OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY:
.PITTSBURGH:
TUESDAY MOIINING:rxr.:::AIU-G. 27
WTHE MEMBERS OF THE DEMO
OBATIO COMMIT EAL OF CORRESPON
DENCE FOR ALLEGHENY COUNTY, are re-
Twisted to meet at the T. CHARLES HOTEL, in
theelty of Pittnburgh, on WEDNESDAY, the 4th
ikr of September, 1881, ik it o'clock a. in. A gee
/frill ettentlenee is requsted
war THOS. DONNELLY. Chairman.
The'twit Speech of Stephen A. Douglas.
In the speech made by Stephen A.
Douglas at Chicago, May Ist, he used
thee admirable and memorable words :
"Whoever is not prepared to sacrifice
party organizations and platforms on the
altar of his country does not deserve the
support and countenance of honest people.
How are we to overcome partizan antipa •
thief in the minds of all parties so as to
present a united front in support of our
country? We must cease discussing party
'limas, snake no illusions to old party feats,
have no crimination and recriminations,
indulge in no taunts one against the other,
as to who has been the cause of these
troubles.
"When we shall have rescued the Gov
ernment and country from its perils, and
*emits flag floating in triumph over every
inch of American soil, it will then be time
enough to inquire as to who and what has
brought these troubles upon us. When we
shall have *country in a Government for
our children to live in peace and happiness,
I t wilt-be time for each of us to return to
our
party bonfire according to our own
convictions of right and duty. Let him be
marked as no true patriot who will not
abandon all such issues, in times like this "
"HE who is not for his country is against
her. There is no neutral position to be
occupied. It is the duty of all zealously
to support the Government in all its efriru
to bring;this unhappy civil war to a speedy
conclusion."—GEN. CABS.
aI am for supporting the governmen t.
Ido not ask who administers it. It is the
government of my country, and as such I
Shall givelt in this extremity all the sup.
port in my power. I regard the pending
contest with the Secessionists as a death.
struggle for Constitutional Liberty and
Law."—Joinr A. Dix.
"Do not give up the Union. Preserve
it in the name of the Fathers of the Revo.
lution—preserve it for its great elements of
good—preserve it in the sacred name of
Liberty—preserve it for the faithful and
devoted lovers of the Constitution in the
rebellious Stags—those who are persecu
ted for its support, and are dying in its de.
fence., Rebellion can lay down her arms
to Government—Gavernment cannot sur.
render to rebellion."—HoN. DAti'L S.
DICSINSON, of New York.
COUNTY NOMINATIONS
Although we have entered our protest
against any abandonment of our party or.
ganitation and against any attempt to
merge it with another, yet, while depre.
eating all efforts to get up a ~Union' or
ganization, we have expressed a cordial de
sire to co-operate with all loyal and patri
otic Democrats who are willing to unite
with its In support of the government.
Of coarse a willingness to co operate
with Democrats in such support, implies a
willingness to vote for and sustain the
nomination of any loyal and patriotic
Democrat who may bo satisfactory to the
nominating oonv.entions which meat next
weelli Should the delegates to those con•
ventions think it wise to assign three or
four places to DemoCrats on the ticket
then to be foi med. we shall enter heartily
into their support.
We could, with great cheerfliness, vole
for such a Democrat as Wm. J. Morrison, I
or sten for our amiable friend, the editor
of the Post, and we trust that gentleman
will believe us sincere in saying so. We I
do not see how any good Republican could
object tti,voting for such men, nor for such
excellent citizens as Wm. J. Hawkins, of
Willazi4 Dr. McClintock, Dr. IfcClock,
John IL'ild.cCiowry, T. B. Hamilton, and
maziketheis we could name It is for the
Conventions, of course, to say if they will
nominate such men, and for which offices
they 1511 name them; we merely mention
theft Times to indicate the class of men we
can *Wally join in supporting.
Impressing our inclinations in this
dire we are doing no violence to the
convictions which prompted what has be
fore been said on this subject. Our oppo
sition is not to the support of unobjection.
able Democrats for office, at such a time as
this, bat to engaging in alliances (through
a merger of organizations) which may
prove embarrassing hereafter, and to aban.
Boning to-day an organization built up but
yesterday for the sake of building a new
party tomorrow to be shortly after aban.
doped in its turn. We leave the whole
matter, where it properly belongs, in the
hands of
.04) Conventions soon to assemble;
and bays thrown out these few suggestions
mersetyJo. shole that our scruples do not
apply to the support of Democrats for
office, but merely the method of bringing
them before the public.
We copy -the above from the Gazette of
Monday, whiah is evidence of a healthy
change of sentiment within a week. The
offer is not very liberal, as yet, to give
three or four places out of sixteen or
seventeen to fill, but ay the ice has been
broken we may look for something bet
ter before - another week elapses. There
Maynlsoltiobjections to republican •con
ventions,Aengnating the democrats to
fill - such- °Apes / as they may assign.—
Some peoj -4- !night object to worn on
political: hacks, or petty ward shysters,
unless indeed they mean them for Over
seers of the PTor, County Commissionexv
or Associate Judges. The editor of the
Gazette:says he could "even vote for his
amiable friend, the editor of the Posit"
and asks us to belive his sincerity.—
We do—but beg of him not to consider
it a condescension, for he has had but
few opportunities to vote for a, better
man.
Itthe people will force us to travel the
hard load to position, we should at least
be consulted as the duties and emolu
ments of the office most agreeable to us.
