ge paitp- Ettegrap4 HARRISBURG, PA FeMai Evening, June 5, 1863. MEETING OF TUE COUNTY COMMIT- TEE The Union County Standing Committee o Dauphin county will meet at the house of Ben jamin Back, in the city of Harrisburg, ON WEDNESDAY ; JUNE 17, 1868, At 2 o'clock, P. K A. full attendance is earnestly requested, se important boainess will be hid before the com mittee. By order of ALEX. KOBER, Chairman. SAMUEL K. SAROLI, &ere l4ly. 4 ' Save the Coneititution--Let the Govern meat Go to Ruin." The caption under which we write this arti cle, is the spiiit of every copperhead speech de. livered and printed since the rebellion against the Constitution, Government and Union began. The cry is specious, because it serves to bide an ulterior object, ilirectly antagonistic to the safety of the instrument for which so muela con cern is expressed. We never hear men`engage in expressions of this description Who are en tirely loyal—who are laboring. faithfully to arrest the march of rebel errata's; or :Or - he are honestly determined to uphold the Government in its struggles with a bloody fee. .Polloqing a cry for the safety of the - Constitution, any act in favor of rebellion is certain to be detect Cd. Jeff. Davis, while he was in conalave' with the traitors in consummating plans for the over throw of the Government, was in the habit of entering the Senate Chamber of the :United States, add 'there indulging in longriginfirbiesi concerning the safetypf the Constitution., John 0. Breckinridge, long after the; announcement of rebellion was made, retained hie seat in' the same body, talking about the Conetitution, that he might , the better further the ends of the conspiracy. . James Buchanan and his entire' Cabinet were shedding'crockodile tears for 'the safety of the Constitution, while 'their agents , were stripping the dock yards, emptying, the arsenals and depleting the treasuries of the . country, in order to facilitate and maintain re bullion. Thus straight through the entire transaction of treason, .we find ithai: i i i hnie who expressed most solicitudelonathe °methadon, were those most imbued with sentiments of ha-, trod to its cardinrd'iirindirites. •- it — was abol ished by secession, _trampled.: up0n, 3 17, tors, s pit npon by their iyiatiatilikersi the nation was deemed incapable of contend ing with a formidabie ;sopsplraey, while the} l conspirators were regarded as inTincibie, the' Constitution was looked ' upon by'the4y'rnis,-! thizers with treason as an insignificant, value- ; lessinstrument. Then the only thqught which animated these men, mos in:region to kors.we . could compromise ,withitheAraiters. But when the masses of the freaand :loyal States esti& balked their power and asserted their determina tion to crush conspiracy.and bring. the oomph's,' tore and their sympa j thiaer e s to rx jnetigt, then it: was suddenly discovertd that the Govern ment instead of fightiht traitors glicrulddevete its energies to saving_t blow was to he atruck st 4 trigfivit "in arms in the South. The . Government had . no iittherity to call out troops' to fight thif titsitor'S`. It was the e. civil power which should be iniolied. The. courts should be convened' to tir'Northern abolitionists," while gonthern traitors should go unmolested,. reaping victories wherever they directed their armies, and pushing forward until they had subdued the Geverninerit to acknowl edge every base claim of the slave power. this manner the *Democratic leaders were to save the Constitution. Tiiii,*phmeot instru ment would have been owe, White the er4dtkiil franchites and powers of the Government would have fallen into the hauda of •the :conspirators. Gov. Andy Johnson, in a 'speech recently delivered in Philadelphia, satisfactorily alas trated this :idea of. saving, the' Constitution while the:Government Was going to ruins. He When slavery reared its arm against the Governinent_it ceased to have any claim,ott,the Government. When the law was-proclaimed froM Mount Sinai, it was made for the selt protection of every citizen. If we cannot save the nation but by trampling on the Constitu tion, I am in fay r of doing it rather than lose the Government which has been bought with the blood of our fAthers.