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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 ? . •
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