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cataracts and waving woodlands, and in the pure and exhilarating airs of her bills and mountains, that wnbraces the fetters which man would rivet upon the spirit of hia fellow man. It was .at the' handles of the plow and amid the breathing odors of its newly opened furrows that the character of Croeinnatus was formed, expanded, and matured. It was not in the city fall, but in the deep gorges and upon the snow clad

There is one most striking and distinguishing feature of your mission that should never bo lost sight of. You arc not about to invade the territory of a foreign enemy, nor is your purpose that of oonqucst or spoliation. Should you occapy tho South, you will do so as friends and proteotors, and your aim will be not to subjugate that betrayed and distracted country, but to deliver it from the remorseless military despotism by which it is trodden down. Union men, who are your brethren, throng in those States and will listen for tho coming footsteps of your army, as the Scottish maiden of Lucknow listened for the airs of her native land.

It is true, that, amid the terrors and darkness which prevail there, they arc silenced and arc now unseen, but be assured that by the light of the Stars- you carry on your banner will find them nil. It has been constantly asserted by lie conspirators throughout the South, that this is a war of Subjugation on tho part of tho Government of the United States, waged for tho extermination if Southern institutions, and by vandals and miscreants, who in the fury of their passions, spare neither age Mr sex nor property. Even one of the Confcderato generals has so far steeped himself in infamy as to publish, in choice billingsgate, this base calumny, through an official proclamation. In view of what Congress has recently so solemnly resolved and in view of the continuous and consistent action of the Administration upon the subject, those who, through the press or in public speeches, persist in repeating tho wrotchcd slander, are giving utterance to what everybody, themselves included, knows to be absolutely and infamously false. It will be the first and the highest duty of the American army, as it advances 8outh, by its moderation and humanity, by its exemption from every execs1' and irregularity, and by its scrupulous observance of the rights of all, to show how foully both it and the Government it represents have been traduced. When, therefore, you enter the South, press lightly upon her gardens and fields guard sacredly her homes protect, if need he. at the point of the bayonet, her institutions and licr constitutional rights, for you will thereby not only respond fully to tho spirit ond objects of this war, hut you will exert over, aliko the oppressed and the infatuated portion of her people, a power to which the most brilliant of your millitary successes might not attain. But when you meet in battle array those atrocious conspirators, who, at the head of armies, and through woos unutterable, lire seeking the ruin of our common country, remember that Bincc the sword flamed over the portals of Paradise, until now, it has been drawn in no holier cause than that in which you arc engaged. Remember too the millions whose hearts arc breaking under the anguish of this terrible crime, and thon strike boldly, strike in the power •f truth and duty, strike with a bound and a shout, well assured that your blows will fall upon ingratcs and traitors and parraoides, whose lust for power would mako of this bright, land one vast Golgotha, rather than he balked of their guilty aims,—and may the God of your fathers give you the victor)'.

I should have rejoiced to meet you within the limits of yonder proud Commonwealth, from whence you came, and whose name you bear, but wise and patriotic men, whose motives respect while dissenting from their conclusions, have willed it should be otherwise. Here, however, you nrc, in the midst of friends, and have doubtless received a brother's welcome, on tho soil of a State which is not only loyal, but proud of her loyalty—:i State yrhich, by the inarching of her volunteers, announces every hour what a portion of her people have rcccntly proclaimed by formal resolution, that "the suppression of this rebellion is worth more to the world than all our lives and all our money," and that she "cares nothing for life or worldly goods, when they can only be enjoyed amidst the ruins of our country." No Spartan hero under the grandest inspirations of patriotism ever uttered nobler sentiments than these. Indiana and Kentucky, it is true, arc scpcrated by a broad river, but in their history it has proved

Soldiers, when Napoleon was about to •pur on his legions to combat, on the sands -of an African dosert, pointing them to tho

