121
"flak) Eeitgrao.
float that standard Bisect!
Wherebreathes the foe but falls before tut
W.th VreedouVis soll beneath oar feet,
And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us
oust PLATFORM
111111 UNION-THE CONETITTITION--ANE
THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE TAW.
HARRISBURG ,-PA.
Tuesday Afternoon, August 13, Md.
MR PATRIOT AND UNION.
AN OED SONG TO A NSW TONE
The organ of the lireckinridge faction in the
distracted organization of the Democratic party,
and the month piece of the secret traitors who
still indulge the hope that the rebellion of their
southern political allies will succeed, burns and
froths and sweats this morning in a fearful
agony of indignation, at what it considers the
extremes of the TELEGRAPH. It has gone so far
as to place prominently •at the head of its
columns a quotation from one of our editorials,
containing a truth more sublime than any that
hap heretofore adorned the same space, and yet
it seeks to use this glorious truth as a missile of
injury against the Republican party, the people
at large atd the loyal men who are struggling
to rescue the Union from the danger of a re
bellion. A plain Saxen sentiment in favor of
liberty—a bold and manly avowal that the in
stitution of slavery and that of freedom could
not exist in harmony on the same soil, is con
sidered by the saint and the sinner of the
Patriot to be the most outrageous declaration
that could possibly be coupled with language
They madly protest against the sentiment that
the antagonism of right and wrong is eternal,
because they have lived by the wrong and the
neutralization of the right. They object to the
truth that as long as slavery exists on this hem
isphere there can be no peace, because the mo
ment the institution of slavery has lost its
power and influence, the prestige and force of
the Democratic party are lost forever. On this.
point we have history to bear us out. In all
the great elections resulting triumphantly for
the Democratic party, they have been borne
aloft by the votes of the slave-holding states,
while the slave-holders themselves have con•
trolled every Democratic administration that
has wielded power since the formation of the
Constitution. It was not only a power hi The
government, but slavery actually was fast :be
coming a lever in society, by which its advo
cates hoped eventually to make it predominate
in all our interests. If a sentiment in favot of
freedom was uttered by a professor -in a north
ern college, southern etudenta at once seceded,
and the professor was incontinently pronoun Ced
an abolitionist. If a northern.. preacher. ayed
that liberty might become universal, e was
sure to be pointed at as a fanatic by our south
ern brethren. If a northern or western member
of Congress insisted that' the political rights of
the properly in siavea should not be made para
mount ,to all other .. taxable property, he was
either challenged to mortal combat by a rems
entative of southern chivalry,. or assailed and
denounced alter the cowardly manner of the
northern dough face, until the right of petition
and the freedom of speech became privileges
almost dependent on the courtesy of the Demo
cratic majorities that then ruled in Congress.
No set of men are more familiar with this con
dition of drabs than those who now control the
Patriot and Union. They Were participants in
the patronage which grew out of this servile
obedience to the political mandates of the skive
power. They crawled on their knees before the
hand that was smiting and blighting the inde
pendence and the interests of the great free
north, and when the woongs of our own people
amounted to the mina the country, the Patriot
still persisted in its defence of slavery, and Its
propfietors were only forced into Silence by the
indignation of the people threatening to take
summary vengeance on their persons and pro
perty,
We submit to the judgment of the People,
the causes which incited the mobs of the south
to this rebellion. In every southern state, the
Democratic organization has ruled—its parti
sans have governed and its principles prevailed.