As this ticket is'usure to win" it would
of course, be just as easy to be elected to
one office as anotber, and as the otter is
an open one, no:Office being named, we
haven- heagatii' mor delicacy in making
a aeleation at once, one admirably suited
to onrapacity , and merits in a political
21414 40aRgitly Wnmemi the of.
ftoe'nf 93Imriff.' " Put u. 3 dawn for that
and* *wry Woods wltitj or give hint
therPiothtanytamy or Treasurer's office.
24 4 11 * / *lnchiesq prevented the e4i
igth.o-Witai4i,naming tis Tor . th~s fat
01) **ItAtowiliie him the opportunity
ttfa4teoipe.tia,,and throw ottmelvestfpi
on his sincerity. qandidates for Depu4
B . lll9 4 ll: .WilkyleAtfittall at this office,
We publish beloartketard'of the - editor
of theßepuMicaner, German paper, of this
city. The card speaks for itself and should
be satisfactory to every patriotic and rea
sonable men. The misrepresentation
concerning this paper was brought about
by tivaiGerman dailies. We Imo* the
editor of the Republicaner well, and can
vOrich tor his Union sentiments. German
RePublican editors, who are themselves
engaged in abusing the adminlatration
daily, should be the last to raise the marl
dog cry against a rival in business because
he is a Democrat. Such injustice will not
be tolerated in this community.
siiir'To Tug PLIBLIC.—IC would appear
from Saturday's Evening Gazette, that I
was a Secessionist, and the German Re
pub./I:caner, which I edit, a Secession paper.
This is however not the case, as every
German in this community knows my
loyalty towards the Union. I have never
expressed any Secession sentiments, and
have always been,
and shall be for the
Union and for tt e Constitution. Who may
be the person that has given the informs,.
Lion to the United States District Attorney,
I cannot positively tell, but presume that
th, Editors of the German Volkablatt have
a hand in this nefarious transaction, -as
they have for some time back, in ther pa,
per, given vont to their malignant feelings
towards me and the Republitarter, and at
different occasions called my paper a Se.
s'ion paper, and the Democrats of the
North, without exception, Secessionists
The Germans know well enough, however,
that the Volksblatt mach more deserves
the appellation of a Secession sheet than
the I?epublicaner, and to prove my asser
tion, I shall publish a couple of articles
from the pen of Mr. J. G. Backofen, in
said paper, which will conclusively show
that he deserves more to be put under the
surveillance of the Vigilance Committee,
or be Indicted for treason, than myself, or
the panes 1 edit. The ill feeling of Mr.
Backufen and the other proprietors of the
Volkeblatt against Mr Simon Cameron,
and against the Administration, are easily
LO 110 accounted for, when we know that
they expected some months ago a large
share of the Government advertising—
but till now in vain. To prove my suer.
Lion in regard to the l'olherblate's Secession
proclivities, I translate, to-day, from the
V.lisblatt of Thursday, August 22.
L. W. KOSLICENBECIK,
Editor of the Pittsburgh Republicaner.
From the Volksblatt, Aug. 22.
"That there is,gone among the Amer'.
can office holders, with only a few excel).
time, all feeling of shame and honor (if
they ever had any) is most conclusively
proven by the Secretary of War, Cameron.
For weeks and months past we hoar and
read in independent and other papers,
which aro not bought by advertisements,
the one theme, that Simon Cameron is
unfit and unworthy of office and the honor
connected therewith. He is publicly
charged with corruption, with favoritism,l
and with simony of the offices which he
has best wed, and the charges are proven,
and nevertheless he remain, in office.—
Every honest man, and even every Minis
ter of a monarchical state, against whom
only one half of the accusations should be
brought, as they lay before us by the dozen
against Simon Cameron, would have
asked a strict investigation, or resigned
forthwith. Not ao the American, who
acts entirely after the advice of old Moses,
the Jew, to his son, in "Oar Business
Way:" ' Let thee be kicked, lot thee be
insulted, only make money." Yes, AI.
mighty Dollar, thou governest the world;
for you is sacrificed honor, shame; every
thing to you is subject. Simon Cameron,
body and soul, as also his thieving 'mom_
plioes, to him and to them honor is a
thing wh!ch,as Falstaff said, cannot sedate
And this man, with his appendages, the
nation must sae in office until it pleases
him to resign. It is a pity that Lincoln
has not the 'coral courage to chase hire
(Cameron) and his associates
After the goods of this world
AU ars racing with zeal;
It 14 s oontinuil suds.,
Ant wary r us a teals for himself.
J. ti. BACK Fiat
From the Volitablati of -aine date.
Governor Curtin has issued a proclama.
tion to the patriotism of Pennsylvania,
through which ho called them out under
arms for the protection of Washington,—
That was right, but first he should have
issued a proclamation for the hanging of
all defrauders, who had provided the army
with clothing, blankets, provisions, etc.,
as then this proclamation would have been
unnec.sssary. But certainly Andrew would
have been hanged first, and Andrew thinks
the shirt is nearer to the body than the coat
is. J. G. 13AcKevEN.
NOBLE AND PATRIOTIC.
"Douglas still lives ; Douglas' voice,
which, as McDougal of California express.
ed it, had sounded in patriotic reverbera%
tions over a continent, is still heard and
obeyed. What stand more noble could be
taken than that of the Maine Democracy on
the groat issues of the day ? lu convention
of the whole state assembled they have re
solved "that the best tribute we can pay to
the memory of our late distinguished stand
ard bearer, that deeply lamented true pat
riot statesman, Stephen A. Douglas, is to
follow the counsels which he gave us as his
last legacy, and stand by and defend the
Constitution and the flag of our country,
believing with him that the preservation
of the government is• paramount to all
other political questions, and that 'there
can be but two sides of this controversy.--
Every man must be on
.the side of the
United States or against it. There can be
no neutrals in this war. There can be
none but patriots and. traitors.'" If the
republicans—every member of the repub
lican party—from the President down to
the humbled member—were only equally
patriotic ana disinterested with those dem
ocrats, the prospect would indeed be cheer,.
ing. It is passing strange that it should
be forgotten for a moment that the party
that gave Douglas its i ballots at the last
Presidimtal election was only a little less
numerous than the party that supported
Lincoln. The Administration ought to
place its conviction on record, and cause
every man to see it, "that the preservation
of flue government is paramount to all other
political When that is done,
we shall be in fact, as we are now in name,
a united people, and nothing can ever
divide us, of cause our massed millions to
halt, until treason is put down and the
Union restored."
