Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 15, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 September 1862 — Page 2

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WEEKLY SENTINEL

KiDV. SEPTI.TIHKK 1 I'tie I n ion it wast be preserved Democratic Union State Ticket. roa SECRETARY OF STATS, JAMES S. ATHON. Of Marion County. roa auditor or state, JOSEPH RISTINE, Ot" Fountain County. rOE TRXAfllRER OK STATE, MATTHEW L. BRETT, Of Daviess County. EOE ATTOEMET GENERAL, OSCAR B HORD. Ot Decatur Coxnty. roa sr per i n't F. pk. nt or piblk instruction, SAMUEL L, RÜGG, Of Allen Countr. cox;rfsioal mmiimtion. 1st District JOHN LAW. 2.1 3d 4th 6th 7th 9lh 10th 11th JAMES A. CRAVENS. H. W. HARRINGTON. W. S. HOLM AN. A. B CONDUlTT. D W. VOORHEES. DAVID TÜRPIE J. K. EDGERTON. j. f. Mcdowell. "Exemption from Drafts." The Journal assumes the duty of wet nurse for the Governor's reputation. It charges that copying an article from the Cincinnati Enquirer, contrasting the course of the Governors of Ohio and Indiana in reference to "conscientious" exempts, was an attempt on our part to injure the reputation and impair the influence of Gov. Moetos. We are exceedingly sorry that the Governor's reputation and influence are so easily impaired. Let us examine the matter a little, as the Journal bv its criticisms has invited investiga tion. That print says: Now the Enquirer may have been ignorant of the fact that "persons conscientiously opposed to bearing arms are exempt from militia duty," by a provision of the State Constitution, (see section 6, article 12.) and that the Governor's orders onlv declared an exemption which he had no power to annul, but the Sentinel knew better. It knew that the exemption was made by the Constitution, yet it was willing to lay upon the Governor the ridicule of making it upon his own authority. The State Constitution says "no person conscientiously opposed to bearing arms shall be compelled to do military duty." Under this proTision the Governor assumes to determine who have consciences and who have not. In his order he thus defines the conscientious "all members in good standing of any religious deuomiua tion, who make opposition to be.iriug arms an article of faith, are exempt from military duty." So we must conclude, then, accepting the Governor's authority therefore, that uo one can have a conscience unless a member in good standing of some -eligious denomination. Nobody but this class, the Governor by order declares, can be conscientious all others are minus this moral attribute, which we have been led to believe was a part of every man's moral nature. This edict of the Governor will relieve a large portion of mankind from a heavy load of responsibility. But there is another point in this "Exemption of Drafts," which is worthy of consideration. The provision quoted from our Constitution refers solely to liability to military duty under State law. The draft is ordered under a United States law, and unless the Governor desires to carry out the Southern doctrine ot State right, he can enly exempt from military duty those whom the United States laws exempt. As we understand it, the Governor has no authority whatever to make any exempts except those thus exempted The Constitution of the United States does not make conscience or conscientious scruples an exemption from military duty. It does not even exclude himself from the same liability to military duty as the humblest cilizeu. If his name is not enrolled, unless physically or by .il-c disabled, the Commissioner has failed to do his duty. Every able bodied male citizen of the United States, between the ages of eighteen and forty -five, are subject to military duty, and only certain employees ot the Federal Govern ment. enumerated by law, ure exempt therefrom. This is Governor Top's view of tbe law. Such should be the common sense construction of it. But the Governor sets up his authority against law, places the Constitution of Indiana above the Constitution of the United State, and issues his prouunciamento as to who are exempt trout military duty, without regard to the latter instrument or the laws under it. And he goes a step still fuither by declaring uo man bas a right to conscientious scruples, unless a a member of some religious denomination in good standing. We beg the. Journal to understand that iu making these comments, we have not the slightest intention to injure the reputation, or impnir the influence of His Excellency; but, otherwise, to show what a wonderful man we have to rule over us. tM Little L'psettinff." The Journal of Thursday escaped our attention until yesterday. In it was an article headed "a little upsetting." in reply to an article whicn appealed in tbe Sentinel in which we charged upon Governor Mortox exclusive partisanship in his civil appointments and specifying we stated, that "in tbe selection of Draft Commissioners not a single Democrat is named." Now then for the "little upsettiug" of the Journal. It says: It is sufficient to make the refutation as broad as the assertiou, and hence without naming others we may say that Martin M. Ray is a Democrat, and he is the Enrollment Commissioner of Shelby county. Now tbe Governor appointed some ninety-two Commissioners andtlie Journal on a close examination of th list, buds one whom it terms a Democrat. Heretofore it has claimed Mr. Rat as identified with the so called "Union" party and he has been a candidate before that partisan political organization for a seat in Congress. This is what the Journal, with a great deal if elf ebuckiing, terms exposing the false state menu of the Sentinel. Is it not, verily, a little upsetting? The Journal then goes a step further and charges that iu holding up lo public contempt the hypocritical professions of BS party ism from the Republican leaders, our "purpose is manifestly to excite resist ance to the draft by making it appear to I a partisan measure aimed chiefly at au opposing party.' We intimated no such spiiit in sny manner whatever; ou the other hand, we expressly stated that the Governor, as tbe head of a partisan party , bad tbe right to thus provide for his political friends, "to the victor belongs the spoils," but ws objected, while uoiug so, lo bis sailing under the false colors of no-party ism. If tbe appointment of exclusively partisans tor draft commissioners has the effect to "incite resistance to the draft," as the Journal with great gravity asserts it does, where is the fault ? Upon whom does tbe responsibility rest for exciting that feeling in the public mind ? Is it not clearly with the appointing, power ? By nuking ptrtisau ap pointmenta, and the Journal iuaiata auch is iu effect. His Excellency " incites resistance to tbe draft. That's the logical conclusion from the Journal' premises. instead of exciting opposition to a draft, we have strongly urged it as tbe fairest sod quickest way for raising troops. A conscript, if fairly conducted, puis all upon a common level, high and low, rich and poor It says that tbe wealthy

who enjoy the protection of the Government, as well as its blessings, shall likewise Assume its burdens with the hardy sons o" toil. The Jour

