More Soldier*.
It is conceded that more men are need
ed to finish the business ot putting down
the rebellion. The only question is, how
■hall they be raised ? The Government
adheres to the drafting system as the best,
and is asking Congress to make it more
effective bv repealing the commutation
clause. Congress, representing the peo
ple whose war this is, and who intend to
fight it through, have thus far hesitated
to do away with the commutation, there
by indicating a want of faith in the draft
as the means for keeping the armies up.
Ilerein we think th» immediate represen
tatives of the people are wiser than the
other branch of the Government; but un
der the presure it is doubtful whether this
wisdom will continue to the cud.
ID our judgment, the mistake which
tbe Government make?, is in not appreci
ating the rfillingnesss of the country to
furnish soldiers to the number required.
The only unwillingness existing that we
know of, is to bo drafted. It is a system
that effectually closes every avenue to the
popnlar heart, and extinguishes the feel
ing without which the Government will
be powerless. It is time the Government
knew this pregnant fact. Take a given
number of citizens, unanimous in their
opposition to the draft; the Government
has but to popularize its call and moans,
to put two-thirds of them in the ranks.—
Such is the fact here, and we believe it to
be so elsewhere. We think we can as
sure the President, the Secretary of War.
and Congress, that if two hundred thou
sand or five hundred thousand men are
wanted to finish the business, they have
but to put that fact hffore the country, in
tbe place of the hated, chillingdraft, make
ail appeal straight to the popular heart,
and the mon can be obtained as rapidly as
they can be an tied.
It is no argument to say that they will
be now mon. They will be no ncwerthan
you will get under the draft—nn substi
tutes with but the single motive of deser
tion—but earuest men whose hearts arc
in the right place. Besides, there arc no
new men now in the sense of the term two
years ago. The people have been educa
ted and disciplined within that time by
constant contemplation and greater or less
familiarity with actual warfare. Recent
experience has disposed of that pica.
Whatever the Government does, if it
expects success, it must have the popular
heart iu its favor. Without this you can
not get tho men—even if you could, they
would not avail you. Therefore, the only
thing to be done is to get in symathy
with tho peoplo and then act together.—
Certain we are, the repeal of the commu
tation clause will not be a step in that di
rection.
It is evident that whatever the plau is.
the capital of thecountry must in theend
boar a large shareof the burden. Inthis
view of the case, tho association of gen
tlemen of wealth—most of them exempt
from military duty—was formed in New
York, to procure men and place them in
the ranks at once. To facilitate efforts of
this kind, tho following circular has been
issued by the Provost Marshal General:
WAR DEPARTMENT. 1
Tito. MAR. GENERAL'S OFFICE, -
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 26. )
Persons uot fit for military duty and not
liable to draft from age or other causes,
have expressed a desire tc he personally
represented in the army. 11l addition to
the contributions tliey have made in the
way of bounties, they propose to raise at
their own expense and present for enlist
ment recruits to present them in the ser
vice. Such practical patriotism is wor
thy of special commendation and encour
agement. Provost-marshals affd all other
officers acting under this bureau, are or
dered to furhish all the facilities in their
power to enlist and muster promptly ac
ceptable representative recruits, presented
in accordance with the design herein set
forth. The name of the person whom the
recruit represents will be noted on the en
listment and dcscrsptivc rolls of the re
cruit, and will be carried forward from
these papers to the other official records
which form this military history. Suita
bly prepared certificates of this personal
representation in the service will be for
warded to this- office to be filled out and
issued by the provost-marshals to tho per
sons who putin representative recrusts.
JAMKS 15. FRY.
Provost.Marshal General
We understand that some of our lead
ing citizons, manufacturers aud capital
ists, are considering the question of or
ganizingaccording to the New York plan
now legally provided for. By this means
the wants of the Government would be
provided for, and the rigors of the draft
materially mitigated—perhaps the ex
treme sort wholly avoided. We feel con
fident that the quota of Allegheny coun
ty can be tilled in this way; and that
the plan will prove to bo uot only effec
tive, but popular.— Pitts. Com.
