The Franklin repository. (Chambersburg, Pa.) 1863-1931, July 26, 1865, Image 2
g:r4ii4hi • lqotoitall. weih ß ecdar, July 26, 1965. PREJORDICE AGAINST REASON An honest, intpTligent conviction, no matter how different from what we our selves entertain, should always command our respect. If we cannot concur in the belief of qthurs, we should at least dissent in a respectful manner, admitting all the time the possibility of the s 'error being on our side. - It is best always to keep in mind the imperfection - of human knowledge, and while tenacious of our opinions to preserve an unbiased judgment. It has often hap pened that an -idea emerging from dark obscurity has exploded beneath the forti fications of error. and blown them and their.- defenders-out of existence. There . is no security against the occurrence' of such a thing, and it is simply wise and prudent to be prepared at all times to make our escape. i llut it is not every be lief that is intelligent and honest. Not withstanding the fact that we are living in the latter bnif of the nineteenth centu ry, ignorance and prejudice still exercise a powerful influence on men's 'thinds anti hearts. They did not die with the last Cen tury, but still linger on, and if not quite so formidable as they were, they are yet as far - removed from reason and fight as obstinately as ever. Towards belief grounded in these unfortunate character istics of human nature, reason can be tol erant, but never respectfill. Men may be lieve, if they choose, in the transmigration of souls, and no one should object to their recognizing in their favorite horses and dogs the souls, of their departed grand parents, but they must not complain if intelligent men do not manifest' much re ' spect for their insane notions. Men can believe just what they please, or at least they ought to be allowed to do so, but at the same time there is no law to enforce a respect for opinions against which rea son rebels. • ' These remarks have been suggested by the violent and unreasonable hatred to— ward th -t enegro that is constantly finding expression in the democratic journals, and more especially by a communication which appeared in last week's issue of the Spirit. Not that the communication expresses any more violent or unreasona ble hatred and abuse than has character ized more than one-half of the editorials of our neighbors within the past year, but because the writer boldly anticipates what we are forced to believe would be to the Spirit atesirable solution of the difficulty in which; ccording to its theory, the ne gro has' involved us. In the.article in . question it is proposed to " turn upon the black-skinned and coffee colored ob jects of the negro-lovers commiseration and wipe them out." Just when or how this is to be done the writer does not spec ify,. but assures us that it is a condition precedent to the return of peace and har mony. He places a low estimate on the negro's capacity and avows the belief that the GREAT CREATOR fixed a low.limit for his intelligence beyond which it will for ever be utterly impossible for it to expand. Now we are decidedly Of the opinion that the author of this brief butphilosoph ic article has a perfect right to believe what ho has written, and we will do all we can to protect him in theenjoyment of this inestimable privilege ; but if we tee in his views a heartless indifference to the welfare of the human race, a stupidi ty that would disgrace the degraded peo ple of whom he writes, and a bigotry that could only take root in a weak intellect, we must be permitted to withhold our respect from his sentiments, and instead thereof, to bestow our pity upon the au thor, who, in our judgment is lamentably deficient in a certain article that is gener ally supposed to contribute, somewhat to man's superiority over the brute creation. We speak of him because, by rushing into print, he bas made it convenient for us to r do so, - and not that we attribute any spec ' iaLimportanet to him or his communica tion. We take him to be one of a large Class of persons to all of whom our re marks will apply with equal force. Many of them are doubtless as ignorant and bi goted as he, though we confess that We have rarely met with such. v. . This envenomed hate which this class of men delight in exhibiting toward the negro, instead of evidencing their superi ority over the objects of their malevo lence, rather establishes the opposite. It is not thetray superiors generally treat inferiors. f the negro,wereguilty of any crime or enormity it would be otherwise. If he were even. responsible for his pres ent low condition, contempt and scorn might thin with some justice be visited upon him, but since he is not, and as his degradation is a misfortune which he could not avert, no matter whether ari sing from oppression or a law of his Da: tare, it becomes his superiors to manifest pity rather than scorn, benevolence rather than hate. 'Genuine superiority will in variably manifest itself after this fashion. His far from creditable to us as a people "'that this hostility - is so widespread ; for it rests entirely in ignorance and prejudice. It cannot be defended by a single argn- Dint that would commend itself to the respect or judgment of nil impartial mind. The negro has not intruded himself upon us voluntarily, bat was brought here against his will, by overpowering force and through cunning deceit. He. was here when the Reißtblic was fOunded, 'fought for its establishment .anir after wards in its.defence. Though deprived of his riihts he has never plotted its over throw; but has always been true to its flag. He has borne oppressio n without resistance, and has permitted us to make him shower of wood and drawer of w a t er for our convenience and gain. True he is ignorant, lamentably so. But who will undertake to say that in, this respect he 4ov a monopoly ? If he has any right to such a monopoly, like all others he Over bad, it-has be - en disregarded arid vi olated. ButMoDERN DEMOCRACY doesn't , see things in this light dad we can under ward why. - Public plunder once afforded cohesive power to preserve uni ty among flu:We professing the, faith. but of late years that article has become Scarce with them; and where they once appealed, to cupidity , they are now compelled toap peal to ignorance and prejridice. .Every man who has enough of the latter to hate the negro race, as a race, votes the demo cratic ticket and always will do so. The men who two years ago amused them selves by hanging; innocent