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CARLISLAE, PA.
Friday, Aug. fi, 1863.
S. 111. PETTENGILoIs di , CO.,
NO. 37 Park Row, New York, and 6
State St. Boston, are our Agents for the Umtata
in those cities, and aro authorized to take Advertise
ments and 'Subscriptions for us at our lowest rates.
Call of the Union County Com
mittee.
The mornbers of the Union County Com
mittee will meet at the public house of JOHN
HANNON, in the Borough of Carlisle,
On Saturday. August Stb, 1863,
at 1 o'clock, P. M., for the purpose of setting
a day for Primary Elections, &c.
full attendance is earnestly requested,
as other important busingss may come be:,
fore the Cbmmittce.
THOMAS PAXTON, Chairman.
The following gentlemen compose the
Standing County Committee:
Carlisle, East Ward—John frutton, Jas. It
Smith.
Carlisle, West Ward—John Early, Thos
Paxton.
Lower Allen—Dr. E. B. Brandt, Dftn'l
Shelly.
Dickinson—John Morrison, • McLanthon
Wood.
East Pennsboro'—lT. D. Musser, A. B. Erb.
Prankford—J. W. Fair, M. D. Lackey.
Dampden—Jacob 4. Bashore Daniel Rupp.
Hopewell—Janes Quigley, Col Peter Lush
er.
Mechanicsburg—John Sadler, Robert Wil
son.
Middlesex—Thos. U. Chambers, John Co
ble.
Mifflin—Nathaniel BroWn —Hammer.
Monroe—J. K. Nisley, John Lutz, Sen.
New Cumberland—Owen James, V. Free
man,
Newville—Joseph Burst, Sam'l G. Wild.
Newton—George Gunkel, John Sharp.
Newburg—Hugh A Frazer, Jus• Green.
North Middleton—l'.llenderson, D. Kiefer.
South Middleton—Dan'l 11. W. Cauffman,
Jacob Muter.
Penn—Sum'l Ege, John T. Green.
Shippensburg—D. W. Thrush, John W.
McPherson.
Shippensburg,, Twp.—C. M. White, Isaac
Koontz.
Silver Spring—Martin Mumlna, W. Parker
Southampton—W. H. Allen , James A
Clark.
Pcnnsbor&
Laughlin.
Upper Allen—Jacob L,, Zook, Win. Med.
ling.
UNION CONVENTION
The Union State Convention to nominate
candidates tor Governor and Supreme Judge,
met at Pittsburg, on Wednesday last.—
ANDREW G. CURTIN, was re-nominated for
Governor on the first ballot. The vote stood
as follows : A. G. Curtin, 93, H. D. Moore
18, Penny 14, Mocrehead 1, Brewster 3.
Hon. DANIEL AGNEW, of Bever county, was
nominated by acclamation for Supreme
Judge. Hon. L. Todd, of this county was
President of the
.Convention. The proceed•
ings of the Convention will be published in
our next.
WASTE OF MEN BY THE REBELJACIN. —A pri•
vote of the 3d regiment (rebel) Louisiana Vol-
unteer Infantry, captured at Vicksburg, writes
to the Missouri Republican, in which ho says
that regiment numbered 1,185 men when or
ganized at New Orleans in May, 1861. :The
writer says that this regiment left Vicksburg
after its capture with less than one hundred
of the men who belonged to it when it was
organized.
Bata. Gen. QUINCY A. GILLMORE, who is in
command of our Forces operating against
-Charleston, -is -a-native. of. -011io,—and—was
pointed from that State to the Military >Aced°
my at West Point, from which he graduated
in 1849. He was First Lieutenant of En
gineers when the war broke out. Under his
command, Fort Pulaski, near Savannah, Ga.,
was captured, over a year ago. He was af•
torwards transferred to Kentucky, where he
whipped the rebels under Pegram-eeveral
times, capturing many prisoners, He was
taken out of Kentucky, when was assigned
to the command in South Carolina, relieving
Gen. HUNTER. He is evidently a live, go a
head officer. His name is QUINCY ADDISON
GILLMORE.
MAsolitc.—The tenth Annual Conclave of
the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar
of Pennsylvania was held at Greensburg,
June 9th and 10th, 1863, A. 0. 745. The
following officers were elected and install
ed: •
R. E. Sir Stanley Goodwin Harrisburg,
G. C.,; V. E. Sir Isaac Whittier, Pittsburg,
IL G. C. ; E. Sir Robert Pitcairn, Altoona,
G. G. ; E. Sir Wm. Chattana, Brownsville,
G. C. G. ; Rev. H. M, Johnston, Carlisle,
G. P. ; E. Sir S. E. Bilger Carbondale,
." W. ; E, Sir Jos. Godfrey Scranton,
G. J. W. ;E. Sir John Edwards, Harrisburg,
G. Tr• ; E. Sir Alfred Creigh, Washington,
G• Rec. ; E. Sir Gem E. Fox, Towanda,
St. Bearer; E. Sir Earnest Knapp, Phcenix,
ville, G. Seo B. ;E. Sir Z. P. Bierer, Greens-
burg, G. W.: E. Sir John Harder, Carlisle,
G. S.
We learn that the Sir Knights have made
the choice of Carlisle as their next place of
meeting on the second Tuesday of June 1864,
Royal and Select Masters:—The' seventeenth
annual assembly of the Grand Council of Roy
al and Select Masters of Pennsylvania was
held at Greensburg, Westmoreland county,
on the 9th and 10th days of June, A. D. 1863,
Ano. Dep, 2833. Seventeen Councils were
represented. The session was the most in
teresting ever held—as the Grand Master,
Creigh, introguced some important measures,
' whiCh wo hope will be published for the bene
fit of Cryptic Masons.