Egyptian pyramids that loomed up against the far off horison, he exclaimed, "From yonder Pyramids twenty centuries behold your actions." The thought was sublime and electric but you have even more tban this. When yoc shall confront those infuriated hosts whose battle cry is, "Down with the Government of the United States," let your answering shout be, "The Government as our fathers.made it:" and when

summita of the Alps, amid the eagles and tyou strike, remember that not only do the the thunders, that William Tell laid the good and the great of the past look down foundations of those altars to human lib- upon you from heights infinite!)- above erty, against which the surging tides of those of Egyptian pyramids, but that unEuropean despotism have beaten for ccn-! counted generations yet to come are lookturies, but, thank God, have beaten in vain, ling up to you and claiming at your bands I* was amid the primeval forests and the unimpaired transmission to tbem of mountains, the lakes and leaping streams that priceless heritage which has been comof our own land "amid fields of waving jmitted to our keeping. I say its unimgrain amid the songs of the reaper and paired transmission—in all the amplitude tho tinkling! of the shepherd's bell that were nurtured those rare virtues which clustered star-like in the character of Washington, and lifted him in mornl stature, a head and shoulders above even the demigods of ancient story.

of its outlines, in all the symmetry of its matchless proportions, in all the palpitating fullness of its blessings not a miserably shrivelled and shattered thing, charred by the fires and torn by the tempests of revolution, and all over polluted and scarred by the bloody poignards of traitors.

Soldiers, you have come up to your present exalted position over many obstacles and through many chilling discouragements. You now proclaim to the world that *hc battles which arc about to be fought in defence of our common country, its institutions, and its homes, are your battles, and that you are determined to share with your fellow citizens of other States, alike their dangers and their laurels and sure I am that this determination has.been in nothing shaken by the recent sad reverse of arms whose shadow is still resting upon our spirits. The country has indeed lost a battle, but it has not lost its honor, nor its courage, nor its hopes, nor its resolution to conquer. One of those chances to which the fortunes of war are ever subject, and against which the most consummate generalship cannot at all times provide, has given a momentary advantage to tho forces of the rebellion. Grouchy did not pursue the column of Billow, and thus Waterloo was won for Wellington at the very moment that victory, with her laurelled wreath, seemed stooping over the bond of Napoleon. So Patterson did not pursue Johnson, and the overwhelming concentration of rebel troops that in consequence ensued was probably the true cause why the army of the United States was driven back, excellent as was its discipline and self-sacrificing as had been its feats of valor. Panics, from slight aud seemingly insignificant causes, have occurred in the best drilled and bravest of armies, and they prove neither tho want of discipline or of courage on the part of the soldiers. This check lias taught us invaluable lessons, which we could not have learned from victory, while the dauntless daring displayed by our volunteers is full of promise for the future. Not to mention the intrepid bearing of other regiments, who can doubt our future, when lie recalls the brilliant charges of tie New York Sixty-Ninth and of the Minnesota First and of the Fire Zouaves? l.conidas himself, while .surveying tl sian host, that, like a troubled sea, swept onward to the pass where he stood would have been proud of the leadership of such men. We shall rapidly recover from this discomfiture, which, after all. will sorvo only to nerve to yet more extraordinary exertions the nineteen millions of people who have sworn that, this republic shall not perish and perish it will not, perish it cannot, while this

oath

remains. When

we look away to that scene of carnage, all strewed with the bodies of patriotic men who courted death for themselves, that, their country might live, and then look upon the homes which their fall has rendered desolate forever, we realize—what I think the popular heart in its forbearance has never completely comprehended—the unspeakable and hellish atrocity of this rebellion. It is a perfect saturnalia of domoniac passion. From th" reddened waters of Bull's Hun and from the gory field of Manassas, there is now g^ing up an appeal to God and to millions of exasperated men ageinst those fiends in human shape, who drunken with the orgies of an infernal ambition, are filling to its brim the cup of nation's sorrows. Woe, woe, I say to these traitors v. hen this appeal shall be answered!

I must offer yon my sincere congratulations on the leadership of that true patriot ami soldier, around whose standard you have gathered. When others hesitated, he was decided when others faltered, he was bold. The Government laid its hand on his loyal bosom and found it burning

When you move, as soon you may, to the scat of war, Kentucky, despite the whispered caution of politicians will cheer you on, and will hang with prayerful solicitude over you, alike upon your march and amid the heady currents of battle. Loyal men everywhere are cxclaiming "God speed you," and "All hail to your courage uid patriotism." Glory beckons you on-

only thread of light and beauty, across upward, and could the illustriwhich their bands and their hearts have ever been clasped in friendship and in faith.

