E gite trillettger. . W. JONES, 1 gi " °/1 JAS. S. JENNINGS 4 4 "One Country, One Constitution, One Destiny." lIVIVASSIIMiI WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1864. VORIPICESIDENT IN 1864, GEN. GEORGE B. NIcCLELLAN, isuidect to tke Decision of tie Democratic Na ttonal Convention.] DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET. ASSEIiF„I, IMICINMAS ROSE. esativ Tr. iIELFZIFF, 11EAL TR JOINS, OF WASHINOTOIII. COMMISSIOM, TMOMAS , II.OOTT, • Or WHITELY. DISTETOT ATTORNEY, JOIIIGIPH G. KITCHISt IMEEITZEI POOR Horn DniROToR, AIM/WM RIN lit 14 KIM OF FRANKLIN. 4IIDITOIL, A. 41. MARTIN; OF WAYMIL t "While the army is fighting, you as eff luent' see that the war is prosecuted for the preservation of the Union and the Constitution, and of your nationality acd your rights as eitizens.” GEO. B. IlleCL ELL AN. jter“The Constitution and the Union! I place them together. If they stand, they must stand together; If they fall, they must fall together.”—.Dosie/ Webster.* Presidential Proclamations. The President is truly "great" on Procla mations I • 'Whenever and wherever he can bring one to bear, he is sure to let it off:— }Esconfidence in their efficacy seems to be equal to what need to be said of Dr. Brad dock in creating Fits, It was the boast of his man Inday that if the Doctor could throw a patient into fits he was sure to cure him No difference what the circumstances of the country may be it is regarded as a fitting time with •the President to let drive a Pro fanation. Even lately wizen the enemy was overrunning Maryland, threLteni ag Pennsyl vania, tearing up Railroads, burning bridges, and even battering at the walls of the capitol, almost, the President found time to issue two or three Proclamations! Congress not king his one-tenth reconstruction plans, OA determining to overrule him in his crazy and illegal impracticable vagaries on that "abject, passed a law of their own for re-ad mitting the rebel States. The President neither signed theolaw, nor vetoed it, but is• seed a Proclamation I This was an ingenious suss to save his pet governments in Louisiana and Arkansas, S which he has expended so much e trouble, and in connection with which so much blood and treasure have been uselessly wasted, Sder Gen. Banks, to the discredit of the administration of Mr Lincoln. • Then again there was his Proclamation proclaiming Martial law, .and suspending the writ of Habeas Corpus in Kentucky, which is seriously suspected to be designed to op erate at the approaching 'Elections in that un appy State. It will thus ba seen that we have a Presi dent who, no difference what is the condi tion or danger to the cronntry, always has an eye to the chances to the perpetuation of hie Political power and ascendency. A nice Little Rebuke neatly Adminie- • tefbd te'Uncle Abraham! The hat, Congress, in subserviency to the wishes of the President, passed a law author ling the admisaion of the Territories.of Nel breaks and Dacotah into the Union, by Pres idential Proclamation, insteadtf the ordinary wilY, by a vote of congress, provided said Territories framed Constitutions and asked admission. Ebbe President in view of the prospect of adding these to the number of friendly Electoral votes in the next election, quietly posted off his private Secretary to these Territoriea, to put into operation the requirite machinery to effect his wishes. A Convention was called for the purpose of framing a Constitution. But the people of the Territory, • prefering that the ermenses of their government shotdd be.llorne a little lon ger by Uncle Samuel, elected Delegates to the Convention; who; at a meeting a few days ego, resolved, unanimously, to adjourn siNT. DIX, WITHOUT #A KIWI A. CONSTITUTION! It /1114. try. bol we presume slanderously, that this `result was bronght about, through the instnimerihdity of the D e mocratic? Terriforlal Committee, who, in a circular, recommended this course to the people. Bat Democrats every where are becoming "disloyal" to the administration and Utile better is to be ex pected from ;tom! • j Some Copperhead has started such "disloyal" questions as. the •fullowiiig : After a war of 84 years' duratitm; 13.uasia, w i t h a population of 75,000.000, has at last subju gated Oireassia, with a population of 40, , 000. If it takes 78,000,00 8 Stunians 84 laws to autityista 400, - 000 . Ciroanshula, how low will it Wes 10,000,000 Airakitaitatt f . 1ti1t40184,60, 00 8 laseciBBoB ' • : •••••.!,,,:fil • • , Old Abe's Last Joke. The reteeit call for 500,000 more troops, is thought• by tnany persons to be a great po aka' joke. Joke or nojobs, it "comes in such questioniblesliaper that we will' •speak of it in disarmer it deserves. When Abraham Lincoln assumed the func tions of Chief Elecutive Of this government he foolishly concluded that 75,0()Q men would be sufficient to close the rebellion, and since that unfortunate period it appears that he has blundered along the National High way—fading thus tar to comprehend the gi gantic proportions of the rebellion. Perhaps his pedisposition to joking renders it extreme ly difficult for anything of a serious char acter to take full posession of his mind.