ger the honer of the nation. [Storms of ap
plause from all sides of the house.] Far better
would it be if the government would yield to
the opinion of its own Legislature at home than
be obliged to give in to the representations of
foreign powers. But the government does
what it likes with the revenues and every
thing.
We are in the midst of a military-dictator
ship, and have a government of aides de-camp
to the King in which the Ministers only gallop
about and give the orders they are commanded
to distribute. The indignation. of Europe is
transferred from Russia on to Prussia. Europe
forgets the cruelties and violence which Russia
is perpetrating on the insurgents, and remem
bers only that Prussia has made herself Rus
sia's bailiff and hangman:
The Minister-President, in reference to a
statement of Twesten'e, said he must take Lord
Russell under his protection. The latter had
said that he did not know the text of the con
vention ; but this was everything in the discus-
Ron of the subject. The newspaper reports
Were false.
The excitement produced by the Minister's
speech is, I may add, tremendous. Berlin has
never been so excited since 1848.
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Despotism and Mob Law.
The Telegraph, of the 23d inst., says : "In
this hour of the Governments peril, no man
should be allowed to speak against it. The
right of no individual, however sacred he may
deem it, is not equal to the right of preserving
the avernment." Goverment is of the people,
and according to the maxim upon which our
fundamental law iris based, derives its just
powers from the 6onsent of the goveimed ; but
this is net the Government meant by the Tele
graph. The Government they have in view is
controlled by that despotic maxim destructive
of all liberty—" The King can do no wrong."
When they speak of Government, they mean
the poor imbeciles, that now temporarily and
accidentally have control of our public affairs,
and are fast destroying our once happy - Union.
They propose to take from the people all those
rights of free rpeech, and free- discussion of
public affairs, guaranteed to them by the Con
stitution, and which our revolutionary fathers
pronounced essential to the preservation of
our liberties. Having passed laws infinitely
worse than the "alien and sedition laws," they
now are attempting to inaugurate the policy
of the elder Adams, forgetting, in their blind
nese, that the party which he headed was
hurled from power by an indignant people,
and never again trusted for over thirty years,
and that he himself, by these arbitrary acts,
made his name eternally infamous.
The Telegraph and other kindred sheets are
constantly calling upon the central power at
Washington to me its military arm in crush
ing out whatever remains to us of liberty and
law, and this the lying hypocrites do in the
name of the Constitution, which the powers
they represent have already trampled under
foot, and the Union, which they are trying to
destroy. They never were bat conditional
eft l iGeists, and now they are waging a war for
the extermiti.:42n of slavery, regardless of its
consequences to the c,71411t17• They are merely
,Abolitioulets who are calling „leineelves Union
ists. It is not enough for them that Dei.7crats
denounce rebellion and are for supporting the
war and fighting for the country, bat they must
give in to their radical measures, or they are to
be held up as "copperheads." '.There are,"
says that Abolition sheet, the New York Eve
sin, Poet, "but two pastier to be recognized
hereafter—the friends of the country end the
copperheads—there is no middle ground to be
taken between the two." The arrogance of
these Abolitionists is getting to be intolerable.
As their day of power shortens, and they begin
la feel the surges of an indignant public opin
ion that will scourge them from office, they
grow more desperate.
The true friends of the Union are those who
standby the Constitution and the Government
of thS Fathers. To set up, as-tests of loyalty
to the co untry. approval of the Abolition
of this administration, is to insult the patriot
ism of the mass of the people. Those - who do
this are bogus Unionists. They talk Union,
but mean their party and the perpetuation of
their power.
` Not content with urging President Lincoln
to use all the unconstitutional 'and despotic
power with which he was clothed by the last
Congress, to crash out a free press and free
speech, the Telegraph is, from day to day, pub
lishing the most incendiary articles, calculated
to excite its unreasoning partisans to acts of
violence, bloodshed and destruction against the
lives and property of all those who chance to
differ with its Abolition dogmas, and haTe', l 4*
manliness to speak their honest oonvictilljs.k:
Can it be - Possible that in Harrisburg„ thsy
seat of government of the great Stale otreni
sylvania, an alien to our soil, a descendant of
a Hessian hireling shall be permitted to corrupt
the minds of our people by his .nefarions doc
trines, spread broadcast over our city, and Ale
tate to free American citizens what is patilet.-
isra, and what is !reason ? Will his supporters,
many of whom are high-minded, honorable
men, and large property holders, will they per
mit this vile Hessian to continue to publish
articles calculated to incite to riot and blood
shed, and all those nameless horrors that deso
late the path of an incensed mob ? Let them
be warned in time. The torch once lighted,
no man can say—" Let thy red waves be
stayed."
Faction and Conservatism..
