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DEMOCRATIC STATE NOMINATIONS.
FOR GOVERNOR,
HON. GEO. W. WOODWARD,
OF PHILADELPHIA
FOR JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT,
WALTER H. LOWRIE,
or ALLEGHENY COUNTY.
THE WEEKLY PATRIOT AND ANION FOR
THE CAMPAIGN.
The Weekly PATRIOT AND UNION will
be furnished to clubs of ten or more, for
the campaign, with an extra number giv
ing full returns of the October election,
at 50 cents
The State Central Committee are requested to meet
at the Merchants' Hotel, in the city of Philadelphia, on
Tuesday, the 11th day of August next, at four o'clock
p. m. CRUEL= J. DIDDLE, Chairman.
PiuLalisLmus, July 18,1863.
Democratic Mate Central Committee.
The following is the State Central Committee as ap
pointed by Hon. FINDLAY PATTERSON, of Washing-,
ton county, who, as President of the late Democratic
Convention, was authorised by a resolution of the body
to announce the Committee. It 4:outdate of a Chairman,
and Hepreeentatives of the several Senatorial Districts
into which the State is divided :
Hou. CHAHLB J. BIDDLE, Chairman.
Ist District—Theodore Cnyler, Philadelphia.
Do Robert I. Hemphill.... do.
D 0... —John Fullerton, jr do.
Do. ...Isaac Leech do.
Evans, Cheater county.
EL Witte, Montgomery county.
Win. T. Ropes, Books Bounty.
.Thomas Heckman. Northampton county.
8th...d0 Hiester Clymer, Berks county.
7th...d0 William Randall, Schuylkill county.
lith...do Asa Packer, Carbon county. •
Sth._ -Michael Mylert, Sullivan county.
lOtit...do.....lllephen S Wißottotim, UM-tie cyan,-
11th...do.....Mortimer E. Elliot , Tioga county.
12th...d0 • John H. Humes, Lycoming county.
13th...d0..... William Elliot, Northumberland county.
14th...d0..... Samuel Hepburn, Cumberland county.
15th...d0..... William M. Brieb in, Lebanon county. •
16th...d0 George Sanderson, Lancaster county.
Do James Patterson do.
17th—d0..... John F Spingler, York county.
15114...n0 Homy Suit. , Fulton county_
19th...d0 F. Shown Africa, Huntingdon county.
Seth...do.. Bigler..Clearfleld county.
215t....d0 Hugh Weir, Indiana county.
Thomas B. Searight, Fayette county.
T 11. Pau: ey, Greene county.
25th...d0 Geo W Case, Allegheny county.
D 0..... James P. Barr do.
25th...d0......7ames G. Campbell, Butler county.
26th...d0.....David S. Morris, Lawrence county.
22th...d0 Thomas W. erayrott, Crawford samoty.
161 h... do Kennedy L. Blood, Jefferson county.
The several County Committees of Superintendence
are requested to communicate the names and postoffice
Weep of Their members to The Chairman of the State
Central Committee. Editors of Democratic papers in
Pennsylvania are requested-to forward copies to him.
CHARLES J. BIDDLE, Chairman.
PHILADELPHIA, July 22,1863.
STATE EDITORIAL CONVENTION.
LANCASTER, Ps.. July 16 2 1863.
The Democratic Editorial Convention met, according
to the call of the President, in the room of the Demo
cratic Central Club of Lancaster City, at 2 o'clock p.
In_ The Convention was called to order by the Presi
dent, and, on motion of Id. LAIRD, EN", of Wit
Greensburg Argus, J. ALNYANDRR FULTON, 35g., of the
Kittanning Mentor, was appointed Secretary.
A. B. lama, XFq., of the Philadelphia EoeningJour
nal, offered the fodowing resolution, which was adop
ted:
Regotrod, That the Democratic editors of the State
of Peenapbrania be recommended to 'Meet in Gonne'
nton the same day, and at the same place with the first
meeting of the Democratic State Central Committee.
061. Jim: HODGSON, of the West Cheater .Teffersonian,
offered "the following, which was elan adopted:
Resolved, That the President of this Convention be
requested to nonfat with the Chairman of the Demo
cratic State Central Committee with reference to the
time and place of holding said meeting.
the Convention then adjourned.
Democratic Editorial Contest - Imo.
embly to the resolution passed at the meeting of
thelfith inst., the Democratic:Editorial Oonventionwi4
meet at the 'preheats' . Hotel, in Philodelphio, on
Tuesday, the 13th of August next, at 3 o'clock p. m.
i ondi g. GEORGE SANDIBBOII,. President,
ens, Tidy 441863.
Dauphin County Democratic Committee.
The Democratic County Committee for the county of
Dauphin, will meet at the public house of dames Ray
mond, (White Hail,) in the city of Harrisburg, on
Saturday, fin 15th tirst , at g o'clock p. my for the
transaction Of important business.
