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THURSDAY:::::::::::::::::::::::::: JUNE 11
U
NION COUNTY CONVENTION !
The Loyal Citizens of Cambria county,
withott distinction of party, who are in favor
f supporting the Union and the Constitu
tion, ns they were handed down to us by onr
fathers, are requested to meet at the usual
places for holding elections, in the several
districts of said county, on
Saturday, 20tii June, inst.,
between the hours of 3 and 7 o'clock, P. II.,
of naid rfay, to choose two Delegates from
each Election District to meet in the borough
of Ebensburg, on
Monday, 22d June, inst.,
to nominate a County Ticket, Representative
Delegate, tc, aud to transact all other buei
ne8 which may have a tendency to promote
the cause. " JOSEPH MILLER.
Chairman Union County Committee.
June 11, 1863.
- -
Speech or K. "L.. Johnston, Esq.,
at Huntingdon. .
On our first page to-day we print some
remarks delivered by It. L. Joiinston,
Esq., of Ebensburg, at the Copperhead
Indignation Meeting held nt Huntingdon
on the 29th ult. The speech aa there
given is of course only an abstract of what
he said Mr. J., aa a genera! rule, is too
remarkably long-winded, to permit any
speech of his to bo crowded into the col
txtnas of a country newspaper. Which is
unfortunate, for, when the abstract prove
so highly interesting, what would we not
give for uninterrupted access to the en
tirety !
Aa usual, Mr. J. starts out with a few
witticisms. The one relating to Copper
head always coming forth in warm weath
er has been aired iiiside our county limits
at least a dozen times to our knowledge,
without any special result. It seem?,
however, to have been new and apprccia-J
ted in Huntingdon, for we read that it
was hailed with "tremendous cheers."
So with regard to the diminutiveness of
the State of lthode Island the fling is
indeed a "thrice told talc."
Mr. J. attempts to demonstrate- that
the Democracy may be loyal to the Con
stitution, and yet not sustain the Admin
istration in its efforts to put down the
Rebellion. We deny that the Democracy
are loyal to the Constitution. That in
strument expressly declares that "Treason
only in levying war against them, or in
adhering to their enemies, giving them aid
and comfort." Who can deny that the Nor
thern Democracy, by its factious and
truckling course during the present strug
gle, has been and is now affording "aid
and comfort" to the common enemy !
Every meeting held having for its object
the denunciation of the Avar, every resolu
tion passed maligning the Administration
for this, that or the other act of commis
sion or omission, every word or paragraph
Tittered tending toward the distraction
and demoralization of public sentiment in
the North all these weaken and impov
erish our cause, and in a corresponding
manner strengthen that of the Rebels.
Clearly the Democracy are not lojal to
the Constitution, otherwise they would
sot thus afford aid and comfort to the
Kworu enemies of the Government.
"Wherefore, seeing that they are not loyal
to the Constitution, where is the necessity
of splitting hairs as to the truth or falsity
of the proposition upon which he bases
hi argument ! " ' . .
Mr. J. makes use of an extraet from a
.speech delivered by Seuator Douglas
"before the breaking out of the Rebellion,
to show that the restoration of the Union
is hopeless. Let ui reproduce a few
words from that lamented patriot's Chica
go speech the laat he ever made deliv
ered after war had been Ic-yied upon us.
He sayg : "The conspiracy (to break up
the Union) ib now known. Armies' iiave
been raised ; war Ls levied to accomplish
it. There are only two sides to the ques
tion. Every man must be for tho United
State, or against it. There can be no
neutrals in this war only patriots and
traitors. The government must
bo maintained, its enemies overthrown,
and the mere stupendous our preparations
the Icte the bloodshed and the shorter
the rtiugglo.x Wehaveasol
emn duty to maintain the Govelrauient.
The greater our unanimity the speedier
the day of peace." These are among the
last recorded sentiments of that pure and
unsullied patriot. - And yet it is attemp
.tdd to give color and force tp the designs
of a treasonable organization by quoting
Stephen A. Douglas as haviug been
opposed to the war ! O ! shame, where
is thy -blush !
