RATES OF ADVERTISING.
-doer lines or lees conetitute half a square. Ten lines
more then four, constitute a square.
eq., one day...— $0 30 Ono sq., one day...—. 20 60
One week— 120 one week.... 200
one month.. 300 one month._. 600
. 4 three months 600 if three months 10 00
Sii menthe.. 600 " eiz months— 16 00
• one year. —4..12 00 " one year 20 00
we . Business notices inserted in the LOOAL COLVIOI,
K seta :e marriages and deaths, TEE CENTS pigs LINE for
eh Lisertion. To merchants and others advertising
y the year, liberal terms will be offered.
IX The number of insertions m ust be designated on
irm advortloociont.
ILT' Marriages and Deaths will be inserted atthe same
s:ias as regular advertisements.
Business garbs.
ROBERT SNODGII-Asst
ATTORNEY A T LAW,
jv gr th Third street, /hard door above Afar-
Ilarrisbury,
N 4? B —Pension, Bounty and Military claims of all
-kinds prosecutrd and collected.
Refer to Roos. John 0. Kunkel, Dafid Mumma, jr.,
A nd A. Lamberton.
VIM. H. MILLER,
/ND
R. E. FERGUSON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
OFFICE IN
SHOEMAKER'S BUILDINGS
arcown sncesr,
BETWEEN WALNUT and niA - KKIt &WARE,
ap-211w,td Nearly opposite the Buehler House
THOS.
C. MADDOWELL,
Aa - TORNEY AT LAW,
MILITARY CLAIM AND PATENT AGENT.
Office in the Exchange, Walnut at., (Up Stairs.)
Having formed a connection with parties in Wash
ington City, wno are reliable business men, any bnei
•ness connected with any of the Deparlments will meet
with immediate ood careful ettentioff m6-y
C. WEICHE.L,
SURGEON AND OCULIST,
REETDENCE THIRD HEAR NORTH STREET
i)R R.
He la now fully prepared to attend promptly to th•
flatten la profession in all its blanches.
told .AND WIIIOII. 111.011111101
justifies him in promising fun and ample satisfaction to
all who mayfavor laimwith a eall, be the disease Chronie
or any other mature. mlB-d&wly
MILITARY CLAIMS AND PEN
SIONS.
The undersigned have entered Into In aetOelation for
the collection of Military Claims and the securing of
Pensions for wounded and disabled soldiers.
Muster-in and Muster-out Rolls, officers' Pay Rolls,
Ordnance and Clothing returns, and all papers pertain
ing to the military service will be made out properly
and expeditiously.
Mee , In eta Paillasse Imildingi, Walnut between
Second and Third streets, near Omit's Hotel, Harris
burg, Pa. THOS 0 MACDOWELL,
•e 25 dtf THOMAS A. MAGUIRR.
SILAS WARD.
NO. IL NORTH THIRD ST., HARRISBITRO.
STEINWAY'S PIANOS,
MELODEONS, VIOLINS, UMITABS,
Banjos, Flutes, Fifes, Drums, .accordeons,
STREWS. SHEET AND soon music, Zse., Re.,
PRO T 0 ORALIPM .FRAMES. ALBITIVLSo
Large
Pier and Mantle Mirrors, Square and Oval irsme.
very description made to order. Reguilding dons
Agency for Howe's Sewing Machines.
11:7" Sheet Music sent by Mall. oatl-1
SOHN.W. GLOVER,
MERCHANT TAILOR!
Has just received from New York, an assort
ment of
SEASONABLE GOODS,
which he ofers to his customers and the public in
nov22) MODERATE PROBS. dtt
SMITH & EWING,
A.TTORNEVS-AT-LAW,
THIRD STREET, liarrisburi.
Practice in the several Courts of Dauphin county. Col
tedious made promptly. A. C. MITA,
J. B. BWINC-.
T COOK, Merchant Tautly.
4.:11 - _s.ft'eatrT ST., between Second and Front,
nos lust Maimed from the city with an assortment of
CLOTHS, CASSIMERES AND VESTINGS,
Which will be sold at moderate prices and made up to
order; and, also, an assortment of READY MON
Clothing - and Gentlemen's Furnishing Goods.
nov2l-17.1
DENTISTRY.
B. M. GILDER, D. D. S.,
N 0 y 11 9 MARKET STREET,
EBY & KUNKEL'S BUILDING, UP STAIRS.
jauti-tf
R ELIGIOUS BOOS STORE,
ACT AND SUNDAY SCHOOL DEPOSITORY,
E. S. GERMAN.
senTu SECOND STREET, ABOVE CHESNUT,
EimerestriM PA.
