are spending their leisure.' 'Yes,'replied
the General, 'and I sincerely hope that
he will make up his mind to board there
during the balance of the war, for he is a
great nuisance.' When the train reached
Zenia, it was detafned by some accident
more than on hour. Imagine his anxiety,
as soldier after soldier would pass through
the train, for fear that when the sentinel
passed his round at 2 o'clock theirabsence
might be discovered.
The train was due in Cincinnati at 0
o'clock. This was the hour at which they
were turned out of theircells, andof course
their escape would then be discovered.—
In a few moments after it would be known
all over the country. The train, having
been detained at Zenia. was running very
rapidly to make up the time. It was al
ready past (i o'clock. The General said
to Capt. Ilines. '-It is after 0; if we goto
the depot we are dead men. Now or nev
er." They went to the rear, and put on
the brakes. ''Jump Hines!" Off he went
and fell heels over head in the mud.—
Another never* turn of the brake and the
General jumped. 110 was more success
ful and lighted on his feet. There were
some soldiers, who remarked : "what in
the h—l do you mean by jumping off the
cars here ?" The General replied : 'What
in the d—l is the use of my going into town
when 1 live here ; and beside, what busi
ness is it of yours?'
They went immediately to the river.—
They found a skiff but no oars. Soon a
little boy came over and appeared to be
waiting. 'What are you waiting for?'
said the General. 'I am waiting for my
load.' 'What is the price of a load ?
'Two dollars.' 'Well as we are tired
and hungry, we will give you the twadol
lars, and you can put us over.' So over
he took them. 'Where does Miss
live ? 'Just a short distance from here.'
'Will you show me her house 1 'Yes sir.'
The house was reached, a fine breakfast
was soon obtained, money and horse fur
nished, a good woman's prayer bestowed,
and off he wcit. From there, forward
through Kentucky, everybody vied with
each other as to who should show him the
most attention—even to the negroes ; and
young ladies of refinement begged the hon
or to cook his meals.
He remained in Kentucky some days,
feeling perfectly safe, and sending into
Louisville for many little things he want
ed. Went to Bardstown, and found a Fed- '
eral regiment had just arrived there look
ing for him. Remained here and about
for three or four days, and then struck out
for Dixie, somotimes disguising himself as
a Government cattle contractor, and buy
ing a largo lot of cattle ; at other times a
quartermaster, until lie got to the Tennes
see river. Here ho found all means of
transportation destroyed, and the bank
strongly guarded, but with the assistance
of about thirty officers, who had recogniz
ed him and joined him in spite of his re
monstrances, he succeeded in making a
raft, and he and Captain Hines crossed
over."
Our MHilary Population.
The military population of the Cnitcd
States and territories, according to the re
turns of the eighth census, is 5,024,005.
New 1 ork has a white male population be
— tween the ages of In and -U> of 796*881,
and leads all other States ; Pennsylvania!
follows next in the list, with a population j
between the ages mentioned of 555,172,
while Ohio, which is third in the list, has
a population of 450,534. The census re
turns show a disparity between the Eagt
crn and Western States in respect to mil
itary population, which clearly explains
why the latter have so much more easily
filled their quotas for the national armies,
'i hus, in Maine, the military population is
19.5 per cent, of the whole; in Illinois it
i522.1 percent. When it is remembered
that the available military class, under a
system of volunteering, is the excess after
the necessajy demands for productive la
bor are supplied, it will be seen that the
difference here exhibited is a very import
ant one..
Mr. Kennedy, the superintendent of
the census, estimates that the increase of
the military population in 1801, after de
ducting natural deaths, was HI.OOO. The
increase from immigration hestates at 31,-
500, making a total increase of 123,400.
The increase from the latter source is now
much larger than it was two years ago, and
there is probably a natural gain of at least
150,000 annually. "This will quite offset
the waste of population caused by the cas
ualties of war, not taking at all into the
count the large addition from immigration.
Immigration; it must be remembered, re
inforces the northern armies alone ; the
immigrants, if they do not themselves go
into the ranks, take the place of our own
citizens on the farm and elsewhere, enab
ling the latter to enter the service.
The total arms-bearing population in
1800 of the States now held, in whole or
in part, by the rebels was as follow*: Flor
ida. 15,739; Georgia, 111,005; Mississip
pi, 70.295 ; No*th Carolina, 115,369; South
Carolina, 55,046 ; Texas. 92.145 ; Virgin
ia, 190.587 ; Alabama, 90,967 ; Louisia
na, 83,456 —making a total of 830,609. —
From this aggregate it is proper to deduct
one-half for Virginia, 98,293; three-fourths
for Louisiana. 40,728; one-half for Mis
sissippi. 35,148 : one-half for North Car
olina. 57.084 ; one-quarter for Texas. 40.-
078—making a total 0^283.931; and leav
ing the military population, in 1800, in
the States named 540.078. Now from
this deductions are to made for the casual
ties of war, for depletions of population by
removals from the States named during the
war, &c.