The following persons were elected Grand
Officers for the ensuing Masonic year:
M. P. Alfred Creigh, of Washington, G. M.
R. P. G. H. Turner, Saxton, D. G. M. ; R.
P. Ctias. P. Knapp, Bloomsburg, G. T. I. AL;
R. P. Thomas D Watson, Phila., G. P. C. of
IV.; R. P. Wm. Chattatia, Brownsville, G. C.
of G. ; R. P. 11. L. C Creoellius, Reading, G.
Treas ; EL P. T. W. Wright, Pittsburg, G.
Reo. ; R. P. J. C. Mann,
Altoona, G. Lecturer;
R. P. Rev. J. J. M'll yar Pittsburg; R. P.
Rev. J. Clark Ilaguey, Catawissa ; R. P. Rev.
R. W. Oliver, Altoona _ ; R. P. Rev. J. Dimm,
Bloomsburg, G. Chaplains; B. P. Eph. Corn
man, Carlisle, G. M. ; R. P; JOhn Harder,
Carlisle, 0. B.
M. P. Alfred Creigh consented' to serve as-
Grand Master, and acoordingiy has entered
upyear..on his tenth
-The eighteenth annual assembly of the
Gritml,Counnil will be held,in Carlisle, on the
second 'Wednesday of July. 1804. „
SEirWcalth is a. false diamopd at the top
of a greased pole, which all try to clinib and
secure.
--Pet or Ritner, John A
It is therefore ordered that for every sol
dier of the . United States killed in violation of
the laws of war a Rebel soldier shall be exe•
anted, and for every one enslaved by the eu•
emy, or sold into Slavery, a Rebel soldier
shall be placed at hard labor on the public
works, and continued at such labor until the
other shall be released, and receive treatment
duo to a prisoner of war.
We heartily and gratefully welcome this
long-delayed announcement of the policy of
the President. Acoompanied, as we doubt
not it is, by suitable instructions in reference
to the exchange of officers and soldiers; it will
be efficient to compel the revocation of Jeffer
son Davis's December proclamation, and to
put a stop to °Wield encouragement of the
savage - brutalities :heretofore inflicted on ne
gro prisoners. We take it for granted that
until the whole matter is definitely arranged,
there will - be'no exchanges. -While the Reb
el' persist in discrimination between °lanes
of prisoners, or while - they refuseto exchange
any officer or soldier who, Under the laws of
war, Is entitled to be exchanged; no Rebel
ought in any oircumatarices, or on any, pre.
tensei to be yaroled or delivered up ; by otir
Government. And this we now infer to be
the Bottled determination of-the President.-- I
So Bays the New York Tribune. , ' I
THE — GIckfAT - ±civ lIEFOP.EN
:On July 17 the firstfifeamer ,from St. Louis
arilved at New Orleans ; signaliiing_the re
lease of the Mississippi from a blookadolwhiat
beget:Almost before t he ear itself. 'theieri
earliest of the hostile ,-demtiostriiiionCaoseem
ponying secession on t the waif:to
plant a battery a Vioisburg, aOd to'bring tti
such of the river iteamers' , as odme from the
upper waters, or could. be regarded as the
property of the loyal people 'of the north.--
From that time forward the rebel strength
along the great river was certainly very great,
and the sternest, the most thorough and des•
perate.fighthag of the war has been,4required
to break the rebel power in that quarter.—
From the mouth of the Ohio down, and in
deed above it on the Missouri aide, one strong
hold after another has beep assailed and ta
ken by the glorious army and fleet of the
west, until the consummation, which was be
lieved to bo the most difficult of all in the
crushing of the rebellion, has been fully at
tained. The great Mississippi is open, and
regular steamers, regular mails, and ulti•
mately regular trade, will be the daily pulsa
tion on that great artery as heretofore.
It is said that the people of New Orleans
were enthusiastic over the event of the depar
ture of this steamer on a return trip to the
north, and they well may be. Bitter as the
treason of a majority, perhegs,,ef,..the-inhab
heats of that city was in the beginning, the
sifting processes, first of volunteering in, the
rebel service, and next of involuntary as well
as voluntary exit of the disloyal since our 00.
cupation of that city, have reduced the pop
ulation to a much larger proportion of patri
ots and men of sense. And all these rejoice
over the changing prospects of a city nearly
ruined, and see that it may again receive its
commerce, and become prospe . rous as it re
turns to loyalty. To a few the event must be
one of surpassing intemt 7 -1 return of liberty
they have long been denied, and a vindication
of principles for which they have suffered a'
martyrdom such as no man dreamed of in .
these latter days. A few true and always
faithful Union men remained through all the
terrors of the rebel rule in New Orleans, and
this is their day of glorious liberty.
But still more to' the great army of brave
men in the Mississippi is this opening of that
river a bright day in -the calender. Service
in the armies of the east has been had enough,
all will admit; full enough of hardships of
distance from supplies, and battles of severity.
But in the Mississippi valley the service of
the soldiers of the Union has been on a scale
of severity vastly beyond that of the east.
In labors of every sort, in risks and dangers
other than those of battle, in exposure to fe•
veers and distance from' hospitals and homes,
the soldiers of the Great Valley have had
great burdens to bear. At Ist,s.t, titese are great...
Iy relieved by the free use of the great river
from St. Louis to the Gulf. By steady and
unfailing valor in a hundred battles, this ar
my of heroes has won the greatest prize of the
war; and who will hesitate to award them
honor ? The army of the west has a right to
a special thanksgiving and holiday of rest to
signalize this great achievement. It might
with preperiety ask the assignment of not one
but three days of solemn commemoration of
this event—three days in which the sound of
saluting cannon should be simultaneous at
every fort, every city and every camp from
Cairo to the Gulf of Mexico.