Depot ler Missals of Sterecesmipes,StereoscopicTiewS,
Elude and Moiled Instruments. Also, subscriptions
bitsu ;or religions publications. aoBo-47
JOHN G. W. MARTIN,
FASHIONABLE
CARD WRITER,
R 1 . 119.1113 HOTEL, HARBISMOLO, PA.
Al'manner of VISITING, WEDD MG AND Bus' -
rcess CARDS executed in the most artistic styles and
most reasonable terms. decl4-dtf
Tj NIQN HOTEL;
Ridge Avenue, corner of Broad street,
HARRISBURG, PA.
The uniersigned informs the public that he has re
cently =mated and refitted his well-known "Union
Wirt on Ridge avenue, Heat the Retied HAMM, and is
prepared to accommodate citizens, strangers and travel
era in the best style, at moderate rates.
His table will be supplied with the beet the inaskets
afford, and at his bar will be found superior brands of
liquors and malt beverages. The very beat accommo
dations far railroaders employed at the shops in this
raid dtfl HERBY ROSTEIRIC
F RANKLIN HOUSE,
RALTIMORR, MD.
This pleasant and commodious Hotel has been tho
ropsitly re-fitted and re-furnished. It is pleasantly
situated on worm-wen corner o 'toward and PranUlu
streets, a few doors west of the Northern Central Rail
way Depot. 7vary attention paid to the comfort of hie
G. LRISINRING, Proprietor,
(Late of Reline Grove. Pa.)
THEO. F. SCHEFFER,
BODY, CARD AND JOB PRINTER,
N. 18 MARKIST BTRRIT, HARRISBURG.
""' Particular attention paid to printing, ruling end
binding of Railroad Blanks, Manifests, Insurance Poll
-WChecks, Bill-Heads ate.
edding, Visiting awl Business cram printed at nary
jaw prices and in the best style. , janla
TAILORING.
Oar . A. NEL V ear ME.
The subscriber is ready at O. 94, MARK ET four doors below /our% ;street, to make
MEN'S AND BOY'S CLOTHING.
In any desired style, and with skill and promptness.
Persona wishing cutting done can have it done at the
shortest notice. ap2:l-dly
H A LE S F. voLLmEE.,
UPHOLSTERER,
Chestnut street, four doors above Second,
(Orman% WASHINGTON no HOUSNJ
Is prepared to furnish to order, in the very best style of
wcilimanship, Spring and Hair Mattresses, Window Our.
tams, Lounges, and all other articles of Ilimmture in his
lies, on short notice end moderate terms. Having ex
perience in the business, he feels warranted in making a
share of public patronage, conildentof his ability to give
satisfaction. Putl7-dtf
QKY—LIGHT GALLERY.—The rooms
0 on the corner of Market squire and Market street,
opposite the - /ones. Mouse, occupied as a Gallery for
DaraerreotyPe. Photograph and Ambrotype purposes,
we FOR RENT from the Mk of /September neat.
4 / 4 to 30EIN WYETU.
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PENNSYLVANIA
STEAM DYEING ESTABLISHMENT,
104 MARKIT B.TRi7T, •
BETWEEN FOURTH AND
HAxxIBBIIBQ PO.,
Where every description of Ladies' and Gentlem.en , s
ferments, Piece Goods, he., are Dyed, Cleansed, and
lashed in the hat manner and at the shortest notice.
iso9-d&wl7 DODG 100. Proprietors.
T F. WATSON,
MASTIC WORKER
PRACTICAL CEMENTER,
to prepared to Clookoot tho estorior of RaiMina with
he 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 frOsty 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 M'Candlase, residence, Allegheny City,finished
five yeah.
Calvin Adams, residence, Third st eet, finished four
A. HOeveler, residence, Lawrenceville, finished four.
years.
- J. D. M'Cord, Penn street, finished four years.
Hon. Thomas Irwin, Diamond street, finished four
years.
St 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 IL WEldowney, Paint
Shop, 20 Seventh street, or please address
T. P. WATSON,
mayle-tf P. 0. 80ic1.3.:6. Pittsburg, Pa.
MESSRS. CHICKERING .1f CO.
HATE AGAIN OBTAINED THE
GOLD MEDAL!
