RATES OF ADVERTISINQ.
Four lines or less constitute half a Square. Right lines
or more than four, constitute a square.
Half eq., one day..— $0 30 OUR eq., one day. $0 BO
one week...- 120 cc one week.... 200
I one month.. 300 " one month— 600
three months 500 " three months 10 00
six months.. 800 cc six months.. 10 00
• one year.-- 12 00 cc one year 20 00
iCT Bwfiness notices Inserted in the LOCAL coLunn,
1,-fore marriages and deaths, TEN CENTS PEE Liss for
run Dmertiou. To merchants and others advertising
year, itssrat Lerma will be offered.
3t r n. ...tier or insertions must be designated On
e an VerlaNemelit. •
i rr Marriages and Deaths will be inserted at the same
-atea as regular advertisements.
Business (ants.
ROBERT SNODGRASS )
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
office Nora Third street, third door above Mar
ket, Harrisburg, Pa.
N. D.—Pension, Bounty and Military claims of all
kinds prosecuted and collected.
Defer to Hons. John C. Kunkel, David Mumma, 3r.,
and K A. Lamberton. myll-d&wenn
WM. H. MILLER,
AND
IL E. FERGUSON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
OFFICE IN
S. 110 EMAKER'S BUILDINGS
SECOND STREET,
BETWEEN WALNUT and MARKET SQUARE,
ap-29w&d Nearly opposite the Buehler House.
T HO S. C. MAODOWELL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MILITARY CLAIM AND PATENT AGENT.
Office in the Exchange, Walnut st., (Up Stairs.)
Having formed a connection with parties in Wash
ington City, wno are reliable business men, any busi
ness connected with any of the Departments will meet
with immediate and careful attention.
WEICHEL,
SURGEON AND OCULIST,
RESIDENCE THIRD NEAR NORTH STREET
D R .
Ile is now folly prepared
to attend promptly to the
duties ef profession in all its branches.
ALO AND VIDE 81100118SFUL MEDICAL 31 xraiensErs
justifies him in promising full and ample satisfaction to
all who may favor himwitla a call, be the disease Chronis
or any other nature.
MILITARY CLAMS AND PEN
SIONS.
The undersigned have entered into an association for
the collection of Military Claims and the securing of
Pensions for wounded and disabled soldiers.
Muster-in and Mnster-ent Rolls, officers' Pay Rolls,
Ordnance and Clothing, returns, and all papers pertain
ing to the military service will be made out properly
and expeditiously.
Office in the Exchange Buildings, Walnut between
Second and Third streets, near Omit's Hotel. Harris
burg, Pa. cr. - , THOS C MACDOWELL,
je2s-dtf THOMAS A. MAGUIRE.
S ILAS.
WARD.
O. 11, NORTH THIRD ST., HARRISBURG.
STEINWAY'S PIANOS,
MELODEONS, VIOLINS, GUITARS,
Banjos, Flutes, Fifes, Drums, Accordecina,
STRTNGS, SHEET AND BOOR MUSIC, &c.; &C.,
PHOTOGRAPH FRAMES. ALBUMS,
Large Pier and Mantle Mirrors, Square and Oval Prams'
of every description made to order. Regailding dons.
Agency for Howe's Sewing Machines.
17" Sheet Music sent by Mail. octl-1
TORN W. GLOVER,
MERCHANT TAILOR!
Has just received from New York, an assort
- ment of
SEASONABLE GOODS,
which he offers to hia enstonterg and the public el
nov22) MODERATE PRICES. dtt
T COOK, Merchant Tailor,
s 2'i CHESNUT ST., between Second and Front,
Has just returned 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 Mann
Clothing and Gentlemen's Furnishing Goods.
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DENTISTRY.
D. I. GILDER, B. D. %.,
N 0 . 119 MARKET STREET,
4 44 ii.
ZBY & KUNKEL'S BUILDING, UP STAIRS.
janB-tf
RELIGIOUS BOOK STORE
TRACT AND SRN DAY SCHOOL DEPOSITORY,
E. S. GERMAN.
IT SOUTH SECOND STREET, ABOVE CHESNUT,
lIARILISBIIRCI,
Depot for the sale of Stereoscopes,StereoscopieViews,
Music and Musical Instruments. Also, subscriptions
taken for religions publications. no3o-d7
0HN:4....W. MARTIN ,
FASHIONABLE
CARD WRITER - ,
HERR'S HOTEL, HARRISBURG, PA.
