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P ENSIONS, BOUNTIES, BACK PAY,
War Claims and Claims for Indemnity. •
STEWART, STEVENS, CLARK &
Alcamo and Counnumpat-Law, and Solicitors
for an lauds of Military Claims,
450 PENNbYLVANIA AVENUE,
WASHINGTON, D. C.
This firm, having a thorough knowledge of the Pen
a= Business, and being familiar with the practice in
all the Departments of Government, believe that they
eon afford greater facilities to Pension, Bounty, and
other Claimants, for the prompt and successful accom
plishment of business entrusted to them, than any other
arm in Washington. They desire to secure such an
amount of this brininess as will enable them to execute
the business for each claimant very cheaply, and on the
basis of their pay contingent spore - Chair ~cal ix oath
case. For this purpose they will secure the services of
Law Firma in each prominent locality throughout the
States where such bueiness may be had, furnish such
with all the necessary blank forms of application and
evidence, requisite printed pamphlet instructions, and
circulars for dietrihotion in their vicinity, with asso
°Wee names inserted, and upon the due (=Outten of
the papers and transmission of the same to them by
their local. asseciatee, they will promptly perform the
business here.
irr Their charges will be rot dollars for officers and
Czritellarsfor prinatee, for each Pension or Bounty and
Pay obtained, and ten per cent. on amount of
Claims for Military Supplies or Claims for Indemnity.
iry. Soldiers enlisted since the let of March, 1861, in
any kind of service, Military or Naval, who are disabled
by disease or wounds, are entitled to Pensions. All
soldiers who serve for two years, or during the war,
should it sooner close, will be entitled to $lO Bounty.
Widows of soldiers who die or are killed, are entitled to
Pensions, and the $lOO Bounty. If there be no widow,
then the minor children. And if no minor children,
then the father, mother sisters or brothers are enti
_led as above tothe slooBount and Back Pay..
JOSEPH B. STEWART,
HESTON. L. STEVENS,
EDW &RD CLARK,
OSCAR A. STEVENS,
WILLIS E. GAYLORD.
WASHINGTON, D. 0.,1868.
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C. WEICIIEL,
SURGEON AND OCULIST,
RESIDENCE THIRD NEAR NORTH STRUT.
DR .
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duties of profemion In all-ite branches.
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all who may favor him with a gall, be ike Mcleod° Chronl4
or any other nature. ml34ldcwly
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ATTORNEY AT LAW.
011101 IN
SHOEMAKER'S BUILDING - ft
SECOND STREET,
BETWEEN WALNUT AND MARKET WARE,
no2Bl Nearly opposite the Buehler Howls. Fellkwiy
The undersigned, a minority of the Commit
tee on Federal Relitions, of the Pennsylvania
Senate, to which sundry petitions of citizens
of this Commonweath were , referred, praying
that steps may be taken to secure a convention
of the United States, dissenting from the re
port of the majority of said committee, make
the following report:
The petitions referred to the committee are
numerously signed, and relate to a subject of
high importance. In the opinion of the under
signed, they are entitled to fair treatment and
respectful consideration ; and there is no
ground for imputing improper motives to any
of those who have proposed or signed them.—
They propose a course of action perfectly con.
formed to the Constitution—one, in fact, ex
pressly provided for by that instrument—and
were doubtless inspired by an earnest, sincere
desire for the peace, reunion and prosperity of
the United States.
The undersigned cannot discern the insuper
able difficulties opposed to the holding of a
convention within a reasonable time, supposed
-to exist by the majority of the Commonwealth.
The statement made by them that amend
ments cannot he adopted before the latter part
of the year 1865, would seem to be quite un
founded. Congress can itself propose amend
ments by a two-thirds vote, and upon applica
tion made by two-thirds of the States, is
required to call a convention for the purpose
Of framing them. Two-thirds of both Houses
of Congress, or a convention convened at the
instance of the Legislatures of two-thirds of
the States, can at any time submit any propo
sition of amendment to the States, which, upon
ratification by three-fourths of them, will be
come a part of the Constitution. In the Le
gislature of any State desirous of obtaining
amendments, two courses of action are open :
first, by memorial to Congress, or by resolu
tions of instruction and request to the Sena
tors and Representatives of the State, in favor
of the exercise by Congress of its power to
submit amendments ; and, second, by making
a formal application to Congress to call a eon
' vention.
