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pailp Eettgrapb.
Forever float that standard sheet I
Where breathes the foe but falls before us
Whit Freedom's-soil beneath our feet,
And Freadonah banner streaming o'er us
017 R PLATFORM
THE UNION-THE CONSIITUIION-AND
THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW.
HARRISBURG, PA
Monday hpernooa, May 18, 1881
1.41.1" 41i4ODUFF, AND DAMNED
BE!WV. !TRW CRIES HOLD I
AvirotVir
There is nothing in life that so incenses a
man whose soul is given np to vanity, as the
consciousness of having failed to perceive a
clear course when all the world beside was cor
rect. It gelds even the debased and dirty in
stincts of the pet-house politician, and fixes a
stain of such ineffable shame en his cheeks,
that hooting hags and scolding old ladies point
him out as the figure of their derision and con
tempt. fa this position our neighbors of the
Patriot and Union hare been standing since the
4th of March—their praying for the prevention
of the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln—ridi
culing his tour from his western home to the fed
eral capital,-.2--and until forced into a tacit profes
sion of patriotbak by the Indignant voice of its
neighbors and fellow-ciiizens, actually abetting
and encouraging the treason that has since
spread and gathered strength, until it has as
sumed the shape of a terrible and gigantic re
bellion. We assert, boldly, that the Patriot
was as much a sympathiser with treason seven
weeks ago, as the Richmond Enquirer or the
Charleston Mercury, and proceed to give the
prods from its own columns. On the 6th of
May the Patriot bellowed and howled for treason
as follows : •
While the Administration hesitate concern
ing the evacuation of Fort Sumter, the Charles
tonians are becoming impatient, and rumors
were current that an attack would be made
upon it from the fortifications in case the troops
were not withdrawn. The suspicion begins to
prevail that the Administration have delayed
she evacuation for the purpose of inciting the
Southern Government to make an attack upon
the fort, and thus to throw upon it the respon
sibility of commencing a war which the Lincoln
Administration had determined upon.
This is the conclusion of one tirade against
the north, and now read the gems we have
extracted from another article of assault on
the same quarter :
• 0 0 For once let it be finally ascertained
that the North is implacable, and that we pre
fer the dogmas of the Chicago platform to the
'reservation of the Union with the Border
fttes4,,that moment will the conservatives lay
down their arms, and permit secession to have
undisputed control.
Why not agree to a division of the Territo
riskaesuggested by the Crittenden comprom
ise? What is to be gained by refusal Sup
pose the North concludes not to accept these
terms of adjustment, but insists upon having
every inch of territory, and thereby precipitates
the hesitating States into the embrace of the
Southern Confederacy—what then? Would
the North gain its point by this proceedure ?
Suppose all the slave States became united un
der one government, and war with the United
States, ensues, how are we to possess, hold and
protect the territory lying south of 86 0 80'—
theline now proposed as an amicable division?
Would not the enlarged Southern Confederacy
seize this territory and defend their possession
to the last extremity? and would we be will
ing to go to war for a strip of land that is re
ally not worth fighting for? These are ques
tions to be answered,
What were all these efforts and appeals if
they were not intended to aid and encourage
an old ally ? They were intended as arguments
against the administration of Abraham Lin
coln, and justiflostion of the course of treason
at the aoutJ. When the border states were
engaged in their treason, the Patriot was pouring
out Its sympathy for the Masons and Tylers who
were secretly at work hurrying these common
wealths from the Union. On the igth of May
It thus expressed this sympathy in an endeavor
to wine peace :
I. To recognize the independence of the
Southern Confederacy by abandoning the Res
and abstaining from every attempt to collect
the Federal revenue. Amain doing FO it would
not be admitting the right of secession as a
cOntifiltutional remedy against oppression, but
merely admitting the fact of successful revolu
tion. As Congress failed to invest the Execu
five with extraordinary power and means to
enforce the laws in the seceding States, although
the fact of secession was well understood lung
pertiferts to adjournment ; and as the means at
Ida disposal are sufficient to irritate, but not
adequate to subdue, the discretion confided to
him by the Constitution would warrant him in
abstaining from any proceeding against the se
ceding States until his "lawful masters," the
American people, direct otherwise.