Al/manner of VISITING, WEDDING A1V13137151-
NESS CADS executed in the most artistic styles and
most reasonable terms. decl4-dtf
UNION HOTE L,
Ridge Avenue, corner of Broad street,
HARRISBURG, PA.
The undersigned informs the public that he has re
cently renovated and refitted his well-known "'Union
Hotel" on Ridge avenue, near the Round House, and is
prepared to accommodate citizens, strangers and travel
era in the best style, at moderate rates.
Ilis table will be supplied with the best the maskets
afford, and at his bar will be found superior brands of
liquors and malt beverages. The very beat accommo
dations for railroaders employed at the shops in this
vicinity. ral4 atq HENRY BOSTGEN.
FRANKLIN HOUSE
BALTIMORJ, MD.
This pleasant and commodious Hotel has been tho
roughly re-fitted and re-furnished. It is pleasantly
situated on North-West cornet* Howard and Franklin
streets, a few doors west of the Northern Central Rail
way Depot. livery attention paid to the comfort of his
vests. G. DEISENRING, Proprietor,
lel2-tf (Late of Feline Grove. Pa.)
T REO. F. SCHEFFER,
BOOK, CARD AND JOB PRINTER,
NO 18 MARKET STREET, HARRISBURG.
Er Particular attentiod paid to printing, ruling and
'binding of Railroad Blanks, Manifests, Insurance Poll.
vies, Checks, Bill-Heads, $c. Wedding, Visiting and Business Cards printed at very
low prices and in the best style. inn2l
'TAILORING.
4ur clo Km, 4:31- 3.
The subscriber is ready at NO. 94, MARKET ST.,
four doors below Fourth street, to make -
MEN'S AND BOY'S CLOTHLNG
In any desired style, and with skill and promptness.
Persons wishing cutting done can have it done at the
shortest notice. ap2T-d
CHARLES F. VOLLMER,
UPHOLSTERER,
Chestnut street, farts doors above Second,
(OPPOSITE WASHINGTON HOSE HOUSE,)
Is prepared to furnish to order, in the very best style of
workmanship. Spring and Hair Mattresses, Window Our
tainsl Lounges, and all other articles of Furniture in his
Sue, on short notice and moderate terms. Having ex-
Perience in the business, he feels warranted in asking a
eke° of public patronage, con fi dent of his ability to give
tatiefaction. jazill-dtf
00 0P T R'S GELATINE.--The beat
article in the market, just reeeived and for sale by
marl4-tf WM. DOCK Ja
MOTIONS.—Quite a variety of useful
and entertaining artistes—thee at
: '11';'; :01:
VVEBSTER'S ARMY .AND NAVY
POCKET DICTIONARY.
het received and for sale at
BCHEFFERI BOOKSTORE
NEW ORLEANS SUGAR !—FutsT IN
THE MARXIST I .—Yor sale by
412 WM. DOCK Js., & CO.
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DR. SWEET'S
INFALLIBLE LINIMENT,
THE
GRFA'A. hATERNAL REMEDY,
FOR RHEUMATISM, GOUT, NEURALGIA,
LUMBAGO, STIFF NECK AND JOINTS,
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PILES, HEADACHE, and ALL RHEU
MATIC and NERVOUS DISORDERS.
Dr. Stephen Sweet, of Connecticut,
The great Natural Bone getter.
Dr. Stephen Sweet, of Connecticut,
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scar.
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praise it.
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Is truly a " friend in need," and every family should
have it at hand.
Dr. Sweet's Infallible Liniment
Is for sale by all Druggists. Price 25 cents.
RICHARDSON ec, Co.,
Sole Proprietors, Norwich, Ct.
For sale by all Dealers. ap2O eow-d&w
apting.
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PENNSYLVANIAI
STEAM DYEING ESTABLISHMENT,
104 DIARICIT STll.lllll',
BETWEEN FOUB:2H AND FIFTE,
HARRISBURG PA.,
Where every description of Ladies , and Gentlemen , "
larments, Piece Goods, &G., sre Dyed, Cleansed, and
Unshed in the bast manner and at the shortest notice.
no9-d&nly DODGI & 00., Proprietors.
F. WATSON,
MASTIC WORKER
AND
PRACTICAL CEMENTER,
Is prepared to Cement the exterior of Buildings 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 frost. 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 , Candlass, residence, Allegheny City,flnished
five years.
Calvin Adams, residence, Third street, finished four
years.
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 year's.
