girltgrapt ! - TAIi . BI6BURG, PA Saturday Evening, May 30, 1803 UNION STATE CONVENTION. The LOYAL CITIZENS OF PENNSYLVA NIA, without distinction of party, who desire cordially to unite in sustaining the NATIONAL AND STATE ADMINISTRA'T'IONS, In their patriotic efforts to suppress a se ctional and un holy rebellion against the. UNITY OF THE REPUBLIC, and who desire to support, by every power of the Government, our heroic brethren in arms, who are braving disease and the perils of the field to preserve the UNION OF OUR FATHERS, are requested to select a number of Delegates equal to their Le gislative representatives of the State, at such times and in such manner as will best respond to the spirit of this call, to meet In STATE CONVENTION, at PITTSBURG, on WED NESDAY, the FIRST DAY OF JULY next, at eleven o'clock, a. x., on said day, to nomi• nate candidates for the offices of GOVERNOR and JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT, and to take such measures as may, be deemed no-, cessary to strengthen the Government in this season of common peril to a common country. C. P. MARKLE, Chairman of the Union State Central Com mittee.. , . Gro. W. HAMEMLY, I . secretaries. WM. J. HOWARD. The Committee also passed the following resto_? lotion unanimously, viz: Resolved.; That it be recommended to the Loyal citizens of Pennsylvania, without dis tinction of party, to organize, in each Election District of the StateNnion 14;tgues,for the par-, pose of sustaining the Government in suppress -1-..1.g this causeless and wicked rebellion which now seeks to divide and destroy the Republic. THE SITUATION. The Washington Carronicle of this morning says: Gen. grant Is progressing well In the siege of Vicksburg. A dispatch was received from him at headquarters yesterday that he was getting on very satisfactorily,and he felt himself amply competent to take care of any force that might come in his rear. libe reports of his death, which have been maliciously circulated by se cession sympathizirs -in Washington, have no foundation. Repeated assaults have been made upon the rebel . works, and at every trial some thing has been gained. The rebels are losing heart every day. They have lost all their field artillery, and what is more, we have gained it. We do not think we hazard anything in proph esying that Vicksburg is now occupied by our forces, and that a vast quantity of,. stores end ammunition and a large number of prisoners have been taken. We hope that a very few days will announce to us the complete capture of the "Gibraltar of the West." Ifhe Dilemma of the Copperheads. The copperhead leaders of Pennsylvania, when they made issue with the National Ad ministration, on the policy of suppressing armed rebellion with armed force, fell into the same mistake which first induced the slave drivers to revolt. The slave drivers of.the south have always asserted the cowardice; the unwilling ness to fight of the masses of the north or free States. Th 43 faith in the cowardice of the peo ple of the free States, was derived from the cringing manner in which, for . years, the rep resentatives of northern States and districts_in_ Conzress.„ _auhreit+ 4+..-urclatron - fif the southern, element. That representation was for years composed largely of the locofoco species. The delegation from this State, from Ohio, New York and the- other powerfurDommon wealtiur of the east and the west, was imbued so strongly with locofoco dough-faceism, that the crack of the slave driver's 'whip was all that was necessary to control the "yeas and nays" as it suited the slave driver's interest The representatives of the South - infused the opinion which was thus forced-upon them, of the abject cowardice of the northern people, into the minds of their constituents ; while the miserable dough-faces who thus degraded them selves to the uses of their political masters, ac tuaLly flattered themselves with the notion that they really reflected north, eastern and western manliness as well as politics, and that as they had been accustomed to licking the dust from the slave driver's feet, their constituents too. forsooth, would cast themselves upon their bellies and crawl before the seine audacious masters. It was this faith which prompted the slave drivere to organize their conspiracy. It was attachment to the same belief, which in duced their Democratic allies to oppose the war policy of the National Administration. The first believed that the offer of armed resistance would at once awe the North into acceding to any terms. The latter hoped;that the opposi tion to the Administration would' cause those in authority to shrink from appealing to the masses for support, and that the result of the rebellion would be, first, the triumph of slavery, then the vindication of Democracy, and last, the overthrow and humiliation of the party in power. It was calculated to do all