-. We have been left as trustees of this Governnient, and we cannot surrender the rights conferred upon, us. Re move the great evil of slavery, and the nation will be delivered from its worst foe, and will be destined to go on , forever. ' • How nobly and sensibly this contrasts with the senseless and hypocritical, howling ,pf certain class of demagogues about "the Consti tution" and "saving the Constitutiori. , " The thing to besaverlda the Government, not the Con stitution. Of what use - would the "Constitu tion" be without any. GOvernment ? Put down the rebellion! That is the thing to be done. And do it, no matter - wheeler. the Constitution is infringed, violated, destroyed , or not The Constitution is not inissue. halm danger, if the rebellion is put down. Bat if it were— if it even should be destroyed—it Would be much easier to make another than to make another Government, should the present one be destroyed. All thitcry about "the Consti tution" is hypocritical—h ,for ‘ effect, and that effect is aid to the rebellion, either direcily, or indirectly - by throwing obstructions in the way of the Government in its efforts to suppress the rebellion doirn the retiellion, though the COnstitution be torn tato finders in the operation ; ., Put down the 'rebellion, however, and the Constitution will take care of itself. H0N.,,,W. W. Knott au was the State Capital yesterday, s guest at Hares Hotel.= Inthis con nection it may not be - out of place to refer to the fact that since the announcement of Mr. Ketcham's name-as al - candidate for the (4nlaer-: natorial noininaiOre'of the 'Ph tabnii Couven tion, he has made hOets of Merida," and now, wields - en influence him that nomination. ,Siko.tid hit be the 'art"; riee, - lai will make One, ef,the, f ipost;POwerful_ con,testifseter tienducted in such an election, for; he 'ia-d ecidedikime Of • the m rat taltititeci iu the Commonwealth. In Favor of the Draft. A sudden change has overtaken the lead.er , • of the Democracy, in reference to the draft When the law locking to the conscription wa - passed, as a military necessity, a t riible bowl went up from every copperhead neat iu the coun try. It was denounced as an act of oppression. It was advertised that men were to be seized and carried from their families—that the old and the young were alike "to be forced to hear arms in a war entirely waged for the benefit of the nigger." By such supterfuges, the copper head leaders sought to create division and dis • sension in the North, but they were startled from their attempts by the firm determination which tbe Government displayed to enforce the law. Hence it became necessary for these hypo. erites to change their attitude, and" strike another coarse in order to secure the accomplisL.. ment of the object in view. This they now hope to do *. by supporting with insane zeal a measure which they heretofore so per sistently and so doggedly opposed. The fact that the negro:s of each district are to be en rolled, has stimulited the copperheads to sup port the conseriptign. They now assert that the only : way to cure the "white. trash" of the north of their -fighting propensit es, and to bring-this "unholy war ag , drist our southern brethren" to a speedy close, is to draft the nigger with the "white trash," force them to stand shoulder to shoulder' in- the army, and thus "Lincoin's bubble of coercing a Staob will goon be burstyd and the war ended." Thisds very Democratic Our readers will observe how zealgterthe DemocraCy have lately become for the - ilEaft. That ilea iipri . ngs from the mg , live we liNve described. We leave patriotic men to estimate the baseness of the wretches whb can thus'treat the brave defenders of the Gdvernmerit, aria thus also estimate the va'or and devotion to the Union, with which the free • white men of thedoyal States have been maini tainiug the war - against, the 'Slave-holders' - re- ask.the white men of the country to :watch 'the-acts of the copperheads inTelation to the draft, as it *ill not require much scrutioy to detect, what we have here deeprihed, as the motive of the copperheads.for insisting that; the draft should be enforced.,, The Whining of a' Dog. 'Emerson Ethridge, clerk 'of the Rouse of Representatives has written, a bittet to the `"Washington Union Club of ,- 21tiempb:is," ac -knOwledgingi and , declinibg an invitation to be 'py_esen'tat a Public celelkailo,n of the anniversary , the'Sirrrefideip'f'lliircity, to the federal ar es This,letter lassimensublished in such journala ag the Arm :York iiiiald r aticU , ls the loviest! and 'meanest spitlihruinfoldog . whining and attempted r • Barons:Jo. gt the i ,er,pense of .the 4didinistration, : that ever emanated from,the heart of a - coward 'or the'perroj al . 