A Richmond paper feebly declaims about
the power of the confederacy yet existing
along the Misisssippi, and asserts that its
banks are not yet abandoned. But where can
a single gun be planted on it to annoy our
steamers ? A few miserable guerillas may
fora few days fire rifle shots from the swamps,
pee ihly,, but_noching_like_serious. obstruction_
can be interposed to the freest navigation even
by unarmed boats. No town, bluff, or bank,
on which a battery can be planted, remains
in rebel possession on the .Mississippi itself,
and all its tributary streams are now open to
our fleet and fearless gunboats. Whatever
may be the hick of vigor to push into the
darkness in other pldbes, there seem to he no
ghosts capable of frightening our brave men
from threading the bayous and side rivers of
the deepest swamps Louisana and Mississippi
contain. We plunge after them in every case
without hesitation, and therefore always with
success It is absurd to claim that the rebels
can possess anything valuable to them, or in
jurious to us, within at least a hundred miles
of that river hereafter. The great river is
ours ; let the glorious army that has 'won it
be honored by a grateful nation.
Protection—Retaliation
The President announces that Rebels are
no longer to be permitted with Impunity to
enslave and murder the soldiers of the Re
public. In an official order, elsewhere print
ed, be recognizes the duty of the Government
to give protection to its citizens of whatever
class, color or condition; declares that the law
of nations, and the usages of war, as carried
on by civilized powers, permit no distinction
in the treatment of prisoners of war on ac
count of color, and denounces the sale of ne-
gro prisoners as a crime against the civiliza
tion of the age. He proclaims that the Gov
ernment of the United States will hencefor
ward give the same protection to all its sol
diers, and will retaliate'upon Rebel prisoners
in its possession for offences against the rights
of colored ,soldiers.
Ballots and Bullets.
~ • .
For the first time iti.the history of' tour na
,Von, there is a close, cooneCtion . between the
and !hi ballot. If:the pen is mightier
than the sword,the balloi, is suptitfor to both.
In'main do v4ifight battleCand win victories
if ottr trOphieil are:to be seized upon and soat:.
terod to .14 winds by partisan and:
. a vitiated public sentiment. ifedent events
in sister States shoiir , us the -importance of a
correct vote at the ensuing election, unles we
would ignore all the labors of the past and all
hope for the future. To this end, and in or
der that no false issues may arise to divide
public sentiment, it becomes necessary that
extraordinary care be taken in the. primary
erections about to be held, that suitable mon
be selected by the different nominatipg con
ventions. Upon these bodies depend, to a
great extent, whether the friends of the Union
shall be triumphant at the next election or
whether 'Pennsylvania shall be nursed with
men who hold that a State owes no allegiance .
to the General Government, and that it is "a
soleMn question whether Pennsylvania should
not cast her lot wilt] her brethern of the South
whose wrongs they feel" eo keenly. Let
good men be selected in every precinct
—men of intelligence— men who can discern
the signs of the times, and who deeply feel
the perils t hat would accrue from the succes
of the Copperheada in securing control of
municipal and State affairs. Conservative
men are scanning the field and hoping for the
nomination of Union men whose past record
will allow them to sink party for the sake of
the Union. Let our friends see to it that
judicious Union men get control of our nomi•
noting conventions.
The Press and the Dead heads
Railroads, steamboats and -stage.coaches
complain of dead-needing—that is to say, of
preachers, editors and brethren of the craft,
riding so much without pay. The newspa
• per press endures [Here of this dead head
than all three of these modes of conveyance
combined. The pulpit, the bar and the
thentre; corporations, legislative assemblies.
societies—religious, benevolent, agricultura
—mercantile establishments, railroad com
panies, stage lines and every variety of-indi
viduals, including politic it parties, draw
largely upon the liberality of the press. The
press is expected to yield to all these inter
ests, is requested to give strength to all weak
institutions and enterpris'es ; it is asked to
puff some preachers into overshadowing pul
pit orators ; to puff small politicians and un•
principled demagogues into great men and
patriots . ; to magnify incompetent railroad
officers into railroad kings; it is expected to
_herald abroad.the fame of-quacks of-all-class•
es, bolster up dull authors, immortalize weak
Congressional speeches ; it is required to give
sight to the blind, bread to the hungry, talents
to the fools, and honor to the thieves and rob
bers ; it is asked to cover up the infirmities
of the weak, to hide the faults of guilty men,
and wink at the fraudulentschemes of scoun
drels ; it is expected to flatter the vain, to ex
tol the merits of those who deserve nothing
but the scorn and contempt of all good citi
zens ; it is required, in a word, of the news
paper press, that it become all things to all
men ; and if it look for pay, or sends out its
bills for subscription or advertising, it is de
nounced as mean and sordid; and its con
ductors are wanting in.-liberality. There is
no interest on the face of this green earth
that is expected to give as much to society,
without ~pay or thanks, as the newspaper
press of the country. The little souled man,
ivit9Linsert&M._your..CiilUULLlSJl. LAY o dollar -
advertisement, expects you to write out at
least five dollars' worth of editorial notices.
And the obscure and niggardly man you
have written into a position of importance
far beyond his merits, considers that his name
adorns your columns, and gives circulation
to your journal.
`Adopted Citizens."
From Ilurper's Weekly, we take the follow-
AMERICAN CITIZENS —The meeting of "adapt •
ed citizens" a week or two since was unani•
mous in its expression of enthusiastic loyalty
to the Government. lint why •• adopted Dili
zeus ?" There are but two political classes
of persons in this country, those who are and
those who are not citizens. if the gentlemen
who express these loyal sentiments aro for
eigners, their hearty sympathy and interest
aro most grateful. But if they are American
citizens why not say so? Why endeavor to
emphasize the, fact of foreign birth? Why
create more Masses and divisions than actu
ally exist? Whoever is an American citizen
can have no higher title. And obviously all
judicious men will wish at this time to blend
as closely as possible to the great mass of
loyal citizens—and to avoid classifying them
by any Came of party or country. For all
loyal men there is now but one party, that of
the Government ; but one country, the United
States of America. When the flag floats au
prerne once more we may remember t .at were
horn in America or Germany, in Ireland or
France ; we may discover that we belong to
some political party that marches, with all
th.• other parties, b.•netuh that tl.g. But now
all our hands and hearts aro needed to hold
it aloft and establish it securely, While the
war lasts we are not Republican or Democrats
—we are not foreigners and natives—we are
only loyal American citizens, resolved to stand
by our Government and the Union, and to
support it always iu every way that it requires
our aid, knowing that when the Government
falls, we fall with it, and that, the end tf the
Union is the end of peace and prosperity in
every Stare in every country, and in every
town of the country.