nal r.pvcr liked the n.ilicv of a uralt. A lew days before it was ordered, it pronounced the rumor to that effect a bae Vallandigham Vooehees lie, and that the Government had not the remotest idea of resorting to such a measure. But, as it has in innumerable other instances, it was very soon compelled to eat its own words, and to keep up a show of loyalty it declared that a draft was demanded by the necessities of the times, and presented another evidence of the forecast and -izacitv of the Administration. It 0 is the peculiar forte of the Journal to see behind, never before. Emancipation. The Legislature of Kentucky is opposed to the emancipation policy of the President. Hon. Nat Wölk:, representative trom Louisville, with a long preamble reiterating the able argument contained in the reply of the majority of the Representatives of the Border Slave States to the address of Mr Lincoln upon the subject, has ! proposed the following resolution, which will probably be adopted: Resolced, That we decline the adonlion of a system of gradual emancipation of slaves in this State. The Hattle in Virginia. The report of Geueral Pope claims a great victory over the rebel forces under Jaceson at Bull Run. We hope it is true. But he is given to exaggeration and e therefore receive the ac- j . ... . j ii Dcount of the battle with due allowances. His report of the capture of prisoners at Corinth and even of his late battle at Cedar Mountain did not j in either case correspond with the tacts. A ! . . . great and sanguinary engagement has undouhtfc "fe J t o , edly been fought upon a bloody battle held, and if it has resulted, or if its i results approximates to what is claimed by . , . . n.i Pope, the repulse will be a terrible blow to the rebel cause. They have made a bold movement, i menacing the Federal Capital, with the hope of disorganizing our armies in detail, before rein- . . , j forcements can come to their rebel If repulsed ; as decidedly as claimed by General Popk, the objects of the rebel commanders will fail of ac- I c.mnluhment R..t we do not feel disposed to re. joice over the reported victory of Pope, until we know we are out of the woodt Joe W riglit' Slanders. ' Whv, he asked, were not Joe Holt and Andv j Johnson and Mallorv, invited to Indianapolis? ! Crittenden was not there, and his letter purport- i ing to approve of their object, was a forgery. Wieklitte, Carlile, and all their traitorous allies ! were there He spoke ot the fact that the Cincinnati Enquirer was the favorite paper with all secessioni.-ts. North and South We copy the foregoing from a report of Joe. Wright's speech at Evansville, which we find iu the Journal cf that city. The present friends of Wright ever charge! upon him that he was a hypocrite and destitute of political and moral integrity. Their estimate of his charncter was doubtless correct. He now professes to be an admirer of Doi glas and his principles, but it is well known that he fully and candidly indorsed what the Illinois Senator regarded and pronounced the "infamous Kansas policy" of Buchaxax, and he held office under Iiis Administration just H long as he could. So odious was he to the Republicans as a political trimmer, that they resolved he should be removed as soon as Mr. Lixcolx was inaugurated, and he was the first minister who was recalled. Weight did not denounce the 8th of January Convention, until he had got the commission of United States Senator in his pocket. That was the price of his treachery to the political party which gave him all the protniuence he enjoys. Who for years denounced in more bitter terms Abolitionism than he? He predicted the very condition of affairs the country is now experiencing would result, if Abolitionists were permitted to agitate the slavery question. Bui he has no word of condemnation for them now, and cheerfully votes for the measures thev dictate. His I - , . m mm, ,. give the lie to all the professions of his lile. In this charge we do not reter to measures tiecessary lor the vigorous prosecution uf the war, for the suppression of the rebellion and the restoration of the national authority does not require trom any Democrat the surrender of his political principles. Wright inquires in his Evansville speech, why were uol Joe Holt, Axdt Joiixsox, and MalLort invited to Indianapolis? Messrs. Holt and Johnson do not claim identity with the Demo era tic party, but unlike Wright, both, in bitter terms, have denounced the Abolitionists alike with the Secessionists. Mr. Mallorv was invited. Wright regards him as a true patriot. In that regard he is as much above "old Joe" as heaven is above the infernal regions. In a letter dated Lagrange, August 1, l62, Mr. Mallorv writes: Your letter inviting me to attend anil address a mass merting of the conservative citizens of Indiana at Indianapolis on the 30th of July, fol lowed me from Washington, and reached me on a bed ot' sickness, which I have just led. 1 am still very feeble. This will, I hope, excuse my failure to acknowledge and thank you sooner for your kind invitation. Understanding the meeting to have taken ground for a vigorous prosecution of the war for ! i suppression of the rebellion, in the spirit of the ' Crittenden resolution of July Ds61, and to have ,( l. -V Uli UIIVUUJHIIUIIPHIg UI'.-ll 1 1 1 , .J III Uli . constitutional acta and purposes of the abolitionI its; I take occasion to say, that I regret an absence which preveuted me, in person, trom as ; suriug it ot my cordial sympathy, and my willing ; ness to do all in my power to aid in the accoin ; plishment of objects so noble and patriotic. We trust that will satisfy the traveling slanderer thai Mr Mai.lobv was nut only invited, but that he expresses sentiments which Wright should entertain and advocate, if he possessed a particle of I manliness, or consistency , or principle. Now we come to another grave charge Refer iugtothe30ih July convention, Wright says: "Cejttexdlm was not there, and his letter purporting to approve their object, was a forgery." It is by making such infamous lying assertions that I this man, who cannot even appreciate the idea of ' A v i . ' iitiiMimnpiimtEifir, t . . r i I i I ... Vw. mm i patriotism, is attempting to make an impression upon the public mind. He charges gentlemen : who occupy a high position among their fellow i citizens, us being guiltjr of palming off upon the people a forged letier fro:u a distinguish! public man, for political effect. The idea is to ridicu . , , ,,. ... I lous that we wonder ihat even W a.our had the i brass thus lo attempt to gull his hearers. The letter referred lo is in Mr. Crittendes's j owu handwriting. It was not intended lor publi- ! cation, and therefore was not published wilh the proceedings of the convention. We have it in our , possession, and are willing to risk the evidences ; of its genuineness to the slanderer o: Mr. CritTXhdkx and those to whom the letter is addressed, or to any gentleman w!:o know Mr (J.'s handwriting. To show how thoroughly Mr. Crittixden sympathized with the meeting of the 30th of .Jul v, we will make a few extracts from his letter, It is dated. New York, Julv 26th, He I have had the honor to receive your letters of invitation to attend your great mass convention at Indianapolis, Indiana, on the 30ib of tbe present month, and it was my intention and wish to have complied with that invitation. Cirru instances bevond my control will pre vent it. I feel the disappointment severely. I look upon your convention as a movement of great consequence, and I feel confident that Its proceedings will be marked with all the temperance and wisdom which the momentous question demands. Hoping and desiring that its proceedings may be lor the good of the country, as its intentions, I am sure, are patriotic, I am, with entire sympathy, 4c.