negroes to lamp posts in the streets of New York all Tote the regular ticket and So do all their friends. Policy makes it the business of democracy to encourage and intensify this ill feeling. It admitted into its creed that uncharitable and unchristian doctrine that denied the black man any rights the white man was bound to respect, and not withstanding the fact that it once profes sed to believe that all government derives its just form from the consent of the go verned, it became the special champion of human slavery. It defended its ex istence and struggled for its expansion. Its zeal in behalf of its strange ally made it overleap all bounds, and has made it responsible to-dtty for much ofthe intol erance alit disgraces us as - a , peoplc. It taught its followers to believe that the great DECI:ARATION of human right in as serting that all men were created equal, referred only to white men, and we doubt not that a vast majority of them to-day believe that the nttemnce of that voice from Heaven, commanding "Peace on earth, good will toward men," should be restricted in its reference by the same nar row rule. We would infer from the com munication in the Spirit, and that jour nal's editorials,tbatsuch at least was their belief, whether 'it had ever been officially promnlga r ted as au article of democratic faith or not. It is, indeed, humiliating, to know that ttil:re is a great party, in American politics built. upon the 'theory that God,tlid "make out of one blood all the nations,of the earth," anti that the great principle of cohesion in that party is an uncharitable anti unchristian hate that springs alone from the accident of color. Our ":common school system may be very good, but we have abundant evi dutch before us that it has not yet entirely fulfilled its mission. Reason has the van tage ground, but we still need more school houses. EXPATRIATED This seems to have been the condition of the Democratic party for the last five years. Ou the breaking out of the rebell ion the southern wing formally renotruyed all allegiance to the United States Govern ment and took, as thty thought, fi alleave of us. The Northefn wing equally hostile to the government, but laboring under the slight disadvantage of being a minor ity among a patriotic people, contented themselves with mentally absolving them selves from their allegiance and with em barrassing as far as they were able, every measure of the government fof the sup pression of the rebellion and the preser vation of the country. During the whole war-the two wings were in the closest sympathy. A rebel victory was a signal for copperhead rejoicing and a rebel de feat wasa Ognrce of sorrow deep and last ing. On the iirineiple that "No"goodent come gut of Nazareth," so no one single measure of the , g,overument was permitted to pass unassailed. The President of the United States was denouncie as a tyrant, and was ridiculed as an hlliCbecile, a huffoOn, an ignorant boor, mid with a choice selection of all the terms that Billingsgate Ouldsuppl,y. , all the'emiuent Men in the country, no mat ter what might have been their political antecedents, even'though but lately High Priests of the Democratic faith, who dared to tdke their stand in favor of liberty and the perpetuity of fire Union, were con stantly and unsparingly villitied and abused. The DemOciatic press ; of the North re echoed every slander that come to us from abroad, every stupid tale that the igno rance or malice of foreign hate could de vise was repeated here. If we might be lieve the Democratic papers we were a nation of 'liars and cowards. Our braVe . 'soldiers never _gained a victory and the reports of our generals to that effect were false. Oa the other hand rebel victories, were magnified; and the reports of rebel" generals were taken against those of our own, as the measure of ourlossess. Grant was a butcher and a liar—Lee a gentle man and a soldier. , Butler was a beast-- Forest an embodiment' of chivalry.' So the comparisons ran. Resistance to the draftwia# Persistently taught, and in heavy De critic districts brought forth the expecthd fruit, treason and bloodshed. The financial policy and resources of the United States werede preciated and every effort made to make the nation bankrupt. And finally in 1864. at Chicago, in a solenniconclave of the whole Democratic party, 'the war was de clared to be a failure, and the govern meat as far as that party was conceived" delivered into the Ininds of its enemies, for such would have been the result of an abandonment of the War at that time. Happily the people by au immettsomajor 2 ity, indignantly refused to endorse this declaration at the polls, and the war went on to a successful issue. This triumph of the nation has howev er had no effect in abating the animosity of the DemoCratic party toward it. It is still as bitterly hostile and as active in the interests of treason as during the war, Nothing that OM government does or-at tempts to do is right. When after along and tedious trial the assassins 9f -our late President are convicted and, punished, the - sworn. evidence of the government witnesses is discredited, and the- state ments 'of rebels and rebel sympathizers received and paraded to the effect that the prisoners are innocent. • When the `treason of the southern wing of the Dem ocratic party compels the government to retain an army of 50,000 to , 80,000 men, one half of whom will probably be ne groes, it is attempted to excite the preju dices of the people against the megroeS by_ . denouncing them as servile brutal mercenaries-worse than, Sepoys-although there is no instance on record of their murdering a, garrison in cold blood as the Sepoys Under Purest did at Fort Pillow, or of there potting to death by slow star- Scau4tit vation 60,000 Union soldiers as was done V-thegreat Sepoy, Jeff. Davis, now occu pying a cell in Fortress Monroe. The government' is further gravely warned that "the national ;lebt may become a wedge of disnnion instead .of a bond of Union, unless it be so wisely managed as to forbid the raising: of sectional com plaints." In other words, if the -pay ment of the rebel debtis not assumed by the United States that - , the Democratic party will assist the rebel leaders when they again get into power, to reptuliate our own debt.' And to this end ever ef fort is made by the Democratfc party. Every man in the party—every' press de nounces the exceptions in the President's amnesty proclamation, and especially the $20,000 property