fully. The issue made up between the awn
tionised Republican party and the Democratic
MOM of the land is:. - Shall we have, hereaf
ter, a government of constitutional limitations,
the authority of our public agents carefully
defined and rightly kept within legal compass,
and the rights and liberties of the people sa
credly observed, guarded and respected, with a
spirit of fraternal feeling pervading the inter
course 'of the States ? Or, shall we have a
government without- constitutional limitations,
people without adequete safeguards for their
liberties, and Matta, withnut reciprocity of
feeling or interests. The triumph of the De
mocracy just as certainly insures the former as
the continuance of the present party in power
establishes the latter condition of things. On
this issue we will meet at the ballot.—Ceve
taxa Plain Thaler.
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DEMOCRATIC STATE NOMINATIONS.
FOR GOVERNOR,
EON. GEO. W. WOODWARD,
OF THIGADELYBIA..
FOR JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT,
WALTER H..LOWRIE,
OF ALLNGNENY COUNTY.
cuRIO opA
When a soldier returns to his election district,
he resumes all the civil rights of citizenship, and
his residence being- unimpaired by his temporary
absence, he has a right to vote on election day, but
under the Constitution, to which his Jolley as due,
he can acquire no right to vote elsewhere, except by
a change of residence from one district to another.
* * * The learned judge deprecates a cgn
.struction that shall DIBFBAZIU/LISIS our volunteer
soldiers. It strikes us that this is an inaccurate use
of language. The Constitution would disfranchise
no qualified voter. But, to secure purity of elec
tion, it would have its voters in thtplace where they
are beat known on election day. If a voter volun
tarily stays at home, or goes on a journey, or joins
the army of his country, can it he said the Consti
tution has disfranchised him ? Four of the judges
of this court, living in other ports of this State,
find themselves, on the day of every Presidential
election, in the city of Pittsburg, where their official
duties take them, and where they are not permitted
to vote. Have they a right to charge the Consti
tution with disfranchising them ? Such is our case
and suck is the case of the volunteers in the army.
The right of suffrage is carefully preserved for
both them an aa, to be enjoyed when we returnn to
the places which the Constitution has appointed for
ita exareise.—Guo. W. WOODWARD.
TROOPS AT ELECTIONS.
By the 95th amass' of the act of Assembly
of the State of Pennsylvania of 2d Jn1y,1839,
it is enacted that
"No body of troops in the army of the United
States, or of this titomoiontooaZih, shy be
_present,
either armed or unarmed, at any place of -election
within this Commonwealth, during Me time of such
election."
CuniloOt`lo4l4l County.
The Democrats of Cumberland county met
in County Convention at Carlisle, on Monday
last, and nominated the following strong
ticket, which, we prophesy, will be sleeted by
1000 majority:
Assembly—Dr. John D. Bowman.
Prothonotary--Samuel Blakeman.
Recorder, &c.—Ephraim Common.
Regiater.—Geo. W. North.
Treasurer—Henry B. Ritter.
Commissioner—John M'Coy.
Director—Christian Hartman.
Auditor—D. B. Btevick.
The Preeideatts Letter. •
We have heard much of late of a letter, ex
.planatory of his views and position, addressed
by President Linfogn to the Abolition State
Convention of Illinois. This letter was read
in the Abolition State gonveation held at
Syracuse, New York, on the 2d instant, and
appears in our paper to-day. It ie character
istic of "A. Lincoln." Whatever we may
think of it as the production of the President
-of the United States, there will be po dissent
frost the opinion, which we are tree to express,
•that it is, in every respect, worthy the illus
trious " rail-splitter" of Illinois.
We subitit the letter to our readers for their
patient perusal and oonsideration, reserving
arhat.comments we may have to make for a
future day—perhaps to-morrow.
Threatened Revelations.
