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THE RATIONAL PLATFORM.
PURPOSES OP THE WAR.
Congress, by a vote nearly unanimous, passed
the following resolution, whieh expresses the
voice of the Nation and is the true standard of
Loyalty: -
F' That the present deplorable civil war ham been
forced spat the country l 5 the c
i vil of the
&loathers States, now in arms against the Constitutional
thaveniment, and in arms around the Capital; that in
this ltatiomai emergency, -Congress, banishing all feel
ing of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only
Ste 4147 S. the whole eountew; that this tear is not
waged on their part in any spirit et OP7ffeSSinge, ar r
any purpose of tesquest or subjugation, or purpose of
overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established
isestinaines of those States4ut to defend and maintains
the stepretnacg of the Constitution, and to preserve the
(felon, with all the dignity, equality and sights of the
scrota Suites .unimpaired; turd that as soon as these ob
jects are accomplished the war ought to cease."
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BENCRATIC STAIR CONTRITION.
Pursuant to a reaolution adopted by the Democratic
State Central Committee. the Convention of Delegates,
chosen by the Democrats throughout the State, mill
assemble ►
AT HARRISBURG
ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17th, 1863,
At 10 o'clock, a. m., to nominate candidates for Gover
nor and Judge of the Supreme Court, to be supported by
the friends of the CONSTITUTION and the UNION, at
the ensuing eleetion,
The Convention will,, also, give expression to the
sentiments of -the Democrats of the State, who, while
their policy would have averted present disasters, will,
nevertheless, devote the historic patriotismof our great
party to rescue the Constitution and the Union—the
one, from usurpation—the other, from final disruption.
F. W. HUGHES,
Chairman Democratic State Central Committee.
Porrsviwt, May 28,1863.
Senator Trumbull's Speech.
Read the speech of this leading Abolition
Senator—it kon the fourth page, and is worth
readieg.
Armstrong County.
The Democracy of Armstrong county have
nominated the following ticket :—Assembly,
.1. C. Chambers; Prothonotary, Dan. G Boggs;
Register find Recorder, J. S. Wilson; Treasu
rer, George Kron ;,Commissioner, John Boyd;
Auditor, James Douglass.
A Contradiciion.
the reported ill-treatment of enrolling offi
cer Joseph Dickerson, of Brecknock township,
Berke county, and his subsequent resignation
in consequence, is official_contriulimotuh._+ 3 .
marshal, Mr.
Henry 8. Rupp, who alleges that the enroll
ment proceeded as quietly in Brecknock as in
any other township in the county, and the
whole enrollment was completed in one day.
Knights of the Gulden Circle.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, in reference to an
editorial article in the New York Evening Post,
charging that lodges of the order had been set
up in many of the towns and villages of the
western States by the temocrate, emphatically
declares that " there is not in any western or
northwestern State a single K. G. C. lodge.
The charge that there is, is a lie made out of
whole cloth. No such lodges and no persons
belonging to them have ever been found ; sim
ply because they do not exist. This miserable
lie about K. G. C. lodges, which never existed,
has been made the bids of Democratic perse
cution. It was started by scoundrels for that
purpose."
The Germans and Martial Law
The following communication appears in the
Cincinnati Inquirer. It seems that some Ger
mans—who were very particular about their
rights in their native land—having risen. to
military distinction in the 'United States, have
considerably modified their views, become
most obsequious flunkeys, and are now not
only willing, but anxious to assist the adminis
tration in trampling upon the rights of the
people of their adopted country, secured to
them by a written constitution. These men
will be remembered;-and after the restoration
of peace and Union, when the Constitution and
laws shall once more resume their sway, will
sink back into the insignificance from which
they only emerged in consequence of the war.
They, in common with all others who sustain
the arbitrary meamures of this ultra-Abolition,
traitorous and 'despotic administration, will be
looked upon with scorn while they live, and
even the grave cannot shelter their memories
from the reproach which their acts have justly
brought upon them :
When fifteen years ago the German people,
represented in the Parliament at Frankfurth,
made themselves a new Coaeiltutiott, we re
joiced with them at the many guarantees to
personal freedom which this instrument Con
tained. We now have a copy of it before us,
and find in the seventh main subdivision, text
four, the following provisions:
" Sze. 197. In tree of war or insurrection,
the provisions in reference to the fundamental
rights as to 'wreath, searches of houses, and
the right to assemble, may be suspended by
the Imperial Government or that of a single
State for diatidet Separate district's, but only
under the follotring conditions:
"1. The order most, in each separate case,
be issued by the henOurrence of all the mem
bers of the Minitotiy of the Empire or the
State, as the ease may
"2. The Ministry of the Empire must obtain
immediately the conmint of the National Con
gress ; and that of a State that of its Legisla
ture, if in session ; snd if,1104 the order shall
continue only for fourteen days, without call
ing theists bodies together and, übmitting the
measure to their concurrence." -
And in section 176 we indWie peovislunt:
"Military jurisdiction it limited to the !AO
dication of military crimes and offeoool.