Orders received at the office of B. M'Eldowney, Paint
Shop, 20 Seventh street, or please address
T. F. WATSON,
mayl6—tf P. O. Box 13A. Pittsburg, Pa.
AMS! ! ! I
20,000,1b5. Composed of the following Brands
just received
NEWBOLD'S—Celebrated.
NEW JERSEY—SeIect.
EVANS & SWIFT'S-Superior.
MICHINER'S EXCELSlOR—Canvassed.
MICRINER'S EXCELSIOR—Not canvassed.
IRON ClTY—Canvassed.
IRON CITY—Not canvassed.
PLAIN HAMS—Strietly prime.
ORDINARY HAMS—Very good.
jig" Every Ham sold will be guaranteed as represen
ted. WM. DOCK, jr., & CO.
SUPERIOR STOCK OF LIQUORS.-
Wm. DOCK, da., & CO., are now able to offer 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 :
WHISKY -IRIS H, 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 & 00. have on band a large variety of
Wines, Whisky and Brandy, to which they invite the
particular attention of the public. -a . *:
MESSRS. CHICKERING & CO.
HAVE AGAIN OBTAINED THE
GOLD MEDAL!
• AT THM
MECHANICS' FAIR, BOSTON;'=`
YELD PRICEDIS4I WM,
OVER SlXry COMPETITORS!
Wareroom for the CHIOKERINIII PIANOS, at Harris
burg, at 92 Market street,
" 2" I N • ItNOCTIM 2 B MUSIC STORN.
WAR ! WAR l --BRADY, No. 62
V V Market street, below Third, has received a large
aseortment of SWORDS, SSEDIRS and BRLTS, - which he
will soli very low aule.o dtl
EEXCELSIOR! !-SUGAR CURED
HAMS !—A Delicious Ham, cured expressly for
family use. They are superior to any now in the mar
ket. 1ntY 24 .1 WM. DOCK, he.) & CO.
HARRISBURG, PA:, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18. 1863
T H E
Weekly "Patriot & Union,"
THE CHEAPEST PAPER PUBLISHED IN
PENNSYLVANIA!
AND
THR ONLY DEMOCRATIC PAPER PUBLISHED AT
THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT !
FORTY-FOUR COLUMNS OF READING. MAT-
TER EACH WEEK!
AT THE LOW PRICE OF ONE DOLLAR
AND FIFTY CENTS !
WHEN
SUBSCRIBED FOR IN CLUBS OF NOT LESS
THAN TEN COPIES 70 ONE ADDRESS!
We have been compelled to raise the club subscription
price to one dollar and fifty cents in order to save our
selves from actual loss. Paper has risen, including
taxes, about twenty-five per cent., and is still rising;
and when we tell our Democratic friends, candidly, that
we can no longer afford to sell the Weekly PATRIOT AND
UNION at one dollar a year. and must add fifty cents or
stop the publication, we trust they will appreciate our
position, and, instead of withdrawing their subscrip
tions, go to work with a will to increase our list in every
county in the State. We have endeavored, and shall
continue our efforts, to make the paper useful as a party
organ, and welcome as a news messenger to every fam
ily. We flatter ourselves that it has not been without
some influence in producing the glorious revolution in
the politics of the State achieved at the late election ;
and if fearlessness in the discharge of duty, fidelity to
the principles of the party, and an anxious desire to pro
mote its interests, with some experience and a moderate
degree of ability, can be made serviceable hereafter, the
Weekly PATRIOT AND UNION will not be less useful to
the party or less welcome to the txmily circle in the fu
ture than it has laeen in the past. We confidently look
for increased encouragement in this great enterprise,
and appeal to every influential Democrat in the State to
lend us his aid in running our supscription 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 fearless central organ, we make
this appeal to them for assistance with the fullest confi
dence of success.
The same reasons which induce us to raise the price
of the Weekly, operate in regard to the Dailypaper, the
price of which is also increased. The additional cost to
each subscriber will be but trifling; and, while we can
not persuade ourselves that the change necessarilymade
will result in any diminution of our daily circulation,
yet, were we certain that such would be the conse
quence, we should still be compelled lo make it, or suf
fer a ruinous loss. Under these circumstances we must
throw ourselves upou the generosity, or, rather, the
justice of the public, and abide their verdict, whatever
it may be.
The period for which many of our subscribers have
paid for their paper being on the eve of expiring, we
take the liberty of issuing this notice, reminding them
of the same, in order that they may
;RENEW THEIR CLUBS.
