~ailp (dtrapl. OIIR PLATFORM THE UNION-THE CONSITTUTION-AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW. MARRISBr.rPo PA Monday Morning, July 15,1861 TEE FIFTEEN REGIMENTS. A rumor, originating in an irresponsible source, having become current that the Fifteen Regiments now organizing in Pennsylvania, as a reserve corps,' would not be accepted by the War DePaitinent, we are authorized in stating that it is without foundation in truth. On the contrary, the Secretary of War is anxious for the immediate mustering into service of this tome, a lies intimated such a desire to Gov. Curtin. , In compliance with this intimation, Col. John A. Wright has, been despatched to Washington, where he is now engaged irk assist. ing in the preparation necessary to the reception of these regiments. In this connection we deem it just and proper to state that the organization of these regiments has been entirely under the control and super vision of Gen. 'McCall, who rests his reputation as a soldier on their perfection and efficiency. When once in service, the men composing the fifteen different regiments will zealously and gallantly uphold the honor of the state that has sent them forward at the summons of the War Department; to assist in maintaining the in tegrity and perpetuity of the American lJnion* THE HEALTH . OP GO V CURTIN: Since the commencement of hostilities by the southern, rebels against the federal government, the labors of the Governor of Pennsylvania have been of the most harrassing and responsible character. He has labored with zeal and all his might, in the organization of the quota of military force demanded from the state, and the public need not be surprised that under the immense pressure of all this business, immeas urably transcending in importance that involved in any past administration of this state, that the health and the strength of the Executive should be severely tested. The physicians of 'Gov. Curtin have expressed to him the opinion that he cannot retain his health and continue to give the undivided attention to official business that has so far marked his term, and therefore they have decided that he must seek relaxation and repose, or utterly sink with a shattered constitution.. In obedience to this opinion, it is the intention of the Governor to seek the rest necessary, for a full regaining of his health, and therefore his absence from the Executive chamber will be accounted for during the com ing week or thereafter for a limited period. THE CENTRE COUNTY PRISONERS. The captive of a number of volunteers from Centre county and vicinity, by a marauding' party of Virginia rebels, having given rise to much conjeotion and speculation, the following additional information from the Weal Cheater Maga Record may be of importance and grati ffcation to the friends of parties concerned : Capture and .Recapture.—Gallant Act of Major Given.--After Gen. Patterson's battle at Falling Waters; 'a body of rebel troops were reported to be trying to get into the rear of the Federal army, and Negley's brigade was ordered to take a diverging road, about two miles from Falling Waters, to intercept them. A part of compariy I was thrown out in advance, and while waiting in a piece of woods for the brigade to come , up, they saw a squadron of cavalry, ono hundred or more, belonging to the enemy, which the thOught were our own men, there being no perceptible difference in uniform. They Wee careless, and their Captain much to blame; 'for, being entirely off their guard, so much so as to lay their arms on the ground, while some•of them actually let down the fence for the earralry to pass over. Our men did net discover their mistake until the dastardvillain who commanded the troopers shot down the man who let the fence down for him ! This man is Bob Swan, a Marylander, who murdered-Sprigg at Cumberland eight or ten yeargago. He is a great scoundrel. Our men were completely taken by surprise, and !prang to their guns, while the cavalry dashed in among them. Forty men were cut off from their arms and made prisoners ; the rest of our men discharged their muskets, and fell back upon the main body, while the troops hurried off their prisoners. Our men, however, emptied threeteddlea and captured two horses. One of the troopert,waa killed and left ; the others were lifted in front of the riders and carried off. This occurred quite early in the day, and they brought their prisonere through Martinsburg in advertise of• the. retreating rebel troops. Our men were tied with their hands behind, in couples. Some of the, citizens here gave them food. Th ey were , greatly distressed by the forced march they had made. When notice of the capture reached. the - Federal camp, Major Given aglicited and obtained permission to head a parV.to rescue the prisoners. He made pur suit & . d: fortunately came upon the retreating party;" the prisoners and captured eight Or ten of the rebels. Our townsman, Jamaielly, gives a brief account of it in