Mr. J. advises submission to the Con
scription Law. Thisis more than we
anticipated, seeing that a few short weeks
ago the gentleman made the grand rounds
of the county, preaching up tho law to be
unconstitutional, denouncing its authors,
vilifying its upholders, and threatening
that it should be resisted to tho death,
"provided it be decided unconstitutional
by tho Supreme Court." Reason is evi
dently resuming her sway.
Mr. J. spreads him'self considerably
when he comes to talk about the Con
scription Law being a rich man's law,
oppressive to the poor, &c. .Now, should
the Secretary of War practically annul
the $300 clause of the act, as it is said he
has in contemplation, and require every
man, rich or poor, to go to war when
drafted, or find his own substitute, would
the law be any less "oppressive" to the
poor than it now is? or would it bear
the harder on the rich ? Of course not.
Tho fact is, this cry that tho Conscription
Act discriminates between the rich and
the poor is mere political clap-trap, with
no merit whatever attaching to it.
Mr. J. 6ays ho "respects the South."
We believe him ; for, although his speech
abounds with abuse of the North and its
rulers, we find that the South is let off
with a gentle admixture of flattery and
nonsense.
This meeting, whereat Mr. John
ston so freely unbosomed himself, was
called for the avowed purpose of protest
ing against the recent demolishment of
tho Monitor printing office, of Hunting
don, by a party of returned soldiers. We
see by the papers that these soldiers were
all Democrats members of the same po
litical organization that the Monitor and
Mr. Johnston belong to and that the
riotous demonstration was totally discon
nected with politics. It was merely a
question ot loyalty versus disloyalty. One
set of Democrats imagined another set to
be unfriendly to the Government, and
took the unlawful method of showing their
disapprobation of the course of the latter
by "gutting" a printing office. For the
life of us, therefore, we cannot see why
the attempt should be made to hold the
Administration accountable for the out
rage. The infamy of the transaction
would certainly appear to be monopolized
by the Democratic party itself. Wo are
no apologists for mob law ; on the contra
ry, we contemn and despise the system.
Yet we cannot help thinking that this
Indignation Meeting has proven a farce
productive ot more evil than it was
intended it should work good. Its result
has been to add fuel to flames already ig
nited. Had thev speakers contented
themselves with denouncing the guilty
parties in the affair those who really
destroyed the office, and who shoulder the
blame wc should havo rested satified.
But to make the occurrence of a not
gotten up by a few irresponsible persons
a pretext for assailing tho Administration
and the war, strikes us as being very bad
policy, to say the least of it. We can
only account for the untoward circum
stance upon the hypothesis that the
speakers, Mr. Joiinston among the rest,
were afflicted at the timo with that sin
gular disease known as cacoelhes loqueiidi
a desire to hear themselves gabble.
Two Union Meetings. A tremend
ous gathering of the friends of the Union
and the Constitution was held at the Court
House on Wednesday evening of last
week, at which not less than six hundred
persons could have been present. Ad
dresses, patriotic, thorough and convinc
ing, were -delivered by Hon. Samuel
Oalvin, of Hollidaysburg, and J. G.
Miles, Esq., of .Huntingdon, upon whose
burning words of genuine loyalty the au
dience hung with enraptured enthusiasm.
Another meeting was held at the same
place on Monday evening of this week,
when and where Hon. John Scott, of
Huntingdon, spoke. Mr. Scott is a
Democrat by birth and education, and his
address was a masterly effort. He spoke
from the record, proving conclusively that
the YalLANDIGIIAM Democracy of to-day
are not what the Democracy of the old
Jackson stripe were, but, on the contrary,
that they have strayed far from the faith
into the paths of wickedness. Ilewas rap
turously applauded throughout, and his
sentiments found a hearty re-echo in every
honest heart.
The "Unterrlflcd Democracy."
To the Editor of Ths Alleghanian :
On Thursday evening, June 2d, was the
grand rally of the Democracy of Cambria. At
an early hqur, the faithful began to .gather at
the Court HQUs..uutiI quite a sprinkling had
congregated . at. the grand "Mass Meeting."