IThe arrest of Hon. If, A. R. Nelson,
The Chattanooga (Tenn.) Gazette,
announcing the arrest of Thomas A. R.
Nelson, keys: "Msps containing a care-
Cul and accurate delineation of all the
mountain passes in East Tennessee,
from Ohattanooga to Bristol, were
found in his possession. Had he suc
ceeded in passing through Virginia and
terrehi.t ig Washington, tho authorities
there would him been put in possession
of a fail and Bp;k4te statement of our
smug and weak .Ainints in East Ten
nesseeimtd evegyfrermtain pass in the
PuMberland ratiOnNutid have - bemme
iciaawito Boott and-the Federal Irmy.''
iFEPOT.
The Chronicle of yesterday contains
the following sensible and practical
article upon the immediate construction
of a passenger depot on Liberty street.
We hope the proper authoiltieii'lvill
move in the matter in earnest. Thii
roads wants ale depot, the people want
the work.
IWe are informed that the ,speedy cons
struction of a grand depot on Liberty
street will mainly depend on the action of
Councils regarding the right of way in the
Ninth ward. We do not profess to un
derstand the zigzag action of our city So
lons in this matter, nor ( , 7s..ctly what is
the hitch which now prevents. the vacation
of the whole of Liberty street by the
Pennsylvania Railroad. But we now tell
Councils again, what we have before re
peatedly urged, that the whole commu
nity, so far as we know, desire the re pos•
session of Liberty street for its constantly
increasing travel, and for the better secur
ity of life, limb and comfort to its citizens,
both young and old, The Pennsylvania
road has made a very liberal offer, and are
willing and anxious to remove their track
towards the hill, building a substantial
- all so as to divide their tracks from the
street. Councils, we are told, are holding '
out for place for a pavement, which the
road says they have not room for, and
which, if obtained, would be comparative
ly useless. The owners of the property to
be occupied by the Railroad have, we be.
lieve, consented to the terms of purchase.
Yet still Councils stickle for some trifling
advantage which they think the lapse of
valuable time will extort from the Penn.
sylvania Company. If the point of con
tention is a more:important one than what
we have above preaentod, we call upon the
Councils either to let the public know and
judge for itself the exact merit of their
long continued obstinacy,Lir else to meet the
representatives of the road in a fair spirit
of compromiso, and endeavor to make
an immediate settlement of the whole
dispute.
The Pennsylvania company, in its turn,
should do all in its power to build its depots
at the present time. It would give em
ployment and means to a large Lumber of
worthy mechanics and laborers who would
scorn to ask anything from the public but
the charity and privilege of work. The
roadie in splendid financial condition, do
ing almost the entire regular business of
the Baltimore and Onio road, transporting
man, mules, horses and cattle for the Gov
ernment at very remunerative rates, hav
ing just received a release from the burden
of the tonnage tax, and also, by means of
the wretchedness of the times, a further
release front constructing several roads,
which the late bill for the abolition of the
tonnage tax provided should bu built In a
certain time, and on certain conditions.—
The Company, therefore, is amply and
abundantly able to undertake the so long
delayed construction of a first-class passen
ger and freight depot at th.s important
point. If ready money should fail them,
which we cannot for one moment believe,
so excellent and so safe a borrower can
easily obtain money at fair interest from
our moneyed institutions, or from Individ
uals who are embarrassed wish the accu
mulation of barren money, and who are
continually I)oking about for the where
and the how to make it breed.
kerench View
The Paris correspondent often Phil
adelphia North American says :
The prevailing sentiment is repel
and apprehension--dismay, I might al.
most say, as regards the commercial
classes of this country—at the prospect
of seeing the contest so unexpectedly
and indefinitely prolonged. [ feel
bound to tell you that I fear the temp
, tation to interfere, and attempt to put
an end to it, will become alarmingly
I strong it' unfav,,r.able or even dubious
'telegrams cociinue to reach us from
your i-i'le of the ocean. I have recant
ly seen litters from French inereantile
men in variou. parts of France, in
which the material point of view far
overtops the philanthropic, and threat.
ens to be far Jinn.) active, and to make
itself tl c taus,. loudly heard. Louis Na
poleon loves to in termeddle, and would,
probably, feel proud to play the arbiter
the New World as well as the Old.
fie thinks, doubtless, that England,and
his bust friends in England—who are
the commercial party there --would
both join him in and thank him for his
proposal to interfere; and in both coun
tries it is the commercial spirit, I re
peat, which is the most aotivc, because
the most immediately and personally
interested in the matter. The leader
of the Times, on the subject of the
late battle, caters to this feeling, by
throwing almost equal odium upon
what it calls "fratricidal" strife on both
sides. I must quote a few passages
from the Debats, of yesterday, on this
subject, which hint very plainly at the
turn public opinion is likely to take.