a letter tg,his ifonklficarmix declared on the floor of the House of Representatives, one day this week, that thisalleto4l were waiting for traitors. This w ill be gOod'newit to the loyal men who are now in arms.ta suppiess 'rebellion, and who are so far the superiord 'traiterathat they should scarce ly be milked' contend with them any further than to capture and hang them. The gallows should be the fixed and unalterable doom of every traitor caught with arms in his hands. The gallows should be the fate of every secret sympathiser detected in giving aid and comfort to the rebels—and thus making the gallows ou r prim** weapon of operation against the trai- tors, completely obliterate thik crime by entirely exterminating the criminals. The gallows should'. be borne in the advance of every col nnukt" of the army. As a peace offering, the galloarit Will prove perinanent in every respect, and Wif ; thank Sohn Hickman for having an n.& a purifloation being in THE APOLOGISTS OF TREASON In this morning's Patriot and Union there is a paragraph calling attention to an article from the New York World, which fairly exposes the disunion tendencies of the New York Tribune. The Patriot seems to be hugely gratified with this expose, and suffers itself to show this grat ification in the paragraph alluded to, but in the same column its editors indulge in the very spirit they applaud the World for condemning in the Tribune. In a labored article, so far as its arguments are concerned, but spontaneous in its approvals, the Patriot endorses the con duct of the traitor Vallarligham, and asserts that his treason was only a defence of the lib. erty of speech. It goes even further than this, by characterizing the virtuous indignation of our gallant soldiers, who repulsed the traitor Vallandigham from the encampments near Washington city, as brutal and outrageous conduct. We submit to the candid men of this commu nity, the men who daily read the Patriot and Union, whether that sheet, its editors,and abet tors, are not as guilty of treason, as guilty of open hostility to the peace and prosperity of this nation as guarded and represented by a Republican administration, as is Jeff . Davishim self. No opportunity is missed to exhibit this treason in words, and cowardice only prevents the same parties from practicing in deeds that in which they indulge by hopes and prayers. We submit to the people of the capital of Penn sylvania whether the Patriot has not from the beginning of this contest for the 'Union, given its sympathy to the rebels by embarrassing and denouncing the action of the government, by misrepresenting the military policy of the ad ministration, and by coolly and artfully ridi culing the common soldier as a brute or an as sassin. The article in this morning's issue proves all that we assert, without referring to an article in yesterday's issue of the same sheet, in which the editors indulge in a peculiar and cowardly attack on the .President, making a feigned criticism on the, syntax and prosody of the message the pretext of again proving an antagonism to a government which protects it in its treasonable loving liberty of speech. In the case of Vallandigham, the traitor re presentative from Ohio, the whole Union has pronounced judgment against him, save the sympathisers with the 13reckinridge school of traitors, who persist, like the' Patriot, in en dorsing his conduct . . Vallandigham is one of the men whom the Patriot defends and repre sents, and who declare that this war is unright eous, unjust and unmanly. They assert that the government has no right to take up arms for the purpose of its own preservation—that the law can be vindicated without a resort to arms—that armed rebellion should be soothed and allayed by the sweet compromises peculiar to the diplomacy of the Democratic party, and that wherever the armies of the government march, they are guilty of invasion, and where ever they strike a blow at treason, they are equally guilty of aggression, This is the con stant cry of such sympathisers with treason as the Patriot. They do not urge, as a means of peace, that the rebels should lay down their arms, that they should return the property they have stolen from the legitimate government, and give up their leaders to justice. Such a orePeaition would involve the Democratic party: in ruin, and criminate all of its southern leaders, if it did not at the same time implicate by confession those who have the odor of the Patriot sanctum on their persons. The mere written or printed word of the Patriot and Union for or against this contest for law and order is of no importance in this com munity. They can do no harm by an eternity of utterance in favor of treason. But the danger is in the disgrace to the capital of Pennsylvania which such a sheet creates abroad, and against this we protest. We protest, because the Pa triot does not represent the sentiment of this community, as was shown when the indigna tion of our honest citizens