Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 35, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 January 1862 — Page 2

WEEKLY SENTiNEL

J It v 20 The in ion it snnet ha preferred. Jweaesa. Democratic Union State Ticket. . - f 0 BECBKTABY OF ST ATI, Oil. ;JAME3 8. ATHON, fT7 Of Marion County. tOM. AUDITOR- Of 8T ATX, JOSEPH RISTINE, . . . ui rouDUio t.ouniy. ron nuKUi or vtatk, MATTHEW L BRETT, Of Daviess County. rOK ATTORNEY OEXEBAL, OSCAR B. HORD, Of Decatur County. ron ML TKR! N'TKN PENT Of rCSLIC I XSTWtJCTIOK, MILTON B. HOPKINS, Of Clinton Countv. n aaa (Tk Proof Under this caption the Journal of Saturday made an infamous attempt to fasten upou us the charge of forgery. It was accompanied by the affidavit of perjured scoundrel and we lemre it to tbe editor of that print to exculpate himself from the strong appearance of subornation of perjury, which the facts in the case seem to fix upon him. We have charged the Journal editor with being a wilful and malicious slanderer and liar and our object in forcing him to bring out his "incontcstible proof that we were guilty of publishing a "forged letter" knowing it to be such, as he has repeatedly charged upon us, was to convince the public that we hare in no respect misrepresented hia character, but on the other hand we hare not done him justice as to his meanness for which beseems to hare a natural affinity. We will briefly recapitulate the issue as to the charge of forgery and the facts in the case On the morning of the 10th inst. there appear ed in the Sentinel a letter dated "Camp , Jan. 3," signed "Hoosier." In the Journal of the 11th the editor of that print charged that this letter was a forgery" and tlmt it "tees written in the Sentinel office the right before it publication," ami it further said "the Sentinel men know that this is true, and to deny it will only add a tie to forgery. " It is not probab'e that any person would deny so direct a charge if susceptible of proof, but knowing it to be utterly false we challenged the Journal to produce the evidence to sustain its allegations, or else wear the brand of a wilful and malicious slanderer. On Saturday last, after repeated calls, it produced what it calls "the proof." We had in our employ a man by the name of Canteill. Every body well knows that there is a mutual confidence between the employer and the employed that it is highly dishonorable to betray. We might rest our refutation of "the proof of the Journal upon what all high-minded men can appreciate, that the man who wilbetray the confidence of his employer is unwortny of belief. And a man who will produce and use such evidence is infinitely meaner than his pimp. What respect would be shown a man who would go into your kitchen and procure from your servants, true or untrue, the secrets of your family? This is just what the editor of the Journal has done, and in addition thereto, has induced a man to perjure himself in the hope thereby of fixing a malignant slander upon his neighbors. Now for the facts in the case: On the 8th or 9th inst. tbe editor of this paper took out of the postoffice in this city the letter which was published in theSr nhnel of the 10th instdated "Camp Jan. 3," and signed "Hoosier." When we received it, it was enclosed iu an envelope post-marked Bardstown, Ky., and was addressed to the editor of the Sentinel, with a letter from the author requesting its publication in the manner it appeared and we have every reason to believe that it was written and mailed at Bardstown,Kentucky. About noon on the 9th inst. we put the letter in the copy drawer of the office to be put into type. In order to meet all the charges in the affidavit of Cantrill we will fur tber state that the letter referred to, which was published in the Sentinel, was not in the handwriting of E. C. Hibpi.v (or E. B. Hibben, as the Journal has it.) nor was it seen by him previous to its publication iu tbe Sentinel. And we wili state further that no communication, letter, or article in the handwriting of Mr. Hibben has appeared in the Senli nel since we have had charge of its editorial columns. Iu order that the reader may understand the alleged proof of the Journal that we have been guilty of "forgery," we publish the affidavit of its perjured stool pigeon, Caxtbill: Stat or Indiana, Marion county,. I am a printer. I worked on the Old Line Guard during the greater part of the time it was published as a campaign paper, ami have worked on the Sentinel daring the greater part of the present winter. I whs working in the Sentinel office on Thursday, the 9th inst. About eight o'clock on that uight I saw Mr. K. B Hibben come out of the editor's room and hand a folded manuscript to Mr. Elder, one of the proprietors of the Sentinel, und Elder gave it to the tore man, who cut it up, and put it on the "copy hook." A portion of this manuscript came to my "case," and I put it in type. It was a portion of the letter published in the Sentinel of the 10th. dated at "Camp ," and signed "Hoosier." 1 am familiar with the handwriting of Mr. Hibben, having worked on it at variouj times while in the Guard and Sentinel offices, and I am salihed that that writing was that of Mr. Hibleu, and that he wrote the letter in question D. M. Caxtrill. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 17th day of January, lr61. A. Ciktis, J. P. In refutation of Ca.ntrii.l's perjured statements we present the affidavits of three printer "well known to the 'craft' iu this city as honest, unobtrusive, industrious printers'' whose statements even would not be questioned, and also that of Mr. Eluer in regard to his alleged complication in the affair. We show by "incontestihle proof that Mr. Hien handed no folded manuscript to Mr. F.ldir on the night of the Uth instant; that he did not hand stich manuscript to the foreman; that the foreman did not receive such manuscript; that he did not, as charged, cut it up and put it on the copy hook; that no portion of such manu script went to the "case " of C anthill; that he put no part of the letter dated "Camp ," and signed "Hoosier" in tyje; that said letter was put in typ before 9 o'clock on the night of the 9ih instint ; that Cantbill did not mark any part of the said iotter in tbe copy of the paper in w hich the impositors marked their work; that he clmed .to pay for having put in type any part OK. ietter and that no communication in the ha w r.-iÜDg of Mr. Hibben was ever put in type for oi BjaJ, appeared in the Sentinel. Mr. Hibbkn resides in Ruahville and as soon as we con bear front him we will add his .ifftdavit to the other evidence, that he did not write the letter referred to; that lie had no knowledge of it whatever until it appeared in the Sentinel, and in corroboration of the statements we have made generally thereto. Governor Mobto.v in a speech at Kock rille last summer, announced that a secret police had been inaugurated in Indiana. In addition to this it appears there is a system of espionage and suboru.ttion of perjury, if other means fail, to He odium and infamous slanders upon those who may happen to be obnoxious to the powers that be. In the present instance these malicious purposes have signally failed. For tbe present we shall rest satisfied with pro 'hieing tbe most complete refutation cf the infamous charge of tbe Journal, loch will be found in the accompanying affidavits, promising rhe most vigorous legal prosecution of the offense if the false charges are not promptly retracted:

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mW Marian I N T'lAN A I. I 'sine VkM . v WWzm . -SfaaBBl utniei rame, nein i worn, upon hia the news room id has oc uyied oath sa vh that he iu the State eVanW offi that position for tbe past fi e months, that im ; 9th Bet he fonnd entinef ofhee the mtmedialen .titer dinner on tra in the copv drawer of the Se ter published in tbe Sentinel on the i Uth inst , dated "Camp ," and signed "Hoosier." It was written on both sides of a sheet of foolscap: that be divided it into two parts, or takes, and hung them on the copy hook, and the same was put in type that same afternoon and evening before 8 o'clock by O. W. B Smith and W W Johnson, two of the compositors of the office, and Mr. D M. Cantrill did not put any of it in type, and had nothing at all to do with it DaNtKL L. Pains. Subscribed and sworn to before me this ldth day of January, 1863. John Mvllanv, Notary Public. O. W. B. Smith and W. W. Johnson, beng worn, upon their oaths say that they are compositors in the State Sentinel office, and that they put in type the letter referred to in the affidavit of Daniel L. Paine, and that the same was all put in type on the afternoon of the 9th inst. by supper time and before 8 o'clock; that Mr. Cantrill bad nothing to do with it whatever, and set no part of said Tetter. O. W. B. Sum, W . W. Johksox. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th day of January, 1862. John Milxaxy, Notar v Public. State of Indiana, Ms 'ion county: John F.. Elder, being duly sworn, upon his oath says he is one of the proprietors of the State Sentinel, that on the evening of the 9th inst, he assisted Mi. Paine, foreman of the news room, in reading the proof of a letter which apDeared in the Sentinel on the 10th inst., signed "Hoosier," and dated at "Camp '' that he is familiar with the handwriting of E. C. Hibben, or, aa stated in the affidavit of D. M. Cantrill, E. B. Hibben, and the letter in question was not in his handwriting; that Mr. Hibben did not band that letter or any other to affiant on that evening, nor did affiant give it to the forenan, nor did he see the letter until he read it in assisting to read the proof; that affiant measured tbe marked paper of the compositors containing the letter in question, and that Mr. Cantrill's mark was on no part of it, and he did not claim any pay tor setting it; and that no letter, or communication, or article of Mr. Hibben, or in his handwriting, has appeared in the Sentinel to the knowledge of am ant. John R. Elder. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 1Mb day of January, 1862. John Millant, Noury Public. A Herd of Caution. The above is the heading of an article which appeared as editorial in the Journal on Saturday, not written perhaps by theeditor, but probably by his master, which requires to be exposed, botn because of its reckless disregard of truth, and its revolutionary spirit and villainous purpose. The object of the article is to deter men from .he ex posure of the monstrous frauds perpetrated by the favorites of the party now in power, by which they are made rich, and the country, the Govern- j ment and the people, are made poor to deter , men from the expression of their abhorrence of I wickedness in high places, by threatening them with mobs. This threat comes from the party in power, and through the organ of the State administration it comes from the men who have upou them the highest obligations of houi--upon whom rests the awful solemnity and sanctity of official or.ths, to enforce the laws and maintain the public peace and good order. Why the necessity of this threat? Wherefore call up the terrible spirit of the mob, of riot and anarch v to muzzle the press, and put a gag r ' in the mouth of every citizen? If vour indiviuuai couuuci, o u rrm. anu vour aiwui iisira1 - tion of public affairs be honest, why fear the . . light of free, public discussion? If private vir- i o r r , tue and public honor be your panoply, vou need y . . , fear no shafts thrown bv the malignant thev ' will fall harmless at vour feet. Virtue, truth and i J ' honesty do not conceal themselves iu the dark 3 . thev walk boldlv in the sun litrht and all irood " men do them reverence. But vice, and fraud and theft of the people's money skulk, and hide and seek all concealment. " The wicked flee," but "the rtchteous are bold." Free discussion is rlghteo no terror to the upright and honest but to the man in public office, who seeks thrift and gain by devious ways; who would make himself great and rich by the oppression of the people, and despoiling the public treasury of their hard earned nion ey , it is the spirit of trouble and the genius of his undoing that allows him no quiet by day nor rest by night. It is very true that the late Iemocrat ic Convention did, in irnest determined sentimeuts, ..rraign the Republicau party before tbe tribunal of public opinion for its rejection of "all propositions likely to result in a satisfactory adjustment of the matter in dispute between the North and the South," whereby our present calamities might have been avoided "for its inability to conduct the Government through its present difficulties" and for the enormous frauds that have stalked into the Army and Navy Depart menu, implicating the heads of those departments iu a connivance at, if not an actual par tui pa tion in a system of corruption, and in which our brave soldiers have been defrauded of their proper supplies, and our Government threatened with bankruptcy, demanding a thorough investigation into all our expenditures, both State and national, and that a speedy and marked example be made of all such "birds of prey," who, taking advantage of the necessities of our country, have fed and fattened upon public plunder. And does not the history of the times justify

such arraignment? Who dees not know that correspondent of the same Journal writes that he ! couutry was made subordinate to party, when , has it from a reliable source, writing under the ' all terms of adjustment, which Doroi.ASsaid would date of the 13th, "that Senator Bkioht dej save the Union, were rejected, and the Chicago u ounces in bitter words the Democratic Conven- ! Platform declared the law of party action ? Who i tion. its resolutions- and leaders." In Indiana : claims for the party in power, that wisdom and the Republican party hacks charge that Bright

patriotism demanded by the exigencies of tbe coutrolled the Convention, but in Washington times ? And when, in the history of any people, the same class of unscrupulous men report that was such corruption known, as lias characterized j Height denounces the Convention. This is a this Administration? In the history of no nation specimen of Republican honesty and tactics, is found so dark a page of fraud and corruption, The fact is, as the Journal well knows, that as that furnished by the investigating committee j neither Bright. Wright, "or anv other man," conat the present session of Congress. Mr Dawes, trolled the Convention, but that it was a fair re

a Republican member of Congress from Massa chusetts and a member of the committee, speaking of the corruption of the War and Navy Departments, uses the following strong language: When the historv of these times shall be wrilten, it will be a question upon whom the guilt will rest most heavily upon him who has conspired to destroy, or upon him who has proved ! ineompetent to preserve the institutions liequeathed to us by our fathers It is no wonder that the public treasurv trem- : bins and staggers like a strong man with too great a ourum uoo hi. strung man in an nir-ex hausted receiver is not more helpless to day than is the Treasury of this Government beneath tbe exhausting process to which it is subjected. Alreadv the sutler that curse of the camp is following the paymaster as the shark follows the ship, buying up for four dollar evorv five ' dollars of the wages of the soldiers, paid to them in I reasurv note. It is impossible that the Treaaurv of the United : can mest and continna to moat iki. iioia of things sixty days longer; and an ignominious peace must lie submitted to unless we see to it that tlie credit of the country i JUsUined, end sustained too by the conviction going forth from this hall to the people of the country that we will treat as traitors not only those who are bold and manly enough to meet us face to face on tbe field of strife, but all those, also, who clandestinely ! ani stealthily suck tbe life blood from us in this ! mighty struggle. - i These thing are now known and believed by .L I . . . . . . m .ft. m peopie, ami u mere is mat remnant or public virtue necessary tor tlie support of free lustitu tiorw, they will demand that they be freely dis - cussed, and remedies be applied, and that the an thors be driven from place and power. "Let us talk plainly, it is our interest to do so, and it is yours to hear." Tie Republican party has lost the confidence of tlie North. It dare not agnin ask the support of the people. Its leaders know and feel this, and intend seeking to continue their

