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"nese States are glorious in their individuality,
but their collective glories are in the Union. By
all means, at all hazards, are they to be main
wined in their intajrrity and the fun measure of
their constitutional rights—for only solo the Union
to be preserved—only so is it worth preserving.
it is the perfection of the prismatic colors, which
blended, produce the ray of light. It is the con
pkteness of these assembled sovereignties, lacking
nothing which they have not lent for a great pur
pose, that makes the Union precious. This word
Union is a word of graciow omen- It implies
confidence and affection—mutual support and pro
tection against external dangers. It is the chosen
expression of the strongest passion of young hearts.
It is the charmed circle within which the family
dwells. it is man helping his fellow-man in this
rugged world. It is States, perfect in themselves,
confederated for mutual advantage. It is the peo
ple of States, separated by lines, and interests, and
institutions, and usages, and laws, all forming one
glorious nation—all moving onward to the same
sublime destiny, and all instinct with a common
lift. Our fathers pledged' their lives, their for
tunes, - and their sacred honors, to form this Union
—let ours be pledged to maintain it."—GEO. W.
WoonwAnD, July 4, 1851.
Principle and Conelsteney.
The Pittsburg Gazette, which recently pro
nounced Gov. Curtin to be dishonest, corrupt,
without honor, a falsifier and a hypocrite, un
worthy the respect and confidence of the peo
ple, and proclaimed that, if nominated, he
could not and ought not to receive the party
support, now flies his name as the party can
didate, and lends whatever influence it may
possess to secure his success. What kind of
persuasion was used to produce this shameless
somersault we can only conjecture. The argu
ment must have been weighty, indeed, to in
duce a change so sudden and wonderful. Bnt
of such stuff are the prominent men of that
party made. Well has the poet Mam
mon wins his way - where Seraphs might dis
pair."
Wu beim not heretofore availed ourselves of
the numerous favorable notices which our con
temporaries of the Denzocratio press of the
State have, at various times, taken of our labors
in support of the good cause in whiith we are
mutually engaged but, for once, we are
tempted to violate the rule we have laid down
in this respect, and republish the following flat
tering notice from our friend Will A. Stokes, of
the Westmoreland Republican. With a full know
ledge of our deficiencies and shortcomings, and
perfectly conscious that our friend, in the
kindness of his nature, has paid us a higher
compliment than we deserve, ire yet freely con
fess that we feel pleased and encouraged to
learn that our labors, such as they are, are
satisfactory to the public, and even appre
ciated above their real value. .
PATRIOT A2D Union. * * * * We
gladly seize this occasion to express the gene
ral voice which emphatically approves he
courageous course of that excellent pgbr,
which in every number, effectually vindicates
its just claim to its title, for its sentiments are
consistently patriotic and it defends the cause
of the Union, as alone it can be successfully
defended, by inflexible adherence to the Con
stitution which creates it. In these days of
darkness the light. of liberty still streaming
from the Democratic press, cheers the true
friends of the country and gives promise of the
coming glory of the perfect day. Among the
pm-nab which are contributing to dispel the
clouds of darknene which now overshadow the
country, honorably conspicuous is the central
organ of the Pennsylvania Democracy, which
we always read with approval, shared by thou
sands in every county in the State.—Wert
usarelareel Republican.
Absurdities and Falsehoods of Curthes
Central Organ.
It is astonishing with what facility and
shamelessness the central organ of Carlin ut
ters absurdity after absurdity and falsehood
after falsehood. If we thought it possible that
any considerable portion of the people placed
confidence enough in the paper to eredit what
it says, we should feel that the time had come
to despair of the Republic, for certainly faith
in the integrity of the Curtin organ would im
ply the grossest ignorante and the blindest
fanaticism. The assertion in last evening's
issue that the election of Woodward would at
once be regarded as a recognition and the es
tablishment of Jeff. Davis's government, while
the success of Curtin would secure the "sta
bility, power and effectiveness" of the National
Government, is at ones so silly and false that
none but a knave would utter it and none but
a fool believe. There is not a man in the State
more firmly wedded to an unbroken Union or
more determinedly opposed to the recognition
of an independent Southern government than
Geo. W. Woodward, nor is there is a man less
capable by principle, talent or influence to give
stability to the Union than the Abolition can
didate, Andrew G. Curtin.
