• Eeitgrao ) . Forever float that standard sheet: W here brealhes the foe but falls before nal W.th Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us OUR PLATFORM THE UNION-THE CONSITITTION-Allr ME ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW. HARRISBURG, PA. Saturday Morning Augoot 8, 1861: THE-SECRETARY OF WAR Hon. Simon Cameron, Secretary of War, ar rived in Harrisburg to-day, from the federal Capital, and immediately proceeded to his coun try seat of Locheil. We are not able to announce how long our diAinguished fellow cithm. remain among his old friends and neighbors, but it will be gratifying for them to learn that he is in excellent health and spirits, notwith standing the immense duties and onerous la bors of his official position. PAPER CURRENCY TO THE SOLDIERS. The story in regard to the disbursement of paper money to the Pennsylvania volunteers, originated in the fact that the first payment made to the troops was in accordance with a system in the regular army, namtly, placing the sum necessary to pay an entire company in the hands of the captain, by whom it was dis bursed to the individual soldier under his com mand. This system was adopted by one of the first regular,aymasters who arrived in this city, but he disbursed only silver and...gold, while the officers in command are responsible for the paper money payments made to the volunteers, which was stopped as soon as it came to the knowledge of those in authority. We referred to this matter the other day, stating that J. D. Cameron, Esq., had been instrumen tal in st3pping the circulation of paper currency among the troops, but the impression was left that the paper was disbursed directly by the paymaster. Such was not the fact, as he had given the officers gold and silirer. Wails Conoarss is discussing the constitu tionality of its own acts and proceeding, so far as they relate to the rebellion, the rebels are proclaiming every where that they consider themselves absolved from all the obligations imposed heretofore upon them by the Constitu tion. They deny that its injunctions have any force. They protest against its power, and de clare that all its provisions are null and void so far as they are concerned. And yet members of Congress insist that these same men shall be protected by that Constitution—that in proceed ing to their subjugation oa puntshmeik, the spirit and intention of the Constitation be carefully guarded, and its protection guar anteed to those who seek its destruction. While it is the policy of those in command of the army to protect public and private pro perty in the rebel states, and to treat humanly and considerately those of the rebels who are taken prisoners by the federal forces, the con duct of the rebels themselves has invariably been that of savage barbarity towards those of the federal army who become their prisoners of livar. Our soldiers are compelled to labor with their slaves—our officers are cast into prison, and made to horde with common thieves and cut throatb—while those who enter the lines of treason on errands of mercy to the suffering sol dier of freedom, or on missions of humanity to reclaim the bodies of our dead, are seized as spies and intruders,. the wretch who conducted them thither released, because he was known to sympathise with treason, while the gentle men themselves are retained as hostages. - -We do not desire to add curselves to the list of newspapers that assume to advise the government, but we dare ask whether the gov ernment deems such a policy of forbearance as is suggested by their treatment of the rebel leaders calculated to satisfy and appease the demands and the indignation of the American people. THE RICHMOND PAcsas contain exaggerated and ridiculous tales of the Bull Run battle. The Enquirer says that General Wilson, of Mass achusetts, gave a grand dinner on the field of battle, and only escaped during the retreat by assuming the disguise of a teamster. Beaure gard's chief surgeon reports a loss to the rebel forces of more than three hundred killed and over one thousaud wounded. The Hagerstown (Md.) Tersh light, however, says a gentleman-of that town bad received a letter from`-s female relative at Winchester, in which the confederate loss is put down at three thousand killed and six thousand wounded. -.- - As THU CAM Now sum, if the southern con federacy was to be "let alone" to-morrow, and granted all the territory included within the boundaries of the fifteen slave states, a war wiOdh themselves would be at once begun to estatlish their own unity. No better definition of the term "secession" could be given, as sig nificant of what it has already done, than that it means war; and every new occurrence con nected with its onward march proves the fact. GIMBAL MoCALL, just appointed Brigadier General, will be promoted Major General. He will then ask that the whole fifteen regiments of Pennsylvania reserve volunteers be oidered to Washington and placed in his division. Tin THIRD PENNSYLVANIA RECHHILYT (reserve) now in Washington city, was furnished with new and improved weapons on Wednesday last. The men of the regiment are reported to be in excellent health and spirits. COL. LANDIM says that he would rather light another battle with the troops who fell back at Bull Bun than with the new levies. He values the averienee of one snob battle, highly. THE DONATION OF COTTON. The rebel government has been very busy and also very urgent in their appeals to the cotton planters to donate such quantities of their productions as they can spare, as a contri bution to assist in defraying the expenses of the rebellion. They argue that the rebellion is to promote the interests of the institution of slavery, and through its success, the facilities for raising cotton are also to be increased. The rebellion is for Slavery—slavery is for the wel fare of the cotton lords—and cotton, therefore, must be made its influence and means of suc cess. if the confederate traitors can induce the planters in the Atlantic and Gulf states to con tribute one half of their cotton crops, they are sanguine of being able to raise a large amount of money in Europe with this stock as colteral security. This being accomplished, the next achleVment must bathe breaking down of the bl OCkaile 4 a, teat ..thafthe governments of Eu rope sit) eitsiCied io perform, in answer to the demands of the rebel debtors. The cotton te.PayAbtswill be represented by the traitors as being in their warehouses, but the blockade of their ports by a foreign foe prevents its ship ment for the purpose of satisfying their credi tors. This is of course a very shrewd style of diplomatic engineering, by which the southern rebellion is to , be sustained by the manufactur, g interests of Ettgiand and France, bit :the . test is yet to be made, whether they OM be able to defraud the planters to the etteart they contemplate, and even when they' have : 811C- , succeeded iii sech a fraud, whether they can induce European capitalists to advance money, on so Uncertain. a security. The' rebels never hoped to succeed by a fair fight. They never dreamed of bringing their rebellion to a success ful close by their own struggles.' = It:is by tricks such as these that they hope to accomplish the destruction of the American tinion, and the con sequent civerthrinv of the general principles of civil and religious liberty. If they can embroil any of the powers of Europe in the fight, their in tention is to shirk the responsibility they have assumed, escape the danger of the:'var, and leave the contest entirely to the federal gov ernment and any such of the European powers they may be able to embroil in the war: In this connection there is another point, which the people or the traitors of the south have never fully considered. The shipping in terest in Europe does t being , autrill , Wage will be at the lowest rates. A C ,1 1 • , ugh wan OW' train to attend to Ma all gouda entrusted to the line. 000 4 s de Ira), WARD &FREED, No. 811 Mar:/1. , •ta , r i !/41Phial•by & o'clock P.M., sall be ...aver , u Harrisburg the next moruto kreight (always) as low as by any otber r articular attention paid by tub hue t ~- V,dehrery of al , klarrisbur Dula • „ iantlereigned thaukral fur past aunt attention to bustucas to merit a G. acme. • T. till ' Philadelphia and ite Pecs of Market tetra el? Om WORCESTER'S ROYAI. QUARTO DICTION . SSE best Altifiniug -and prof u 100Ary 01 the English 1. lawguige ; Acdonazies. Weoster's 1, 7 JAotionarilitfor Isla at HSTOA BCHEFFEWS 800 _, Neer the Flialutargpr"... ftlistettanto us CAVALRY TACTic- Three vole 18mo S 3 7S. WAR DEPARTMENT, Wk.!! \ February JNO. a. BALE. Az.. '. ISruall%..ti, \ . Or 0. 0. Zimmerman, Agent. IFERIS IMO El