Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 43, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 March 1863 — Page 1

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The following semi-official dispatch from the Governor's office in this city, appears io the Cincinnati Gazette of yesterday: The record of the Republican members speaks for itself in opposing revolutionary measure; and in regard to the expense of the State, io benevolent institution and the care of sick soldiers, let their hopes be blasted. Governor Morton will manage the affairs of the State for the next two years without any help from them. Already gentlemen of capital have offered to advance him money to any amount, to meet any necessary expenses, and all the benevolent institutions will be kept open and claims met without any delay. So let the Butternuts go home and fret to their hearts' contest. They have accomplished noth ing. and the people will bless the noble Governdr whom they would have crushed. The record of the Republican numbers does peak for itself. It was revolutionary, and the people of Indiana will brand it a secession movement without justification, and calculated to bring to an end constitutional government. 'A proaiinent and talented Republican Senator proaounced the action - of the Republican Representatives as the meanest' kind of treason, and he intends so to denounce it. Foe the ten last business days of the session enough of the Republican members of the House were absent from their seats and tl ecity to break a quorum and prevent all legislation. The appropriation bills, to provide for the expenses of the State Government, its benevolent institution? and the care of'sick soldiers, were reported to iIm House, but the Republican members left it without the power to pass them. A bill had passed the Senate appropriating two millions of dollars as n fuul'fi advance the pay of Indiana soldiers when not' promptly met by the General Government, but this failed in the House by reason of the absence of the Republican members. No measures obnoxious to the Republicans had passed the General Assembly, nor did the Republicans know that any would, yet they bolted oo a Carre scare, a rhantom of their own creation But the Gazette' qprrespoudent says our "noble Governor" "will manage the affairs of the State for the next two' years without any help- from them the Legislature. t Says the same authority: " Already gentlemen of capital have offered to advance him money to any amount to raaet any necessary expenses, and all the benevolent institutions will be kept open and claims met without delay." That is, our "noble Governor" futends .to set up a separate Government and run the State, on his own re. epoosibility. We do not believe "gentlemen of capital" will thus invest their money. Gentle men of that class are not apt to encourage anarchy. or loan money upon such uncertain security Atid we believe the Governor has too much respect for law and too much good sense to disregard his constitutional obligations to engage to such a visionary scheme. There are thousands who will suffer by the failure of legislation who cannot be relieved except by the General Assembly. Is it right that the State should violate its good faith to its creditors to fail to pay its indebtedness to its own citizens? The people will condemn in unmistakable terms the revolutionary action of the minority in defeating necessary legislation; neither will they tolerate revolutionary measures designed to re lieve the conduct of a factious minority. The Republicans attempt to justify the conduct of the seceding members ol the House by Democratic precedents. The bolts of Democratic minorities never defeated necessary legislation, and it was a measure resorted to in the first place to dtfevt per ton, not the legislation required to carry oa and preserve the State government. We are no apologists for bolting. We believe it better to suffer temporary evils until they can be remedied constitutionally-7-througb the forms of law, than to resort. to revolutionary action to defeat them.' The defeat ot. necessary legislation by bolting cannot fail to bring disgrace and dishonor upon the State and republican institutions. BtaCTirct Bes. BiTLta The Parii correspondent of the New York World writes the following: "A good many Americans in Paris hung down their heads on reading that 'the Hon. Edward F.verett hnng out a new flag to welcome Butler to Boston!' Edward Everett the pink of propriety, the modelstatesman.the Athenian scholar, the perfect gentleman doing homage to that man Butler, who has committed every crime in the calendar! Ob, it is a flagrant abomination! How are the mighty talleul . There are many citizens of New Orleans here in Paris who 'black mailed' Butler to get away, and who show their pasporta and the prices paid for them, with Butler' initial in hi own handwriting! Although w are greatly grat:fied on the arrival of every Steamer to see that Butler is having justice done him in tbe World, yet we cannot refrain from exresing a little of the universal contempt which s felt for the brute in Europe, and for oil who honor him. But 1 will drop the disagreeable subject." " ' 3f"A duel was fought in Mississippi lately by S. K. Knott and A. W. Shott. The result "was, Knott was bot, and Shott was not. In those circumstances we would rather have been Shott than Knott. . . CSTAn editor out West want's to know what's so become of our women if muslin goes up much higher? Oar devil thinks the result will be that they'll turn oat to be a poor ahijtltem set. '

''lie Spring Flections in Heir York. The returns from the town elections in New York 'show not only increased Democratic majorities over tbe elections Just fall and spring, but an increased tote. These are the best evidences of the great revolution going on iu the public mind. t la Rochester the increased Democratic majority over last spring is 467. The Union says