They were penned subsequently to
the late unfortunate reverse, and, af
ter saying that people would be much
mistaken, and show themselves quite
ignorant of the pride 'of the Amer
ican character, and the depth of
!the resentment which has armed
one party against the other,if they
!thought that the definite solution,
which everyone foresees, but no one
proposes, would come from either of
the combatants themselves, continues
thus
"In our opinion, it is Europe who
will be led by the force of circumstan
ces to seek for and to indioate(qu. en
force ?) the solution of this fatalt:tug
gle, and who ought, perhaps, very soon
to occupy herself with the task. We
pointed out a month ago, in our enqui
ries respecting the American armies,
what that solution might be. Would
there not be room on the vast American
continent,' we asked, 'for two or three
friendly republics in the north, south
and west forming a federation of nations
instead of one of States? Reason and
interest seem to advise it, the moment
approaches, perhaps, w hen necessity
will command it.' Now, the die is out
l in such a way that there is no choice
I between seperation by consent and
compulsory union. Any other solution
becomes more and more impossible.
Will compulsory union be union? Will
it last? And in what position will it
leave the vanquishers and the vanquish
ed? Even admitting, which is doubtful,
the final triumph of the north after
years of conflict, and torrents of blood
ponre4 upon the ruins of the country,
does the north wish to have, and could
it keep peaceably in the south a Ven
ice, a p o i lit i4 pr even an Ireland? Is
young America so presumptuous as t o
hope to escape the common lot of na
tions? Let her cast her eyes at this
moment upon old Europe j and profft by
her sad experience. She will sea that
there are political faults 1111 - well as
crimes which time i 5 pi:eared-en 19 .heal,,
and which leave to posterity a higaexef
disorders without end, and-dituntlbee
from, IT,ltioh there is no escape."
Address to the People of Western Vir
gluts by Gen. W. ts. Rosecrans, Com
manding the Department of the Ohio.
In consequence of the perversions of the
tories in Western Virginia, and to satiety
constant applications for information upon
points discussed in the preniises, General
Retecranaltas issued the following proc
lamation, viz
HELDWARTERS, ARMY OF OCCUPA. ,
TION, WESTERN VIRO I N lA., *
CLARKSBURG, August 20, 1861
/I) the Loyal Inhabitants of Western Vir
ginia:
You are the vast majority of the people
It the principle of self government is to
be respected, you have a right to stand in
the position you have assumed, faithful
to the constitution and law's of Virgins
its they were before the ordidanoe of Se-
C6BB ion.
The Confederates have determined at all
hszards to destroy the Government which,
for eighty years tins defended our rights
and given us a name among the nations.
Contrary to your interests and your wishes
they have brought war upon your soil.—
Their tools and duties told you you must
vote for Secession as the only moans
to ensure peace; that unless you did so,
he rdes of Abolitionists would overrun you,
plunder your property, steal your slaves,
abuse your wives and daughters, seize up.
on your lands, and hang all those who op
posed them.
By these and other atrocious falsehoods
they alarmed you and led many honest
and unsuspectiog citizens to vole for So
essiion. Neither threats, nor fabrica.
Lions, nor intimidations, suffixed to carry
Western Virginia, against the interests
and wishes of its people, into the arms of
Seceesi Dn.
Enraged that you dared to disobey their
behests, Eastern Virginia is, who had been
accustomed to rule you and count your
votes, and ambitious recreants from among
yourselves, disappointed that you would
not make good their promises, have con
spired to tie you to the desperate fo:tuuee
of the Con r ederacy or drive you from your
homes.
Between submission to them and subju
gation or expulsion they leave you no al
ternative. You say you do not wish to
destroy the old government under which
you have lived so long and peacefully;
they say you shall break It up. You say
you wish to remain citizens of the United
States; they reply you shall join the.S..utti•
ern Confeaeracy, to which the Richmond
junta has transferred• you, and to carry
their will, their Jenkins, Wise, Jackson,
and other conspirators, proclaim upon your
soil a relentless and neighborhood war;
their misguided or unprincipled followers
reecho their cry, threatening lire and
sword, hanging and expulsion, to all who
oppose their arbitrary designs. They have
set neighbor against neighbor and friend
against friend; they have introduced among
you warfare only known among savages.
In violati m of the law of nations and
humanity, they have proclaimed that
private citizens may and ought to make
war.
Under this bloody code, peaceful citi
zms, unarmed 'travelers and single soldiers
have been shot down, and-evonehe wound+
ed end defenceless have beezialled; scalp
ing their victims is all that is wanting to
make their warfare like that which seventy
or eighty years ago was waged by the In
dians against the white race on this very
grLiind. Ycu have no alternatives left
you but to unite as one man in the defence
of your Mmes, for the restoration of law
and order, or be eubjuested or expelled
from the soil.
1 therefore earnestly exhort you to take
the most prompt and vigorous meesurta.to
put a stop to neighborhood and private
wars; you must remember that the laws (Ire
suspcnefrd in Ee'litern Virgixia, which has
transferred itself to the Southern Confeder•
ary. The old constitution and laws of
Virginia are only In force in Western
Virginia. These laws you must maintain.
Let every citie...n, without reference to
pest political opinions, unite with his
ricr. ' hbors, to keep these laws in operation,
mid thus prevent the country from being
desolated by plunder and violence, whether
eenimitten in tho name of Secessionism or
Unionism-
I conjure all those who have hitherto
advocated the doctrine of Secessionism as
a political opinion, to consider that inow
is advocacy menus war against the peace
and interests of Western Virginia ; it is
an invitation to the Southern Coneder
ates to collie In and subdue you, and pro
claims that there can be no law nor right
until this is done.
My mission among you is that of a fel,
low.eltizan charged by the Government
to expel the arbitrary force which domi•
neered over y )u, to restore that law and
order of which you have been robbed, and
to maintain your right to govern your
selves under the Constitution and Laws of
the/ United States.