power by a charge of nine-., pa.pable conies aiori that tiieirublic nets ha e turned the people against them, during the first year of their power. Already the popular demand has driven one member of the Cabinet from his place. But bow reluctantly do the leaders yield, and not until tbe Government is toppling on the verge of ruin nor even then, without honoring the offending Minister with a foreign appointment of high grade. The writer of the article Ulks freely of treason and traitors in tbe North, and of their influence in encouraging the Southern rebellion. That is well. Traitors should be denounced; but we must be sure we hit the guilty men. Tbe peo

ple now regard the plunderers of the public ury as the most dangerous foes to the country - the sentiment of Senator Hah, their campaign has been successful and ruinous, and men that encourage mobs now , had better look well to it, that they do not belong to that odious class. Public indignation is but smothered, and when it burst forth it may overwhelm them. The eyes of a patriotic and plundered people are upon tbem. The writer says that in the Convention, Mr. Hendricks "charged that the war was brought about by the Republicans, and that it is unnecessary and wicked." He does not dare to quote Mr. HuiDRicxs's language, which would have proven him a falsifier. Ihe language of tbe speech speaks for itself. Upon the subject of the war it is as follows: "A civil war is upon us. For its exstence the Democratic party is not responsible. For many years we have admonished those who favored a sectional party of its danger in the sentiments of Washington's farewell address, that the greatest danger to be apprehended to our country, was the formation of geographical parties we have advocated "those doctrines which we believed fair and equal to both sections; and which could have been adopted without wounding the pride, or stimulating the arrogance of either." Our appeals were disregarded. Sectional pride, preju dice, and hatred in one section produced the same sentiments in ihe other; and of this sec tional strife wasbegolteu our present troubles i his war is upon us "wickedly provoked on the one side, and in folly and sin, and without sufficient cause, commenced on the other." With secession upon the one hand, and sectional interference with Southern rights upon the other, we hold no sympathy. Our must earnest desire is for the restoration of the Union, upon the basis of the Constitution, and, for myself, 1 will give an honest support to all constitutional and proper measures, adopted by the Administration to that end; and I will as earnestly oppose all acas in violation of the Constitution, and iu suppression of liberty, because of my veneration for that solemn compact of our fathers, and because such policy renders the Union impossible, by obliterating the Union sentiment of the South, and giving aid and comfort to its enemies. Tbe writer goes on to say that, "if the speeches and resolutions of this Convention are true, then our Government is entirely in the wrong, and the rebels entirely in the right." What resolution, or sentiment in any speech justifies this assertion? The tenth resolution is as follows: 10. That we will sustain, with all our energies, a war for the maintenance of the Constitution and of the integrity of tbe Union under the Constitu tion ; but we are opposed to a war for the emanci pation of the negroes, or the subjugation of the Southern States. If the war is to be waged "for the emancipation of the negroes, or the subjugation of the Southern States," as the Abolitionists demand, then the resolutions do not sustain it; but, on the . , , , . , . other hand, "for the maintenance of the Consti tution, and of the integrity of the Union, under a. .:. . . - -. .. , . ,, ., top ( -Oltcf irnrifiri rnp 1 iiTH-pntinii nloil . 1 1 tlii ,, , ,, i r . T ,. "energies of the Democracy of Indiana to its , w, . ,, . . , , support. W ho is the writer, that undertakes to . c D ... . T .. speak tor tbe Republicans of Indiana, in saving ....... . , n . . that this resolution places the Government in the ,., , , , . . ,, . . , wrong and the rebels in the right? j ... ,. , . . A preserved Constitution and an unbroken ., . . .. ........ union is tne ooject wnicn Democrats, conservative Republicans, and all Union loving men de md fw Umt object & . , . . . the energies of the juirtv Hut th u-ntor wye , , , 0 iU the resolution places the Government in the wrong then it is because he would n t have die war prosecuted to maintain the Constitution, and restore the Union, but for the purpose of freeing the negroes, to which the Abolitionists seek to pervert it. By what authority is it tlmt he undertakes to say that the war is prosecuted, not for the Union and the Constitution, but to accomplish the dangerous and destructive designs of the Abolitionists that it is not for the Union of the States, but for the mad schemes of fanatics, that the people are putting forth their energies, and receiving burthens which they and their chil dren must continue to bear? Whoever enunciates such startling propositions must be prepared to show his authority. In closing we feel it proper to admonish the people that every effort will be made to deceive them in relation to the position of the Democratic party ambitious men feel that the current of popular opinion is turning against tbem that they are going down before the "second sober thought of the people" and they will become desperate and reckless in their effort? to hold on to the power of position and to the public spoils. Journal vn. BrlsrHt. The editor of the Journal charged that tbe 8th of January Convention was a "Bbiout Convention;" that it was controlled by the most intimate friends of Senator Rbight. The Washington flection of popular sentiment. It was not called to do homage to any man, hut simply to speak plainly upon the present condition of the country and the management of public affairs. The fact that President Lixcol.n has since the meeting of the Convention removed Secretary Camibox is one aridence that the Democracy of Indiana haTe not Pken in vam m IrjG The Sullivan Democrat well says: "Much ,h.ese Republican fei lows care about Dot glas, when a short time ago they were cheek by jowl with Bright, denouncing Douglas as a demagogue." ET The New York Tribune refers to the administration of Mr. Camkbon "as the most patriotic under the Government." What must t the balance be? 3f We repett that no one in the Convention herd Mr Pai the remarks attributed to him by tbe Journal. If that print repeats the I statement a few tiroes more it will believe the lie -ir ' , , tySay the Term Haute Journal, one year ag a bushel of corn would buy two pounds of coffee; now it takes at least one bushel and a half to buy one pound of coffee. What a vast change this rebellion has made upon the condition, and especially the labor of the country ! OT The Journal cays: "Col Dlxham Col Millen, Maj. Fbtbaboeb, Capt. BEMrsnAFrKE, ami others, were setout in the cold because they had taken up arms like loyal and true men, to sustain tbe Government aud maintain tlie L'nion." Kach of these gentlemen had a warm Beat in the Convention and all approve its resolutions and nominations. , .