— Perhaps atter all that has been said upon the übject this call may result in a political joke. If Lincoln's object as a candidate for the Presidency be to increase the army with a view more easily to influence Democrats to vote for him, it may turn out a political joke, but we will not longer indulge in the mirthful mood of many of our exchanges upon so grave a subject. Will the Loyal Leaguers the self-consti tuted judges of loyalty, go torth to battle under this call of their great leader without a word of complaint ? Will Republicans all over the land shout the battle-cry of free dom, as did Uncle Abe to the Canada Com missioners? Or will they not be among tire first to pronounce the Proclamation un constitutional on the ground that the Presi dent, like the rebels South, has torfaited constitutional' rights by trampling that sa cred instrument under foot with impunity. Suspending the writ of Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and nearly every kind of freedom ex cept the freedom of niggers. Judging from the tone of the Republican press they are beginning to change their tune already, and think Lincoln ought at least to have courteously stated the necess ity foe so large a demand as that embriced in his call. Why the necessity of 500, - 000 additional soldiers., when our brave army of the South West is just entering the gates of Atlanta, and the Heroic Army of the Po tomac needs no increase in the language of its commander as well as Mr. Lincoln if their views are not mis-stated. It has not been long since Lincoln made a speech at Philadelphia, after his return from the army and said that no more troops were needed. Does the country really require 500,000 troops, or is it only Lincoln that demands them for despotic purposes? The good Lord only knows what will become of us. If Mr. Lincoln can direct his underlings to rob the mails in order to read the correspondence of McClellan, Gov. Seymour and others, when the legal penalty of such an "offence is so severe who dare questio his power. So far as regards disloyalty or disobedience to law, Lincoln hie set a shameful example to the people." When' the Constitution, the fundamen tal. and . supreme law, can be violated with impunity by the President under the allega tion that it is necessary to put down the constitution in order it save it, what inferior law will have any controlling influence over that nog tunctionary? Let the people an swer for themselves at the ballot box this fall. Americans Shall Rule America! This was the favorite political war cry of Know NOthings before they were swallowed by Abolibionisin, but now practically their war cry is, Africans shall rule America! at all events the Nigger is in every Republican wood pile. It is for the benefit of "ow-an remota" they especially legislate. The negro is in every Territorial bill, in the District of Columbia bill, in the Army bill, in the Appropriation bill, in the Confis cation bill, in the Conscript bill, in the Fugi tive Slave Law bill; and in nearly all the bills, except the Soldiers bill of fare, and from this they detract largely. The nigger is in nearly every proclamation from the President, 'and if this state of affairs must continue, it would be the shortest way to the accomplishment of their object, to allow the African to rule America, without introducing the slow pro gress of miscegenation. • Surely the language of the Bible is being speedily fulfilled, "lien of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie." Democrats. We have a word to say to you in refer ence to the impoitance of the political cam paign now before us. You are anxious for the success of the Democratic party, that the government may be brought back to the principles of the framers of the Constitution. YQII are opposed to the errection of a mili tary despotism upon the ruins of the best government devised by human agency.