We shall also take it as an especial favor if our present
subscribers will urge upon their neighbors the fact that
the PATRIOT AND UNION IS the only Democratic paper
printed in Harrisburg, and considering the large amount
of reading matter, embracing all the current news of
the day, and . '
TELEG-RAPIEIC DISPATCHES
from everywhere up to the moment the paper goes to
press, political, miscellaneous, general and local news
market reports, is decidedly the
CHEAPEST NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN
THE STATE!
There is scarcely a village or town in the State in
which a club cannot be raised if the proper exertion be
made, and surely there are few places in which one or
more energetic men cannot be found who.are in favor of
'the dissemination of sound Democratic doctrines, who
would be willing to make the effort to raise a club.
DEMOCRATS OF THE INTERIOR !
Let us hear from you. The existing war, and the sp•
proaching sessions of Congress and the State Legisla
ture, are invested with unusual interest, and every man
should have the news.
TERMS.
DAILY PATRIOT AND UNION.
Single copy for one year, in ad vance.......;......E6 00
Single copy during the session of the Legislature.. 2 00
City subscribers ten cents per week.
Copies supplied to agents at the rate of 11 60 per hun
dred.
WEEKLY PATRIOT AND UNION,
Published every Thursday.
Single copy one year, in advance $2 00
Ten copies to one address 15 00
Subscriptions may commence at any time. PAY AL
WAYS IN ADVANCE. We are obliged to make this
imperative. In every instance cash -must accompany
subscription. Any person sending us a club of twenty
subscribers to the Weekly will be entitled to a copy for
his services. The price, even at the advanced rate is
so kw that we cannot offer greater inducements than
this. Additions maybe made at any time to a club of
subscribers by remitting one dollar and fifty cents
for each additional name. It is not necessary to send
us the names of those constituting a club, as we cannot
undertake to address each paper to club subscribers
separately. specimen copies of the Weekly will be sent
to all who desire it.
0. BARRETT & CO., Rarrisburg, Ps
N. B.—The following law, passed by Congress in 18013,
defines the duty of Postmasters in relation to the de
livery of newspapers to club subscribers
(See Lettle, Brown ¢ Co.'s edition of the Laws of 1860,
page 38, chapter 131, section 1.)
“Provided, however, that where packages of new pa
persor periodicals are received at any post office directed
to one address, 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 to 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
cheerfaliyaccommoaate club subscriber; and the latter
should take care that the postage, which 'is but a trifle
each case, be paid in advance. Send on the clubs
INDEPENDENCE ISLAND.
Messrs. BECKER & F &LH, Proprietors, announce to
the citizens of Harrisburg that this cool and delightful
Summer retreat is now oven for visitore. Accommoda
tions will be furnished to parties and pic-nits at reason
able terms, a dancing platform having been erected f , r
their special use. Season tickets for families, good for
one year, $l.OO
No improper characters admitted, and no intoxicated
person will be permitted to visit the Island.
A Ferry Boat plies constantly between the Island and
the foot of Broad street, West Harrisburg. jel3-3m
1 . 1 ASKE TS!
.IJ LAMES TRAVELING,
MARKET,
• 810100 L,
PAPER,
KNIFE,
CLOTHES,
ROUND,
CHILDREN'S,
CAKE,
For sale low, by
jel2
M ACK E R EL! •
MACKEREL, Noe. 1, 2 and 3, in all sized packages—.
new, and each package warranted. Inet received, and
for sale low by • WM. DOCK Jr., & CO.
BLACKING I !—MASON'S "CHALLarrez
IlLdoxrao.”-100 GRose, assorted size , jnst
seived and for sale, wholesale and retail.
walk DOOR. 7i.. & CO .
PHOTOGRAPH A LBUMS.—A large
and beautiful assortment of Photograph Albums
just received and for sale cheap ; at KNOOIiE'B,
i 79 93 Market street.
WM. DOCK, Jr., & Co
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FRIDAY MORNING, SEPT. 18 , 1863.
DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN SONG.
Tee, we'll rally round the Flag, boys,
Bally ot.ce again,
Shouting for Woodward and for Freedom;
We'll rally from the hillsides,
We'/1 gather from the plains,
Shouting for Woodward and for Freedom !
The Union forever' hurrah! boys, hurrah!
Down with Oppression,
Up with the Law!
While we rally round the Flag, boys,
Itally once again,
Shouting for Woodward and for Freednm !