" ss
we ll as to violations of military Minipill:lt/1 -
And in section 175:
'the judielki Power shall be taardipedll
the courts. Justitial proceedings by Cabinets
and Ministries are prohibited. No person
shall be removed from his due legal tribunal.
Exceptional courts shall not be bad."
For the maintenance of these principles Gen
erals Willich, Schurz and Sigel fought in Ba
den, and now they each and all of them deny
them to us, their fellow citizens.
A GERMAN CITIZEN.
Should We Yield Our ,ConStitutlOlial
Inherent Liberties wltho*Queittion and
without Resistahee
•
This is a serious question, and we address
it t o the people now, when the extraordinary
and disgraceful demand is made of us by an
arbitrary, imbecile and corrupt administration
and a venal press, to give an unquestioning
support, a blind obedience to all the measures
and behests of the power now temportirily ad
ministering the Government. "Unquestioning
submission and support !" Why this is all the
southern Slaveholder ever exacted from his
chattel, all that Dyonisins, Nero, Caligula,
Domitian, or any other despot, ever exacted
from the slaves they ruled. The proposition
is monstrous, and ought to be scouted by every
American citizen. It is a demand to yield
everything that, as freemen, we hold dear ; a
demand which, if compliA with, would con
vert the whole nation into slaves. It is a fal
lacy to say that there exists a necessity for it.
There never has arisen—there never can
arise—a necessity for a whole people to sur
render their liberties to a single man. The
pretext that the surrender would be but mo
mentary, and that we can only escape destruc
tion by so doing, is a piece of sophistry too
flimsy to deeeive even the most ignorant.
These are times when we should be more jeal
ous and careful of our liberties than ever.
With an army of more than half a million in
the field, under the control of the President as
Commander-in- Chief, we should be little less
than idiots to quietly surrender into his hands
the rights which we hold above all power un
der the Constitution.
History, says an able contemporary, is full
of the records of liberty yielded to ambitious
men but, alas! it contains few records of a
return of the freedom sacrificed. In times of
trial men may be, have been, inducted to con
sent to the demands of kings or senates, re
quiring the temporary sacrifice of freedom and
rights of personal immunity; but we seek al
most in vain for instancess of the voluntary
resignation of power thus obtained. On the
contrary, liberty once yielded to king or par
liament-must needs be recovered, if at all, by
revolution and blood. Such is the lesson of
experience. Such, indeed, is the lesson taught
by the very constitution of man. For we are
a race who love power. We are given to hold
ing fast to that which we possess. The argu
ment that what we own ought to be another's,
that although our legal right is good, our moral
right is weak, does not always convince us.—
Few men consent to part with property or
power because it ought to be resigned; so long
as there is no impelling necessity for the sac
rifice. Hence it occurs that, when king or em
peror, senate or consul, tribune or decemvirs
acquire by force or by cession any power, in
addition to that before held, the very lust of
humanity for power forbids us to expect them
to yield it, and the people are left to force it
from the grasp of the ruler with the weapon
of revolution.
Note the danger which therefore threatens
our liberties at the present moment If Wn
„ - or - military power, if we
Consent that "military necessity" shall justify
the suppression of a free press and the exile of
a free speaker, what limit shall we place on
the exercise of that power? Can any One
show us where it ought to stop ? Can any one
explain why, if it be right to suppress one,
two, or ten newspapers, and exile one, two, or
a thousand men, it is not quite as right to for
bid an election? Does not the argument that
justifies 0110 Wrong, "for the salvation of the
Union," or on any other plea, justify the
"holding over" of a President, and the total
suppression of the ballot-box ? Clearly, if we
admit that one is right, we are wholly stopped
from disputing the right of the other. No man
can justify the suppression of a newspaper or
the trial by court martial of a citizen like Mr.
Vallandigham, unless he is prepared to justify
the administration, if it shall deem that. a
military necessity requires it, in forbidding the
next Presidential election. And if the people
yield the right in the one case, will not the
administration be encouraged, nay, will it not
be an invitation to them to pursue the same
policy in the other, in all other cases ? Or if
this administration be above the suspicion of
a wrong so heinous, who shall guarantee the
nation against a "military necessity" coup
d'etet, by some general as foolish as Burnside,
who may to-morrow think it his duty to sup
press the President himself ?