AT TEM
MECHANICS' FAIL BOSTON,
PIIIOIDISG WIZ
VER SIITY COMPB2 I I7OIIBI
Wareroom for the OHIONERING PIANOS, at Harris
burg, at 92 Market street,
0e92-tr W. KNoonws MIMIC SPORN.
I - AMES I YOU KNOW WERE YOU
can get tine Note Paper, Envelopes, Visiting and
Wedding Cards ? At SCHEME'S BOOKSTORE.
gUPERIOR STOCK OF LIQUORS.-
Wm. DOCK, JR., & CO., are now able to oiler to
their customers and the public at large, a stock of the
purest. liquors ever imported into this market, compri
sing in part the following varieties :
WHISKI —IRISH, SCOTCH,OLD BOURBON.
WINE—PORT, SHERRY, OLD MADEIRA.
OTARD, DUPEY & CO. PALE BRANDY
JAMICA SPIRITS.
PRIME NEW. ENGLAND RUM.
DRAKE'S PLANTATION BITTERS.
These liquors can all be warranted; and in addition to
these, Dock & Co. have on hand a large variety of
Wines, Whisky and Brandy, to which they invite the
partieulas attention of the DOR*.
WEBSTER'S ARMY AND NAVY
POCKET DICTIONARY.
Just received and for sale at
80/11/11 11 it'S BOOKSTORE.
NEW ORLEANS SUGAR I—Fran IN
Taz Malts: !Per sale by
WM. DOCK Ts., & CO.
•
Fj OR SALR-A TWO-STONY FRAKE
110IIBE in Short street. Inquire of
eep3Ott W. $. VERIMICE.
- EIXCELSIOR ! !-.I3I,TGAR CURED
jjA111111:!—A. Ile/icies t Rash owed itreSahlf fa
family 'homy are =papier to say sal au
ket. (=OA) WM. DOOK, Ji., & 00
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HARRISBURG, PA:, MONDAYS AUGUST 24, 1863.
T HIE
Weekly "PatriOt & Union , "
THE CHEAPEST PAPER PUBLISHED IN
PENNSYLVANIA !
AND S
num ONLY roImoORATIO 11..4.P HR PUBLIMIED AT
THE SBAT OFGTERNMENT
FORTY-FOUR COLUMNSIOF READING MAT-
TER EACH !WEEK !
. - I
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AND FIFTY !CENTS!
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We have been compelled , to r se the club subscription
price to one dollar and fifty ce to in order to save our
selves from actual loss, Tarr has risen, including
taxes, about twenty-five per Ont., and is still rising;
and when we tell our Democratic friends, candidly, that
we can no longer afford to sellithe Weekly PATRIST AND
Mum at one dollar a year. *4 must add fifty cents or
atop the publication, we trust 'they will appreciate our
position, and, instead of withdrawing their subscrip
tions, go to work with a will tiacrease our list in every
county in the State. We h , e endeavored, and shall
continue our efforts, to make thepaper useful as a party
organ, and welcome as a news messenger to every fam
ily_ We flatter ourselves thia it has not been without
some influence in producingthe glorious revolution in
the politics of the State achie ed at the late election;
and if fearlessness in the dine arge of duty, fidelity to
the principles of the party, an an anxious desire to pro
mote its intermits, with come 41xperienoe and a moderate
degree of ability, can be made Serviceable hereafter, the
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ture than it has been in the psist. We confidently look
for increased encouragement in this great enterprise,
and appeal to every imiluentia Democrat in The State to
lend us hie aid in running our sapecription list up to
twenty or thirty thousand. The expense to each indi
vidual is trifling, the benefit to the party may be great.
Believing that the Democracy of the State feel the ne
cessity of sustaining a fearles, central organ, we make
this appeal to their for asks ee with the fullest confi
dence of success.
The same reasons which in uce us to raise the price
of the Weekly, operate in regixd to the Bailfpaper, the
price of which is also inerdamii. The additional cost to
each subscriber will be but trifling; and, while we can
not persuade ourselves that 0+ change necessarily made
will result in any diminution ef our daily circulation,
yet, were we certain that etch would be the conse
quence, we should still be compelled to make it, or suf
fer a ruinous loss. Under these circumstances we must
throw ourselves upon the generosity, or, rather, the
justice of the public, aad abide their verdict, whatever
it may be.
The period for which man of our subscribers have
paid for their pepper being on the eve of expiring, we
take the liberty of Issuing thOs AM*, remimi/Pg them
of the same, in order that they may
RENEW THEIR CLUBS.
