i 11. 4 fr • The Union as. It wee I r,3 The Constitution as It Is! Reedit* matter en every page. ;;MONDAY MORNING, OCT. 13 TilE ELECTION TO-MORROW. Without desiring to inflict a long homily uphn the render, in the shape of a political diisertation, we would simply and s.erious ly Linquire whether the people ought to: marrow, at the polls, to entiOrse, by their votes, the present party in power. Let us reflect for a single moment upon the con sequences of such endorsement. The Democracy of the county, and the old Whig party, too, in years gone by, predicted the very condition of affairs which is now plaguing us, if'Abolition ever succeeded in its designs against the Gen • ertiment. It did succeed, and what have we! experienced since its triumph? Let every man ask himself this question. It came into power bent upon nothing but tha.monopoly and enjoyment of the spoils. Willie, the States were rocking in the throes of Ildissolution, the triumphant party said "Let them slide." Abolition did nothing to prevent dissolution, but, on the contra ry,laided its consummation. Every meas nrO6proposed, calculated to allay Southern aqlrehension, they opposed ; and since the rebellion began, the same party has advo cated every measure calculated to render a "construction of the Union impossi ble Even now they propose nothing z but soy tuned slaughter, negro emancipation, and a ctiur try permanently severed.— Afl - er eighteen months of slaughter and an expenditure of money reaching a fab rdo4 amount, we are no nearer the end of the rebellion than when hostilities be gan On the contrary we see more rla nizaity among the rebels now than there wash then, and this unanimity has been produced principally by those having chaige of oar government.. By pirsistent ' agitation in Congress during its last aes sio4 and the passage of bills by that bodY of confiscation. all Union feeling Soti4h was destroyed,•and, to render the programme of destruction complete, the Preifident the other day gave way to the radicals and issued a proclamation giving freedom to four millions of slaves. The reader will perceive that whaewas eighteen months ago a struggle for; the suppmacy of the Constitution and• the pre"rvatiou of the Union, has, through the I:persistent efforts, degenerated into a mere cinsade for negro emancipation. Thej people have now an opportunity to pays stop to this; they have a chance to send men to Congress who will prevent the Plbolitionists from forcing proclama : tione from the President against his oft re peated convictions, and they have the • onlyi opportunity they can have for two more year (if an opportunity is ever again presented,) to enable the President to discard radical influence during the balance of his administration, and save this . ertinntry from anarchy, desolation and death. RATHER DISCOURAGING. The Washington City Rrpuhlicao, a leadMg teacher of Abolitionism, speaking of the necessity for the President's late emancipation proclamation, Makes the following discouraging statements : "We are !to-day no nearer the posses sion!of Virginia than we were in April, 18614 and it is doubtful if the military strength of the resistance to us has not in . creased in unite as greet a proportion as our Own, lhat is the plain truth of the caseAand we may as well look it in the face. "Tti would seem that the President has loolwid it in the face, and has become sat isfied that the repression of this rebellion by MO rely military measures is an impos sibility. That was obvious to some from the sOirt, and to increasing numbers as enen4 have progressed." FrOm this and similar statements by the leadiiig Abolitionists of the country, it is eviddit that they rely more upon proela tionsthan they do upon the prowess of our arms for success against the rebels.-- Tlfe Republican saw from the `start" that the sUppression of the rebellion by merely milit4ry measures is an "impossibility." This is signings statement, coming from a leadirig organ of a party which, prior to the cdmmencement of hostilities, declared that the South "wouldn't fight" at all.— Now4fter sixteen months of fighting, such as thifrorldnner before saw, we are coolly informed that it is no use; that. fighting can not; conquer a set of rebels, who, but ~ a feiwilmonths ago, Abolitionists declared would;not light, and could not be kicked out off the Union. But Mow, after all our trouble, and ex.- 4 pense; and slaughter, when every one of -us is Mourning the untimely end of some .felative or friend, struck down by the chances of ruffian rebellion, we are in formed by one having authOrity to speak, that our stupendous undertaking was and is a failure. If a proclamation of emauci pallor( at the beginning of our troubles wooldl have effected what our army and navy have failed to accomplish, it was an oversight that it was not issued early on the *ruing of the attack on Sumpter. But, bStter late than never. We now have a proclamation-Host such a one as the rad icals desired. They predicted that the re bellion would be at an end in "thirty days" after it was published,, and the end of that period is rushing hurriedly along. In the mean time let us suppose that at the end of "thirty days" and thirty weeks the reb els arei still in arms and -defiant. What I then? II Another proclamation will be of: no use~ and what do the Abolitionists then propose to conquer the insurgents. The Reptitbtan, the organ of the President, says