! "the Democratic gains all around are highly grat- ! ifying." 1 j In Utica the Democratic gain over the ma- ' jority for Seymour is 253. The Board of Super visors last year in that county Stood 20 Republicans and 13 Democrats. The new Board will be Democratic. Troy gives an increased Democratic majoiity of 133 over the rote of last fall. The Democratic victory in Auburn, the home j of SfWARD, is the first in twenty years. ' Wadsworth's majority over Seymour was 364. Now the Democracy carry the city by 7. Oswego gave 33 Republican majority last fall. Now the Democratic Mayor is elected by 105. The Democratic majority in Lockport is 255. Last fall it was only 134 an increase of 121. Geneva gave Wadsworth 63 over Setmocr. It now gives 153 Democratic majority. Newark (Arcadia,) Wayne county, gave 53 Republican majority last fall now 33 Democratic. Milton 65 Democratic majority last fall 167 now. , . Ballston Democratic majority increased 24. . Columbia county elects 14 Democratic Supervisors and onjy six Black Republicans. Columbia has done wjbly gains four Supervisors; large gain on popular vote. Abolitionists looked black next morning. In Ulster county, Britt, Democratic Supervisor, is elected by two hundred and ninety-six majority, and the whcflfc ticket. Seymocr's majority last fall was one hundred and fitty four. Ulf ter is sound. In Saratoga county most of the Democratic ticket is electeJ. J. X. Suxtv, Supervisor, 22 majority. This is a great gain. Last year the Republican Supervisor had a majority of CO. In Washington county the Democrats elect their ticket in lieu of one elected by our niggerworshipping opponents last spring by about fctt majority, showing i gain for us of I2J since last spring. " The Democrats of Le Roy elect their ticket for the first time in thirty seven years. The returns from Dutchess county indicate a handsome cain. The Rochester Union, in summing up the result, remarks upon the returns received from all parts of the Slate: And so on o the end of all the returns received from every quarter we might continue the comparison, showing a steady and general incre.ise of conservative strength over, the radical destructives. A general election held in the State of New York to day would result in nothing less thati 100,000 Democratic majority! Surely the ball is rolling, and it will continue to roll until the Democracy are once more triumphantly in the ascendant. How cau it be otherwise, when they are the representatives of popular rights? Army Appointment. The following are the newly nominated Brigadier Generals from this State, but not yet confirmed: Solomou Meredith, George P. McGinuis and CI D. Wagner. The following promotions in the 14th Indi ana have just been announced by the War De piirtnient: 1st Sergeant Hugh Hopkins, Captain, company C; 1st Lieut. Granville Ward, Captain, company K;2J Lieut. John P. Douglas, 1st Lieutenant, comDanv K: Serneant Sam. Nichols. 1st Lieuten ant, company C; 1st Sergeant B. F-Smith, 2d Lieutenant, company K: 1st Sergeant Joshua L. Hayes, Captain, company A; Corporal Samuel J. Cook, 1st Lieutenant, company A; private Adolphus Theyer, Sergeant Major. Capt. McCoilough and Lieut. Haltenbach have resigned on account of illness, and Lieut. Badger on account of wounds. The Louisville Journal on the lsev olutiouiftt of the Indiana Legislature. I.xdiaapolis, March 4. There is no quorum in the Hoie yet, the Republicans still standing out, and no business done beyond reports on claims for incorporation in the specific appropriation bill. Telegraphic Dispatch. Day alter day, for we know not how long, this announcement has appeared regularly in our telegraphic columns. It has become an eyesore to thoughtful patriots, as it is a reproach to the men whose contumacy it publishes. The action of these men is revolutionary in example. Thev, being members of the party in power at Washington, defy the forms of the Government, in order to resist the enactment of a law alleged to be unconstitutional. This is their case as they themselves state it. We accept their own htatement. The case is wholly indefensible; so much is obvious; but, what is more than this, it ig directly leveled with the whole force of example at ihbt popular sentiment of devotion to law and order which now constitutes the sole barrier between the nation and anarchy, and which the party in power, by its own unconstitutional acts, is aud has long been straining to the very utmost. The inherent revolutionary tendency of the case is aggravated frightfully by all the circumstances attending it. Wliei we think of tbe fearful strain the Repuhlicon Administration is putting upon the patience of the people, we are amazed at the recklessness with which prominent Republicans set the example of trampling upon the forms of fie Government. Ar these Republicans in id? Or do they really desire to promote anarchy? The Republicans claim a monopoly of disinterested patriotism. But how does their conduct tally with this modest claim? What do we see? While the loyal people as a body, tinder the terrible pressure of Republican usurpation, are standing heroically by the Constitution and nobly avowing their determination to seek redress through lhe forms of the Government alone, the Republicans in the Legislature of Indiana, under the mere apprehension of legislation which they deem unconstitutional, are rushing into revotu tionary resistance, and trampling the forms of the Government into the dust. . And the Republic m in the Legislature of Illi-1 nois have done the same thing under a press a re still more slight. Certainly this is a most un seemly as well as a most pernicious and dangerous exhibition of partyism. It deserves the earnest rebuke of patriots everywhere. Of all times, this is not the time for such an exhibition, and, of all men. the Republicans are not the men to make it. With what grace csn they ask others not to resort to revolution under provocation when they themselves rush iüto it without any? It appears to us impossible that these men have reflected upon the obvious character and inevitable tendency of their conduct. We entreat them to do so. Louisville Journal. New Hampshire Election.' The election in the Granite State took place yesterday. The Democrats have a larze majority to overcome if successful. In 1660 Lixcolx's majority was 11,638; over all 9,115. In 1656 tbe majority of Freemomt over Bucbaxan was 5,556; . over all 5,134. The total vote in 1HC0 was but 65,302, which shows there must be a great change in public sentiment to revolutionize the State. The Republican candidate for Governor was formerly a Democrat, lately a Colonel in the army and personally very popular. New Etiglund feels less the evils of the war and she receives more of the pecuniary benefits than any other section of the country. Under these circumstances a Democratic triumph is hardly to be anticipated.