The arms bearing population of these
States to-day cannot be more than 350,000
at the highest, and it will be impossible,
therefore, for the leaders to make anv ma
terial additions to their present armies from
the specific military class.— Pitttburg Ga
zette.
THE STEXT PRESIDENCY.
We have for many months foreseen that
no other man who would be at,oil likely to
be centred upon by all the friends of"the
Union for the next Presidency, would be
BO safe for the country, so acceptable to the
nation, and so peculiarly adapted to the
great emergency, through which he has
thus far triumphantly conducted us, as
Abraham Lincoln, and hence he ought to
be continued in office until the gigantic
treason which at one time noarly over
whelmed the country is completely crush
ed and extirpated. No one can justly de
ny that Mr. Lincoln possesses a singular
combination of prudence, with boldness,
greai steadiness of mind with great power
of adaption to eircumstancos peculiar to
himself. anc just that character which
could alone save the republic in the terri
ble dangers which on all sides beset it.—
It may be also said thatJiis peculiarfrank
nessand transparency 6f character, his re
markable faculty, never equaled in any
other President fronrthe first, of inspiring
('very one with a sense that he is a thor
oughly honest and trust-worthy mau. has
been the only one thing that has prevent- !
ed faction froui obtaining a fatal ascenda
ryin the very crisis of the war. With a
common consent the People were willing
to trust Mr. Lincoln with an amount of
power they would have hardly confided to
any other man. The bitter tirades of dem
agogues against him a grasping usurper, a
selfish tyrant, a subverter of free govern
ment, was felt to be not simply false, but
utterly absurd. It may be that this abso
lute confidence, suchas nontherman could
have inspired, was that which secured, as
nothing else could have done, a freedom of
executive action, of independence of fac
tious opposition, that alone saved the coun
try.
All these characteristics and facts prove
that the present incumbent of the Execu
tive Chair of the United States, is the one
singled out by Providence to continue to
occupy it for another term, and until the
rebellion shall be put down, peace restor
ed, and the integrity pf the Union secur
ed beyond all future attempts at violence.
And it was doubtless from considerations
like the foregoing that impelled the Union
members of the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives of Pennsylvania to unite in
singing, as every such member of either
branch has done, an address to the Presi
dent, endorsing his administration of the
Government atad sympathizing in the pol
icy which he has adopted and thus far sn
successfully and signally maintained thro'-
out the trjflfog ordeal which has environed I
him since the first day of his official term. |
They declare that the issue of the late
elections was a full endorsement of this
policy ; that the result re-inspired to valor
of our brave armies, and that his corres
pondents are only responding to the wish
es of those whom they represent, in pub-1
licly announcing to him their unshaken
prcfereece for his re-election to the Presi
dency.
This address will unquestionably exert
a strong influence all over the loyal Un
ion ; and although the singers may not be
the very first to solicit Mr. Lincoln to ac
cept of a nomination for re-election, yet
their, appeal, coming with unanimity and
earnestness from so important an official
body of the people, must prove of com
manding weight and consideration in ac
complishing the object, paramount to all
other-, just now, in a political point of
view.— German/own Tcbyraph.
The Freedom Convention.
The convention of the friends of free
dom residing in the origin
ally called for the Bth of January, it is
now definitely announced will be held at
Louisville, I\y., on the 22d of February,
the time having been changed in order to
permit a more cordial be
tween those who concur in the necessity
of adopting a freedom policy. The call
for the convention maintains that the only
way to destroy the rebellion is to destroy
slavery ; to leave the cause of revolt un
touched, to breed other rebellions and en
kindle hereafter constant animosities, rea
dy, as the present has done, to appeal for
solution to the arbitrament of civil war,
would bo national suicide. The call con
tinues :
'■ The effects of such a course upon the
several States would be even more disas
trous, antagonizing them against each oth
er, necessarily, from the presence of that
institution, around which would cling so
many memories of a past conflict, and lay
ing waste their fields, depopulating their
villages, making all tenures of life and
property utterly insecure in the subsequent
strife for supremacy that would resuh be
tween different classes of the community.
Hence it is that an insistence upon free
dom policies, both national and state, pre
sents itself as the supremest duty of the
hour—a duty not to be subordinated to any
theory of the past or any hesitaucy of the
present. Indeed, the making of such jin
issue in the reconquered territory and in
those slave states which have adhered to
the Union is one of self-preservation to
them, as has been amply demonstrated by
the atrocities perpetrated, under the name
of guerrilla warfare, throughout Tennes
see, Arkansas, Missouri, Maryland and
Kentucky, and demands a prompitude of
action, coincident with the distress entail
ed by the mere existence of a slave system
in our midst. Changes which, in other
days and for other reasons might well have
assumed a gradual character, now find in
the perils of thetimcsno excuse for delay,
but every incitement to an immediate cor
rective."
