Fitt tootaitt.
W. JONES, I Editois.-
JAB. S. JENNINGS'S
"'Ovid Country, One Constitution, One
Destiny,"
litiltS3lolllitS)
WEDITSDLY, A x. 10,1864.
FOR PRESIDENT IN 1864,
SEN. GEORGE B. McCLELLAN,
I t sf4dec4 10 -eke Decision of the Democratic Ara
banal Convention.]
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
ASSEMBLY,
THOMAS ROSE,
MIRY TP.
SHERIFF,
HEATH JOHNS,
or WASHINGTON.
COMMISSIONER,
THOMAS SCOTT,
;or WHITHLY.
ArrOKsTST,
JOSEPH O. RITCHIE,
OF MARION. - • •
POO4 14 Opp . ; CTOp,
ARTHUR' AIN HART,
I=
AUDITOR,
A. J. MARTIN,
OF MAYNE.
- While tee l iiimy is fighting, you as cit-
Lamle see that, the war is prosecuted for
the' preseriation of the: Upion ,and the
Conltltution, and of your _nationality azd
youtertghts as citizens: ,
.GEO. 13.—Upr,ILIELLAN.
EMal
A-M . ...The Constitution and the Tinton:
I pli'Ve"llteno together; Ut3ey stand, Clay
must' stand together; if they fall; they
Inuit fall together."...Dattie/ TVebater.
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Abolition Candidate for Congress.
That notorious and unscrupulous political
trickster and intuiguer, Geo. V. LLWRENOE
of Washing* toasty, has 'at last been nomi
onted-foi Congress tby 3 the"Abolitioniuts of
tbie Pisttict.;rls6 Confereelyhoniinitting
hjm t hi tyro M eetings about it, and'itilis
sAjourned in Jod temper and xitith a good
deal of hard :swearing. Ills defeat is as Do
4)in at the rising a the sup on the 2d Tues
sioky of,,October. It will be an easy task for
the Democratic candidate. "George" is'one
of the illustrious "played .out." • ,
serme Otter day the New York Tribune
costapatialfthie ihicwo , with the Baltimore
platfortk. and iontritulatad its readers that
the Beptbliennion •dr the one had blossom
ed out intAthe fell-blbOta 4bah'tiouiwn of
#' s othiTl .1.440 .I is 02101 vbiet t four
?r,thc,Pftridesetott".ivipla
=I
The gallantripf the Negro troops was
beautifttlly illustrated in the assault' on 'the
enemy's works at Petersburg, the Otfiley day.
So far as tkey ieit concerned, their' ietreat
Was alerted rout, resulting in 'thi follow
ing leases:at
Twenty-third United States, colored,
—l5 officers killed and ''banded; 400
men, including the missing.
Twenty-eigt United States colored.
—ll officers, and 150 killed, wounded
and missing.
' Twenty-seventh United States, color
ed.-6 officers; ar.d about 130 men kill
ed, wounded and missing.
Twenty-niuthUnited States, colored.
—8 °Mears, and about 275 men killed,
at . °walled' and inissin Cr.
Thirty-first UniteeStates, colored.-
7 officers, and about 200 men killei
wounded and missing.
Forty-third United States, colored.
6 officers, and a large number of n
killed, wounded and missing.
Thirty-ninth United States, color
—Several officers and aUut 250
killed, wounded 11.44 missing.
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Lincoln against it unless Slavery
Abolished.--His present and fora
declarations compared--his Hype
risy and Inconsistency.
We clip the following articles on the
topics from the "New York World."
them be universally read, and let can
men of all parties Nucler well the gr./
tretias'and indigputi,l4e facts they contain
EXCUTIVE MAN2IOX,
Washington, .Jnly 18, '64.
TO WITO3f IT WAY CA()NeEti.N . :
Any 'proposition' wiich embraces the
stovatiomot peace, the integrity of the wh.
'Union, , AND .THE ••ABAnDONMENT
SLAVERY; , AND wiirou COMES
AND WITH AN AUTHORITY THAT
pffTROLIIIE ARMIES NOW AT W.
80..4./NST THE UNITED STATES, W]
t RECEIVED AND CONSIDERED
THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT
THE UNITED STATES, and will lie
by liberal terms on substantial and
lateral points, and the bearer or bet,
thereof shall have safe conduct both ways.