We shall also take It as an epecial favor if our present
subscribers will urge upon their neighbors the fact that
the PATRIOT AND TTNtON is the only DOMOOratiO paper
printed in Harrisburg, and coesidering the large amount
of reading matter, embracing all the current news of
the day, and
TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCHES
rrom everywhere up to the moment the paper goes to
press, political, miseellaneona, general and local nova
rl_eot reports,
In deeldedly the
• CHEAPEST NEWSPAPER P UBLISHED IN
THE STATE!
The... is scarcely . a )I,lbeg_ . ,_e or town In _the State in
whidfi elnbainiint be raised the proper exertion be
made, and surely there are few places in which one or
more energetic mon cannot 14 found wbo are in favor of
the dissemination of sound toemocrstio doctrines, who
would be willing to make theeffort to raise a club.
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tare, are Invested with unusual interest, and every man
shoull have the news.
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City subscribers ten cents Per week. •
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dred.
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this. Additions may be made at any time to a club of
subscribers by remitting one dollar and fifty cents
for each additional name. It is not necesaary to send
US the names of thbote constituting a club, as we cannot
undertake to address each paper to club subscribers
separately. Specimen espies of the Weekly will be sent
to all who desire it.
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B,—The following law, paned by Congress iu HO,
dame the duty of Poatroastere in relation to the de
livery of newspapers to club pubacribere :
(Su Leta., Brown ¢ Co.'s edition of the Laws of 1880,
rage 88, chapter 131, section 1.)
"Provided, however, that where paekageo of new pa
paya or periodicals are received at any poet omee directed
to one addres', and the names of the club subscribers to
which they belong, with the postage for a quarter in ad
vance, shall be handed to the postmaster, he shall de
liver the same te their respective owners."
To enable the Postmaster to comply with this regula
tion, it will be necessary that be be furnished. With the
list of names composing the club, and paid a quarter's
(or year's) postage in advance. The uniform courtesy
of Postmasters, affords the assurance that they will
cheerfully accommouate club subscribers, and the latter
should tate care that tlie postage, which is but a trifle
each came, be paid in advance. Send on the clubs
A SPLENDID ASSORTMENT
OF
LITHOGRAPHS,
Formerly retailed at from $5 to $5, ere now cffered at
50 and 75 cents, and $1 and sl6o—published by the Ar
Onion, and formerly retailed by them.
Splendid Photographic Album Pictures of all distin
guished men and Generals of the army, at only 10 ate.
For sale at BiIIIEFFER'S Bookstore,
/8 Market street. Eterrieburg.
BASKETS„
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nein and cock pookOss received and
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'mired and for solo, wholiaige awl wait.
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Cre Vatriolit7dnion+
MONDAY MuRNING, AUGUST 24, 1863.
THE DRAI.4'T.
Their feet should walk in peaceful ways,
Their lives should be exempt from care,
They wish the furrows on their brows,
And silver threads among their hai7.
But passions that their youth ne'er knew,
Are kindled in tha'r boesoms, when
They sit and ponder on their wrongs—
'the fathers of the dratted men.
They are looking back on all the • ea•s
Ihey freely gave their strength away,
And strove with toil ar.d anxious fear]
o bring their boys to manhood's day. •
They weep their tea-s—and pray their pray ers,
They break their weary I earls, and then
They rit and grieve in mutt despair—
The mothers of the drafted men,
sweet children cling about their necks,
Fond wives sit near in dumb dismay,
Their lips are shut with shudde.ing fear,
They pour mute curses on the day
That gsys us to the tyrants powers,
And vainly question it again
A land of freecom will be our.
Goa help them all—the drafted men.
EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENCE,
A WAR WITH FRANCE-THE LOITIMANA
PLANTERS AND THE EMPEROR-SECES
SION AND THE BITTERNESS OF DE
SPAIR-A REFUGE FOR NAPOLEON 111.
IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE-POW
ER AND DISPOSITION OF FRANCE 4 ETC.
Special Correspondence of the Patriot and Union.
