Clje otmotrat. HAHVEY'SICKI.ER, Editor. TUNKHANNOCK, PA. Wednesday, MAY 27, 1863. S. M. Petteiigiil & Co.—No. 37 PARK ROW NEW YORK, A 6 STATE SR. -Be STON. are our Agents for the N. B. Democrat, in th/.so cities, and are author ise! to take Advertisement' and Subscriptions for ua at our lowest Ratc3 **' We have waited.long und patiently for Rome manifestations of the transcendent tai enta as a political writer and statesman which the friends of Billy of the Republican claimed for him ; and which Billy has more than once hinted he possessed. His debut in our midst was more like the coming of a grand circus or menagerie, than like that of a broken down pedag >gue, who, having eve ry thing to gain, and nothing to risk by the change, resolved to try the uncertain fortunes of editor of a county newspaper. His com ing was announced by one grand flourish of trumpets. The tin horn of the boat upon which this wonderful prodigy came, not on ly made the shores of the 44 raging canawl' echo with their mellifHnous toots ; but the brass concern called an 44 organ" in the hands of his predecessors filled the hills and val leys with praises of this 4i high larnt scholar." The tin boat horn had hardly rested from its vibrations, before the wouderlul Billy, with pen in hand, through the columns of the aforesaid brass declares to his expectant readers that he 4£ can write." lie also tells them in the same article (his salu tatory) that he 4 ' has bick b>ne." Being a modest man, he did not come right out and elaitn that he could read and write too, but he doubtless concluded, that fmtn the fact that he ' 4 could write," it would be inferred that he could read al6o These may be a ve ry rare qualifications among the honest dutch farmer®, where Billy was reared ; or he may have imagined, that these wandering tribes of Connecticut settlers, on the upper w ters of the Suf quehanna, were strangers to these •legant accomplishments. Certain it is he expected to set them all agape with his dis distinguished powers as a' 4 writer and think er"— it will be recollected , he boasts, that he can 44 do his own thinking" too. What a wonderful man ! In speaking of his powerful " backbone," we hardly know whether it wis physical, moral, literary, or pecuniary backbone, which he claimed to pnsfess, in such abun dance ; but comtude from what we have •een of him, that H was the real old spinal Column, that he wished to establish posees aession of—in the.absence of a spine, people might attribute that drooping of the shoul ders to his lamprey eel structure, and not deem it a " literary stoop*" Ilence the import ance to him, of settling this question by a claim, to vertebrae. Ilis moral and patriot ic ''back bone had been so lately shattered by the draft; and his miserably, sneaking, lying, dishonest evasion of it, that of course be could lay no claim to that kind. lie ad mits, having suffeied great pecuniary loss, in ootning among us ; he is uot so very stiff, in this. As for his iutePpctual '* backbone" we must admit, we can't -*e it If he had laid claim to conceit and dtntry, enough for • half dozen back wood's ftedagogues, we should have cheerfully admitted his right to the assumption. Indeed after wailing and watching six long months for an out-cr ipping of some, thing wonderfui in this man, we hare failed to discover anything, that excites our won der, except the size length and color of hit* nose—That beets every thing! N wonder, his back bore is bent, with such a proboscis, •11 hanging on one side of it! -s- The midnight arrest, or rather kid napping, of a free American citizen in the person of C. L. Vallatidigham, has given a fresh impetus, to al! that class of miserable miscreants, who never had any regard for the constitution, the laws, the order ot civit soci ety, or the rights of private {arson or proper ty. Though thinking, reasonable men of all parties, and in all places, look upon such •cts as unwarrantable, uijustifiable, and il l®gal; tending in their consequences to pro duce anarchy, which is worse, even than ty ranny itself: yet there is a class, who gov erned in all tbeir feelings and actions by nar row minds and depraved hearts, feed with more than jackal! greediness upon such acts of lawlessless, violence and outrage, when ▼iaited upon persons who may differ with them in opinion. Of this class the astute editbr of the Republican seems to be a shin ing sample In his last issue, after announc tng the the sentencj in the Vailtndigbam ease he gives expression to his j>y the | down fell of human liberty by the exultant excla mation, 14 llowl on, ye copperheads !" This brainleas impostor, seeins to think that none hut Democrats, or as he terms them, 44 cop perheads," will feel the loss of the shield, the constitution and laws throw around the citlxen. He does not dresm, that with all these safeguards broken down, other persons than 44 copperheads" may be the victims The party now in power,—never s majority of the people ; and lest, in numbers to day than