Collate this "to whom it may concern" let
ter with Mr. Lincoln's past declarations am'
avowals, and it will be difficult to resini
wiinin decorous larignage the sense' of mark
indignation which arises in conteinplatiniit
liii4ishing and shameless perjury. Light
farina do not fit. His first official act was
oath, a solemn oath, calculated' to bind
conscience of an honorable man add 'reitrain
the acts of a dishonorable one. lifianY Hines
has Mr Lincoln viplatetl !ifs 'oath. 'Lk ihe
political casuists defend Il6w lie VfO
lates his oath openly and publishes his
shame. His own words in past time, deny
ing to himself any such purpose as he is now
accomplishing, are ,all that is necessary to
convict him of perjury. Other commentary
is needless. Political opponent;; cart afford
tows (liinnb. 'Out of his 'uwii inotith is the
Pie'sidenti i 'coridemried. He hag again and
again disclaimed that the Object 'of the war
‘Vtis nbolitiOn; he has again anil again' eliar
actery2 a" . pijoaittitien "of ttO ;i'aivfoi•
the Union as lawless and wicked ; he hag ad
cepted the pledges of his party, whose plat
form disavowed any such purpose in its
creed or hopes as abolition by the federal
government ; to his party, to the public, to
Congress, he has reiterated these disavowals;
to foreign nations by the pen of his Secretary
of 'hag* 4poared the same thing,
branded ditch al:dr - 144" as - enconstitigicgal,
and cletiared its impossibility of 'tiedoniPlish
tett; even if united in bj Congress, the peo
ple, and the executive, for the reason that
judicial authcrii:i woult beinterposed to pre
vent it. • '•-•
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SEW. Said Mr. Seward in thxl wellAncwr.
; •
payon letter.?
It is hardly necessary to add to this incon
testable statement [that the rights of the
States and the condition of every human be
ing in them would remain the same, the re
bellion succeeding or tailing] the further tact
that the new President, as .well as the citi
zens through whose 'suffive he l as come in
fo thothministradinr, Vas alsity4 :repudiated
all designs.whatever and wherever Imputed
to him and them of:disturbing , the system of
slavery as it is existinggr under the Consti
tution and the laws:'Vie .. t4se, hoNievery
would not be fully iireselited if I were to omit
toosy that any such eflort on his part would
be unconstitutional, and all his actions in
that direction . woul4 be prevented by aft-ju
dicial authority, even Iliongh they were as
sented to by Congress and the people.
Could language be more "explicit ? Yet
compare this with Mr. Lincoln's Niagara let
ter. Ho does thus interfere with slavery.—
He periists is keeping thirty millions of peo
to ett NI-fl;' rather than listen to an overture
of peace in which the abandonment of slav
ery is not the key-note, and yet has thus
publicly and officially avowed, over and over
again, his repudiation of purposes now dis
closed, and the lawless character of acts new
boldly done.
The ‘Ccup E!at' does not allow a more
shobliine Vtfici . Prei“
have been inconsistent, coniradictory,
gad illogical. Mr. Lincoln is the first Presi
dent who has dared-to do that which, when
cittorged , upon - him, he had before repudiated,
branded as ' 'as i perjury, and is a
crime: shiA' some blood to
get power, violated some oaths, ibtoke some
pledges. But he broke not half so many as
Abraham Lincoln has confessedly lit'oken,
and where the present Emperor shed riffs of
blood the present President will pour rivers,
it thirty millions of people are to be kepi
Waging the bloodiest and most gigantic of
the-world's civil wars until the South surren
ders its property, its prejudices, and its local
self-government;
"To Wnom IT 11 AY -CoN - ozam.”—lt is im
possible to overrate the im'pertamce of Pres
ident Lincoln's letter' to the Niagara corn
qfssioners. It is a public annorentsment by
the chief magistrate of the nation that he has
atignikned,, finally, all pretense or appear
ance of waging a constitutional war for the
restoration of' the tgnitorial integrity of tie
Union and the supreaprey of its for.damOntat
laws; and an open d4whiration that hereafter
it AO be waged feelki} destruction of slit!
•
'Negro VatO.
PEACE.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
ery. His pc4icy — bliil3tigicirdNlif this di;
rection, but he has couCkled • its real pur
port by double-faced acts At l i Specious lan
guage. He has looked and way and rowed
another. Now be avows his purpose. Now
he declares his long-concealed ' He
has been assiduously prostituting the kitar Tor
the Uuion into a war tor the abolition'cf
•
slavery. Now he avows this prostitution
and glories in it.
Mr. Lincoln did not write his "To whom
it may concern" letter without a purpcse.—
He is a buffoon, but he is no fool. His pur
pose was a personal one. It was to recover
the radical vote and support in time for the
next November Election. The radicals have
distrusted hi►p. The most honest and sin
cere anti-slavery tl,en ' among them have
',territory, no
'among the gravest of crimes.