Pants, Aug. 7th, 1863
The most recent intelligence from America re
fers to the petition of the French planters of Lou
isiana, begging Napoleon 111. to protect them
against the emancipated blacks. They assert that
their lives and properties are endangered; that
they are incapable of defence; and that with the
Southwest delivered over to the Federals, they de
sire to be attached to the Empire. This document
has aroused a fierce response in the boeqms of ell
European secessionists. "The Southern Confede
racy is beaten," say they; "it has failed to sustain
itself; its end is approaching; but rather than live
citizens of the United Stases we will become sub
jects of a foreign despot. Vive In France !" So
far as I can read the sentiment of the times, I be
lieve that there is a growing desire on the part of
the slaveholders of the South-went to join them
selves with some powerful ally of Europe. Ea
gland's lukewarmness in the matter of intervention
and the Abolition proclivities of her people, have
lost her the favor labials she originally possessed
with the rebels_ France. more ambitions ; daring,
and energetic, has won herself a position to afford
substantial help to the revolt. Her successes in
Mexico, at first obnoxious to the South, are now
applauded and encouraged. In the last resort,
Davis and Napoleon will strike beede s New Freeee
will extend from the Isthmus of Panama to the
Potomac and the Ohio,
and the Uoited States will
find herself enclosed between two powerful and
hostile races—the Saxon on the North and the
Gaul on the South.
We do not know,imieed, that this is not the un.
folding of an old and cherished design, propounded
by Slidell in the incipient days of the revolt.
"Throw your armies into Mexico; mask your ulti
mate intent with specious pleas of moneys with
held eel claims denied; when you have firmly
established yourself the South will have tested its
strength; if it fat's, you love nothing, but gain a
rich province anti our friendshii; if the South !MIN
we will elect ourselves suljects of France and de
mand your bayone s to protect us • but meatiwbile•
propose te:Yolli'inaiiiiitte oval to'intervenei iii our
behalf; such courtesy will soothe the j:alousy of
England, and the will make no opposition when
the crisis comes."
May not a programme such as I have stated, be
developed from events which haye occurred al.:
ready. Is it probable that the civil and military
leaders of the rebellion will prefer capture, exile
or sentence from the authorities of the power they
have defied, to safdty and welcome from the fora=
most power in the world I remark that the
Southernrrs in Paris are uniformly loud in their
acclaims of the genius of the Emperor and the
character of his government. Almost daily I hear.
the remark : "I wish to God we had such a system
in • the States United with France the South
will seem to be the leading power in America.
Her institutions will be secured; her staples pro
tected; her prowess feared. The event of insur
rection or overthrow here eCould grant Louis Na
poleon a haven in tba, new world, such as his Uncle
vainly sought, and such as the extinct dynasty of
Portugal found in Brazil. The tricolor would
float at New Orleans and upon the Mississippi.
The reign of the third Bonaparte would have been
marked by a conquest outnaming the most glorious
of this century, and the South would laugh at our
calamity, and joining its scattered forces with the
armies of France, stand ready both to repulse and
to invade us. Nothing is so clear to my mind as
the feet that the Confederate States will form any
alliance, however disgraceful or unnatural, rather
than return to the family of Sovereignties which
it has forsworn and fought. The question then
aria's, admitting it to be trite that ; the rebellion
is extinguished and that the Confederates are
ready to take the desperate step I have submitted,
will France make war upon the United States for
the sake of the South ? Haa she the means to meet
us by lend and by sea? Is the price worth the
hazard, and has she no fear of the terror of our
name and history ?
The navy of France consists of 478 vessels, in
cluding._ ninety-four iron-clade, carrying is all
10,000 guns, and from 40,000 to 160,000 (war foot
ing) men. Her army is composed at present of
400,000 men and 90,000 horses. The garrison of
Paris alone consists of 50.000 men, exclusive of 50,-
000 national guards. It will thus be seen that the
standing garrihon of Paris is larger than any army
that We have in the OW, but in the emergency of
war three millions of men can be mustered from
the Empire to obey the behests of their Sovereign.
In three months after a declaration of war, Napo
leon could open the blockade of every Southern
port, close the barbers of every Northers city upon
the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, and throw a hun
dred thousand men into Texas and Louisiana. • I
know of twee, in my own district of Paris, where
Southern men have taken the oath of allegiance
to the Empire and meditate entering the French
army. From all that I can hear, read, and infer,
I repeat that the South is convinced of the folly
of holding out single , ,handed against the North,
and now seeks to be absorbed into the bosom of
France. If there is much that is conjectural or
sensational in this statement, let it at least ba pon
dered and weighed. France has an idle army and
navy, sustained at immense expense. In a war
with the States she need fear no loss lave that of
conquering. Her remote territory could not be in
vaded ; she has few colonies of value to lose, and
the chances of success are flattering as tbe success
itself would be brilliant and material. Upon all
sides we are imperilled therefore. "The delicate
tissues of events are woven with the fingers of
übiquity."