. The same mendacious sheet charges that our
object in quoting from the law of 1833 that
part prohibiting the presence of bodies of Uni
ted States or State troops "at any plate of
election within this Commonwealth, during
the time of sueh election," was " the disfran
chismitent of the soldier." How that law
would enable us to a disfranchiee the soldier,'•
an idiot may see or a knave imagine, but we
are very certain no man of common lionesty
and common sense can tell us. Onr elib' ob
ject was to show that we are protected by law
from military oppression, and that our elec
tions must be free. Believing in the gullibility
of citizens and soldiers alike, it is by such
weak sad adaehievons inventions as these that
the Curtin than expects to carry its point,
deceive the multitude, elect the Abolition can
didate, and retain political power long enough
to linger the treasury by plunder, enslave the
people and ruin the country. We have faith
to believe that it will be disappointed, and
that neither its shallow strategy, its hypocrisy
or falsehood, can save tire Abolition party and
Curtin, its candidate, from the defeat and in
famy they deserve.
The Conservative Delegates from Brad
ford County.
It will be remembered by our readers that
the Abolition State Convention whiGh tutt at
Pittsburg on the sth of August, and in a some
what tumultuous manner nominated Andrew
G. Curtin for Governor, rejected Mr. Tracy
and his eonservative Republican colleagues
from Bradford county, and admitted the
radical claimants. The Bradford Argus, the
organ of the Tracy wing 9f the party in Brad.
ford, gives the reason for this proceeding. It
ascribes to Wm; B. Mann, of Philadelphia, as
chairman of the committee, a prominent agency
in the rejection, and speaks of him as " a man
whose vote in the convention wes somewhat
doubtful in consequence of the sum of one
thousand dollars having passed !" While we
are not willing to believe that Mr. Mann's vote
could have been rendered " doubtful" by pas
sing the paltrapum of "one thousand dollars,"
we have no resion to doubt the correctness of
the Argus in stigmatizing that section of the
party by which Mr. Tracy and his colleagues
were defeated, as "plunderers." Most of the
prominent men in that convention are known
as slippery fellows, greedy of gain, not over
scrupulous as to the means of obtaining it,
having their eyes always open for chances, and
ready for every scheme which, in the parlance
of "the ring," has " anything in it." Broken
down members of Congress and the Legisla_
ture, lobbiers, corruptionists, men whose busi
ness it is to plunder the State and National
Treasuries, who have a finger in every villain
ous scheme of robbery that is concocted at
Washington and Harrisburg, and whose faces
are as familiar to the citizens of those locali
ties es household gods, were the prime mana
gers of the convention that honored Governor
Curtin with a re-nomination—and are, there
fore, truly and aptly termed "plunderers."
The bestowers and the recipient of the nomi
nation are worthy of each other. M'Clure and
Lowry and Covode and Curtin can work easily
and cosily in the same harness, without any
danger of conscientious jostling. But to return
to Mr. Tracy and the Argus :
• gi The grand stscret of the whole matter,"
says that paper, is that Mr. Tracy, while in
the Legislature, was one of the most prominent
opposers of the fraudulent schemes to swindle the
State. He and Hon. Thomas Williams, Penny,
and others took grounds against the repeal of
the tonnage tax, whereby about three quarters
of a million of dollars of the public treasure
was voted away and given to a wealthy, arro
gant corporation. These men, had, before that
time, taken strong ground against the sale of
the State canals to a wealthy company, at the
expense of the tax payers of the Common
wealth, solely for the benefit of the fen" who
are now realizing fortunes in consequence of
a monopoly of the canals. This is the REAL
reason why Messrs. Tracy, Williams, Penny,
M'Kennnan and others were so coolly treated
by the managers and wire-pullers of that con
vention; this is the reason, and the OVIAT nee-
BON, why our delegates were rejected."
And really, considering that Col. M'Clure
was a delegate and Curtin his candidate, the
reason appears to us to be sufficient. Colonel
M'Clure, who, as Senator, took a prominent
part in favor of the repeal of the tonnage tax,
and Curtin, WhOle friends represented him as
being opposed to it, but who subsequently
signed the bill, had good cause to exclude from
the Convention Mr. Tracy, who, as a member
9f the Legislature, had opposed the repeal,
and knew every secret connected with its pas
sage and approval. Besides, M'Clure had an
old score to settle with Williams, whose caus
tic remarks in the House, applied personally
to himself, yet rankled in his bosom, and will
rankle there forever. We well remember that
scene in the House. We well remember how
the friends of repeal stared and trembled
while Williente was thundering out his ear.
easms and anathemas against M'Clure and
others, whom he plainly oharged with corrup
tion and scathed with a bitterness never ex
eeded by Randolph or Tristram Bingen in
their greatest efforts. That day will never be
forgotten by those who suffered in the conflict
and came out of it with soiled garments.
