when any State should adopt the amend
ments of the Constitution as to civil rights,
basis of representation, ineligibility to of
fice, and the public debt, and should modify
their State laws to suit these new condi
tions, their members, after taking the odi
ous t< st oath, might be admitted. This bill,
however, was killed, 101 to 35. Thus, no
condition? for the admission ofStates ir. the
form of a bill, not even the atrocious ones
proposed, were adopted. (3.981,) So
that after eight months of patient incuba
tion the only egg laid, over which there
ha-| >eon s >]much cackling, is this Tennes
see fiasca The whole question remains as
open as it was in December, 1865, when
Mr. Speaker saw all the stars, only a little
paler by rebellion, growing brighter,
and the chaplains thanked God for the ac
ceptable year of a thoroughly reuovated
Republic!
CONCLUSION.
Thus, in conclusion, 1 turned to the
overmastering problem for the people to
solve. Shall Congress lead these eleven
States through the indefinite future captives
to make an abolition holiday; or shall an
other Congress, aiding the President, en
large them in, the liberty independent
and self reliant stateshood?
The historian of Rome draws something
from his imagination when he pictures the
proud Queen of Palmyra, Zenobia, array
ed in purple, yet loaded with golden chains
to aggrandize the" ; procession in honor of the
conqueror of Asia, It needs no imagina
tion to picture the fate of eleven States,
not of foreign origin, but of one blood, lan
guage, history and religion, followiug with
downcast eye the triumphant chariot of
congressional power! States whose area
is over 725,000 square miles; larger than
England, France, Spain, Portugal and all
Germany ; having a population of 10,000,
000; whose annual product from a little
pod i greater than the wealth in which
the Roman bore in his stately galleys to
Rome from the golden and jewelled Orient!
[Cheers.] Virginia, too proud, perhaps,
but with such a grandeur of great na.nes on
herrols; the Carolinas, weary of their
waywardness, but still the home of the
Pinckneys, who gave the Constitution to
America, and of those who at Mecklen
burg anticipated the Declaration which at
Kings Mountain consummated our Inde
pendence; Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi, whose feet are kissed by the
waters of a thousand rivers, which, rolling
through the valley of the Mississippi, gath
er their volumes of wealth from Minnesota
to Louisiana; these are the subject States
led in fetters at the car of this Impeiial
Congress. (Cheers.) Such exhibitions dis
honored the greatness of even Pagan Rome;
they would not be tolerated by ambitions
France, which takes Venetia as a gift from
the Kaiser only to set in a jewel in the crown
of a united Italy. (Cheers.) It might
find its counterpart in the great land ani
mal of the North—Russia—in whose em
brace prostrate Poland groans. Forget
ting her own grasp ot Ireland, England as
sumes to be horrified at the spectacle. Ev
en in Turkey, the policy of strangling bro
thers by the sultan no longer makes the
traveler shudder as he crosses the Bospho
rus. But for this Christian land of Amer
ica, the people do not ask such a mockery
of triumph and such a degradation of pow
er. (Cheers.) They will write the epitaph
of the Congress which proposes it in letters
of fire; "Here lies the fragment of the
thirty-ninth American Congress, which,
starting with a furtive conspiracy against
the 1 President, with opportunitiesjnever
before vouchsafed for blessing,it postponed
the Union; and putting the nation in peril
of another civil war, it died under the just
indignation of an aroused people, and is
damned to an immortality of infamy
[Cheers.]
Col. Davis and Gen, Geary.