In this State, the Legislature being now in
session, either course of action may be taken
at once, and all delay avoided so far as she is
concerned, and doubtless slide action taken
here would have large influence in other States.
Already Kentucky has demanded a convention,
and action looking to the same end has been
had in other States. If Pennsylvania should
now raise her voice for a convention, it would
give impetus to the movement and probably
secure its success.
The majority of the committee allude to the
fact that in some of the States the regular
sessions of the Legislature are biennial, from
which they infer that there would be great
delay in their acting upon this subject. But
in any case where a biennial session fells within
the present year, the objection falls, and
where the fact is otherwise, the Governor oy
the State can convene the Legislature.—
Besides, the &Mee so circumstanced are few
in number.
It may be further remarked, that in all the
Stares the Legislatures can be convened by
the Govrrnors, and that in glint of them, they
meet in regular session within the current
year.
It is manifest, therefore, that the majority of
the committee have fallen into error in stating
the time necessary to procure amendments to
the Constitution under the article of that in
strument which provides for them. Neither
the Constitution of the United States, nor those
of the States, prevent the formation of amend
ments within a reasonable time.
It is true that the Governors and Legisla
tures of many States, may be opposed to the
proposition of a tot Ari ntlon, and by reason
thereof, it may be delayed or defeated. But
we have here a question not of possibility or
power, but of inclination or will in official and
pub io bodies which it is the very object of
the petitioners to incline to their own views,
and as two-thirds of the State Legislatures can
command a convention, the petitioners may be
hopeful of attaining their 0%00 and stand
justified hi pursuing it.
The Constitution was framed by a conven
tion and provides for its own amendment
through the same agency. The true question,
therefore, raised by the petitionors is, ought
such body to be convened ? Tee majority of
the committee answer this question by denying
the propriety or necessity of amendments. —
They seem satisfied to resolve the whole sub
ject of our national existence and the future
relations of the States into a mere question of
force, and to reject all the instrumentalities for
securing the system establishire by our fathers.
It follows, that if their one remedy for division
should be found insufficient the Union is to re
main broken and separate, and probably hos
tile powers are to he established upon the ruins
of the republic. But such result would be in
tolerable, and every honorable means for pre
venting it should be resorted tot
Were a convention now held the following
States, heretofore classed as Southern, would
he r presented therein, to wit : Delaware,
Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, Tenn. pee and
Missouri. These, added to the eight een North
ern, Western and Pacific States, would make
twenty-tour, or more than two-thirds of the
whole number of the States, including the se
ceded ones It is possible, Else, that Louisiana
and other existing States South. not named
above would soon participate in the proceed
ing, ns went(' certainly any new State admitted
into the Union in the west, (Colorado or Ne
vada, for her mice, an act preparatory to the
admission of which came near being passed
at tee last session of Congress.) At all events,
if succees should attend the Federal arms in
South Carolina, Arkansas and Texas, during
the coming months of the. present year, the
Union sentiment of those States would be de
v, lap-d and organized by the pendency of this
measure of a convention, and their strength
would prober - 4y be won to our cause. And
doubtless over the whole field of the struggle
the measure would atrou'when the cause of the
U ion and weaken the cause of those opposed
to its reconstruction •
A convention would afford an opportunity
to he conservatives and true Union men of the
eounrry (who are in a great majority) to take
die. of notion upon our public affairs and se
cure the in from the hands of extreme and vio
lent interests ; to stop the effusion of blood
'IAMB, DELP D BEEF B .LOGN A I and the accumulation of debt, to re-establish
LL umaaess, &a (Or sato low, Iv*, I the Union firmly upon the consent of the States
Wif DOC &
THOS. O. MAoDOWELL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MILITARY CLAIM AND PATENT AGENT.
Office in Burke's Row, Third street, (Up Stairs.)
naming formed a convection with parties in Wash
ington City, wno are reliable business men, any busi
ness connected with any of the Departments will meet
with immediate and careful attention.
CHARLES F.,V OLLM ER
UPHOLSTERER,
Chestnut street. four doors above Second,
(OPPOSITa WASHINGTON HOBS H 0111311,)
Is prepared to furnish to order, in the very best style of
workmanship, Spring and Hair Mattresses, Window Our
tains, Lounges, and all other articles of Furniture in hG
line, on short notice end moderate terms. Having ex
perience in the business, he feels warranted in &skies a
dim of public patronage, confident of his abilityto give
satisfaction. jenVf-dtf
S.T.LAS WARD.