tlie VI on r Cei-TreaB ry Plundering.

Datves, a Re-uu ic.ui member of the House front Massachusetts, and a member of tbe Com mittee of Investigation on Government contracts, ms'ie a scathing speech on Monday last, ex posing and denouncing the wholesale system of plundering which had characterized tbe management of tbe war this far, and all under a pretended patriotic devotion to the country. Tbe New York Tribune attributes the retire ment of Gen. Camsbos to the developments made in the speech of Mr. Dawk and that he had been surrounded by unprofitable frends, "who," to use the language of that print, "would have scorned the idea of selling their God for thirty pieces of silver so long as there was the faintest hope of making it forty." The picture presented by Mr. Dawks is disgraceful to the Government, and shows that the Treasury has been beseiged by a set of cormorants who have been fattening upon the misfortunes of the country. The following is a condensed report of Mr. Dawn's speech in the House: Sia : I have not failed to notice and I believe the Committee of which I am a member have not tailed to notice, in common with the whole country, that for some unaccountable reason, tbe charges upou the National Treasury, at this lime of war, have been such as to reach nearly the bottom of the public cheat. During the inves'.igation, startling facts have come before the notice of the Committee, and before the notice of the whole country, touching tbe mode and manner of the expenditure of the public money. Some of these items 1 propose to call public attention to, and then to ask gentlemen the plain question, when they propose to meet this question, if at all, and if so, bow, when, and where? The very first contract entered into by this Gov ernment, after the troops bad left their homes to come here, in April last, to defend the Capital, by which they were to be fed, was a contract entered into tor cattle. It was not made with a man whose business it was to supply cattle to the mat ket, not with a man who knew the price of beef ia the markets of tlie country, but was en tercd into by lbs Government here with a man well kaowu in this, and in the other branch of Congress for the past ten years, as an old stipendiary one ol tlie class of men w ho.in tunes fi. ist , ma. le their money by such operations as buying tlie certificates of members for books at a discount, and then charging the full amount. This contract was made so that the first twenty-two hundred head of cattle furnished was charged at a rate which enabled their original contractor to sub let it in twentv-four hours after to a man iu New York who did not know the price of beef, so that he put into his pockets, without stirring from his chair, $32,000, and tbe men who actually furnished the cattle in question, put into their pockets $26,000 more, so that the contract under which these 2,200 head of cattle were furnished to tlie army, was so made that the profit of $5,000 was realized over tbe fair market price. It takes a louder time tor a thousaud head of eattie to reach this city from the Mates where they are purchased than it takes the army to consume them. I ask the House, at this rate, to consider how long the most ample provisions of the Trea sury would be able to meet the simple demands for the suljsistence of the army. Sir, poorly as the army is shod to day, a million of shoes have already been worn out, and a million more are being manufactured, and yet upon every one of these shoes there has been a waste of seventyfive cents. Three quarters of a million of dollars have been already worn out, and another three quarters of a million of dollars upon shoes is now being manufactured. In that department of the Goverumeut contracts have been so plentiful that Government officials have gone about the streets with the pockets filled with them, and of which they made presents to tbe clergymen of their parishes, and with which were healed old political sores and cured political feuds. Even tho telegraph has announced that high public functionaries have graced the love-feasts which which were got up to celebrate these political reconciliations, thus brought about while the hatchet of political animosity was buried in the grave of political confidence, and tlie national credit was crucified among malefactors. We have reported to us the first fruits of these contracts. A regiment of cavalry lately reached Louisville, 1,000 strong, and the Boardof Army 0IIic?rs there appointed for the purpose, have condemned 485 out of the 1,000 horses as utterly woetbb ss. I he man who examined those horses declared, upon his oath, that there was not one of them that was worth $20- They were blind, spavinad, ringboiied, afHiotpd with the heaves', witb the glanders, and with every disease that horseflesh is heir to. These 4ä5 horses cost the Government, before they were mustered into the service, $5o,200, beside more than an additional $1,000 to transtiort them from Pennsylvania to Louisville, where thev were condemned and east 0f. Mr. Mallory (TJa., Ky.) asked what regiment those horse" heloueed to. and who furnished ti.-m Mr. Dawes Tbey belonged to Colonel Wdhams s regiment of cavairy, aud they were purchased in Pennsylvania, from which State they were forwarded to Louisville, where they were condemned. There are eighty-three regiments of cavalry to-day, 1,000 strong". It takes $250,000 to put one of these regiments on foot betöre it moves. Twenty millions of dollars had thus been expended on these cavalry regiments before they left the encampments where tbey were mustered into service, and hundreds of these horses have been condemned and sent back to Elmira, aud to Annapclis, and to this city, to spend the winter. Any day hundreds of them can be seen round this city, chained to trees, where they were left to starve to death. Gangs of two hundred horses, in various places, have been thus left to die and rot, till the Committee on the District of Columbia have called for a measure of legislation to protect the city from the danger to be apprehended from these horse Golgothas. An exGovernor of one State offered to an ex-Judge of another State $5.000 to get him permission to raise one of these regiments of cavalry, and when the ex-Judge brought back the couimis sinn, the ex Governor takes it to his room at the hotel, while another plunderer sits at the keyhole watching like a mastiff while he inside counts up $40,000 profit on the horses, and calculates $20,000 more upon the accuuntmeuts, and on the ! other details of furnishing these regiments. In ! addition to the arms in the hands of the 600,000 ! soldiers in the held, there are numerous outI standing contract: . made with private individuals ! not 'made upon advertisement, not made with the knowledge of the public, but made by ex members of Congress, w ho know no more of the difference between one class of arms than does a Methodist ininiU.T. There are outstanding conj ucts for the manufacture of Springfield muskets, (the first one of which can not be delivered in six months from this day. There is a contract for j the supply of one million and ninety thousand muskets, at $28 apiece, when the same quality of muskets are manufactured at Springfield for $13 50 apiece; and an ex member of Congress is now in Massachusetts, trying to get machinery madeby which he will be able to manufacture in some six months hence at $21 apiece, those rifled muskets manufactured to dar in that armory lor 13 50. Providence, before six months, will dispose of this war, or He will dispose of us. Not one of