To put an end to the savage war waged
by individuals who, without warrant of
military authority, lurk in the bushes and
waylay messengers,
or shoot sentries, I
shall be obliged to hold the neighborhood
in which these outrages are committed as
responsible, and unless they raise the hue
and cry and pursue the °Mindere, deal
with them as accessories to the crime.
Unarmed and peaceful citizens shall bo
protected, the rights of private property
respected, and only those who are found
enemies of the Government of the United
States and the peace of Western Virginia
will be disturbed. Of these I shall require
absolute certainty that they will do no
mischief.
Put a stop to needless arrests and the
spread of malicious reports, Let each
town and district choose five of its most
reliable and energetic citizens a Committee
of Public Safety, to act in concert with
the civil and military authorities and be
responsible for tho preservation of peace
and good order.
Citizens of Western Virginia, your fate
is mainly in your own hands. If you al.,
low yourselves to be trampled under foot
by hordes of disturbers, plunderers and
murderers, your land will become a deso
lation. If you stand firm for law and or
der and maintain your rights,
you may
dwell together peatiefidly and happily as
in former days W. 8 ROSECRANS.
Brig. Gen. Commanding A. 0. W. V.
E agg e t ation.
The following from the Chicago
Tittles is true every word of it :
God help the man whom the Amer
ican people determine: to make famous.
Ile is surrounded by an amount of ex
pectation which no mortal achievements
can ever fulfill, lie is exaggerated and
bepuffed, chronicled in his sayings to so SLAVERY AND THE WAIL
monstrous a degree that it is inevitable The London Examiner has this par
that he shall disappoint the hopes agraph at the close of a long article on
which have been . gratuitously showered the repulse in Virginia :
upon him. As a people we either over- "Let it not besupposed fir a moment
thatWeabhor
the
we haveleaning . to the South.
praise or unjustly damn public men. 1
During many years a large party in the which they olingllanuirWhilchus institution
an tut :
llation for
country had no kinder appe injures everything in the country; and.
Stephen A. Douglas than "traitor." 1 what we most blame the North for is its
Yet the echo of the clamor against him willingness to wade through blood to
reconnect itself with slave states, and
had not died. and the ink with which
i to lend itself again to the capture of
tame were
the foulest slanders on his ' name and 1 poor fugitives claiming the right to
fore m the samerinted was hardly dry, he• ; their own bodies. If the North had
people, changing their been sincere and honest as regards lila
position, ranged themselves i beside him very, it would have rejoiced -at the so
und: now east his principles into the °eaten of tbe South delivering* fro*
any part in the abomination. „Ent it,
faces of his followers, who never enter-
Was ready to make any concession.
an
twined any other principles. This is Bati s t y _ =ahem s t a k e as ta s k tv ry
an:instance of the exaggeration ofblame. and its sole 'tons:oY htue heen - to 4E;
Ought it not to teach men moderatibn-' protee tiVita:riffl ...4, 7rii titintiiine't o pug'
—to take nothing upon mere credence
—to avoid in the future the exaggera
tion of the past ?
It does not seetn, however, to have
this salutary effect, We 'cling to -the
national vice of imtkingheroes:-Without
rea - on and millaine without erirtie. We
very. generally driinneee:eriercfTatter
son because he did not obey G-eneral
Scott. We neither then knew„nor now
know, what his orders were,or whether
he violated them; but we have since
learned that he was honorably dismissed
from his command when his term of
service expired, and that- the.-presump
tion is that he pleased his superior-offi
cers. Yet we continue to damn him.
We have in the case of General Fre
mont an example of exaggeration of
praise. •He never participated in a
battle—much less led an army; yet, as
a man of energy, apparent executive
ability, and of military education, his
appointment as Major general was ac
quiesced in by the country; but he was
no sooner appointed than numberless
people and presses began to proclaim
his infallible genius. An expectation
is created which no human being can
gratify—much less a general who has
to fight his first battle—who, even in
time of peace, has never exercised an
important command Does he only sleep
six hours out of the twenty-four, it is
heralded as evidence of genius. Does
he addrdss 'persons who call upon him
on business with brusqueness of man
ner, it is anncnweed as a symptom of his
power to command. Yet, beycnd these
two things, little is known of Fremont,
except that it is said he is inaccessible,
and lives like an industrious gentle.
man at St. Louis. Now the result of
this over praise is not only unjust to
the man, but may be injurious to the
country. A. slight reverse will turn
the whole pack of indiserminate flatter
ers aeainst him, and will create alarm
and suspicion as unfounded and foolish
as the confidence which is inculcated
without cause.
Indeed we might point to
_many in
stances of the national vice—bragging
and exaggeration—which keeps us run
ning between the extremes of despond
ency and enthusiasm at home, and
which makes the civilized nations laugh
at us abroad. We are a great enough
people to be moderate and self-contain
ed.{ There is no necessity for self-puff
ing. Our wealth, numbers and geo
graphical position are sufficient monu
ments of strength. They need no win
dy words to give them finish and beau
ty; but when we damn a man one day,
and follow him the next; when we de
clare a soldier who haa.never seen a bat•
tie a great general, and look to him
with implicit confidence in the conduct
of a war, when we feel so certain of
our personal prowess that we expect
undisciplined troops to accomplish the
vast results of veterans,—we must not
be surprised if foreigners laugh at us,
And that rebels triumph over us. Let
the rt cent reverses teach the nation to
stop bra:.:;ir,g, aiol go to work like men
of dClltc.
