Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 5 February 1863 — Page 2

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•leware, tnm th» otgtnliatlon of the the pnMt tiln*, when then has »taAWJfe the exeelttion'bf a Federal attompton thilpar'tofof thMt Stat* to laierwt

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mouth ftre the records of tho Legislature of the Senator's State inviting traitorous commissioners to appear before the Legislature, and here is the message of the Governor reccQmmending tho calling of a convention to decide thequestion of loyalty and fide 1

Mr. LANK, of Indiana. I have always found, Mr. President, in practicing law, that I had quite enough to do to attend to my own side of the case. Delaware has an able advocate, and he will doubtless read anything that may be urged in her defense.

Mr. SAULESBURY. The Senator was rejading from the recoxd 1 wanted the whole record.

Mr. LANK, of Indiana. I read from tho record, and I will giTe you more of it.. That was the incipient step which the authorities of the State of Delaware took to inaugurate rebellion there and. there is a single coincidence showing that these men were operating upon precisely the same plan in all the slave States. Precisely the same plan and programme was attempted to be carried out in Delaware that was carried out in the other States —1 mean at its inception they did not consumate it, to be sure.

Now, sir, I should like to show you, if I had time, the character of the credentials Which Ahese apostles of treason brought to Delaware. .' One of them commenced by saying that, WhoreaS a Black .Republican President had been selected, therefore it was necessary for the people of the South to-rally in defense of southern institutions. Language the most arrogant^ the most supercilious, the most insulting to be addressed to any people, was addressed to tho Legislature of Dela--wtyre when these men craved tho privilege of being permitted to spread broadcast their treason before the people of Delawaro through that Legislature.

Sir, there is another little incident in these journals, small in itself, yet, taken in the conncction, vastly significant. I find here a proposition to purchase a State flag for tho Stato of Delaware. Heretofore, I suppose, they ]ad been content to sit in their deliberations under the shadow of that nobble flag which represented the grandure and glory and «ni*-y of the proudest Republic upon earth. That flag, which had swept, tribute free, along the shores of every country under the whole heavens, was to be supplanted by the fl'iig of the State of Delaware! Tho proposition was introduced passed, I believe, one branch of the Delaware Legislature batfliilcd in the oth-. or..

So much afffrmatively. Now let us look at the negative evidence afforded toy the action of the Delaware Legislature. Union resolutions wore voted down by that Legislature, a portion of which resolutions wero almost in the words of the Father of his Country.— Let .us seo what evidence of unlimited loyalty is afforded by voting down these resolutions. I read from tho journal: "A motion was made to take up the joint resolution, declaring the adherence of the State of Delaware to the Government of the United States, whkh motion prevailed."

Then came the vote in the Houso of Representatives upon the question of concurring in these resolutions: "The yeas and pays were ordered, which, being taken, were as follows—yeas 10, nays 11. "So tHe Vote failed."

Now, I wish to got at precisely the character of these7 resolutions. I will read them and-if there is a loyal man on'(yOd's green earth who will dissent a siiVgle sentiment in the resolution, I should like to see him. mtolved. That the people of Delaware recogthe Constitution of the-United States as the Bfagna (jharter of tbeir liberties^ and the Union as the safeguard of their.political existence and regarding the Constitution and the form of governfcritfht as emanating from, arid established by the (authority of the people ofthe United States, with their fathers they bold the duty which they owe to the'State to be subordinate to their allegiance to the United States."

That resolution was voted down.— The inference is that these loyal people ofJ Delawaro hold that their State allegiance is superior to their allegiance to the General Government and that is Ihe faial hereby which has led us to brink of ruin ,which lias inaugurated th is" hole: rebel lion. That ia thejgraiidcentral iderf^ abound which" alt th6 lesser lights&nd'stlns ofs edition bavfe revolved from-the days of Thomas Jefferson to the prcBent noUr. The Delawaro Legifilature, however, heldilthat'?heir allegiance to the State v?as paramount to theif allegiance to i-e Oenora! Government. But fur-