We are rallying to the polls, boys,
Three hundred thousaod more,
Shouting for Woodward and Freedom;
And we'll march in solid ranks,
As our fathers did of yore,
Shouting for Woodward and for Freedom !
The ballot box forever! hurrah! boys, hurrah!
Down with Oppression,
Up with the Law !
While we rally round.the p 3115, boys,
Rally once again,
Shouting for Woodward and for Freedom !
We will welcome to our number
The honest, true and brave,
Shouting for Woodward and for Freedom;
Althouga he may be poor,
He shall never be a slave.
Shouting !Jr Woodward and for Freedom !
The Union forever, &c.
We will hurry to the polls, boys,
From the Fast and from the West.
Shouting for Woodward and for Freedom ;
And we'll teach Oppression's crew,
With the Niggers and the rest,
To shout for Woodward and for Freedom !
The ballot box frier,. & 0.
TEE PRESIDENT'S PROCE:I3I.47Vb
From the New York World
The startling proclamation of Mr. 1::;•
suspending the privilege of the writ of habeas
corpus throughout the whole land in all cases
where, by the authority of the President of the
United States, any military, naval, or civil
officers hold persons under their command or
in their custody, is the most monstrous stretch
of illegal and ungranted power which the
swelling audacity of the Chief Magistrate has
yet permitted to, himself. Its authority is pro
fessed to be derived from an act of Congress,
its scope is pretended to he confined to certain
specified classes of offenses and persons. It is,
in fact, an usurpation of ungiven power. It
can, in fact, without stretching,cover and shield
the grossest outrage upon statute law, upon
the Constitution, upon civil rights and personal
liberties older than the Constitution, guaran
teed by it, but derived from sources higher
than any government or any law. And this is
not the language of denunciation, it is the sim
plest phrase of description.
We say nothing now of the fact that every
judicial, decision ever made in our supreme
tribunal holds that the suspension of the writ
is a legislative function, not to be delegated,
and, except by a Republican Congress, hitherto
undelegated ; that it cannot be delegated to the
Executive, nor become in any manner a lawful
executive act.. Congress has assumed- the
power of delegation, and Mr. Lincoln has al
ready exercised it. That usurpation is not ex
clusively his own, and is not new.
There is a law of Cot grass under which
President Lincoln assumes to act. He quotes
it, and professes to derive his authority and
justification from it. But that act, itself a
stretch of authority, has, after all, its own re
strictions. It does not confer unlimited power.
Mr. Lincoln would make it appear that his
conception of "public safety" is the only limit
and term which it prescribes to him. Though
the first draft is over, its difficulties surmoun
ted, and no new draft announced, Mr. Lincoln
alleges the requirement of "public safety,"
and announces the universal suspension of the
writ. But the act which, bearing his own sig
nature, we may be permitted to deem it his
duty to execute, has other limitations and re
quirements, of which he makes no mention.—
Their mention would have been self-stultifica
tion as well as the confession and trumpeting
of his usurpation. The second section of this
act provides "that the Secretary of State and
the Secretary of War be, and they are hereby,
directed to furnish to the judges of the circuit
and district courts a list of the names of all
persons, citizens of States in which the adminis
tration of the laws has continued unimpaired in
the said federal courts, who are now, or may
hereafter be, held as prisoners of the United
States, as State or political prisoners, or other
wise than as prisoners of war;" and if a grand
jury fails to find an indictment or other pro
ceeding against such person, "it shall be the
duty of the judge of said court forthwith to
make an order that any such person desiring a
discharge from said imprisonment be brought
before him to be discharged ; and every officer
of the United States having custody of such
prisoner is hereby directed immediately to
obey and execute said judge's order."
Something more, then, than a conviction of
what "public safety" requires is demanded by
this law under which President Lincoln pro
fesses to act. Congress has declared that all
arrests, detentions, and imprisonments under
this authority and in spite of this suspension
shall be promptly made known to the courts of
justice, that the accused, and the imprisoned,
and the detained shall be liberated, unless
presented by a jury or convicted by a jury
in the ancient and righteous way. This,
act, though suspending one remedial pro
cess, one peculiar remedy against unlaw
ful imprisonment, and thereby preventing
the enlargement of the accused traitor, or con
spirator, or conscript, or deserter, or citizen
until after legal trial and acquittal, does not
justify arrest without warrant, does not justify
imprisonment without trial, does not justify a
denial of the sacred right of trial by jury. Yet
all these , outrages already have been heaped
upon American citizens; heaped upon the
guilty, to whom all of justice is due, heaped
upon the innocent, to whom no protection of
law should be denied. And we have been
mocked from the Capitol with shambling de
fenses of these crimes, whose utter indefensi
bleness this proclamation now confesfes in the
very act of oovering them with its vain show
of authority and its paramount iniquity. That
act, whatever its own perilous stretch, did
nevertheless demand the removal of every pro
ceeding to the civil courts, where justice yet
lingers—did nevertheless demand of the im
prisoning powers indictment and . conviction
for offenses against written and established
laws.