It is these political distinctions which have
led to all the difficulties we have had to en
counter against foreigners. We do not moan
"edtmated foreigners," who become citizens
from conviction that our Government is supe
rior to that of their own. They throw aside
all tire allegiance they owed to monarch rule,
and became not merely " adopted citizens,"
but Citizens de facto. But we allude to that
class who so distinguished themselves in New
York daring thelato riots.. They may have
been "adopted ! citizens," but we think, as
they left their rountry for their country's
good, their coming here .and being-natural
ized under Detnoct•atio " suasion," their ad
vent has proved a ourso rather than a• bless
ing, such as Bishop' Buenos termed emigre-,
tio'n• in 1841. It would ho to :insult an edu-:
cated foreigner were we to place him among
these who tortured to death poor Unoffending
blacks, and who robbed and burned the prop
erty•of the people, but when it: has' been
prove'd that •two-thirds of those', engaged in
the bloody business were foreigners it• is his
duty Mi'prove his inneoence, and. convict the .
guilty. , • - •
THOSE LAZY NIGGEES
The indotisisteney in the , arguments of the
'advocates of:d3lavery may bo easily demon=
9trpt9d by Collating artioles in De Bozv'e-'.l4e.
, eie!o, and other - Southern journala • For'
Altman, if we want to prove that titq negro is
,ilO2 a:lazy,ahiftless animal, take the follow
ing
[Fr . om,Deßovee Review.]
" The peculium of Southern servants, even
on the plantation, is sometimes not trifling.
We make a few selections, showing—
TgiE nEGßpss' CROP
A friend haeieported to us a sale, on Tues
day, of a crop of — cotton belonging to Elijah
Cook, of Harris Co., Os.; amounting to $1421-
96,100.—Cotambus (Ga.) sun, Dec. 29, 1858.
Mr: J. S. Byington informs us that lie made
two cotton purchases lately. One was the
cotton orop 'of the negroes of Dr. Lucas, of
this vicinity, for which he paid $l,BOO in
cash, every dollar of which goes to the ne•
groes.—Monlyomcry (Ala.) Mail, Jan. 21,
1859.
Speaking of negroes' crops, the sales of
which our contemporaries are chronicling in
various amounts,—the largest has come to our
knowledge is one mule in Macon, for !lie ne
groes of Allen McWalker. It amounted to
$1969,65.—Mac0n ,( Utz.) Telegraph, Feb. 3,
1859."
All these crops are made by extra work, af
ter the regular task is finished.
Upon Louisiana sugar' plantations, the ex
hausting work of the grinding season can only
be tnaitAiiied by a system of premiums and
rewards equivalent to the payment of wages.
Under that system the negroes of the sugar
plantations are among the most healty and
contented in the South; while the same labor
performed in Cuba, under the most severe
compulsion, causes an annual decrease of the
slave populution, and the product of the island
is only maintained by fresh importations of
slaves from Africa.
Or if wo are prepared to admit that the
Southern negro is day and shiftless, and want
a good reason for it, the Rev. Mr. McTeyire
—the son of a large planter in South Carolina,
gives it to us, and it cannot be better stated
than in his words. " Men," ho says, •' who
own few slaves, and who share the labors o:
the field or workshop with them, are very ti
able to deceive themselves by a specious pro
cess of reasoning: they say, ' I carry row for
row with my negroes, and I put no more on
them than I take on myself.' But the master
who thus - reasons is forgetful or ignorant of
the great truth that the negroes' powers of
endurance are less than his, while in the case
of the lattter there are wanting those incen
tives which animate and agtoal y strengthen
the master. This labor is for him, the gains
of this excess of industry are to make him
rich. What is the servant bettered by the
additional bale of cotton extorted from ex
hausted nature, only that next year he shall
have more companions in the field, and the
War
put; but Itcv. Mr. McTeyii'o, of South Caro.
lina, must have been unaware of the foot that
it is not-possible for a white wan to work row
for row on cotton, or else we have an admis
sion which the Rev gentlemen would have
been slow to make, had he felt the full force
of it.
Thus do the friends of Slavery constantly
contradict themselves, and prove how impos
sible it is for the wilful advocates of a had
cause not to make admissions by which tLeir
whole argument is rendered worthless and ri
diculous,
The Emergency Ended
President Linen officially announced that
the extraordinary erect gency, abler which lie
called out one hundred thousand militia in the
States of Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Vir
giuia end Ohio, to serve for the term of six
months, is at an end, and that the order call
-ing out-this foreg istherefore revoked; - -These
men were designed to repel the southern in
vaders from our own soil, and not being in
tended to serve in any other field, the term is
ended. As the conscription law is now in full
operation in Pennsylvania, Sew York and
New England, all the men needed to carry on
the war are being obtained by its operation.
Doubtless thousands of the three and nix
months men, on ref uruiug to their homes,
will either bo drafted themselves for three
years or will go as substitutes for others.—
Their present disci' irge, therefore, will great
ly facilitate the operations of the conscription.