NO. 11, NORTH THIRD ST., HARRISBURG.
STEINWAY'S PIANOS,
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of every description made to order. Reguilding dons.
Agency for Howe's Sewing Machines.
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MERCHANT TAILOR!
Hu jot received from New York, an assort
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402 WALNUT STANirr,
PHTLADELPHIA.
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Claims adjusted, & c ., &c. nrkr2o-dlm
SMITH & EWING,
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Practice in the several Conde of Dauphin county. dol.
tractions made promptly. A. 0. SMITH,
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CLOTHS, CANNIMBRES AND VES7INGS,
Which will be sold at moderate prices and made up to
order ; and, also, an assortment of, READY MADE
Clothing and Gentlemen's Furnishing Goods.
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taken for religions pnbileatiens. no3o-dy
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All manner of VISITING - , WEDDING AND B USI
NESS CARDS executed In the most artistic l ess sd
most reasonable terms. ef
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This pleasant and commodious Hotel has been tho
roughly re-fitted and re-furniehed It is pleasantly
situated on North-West corner of Howard and Franklin
streets, a few donut Feat of the Northern Central flail.
way Depot. livery attention paid to the comfort of his
guests. G. LEISEINRING, Proprietor,
jell-tf (Late of Selina Grove. Pa.)
TH EO. F. 8011FiFFER,
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NO. 18 MagHtsT BTRBET, HaItRISBURia.
in. Particular *flouting paid to prtutiog, riding and
binding of Rillroad Blanks, Manifests, Instiraneel'oli
des, Checks, Bill-Heads, ho.
Wedding, Visiting and Business Cards printed at very
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pitOCL A M ATlON.—Whereas, the
I Honorable Joss J . Pis Anson, President of the Court
of • ommon Pleas in the Twelfth Judicial District, con
eistingerthe counties of Lebanon and Dauphin. and the
Hon Flarrust. taunts and nob. MORNS N. Vanua, dm:
elate Judges in Dauphin county, having issuer' their pre
cept, bearing date the 24th day of Pehrn ry, 18t3. to me
direeted for holding a Court of Dye, and Terminer and
Heneral burg,eliver and Quarte. Sessions of the peace
at Harri for the county of Dauphin, and to Com•
mence on th, f ~.yik, Men ay of April next, beina the
211 k 4ag of April. 11163. and to continue two weeks .
Notice is there ore hereby given to the Coroner, Jus
tices of the Peace, kldermen. and Constables of the said
County of Dauphin, that they be then and there in their
proper persona, at 10 o'clock in the formmen of said day,
with their records. inquisitions. examinations, and their
own remembrances, to do those things which to their
aloe appertains to he done, and those wl o are bound In
reoognisances to prosecute &gni net the prisoners that are
or shall ha in the Jail of Dauphin county, be then an 4
there to nromeate against them as shall be inst.
;Given under my band, at Harrisburg, the 24 h day of
Aril, in the year of on. Lord 186 and in the eighty
seventh year of the independence , j o f t he United S:rtifl tee
ROAR fll
HARRISBURG, PA:, MONDAY, APRIL 20. 1863.
4 1,1atriot &CSion,
MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 20, 1863.
NATIONAL CONTENTION OF TEE STATES.
The following is the 'report'ef the minority
of the Committee on Federal Relations of the
Senate of Pennsylvania, made by Messrs. CLI
MES and LAMDERTON, on the 6th inst., recom
mending the calling of a Convention of the
States, with a view to a settlement of our Na
tional difficulties:
MINORITY REPORT.
compo3ing it ; and "to provide safeguards
against future convulsions and wars."