AN EXAMI'LI;. —In oue respect the
South has set us an example. Through
out the South, North Caroliua excepted,
there have been no political parties since
the war began. The legislation of the
rebel Congress has related almost exclu
sively to the raising and equipping of ar
mios and fleets, and providing sinews of
war. Democrat and Whig have become
obsolete words in the Southern vocabula
ry. The predominating and absorbing is
sue is, shall Confederate independence be
maintained and the American Union con
tinue broken. We wish our politicians
had allowed that to be the test and only
important question with us, also—that
they had «uuk partisanism as the rebels
have done, and narrowed the contest to one
of simply national existence. But they
have not done so — Pitt*. Com.
tgt* The Wheeling Sanitary Fair has
been opened under auspicious circUm-
Btanoos Governor Boremau delivered
the address. He concludes as follows:
Let us look at the position. How shall
we act 7 Shall we think of compromise
or a withdrawal of tho army ? Shall we
after so muchlossof lifcand money .throw
down our arms aud recognize the" rebels.
No. God forbid it! The rebels aro ar
rayed against us with powerful armies, but
we must put them down. We must not
give up. We have the men and the mon
ey, and unborn generations call for to
oling to and proteot the Government and
regard the right* of the people.
Jn the Rear of Richmond.
The authenticated reports of our
cavalry achievements, taken in con
nection "with the ascertained results of
Hunter's movements, give to the grand
campaign against Richmond a most
hopeful' aspect. The most certain
way to besiege a city or fortress is to
isolate it by cutting off its communica
tions. This done, the period of de
fence will be no longer than the sup
plies on hand will last. This is the
principle on which Grant is now con
ducting the campaign against Rich
mond. The expedition under Wil
son and Kautz, having for its object
the destruction of the Danville out
let, having been successful, the roads
running from Kichrnond can no lon
ger be depended on as reliable means
by which Lee can obtain supplies
He mnj' <l° something towards repair
ing some of them, but the same force
that did the mischief once can and
probably w ill do it again. To guard
these roads, and especially the Dan
ville road, at all the points liable to
be struck, will necessitate a diver
sion of a force which Lee cannot spare
with safety. Thus ho is beginning
to feel the weight of the blows which
Grant has fought himself into a pos
sition to deal. By keeping up his
flank movement, he lias kept Lee in
Richmond and placed himself in a
possition to cut his communications.
The rebel general, unless he can
spare men enough to hold securely
his communications and Richmond
at the same time, or is provided with
supplies that make him independent
of his communications,, will be com
pelled either to retreat or assume the
offensive. To fight Lee out of his
entrenchments has been Grant,s con
stant wish. The rebel General has
adroitly avoided a fight only when
he could avail himself of his works.
It is an ascertained fact, that the
campaign has greatly reduced Lee's
force: Grant's army, on the other
hand, is larger now than at any pre
vious moment. He is, moreover, in
his intrenchments, where Lee, even
if he were stronger than he is, would
hardlv venture to attack him.
To the unprofessioual eye the com
parative advantages an<l disadvanta
ges of the situation are apparent.
They show how worse than foolish it
is to indulge in doubts and become
impatient, because entire success
does not not attend every minor un
dertaking. What may seem days of
inactivity will probably prove to be
days of acivity leading to important
results. This-has proved to be the
case during the last week. What
has been accomplished during that
time has brought the siege close to'the
gates of Richmond, and in a form
that can bo least withstood. The
means employed are not less certain
than a shower of shot and shell rained
continually on the doomed city.—
Pitts. Com.
Provident rtncoln's LeUcr of
Acceptance
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
WASHINGTON, June 27, 1804. j
Hon- William Dan'son and others, a
Committee of the National Union
Convention :
GENTLEMEN: —Your letter of the
14th instant formally notifying mc
that I had been nominated by the
Convention you represent for the
Presidency of the United States for
four years from the 4th of March
next, has been received.
The nomination is gratefully accep
ted, and the resolutions of the Con
vetion, called the platform, are heart
ily approved. While the resolution
in regard to the supplantingofrepub
lican governments upon the Western
Continent is fully concurred in. there
might be a misunderstanding were I
not to say that the position of the
Government in relation to the ac
tion of France in Mexico as assumed
through the State Department and
indorsed by the Convention, among
the measures and acts of the Execu
tive, will be faithfully maintained so
long as the state of facts shall leave
that position pertinent and applica
ble.
I am especially gratified that the
soldiers and seamen were not forgot
ten by the Convention, as th'ey for
ever must and will be remembered
by the grateful country for whose sal
vation they devote their lives.
Thanking you for the kind and
complimentary terms in which you
communicated the nomination and
other proceedings of the Convention,
I subscribe myself your obedient ser
vant. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Jfcaf"* Gen. Grant, in opposition to the
views of Admiral Leo, ordered the chaa
nel of the James to be obstructed, thus
makiug sure his base was protected against
raids by rebel iron-elads. By the way,
we see that the correspondent of the
Jierald calls Admiral Leo "an old sea
dog." Let the writer consult the Naval
Register, and he will find that the Adjni
ral's sea life has not been a protracted one,
aud mostly in sight of laud.