The next step in the path of peace would
be to confirm the allegiance of the Border
States to the Union by consenting to an ad
jnstment satisfactory to them. Otherwise they
too may join the Southern Confederacy. Ag
gresSive measures against the seceded States,
or even measures that can be taken aggressive,
would whirl them at once out of the Union ;
but the recognition of the Southern govern
ment, and the evidence of a kind and friendly
feeling by the North, would secure their con
firmed allegiance.
Can any than send these offers of humiliation
and disgrace to the free people of the north,
and call their authors by any milder name
than traitors 9 Here is the proffer of the uncon
ditional surrender of the majesty and powers
of this government into the hands of traitors,
by men who now exclaim against those who
treat them as the abettors of treason. It was
jet such men as these convictetriebels of the
Yang who created the idea of the South that
the people of the North were all cowards—and
now, after the masses have vindicated them
salvo from the charge, and cleared their skirts
otthe aspersions cast upon them by the pal
troop in their own midst, these same pol
troons, craven-hearted, mean and contempt
ible, crawl to the surface of society,where with
oaths and imprecations against the men who
have braved the storm until it has spent its
fury, they declare their devotion to the Union.
Here is another specimen of its devotion to
the Union :
But the Administration may choose war. It
may determine to bold and possess Fort Pick
ens, if for nothing else than to show that we
have a government. It may dispatch a few
thousand troops to that point, and give battle
to the assembled forces of the Southern Con
federacy. It may undertake to collect the reve
nue by blockading the Southern ports. It may
create universal panic and business. revulsion.
It may set in motion the whole train of terrors
that usually accompany civil war—and what
will it accomplish thereby P Not a single use
ful result. Force cannot restore the Union,
and it is not desirable that it should. The
Government could not continue to garrison the
forts and collect the revenue from war vessels
for any great length of time. The end would
have to come soon ; and that end would be the
recognition of the independence of the South
ern Government, which had better be douche
' fore than after a useless and embittering war.
' But while war would do no good, it would
accomplish incalculable evil. It would inevi
tably separate the Border States from the
Union, and erect on oar southern border a
powerful confederacy, embracing two-thirds of
the area of the Union, contuiningindefinite re
sources, and an active and intelligent people,
animated with distrust, - if ,not hatred, towards
the Northern States whisk so recently put forth
futile efforts to coerce therit hOo.nubmission.
We give another' elocfnent ettract to close
this self-confession and conviction of treason,
reserving a few more specimens.for future use :
Let it be clearly understood that this war is
commenced in the name of the Union for its
destruction. Those who are so infatuated as to
believe that the 'Union can be maintained by
force compose but a small minority. A civil
conflict is the nearest road to disanion. In
the existing temper of the Border States there
is every reason to apprehend that.they will se
cede at the beginning of the conflict; and if
they remain nominally in the Union, their ef
forts and sympathies may be against the Fede
ral Government. The Administration could
adopt no measures more likely to consolidate
the slaveholding States than to adopt coercion
upon the Southern Confederacy, while induc
ing,the Northern States to assume a threatening
attitude.
These are the men, the authors of the sedi
tion, sympathy for treason and falsehoods we
offer for their conviction, who now prate of
devotion to the American Union ! These are
the men who boast of their obedience to the
Constitution and laws of the country ! After
having labored a lifetime to pollute the politics
of the country—after having been engaged in
sustaining the very elements that now war
against the peace of the Union, defending its
excesses, advocating its extremes, and recog
nizlng its barbarities, they thrust themselves
forward now, with the stain of crime on their
1 hands and the blush of guilt in their faces,
and claim to be loyal American citizens. The
crimes which made a vagabond of Benedict
Arnold, make gentlemen of the editors of the
Patriot in the estimation of their allies at the
South. The justification which Aaron Burr
offered for his betrayal ofßlannerhassett, and
his attempt to accomplish that for which Jeff.
Davis has been laboring with the approval of
the Patriot and Union, is offered by Barrett & Co.,
for their treason, viz : their reputation, their hon
esty,
and (God forgive us,) their manly devotion to
thetruth; the cause of right and the purposes of a
fraulc and *mesa effmtfor the American Union.
Mersa Beam= has aroused from his orgies
with the epirit rappers, and even undignified
that solemn aspect with which he seeks to ha.
press the people with his profundity and wis
dom, to attack in the most beastly yet charac
teristic, manner the proprietor of the Tilegraph.