In those stirring conflicts for principle which have arisen in the past, they have stood together, and on more than one bloody field, should- to shoulder, they have norno onward through the thickest of the fight, that glorious banner, whose stars, I trust, will never grow dim and now, your prcsonce here to-day is a gladdening assurance that in the momentous contest, on wLofe threshold we stand, these States, so long allied will not be divided. For myself, I must be pardoned for saying, that next to our own beloved Kentucky, my bosom most overflows toward the noble State, under whose hospitable shelter we have met to-day. It was my fortune to pass my childhood and youth on my father's fhrm upon tho banks of yonder river, and in the light of the morning and of the evening sun my eyes rested upon the free homes and grand forests of Indiana. I played npon her hills and fished in her streams, and mingled with her pcoplo, when I was too young to know, what I trust I shall never he old enough to learn—that this great country of ours has either North or South, East or West, in the affeetions and faith of its true and loyal citiiens.

ous dead hear in the graves where they sleep your every footfall, as you advance to your country's battlefields, would bo music to their cars.

I am grateful to you all, but especially to our fair countrywomen, for this distinguished reception. It can never bo forgotten that it was from a Spartan mother that came those words of heroic patriotism which have never been equalled by any that have fallen from the lips of man. For more tban twenty centuries the deepening shadows have fallen upon the rivers and the seas, upon the mountains and the plains of the past, aud yet, from the midst of all this gloom these words still gleam out upon us like lightning from a summers cloud, for more than two thousand years the earth has been convulsed and shaken to its moral foundations nations and generations of nations have risen and perished by slow decay or amid the shock of battles and tho wail of our stricken race has gone up over the sepulchres alike of men and of empires. Yet above all this these words have floatod down to us, and still float abroad upon the airs of tho world like some kindling strain of musio ever caught up and ever repeated with flashing eyes and heard with wildly pulsating hearts. Such is the power of patriotism, and sach the spell its truthful expression exerts over the great Bpirit of humanity. To woman, ever timid in the sunshine, but ever brave in tho storm, we offer our tfunlra for this,

and we feel that wo must shut our ears to the voices of her love and veil our souls from the illuminations of her presence, before we can cease to bo willing^ to live and to die in defence of those institutions, which more than all others that have existed, have given to her that position of dignity and moral power which the shining impress she bears from her Creator's hands so fully entitles her to occupy.

PEACE MEETING.

At a peace meeting held on the 27th day of July, the citizens of Coal and Wayne townships participating, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted

WHEREAS, Our once happy country is now thrown into civil war unecessarily, and without any effort, being made on the part of the Executive of the United-States to settle the causcs of the difficulty by pcaceable compromise,

Therefore, Resolved, That we, the Democrats of Wayne township, in convention assembled, do now, as heretofore, hold a firm, fixed and undying attachment to the Constitution, with all of its checks, balances and compromises, and that we adhere to it in letter and spirit.

Resolved, That the Constitution was adopted as the basis of union, aud unless all the guarantees therein are carried out to its full intent and meaning there can be no union of these States.

Resolved, That our Union was formed in peacc and for peace, and can never be perpetuated by force of arms and that a Republican Government held together by the sword, becomes a military despotism.

Resolved, That, we regard the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus by the President, or by any military officer under his authority, as a usurpation not warrant ed by the Constitution and dangerous to the liberties of the pcoplo.

Resolved, That it is with deep regret and heart-felt sorrow that, wc mourn the loss of our brave aud gallant and patri otic soldier.-, who have fallen in the con test going on in Virginia, and especially those who fell on the memorable 21st.

Resolved, That we are in favor of speedy compromise of our national difficulties upon the Crittenden resolutions, or some other Constitutional basis, and until a compromise is made, we hold Lincoln and iiis cabinet responsible, in part, for the following catalogue of injuries done to the nation

The nation distracted and disgraced. Our commerce paralyzed. Our home trade runincd. Our coasts blockaded. Our rivers shut up. Our Constitution trampled under his feet.