Why A ppr p nations Were not .Hude. The Journal in an article over a column in length attempts to exculpate the minority in the Legislature for not permitting the passage of the appropriation bills and other necessary legisla- ' tion. It charges the majority with the design of "establishing a Provisional Government and deDosing the Governor of the State," through the agency of the military bill. Is there a sane man in the State who will give credence to such a ridiculous statement? That measure did not contemplate depriving the Governor of a single constitutional prerogative, but its only' purpose was to place the direction of the State military affairs under the control of the people as fir as possible, and to prevent the distribution of the arms of 'the State exclusively to political partisans. This policy is strictly in accordance with the theory of our democratic or republican form of government, and if the people ' cannot be trusted with the direction of their own affairs, a constitutional government, a government of the people, such as the citizens of the United States thoucht they enjoyed before the advent of the present Administration into power, is a failure. The Journal says the stand taken by the Re ' publican conspirators in tbe House averted the horrors of a civil war. How? There was no intention whatever among the Democrats to bring such a calamity uoon the State, and they proposed no measures which were not constitutional and to which the minority should not have cheerfully submitted. In what way then did the seces sionists avert civil war? The only answer we can divine is. by employing revolutionary measures to defeat the will of the majority in legislationsor resistance to constitutional laws enacted by the representatives of a majority of the people. Could there have been, or can there be, a more infamous conspiracy against the Government than this? If minorities have the constitutional right to defeat !egis!;tiou by revolutionary means, as the Republican leader of the House declared in his place they had, then what right has the National Administration to attempt the enforcement of tbe national authority over the State which have seceded from the Union? The minority has no more right to refuse to submit to the will of the m jority in one case than in the othet. The sole reason why appropriations were not made was, th.it a factious m:.n6rity in the House conspired to defeat legislation. The Republican conspirators treasonably absented themselves from their seats, reit the ciry in fact, so that the Hottse was without a quorum for ten dnys, and thus was unable to legislate according to the requirements of the Constitution. Every bill which the Journal says should have been passed, and which the zood of the Stale demanded, would have been, if the Republican minority in the House had nt prevented. In so doing the c inspirators violated the Constitution, theiroaths of otliee and dishonored the State. The Repub lican members of the Legislature are solely responsible for the failure of necessary legislation. They .staid away even after they had the power to control legislation, to defeat any measure obnoxious to them and to have adopted the legislation which was necessary' to maintain the honor and good faith of the Slate. The Republicans are now attempting to do the. very thing which they falsely ch.iged upon the Democrats the establishment of a Provisional Government. It is given out that the Governor intends to administer the State Government upon his own responsibility, mid we understand he recently advi.-ed a Director of one of the Prisons that he would furnish the 'means necessary to carry it on if they would retain the o.d officers! Where des His Excellency find authority for the exe-cise of euch extraordinary powers? Does the Constitution invest him with the right to borrow and disbur.-e im.ney mjhui his own responsibility? Is not this an attempt to play the Dictator upon a small scale? The outgivings of the Governor's friends turuisli the evidence that the bolt of the Republican conspirators of the House was the commencement of n vile conspiracy against the Constitution and Government, which will result in a ridiculous failure. The people will never submit to such petty dictation. Again we say, the sole reason why appropriations were not made by the Legislature can be briefly stated: the Republicans would not permit it to be done. They successfully and wickedly conspired to de feat them. "Can th Senate Appropriate 'Money!" The Journal makes this inquiry. We propose another: Can the State officers appropriate money? Two years ago the Legislature appro priated, specifically, $45,1)H0, in addition to the general appropriation of $40.000, for legislative expenses. This specific appropriation was not all disbursed for legislative expenses proper. The balance unexpended was appiopriated by the Republican State officers without any direction from either branch of the Legislature, for no such use was thought of or intended, when 'that fund was , appropriated. Early in the late session $75.000 was appropriated for legislati -e expenses. Soon after it was made the Republican Auditor of State issued a warrant upon that appropriation for about $2.700, upon his own respon tibility aud without any direction or authority from either the Senate or House. The Journal thus defines legislative expenses: They include the per diem and mileage of the members, the salaries of clerks, doorkeepers, pages, &.C., the cost of stationery, fuei and other incidental expenses connected wiih the operations of the two Houses and their various committees. It has been the custom heretofore to make a specific appropriation for the payment of the newspapers taken by the Legislature. The salaries of clerks, doorkeepers, pages, ic, have always been included in the specific appropriations, as has been the expenses of the committees and the incidental expenses connected with the operations of the two Houses. The Senate and House jKsrnals of Monday show that the former appropriated $477 36 and the latter $919 36 to the Journal Company, out of the fund appropriated for legislative expenses, and each without the concurrence of the other body. The Journal (Jo. received this sum out of the Treasury. "This proceeding on the part of the Senate is irregular, without a precedent and cannot be sustained on principle a single moment," says the Journal, yet it pockets the money. According to its own argument, is riot the Journal guilty of great rascality for receiving money from the State under such circumstances? "If the Senate, without the concurrence of the

House, can direct the payment in that manned of $477 76, it can direct the payment of $12.000; and if or $12.000, then $24,000; and if of $24,000, then the entire fund," says the Journal. Now, what has the Senate done? It ordered the payment of $477 76 to the Journal Company for papers furnished to that body, out of the $75,000 appropriated for legislative expenses. It made no appropriation in so doing, but simply directed the mamier that a portion of a fund already appropriated should be disbursed. The same body directed that the State Printer should be paid $12,000 out of the same fund for printing ordered by that body, when the accounts were properly certified by the Secretary of Stale.