NATIONAL INCO.M£. —The national in
come under the new tax bill, it is estima
ted will be at least three hundred mil
lions. This is independent of the reve
uuo under the tariff. Secretary Chase
will, it is said, ask Congress to pass a sup
plementary bill, to raise one hundred mil
lions more, from articles of luxurv. The
Secretary has through views, anil holds
that it is in taxation only that the nation
will find the true policy.
Tho transportation of the Army
of the Potomac would make a line of
wagonssixty-two and a half miles in length
according to Geu. Meade.
sht (Eitism.
THOMAS ROBINSON, I
CYRUS E. ANDERSON, J*- 0110 ™-
JI. W. NPEAR, Publisher.
BUTLER PA.
WEDJfESDAV - JILY 6, 1804.
Mr " Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One
end inseparable.' - —O. Webster.
FOB PRESIDENT IX 1864 :
ABRAHAM LIXCOLX.
of Illinois.
FOR VI£E PRESIDENT:
AXDBEW JOHXSTOX.
of Tennessee.
Presidential Eleclorn.
SENATORIAL.
Morton M'Mirhael, Philadelphia.
Thomas 11. Cunningham, Beaver county.
RE RESEttTATIVE.
1 Robert P. King, 113 Ellas W. Hall,
2 Goo. Morrison Coatea, ( 14 Charles H. Shrlner,
3 Henry Bumm. ilo John Wister,
4 William 11. Kern, 116 David M'Conauehy,
5 Barton H. Jenks, 17 David W. Wood,
6 Charles M.Runk, 19 Isaac Benson,
7 Robert Parkor, 10 ,'ohn P.tton,
8 Aaron Mull, 20 Samuel It. Dick,
9 John A. Hiestand, 121 Everard Bieror,
10 IttcardH. Coryell, ,22 John P Penney,
11 F-dsvard Holliday, |23 Kbonezor M .lnnkln,
12 ("hallos F. Kccd, 124 Jelin W. Bianchard.
LOCAL TICKET.
CONGRESS,
THOMAS WILLIAMS.
ASSEMBLY,
WM. II AS LETT.
JOHN' 11. NEGLEY.
of Butler County.
SAMUEL M'KINLEY,
of Lairrrnce County.
, COMMISSIONER.
A.C.CHRISTY.
AUDITOR.
LEANDER WISE.
Amendment to the Constitution,
Granting thr NehlirraUlght to Tote.
KI.KCTION ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1804.
E<lg:ir Cowan.
In speaking of the final vote on repeal
of the Fugitive Slave Law, in the Se
nate, the Germantoicn Telegraph remarks:
" It will be seen that Cowan of this State,
voted in the negative, with Davis and
Powell, of Kentucky, and Saulsbury and
lliddle of Delaware." Poor Cowan, what
a record he has made during the presence
of this great crisis !
Dallas once betrayed the interests of
Pennsylvania, and they went down un
der his treachery,—happy it is that no
one man can work such mischief now.—
All that poor Cowan can do, is to disgrace
I himself and shame his friends. Thank
I God, there is Loyalty enough left to save
! tbe nation.
Tlio Elrrlion Again.
In our paper this week will bo found
the Sheriffs Proclamation for the special
election to be held on Tuesday, the 2d
day of August. We trust that all will
bear this election in mind. Let no one
have to look for an excuse afterwards for
uot attending this election, Reflect how
short the iime is, just three weeks from
next Tuesday! Speak to your neighbors
about it; aud make arrangements for hav
ing a full vote polled iu favor of extend
ing the right of suffrage to the soldier,
llouor and justice both demand this at
our hands.
CREDITS UNDER THE DRAFT. —We
learn from the Harrisburg Telegraph that
the Secretary of War a fortnight since
addressed a brief inquiry to the Governor
of Pennsylvania, for information in rela
tion to the return made to the Adjutant
General's office of the State, on the sub
, ject of credits on the draft. The matter
being referred to Adjutant General Rus
sell, he at once proceeded to gather and
arrange the returns necessary lor reply.—
This reply embraces an account of the re
enlistments in the veteran regiments of
Pennsylvania infantry, cavalry and artil
lery, as such enlistments were credited to
the different sub-districts throughout the
Commonwealth. The object to be estab
lished by this information is to compare
the returns made to the State authority
with those of the War Department, in
order that tho credits may be correctly ar
ranged, and that all possible attempts at
fraud or misrepresentation circumvented
and defeated.