"Resolved, That the tau^Mg^jrlfo that now afflicts the country has bee% faiised-oll the nation by the uojustifiablff. acta oftllpSe whw have long cori!^rgi-?W dertmction by open rebelion are sow striving to overthrow the Government by *hich we has:*' bewjjirwteeted in the past, add to which w^alonefook^for safety in the fu-

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ajUtution ol the United States The Senator from Delaware is. doubtless much more familiar with the history of his own State than I am yet.either he or myself has wonderfully mistaken the character of that history. '^Mr. SAULSBUR?. "Will the Senator from Indiana aJlow me to make a suggestion? I see that he has the journalof the House of ^Representatives of the State of Delaware before him, showing, as he says, that they invited Mr. Dickinson to appear and address that body. Will he please follow up the reading of that, by reading also the resolution adopted by the Legislature of tho State of Delaware after Mr. Dickinson had concluded his address.

is a w^evidentttfifltb, a final

tVuth, a truth of history proven by the experience of the country for moro than three quarters of

contury. Yet

that resolution was voted down by the Delatfftfe Legislature: "Resolved, That.now, as heretofore, the State of Delaware will sustain the Government of the United States and she believes that the only mode of bringing present peace and future prosperity, te the country is by tne speedy and effectual suppression ^oflKefSl^llij® thus manifesting thV power of .the Government in the preservation of the Union, the maintenance ofthe Constitution, and the impartial''aud firm enforcement of the law."

Is thero anything in that resolution to which any loyal man will or can take exception? Yet that is one of the series of resoluiions lbat were voted dbwni by the Delaware Legislature. "Risolvtd, Tbatin the execution of this highest trust devolved apon the Government, the people of the State of Delaware arenot disposed captiously to leritaqise its meaaur.es or .resUictits authoiitv."

In the language of this resolution the people ot Delaware are not, disposed.captiously to critacise its measures or to restrict its authority. I leave gentlemen here to say whether the Senators from Delaware are in accordance with the people of Delaware on that subject: "They have faith in its expressed determination to suppress this unholy rebellion and recognising the embarrassments by which it is surrounded, they only ask that, confining itself to legitimate objects, it shall, at whatever cost, preserve tho integrity of the Union and the suprcmaoy of the national flag.

That resolution went by the board with the others. Then follows a resolution that copies of thene resolutions be sent to the different Governors.— Now, sir, had not the President aright to infer that traitors might possibly breathe the air of Delaware, whon he found her Governor recommending a State convention, anyone House of her Legislature proposing a State flag to supplant the national flag one House of her Legislature voting down Union resolutions drawn in strongly conservative language? Under these circumstances had he not a right to infer a state of things in Delaware justifying military arrests?. But there are other passages in these journals to which I do not now think proper to refer, and I Bhall not fatigue the Senate by doing so there is other evidence contained in these journals, equally strong with what I have read, showing the true standing and condition of the Legislature of Delaware.

But, sir, to come down to individual cases—the cases about which wo have heard so much during the last few weeks of our session—I have before me, on page 1934 of Part III of the Congressional Globe of tho last sospion, a statement from a distinguished citizen of Delaware, long known, trusted and tried, a faithful, and loyal public servant, in which he disposes of twenty arrests that had then been made in the State of Delaware, and shows that the President had abundant ground for every single arrest that he had made. Some ofthe parties arrested had shouted for Jeff Davis some had said they wero in favor of the rebellion somo had openly gloried over the defeat of our arms at the first battle of Bull Run some had ignominiously torn tho national flag from the flagstaff, and trampled itundcr footin the public streets of one of the towns of Del. These are some of the blessed martyrs of presidential usurpation and oppression! They are not, I apprehend, such martyrs as those whose blood is said to bo the seed ofthe Church. If they are the seed of any church1, it will be the seed of rebellion —the church constituted by Jeff Davis a is a

I shall not fatigue' the Senate by reading the record in the case of all these military arrests in the State of Delaware- I understand, however, that no single citizen has been arrested except upon affidavit charging probable cause. How that may be, I know not—I have ho means of knowing— but I believe it to be so upon what I consider to be good and reliable authority.

