toontivr. - - - R. W. JONES, } Editorg. JAS. S. JRNNINGS, "One Country, One Constitution, One Destiny." 111111WPASS) N 2. WEDNESDAY, - AVG. 17, 1864. VOR PRESIDENT IN ISO 4, SEN. GEORGE B. McCLELLAN [Subject to the Decision of the Democratic Na tonal Convention.) DEMOCRATIC COUNTY. TICKET. ASSEMBLy, TI-10111A14 ROSE, . , or PERRY TP. • SRER,,IFF r prickirnt 7 or WASHINGTON. : commissioNsit, THOMAS gt;OTT, OF WHITELY: DISTRICT ATTORNEY, JOSkiPG G. hiTciiirm, 1:1112= POOR HORSE DIRECTOR, A itTlifilt RINEHART, I= AVMOp, A. 1: 'MARTIN, =MID “While the army is lighting, you as.cit !yens see that the war is prosecuted tor the preservation of the Union and the Constitution, and of your nationality ar.d your rights as citizenif.” • _ GU).. f 3. DUCT.. ELL AN. „figlf - b•The Constitution and the Union I place thhlis togititer. If they stand; they ;aunt saWd togethek • ft they fall, they treat fell loptiter.”--aksie/ Webster. DELINQUENTS, TAKE NOTICE ! The present enormous cost of publish- Ishing nerspaper compels is, in self protection, to prune our subscription • list. Subscribers, therefore, who s have received the paper * lour or five years • r ;without paying us a farthing, are here by notified that, unless they settle their . arrearages by the 10th of September, the papers addressed to them will be • - 1 discontinued and their accounts left in proper hands foF collection. We mean to do just what we say, and pertiOns who wish to save costs will "take notice and govern themselves accordingly. Print ing for nothing belong,s to the past with us, and we claim to have done more r' than our share of it, but for the future we shall insist on the pay, which k. ' but a poor pittance at best, especially when printing paper sells at 25 cts. per lb., and other things in proportion. cen. Lazear. In the proceedings of the Abolition Con ferees that nominated Geo. V. Lawrence, as they appear in the Pittsburgh Gazette and other papers of that ilk, the Secretary, (a great jackass, we trow,) remarks, by way of snownia ma. seas, that the nomination of that miserable political lack, Geo. V. Law rence, "will produce , unanimity in the Party throughout thediitFict, and it is hoped will result in the eleation of a sound Union man to succeed lease Lazdar, WhOse loyalty some had the audacity to doubt." That is a good joke on "loyalty," but a gong that the frosts of October will certainly nip. George's inglorious defeat is a toregone conclusion. The people hare 'learned him by heart." • • A Valuable Accession. Hon. EDGAR. COWAN, a Republican F. S. Senator from this State, is announced to ad dress a McClellan meeting in New York city this week. Conservative and - patriotic, he cannot endorse the insane policy of tile Ad ministration, or the pretensions of Mr. Lin coln at the November election: Mr. Cowan is one of the ablest men in the 'Senate and a great loss to the Opposition. We shall try to find room, in next week's paper, for one of his late speeches. Gen. McClellan. 4n effort making,'-ott the part of promi nent Republicans, to restore' Elie. to a comtnand: l t is ptoposed to anthotize i.m to raise 100,000 Men. He could soon do so if the Administration would defer to the sentiment of the country by retreating from its mad and nuicidal policy. ' "Tux 1.44.13 e Max."--The Mifflintown Dem ocrat says every man sulkieCto'inilitary duty ih Black Log, Juniata county, has been draft ed save one, and Lines)la's hot call for 500,- 4)00 more is after 'him with - a very sharp stick. 10.•' pirA large, Democratic gain is noted in Ike•city af'Collinibus, Ohio, ' an' el'ecti , Aid for city °Mary o i the • . Stith • ult..' sarThe N. Y. Post coils upon the loyal Union ihapnws to•bestir thenuiefve4l64-vol - The advice is needed. • ' ' ' Why is it ? The Rochastir DoneC . 4a, a Republican journal, states that there is a great deal of dissatisfaction in the army, ani that an un usual number of resignations 2r . offtvrs ,has been tendered, among whom are ftve gener als. The Boston 41.d . vertiser also 'a,tlWiles to rumors it has 14ariftif the sane effect. • It is hard to account fortheeere4inftkiV s arid retirements from the service, but from disaatisfaction with the course of the Admin istration and the late declaration of Mr. Lin coln that he will only consent to the restor ation ot'Dnion and Peace on the "abumion meet , .of slavery" on the part of the Babel States. raj. Gen. D. C. Buell, a gallant and capable officer, who for a long time coin mended a Department, recently tendered his resignation, and subsequently wrete in ,the following terms to a personal and political friend, who had written him interrogating him as to the reason of his retirement: believed that thepelicy anti means with which the war was being prosecuted were discreditable to the nation, and a stain upon. civilization; and that they would not only fail to restore the Union, if indeed they had not already rendered ita restoration but 'that their tendency