DAII,Y POST. PITTSBURGH. FRIDAY SICaSING, BIPT. 25, 1563. The Union an it Wan, the Constitution as it Is. Wiiero thovo in no law there is no freedom. Democratic Nominations. FOR GOVERNOR, CJeorge W. Woodward. FOR SUPREME JUDGE, Walter SI. ILowrie. FOB PRESIDENT JXTDOR OF DISTRICT COURT, John S. Bailey. ASSEMBLY. JAMES BENNY, Sr., CHAS. P. WHISTON. Dr. A. G. HcQUAIDE, JOHN SILI, WM. WHIOHAM. SHERIFF. JAMES BLACKHOBE RECORDER, EDWARD P. KEARNS, REGISTER. JAMES SALI.4BUB7. ron CLERK OF COURTS, ERNST HEUUXBEIte TREASURER, JIH£S IRVIN. COUXTY COMMISSIONER, JACOB KEIL, DIRECTOR OF THE POOR, H. IF. WIGHTMAN. NATIVE AMERICANISM, “lam not and never have been a 'Na tive American in any political sense , any more than I have beenh Whig, Antima son or an Abolitionist, * * * The speech so often quoted against me f I am not responsible for. It was introduced in to the debates by a Whig reporter , in vio lation of the rules of the body , which re quired him to submit for revision before publication, and which he never did * * * I promptly denounced it, in the face of the Convention , a# I have done many a time since, as a gross misrepresen tation. * * * The Native American party itself is my witness Seven years ago I was the caucus nominee for U. S. Senator. The county of Philadelphia was represented by Natives. They asked whether , if elected by their votes , I would favor their measures for changing the nat uralization laws. I answered them NO, and they threw every vote they could com mand against me and raised a shout of triumph over their victory. *’ George W. Woodward, Pittsburgh, Sept. 54,1852. TO DEMOCRATIC EDITORS AND PRINTERS. a®*Tmpgrtant Notice. —Many of the newspapers in the interior of the State are printing the name of onr candidate for Supreme Judge, ‘‘Walter B. n instead of Walter 27. Lowrie, which is the proper way. This mistake, especially it carried out in the printing of tickets, may be the means of depriring ns on the count , of thousands of votes. Let editors and prin ters at once look to this, and print the name hereafter WALTER H. LOWRIE. DEMOCRATS, BE ASSESSED. Democrats should not neglect their as sessment. They must attend to this be fore Friday, October 2d, in person, or they will not have the opportunity of recording their votes. Taxes must be paid to the Connty Treasurer. Oar friends, particu larly in the country, should keep this in view. Every vote should be deposited on the Seoond Tuesday of October. Repub lican Assessors will not go after demo crats. You must attend to yonr own af fairs. Upon the first page of the Post, will be found an able opinion by Judge MoCandless, delivered at Williamsport, MORE ABOUT TAXATION—A MOJT " STltOl’B MORTGAGE. loour articles about this unpleasantßub ject of taxation, we bare assumed the whole debt of the war to be $3,000,000,- 000. We sa j "assumed," not because we think we have placed it too high, but be cause the Treasury of the United States acknowledged $1,200,000,000, aB funded on the 30lh of June last —and because we believe the unfulfilled contracts and the balances due for pay, &c., will make up the remainder. And moreover, as the war has now lasted over 880 days, and as the expenditures are, by common consent set down at $3,000,000 pe/ day, (at least) the amount would be $2,640,000,000. So that, when every thing is cleaned up, $3,000,000,000 iB not an extravagant esti mate for the whole expense of the war, supposing it shall close by the Ist of Jan uary, 1864. Now, as before stated, Pennsylvania’s share of the three thousand millions is Jive hundred millions— or one-sixth of the whole amount. If we turn to the proper documents, we shall find that the valua tion of all the property, heal and person al, in Pennsylvania, as fixed by,the Rev enue Board of the State in February, 1863, was FIVE HUNDRED AND NINETY-SIX MILLIONS of dollars. Remember, 596 millions. Now, if our share of the National Debt, (we mean cf Pennsylvania) shall be $500,-. 000,000 — FIVE HUNDRED MILLIONS ! ! we are, as a body politic, mortgaged for more than FIVE-SIXTHS of all WE SAY WE ARE WORTH 1!! This is not very pleasant, certainly— but “worse remains behind." Let us proceed : We have before estimated the Pension- List at 250,000. Now, our most care ful figuring friends say' we are too low— they say that If the pensioners numbered 170,000 on the 3st .ofSeptember, they will bo 300,000 at the end of the war. *No matter—we would rather be under than over —for we don’t wish to alarm anybody —we wifi say 250,000 pensioners, at $8 iper month each—this l2, (the numb.fr oi the months ni'eaefiyear): will be S24;OCOJ)OOT - Of this, ~ our share is ONE-SIXTH —we mean, of course, Pennsylvania’s share—and that is FOUR MILLIONS MORE! Now, as we had mortgaged 696 millions tif. value .for 600 millions of debtr-wc had 96 of vahieß deft, or nearly one sixth of: ode whole estate— and no more, : Bui now comes this charge for Pensions—it is not funded, to lie sure, as the other things will be—but it is an ob ligation,—shall we say?