[Signed,] Mama CLYMER,
C. L. L&MBERTON.
The committee submit the following preamble
and resolutions for adoption :
WHEREAS, Angry sectional controversy,
long indulged, has culminated in the assumed
secession of a number of the States of the
Union, and in a civil war which has already
raged for nearly two yeais with unsurpassed
violence and carnage, wasting the lives and
substance of the people of both sections, and
filling the land with misery and lamenta
tions ;
And whereas, A continuance of a Union of
all the States is indispensable to the peace
and welfare of the people, as well as to the
attainment of a great nationality ;
And whereas, It is believed that ordinary
measures of legislation may prove insufficient
to remove the primary causes of the present
strife, or to adjust the complications which
have arisen therefrom :
4nd whereas, The fifth article of the Consti
tution of the United States provides that "the
Congress, whenever two-thirds of both houses
shall deem it necessary, shall propose amend
ments to the Constitution, or, on the applica
tion of the Legislatures of two-thirds of the
States, shall call a convention for proposing
amendments, which, in either case, shall be
valid to all intents and purposes as part of this
Constitution when ratified by the Legislatures
of three-fourths of the States, or by conven
tions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the
other mode of ratification may be proposed by
Congress ;" be it therefore
Resolved, That the Congress of the United
States be, and hereby is petitioned, to make
provision, for calling a convention of States, as
authorized by the fifth article of the Constitu
tion of the United States ; the object of which
convention shall be to inquire into the causes
of the present afflictions of the nation, and if
any just ground of complaint is found to ex
ist, to so amend the Constitution as to remove
such causes ; securing thereby a more perfect
Union of the States, a better understanding of
the relations which the States bear to the Fed
eral Government, "establishing justice, insu
ring domestic tranquility, " and doing such
other things not inconsistent with the spirit
and genius of the present form of government,
as may be deemed necessary "to promote the
general welfare, and secure the blessings of
liberty to ouselves and our posterity. "
Rooked, That the Governor be requested to ,
forward copies of the foregoing resolution to
the President of the United States, to the Pre
sident of the Senate of the United States, to
the Spelker of the House of Representatives
of the United States, and to each of the Gov
ernors of the several States claiming to be in
the Union.
THE CITIZEN'S DUTY.
From the Journal of Commerce
While the events of the war go on, under
this or that management, with failure
after failure characterizing the successive
months of its tedious duration, it becomes pa
triots, as we have so often before urged, to
cultivate patience, and earnestly devote them
selves to saving the government from destruc
tion. How to do it is the question. The reply
is found in reference to each individual citizen
in his own sphere; and personal responsibility
for personal conduct must determine the course
of every was. The work which the citizen has
to do at home is another and a different work
from that which the soldier has to perform in
the field. It is one of the worst heresies of
the day which teaches that we have committed
the fate of our nation to the military power,
and that we have honing to do at home but to
sustain that power. The same heresy has de
stroyed nations before, and if it should become
universal here, would destroy our own coun.
try. We have other duties to do aside from
preserving and pushing forward our military
organizations. We have other work to do be
aides making war. liewevet important, how
ever vital to the national life may be that
department of national duty, it remains otev
ertheless true that there are other equally vital
duties, other equally important subjects of
patriotic labor. It is madness to teach that
when the ship is drifting on rocks there is no
danger from fire; that when an enemy is board
ing the vessel at the bow, it is unnecessary to
watch the helm and save the ship from going
on the breakers. The rebellion is not our only
national danger. It is not certain that if the
rebellion is crushed we shall save the Ameri
can Union, and the Constitution which makes
us a nation. Eternal vigilance is the duty of
the patriot. War times are the dangerous
times for national life, from other causes than
the open enemy. Hence it is a terrible error
which men make who would have all other pa
triotic and personal duties absorbed in the one
duty of sustaining the war. Hence it is that
the clergy make a grand, almost a fatal error,
who lay aside the ordinary duties of the clergy,
forget for the time the ordinary province of the
church, for the sake of devoting their force to
aiding in the war. Hence it is that politicians
make an unpardonable error who say that we
have nothing to do with the course of the ad
ministration in this or that matter; that we
ought to subject all public and private rights
and remedies to the one idea of sustaining the
administktion in its efforts to crush the re
bellion.
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It is not unnatural that strong partisanship
should lead men into this error, but we ear
nestly ask men to coullider it carefully, View
it, for instance, in this light. Imagining the
War continuing as now up to the close of Abe
administration of Mr. Lincoln, and that a new
President should be elected who represents
the so-called " copperheads." It is not im
p-issible, Up to the morning of the fourth of
March the doctrine of sustaining the acts of
the administration without question might
seem to be a very plausible doctrine; hut how
would it be in the afternoon of that day ? How
the next morning? How, if the new adminis
tration should decide, and act on the decision,
that the best method of saving the Union was
to off.-r terms of peace and compromise to the
1%4E8 ?
There is none of the divine right of kings in
the President and his Cabinet. The voice of
the administration is not the voice of an auto-'
cyst—its decrees are not the law of the land.
