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PURPOSES OF THE WAR.
Congress, by a vote nearly unanimous, passed
- the following resolution, which expresses the
voice of the Nation and is the true standard of
Loyalty:
That the present deplorable civil...war lute been
forced upon the country by the distmionists of the
Pouthern States, now in arms against the Constitutional
Government, and in arms around the Capital p that in
this National emergency, Congress, banishing all feel
ing of mere passion or reeentment, will recollect only
Bo duty to the whole country; Mat this war is not
waged on their part in any spirit of oppression, or Ar
any purpose of c onquest . or subjugation, or purpose of
overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established
institutions of those States,but to defend and maintain
Me supremacy of the Constitution, and to preserve the
Vision, with all the dignity, equality and rights of the
several States unimpaired; and that as soon as these ob
jects are accomplished the war ought to cease."
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NOVEMBER 21, 1862.
Abolitionism in the Government.
Under this caption an old patron sends us
the following :—"A brother of old John Brown
has been appointed to a clerkship in the Trea
sury Department at Washington. The thief
Helper had been previously rewarded with the
consulship to Buenos Ayrea.!
"Nobody Hurt."
An exchange collects the following data :
It is estimated that from the commencement
of the war 53,874 Federals have been killed,
117,029 wounded, 74.218 made prisoners, and
250,000 died from disease and wounds; that
50,893 Confederates have been killed, 119,615
wounded; 52,169 made prisoners, and 250,000
died from disease and wounds.
This of course does not include the loss in
any of the late battles, the last massacre at
Fredericksburg or the recent fights on the
Mississippi. What says Chandler to the
" blood-letting" so far ?
Fomar's Chronicle says of the banishment
of Vallandigham :
" There is a poetic justice in transporting
this wolf in sheep's clothing to the society of
those whose cause he has so persistently advo
cated. The southern Confederacy will proba
bly treat him with the contempt he ffeserves."
The Richmond Enquirer, March sth, Jeff.
Davis's organ, as Forney's Chronicle is Lin
coln's, expressed a wish that Vallandigham
should be locked up for a troublesome cus
tomer! Forney is right when he says the
Southern Confederacy has no fancy for Val
landigham. It is entirely consistent to call his
banishment to Dixie a case of "poetic" jus
tice—it was hatched in the besotted brain of
Seward, and has no warrant in the laws.
Optimism of Seward.
Blackwood •is very amusing on Mr. Seward.
A wicked writer strings together the following
extracts from his dispatches:
"On February 19, 1862, he writes to Mr.
Adams : g 1 was just about instructing you how
to answer the querulous complaints in Parlia
ment which you have anticipated, the nhief of
which is the assumed incompetency of govern
ment to suppress the insurrection. But a very
shrewd observer, a loyal and, at present, ex
iled Virginian, fell in at the moment and ex
pressed to me the opinion that the end .ef the
war is in sight; that there will be a short and
rapid series of successes over a disheartened
conspiracy, and then all will be over.'
"March 15: 'The financial and moral, as
well as the physical elements of the insurrec
tion seem to be rapidly approaching exhaus
tion.'
"On the 25th of March it seems impossible
to the sanguine Secretary that the organization
of the insurgents can be longer maintained.
"On the 15th of April he tells Mr. Dayton:
g A few days will probably complete the open
ing of the Mississippi river, and restore to the
country that national outlet of the great
granary , of America which disunion in its
madness has temporarily attempted to obstruct,
in violation not more of political laws than of
the ordinances of nature.'
"22d April: •We have reason to expect
Savannah to come into our possession within
the next ten days.'
sth May : We shall have peace and union
in a very few months, let Frence and Great
Britain do what they may.'
"On the 10th of May he wrote : • Less than
a year will witness the dissolution of all the
armies; the iron-clad navy will rest idly in our
ports ; Wee will immediately decrease ; and
new &atm wifibe coming into the Confederacy,
bringing rich contributions to the relief and
comfort of mankind.'
"On June 2d: The war in the Mississippi
Valley may be deemed virtually ended.'
"On the 10th of July be says : The reduc
tion of Vicksburg, the possession of Chats
nooga and the capture of Richmond would
close the civil war with complete success. All
these three enterprises are going forward. The
two former will, we think, be effected within
the next ten days."
Add -to this Seward's memorable " ninety
days" peace prophecy, and Greeley's promise
of nine hundred thousand emancipated recruits,
and Gov. Andrew's unrealized black army pro
ject, and Hooker's promised annihilation of
Lee ; and we shall see how often " Hope has
told a flattering tale.