They, and their friends the eorraptionistas.
the " plunderers," as they are denominated by
the Argus—comprised a mejority of the Con
vention, and they would not forego the oppor
tunity to punish Tracy and Williams, who had
stood as obstacles in their path, exposed their
iniquities, and exerted themselves to frustrate
their schemes. These " plunderers," whose
candidate Curtin now is, are a powerful body
of men, leagued together for evil, and merci
lessly strike down every man who has the
honesty and hardihood to oppose their schemes.
They ale men entirely destitute of principle,
who have long since " thrown conscience to
the devil," and never baulk at any measure,
however profligate, by which they can advance
their owa interests, pecuniary or political.
They have now a candidate for Governor in
the field who suits them, perhaps, better than
any other upon whom the choice of the Con
vention could have fallen—a man whom expe
rience has taught their wants and ways, and
who, unfortunately for himself and the inte
rests and honor of the Commonwealth, has
fallen undttr their influence. If they succeed
in electing him, they will rule the Common
wealth to its ruin—blast its prospects and
blur its fame. To prevent so sad a result the
honest men of all partlee toast unite to defeat
them. The 13th of October will tell the tale—
tell whether the old Keystone shall fall under
the damaging rule of Curtin and his " plunder
irs,ll or stand upright under the wise adminis
tration of W.oodward and a party which has
the Constitution for its guide, and honesty as
, its motto.
Alex. H. Stephens a Union Man.
The Cincinnati Commercial, a Republican
Paper, publishes a letter from a well-known
citizen of Georgia,
who recently left that State
and is now within our lines, in which the
writer says :
"I cannot leave this connection without
reference to Alexander H. Stephen& Recently,
if he had been permitted to go to Washington.
the world would have felt his mission. Ile is
Vice President of the Southern Confederacy,
it is true, but to this moment he is a Union
man_ I was born and raised within eighteen
miles of him, and no in knows him better
thin I do; we toiled together for the Union,
but when Toombs and the Cobbs kicked noble
Georgia out of the Union, he felt that it was
his duty to play a part. That part will only
be known to that God who caused the shadow
to go upon the dial of Ahaz. But still Stephens
is a Union men and a Christian."
If this statement be true, the late mission of
Vice President Stephens, which the Abolition
oligarchy at Washington refused to consider,
might have been productive of important results,
had it been held in the proper spirit. We add
this to the thousand evidences accumulating
every day, which prove the administration—
President Lincoln's late letter to the contrary
notwithstanding—to be opposed to a settlement
of our national troubles on any fair or rational
basis. War, the adjunct of tyranny, and
tyranny the destruction of the Valois, is the
only logic of its policy.
Lincoln's Letter to the Illinois Conven-
tion.
In all ages of the world some short and pithy
sentences, some sublime utterances from our
great men, have served to individualize them
and keep their memories green more than all
their acts and deeds. Clem is immortalised
by his famous " Trod, vidi, vici." Cromwell
shares the same immortality by his more mo
dest rendering of the same text—" Veni, vidi,
.Deus vicii." Commodore Perry will be handed
down to the latest posterity by his brief dis
patch after. his 'victory en Lake Erie—" We
have met the enemy and they are ours." And
the heroin Jackson will be remembered while
the memory of our government remains, by
his famous utterance at the time of the at
tempted nullification of 'the tariff.laws by John
Calhoun—" The Federal, Vnion ; it must
and shall be preserved." But of all the great
men that the ages have handed down to us,
there is no one who has uttered so many sub
lime sayings that will go ftaehing down the
future centuries, as "A. Lincoln," by the
grace of Abolitionism and Democratic dissen
sion, accidental President of these United
States. What, for example, can equal in sim
ple logic and axiomatic force the following :
•' It is easier to pay a large sum than a lar
ger, and it is easier to pay a large sum when
you have plenty of Means than a small sum
when you have none."
But even this pales before the bright efful
gence of some passages in "A. Lincoln's" late
letter to the Illinois Convention. For instance,
in speaking of the probability of an adjust
ment of the difficulties between the North and
the South, he says:
" I do not believe that any compromise em
bracing the maintenance of the Union is now
possible. All that I learn fends to a directly
opposite belief. The strength of the rebellion
is its military, its army. That army domi
nates all the country and all the people within
its range. Any offer of terms made by any
man or men within that range in opposition to
that army; is simply nothing for the present;
because such man or men have no power
whatever to enforce their side of a compro
mise, if one were made with them.
" To illustrate: Suppose refugees from the
South and peace men from the North get to
gether in convention and / frame and proclaim a
COmpreMise embracing a restoration of the
Union. In what way can that compromise be
used to keep Gen. Lee's army out of Pennsyl
vania ? General Meade's army can keep Lee's
army out of Pennsylvania, and I think can ul
timately drive it out of existence. But no pa
per compromise to which the controllers of
General Lee's army are not agreed can at all
effect that army. In an effort at such com
promise wa would waste time, which the ene
my would improve to our disadvantage, and
that would be all."