The printing ordered by that body is just as much a legislative expense as the papers furnished by the Journal.' Yet the Journal pockets the pay ordered in the same way and out of the same fund cheerfully, but it thinks it a great crime that another debt equally valid should be paid in a like manner. ' "Money can only be appropriated by bill," says the Journal. Was the pay to the Journal Company for papers appropriated by bill? Was the pay of certain accounts by the Republican Suite officers out of the unexpended appropria tion for legislative expenses appropriated by bill? What right had they thus to draw money to assist partisans? The statjment of the Journal thut the resolution never passed the Senate, that it was never read iu the Senate, and that the Republican members have no knowledge of its being offered, is not only false, but it does its" political friends great injustice. The resolution was passed unanimously, aud with the knowledge of the Republiem Senators. The Senat; was willing that a debt it had created and authorized for printing sfiould be paid, if it could be, out of the appropriation for legislative expense The Journal re ceives pay out of that fund under tbe same circumstances, but such is its mean, malignant, party spirit it cannot be even just to a political opponent. We sincerely hope that iu failure to continue the public printing will not compel it to go into liquidation, for it has given evidence of a sickly existence since it has had no relief from the public Treasury. The Republican party would shed no tears over it, if it should happen to expire. Envy of another's prospects is the meanest spirit that can influence a human being.

The 300 Kxeiuptlon Clause In the Conscription Act Public .tieettug of the Verman in Chicago. On Saturday evening, Feb. 28th, the German Workingmen's Association, of Chicago, assembled at their hall in that city, and adopted an emphatic protest against the Conscription Law just passed by Congress. Over one thousand persons were present, and the resolutions were adopted unanimously, as follow: W ii tit e as. Section 13 of tbe Conscription Bill cortaius a provision by which all persons who can piy $'100 are permitted to buy themselevs free from the blood lax due to their country; and, Whereas, By such provWou, $300 are placed at par with the life-blood of the poor man, who is unable to send a substitute into the field; and. Whereas, Such a privilege granted to money is subversive of the fundamental principle of the republic, in which all must have equal rights aud duties; and. Whereas, Such building up of distinctions will necessarily array one part of the population against the other, and may ultimately lead to the war of classes, so much to be deprecated by every true friend of humanity and civilization; and. Whereas, Nothing can be mote unjust than laying lhe burden of military service on the poor, and exempting the rich from it, though the lattert have more at stake in this war, and re, indeed. more interested in the preservation of this Union iu a financial point of view; and, W hereas. The right aud duty of defending our country is of such a holy and unattainable character, that nothing can and should absolve from it but old age and infirmity, and as it would bean eternal disgrace to the American Republic to introduce a sstem of military substitution, thereby drnying the great principle of universal liability to military service, which ever in the monarchial countries of Europe as for instance in Prussia is being enforced with iron riyor, so that no citi zen can escape doing military service, either by paying money or in any other way. Retolced, 1. That we, the laboring masses of Chicago, ask most earnestly jur Congress, in the interest of the Republic and their own, to see section 13 of the conscription bill immediately repealed, and in its place the principle of universal liability to military duty unconditionally established, as it is done by the conscription law of Prussia. 2. That we request the President of lhe United States to call back to his mind the past, that it was the laboiers of the North who did elect him,' and that they expect him to take care lest their rights and interests are not sacrificed to the interests and cowardly demands of capital and riches, and, if necessary, to veto the bill' itself. 3. That we shall hold our Representatives in Congress te'rsonally responsible, in case thatdis gracelul $301) clause is not repealed, and that we shall bring them to account of their stewardship of our interest. 4. That the neglect with which Congress and the majority of the public press have been treat ing the people s interest, during the discussion of the conscription bill, by not paying any attention to its most odious features and del ending lhe poor against them, seems to us a fact significant of the corruption end of the forgetfulness of those duties which they ought to observe in regard to the rights and interests of the laboring classes. 5. That it is high time for the people to awaken from their lethargy, and to make known their will clearly aud pointedly to their public servants, who seem to have become unmindful of their masters, the sovereign people. The resolutions were adopted without dissent. after which the nseniblae listened to speeches from Peter Slump, Eq., Dr. Leredeke and Messrs. Knoblesdorff, Strauss and others, explanatory of the resolutions and commenting upon the importance of the 13th clause. At the conclusion of the addresses, it was an nounced that the resolutions were being tele graphed to the President at Washington, aud the Chairman read the receipt of the telegraph office, which cost $34, and was paid by the German's Workingmen's Association. From the Providence Post. The Conscription Act. We protest against this act as unnecessary, unjust, at war with all our past history, and inhuman. It exhibits in the start a lack of confidence in the people, which is itself an outrage. The people have given to the Government with a liberality never betöre witnessed. Money has been poured out as though it had been water. Men have been furnished whenever they have been called for. Down to the date of the September proclamation the trouble was to keep back the rush of volunteers; and even since then more have been furnished than have found profitable employment. For all this, what do the people get? Why, they are treated like dogs. No confidence whatever is placed in thetn. They are taken to be enemies, and the great question with Government seems to be, how it can easiest force them into its service. Under the old law, when men were wanted under the volunteer system or by drafting, each State was called upon for its quota; and the Governors of the States at once set themselves to work to comply with the demand. The drafting, if drafting had to be resorted to, took place under State laws, and the Slate, taking care that it did not fail to furnish the number called for, designated who should be regarded as exempts. When the troops were raised, they were officered by the Governors, who knew the qualifications of aspirants to position. But this law ignores the State altogether. The draft is to be made by officers of the United States Provost Marshals and their assistants. None are to be exempted who are not thus designated by Congress. The Governors are to have nothing to do with officering the regiments. The entire power of raising and organizing the army is placed in the hands of the .Federal Executive. The militia is atonce mustered into the service of the United States, and placed under the law martial. If a draft is made, fiftjr percent, more are called for than are wanted, and the rich n an is allowed to stand back by paying the Government three hundred dollars. The poor man, who cannot raise three hundred dollars, must shoulder hi musket aud march. What farmer in Rhode Island wants to pay ihree hundred dollars every time a draft is made, as the only condition upon which he may remain at home and cultivate bis farm? 3gTThe total number of laws passed by the late session of the Thirty-Seventh Congress was 173 public acts 94, private acts 35, and joint resolutions 44. t5T A great speculation was made by a man in New York, who, in 1861, invested $10,000 in tar .and lately sold it at $40 a barrel, making the sum of $3i)0',000 profit.