— YOn.admit that the Democratic Press exerts a potent influence in its behalf. Will you, individually and collectively, do all in your power to extend the circulation of your local and city. Democratic papers ? It is your du ty so to do. Will you not perform all that can be reasonably required of you? Always remember one thing—that the principles of Democracy flourish just in proportion to the success of the press—no more, no less. We hope you will go to work in earnest in this matter. It fOla can increase the circulation of every Democratic paper one hundred per cent, you do vastly more than can be done by' mammoth' mass meetings, flags and ban ners. If you lAN neighbor who cannot afford to take a paper in them times, go and pa" for one during the campaign; and have sent`to him free bf charge. We give you good advice; and hope you will profit by It. Exalting the Negro. De Tocqueville, in his celebrated work on the "Democracy of America," in speaking of the D egrees, made this remark : "Wherever the whites and blacks have lived together in the same State, history has opened.but two accounts between them, viz : When the whites by reason of weir intellec tual suoeriority, were stronger than the blacks, they reduced them to. slavery, and when,- by reason of their vest: .numerical su- Periority, thellacks become stronger than the whiten, the blacks rose itedUardend the i vr= Tbre is zio•othek **dad eccount -040".7 The Peace Movement - The peace 'moven:tent' is 'rapidly gaining ground:throughout the entire country, both Nottit' iind South. The peoPle are not so sanguine for the continuation (V this struggle as they were in the beginning.— They express a manifest unwillingness on their part to raise men and money in order to prosecute the war any further, in fact they are tired of suffering any longer the painful influences which accompany such a gigantic civil strufgl€ as the one in which we are now engaged, and whose magnitude was nev er before eqnalled since the world was crea ted. Both parties are anxious for peace, and it would be difficult to determine on which side it was most desired. The North and South commenced this terrible war without considering the evil consequences which would attend it, and both were equally lav ish in their expenditures, and their gigantic preparations for the vigorous continuation thereof. They both are now grieving over their impetuosity, and mourning over their braved and most energetic citizens, whose boue4now whiten the plains of Virginia, and whose efforts, united with our own, would have raised this country to a standard of wealth and glory unprecedented in the annals of kingdoms, empires, and republics. True it is that we have astonished the world with our warlike energy, and attracted the admir ation of all Europe through the immense re sources which we have displayed during the war, but what benefit do we gain by this, or can we contemplate this fact with any real complacency, while so many thousands of our brave men are no more, and while we ourselves are taxed beyond endurance ? No we have accomplished nothing worth a ser ious consideration during this war, and there fore are we tired of it, and can barely re frain from expressing our disgust at the idea of prosecuting it any longer. Even Massa chusetts which at first was so sanguine for war, and for the Abolition of slavery through out the Union, is now crying for peace. We desire the restoration of the Union, if it is possible to obtain it, but the experience of three years spent in vain is a convincing ar gument for us to be guided by on that score. The country is loud in its cryings for peace, and this it must have in spite of the Admin istration with all its Abolition theories. How the Money Goes. In some criminal proceedings recently in stituted against the house of Schofield 63 Co., Government Contractors in New York, their books were produced in Court to prove the manner in which they did business. At four different dates their bills exhibited the following features : May 26, 1863. Original cost, SI 426.73 Ch'd. to Gov't. $6 754.00 Aug. 15, '63, SI 652 40 " " " $4 111.60 Sept. 7, '43, $ 625.00 " " " - $1 601 25 Nov. 2, '63, 5 80 00 " " " 56 950.50 83,784 15 Profit, Messrs. Schofield & Co., are staunch sup porters of the war—good "loyal" patriots and Union-Leaguers. The expose of their books shows to the tax-payers how it is that so many Government contractors become sud denly rich, and it also indicates why they are so clamorous for a continuance of the war. Never since time began, says an ex change was there such monstrous and un blushing public robberies as are now going on finder the Lincoln administration, and all under the pretence of carrying on the war for the restoration of the Union, when the fact is they are destroying it beyond redemp tion. When will the people get their eyes opened to the terrible fate which awaits the country ? far The new Secretary of the Treasury had to encounter great difficulty in the com mencement of his new career. Among the rest there was one of a very serious nature, which had to be surmounted. The mills for printing greenbacks did not work by any means as fast as it was found necessary, and the greenbacks which could be daily furnish ed from the mills, could hardly pay the troops in the field. This was a serious diffi culty, faster mills than these should have been invented in order to meet the exigen cies of our Administration, and none but a Copperhead would think that three or four million dollars per diem would be sufficient to defray the expenses of our great .] The new Secretary of the Treasury was obliged to negotiate a loan with the New York bankers, and we are happy to say that he succeeded beyond expectation, so that fifty million•f dollars were obtained without much difficulty. This amount kould defray ell government expenses for a long space of time, if weirere living in peace, but we want war, riiNICO is out of date, and we will spend our last dollar to sustain the Adminis tration in 4etending the rights of thh "im mortal nigger." • A Truth. In the money article of Monds,7's Iriquirer occurred this truthful passage : "Thousands of individuals, who, previous to the breaking out of the present war were at some loss perhaps to provide for them selves the ordinary comforts of lice, have been lately placed in situations of profitable employment, and many of them have grown rich from entering into contracts connected with our national troubles. It would be well for. all such persons to exercise a grave prudence in regard to the management of their fortunes hereafter, if they should be come careless and wastetul, proud and ex tragant, their personal gains cannot but prove a source of positive injury to them." Negro on the Brain. The Louisville Democrat says - there are two types of this disease, a Southern and a Northern one. A singular circumstance la its history is, that those afflicted most vio lently with the Southern type are found al so to be the greatest sufferers from the Nor there. Alter having the disorder ia both forms, it would be interesting to know whether a party is subject to any third at tack. - There seems to be no cure for this epidemie; nor any antidote except honesty, of which -there is not blif enough in the comity to, sop* the demand. A New brag Ordered--A Call for 500,600 Men.' In the half a million of . new soldiers for which the Prenidelit calls in his Proclama tion are needed, the call is a cry of distress and a national humiliation. The bogus proclamation of Howard called for only tour -fifths as many, and that inventive scamp is immured in Fort Layfayette for conveying to the world the impression that the Virgin ia chnipaign was a failure. Certain it is, that public expectation is disappointed, and the tOuntry will not hesitate to inquire who is re sponsible for the terrible .ind unavailing waste of life which renders five hundred thousand new men necessary so soon after the opening of a campaign that promised to be triumphant. We say "unavailing waste of life," for we cannot see that ary substan tial advantage has been gained by our army since it left the Rapidan. It has recoiled again and again before rebel intrenchments ; it is now arrested by rebel - intrenchments and the whole distance from Petersburg to Richmond is hedged up by rebel intrench ments, placed at short i ntervals for the whole distance of twenty miles. "My plan." as Mr. Lincoln called the overland march, has cost in this single campaign more men than Napoleon or Wellington commanded at Waterloo; not more men than either of them lost, we be"eech our countrymen to mark, but more than either of them had to lose. And yet the prospect of taking Ri,212- mond is not much better than the prospect of taking Charleston. , We trust the President in calks for so immense a levy has considered s hearing on the nati'mal finances, as well as on our military prospects. It is equivalent to add ing at least three hundred millions to the fiscal estimates for the year. nut how is this enormous addition to an otherwise large deficit to be made up ? One of the last official acts of Mr. Chase, as Secretary of the Treasury, was to make a strong rep resentation to Congress of the inadequacy of the means it had provided for meeting the expenses of the year, althouge his esti mate of the expenses was based on the size of the army as it then.stood. He employed (so a friend of his publicly stated) careful experts to go over the internal revenue tax, and they were unable to figure up more than two hundred and twenty-five millions as the receiptifrom that source, during the fiscal year which commenced the first of the present month. Mr. Chase estimated that the revenue from customs would not exceed sixty millions, accordingly. the whole in come of the government from the two main sources of revenue, would be only two hun dred and eighty-five millions. Now this new levy of five hundred thousand men will alone cost more than that; to say nothing of the existing array, the navy, and the ex penses of civil administration. The financial effect of this new call for soldiers is, there fore, precisely the same as if the President had drawn a sponge over the tariff and in ternal revenue laws, and had wiped them cut. And this at a time when the Treasury Department is staggering under its accumu lated burdens. Men enough are to be added to the army to absurb all the taxes, and so leave the government no resource