ever—have not a lease of perpetual pow er. If we to have a Despotic, in the place of a Democratic form of government. Abe Lincoln, wiH not always be our Nero, The man that invented the guilotinc was among the first to feel its relentless edge. Those who rule to-day had be'ter have a heed to the precedents which they establish, for those who may reign to-morrow; for evsn,among tyrants, • , ** " Tina at lift sets all thhSgs av*e. n xsr The 13 2nd Regiment, F. V. whose term of enlistment expired on the 15th inst. have not yet. returned. They are said tube at Harrisburg, awaiting the action of the au thorities there, to muster out, and pay them. Our Scranton neighbors, are makiDg arrange meut* to give them a reception which their services richly deserve. —4*a JEST The President has changed the sen tence of Valladigham from confinement in Ft. Warren, to banishment from Northen soil. Being a strong Union M*n the Rebels will probably refuse to recieve him, within their lines. Old .Abe has raised a Spirit, in this case that will not down at his bidding. Is This Treason t Mr. Vallandigham is now an exile from his country, driven hence by a faithless and despotic Administration. The alleged cause of his banishment is 44 treason The real cause is, because he had trie boldness and in dependence to denounce the arbitrary and unconstitutional measures of the reckless party now in power. The men who sanc tion this gross outrage upon the personal rights of the citizen, know well that the charge of disloyalty against Mr. Vallandig ham is utterly laise. They also know that hundreds of their own confederates have ut tered sentiments in direct opposition to a restoration of the Union as it was and the Constitution as it is. Tne Jacobin leaders have sneered at the Union, trampled upon the Constitution, and shouted for the free dom of the negro, even "in the midst of its rums." And yet they are permitted to go unpunished. The utmost license of speech and of the pen is accorded to them. Instead of being condemned, they are applauded ; and the 44 architects of ruin" are encouraged in their work of desolation, while men, whose only thoughts are in favor of the sacred com pact which our fathers made, are seized at midnight by a military squad, and, after an illegal trial, are either sent to a military prison or banished beyone th\> Union lines. The following are the closing portions of a speech delivered in the late Congress by Mr Vallandigham, which fairly state his posi- i tion before the country : " We seek no revolution, except through ' the ballot-box. The conflict to which we i challenge you is not of arm, but of argu-l ment. Do you believe in the virtue ane in- l telligence of the people? Do you admit) their cadacity for self government ? Have i they not intelligence enough to understand j the ri/ht, and virtue enough to pursue it ? Come, then, meet us through the press and with free speech, and before the assemblage of the people, and we will these ques tions as we and our fathers have done from the beginning of the Government, 4 Are we right or you right, we wrong or you wrong V \ And by the judgment of the people we will j one and all, abide. " I have spoken as though the Constitution survived, and was still the supreme law of the land. But if, indeed, there be constitu tion ao}* longer, limiting and restraining the men in p< wer, then there ts none binding on the States or the people. God forbid We have a constitution yet, and laws yet.— To them I rppeal. Give us our rights ; give us known and fixed laws; give us the jodl - ; arrest us only upon duo process of law ; give u presentment or unßictrnent by grand juries ; speedy and public trial; trial by jury, and at home ; tell us the nature and cause of the accusation ; confront us with witnesses ; allow us witnesses in our behalf, and the assistance of counsel for our defense; secure us in our persons, our homes, our papers and our effects ; leave us arms, not for resistance to law or against rightful authority, but to defpnd ourselves from out rage and violence ; give us free speech and a free prest j the right peaceably to assem ble ; and above .*ll, free and undisturbed elections and the ballot. Take our our 50ns, take our njoney, our property, take all else, and we will wait a little, till at the time and in the manner appointed by Constitution and law we shall eject you frotn the trusts you have abused, and the seats of power you have dishonored, and other and better turn shall reign inyuur stead. Is there any " treason" in these senti ments? Is there any opposition expressed in this extract to the Union, the Constitu tion, and the laws ? Let the people of Penn sylvania seriously ponder upon this question, and give their verdict at the polls on the second Tuesday of next October !