RIADING TIM BlGNB.—Henry J. Raymond,
editor of the New York Timea, (Abolition,) in a
recent speech, Bad:
We are about played out as a party. We
played the '!Maine ism," a good enough Mor
gan for the time being—but it was played out,
and so Abolitionism is played out. It may
last Lincoln's time out—but if we bold on till
then, there is not one of us living that will ever
get into public life again. Weed is wisely get
ting out of the scrape. Greeley is fool enough
to hang on. The may hope them itfor any of rig
is to keep on the war until the Union is . BO thor
ought, vlit up that it can never be got together
again. A reunion with the South on any terms
is death to all this generation. But, at any
rate the taxes, which the people have not be-
gun to feel; the debt and the conscription, not
yet begun, but to come, will damn every man
concerned in levying them.
Vicksburg.
The stronghold which so long successfully
resisted the sloirly constructed fleets and ar
maments of the upper llglississippi, and baf ted.
all the patience of engineering skill, athlete
possession we hale ooeted and fought so
faithfully to obtain, he'll fallen! The "rebel
Gibraltar" is ours ; we hold the key to the
great river and the gulf ! For the moment,
theitaXM thought but of rejoicing—no feel
ing IhWidmiration for the triumphant prowess
of our brave troops and their commander.—
The veterans of the West have toiled and won
a victory fall of praise to the achievements of
our arms, fall of honor and import for the fu
ture. The most despondent wileop and listen
for the moment and be lost in admiration for
the steady courage of the men and the splendid
energy of their commander, which has broken
so signally in the hot savannahs of the South
west the vaunted prestige of the rebel aims.
Unhampered by courtesan intrigues and offi
cial cowardice, the progress of the Western
Chieftain presents a stirring picture of suc
cessive triumphs. The coveted citadel of
Southern strength, a month since the source
of our discomfiture, is now the possession of
his victorious advance. Sentiment., so long in
spired by tidings of defeat, will look forward
again with newer hopes. Confidence in the power
and progress of our arms will break once more
its doubtful thraldom. The wariest will be
lost one moment in admiration; the next may
turn again to sickly apprehension and distrust.
The first feeling of rejoicing again gives place
to serious reflection and reserve.. We know
too well the men who have won the victory can
not control its ultimate results. The palm of
,their exploits is fixed forever, but the fruits of
all their toil and valor may render only the
bitter experience of endangered liberty. Those
whose business has been heretofore to com
plicate the trying issues of the.great struggle,
to thwart the progress of our arms and strip
the war of all its justice, humanity and glory,
are fit to take a vile advantage of the honest
zeal the people feel in the rewarded triumphs
of the field. Should they prove only capable
of turning all achievements of our troops, in
which we cannot help rejoice, to the malignait
purposes of tyranny and proscription—should
the grand results which reflect such honor on
the brave men who have gone forth to battle in
the right be devoted to the outrage of our dc
mestic liberties, all the blood which has been
poured out in -such profusion upon the thirsty
Aceldamas of the South will be made only
the price of despotism—the battles which
might have secured an honorable peace, and
given to a nation weary of slaughter the sweet
-surcease of lasting amity, will only add to the
4lespair which threatens the sacrifice of liberty
or light the fires of anarchy and future war.
.An hour like the present is auspicious to
unite the hearts of all who, now estranged,
embraced with 'boundless eagerness the cause of
the Constitution and the Union in the hope,
which now seems vain, that the war would
'tan for both a future unimpaired. Let the
laws be honored and observed at home, let
mercy and temperance soften and dissuade the
angry councils of the misguided in the South;
and a firm and etual sway may restore in time the
4:Talon and its blessings. But the visitations of
ungenerous wrath will wreak only a hasty ven
geance on the shelterless and innocent; the
war which engenders only hatred and injustice
may bring a sullen and enforced submission;
but it can never restore a permanent and salu
tary peace. If all we gain by our successes is
to he turned to the account of a projected des
potism.; if all our blood and treasure is to
be spent and wasted in wild experiments of
wrong and usurpatipn, even the enthusiasm,
of Fresent triumphs will not allay the smoul
. dering spirit of discontent, which will sink to a
degraded apathy and submission or wake to
rage and effectual in the future. -
The Feeling in the West.
The New York World says it is impossible to
read the Ohio and Indiana newspapers without
coming to the conclusion that a storm is gather
ing in the West full of the direst portents to
our country's peace. We submit the following
extracts from the last 'Columbus (Ohio) Crisis
that has /reached us, and beg of our Republican
friends to weigh calmly their terrible im
port :
" The eastern papers come loaded with de
nunciations of the arrest of Mr. Vallandighaw.
Our Mende East must not suppose that because
very little is said in Ohio, that there intno
feeling on the subject. ne feeling is far be
yond the andibbe impression of the people. Under
no circumstances did we ever witness the same state
of public mind. ft pervades every part and por
tion of the State. Scarcely a word passes between
the Democrats and the Republicans—they pass as
total stranger.s."