So much for tho position of tho people of Delawaro, who, the Senator tells us, have never at any time done any act calculated to subvert the. General Government. If those acts are not calculated to subvert the General Government, I am at a loss to imagine, any acts which would subvert it, short of ippen and direct warfare upon thia battlefield. They were calculated to demoralize and divide, public opinion, get up a party in the North againts the Government, hiid in favorof the rebellion.— So much for. the State of Delaware.

What was the condition, of the State of ifar^Und?1 It is known to all. I shall not recapitulate what was ,tho condition .'of thibgs in Maryland. It is known, however, that the troops of the national Government, in their march t,o Jthe defense of the capital, were beset "by aumoh, and murdered in the street^ ofBaltinaore, 'It is known, or believed, very^gerierally, that the Legislature of Maryland was in sympathy with cc belli on,,, apd {desired to carry that Siat^Jnip .tlie s^othern, 50nFederqcy., It ipjknown that the public property, was threatened, that the bridges.were btirued, and communication cut off between our armies and their supplies.. j£hese things were kuowhvj^a (c^rtaincitizeijs of Maryland were? arrested, and I doubt not, properly arrested. Some of them, I believe, had gone ao far as lo eend in

advance ^legra|h ic dispatches to their co-conspiijfctors,|||send forces to defend thtefiocursfonof the

frbelie# thati^ho I^Bidelaf was fiflK ly justifiable in |hese airestl| That hie m|y have made mistakes, and did peirh^B in many instances, I dotifet not but ihese mistakes are inseperable from the imperfection of human institutions & human nature. If we do anything, we at every step are liable to fall into error. All we have to inquire about now is constitutional authority and conscientious conviction of duty. Where these concur, the act'of the President is right, ev'eri ffriifflgh the liberty of a single citizen may becloven down. His effort was to save the liberties of thirty million people. In order to do that, it may have been necessary, perhaps,. to strike down the liberty of one singlo indi vidual. What is the life or the liberty of one individtialtwhen you arc expending a thousand million dollars per annum, and wh'cn you have lost, by sickness and disease,'and the casualties' ofthe battle-field, more than fifty thousand citizens within the last eighteen months?- I relievo then that the President has constitutional authority that he acted from a concientious conviction of duty and frofti probable cause and that the arrests are legal, under the warrant of the Constitution and under the acts of 1795 and 1807.

JS?" The conclusion of Mr. Lane's speech—in reply to Mr. Powell of Ky., on tho same subject—will appear in our next is&ue.—ED.

rard Respecting Deserters. HEADQUARTERS, INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.,

February 2, 1863.

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the

ing statement is made publie, respecting desertion and arrest-of deserters, and the press of Indiana, as well as all good citizens, irrespective of party affiliations, or'antecedents, are invited to a cordial concurrence.'

I. Deserters from the United States service, having voluntarily assumed their obligations as contractors to serve the government for a consideration have'no excuse to screen themselves from their obligations. Failure to do service is bad faith to the government and the people.

II. Screening deserters or aiding desertions is a high offence, bringing no protection to the party deserting, but sapping the very foundation of good order and social peace, and leading to disorders, fruitless of good, but full of mischief.

III. Deserters now absent, if promptly returned, throughout the State, or surrendering themselves, will be recommended for kind consideration. Their friends should ring them or urge them.to come in nt once, ^rhie ia the manly way, and suoh as conunonds itself tr every good ciii/en and lover of his country. Failure ot absent soldiers or their friend? to meet their just and legal requirements will invariably result in the arrvi«t of the offenders, wherever found, their iinmvdiiiO trial by general court martial, and the execution of the penalty affixed by sentence.

IV. The current statement that such arrests, pr the arrest of eitiscn* who aid in the resistance to proper authority, have any relation ?hutever*to political questions or practices are without foundation. It ife bimply a question of bringing back to their obligations parties now in default, whoever or wherever they may be.

V. The arrests in Morgan county, just made, were simply of this character. It was an arrest, without blotfdsheied, of three deserters, and some armed men, who, forgetful of their duties as citisens, fired upon the proper authorities, legally charged With a legal duty, who thereby placed themselves in an attitude of deliberate and offensive resistance to legitimate process.