was to subvert the institutions under which the country had realized unexampled prosperity anal .happi ness ; and to such a work I could not lend my hand. While there may have been more or less of persOn4 ambition mixed up in the moye, meut - of secession, as there :ctist gen.c;rally he in the management of political affairs, yet / do not doubt. that it was mainly determined by an honest conviction in the minds of those who engaged in it, that the control of the Government had passed permanently into the , • hands of a sectional party which would soon 4•ieple on ie political rights of the South. This apprehension was shared in by a very large portion of the people who did not favor secession, and who were so anxious tor the preservation of the Union that even coercive Yileasnres, it tempered by justice and mercy, would not have estranged tham. Under these' circumstances the use of military force .• to put &Tn armed resistance was no; incom patible with a restoration of the Union with its former glories and affections, provided the means were employed in such a manner as convince the people that their constitutional rights would be respected. Such a policy, therefore, in the use of force,. if force must e;re bSorted to, had the manifest advantage Of weakening the power of the rebellion, and strengthening the government, independent ly of the.moral force which dignity and jus tice always lend fo authority. A policy which recognized these principles was wisely declared by Congress in the be ginning of the war ; and frprn a Fervent de sire for the preservation of the Union, in FhichniVe of country and all my interests as a citizen Centered. not less than from a natural itripuiae, I gave that policy my earn , • est support. Unfortunately it was too often cheated of its doe effect by the intrusion of sectional rancor, and the injudicious or un faithful acts Of agents of the Government; and when at the expiration of a year, a sys tem of spoliation and disfranchisement was inaugurated, the cause was .robbed of its sanctity, end success rendered more . 4ifrieult of attainment. You, have, in these few lines, an wisps tion of the motives of my conduct while I was in command, as well as of the step which, after twenty-thiee years of service, has cloied my career as a soldier, and broken up the professional habits and associations to which I was educated, and in which 1 have . _ passed the larger portion of my life." a Proteo of Two Members of Con- gress. lion. B. F. Wade, Senator from Ohio, and ro , - lion. li. Winter Davis, representative from Maryland, (both adiMnistration men,) have just published in the New York Tribune a protest against the President's refusal to sign the bill which pssed Congress at its late session, providing tor the re-organization of the States now or 14tely in rebellion against the 17nion. The following is the conclusion of the protest ;.. • `The PreSident has greatly presumed on the forbeaianp l e Whi6h the supporters of his admipistration have so long prac ticed, iii view of the arduous conflict in which we ire engaged, and the reck less ferocity of our political opponehtl. But he Must understand that our sup port is of a cause and not of a man ; that the authority . 6f Congress is Permanent, and 'roust be respected ; that the 'whole body of the Union men of Congress will not submit to be impeached by him of rash and unconstitutional legislation ; and if he wishes our support be must . 'confine' himself to his executive duties —to obey and execute, not make the laws—to suppress by arms armed re bellion, and leave political' re-brgari4a don to Congre's's if 'tile - stiPporters'of the Porpiii*etit fail to insist on this, they tecome.responsible for the usurpa tions which they fail to rebuke, and are justly liable to the indignation of the people whose rights and security, corn snitted to their keeping, they sacrifice. Let them consider the remedy for these usurpations, and having timid it, fear lessly execute it." All for What. This nation hi the day . of lie greatest pros perity clamoied for "a change;' lone inew Why. It was peaCeful, it was happy, it was great, but the demon:spirit which now rules the linal 'sowed the se it of discontent and waiited'a change. They made a change and hundreds of thousands were rushed to war. Rivera of blood have been flown from that day to this. Hiindreds of thousands have been Slaughtered - or crippled, billions of debt have been created, imnleuse' Sums have been extorted, and all for whk, ? The adminis tratioli is to-day stainping; taxing, conscript ing, dritging husbanes ;tri , ln their wives and • 'lies 15) be slaughtered 'find all for what ? atify' an igovfilt administration, and liberate "tit. bigger. This Union never would liavellipu destroyed but tor their un constitutiodal action:: It might have been compromised but kir their madness. Peace might to-day be acquired but for their fa naticism: How long mast the itation suffer to gratify the vanity of wbuffoon? • The Position of the Democratic Party. So much has been said and to so little purpose about the position the Democratic party on the leading questions of the day, that we gladly reproduce the following arti -1,;. ele which we find in the i 9 o uincy (ILL) Her ald, which seems to Ps to tspriy represent the current feeling of the pemocratic masses of the North : is not to be disguised that we have in our ranks men who very pompously declare that they will not support the Democratic candidate unless the convention shall adopt a "war" platform, and others who just as ptunpously declare that they will no suppOrt 'the Democratic candidate unless he put 'upon a `.