It will not do to yield one instant to this
false doctrine of military necessity overriding
law and Constitution. It is a doctrine which
in all countries has been the plea for power
and the occasion of usurpation. It is now
urged, not by the President, who is apparently
so engrossed with labors that he permits rather
than approves the dangerous acts, but by men
behind the President, radical advisers, to
whom patriotism is a mockery, and who have
no reverence for Constitution, law, or liberty
itself.
Free Speech—Wendell Phillips.
This renowned Abolition leader, the most
talented and eloquent man among them all, in
a recent speech at Boston, said :
" Who can adequately tell the value and so
undness of unfettered lips Who can fitly
describe the enormity of the crime of its viola
tion t Free speech, the very instrument, the
bulwark, the bright consummate flower of all
liberty ! The time to assert rights is when they
are denied! Those who should assert them are
those to whom they are denied. And that
community which :dares not protect its hum
blest and its moat hated citizen in the free ut
terance sf his opinions, however false, or how
ever hurtful, is a gang of slaves."
However wrong this deluded fanatic mcy be
in the course which ae has so long persistently
pursued in regard to the instantaneous aboli
tion of slavery and immediate elevation of the
negro to equality, social and political, with the
whites, there is much truth and sound sense
in the above remarks. A contemporary well
says :
"The time to assert right ie, indeed, when
they are denied? This is a truth that has not
been appreciated as it ought to he in this coun
try. It 10 in times of danger and civil commo
tion, of maraud violence, that the preservation
of private rightsbecomes of practical and vital
i mprt ,,, w . We can dispense with the Con ,
wades better in time of peace than in war"
.
.
For the Patriot and U11111:144.
THE CONVENTION OF THE SEVENTEENTH
OF JUNE—THE GUBERNATORIAL NOMI
NEE—GEO. W. WOODWARD. _
„ •r 1 - . ;
MESSRS. EDITORS :-- Permit ,
oskdeeply
impressed with the magnitude of +re country's
crisis and the dangers to our system of gov
ernment which environ us, to offer a few per
tinent suggestions. I will prinillifr trail'it
'impossible—foi , one profoundly Oen . kittied`that
the main questloo is no longer Itraloii ;sans
Disunion, but rather our old laws and insti
tutions,- with the beautiful balance between
Federal and State authority, versus some new
and more centralized form of government,
which the usurpers. at Washington, aided by
the necessary chain of events in a revolution,
are now plotting—to speak and act from a
selfish staid-point; for the interest of each in
dividual is now so clearly identified with the
well-being of the State that to be even wisely
selfish a man must be sincerely patriotic.
It has at last become clearly apparent that
the administration'of Mr. Lincoln has deter
mined upon a course of policy which is in di
rect antagonism to the Constitution of the Uni
ted States and the Constitutions of the several
States North and South ; it is clear that, whe
ther successful or not, in the prosecution of
this policy the administration must produce,
both in reference to the radical question of
slavery and the relative position of the States
toward the Central Government, profound per
turbations and fundamental modifications.
Reoent events render it likewise clear that in
the pursuit of their objects the administration
rely both in their conflict with rebels in arms
and in their conflict with the majority of the
North, indignant at the loss of their liberties
and the attempted destruction of the noble in
stitutions of our fathers, exclusively upon
!ORM
On the other hand, the Democracy lire at
tempting to meet these fanatical disciples of
Awacharais Clootz and Maximilliai Robes
pierre—these foes of order, and selfish and
ambitious enthusiasts—these ideologues, so
ready to exclaim, "perish the South, perish
the Constitution, rather than abate one iota of
our principles"—these tattooers upon the pub
lic blood and the public liberties, by firmly
upholding the banner of the LAW.
The political contest is then between the
Democracy and Law against the fanatics and
FORCE. It is the mission of the Democracy to
thwart these plotters of a change of govern
ment, and establish the reign of legal liberty
under institutions so far as practicable identi
cal with the system of local self-government
under which this people Have become so pros
perous and great.
It will be no easy task. No matter what may
be the result of the war, many new questions
must arise requiring the highest order of
statesmanlike abilities in legislators and Gov
ernors. In bringing order oat of chaos, in ex
tracting law from license, in re-seizing the
rights of States frem an absorbing central
power, Pennsylvania's exatnple should be po
tential while nobly leading the way towards
the re-establishment of our representative re
publican institutions. Hence is it vitally im
portant that the Democratic Convention of the
lith of June should select as candidate for the
office of Governor a statesman equal to this
lofty mission. Showy qualities on the stump, or
with the
. pep, i n testrttr. -r oLam. u6or, or other
such qualities, are not in themselves sufficient.