Some might object to the first part of the
statement, and say that he had not taken the
proper means to inform himself as to the sen
timents of the South ; that in refusing pn au
dience to Vice President Stephens, who is a
well known Union man, and who was said to
have been fully empowered to treat for peace
on the basis of the old Union, he had purposely
shut the door to any accommodation whatever.
Others might question his sincerity in view of
the well known fact that when the Louisiana
planters asked whether that State might be
admitted again into the Union with all their
rights unimpaired, Mr. Lincoln replied, in ef
fect, that he could not consent to their admis
sion until they had changed their Constitution
so as to prohibit slavery. Another class might
object that the confiscation act, which takes
away all the property of every Southern
l e ader, and gives them up to the hangman's
rope, or sends them fugitives from their homes
and country, would most effectually prevent
them from accepting peace on any terms, until
a proclamation of general amnesty was offered
by "A. Lincoln," or the powers that be. Bat,
however this may be, it is certain that the
sublime truths contained in the latter para
graph quoted cannot be controverted by any
one. "Suppose refugees from the South and
peace men from the North should get together
in Convention and frame and proclaim a com
promise embracing a restoration of the Union.
In what way can that compromise, be used to
keep General Lee's army out of Pennsylva
nia ?" Sure enough ; can any thing be more
clear and to the point ? How could a few refu
gees from the South—escaped convicts, per
haps—bind the government of the Confederate
States ? Of course they could not; the con
verse is perfectly absurd,
It is rumored that now, when Gen. Meade's
army is weakened by the mustering out of the
nine months' men, and the wise distribution
of some fifty regiments through the Northern
States to enforce the draft, that General Lee
is about to outflank Meade and drive him into
the defences of Washington. How could these
miserable refugees prevent that ? The plain
est common sense can understand the utter
impossibility of such a thing. "A. Lincoln"
is undoubtedly right, and this brilliant utter
ance will no doubt be handed down from (mho
to son as a rich legacy, and perpetuate the
glorious memory of "A. Lincoln" "as long as
the earth bears a plant or the sea rolls a
wave.'
LIFE IN RICEMOND.—The Richniond Enquire.
says the supremest order of intellectual amuse
ment regnant in Richmond is the study of the
"tiger,"
at a dollar a "chip," or the recreation
of the fancy in two:dollar juleps and one dollar
"straights. Bar rooms and faro banks are
the popular institutions.
Life in Richmond is rapid. A local paper
says if the gambling and drinking go on as : t
present for two years, Richmond will be 11
faro banks up stairs, and all bar rooms on e
firet r floor, and everybody in town a king of
diamonds ors knight of the order of rn -
punch.
Two .splendid private carriages have j
been made in. toplen.,fer Ahe Bing of D.
mey—one for hims elf and the other for
queens They are c9pitrupt;e4.te be drawn
menty and ten slaves respectively. Wha
7 , lvirious n7d vOrce.,.!
NEWS, OF THE DAY.
BY TELEGRAPH.
FROM CHARLESTON.
BOMBARDMENT OF FORT MOULTRIE BY THE IRON
CLADS, &C.
Naw Yorts, September 4.—The steamer Star
of the South, from Charleston Bar on the 31st
instant, arrived at this port this morning_ She
towed the Monitor Lehigh hence to Charleston
bar, where she arrived safely.
The steamer Union, from Charleston bar on
the 31st, arrived here this morning. She lay
off Charleston bar from noon on .Mondey till
sunset. About 2i o'clock on Monday after
noon the iron-clads moved up towards Sulli
van's Island, taking a position abreast of Fort
Moultrie, upon which they opened Are. Fort
Moultrie replied, assisted by, a battery on Sul
livan's Island, also by Forts Wagner and Gregg.
General Gilmore's battery kept up a fire en
Fort Wagner. Fort Sumpter was silent, but
the rebel flag din floated over the ruins.
The result of the attack on
_Fort Moultrie
was not known when . the Union left. A per
son on board of the steamer states that Wagner
had been • silenced, and that our Monitors
passed by without paying attention to it while
en route to attack Moultrie.
An ensign of the fleet, while on night duty
in a boat, had passed up to the city without
discovering any appearance of obstructions ;
Dud the prevailing impression was that our
fleet could pass up to Charleston by a dash.
FROM CHARLESTON OIA FORTRESS MONROE-AN
OTHER ACCOUNT-SAME DATE, BUT DIFFERING
IN PACTS, &C.