It is the operations of there courts in the
cases of conscript minors and of other question
able detentions, operations peaceful, judg
ments willingly obeyed by the people, some
times rightfully remanding men to military
custody and sometimes restoring them to their
homes, and diffusing amongst us a sense of
protection and safety within the boundaries
and muniments of law, which two years of de
pendence upon mere executive will and pleas,
ure had shaken ; it is these operations of jus
tice, in the aggregate the country over depri
ving.our armies of not half a regiment of sol
diers, and now almost concluded by the conclu
sion of the first draft itself, which are the only
conceivable cause of this proclamation.
PRICE TWO CENTS
Let speech be tame, and yet answer if this
proclamation is not an usurpation of ungranted
power
And we further say that it is an usurpation
of such vast and illimitable proportions that
it can cover any outrage upon the rights of
American citizens. What the administration
has done without the shield of this proclama
tion's authority it is safe to assume that it will
not hesitate to do in virtue of its protection.
But what is its assigned scope? Whom does
it assume and profess to reach ? Ail persons
"held by the authority of the President, under
the command or in the custody of the military,
naval, or civil officers of the United States, or
any of them, either as prisoners of war, spies,
or eiders or abattors of the eaemy, or officers,i
soldiers or seamen, enrolled, drafted, or mus
tered, or enlisted in, or belonging to, the land
or naval forces of the United States, or as de
serters therefrom, or otherwise amenable to
military law, or to the rules and articles of
war, or to the rules and regulations prescribed
for the military or naval services by the autho
rity of the President of the United States, or
for resisting a draft, or for any other offence
against the military or naval service."
What offence, real or pretended, will this
not cover ? What man will this not reach ?
Whom will this not shut out from the justice
dispensed in civil courts ? What law is not
overridden ? Whose life, liberty and property
are not suspended upon the executive will and
pleasure? Again we say, this is not the lan
guage of denunciation. We seek for the sim
plest terms of description. For in merely the
cases arising under the draft (and this is but
one small field of operation) does it not pre
clude any and every inquiry by the courts into
the legality of any set of the numerous pro
vost marshals and their deputies, charged with
the enforcement of the conscription ? Does it
not assume to guarantee the wisdom, modera
tion, and infallibility of these numerous sub
nedinate officers ? We must admit that they
e • liable to err through ignorance, passion,
prejudice, or incapacity ; does it not deny all
redress to persons aggrieved by their wrongs?
Thus m r the action of the provost mar
shals and their deputies final, does it not both
declare their judgment infallible and their
virtue above temptation ?
Suppose a provost marshal, influenced by
motives of party malignity, or from a mistake
in personal identity, seizes in hie dwelling a
man who hes never keen drafted,and impresses
him o the mili, .ry service. Does not this
suspension of the habeas eorups take away from
the citizen thus unjustly or mistakenly im
pressed all power of bringing the facts before
a tribunal competent to discharge him ? Is
every provost marshal supposed to be so well
acquainted with every man in his district that
he can never confound one man with another?
In the multiplicity of his business is it im
possible that he should ever overlook the fact
that a drafted man had been exempted for
cause, and arrest him by mistake ? And if
.such mistakes, or any mistakes, are made, can
they, now be rectified by the impartial and dis
interested judges of the courts, whose action
would be confined to a simple inquiry into the
facts ? The denial of redress in merely such
oases is a piece of monstrous injustice. A cid•
zen does not need to be a - lawyer, he does not
need to have bestowed a minute study on the
Constitution, to decide that if his rights and
liberty are held by this frail tenure, our form
of government never deserved the encomiums
which admiring statesmeh and publicists have
been accustomed to bestow upon it.
But this is merely the suggestion of a sin
gle class out of many similar cases which may,
nay, which must arise under only two words of
proclamation—"soldiers," "enrolled." It
is only one drop from a fountain of injustice.