I can easily conceive the possibility of electing
an otherwise unexceptionable man,yet so totally
unequal to the emergencies which must arise,
unable to grapple with the great constitutional
questions which would be pressed upon him,
that victory would be worse for the De
mecracy and the country than defeat.
In addition to character and
great public experience,- we require for that
time when the barriers of authority and of or
der must be re-fixed, and when the majesty of
law *must be again acknowledged, one who
thoroughly comprehends the genius of our in
stitutions and has studied the "essence of
law." We shall require a law-maker—a law
giver.
In anxiously surveying the list of prominent
men in the State it has seemed to me that the
Hon. George W. Woodward, of the Supreme
Court, possesses more of the necessary quali
fications for the dread time that is before us
than any other man. His reluctance to accept
the trust proves that he fully comprehends the
magnitude of the responsibilities which would
devolve upon him, and that he belongs to that
almost extinct generation of men who be
lieved that honors should seek the man; yet
it is known that if the law-loving and conser
vative masses of renneylvania should confide
this great work to his hands, he would accept
the task. He would accept the labor and the
responsibility, for like a true patriot, he holds
that the Democracy and the country have a
right, in this season of peril, to demandthe ser
vices of any citizen. Doubtless,whatever should
be deemed honorable and judicious, George W.
Woodward would do, at whatever cost of health
or time, to secure the success of Democratic
principles this fall and during his administra
tion. He has the courage ; he has the ability ;
he has the long experience and acquaintance
of public affairs;.he has the unimpeachable
character, and he has the profound legal know
ledge whioh we require.
Nor is it any objection that he is on the Su
preme Bench, for in Judge Banks we have had
an•example of an opposition candidate for gu
bernatorial honors, while remaining on the
Bench. Indeed, to my mind, it is peculiarly
fortunate that we have on the Supreme Bench
a statesman who, as our candidate, could so
fitly represent in his own person the LAW, as
sustained by the Democracy, against police, as
practiced by the fanatics. Confining himself
strictly to his character as expounder of the
law, he could appear before the people of Penn
sylvania with her Constitution in his hand, and
from its brief pages define the platforui of the
law-abiding Democracy and the sworn duties
of the Executive of the Commonwealth. He
might show that he swears to protect the
rights and liberties of the people of this State,
to maintain and execute its laws, and in thus
making a "case stated" of State rights and
Gubernatorial duties as opposed to Federal
usurpation and tyranny, he would lay down a
platform broad enough and strong enough for
all the friends of law and order and liberty to
stand upon. He has the bent of mind, the
dignity of *hamster and the judicial experience
whit& fit him to so clearly develope these great
principles as to strike all men with the cowrie
tion that only by upholding the fundamental
laws of the State and of the United States can
a•hope to escape from the despotic anarchy
whieb Dui ) presont rulers seek to precipitate
upon us. •
PE=EI
That the" Convention of the 17th day of June
next, forgetting all else but the public good,
and selecting the best man to lead us out of
the tangled mare where we now grope, may
tender ludge Woodward the unsought for nom
ination, is the sincere prayer of one who con
ceives that the destiny of the Republic may be
decided this fall, and in Pennsylvania.
JOHN HAMPDEN, JR.
NEWS OF THE -DAY.
BY TELEGRAPH.
REBEL REPORT.--DEVEAT OF (BEN. BANICIL
NEw Yong., June 11..—A letter in the Tri
bune from the army, dated June 9, says tha t a
Richmond paper of the 6th contains a While
dispatch of the 4th, announcing the defeat of
Gen. Banks, with the loss of his arm. [Don't
believe a word of it.]
CHICAGO, June 11.—A special Memphis dis
patch of the Bth inst., has dates from Young's
Point up to Friday evening. Gen. Kimball
with 3000 men was sent up the Yazoo river to
Solaria, 30 miles below Y 8,7410 city, and arrived
there on the 4th. Learning that a rebel force
under Gen. Wirt Adams was not .far off, he
marched immediately to meet him. At ten
o'clock on Thursday morning he came up with
the pickets of the enemy, and a brisk fight en
sued, lasting thirty minutes, when the enemy
gave way, completely routed. Our lose wee
one killed and twelve wounded. We captured
one hundred prisoners. Their loss in killed
and wounded was considerable. The rebels
were 2000 strong.
There is no perceptible change in the ene
my's works at Vicksburg. Gen. Johnson is
still reported on the Big Black, endeavoring to
cross below the bridge, with an army of 20,000
men. Gen. Osterhaus was watching his move
ments with a sufficient force to checkmate any
demonstration he might make. A rumor was
in circulation that Pemberton had requested
Gen. Grant to permit the women and children
to pass the lines. Over 300 head of cattle and
mules have been turned loose on account of
the scarcity of forage.