this, without disturbing the Government. The slave driving conspirators and the Democracy had soarrang ed their theories and proclaimed tlieir dcctrines that eulministration and government were made to assume different aspects and mean different thingt The world was to be hood-winked with the idea that the slave drivers, with the assistance of the Democracy, could trample on an administration after it was inaugurated, could defy its authority and spit upon its rule, and still the Government would be uninjured, unimpaired in its majesty and force. This monstrous doctrine was the life giving force of the rebellion, was the justification of Demo cratic refusal to aid the Admlnistratiori in crush ing the conspiracy. —lt is now hard to tell which of the two pirties have been most disappointed in their estimate of the Northern people. The slave holders were misled by the bemocracy, while the Democracy deceived themselveS. The esti mate of Northern valor, courage and capacity to carry on the war, has proyen to be a fatal error to those who had calculated on its defi ciency or incapacity. The rebels stand appalled before a unanimity which, thpy ,were taught to b3lieve could never be produced among the Northern people. The poltroon politicians of the North, the miserable lick-spittles who have so often betrayed Northern interests in labor and commerce, to satisfy Southern demands for the protection, development and extension of slavery, are amazed' at the force which they so often depreciated, and stand shivering in terror before the majesty and power of a people whom they have so often betrayed. Hence the effort or 020 leading Democratic loliticians to counterac the epirit which pervades the largest number of the returning soldiers, who came back lutes ified in their abhorence of treason,resolved in their determination not only to crush out that which is arrayed in arms in the South, but also that which secrets itself in the North in sym pathy for the same treason. The leaders of tl e Democracy have nothing more to do, but to continue to support the rebellion and op pose the Government by denouncing the Ad ministration. There is no middle ground left for them to occupy. Hence their dilemma. They have deceived themselves and the foes of the country of which they are the natural allies, by depreciating the capacity of the Government and the devotion of the MEWS(*) Thus Left, the dilemma in which these tories find themselves is indeed awful. It has but one parallel in history, that of the betrayal of the Son of God by Judas ; and to preserve Abe identity, the betrayers in this instance must either bang themselves or they shonabe speedi ly hung by the fair judgment of the law. Truly, a horrible dilemma for-the leaders of copper head Democracy! Who Are Against the Government) When we look seriously at the men of the South engaged in the effort to destroy the Union, we are impressed with the similarity which exists between those conspiratots and certain parties In the North, who are assuming such novel po sitions in the conflict now raging. The traitors of the South declared, when they began to se cede from the Union, that they were tired of the Government. Just about that time, power and patronage had departed from the control of the Democratic party, and with that departure the prestige and influence.of Southern institu tions showed their fiat signs of decay. Hence the people of the South,.or rather the few thou sand slave owners who represent all that there is of interest in that section, resolved to destroy the Government. They went to work deliber ately. They had prepared themselves for the attempt. The issue was made thus: If Lin coln is elected, then is the assurance plain that the energy of, the nation is to be devoted to freedom, and slavery can have no fellowship In such a Government. It was the wrong which the election of Lincoln was supposed to have inflicted on slavery that induced the slave States to strike against the Government ; and at this point we are brought to the similarity between the Southern armed traitors and the Northern sympathizers with treason. The one antagonizes the Government, because in the mighty progress and development of that Gov ernment slavery is threatened with destruc tion. The others oppose, not, as they protege, the Government, but the Administration, be cause that Administration, by its defence of- a Government whose free principles are opposed to slavery„"interferee seriously with partisan Democraoy. Whatever affects slavery iinpaire Democracy! A war for the defence of the `rongg of the one could not fail, sooner or later, to involve the other, because where the wrongs of the one Ignnid 'mere the corruption of the other.might reasonably hourly anticipate annihilation. Hence, while the Democratic slave drivers are striking at the Government, the natural allies of those traitors, the Democratic