. Among them was Gen. Taylor's chief of staff.— The gunboats on the Red river having commenced destroying property, the troops now follow their eNaniple. , The inhabitants are destroying all the pri vate stores of cotton to •preveni from tallin(r r , into the hands-of the Feci -411 erals .. •
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