[They can hardly be scarce of provisions,
as has been represented, if they turn cattle
loose.]
~ e r „ ~ •~; ~'~.
NEW Yuan, • June 11.—Rumors of disasters
at Vicksburg and Port Hudson are afloat to
day, but we are unable to obtain any confirma
tion, in the cabsence of which they may be set
down as canards. It is understood that advices
from Vicksburg to the afternoon of the 6th
have reached Washington, but it is impossible
that they can contain anything very important
or decisive. The reported repulse of General
Banks at Port Hudson from Mobile on the 4th
in tho. Richmond - papers undoubtedly refers to
the action of the 27th ultimo, the result of
which is already known.
NO BAD NEWS RECEIVED AT WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, June 11.—The only informa
tion the government has received from Gen.
Grant's army is up to the Bth inst., which is
the latest date. It reports the stereotyped
phrase that the siege is steadily and satisfacto
rily progressing. No intelligence of any dis
aster had been received
t up to noon to• day.
WASHINGTON, June 11.—Two dispatches
were received to-night from Gen. Grant, ad
dressed to different gentlemen in high official
position. They aiee dated Monday the Bth
inst., a much shorter time in obtaining advices
from Vicksburg than heretofore.
An important fact, and one which I. , xst-ooe&-
eic...,eu amen anxiety, is derived from them,
namely, that Gen. Grant was in communication
with gen. Banks as late as the 4th inst.,at
which time Port Hudson was closely investd.
Gen. Grant repeats, what is already known
or believed, that Johnson i 8 concentrating
troops, with which to operate against him, and
mentions a report that three divisions are
moving from Bragg to reinforce that rebel
General. Breckinridge is known to havejoined
him.
Vicksburg is still closely invested, and the
siege is progressing favorably.
The torte of the dispatches is represented to
be suoh as to show that Gm Grant fears not
the enemy either in his front or , rear; and that
he will protect his lines at all hazards.
It is presumed that he did not know at the
date of the telegraph whether or not he was to
be reinforced.
The information inspires increased hope and
confidence in the final success of the siege.
isr Your. June 11.—The Tribune has a
letter from Vicksburg, dated the 6th instant,
which gives a hopeful view of the progress of
the siege, and reports the repulse of a sortie
made by the rebels against one of our mining
parties on the night of the Bd.
The letter also demonstrates that Johnson
cannot possibly get men enough to strike Gen.
Grant, without being extinguished, and says
thn garrison will soon be compelled, by famine,
to surrender.
The Richmond Whig, of the Bth inst., con
tains no news from Vicksburg, but has a long
editorial On the destruction made by our ar
mies in Virginia.
New roes, June 11.—The Evening Post says
the committee of citizens who have recently
visited Washington to lay before the President
a project for raising a divivion of ten thousand
colored soldiers, report that he fully approved'
the proposition, deolarltig himself ready, ae
soon as a sufficient "number -could be raised, to
make•them a part of the command intended for
Gen. Fremont. '
A series of public meetings are to be held in
the rural counties to initiate the measure.
Nesuvitax, June 10.—A skirmish took place
at Triune yesterday. About 500 rebels dashed
into the camp of the 6th Kentucky cavalry—
they were repulsed, their commander shot from
Mil horse and, it is reported, killed—another
rebel officer was wounded. Two federal sol
diers were slightly wounded.
A DEPUTY PROVOST MARSUAL KILLED AND A DE•
TECTIVE MORTALLY WOUNDED.
CINCINNATI, June 11.—Mr, Stevens, deputy
PTOVOst marshal, and Mr. Clayfield, a detective,
accompanied by an enrolling officer, were
fired upon near Mannville, Rush county, Indi
ana, yesterday, by a party of men hidden in a
wheat field. Mr. Stevens was killed, and Mr.
Clayfield mortally wounded, and afterwards
died. The enrolling officer was shot twice
through the clothing, but escaped uninjured.
Two companies left Indianapolis yesterday for
the scene of Murcia. A soldier was shot by a
deserter at Shelbyville yesterday while at
tempting to arrest him.
BY THE MAILS.
TUN SEPLOSION AT FORT LYON.
The following is Gen. Slough's report of the
accident at Fort Lyon :
To -4esiseant Adjutant Gen. HeintzZeman's. staff
ALExA.Nuraa, Tuesday, Jiine 9, 1863.