Mister Barrett never inctulgesin flings—oh 1 no—
his piety would prevent that, bat if any disin
terested man reads his effort in the Patriot this
morning, and does not suspect him of having
imbibed a "gin sling," then are we willing to
withdraw the charge of "the fling." We do
so, not that we shrink from the vileness of his
personal assardts;:--or that we fear hie threats
or his fury. All are alike contemptable, cow
ardly and beastly in our estimation beneath
the recognition of honest men and far below
the emulation of the most outlawed blackguard
in the community. We commented on that
attached to the course of the Patriot which was
of a public character, its treason, falsehood,
and sychophancy. The errors which it had
corrected, we were willing to applaud, and not
like it, tear open wounds which the infat
nation of appetite had left only on he who had
erred. It would be well if the editors of the
Patriot were entirely responsible—well for the
stockholders and depositors of a certain explod
ed bank—and well too for the community,
where their treason has provoked resentment,
and which has only been stayed by the interpo
sition of the authorities and their personal
friends. Those who accused us of business dishon
or are of the ilk of the Patriot—with a differ
ence ia appearance, but no difference in credit
—the one mete' social vagabonds and outlaws,
and the other-'the outlaws and vagabonds ,of
_politics. After having served the Patriot with our
telegraph despatches for more than three years
—and after having winked at their plagiarism
from that department, it was unkind in Its ed
itors to allow their spleen thus to explode in
personalities which had no bearing on the ques
tion at issue, viz : its treason to the country in
the hour of its peril. It was useless to conceal
its corruption behind its falsehoods—because
the one stinks in the nostrils of every man in
this community, while the other are as trans
parent and as extensive as air.
Bo far as the personal interests and course of
the publisher of the TFZIGILAP/i are concerned,
he is perfectly willing to allow both to go in
comparison with those of the editors of the
Patriot, before "this . community. What he has
gathered and garnered, he won in fair business
competition while those who now envy him
his comforts and his position, were repining in
idleness or revelling in discipation and lusts.
Of course these matters are subjects of no in
terest to the public, and we now only allude
to them, to call attention to the manner in
which the Patriot answers our charge and con
viction of treason. The very resentment
and revenge they show and seek, are the best
evidences, of their guilt. Out of their ^Own
months have we convicted them, and ,thei , are
fast travelling ti:Vilte":clootti which ie the Atte of
common treason, 'Vindictive denunciation,
desperation and insanity I We pity, '
not Fovea the4,fate !
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THE PATRIOT AND UNION.
The history of this organ of Democracy, if
properly wlitten and deieloped, would afford
more examples of corruption, deceit and delib
erate self-aggrandizement, than that of any
other business or political firm in this Corn
monwealth. Like the great majority of Demo
cratic organs in this country, the Patriot and
Union has depended entirely on the patronage
of party for support, and when that failed, it
also ceased to be animated with any of the
vigor or promptness of a legitimate business
enterprise. And with all the instincts of
pampered pride and egotistical prejudices, this
same Patriot and Union has gone on in its course
of shame and corruption, until it culminated a
few weeks since in open treason against the ho
liest principles of government that ever existed
for the protection of man in his pursuit of the
happiness of home and religion. From the
moment treason showed itself in the.cabinet of
James-Buchanan; the Patriot and Union steadily
defended its growth, and watched its progress
with all the tenderness ant regard of an hon
est ally. When the poison exhibited itself, and
spread and divided the old Democratic party
at Charleston, upwent the caps of the editors
of the Union, while they were most boisterous
In their applause of that Jeff. Davis, who has
Once outstripped them in action but not faith
in the horrid work of destroying this Union.
Daring the last campaign, the Patriot clung to
the traitor Breckenridge, lauded those who em
ulated his treason to Democracy, as it now sym
pathises with the same treason to the ceuntry.
Allthrongh,in every position, by sophistry, mis
representation, falsehood, slander and vituper
ation, the Patriot encouraged this horrid work,
until blood flowed at Sumter, when it shrunk
coward like from the fiendish work it had ac
complished, and sought in self-denial and fear
ful perjuries, the protection of that patriotism
which it bad so much outraged and abused.—
The aim of the Patriot was the destruction of
the Republican party, caring little-whether the
structure of the Union was - pulled down or not,
only so that Abrahitin Lincoln- was forced to
yield to the threats of the Democratic office
holders North and South. Its editors were in
the game as it was played at Washington by
Stevens, Toombs, Wise; Bigler, Cashing, and
their Southern co-partners. They pursued
their work up to the first blow of the bolder
traitors at the South, they shrank from the
work and held up their bloody hands in horror
at not only the accusation of their own con
science, but the direct oharge which the truth
justifies us in making against them. The peo
ple are well satisfied with the truth of what
we have asserted, and if the editors of the Pa
triot and Union are not publicly criminated in
the treason which some of the rebels will be
compelled to expiate on the gibbet, theri will
traitors die With lies in their hearts and on
*heir lips.