The following are the names of the Committee:
Harrisburg—First ward, George F. Weaver; Second
ward, Alex. W. Watson; Fourth ward, Owen WCalse ;
Fifth ward, Wm. M. Maloney. Middletown—North
ward, El. A. Lannzani Middle ward, John Lafferty;
s ou th. ward, Tau. .11.. Suavely ; Lykens ; 400. W. Per
, ree ; 0 0 / 20 Walt 0 , A. M. Redsecker ; Londonderry, James
Dougherty ; West Londonderry, Henry Gross ; Millers
burg, Geo Bowman; Swamis, John Young; Derry,
Frank Smith; Lower Swatera, Wm. H. Wilson; Wash
ington, Charles Stine; Mifflin, H. C. Beshler; Dauphin,
C. H. Rhoads; 'Middle raxton, Peter Hecker; Reed, B.
Stiles Duncan; Lower Paxton, George Shoop; South
Hanover, Daniel Cassel, Ten ; Upper Paxton, Jacob
Miller; Halifax, Albert Loomis; Jeffenon, William
Richards;; Jackson, James Miller; Rush, Henry Rich
ettlaub; Gratz, M +thins Bellow; Bast Hanover, Dan el
Urieh ; West Hanover, Geo. W. Finney; Susquehanna,
James WAHister ; Wiconieco, George Reitzer.
JV order of the chairman.
FRANK SMITH, Secretary,
August 3, 1863.
Gov. Curtin and the Telegraph.
The Ttlegroph, whioh but a short time since
assured its readers that Governor Curtin was
solemnly pledged not to be a candidate for re
nomination, and that, adding by his promise,
he would not be, now, since his nomination, is
extravagant in its joy that, in violation of his
solemn pledge, he is again the candidate of
the party. When there exists a party plaoiag
enee in such organs and such men, the
r publia is really in danger. Gov. Curtin, in
a special message to the Legislature assured
the people that he would not be a candidate,
and yet he is a candidate, and evidently meant
hen he wrote his message. The Tele
iraph assured the people that he was not, and,
under his pledge, could not be a oandidate,
whet the managers of that concern, who are
sunder Governor Curtin's thumb, knew well
that he was s candidate and was straining
every tern to Warn the convention.
Thus the man and the organ are convicted
of deriberaie falsehood and deception, and if
the people sanction the_ fraud we shall have a
Governor who does noCeeruple to violate the
truth, and an organ ready to swain anything
and everything he may_do; • et .s!
The Government pries . for .hPrIIP itia
viewed from $l2O to $l4O, enCfrole,*l2#:te
NOTIVE.
NOTICE.
Andrew G. Curtin.
The deed is done. Andrew G. Curtin is the
nominee of the Abolition• Republican party for
Governor, in opposition to Geo. W. Woodward.
The two men cannot be compared, unless as
we compare _Hyperion to
. a Satyr . Curtin is
genial, jovial, reekless, unprincipled, with kw
pretensions to State craft, ready to sacrifice to
success every interest of the State, the Union
and the people. He has proclaimed, already,
base submission to the Federal Administra
tion; he has ignored the principles of State
rights, and avowed his drermination as Gov
ernor of the Commonwealth, to obey every
behest, constitutional or otherwise, of the na
tional authority. Such a man is unfit to rule
a free people. Such a man, disregarding, as
he does, the letter and spirit of the Constitu
tion, which broadly proclaim the reserved
rights of the States and the people, is danger
ous as a Governor in, times like these, or in
any times, peaceable or warlike. We cannot
trust him, because he refuses to 'trust us, and
places his reliance in physical force rather
than in the wisdom, intelligence and virtue of
the people.
This of itself is epough to damn him. The
people will reject a man in whom they cannot
confide—and he is such a man.
Besides we learn from his own party that . he
is corrupt—that he uses his office i!or
,purpo
sea which it was not intended to aubserte—
that his hatits disqualify' him for the : faithful
performance of his duties, even were his in
tentions good—in short his own party tells us,
in plain terms, that he is unfit for the position,
and undeserving the suffrages et* his fellow
citizens.
We do not desire to enlarge upon these facts
—to expatiate upon the weaknesses and cor
ruptions charged against him by the organs of
his own party. They are themselves sufficient,
and charity restrains us from comment.
On the other hand, George W. Woodward,
the Democratic candidate, is, in his private and
official life, unassailable. Gov. Curtin has ven
tured to hint to his political friends that he
does not want tits Democratic candidate as
sailed in his private relations. We give the
Governor credit for the utterance of a generous
sentiment, but "re are, at the same time, fully
aware that the private character of George W.
Woodward gianket, be wailed_ On this point
we May safely defy his enemies, and even go
farther, and say that we rather invite than de
precate attacks upon his character as a public
man—as Legislator, member of the constitu
tional Convention, or Judge of the Supreme
Court. We invite investigation of his conduct
in every capacity in which he has served the
public.
Curtin is vulnerable alike in his private and
public relations—Woodwaid defies the scru
tiny of his enemies into his actions as a private
citizen or a public functionary.
Thiit is the difference between the men, with
this additional—Woodward is a statesman,
Curtin i 8 not—Woodward is a man of mind, of
genius, capable of filling any office in the gift
of the people with ability, with honor, with
benefit to those who entrust him with it. Cur
tin is not. He is weak, vacillating, undeser
ving of public confidence, morally and men
tally disqualified to fill the position which he
now occupies and to which he again aspires.