What influence, then, induced, those states to
rebellion, if it was not one growing out of
modern Democracy—and what other object have
these rebels in view, if they have , not in con
templation the spread of slavery into any state
and territory in this Union? Will the Patriot
in its supreme wisdom and august dignity ars
wext Or shall we reply and inform It boldly
that the rebellion is based on a purpose to de
, fend, increase by importation, and strengthen by
investing with political rights the institution
of slavery. The Patriot people know tip :to be
tiriiik• and they are lending their sympathies to
tho i riehelllon Oat they may thus contribute to
the of slavery and at the same time
weaken the influence of free labor. T'hey
would if they could, erect whipping write and
slave pens in the capital of Pennsylvania, and
if it advanced their political ends, make slaves
of every toiling white man in the land. If
such is not their notion, why kb 'their defend
slavery f If they are not in favor a acknowl
edging its influence and admitting its power,
why do they forever defend its rightS and haft
npOn their recognition? We leave Messrs. liar
alni McDowell to answer. We lave thern
A ° explain before this community, in this great
hour of public calamity and national crisis, WhY
they midst in defending the cause of all our
pillintion and disgrace. That they are the
friends of slavery—that they sympathi se w ith
rebellion, and that they hate the government
besanse they are not permitted, to participate
iiii 6 rtiOn 4l o) 15 an. 4040.40 t, and needs
neither acknowledgement or explanation. But
their open sympathy with treason—their elo
quence in defence of slavery, and their lack of
reason and argument in assailing a patriotic ad
ministration, certainly need and demand ex
planation: Who pays Messrs. Barrett and Mc-
Dowell? Do they labor for gold or glory, for a
promised interest in the institution of slavery,
or do they work only for the realization of the
infamy which seems so becoming for their ex
istence I
COL. WILLIAM B. MANN..
The Sunday 23ariscript in its last issue, at a
cost of " ten cents per line," attempted to de
fend Col. William B. Mann, and hold other
men besides himself, responsiblefor his military
failure and personal incompetency as a corn.
manding officer. Mr. Mann may be an excel
lent prosecutor in the Quarter Sessions, and he
may also understand how to control and suborn
a corps of police officers, but when he under
took to lead a regiment, he essayed a work be
yond his vocation, aid assumed a duty which
he could and has not discharged. Nor is Mr.
Mann the only Colonel who has failed to come
up to the standard essential to the success of a
soldier. Others, we are forced to admit, have
failed like himself, but unlike him, they have
swallowed their disappointment for future di
gestion aiad have not attempted to hold Linen,
entirely irresponsible, to account for whatcould
only be attributed to their own deficiency. In
this respect, the friends and advocates of Mr.
Mann have made a mistake which will expose
most palpably the wrongs which they complain
of as haling been forced on him, to be in re
ality wrongs of his own creation, and errors
which every man of over-weaning ambition is
sure to commit.
So far as the Secretary of War is concerned,
the Transcript only desired to manufacture sen
sation for its fallen hero, when it sought to con
nect Col. Mann's failure with a presumed oppo
sition that Secretary Cameron should have
waged against him. . This presumption is based
on the conscious guilt of not only Mr. Mann,
but many of his friends, that the Secretary of
War should oppose him and them, for the
cowardly, wretched and unmanly crusade they
waged against Pennsylvania being represented
in the national Cabinet. Their souls teach
them that they deserve blows, and the retalia
tion of which they accuse others, is the result
of a suspicion which ever' haunts the guilty.
But Gen. Cameron has other objects and nobler
purposes in view,, than indulging is attacks
such as the friends of the fallen and unenvi Able
Col. Mann complain of, and when he seeks for
retaliation it will not be with the soldiers of a
regiment or the influences in their hands, but
frankly had bravely, as an honorable man re
pairs his injuries in the sight of all honorable
men. Therefore, Mr. Mann and his friends
may content themselves that they are not the
game they imagine themselves.
The truth of the matter in this connection of
William B. Mann with a regiment of soldiersis,
that he has proven himself utterly incompetent,
that he has lost or forfeited the respect and con
fidence of his regiment, and when he finds him
self fast becoming an object of derision and
scorn among civilians and military men, he
proves his coward nature by attempting to cast
the odilim and
„responsibility upon others. A
brave non would acknowledge both, and pub
Holy contend to relieve himself. But Mr. Mann
finds himself unable to do 'so, because he lScks
the qualifications of a soldier. Therefore; let
him stick to his books and his profession. The
Quarter Sessions is the field for such men as
this Mann, where he can engage in unraveling
the guilt of those accused of petty larceny, as
sault and battery, burglary and' congenial busi
ness. The field, where brave men are to contend
for a holy cause, ie not the arena for this Mann.
There he would be out of element. tet
him give up a sword that he cannot wield, and
return to his briefs and subpceneas.