The Patriot and Union has for some years
assumed the position of a dignified, statesman
like organ of the corruptions of the old Demo
cratic party. For a clerkship to a Senate com
mittee, it agreed to furnishstrength for Bigler's
knees and Buchanan's vasilations. While one
of its editors was absent in -Washington, dis
charging the onerous duties of this immense
position, and watching (only watching) the
libations peculiar to the basement of the fed
eral capital, the other, sage like, sombre and
immense, was solving the mysteries of the
spirit land, through the medium of the spirit
rappers. Honorable, grave and dignified labor
for men and patriots I in the midst of which
they found themselves engaged with traitors,
and having partaken of thefeast and the pecuni
cry anticipations of this treason, they seek to
escape its responsibilities, and deny its die
graces. These pious men—some fresh from the
alters of religion, with neckcloth unstained,
and hearts full of guile and hypocracy, now
turn their teeth on others because they dare
to tell the truth. With the wine cups foming
above their heads, and the bacchanalian song
and imprecation on their lips, they make the
reformation and escape of others from a vice
they cannot conquer, the subject of their jeers
and ridicule. We submit to this community,
how much honor there is in such men—how
much manlin ass there is in such defences
against well sustained accusations—and how
far the argument goes which carries with it a
slander and a libel, while it essays to resist a
logical conclusion.
Andrew G. Curtin has perhaps fought the
hardest battle and won the most brilliant vic
tories of all the Governors who occupied the
Executive chair since it was filled by Snyder or
Shultz. He was first compelled to buffet the
lies of the Patriot and Union, and now he is
forced to carry the suspicion which attaches to
their praises. Was ever man cursed by such
foes or friends? And yet whilst damning
him with faint 'praise; the Patriot declares it
never soiled his reputation with slanderous de
nunciation." Let na see and read from its own
record. Since Governor Curtin has had an in
crease of patronage to dispense, and since the
Republican leaders have nobly and patriotical
ly resolved to extinguish party distinction, the
Patriot smells plunder, and pitches in with its
sickly praises to win a share. Before the elec
tion when it was laboring for its fellow traitor
Breckenridge, and striving to elect Foster Gov
ernor, this was the estimation in which it held
Col. Curtin :
He [Col. Curtin) occupied the office of Secre
tary of the Commonwealth under Gov. Pollock,
and laid it down with a worse than doubtful
reputation. He intrigued for the nomination
of his party for Governor, and procured it by
means that other candidates would not stoop
to. After receiving the nomination of the so
called "People's party," he went to Chicago
and struck hands with the Republicans,- and
stood upon the same platform with Giddings.
His bosom friends, who are conducting this
campaign, are notorious in Harrisburg and in
most sections of the State. It is only necessa
ry to mention such names as A. K. M'Clnre,
D. A. Finney, Geo. W. Hammersly and Sam
Rea to indicate who would share in his counsels
if he should become Governor. Do the people
want these.contldential counsellors of. Andrew
G. Curtin elevated to positiOns of influence and
power? Will they vote for a man who is the
favolitc; notorious clique of politicians?
How does this mean "fling" harmonize with
its present praises? Be.tpf course the Patriot
never iikdtloB 41901. am are ether ape
shuns :
. A
THE GOVERNOR
Remember! That Andrew G. .Curtin is the
candidate of the Republican party ; that be is
the associate of Giddings and the worst class
of Abolition agitators ; that he-advocates doc
trines which, if carried out to their legitimate
consequences, must result in the elevation of
negroes to a political equality with white citi
zens ; and that his election will intensify the
slavery agitation and imperil the Union.
Renumber! That Andrew G. Curtin is the
candidate of the worst class of Legislative cor
ruptionists ; that he was nominated by a secret
association of political managers previous to
his sominatien by the Republican Convention ;
and that his election wJuld inaugurate at Har
risburg the worst and most discreditable part
of the Pollock administration.