And Again :
So intense is the feeling in the State, that few
fed like saying anything on the sahject. There is
a death like feeling in every heart, which is
smothered under the mere inquiry of What
has been done with Mr. Vallandigham ?' and
such like inquiries. Would to God that the
authorities were fully sensible of the great
blunder they have made; of the alambering vol
cano underneath. Who counsels—who advises
them ?, Surely not the men of sense—of patri
otism, nor lovers of order and of safety. We
pray for peace, for law, and for order, but we
fear that our prayers are but mockeries. If
trouble comes let it rest on the shoulders of
those who would have it so."
The report of the proceedings at the late
Indiana Democratic State Convention, the de
liberations of which were held with a military
force in the hall•and soldiers patroling the
streets, tells its own story of the strides of
military power in a free and loyal State, and
the suppressed fury with which it is regarded
by the people,
LETTS& FROM GEN. CASS.—The following
letter was addressed by Gen. Cass to a meet
ing of the Democrats of Washington co., held
on Monday evening:
PITTSBURG, May 15, 1863.
Messrs. Gibson, Braden, Brady, and Hart,
Committee—Gents :—I have received your very
flattering invitation to be present and address
a mass meeting of the Democracy of Washing
ton county on the 18th instant. I would with
pleasure accept your invitation to meet you in
council on that day, were I not under an en
gagement which cannot possibly be postponed,
to be in the State of Ohio on the day of your
meeting.
I have come to look with almost u much so
licitude upon the action of the Democratic
party in its primary meetings as for the result
of the conflict at arms ; for the reason that it
is now clear to me that the perpetuity of our
present form of government rests on the patri
otism, intelligence, forbearance and consistent
course of action by the Democratic party. The
Jacobin and ra dials who are the leading
spirits of the political party in power seem
as intent on destroying our civil rights as in
whipping the rebels into subjection. It is our
duty to insist.on the preservation intact of the
form:of gevernment establishe4 in 1780, and
that the territorial limits of the nation shall
never be diminished. To attain this end we
must see that !the government is not allowed
to fall to pieces. We must hold the executive
agents of the government to their duty, until
we can, by means of the ballot-box, put in
their stead those who will administer the gov
ernment as it was framed by their ancestors.
Very truly yours,
G. W. CASS.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
BY TELEGRAPH.
INTERESTING TO MILITARY OFFICERS.
WASHINGTON, May 25-8 p. m.—The order
from the War Department withholding the pay
of Captains until their ordnance accounts were
settled has been revoked.
THE FALL OF VICKSBURO.
WASHINGTON, May 25.—Up to noon to-day
there has been no' official confirmation of the
reported fall of Vicksburg received here.
FROM THE MISSISSIPPI SQUADRON.
WASHINGTON, May 25.—The following has
been received at the Navy Department :
Canto, ILL., May 25, 1863.
Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of Ike Navy:—
The following dispatch has just been received
from A. M. Pennock, Fleet Captain in the Mis
sissippi squadron:
FLAG SHIP BEIGE HAWK,
HAMM'S BLUFF, Yazoo River, May ?ILI
To Hon. Gideon Welles, ..Sec'rti of the Navy:—
On the morning of the 15th I came over to Ya
zoo river, to be ready to cooperate with Gen.
Grant, leaving two of the iron-clads at Red
river, one at Grand Gulf, one at Carthage,
three at Warrenton and two in the Yazoo,
whioh left me a small force, still I disposed
them to the best advantage.
On the 18th, at noon, firing was beard in
the rear -of. Vicksburg, which assureditne that
Gen. Grant was approaching the city.
The cannonading kept up furiously for some
time, when, by the aid of a glass, I discovered
a company of our artillery advacing, taking a
position, and driving the rebels before them.
I immediately said that Gen. Sherman's divis
ion had come in to the left of Snyder's Bluff,
and that the rebels.at that place had been cut
off from the forces in the city.
I dispatched the DeKalb, Lieut. Command
ing Walker; the Choctaw, Lieut. Commanding
Ramsay, and the Romeo, Petrel and Forest
Rose, all under command of Lieut.sCommand
ing Breeze, up the Yazoo, to open communica
tion in that way with Grant and Sherman.—
I succeeded so far and so well that in three
hours I received letters from Gen.'s Grant,
Sherman and Steele, informing me of their
vast success, and as king me to send up pro
visions, which was at once done.
In the meantime Lieutenant Commanding
Walker, in the paehed on to Haine's
Bluff, hich the enemy commenced evacuating
the day - before, and a party remained in hopes
of taking away or destroying a large amount
of ammunition on hand. When they eaw the
gunboats they ran and left everything in good
order—guns, fort, tents and equipage of all
kinds—which fell into oar hands.
As soon as the capture of Haine's Bluff and
fourteen forts was reported to me, I shoved
up the :gunboats from below Vicksburg to fire
at the hill batteries, which fire was kept up
for two or three hours.
At midnight they moved up to he town and
openod on it for about an hour, and continued
at intervals during the nightoto annoy the
garrison.
On the 18t4h I placed sin mortars in position,
with orders to fire night and day as rapidly as
they could.