From Washington.

Movements or the Coxfkdi:rates Toward Washisotox Legislation for the Neguo Negroes to be Allowed to- Vote axd Hold Office A War.yixq from Polasd. Special Cornespondence of the Chicago Timet. Washington, March 3. iew evidence comes to light every day of the designs of tbe Confederates against Washington, and etill the authorities he. e ignore that fact, or make light of It. Because the Rebel armies are not seen marching iu force, because their artillery is not acta ally thundering at the gales of the cap ital, the President and Secretary of War think there is no danger! It is now ascertained, in addition to the facts mentioned iu former letters, that there is a large Confederate force in the neighborhood of Aldie, Leeburg, Centerville ana Warrenton, their headquarters being at preseut at Aldie, thirty miles from; this city. That part ot the detachment which is at Aldie has been ostensibly engaged for some days past in foraging and in collecting and threshing grain. They have only been moderately successful in doing this. All the country in that neighborhood, particularly west of Aldie and north of Goose Creek, was pretty thoroughly drained of i's grain and forage in the latter pari of September and in Octolcr last, while Gen. Lee had his headquarters at Winchester. ' All that time Gen. Lee kept .hundreds of wagons employed in collecting grain and forage, and in transposing it to Richmond. There was some left near Aldie and south of Goose Creek, aud that is what tbe Confederates have now found. But this foraging of theirs, after all, is only a ruse; at least it is not the maiu object of their presence there. Gen. Lee is reconuoiteting the approaches to Washington; that, after all, is the secret of the movement. Half way between this city and Fredericksburg also the Confederates are very active. Instead of moving one of HooKer's divisions buck from the Rappahannock to the country betweeu Occoquan and Stafford, as I suggested a month ago, and thu holding open the communication be tween Hooker's army and this city, nothing of the kind has been done, and the only Sf.fe me j lis of communication between that army and the Capital is by lhe Potomac river from here to the Aquia Creek landing, and thence by the railroad. Our cavalry scouts still go out on the road from Alexandria to Occoquan, and large parties have gone as far south as Aquia Cretk. But it is stated here to-day that the War Department has received intelligence that nearly a whole regiment of cavalry, 6()U to 80O strong, has beeu raptured by the Confederates near Stafford, forty miles south of this city, and only twenty miles north of Hooker's army. All the-e things show that Gen. Lee has the means of ascertaining the exact condition of affairs here, and that he is near enough to strike a blow little expected by tbe North, in case he finds Washington defenseless. What a contemptible figure in history the present Congress will make 1 Neglecting the interests of the country, blind to thedieadl'ul respond bilities that rest upou them, the Republican majori! v have devoted their entire energies to the formation and pnvsecution ot impracticable and chimerical plans for the negro. The emancipation of four millions of slaves forms only a part of the visionary projects of the Abolitionists, and coutitutes only the first step in their programme. They have determined to raise the negro to an equality with white people hi all things. They have succeeded in making them the equals of our brothers und sons who are fighting lhe battles of the country. Laws have been passed which effect this. The conscription law, as passed by both houses of Consiress, and now before the President for his signature, w hich it will surely receive, makes not the slightest distinction between white men and negroes. All are to be enrolled in one promiscuous list, and all are to be drafted alike. If the law is executed stall, the man of education and refinement will find himself standing in the ranks, touching elbows with bis black servant, who the day before blacked his boots or stood behind his chair at the dinner table. Both w ill be dressed aud armed alike. Laws have leen passed, too, by this vile Congress, for lhe endowment of eolleges and academies for the education ol blacks in the District of Columbia, and for the transportation of t.ie dirty, filthy creatures in the street cars, the same as white people. Surely, this is enough for a beginning. What next? The next step will be to confer upon the bla.ks the right to vote Does any man doubt that this will be long delayed? As truly as the sun will tise to-moraow this will be done, if the Republicans cau effect it by legislation. And it is not ut all impossible that such a pressure will be brought to bear upon our honest Presideut that, before many months, he will issue a proclamation conferring upou them that price less boon. He can do that with the same propriety and with the sime right and with the same authority that he has issued any of his previous proclamations. Perhaps some of your readers will think that such a thing can never come to pass. But who would have believed, two years ago, that Abraham Lincoln and a Republican Congress would dare to violate the Constitution in the hundred ways in hich it has been done? Who would have believed that Mr. Lincoln would dare to proclaim all the slaves free, after his solemn assurance ihat he had no power and no intention to do so? Who would have believed that Mr. Lincoln would place the knife and the torch in the hauds of infurtated blacks, and Bend thousands of them so armed into the interior of South Carolina to burn their masters in their beds, to cut their throats, to burn their houses, and to ravish their wives and daughters as Greeley boasts be has done? If Mr. Lincoln aud his Republican Administration have not hesitated to do these things, surely they will not hesitate to empower the negroes to vote. The next thing will be marriages between negroes and white women, which will be legalized by act of Congress. If there is no other way of getting such an act passed , some of the countless millions of money at the disposal of the President will be used to secure the electiou of black members of Congress. May we not look forward, iudeed, to tiie spectacle of a Congress of mixed white men and negroes, to a Cabinet of w hich three members will be negroes, and to a negro President? It is true enough that the American people will never elect a negro President. But