Our laws suspended. Our courts powerless. Our citizens imprisoned without process of law.

Our States dismembered. Our freedom of press denounced. Our right of petition denied. Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be signed by tho President and j/ Secretary and handed to the editor of the

CravfjrdsviHe. Review for publication. W.M. PHILIPS, President, B. TRAOI:V, Secretary.

l*i\2t."V IIASKE1' iTieCHTIlV«. At a meeting of tho citizens of Walnut, Union and Frankiin townships, held in the grove near llurd's School House, on tho inst., preparatory to largo Union Basket Sleeting, to be held in Robert Custard's grove, on tho Lebanon road, six and a haif miles east of Crawfordsvillc, on Thursday, August 22d 1861, at 10 o'clock A. M., Hannibal Trout, was called to the Chair anil II. Huffman appointed Secretary. Tho object of the meeting being explained by II. Huffman, Esq. it was

Resolved, That a committee of four be chosen, whose business it shall be to solicit suitable persons to address the meeting of the 22d. Dr. Win. Parsons, of Walnut John Lee and Capt. J. Seller, of Union, and John Hutehings of Franklin township, wore appointed said committee.

It was further resolved, that a committee of vigilance be appointed to make all ncccssary preparations, and superintend the business of the da) Whereupon Robt. A. Craig, John Caster. Absalom Elmore, Win. Jackson, John 1. Craig, James Wiseheart, John M. Ross, John Yaniee, .Tames Ilurd aud Marion Sutton, were chosen.

with the inextinguishable fires of patriot- invitation to the masses, with all the ofism at a time when so many others, from fiecrs and soldiers, just returned from thr the best motives in the world, were carefully packing themselves away to keep in the ices of neutrality. I honor him, Kentucky will honor him, the nation will honor him.

On motion, the meeting gave a general

war also all Ilomc Guard companies, their officers and musicians. Brass bands, drummers and fifers, all Let all come, and we will have one grand and glorious Union demonstration of friends of liberty— in favor of tho maintenance of the Constitution nnd laws, and the glorious old Flag of our country.

Resolved, That tho proceedings of this meeting be published in Crafordsville papers—Review and Jour/ml.

II. TROUT, President,

II. HUFFMAN, Secretary.

"THIiY'H. KAMiY IN MKAVltW."

A good story is told by a member of tho Ninth Indiana, which fully illustrates the confidence Colonel Milroy possesses in the Justness of the cause in which he is encaged.

While fragments of the different companies composing his regiment, to the amount of about one hundred and fifty men. were engaged in skirmishing with a Georgia regiment of one thousand picked men, the Colonel was standing on the breastworks viewing their gallant charges with cool admiration, when he was accosted by an officer with "Rally your men, Colonel, rally your men, or you'll get them all cut to picccs." "That," cooly replied the Colonel, "is what wc come hero for. Wc don't expect to all get- back nlivc." "But, Colonel, every man will be killed if you do not rally them," importuned tho officer. "Well, let them bo killed," was tho reply, "they'll rally in Heaven in fifteen minutes afterward."

DANIEL IN THH LTON'S DSN.—General Daniel M. Frost and his Missouri secessionists surrounded by Capt. Lyon'sUnion forces

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XIIE IXABEA9 COBPCS. Senator Sherman, the Republican representative, of Ohio, refuses to sanction the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus by the President. He is undoubtedly correct in this position. "While wc have refrained from expressing an opinion upon the acts of the Chief Magistrate in this regard, so long as the peculiar circumstances of the country seemed to render them necessary, wc have, nevertheless, entertained a decided opinion that he possessed no such power under the constitution and now that Congress has adjourned without sanctioning the act, it is tho duty of the people to examine-the question in its dry legal aspccts. Has, then, Congress, or the President, the power to suspend the writ