These will do for the present. The prolific
files of the Patriot teem with similar slanders
and assaults, which we have neither time nor
inclination to extract and insert in this atter
noon's Tatum/as. Thus again, out of their
own month, do we convict these villifiers
and traitors. .
TEE TRUTB.
The truth which has provoked the spleen of
the poor abashed and over-awed traitors of the
Patriot, consists as much in the fact that seces•
sic& and rebellion are a failure, as it does in
the expose we have made of their sympathy for
treason. 0. Barrett & Co. hate the manes of
the Republican party—fear and hate the prest
age of free labor—and shrink from the %dig
' nation which has forced therm to display the
stars and stripes, as well as to retract the false
hood they had uttered against those who have
been battling against the course and the effect
of secession The fact of attempted secession,
is the finale of Democratic tendency, such as
0. Barrett & Co. have been advocating for
a life time. It is the end of a crawling sycho-:
phaucy to the Smith, such as 0. Barrett &
Co. have been practicing for the patronage
which has fed and clothed them for many a year.
This is the secret of the passionate resentment
with which these men now assail the editors of
the TRIEGRAPH. With occupation gone—with
means of living without honest labor destroyed,
and with the prospeotof a long political vaga
bondism before them, they strike at every
man who is their superior, socially, politically
and in business: ``The politics which they have
cultivated, aimed only at plunder. The princi
ple they advocated, was an egotistical laudation
of themselves and their followers. While the
envy and jealousy, and spite with which they
regard the industrious and honorable success of
others, prove the material of which they are
constructed and the real feeling which animates
them in business and religion, This communi
ty has always been more amused than benefit
ted by the labors or the enterprises of such
'men as Barrett &Co., and at last, too, the pub
lic has been forced to the expression that, that
which has most disgusted and outraged them,
was the open and shameless treason of the same
firm.
EON. THADDEUS STEVENS.
This veteran Republican and distinguished
Pennsylvanian is in this city, stopping at the
Jones House. Few men in the American Union
have suffered and survived more abuse than
Thaddeus Stevens, and it is cheering to his
friends, as well as the friends of the American
government, to behold the devotion with which
he yet clings to that sacred structure, and the
zeal with which he defends its prerogatives, its
powers, and its authoritiee. For forty years be
has been the unwearied advocate of freedom—
that freedom which leaves the American me
chanic untramelled by the competion of slave
ry—the freedom that would preserve the virgin
soil of the country uncorrupted for the uses of
white labor—and the freedom, too, which
scorns the barter that makes a chattle of a hu
man soul and body. As Mr. Stevens moves
among these, the scenes of his early encounters
and triumphs in life and politics, the memory
of some sacred friendships must cast their light
across his path, while the recollection of his
struggles, and the bitter opposition which ha
been waged against him, will only heighten
and brighten the manly reputation he has won
for himself and his course. Such men as Thad
deus Stevens and their deeds contribute much
to the success of commonwealths, as well as the
glory and safety of nations.
Hsaaarsa the opponents of the Republican
organisation will do that party the credit of
confessing that the objects of Republicanism
were higher and nobler than the mere acquisi_
tion of place and power._ They will admit that
after the success of their principles, and their
recognition as the policy of the government,
the Reputdicans believed their mission fulfilled.
During this entire crisis, although just inaugu
rated in power, they have made but few changes,
and those that have been made were induced
as much by necessity as by the demands of the
people themselves. One of the latest laudable
acts of Mr.. Lincoln, in this particular, was the
reappointment of the postmaster at Lowell,
Mass., Major Watson. This gentleman had
served in that position during two administra
tions, and his successor had been appointed
when Major Watson marched at the head of
the Sixth Massachusetts regiment as far as New
York. The President hearing of the gal
lant action of the deposed Major, immediately ;
reinstated him, giving his successor a different
position. . _ .
We desire that _these fade, be preserved for
future reference, and therefore - we record this
in the columns of the TELECILSTEL.
APPOINTMENT OP POSTMAIMER AT MEADVILLE.-
We observe - that Joseph C. Hays, Esq., the
editor of the Crawford Journal has been appoint
ed Postmaster at Meadville, Crawford county.
We understand that Mr. Hays was not a can
didate for the office, and was presaing another
gentleman for the position, but there being
several contending parties for the. office, Mr.
Hays was appointed without his knowledge.
The appointment is an excellent one, and there
is no one more deserving of these posts
than such men, who have battled for the cause
almost a life time. a.