The following Executive Committee lias
been appointed to make the necessary pre
paration? for the Convention,
James Speed. George Forester, Kentuc
ky ; Einil Prwtorious, Charlea E. Moss
Missouri; S. Streeter. Henry W. Hoff
man. Maryland; A.W.Campbell, Harri
son (lagans, West Virginia; John S.
Packett. E. W. Gantt, Arkansas; B. F.
Flanders, George A. I>ennison. Louisiana ;
J. M. Tomeny, L. C. Ilouck, Tennessee.
—Pittsburg Gazette.
BJSuA young lady of sixteen summers
lately arrived at Louisville, who had served
eighteen months in the army; been con
nected with seven different regiments;
participated in several engagements; heen
seriously wounded twice, and had bean
discovered and mustered out of service
eight times. She is a Canadian by birth,
and is bound to fight for the American
Union.
guuemait CCittecn.
I—
THOMAS ROBINSON, 1
i CYRUS E. ANDERSON,
BUTLER PA.
W EPy
and 'nceparable.''—D. Webster.
FOR PRESIDENT IN 1*04:
A lilt All A H liIYCOLJT.
fittvln a letter just received from a
memberofCo. 11, 102 d Kegt.,after stating
that he does not know the cause of their
delay he says : '• But I thinkyou will soon
see us—an order came to Lieut. Lyon, to
day, to report at llarrisburgwith hiseom
mand, as soou as possible. We will leave
here on Mondry or Tuesday at farthest, so
you may expect the most of the company
to pass throngh Ilutleron Thursday or Fri
day." This letter was dated near Harper's
Ferry, on the 22d inst., (last .Friday,) so
although doubtful things are very uncer
tain," especially in wartimes; still it is
quite probable that the members of this
brave campany will spend next Sabbath
with their friend«.
In to-day's paper will be found a
communication from Capt. Lyon, in reply
to an assault made upon himself and an
other gentlemen of this place, in the Ihr
ahl of last week. We did not say any
thing in reference to this matter in our
last paper, simply because we knew noth
ing about it. Up to this time those young
gentlemen have maintained a creditable
reputation, and have occupied an enviable
position in society. It is neither charit
able or just, therefore, thus to attempt to
injure tlvp fair fame of our fellow citizens
on a vague rumor, having no foundation
in fact. When facts are presented suffi
cient to justify it. we will always be ready
and willing to expose fraud of every kind,
and especially upon the Government,
struggling, as is ours, to maintain its in
tegrity; but we don't believe it to be the
duty of a journalist to give notariety to
every vague rumor that is sent afloat in
our midst, and especially at this particu
lar time, when the air is full of'rumors;
but as the //< nitd promises to keep the
community posted on this subject, we will
wait patiently its developments.
l.iiit'oln'H fincccsNor.
The State of New Hampshire has start
ed the ball on this subject. Her loyal
people spoke out a few weeks since thro'
their delegates in State Convention, as
sembled. Since then Pennsylvania has
spoken by her Legislature—all the Union
members of both Senate and House, (ex
cept Maj. White, who is a prisoner in the
rebel capitol,) having signed a letter ex
pressive of their preference. Maryland
and Kentucky, have also, through their
Legislatures, intimated their convictions.
And thus far, it is satisfactory to know that
there is entire harmony of purpose—en
tire concord of sentiment; and that sen
timent is in favor of the rc-olection of our
preseut patriotic President. This is no
time for the loyal millions to differ about
who wo shall support in the next canvass.
In a great like the present, the
true policy is to adhere to tried men. It
was this conviction that caused the people
of this State to renominate and elect Gov.
Curtin. It was for this reason that Gov.
Andrews, of Massachusetts, was elected the
third time. And it is for this reason too,
that the Nation is speaking out in favor
of the re-election of Mr. Lincoln. Let
some other statesman be chosen and elect
ed, and however competent and patriotic he
maybe, he will havedifficulties to encoun
ter, that Lincoln can avoid. The con
struction of a cabinet*—the adoption of a
policy—the appointment of Ministers to
foreign Courts, many of whom, would be'
untried in the art of Diplomacy; these,
and many other embarrassments, would
surround a new man, all of which would
be avoided by retaining our present chief
Magistrate.
Nor can we see any call for jf National
Convention to fix a platform. Platforms
don't amount to much at best. Mr. Lin
coln has made his own platform. Liber
ty anil Union, a unity, not only of Terri
tory. but a unity of ]>rinciples of action,
and of institutions, and these institutions
free. What more do we want for a plat
form ?