only recently almost burst against them in violence, and when they were only saved from the castigation of the masses by an appeal for the protection of the authorities. It would seem now that they are invoking fresh indignation by an indulgence in Vallandingloun's freedom of speech—a freedom that levels epithet at the justice of the defence of the Union, the valor of our soldiers, the patriotism of Our 'niers, and the loyalty of the masses. God koows that such traitors are presuming on the patience ofthe people. When it becomes necessary for the law to take hold of them, it can only be expounded from the steps of the gallows. , Ls Haanxis's Teams we notice the omission of one chapter which is of the most essential importance to the officer in command as well as the soldier in the ranks. No man can become a really good soldier, unless he first accomplish himself as a gentleman, by which we mean, that he must regard and respect the feelings of others as in all respects equal to his own. Hardee says nothing on this subject, and there fore, doubtless; the aspirant for military honors who is elevated from social life, perhaps taken from behind a counter, where he wielded the yard-stick,pr more probably dug out of the musty records of a lawyer's office, imagines that the lust qualification of an officer in com mand is the assumption of an overbearing and tyranical demeanor towards these whom he deems his inferiors. If this is the prerogative of a military officer, may heaven save us from his controL But this is not all. More than . one young man, whose upper lip is scarcely shaded with the down of eighteen summers, has only to have a gilded strap on his shoulders and a jaunty blue cap with a gold band, set forward on his nose, to make him the most ter rible young man, in his own imagination, that is seen on promenade, to ogle the ladies and frown on hapless dry goods clerks who vainly envy such their epaulets and gold bands. We submit to the reader whetter such is not too much the case with the young officers in both the army and navy. No man of the most lim ited observation will deny this fact ; and before the evil increases, and danger as well as demor alisation originate from the exhibition of such petty pride, tyranny and real ignorance, the preirgliould remind these gentlemen that they are in reality only`the servants of the people, educated, fed Aral clothed.atthepublic elcomse, not to Play tbar braggart, the tyrant or the' Pennspluania 110aitp eclegrapb, illonbap rtrilk-1861. bully, but to fight the battles of the republic. The positions which most of the young men of the class to which we refer now occupy, were not all won in honorable competition or strug gle for the good of the country. They were bestowed as patronage, in the face of the fact that a dozen other men as good as themselves were applicants for the same places, and that their loss would affect only the circle which their anxious and accomplished mammas so gracefully adorn. Sensible men are never inflated with eleva tion. This is the fact particularly with men who profess and have a martial disposition, so that those who act otherwise must not blame old fashioned civil': ns like ourselves if we set them down as up-starts, disgracing alike the uniform they wear and the country that furnished them with money to pay the tailor for its making. Neither are we prepared to submit to the des potism of a military rule in the government, the streets or the society we are daily compelled to enter in the pursuit of our legitimate busi ness. We therefore suggest, for the benefit of the young men who are just. now appearing for the first time in the glory of goldhands, epau letts and steel, that a chapter on civility and I courteous breeding be inserted in the next edi tion of Hardee. It will save the general public from annoyance, and shield the army and navy from the most silly and.iridiculous . as Well as disgraceful conduct. THE CREDIT OF THE NATION. When the administration resolved to 'rescue the country from rebellion, the croakers and traitors of the Breckinridge school, of which the Patriot and Union is the organ in this locali ty, raised the cry that the business and moneyed men of the nation were opposed to the war— that the masses would not sustain it—that men would not enlist, because it was Lincoln's war —and that the credit of the government was so far destroyed by the war policy, as to prevent the possibility of raising sufficient money to main tain a brigade. These were the arguments used to cripple the administration. As these failed; and men and money were devoted to the gov ernment in unprecedented numbers and amounts, the men who urged a want of confidence in the war, threw off their masks, and exhibited them selves as bold and undisguised traitors. If this is not the case, this community is mistaken in its readings of the Patriot and Union. On the subject of the credit of the nation, the Nattonal Intelligences has never seen any thing which