'FORTRESS MONROE. Sept. 3.—Tile Steamer
Spaulding arrived here to-day from Morris
Island, whence she sailed at noon on Monday.
Among her passengers are Commodore Donna
and Lieut. Harmony, of the Nahant, who were
sent ectith by the Medical Surveyor. Commo
dore Davis has been ordered to the Nahant.
The stormy weather during the two days
previous to the departure of the Spaulding had
checked our naval operations, but all was in
readiness, awaiting favorable weather. On
Wednesday night Admiral Dahlgren went up to
Sumpter with the Monitors, Ironsides, Mahaaka
and Ottowa, but as the storm increased he was
compelled to return at 3 o'clock. Fort Moultrie
discovered the ineVeutent and fired on the Pa
tapsco. On Monday,when the Spaulding sailed,
the Weehawken was shelling Fort Gregg. The
rebels raised another gun on the ruins of Sump
ter on Saturday. On Sunday the Island bat
teries renewed the bombardment of Sumpter,
dismounting the gttns and damaging the front.
The parapet is now a useless ruin: The Mon
itor Lehigh arrived on Sunday afternoon in
fine condition. She passed through a terrible
storm, but behaved admirably. The steamer
Howe also arrived on Sunday. The operations
of Gen. Gilmore were progressing with great
vigor ; his approaches were so close to Wagner
that the combatants were throwing stones and
hand grenades. On Wednesday he drove the
enemy from the rifle-pits on the left advance
line a hundred yards and captured seventy
eight prisoners, including two officers.
The Monitors were weathering the storm
well inside the bar, the sliehore holding ad
mirably. All are in good spirits and confident
of success.
CALIFORNIA ELECTION
TUB UNION [ABOLITION] TICKET ELECTED BY
-- - - -
PROBABLY 20,000,
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3.—lncomplete re
turns from the principal counties in the State
indicate immense Union majorities. Downey,
the Democratic candidate for Governor, was
considerably ahead of his ticket, but Lowe's
majority will hardly fall below twenty thou
sand. All the counties heard from elect the
Union legislative ticket. In San Francisco
the Union majority will probably average
several thousand. The independent Union
ticket got nearly as many votes as the com
bined vote for the regular Union and Deemo
cratic tickets.
FROM NEW ORLEANS
ST. Louts, Sept. 4.—A Memphis dispatch to
the Republican says New Orleans dates to the
28th ult. had been received there.
The expedition of the Mississippi steamboats
for some point on the Gulf was nearly ready
and would start in a few days.
General Grant was to have left Vicksburg
for New Orleans on the 3181
1:011/41.110DILOS_1t1inifikill44ONCI$3 1 44030
NEW YORK, Sept. 4.—The schooner Etta,
which lately arrived here from Nassau, with a
cargo of pineappletb proves to be the pirate
Retribution, and was seised yesterday.
BY THE MAILS.
GEL KILPATRICK'S CAVALRY EXPEDI
TION.
DESTRUCTION OF THE GUNBOATS SATELLITE AND
RELIANCE
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—The expedition tin
der Gen. Kilp atrick , sent out a few der; since
to recapture, in conjunction with the rim the
gunboats Satellite end Reliance, Which re
cently fell into the hands of the rebeks,.was,
so far as the cavalry is concerned, successful.
O n T ues d a y evening, Gen_ Kilpatrick arrived
on this side of the river, at Port Conway, and
brilliantly dashed upon the enemy's pickets
under Col. Low. The rebels did not even make
a show of resistance, but rushed into a nuMber
of flat-,boats, in the wildest eonfUsion, and
landed safely on the opposite bank. If they
had made a show of fight, they would most
likely have been captured.
After the escape of the enemy, General Kil
patrick waited two hours for the co-operation
of the navy, which is understood to have been
agreed upon. The Tessels did not arrive, and
General Kilpatrick ordered a battery to open
fire upon the gunboats Reliance and Satellite.
This was done at the Waltz= of six hundred
and fifty yards. The enemy immediately
abandoned the gunboats, very fortunately for
themselves, for only a few moments elapsed
before the Satellite was in a sinking condition,
and the Reliance rendered useless. Both boats
were completely riddled by shot and shell.. The
force of Kilpatrick consisted entirely of cavalry
and two battertes of artillery. The Satellite
is sunk, and the Reliance so completely disabled
as to be beyond hope of being repaired by the
rebels.
MASSACHUSETTS DEMOCRATIC STATE
CONVENTION.
NOMINATIONS FOR STATE OFFICERS.
WORCESTER, Mass., September 3.—The Dem
ocratic State Convention was large, harmonious
and enthusiastic. Fifteen hundred and twenty
delegates were present.