As it seems unnecessary then, to hold a
National Convention, either for the pur
pose of choosing a Presidential candidate,
or framing a platform, can we not also
agree on a Vice President, by common
consent ? Was there likely to be any
danger in carrying this State, wo would at
once say, put Gov. Curtin on the ticket—
a leader who never knew defeat; but as
this consideration docs not seriously arise,
(for Pennsylvania is as safe now as she was
in I860,) and as Curtin is emphatically
" the right man in the right place," why
pot take Hamlin at once ? Why should
we retain one faithful public sorvar.t. and
turn our backs upon another ? For our
part, we would be willing to take Lincoln
and Hamlin, for our ticket, and Lincoln's
proclamation of December last, for our
platform.
Thus the loyal people of the
whole Union could go into the next cam
paign with greater assurance of success,
even, than had tKe Republicans in the
canvass of 1800.
It is to be hoped therefore, that the
people, through their Conventions, their
Legislatures, and in every other possible
way, may speak out on this subject.
We have no doubt, Mr. Lincoln will see
the final destruction of the rebel army,
during his present term, but the policy of
reconstruction is of as much importance
as the defeat and destruction of their
arms. Let the policy upon which the
Government is no* entering, be pursued
for four years, and the cause of this re
bellion will be among the things that
were , and we shall have made one of the
grandest strides in progress and civiliza
tion, that has ever been made by any na
tion. While on the other hand, give the
Government over to the Seymours, the
Woodwards, and the Vallandighams, and
the next four years will sec liberty tram
pled beneath their unhallowed feet, and
the rebel aristocracy lording it over the na
tion once more. Against this consumma
tion, the prayers of the good should as
-Cend continually.
6TuT SVc copy the following from an ox
change :
" Hon. EliSlifer, Secretary of the Oom
monwenlth, and Hon. Win. M. Meredith.
Attorney General, tendered their resigna
tions to.Governor Curtin last week, to re
lievo him of all embarrassment in the se
lection of a cabinet for his new adminis
tration. Governor Cnrtin promptly de
clined accepting them, and they will con
tinue in their respective positions. We
have heretofore spoken of their eminent
fitness, alike in point of character and abil
ity, for their responsible duties; and the
Loyal people of the State will be glad to
know that they are to remain.
It is no disparagement to Gov. Curtin,
to say. that for tho high measure of suc
cess attained by bis administration, he is
much indebted to the enlarged experience,"
the untiring efforts and unfaltering fidelity
of Eli Slifer, and Win. M. Meredith."—
The friends of Curtin and his patriotic
administration, throughout the State, will
be pleased to learn that the distinguished
gentlemen who composed his cabinet dur
ing his first term, are to remain his ad
visers during his present term. This is a
guarantee that his present administration
like the past, will be a success.
l|notas of (lie mill IHslriH.
The following is the official allotment
of men required from the several sub-dis
tricts of the 2S!d District of Pennsylvania,
together with the number of men enrolled
in the first and second classes. The quo
tas nssinged are the nctt numbers, and do
not include the usual SO per cent, drawn
from the wheel in making a draft. The
calculation is based, in obedience to order,
upon the number originally enrolled in
both classes:
Klt 112
I» 3 I
ALLKOIIKMY COUNTY. « 1 3
• •* j. J
First Ward, Allegheny 495 253 «48 6.>
Second " " 383 874 767 67
Third u " 729 650 12*5 112
Fourth " " 902 4'wi 1398 121
Manchester borough 339 173 612 44
McClure township.. 11" ~ >n: * I s
ROM township HI I*s }«
Ohio township.. 112 48 m 13
Hewlckley b»r. & towuship lift 29 139 1-
tranklin towuship 87 V* 151 !**
McCandicss town-hip 67 29 80 t
Pino township 83 33 60 0
It ich law I township 64 32 80 8
Hampton township 80 27 '.•3 8
Shaler township 190 140 330 3o
Bewerve town*hl|i 285 340 025 51
lhi<iU'"<ne borough 170 119 280 *2.'>
Hharmburg borough 106 94 2"0 17
Indiana township 100 106 206 23
We*t |)n,r township «1 42 103 0
East Uoei township 73 60 129 11
Tarwituin borough 67 34 91 8
Fawn and Harris.>n 140 98 244 21
Aggregate....- 4801 3300 8101 70V
tII'TLKR COUJJTT.