General Lauder
N. I'. 41 his last paper to the
lourthil, gives the following
sketch of General Lander:
A day or two before, cto retrogress for
a moment, ) I had seen a military horse
man alight at Willard's, walk about in
the crowd of officers and strangers for
a moment or two, as if in search for
some one, and then mount and ride
away—so common an incident, at our
be-garrisoned hotel, that it would have
passed unobserved, but for a speciality
in the man. His movement was very
peculiar. Above the middle height,
and most powerfully built, he looked
both actin and indolent--both stately
and carele& It was something between
the, complete soldierlineas of a knight
templar and the covert agility of a
panther on a prowl. He was rather too
long-limbed for strict proportion, but
the absolute command of every nerve,
which was visible in his deliberate grace,
showed it to no disadvantage--the,
longer legs too making him, of course;
the better horseman. And such a
horseman! Ho mounted and rode away
as if the steed had suddenly become an
obedient limb of his own—a, portion of
his centaur conscionsness--but withouti
a bit of the dragoon angularity or any
of the martinet constraint ofmilitary
education. He was, in fact, a magnifi- = cent specimen of the bush-ranger or
prairie -trapper, only that he was dressed ,
elegantly in the uniform of an officer of
the army, but in both departments, per
fectly at home! And nobody could tell
me who it was. ** * It ap
peared that, after all, Lander And I were
not such very now acquaintances!—in
fact, that I had had something to do
with his present, vocation and destiny,
He gave me a droll description of his
having conceived, once, an ambition to
be a poet, and of his having called on
me (with a copy of parses in his pocket) ?
for advice. I read the "maiden effort,
critiosed it carefully, and concluded by
frankly expressing my opinion that
"poetry was not his trade"—advising
him to tarn his practical talents and
personal advantages to better account.
He felt very grateful for the advice, at
the time—took it—and has been, ever
a soldier! Who will say that "our coun
try" owes me riothing, after thief—
Would "the Union" at present rather
have "Lander a poet," or Lander the
twin-hero to McClellan?
by this wrong to the South, and all
commercial interests, it would gladly
compound for all wrongs to the blacks.'
The New York Tribune just fl,
mouths ago, held very much the
views. On the 2d of "Iflirth,4B6.#
.
(freely said :
jg.
"SELF GOVERNMENT.. Yr*
have repeatedly said, and we oneganore
insist that the great principle embodied
by Jefferson in the Declaration of
American Independence, that Govern- -
ments derive their just power from the
consent of the governed, is sound and
just; and that if the - Stave' maic - titiii
Cotton States, or the Gulf States only'
choose to form an independent maim;
they have a clear Moral right tu - tIO: so.
We do not beHeve---we - nevei 'main;
tained---that one or ten :States might
take themielveti off in a leis
make a feint of going in order
bribed to stay—but we haye said, and
still maintain, that, provided the Cotton
States have made up their minds to go
by themselves, there is no need ollight
ing about it—they have only to exer
oise reasonable patient e and they will'
be let off in peace and good -
Whenever it shall become vlear Oak:4
Southern people havebecomufalienated
1
from the Union, and are anxious tti eh-
cape from it, WE WILL DO UR
BEST T() FORWARD THEIR
VIEWS ! There is no treason iiihet
lieving that your section can do 'butter
out of the Union than it; it is no‘ enl
pable to act upon this conviction and
seek to defend it.
"We must not, either in behalf of,J
the Union or Freedom, trample down.,'
the great-truth that 'Governments de•-]
rive theix.rust power fr an the oonsen
of the governed.' This was the fath-' -
ers' doctrine, elucidated by their pmts . ,.
tire. Between their resistance to the'
Stamp Act and their Declaration of
Independence, there is intervened
twelve years of earnest, fatient, am
phatic remonstrance 'and entreaty.—
They did not draw the sword until the
last hope of a peaceful redress of griev
ances had perished. They did not even
declare themselves independent until
the dogged determination of, their Brit
ish rulers to crush them under a red.
handed despotism had rendered fur
ther forbearance pusillanimous. If the
South wants to go alone, she need not
wait half so long in securing that end
by peaceful means as our xevolutionary
Fathers were in reaching the point at
which they made their choice, betwhen
resistance unto blood and an abject
submission."
For The Poet.
Ma BAREt:—I confess I cannot corn.
prehend either the style or matter of Mr.
11. 11. Kerr's note, in Monday's Post. -But
it is due to myself to deny that I ever
questioned the right of any Union loving
Democrat to vote at the primary meetings
—on the contrary they are included in the,
call, provided they are to favor of a vigoi
ous prosecution of the war. If any Be..
plattican falls short of this test he is in
comr>itent to either vote or mark at'.the
primary rieetings, as I, understand'thecaLl. :
Labiate M. IthinsHALL.
August 26, 861.
ATTENTI I N
,HOLDLEH.S.—W. L. POlllili
is now orga •ng a oompnny for three yearn
or the war, to be-nom . • the ERIS - BEE INFANTRY.
He has mode arra eats through private
sources, to provide uniforms for the members,-In
his city, as noon as mastered in. This will Apia:id
any runible delay in getting We tunifoima,
per month, and Vico at the expiration of-enlist
ment, Office, SMITHFIELD STREET,
FIFTH.
1:03.TO THE Uh f is A 1.) 13TH RAGIBLEN!Tt3
P. V.—Authority hag been given me in
commute the Nation at the 12th and 13th Regi•
meats, P. V.—the termer for six. thelatter for nine
days. As aoon as funds are received Inom the
Treasury of the United Suites the same will be
paid to the tinartermastere of the Regiments.