Wright attempts to impeach the loyalty of the convention, upon the ground that Mr. Mallort had not been invited, and that the letter of Mr. Crittexdex is a forgery. We have giveu perhaps undue importance to bis statements, but our object is to show that he wilfully lies and slanders, und ail must admit that a man who will lie in one matter, will deceive in everything. That Joe Wright does, and he knows it. The next time he proposes to deliver a Sunday School address, we feel strongly inclined to give a chapter illustrating his very moral life in Washington as the text for his discourse. The sanctimonious old fellow deserves a thorough ventilation. Asse With Star and Assen Without Stars. ' The Journal of Saturday, iu commenting upon the raid of Ewkll's division of the rebel army

I upon Manassas, makes the following comments : To our mind it is the most disgraceful occurrence of the war. Our line extends along the Rappahannock, directly in front of Manassas, winch lies about thirtv miles back toward Washngton and aboui half way between our army and .l.r. ui'ii i.i. Iii. 1 1 1 1 i3 .I iiiru'ii oi stoics, and of vital importance to us as a means of com municating with our army. Yet a rebel force of 7,(HH) men is allowed to get thirty miles inside of our lines, to this position, cut up our troops, destroy our provisions, and get away in safety. Whv could not 3U,(R)0 men have made the same march, and readied the same point that these 7,UfM) did? If the rebels could have spared a8 M thf)ge who ditl Now 3() (mo men at Manassas could have taken Washington. The carelessness or incapacity that let the division of Ewell get through our lines or around them, ,,P , .. . would have done the same for ten time as man v. lt jfJ 0 tauU of our Generals that the rebel force was not big enough to attack Washington. For al- ll,r did lo prevent, the Capital might have been in rebel hands to-dav. Somebody hasblun- , , ,i , . -TT . . dered, and blundered at such a point, and so perjlously, that Washington may well feel uneisy. That "somebody" ought to be shot. We are ioaueu to ueatb '""npetent Generals. We are d v i n g of officers. Neither niggers or nuances are hafg() much miscIlief dnt ofasa m g rura on their shoulders. And the MOM some especial and mischievous ass is shot, the 900, er Ue who are, !elt .cive wav men. It is impossible to over estim; te the eneel 0, thjs JurI, rrav h elKx waging them, or in proving to foreign nations that we either are too weak in men or too deficient in military skill ever to Put uow" the rebellion. I i.i f nrt'P H PV ('(Hl l :1 l:l'C 'lit i 1 1 1 .i i - Now this ass without stars ou his shoulders, after making the foregoing slashing criticisms upon what it terms our incompetent (Generals," unon receiving all the news in reference to pw.-, , r..j(i s.Vanr ' " "Later news bears a better aspect. The rebels appear to have been debated in their strategy, and t have lost all the advantages yained by their audacity What value can be attached to the opinions of an editor upon any subject, who can put such stuff before the public? Yet he is the leider and rep resentative of sentiment of the so called "Union" party. VV ho wonders that under such a state of affairs, that the country is going to the Devil as rapidly as possible. fl. citing I.oote Navnge. We find the following iu the Washington dis patches to the Cincinnati Gazette: Arming the Blaces. Friday's New York Tribune has n leader, declaring that the real significance of Secretary Seward's lately published dispatch to Charles Francis Adams lies in the in timat.on. that if we do not otherwise succeed in putting down the rebellion, we will not hesitate to enlist the whole slave population of the South as armed combatants on our side. Aside from Secretary Seward's letter, and from the Tribune's interpretation of it, there are other facts that warrant the belief that the Administration has been deliberating upon the probable necessity of acceptinu such a course as would result unless the rebels speedily laid down their arms, and sought lor an armistice In the most fearful servile insurrection the world has ever seen. Mr. White, the member from the 8th District, is a champion of the emancipation policy of the President. In communicating a copy of the bill to the Lafayette Courier, he makes the following significant comment-: In a few days I will, in the form of a circular, explain more at large the merits of this great measure of hope, ui which I will now barely say M passant, that 't is not designed to arrest the arm of war whether that blow be aimed at the life of the rebel, or at his lands, slaves, or other sources of supply; tint was intended as an apneil to the conscience of the loyal men of the Border States, and as an argument before the world and the throne of Eternal Justice, in view ot the terrible calamities that miy possibly ensue to the South from their own madness, anil which may, peradventure, drench the soil of the Bonier States with the blood of beauU and innocence. The very contemplation of a resort to such infamous measures to overthrow the rebellion is a dis-iace to the manhood, coinage, civilization and Christianity of the aire. It is a species of brutishness which has no parallel in the world's history. Hon. Joseph E. McDonald will address the conservative men and Democracy of Monroe and Law rence counties, at the follow ing times and places : At Bloomington, on Monday, the 8th of September. At Bedford, on Tuesday, the 9th of September. y Secretary Stanton now terms the Amerchii people "subjects." This is a rapid approach ! t0W!,r,l royalty. m, 0. , , r a- .i ! The R'ch'"' J'f" states that it ,s advised that Colonel Bicell will shortly an nounce himself as an independent candidate tor Congress. Morgan and Johnson. T. W. Woolen, of the latter, has been nominated as the Democratic can did .ie for joint Representative of those counties. This is a nomination tit to be made. Newton Cointy Democrat. This is the title of a new Democratic paper, just started at Kent Station. It is edited and published by M. C. Rose, and is conducted with spirit and ability. Koscil-eo Cointy The following is the Democratic ticket for this county : Senator, W. C. Graves; Representative, Dr. Marshall; Treasurer. C. W. Caul; Commission er. S;mon Piper: Surveyor, A. McLaughlin; Cor oner, John Hardsock. j I Clav Countv The Democracy of Clay have j nominated the following candidates for county ; officers: I For Representative Geo. D Tetter; Treas- ' "re'' -"" Acmirt,: S.heriff- Jo,h" H PHvis' Surveyor, Samuel TerriU; Coroner, reter hpoert; Commissioner lt District. James M. Halbert; I 2nd District, Thomas J. Liston. Invasion of Kentucky. The Cincinnati correspondent of the Chicago Times thus telegraphs lo that piper : Col. Garrard, as hearer uf dispatches from Gen. Morgan to Gen Wright, arrived this evening. He ststes that Kirby Smith, at the head of 20 men, has left the front of the Gap, and was at Loudon, sixty miles Irom Lexington, on Wednesday. His troops are the nick of the Western re Tlipv thrtittri to mrdi Lo rbp Oiiio rivpr j ami fears are entertained that they may succeed, i as the Federal troops are scattered. Morgan will not leave the Gap to fall iuto the po-e-s:oii of the rebel irmy menacing it cm either aide, ilia potitiou again seeiua critical. Although he will receive supp ies, reinforcements cannot be supplied at this jucture. General Wallace, who is bere, advises fortifica tions to be immediately thrown up around Cin cinnati. He believes that Smith will reach the border. The Hartford Timet states that while our army was engaged in Mexico, one of the editors in Connecticut, who is urging that th.' present war be turned into an abolition raid, published the following atrocious sentiment : " It would be a sad and woful joy but a joy nevertheless, to her that the hordes und.r Scott and Taylor were every max or them swept ixio THE NEXT WORLD,"