leaders of the North, are strik ing at the Administration. The object sought after is one and the same, notwithstanding the points assailed are -different and separate. If the slave drivers destroy the Government, the .Administration goes to pieces hi the general, wreck, and of course the sympathizers with sla very treason in the North would have nothing left to fight. Thus, on the other hand, if the treason sympathizers destroy the Adminis tration, there could be no Government left— no force, no power with life and ability in it to contend with traitors, and therefore the slave drivers would have nothing to do butannounce to the world the triumph of their schemes, ea lablish their government on the ruins of the Republic, exile or outlaw all who battled for freedom, and invite thtit allies to sit down with them at a feast in honor of the burial of all the symbols of the only free Government on the face of the globe. Hereafter, whenever a man is heard opposing the Administration, be certain to put him dowri es a traitor, not a traitor is disguise, because his action is open and deliberate to destroy the Government. He opposes the Administration 'to aid the traitors of the South. He does not oppose it to aid those who are fighting these traitors, but simply and plainly and practically to aid the success of the rebellion. Here is the point to which all loyal men must hold the hypocrites who thus assert the right and insist on the use ti the power to oppose the Administra tion. It is treason, because it gives encourage ment to traitors. It is meant to huiry the de struction of the Government, because it seeks the embarrassment of those engaged in efforts for the defence. There is no more difference be. tween the men who fight In arms against the ' Government and those who bluster in words against the Administration, than there is be tween the villain who secures the victim while the assassin cuts the throat of the podr wretch. Let loyal men not be deceived by the claim which seeks to establish any difference in this partial lar. Let them, too, oppose the Northern foe of the Administration as strongly and as boldly as the Southern enema of the Government is opposed. Both are the enemies of the Union. Both are engaged for its complete destruction and until both are overthrown,there will be no peace in the land. _ Joint VAN BIIBIN t at the late Madison square . meeting in New York, told his abolition hearers that he "believed the next President will . be a Democrat," andjilso stated that he thought be would vote 'for a Democrat at the .next Presi dential election. It wss predicted when Prince John got off the.petnocmtic stage', that it would not be long untiPhe would be running after it to get on again. NoW, the question is, will the passengers allow him to get on. We say to the driver 4.‘ent bebind."—Copperhead Organ. There is no necessity for your giving this ad vice to your driver to "cut behind." It lispot your stage that John Van Buren. will, be after trying to get on. It was not your pirty of Copperhead Democracy that he alluded to.— Nothing of the sort.. We say too, as did Mr. Tan Buren, that we are inclined to think the next President will be a Demot:. but he won't be of the Val land ighamer- Wow - . -Seymour- and- Cessna kidney. And we expect too to vote for a Democrat for the next President, should one to nominated—such o. man, for instance, as Gen Butler, Andy Johuson,Daniel S. Dickinson, Gen. Dix, or Jos. A. Wright. It was this kind of Dem ocrat John Van Buren meant, and very likely he had one of these men in his mind when he spoke. There is no difference between these men and such Republicans as Cameron, Chase, Banks, Seward, Blair, or any of those prominently identified with the Rimblican party, on the great question of suppressing the rebellion and maintaining the Government—and this is the only question of importance that can divide men into two parties—those of patsfota and traitors, friends and enemies of the country. We expect that one of the men we have named will be "the next President," and we expect to vote for him, along with John Van Buren and every other true friend of the Republic.' . A SHORT Soar.—The State Teachers' Asso ciation of Indiana, numbering 170 teachers, at their late meeting summed up the political situation.in a very few words by unanimously adopting the following platform: Reeolved, 1. That - the Union -Government is right and the rebellion wrong. Resolved, 2. That we will sustain lige right sand oppose the wrong by all the l egitimate means God has placed in our power. Nato* gdtor9t FROM WASHINGTON. ----.