BENJ. F. HUTOII.II2B,
let Liens. Etd f 3. Ai
Title notice willbe given threugh the papers cf
the receipt of the above commutation, and the
money paid to the representative of each Com- .
pan •
AMES A. ERIN, Quartermaster 12thltett.
AC K. hfOORREAD, qtuatermaster 18th Elikg't
anlOgt
Ws POST-OFFISH NOTISE.-4STAMPS."--
Patmortdcx Pmrsnason, Ps_, august 19, 1861.
lam prepared to exchange P. - stage Stamps of the
new style :or an equivalent amount of the old issne
during a
_period of SIX DAYS from the date
hereof; AFTER THE EXPIRATIOS OF WEIGH
TIME the "old Siam 7 " will net' be received in
payment of postage on eaters or papers sent Mom'
this ofnft.
Neighboring postmasters dart exchange here.
BONNEIORST;
Post Master,' i
OFFICE CENTRAL BAuRD OF EDILIOATION,I
Frenunow, Augast 20th, 1861.
iwThe re-examtnation ot appheanta rad
Rion to Itigh Seliool will commence
WEDNESDAY, 28th haat.. at 9 o'clock a. to.
an2B.3t A. LEWIS, See'y. Pro. Tern.
Vermin,
"Costar's"
"Costar's" Rat, Roach, &o , Exterminator
`•Costat's"
•
`'Costar's" Bed-bug Exterminator.
"Costar's"
"Costar's" Electric Powder for Insects, dtc.
In 25e,-500. and EI,OO Boxes, Bottles thid,-Plasks'
S 3 and $6 Shea for plantationsilatdkoats.:
Hotels, &e t
mat •
Preparations (unlike all others) are Free hum
Poisons," "Not dangerous to the BUnnta,,lrtunilY,
"Rate come out, of.Abair holes to die," . '"). 10 A0e.
lately iotidlible," "Were never known to faiP.....12
years eitabliabed in New York City—used by the:
City Post:Office—the City Prisons and Station
Houses—the City Steamers, Ships, te.—the City .
Hotels, "Aster," St. Nicholas, to—and !vinare than
20,000 private families.
Rats—Reacthee—Croton Bags — Antev4teci ings—
hloths in Purs,Clothes, eta—Moles arproural Mee
—Mosquitoes--Fleae—laseetepa Plents,Eowhhardk
mats, etc, etc—id short, eVeTlfoun and species of
V E NI
Jmll t Beware of ali-i reitatiozur4"Carramo : •
Ass tsr anti Tasanothlult kit .'"CAMTLIVL" ,
...-
Sir Sold &nut/Sere—by • - „
All Wholesale Druggists In the large cilia%
Air Sokl by IL it. FACNztvroox. &a, Buda._
the Wholesale Dru2lo ol23 ,in Pittsburgh; Pav and
all the Retail Druggists and atoreiceepars in WY
and country.
• ,
.p- Country. dealers malorder as above. •
Or address orders direct—[or if Prices; Terms,
eta, i desired-ti Send far lide Cirotdat
io i re duced_Ep_Oesita •
H zr.M:nr COt3TAII,
Pimciara Dime—No. allErosidway—{Oppatite the
kt Nicholas Ho tel,3 New York:
aula-Inidaw
]IMPORTANT TO INVENTGAS
Greet Union Patent Agency.
ROBERT , W. FENWICK,
Commdlet and Parent `'Argein
AT WASHINGTON CITY 1) 0.
7 D.
p, o , rim cha&mosoijatealbraiiiiocer 4 raf.te.
wmonsem4-1). il, October 4 IWO.
l ' °811:I tti that it W ' Wtral deklrate fa about to
opett soi aorta We eV:I4.A Soliertor at Pate*
I atteartay state tti: bare loo rkabutt•btattat a
gentleman of__
__
,-Erg
,00usm. each nuutare o g
= n and , - ma As = t aia habits, wad , fr o, t i gr i
invent= o i rrt i ti'itited &atm. - • '
__a . .i -,
_-
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Kr. Feawicat'auka tbr wart ' _War Yearn the =mu,
gerottbaWaiWustop „ dui .
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Autarituut Patera Afteeci of Jfearraitittoit - GIV
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mut for Mar tbair Unman! meow . 1 r'l
with iwid fird, atatitlibarraaffierfteuba or . ~., '
Yearsin*Tea,bnuagt, ..attbdttepOnla ‘• • 1 •• 11
aud OtaAttreakor zaTaiatTa, ; '''''` - ' 4 ';`,! , • I
- ..4 , e••• 4 ,r , , ,, ,••,-- • - xl, ter..,..1..,..c..
To ConstunpUVOlN
jheil 4-veitbeg having been restinedrio
tkike:,44.1,444,3 by a very aim* 'tiptoe*
after lujiiitifh=eversil years with saevers
thiOnr?-48111111I*mak. edireirEditobis ftlifile"tEn*.crirEalt
tee, r:
Tc trei gi iv send COW 10-, the
of charm) with the dims
ints for
they VI as as d
so tunuf areilir , same,Asha
at n -
Bey, wAtte, only obieet of Um adveitbm
and t
ptions to benefit the - anew&
'Melba conceives -to_bs
invakmble, and he hopes everysufferer wilitry me
remedy, as it will ores them nothhtg, Jeuftnay
prove a blessing.
Parties , wishing thevon ad..,
Jr A t'Yli OF FA Tl 3-1
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imparts ePerf.,___ perf ect
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siaceat tenriznbis'l does not stain 0611 2,11 ge=rl
cutianuoilos zoßoron, kpril,;_rj.
