Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 1, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 May 1862 — Page 2

WEEKLY SENTINEL

WOXDAY MAY LB Ttic I ni on it muil be preterred. Jackson. Democratic Union State Ticket. rOR SECRETARY Of STATE, JAMES S. ATHON, Of Mni in Countv. FOR AUDITOR Or STATE, JOSEPH RISTINE, Of Fountain County. VOR TRKASIRER OF STATE, MATTHEW L BRETT, Of Daviess County. FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL, OSCAR B HORD, Ot Decatur Cotnty. rOR BCPKRINTENDKNT 09 PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, SAMT ELL. RUGG, OrTAMen County. Qf The Republican papers that approved the ordei of General Hi nter, have nearly all taken the tack track. They got the wrong cue that time. J3f The Boston Post says if the synopsis of Ben. Wood's speech in Congress., which it has seen, is correct, he ought to be appointed a Colonel mder Jeff. Davis. Cy Letters from Port Royal announce the appearance of a dangerous disease among the horses therj, which threatens to become contagious Twi-nty had been shot and a large number renun ed from camp to prevent the spread of the disse. TLieut. John F. C. Tanner, of Jackson county , has been appointed to a first-class clerkship in the war office at Washington. Lieutenant Tanner is a brother of Major Tanner. He hel i a commission in the 22d Indiana regiment, wh ch physical disabilities, received in the service, compelled him to resign. l3f"WM. K. Roche-ter, Esq., an enterprising and well known citizen of Lafayette, died on Frday last, in the 41st year of his nge. Mr. Rt Chester was a gentleman of great energy of ch iracter, and foremost in all public enterpises ca culated to advance the interests of that city. His death, in the prime and vigor of manhood, is loss which will be long felt in that community. iTGovernor Rector, of Arkansas, has is su k1 a proclamation strongly denunciatory of th J Jiff. Davis Government. The re el papers of that State call it treasonable. A decided Union sentiment is being developed in North Carolina. Members of the Union Convention elrted by the peop!e on he 2Sth of February, 1661. by iin aggregate majority of over 611,000, hM a meeting recently at Raleigh. Verilv some light fleams through the dark clouds of sc:essia. These evidences of loyalty and division of sentiment will be gall nud wormwood to the radicals who have no desire to see auy of the Southern States restored to the Union with their rights u ii im paire.1. The Sutliran Disaster. Why does not the Journal do simple justice to tie parties it has falsely accused in that affair? It charged upon the Democracy of Sullivan countv an intent to kill Governor Morton by p acing obstructions upon the track upon the night the disaster occurred. This charge is pronounced as infamously untrue by the Republicans of Sullivan in a card over the names of responsible and respectable citizens who are conversant with all the facts in the case. Such, too, is the verdict of the coroner's jury, called to investigate the affair. Why has not the Journal the bouesty, the fairness, the manliness to retract its toul aspersions made for political effect. It knows they are totally untrue, yet it permits its leaders to continue the impression that its ennrges lire correct. We call upon it to do simple justice in the matter by retracting them. Denouncing the President. The Rev. Dr. Ch fever, an Abolitionist divine, XKk occasion last Sunday evening in a sermon le delivered in New York, to denounce the Presilent in most severe teXms in anticipation of his modi'".cation of the general emancipation order of General Hunter. He said if the President interposed in the matter it would be "madness and wickedness concentrated." In addition he remarked: If he now hastens to disavow and forbid this grand, righteous and benevolent action against sltvery, it will bean insult to the country, a disgrace to himself and to tlte Government, a crime against humanity and God." If a Democrat had applied such terms to the President, he would have been charged by the Republicans with disloyalty to the Government. But an Abolitionist can use the entire vocabulary of abase and denunciation against the powers that be without even a rebuke from his Republican allies. It is evident that the object of both wings of the Republican party are the same; they only travel different roads to accomplish them One Issue. The progress ot the war will make a system of colonization and emancipation a necessity, and the people should be prepared to meet and provide for it. We are confident that the people of Indiana will, if ihe question is presented to them, endorse the doctrine ot the message by an overwhelming majority. It is light, and, therefore, all true aud loyal men will give it their hearty approval. The Delaware Free Press, in an article advocating the call for the Union Convention, thus presents one of the issues, which it says must be met The people of Indiana will entertain no such schemes. It will be their policy to let ne gro property, like all other property, take care of itself. They will be unwilling to assume the burden of buying the negro, colonizing him and then provide for his support until he can become self-sustaining. The tree States desire no increase of negro population. Many of them already have stringent laws prohibiting their immigration and those which have not will ere long enact them. This kind of senti merit will be the best check upon under ground railroads No matter what may be the termination of the war, e en if we should completely subjugate, the em re South, negro labor will be made avanable by tome compulsory agency. A successful termination of the rebellion by force sf arms will not depreciate the value of any kind ot property in the South. Tue infusion of a new and vigoious population will rather have the effect to enhance it, negro property included. Such are the teachings of history, and there is nothing in the present contest to make it an exception to the general rule. The Northern army almost universally are recidedly opoosed to negro equality and amalgamation. The great body of the people of the North will never consent to a social or political equality with the negro And under some system of servitude the negro will continue to be subject ive to the white race. 1 hi is a necessity. It is the only condition in which these races can live together where the negroes from a large portion of the popuUdou. Those who advocate a vigorous prose uti-.n of the war for no purpose than to terminate slavery will be And the class who entertain the idee of the war will make colonization a necessity will ltd Ives eriuallf mistaken. If the Re 'Union" party hitches on to either of tlMW Utopian ideas, their overwhelming defeat will no longer be a debatable question. We hope they will try them on and see if the "true and loyal" men of Indiana will give them a "hearty