*The works at Haine's Bluff were very for
midable. There are /4 of the heaviest kind of
mounted 8 and.] 0-inch and 74 inch rifled guns,
with ammunition enough for a long siege.
As the gun carriages might again fall into
the hands of the enemy, I had them burnt,
blew fop the magazine and destroyed the works
generally. I also burnt up the encampments,
which were permanently and remarkably well
constructed, looking as if the rebels intended
to stay for some time.
The works and encampments covered many
acres of ground,.and the fortifications and rifle
pits proper of Heine's Bluff extend both a mile
and a quarter. Such a net-work of defences
I never saw. The rebels were a year construct
ing them, and all were rendered useless in an
hour.
•As soon as I got through with the destruc
tion of the magazines and other works, I star
ted Com. Walker up the Yazoo, with sufficient
force to destroy all the enemy's property in
that direction, with orders to proceed as far as
Yazoo city_ There the rebels have a navy
yard and store houses.
In the meantime Gen. Grant has closely in
vested Vicksburg, and has possession of the
best commanding points. In a very short time
a general assault will be made, when I hope to
announce that Vicksburg has fallen, after a
series of the most brilliant successes that ever
attended an army.
There has never been a case during the war
where the rebels have been so successfully
beaten at all points, and the patience and en
durance shown by our army and navy for so
many months is about to be rewarded. ft is a
mere question of a few hours, and then, with
the exception of Port Hudson, which will
follow Vicksburg, the Mississippi will be open
•
its entire length.
• (Signed) D. D. PORTER,
Actg. Rear Admiral Comdg.
THE GLORIOUS VICTORY OF BAKER'S CREEK
CINCINNATI, May 25. Special dispatches
from General• Grant's army have been received
here, containing full accounts of the battles re
cently fought in Mississippi.
They represent them as a series of bloody
engagements, in which our soldiers have im
mortalized themselves.
The correspondent of the Commercial, in a
letter dated " On the battle field at Baker's
creek, May 16," says.: •
" The Federal army under Gen. Grant has
won another glorious victory. A furious bat
tle, lasting for nearly five hours, resulted in
the defeat of the enemy at all points, with a
loss of 3,000 killed and wounded and the cap
ture of three camplete batteries of heavy rifled
cannon, besides large quantities of small arms
and camp equipage.
" Our success was signal and complete.
"Early on the morning of the 16th instant,
Gen. M'Clernand's corps was put in motion.
Gen. Hovey's division advanced across the
open field at the foot of Champion Hill, and at
11 o'clock commenced the fight.
"The hill was covered with timber, and
flanked on both sides with ravines and gullies,
and in many places covered with an almost
impenetrable growth of scrubby bushes.
The rebels opened with a heavy fire from
a four-gun battery and from sharpshooters sta
tioned in the woods. Here the battle raged i
terribly from 11 o'clock till 3 n the afternoon.
"Gen. H ovey's division carried the heights
in gallant style. Making a dash on the first
battery they captured it. The rebel dead lay
thick in the vicinity of the guns_ Gun car
riages and caissons were broken and over
turned, while knapsacks, blankets, small arms
and other debris attested the struggle for the
ground. At this juncture, the rebels being
reinforced, Gen. Hovey was slowly driven
back ; but a brigade from General Quimby was
ordered to his support and the ground was
speedily reoccupied, and the rebels finally
repulsed.
" At the commencement of the engagement
Logan's division marched past the brow of
the hill, forming in line of battle on the right
of Gen. Hovey, and advanced in gallant style,
sweeping everything before them to the edge
of the woods.
"3n front of Logan the battle was of the
most desperate character imaginable ; the rat
tle of musketry was incessant and apntinuous,
in which the reports were so' blended that a
single discharge was rarely beard.
"Logan captured two batteries, a large por
tion of the .prisoners, small arms, &c."
BY THE MAILS.
IRON-CLADS FOR THE CONFEDERATES.
A London correspondent of the New York
Herald, in a letter dated the 9th inst., says :
I have just learned, from a most undoubted
and authentic source, that two powerful iron
clad war steamers, of the highest speed and
efficiency, have lately sailed for-the coast of
China, there to operate against American ship
ping. These vessels are powerful, swift and
heavily armed, and the writer anticipates that
they will inflict very heavy losses on our com
merce. This naval movement of the rebels
had been planned from the beginning of the
war, and it is said that it has been undertaken
just now in consequence of Confederate agen
cies to direot the work having been formed. in
Shanghai, Calcutta, Singapore and other cities
of the Eastern coast in communication with a
large number of sympathizers and abettors.
REBEL INVASION OF KENTUCKY
A Cincinnati dispatch, dated May 28, says;
A Louisville dispatch says that the rebels are
certainly preparing for the invasion of Ken
tucky, and that the forward movement will be
made about the Ist of June.