The document prepared in the Adju
tant General's office reflects the greatest
credit on the energy and promptitude of
Adjutdnt General Russell, and the cleri
cal force of his department,. It occupies
a half ream of closely written foolscap pa- i
per, and embraces information connected
with the military organization of the State !
for the past three years. This document j
for its extent, importance and intricacy of j
detail, is the*most voluminous that ever \
issued from the same department in the !
shape of a correspondence.
UST Society is a strong solution of
books. It draws the virtue out of what
is beet worth reading, as hot water draws
the strength out of- tea-leaves.
COMMUNICATIONS.
For tho Citizen.
Prisoners at Richmond. ,
MESSKS EDITORS: —Tho following ex
tract of a letter from my brother in West
Virginia, whose son, Almandus Young,
has been in Richmond as a prisoner, con
firms the many reports of cruelties in
flicted there. Edwin Young and Asa
Young, mentioned in the letter, are neph
ews of mine and my brother who writes.
Several of the prisoners taken at the same
timc.have been furloughed, and returned
home after enduring -all that human na
ture could bear, and all that barbarity
could inflict.
"Those who have got home are in a
very feeble state of health. The extent
of suffering that the poor prisoners have
endured, is not, and cannot bo generally
known by the community at large. Al
mandus was sick aud in the hospital a large
portion of the time last fall, and until the
last of January, when lie was sent back
to Castle Thunder, but was yet quite fee
ble. He then gained some strength and
was soon sent with the other prisoners, to
Belle Island, in that cold weather in the
month of February, and was there seven
teen days, without shelter or fire, and
very thinly clad, with nothing to cat but
a very small piece of unsifted, unsaltcd,
half-baked, hard, cold and old corn bread,
daily, and occasionally a half pint of
broth from old rice, filled with white
worms one inch or one and a half inch
long; or of old peas or rather pea-shells
filled with bugs, in fact so full that the
bugs were drank with the broth, or half
of the broth turned out to get rid of the
swiming bugs; and the remainder drank.
The prisoners sank rapidly under this
treatment. . They then hftd shelters pro
vided, and were allowed a little fire.—
Edwin Young, happened to he assigned
to a tent occupied by prisoners from our
army, and drew a share of provisions sent
over by some benevolent society, and was
thus rendered more comfortable. His
health was much better than Asa's, and
Asa was stouter than Almandus.
We know certainly that nineteen of
tho Militia had died previous to the twen
tieth of April, and we fear that more than
that number have died since. They
all out of money. There was a large
amount of money sent from here to Rich
mond for them, of which they never re
ceived but about one tenth."
From the above extract, it would seem
that of the sixty persons captured by the
guerrillas, and taken to Richmond, about
two thirds were so starved and maltreated
that they died, and tho rest "arc in a very
feeble state of health." These men's
only military offence was, that they dril
led as militia every Saturday, in their own
neighborhood, on French Creek, West
Virginia. They wore mostly young mar
ried men. The guerillas captured them
while drilling, and hurried them to Rich
mond. LOYAL YOUNG.
The following is a copy of a let
ter written by Lt. Daniel Boggs, Com
Co. G, 4th Pa. Cav., to his brother Thos
W. Boggs, Esq., of Evansburg.
CAMP OF 4TII PENXA. CAVALRY,
on James riyer six miles below
Harrison's Landing, Juno 27, 1864.
DEAR BROTHER : —Through the Prov
idence of God, I am privileged to write
you a few Hues on this, the only remain
ing piece of paper I have, and in the first
place I will have to tell you of the death
■ of your townsman, Hugh E'Cormick, who
was killed on Friday, the 24th instant, at
| St. Mary's Church. Our division was
■ sent to guard the road while, the wagon
train was passiug from While House to
this place. We had a train of eight miles
to bring through.
While we were some six or eight miles
separated from the other division, we were
i attacked by five times our number and the
result was that the 2d division (General
Gregg's) were badly whipped for the first
time; it is a sight I don't wish often to
see. The leading cause of defeat, I sup
pose, was that Gen. Gregg's dispatches to
Gen. Sheridan, were captured by the en
eijiy; exposing both our position and our
strength, giving the enemy all the knowl
edge they required to make a successful
attack suddenly upon our exposed lines;
the consequence was, -they did it by ad
vancing suddenly upon our centre, where
the 4th Pa. Cavalry wero stationed, as
well as both right and left flanks occupi
ed by other regiments of our brigade.