Col. Davis, the Democratic nominee for
Auditor General last fall, and a member of
the late Soldieis' Convention at Harrisburg
thus expressed himself, through the Doyles
town Democrat , in reference to the Disun
ion candidate for Governor. He says :
We have never yet written a line in crit
icism or derogation of the military career
of General Geary, the Disunion candidate
for Governor of this State. We have
known hiui for years, and our personal re
lations have ever been of the most pleasant
kind. We served together in the Mexi
can war, and were both officers in the late
war, which were additional reasons why we
never assailed his military record. We
have opposed his election solely on the
ground of want of capacity as a statesman,
and because ot the radical disunion platform
on which he stands. It appears, however,
that he has i.o regard for the military rep
utation of gentlemen who differ from him
in politics, whom he assails, regardless of
truth or common decency. At a speech
which he made at York,on the 9thinstant,
in speaking of the late Soldier's Convention
at Harrisburg, he made use of the follow
ing paragraph :
"When I look around this assemblage,
and feel that arouud me are fellow soldiers
who have home arms with me from the
first battle on Bull Run, not one or two of
them from a regiment as was the case a few
days ago at Harris urg —shysters and cow
ards, skulkers and hospital bummers. 1
know such is the fact, for I have driven
them trom the army myself."
\\ hen Gen. Geary mads use of the above
expression he knew that he was telling a
LIE, but this knowledge did not restrain
hiru from committing an act that disgraces
hiui in the eyes of ail honorable men,—
Such a known and wilful falsehood will
lender him INFAMOUS. The cloak of
charity, that has covered Lim in the past,
will no longer shieli him from the merited
castigatioii Lis short-comings in military
and civil life invito. For ourself, and the
thirteen other delegates who attended the
Convention from this county,we pronounce
the charge ot General Geary to be false in
every particular, and that in making it he
has proved himself an unmitigated liar.
About a year ago the Disunionists de
clared that "Provideuce gave us Andrew
Johusop as President, for a wise purpose*"
Now they declare that the "plague came
from John Wilke9 B'Kith."
Cljt democrat.
HARVEY SICKI.ER, Editor.
TUNKHA4NNOCK., PA
Wednesdy.Sept, sth 1866.
FOR GOVERNOR, I
111 HUTU CIYMEB,
OF .BERKS.
FOR CONGREB3,
HON. Wm. ELWELL,
of Columbia.
(Subject to deciaiou of Conference Convention )
FOB FHERIF F,
M. W. DEWITT,
of Tunk. Boro.
FOR PROTHONOTABT,
E. J. KEENEY,
of Braintrim,
FOR ASSOCIATE JUDGE,
GORDON PIKE,
of Northmoreland.
FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER,
O. L. PARRISH,
of Monroe.
FOR TREASURER,
JEREMIAH OSTERHOUT.
of Tunk. Twp,
FOR COMMISSIONER,
G. W. SHERWOOD,
of Falls.
FOR CORONER,
A. H. BOLES,
of Methoppen.
FOR ACDITOR,
JAMES R. ROBINSON,
of Fork*ton.
fsHt Look at the list of fighting generals
who have sigoed the call for a soldiers'
convention to sustain Johnson in bis ef
forts to restore the union, and remember
the radicals call all such "copperheads."
The Democrats and Conservative Repub
lica ns of New York State have united and
will hold ajoint Stata Conveution on the
14th of September.
Our County Ticket.
That our county ticket, as a whole, is an
excellent one is best shown by the fact that
each member of it received the unanimous
nomination of the Convention—a Conven
tion chosen by the people with especal ref
erence to fitness for the responsible duties
devolving upon i'.
M, W. DEWITT. ESQ, oor candidate for
Sheriff, , is a gentleman who has been long
and personally known lo the people of this
county, and one whose fidelity to principle
has been very thoroughly tested and estab
lished by his steady adherence to the prin
ciples of the Fathers, while the leading and
controlling influences in the Church of
which he is a faithful member, taking their
direction from the impulses and excitement
of the hour, were steadily employed in the
pulpit and elsewhere, in vindictive opposi
tion td those principles and to all who ad
hered to them.
Mr. Dewitt, faithfu' to his own convic
tions of duty, stands to day where he stood
at the beginning, and iias the satisfaction of
seeing his principles amply vindicated by
the steady disintegration of the proscrip
tive party that assailed them.