prohibition, . by_ which rich and truculent rebels who originated the rebellion are 'disfranchised -and kept beyond the power to do" further injury. In short, in every'possible way in which malevolence to the constituted authori ties of the United States government can he shown, the occasion is seized by the Democratic party to do so. The history of our times when fully re corded will present'the singular spectacle of a great party living among us, yet not : of us: Wine every act in a time of great public dabgetTwas against the government which protected them. Who appeared to have lost every sentiment of love and res pect for their country and flag and.every honorable feeling as American citizens. A. party who had so completely abjured all patriotic feeling as to become aliens in fefeling to the land whichgave them birth. Who had . departed so far from their mig hail prineiples that their name was a libel on them—and who had finally arrived at that point that like Salathiel, the Wan dering Jew, they might be said to be without a country and a name. A CORRECTION The Spirit with its usual regard for truth, says in its-last issue„ 'thatthe num ber of men furnished by New York -city for the war (116,000) is almost as large as the entire number furnished by New En gland. The facts of the case are that New England furnished 366,945 men, more than three times the number furnish ed by New York city. Rhode Island sent more troops in pro ; portion, to her population than any other state in the Union, except Kansas. The statistics show that the New England states responded as fully in proportion to their population, to the calls for men, as their sisters. They did it - ' too without fraud, rioting and bloodshed. and without the - presence of l'ffited States troops to compel them to their duty. as was the case in New York city. The character also of the men sent was more reliable 'as sol diers than these furnished by New York city. The records of the Provost Mar shal's Office in this place, show that of the deserters from Sheridan's army last fall and winter who were arrrested here— at the rate of 90 to 100 per mouth, four fifths of them were New York soldiers. many of them with their bounty money still in their pocket., howev er, that the Spirit has stated one fact, New York city is a Copperhead hole." TuE Union State Central Committee held a sessimot Harrisburg on the 19th, and passed a resolution convening the Union State Convention at Harrisburg on the 17th of August. The members call ed upon General Cameron and presented to him, from the Union men of Philadel phia: a life-sized portrait of 'himself. VEIONAL TECIIER'S ASAN. LATION.—This body will bold its annual meeting for 1? - .365,oll the 16th, 17th and liAlt ofyingust, in the Hall of the House of Representatives, in Harrisburg. Cot Curtis will deliver an address of v.elcome, at 10 o'clock, A. Jl.. on the 16th. The Pennsylrania School Journal says that the hotels of Harrisburg have consented to reduce their charges about oue third, in favor of the members of the Association. The railroads will grant free return tickets to members who pay full fare coming to the Con vention. JUDGE McCANDLEss in the United States Circuit Court on the lath read the opinion of . Judge Grier and hinself, prepared, as he stated, by Judge Grier, 46litring the act of the Legis lature of Pennsylradia which repealed the char ter of the Counella 11e Railroad Company to be unconstitutional. 'WASHINGTON' Aciptittakof Miss liarris-Intense Ilcat— The Mtirkets—The Colored People and the Elective Franchise—Distribution of tin Appropriation. Currespondenee ,If the Franklin Repu6itury, WASHINGTON CITY, July MI, IF(Li. 'The great -farce of the hour is completed, and the curtain has dropped on the play of "The Arch geress." Mary Harris is on her way to her prai rie home, justified by a verdict of her countrymen, and livesamew illustration of the power of beauty to humbug juries, aye and courts too, in defiance of law or common deeernry. The judge may he Icily, but not enough so to resist the potent charm which Was lured many a man to ruin. Said a friend of mine to one of the jurymen in this case, "At what stage in the proceedings did you make up youi" minds-to acquit her?" "Oh, said he," "about two weeks before we were empannelled." The details have been given in the newspapers; but no pen can do justice to the closing act. Try and-fancy it: - Scene let discloses the judge in earnest e ff o rt to ece that all things are "done decently and in order," and as the surest way mid shortest entito that end, determined to shut up the Dist riet At torney's mouth, while the latter is so full of a de termination to do his duty, without fear of God or man, that he can't keep his mouth shut. "It au irresistible mass coined against an imam able body what will he the result?" Said the school boy "'Why a general •smash." So it was here, but we pass on to scene last, but not least. Jury looking solemn as owe. "How say you," says the stentorian voice . of the clerk, "guilty or nut g uilty 7" "ry not guilty of coorse," responds the jury. The veil with which the criminal bad kept her beauty shrouded that justice might not cut up too wonderful antics under its magic power during the trial, is - withdrawn by the adroit hands of Mr. Bradley, whose rehearsal of his part must have cost him infinite labor. He impresses a kiss upon the fair brow of the pretty criminal. She swoons, with,her arms carefully encircling his neck, and is transported in that interesting posi tion, amid the buzzes of the delighted audience and the waving of handkerchiefs by the feminines df the Treasury Department, who were present in force, to an ante-room, where by a liberal ap plication of the principle of similia rantom, was speedily brought to. and them 41)tunbutbutg o pa. appears the taastir of the stage who delivers this sage moral dedaed from the play v • "Now all ye yowl. men 10* are looking for wives, Be waned that yi do it at risk of your lines; And be sure that be girl you say 800 to, you - mairys, Lertyou be shmei by I {olllf . parosr:szwil Hire Barris." The weather l!s been intensely- hot in the la,st two days makim the grease to start from the skin equal to a strike of a flowing pile welL" When I tell you*eaders that the sweat "sizzled" on the skin like ft in a hot frying pan, they will be able to compuhend the situation at once. The markets ire supplied with fruits and veg etables in abunditce and you can big enough for; ten cents to givlou