In his Niagara letter Mr. Lincoln now de
-1 dares that the control over the domestic in
stitutions of the States confirmed to them in
our Constitution, and in the Confederate
ponstitution- not less explicitly, shall be as
sumed by "an authority that can control the
armies now at war against the United
States," and transferred to him who now
controls the armies and navies of the United
' States, and that otherwise he will not listen
• to overtures of neace.
Stir In his inau&ural President Lincoln
quoted floor OnO`of‘his Own speeches and re
iteiaiOdthi4 dle.plaiution't
I have no purpose directly 9r indirectly to
interfere with the institution of slavery in
the States where it exists. I-believe I have
no lawful right to do so, and I have no incli
natiJn to do so. I now reiterate these senti
ments, and in doing so I only press upon the
public attention the most conclusive evidence
of which the case is susceptible that, the pro
perty, peace, and security of no section are
to be it any wise endangered by the now in
coming administration. • •
Mr. Lihcilln'iuivir fl stifea the rebels in dis
beli6vlrio these solemn asseverations by prov
ing' that they were false. He now dOes
What he then"declared he' r. a d no lawful right
to do, and, fcr the sake of re-election, con
task the hiclination which he then disa.:
vowed. "s' '
ler hi his first message to Congr,ss, at
the extra session in ihe sutiarne'r df 18f1 Mr.
Lincoln said :
Lest there be some uneasiness in the minds
of eantli4 men as to what is to be the course
cf the government toward the Southern
StateB after t.s t e, rebellion shall have been sup
pressed; the tie
deems it. proper to say
it will be his - purpose thciti, , a ever, to be
guided by the OonStitution 'the%ifin's
and that he probably will have no different
understurarng of the powers and duties of
th6ffederalli governbient relatively to the
rights t!ticl States of the peorle, under the
clonstitution, than that expressed in the in
augural address. He desiras to preserve
the government, that it may be administered
for all, as it was administered by the men
who made it. Loyal citizens everywhere
have the right to claim this of their govern
ment, and the government has no right to
withhold or neglect it. It is-not perceived
that, in giving it, there is any coercion, any
conquest, or any subjugation, in any just
sense of thine terms
Now avowing that the abandonment of
slavery shall preceep tie acceptance of over
tures of peace s Me: tiatilii's 'Message can be
interpreted only as the cOnfessibn that he is
doing what "loyal citizens" have' a right to
protest against his doing, and what he vip
lates‘ the Constitution awl the laws•of 'the
United' States '*/ • • •
In August, 1862, Mr. Lincoln wrote to
Mr. Qt eeley :
My'paramount object is to save the Union,
and .not either save or destroy slavery. If I
could save the *Union without freeing any
slave, I would do it l ;••if I could save it by
freeing all the slaves; I woule do it ; and if I
could save it by freeing some and leaving
others &lon% I would also do:that. What I
do about slavery and the coldred race, I do
because I believe it helps to save the Union;
andawhat I forbear, I forbear because I do
not' believe it woud help to save tbe Union.
I shall do less whenever I shall believe what
I am doing hurts the cause ; and I shall do
more Whenever I believe doing more'will
help the Ciiinw • •
Mr. Lincoln's last letter to Mr. Greeley de
dares two objects i)f*the war, without which
it shall not cease, !the integrity of the whole
Union and the abandotittient of slavery."—
Ile does not base the latter upon the former
as effect upon cause. Each is the co-equal
and co-ordinate of the Oh*. His 'Pare
mama object is not now to "save the Union
and not either to"`save or distitittvery."
He &WWII openly that slavery' Inuit he de
-stroyed7asiVelf the aired.' The
sidVation of the Union is not even professed
to be the exclusive and paramount object.
,shin his preliminary "Proclamation of
Freedom," issued September, .1.862, Mr. Lin-
coludlid :
That hereafter, as heretofore, the war
will be pros/411W for the Nbbject of practi
cally restoring the constitutiOnal relation be
tween the United States and each of the
States, and the people thereot 'in which
States that relation is or may be suspended
or disturbed.
Mr. LineOn pow 9.v9ws that hereafter die
war shall be prosecuted for the object 'of
practically compelling "the abandonment of
slavery" even after the integt#Y of tip
Union may be restored, for even tite pliicago
platform declared that in a "constitutional
relation" freedom was national and slaveFy
sectional, and even Mr. Lincoln will not pre
tend that to compel "the abandonment at
'slavery" is to " restore the constitutional
gelation between the United States and eaith
of the Stites and the people thereof."