The central organ of our sick Governor
threatens astounding "revelations in reference
-to Woodward" unless the Democratic press
shall cease its attacks upon lie feeble Excel-
leney. We know not what effect this threat
may have upon our Democratic contempora
ries, but, as far as we are concerned, we feel
no disposition to throw any obstacle in the way
Of the ceutrel oig We shall continuo to
treat Governor CurtiPas we think he deserves,
leaving Judge Woodward to the tender mercies
of the central organ and other Abolition pa
perg, which, at present, seem to be very tender
on the subjret of personal reputation. If
Judge Woodward is not invulnerable to their
attacks, it is his misfortune, not our fault; but
from our knowledge of his charatter we feel
rah in defying the Utmost malice of his ene
mies. We are under no concern in regard to
the threatened revelations"—let them come
in any shape they can be present...d i , we shall
not Shrink from the exposure; and neither, we
are persuaded, will Judge Woodward. But in
fairness, whatever may be their nature, the
charges, o r gaysvelstione," should not be de
ferred until the very eve of the election, when
refutation would be impossible. Only lies,
such as the Abolitionists knoir how to coin
and use, should Ips served up as a last dish to
satisfy the craving appetites of fools and fans
ties—truths, if the central organ and its co
workers have any that would militate against
the success of Judge Woodward, should not
be withheld a single day, and we are persua
ded they would not, if the friends of Curtin
were really in possession of any. We con
elude, therefore, that the threat is idle—that
Judge Wood Ward is beyond their Mk And
that the Democracy have nothing to fear from
any exposures the opposition can make.
Hitherto we have not found it necessary to go
outside of ac'knowledged Abolition papers for
tumnunitien to use against Governor Curtin,
nor do we think we shall be pushed by any ur
gency beyond that limit. The Pittsburg Ga
zette and Dispatch have pronounced him to be
faithless, corrupt and utterly unworthy the
posiLten he occupies. We concur in the opin
ion.; we have so expressed ourselves; and we
shall continue to pursue the same Imam. No
pure-mtpdod, no strictly Wrest, honorable
man, would, in a. canvas for Governor, number
among his prominent supporters such unprin
cipled political demagogues asColonel 31'Clure
and Senator Lowrie. Without any other evi
dence of the unworthiness of Governor Curtin,
we should find enough to condemn him in the
company he keeps. We should regret his re
election as a disgrace to Pennsylvania—as a
long step backward in the honorable career
she has heretofore pursued—as a wound from
which she would not soon recover. Setting
aside for a moment his moral delinquencies,
which are numerous and weighty enough to
damn even a wool-dyed Abolitionist, he is at
this time mentally incapacitated to preside
over the administration and destinies of this
great Commonwealth. He has debased him
self to the position of a mere tea in the bands
of base men and a traitorously disposed na
tional administration, all of whose crimes
against liberty sad justice, the Constitution
and the leas, he endorses. Such a man is
unfit to govern us—such a man the people will
not choose.
'Thy Doweracy.
The Democratic party, called into .existence
by the "Alien and Sedition laws" and other
attempts to abridge the rights of the people
under the elder Adams, hue always been the
sturdy champions of liberty and law. They
have at all times resisted the encroachments
of power upon the reserved rights of States
er individuals, and have rolled back the waves
of oppression which threatened to overwhelm
us in the past, and time and time again, pre
served our republican institutions from 'threat
cued destruction.
IL - was the Democratic party 'that -repealed
the odious "Alien and Sedition laws," and
maintained for the people the constitutional
right of disouloing the acts of their rulers, and
condemning them whenever they transcended
their delegated powers.
When the Masonic fraternity were .persecu
ted under 'the leadership of the notorious Ste
vens, it was the Democratic party who Stood
up against every species of perse3ution, and
maintained the right of all persons to enjoy
their peculiar 'beliefs, so long as they did not
trench upon the lights of others, or violate the
laws of the land. And when in MN the pro
scriptive policy of the Anti-Masonic party
under C-or...Ritner culminated in an attempt to
"treat the eleotions as though they had not
been -held," and to retain their power by force,
it was the indignant Democracy that rose up
in defence of constitutional rights,and restored
, the supremacy of the laws.