`Alone and singly it should scald and quicken
the public sense. But it is not drop by drop
that Mr. Lincoln has chosen to wear away the
foundations of our liberty. He lets loose upon
them the whole stream of wrong at once, cou
pling together such phrases as cover past usur
pations and outrages, and grouping such pars
ticular descriptions of persons and offences as
are the prediction of new oppressions, as if he
would fain let the torrent sweep them and us
all together into the sea of anarchy. But Mr.
Lincoln has forgotten that the fousdations of
the rights of American citizens are all that
uphold their Chief Magistrate. Conscious of
a purpose to wield this illimitable and despo
tic power, only for the restoration of the Union
and the overthrew of its enemies, Mr. Lincoln,
however, may- have blinded himself to the ille
gality of its assumption and the extent of its
peril. Let it be granted that we are unjust to
his intentions in suspecting him of gathering
to his grasp powers which he himself must ad
mit might satisfy a Cmsar and suffice to the
ambition of a Napoleon. Let it be absurdly
supposed for one instant that the people of
the North, loyal, liberal of life and treasure,
are willing to surrender their liberties, their
judgments, their freedom of speech and politi
cal action to the arbitrary pleasure and unre
strained judgment of a most benevolent and
wise Chief Magistrate. g Let it be supposed
that they can for et what the logic of events
and the languagE of authority have alike ad
monished us of, and still it would remain our
duty to warn that Chief Magistrate that not
, upon his sense of justice, not upon his benev
olence, not upon his wisdom, now are suspen
ded our essential rights and liberties. The
power which he has grasped he has also scat
tered to a thousand weaker hands and weaker
brains than his own. Not now the Chief Mag
istrate alone may be the abider of law and
life and liberty, but every "military, naval and
civil officer of the United States," in caprice,
in foolishness, in revenge, in madness, in par
tisan passion and hate, may unlock the, arse
nals of despotic power and shut , upon Ameri
' Can citizens the gates of the temples of Jus
tice.
ANOTHER BLOW AT LIBERTY.
(From the New York Newe.]
The writ of habeas corpus is suspended
throughout the land. The entire North has
been outlawed, and our judicial structure, by
one sweep of the Presidential pen, has been
demolished. We live hereafter under martial
law. Any one wearing the Federal uniform
can arrest a citizen "for any offence against
the military," and the Courts of law shall have
no power to intervene. The once free and in
dependent States now form one vast military
camp, and all that remains of a republican
government is a memhry and a name.
* * * * *
What means a suspension of habeas corpus
upon the eve of momentous State elections ?
The Federal arms are everywhere in the ascen
dant. The administration has passed scathe
less, except of moral injury, the ordeal of con
scription ; the most odious, thus far, of its
measures. The North is inoffensive in the
face of provocation ; sullen, perhaps, but sub
missive ; passive and deprecatory of- further
injustice and insult. The people are willing
and anxious to submit their cease the the bal
lot-box, and neither turbulence nor violence
menace the general repose. Why, then, sus
pension of habeas corpus? Is it to provoke
the collision that the people would avoid ? Is
it because the masses are too obedient and
humble, and by their calm propriety thwart
the intentions of tyranny and leave no pretext
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for oppression ? Does the despot chafe at the
good nature and forbearance of his subjects ?
If not intended as a goad to popular resent
ment, the proclamation seems strangely inop
portune.
Perhaps, like Gessler's cap, it conveys but a
challenge to startle the Tells of the republic
from their apathy, that they may be marked
and dealt with. If it means anything it means
danger to the elective franchise. "Bend,
slaves, to Gessler's cap !" if you will, but cling
to your elective franchise, New York, Penn
sylvania and Ohio are more difficult than Maine
to be moulded by fanaticism. Hence the pro
clamation
11 - 0 W ABOLITION BTORIES OF SORE' .
OUTRAGES ARE MANUF-4UTURED.
We have received a communication from
Washington, from a New England gentleman,
who declares that he writes from a sense of
duty, giving an account of the manner in which
Abolition sentiment is manufactured, that, to
say the least, is curious, if true, and we see no
reason to doubt its veracity. The writer says,
in substance, that in June last he was in a
small village, a few miles from Nashville, Ten
nesse. At the hotel there was a smart Yankee
correspondent of a radical Philadelphia paper,
with whom he became intimate, so much so
that the correspondent before sending them
away, requested Ms judgment upon them.