• F
SW - On December 1t1:, 1862, Mr. Lin
coln wrote to th'llon. 'ernando Wood:
Understanding the piwaSe in the para
graph above quoted, "the §onitig.rn §tates
4.tould send representatives to the'next ott
grnss;7'to Vsubsiantially the sane 'that
die ltectfO' of the Southern States would
Ksse vek§tance, ind would re-inaugurate,
submit to; "arid maintain the national an
thnrity within the limits of such States, un
der the Constitution of the United States"—l
say that in such case the war should cease on
the part of 'the United Scttes;' aini that, if
within a re'asbnable time "a'finl'and general
amnesty" WerenttecesSa . ry tr.; such end, it
would not be withheld.'
At the very"first overture of peace from
any people of the : Southern States, Mr. Lin
coln is new so far from heirg' iiici;neil to a
full and general 'amnesty that he imposes a
new and impossible condition of peace. An
impossible condition, we say, not merely
because it is impossible for us ‘s ith all oar
armies to compel the abandonment of sla
-very, but because it is much wqrse than im
possible for those who "control the armies
now at war" with us to ussurne to themselves
and then transfer to Mr. Lincoln the con
trol of a subject over which neither of them
has the least authority either in the federal
Or rebel constitutions. Instead of that pro
tesied apprOvat of an - amnesty, lie now
spurns the Very fwst lisping of pa 4,
SiarA little mere than a year ago Mr.
Lincoln seized the occasion of the meeting of
the Republican ponvention at Springfield to
declare himself, still more emphatically than
ever; as waging the war excinsiveiy to save
the anion. He had 'been charged with
Waging it for ,Vbclitlen purposes, and his re-
My was
you say you will not fight to free ne
gro'e.4!' ortie2,lt them s'&o willing to fight
for you. But 'no "natter ; fight you then
exclusively 'to save the Union. I issued the
proclamation ortspurpost to aid you in sav
ing the Union''' Wheno - er you shall have
conquered all resistarr_4.o to the Union, if I
shall urge you to (icti'enue fighting, it will be
an apt time then fofiyhu to declare you will
not fight to free negrOs.
President Lincoln haS new justified th 3
declaration that the Northern peopre will not
fight to free negroes. lie makes abolition
the yoke-Yellow of Union, and does urge the
continuance of fighting tier other purposes
than the only one which is lawful or attain
able, lie thus falsifies every pledge. disre
gards every declaration, and violates his
official oath.
The Baltimore Convention, which re
nominated Mr. Lincoln, resolved:
That we approve the determination of the
government of the United States not to com
promise with rebels, or to offer any terms of
peace except such as may be based npou ap
itheonditional surrender of their hostility, aii.l
a rettira to their' 'first allegiance to the Con
stitution and laws of the United States; and.
that trt call urn the government to maini
ilheir position; and tO'plaiseintite the Wh:r
with the utmostpossible Vigor pis &complete
suppression of , the rebellion, to 1611 reliance
open the selfusacrificing patriotism, the hero
ieltalor, and the undying devotion of the
American people' tt.Y. thgir country‘and its free
institutions.
Even the convention "of office-holders and
contractors," as they were dubbed by one of
Lheir own organs; even the men of corruption
and of shoddy who re-nominated Mr. Lincoln,
;Made but one condition to peace—"the un
conditionel surrender of hostility," which can
only mean the restoration of the authority
and integrity of the Union. To this single
condition Mr. Lincoln subjoins "the aban
donment of slavery." And the Times, his
own organ, confesses that the people will not
sustain him in demanding that ultimatum.—
Indeed they will not. what riglehas
President to plUnt'ailinsurmountable birder
in the paths of peace?
•
lIIIEEZEI
Increased Price ctf. Raper.
The newspaper manufacturers, not content
with doubling the price over last July, and
tripling prices before the war began, have
made fresh demands altozether beyond the
increased price of chemicals, rags and straw.