That kind of opposition to the Administra
tion Which is purely factious in its nature, from
whatever source or motive it may spring, is
unstable and-unsound—a change in the current
of events, any day, may dissipate and destroy
it.. The truly conservative and Union-loving
people of the North have Sought no pretext for
such an opposition. To set about the deliber
ate purpose of weakening and hampering any
of the rightful powers and prerogatives of
those into whose hands the administration of
the government has fallen, at a time like this,
would be simply traitorous and unworthy of a
great party professing the highest allegiance
to the Constitution. Factious and, distemper
ed opposition is one thing; opposition spring.
leg out of fundamental and vital differences
of opinion in reference to our polity, and the
conduct of the administrative power of the
goverment in st. perilous national crisis, is
another. Factious opposition leads nowhere,
means nothing, can offer no remedy for the
nt
tionel ills. Such kind of opposition is dan
gerous to itself and to the country. It is for
dispnivtt One day, and for the Voien the next.
Factions opposition is political chicane, made
the excuse of political organization. Such has
always been the radical status of Greeley , and_
his friends. Faction works simply on the pas-'
dons and appeals to the prejudices of the peo
ple; it furnishes no compensation in its capa
city to govern or restrain itself, for the errors
it leads to and the misfortunes it may bring
upon the country. Having succeeded in rear
ing a great party, and placing that party in
poreer, upon an issue,tertally irrelevant to the
welfare of the nation, and destructive and,sub
versive in its development, the Abolitionists
found themselves staggering under thot it o
great national responsibilit
Y -- rtnernmeni
they were about to adetti..!
Threatened with
destruction—their greed failing, as it
has since fatlae: to save or preserve or main-
tab! t e ne country. In this immediate exigency
they appealed to the conservative' stipport of
their political opponents, at the eleventh hour,
in solemn pledges, which were taken and ac
cepted. Sustained with all the men and money
the tountry'could afford—all they demanded
placed in their hands for the conduct of the
war, having gained misplaced confidence be
sides—they have abuse proved- thommealvea-un---
able to use the means at their dispasal with
any success in the cause; and 'equally unable.
to keep their plighted faith with their own
people. A raging faction, continually striving
in spirit within their own political organization
based upon the impalpable theories of higher
law, regarding nothing which actually had.part
in our political condition, broke the vows the
majority" of their own party had pledged them
selves to maintain, and consummated its heed
less and reckless endeavors in a series of legis
lation which set at defiance every consideration
of expediency, in the midst of revolution, and
turned the purpose of the war into wicked
schemes of violence against the enemies of the
State, and schemes of tyranny against its loyal
friends.
The history of the Abolition party is the le
gitimate out working of purely factious prin
ciples: From its gradual decline, and the
misfortunes it has brought upon the country,
its opponents may learn a profitable lesson.
Much' as a high zeal for the public weal
should be justly honored, as sincere as the ex
tremists among the opponents of the Admin
istration may be, a certain compromise of their
opinions is necessary to preserve that perfect
organization of the conservative men of the
country which alone can insure security to
them and success to their endeavors; especial
ly should they remain uncommitted to any po
sition wherein they cannot.be sustained by the
popular voice, and avoid, everywhere, the vio
lence and control of faction.
The usurpations of the President and his
council should be plainly and unflinchingly
opposed, every unlawful act of his exposed
and bl ought to public condemnation ; but even
these should not be made the pretext for coun
ter measures equally violent and unlawful.—
Every truly conservative man in the country
can have at heart but a single and unfailing
purpose—the maintenance of the Constitution
and th 3 restoration of the Union ; when once
that cardinal idea has ceased to be the moving
principle of party policy and sinks into a com
iizan place platitude, the end of the old and the
beginni:
f of a new order of things approach.
es—the coon.: v is divided, the Constitution
..,
moral remains to teach
becomes a fable, whom:
succeeding ages the failure cot the grand ex
periment of self-government.
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The Conscription Act.
MIAs an age of inquiry—of , investiga
tion—Sod men will not be. ninzaka „pen , to
accommodate the administration_ and its Abo
litiOn adherents. When the President and the
Congress tranicend.the power with whidh the
Constitution has clothed"-them, and pretend to
act outside and above the fuisdasnental law,
we have not yet reached that stage of coercion
that wofeel our lives or liberty insperrilled by
simply questioning the iviedon{ and safety of
their course. •We have not hitherto advised
resistance to any meaeure of government, not
withstanding we consider many of them uncon
stitutional, oppressive and odious, nor shall we
do so; but the Abolition preen having under
taken to defend the confiscation act as a mild,
humane and strictly Constitutional measure,we
claim the right to ask from them a candid an
swer to these questions, which we find in the
N. Y. World :
1. Is there any legal distinotion, and if so
what is it, between the terms " armies" and
"militia" as employed in the Conititution and
one of its amendments ?