— Age. We clip the following brace of articles from the t lea 1 field Republican for their pe culiar adaption to this region. Ezr We do not exactly understand the movements and the designs of the Loyal Leaguers, as some of their practices are cer tainly of a questionable character. In sever al sections ol our county, after the news of the defeat of our army under Gen. Burnside, at Fredericksburg, last December, these new light Unionists gave vent to their feePngs by tuusic, cheering? and general rejoicings ; am' the same programme was re-enac ed after our late defeat under 44 fighting Ji>e"—some of their leading spirits publicly boasting in our streeets that '• two great victories had just been achieved by the present Administra tion.'' An overwrought zeal in our ntv> Union con ver's, has no doubt led them to commit these acts of indiscretion. They should be cautious lest they be suspected of imitating the c'ar gymen of the late New York Conference, who gave 44 glory to God for our first de feat at Bull Run ! and for our second defeat at Bull Run !!," trsr There are a number of persona in this as well as other neigborhoods, who seem to take great delight in affirming that they are "loyal," and take especial pains to adver tise themselves prodigiously in this particu lar upon the street corners and elsewhere, and at the same time denounce their neigh bors as traitors, rebels, Ac. What would be thought of one of our lead ing busines men, if they would thus be heard constantly boasting of their honesty, and charging their neighbors with being dishon est, robbers, Ac.? Of of a female planting herself upon the street corners, and proclaim ing that htrstlf and a few othera were the only virtuous ladies (Ijinthe town? We silo*" the frwier to make the application. | INDIANA DEMOCATIC CONVENTION From T5,000 to 1000,000 Men Present | Determined Temper of the Convention i Interference by the Military—The ftessolutious* -Feeling Engen dered in the West, Etc., Etc., [From the New York World.) Indianapolis, May 21. The convention has come and gone, and whether its results be of any benefit to the people of Indiana or not the future alone can tell. Prophetical conjecture upon this point i would partake too much of the Seward style and hence I write simply of what I saw. Various estimates are placed upon the tnag j nitude of ihe crowd. Some say fifty, some i seventy-five, and some a hundred thousand i men were present. The Indianopolis Jour , nal ( an intensely abolition sheet) admits "it ; was a large meeting and having myself seen ! all the*' large meetings" in Indianapolis for ; the last five vears, 1 am prepared to say it 1 was, if not the largest , at least as large gs any ever assembled in that place. If I were ! to attempt an estimation, I could only do 60 I by land measure. Some queer sights were witnessed by out people on* this day. They saw among other things a practical illustration of the manner of military rule. Soldiers in full uniform and with loaded muskets mixed through the crowd ; artillery was drawn up in various parts of: he city, while four companies of the' Sevonty-first regiment were stationed in the Governor's circle to be held in readiness for any emergency ; mounted cavalrymen were stationed at convenient distance around the State House campus; pnbhc streets were closed by armed sentties, and loaded cannon were placed in positu.ll to command the si>oakerfi' stand. And all this was done, we are told by the Journal' "to protect the meeting " To r tect them from what 1 j Let every man ponder well over the answer ! hi* own mind suggests. The loose soldiers (I mean those among I the crowd) did all in their power, sided by ! the city rowd'es, to create a disturbance. Not ! the tenth part of the people could hear from , one stand, and outside ones were erected; but ' speaking from these prevented by armed men. I will let the Journal aforesaid tell ! how it was done at one. It says :" He was interrupted by cries of : Come down !' ' Come down !'' Come down, Butternut!' Some of the Butternu's asked those who were vocif erating why the speaker ought to 'come down ?' ' lb-cause he compares our govern ment to Jeff Davi's;' was Ihe answer. The ' excitement increased and the speaker stopped. , Some soldiers in the crowd went for him.' j lie made no more attempts to speak further, i but quietly said he had no desire to raise a I fuss, and stepped from the stand amid loud ■ applause and cheers for the Union. No more ! speeches were made from that stand." The crowd, feeling that in " union there • is strength," pressed around the main stand, ; and the dense mass was a wall too strong to j be broken through by the men who attempt-1 ed it. Repeated attempts failed, and the meeting was adjourned, so far as the Deinue- j racy were concerned, in good order. The j Journal's report of the speaker who " quietly said he lu<l no desire to raise a fuss" tells the story as to all. No.Deinocrat courted dis turbance ; but there was that quiet and sul len look which showed a determination, when it was onco forced upon them, to make their birthright to freedom. The speeches were of most positive charac ter. Merrick and Elen, of Illinois, and Voor hees and Hendricks, of