We ask the people to reflect upon these
points, and do theta duty fearlessly at the
polls.
Politics and Literature.
In England each political party and almost
every religious sect has a Review which minis
ters to the peculiar ideas and opinions of its
special supporters ; and thus, in that country,
literature and party politics have for years
gone carping and growling on in the same ve
hicles, in a most unhappy and unnatural com
panionship. In this country, those literary
periodicals have always succeeded beet that
have eschewed mere party views and senti
ments. "Whig Reviews" and "Democratic Re
views," as such avowedly, have been always
short-lived, and always proved failures in a
pecuniary regard. Our peep% with their sharp,
clear, appreciative sense of propriety and,gond
taste, long ago discovered that the, admission
of party politics, with its Gorgon head, into a
union with literature, science and morals, was
as unprofitable as it was infelicitous_ There
ought surely to be some common ground upon
which scholars and the more Ahoughtful and
cultivated men of all parties could meet and
enjoy the immunities at least of a flag of truce ;
where contention should cease and calumny be
hushed.
At one time we reckoned the Home Journal,
of Morris & Willis; the Living Age, of the
Messrs. Littell ; and Harper's Weekly as fair
and purely literary papers—each ably con
ducted and boasting certain peculiar features,
calculated to make them welcome in those cir
cles for which they seemed especially designed;
while none of them breathed any of the embit
tered and excited spirit of partisan warfare. We
are sorry to say that this confidence no longer
exists.
The Home Journal, has become a Court jour
nal rather, and loses no opportunity of minis
tering ever so grossly to the miserable schemes
of Massachueetts fanaticism. As to Ilnaper's
Weekly, we had occasion not long since, to
speak of a contemptible caricature, reflecting
upon Pennsylvania as a people—the only foun
dation for which rested in the hiccupped false
hood of some vagabond, incautiously hired as
a substitute for one who had been authorized
to wear the uniform of the respectable and
liberal State of New York.
In ',Well's Living Age of last mouth,ie a - very
puerile attempt at wit—" Shakespeare on Cop
perheads"—consisting simply of a railing ex
tract thus entitled, from the play of Coriolanus.
It by no means follows that we accept, or
adopt the offensive appellation, (which seems
now to be the chief stock in trade of the Abo
ut-lonia%) to give us a right to rebuke the bad
taste and want of dignity in a literary peri
odical of such stately pretentious as the one
in question, in grovelling thus in the mire of
partisanship—employing even its meanest re
sorts, that of low epithets andl
vu.gar synonyms.
It it were not for the Prescott; the Everett;
the ,Hilliards and a few
. others, of whose
scholarly names every American is proud ; and
Ses:for the,lo(44e,ACettph r journals as the
Post and Courier—ma-pervading there is
sikralii speedily come to the
belief that no goat WhateVer would sprin g
N piin from the Xenia. city of &PAWL
The Draft In Schuylkill.
We understand that several .1 nits have
been precipitated upon Schiy I: county in
enforce the draft. How does that sound? To
enforce the draft What becomes of Forney'S
idea that the draft is an expression of the pop
ular will, something desired toy the people, if
it has to be enforced at the point of the bayo
net i The solemn truth is - that the Comorip
tion act is unconstitutional and unpopular,' and
cannot be enforced so as to fill the gapaln the
old army with conscripts or substitutes. Moat
of the drafted men will pay their $3OO or ske
daddle, and the money thus placed under the
control of the Administration, amounting, per
haps, to one or two hundred million, will,
more likely, be squandered in electioneering,
than in the purchase of substitutes.
Instead of passing a conscription act, Con
gress should have appealed to the patriotism of
the people—and then, if the policy of the Ad
tninlStration contemplated only a restoration
of constitutional rule and the Union as it was,
there would have been no difficulty in procur
ing all the troops necessary to bring the war to
a speedy conclusion without any resort to con
scription. The South itself *would have con
tributed a fair quota, and we should have now
in the field armies of patriots moving from all
qUarters to put down the rebellion.
The Administration thought differently. They
°hos to stigmatise the entire Demoeratio party
of the loyal States as sympathizers with rebel
lion and traitors ; and, to coerce them into ser
vice, they adopted the insane plan of conscrip
tion. Now, that conscription—which is not
designed to raise soldiers to maintain the in
tegrity of the Constitution and the Union
against treason and traitors, but to enfranchize
some millions of negro slaves—has to be en
forced at the point of the bayonet, at an incal
culable expense, and when finished will supply
not soldiers, but money, which will be squan
dered for political purposes.
DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION IN Mena.—
The resolutions adopted at the Democratic
State Convention in Maine, on last Thursday,
the 6th inst., are in substance, as follows :
1. •AU men. irrespective of party, are invited
to unite for the termination of the calamities
which now depress our distracted and unhappy
land.
2. The Unfon was formed in fraternity and
aa a ceseinn, and cannot exist in the absence of
that brotherly spirit.
3. We will earnestly support every consti
tutional measure tending to preserve the Union
of the States. We cannot, therefore, support
the present Administration, whose course is
destructive of file Union and Government.
4. The war is being conducted not for the
restoration of the Union, but for the abolition
of slavery and the destruction of the Republic.