—mere sacred!! And we have to pay these four millions annually, out of the 96 millions that will remain to us after the 500 millions are paid. * If poor old Pennsylvania is to be sold out to-morrow for the liabilities she has assumed, ■ and if she shall sell for /the whole amount her own Revenue Board has put upon her, her account would stand thus: Pennsylvania, Dr. To her shore of National d*bt,say... $500,000 000 “ " own 8 4 ate debt 38,000,000 “ Pr’ncipal (at 6 prr cont) of her 1 share of Pension List, / ' O - 000 - 000 Pennsylvania Cr. By her own valuation of her ewn property <...,5696 000,000 Balance against Pennsylvania,., $17,000,000 Or, unless Pennsylvania’s property, real and personal, would sell for more than her own valuation, ($696,000,000) she is SI7,OOO,OOOWORSE THANNOTHING! Tax payers, how do you like the picture? J® 1 ” We refer to THOS. J. BIGIIAM, Esq., Revenue Commissioner for this coontv, to sav whether our statement of the valuation of thereal and personal pro perty in the State is correct—and trust, as wo name him, as a public officer, and not as an editor, that he will not be offended. OtiRCAESE AND OCR CANDIDATES To doubt the triumphant success of the Democratic party in the approaching elec tion m Pennsylvania, would be to doubt the capacity of the people for self-Govern ment, and this we cannot do iu this day of popular enlightenment and education. There is, besides, a latent, virtuous pa : triotism in the people, which is only aroused upon great occasions, and which is now makiug itself visible throughout the State. And no wonder. The people of Pennsylvania, in view of the espe rience of the past two and a half years, 1 with an impenetrable gloom in the future, will crush the fanaticism which is oppres sing them. There can be no mistake in the aigus of the Limes ; our deliverance is not far off. Everywhere throughout lhe Com monwealth the people arc arousing from their lethargy,and are assemblingin ihotiL ands at the call of the Democracy. From every quarter, and from every county we hear the most encouraging accounts for the success ot our cause in October, We have never known the conservatives of the State so thoroughly arooseAnd united. Our cause isjast and hence the alacrity of the people in sustaining it. Our can didates for Governor atd the Supreme Bench have lived down detraction, until all except the most reckless of their as sailants have ceased to assail them. Jadge Woodward’s purity of character i? making him thousands of votes, because of his opponent —according to Abolition testimony—being simply a public plunder er. The able and fearless Chief Justice Lowrie, will also receive thousands oJ votes from the thinking citizens of the State, who place a proper estimate upon a fearless and faithful judiciary. Able, honeßt and fearless are our candi dates for State offices, and highly respect able and worthy are the gentlemen whose names are on our County ticket. For Presiding Judge of the District Court, we have John H. Bailey, Esq., a young and vigorous thinker. Mr. Bailey iaone of our own County’s Bons,born in the city, and he should receive the votes of every young Pittsburgher, who desires to encourage and elevate native talent and genius. Our Assembly ticket, Jas. Benny, sr., Chas. P. Whiston, Dr. A. G, McQuaid, John Sill and William Whiguam, ie the list we nominated in the County. For Sher iff we have the gallant and intrepid James Blackmore, one. of the cleverest men alive, and a great favorite throughout the county. Our candidates for Recorder, Register and Clerk of Courts, E. P. Kearns,James Salisbury and E. Hetule' berg, arc all first class men, honest and capable. To James Irwin, “of Diamond Alley,” our candidate fer Treasurer, we need not allude; every one knows him* and all admit him to be a man above re proach. He is a representative man of the rise and solidity of Pittsburgh, Hon est, open, and manly, he iB nece33arily well thought of by all, and especially by those who have known him longest. Mr. Jacob Keil and Mr. W. H. Wigiitman. candidates for County Commissioner and Director of the Poor, -aro also first-rate men ; taking the ticket altogether in connection with our State nominees, and we have the ablest combination of candi dates ever presented for the suffrages of the people of our CouDty and State. Two More Splendid Democratic Meetings Have.been held. One of them was held at Celina, in Mercer County, Ohio on Fri day. The crowd was estimated at about 15,000, and was addressed by the Hon. S. 3. Cox, Hon. Alex, Long, and Hon. C. A. White. The other meeting was held at Tiffin, some 25,000 people gather ed at this meeting. Thirty core of ladies were in the procession. One thousand dollars was raised for the benefit of so\ diers' widows and children. It was a glorious jubilee. A Hebei Circular, We publish verbatim et lit eratimn pro's lamation, circular or order from the pen and brain of the rebel Colonel Hamilton. It explains itself. If the rebel colonel is no better fighter than ho- ib a writer, we woulan tbe afraid of his pen or sword either: “Head. Qrs Hamilton's Battalion Tom kinsvillE Ky Sept 7th 1803 Gentlemen and Soldiers I now Give notice to all Con cerned that the principle of Burning must beStoptaslam ordered to ret.ailiat? in Every respects Let us fight not Make War On the Womenand Children I am Roundly oppcseu to Burning & Plunders Bull am Competed to retaliate therefore I am Desirous that tbe Burning & Pillageing may be Stopt if it Does not Stop 1 will Certainly Retaliate I Certainly Regard Citizens if- the Citizens of, the South is Respected, , “lem y.our Humble Sem 7 ’ L “O P Hamilton ' ” ftbfCommdg MCavqlry." Twelve deserters from the Fourth Army Corps are to be shot on Friday, the 2oth, near Catlett’s Station. THE OHIO ELECTION. JiujJhcr I.otfer from ibfl Hon. C* L. ' nllamllgham. Windsor. C. W., Sept. 17, 1863. To the President of the Democratic Mass Meeting at Carthage , Ohio: biace writing mass convention at Dayton to day, the monstrous proclama tion oi the President has appeared, sus pending the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus , and thus declaring martial law throughout the United States, in every one and every part of every one of them, and in all their territories. It comes with- Get; previous warning.. It is announced at a time when the successes of the Fed* er. J armies and the referees of the Con federates are greater than at any period since the beginning of the war 5 at a time when the lines of the former are more extended, and of the latter more contract ed and further removed trom the original frontier than ever before, and at a time when, according to the Secretary of State, the rebellion is at last almost crushed oat. It appears m the midst of no riot, tumult, or other popular convulsion* anywhere in the States always true to the Uniou, and no preparation for any ; and when eTen the cdiouE “conscription” is being ex ecuted quietly and without resistance wherever announced. It is to continue “during the rebellion” —the President being the sole judge and arbiter of how long the rebellion shall be deemed to last. At sach a time, and under such circum stances, it can have but one object—the pending electior.B this lull, but especially the Presidential canvass of 1864. It is, indeed, the full development of that of which I have 60 often warned the people oi Ohio and cf the United States —the great conspiracy egainat constitutional liberty and free popular government—the establishment of a “formal and proclaimed dtspotism” in your midst. Oh, that the warning voice, feeble though it was, which two years ego in the beginning of this great struggle, in accents earnest as ever issued from humau lips, cried aloud tc the 1 people, that, one by one, their liberties were about to perish, and that anarchy first, and a strong Government afterward —no more State lines, no more State Governments, but a consoliddted mon archy, or vast centralized military despot ism, must all follow in the history of the future, as in the history of the past they bad centuries before been written. But that voice found no echo then, save in the columns and corridorß of the Capitol. To-' duy it is lifted up again. And hereafter let no man tell yoa—least of all the sen tic els upon your watebtowers—that there is no danger, no ground for alarm or ap prehension, To day your President is m form, as for two years and more he has been in fact, a Military Dictator. The most incredulous may tee at lats that the issue is, indeed, whether there shall any longer be Constitution and law in the United Slates, other than the will, unknown or expressed, of the President; whether freedom of person, of the press, of speech, free political assemblages and a free ballot, shall any longer exist among uf, and whclherthepeople shall hereafter, ur. heretofore, choose the Legislatures and Chief Ext-ru'ive of the State and Federal Governments. Shall there be free State electio:-s ary longer, or another Prcsi dtnlal election ot any sort ? Shall popu lar government or a despotism, unlimited *by law and uncontrolled by Judicial Courts henceforth prevail in the United States? This, now, men oi Ohio, moretbaa ever, is the issue before yon. The revolutionary purpose of the Administration to perpetu ate by intimidation or force, its power in the States and in the General Government stands now folly revealed, Next after this declaration of martial law will follow the armed seizure and occupation of your Sinto by Federal troops, to intimidate or overpower you at the polls. But this monstrous purpose cannot be executed, except the people cringe or cower before tho.threat or the attempted execution. The time, therefore, has now arrived ifu the renewed, solemn, inexorable dec laration and pledge, by the people to each other, through the preaa and in public as -Bitnbh:ge». that they mean to maintain tudr liberties at every hazard, and to have and to hold free elections, peaceably if they can, forcibly if they must. By the Constitution ot Ohio no soldier or marine of the United States can gain a residence 0: become a citizen aud elector of the Slate by being stationed within her limits. By the law of England, and by a provi dent statute of Pennsylvania, all troops are required to be removed a prescribed distant-.