Already a good many country and weekly
journals have been suspended, and many
more, mustici the same way. Some pub
lishers are reducing the size of their pa'e?,
and others are threatening to print Salt
sheets as at the Stintli. In this city the
printing of supplements has beeft stopped.
together.--DN.Y. ..:
Exp'ieg
POLITICAL PUlRS'TS.—WAsbingten
in his Knickerbocker, makes the • following
remarks, are especially applicable to
the:Present time 2 "A cunning politician is
ofien found skulking übdidi. tte *rice' robes,
with an outside all religion, Ad an inside all
politicaj rariev, 77ifngs spiritual and tem
poral ire - Stkngely 'jumbled ti)gether, like
Poisons and . antidotes OR an apothecary's
shelf; and Instead of a devout sermon, the sim
ple church dcking folks have ottctc a political
pamphlet thrust down their throats labelled
with a pious text from scripturP."
lifirA large number cot papublion i).apers
in the West are taking down the name of
Lincoln and raising that of FretsAuP. Among
the latest 4e notice is the Kansas State
Journal, :at Lawrence, and . the lielvetian, a
Bwinipaper, 'published at Tell; India na—
ils Western' people are going oh the war
path with the z rathfinder'' very
Pesos and War Daniocrats.--A Warn-
ing to Malcontents.
Now that the presidential canvass is fairly ,
opened, it behooves Democrats to close np
their ranks and sternly discountenance per
sons or cliques who may attemift
the party organization. The vital object,
with all who claim to be Democrats and'pa•
triots IS to defeat the present administration.
This can only be done by the united action
of all who believe that Mr. Lincoln and his
adviser's are unable to properly conduct the
war or restore the country to peao, a'pai
union. All the foolish misunderstand
ing which has been rife among Democrats
should not be tolerated hereafter. If those
who call themselves war Democrrts are fount!
‘'
denouncing those who claim to be peace
Democrao, or vice versa, it is pretty clear I
that every person so acting is either a fool or
is working 'directly in the interests of the
administriltirM. 'He is either an office-holder,
a contractor, or he has the promise of a '
contract, or wants one. 4 cgrt4in Mr. Sing- ,
'eon, of Illinois, made a speech the other
evening at the headquarters of the Derno t
cratic Union Association in this city, in
vor of peace ; and this all good Democrats,
of course, desire when peace does not involve
disunion. But when he went out of the way
to attack war Democrats, he did something
W'hich'sliould subject him to the sternest re
fron'i all who desire the defeat of Lin
coln. We are pow fighting a common ene
my, and any man who undertakes to dis
traet our ranks by belaboring his neighbor
is a traitor, or a spy, and should be shot
down in his tracks, or sent to the 'rear under
guard. This thing cannot be 't6lerated.
We have no time to Waste in quarr'eling With
each other. The opposition which is form
leg 'against the present administration coin
,
prises not alone peace Democrats er war
Democrats, fait it eilibraas as well Conser
vative men who have hitherto acted with
the Republican party 0 4 .rougli mistaken mo
tives—of sincere radical's, who are disgusted
with the imbecility of Lincoln, and also a
great number of discor:fented ' but patriotic
citizens who do not really belong to any par
ticular party in the conatry. All these dif
ferent representatives of opinion are nyy
ready to act together for the overthrow of
the present administration ; and any person
claiming to be a Democrat, whether of the
war or peace stripe, who spends his time in
4olipunting his fellow-Deinoerats, is, as we
have said, either an arrant booby or a traitor,
having the interests of Lincoln and his cor
rupt crew at heart. If such fellows were
caugnt and stripped, we will wager that a
contract woad tie "fo.unti ,n the linings o f
their coats, or a ihou"satirl-Abller e'ieenback
,
in the soles of their beets. Let , us have no
more of such people. We must restore th
discipline of the good old party, which never
permitted wrangling in its ranks, and w 1 .4 , 14
subjected bolters and malcontents to the
sternest party discipline. Let us have a
union of sill shades of the opposition for the
sake of the Union and of peace. The first
thing to do is to pitch overboard Lincoln
and all his works.—[N. Y. World.
NOTES AND CLIPPINGS.
CAN THE bt7IINTRY STAND THE ENORMOUS
DRAIN ?--IhL 'ia'tiie important question in
.
view of the new' eali for five hundred thou
sand more men. We have 'already furnish-
ed tor the war over nineteen hundred
-
thousand men, exclusive of Militia and three
month's men. The quota of BencsYlvania
under the new call is sixty-dneqlAs'and
seven hundred ! The Harrisburg correspon
dent of the Philadelphia"lnquirer, -
flouncing the fact, remarks :
It is estimated that after all the previous
drafts, extra per centages and supplemen
tal drawings, there are not enough able
bodied men 'remaining on the rolls in this
State tO'SUPply the number of mon assigned
es the quota of rminsylvania.
GREAT CEOWGICEI.-Our exchanges give
most cheering aCCOUnts of the changes that
are taking 'place in lavoiof the democracy.