5. Under' our form of Government the sov
ereign power is vested•in the people, and rests
upon no other foundation than their wilL The
people are the only Jerifil sovereigns, and tne
public functionaries' are their servants. The
difference between a Government and the Ad
ministration is defined.
6. On the part , of the rebel States, if a dis
position is shown to return, they shouTd be
welcomed back with ail their dignity, equality
and rights unimpaired.
The 7th resolution denounces arbitrary ar
rests.
The Bth asserts the freedom of speech and
of the press.
The 9th denounces the Conscription Law as
unjust and oppEBtßdiV6, be counsels obedience
to it, unless the courts decide it unconstitu
tional.
The 10th indorses the course of Gov. Sey
mane of New York.
The 11th commends our soldiers * and BIM
hey are worthy of the nation's gratitude.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
BY T'EL FA G-RAPU.
OFFICERS FOR COLORED' REGIMENTS-CHAPLAIN
BLAKE-OAPTIIHE OF PRIZRB
WASHINGTON, August B.—While there is no
difficulty in , procuring other officers for the
colored regiments, there is such a scarcity of
surgeons that the Surgeon General is com
pelled to advertise for' them.
Chaplain John Blake, of the United Slates
Navy, who was ordered on duty in June, last,
cannot be found ; his last official addresi was
New York city ; fears are entertained for his
safety.
Lieutenant Pommander Johnson, of the gun
boat. Katandin, reports the capture, off San
Louis pass, on the 18th of July, of the schooner
Bicelsior, and Lieutenant Madegen, commend
ing this gunboat Oregon, reports the capture,
on the 21st ultimo, of the schooner Reitinge,
of Philadelphia. Owing to the latter vessel
being aground at the time, she was scuttled.
fjer cargo consisted of sugar, hides and mine
ral salt.
LOSS OF THE STEAMER COMMODORE.
PROVIDENCE, August 9.—The steatler Com
modore, with the 42d Massachusetts regiment,
from Eew York for Providence, went ashore at
6 o'clock this morning, one mile west of Point
Judith light. The steamer Delaware, from
Providence, went to her assistance, and was
lying at anchor near her.
The steamer Westchester, from New York
for Providence. lay by the Commodore one
hour, but did not communicate with her. The
Commodore lay broadside, beading sojth. A
boat from the shore reported that she had been
sent to Newport.
PORT SUMPTER
Nam , logs, August 9.—By the arrival at
this port of the steamer George Peabody, from
Port Royal with dates to the 6th lost., le learn
that the troops were busy building bit teries,
and it was reported that a grand attack was to
be made on Sumpter by both the land and naval
forces on Saturday the Bth inst.
DEATH OF VOL. CHATFIELDI
WATERBARG, CONN., Aug. 9.—John L. Chat
field, Colonel of the 6th ConneCticut, tied in
this city at 6 o'clock last evening, from founds
received in the assault on Post WagneOn the
18th ult.
FOREIGN NEWS
ST. JOHNS, N. F., August 9.—The steep:whip
China, from Liverpool August lst,via Qkeens
town August 2, passed Cape Race at noon to
day, en route to New York.
GREAT BRITAIN.-Iu the absence of fresh
advices from America the English jotrnals
have little to say on American affairs;
The London korniny Polt labors to 'show
that the recent federal successes are not :ikely
to prove materially advantageous to the fede
rals.
The Army and Natty Gazette tales a gbomy
view of the military prospects of the aded
erates. It says: " The retreat of Gen. lragg
and the fight of General Johnston before Gen.
Sherman's forces ehow sufficent signs tif ex
haustion." It adds : " Charleaion v is in real
danger, and if it falls Savannah follawa."
Still it thinks that the Federal army cannot be
filled without a, conscription, which may palsy
the North'snd wrest victory from her grasp.
Fiatics.—Marshal Forrey, in an offiCial re
port, says he is occupied in forming a pfovia
joAil government in Mexico from me of 'mod
erate wiewabClohging all parties.
ETRE LATEST.]
Liveapoor., Aug. 2. —TheB ll.. t — ai
ship Great
Eastern is off the harbor awaiting a tide.
The London Times of to-day has an article
On the speech of Archbishop Hughes to the
New York rioters, and soya the speech defies
'analysis.
The rebel loan again relapsed 10 per cent. on
the 29th, closing at 17®15 discount. The
moat paid up is 45 per cent., and 10 of the
other ifixer cent. is due , on let of Augusts
'THE MAILS.
FROM MEXICO.
AMERICAN AND ENGISH VESSELS SEIZED BY THE
FRENCH
NEW YORK, August 7.—By arrivals at this
port, from New Orleans, we learn that Vera
Cruz advioes received in that city to July 16th
report the death of the American consul on the
13th.
There were no American or English vessels
of-war on the coast.
French vessels were engaged in seizing every
thing English or American. On the Bth ult.
a French side-wheel steamer arrived at Vera
Cruz With an English topsail schooner-in tow,
which was captured on the Rio Graude, with
a cargo of arms valued at 800,000, intended
for the Texas rebels, though the schooner
cleared at Liverpool for Matamoras. Her
officers report five more vessels loading for
Matamoros.
BOUNTIES TO VOLUNTEERS.