2. Can Congress, under the Constitution,
impress (Athens into the regular army of the
United States, except through the agency of
State officers civil or• military ?
3. Has Congress constitutional power to take
a white citizen against his will and in defiance
•f the authority of The State of New York out
of the National Guard of the State of New
York, as organized by the act of Assembly of
1862, and place him in a black regiment., as,
for example, that being raised by Gov. Andrew
in Massachusetts and elsewhere ?
4. Has Congress constitutional power to
draft, conscript, or impress a citizen of New
York, wherever found, to serve onboard a pub
iia armed ship of the United States during
the present war ?
General VikAlfs.
The following is the latest by telegraph and
from other sources :
cieneral Burnside arrived at Cincinnati on
the 24th.
By wsy 'of Cincinnati a report has teen re
ceived that the rebels have recrossed Duck
river in force. General Joe Johnson is expec
ted to take immediate command of the rebel
army at Tullahoma. The Yazoo Pass expedi
tion was moving slowly but with every prospect ,
of success. The ram Lioress, on the 10th in
stant, overhauled the rebel eteamer Parallel
with 3,000 bales of cotton, -and compelled her
crew to run her ashore and burn her.
The Mobile Advertiser intimates that Mobile.
and not Charleston, will feel our next I.! '
The Wcrld's special correspond- • '" 6 "'
ington says that p ri va te air ..ent at Wash.
male
that la dispatches intl-
Ling news 4 " -
~ hours we shall have start-
Cosy
-tom Vicksburg. It is thought that
.nodose Farragat has joined Commodore
porter for a combined attack on that place.—
Sickness prevails in the rebel army at Vicks
burg. •
' A second dispatch states that Commodore
Porter advises the government that on the 7th
inst. the whole expedition arrived in the Talla
hatchie, the vessels all getting through in
fighting condition, except the Petrel,which lost
her wheel. This movement alarmed the rebels.
They are energetlially at work preparing them
selves fol . defence. There is muchtlistrt:ss' in
Vicksburg. The occupants hrve uo inent, but
are living almost exclusively on -cornmeal.
The choice necornmander or the Depiiitniew
of the West lies between Sigel and Heintzle
man, though a Washington dispatch states that
the appointment of the latter is considered
almost certain.
Reliable information from the South repre
sents that the evacuation of Vicksburg is being
advocated for the purpose of massing the mili
tary now there with the army of middle Ten
nessee for strategic effect, prominent rebels
claiming that such a movment would fbree Gen.
Rosecrans to repeat Buell's retrograde move
ments of last year. The rebels in the neigh
borhood of Murfreesboro' have made several
reconnoissances within a few days, calming
considerable picket skirmishing along the
whole front.. Small guerrilla parties have ap
peared along the Nashville railroad, but so far
no damage has been done, an the road is hea
vily guarded.
The old National Theatre, Boston, was de
stroyed by fire on tho 24th. The steamship
Europa arrived from Liverpool, on the morning
of the 24th, but thecontents of her mails were
not known.
The steam tug, D. E. Crary, exploded her
boiler at the foot. of Spring street, N. Y., on
the 24th, killing five persons and seriously
wounding others.
Reports from Galveston state that the French
Consul there, M. Theron, had been expelled by
Jefferson Davis, it was supposed because the
French official had been intriguing to take
Texas out of the Southern Confederacy, and
make it an independent State under French
protection. .
The Richmond papers are croaking fearfully
over the want of food under which the rebel
armies are now sufferings All the country
around the localities where these armies are
situated is completely stripped of provisions,
and the only resource lies in the railroads,
which are said to be giving out, for want of
laborers to keep them in order. The wood
work is rotting and the machinery getting out
of repair. The Richmond Examiner says that
" , if they are allowed to fall through from any
causes, government end people may prepare
fora retreat of our armies, and the surrender
of much invaluable country now, in our pos
session."
Indian troubles appear to be be reviving in
Utah. A Salt Lake telegram Marsh 23, says:
Last night the Humboldt. Indians attacked the
atmio.: eight miles west of Deer Creek, killed
the men, burnt Ll.'z station, took the stage stock
and a large herd belonging to private parties.
The stage aint was killed and a passenger
mortally wounded. TrOOre Olready
reached there, and the route is again open.
Secretary Stanton is confident, from infor
mation in the War Department, that the rebels
are about to fall back from Virginia to some
point in the interior of the Confederacy. He
esya they are removing tjteir foundries and
machinery for manufacturing arms from Rich
mond, with a view to the concentration of their
forces and material in a position lees likely to
be cat off by the operations of one army and
navy.