Indiana, were the principal ones present. Pendleton, of Ohio, was called home in the morning by telegraph in the Vallandigham case. All the %cur poli cy of the administration was unmercifully criticised, and the issue fully made up be ureen the Democracy and the tyrants. One or must give tray. fiefft-utioug Adopted. Whereas, It was declared by our fathers that to secure certain unalienable rights: among which are " life, liberty, and the , nur ' suit of happiness," ''governments are instil tuted among inen, deriving their just pow ers froui the consent of the governed and Whereas, In obedience to this principle iu the Constitution of the United States, " to establish justice and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity," they divided the powers of the government into three departments, legislative, executive, and judicial, and declared that all legislative pow er therein granted should be vested in a Con gress ot the United States : and Whereas, Legislation is *' law-making" power, and law is a rule of action by which men shall be governed ; and Whereas, The people of Indiana in their constitution reaffirmed such division of gov ernmental power, and "to the end that jus tice be established, public order maintained, and liberty perpetuated," they declare that "all power is inherent in the people," and " the military shall be kept in 6trict subor ation to the civil power;" and Whereas, The Constitution of the United States provides that " Congress shall make no law * * * abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the governmeut for a redress of grievances j" and, Whereas, in accordance with this declared right and long established usage, wp have this day assembled respectively and earnestly as becomes freemen, to present our views to, those in authority ; therefore, I Resolve, That the people are the source of all political power; that officers provided by the fundamental and statute law are their servants to carry out their will as expressed in those laws ; and that when any one of said servants assumes to act with out tlie|previouß sanction of such authority, he ceases to he the servant of the people and is striving to become their master, making his mere be hest a law unto them. 2 That it is the duty of every good citizen to obey the Constitution of the United States and of this state, and laws passed in accor- dance therewith while they remain in force ; but it is their right—not a mere p r ivilege, but a iCight, to temperately, candidly, and freely discuss, n<>t only the laws, but the acts of those of their servants who may have pas ed, or may be in the administration of, thoae laws. 3 This is the necessary result of the fact the people are the source of all power. They must freely discuss, that they may properly determine whether a law is a bad one and ought to be changed, or whether it is right but wrested from its meaning and wrongfully administered by those in authority, abd therefore such unfaithful servants should be legally set^side. 4. Whileconstitutional guarantees—among others the right of free discussion ; of appeal to the courts, as against unconstitutional laws and illegal acts of resort to the legislative power io abrogate bad laws ; of removal of or obnnx<>us officials through an untram eled, uncorupted ballot box, remain inviolate, it is the duty of ihe citizens to aid those who who are rightfully in authority in all lawful procedeifigs ; but, if these rights are set at naught by their official servants, the people may assert their inherent sovereignty, and resume the powers thus being abused. 5. To uphold these great and inalienable principles of liberty one general rule should govern those who ftaine laws, those who are intrusted with their administration, and the great body of the people; being those upon whom they operate, namely, the golden rule of right . 6. The violation of this rule, bj disobedi ance to properly enacted laws should be punished ; its disregard by the flagrant as sumption of unauthorised power and perfor mance of unjustifiable the servants of the people should meet, with s'ern rebuke, 7. In view of these great truths, we here by proclaon our fixed and irrevocab'e condemnation of every attempt to make laws by executive authoriy alone; or by mere or ders of those representing tiie military; the subordinate arm of thegovirnment. And we indignantly denounce the result of such fla grant uM]t|a(K>ns as the act military tyranny to wit: arrest of citizens of Indiana and our, sißter states that are in obedience to the Con stituiion. 8. That the day has arrived when our official servants are setting thinselves up above their employers the people, ami have two wars up ou tl.eir hands one against the rebels of the South—the other against the Constitution, and those who attempt to uphold it in the North. In the first named, the Democracy have poured out their blood and treasure at the call of the adminstration ; in the second they are being persecuted by illegal arrests and imprisotnent for opinion's sake, even "un to strange citiV and loathsome bastiles. 