-—rot less than one mile—from the place of holding an election ; and this, too. is iho Spirit at least of our own lews. Every qualified elector of Ohio has the right freely, and without molestation of any kind, to 70te the ticket of his choice, and if Federal cr State trqops be present to molest or intimidate—no mat ter under wbat^retext—it is the right of the citizen.; and the duty of the civil ofii cers and cf the militia to disperse or ar rest the offenders, and to use whatever force may be necessary for that purpose. I counsel you, one and all, to stand by the Union, maintain the Constitution, support the Government and obey the laws ; but in the name and by the memory of your fathers, and as you would secure the blessings of liberty to yourselves and your children, I invoke yo& to defend the right of election and the ballot-box by all the means which the exigencies of the case may demand. The hour of your trial baa at last come. Be firm and be ready ; and God grant that the spirit of the patriots andfreetpen of other ages and countries, of the heroes of Greece and Rome, the spirit ot Bruce and Tell, of Hampden and Sydney, of Henry and Wash ington and Jackson, may be found to sur vive yet in the men of the present genera tion in America, aud thus that both the form and the substance of constitutional liberty and free popular government be still preserved and maaeßecure among us. C. L. VALDANDIGHAM, Mr.. Trunu.ow Weed’s recent letter de nouncing the draft leads people to say that it would not be strange if thenext canvass should show to us Mr. Lincoln as well as Mr. Seward, as no friend of this unpopu lar measure. The chronicles of 1864 may present on this head some such letter from Mr. Lincoln as the following ; In regard to this draft business, people said to me that it had been very successful in other countries. France and Prussia, had raised excellent armies in that way. J replied that our fashion was to raise ar mies by voluntary enlistments. A change was proposed. It was not a good thing to ewap'horßea while crossing a stream. But it was urged that volunteering hadoeased, and any horse was better than a dead horse. This does not strictly follow. The bide and shoes of a dead horse may be worth something. Moreover, the horse might not be dead, only perhaps sham ming death, or in what the surgeon-gen eral, and that excellent institution the Sanitary Commission denominate a state of coma. Besides the new horse might be vicious. Certainly, from what is known of him, he requires expensive provender ; then, if he should kick his owner’s brains out, better have kept the dead horse. Therefore I recur to my position, not to Bwap. But I the bill authorizing the draft.’ Of course, the President signs the bills passed by Congress, unless he vetoes them. I saw no occasion for a vote. The country was in a state of war. The men in Congress, from the eastern stateb who voted tor that bill, are sup posed to have wanted a draft. They had it. . The men frjmthe western states-who voted for it may not have wanted a draft.' Theydidnot hhve it. Anything will float where there is water enough. There seems to have been a drought in the western states that season, and only a heavy dew in New Jersey, as far as heard from. Froai the Now Y„rk World. Tlio Defeat of jEtosecrans The unwilling voice of the official tele graph at last compels us to accept the re salts of the fierce battle fought on Saturday and Sunday last near Chattanooga as a ead and substantial disaster to the arms of the Union. That the Army of the Cumberland fought its sore fight with gallantry and spirit need not be said. This at least we have a right now to expect of the veterans of the na tion, however commanded and by what ever strategy surrendered to the crnel chances of unequal strife. Bat when we read, ot a complete and compulsory diEappearunca from the field of the whole right and centre ot the army of Bosecrans, and when we find that noth ing stood between these broken corps and utter ruin bntthe cool and skillful courage of Generffl Thomas, commanding the left wing of the defeated force, it is time that the patriotic of the country should speak ont plainly and demand of the government