ÖFA correspondent of the National Intelligencer gives Amos Kendall "the credit of having made the proposition which Oen. Hunter has thus practically carried out." Mr. Kendall addressed a letter to the editor of the National Intelligencer, in which he says: I should consider myself a traitor to my coun

try if I were to approve the late order of General Hunter, purporting to set free all the slaves within his military district. e In the order of General Hunter I see the essence of military despotism, utterly subversive of the Constitution we are fighting U maintain. . . The Future. Gloomy enough is the present aspect of our public affairs. Radicalism apptir to exercise a controlling influence in the councils of the nation Our latest advices from Washington indicate that the order of General Hunter will be the policy of the Republican party, with the sanction of Mr. Lincoln, within a brief period. There is also a prevading impression at the National Capital that before ninety days have transpired we shall be embroiled in a war with England and France. Such are the views entertained by in telligent gentlemen who have recently visited Washington. We most sincerely hope that these gloomy forebodings may not be realized, but it is viae to look dancer in the face and nreoare for . rw, i ... . lor it. The great want of the time3 is a statesmm who can cominhend the situation of the country, and who has the sagacity, patriotism and boldness to safely guide us out of our difficulties. Fraudulent Isu of Twelve Hundred Thousand Dollars of State lionds Discovered. The telegraphic report of the New York stock market to the Chicago Timet, dated the-." d says. "Stocks lower, under rumors of a heavy overissue in some description of lnd'iina securities." Upon inquirv we ascertain that some twelve i thousand dollars of Indiana five cent, bonds had been fraudulently over issued bv D. C. Stover, while Agent of State. Some I $700,000 of these bonds have been returned and cancelled, leaving outstanding of the over issue, it is supposed, some $500,000. Mr. Stover admits these facts, but refuses to give any inlbrmaj lion as to the whereabouts of the fraudulent bonds outstanding. The Hon. James A. Cravens, the present member of Congress from the Second District, was elected Auent ot' State, as the successor of J. M. Lord, Esq., by the Legislature of 1859. Mr. Stover was a candidate for the office at the same time. Upon the election of Mr. Cravens he ap pointed Stover his deputy, und the latter trans acted and had entire charge of the business ot ,i a- e . . ... , ' , ... .e the office, the former gmngjit but little.' ant personal attention during his term. The bond of Mr. Cra-vens was approved February 17, 1859. On the 27th of December. I?!). Mr Cravens resigned the office and Governor Willard appointed Mr. Stover to the vacancy und his bond was approved on that date. Mr. Stover had had considerable experience in the duties of the office, holding the position of clerk during the term of the late Allen Mat. He was regarded ly political friends and opponents as well qualifier for the position and as a gentleman of the strictest integrity. He was a resident of Ladoga, Montgomery county, and had the entire confidence of the people of that section of the State. He was a strict church member and was most exemplary in : all his business and social relations. He is the last man whom we would have suspected as ca- ' pable of committing such a crime. 1 Up to 1859 there was no adequate check in the ! transfer of the certificates of the stock of the State at the agency in New York; we may better j say there was no check whatever upon that offi cer. 1 Ins office was created under the xiutler bill, and its object was to facilitate the transfer of stocks. The Agent had no right to issue new bonds, but his duty was to pay the interest upon the bonds which were registered in his office; to take up and cancel transferred certificates and reissue new certificates of stock to the assignee or purchaser. For the convenience of the tranfer large quantities jf blanks were signed by the officers of State and kept at the agency. This loose mode of doing business was changed by the law of 1859, which took effect on the 11th of March that year. The certificates of stock by that law had to be sent here for transfer and new certifi cates were issued here signed bv the Auditor and Treasurer of State, and registers ot these transfers were kept by the Auditor of State here, as well as at the New York Agency. Section 4 of that law provides: That any and all certificates or certificates of stock issued or transferred in violation of the provisions of this act, shall be deemed fraudulent and void as against the State of Indiana. It appears that these fraudulent bonds were issued after the passage of this act, hut to obviate its provisions the- bonds, or certificates of stock, were antedated we believe thev are all dated in February, 1859. The old blank bonds in the New York office were used for the purpose, signed webelive mostly by W. R. Nofesinger, Esq., as Treasurer, and John W. Dodd, Esq , as Auditor of State, countersigned James A. Cravens, ; by Stover as Deputy. Stover relieves Mr. Cravens from any knowledge of the fraud whatever, and acknowledges to his thus having used the name of that gentleman and abused I his confidence. We hear that the bonds were even dated previous to the 17th of February, the day that Mr. Cravens 's bond was approved and the time his acts as Agent of State became legal. Stover had some Wall street brokers or bankers for accomplices, and he alleges that he never received any of thmavails of the fraud. On the other hand these bankers say that they h id no knowledge of the true character of the bonds and beiieved them to be genuine. They state further that they regarded Stove a man of great wealth and had all confidence that he came by the bonds legitimately. With the proceeds those parties started or purchased the Bank of

c , v. t tl. i j - ! inanv lost their aruu and came back to comp neerlv, ni ew Jersey. Thev hid there a fine , ... . . ... . f J 7 without them sav about one-third of the regiban:ng houe. costing several thousands of dol- meiit. lars, and financiered in the mosl modern style of i We should have -tted that two companies of btnkini;. Now these individuals, one and all, ' caVÄ,r-v accompanied the Indiana reameut and . . , , that thev escaped only bv swimminaÄhe river. deny any ownership in that bank, and, like Japhet. . . u H u . ,i .v. . . . . ' r ' , n(j we Ähoull have aiso stated that our regi- , it is in search of a father. This fraud was sus j ment started at 12 o'clock at night, while the In- ; pec ted some time ago, and the matter has been dianlans started out in daylight, which accounts