Our company lost four,Corp M'Nama
ra and private M'Cormick, killed; pri
vates William Phelps and John Caldwell
of Allegheny city, missing.
On the 11th inst. at Travillion Station,
Va. Central R. It., we lost of our compa
ny, Jacob Wolford, killed ; Hugh Hamil
ton, Derigan and Boguc, wounded.
I would not do justice to tho men of
your county who came to our company, if
I did not say thoy were all that was nec
essary for soldiers to be. They came to
us in the midst of a vigorous campaign;
on the day they came we were in range of
the enemies guns, and on each occasion
since that time, they have done their du
ty bravely; at Travillion .Station we were
behind a rail fence. We were ordered
when, the bugle would sound, to tear down
the fence and charge a .concealed enemy
over an open field; the charge was made
in frout of a galling fire, but it was done
successfully. We drove the rebs first
from the buildings and from there to the
H.B. Iwill notwrite anymore at present.
Your Brothor,
DANIEL C. BOOGS,
Lt Com. Co. G, 4tli Pa. Cav.
CITY POINT, VA., J una 19, 1884.
Editors of Butler Payers :
Please announce the death of private
David Studebaker, of Co. E, 100 Regt.,
Pa. Vet. Vols., who fell overboard aud
was drowned in the Pamunky river, five
miles below the White House Landing,
on the morning of the 15th of June. He
was not with his company, but was detail
ed as a uurse at 9th Corps Hospital, and
was with the Hospital moving to the new
base of operations, at the time of the ac
cident. He was loved by all his com
rades, and when the sad news reaches
them, they will mourn the loss of a true
soldier, and dear companion, and will sym
pathize with those who have lost a noble
son, and a loving brother.
The • deceased was 30 years of age, a
farmer previous to joiuing the army,
which was at the commencement of the
war, and a resident of \\ orth township,
Butler county, Pa. lie had re-enlisted
last December. Respectfully,
J. C. STEVENSON,
Co. Ej 100 Reg. I'. V. V.
P. S.—Lieut. Col. W. W. Dawson,
Sergt. David Book, and Private David
Brackcnridge, of the 100 Pa." Regt., have
just arrived from tho front, wounded ;
Col. Dawson, severely; Brackcnridge.
above left eye. J. c. s.
Tlie War Must Stop,
Democratic sentiment is moulding to
this form, nnd will soon be openly pro
claimed. The next step will be the adop- i
tion of the plan dictated by the Rich
mond Examiner to procure tho defeat of
Grant's armies, the depreciation of our
currency, and the paralyzing of ail our
eftbrts. This is a plain sstatenieut. of the
case as it now stands, and is supported
by the course of the leading Democratic
journals of the country. Every measure
of the Administration is bitterly denoun
ced ; the raising of troops under every |
call is openly discouraged upon tho plea
that the war is being carried on for no
other purpose than the freeing of the
negroes; th<j rebellion is sympathized
traitors are popularized because of tlim
treason, and the people are appealed to to
rise in opposition to tho Government in
case it attempts tho punishment of trai-'
tors. The latest evidence upon this sub
ject is furnished by the proceedings of
the recent Kentucky State Convention.
The resolutions recommend "an immedi
ate armistice, v and a national convention
for tho adjustment of our difficulties."—
The intention of this can only be to throw
our military operations into confusion witlr
a view to advancing the interests of the
rebellion. The rebels have time and again
indignantly refused to enter into any con
vention with us, except on the basis of a
final separation, declaring that if a blank
shoot of paper were tendered them upon
which to write their own terms, they
would spurn it. Over and over again
have Northern peace demagogues been
snubbed by their "erring brethren," but
to no purpose—they will not be taught by
experience.
The Kentucky resolutions further say:
"The party in power have deluded the
people into the granting of men and mon
ey to their unrestricted control, for the
pretended purpose of preserving the Gov
ernment, which they have used, and are
still using, for the base end of overthrow
ing State institutions, and advancing
mere party interest, and establishing them
selves in permanent and despotic power."
Here we have an appeal to the people
to grant neither men nor money to the
government to aid in suppressing tho re
bellion. If this appeal is listened to and
obeyed, the war must inevitably stop—the
very purpose that the Democrats have in
view. With this end gained what fol
i lows will be dictated by the rebels and
their Democratic allies
It is true that Democrats some times say
that they desire the suppression of tho
reoellion ; but this is merely lip service.