When the-Catholic Church was assailed by
bigoted New England fanatics, and when,
through their _teachings, a besotted mob was
raised to turn a nunnery near Boston at the
midnight hour, and drive -out innooeßt and
defenceless women and children naked into the
inclement night; and when, through the same
teachings, Anti-Catholic mobs were raised in
Philadelphia,ebereheo -burned, houses broken
into, ,property stolen and destroyed, -women
insulted and outraged, human lives sacrificed,
and every apeoies of outrage and wrong prac
ticed, it was the ditemocrratio party that rallied
'to the rescue, defended the persecuted, put
down the mob, punished the -offenders, and
bringing•osder out.of chaos, xestored peace and
an aoknowiedgment of the the. right
to worship 43rod after the dictates of our own
consciences.
When, la the past, Abolition mobs , have as
sailed-the rights of-the South, prouounoed -the
Constitution a g‘leavie with :hell and a cove-
nant with .death;" and raised mobs to prevent
the -execution of the Fugitive Slave law,-and
other enactments made to carry nut the pro
vltions of the fundamental law of the land,tthe
Democratic party have interposed the aegis of
the law against this mad fanaticism, and thus
preserved the Union founded -by our fathom
Everywhere and at alltimes since the forma
tion of our government, the Democratic party
have advocated.a striet:constructian of the Con
atitution, and a perfect obedience to the laws
enacted to carry out ha provisions, never arro
gating to themselves any powers not ,clearly
delegated by the sovereign people to their tem
porary rulers, and always opposing any .exer
else of a 'higher by which the rights and
liberties of all should be made. subservient to
some mad scheme of crack-brained philantbro
plete, et to the elevation of some hypocritical
demagogue to power.
The rights and liberties of the people have
ever been luny conserved under Democratic
rule, and the country has achieved greatness
and power unparalleled in the annals 01 history,
while upon the few occasions when the power
has been temporarily wrested from Democratic
hands, repeated attempts have been made to
abridge our liberties, to enrich the for et the
expense of the many, to alter the form of our
government, give it kingly powers, and build
up a privileged aristocracy to lord it over the
people, until now the adminiatration that mis
govern the country openly throw .off every re
straint of law, violate the constitutions, Na
tional and State, ignore all individual rights,
i n effect elope the courts and imprison or ban
ish men at their will thus exercising all the
absolute powers of the veriest despotism en
earth.
Fellow-citizens, these are questions upon
which you are. called upon to think and pon.
der. Upon your decision at the coming elec
tions will depend the fate of the country.
Are you willing to give up the rights secured
to you under the government founded by your
fathers, and, plunging into a sea of untried
experiment.; submit yourselves to an unques
tioning obedience to an irresponsible and ar
bitrary administration ? If so, vote the Abo
lition ticket, and God help you, for all hope of
human liberty is lost. If you are satisfied
with the government under which yon have
lived and prospered for so many years, stick
to the line of safe precedents, restore the
Democratic party to power, and all may yet be
well.
Tun Government bas realized $60,000 from
the sale of borate left by Morgan along hie
route through Indiana,.
Who is 'Wastrel] ?
We read in an exchange the other day that
the real name of Cluantrell, the savage who led
the recent bloody raid against Lawrenoe, was
Hart—that he was a companion and fellow
combatant of John Brown, Montgomery and
Lane in the Kansas troubles some year ago,
when the Abolitionists of that State and the
Border Ruffians under Atchison were warring
against each other to the knife. It was fur
ther stated that, for some reason which we do
not recollect, be .quarreled with his associates
and crossed into Missouri, where he has ever
since remained, fully identified with the worst
class of the troublesome population for which
that border has been noted. The Louisville
Journal of the the 31st ultimo, furnishes some
farther intelligence in regard to him.
"We learn," says that paper, "from good
authority, that'Quantrell, the horrid murderer,
lived foriateen.yeare ago in thie oily. Ho was
a Doctor by profession, and a very brisk, good
looking young fellow, but we don't now re
member what name he passed under. While
here, be was convicted of forgery and sent to
-the Bentuelty penitentiary for seven years.
Now be is head man among the Missouri reb
els."
It would seem that this ruffian and assassin
has, in different places, assumed different
names, no doubt as a means of escaping date&
tion and punishment for crimes of which he
had been guilty. The wanton attack upon
Lawrence, and the horrible massacre commit
ted there by the band of villains under him,
was the last and undoubtedly the most bloody
act of his wicked life of which we have any
aocentit. He is now fleeing before the aven
ger, or is hidden in some inaccessible den,
where he hopes to avoid detection and punish
ment. But it is in vain. A monster such as
he cannot escape. ' , Blood will have blood."