'ypocrilek , Ethetidge was evi dently bidding for ;a 'faVor Of some kind, when lie *rote thigepistle, and we, feel like ; redicting that it is the initktimovement onhis part to -tech: himselrf 'to the , fortninfistof Jeff DaVis, where his liOpes and 'sympathies have,,,jridoOtedly laygi secreted ,ev,er,since the traitors armed to :destroy the Unioni 'As-an evidenceof th.ra r Avs, need. only this Witt villifier , of gold ti4944)ll.loAgalat tha ri.trar ineriof Maryland by addressing tits pepple s ,of tkat,State in favor of the Government at the yrecipitation of rebellion, bicause hilOad fiarfulit ;might compro• mice his father-00-4w andlea to the confiscation of, few acres of land he owned in Tennessee.. get this bi.the manthat now attemptsto vituperate those site have stades noble 'sacrifices tiffoperty pr, of • • person and , atTectiOn to,promote the safety of the Government. -Out upon such a dastard I Oc4 is too noble a term ..to be applied to such creatures! Etheridge is tindOubtedly hiddiug,for copper head support ati a candidate forsclerk of the coming House of Representative& if he fallsin thgtp be will attach' himself.. to the repel gov. ernment just as soon as he can escape throogb our lines, provided that oligarchy of cut throat: is-In existence at,th.at time. ' If not, he will join any new conSpiracyt6 impel; and destroy the, Union. "Mark our prediction !" , Os ootrass the Tom' Organ isbound to eruierse all that our Congressman says or does, becatusa he is our brother-in law well enough as far as it goes, but when the question of toy, :altysomes up , Whe,n, the. fair question as .td whether has not already proven recreant to "pledges:. made before the people as to his determination to support the Government, then the endOrsement of the Tory Organ leaves him to the suFpicion that he has been false. to the truth, and'il airiady engaged iu misrepi xesentiukthe loyal people of his Aattict. . r Moti on. The War In . The War: Deinocrats of Fayette county or. ganized 'a meeting of the Union men of that region, ii'Unlontown, on Tuesday evenitelast. The meeting was. coMpoied of men of allpar- Ales, but the • American Statulard 'says that its organization was yielded , as an act of courtesy to` ::the . War Democrats, who * conducted the apearing - and reported the, resolutions. Both these:were emphatically ,lOyal and patriotic. As 'a matter of inftormation to-the dough-face and . eopperhea - 1 democracy in this region. we quote a number of the ,resolutions passed on that - Raolved, That being JO favor of the govern ment and of crushing the rebellion, we can find nOtbing to cOridemn, but much to -praise in th&Administration in arresting and causing to bearrested those worse than armed traitors who - residein the North, who, too"cowardly to take,upi'arms against us and in favor 'of thEir friends in sentiment--:the traitois--are 'bontin 'ally poisoning the minds of the peopleagainst the grcivernment and attempting to demoralize oar armies by their treasonable` conversation 'arid adVOCacy Of TT:HAM:ice to the constituted and laws of:Congress providing for 'Callitti out the National tomes •;-and this, too, niime•Of denfocracy—thus perverting it tdcdtein gippositainito o'er country. From such - derabdistay "Good Lord deliver us ;" and we call upon all welirmeaning and patriotic Jack democratigiO flee from its baneful Witt . &ee as from the plague, and let those who teach it take the consequences'both of odium, ' now and hereafter,'aid `thi 'penalties of the laws - for such weal:pada and 'provided: „sika4, That those who croak loncleitt and Icing* about the freecidnr Of speech and of the, press being abridged Ileitioyed, do not do L_smjpecatt r e of fear that loyal men will suffer— NEriJelon man feat - ff:Oaf he is hi danger of , arrest, or thatiilslreedOin of epeeCkielijeop.: ardy. Why, therefore, should those who = profess to be Union men deaf . the govern ment for arresting traitirsthingtr,ason to the people and to the soldMr...,f our count - Iy, unless they 'eel the CODBAOUBI3eSt3 f guilt within, and fear that the next blow may fall upon themseiye,? "Nu rogue (le felt the halter draw With guoi opinion of the law," Resolved, That we prot st against the demo cratic i arty being dr igged from its ancient moorings and prircipies by political dema gogues holding secessiou dectrints, and will use our utmost endeavors to prevent them from usurping its otganzation,in order, under d. mo cretin prestge, to commit the party to seces,ion and treason against the constitution of the fathers of our country. We therefore, in the name of our old party, -and in the name of our, bleeding 'country, call upbn all good democrats and patriotic men or all' parties to aid us in tallying to rescue it and the country from the machinations of all, such demagogues and knaves. are the sentiments of War Demo crats ; the Ointments of all men who truly love th air country. Exarrnia /FOMENT ON THN Caas.