A Conviction Under the Treason
Act
On Wednesday last, in the Circuit Court of
the United States, sitting at Louisville. Ken
tucky, Thomas C. Shacktett, indicted for trey
son against the United States, was found
guilty, and sentenced by the lion. BLAND
BALLARD, presiding Judge, as follows
You were arrested at or near your borne
—not in arms—away from the lines of the
enemy, and have been brought before the
civil tribunals of your country to have your
guilt or innocence adjudged. You have been
found guilty, and the enormity of your of
fence would justify the infliction of the high
est punishment known to the laws In all
other countries the laws, it is believed, require
judgment of death to be pronounced against
all whd are found guilty of treason. But our
goo I Government. in the exercise of that
wi L gunni m ity which has always characterized
it, and in view of the different degrees of guilt
which the judgment of mankind 11003 and will
attach to those who incited and set on foot
this war, and those who were their instru
ments, hay vested in the courts a &sorption,
and authorized them to pronounce either judg
meat of death or impri-unment and tine In
the exercise of that discretion, anti under a
full sense of my respensibility to G o d a l ai toy
country, I have concluded to spare your life,
but the m , gnitade of your crime demands that
your plinislllllClit be severe. The judgement
which 1 approve, tied which the court now
makes, is, that you be imprisoned anti con
fined in the jest of Jefferson county, in the
State of Kentucky, for ten years from this
day ; that you make your tine to the United
States , by the payment to them of ten thous
and dollars, and that your slaves be free.
The Herb of Vicksburg
The initials of Gen. Grant have been for
some time a source of some trouble to his ad.
mirers and others.- On one occasion the fol
lowing dialogue occurred when epoaking of
him
- Who is , this Grant out West? Is ho a
retell"
No. His initials plaiuly show that ho bo
longs to US."
Another asked, "What do theinitials real
ly stand for?" •
"U•nited we'S•tand," answered one.
. "United States Grant," °Limed in a sec
ond.
No I.lu conditional Surrender Grant," as-,
serted a third, and that ended the contro
versy. .
HAVE Imo a good thing fur a cold among
us i' '.'Yes. Bryan's l'uluonnio wafers, 25 cents
a box, will cure a cold in four bdurs, stop a
cough in five 'minutes, and heal your sore
throat in'-a very short limo. Try them.=
Sold by S. Elliott.
.
.tt Fighting' Dem o crat on Vallandig=
ham and the Copperhead Tribe.
Cen.:John 4. Logan, a well known Illinois
'Pemocrat; connected with the'. army 'ef:l2leti
eral Grant, is home on a. sliort visit to his
friends:-. In passing through Cairo the people
gathered around him, and ho made a few im
promptu remarks, which we give-below.—
General Logan, it will be remembered, was
strongly opposed to coerdion. After the at
, tack upon Fort Sumter, and when there was
I a hope that the difficulties might be settled
by compromise, be went to Richmond to talk
to the leading politiciaris there on the sub
ject. Ire was told that if the Administration
would give them a sheet of white paper, and
allow them to make their own terms they
would not accept the offer short of a dissolu
tion of the Union. • Logan then made up his
mind that the Union could only be saved by
war ; he abandoned his anti-coercion ideas,
came home and girded on the sword. He has
since been serving his oountry in the army.—
This is the man who speaks ns follows:
" It makes no difference whether you call
me Democrat, Republican or Abolitionist—as
some have of late named me. It does not
change my feelings—does not alter my ac
tion. lam for my country every time—for
my country first, last and always; and I nm
lighting for the right of that country to he
numbered among the honored nations of the
earth. •Until that is brought about, and this
rebellion crushed out, I am but an American
citizen. When that right shall have been as
serted, then, should we find that, there is.
something wrong in the fabric, that our fath
ers reared, something we desire to change, it
will be time enough to cotne up and demand
the change. Now we have this Accursed re
bellion to root. out It, tuna be rooted out.
I am for using every means and ALL means for
putting it to an end. If .the people at the
North would use the same force Jeff Davis and
his"minions use—and were as unanimous ns
they are.—for in the South force of arms corn
pets every man to act as though lie sanctioned
the rebellion, whether he feels incline.' or not
—this our woith/ he sucees.full y tumult: tol in
less than Xl s .r 171,1101 R.
f , Every mother's son who iv opposed to the
war should he compelled either to take up
nis again-4 011 or for us Then there would
he no talk for ',mice It , re in the Yo-th, no talk
of re,istance, no such men as Fallawhyham
nn aurh cowards as those who stip! , Ur t al/ such
horn, n>ed s,, APS(' thiva.
Vallawii2hatn says ho has travelled over
the Cov;Werary—using (he let en "eonfeder
acy"--not the phrase .• so called Conp der
icy" (for I do not acknowledge the existence
of any authority or government in America
aside from that, of the Unite 1 Sta.es)—and
11(10 not met 111/10, woman or I timid who does
nut Sll,Oll/I the war, and who is not deter
mined to tight it out to the death or the bit
ter end. Vallandlyhain here simply Iles. Ile
tells what is not true, and he knows it Vol
landigham, aside from the leading men—Jeff
Davis, Toombs and Stephens—dill not, I ven
lure to say ,speak with a dozen persons while
taking his involuntary trip through Dixie.—
Ilad he done so, his' report would have been
of a different oolor.
The peoplautho_ara _fighting__ against-Allis_
Government—the poor whiles comprising the
rank and tile of the rebellion—nine•!emlis of
them do not know what they are fighting for;
do not know what they are fighting against.
A majority of them do not know anything,
and hundreds never saw the American flag iu
their lives until they saw it march into Vicks
burg in triumph. They do not know the
Fourth of July, or anything else that is good.
But poor and ignoraht as they are, let them
express their own free minds and they wil ,
a most to a man, demand a speedy termina
tion of this war—would submit to almost any.
thing rather than fight one day longer as they
have been fighting. 11 Is may by the force of
haynn - ets that Mei/. army is•Rept togeher. Even
that cannot proven; their deserters from
Hocking into Jackson by hundreds, to take ttir
oath 01 Jilleginnee or join the .Union ranks.—
And I tell you what 1 know when I say that
it will not be many days ere the entire States
of Mis.us.dppi awl Tennessee will he knocking,
loudly for re admission to a Union which not
long since they thought their puny efforts
could quickly dissolve. They are till/cloy of
it even now.