A gentleman recently arrived at Washington
from the neighborhood of Charleston, S.. C.,
says it is uncertain when an attack by our
forces on any of the southern Atlantic; parte
may be expected. Preparations were being
made for a heavy demonstration at a point
which it may not be note prudent to mention.
MMIIM
The °Seers of the navy feel confident of sue
,
cosi, but times neceastddly required toigitlect
all the arrangements tk - fleeure that
end
•The Supreene Court of the District r of Co
lumbia orgttnized on -the 2811. :The Indges,
after consultation, determined to adlunuster the
oath - qloyatsy, as enacted by the last. Congress,
to'all practitioners at the bar.
Gov. Curtin had a.conference with the na
tional authorities on military affairs on the
23d.
All the advices from Port Royal to the gov
ernment are to the tffect that Gen. Hunter is
growing in unPopularity, and that neither men
nor officers have any confidence in his ability
as a commander. Major Halpin, his chief of
staff, has, it is reported, sent in his resignation
on account of want of confidence in general_
Hunter. As the attack will soon commence it
is not, however, believed - that Mr. Lincoln will
supersede Gen. Hunter by a new man.
Hon Charles Sumner is busy at Washington
in devising the organization of the negro
army. His great solicitude is to have officers
in whom the Abolitionists can rely.
It is rumored in Washington that General
lieintselman will be sent west (in place of
Sumner, deceased,) to succeed General Curtis,
and that General Casey will succeed him in the
command of the forces at Washington.
MILITARY NISTAKES. OF THE ADNIIV
ISTRATION.
We should not venture to eriticiee the gen
eral plan of the war if'two well known circum
stances did not relieve-our animadversions of
any appearance of presumption. The first of
these circumstances is the fact that leading
features of the plan did not originate with our
generals, but with civilians as ignorant of the
military art as ourselves ; and the other is
that the mortifying disproportion between the
results attained and the means employed ore
atee, in advance of any particular examination,
a strong presumption that the means have been
misapplied.
As we aim to do neither more nor less than
justice to the plans of the administration, we
must confess that one leading feature, the
blockade, was wise in its inception ' was adop
ted with timely promptitude, and has crippled
and distressed the enemy more than all the
other means.employed during the war.
no administration could have mites-
- ...rue, u
so obvi
--:::
ous a measure ; and yet we •
Mr. Lincoln cannot refuse to and hie
treating with advisers the credit of
attegtm i- - - —eserved contempt the derision
~.ect to be thrown in England on the
utockade of two thousand miles ()roast. The
deprivation and suffering caused by'the block
ade, have reached 'every home in the rebel
States, and they have not operated, like inva
ding armies, to sting the people to rage. The
more nearly all other hostile measures could
have been assimilated to the character of this,
the - sooner the spirit of resistance would have
succumbed beneath the accumulating dis
tress. The war could not, indeed, have ended
without severe fighting; but it might have
been so managed that the wounds would not
have two or three years to fester into incura
ble malignity before any attempt could be
made to heal them.
After the blookade, the prominent feature
of the war, to which all others have up to
the present time been held subordinate, was
the projected capture of Richmond. It is no
torious that making Richmond the cardinal
point of our strategy had not its birth in mili
tary councils, but in Itresumptuous civilian
impatience. The idea did not originate with
General Scott, but with Horace Greeley. It
was suggested, not by .enlightened notions of
otrateesi but by the accidental circumstance
that the migratory..c.anie Gestarnment.
then provisional and half-organized, had deci
ded to remove from Montgomery to Richmond.
The New York Tribuue thereupon published a
reseript or edict, that the rebel Congress must
not be permitted to assenble in thelatter city,
which must forthwith be taken to prevent its
becoming the temporary Capital of the rebel
( States. What peculiar powers of mischief the
rebel Congress would have in Richmond which
it would not t pally possess sitting elsewhere,
Mr. Greeley would be puzzled to tell. He
seems to have been misled by a whimsical ;
analogy between the damage to the national
cause which would have resulted from the cap
ture of Washington and the supposed injury
to_the rebels from the loss of their temporary
eapitabitrwhieh they had neither publielpild
ings, nor archeves, and none of the prestige
of a settled seat of government. The reasons
for making all the operations. of, this , mighty
war hinge on the possession of Richmond were
sufficiently frivolous, but, such as they were,
they prevailed. Mr. Greeley thus dictated
the cardinal point of our strategy, as he after
wards did the leading feature of the policy of
the administration. The result in neither case,
has been such as to justify the strange defe
rence paid to the judgment of a man whose
deserved distinction as a party writer is ac
companied by notorious and almost child
ish incompetence as a man of affairs.