some mere rational and satisfactory account of its stewardship than such a paragraph a|forda as the fol lowing, which the authorities at Washing ton have not been ashamed, through the Associated Press, to fling in tho face of the public : "lire fact that General Bosecrans was not sooner reinforced is certainly not the fault oi the- Government ; bat there is no donbt that every effort is now making to increase his strength by reinforcements from more than one direction.” The only vital point in this official state ment is the confession that General Rose crans has been worsted. How badly he has been worsted still remains to be seen. If he haß simply been driven in npon Chattanooga, itself a formidable position, and can there hold his own until the tardy Burnside, can be driven, and the energetic Grant can hasten to his relief, the iesalts of the victory of Bragg will prove, like the results of bo many other victories in this war, to be rather a moral than a material gain to the winning side. Bat the latest advices place Burnside, at a distance ol nearly two hundred miles from Chatta nooga, and indicate that the line of com munication hetween Ilosecrans and him self is threatened and horraseed by guer rilla forces neither few nor inconsiderable. From no other quarter can Kosecranß expect any imaginable support in this his hoar of extremity. He left Shelbyville a month and more sgo with rutions for less than two months, and the long line between Chattanooga and Murfreesboro 1 cannot possibly be kepi open by a beaten army. General Grant, on the Mississippi, is quite as much cut cfl from the possibility of aseisLing him as is General Meade on tho Potomac, and he is ns likely to be reinforced by the con scripts of Vermont as by the veterans scattered with Steele and Franklin all the way from the Red river to the Rio Grande. should he accordingly be forced to evacu ate Chattancoga and attempt a retrogade march upon Central Tennessee, we ought not to be surprised to Bee that movement attended by the most persistent and most fatal onslaughts which the rebels have yet made upon any recoding force of the Union. To rcassame the c IVensive is for licse crans evidently impossible. The utmost that can now be hoped of him is that he may show himßelf able to withdraw his troops from a position in which he ought never to hove engaged t hem. That tho decisive campaign of the finest army assembled in the West should have been “brought to this complexion” is no light or trivral matter. The canßes which have led to Buch a result demand, and we trust will receive, the most searching in vestigation. The attempt which has been made at Washington to throw the crushing responsibility of this “heavy blow and gTeat discouragement" upon Gen. Burn side, were it even successful, would not liberate the masters and managers of Gen. Burnside from their just public accounta bility. It was they, or the chief of them, who planned the grand scheme of which Bosecrans was the inadequate performer, and Burnside the constituaonal marplot. It waß Lhey or the chief of them who kept lingering idly at Vicksburg some twenty or twenty five thousand men who might have been employed either in dem onstrating against Mobile, or in reinforc ing the advance of Bosecrans. Mej. GeD. Halleck was particularly swift to claim for himself the credit of the victories of Gen. Grant. He may be perfectly certain that he will be called npon to accept as frank ly the disgrace which must attach forever in our history to the author of the super fluous and exasperating reverses of Rose crans. General Burnside is understood to have been officially censured for his tardiness in reinforcing General Rosecrans. -While the Washington authorities ate the remote, he seems to have been the immediate cause of the disaster. It is rumored, with a strong show of probability, that his resig nation was tendered because he did not wish to play second fiddle to Gen. Rose c.-ans. He delayed hastening to the re lief of the Army of the Cumberland be cause it would pat him underthe command of a junior officer. When ordered to re port'to General Rosecrans, he. tendered his resignation in high dudgeon, and dis obeyed orders by scattering his army throngh Eastern Tennessee. But whatever truth there may be in these stories, the foolishness of Burnside was an inevitable incident of any campaign in which he was concerned, and ought to have been as much taken into the account by General Halleck in planning his strate gy a B the height of the Cumberland hills, or the width cf the Cooeii river, _ To fasten the shauie and burden of this bitter national disappointment upon the shoulders which ought properly to bear it, is a public duty, anti must be done. But it is bard to find tbe heart for doing it while we contemplate the possible, and indeed tbe probable, fruits of the disap pointment itself. That