The innocent blood wantonly shed in the streets
of Lawrence, the smouldering ruins of once
happy homes, the tears and prayers Of widows
and orphans, cry aloud to Heaven against the
monster, and, soon or late, his lifejoetly for
feited, will pay the penalty of his crimes.
There are those now upon his track who will
not weary until they have found him—and
then, whoever he is, or whatever name be may
bear, justice will not be defrauded of her due,
and the wretch—Quantrell, or Hart, or incar
nate devil—will meet the fate he deserves,
and the world will have one villain lose.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.
THE LONDON QUARTERLY REVLEW for .July
contains the following articles:--L "The Re
sources of the Nile." 11. "Natural History
of the Bible." 111. "Glacial Theories." IV.
" Our Colonial System." V. 41 Washington
Irving." VII. " Modern Spiritualism." VII.
"Sacred Trees and Flowers." VIII. "Ro
badi Roma." IX " The Nile—S,peke and
Grant." Republished by LeonardSoott 4; Co.,
88 Walker street, New York.
PENNSYLVANIA.—The public attention is just
now directed to the spirited canvass in the
great State of Pennsylvania—a State which we
believe is thoroughly Democratic in sentiment.,
and which we as firmly believe will elect the
Democratic ticket at the October election. We
are aware that the election of Governor Curtin
is claimed by the Republicans, apparently,
however, on his own authority; for on his re
cent visit to Washington, the same dispatch
which announced his arrival also said, " it is
now considered certain that Gov. Curtin will
be re-elected."
With all deference to the Governor's antici
pations. we do not believe the freemen of
Pennsylvania will give him another hate of
power. They have had sufficient trial of Re
publican rule in that State, and are too strongly
wedded to the Constitution and the rights of
£he people to again entrust the administration
of their affairs to any but a eound ropreeenta
tire man of the Democratic faith.
The Democratic candidate for Governor is
fortunately a man of this stamp. Ilud.ge Wood
ward needs no praise where he is known. He
occupies a high place in the confidence of the
people of his State—his qualifications are un
doubted, and his integrity and purity of char
acter unquestioned. He is, moreover, a sound
constitutional lawyer and judge, and if elec
ted, as we believe ho le to be, Will -honor the
position.
We are glad to see so much discrimination
in the selection of candidates for the first offi
ces in the several Slates. Fortunately, in the
only two instances where Democratic -Gover
nors were chosen last fall, the choice fell upon
able, trustworthy and reliable men, who will
stand -by the rights of the people, and use their
official Influence for the protection of the lib
erties of the citizens. When to the names of
Seymour and Parker we can add those of
Woodward,Bradbury,Vallandigham and others,
as executives of Northern States, we shall hope
to have a breakwater to arrest the tide of fa
not-idea which has swept with such resistless
fury over the country.—N. Y. Argue.
A PREDICTION FULFILLED.—IIenry Laurens
was President of the Continental Congress in
1779. In 1780 he was sent as Minister to
Holland. On his way he was captured, and
imprisoned in the Tower of London for four
teen months. When Lord Shelburne became
Premier, Laurens was brought up ort /Labels
coq us, and released. After Ms release he was
treated with great kindness and respect by the
British authorities. He dined with Lord Shel
burne. Atter dinner the conversation turned
on the separation of the two countries. Lord
Shelburne remarked :
"I am sorry for your people." "Why so?"
asked Laurens. " They will lose the habeas
corpus," was the reply. "Lose the habe..B cor
pus?' said Laurens. "Yes," said Lord Shel
burne. 16We purchased it with centuries of
wrangling, many years of fighting. and had it
confirmed by at least fifty acts of Parliament.
All this taught the nation its value, and it is
so grained into their creed, as the very foun
dation of their liberty, that no man or party
will ever dare to trample on it. • Your people
will pick it up, and attempt to use it; but,
having cost them nothing, they will not know
how to appreciate it. At the first great inter
nal feud that you have the majority will tram
ple upon it, and the people will permit it to be
done, and so will go your liberty !"—published
Journal - of Hens y Laurens.