Richard S. Spofford, of Newburyport, was
chosen President, and made an elaborate and
able speech on taking the chair. He urged a
union of aj,hparties for the sake of the Union
against this administration of Abraham Lin
coln.
While the committee on permanent organi
zation was out stirring speeches were made by
Judge Abbott, of Boston; Dr. Page, of Spring
field, and and Dr. George B. Lorinf, of Salem.
The spirit of the Convention was most deci
dedly expressed against the apparent purpose
of the administration in conducting the war
.for the sole object of negro emancipation, in.
stead Of the preservation of the Union and the
restoration of the Constitution.
Henry W. Paine, of Cambridge, a candidate
before the Convention for Governor, being
called for, came forward and said he
. stood for
the first time before a Democratic Convention.
Why was he here ? He knew that the Demo
cratic party had always maintained the na
tional Constitution, and had always been 'de
voted to the preservation of the Union, and
had cherished the rights of the States. It had
a record which had pledged it to the perpetu
ity of the Constitution and the Union and the
rights of the States. He was with the party.
Where else could a disciple of Daniel Nitebster
go ? There was no other door open to him
than the Democratic party through which he
could pass without dishonor and disgrace.
He spoke earnestly against centralization and
the rapidity with which the General Govern
ment was absorbing the powers of the States,
and he urged that every influence should be
brought to . bear in resistance to this fatal ten
dency.
Henry W. Paine was unanimously nominated
for Governor, and Thomas F. Plunkett, of
Pittsfield, for Lieutenant Governor.
The resolutions that were passed declare
strongly for State rights, oppose the prosecu
tion of the war for purposes of subjugation or
emancipation, and the extension of martial law
over &stes not in rebellion. They declare that
the warinis the resultut.seceseion at:the South
and aboli s tlea at theAeto ;. and the;Democratic
party would put down the one by the sword
and the other by theballot box. They pro
nounce the. Conscription act unwise and need
less, harsh, oppressive and unequal in its ope
ration, snstittirullY aPPialidllorotio Beyawr
for the: 1404 he hag takett.l The aningirce
ment of his name was received with applause.
The following persons were elected u dele
gates to the National Convention : Josiah G.
Abbott, of Boston ; Oliver Stevens, substitute:;
Erasmus Beach, of Springfield ; D. N. Carpen
ter, substitute; Isaac Davis, of Worcester;
George W. Benchly, substitute ; James D.
Thompson, of Charlestown ; Charles Heebner,
substitute.
GEN. AVERILL'S EXPEDITION.
REBEL SALTPETRE WORKS DESTROYED-JACKSON
DRIVES OUT OP POCAHONTAS, kC.
The New Tork Tribune of the 4th says:
Private dispatches received in Wheeling last
evening announce the return to Huntersville,
Randolph county, of the expedition under Gen.
Averill, recently sent out by Gen. Kelley. Gen.
AverilVe route extended through to the Coun
ties of Hardy,Pendleton,Highland,Pocahontas,
and Greenbrier. He destroyed , the saltpetre
works in Pendleton, and drove Jackson out of
Pocahontas, pursuing him to Greenbrier, near
the White Sulphur Springs. At Rocky Gap be
encountered the forces of General Jones and
Colonol Patton, and had a severe action, in
which he lost about one hundred men in killed
and wounded, including several officers. Gen.
Averill breught in quite a number of prisoners,
including many officers. He destroyed camp
Northwest," with a large amount of camp
equipage, stores, &c. A later dispatch states
that during the late action between General
Averill's form at Rocky Gap, Captain Baron
Von Koenig, A. D. C. on General Averill's staff,
was, killed, while leading an attack on the en
emy's right ; and Capt; Ewing, of Ewing's bat
tery, and Major M'Nally of the 2d Virginia
regiment, were both badly wounded.
THE *UNION MASS. MEETING AT SPRING•
FIELD.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL., Sept. 3.—The Union
mass meeting, assembled here to-day, was an
immense demonstration. The President's let
ter was read and received with demonstrations
of approval. •
Resolutions were adopted returning thanks
to the volunteers that have nobly rallied to
their country's standard in the hour of her
trouble, and declaring that in view of the ex
traordinary difficulties and embarrassments
which have environed the National and State
affairs during the present atrocious rebellion,
the efforts of the constituted authorities of the
National and State governments commanded
the highest respect for the zeal, ability and
fidelity by which they have been milted.
Speeches were made by Governor Yates,
Senators Doolittle and Trumbull, Generals
M'Clernand, Oglesby and Lane, of Indiana, and
other distinguished gentlemen.