9. Martial law is no law but the will of the military officer proclaiming it, within the limits in which he ha? a sufficient force to maintain absolute power. In a state or district counirj' where the public enemy has no foot ing, the people are not in rebellion, nor an armed insurrection prevailng, there is no legal authority in any military officer, high or low, to substitute his will for the civil laws and the operations of the three co-ordi.iate departments of the government. 10. That the attempt to suspend civil rights—among them the right to make in quiry as to the cause of arrests and im prisonments, by the writ of habeas corpus —in territory loyal to the government, is such an act of usurpation as demands and receive our nieiited condemnation. 11. That the Democraic party of Indiana are now, and they ivr luve been, attached to the Constitution and the Union, ami are will tng t" make allmost any sacrifice to maintain the former and to preserve the latter. We hold that there can be no trca-on in submiss ion to the Constitution and laws made pursu a nt tl creunto until they are constitutionally repealed or judicially declared void ; and a people who do this can not or dare not mam • iin and eXtrcise the right of ndvocating the repeal t,. f bad ' avrs an * lhe c ''ge * l ,o ' ,c y which they to be wrong, are slaves, and if the idea of treas h' 1 and slavery is rigin we ar resolved either to be tratiV ß or slaTg*- We will svbinit to every law passed pursuant to the Constitution as long as all constitution al means of redress are left open to our free exercise, includiug free ballots, free speech, free press, and an uutraiuineled judiciary ; and we pronounce cvety effi-rt to take away from the people these moans of redress, by mil itary orders and arrest,or otherwfr>e r a flag rant outrage aga ist the rights of of a free people. 12. We denounce the members of the Leg islature, who, bv the abandonment of their seals and failure to discharge the plain duty iin posed upon ihem,were guilty of a violation of their oaths, and we fear will bring discredit upon the state ; and we declare that the gov ernor can clear himself from cmiplicity in that crime only by taking steps to prevent repu liation. 13. That the arrest of Hon. Clement L- Vallandighatn, of Ohio, for no other reason but for the exercise ol" his right of free dis cussion, has been received by the Detnoracy -of Indiana with feelings of just disapprobation, as another evidence that the first and most sacred right of the citizens has bean stricken down in bis person, and we send to that gallant tribune of the people the sympathy of his Democratic friends in Indiana; who, though assailed at houie by kindred t ppression, are yet prepar ed to stand firm by him in his defense of the sacred rights of constitutional freedom. 14. That we hereby reaffirm and indose the resolutions adopted by the Democratic- State Convention which assembled in this clt y the 30th day of July, 1862. J£s£*our Exchanges for the past few days give. detached accounts of a desperate fight f<>r the possession of Yicksburg. Our array is represented as having gained sueli decided advantages as render the taking probable. LETTER FROM THE 111 st P. M, LITTLE WASHINGTON, N. 0. ) il*y 13th., 1863. $ MR. EDITOR J Dr. Sir—As there is ot pres ent no vory stirring news frotn this (Gen- Fosters) Division, I willjpivc jma few lines upon what we hsve passed through, ahd seen In this region, around New hern and for sixty ni.les back during the past few days. The face of the country is comparatively level ; about one third if it is cleared and under a good state of cultivation. The balance is covered wit.i yellow pine timber, which ap pears, on the outside Jike uur ; but on the inside is full of pitch, being kept for what it affords of this valuable commodity. In ordinary times the inhabitants valued a com mon tree at §4O ; but in these times, with the advanced price of pitch, tar, turpentine, and rosin, a good tree is worth as much to them as a nigger, great profits are derived from the trees while by little is expected from the niggers. Care mart have been ta ken at a.I times to keep the fire out of the woods here, as a match torched in some pla ces, would set thousMids of acres on fire,at almost any season of the year. The trees are often barked up as high as twenty feel, all that they do to set the pitch running, i to cut a new place each }ear. The woods are cleared of shrubs and old timber and have a thick growth of pra.rie grass, ex cept in the swamps, where there is another kind of timber. When set on fire they make a terrific scene. They have not 1 *en burnt where the rebel army has been hut our army makes everything eufler in its Course, woods, fences, cattle, fowls, and ev ery thing else is taken and destroyed with out hesitation. Tim citizns h tvj no fears of the tebel army, but" ours is a great eye sore to thetn. All the farms ii-re, produce the usual quantities of ca tie, sheep, g"a's, hogs, crn, sweet potatoes, and fowls, ani eggs, in great abundance. On tl i Ist. of April, Spinola's Brigade, wtih four Latteries, were ordered to attack a rebel fort, at Swift creek, 35 miles Nort.t ofNewbern—it being the route that Petti grew came with 7,000 men to attack New bern on the 14<h Marco last. We arrived within two miles of our destinations, —plant- ed our batteries, mounting twenty guns, and opened fire at 11 o'clock, A M., which was kept up till 9. P. M. when we were ordsr ed to retreat in "double quick" which we did all right. 