It is enough to make the cheek of every
American tinge with shame, for the English.
man's prediction has been verified. The people
have eviered an administration to disregard the
habeas corpua and trample upon their liberty.
SUSPENDING THE CONSTITUTION DUEING THE
WAR go for suspending the Constitution
curing the war—laying it up to dry," re
marked a Linenlnite the other day. "Well,"
soys a Democrat, we suspend it, has Lin
coin any right to be President ? Is he not
President by virtue of the Constitution? Has
he any other title ? And will he not cease to
be President the moment the Constitution is
suspended ?" The Republican made no reply.
The D-mocrat rejoined that although be was
for the Constitution, yet its suspension would
rid us of the present; administration, the mea
sure had at least one redeeming feature. The
Republican took a second thought, and doubted
whether it would be well to suspend the Con
stitution under -the - oircumstences—it being
Lincoln's only title deed to the office.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
BY TELEGRAPH.
FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—The late Congress
having appropriated twenty thousand dollars
to be expended in testing the practicability of
introducing Sax and hemp as a substitute for
cotton, the commissioners appointed by the
Commissioner of Agriculture to consider the
subject, viz: Hon. J. K. Moorehead, of Pitts
burg, Pa.; Dr. John Marder, of Cincinnati, 0.,
and Mr. Bally, of Providence, E. 1., began
their sessions this morning.
The Interior Department has refused all the
bids for the sale of Kansas trust land, and or
dered new bids, which are to be made out on
or before the 15th of October next.
The expedition sent up the Rappahannock
to recapture the gunboats Satellite and Reli
ance, have returned, being unable, in conse
quence of low water, to get higher up than
Tappahannock.
One of the seamen of the StateMe arrived
here to-day, having made his escape while be
ing marched to Rionmond. He represents that
an expedition, numbering between four and five
hundred rebels, consisting in part of the same
party who captured the two boats, left the
neighborhood of Port Royal on Tuesday for
the Potomac, for the purpose of capturing some
of our vessels. A party of cavalry are with
them, who have been seen later about Mathias
and other points on the river.
The frigato Sabine left New London on Tues
day for the coast of New England, to enable
fishermen, who have so long desired to enter
the naval service, to do so on board that noble
vessel.
It is understood that by an arrangement
with the government and the Almaden mining
company of California, the Quicksilver mining
company took possession of the mineb on the
first inst.
The premature publication of the Preeident's
letter occasions much surprise. This was cer
tainly not through the instrumentality of its
author.
FROM NEW ORLEANS
VESSELS TO DE REPAIRED-SALES OF COTTON
NEW Yons., Sept. 2.—The steamer Morning
Star, from New Orleans on the 27th ult., ar
rived here to-night. She brings six hundred
and seventy bales of cotton on freight.
A movement was on foot. in New Orleans to
present the 20th Massachusetts regiment with
a stand of colors, fortheir good behavior while
posted in the city.
Many vessels are advertised to leave far St.
Louis and other ports up the river.
All the vessels of war engaged in the recent
operations on the Mississippi are to be sur
veyed, and such •of them as need repairs to be
sent home.
Three hundred bales of cotton were sold on
government account on the 25th, bringing
prices from 57 to 581 cents. An order has
been issued to regulate the enrollment, recruit
ing, employment And education of persons of
color.
FINANCIAL.
Raw Max., Sept. 3.—An important meeting
between the officers of the city banks and Mr.
Cisco, Assistant U. S. Treasurer, was held
to .day. The proposition is understood to be
that the banks of , this city should lend the
government $35,000,000. This sum Mr. Chase
•is to draw for during the next two or three
Months, as regaired. The banks of Boston
and Philadelphia are to be asked for an addi
tional $15,000,000. The whole fifty millions
is to be repaid in October and November in
new interist bearing treasury notes, which are
to bear five per cent. interest and to be a legal
tender.
MASS CONVENTION.
LOYAL YOUNG. ABOLITIONISTS IN MASS CONVEN
MN AT STRACUBB
Eramvas, N. Y., Sept. B.—A mass conven
tion of loyal young men met here this morn
ing. E. F. Shepard was chosen President.