FRANCE, MEXICO, "UNITED STATES AND
RUSSIA
The New York Herald of Friday says :
We publish to-day the important intelligence
that the French army in Mexiee has been or
dered to occupy and hold Matamoras; "on
account of the important cotton trade which
might be carried on there." Should this step
be taken by Napoleon the issue between our
government and his Majesty may be brought
to trial sooner than he anticipates.
The probability of the formation of an alli
ance, offensive and defensive, between Russia
and the United States is creating alarm in the.
European Cabinets. The Vienna Prase says
it will "affect the bearings of the Mexican and
Polish questions."
THE ELECTION IN SAN FRANISCO
Sax Fatmensco, Sept. 2.—No trade doing to
day. The, stores and, shops are generally ,
closed„..the citiaens,all attending the election.
The vote-of the city• up to 4p. in. is unprece
dentedly large. The majority for the Union •
State ticket will be about 7,000. The People's
Uniok ticket will probably be
elected, by 1 4100,majority, Telegraphic returns
from Sauramento, Nevada.. Stockton and San
Jose,, and Marysville counties, up to noon, es
timate the majority in those preejnets for the
Union State ticket at nearly two to one.
A DEMAND AND ITS REASON.
At a meeting in Leavenworth, Kansas, on the
28th ult., resolutions were adopted, deManding
the removal of Gen. Schofield from the Depart
ment of Missouri, assigning as a reason for
the demand, that "under his administratien,
Kansas has lost more peaceable citizens by cold
blooded butcheries, than were killed in Kansas
regiments at Wilson's Creek, Cane Hill, and
Prairie Grove."
DEFEAT OF THE NAVAJO INDIANS.
LEAVENWOROH, Sept. 3.—From Albuquerque,
New Mexico, papers received here, we learn
that on the 28th of July, Col. Kit Carson, with
part of the let New Mexico regiment, had a
'fight with the Navajo Indians, beyond Fort
Canby. The Indiana were defeated, with the
loss of thirteen killed, twenty wounded, and
many prisoners. '
DEATH OF THE HON. G. C. BRONSON.
SARATOGA, Sept. 3.—The Hon. Greene C.
Bronson died here, about nine o'clock this eve
ning. He has been sick only a few days.
WASHINGTON ITEMS
NEGOTIATIONS REGARDING AN EXCHANGE or PRI-
BONERS OF WAR
WASHINGTON, Sept. B.—The statement that
Commissioner Ould has terminated the nego
tiations for exchange of- prisoners, by a posi
tive declaration that the white officers of col
ored regiments will not be released or exchan
ged, is premature. The negotiatiations are
still in progress, and no definite result has yet
been reached. Meantime no exchange of en
listed men has taken place, but both parties
continue to release on parole small numbers of
this class of , prisoners.
The principal difficulty in the way of renewal
of the cartel formerly existing, or the agree
ment upon the term* of a new one, is the ques
tion as to the recognition by the rebel autho
rities of the status of negro soldiers and their
officers as prisoners of war.
POLICY OF THE ADMINISTRATION TOWARDS THE
REBELS
Parties have recently been here from Ten
nese% North Carolina, Louisiana, Texas and
Arkansas, urging most earnestly' the adoption
and promulgation by the President of the
policy in reference to the Southern States in
dicated in the letter of Secretary Seward to the
French Minister of Foreign Affairs. They rep
'want that the masses of the people of these
States are ready and anxious to return to their
allegiance to. the Federal government as soon
as they are enured of its protection. against
the retool forces. They contend, that .the ,re
quirement that slavery shall be abolished as a
pre-reipiisite for the readmission of these States
into the Union is totally unnecessary, and will
only delay a consummation devputly desired
by the whole people. .Tht imy the States
named will, after thfr readmission, adopt
emancipation laws as surely as Missouri, and
cite thepolitical re sult in the latter State as
an example of the condition of affairs in these
other States. l'he assertion of Senator Rusk,
of Texas, that if that State should be divided,
as was proposed, into four States, there would
be three free and only one slave, is pointed to
as an evidence of the ultimate emancipation of
slavery there.
These representations have had considerable
influence in Cabinet circles, and the argument
that the abolition of slavery will surely follow
the return into the Union has materially les
sened the force of the radical faction in insist
ing upon the previous abolition of slavery as a
sine qua non of the readmission of any of the
Tomtit stars of the constellation,
The. President has to-day revised the tele
graphed copy of his letter to the Illinois con
vention. The letter, as published, contains
many errors.
Renewed rumen reach in to-day from the
Upper Potomac of a rebel cavalry advance.
General Schenck had an interview with the
President this morning on military matters.
TROOPS AT ELECTIONS.