‘peace” platform. A'ssuming that these "war ' Democrats Mean that the De mocracy shall pledge themselves to the tiros coition of this war, wlach . is now a var of abolitioh, subjugation, and confiscation, and aiguming that these so-called "peace - Dem ocrats mean that the Democracy shall pledge themselves to recognize the independence ut the South for the sake orpeace we have on ly to say to them that the Democracy will not put their candidate upon either a war platform or a peace plattea.m. They e ill put 'him upon the plattOrin of the Constitution and the Union. With that platform fully carried out, there can be no war for aboli tion. subjugation, and confiscation, and there `can be no peace which' Snell divid&the L i mon. rThe Democrat who demands the prosecution of the war for the negro, instead of a war I for the Union and the Constitinidn; is a Lin colnite, and should vote and act ' with that ' party, and no longer hypocritically preteud to be a Democrat and a friend of the Union. The Democrat, on the other hand, who &- friends that no war shall be made for the Pohatitutien and Union, bat that the Demo cratic party shall pledge themselves to di vide the Union if they get into power, should lose no time in uniting bis leetunes with those of Jett: Davis, since by demands pre cisely 'what d';'ff. Davis himself 'demands. It only remains - to be added that those who thus seek to dictate' a 'fundamental change in fhb platform aril policy of the Democratic parry are'not its real friends, and do not de sireits success. The man who demands that the Democracy shall commit themselves to the support and further prosecution of a war for the negro, at the expense and to the utter destruction of all the best . interests of the white race, has ceased to be a Democrat and become an abolitionist. So, too, the man.who seeks to force the Democracy to declare themselves iu favor of recognizing the independence of the Southern Confedeif- . acy, and thus diVide and destioy the Union, is no longer a Dennicrat, but a sympathizer 'with Jeff. Davis, and should avow himself a secessionist. In snort, it may - be said that lea man is a Democrat who Stistains or co-op erates with either Lincoln or Davis, They are both enemies of the Constitution and Union. Democrats are friends of the Con stitution end Union, and the mission of the 'Democratic party is to see that both are thainfained and perpetuated. 4 war for the negro 'has ttius far 'overthrewri" both, and to recognize the independence of the confedera cy accomplistika the sane purpose by a short er route. The positioti of the Democratic party is precisely what it was four years ago. It was then opposed to a war for the negro; and it is opposed to war dt that kind to-day. It was then opposed to 'n division of the Union, and it is 'Opposed to diviskin to-day. They opposed 'then equally; and alike the schemes of Lincoln and Jeff. roils, Ava they oppose them to-day. The Democra then were ready to make war when it was unaikillable, in defense of the Union and the Codstittitioil, and they are ready to make that War ' to-day. .The Democracy were in favor then of presprving and perpetnating the'Union by a peaceful and conciliatory pol icy, if that policy vpnld do it, and they are 'ready to do the same ' thing to -day There On, therefore, be no mi4oilderstanding as to the real position of the Democratic parey.---- It stands to-day where it stood four: year ago, and where it always stood. Tithe has only served to confirm the wisdoth, justice, and practicability of the principles and poll cy of the Democratic party. If that party shall be restored to power, we shall yet have the old Union and old Constitution, and With them shall have peace once more. The pa triotic masses begin to understand and ap preciate this great truth, and in the presiden tial election this fall they will act according ly. There is soepd aenpe in the above, and all whc; are really anxious to put an end to the present wretched administration can find a platform upon which all who love their coun try can stand. Said Senator Richardson, of Illinois, a few days before the adjournment of the Senats : "I tell the Senator, and I tell other gentleman, that, as soon as we place a President in