Jiose muskets thus contracted for, will be of the litrhtest service in this emergency, or before the Providence of God, whether for good or for evil, vi, I dispose of it. I ask my friends from the North and Northwest how they expect to benefit y an armory at Chicago, at Rock Island, and . it Quincy, when 1,092,000 muskets will, accordinr to this contract, be thrown upon the country, and that after the war is over, and at such an enormous price, in addif'on to the other outstanding contracts for t..e manufacture, some tine hence, of 272,000 Enfield rifles? Besides, there are 75,543 sets of harness to be delivered 1 ry and bv. at the cost of $l,9?d,446. I have not ! time to enumerate all these contracts. When we j appropriated at the last session ot Congress for j I . - ..... futA it. tii -Li : M: tnis purpose, $.o,ifuw,uoo, vnirij reojn miuioiu I and some thousand dollars bad been already j pledged to contractor not lor the purchase of . arms for the men in the field, uot to protect them in fighting their country's battles in this great i emefgency and peril, but for some future use, for some future occasion, or to meet some present need of the contractors. I don't know which at this moment. And not only the ap propriation of last session has been exhausted, j but $17,000,000 put upon it. The riot of the j 19th of April, iu Baltimore, opened this ball, ! and on the 21st of April, in the city of New York, there was orainied a corps of plunderers of the treasury. Two millions of dollars were intrusted to a poor, unfortunate, honest, but en tirely incompetent editor of a paper in New York to dispense it in the best manner he could. Straightway this gentleman began to purchase linen pantaloons, straw hats, Loi.don porter, dried herrings and such like provisions for tbe army till he expended iu t he way 3!W,000 of the money, and then he got scared ando.uit. Laughter j There is au appropriation also for the supply of wood to the army. This contractor is pledged the payment of $7 a cord for all the wood delivered to the different commands wood

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d cut dowg the trees to clear the ground batteries, and then this contractor em armv wagons to Jraw it to the !-ererai and he has no further trouble than to his $7 for a cord, leaving the Government to draw the wood. Laughter It costs two millions of dollars every day to support tbe army in the field. A hundred millions of dollars have thus been expended since we met on the 22d day of December, aud all that time tbe army has been in repose. What the expenditures will in crease to when that great day shall arrive when our eyes shall oe gladdened with a sight of tbe army in motion, I do not know. Another hundred millions will go with tbe hundreds more I have enumerated. Another hundred millions may be added to these before the 4th of March. What it may cost to put down the rebellion I care very little, provided, always, that it be put down effectually. But, sir, faith without works is dead, and I am free to confess that my faith sometimes fails me I mean my faith in men, not my faith in the cause. When tbe history of these times shall be written, it will be a question upon whom the guilt will rest most heavily upou him who has conspired to destroy, or upon him who has proved incompetent to preserve the institu1 turns bequeathed to us by our fathers. It is no wonder that the public treasury trembles and staggers like a strong man with too great a burden upon him. A strong man in an air exhausted receiver is not more helpless to day than is the Treasury of this Government beneath the exhausting process to which it is subjected. 'I he mighty monarch of tlie forest himself may bold at bay the fiercest, the mightiest of his foes, while the vile cur, coming up behind him and opening his tangs, gives him a fatal wound, aud although he may struggle on boldly and valiantly the lite blood is silently trickling from his heart, and he is at last forced to loosen his grasp, and he grows faint, and falters and dies. The '1 ury notes issued in the face of these immense outlays, without a revenue from custom-houses, from land sales, from any source whatever, are beginning to fall in tbe market. Already have they begun to sell at six per ceuL discount at the tables of the money changers; and at the very time too. that we here exhibit the singular spectacle of fraud, and of a struggle with the Committee on Wavs and Means itself, in an endeavor to lift up and sustain the Government of the country. Already the sutler that curse of the camp is following tlie paymaster as the shark follows the ship, buying up for four dollars every five dollars of the wages of the soldiers, paid to them Treasurv notes. I have no desire to hasten the movements of the army, or to criticise the conduct of its leaders, but in view of the stupen dous draft upon the Treasury, I must say I long for the day of striking the blow which will bring this rebewnn to an end. Sixty days langer of this state of things will bring about a result one way or another. It is impossible that the Treasury of the United Stetes can meet, and continue to meet, this state of things sixty days longer; and an ignominious peace must be submitted to unless we see to :t that the credit of the country -tained, and sustained too by the conviction going forth from th.s hall to the people of the countrv that we will treat as traitors not onlv 1 those who are bold and manly enough to meet us face to face on the field of strife, but all those. also, who clandestinely and stealthily suck the lite-blood from us in this mighty struggle. Whatever measures may emanate from the Committee on Ways and Means to meet and retrieve this state of things, thev will but fall like a dead pall upon the Government unless they give this as-u rnnee, that these extraordinary and extreme measures to resuscitate, revive and replenish the Treasury, are not made to fill further and longer the already gorged pockets of the public plunder era. How, then, are we to contribute in this matter to revive public confidence in our public men here, if it be not when thse anprooriations come -jp that we probe them, that we ascertain whether there be anything in them that at this moment can be spared. Our pressing duty now is to protect and save tlie Treasury from further wholesale or other systems of plundering. In conclusion, he argued against paying for printing the Treasury notes, on the ground that the contract was improperly obtained. Krum th- vaniville Journal, 15th. From the South We are in receipt of late and reliable intelligence from the South, and it is not of a character calculated to fill the friends of the Union with bright anticipations. The rebels have profited largely by the mysterious and unaccountable delay in the advance of our troops, and have concentrated men, munitions of war and means of defense of all kinds at Bowling Green, with an energy and dispatch that seems almost marvelous. The gentleman from whom we derived our information says he did not conceive it possible that such a material difference in the appearance of a place could be made as has occuired at PoerNng Green within the last two or three weeks. The rebels, who were in a great measure unprepared for resisting an attack three or four weeks ago. ! and were panic stricken at the thought of on advance of tlie Federal troops, now breathe easy. i Thej have erected seven strong fortifications at i different points in the vicinity of the town which ! thev consider adds to tneir bireniuh at least the i equivalent of 10,000 