! in the course of investigation for some months. Mr. Oaret, th? attorney employed in the case, thinks the testimony of Stovkr sufficient to convict his accomplices, whose names we withhold for the present by request. The severest penalties of the law should be visited upon all the parties engaged in this crime. Stover is guilty of a double crime, a gross violation of a public trust and an infamous abuse of the confidence of friends who became his security in a large amount. $150.000, for the faithful discharge of the duties of the office. His bond was signed by a number of his friends in this city and in Mont gomery county unhesitatingly, such was their confidence in his personal integrity and business qualifications , i . , r Fortunately the war bonds of the State were all disposed of at a high rate, ninety-two, before the fraud was made public. At the first stock board in New York on Friday last, Indiana 5's sold at 41 It: at the second board, after the fraudul int issues became known, they dropped to 75. Stover refused to disclose any information as to the disposition of the over issue. It is not known into whose hands these fraudulent bonds have fallen. They can be identified, however, and innocent holders must suffer by the rascality. The eject will be to weaken confidence in the stock banks based upon Indiana securities, until

it is known whether the bonds they hold are spurious or genuine. In this emergency it becomes the duty of the State officers to promptly make the necessary investigation and publish the facts in the case for the benefit of the public. And innocent parties who may have invested their resources in Indiana bonds, maybe ruined by this act of villany. Aaid again we repeat that the scoundrels who have thus violated public and private confidence, who have been guilty of a stupendous fraud which may embarrass and ruin innocent parties, should be visited with the utmost rigors of the law. It is the duty of the State officers to see that this is effectually and promptly done. Every citizen of Indiana has an interest in vindicating, in every way possible, the good name and credit of the State, which those rob-

ers by their rascalities have tarnished. Much is tributable to the loose manner in-which our public finances have been conducted. To ascer tain the exact condition of our public debt, the State officers should at once take measures to call in all outstanding certificates of stock, and issue ne w certificates for all genuine issues. In this way public confidence in the bonds of the State can De restores!. A Ureal Want. The Chicago Post earnestly advocates the ne cessity and duty of promptly providing ample hospital accommodations for our pick and wound -:- - - " sobers. The gentlemen who occupy cush ' ioned seats in the Nation's Capital, with $3,000 a year salary and perquisites, have but little thought or care for our brave and suffering volunteers. We most cordially re-echo the following appeal of the Post: Now that our representatives in Congress have got through with legislating for negroes who do not exist in the Territories, we hope they will unite in an earnest appeal to the Government to place the hospitals and the thirty thousand Western troops who are now scattered over the West at every steamboat landing, dying for want of attention, and entrusted exclusively to the voluntary charity of civilisns, or to the ignorance and worst of beardless subordinates, limb r the charge of some militarv authoritv that will provide for and secure to the brave troops of the Northwest the care and succor thev so much need. Our Army Correspondence From Hulleck's Division. Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee. ) May 14, 16(32. J.J. Bingham, Esq : Our army heie is getting a taste ot" summer campaigning in Dixie. The transition from the cold rains of last month to the ssetting heat and burning sun of May has heen sudden, and the troops stand the change much better than could be expected. Their si.uation in the shades near Corinth is far better than it would be here or at any point that I have seen on the river. The hospital camps about Ham burg are bake-ovena compared with the advance camps, and the sanitary boats are the same. i Those, citizens and others who are compelled to river would materially better their : condition and have two chances f r life, by ex caanging with the soldier 'n the front ranks ot e advance. 1 ncre is no lemptauon to gel sick and to be sent to the rear. 1 here is still less temptation to be left on the line of march be tween the rear and the advance to inhale the air poisoned by the garbage and refuse of the old camps and clouded by the dust of the enormous supply trains continually on the move. But on the changing line that is slowly and surely encircling ihe enemv where the air has not as vet j nee polluted by the impurities that follow large irnnes on, or in iront oi tuose ueiigiitiuny wooded little hills, where the camps are pitched and changed from grove to prove almost daily, it is pleasant to be, and the men are healthy, cheerful and vigorous. There is but one drawback to the pleasure of camp life with the advance the water and that is not yet intolerable, but it soon will be unless measures are devised to draw a supply from teiieatli the surface. Of the prospect of n fight, or the speedy fall of Corinth, it is idle to speculate. There are skirmishes daily. Every inch of ground is disputed, and is gained finally by strategy or the bullet. Perhaps the whole affair may end in a series of skirmishing advances, ;?uch as we have had every day for the last ten days. People here know absolutely nothing of the affairs in front, and the different divisions know less of the situation of each other, always excepting of course their several commanders. The reports by telegraph from Cairo, as received by paseneis from here, are generally the idlest camp gossip. What can one write about, then, to be of interest to your readers? Nothing! and that is the reason I have troubled you so little. If I happen to get hold of a piece of intelligence that is of the least importance it is safer for me to keep it until after the fight, aud you would prefer that I would do so. Some brilliant little affairs have happened on the left, but I was not so fortunate as to be present at any of them. Yesterday a number ot lar;e rifled guns arj rjve(1 aud were !i,lded Hl Hamburg to be sent to me advance, i ne siee trains are projrre..suiy; slowly in their snail-like pace over the marshes that skirt the base of the numberless hills, and indeed other things look like it would be yet some time before General Halleck had his net entirely completed. General Beauregard assures his soldiers that he is the spider that means to catch the fiy. We think here that Halleck is weaving a very pretty and secure web in which Monsieur Tontant, if he comes again, will get entangled. Time will show. I am going out to Wood's division to-day and if nothing better occurs to write about will give you a gossiping letter when I return. An Exciting- Reconnoiseance. We find the following in the Wheeling (Ya.) Intelligenter of Friday last: It is a mntter not generally known that our forces in Pape county, on the other side of the M assanutten Mountain, had a narrow escape from the enemy in front ot them. Our 1st Virginia was ordered out by Colonel Thobouru, to make a reconnoissance. and after procecdinir some distance along the Shenandoah river came unex pectedly into a pass on either side of which the enemy was posted in force. Our men were fi.irly between them, and if the Confederates had closed their lines on us we would have been bagged en ! tirel? But tne' toKht e were in greater 1 c . i j - i a. ; a. force than we were, and that our 1st regiment was but the advance ot a large movement. lftcr a skirmish we retired with one killed. After the return of our regiment and their report, Gen. Sullivan ordered the 13th Indiana to go over the same ground and see what they could see. So they started on the samejouruey. Before they got within a mile of the place, however, in which our regiment had fallen into ambuscade the fre, in nil iheir force, made their appearance suddenly on either side of the Iudianiaus, and tell on them with greit fury, throwing them into j confusion thai ended in a rout. The result was I tDat some thirty were killed and missing, and ,or our Ket,inX H,,)ng 30 mucn urtner into the loop than they did. Abolition Policf. The policy of the abolition leaders is not to restore the Union as it was, not to restore the Southern States as States, but as mere Territo ries, which would have no voice in the halls of Congress, because, if the Southern States were restored, the scepter would fall from the hands of the radicals; their power in Congress and out of it would be at an end. Hence it s that they are alarmed at the prospect of Tennessee, North Ctroiina. Missouri, Arkansas and other Southern States beinj; speedily restored to the Union aud sending meinbettfu) Congress again It would suit a portion of the Cabinet suit Sumner, Gritues, Onandler, and the rest to hold the Southern States as conquered 1 er ri lories; for tnat "ould both enable them to abolish slavery and leave power and the offices in their hauds; b(H jf lhe Soutnern 8nuuld restored as States, then the days of abolition rule would be numbered. Therefore it is that the revolutionary radicals desire the defeat of our armies in the field, and the permanent separation of North and South, unless their emancipation schemes be ac complished, and the Southern soil be restored as so much territory without State organizations. N. Y. Herald. Oardex Farm roe Sale An improved gar deli farm of twenty-five acres, eligibly situatedm the national road within three miles of the center of Indianapolis, is offered for sale on reasonable terms. For further particulars apply at thb office. d2twlt