Honest Republicans are opening their eyes
to the ruin that Lincoln Si Co. Fare bringing
upon the Country: Niithini short of the
complete o7etthrow the: party in power
. . . . „ ,
Kill satisfy . an puti:aged and gieatly abused
people.
The garnered wealth of tile. nation, by
the cens of 1860, was sixteen "ilin . Usand
mullion dolhus. ''l tl.s war were to Stop to
day, we should find that* firiiarial, state,
county and town debts would absorb one en
tire half of the capital of the country spent
in the efforts to restore the Union. It we
fail, it is a mountain load of debt pressing on
every living man, and all that are to be born
for generations. It makes the condition of
the laboring man awful to contemplate.
wartinder the present Presidential order,
fifty days are allowed to avoid the draft by
volunteering. Will the friends or the Admin
istration give it their support by volunteering
without additional bounty from the State?—
Not one. Their loyalty is lip-lontityl—the',r
patriotism shoddy. Let thenf look out for
thunder in NOVember.—[Treilikin True. Amer
,
iean.
CrThe Poughkeepsie Egiir (a ljncoin ckr
gan) is corieet is saying that—
"The people are very tired of hearing of
drafts; tl - le*Y dread them as they do a peitileticci,
and will rejoice greatly when they begin to
see that they are likely to be rid of them."
Whe people are likely tq be rid of drafts
when they are rid of Lincoln, and not before.
—[Montrose Democilit.
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A junior partner in a firm on Freya, street
concluded to raise a substitute, and 'applied
to a stout ilarko who was standing on' the
opposite cornhr, when he received this reply:
`Lor bless gtie, I've got eight hundre4donars
home for btu a white man for mjs l efr=;,.
[PhiladeNtia Paper.
Stir The Goshen Republican putlishek the
folloyving :
"Married—ln Goshen, by Rev. Getout!, W.
.Reeve pastor of Zion (colored) Church. Mr.
Reeve, pastor
(white) of the Invalid Corps,
to Miss Dinah Napes (milmad,) of Chester."
All it'll, future type oft Moen* American
race i • 1 :-. •
gip The Washington correspondent of the
Boston Traveler, a leading Lincoln organ,
cm
"The war will go on for a year or two
longer—certainly till the summer of 1865.
It is cowardly to cover up the truth—and
this is the truth."
ifia' The Boston Journal, in a fit of hero
ics, wants to know how far an" invading army
of Confederates could march• into Massachu
setts ? That would depend upon the time
allowed the officials of that State to visit
Kentucky and recruit. —[Lancaster Intel.
seb"lloward of the Times," called for a
fast and four hundred thousand men. Ile
wa. , 3 i liut in Fort Lafayette. Lincoln calls
for a fast and five hundred thousand men.
Now, then, what should be done with
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Lincoln ?
the Times asks - ."shall Cabinet offi
cers have seats in the . !Luse?" To which
the Rochester Express, a leading Republican
journal, replies c 'WO, we have traveled far
enough on the road towards 11,. rponats4,
and it is tune to put on the brp.kes,'!
ger . Parson Browniow !a.itt, a fen years
ago, of Andrew Johnson, the Lincoln candi
date for Vice President, that there were !`bet.-
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ter men than he in the Tennessee penitenti
ary!" The Parson ought to know.
The N. Y. Conunercial Joins in On qe
mand for .111:CleIlan's employment and says
the personal dignity of President and Cab
inet should be subordinate to the salvation
of the country.
Se— According to Secretary Chase, the
expenses of the government for the fiscal
year just closed, will foot up nine hundred
millions of dollars! low are you, tax-pay
ers
itelhe Louisville 4 q urnal says disregard
ing the pon'stitutioU to save the republic is
Itlfe a man's disobeying the to save
his soul.
For the liesse
. wer
The Late Election and its Result.
Messrs. JoN tie JRNNISGS :—We presume
you will &ive in the Messegger this week
the vote in the several townsl4ips and
boroughs of this county on the proposed
amendments to the Constitution of this
State. It will be seen that the amend
ment allowing soldiers to vote prevailed
by the usual OLD-FASMONED Democratic
majority 411 . about 1200. The Nuw-F4stms-
ED Democratic majority of 2,000 will be cast
in November for the nominees of the Chicago
Convention, the farinqs being generally too
busy at the late election to atteml it, as they
should have done. The amendments have
been adopted, we judge, from returns receiv
ed from different parts of the State, by over
whelming majcsities. TRIO,
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Still Another Invasion !