Tun 'Burma; of the Cincinnati Republican are
about as reliable. and consistent itepublicans as
Messrs. Barrett and M'Dowell are considered re
liable and consistent Democrats, by a wing of
that party which once rallied to the call of
Douglas. The very frauds which the Cincinnati
editor complains of, were sought to be practiced
by himself, and when the Secretary of War re
fused to encourage the frauds of a few Cincin
nati speculators, the editor of the Enquirer lends
his aid to bring reprove' upon a Department of
this Government, he or his friends cannot
nse for their own aggrandizement. And the
assertion that Secretary Chase and Gen. Scott
areattending to the'details of the War Depart
ment is also simply ridiculous, because any one
who knows Gen. Cameron as well as Barrett
and M'Dowell know him, will admit that he
suffers no interference with himself and what
he considers his public duties. And it is also
well known- among intelligent men that the
courtesies of . the Cabinet are of a character
that neither encourage or ailovi any 'attempt
of one Head of a Department to interfere
with the business of another. So this slang
of the Cincinnati Commercial is manufactured
out of whole cloth, and is readily seized upon
by the . Patriot to, minister to that morbid
suspicion and mean envy which have distin
guished Proprietors through life. They are
too cowardly to make a direct charge them
selves, and therefore content themselves with
using the slander of others to assail their neigh
bors.
This stale, old slang in regard to the Secreta
ry of War and his business interests is worn out,
but it still seems to suit the purpose of Democrat
ic attack on the Administration in this locality.
Such men as Barrett and M'Dowell presume
that they can attractpublic attention from their
own open sympathy with the rebels, by indulg
ing in idle assertion against the Administration
in power, or the meaner practice of insinuating
what they dare not openly declare on their own
responsibility. The pitiful balderdash in regaid
to collossar fortunes is becoming of men who
have passed in idleness or •in rioting the time
which others gave to honest enterprise and in
dustry—and in this community, at least, it
meets with small approval for any man or set
of men toenail the personal character or busi
nessintegrity of Shrion Cameron. He has lived
here_to Whiz? a + -reutatkerwhick
as enduring eitthisenicta tiiiitoitnietaitiottr hpAs,
. : f
and is as pure as the streams which water our
yanks. The thieves and the parasites whohave
been maligning him for years, receive their vi
tality by feeding on the reputations of such
men, and when they earn a distinction it is for
the audacity with which they email that which
they cannot emulate. It would not be trifling
with the future to predict that the hand which
inscribed the venom in the columns of the Patriot
against the Secretary of War, would be extend
ed and receive alms from him before the winter
that is slowly approaching has "ceased to blow
its winds or drive its frosts." Things like this
have happened!
INCONSTSTEIV,T.
The rebuke which John C. Breckinridge , rez
calved in Baltimore, and the fact that the invi
tation extended to him by his friends to visit New
York city had been revoked, for fear that his pres
ence there would have the influence of stirring up
the indignation of the loyal people of thaticityi
has had no effect whatever on the editors of the
Patriot and Union. They are determined to fill
the measure of their infamous treason until it
overflows, and if possible strike the last blow
that is to bring thagovernment and the people
of the loyal states at the feet of the , slave mid
rebel power of the south.. To accomplish this
purpose the more speedily, the editors of the
Patriot issue their sheet daily Vemiag with the
vilest slanders against' those engaged in the vin
dication of the laws, or they perambulate the
streets of Harrisburg giving aid awl comfort to
the secret traitors with which the city abounds.
Nothing is too gross to be uttered 'against the
Cabinet. If the design of a Treasury note is at
fault with their artistic taste or personal preju
dice, the Secretary of the Treasury is at' once
denounced as an abolitionist. If the army is
marched to fight a fair and manly battle, and
our forces are obi3tincted by masked batteries,
the traitor miscreants are not assailed, but the
officers in command are denounced as incompe
tent, and the War Department held up as cor
rupt. If navy yards are dismantled and docks
and channels obstructed, the pirates and plun
derers who accomplish this work are applauded
for their enterprise and daring, while the Se
cretary of the Navy is denounced for his incom
petency or inactivity. If the Bpstmaster Gen
eral desires to protect his department by repu
diating the stamps stolen therefrom by rebel
postmasters, and requests that those holding
stamps shall at once exchange them for others
of a differen design, in order that the govern
ment may not suffer, the Patriot sets up its usual
howl, and insists that it is an assumption
of power. Not a single argument is, adduced,
or a single word uttered , by the editors of
the Patriot against, the traitors. Not 'a
single anathema is pronounced on those who
persist in assailing this government, but the
reproof and the condemnation which belong to
treason are hurled against the brave men and
the patriotic administration that are engaged in
the struggle to subdue and silence traitors. - . •
What better evidence need our .people have
of the tendencies of those who control and
minister to the treasonable publication in
question. They may claim the right - of speech,
and the freedom of press, and they are welcome
to these privileges, but when they thm3 exceed
both, and openly indulge in treason, we claim
the right, and will boldly eacrcise it, of pro- .
nouncing the arguments with which Messrs.