That government whi ih survives changing
Cabinets and successive administrations, that
sovereignty which demands our support in
every varying phase of public politics, is the
will of the American people, expressed in con.
stitutions of State's and of the United States,
and the duty of the patriot is to sustain that
government. against every form of enmity,
every kind of treason.
The constitutional acts of the administration
r. quire the support of the citizen. Those acts
are the voice Of the swereign people. The
right to criticise, to advise, to assent or dis
sent. remains, because the people hay, de dared
thatnthat o rarht shall remiiin and not be in
fringedand toe rights which the consti
tutions secure to individuals are as much the
objects of our patriotic defence, require as
faithful watch, ast thorough protection, as de
veted support, as we owe to the grand Union
of S sites itself. While the administration
carries on the war to preserve the Union against
PRICE TWO CENTS.
the attacks of rebellion, the citizen at home
must not only look to that danger, but must
see to it that the other dangers, which always
threaten a free people, de not make headway
and become invincible.
Of these dangers, not a few lie in the minds
of the people. It is a terrible characteristic
of our times that wrong views of the country,
wrong views of government, wrong esti
mates of the American eyetem, effect a lodg
ment in the minds of men. Let a political
party instil into the minds of the people a
grand heresy on the subject of the Constitu
tion, and they will destroy the Union as effec
tually as any armed rebellion could destroy it.
Moral weapons are as powerful against the
American Constitution as the cannon of Fort
Sumpter. Bad political principles at the North
are no less to be feared and resisted than the
bayonets of Lee's army on the'Rappahannock.
When men fairly awake to this truth we shall
see true patriotism becoming more powerful,
more faithful, and we shall have more cause of
hope for the Union and Constitution. It is
our aim to teach the people true political doc
trines. We believe that the fathers devised
the best form of republican popular govern
ment that the world has known. We see that
it rests, as all popular government must rest,
on the intelligence of the people; on their ap
preciation of the principles that vitalize it. A
splendid steamship, falling into the hands of a
tribe of savages, would be of less value to
them than a canoe, and if they attempted to
use it they would inevitably destroy it and
themselves. The invention of our fathers is
only to be kept useful and valuable by teach
ing the American people the principles on
which it must work, if it works at all. A re
publican government like ours, a constitution
like our Constitution, falling into the hands
and under the management of a party who do
not understand, or who repudiate the grand
compromise principles on which alone it can
be successfully worked, is precisely like the
steamship in the hands of men who know no
thing about steam. It is a beautiful fabric, a
magnificent combination of powers, and a
splendid engine, but the men who ignorantly
handle it will carry themselves and all who
sail with them to perdition.
Instruct the people. Study the great prin
ciples of American institutions. Teach the
grand truth that union among men depends on
concession on both eider—on all sides. Stand
firm by every principle of American law.
Support the States, and the United States, and
be i atient when the times look dark, as now.
A BLOODY QUARREL IN FASHIONABLE LIFE.-
In New York city, recently, a man named
Browning commenced suit against a Wall street
broker for criminal acquaintance with his wife.
The wife made and published an affidavit, ex
honorating the broker, and charging her hus
band with an attempt to black mail. When
Browning read it he was seized with uncon
trolable fury, hunted up the woman, and told
her she must die. She declared that she did
not know the contents of the affidavit she had
subscribed, and the broker's lawyer had mis
represented it to her. Browning did not
believe the story. Drawing a Bowie knife, he
attempted to cut her throat. She seized the
weapon and wrested it from him, though her
hand was nearly severed. He drew a pistol
and snapped it at her as she fled, but the
charge did not explode. She took refuge in a
lawyer's office. He pursued her with a knife
in his band, but was seized before he could do
her any harm, and ejected. Subsequently. he
walked up and down in front of the residence
of the broker for several hours, with a loaded
revolver, waiting for him to make his appear
ance. Finally he was put under arrest. He
still vows that he will be revenged at the first
opportunity.
THE ROBBERY OF THE NAVY YARD SAFE.-
No clue has yet been obtained, so far as can
be publicly known, to the perpetrator of the
recent robbery of the navy yard safe, and the
circumstances that are developed indicate that
the work was performed by an expert, whom
it may be very difficult, if not impossible, to
detect. That $OO,OOO wbre left in the safe
because the bills were small and would be
cumbersome, while the notes of higher denom
ination, amounting to $130,000, were all
carried off, is a suggestive fact, and what is
most singular is that during part of the night,
as we are credibly informed, no watchmen
were on duty. It is certain that the robber
was well acquainted with all the facts, and
bad occupied much time in preparation. A
reward of $lO,OOO is offered by Admiral Paul
ding for the recovery of the stolen mont7,—N.