Resolutions were adopted fully endorsing
the President and his administration, as well
as the sentiments of his Springfield letter, con
demning Gov. Seymour's course, and urging
the total abolition of slavery. The convention
is well attended.
MASSACHUSETTS POLITICS.
WeßcnsTEn, Mass., Sept. 3.—The Mama.
chusetts Democratic State Convention assem
bled to-day ; about 1100 delegates being pre
sent. It. S. Spofford, of Newbnryport, was
elected President. The nomination for State
officers will probably not be mad• till after
noon.
BY THE MAILS.
OEN. GILMORE'S REPLY TO GEN./SEAN-
REGARD.
DEPARTMLNT OF TER 800TH,
Reedqnsi ten in the Field,
MOMS ISLAND, Aug. 22, 9 p. m.
40.: I have the tumor to aownowledge the
receipt of your communication of this date,
complaining that one of my batteries has opened
upon the city of Charleston, and thrown a num
ber of heavy rifle shells into that city, the in
habitants of which, of coarse, were asleep mid
iinarmed.
My letter to you demanding the surrender of
Fort Sumpter and Morris Island, and threat
ening, in default thereof, to open fore upon
Charleston, was delivered near Fort Wagner
at 11..18 o'clock, a. m., on the 21st instant, and
should have arrived at your headquarters in
time to have perreitted your answer to reach
me within
. the limit assigned—namely, four
hours. The fact that you were absent from
your headquarters at the time of its arrival
may be regarded as an unfortunate circum
stance for the city of Charleston, but it is one
for which I clearly am not responsible. This
letter bore date at my headquarters, and was
officially delivered by an officer of my staff.
The inadvertent omission of my signal ure doubt
less affords ground for special pleading, but it
is not the argument of a commander solicitous
only for the safety of sleeping women and
children and unarmed men.
Your threats of retaliation for acts of mine,
which you do not allege to be in violation of
civilized warfare, except as regards the length
of time allowed as a notice of my intentions,
are reseed by without comment. I will, how.
ever, call your attention to the well-established
principle that the commander of a place at
tacked, but not invested, having its avenues of
escape open and practicable. has no right to
amt any notice of an intended bombardment,
other than that which is given by the threat
ening attitude of his adversary. Even had this
letter not been written, the city of Charleston
has had, according to your own computation,
forty days' notice of her danger. During that
time my attack upon her defenses has steadily
progressed. The ultimate object of that attack
has at no time been doubtful.
If, under the circumstances, the life of a sin
gle non-combatant is exposed to peril by the
bombardment of the city, the responsibility
rests with those who have first failed to re
move the non-combatants, or secure tne safety
of the city, after having held control of all its
approaches for a period of nearly two years
and a half, in the presence of a threatening
force, and who afterwards refused to accept
the terms upon which the bombardment might
have been postponed. From various sources,
official and otherwise. I am led to beleive that
most of the women and children of Charleston
were long since removed from the city. B ut
upon your assurance that the city is still full
of them, I shall suspend the bombardment
until /1 teelock p. m., tomorrow, thus giving
you two days from the time you acknowledge
to have received my communication of the 21st
instant.
Very respectfully, your• ob't servant,
Q A. GILMORE,
Brigadier General Column - Wing.
G: T. BEAUREGAND, Commanding Confederate
States forces, Charleston, S. C.
NEW YORK ABOLITION STATE CONVEN-
TION
SYRACUSE, September 2,—The Union [Abo
lition] state Convention met this morning at
10 o'clock, and after forming a temporary or
ganization, took a recess till 2 o'clock, without
transacting any business of importance.
Ward Hunt was elected temporary chair
man.
In the afternoon a committee on permanent
organization was appointed, when a recess was
taken till 5 o'clock p. m.
On re-assembling. Postmaster Wakeman, of
New York, was made permanent president of
the Convention. A number of vice presidents
and secretaries, were also elected. The follow
ing ticket was then nominated :
For Secretary of the State, Colonel Peter A.