nrganlzation the Democratic Party. The Democracy of Hamilton county, Ohio, have adopted a plan for the better and more perfect organization of the Democracy of that State. The purpose is not to supplant the time honored Democratic organization which was founded by and had the sanction of the Democratic fathers, through whose instrumentality our independence was achieved and our Government establiobed, but to give the principles they cherished as necessary to the continuauce of constitutional liberty greater efficiency in the present aUrming condition of our public affairs. It behooves every citizen who desires to preserve the Constitution as it is and the Union as it was, to give his time, his best services and his mean- to prevent the destruction of both, which is threatened by

those who have a controlling influence in the present administration of the Government. The principles which were advocated by Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Jackson are necessary to the perpetuation of the form of Government which has given more individual liberty to the citizen than has beer, enjoyed by any other nation, and the faithful ap; licftt.ion ot which, in the conduct of our public affairs, have made us, in a wonderful degree, a great and prosperous people. We therefore commend to our readers, to all who revere the Constitution and Union as framed by the wise and patriotic men who founded them, the principles ai,d plan for the better organization of the Democratic party, set forth by the Democracy of Hamilton county. They will apply equally as well to Indiana as ' to Ohio, and we suggest that thev by made the I basis for the thorough organization of the Democracy of Indiana, in every township in the Slate, by all ''who wish to rescue our country from the evils of Abolitionism, and its inevitable offspring Secrssionism, iu this effort to save the Constitution as it is and to restore the Union us it was." principles anp plan of tue democratic organization FOR HAMILTON COfNTY. Believing that the Union can not be restored or prosperously maintained except on the basis of the Constitution adopted at Philadelphia, on the 17th of September, 1787, we pledne ourselves to each other, while upholding the Constitution and laws of the Fedeial Government, that we will, at the same lime, and henceforth at all times, perfectly observe, as well as clearly and steadily recognize, the richte of the people in every State, north aud south, east aud west, according to the terms ol original compact. PLATFORM. We adopt and affirm as our own the following principles as expressed by Washington, Jefferson, Madisoa and Jackson, upon the momentous issues now before the people, aud in adopting them we are for an open, constitutional opposition to all fanatical party movements, but especially to all secret political societies or organizations: Tenth Amendment to the Constitution. "The powers not delegated to the United States by this Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.-' CREt'D OF JEFFERSON, tnaugura. Address, March 4, 1801. "It is proper you should cudo.'stJiid what 1 deem the essential principles of our Governuieut, and consequently those which ought to shape its administration. I will compress ihem within the narrowest compass they will bear stating the general principle, but not all its limi tatious. "Equal and exact justico to all men of whatever Sute or persuasion, rCiigious or political. "Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none. "The support ol" the Slate Governments in all their rights as the most important administrations for our domestic concerns, and the surest bulwarks against all nti republican tendencies. "The preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet-anchor of our peace ut home and safety abroad. "A jealous care of the right of election by the people, a mild and safe correction of abuses which are lopi ed off by the sword of revolution wheic- peaceable remedies are unprovided. "Absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which there is no appeal but to form the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism. "A well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace, and for the tirt moments of war, till regulars may relieve them. "The supremacy of the civil over military authority. "Economy in the public expense, that labor may be lighiiy burdened. ' The honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith. "Encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid. "The difiusioti of information, and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason. "Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and freedom of person, under the protection of the habeas corpus, aud trial by juries impartially selected. "These priuciples form the bright constellation which has gone betöre us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the texl of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them iu moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps, and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty and safety." ADMONITION OF WASHINGTON. Farewell Address, September 17, 1796. "In contemplating the causes which may disturb our Union, it occurs, as a matter of serious concern, that any ground should have been furnished for characterizing parties by geographical discriminations Northern and Southern, Atlantic and Western whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference ot local interests and views. One of the expedients of party to acquire influence within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts. You cannot shie'-l yourselves too much against the jealousies and heart burnings which spring fiom these mis representations: they tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection." ADMONITION OF JACK.HON. Farewell Addres. Ma.ch 3, 1827-1 "But the Constitution cannot be maintained, nor the Union preserved, in opposition to public feeliug, b the mere exertion of the coercive powers confided to the General Government The found. i .'.. - in..-: he laid in the affections of the people; in the security it gives to lite, liberty und property in every quarter of the country; and in the fraternal attachments winch the citizens of the several States bear one to another, as members of one political family, mutually contributing to promote the happiness of each other. Hence, the citizens of each State should studi ously avoid everything calculated to wound the sensibility or offend the just pride of the people i ot other Mates; and they should trown upon any proceedings within their own borders likely to disturb the tranquility of their political brethren in other portions of the Union. In a country so extensive as the United States, and with pursuits so varied, the internal regulations of the several States must frequently differ from one another in important particulars; and this difference is unavoidably increased by the varying principles upon which the American colonies were originally planted; priuciples which had taken deep root in their social relations before the Revolution, and therefore, of necessity, influencing their policy since they became free and independent S-.t.ites. But euch State has the unquestionable right to regulate it own internal I