At the same time they denounce every
measure, discourage every ffort of the
Administration, and openly declar their
their sympathy with those of the leaders
whom they know to be in collusion
J with the rebels. Gov. Bramlette. of Ken-
I tucky, in a letter of thanks to G?>v. Mor
j ton, of Indiana, for assistance rendered
I during Morgan's recent raid says: "The
appearance of Vallandighain iu Ohio sim
ultaneously with Morgan's raid into Ken
tucky, fully confirms the matter made
known to mo through Gen. Lindscy, by
you." It is impossible for any loyal man
to have a particle of sympathy with Val
landigham.
The most observable feature ot the
Democratic policy is the failure to suggest
measures more just, feasible and efficient
for the suppression of the rebellion, than
those of Mr. I incoln's which they so bit
terly denounce. Were they really sincere
in their professed desire to see the des
truction of treason and the dispersion of
its hosts, they would hesitate in the de
nunciation of Mr. Lincoln unless they
were ablo to indicate what course it would >
be better for him to adopt. The rebel
lion is a positive fact, and it can only be
conquered by positive, determined means
—negatives cannot accomplish the pur
pose.
Whatever may be said of Mr. Lin
coln's measures, the fact that they arc the j
best the necessities of the war have sug
gested is clearly vindicated, lt is easy
to state a denial, but very difficult at times j
to support it. A man in a storm at sea j
will not cast away his plank unless he has j
a surer and safer means of succor within j
reach. But Democrats, like Sampson, j
desire to throw down the pillars which j
support the structure, that perfect, ruin
may follow.— Pills. Com.
ONE TIIINO CLEAR —ft is clear that
as Gen. Grant is sustained by tho Gov
ernment and the people, eo will the future
be. There is not ground for a single
doubt that if he is backed up he will de- ;
feat the rebels, and defeat now they con- j
fess would bo fatal. The blows that he j
has been dealing for tho last six weeks j
kept up, will inevitably beat tho breach |
out of tho rebellion. To end tho war at 1
the earliest moment, let ue sustain Grant, '
Tbc Fugitive Slave Law.
The Souate 011 Thursday passed tho act
repealing the Fugitive Slave laws of IT','3
and 1850, by a vote of 22 to 12. Wc
give here tho Yeas and Nays:
YEAS —Messrs. Anthony, Rrown, ('hand
ler. Clark, Couness, Dixon, Foot, Grimes,
Ilale, Harlan, Harris. Hicks. Howard,
Howe, Lane (Ind.), Lane (Kansas), Mor
gan, Morrill, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Sherman,
Sprague, Sumner, Ten Eyck, Trumbull,
Wade and Wilson.
NAYS —Messrs. Buckalciv, Carlile,
Cowan, Davis, Hendricks, Johnson. M'-
Dougal, Powell, Riddle, Saulsbury, \ an
Wintle and Willey.
It sounds oddly in the year 1864 to
read the names of two Pennsylvania Sen
ators in the list of twelve nays on tho
<[uestion of repealing the Fugitive Slave
law; but such is tho humiliation of our
great Commonwealth to-day, and such has
almost ever been her fate. Pennsylvania
has iurnished nearly two hundred thous
and men to defend our sacred Nationality
against tne assaults of Treason and Slavery,
and full twenty-five thousand of thatnum
bertill untimely and often nameless grave",
—heroic sacrifices to the crowning crime
of human bondage and its endless train
of evils; add when an enlightened prog
ress, dictated alike by humanity and Na
tional necessity, seeks to bljit from our
statue books the blistering evidence of our
National abasement to Slavery. Pennsyl
vania records a solid vote against it in the
first legislative tribunal of the land.
Fortunately the bill has passed and is now
a law, despite the shame of our State.