Barrett and trictlowell seek to hide their treaohew
ry while attacking the administration, to be of
a character fir more dangerous to the peace
and prosperity of this country, than are the,
armits of the rebels themselves, because they
misrepre s ent , public sentiment. in our own
mid-t, and create iininessions &broad that lead
still further tolincrease the -violence of those
who are engaged in treason. The surest con
viction of traitors is that which comes out of
their own mouths, and by this self conviction
this community have long since pronounced :
the editors and publishers of the Patna. and -
Union, Taarroasl
WHAT ABS WE STBIJGGLING rot? What are
the. Rebels 81,11 9.94n9 Masi) aie::iiiii#°° B
which surely every man understands. hey
interest us all to the extent of our hopes here
and hereafter. We of the north, or rather of
the loyal states, feel that we are struggling
for a great and mighty principle,,involvingour
social order, political power, and nationallex
istence. We are battling to maintain this gov
ernment as it was bequeathed to us by our
fathers. We are only struggling to ppeserve
our free institutions—nothing more sand no
thing less than this will now satisfy those who
are in arms in defence of the Union. This is
our position, and the world understands; it,
however we may >be misrepresented by those
with whom we are contending, or those in'our
midst who take advantage of our forbearanne
to act the part of open traitors, clerical denim
ciatorn, or bearers of despatches, through the
medium of the Knights of the Golden Circle,
to the rebel chiefs of the south. An we i sre
thus struggling, the question,as to the strug
gles of the rebels in the south is easily-anew" er
ed They nontending defer* 3 may
predominate. All the wrings' they complain
of, are alleged to have been committed against
slavery. All the rights they - demand are to
enhance their possession of slaves. Thus they
have made slavery - the issue in this eon t.
They have foreedlt °nth& peOPle of the free,
states, declaring that as slavery is recognized,
the Union will be respected--and as it is opPcs
exi, the Union will be threatened, assailed, and,
if possible, destroyed. There in no -longer-any
necessity of disguising this fact. There is no
longer, any policy of refusing to makes
livery
a means of our defence, by turning its poWer
against those who are making its interests the
motives for their treason. If they succeed, they
tell us plainly that all labor is to be enslaved.
If they conquer us, 'we - areto . becortie, not their
allies, nor even their vassals, but , their slam—
and the whole country, all the free states, with
their teaming interests of industry and enter,
prise, are to be dedicated to the lusts, the order,
and the control of the institution of slavery.?
—lf this is not the issue, illen the rebelS
of
the south are ruthlessly and uselessly PourfPg
out the hlood;ofitheirmenlitimns. If thin is
the inare, r t
u!'insau : 1 9 n g,fto dottbt 4 e
fact, Welkemistaking our, mdg rionin out rffo
to cruelliibillion. We zausrettikeithal,
=NEB
cause of the evil rests. We must cope with the
devil, not behind masked batteries—not with
flags of trace or in cups of deceitful friendship—
but in thilbut and on the plantation, where the
clank of chains is the dirge of souls perishinl
in slavery, and the evidence of the everlasting
social damnation of the enslaved. We must bid
those strike the blow themselves if they would
be free—we must invite them to a death strug
gle with their own masters—we must consider no
policy too rigorous while struggling with those who
are sworn to the accomplishment of our social and
political destruction.