Buffalo township 8 1 40 124 II
Clinton township 03 42 106 9
Middlesex township 60 40 102 9
A• In ins t -wu-hip 0« 3i» 100 • 9
Cranberr? township 73 30 I<>9 VI
Jackson township & Harmony 91 62 143 13
ZHicnoplA borough 18 13 31 4
Forward township 68 60 108 9
Penn township 67 *2B 85 7
Jefferson tp., and Saxonburg 72 70 142 12
W Infield township 07 48 115 lo
Clearfield township 55 62 87 N
Summit town»hip .' 62 27 70 7
liutler lownship..- 60 40 90 8
Butler IMa* Mi gh ... lU9 60 159 14
Connoquenessing township 88 34 122 lo
Lancaster township 02 69 121 10
Muddyrreek and I'ortcrsville Go 39 104 9
Franklin tp., and l*roepect 95 60 145 13
Centre township 54 35 89 8
Oakland town-hip 71 30 107 9
Donegal tp., and Milluratown 31 99 0
FiUnri<»w township 74 44 118 10
Ooncurd township 57 31 88 8
Cl>iy township 70 - 108 V
Brady town«hip 45 18 *3 5
Worth township 75 41 110 In
Centreville and Hlipperyrack 09 43 112 In
Cherry township 58 28 80 7
Washington township 78 4M 120 11
Parker town-hip 87 23 110 10
Allegheny township 57 30 h7 h
Venango township 01 32 93 8
Marion township GO 21 87 8
Mercer township 33 30 63 5
Aggregate 2320 1317 3037 310
AKM.STKO.ta COCSTr.
Terry tp., and Queenstown 92 67 149 13
BraO} * Bend township 223 137 300 31
Sugar Creek township 07 34 101 9
Washington township 67 44 111 10
Franklin township 117 9* 275 24 |
North Buffnlo township...- 69 30 95 8
South Buffalo township 77 41 118 10
Freeport borough 89 60 139 12 I
Lee. bburg boroughs. 31 24 55 5
Apollo borough... 20 19 39 3
Allegheny towuidfip ItiO 94 254 22
Kiskemiuetas township 161 92 253 22
Barrel township Go 27 92 8
Plum Creek township 171 78 249 22
Kittanning township 94 49 143 13
Manor township 84 74 168 14
Kittanning borough 159 »8 247 22
Valley township 120 00 180 10
Fine township 130 79 200 18
Madison township 72 44 110 10
Mahoning township 97 08 l»i6 14
Red Bank township 10l 49 160 13
Wayne township 127 73 200 17
Cowanshannock township 133 70 203 17
Aggregate...- 2576 1491 4067 353
UCAPITCLATIOX.
Allegheny cotinty 4,801 ,%300 8,161 709
Butler county 2.320 1,317 3,637 310
Armstrong county 2,676 1,491 4,067 353
Total 0,757 6,108 15,866 1,378
JfcT" Prosperity shines on different per
sons much in the same way that the sun
shines on different objects. Some it hard
ens like mud, while others it'softans like
wai.
From the Pittsburgh Gazette.
AlTair* In Lwtiisiitiia.
Our Washington dispatches, yesterdav,
stated that the same steamer which brought
accounts of the great meeting in New Or
leans in favor of holding a State Conven
tion to do away with Slavery, also brought
a letter to a leading administration con
gressman, from one of the most prominent
leaders of the Free State movement in
Louisiana, which states that " President
Lincoln has started a Missouri gase in
Louisiana that '• Banks is another Scho
field"—and 11 worse than he that, while
the mass meeting was " a complete suc
cess," its object " will be defeated by
Hanks, who, under orders direct from the
President, declares his purpose to order an
election for a State Oovernment, and not
to allow an election for a Convention."
These would be very disagreeable and
disapjiointing statements, if we could be
lieve them. Hut we think, from a careful
examination of the letters from various
correspondents of the press, which came
by the same steamer, and have since been
published in the New York papers, that
the " prominent leader" who wrote to the
administration congressman, must have
been laboring uwtfc'r some delusion. His
letter was written on the 9th inst., the
day after the great mass meeting, and prob
ably was the hasty and indignant out
pouring of one who had met a lying se
cessionist, whose unscrupulous assertions
were made more as reprisals for the
plete success" of the meeting on the pre
vious evening, thanks veritable and au
thentic intimations of what the pro-slave
ry party had either learned, or hoped, as
to Gen. Banks's policy.
That some such rumors as this writer
has been alarmed by, had been circulated
among the pro-slavery party in New Or
leans, there is no reason to doubt. Indeed,
wg find the following passage in a letter
to the N. Y. Tribune , which was also writ
ten on the Otb instant:
"There seems to be considerable satis
faction around town, the last day or two,
among the pro-slavery party here. Upon
what they build their hopes I do not know.
Some of them pretend to believe that an
election will shortly be had U|MIII the basis
of representation fixed by the old Consti
tution, and in that they find great cause
of joy. Home of the Union men fear
there may bo some truth, in this, though
1 can hardly think it possible.- If so, the
work of the l.'nion men for the last six
mnntljjf will go for naught. Any election
at the present time based upon the ratio
of representation fixed by the Constitu
tion of 1852 will be a fraud—a cheat—a
practical disfranchisement of more than
half the loyal lyrn of the parishes of Or
leans and Jefferson. These two parishes
contain more than half the white popu
lation of the State, and, upon the old ba
sis of representation, will only have about
one-fifth of the representatives. On the
other 'hand, the other parishes, with not
quite one-third of the white population,
will he enabled, upon the neg.o basis, to
control the majority of.the representa
tives. That accomplished, they think
they see how to blast Louisiana's prospects
for another generation at least.