Y. Post.
The New York World, of the 17th, says that
a court of inquiry convened yesterday at the
Brooklyn navy yard for the purpose of inves
tigating the circumstances attending the rob
bery of the paymaster's department. Pay
master Belknap has been removed from the
yard and Purser B trry ordered in hie place.
RISMARICA.B LE RAILROAD A.Ce WENT.—An em
ployee of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad re
lates the following remarkable accident and
escape : A day or two since, as a train was
going east over the above road, and was mo
ving along at a pretty rapid rate, near Harper's
Ferry, the engineer observed a two-horse am
bulance crossing the track a short distance
ahead. The engine had just turned a curve,
and was so close upon the vehicle that the
train could not be stopped. The horses bad
crossed the track, but the ambulance was just
fairly upon it, when the pilot struck the vehi
cle between the front and hindmost wheels.
As strange as it may seem, the horses were
instantly separated from the ambulance, and
the vehicle was lifted up and squarely seated
upon the bumpers of the engine, where it re
mained until the train was stopped. The am
bulance contained a siok soldier and four or five
officers, none of whom were injured in the
slightest degree. The horses also escaped un
hurt. It - w.ss regarded as one of the most re
markable eileAlkao
The New York Tribune rotates that: pay
master's clerk recently made this proposition
to a capitalist of this city : Lend me twenty
thousand dollars. I can make fifteen per cent.
a month on that amount in this way. In our
office we pay two hundred thousand dollars a
mouth to soldiers. The funds are not always
on hand as the pay falls due. When they are
not, I can generally purchase the soldier's
claims at fifteen per cent, discount. In order
to do it I must resign my clerkship; but I have
a brother in the office, and through him I can
always learn when and how to invest. There
is no risk of capital, the profits are sure, and
I will share them with you.' We have this
account from the person to whom the offer was
made. He indignantly declined it as a swindle
of the basest kind—a proposition to cheat the
Government nod defraud the soldier. Others,
however, were less scrupulous. and the clerk
speedily effected an arrangement wi b a firm
considered rest:tamable, and their joint opera
tions are probable at this moment in full tide
or success "
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why ? the train alw Lys rune over alsepere.
Is a soldier supposed to be raw aosll hi lies
been exposed to ire?
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ATTEMPT TO CONSOLIDATE WHITE
AND BLACK REGIMENTS.
THE WHITES REFUSE TO OBEY AND ARE
ARR FISTED AND DISARMED BY THE
BLACKS. ,
Sometime ago we published a paragraph
stating the fact that at both Baton' Rouge and
Ship Island there - had been trouble,.growing
out of the attempt to consolidate white and
black regiments. The particulars of the oc
currence at Ship Island . are clearly stated by
a correspondent of the Springfield (Mass.)
Republican. How the difficulty has been set
tled, or whether settled at all, we do not know.
The correspondent of the Republican says:
As the experiment of organizing negro regi
ments has been instituted by the government '
its progress and results are a matter of great
interest; and having bad an opportunity -to
witness the efforts to enforce the principle of
military equality of such regiments, I will vol
unteer to give you its history.
For several months past the military post of
Ship Island has been garrisoned by two com
panies of the 13th Maine regiment, under
command of Col. Henry Rust. Recently, the
2d Louisiana regiment of black volunteers was
ordered to rendezvous at this Island ; and Col.
Rust was ordered to transfer the command of
the post to their commanding officer, Col. N.
W. Daniels. Col. Rust and staff, as ordered,
repaired to Fort Jackson, leaving behind him
on the island the two companies of the 18th
Maine.
Upon assuming command of the post, Col.
Daniels issued orders commanding the consol
idation of the two companies of whites with
his regiment of blacks. He ordered them to
attend battalion drill, and be consolidated at
dress parade. In camp and guard duties black
captains were placed over white lieutenants,
and thus white officers and blade, white pri
vates and black, in one black column blent,
obsequiously doing honor to black equals and
superiors, were to inaugurate the reign of ebo
ny. The recognition required was not merely
the passing salute and modes and forma of
military etiquette, but an equal military equal
ity, with its accompanying honors and obedi
ence.