The house was called tp order by the selec
tion of one pf the -'wheel-horses" to fill the
chair, aud three knights of the quill to note
the proceedings. Theii'followed such anom
ina.tion ofvice-presidents as made the plat
form fairly groan beneath their weight. After
this, the "spouting" time came. ; ; .
The first speaker on the carpet was R
Milton Speer, of Huntingdon. After a vocif
erous cheeiiner with a will and a yell, he
began, in his fiery indignation, to hurl mis
siles thick and fast at the heudof the President.
As he warmed with the subject, his wrath
knew no bounds, as he stamped and talked
of the tvrannv of the Administration. The
Emancipation Proclamation aud the su3pen
sion of the writ of habeas corpus were the two
bugbears which, in his eyes, ranked as "un
pardonable sins." In- his estimation, the
Proclamation was nothing but a "bull against
tho comet," and in commenting upon the
habeas corpus there was much talk about the
arbitrary arrest of peaceable citizens at the
hour of midnight meaning, of course, the
arrest ot that villainous traitor, Vallaadig
ham. The next speaker was Cyrus L. Pershing,
the exponent of the Shamocracy of the county,
lie began unrolling his armful of documents,
until it was truly awful to behold I And the
"unterrified," with staring eyes and gaping
mouths, looked on in blank amazement. He
being unable to manufacture aa original
speech out of "whole cloth," was forced to
fall back on Republican documents to help
him along. After fumbling over his pile of
papers, be edified his audience with volumi
nous excerpta from fugitive papers and gar
bled extracts to carry his point. The faithful
evidently did not relish this mode of tactics,
yet how dare thy dispute the judgment of
thispolitical magnate! Tbedriftof his speech
was a reaffirmation of the preceding one,
with a few variations. He demonstrated one
thing clearly, if nothing else, that be did not
relish the appellation of "Copperhead," even
if he were one. After a long, lumbering rig
marole of stale hash, which seemed as if it
would never be done, he subsided and gave
the Democracy time for a. long breath.
Last, but not least, came Hon. H. D. Fos
ter, a former candidate for the governorship
of Pennsylvania, but who was not elected
because he did not get enough votes! He came
unexpectedly, and his presence seemed to
inspire the faithtul with fresh enthusiasm. His
speech was received with great gusto, coming
as it did from such high authority. Before he
closed, however, but one sentiment pervaded
the few Union men who were left, and that
was, to thank God most devoutly that Andrew
G. Curtin had been elected our Governor in
stead of Henry D. Foster. ' '
Take it all in all, there was a very bad at-
mosphere pervading the entire meeting. Bad
whiskey and bad Democracy make a very
crazy man, and, wneiuer n was irum m
effect of the former or the latter, there was
audible evidence somebody's stomach was
affected with nausea! There was no denun
ciation of Jeff Davis no voice for the war
no sympathy for our noble soldiers ; but
there were many curses, loud and deep,
against the Admiuistration. One thing must
have been evident to every observer, that
while the vituperation against the President
was applauded most vociferously, the cheers
for the flag were faint and "few and far be
tween." And this is the Democracy which is to be
the "salvation" of the country I May God
have mercy upon us when we fall into the
hands o these Philistines. No, gentlemen,
your trickery is played out. The people
begin, to discover your hypocrisy, and they
will bow tiie knee to Baal no longer. The
reading public cannot be hoodwinked by your
perversions of the truth, and will not submit
to have them crammed, unconditionally, down
their throats. They prefer healthy- food. It
i3 frequently sounded in our ear3 by.tLcse
tricksters that the army is disaffected, and
that our soldiers are opposed to the policy of
the Administration. We cannot better an
swer this, or close our article, than by giving
an extract from the private correspondence of
a gallant officer of the 101st regt. P. V.:
; "Consciously and intentionally, or uncon
sciously and ignorantly, the wicked chrieker3
of 'eomproiuise'"and 'peace-on-any-terms' are
prolonging this war keeping us from our
friends and the homes we love. It would be
the loftiest exercise of Christian charity to
suppose that these stupid asses had been re
duced by a decree of Heaven to the mental
imbecility of a natural fool it would be
greatly to their credit if this proposition co'd
be proven:
"Teace on any terms' is spurned by the
army with loathing'and disgust. May heaven
pity" them in years to come, for surely they
will be remembered, and their name and
memory will be weighed beneath the accumu
lated curse3 and merited execrations of all
the generations of earth, until tbo loud and
telling notes of Gabriel's trump shall disturb
their Bleep of shame."