Special correspondence of the Chicgo Time. From Uasblnzton.

rr- W- t " I if ri si I l in r, moa rqo o n I eleijraptuc neits I ne Torres- i pondence between Greeley and the President An Irish Regiment from Iowa The Case of Mr. Mahony. Washixgtox, August 25. Just now Washington is a very dull, unsatisfactory place. The stringent absurdity lately issued by the war authorities cuts off entirely the only source of interest to correspondents and the public. By its provisions I was not allowed to telegraph even the sue ill but unusual fact that on I a particular evening Washington was quiet; the I inference being that this would convey the idea that our forces were not meeting with any seri ous and unexpected reverses. To leave the pub lie to infer so extraordinary a fact was deemed contraband, and of course it was not allowed to go over tnn wires. I he w ho e thing is a piece of inconsistency I nnu oiie-piueiuiess. au papers are siriciiy lor.1 a ll - - e 1 I bidden to publish anv war news whatever, and et the papers here each dav sive fell particu lars of occurrences on the battlefield, aud nobody says a word to them foe doing it; the papers !

are neither suppressed nor the editors sent to the j There has been none, and if they could accon.Oid Capitol Prison. Correspondents without ex- plisb that object, where should we be with those ception were driven from ihe Army of Virginia, j four millions of biacp turned loose in the Northmid yet the very next day after they reached j em Slates? Are we to marry them? to work here, two employees of the New York Herald with them? In what manner are these negroes left Washington for Warreuton under passes to be disposed of? I will tell you. These poor

given them by Lien rope himself. It we are to have an autocracy over the press, let it be an equitable one one which will not forbid in one what it allows in another. The general opinion here is that Horace Gree ley, in his attempt to make himself successfully represent 20,000,000 people, has made a failure proportionate to the immensity of the task which he undertook. The "20,1100,000" of the enlight- j ened North must be "hard up ' for a mouthpiece when they employ such a trumpet as old Greeley a trumpet through which has been brayed all the isms that have lately afflicted mankind, from that of Fourier down to thft sooty tsm of Abolitionism. It will be a great fall for Horace when he ascertains that, instead of rep resenting millions, he only stands as the chop fallen representative of one very silly individual, viz: Horace Greeley. If the letter of "Old Bran Bred" was remarkable for tue audacity of its assumptions, the reply of tbe President i no less from its originality in every respect. No one but Father Abraham would have ever replied to the letter at all, and no one but the same individual would have ever fi nned so peculiar a reply It pits Greeley ap provingly on the back, while it smites him un mercifully; it at once shows the adherence of the writer to the Constitution and to Abolitionism; it enunciates at the same time the determination of the President to put down slavery and not to interfere with it; there is ill it a confronting whisper to the conservatives of the Border States and a friendly nudge of the elbow for the fanatics uf New England; iu short the whole effort is unequaled save iu the single exception afforded !y the late speech of the same individual at the war meeting. The Cavours. Metternich, and other wily diplomatists ot Europe, alive or dead, have lost their supremacy in the sublime science which they have rendered so famous. They will gnah their teeth iu jealou" horror, exclaiming, "Woe is us! Tiiere h is come to us a king trom the Nazareth of earth; from the Rail Splitters and Flat lioatiuen of the barbarous West there is born to us a master!" The effect of the paper is various, accordinz to the proclivities of those ujxin w hom it falls. Abolitionists are positive lit it it commits the Presi dent to their f :orite policy ; conservatives are equally certain that the President means to be understood that he will be governed by the Consti tiition; everybody goes about with a copy of the teller Ir.iirtioliMfitlv !inriiir ivi boil v fIs lli:tt Father Abraham lias at length become precisely of Am way of thinking, and thus everybody is sali.-fied. All I can stv of the character ol the letter w ith uiv cctt aiiity is, that it is Old Abe ish, j nothing more. Several gentlemen are from Iowa, endeavoring ' to get the Secretary of War to authorize tiiei aisj ing of an Irish regiment in that State A MS , tleman came here not long ago from Muscatine, I and I believe succeeded in obtaining from the Secretary a commission for the same purpose. ! Several companies were recruited, but. for want i of unanimity, the process of mustering in has not i yet begun. Conceiving thai the affair might be ! expedited by a change of commanders, a delega i tion came on here, uiging that the regiment ! should be given to Mr. O'Brien, of Dubuque, a I brother of the gallant captain who was killed at Cedar Mountain Mr. O'lliien was of good slock, has the confidence of his countrymen to a very great extent, and will doubtless, better than any olhei man, command the proposed regi ment. The case of Mr D. A Mahony is at present a matter ot some discussion among his friends and enemies. The fact that he is an old man bis excited considerable sympathy for his case, even among his political enemies, and they would gladly join Iiis friends iu endeavoring to obtain bis discharge, were it not that it is feared that his presence just now in Iowa might have an un favorable MHMMt upon the coming Coiigres sional election; in other words, it is beiieved th it in keeping the old man iu the Old Capitol, he will be prevented from getting into the new In Missouri and other border States, overt traitors me 'orn, put under heavy bonds, and relei.-ed. Should we not be as lenient with olfenders among our own citizens, particularly when the crimes with which they are charged are not half as heinous as those of our Missoiui bre hrenV It is just barely possible that a persistence in such a course m .y subject the parties interested to the unpleisant suspicion of being actuated less by patriotism than political partisanship. If Gen. Butler at New Orleans. Schotieid iu Missouri. Johnson in Tennessee, Grant in Memphis, and Federal authorities everywhere, will receive men who have slain our soldiers by the score, and, after taking their oaths and bonds for its observance, release them, why cannot we be equally merciful, and release upon the same terms a paralytic old man, whose offense, at worst, is that of "discouraginu enlistme'.ts" and being nomi hated for Congress! Arrow! of I lie lion. (Iiurles J Ingcrwoll for Ins Spcccl at flic Democratic Mm 'leeiing in Philadelphia, on i 2 nil tasttUBt. The Philadelphia Bulletin has a report that the Hon. Charles J. IiiL'ersoll has been arrested for language used at a Democratic meeting in Independence Square on Saturday night. Mr Inger soll was arreste 1 by United States Deputy Marshal Schuyler, and put under bonds The speech of Mr Ingersiill, which caused his arrest, is thus given in the Philadelphia Inquirer, (Republican), of the 25th inst.: SPEECH OF (HAS i. INOERSOLL. Fellow-Citizens : 1 rise to support these resolutions, and 1 would support, il necessary, resolutio : a little srronger. But the truth is that the time for discussion and resolutions has passed, and we have arrived at within six weeks of the time when we are to go to the ballot-box and settle 1 hope forever the question which, for eighteen months, baa distracted this country, and in regard j to which s a much effort has been made to bring