Against the orders so consolidating them with
blacks, the officers of the two white companies
earnestly protested. But their protest being
unheeded and unanswered, after a suitable
delay, they finally refused to obey the orders.
They refused to take their companies to bat
talion drill or appear on dress parade; they
refused also to detail guard to be commanded
by negroes. They were arrested, and the com
mand of the companies finally devolved upon
the orderly sergeants. By the sergeant's offering
to detail guard, the question was put directly
to the members of the companies whether they
would do duty as guard under negro officers.
Following the example of their officers, the men
peremptorily refused. Whereupon the - men
were ordered under arrest, their muskets and'
equipments taken from them, and black guards
stationed around their appointed quarters
The execution of the order for arresting the
companies was one of the most humiliating
scenes I ever witnessed. As a precaution
against disturbance, the black regiment was
ordered under arms and muskets loaded. -Two
campanies of blacks, with their black officers,
marched to the quarters of the disobedient
soldiers, and called upon them to surrender
themselves as prisoners, Instead of resisting,
the men obeyed the summons in a spirit
characteristic of the intelligent New England
soldier, who knows how to obey, but knows,
too, the philosophy of resistance to injustice.
Silently they marched in front of their negro
masters, stacked their arms, hung their accou
trements upon their glittering bayonets, and
turned sadly away, while their black captors
bore away their arms with feelings and ea•
preseions of glee, as if they were trophies of
conquest.
As the ebony band returned from their work,
their comrades in camp welcomed them with
shouts of triumph. By a single word or act
on the part of the white officers, a scene of riot
and bloodshed would have been the sequel.—
But wiser counsels prevailed, and Awe and
men quietly submitted themselves as prisoners
to those with whom they would not serve as
soldiers or acknowledge as equals.
DEATH OF BILL WILSON, THE 017EERILLA.—
A warning example as to what domestic war
will do for a community was afforded in Gil
mer county the other day. The notorious
Bill Wilson, formerly of Upehur county, a well
known guerrilla and horse thief, togetherwith
a man by the name of Davidson, one of hie
partners, went to the house of Mrs. Varner,
a widow lady, who lives on the Sand Pock of
the Kanawha, on a plundering expedition.
He was seen approaching the house, and, as
soon as seen, a son of Mrs.. Varner, quite a
youth, suspecting Wilson's errand, took out
his revolver and gave it to his sister, in order
to prevent being robbed of it, at the same time
telling her to keep close by him, and be ready
to hand him the pistol if he should require it.
As soon as Wilson reached the house, he set
about looking up something valuable to steal.
After rifling about for some time he found a
dress hanging on the wall, in the pocket of
which was seine sixty dollars in money. The
money was sewed up in the pocket. He took
out his knife to cut it open. Just as he was in
the net of doing so, young Varner gave hie sis.
ter the sign, and she handed him tke revolver.
He took it and fired at Wilson, hitting him in
the back near the shoulder blade, but not in
juring him fatally. As soon as thought { Wile
eon turned about and attempted to draw his
pistol from his belt. Before he could do so,
however, young Varner got another shot, fall
aim at him, and struck him fatally in the
breast. Wilson pitched out of the door, and
dropped dead at Varner's feet.
In the meantime, Davidson, Wilson's part
ner, outside, who had a Union prisoner in
charge, became alarmed at the fate whioh Wil
son had met, and got ready to escape. Before
he could do so, however, his prisoner picked
up Wilson's gun, which had been left outside
the house, and shot at him, wouoding him
slightly. Davidson, however, got of, taking
to the woods, and was afterward traced a con
siderable way by his blood.— Whiairky liteldi
gencer.
LABOR TO Be PROTEOIIO.—The Illinois Le.
gislature passed a law at the late Bessie* ma
ting it a penal offence for one class of laborers
or mechanics to interfere with others while
engaged at their ordinary toil. Men. in their
individual capacity, or as an association, hays
an on loubted right to charge what they pleas)
fur their service, and proprietors and bosses
have the same right to employ or dismiss their
men. The trouble has been that when a "strike"
occurred, the "strikers" would not let others
who, exercising an inalienable right. for any
reason chose, to take the places of those whit
cad tett them, or who had been die iharg.'d.—
lt of the kind t h e law very j
sakesw
pen 4.
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were, "Fast do right sum, daii de let, alt.l dilk
gib one general smiwalshig.