MK. E.J. KRENET, of BRAINTRIM, our
candidate for Prothonotmy, has been equal
ly faithful to principle, and equally steady
in his support of the true Union policy of
the country. Mr. Keeney is eminently
qualified for the duties of this office, and
has special claims upon the sympathy and
support of the conservative people of the
county.* lie is disqualified by lameness
for severe manual labor, and the office will
therefore, prove a benefit to him, while,per
haps to men differently situated, it would
be of little advantage.
GORDON PIKE, Esq. of NORTIIMORELAND
our candidate for Associute Judge , has been
long known to the people of this county —
so long that it is hardly necessary for us to
more than announce his narrn in con
nexion with the office to which he has been
nominated. His high character and long
continued and consistent support of those
principles tt at ma le the country great and
prosperous before the war, and that will in
the end restore the Union, and set it again
upon its grand career, are too well known
to require any effort at our hands to give
them additional publicity.
J EREMIAH OsTERIIOtJT, of TU.NKHANNOCK
TOWNSHIP, our candidate for County Treas
urer, is also in all respects qualified for the
office. He is a straight forward, consistent,
reliable democrat, and a deserving man.—
Mr. Osterhout voluntarily offered to resign
the nomination if it was thought objection
able, on the gronnd of location or otherwise
but the Convention refused to act upon his
suggestion. We mention this as evidence
of Mr. Osterhout's commendable disposi
tion to promote harmony in the party, even
to the extent of sacrificing his own personal
wishes.
O. L. PARRISH ESQ., of MONROE TOWN
SHIP, was re-nomin ateu for the office of
Register and Recorder. Mr. Parrish is
the present incumbent of that office, and
since the commencement of his term has
introduced improvements in the mode of
keeping the records, and in the means of
reference thereto that greatly faciliate the
dispatch of business by these having oc
casion for reference thereto. No more
efficient officer has ever held this office in
Wyoming county.
GEO. W. SHERWOOD of FALLS, received
the nomination for County Commissioner.
Mr. Sherwood is just the sort of man need
ed in this office—a man of Fair scholarship
of strict integrity, and of extreme caution.
Under his administration as one of the
Doaid, no man need apprehend any rash
experiments, or reckless management of
the countv finances.
For Coroner, DR. A. 11, BOLES, of ME
-BHOPPEN, received the nomination. Dr.
Boles is too well and favorably known in
this county as a citizen as well as a medic
al man, to need any special notice at our
hands.
For AUDITOR, JAMES IF. ROBINSON, of
Forlcston was the unanimous choice of the
convention —a man in every respect emi
nently fitted for the responsible duties of
an office that needs, quite as much as unv
other, a good man to fill it.
Such is our ticket. In respect to dis
tribution through the different sections of
the County, we do not see how it could be
well improved. Brain trim, Meshoppen,
Forkston, Monroe, Northmoreland, Falls,
Tunkhannock township and Borough are
all represented. Of course, there are town
ships and sections that are not represented,
but this must always happen—sometimes
indeed, when the unrepresented districts
present just as good names as any that are
accepted. But this affords no substantial
reason for a reluctant endorsement of the
ticket when formed. All who participate
in conventions are bound by their action.
If particular claims are overlooked or ig
nored, the disappointed parties must hope
for "better luck next time." It does no
sort of good to scold about it. So far as
we are informed, this ticket has been very
generally approved by the conservative
Union men of the County. The "Union
savers " have made it, and mean to elect it.
HENRY WARD BEECIIER
On the State of the Country*
The fallowing letter written by the licv.
Henry Ward Beecher in response to an in
vitation to be present at the great soldiers'
convention to he held at Cleaveland, on
the 17th inst., contains some of the best ar
guments we have seen against the revolu
tionary disunion schemes of the radicals,
his former associates. They may well ex
claim as did Caesar : and you too Beecher !
PEEKSKILL, August 30.