With Senator Buckalew we have noth
ing to do. lie has disappointed 110 one—
has sacrificed no convictions; violated no
pledges; falsified no record, Hcwascho
j sed by a legislature in sympathy with his
j views, and he has simply been consistent
iin error. But Senator Cowan has b*en
I faithless to the sentiment that culled him
| to responsible trust, and shamefully vio
-1 lated his own voluntary record. In 1860,
! when the writer hereof was Chairmrn of
tho State Committee, he was compelled to
recall several appointments made for this
same Edgar Cowan because of the radical
abolition principles he advocated. His
only theme seemed to be tho destruction
of Slavery, and the blotting out of the
last vestago of its power. 111 short be was
radically in advance of tho times—then
| holding and advocating views so violent
I that, in tho absence of rebellion, they
j could not be justified either in law or
j comity. Before his election the formal
j secession of several States was a matter
| of history, and Slavery was about tore-
I sort causelessly and wickedly to the terri
ble arbitrament»of the sword. In such a
I crisis, the supposed fidelity of Mr. Cow
j an to the government and his known hos
! tility to the fruitful parent of our Nation
jul discord, made him acceptable to the
! faithful men of the legislature, and lie
S was clothed with the highest legislative
j trust. Others might falter before the sc
| ductions of power, or the disappointments
j of small minds, but no one doubted that
| there would ever be one faithful man in
| the Senate —Edgar Cowan, of Pcnnsylva
! nia.
Such were his antecedents —such his
pledges—such the circumstances of his
election, llow faithless lie has been, let
his record tell. With Saulisbury and
I'owell and Davis, and every open, inso-r
lent sympashiser with treason, he votes
habitually from day today, and shames
his loyal friends and degrades his great
State by his perfidy. When will Penn
sylvania learn to value and cherish States
men, rather than political adventurers?—
Frunklin lirjiost fori/.
| CONFIDENCE IN GEN. GRANT. —-'The
more wo view this campaign," remarks
! the Philadelphia Press, "the m#rc thor-
I oughly we are convinced of the justice of
our faith in Grant; and when we read his
assurance to the President, as reported in
the newspapers, that lie will take Rich
mond, we do not regard it as an evidence
of vanity or presumption, but the confi
dent calculation of a man who has exam
ined the work before him, —a master-rafts
| man who finds it within his power. We
should like him to do it in our way and
time. We should be delighted if he could
do it dramatically, and take Richmond as
he took Vicksburg, on the forth of July,
i But still we care little for days and dates.
I or the pomp and splendor of the event,
Iso that it i.-» finally accomplished. We
! cherish this opinion the more earnestly
because we believe that when Richmond
tails the rebellion will be at an end. The
| rebels seem to desire this, for they make
I Richmond,as it were, the focus of their
j power, by drawing around that city all
their power, by drawing around that city
: all their strength and substance. It is the
I heart of the Confederacy, and when we
| take it we shall have taken life itself from
j the body of this monstrous rebellion."
His power of generalship, says the N.
Y. Times, which has evidently been more
and more developed through Grant's whole
career, is one great source of confidence
that this difficult campaign will be brought
ito a victorious conclusion. If Gen. Grant
| finds the lines of the Chickahominy too
j strong'for assult, as is intimated by our
correspondent, he will undoubtedly attack
! Richmond by some other line, and thus
| draw Lee from his intrenchments. llis
campaign against Vicksburg showed how
fertile in resources was his mind, and we
must not be surprised if various means of
attacking Lee, with varying success, are
attempted, before the final and successful
one. A just cause, a most brave and en
during army, and a general of high mili
tary skill and great tenacity of purpose —
with these in view, we can afford to wait
calmly for the future.
JBraT' There is a tree near the present
quarters of iShcrman's army, called the
'•fatal tree." Eight men were shot, one
after another, as soon as they advanced to
the fatal tree to take a secure position be
hind its huge trunk. .Seven men wero
shot, when a board was placed therewith
the word " Dangerous' 1 chalked upon it.
The rebels shot the guide-board into frag
ments. and asergerut unsuspectingly took
his place behind the tree. In less than
five minutes two minnio balls pierced the
sergeant's body, and he fell the eighth
martyr beneath the shadow of the tree of
death.
t&~ A down east editor says that mod
esty is a quality that highly adorns a wo
man. but ruins a man
One Year Ago.
One year Pittsburgh was menaced
by an overwhelming rebel farce, which
had crossed the State b< rler, threaten
in}:; to reduce to ashes the cities of the
North. Our city, as a point of great
value to the government, by reason of its
manufactories, was particularly threaten
ed. At the call of danger, our citizens
prepared for defense, and an extensive
range of fortifications will long remain to
testify their zeal and labors. The state
of things then—the rebels aggressive,
confident, defiant; the Army of the Po
tomac outflanked, uncertain and underu
cloud—i 3so fresh in the recollection of
the reader that there is no necessity for
recalling it. It is only to institute tho
contrast between it and the present situa
tion. The rebels are nowhere now on the
aggressive, but everywhere on the defen
sive. They nowhere propose or under
take to advance, but are compelled to re
treat everywhere. They hold, neither
nominally nor really, one-half the territo
ry they then did; and what they do hold
is by a tenure so frail that it is liable to
be lost almost any day.