concerns according to i us own pleasure; and while to pass themselves off as the veritable Old Abe. it does not interfere with the rights of the people ' it will be seen that Mr. Lincoln hag not deleof other Stales, or the rights of the Union, every pitted to any of his Generals ihe right or power State must be the sole judge of the measures I to issue proclamations of the sort ascribed to

nroner to secure the saletv ot its citizens mid promote their happiness; and all efforts on the part of the people of other States to cast odium upon their institutions, and all measures calculated to disturb their rights of property, or to put in jeoprrdy their peace and internal tranquility, are in direct opposition to the spirit in which the Union was formed, and must endanger iu safety. Motives of philanthropy may be assigned for this unwarrantable interference; and weak men may persuade themselves, for a moment, that they are laboring in the cause of humanitv, and asserting the rights cl the human race; but every one, upon sober reflection, will see that nothing but mischief can come from these improper assaults upon the feelings and rights of others. Rest assured that the men found busy in this work of discord are not worthy of your confidence, u.id deserve your strongest reprobation "

BT JAMES MAD1SOX. Federalist, No. U.j "Hearken not to the unnatural voice which tells you that the people of America, knit together as tiiey are by so mauv cords of affection, can no longer live together as members ot the same family; can no longer continue the mutual guardians of their mutual happiness; can no longer be fellow-citizens of our great, respectable and flourishing empire. Hearken not to the voice which petulantly tells you that the Government recommended for your adoption is a novel'j in the political world; that it has never yei kd a place in the theories of the wildest projectors; that it rashly attempts what it is impossible to accomplish. No. my countrymen; shut your ears against this unhallowed language; shut your hearts against the poison which it conveys. The kindred blood which flows in the veins of American citizens, the mingled blood which they have shed in defense of their sacred rights, consecrate their Union, and excite horror at the idea of their becoming aliens, rivals, enemies. And if novelties are to be shunned, believe me. the most alarming of all novelties, the most wild of all projects,

is that of rending us in pieces in onler to preserve our liberties and promote our happiness." CONSTITUTION OF EACH CLUB. Article 1. Any citizen of the United States, a resident of this (township or ward; may, on !- abscribing this constitution and creed, become a member. Art. 2. The officers of the Association shall be a President, Secietary and Treasurer, who shall be elected quarterly, at the meetings in June, September, December and March, and who shall, besides their usual functions, bean Executive Committee lor the transaction of ull business put in their charge by the Club. Art. 3. The President shall, at the first meetinc of the Club, appoint a committee of three to ami report by-laws for the regulation of business. . A T n l.tii . . .1 aht. 4. l ne rresiueni snan.on motion to tnai effect, appoint a committee for each square or school district, as the case may be. for the purpose of getting a correct list of all Democraticvoters in the ward, township or precinct, which list shall be had at all primary meetings, to be used in aid of the purity of their proceedings Art. 5. The Secretary shall report the organization ot the Club to the Democratic County Executive Committee. Art. 6 Eich member on joining the Club and quarterly thereafter, shall pay a small sum as shall be determined in the by-laws thereof, which shall be used only to defray the expenses of the Club and the publication of public documents, which shall be determined by the Club. On motion, the name of the proposed Clubs was'changed to "Democratic" Clubs. The reort of the committee was adopted as reported, with the following additional resolution: Rrsolved, That we are in favor of the Union as it was, the Constitution as it is, and the enforcement of the laws; but we do not sustain an Administration that interferes with the reserved rights of the States. For the Daily State Sentinel. Let us stand Fast to our Colon. Mr. Editor: It is already apparent that not a few of those who have heretofore acted with the party whose success culminated in the election of Lincoln and the consequent inauguration of the rugged Abolition issue, are weary of the storm their votes have called into existence and aniious to escape by by-paths from the responsibilities of further contact with the destructives. One means of avoidance has been suggested und to that I be to call the attention of the Democracy of Indiana who struggle for the Constitution and the Union as our fathers made them. In counties and districts in which the Democracy have heretofore been in the minority, it is insisted that the Democracy should unite with the conservative and rational men of Republican tendencies, and r-o united work the detent of Abolitionism. To this proposition, so platieable upon its face, our response is and should be that the time-honored faith of the Democratic party its principles are altogether comprehensive enough and its platform broad enough for every sincere lover of our free institutions to ?tand upon. Coalition without union of prin ciple is an absurdity, and has been nowhere attempted without lasting detriment and injury to the true cause of human liberty. More than one county in Indiana h is betöre now afforded record evidence of the pernicious and withering infiu ences of such a policy. The experience of the past bids us beware of any effort in this direction. If the sooer second thought of the reflet ting, sensible portion of the Republican party warns them of the impending ruin and destruction of our common liberties in the deadly progress of alolitionism, it can be only a question of brief time how soon they will rush to the ranks of the Democracy, organized and intent upon their devotion to the old landmarks as our lathers made them. Temporary alliances, even if successful, seldom, if ever, end in permanent good. Such has been our observation. Either the Democracy are right in principle as n purpose in this hour of peril or they are wrong. They who, in view of the plain road to ruin in which Abolitionism tracks its mad, fanatical way, have made up their minds to aid in arresting the destruction of the country will abandon Abolitionim no matter what aliases it may assume, and so abandoning it is worse than lolly for any portion of the Democracy to recede from the right in order to furuish reasonable men with pretexts fordoing what every instinct of patriotism and self protec tion demands of them. The issues in the coming canvass cannot bedisgused, sugar-coat it as may the June Convention. The Democracy ot Indiana will, this fall at the ballot box, testify their opposition to Abolitionism, free negro equality and amalgamation. H Throats of the Kadicali in Congress Againsttne Government. In the United States Senate on Tuesday last, Mr. Grimes, Abolitionist, of Iowa, in speaking to a postponement ot the Confiscation bill, said, "If the sole purpose of the haste on this bill was to get at the Tax bill, he was in no hurry; for he thought other things more important than to hurry to tax our people. Before we proceed to tax our jieople heavily he wanted some policy of Government settled, so that the people may know it. He, as the representative of a sovereign State, wanted to know what the policy of the Government was going to be." It is evident that this barbed and poisoned ar row is directed against the President lor his recent statesmanlike and patriotic proclamation. Another Abolitionist, Mr. Chandler, of Michigan, who, before the civil war broke out, said in his place in the Senate th u he was most anxious for a little bloodletting, now says he is opposed to the tax bill. It thus appears that the delay and obstruction of the Tax bill are thie.tt ened by the radicals in Congress in order to embarrass the Government and the opera tions of the war, in consequence of the conservative course adopted by the President in disowning the Abolition proclamation of Hunter. There is something more than even this in the language of Senator Grimes. It contains a menace of secession, or nullification, or something of I that sort, on the part of Iowa, if the President I will not succomb to the desperate faction. The i Government is reminded that Iowa is a "sov- ! erein State" the identical language used by ! Southern traitors in Congress before they left it I and set up a new Government. Rut if Senator Grimes and the radicals proceed to carry out i their threats, either ol obstructing the tax bill or nullifying it after it becomes a law, they will be met bv a loval people at the ballot box and punished as thev deserve. The people will not sland their disloyalty to the Union and the Constitution much longer. Lt them beware. Neto York Herald. The President's Proctuniatlon. Among the night dispatches will be found a very curious document, namely, the proclamation of President Lincoln disavowing and annulling the abolition pronunciamento of General üunter. The proclamation was unquestionably written, every line and word, by Old Abe himself. The stile of the President is as marked as his physioKtiomv, and it would be as utterly im and it would be as utterly possible for Seward or Chase to palm off one of tAr compositions as the President's as to attempt Hunter ot the irenuiiieiiesa ot wnicn, uy tne way, be is not advisea. at reserves to in msen thrf right of judging whether such proclamations are necessary or constitutional, and in any event he alone can utter them; it is matter with which the commanders have no right to interfere. The President recites the language of the resolution passed by Congress at his suggestion, inviting the Slates to initiate measures of emancipation, and promising legislative assistance, and implores them in the most pathetic manner to avail themselves of the invitation. This part of the document is decidedly Linconisb, and is almost as funny as the anecdotes to which the President is iu the habit of treatiog his friends. We regret to see, however, r hint on his part that a resort to stones may become necessary if tufts of grass do not firing the slaveholders down. N. A. Udger. - a ww i . r