but loans. The war, for aught we can see, might as well break down for want of men as for want of money to pay and support them. In the first year of the war, five hundred thousand men were thought to be sufficient for all purposes which could net be served by the militia. This opinion was expressed by Secretary Cameron in his annual report in December, 1864. "With the object of reducing the volunteer force to five hundred thousand," he said: "I propose, with the consent of Congress, to consolidate such of the regiments as may, from time to time, fall below the regular standard. The adop tion of this measure will decrease the num ber of officers and proportionately diminish the expenses of the *rimy." In the same re port, Secretary Cameron, quoting from Jo mini, states.that the forces of Napoleon on the first of June, 1815, after exertions of great vigor to recruit them, amounted to four hundred and fourteen thousand men.— At that time Napoleon had the allied ar mies of Europe to contend against. We re cur to these figures to show how• far we are exceeding all the old standards of mil itary prudence in our expenditures. This oubstitution of numbers for brains is an ex periment whose success, thus far, does not very clearly justify its adoption, We are profoundly convinced that had our army nev er exceeded five hundred thousand men, our military progress would have been at least equal, while our finances would have under gene no perceptible derangement,—(World. $l3 447 35 3,784 15 $9,662 20 Abraham's Pets. Says the New York Herald's Washington correapondent : • "Over a thousand contrabands arrived here to-day from the White House, and were sent to Col. Green's Freedman's Col ony. All the men able to work are employ ed in the Quartermaster's Department. The Colony 1, in a moat thriving condition, hav-: ing three thousand acres under a high state of cultivation, and crops of wheat and rye that promise a harvest valued at ten thou sand dollars." Tills is. how the negroes stay in the South, as we were told they would by bur Abolition friends. This is how they are taken care of and feasted on the tat of the land while soldier's families are suffering the pangs of want—not to mention the fact that poor white Union refligeei are daily starving for food and perishing of hardships.—[Val ley Spirit, • The friends of Lincoln have much to say about sympathizers.• We know of two kinds, ' viz : One that sympathizes with the people in the great calamity that has befallen the nation, and the other that empathizes with Lincoln, the speculators, thieves and plun derers that have obtained possession of the Government. The Democracy, we are glad to say, belong , to the former clue. It is easy to determine whioh s the most meritor isms class. Sympathizers. Taxes Taxes. . Previous to the adjournment of Congress, on liondi7, the' House bill imposing an ad ditional income tax' of five per cent. on ill incomes over $6OO, payable in October, for the purpose of paying the bounties and ex penses of the draft provided for by the en rollment bill, was called up in the Senate and passed, so that it is now a law. This is in addition to the five per cent. imposed by the amended revenue Ix bill, which passed a few days ago, so that we have now taxes to the amount of ten per cent. on all incomes over six hundred dollars. If things keep on in this way, it will be an advantage to the people, to keep the taxes themselves, if pos sible, end pay the income over to "the gov ernment."—(Patriot & Union. gerGreeley, in an editorial belaboring the Congress which has just adjourned, has the Mowing : "The XXXVIIIth Congress, which has just closed its longer session was an uncommonly green one. We believe not more than half its members ever before held seats in either House. A very considerable proportion of its members are men of quite moierate abilities--about equal to the duties of justices of the peace." ter Dennison, writing to Lincoln to an nounce his nomination says : "The popular instinct had plainly indicated you as its can dilate." There is fitness in using "instinct," which is the attrtbute of beasts, in the above connection. his very clear that the popu lar REASON would never have made such a choice.