it reverses all the prospects of the autumnal campaignjin the central Southjia searcelj its darkest feature, It will probably revive the sympathies of Europe with the “confederate" cause, and hasten tbe accomplishment of any plans of recognition into which the agents of Jefferson Davis may have led any foreign powers. It will certainly rekindle the hopes, the enthusiasm Bud the passion of the Southern population, and we may be sure that we shall hear ho more' for the present touching tbe demoralization of the rebel armies. Troops who fight with the vim and desperation of the rebels'in this laßt fight, show that they have lost neither discipline nor Bpirit. General Rosecrans, and, throngh his reports, the whole North, seems to have been thor oughly deceived as to tbe real condition of Bragg’s army. Excellent as was the morale of General Rosecran’s command previous to the battle, that of tbe rebel orces was quite bs good, while the Gener alship seems to have been incomparably better at least in this contest. Proportion of. Males and Females in the United States. In Massachusetts the females outnum ber the males some 36,000 and in New 1 ork there is a small preponderance of females, bet in Pennsylvania the males are more numerous. This difference be tween our State and tbe whole of the States is in great part owing to the large number oftemaleß employed in the man ufactories in the Eastern States, and the neat emigration of the m en to the new Stateß, especially to those on the Pacific coast. The males in California outnum ber the females near 68,000, or about one fifth of the population. Boston Trav. a The Judge Ktclieit>,in jpavor of State, Bighte. Knoxville* Oct 28. 1834, Mt Bear Sir: As I am about leav ing this pl&pe for Ohio, I- Ibave, but a few moments to reply to your favor of the 21at ’-nst. In my view, no powers can be ex ercised by the Federal Government except those which are expressly delegated to it; and I should think that the experience we have had ought to convince every one that any extension of the Federal powers mnst endanger the permanency of the Union. All jadicial questions which arise under the Gonstitniion and laws of the Union, are referable to the Supreme Court of the United States, and its decision is final in such cases. This tribunal is expressly vested with the power to decide such questions by the Constitution, which was adopted by the people' of the respective States. The Supreme Court, then, haß been made the arbiter in such .cases by the States, and its decisions are binding on all litigant parties. a political authority be asserted by the Federal Government, which is con troverted by a State, and which affects the interest of snch State, and it cannot be made a jadicial question nnder the Consti tution or laws ot the Union, there is no tribunal common to the parties; and, in such a case, effect can not be given to the power. The decision of a sovereign State, B ? c^L a case i i 0 a 0 good as the decision o t the Federal Government, and, of neces sity, there must be mutual forbearance. An unconstitutional act of Congress im poses no obligation on a State, or the peo pie of a State, and may be resisted by an individual, or a community. No one, I believe, will controvert this. Bat, is a bound to submit to a systematic course of oppression from the Federal Government? I answer no. It should remonstrate again and again, until all re monstrance is vain and useless. An ap peal should be made to the other States, iu all the forms sanctioned by the Consti tution, and ample time should be given for reflection. But if all these efforts shall-produce no effect, and the oppression be continued — an oppression which withers the hopes of the State, and dries up the resources of its prosperity, and the people of the State are forced to the alternative of choosing, under such circumstances, liberty or sla very, they may, and should, reject the lat ter, and assert the former by open resist ance. 1 biß is an inherent right, which may be asserted and maintained by every organized community. Instead of enlarg ing its powers by a rule of construction which may be contracted or extended at pleesure, the Federal Government should act within the sphere allotted to it, and consider that the true glory of our Federal system consists in attaining the great ob jects of its formation, with the least possi ble action upon the diversified and con flicting interests of the people. In this way, and this way only, can this system, so eventtal in its origin, and which has excited the astonishment and admira tion of the world, be made perpetual. And I need not say what every enlighten ed individual must admit, that upon 1,2 perpetuity the cauee of national liberty de pends. If lime permitted, I would give 6 more detailed reply to your inquiries; but I trust this hasty scroll, under the circum stances, will be