Having just returned from the scene of the
late accident at Fort Lyon, I report that at 2
o'clock this afternoon men were engaged in
examining artillery ammunition at the open
door o f tho no rth magazine, when, from'some
cause, one shell exploded immediately ; then a
few o'hers; then the magazine. No serious
damage; however, was done to the guns or
gun carriages.
Between 20 and• 80 men were killed and
quite as many were seriously wounded. In
FROM 022. GRANT'S ARMY.
LATEST FROM VICKSBURO
NEGRO SOLDIERS
SSIENIBII AT TRIUNE, TENN.
addition qiiite a number were slightly woun
ded. The severely wounded have been for
warded to hospitals in Alexandria.
Jlio. P. SLOUGH,
Brig. Gen. Vols. and Military Governor of
Alexandria.
Later intelligence says the killed and woun
ded at Fort Lyon belonged to the 84th Massa
thusetts and 2d New York regiments. The
explosion is supposed.to have been caused by
a spark from the pipe of a german engaged in
filling shells.
[ls it possible that the commanding officer
permits persons engaged in " filling shells" to
smoke pipes or segars while engaged.in the
operation. If the statement is true, here is a
case for court martial and exemplary punish
ment.]
MEDAL OP HONOR TO A SOLDIER
A medal of honor has been awarded to Pri
vate Samuel Johnson, of company il , 9th Penn
sylvania Reserves, for having, by individual
bravery and daring, captured from the enemy
two colors at the battle of Antietam, Sept. 17,
1862, and received in the act a severe wound.
He will be transferred to the Invalid Corps as
a commissioned officer.
M1:44 :4401•13f.A14 1.171101h:i4Ci4 4:i *it
The record of the proceedings of a military
commission convened at Memphis, Tenn., Au
gust 11, 1862, before which Matthew A. Mil
ler was tried and sentenced to be shot for at
tempting to smuggle military goods through
the lines for the use and benefit of the rebels,
has been submitted to the President, and the
sentence pronounced inoperative, because the
record does not show that the members of the
commission were sworn, or that two-thirds con
curred in the sentence.
FROM VIOKIBURO --PROBABLE REPULSE OP OUR
ARMY.
The New York World of yesterday contains
the following:
A dispatch from our correspondent at Wash
ington, which we have every reason to believe
announced decisive events at Vicksburg, was
suppressed last night by the censor, or by di
rect orders from the War office.
The suppression of any news in relation to
affairs in the West, at this moment; can only
be interpreted gloomily, and subject the Fede
ral authorities to the suspicion of that shame
less trifling which has so often filled the pock
ets of stock-jobbers at the expense of that
sands of lives and a cruel public anxiety.
[We trust the surmise may prove ground
less—but the suppression of news has an ugly
look.]
FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE CAVALRY FIGHT
NEAR BEVERLY FORD.
Both sides were repeatedly driven back in
the course of the battle, - though we succeeded
in driving the rebels—Fitz Hugh Lee's and
Wade Hampton's divisions of cavalry, with ar
tillery, all commanded by Major General J. E.
Stuart—back to a point about six miles south
west of where their pickets were first encoun
tered, where Pleasanton found the enemy so
heavily re-inforced with infantry and artillery
as to make it prudent to retire to this aide of
the river. .
This commenced at about 4 p. m., General
Pleasanton bringing off about 200 prisoners,
his own wounded, and the bodies of his officers
who had been killed in the engagement. The
Sixth Pennsylvania cavalry, which was in the
advance, under Buford, lost heavily, including
six officers killed, wounded or missing.
Of the Sixth Pennsylvania cavalry, Captain
Davila was killed by a shell, Major Robert
Morris is missing, and Lieutenant Lenning is
also missing. Lieutenant R. Ellis had a revol
ver shot through his leg, and Captain Lieper
was cut with a sabre.
The Eighth New York had the advance, un
der Gen. Gregg, and under the immediate com
mand of Colonel Davis, who was killed on the
field, after slightly wavering, acquitted them
selves with much gallantry. Among the ca
sualties of that regiment were Captain Foote,
Co. r. and - Lieutenant Cutler, Co. A, killed ;
and Lieutenant Reeves, Co. C, and Lieutenant
Elper, Co. I, mortally wouuded.
Oa the return to this side of the river the
enemy skirmished frequently with our rear
guard, doing us no damage to speak of, how
ever. Our loss has not been definitely ascer
tained.
The proportion of horses killed on both sides
in this almost unexampled hand-to-band cav
alry battle was very huge. The field from
where Buford and Gregg first became engaged,
throughout the whole distance of five miles
over which the enemy were driven before get
ting back to their reinforcements; was strewn
with dead horses and wounded rebels.,
We had two batteries of artillery engaged
and the enemy the same. Much credit is
given our artillery for bravery and efficiency.