the White House on the 4th of March next, we shall receive whatev , er propositions the people of the South send to us; we shall make to them the proposition . of cumin back to their duti to the old Con stitution and to the old Union as our fathers made it; and, if they do not come hack, we . will enforce it against theni.'f . Gen. Gpant!s Campaign. par readers cannot have employed an pour better than in the perusal of the article OD this subject, in a late paper from the Na tional Intelligencer. They may have been so amazed at the stolid indifference 'of the administration as to have forgotten to look at its cost in blood—the very best blood of the army. We propose to show that, in de tail, by a brief mention of dates and en gagements, with the loss of men in each Case; May 5. Rapid Ann, 2,00 6. Wilderness, 15,000 7. Skirmishes, 300 10. Spottsylvania, 10,000 12. do. 10,000 18. Po, • 1,200 19. Po, 1,200 23. North Anna, 1,000 24. do. 2,000 81. Cold llarbor, ' 3,000 June '2. Chicka/muniny, 7,000 16. 1 3 ,etershurg, 2,000 17. ' dp.' . 1,900 18. de). 8,600 19. do. 4,000 2. Weldon R. R. 1,500 23. ' do:" 1,000 26. Danville R., 2,500 Last assault on Petersburg, 5, 540 Absolute loss of men, The rebel loss was also fearful—supposed to be two for every five of our troops. The • • summing up shows that Grant lost more men in his attempt to take 4 Richmond than Mc- Clellan ever had under his command at one time during Lis campaign against the same place ! The whole loss of men on both sides in thin operation 9n the inland line Will foot up over I'oo,ooo. How long can this or ant aber country stand such a drain be fore it becomes a bowling wilderness ? Mir A cgten f porary hopes Washington will be out of danger some dip. It cannot be while this administration is theiva . The Horrors of the Conscription. A Minnesota paper learns that from differ ent parts of that State the distress created among the families of conscripts beggars de scription, One gentleman Who was ap pointed to deliver the notices to the "unfor tunates," was so much overcome by the heart-rending , scenes he was compelled to witness , arnong the wives and children, after delivering two or three of the "death-war rants," resigned his commission, saying he had "no taste for such business." Theme horrors it is proposed to largely,ex - ,tend and make almost universal by the im mense conscription of 500,000 men, ordercd by Mr. Lincoln to take place early in Sep tember. Talk about the bo,rFors of slavery or of the slave trade--they are as not - fling compared to the dreadful conscription of white men, which institution we have bor rowed from despotical Europe. Into hun dreds of thousands of families it • carries a wail and woe of suffering worse than death. Is it possible that conscription candidates for President and Congress'oah he elected Eaq. Violation the Mails. The following from the Albany Argus of yesterday needs nnc9nunent `ln addition to the charges of the World, we undertake to say that the letters of Gov t:eyniour have hpen opened in the pas sage through the pcst otVices; and if further evidence is wanted of the truth of this, we do not hesitate to refer to the Governor himself (or further information. How rap idly Is this Administration adopting the worst abuses and crimes of the most despotic gov ernments I" NOTES AND CLIPPINGS. THE ConNo DuArr.—lt would appear from Governor Seymour's letter to the Sec retary of War, that Or quota of Pennsylvan ia, as well as New York, is excessive. Re says .7. !.`The average quotas in thirty-one Congressional Districts of New York, are 2,W, in Massachusetts anci ! New /iampshire, they are 2 , 181, in Reunsylvania, 2,571. It will be seen that the average demand is, in every congressional District in the State, 714 men per district more than Massachu setts and Tew 4ampshire." yront thio in vestigation it would appear, that Pennsyl vania is called on to furnish 410 men more per district, than Massachusetts and New Ilampshire. Will Gov. Curtin have this matter investigated ? At this critical time when our State is being invaded, we cannot bear such au unequal draw on our fighting l'.°Pq4 i(l4 • aarßemarks the New York World, con siderable amusement has been caused in the city and vicinity of Detroit, by the circula gon within the last few days of a printed ballot, of which the fnilowing is a copy { per President, A.BR4ITAM For Vice-President., ANDREW JOHNSON'. I, --, who deposit this ballot, hereby pledge myself, in case it shall be successful, to enlist in the army for three years, or dur ing the war, (Signed,) OUR FORMIDABLE PENSION LIST.-It is of ficially stated that the work of the Pension Bureau is now well up and that all applica tions made prior to the first .3f June have been disposed of. The number of claims al lowed to invalids and u 4 d-ws hat 4v(kraged alpaut five thousand a mur4 for the last four months, If she war }s continued a few years longer, and our pensioners increase at the rate of 5,000 a month, very soon we shall have entailed upon us an annual expenditure quite equal to the cost of supporting the vast armies now in the field.