Such arrests are common at all times, whether of peace, or war, and it is hoped that no street reports will lead any, even in times of an excited publio pulse, te misconstrue plain act.s of duty, and shape them so as to increase public excitcmcnt and present disorder.

It is very easy to learn whether any reported orders are issued from these headquarters, and it may be here assumed that none will be promulgcd that any good and loyal citisen of tne United States will except to.

It is also assumed that the peoplo of Indiana are true and loyal to the Union, and that they will cheerfully do their "part to maintain the government in these times of trial, and frown upon all resistance to-legitimato authority, as the only avenue "of safe deliveranco through all the issues of this war.

HXNBT B. GARRINOTON,

-j ... Col. 18th U. S. Infantry, Comd'g at Indianapolis.

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stringent Order.

'D I ST. LOCIS, Feb. 3. General Loan, commanding Central District of Missouri has issued an order that all guerrillas, bushwhackers, robbers, Confederate recruiting officers or emissaries,

assuming

to act under rebel au

thority found in that Military District,- shall be promptly executed by the first commissione'd officer into whose hands they may be delivered, and all persons knowingly harboring or in any way abetting such parties shall suffer like punishment, their house's be destroyed, and all personal property on the premises be seised and applied to the indemnification of Union citizens. Any officer failing td proinptly-execute this order shall-be court martialcd for disobedionce of orders. j.

To Our Patrons.

Wo wish to say a few words to delinquent "patrons. Many of you are in arrears on fbbscfiption to the Journal for four, Jive and tix years. Now that printing paper has gone up to such an extravagant price—almost an hundred per cent—we ask it as a favor, th a touch patrons call and make settlement. Such as are able to pay, will bo expected to do so those that are not—and will so tell us, can have their names erased from our. books. A printer in these days, had better be without patis, than to have such sis do not pay. This is plain talk we know, but wo mean what wo say.

We also invite those indebted to us for advertising, job work, elcctiop. tickejs, Ac.,, to favor, us with a call. a V&

AYEB-4 AMEBICAN ALMANAC has ntw arrived and is now ready for delivery, gratis, by Morgan A Biaford to all who call for it. Our readers may be sbrpriffed' tb know thalt this little pamphlet which'beoome so much a favorite !n oaffeeetion has quite the largest ciMulatiOn pf any o&e> book in the' worlds except/ the Bible It ispriated in many languages aadi scattered through many nations.as well as supplied to almost Ibe eitire popur lation of,: oar own tast domwa. Every family should kiep it, for it containes information whioh all are liable to require, when .mckajsae' ov^rtekes them ^id which may prove itivalnabltf ficesn b^isg at hand in season. If you take our adyiee, you will call and get an Ayer's Almenac, and whsn got kcop it.

THE JOURNAL.

THURSDAY, iFEB. ft, 1863

Louisville, N. A. & Chicago R. R. Time Table.

Under the new regulation, which took effect December 30th, 1861, trains will arrive and leave Crawfordsville as follows:

aoiNG-SOUTH.- .•.

Leave— Mail.& Express, at Freight, at

S:44 A. M.

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GOING KOBTH.

Leave— Mail Expi«8SJ at i.........w Freight,'St........... ......

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P. M.

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nOMlIGHEWS.

The Attack Ifpon Fort Donelson .. CAIRO, Feb. 4._

Infofmation from Paducah reports a most brilli ant affair at Fort Donelson. One battery of four guns was taken by an overwhelming charge but our men rallied aud retook it.

The enemy's loss is reported at 135 killed and 50 prisoners. Forrest is said to be wounded. Col. McNeil is killed. Their number is estimated at from 3,000 to 4,000.

From below we have information that all the divisions have arrived in front of Vicksburg except Xogkn's, which is expected soon.

Good Joke on tlie "Organ."

The abolitionists, are hard up for arguments to save the sinking fortunes of th«ir party In order to keep their heads above water in this county, the leaders first tried to bribe us, and,our paper to oppose the election of the democratic ticket failing in that they threatened, Ac.— Review.