—[Day ton Em pire. t onmuntirationo. Ifsssns. Enrroas:—l see in the last issue of the "Republican" that its erudite (?) edi tor has made several charges against me as a Democrat, and winds up with (as he no doubt supposed) a fatal charge at the party itself First, He charges me with having said to some citizens on Saturday last, that if I lived to get to the polls I would vote against the amendment to the &Institution, giving the soldiers the right to vote., To this I plead guilty. Second, He charges me with having said that the soldier had no right to vote. This I say emphatically is esiss—as the false hearted could make it. I did not say THAT,. but I said that the soldier as a cit izen of Pennsylvania had no more right to vote outside the State than any other citizen had, when by the force of circumstances the citizen was compelled to be out of the. State on the day of election. This is all that I •said regarding £ho matter, but some one has had the audacious meanness to report it in a different light, which I again repeat is a falsehood of the blackest kiln!. The learned editor by a series ot logical de ductions then makes me out a leader of the Democratic party, and winds up by charging the party with having tried to oreate the im presaion that its members were going to vote for the amendment—and then with a grand flourish concludes that the declaration ot my own intentions was also a declaration of the intentions of the party, because I was a lead er of it as the editor, (Corporal Evans) had attempted to show by his brilliant flourishes of logic and learning. I have never claimed to be a leader of the Democratic party, but have only tried to fill my place as an humble member of it. I have always regarded its principles as pure and sacred and have tried with my utmost abili ty to make those principles subservient to the good of the people and the party. The party are not going to vote against the amendment as is charged on the contrary, I can tell the ignorant -author of the charge that three-fourths of the Democratic party in Pennsylvania will vote for it. Further than this they have not made it a party measure either way like the opposition who have re sorted to every little detestable nefarious trick to consummate their base and corrupt aims. So far as I am concerned Ido not vote against it because it is a party measure, but because conscience and reason dictate it, reserving the right to every man whether of the Democratic or the Abolition Miscegena tion party to do as he sees proper. I feel that if it were not opening the avenue of fraud the soldier should vote ; but I do know that it is one of the many mean attempts of the Abolition party to consummate their corrupt designs by wholesale fraud and nev er will Iby vote or otherwise give sanction to open or secret frauds by any party. I . feel that it I were to vote for this, that I should by Mr vote as a citizen of Pennsylva nia be giving sanction to what I know will end in fraud of the darkest dye, and feeling thus, reason, judgment, conscience, every thing dictates that I should vote against it. Ido not say this in extenuation of my de clarations. Neither do I say it because I feel the weight of4;tnything that such a man as the editor of the Republican might say— for as there is no dog law sufficiently string ent to keep dogs from barking or puppies from snarling, therefore I say let him go ahead, —as he amounts to little, make the best out ofsitim that you can—but I simply say it to clear up a false and malicious state ment regarding my declarations. For the Messenger Masons. Enrroas : Sirs:—ln looking over the Republican, dated July 26th, I see the editor informs his few readers that G. W. G. Waddell declared in the presence of a num ber of persons that in his opinion, the sol diers have no right to vote, &c. We would say thairwe have always voted the Demo cratic ticket, and expect to vote it this fall. We also expect to vote for the amendment next month. As the editor of the smut ma chine can inform its readers of the misdoings of some few of the Democratic party, will it be so kind as to inform three of us how many leading Republicans of Greene county-that are willing to volunteer to shoulder the mus ket and knapsack and assist us in Ming uP our quotas and mare the draft. Volevies:l will be received up to the 80th day of Am. 180. Tears, dr, TgE. MO. For the Messenger. Wksnrxo.rox, July 21.—The Nation al Republican has the following intelli gence in advance of its publication.— The Government has received, dispatch es from Sherman this morning, announ cing that the enemy assaulted the lines three times yesterday, and was repulsed each time with .little loss. Our men fought behind earth works, hence the small loss. But the enemy coming out of the defences of the city to offer bat htle became more exposed, and suffered greatly. NEW Youit,A July 21.—A World Washington special says: the rebel loss in their raid will amount to 2,000. Mont gomery county, Maryland, is over run with stragglers It is reported that the rebels did not go into Shenandoah valley, but hurried along for Richmond, this side of. Blue Ridge, as fast as possible. WS s dispos"es of the report that they had halted and would return. Our gunb:mts have driven away the bat teries that were firing into our trans ports on the James. NEW YORK, July 21.