CHARLES G. HALPINE, BRIGADIER
GENERAL ; W. SLOCUM, MAJOR-GENERAL ;
GORDON GRANGER, MAJOR-GENERAL —
COMMITTEE.
GENTLEMEN —I am obliged to you for
the invitation which you have made to mc
to aet as Chaplain to the Convention of
Sailors and Soldiers about to convene at
Cleveland. I cannot attend it, but I heart
ily wish it, and all other conventions, of
what party soever, success, whose object is
the restoration of all the States late in re
bellion to their federal relations.
Our theory has no place for a State ex
cept in the Union. It is justly taken for
granted that the duties and responsibilities
of a State in federal relations tend to its
political health, and to that of the whole
nation. Even Territories are hastily
brought in, often befoie the prescribed
conditions are fulfilled, as if it were dan
gerous to leave a cofhmunity outside of
the great body politic.
Had the loyal.Senators and Representa
tives of Tennessee been admitted at once
on the assembling of Congress, and, in
moderate succession, Arkansas, Georgia,
Alabama, North Carolina, and Virginia,
the public mind of the South would have
been far more healthy than it is, and those
States which lingered on probation to the
last would have been under a more saluta
ry influence to good conduct than if a doz
en armies watched over them.
Every month that we delay this health
ful step complicates the case. The exclu
ded population, enough unsettled before,
grew more irritable; the array becomes
indispensable to local government, and su
persedes it; the government at hashing -
ton is called to interfere in one and anoth
-3r difficulty, and this will be done inaptly,
and sometimes with great injustice ; for
our government, wisely adapted to its own
proper functions, is utterly devoid of those
habits and unequipped with the instruments
which fit a centralized government to ex
ercise authority in remote States over lo
cal affairs. Every attempt to perform
such duties has resulted in mistakes which
have excited the nation. But whatever
imprudence theie may be in the method,
the real criticism should be against the re
quisition of such duties of the general gov
ernment.
The federal government is unfit to exer
cise minor police and local government,
and will inevitably blunder when it at
tempts it. To keep a half score of States
nnder federal authority, but without na
tional ties and rcsoonsibilitics; to oblige
the central authority to govern half the
territory of the Union by federal civil offi
eers and bv the army, is a policy not only
uncongenial to our ideas and principles,
but pre-eminently dangerous to the spirit
of our government. However humane the
ends sought and the motives, it is in fact
a course of instruction, preparing our gov
ernment to be despotic, and familiarizing
the people to a stretch of authority which
can never be other than dangerous to lib
erty.
I am aware that good men are withheld
from advocating the prompt and successive
admission of the exiled States by the fear,
chiefly, of its effect upon parties, and upon
the freedmen.
It is saitl, that if admitted to Congress,
the Southern senators and representatives
will coalesce with Northern Democrats,
and rule the country. Is this nation, then
to remain dismembered to serve the ends,
of parties ? Have we learned no wisdom
by the history of the last ten years, in
which just this course of sacrificing the na
tion to the exigencies of parties plunged
us into rebellion and war?
Even admit that the power would pass
into the hands of a party made up of
Southern men, and the hitherto dishonored
and misled Democracy of the North, that
power could not be used just as they
pleased. The war has changed, not alone
institutions, but ideas. The whole country
has advanced. Public sentiment is exalt
ed fa** beyond what it has been at any
former period. A new parly would, like
a river, be obliged to seek out its channels,
in the already existing slopes and forms of
the continent.
We have entered a new era of liberty.—
The style of thought is freer and more no
ble. The young men of our times are re
generated. The great army has been a
school and hundreds of thousands
of men are gone home to preach a truer
and nobler view of human rights. All
the industrial interests of society are mov
ing with increasing wisdom toward intelli
gence and liberty. Everywhere, in church
es, in literature, in natural sciences, in
physical industries, in social questions, as
well as in politics, the nation feels that the
winter is over, and a new spring hangs in
the horizon, and works through all the ele
ments. In this happily changed and ad
vanced condition of things, no party of the
retrograde can maintain itself. Everything
marches, and parties must march.