Tar PATRIOT tan limos insists that the strug •
gle is for the Constitution and Union. The
rebels declare that their struggle is for the con
federaortmd-slayery. Here is the difference
between old friends and allies, and on this dif
ference depends the loyalty of all who cling to
Sba...ftlnat of the. Patriot or the decrees of the
rebel leaders. If this war is for the Union and
'Cthistitution, and` the rebelEr' declare that they
are strugglingeto maintain the rights of slavery
inyiolate, how am the Union and Constitution
to, be re-instated in power, if slavery is not.
abolished or crushed. The advocates of slavery
have renounced the old Constitution simply be
cause the interests of slavery were not definite
ly defined by that , instrument, and they have
flamed a new compact, in which the institu
on isinade a cardinal principle in their gov
ernment. One or the 'other. of 'these Constitu
tions must survive this rebellion. If the one
framed by our fathers is vindicated and sus
tained, slavery , becomes extinct by the confes
sion by IN own advocates. But if the Constitu
tion of the rebels triumphs, slavery is as. likely
to be spread into all the states and territories as
it is likely to be made the ruling power in the
government forever hereafter. -
BY TELEG , 'fl
FOUR O'CLOCK
MI EX-MINISTER ARRESTED
FOR TREASON.
X-SENATOR COOPER TAKES THE FIEL I
MORE BPIES AItREBTED.
LATEST FROM GENL. BANK'S
COLUMN_
KIM 1114UTENA.NT 'ORDERND TO
FORT LAFAYIIIII.
I=l
Wesumerou, Aug. 13
The arrest of Chas. J. Faulkner, ex-Minister
to France, for treason, was effectedi yesterday,
by a detachment of the Provost Guard, who for
that purpose repaired to his hotel. He, was
conveyed. o the jail, under orders from the
military. authorities, through' the War Depart
ment. He is not permitted to hold correspond
ence or conversation with any of his friends at
present., 1 As to•the2, , spe , ic charges under which
he is field ;' they tire; sh Tar ''as the public are
concerned, mere matters of speculation ; but
something has been said about his `, having a
commission as, a Brigadier General in the rebel
army: A formal examination into the case
however, ' however, soon take place. His treason, it
is ed, was chiefly perpetrated in France
w ee was, holding anommlision under the
United States.. He aided agents of the rebels
sent out to purchase arms, and used his influ
ence with the leading statesmen , of France to
have the 'French government recognize the
treasonable oligarchy of Jeff. Davis.. There is
considerable rejoicing in Washington that the
governinent has exhibited sufficient backbone
to dh a goodtiting. Shortly lifter:his west he
remarked that he was not aware of having
doile anything to justify these proceedings, and
but for theta he would have bad: his accounts
settled to day at the State Department, which
he had visited the day after his arrival in Wash
ington on that business, as well as to call on
Secretary Seward; in, accordance .with the cour
tesy governing ministers returning from abroad.
It is said thatft correspondence has been
found among ealffinistii-Minister` papers,
showing a collusion between him and certain
members of the present Rebel Government,
and that among the things laid down in the pro
"gramme was the meeting held in Baltimore the
other evening by Breckinridge and Vallandig
ham. I learn that the strongeat testimony ex
ists that Mr. Faulkner was active, while Minis
ter-of the United States in France, in giving
aid and comfort to the rebels by purchasing
arms, and volunteered to command a regiment
of rebel troops on his return.
Ex-Senator Cooper, of Pennsylvania has
been commissioned a Brigadier General of Vol
unteers. He was authorized some three months
ago to raise two or more regiments, but his ap
pointment as Brigadier has just been made.
A, prominent resddent of White House Point,
rained Burke, was arrested to-day by our pick
;ets, about six - miles -from Alexandria,. He is
charged with being a spy and acting as a rebel
messenger. He is at present confined in the
jail, awaiting orders from Washington.
Another ex-government clerk, Adexandriti W.
Flowers, was arrested yesterday a few miles be
low Alexandria,enrouse for Richmond, by order
of the Provost arshal of Alexandria, on the
charge of being a spy for the rebels.
During the last week the following troops ar
rived, and now occupy encampments near the
city :
The Pennsylvania artillery, Col. Campbell 800
Fifth' regiment Wisconsin troops, Col.
Cobb 1,041
Siat.-Vegirnent-Wismont4n troops, Col. •
Cutler
.1,060
th Inclliumeirolunteers,'OoLAfere-
' dith. ..
Fifth Pennsylvania" Volunteers, Col. Sim
moos 1,000
Total..