All the powers of earth and the shades seem to
have conspired for the dismemberment of the only
great republic of modern times. France, whose
timely aid assisted us to win our first victory, may
yet be the power which will tear us asunder. May
it not be wise to pause ere we go on ? Can we
wage unequal war with whatever allies the fury of
the South may call to its support? Have we no
relic of our grand nationality to conserve ? Is not
the whole, sole, mighty North a heritage worth
preservation, or must we in one mad clutch for the
domination of all, lose all in the warfare ?
Yours troll/. BOUT DE 1.4.
Wu have advertised in vain for the names of
drafted Republicans or Loyal Leagiters in this
(gig wise are going. Not a single response has
been heard and the inevitable conclusion is
that the government gets no coneoripts from
the radical "loyalty" of Rochester.--Rochester
Union. . •
St. Lunette. county, it is well known, le
PRICE TWO CENTS.
one of the strongest Republican districts in the
State. Well, the quota for that district is
1.818. Up to Tuesday last, however, we saw
it stated, only ninety-nine men had been se
cured ; and at that time the officer in charge of
the draft considered the work about completed.
In the town of Madrid forty-one men were
drafted, but not one of then is gone or is
going. All save one secured their exemption
by paying three hundred dollars, or in some
other way ; one substitute from Canada was
procured, but that solitary patriot is said to
have pocketed his three hundred dollars and
returned to Canada, so that not a single man
goes from - Madrid —Albany Argus.
THE ARBITRARY ARRESTS.
[From the FotteTille Standard ]
" Several men suspected of assaulting the
Quartermaster Sergeant of the Vith regiment,
inis week, in Cass, have been arrested."
The above appeared in the Miners' Journal o
last week. It is an item of news, not very im
portant, doubtless, thought the editor of that
paper. The above is all the information given.
We were not told who they were, the manner of
their arrest, or what was done with their. They
were only working men, not niggers—the
Journal could not be expected to inquire
whether their rights were invaded. They were
poor men, uneducated donlatless, without in
fluential friends or connections, only working
men—why should the Journal in their case,
even attempt to justify their arrest, although
through them the dearest and most important
guaranties of the liberties of the citizen have
been trampled on anti invaded_ Yet the arrest
of these men, as it has been done, is perhaps
among all the acts of arbitrary power of this
administration, perhaps the most flagrant and.
outrageous. The circumstances, as we are in.
formed, are as follows : It is alleged that an
ossault and battery was committed anon the
Quartermaster Sergeant of the 46th regiment
P. V. M., in Cass township, this county, by
some person or persons unknown. That such
an offence was committed is, from all that we
oan learn, extremely doubtful- Assuming,
however, the story to be correct, we can only
say that is not the first time, in the history of
the criminal law of the country, that such an
offence has been heard of. It is no new of
fence, and the remedy or the party aggrieved
simple. It it be true that the Quartermaster
Sergeant was wantonly abused, the outrage
was certainly a very great one, and the guilty
parties, whoever they are, should be made to
sufier she extreme penalty of the law. If such
a ease was made out before our criminal court,
upon conviction, the guilty parties would so
suffer. But it seems, that so inflated have the
military commanders become with power that
they regard the person of 'every man of their
command as even more sacred than the British
subjects do the crowned head of England. An
assault and battery upon one of their . number,
constitutes so great an offence as to render the
whole community in which the outrage was
committed, not only Southern sympathizers,
but as in an actual state or rebellion. We
mean what we say, the manner of the arrest
and the subsequent treatment of the men
spoken of by the Journal as arrested, has been
such as to render the acts of the perpetrators
of the outrage susceptible of no other inter
pretation.
These are the facts: Seven working men of
Schuylkill county, civilians, in no way con
'heated 'with' the military, viz : James Walsh,
Arthur O'Neal, Mat thew Mealy, John M. Bren
nan, Arthur Hunt, John Bell and John Bren
nan, were last week, by military order, ar
rested,'sent out of the county and State - , and
are now imprisoned in Fort Mifflin or Dela
ware. It d )es t appear that they had any
knowledge of any outrage such as we have
mentioned ever having been perpetrated,
(whether thero has boon, is, as we have said,
doubtful,) yet without a warrant regularly is
sued "upon probable cause supported by oath
or affirmation," have these men been torn fron
their homes and carried out of the State.—
They have not." been informed of the nature
and cause of the accusation," or 'reason of
their arrest and imprisonment, have been de
nied the right to be confronted , by the wit
nesses against them, 4 , or to have compulsory
process for obtaining witnesses in their favor"
or ft to have the assistanos of counsel for de
fence."