_ManOtactured 133- tat
J. CRIERADO.ROI-8-lia
ippltorkTon!*
New York. Bold eve
. ..,_
TO EID.:----'.---------TORF., THE SICIEVI'OP
iIEALTH.—The blood mast - be puriterVietidtbil , '
medicines are.l2lloll3lM wind), Ito not . "OW -.:,:. •
quality.of stimuisung<tbe blood!Scr- bew;itti , -- 2 . ,, t.
unpriretesintolhe boenbcllSANDltEalif.:
posssinsuis quality in alukb-dcgree,undebnislg-,,:.
U14(0117 hmily.'-'IIOY treAluelly-weltt}ek.; 1- ';.,•
claildren,end 'Adana; isduptsdAo both sezeVeridn'l
sm
at
ant lut- bread;7yet neser nmermf..-itt-1
Mellon. Jsicob Maim*, of Eiirrlngeffiet 'har": -`_--;
mita-46 Lige:Bran:44*K cdkdrr 7 -klate 4:. abl " '''''
_'- 4 have' use dinenktible-Vegtitei4 fq:/nF
Peraal Pills in my taregy.-eince - Matiithey hist)
aiewis cured A . even .yfhen othenmegc,lwyete of
:.,.:•,•
no !it - I Imite - befin'thentetinterriTla-t,'„
usin bunil redietfeballarie - Worttinrid-4 . ' B. _
tbey, everecerrede-;lll6ltititifflifte-thatlit,
health through their t l / 1 0. Thee are used'inlttii
region for Mous and.Lleer Disease, Femur and
Ague, and in all rheumatic es eritkam mod
perfect success. in Bun, they are a ibekteet reliance
In
ltexc_ . siektese. and I *tat /cur ven_
.....fbe__. ~
g . ,•erns-preparer
a lesnebbtlifittittsg acats..,-V.
V . nesinf - nutn. .•:- F; 4 - .:*
Please send me your lowest price_by their ,
Sold by TAOS REDPA "
* Pitteburnh.
~Anil , by ail respectable teals= In • - - - NnM.--
• atipdtur-- - A r: i;.;• .. ..,--- -
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fr_NOTICE—UNION V UNI ON . ! T..—
uwf i
Clopteitis of companies ace roue of entering
tie service of the United States -4a proteclang,the
interests of the Unto% cum noir. 12, IWO another ofi
porittnity of B 0 deing., ,/ *RI anamOr: attivittli;eMe
relstiVe to applications of comparile.,- atid when
arranged for will have the eampaniaa mastered-in
at - orme.
1 ta r ittext :°;'..
. 4.;:iveruilinfr• map will boo pmedt-
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1 .ftiM and , Allegtmeyler thie Reglre* tail
'YttieTicr,thit threndompanimpare Mime" : ,W-.;1
enter and others will ha mitatere4:ll4_ - iimeez.: -
Mirk* the week. I will Wattle) applkW-VRA
other comtsates - for fifteen darist_ th•!* -
jarte x t
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of -which"-1" rofo - my isemmes . .- . Y,..._ _t . _
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whe bil le.: s /E r #cileilk__,.___,'- : '
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,apYilw JAB. W. ORAFT:7. •
I NEW MEDICAL Vijam ,:
176.8. the Epee* and perpasnOtoitii*,
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GONORRHEA, GLEET,IIRETint DISCHAVWW.
Renate' Weakness, Nightly
_RmlselOn4
moontmenee, Genital Amitattlity
• Gravel, striatum. and
AFFECTIONS OF THE KIDNEYS AND HUDAK;
which h l :4 l3 et_Zlnidtt br iisintrdat,r,,,9t , is'' , i '.
ONE HONORED -141ENIEIANS.,.
to dreir private practice,with entire at - 104001 . su
hitherto
'fading Cheese, CCheese,COMß.% CM*171.124 01113 /0 0111 1)Onfhitherto knowa.
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BELL'S •SPECJIPIC PaILS
• =ho o t Ne eNactiti-- c are ini
are enema in , o n g,a_ a
few days, and *ben a core is effectixi it depends:ti
ent - They are prepared from vegetable extreme
that are barmleas on the systetrkarst never mum
arethe atom* orinagregnete the,breatigabd.
. lug calm ciated, , :all nauseous -hike- le-livoldea'.
No change of ditt is t s =tory whilst tieng 'them; nor
doecithecriamian interf, re with_basineas pursuits: •.=
Each box contains Rix doaetflUt.
. . PRICE ONE DOLLAR,
And !Mho eentby rasti,..poatvii4by anya4vertie-
~. . •
eft - Agent; cm re Miiit of the.nloney;!: 0 .. .t.. ~ ',--. ~,.., ;
...liana - genuine witheut MY-ideature erltinfmrllP' -'
per. J. BRYAN, Rochester, N. v., General Agent.
aulTalkwly-te
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FEDERAL STEW, Abov,e. , the,
Honse;alleghetir eitx, partrof
GOLD SPECTACLES,
Whitt thhtrarrieire.aii have hreallieg
frbv ng Property and paving eltar aa. anntltd
FRIEND RIFI,ES, at Washington,
be m ustered itti ck.seuteerhefetteileathkg flth city,
-and; be ram tiveribe'rehdluiditrevfded•for
_pee of ail capsule. )icta . is .the clones dot! any
critmroveann
iwutki-itnOdisleitir=rr
opt?:
numbers wan:a to go into an artillery corps.
To lean on WedoesdeFettelyekiek,
No. 12 Fifth street, Sd story.
strailtd
.EVAMS, Cerporak..
nIL,
80 barrels Petroleum /NY;
6 AO Llll4**E p .
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a wr AT 0 E&.400 intsheis prime
westuuu2ock Potatoes,jtist recotred and for
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