the great Democratic party into disrepute As 1 do ll; and it I could save it by treeing some and understand it, the Democratic party is now the , leaving othe-s alone. I would also do that. What Majority of the people ol Pennsylvania. We i I do about slavery and the colored race I do beh av a majority iu the State and in the city, and j cause I believe it helps save the Union; and what I be'ieve the neighboring Slates will prove, when I forbear, I forbear because 1 do not believe it their elections take place, lhat they are in the j would help to save the Union. I shall do less majority there. whenever I shall lielieve what 1 am doing hurts We are w ithin six weeks of the election, and the cause, and I shall do more w henever I shall that is the only reason why the Democratic party I believe doing more will help the cause. I sha':. is so loudly denounced in the Republic-n papers, try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and and that is the reason why this meeting has been I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall apspecially denounced ami threatened. 1 don't pear to be true views. know the names of the papers I don't read ' I have here stated my purpose according to thi-m; there are lew papeis in Philadelphia which a j my view of official duty; and I mtend no modifiDemocrat need read; but I remind you that all j cation of my oft-expressed personal wish that all Democrats w'.io ventured to come to this meet- men every where could be tree.

ing have been denounced as traitors, ay disafTected persons, as men unworthy of the name of citizen. The only reason of that is, that this Democratic party is in the majority, and is about to take power from those w ho have possession of the Government. In the tall, if you do your duty if the citizens throughout the State rally to the Democratic pirty the only rallying point that can save the country -we shall t ike power lorever from the hands of the Republicans. 'I he Republican papers aud the Republican leaders may well cry out against this meeting, or against any means of rallying the Democratic party, for it is the knell of their party . Cheers. I see no riot, no disturbance, no disorder! Is il not monstrous that the party Im holds this meeting should have ( hfen denounced in a parts of tbe country; snd w there any motive to he conceived save that which I have äuglest! that we are in the majority. What tire we to do? We are assembled here preparatory to the October election. I have seen you before in this square. It is no new thing for the party to hold a meeting, mid we are here for the purpose of preparing for that election. We are going to the ballot box to deposit our votes against the party in power "l Washington. Is there any harm in that' "No." Is there any treason in that? "No-" Is there any disaffee-

tion in that? "No." Is it anti-American? If we are the majority, and if we know that the par i ly in Dower is ruling us to our ruin, whv should

--J . . a we not put it down? e think that they have ruled to our ruin, and having the majority we may exercise our right of putting them out by the ballot. They be?an with 700,000 men, and now they want 600,000 more. What have they done with that army? What conquests have they made? Cheers for McClellan. Yes, and what are they doing with McClellan? It is said that McClellan is to t e removed. Let us see how it is to be. Three cheers for McClellan and three cheers for Col. Murphy. I want to know whether any Government that ever exercised so much power, with 700,000 men, ever accomplished results so insignificant? Are we any further advanced iu the conquest of .he Southern States than we were at the begiening? We were told it would take put sixty days, then ninety days, to crush out the rebellion. Laugh ter 1 And with what object has this war been . ,a , , . i . i ry . i prosecuted T 1 near tnai tne uoveninieni nas latelv decided to change its course; but we have no proof that this Aboliticn eherne is dead. But hat has been the whole object of the war previouslv? Has there been anv other object? negroes, whom the Abolitionists love less than you or I , would have their throats cut in a war of races, and that would be the end of this scheme of the Abolitionists. I say further, that more corruption une'er any Administration than that which now rules was never seen here, and seldom seen in any other country. Look at the j fortunes made in contracts. Look at the reports of the House and Senate Committees all Republican and you will see the evidence that so corrupt a Government has never managed until Mr. Lincoln came into power. You recollect that one of the last acts of the Senate, as now compose!, was to refuse to pass a vote of censure upon a Republican Senator, whom a committee reported against. Who is to say nay? Cheers What are we told? Why that Democracy is treason; freedom is treason; Mie press i treason. They say it is treason for the Democratic party to organize; it is trea son to vote against this Administration, or to do anything except to support those in power. We will support the Government and the war. and 1 say that the idea that is now given out that we I are not to organize against Abolitionism, is monstrous. Cheers from liaton liongc A correspondent ot the Cincinnati Commercial writes from Baton Rouge its follows of the Yankee reports, of tbslaht: D " a Yankee anyhow. There is no magnanimity in them. They are jealous of the pari tikeuby an Indiana regiment in the late fight, and ashamed of their own. Consequently, every cursed nutmeg, from the highest to the lowest, will persist iu misrepresenting us. Gen Butler as the head of the New Englaud Division, feels bound to favor it as much as possible. At the same time I do him the justice lo say that he does not misrepresent us, except by implication, lie only does us injustice by mentioning us iu the same connection with regiments who eternally disgraced themselves, and the niforBI they wear. The New Otieans pajiers are edited by Yankees. One of them .state-, editorially, that (Jen. Williams was killed while trying to rally the Stat regiment, which was thrown into dismay. A 'passenger"' from Baton Rouge (probably a Yankee sutler, t un. ling away from ihe prospect of another fight, inform- .i hoi her one of the.