On the 29th instant a party of them made a
dash on the Memphis branch of the Nashville
road, and burned the extensive trestle work at
Hampton, twelve miles from Clarksville. The
only rebel forces in Kentucky are roving bodies
of guerrillas; but the rebels are certainly pre
paring for an invasion in June.
Morgan has left his command at Monticello
and gone to Sparta, Tennessee. Pegram's
forces are still between the Cumberland and
Monticello. There has been some picket
skirmishing along the river, but no important
action.
HONORS TO GEN. M'OLELLAN.
ALBANY, N. Y., May 23. —Gen. M'Clellan
arrived in this city at noon to-day, as the
guest of Hon. Erastus Corning and Hon. J,
M. Le Pruyn. During the afternoon he called
on Governor Seymour, at the Capitol, who ex
tended to him a most cordial and hearty wel
come.
The General returned to New York to-night
the steamer Hendrick • Hudson being detained
until 10 o'clock to enable him to do so. He
was escorted to the boat by the fire depart
ment of Albany and by from 3,000 to 4,000
citizens bearing lighted torches. He was loudly
cheered along the route. On his arrival at the
boat a salute of 100 guns was fired, and as the
boat left the dock the immense throng greeted
him with thundering cheers.
CONDITION OF LEE'S ARMY.
A correspondent of the New York Tribune
writes from Falmouth, Va., on the 21st, as
follows :
Some deserters who came in yesterday say
the rebel army is in excellent condition, and
that a movement is oh foot either to cross the
river and give us battle near this point or else
cross at Kelly's Ford and Rappahannock Sta
tion, driving in the forces in that direction
toward Washington, and in this way compel
this army to change its base of operations.—
They state that Lee is perfectly confident of
being able to crush the Army of the Potomac
in its present condition, as he believes our
losses in the late engagement together with
the large number of troops who have returned
home, has reduced our force one-half, and that
he can easily drive the remainder into the de
fenses around Washington or destroy and cap
ture it entire.
CASE Or HON. C. L. VALLANDIGHAM.
The following petition is circulating in
Columbus and other parts of the State :
" The undersigned, citizens . of Franklin
county, respectfully represent that the most
sacred rights tif citizens are guaranteed by the
Constitution of our fathers. It has been vio
lated by the arbitrary arrest of Hon. C. L.
Vallandigham, We therefore demand of the
President of the United States his immediate
and unconditional release."
REAR ADMIRAL FOOTE
It is stated that Itear Admiral Foote has en
terely recovered from the wounds received at
Fort Donelson. He laid aside his crutches
about three weeks since, and has offered his
services to the Secret xry of the Navy, ready
for a command afloat, and anxious to again
take an active part in the war. He is now, as
he has been since his partial recovery, at the
head of the important Bureau of Equipment
and Recruiting for the Navy, in Washington.
RETALIATION,
The Richmond Sentinel of the 19th, says
It is reported that the Confederate authorities
have determined to detail one Federal captain
and one lieutenant, with a veiw of retaliating
in kind for the hanging of two Confederate
officers in the West, by order of General
Burnside.
WASHINGTON AND JACKSON- 14 COP
PERHEADS."
Every man who speaks out for the Constitu
tion as it is, and in opposition to all violations
of it, is denounced by the Abolition, negro
worshipping Leaguers as a "Copperhead.' Be
it so. The white man of the present day,
whatever name the Leaguers may apply to him,
has the satisfaction of knowing that hie prin
ciples are those of the great. and good Wash
ington and Jackson, who, if they were now
living, would be assailed by the wooley-head
patriots as "copperheads," "rebels," "sympa
thizers with treason," &c., simply for advoca
ting the constitutional government.
Washington, in his farewell address, which
was subsequently endorsed by Jackson, said to
the American people :
•' Indignantly frown upon the -first dawning
of every attempt to alienate any portion of our
country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sa
cred ties that now link together the various
parts."
Delnoorats have always lived up to this.—
Northern Abolitionists who now rule the
country to its ruin spurned such counsel, and
for years devoted themselves to alienate the
North from the South, and to excite the two
Sections into open antagonism.
Again, Washington's address says:
a The Constitution which at any time exists
till changed by an explicit and authentic act of
the people is sacredly obligatory upon all.
"Resist with care the spirit of innovation
upon its principles, however specious the pre
texts.
"The spirit of encroachment tends to consum
mate the powers of all departments in one, and
thus create, whatever the form of government,
a REAL DESPOTISM."
The Democrats have ever lived up to this
advice and they plant themselves upon it as a
sure foundation in this hour of trial.
Again, Washington's address further warns
the people
, 4 Let there be no change by usurpation ; for
though this in one instance may be the instru
ment of good, it is the customary weapon - by
which free government is DESTROYED."
Democrats have time and again proclaimed
that the tendency of Abolition rule was to the
destruction of free government.
Now, if the Democrats who concur fully with
these views, so pointedly repudiating and con.
demning the "iNiwers that be," and their un
constitutional doings, are " Copperheads," of
course Washington and Jackson were "Copper
heads," and the Leaguers would so denominate
them if now upon the earth.