—Last Friday an exci ting, °chit irence took. - place on t hh.pas sen ger train from Toledo tcrthis,Mty. On one of the cars was a party of -soldiers returning from Disie on furlough.: When the conductor ap pPotiChed them to collect the fire, one of them tendered a five dollar green back, saying, "take your change out of that old fellow, the boat currency in the , world, sir." • "Yon may think so," responded the butternat'conductor. "I don't consider it worth any more than so much brown paper." The soldier's eyes flashed fire. "You .41.--d Copperhead," he exclaimed, "how dare you speak that way before ud? How dare you impeach the credit of our Government which we have been periling our lives to up hold? You are not fit to live!" and-drawing a pistol he pointed it at the trembling conductor, and wathabout to fire, when an officer, who had .beet. watching the proceedings, seized hie arm and restrained him. Then addressing the but teenat knave,3the officer told him that if he wished to avoid trouble, he . had better leave the train at th&next station, which he did, and tbe cars came on without: him. . The above incident may serve as a warning to all Copp :rheads of the treatment they may expt,ct when nut brave boys in the army having conquered the rebels in the South, shall turn their attention to traitors at home. —Detroit Trtbune. THE Locurrs.—The earth is now yielding up its. long:buried swarms of locusts. The hogs are riot'in'g after them, and farmers are plowing them out of their holes: Let the owners; of all young fruit and ornamental, deciduous and ;evergreen tree; procure a quantity of oat or other soft straw. As soon as the locusts corn mance getting through the ground, 'soak the straw frail six to ten houra in a strong lye, ruaffelrom good' wood a,,,hes or lithe. While , wet make the straw into ropes and wind them into tails. Wrap the body of th tree with these straw ropes from threw to six feet, owing to the age and size of the tree, commencing at the bottom arid faatening well at top, so as to prevent it being loosened by the wind or shaken off the tree., 'lf the young tree has formed its top, wrap around' the bottom of the in branches. The locust bores into this main branches and sappy parts of the wood where the bark is tender, and deposits its egg. The bark soon opens and' the limb soon dies, and unless removed, injures, if not 'kills, the tree. As soon as the' locusts are principally gone; which will be in about six weeks after they ap pear, remove the straw bandages and cut oil the'tops of the trees itelow - down as where they 'ate' stung. DI w iirwußohov , will Immediately 8400 t Out ; apd in two "years yen will have a mien. - larger and healthier tres. Pittsburg Gazelle. A FA ET AHOUT.THETHAITOR VALLANDIGHAM J.. - Hon. C. Conkling, in his speech at the State House List Saturday night, made a statement about.the traitor Vallandigham which, though perfectly consistent, exhibits hls character in • a new light, .Ihe statement we learn, on the heat authority, to be an actualfact. Mr. .Conklin stated in substance that, al though Vallandigham was in the receipt boa' the GoyernrueLt which, he was endeayoring t 6 tlestroy, of a salary of $3,000 a year as a mem - - ber,of .Congress, besides his income from his prOfession and, other, sources, he yet permitted his aged mother to be supported in parr pr in whole, by the ehuTch to wield: she belongs. . This is the sp e d_ men of 'the man who ie held up y the copper; heads as a Model statesman and patilot.-- . , Spri . nYfield .qa.) .Tournal. GLORY_ ni mem SHAME. —We have been in, formed that a wedding took place recently, in Clearfield county, in. which every person prel sent—groom; bride and all—w,ne an old rust?, copper, - as a - bridge of 'their sympathy with the Southern Bebels. Truly, copperheadism must he getting Veirbold,' when - men and women grill