VINDEX.
6?- We have an account of Col. Kil
patrick's recent successful raid back from
Gloucester Point. He crossed the country
between the York and Rappahanuock
Rivers, making an extensive circuit through
the garden spot of Virginia a section
where our troops have never before pene
trated. Col. Kilpatrick made a large
haul of negToes, horses, &c., and baa
arrived safely at Urbanna with them. He
spread general terror among the Rebels.
Ilia forces were taken across the Ranna-
hannock by onr gunboats and proceeded
at once to our tines.
Jtlr. Bull Changes his Tone.
It is only fair to state that ever. eince
the wild oulbreak of John Arthur Roe
buck (commonly known as Austria's
"Dog Tearem"), the tone of the British
Parliament has become greatly moderate.
It seems as if John Bull, taking thought
seriously, had been struck with the con
viction that to quarrel with the United
States, even to trea't the United States
with contumely and disdain, was what
"wouldn't T)ay."
In the House of Lords, on May. 18th,
when that noble blaekleer. the Marouis of
Clanrickarde, growled out a formal com
nlamt against the United btates I'nze
Courts, whose action, he affirmed, was in
consistent with the law of nations,: Earl
Russell contended, with no small force,
that the United States had not thrown
aside the law of nations, had not inter
rupted British trade in .neutral waters,
and that not any case had been, or could
be, pointed out in which the proceedings
of the United States Prize Courts wero
wrong. "These Courts," he said, "were
impartial and desirous of doing justice,
while they deferred with respect to Eng
lish decisions on maritime international law.
It was a fact that many vessels went from
Nassau to run the blockade of the South
ern ports, and it could not be much com
plained of that the United States cruisers
should be suspicious and vigilant."
Lastlv. he repudiated the reproach of
sanctioning the fitting out and piracy of
Alabama, and counselled forbearance on
both sides in any differences which might
arise between England and the United
States. . -
This was the authorized language of
Earl Russell, the foreign Secretary in the
Palmerston Administration. The Earl of
Derby, who would certainly be Prime
Minister should the Palmerston Cabinet
break up, and who has hitherto been very
violent and one-sided as respects American
affairs, virtually echoed Lord Russell.
He said that Lord Clanrickarde had some
what rashly adopted the notion of the in-
justiee of the American prize-courts, and
thought that this question should be ap
proached with good temper and modera
tion, seeing that a large contraband trade
was carried on in British vessels between
the British West India islands and the
Southern States. ; . .
In the House of Commons, on May 19,
Mr. Edward Warner, member for Nor
wich fa briefless barrister . and unread
pamphleteer), complained that a certain
Mr. Magee, woo nau oeen acting urmsn
Consul at Mobile, had been dismissed by
th.e Foreign OCcq in a summary manner.
Mr. Layard, the Foreign Under-Secretary,
better known here by his. successful
explorations in Nineveh,) declared that
as British ships of war were permitted to
penetrate the blockade ot the Southern
ports for omcial duties, the i esuvius nau
been allowed to go up to Mobile ; that Mr.