TRENTON, August 9.—The city, by the unan
imous vote of the Common Council, has offered
a bounty of $2OO to volunteers to fill up its
qUota, and thus escape a draft.
DIOBILE.
Important military enterprises are on foot to
capture Mobile, and the fall of that city may
be the next signal event. Stirring news will
soon arrive from that quarter.
EXCITEMENT IN ILLINOIS.
CHICAGO, August 7.—The Muscatine Journal
of the 9th, says that ten Unionists who were
most prominent in the affair het Saturday
have been arrested and put Under bonds for
their appearance at court. The rioters, to the
number of 700, are now encamped near Si
gourney, and demand the immediate trial for
murder of those arrested.
The excitement is said to be intense. At
Washington .a company numbering 115 men
has been raised, fully armed and equipped,
and ready to march to the scene of trouble. It
is also understood that 300 Vl:denims are now
under arms at South English.
THE ATTACK ON FORT SUMPTER
BOSTON, August 7.The correspondent of
the Boston Herald, in a letter dated Off Charles
ton, August 2, says that the new . battery •erec
ted by General Gilmore on Morris Island le
mounted by the largest guns ever east at the
North. When these batteries are opened
against Sumpter there will be a dreadful scat
tering of bricks, legs, arms and bodies. One
hour anti #l. half is allowed for the bombard=
ment of that fort before it will be compelled to
surrender.
FROM MEADE'S ARMY
WASHINGTON, August, 7.—Brigadier General
H. D. Terry, of Michigan is now commanding
the Third division of the Sixth Corps of Gen.
Meade's army.
A train of sutlers' wagons, numbering sev
enty, left for the army to-day, under a strong
guard. In cansequence of the recent depre
dations of the guerrillas they are not allowed
to go except under military escort.
The railroad bridge over the river at Rappa
hannbek Station has been rebuilt, and trains
are now running over it.
Everything is very quiet with the army.—
The intense heat renders any very active ope
rations almost impossible on either side.
General Meade's forces are so eituated.ae to
render any forward movement on the part of
Gen. Lee disastrous and suicidal.
AN AGED WHITE SLAVE.
MIISSViLLE, 'VA., August 4.—Among the
contrabands in the custody of the provost mar
shal of this division is a purely white woman,
about 60 years old, who has been a slave du
ring her lifetime, but now emancipates herself.
MORE REBEL PRISONERS-SUTLERS.
More of the 6th Virginia cavalry have been
captured by our pickets near Sperryville, and
some rebel conscripts lave deserted and come
into our lines.
Six of the sutlers recently captured by the
rebels near Warrenton passed through here
yesterday, having escaped from their guard
beyond laperrysville. They came along the
turnpike , 'and met• no rebel. troops, but they
encountered two rebel soldiers driving sheep
to whout they related that they had been cap
tured and were paroled.
BUYING HIS OWN SHOES
The sulker of the 9th Massachusetts regi
ment needed'a new pair of shoes, and the rebels
'very kindly pot / limed him to buy a pair out of
his own stook. They told him they would be
worth $3O in Richmond, but under the cir
cumstances would sell them te•him for $3 in
greenbacks.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
MAILS ON THE MISSISSIPPI
WASHINGTON, August 2.—Robert C. Gist,
special agent of the Post Office Department,
in charge of the Memphis post office. writes to
the Ron. George W. M'Clellan, second apsistant
Petmaster general, that steamboats are arri
ving and departing almost daily to and tram
New Orleans without molestation from guer
rillas. Ile adds: "I am now making up
mail daily for New Orleans. I have consulted
the surveyor of the port, master of transporta
tion, and other officials, all of whom express a
decided opinion that the eastern and northern
mails for New Orleans can be sent with more
safety and expedition via the Mississippi river
than by the ocean steamers, so long as rebel
piratical vessels continue to infest our coast
and commit depredations. General Grant has
established a mounted patrol between Vicks
burg and New Orleans, I understand, and I
have no hesitation in saying that the transpor
tation of the mails will be as safe hence to New
Orleans as to Cairo. The guerrillas, who in
fest some portions of the river at times, have
generally no artillery. Musketry can do no
damage to the boats_ The prospect is that
they will be cleaned out if they make any fur
ther demonstrations. Transports with coal
barges are being sent below every day, des
tined to New Orleans. I can send a mail now
at least twice a week, and I hope soon, when
the restrictions on trade are removed or modi
fied, to be able to send a mail daily."
THE "WAR WITH ENGLAND" REPORTS
Considerable embarrassment is likely to arise
here by reason of various city papers claiming
to be official mouth-pieces. The Sear this
evening, in a seemingly authoritative manner,
states that all publications lately appearing in
city journals relative to the imminence of
trouble with England are entirely unauthorized
and do not emanate from official sources. The
Republican, en the contrary, intimates that it
will furnish facts in a few days relative to its
war with England article.