[A. train Arrived at Washington on Wednes
day bringing about 170 of the wounded officers
and men. The loss of the Pennsylvania forces
engaged, in killed wounded and missing, as
far as reported, are as follows : Killed—Capt.
Davis, 6th Pa., cavalry, by a shell; private
Supple, 6th Pa., cavalry, by a shell. Wounded
—Lieut. R. Ellis, (Phil.,) Adjt. 6th cavalry, pis
tol shot in left leg, severe; Capt. Chas. Leiper,
6th cavalry, blow over the head with a pistol
stock, twice taken prisoner, but escaped ; Capt.
Lapres, Gth cavalry; Major Robert Morris,
6th cavalry, wounded and missing ; Surgeon
Isaac Walburn, 17th oavalry ; Lieut D. Smith,
4th cavalry ; Lieut. Brooks, Ist cavalry ; Jos.
Rumble, chief bugler James Candis, lst cav
alry ; Thos. C. Ewart, Henry Clineff, Sergeant
Evan D. Hughes, bugle" , John Keisen, Edmund
Berry, bugler James B. Naylor, ,6th cavalry ;
Joaeph Keeper, 17th cavalry.. The lose on the
whole seems to have been quite severe, but no
full report has yet been made.]
FROM FALMOUTH.
WAstinturoN, June 10.—There is no change
in the relatiie position of our own and the
rebel forces on* left at Fredericksburg.- , -
The rebel batabries opened with libell towards
evening yesterday, and continued to fire about
fifteen minutes, throwing one shell into Gen.
Sedgwick's headquarters, on the north bank
of the Rappahannock, but doin g no other injury
than killing one man o fa Maine regiment.
Twenty-eight pieties are visible in the rebel
batteries opposite our left, some of them 20-
pounder Parrotts.
A deserter who came over yesterday states
that the rebels have two grand dividolll3 in
front of the division of the Sixth corps which
has crossed the river. The rebels appear to
be in full force in and about Fredericksburg.
FROM BOOTH OAROLINA-DEFEAT ON THE REBELS
AT POCOTALItiO.
A letter from Port Royal, dated the 3d inst.,
says :
Colonel Montgomery, of the Second South
Carolina colored regiment, had defeated the
rebels at Pocotaligo, and was holding the rail
road bridge between Savannah and Charleston.
The Fifty•fourth blassachusetts (colored) regi
ment was to be sent to Col. Montgomery.
The Herald contains the following Washing
ton items, June 10:
THE VigiIToRIZEI.
The attention of the government is fixed in
the direction of Kansas, New Mexico, Arizona,
&a. French conquests in Mexico menacing
the last mentioned territories, and the guer
rilla warfare to the south of Kansas prevent.
ing the return of the Cherokee refugees, and
otherwise threatening the policy of the gov
ernment, require decisive steps in that direc
tion.
71.2818TAXCE TO 'TUB ENROLLMENT IN PUNSTL-
MANIA.
M'Connmennso, Penna., AIDA 10.,-Th e
enrollment mote with gregt reeintanoe *among
the sympathizers with the rebellion in Fulton
county. Some of the enrolling officers have
been rotton•egged, and threats have been freely
made against their lives. In some instances
they have been shot at by parties concealed in
the woods. Attempts are being made to deter
officers from their work. The barn of Will.
H. Powell, enrolling officer for Thompson
township, was bred by a gang last night and
entirely consumed, together with all the st oc k ,
farming utensils, &c.
[This is no doubt greatly exaggerated for
political effect.]
TROUBLE IN ILLINOIS---THI GOVEENMENT PRO-.
ROGUES THE LEGISLATURE.
The New York World has the following dis-
patch
SPRINGFIELD, ILL., June 10, 1863.—The
Governor this morning issued an unconstitu
tional and revolutionary proclamation, pro
roguing the Legislature until 1865. The Re
publicans left the halls and therebrbroke the
quorum in each, but the Democrats refused to
recognize the prorogation, and continued the
session.
The Governor's pretext is that there is a dis
agreement between the two Houses on the sub
ject of adjournment, and there wait no parlia
mentary disagreement whatever.
The Democrats, in the afternoon, finding
themselves powerless to do any farther busi
ness, entered a protest upon the record reciting
the facts, and arraigning the Governor for his
usurpation and unconstitutional acts, and in
formally left their seats, not recognizing an
adjournment, but a revolutionary breaking up
of the Legislature.
The Governor's proclamation was intended
to and did defeat the one hundred thousand
dollar appropriation for sick and wounded sol
diers. The final passage of that bill was
pending in the House when it dissolved.