-e Ya:ikee editors that Gen. Williams was killed while cheering on our men to retake a gun which they had lost. 'I he simple facts are the-e: (Jen Williams, after denouncing ihe 14th Maine and 7ih Vermont as j ""heep," publicly complimented our regiment as : t,,e W ,,e winch had not been broken and ' scattered. At one time Brown's mule battery, supported by Michigan troops, was coiuiielled to abandon one gun, the last charge of canister from which w as fired at a body of rebel troops not twenty paces , distrnt ; but the brave Michigan boys m j drove the enemy away , and gallant Liin Brown 1 saved his gun From thisgun five gunners were shot down at one fire. It was stationed at least half a mile from here Gen. Williams fell. This "passenger from Baton Rouge" failed to state, while on the suhject of guns, that company F.of the 21st. Indiana, three times manned i sec'.ion of Everett's battery from its own ranks, and hauled off the guns by hand when the horses were shot down, and al.-o that the Indiaiiiatis hauled off a section of Manning's battery by hand, after it had been abnidoned. The honest truth is jut this: The 14th Maine broke at the first fire, and never relormed Thevjiad twenty-six men killed ! i,nd seventy or eighty wounded, without tiring I more l,,a" vo,iev' wmt ine nre" li,e a,r1 he secesh shot them down as e used to snoot rabbits in Illinois. The ?th Vermont tired into us. They had a few men killed and wounded bv bullets that first passed through our ranks. When ordered to move up to our support, they failed lo do so, and rnanv of them broke and rai. to town. While the 21st Indiana, the bth Michigan, the ."Will Massachusetts ami Ihe artillery were fighting the battle, a lot of cowardly skunks were down in the town plundering houses. The '-Ith Wis cousin and III Connecticut had no opportunity of SaKasiay in the fight. I know all I have here stated to be strictly true, and I am responsible for what I say. G." C. H. The President Letter to Greeley A Verbatim Copy. Inasmuch as the telegraph impaired somewhat the sense of the Pie-ident's letier to Greeley in transmitting it. we reproduce it, terbatim et literatim, as ,t was originally printed in the Wash inglon pa pert, lt wiil beolsJsVvcd that the President uives emphasis to certain parts, to which of course the telegraph could not do justice. Washingtox, Aug. '2'2, lt64. Hon. Horace Gbkeley : Data! Sir I have just read yours of the 19th, addies-e i lo mvselt through the New York 7'ribune. If there be in it any statements, or as sumptions of fact, which I may know to be erroneous, 1 do not now and here controvert them. If there be in it any inferences which I may believe 10 be falsely drawn. I do not now and here argue agninst them. If there lie perceptible iu it an impatient aud dictatorial lone, I waive it iu deference to an old fiiend, whose heart I have always supposed lo be right. As to the pdicy I "seem tobe pursuing," as you say, 1 have not meant lo leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearei the Union will be "the Uniou as it was." If there be those w ho would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not ive the Union, unless they could at the same t me destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My pararunuhtohject n this struggle is to s.ive the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union with out freein any slave, I would do it; and if I 1 c .-.iid save it by freeing nil the slaves, I would ! Yours. A. Lincoln From the Albany Kvening Journal. Another Blast ul the Jacobins from Thurlow Weed. "In the same way it might be said that the Republican party, as an organization, has expired. All the objects for which it was framed, and which were expressed iu the creed of Chicat-o. have been substantially accomplished. Slavery has been forbidden in the territories; it has been i expelled from the District of Columbia, and has been otherwise so hampered and rostraineJ that it cannot easily again become a formidable power in the Government "iV. Y. Evening Post. In January , 1861, iu view of a rebellion, the formidable character of which we then compre bended, the senior editor of this journal uttered the aeuiinieiits now quoted from the Eeeniny Post. The utterance was designed to prepare the country for a struggle which would tax its patriotism, its endurance, and its resources. We de sired to see the question met by the Government and the people, as one oi the country rather than as one of party. We knew and said that parties and platforms would be merged into the highest i- ue of Union ur disunion; that it would not be whether slavery should go into the territories, but whether we were to preserve our Union?