300 pioneers blocked tho road in our rear, by falling trees, to prevent pur suit. Upon inqu ry as to the eau s e of our re pulse, it was found that we had shot away all our ammunition. Our casualties were killed, one captain of a battery and lour wounded by the bursting of a shell, which was a merely accidental shot, as we were not in range of their guns. We returned, faint and weary. What was worse, wo were kept drawn up in line of battle all day, expecting an attack and bloody battle. Gen Fo t<-r ordered a second attack the nex week. On arriving there we found the rebs had vacated the Fort, about the time we ran away fnm it. The citizens sai l they could have all been ttken pr soners, with a I>ttlo courage and sk.ll, as t'ljro were but 50J of them, to 4 GoO of us. On Tin., .April, Foster was at this place (Litile Washington) with 2 o<X> men Well fortified, surround* Iby 8,0 )J It.-os. An at tempt was made to reinforce him. by wa ter with 8,000 and by land with 4,000 troops Both forces were repulsed, with eouie lots. For four days we were tu Iran-ports eight mile below Little Washington with eight gun boats a mile above us, shelling the rtbcl bat. teries. In this case, as in the other we were out of range. We tired about 2.0C0 shot and shell, the rebs probably not over 20 guns, their shot falling short half a mile or more. Gen. Foster, getting out of patience, sent a dispatch to us with fifteen men in a small boat n-it a commissioned officer am >ng litem. (langer a to great for them —had to run with in GO rods of two batteries) Foster's 11 < patch asked for ammunition and ordered one txiit to rnn the batteries. The I ttle boat with its brave crew, took the ammunition to him but three of them were killed and four wounded on the return passage. I say one of these poor fallows, w. l :° W!s shot in the side, the L'M lodging in the breate his last yesterday after thir'y-thi'-e d ry* of in r? QBe pain and suffering. Our steamer (theColjer) with 2.000 troops on board, attempted to run the batteries. When within milt sof the l>t battery a ball passed through the stack pipe and one near the stern—we about faced —1 think we would have sunk, before getting through. On the next morning Foster came down on tho steamer Escort which was all riddled in pieces. The machinery however was not much injured—Two of the cre .v were killed. We all returned to Newbern aud started a land force • f 40.000. The rehs smelt game and left these pirts. brigade uiorod to this this place on the 23rd April where we will re main our time out. It is bccim ing unhealthy, there have been several deaths in our Reet., tn the last two weeks—uvre than in all the time before up to the Ist of May. Measles, and fevers, being the prevailing diseases. On may lt a large splendid steamer—the Long Island took tire on her was here from Fewhern with commissary stores &0., for this brigade *lt was not discovered until af ter she had heen landed for 15 minutes. All was lost. The boat was scuttled to prevent a terrible explosion by the shell and powder. Respectfully Your*, N.W- FRENCH. THE DAII.Y NEWS REVIVEN.—THE New York D lily News comes out again in its ac customed lively and apreah'e form, and prom, tsea fair to be a valuable combatant on the side of Democratic principles. Without w : shing to disparago qther papers laboring in the satne noble cause, we venture to predict that the flew will become ft favorite with the public. The Pemocratio party is strong enough and liberal enough to allow of differ ent similes of opinion ; while all fraotiuna of it, by whatever name they may be designa ted, including the conservatives and old line Whigs, aro ready to unite on a platform which sha'l be large enough to hold them all, and lead them united to victory at the ballot bo*— Philadelphia Age, A Startling Disclosure. The Srrscue(Xew York ) Courier publish*# the following, furnished to it by the gentle* man to whom it was addressed. Although a Republican in his politics he was not base enough to sanction the infamous scheme rec ommended to destroy the liberties of the country, and consequently has made the ex posure. Let our Democratic friends look out and be prepared : " UTICA, April 9, 1863. * * ♦ "My object in addressing yo on this occasion is to learn if there can b'e.organ ized in your town a Loyal League Rendezvous. You are perhaps aware that our Loyal Leagues of this State are to hold a State