Porter, of Niagara ; for Controller, Thomas
W. Clark, Albany ; for Attorney General, Jno.
Cochrane, of New York ; for State Treasurer,
George W. Schuyler, of Tompkins ; for Judge
of the Court of Appeals, Henry R. Selden, of
Monroe ; for Canal Commissioner, Qen. Benj.
F. Bruce, of Onondaga; for State Engineer
and Surveyor, W. B. Taylor; for Inspector of
State Prisons, Jame!). K. Bates.
The resolutions adopted declare that "while
we would joyfully welcome peace, we will not
consent to a peace which involves a separation
of the Union or the recognition of the right of
any State to secede ;" denounce the action and
policy of Gov. Seymour as unpatriotic, invidi
ous, and unjust; upholds the foreign policy of
the President ; denounces the feeling which
prompted the New York riots, and invitee all
men, irrespective of party, to rally arottnd the
ticket.
THE WAR IN ARKANSAS.
zumaxnaptrius's CAVALRY DRIVEN OUT 01' EROWNEIe
VILLE—HIS COMMAND ROUTED—COL. BUR-
BRIDGE CAPTURED
ST. Louts, Sept. 2.—General Steele tele
graphs General Sholleld from Duvall's Bluff,
Arkansas, on August 26th, that our advance,
under General Davidson, has driven Marma
duke's cavalry, about 3,000 strong, out of'
Browsville, capturing Colonel Burbridge and
some privates.
At the last accounts, General Glover's bri
gade was pushing the enemy towards Bayou
Melorie.
A dispatch from Pilot Knob says that de
serters from Burbridge's command report that
Price'S forces had been driven across the Ar
kansas on the 29th ult. The rebels were in
fall retreat, and Steele and Davidson were in
hot pursuit of them.
Marmaduke's command was completely
routed and nattered, end Little Rock was
within the grasp of the Federal army.
BURNSIDE'S ARMY RAPIDLY ADVAN
CING.
The Cincinnati Commercial of Monday sage
We have late advices from Gen. Burnside's
army, indicating that his movements have
been made with extraordinary rapidity, and
that a report of decisive results may be ex
pected in a few days. His• advance is by this
time very near Knoxville, Teenessee, and , at
latest accounts the General, in person, was
pushing on with his cavalry.
THE WAR IN KENTUCKY
LottISVMLII, Sept. 2.—Hughes, with from
fifty to a hundred rebels, appeared in Burks
vine to-day.
It is reported that Hamilton, with from five
to six hundred rebels, had reachedlameston,
near Franklin sville.
FROM FORTRESS MONROE
FORTRESS MONROE, Sept. I.—Writs of elec
tion, dated August 26th, for a judge of the
First Judicial district, composed of the coun
ties of Princess Anne, Norfolk, NatiSemOnd,
Isle of Wight, &0., were received yesterday by
Mr. R. G. Staples, chief clerk to assistant
quartermaster, to be forwarded to the sheriffs
of the different counties in said district, for an
election to be held on Monday, September 28th,
to supply the place of Richard R. Baker, who
has failed to take the oath of allegiance to the
United States Government.
The following note from James T. Brady,
Esq., appeared in the N. Y. Herald:
TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.
Nzw YORK, Sept. 2, 1863.—Please state in
your columns that I am hot a candidate for
any office, and will not accept a nomination
from the Union Convention at Syracuse or any
other organization. Yours, J. T. BRADY.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
THE DRAFT IN 01110,
The report that there will be no draft in
Ohio is without foundation. The order for the
draft will be issued as soon as arrangements
are completed in the State. Officers detailed
from the departments of the Mississippi and
Cumberland to escort drafted men from Ohio
to the armies in the field, having been sent
there prematurely, were ordered to open re
cruiting offices throughout the State, giving a
kehanee to volunteers before the order for the
draft is issued. Those volunteering will be
credited to the draft when made.
THE PRODUCT OF THE DRAFT.
It is thoeght in the Provost Marshal Gene
ral's office that the present draft of one-fifth
of the first class enrolled will send about 100-
000 new men into the field, and return 20,500
deserters. , Already 12,000 deserters have been
returned out of the 116.000 men who have de
serted from the entire military force of the
liaited States during the last year and a half.