wd,cannot conquer peace. If• that be so, andi - piciclamatiolivin-e foundto have no 0%4 upon the rebels except to render, them more united, determined and defiant, how are, weto close up hostilities? Those who hiVe the charge of the war,' on our aide, should begin to give this view of our troublet6heir serious attention. The em ple trnthis that the loading rad icals, in Pongresa and not of it,lfre bon paying Kr , nioie atierdiu i 0 tpe liftkting up of tkbir eoreapt 4ad tottelair Par* tlfaiitheiraii.to the meant necessary to crush the rebels. Instead of endeavoring to produce harmony amongst ourselves, they have entered, into conspiracies to crush our ablest generals, and cause good men's loyalty to become a matter of dis cus:llion: To save their most dangerous political combination, they denounce their neighbors as being traitors; and for uo cause, save that they will not unite to keep them in power. Such a party is not fit to govern. They have blundered from the beginning, and have, upon all occasions, manifested a greater desire for party su premacy than they - have for the suppres sion of the rebellion and the preservation of our Union. THE FIRST GUNS! STATE ELECTI( Reaction Against the Abolhionists, Elections recently held in 'different loca tions and States indicate the speedy and triumphant overthrow of Abolitionism throughout the country. Maine led off the other day, when thd Democracy gained a member of Congress,,and redu ced the Abolition popular majority in the State from IS,OOO to 5,000. De'ewer° Elections ! Conserve tire Triumph 2 The Negro Party Defeated I The election in Delaware, on Tuesday last, for local officers, Judges, Inspector, &c., resulted in the complete triumph of the Democratic Conservative anti-negro. white man's party, who carried the State by about a thousand majority. The Abo lition papers have been careful to say nothing about this matter ! This is the first gun of the campaign.— On next Tuesday listen for conservative thunder from lowa, Indiana, Ohio.F and Pennsylvania ; The State election iu the Northern part of Michigan (the Lake Superior county) has just been held. The Detroit 1 . , ee Pross of 'Tuesday thus notices the re,..t: it : "We have sufficient returns from Lake Superior to show that the radical Ileubli• cans were defeated in every county. I:.ery Senator and Representative elected trout that section of the State is determinedly hostile to the Blairs and Chandlers. So strong was the feeling against Chanidler that even Republican candidates came out against him, in hope of thus being able to save themselves, but to uo purpose.. The town elections held lately in Con necticut have also gone with a rush for the conservatives and Democracy. These are encouraging signs and causes us to an ticipate glorious results from our own State, Ohio and Indiana to•morrow. THE ARMY VOTE. General Moorhead, deeming his chances very desperate in this district, has sent a couple of young men, with the necessary papers and tickets, to secure a vote in one or two regiments in the army, with the officering of which he had something to do. He knew well the Demo( rats would not attempt to violate the decision of the Supreme Court upon that subject; nor will Mr. Moorhead be permitted to avail himself of the vote, should he receive it. He ought to be ashamed to attempt it in the face of the decision and the effort of the Republicans to expel Mr. Ewing from the Sheriffality in Philadelphia. to which he was elected by the soldiers' vote. INVASION 1 INVASION!! Dispatch from Francis W. lf tighes Chairman of the Democratic State Cen tral Committee of Pennsylvania: PHILADELPFITA, Oct. I I th, IRt;2. Te the Democracy of Pennsyl aniat. The telegraph informs us we are invaded ay armed rebels; State as well as federal sovereignty must he defended: such is .ne cardinal doctrine of thc• I)emocratie faith at this hour, too late to commie the Central. Committee. I any warranted to say in their names that of the I letimerats of Pennsylvania, every man capable Of bearing arms ought to fly to repel the in vaders, and that at thli cull of the f ;over• nor, we will march against the enemy two hundred thousand men. F. W. .111 . (mEs,, Chairman of Committee. A SECRET CIRCULAR. The Abolitionists Alarmed. The following is a copy of a circular which has been distributed through the county, under the auspices of the Repub lican County Committee of Correspon dence. It will be seen by this document that the stale appeal to the people, which the Gazet le has been indulging in, is not resorted to. Mr. Negley relics exclusive. ly upon his party, and does so for parti zan purposes. Mr. Negley is ti , rows; r sioiser of the draft, a "no party" position conferred by Gov. Curtin, hut it will be seen that his duties are not sp onerous as to prevent him from devoting some little time to the dissemination of Abolitionism. But all his circulars and twaddle will not save his corrupt leaders from utter defeat to-morrow at the polls. The people have read circulars enough ; they are now thinking and reflecting, not. upon what they have read, but what they have felt and what they anticipate : PITTSBLIVIII, October 4th I sii2. Mn, br.ta SIR :-1 beg to call your most earnest personal attention to the eoming eonnty and State election, on Tuesday the 14th inst., and to atilt that as a - good Republican and loyal citizen you will see to it that every , eole in your tilB - supporting our tirket and its princi ples, is polled. Let no one be overlooked ! We need they every one. Get wagons, if need be, and bring every man out, who has a right to Tote and is with us. Owing to the absence of so many of our good Republicans, fighting the battles of the ccantry,one single vole overlooked and unpolled may cost us our county or State ticket. The so called Democracy know this, and are making the inost desperate efforts and grinning every nerve to carry their mongrel ticket. They are polling every district in the county and State—counting every vote, and laying their plans deep to bringesery Locofoco to the polls. If we are onlg vigilant, of course they can accomplish nothing. • If our whole vote 'is out, we are safe. The whole mat terresta with ourselves. Your own good judgment will tell you what is best to be done in your own district. I have onlyto beg of you, that all that can be done, will be done and that you yourself will see per tronally to the matter: . I enclose a' few tickets, that you may posiibly distribute to advantage before election day. On that day you will of course find plenty at the polls. See' to it that on election day our tickets are germ ; is% without arty eared. or -alteration. This last dodge we are assured our oppo l • to are attempting--having tickets printl • . suit the Supposed feelings of the peci ple iiek distriet of the county. Yoti will of course be 'thrthellookout Sor4ll. such tricks and•dodges. The enclosed ticket will enable you to know what is a genuhitp straight oat ticket, and by which to compare the others. Let there be action! ! Truly yours,. W. fi. Agp LEY 4 ' Ch. - , Repulk,Cot Corm; - TO THE WOlthiMlitAli. Workingmen of Pittabiiih and of Alle gheny county, you, who, -in times past listened, to the flattering honeyed words, loud-mouthed promises •and" predictions ovhich have never been fulfilled) of the Republican party uttered through a bit terly sectional and partizan press and a set of sturni. orators more celebrated for noisy zeal than ability or statesmanship, only know how grossly they deceived you when you see a once -happy and united country teeming with fruitfulness suddenly checked in her t triumphal march to unex, mnpled greatnek, struggling for her very existence and every, star on that glo rious old flag for a time obliterated by the bloodshed in this fratricidal war. You were urged in the name of Washing ton, whose memory you delight to honor, a,nd other distinguished patriots, to turn a deaf ear to all theii dangerous teachin? , :, but it was all in vain; bloody, bloody war is the fesult. This same sectional party is at their old game. They are endeavor ing to gull you with the belief that the slaves, when free, will remain where they are and wall - tot come among you to inter fere with, degrade and debase. Heed them not, but listen to the admonition of Harry of the West., who if he were nol alive, would be arrayed against this sec tional party. But here him epeak : ASHLAND, Sept. 2, 1843 Mr Ds.&a SIR: Allow me to suggest a subject for one of your tracts, which, treat ed in your popular and condensed way I think would be attended with great ant] good effect. I mean Abolition. It is mai:ti ter. that the ultras of that party are ex tremely mischievous and are hurrying on the country to fearful consequences.— They are not to be conciliated by the Whigs. Engrossed with a single idea, they care for nothing else. They would seethe administration of the government pre cipitate the nation into absolute ruin before they would lend a helping hand to arrest its career. They treat worst and denounce most those who treat them best, who sp tar hgree with them as to admit slavery to be an evil. Witness their conduct towards Mr. Adams and Mr. Briggs, and towards me. I will give you an outline of the manner in which I would handle it. Show the origin of slavery; trace its introduc tion to the British-Government; show how it is.disposed of by the Federal Constitu lion; that it is left exclusively to the States except in regard to thel'ugitives, direct taxes and representation ; show that the agitation of the question in the free States will first destroy all harmony and finally lead to disunion—perpetual war— the extinction of the African race—ulti mate military despotism. But the great aim and object of your tract should be to arouse the laboring classes in the free States against Abolition. Depict the consequen ces to them of immediate Abolition. The slayer, being free, would be dispersed throug hind the Union, they would enter into competition with the free laborer, the American, the Irishman, the German, reduce his wages, be confounded with him and affect his moral and social stand ing, and as the ultras go both for Aboli• tion and A lmagamaiion; show that their ob• ject is to unite in marriage the laboring white man and the laboring black woman: to reduce. the laboring white man to the despised and degraded condition of the black man. l would show their opposi tion to colonization. Show its humane, religious and patriotic aim that they are to separate those whom God has separa ted. Why. do the Abolitionists oppose colonization? To keep and amalgamate together the two races in violation of God's will and keep the blacks here, that they may interfere with, degrade and de base the laboring whites. Show that the British Government is co-operating with the Abolitionists for the