—(Patriot and Union. SErThe New York Express says tb.s4 the feeling is intense against the war poi # cy of the Administration since the Presidsnt, has slic‘xn his hand. It is felt iu every COMMU nty of citizens, and among every class of people. An opposition meeting will pow call out crowds of people, and among the most zealous in these crowds are those who one, two or three years since, gave their confidence to the !'resident. Willipt THE MONEY Goss.—There are now in Washington and snperbs about 20,000 ne gro women and children. They live in huts built by Government, at an expense of some thousands of dollars. These poor crea tures subsist, upon Government Bounty, and prostitution ! and this in Washington, the once proud capital of 4merican freemen ! Vielifaj. gen. Wallace has suppressed another paper. lie sent a notification to Messrs. 'O'Brien & Co., publishers of the Evening Bulletin intorn)iug them that if that paper was published any more, he would arrest all connected with the esiablishrnant. The alleged cause is that they published two articles copied from New York papers. The candidates on the Democratic State Ticket m ladiana, have addressed to the Governor of that State, a request that he use his influence with the Presidert to permit the Indiana volunteers to return home to participate in the election. We presume this is another evidence of "clp perhead malignity toward, the soldiers." 'We I mnst have a change of adminis tration at 'Washington. If we are to be cursed year after year with the present sort of military management, every toWn alOng the Pennaylvania border will be destroyeg by the rebels, and our people compelled to remove elsewhere. Shall this be ?---Pedford 74,340 kirThe Adininistration is opposed to in voluntary servitude for negroes in the S , otith, but it has no besitation in coascriptiug all the white teenof the North lot frivoilihtat* or forced service in the armY: f.lompulifo'n for the white, but no Compulsion for 1 9ft ne gro, is its inUtto: .13 . y their fruits ye epal know thpin.— Throughhut: the whole country there is not a single Lincoln leader wlxi 'irmaks one word in fitiot of the Union as our 'fathers made it Ind the observance of .the Conatitsition, as our fathers observed it.—[Bedford Gazette: That McClellan Meeting. The McClellan . meeting held in New York on Wednesday evening last was the laVgest gathering that ever assembled for any pur_ 'pose in that city; and fits numbers were fully ,equalled by its enthusiasm for the gallant officer, whom de tractiga has failed to weaken in the affections of 64' people: The . New York press are unanimous in their estimate of this monster demonstration. The World says: No man who saw this magnificent de monstration ever beheld the like in numbers or enthusiasm. Even the splendid mass meeting at the same place.Vo or three years ago, when it seemed that the whole male population of the city had turned out, did not equal, no one will pretend that it sur passed, the enthusiastic demonstration. The Herald remarks: There was au im mense .gathering of the people at Union square last night upon tke PreSidential ques tion. Advertised and ;:yzanized as a Mc- Clellan movement, it has, nevertheless, a far deeper significancy. he great underlying ,outcropping and controlling ideas of this meet ing were, first, the dismissal of the present in .competent and blundering Administration, and secondly, a Presidential candidate upon whose distinguished services, commanding abilities and overshadowing popularity Ike may safely rely for a success in the No vember election, and in tip . execation of the herculean labors which will devolve upon the next Administration in our domes't,ic and foreign affairs. The Abolition Times, the especial organ of the Administration in the Empire States speaks of the meeting in this way The McClellan meeting last tight in Union square was very large—one of the largest political gatherings ever held hi this city.— 's a demonstration of numbers it was en titled to all the importance the Opposition press will claim for it—and was certainly quite as formidable as the most zealons ad vocates of McClellan's nomination for the Presidency could pave hoped. To give the reader au idea of the enthu siasm of the occasion, we select the follow ing conclusion of the speech of Hon. John B. HaAin, an old Dcuglas Democrat; he said: `.