Oh, dear, what a miserable band of beings these Union men are. To be guilty of such a mean and contemptible act, trying to bribe our neighbor, to be' a loyal citizen and not only Aim, but his paper— "the organ." The last is almost as mean as the first—and altogether shortrsighted, if such an arrangement was ever dreamed of. The formation of a Union tioket for the sake of harmony and good-feeling among neighbors, never entered the minds of the leaders of the sham-demooraoy— save the scales man, and his was entiroly selfish— they dosircd nothing bordering on Union and any attempt to^bring such a. thing about jr&i futile in the extremo. ..r

It has.ever been tho wish and heart-felt desire of the Republican party throughout the country, that the people should beunited—that all parties should be loyal. They desire nothing else, and will welcome the day, come when it may, that will bring to our distracted country a just and honorable peace. This can only be brought about by the laying down of arms, on the part of those in rebellion against the Government, and showing a willingness to submit to tho laws that have governed us all, as a people, since the formation and establishment of the Republic.

Help for the Soldiers.

Hon. JAMES WILSON will deliver a Lecture on Tuesday evening next, February 10th, 18fi3, at Centre Church, for the benefit of sick ncd wounded soldiers. A voluntary contribution will be taken in the Church. The Crawfordsville Band and the Presbyterian Choir will be present.

Subject—Emancipation, and the Proclamation of the President. ..

The "Organ" Calling on the l*ord.

The Review, in speaking of the debt or expenses incurred by the Government in the oonduct of the war, thus gives expression to the emotions of his soul: "The substance of the people is being rapidly §ucked out. 'llow long, 0, Lord, how long,' can the people endure this filching and stealing .the fruits of thoir labor."

As the question is put direct, we will let tho Book of books answer. 8ee "Acts of the Apostles," 13, 10 which reads: "0, full of all subtilty (thinness) and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt tho,u not ceaao to pervert the ways of tho Lord?"

Postage Currency.

Some two or three weeks sinee, a number of our business men sent east and purchased the sum of $1,000 in this currency, as a matter of convenience in trade, and if possible to do away with the individual sliin-plasters which have flooded tho country for some months past. -Finding this sum in sufficient, we understand they, yesterday, ordered an addltional amount of $1,500. When this shall have been received, and put in circulation, we will cei-tainly have sufficient "Small change"—if it can be kept in circulation, and not hoarded—for all practical purposes at least for the present.

The February term of the Court of Common Pleas, for this county, convened on Monday of this week Judge Naylor presiding.

JAMBS WitsoN, Esq., will address the oitisens of Carroll county at their masft. meeting at Dolphi, on Saturday next, 7.th inst.

The Post offico we understand, is to be removed in a few days to the old Binford corner— in the room now occupied by T. Newman.

Church Notice

Wo are requested by Rev. J. A. Todd, pastor of the (N. S.) Baptist Church, to state that, owing to his, continued illrhoalth, thero will bo no services at his Church on Sabbath next. The announcement previously made,, is therefore countermanded-

Removal—"Carriage and Wagon Manufactory.

The new .firm of Doherty, Deighton & Co., manufacturers of Carriages, Wagons, Ac., have removed to their new stand on tho north-east corner of Washington and Pike sts., opposite Centre Church. They are now fully organized and prepared to get up any -work in their lice in superior style and on the-most reasonable terms. Persons in want of a fine earriage, buggy, or number one wagon, shouldnot fail to give' them a eall. They are also prepared in thcie smith shop, to do all ihnds of *5ustom work, namely, horse^slioeihg, fcc., Are. It will pay you to call, if you' only iwUh to examine a superior pieoe of mochahism.

Penslon Agency^

Special attention'is directed 'to~the. "card" of Morgan & MoWiiliam's, Attorneys at Law', Pension and Bounty claim Agents, to be fonnd alsewhere in this isane. roisohs haVing'.etaimte of any kind against the Government, ean plafcle, them in no better hands, for oofleeiion, than thoSe of Morgan A: McWilliams. 'They are' experienced,'active men, and attendto all'business entrusted to them puBeiiiaUy atJVl5 honestly.

£&• For cheap goods—at this writing—we would suggest a vicit is the Banner Store. Bowers will sell goods.