I demonstrated in a recent letter that the passage of the measures then befor Congress, measures which have now become laws, would place in the power of the President the means of making whom he pleased his successor. And w ho would Mr. Lincoln be si likely to choose as his successor as an "American ot African descent," or, in plain words, a negro? A distinguished member of the Administration remarked to day that it was very unfortunate for us that the revolution in Poland should have broken out just now. The reason why the mem bers of the Administration, and the Administration organs, say so little about Poland is very evident. Poland is an example of an intelligent people ground down beneath the iron heel ot a military despotism. The Polanders rebelled be cause their rulers were tyrants. They would have submitted to their rulers if those rulers had given them the guarantees of their rights which were their rightful inheritance Thir rebellion was suppressed, and they were subjugated by military force. But was Poland conquered? Were the Polanders subdued? It has been necessary to keep strong, military garrisons in every city of Poland ever since. And now the fires that have been smouldering so long have burst out. So it will be with tbe Southern States. Even if we should succeed In defeating their armies, in destroying their cities, and in making a desert of their country, all this would not restore the Union. We might suppress this rebellion i we might subjugate the South; we might exterminate the Southern people. But it would only be to sow eternal hate in the bosoms of the Southern children. Years hence, after having kept up all tbe time an immense standing army, another generation of Southern people, the children of those we had exterminated, would rise in rebellion, and the scenes now being enacted in Poland would be enacted here. No, the Union can never be restored by war. Let tbe war, then, cease. -X,' ir"Gen. Nathan Kimball and staff left yes, terday for Vicksburg, to join the command to which he has been assigned. Tbe General is yet lame from his wound received at Fredericksburg, but be thinks he is well enoug'i to organize the force he is to lead. Gen. Kimball is la- . tnous as a fighting General, and the presumption is that hard blows are expected at Vicksburir, for his orders are to repair with all dispatch to the scene oi acuon. -

From Washington

Illcstrations cr tee Progress er Despotism The Freedom or Religious Worship Exists so Longer Darjxo Depredations or Confederate Troops Near Washington Ixacovratiox or the Reign or Despotism, &c, Lc. Special Correspondence of the Chicago Time. J Washington, March 5. Mr. Henry May, one of the Representatives fiOtn Maryland, brought to the attention ot tbe House, yesterday, the facts of a most atrocious outrage on the rights of a certain religious de nomination, which has beeu perpetrated in his State by a person named Schenck. This man Schenck will be remembered by your readers as the "hero" of Vienna. In the early stages of the war, while this city was beleaguered by the Confederates, before the battle of Mauassas, Schenck, fresh from some village in Ohio, was in command of a regiment of brave but undisciplined Ohio volunteers, which was sent out by Gen McDowell to leconnoiter in the direction of Aldie, Green Springs and Drainsville. The enemy were known to be in force tw enty miles west of Washington, but how much nearer was not known, and it was desirable to ascertain. The Leesburg railroad was in running order as far as Vienna, thirteen miles west of Alexandria, and Schenck put his regiment on board of some open platform cars, and started w estward. . Our troops were encamped around Washington to about six miles fium Vienna. Alter pa-s'ng our outposts, Schenck stopped the train every mile and put out a company of men. At Vienna he ran the train into an ambuscade which the enemy bad prepared, affording a perfect shelter to thein, while our brave fellows were exposed to a plunging fire from all sides. The engineer was instantly killed, and, before any one else could be found hardy enough and skillful enough to reverse the action of the engine, the cars were piled with the bodies of the slain and the wounded. When the train did pet iu motion again, it was rushed back to Alexandria, tearing with lightning speed past tbe companies that had beeu left behind. The latter beat a hasty retreat also, closely pursued by the enemy, aud suffering additional loss. Iam not aware that Schenck has distinguished himself by any other achievement during the w ar. But thi is the kind of men that Mr. Lincoln delights to honor. Behold him now, Military Governor ot Maryland and Peiiusvlvania, master of the rights and liberties of lhe citizeus of two i great states, it was only a tew weeks ago mat he stretched forth hi hand to Philadelphia, seized j the publisher of a newspaper there, and incarcerated him iu the dungeons of Fort McUenry. And a few days ago he permitted one of his satellites to perpetrate the outrage on the Methodists of Baltimore, to which I have alluded above. His Provost Marshal or Grand Vizier (Heaven knows w hat other titles, drawn intra the despotic countries of Europe aud Asia will be borne by American citizens) his Provost Maishal or his Grand Vizier bad issued a ukase, or imperial decree, commanding that certain Methodistchurches should decorate their pulpit in a specified theat-. rical style, and forbidding the congregations to worship in any churches the pulpits of which were not so decorated. These Methodist, believing that the Constitution of the United States secured to them the right to worship God in the manner in which they h id done from time immemorial, aud, knowing very well thai Sags formed no part of their worship, relused to comply with the tyrannical order. For this, one of their ministers was dragged from his house and incarcerated in the dungeons of Fort McHenry; and these were the facts brought to the notice of Congress by Mr. Henry May. The facts of the case, and the correspondence, have beeu published in extenso in the Times. I reter to it now because it is a subject of national importance aud concern. Let the citizens of heretofore free Illinois prepare themselves to sec a Satrap appointed to rule over them; and, if he is not a negro, let them thauk His Majesty King Abraham for that boon at le.ist. Let them prepare to see some understrapper or Grand Vizier of this Satrap issuing his decree to the Baptists or Presbyterians