The conclusion whioh unprejudiced; sober
minded, thinking citizens, who desire to have
the good old Union as it was, with all the States
at peace and in harmony, must arrive at, from
all this, is that the Democrats--the Washing
ton and Jackson " Copperheads," and not the
sectional, Abolition, negro-worehippiug Lea
gnera—are the men .by whom the country may
be saved, and the good,old times of the fathers
again be -restored. Honor—all honor—there
fore to the " Copperheads," the white men of
the Washington. and Jackson stripe.—Jefer
sonian.
AN EXCELLENT NOTION.—We find the fol
lowing excellent article in the Detroit Free
Press :
"SECRET SOCIETIES.—We frequently hear of
prominent Republicans who boast that their
party has an organization in the free States by
which they expect to enforce the conscription,
and to single out Democrats for the political
vengeance of the administration. They un
doubtedly speak the truth. There is .a secret
society devoted to Abolitionism instead of the
Union ; to the administration instead of the
Government ; whose office is to play spy and
informer, and whose purpose isilto carry the
next Presidential election. We frankly con
fess that we view this organization with alarm.
Any secret political society is an evil in a free
country. It originates either in the crimes of
the Government or in the crimes of the admin
istration. Alen who belong to it are either
deprived of free speech and action by their ru
lers, and so are obliged to exercise their rights
in secret; or are intent upon schemes so winked
and treasonable, that they dare not meet the
face of day.
“It will not be pretended that the Abolition
ists of this country are afraid of the adminis
tration, or are attempting to conceal any thing
from them. Unhappily for the Republic, they
have a license and power which are unrestrain
ed—nay, which are encouraged and fortified
by the administration. As a matter of fact
their secret societies are administration socie
ties, invented and sustained to aid the reign
of proscription which the administration have
imposed upon the country. It exhibits the
'pectacle of the authorit'es of the country
employing a sort of mobelement,in the place
of the ordinary agencies of thelaw, of their
giving to private associations a power and con
sequence which in time will be irresistible.
In the French Revolution such societies be
came the power of the State. They governed
.the government.
“But our principal objection to these organi
zations is that they necessitate counter-organ
izations. When blows are dealt in the dark,
men must be prepared for every sudden onset.
We would not counsel other secret societies,
bat we earnctly advise Democrats everywhere
to maintain their local organizations. A means
of prompt expression of opinion is an actual
necessity of the times. At this crisis the
weapons of liberty should be burnished con
tinually. No man knows what designs againsi
his person or freedom the secret societies may
entertain. It is well that they should feel the
corrective of a vigilant opposition.”
PROSCPRITION IN INDIANK.—We have re
ceived this morning a copy of the South Bend
Forum, Indiana. The editor was notified by
that consummate ass Hawaii to discontinue
his paper or bow the knee to Baal. The edi
tor prefers to discontinue rather than sell his
soul at the bidding of such a poor wretch as
Hascall (or Rascal.) He therefore closes up
his newspaper with a manly editorial, from
which we extract :
" We will not now accept pensonally dispara
ging cond lions,' upon which any man, under
color of authority, may insolently propose to grant
his gracious permission to us to pursue our lawful
calling. And, therefore, because our home af
fairs require our attention, because" we do not
court the distinction of an arbitrary military
arrest, and trial, at a heavy, bootless expense
to the general treasury, and because we do not
want the martyrdom that might come from the
finding of a solemn drum-head court, we accept
the alternative of the miagister dixit og Brig.
Gen. Haman, if we may be allowed to do so,
and DISCONTINUE THE FORUM NEWSPAPER With
out further 'attention' from headquarters, and
without further respect to further orders.'"
It is gratifying to know that President Lin
coln has become so disgusted with Hascall
that he has removed him from command. In
diana will be as famous for itinerant military
satraps as Kansas was for Governors.
OUR GananaLs."—.The New York Independent
says : " Generals do not thrive under the drip
of the Capitol. At thirty-six hours' distance
from• Washington armies and generals succeed.
At twenty hours' they just hold their own; but
within six hours' they are as dead as a field of
wheat under the shadow of upas-trees."
Ntw 2butrtigentente.
R -
ECRUIT WANTED for the 47th
Regiment P. V., Col. T. H. GOOD, now stationed
at'Key West, Florida. Apply to
my26-Imd* Lieut. W. W. GRIM
Second et., opposite Presbyterian church.
RESOLUTION —Resolved, That the penalty of
ten dollars imposed by the third section of an
ordinance prohibiting nuisances and for other
purposes,
passed March 13th , A. D. 1861, be so
amended as to make the sum of the fins discretion
ary with the Mayor, not to exceed five dollars.
W. 0. HICKOK,
President Common Council.
Passed May 23, 1563.
Attest—DAVlD HArtitia, Clerk.