4, •
TAB Wax Btu Pawn PINALIT rnleMow
rem in the SeoateibTa unanimous .
of all
the Benatore.wese4, twenty-eight. It will go
to the House this afternoon, and will be. acted
on in that body without further delay.
The B6LLEFONTB DSMOCRATIC WATCTIMA:: has
abbrieviated its dimensions and dispensed with
both Its old editors. Cause, its advocacy of
treason and sympathy with rebels. It followed
In the path of the Permaylvanian and other kind
red sheets—and will be overtaken before many
days, unless repentance checks its desperation,
by the Patriot and Union.
INDIA Ruassa.—A, chance for all of our brave
volunteers to provide themselves with articles
indispensable to the preservation of their health
Is offered by the "Goodyear Camp Equipment
Co. 108 Market street," who will sell off their
stock of India Rubber Blankets, Coats, &0., at
cost preparatory to closing their temporary
agency in this city. Do not fall to avail your
selves of this chance. myl3-mse-2.tt
BY TELEGI
LATER FROM ST, LOUIS,
ANOTHER FIGHT
Several Killed and Wounded.
THE UNITED S PATES TROOPS ENJOYING
THE CAMP PREPLRED BY THE REBELS.
The city was the scene of another terrible
tragedy lest night. About six o'clocks large
body of Home Guards entered the city throe
Fifth street, from thaAreenal, where they had
been enlisted during the day, and furnished
arms. On reaching Walnut street the troops
turned westward, a large crowd lining the
pavement to witness their progress. At the
corner of Fifth street parties among the spec
tators began hooting, hissing and otherwise
abusing the companies as they passed, and a
boy about fourteen years old discharged a pis
tol into their ranks.
Part of the rear company immediately turned
and fired upon the crowd, and the whole column
was instantly in confusion, breaking theirranks
and discharging their muskets down their own
line and among the people on the sidewalks.
The shower of balls for a few minutes was ter
rible, the bullets flying in every direction,
en
tering the doors and windows of private resi
dences, breaking shutters, tearing railings, and
even smashing bricks in the third story. The
utmost confusion and consternation prevailed,
spectators fleeing in all directions, and, but for
the random firing of the troops, scores of peo
ple must have been killed.
As most of the firing was directed down
their own ranks, the troops suffered most se
verely, four of their number being instantly
killed and several wounded. Jerry Switzer, a
river engineer, John Garvin, and Wm. Cady,
all citizens were killed. Cheeks H. Wood
ward was wounded in the shoulder; his entire
arm will have to be ampnted. J. Godfrey,
working in the garden of Mr. Cozens, received
three minie balls in his body. Michael Davis
bad an ankle shattered. James F. Welch was
badly shot in the foot.
The troops engaged in the capture of Camp
Jackson were the Ist 2d 8d and 4th regiments
of United States volunteers, under Colonels
Blair, Rrewstein, Sigel and Shuttner, and the
3d and 4th regiments of the United States Re
serve Corps, formerly the Home Guards, under
Colonels McNeal and Brown.
Captain Lyon was seriously but not danger
ously injured by the kick of a horse, on the
camp grounds.
The United States troops are now in posses
sion of Camp Jackson, with all the equippage,
tents, provisions, &c.
The Pacific and North Missouri Railroad de
pots are occupied by the volunteers.
Much excitement exists in the city, but ow
ing to the efficiency of the military and the
police corps, order prevails.
General Frost with his staff and all the State
troops are in the arsenal as prisoners of war.
Hon. Robert Campbell has received a note
from Gen. Frost, which has been distributed
throughout the city in extras, earnestly re
questing him and the friends of the State Mili
tia, now held as prisoners of war in the Arenal,
to abstain from any demonstration, stating that
their safety depends upon quietness in the city,
and that any riotous proceedings would arouse
the populace in the lower wards and result dis
astrously to the city and the militia.
Reports of insubordination in the Arsenal
are credited, and fears are entertained for the
lives of the State troops should disturbances
occur in the city.
Gem Harney has arrived and taken command
of the United States forces.
Captain Lyon will start for Washington to
morrow.
The following additional names of the killed
have been ascertained:
Casper H. Glencoe.
John R. Sweikart.
Jona Waters.
P. Doan.
J. J. Jones, of Portage county, Ohio
L. Carl.
Christian Dean.
Mrs. Macauliff.
Mrs. Chapman.
F. D. Allenl
Two boys, named Ichnour and Leasing.