nieu each Many of their recent levies are raw troops and not very well armed. These, however, ore kept within the fortifications, while a large division of picked troops has been organized for operations in the field, and to prevent the Union forces from interfering with their communications aud cutting off their supplies. The raw troops will be almost as efficient behind the entrenchment. and in rifiepits as regulars, and with a thoroughly equipped and disciplined corps for field operations, the entire rebel army will be quite as efficient for all purposes of defense as though all the troops were regulars. Everything calculated to hinder the advance of the Union troops has been resorted to. Bridges have been burned, tracks torn Bp, trees felled across the highways, railroad crossties aud rails destroyed, and all that the ingenuity of the devil himself could devise, seems to have been thought of and acted upon. The number of troops now under the immediate command of Johnston, and concentrated in the country immediately about Bowling (jreen is estimated by our correspondent at 70,000, and the number is daily increasing. These are scattered among the various fortifications and kept diligently employed adüing to their strength. The rebels already feel comparatively easy, but say, if a few more week's time is given them, they can render Bowling Green invulnerable to any assault upon it by all the power of the Gov ernment. Forts Donelson and McHeury are also I strongly fortified. These constitute the center of Gen. Johnston's line, and till lately have beeu comparatively weak. These hitherto uuimporj taut earthworks and a small body of men at Hopkiusville, have constituted the centre of an army whose wings at Columbus und Bowling Green numbered it tens of thousands. The rebels must have calculated largely on the blindness of the Union Generals to have left so imlortunt a position so weak. A columu of 12.000 or 15,000 men were thrown serosa the country from Smithlaud a few weeks ago, would have broken up the rebel chain of defenses, and so materially interfered with their communication, as to have prevented anything like a systematized aud combined defense at all points. Clarksville could have been taken easily, and the gunboats would have experienced iittie difficulty in keeping the Cumberland river open for supplies. Bui thoee golden opportunities have been lost. It will now Uke teu me to accomplish what, four weeks ago, could as easily have beet, done by one. The rebel Generals have undoubtedly calculated largely on the blindness of our army leaders, und their conclusions have in no instance been erroneous. What is more painful than tbe slow and hesitating character of our army movements, is the fact that traitors among us are becoming bolder in their dealings with the rebels, and more outsooken in their eJbrtf to throw obstacles if- tbe way of the good cause. We have it from a source, and in a way that we can not doubt the correctiiese of the information, that right in our midst citizens who stand high are deliberatelyplotting against tbe Union and in behalf of the rebels. A tegular chain of communicatioa through the gap between Henderson and Southland, Kv , is kept up, that is as available aud efficient to'the rebels as though a regular telegraph line had been constructed, and was in full aud perfect operatiou. This ia melancholy; but as the Government never punishes, it will ever be betrayed. A former citizen of this city has been to Nashville within the past two weeks, and is now back at his post, down the river, ready to receive and forward auy communications that maybe sent to him by the traitors in our midst. Gen. Buell's attention has beeu directed to this leak in his department, and he has "closed it" with a proclamation. In order to more effectual i atop it, he has uspeuded the publication of the Louisville papers in the river towns, apparently because they called his attention to this subject. Rebel emissaries and squads of cavalry are roamiug over fifteen or twenty counties of aouthwesst Kentucky, stealing and buying hogs and other property , '-with uoee daring to molest or make tbem afraid," while we hear of fourteen regiment of infantry and four or five butteries of artillery in Ohio- anil eight or ten in Wisconsin, anxious lor marching ordws and something to do. We are not talking at landom on this subject. We know whereof we speak."

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tilings will bring the To plain, practical is of an armv and I tt the rusr: . -I Irotn a common - r BSI. stand point alette, the future is ominously dark, and light can wily "break m" through some rent in the rebel columns, occasioned by the advance and triumph of our almost disheartened volunteers. From the Columbia (Pa.) Democrat ot ion. 11 The Border Statte and the Afcolltir Plot. The States of Kentucky and Missouri contain a majority ot men tavoraoie to tbe tnion, and wining to ngnt ror im preservation toai is, iot tbe Luion under tbe Constitution. Many of ' these loyal persona aje slave owners, as they have an unquestionable right to be under the laws of their States, and denounce any and every attempt to interfere with their privileges in this respect. Congress assured them that tbe war had but the one purpose, aud that was tbe preservation of t'ie Union, with tbe rights and institutions of the several States unimpaired. Accepting Ibis pledge in good faith, they ranged themselves on the side of the Government, and withstood the temptations that sought to allure them into the ranks of rebellion Their firm and devoted loyalty is to be commended; but bow is it regarded by tbe ultra faction now urging the Government into the adoption of extreme measures? These men say tbey, are slave owners the re hellion is a slaveholders' rebellion, and the loyal men ot the Border States are therefore little better than open enemies so long as thev demand security and protection for their slave property. Wc will treat slavery as tbe great criminal, notw.th standing some professedly loyal meu hare an interest in the institution, and require protection for their rights. The rule, with those who argue in this way is, that a slaveholder is necessarily a rebel, whether he is fighting against the Union or maintains a loyal position. The aim of the radical politicians is apparently to drive the loyal border States into open rebellion, in order to substantiate the theory that slavery is tbe cause of the war and to destroythat remnont of respect for constitutional obligations which still attaches to the people of the Northern States. This result accomplished, and the extremists would lie enabled to point to tlie defection of every slave State in the Union as incontrovertible evidence that slavery is tbe caase the war, and demand with exultation that a blow be struck at the great criminal. If this is not the object of the Abolitionists, why are they so anxious to drive off the border States? Why so ready to increase the number of the enemies of the Government? Each lover of his country must feel the deepest sympathy for the loyal men of Kentucky, 7irginht and Missouri, who have accomplished more and endured mure for the Union than all the Abo liticnists put together. Instead of weakening their moral or physical power, our efforts should be directed to strengthening both aud above all they should not be punishel for their constitu tional rights. But the Abolitionists seem to be studying how they can best disgust and degrade the loyal slaveholders and furnish them with substantial reasons for rushing