received. Very tiuly and sincerely yours, John M’Lean The Kentucky Platform. There is a singular unity andcoraestness of opinion among the loyal men of Ken tucky in the maintenance of an intelligent and independent adherence to the cause ol the Constitution and the Union. The platform on which they stand is thus de fined by the Hon. Geo. H. Yeaman, a member elect of the next Corgress, as be was a useful member of the last during its closing session, having been chosen to succeed the lamented Gen. .Jackson, who fell while gallantly fighting (or the Gov ernment st Perryviile : “The wilful destruction by the Govern ment cl any interest is neither a necessary means nor a legitimate object in prosecu ting the war. But if such injury come as an incident or a’necessary result of the war caused by the rebellion, let it tome. We do not Eeek it ; we wonld avert it if possible ; but the war Bgainst the rebel lion must go on, the rebellion must be mbdned and onr nationality vindicated. While the Btrnggle of arms continues we may and will discuss and condemn giveo measures or policies, but to withdraw sup port from the Government, and to aban don the war jnßtwhen the rebellion poshes it with the energy of deßpair, is not only 10 give aid and comfort to the enemy, bnt to assure the success of his schemes.' Kentucky will not do this ' f he recent marked victory of the Union party of Kentucky, on her platform of po litical opposition to the Administration and military support of the Government a victory achieved over those who would deny that ■support, sufficiently indicates the true position of the State. In her own councils aud in the councils of the nation she is not wedded to the pecular schemes or measures of the present Administra lion ; neither is she leagued with tho e who have moro anxiety to overturn the Administration and save a party than they have to overturn the rebellion and Bave the Union. She will not co-operate with any whose zeal against Mr. Lincoln as sumes the form of practical assistance to Mr. Davis—those who, in quarrel how the war shall be conduoted, would forget to conduct the war at all, and leave the Constitution they affect to save to the vio lence and ruin of its assailants.’’ Lincoln's Proclamation Our loyal neighbors who think no argu ment can be sound, cr founded upon any stronger ground, than factions opposition, may perhaps acknowledge that the his torian Hume was neither a copperhead, an ignoramus, nor a traitor. It wonld be impossible for us to write an article more lully covering the entire grornd, or more applicable to the present state of affairs than the following extract from Home’s history of Henry VIII. It shows ns what the fntnre historian must ssy of certain transactions of the present Administra tion : ‘■The Parliament having thus resigned all their religions liberties, proceeded to an surrender of their civil, and, without scruple or deliberation, they made by One act a total subversion of the English Con stitution. They gave to the King’s proc lamation the same force as to a statute en acted by Parliament ; and to rehder the matter worse, if possible, they framed this law as if it was only declaratory, and were intended to explain the natural extent of royal authority. “The preamble contains that the King had formerly set forth several proclama tions, which forward persons wilfully con temned, not considering what a King by his royal power may do ; that this license might encourage offenders not only to dis obey the lawsof Almighty God, but also to (dishonor the King’s most royal Majes-; ly, who may fully ill bearit ; that sadden emergencies often occur which require speedy remedies, and await the slow assembling and deliberations of Par liament. * * * * For theoe reasons the Parliament, that they might remove all occasion of doubt, ascertained by a statute this prerogative of the crown, and enabled hia Majesty, with; the advice of his Conrfcils, to set forth proclamations 1 enjoining obed ence under whatever pains and penalties they ehonld think proper; and these proclamations were to have the force of perpetual law. — Hume, vol. iii. chap, xxxii. Hu? I rom tho Cleveland i’lain ‘Dealer Douglas and Vallandigliam; The wily Wluqlii! Jofijj; Brough ia the exponent and standard bearer, are trying to wheedle a few Wotea of' inciu tiona people, by claiming that Mr. Vallan digham did not do the fair thing by Mr. Douglas at the Charleston Convention. We find published in the Chicago Times a letter from: Jndge Douglas which will put an effectual quietus upon this .last slander concocted by a cunning and nnscrupuloua party: Washington, June 3, 1860. “My Dear Sib— Accept my thanksiot your bind letter. While I am glad to hare your testimony to the fidelity dud energy with which oar friend Vallandig ham acted at Charleston. I take 'pleas are in assuring ydn that I never, for d moment, doubted