Dr. George B. Sanderson was stabbed last
night in a drinking saloon by Judge Buckner.
Both were prominent citizens. The difficulty
grew out of the Fort Jackson affair. Judge Buck
ner gave himself up to the authorities and was
lodged in jail. Mr. Sanderson received three
wounds in the stomach, each of which is re
garded as fatal.
ST. Louts, May 11— Midnight. —General
Frost's brigade of State troops was released
from the Arsenal this evening, the officers be-
ing liberated on parole, and the men taking
the oath not to bear arms against the United
States Government during the present war.
A report having gained credence that the
Federal troops bad gone to Jefferson City to
take Governor Jackson prisoner and disperse
the Legislature,Geo. B. Taylor, the President
of the Pacific Railroad, authoritatively contra
dicts the rumor, and says that the troops at the
Pacific depot are simply stationed there to see
that no troops or munitions of war are trans
' ferred to or trom the city. The officers of the
United States troops disclaim any interference
with the management of the trains, which will
run regularly. Governor Jackson, however,
has caused one span of the Osage bridge to be
destroyed, which will necessitate a change of
care'
Two regiments of the Home Guards are pa
troliog the streets to preserve order, and about
one hundred men are stationed about the Dem
ocrat office.
Several shooting affrays have occurred dur
ing the day, but the city is quiet to-night, and
the rain is now falling heavily.
A large body of troops came down on the
Alton and Chicago railroad this afternoon, and
passed on to Belleville, Illinois, about twelve
miles from here.
THE BODTE FROM PHILADELPHIA TO
BALT.I3IO iiE.
BALTII4OIIB, May 18.
Three locomotives came over the Philadel
phia road this Morning nearly to Canton bridge,
which will be ready for me in the course of the
day. .The :telegraph poles are bei n g replaced,
and there is every prospect of an immediate
reeiunptlou of full communication by this
route;
The Winans to be Arrested for Trea.
The City Authorities Rebuilding Bridget
BiLTIMORII, Mac
The Northern Central Railway is wording
to time, but the expected forces for the (1 - r
pation of this City bare not yet arrived f:
Harrisburg, greatly to the disappointroec t o.
all loyal citizens, for I repeat, that there 14
safety here until the Government shall g, rt j
son Baltimore and put the Municipal aut.h.. r:t
in loyal lands. The Philadelphia railw a y
to be opened this morning, three
sooner than was expected. Surely Ge c , er ' al
Patterson will then remove his heady:Litt-zit,.
Baltimore, occupy the helghts, and enable th.
Unionists to show their strength by the jr t .
ence of a sufficient force in gltrison.
An attempt was yesterday made to tea:
the track of the Northern Central
miles from Baltimore. Little damage iva.4
before the deed was discovered. It will go La:.
with any miscreant who is caught at this w
It Is understood that instructions her,'
issued for the arrest of the two Winszi fs
ther and son, on a charge of treason. 11.,:
complicity with the city government
the Federal government is not pretended t,
denied, but they think they can escap,...
meshes of the law. Bat there should n :
made the scape-goats. Why does not t hee,:
ernment bring up the board of police art/
marshal, Col. Trimble, and a score of
parties, all equally concerned in the Gortl:a
bellion?
Sr. Louis, May 12
The city is very quiet. The excitement
entirely subsided. Troops from York and L
caster are expected to arrive here in large
bars over the Northern Central railroad.
Fort htcHeory has been largely reenk,z,::
to-day from Annapolis. About 1,200 mvn
now there. Gen. Butler arrived at the
this morning in a steamer from Anno[x - )li , . a..
is still there.
Men, working under the direction ni
city, all day have ben building the Can;
bridge. It will be ready to-morrow fc,r
passage of trains.
There is =lmmense number of visitor,
the Relay Camp. One visitor, named Ft,-
was killed by a locomotive yesterday.
About thirty mechanics from Baltimore v.,d
ed the Massachusetts 6th regiment, and la•
seated them an American flag, which rt..
pledged to carry with the regimental flag.
A wagon-load of military goods, bouod
Harper's Ferry, was seized on the Frederi.t
road last night by the troops.
The steamer Saguenay was destroyed at
port by fire on Sunday morning. Loss about
$20,000.
THE STEAMER SAVANNAH.
Nair YORK, May Is.
The ship Savannah, from Liverpool for Phil
adelphis, was spoken on the ith inst.