In deciding this question wc must have resource to the state of the law at the time of the formation of the Union. No one doubts that our ancestors brought the common law of England with them to this country. Upon any other supposition nearly all the terms used in the constitution would bo unintelligible. When, therefore, that instrument provides, "The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall

not be suspended, unless when in ease of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it," wc must go to common law to ascertain what is meant by the provision. For, the habeas corpus was of various kinds then, as it is now. Most of the forms of the writ arc in aid of the jurisdiction of courts, as when issued for the purpose of bringing a witness up to testify, or a complainant to prosecute, or a prisoner to be tried. These were not properly for the freedom of the subject, but for the administration of justicc. The great efficacious form of the writ, and the one which is popularly known as the habeas corpus, is that instituted in England by statute 16, Car. 1, c. 10, which has always there, and in this country, been deemed a ncccssary safeguard to private liberty.— This, in the language of Chief Justice Story, in his Commentaries on the Constitution of tho United

States,

"is that great

and celebrated writ, used in all cases of illegal confinement., known by the name of the writ of habeas corpus ad sidyiciendum, directed to the person detaining another, and demanding him to produce the body of the prisoner, with the day and cause of his caption and detention, ad faciendum, subjiciendum, et recipiendum, to do, submit to, and rcccivc whatsoever the judge or court, awarding such writ, shall consider in that behalf." The same writer further says, "This writ is most beneficially construed, and is applied to every case of illegal restraint, whatever it may be for every restraint upon a man's liberty is, in the eye of the law, an imprisonmeut, whatever may be the place, or whatever may be the manner, in which the restraint is effected." This, then, is the writ which is referred to in the constitution, and the reader may sec how important it is to the preservation of individual liberty. It was designed in England to prevent abuse of power by the Executive, and was one of the series of measures and assertions of right by which the Parliament protected the freedom of the subject against tho encroachments of the Crown but there, as here, it was justly anticipated that times of public peril might arise, in which it would be necessary to suspend the operation of this great writ. "But," says Mr. Blaekstone in his Commentaries, "the happiness of our constitution is, that it is not left to the executive pmver to determine when the danger of the State is so great as to rctuler this measure expedient for it is the Parliament only, or legislative power, that, whenever it sees proper, can authorize the Crown, by suspending the habeas corpus act for a short and limited time, to imprison suspected persons without giving a reason for so doing."

This, then, was the state of the law of England, and of this country, at tho time of the Revolution and of the adoption of the constitution. Did our fathers intend to confide to the President here what was denied to the Crown there—to lodge in the Exccutivc of a free Republic a power which was deemed too despotic to be intrusted to tho head of a monarchial government? The question would seem to answer itself. Tho framcrs of the constitution in no sense intended to abolish existing safeguards of individual freedom.— On tho contrary, tho revolution and independence of this country were tho trial and the triumph of all forms and principles which tended to that result. It was the highest liberty compatible with human society that they sought, and the groundwork of their plan was, to bring all essential popular rights under the control of the peoplo and their representatives. They clung tenaciously to the jealousy of the Executive which inspired their forefathers to wrest the Magna Charta, the bill of rights, and other popular charters from suocessivo monarch#, in the struggle of a

nation's freedom against monarohial prerogative. Hence we find the power of the President limited in almost every particular in jghich, without limitation, he might use his office for ends detrimental to the liberty of the people and hence we shall find that tho law of England making tho suspension of the habeas carpus a legislative, and not an executive, act is really continued in tho constitution by confiding it to the discretion of Congress. The nature of tho power, the collocation of the provision, and the state of the law at the timo it was adopted, all prove the truth of this.