`Let the conservative' masses drop thnii minor digerenc l ei ; it be pis unionists and Abolitionists on one side, headed by Abraham Lincoln, and con servative, Union-hiving masses on the other, headed by Gen. McClellan, [cheers,] and tin would haye no fear for The result. The glorietis c,ld ,leffersOn ian days of gold and silver would come again, and the blessings of peace and ZuctestiC tranquility. The stars and stripes wonld Wave 'ciFer a linked coun tyy, pledged ,ankiwt to the mutual pro tection of the right and privileges of each component part. In conclusion, tb,e speaker, after announcing that he was so brimful of patriotism that he scarcely knew how to give vent to it, B.lid he felt like the poet who visited fie Mammoth cave, and came out with such an influx of inspiration that he seized a quill at the public register and wrote. God Almighty, what a spot ! In summer cold or winter hot ! Ye powers above, Great Gokl ; I wonder Andrew Jackson, Hell and Thunder ! A Case in Pgjni, Loud readers will FeFiGinlier the case of William R. Strachan, kFinerly a Capt. and Provost Marshal at Palmyra, Mo., who was arrested a year ago on charges of the most atrocious &duct toward the citizens of his district, and tried before a military commis sion. The tnwtimeny taken during the trial is, some of it, unfit for publication, and clear ly demonstrated that Strachan was a most infamous ,riming], who had been guilty of more black and damning crimes that one wauld suppose an American citizen capable of even.in these days of general demoraliza tion. The charges and specifications fill nearly three columns of the St. Louis Re . publican. In addition t 9 tinaiug. him guilty of robbing the citizens of horns and proper ty, under the pretext of ,:confiscating" them, I and selling them for his own benefit, he was found guilty of the following Specification : "In this, that ti% the said William R. Strachan, whilst acting as Pro vost Marshal General of the northeast dis trict of Missouri, at his office, in aie city of Palinyra, Missouri, on or about the 2Qtli day of October, A. D. 1862, did make to Mary Ljumphrey, a resident of Lewis county, Mo., who was then am'. there present for the transaction of official business with him, the said strachan, propOsals, too indecent for publication, and threatening and declaring, in the presence of her, the said Mary S. Humphrey, that in case she then and there rejected his infamous Proposals, that he, the said William R. Strachan, by virtue of his power and authority as Provost Marshal, would came her hushand, William T. Ifum oplirey, who was then a prisoner in the ens. tody and control of said Strachan, at Palmy ra, Mo., to be killed and sent home to her a corpse, thereby and by reason of such threats, and by the scandalous, false and wrongful use of his powers as Provost Mar shal, overcoming the will of tree said Mary S. Humphrey. This at Palmyra, Missouri, in the month of October, 1862." Hanging, or at hest imprisonment for life at hard labor, would tv., • mild punishment for such an atiocions — outrage, but the Mili tary court simply sentenced him to pay back a anciall portion of the money he had stolen. and to imprisonment in the penitentiary for one year for this last outrage T. And in the face of all this, General .Ro secrans deliberately "disapproves" the sen tence of the cqurt, and orders that Strachan be "honorably discharged" frqm arrest, and restored to his pink I An is • .. .q.nt ais is tjae way Justice is (Inn() in the United States oLtmeriim, in the year of our Lord 1864!—Illinois State Regliter,,lnly ge. •" - earA Tiger base , came before the Patterson courts. ifeh t il Ryan was in dicted for asainit and battery upon a woman he trpped by mistake. . He plead g u _ilty esiwd the mercy of the waif, alt !ring that he was near sighted andllatook tbe woman be had beaten for ha wire., UMEMIIIII Enormous Prices. The people must stand aghast at the pros pect presented to them in the future, with prices as they are, and the necessaries of life still on the rise!, Flour $lll per barrel; Qyf- fee 60 cents per pound, ,or will be within a fortnight; Sugar'4,::o a a. per pound; ,Calicoes 35 and 40 cts. per yard, Iluslins from A 9 0 75 cts. Gold fluctuating between 2,40 and 3,00: Taxes double what they ever were be fore, and will be quadrupled before this time next year and a continuous call for five hun dred thousand more men! Great Heavens! What is the nation cor ing to, and how long are the people to be afflicted with the rule of such men as now control public affairs? Our readers "and the rest of mankind," who desire a continuance of the present condition of affairs, may as well make up their minds to vote fur Abraham Ole wise and witty President, who imagines that upon his call, the last man will rush to battle and to death! The present is no time for idle talk or foolish speculation, ')eeause it is the hour of the nation's extrem ity, when patriots blanche, statesman trem ble and fools jest! Let the people look to very iwar future, and ask Heaven to re move the dark veil which hangs over our na tional affairs and exhil* to us a bright and glorious Mt ure!