the-chol4is morbus. The colored r pulation of the city are holding numerous meethgs with a View to harmonize ac tion upon theqmstion of suffrage. and seem in earnest in demanding all their rights; if they can only find out chat they are. A' good tribny of them evidently kard the matter of the election franchise as a blich joke and an insidious effort to mike the negroeligible to a sent in Congress, and thus sink hiinh the lei el of the white man: while , the mor, intelligent of them believe that their only 'eThatee for political salvation is ever lasting sepatatiin from the whites and to this end are in favor of neniurializing Congresi 4.) furnish them within tin limits of the United States or its teritories a country of their own, where they may work out their destiny according to the ability that God has given them, free from the in fluence of the ineradicable prejudice of caste under which they must still - PS by remaining among the whites or the barbarizing influences to which they would be subjected if transported, to Liberia or even to Central America. Congress at its last session made an appropria tion of money to be said under the direction of the Secretary of the . Treasury to those clerks whose senices had been the most meritorious. Ho has directed it tO be diAribated among the higher class clerks in accordance with the scrip tural principle that "to him that bath shall be given," but those that don't get any "don't see it in that light," • TILE RIGHT ]IAN ENTRE RIGHT PLACE 121 To the Eitstors of the Fr6nAlia Repository : As the time is nea'r at hand when the Union:: County Convention Will be called upon to nomi.- nate a ticket, to be ;placed before the, people for their sulimges at the ensuing general election, the present crisis deMands that none but men of sterling integrity be; placed upon it; find as the office of Sheriff is one of considerable importance, we would suggest the name of JACOB KINDIGA. of Southampton, wlio will be brought before t 1 Convention: (than whom a more fogcri and .parri oar man does not e',cist in the county) for that office. Having 110 five sons in the army fight ing for the cause of the Union; (two of whom sacrificed their livesion the altar of their country,) we know of no other man more deserving, or who would make a more efficient officer. We think this end of the confity is entitled to the rumina tion, and if placed mon the ticket he would add. vastly to its strength, and twits success at the coining election. ORRSTOWN. MONA'. 'n trial at Washington forthe has been acquitted. —Mary Harris, murder of Burroug nuking speeches in Kentucky mstitutional Amendment --.-Gen. Logan is in support of - the C , or, the weir koOerti North has been pained by the —Kcuw•tfi Ray , Carolina politician Presient. i;.zunian wbo offered a tewani 4assination isnow' , confined in —Ga3 lei the Ala! for Mr. Lineoln'u ac Fort Pulaski. —The only ferna conspirators at 1\ Walker : Marge...3o. Pt u i" to his bed with ler, e present at the execution of ashington, was :Sirs. Major Diekingou bus • . •• • • . r two weeks; but ts pro nounced convaleFet •, of Idaho, has been appoint t Territory, vice Caleb I,yon —W.11.• ed Governor, of th. of Lyonsville, ri7i4 —G: LP. Reed, t sq.,. Senior Editor of the In• (liana True Anidiratr, died at his residence ii that borough, Monday the il)th inet, • —George F. Roknson, the Maine soldier who saved the life of +rotary Seward, has been giv en a clerkship wurth twelve hundred dollars a year. —TheiErie (Pa.) Observer save that li. D. Sher man, of the famous Sherman well, to reported to be worth $7,000,01)0. Five "years ago he was a poor map —The conspirators—Mudd, Arnold, O'Laugli liu, and Spangler—hate been sent by order o President to the Dry Tortugas, instead of the AI bang PenitentiarT,*as at first designated. —The Hon; Schuyler Colfax arrived in San Francisco on the let inst., and delivered an ad dress there on the Fourth, which was celebrated on the Pacific slope with considerable4enthusi ann. —The rebel Generals Kirby Smith, Magruder, Price, 'Hindman and Bee have gone to Mexico: Kirby Smith had to borrow money to get away. The rebel Governors Allen, Moore and Marsh have also gone to Mexico: —A gentleman from Savannah says Mrs,AelT. Davis is boarding at- the Pulaski House. 7,. the appears to have plenty of money and an extensive wardrobe. The statement that she was about to leave for England is untrue. —Col. Hamilton, the Private Secretary of Jeff: Davis, has been sent to Fort McHenry ; Prof. McCullough, the alleged projector of the incendi ary fires in New York, to Fort Delaware. and Gov. Harris to Libby Prison. —The wife of Gen. Ewell proceeded to Fort Warren on the 19th, with an order from Presi dent Johnson for the release of her husband, ou taking the oath of allegiance. He was liberated and both left for the South that evening. —General Hardie publishes a Card in response to a statement in the New York Tribune of the 17th, relative to the issue of a pass to a clergy man to visit Mrs. Snrratt. lle avers that the Sec retary of War expressly and readily assented to the visit of a Catholic elergymanto Mrs. Surratt. and be made no condition as to any conviction of the clergfman as to the guilt or innocence of the prisoner, or as to anything he might say on the subject. Gen. Hardie farther asserts that the Rev. Mr. Walters was very violent in his lan guage in speaking of the case, notwithstanding which he handed him the pass signed by the Sec retary of War ; and further, he gave him anote to get an interview with the Acting Military Sec retary of the President. —A despatch from San Francisco -announces the death of Bishop Alonzo Potter, on the 4th inst., in that city. Bishop Potter was a native of Duchess county, N. Y.; graduated at Union Col lege; became a tutor in the college MlBl9, and was elected professor of natural philosophy and Mathematics in 1821. He was ordained in the same year, and invited to a rectorship in, Boston in 1826. In 1831 he was made Vice President of Union College; was chosen Bishop of Pennsylva nia in 1845. Bishop Potter has contributed many works to the literature of the country.. Among them the " Principles of Science applied to the Domestic and MechanioArts," "Political keeno my, its Objects, Uses and Principles Considered. ° " The School and Schoolmaster," and a . number of diarouratle, charges, addresses, etc. He was born in kW. His death will be universally re gretted. 