Slavery having a legal existence in
some parts of the State, they hope to be
able to prolong its existence in spite of
the people by pretending to abolish it.—
They will enact a gradual emancipation—
re-enact all the black code so long as sla
very exists—all the odious police and ju
ry laws of the country parishes will be re
vived, and no man who is known to bo an
earnest, siucere lover of freedom will dare
put his nose into the country parishes, for
fear of being brought up for violating
some infernal provision the Solous have"
enacted to protect the institution. Free
dom of speech, or of the press, under a
system of gradual emancipation, is no more
possible than it was before the rebellion.
The mere contemplation of the despotism
and tyranny to both black and white will
certainly nerve every man to fight this
thing desperately.
What special communication these pro
slavery men have, cannot at present be
traced ; but it seems hard to believe, as I
iicP.rd one of these men say, that things
arc going to Lc fixed in toe election ar
rangement to suit them. We all know if
these men had a finger in tho arrange
ments what would happen."
Two days after tlieso communications
were written, namely, on the 11th inst..
appeared Gi*. Banks's proclamation, or
dering an election for State officers to be
held on the 2-d of February, and appoint
ing tho first Monday in April to hold an
election of delegates to a Convention to
revise the State Constitution. We think
the very terms in which this remarkable
document is couched, themselves disprove
the charge that Gen Banks has any in
tention of becoming an instrument, like
Schofield, in the hands of the pro-slavery
party. He will not prove false to all his
antecedents, nor ever be numbered with
the back-sliders—if this proclamation
may witness for him. And in writing this
proclamation, or in any other act of bis
administration whoshall say that he would
" Keep tho word of promise to Ihe ear,
To break it to the hope 112"
We append tho proclamation, and think
a careful reading of it will show that Gen.
Banks at least means to do right :
PROCLAMATION.
HEADQIMRTVR. !>#■ VR7op 1 H t OCL-F. )
NKW OULKA.V-, Jan. 11, 1804. j
To the P t*pie of Lf/umana :
I. In pursuance of authority vested in
me by the President of the United States,
and upon consultation with many repre
sentative men of different interests, being
fully assured that more than a tenth of
the population desire the earliest possible
restoration of Louisiana to the Union, I
invite the loyal citizens of the State qual
ified to vote in public affairs, as hereinaf
ter prescribed, to assemble in the election
precincts designated by law, or at such
places as may hereafter be established, on
the 22d day of February, 1864, to cast
their votes for the election of State offi
cers herein named, viz: 1. Governor; 2.
Lieutenant Governor: 3. Secretary of
State; 4. Treasurer; 5. Attorney Gene
ral ; 6. Superintendent of Public Instruct
ion ; 7. Auditor of Public Accounts; who
shall, when elected for the time being, and
until others are appointed by competent
authority, constitute the civil government
of the State, under the Constitution and
laws of Louisiana, except s<Pmuch of the
Constitution and luic» as recognize, regu
late, or relate to slavery, uhieh being in
con (if tent icith the preient affaire, and
plainly inapplicable to any class of per
sons now existing icithin its limits, must be
suspended, and they arc hereby declared
to be inoperate and void. This proceed
ing is not intendod to ignore, the light of
property existing prior to tho rebellion,
nor preclude the claim for compensation
of loyal citizens for losses sustained by en
listments or other authorized acts of the
Government.
11. The oath of allegiance prescribed
by tho President's proclamation, with the
condition affixed to the elective franchise
by the Constitution of Louisiana, will con
stitute the qualification of voters in this
election. Officers elected by them will
be duly installed in their offices on the
4th day of March, 1864.
111. The registration of voters, efFeeted
under the directions of the Military Gov
ernor aud the several Union Associations,
not inconsistent with the proclamation, or
other orders of the President, are confirm
ed and approved.
IV. lu order that the organic law of
tho State may be made to conform to the
will of the people, and harmonize with
the spirit of the age, as veil as to main
tain and preserve the ancient landmarks
of civil ami religious liberty, an election of
delegates to a Convention will be held on
the first Monday of April, 1804. The
basis of representation, the number of
delegates, and the details of election, will
be announced in subsequent orders.
V. Arrangements will be made for the
early election of members of Congress for
(he State.