The writer says he was perfectly dumb
founded by one, in which was revived a secesh
outrage, localized in the very village both were
in, and about the very date. Shooting help
less old men and women, and violating daugh
ters of Union men, hanging fathers in sight of
their children, &c, formed the topics, and
were dressed up with develish ingenuity to
"curdle the blood" of the reader. One corres
pondent said, "You surely are not going to
send that to any editor in Pennsylvania, are
you ?" Certainly," was the reply ; "we know
that the Northern people are opposed to an
Abolition war, and we must have something to
spit in the faces of the infernal Copperheads.
Why, sir, one such narrative as I have just
read to you would do more towards silencing
a d—d Copperhead than the best speech ever
Wendell Phillips matte, or all the letters Gree
ley ever wrote. I tell you, if we intend to
wipe out sla,veholders we have got to make the
Northern people mad, and silence the Copper
heads. I trust I have done something myself,
and I mean to do more. Tell the truth, sir !
Why, we must do anything to subdue the
South !"
The foregoing, our friend says, is the ,Phila
delphian's exact language, and he reports it
to show what an infernal spirit actuates the
radical journalists. This young man, he ob
serves, was apparently of mild disposition,
companionable and obliging, but on the sub
ject of the war was a perfect monomaniac.—
Our correspondent expressed his belief that
if the great body of the people of the free States
for a moment understood all the instrumental
ities that have been at work to madden them,
there would be such a storm of indignation set
in motion as would astonish all demagogues at
the next appeal to the ballot box, when those
bits of paper
"Execute a freeman's nod.
As li,htning does the will of God. ,,
—Boston Post
WiscosslN.—There is a break in the dis
union party in Wisconsin. Gov. Solomon was
cheated out of the nomination upon receiving
a majority of the votes in the convention; and
this and other causes have dissatisfied the Re
publicans. The main cause, however, is the
disunion policy of the administration. The
Milwaukee News reveals the sole offence in the
following paragraph:
Seven out-and-out administration journals
in this State refuse to support the Republican
State ticket, nominated at Madison on the 19th.
One of these is edited by a deputy provost
marshal. Two of the others are owned by men
who are indebted to the administration for
valuable commissions. Two of the others are
consistent German Republican papers. The
remaining two are Union Republican organs.
Six of the seven supported the Republican
candidate for Governor two years ago, the other
not being then in existence. Still two other
consistent Republican papers spit upon the
convention and denounce it as a body of trick
sters, but support the tickes as "a choice of
evils."
_
There may be others, but. the above are all
that we have noticed..
A RADICAL OPINION OF THE ADMINISTRATION
—ln the Westliche Post published at St. Louis,
and the most influential radical German Aboli
tion paper in Missouri, we find the following:
"We spoke to an old soldier of the 12th
regiment, who had carried a musket in the
service of liberty since the commencement of
the war, and we heard him say " May my
right hand wither before it ever again throws
a ticket for Abe Lincoln into the ballot box,
and may my lips be struck dumb, if I ever
pronounce that name otherwise than with
contempt." •
"To such a pass has a weak brained and weak
spirited Republican administration brought
affairs in Missouri, that it has incurred the ha
tred and the disgust of all true Union men,of all
ema,ncipationists, and of all those who are hon
estly in favor of liberty."
NEXT GENERATION TO BE SRORT.—It is the
effect of war on human stature. Dr. Bell says:
"That if the curse of war be long entailed on
a nation, the physical energies of the people
may suffer by the loss of its finest population
to such a degree that the succeeding genera
tion will fall short of its former standard
stature, as was the case with the French youth
drafted for the army after a general peace.—
Thus, in 1826, out of 1,033.422 young men
drafted to serve in the army, 380,213 were sent
baCk because they fell short of even the di
minutive stature of four feet ten inches
French."
Mn. E. MERIAM, of New York, states the
very remarkable fact that the deaths in a sin
gle day in that city, from sunstroke, exceed
the number of deaths occurring in any single
twenty-four hours from yellow fever in any of
the years when that pestilence became epide
mic there.
" I SAY, Brown, what a close shaver Jones
is—why he'll squabble about a penny." "Well
what if he does ?"'said Brown; "the less one
squabbles about the better. "
WHEN an extravagant friend wishes to bor.
row your money, consider which of the two
you had rather lose.
Louts NAPOLEON has discovered how to
keep Mexico straight ; he sends her a new
ruler.
WHAT the Etiaperor of France does whew
weary with State cares. Takes his little
Nap.
Most Men have some of the - milk of human
kindnes in them, but there is a nation in the
East consisting entirely of Kurds.
CANNON-NUM a man appears to signify Ma+
king
a big gun of him.