The Constitution as It Is. Amid the wastes of the ocean some vast Gibraltar rears its rocky front, against which the waves may beat, around which the lichtuing and the tempest may play, still leaving its adamantine strength unshaken, its collossal form calmly aud grandly looming above the wilderness of waters, a gladdening sight to the storm-tossed mari ner so now the Constitution, the Gibraltar of our liberties, against which the waves of sectional strife mar moan in vain, and around which the fierce storms of civil war may harmlessly rage, begius to rear itself over and above the sea of

tumult and blood; strife, gladdening the bruised hearts and dying spirits of American citizens with its magnificent perfection and the grand promise ot its authoritative protection Let us never defile this sacred depository of i human rights. 1 he men who made it were turnished at their time aud for that purpose by the hand of God Himself great souls, planted on earth to bloom for a time and be garnered again in heaven century plants in the garden of humanity. This Constitution once destroyed, once lost, and the age of to-day can find no factors who shall form and establish one to supply its place. During the same century God will not furnish the same nation with two generations of Washingtons, Franklins, Jeffersons and their compeers. Let us fight bravely, then, both in the South and the North, against the cohorts of secession and the hordes of abolition for the Union as it was and the Constitution as it is. Fortune, life, happiness and honor can not be periled in a bet ter cause. Let the banners of the Democracy ! wave first in this fight. Let the "long roll" be souuded in that gallant old party, and victory for j our cause is secured. ancient and modern statesmen. George Washington thought the Union could exist "part ftee and part slave." Abraham Lincoln said it could not. Which do you suppose God intended for the greatest and best man I George Washington, of the United States, or j Abraham Lincoln, of Springfield! Thomas Jefferson cherished the idea that the Government could be perpetrated "part free and , part slave," but William H. Seward said Jefferson was mistaken; the Government never could ' exist for any length of time. Whom do you conMm the more philosophic statesman Mr. Jefferson or Irrepressible Conflict Seward? Whosejudgment of a beneficent and permanent : Government would you most rely upon Sumner's Lovejoy's, Arnold's, Chandler's, Garrison's, Wendell Phillips's, or Franklin's, Charles Coatesworth Pickney's, Madison's, Washington's, Jef ferson's? I am of the opinion that the statesmen who flourished in the fresh May-time of the Republic were rather superior to the political pollywous who disgrace our nationality iu the midsummer of its existence. They were leviathans in intellect; these Abolitionists are small sardines. Washington cor. of the Chicago Times. aewi from the South Kebel Reports of Battles. THE VICTORY Richmond, May 10. ,EAR CORINTH. -The War Office has re ceived the lolluwing official dispatch: Corinth, May 9, via Mobile, May 10. To Gen. S. Cooper, Adjutant General: We attacked lhe enemy to day, and drove him from his position. (Signed) G. T. 1" u regard. Corinth, May 8. Bragg and Van Dorn advanced on the enemv at 11 o'clock this morning. After a slight skirmish, which lasted three hours, we drove the enemy two mües beyond Farmington, and beyond the bridge. Five thousand troops were engaged on each side. The Federal cavalry charged Robinson's Battery, but were repulsed in great confusion, their riderless horses running to our line. Our loss was small. Maj. Ingraham and Capt. Leflwitch. of General Van Doin's Staff, were dangerously wounded. We captured a lanje amount of clothing and knapsacks. The enemy's loss in killed aud wounded was heavy. May 9 I have just returned from the frort. The enemy was driven across Seven Mile Creek, running like sheep. It appears that Gen. Pope's Division of the Fedeial army alone occupied Farminton. Gen. Halleck, with the main part of the army, is still on the river. The Confedei ate loss is slight. The Federal retreat was so rapid that we were unable to capture many prisoners. Generals Price and Van Dorn led the attack. We captured the telegraph office at Farmington. The Confederates are returning to Corinth. It is reported that the Confederate lorces operating doan the Tenness"?e River have captured large numbers of prisoners and a large amount of property at Paris and Paducah. jackson's victort in the valley or Virginia. Richmond. May 10. The following official dispatch was received at the War Office this morning: alley District, May 9, via Staunton, May 10. To Gen. S. Cooper, Adjutant General: God blessed our arms with victory at