Maee "had shioped some specie from
that port without uiving notice lor a month
to Lord Lyons, who, as poon as ho heard
of it. telegraphed forbidding the traasac- i
tion ; but Mr. . Magec auegea mat, al
though the specie wa3 shipped the same
day, it was beJore he received Lord Lyons
orders ; and, although he was in constant
communication with JLord .Lyons, ne never
informed him of the fact until ten days
after. This being the case, liovernmeut
considered that Mr. Magee had not ob
served the conduct proper to the agent
of a neutral State, and at once dismissed
him before any complaint was made by
the American Government." This alacri
ty in anticipating the complaint of our
Government did not please the advocates
of Rebellion. Sir. James Fcrgusson,
member tor Ayrshire, (the same who ran
the blockade into tho South, came across
our lines under a flag of truce, and b?sely
forfeited his personal honor by bringing
in his trunks, from rebeldom, a vast num
ber of letters for Northern Copperheads,)
could cot hold, his tongue, and asked
"whether the specie was not the interest
due on the Alabama State bonds, and the
property of British subjects ; and, also,
whether the other foreign consuls did not
habitually do the same?" On the part
of the British Government, it was replied
by Mr. -Layard, that "it was doubtful
whether the money was the interest, or
intended to purchase Confederate cruisers
in England. He did not know whether
this was the practice of other consuls; but,
the Vesuvius having been admitted within
the blockade on a distinct understanding,
it was a point of honor that there should
be no breach of that understanding."
This was a manly, outspoken declaration,
and the British Copperheads, finding that
they were gaining nothing by the conver
sation, dropped it at once.
It is obvious that, while England was
free from any apprehension of an Euro
pean war, (which the revolution in Po
land and the tortuous policy of Napoleon
may suddenly precipitate,) the British
Minstry did not think it unbecoming or
unfair to . show its peculiar notions of
"neutrality" by sympathizing as much as
possible with the rebellious South. But,
now that England may be compelled to
drift into a war with Russia, she cannot
aflord to provake the United States any
further. We take this to be the solution
of her recent change of tone. The late
action of the Alabama, in burning or
plundering British property found on
board our merchantmen, may speedily
compel England to proceed against the
Alabama as a pirate. We do not despair,
of jet hearing of Captain Semmes being
convicted in the English Admiralty Court
as a buccaneer and hung, as such, in front
of Newgate prison. The Pr est.
HfSF" See call published elsewhere for Union
County Conrention. - - - .
The DraftThe Exemption.
A pamphiet giring instructions to
Provost Marshals has just been issued by
the authorities at Washington, from which
wo have selected a few items. In the new
enrolling law the LTnited States is divided
into districts, each Congressional district
of a State constituting a district, and
over each there is to be a Provost Marshal.
Each district shall also have a Board of
Enrollment, to be composed of the Pro
vost Marshal, who shall act as President,
and two ethers who are appointed by the
President of the United States, one of
whom is to be a regularly licensed and
practising physician. Should they deem
it necessary, they may divide each district
into two, and appoint an enrolling ollicsr
over each, whose duty it sha.Il be to enroll
all persocs subject to militar3r duty before
the first of July. This enrollment must
include all able bodied men, between the
aires of twenty and forty-five years, not
exempt by lav.', and all persons of foreign
birth not so exempted, who shall have
declared their intention on oath to become
citizens of the United States; students of
colleges, or scholars, teachers, apprentices,
sailors, travelling'mcrchants and similar
classes of citizens, must be enrolled in the
district in which they have their resi
dences. ' The draft is to take place under
the direction of the Board of Enrollment.
A discharge from one draft furnishes no
exemption from any subsequent draft.
The judges of the various courU cf the
United States, the heads of tho Executive
departments, and the Governors of States,
aie exempt, as also the only son of a wid
ow or aged parents dependent upon him
for support ; where two or more sons are
liable the mother may choose which shall
be exempt ; the only i brother of orphan
children under twelve years of age, and
the father of motherless children of the
game age dependent upon him for support, :
tlTI (
are also exempt. nen iwo or mors
of one household are already in the serv
ice, the rest liable, not exceeding two; are
exempt.