“Speaking of being united, I tell you, by
the Eterue — G - 0(1, -- there wits nevr - r a — mnre
truthful sentence than that of Douglas :
Tho.e who nee nut ?rah us are against us”
and I reiterated it and add that those who :ire
not with us should /t hung, or qtould l e with
Muir Southern brethren, fighting with (hem.
Let them either aid the Government or go
where th.iy can bol,ter up the tottering for
limes of reheldom. Better have a dozen foes
in the field titan one fighting us behind our
back 3.
To all copperheads, pence men, agitators,
anti war men—he they Republicans or Demo
crate—for we have them here pretending to he
both-1 have a Moral to say on the behalf of
our brave soldiers. And you have undoubted
ly been told that the war has its opposers io
the ranks of the Union army. It is an tie
cursed and foul a-persiou upon fair fame of
men who are willing to spill their blood, give
their lives fur their country. They are for
our Union. They tight for the people and
their country, for the suppressidn of the re•
Million. Let me say to all opposers of the
war The time will come when men composing
this army will conic to their homes. They
have watched the progress of events with in
terest. They have had their eyes upon these
unmitigated cowards, these opponents of the
country and the Administration—and the Ad
ministration, I contend, is the country)—and
when they return it will do the soul of every
true loyal man good to see the summary man
ner in which avy wit/ cause these sneaks' nun'
peace diptutur3 to sick their holes."
For a tew moments the crowd that had'
gathered around was deeply absorbed in what
their "lighting, general," as many called him,
said, and his remarks, though given upon
the spur of the moment, struck home to the
hearts cf all who listened Could Logan
make the leaders of our people feel ns he
speaks, th s war could not last three months.
It would be crushed out by force of numbers
alone. After expressing himself somewhat
warmly against copperheads and sneaks,
General Logan conducted with the following
characteristic apology:
"You will excuse me gentlemen; if, in say
ing what I have said, I have been rather pro
fuse and heavy in the way of emphasis. Two
years away from civilization, with my men,
hss made me rather. emphatic in all my
thoughts and words in regard to -certain
things. I speak emphatically because I em
phatically feel that which my tungub finds to
say."
New England and Kentucky
This is a . strange 'conjunction. But we
find the following passage in a recent letter
of Dr. Robert J. Breakiuridge, declining to
attend the meeting of the Alumni of Harvard
University, to which ho had received an•invi•
union, though the Bon. R. C. Winthrop
It may he the will of God that the meat
dreadful changes await our country. If the
very worst comes, I look that true and regu
lated liberty will perish lost., in New England.
'ln past, ; years I have sp'hken- freely in dis
epprebrition-of- much that hits felt an evil in
fluence froth New:Eugland,'as it-eirportreci.to
,rnO.' But I never doubted—had now lase than
ever- I -that the roots of whatever produces
freedom, equality, and high civilization, aro'
more deeply set in New England, than in any
equal population on the face of the earth,—
As for Kentucky, I wilt not trust myself to
speak. I heard Gen. Burnside say that he
considered theloyal people of Kentucky the
Most decided and disinterested, he had any.
Where seen: and that embrace:a two-thirds 'of
her entire population. ;16-is a people -held
by its Atnernies to be boastful: but they will
do," alwayti, more than they ever say they.will
do. , •.
Letter of the King of Siam to Ad-
miral Foote
HIS OPINION OF THE eLAVEHOLDERS' lIEDEL
LION AND SLAVERY
It is.well known that Admirable Foote was.
I,n the-habit of receiving letters from the sec
-.and King of Siam, with whom he became ac
quainted when in command of our fleet in the
King's waters. The letters are- autograph,
and evince much intelligence especially with
regard to our affairs. This is apparent in the
letter which we are able to present to day.—
Considering its date, we may be surprised at
the clear appreciation which it shows of the
relations of Slavery to the war. The King
does not hesitate to speak of the forces of the
enemy as "Rebel forces ;" and he "earnestly
wishes success to the United States Govern•
ment, and the complete suppression of the
reckless Rebellion." Then again, mark how
clearly ho sees the fatal consequences of a
failure to deal with Slavery. "If Slavery,"
Ile says, " remain unimpaired. you will be
exposed to all the perplexing difficulties of
the past." He then declares himself for "the
complete annihilation of Slavery."
It is interesting to read such generous
words of sympathy from a foreign sovereign.
No such wprds have come from England or
France; but then they are civilized.
This letter had been submitted by Admiral
Foote to the President and his Cabinet, all of
whom read it with much satisfaction; but he
hesitated to communicate it to the public.—
Only a few clays before leaving Washington,
on his way to his honorable c ,, mtnand nt
Charleston. he gave a copy of it to Senator
Sumner, with authority to use rt, as he should
think proper.. Now that the excellent Admi
ral has been ° renioved by death, it has seemed
that the letter ought to be generally known
on his account, as well as from its intrinsic
value, and the Senator has consented to its
publication.
PALACK OF THE SECOND KING.
IS }
ANGicoic. 6iarn, Alay 22, 1863
Commodore // /4,oef!, (Veer of the
film,ivs;plst Uuo~l Fled :
IN.aa Sin: I look with intense interest for
Atneriean intelligence. I see by the papers
that you are honored with an important anti
critical post. Recent intedigence, announces
your biilliant success• a on the Tennessee.
'Cumberland, and Mi-sissippi rivers, in the
Liking of Forts Henry, Donelson, and the
town oh Gotitiittni--1 he Si rong posit lens of the
rebel •oloes We earnestly wish success to
the United States Government, and the com
plete suppresdon of the reckless rebellion :
and of. the :Mine time I deeply regret that tiny
of the Southern States have placed themselves
in a position where the maintenance of the
United Slat es Government [oust be attended
with-such sad consequences to them. The al
ti rnale succes9es and disasters indicate that
the struggle must be a bloody, and we some
times fear a protracted one. We wish and we
expect your triumphant success: Yet we con
less that the intelligence received sometimes
Itg.gests the possibility that the United States
m,ty become two Republics. which to us is an
exeeedingly repulsive prospect.