Approved May 25, 1863.
A. L. ROUMFORT, Mayor.
THE TREASURER'S STATEMENT of the
receipts and expenditures of the Harris
burg Cemetery Association, from the 2d day of
May, 1862, to the 16th day of May, 1863-:
DR.
A. K. Fahnestock, Treasurer—
To balance on hand May 2d, 1862... $lO6 66
To cash from eale of lots, digging
graves, and interest in invest
ments 3,621 10
CR.
Paid election officers s3 00
whitewashing fences 16 74
for carpet 88 05
repairing sofa • 7 00
cloverseed ...... 2 25
coal for two years 14 00
alderman's fees..... ..... 664196446.660 7 20
making fence, Sic 18 70
printing and advertising ac
counts 21 20
refundedfor surrendered
ground 12 50
invested in U. S. bonds. 2,000 00
Win. Putt, keeper, sal
ary .$3OO 00
Jno. Putt, labor 287 00
A. W. Putt...d0........... 18 50
• Jno. Powera..do . 235 25
John A. Wier, secretary, 25 00
A. B.Fahnestock, Trea
surer 50 00 "
Superintendent... ....... . 50 00
125 00
Balance in treasury 621 32 621,32
8,727 76
A. K. FAHNESTOCK, Treasurer.
CEMETERY NOTICE.
The lot holders in the Harrisburg Cemetery
are hereby notified that an election for Presi
bent and five Managers of the Association for
the ensuing year, will be held at the office of
the Treasurer, on Monday, the first day of
Tune, between the hours of 2 o'clock and 5
o'clock p. in.
my26-3t T. A. WEIR, Secretary. •
NEW ORLEANS SUGAR 1-FIRST IN
TEI MAN UT I—For male by
30 1 WM. DOCK JI., & 00.
FIRST PICNIC OF THE SINGING
ASSOCIATION
"E INTRACHT,II
ON MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1863,
The Association has made all arrangements necessary
to insure their friends and the public in general a plea
sant time.
Ornriluses will run every hour from L. Hectiigss resi
dence in Chestnut street.
Admission 25 cents.
tzr No improper characters will be allowed to enter
the ground. A. HANEL,
my 26 d Secretary.
VALUABLE PROPERTY AT
PUBLIC SALE.
In pursuance of the last will and testament of JOHN
SELE, deceased, will be exposed to Public Bale on
Saturday, the 13th day of June, 1863,
At the Court House, in the city of Harrisburg, at two
o'clock p. m.. a valuable TRACT OF LAND, situate
the city of Harrisburg, on the Jonestown road, adjoin
ing property of John Shoop, William Allison and the
Haohnlen estate. it being the property of John Sele, de
ceased ; containing Twenty-one Acres, more or /egg.
Erected thereon is a good two-mory
FRAME HOUSE AND BARN,
Other outbuildings ; good water and a thriving young.
APPLE ORCHARD.
Bale to commence at two o'clock, as above stated
when the terms and conditions of sale will be e aa 4
known by ' JOHN B aADY,
my2s-dts Administrator do bonis non, C. T. A.
M F. 'WATSON,
T
MASTIC WORKER
PRACTICAL CEMENTER,
Is prepared to Cement the exterior of Buildings with
the New York Improved
Water-Proof Mastic Cement.
This Material is different from all other Cements.
It forms a solid, durable adhesiveness to any surface,
imperishable by the action of water or frost. Every
good building should be coated with this Cement; it is
a perfect preserver to the walls, and makes a beautiful,
fine finish, equal to Eastern brown sandstone, or any
color desired.
Among others for whom I have applied the Mastic;
Cement, I refer to the following gentlemen :
J. Bissell, residence, Penn street, Pittsburg, finished
five years.
J. H. Shoenberger, residence, Lawrenceville, finished
five years.
James Weandlasa, residenie, Allegheny CityAnishecl
five yews.
Oslvin Adams, residence, Third street, finished four
years.
A. Hoeveler, residence, Lawrenceville, finished four
pears.
I. D. M'Cord, Penn street, finished four years.
Hon. Thomas Irwin, Diamond street, finished four
years.
fit Charles Hotel and Girard House, finished five
years.
Kittanning Court House and Bank, for Barr & Moser,
Architects, Pittsburg, finished five years.
Orders received at the office of P.. M'Eldowney, Paint
Shop, 20 Seventh street, or please address
T. 7. WATSON.
P. 0. Box 13.8. Pittsburg, Pa.
mayl.6-tf
SPECIAL NOTICE
The American Annual Oyeloptedia and Register of
Important Events of 1862, to be published by D. Apple
ton & Co., will be ready for delivery in Tune.