[From the State Journal, Jan. !}&th.^

Done at Last.

We 6*11 attention to two sets of joint.resrolutions which wo publish thi» morning, one introduced in the Senate,iby Mr Wolfe of Washington, on the 27th inst., We other introduced by/Brown pf Wolls vesterday. 6ne i*a Ion*, bitter am dishonest,col? lection of mtlses ojT conjplaint ag#ist theiGeneral Govornmeif,' leading ttfvtbe maitf purpose of its, preparation, the declaration of an atmislioe, and the other is short, direct and peremptory demand for an armistice, and a provision forthe election of delegates ip April to attend a National .Convention of all the States, rebel as well at lityat, to be held at Nashville on tho first Monday in June. This latter is tho end to which the other was directed, and we may look at it only. It simply apd explicitly, declares that this war shall end, and if the

GeneralsGovernment won't quit fighting, the State thall proceed independent of the Government to make peace, other worth it declares for aeceuiiontl— Look at it measure it, and weigh it well. It is the first bold step towards tho object which these traitors have all along been laboriug for. It places before the people Of Indiana the issue Union or no Union. If Indiana ca'n while {he government of, which it is a part.is fighting for its existence, turn away from it, and make peace for itself, Indiana is no longer'in the Union. This measure if passed will take our State out of the Union as surely as an ordinance of secession. It i* an ordinance of secession. It was meant to'be. Now, Indianians, you who have sons, and brothers, and fathers fighting for the Union, who have,given your best and dearest to preserve it, you are called to a new effort, that all you have hitherto done may not be a wasto of blood. Traitors at home have introduced into your Legislature a secession ordinance, and if they pass it you -have accomplished nothing but your own ruin in by all you have done. They havo taken advantage of the absence of GO,000 loyal men to push the State to the verge of secession, and now-they are openly preparing to give it the last and fatal thrust.— They shall not accomplish it without a fight such' as their coward hearts never dreamed of, but we must avoid bloodshpd at home, if possible. It is yours to prevent it. Loyal men arc not going to be legislated or driven out-of the government instituted by Washington into the hell-born horror of Jeff. Davis without a struggle, and it shali bo one that history will make mcmbrable for its terrors if not for -its success. This is- no idle alarm. We have seen tho danger coining for a year, and warned, th.e people of it.. Now it has come precisely as we predicted. They mean to take Indiana Out of the Union,. They havo never meant anything else. By this peace convention, and independent delegate plan, they think to do it without exciting the people by fears of secession. But the secession is there. Plain, direct secession.— You can all seo it for yourselves. Indiana once acting with tho rebels in a convention, independent of the General Government, which this measure provides she shall do, there is no longer a Union for Indians, but with thoso who have murdered her sons on c/ery field from Texas to tho Atlantic.

We subjoin 'the 'resolutions introduced in the Senate on the 29th, by Mr. Brown, cf Wells co.: WHEREAS, WE bolicve that the following language: "Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always, and when, after much loss on both sides and no gain on either, you cease fightings the old identical questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you," embodies great truths and wisdom therefore,'

Resolved by the General Aitembly of the State of Indiana, That it is tho imperative duty, of the Chief Executive of the nation -to proclaim, and we, therefore for and in:the name of the people of the State of Indiara, demand the establishment, as soon as practicable, of aji armistice, to tho end that Convention of all the States may be held for thl) adjustment of our nationnl difficulties..

Resolved, ThaJ. we hereby instruct'our Senators, and request our Representatives in Congress, to labor to provide^ and for and in the name of the people of the State of Indiann, we demand that the prcsont Congress shall provide for a Convention of ail the States to bo holden at some suitable point, at.tb%earliest practicable period, with .a view to the reatoration of, the Union with all the dignity, equality and rights of the several States unimpaired.

Retolved, That in the event of tho present Congress failing to provide for such Convention,

hereby,, in the nanie of the people of the State of Indiana, invite each and every State in the Federal Union, including the so-called Confederate States, to meet delegates from the State of Indiana, in Convention at Nashville, Tennessee, on the first Monday, it being the first day of June, 1863, each of said States to

Bend

as many delegates to

said Convention as .shall equal tho number of Senators and Representatives to which such State is entitled in the Congress of the United States, according to the. census of 1860.