'No man was beldiu higher respect, and none Alma authority in educational mattUrs was more respected. poLrrIcAL wriworacz. —The Union men of Clatio' hara,nomina ted Col. Thos. lirOulloch for Senator and Col. John Ewing for Assembly. —A ciirrespondent of the Harrisburg TeAgra ph urges the nomination of Brice X. Bair, of- Hun: stingdon county, for Surveyor General. —A correspondent of the Washington Tribune recommends 3lajor Gen. F. J. Herron, of Alle gheny county, for the Union nomination for Gov ernor. • —The election for a State C r onvention in South Carolina will take place on the 6th of November. The Convention will meet on the 20th of the same month. —The Unionists of Northern Texas hive, norni mated B. H. Peterion, of Red River county, for Governor. The regular election comes off on the first Monday in August nest. - -The Unionists of Armstrong county have nominated Col.. S. M. Jackson. late Colonel of the 11th P. V. R. C., for Senator, and Lieut. Frank Mechling'for Assembly. —The election in Richmond, Va., on Tuesday week resulted in the choice of the "secession" candidates. The voting is said to have been chief ly done by paroled soldiers of Len;ti army . —The Union men of Blair county have nomi natdd Joseph G. Adlum for Assembly, Benj. F. Rose and Adam Moses for Associate Judge, and Col. David M. Jones for Register and Recorder. —Ex-United Stops Senator Charles Durkee, of Wisconsin, hai been appointed Governor of Utah, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Governor James D. Doty, which Occurred two months since. • —The Union Senatorial Conferees of the Arm strong; Butler and Lawrence District, after tak ing about fifty ballots for a candidate for Senator, adjot.rned without being able to Make a choice. They will meet again on the :31 of august. —Elections will take place as . follows: Ken tucky, members of Congress and State Treasur er, find Monday in August; Vermont, Governor, Lieutenant Govetnor and State Treasurer, first Tuesday in September ; Maine, Governor and Legislature, second Monday in September. —The Democrats of New Jersey held their State! Convention, at Trenton, on Wednesday, to nonliqate axandidate for Governor. The atten dance was remarkably small, there being but five delegates present. These five agreed to postpone the nomination until a more convenient season. —Major General Sherturof* a public recep tion at Columbus, Ohio, on the 13th inat. In the course of his remarks he heartily endorsed Gen. Coi, announcing him -as the neat Governor of Old& He also said he was not, under any eir cumstances„a candidate for Gubernatorial or Presidential honors. —The canvass for the Governorship of Wis consin at the November election is becoming ani mated. Gen. Fairchild, who has been strongly endorsed for the litfiee, by Wisconlin regiments, and who was supposed to have a "sure thing," 'Suddenly finds himself confronted by a formidable rival in the person of Gen. C. C. Washburn. The Las not yet been called. —Major-General John F. Hartranft, of Norris town; Brig. Gen: Ntigle, of Schuylkill County; Gen. Harry Markle, of Westmoreland, and Capt. Price X. Blair, of Huntingdon County, are seve rally announced by their friends as Union candi dates for Surveyor General. Gen. Selfridge, of Northampton, Gen. Nagle, of Allegheny, and Jno. A. Hiestand, of Lancaster County, arespoken of as Union candidates for Auditor GeneraL —The New Jersey. Republican State Conven tion assembled on Thursday, at Trenton. Gen. -Judson Kilpatrick was elected permanent Presi dent. 'The Committee on Resolutions reported a series, pledging support to the National ndudolr had-ion: favoring the - adoption or the-Constitu tional Amendment abolishing slaverf; thifnling the soldiers for suppressing the rebellion, &c. General nominations were then made for Gover nor. Among others, General Kilpatrick's name was placed ia nomination, and was received with - immense applause. It was proposed to nominate him by acclamation, but the friends of the other candidates desired a ballot. Pour ballots were taken, and on the last Marcus L. Ward was no 'dilated. The resolutions of the committee were adopted, and one relative to the rights of negroes was tabled. MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. Cavalry, tinder Generals Merritt and - Outer, are now marching across Texas to the Rio Grande. -31aj. Gen. Stedman has assumed command of the Department of Georgia, and Maj. General Brannon of the Department of Savannah. —Hancock's First Army Corps is to be distrib uted among the Northern and Western States by regiments, but the corps organization is .to be preserved, with headquarters atßaltimore, where GeneralHencoskiaii - removed. —Gen. Butlege,resignation, which was sent on the first of Jufft-lias been returned Marked "not accepted," and he has been sent for to Washing ton, where he is likely to be assigned to duty con nected with the Freedmen's Department. —Gov. Murphy, of Arkansas, reports a deplor able state_Of affairs in that State. Ho charges the rebel-feeders with permitting their troops to dishend,themselves before theirsurrender, eothat they have scattered themselves in every direction, taking arms and ammunition, plundering and robbing without discrimination. There is much destitution in the State. —The Army of the Shenandoah is virtually die continued. The TWelfth Pennsylvania Cavalry took their depaqmo for home from Winchester Wednesday. There are now no troops left in the valley bnt one-year men. The guerrillas are rep resented as having totally disappeared, and the people are diligently employed in raising crops, Sze. In a few days more there will probably be no more troops left iu the valley, except at Win chester. REMARKABLE FREAK OF NATERE.-Dr. , Thomas Hackett, a practicing physician of Hills boro. Caroline county, Md.. has brought to Balti more one of the most remarkable specimens of lusus nature perhaps ever witnessed. It is a full grown festal birth, delivered by Dr. H. on the 13th, inst., the mother being a highly respectable lady of Talbot county, 31d. It weighed at its birth eleven and half pounds, and measured eight inch es across the shoulders; it has two fair and dis tinct heads and necks, the features' of each face being well marked; these join together at the base of the necks, and rue into one body with a single pair of <tipper and lower extremities. The internal thoracic and abdominal organs are doub ble, that is to say there are two pair of lungs, tw,p hearts, two livers, two alimentary canals, &i, with a candle appendage not unlike the tail of a turtle. It is pronounced by medical gentlemen to be one of the most curious freaks of nature they have ever witnessed.