—Rlotiug§entinek Unconditional Unionism. We published yesterday, a remarkable ar ticle from the New York Times on the subject of the President's general proclamation as to the terms upon which propositions for paciti ,catio won,hl he received. Remarkable, as coining from the alcredited . organ of Mr. Lincoln in New. York, and remarkable as ex pressing some.sound and practical sentiments in regard to rectiklring the abandonment of slavery as a condition of peace. The Times says, truly, that the people do not insist upon any such condition, and with equal truth it intimates that it was not the President's duty to require it. Mr. Lincoln's course since his inauguration has been so erratic, crooked and shambling, that his inconsistences pc ;,e:nger create sur prise. But, though we are aware we shall startle nobody by proving him altogether dif ferent in 1864 than in any previous year, we nevertheless recap poittts showing his insta, 7 biiity of views and conduct. The following is from a letter written by Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley, on the 23,1 of August, 1862: "4s to the policy seen to be pursuing, as you say, I have not meant to leave any one of you in doubt. I would save the Union; I 10.10 save it in the shortest way under the Constitution. The so-called national author ity can be restored whether the Union will be the Union as it was. It there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agiee with them. It there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree them. "My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either l ro . save or destroy slavery.— if f save the Union without freeing any ;slaves, I would do it; and it I could save it ry freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by fret* some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about the colored race, I do beeausß I be 7 lieve it helps to save thp Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because Ido not ,plieve it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am do ing hurts the enemy, and I shall do more whenever I believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views."--Plo. Republican. The Issue. "I shall never vote again for Abraham Lin, coin," said a somewhat influential Republican in this city on Monday.. "heretofore, when you Democrats have charged that he was nforp for abolitionism than the Union, I de nied it : Now—l can't say one word. lam for a man who insists upon abolition as a con dition even to the opening of negotiations or the hearing of propositions. For one, lam ready to have the old Union again, without conditions—with slavery in the South, or not, just as the South themselves choose to de- Cide, for it concerns them most. Whatever else I do, you may be sure I will never vote for Abraham pncolu again. He has proved himself, by his Niagara letter, to he no Union man. His dit.graNful manners and obscene ekes I could p4t up with, mortifying as the fact is, rather than vote with a party who j have believed (I begin to think perhaps unjustly) were not fur the Union; but I can not give my sanction to a Etesident who makes abolition an absolute condition even to the hearing of propositions from the r ß beld,V --Itartfprd Times. Reprisal and Retaliation. One of our exchanges says : 'Printing Office Destroyed. The office of the Picket Guard, at Chester, Illinois, was, on Friday night last, entered by an armed mob and en tirely destroyed, after haying just been re fitted and furnished with new presses, &c.— The mob was acting at the instigation of the Republican party there. The Demecracy held a meeting on Saturday, and 'notified the prominent radical leaders that if the Office was not put up in as good condition as be fore, at the expiration of twenty-five days, they would try the effect of fire on their pro perty. The guarantee was promptly given that it would be repaired within the time.— One of the drunker mob was killed.•'—LPhil adelpbia Age."- WY - While Mrs. Patrick Howard was walking' up Worthington street, in Springfield, Afase ; 'With' her husband, lastwza, she' suddenly' exclainied, can go no further without a rest," and was taken into a honse, where She ex pired in about twenty ininutes. - The cause of tier death was heittt ha 4 u "nial:red oialy leh days. s e r n w editor of a Little Rock paper has an articieheidek "Wanted, 'Pomebody to tell the Trath." Why &at yea tell it yourself' ttro• The War News. The rebels have exploded the mine whinh they had constructed under work.sheli,l. by the 18 corps, but it did no damwe,owing to the timely discov : ery its locality The explosion was not accompanied by any assault by the enemy, and the demonstration was sim ply confined to the blowing up of a comparatively unimportant earth work. was a grand failure. Some new facts are developed regard - ing the late battle of Petersburg. It is stated that had our troops advanced gulch farther than they did Ihe t y would have mat the co4centdated Are of a 'large number of guns, which woui4 have proven very destructive. also §gi4 that Lee was on the point of changing his lines, and that the position assailed would have been evacuated in a few days. The news regarding the invasion of Maryland is meager. The rebels are said to have evacuated Hagerstown and retreated across the Potomac again.