But what difference does it make to our mili
tary rulers? These are only constitutional
privileges, and what is constitution and law to
them ?--it is a mark of disloyalty to rarer to,
much more to revere them. It is true, these
military came here avowedly to enforce a law
which was not resisted, and it may be said,
like the Provost Marshal, they determined that
in SchUylkill county outrages must be com
mitted, Oven if done by the conservators of the
law and the public peace.
BeSide, these men were poor men, working
men, "without rights to he respected," with
no powerful friends--L--not fay understanding
their own rights. Good Heavens! it is enough
to make all thinking men despair for the fu
ture of the country when we can see such acts
done, and yet men sit calmly by and not raise
their voices in loud and indignant protest—to
make the patriot weep, that in this country
any well meaning man should be so blinded by
party zeal as to justify despotism. When an
assault and battery had been committed upon
the person of the Quartermaster Sergeant, if
lush an offence has been committed, the laws
of the country were violated, but what propor
tion of magnitude does that offence bear to the
tearing from their homes and families, seven
innocent men, (for until crime hr proven we
are bound to consider them innocent) without
process and in defiance of the Constitutional
rights of the citizer, and subjecting them to an
illegal and false impriEcoamen.? To render the
matter more lamentable in this case most of
these men are married, with families depen
dent on them for support; Walsh and Peg
both being old men and each having a family
of twelve children. Five of those arrested
have children.
. -
To fender the difference in the enormity of
the area-6e committed still greater, it should
b e r ecollected that these poor men are only
suspected of having violated,a law of the land,
whilst the perpetrators of the outrage against ,
law have station and influence, and who, com
ing amongst us to enforce law, bound by the
sanctity of an oath, have yet, through the ar
rest of these men, trampled the dearest and
most cherished rights of every man under
foot.
We know not how far Gen. Whipple may be
implicated in this matter; he has the chief
command, and as the record stands must be
resposible for the act. We felt pleased when
we heard that he was going to assume command
here, not that we knew or cared anything about
him, but we had heard that he had been edu
cated at West Point, and assumed that even if
he should not be all that could be wished, he
had at least some decency and some of the
common feelings of humanity. It is not plea
sant to be governed by United States military
than
officials, but anything was outrage, better
provost marshal. Up to
of no subject of complaint against him. The our
wr
knowm. The
soldiers of his command have up to this time,
and do, now oonduot theme(' lees with y ropriety.
The record, •however, is against Gen. Whip
ple, lie and not daemon whom be commands
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must bear the responsibility of this act. And
let, us assure him it is no light responsibility.
Th e act of arbitrary power is unpardonable ;
be cannot be reached during this administra
tion, but, be it understood, that sooner or later,
the powers that be, will he the powers that
were. If by the use of the bayonet the free
use of the ballot-box is restricted, it should be
r b e u m t e w in i b lr acnistwheart' the 'people will not submit,
force by force. When the
party that at present disgraces our government
is among the things that were, and law and
order again in the ascendant, men must an
swer for their misdeeds. These men so sent
to the bastile may be poor, uneducated and
without influential 'friends, but the blow
against their liberties was against the liberties
of us all—and if it should so happen that upon
Gen. Whipple should rest the responsibility of
this act, he may find, to his cost., that men will
arise,, influential enough, able and. willinf
enough, to make him bear the consequences of
his acts. He may then find that if under the
government a star was placed on his shoulder,
it can be removed. The power that put him in
the army can turn him out of the army.
THE OPENING OF A. NEW FOCH.
The conscription now in progressis,- in all
human probability, the last important war
measure to which the administration will re
sort. Our present armies, strengthened by
the addition of three hundred thousand fresh
conscripts, will, if reasonably well handled,
suffice to cope with the shattered forces of the
rebellion ; and the remaining work .of the. war
rests in the hands of our generals, with a hope
ful prospect of its early and successful com
pletion. The questions now +hit to emerge
will relate. mainly to the basis of settlement.
The war must indeed go on ; but it has made
the last call for means, and its remaining stages
are purely military. So far as the aotion of
the people is concerned, war issues are practi
cally dead, and peace issues must , presently
take their place in the politics of the country.