Resolved, That, for the purpose of carrying out, on tho part of the Stato of Indiana, the object set forth in the two last foregoing resolutions, there shall be eleoted, on the first Monday in April, 1863, in the usual manner and at the usual places of holding oleetions, thirteen delegates from the State at large, to represent Indiana in said convention at Nashville, Tennessee, unless the present Congress shall provide for a convention as in the second of those resolutions* designed,'in which case said delogates shall represent Indiana in such convention. And'the election of said delegates shall be certified to the Governor of the State, and commissions shall issue to them in the manner, as nearly as tho same may bo practicable,provided by* scotions 44 and 45 of tho act'regulating general oleetions. And further, in the event of the pres-ent-Congress failing to provide for a convention as designed in the second of these resolutions, said delegates shall be entitled to a jer diem of five dollars during their attendance upon said conven-tion-at Nashville,. and mileage-at the rate of five cents per mile for every mile necessarily traveled in going to and returning from said oonvon'tion, which per diem and-mileage shall be drawn from the State Treasury upon the warrant of the Audi* tor, of State, issued to the Treasurer of State, upon a certificate of service from the presiding offioer of said convention.

Resolved, That the Governor of this State trans mit, or. cause to be transmitted, a copy of -those resolutions to tho President of tho United States, tho Congress of the United States, and the Governors and Legislat'urer of each and all the States in the Federal Union, inolu.ding tho.sq.-called Confederate States. j-J"-.'

Gens. Conch and Smith, ii Gon. Darins N. Couch who succeeds Sumner as commander of one of the grand divisions of the Potomac Army, is a native of New York, and graduated with McClellan, Foster and Stonewall Jackson at West Point, in 1846.— He resigned soon after* tho Mexican war, through which he fought with credit, was made a Brigadier General of volunteers in May, 1861, fought with MeGlellah in Maryland and Virginia, was promoted to a Major Generalship, July 4th, I8jf2, for his gallant -, ry before Richmond.

Gen. Wm. F. Smith, who succeeds Gen. Franklin, is a native of Vermont and gradiiated'fft WoBlJ Porat in 1845. He was .afterwards- Acting Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the Institute. At thertime Of h1b appointment to a Brigadier Geireralfcbip in August, 1861, h« held the rank ofi Gaptain of Topographical Engoneers In tho regular army. He wa's appointed a Major General on tk& same day wifchr General Couch. The latter, however, outranks him. iUm •i-r/srr'

ALBANY, Feb. 3..

Edwin D. Morgan, Republican nominee, was elected United States Senator in place of Freston Errsg.

l'aper Duty, ••.«**,

Tl»e Indiana lH)gisl$|ur6 do a good thing,&y passingresolutiun)|ljii% lar to thes.e, which rfeceiltly p&o&lft the New York legislature:

NVHEHEAS, The chcap diffusion of knowledge ainong the people is essential to the Welfare of rejji'ubliCbf) institutions, and

WHF.REAS, A combination exists among the manufacturers of paper, which has caused an enormous increase in the price of books, periodicals, and newspapers, therefore, ^Resolved, That oar Senators andT Representatives in Coir|*roBS ate "!inv~ structed and requested to favor a reduction of the duties on imported prii^.-, ing paper. .. 6'

en §cott Drawing near His End. General Scott's health is fast failing hitn now. He-is confined to his apartment in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, almost entirely .helpless, and what is- ytoraa it is said that his mind nt length is breaking down under the weight of 3*ears and mental and bodily troabjo. Ho receives few visitors, and these on-' ly his most intimate friends.

Kebel newspapers say that out of 1.0,000 men led' from Missouri in April and May last by Price not more 2,500 are now surviving and fit for duty.— They state their loss in the fight with Kosecrans was 9,000. In Breckenridge's division 1,800 men wero killed outright in an hour and forty minutes. Wither's division lost 2,500.