—Ball. Clipper. DESTRUCTION OF GIVEN'S PAPER MILL BY FIRE.—On Wednesday morning about 3 o'clock, the large Paper Mill of Messrs. Given Brothers, situate at Mt. Holly Springs, about 6 miles south east of Carlisle, was discovered to be au fire; and before anything could be done to extinguish the flames, the building was entirely consumed. From the most trustworthy information, it appears that the fire was the result of spoutaneous combustion i n some d am p rags which were stored upon the third story, and the flames had consumed the en tire upper portion of the mill before the workmen who wane at the time in the first story, knew anything of the conflagration. Th i e building s a large, live-storied brick edi fice, lulu originally for a carpet factory, but for miry years used by Messrs. Given for a paper mill. We have no means of ascertaining the amount of lon,but learn that the insurance, which is in several companies, is about sl4,ooo.—Car tisk Herald, SWItI6TARY SrANTPVIUWour. , one ... During the wilt, nof the mogt difilieult things to learn, says the Philadelphia Ledger,was th e precise extent of enlistments, and 'the number of the militio force .vve,had in the field. - . Secreta ry Stanton has jiiit furnished a repeit which lets a little light into the p6pular darkness on this subject. There were enlisted for the army from November 1, 1863, to November 1, 1864, 402,- 698 white and colored troops. colored volun teerstit enlisted in . Tebe States from January 1, 1E64, to October 14 - , the - - same year, 22,143. In the same period th recruits for the regular army were 13,871. eterans and re4nlisted be fore the expiration of eir service, between No vember 1, 1863, and ovember I, 1864, 136,507. Drafted and sulbstitu s, 75.006. 'For the naval service and marine co s, from February to No vember, 1864, 24,683 ; making a total of 675,4521 The report says : " In esfimating the number of troops called in!- to the service, it has been the care of thcpepartc ment to take into account the whole number of men .mustered, without regard to the fact that the same persons may have been previously die charged after basing been accepted and credited on preceding calls. A large part (near two hundred thousand) of the men accepted in the years 1861 and 1 8 62, were soon found to be unfit for service, and were discharged. This accounts, partially, for the large excesi carried forward front the calls of 1862 and deducted from those of 1863." The colored troops enlisted up to October 30, 1864. numbered 101,930. This branch of the service, up to that time, lost by battle, dischar ges, desertions,and diseases, 33,132 men. Up to November 7, 14, Gen. Thomas had organized along the Mississippi river a force of 56,`..110 col ored troops. , The operations of the draft are very remark able. The report is dated November 23, 1864. From July 1, 1814, up to that time, 130,000 names were added to the enrolment list, and 285,- . 398 names stricken off. This enrolment showed the national force, not called out up to November. -1, 1864, to consist of '2,784:266 men. In the draft' of 1563 the quota drafted fir was 194,962, with fifty per cent. added. The report says: Of this number :19,417 tidied to report, and 164,887 were Ciempted from physical and other causes, 52,237 paid . commutation, 26,0112 furnish ed substitutes; and 9.848 were held to service.' The total deficiency drafted for was 50,367 The number reported and examined' - 85,861 The number exempted' for physical disability 31,446 The number exempted for other causes.. 19,648 The number held to personal service 3,418 The number furnished substitutes 8,003 The number who paid commutation 32,446 On September 19, 1864, Soother draft was had, and the result, knowu up to November 1, was as follows: Number s reported and examined 72,432 Number exempted for physical disabil4ty. 20,332 Number exempted ihr other causes - 19,797 Number held to personal service 19,058 Number famished substitutes 13,333 These facts, adds the Ledger, clearly show that, as a means of recruiting the army, the draft was entirely inadequate. Those who were everupted, those who ran away from the dtidt, and those who paid commutation, swallowed up nearly the entire number drafted. The number held to per sonal service was but a small proportion of the whole amount. This proves that volunteering, however expensive it may be, is the most popular, surest, and speediest means of raising an army, and of making satisfied and willing soldiers. The average measurement of the chest, at inspection of. the recruits w as, 35.16 inches. The average height was 5 feet 6.44 inches. Vermont troops showed the greatest number of inches around the chest and the greatest height; but Pennsylva nia recruits were close upon Vermont—for her men measurred an average of 5 feet 7.06 inches, against Vermont's 5 feet 7.62. In the measure ment around the chest the men of Pennsylvania were 1.55 incheS less than Vermont. The Vete ran Reserve Corps shows that nearly every fourth man has been transferred to it on account of dis ability from honorable wounds. The horses and mules in the army amount 'to 300,000. During the first eight months of the year 1864, the caval ry of the Army of the Potomac was supplied wi th two remounts—nearly 40,000 horses. The expenditures for the Ordnance Depart ment during the year were $38,502,822, and there remained in .the arsenals on. the 30th of June last 2,037 field cannon and siege guns,l,- 304,947 small arms, and 1,631,853 pounds of ar tille . ry ammunition. There were in operation during the year 0,500 miles of IMAMry telegraph, ofwhich.76 miles-are submarine. Ono million eight hundred thousand telegraph messages were -t ,,,,,, oitteddarint.the year, at anaterage cost, charging the whole yearly experiie ortonstrac tion, maintenance,and operation to them, of only -thirty cents. There were purchased during the year about 9,500 army wagons, 1,100 ambulan . ces, and harness for 175,000 animals. The spec ial typed of animals and means of transportation with the several armies during the year are im perfect, but it is estimated that there were about :300,000 horses and mules in the service of the ar my, 01 which the horses were about 170,000, and the mules about 130,000. The number of men who have died in hospitals, in the vicinity of Washington, frogs August 1 1861, to August 1, 1864, is stated at 12,708, o whom 4,910 were natives of the