convention at this place on the 27th rnst. lam inform ed that yotir League is in process of formation. I dare say you know there are two Leagues —one public and another secret—the former civic and the latter military in its plans ; aad fr.,m what I am told of your peculiar abilities, I esjiecialy wish you to take part in the latter- It is essentially necessary that this orgaiza. tion should be speedily effected. Th increaseing boldness and numbers of the Cop perheads in this State are such that tnoy must be pnt down before the next Prirdent-' ial cfeciioD, or they way out vote us at the polls. Their clamor about free speech, arbi traty arrests and the Constitution is mislead ing the people. We must not be too carefuL or timid about the measure necessary to keop them under. It may bu. that the military forces of our inner Loyal Leagues , in voope. ration with the General Government, may be effectively used against them in certain local ities. * * * "Don't invite any squeamish Republicans—none but the moat radical.— I shall then CMiiiinuuicate to you tho signs, mystic gripes and other workings of our or dei. Let iwe hear from you. Yours truly, E. L. ROBERTS." Let the people remember these Leagues ars formed and let them regard the leaders as conspirators against civil liberty and the so cial rights of the people. When men pro pose the destruction "f a neighbors property or ihe taking of his life to prevent him from going to the poles, they become too abandon ed for argument, and the people tnuat fal. back upon the great law of self-preservation and self-defence. Another Outrage on Free Hpcech. Th® accounts we giro from our correspond ents and the western journals of the scenes attending the late meeting of the Indianapo lis nil] he read with emotions of profound alarm and indignation by all fair molded Re publicans as well as Democrats. The mali cious proceedings of Hasc;tl\ the military sa trap in that district, were clearly intended to provoke a collision with a peaceful assem blage so as to give him an excuse for some n<-w out race, but 1m intent wa3 happily thwarted by the forbearance of the IVlßO crats in attendance. Htscall planted cannon in the street an 1 placed soldier* in the hall to overawe the delegate* ; he close 1 the liquor shops to citizens but left them open to of drunken soldier*, who was permitted to go about grossly insulting unoffending people so as to create if possible a general row With rare self-control the Democrats in at tendance 'ore the insults without resenting them on the spot. Foiled in this attempt, Ilascall next resorted to the ingenious plan of stopping the railroad trains as tin assem blage was dispersing and robbing the passen gers of their pistols. Even this outrage failed to bring shout the general ecene *>f of masacre he had evidently been ins'rueted to inaugurate. It seems a'most certain, from the course the military authorities are pursuing in the West, that it is their deliberate intention to provoke an outbreakj so as to give the Presi dent an (xcuse for declaring martial law and setting a*ide the civil power in all the ntates of the N-.rh. That theory alone will ae c oint fr outrage* such as those perpetrated by Btirnside and Ilascnll.— World. THE CASE OF V A EL. A DIG 11 AM. Hia Release Demanded by the Citizens #f Ohio. ARRIVAL OF TUF. PRISONER AT LOU ISVILLE. CINCINNATI, May 23. The following petition is circulating ih and other part* of the State of Ohio:— (l Ibe undersigned, citizens u* t [ i,. count?, ieepec'f"lly represent that 05 V sacred right of the citizens, as gu>c*- , ® - the Constitution ofVur fathers, been vi olau-d iu the arbitrary arrest, iile?*! and inhuman imprisonment of Hon inent L. Vallandighain. M We therefor® demand of the President of the Uaited States his immediate and W conditional release." CINCINNATI, May 2-K Valiandigbatu arrived at Louisville yester day morning. The boat arrived too late for the Nashville train, and anchored in t^s stream ail day. The Draft. The Secretary of war has issued order' stating that under the enrollment act, draft ed men will be actually in the L T . S. service aa soldiers from the fact of being drafted.— It ia therefore ordered they be put in uni form, and provided with knapsacks, can* teens, tin cups, spoons. as soon as the)' report to the district Provost Marshals.— The Quartermaster General will fill the re quisitions of the Provost Marshal General for clothing, fot this purpose, to be de livered at such points as the latter my des ignate. It is said that th© draft will take pl rt about the first of July and that the thirteenth section of the conscription law has received an interpretation, that the acceptance 0 three hundred dollars from drafted men, lieu of service, will not IK? allowed' tCr< , >( j ry Stanton ia understood to have dec' rhatt he section was permissive* * n< ' t5 mandatoay ; that it is optional with D' receive the money or reject it; til3v will be rejected.
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