The necessary consequence of the "On to
Richmond" strategy was to make the mountain
ous, wooded and swampy State of Virginia the
chief theatre of the war—a theatre which could
not have been more illy chosen for us if it had
been recommended by Jefferson Davis instead
of Horace Greeley. The nature of the country
in iv:ticks war of subjugation is conducted may
annihilate all the advantages resulting from
superior force and generalship. Witness, for
example, the numerous unsuccessful campaigns
of the two most powerful military nations of
Europe against mere handfulls of people in
regions whose topographical features resemble
those of Virginia—the wars of Russia against
the Caucassian, and the wars of France against
the Arabs in Algeria. It cost France twenty
campaigns, under her most capable and expe
rienced generals, to subdue the Arab tribes in
Algeria ; the experience of Russia in the Cau
casus was even worse. Our protracted Florida
war against a paltry tribe of Indians is another
case in point. The Seminole war cost us five
campaigns and thirty millions of dollars at a
time when it was the only military operation
we had on our hands. It was the obvious dic
tate of prudence at the beginning of the present
war to avoid, as far as• possible, regions where
advantages would be gained, if at all, at such
disproportionate cost. Richmond, as an ex
porting city, would be worth nothing to us
while the war lasts ; as a base of operations,
it .would merely transfer the war to mountain
regions still more impracticable. Richmond
is, indeed, an important seat of rebel manufac
tures ; but if it were taken the rebels would
carry off their machinery and skilled laborers
and set up their manufactures elsewhere. By
giving their armies so much to do in Virginia
we have saved them the trouble of transporting
}, , fast distances the munitions made at Rich
mond.
The enormous waste of military strength in
Virginia and along the Atlantic coast ought to
have been avoided. In the early stages of the
war, nothing beyond the blockade should have
been attempted from the mouth of the Chesa
peake to the mouths of the Miosismippi. In file,
first months of Lest year, while the array in
front of Washington menaced the rebels for the
purpose of retaining them in Virginia, the
greater part of our forces should have been
concentrated in the West, and the Mississippi,
opened before the eubsideuce of the spring
floods. This would have reduced the area of
the rebellion a fall third, and cat off forever
its dreams of dominion in the , West. Nearly
all of Louisiana, the whole of Texas and Ar
kansas and Missouri, which supplies large
numbers of rebel soldiers, would have been ef
fectually detatohed from the Confederacy, thus
stopping the immense resources in cattle,
horses, end other supplies fret*
& the west bank
of the-Mississippi, andlimusin4,4he return of
r a • •
the troops from those - Stteseer extin guish
ng th'ehopeithheir relining,* Kt of the rebel
'C'onfederacy. . haveiutalreffective block
ding "diet too , the MissiasippWiould not have
cost kterithparCof Whathashean expended In
Praclidally fruitless camPaigasjirthe East, and
had it been done early last. yea r the rebellion
must ere now have collapsed. '- The great con
traction of its area asd the interception of
its western supplies would -have so weakened
it that but one - more grand achievement - would
have been necessary to give it its coup de grace.
That final stroke would have consisted in send
ing an irrepressible army to seize and hold well
selected points on the interior railroad system
which connects the parts of the Confederacy
east of the Mississippi.
This accomplished, the rebels wont.' see
themselves hopelessly beaten, as it would be in
our 'poser to out up in detail their armies,
which could no longer go to each other's re
lief. One of their main advantages has con
sisted in their position on interior lines, with
such facilities for intercommunication that they
could concentrate their forces for defense more
rapidly than we could convey ours around the
circumference for attack. if we had first cut
off the conntry west of the Mississippi, and
then broken the internal railroad communica
tions of the South, the blockade would speedily
have 'done the rest, end the war have been
ended without arousing the diabolical-passions
and fixing the inveterate hatred which time
will not efface in the next two generations.
As the war has been actually managed, the
most that has been accomplished is the crea
tion of obbtacles to the resumption of friendly
relations in the restored Union. The two legs
on which the administration has attempted to
walk are both lame legs. The abortive at•
tempts to take Richmond, and the abortive
attempt to emancipate the Southern slaves,
have had the common effect of inflaming the
hatred of the South and completing that aliena
tion of feeling which, so long as it exists, is a
fatal bar to anything deserving the name of
Union.,—.Y. Y. World.
THE ARREST OF JUDGE CONSTABI•
Of all the issues which a
lent in the
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United States can raise with b
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State, the most delicate .e people of a
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been raised in the gres4._ ct . angerous has just
ois. A judge it western State of
performance of his ju
dicial duties
f rom 0 . ..,as been arrested under a warrant
..,e War Department, carried out of, his
wn State into another, and "held to bail" by
a major-general in the military service of the
Federal Government. .