United States Over two hundred flags, captured from the reb els in rarious battles, received during the year, are deposited for safe keeping. Many others are supposed to have been disposed of by persons who captured or had them in possession, iu ignorance of their being public property. One hundred and sic enlisted soon were presented with medals of honor for capturing rebel flags and other acts of bravery. The statistin of the Surgeon General's Depart ment show` that there were in operation on the 30th of June, 1864, 190 hospitals, with a capacity of 120,5'21. beds. During the year the health of the entire army was better than is usual with troops engaged so constantly on active duty and in arduous campaigns. Nolestructive epidemics prevailed in any section, and the number of sick and wounded, although laro, was comparatively small ip the proportion it bore to the whole army. At the close of the year the nunibei' of sick and wounded, both with their commands and in gen. eral hospitals, was less than sixteen (16) per cent. of the strength of the army. Of this number 9.3 per cent. were sick, and 6.46 per cent. wounded. The deaths from disease during June, 1564, were 2.98 per thousand of mcan Strength ; from wounds, 3.10 per thousand ; total deaths, 6.08 per thousand, or six-tenths of one per cent, for the month. Du ring the same month of the previous year the to tal was 7.3 per thousrnd of mean strength, or Over seven-tenths of one per cent. There were furn ished during the year to disabled soldiers 669 legs and 339 arms; COL. THOS A. SCOTT The press of all shades of loyalty will cordially endorse the following just tribute to Col. Thps. A. Scott and the Pennsylvania Railroad Compa ny, which we copy from the Harrisburg Telegraph: At the precipitation of the rebellion, and when Gen. Cameron was suddenly called on to furnish a great army with all ita paraphernalia, means of transportation for its quartermasters' and cow-, rniss.arystores, lie called to hie aid Col. Thomas A. Scott as the ablest representative practical man (if we may use the expression) in the coun try. That selection, at the time, although not fully foretten, Was the most fortunate that could possibly have been made, simply because it af forded u great practical mind the opportunity of ..becoming thoroughly acquainted with the milita ry operations of the Government, with the mate rial, vigor and force necessary to keep up those operations, and with the business, aside from the political importance of the struggle in which the nation was just then entering. What Col. Scott learned iu the War Department—the experience be had there—and the knowledge of public affairs derived in his association with the great soldiers and statesmen of the times, rendered him the more fitted to resume his almost absolute control of the great corporation which has given such sig nal service in crushing the slaveholders' rebellion. Hence it was that the vigor imparted to the Penn sylvania Railroad rendered - the services of that road of such valuable importance to the State and the Nation - Of course we do not pretend to write-that other railroads in this and other States, did not do what teas right in aid of the Govern ment to enforce its authority. What we mean to declare, however, is, that in the emulabonthus to servo the National Government, our own great railroad, which stretches its iron sinetvs from one extremity of the Commonwealth to the other, and which has ita arteries of strength running iu all directions through the State, stood out alone in-its giant efforts, and can be. fairly accorded the honor of never once failing in fulfilling all that was de manded of its controllers and employees. It may be said that the resources of men and - material which were recruited and gathered in all parts of the great West, and which were borne over all the great avenues of travel through the Western States, to he cast in incalculable magnitude and countless numbers on the shores of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, could only find a safe and speedy transit to Washington City over the • Pennsylvania. Railroad. The Baltimore and Ohio July, 26, 1865. Railroad was in the hitiids of traitora. :Tbiroute was throtigh an *tura country. The Gotein meat could not depend upon it, and did not dare to triad it. Then it was that the Pennsylvania Railtoad exhibited its great ability—iti capacity of transportation—go vast rerireell—sad then, too, it was, that the genius of that one practical man, Thomas A. Scott, displayed its worth to the country and to the cause of Civilization and free dom. The supplies for the Army of the Potomac triund their way, in exhaustless luantitiee over this great line; and, after according to military taot and energy its due,Waohingtmi city, on more than-one occasion; owed its-safety to the efforts of the same corporation. Of course it is not within the bounds of a newspaper article to en - ter into details, in exhibiting the importance of the services rendered by this road.. Ent the his tory of the State and of the effort to crush the re bellion, will not. be faithfully made up, until it bears upon its Rages the full ackubwledent of the benefits 'derived from this quarter- • —At the end of the war, we desire simply to do justice to a road which is - now the pride and the boast of the State. Having frequently wit nessed the effects of these services—baring been at a point hero, where we could behold the-won derful working of this mighty corporation, we deem this imperfect acknowledgement of its ser vices due—due, because these services are of historical importance; and because; too, the ope rations of that road constitute a portion of that strength and prosperity which entitle Pennsylva, nia more than any of her sister States, tote ree ognired as an Empire. Fronitbe Etarrisburg Te • EDICATION OF SOLDIERS' ORPHANS. Pennsylvania was the first of thesStatea of the Union which liberally, or which atie any speci fic arrangement for the care and education of the orphans of soldiers, citizens of the State, who perished during the war for the suppression of the slave-holders' rebellion. Gov. Curtin took an early and active interest in this object. In deed, it may be said that the pr eject originated with His ExcellenCy. Being without authority to accept a large donation of money, the offer of a mat corporation, to assist in equipping men for the defence of the State, he suggested such legislation to the General Assembly` s wrould'en able him to accept this money and devote it as he proposed, to the education and care of the chil dren of those who fell while fighting the battles ot the country. Annexed is -a statement of the operation of the system as we derive it from the last issue of the Pennsylvania School Journal. .This statement of course emanates from Hon. Thomas H. Burrows, who has charge bf this branch of our public sys tem of education: SOLDIERS' ORNINNS' Q;FFICF, LAsclarrat, Jun', 126.5. Number of orpbaue ordered to be admitted to the different Schools and Institutions, to June I, 1865: - - • North Sewiekly School, Beaver county, 78 Quakertown " Backs " 65 Orangeville " Columbia'". 