THE REPORTED rEACE PEOPOSITIONO IR THE
CABINKT
Statements appeared in some of the north
ern papers, after the fa of Vicksburg and the
defeat of Lee, to the effect that the question
of peace had been discussed in the Federal
Cabinet, and :that a Cabinet crisis had been
caused by a proposition of Mr. Seward to issue
a Presidential' proclamation offering an am
nesty to the southern, people, withdrawing the
Emancipation proclamation, suspending the
coifscation and offering Protection to the
personal property and 'rights of the sontheiti
people, except the•leadera;'' that Attorney Gen .,
ersd•Batec and Mr. Montgomery Blair . ,favor
the scheme, with awtodification ; •thet•Mesera
Stanton and Chase violently oppose it, - and Mr.
Welles also opposes it, but not so strongly.
Here, where the public is accustomed to as
sumptions of this kind, these statements were
not thought of sufficient importance to demand
attention. It seems now that they went to
Europe and were made the foundation there of
new castles ill the air, built •by the European
enemies Of the United States. It is, therefore,
proper -to say that these statements had no
foundation whateier in fact. No such debates
or propositions,or any debate'or proposition on
the subject of peace, or of such amnesty, has
been made or had in the Cabinet, nor have
any such difference arisen.
FROM NEW ORLEANS.
GEN. BANKS GONE TO VICKSBURG-BRAEMAR
CITY-ADMIRALS FARRAGUT AND PORTER-
YAZOO 011 Y.
By arrival last evening of the steamship
George ,Fashington, from New Orleans, we
have dates from that city to the Ist inst.
Gen. Banks, accompanied by five other gen
erals, went to Vicksburg on the 27th of July.
The rebels had cleaned out everything from
Brash ear Cith, iroluding the heavy siege guns,
before it wad reoccupied by our troops. A
force of three thousand rebels at Camp Bis
land still control the whole Teche country,
from Berwick Bay to Red river. It was ex
pected that Admiral Parragut would go north
in the U. S. sloop of war Hartford, and Admi
ral Porter would command the Gulf fleet in his
absence.
Yazoo City has been stripped. The hostile
attitude of the people—their planting of tor
pedoes iri the river—the destruction of the De
Kalb, and the guerrilla firing upon our boats—
justified this retaliation. Some two thousand
bales of cotton, (C. S. A.,) a large quantity of
merchandise and steamboat furniture, stored
in the tows, with two steamboat loads of con
trabands, were taken away. -
FROM THE SOUTH.
JEFFERSON DAVIS'S APPEAL TO THE CONFEDER
ATE STATES SOLDIER, AC.
After more than two years of a warfare
scarcely equalled in the number, magnitude
and fearful carnage of its battles—a warfare
in which your courage and fortitude have it.
lustrated your country and attracted not only
gratitude at home, but admiration abroad—
your enemies continue a struggle in which our
final triumph must - be inevitable. Unduly ela
ted with their recent successes, they imagine
that temporary reverses can quell your spirit
or shake your determination, and they are bow
gathering heavy masses for a general invasion,
in the vain hope that by a desperate effort suc
cess may at length be, reached.
You know too well, my countrymen, what
they mean by success.. Their malignant rage
aims at nothing less than the extermination of
yourselves, your wives and children. They
seek to destroy what .they cannot plunder.—
They propose as the spoils of victory that your
homes shall be partitioned among the wretches
whe9e atrocious cruelties have stamped infamy
on their government. They design , to incite
servile insurrection and light the fires of in
cendiarism whenever they can reach your
homes, and they debauch the inferior 'race,
hitherto docile and contented, by promising
indulgence of the vilest passions as the price
of treachery. Conscious of their inability to
prevail by legitimate warfare, not daring to
make peace lest they should be hurled from
their seats. of power, .the men who now rule in
Washington refuse even to confer on the sub
ject of putting an end to outrages which dis
grace our age, or to listen to a suggestion for
conducting the war according to the usages of
civilization.
Fellow-citizens, no alternative is left you but
victory or subjugation, slavery and the utter
ruin of yourselves, your families and your
country. The victory is within your reach.—
Yon need bat stretch forth your hands to grasp
it. For this end all that is necessary is that
those who are called to the field by every mo
tive that can move the human heart should'
promptly repair to the post of duty, should
stand by their comrades now in front of the
foe, and thus so strengthen the armies of the
confederacy as to insureNecess. The men
now absent from their posts Xould, if present
in the field, suffice to create nutt\oriqal equality
between our force and that of thql invaders ;
and when, with any approach to such equality
have we failed to be victorious ? I believe that
but few of those absent are actuated by unwil
lingness to serve their country ; but that many
have found it difficult to resist the temptation
of a visit to their homes and the loved ones
from whom they have been so long separated ;
that others have left for temporary attention
to .their affairs, with the intention of returning
and then have shrunk from the consequences
of their violation of. duty ; that others again
have left their posts from mere restlessness
and• desire •of ohange, each quieting the up
braidings of his consoiende by persuading him
self that hi s: indiVidual servioes•obuld have no
influence o n the general result. ,
Theie • arid other cams (although. far less
disgraceful than •the':desire to -avoid danger or
to escape from the sacrifices reqnired by pa
triot:l=)lre, nevertheless, grievous faraltei and
place the cause of our beloved country and of
eveiything we hold dear in ituntinent' peril. I
repeat that. themen.whe now. owe duty to:their
oountry, who have, been called out and have
not yet reported for duty, or wholave absented
themselves from their posts, are sufficient in
number to secure us victory in the struggle now
impending.