The facts in the case seem to be few, simple,
and beyond dispute. While the Circuit Court
of-Clark-county in Illinois was in session, a
woman appatre d hefnra A justice of the peace
and made oath-that two persons fromlndiftna
were attempting to kidnap her son upon the
charge that he was a deserter from thefederal
army. The.justice thereupon ieeued a warrant
for the arrest of the- accused' persons. They
were brought before him and at the-request of
their counsel their case was carried before the
Circuit Court. Judge Constable of that court
heard the case. It was established that a com
mission was in the possession of the accused
authorizing two persons named "to arrest. de
serters" in a certain district of the State of
Indiana. It was not shown that the accused
were the two persons named in this eel:minim,.
Upon this, neither the question of desertion
nor the persons of any alleged deserters being
tefore him, Judge Constable held the accused
t 3 bail to answer for the crime of attempted
kidnapping in the State of Illinois.
These proceedings having been taken, Ma
jor -General Wright, military commander in
• the Indiana district, agent an officer under his
orders with a force of two hundred men into
the State of Illinois, arrested Judge Constable,
and conveyed him out of that State to answer
to the charge of "harboring and protecting
deserters."
tY e Lo. v ca•llcld tai,,....tt, the raising of an
issue between the Federal GovernMent and the
people of a sovereign State. It might well
Warrant the use of stronger languor - , iF sny
language could. ,make the nature of such an
outrage upon all policy and principle more
plain than it is made by the bare recital of the
facts. The courts of law are the one final
barrier between administrative violence and
popular passion. To• treat their decisions and
the persons of the judiciary with respect is
the only safety of the government against the
'people as well ap; of, the people against the
government. It Wee said the other day by
Archbishop 'lllighes that however sprang a gov
may appear, it is the weakest thing in the
world ; the remark is one which the au
thorities 'at Washington will do well to lay to
heart. A government which disdains its con
stitutional connectians with the life of the peo
ple thereby throws itself into an attitude of
antagonism with the people .which leaves it
entirely dependent for itt very existence upon'
its own resources. Where a government can
ally itself with any powerful caste in the com
munity, with a priesthood, a permanent army,
a landed aristocracy,, It may occupy such a
position as this in comparative security for a
certain time. In our own country the govern
ment has absolutely no life in itself. It has no
reserve of permanent interests to support it,
independently of the popular will and feeling.
The officials who administer 'it are certainly as
liable to emir as their fellow-citizens, and tie
well known effects of the possession of a "lit
tle brief authority" upon average human na
ture should make them even suspect themselves
of an increased and peculiar exposure to mis
takes. When they come or bring themselves
into collision, therefore, with individual citi
zens or bodies of citizens who raise a legal
question of the propriety of action, it should
be their first duty to see that question referred
to the tribunals which command an obedience
never to be wrung by force alone from a free
and high-spirited people.
If the government is not utterly infatuated
and reckless it will recognize at once, and has
ten, so far as lies in its power, to repair the
dangerous blunder of its military representa
tive in Indiana. Such an invasion of the sword
upon the gown is a "fire-bell in the night,"
which should rouse the most unthinking to the
perils which mad and passionate counsels are
preparing alike for the people and for the
government.
ii - OW UNCLE SAlkt I 8 "PEELED."—The N. Y.
correspondent of the Philadelphia. Sunday Dis
patch gives the following recipe for making
money :
Talk about "making money." why its just
as easy as "sliding off a log," now, ; ft days, if
you are only in the secret—i. e., have the Go
vernment favor. You cannot make "your
salt" otherwise. In ordinary business you
may toil from "morn till noon" and "noon
till dewy. eve" to very little purpose in these
times ; but if you can get the ear of a Govern
went contractor, or a finger in the public
purse, you can dip your arms into it up to the
elbows,
and your fortune is made. You may
pull out the plums at your leisure, and green
backs will spring up around you like. mush
rooms over night, astonishing even your own
cupidity, however exorbitant. Let me give
you an instance of how it works, in this city,
and I have no tiutht, it. works in a somewhat
similar manner OVEri where else.
Par example, a friend of mine, whom I shall
call Captain Blank, is - a steamboat dealer.—
He has built and sold several vessels, at a
round price, to Government, and makes—eup
pose we say a thousand dollars 6 day, in speo
ulating in sales of a cognate character. The
other day he happened to drop into the office
of a feTry company. "Do you want to buy
that boat 1" said the treasurer, pointing to a
well. worn ferry-steamer lying up in tit adja
cent dock ? "Well, I don't know," replied
Captain Blank ; "what's the price t" "You
may have it for $3,000." "flow long will you
give the to answer yes or no?" '•Will a vr,l.
do ?" "Yea. I accept the eonditioas,"
Captain Blank ; and off he started to Fee a
vernment contractor. The latter was prey/N.,
to buy anything with "a margin." •-you eats,
have the boat for $12,G00," said the Captain.