Should the United States Government be
SllceessfuLin_t_he.present cuntest_and_ Slavery_
remain unimpaired, you will again he exposed
to all the perplexing difficulties of• the past.
The complete annilidatinncf Slavery alone
will put an end to the disturbing elements
which have fomented the present rupture,
rind which unchecked must initiate still more
fatal ones in the future.
I have learned with pain that you have re
ceived two wounds in your recent engage
ments; nod am thankful that they were so
slight as not to prevent you from vigorously
pro , eenting your all important work.
I think of you much while you are contend
ing with a stubborn foe, nod wish for you
and your glorious country such triumphs and
such successes as will briiig back every Silte
to its allegiance, and place the peace and
prosperity of the whole and unimpaired Union
upon a lasting basis. I wish, too, the uni
versal prevalence of the 1111111a:1P principles of
your celebraled D, , clarat ion rif Independence
rulasl freedom to 101 in the pursuits of life,
and happiness
For months past my health has been
but is now improving. My palace, too, has
been undergoing repairs, but is nearly corn.
plet ed. Ware when you can. Kind regards
to all the mombo's your family. ---
runni I rnly,
S. I'. I'AwAnENDuENNEsn.,
Second Kini of Siam, Nz.c , Lc
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ARMY OF THE POTOMAC
A Pr»-tion (4'olll Pwceg A'•rn.c.s the Happ,a
hanuork—,Stuart's Canitry mid to Flight
—A Brisk Fight, near Culrep,oer—Lec's
headquarters at Sterenshuig —A Skirm
is.4 Between 011 Fon.cs and lloscbu's Guer
illas.
11 EADQUARTERS :ANY OF POTOMAC,
A 11 , USI,
Gen. Beford'A ;cavalry, artillery, and a
tupporting, infantry force, 'crossed th,e,ii/ip
pallannnck at the railroad station yesterday,
and tht rice, with his cavalry and
ho proceeded towards Culpepper, driving
Stuart's cavalry forge before him.
Wiwi' near Culpepper Gen. Buford en
cow tered a large rebel force of infantry and
artillery and a fierce fight ensued, lasting
until dark, when he withdrew to a strong po
sition east of Brandy Station. The luss on
both sides was considerable.
This reconnoisance confirms the reported
concentration of Lee's forces near Culpep
per, and indicates that his present headquar
ters tire at Stevensburg, four miles southeast
of Culpepper.
Tne 29th s itler's wagons, captured near
F,airfax on Thursday night by Moseby and
Iris band, were recaptured, on Friday morn
ing near Aldic, by the 2d Massachusetts
cavalry.
A skirmish ensued between the guerillas
and our advance guard, but on the approach
of the maid body Mo•eby fled closely fol
lowed by the cavalry.
Several of the enemy are reported killed
and wounded, but no report has been re
•ceived of the result of the pursuit.
This morning a detachment of our caval
ry killed two and captured two
b others of
Moseby's band, near New Baltimore, and
were. engaged in ferreting out others.
The weather yesterday and to-day, has
been by tar the hottest of the season.
All is quiet to-night.
- • •-•-- ,
The Attack on Qharleston
THE LATEST REBEL ACCOnNTS
FORTRESS SlosnoE. Aug. 8 —Theßichrnond
Whig of August 1 has been received here. It
contains the follosving di-patches,:
"CHARLESTON, July Bl.—Cummings' Point,
was Severely bombarded yesterd !y. - morning,
commenced at ahotit 10.e'eloelt, The Iron
sides and two monitors were engaged.
The bombardment laeted until about,3 o'.
clock the afternoon, when the vessels with
drew.
"The batteries Gregg. Simpkins. Wagner
and Sumter responded to the enemy's,
Two men were killed and one woundodat bat
tery Gregg.
" The-battery was not materially injured.
• "There was nolling oh James Island' to
day, and very little frau Furt Wagner. '
"General Beauregard visited the the James
Island works today."
SECOND DISPATCH
",PgAItLESTOII. July 31 heavYboinbartl
meta was commenced at *daybi'eak on the
enemy's welts from Sumter. and Wagner con.,
tinning until 2 o'clock' when it ceased. • ,
,The .111Clinsond Whig Of the let also con .
tains the' following : ---•
t. WuLnort, - N. 0., July 2'J.—rho - latest. in
telligeucto l that the rebels were retreating
bulow Jackson, destroying the bridges as they
go."
, .
liaportant Oidei of the PreEddeni
of the United States.
'PROTECTION 10 'BE GIVEN TO ALL UNION
SOLDIERS.
Retaliation fOr Rebel Barbarities
WAH: DEPARTMENT, AIMUTANT GENERAL'S}
OFFICE WASHINGTON, July SI.
General Orders No. 252.
Tilt following order of the President is
published for - the infdrination and government
of all concerned :
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
• WASHINGTON, D. , July 30, 1863. f
It is the duty of every Government to give
protection to its citizens, of whatever class,
color or condition, tied especially to those who
are duly organized as soldiers in the public
service. The law of nations and the usages
and , customs of war, as carried on by civilized
powers, permit no distinction as to color in
the treatment of prisoner of war as public
enemies— to sell or enslave any captured per
-8011, on account of his color, and for no of
fense against the laws of war, is a relapse into
barbarism and a crime against the civilization
of the age.
The Government of the United Stales will
give the 511111 C protection to all its soldiers ;
and if the enemy shall sell or enslave any ono
because of his color, the offence shall be pun
ished by retaliation upon the enemy's prison
ers in our possession,
It is therefore ordered that for ever; 9°l.
dier of the United States killed in violation
of the laws of war, a rebel soldier shill beet_
ecuted ; and tor every one en davod by the
enemy or sold iato slavery, a rebel soldier shall
be placed at hard labor on the public works,
and continued at 'such labor until the other
shall he released :tat I receivet the treatment
duo to in prisoner of war.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By order of the Secretary of War :
• E. D. TowNsertn,
Assistant Adjutant General.