VI. The fundamental law initio Stub
is martinl law. It is competent am! just
for the Government to turrcAder to the
ppujttf, at th' earliest possible moment, so
mwh of military power as may be con
sistent with the. success of military opera
tions ; to prepare the way, by prompt and
wise measures, for the full restoration of
the State to the. Union, and its power t >
the people ; to restore their ancient and
unsurpassed prosperity ; to enlarge the
seope of agricultural and commercial in
dustry, and to extend and confirm the do
in nion of rational liberty. It is not w th
in human power to accomplish these le
suits without some sacrifice of individual
prejudices and interests. t'robhmi of
State, too compli< iitiTlfor th' human mind,
hfiv h' lt sole 'I by th notional ■ uuon.
In great civil convulsions, the agony of
strife enfers the souls of ihe inn- cent as
well as the guilty. r l lie Government is
subject to the law of necessity, and must
consult the condition of things, rather
than the prcfercnco of men ; and if so be
that its purposes are just and its measures
wise, it has the right to demand that ques
tions of personal interest and opinion shall
be subordinate to the public good. When
the national existence is at stake, and the
liberties of the people in peril, faction is
treason.
The methods herein proposed submit
the whole question of government direct
ly to the people—first, by the election of
executive officers, faithful to the Union,
to be followed by a loyal representation in
both Houses of Congress—and then by a
Convention which will confirm the action
of the people, and recognize (Ju prineifihs
of freedom in the on/anie lair. 'This is the
wish of the /'resident. The anniversary
of Wash!nt/ton's birth is a Jit day for the
commencement of m i/reat a work. The
immortal Father of his Country was lin
er ,/aided by a more just and benignant
spirit than that of his successor in office,
the !'resident of the I'nited Slate*. In
the hour of our trial let us hce</ his admon
itions !
Louisiana, in the opening of her histo
ry, sealed the integrity .of the Union by
conferring upon its government the Val
ley of the Mississippi. In the war for
independence upon the sea, she crowned
a glorious struggle against the first mari
time Power of tlie world by a victory un
surpassed in the annals of war. Let her
people now announce to the world the
coming restoration of the Union, in which
the ages that follow us have a deeper in
terest than our own, by the nrijiiiu'ziilion
of a free government, and her fame will
be immortal.
N. I'. BANKS, M. <». C.
ST. LOUIS, -lan. 22. —The Democrat'»
Leavenworth special says the welcome giv
en Gen. Curtis was a more enthusiastic de
monstration than wa ever given in that city
bclore. <h er 5.000 persons were present,
and the Union League procession was a
mile long. GeneralCurtis made a speech
saying Missouri was as radical as Kansas,
and that he expected no trouble; that the
states should co-operate with the r tiue
and radical men. Speeches were made by-
Col. .Tennison, J. I'arrott, 1). W. Wilder
and others.
Col. Ch iptn in has been made Gen. Cur
tis' Chief of Staff.
Gen. Kwing will have an 'in; ■ .rtant com
mam#
Gen. Blunt will command the i'orr Siu th
district, lie left St. Louis th seven ng
for Washington.
j tSSf In the Senate, the other day, Mr.
Johnson, of Maryland, in the course of
some remarks, said that he believed that
the people of his State at this time, were,
take theru altogether, as loyal as some of
the Northern States. '1 his was a slap, ev
idently at Pennsylvania and New York,
where no one can deny, a large amountof
disloyalty exists in a pretended overween
ing love for the "Constitution and State*
Rights"—-just as if this was to put down
the rebellion and preservethc Uhion, with
out which all constitutions and all rights
would be at an end.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 22. —In reference
to a report in the Philadelphia Inquirer
that Maj. White's resignation has been
for some time in GovernorCurtin's hands,
the Bulletin has from the Gov
ernor the following dispatch :
Ilarrislmrg, Jan. 22.—Major White's
resignation never was in my hands. _ I
have heard there was such a paper, but I
never saw it. The Speaker of the Sen
ate is the official to receive the resignation
and issue a warrant for a new election. I
have nothing to do with it officially. The
report you allude to is false.
Signed, A : G. CURTIN.
It is imposoible to love one in whose
truthfulness .we cannot confide , or to
slight one whose words, and purposes, and
actions arc "without dissimulation."
The Draft Constitutional.
It will be remembered that the Supremo
! Court of Pennsylvania, after the defeat of
two of its members by the people, declar
ed the conscription net unconstitutional.
It was done in defiance of the uniform
teachings of the framers of the constitu
ion, and in the face of the fact, that (ho
same court would reverse itself in a few
weeks. But Judge Woodward must inflict
his petty, impotent vengeance, and ho
hurled an opinion against the preservation
of the government that was characteriz
ed by all the recklessness aud bitterness of
a stump speech from a disappointed poli
tician.
Recently Judge Agnew became Judge
in place of Lowery, and a motion was
made to dissolve the preliminary injunc
tion granted against tho enforcement of
the conscription act. It was ably argued
and the injunction was dismissed, and the
draft of the militia by Congress declared
constitutional. Judges Woodward and
Thompson of course dissented; but the
n-revocable decision of tho court declares
the conscription in all respects lawful.