111 " Juniata " Lancaster " 3PAlibiterville Paradise Strasburg Total of the more advanced pupils, Pittsburg and Allegheny 0. As., Alle gheny county, Pittsburg Children's Home, Allegbeny County 5 Zelienople Farm School, Butler county, 1 Lancaster Children's Home Lancaster C 0.37 Loyeaville School, Perry county, 83 Northern Home, Philadelphia, 100 Bridesbnrg Orphan School, Phil' 40 Germantown Orphan School, 0 York Orphan Assylam, York county, 'l6 TOO of the more juvenile pupils, Total of all ogee, Number ordered to be admitted in June, 105 " transferred to other schools, 27 " restored to relatives —We are endeavoring to gather other facts conneetbd_with the education of the soldiers' or phans. The subject is of vast general interest, and as the system has been in operation for some time, it is natural that there should be a desire on the part of the pnblie to be informed thereon. TIE FOR3EER HOME AND FAMILY OF HENR Y CLAY.-A Kentucky correspondent of the Cincin nati Commercial tells the following story of Ash land, the late homestead of Henry Clay, and the history of his descendents : "The homestead of Henry Clay 'stow occupied by the family ofHon. Thomas Clay, onaillibi sons, and present Minister to one of the South Ameri can governments. It is owned by the heirs of James B. Clay, a degenerate son of the" great statesman, who, it will be remembered, died in Canada, about a year ago. The house in which Mr. Clay lived, when at home, was torn down, some years since, by James, ands magnificent structure erected on its site, and there is ,pothing now about the place to remind one of him who once owned and honored it except the family bug gy in which the old man andlis wife used to drive about, and the oak trees in front of the house, be neath which he used to sit and talk with family and friends: "Mr. Clay bad five sons. Four of them sur vived him. One, who bore his father's name, was killed in the Mexican war. .Thomas, as I have said, is now a government minister. John is liv ing on one-half of the old homestead(now divided into two farms.) James died a fugitive in a for eign land, and Theodore (the oldest of the fami -1p) is, and has been for twenty-five years, an in mate of an insane asylum, still avowing to every one that he is the original George Washington, and refusing to respond to a call by any other name. Mr. Clay had no possessions of any kidd at the time of his death, with the exception of Ashland, which was,mif course, worth a consider able sum; but even that was very heavily mod ga.ged, and be thought at one time be would be compelled to abandon it to his creditors, until one day when he entered the bank to pay one of his notes, he was told that he did not owe scent. Kind and generous friends had taken his case in hand and lifted the pecuniary burden froth his shoulders." DEATH OF A NOTED CHARACTER :—rTheSe is (or was rather,) a famous old lady, whose name was often connected-with Aaron Burr, who has, (or had), a beautiful country place on Long Is land, near Fort Washington, New York, name, Madame Jumel and she is demi, aged 92. For thirty years at least,perhaps 90, or more, this country place had presented something of look of an old French chateau, into which few modern improvements had entered. The great croton main was cut through it some 20 odd years ago, to the horror of the good lady, who contri ved, however, to be well paid for it—but this is about the last, that the oldest inhabitant has known of what has been going on in the inferior of this old place. Madame Jumel married a French wine mer chant of New York, in the curly part of this cen tury and settled irf that City. --se-made a good deal of money, and left his ividotklich. The widow was a character of force and %Sill, and she made her wav—her own peculiar way. scandal often coupled her name with Aaron Burr, the great beau of 1776, and 1800, and soon—but that there was anything in the Scandal, nobody haws. Burr had so good a name, or so bad a name, (al most the same thing, someway,) that the ladies of his day rather courted than shunned hitt ad dresses, though these addresses were mo re Moly to damage than toimprove their own reputations. Madame. Jame!, however, was of a later era, an acquaintance in Burr's fallen days, after his duel and quasi banishment and return from Europe. The death of the lady, however, isllely torevtve a great deal of romance, and to furnish any amount of material for the litemteurs of the day. A PATRIOTIC FaanLy.—The Harrisburg Tele grapl! of Thursday morning says: We were this morning favored with a visit from a brave soldier named John Fon Rodd, of Co. A, Thirteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, who is here awaiting the arrival of his regiment, to be discharged. Mr. Fon Rodd is a German, and a eon of WilliainFen Rodd, Esq., of ButztoWn, Pa. The father is eighty-nine years of age, and has lost nine sons in the war for the Union. Eight of these were killed in battle, and the other died of starvation in the rebel pens at Salisbury.' While a prisoner the son last referred to actually ate his right hand, so great was his hunger. John, from whom we have obtained our information, is the teeth and youngest of the brothers, and he bears the-scam of eight wounds received in' battle. He, too, was for a time a prisoner at Salisbury, and was only released at the close of the war. His recital of the treatment of the starving prisoners fully con firms all the accounts that have herotothre been published of the Southern barbarism under which our men suffered. Upon inquiry, we learn from other sources that Henry Wiliam Fon Rodd, the father of the ten heroes, ,bas for many years been one of the most highly.respeated'eiturens of Butz town. Is there another man in the world who has sacrificed more sons upon the Alter of Our country than this aged Getman ? . • 1 29 _ 79 83 MEI 9