McDowell's, yesterday. (Signed) T. J. Jackson, Maj. Gen. A dispatch to Gov. Letcher, this morning, says that Gen. Jackson telegraphs that we have gained a brilliant victory in the valley, and that the enemy is in fuil flight, holly pursued. Out loss is 40 killed, and 300 wounded. The enemy's loss was heavy, and all bis dead ami wounded were left upon the field. Of the Twelfth Georgia Regiment, Capts. Furlow, McMillan, and Patterson, Lieuts. Turpin, Gouldware, and Woodward, were killed. Capt Dawson was badly wounded. May 11. A later dispatch to Gov. Letcher, dated Staunton, Saturday evening, says that the enemy's loss at McDowell was 500 killed and wounded. In their flight, the Yankee troops burned all their luggage and wagons. Our forces are pursuing them closely. Some of our wounded have arrive 1 here. AFFAIRS AT CORINTH. Corinth, May 10. All is quiet here to-day. It is believed that the enemy are slowly advancing on our lines by three different routes. The Confederate loss yesterday was but slight; Federal loss considerable, but the particulars of neither have yet come to hand. The Yankees were too swift footed to admit of our capturing many prisoners. Robinson's Battery behaved with great gallantry in the recent action. Robinson is a Texan, and his battery consists of six pieces, small brass Columbia Is, called Napoleons, and his corps is composed chiefly of Georgians and Alabamians, j recruited from the six months' men at Pensacola 1 he federal prisoners say that 4U,l".Hj ot their troops were massed together behind Seven Mile Creek as our forces aDoroached that stream in mirsnit vet Halleck declined Reanrecard's offer i of a battle. The Confederate army here are all in fine spirits and anxious for a decisive contest to come off. They seem confident of a favorable result. Jeff. Thompson hag taken command of the Confederate gunboats, and oinmenccd operations on the Mississippi. He attacked the Federal fleet to day aboe Fort Pillow, destroying one mortar vessel and damaging two others. The Confederate loss in the action was four killed fid eight wounded. Mobile, May 15 A special dispatch to the Advertiser and Register from Corinth, the 12th, says the enemy is drawing nearer to our right, center, and left, as if for a general advance upon our position. The weather is dry and hot. On the 9th inst. Col. Woodward, with the 1st Kentucky cavalry, and a detachment of Texas Rangers, attacked the Federals at Elk river, and killed several , captured two captains, two lieutenants, and 43 privates prisoners; also eight negroes. The Confederate loss is five killed, including Capt. Harris, of the Rangers, and seven wounded. This 's official. COL. MORGAN AND THE ENEMY AT LEBANON, TEN. PARTICULARS OF THE SKIRMISH. The Atlanta Confederacy, of the 13th. gives the following account!' Morgan's skirmish with the Federals at Lebanon, Tennessee, already alluded to in the Northern telegrams. The account mentions his adventures after leavinjr Pulaski: He went to Lewisburg and Farmington. in Marshal county, aud from Unionville on the Nashville aud Chattanooga railroad, which is perhaps some ten miles shove Wartrance. There he cut the telegraph wire; aud having an operator and battery along, he telegraphed to the Federal commander at Nashville th.-.t Morgan and his rebel cavalry were advan ing on Shelbyville, and to send all the cavalry they had at that point. The object of this was to draw the cavalry down this way, while he made tracks in the other direction to some point where he has an important work to pertorm. 1 his would, no doubt, have ' tieen successful, but by some means most likely I from some of those whom he paroled at Pulaski ; the enemy at Nashville had some clue to j Ins further design, and were not led astray by I this device, which proved very unfortunate af- ! terwards. After sending this message he pushed ou by i Versailles and Kgglesville, V Williamson county, leaving Murfreesboro some eight or ten miles to the right, and crossed the railroad at Smyrna, ! some eight miles above Murfreesboro, and from

thence pushed on to Lebanon, in Wilson county, sunt twenty-ve miles to the east ot Xashvill, a -riving just at night. At Lebanon next morning he was attacked by a very large cavalry force, three times that of his own. He ordered his men to dismount in the streets of the village Rod post themselves behind a fence and wait, with good aim drawn on the foe, till he should give the word. He let then ap proach within fifteeu steps, wben he ordereTi bis men to tire. It was told us by a gentleman who was in the action that he never saw as many men "tumbled" at one tire iu his life. Every gnn brought down a Hessian. They turned and fled precipitately. Just then the keen eye of Morgan detected in the distance, on the top ot a ridce, what be