Wo have already explained tho state of the law at the time of the formation of the constitution, and it is evident that, as-the efficacy of the writ consists solely in its protection of individuals against abuses by their rulers, tho power of suspending it is of the most delicate so well as important nature. The provision which authorizes it is collocated in the constitution with the powers of Congress, being tho first of the three articles in which the functions of the different branches of the government —-the legislative, executive, and judioial— are established. This articlc treats entirely of Congress, or of the relation of the States to Congress. The first seven sections of it are devoted to the qualifications of members, the organization of the houses, and the method of making laws.— The eighth section defines tho powers of Congress as to objects of legislation, as that the Congress shall have power to borrow money on tho crcdit of tho United States to regulate commerce with foreign nations, &c. to establish an uniform rule of naturalization and so on, covering all the great mass of legislative powers.*Then follows section nine, in which certain limitations arc put upon the powers already granted to Congress. Thus the scction provides, that "Tho migration or 'importation of such persons as any of the 'States now existing shall think proper to 'admit, shall not be prohibited by the Con'grcss prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight but a tax or duty may 'be imposed on such importation, not cx'cceding ten dollars for each person. The 'privilege of the writ of habeas corpus 'shall not be suspended, unless when in 'cases of rebellion or invasion the public 'safety may require it.' 'No bill of attain'er or ex post facto law shall bo passed.'— 'No capitation or other direct tax shall be 'laid unless in proportion to the census or 'enumeration hereinbefore directed to be 'taken.' 'No tax or duty shall be laid on 'articles exported from any State." And thus the section continues, limiting general powers already granted to Congress— always referring to that body, and never to the President. This scction in faofc explains tho other sections of the article, and is so treated by Justicc Story in bis

Commentaries, and by all intelligent stu-

dents of the constitution. Thus, in the preceding .-section (eight,) unlimited powers of taxation arc conferred upon Congress yet, in section nine, it is provided that "No capitation or other direct tax 'shall be laid, unless in proportion to the 'census or enumeration herein before di'rcctcd to be taken." Without this provision Congress might have "laid" the tax as they pleased. This limits their power to a particular manner. So, undoubtedly, as thoy arc in section eight vested with power "to make all laws which shall be 'ncccssary aud proper for carrying into 'execution the foregoing powers, aud all 'other powers vested by the constitution 'in the government, of the United States, 'or any department or officer thereof," and as they might under this broad grant arbitrarily suspend the habeas corpus, they are in section nine limited in the suspension of the writ to occasions "when in ea'ses of rebellion or invasion the public 'safety may require it."

The constitution, thon, not only by tho collocation of the provision, but by the manner of the limitation of tho power, leaves the suspension of the writ, where it was at the common law, to the Legislature and not to the Exccutivc.

It must be remembered that this power is in no place granted expressly, even to Congress. It is simply treated as as existing power necessary to the good government of the country, and which needs some limitation to prevent an abusivo cxcrcisc of it. It certainly is not vested in the President, and there are very good reasons why it should not be, which wc have not space sufficient to discuss at present,—our only desigu in this articlc being to explain the legal aspccts, and not the policy, of the power.

Wc suggest, in conclusion, that it is the duty of Congress, if they deem tho "public safety" to require it, to authorize the President to suspend the writ, and that, if they do not do this, the presumption will legally be that there is no necessity for the suspension.

OFF FOB THE WARN.

It gives us ploasurc to record that three of our most distinguished citizens have enlisted to serve their country for the next five years. Tho names of these patriotic gentlemen are Charles Woodruff, Ephraim Woodruff and Washington Beck. These gentlemen, for the last ten years, have practiced at the bar, but their professional pursuits have been repaid only with bloated countenances and rags. Under tho rigid discipline of Uncle Som's officers, wo havo every assurance that the physical and moral condition of these gentlemen will be vastly improved.

PERSONAL.—Col. Lone arrived homo on last Thursday evening.

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The preparation* that are now making, give every assurance that the rebellion in the Southern States will be effcotually crushed out by the first of January. Gen, McClellan is making such reforms and adding to the strength of his army on the Potomac, that when he moves, which will probably be about the 15th of October, he will sweep Eastern Virginia of her traitorous hordes. At tho samo time General Fremont will mov.o down tho Mississippi with a powerful army, supported by a fleet of gun-boats, and tako possession of Memphis and New Orleans. Tho programmo is all arranged, and we want every one to mark the prediction, that this damnable conspiracy against tho best government that the sun ever shono upon, will bo crushed into atoms before next spring— that the American flag will bo flying from every fortress in the Union, and its reve nue collected in every port.

We publish this week an eloquent

address delivered by that distinguished Kcntuckian, (and Secretary of War under James Buchanan), Hon. Joseph ETolt, to tho Kentucky volunteers. There is probability that this gifted and sterling Democrat will address the citizens of Montgomery county at no distant day. Arrangements are now making for this object wbich, if successful due notico will be given.