I hear with wonder and shame and
scorn, the fear of a few, that the South
once more in adjustment with the Federal
government will rule thia nation! The
North is rich, never so rich ; the South is
poor, never before so poor. The popula
tion of the North is nearly double that of
the South. The industry of the North, in
diversity, in forwardness and productive
ness, in all the machinery and education
required for manufacturing, is half a
century in advance of the South. Church
es in the North crown every hill, and
schools swarm in every neighborhood;
while the South has but scattered lights,
at longdistancos.like lighthouses twinkling
along the edgS of a continent of darkness.
In the presence of such a contrast how
mean and craven is the fear that the South
will rule the policy of the land ! That it
will have an influence, that it will contrib
ute, in time, most important influences or
restraints, we are glad to believe. But, if
it rises at once to the control of the govern
ment, it will be because the North, demor
alized by prosperity, and besotted by grov
eling interests, refuses to discharge its
share of political duty. In such a case,
the South not only will control the govern
ment, but it ought to do it !
2. It is feared, with more reason, that
the restoration of the South to her full in
dependence will be detrimental to the
freedmen. The sooner we dismiss from
our minds the idea that the freedmen can
be classified, and separated from the white
population, aud nursed and defended bv
themselves, the better it will be for them
and us. The negro is part and parcel of
Southern society. He cannot be prosper
ous while it is unprospered. Its evils
will rebound upOn him. Its happiness and
reinvigoration cannot be kept from his
participation. The restoration of the South
to amicable relations with the North, the
reorganization of its industry, the rcinspira
tionof its enterprise an j thrift will a ! re
dound to the freedmen'sbenefit. Nothing
is so dangerous to the treedraen as au un
settled state of society in the South. On
him comes all the spite, and anger, and ca
price, and revenge. He will be made the
scapegoat of lawless and heartless men.
Unless we turn the government into a vast
military machine, there cannot be armies
enough to protect the freedmen while
Southern society remains insurrectionary
If Southern society is calmed, settled, and
occupied and sooth.d with new hopes and
prosperous industries, no armies will be
needed. Riots will subside, lawless hang
ers on will be driven off or better govern
ed, and away will be gradually opened up
to the freedmen, through education and in
dustry, to full citizenship, with all its hon
ors and duties.
Civilization is a growth. None can es
cape that forty years in the wilderness who
travel from the Egypt of ignorance to the
promise land of civilization. The freed
men must take their march. I have full
faith in the results. If they have the sta
mina to undergo the hardships which ev
ery uncivilized people has undergone in
their upward progress, they will in due
time take their place among us. That
place cannot be bought, nor bequeathed,
nor gained by sleight of hand. It will
come to sobriety, virti.e, industry, and fru
gality. As the nation cannot be sound un
til the South is prosperous, so, on the other
extreme, a healthy condition of civil society
in the South is indispensable to the welfare
of the freedinen!
Refusing to admit loyal Senators and
Representatives from the South to Con
gress will not help the frecdmen. It will
not secure for them the vote. It will not
protect them. It will not secure any amend
ment of our Constitution, however just and
wise. It will only increase the dangers
and complicate the difficulties. Whatever
we regard the whole nation, or any section
of it or class in it, the first demand of our
time is, entire reunion.
Once united, we can. by schools, churches
a free press, and increasing free speech, at
tack each evil and secare every good.
Meanwhile the great chasm which re
bellion maJe is not filled up. It grows
deeper and stretches wider! Out of it rise
dread specties and threatening sounds.—
Let that gulf be closed, and bury i.i it slav
ery, sectional animosity, aud all strifes and
hatreds!
It is fit that the brave men, who, on sea
and land, faced death to save the nation,
should now, by their voice and vote, con
summate what their swords rendered possi
ble.