No horologue strikes the hour at which the
affairs of a nation enter upon a new era ; but
he must be blind to the signs of the times who
does not see that most of the issues which have
been' so hotly contested during the last two
years have ceased to have any vitality. This
conscription is the last of the series of war
measures on which the public voice can have
any influence ; and when questions have ceased
to be practical, they rapidly lose their inter
est. We are too earnest a people to keep up a
contest with spent weapons ; and the-questions
that loose up in the immediate future are of
such transcendent magnitude that they must
dwarf all other issues into significance.
The rebellion is so visibly weakened as to
take away all excuse for a repetition of the of
fensive war measures" which. the Adminie
(ration never attempted to justify, except on
the ground of military necessity. 'Me vigorous
and resolute protests made against these meas
ures have probably sufficed to disarm them of
all force as precedents; especially as title and
experience have demonstrated the falsity of the
only plea ever urged in their behalf. It is
manifest to the whole country that the present
hopeful military situation has not been brought
about nor in any degree aided by the emanci
pation proclamation. It is- eqttally evident
that the arbitrary arrests have not eontributed
to the gaining of a single victors or the cap
ture of a single rebel stronghold. It is also
obvious to every intelligent observer that the
joint effect of these unpopular measures has
been. to extinguish the volunteer spirit, and
create a supposed necessity for - the oonacrip
tion, which, whether necessary or not, is alto
gether the most unpopular measure of the war.
There is little likelihood. that any of these
measures will be repeated during this war ;
And the protests which destroy their force as
precedents, their demonstrated inutility, and
the action yet to be had upon them by the Su
preme Court, probably render it safe to com
mit them to the impartial verdict of history.
Let us trust that posterity, strengthened in this
love of liberty and respect for the Constitution
by our protests, will never sanction similar
mistakes.
The false steps taken in the management
of the war are transient in their consquences
compared with the faults which may be com
mitted in the reconstruction of the Union.
When a war is enfeebled and put back, subse
quent victories may put a better face on af
fairs; but if the final settlement contains the
neck; of endless- future contention and. difficulty
the mischief hardly admits of any remedy., It
depends on the statesmen intrusted with the
adjustment of this controversy, whether the
United States shall resume the gloriour career
which made them the hope and inspiration of
the friends of free government everywhere, or
whether internal dissensions and endless, dis
cord Shall extinguish the light of our past ex
ample. The work of reconstruction, on which
so much depends, cannot safely be entered
upon by this administration without a reason
able regard to the probable policy of its im
mediate successor. The restored Union cannot
be so far consolidated by Mr. Lincoln that the
President who succeeds him may not render
his polity abortive. No settlement can have
any stability which the majority of the whole
people do not approve, and accordingly in the
stage to which matters have now advanced, it
is for the common interest, both of the adhlin
'oration and the country, that such relations
of friendly intercourse should be re-established
tetween the President and statesmen of all
parties as shall give him the benefit of their
counsel in the arduous labors that lie imme
di'itely before him. His method of settlement
will become BO fully developed before the Prp
-sidential nominations next year, that unless it
is very wisely adopted it will furnish the main
issue on which the election will turn. If it is
of such a character that the people do not sus
tain him, his labor all goes for -nothing ; the
high honor of settling this controversy will
devolve upon others, and he Will retire,frOte
stormy term with the feelings of a man who
has beaten the bush while another catches the
bird.
All parties have a common interest in the
success of the Government, and it must be the
wish of all virtuous men that whatever a eps Mr.
Lincoln may take in the renewal of kind re
lations may be of such a character that his
successor will not be compelled. to reverse
then). In the settlement of this qinsrrel it is
desirable that the terms offered by. the Koryh
shall be so just, liberal, and conciliatory that
all northern men will be willing to stand by
them, and that the southern leaders will be de-7-
serted, by the southern people if they reject or
cavil at them. When the war is over we do
not want a sham peace, but a real
peace and
the North, as a victorious party, can afford to
be just, and ought to be soothing andmagnanir ,
;.
mous. The passions generated between tke two
sections by fifteen years of sharp political con
troversy, and intensified by p, great civil war
ought to be calmed, and every reasonable means
adopted for restoring the fraternal sentiments,
whithout Xhich the Union is a questionable
bleeeing.. .
Let Mr. Lincoln cause it 10 be tindefetood
that he has abandoned the nopopidar •nhea •
mires which have given such strength and
vigor to the opposition,,and he will, immedi
ately He the good wishes sad co-operation