has so strikingly displayed public confidence in the Government and its financial administration, in the great struggle for which it is embarked for the Union and Constitution, as the promptness with which the sum of five million dollars was advanced to the Secretary of the Treasury in New York on Tuesday last, in response to a call for that sum—on such liberal terms, too, in the face of the great loan of two hundred and fifty millions about to be authorized by Congress. It was after business hours on Monday, the Bth inst., that Secretary Chase sent the follow ing telegraphic dispatch to the Assistant Treas urer at New York : TanAguas Dweltrum, July 8, 1861. John J. Cisco, New York, will issue six per cent, Treasury notes, at sixty days, to amount of ;me million dot mi for five millions in coin. Please make arrangements forthwith. The dispatch was received the following morn_ ing, and Mr. Qisco immediately called a meet ing of the leading bank officers and started a subscription, and before the close'of business hours of the same day the following dispatches were sent to the Secretary, and reached Wash ington before he had left the department for dinner Naar YORE, July 9, 1881. 1b Eon. S. P. Chase, Secretary of the 21 , easurer : Iv have obtained the subscription for the en tire amount of five millions. Over three mil lioos have already been paid in. JOHN J. Cisco, NEW Yoits, July 9, 1861. S. P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury: The five millions are secured. Jona A. Simvams, President of the Bank of Commerce. We doubt whether the history of the depart ment shows an instance of similar dispatch in negotiations, and we takeit, from this display of confidence, that the moneyed men of the loyal states, do not, like Vallandigham and his apologist the Patriot and Union, regard this con test for law and order, as unholy and unjust. WHAT WOULD TIM MEN OP THB PAST no, were it possible for them to return to a stage of action which they once enobled with their deeds and their presence ? What would Washington, Jef ferson, Franklin, Hamilton and Adams do, were they summoned from the tomb,, and asked to participate in the struggle which is raging for and against the United Staten R Eighty-five years since these men were in the midst of their struggle for the creation of the very Union which one portion of the American people are now eagerly clamoring to destroy, while another is as strenuously battling for its maintenance. Through heat and cold—in the face of well disciplined troops aniwith scarcely any credit— with a wild and unexplored territory on their • northern, western and southern borders, filled with a savage foe ready to take up anus against them in their struggle for independence, 'for civil liberty and religious right—with danger and death before them wherever their march was directed, the fathers and patriots and sol diers of the revolution never hesitatedfor a mo ment in the work in which they had engaged— never shrank from the responsibility they had assumed, or quieted before the foe whose an ger they had invoked by declaring themselves endowed with the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. From the quiet plains of Lexington to Bunker Hill, our fathers nobly battled for these rights. They struggled on to Trenton, to Brandy wine, braving the piercing cold of Valley Forge, the heat and disease of Yorktown and Cowpens --- all this that they might be free, and transmit to their children a heritage of freedom, such as would-pass un impaired from generation to generation until freedom became eternal and immortal on this hemisphere. What would these men say, what could they do, were 'they once more among the scenes made glorious by their own combats? We leave thOSe to, answer who are eugapd in the darnnin g •work or easeTh3g t destroy the Union. We leave . the traitors in the rebel States to answer what Washington would say were it possible for him once more to return to the shores of the Potomac and there behold the army of traitors, entrenched and sworn in bitter hostility to a land and a Union which he devoted the best years of his life in rescuing from tyranny and perpetuating in harmony. Those who are contending for the permanency of the Union have nothing to do with the respOnsibility that struggle involves— they have nothing to do with answering the questions as to what would be the course of the fathers of the revolution were they again in our midst, either the spectators of our strife or the participants in our broils. That the men of the past would condemn the efforts to des troy the Union, there is proof in what they-did to show what they would do were they,back to test their old allegiance and devotion to tire Union. The same hands that fashioned and reared our fabric of government lip:mid On? guard and shield it •from destruction, were possible for them to be raised in this struggle. By k it 01,1 ARREST OF POTOMAC :PIRATES ittempts to seize a Steamer Foiled. THE