—A Times Washington special says : Hunter ask ed to be relieved only so as not to em barrass Gen. Wright. The pursuit of the enemy is being carried on by the forces under Generals. Wright and Hun ter with great vigor and every promise of large success; they are moving south on parallel lines, and trains flying from one column are pretty certain to fall in to the hands of the other. NEW YORK. July 23.—A Herald dis patch, dated Nashville, 22d, says : The success of Sherman's movements in cut ting the eastern and Southern commu nications with Atlanta lead to the be lief that the rebels have been foiled in their attempt to escape, and that their operations in that place have already been narrowed down to a siege. Two large cavalry forces, some One since, left the army at different points, and have doubtless ere this cut the Macon and Columbus railroad in such a man ner that if the enemy succeeds in leav ing the city to g o away, it must be at a loss of life and property. G. W. G. W. Naw Your, July 22.-.--Thornton's guerrillas turned back from Livingston last night, and occupied Caldwell coun ty. After being Joined by another band from the West, the combined force, numbering some five hundred, marched on Plattsburg, Clinton county, when the surrender of the garrison, consisting of two companies of militia, was demanded in the name of the Con federate, States Army. Captain Turn er, commanding the post, refused to surrender and told his men to escape. A fight ensued, in which Capiain Turn er was killed. Mr st of the escaped militia have airived here. Gten. Flak's appeal is 'heink . prdinptly respon4l, to, and Meti are sent into the field at Once. One thousand men, tinder Gen Den Ilan, wilt soon ktere from Andrew county. I. el tUTO • Propositions for Peace. Nawyona, * July 21.—A dispatch from Niagara Falls says : An inter view has taken place between Messrs. Clay, Thompson and Holcomb, who claim to he Ccn:missiorers 11CLU the rebel government, to seek terms of peace, and Mr. Greely, authorized by Mr. Lincoln to act in matters concern ing the proposed restoration of the Union statue quo, upon this basis : First —All negroes which have been already freed by war to be secured in such freedom. Second—All negroes at pres ent held as slaves to remain so. Third —The war debt of both parties to be paid by the United States. Fourth— The old doctrine of State rights to be recognized in reconstructing the Union. This proposition was laid betore Mr. Lincoln by Mr. Greely. The President at once telegraphed to him the terms upon which he would propose a settle ment and reconstruction, to wit : The full and compete restoration of the Union in all its territorial integrity, and the abandonment of slavery by the se ceded States, under conditions which should, while respecting the property, and the rights of all loyal men afford ample security against another war in the interest of slavery. After consid erable correspondence between the par ties, it was consented to refer the Nihole matter back to the two Governments for reconsideration. Interview With Rebel Commissioners. NEW Yowl . , July 21.—A Herald Niagara dispatch says :—Mr. Greely, accompanied by Mr. Hay, private sec retary of Lincoln, have had an inter view with G. N. Saunders and others claiming to be Peace Commissioners of the rebels. The Commissioners want to visit Washington, and requested a statement of the terms upon which such visit might be made ; they were accept ed. The dispatch says that the state ment of propositions published in a New York paper of Tuesday is repudiated. From General Sherman. _ Ttie Star says : A dispatch from Gen.'Huntur reports the following, just received from Gen Aveiill : NEAR WINCHESTER, July 20.—Breek iaridge divided his force at Berryville, sending General Early td Winchester and taking the other direction towards .MilliNood. I attacked and defeated Early to-day, in front of Winchester, killing and wounding over 300 of his officers and men, capturing four cannon, several hundred small arms, and abuut 200 prisoners. Gen. 'Lilly is seriouAy wounded and in our hands. Col. Board, of the 58th Virginia, is killed. The cannon and prisoners have been sent to Martinsburg. The enemy's loss in offi cers is heavy. Prisoners report their force to have been 5,000. The com mands of Jackson and Imboden, which were present, are not iuchtded in the mentioned strength. Rebel Loss in the Late Raid. Wright and Hunter in Pursuit. Rebel Communications with Atlanta EH Fight with Guerrillas in Missouri. CALL FOR A DRAWL Prasident Lincoln's Proclamation. WA3HINGTOII, July 18. By" the President of the Untied Stated of America. A PROCLAMATION' Whereas, by the act, approved July 4, 1804, entitled "An act farther to reg ulate and provide for the enrolling and. calling out the national forces and for other purposes," it is provided that the President of the United States may, at his discretion, at any time hereafter, call for any number of men as volun teers; for the respective terms of - one, tiro, and three years,for military service and "that in case the