guessed was large rein foi cements of the enemv. but he could not certainly make out what it was; so he sent forward one of his men to reconnoiter, who quickly returned with the information that overwhelming numbers of cavalry and infantry were approaching the cavalry at full charge; and as the worjl was spoken tbey were almost upon them. Morgan told his men to save themselves as best they could. Those whose horses had not beeu killed, mounted and fled. How many of those on foot escaped is not known, though some did, as they have since joined their chief. There are some sixty or seventy missing, a few of whom are known to be killed and wounded. The greater ; art ot them weut off in a body, and eseaped to Sparta, in White county, Tennessee. As Morgan and his men were retreating they were met by s party of Federals, who mistook them lor their own men, and inquired where Morgau was and why he retreated? They were at once called upon to surrender, which they did when lite. found themselves in Morgan's presence. Most of them, however, escaped, as they could not well be kapt while retreating. Among them was Gen. Dumont. This Morgan did not know (he had represented himself as a Colonel) till after he had escaped. Morgan lost that hue, dashing black mare of his. which is by no means a small loss. She fell with him in charging down a steep place, and was disabled. REVIEW OF THE BITCATION. The following is from the Charleston Mercury of a late date: The evacuation of Norfolk, of which we have intelligence this morning, has been determined upon, we presume, by Generals Kandolph, Le and Johnston, alter a full and careful consultation. It is doubtless considered a military necessity, the grounds whereof, as we do not know, we shall not undertake to criticise. If a necessity, it is a very sad and humiliating one the loss of the only great navy yard in the Confederate States. We trust, however, we shall soon see the good results gained by this important step. If it indicates the sagacity of seizing the most important of two incompatible ohjeeu, and sacrificing the other, it may be a great resolve. Our readers will remember that Bonaparte, after besieging Mantua with 10,000 men tor months, with a crest traiu of artillery, and when about to reap the fruit of long toil in an almost certain prey, on the 31st or July ordered Senurier to burn his gun carriages, spike his cannon, bury his projectiles and throw his powder into the river, lor the purpose of joining the liesieging force to the active army. Concentrating on the Upper Mincio, Bonaparte fought, in six days, with 30,000 men, three bril liant battles, which put 60.000 men hors du com bat. Wurmser lost 20,000 men 7,000 or 8,000 killed, and 12,000 to 13,000 prisoners. He was driven out of the field into the mountains. If similar results follow the evacuation of Norfolk, the people of the Confederate States will he reconciled even to the temjiorary sacrifice of Norfolk. Jackson's victory in the Valley of Virginia is an encouraging and important event. The region is important. The killed and wounded are not as numerous as might have leen expected. But, as the enemy is pursued, we hope it will enable that valliaut and capable commander to take the field North of Mason ami Dixon's line. Such a diversion would bi timely and beneficial to Johnston and Beauregard, whose only fear is the inequality of arms and men they have to meet The strategy of the commanders of both grand armies of the Confederate States appears to be the same. General Johnston strives to get the Northern forces away fram their fortifications and their gunboats up the Chickahomiuy swamp or near Richmond. Gen. Beauregard awaits 'he grand stuck of Halleck at Corinth, away from the Tennessee river, beating back their corps of observation, and ready for the combat. McCIellan and Halleck are cautious, though their orces ' largely outnumber die troops of the South. They are feeling their way with large reconnoitering bodies, or approaching with trenches. Johnston's rear guard, in falling back before the earth approaches and cannon, has been attacked, and it would seem has at Williamsburg aud at Barnamville. repulsed the enemy with sanguinary success. Whether Johnston will succeed in making them follow, and in bringing on the general action at the desired point, we have not yet learned. It he does not, and McClellan draws off. dirt will again be dug and his guns mounted; or McClellan will attack at some other locality, perhaps by James river and attacking from the South, or by way of Fredericksburg on the north. The pressure upon him is great. Johnston can fall back no further, and will not. He can only change front now. The strategy of Halleck will be the determination of the precise points of attack, the manner of attack, and the maneuvering on the field of battle the disposition aud movements of his troops. With an eye to these arrangements of his antagonist, as far as he is able to ascertain. His advance corps of 5,000 men had, it seems, penetrated as far as Farmiugton, five miles from Corinth, when attacked by a Confederate force of equal numbers, under Gen. Bragg and Van Dorn, and driven back with slaughter to the protection of their main body, to whom a general action is offered. We trust that, after the pi eliminary engagements we have had, decisive battles will soon be fought in the East and in the West. The suspense is of the most intense and painful kiud. On the battles depend the early and triumphant termination of the war, or its protraction, with untold troubles to the South. On them, probably, depends the attack on Charleston We hope to see the South redeemed, and such blows struck as will palsy the arms of our ruthiess assailants. NO MORE EVACUATION. The Richmond Enquir-r (official organ of the Administration) uses the following language, evidently by authority: "But we are gratified to say that the time has come, when, for the future at least, we all shall be agreed. All voluntary failing hack has ended, and fighting has commenced. What the enemy gMins henceforth he gains by the bayonet. What we can win from him we will have. We will break his columns, and pursue him into his own country, it tod shall prosper our arms. Strike! strike often, strike hard strike at every opportunity is henceforth the rule. Vigilauce, activity, enterprise, daring, are, we trust, to be its interpreter." The Memphis Appeal, of the 1 7th, contains the following from Corinth, under date of the 17th: "Two Federal prisoners, captured by our pickets to day, on the Purdy road, sute that Halleck is waiting for us to make the attack. The prospects of a general engagement seem to grow distant. "This has beeu observed as a day of farting and prayer by our armv, so far as was consistent with military duties. Rev. Dr. Palmer delivered most stirring and eloquent sermons to our troops; in the morning to Geu. Hiudoivn's division, and in that of Gen. Hardee in the evening. "The heated term and drouth have set in. The Tennessee is falling fast." AN INVASION THREATENED. The Charleston Mercury has the folloi ing trom Kuoxvrie. lenti.: "A correspondent writing to us from Knoxville on the 5th iust., says: I have it from good au tbority that our forces have already commenced entering Kentucky from the Cumberland Gap. Day before yesterday 1.800 reached Cumberland Ford, in Kentucky. "Gen. Kirby Smith is at the head of our column. This shows a new programme. WHAT IS IT? The following mysterious advertisement, dated May 12, appears in the Charleston Mercury: " Wanted for a public work 3,000 yellow pine logs, ot trom fitly to seventy teet in length, rot j further particulars apply to r" J. Potcber, comet ' of East Bay and Adger's wharf." A BROTHER IN LAW OF VR ES I PINT LINCOLN AR RESTED. ' A Mr. Kellogg, a brother in-law of the Presij dent of the United States, was arrested in Rich 1 montl a dat or two since, and placed in the Con federate Sute prison. He has been residing with his wife ( formerly a Miss Lincoln) iu the South, and affirms that he is a strong sympathiser with th Southern cause. Strat Cow. Strayed from the subscriber. No. 64 North Mississippi street, a milch cow, white, excepting red ears; long tail; age between three and four rear; rather thin. Any person returning her, or giving fh formation ot her, will be liberally rewarded. Saml. 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