of Illinois, demanding them to make an innovation in their mode of worship equally asobnoxiousnsthat imposed by Schenck 's Vizier on the Methodists of Maryland. Aud let them beware of resistance. With Eastern forms of tyranny and Eastern names of officials will come Eastern forms of punishment. The deep waters of Lake Michigan will perhaps cover many a crime committed in the name of liberty; and the knout, the sack, and the bowstring may become as often used in the Northwest as in Russia or Turkey. Such are the fruits of two years of "Republican" rul. The Confederate troops continue their daring reconnoissances in all directions in the neighborhood of Washington, and their equally daring depredations upon our cavalry pickets. They seem to be in great want of horses just now, for, within the last ten davs, they have c iptured from us three or four hundred very fine and well trained animals In most cases there wer men dressed as Union soliiiers mounted on these hoises, or engaged iu feeding them, each man havinsr a saber at his side and a revolver in his belt. The sabers, the revolvers and the uniforms of course went with the h-ies. TIiuj.. while the Confederates on the Mississippi use one of our gunboats to capture another, their comrades near Washington use our own hordes, abers and pistols to capture from us stiil more horses. saWers and pistols. Great is the humbug of King Abraham's reign, and Stanton. Haileck, ano Hooker are his prophets. Apropos of Fighting Joe," he has got up a fight at last a fight, fierce and terrible, with the little boys who sell newspaper to the soldiers. He has been victorious in the first engagement, and has driven the little Ixns oft the field. But the latter, plucky little fellows they are, not a bit daunted, are preparing for another battle The soldiers side with them, for they are intelligent men, and they will liav the newspapers. The upshot of the matter will be that the little boys will remain master of the field, for the soldiers will have the pupert.. The days of American liberty are now numbered. American liberty, indeed, is now a thing of the past. It exists no longer. Yesterday was the last day on w hich an American citizen could walk where he pleased with head erect, and say with truth "1 am a freeman." No man can say that with truth to-day. The life, the liberty, the property, of every citixen. are now at the mercy of one man. If the reader of the Times are not dragged from their beds to night and thrown into loathsome dungeons, there to languish and rot for he remainder of their lives, it will be owing to the forbearance of the man whom Congress has made Dictator for life. No man, so arrested and so imprisoned, could ever reasonably hope to b5 released, except by death. No writ of habeas corpus could reach him. The writ of habeas corpus exists in America no longer. The habeas corpus has been abolished by Congress. The relatives of the men hi arrested would know no more about their fate than if they had been murdered; and who knows that many a man so arrested will not be murdered through the malice of private enemies? During the pendency of the meabures before Congress which have thus placed the foot of Abraham L'ncolu upon the recks of the whole American people, tnny bouest but misguided men supported them, because, as they said, even if Mr. Lincoln should abuse the unlimited powers that were to be placed in his hands, it could rot be for long; for the peop.e, at tbe next Presidential election. Could prevent him from abusing the power proposed to be conferred upon him. "The next Presidential election?" When will it take place? Will any of tbe readers of the Times live to see another Presidential election? It is doubtful very doubtful. If we see one in the fall of 1864, it "will b because the scheroesof the radicals will' have failed. Already they are boasting here that there shall never be another election for President till the rebellion is suppressed and the Southern people exterminated. When will that be? X. Great .uau Convention of the Democ racy at Drerlield, march Ith 1 SG3 Two Thousand Democrat In Coun ell. The meeting was organized by adopting resolutions speaking the highest patriotism, and denouncing the extraordinary usurpations of power upon the part of the Administration, and also denouncing the present act of conscription in so far as it discriminates between tbe rich aud the poor. Speeches were madn by the Hon. Alexander White, of Randolph county, and M.A. Boliug of Ohio. ROBERT HUEY, President. Nathan Hcbtox, Secretary.

From the C!:!snati Pric Carrtat, Harcb 11 Financial and Commercial summary for the fail Ueck The past week has been one of frightful disaster to those w bo had rone into the gold Specula tion, as all who had a speculative turu and a few rpare dollars, in our leading commercial darts, had done to a pa- ter or lese extent, throughout the loyal Sutes, and as the bankers and brokers of New York wre disposed to encourage this speculative business, they permitted thousand ot the unfortunate operators to take a turn at Wall street, at five or ten per cent, margins, and op to last Tuesday matters looked favorable, indeed rather hopeful, and with their light margins they seemed to be ou the high road to fortune. But Mr. Chase, with the power of Congress at his back, aud experienced Wall street operators for counselors, destroyed the bright dream of wealth the. speculators were reveling in, and Mattered themselves and their margiu as chaff before tbe driviug tempest. On Tuesday, the 3d, gold closed at l15gl72. but on Wednesday morning the following i ppeared in the New York papers as a law of the land, and produced immense sensation. Tbe bankers stopped loaning and began to call in their loans already made, and the result was a general fright ou the part of all, but particularly those who had been operating on the narrow margins, and tbe rush and anxiety to sell became indescribable. This was embodied in the Internal Revenue Amendment bill: "That all contracts for the purchase or sale of goUI aud silver coui or bullion, secured by pledge or deposit, or other disposition of gold or filter coin of the United States, if to be performed after a period exceeJins three days, shall be in writ ing Of printed, and signed by the parties or their agents or attorneys, and shall have one Or more adhesive stamps, as provided in the act to which this is an amendment, equal iu amount to tbe one-half of one per centum, and interest at the rate of six