quota or any part thereof of any town, township, ward or a city, 'precinct, or election district, 'Or of a county not so sub-divided, shall not be filled within the space of fifty days after such calf. then The President shall, immediately order a draft for one year to fill such quota, or any part thert;;;,. which may be unfilled: ' And - whereas, the new enrolment heretofore ordered is so tar completed as that the aforementioned act of Congress may now be put in operation for re cruiting and keeping up the strength of the armies in the field for garrisons and such military operations es may be re quired for the purpose of suppressing the rebellion and restoring the authority' of the United States government in the . insurgent states: Now, therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the iJnited States, do issue this my call for five hundred thousand volunteers for the military service ; pro vided, nevertheless ' that all credits which may be-established under section eight of the aforesaid act, on the account of the persons who have entered the naval service during the present rebellion, and by credits for men furnished to the military service in exsess of calls hereto fore made for volunteers, will be accept ed under this call for one, two, or three years, as they may elect, and will be en titled to the bounty provived by law for the period of service for which they en list. And I hereby proclaim, order, and direct that immediately after the sth day of September, 1864, being fifty days from the date of this call, a draft for troops to serve for one year shall be held in every town, township, ward of a city, precinct, election district, or a county not so sub-divided, to fill the quota which shall he assigned to it under this scale or any part thereof, which may be unfilled by volunteers on the said 6th day of September, 1864. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed, Done at the City of 'Washington this eighteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord, 1364, and of the Indepen dency of the United States the 84th. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By the President: WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State. ANOTHER RAID ON MARYLAND. Mosbyls Gang Reported In the State. Supplies Removed from Plunders' React. NEW YORE, July 25.—The Post's Washington special says that part of M.osby's cavalry entered western Mary land, but is not known whether there is more behind. Col. Lowell, 2d Mass achusetts, has succeeded in removing a large amount of government supplies and much flour by canal. to George town. A special to the New York Commer cial from Washington, dated 23d says : A gentletnau who saw the party cross ing into Maryland yesterday puts the number at 5,000 cavalry, artillery an4l infantry. Atlanta Occupied by Sherman. NEW Your., July 23.—A World Washington special, of the 22d,' says : Dispatches from the West received here to-night announce the occupation of of Atlanta by Sherman, which succeed ed the heavy engagement fought yes terday between Sherman and Hood, in which the latter was defeated. It is now definitely known that Sherman's cavalry have destroyed the railroad south and east of Atlanta in such an effective manner as to prevent their far ther use by the enemy. There is no truth in the reported bat tle at Leesburg, Va. No rebel forces are in that .vicinity. It is ascertained that the main portion of the rebel forces have fully retreated South, and our troops have closed the pursuit Operations Before Petersburg. NEW Yon, July 23 —A Tenth Corps correspendent, writing on the 21st, says : A general artillery engagement' took place yi a erday. The 30 pounders opened upon a newly discovered Wel don Railroad depot in the city, and shells dropped so accurate that two lo comotives were burned before the guns• ceased. The depot is a mass of ruins. The 13-inch mortars repeatedly sent missies through ,the rebel works, and its 200-pound shells inflicted a heavy: damage. After a few hours fighting was completely siltnced. From Grant's Army. New YORK, July 23.—A Herald's . correspondent, with Grant's army, sayic.' General Wilcox was slightly wounded . in the tliigh on Tuesday nitrht. An other correspondent says of General Smith being relieved of his command of the 18th oorps: The exigencies of, the public service require he should take another command. He is ordered to report at New York. Rebel Communication Cut Off. LorsvaLE, July 22.--Yesterday's Na tional Union states that on Monday morning; Decatur, Georgia, was occu _ pieothyour forces, thus cutting off all, rebel COminnnication with South Caro lina by the way of Macon. Deserter& and stragglersiliave keen coming into' our lines since we crEssed the Claus hooohie in tat numbers. They resent that all hope of sating Athtusl has disappeared.
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