Judge Agnow delivered an elaborate opin
ion, concluding as follows:
" Tho constitutional authority to use
the national forces creates a corresponding
duty to provide a number adequate to the
necessity. The duty is vital and essentia?,
falling back on tho fundamental right of
self-preservation, and the power expressed
to declare war. raise armies, maintain na
vies, and provide for the common defence.
Power and duty now go hand in hand with
the extremity until every available man in
the nation is called into service, if the
emergency require it.and of this, there
can be no judge but Congress.
•■'lhoy may proceed therefore to tho
exhaustion of the whole eleirtent from
which the State draws its militia, for the
people under the two powers are the same;
while ti c supremacy of the national pow -
er, provided in section - of article (i. ne
cessarily draw.< to itsc.l' lie whole number
if required by the exigency, to the exclu
s:on of the State power.
'•And in lea- it why *h tiM a major
power be lestrie e I by .1 m n .•. 'j ho
power to raise iruiie- <•• mj ehen 112. i iis
purposes the wh .!e si j e ,ho pu |.. ei
of armies, wh. e the nut li ,t y to call out
the militia is confine I > tite enumerated
three."— lronll.ii J.,/.,, i/ory.
SI.AVKBY IN .MAIN I.ANII.— I The IJalti
-1111 ire A merit an of I 'rioay says:—We have
assured our legislatorsag i>ri aftd again that
slavery in Maryland is dead. The fcople
mean that it shall be buried, and that im
mediately. It has exercised a baleful in
fluence in Church and State, is the gener
al disturber of the public peace, and there
can be no quiet until it is finally and for
ever put to rest. In this view of the cam
all efl.iits to connect the question in Mary
land with the colonisation of the negro, or
with personal State compensation to the
owner, or with a system of negro appren
ticeship—worse than actual slavery, as it
has proved to bo in the past—will prove
abortive.
'To insist upon colonization before eman
cipation is to defeat that measuaealtogeth
er, for, beside the absurdity of colonizing
one hundred ond eighty thousand blacks,
the State cannot afford the loss of that la
bor until after years of uninterrupted en
joyment of free labor. And as to tho
question of compensation for the loss of
slaves—the result of the war—the Cityhf
Baltimore and the free counties of the
State, which already pay three-fourths of
the taxation, never will consent to a fur
ther addition to their burden to please or
to pay men who have in years gone by taxed
themselves in no proportion to their- prop
erty," and who have not felt during the war
the hostile presence of the foe.
To gradually emancipate slavery is to
put the State in the condition of Delaware
for the past twenty-five years. It is to
have the evils of slavery and none of the
benefits of freelabor. ft is to be suspend
ed like Mahomet's coffin, and groan intol
erable years overan evil which a little more
nerve would enable the patient to be rid of
forever.
BOSTON, Jan. 2'. —A correspondent of
the Traveler, writing from Newborn, N.
('.. states that information had reached
there that a call had been issued at Ital
cigh lor a State Convention, for the pur
pose of seceding from their allegiance to
the Southern I 'onfederrcy. 'lhe writer
says that Governor Vance and nearly ev-
I cry leading man of North Carolina desires
Ito return to the Union. He also says that
; an army of twenty-five thousand men un
der (Jen. Butler could march to Itcleigh,
take possession of the capital, and free the.
State frr m the ru'c of traitors, in one
• raonth'stinie. Such an army wutiMrecc've
an enthusiastic we!c uic here,and all along
the lineof the ron eh. So say men who
know.
The W.-is-hii'gton St-ir says:
"It is rio long r to b doubt d tlr t th
army, or rath, r a.nni ••, with which
the United St.ites will 10 xtspring re
sume active op' r ttions will he tli lar
gest and b( st the world will haves*>< n
in modern tim'-s, while those with
which they will hav to c ntend will
be vastly less numerous and < flectivc
than the armies with which the rebel
conspirators Lave operated up to this
time. These important facts ar ■ now
so patent that all well-informed per
sons here realize them in their full
force."
Ax IRISHMAN'S SPEECH—"Och,
Jamie, an' did you never hear ev my
spaach afore the Hibernian Society?"
"No, Pat, how could I, for sure I was
not on the ground." "Well, Jamie
you see I was called upon by the Hi
bernian Society for a spaach; an' be
jabera I rose with the enthusiastic
cheers of thousands and tins of thou
sands, wid ine heart overflowing with
gratitude, an' me eyes full of tears,
an' divil a word did I spake !"
Wft. Leigh Hunt says : " God- made
both tears and laughter, and both for kind
purposes ; for as laughter enables mirth
and surprise to breathe freely, so tears en-,
able sorrow to vent itself patiently. Tears
hinder sorrow from becoming despair and
madness ; and laughter is one of the very
privi.eges of reason, being confined U#
th' 1 human species."