In war, as in peace, it is essential

that men shall act upon right principles. The Douglas democracy find no difficulty in doing this, because their solo and pure motivo is at all times and under all circumstances to prcscrvo tho Union. They voted for that purpose, and thoy fight for it. They aro patriots all tho time, and have only to cling to their political principles in order to do their duty most efficiently and faithfully to tho country.— With them it not only is unnecessary, but would be wickcd, to abandon their party. When such men as Wilson of Massachusetts has greater weight in the military counsels of the nation than Scott—when Lovcjoy embodies his cxtremcst fanaticism in a resolution which is largely adopted by the House, and when Trumbull of Illinois votes against the conservative and exactly truthful statement of the causcs of the war and the proper policy of the government offered in the House by Mr. Crittenden, it is cvidcut that a strong patriotic, Union party is needed, and the party which Stephen A. Douglas led was always a party of patriots and Unionists. They cannot abandon their organization without violating their conseicnccs, and without deserting their country in the hour when she most needs their firm adherence to the constitution and their entire devotion to the Union.

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services to the Government against the rebellion. Good officers aro now the great need, and it is difficult to conceive how persons who were educated at the public expense and for the publio defense can, ot a time like tho present, hesitato to take the field against tho enemies of their country. The fact that they have been overlooked, and tho "death's head" race of commanders preferred to them, ought not to deter them from proffering their services. Their value is now acknowledged, and their presence at the head of the army will bo hailed with the gratitude of their fellow-citizens.

SSTThc Richmond Dispatch says it is understood in official circles South that the Secretary of War has recommended to Congress an addition to the Confederate army of three hundred and fifty regiments, making five hundred and sixty regiments altogether. This is equal to ten per cent, of the entire white population of the seceded States.

86F" The Democracy of Ohio have nomi nated Hugh J. Jcwctt for Governor and J. Scott Harrison for Lieutenant Governor. Wc predict that the Demooracy will carry :he Buckeye Stato in October.

CS?" John M. Greenslade has opened machine shop on Washington street near Davis' Livery Stable, where ho is prepared to repair all kind of machinery The attention of our farmers is callcd to this matters.

The heat during the past week has

been intense. Everything is parching up with the drougth.

167" It seems that, in the hasty legislation of Congress, the President was authorized to raise one million of troops. Wc believe, however, that provision was made to pay only five hundred thousand. If five hundred thousand arc not sufficient put down the rebellion, we think it will hardly be necessary to call out more than that number.

66F Scott & Newall havo fitted np a neat ice crcam saloon in Washington Hall, where they will bo happy to receive their friends.

FOR A SECOND TERM.—Jerry Roberts, a worthless negro, who a short timo since was discharged from tho Penitentiary at Jcffcrsonville, wag arrested the other day for stealing two dollars. Jerry will bo apt to return to his old quarters.

AWFUL DEPRAVITV.—A beautiful and accomplished young lady, says tho Syracuse Journal, passed a full hour in her fathers garden, yestorday morning, on a flowor bed with a rako. Salt won't savo Syracuso if such things arc tolerated thore.

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Hampton has boen burned. Scents and fugitives brought word -of the approach of a large body of rebels from Yorktown.

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Theso rumors were confirmed by 5 P. m., by a deserter from the rebels. Friday last Magruder left Yorktown, with a force of 7,000 men ineluding 750... cavalry and eight pieces of artillery. Sj

Monday night thoy camped'at Great" Bethel, which was completely desertod. Tuesday night they advanced toward Hampton, and at noon yesterday^ took up position on Bdtic rivor some miles from the town.

He thinks the object of the expedition is to draw out tho forces, attack Camp Hamilton or Newport News if practicable and at least to destroy Hampton so as to prevent them from using it for winter quarters. Gen. Butler at once ropaired to this end of Hampton bridge, whero ho remained till 11 o'clock.

Col. Webber erected a barricade near the Hampton end of tho bridge, and placod a strong guard at various points this side of the creek.