per centum cer annum on the amount so loaned, pledged or deposited; aud it any such loan, pledge or deposit made for a period not ex ceed'iiR three days, shall be renewed or in any way extended, for any time whatever, said loau, pledge or dt posit shall be subject to the duty imposed on locus exceeding threedays; and no loau of currency or money, ou the security of guid or silver coin of the United States aforesaid, shall be made exceeding in amount the par value of the coin pledged or deposited as security; and aoy loan so made, or attempted to be made, shall be utterly void.'' This act went Into effect immediately, and was signed by the President w ith the greatest expedition. The rush and anxiety to sell gold continued during Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, and the rate went down to 147, being a decline of twenty-four per cent., aud swept away all the margin operators. On Saturday gold began to advance again, as all those not in the fright knew it would, and. though fluctuating rapidly each day, reached 102 at noon yesterday, and a general reaction took place in the markets for all kiuds of produce and merchandise, an! prices advanced. The tendency of this break down is to make operators in gold, for a rise, timid and more cautious for a time, but eventually this will disappear, aud matters will again assume their normal state, and the legitimate consequences of existing circumstances will again take their place; for, as we have again nd again stated, no law i.or legislation can successfully resist this. The decline of gold unsettled the markets generally, and business was to some extcYit suspended; hence, but a limited demand for money, .and the maiket has beeu very easy at 8 to 10 per cent, for business paper. Gold fallowed in the wake of the New York maikets, and rose and fell from time to time, with more offering. Exchange ruled steady. The following were the quotations for coin, bank paper commanding a premium, &c, at the close: stTixo. acLLty. XewTork dia. par. Gold 55 1.60 prem. prem. Silver 3&&40 prem. prem. Lk'tnarjd notes 65 prem. Kentucky bank notes.. . 78 prem. Indiana Slate oof 6 7 prem. Obio sute voir lglJi prem. Order oo Washington, old I di. Order on Wabington, new Z3.4 die In provisions and breadstuff there has been very little done during the w eek, but generally speaking, holders did not seem willing to make important concessions, nor to press sale, on the. ground that the decline in gold was the consequence of a panic, and that it would again advance. Flour declined 2U to 25c per barrel, but 10a 15c of this was tecovered ou vesterday, whrn superfine sold at $5 c05 t5 Wheat delined 8 to 10c per bushel, but a portion of this was also recovered. Corn and rye also declined. 0ts dull, but unchanged. Whisky remained at 45c, but the demand has been quite light. Cheese and butter are higher, owing to a scarcity of both article. The demand lor all articles in the pro-vi-ion line ceased, and prices became nominal, but the feeling yesterday was decidedly better, and an ictive demand existed for lard at 10)-sc. being the price it left off at a week ago, aud about 1,900 tierces sold at that rate. Although the market was firmer for other articles, the demand for them was but moderate Bulk shoul ders 4Jg -4Jc; sides 66'c; hams 6c; mess poik. $14il4'25 tör city and $13 to $13 5(1 for country, may be regarded as the rates buyers were disposed to pay. There was some demand for

bacon, and atmut 400 hhds. sold within the week at 5 l-lPa5lclor shoulder and 6)4' Common hams are worth "jaT'c c for sides. Z A - 1 UV , UM 6l(Cc canvased arid packed. Sugar cured ad vauced to lOtalOic, aud in good demand. Groceries dull, and sales were made at lower rates, but the feeiing was firm at the close. Dry hides are iu active demand, and prices are higher. Congressional Folly. The following are among the miscellaneous ... i- . i . appropriations oi me usi vyougrw: Xearlv a million of dollars are appropriated, in even this time of war, tor the public buildings in Washington, viz.: Capitol extension 150.000 Work on new dome JO0.000 I Lighting Capitol 3,000 I Insane Hospital -. 8", COO Patent Office BuIWinif, Ac Sl.OOO Street, building 4c 50,000 1 It would seem that it were the very acme of j folly to draw a million of money from the loyal I people of this country to spend on Washington I improvements, at a time when everybody feels! uncertain whether it is to remain a seat ol Oovernment a all; or, if it shall continue to be i teat of Government, whether it will serve that purpose to .us or to the Rebels, but some con tractors probably were interested in jooawnic render these appropriations neressarv to them J Rochester Loiou. The AtaoEA. Ind .Gab Woats Tbe wtte gas works at this place are announced aa a com j piete failure It will be recollected that a greaj furor was created a few vears since bv certain parties in reference to "water gas." Aarora, la diana, was selected as a suiiaot place wpori which to experiment, it being at the same tin conveniently out of the way. Tbe works werJ put up. the gas made and let into the pipes, and ir.e puouc were miormea w-m a ireisniuuu uiw of trumpet that water gas, at leat in Acrc-m. was a success. As tbe Auronans nave naa a la trial of the invention, hear what lbs "experiment ' has effected toward illuminating their minds am optics. Tb Journal says that "tbe comiwit, have been bored to death with the attempts ii illumination, which they declare to be a eroa be tween the Aurora Borealis and 'outer darkness j Dr. Sanders baa been dis mined, and the patiac has been placed under the care of Dr. Johl Jeffrey, of Cincinnati, a bo at once recommence mende a of ga Lnaoa' a 'coal diet' to restore a proper circulation of g to the expiring subject. A mil to Divide Preperty Tklevea. The follow ing is from the telegraphic report Senate proceedings yesterday: "Mr Chandler said the bill was bjw worhleW as the Senate had delibtrattly toted Q C0l)tiii the present Ute of thing ; that iit Gtmtralt lhu) It drmor aliud, and a vast amount of proper shoald be passed over to Ihme to kt citta, among tkrm. II moved to table the bill. Lor 17 to 20, and ibe bill passed." So. according to Senator Chandler himV nign Uepublioan aumoriiy -in radical majori of the Senat have "deliberately voted that vast amount of property should be passed over thieves, to b divided among them." Itwou seem that notwithstanding Senator Simmons I rone, inert are more ten ; wie aauw ori. Rochester Union