The rebels have again entered Mary
land, making their appearance in Ha
gerstown on the morning of the sth
inst On the 4th, it will he seen by the
following dispatch, they attacked the
Federal forces at New Creek, and were
repulsed, with severe loss :
CUMBERLAND, August 5. —Maj. Gen.
Couch : My forces repulsed the enemy
again yesterday at New Creek. Gen.
McCausland and General Bradley T.
Johnson's forces attacked that post at
fi o'clock, p. m. The fight continued
until long after dark. The enemy re
treated during the night, leaving their
dead'iM trtikd. The enemy's loss
severe; Ours no 10,avy—will not ex
ceed twenty-five kilted and fifty wound
ed. The Orfison madea most gallant
defence under tte commal of Col.
Stevenson, Ccl. fly and Major Simp
son. B. F. KELLEY, 13,6 g: tell.
The strength of 'the itiVidAng 'forces
is unknown ' but we presume they: walla
not have the audacity to venture again
into our State unless with a large farce,
and the Governor's proclamation calling
r t once for thirty thousand cemergen
cy" mcn, favors this presumption.
Gen. Couch has just issued the fol
lowing order to the people residing
aldrig"thp,'puthern border:
DEPARTMENT c),F THE SCSQUETIANNA,
Pittsbutgil; Pi„ Aug. 4th, '64. f
R.
To the People if 'the Southern, tier of
Counties of Petitisylvanict
Your situation is such that a raid by
the enemy is not impossible'at 4ny time
during the summer and coming
therefore call upon you to put 1: 1 t0
rifles and shot guns in good order, also
supplying yourselves with plenty of
ammunition. Your cornfields, moun
tains, forests, buildings, &lc. furnish
favorable places fir cover and at the
Same titiie , entiblepu to kill the marfiud
os,' reabllectini4, -IC they come, it is to
plunder, destroy and hunt your . proper
ty. D. ZIT. Coucti,
Maj. Gen. Commanding Department
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cir A mile north of Quansville, Jeffer
son Co., Ind., res'idCdl , lr. Edward Ma
loney, with 'a Wife and five children,
three boyi and two girls, aged from fi y
to twelve years. On coining home last
Thursday night, one of the children told
him that a strange person' had been seen
prowling around 'Ric' house, and he
seem to be 'a bad man. No - attentimi
waS'paid this; 'altliblghll.;alo,6y
tllnd $1 . ;500 of grek.nback's'fil'the"houk
At eleien o'clock they were awakened to
find the house in flames". The childtcy s
were upstaies; and the feelings of the'pa
rents can hettet be iniaiii:ned Tian 'de=
scribed when 'they fotiind th(li4selv'es
powerless to rescue thku: 0114,' Ihe
oldest daughter, lumped out of the win
dow, but wt.'s dangerously wangled.
The other got out on the burning ince,
but only to hll into the:flames to perish
with her three bibthers. The affliction
drove the mother into what is hoped will
be but a temporary fit of insanity. It
is not doubted that the fire was the work
of an incendiary. Bow changed the
scene for . that family P.
From the Cumberland Presbyterian.
A Fiendish Murder.
Nums,"Orno, August 2d, '64.
PEAR Da :--On Wednesdsy night of last
week, about the hour of 9 o'clock, the in
habitants of ear village were startled from
their usual quiet by the cry, that James
Ward, one of our most prominect and use
ful citizens, had been way laid and cruelly
murdered by a fiend in human form, named
Francis 0. Robins, and a woman of the
baser sort ; named Lydia SteFgp f scp.
At the risk of wearying the patience of
the editor and his readers, I will attempt to
give a detailed statement of the facts con
nected with this blood-thirsty deed, and the
reasons and circumstances leading thereto.
The deceased was the senior partner ie
the firm of James Ward S. Co., the well:
latiewn 'alcon iron Manufacturing Company,
of this place. Lydia Stevenson was the
widow of Stevenson, recently killed in
the fight with Morgan's forces in the Mato
of Kentucky. Prior to his entering the .