into the arms of the rebel Confederacy. If the Union could be restored to-morrow, without the destruction of slavery, the Abolitionists would interpose objections. No one can have observed their course without seeing that their object is to destroy slavery by the use of the war power, or, failing in that, to divorce the Northern States from connection with the institution by a dissolution of the Union. Just at this time their faith in the ability of the Government to crush rebellion in wavering, and their policy is to increase the enemies of the Union and the power of tbe Confederacy by driving off the boroer State? then the next step will be to in sist upon universal emancipation and arming of the negroes as the last resort, and when that fails they will say: "This contest is hopeless. We can not subjugate the South; let us consent to dissolution and thank heaven that we are rid of the great si u of slavery ." This is evidently the pro gramme of the radical party, and the only way of preventing the consummation of their disunion plot is to guard against the first step iu it, by maintaining the Constitution at all hazards. Denunciation of corruption. Mr. Senator Hale, of New Hampshire, theother day, in the discission of the Army Bill, spoke as follows: Mr. Hale Mr. President, I am pleased with the remarks that have been made by the Senoaor from Oregon. I sympathize entirely with the remarks which he has made about the frauds that have leen committed on the public Treasury, about the array that ia waiting to advance on tlie enemy, and the army that is wailing to advance on the. Treasury; but I will tell you tke army that ha made war upon the Treatury has made a oery brilliant campaign of U. Laughter. It lia been one series of triumph, and they have beaten always. I confess that from a recent visit to the North , where public virtue stands no lower, to say the ica-t, than it does in otbet parts of the country, 1 have leeu pained and mortified beyond endurance to learn how the generous confidence w ith which this people have furnished men and poured out money has been abused and trampled upon. It beat6 all credulity. I stand here to-day to say and I say it with shame and humiliation, and 1 would to God that the necessity did not exist for me to say it that some of the highest officers of your Government are not ex empt from the censure which ought to rest upon those guilty of these frauds upon the public Treasury. "Put them out." I have not the power to put them out. 1 would be ready, and 1 am not sure that the time has not come for it; I am anlions to vote for an act which shall punish with death a deliberate fraud upon the public Treasury in time of war, when tbe nation is bleeding at every pore, and patriotism is taxing itself to its utmost to sustain tbe Army in defense ot the Constitution. I say, deliberately, 1 would puuish any man who would perpetrate a deliberate fraud upon the Treasury of such a ptople at auch time with death; and 1 think the country will have to come to that. I say that such a man is unfit to live under the privileges and opportunities which belong to such a country us ours, and to such a Government aa ours. Sir, I will welcome anything under heaven w hich should awaken this people excuse me. I believe the people are more awake thau tbe Government anything that shall wake up this Qal ernment in ail its branches to the importance of the issue in which we are engaged, and the neceseity of tbe means to wnicn we must resort, i ! hope that taxes will be laid one hundred and ' fifty or two hundred millions of dollais. I think i nothing snort of that should be laid. The crisis I of this hour has come: the criMs of this country 's historv is about to culminate, and we are about to demonstrate to the world whether or not we can maintain a free Government. We can not mainj tain it, and we ought not to maintain it, I wt ARE ASCORRI FT Ab TI!L PRACTlCF-S ON OCR TrkAS TRY WOULD LEAD ONK TO BKL1KVE if public OOr r n prion has become so general, and the public con.science so callous, that the things which are j daily practiced before our eyes can be practiced and tolerated bv the people of this Government. j Look, sir. at the report to which the honorable Senator from Oregon has referred. I tell you that the facts which have boon disclosed by that committee are such as ought to make'orerv member of the Senate and of I the House of KeprcsenUtives hang- - - - - j - - . his !ii(l in shame. Such thmee mre expo i spread out to the light of heaven and ' earth, and men see them, and what do they say? They mv: "Well, it is too bad; it is not rijrht; I do not blame you for talking so," but, sir, is anyl thing done? Has any thing been done to purp ! this Government of the men that are jeedinp them j seines luxuriantly and fraudulent upon toe eery " . . - . at TT .L? L. I . - life blood ol the nation! Xias anrimng oew uonc to purge this Government itself of treason and traitors, and thieves und robbers? But very little; I tell to, sir, the public will not stand it, and they ought not to stand it. If those things CO OH there will be a rebellion in the loyal State I worse thau there ever was in those which are now in rebellion against this Government, and there ' ought to be. Thev will not stand H, and they ought not to stand it; and I say for one, that in mvhnmble sphere, and with such ability as God ha given nie. I dec-'.arewar to-day, not upon the .Se,.e,i,,it on the other side of the Potomac. but upon tbe public pluuderetw on Ulis de, and I call upou the Senate, upon erery man who thinks we have a Government and a country worth de fending-, to see to it that we defend it from foe? that are striking more deadly blows than any that have been received in any of the disasters which hare befallen our arms at Ball's Bluff or Bull Run. Relenting; Bcpubltrana The Philadelphia Pres says : "Tbe fact is daily becoming daily more apparent that the Republican leaders are prepsriug to give up or modify their organization by inviting into their co.ifidenc-e the loyal Democracy." We should be glad to learn who these relenting Republican leaders are. We have discovered none such. On the contrary, the most pro mi neu t and active of the Republicau leaders we mean those who really have hitherto led the Republican party have during the present session of Congress ran into more violent partisanship and into more extreme and deatructive policies than ever before. Mo t of them are open advocates