George Wilkes on the Mob
From the Spirit of the Times
I=l
It was the etrhorts and henchmen' of Fer
, nand° IVoOd, and the unprincipled orators
who adifre,seil the Southern conspirators and
spit.fs at the that let
, 100-fe the fiends of ti issaere and rapine on our
city, and furnished to the ferocious substra
tu u , which Mozart alw.,yti holds iii lea-h, the
thieVeti and intirdereis to stimulate and lead
it. This is the revelation of the hour, and
those who fail to see it have but a poor and
defective mental vi,ion It is due to the cun•
fling of Ferran to Wood, to recognize the Not,
that lie was the first politician to hit upon the
plan or silting the foreign element, and of or
ganizing the utterly VielUtl9 portion of it in a
se, arate cla- , s In his contest with the regu•
tar Democracy in 18157, he lied been worsted
and cast out, and it was then, probably, that
he was first visited with the idea..t at the ruf
fians of the city were, under the popular ex
amples afitirded by the city councils, sofri
(newly numerous to be entitled to an inde
pendent organization, of their own. And,
possibly, considering that he had peculiar
claims to their respect, ho set himself up for
theirdeader,-nod lairt - thelotrndarbiti 'lTiair
Ile was 80J11 surrounded by a formidable ele
ment, and aggregated under 'his -(!ontrol suf
ficient voles to enable him to destrify the plu
rality of the Democratic vote. Oq this stock
in trade, he h is been able for some years to
pursue the business of oividing the Democrat
ic party in the city, and selling back to it, at
the election, the Juirtioni which he stole for
certain considerations in the shlipe of cash
and place. This business proved very incra
live. and enabled him to mike large donations
to Catholic ins Cottons, and it is worthy of
remark, that. he 113 s always beaten even the
roust, popular Irishman, in bidding for the
political influence of that church. The last
proof we have, is in the speech of nu arch
bishop, who calls the Al.oz ,rt rioters together,
as lie assures them riot to scold them," and
neglects to uttereven the slightest reproach
for burning down an orphan asylum in direct
proximity' to one or his own. These things
are startling, when viewed in logical conjunc
non; and they reveal to us the meaning of
that lofty carriage and defiant la nguage ,
v.hich indirates,, in Fernando, the master of
the city. While pluming ourselves upon be
itrepthlicati community„ c have really
sunk under a humiliating despotism, turd Fer
nando Wood is as much a noble, over us poor
private men, arid are tire dukes of England,
or the Clown Vrinces of the 'thine.
suriett4lipiny lords who circulate as
satellites, and niAit -, ionally kick 119, in the in
terests of the goiter, are such of his depend-
ants as have recently been braining Children,
stabbing fallen soldiers, and who, having had
their laces temporarily washed, and clean
clothes pot upon them, were thrust in the
COM , IIOII council, to manage the tr otmry and
make our laws. We trace them unmistaka
bly is every act; and in none more clearly
has their origin been shown, than in the re
cent donation of two million and a_balf of our
money, as a tribute to the thieves' victorious
arms.
=I
This is the local phase and philosophy of
our recent troub:es ; but if wo look beyond
our boundaries, we shall find the mischief has
a heavier hacking nod a broader scope. We
shall feud, that while Fernando Wood has
been playing his part. here, in the intermtt of
Southern treason, such men to Seymour, Val
landigham, Cox. Pendleton and. Wall, have
been equally active in the same interest, iu
their re-pective districts; and consequently,
it is not to be wondered at to see them all
working harmuniodsly together, at every op
portunity and upon every incident, which of
fers to impair and subjugate the Government.
The rebellion embarked wirh two great
hopes. The first was a division of t h e North,
that would leave the South superior iu arms;
the second aas European intervention. For
I the first it depended on such men as we have
named, but they were awed for fir - Hide by the
popular fury at the fall of Sampler., When
iQurepean intervention failed, the South turned
again to it. first reliance, and commenced to
nurse Northmi ire ison for a lima trial.—
They hail been able to raise many millions in
gold for European purposes, and doubtless
they sent some millions here. The ••nigger"
was adopted as the watchword of the faction,
because they knew it . would most easily Ae
leyalize that foreign lab,,ring element which
dreaded competition ; and the always unwel
come draft was selected as the best signal for
the culminating overt ant. Uponithis focus,
therefore, all the Copperhead orators cNicen
troted their indaming eloquence; anti :they
did not hesittite, in 'Many Osos, toadvise the
people 1„0 openly resist the power of (pi) Gov
ot entente
110RATI SEYMOUR
The most insidious and-dangeroue of these
demagogues was Horatio Seymour,' the Gov
ernor of this State. With far interior talents
to:Fernando Wood, nod, in fact, less honor
in dealing&with associates, Seymour brought
a specious eloquence, and the 'character of a
professing Christian, to the support'of-the ca
bal.. Ho did not advocate a resistatice.to' the
draft. 'Oh, no; ho simply contented himself
with, denouncing the war, &man unlawful - one
on our part; and with throwing •ont n flank
ing,proieetion to the orators wll3 repudiated
the conscription, by demanding- an impunity
for their seditious. He did not justify the se
cession in the'South, in so many direct words;
but ho declraed there were no powers in tho
Constitution to coerce a state, and. insidious
ly endoreed . theAssetfoo of the Southern tree
'son, through the doctrine of 'plirtunotint'Stato
'sovereignty& • Ile mourned over `the War, he
'sighed utter peace, he insisted that the Union
-could not be restored , b7 : foece-offarms, !Ina
fOrMally declared, in hia last message. Ahat
no causes then- existed for 'ilisoortl with' the
South more than had always' existed. ' When
his friend, Thomas If : Seymour,' ran for the
Governorship - of Vonneetiont, on on avowed
retastanco to the -clFaft, ho addt•eseed .that
State, in association with Fernando and Val-