From New Orleans. NEW YORK, Feb. 2. Advices from New Orleans, 26th, state tho last of the transports left for up the liver on the 24th. Only sufficient troops wore left to defend New. Orleans with 4 or 5 gunboats. It is inferred that their destination is Port Hudson.

Read the following from the Hon. Morris Morris, formerly Auditor of theState of Indiana: INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 2, 1857.

Dr. C. W. on A CK—Dear Sir: Having been troubled for several years with extreme debility., and weakness, go much so that I was unable to at-:: tend to my ordinary business at times, and having, heard of tho wonderful cures that yonr Scandina-,' vian Blood Purifier and Pills were affecting, I was induced by a friend to try them. I have been using the Purifier for tho last twelve months, and find the medicine fully equal to its reccommendations. So valuable is its use to mc, that I can not now dispense with tho use of it at my advanced age of life—seventy-seven years.

I cheerfully give this information for the benefit of those similarly affubted. l'oui", truly,

See abvcrlisem'ent.

Mokris MORRIS.

The Confessions apd Experience, or a Nervous Invalid.

Published for the benefit and as a caution ta young men, and others, who suffer from Jiervoua, Debility, Karly Decay, and their kindred ailments —supplying the means of self cure. By one who oured himself after beingavictin of misplaoed confidence in medical

humbug

and quackery. By en

closing a post-paid directed envelope, single copies maybe had of the author, NATHANIEL Esq., Bedford Kings County, New York, jan. 29,1863—ly.

Town Properly for Sale.

House and lot near the head of Green street is offered for sale at lotf figures. Reasonable timo will be given on principal part of purchase money. Tho house is divided into five apartments—four rooms and a hall. The lot is woll set in fruit.—" For particulars call at the Journal offico.

JOURNAL RECEIPTS.

The following persons have paid the sums op-, posite their names on subscription to the Journal. "Honor to whom honor is due.",

Frank Coons 50 Henry Huffman, Esq 1 59 B.Hostetter 1 I.V.Martin 3 7" Thos. Rose 1 50 David Fuqua James C. Bannon John R. Coons A^ichaoi Lowe J^axwell McCollough Philip Lunger..... J. C. Hartung..... John- Durham Fisher Doberty

Why don't those persons 'who

have promised us wood on subscription to the Journal bring it in

JOHN MORGAN. GEO. M'WILLIAMS.

MORGAN & M'WILLIAMS,

Attorneys €Vt liMv,

Pension ft Bounty Claim

CLAIMS

Agents.

FOR PENSIONS, BOUNTY•, BACK Pay promptly attended to. OFFICE ON VERNON STREET. (With Col.S.C. Wilson,)

CRAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA, jan. 31,1863.

JTO TMCE, NOTICE is. hereby given, that there will- be a Pitblie 6ale at the. residenoe of tha subscriber, 3 milts north-West of Darlington and eight milea north-east of Crawfordsville, of the wit:

following property, to-: Two head ot Horses,

one Jack and two Jennete,.Hogs, Sheep, one Buggy, and other properly too tedious to mention.— There will be a credit till Christmas, next givpp, the purchaser giving note with ^proved security, waiving valuation and appraisement laws.

JSR* Sale to commenoe at-lQ o'elook A. M., on Friday the 27th,dajr of February, 1&53.

feb 5—w3 -ISAAC PERKINS.

Administrator's Wotlce.

NOTICE

is ieroby given Chat letter* of Administration have been granted- to the undersigned on tfae estate of ,Urum Urn, late of Montgomery ooTitity, Indiana, deceased. The estate it gupposed to'be solvent.

THOS. J. MASON, Administrator.

February 5th, 1863-.—w3.

frried &ea€he$!

Fifty bushels of superior Dried Peaches dfreot from TenrieisOe—just received by .Tennison A Co., at the old Crawford corner. jan. 29—3w. JRHILO R. SIMPSON.,

100,000 Pounds Wanted.

WANTED—One buiidred thousand pounds of old Iro- aad Cast jags, for wiioi we wi!i pay fifty per at. our Stove 43d Tiswaraiters-

Jas. 22d. ROBB MAHOHKBY.