purpose of dis solving the I 'llion. You can make a pow: erfill article that will be felt in every ex. t..ernity of the 'llion. I ion ps:rtectly sari-tied it will do great good. Let me hear from you on this subject. exit v To Ma. CuLT(*: Workingmen, which will you do? Fol. low the advice and counsel of the depart ed sage and statesman of Ashland, or the false dortrines of the Republican party, as proclaimed through that old hack and par tisan sheet, the Pittsburgh (;(tzeile 4 Let the result at the ?mils on next Tuesday record your verdict.. Asitixcn. For. the Post POOR SHANNON! \V. li. Negley, Es.j., i•hairtitan of the Republican Executive committee, has ad dves,;e(l to many of our citizen:is CiFeular letter, enjoining them to-support and vote the Republican ticket, which he encloses, but true as the needle to the pole, Mr. Negley and the managing part of his party, are determined, either by fair means or foul, to sacrifice that selfdarrijking and immaculate (! I patriot, Peter Chrysoatom Shannon, as they have his name On the Assembly ticket printed "Peter C. Sbon non.- This is done for the purpose of in validating his election, even should he get the requisite number of votes. And this is done from the fact that he was born of Ro man Catholic parents, and that he would himself probably die in that faith, and also from his strenuous opposition to Mr. Negley's former party, the Know Noth ings, when he used to tell us at almos every corner that he " was reared in the cradle of Democracy" and that "palsied be that arm when it should ever cast any other than a Democratic ballot." But, again we repeat, podr Shannon, when the Detnocrary he betrayed have now to .ea pose the treachery of his adopted friends. X. Description of Fort Darling A refugee Englishmen from Richmond saw Fort Darling last June, and again just before leaving, and furnishes a correspon dent of the New York Tribune with a dis cription of the works: Three companies of infantry and one company of marines encamped behind the fort There are only thirteen guns mounte4n the fort, but _there is room for more and there is a marine battery, con sisting of three 82 pounder tined guns. There are also four 10 inch columbiads. The rest are ordinary smooth bore 32' pounders. Outside the fort there are three masked batteries of 10 in. columbiads, one gunin each battery, commanding the ap proaches of the river and one in front of the tort commanding the line of 'sunken vessels at Fort Darling, with an opening_for rebel-craft to go through. Between Fort Darling and richmond, five milesfrom the latter place, there is a single row of sunk- en vessels which is not commanded by any guns, but can be protected by field pieces. About five hundred yards nearer to Richmond is the-pontoon bridge Used for crossing troops to the opposite side of - the river, ,and fully a' thousand yards lower down than Fort Darling is a battery which is said to be mounted with twelve guns—and one iron battery of three ens' For the Post. Mr. EDITOR:—On the eve of the Cleo n all manner of falsehoods may be i loked for. As ow evidence of this, the F (melte of Saturday makes a base, delib 7 ate and wilfutfalie statement m Motion Only proof iftositiye thet i ; e opposition arein a.isinking condition. Fqr thei Post I .is well ktiOwn to Mr. Williams 'and the her members of the Legislature, that I d ew a bill containing three sections which wrkl, had it passed, have saved the C tatty Treasury more than eighty thou „sand dollars. The first section did away W th the commitments of vagrants to jail b the'Aldermen and Mayors, at the ex p use of the county. This was amended by Mr. Williams and his colleagues, so as t 9 compel the people of the county to pay *re hundred and fifty dollar.;, the sala riies of the Mayors of Pittsburgh and Alle gheny (an outrage on the taxables); and further,, that the constables should be al lcwed seventy-five cents for every - arrest, /4 formerly. The other sections took the jail from the Sheriff and placed it where it properly belongs—in the hands of the county. This would prevent the Sheriff from receiving any fees from the prison. riSheriff Graham drew, in 1810, fifteen t ouaand dollars. The following state c'nt, taken from tile books in the Corn issioners' oiice, and republished from t e Post, wilrshow how the matter ope ted to the injury of the tax-payers: The. following are the numbers commit t.:(l for the year I otso : ityor of Pittsburgh Aldermen do Mayo; of Allegheny Aldermen du • , 7:70 dischari-ed at :..t;',! ~ .... . 13 I arding the same 31,51 N at lor per day Hiking ibr vagrants and disorderly per , olts the enormous expense 'in one The reform bill mentioned by the Ga zelle did .mot touch the point nor relieve ti e tax-payers from this peculation and fri ud, for the Aldermen made agood thing, did the Sheriff. When the act, as au tl orized by the Anti lax Convention, was o final passage, Mr. Williams had it post p ued, on consultation with his colleagues. i ft a te f d d therefore),yal, amendmenttlie first compelling{secticl wastitliemit,it-1,a,: pie of the county to pay the city officers. If, r. Graham did not favor this measure, fo'he was not on hand, and the fact is no t rious that the Gazette opposed this re &inn. Will the (its ,elte dare deny this .' c:,. If my advice had been taken I could have saved. in this one act, eighty thimisaml clulloi, .5 to the taxables of t.ci county. The reform bill of