A portion of General Banks' column, under
command of Captain Kennedy, of the Nino
ttenth New York volunteers, with a hundred
of his men, had a brush, with a par*" of rebel
cairdirof about'the Amite number, at Lovetts
vill,lLondon county, Ira., on Thursday last,
dui drove them from the town, killing a. lieu
tenant and wounding five men. The Union
troops entered the town, after a forced march
of seven miles through a rocky pass, and charg
ed the cavalry, who were taken by surprise, and
fled.
The gown/matt has sent .orders to Oincin
naii directing that Lieutenant Colonel_ Tyler,
of die rebel army, who was arrested in that city
a few days since, shall be sent to New York 'for
detention at Fort Lafayette, which appears to
have been selected as the abiding place of cap:
tuted rebels.
ONE MILLION IN SPECIE ARRIVING.
NEW Yvan, Aug. 13.
The~#P , Oluunpi9ilis signalled below;
she nearly a milliou sPecieler shiPPed
fro& San itiOlsodcakilii;Oth !MI , an board
Iheer golden Aga: -
122 iti • 2 , Z2l
b.ezta, •
NEWS FROM THE SOUTII
Parson Brownlow's Knoxville Whig
Suppressed,
A passenger from Richmond, who passed
through Knoxville on Friday night, reports
that General Zollicoffer, of the Tennessee troops,
had suppressed Parson Brownlow's Knoxville
Whig.
A Louisville paper publishes a letter signed
W. T. Dewey, of New Orleans, addressed to
his cousin, F. A. Crocker, of New York, asking
if he, Dewey, could get employment there and
speaking despondingly of future prospects in
New Orleans. This letter was intercepted by
the military authorities at Memphis and re
turned to the authorities at New Orleans, who
committed Dewey, and declined taking bail for
his appearance.
The Richmond Examiner of the 18th, says
the rebel Congress, on Tuesday, was consider
ing a bill for the public defence. It encounter
ed an ill-timed division of opinion. The bill
does not provide for a levy of forces, but au
thorizes the President to employ the military
conformably to the act of the 16th of March,
and to accept volunteers not exceeding 400,000.
The Norfolk Herald of the 7th says the S. P.
Whitney, another Boston steamer, came to
Newport News on Sunday, and on Monday pro
ceeded to sea with her decks filled with troops.
A correspondent of the Richmond Despatch
says two hundred and forty negroes have been
sent from Fortress Monroe to Cuba, and• advo
cites the admission of negro testimony 10 prove
what parties state to.these negroes.
The Cleveland (Tenn.) Donns of the 9th Pays
that Edwards, who declared that he would
swear to support the rebel constitution, was
elected from Bradley county to the House by
five hundred and ninety-eight majority, and
that the nine members in lower East Tennessee
are Union men.
The Athens (McMinn county) Post says it is
reported that several companies in that county
have been organized to resist the action of Ten
nessee becoming a member of tho Confederacy,
and hope the rumors are without foundaticu,
as the county has a decided majority flir the
Southern constitution.
THE BANGOR DEMOCRAT OFFICE DE
STROYED.
At one o'clock this afternoon the Bangor
Democrat, a secession sheet, was "cleaned out"
by a large number of people. During an alarm
of fire a crowd entered the office, cleared it of
everything it possessed and burned the contents
in the street. Mr. Emery, the editor of the
paper, escaped unharmed. A man named
Jones, who made some demonstrations in op
position to the acts of the mob, was badly used,
but was finally rescued and put in Jail.
ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP CHAMPION
The steamship Champion has arrived at; her
dock. By her arrival we are in receipt of Pan
ama papers of the Brd inst.
The U. S. flag ship Lancaster was at Panama.
The oath of allegiance was taken with peat
enthusiasm by all her crew except one.
The sloops of war St. Mary and Cyane had
been ordered to the coast of Mexico
Lieut. Vansant of the Cyane has returned in
the Champion on a leave of absence on account
of sickness.
DISTINGUISHED GUEST AT ATLANTIC
CITY.
Mr. Lisbon, the Brazilian Minister and his
family have arrived at the United States Hotel.
Nearly all the members of the Diplomatic corps
from Washington are expected here this week.