-- Inapection of . Hospitals at Potomac an Aquia Crocks, Excellent Physic All donaition of the &liners. MOVEMENTS OF GENERAL LEE WASHINGTON, May so. The Medical inspector, •Dr. G. I. Johnson, has recently inspected the corps hospitals at Acquia and Potomac creeks, and will soon sub mit to the Department a detailed report. Then hospitals exhibit a remarkable exemp tion from mortality in the surgical operations. This is attributable to the excellent physical condition of the men previous to the battle, as well as to the completeness of the arrangements and skillful medical attendance in the hospital. Scarcely a Case . of amputation has terminated fatally. An amputation of the hip joint was performed in the second division, first corps hospital, an operation which is almost invariably followed by death, and consequently has, it is said, been discarded in European and American surgery. The patient Is now in a fair way of recovery. The non commissioned officers and privates of the New York 9th State Militia to-day presented Dr. Charles J. NOrdguist, Chief Surgeon, Sec and Diirision, First Corps, with a superb Amerl: can chronometer and massive chain, valued at 8260, in appreciation of . his'character and ser vices while Surgeon of their regiment. The occasion was the second anniversary of that regiment's departure for borne in the service .of their country. General Robinson, commanding the Division, together with his Staff, were pre sent. --trlant naa-lua tieneral LOB evi dently contemplates a movement, but as to what point can only be a matter of conjecture. He continues to show off troops in front of Fredericksburg, as if with the &alga of deceiv ing our military - there. There is no indication of a movement by our , troops, .which must de pend upon that of the enemy. V ICKSBURG. en. Grant Able to Maintain Ills Position and Repel any Attack Upon His Rear. OUR FINAL SUCCESS ASSURED. Arrival of "Forty-five Hundred Pris onere at fgemphia, WASHINGTON, May $9. Dispatches from Gen, Grant, dated near Vicki burg, May 28, have been received at the War Department. to-day. They represent the siege of Vicksburg as pro gressing satisfactorily, and that Gen. Grant is abundantly able to maintain his investment of the town and repel any attack upon his rear. Forty-five hundred rebel prisoners, captured by Gen. Grant, arrived at Memphis io-day. MuRFRUSBOIto, Tenn., May 28, 1883.—Be ports from highly respectable sources represent that General Grant, since Sunday, had made something like a general attack upon the rebel works at Vicksburg, and failed to carry them; that he had thereupon concluded that the•place was too strong to be taken by assault, and had opened a terrible and sustained fire upon it with his artillery. General Johnston had not yet attacked Gen. Grant, but was still collecting forces in his rear. He had managed to send word to the garrison that if they should hold out fifteen days he would raise the siege with au army of one hundred thousand men. He also said he would do this if he abandoned every other point in - his department. It was not supposed the city could possibly hold out longer than to-day. . Parties who entered our lines today from the South report that Breckinridge and. Crother's divisions of Bragg's army were on their way South. All is quiet at this point. The runqrs of a formidable rebel demonstration on our right are hardly confirmed. Some portion of the enemy's vidette line has been retired. Brig. Gen. Harding has tendered his resigna tion on account of disability. THE WAR IN MEXICO. Continued Bombardment of Puebla by • the Frooh. THH,BERNCH WILL BOON BS IDOMPELLID TO ABANDON THZ SIKOB. MPORTANT - MOVEMENTS BY THE MEXICANS. • San Flusumo°, May 29. Advices received from the city of Mexico, via Ao-apulco.on the 6th inst., have been received. Up to the 6th inst. the French continued the boinbardmerd. of Puebla, - but with little pro giei3i. It is believed that the French will soon be compelled to abandon the siege. • General Comonfort had'commenced an portant movement, designing to get in the rear of the French and then throw his 16,000 troops into Puebla and strengthen Artego. On the 7th Comonfort telegraphed to Juarez: The enemy is now a mile and a half from our position. He keeps up a slight cannonading off Puebla. All his attention is directed to my movements. My line extends to San Puebir Damonte. The soldiers are very enthusiastic and intend to profit by it. Signed LATER FROM EUROPE. mum, OF THE STLIMXII JURA The steauter;Jttra with Liverpool, dates of the 21st and Londonderry of the 22nd, was hoarded this afternoon. A general feeling of suspense prevails in re baton to American news. The Derby race was won by Macaroni by a short head only. Lord Clifden wee second. Cotton sales for three days 11,000 bales, the warket closing drill and slightly lower. Bread stuffs quiet and steady without change in prices. Provisions dull and unchanged: Console WIG THE LATEST Mar 21—Cotton sales for the week 28,000 bales. Prices are tai lower for American and Surals. The Glasgow arrived out on the 21st. From Admiral SqUadron. • . Foams* May 80 Ship George Turner from Buenas Ayeres, via St. Thomas