For the sake of the frecdraan, for the
sake of the South and its millions of our
fellow-countrymen, for our own sake, and
for the great cause of freedom and civiliza
tion, I urge the immediate reunion of all
the parts which rebellion and war have
shattered.
I am truly yours,
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The following letter from a candi
date for the office of Prothonotary, at our
late Democratic county convention, ex
plains itself.
In our allusion to unsuccessful candidates
last week, we distinctly avowed our con
fidence in the fidelity of all those named in
the convention, t;> Democratic principles.
We knew the writer too well, to enter
tain for a moment, a suspicion that he, un
der any circumstances, would swerve a
hair's breadth from them. The letter has
he ring of the true metal. Read it.
(For the Democrat.
EXETER, Sept. 1,1866.
To THE EDIT>R OF THE DEMOCRAT :—I
want it to be distinctly understood that the
Democracy of the southern part of Wyo
ming county never have failed to give the
ticket put in nomination by the convention
in which they participated, a hearty and
vigorous support. It is true the people
may prefer the nomination of true men
who have always been thus consistent in
the support of their county ticket; but in
dividuality sinks into insignificance in com
parison to the weighty principles involved
in the issues of the canvass, and individual
preferences ungratified, in regard to nom
ination is n-> excuse for dereliction of duty.
The late declaration of President John
son that he 'Stood upon the broad princi
ples of the Constitution and no power on
earth could drive him from it," shou'd be
the position and resolve of every Demo
crat of our county, and I believe, is with
out exception.
The above avowal would seem to be un
called for but for the obvious intimation of
last week's editorial allusion to "unsuccess
ful candidates."
Yours j&c,.
S. H. SICKLER.
The Presidential Tour.
President Johnson, left Washington on
Tuesday morning last, to be present at the
lying of the chief corner stone o<" the mon
ument to he erected to the memory of Ste
phen A. Douglas, at Chicago. He is ac
companied, as folllows, by
Wm. 11. Seward, Secretary of State,
G. Welles, Secretary of the Navy, wife
and son.
A. 11. Randall, Postmaster-General.
General U. S. Grant.
Gen. Rawlins, chief ofstaff to Gen. Grant
Admiral Farragut.
Lieutenant Ginley .Secretary to Admiral
Farragut.
Rear Admiral Bradford.
Surgeon-General Barnes. •
Minister Romero, of Mexico.
Senator Patterson and wife.
Snrgeon.Norris, United States Army.
Col. W. G Moore and Col. R. Morrow,
of the President's household.
Marshal Gooding, and his deputy, Col.
O'Beirne.
Major Seward, Lewis A. Gobright, of
the Associated Press, W. W. \V& den, J.
R. Doolittle, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. McGinnis,
Jas. Donaldson, R. S, Spofford, Edward
Potts, Cols. Floud, and H. A Chadwick,
The last named acting as purveyors of the
party.
So far his route has been marked by
grand and imposing impromptu outpour
ings of the people, in testimony of their
respect and admiration of his administra
tive policy. At Annapolis, at Baltimore,
at Havre de Grace, at Perrymansville, he
was met by dense crowds and encouraged
by the greatest mark of enthusiasm.
At Wilmington, the city authorities cow
ed before the spontaneous outpouring of the
people, and slunk away into their holes to
hide, while the populace responded with the
greatest enthusiasm.