— This movement may h.ve 4een made in conseTtence,of preNrations by Gen. HOoker—who, our Baltimore corres pondent asserts, is in command of our forces—to repel the invasion. General Hooker now has under his command tie V,1491.,e of the Sixth and Nineteenth corps, and the forces of Gens. Wallace, Tyler, Hunter, Kelley, Couch and Aver- His first movement was such as geeatly to endanger the safety of the rebel army if it had crossed the river, and probably for this cause the rebel cavalry, which had effected a crossing, was withdrawn. It is estimated that theforce of Lee in Virginia is over one hundred thousand, and it is stated that Early has bee 4 ;,•jeinrOrced by Longstreet from Lee's ;y.,C4en. Grant was in Washington on Friday, and, it derstood, paid a visit to the' Upper Po tomac with his staff. He has probably not returned to the Army of the Poto mac yet. WAsI 7 P;c7VN, .-44,2% 9 —lnformation has been received here that. Genera). Averill, after 9vertaking the enemy at Moorfield, atfaoked and utterly routed them, eappuring between five and six 'hundred prisoners, including General Bradley T. Johnson, who subsequent ly escaped, and his whole staff, with their ' headquarters colors, all the rebel artillery and trains, and a large quan tity of small arms. Gen. McCausland barely escaped by flying into the moun 7 tains. Gen. Avarill pursued the scattered remnant of tke rebel army for 24 miles, capturing many fugitives. His entire lose in killed was seven men. The pur. suit was only abandoned when General Averilfs horses were too exhausted t 9 follow into the mountains. " The Latest War News. All appears quiet both in front of Pe-.- tersburg and on the Upper Potomac. At the former place there is little activ, ity to be expected ou the part of our forces, and qn the Upper Potomac we have the assurance that the rebels have recrossed the river, and, it is said, are now conveying their plunder from the Slienandoall. valley intq their depots at Staunton end 4orcloisvijle: The inva sion of Maryland is at end fqr the pres ent. It is not probable that eviin Early will dare invade either that state or Pennsylvania, now that there is an ac t . tive general in the field who commands all the department as does General Sher idan, and who has resolution enough to maneuver his men to the discomfit ure of the enemy. He has men enough in his command now to defeat any at tempt on the part of the rebels to sue cessflilly invade Maryland with less than fifty ifionsand men. The Rich mond papers acknowledge that General joaq4 E Johnson has been assigned to tlip command of the forces in West ern yirginia. This is Johnson's old fighting ground, and, if he has an army 'strong enouzli, he will doubtless re, move the theater of war to the Shenan doah valley at least, if he does not throw his columns into Maryl4nd. It• is sus, pected, however,*that; instead of send, ing troops into Western y irginia, the rebels have reinforced Hood very lieay, ily with a view to save Atlanta awl overwhelm General Sherman. Fears are entertained in military circles that such is the Eict, and that General Sher, man's situation is more critical -than many are willing to acknowledge.— With General Grant's army within two days' journey of Washington, and the body of troops that now defend the State of Maryland and the national cep : ital situated where they are, the rebel@ will scarcely venture txt inake hazard ousSO. an experiment as to invade Mary land'Or threaten Washingfon. it is more reasonable to suppose, thqpfore, that they will send all the men t`hat eafi be spared to Hood. The news from Mobile is cheering. A rebel official dispatch announces that Admiral Farragut has passed Fort Gaines; has had an engagement with the rebel fleet in Mobile hay ; has cap tured two of the enemy's vessels and made Admiral Buchanan a prisoner; has beached a third rebel gunboat, an 4 was engaging Fort Powell, which is near Dog river bar. The only loss he is reported to have sustainedthe sink.: mg of the Tecumseh, a monitor, byy Fort Morgan. IV admiral clopbtlegs has the co-operation of the o'4s:which sent him were senthim by Generiil Canby, and we may expect, when we rikieive the Union accounts of the battle, ti; learn of even more decisive successes :than the rebels' . acknowledge in their official report. peueyal Sheridan makes an ogleial annbanceineut that General Averell hag defeated the enemy at Moorfield, Vir and captured five hundred of hill men and all of his artiller'. CP - It is c,flqulatPd that fully ,1,000 people were 'injured throughout the country pn'ike 4th of J‘i'y from acci flPt* From fire arms, £m works, o ke; TwOniiltoria dollats worth of proper 4 tY'destFoired Tie km 4 pf life wm, however; man.
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