PIRATE SCHOORRA itEiZER= A Fight at Cambridge,. lauland Another bold plot to seize one of our river steamers by the rebels has just tinthipired. The steamer Chester, as before stated, was sent by the Government, a few days since, down the bay, in search for a schooner fitted out by Col. Thomas, the French lady, but returned..uremo cessful. Yesterday morning, the steamer - Pis:Meer left here for her usual trip to Annapolis; West Cambridge and Easton, and on returning- this evening landed four prisoners at Fort ld'Henry, upon the charge of piracy, having, as is alleged; been concerned in the seizure of the steamer Bt. Nicholas. The pioneer lett Cambridge Lida af ternoon. The prisonerscameto Ganibridgeirri canoe, about 12 o'clock ou 'l:huraday, having with them a large boa filled with. car blues, Colt's revolvers, catlasses, sabr* nets, cartridge-boxes, buck-shot, etc. - The-cir cumstances being suspicions, they were arrested by the civil authorities, and taken into custody by a platoon of the Dorchister Hoine Giuntin c who had charge of them till they reached the fort. Two of the prisoners were xecognizeil:ine Baltimoreans, and axe said to have belongedd to. Col. Thomas' expedition. Bammous, The steamer Arrow, which left here yester day with a detachment of troops; 'made another search for the pirate 'schooner, and: found her aground on a shoal, off -Ngg Neck Narrows. She had been abandonelby the crew.. Aguar4 was left on bard, ands tug'tuts' been sent dnam to tow her up. There seems to be >no doubt, from various circumstances, that the design was to seize the steamer Chester. - When the steamer Pioneer left Canibridge, - a prominent secessionist, °lithe wharf, gays three cheers for Jeff. Davis, which Was the signal for a regular free fight between the OAXXViakaiStaAnd the Union men there gathered. Pistols, and bowie knives were freely used, and it "le the opinion of some of the pusengers that several parties snstained serious injury. - • .41Horoatilbs- rnoleo =maw otailaing- On 'the wharf at the time. S. P. Glum. The Battle at Monroe, Missouri, TWELIN RUNDBRM REBRisi 7 ilia= A GUN CAPTURED. Twenty or Thirty nabob Killed. NONE. BILLED ON THE UNION BIDE. CHICAGO, July 12. • • Three companies, sent to the relief of Colonel Smith, at Monroe, Missouri, returned last night to Hannibal, and report the road unobetructeil between Hannibal and Monroe. On arriving at the latter place, they formed a junction with Col. Smith's force, whieh-wai entrenched in the Academy buildings. The rebe15,,,1,240 . strong, were grouped over the prairie, out , of reach, of Col. Smith's rifles. They had two pieces of ar- 7 tillery, which, were brought to bear, but tie distance was so petit that the balls Were alinost spent before reachingg our.lines._ .CoL Smith's . artillery was of longer range, and ribi. ccuOler-, able execution. , , The fight lasted until dusk, and'the list, shot from our side dismounted one of the .enemy's. guns. Just at that moment Governor Wood, of Illinois, fell on the rear with, the ..cavalry sent . from Quincy on Wednesday, a completely routed them,taking seventy-five ii'rtitoners, one gun, and a ags number of horst*: about twenty or thirty, rebels were' killed:, hloti one man on our side was killed, although several. were severely . wounded. Col. Smith D 3 determined •to shoit 'Brune - of the most prominent rebels. - . Gen. Tom Harris, tir relxkleaderopsoved. f LIWLESS 011MLWES ILTASSOVIU. BT. Lowe, Julia Colonel McNeill pnblisheaa prOclamatiou to, the people of Missouri, stating that the suppires: don of the State Journal was in consequence of its giving aid and comfort to those in active bellion against the authority -of--the United States Government, encouraging the, people to take up arms agtdristthat authority, to commit acts of violence and Oppression against loyal +citizens, and by fabrications of. false reporti :respecting the United StateritiOripshlialcating, disaffected citizens to thncOnunbinraiiri acts of treason, with a view of ilubvert4 lag the Federal authority in the State, The Clinton county (Mo.) Jerrrnal, priblinturd by the printers in Major Sturgis ' 'N:miejand J ,: states that outrages are being committed 'alone the western border of Missourily.la'wleSe tont ditti, led on .by Montgomery and Jarrisorr: It. is also authorized to state-that they, are...ireUna without the authority or'earictionnf i thirThrited States, and will be treated as outlaws by all good citizens and soldiers, wherever hand. A REBEL About 400 men of Colonel igclieVapAgiment, (reserve corps) visited Je, tgla(e .Jrcofrpal,ce early this morning, and `removed thelyKlA.: per, &c., and read an order -froth prohibiting the 'further. pnbileation - of , :that' sheet, The proprietors will,respeekthe . order. and lay the whole matter. before ,eteneml Fre mont on his arrival here. 'IIIE 7,OIJANIT! RNNTTE-19)4.41ag0y0, WMEILLNOTON, July 13. Advices received .here report that the The Zonaves, of New YPrlb .9114' V'arnlisl l ; were 6 . their =