A fc-rr minutes past midnight Gen. Magruder, with about 500 rebels entered tho town and immediately fired it.

Tho greater part of tho 500 houses wcro built of wood, and no rain having fallen lately, and a strong wind blowing, a terrible conflagration was produced. |§J

There were perhaps twenty white people ond double that number of negroes remaining in the town from inability to move, several of whoso houses wcro firqd without awakening tho inmates.

Several of the whites and negroes ,wero hurried away to be pressed into tho rebel sorvico. V: ...

A company of tho rebols attempted to forcc a passage of tho bridge, but were ropulscd with a loss of thrco killed and six wounded.

The fire raged all night. Tho rebels withdrew toward morning and at noon to-day when I visited the jjlaco but seven or eight buildings wcro loft standing.

Gen. Magruder has encamped near New Market bridge. Ho will hardly Venture to attack Newport News. Mayherr, tho deserter soya there havo been about 7,000 rebel troops stationed at Yorktown, and some ton days ago a battalion came down to the outskirts of Hampton, and carried away 180 negroes.

Provisions were abundant at Yorktown and some of tho troops were receiving now uniforms for the winter campaign.

The destruction of tho town was a wanton act of tho residents and entirely useless as Gen. Butler intends to winter his army many miles beyond Hampton.

An attempt will bo made to charge tho act upon Gen. Butler. Miss May, nicco of Gen. Scott, just from Richmond, says that the rebels thero charge it on Gen. Butler.

WASIIINOTON, Aug. if

The activity among the Government teamsters is as great as at any time previous to tho battle.

Much more regard than heretofore is paid to the comfort and subsistence of tho soldiers, and little of any complaiut now exists among them.

Soldiers arrivo from timo to time, including of late a largo proportion cavalry. They are judiciously distributed along our now extended Potomac lines.

Many of those recently appointed to military officcs arc waiting impatiently for their commissions.

Tho Southern newspapers will not much longer exult over tbo inefficiency of tho blockado.

Tho navy department is in possession of ample power, rcccntly conferred by Congress, and is expeditiously completing arrangements applicable to all such casCr'.

The Senato finance committeo expect that the new revenue plan will realize 810,000,000 more than is required.

Ex-Minister Faulkner arrived home Inst night. It is believed that ho brings dispatches for the Government from Europe.

A spccial to tho CommorcicI says that conventions aro to be hold in Maryland* for the purposo of nominating State officers one of them will favor the government and support its policy, and tho other will place itself on a platform of opposition to the war and advocate pcaco on any terms.

It is believed that tho Union men will triumph. Senator Baker has declined commission as Brigadier General, he prefers his scat in the Senate.

Senator Lane, of Kansas, has also doclincd tho appointment tendorod hiin. Eighty removals have been mado in tho Patent office since Juno first.

Some newspapers havo already disregarded tho agreement with Gon. MoClollan, and are to bo subjected to stringent rules.

Tho General is determined to onforoo his policy. BALTIMORE, Aug. 8.

Brcckenridgo's speech was so frequently interrupted that but here and there a sentence could be obtained.

He was interrupted with cries of "you lie you know you do," "oh dry up," "you area traitor," fco.

Mr. B. inquirod of thoso who manifested a disposition not to listen to him why they were present?

This question was followed by loud cheers and hisses. A violent commotion was now observed to take placo among the crowd, which swayed from pavement to pavement as if under Btrong excitement, and tho clubs of policemen were seen being applied upon the heads of thoso who wcro resisting them.

Mr. B. speaking amid tho din said, that those who interrupted him with opprobious epithets and hisses, wero poor fellows who were tightening tho degrading fetters which bound them. I feel personally responsible for tho poor fellows so rudoly treated. I griovo to think that any one should be hurt on my account. Cries of "Good," and cheers for Jeff. Davis and tho southern confederacy.

An active fight now sprung up, and occupied the attention of the orowd for several minutes, and occasioned a general stampedo of tho timid.

Sir. B. said it is evident that tho disturbors aro but few in numbers as they fear to faco him. Do I speak the truth Tho onquiry was mot by a renewal of epi-