him. Whenever I know a man to be a gentleman, I always regard his word as conclosive. Heßido3 r I have too many evidences of Cfen. ; Vallah* digham’s friendship for me to one to impeacli fcis honor iii “iny hrea— ence. ‘*lt is an act of jastice to say that aeV* oral friends of mine, who had nOt been particularly friendly to him previous to the Charleston Convention, came back bis warm friends and bore enthusiastic, tfegti* mony to, hia noble bearing and efficient services/ I take pleasure in' assuring you that all your news'especially from the South, is of the most cheering character. Another effort will be inade to break nip the Convention, but it will fail. “With assurance of my grateful regards, I am, very truly, your friend, (Signed) S. A. DOUGLAS. To Hon. Ben. M. Samuels, Dubuque, lowa. If Mr. Douglas were living to day, he would be the leader of the opposition against an administration, not only throws every obstacle io the way of a re turn to the Union by the Rebel States, but makes likewise, steady and persistent warfare upon the liberties-of the pebple in those States which are'not in rebel lion. : *1 he War on the Oceanv The Boston Traveller learns that the ship Prince of Wales, from Callao for Antwerp, has been Captured by the. Geor* gia and bonded for $20,000. The New Bedford Mercary of Monday, has the following : “We make the following extract from a letter received at the Provost Marshal’s office in this city on Saturday evening : Last July a pirate vessel, bsrbentine rig ged, was seen off the south side, of, Mar tha’s Vineyard for lour days in succes sion. To-day the same craft has again been seOn by our boatmeu, who were some‘five or six miles off. She stood along - shore eastward, till within two mile of Tucker nuck, then stood off southwesterly. I have this information from one of the boatmen who saw this steamer to day and in July. Ee sayaitis the selfsame crafu O I ED: M’BRIDE— On Thursday, £4. Jonn Heney M’R?n>E, eldest son cf William P. and Treresa M’Bride, aged 14 years and 8 months. Th ) friends of the family are respectfully in vited te attend the fune*alon Friday, at 2 o’clock p. m., from the residence of his father, No.-fid Wylie street, to proosed to St. Mary’B Cemetery, Tee premature‘death of youpg M’Bride, we announce with exceeding regret. Ho was not only a dutiful and model son, but he i roiniaed to bo a virtuoui and ufiefel man. Wa condole with hiscfflict ed p; renUfortheirirroparablo los\ PECTORAL CO ITOIX SYRtP, Prepared by Dr. KEYSEB, I* the most cfT.’ctuil and agreeab!o coilgh rem edy known. It haa fcoen sold hero and through out thecouitry fir many joais, rendering the utmost satisfact on. la bottles at 50 Cents tneb, Oae boitle containing ab:ut three times the quantity of the ordinary tad articles. 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HEAD AND PROFIT THEREBY I ■ IOO,'CASES' HOOTS & (SHOES ' Just Received from Boston puuiws Anew flora, ■55 Fifth Street, MASONIC HALL. |iMOVK~4OBB£S,£XTBA F&SDIiT JB. F.oura i Jest reoeiredaod for sale by : , FBTZHJR it AUMSTKOnG, ed2o corner Market and First btreet' 5 . 1 POmOES-OO BRIfl; PRIMP. WTU fit 1 shasnock Potato's.- For tale by /••:»: FjsizEß&Aiuts'niONa. - 5;" , corner Market andFirjfc Bfc iNRAKBEBBI£S»O BBLS, CHOIC£ Cianbtrxies. Just reVived and forgale by ■ ' fiIiZER <£'4RM>TRO*e, ‘ se2o i q - coiner fflaiketand PirstEtreetJ- A BiRBEIB OFCHOICE -tt- Apples. Jnstreceiyedand for salo by FKiZ3.it Jt ARMSTtiOoG. se2s coraorMarkct and First streets. FALL AND WiNTLR GOODS. WE DBIBE TO IHFOBM OVB; ixiends.and the that,we have received one la 1 and^Rinter sto t compris ing everything that is new and desirable in our !iafrCQn}i-ting in part of Scotch Ctaovots. Basket and Continental Coatings, Vestliigs of Silk, Velvet, Bair aad oilier Cashmeres, !' Including a largo assortment of Fancy French and Scotch Ca&simcres, Blachand Colored Cloths, dc,; Which wo are to make up the lateat'sad wnt fashionable sly lea and iathe bestm&nuor, . ARBSE*. . . . . Merchant Tailors, *o.l9sthrt. Be2l-2w} ■ :’. \wl H L RlNQWALTjggtfysrT • Passage from isnglana & Ireland V 2.5 : ,,'e,0. ;;rN; age n« y; iV ? A seat* ; 124. hlonongahcla. ELOII2V fritto biirslu Piu, &aprepared to bribe out or send blew passeaffOT from *c? the bldcotmd 'ttT* either by steam orx oiiiiie paefeett, £•: ; o* j SIGHT DBAFTS E OH. BAXJS. paratJe la «njL -part.of Earooe* .. . - - . -•-> ■ ' Ayaatfoi'thofadjanftpoHs and ClEdinnatiß*E»-,A rtaa. Also, Attmtfor the-old Blech Cto lSjeot . * J&ilaw for. the Steamer Qrest Eaft', * era, sad for'theliuM oreteamcrsfiallins ftefttaar" New’YcrS* Qlzpzck and daffcr&jr* fell • .• .. .. . ..... • - j \%jansLy^; iStmio QaefDsfe and-latci^ooL fifi*,firet. class" Steamslupa. 4 ~ I ¥£&% s * ll raoH kfw tosh Wedneriay* • . : 3UION, 40 Fulton 8t„ New York, ox THOS. RATTIQAN, Agt, No 122 Mosongahela Hocso, Water Si* lu3;lyd Committee.