No draft has been ordered west of Pennsylva
nia, nor will be until the draft in the East shall
be MAO,
GSN. M ' CLELLAN'B OFFICIAL 'REPORT.
•
It is understood that Gen. M'Clellan has ap
plied to the War Department for leave to print
his voluminous report at his own expense.—
Permission will probably be granted to publish
the same as a private work, the War Depart
ment disclaiming any responsibility in the
matter.
TEE REPORTED ADVANCE OF LEE.
Farther reports of the movements of Lee's
army cannot be traced to any trustworty
source. Secessionists here state that Lee in
tends an attack upon Washington, which they
think will this time prove successful.
THE REBELS NORTH OP TUE RAPPAHANNOOE, BE
LOW FREDERICKSBURG.
A large number of repel cavalry have re
cently appeared along the Potomac, at Mat
thews, Cockpit and Snip Points There can
be no doubt of the existence of a large force
of rebels north of the Rappahannock, below
Fredericksburg. That section is quite pro
ductive, and the crops at this time would prove
of infinite value to the infantry. In addition
to this the facilities for smuggling are unsur
passed, and afford att opportunity for officers
to supply themselves with clothing and other
necessaries seldom enjoyed by the rebels.
GUERRILLAS salta. AT WORK.
White's cavalry still infest Loudon county
and the northern portion of Fai.-faa. Three
hundred rebel infantry are stationed at Snick
er's Gap as a support for the cavalry, and- are
actively engaged enforcing the conscription.
The cavalry is divided into small detachments.
which dash upon our trains from time to time,
and occasionally make a raid across the Poto
mac, venturing but a short distance, however,
from the river.
Yesterday morning a squad crossed at Ed.
wards' Ferry, but did very little damage.
GENERAL ROSECRANB FIRED AT.--A little
before, noon on Friday last General Rose
cruas, accompanied by members or his staff
and his little son, visited Bridgeport, where
the late extensive bridge over the Tennes
see was deatroyed. While be was there, a
rebel sharpshooter fired at him across the river,
650 or 00 yards, the ball striking the body of
a tree over hie head, and another Bred at hie
eon, the ball passing within two feet 'of' the
gallant little fellow.—Louiantlle Jour nal.
WHO IS THE SOLDIER'S REAL FRIEND':
Extract from the decision of Judge WOOO
- sustaining the stay law passed by our
Legislature in favor of the soldier:
three years
"Now, if a stay of execution for
would not be tolerated in ordinary times, did not
these circumstances constitute an emergency that
justified the pushing of legislation to the extrem es t
limit of the Constitution? No citizen could be
blamed for volunteering. He was invoked to do so
by appeals as strong as his love of country. In
the nature of things there is nothing unreasonable
in exempting a soldier's property from execution
whilst he is absent from home battling for the
supremacy of the Constitution and the integrity of
the Union. And when he has not run before he
was sent, but has yielded himself up to the Call of
his country, his 86V-sacrificin g patriotism pleads,
trumpet-tongued, for all the indulgence from his
creditors which the Legislature have power to grant.
If the term of indulgence seem long i n t hi s i mtance ,
it was not longer than the time for which the Pre
sident and Congress demanded the soldi,c.'s ser-
vices."
NATIVE AMERICANISM.
"I am not and never have been a 'Native Amor
jean' in any political sense, any more than lam or
have been a Whig, Antimason or an Abolitionist.
* * * The speech so often quoted against me,
lam Rol responsible for, It was introduced into
the debates by a Whir) reporter, in violation of the
rules of the body, which required him to submit for
revision before publication, and which he never did.
* * * I promptly denounced it, in the face of
the Convention, as I have done many a time since,
as a gross misrepresentation. * * * The Na
tive American party itself is my witneBB, Seven
years ago I was the caucus nominee for U.S
Senator. The county of Philadelphia was repre
sented by Natives. They asked whether, if elected
by their votes, I would favor their measures for
changing the naturalization laws, I answered them
NO, and they threw every vote they could command
against me and raised a shout of triumph over
their victory."—Guo. W. WOODWARD, Pittsburg,
Sept. 14, 1852_
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