Pmlsnrrritia, Map l:
Flour quiet. One thousand barrels stun Ivl
superfine sold at $8.87 for export. When; :-
wanted. Sales red at $1.8841.85, and wt,:tc
at $1.40(41.60. Corn declined 2c. EiZr.:
thousand bushels sold at 82483 c for Delaw:::
Whisky nominal at 171a180.
New YORE, May 1:
Flour market unsettled. Sales of elts.%
thousand barrels State brands. Prices are
changed. Wheat firm—sixty-eight thouia.
bushels sold at $1.21®1.28 for Mil waukis
Corn firm--sales of two thousand bushel: , ,
59e. Pork firm at 317 75. Lard firm it
Whisky doll at 15®160. Receipts of
28,000 barrels ; Wheat 605,000 bushels ; •:"
49,401 bushels. Stocks dull and lower.
On Sunday morning, lati inst., Wit. H. LOCEIN.IN
6:'nd year.
[The friends of the fd,mily are invited to Lite
funeral on Tuesday at 4 o'clock, P. IC
Wi7ANTED.—A BOY to learn the
T
Busluese at Wyeth's Drug Store. Duv. sc.
German. myt:
ATTENTION I MILITARY
ARMY EQUIPMENTS I
RiIIGHTON, SAWYER & CO.
No. 26 and 28 Pearl street, Boston,
Astor House, New York,
Continental House, Philadelphia
Briggs House, Chicago,
Neil House, Columbus,
Samples seen as Above.
Ifeansseks, haversacks. Canteens, Cartr.dge
Walton and Horse Covers, Camp Blanket; (dicer,
Overman, Marching and Riding Le, glee, Cuttiv.:; B"
Gun Owes, Belts, Soldiers Heavy Bootees, (am.
the famous military Rat, Fatigue 01P3, Army I.
Blankets,Heavy Twilled Flannels, Light and Par. EL ,
Cloth, F lannel Shirts, Flannel Suits for a warm
GaribaldL Zonave and Regular Army Uniform - ,
TerrleirThawci_*talourialamkAe.
MOTICE is hereby given to the
j_l( and other persons to the city of narr'.- _r:
ft.: hen 8 of an ordinance. pissed Feb. 6,
strictly enforced on and after the 16th day r
le wit That every dog going at large
I limits of said city shall have around his neck at
a collar of metal, or a collar of leather with s
plate, on which metal collar or plate shall be
the name of the owner of such dog, and any a. , =';
person or persons owing a dog and permitt,o;
at large without complying with the requi2tueo
section shall be 'Mote to a flue of one dollar
offence. endferther, It Is hereby made the
Chief Pollee Constable, or any other person 0151 ,
him, to take up every dog so running at large to
of this section, and unless the fine Is paid by
thereof on demand, or if no owner Cal/ bo fount
°Meer Is hereby authorized and required to ki
or cause him to be killed and buried, for which
he shall be sUowed one dollar out of the Cli9 Try
Hg,Ntry RADABaI u
wydwatd Chief Yolks CotisLoL_Lf..
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CHOICE HAMS' !!
A LOT OF VERY SUPERIOR ST ti-
CURED HAUSJot, received.
They are or the beet Brand in the market, fx
FLAX DOM atrasstrrsux W2d. DUCK, Jet., s
MAY/1
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FAMILY DRUG ST 0 BE !
pc,N
TAR W 4 UNDERSIGNED HAS 0 e
_L a Wholesale and Retail Drug and Prescript:o? :3 :
in the Iron Front Bunning; No. 128 Market stree..,„
occupied by Mr. Eby, Weigle Oat be found an ac t ` y
of Fresh and Pure Dross, Parma:wry , ho t
OIL, COAL OIL LAMPS, IttirWng Fluid, Ale we
Mealtime, Stationery, Fancy axtiolea, ' tc ted Art
have the agency for the sale of Itline,s Cele,*
end° '
De lidai nt j eeth ts. I to Which we would invite the wt t
t• o Pit °e '
By attention to bum
we
deems
we roapeolibßy ask a share of boa PatrWetko.
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a—Primbliavansh Sews and Tobacco 0"' ---
On /MOIL
Latest from Baltimore
RAILROADS OPEN
8011.
TROOPS EXPECTED
FORT M'EENRY AGAIN REINFORCED
DD3TRUCTION OF A. STEAMER
ktoarranz, May 13th
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH
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