But although these things are history now, it whs t reason to foresee aud proclaim them. We were denounced by uitra journals and reproved by moderate one- Our views w ere not only dis claimed by the Auburn Advertiser, but by the junior of our own journal. We saw then, what others see now, that slavery, through the blinded ambitiou of its leaders, in attempting to overthrow the Government, would destroy itself. We knew that results would flow, logically, as the war progressed,

keeping the enemy iu the wrong, and the Gov ernment in the right. And as far and fast as we ! ' have progressed, events have vindicated our pre I dictions. The danger and folly consists in blind efforts to anticipate events, to insist upon Executive proclamations which would defeat the put -! poses contemplated by those who demand tl.em. The rebellion would have been much nearer its ! ignominious end, if the madness of its leaders i - - ' i wiim uiv ujauuves K a i - ! iniii Tint Ikfaon mot hv iorrk.ruiiii i;.,.. r ! ultra declaimers and 'journals at the North. A ! South Carolina Governor, while inviting other Slates out of :iie Union, hailed the "Abolitionists as the friends" of secession. This was true ot parties we need not name. It is equally true thai the same parties are "the best triends' ot rebel liou, tor their speeches and editorials have united and embittered the whole South men, women and children against us States were fraudulently rushed, by packed j legislatures and conventions, through the influ 1 ence of desperate leaders, out of the Unon. In those States were devoted Lmon men, overpowered, but ready and anxious, in turn, to overthrow secessionists. Tens of thousands of as true Union men as Andrew Johnson, Judge Wayne, John M. Bolts, kc , have been reudered powerless by '.he insane teachings of those who labor even now to drive Delaware, Maryland. Kentucky and Missouri, whose gaihtut sons are shedding their heart's blood for the Union, into rebellion. We can not better illustrate our meaning than to instance the attempt to destroy Edward Stanley, who, as military Governor of North Carolina, is endeavoring to mass the Union senti nient of that Stale. We did not doubt the injus tice of the accusations against Governor Stanley, because his life-lonir record on the slavery onestion, is a clear one. In Congress, more thau twentv-hve years ago, his voice and votes were W Or always against the encroachments and aggressions of the slave power. During his long term of service, he always stood by the North against all reckless afforts of Southern leaders to divide the Union or weaken the Government. Upon all the existing slavery questions he was a true man. i more hostile to slavery, and more devoted to the ' Union, than our own "doughface"' represents : lives. Agaiu, for the purpose of illustration: which ' is the liest and truest friend of his country, An- , drew Johnson ou Wendell Phillips? The form I er. at the hazard of Mptrtj and life, upholds the I Government and del ends the Union, w hiie the ' latter, secuie in property and keeping out of dan I ger, assails the Government and "calculates the value of the Union." With what will now be considered a just ap- ! prehension of the magnitude of tiiis rebellion. ! we endeavored in the beginning to narrow and : limit its boundaries to the cotton States. That ! was then practicable. But the effort w.s thwart i ed we those who either believed there was no danger, or desired a dissolution of the Union The war has cost over five hundred millions of dollars, and the grass grows over the remains of more than fifty thousand soldiers. The Govern MM has called for another army of six hundred thousand. In this emergency this hour of imminent peri! men w ho keep out of the army themselves seek to distract and divide the people and weaken the Government ly thrusting forward their one idea. These men, by letters and in h?i -fuin, have leen arrogantly dictating to ihe President a pe)Hej which would, if adopted, annihilate the hopes mid the welfare of Mr country and pis. Unsuccessful in their srheme, the Ere ! uing Post demanded, and the Tribune .assumed j to give the names ol those who, in the cabinet, ' dared to resist newspaper dictation. ' in concussion . iiir.i mi.ii nine m;i it-si me . . - . souiiuue.-s or lauaiy oi ou. iics wr now auI mom.-h our fricnos and icnlers to beware of. counsels whifh teach that the oliject of ibis war I is to destroy slavery. We maintain that its ob ; ject is to preserve the Government and the Union. i 'ii . i. - . 4 . i i.. .11: . . i ,i , sum o yeci o. me rroeuioi, s 10 c cam s ave.y Hut tbe effect, if the war be wisely conducted, wm oe urn wsstruciion, .or is ever ills u. lat, atX'Skt till t. llk-it . j i T T , And this law of I iii''iiiv- i i i ucii uvtn'iinature and Providence can only be reversed by, counteracting madness and tolly. In other words, we desire to express, iu the most unequivocal iangvage, the opinion that if, at the expense of a thousand millions of treasure, and rivers of blood, we fail to crush the rebellion, reBStaMMl the authority of the Government, and I incidentally work out etnrtncioatioii. it will be beI cause the wickedness and blindness of slavery is J .surpassed by the fanaticism and folly of Abolition. A Page from tlie Record. In lSüt, John W. Forney, now the leader of the B Spul! hl Sil party iu Pennsylvania, was Chairman of the DoOJOcralic State Central Committee, and issued an address to the people, in w hich the follow ing passage occured : The adversaries of the Democratic party have dissolved the American Union in advance, solar as bv their own action thev can RNMHH that direful result. Thev ran un longer assemtde in Nation. ii Convention; thev congregate as the lepresent atives of a fragment of one-half of our happy country, and they arrogate to themselves the in istei v of the other half, bv attempting to consolidate a tierce and fan itical sectional major liy in every uepari mem o, . ,ie . -. ei nnieia. i ney declare that the county is ou the eve of unnre'-e dented convulsions, and they proclaim their pur pose to arrest these convulsions by ignoring and insultinir fifteen sovereign States of the Union, 1 hey talk of peace, and in their own conventions prodaiai policy wMeft must end in cijnl war. They apped to Heaven to sanctify a movement which ii 'successful, would destroy tto fairest fabric of freedom DM the Globe. They invite our j countrymen to support their cause in the midst of ' the moM irreverent blasphemies of the Coiistitu- j tion. They prate of exclusive Americ mism, j while thev except as leaders men w ho prolaiie the i I sages of the past with inconceivable calumnies.; : Hut they deserve credit for their boldness. They i I do not attempt to conceal the tearful end which, i should they succeed must crown their ert'orts. True Ui the history of all sectional parties, they j j unite men, not by a love of country, but by hatred ofnitiona! principles, i heir bond ol action w a sympathy of antagonisms not a harmony of patriotic sentiments; snd to consumate their pur poses they would s u rifi'-e every great material interest of socieiy. They have already succeeded in dividing the Christian Church, and uow ! they would lay their hands upon the bulwarks of our liberties; they would wrest the Constitution ; from ihe glorious purpose to w hich it was dedicateal by its founders, and they would erect at Washington a sectional despotism whose presiding ! divinities would be hostility to the eaualitv of the Slates and the equality of the citizens, and wage relentless n.-ir iirum the domestic institution of the South. Congrcionul onvi ntion. A Democratic Convention for the 8th Congres sional District, will be held at the Court House ! in Lalayette. on Wednesday, the l7lh September. i 162, at 2 o'clock, P. M .. tor the purpose of nom , mating a candidate for Congress. The different counties are entitled to a representation in the Convention as follows: Tippecanoe 21 delegates: I t. ... . ie. n ii. rnii il. . ... .diimrgomei v i ' , i A-m, vuiuii , ui.., 8; Fountain 16 liy order of the Congressional Committee. E. M Weaver, Chairman. Lafayitte, August 28, 1862. Drawing their Teeth ano Ccttixg their Claws. The Albany Evenina Journal, edited

i bv Thireow Weed, concludes s vigorous article j D Sir. Your letter of the 23d inst , in- , . .. . r n -I . I forming me "that the delegates had selected hu supoori of the sentiments of President Lt- ! me Dtfmocritc Cj,ud,die for Congress! I coln'sGrselet letter with the following sigmfi- i jn lne 11th district," hss just been received. '. can language: This nomination has been to me most unex We rejoice over this letter because it will sep- : pected. I was not present at the Convention. L. 35. e .i u..ir t. . ! nor was 1 a candidate before it, and conse

:ti . lie iiic ocui. iioiii iiic vu;oi lb iimiCT Union meu to the right, leaving disunionists to turn to the left It rebukes the insolence of journalists who seek to control the Government I and lo command the army. It "draws the teeth ! and cuts the claws" of those who aided the seces sionists iu riper.'ng the rebellion; who aided them again iu uniting the whole South against us; and who uow in the face of fresh disaster, arrogantly demand what would divide and destroy the North. CoxsciKXTioes ScarPLkS." It is stated as a fact that Caleb Johnson, who has been appoiute Collector for this District under the new national tax law, when called on by the enrolling Com mission, directed said Commissioner to enter op posite the names of himself and son, conscientiously opposed to bearing arms." It strikes us that it is very inconsistent in men asking for and holding lucrative offices under a Government, when they are unwilling to sustain that Government by all the means required. Those who sre conscientiously opposed to do fighting for the Government under which they live, ought to be conscientiously opposed to accepting good pay ing offices made necessary by fighting for it. Richmond Jefersonian.