I Call on you, then, my countrymen, to hasten
to your camps, in obedience to the dictates of
honor and of duty, and summon those who
have abiented themselves without leave, or
who Wiwi remained absent beyottd the period
allowed by their furloughs, to repair without
delay to - their respeotiie commands, and I do
hereby. dedare that I grant a general pardon and
amnesty to all officers and men within the confed
eracy, and now absent without leaVe, who shall,
with the least possible delay, return to their
proper posts of duty; but no excuse will be
..rotceived for any delay beyond twenty days
after the first publication of this proclamation
in the State in which the absentee may be at
the date of the publication. This amnesty and
pardon shall extend to all who have been accused,
or who have been convicted and are undergoing
sentence for absence without leave, desertion, ex
cepting only those who have been twice con-
Tided of desertion.
Finally, I conjure my countrywomen—the
wives, mothers, sisters-and daughters of the
confederacy—to use their all-powerful influ
ence in aid of this call, to add one crowning
sacrifice to those which their patriotism has so
freely and eonstantly'offered on'their country's
altar, to take care that none who owe service
in the field shall be sheltered at home from the
disgrace of having deserted their duty to their
families, to their country and to their God.
Given under my hand, and the seal of the
Confederate States, at Richmond, this first day
of August, in the year of our Lord one thou
sand eight hundred and sixty-three.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
By the President:
J. P. BENJAMIN, Secretary of State
GEN: LEE'S ARMY RECUPERATING.
[From the Richmond Rtam[net, Avid B.]
The arrival of the Fredericksburg and Cen
tral trains yesterday afternoon placed us in
possession or very little in formation from Gen.
Lee's army beyond general movements ren
dered necessary by those of Meade's army_ It
was reported the enemy had in some foroe re
occupied Stafforsf Heights, and that Mary's
Heights had blenWeeupied bya, portion of our
Orem,. army waa rapidly recuper
ating and . setth4 ; into excAllent fighting trim
eippeltrek, IP 40 Row,poeitionap end re
potationi ibtunliened` a 'battle .possible; if not
raise nothing of interest from the vicin
ity of Culpepper,
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MILITARY ORGANIZATION OF YOUTHS'
BELOW CONSCRIPTION AGE.
From the Richmond Examiner, August 6,
Enough of companies composed of youths
below the conscript age will speedily be formed
to l a ke the place of veteran troops now doing
guard duty igne
F inßic r is ro
bmon e d n .,
Captain nirg a
company
of
youth between the ages of fifteen and eighteen
for bisjor Munford's battalion, and they are
specially designed to take the place of a North
Carolina company stationed here.
GRANT REINFORCING MEADE,
[From the Daily Examiner, Anglin 6.]
There is no longer a doubt but that General
Grant, immediately after the surrender of
Vicksburg, reinforced General Meade to the
extent of fifteen to twenty thousand troops.
The troops were
sent on board trawports at
Vicksburg two days after its fall, and arrived
in the Chesapeake about a fortnight since. The
sth United States artillery, batteries E and B,
the 16th Pennsylvania and the 32d Massachu
setts infantry accompanied the reinforcing
column, which was under the command of
Generals Smith and Kelley.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
MOTHERS ! MOTHERS !
Don't fail to procure Mrs, WINSLOW'S SOOTHING
SYRUP for CHlLDraill TNETHINN. This val ble
preparation is the prescription of ode of the best female
physicians and nursesin the United States, and has been
used for thirty years with never failing safety and sue
cess by millions of mothers and children, from the fee
ble infant of one week old to the adult. •
It not only relieves the child from pain, tut imago
rates the stomach and bowels, eorrects acidity, an
gives tone and energy to the whole system: It will al
most instantly relieve
GRIPING IN THZ BOWZIOB AND WIND COLIC
We believe it the beet and surest remedy in the world
in all eases of DYSENTERY AND DIARRHOIA IN
CHILDREN, whether it arises from teething or from
any other cause.
Full directiots for using will accompany each bottle.
None geanine unless the fat simile of CURTIS PER
KINS, New York, is on the outside wrapper. '
Sold by all Medicine Dealers.
Principal Oftlea, 48 Dey street, New York
Price only 25 cents per bottle.
my23-dikw6m
CBISTADORO'S HAIR DYE.
There is no Hair Dye in use so pure, so free from all
objectionable properties, that produces such splendid
and permanent tints, or that operates so quickly, uni
formly, and certainly, as
CRISTADORO'S EXCELSIOR HAIR DYE.
This matchless article is pronounced, by all who have
ever applied it, or seen it applied, the most wonderful
invention of the age. Ten minutes suffices fer any
shade of brown or the deepest black. It Move. the
skin unstained.
Manufactured by J. CHISTADORO, 6 Astor House,
New York. Sold everywhere, and applied by all Hair
Dressera. Price $l, $l5O and $3 per box, according to
size.
Cristatioro'a Preservative
Is invaluable with his Dye, as it imparts the utmost
softness, the most beautiful gloss and great vitality to
the Hair.