The very favorable reception given to the volume for
the preceding year has induced ns to make special ef
forts in the preparation of this one. Its contents will
embrace the intellectual and material progress of the
year, the important civil and political measures of the
Federal and State Governments, an accurate and minute
history of the struggles of the great armies and the
many battles, illustrated with maps of the country and
plans of the battles taken from official copies; debates
of Congress, Commerce, &c.; the progress of foreign
nations, the developments in science, the progress of
literature, mechanical inventions and improvements,
religious statistics of the world, and biographical
sketches of eminent persons deceased in 1862. The
contents to be arranged in alphabetical order, accom
panied with a moat extensive and complete index. An
active, intelligent man wanted in every county to can
vass for the work. Circulars and subscription book
furnished on application. Address
J. F. 6TRASBAUGH,
Harrisburg, Pa.,
Only'agent for the counties of Dauphin and Cumber
/end, and general agent for Penntylyania. myll.2w
A AI S!!! I
20,000,1b5. Composed of the following Brands
just received
NEWBOLD'S—Celebrated.
NEW JERSEY—SeIect.
EVANS & SWlFT'S—Superior.
MICHINER'S EXCELSlOR—Canvassed.
MICIIINER'S EXCELSIOR.-Not canvassed.
IRON ClTY—Canvassed.
IRON CITY—Not ean Vaned.
PLAIN HAMS—Strictly prime.
ORDINARY HAMS—Very good.
Every Ham sold will be gnaranteed as represen
ted. WM. DOCK, jr. , & CO.
WANTED.—S7S A MONTH ! I want
to hire Agents in every county at $75 a month,
expenses paid, to sell my new cheap Family Sewing
Machines. Address, .8. MADISON,
m5-dSm Alfred, Maine.
VVANTED.—S6O A MONTH ! We
v want Agents at $6O a month, expenses paid. to
sell our Everlasting Pencils, Oriental Buirters, and
thirteen other new, useful and curious articles. Fifteen
circulars sent free. Address
ms43ta SHAW & CLAM. Biddeford, Maine.
TO ARCHITECTS.—The South Ward
1. School Board will pay a premium of Thirty Dollars
for a plan and specifications for a two-story Brick School
House, to be erected on their lot on Fourth street The
above amount will be paid for the plan and specifica
tions adopted. All necessary information will be given
by calling on the committee Plans to be furnished by
the Ist of June. JACOB HOUSER, President.
USURY SHELLENssEGER, Secretary-my2l-dtd
ROBERT 'SNODGRASS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Office with Eh. David Mumma, jr., Third street,
above Market, Harrisburg, Pa.
N. B.—Pension, Bounty and Military claims of all
kinds prosecut d and collected_
Refer to Hone. John C. Kunkel, David Mumma, 3r.,
and R..A.Lamberton. myll.d&w6m
cc iTOW , ARE YOU GREEN-
Li BRYANTT new comic Bong.
Price 30 cents, just received and for sale by WARD, at
his Music store, Third street. Call and get a copy
early. ap2B
DRIED PEACHES-PARED AND
lINPARED—just received by
-
WM. DOC S. Ts., & CO.
XlOTlCE,—Whereas Letters of Admin
istration have been granted to the subscriber this
day, on the estate of his late wife, Charlotte E. Rob
erts, late of the city of Harrisburg, decki, all persons
having claims against the estate of the said dec'd will
please make them known to the subscriber at hieresi
dense in Market Square, in said city ,
May l3, 1868-mYI4-dlawBw*
3,727 76
XXTINDOW SHADES of linen, gilt
s bordered; and PAPER BLINDS of an endless
isriety of designs and ornaments ; also, CURTAIN
FIXTURES and TASSELS at very low prices. Call at
Schetlfees Bookstore.
APrLES!!
150 BUSHELS PRIME APPLES just received and for
sale (very low) by WM. DOCK, Jr., & os.
►UHE NATIONAL ALMANAC AND
1 ANNUAL RECORD for MS. for sale at
SOHEFFEB , S BOOKSTORE.
PROCLAMATION.
840 75
MAYOR'S OFFICE,
Harrisburg, May 14th, 1863.
WHEREAS,. It is the duty of every citizen to
lend his aid to the preservation of the public
peace; and whereas, the unlimited and indis
criminate sale of intoxicating liquors to a
large population must in evil ably lead to serious
disorders and breaches of the peace; there
fore, it is hereby enjoined on all tavern keep
ers and retail dealers, within the limits of the
City of Harrisburg, to close their bars and to
discontinue the sale of all intoxicating beve
rages, including lager beer, at six o'clock p.
m. of every day in the week until further no.
tice. A. L. ROUMFORT, Mayor.
NE PLUS ULTRA.—Anti-Corrosive
SCHOOL and COMMERCIAL ELASTIC PEN !
This highly celebrated Pen will not corrode in the Ink.
Its elasticity and durability are astonishing. It writes.
like a Gold Pen. The Penman will find by trying these
Pena that the recommendation is not over estimated.
E. S. GERMAN.
sole Agent for this City.
myl2•d2w*
IN HAENNLEN'S WOODS,
11E1
A. ROBERTS