How the Escape was Effected A Dis fruisc a l ake Superior ."liner A Commercial Treat- with I n rope Proposed. HOW B. 8 A.N DEBS ESC A FED THE Pl'RPOHT Or HIS DISPATCHES. Few men are better knosn at the North than Mr. Sanders, and yet by the simplest of disguises he escaped recognition. Some years ago he was much concerned in Lake Superior mining; and

he passed through the federal States as a miner, a o'.g Cornish brogue, carrying bis tools m his hand. At Niacara. however, he was ston ped, uo one being allowed to cross tbe river without a pass. In conversation with the sentry he expressed, in the broadest dialect, his utler unbelief in the possibility of any man. much less a carriage, traversing iu safety such a frail structure. The sentry, eouallv resolute iu utfirmiue i the contrary doctrine, finally Drooosed a Drattieal l-!'al; nd wilh much -ei?ned trepidation, Mr. ?en consented to walk a Utile way acros-. i ll-..: . . ... . . . I iiatmg once siaiied. ne did not consider itneees- ! sary to return, but made for the Clifton House, where he had to make himself known before the propriety of that aristocratic hotel could be ini ,iu'. lo uest of his appearance We are authorized to state that Mr. Sanders is i the bearer of the draft of a commercial treaty, r irVi'.-K th,. f..,f... i ... :n j ... - ! w.h.ic.!-i.hc Confederate envoys will propose to the chief European powers, irrespective of recogni tion or intervention. Recognition without intervention is considered by 1'iesident Davis as practically valueless to the Confederacy, and inter -' veutiou itseli is not regarded as a necessity in the present position of iifl'aiis. He beiieves that no I solid and durable peace can be obtained except by the concurrence of the United States; and that j this concurrence can be won by an appeal to its ' material interests, an the resultint: pressure by i the Northern people upon th ir Gov et iiment. In j this view the Confederate envoys will propose to ' the Km .re m powers a treaty of commerce, to take effect on the recognition of the independence I of the Confederate Suites by the United States, or the opening of the ports by other means, guaranteeing absolute free trade, wi.h participation in the coasting trade -nd internal navigation to the 1 Pwe,'s accepting it, on certain conditions ; aud lU s U1,e dl be proffered to the UniI . . t w . 1 iL I . . ai ted States, leaving the latter to choose between a prolongation of the war, with its doubtful issue, and the immediate restoration of the benefits of the reciprocal trade Canada paper. CdfT All accounts from the southern States concur in representing a scarcity of manufactures as having reduced all classes of ihe people to postive suflcring. Every device has been used to cloth their soldiers; carpets and quiltp have been Used for blankets, and every yard of cotton in the country has leen taken by the government for tents. Iu arms they aie badly deficient The intercepted dis.jatches Irom Hindm ui, begging for old muskets and condemned artillery, prove to what desjeraie straits they are driven. If a new army, lv the otieration of a stringent conscription should be brought into the field by the last of November, it would be impossible for them to arm and equip it This consideration, and the suffering ol ihe inhabitants, are inducing reflection. We firmly believe that a large portion, probably one-third of the inhabitants, ot tbe mo.-t hitter seceded St iles would rejoiie to see the old flag over them again. The Southern people are not bli'til. and when they can lie assure! that ihe pio-criptive measj ures ot the rnaPgiiart abolitionists, will t.ot be ali lowed to work their ruin, they will of themselves , crush rebellion. They will "not yield until the ; assurance be given. The letter of the President will open the eyes of thousands, and a conservative Congress would entirely disjel the mist that Jeff Davis ntnl ids workers h ive raised. The : rebellion is str..ng lecus tbe Southern people j arc deceived ns lo ihe ultimate purpose of the , war. They must be undeceived. Their misery causes them now to look anxiously for means to extricate themselves from their terrible situation, ll" they look to us. what shall be our answer? Confiscation and de.ith, or the old Union The l, i , 1. . . . j j . c . . ! president has ordered an election in two ot the North Carolins. Congns-ioiiai Districts Ten-nc--ee will send pri-b.thiv two IicDresentati ves. Tin re are signs of returning loTshj in New Or1 leans, and in the northern portions of Arkansas aud all through Tex is. There is Union feeling ,e g!Ut ;t MkNMMVJ ,(v erer j mean, anl with the honor of the Govern--Chicago Times I meut Co in mi n ion er Return The following table shows the sjassbar of the enrolled militia of Marion county and the number of volunteers furnished. It is given by tow uships and by Wards in the city. Center township, outside of the ci;y limits, is given as noith half and south half the National road being the dividing line: Militia. . . IN 237 . . 704 .. 317 . . 476 .. 345 . . 4'2. . . 63.1 .. 7it . . 433 . . 4f2 Volunteers. 156 110 2(17 161 ; 161 66 North half. South half. . 1st Waid 2.1 " 4th it'll bth Tili Mh ' Uth Total Center Township 5,050 1,372 Volunteers. 163 HI 207 153 49 146 12 102 Washington Township Lawrence " .... Wsjao " .... Watten " .... Decatur " , errv i franklin Pike Total out townships Add Center .2.719 .5.050 1.029 1 ,:i72 2..i91 Grand Total ,69 The proportion to be given to the service will be about "A.i per cent of the entire population be tween the ages of 18 and 45, that is of the enrolleda, militia nm the volunteer torce. Tike M.ition countv. for instance: The enrolled mil- ! itia is 7.769, the number volunteetcd 2,400, ma j king a total of 10,170 Thirty three per cent, of this total is 3,39t the num!er to be furnished I by the coiinv. Out of this will of course be de j ducted the nuuiler slready furnished, 2,401, j leaving 990 yet to raise. The drawing will be by townships and a townI ship having furnished one-third of her total milij tary strength will be exempt. By this calculation the townships will be called J upon to furnish as follows: ' Center 768 one out of 6-3 i Washington lull ! Lawrence 73 Wavne 12 5 .17 21 5 32 w arren. OOatat 12 47 II errv it" Franklin 13 " " 22 Pike 49 " " 7 This will be the pcoportion, or about it, as the figures now stand, but they will lie of cou-e cousiderablv altered before the drawing is had. Letter of Acceptance. Below will be found the letter of Hon. James F. McDowell, of Marion, accepting the nomination for Congress in tin- D. strict, tendered him bv the Democratic Convention at Kokomo, August 21, 1862: Mario.v, Gra.vt Cor nt y. Ind., August 23, 1862. Charles I. Birker, Esq , President Democratic t Congressional Convention: i - M. . I qently did not entertain the remotest idea of beiiiL' us nominee, f nave never sought omce of any kind, nor do I seek it now. I haves!wavs preferred the peace and quiet of home, right gladly leaving to others the boisterous toe, of politics. Nevertheless, these are not the times for sunshine patriots Tbe great experiment of constitutional liberty is now imperilled Irom foes w ithout and foes within, and it is the duty aud should be the pride of every American citizen, to rally in its defense. I yield a cheerful acquiescence i 1 to the voice ol those friends who have so unex pectedly honored me with this nomination, and I trust our humble efforts to advance the true in terests of our country may be such that we will, at least, have the consolation of knowing that we bare performed nur whole duty- Muy He who guided our fathers, incline the hearts of their children in that way best calculated to "preserve the Constitution as it is," snd speedily restore to us "the Uniou as it was." Yours truly, J- F. McDowell. The 99th, 100th and 101st regiment, are full, and ordered to report htre. The 97th, at I Terre Haute, is nearly full.

Mililia. . 342 . in . 452 . 341 . 23! bh . 294 . 350