Price 50 cents, $1 and $2 per bottle, according to else
jy3l-ddcwbn
THE GREATEST DISCOVERY OF
THE AGE. Farmers, families and others can purchase
no remedy equal t, Dr. Tobias , Venetian Liniment, for
dysentery, colic, c:onp, chronic rheumatism, sore
throats, toothache, sea sickness, cats, burns, swellings,
bruises, old sores, headache, musquito bites, pains in
the limbs, chest, back, &c. If it does not give relie
the money will be refunded. All that is asked is atrial,
and use it according to the directions.
Ls. Tomas—Dear Eir : I have need your Venetian
Liniment in my family for a number of years, and be-
lieve it to the best article for what it is recommended
that I have ever used. For sudden attack of croup it ig
invaluable. I have no Imitation In recommending It
for alt the uses it professes to cure. I have sold it for
many years, anc it gives entire satisfrction.
WU& 11. TIMMER.
QUAKERTOWN, N. 8. 2 May 8, 1858.
Bold by ell rittimittte. 0E60 2 LB Coptlendt !treat
jy3l. d&wlm New York
New I.butrtisttntnts.
JfAP OF HARRISBURG- CITY, as
laid out by direction of the Commissioners of
the City Survey, and confirmed by act of Legislature,
containing numerous courses and distances of the
streets, square., &c., marked on it, and designating the
different wards, public boildings. &c. It is, in fact,
the only correct map of the city. or sale by
H. RAGE, Chief Regulator,
Cor. 3d st. and Cranberry alley.
sulO•d2w
ASSESSMENT OF DAMAGES
Pursuant to an order of the Court of Qaarter Sessions
of Dauphin county . , notice is hereby given to the Cora
=Julius!" of said county, and to the property holders
along the line of Cumberland street, from 7th street to
Bth street and Yerbeke street, Nom Fulton street to
7th street, in the City of Harqsbuti, that upon the pe
tition of the Mayor of said atty. the Court has appoin
ted sin viewers to assess the damages caused by the
opening of said streets, and that they will proceed to
assess said damages'on Friday, the 21st day of August,
inst., at 10 o'clock a, m., at which time AI/ parties in
terested may appear upon the ground if they think pro
per. JOHN W. BROWN,
anlo.lotd City Solicitor.
PROPOSALS FOR BROKEN STONE.—Pro
posals will be received at the City Council
Chamber till the 20th of August for delivering
on the streets, to the orders of the different
Street Committees, one thousand perch of lime
or mountain stone, broken according to the or
dinance of May 2, 1863. Proposals to state
what kind of stone will be delivered and in how
short a time. Cash to be.paid within twenty
days from the completion of the contract.
The Council reserve the right to reject all
bids if unreasonable. Bids to be endorsed,
"Proposal for broken stone," and addressed
to W. 0. HICKOK,
jy3l.3tawtd President of Common Council.
TO CAPITALISTS
A rare chance is offered for the profitable investment
of from three to five thousand dollars In the manufac
ture of an improvement of great value, it being an arti
cle of indispensible household use, lately patented A
net profit of fifty per cent. guaranteed upon the amount
invested. Good references given and required. Ad
dress WM. P. PATTON,
aug6 Harrisburg, Pa.
T'OR RENT.—A commodious House in
Walnut street, opposite the Lancasterian &hos;
House, new a hospital, with eight rooms, gas in part,
hydrant, and a guild cellar. Inquire of
jys-3t R. SHEEHY.
81 O REWARD.—LOST I on the third
of August, at the depot, A CARPET SACK.
containing three shirts, one government, one check and
one red one, two head nets for ladies, and a soldier's
dhleharge. The above rOWErci will be rid to ON' one
leaving it at this office, or at the "M gees Journal" of Pottsville, LEVI BLOC KRIDGE,
jy6-31.* Cresenia, P. 0., Schuylkill Co., Pa.
NOTICE. Whereas, I etters Testa
tamentary to the estate of General Sohn Fors
ter, late of the city of Harrisburg, deceased, hare been
granted to the aubseribers, all parsons Monad to the
said estate are requested to make immediate payment.
and those haring claims or demands against the estate
of the said decedent, will make known the same, duly
authenticated, without delay, 49
MARGARET S. FORSTER,
BENJAMIN L fOlteTsß,
TROMAS FORSTER,
JNO. li. BRIGGS,
Executors, &c.
Harrisburg, July 29th,1869—jy31-d/tw6t
NOTICE!
THE. DRAFT IN THE 'ISTH AND ADJOIN
ING DISTRICTS.
NATIONAL SUBSTITUTE AGENCY
-.
A. K. SWISHER & CO , hating opened an office in
Carlialeiat the Government Auessoes offine.inßheem's
Hall, Are now:, prepared: to )futnish substitutes at fair
prices. rRi
!Substitutes supplied :from thilwiTies will be at* bod
ied:Aliens, not eabjeet. ter draft Ali drafted mow
servedilly.nasze.gnenantied a gelatinisers the draft.
Apply at once, in person or by letter, at the olak
timed Inhetitate Agency? SheemPa San, Carlisle.
Baterences.z—J. Weakley, Jose" :Ratner jr.
Unto.: • • ' A, H. SWISHER & ev•
August 4.41tf • • • •