There is great excitemept heie and deep in
dignation against the Governor.
MARRIED.
On the 10th day of Tune, by Alderman Maglauchlir,,
Josarn Rox, of Chester county, to MART X. Hanlon.,
of Harrisbnrg.
DIED.
On the . /lth Instant, 001.11{TIAN HOILLE, aged 14year 0,
The funeral will take place this afterroon at four
o'clock. Friends of the family are respectfully invited
to attend.
On the 11th instant, Cd7HdßilPe , wife of George Gar
man, aged 39 years, 4-months and 1 day.
Funeral taken place at nine o'clock a. m., Saturday,
at the residence of her husband, in Fourth street, near
Chestnut.
Ntro Witertisemento.
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ASAWYER WANTED at BIGLER
and WILT'S SAW MILL. Apply immediately.
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LOST -A WHITE POODLE DOG,.
long haired and of large size. TWO DOLLARS
REWARD will be given to any portion returning the.
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jel2-d2t* Walnut street.
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At this /lemma of year, when so much siokness prevails,
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A fresh supply always on hand at
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FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!
'HILADELPHIA, May 30, 1863
M. C. Sadler, Esq.,
TEAR SIR :—During the night of May 19. 1863, our
Grocery and Provision Store, at North Second and Wil
low streets, took fire at about 2 o'clock a m., and as
the store was a two-story wood building it burnt rapidly,
and before the fire engines could act upon the fire, our
whole stock of goods, including murb Combustible ma
terial, and amounting to over 92.09, were wholly de
stroyed. We bad one of your No.ll Chilled Iron Safes,
which was in the hottest part of the fire, aid it came
out of the fire not in the least injured, except the mel
ting off of the name, plate and paint. The contents
inside were not affected in the least, and we consider
the Safe just as good a protection against lire now as
before, and shall nee it hereafter with increased confi
dence. The lock works as perrectly as before the fire.
Yours truly, WMANIIS & CROFT,
• Late 429 North Second at.
Attention to the above certificate is particularly re
quested, as it is the find trial of LILLIE'S. SAFES In
an accidental fire in Philadelphia.
I would say to all parties who want a Fire and
Burglar-proof Safe that LILLIE'S WROUGHT AND
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and to those who want simply a Fire-proof, I would say
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All parties interested are Invited to examine the
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jelo-taw Sw
GEO. W. PARSONS, Agent, •
110 Market street
WANTED TO RENT—A comfortable
wf • DWELLING for a small fi Jly. dddreso Box
277. Postoffice. jolo-d3tll,
FOR REN T A STABLE, next to
Coldeetaivery Stable. Apply to
JOS HAIINWEILEIL
Cor. Second and Walnut streets.
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aan
CHALY BEATE SPRINGS,
At Doubling Gap, Penn.
JAMES D. }LINDLEY, Puormirross,
Lass of Kirkwood House, Waskingeon.
SEASON OPENS 15th JUNE, 1863.
These Springs are in Cumberland ()minty,
.Penn'a, 30
wilds west of Harridburg. They are accessible from all
the principal cities by railroad to Harrisburg, thence
by the Cu,mberland Valley railroad to Newville ; from
Newvillu S miles good staging to tbe Springs. The
stage is always in waiting . upon the arrival of the , cani
at Newville.
Passengers leaving Philadelphia, Baltimore or Wash
ington in the morning can. arrive at the Springs re
same evening at 4ve o'clock.
The Rotel is commodious and comfordable, with lirrt
and Cold Baths attached, and extensive gronnds• for
walks and amusement. •
• The lorg e.Tperience of the pretent, Proprietor (ter
many years past at the Kirke - 00A Haase inWashitigkin,
D. C.,) enables him to say,. that it. will be condueted in
a manner to please all Visrors. •. • - •
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CITY TAX'!
Neale is hereby given, that the Common
Council of the city of Harrisburg have com
pleted the levy and assessment `of Taxes for
the year 1863,• and that all persons shall be
entitled to an abateinent of FIVE PER CENT_
on the amount of their reipective City. Taxes,
on payment of the Bann to JOHN T. WILSON,
Esq., City Treasurer, on or before the 20th
day of June, 1863. •
By order of the tiommon Council!
DAVID
Harrisburg, June 8, 18 ,
63.—td HARRIS
Clerk.
WANTED. -$75 A MONTH I I want
. to hire Agents in every county at $75 a month.
eiiiimpes paid, to sell my new cheap Family Sewing
Machines. Address,. S. MADISON,
mo-di3m Alfred. Maine.
\WANTE D.— $6O A MONTH ! We
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thirteen other new, useful and endow articles. Fifteen
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