Anv cf the following diseases will . be
sufficient causes for exemption : epilepsy,
paralysis of one or rnoro. limbs, acute or
organic disease of the brain or spinal chord
or of the heart, lungs, stomach, or intes
tines,sufficient toimpair the general health,
confirmed consumption, cancer, aneurism
of the large arteries, or extensive diseases
of the skin, decided feebleness uf consti
tution, whether natural or acquired :
scrofula, or constitutional syphilis ; habi
ual or confirmed intemperance, or solitary
vice ; great injury or disease of the skull;
total loss of sight, in. right eye, cataract or
serious disease of the eye, loss of nose,
deafness, purulent storrhoea, caries cf the
nasal cr palate bones, cleit palate, exten-
sive loss ot substance or tue cneets,
dumbness, atrophy or chrohio ulceration,
of the tcngue ; confirmed stammering, loss
of sufficient teeth to prevent proper mas
tication of food, co; tearing of cartridge ;
jformity ot either jaw, turner ct necs, it
impeding respiration ; fistula of larnyx
or traeia, forticollis, deformity cf chest,
sufficient to prevent carrying of arms, or
to impede respiration ; deficient amplitude
cr power of expansion of chest ; grossly
protuberant abdomen, excessive obesity,
hernia, artificial arm3, stricture cf rectum,
prolapsus ani, fistula in and fistula in ano, J
if extensive or complicated : old or ulcora-
ted haemorrhoids, epispadia, hypospadia ;
urinary fi-itu!a,rermancnt or orgauic struc
ture of the urethra, stone in the bladder,
confirmed or malignant sarcocele, hydro
cele, excessive anterior or posterior curva
ture of the spine, loss of arm, fore-arm,
hand, thigh, leg or foor, wounds or frac
ture sufficient to prevent marching ; irre
ducible dislocation of shoulder, elbow,
wrist, knee, hip, or ankle joint, muscular,
cr cutaneous contractions from burns or
wounds, so as to prevent use of limbs ;
total loss of thumb, two fingers of right
hand, index finger of right hand ; loss of
first or second joint of fingers of right
hand, permauent extension or contraction
of anv finger, except the littb one
total
toes,
loss of great toe, loss of any three
toes all joined together, the srreat toe
crossing the others, overriding of all the
toes, club feet, splay. feet, varicose veins
of inferior extremities, if large or numer
ous; chronic ulcers, extensive or deep
cicatrices of lower extremities.
Certificates from surgeons are to be
sworn to before a Justice of the Peace.
Examinations are to take place in a well
lighted room, in presence of the board of
enrollment, and the party to be examined
is to be stripped.
Toe Reserve Frontier. Guard.
Gov. Curtin has received from the Secre
tary of War. directions to form a Volun
teer force of fifteen., regiments,' of which
five will be cavalry, designed, it is under
stood, as a defence for the State border
in any contingency of raids. .The Gov.
we believe, ha3 long desired to organize'
such a forco ; and, now that he is author
ized, will make avery effort to secure its
early completion. We shall, therefore,
before very long, have in the field a val
uable reserve force "sufficient for State
defence and convenient to the General
Government, in case of need. . We know,
from the lessons of the war, what would
be the worth of such a standing assurance
of safety to both Government and State.
So long as the border is poorly guarded,
the temptation to invade is held out to
the rebels. But lately we heard that Lee
contemplated a new offensive movement
northward ; true or not, tho rumor has
its warning. The example of Pennsylva
nia might be wisely followed by all of the
Border States. The- rebellion would thus
be confined to narrower limit3, by the
preser.ee of a rcscrvo etandiug force.
P This move will iyo general satisfaction.
ArpnovED by tue Governor The
bill passed the Legislature last winter
relating to tho payment of our working
men in "store orders," &c.. has U
signed
by the Governor; and is cow
It provides that, "It shut! not K
en
lawful for any iron master, foundry man
collier, factory man, cr compaDv, teir
wealth, to pay the wages of workmen 0r
laborers by them employed, in either print
. -i i i i . . .
eu, wnuen or vercai oruers, upon
storekeeper or suopkeepers, or
other
dealer or dealers in merchandise or oth
article, whether connected iq bus
cr
with the said iron. master, found
irv Ulan
collier or factory man cr not. Any iron
master, foundry man, collier or factory
man paying to tho said workman or
laborer to b7 him employed, cr author
izing
and directing his, her
Or their
agents,
clerk, or clerks, to
payry parl
r 4"" Vl rT . hia coin w- r .T - . . .
laborers in an order upon any such store
keeper, shopkeeper or other dealer in
merchandise or other article, shall forfeit
tho amount cf said order cr orders e&
given or paid, the same shall not bj
defaulted against the wages of said work
man or laborer, and he shall be entitled
to recover ike h'll amount "of his wajo
as though no such order or orders had
been given or paid ; and no settlement or
settlements made with such employer
shall bar such recovery ; and any iron
master, foundry man, collier or factory
man offending against the provisions of
the first section of this act shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon coovictbn
therefor, shall be punished by a fine and
imprisonment, or either, at the diecretiou
of tho court trying the same : And pro
vided Jurthcr, That this act shall extend
to all sornstresses or' females employed
in factories or otherwise."