In Philadelphia, which heretofore has
been prolific in ovations at the public ex
pense, the Mayor and Councils refused hos
pitalities, and—to use Geary's language
towards the defenders of the Union flag—
became "skulkers and cowards"—they left
the city, afraid to meet the issue ; never
theless the people were out by hundreds of
thousands, urged by a spontaneous patriot
ic impulse, making a spectacle never before
witnessed in the city. That guerilla sheet
the Ledger , says, editorally, of the demon
stration :
As an impromptu popular movement,
with scarcely any previous notice, and with
very few of the nsual means adopted to call
large bodies of the people out, it was al
most, if not quite, without a parallel in
Philadelphia for our people are not natu
rally demonstrative in their temper. In
the neighborhood o< the Baltimore depot,
and all along Broad stieet and Chesnnt
the crowd was great and dense, and
the reception was hearty and enthusiastic ;
but those who only saw what occurred on
the route of the procession can form no
idea of either the mas* of people, or tho
spirit that pervaded the entire body in
front of the Continental Hotel. From the
vicinity of Eighth street up Chesnnt nearly
to Tenth street, there was a compaot mass
of people from the walls on one side to the
walls on the other, and on the appearance
of the President and his party on the hal
cony, the cheers and other signs of gratifi
cation were of that genuine, spontaneous,
universal kind that leave no room for misl
take as to sincerity and heartiness. We
speak of this event with no feeling of par
tisanship. but simply as a remarkable occur
ence, for it would be idle to waste words
of unmerited laudation on a matter witness
ed by so many ot the people, and equally
idle for any one to. attempt to belittle or
depreciate such a demonstration.
w _ _ Jt
NATIONAL, SOLDIERS' CONVENTION.
the Real Heroes cf the War Moving for
the Union and the Convention.
At a meeting of solJiers in Washington
city the otfier day it was resolved to hold
a National Soldiers' Convention for the
purpose of adding the combined voices of
the true soldiers of the Republic to that of
the late National Convention in favor of
the policy ot President Johnson, in order
to secure the legitimate fruits of the war—
a restored Union and the rights of the
States unimpaired. The city of Cleveland
( Miio, was designated as the place for hold
ing tiie convention, and Monday, Septem
ber 17th, as the day. A committee was
appointed to make all necessary arrange
ments and is?ue an address, or call, for the
same. The address appeared in the daily
papers on Wednesday. Its endorsement
of the President and the National Conven
tion is full and complete. We will print
the address in our next. We call atten
tion, however, to the names of the soldiers
endorsing the call. They swell the list of
those whom General J. W. Geary, the
Disunion candidate for Governor, denomi
nates as
SHYSTERS,
COWARDS,
SKULKERS
and HOSPITAL RUMMERS!
The General knows such to be the fact r
for his own word?,
M HAVE DRIVEN THEM FROM
THE ARMY MYSELF."
IJThe address is signed by llajor-Generals At D
McCook, L. 11. Roussenn. G. W. Cook, S Meredith,
Brvt. Thos, Ewing, Jr.,' Committee
To which is added—
WASHINGTON. August 19, 1866.
We cordially approve ihe call for the Convention,
an i recommend the hoi ling of local conventions to
co-operate in the movcincat;
MAJOR GEN URALS.
John A Dix, Frank P. Blair, Daniel E, Sickles,
J. A. M'demand, W. W Averill, Orlando B. Wil
cox, Gersbatn Mott, Theodo-e Runyon, Win. B.
Franklin, Marsena R. Patrick, J. J Bar'lett Jeff.
C Davis, Fitz Henry Warren, John S. Clark, James
B. Stcedman. 11. W. Slocum, Gordon Granger, D.
N. Couch, 11. E. Davies Jr. A. S. Williams Hugh
Ewing, Thmna. K Smith, Thomas L. Crittenden,
A'vin C. Gtllem, G. K. Warren, Joseph F. Knipe,
C. C Waleott. Joan Lane, A- M, Markland, Supt.
U. S A Mail
BREVET MAJOR GENERALS
Maitin T McMal.cn, Jurors M Oiiter.f Henry A
Morrow, 11. H. Heath, Wm. T. Ward.
BRIGALIF.R GENERALS.
Geo. P Este, Anson G. McCook, J. B Sweitzer.
W liter C. Wbitaker, Win. McCandless Samuel
lieatty. J. S. Fullerton, E B Brown, George H.
ll.ill, James Craig, James C . MeFerran, Fred Van
Derveor, James 11. Ford, Charles Ewing, G. C. Max
well, George Spaulding, W W. H Davis, John
L. Croxton, A. B. MeCalmont. Wm. Hartzhorn, G.
E. Winters, J. G. Parkhurst, R A. Vaughn, Morg n
L. Smith, Joseph W. Frizell, Lewis C. Hunt, Thom
as Cuiiey, E. S. Cragg.