"And the margin I' Wel 1, just say half
profit." Good again." The Governme tt
was "let in" for the boat at the price mentior.-
ed, and the profit, $9,000, was divided be.
tween the Captain and the contractor. A
pretty nice three dayk operation, for it cal;
required that time to-complete it from the be
ginning.
But the Captain is not always so fortunate.
He gets "caught" occasionally. He was offer
ed for_s7,ooo another old ferry-boat, recently.
and ten days given him to reflect upon it. The
contractor was on hand, as usual, and ready
to purchase, but thought the price demanded by
'the Captain ($30,000) rither "steep.. o ,The two,
however, could not agree on the "mar
gin." So the contractor goes to the ferry
company and privately stipulates to take the
boat at $7,000 if the Captain, at the eipiration
of the ten days, did not. Of course after that
the Captain found it impossible to sell the con
tractor the boat at any price. When the ten
days were up, the contractor's brother-in-law
bought the boat for $7,000 and sold her to the
contractor himself for Government use at
$30,000. How they divided the profits I have
not learned, and am not likely to for some time
to come. But you may perceive from this he
it is to'"make money" if you are only la
the "line of safe precedents."
New Itbuertisemento.
FAST HORSES FOR SALT —Two
Pant Hems for elle, a trotter and pacer. Penton
desiring to purchase can see the animals at R. Hogan , -
hotel. Pax:on street, for two dam
snar2s.lt*
HOWARD HOUSL I ; kALTIMORE.
The undersigned.
'LAS the plaid° of announcing c. his friends s:;,, th e
public gene - rally, that htt hos re •
opened
; xtensive and favorite Hotel, and solicit‘
1 / 3 " Share of patronage laid; its highly fa'orable
cation and his efforts to please may &only.).
Having been eugageci for many 3rdkrit ill annoinotin,?,
popular hotels in Pennsylvania, Yirgioia and this city,
he feels assured of beteg able, with the aid of his com
petent assistants, to meet all just expectations of the
traveling comnunity in managing the Howard House,
in a style surprssed by no hotel of its class in . the coun
try. .
Taams--Gentlemene Ordinary, $1 75 per day.
" Ladles' 4: 200 "
WM. O. REAMER, Proprietor.
Baltimore March 25-ltd
von SALE.-A FINE TWO-STORY
itol7SE, with Back-building, en the corner of
Samee and Broad sheets,: (Market square) .Lot 27 by
181 feet- For farther partieulars inquire of
mar 24 dBt* MAO WOOD.
OBBERY OF ADAMS' EXPRESS
FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS REWARD
BALTriaoßs, Mardi 19, 1803
Thensfe of the Adams Ixpress.Company , was robbed
on Wednesday night between' Baltimore and Bar, is
burg. It contained various sums of money in currency
and geld, a large number'of United States Ofrtificates
of indebtedness, United states five-twenty bonds, and
checks of the United htates Treasurer on the Assistant
Treasurer of New York, paystle to the order of the
Adams Erevan! Company. A reward of Hive Thousand
Dollars is offered by the Company. The public are re.
ferred to the list of the numbers of the tends and cer
tificates published by the Company, and are cautioned
not to negotiate'any of them: •
Tour United States Certificates of Indebtedness, $5,
000 each, numbers 21,449, 21,450, 21,451, 21.453.
411 United States - Certificates, of 11,009 each
Nos. 10,642. 59,343, 59,344.
Nos. 59,212 , 611,218. -
No. 59.199.
Nos. 59,203, 59,204 69,215, 59,206.
Nos. 59 200 59,201 59 202.
Noe. 59.148, 59,149.
Nos. 59,148, 59,147.
Noe. 59 131. 59,130, 89,129.
NOB. 59;247, 59,248.
Nos. 59,190, 59,191, 59,193, 59,103.
Nos. 59,533, 09,4; 5 9 ,3 34 , 59 335.
NOB. 59,336, 59.818,139.819.
Noe. 59,320, 59,321, 59,322, 59,313, 59,224..
Nos. 59 317, 59,325.
Nos. .9 802, 69,303,.59,304, 69,305. •
Nos. 58,979, 59,088, 59,0:9,69,070.
Ten 5-20 'cleated States Bonds, Nds. 18,179 to 113,155
inelesive. .
Thal°Bowing checks of B. B. Spinner, Treasurer or
U. S., on Assistant _Treasurer, New York, layable to
thL. order of the Adams Express Company :
Check No. 850, for $lOBO. for ac. Cf. M. Felix, Cincinnati .