army •he hat' been in the employ of the
Company, and occupied ono of their numer
ous the being an abandoned
prostitute, and having taken her equally
abandoned paramour to her bed and board,
Mr. Ward, deeming it his duty as well as
his itetei get te rid the place of this foul crea:
ture, gave her repeated notices to leave th 6
house. These notices she chose to disregard
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On the evening immediately preceding that
on which he lust his life, the deceased direct
ed his son, Jame , : Ward, Jr : , to notify her
again of his , wish. This he did, by written
notice left at the house in her absence.—
Here the matter ended until the hour when
the hellish deed was perpetrated,
Mr. Ward being in the habit of going to
the furnace every night immediately after
the blowing of the whistle at 9 o'clock, to
superintend the 'casting,' or letting out of
the metal, and the murderers being aware of
t he fact, posted themselves on the track,
fully armed for the deadly work, to await hie
coming. It being the regular prayer-meet
ing night, and Mr. Ward having been in at
tendance, their purposes seemed likely to be.
thwarted. Having attended the writer ops .
his way home, same 'distance beyond the
point where he usually left the street to g 9
to the fereacce he was thrown into an un
usual path. But while awaiting the coming
of the father, they saw the son on his way
to the Furnace. That their fiendish thirst
for blood might not go entirely uneatiated,
they attacker[ the sop, keecking him down,
and abusing him in a shocking manner.—
lie having cried for help, while being thus
murderOu'Sly dandled, they suffered him to
rise tine pees 0,11 towatals his destination.—
When near the fernece, he met his father,
who, Laa reached the place by another route,
coming to his assistance. Approaching the
assassins, "nnernied at: witheut any show
of hostile intention," he asked the reason of
their emnity : Scarcely had be spoken when
he received a blow on the forehead from the
woman armed with an RE or hatchet. Al
most at the same moment he was fired
upon by Robins ; the shot taking effect above
the left eye, imbedding itself in the brain.—
The wounded man was borne to a neighbor
ing tenement, where he breathed his last
in about two and a half hours after ho was
shot. The scene at the close of his life,.
beggars description. There sat the wife of
his bosom, who, but three short hours before
had kneeled with him in the house of God .
in solemn prayer to the great Father for.
His blesaing, wringing her hands in unavail a
4a7. sop ow. There tee sat .e,e, only son
weighea Hewer with the burden of les great
loss.
The murdcrers having finished their diabol
ical work, escap6 in the darkness. A re
ward of three thousand dollars being offered
fur the arrest of Robins t and one thousand
tor the arrest of his accomplice, pursuit was
inimediately com menced. After ;;Woor three,
days search, Robins was found at Fort Erie,_
on the Canada shore of the Niagara river,.
and taken into custody by the deputy Sheriff
of Cleveland, to whom he had at once con
fessed his guilt. The woman has also been
arrested. Till. day, (Aug. 2nd) they will
he'troUght to Warren, the seat of justice for
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this, (Truinbull county,) where a preliminary
hearing win be had.
As a "businersMan," Mr. Ward had few,
.
Van)" superiors,. c.
nfs P.;cces abundanoly
testifies. TWentyLtwe yefi:s ago . he, came to,
tins place a poor tnah; having, but, dfeW hun
dred dollars, with which to embark in busi -
ness. From this small begiunyng he has ac
cumulated near half a million dcflara. Being
religiously honest and upright in all his Coin::
mercial transactions, he has left behind'hii'i
a name at the mention of which his surviv2
ing wife and sou will never have cause to
blush. WM. CAMPBELL, Jr.
A Wife's Devotion,
ROW COLONEL MULLIGAN'S REMAINS WERE
OBTAINED
The remains of the late Colonel Mul
ligan were conveyed from the field to
Cumberland by his wife, as thus related
by the Wheeling Intelligencer :
"One of the interesting incidents con
nected with Colonel Mulligan's death
is devoted heroism evinced by his
noble wife. Hearing of his probable
fatelast Tuesday, she at once left Cum
berlanid, ii a goyerunient ambulance iu
search 'of fain, turning a deaf ear to alt
suggestions made to her as to the risks
she' ran, and kndwiirg and caring for
elge'liht . the' tiitb of her gallant
husband. She traveled day and night
more than - a hundr . ed Mile's; went
through tltc citietrifOines, ati'id pursued
hor inquiries until she traced up the
spat Whei'e'ber huSband was lying, and
where, sad to tell, `he died only a' few
hQuirs beibie . her a arrival. ,-•'
' "Procuring, a coffin she igought back
the remains as far tik . Itancoel in the
ambulance, ltd ilere taking, the cars,
arrived with them yesterday in Cum
berland. Such a woman was worthy
to have been the wife of so gallant a soh
dier as Colonel Mulligan.
Gen. Kelley announces that 'Mrs.
Mulligan was treated by Gen. Early .
and his officers with marked courtesy
and great kindness, receiving prompt
and eftkient assistance to remove the
remains of the gallant hero within tho'
federarlines..'
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