By the 95th section of the act of Assembly
of the State of Pennsylvania of 2d July, 1839,
it is enacted that
“141 - 0 body of troops in the army of the United
stateB,,or of this Commonwealth, shall be prment,
either armed or unarmed, at any place of election
within this Commonwealth, during the time of such
election.”
THE SOLDIERS' RIGHT TO VOTE.
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 tote ott election day, but
under the Constitution, to which his fealty is due,
he can acquire no right to vote elsewhm, except by
a change of residence from one district to another.
* * * The learned judge deprecates a con
struction that shall DISFRANCHISE 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 the place where they
are best 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 be said the Consti
tution has disfranchised him ? Pour of the judges
of this court, living in other parts 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 permuted'
to vote. Have they a right to charge the Consti
tution with disfranchising them ? Suck is our case
and sleek is the case of the volunteers in the army.
The right of suffrage is carefully preserved for
both them and us, to be enjoyed when we return to
the places which the Constitution has appointed for
its exercise.—Gno. W. WOODWARD.
WHO IS THE SOLDIER'S REAL FRIEND?
Extract from the decision of Judge WOOD
wAnD sustaining the stay law passed by our
Legislature in favor of the soldier:
"Now, if a stay of execution for three years
would not be tolerated in ordinary times, did not
these circumstances constitute an emergency that
justified the pushing of legislation to the extremest
limit of the Constitution ? No citizen could be
blamed for volunteering. He was invoked to do so
by appeals as strong as Ms 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 tehen he has not run before he
was sent, but has yielded himself up to the call of
his country, his self-sacrificing 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 in this instance,
it was not longer than the time for which the Pre
sident and Congress demanded the soldier's ser
vices."
NATIVE AMERICANISM.
"I am not and never have been a 'Native Amer
ican' in any political sense, any more than I am or
have been a Whig, Antimason or an Abolitionist.
* * * The speech so often quoted against me,
am not responsible for. It was introduced into
the debates by a Whig reporter, in violatiOn of the
rules of the body, which required him to submit for
revision before publication, and which he never did.
* * * Ipromptly 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 witness. Seven
years ago I was the caucus nominee for U. S.
Senator, The county of Philadelphia WO repre
sented by Natives. Tliey 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 co - aid command
against me and raised a shout of triumph over
their victory."—GEo. W. WOODWARD, Pittsburg,
Sept. 14, 1852.
THE MARKETS
'PHILADELPHIA, Jept. 4.—There is more de
mand for flour, and 8,000 bbls. extra family
were disposed of at $5 50@ i 6 00, and part on
private terms. Superfine is nominal at $475.
Corn meal and rye flour quiet. The offerings
of wheat are light. and it is in weedy demand
—sales of 5,000 bus. at $1 30@i 31 for new
red, and $1 35 for old red. Rye is dull at
886)90, and corn is MVO and in demand at
810. for mixed and 83 for yellow. Oats have
advanced. Sales of 3,000 bus. new Delaware
at 56@570., and old at 68e. Coffee is held
firm. Provisions move slowly ; sales of mess
pork at 140., hams at 1.21@ i 1811. and aides at.
7k-. Whisky advanced to's3lc.
NEW YORK, Sept. 4.—Flour firm ; sales of
1,500 bbls. at an advance of 50, 10,, for State,
which is quoted at $4 10®4 60; Ohio $5 25
®5 45 ; Southern $5 20®6 35. Wheat dull
—sales of 30,000 bus. at 85c®$1 07 for Chi
cago spring, 94c®$1 14 for Milwaukie Club,
and $1 15®1 22 for red Western. Corn firm
—35,000 bus. sold at 74®75c. Pork quiet.—
Whisky steady at 500.
DIED.
On Friday, 4th Wt., Mrs BLIZABICTII LEWIS, aged
80 years, 2 montbs and 9 days.
The funeral will take place from her residence, lUyer
alley, two doors below Market street, te•morrow after
noon at 4 o'clock.
New 2thertiotnituts.
AA GOOD GIRL can have a good place,
at good wages, by calling on J.O. YOUNG,.
sep4.lt •Sit.the Prothonotary's Office, Liarrisbarg.
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
BoToilitoundrel, on Wednesday night, cut and ruined
the ho attached to the SPRINKLER. I will pay the
alone reward for the apprehension and conviction of
the perpetrator of the outrage.
sep43t E. O. SHAEFFER,
VOA, BBERIFF.—Frank A. Murray
wiu be a eau/Hate before the coming D emo cratic
County Conrentfoo, for nomination for the office of
Sheriff of Dauphin county, and 11112 be obliged to the
Delegates for their support. lep3-600-