" 859 " 2038 13 "J. B& T. Gibson, 4,
" 855 " 1080 " Conrad & Wagner,
" 866 " 4FO . u Wilson& Hayden, "
" 665 -" 1220 " A. Behlen, :•
" 864 " 6015 15 " J. 81011 its & Co., "
1187 a
_404 " t3eo Josp, L.:
" 813." 483 87 " J W Wagner &Co "
BrB " 2645 A. Norton, St. Louie.
. , " 361 " 1507 40 " B. F. Barry, "
The public are cautioned not to negotiate any of the
above bends or earlificates.
RIMY SANFORD, Snperintendent
Adtms' Enmesh Company
mar24-dlm
ROCL A M I 01V:—Whereas, the
I Honorable JONNI: PrAnsort, President of the Court
of 1, outman Plea* in, the Twelfth Judicial District, cop
iloting of the'counties of Lebanon and Dauphin, and the
Hon. SAMUEL LANDIS and HOD. MOSES R. YOUNG, Asso
ciate Judges in Dauphincounty,taving belted their pre
cept, bearing date the 24th day of February, 18(3, to me
directed, for, holding a Court of Oyer and Terminer and
General Jail Delivery and Quarter ilezedetis of the Peace
at:Harrisburg, for the .county of Dauphin, and to coup
mance on the third Monday of April next, being the
27th day of- A'pril; 1863, and to continue two weeks.
Notice is therefore, hereby given to. the Coroner, Jug
tides of the - Peace a
, Aldermen,nd Om:040r O
lef the WA
county of Dauphin, that they be thenand there in their
proper persons, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of said dal,
with their records, inquisitions, examinations, and their
owkrpmembraucee, to do those things which to their
office appertains to be done, and those who are bound in
recognizance. to prosecute against the prisoners tharare
or shell be in the Jail of Dauphin county, be then and
there to prosecute against them as shall be just.
Given under my hand, at Harrisburg, the 24th day of
April, in , the year of oar Lord, 1883, and in the eighty
seventh year Of the independence of - the 'United States.
• J. D. BOAl3,l3heriff•
lANOS carefully packed or removed
P
by R. WARD.
trir23-2w 12 North Third o'reet.
LOOKING GLASSES, of Orts an ti
sizes, at WARD,S,
mar23-2w. 12 North Third. street.
1863. • 1863.
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pHILADELPHIA & ERIE RAIL.
pzeb.—This great line traverses the Northern
and Northwest counties of Pennsylvania to the city t
Erie, on Lake Erie.
It has been leased by the Penassy/rania Ran /its'
Company, and under their auspices is being rapidly
opew'd throughout its entire length.
It is now in use for Passenger and Freight busineFß
from Harrisburg to _Driftwood, (Second Fork,)
miles) on the Eastern Division, and from Sheffield to
Eric, (78 miles) on the Western. Division.
TIME OF PASSENGER TRAINS AT HARRIS-
Leave Northward
Hen Train 2:30 a. m. I Express Train.. 2,20 p. w.
Cara nut - through withcut change bath ways on the ,6
trains between Philadelphia and Lock Have; and be*
tween Baltimore and Lock Raven.
Elegant Sleeping Cars on Express Trains both ways
between Williamerort and Baltimore, and Williamsport
and Philadelphia.
For information rupecting Passenger business appll
at the B. B. cur. 11th and Market streets.
And for Freight busineiss of the Company's Agents.
8. B. Kingston, Jr 'cor. 18th and Market streetF ,
Philadelphia.
J. W. Reynolds, Ede.
Z. M. Drill, Agent N. O. B. 8., Baltimore..
11. 11017STON,
Gen , ' Freight Agt., Phil's.
LEWIS L. HOUPT,
Gann' Ticket Agt.,
JOB. D. POTTS.
Getin Manager, Williacceport.
ItMI s-dg
uROOMS, BRUSHES, TUBS AND
j BASKETS of aThiegoriptions, qualities and prices,
for P 4.3 by
WM. DOCK. & CO.
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Rif INCE PIES ! —Raisins, Currant''' .
ALL Citron spices, Lemons, Cider, Wine, Brandy ag°
f nn, for sale by WM. LOOK, jr., Ce.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
areas, letters of administration on the eatate of
lOSIAII LENTZ, deceased, lite of Upper Paxton towri
ship, Dauphin connty,.having been granted to the sub
scriber, all persons indebted to the said estate are r t
quested to make immediate payment, and those lariat,
claims or demands against said, estate will make knowil
the same_without delay.
feb26-6tve* JESSE AUOMIUTY, Administrator.
SWEET CIDER, THE PUREST IN
the market ; for sale by WM. DOCK, Js., &CO