On the contrary, nearly the whole of
the great, reach of country from Pennsyl
vania to Georgia is now held by tho Union
forces. Through tho whole extent of the
great valley from Stanton to Atlanta, runs
a line of railway of vast importance to
the rebels. For the first time in the war,
this and all their principal lines of com
munication are threatened. Running
from tho interior of the circumference to
the center, these lines have hitherto been
secure from menace, and have constituted
the main reliance of the rebellion. To
day there is not a railroad running to or
from Richmond that is not cut. This
changes the whole aspect of the case. It
is the grand new fact in the situation.—
It is the fruit of the present campaigu ,
it is what Grant has been steadily aim
ing to.accomplish, and what l.ce has been
striving to prevent.
It is not solely in the territory wc liavo
wrested from the rebels, or in the advan
tages of the position we occupy, that wo
find the results of the year. We have
found a leader, whom not only our armies
but the nation has learned to trust, and
the rebels to fear. Our armies arc stron
ger now than they ever were, and the de
termination of tho North to put down the
rebellion is still strong. Tho rebels con
fessedly. have gone to tho extent of their
resources. They own that beaten now,
they will be beaten finally. Viewed from
whatever standpoint vu choose, the situ
ation to-day, compared with what is was
one year ago, is not only full of encour
agement, but in its very worst features
proof that tho North has
only to be faithful to itsell to win at an
early day a complete victory and a per
manent peace.— l'ilts. Com.
THE BUSINESS OF THK HOUR. —To
| keep tho army efficient and prevent the
families of the absent from suffering ought,
says the N. Y Post, to be the sole busi
ness of the whole country for the next
ninety days. Those who remain at home
and do business should give their surplus
earnings to the support of soldiers' faml
i lies. In the country every farmer should
see that some soldiers' wile children
j gets food from him; in the city no citizen
I should sleep till he has plcged himself to
I give a weekly sum directly to the family
|of an absent soldier. Many are already
I doing this, and have done it for many
months past. But it is now the duty of
| every man who remains at home; it is the
! only condition on which he can lionora
j blystay at home. Hread and.soldiers are
I what we need now —hut for a short space
|of time—in order to restore peace, The
! great time of trial has come, and if the
men who stay at home do their duty- tho
armies can be kept full without distress
to families, and the war can be ended
without delay.
THK OBLIGATIONS OF PATRIOTISM. —
There arc thousands who, though exempt
from military duty, are nevertheless un
der the obligations of patriotism to assist
in keeping up our armies. A large poi
tion of this class will, on examination, be
found abundantly able to place each a man
in the ranks. This they should do, in
addition to whatever else they may have
done, or may propose to do. W hat nobler
or more genuine evidence of 'patriotism
can there be, thafl the certificate that you
haved placed asoldier in the ranks in tho
hour of the country's great need. The
Government would do well to give n tico
that it will keep a roll of honor, whereon
any man uiay have his name inscribed on
proof that, being cxeni| t himself, he has
placed an accepted sold erin the ta-ks.
The record would bd an enduring honor
to the descendants of those whose names
it bore. There is on lack either of will
or moucy. All that is wanting is the ap
plication of the means to give it practical
directions. Shall wc not have a move
ment lice, having for its object the ac
knowledgment of the obligations of pat
riotism resting 011 all who, though not lia
ble to military duty, are ready, according
to their mean , to contribute to place meD
in the ranks?
WASHINGTON, June 28—4 P.M. —
Maj. Grit. Die —The following dispatch
has just been received from Gen. Hun
ter :
••I have the honor to report that our
expedition has been extremely success
ful in inflicting great injury upon the
enemy, and was victorious in every en
gagement. Running short of ammuni
tion. and finding it impossible to colleol
supplies while in the presence of an en->
euiy believed it to be superior to our force
in numbers and which was constantly re
ceiving reinforcements from Richmond!
and other points, I deemed it best to.
withdraw, and have succeeded in doing
so without serious loss, to this point where
we met with abundant supplies of food.
A detailed report of our operations will bo
forwarded immediately. Tho command
is in excellent heart and health, and will
be ready, after a few days' rest, for ser
vcce in any direction."
Nothing later than my telegram of
this morning has been received from Gen.
Grant or Gen. Sherman.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of war.
1)cg~ If you would find a great many
faults, bo on the lookout. If yon would
fiud them in still greater abundance, b»
on the look-in