By the President of the United States
Whereas, A joint committee of both BOW% of
Congress has waited on the President of the Uni
ted States, and requested him to recommend a
day of public humiliation, prayer and,fasting, to
be observed by the people of the United States
with religions solemnities, and the offering of
fervent supplications to Almighty God for the
safety and welfare of these. States, his blessings
on their arms, and a speedy restoration to peace;
and whereas, it is lit and becoming in all peo
ple, at all times to acknowledge and revere the
Supreme Government of God, to bow in humble
submission to His chastisements, to confess and
deplore their sins andtransgressions, in the full
conviction that the fear of the Lord is the begin
ning of wisdom, and to pray with all fervency
and contrition for the pardon of their past of
fences, and for a blessing upon their present
and prospective actions; and whereas, when cur
beloved country, once, by the blessing of God,
united, prosperous and happy, is now afflicted
with factious and civil war, it is peculiarly fit
for us to recognize the hand of God in this visi
tation, and, in sorrowful remembrance of our
own faults and crimes, m a nation and as indi
viduals, to humble ourselves before trim and to
pray for His mercy; to pray that we may be
spared further punishment, though most licit
ly deserved; that our arms may be blessed and
made effectual for re-establishment of law, or
der and peace throughout our country, and
that the inestimable boon of civil and religious
liberty, earned under His guidance and 'bles
sing by the labors and suffrages of our fathers,
may be restored in all its original excellency,
Therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the
United States, do appoint the last Thursday in
September next as a day of humiliation, prayer
and fasting for all the people of the nation, and
I do earnestly recommend to the people, and
especially to all ministers and teachers of reli
gion, of all denominations, to ail heads of
families, to observe and keep that day according
to their several creeds and modes of worship in
all humility, and with all religious solemnity,
to the end that the united prayer of the nation
may ascend to the Throne of Grace and bring
down plentiful blessings upon our own country.
In testimony whereof, &c.,
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President,
Wx. H. Szwerm, Secretary of State.
4 946
POST OFFICE.
HARBmt a , August 12, 1861.
The new style of Government Stamped En
velopes, is now ready and for sale at this office.
Exchanges will be made of the new style for
an equivalent amount of the old issae, dining
a period of SIX days from the date of this no
tice, after which no letters under cover of the
old issue will be sent from this office.
GEO. BEEGNEB, P. M.
er Snuill Post Offices in the vicinity can ex
change their envelopes at this office.
THERE will be a Lecture at the. Metho 7
dist Episcopal Church, Locust street, in the city Of
Harrisburg, TIMEDAY EVENING August 181 h, doors
open at TX o'clock, Lecture to commenco at 8 o'elock:.—
- Admission 25 ands, Tickets ran be obtained at the pen
cleat Betejeand. Bookaltem. Ake S 4 the door of the
church on the evening of the Lecture- Enbject—' 4 ol3R
REPUBUC," by M1:93 LI EVER.
an9-4td
11EltfitY C.BI,IAMIt,
PAritalliAtAtirkft, ri street, second
doesebove Welastelree, An sears suctnall
- Paper hints; ili ass.
r siin Or Owe. AZ
LOUISVILLE, KY., Aug. 11:
BARaos, Me., Aug. 12.
NEW YORII, Aug. 13
Amts r= CITY, Aug. 13
A PROCLAMATION.
I=2=l
Nem rAbvertizenttnts.
LECTURE' BY A LADY
en)
.MACIIINEM FOR
SLOOPS.
NAVY DEPAI.I Nil.
14111:kV Ur
S EALED PROPO.-AT.mil l
Dureau until 4 ii.e:ock, 111,,
ber, 18ti1, for the mstru, 'Gm of t i
of the United Statvs, s,
" OSSIPEE, " at the Kitt , i\-
"HOUSA.TONIC," at thekl,ai
"ADLIIONDECK.,'' at the Nov 1".. 1 .;
and " JUNIATA," at the Ili!.
Yard.
these proposals must 1,0
for Machinery of Screw ste el ,
they may be distinguished
letters. No proposals will be 01-
from proprietors of marine
tablishment and the reputatiiii,
have constructed successful t.1:1
character will have the wei.rid
entitled. Establishments te.t ;.
Navy Department as builders
will, if they propose, be requit,
isfactory evidence of their exp,
Parties desiring to make Leh,:
will receive, on application t,, I
copy of the Speciliaitions of tLe
done ' and of the Contract ins h. r
of which they will be requil,i
Drawings can he seen at the on,
gineer-in-Chief, and, if cotivetc
phic copies of the same will lc ,
specifications.