on 16th Lat., arrived here to-day, bringing four invalid seamen from the U. 8. ettamer Alabama, four from the bark Gemsbok, four from the steamer Wachusett, one from the steamer Oneida, and one , from the Vanderbilt, all of Admiral Wilkes' squadron. The Vander bilt , bad taken in 1,500 tons of coal and was ready for a cruise. pLARICETS BY TELBGRAP.R. Pannuaappia, May 80. But little doing in breadstuffs ; 600 b6ls, Ohio extra family sold at $6 75(47, and super fine dull at $5 75(46. Bye fioursalls slowly at ss®s 25, and corn meal $4. Wheat moves slowly ; sales 0f.8,000 bus. red at $1 58(1 58, and white at $1 76(41 78. Bye declined to Is. Corn in fair rtquest ; 6,000 bus, sold at 84(486c. for • yellow, anit 88c. for Western mixed- Oafs steady 7,000 bus. sold at 70@, 78c. No sales of barley or malt. Cloverseed wanted at $5 75. Timothy Is nominal at $1 60, and flaxseed at $2 60. Coffee drooping, and sragar - and molasses attract very little at. tention. Provisions held firmly, but not much doing, Whisky has advanced, and closed at 45@46 for Penna. arid Ohio. New York Money Markets. Stocks better, Chicago and Rock Island 10$; Cumberland coal 30; Illinois Central R. R. 1101; Illinois Central bonds 118; Michigan Southern 1161; Reading 118; Milwaukee and Wisconsin 84 ; Missouri 6s 71; gold 145; treasury 7 8-10 s 4071; Illinois war loan 1021. Witlt At his rosidencein this city on the 28th inst., General Toms FORSTER, in the 86th year of his age• The funeral will take place on Monday after noon, at two o'clock, from his late residence, on Front street, below Market, which the Hie rives and friends are invited to attend. ___ Oo the 29th inst., Himont O. M'Cums, in her seventh year. The funeral will take place on Sunday after noon at three o'clock, from the residence of her mother; near the Paxton "unmet', which the relations and friends are invited to attend. NtlD 2thationnrnto ULTANTED—A boy, about 14 years of age, to V. make himself usehil about a Dairy, and a girl to do general housework. Apply to JACOB SCHLAYBIt, myBo-209 South at., 8 doors from 8d et. BRANT'S HALL. Wednesday /a Thursday, June 3 & 4, EVARCLAT 1 .8 New and only correct panorama of JERUSALEM! • And vicinity ever painted, and PIRPHAFE OF THE HOLY LAND. Doors open at half-past seven. Panorama moves at eight P. M. .Admission reduced to 15 cents. No half price. [myBo-dBto AUDITOR'd NOTICE THZ Auditor appointed by the Court of Com mon Pleas of Dauphin county, to distribute the money in the hands of the Sheriff, arising from the sale of the real estate of Lewis and Jonas Faust, on vend. cr. No. 47, April term, 1868, will meet all parties interested at his office, in the city of Harrisburg., on Tuesday, the 28d day of June next, at two o'clock, P. M. Which they will please' take ncitica my3o doswBt 50,000 '" " EXCELSIOR " (CANVASSED) 3E3C A IVI. Si I Now Rsoarvnta, which we can sell wholesale or by the siugle Ham, at a very low figure. myBO] WM. DO&C, dr. , & CO. A br ORDINANCE directing Cumberland street to be opened, graded and curbed from Seventh to Eighth street. Saovox 1. Be it ardained by the alunten*Cbtanca o f the City of Harrisburg, That Cumberland street, from Seventh street to Eighth street, be and the same is hereby directed to be opened, graded and curbed, as provided in section thirty-tive of the city charter and that the Regulators be direct ed to make the lines of said street as laid out on the plan of the city, approved by act of As sembly of April 1, 1868, and also to establish the grades necessary for the same. Passed May 12, 1868. W. 0. HICIIOII, President Common Council Attest—DAvm Emus, Clerk. Approved May 28, 1868. • . myBOdlt A. L• ROITMFORT, Mayor WANTED CABINET Makers, Carpenters, Machinists and Laboren3 wanted at the my29-3t EAGLE WORKS. FOR COUNTY COMMIE/BIOME& CiEORGE CASSEL respectfully announces 131" that he will be a candidate for the office of Comity Co nn and if nominated and elected. pledges himself to filfil the duties of the office with fidelity. my2Silewtca MORTON'S CELEBRATED PINE APPLE CHEESE, direct from the manufacturer, and.for age by WM. DOME, Ja., & CO. COMONFORT CAPE RACB, May 29 RETRACTS TROP THE ACT TOR ENROLLING AND CALL ING OUT THE NATIONAL" TORCEB, AC., APPROVED steam 3, 1883. Be it evaded, 4.c, That all able-bodied male citizens of the United States, and persons of foreign birth who shall have declared on oath their intention to become citizens under and in pursuance of the laws thereof, between the ages of twenty and forty-five years, except as here inafter excepted, are hereby declared to con stitute the National forces, and shall be liable to perform military duty in the service .of the United States when called out by the President for that purpose. Sac. 2. And best further exacted, That the fol lowing persons be; and they are hereby except ed and exempt from the provisions of this act, and shall not be lit