gagrn emancipation bv the pen la I Presides, wherea.'.one year ago Id have been deemed craxy who talked abOttt immediate universal - ;toSBa any pub! ca leaders Is to give up oi'txodify t. These are the Re who "are prepwnng rraniaation tv invi nug into the It strikes as tbe loyal Desaocracy t" pnpeeiawUgtve ap or bv liiviUtir into the r their she. aN'üeasaiaes, or rather bv . i w tie im--i, abolMitssttists to let tbem into It it be other Republican whom the rr f:aas, they are in dead, and the "loval to be very thankful. It invited into their u deptre P be The teyal de mocracv"' have for some time. to be' Invited ir bodv'n hare not cared uch whose, and thev will accept the to come iu under skelter. Tbey will lav their poor heads apon lending Republican bosoms gratofally. only sbo them the bosoms Tbe Press should be content witb its own dis graceful defeewoo, t which has excited tbe ntr rather than tbe regret of the "loyal Desnocra cy," without presuming to intimate that other people are aa weak iu the matter of the iawh pots as itself Chtcago Time, Extraordinary Speech front Hon. Hr. Isovejety, of Illinois, la tke asoaaeof Rrpreoentativre. ea Taaaaar, täte 14th ini. If. Hatte Fnglana and lnstrnrta Hie hlldrea to Hate Her. The House of Representatives, ia committee, took up the bill making an appropriation to carry into effect the act providing for the exhibition of American products at the World's Fair. Mr. Lovejoy (Kep.; of Illinois I am wary decidedly opposed to this bill. I think it is onoogh for os, in all conscience, to bare been hassbag ged and dishonored and disgraced by the Bntih nation, without appropriating $35,000 for the pur pose of an American exhibition there. Mr. Kellogg (III.) inquired if it had been through the action of the British Government, or of our own Government, that we have been thus dishonored and disgraced t Mr. Lovejoy I understand how it was done. That disgrace was all that the nation could bear We marched up to it sweating great drops of blood. We came to it as Christ a out to the cross ying, "it it be possible let this cop pass from us," and yet we are required to say that we did it cheerfully that we did it gladly and that we now appropriate thankfully thirty five thousand dollars to fit out commissioners to appear at the Court of St. James. Inasmuch as we hare submated to that disgrace, as we have sabmittod to be thus dishonored by Groat Britain, I think the least we can do is to acknowledge it, and to stay at home till the time comes that we can whip the nation. Then I will be willing logo and appear at their World's Exhibition. Every time I time I think of that rarrender the words came instinctively to me which ..Eneas used when requested by Queen Dido to rehearse the sufferings which had befallen IheTiojans du ring tlie siege and capture of Troy; "Oh, Queen, yon require me to renew the hitolrrable grief that siege by re acting." Every time the Trent affair comes up, every time an allusion is made to it, every time that' I have to think of it, that expression of the tortured and agonized Tro jan exile comes to my lips I am made to renew the horrors which I suffered when tlie news of the surrender of Mason aud Slnlell reached me. I acknowledge it, I literally wept tears of vexation . I hate it, and I hate tbe British Government. I hereby now publicly avow and record that hate, and declare that it shall be unci: . - mean to cherish it while 1 live, and to bequeath it to mv children when 1 die, and if 1 mm alive when war with England comes, and .f 1 can car ry a musket in that war I wUI carry it. 1 have three sons, aid I mean to charge them, and do now charge tbem, that if they abali hare at that time reached tlie age of manhood and strength they shall enter into that war. 1 believe there was no need for that surrender, and 1 balier that the nation would rather have gone to war with Great Britain than have suffered the disgrace ot being insulted and being thus unavenged. I have not reached the sublimity of Christianity that exhaltaiion of Christianity which allows me tobe insulted, abused and dishonored. 1 can bear all that as a Christian, bat to say that I do it cheerfully is mora than I can bring myself to. I trust in God that the time is not far distant when we shall hare suppressed this rebellion, and be prepared to avenge and wipe out this insult that we have received. We will then stir up Irekid, we will appeal to tbe ChartUta of England , we will go to tbe old Kreuch hahitans of Canada, we will join bands wkh France and Russia to take away tbe eastern poanaasions of that proud Empire, and will take away the crown from that Government before we cease. I trust in God tint the time will come. I trust the appropriation will be voted down. One of our commissioners, I uiidendand, h the individual who writes these pleasant letters, asking us to submit to the insult cheerfully to smile at the bitter cup, i drugged with the bitterest ingredients tht were ever pressed to human lips, and not to make a : face about it. I don't believe there was any ne cessity for this surrender. 1 am strongly inclined to believe that we would have been ail tbe troti er tor this difficulty with Great Britain, for it would have made us feel the necessity of making short work witb tbe rebels. After further debate, the House passed the bill by a large majority. From awhinsrtan. The intelligent correspondent of the Chicago Times writes as folloas from Washington under date of the 13th, ia regard to tbe strength of the Confederate army upou the Potomac and designs of Gen. Hk.u keoarh and the necessity of restoring the Union feeling at the South: The Southern military leaders are impressed with the belief that it is no part of Gen. MeClellan's plan to have a great and decisive battle looght ia tbe neighborhood of Washington Tbey have somehow cot the imiireseiou that, in (Jen. McClellan's opinion, a battle near Washington would involve too great a risk to the alet. ot ihe Federal capital, and that it is his policy u attack them at other points, and at so many other points all at the same lime, that they will have to withdraw a good portion of their army from Manas aaa Holding these views, they are determined that one great battle shall uke place near Washington, ami that no part of Beauregard's army of the Potomac shall be withdrawn nutil such a bat tie has been fought. I believe, however, that when the great ad vance does take place there will be as hard blows given and taken at Centern lie as at any other point. The idea that any portion of Beauregard's arsay ot the Potomac has been or will be wiihdrawn'for the defence of any other point, is entitely fallacious and is not entertained at all in well iafocsned military circles here. It il the opinion of tbe beet informed military men here that the Coafederatejany of the Potomac is quite aa strong noiucricdBsV us ours: that their arms and clothing are as good as ours and their officer as experienced. The result of the battle, then, when it is fought, may well be watched witb the most intense interest Perhaps it is not too much to aay that it will decide the fate of the war. You are aware bow unmindful both hooaee of Congress have been, up to this time, of the only object they ought to hare before them, namely: the providing ol means to carry ea the war; and that the time of Congress is wasted in chatter about every other It is dow that Illinois mu Senator. Were he now alive, he would it is that Congress is doing nothing to encourage the Union feeling in the Southern State He would show that our fleets and our armies may conquer and subjugate the Southern Stet ; bait that it is a revival of Union sentiment at the South that alone cau films to us our country as it w as. He would expose the designs of the Abolitionists, woo wish to conquer the South only to dealrov it: aud he would rally around him. in tin attempt to restore the Union feeling at the South, every conservative member of Coagram. la there no one upou w hom the mantle ol' the dead Senator has fallen T We extract the followinc from the pro ceedmg of Uk Illinois Constitutional Convention on Monday last: Mr WenVworth Mr. President: Perhaps it would not be improper for me to aay to the Convention iu this public capacity, rather than seek a private opportunity, that Kx-Gorernor Wright, of Indiana, oar ex minister to Berlin, has seat to me copiew of an eulogy on tbe late Hon Steven A. Dou-I..- delivered by him in tbe hall of tbe House of representative or tbe fth of January, 132 It requires no motion, bat I will mereiy lay tbem on the Clerk . table, that tbey may be distributed as requested by Gov. Wright. 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