The proposals must be for th,
each vessel separately, with a stst
Ist. Of the number of vessel:
bidders desire to construct nut,
to the Department the right of
is preferred, though a bid fur a
will be considered.
2. Of the sum for each ve.„
which the entire work will be cou
ably to the specifications, drawl!
tracts.
3. Of the number of conso Ri
date of notification of accejlan ,
within which the bidder will
plete the machinery on board and
service, provided the voi.sel
command within a certain maul.
live days from the date of sai I
which number he will state in tile
4. The bidder will state, in ti
vessel not being placed at his con
the stipulated time from the date,
of acceptance of contract, the nu
secutive days within which he wi
- cOmplete the machinery on board
service from the date he :shall be
the vessel is at - his command.
The "Ossrssz" and the -11u[sa
have fixed screws. The -Amu
the "JUNIATI" arc to have hoist ll
The payments will be made at
intervals as the work progresse
the total amount at each pay men
being reserved for four months a
trip in order to mike good any
may be discovered during that tit
An ample guarantee will be i n
contract for the suteessful
conditions, and a forfeiture will I
delay in completion.
No proposal can be considered
parried by a written guarantee, si
responsible persons, to the effect
dertake the bidder shall, if his oil..
enter into contract with g led
sureties for its completion.
Two or more sureties in a sum
amount of the contract will be re(
it, and their responsibility must
a 'United States District Judge, D
ney, Collector or Navy Agent.
Bidders whose proposals shall
and none others, will be notin.•.i ,
as practicable a contract u I' I • tt.
them, dated two days after t!.••
The Department reserves th.• ri
the propositions made iu cookuui
conditions prescribed which shall 1
most to the interest of the , ov,
combine the greatest nuiLib,r ~f
and to reject any or all of them,
FORM Ok' 011E1.
I (or we) , of . sla
hereby agree to construct lho
(name the number) Unite I ;,t.Li.
sloops, in conformity with th,
terms of the advertisement A':
by the Navy Department, awl h. n
ed, and for prices and witl.in
follows :
For the machinery of the I
the price to be (name the son'
Thetotal time of completilqit
number of consecutive days, tr
after the notification of .1 , 4 ,tt
made by the Bureau, provi
placed at my (or our) disposal wir
numbers of consecutive day ,1 It
date.
If the vesselshould not be pl
posal within the time stipulat, d
of completion to be (name tlw Du
from the date of the notiticatl , ti t
is placed at our disposal.
Ncrrs—liVed the last three l• rr
other three vends.
Should my (or our) propi)•; .1
(or we) request to be inforned
that the contract may be Loma
for signatures and certificates
(Place) (Signet')
(Date.)
=lll
We, the undersigned, resi.lent.
State of—, hereby jointly and
enant with the United State, e.
that in case the foregoing prop
will within ten days after
the contract at execute
good and sufficient sureties, :01
tion of machinery proposed in
the terms of the advertisement
1851, hereunto appended and ~r
was made; and in case the
to enter into the contract aim.
tee to make good the diffet,m ,
offer of the said and that %,
accepted.
(Witness)
(Place)
(Signed)
(Date)
I hereby certify that to the 1,-'
edge and belief the above-11m.
and are good and udi
(Signature.)
lb be signed by the United Stilt, ,
United Safes District Attorn-y.
Agent.
FOR RENT.—The large Ur
house now occupied by Day .1 if,:
Third street near Market, w ith C!'
attorney. Possession given dr tul
(rube at the Prothonotary's alike.
Angs-dtt.
ZOIIAVE REGI)IE
SOBER young men betwter ,
eighteen and thirty years, drrii
Company to be attached to the Zoca , r 1"
Goode, caa leave their elutes at the r:i.;
Rivet, UD stairs. nug2,1861
BOARDING•
Two or three respectable so
men can obtain goal board au '1
bleats, with use of bath, gee to , at No.
(lately occupied by Gerar..l 31i1lor)
TIAPORTE BOLOGNA HL
J. ver7jare lo f tJuat received sod ov a s
*PS . Wti
1•••••11
A ( Q UANTITY of Bags, Cut:oz
Alt WO by the dozen and p
at the DAUPHIN COUN tl PBLSON•
ga#llBBBBB4l May 8, 1881.