BF;HVET 4 BL:IGADIT R GENERALS.
Charles C. llnlpine, 11. C. Hobart, C. 0. Lootr.is r
Henry lerani, James K. Mils, Durdin Ward.
Henry S. Coinmager, 11. C. Dunlap, Cassius Fair
child, Charles W, Blair. Charks W. Black.
COLONELS.
John Levcrance, Qumn Morton, David Murphy.
J* M. Richardson, Marsus Bcyd, James 0. Brod
head, W. B Rogers, James Peckhnm, T. T. Critfe*-
den, Samuel H. Mott, H. F. Baker, P. II Allback,
James Munn, Henry Barnes, Richard McAllister,
Seth B. Moe, D. W. Bliss Suigeon, John Atkinson,
Col Graham. M H. Fitch, A. M. Wood, Win; B
Sipes, L. D. Camp ell, J. Patrick, Henry Starr,
Wm D. Lewis, Oscar F Moore, Levi A Harris, Geo.
Gray, W. II Ent. John II Linton, James George,
John Hancock, John II Ward. Wm B McCreerv,
H M. Bulkier. C. D Pennibaker, Joseph C McKib
ben. John F Phillips. Miles K Green, John M Glo
ver, John E Phelps, M Flesh. Col Pryne, George A
Wood, P B Fouke, E McMurdy, J M Council.
LIEUTENANT COLONELS
J G. Lae, James R O'Beirne, John L Trainor,
Wm- II Ross. Walter Barrett, Farnham Lyon.James
Reiner Hugh Cameron,
MAJORS.
11. S. Sleeper, James H. Steiger, Henry Weil, B.
F. Dale, L. Pritchard, Frank J. Porter, H. Tomp
kins, Augustus Ward John J. Ely, W, Jones, S.
Montgomery. R, H. Newton. William Lusk. M, A.
Talby, F. A. Clark, Sauiuel Smith, S. M. Cumn
0. E. Davis u
CAPTAINS.
James Saffington. John W Lewis, A. W Rpbintm
James Walters, S. Burnett, James L. McDowell,
Thomas Barker, L. B. Brashear J. M, Walker, Chas.
F Pot ter, M Mausfield, J L Gooding, fe F Humphrey
W J Hawkins, R J Ferguson, George A McGuir®,
Arden R Smith, J L McKernon, D J Rasseon, D W
Wallingford. Frank Long.
LIEUTENANT?.
J R Johnson, Rufus Champion, J S Sea ton, Ed
ward H Stephens, E T Armstrong.
The following are the designs on the
bricks of the several do nominations of
tional bank notes viz: On 1,000 note?,.
Washington resigning his commission;
SSOO notes, surrender of (Jen. Bovgoyne;
SIOO note*, Declaiation of Independence*,
SSO notes, Embarkation of the- Pilgrim;
S2O notes, Baptism of PoeaJiontas; $lO
notes, De Scoto Discovering the Mississip
pi ; SSO notes, Landing of Columbus, 1492;
$2 notes, Sir Waller Ualeigh, 1855; $1
notes, Landing of the Pilgrims. Ail na
tional bank notes the backs of which do
not correspond with tho above are bogus.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL UNION CONVEN
TION.—A large meeting of the officers and
soldiers of the United States, was hold at
Washington, lately, which resulted in pub
lishing a call fur* National Convention of
all soldiers who sustain the Uaton cause,
to be held at Cleveland, Ohio, on tbe,l"th
day of September. The call is signed by
Gen. Custer, Gen. M'Cook, Gen. Rouseeau,
Gen. Meredith, and Gen. Erving, Jr, and
attached to the call is a long list of names
of officers and privates from different parts
of the Union.