A Bloodless Duel and a Mueder.
A Falmouth correspondent says :
It is not often that we havo to chronicle
duels here. A one-sided affair of the kind
came off yesterday morning at six o'clock,
in French's Division. 2d Corps. On tha
night previous Capt. Fuller of the lOStli
New York became somewhat elated by
whiskey, and slapped the face of Lieut.
Porter of the same regiment. The latter
challenged him, and was on the ground
with a pistol and second at the appointed
hour. Fuller also appeared, but stated
that he was unable to borrow a pistol or
procure a second. "That need not inter
fere," said Porter, "We will toss up for
the first fire. You being the challenged
party, may select the number of paces."
The tossing ensued, and Fuller won. He
then chose four paces. "It will ba noth
ing less than murder," said Porter, "but
never mind, blaze away." Inserting hi
hands in his pockets, he then quietly faced
his antagonist.
Fuller fired on one siointo the ground
and the matter ended. This wa3 a blood
less sequel to a sid murder' committed
last Wednesday night in Owen's Biijade,
Gibbon's Division, '11 Corps. Capt. M'
Mauus, of the COtii Pennsylvania, hal
spoken of Capt. M'Mahon, of the 71st
Penn?ylvcnia, as a coward. M'Mahon ou
hearing this, proceeded immediately with
a pistol to rl'Mauns' tent, demanded if
the assertion had been made by him, arid
beintr answered affirmatively, shot hiin.
M'Manus fell instantly dead. M'Mahcu
is under arrest and will soon bs tried by
court-martial. He is from California.
His victim vns a native of Ireland, rest
ding before the war iu Philadelphia.
JDS? The "Opposition" papers in North
Carolina are very severe on the "Fire
Eaters and original Secessionists," who.
according to the utterances cf the special
organ ot Gov. Vance, the Raleigh Stand
ardy will never be allowed hereafter to
hold any cilice of honor or trust whatever
in North Carolina. From the s atne source,
it appeal's that Jeff. Davi3 has been gtva
to understand by Gov. Vance that the
fate of the Conledaracy must be decided
in Virginia ; that in no ewe will the Con
federate army b allowed to make a stand
in North Carolina and deluge her field
with blood and devastation ; but must,
when they leave Virginia, retire i6to the
Cotton States, and end the rebellion where
it
oejr.au.
tQ."Ve have, from correspondents ia
the Western papers, exposition of a con
spiracy in Illinois, designed to resist the
Government in the exercise of its lawful
functions, and apparently in the interest
of revolution. The conspiracy belonssto
the Knights of the Golden Circle, a Wes
tern branch of a Southern party designed
to league the Northwest with the Soath.
In portions of Illinois malcontents have
been secretly armed to resist the draf-
encouraged by the evil teachings of such
newspapers a3 the Chicago Tizws. This
insidious movement bears, wc are toc,
the execration of the great loyal masses,
and the soldiers at homo and in tha
field. .
fiOa Friday, General Hooker
ordered a strong reconnoitering force,
consisting of the Sixth Army Corps, to
cross the Rappahannock below Freder
icksburg and stir up the Rebels. Tbtf
they did in fine style, capturing about 1W
prisoners, and otherwise weakening tha
foe. The movement was very satisfactory,
ani stirring news may be expected rom
there shortly.
JC The President has disapproved eo
much of Gen. Burnside's recent order a
suppressed the Chicago Times, and Gen.
Burnside has revoked" the whole oro.er,ao
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under
Ohio.
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